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matters though perhaps not so hopelessly ignorant as the 
World’s Fair Judge who was caught by our Commis- 
sioner in the aét of classifying Guiana crab-oil as * oil 
from crabs!” I may state, however, that the Cuban 
saccharine exhibit seemed shockingly poor. Of sugar, 
I do not think there was any from the Spanish West Indies, 
and what little rum was on view was simply lost to sight 
among cigar boxes. Talking of Cuban cigars reminds 
me, that now and then robberies were reported from that 
Court, the plunder on one occasion consisting of eight 
or nine Cabanas valued at a dollar each, indicative of 
fine, exquisite taste on the part of the no&turnal thief, 
for the peculations invariably took place during the 
night, when only a few members of the Columbian Guards, 
(the World’s Fair police) were left in charge of each of 
the several buildings. Trinidad, Jamaica, and ourselves 
displayed cane sugar, of course, and of the trio I 
liked our show best. They exhibited theirs in boxes 
or glass jars, either or both, and Trinidad had in addi- 
tion some specimen cane-stalks. Our sugars were 
shown in open saucers under a large glass case, in two 
se€tions, one the dark crystals manufaétured specially for 
the United States market, and the other the graded 
fine qualities sent to the United Kingdom. This was 
surmounted by a pyramid of rum samples, Neither 
of our British West Indian rivals at the Fair adopted 
a method of this sort. In that respeét, Mr. QUELCH’S 
plan was as effeétive as it was unique. It was an 
objeét lesson, and to my personal knowledge the lesson 
served its purpose and the obje&t was discerned and 
noted. Not one, but several, Americans in my hearing, 
sought to have an explanation of the division of the 
