called best elt "the ce in the land." Lin- also dubbed Kohler m governed own. These bits of eo and instruction + bulletin with which It was at the weddin ne, danghier of he late United exeoutive ability of the forward he saw the enersetlc offic. at the funeral of the late sécretary State, John Hay. Than 36 was that Este up to Kohler, erasped him by the hand, and, presence of a number of dis tinouished statesmen, said: I admire youn, You're the chief in the land. 1 wish I had had you with me, when I was Police enihimiasione of New York City, t encomiom from the president one, Instead, they have been an incentive for it is no small job in these Unit- ed States to live up to the reputa- Hom of being "'the hest chief in the Starting out as a marble cutter, to which occupation he owns in a mea: sure his sturdy frame, Kohler was ap- Hointed a patrolman, June 16th, 1889, Pronounced was his ability and so untiring his energy that hd climbed the or of promotion. rapidly and mace. unusual! ful men who were se tb i deal through which on the force bad to hit with the board "every tinual loss man to report soiled collar, A ri man. evidence of his During Jobler's BE off the old | shifted off duty welt, Kohlor bition, g ny: every detail on has not spoiled Cleveland's police | ought to be done, he chief, He has not rested his oars even on such words of high praise, him during thé athleti were up to recently a part of the or- applicants for jobs go made such a "of public safety that he was accepted without further onstration of his qualifications. In his personal attire Kohler is as neat as a courtier, and he makes his policemen keep themselves as trim, day as if they were up for con inspection. It means a fine or of vacation for a Cleveland police at his #tation with a an unshaved face or any part of his uniform askew. isd disciplinarian is this n every department of ¢ in in May, 1903, was appointed chief of | police. He has not yet turned forty- Nature endowed Yrederick Kohler with the traits and temperament that £0 to make a first class police officer. Once his policy is outlined and his in- ten: course justified he carries it through with persistency of a Grant. Combined with a fixed determina. tion to do what he honestly belioves his mind, the tireless has the dash and originality of a Ney. Versatile, he accomplishes with the gloved hand what he can net bring about with the But he is no temporizer, And the under world thieves, thugs, gamblers and tenderloin: habitues--know it. More than six feet tall, straight an arrow, supple in every muscle, strength and quickness action, he proved himself a terror thugs before he became chief. His skiltul walloping of two power- os of of to pitted against 10 dean out the dead w the state of utility and > pension list. Policemen and of- who were not old er entirely cos where no great activi nired. Vike his aduirer, Eresiiet Roose- s a over * in Baa ic trials that young the force overhauling is present. ime the depart Bilt up from aol shod, half-hearted institution to | Smooth, up-to-date metropolitan ma- of the Fst thingd §é did Was ip- a ood. He lop- men who had blaced thee ugh 10 be ere given ty wo § of am to jail night after night, and as soon there was lethargy ahd stiffness Koh- ler hms produced activity and dlgsti- wf his apstem' he is most 4 the appointment | of policemen this fact is icularly | conspicuous. Fvery applicant's his- . tory is traced lities cut no r the rank and In the conduct of the the simplification of fore Kohler's day as in a tangled, fashion, sans responsibility, tional Bureau for the criminals, Nonler has portunity to make { of the Cleveland three years he has add only Enthusiastically Aine of work is Koh Bertillon system. ties for marking taken to Cleveland. tablished a bureau where police chiefs make thumb print. One of Kohler's grea fore he became chief, out of the once district. He this single-h, its hab ¥ antded. centrated and their miserable by constant lance that there is raids. " When he sets place out _of business men in' front of it warmed away. They name and address taken. That soon and the lice repression." There is not sweep of the gan" | graphs to the collection to his school days. Po- figure if a up to the standard Chief Kohler has Bet. man comes file of his force. clerical end of the department's work he has intro- tiuodd 'many changes, all tending to duties that be- chief were done confused and: hbadless system and centialized As one of the members of the Na- identification of hed unusual op- he rogues' gallery department. one of the most complete in the country, In ed 10,000 photo- "that included 2,000 when he took hold. interested ler, first in Cleveland to adopt the thumb- mark system of identification. Indeed, he is inducing all the chiefs in Ohio to take up this feature of the Crooks nearby town where there are no facili-_ thumb prints are in this He was the caught in fe has also es- of instruction, arc taught to test strokes, he- was the wiping existing tenderloin practically accomplished: y. of em tues were driven out of the city and what few are loft are con- lives made . so police surveil no danger while Kohler is chief of thare ever being a real tenderloin in that city. Kohler has a policy of that he has found most effective. He not believe much in spasmodic ion out to put ga he stations pa- and ns are arc fold that they 'enter at their own risk, and the of every visitor ure discourages patron. os ' ace dies out quickly. ohler calls this "administrative po- a gambling House in uld Cleveland. The chief has wade a cléan "tin-horn™ 4nd the "big- elenicnt. Poker, rovlette and fare ran in pretty full swing before Kohler got after them. He threw gamblers in- ar they got put they ac~ain. I There is not were thrown in a section of the city where Kohler was stationed before his rise to the chieftains ben benefited : by his Once or twice, during changes that has not orous hand. 6 of al- '| wanted ir > list n "| the hope that it will benefit others." B Shotation, oh publication each day at the of his c not an axiom of proverh It contains description of crooks land and other cities, a list of the day's crimes; if there are anv of consequence, and other inform- ation necessary to keep a noliceman in touch with events in his line. But the gem of the daily sheet is the bit of wisdom upon which the policeman may ponder during his working hours, A MODERN Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cure Dis- ease Through the Blood. Medicines of the old fashioned kind will sometimes relieve the symptoms of disease, though they. &an never 'touch "the disease itseM--they 'never cure. Ordinary! medicines leave behind thé indigestion, constipation, bili- ousness apd headache; purgatives leave the patient feverish and weaken- ed. Dr, Williams' Pink Pills, on the other hand, do direct good to the body, blood and nerves: Thieyt Ail the veins with new, rich, red blood; they trace nerves; they drive out disc ing right to thé root .of the trouble in the blood. They always do.' gobd--they cannot possibly do harm. Mrs. George Henley, Boxgrove, Ont., says: "It ig with thanks that I tell you tht Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured ihe after my doctor had said I could not bo cured. T suffered from an ghost constant fluttering of the heart, and 'sometimes severe pains, The feast:® exertion wold leave me breathless and tired out. My appetite was Poor, and my head ached nearly all the didle, T had lost all ambition to do any. work, and felt very hope- tess. I had taken a orcat deal of medi- cine without any benefit, until 1 was advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These have , made a rémarkable change in my condition, and TIT am feeling better 'than I have done for vears. I gladly #ive my experience in vase by Now Dr. Williams' Pink Pills build ub strength ds they did in Mrs. Hey- lev's case ifi just one wav--they actu- ally make new blood. That is all they do, but they do it well. Thev doh't act on the bowels, they don't bother with mere symptoms. They oo right to the root of the trouble in the blood. That is whv these pills core anaemia, headache, heart nalnitation, indigestion, kidney trouble, rheuma- tism; lumbago, neuralpia) St. Vitus dance, paralysis, general weakness and the special nilments of prowing girls and women. But you must have the ~enuin® with the full name Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills for Pale Peovle, on the wranper around every box. Sold by all 'medicine dealers or sent hy mail at fifty cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by writiie The Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. -------------- GIVE BABY A CHANCE. Too Much Sickening Mush of Coh- Love isn't a sickening mush of 'con- cession, Love is firm. Love is ' just. Love has good, red blood in its veins, Looking over to the ulgmate good of its object, love frequently decrees suf- fering and anguish of spirit. And 1 tell your what, my dear ma- dam : Somg.day, for his bad temper and impudence, you are going to sldp and spank that child vou are now too tender-hearted - to Tet cry. Yes, you are, just as sure as von are borh. And you won't 'slap him in love, tither ! Think of the shame of 'it !-- you are going to beat the child for the evil qualities that you yoursdlf instilled in hit. You are going to beat him in anger, thereby making open confession that your mea, petty, starred nature has not enough moral force by which to rule him. Shame ! shame! Give the buby a chance to have a healthy brain and nervous system. Do you realize that his brain grows more during his first year than in all his other vears combined ? That means don't ever play with him during his first year, or lot anyone else 'play with him. "Kitcheecoo !" cries the visitor. "Ch, oo swebt,. precious' 'ittle dear !"" And poor baby gets poked ih the ribs and . tossed np in the air. Very had. Baby may laugh, and baby may crow, but by and bye will come the inevitable wail and sleepless hours to tell of the over-stimulated braih und the severe tax on the nervous sys- tem. Co In Church. The minister of the Congregational chapel at Warminster has frequently rebuked his choir &hd congregation for coughing during the service. One Sun- day morning recently a member of the choir began to cough when the first lesson wis being read. The minister stopped and looked at the cHorister, who rose and left the building, 'Th preacher reiigfked that the chy was a place for God's worship, no for coughing. The incident natural caused & good deal of comment. Th minister complains that coughing i§ distressing to the preacher's nerves. Badger And Poultry. The inhabitants of Goosnargh (Lan- cashire), . a hont after go fox, which they assumed was respon- #1: for the disappearance of many prize poultry lately. The thief, how- ever, wag found to be a fue dog bad- ger, weighing nearly twenty-eight pountls, which was trapped in his hols $oknther with his family at Blake atl. t------------ Great Britain has diplomatic repre: tries. sentatives in about fifty foreipn coun: but she did nothing of the sort the contrary, her ladyship - was' very pracious, TH F-SAYS ADMIRAL CLARK. Narrow Streets Responsible for the Impression of Vast Crowds in . China's Cities -- Tigers Prowl All Over the Land. Rear-Admiral C, B: Clark, of the United States navy, kiown to fame as the commander of * the battleship Oregon, during the war with Spain, thinks the gio ulation of China has beén' overstated. "When 1 first studied aphy, he wrote redetitly in She ational ie hic Magazine "the ion of U na. wis ebtimistod * ub 30.000. 000; theti camé an advance to 360,000, 000 and now we hear of over 400,000, 000. "From my own olifervations during the three - years 1 was on the Asiatic station, I would say that there are fewet than 200,000,060 of people ' in China. has) 'Spent several 'moriths in each of thé principal seaports, from Tientsin in the horth, to Canton, in the south; and five or six months in the Valley of the Yangtze, going as far inland. as. Ichang, a town nearly 1,000 miles from the dea and' beyond the reputed populous districts. I noticed that the coutitry people, instead of Ning on farms, werd concentrated in villages and that these were generally small and often widely separated, "The cities were limited in area and contained no lofty buildings, one and iwo storied houses being the rule. Canton is the wealthiest, and, with the possible exception of Pekin, is the most' populods city. I was with a par- ty that inade the cirtuit of the walls, several 'members walking , the entire wa¥ in a little over two hoirs, which proves that the inclosed space could not have exceeded six square miles, In the northern part we saw gardenis and unoteupiéd ground. Compare this with Manhattan Island, . with its twenty- iwo square miles and lofty: tenement "houses, *The streets" of a Chinese city aré very narrow, and the people live if thera and on the ground floor of the wide open shops and houses, therefore the visitor seems to be always work- ing his way through a derse crowd. "T believe that tigers are encounter- él in all portions of China. It is cer: tain: that they are killed north of Pe kin, as the skins are sold there, and at Amoy, the missionaries, who had been inland, told me of the terror they inspired, "As there is little of the dense un- dergrowth of India, it is a compara- tively open country through which the tiger prowls and their presence cer- tainly does not suggest a land densely populated." --t bi i A Famous Shipyard Sold. The Panmure shipyard--one of the oldest and "best-known shipbuilding concerns in Segtland--was recently sold to a south of England firm. The originhl owners were Messrs. 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Btrange to say, he was. unhurt. ---------- Victoria's First White Woman, The colony of Victoria, Australia, is still so youthful that the first white woman who set foot upon its soil, Mrs. Stephen George Henty, has only just died. She was born at Stokes- by, Yorkshire, in 1816, and went with her mother to. Western Australia, where, at the age of twenty, she mar. ried a Swan River pioneer, Mr, Henty Soon afterwards they moved to Tas- mania, and thence #ailed in a small vessel which reached the bay at Port- land one Sunday night in June, 1836, In the moonlight Mrs. Hentv was car. ried ashore through the surf. The Red Barm Murder. 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