Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Way of the Debtor in India. [ARTICLE]

Way of the Debtor in India.

They had a peculiar way of going in,o bankruptcy among the Marawaris in India, now unhappily giving way to the less picturesque method of the white man. When a man could not pay liis bills he would summon liis creditors. They were ushered into a room in which the thakur or household god was enshrined, hut covered up with a cloth and with the face turned to the wall in order that it might not witness the - scene that was to'follow. The insolvent • would then, in the garb of mourning, lie on the floor, presenting his back to his creditors, who oh a given signal would fall on him with shoes and slippers and belabor him till their wrath was exhausted. The beating finished, honor was declared to be satisfied all around.—New York Tribune.