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LEFT DEBOT 290 DEBT tribes from the oppression of Jabin and secured a peace of 40 years* duration. The triumphal ode (Judges v) attributed to her is a remarkable specimen of He- brew poetry. DEBOT, a village community on both banks of the Nile, Upper Egypt, about six miles above the first cataract and not far from ancient Philae. The ruins of the temple of Debet are of great interest. It was built by the Nubian king, Ezekher- Amon, of the time of the earlier Ptole- mies and was enlarged by Ptolemy Philometor. The second of the three doorways at entering has a Greek in- scription to this Ptolemy and his wife Cleopatra. The first hall has reliefs of Ezekher-Amon, and over the door is an inscription of his. In the sanctuary further along is a granite naos, broken in two and dating from Ptolemy Ener- getes, second successor of Philometor, both dating from the middle of the second century before Christ. Near by are the remains of one of the permanent Roman camps, mentioned in the Itiner- arium Antonini. It was called Parem- bole. DEBBECZIN (de-bri'sin), a town of Hungary, on the edge of the great cen- tral plain, 113 miles E. of Budapest. Its houses are mostly of a single story; the streets broad and unpaved. Among the principal edifices are the Protestant church and college. Chief manufactures are coarse woolens, leather, soap, tobac- co-pipes, casks, etc., and a large trade is done in cattle. Debreczin is considered the headquarters of Hungarian Protest- antism. Pop. about 85,000. DEBRTJISED, in heraldry, an epithet applied to a bend or other ordinary placed over some animal, in such a man- ner as to appear to restrain its freedom of action. DEBS, EUGENE VICTOR, an Amer- ican socialist; born in Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 5, 1855. He received a common school education and became a locomo- tive fireman. He was elected to the In- diana Legislature in 1885 and was later an official of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen, and, from 1893 to 1897, president of the American Railway Union. He conducted the strike of 1893 in Chicago, and was later sent to jail for contempt, because of his manage- ment of the same, though he pleaded in- nocence of any crime and requested to be tried by a jury and be allowed to sum- mon witnesses in his defense. Since 1897 he has been prominent in the So- cialist movement, and in 1900 was the candidate of the Social Democratic party, and in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 of the Socialists, for President of the United States. In 1915 he was appointed Chancellor of the People's College, a working-class institution at Fort Scott, Kan. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Law by opposing the draft laws in 1917, and was sentenced to im- EUGENE V. DEBS prisonment for 20 years. In spite of this he was nominated for the presidency by the Socialist party in 1920. DEBT, that which is due from one person to another; that which one per- son is bound to pay or perform to an- other; due; obligation; liability. That which any one is obliged to do or to suffer. Debt in law is a species of contract whereby a chose in action, or right to a certain sum of money, is mutually ac- quired and lost; usually divided into debts of record, debts by special contract, and debts by simple contract. A debt of record is a sum which apears to be due by the evidence of a court of record; such as debt of judgment or recogni- zance. Debt by specialty is where a sum is acknowledged to be due, or becomes due, by instrument under seal ; such as a covenant, bond, etc. Both these species of debts, being contracted by a man for himself and his heirs, attach on his lands and tenements, and bind them in the hands of his heir or devisee. Debt by simple contract is either by parol or