Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-10
. eoMeAy'ss POLICE. E6RcE.
Duties ana ychata6teristlcs oi :elae .rlnest"
t't IN India .-st.3

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Duties ana Chata6teristlcs oi :tlas .rlnest"
IN India = st.3
Perhaps soric members % tho St
Louis police force would like to know
how their confrcres in India look and
how they perform thor duttc5, writes q
correspondent of tho st. Louis Globe
Democrat fro-a Bombay. Tho Indian
police torcc consist Of both white AID
Scpoy racnbors, tho lattor forming tho
rank end Mo and tho Overwhelming
majority OF tao coaotabulary, a3 tho
Europeans arc mainly officers. It 10 with
tho Scpoy .s0ncst." however,. that this
lettcr has todo, aad = picturesque figure
no cus3, Il not to tho native, to tho
EnropcGa cyc. Tho bombay police
man, for example. dresses IL . darl; blue
uniform with bright yellow facing3, yol-
low cap nnl. cuppals. 1o is also pro-
Tidcd with \ brass number, :. lc;,thcrn
belt, = whistle and y baton. During tho
nonSoona-cr rainy season, o humane gov
Cramcnt allows him IN urbrclld. COW
cred over with oilsl.in OF that peculiar
Shade of Groct which would havo de-
lighted tho heart of "Eunthornc; but yet
policcman's umbrella IL not pretty
article. Whom drunken native il
charged bcforo 4 magistrate tho romans
OF On umbrella arc always shown by tho
Scpoy which tho Charge il said to
havo broken.
Some of tho restrictions placed on tho
6cpoy's actions arc invidious in tho cx-
trornc, and \ proof Of his innate good
nature lies IN tho fact that no does not
complain Of them. but accepts thorn with
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sorac means Of rendering thonl inopera-
two. For instance tho Sopoy policeman
is forbidden t. purchase tho articles ho
consumes at dinhor whilo no 10 dressed
in uniform. Tho authorities gro aware
that q native has great respect for q
police uniform, and they arc also aware
that n nativoi3 apt to try and win tho
protection Of such gifted beings with
little offerings in tho shape of ghcc,
dial and rico. Tho Sopoy docs not re-
cont this reflection on his class. He
makes no purchases when dressed il
uniform. During tho day. while in uni
form, he goes round to tho shop and
after impressing tho shopkocper with
his varied md extensive powers says no
will purchase what no needs on his way
homo! This he docs with e. much salts
faction and profit to himself after his
uniform - dotted as though no woro ar
tayod in his full panoply.
Besides going on duty, or spara," q
Scpoy is called Upon to perform many
other functions. ue ha7 to beat q
batdkL When any thing special has to
BIO communicated to tho public by tho
police authorities n Sepoy is iritrusted
with coppcr.utonsil and is told to 70 to
tho principal places in and around his
Seotion. where. cftor collecting as largo
crowd os posGIDi1 win D2ItIng on his
copper plate, he 10 to impart to them tho
requisite information. When s5epoy
~ intrusted with tho beating of u 6.taki
great sadness seems to steal over him.
Lilo walks with his head bent down, tho
copper utonsil under his arm. Suddenly
hosooms to rotolloc5 what ho IL roo uirod
to do, and with ling Dud lcnncss be-
gins beating his instrument long enough
to arrest tho attention Of four BOYS and
q Girl who arc playing marbles. Whom
these arc gathered around him he boz
gins rociting in monotonous and
wholly unintclligiblc manor what ho
hos to say. Tho boys and girls liston to
him for fow seconds and thon 20 back
to thor marbles, and tho Scpoy is loft
to address tho wall opposite to which no
Is standing. When no has finished no
walks sorrowfully away, and again re-
pcats the performance further down tho
street. .,
There is brisk trade carried on by
potty vendors in tho strcots Of bombay.
1t hos boon bought lately TO discourage
this stroet trait, and tho Scpoy has
peon told to arrest m many OF tho
wonders OF fruits, vego tob>ec, s.;.,., as no
CON. Now tho Sepoy knows that II no
docs 80 he will discourage tralc. r,a no
knows that trado 10 good for n country,
so no walks up to q streot vcndor, cav of
grocn-skinnod plantains, and gently in
sinuatcs that hc has received ordoro TO
toxic hor into custody tho choWkoy.
Ho thon tallso on indifferent topics for
Tow minutes, whom tho vander remarko