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JoUCEftEN OF
30TH education and mus¬
cle DEMANDED.
WitH the Powers of a Polios Jus*
tice They Arrest or Release Pris
oners
-•The Japanese police are nearly all of
the Samurai class. I think that force
. coas idered the most perfect police in
I world,” says Lafcadio Hearn, the well
known American writer, now a resident
° £ io,netvveBty ’police Japan years ago modeled the Department the
0 f of was on
y encb system and the result lias been iu
r 1,1 tlle first P^ce, the depart
te-re ting- independent of the municipal
merit is
Tovernments of the Japanese cities; in
eich state or province it is under the con
trol of the governor. The Keisatsu-Bu, or
“police headquarters,” of each all province is
in the capital city, while of the cities
are provided with a central office and as
T substitutions as are needed.
case of fire the police must act as
firemen. the qualifications that de
Some of are
mauded in a candidate for appointment to
the force in Japan must seem extraonliu
arv t 0 Americans. Each applicant for ap
pointmeDt must write a short essay in the
classics, as well as in the modern Japanese
writing- He must also be well read in the
history of Japan, must understand its
nicipal laws, must be a fairly good arith
metician, and—a sign of progress, indeed
—must he able to converse and write either
in Fiench or English!
The better result of the mental qualift
cation of the police is proven by the fact
that the policeman can act as a police jus
tiee on the spot, and is thus able to dis
pose of a trivial offence without making
an unnecessary arrest.
The physical requirements in an appli
cant are much simpler. He must possess
<icoil health, be free from deformity, and
must be at least five feet two inches in
height. satisfactory mental and
After passing
physical examinations, the applicant be
comes a police fledging. He must now
spend six mouths at a “preparatory
school,” where he is drilled in the science
of police work. While in this preparatory
department he is not a policeman of full
grade, but remains a sort of apprentice ud
til he completes the whole course of study.
Most important of all his training now is
“taijitsu,” which is the Japanese name for
physical culture. It includes the art of
wrestling, which, as the Japanese practice
it, is a secret known only to the Samurai
class. By the aid of this art, the athlete
can light offensively or defensively with
out weapons, and can restore the uncon¬
scious without the aid of spirits or of
medicines.
The • ‘taijitsu” or art of 1 ‘breaking mus¬
cles,” as it is sometimes called, does not
the least resemble American boxing. By
its aid a man who weighs 130 pounds is
able to throw a man twice his weight.
Before the Japanese government decided
to adopt the taijitsu, or “art of breaking
muscles,” a 128 pound professor of the art
gave a public contest with a heavy and
muscular six footer whom he vanquished
with ease.. The victor was only 5 feet 4
inches in height, while the wrestler whom
he overpowered was more than six feet
tall and weighed over 250 pounds, and his
great, size moreover was not due.to fat,but
to the development of solid muscle. It
was like a fight between an elephant and a
lion, and the lion won. I 11 less than a
minute the big fellow was thrown to the
floor, where he lay senseless until restored
by the aid of the same "art of breaking
muscles.” Since then the science of tai¬
jitsu has been highly cultivated, not only
by the police, hut also by college and
school students, as in it are contained all
branches of physical culture.
The Japanese policeman was first
equipped with a heavy club about four
feet long and one inch and a half in diam¬
eter. Afterward this weapon was aban¬
doned for a cavalry sword, for the reason
that the great majority of the policemen
were drawn from the Samurai class, who
were accustomed to the use of swords. A
few years ago policemen were equipped
with revolvers and short clubs, which
weapons The they now T carry. hand¬
Japanese policeman does not
cuff his captive. He is provided with a
small,but strong, cord,about six feet long,
with which lie ties the offender’s arms,
cede compelling him, after being tied, to pre¬
him.
As the police force is drawn chiefly
from the Samurai class, who love neither
money nor favoritism,but honor and coun¬
try. there is no such thing as bribery.
In the Department of Police there are
many bureaus, namely, political, festival, news
paper, censorship, public meeting,
amusement, etc.
Tlie system of secret police, or detec¬
tives, is also very perfect, and the mo ve
meat of all criminals of more or less de¬
gree are minutely traced and recorded at
die Japanese “Rogues’ Gallery.”
The uniform of a Japanese policeman is
in design much like that worn by “L”
train guards in New York City. In win¬
ter it is black, in summer it is white.
SHOOTING A RAPID
Exciting Scene On a Canadian
River.
first As we approached the steersman in the
canoe stood up to look over the
course. The sea was high. Was it too
high? Could they leap the waves? There
was a quick talk among our guides as we
slipped along, undecided which way to
turn. Then the question seemed to settle
itself, as most of these woodland que 9 t ; ons
do. as if some silent force of nature had
the casting vote. “Sautez, sautezl”
cried Ferdinand, “envoyez an large!”
In a moment we were sliding down the
smooth back of the rapid, direcUv to
ward the first big wave. The roeky
•bore went by us like a dream, we could
feci the motion of the earth whirling
around with us. The crest of the billow
tu front curled above the bow of the
canoe. swift ‘Arrete, Arrete. doucement!” A
stroke of the paddle checked the
horse canoe, suddenly quivering and prancing like a
halted. The wave ahead,as
if surprised, sank and flattened for a
second. The canoe leaped through the
edf;e of it, swerved to one side, -and ran
Sityly down along the fringe of the line
of billows, into quieter water.
Everyone feels the exhilaration of such
a descent. I know a lady who almost
cried with fright when she went down
her first rapid, hut before the voyage
was ended she was saying:
Count that day lost whose low descending
sun
Sees no fall leaped, no foaming rapid run.
It takes a touch of danger to bring
out the joy of life.
Our guides bet an to shout, and joke
each other, and praise their canoes,
“You grazed that villain rock at the
corner,” said Jean; “didn’t you know
where it was?”
“Yes, after I touched it,” cried Ferdi¬
nand; “but, you took in a bucket of water,
and I suppose m’sieur is sitting on a piece
of the river. Is it not?”
This seemed to us all a very merry jest,
and we laughed with the same inex¬
tinguishable laughter which a practical
joke, according to Homer, always used to
raise in Olympus.
Trees and Sunstroke.
During the late extraordinary warm
spell the writer of this paragraph was
called upon to see a large sugar maple
tree that was supposed to have been de¬
stroyed by a leak of the city gas main at
the root; hut an examination showed that
the tree died, literally, from sunstroke.
It is strange that close observers of trees
are unable to see when anything is out of
the common run of things, and conse¬
quently note that something is going
wrong. This sugar maple had been
planted on the street probably a quarter of
a century ago, and was about four feet in
circumference; but the trunk was almost
triangular, and yet this peculiarity seemed
to attract no attention. The tree was
simply triangular because on three sides
of the tree the bark and wood had evi¬
dently been destroyed years ago, while
the outer bark still continued to cover up
the injury, and the only live wood was ou
the angles ot the trunk. Only about one
third of the trunk was practically alive.
When the exceedingly warm spell came,
it was impossible for these limited ducts
to supply the moisture required for such
a large surface of foliage, and the tree,
therefore, literally died from inability to
furnish the moisture required for transpir
ation. It may be always taken for grant¬
ed that when the trunk of a tree, naturally
cylindrical, takes an angular form, there
is something wrong beneath the bark, and
an examination should at once be made.
The flatter portions will usually be found
dead. I 11 this case, the bark should
wholly be cut away from the dead portion
and the denuded part painted, in order Vo
check rotting away. In time, the healthy
wood may grow over the wound or lifeless
part, and the life of the tree be eventually
saved.
Plague of Field Mice.
Northern Bohemia is visited with a field
mouse plague so serious that governmental
aid lias been invoked. Thereupon the ap¬
plication of Loffler’s mouse-typhus bacillus
having proved so efficacious in Thessaly,
the Austrian Minister of Agriculture sent
an expert with a plentiful supply of the
mouse-killing stuff to the afflicted district.
Pieces of bread are soaked in a dilution of
the deadly potion; the mice devour the
bread with avidity, sicken and die; this
will ultimately result in the total extermi¬
nation of the rodents. It is reported that
over 10,000 field mice have been thus
killed in one day on single estates, and
yet there seemed to he no appreciable re¬
duction of tlte swarms overrunning the
fields.
Love of Jewels
The lave of one’s personal property is
instinctive, and a woman gets to feeling
for her rings and pins a sort of affec¬
tion, which is made up of a whole sheaf
of mingled associations, says a writer in
Harper’s Bazar. The engagement and
the wedding rings are, of course, sacred,
but while they cluster around, themselves
the sweet memories of the happiest period
of a girl’s life; other rings are almost
equally prized. This one was bought one
summer in Venice or Geneva : it is a sou¬
venir of a charming trip. The other has
been lost and found a half dozen times,
and seems to have a mysterious faculty of
returning to ils owner, however careless
or unfortunate she may be.
Jewels possess the subtle beauty' of
flowers in less ephemeral shape and tex¬
ture.
Electric Hot Houses.
By lighting his hothouses at night
with electric lights of 5,000 candle
power, all told, Dr. Werner von Sie¬
mens ripens raspberries months in seventy- and
five days, grapes in two
a half, etc. The expression “in sea¬
son” may soon lose its significance,
in this connection, since by the
application of electricity fruits,
vegetables, etc., can be had at any
time of the year. The fruits thus
produced are remarkable for brilliant
color and fine aroma, but are not
as sweet as those ripened by the
sun.
_
Damariscove, Me., hSts now no inhabi
tnnt but a lighthouse keeper. Two hun
fl re d years ago, in arranging for the In
fiian campaigns, Damariscove could fur
n j s h a company of men,
---- have spent sslo, i " ~ 000,000 n „„„ for , •
Americans
bicycles during the past year.
Hightst of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Govt Report
UL w: £1
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AB&Q&CHTSE.Y PURE
FLOWER LIFE.
The flowers of some sensitive plants
are as sensitive as the leaves.
The catalogues and floral dictiona¬
ries give the names of 750 kinds of
roses.
Every saint in the calendar is said
to be provided with a floral emblem.
No plant will produce flowers unless
there is iron in the soil in which it
grows.
Every ancient* hero and god had a
flower specially consecrated in his hon
or.
The Venus fly trap produces juice
that to nearly all insects is a deadly
poison.
The marigold goes to sleep with the
sun and remains quiescent until sun¬
rise.
The saffron is valuable as a dye. It
grows wild in many parts of South
Europe. white
In all mythology and folk-like
flowers are supposed to spring from
tears.
A flowering plant is said to abstract
from the soil two hundred times its
own weight of water.
The coral flowers, so-called, are an¬
imals. A coral reef resembles a bed of
anemones.
Some plants, as the peach tree, send
forth their flowers before the leaves
have started.
Double flowers are generally the re¬
sult of cultivation and always an abnor¬
mal growth.
The rose, among the Romans, was
the emblem of secrecy, hence the phrase
suhrosa.
In mountainous countries flowers are
found growing up to the line of perpet¬
ual snow.
According to Ovid, the white ane¬
mone sprang from the tears Venus shejl
for Adonis.
The spice known as the common clove
is the undeveloped bud of the carophyl
lus aromaticus.
The coloring principle of the madder
affects even the bones of animals that
devour the plant.
In Sumatra there grows a flower of
a scent so vile as to be comparable to
uothing but rotten carrion.
The perfume of the nutmeg flower
is said by some naturalists to have an
intoxicating effect on small birds.
Hog Raising Extrnorrtinury.
Two acres mulberries fatten 85 hogs. These
hogs were turned in th“ orchard in May amt
kept there till September eating nothing but.
mulberries and were perfectly fat when taken
out. They were fed a little corn to harden
the meat and then killed. Two acres of
mulberry trees C o 8 ft. high cost $30.00—what
are 85 fat hogs worth? For best kinds, of mul¬
berries write for new catalogue Atlanta, which Ga. is sent
free. Address W. D. Beatie,
Keeps Men Poor.
The clerk might he “boss” if he had the head
for ir,. The brains are there, but they don’t
seem to work. The trouble usually begins in
the stomach. Indigestion keeps men poor be¬
cause they don’t know they have it. hut im¬
agine something else. Ripans head. 'J abules They insure
sound digestion and a clear regu¬
late the entire system. Ask the druggist tor
a box.
Do not be Misled
by statement s regardin g the supposed cod-live n urative
qualities of tonics, nervines, n oil and
Iron compounds. Little permanent good re¬
sults from their use. The greatest good comes
by increasing the digestive will that. power. Tyner’s
Dyspepsia Remedy it will comfort do In simpio
indigestion chronic dyspepsia it give will give quick at once; relief, in
and, with a little perseverance; bring a per¬
manent cure. Price 50 cents per bottle. For
sale by all druggists.
FITS stopped free by Da, Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day’s use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00trial Phila.. Fa. bol
tle free. Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St.,
Nothing to complain of
M —the woman who uses Pearline. Noth¬
ing to cpmplain cleaning of line, in the washing And and
s * J certainly the proprietors anyway. of
/ J Pearline only knew can’t how complain. If
f you many women, their
every day, are making up
minds that the old, wearing, tearing,
tiresome way of washing doesn’t
II It’s growing pay!. bigger than ever—the
success
of Pearline ; though it has to fight not only
against all kinds of poor imitations, but against
a sort of superstition that anything which can
save so much labor must be harmful in some way.
Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell yo«,
KOTlfTCI “this is as good as" or “the same as Pearline.” IT'S
1 S I. yV FALSE—Pearline is never peddled; if y«ur grocer sends
you an imitation, be honest —send it back, 480 JAMES PYLE, New York.
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Lead Us Not Into Temptation.
First Brother (at Ocean Grove)—
Good morning, brother! What a
perfect divine Sabbath morning!
What a truly religious feeling pervades
this holy spot! It was a heaven-born
idea for the founders to lock the gates
on the Sabbath morning, and thus shut
out sin and worldly business.
Second Brother—Amen, Brother !
Amen! But whither dost thou jour¬
ney?
First Brother—Oh, I’m going over
to Asbury Park to purchase milk and
Sunday papers. Where do you go?
Second Brother—I’m going over
there, too. I want to get some bread
for breakfast.—Puck.
A Bonk for Women.
To assist modest, afflicted women in the
successful treatment of diseases peculiar under the to
their sex, a b“ok has been prepared
direction of Rev. R. L. McElree, assisted entitled by
eminent physicians and specialists,
Home Treatment of Female Diseases.
The book is written in simple language,
easily understood, and contains:
1st.—A description of the female organism.
2d.—Instructions for detecting the approach
of the menstrual age, and for treatment dur¬
ing the monthly period, and to insure its reg¬
ular return.
3rd.—A minute description of diseases af¬
fecting the genital, urinary and menstrual
organs of women, giving their cause, symp¬
toms and treatment.
A paper edition of this great, book has been
prepared, copies of which can be secured for
six cents in postage. Write, Kev. R. L.
McElree, St. Elmo, Tenn.
Why You Should Use Hindcrcorns.
It takes out the corns, and then yon have com¬
fort, surely a good t-xcuange. 15c. at druggists.
Mrs. Winslow’s the Soothing reduces Syrup for inflamma¬ children
teething, softens gums,
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle
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ONI 5 ENJOYS
Both the method and results ■when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly cleanses on the Kidneys, the
Liver and Bowels, sys¬
tem effectually, dispels colds, head¬
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. only remedy of Syrup kind of Figs is the
its ever pro¬
ducer, pleasing to the taste and ac¬
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular Syrup remedy of Figs known. is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading drug¬
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may not have it on hand will pro¬
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wishes to try it. l)o not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
a SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. H. r.
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JEWELRY CO.,
55 Whitehall St.. Atlanta. Ga.
Everything In the Jewelry and Silver
Line at Factory Prices.
PHILLIPS & CREW CO.
37 Peachtree Street.
STANDARD
Pianos and Organs,
SHEET MUSIC,
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE.
FISEMAN ^1 15 and 17 Whitehall BROS. Street, J
ATLANTA, GA.
-ONE PRICE—
CLOTHIERS,
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FINE MILL/NERY
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Atlanta. Ga.
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MANUFACTURING PHAliMA('1ST.
102 Whitehall St., Corner Mitchell,
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