V 1 ;- P ' tit I 1 '6 ' SECMTIOU. CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE THE AFFAIRS OF CUBA. OFFICIALS TREMBLING. The Customs Service Supposed To Be More Corrupt Than tne Postal Service. Washington. D. C, May . That ronfcrvss must make a thorough inves tigation of every department of the government of Cuba is the conclusion being gradually forced upon aiminis tretlon leaden in both houses. Nothing short of a searching inquiry by a com mittee containing representatives of the minority party will be accepted. It is probable that the Bacon resolu tion will be adopted by the senate. This resolution was refined to the com. mittee on contingent expenses Thurs day. An explosion In the Cuban customs service is threatened, which promises revelations as sensational as the dis closures in connection with the postal service. ' An official of the customs service, who has just returned from Havana, brings information that the customs . service there is honeycombed with fraud and corruption, and the officials Interested are trembling in fear of in vestigation. Thus far no steps have been taken officially to Investigate the Cuban cus toms service, but It Is asserted that several officials In the service are con templating resignation, while others who are, away on leave of absence will ! not return to duty, because they do not wish to become involved in the in vestigation which seems unavoidable. It is declared that Investigation will how that through lax business meth ods and incompetent and unscrupulous officials thousands of dollars have been diverted from legitimate channels into the pockets of dishonest officials and their accomplices. Disbursements of urns ranging from $100 to $10,000 have been made to persons who have not performed any service whatever, it Is said, and In many instances without the formality of presenting voucheis. Gross extravagance In expenditures for furniture, Supplies and other ex penses In connection with the customs service Is also charged. In view of the disclosures in the pos tal service and the cloud of suspicion banging over the customs service, an investigation of the latter seems to be inevitable. ' f Senator Bacon called attention in the senate to intimations that Robert P. Porter, who revised the Cuban tariff, had made reductions in duties for the benefit of special Interests. One of the speciflc allegations Is that Mr. Porter reduced the rates of duty on everything required for the equip ment and operation of railways from 40 per cent to 10 per cent ad valorem the reduction to remain in effect one year. It Is alleged) that Mr. Porter, after severing his relations with the govern ment, connected hlmselT with a syndi cate of railway capitalists who propose to avail themselves of .the low tariff rates to build up railroad properties in Cuba. It is also Mid that as the tariff taxeF on petroleum were originally arranged the Standard Oil company would have been given a practical monopoly of the ale of refined oil !n Cuba. Mr. Porter Is n'.i to have proposed to admit crude petroleum Dt a low rate of duty, w.ile a high rate was prestribedfor the re fined oil. The only oil refinery in the islard, it fa asserted, is controlled by the Stand ard Oil company, and it would have been impossible to have imported re fined oil Into the island In competition with the Standard. Before the revised tariff was approved by the administra tion this was discovered, and the duty on refined oil was reduced. COKES TO PURCHASE SHIP. Turkish Admiral I Plsaisd With What Ho Seee. , . Washington, D. C Bpeclal.) Adml- ' ral Ahmed Pas a of the Turkish navy arrived In Washington last night. " He confirmed the report that his visit Is for the purpose of making arrange ments for the purchase of a cruiser In the United States for the Turkish gov ernment. The admiral expressed him self as being surprised at the state ments which have appeared in the press that his mission here was a diplomatic, as well as a business one, and added that the Turkish government has a minister here who sttends to all diplo matic matters. His mission here, he eels red, was a technical and profes sional one, and was for the purpose of staining information regarding the onstructlon of a vessel for his govern ment He already has visited the Na tional Armor works at Springfield. Mass.. and engineering works st Hart ford, Coon., and expressed himself as fclffeljr pleased at what he saw at those faces. Our facilities in those lines be Carded as equal, if not superior, to say t existence in England or on the am Meant. An effort was made to obtain from Iks admiral Information as to whether fee Intention of the Turkish govern ment n negotiating for the cruiser In l3srica waa to settle la an Indirect as liter the AmsrVan Indemnity claims tJMH Tartar. rt be simply replied i lit lim n waa taUrsIf a business TUVOERS BEKTftSTt. Many Mom bora Hava Felt Result of the Dliferent Combines. New. Orleans. La. Special.) Th National Travelers' Protective associa tion's business convention opened at the Athenaeum today. The committee oa credentials reported 133 delegates present from twenty-four states. 11,1- no:s, Louisiana, Nebraska, Tennessee and Virginia asked for additional dele. gates, owing to increased membership. The report of the executive commit tee was devoted largely to trusts and their evil effort on trade. Concerning trusts, the report, which was unanim ously adopted, says in part:' "The dark clouds of monopolies and trusts stil lhover over us and since out last convention many commercial travelers have lost their positions, and to use the language of an authorized agent of trusts, who has boasted in a New York paper that &0.000 commer cial travelers have been thrown out of employment by the concentration of mercantile and commercial industries in the trust, that $1,000,000 daily are saved to the trusts by the consequent withholding of advertising patronage from country newspapers in other words the trusts in these two i'ems alone save to themselves $6,000,000 Jaiiy, all of which Is withdrawn directly from the people, with the farcical argument that It will enable the trusts to advance wages, cheapen products and make the people stockholders and owners of the companies. "With such conditions realized a great and essential step will have to be taken In the warfare upon trusts, which has now become Inevitable. No mere declaration of courts, legislatures or administrative officers, no mere ex position of party policy as embodied In present platforms will be effective In ridding the business of this country of the awful Incubus which has fastened itself upon it. There must exist an aggressive sentiment. Without it noth ing can be done." Tonight the delegates were enter tained at a banquet, t AN INDIANA MURDER MYSTERY. Woman's Body Is Found Buried In Sands of a Creak. Evansvllle, Ind. (Special.) A murder that resembles the Pearl Bryan affair was brought to light here today. The body of a young woman was found in a stream near here, and though the evidence of murder is conclusive, there is not the slightest clue as to her Identity or that of the murderer. No one has disappeared from the city and no one is able to recognize the little clothing found on the body. The po lice are searching in the neighboring towns, and so far hare found but one girl missing. Nora Kifer, aged 19. left Elberfleld, fifteen miles from here, five weeks ago. The description of the girl does not fit the body found, but on this s'ight thread it is hoped to get a start on the solution of the mystery. The body was found in Pigern creek, which empties Into the Ohio river Just outside the city. Farmers driving into town In crossing the stream saw a woman's foot protrudir.g from the band. Investigation showed the corpse of a woman almost nude, her face battered beyond any possible recognition. Her underclothing had been torn away nnd made into a rope for weighing the body in the stream. A heavy stone taken from the buttress of a bridge had been used. The body ha devldent'y been in the rreek for more than a week. The fa?e was crushed in on either Fide, nearly separating the lower p?rt of the face from the skull. The blows could nut have been delivered by a hatchet; eith er a sledge or a large s'.on? must have been usd,. Not a dUUngulslang mark could be found. There ts no laundry marV or store mark on the clothes, and the shoes, which led to the unraveling of the Pearl Bryan mystery, will be of no a xlstance in this case, for these, with the slacking skirt and dress were missing. There is no Indication of a struggle In the vicinity and late ra'ns have washed away any traces that might have been left to show how the body was brought there or whether the woman was dead or alive when she was carried to the spot. TURNIN6 OYER THE OFFICES. Republican Officials In Kentucky Give Up Offices. Frankfort, Ky. -(.Special.) Republic an Auditor Sweeney sent for Democrat ic Auditor Coulter this morning and notified him he was ready to turn over the state records and possession of the office in the state house without waiting for action by the court of appeals. The transfer will be made today. It is un derstood the other republican officials will do likewise In the next day or two and that by next week the state house will be officered exclusively by the dem ocrats. The democratic state executive com mutes meeting here at 1 o'clock this afternoon has drawn a big gathering of democratic leaders here. The con vention to nominate delegates to Kan sas City will be held the last week in June, and the committee is said to be nearly evenly divided on the proposi tion to bold a separate convention latei to nominate a candidate foe governor. BOND DEAL OROWINO. , Washington, D. C. (Special.) Tho mount of bonds so fas exchanged at the treasury Mr the new 1 per. cent consols 9t 1IM Is $HO,J1,J06, of which $0,271,000 were received from Individu als and Institutions otber than nations! IMBVAOL j LORD ROBERTS IS ADVANCING TOWARDS CAPITAL, MARCH TO PRETORIA. rho Boer Army Is Voting Whether To Keep On Fighting Or To Surrender To Bobs. London. (Special.) Lord Roberts' In. fantry advance is delayed at the Rhe. nosier river for a day or two by the depth of the stream, which is not furd able. The banks, which are precipl- cipltous. are forty feet high. A p"" toon and temporary bridge construc tions are under way. A dispatch, dated Rhenosler. Wed nesday. May 23, at 7.45 p. m., says: The general opinion is that we will arrive at Pretoria as fast as we can march though the Boers announced to all the countryside that they Intended to fight to the death. The lailway has not been damaged to an great extent between Kroonslad and Rhenoster. The Transvaalers have offended the Free Staters by destroy ing their splendid bridges when retiring to Kroonstad. They lefrained from do ing this on the, retreat to Rhenosler. but now they are destroying the rail road and bridges almost completely north of the Rhenosler. The British troops are in the form of a crescen twith horns thirty miles apart, with General French's cavalry on the west within twenty-three mbes ( the Vaal and General Hamilton's men on the right within thirty miles of the Yaai. The center of the crescent is about forty miles from the Vaal. Boer telegrams say that 3,000 British with ten guns are near Vreedi-furt, close to the Vaal and close to Pary's. One correspondent refers to the ad vance as a "promenade." Another de scribes it as a "Boer hunt." The Free Staters are pictured as "boiling like hares," at the first sight of the British. The latter, according to one writer, do not even find women and children, as the fleeing farmers take their families with them in conse quence of reports current among the Transvaalers that the British kidnap all children over 12 years of age. The Boer rearguard was composed of Russians, to whom was committed the task of destroying the bridges. They a:so looted freely. What the Boers are doing Is an abso lute mystery. The embargo on news out of Pretoria for the last twenty-four hours has been complete. Such shreds of information as the correspondents al Lourenza Marquez have picked tip do not illuminate the Boer designs fur ther than that the movement toward Leydenburg continues and that a refer endum vote on the question of continu ing the war Is going ()n ainong the Boer fighting men. It may be a fortnight before the results of this singular vote are fully before the Transvaal gov ernment. If the English view of Boer discouragement Is one-half right the Boers will vote to quit. In Natal General Dartnell's volun teers occupied Mount Prospect Monday. Lord Lundonald's eava'ry Is at Firm stones, near Ingigo. His infantry rests at Phoenshoogte. The names are all of fateful memory In the first Boei war. The British face Luing's Nek, where the Boers are, through the range glasses of the British, occasionally vis ible. In the march from Winburg ail the farms except one are vacant. A temporary bridge has been finished at Washbonk. Trains now go to Dundee. General Buller said the best way to celebrate the queen's birthday was to repair the railway to Newcastle, and every man was put to work. HOW AN EARL ESCAPED. Karl de la War, who was auppoeed to have been captured at the'time of the disaster to the squadron of lie thune's horw, lay all night with a wounded leg behind an ant heap.reach ing camp next day. As the railway Is now open north of Mafeking, an abundance ot provisions la entering the town. The telegraph messages will probably come from Ma feking direct over the northern route In a day or two. South Africa has another affliction. An extra Issue of the Gazette at Dur bsn announced the death of an East Indian from the bubonic plague. The government has put Into force the most stringent preventtve measures, but fears are expressed that the pestilence may get among the troops. The Transvaal National bank has suspended gold payments, under au thorisation from the. government re quiring the acceptance of bank notes. The Institution has large assets, npps ently, in London. Ore hundred and fif ty thoussd pounds was seised at Cape town and twenty-five thousand at Dur ban. Luc an, chairman of the London committee of the bank, says; "The Transvaal government Is lay ing hands on every ounce of gold It can find In the country. The government has nothing to lose and everything to gsln thereby. Financial circles here are interested in many indirect ways especially ss to whether the Transvaal I. O. U.'s will be redeemed," The report of the anti-canteen bill has been filed In the house. It submits the volumlnems correspondence from the war department opposing the aboli tion of the canteen snd without com ment submits a fsvorablerecommenda ttoa on the bllL ' HALL ZZX It fUL Mr. Hale Startles the Senate With Startling Charges. Washington, D. C (Special.) Pw- haps no greater sensatim has been created in the senate or In the gal leries this season than this afternoon uhen Senator Kale, In s colloquy of great warmth with Senator SpoonT. said, with ringing emphasis: "1 thin there ere very powerful Influences In this country largely located in New York City, largely rpet uUtive. and connected with money-making enter prisesthat are determined that we shall never give up Cuba. I think that the time will never come. i.nlesi s no thing earnest and drastic Is done b congress, when the lart soldier of thi United Ptates will be withdrawn from Cuban soil." The day was one of rasping political controversy, with which the demo cratic side of the chamber had little to do. What by far-seeing senators I regarded as likely to be the paramount issue of the approaching national earn palgn was the s-jbjert of two no abb speeches, one by Mr. Piatt of Connecti cut and the other by Mr. SpOoncr of Wisconsin. The former was an answei to the speech delivered a few days eg by Mr. Bacon of Georgia on his resolu tion demanding an Investigation of financial affairs in Cuba. TO MA KB POLITICAL CAPITAL. Mr. Piatt favored the adopt! n of ih resolution, but deprecated what he de clared was a cheap effort to make po litical capital out of a shameful condi tion of affairs which the republican party needed no prodding to induce it to probe to the bottom. The speech of Mr. Spooner was a con tinuation of Us address of yesterday on the Philippine question. His sensa- tional colloquy wltii Mr. Hale of Maine over the government's conduct of af faire 'n our "insular p.sse.sions" was a remarkable controversy between two of the best-equipped debaters In the senate and was listened to with pro found attention by senators. SCHEME SPOILED BY ARREST. Neely and Others Would Buy the Isle of Pines. New York. May 29. A dlrpatch to the Herald from Havana says; "One of Charles F. W. Neely's most import ant schemes was the contemplated pur chase of the Isle of Pines, south of Cuba, which Is considered by many to be a part of the United States terri tory according to the treaty of Paris. Neely started a company here last fall to obtain control of the valuable part of the island, with the object of colo nizing it as a United Slates possession. Interested with him were Major Ladd, treasurer of the ls'and vt Cubo; Briga dier General Chaffee, Major Ducker, Mr. Hake of Chicago and it is said many prominent politicians in the United State. Options were obtained on 10,00 acres of land and agents weie engaged to make the negotiations for the ma'jority of the remaining 4U0.0C0 acres. Neely's arrest has killed the scheme, the options -expired last week and $U.(W0 was forfeited. Governor General Wood has placed two inspectors In Major Ladd's office for the examination of the treasurer's accounts. Director General of Posts Pristow ap Pointed George R. Buchanan as Uis burning officer for the department at a salary of $2,000 and discontinued the office of superintendent, held by Mr. Carter, whose salary was $2,iXl a year. Disbursements will be made the same as In the military system. Only 144 in exchange stamps have been found In the office here. There is no trace of Neely's ledger. It was probab.y burned. The Inspectors discover a shortage In Neely's accounts outs'de of the amount supiosed to have been taken In stamps, but probably it will not raise the esti mated defalcation of $100,000, Kvidence Is accumulating. There will probably be several counts against him if ht ii brought lck for trial. AGAIUST NEW YORK ICE TRUST. Attorney General Decides Against the Ice Combine, New York. (Special.) Attorney Gen eral J. C. iJevles has announced bis de clslon in the proceedings against the American Ioe company. He decides that the American Ice company is an unlawful combination, its business.! In restraint ef trade, In violation of law and against public policy and he mill commence proceedings against the Ice company to prohibit it from doing bus iness in this state. The attorney gen eral, when asked as to whether the governor will order a special grand Jury to investigate the connection of the New York city officials with the com pany, said he had not the slightest Idea wha, tthe governor Intended doing. ESCAPING SOLDIERS ARE fWOT, Port Riley, Kan. (Special.) Two mil itary prisoners, John Arnold and Geo. A.- Fryman, serving sentences of one year each, were shot at by a sentry while attempting to escape. The pris oners made a daring rush upon the sentry and disarmed him, taking his Krag-Jorgensen with them and ran for the hills. A sergeant of artillery heard the disturbance and shot the fleeing prisoners. Arnold is shot through thi abdomen, his Injury being critical Fryman was shot In the arm. STANDI NO OF N. T. DBLKOATES. New York. Bpeelal.) The following are statistics concerning the delegates to the New York democratic state con vention: Total number of deiein 4&0; necessary to Instruct. 22t: sleeted to dste, $00; for Brysn, 171; tfnlnstrucU d. W, to be elected, W. OOELIPIEiE. GREAT MASS MEETING IN NEW YORK CITY. REPUBLIC, HOT EMPIRE Some Noted American Speakers Denounce Imperialism of the McKinley Regime. New York. (Special.) A mass meet ing to advocate an American policy in the Philippines was held In Cooper un ion, under the auspices of the. Antl- Imperlallst League of New York. Er nest H. Crosby presided. The speaker! were George S. Boutweil of Massachu setts, Carl Schurs and Captain Patrick OFarrell of Washington. Mr. Crosby said in opening the meet ing; - 'In Cuba one of our fellow cltlsenf from Indiana Is accused of taking all the postal funds he could lay his hands upon. Better the Island be robbed by fcpaln than by an American and a friend of Senator Beverldge. Were Washington alive today he would And himslf more at home in the camp of Aguinaldo than In the camp of Otis. We cannot but admire the course of Aguinaldo and his men, who have been fighting for over a year against tre mendous odds." Ex-S-cietary Boutweil said:' "There are Indications that attempts re making to construe the constitution of the Cnited States so as to Justify the policy of selling through war for eign lands and alien people, and gov erning them as they might be gov erned if the constitution of the United States did not exist. It is the manifest purp'we of the administration to seize and htild countries and to govern raco and countries outside of the jurisdiction of the constitution. Thus is the admin istration creating a power in the presi dent and congrefs. Independent of the constitution and over which the people ca have no control. It Is with that usurpation that I am now to deal. REPUBLIC OK tuaiPlRE. "The question before the country Is ihis: Republic or empire? It was an nounced in January that the war in the Philippines was ended and that civil rule was to be established. In the firnt three months of the year there were 124 skirmishes on the Islands, In which 2,800 Filipinos were slain, wounderd or cap tured. "In April the war department re-es tablished the recruiting system f jr the -einforeemetit of the Philippine army. There are supporters of the presi- lent, not content with the posneHSion ol the Philippines, but who advocate a warlike undertaking, ostensibly for the extension f our trade In China, China and Russia are combined and nothing of trade facilities with China can bt secured by farce or threats of f!rce. The recent rpeeches of the Chinese min ister should Le accepted as evidence that trade with China. Is to depend on Friendships, reciprocal relations, etc., and nothing will be conceded to force. Russia has gained more in five years by peaceful means than England in a quarter of a century by war. "A I a cost of $:M),0,0(0 and the sac tlfice of many thousands of young livej a great lesson has been taught, thai this government cannot be perverted either through the follies or the crime j lis rulets. "Of all modern history the most dis graceful chapter is that whk:h thi American nation Is now writing. At ttw opening of the last third of this cen tury we abolished slavery In America, and at the end nf the century we ar making a war for the establishment uf a system of slavery in Asia. "The crimes of England In the Sepoy war, on the upT Nile, In South Af rica, are trivial offenses against Jus tice and humanity when compared with the crime of subjugating and enslaving 10,000,000 of people." CARL SCHURZ' ADDRESS. Carl Hchurs s.ld: "Is It not high time that the Amer ican people, sobered from' the debauch ing Intoxication of victory, pfeould rise again to a just appreciation of the true responsibility of this great republic, j that true responsibility Is Its responsl- i billty for the maintenance of the great principles on which It was founded. It Is Its responsibility for the great lesmn it Is to administer to mankind that true democracy means net only the assertion of our own rights, but also a Just re spect for the rights of others and that this democracy of ours is able to resist the temptations which might seduce It from Its fidelity to thst high obligation. It is Its responsibility proposed by Abraham Lincoln on the battlefield of Gettysburg, that "the government by the people, of the people, for the people, my not perish from the earth.' "The main difficulty the only real difficulty Is In ourselves. It Is In baf fling the greed of some persons who want to rule that country for exploita tion, it Is In our vanity and false pride, which would persevere In an ambitious course however wicked, because w have once entered ucon It." NEE47Y HEARING DEFERRED, New Yrk. (Special.) The examlna Hon In the case of Charles F. W, Nee ly, charged with misappropriating $.K,. V)0 of Cuban postal funds, which was to have come before Commissioner Shields today, has been sdjourned un til Monday next pending action in the requisition proceeding before Governor Roosevelt, which are to take place a' Oyster Bsy. PBMATwm. Mm fjeefcesl Oteea lbs NaUvea r Mb eklll In the March Success a hithrrto un published incident is given of tlh- way liioiirjs A. Edison introduced Uioiorif to a telrgTaph mumiger in New York: A tall young country man, looking is green as a suit of "butternut" -lolhes and a slouch bit could make liiui, applied for work in the Broad street (New York) ofhee of Maury Smith, in g?l. .Mr. hmitli was mana ger of the consolidated telegraph lines I lien in opusitiou to the Hctrru Un ion. Like ali o;ber managers, he could muke room for an exjiert oper ator and told the young- rustic that an rugae;! rneut uicuded altogether up ju liia skill. "Try ine; I can keep up with tba bent of 'cm," said the strangvr. Mr. Smith noticed than the appli es in appeared to be quite deaf; but, ut of curiosity, and possibly with the idea of having seme fun with him, he gave him a UiMn snd told him to "re reive" a iieiag'e then due from Wash ington. "Yon will have to work pretty fast," he warned him, "for our Washington mnn is in the habit of rushing things." As a mutter of fact, there was no mcssflfre expected from Washington, nor did the wire lend there. Mr. fmith connected the receiver with a "sender" in another part of the same operating room and put his fastest opemtor, "Dick" Hutchinson, at work si-niling- a 2.0W word message, Edison, fur it waa he, grnKed a pen and as soon ns thp instrument began to click tlnshed off the copy in a large, round, legible hand. While (leaf to all other exinds. he could catch the faintest melallic click. On en me the mesnage, faster and fawter, twenty, thirty, forty words n minute. A crowd of Oerators gath ered aroii nil, curionity nnd then nmiireirrnt depicted on 1hcir faces. I'age after page was reeled off, with never ft break and with the last click of the instrument the forty-minute message hail been received perfectly nl lay in n heap of manuscript on flip table. The voting man's triumph a complete. Hutchinson rushed tip ami phook hands with him and Mr, Smith gave him a job on the spot. Peculiarities or Ilia Chinese. The reason that the Chinese so in teimely ctihlike anything foreign, says a writer in ixslieV Weekly, is because among the eastern nations they al ways felt their own superiority, and they have an idea now that ntiy-ihing not Chincne intitst neccKsarily be infer ior and wrong. This is a trait not peculiar to the ( luncne, for it is not undeveloped in John Hull. The very enti-foreign feeling, which is encour ngetl tiifjstly by the literati of China, is proliubly due more to the fact thaf John I'liitiaiiriin cannot understand john Bull, as the -wiliita of view of both parties nre absolutely opposed to each til her. A (.'hi ininuui will not lake " the trouble to explain Ms complicated code of manners to the "foreign dev il," and if the unfortunate "devil" (Uck not grnxp the situation (which is (uite Mr.mgc to him) by in!inct. as well as the (. hhi-iinnn does (who has Ix-cn placed in similar positions ttiuce he could tiilk) the hitter thinks it is only another ign of the inferiority of tiny and every race to that of the ce ll's: ial empire. A coolie will address you in Cliinene mul if you don't tind;r Munel he metaphorically nlinig-s his ulioulilerg and remurks in a compas sionate temc to his neighbor, "lonk at the inferiority of thew yellow-Inured !oiik of Satan they do not eten un derKtaml ns much as . a common coolie," No matter whether you are wr.sed in every language timler the sun, you don't know as tniicu ns htf dues of ( liiiiibe manners, customs or langwigv; therefore of course you arc inferior. Our manners nnd ctmloms re in so many respects o totally dif ferent, not only to theirs, but to their idea of propriety nnd common decen cy, that they entirely niise-onrtrue them and put them down as evil. Take for iiiHtnnce their manner of dress. To (heir iden, rn order to dretw in decen cy the clothes must be so arranged ns to hide all contours of the figure. To them the idea of wearing an ordinary cewit such as our men . wear, which shows the flg-urc, and alioie all the ac centuating of the chest by a whits ihirt, is bordering on Impropriety. The Nhark's Mouth. No doubt the shark's month placed so much beneath the projects ing mu.rie, under which Blso ih nostrils lie. that it may serve it ir. per purpose in the best way. In all records or tin- imtiiis or this fish we nre told that it rnn nnd does bile out iartfe chunks of flh from the dead beielies of whnles, nnd even from livinif victims of ijfs attack: and it is easily seen that if ita mouth was like thoxe of other fishes the necessary leverage would be lacking. A further reason seems to be that the shark by this pe culiar position of ita mouth is com pelled to turn upon its back to strike, nnd is thus able to deliver its onset from below with more deadly effect. This formidable strength of jaw is bucked up by a most terrible array of teeth, of which In some species there sre ns rreany as sis rows all round. Earh tooth is saw edged snd pointed, nnd some of the largewt are a much ss two Inches in breadth at their bnsr. These He flat against the jaws, and can be raised by separate miiKcles at will, so that, as the shark darts upon its prey, they spring; on end, a ca' claws are stuck oit from Its paws. This Brrnngemetit will not allow any- , thing once bo Meet to return, so thn4 a chsrk's mouth is a veritable death trap, Let but n little but be mine. Where at the hearthsone I may hear The cricket slug; And linve the shine Of one glud. 'woman's eyes to make, ror my pruir sake, Our simple home n place divine. James Whlcomb Itiley, . . . i ' -14.' -. ,4 '; 1 v-