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THK WK l-Kl.Y UEIUI.D: 1'l.ATTSMQti TII.XKHU.VSKA. AIMill. l:S. issw. ft A FIRST LESSON FOR DETECTIVES. It II Not How to Itttrrt, it thr nrt Way to Avoiil Iteinj; HHot.il. I had occasion a short time ago to do sonn work under the direction of Sujieriutendciit Byrnes ami rtreived from him some instructions in the business of becoming a detective. 'To accomplish the ends which we heck in the case in which you are en gaged." said the world famed rogue ca teller, '-it is very imiiortaiit that no one should suspect what you are after, and it is of paramount impor tance that no one shall suspect that you are m communication with me. Now let m give you one of the first lessons that a detective learns. It is not how to detect, but how to avoid being detected himself. It very often hapions that tteoplo who are play ing a game for a big pot of money, and who fear the police will spoil their game, employ detectives to shadow every one with whom the) are dealing for fear that they may lie dealing with some ono who will expose their schemes. The first thing a detective learns to do, therefore, is to find out whether he is being shad owed by any one else. To do this in simple and easy, and yet most people not familiar with how to do it would say, 'Why, how can I find out if I am being watched ?' "All that is necessary is caution and a little nerve. Keep your eyes ojien for any ono whom you suspect of following you and never go any where where your hand would lie exposed unless you are sure you are not followed. If you have an idea you are followed, pay no attention to the person you suspect of following you. Do not try to escape him, for that will at once arouse his suspi cions. Let him follow you, and to make sure that he is really shadow ing you after walking a block or two turn quickly and retrace your steps. As you pass the man you suspect look him squarely in the eye. Re peat this cqierution several times, and you will be bound to make sure whether or not ho is really following you. "Of course when you know you are being shadowed you will do nothing to reveal what you are real ly doing until your follower has abandoned the chase." New York Herald. Spilling Suit mill IIi-i-hUIiib Mirroro. At the present day, when salt is Fpilled at the table, some persons at once throw some of the spilled arti cle into the fire in order to avoid a quarrel. Salt in many nations was a token of friendship, and when an Arabian desired to assure you of his loyalty he handed you some salt and said, "There is salt U-tween us.1' Should he spill any of it he would hasten to burn a jiortion as a sacri fice to heaven and n prayer to avert the impending quarrel.. To break a mirror to many persons indicates the death of the person who last looked into the mirror, or some serious injury to that person. The savage tribes of nearly every country lieheved that striking either the im ago or the shadow of any icrsitfi meant an injury to that person. Tin y U'lieved that the image or the shadow represented the spirit of a pci'son. and many are the tales told of ma gicians who inflicted the injuries on persons they inflicted on their im ages. To drop a stone into water where the image of a person was re flected meant death or some dire dis aster. New York Telegram. Too l'liMilllur. Mamma had taken Fred and Helen to visit an old school friend whom she called "Jennie." On returning homo she heard the children talking at some length very familiarly about "Jennie." "Whom are you talking about" asked mamma of Helen. "About Jennie," said Helen. "Jen nie who" "Why, Jennie Gable." "Well, you must not talk that way. i You must say Mrs. Gable." "But ' you say 'Jennie,' mamma." "Yes, but mamma docs not want her little girl to say it." Just then Fred came for , ward and said: "Why, of course mamma is right, Helen. How would it sound for any one to call grandma . Tish?" Only people who are well uo quainted with her, like grandpa, ought to call her that." Youth's Companion. I Aim-lli j Mini' Oii. j The word amethyst means not in toxicated or drunken, Urn use the ' stone was supposed to possess the virtue of preventing drunkenness, leaving the wearer or drinker not in toxicated. v For this reason it was made into drinking cups by the ancient Per sians, but unfortunately tradition leaves us in doul.t as to whether it .'. was this misplaced confidence or not that led to tile discontinuance of the amethystine cup. Minerals. " A Wumlfi-ful Invention. '. A chemist has invented an auto matic sensitive paint which is a bright . yellow at tho ordinary teinjierature and a bright red at 5J'.'0 degrees. It returns to itsoriginal color on cooling and may be heated with the same ef fect over and over. St. Louis Re public. A KovmI Hiii.Ii. "What a U'autif til hand that young lady has," remarked Yanderclam to Mr. Bondclipiicr. "Yes, that diamond ring, if it is genuine, must lie worth at least $1,!()0."-T,xas Sittings. Thr Future of Natal, To the African native the estab lishment of a colony like Natal is like throwing c-itn the gates of paradise. He streams in, offering his cheap though not very regular labor, and supplying all nis own wants at tho very smallest expenditure of toil. Where he multiplies, however, the British race begins to consider lalmr of all but the highest kinds dishonor able, and from tho moment that a white population will not work in the fields, on the roads, in the mines, in tho factories, its doom is practically sealed. It is limited to supplying employees, merchants, contractors, shopmen and foremen to the commu nity. Sooner or later the black race will lie educated to a jKiint at which it will demand and receive a share in those employments and in the gov eminent. Whenever that hapjicns the white race will either lieabsorlicd or disappear. The nnuss will gradu ally depart, but a few who have lost the sense of sujieriority will remain, intermarry and be perietuated in the persons of a few hundred, or, it may be, a few thousand, mulattoes and quadroons. "National Life and Character." She Meant Well. There was a debutante as lieanti ful, as attractive and as perfect a dancer as every debutante is or is supposed to be. But this debutante, like her sister "debs," was not over powered with literary knowledge. Before one of her first dinner parties she was told that she would lio taken into dinner by Mr. F. "Now," said Miss Deb's mother, "Mr. F. is much interested in histor ical subjects, therefore, to make him think you agreeable, start a discus sion in history. Do you understand'" "Yes, mamma." At dinner that evening Mr. F., bending over, told Miss Deb "he heard that she had been quite the belle of the last gennan such dune ing, 6uch a gown, such flowers," etc. "Yes, yes," said the trembling Deb, and then with a burst of confidence, "But, oh 1 Mr. F., wasn't it sad about Mary, queen of Scotts'" Poor little maiden! She tried hard to apear learned, but it was evident ly beyond her depth. Cor. Rich tnond Dispatch. A Kurt Mi Slmprd I. Ike n Human Hand. I have U'fore me at this moment a portrait of a radish, painted from life by John Peuoy. which is an exact counterpart of a human hand, the leaves at the top strongly reminding one of tho laces and frills which men formerly wore at their wrists. The original of this portrait grew in sandy soil in a garden at Harlem, Holland, in the year 1(172, and is now preserved in spirits nnd kept in the museum at Glandorp among other vegetable, mineral and animal curi osities. If the portrait is true to life, the resem j:i:i e could not U more striking. The fingers, the lines in the palm, the nails, etc., are all per feet. The lingers all stand slightly apart, just as yours would if you were to hang your hand down at your side and straighten them. Another radish exactly resembling a human hand came into possession of Mr. Lisset, secretary of the nni seuni at Birmingham. England, m lHU'.', but has since been lost or de stroyed. St. Louis Republic. Tht' I.owiV l.ciip. Sappho killed herself by jumping from the Lovers' Leap, a Loucaditui cliff. This leap was often taken by lovesick persons, who believed that if they survived the fall they would lie effectually cured of a hopeless pas sion. Tho leaps were always wit nessed by crowds of spectators, and the would be suicides were in noway interfered with by the stale. Boats were in attendance below to pick up tho leapers if they came to the sur face of the sea after the plunge. Sappho had a passion for a young man who did not return her love and lea ed from the cliff in order to be cured. She perished in the fall. So also did Artiiuesiu and many other celebrities. Pliny tells a curious story of an old Athenian miser who was in love with his cook and desiring a cure, went to have a look at tho cliff. He peeled over, shook his head, went home and married the cook. St. L mis ( J lol ie Denn icrat. An liiler.iiihliiii For lliihic. A mother tells the following story on her two young children. At the time she was not at home, and the nurse, in order to insure n peaceful retirement of the tots.tillowcd them to take a small lunch to their room. They knelt down, as is their nightly custom, and all was still, as became the solemuity of the occasion, when one of tho curly heads was raised. and n startling announcement was ! made: "Mr. Lord, please 'sense me a min ute, Kit's takin a bite of my pickle." After a short but decisive engage ment devotions were resumed. Cin cinnati Enquirer. A KiiNtilonaltln ('atinttroplie, "How did you enjoy the dog show, Maud?" "Not at all. My dear, sweet, love ly little Fido was eaten up by a hor rid big brute of a St. Bernard." "Dear me.' How did it happen?" "They said it was Urause Fido looked so much like a sausage." Harper's Bazar. Through our Green boects One evening not long since us our reporter was lotermg along Main street enjoying the sweet fragrence ol his liiiv.inna, lie noticed some thing that looked just a lute "queer" to say tlie lrast. and like the generous soul that he is. he wail ts everyooily to read andjiidc for themselves as to whether every thing "isguhl that gliilei." or not. A real nice looking young lady walked paM him quite hurriedely and crossed to the opposite side of the street, and upon arriving in front of one of the office buildings on th.it side, she cast hurritd f iances to all points of the com pass, but not seeming satisfied she passed on. In a few minutes she returned and went through the name movements. Kvcn this time she did not seem to find what she was looking for. The report er's curiosity became aroused and he concluded to watch the "pro ceedings. The young lady saun tered up the street again about a block and then turned mid started back, just as if she had left her pocket lunik some place. When she arrived at the building above mentioned she turned in and was lost to view. Prob ably ten minutes afterwards, "Komeo," as we will call him, pass ed by and went through similar maneuvers, but it seemingly did not take him very long to get his bearings, for he walked along softly whistling "They're after me" and seemed to know exactly where he was headed for. As be neared the same dark doorway where "Juliet" had disappeared, he lookcdl as if wondering whether he was not a little too early for some appoint ment, but seeming to think he would rather be a little early than late, he darted out of sight. Neither appeared for over an hour and when they dill, they came out as they went in -one at a time, hurry ing off in different directions, The I'nited States revenue cutter k'ush arrived at Honolulu last Thursday morning, having on board ex-Congressman Blount, of Georgia who was appointed com missioner to investigate the exist ing conditions in Hawaii and re port as to the expediency of the an nexation of the islands to the I'nited States. As soon as the cutter was sighted off Koko Head, at II a. in., business men went to work, and in a short time the street anil buildings were covered with flags and bunting. The townspeo ple turned out en masse. Hy 11 o'clock when the Ruse anchored in Naval k'cw, the docks and the streets were crowded. The mail steamer Austrailia, which was scheudled to leave at noon, was held hack, and from her dock the band of the provisional govern incut welcomed the new arrivals with the stiiiins of the "Star Span gled Banner." A delegation from the Annexation Club was hastily formed and welcomed the commis sioner ;it the boat landing. During the two weeks preceeding the'ar rival of Commissioner Blount the lethargy of the llawaiians has given way to action. The Civil Rights League and the Hawaiian Patriotic League have held fre quent mass meetings, at which either annexation or disfranchise ment were the respective subjects of denunciation. On the evening of March L'L the day before the ar rival of the steamship Australia with news that the annexation treaty had been shelved, a meeting of white residents, numbering fully I.'hki, was held at the large drill shed adjoining the armony of the provisional government, at which an annexation club was formed which has 12(h) members, and speeches were made by some of the most prominent men in Hon olulu. Robert Wilcock, editor of the Liberal, was made one of the Vice-Presidents ot the club, and wastheonly Hawaiian who promi ently allied himself with the meet ing. During the next week there will arrive in Chicago all sorts n( peo ple, from all parts of the world, and they are all coming to assist in making the exposition the great success that it will be. An entire tribe of giants from Bolivia will be among the lirst to arrive. These fellows are of assorted six.es, ranging from (i feet S to N feet 0. The giant among the giants is an Indian named Main ami, who clainu eight and one half feet of frame and a weight of 4 1 K pounds. Twelve natives of In dia iire also expected to find their way to Jackson Park this evening. They are strict Mahometans, and will spend the first three days after their arrival in giving praise to the Holy Prophet for keeping them in safty during their trip. Tne great est combination that will reach the city, however, will be the nineteen Kuopeau maidens, who are now be ing chaperoned across the contin ent by Colonels W. T. C. Hyde and Thomas Ochiltree, who will be wel comed to Chic ig by W. I Kno. These young ladies represent the different types of beauty of mod ern womanhood. They come from different countries of Kuropc. and will during the exposition act as models for the International Dress and Customing Company, which has a "concession" on Midway Plaisance. The International Kte. Company was organized by a mini tier of Chicago gentlemen for the purpose of displaying the latest fashions in fjdrcss to the visitors ill th" exposition. Down it Jackson Piirk the concern is spoken of as a "Beauty ,Minw." Ami perhaps it might as well Jhe called that as anything else. In fact the central figures will he two scor lovely women, of whom the lirst install ment will uriive soon. The young ladies are said to be all that is beautiful, as they took New York by storm, the ad jective may not be misused. The three who are call ed the most beautiful are Miss Knid Scott, of England, Miss da -rille Rimont. of France and Miss Ladi.ok Keihuharf, of Hungary. Colonel Ochiltree describes Miss Scott as "u dainty little girl with si thoughful face, deep violet eves, wavy blond hair, symmctical fig. lire, and an inordinate appetite for mixed ale." Ladi.ok Keihunhai f is siiid to be beautiful as an huri con jured by the god of dreams. And she also has a reputation of be ing possessed of a temper that is uncontrollable. Gabrielle Rain out has been for two years noted in Paris for her beauty. While in New York she caused trouble by smiling on a young gentleman who was ae companied by his sweetl cart. A street scene was avoided only ofter Colonel Ochiltree had exhaust d all his powers of persuasion. The management is indevormg to keep the ladies in the backgrounds, a they do not care to haw notoriety before the exposition opi ns. Another Chance tor Alar. It was Chili dm ing the last ad ministration, it may lie its neigh bor Peru during this. It appears that the Cnited States consulate sit one of the Peruvian ports has been sacked by a mob with apparant jio lice sanction. The ollicer i c ing as consular agent for the United States was bred upon and wounded in the foot. The news comes in a brief telegram from the I'nited States minister to Peru. He omit ted such essential details as the name of the place and thr name of the wounded ollicer, or they were dropped from bis dis patch in the telegraphic transmis sion. His telegram is as follows: I.I.MA, April .V-Greshntn, "'ash ington: At (place omitted) mob at tacked Masonic lodge, sacked build ing and burned the fixtures in the street. Incidentally, I'nited States consulate w. is invaded, furnishing destroyed and acting consular agent shot in toot. Archives sav ed intact. Squad of Peruvian police lookeil on while the mob performed work without interference. The mail brings the particulars. Hicks. Secretary Grcslnnn conferred with the president on the subject and this afternoon sent the follow ing telegram to the minister: Di-t-AK' t i K .vro i- St a t i : . W a m i i n . ton, I). '., April (i, ls'.llt. Hicks Min ister. Lima: Protest against fail ore of authorities to allord prot. c tiou to consulate, and if facts are well established ask expression ; regret, prompt prosecution ot the guilt- parties and reparation foi injury to American property or person. Gki-siiam. There is but one consulate in Peru, that at Callao. In this posi tion Mr. Aquilla K. Daughtery of Illinois, appointed during Mr. Har rison's administration, stands on the record as consul. There are under bini seven consular agencies the occupants of which position are doubtless merchants of the country who are paid by fees, and these fees seem to be very small inasmuch as only two make any returns at all to the department ol fees collecteil.nnd those returns are under it.'." a jear. Inasmuch as the dispatch comes from Lima the impression prevails that the scene of the outrage was one of the interior points. This im pression is further strengthened by the knowledge in the department that in many cases where the na tives assult the .sub -eon su late, the trouble is due, not to any antagon ism to the country represented, but to prejudice and ill-feeling against the representative personally. This is not an uncommon occurrence in South America, or in other parts of the world, where the acts of a mer cantile consular agent are resent ed by the people, who would re spect the acts of a citizen of the I'nited States duly appointed to a full consular position. It ts believed that the matter will be satisfactory explained in a short time. SALESMEN'. Energetic men want ed. Free prepaid outfit. One of our agents has earned over $J(MKJ in five years. P. O. Box i::71, New York. THE RAG MAT FEVER. Why Faruirr Jurl Took an Inlrnix IILIike to On torui ol liiM-iiMf, "I'd as lives our women folks would git a disease hitched on to 'em in the fall as this here rag mat fever," said .loel Potter to his hired man as they rested from their labors in the great open door of the barn. "I'd hvser. fur that matter, fur then they might, with nuisin. git over it." he added Hfter some thought. His listener nodded sy mpal het tcally, as one ae qua'nted with trouble of that nature. 1 know it, Joel." he said. "A man ain't safe fer lay down his c lo se, Keerlesslike. 'thotit he wants 'em cut up and hooked in in scroll pattern." "That's jest it." chimed Joel, glad of an appreciative ear. "'Lizy'd slit up anything when the hankerin's on tier. She uctually buys the young alios' close with an eye to what kind of a groundwork they'll make fur mats, and she knits their stockiu's outen all them bright shades so they'll work into the flowers fur the center. "When you go into the U-st room, you hev ter step high as you would walkm in tW wixxls through under brush jest to avoid all them tarnal rag mats she's got sprea' down." "She has got quite a big assortmint, that's a fact." rejoined the hired man m a tone that invited further con fidences. "The last spurt she bed at it." con tinued Joel, "was when she made the button mat. That's httlo bits of cloth 'Unit tho size of buttons, sewed nn in separate piles. She got it all ilone but tho last row. an her green ifive out. Well, sir, she ransacked this town ter find some ter match. Wedidn t hev a hot dinner fura good oll, tin she was nil of n whew 'bout that mat. Wha' do you s'poso sho done'" "I wouldn't presume ter say." said his companion, with an air of not be .ug surprised at anything. "Well,"said Joel in an awful whis cr. "sho tnk tho bottom ruffle ofT'm dandy's new dress an slit it up fur he mat." The listener was duly shucked. It's more'n 1 can standi Mat inaKin has swallowed up her best feelin's. 1 tuk her up to the city with run last year, and we went to ono of them high toned churches. "The minister he was smart as a whip, an tho singin would carry a man right up. 1 could see that 'Li.y was moved. Her head was a-shakin and her hp was a quiverin, and 1 leaned over and says 1, 'How do you like it, 'Lizy?' an she turned kind of a dumb look on mo fur u minute, an then sho says. 'Oh, Joel,' said she, wouldn't them curtains round tho organ look handsomo hooked in?"' Youth's Companion. Ice t'nvrn In Savoy. There are several ice caves in Su voy, but the most remarkable is that near Vergy. The grotto is hollowed ait m a yellowish limestone and tortus it hall about M yards in depth. All around you arestalactites. stalag mites, columns, platforms, amphi theaters, raised thrones, etc., not of mineral, as those found in most cav erns, but of pure ice, hard and clear iis crystal. The forms of tho great icicles depending from the roof are exactly bkofliosoof stalactites, but where the stalagmites should rise from tho bottom conical and bottle shaped peaks are the prevailing forms. At one point in the cave there is a row of objects which forcibly reminds one of a troop of soldiers. On tho ipposito side there is an ice pipe or ;an, while underneath the latter and extending into another chatnUT there is a perfect natural ice tunnel. Cor. St. Louis Republic Looking ThroiiKli a IVlriM-ope. A number of persons were talking about teleseoM.'s, and each professed to have looked through tho "largest one in tho world." One after another told of the powerful effect of the re spective teleseojK'S. At last a quiet man said mildly "1 otico looked through a telescope. I don't know as it was the largest in the world. I hope it wasn't. IJut it brought the moon so near that we could see the man in it gesticulating wildly and crying out: 'Don't shoot! Don't shoot!' Tho old fool thought it was n big cannon that wo were pointing at him." Tho quiet man subsidi.il. and so did all tho rest of them. London Tit lias: Colonel ( iilllprr lliplalm Why. "Jason." said Mrs. Calliper to her husband, "I should think he would Lrct tired standing there like that with his mouth wide open all tho time, shouldn't you" They were passing a furrier's store, and Mrs. Calliper referred to a bear in tho window. "Why, no; 1 shouldn't think so, Cyuthia," said Colonel Calliper in btsabseutinindod way. "Why should ho Ho isn't alive, you know. He's just stuffed." "Oh, is that so, Jason '" said Mrs. Calliper. New York Sun. Too tirt-ut a llorilfii. A gentleman reported dead was re warded with a first rate press obituary notice. He was not dead, but U'iug met in the street, after the surprise was over, his friend merely observed, ' If you are uot dead, you ought to be, for no man can live up to that splen did obituary notice you have bad." exchange. COLORED W0RD3 AND SOUNDS. It I A ll grit Thai a Voir May ! Jlrt and Miti ;il Notr Pnrpl. One day. by chance, in a conm--tion upon colors one of the iersrti! present, thinking to express a g'.'U eral sentiment, remarked in a mat ter of I. ict way that certain wend had ccuhar tints or shades, llv was utterly unconscious that he IiaI saiil auythiug unusual. I also rv.vi.ll a woman, who uhiii another fv;t siou. while we were sinking of the bluocoloi of a certain flower, madur this runaik. "It is ns blue as tho name Julius," and then, seeing tho astonishmcnt of those around her. she added naively. "You all know very wsll that the word Julius in blue." Naturally none of them Liu! ever suspected such a thing. Pedro no. a physician, has published n very interesting case of color hear ing that ot a young professor tl rhetoric. Some young persons bud assembled and were chatting gayly. They ivivatcd at random several tunes the very insipid pleasantry, a comparison found in u roinatie 'U'autilul as a yellow dog." Then this person, remarking on the vuico of the one who had just uttered tho expression, said in a serious toriev His vone :s not yellow; it is rod." Phis allirtnation called forth as ton ishuiciit and a shout of laughter. They all bantered the person wlu had thus made known his peculutr impressions, ami beginning to sing; each one wished to know tho color of his voice Those who learn for the first time ot these ccuhnr ierccptions tu others exH'iienee a great surprise They can form no idea what it is.. The likening of a sound to a color seeniH to them a process utterly do void of any intelligible character. Meyerbeer has said somewhere thut certain chords in music are purple. What meaning can be given to this expression Lachof tho words taken separately has a signification. Every one knows what is meant by a chord in music and by the color purple, but tho linking of these terms by the verb nnd making such a sentence asi 'this chord is purple" conveys no idea to the mind. As well say vir tue is blue or vice is yellow. So for tho great majority of pet pie color hearing is an enigma. Sun nlntion lias generally an individual character. It is tho work of one js-r son and not of many. It does not give rise to uniform effects which ru Ieat themselves from one genera tion to another and in different countries. It is especially important in tho examination of this Hiibjoct to take into consideration the number of (MTsons who affirm that they havi? the faculty of color hearing. According to Bleuler nnd Ivli maim, this number would amount to VI out of every loo Claparodo, adis tinguished isychologist of the Uni versity of Geneva, who was deeply engaged m an examination of thit subject, has stated that out of 407 who responded to Ins question 2-i possessed color hearing. Alfred Hi net in Chaut.tiiiUau. Aki-moI I'olitli'iil I.rail-IH. General Washington s first cabinet is said to have I .ecu the youngest, nil told, in the history of the country Jeticrsoti was Hamilton Ran dolph Knox and Osgood 41 at thetimeol then induction into office. ' A 1 '.'linnet whose members averagotl les- than .'i'.i years in age would bo considered a very remarkable one U day and a hazardous one as well, ffne! it is doubtful it any president woukU care to take upon himself the burdeir ( of advar.is' er.tavr.i sure to f:!low the appointment of so youthful! a set of advisers. The fact is, our college - Hiid prolessioi . ! schools keep tho? ! young man from active life so Long; , nowadays that his public career cai. hardly begin before he is four or tiv, years older than his ancestor win, when the latter started out to rmiVc the world ovet after the usual fashion: the ambitious youth just out o!T his te u... I:'.",:d'nce Journal. A Plsnters Experience. My- plantation la In a malarial tfta f rlrt, nliern fevvr antl anprvallt. I employ ISO hands) frequently half of Ilium were !'!. I waa uvarl jr diet roiirBtfod wbeu I bKn toe naa f The reault a marvellous. Mr uia beraraoatronv anij hearty, antl I but bad no furtliur trouble. TYttb ttiae pt I Ik. I nonhl not four to li vo la mi wauip." U. H1VAL, liay vu Mar. Sold Everywhere. Office, 140 to 111 WusWton St.. BT. F- SUBSCRIBE for the WEEKLY HERALD, PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. TUffS nf