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28 UNCLE SAM IN PORTO QI'EER FEATURES OF GOVERN MENT IN OUR NEW WEST INDIAN ISLAND OFFICIALS EAT UP COUNTKY High Price* for Writing . Materials and Clock Winding—Porto Rican Courts mid Porto Rloan Crime— Onr Governor General and His Palaces—How Uncle Sam's Mail Is Curried. Capyrighted, 189% by Frank G. Carpenter. SAN JUAN, - Porto ; Rico, Sept: 10.—I want to tell you what Uncle Sani is do ing "in Porto v Rico.r\V.hen the Spaniards pave us the island they gave us the big gest job of reorganization we have ever had. Every things, here is honeycombed •with Spanish corruption. The taxes have been collected to support the officials and the island has been run .lor..them rather lhan for the people. It is safe to say.that there was hardly an honest official on the Island at,the time we. conquered it, and I very much doubt whether a class of hon est native Porto Rican officials could be secured today. Every man who has an office here expects to nialte something out ©l it, and for the present generation, at least, it will hard to teach the Porto Kican anything to the contrary. The in eular commission which was sent down by the president last spring finds that it is now costing more than $300,000 in salaries to 'run Porto Rico. This' is so notwith standing the island is not larger than Connecticut, and that it has 800,000 people, as peaceable as any citizens of the United States. I don't believe there is any more crime here" than in the United States, and there is no reason why the government should 1 be expensive. OFFICIALS EAT UP PORTO RICO. The officials have been feeding off of Porto Rico for years. It is wonderful that the natives have stood such oppression and such steals. Every -'officer worked his position for all it was worth. If he was a jailor he made money off of feed ing the prisoners. If a judge in many cases he sold out to the highest bidder, ami If a sheriff or tax gatherer, he was subject to bribes. I have before me an estimate which the recognized officials of San Juan. made for the city expenses, for the year end- Ing June SO, 1899. San Juan is a town of 4ti,000 people, and the estimates provide for -an expenditure of more than $336,0i>0. Among the queer items are those for writing -materials for certain officials. The :ity clerk, for instance, gets a salary of f1,253; and he asked for $350 for writing materials. One of the bookkeepers want ed $00 for writing materials, and the sec retary of the alcalde, or mayor, asked ?Li'!' tor the same reason. "When you re-, member that pens cost one cent each and lead pencils can be bought for 10 cents, a dozen, you will see that these officials ex pect to spend considerable on blank pa per. Jti the cttyiraH-g'tperiaes, I see that It costsi $180 a year to wind the clock, and that {150 is set aside for tools to clean the building. Any one who has noticed the extraordinary cleanliness of the aver age Porto public building will ap preciate the sarcasm of this item. , ... In the fire. department $500 is set aside lor volunteer firemen in payment for the time lost from work while at lires. The salaries of the common school teachers •Is set down at $1,200, while cleaning the Schools cost $5,700, almost half as much as the teachers' salaries. Two thousand Hans is set down for pensions to the ■widows and orphans of government offi cials, and there are other expenses equal ly-strange. ■ ■ . v Such items make tip a large part of the government accounts all over Porto Rico. .Every town of any size has its clocs winder, and this 'notwithstanding that in many towns it is difficult " to find the flock. . I venture that more money has been, spent/from time, to time for writing materials for -government clerks than has been ■ laid out upon the r : «ads. 11 PORTO RICAN.COURTS. President ■ Meßinley iexpects to reorgan ize the courts. There is no doubt but that this should be done at once. Until it is done no foreigner's life or property will tie safe in Porto Rico. At present any man can be arrested upon the. mere state ment of another without warning. He can be thrown into prison and kept there while his case is being investigated by the judge. He may not know for what he is imprisoned and the judge will carry on his investigation without giving either the criminal or his attorney a chance to aid.in or offset them. There is no cross examination of witnesses, and statements do not require an oath to be credited. Trials are at the option of the judge, and a man may remain in jail for months without knowing why he is kept there. One of the most efficient of the Ameri cans -who have come down here in the. employ of the government is Maj A. C. Sharpe, the judge advocate of the gov ernor general's staff. He has been inves tigating the prisons and the courts, much to the disgust of the Porto Rican judges. He has already succeeded in reforming rn;.ny of the jails. He found that there tvftre 2,000 prisoners in jail awaiting trial. This was at the time he began his inves tigate ns. M;my of these prisoners did not know A slight indefinite pain in the joints is the first | sign of Rheumatism. When you feel this warn ing sign take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and the progress of the disease will be arrested. This remedy acts directly on the blood and nerves and has cured hundreds of cases of I rheumatism that have been declared hopeless by physicians. See that the full name is on every package: Dr. Williams' Mrs. Mary Rixton. of Barryville, Sullivan Co., N. Y. She says: "About two years ago I had a severe attack of rheumatism. I Buf fered acute pain and much inconvenience. Physicians were unable to check the disease, and 1 was directed to a similar case, which was cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for P;ile People. My son bought me some of the plllß and the first box did mo so much good that I procured another box and those two boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People cured me." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood, and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St.Vitus' Dance, sciatica, neuralgia, ! rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of the grip, palpitation j of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are sold by all dealers, or will be sent, postpaid, on receipi of price, 50c. a box or six boxe6for 52-5° (they are never sold i& bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Sctenectady, N. Y. why they had been imprisoned, and some had been arrested for the most trivial of fenses. One man, for instance, who was charged with stealing ah empty bag, had been kept in prison for five months with out a hearing. Another,... w}k>. . stole a chicken, had been .sentenced for a year and a day, and a third, who was charged with stealing a hog, had been in jail a year, waiting trial. THE COSTLY COCK FIGHT. One of the queerest cases was that of a young man named Vegas, who was ar rested in December, 1897, for having used in a cock fight a cock which did not be long to him. The facts of the case were that Vegas had loaned the owner of the cock a dollar and a half and had taken the cock as security. While holding it as such he had put the cock in the ring to fight a neighbor's cock, and in the fight it was killed. The owner of the cock then made charges against Vegas, and succeeded in having him arrested. He has already been in jail fifteen months, asking the judges that he be tried. Whether the owner of the cock had bribed the judges or not I do not know, but Ve gas at last accounts was still in prison. . PORTO RICAN COURTS. At present there are four, classes of judges in Porto Rico. The first is a sort of police judge, who is paid by fee. He has Jurisdiction over eases in which the amount does not exceed $200, and he can hear such things as infringements of po lice regulations, In blocking the streets, picking flowers in the parks.etc. The next Judge is a sort of a notary and grand J9 . '5J[ Mtt»»P***e«WS^^ jury combined. He can issue orders for arrest, examine witnesses and state that offenders must be tried by the court. He can settle also minor civil matters. Above this is a third court, ciTlled the audiencia, the judges of which pas?s upon the crim inal cases certified to them by the judges below. The highest court is the sttpreme court, which meets h**e a-t '-San Juan. This lias six judges, and it finally settles all ordinary case's. Altogether, the courts cost Porto Rico $160,000 a year in salaries a'one. They should be reorganized on the plan of our American courts, as pro posed by the insular commission. Ameri can, and not Spanish, laws should obtain in Porto Rico. THE GOVERNOR GENERAL. But let me tell you something of our government here as it now exists. . We are using these Porto Rican officials, but over them are the soldiers sent down by the war department. Gen. George B. Da vis is military governor of Porto Rico. As such he has autocratic power. He can really do more than the president himself, as far as his immediate surroundings are concerned. He has the army here to carry out his commands and he can make all sorts of civil regulations. Gen. Henry, as it seemed to many, stretched the limit in this regard. He tried to fix the price of bread, issued an order regulating mar riages and rode around like a little *in god on wheels., He bas the pres-tige of being a great eoldier, Jm.t'it/is a question of whether he succeeded well as a civil administrator. The governorship of Porto Rico is by no means a bad place to have. San Juan is a beautiful city and one of the pleasant est homes In Uncle Sam's dominion. The military governor has the palace which was formerly occupied by the captains general during the Spanish regime. The palace is a building of three stories. It is, with its wings, about as large as the White house. It has a garden filled with beautiful flowers and its windows com mand magnificent views of the ocean and harbor. The house is very comfortably furnished and its large parlors are well adapted to entertaining. The governor general has also a sum mer home, rent free, at Rio Piedras. This is one of the suburbs of San Juan. The house was the property of the Spanish government and was occupied by the cap tain general when he wished to get out of the city. It has perhaps the finest gar den in Porto Rico. This contains many old trees and a vast quantity of rose bushes and tropical flowers. THE CABINET. The governor general has a cabinet made up of the Porto Ricans who are the heads of the departments. He has a sec- THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, l»i*9. retary of finance, of justice and of the in terior, and under them a large number of native clerks and understrappers. I do not know just how many native Porto Ricans it takes to run the government, but altogether they have a salary list of $310,822. The governor general has to direct the soldiers In all parts of Porto Rico. He has the general supervision of nearly everything that goes on, although there are some things which are practically in dependent of him. Among these are the postofflces, which are under the postmaster general at Washington. I have spent some time in studying Uncle Sam's mall here. The postal service is as well managed as any new thing on the island. The larger cities now have American postmasters and the clerks of the money order department, who are to be found all over the island, are almost all Americans. Some of the postmasters are from Washington city, some from Texas and a number from In diana, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, California and other states. While the postal system is directed from Washington, it is run to a certain extent independent of * the department there. We have in fact a postofflce department in miniature in Porto Rico. The island has an independent money order office, an independent dead letter office and a special system of postal inspectors. The head of the service is Capt. W. H. Elliott, of Indiana, who was formerly connected with the navy, but who came here at the close of the war to organize the service. PORTO RICAN MAIL CARRIER. Capt. Elliott has visited every part of the island. When Assistant Postmaster General Heath was here some months ago he accompanied Capt. Elliott, and the two planned many of the changes which have since been made. 1 had a chat with Capt. Elliott the oilier day during which I asked him as to the mails. Said he: "Under the Spaniards the postal and telegraph systems were combined. The telegraph operator was the postmaster. There was no money order business, and there was no safety as to Ihe malls. Let ters were often opened and money ex tracted. Many of the officials claimed the right to '.amper with all letters and the postal service was in reality a spy sys tem under government supervision. At that time a man did not dare to put a business secret Into a- letter, and men I were often sent to jail b-i the liasis of I information gotten from letters wMoh they had sent. At present we find it diffi cult to make our Porto Rican postmas ters understand that they have not the right to open the letters Intrusted to their care." "You have changed this long ago?" stid I. "Of course," replied Capt. E-lllott. .''Sbhxe" improvements have been made by Mr. Robinson, who was In charge of the post office before I came .freTe." ..We :at once •separated the telegraph and postal sys tem. We relieved the towns of the ex penses of their postoffices and established new offices everywhere. There are now ninety-one postoffices her-e,covering every part of Porto Rico. ' Only the important offices have American postmasters." "The efcief expense of-the postal bus iness," Capt. Elliott went .on, " is in carrying the mails. ' We, have GOO miles of: road to cover, nearly all of. which are.-, star routes. Most of the mails go in tin boxes, which are strapped to the backs of. ponies. Each ■ maai carrier has two boxes thus fastened to his pony, and he sits between them as he jogs his way -from one postoftice to another." "Do the Porto Ricans use the malls?" "Yes, indeed. Even the little towns de mand mails seven days of the week, even if they get only two or three letters each I mail. These people are,. you. know, very j illiterate. The common people cannot j read nor write and only about one: man in fifteen has any education whatsoever;" UNCLE SAM'S TELEGRAPHS. The telegraph system is now managed j entirely by the war department. It is 1 under the signal service corps, with Col. W. A. Glassford in charge. Col. Glass ford is one of the most efficient men of Uncle Sam's signai corps. He is a good executive and .has become noted through a number of his experiments in .the lines of thought transmission. Among- other ! things-, he has sent messages further by j heliograph than any other man in the world.. Some years ago he sent a message from a mountain in Colorado to one in Utah, a, distance of IS9 miles, by means oi? the heliograph. These messages were flashed from one point to the other by mirrors. 1 'The Morse telegraph alphabet was used. I The dots and dashes were made by the flashes of the sun on the mirrors. This I experiment attracted . great attention at the time, and was a subject of general discussion in the scientific journals of ' this country and Europe. Here in Porto Rico, in addition to the telegraph, Col. Glassford has established j a heliograph station on the island of Viegues. His men are at the station on that island day and night, and they flash dispatches by the sun during the day and by a lantern at night to the signal corps men on the mainland, who redispatch them by telegraph to different parts of the island. Col. Glassford v. as with Gen. Miles dur ing his campaign In Porto Rico. When the army was about five miles from Guayama it was desired to connect it with that town. It was necessary to do it at once, and Col. Glassford succeeded in making the connection by utilizing the barbed wire fences for his lines. This was, I believe, the first time that mili tary telegraphing has been done In that way. At present there are telegraphic stations all over Porto Rico. There are about one hundred men in the signal corps engaged as operators, signallsts, repairmen and clerks. They belong mostly to the volun teer signal corps, and are very efficient. Col. Glassford tells me that when we took possession of the island the most of the lines were down. The native opera tors could not read by sound as our op erators do. They used the old Morse in struments which had printing registers, and they were surprised to see our met take down messages on typewriters di rectly from the wires. Many of these wires were run through the forests. They cut through the bamboo and banana plan tations and were connected by vines with the ground. For this reason new lines had to ba put up, so that a practically new telegraphic system has been made. Today there are 830 miles of wire on the island, so situated that Gov. Gen. Davis can reach any part of it at a moment's notice. —Frank G. Carpenter. WIRELESS TELEPHONE IT IS SAID THIS WILIi BE THE NEXT OF THE GREAT INVENTIONS TELEPHONING MORSE CODE Marconi Ha« Another Discovery Up Hlm ' Sleeve Well Will Be More , Wonderful 'Hum His 'First—lm . provemeiits£ln3Bls Wireless Tele . - K-r:; !•!• Which Will Make Signals Across- the t(:-*-nit Possible. LONDON, Sept. SSL —Marconi, the twenty-six-year-old wonder-worker, • has a new marvel up file sleeve. It is. tele phoning without wires. He is experi menting with it at odd times, and I; un derstand that he.hes the general scheme of it - well thought and that -there is little or no doubt in his mind con cerning the possibifity—nay,- probability -of talking back anS forth across miles of wireless space—perhaps even •■• the At lantic—as simply as we talk back and forth across a table. • - ■• : The secretary of the company that is supplying the money for Marconi's ex periments in .wireless-; telegraphy .. ad- ; mitted, when asked concerning the new departure, that the inventor had been: mightily interested ■; in the - subject, - and had been conducting elaborate :•;-■> experi- - ments with satisfactory results; but just :; hosp far the experiments : have sJ gon£ or how satisfactory the actual results have been he didn't wish to say. The re- ; ; ticence observed seemed, somewhat like j that :- of a. popular, novelist, who - has ; -■<&'* particularly-good «toigr almost ready fo» ; publication,, but is •withholding ;-it^ lor 1 fear sit will crowd t00,., closely . on the heels of his last'pre\ious novel. :'l j 1- 1- I learn, i however* that; Marconi has al ready succeeded in transmitting; the tiny sound made by en electric spark ft dis tance ,of thirty miles'without "wires, and \ could, so to «a)eak, telephone the Morse code today. It is easy to see that, as the principles and means of telegraphy and telephony are so much alike, the advance made in telegraphing without wires shows the way for a similar ad vance in telephoning, and the young Italian who made the original discovery has not been slow to follow up its co rollary. The idea of telephoning without wires is not new. Some weeks ago an item was printed in London and telegraphed to America that an eminent Russian scientist, Dr. Peter Steins, had mastered the secret, and was then in London pre- • A common expression is: ** The human race is grow ing weaker and wiser." That we are growingl weak er is proved by the large number of pale, thin and emaciated • people. ].■-. That' we are growing wiser may . be proved by overcoming these disorders with the timely use of Scott's Emulsion vof Cod liver Oil with Hypophos phites which gives strength, enriches the blood, ; invigor ates the ; nerves and forms |fctg;fg tM 50c. and .00, all druggists.';.. /; .. .' SCOTT & BQWNJE, Chemists, New York. ■ parlng to unfold the discovery to an admiring world. Sir William Henry Preece, who could be expected to know of such discoveries if any one did, never heard of the doctor, and the Russian embassy knew him not. The reporter who wrote the story veiled himself In mystery. It seetns he had been misled into handing in an item that had been printed two years ago. There really was a Dr. Peter Steins in London at that time, and he really had made some progress toward wireless telephoning, but as he has not been heard of since It must be supposed that his discoveries didn't go far enough. So far as known, no one else, except Marconi, has done anything practical in this line. The inventor starts for the United States this week to conduct some experi ments and demonstrations in wireless telegraphy. It may be set down as cer tain that the United States navy depart ment, and, perhaps, also the war depart ment, will have a hand in some of tho?e experiments. . The date of his return has not- been fixed, and even after he comes back the experiments In telephon ing without wires will have to wait, for there are two more big steps to be made in wireless telegraphy before the inventor can be expected to switch oft his attention to other matters. If chese two steps can be taken success fully, we actually shall have messages sent across the Atlantic without the aid | of wires, and not only that, but there is a possibility that they can be sent in the next six months, and without any great expense, either. The preliminary step in this direction will be tried some time this winter, if all goes well. It will be an attempt to send wireless messages, over far greater distances than have yet been fried—pos sibly from Land's * End to the coast of Spain. ' ' j Up to now the greatest distance over .which telegraphic dots and dashes have ibeen tossed withqut. wires has been sixty- Itwo miles, the -message having been sent her majesty's steamship Europa and her majesty's steamship Juno, when ;both were at sea and both in motion. In struments of exceeding delicacy were re quired to make'the messages distinct, and it .was evident that to send messages to much greater distances without wires it 'would be'necessary to find some new de !velopmerit of the original idea, for the in struments used in. the sixty-two mile ex periment were about as fine as instru ments well could be. It can be announced here that after many experiments Sgr. Marconi has found the way to the required develop- ment. Just what the modification Is he will not tell for publication; but it can be said in a general way that by means of It he can make an electric current do more work than it has done hitherto. It was thought at first that the limit of distance was set only by the strength of the current used and the height of the poles from which the message was lib erated and received, but the further ex periments indicate that this was not the whoje truth. ; In spite of. the occasional interviews purporting to come from Sgr. Marconi, he has talked little for publication and doesn't like to be quoted, but it can be said on the authority of one of his as sistants that the new modification of his system practically is completed and has met every test except that of actual prac tice over a long distance. Theoretically it works all right, and as Sgr. Marconi's theories seem to have a habit of accord ing with the facts as afterward proved, it is not unreasonable to suppose that some time this winter wireless messages will be sent a distance of several hundred miles. "And if it proves that messages can be sent without wire for a distance of, say, 300 miles, what is to prevent their being sent 3,000 miles?" I asked. , The answer was rather surprising, for it had generally been supposed that the talk of. wireless telegraphy back and forth across, the Atlantic was more in the nature of a dream than a definite reality —the sort of dream H. G. Wells coins into money. The answer was: "If we find that we can send messages a great distance—for example, from Land's End to the coast of Spain—there will be theo retically no reason why the system should not apply to the whole breadth of the At lantic ocean." "And if the experiment with a few hun- SGR. G. MARCONI. dred miles is successful, will the very next step be a stride across the Atlantic?" "Undoubtedly it will." "And If the new modification of the sys tem works well for a few hundred miles would it take long to adapt it to the whole distance of 3,000 miles?" "We can't tell until the actual test is made, but according to theory the instru ments could send messages across the At lantic without any great change." "Could you prepare them for the test in two months?" "I see no reason why it would take longer than that." "And so it is actually within the bounds of possibility that a wireless message may be sent across the Atlantic as early as next spring?" "Even so, unless some different means is required to find :i message sent from so great a distance." It used to be said when wireless te legraphy across the Atlantic was talked of vaguely that the cost of generating the prodigious power required to shoot the current over in the right direction would be prohibitive, but if the new modification of the system does what is expected of it, it Is estimated that the cost of a transatlantic service would be scarcely more than double the cost of installation in the system as used today, whose uttermost limit has been sixty two miles; and after the installation it is expected that it will cost no more to send a message than it does now. It was also supposed that to send a message across the Atlantic the current would have to leave the wires from a balloon anchored 2,000 feet above the sea level, and would have to be received at a corresponding height. Marconi ex perimented upon that theory for awhile, and got the balloons down from 2,000 to 1,000 feet, but even that sounded rather fantastic, for balloons are way ward things, and experiments were be gun in another direction. "We shall know next winter how successful the new idea is when put to the teat. Probably there is no man In the United Kingdom harder to find than this young Italian inventor. One day he is over on the French coast, at Wimereux, MS WB fly K§ TMTWl^df Hands Red Rough Hands Itching Burning If ''''vsJi Palms and Painful Finger Ends* iW^^d One Night Treatment ;;; ::: ; Soak the hands on retiring, in a strong, hot creamy lather of CUTICURA SOAP. Dry, and anoint freely with CUnCURA, the great skin cure and purest of emollients. 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Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONE PRICE — namely* TWENTY-FIVE CENTS—the best skin and complexion soap and the best toilet and baby soap in the world. Speedy Cure Treatment for Itching, Burning, Scaly Humors. Sot laths with CUTICURA SOAP to cleanse the skin; gentle anointings with CUTICURA OINTMENT to heal the skin; and mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT to cool the blood Sold throughout the world. Price, THE SET, $1.25; or, SOAP, 25c.; OINTMENT, 80c • RESOLVENT (half size), 60c. POTTER DRUG A CHEM. CORP., -Sole Prop*, Boston. Send for " How to Preserve the Hands, Hair, and Skin." mailed free. ■ „ the next day he is across the channel at Dover, then you find him on a French warship, and later on he is sending mes sages between her majesty's vessels. The station at which you can most often find him of late has been at Poole Harbor, on the Dorsetshire coast, whore he has his pole and wires in front of the hotel on the beach. His movements are complicated by the fact that he is in great demand socially. The Prlnoa of Wales invited him to come aboard the royal yacht Osborne at the time he wag laid up with an injured knee, and established communication between the yacht and Cowes Bay and the queen at Osborne house, which was out of sight behind the hills. The success of that enterprise made firm friends of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Con naught, who have kept up their interest in wireless telegraphy and in Marconi ever since. The young Italian does not resemble Edison in the'least, so- far as habits are concerned. Although' lie rarely talks or thinks about-anything except his work, he is regular with his meals and does not indorse Mr. Edison's theory that sleep is only a foolish little weakness that we should learn to overcome. It may be a matter of some wondor where the young man gets the thousands of dollars that are required for his ex periments. His father is a rich land owner, whose estates are near Bologna, and It was at Bologna university, study ing under the clever Prof. Righi, that the boy hit upon his idea for wireless telegraphing. After the idea assunv. d such definite shape that there was no room for doubt about it a company was organized to supply the funds for his experiments, and also to supply the sys tem to any one who wanted it when the instruments should become marketa ble. They have reached the stage now where various governments are taking an interest in them. The British admiralty has been so well satisfied with the experiments on the cruiser Juno that they have ordered a complete set of the apparatus to be supplied to the torpedo school-ship De- \ "Have you heard she was bred in Old Kentucky?" "No. But I understand she has anjel cake at every wedding. fiance. The war office has"also been . using the system to send messages be tween the camps at Epsom' Downs and Aldershot,' twenty-seven milt apart. The "messages were sent back and forth with surprising distinctness, and it wag made impossible for any Intervening *L:i- h tion to intercept them. .The result* • were reported by. experts to the war of- •' fice, and It is said that the. Marconi sys- ; tern is to be adopted officially as a means . of conveying orders from corps to corps, thus ■ doing away with the necessity »l war balloons and making it impossible for the enemy to interfere with com munication by cutting or tapping wires. ',- The possibilities of the system in war time are extended by the demonstration of the fact that messages could be sent ' between such places as the South Fore land lightship and the Dover town hall, between which are not only twelve miles '" of sea, but four 1 miles "of ;|solid cliffi», through or over which' the current had to pass. The dots nnd hashes went through the rock ,as easily rs they- had traveled over sea. .. ■ —Curtis Brown. The Beat I* Cheapest. 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