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Show J POLICE SYSTEM OF THE TRANSVAAL. Th the Distinction of Being, Perhaps, the One Force on the Habitable Globe That Is Loved by the Community. Force Bears Prof. John J. Muller. who was thief and military Instructor of the police force of Johannesburg, before the British took possesion of the South African territory, has Just arrived in New York, having been brought to the United States as the guest of the prominent fencing clubs of the country before which he will give exhibltione cf his skill with the rapier, foil, saber single-stic- k and bayonet. He wili not be recompensed for his work here, his trip being more in the nature of a vacation, taken in the hope of recovering health, undermined by his experience in the field during the Boer war and afterward as a pioneer in the British camp at Ceylon. Prof. Muller has won more nie5al3 than any other man living, and is as the champion all around Bwordsman of the world. He has written for the information of the the American public a most interesting article describing the unique of the workings Johannesburg police force, and detailing his experiences as re-gar- ed a prisoner of war. In 6peaklng of the Transvaal police system, Prof. Muller says it is unlike sny other in the world. It is the most unique, ha,s a broader scope for work than any other protective organisation that I know of, and is the one police force perhaps in all the habitable globe that is loved by the people. I have read of the police systems of Nev York, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Boston and other large cities, and while all have their good points, they do not seem In any sense to be as close to the people as the police of the Transvaal. Of course In a measure comparisons sre out of the question, for the oigan-Izatioare so different. And it is not to be supposed that the South African system would be at all satisfactory If applied in the larger centers of the United States. Of course since the war the South African police force has been completely reorganized, though as a tact the only marked difference Is in matter of pay. The men now get about half the salary they use to get, nd they are more of them. I do not mention this in a carping spirit, for whereas before the war the Johannes$75 per month, burg police received to own food. had their they supply Now, they get half the money, but they are on a military basis and are fed by tlie government. When I became military instructor of the Johannesburg police departmet in 1830 the force consisted if only SI men. I was brought from Holland to reorganize the department and put 1. on a basis. The men were a disorganized body. They were of every nationality. Ultlanders, speaking different languages, many of them not understanding English or Dutch. My first step was to change this condition. A law was passed making elti.eruhip requisite to holding office in the police department and soon we had a fine body of men. The force Is divided Into mounted Into foot squad. The foot police sre about the city, and the mounted police are lised to protect the outlying towns and the gold fields. They have some very rough work win the Kaffirs of varioun tribes Th Portuguese, Zulus and Mattoes are pi'tnu-larldifficult to handle The mounted police sre armed with rjib;mit ns seml-miltla- ry y ra and sword, and they to hri Tin Zuthem on many t fl.ht lus, especially, are anxlou th of t'.n'ir iletth still rcmcmlr They former chief. Ceteway;. and f?i1 revengeful 8?a!nt the Bi.t-tfThere always are a fw about Chrlrtmas tin: p. In fi-- i jr y :srnd fir firhtitii? holiday Is thp the natives. TIip Kaf.'i- - u.-'rid a. e rt, asfiRais and in hmdin:: dexterous 'r m. wonderfully The police, howtvpr. g't wind cf t'iir Intended raid.", and oftn swtop d mn Dn two or three car loads of axes and g nfTiT Implements. i r,,. main dutips of the Tnni-v- i i )H ' 'o see that the Kaff?.v " v intoxicating liquor. bo!'1 not get Is enforced with a v cm Thre the i!:-A' rr, r.ftiff prohibition ev-- r '. fir ' i j (f 1, native.?. la caught who ct Me In Jaw this regard ts winking at the For the dealt with. rtry severely Us for law whites the prohibition oa o taauk M matter of fast Panda lis iur-tkular- ty h. .i'ii-!;-Ihf- 9 s - death-dealin- t ;- '. ! as it is in New the law York in the breach. Before the war we had increaased the force of Johannesburg to 1,000 men. This is the largest force ever under enlistment in the Transvaal. As a fact, the people of Johannesburg are very law abMlng. At one time the police force was reduced from 84 to 64 men. This was In 1890. Then the natives became more active and the force was put up to 200 men. In 1895 there were 500 men on the force. shlft3. The men worked in eight-hou- r The first jshlft is on duty from 4 a. m. to 8 a. m. Then the second shift turns out and is on duty from 8 a. m. until 12 m. The first shift agains turns out from 12 m to 4 p. m., and the second shift goes on duty from 4 p. m. until 8 p. m. Then the night shift goes on duty, and remains out from 8 p. m. to 4 a. m. This may seem veiy peculiar to Americans, but it works to perfection. Summed up the force is run like a ship's crew at sea, except that one watch covers the night. Considering the work the men have to do they are fairly well paid. The rank and file get $75 a month, the youngest lieutenants, who ure equal in rank to your inspectors, get a $100 a month. The mounted police get $110 per month, but have to supply their own horses and fodder. Our police trials are much the same as yours. The offenders are jlaced on trial for police offences before the chief of police, and for criminal charges or any offense against the common taw they are tried by civil magistrates just the same as ordinary residents. It ts an astonishing fact that there Is very little corruption among th force. Taken as a whole the body might be considered thoroughly honest and Of course, now and then some individual may operate a little in the line of bribery, but the cases are very rare, and when found out always lead to dismissal from the force. Physically, the Transvaal police are the finest body of men in the world. The required height Is 5 feet 10 leches but I do not know a man on the lorce 6 feet. And their military training Ing makes them extremely active. They are all crack shots and can operate en masse with the nrecision of the finest drilled soldiers in the world. These tactics are necessary owing to the work with the natives. Individual attack in some cases would mean the extermination of the enttra force for the Kaffirs are very numerous. The fact Is honored coon-scientio- that a force of 100 policemen can quell with ease a horde of Kaffirs, say 2,000 rtrong. and all armed with axes and bludgeons, speaks for itself. Natuarally when the war broke out there was a great demand on the part of the various officers In the field for thp services of the members of the p lice force. The police force of Johannesbuig left the city on October 24. 1899. I shall never forgpt It. We were well cqulp-pp- d for service, snd soon saw It. We wpre marching for Ladysmilh. The morning aftpr we left we reached Nicholxon's Seek, and bad a hot engagement with an Irish regiment In bUh 9m) of the British surrendpred. Our commandant was wounded and we had two men Killed. After this the force divided. I went under the tonimand of (Jpnpral VHJopn. I was raptured at the batlp of Klip rlvfr, S3 wst of Johannpsburg. by t mtlps jvjlrv briaede under General Krrr. h. Hip tutlle was going against us. General VllJ.mi left thp juene and ?s ape d. Tbot-- of ii n v,ho remained to rover his rptteat wpip made prisonprs of wir. General French was very kind. He allowed nip to return t,n pinle tu .lihnnHliutg so th.it I might fix up my family mntl'rs. after which I returned nd wa. sent to Ceylon, whre I remained until the war was over. I if in rry,.n was anythir. but pl'v.smt TI.p ilirnate is fearful -- so The fool hot that lif" i unbearable trool f ha il- as good as one r.iicht pxpt lint it a t not what one would like. You eould gf anything yon wanted If ymi wciii Id py for It. h iwver and I managed fairly well until my supply i f money gave out. Thp regulations prevented the use of money. We hrd to go to the lieutenant colonel in command and buy script, which was good for the face value any where in the prison r's enclosure. This M to prevent the possibility of bribing soy of the guards. But the His 4f a prisoner at war U po-li- : - cp not an beer and skittles, as the Amerl cans say. Indeed it knocks a good deal of romance out of a man. I am convinced that I should have died during my term of confinement in Ceyloa had It not been for the kindness of a Buddhist priest, Dasa Parasany, who proved to be the good angel of the entire colony of prisoners. Das Parasany saved dozens of lives and eased tho lot of hundreds of others. It is jafd to estimate that the war cot him not less than 20,000 rupees ($10,000) befor the last of the prisoners had left Ceylon. He was the noblest character it has ever been my pleasure to inset. He lived exclusively in his little Hindoo temple, and there, surrounded by his Ivory gods, did more than all th mission workers put together. Dasi was not very strong on intellect, bul he had a heart of gold. Once I remember one of the British officers putting him through an examination to see he was competent to take charge ol teaching the children in the camp, wrote on the examination papers'. "Name four wild animals." Das thought for a moment or two and thi n wrote: "Two two elephants and bears." He was not appointed teacher, but he supplied pie to all the youngsters every day for more thau si months. My meeting with Dass Parasany wan quite peculiar. The Boer officers Jtad been allowed to get together in a colony. One night one of our men rushed In and said there was a fearful row In a little Hindoo temple a hundred yards away. Several of us went to the scen and there we saw Dass Parasany lying on his stomach on the floor. He wn dressed In a long yellow silk robe, his feet were bare, and he rolled from sid to side and moaned. In the cornel stood a young British officer looking We leaarned aftervery shamed-faceward that the Englishman had had a violent row with Dass. who was holding a quiet little service in behalf of ib Boer prisoners. The Englishman thought that prayers for the prisoner! were treasonable utterances. After hi had berated Da,ss for five or ten minutes Das acknowledged that he was wrong, and said that he ought to have prayed for the British. The Englishman was satisfied until the Hindoo began to pray for the British in general, and the young officer in particular for his lack of sympathy with the unTortu-natThen he fell upon Dass, and a and tumble fight ensued in which rough Dass (assisted by one of his friends) managed to quell the visitor. They did not abuse the Englishman, but held him In a corner while Dass continued his prayer. Then as they released him Dass fell on the floor sod moaned that he was ready for auothri beating. But the young officer was tog ' ashamed to administer It. Dass continually supplied money and food to the prisoners. He was very rPh having formerly been a very no'.ib' personage In Calcutta. His father vxa a close friend of the King Oud. lit sill he one day hoped to see America, th land where he believed the teaching ol his religion would take permanent rout Christianity Is very well," he use to aay. "but It Is Incomplete. There is sothlng noble taught In the Chrislila Alth that Is not to be found la (h Buddhist faith, but the reverse ctanrt be said with truth." 11 d. e. Official Directory. CITY. Wm. H. Pettegrew Alfred Lunt Mayor Paxman James Garrett, Jr. W. G. Orme J. W. Brough G. W. Kendall Mrs .Delphia Teasdalo A. R. Council . . . Marshal Recorder . . . Treasurer . - Patten Mrs. Rose City Attorney Police Magistrate Street Superintend Water Superintend Pound Keeper Sexton T. L. Foote J. S. Cooper . . Walter Smith Meshack Pitt Bert Kendall' Thomas Carver COUNTY. George McC.ine Commissioners Saved Heirs- - Frem Loss From an Impecunious If Maxe Groult had not had a treat appetite the Paris courts would not have had to decide a particularly knotty point of law. Groult was a frequenter of th MadRestauranteur rid restaurant The proprietor gave aim credit, until one day he found that Groult had run up a staggering bill. Groult, when dunned, frankly confessed his Inability to pay. The dismayed restaurant man staring blankly at the other man. was suddenly struck with A life devoted to the pleass.n idea. ures of the table was beginning to tell on Groidt. "I'll tell you what to do," 3 aid his lor "Insure your life creditor. 110,000. Then come here and eat all you want. No one will ask you for logne. I d SAN PE.TE VALLEY RAILWAY. dii-turbe- i- D U d n-- "I wm troubled with Tfaedford mora good tii Mt than all tb doctnMtrloa I took In-- ' ht did la tor'! Went Into Hole Backward and Footed Mif"-M- RI. SARAH K. Tormentor. SHI an ELD, ElUtUvillc, lad. Th naturalist, John Burroughs, ts Thedford'e HIack Draught opposed to nature books that treat of quickly invigorates the acanimals too ImiglnaUvely that Im-tion of the stomach and cures even chronic cases of pules to animals sentiments of love, indigestion. If you will pity, tendemeits nd refinement. lake a smalt dose of "Sometimes. In reading one of these Hlack Irraticht occanature stories, I am reminded," Mr. sionally you will keep your tomarh and liver in perBurroughs said one day, "of the story fect condition. This of the Intelligent copperhead. story Is quite as true as many that are Implicitly credited. THEDFORD'5 "According to It there was a man hi had the habit of teasing copper-hf-ad- BLACK-DRAU-dfi He would find a copperhead's and then he would wait beside It bole, till the snake returned till it had got More kknu in canvl by o far into the hole that wl the nd cnnptipp.tnn than by any of its tale protruded. This li" woild ollirr. diwae. Thedford's e,z and with a quick move;n'i he I!la not only l would throw the pnake 20 or it constipation butcurp diarrfcfPA and dyvntery and away. a r'-- t "One day the man did thi kerpa the Wwels regular. . Intelliz'-rof unusual Tpr perhead H All 1riifr:ii kutfi-sf r pnake on alighting did not imk-its hole again immedia'"'- -, a? th "Thedlor.fp lliact. T'raiiffht in the others had always dorr, i lay to rftfulate b and regarded Its tnrr.--- r. tl.!:)?:t I hav PTIT J uvl." T.V For a ion? wh!i ''.'right. A. M. (ill A 2iT. Sm-very slowly, it approached the b '" Kerry, N. C. turned around and entered ba'"-- entered tall first sneerirj at the man whom it had thus o J Tbml-ford- Nature cannot take poor seed and produce the perfect grain; neither ran she take the perfect grain aol achieve the best results without proper cultivation and preparation of the soil. This ts a fundamental principle that ought to be the basis for each one stndy the a sermon. texUand emulate' those who csrry It Into practice. It 's "mm. ktt s. .".- 1 1 Trilun. r7 1 H 1 I- M 1m. 1 ' - M (I .j.-y-ii XT':. ii ft I J. . nt t New York Bois de Bou- Thomas Belliston money. Hans J. Hassell Possibly tho restaurant man had V. C. Andrews heard the Clerk American story of tha 13. 1). Suivnson Recorder gamester who had just lost $1,000 at M. D. Bowen the faro table. As he was leaving Treasurer Assessor Thomas Bailey lie place a servent offered him somo Sheriff 1. B. Cronia ham from the lunch table. "All right, "..Edward Pike hut I can't eat $1,000 worth of ham," Attorney C. V. Rees ' Baid the loser. Surveyor Superintendent ef Schools Groult, as was expected of him, Oliver Christiansen (ate himself to death quickly and there was a good profit for ll Mad'-rirestaurant in the bargain. Un PRECINCT. or Ji'.stlce the Peace ...J. S. Cooper luckily the proprietor died too. KinsConstable II. D. Goldsbrougii men of Groult sued to enjoin payment of the life insurance policy on the ground that by encouraging him DISTRICT. to eat extravagantly the restaurant District Judge Fifth Jud.oial Dis't. man was responsible for his death. Thomas Marioneaux The court, however, decided that the District Judicial Insuranre must be paid to the proAttorney Fifth District .. .. Joshua Greenwood prietor's .widow. Senator Eighth State Senatorial District ... George C. Whit more Globe Sights. State Representative Thirteenth r.'ot a woman promises or Whether District George Adams to obey in the marriage ceremony, Bhe does not do it. Most books appearing now ar written to please the people, and not the writers of the books. You're going to have a fit; a sliow Is coming to Atchison that will charge $3 admission. It takes two to make a quarrel until you have one of your own, and NEW TRAIN SERVICE then it is always the other one who In Effect Nov. 8th, 1900. makes it. After people pass 40 they find that Trains run daily except Sunday, as have no place to wear their nw they follows. clothes unless they go to church. An Atchison man is greatly iJoluif North joins; South because the wind lately blew from Irom ,r,"n east several days and the Station. M "n 'J Mphi. ""ysnow. didn't bring ra Ar. ll f.Am I.. Nrpbi iSWp :c p ra urn It ha been decided that an Atchi-lnront n.5 Z O 37 a ra 3V.im Khrim 3 .VI p m Ar. i!nti l.r. 43.11 V.lOara fton woman's faith in her husband is so great that It should be conn tod The company reserves the right as the eighth wonder of th world. lo vary from this time-carat pleas-ire- . In 18i0 a Missouri fsrmer and hji wife deeded their farm to Je&us Fheodore bruback, Christ. The last of the two died tin other day. Now, which church will &. Pres. Gen'l Manager, jet the farm? Atchison Globe. Salt Lake City. H. S. KERR, Alfalfa Is sure to be added to the ' Supt. 6. G. F. 4. P. Agent, Mantl. list of grasses to be .rown In the middle West. It has many things t he recommend It and it can im was It once where grown thought possible to grow it. We are learning more about it as the years go by. INTELLIGENT SNAKE. ? the - BJack-Draug- - In ll. fflNSTIPATIftH Physicians prescribe it for their most delicate patients. OLD and PURE For - 4 HAGUE & HE1I) J |