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Show Bright Policemen. During the early period of the work on the Panama canal many persons were injured by jumping on and off trains in motion on the Panama railroad. rail-road. There were on the zone police force many West Indians who were trained and capable men, but incurably incurab-ly literal. An order was issued to tiie force to arrest any person found jumping jump-ing on or off a train in motion and the next day two West Indian policemen brought into a police station a whlta man who was struggling firecely to break away from them. "What have you arrested him for?" asked the police sergeant who was on duty. "For jumping on and off the rear of a train, sah," one of the policemen re-plied. re-plied. "The blamed fools!" cried the arrested ar-rested man. "I'm the brakeman!"- Y7outh's Companion. |