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Queer Pranks Played by the Ebb and Flow of the Ocean. THE RUSH INTO THE AMAZON. Thr?e Sucoessive Waves, Each Ten Feet High, Fling Themselves In a Roaring Mats Upon tho Groat River. THo Tide*, at Panama. The highest ocean tide In the world Ii In the bay of Fnndy, where It has been known to rise eighty odd feet. The second highest tide Is found at Che mouth of the Lnglish river the Savern. The top of '.he Severn tide is at Chepstow, and when there is a gale behind a spring tide a rise of nine? teen feet seven Inches bus been ob? served *rlthtn s sln|le hour. The re? gelt of this 1 a "bere,M a tidal wave Which sweeps up loe wide channel at more than ten miles sn hour and swallows the bare sands under a wild tumble of turbulent waves. The csuse of the gigantic Severn tide is Interesting. It Is not entirely Joe to the rapid narrowing and shal? lowing of the Brlatol channel, but Is chiefly caused by the fact that two tides enter the Bevern simultaneously. The crest of the tide which runs into tho Irish channel meets at the mouth Of the Bristol chsnnel snother wave, twelve hours older, which has come round the north of Ireland. These two together run up the Severn. A tide slmost equal to that of the Severn Is seen In the bay of Mount ft Michael, on the French coast At low tide carte drive across from La Tendee to the Isle of Noinnoutien; at high tide big ships sail across the feed. In stories of adventure one some? times reeds of the tide rsclng In over the sauds faster than a man can run. This sctuslly happens In the bay of Mount St. Michael. At low tide there lies before one a Wide plain of sand 150 square miles in extent, in the center of which rises the huge black mass of St. Micha els mount. Tin? tide turn i, and one sees It rushing In edged by a line of white. A liquid mass estimated at 1,470,000, 000,000 of cubic yards comes pouring Into the bay and in a very few hours covers the whole greet plain. The distance between ebb and flood marks In the bay hi nearly seven miles. Centuries ago all this desolate gulf wee s wide streb ( of fertile land, pro? tected on the seaward side by tall ?and hills. A greet tide with a heavy Kale behind 1t burst through the har? riers snd stole 00.000 scree of farm god pasture. While tbe French side of the Eng Ush chsnnel Is dally visited by Im? mense tides. England's side has com Btiveiy small ones, and from Poole or to the Isle of Wight the very rnllar phenomenon of double tides teeu. These are caused by tbe in? terruption of the tidal wave by the Isle of wight. All over the world we find the tides playing the queerest pranks. At tbe fort of Panama, on the Pacific end of the Panama canal, you may watch a tide of twenty-three feet rise ami fall. Less then forty miles sway, at the Atlantic end of the big cut. there hi prartl. ally no tide at all. We have spoken of the "bore" In the Severn Imposing sight as this Is, It Is Child s play compared with the tidal wave which rushes up the enormous estuary of the A mason. This rush of water, which, by the gray, makes s terrific roaring s-uind, comes In three successive waves, each ghou( ten feet high, and vessels navi? gating the estuary are in as great clanger as when they are overtaken by etorui In the open sen. The ?langes has a dangerous "bore" it high springs, and the "mascaref" #0 the river Seine la also a source of peril to small crnft. The for<.f the currents or races produced by tides penned in narrow Channels must be seen to be believed, atrery one has heard of the famous maelstrom off the Norwegian coast, the terrible whlrl|*?o| which was sup? posed to drag down ships and grind them to pieces ngnlnst the rocks at the bottom. The whirlpool as such does Sjot exist, but the tide ntre between Ifoskol Island and Its next neighbor Is almost as dangerous as the revolv? ing eddy of me fa hie The sea here rush??M through n rock Willed I hunnel at more than ten miles gn hour \ sailing reOSOl caught In this race la Bgrfe. tlv helpless, and a steamer nui^t have uncommonly good engine* to drive her way through it. Between Jura and Scnrhn Islands, on the west coast of Scotland. Is a tldnl rsce which for spwd and fury holds i world's re.ord The MtTTS name for thN raee Is CnlrehhrcaesJn, lit era lb. ? v?i Id nm of the *| totted seas.*' n^re the tide runs at no le-4^ than twelve and :t Ualf miles an hour, and Wb??n tbe wind Is over the tide the whole ?<frnb bseosnes aetna iiy ? boil inc. foaming rahtfefj, Into whleh tm craft of anv Kind co dd venture wits OUt ' ? rtaln dUa*fer In 1hm-einher ?n'j. an easterly gab' created rjmrssesu Almeottlea for the shipping at II*.inhorc It took the WS ter righr am of the Rlhe, and where ve?s'd-< drawing iwcnty-llec I? had been jjoohiwtmsd m more easily there was not u lief enough In Hoar th <o drawing nfteeti feei III the larr* iteanuts In fin- i ? w >-r > '-??> ifed end iesns hj r rlghi The scene wu* a ntosi rurtntH gnvi/lng one Phlhvb 1 Mr* W. I?. Larson, of DnhMM, w is In town Thursday. Robbers of Naples as Daring as They Are Resourceful. SCHEME OF ONE LONE THIEF. Masterly Manner In Which This Au? dacious Rogue Pilfered a Church Furnishing Shop and Corded Up Its Too Confiding Proprietor. j Ills name was Signor Domouleo Doc tor Dolchlnettl, and he was boat la Rome. For a scholar with a degree he enjoyed his meals rather unre? strainedly, hut after the spaghetti and capretto had disapj>eared he used to slow his pace over the fiuocchio con Tino and to straighten his hack, wipe bis mustache and begin his stories. "Napoli? Si. si! Naples? Bella cit ta, beautiful, beautiful! And what thieves are they in Naples! It is the one city where you cannot lead a don? key through the streets." There did not seem to be much con? nection between these, and our puzzled looks said so. ??Percha? You dare not lead. You must take him by the tail, for when the unsuspecting peasant leads an ass laden with panniers or onions or wood into Nanles before long he happens to glance back, and, behold, all is gone prod.ice, panniers, pack saddle, all filched. Thereafter he takes the ass by the tail and steers him through the streets that he may watch constantly. "Pol?It Is all organized. Some years ago the leader of the robbers was the Captain. Everybody knew him. When anything was stolen from one, one went not to the police, but to the cap? tain. "There was a little music master came home one day and found his pi? ano gone, a whole piano, and no one in the house could say how, when or where It went. The little man was distracted. "Then he took heart and went to the captain and stood before him with his hat in his bands. He was just a poor music teacher, nis piano was all be bad in the world. He? 'Go.' said the cap? tain. *At 6 this evening you have your ;>lano.' And about the time of the service that afternoon a wagon came to the little man's door, and four men heaved out a piano, which they set in Its accustomed corner; then they drove off without a word. "Pol, the music man, went again to the captain's house and began to thank him and to fumble about in his pock? ets, saying that he did not have much, about 20 lire, all his savings?22 lire perhape. "What?twenty-two lirer yelled the other. 'I, who am rieb, whom men call the captain?22 lire to me! You poor'? And he kicked him down the stairs. "But the most remarkable robbery was done not by the band, but by a Neapolitan single handed. "One da there drove up to a church furnishing shop an equipage with tw<? , prancing horses and a liveried coach? man and halted before the big win dows full of precious finery. A beau? tifully dressed little signor alighted and asked to see the proprietor, He said he hud a cousin who would the next da. be ordained bishop and be desired to purchase appropriate gifts First he would see a crozier. The pro prietor fetched a superb crozier of sil? ver, the crook of It gold, wonderfully . chased and overwrought with carving. " 'How much?' asked the well dressed man. " 'Five thousand lire, signor.' I * 'Good! Tie It up and put It in the carriage. And let uie see also I miter. And again he chose the costli? est, one frosted with silver arabesques and beaded with pearls. He sat doTn to write a check for 8,000 lire altogetlivT. But. no; he would see also a bishop's ring. 'How much was this one?' " 'Two thousand lire, signor.* " 'Good!' And that. too. went Into the carriage with the m'ter and crozier. i Flually this primely customer would buy a complete vesture and decided on a figured alb broidered with cloth of gold from shoulder to foot. 'Only,' he doubted, 'will it fit? But stay,' be said to the shopman; 'you are a big man. a I mos? as large as my cousin. See If the garment will fit you.' So the proprietor put It on and stood clothed In magnificence from cravat to ankle. "'Good! Beautiful! Only the waist. My cousin hup pens to be enormous of girth. Suppose you put your arms at your sides, and 1 shall fix the girdle to include them. That will about equal ' my COUSln'l waist.' So he buckled the belt tight ibonl the proprietor's wrists and DOVed back to survey the effect. 'Bonn: Belllsalma! Most beautiful!' he cried. 'And now. signor buon glorno!' He laipped through Ihe door, Into his carriage and whirled downtown. "At thai 'Good day* the proprietor let out one Rgfful yell and bounded Into the street. Thief!* be screeched He crashed Into aatounded iav.pi??. tripped in his gulden skirts, rolled and COUld not gel Up again. "people would not touch him. kick lug and frothing and trying to point Thief, thief ITOUld not even look In the direction <>f the vanishing carrlsgv Finally the police grabbed him, di? ssevered thai he was Insane and a r.?'.. her and hustled htm to prison. Pol they lei him ko next morning.*' ?Phllti dolphin Ledger Not WorthlesUTs Ashley I sie iys though I fail Hoc 6ng was lending n worthiest* HI Bey moor Wnan'l bei Ashley V?: hi life u;.< insured r-r a thousand N' ?hange. V _ \ -? \ \ feilow*feellng make*, ut woi ilrous kind.?Oarrlck. Rudely Flung at Genia! Robert Louis Stevenson. A CONSUL WITH A GROUCH. Tho Author Called on the Newly Ap? pointed Official at Apia to Pay Hit Respects and Was Shown the Door With Fsw Words and No Ceremony. When Robert I?uis Stevenson lived Id Samoa he dressed as the others there did. Up at Vailima they all went about in their bare feet, except when expecting guests. When Stevenson came into Apia he looked only half dressed. lie always came down with a soft shirt on and generally white flannel trousers, some? times with a red sush round the waist. On one occasion the genial author was cruelly snubbed by a newly appoint? ed British consul at Apia, one Colonel De CoeUogon. The story Is told In -With Stevenson In Samoa," by H. .1. Moors, the author: One Sunday morning while Steven? son and myself, barefoot and In paja? mas, were discussing the various local celebrities, my friend suddenly Jumped up and announced that he had ne? glected a bounden duty. Here he had been in Apia for some considerable time and had not yet called on her Britannic majesty's representative. Ev? ery Britisher of mark should attend to auch a duty at the earliest possible moment! I must Introduce him with? out one moment's further delay! ?*Oome along. Moors," said he; "let's get it off our mind!" I Informed him that Colonel De Coet logon was himself a new man in tho place?be had been in Apia but a little while?and 1 had not yet met him. People wbo had met him had mostly declared him to be an exclusive, crusty old fellow, full of pomposity. I was therefore very loath to go until the new arrival had simmered down somewhat. It was rnmored that h>> had been for years governor of some great Jail in Britain, and people remarked that he treated many of his callers as ticket of leave men who had come In to report. But Stevenson, feeling very sure of his powers to charm this Gorgon, would take no warning, but shouted gayly: "Come on. Moors! I'll attend to this case. He'll welcome us all right" I pointed out his attire and his lack of shoes, and, with a sigh, he compromised so far as to put on a clean shirt and a pair of trousers and shoes, but my best efforts would not induce him to wear a coat, in the rig he wore and under his little yachting cap he positively looked no more than twenty or twenty-five years of age. He bubbled with enthusiasm over ev j erythlng new and strange that came within his view os we passed along the road to Matautn. where I)e Coot logon lived. From the beginning 1 doubted if we would receive nuything like an effusive welcome, and I took care to impart my fears to my friend, but he only laughed. Particularly did I point out that this was Sunday and that we should choose another day for our visit. lie still laughed. With pride and Joy he threw open the cousular gate and strode manfully across the lawn, I following close be? hind. A tall, soldierly person, with white mustachlos and close cropped hair, was sitting peacefully on the veranda. He made no attempt to rise and welcome us. A whisky and soda had Just then his rapt attention. We ascended the steps. The statue in tho chair merely regarded us. We might as well have been a couple of dis? tressed prlsouers coming to pray for some amelioration. Stevenson would have embraced this cold representative of his country's greatness, but the chill restrained him. "Good morning, sir." A grunt. "Well, what do you want?" "My name is Stevenson. I am well known In llritaln by my works?in fact, I am a novelist This Is Mr. Moors." "Well, what do you want?" No friendly hand was stretched out to greet us. We noted a face as hard as stone, as uncompromising and as unsympathetic as a brick wall. Steven? son stood there as one petrified; 1 was quite appalled. My friend had not counted on such a start There was no seam or crevice In which he might momentarily locate to reconnoiter be? fore he should attack again. The con? sul's brow was sad to lool: upon. He had uot even risen civilly to hear us. "We have come, sir, to pay our re? spects." "If you have any business and de? sire to see me I will listen to you on week days and in my Office at the prop? er time. Good morning." Stevens?,m quite l??st the power of speech and looked appenllngly at inc. 1 cannot remember exactly what I paid, but I know that I endeavored to depiet to the consul the w<?rth and hon? esty of my companion. in return came this: "l (hart care who you are cither of you! if y?n have any business at this consulate come and state it at the proper time." Without more thai, a profound bow , Stevenson turned and made his way out int?? the road again, I having pre? ceded him. "By heavens, Moor*, yon were right! Wliat a beast! What a d d v\ ell, I suppose he hns a right lo choose ids Bunds) morning company, I had though! that I wna I one ??f the foremost men of letters of i the day. but tl ils fellow differs Wind a Itnntlon for n man of my supposed ? eminence n i i himself in! People will differ m their "pinions, won't they'.-' And be burst .ait into a inevn lauuh Better it i t.. be envl< i thai titled. ?Herodotua. ABDUL THE TU The Crafty Turkish Despot Wore a Crown of Terror. HIS PALACE LIKE A Pn!ciON, Yildiz, a Place of Mystery, Was the Production and the Abode of Fear Unutterable?His Dread of Assassi? nation and His Horror of the Dark. For ions years Abdul Hamid had been haunted and tormented by the nightmare of death. In every shadow he seeuied to see an assassin. All his vast [tower could not bring him one moment of peace and happiness. Not for one moment was Turkey's mon? arch at ease. Year by year his fears had been growing upon him. He had n terror of the dark. At night Yildiz always blazed with lights. His sleep had be? come restiess, and he would waken at the slightest sound. Sometimes he would come out of his sleep with u start, frightened by n nightmare, and that would mean hours of wakeful ness. At such times he would find the solitude of his room unbearable, and be would send for a sorcerer, who would explain the dream, or a slave, who would read tc him from one of his favorite books, those giving de? tailed accounts of assassinations, exe? cutions and other horrors. He was always armed. His clothes were lined with enormous pockets, which served him both as arsenals and archives and bulged with pistols and rolls of spies' reports. Everybody nt Yildiz was afni'd of being shot by him. He was likely to fire at the slightest action that might seem to him suspicious. There is a story that one day a gardener working In the pnrk of Yildiz, on seeing the eultan approach, rose quickly from a stooping posture to assume a respect? ful attitude, Abdul Hamid, startled by his sudden appearance and suspect? ing some evil motive, at once fired at him. The man fell dead. Later, as no weapon was found on his body, it had to be acknowledged that a blunder had been committed. Such is the tale told by the sou of the late Priuce of ?amos, who was oue of the sultan's ministers. Yildiz, scene of innumerable horrors, had been built by Abdul Hamid him? self, and he had made it more like a labyrinth than a palace. It was the production aud the abode of fear unut? terable. Surely no sane mind planned It To guard ogainst conspirators get? ting a plan of his residence its master was continually changing its internal arrangements, walling up doors, open? ing new ones, narrowing passages, di? viding rooms by partitions, making windows and closing them again. It was a constantly changing maze. To spare himself the danger of cross? ing the graveled path that separated his apartments from his harem he had linked his residence by flying bridges to the harem on the one side and to the imperial theater on the other. This theater was a gloomy little place, where tLe monarch would sit entirely hidden from view in his box while ac? tresses and singers from Paris and other European cities entertained hira. He never came into view, never ap? plauded, and the visible audience con? sisted of a few meml>ers of his family. The building used by Abdul Hamid as his private residence looked more like u prison, for all the lower win? dows were securely barred and the heavy iron doors were of great strength and capable of being firmly bolted inside. Every room In the palace was pro? vided with a couch on which the sul? tan could sleep if he felt inclined. No? body ever knew in what room he would sleep on any given nlgl:t. Be? fore retiring to rest he would some? times call his attendants and say to them: "Keep a good lookout I am going to sleep tonight In this room." But he would invariably sleep some? where else. On the roof of the imperial apart? ments was an astronomical observa? tory which had been fitted up with an exceedingly good telescope br a Pa? risian firm. This observatory was a favorite place with the sultan, yet he took not the slightest interest in as tronomy. The telescope was there to serve his own purpose of espionage, for he used It almost exclusively for the purpose of watching the residence of Prince Yusuf Iszedin, eldest son of Abdul Aziz and heir presumptive to the throne. Its glass was never turn? ed upon the heavens, But sometimes fron, his lonely look out the monarch saw stranger things than the residence of Prince Yusuf. things that no other human being bad ever dreamed of. There were times when his morbid imagination played curious pranks with him. It was on the day folio vim: an at tempt upon hi? nf,. by one All Souav! and a revoll ni Teherugan, both of which Inch "tits great'y upset him, that Abdul Hamid hurried down from bis observatory with a wild look In his eyes and eal ?<! his Ural secretary, who at that time was All Fund Bey, Ti? led the seel ;!!?..' to a window, and pointing to the sublime norto sonn miles away. In> said, trembling with fear: "Did you i e men? Tin y have met yonder to pi. inlni m> downfall!" "W'hoV" its'.cd the startled secretory, "My ntlnb tors." exel.ilmed the ?nl tan. "Mj o 'i ministers are now i the nc| of i t ironing me. Pnn'l you ' sec them?" This stater etil was quite unfounded, nnd '? was :? long time before the sec rotary could nlni his frightened m:;s ter i'ir ade ?tili Ledger Never l< i familiarity exclude r< ' ipect.? J. \ anbrugh. Tho Man's Mistake. Out of loyally to his own sex the manager of tbe woman's suit depart? ment discharged his young woman stenographer and hired a man. The first batch of letters dictated to the man were written to about a hundred old customers, whom he invited to ex? amine privately a lot of exclusive g: :' ments before they were placed OH I I !c. The day after the letters were mslh I ' the women docked into the store, it i\ the fire that burned in their eyes v.. the fire of the avenger rather than ,1 the bargain hunter. One word which each woman had underlined in her letter explained their wrath. The gar? ments, so the manager had meant to say, had been designed for women of stock figure, such as they possessed, but the male stenographer had drawn on the alphabet and had written it "stocky." . "No woman on earth would have been guilty of such a mistake." growled the manager. The next week the girl stenographer had her job back.?Philadelphia Led? ger. Greig: Men Tall and Short. A recent investigator has attempted to show that Lombroso and his follow? ers were wron? in asserting that men of genius were of small stature. Of 230 individuals of eminence he found that figures were obtainable for 103; of these sixteen were of middle height, fifty-eight above and twenty-nine he low. Americans particularly combined greatness with inches. Jefferson and Jackson were more than six feet tall. Sumner was six feet four inches, and Washington, Lincoln and Deecher were more than six feet. Among famous I foreigners Tolstoy was a large man. and so were Thackeray, Bismarck and Darwin. On the contrary, many of the world's greatest geniuses were undersized and even deform^. Napoleon, Poe. Pope, Alexander the Great, Nelson, Blake and Caesar were small men. After all is said, genius Is no re? specter of rules.?New York American. Doing Chores. There Is no time in the year when there is cessation from toil on a farm. It is different In winter; that is all. The days are shorter, the work rougher. Of course much depends j upon the character of the farm. Con? siderable le jure is possible where few 1 cattle are kept and general trucking done. But always there are the "chores." A remarkably elastic expres? slos that?"doing chores." It may mean much or little. Some dairy farm? ers, for instance, whose serious busi? ness in life Is milking cows, may pot? ter around the farm after the morn? ing's milking and, taking the morning's milk to the creamery or railroad sta? tion, eat their noon dinners, mend some i fence, look over the harness or haul j out manure, potter around some more I and then say, ' Guess It's about time to do the chores." meaning to milk two dozen cows or so?the real hard work of the day.?Philadelphia Press, i Believed Them True Stories. When Dante published his "Inferno" I the simplicity of the age accepted it as a true narrative of his descent into hell. When the "Utopia" of Sir Thomas Moore was first published it occasioned , a pleasant mistake. This political ro- , nance represents a perfect but vision? ary republic In an island supposed to I have been newly discovered in Amer- J ica. "As this was the age of dis? covery," says Granger, "the learned 1 Budaeus and others took It for a genu? ine history and considered It as highly expedient that missionaries should be sent thither in order to convert so wise &. nation to Christianity." It was a long while after publication that many readers were convinced that Gulliver's travels were fictitious. Blackbird Days. Jan. 30 and 31 and Feb. 1 are famous at Constantinople, Bresciu and along the Danube and the Rhine as the "blackbird days." A curious legend says that originally all species of grack les (blackbirds) wer? white and that they became black because during one year in the middle ages the three days mentioned above were so cold that all the birds In Europe took refuge In the chimneys. At Brescia the three di.ys are celebrated with a feast called "I giorni della merla." or "the feast of the transformation of the bird." Possibly. Mr. Briggs -Here's an article, my dear, a very interesting article, in which a prominent doctor says that a certain cure for nervousness In women is silence complete silence. Mrs. Briggs (promptly)?I'll bet anything some fool <?f a man doctor wrote that! ?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Easily Attained. "I am determined to live In lUXUtiOUS surroundings and eat ?nd drink the best the land affords," said the frankly selfish man. "That ought to be easily arranged," replied Miss Cayenne. "All rou have to do is to gel i situation a* a butler." ?Washington smr. Wishing Th? m ? Safe Voyage. "Mabel and George, after much quarreling over the arrangements for their honeymoon, have decided to take the 'fin In Oil airship/' "Well, i Irusl that wh ?n they get above the clouds they won't have a falling out!" Widow. Between Ortoocn.Trnns. ?I ? nderst.'ind they sentenced him to lifo l i| it Is nment V" "Well, no; it wasn't as bad as that lie got only ninety nine years!" Tuck. In reverence is tn > t?iil< f |oy end pott er of life.? Buskin Officials Pay For the Privilege of Fleecing the Public. A LAND WITHOUT LAWYERS. And Yet That Extraordinary Exemp? tion Does Not Heip the Unfortunate Who Gets Into Trouble?Coaxing the Accused to Confess. It would Ik.? difficult for u Persian who has not traveled to understand American excitement over what the newspapers here call "graft" My motherland, Persia, is not yet quite awake to the possibility of a man's serving the public for a certain fixed salary and taking nothing more. In Persia they take it for granted that every officeholder will "gouge" people whenever he gets a chance. There are no lawyers In Persia, so there are no Jokes about lawyers' ap? petite for gel ] and silver. If you have ever had n costly lawsuit on your hands you may think that makes mat? ters simpler, but getting Into trouble means being squeezed for money, wrung for money, as If you were a piece of wet cloth in a washerwoman's strong grip. This is how It Is managed: First you see, the governor of a city or of a province never has a definite salary from the state?not at all. On the con? trary, he pays the state treasury sev? eral thousand dollars more or less for the privilege of being governor and of making what he can out of the enter? prise. He Is not an elected officer; he Is more like a "concessionaire" at one of your big expositions, who offers a large sum for a chance to run a res? taurant or to provide ice cream soda or candy. The governor (or mayor) of a barge Persian town may have perhaps 100 to 150 employees under him. Of these only a few house servants (cook, coachman and the like) have fixed wages. The incomes of the others de? pend upon the amount of money which they can help turn into the great man's hands in the form of fines and taxes. You can guess whether the neighbors are fond of them! Suppose now you live in Persia. You have leased a piece of ground or you have sold some goods and the other man does not pay. You dun him. Then you threaten him. Then you go to the governor and make a complaint An officer arrests your debtor and takes him before the governor's sec? retary for examination. Possibly he can convince that important personage that it is not a just debt If he can? not do that he would better put all his wits to work to convince the secretary that poverty makes it quite impossi? ble to pay up. This Is where many of the 150 under employees get their chance. A large port of their occupation is hunting up fhcts about everybody's property, everybody's business, everybody's in? come. They know an amazing num? ber of things which your debtor sup? posed were safely secret They pro? duce information whenever informa? tion is wanted. Your man's pretense that business is bad and that he is all but bankrupt is brushed aside, and he is made to pro? duce an amount of money consider-' ably larger than the original debt "Made" to produce It? Yes. There are shocking things that can be done to him if he hesitates too long, and he knows it So, like a child aware that there is an ugly stick waiting in the corner, he usually does not hesitate too long. He saves his skin and hands over the money. You get maybe 80 to 90 per cent to satisfy your claim that is, the officer of Justice practi? cally collects from you something for his own services. The rest goes to the governor and such of the employees as may be considered in the case. Perhaps you have a shop in the town bazaar or market place and some poor good-for-nothing steals a chicken that was hanging on tho wall. If a woman was the thief she Is most likely fined? possibly whipped if she has no money to pay a fine. If the culprit is a man they punch a hole through the car? tilage of the lower end of his nose, put a cord through the hole and lead him In this painful disgrace all around the bazaar. T*^e officer collects as he goes along a few cents from this shopkeep? er and a few cents from that one as an acknowledgment of the officer's service in publicly exposing a tMef. Naturally it often happens that some outrageous robbery occurs or some? body is brutally murdered, and the guilty one Is unknown. Then the gov? ernor's detective agents set to work. Anybody may l>o arrested on suspicion nnd examined either as the probable Offender or as ? witness. If the sus pect has plenty of money he can nl ways prove his Innocence or his Igno? rance by paying cash to the examining officers, though, since there is no regu? lated tariff In such matters, tho pro? ceeding may he quite expensive, If the suspect Is too poor to mski things right with the examiners or toe stubborn to toll what he knows -nnd sometimes, l am afraid, if ho reallj decs not know anything to tell the*, have some 'third degree" method* warranted t<> make a mar. say some thing. One such method is what thej call the "h.-istinado." it is whipping notes of the bare feet v 1th aten der rods Often live coals from a ptp? are put on the shaven head of a pris oner to make him confess. Sometime* n no Probably you would n rare t.< hoar any more along this pai ti nlar line. Pers'sn Inventions in this department of criminology are clevei l i their way. '>ut not things t<> d scribe In full detail.?Lean Hedem u New York V orld The paving on Main str? i I i innot be start, d t<>> soon?it is. n...?.a