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Show THREAT THAT BRINGS RESULTS Ceylcnese Creditors Have a Remarkably Remark-ably Effective Method of Enforcing Enforc-ing Collections. Tlie native of Cc.vlnn is an intrnci-nltle intrnci-nltle (Traitor. He possesses jin irresistible irre-sistible nieilmd of securing payment without recourse to the baiiitfs. citations. cita-tions. .ItiiJiriiLOnts, (iuns or suiunmnses which fail like halt about the ears of Kuropoan debtors. The iVylonesr creditor betakes linn X the house of the man who owes him money. IbiM;!"!:; in his hand some leaves of the neun.u'ata. an extremely poisonous poison-ous plant, and declares that, unless he is paid on the spot he will poison himself. him-self. The debtor pays up without hesitation. hesita-tion. At home he would of course simply huiu'h in the face of tlie shoemaker shoe-maker or tailor who made such n threat, and :e!l him to go abend; but in i'evb'n there is n local V.w which Imposes a:i enormous fine on nnyone who is the cause of the suicide of Another. An-other. And there is no case on record rec-ord in which a creditor was iiermiited to carry out his threat. The question, however, seems to be whether in tb face of an obstinate refusal to pay, the creditor would not be wiser to lose his money than nis life. |