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IMPRESSIONS OF GUAM.
WHAT’S TO BE SEEN IN OUR NEW
1 PACIFIC ISLAND.
Site First Sight in Disappointing, But It
Has flood Points Which Grow on Son
, —The Native Soldiers—It 1* Strategi¬
cally Very Important.
Concerning Guam, our new ^powies
eion in the Ladrone Islands, a corre¬
spondent of the New York Sun who
went thither in the U. S. S. Yosemite
write*** f«Uewss.i"
The first sight of Guam was rather
disappointing. There were several
rain squalls' bn the horizon, lookout and in
reply to the questioner, the
picked put the blackest looking squall,
and said: “That’s Guam, sir!" As
the squall disappeare d, the island de¬
veloped into a bold mouutuinou s range,
not altogether tropical in aspect, In¬
stead of the thick t’hflifiptnd forests and heavy
foliage of the mountains,
the hills in Guam are rather barren
looking, the trees are clustered
together) while the red clay and soil shows
through in patches here there.
As the ship approa oiled nearer, the
lowlands came into view, aud the thick
groves of coooanut trees, mangoes, and
bananas proved that the reports of tho
fertility of the island are not without
foundation.
The harbor of San Luis de Apra is
by far the best of any in the whole
Ladrone group, being sheltered in all
weather except southwest gales. On
entering, the ship pressed close to
Orote Peninsula, a high promontory
harbor, forming the and southorn then swinging boundary to of the the
northward, slie anchored under the
lee of Cabras Island, which forms the
northern shelter. Extending in a cir¬
cular direction from the end of Cabras
IslSud is a coral reef bare at low water,
and coming within a ship’s length of
Orote Point, giving the harbor the
shape of a horseshoe. Occasionally,
during the wet season, a swell rolls iu
over the barrier reef, but for tho
greater part of the year the harbor is
quiet and smooth. Oue serious draw¬
back to the harbor lies iu the diffi¬
culty of landing cargo, owing to the
coral growth which extends out for
more than a mile from the shore, A
pier could readily be built, but the
easiest and cheapest solution of the
problem is to send out from tho United
States several small wooden atom
wheel steamers, drawing only a few
inches of water, and thus capable: of
passing over the inner reef at all stages
of the tide.
Around the shores of the harbor are
Apra several towns, Sournay, Sau Luis do
and Piti. The last named is the
port of entry for tho island, and con¬
sists of two stone buildings and about
a dozen native huts. The first sight
of the town was not interesting, for
^in the plaoo is on low land, and just now
the rainy season, is mostly under
water.
A few minutes sufficed to tako in
the sights, consisting of natives,water
buffaloes and dogs, and then through
the kind offices of the principal in¬
habitant, a Mr. Wilson, the party ob¬
tained a carriage aud drove up to
Agana, the capital of the Island. The
road is about four miles long, and has
been an excellent one, but at present
it is sadly in need of repair. It winds
ia and out amoi eoooanut groves, sjav
an *ngi iMfia. crosses
ay. I
Rfcerh half of th{ island,Tmd the
9 ^’s.t «EeS£SSSJaEs.Sft; v 8 AkliTuLi
r L sp 5 1 »ii i a
ouo wonder. Itoltt»r.i.
so little. Realizing that ti e large
mamnty of the natives are only semi
civilized, the place presents a very
oreditable appearance. The streets
are regularly laid out, and are clean
the houses are whitewashed and neat
in appearance, aud there are no street
Wafers or beggars hanging around.
The better class, that is the fore gn
era aud hal castes live in stone
houses^ with the inevitable red led
roo . The natives live in frame houses
with thatohed roofs.
The point of interest ,n tlie town s
the ^ plaza on which are si uated ho
palaoe, the barracks and the oathe
dral. These are quite respectable outside
looking buildings from the
but on close inspection the palaoe and
barracks were found to be -n a AUhy
oonditiou, with no attempt at safi ta
t.°n, and with th» di rt o! ?ea« le.t
undisturbed Before the Americans
can occupy these buildings there will
have to be a thorough house o eamug
from top to bottom and a plentiful
distribution o disinfeoting material.
The cathedral is solidly built, with no
pretense at ornamentation. Within,
two things struck the visitor as
strange, an organ and a sign reques -
ing the congregation not to bring their
into church.
I The town boosts of Hwo distilleries,
where la tuba is made. This is made
by fermenting and distilling the sap
of the ooooanut tree, and it is said
that it can give points to Jersey light
uing. The natives take to it kindly,
however. All the stone buildings
have tbiok walls and heavy ironwood
rafters supporting the roof. They ore
built in this manner to withstand tho
earthquake shock*, which are of fre
quent occurrence, though rarely the se
veto. Typhoons oooasionally visit beyond
island’ but do little harm
blowing down a few trees and knook
lug down some of the native huts,
Outside of Agana the native huts are
built of palmleaf matting, with ham
boo beams huts aud rafjiers, dbwn lava heavy house
gale these go like a gale
of the cards; a few hpnm apTB ujter nobody the
houses aro up and is
the worse for the experience.
Agana
ed at about 7000 souls, of whom tbe
better ot*M, grho ore also the conlroL
ling class; number about 100. Sinoe
the plaoe was captured by the Charles
ton in June, 1898, there have been
several acting Governors appointed
who have kept law and order iu the
island, but have allowed public works
and buildings to fall into disrepair,
They arq not altogether to blame, for
during tne past year they have been
in a stata of unoettainty. There have
been rumors on tho island that Guam
was to he returned to Spain, and no
tnan cared to be overzealous in his
loyalty ta tile United State* for fear
that he would suffer for it if Spain re¬
sumed ifl^'tule.'- Their doubts! are
now set at rest by the arrival of Gov
9 T ,
ernor Leary and the promulgation of
his proclamation. The people are glad
to be under American rule, and al¬
ready arches are going up in the
streets and oouimitteea are being
formed to welcome the Governor when
he takes up hi* official residence in
Agana.
The natives are peaceful and gentle
in disposition. The Filipino con¬
victs, sent here front-Manila? seem to
be the only disturbing element on tho
island. These Filipinos tried to in¬
augurate a revolution last March, but
the plot wa3 nipped, in the hud by the
naval officer in chargo bore at the
time. There are several schools on
the island, but education is not gen¬
eral. The native ia indolent, and be
can see no benefit in education. He
works if bo pleases, and after a few
days knocks t^» off with money enough to
keep him test of the year. It
costs him he nothing to build his house,
and if is out of work and out of
' funds there ale'the breadfruit trees,'
the cocoauuts and the bananas grow¬
ing wild. Why should he disturb his
siesta? In the past there was an ad*
ditioual rcasou why he should not
work; he was taxed heavily for every¬
thing he owned.
When the natives cultivate the
fields, they rarely live on tho land
they till. Instead they prefer to
group themselves in little villages, of
which there are a number scattered
about the island. When it oornes
harvesting time, all the men assemble
on one plantation, build a hut, and
live and work together gathering in
the erop. When they have finished,
tho whole body of them move to the
next plantation. It is also an ocoa
sion for merry-making, in which la
tuba plays au important part. There
is rarely any disorder, but when
neoessary to quell a disturbance the
force is furnished by a company of
native artillery, the only military
fcrce on thn island between the
evacuation by the Spanish troops and
the arrival of the Yosemite. Every
one unites in praising theso native
soldiers. Their behavior is excellent,
and their appearance is surprisingly
neat and military.
Guam is an island of great possi¬
bilities. Strategiently, it is important
in being a link in tho chain between
San Francisco and Manila. Commer¬
cially, it may be important, but at
present little is known of its re¬
sources, as the island has never been
developed. It is known, however,
that the land is. qjtreinely fertile—
coffee, oocoHnuts,*l' s, limes, corn,
sugar cane, all groi h but little at
tention furthe vcggflE rJfl jhe ►cereals planting,
Few other have
been tried, experii^f! hplHH kjittle doubt
that the Ddertaken
will laud prove general? that j&kj IQ rity of the
is ' She water
buffalo varietjfthi'ii lifet |«t horses
do not . In th 2? Wf ,twen
ty-two and they hors^jpoh* ai*4 m .’fcjj-by island, the
ow
wealthy sight class. to ijLuncon);- jfpkldio of
mon gallojjfiii see Imptnedly
a buffalo, pH*
along the muddy tt pis 8
and deer roamtpii sstho isl
and. V
Copra, the dried lectin if• the 00 -
coanut, is the principal*: »Ie of ex
port. The other pvoduc are raised
for home consumption 0 : ! It is not
known island^ what because mineralajfh n^^dy h«S gre in tided. the
ever
kni > ii
the a kiim'e.m tills," y
with the broken ral stone, can be
shaped or plastered, and becomes
w«r*r- is the material used 7 for ’T”' the walls „ T “; of
J, ’ fcrs? 3 s
„ >mooth <( ,
g , ike oemented roacl .
fi6 veral kinds cf lumber,
^ mogt valnable beiug the iron
d This i8 usetl in the floors of
tho hou8e ^ the rafters ’ eto . It ia ex -
di ^ , ( ard and £ he vy> j and re8ist8
„ in o j’ even t ter0 o when U8ed
f J ilw tho wharveB . Some of tho
in bUauts that tUe floors in their
h m ore than one hundred
* old> ; and there appears no neces
for r moral . TU e woodwork of a
houge take8 longer to complete than
, na8on ^ There are no sawmills,
jV ank mu8t bo cnt ont by
h d faot the uat ivo's idea of
aroUitecture aud of agriculture aro of
^ moat F imitivo order . A Baw lind
a Latohet for t he first, the fora of a
as ^ j QW and a jaaohete for farm
^ .„ ids3 of tools, and with
^ woria patie ^ ntly away to the
d If it ig u t fiui8hed to-day, no
m ’ to-morrow will do; time is no
matter to him .
T ah of G , m is fftirI lea8 .
M ftnd hea nhful. The island
. g Bituated in latitude thirteen de
f twenty & . Bix minutes north and
^ itude de ^ ee8 forty minutes
' atld j, b tbe xea ch of the
mon 800n8| and within the tradewind
balt . As the island is ouly thirty
ln ji e8 [ oug and i e88 than ten miles
w i d6f t be influence of the trade wiud
j 8 felt throughout iia area, and the
heat of the tropioal sun is tempered
thereby. Fevers are almost unknown,
and there ore few of the tropical dis
ea8Q8 here. Unfortunately thero are
a fow oase8 0 f i op rosy. The lepers
were confined in a hospital, tut when
the Spaniards evacuated the island,
the lepers were released and aro
now scattered and hidden about the
j„] aud . One of the first duties of the
medical officer will be to corral and
segregate these unfortunates, The
rainy season lasts from May to Ooto- rains
ber> and dm q ug this time it
hard, giving a gloomy aspeotto every- has
thing. Once the rainy season
passed, for the remaining months of
the year it is bright, pltasant weather,
witb 00 i
Eventually Guam will have trade
a cable will lie
landed, and the people will be in
touoh with the world, but at present
g roa t e r isolation could hardly be im
ag i nod . There is no commercial
routa wb i c h includes the islnud, and
communication is depandent upon an
occasional army transport or a man
0 (. war stopping in the harbor. It
comes hardest on tbe pioneers on the
y ()8om it 0 , marooned, as one officer
i aU gbingly expressed it, but there is
a cheery Bpirit and an eager desire to
work on the port of all to do their
share in the development of our couu
try.
The richest aore of land in the world
i* that near Lionsar, in Thibet, on
whioh gi ows the sacred tree of Thibet.
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The extraordinary fatality among the leaders of tho British soldier's in
actions at Smith Hill, Elandslaagte and Belmont is clearly explained in this
picture. While the meu iu the rushes up the Kopjes took advantage of
every cover, the offioers esteemed it their duty to stand erect. In this posi¬
tion they became conspicuous quarry for the Boer marksmeu.
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§ The Plans for tlje f
| OOOOCOOOOOOQCCOOOOOQOOQOOS Twelfth Census. |
All through the past six months
preparations have been going busily
on in Washington for a great publish¬
ing enterprise, whioh will be launched
promptly ing on the first day of the com¬
Juno. The results of the under¬
taking will begin to appear in finished
form two years from that date, and
will continue to be brought out at in¬
tervals for three or four years there¬
after. The publisher is the govern¬
ment; the publication will bo desig¬
nated as the Twelfth Census of the
United States.
The twelfth census will differ in sev¬
eral particulars from any of tho pre¬
ceding cues. It will be conducted on
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WILLIAM H. MEBRIAM.
(Director of tlie Twelfth Census.)
a larger scale, as there are of course
more people to be enumerated. It
will embraoe a greater area; for the
first time tho inhabitants of Alaska,
Hawaii, and Porto Eico are to be in¬
cluded in the oount. Moreover, the
coming census will' t|f bo the first in
whioh all the work recording and
computing statistics is to be done by,
meobanijujL^Means. ffii eqtric
u nenlus,
lenth but in enum
eration they will be ilelied upon en¬
tirely.
Tho thorough organization neces¬
sary in order successfully to carry
through suoh au undertaking as this
may be appreciated whon one reflects
upon tho labor involved in counting
seventy-five millions of anything—-a
task that would require one man’s un¬
divided energies for twelve hours a
day during more than a year and a
half,. In tho oase of tho census tho
labor is multiplied by tho considera¬
tion that the seventy-five million units
are human beings, conoerfilng each of
whom a dozen facts must be recorded,
and that they are scattered over some
four million square miles of the earth’s
surfaoe.
The task of taking the census will
require altogether tho services of more
thau forty thousand persons. They
will be separated into two main di¬
visions—the field forces, and the head¬
quarters staff in Washington.
The former will inolude by far the
greater number—nearly forty thou¬
sand, all told. These will bo the enu¬
merators, who will gather the re¬
quired information from all parts of
the country, aud the superintendents work.
in charge of this branoh of the
The data thus collected will be com¬
piled and prepared for publication by
a staff of three thousand clerks in the
central office."
Roughly speaking, there beono
enumerator for each township through¬
out the country, or, in the cities, one
for each ward. The euumerarfttors
will be local residents appointed the by
the Director of the Census, on
recommendation of some influential
persou, usually the Congressman from
the district. The superintendents
will have charge of divisions generally
tlie same in limits as the Congres¬
sional districts. In the case of the
larger oities, however, there will be
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i'RONl' VIEW OP NEW CENSUS BUILDING.
but one superintendent to each city,
altbongh bis territory may iUolnde sev¬
eral Congressional distriots. In Mas
saebuoetts, where an efficient oensus
bureau exists under the direction of
the State authorities, there will be a
single superintendent. expected
The enumerators are to
start on their rounds on June 1, 1900.
They will be supplied beforehand with
portfolios containing blank schedules
on which to enter the name of each
person iu their districts, together with
the information provided - for by law.
Most of them can complete their tasks
within r few days, and will receive
from 350, to $150 far their services,
according to the amount of work in¬
volved. As soon as the schedules are
completed aud revised, under the di¬
rection of thedistrict superintendents;
they will be forwarded to Washing¬
ton.
Here is where thg^work of putting
the census data into intelligible and
valuable form will be done, and here
is where the tabulating machinery
will come into play. These machines,
by the way, are the invention of a
former census employe, Mr. Herman
Hollerith. They were designed with
a speoial view to use iu the census,
although they have proved valuable
for other statistical work.
By this system the statistics con
cerning each person will appear on a
separate punched card. About seven
ty-five millions of these cards will be
required, therefore, to contain all tho
data oolleoted for the census.
The cards are numbered to corre
spoud with the numbers opposite the
names in the schedules. They con
tain two hundred and eighty-eight
The punohed record cards
are counted, or tabulated iu
tho electrical tabulating ma¬
provided chines. These with machines aro OODOO__ Ei~\WI "0 0 0
a cirouit clos¬ 'AT
ing device, into which the -__' 0
cards are rapidly fed one by
one. The holes in the card TIM
through control a the number eleotrio of counters, circuits If \ 1
whioh will as desired, couut
the simple facts all* to the
number etc., or the of most males, complicated females, yy /1
combination whioh the statis¬ I ■
tician may ask for. agggg - ^
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thi
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fSB be done witpAmall machines,
something keyboard like a typewriter, punches.
called
kb About one thousand of these
HB m keyboard punches will be
m- used, and tho entire work of
gUl transcribing individual the 75,000,000 records
or more
hi will working months be after done days, the or in first nearly about reports four 100
TABULATING RECORDS. are in.
symbols, each of whioh' is an ab¬
breviation representing some fact
within the range of the census enum¬
eration. They are punched by means
of an electric machine.
Iu recording the statistics a clerk
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ELECTRICAL TABULATING-MACHINE.
reads from the schedules the
tion entered opposite seated a certain name
to an operator at tbo
of the punohing-machine, With
little praotice this
can be operated as fast nn an
Experience has shown
the average number of records
that one clerk can trausier from the
to the cards is seven hun¬
dred per day. It is the Intention of
the Census Bureau to put one thous¬
and clerks at work with these ma¬
chines as soon an tho returns are iu,
so that this branch otthe work should
be completed in about a hundred
days. the pnncbing-machlne the
From
record oards go to tho electric tabu
lating-maohine, which is even more
ingenious. In form it is something
like an upright piano. In the face of
the upper part of the box are set a |
number of indicator dials, each one
devoted to some one set of facts emu* i '
prehended tti the census. Insiduthe
machine is a complicated system of
eloctrio wiring connecting these indi¬
cators with the operating apparatus.
It is tho missiou of this machine to
total the various facts recorded on
tho punched cards. To do this the
punched qards are slipped into the
machine beneath a set of electric nee¬
dles, mounted on spiral springs. The
operator presses these needles down
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THE ASSISTANT PUSECTOD.
upon the card. Wherever there are
punch-holes the needles pass through
and dip into a cup of mercury placed
beneath. An electric circuit is thus
completed, which moves up the indi¬
cators on tho connected dials one
point and records the particular fact
indicated by each punch-hole. The
totals are always in view on the indi
cators, and are copied off on slips at
the end of each ruu. Each machine
is capable of disposing of five thou
sand cards per day.
The statistics computed by the ma
chines' will be copied on record slips
and turned over to another force of
one thousand clerks, whose business it
will be to make up tables aud prepare
copy for tho printers,
By the act of Congress providing
for the coming enumeration it was
stipulated that the four principal re¬
ports—on population, mortality, agri¬
culture and manufactures—must be
ready for publication on July 1, 1902.
The Director of the twelfth cen-
8113 is William R. Merviam, ex
Governor of Minnesota. The actual
work of preparing the statistical in¬
formation of the census for publica
tion will be in charge of Assistant Di
rector Frederick H. Wines. Mr.
Wines has had long experience in this
sort of work. He was in charge of
oue department of tho eleventh cen¬
sus, and wrb employed also in tho
census of 1880. As assistant to Mr.
Wines there are five chief statistioians,
all experts in their lines, to each of
whom will be assigned one depart¬
ment.—Harper’s Weekly.
How II« Obtained SlUnc*.
The tea things had been cleared
away, and the hiead of the establish
ment was trying to read the evening
paper, while his better half busied
herself with some fancy work, and at
the same time endeavored to interest
him in the gossip of the neighbor¬
hood.
“Maris,” said he, glancing up from
his paper, “did yon ever hear the
story of preoious gems?” “what is
“Why, no,” aha replied,
it?”
“It’s an old-time fairy legend that
iny grandmother told me when I was
a boy,” he continued, “about a wom¬
an from whose lips there fell either a
diamond or » ruby every time she
spoke a word.”
“Well, go on,” she said.
“That's all there is of it, Mafia,”
he replied. “But I was jnst thinking
that if suoh things happened nowadays
I’d <?pen a jewelry shop the first thing
in the morning.” consecutive
Aud then for thirteen
minutes silence reigned supreme.—■
Tit-Bits.
Pointed Paragraph*.
A good character is more easily lost
gained. talks—but it with
Money favored few. converses
the
Luck is blamed with a lot of mis
of which it is ignorant.
The way of the wise man is to let a
woman have her own way.
One is apt to strike a happy vein in
the vicinity of the funny bone.
If yon don’t care for the things you
can’t obtain you will be fairly happy.
Probably the most difficult man in
the *M>rl(l to please is the ope who
doesn't know what he wauls.—Chi¬
cago News.
PICKING BIL LIONS O F FLOWERS;
Work of Women Where the Perfume lu¬
ll tint rv is Carried on in France.
jhrance, Grasse, in the southern part of
i3 the centre of tho perfume
Industry. There women aud girls
may be seen, with broad hats on their
heads, Ufa. gathering flowers from 5 until
m. and then returning withtheir
•fragrant burdens to the houses; where
they pluck the leaves from the blos¬
soms and pass the rest of the day ia
preparing them for tho work of ex¬
tracting the essences of essential oils,
vyhich contain the perfume itself.
Ia March they begin plucking vio¬
lets, from which violet water is made,
aii'd from the beginning of May to the
end of June they gather tho jessa¬
mine, roses and orange blossoms, as
well as the tuberoses in July, the
mignonette in August aud the oasflia
iu September. The nimble fingers of
tho -women must move rapidly to
pluck the millions and billions of
leaves that go to make up the 1,200,
000 kilograms of rose leaves alone that
aro used each season, Besides there
arc a million kilograms of jessamine
to be plucked, and violets and orange
blossoms to the extent of two million
kilograms a year. To give an idea of
the number of plants that aro raised
for this huge result, it is calculated
that each stalk of jessamine yields two
kilograms of blossoms a season. So
there must bo at least, five huudrod
thousand stalks to yield the million
kilograms required.
But tho gathering of the blossoms
is only the beginning of the work, for
then tho flowers must bo picked apart
and all the spoiled leaves thrown
aside. Then the making of the per¬
fume begins. Tho leaves are spread
one by one upon layers of pure lard
that cover plates of glass. Three or
tour times theso ilower-layCvs are re¬
newed before the lard has absorbed
all of tho perfume that it cau hold, for
the fat has a peculiar attraction for
the essential oils of tho flowers. This
perfumed lard is the pomade of com¬
merce, not. the pomade used for hair
or beard," but the crudo material out
of which this is afterward manufac¬
tured. The lard is then either
shipped as it is to other manufac¬
turers, or put into alcohol which
draws oil' the perfume from the fat,
having a stronger attraction therefor
than the lard and the result is the
finest eau de cologne. Most of this
pomade is shipped as it stands to all
parts of Europe and America, but
some of it is reserved and the oils are
extracted by distilling processes, mak¬
ing the purest extracts.
WORg T'OF Wl SD0M.
The canter of tho world is homo.
Wrong, when strong, is always de¬
fiant.
Looking at the sun will never make
au eagle out of a crow.
Character building never has to stop
for change of weather.
Character always has more iu the
bank than it checks out.
Some of the greatest strangers in
this world are parent and child.
Everybody pushes makes way for the man
who to the front in earnest.
Ordinary ability and extraordinary
perseverance will move the world.
The man who loves little is little,
no matter what size hat ha wears.
seTa boy’rigl't.
The strongest man ii generally tho
one who has had the most to over¬
come.
No lion-hearted man ever escapes
getting some scratches from the lion’s
paw.
Some of the brightest things this
world contains cau only be seen
through tears.
It is hard to make a dyspeptio be¬
lieve the world will ever beany better
than it is now.
There is always a to-morrow coming
that is packing its trunk and making
its start to-day.
The manner,in which truth is pre¬
sented has much to do with whether
it will be fought or loved.
The world is always ready to take
off its hat to the man who does the
j'ight thing at the right time.
If the truth could be known, it
would be found that people of medium
talents average up better in the mat
of accomplishment than those of great
ability, for what can be done easily is
often not done at all, while the man
who has to walk or work his passage
geuerally manages to get there.—
Ham s Horn Brown, m Indianapolis
Journal.
Tale, of a Ilellred Detective.
“I recall a case where a man
was ‘wanted’ in the West Indies,”
said a retired detective, well-known
in Scotland Yard. “He was traced to
Pimlico, but I found he had gone
away from the house an hour or so be¬
fore I arrived. The only clue was that
ho had taken a cab with a gray horse.
My game was to look for a gray horse
in a cab, and I had not walked a quar¬
ter of a mile before I hailed the driver
of such an animal. It was the very
cabman I wanted. My man was not
inside, but I succeeded iu arresting
him at Liverpool, and took him back
to the West Indies.
•‘I recollect another ca3e iu which,
while tracing the abductor of an heir¬
ess, I came upon another couple who
had eloped under precisely the same
conditions from Germany.
“Once I had a curious presenti¬
ment. A man was arrested for fraud,
and as he stood in the dock at tbe po¬
lice court I felt, that he had something
upon him. He had been searched,
but I had him searched again—still
without result. But I still was con¬
scious of the same presentiment, and
11-ad him stripped. Iu his sock there
•was a little bottle of poisoD.”—Lon¬
don Daily Telegraph.
Giant Policemen.
Four brothers named Kavanagb;
from t)ie county of Wexford, who have
just been admitted as recruits to the
ranks of the Dublin Metropolitan Po¬
lice, have created a mild sensation, as
each of the brothers stands exactly six
feet six inches in height and is built in
proportion. They are sons of a far¬
mer, and are men of splendid
physique, in addition to their unusual
height. Two other brothers remain
at home, who are presumably the
dwarfs of the family, being each only
six feet three inches in height—but
perhaps they have not yet attained
their full elevation.
Tie Natal Carbineers.
Tho Natal Carbineers are the oldest
volunteer cavalry corps In Natal.
Henco It was not Inappropriate (hut
they should bear the brunt of the des¬
ultory fighting, that took place west of
Ladysmith, at Bester’s Station aud
neighborhood, In tho opening days of
the campaign. This corps has twice
been under fire, ’and lost several men
on both occasions. Iu 1873 a patrol of
37 Carbineers sent against a refractory
native chief lost throe men In a fight
at the foot of tho Drakensberg Momr
tains, In the Zulu war, at Isaudhl
wana in 1879 22 of their number fell
In action, Most of the members of
tile organization are in the Natal civil
service, -
Must Have Bean Born Lucky.
“How did you make out with that
effort to break your uncle's will?”
“Fine! After it was nil settled up,
aud the lawyers had the estate I didu't
owe them a cent.” — Chicago Tliues
Ilerald.
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