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Show er is brought before tho state prote-cut-or time after time, if one interview is not suflicient, and interrogated. An assistant is Ihero to take down the replica, and witnesses to attest. There is do delicacy about the questions ad-dressed to the defendant, and he is not permitted to have counsel present to enable him to evade or repel them. Every query is a home-thrus- t, sharp-ened by facts which have been ascer-tained by the examining magistrate, or which the police have been Indus-rious- ly gathering from everywhere. The instruments of crime are exposed before the prisoner; and even the skull of u victim, if the case Is one of mur-der. All the surroundings are sugges-tive of the terror of the law, and of the wisdom of propitiating it us far as may be by a full confession. Crime Investigate!. j In America, after the accused peton tias been arrested and hold, he is im-prisoned or bailed, as the case majbe, tand never sees the prosecuting offcer excepc in open court, when he appars to plead to an indictment, or to Bind trial Not so in France. The prijn- - i i I MEXICAN PEON SLAVES. THE CURIOUS SYSTEM BY WHICH THEY ARE HELD. Tae (hamalai tad Tuejapaa of tae SUU of lolapai tad Their lllatorlc Drrad ef the Spaniard! A Strange Policy of .Noa Inter coarse. The little town of Tuxtla is situated in the State of Chiapas, which is one of the extreme southwestern countries of Mexico. The country Is inhabited by tribes of pure blood Indians. Each tribe speaks a separate language and all are entirely different in habits and dress. These aborigines refuse to associate with the descendants of the Spaniards or with the people of any other nationality who have settled in this Bection. They even go so far, in order to maintain their identity, as to refuse to marry into other tribes, and have strictly adhered to endogamy for more than three hundred years. The principal tribes in the state of Chia-pas are tho Chamulas and Tenejapas. It is stated in history, that Cortez captured a beautiful Tabascan girl, who was the princess of her tribe, and made her his concubino and interpre-ter. An account of this action of tho conqueror of Mexico has been handed down from generation to generation by the members of the Indian tribes in this and adjoining countries, and it is said to be the cause of the exceed-ingly groat caution exercised by the Indians here in dealing with tho Span-iards even to the present day. Tuxtla is supplied with wood and products of tho farms, eardons and orchards by tho Indiars, but tho latter is dealing with the Spaniards here pretend to be unacquainted with tho Castilian lan-guage. It is sail that all the tribes can speak Spanish fluently, but that they claim to be Ignorant of the lan-guage for fear that they will be cap-tured and forced into slavery. Tho fear that theso Indians enter-tain for the Spaniards is eo strong that they will cross to the other side of the street to avoid meeting them. Such instances aro seen here every day. The Mexican government has attempted to educate and civilize these savages and a number of schools have been established in their midst, but the Indians refuse to send their child-ren to school and a father has often been known to pay tho schoolmaster a liberal sum in order to bo given the privilego of keeping his children at home. In this country a schoolmaster is an Important personage. He is ap-pointed by the governor of the state and is vested with judicial power, it being ono of his duties to decide all questions of difference among the people. A systom of peonago or slavery is extensively carried on in Chiapas, and its workings aro novel and interesting. The slaves nearly all come from the middle class of Spaniards, and are not Indians, as is generally supposed. The usual custom is for a family who may have a boy or girl 10 or 14 years of age to take the child to some planta-tion owner or family of the first class " and propose that it shall take a posl- - tion as servant on condition that an advance of ton or fifteen dollars is made to the parents. The contract also generally stipulates that the child shall receive a certain amount as wages and that the sum shall be placed to its credit until tho money advanced has boon paid, when the child will again be free. As the child grows older and bocomes able to earn more money its parents, so it happens in nearly every case, apply for more money, thus piling up tho debt. When the child becomes of age it generally asks for money for Its own personal u-- and thus bound to its master it must continue in slavery until tho debt is paid. A peon cannot change masters at his will, but he must have a written Btatemeutof his debts from his first owner, which is accepted by his now master, should one be found who is willing to advance the amount If any attempt to escape paying this debt is mado by the Blave, he is car-ried to jail and punlshod until he Is willing to take up the yoke again. This system of slavery is contrary to the statute law of tho country, but it has been in operation so long that in this part of tho republic it is carried on without molestation. Owing to the ignorance of the mid- - die classes, it is seldom that a slave becomes acquainted with his natural rights,, and there are very few cases of rebellion. One of theso exceptional cases recently occurred In the city of San Cristobal, in this state, the slave being a young woman who was the property of ix family to whom she owed a large debt. A prominent army officer, stationed in that city at the time, became enamored of the girl. He informed her what her rights wore under tho law, and she lost no time In leaving the family, without taking smy statement of the dobt or attempt-ing to find another inasUir. Owing to the influence of tho army officer all efforts of the family to have her arrested and punished were unsuc-cessful. A KAXfiAKOO HUNT. HOW THE ANIMAL FICHTS THE DOCS IN THE WAT EH, in Kf!tlnr hau oral auitrallaa lluatrr, a Spill aal a Narrow IVape Saved If tae WaadrrTal Bravery of 0 f tka lloaadi. A writer for the New York Ledger thus describes his first kangaroo hunt: In my first kangaroo hunt I came very near 'losing the number of my mess." My friend had a pack of kangaroo-dog-s that were considered the best in that part of the country; they were bred and trained for that purpose just as are bred and trained in your part of the world. We wero mounted on two of tho best horses on the station, and had two blacks along also well mounted, their business be-ing to take charge of the dogs and make themselves usoful. A black was sent out two or three hours ahead of us to locate a group of kangaroos and meet us at a designated point "We met him as agreed, and he in-dicated where some kangaroos were feeding, a little distance beyond a clump of trees which he pointed out We went along very quietly, using the trees as a screen, and managed to got within a quarter of a mile of them be-fore they saw us. Then they stood on their hind legs and took a good look at us, and then tliey jumped as though an electric battery had been turned on beneath them. "We started the dogs, and it was a sharp race between them and the kan-garoos, tho latter having such a good start that tho dogs didn't seem to have much of a show. We had roused up a kangaroo family of seven in all, the younger being a "joey" that was soon overtaken by the dogs and killed. Tho head of tho family was an "old man," as wo call the full-gro- males, and he was a fine follow, standing nearly six feet high. ' The 'old man' led off s though he had started to win the Melbourne cup, and his leaps scorned to be 30 or forty feet long, but of course, were not He went over the ordinary cat-tle fences as though they were so many straws, and the rest of them did the same, all save another joey that camo to grief and was disposed of by the dogs as the first one had beon. The killing of the joeys delayed things so much that the dogs had not yet got up to the old man when he reached a water-hol- e nnd 1 realized the dangers of a kangaroo hunt "The old man was in tho water up to his neck, and tho dogs wero swim-ming around or standing at the edge of the hole as we camo up. We came on at full speed, and my horse stopped so short at the edge of the water that I was pitched over his head right into the pool. The impetus carried me a good distance forward, and as the water-hol-e was a small ono I was within a few feet of the kangaroo, who was standing at bay, ready lo iifht to that lata. Ha amad for ma af once. "When a kangaroo is pursued nnl can get to water e has men and dog! at an advantage The experience! dogs know enough to keep out of hB reach, but the youi'g ones are apt t) venture too near, nd are suddenlf seized In the creature's forelegs, whiei serve him for arms. He holds thS does under water till he' drowns then, or ho may rip them open with his hinl leg, which has a powerful claw i) front; this claw can inflict a fat; wound at a single blow, and very oftei in a hunt one or more of the dogs ai apt to be killed by it. When he effl not get to water, tho kangaroo placti his back against the largest tree hi can find and defends himself with a bravery that is worthy of admiration It is dangerous for dogs or men t venture within his roach at this thro, and if his hunters are unprovidid with firenrms, the fight may last fir some timo and quite likely result p favor of the kangaroo. f "The kangaroo reached me with lis forepaws, but before ho could gra.p me ono of the dogs had him by tio throat and diverted his attontion loig enough to enable me to get out of tto way with tho aid of one of the blacle, who jumped into the pool almost s Boon as I was thrown there. Tie water was about four feet deep, ndl scrambled out very quickly. "Seeing that I was safe, my frionc's next concern was for his favorite dig, Jack, that was risking himself on ay account. Tho kangaroo folded lis arras around the dog and then to push him under the waur, but his proceedings were broughtto an eavd by a shot from my frienl's rifle, which he had unslung from lis shoulder. He mado a good shot; ho kangaroo fell, his hold on the ipg relaxed, and the black who had held save me from the animal's cluteies rushed in to bring tho faithful Jacinto the surface. Before ho could get thjre the dog was on tho top of tho wair, considerably bruised by the rogh embrace ho had received, and his lungs partly full of water, but he lad no bones broken, and was not woiad-e- d In any way." NEVER WITHOUT HIS CUM. A Waaler Driver Got at Chill Wheat He DlaeoTered Ita I.oe. That reminds me," said the colonel blindly, lie is always being re-minded." They were talking of man's dependence upon things which he it accustomed to use. "That reminds mo of Jack Smilcr. Jack was as brave as a lion. He drove one of the fast freight specials from Cheyenne to Deadwood. It was iu the first days of the Hlack Hills excitement, when they rau light express wagons out to Chey-enne on a gallop and never stopped till they pulled up in Dead wood or un-til the road agents stopped them. "Jack was born with one emotion lacking, lie was not afraid of the w ildest Indian (and there were enough .f them iu those days, just before the Custer massacre), or the most daring and reckless road agent. They did not call them highwaymen then. He used to climb into his scat, crack his long whip, and, with a wonderful oath, jerk tlie heads of those mules iu tho iliicclion of Deadwood, and send them scurrying along like frightened rab-bits. lie always won a revolver, of course, the hauillo forward in his hell, where his hand might touch it at a moment's notice. 1 do not lielievo Hint the load agent lid who could hae stopped Jack Smilcr. I rode up with him on one of his trips to a ranch about tliinv-tiv- o miles from Cheyenne. I got tired of tho seat and climbed back into tho box to Maud ihero to rest my legs. I con-ceived the idea of picking Jack's pocket that. is. of getting his revolver away from him. 1 was pretty careful to press one hand heavily upon his shoulder while with the oilier I slipped tho woamn from Ids belt. Finally I pot it out safely and waited for him to discover the loss. We drove along for live or six .m. ilil ...i 1. 1. ...i.. II... i ii. wimtii niitiiriiii u.n ,v j n t . i. ..j his mules with a terrible oath. Whoa!' ho cried. What's the trouble. Jack?' I asked. "lie turned to me and looked into my c es. lie was as white as a sheet. "We are going straight back to Cheyenne.' he said. " What's I ho trouble?' I repeated. 'Trouble!' ho ejaculated, nnd a cloud of sulphur arose over us. his elo-quence was so emphatic. 'Trouble? I've lost mv nnd I wouldn't drive another foot for $10,000.' "Oh, pshaw. Jack.' I said, 'who knows you haven't a Why don't you go right oil, as if you had one?' "Jack's teeth chattered nt tho very thought. 1 never saw a brave man so terribly frightened. "'Not if my name is Jack Smilcr,' he said. 'Gracious!' ho ndded ('grao-ion- s stands for a string of words too long for a uorico to mention iu one evening), 'suppose I hadu't discovered this. Wouldn't I have been in a pretty fix?' He made a very wry face. "Here's your old Jack,' I said, handing it to him. 'I wouldn't have fl. It isn't worth keeping.' '"Go Mang there!' shouted Jack, curling his whip lash beautifully nnd bringing tho end of it to a sudden stop with a loud crack. 'Go 'lang there!' aud we were rolling over tho road iigaiu. ' "'I can't go anywhere without that' he said, touching the butt of it lightly. The last I saw of him he was snapping his long lash and whittling cheerfully. With the revolver he went anywhere; without it nowhere." 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MOTHERS' FRIEND HAKES CHILD BIRTilJASY IF U8C0 BOB CONPINBMBNT. Book to "MoTHiRa'' Maitmn'rmi. nitaUt'lKI.U' KKOI'LATOn COT. ATLAMTAJOA. Hold bt au. Dauoauxa. FRITZ IDENTIFIED HIMSELF. Irtoapllihmratf that a (at t'eaad I'aefel Ifkr Two Trare of Aberare. Fritz Heath is tbo noble son of a worthy mother and lives in Syracuse, N.Y Fritz is a large gray and white tiger cat FriU and his mother. Gyp, are the proteges of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Heath. Both are cats of un-usual size and beauty, that of Friu being only marred by a ragged rent in his right ear, incurred in some slight youthful disagreement Friti Is an amateur acrobat of considerable abili-ty, and will roll over, jump through a hoop, and turn somersaults at word of command. He also has the trick of jumping to catch the edge of the ta-ble top with his paws and swinging suspended while he surveys the pros-pect of a good dinner for Fritz. Two years ago there was mourning in the house of Heath. FriU hud sud-denly disappeared. At night Gyp came into the house, sniffed at the basket she nnd Fritz bad occupied to-gether since the latter's kittonhood, and walked disconsolately away.JThe Heaths thought that perhaps thoir pot had been carried across the canal ewd could not get back, so they wandered in Finegun avouiio and the purlieus of the Fourth ward and searched dili-gently, but he could not be found. Time heals broken hearts, and as tho months passed by all but Gyp forgot the missing member of the household. She could not be induced to go near the accustomed bed still kept for her by the fire, and refused to bo com-forted. A little more than two weeks ago she jumped iuto the baskot for the first time since FriU's disappearance aud, lying down, began to purr contented-ly. A few days afterward, last Sun-day week to be exact the Journal says, Mr. Heath and his wife returned from an evening call. A cat which they in the darkness supposed to be Gyp, was crying on the doorstep, and as they opened the door it ran into the hall-way and out again as quickly. Later in the evening Mrs. Heath heard the crying at the door, and, being pos-sessed with a tender heart toward suf-fering animals, proposed going down to bring in the poor thing which had proved not to be Gyp nnd give it something to eat As she opened the door the cat darted into tho hallway and up the stairs to the Heath apart-ments. When it came into the lighted sitting room Mrs. Heath cxclaimodj "Why, Tom. It's Fritz!" Hearing his name FriU bounded in-to Mrs. Heath's lap, from hers to her husband's, turned somersaults, rolled over, and performed all the tricks bo had been taught, as if to thoroughly identify himself or to express his joy at getting home. "It surely is Fritz," thought the rejoiced Heaths, and they examined tho cat's right ear. It was split! There was little doubt then of its being Fritz, but to make assurance doubly sure, a small stick was thrown down the stairs into the dark hallway. "Go get it, Fritz," said Mr. Heath, nnd tho cat darted down stairs, return-ing instantly with the stick triumph-antly balanced in his mouth, a trick, by the way, common enough with retrievers, that few cats have ever been taught to perform. After a good supper the reclaimed Fritz went straight to the basket behind the stove and cuddled down contented. Gyp gave the intruder a smart rap with her paw, but seeming at once to recog-nize her prodigal son, fell on his neck and kissed bim. Fritz now stays very closely at home. His two years' absence seems to have given him an increased regard for the shadows of the family roof tree. A strange question and ono which should Interest psychologists is this: Did the old cat receive some telopathio information that Fritz was about to return, which dispelled her aversion to the basket? Had she seen him prowling around the house for two or three days, not daring to come back, or was it simply a coincidence? THE RATS WON THE DAY. Why a I'ond la llalne Waa Jiamvd after aa Old Settler. The question is frequently nsked. Whence the name of Thompson pond, a sheet of water in western Maine extending through four towns nnd lying partly in three counties? Tra-dition says it was named from the first settler, Joo Thompson. During his sojourn he was seriously troubled by rats. He first provided himself with a stout loalhor bag of tho capacity of four bushels. Ho then placed an empty hogshead in his log hovel, leaving tho bunghole open, through which he dropped a small quantity of meat scraps and crumbs of bread. Bag in hand he retired outside to watch proceedings, peeking through a small crevice between tho logs. Pros-- ently ho espied an old gray veteran approaching the bunghole. He takes a peep, then sniffs, looks cautiously about and then enters. He soon emerges from the hogshead and quickly disappears. In a trice he returns, followed by a drove amount-ing to hundreds, which, one by one, disappear through the bunghole. "Now," chuckled Joe, "is my fun," as he skipped nimbly through the door and adjusted the open mouth of the bag to the small aperture, at the same time rapping the hogshead with tho too of his boot, which produced a loud ringing sound. With loud squeals and fierce struggles the frightened rats began to scramble through tho bunghole, all landing in the bottom of the bag. His first thought was to drown them by sinking the bag in the pond, but being in a rather gamesome mood, as was often the case, he concluded to put the bag in his boat and after row-ing to a good distance from the shore then roleaso them, and with his d have a good time knocking thorn in the head. Kowing out sevural rods from the ehoro and being in high glee at tho thought of wreaking vongoance on tho "varmints" which had given so much trouble, ho, without hesitation, untied the bag, expecting to see tho fright-rone- d creatures at once leap into the watacv but he quickly found himself mistaken. Instead of fleolug, or even retreati-ng; the rats charged in a body, and with teeth and claws so severely lac-erated his face, neck, and hands as to cause him to leap from the boat and swim for the shore," leaving the craft in the possession it his one-tim- e victims. Forgetful neas I Curable A successful business man says there w ere two things which lie learned when ho was eighteen which were afterward of great use to him, namely: "Never to lose anything anil never to forget anything.'' Au old lawyer sent him with an im-portant paper with instructions what iollo with it. "But," inquired the vounjr man, "suppose I lose it. what shall i do then ?'' "You must not lose it." "I don't mean to," said the young man, "but suppose I should happen to?" But I say you must not happen to; I shall ruako no provisions for such an occurrence; yon must not lose it!" This put a new train of thought into the young man's mind, nnd he found that if he was determined to do a thing he could do it. He made such a pro-vision against every contingency that ho never lost anything. He found this equally true about forgetting. If a certain matter of importance was to be remembered tin pinned it down in his mind, fasteneil it there and made it stay. Ho used to say: "When a man tells me he forgot to do some-thing, I tell him he might ns well have" said: 'I did not care enough about your business to take the trouble to think about it again. "' I once had an intelligent young man In my employ who deemed it siillieient excuse for neglecting any important task to sav: "I forgot it." I told him that would not answer. If he was suflieiently interested ho would be careful to remember. It was because lie did not care enough that he forgof. it. I drilled him with this truth. Ho worked for me three years, and during the last of the three he was utterly changed in this vespect. He did not forget a thing. His forgetting, he found, was a lazy careless habit of the mind, which ho cured. Aviericam Uroccr. Modern Medicine. First they pumped him full of virus from some mediocre cow, Lest the small-po- x might assail him and leave pitmarks on his brow; Then ono day a bull-do- bit him he was gunning down at Quogue And they tilled his veins in Paris with an extract of mad-du- Then he caught tuberculosis, so they took him to Berlin And injected half a gallon of barilla; into him; Well, his friends were all delighted at tho quickness of his cure, Till he caught the typhoid fever and apeedy death was sure ; Then the doctors with some sewage did inoculate a hen, And injected half its gastric juice into his abdomen; But as soon as ho recoverod, as of course he had to do, There came along a rattlesnake and bit his thumb in two; Once again his veins wero opened to re-ceive about a gill Of some serpentino solution with tho venom in it still; To prepare him for a voyage in an Asiatic sea, New blood was pumped into him from a lep'rous old Chinee; Soon bis appetite had vanished, and he could not eat at all, So the virus of dyspepsia was injected lu the fall; But his blood was so diluted by tho remedies he'd taken; With the Brown-Sequar- d elixir, though they tried resuscitation, He never showed u symptom of reviving animation : Yet his doctor still could save him (ho persistently maintains) If he only could inject a little life iuto his veins. - . E, Frank Listaber la Puck. Application ef Electricity in Cancer. The recent application of electricity to cancer, in England, appears to be a very simple, and if correctly reported, useful operation. The patient is anest-hetized, and the current then passed through tho tumor and all tissues for some distance around it by means of fine insulated needles, so as not to in-jure the skin. The effect produced consists in a cessation of growth, gradual disappearance of pain, some shrinking nnd hardening of the tumor and enlarged glands, followed b 4 im-proved nutrition and a better state of health; the growth, as a whole, does not disappear, but remains in an inort mass, composed, it is presumed, of fibrous tissue alone. The majority of cases where this treatment has been usod have been those ia which the knife has failed, or in which the dis-ease had progressed too far for the knife. Thoie Who Know, To edit a paper is any fool's task. Think the people who never have tried it; While for critiques of preaching you'vu only to ask, The meu who go there to deride it. American Trees. Four hundred and thirteen speciei of trees grow within tho limits of tho United States nnd territories, sixteen of which, when perfectly seasoned, will sink in water. The heaviest of these is the black ironwood, found only in southern Florida, which is more than ao per cent heavier than water. The bast-kno- are the lignum vitro nnd tho mangrove. Texas and New Mex-ico aro the homes of a species of oak which is about ono and one-fourt- h times heavier than water, and, which when green, will sink almost as quick-ly as a bar of iron. It grows iu moun-tain regions, nod has been found west-ward as far as the Colorado deBert. where it grows at an elevation of 10,000 feet. All the woods heavier than wster be-long to tropical Florida or the rid southwest. Oakland Col.) Ediott, Chinese Muiia The Chinese seem to bavo a very ar-bitrary way of fitting words to music Tho voice frequently drops out beforo the end of a musical phrase, and enters quite as unexpectedly, while the melody flows on in tho orchestra with endless repetitions, relieved occasionally by half a dozen bars in which all tho melody instruments ceaso and the gongs, cymbals, drums, and castanets play alone. H. E. Krehbiel, in Cen-- tury. Sjme Ilea's Way. In ft divorco case in a New Tork town the wife exhibits 105 love letters which her then lover wrote her in three months. He sometimes wrote her six per day, and his shortest notes contain Bix pages. He had been married only six months when he boxed her ears. If You With to Hoe a Btraijht Bow. Either as wife, sister, husband or brother, if you would have a happy family life, remember two rules: In matters of principle stand like a rock. In matters of taste swim with the current. youth's Companion. |