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FANTASTIC BAKU. j Odorous, but Beautiful, and Only Mil- ! ionaires Can Live There. I'm afraid that I shall have to tell my great-grandchildren that the Casp:a:i is very little to look at. at least from Baku. It has no color, and it smells outrageously of kerosene, writes II. G. Dwight in the Century. Baku, however, is something to look at. (Baku is the Russian Transcaucasian seaport on the Caspian sea.) It is a kind of Pittsburgh dipped in Asia, and it tickled me beyond measure. Not so long ago it was a wretched fishing village inhabited chiefly bv Persians and Tartars who were too stupid to sell their land to prowling oil prospectors. So those same Persians and Tartars now roll in gold. And they don't know what on earth to do with it. The consequence is that nobody but a millionaire can afford to live in Baku. But what a fantastic hodgepodge of civilization and barbarism! What types! What costumes! What morals! Above all, what motorcars, satin lined, emblazoned, gilded, jeweled, skitchering there on the edge of Asia! It's too good to be true, but I fhan't tell you about it. What I want to tell you about is a park the Russians have made there on the shore of their Caspian. Thej always do those things well, you know. No green thing will grow for miles around Baku, but those Russians have coaxed a few trees to eprout in tubs in that tidy little ]?rk, and bands far better than I ewer heard in Central park play you Tschaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakof, not to say Wagner and Verdi and Bizet. And you should see the extraordinary crowds that listen?the Russians, the Persians, the Armenians, the Georgians, the Lesghians, the Tartars, the wild, the sVarthv, the fiery, the rainbow colored! My _v._ j?Vi. ? run, wuuu 1x1 uuuui gv wj uoau. I sat there in their park one afternoon sniffing their Caspian, tapping by foot in time to their "Glinka," when I suddenly made a discovery: That coon song we used to sing when wo were young, "Lou, Lou, I Love You," came out of "Life For the Czar." Th? Third DagrW In Japan. Medieval torture for securing confessions from criminals is, it eezm, ctoug w uj ricuuum j?uuv;e? men in Japan, although distinctly against the law. It is recorded in the daily papers that two Japanese detectives, Jihei Fujikura and Kumataro Takedo, who extorted a false confession of murder from Sosoke Komori by means of torture, were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the Yokohama district court recently. They were given one year's postponement of the execution of the sentence. After being imprisoned for many . months Komori, the victim of the overzealous "bulls," was recently released.?East and West News. Salt Sea Superstitions. Iceland fishermen considered sneezing a sign that some evil was about to happen to the ship and used to salute the man who had sneezed to atone for his act. Spitting to the windward, which is unaeamanlike for a very obvious reason, was also considered as a sign of ill omen. A reasonable explanation for this superstition is that no ship was safe as long as she had members of her crew who were so ijnorant in such an elementary principle of seamanship. Chinese atilors consider it good luck to cross toe bows of foreign ships, and in eeking good fortune cause a great deal of trouble in narrow channels and congested waters. QI?m Room In a Hoapital. The hospital of the Hebrew Infant asyhim in New York contains ? room bnilt entirely of gl?6a. It is A.rided into twelre compartments, each hawing glass ?des, through which the nurse cam see the baby at aid times without going in. B*h compartment is ventilated separately, states the Southern Hospital Becord. A child baring a communicable disease can be cared for L. one of these little compartments without any possibility of infecting the baby m the next one, although vi may be only three feet away, ana the children smile at each other llirongh the glass. Rarbart Spattear'a Odditiaa. Herbert Spencer hated clocks which strike, especially out of doer clocks. When staying in lodgings in A Berkshire Tillage he sent a re3nest to the owner of the principal buse there that the stable clock, which struck the hours, might be topped. He was not a good cora panion to go out for a drive with, aa, if he did not feel well, he would ascertain how fast his pulse was; heating and if it was not satisfactory would instantly girt the order to return home. '< 9 L? J I . The Prefect Of Police I O, 1__ \T__1.1 Otory 01 a ocoien i>ecK.iat:e In Valparaiso. By GEORGE CATHERWOOD It was 011 board the steamer Atlantic, sailing from New York to Soutli America, that we first became acquainted with Jim O'Rorke, a young fellow of twenty-five, who had just enough blarney and brogue in his talk to be true to his name. However, he was an expert in his line and at the time was on his way to Brazil to buy diamonds for a New York firm. Tom Hargraves and I had planned to spend the winter months in the tropics, so when the steamei reached Panama we said goodby to our friend O'Korke and went ashore, but the torrid heat of the day and the cold nights made the climate disagreeable, ?o we soon went on southward, and the following month we reached Chile. Hargreares and I put on cool white suits, such as are worn in South American countries, and went down to the late evening meal, the fashionable one of the day at Chilean hotels. As a waiter bowed us to a table we unexpectedly came on our old friend O'Rorke, who was dining with another American. When he caught sight of us his good natured Irish face broadened into a smile. "Hello, fellows!" he cried, shaking hands cordially. "I'm certainly glad to find you here." "I thought you were in the wildi of Brazil," I said, laughing. "I was for awhila," he answered, "but I'm going home now. I came over to Valparaiso to 6ee my friend here, the consul/' And, turning to his companion at the table, who bad risen, he introduced us. "Mr. Cuthbert, two friends of mine from the States, Mr. Hargraves and Mr. Moore." The consul greeted us heartily when a messenger appeared and handed him a note. "I have little time of my own," said the consul, and, excusing himself, he left the room. Through a nearby window the evening air came in with delightful coolness after the heat of the cav, and in the gay surroundings the meal passed happily. The majority of the tables were surrounded by wealthy natives, and the chatter of the Spanish language sounded incessantly. Many of the women wore jewels, and as we passed out our attention was attracted especially to a corner table near the door, where a man in uniform sat with one of the most beaitiful Spanish women I had ever seen. I think her beauty first attracted me, though all noted the elegant necklace that encircled hei throat and the large diamond that formed its central ornament. In a moment we had passed on, aDd a screen separated us from the couple at the table. "Did you see that woman ?" exoteimed Hargraves. "Yes," I replied, "and her diamond necklace." "I got only a glimpse of it," said O'Rorke, "but it was a beauty." We stopped in the doorway, and as a waiter approached O'Rorke motioned toward the screen and asked, "Who is the lady at the first table ?" The serrant replied in broken English, "Senora Garcias, the owner of the Pasaje." "And the gentleman?" O'Rorke pursued. The waiter looked surprised- at the question. "The prefect otf poll*/^ " ho cnid in ?n Awod whisuer. We sat cm the veranda smokfeg until it was late. Tten Jim remembered a stiletto be had bought as a souvenir and went up to his room to get ** A few minutes later a disturbance came from within. A woman screamed, and a man's voice called tut in Spanish. Eargravee and I rushed in with the other guests that had heard the noise, and at the foot of tha stairs strange sight met our eyes. Lying proetrate on the floor vm the beautiful Senora Oareiaa, with eyes dosed and hair disheveled, while around her neck' was a red band, almost bleeding, as though the necklace had been snatched off with violence. TJp on the stairs the prefect grappled with OTtorke, and as they swayed back and forth with uncertain footing the light gleamed from a stiletto in the tatter's hand. It was the prefect that had called inr heln and before we eould reach them to assist O'Borke a half dozen of the hotel servants appeared, and Jim was overpowered. The prefect disengaged himself with difficulty from Jim's embrace and stood panting. "Lock this follow up until polie come from the city," he orderec But Hargraves and I interposed. "What's the trouble, Jim?" I call ed to O'Borke. The prefect tried to keep hit from replying, but Jim cried: "11 stole the sonorn's necklace. It's i his noeket." I At this the prefect turned on hi: with a string of oaths. "Villain! he hissed. "Von took the neck lace, and if it had not been for in the senora might have fared woi>t Thank heaven I arrived in time t 1 save her from your stiletto." The retainers wrenched the knif , from O'Korke's hand, and the crow > surged up hissing, for nothing es , cites the Latin mind like the sigh of naked weapons. The affair wa ! becoming desperate for O'Rorki ' but luckily at this moment Mi Cu#ibert pushed through the crowc 1 which fell back sullenly as the recognized the consul. "Hold on there!" he called as th wallers irieu iu urag uim a?aj "There must be some mistake, pre ' feet. I know Mr. O'Rorke quit 1 well, and no doubt we can settl this affair in a moment." The pref^st interrupted angrih 1 but the consul turned his back o him and asked Jim to explain wha had happened. "I had gone up to mr room fo this stiletto, a curio which I wishe to show mr friends on the porch, ' Jim explained, "and on my^rofciir ' from the head of the stairs Fsaw th senora in the hands of a man wh held her by the throat. I shoute ; to him to let go and was surprise to see it was the prefect, who b that time had wrenched loose he necklace and slipped it into hi pocket. Then, realizing that he wa caught, he rushed at me as thoug' I was the culprit/' The prefect stamped his foot an 1 shouted "liar!" But the consul hel the floor, and Jim in proof of hi ' honesty turned his pockets insid out. As he emptied his right ham pocket a glimmering gold chain fel from it, at the aight of which h staggered as though he had oeei . struck. It was the diamond neck lace. But entangled in the meshe of the chain was the prefect's polic , whistle engraved with his ow] name, "Pedro Mgnendos." Un known to him, itnkd clung to th , necklace during the scuffle wher in order to throw the blame 01 O'Borke, he had transferred it t the latter's pocket. The face of the prefect blanched but he feft back on the dignity o | hi6 office. "This proves nothing, , he said haughtily. "It proves the necklace was ii . your pocket!" Hargraves called oul and what might have been a genera riot was at that moment prevents by Senora Garcias regaining con ' sciousness. , For an instant 6he swept th crowd with a bewildered glance ' then as her eyes fell on the pre ! feet she realized the situation and with a cry of anger snatched he , necklace from his hands. "Oh, you ingrate!" she exclaim ed. "You pretended to love me but it was onlv for my jewels. I ow my life no doubt to this youn, , man." And she turned to 0' iforke "He arrived just in time to sav i i i 1. me." men as tier nanas caugn the police whistle she disentangle it from the chain and hurled it ii the prefect's face. 'It is a lie!" he reiterated, an<3 drawing the drees sword that hun] at his side, he brandished it in ' circle at arm's length. In this man ner he fought his way throigh th i crowd and made his escape by i rear door. Later Qargrares and I laughing! suggested that Jim might supplan , the prefect in the senora's affec tions, but he declared he had ba< . enough of South American dealingi and we left the next morning on i Pacific steamer. Twtfti Luck. 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