The Saint Paul globe., January 09, 1899, Page 5, Image 5

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SILH PICKS M'COY
THi: VKTEB.W REFEREE SEES \U
«.HA>CE FOR THE SAILOR
TO Wl.\
SCIENCE IS ALL AGAINST HIM
Bull liuKiie* the duly ThinK He Hum
to <;<> in On. ami Those- Not Likely
to Be «»4" Much V<l\ aimi^e V^ulnst i
the Kid's Cleverness Outlook
tor the Mil illy Vrt Is Hriiihtel-
State* of the Kinii.
CHICAGO, Jan. B,— George Siler p;ek-*
McCoy to win over Tom Sharkey
In X■« fork Tuesd&j nUht. Siler, as
referee jn<l spectator, has seen both
hi sev tul times, end he thinks
s cleverness will far outclass
Shark i j "s i ulldog rushes and strength.
The \ _ his reason
for thinking the Hocsier will best the
sailor a.s follow s:
"I like .McCoy in ihe loming fight
I ■ he is the cleverest man in th*
rinir today, is a hard hiiter, and has
perior bs general inside the j
l cannot see where the sailor
all, and I honestly behe\ <.■
ih«- Ki.r will come out of the fl^ht
without rurfling a hair. When the sec
qnd ii^ht between Ryan and McCoy
took place"! was the referee, and I was
anxious to see MeCoj aga-.nst the Syra
i-usan. I did not set- the rirst fight be-
I .mhl I was the first to
Ltitew the report that Ryan was not i
in the l>ost condition when it took
place. 1 knew him to be one of the
cleverest men in the business, and
could not conceive McCoy going eigh-
I rounds with him and not even
Retting a black eye. I expected to
see a fancy man of the Jim Corbeit
type, bat I was Cooled. When the bell
long for the nrst round to be£in the
'Kiii' assurued a crouching position, in
which ii would be imp issfble for Ryan
to land on him. and commenced a
ttrange sort of half-iein: and half-lead
fcr Ryan's stomach.
■After pushing his left out four or
five times he suddenly sent his ris?ht
Ryan's jaw with force enough
t> jar Tommy. Ryan was in good con
dition and made a clever light of it, but
the police Btoroed the go. McCoy's
Btyle was a revelation to me. I thought
I bad seen about all the different styles
of the priz*? ring, but his was a sur
prise. I afterward refereed the Ruhlin-
MeCoy bout, and when I gave the de
cision to McCoy Billy Madden, Ruh
lin's manager, said ta me: 'He made
my man look like a sucker, didn't he?
Bat, then, he will make a good many
of them look like suckers before he
quirs the ring.'
HITS A CORKSCREW BLOW.
"This corkscrew blow of McCoy's be
eir.s with the start of a lead for his
opponent When in repose the knuck
le? of the fist are almost down, and
when he leads for the head or body
With either hand the srluve gradually
changes until, when it reaches its mark,
the knuckles are up. He is a man who
*iver a knock-out from a short
cc, and I have heard of him
guarding a blow with the right, in the
same move bringing his glove across
the point of the jaw. and be declared
the winner without any further fight
ing. He is a great tighter, and I iook
to See him whip the sturdy sailor."
Aside- from being the greatest referee
in the country, Siler is a close student
of the ring, and even when attending
a f'ght as a spectator follows every
if the men and decides in his own
mind who he thinks should be de- i
clareJ the winner. His opinion, there
fore, is worth something, and wise
sporting men will take his advice and
put their shekels on the Indianian.
Siler says in his experience many
boxers who have had victory almost
within their grasp have lost by mixing
it with the groggy one. According to
the veteran, when a man has his op
ponent groggy and mixes it he gives
the .nher an even chance of winning
because a man who is losing still has
a stiff punch in him, and his only
trouble is in landing it. If a man comes
close and gets in the way of the losing
man's stving he is liable to go out, and
this has happened several times in
Chicago.
"Stand off and feint once or twice "
Silei- advises fighters. "Take your time
and it will not be many seconds before
the one on Queer street will leave an
opening where you can plant the final
blow."
BOXINd PROSPECTS BRIG-HT.
From the present outlook this year
gives promise of eclipsing all previous
ones in the number and character of
its boxing- contests. Every week or
two one hears of another state or city
taking the ban off the lighting game,
and not a few of the states are allow
ing twenty and twenty-five-round
bottta To all intents and purposes
these "goes"' are as good, or better
than finish fights. Few of the fights
that have gone on to forty and fifty
rounds have be*>n anything but walk
ing matches. Then, too, the specta
tors grow weary of the sport after
twenty or twenty-five rounds no mat
ter how fast the milling, and are al
ways perfectly willing at that sto^-e
to have it stopped and a decision ren
deried. Almost any of the larga cities
cf the Fast will stand for long bouts
now. and, although New York is the
cr.iy state with a law sanctioning ix;x
int; contests, many of the others wink
at the sport. From all parts of the
country comes the report that the gam^
is in the ascendency. This is pleas
ing news to the glovemen, and also to
the numberless sportsnv-n who would
prefer 3 seat at a fight to one at a
banquet table. Poor old Nevada the
first state to welcome fighters, has,' per
haps, not now a professional pugilist
within its borders. Dan Stuart still
owns his Carson City land, pays taxes
on it airt hires a man to take care of
ii but he sees no immediate prospect
ing use fur it while the game is
allowed in Xew York and other places
: that Dan would -knock" the game
ta those places— not at all. He is a
thorough sportsman, and likes to see
the game boom, but as soon as a great
ircral wave sweeps ovar the states
wherein long boxing bouts are allowed
and this is likely to happen at any
time, the genial Texan will pack his
grip, take a train for Carson and call
on all the top-notch fighters to follow
h : m
WESTERN SALARY LIMIT.
So flub Can Spend Over |2,000 a
Month »xt Season.
CHICAGO, Jan. B.— At the Western
league meeting yesterday Mr. Franklin
v.as given absolute ownership of the
base ball franchise which was carted
from Omaha to St. Joe about the mid
dle of last season. The franchise was
regarded of some value in the early
part of the year, and several cities
made bids for it. Lately it became a
dinar on the market. With the fran
chise which was handed over to Mr
Franklin by President Johnson also
Bad Complexions
PIMPLES BLOTCHES
BLACKHEADS
Red, rough, oily skin, red, rough hands with
Biiapei^s nails, dry, thin, and falling hair,
and baliy blemishes prevented by Ccnoua*.
SoAP r the most effective skin purifying and
beancifying soap in the world. Absolutely
pure, delicately medicated, exquisitely per
futned. surprisingly effective, It produces th«
■whiter, clearest skin, the softest hands, and
■tost luxuriant, lustrous hair.
went the assets of the defunct St. Jo
seph club, which consisted of seven
players.
In the lot was a mixture of good,
bad and indifferent base ball talent.
Under a firm management and under
the tutelage of "Billy" Nash, who will
manage the Bisons next year, the men
may turn pennant winners. The men
who weathered the storm of drafting,
buying and trading and who will re
port to President Franklin in St. Jo
seph uniforms are Hollingsworth, Eus
tace, Roat, Daub, Wadsworth, McCau
ley and Pickering.
Buffalo will at least remain in the
Western league circuit for two years.
Tin* compact between the Western
olubs was for five years, and two sea
sons yet remain before the contract be
comes invalidated. It is the custom
to admit untried cities on probation,
but this, prerogative was waived, as
the magnates have a high opinion of
Mr. Franklin's town.
A departure from the usual procedure
of the league was taken by delegating
President Johnson to draw up the
schedule and report it to the different
magnates two weeks in advance of the
schedule meeting, which will be held
at Milwaukee March 1. The issuance
ot annual passes and the arrangement
for transportation for the clubs during
the season was also left with Mr. John
son. All signed an agreement to abide
by his decisions.
. The salary limit was made $200 a
month for each player, and no club will
be allowed to spend over $2,000 a month.
The dispute over Wailtlell and Briggs
was left over for settlement to J. A.
Yarvder Beck and Tom Loftus, both of
whom are interested in the two men.
! President Manning, of the Kansas City
team, asserted that he would carry the
case of Frank Connaughton to the fin
ish and would have the player punish
ed in some way. Connaughton desert
ed the Kansas City team, it is alleged,
but the- playvr claims that the club
owed him some extra money, and that
was the reason why he left.
The board of directors, who were
elected for the ensuing year, were:
Tom Loftus, Columbus; James Frank
lin, Buffalo; Charles Comiskey, St.
Pau, and M. R. Killilea. Milwaukee.
Tom Loftus. after the meeting, said
he did not know where his club would
finally land. He asserted that it was
not at all certain that the team would
leave Columbus. The people of Colum
bus, he said, had not treated his club
badly, and he regarded last season as
an oiT year in base ball.
President Johnson was appointed to
prepare appropriate resolutions on the
death of President Hayne. of the Min
neapolis club, and present them to the
next league meeting. Mr. Saulpaugh,
who owns two-thirds of the Minneapolis
club, was tacitly regarded as the suc
cessor to Mr. Hayne.
HALF-MILE RECORD CIT.
Johu S. Johiuuu Made It at Lexing
ton Rink In I.IH £_&,
John S. Johnson broke the world' 3 half
mile professional skating record at Lexing
ton park yesterday, clipping off 4-5 of a sec
ond. The distance was made in 1: IS 2-5.
The attempt was witnessed by 1,000 people,
and was Johnson's first appearance on the
ice here in two years. Johnson was paced
the first 300 yards by Torwald Thompson,
after which he went it alone. Johnson fol
lowed his pacemaker easily, and made the
quarter in 38 3-3.
Johnson was started by T. L. Bird, and
Birney Bird. T. W. Eck and T. L. Bird held
the watches. C. S. Dokker. Charle3 Peterson
and George Sudheimer were judges.
TOPICS OF THE TIRF.
Merry Heart, now three years old. pur
chased from the Littlefielda by \V. Jenning3
last fall, has broken down, and, it is thought,
will n%t race again.
Henry of Xavarre is said to have stamped
in impressive style his individuality on the
first crop of his get at August BeLmoni's
nursery farm in Kentucky. They are twenty
in number, eleven colts and nine fillies, now
yearlings.
Two Domino colts, now yearlings, on J. R.
Keene's Castleton stud farm in Kentucky, are
said to look so much alike that even th«
stud groom has difficulty in identifying them.
They are the last of the Domino;,, one from
imported Elsie and the other from Tenny's
dam. Belie of Maywood.
A meeting of the Jockey clv* set for Jan.
12 will consider the matter of alloting racing
dates for the New York season of 1899. It ia
probable that application will be made to
the Jockey club for racing six day 3 a week
on the leading tracks which for the last four
yeara have had racing only three or four
days a week. Col. Kip, president of the
Coney Island Jockey chito. is said to be an
advocate of the proposed change.
Jockey D. ilaher is still with his parents
in Hartford, though he has been expected in
Xew Orleans for several weeks. It is prob
able that Maher will go to the Crescent City
to ride later on as a means of keeping him
self in condition for the opening of the New
"iork turf season. Maher ia taking on weight
fast, and he will have to work hard to keep
down to his contract with W. EL Clarke.
J. TV. Schorr & Son's contract with Jockey
Tommy Burns will expire Jan. 11. and after
that the courts will have to decide to whom
the boy's services belong. Tom Hums and
fc.. h. Simma. who have a contract signed
by Burns" father, and the ScTiorrs, who have
a contract signed by the jockey, are the
claimants.
LIKE A COMET
A Mass of Molten Irom Shot Acros*
the ( 'v.,< in- Room.
From the Philadelphia Record.
With a deafening roar a broad, white
sheet of molten metal burst last night
from the wall of the great Xorth Corn
wall iron furnace and shot the full
length of the casting room, past 150
workmen. Almost blinded by the flare
and thrown into a panic, they rushed
from the building, every man escaping
A few minutes later the whole place
was in flames. The furnace was bod
ly wrecked by the explosion, and tbe
casting house was completely guttei
by the fire that followed.
The men had Just stopped work
shortly before midnight, and had clear
ed the center of the big casting room,
when the fiery iron mass flew like a
comet across the place where but a
moment before many of them had been
engaged. Several men. almost grazed
by the metal, were scorched by its in
tense heat, but they staggered out af
ter their fellow workmen. By the time
all were at a safe distance the build
ing was on fire from end to end. They
rallied and did their best to fight the
flames, turning on several streams of
water, but their efforts were- of no
avail. Xot until many hours after the
explosion was an investigation of the
ruins possible.
It was found that the molten iron
had eaten its way into the front wall
of the furnace, weakening the struc
ture -until ib suddenly gave way. A
great hole was torn in the stack, and
almost the entire contents of ths fur
nace were "discharged.
OH on the Water.
The Wilson line steamship Salerno, Oapt
Bearpark, arrived this morning from New
castle, England, in a somewhat battered" con
dition after a stormy pasaege of twenty-seven
days. Capt Bearpark at this time used oil
with wonderful effect. Three of the starboard
closets were filled with old, which slowly
dripped into the sea to the windward ard
quickly reduced th« threatening seas. The
surface of the water became smooth for 200
feet to windward, bringing the seas into
great swells, but without the breaking create,
■which were bo dangerous.— New York Con£
meroial Advertiser.
> hrlsimn* First Celebrated.
Christmas was first celebrated in the year
9S. but it was forty years later before it
was officially adopted as a Christian festival
nor was it until about the fifth century iW
the day of it* celebration became permanent
ly fixed on the 25th of December. Ud to
that time it had been irregularly observed at
various times of the year-la December
Jan m ° 8t fre< l ue ntly In
Watered Milk.
A recent experience a* Islington, Englan«
.hows tiiat milkmen need watching iwy
day in fih» week. Of thirty sample* of milk
collected on week day, ail w £e genuine,
wheroa» of thoa« collected on Sunday «1
per cent wer« adutaratalTthe mUlmaA «n-
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE MONDAY JANUARY 9 r 1899.
SOT ONE OVERLOOKED
EVERY MEMBER OP THE FIF
TEENTH MIXXESOTA GOT HIS
CHRISTMAS BOX O. K.
LATE GOSSIP FROM AUGUSTA
News of the Minnesota Troops Now
Awaiting: a Call to tbe Cuban
Coaat Weather Has Been Very
Agreeable to the Bora From the
Xorth Company C Gave a Jolly
Dance.
Special Correspur.doiice ot The Globe.
AUGUSTA. Ga., Jan. I.— The Christ
mas of IS9B is passed, but the Fifteenth
will ever remember it as the happy
Christmas spent near Augusta, Ga.,
and Father Time will have to work
hard if he expects to erase from their
memories the recollections of the
Christmas spent in Southern climes, a
thousand miles away from home.
The boys spent a pleasant time,
and nothing was- left undone by the
officers which would help to make
the Christmas joyful.
The Christmas boxes arrived Friday
and were distributed among the boys
Saturday, and in the general rush no
one was forgotten, a fact which re
flects credit upon the auxiliary com
mittee of Minneapolis, as well as upon
the officers of the Fifteenth.
The weather has been all that could
be desired for the past week, and, to
day being a legal holiday in Augusta,
the visitors to camp were very nu
merous.
COMPANY K.
Ccrporal CamipbeU's tent was the scene of
a happy reunion Sunday. Among those pres
ent were the following: • Ccrporal Raymond,
Privates Freeze, Moore. Riesberg an<l Moon.
Fred Hoyt, of the hospital corps and ex
uitmber of Company E, of the Fourteenth,
was also present.
Balby Bostwiek Jacks. Company X's game
rooster, is beating everything in sight.
George Kent is away on furlough In Ho
boken, X. J., visiting his mother, who is very
ill.
Miss Bolan-d's pies were excellent.
Sergeant I^eifer is acting battalion sergeant
major, in che absence of SeTgeant Anderson.
Qpmpany X are very well satisfied with
their cooks, and they think they have the beat
in the First battalion.
Wagoner H&ber and Louts F. Miles turnish
much amusement for the boys with their
comedy sketch. "Who Did Did Did It?"
The bill of fare Sunday was as follows:
Turkey, chicken, c-ran&erry souee, mince pie 3,
mashed potatoes, with brown gravy, bread,
butter and coffee.
COMPANY C.
Owing to the resignation of Capt. Joseph
G. Morrison, the following have been pro
niottd.: First Lieutenant Rupert C. Dewey,
promoted to caiptain; Second Lieutenant Nels
P. Nelson, promoted to first lieutenant; First
Sergeant Campbell, promoted to second lieu
tenant. Alteert Nelson will take the place
made vacant by Campbell's promotion.
ChrUtmas day saw the most of the boys
in Augusta, where the majority went to at
tend church and ri9i£ friends.
. Hans Christopherson has had his beard
dipped and ths boy 3 do not know him.
The most suceeissfuil dance of the season
took place in Company C mess tent Friday
I evening, Dec. 23, and was an entire supceess,
both "socially and financially.
Anwng th e many notables present were the
following: Col. Theodore Pettit, a veteran
cf the lute war. and one of Augusta's most
prominent citizens: John Champion. P. M.
Peteretm, Theo Kolm, William McCarthy,
Jchn Ryan. John Galvin. Barney O"Mara. O.
O. Bi-unsoit Laxey C. Culp, William Boucher, -
John Buchtaani, Frank A. Peterson, Louis
Mirkelson. M. Thompson, John Clow, Eugenic
Sullivan. H. H. E. Wood. 0. Sodergren, Olaf
Ribb. Jrvin Hoar. Louis Marshall; Misses
May card. Hine. Parin. HagermanH, Bogart,
-Htrshey, Benedict. Oimstead, Samstead and
Gorton.
COMPANY E.
There was a very pleasant evening spent in
Tent No-. 3 Sunday. Among the invited guesta
were the following: Elmer Lang, Corporals
Mitten and Eteady; First Sergeant Mi'Brady,
company clerk, -and Private Van Gordon.
Corpora! Frank Anderson is very well satis
tied wiih his Christmas box.
There were Christmas services in the com
pany meas tent at 10:30 a. m. They were
well attended.
COMPANY B.
St«geant Morgan and Frank Miller are ex
pected back Thursday.
Oscar Peterson, who has been sick for some
time past, is now entirely recovered.
Privates J. Phil Keller. George Hazard
James Lang and Otto Sandtrock have been
promoted to corporals.
Corporal Le May attended solemn high mass
at 5 a. m. Christmas in St. Patricks church
Augusta, Ga.
COMPANY M.
Company M issued sixty-four passes Sunday,
and the boys spent a pleasant day in Au
gusta.
M. A. Cross, cf the Fourth Wisconsin, sta
tioned at Annfston, Ala., i 3 visiting his
brother. W. C. Cross.
Cyrus Logan, the company cook, is receiv
ing many compliments on his ability as a
chef.
Sergeant Abbott is expected back Thurs
day.
Zeras A. Hazard is orderly to the co'onel
today.
FORT BRADY TO WALKER.
Company A, Seventh Infantry, Will
Relieve the Third's Company.
A Chicago telegram says: '"Two more
companies of the Seventh infantry
have been assigned to garrison duty
by Gen. Sheridan. Company A has
been ordered to leave Fort Brady
Mich., and go to Walker, Minn, the
scene of the recent Indian outbreak
The authorities are anxious to
strengthen the force at the Minnesota
army post. Company B will come to
Fort Sheridan to guard the post after
the Fourth goes to Manila."
PRETTY CRIMINALS.
AluioHt Impossible to Get a Jury to
Convict Them.
From the New York Press.
It Is difficult to obtain a verdict
against a pretty woman. Mr. Mcln
tyre knew when he started out that he
would never convict Fayne Moore, and
Gardiner knew it, too. They have
wasted $25,000 of the county's money
on these "badger" people already, and
nothing is gained. Look at the money
wasted in acquitting Mrs. Fleming
of the charge of murder, and she was
as far from pretty as Mahon is from
mercy. What saved Lizzie Borden
but her womanliness? Lucilla Dudley
was acquitted on a verdict of "insan
ity" because she was pretty. Who
cared if her shot killed O'Donovan
Rossa?
Laura Fair escaped the gallows or
imprisonment for life because of her
beauty. You will remember that she
shot Crittenden, of San Francisco.
What saved Mrs. Wharton but come
liness when she was tried for the mur
der of Gen. W. S. Ketchum, U. S. A.?
What saved Fanny Hyde, charged
with the murder of George Watson?
An attractive face and figure. Lives
there a jury that could convict May
Kellard, of the doe eye? A famous
trial was that of Miss Mary Harris,
of Washington, for the murder of a!
J. Burroughs; her good looks secured
an acquittal. On the other hand, Mrs
Roxalana Druse, the homeliest of
creatures, was hanged at Herkimer
for the murder of her husband, and
her daughter, a coarse young woman
went to prison for life.
CauitOit — The market fa fall of
imitations, represented to bo tie ■am* as
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Good Behavior Rewarded by a.
Chance to Marry and Live Outside
the Settlement on Parole
Womeu Inder These Circum
stances, as I'nder Others, Are
Sometimes Hard to Suit.
Fioni the New York Sun.
"I have known of some queer mar
riages in the twenty years I have
knocked about the world," said a sea
captain the other day, -but I think the
pairing off of the jailbirds at Andaman
was the strangest thing of them all.
For a couple of years I commanded the
steamer that runs do".vn monthly from
Calcutta to the penal colony for British
India on the Andaman and Nicobar isl
ands. I was a youngster then and in
terested in all sorts of things, and it
didn't take me long to strike up an ac
quaintance with the chief commission
er or president of the colony, who used
to let me go all over the place. The
female prison was an object of special
interest to me, and I must have been
an object of special interest to the pris
oners, for, except the gray-haired su
perintendent, they didn't see a man
from one year's encLio another. I had
a smattering of the- language, and en
joyed several heartless flirtations with
dusky beauties whose eccentricities
even India had been u'riable to put up
with.
"The prison is as accessible as any
sultan's harem. It Is built on a prom
ontory and protected on the side to
ward the sea by cliff 200 feet
high, while on the land side the grounds
are surrounded by a fifteen-foot wall.
There are several guards stationed at
the entrance, and in order to get by
the first of these a man has to give a
certain password. la return this guard
gives him another password, which
takes him by the second, and so on,
past half a dozen, maybe. These po
lice, as they are cafled? are the oldest
and most hideous women in the Jail.
To be eligible a woman must have gray
hair and a face that would stop a
clock, besides a record for sobriety and
obedience,
"All the convicts went down from
Calcutta. In my boat, and whmx I saw
them afterward la ts« prison they al
ways remembered me; aild se»» of
them would have fallen on my neck if
they hadn't been afraid of the superin
tendent, -wb.6 tru generally alongside
of me,
'•iJI tli* pri«oaer» btort J» wwk. and
in the female prison they weave all the
cloths for the men's clothes and their
own. and make them up. too, I believe.
If any of the women refuse to do their
stint of work they are punished. The
first punishment is to cut off their hair.
This they don't like very much, and
the threat of it will generally bring
them to terms, for they are "just as
vain as other women, and don't want
their lons hair cut off. If this doesn't
convince them that it's better to work
in the shop, they axe made to wear
men's clothes and work in the grounds,
which are beautifully kept, entirely by
the women prisoners. The trousers
and jackets given to those who are
punished in this way are of the coarsest
material, and are very unbecoming,
and the women have to trundle wheel
barrows and dig in the dirt, just I'ik-
men. If even this fails, they are fur
ther punished by being put to sleep in
a cell with the floor covered by
branches laid in rows, and then in cross
rows, grill fashion. The branches are
full of sharp thorns, which make it
impossible to stand, sit or lie down in
comfort. Generally one night of this
is enough to make the worst case ready
for the workroom, but there was one
girl who siood the extreme penalty of
three nights in this room, and still re
fused to do a lick of work. She was o.
mighty pretty woman and had been
sent to the island for murdering her
lover. She made nothing but trouble
from the day she came into the jail.
She wouldn't work, and nothing could
make her work, so finally they gave her
up as a bad job, and made her sit all
day long in the workroom in men's
clothes on a sort of elevated dunce
block. One day I got the superinten
dent to give me her history. It's too
long to tell now, but it's enough to
make your hair curl.
"She'll never get a chance to make
one of the marriages I'm going to tell
you about, because those are rewards
for good behavior, and she is the worst
woman on the island.
"When they hive maybe a dozen
ticket-of-leave men and women, they
have a sort of matrimonial reception.
If any matches are made, the couples
are allowed to go up to the Ntcobar
group, some distance away, and settle
on the government land. There they
get a certain number of acres, a hut
and some commissary stores, and are
left to themselves. The ticket-of-leave
don't take them anywhere except to the
Nicobars, for they nearly all have life
sentences. These matrimonial recep
tions are tha funniest things I ever saw.
The men are brought one by one into a
sort of reception room, where the wom
en are standing in a long row. They
are generally several breaks in the line,
to separata those of different casts and
religions, for they are very particular
about that In India. Some of these men
haven't seen a woman for ten years,
SHtvbe. .ajld £hey look very curiously at
them. When a ttan la brought into
( this room a statement is mad"c Af his
name, his history, his religion, his age,
the crime h« is there for, and so on.
, There are, maybe, half a dozen women
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of his religion on the eligible list, and
he is taken to the first one in the row
Tf, after talking with her a few min
utes, he doesn't think he would like her
he goes on to the next one. He is al
ways covertly casting his eye along the
line to see if there are any further
down that he likes better than those
near the top. Sometimes he sees one
near the end of the line that takes his
lancy, and he will walk straight by all
the others and go to her. If she likes
ntm. too. they go to the table and her
history is read to him. He may pos
sibly object to the crime she was sent
up for, and if so the affair is declared
Off; but usually there is no trouble
about that, for if a man likes the looks
of a woman, he doesn't care how she
came to be there. It would generally
be a case of the pot calling the kettle
black, anyway.
"If a man goes all through the line
and doesn't find
ONE THAT QUITE SATISFIES HIM.
He sometimes wants to take one fur
ther up that he has before passed by
as not quite good enough. But do you
think she will have anything to do
with him then? Not much. She will
look at him as if he were dirt, and
hold her neck as stiff as a poker
"When they have paired off as many
as possible the keepers let the different
couples go out and walk about -in the
grounds for the rest of the afternooi
to get acquainted with each other and
speak a little, maybe. Sometimes they
don't make more than one or two
matches in a whole afternoon, for thoy
are very hard to sun. those convicts
though you would think they'd be glad
to get anybody or anything, just for
a change of life from that in the jail
"These marriage parties alUays take
place on a Saturday, and just a week
from that day the man is allowed to
visit the woman again for an hour and
continue their acquaintance. If at the
end of three Saturdays they are still
of the same mind they are married
and taken on the boat down to tb>
Nicobars. where they begin their mar
ried life. As I said, they give them a
hut. a few acres of ground and some
provisions, and let them alone. Th"se
couples generally sr*t aiong pretty weH
together, though sometimes thoy have
a fight and one kills the other, from
mere force of habit. In that case the
survivor is sent back to the jail at
Andaman. But this very seldom hap
pens. If they have children, which
they generally do not. these are left
with their parents till they die off. for
the Nicolbars are so unhealthful and
full of fever that people don't live
very loner there.
"There is only ore resident officer at
the Xicobar colony, for there has only
been one Englishman found who could*
stand the climate. He lives there all
alone with the convicts, and though
the government has built him a fine
house he leads the loneliest kind of life,
for. of course, he can't keep a family
there, because they would get the
fever &ni <Ue inside of «ix months. The
chief commissioner of Andaman cornea
down to see him occasionally. "
6
HOTEL REGISTERS.
To Cl««e Them, the « lerU* Sa>. I» to
Invite Dtitnator.
From the Washington Post.
"Good heavens, man, do you want
this hotel to burn down?" said an in
dignant clerk to a careless lounger at
a local hostelry. The lounger had com
pleted his evening task of examining
the signatures of recent arrivals by
closing the register as he might appro
priately have done a dictionary or city
directory. But never close a hotel reg
ister unless you desire the everlasting
enmity of the house.
"I don't know where the superstition
comes from," said the hotel clerk, when
he had cooled off sufficiently to allow
him to discuss the accident, for to a
hotel man the closing of a register is a
serious accident, "'but no worse luck can
befall a house than to have some fool
come along and close the register.
Why, I won't be able to sleep for nine
days, which is the length of time that
we will be under the spell. If we can
get alon£ for nine days without burn
ing the house down or blowing up the
steam boiler, or having a rase of small
pox.-we will be reasonably safe again.
Nine times out of ten something hap
pens when a register Us closed. There
isn't a hotel clerk in the country that
will allow that book to be shut. Not,
at least, until it is ready to be filr-d
away with other old registers, merely
to serve as a record of our hu-
But when in active use a hotel man
would as soon think of dropping a
match in a can of oil as to close the
book. They say that the night before
the Baldwin burned in 'Frisco son;-?
smarty played a trick on the night
clerk and closed the book, and I know
for a fact that it was only three days
before trw Gumry, In Denver. bl«?w up
that the register was found closed.
The boilers of that house wsnt straight
up in the air and carried souls with
them. The clerk who was on when the
register was closed escaped, but he
•quit the hotel business. I'll have to go
the rounds now and see if the engineer
and watchman are awake. When [
tell them something there'll be no dan
ger of them falling a3leep during the
late watch, at least not until this nine
days' spell has passed."
Telephone* tn llonpitnl Beds.
Telephones are to be placed In the wards
of one of the Fjris hospitals witiiin reac-h of
the bed-ridden pationts, so as to enablo
them to oommuni-ate with th"ir friend* out
side. There wiH also ho an arrangement
whereby the telephone b«» switched oil
to a wire connected with a concert ha!'., so
that the perioiruanee may be enjoyed by
the invalids.
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Ask your Grocer today to show you a
package of GRAIX-0, the new food drink
that takes the place of coffee. The children
may drink it without injury as well as thn
adult. All who try It like It. GRAINO has
that rich oeal brown of Mocha or Java, hut
it la made from pure grains, and the most
delicate stomach receives It without distress.
\i th« price of coffee. 15c. and 25 cts. per
package. Sold by ail grocers.