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Show ROPING A SAILOR. Tho fafe aad Eiadltliaa Raaarr ia Whlrh Japa (aptaro KMooi Tare. A sailor ashore bai long been hailed hail-ed as the spirit of prodigality and tumult In Asiatic ports there are always al-ways drinking 6hopi kept by men who, of a former day, were Knglish or American sailors. nd in these the jolly tars assemble, drink whisky, sing songs, quarrel and finally overstay their leave and resolve to desert outright. out-right. Captains of ships, whoso sailors sail-ors are ashore tarrying long at the wine, have now and then c very exciting excit-ing hour getting their men. They manage as follows: An order is made by the consul directed to these drinking drink-ing shop keepers to turn all of a certain cer-tain ship's sailors out of their houses and into the streets. Thoy do this promptly, as to disobey or to bo laggard lag-gard about it would result in the revocation of their license. So, all tho.-o sailors, drunk or sober, who went down to tho sea in the particular particu-lar ship in question, ure cut adrift in the streets. What follows is amusing and one of tho slock entertainments of Yokahama, Tokio and other Japanese Japan-ese seaports. While the ejo-'ted one with frowns on his tanned face and profanity and scorn on his lips is going go-ing unsteadily about in the streets with all those doors before 60 wide and hospitable closed in his indignant face, two wary, active and very sober J aps appear. Thoy aro about to make a prey of this son of tho ocean, tho captain of his boat having offered $10 for his capture. They don't rush up and grapplo with hira as his tar-stained, salt-hardened fists are capable of blows which would lay up tho stoutmt Jap for a week. They know a better, safer and more certain way, 1 hey hear between them one at each end a light, strong cord like a clothesline, some thirty feet long. As they come near the man of their choice, who perchance is caroling a lay very hiccoughy and fervent of tho doop blua so:i, thoy stretch the rone to its length. At a signal thoy rush so as to catch tho victim vic-tim near the center of the cord and with incredible swiftness run around him in opposite directions, passing and repassing each other nnd winding th cursing sailor from neck to ankle. l!y the time they cease for lack of longer rope, his arms are bound tight to his sides, his legs are tight together, everything is tied down except his tongue. Jack was never so utterly helpless in his life. "Then the phlegmatic Japs with no trace of excitemont, for with thom it is merely business taking one the heels and tho other the head of the captive mariner, like a sack of grain enrry him to tho wharf. Here the Japs get their f 10 and go back to seek for more. Tho bibulous one is cast all corded and bound in the bottom of the boat, nnd his thongs lire not removed until ho is laid safe on the deck of his own vessel. As many as a dozen of these pinioned recalcitrants may bo seen in one merry boat load going to their ship. |