The evening world., 1894-10-01

put little higher for them than for
anybody else After they have been
across several times they begin to ask
the price Of things before the deal, as
do Europeans In travelling.
II never Joined the Courlers Club.
because | always secured all the busi-
ness | desired through my banking con-
nections. Many of the couriers OF the
Of their failings Is blmblihg. W thin
a year two courlers have shot them
selves at Monte Carlo. Having got
theii parties to that point they rushed
into their old vice. and when ali their
own money, besides that held by them
as expense money from the member of
their party, was lost they took their
lives rather than endure criminal
prosecution"
Mr.. Rows father was Chief of Police
in Bruss lis, Belgium, for thirty years
Since the time that he went to Egypt,
in the early COS. with II circus as a
trainer OF trick donkeys, the sons ca
rcer has been about as varied one ~
often falls to the lot even of citizen
OF the world. Returning to Europe he
became waiter. and then a valet and
courier During the Franco Prussian
war he was courier and attendant for
the London Times's corps OF CORE.
spondents, under DIR. William Russell
and August is B. Kelley, Gen. Phil
Sheridan and other prominent Ameri-
cans We're in his party for time. Mr.
Row and Capt. Robertson, the British
Queens messenger, were captured by
the French near the close of the war
and had n narrow escape. Robertson
looked SO much like the German EN-
peror that the French were convinced
he was that indiyilual The cour.
ier's French came into good play and
he explained who they were, and that
Robertson's messages from the Queen
were pacific. This saved their lives but
hey were thrown Into cellar. Az nighl
Row crawled from the window and
through the garden on his hands and
knees. He met body Of German cav
airy. which rescued the Queens mes
senger.
After the war Mr.. Row went into
the courier business exclusively. He ex
hbits with pride autograph letter'
of recommendation from various celeb
rites. He took William Webb, th'
African explorer, nearly to the sourc,
of the Nile. when the latter was goin!
10 join Livingston. He was with Col. N
McMurdo, formerly editor OF the Londoi
building the Central African railway
During the war in the Soudan he wal
| an interpreter for the British suppl!
| forces. He has letters from DR.. VIII
| lam Koch and Count Opperstorf, whom
| he took on a tour through Eng land an'
Scotland. also a letter from Lady Perc!
| Shelley, wife of a descendant OF the, poet
who, with her husband and family. h
| took on two trips TO Italy. Hundreds o
Americans have got their first sigh
of Europe under his guidance.
| II was with Mark Twain during 1877
for one month in Italy" said the ex
| courier. He Is not what couriers ca
a snap. because he Injuries the reputa
| ton of a courier. For instance. h
stayed for a few days at the Hotel d
la Ville In Milan, and afterwards wrot
that he had found enough bugs and flea
| there TO support the entire Italia
Government. ! don't think there were
as a matter OF fact, any feas there, an
| the proprietor was very indignant abou
| II. There are peODle all over italy VIII
are mad at Mark Twain for the Sigh
| foundation for his stories about Italy
He is generally considered a charlata
| IN the Continent