ve mansion was sometimes called, built upon the ground
floor, and having several lattice windows. A soldier was on duty in
the room. As we were coming out, this man came to us, and saluting the
'teniente,' handed him a small tin can, saying, 'A servant cleaning
the room, found this.'

"The 'teniente' looked at the can curiously, and then, handing it to
me, asked me if I knew what it was.

"'It is a can in which a kind of strong liquor sometimes comes,'
I said. Then I unscrewed the top. The can was empty, but I showed
him that there was still a strong and pungent odor which lingered in
it. The explanation satisfied him. The late governor had been known
to be a man who had more than a passing liking for strong liquors.

"I did not feel called upon to explain that the can was a chloroform
can, and that no one in the place but myself had any like it.

"When I went home, though, and counted my stock, I found, as I had
expected, that it was one can short; and that the cone and cotton which
I had used for giving the drug had been replaced by one freshly made.

"I did not think it necessary, either, to impart the result of my
investigations to the authorities, or to suggest to them any suspicions
which might have been roused in my own mind.

"Even if there had not been very decided personal reasons why I would
better not, unless I was obliged to, I had in mind that letter of
a few months before, when these same authorities had informed me of
their policy of non-interference in local affairs.

"Moreover, I could not but remember what I had seen that day, when
the man now dead had said to me, 'I'll teach them.' If his teachings
had been effectual, had I any reason to criticise?"

TOLD AT THE CLUB

"Speaking of 'anting-anting,'" said a man at the club House on the
bank of the Pasig river, in Manila, one evening, "I have had an
experience in that line myself which was rather striking."

An American officer at the club that evening had just been telling
us about a native prisoner captured by his command sometime before
in one of the smaller islands, who, when searched, had been found to
be wearing next his skin a sort of undershirt on which was roughly
painted a crude map of certain of the islands of the archipelago.

This shirt, it seemed, the officer went on to explain, the man regarded
as a powerful "anting-anting," which would be able to protect him
from injury in any of the islands represented on it. That