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Show r rp - era r-. p - , p trp Dtfll miooM UiQ ALUM PAMC Oficer Leaves Glass Eye to Keep Tab Upon Natives at Work BERLIN, Nov. 18. (By the Associated Associ-ated Dress) Bast African superstition and ingenuity are amusingly illustrated illustrat-ed in an incident related by the German Ger-man colonel. Dr. E. Nlgmann. in his memoirs of the days when he was In charge of colonial administration in that part of the world. nc of his most reliable aides, he says, was a native lieutenant colonel who had lost an eye during one of Ilo local expeditions, and wore a glass one In its place. This officer was assigned to superintend the erection of a postoffice in a rural district The Inhabitants had long been delinquent in tax payments, and consequently each male adult was required to meet his civic obligations by putting in a week's labor on the new government building One day while the native laborers were industriously at work under his vigilant watch, the lieutenant colonel was temporarily called away. On leaving leav-ing the building, he took out the glass eye. placed It on one of the walls and announced to the workers "Look here, my men I must go now, but 1 am leaving my eye to keep watch on you and to see that you keep working While I am away " It was with considerable self satisfaction thai ho returned to find his gang hard at work Next day the lieutenant colonel had another summons to leave his post. Again he placed the glass eye In charge and h it. Returning, he noticed from after that building op rations were at a standstill, and ail of h.s dusky help snoring peacefully, Upon looking for his "foreman" eye, he found it carefully covered with an old, hat. |