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24 THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL, STOJDAY, APRIL 16, 1899. COFFEE IN BRAZIL FRANK. CARPENTER DESCRIBES BIG. GEST PLANTATION OX EARTH. IS ON THE DUMONT ESTATE PRODUCES ENOUGH EVERY YEAR TO GIVE LS EACU A POT.

It Ifn K.OOO.OIIO Trees and Their Product 1 Sorted by Pretty Itnlian Hon- the, CoiTee Soil Look anil tbc Tree Are GroiTii. (CopjrisM, ISM. by Frank O. Carpenter.) PAULO. BRAZIL.

March 10. 1S93. Tho biggest coffee plantation in the world lies more than 300 miles Inland train from Sao Paulo -Ifls-the-Dumont coffee estate. ownedby a big EngH-h syndicate with a capital of several million dollars. l.Afi PICKING plantalion.liasabout 5,000,000 tree's, and it produccseriouEhcoffec annually to give, ever" man, woman and child Jn the United States a daily cup for a week.

Before-1 describe my visit to this big estate let me give you a few coffee facts. Brazil Js "the chief coffee country of the universe- produces two-Jthlrds of. all the-coffee consumed by man, and most of Its product is used in the United States. We are the chief coffee drinkers of the world. "We drank SM.OUO.000 pounds last year." which was more than was consumed by the people of Europe.

The great pot from "Which, our supply comes is Brazil, and the center of this pot is this state of Sao' Paulo. I went to the Dumont fazenda on the railroad through some of the richest coffee lands of the world. I passed hundreds of thousands of acres 'Of coffee trees, going by plantation after plantation, where there "were thousands of men at work picking-coffee, and by vast rement floors, upon which the coffee beans were -drying in the sun. Ho tbe Coffee Soil Look. The color of "the best coffee lands here Is" of bright red.

It Is just like brlckdust," and. In this ride, over the Mils of Brazil I found everybody covered with a brick-, dust hue. The weather has been dry for nnc The sun has turned the earth to powder. It has filled the air with red clouds. The bushes and trees are tinged with It.

and -In places the freshly plowed coffee trees are red Instead of green. The wind was blowing as I rode over" the country, and the children at the stations looked like painted Indians. My -white collar soon acquired a red edging. My cuffs became a bright vermilion. My hands were coated red.

and the only thing about me not seriously changed was my hair, which my friends Indulgently, call golden, but which those who like me not say is of this same coffee soil color it has a brick-dun hue. Unpleasant as the coil Is In the shape of dust, It is said to be just the thing for coffee. It lies here in beds from three to deep upon a layer of gravel, and In It the coffee plant grows and waxes fat. Where the Coffee Grown Bent. The best plantations are on the sides of the hills, at an elevation of from 1,000 to feet ubove the sea.

These are tire altitudes, of. the rolling plains, through which I. have been traveling. They arc all covered -with coffee. We -were often for hours Jri" but' coffee plantations, vast gardens, of green bushes shining out against "a' background of menwerepIowlng, tlier6 ITALTAN COLONY DU and In other places they were hoeing the coffee.

The. trees were everywhere clean and most of the plantations were as well cared for as a garden. Now we 'went by a forest-which had just been cut down, and now by fields of cleared land. In which tbe stumps were still standing. In these I could see the little coffee plants which had been set out in holes scooped out.

of. the earth, the plants being shaded with sticks from the fierce rays of the Now we went by great Clatforms of cement, upon which the coffee eans.were drying, and back of them we could tec the laborers' houses, streets of red adobe huts with roofs of red tile. At after 300 miles of such traveling, I came to the. station of Rubelrao Proto, and here" was met by an enginewhlch Phillip Hammond, the manager 'of the Du" mont fazenda, had sent" down me to the" estate. 1 had letters from the secretary of agriculture of "Sao Paulo and was therefore entertained right royally during the fewdays of my stay.

On World' BlBeet Coffee Estate. You peoplc-who perhaps think that coffee grows wild bave little Idea of the" business of a. great plantation Tike the "Dumoril. There Is not a bonanza fafm in the'Unitcd States I venture which(costs as much'an-nualv nor one which employes to manv hands. The estate.

Itself has lens or thousand or acres. It contains over acres of cof-fop fields nnd 2.300 acres of pastures. It in Irtantlng more trees every year, and it tept like a garden. To go around it vou would have to travel forty miles, and there arc more than forty mile.s or railroad tmck on it built solely to corrv the coffee. The estate supports 5.000 people, who live upon it.

It has twenty-three colonies, ranging in size from i-eventy families down. It has great stores to support its people with food. It has a bakery, a drug store, a saw mill and planing mill and at one time it had a brewery. It has vast factories for cleaning the coffee and preparing it for the market, and it has alo offices in which Ihere bookkeepers taking account of rvcry item or expense, so that thev can tell tou almost to a tree how much coffee each of the ...000.000 trees is producing and every item connected with the picking or It and tending it to the The laborers on the cstnte arc thoroughly organized. Each man has his own work thr employes belnir liv tl.itt.

trators who have -charge of blocks of trees I IV lf WWPW i p'i i In pPU ranging from 1.000,000 down. In the work the trees are divided among families, each family taking charge of u.OuO or 4 000 trees, planting them and keeping them clean. Ai picking time all the employes arc set to work gathering the coffee berries anc bringing them to the cars. One. man can pick enough 'berries in a day to make about fifty pounds, of coffee.

picking time there are trainloads of coffee berries moving to and fro from the lields to the factories, and wJthin a few weeks 70.000 bags of coffee beans are shelled out, dried and shipped. How Coffee Tree Are Grown. taking you on a trip over the testate let me tell you how coffee is grown. Few people have any Idea how much 'work iftakes' to' produce the cup which they have with tjieir breakfast. In the first place, the trees must be sprouted In seed beds, the beans being sown much like we sow peas.

Only the best coffee beans are chosen for this purpose. "When the coffee plants are about eighteen months old they have grown a foot high. They are then taken up and planted deep In the ground, being shielded with leaves or sticks. They grow very fast, being plowed and hoed and kept clean. At 3 or 4 years of age.

the coffee tree begins to have fruit. Little red berries "the size and color-of a cherry come out close to the branches, hanging to'them much like a plum. They-continue to' have fruit from this time for twenty or thirty years, and some trees will -keep on producing for forty or llfty-ytyirs. A good tree should produce four pounds-annually, and a cared for coffee- plantation should good for at least thirty years. The coffee-begins to blossom, in and iniApril or May the berries are ripe and the picking begins.

The berries are picked into baskets which the pickers carry on their backs. Each Is paid so much fe' COFFEE. for the" amount picked, and hundreds of men, women" and'chlldren are employed. Getting Out the Coffee GrnlnH. The above quite a lot of work for such" a little thing as a coffee bean? Yes.

but preparing the bean for the market has hardly begun. The berries as they come from the trees are of the size-and color of dark red cherries. The grains or beans which-we use to make coffee are the seeds inside the, cherries. Each large cherry has two -seeds, the flat sides resting one against the other with a soft pulp about them. Others have only one little round seed, just like the Mocha coffee of commerce.

The pulp must first be taken off. To do "this, the berries are thrown Into a hopper, and run through cylinders which squash the pulp without injuring the grains. They are reduced to a mush of pulp and coffee This mixture Is carried over a long -copper cylinder, which is about two feet in diameter. The cylinder Is filled with holes, each big enough so that a coffee bean can pass through it. As the mush, falls onto the cylinder the beans go through the holes into-it and are carried into a canal of flowing water below the.

cylinder. Upon this -they float off Into re--ceiving tanks or vats. Drying? tbe Coffee. Take up a handful of the grains and look at them. is.

covered with a soft, gummy substance. It is as sticky as though-it had -been painted-with mucilage. It must be washed again before it Is ready done in a tank in which. great screw moves -round and over, the beans, leaving them as as parchment, or snow. "But our coffee beans-are green," I hear someone say.

Yes, they are, and these beans will be green by and by. They have two shells upon them which must be removed before they can be shipped to the jci.uio lug auciin iuuc laivcn uil the drying Is quite a. job of its There are on every plantation great terraces" made "dt floors: ofcement, 'rising one above the other. Some of the floors are more than.an acre in size. They are made for drying the coffee.

There is no roof over them, and the hot sun of Brazil beats down upon them all. day long, it is upon such floors" that the coffee beans are spread, thousands of bushels of beans upon the Among them- are men who stir the beans about with wooden, rakes, so that all Iparts. are touched by the sun. The men are in their bare feet, and they perspire as they work. It is importantthat the coffee be evenly dried, and it takes a long time to cure it.

The grains often Ho for two months on MONT COFFEE ESTATE. the platforms, being gathered into piles at. night and covered up to keep off the dew. The men watch also for showers, and at such times covcr'the coffee. Skinning Coffee.

After the beans are dried they are by no means ready for sale. Each little bean has to be'skinneu It has 'upon it a thick white hide known the parchment skin, and under this another shell almost as thin as a cobweb, which is called the silver skin. These have to be taken off before you come to the olive green bean j-old in our stores. The skinning is done by expensive ma. chines, some of, which cost as much as $23,000.

In the first place, the coffee is run through a ventilator, which fans off the-rubbish and dust. It next thrown into-a. great corrugated wheel of cast iron, which has grooves so graduated that they break the skin on the coffee without hurt-ing- or scratching it. After, the is broken the beans are, carried to a second ventilator. In which the shells are taken off like the chaff In a threshing machine.

A fan blows the chaff off and the grains flow "down thrfiugh the trough to tbe sep. arator. and. Jnvn, Coffee of Brazil. The'grains are now of a llghfolive green color.

They must be separated and graded before, they are shipped. The little, round seeds which came from berries on the end of the. stalks will go Into, one grade and will be told In our American markets as Mocha straight from Arabia: another size will be' classed as Java, and the well known Mocha and Java which you mix will possibly have come from the same stalk. This is no fiction. The Brazilian coffee Is among the best of the -world, and vast quantities of it are consumed everv year as genuine Mocha and Java.

Other-Kinds of grains will be classed according otheir grades, and from every lot live different grades are made. Anions- the Coffee Sorter. of the most interesting sight-, on the plantation to me was the factory in which the women were sorting the 'different grades In order to pick out the bad seeds. Come with me and look at it. We are in a vast room filled with Italian girls of all ages, from 10 to 20 and upward.

They sit at long tables, at the backs of which are boxes of green coffee seeds. jum opposite. each girl is.a little opening in the box, out of which she pulls hand-fuls of the olive hued grains and spread: them out on the table before her. She looks them carefully over, picks out such as are bad and throws them into a box at the right, sweeping at the some time tht good grains through a hole in the table so that they fall into a bag, which is fastened beneath and which' hangs there between her knees. Some of the girls are quite pretty.

They have the large eyes' andthe bronze 'rosy faces of Neapolitan peasants. They have gay handkerchiefs tied about their heads, and as you enter their great dark eyes look at you. Nearly all are in their bare feet, and I noticed that some of them dig their pink toes into the bags as they work. As soon as a bag is full It Is carried away by men to the sewers, who fasten it up ready for shipment. At the back of the room are great fanning and cleaning machines, through which coffee of the various grades is running in a steady stream.

A noise like that of a grist mill tills the room, and burning coffee titillates your nostrils with an appetizing odor. It comes from the rear of the building. Let us go there und learn what they are roasting. Outside we see a great stack of the parchment hull chaff. This is being used as fuel for the engine.

the burning of the coffee chaff which causes the smell. Over tbe Plantation on an Engine. But Mr. Hammond is ready with the special engine to take us on a trip over the plantation. It is an American locomotive, made in Delaware.

AVc jump on and are carried for miles through this great coffee garden. In front and behind us. as far as we can see, there are long lines of green There, are. vast areas to theright and the left, all coffee. Look down the road.

See how the lines of bushes run on and on. growing smaller and smaller until they come together. Notice the bushes in that field over there. They are not as high' as your knee. Those trees have only been planted a year, and the others further on in the little holes with chips and sticks over them have been there only a month.

How green everything is! The coffee leaves seem to have been varnished. There is no green in nature so beautiful as that of the coffee tree, and the contrast of the background of red soil throws the green out, making it seem more beautiful still. Turn your back to theengine and look about your "We are now 'on a hill and we can see the whole earth spread out In a great waving mantle of green through which here and there run stripes of bright red. the roads. What a principality! Job would have died of envy had he seen this those little green buds on that plant.

They surround the joints of the branches like a necklace just over the leaves. Later on they will be red berries, and later still will be turned into the coffee of commerce and-will be traveling.over the world. They will furnish a liquor winch will be drunk, on the boulevards of Paris and sipped the scandal mongers in the drawing rooms, of Washington. Lovers, it may be, will whisper sweet nothings over them, statesmen may lav out their campaigns by them, and perhaps in our lurid South they may take part in one of those angry engagements which result'in "coffee anu pistols tor two. Xeeroe Versus Italian.

TVIthin the last ten years great changes have place in coffee growing In Brazil. Formerly everything was done by slaves. who worked under overseers and who put In something like fifteen hours a day. Each planter had.rMs.own gang of negroes. overseer, called at 4 marched them to the coffee fields.

Their meals, were to them there, and they were kept in the fields until about 7 o'clock, in Now that the.slaves are" emancipated, the most of them have left 'the coffee" regions, and "Italians" have been Imported to take their places. The laborers on the Dumont fazenda are nearly all Italians, and I am told they make, far better workmen than the negroes. FRANK-G. CARPENTER. CURIOUS AUTOMATIC.

A Duck That Could Hardly Be Distinguished" From the Real Lire Article. From Lectures pour Tous: Of all the inventors of mechanical curiosities, Jacques Vaucanson was certainly the. king. In the ingenuity of his mind he equaled, if he did not surpass, the most skillful of men. In the first book of the Odes ot Hoarce we read that Arckytas manufactured a wooden pigeon, which, actuated by a mechanical movement, flew from place to place.

This, however, was nothing as compared with the automatic fly manufactured by John Muller, and which flew table during a dinner, and alighted upon the hand of its owner and manufacturer, to the great astonishment of his guests. Philippine Camus discribes an extraordinary automatic group, which was specially constructed for the amusement of Louis XIV. It was a minute coach to which were harnessed several horses, and which rolled over the table. Upon starting, the coachman cracked his whip, and the horses began to prance and then became quiet and started off at a trot. The coach stopped in front of the king, and the lackey jumped from his seat, and, opening the door, handed out a handsomely' dressed lady, who walked toward his majesty, saluted him ceremoniously, presented a petition to him, and then re-entered the coach.

The lackey closed the door and jumped upon his box. the whip snapped and the horses galloped off. Vaucanson did better still. His automatic duck was, to an object of admiration. The bird waddled 'off In" search of food.

'and picked up and swallowed the seeds thaf it" met with. These seeds, says an article in the "Biographie Universelle," passed into the stomach through a series of triturations that facilitated the introduc-tion of them into the intestines and caused them to accomplish all the phases of digestion. It was Impossible. to distinguish, this duck from a living one. It splashed about in the water and quacked, at.pleasure.

Vaucanson's mechanical flute player also was a marvel. It was a life size figure clothed In the fashion of the period, and standing alongside of a broken column, upon which it slightly leaned. It was capable of playing a dozen different airs with remarkable ease. To effect this result, there was a system of weights that actuated a bellows placed In the interior of the automaton, and, through an invisible tube, forced air to the flute, where it acted in the usual way upon the stopple of the opening. In order to obtain the modulations, and, consequently, a.

complete air, the fingers of the automaton were movable and closed the holes of the flute hermetically when at rest, and also rose and replaced one another through the traction exerted by wires and cords that" were tautened1 and relaxed by the" play of "a toothe cylinder. About sixty years ago a jeweler In Boulogne constructed a wonderful automatic prestidigitator. This figure, correctly dressed in black, performed-various sleight-of-hand tricks with remarkable dexterity, and, when it was applauded, gracerully s-a-Iuted the spectators to the right and left. One of the tricks was the following: It struck a table several times and made an egg come out of it. It then blew upon the latter, when out of It came a bird that flapped its wings and sang, and afterward entered the egg again.

This trick finished the exhibition. The Alphabet In His Eye. From the. Philadelphia. Inquirer.

Those who are uncharitable often see beams and motes floating around in our neighbor's eyes, but it is certain we have never seen an alphabet -stamped on any one's eye. Yet such a strange phenomenon is to be seen in the eyes ot a young man. Jesse. Lee. of Atlanta.

In his are plainly to betnicedthe letters of the alphabet, and they become more apparent with Increasing this is said'to'beoan' inher itance from his father." who "bad the same characters imprinted upon his eyeballs. The grandmother of the Jesse Lee used to uore over the Bible night and day, and consequently when her son, A. F. Lee, was born he bore the marks In his eyes of his mother's constant application to her reading. The letters of the alphabet were grouped around, the 'pupils of his eyes.

This strange birthmark, a witness of his mother's extreme p'ety, he transmitted to bis son. who will probably transmit if. to his children unto the third and fourth generation. The flying frog of Borneo has long toes, which are webbed at the tips. Its feet thus net as little parachutes and enable the rrog to leap from lofty trees and descend gradually.

HE IS WITH KAUTZ CHARLES U. ETUE WRITES OF THE TROUBLES IN SAMOA. Took Part In Bombardment An Intcr-cntinHr Xnrrntlte In Diary Form The EnKllNh Captain Wanted to Open Ball Earlier. The first authentic-nccount of the opera-tions and troubles in-Samoa for the period beginning March 2, artd ending March 23, and which because of more recent events which (have been exploited by telegraph are of Intense InterestUo the American people at this time, comes from the pen of Charles D. Etue, formerly of this citv.

Mr Etue is son or P. D. Etue, now a clerk in the Kansas City pdstoffice, and was form- Wi Ik IV ni t. i Wk." Jl 'I7-JZ jr'Vy 1 OoVTrTrTnonTf 00? I k- JyOG-. BAY AXD HARBOR AT APIA, SAMOA.

(Furnished by Charles D. Etue.) (I) English consulate. (2) American consulate (31 City of Aria. (4 German-consulate. (51 Camp Kautz, Mataata's old palace.

(61 Noncombaiants. (7) The-enemy's main camp. (8) Coral reefs. (7) Entrance to harbor. (10) Road.

(It) Porpoise. British (12) Royalist. British warship. (15) Philadelphia. American.

cruiser. (14) Falke. German warship. (13 and 16) Where our men fell. (17) United States artillery.

tlS) Bridge. The hills and lowlands. are covered with tropical fruits and the undergrowth is as dense as can be found in any part of-the world. Our. whole force both English and American is camped along the road about where the figures 10 are located.

Mataafa's main camp is four and one-half miles ait, often farther, but the ships can shell at seven miles. erly a sailor on theUnlted" States steamship Minnesota. At the breaking out of the Spanish-American, war he was in Colorado and went to San 'Francisco where he enlisted and was assigned to the Philadelphia, the flagship of Admiral Kautz' squadron. A copy of his diary was sent by him to his father and it is through his courtesy that The Journal is enabled to present it to its readers: Jt follows: 22 Philadelphia sails for Samoa. March 2 At 3:45 p.

m. we cross the equator, but, our "executive" does not allow us to. have a "Neptune party." The men are disappointed and-the evening in spent in "cussing" the captain. March 3 Sight land 3:43 a. m.

which proved to be Pago-Pago. At 7 a. m. wt anchor in one of the. most beautiful little harbors in "the world.

are lying very close in but" the sounding shows fifty-six fathoms 'of prater. Natives and the, snip. iThey are mostly Catholics and Episcopalians. Their little canoes look scarcely larger than toys, yet they are capable of icarrying'great -weights. Ail the natives aroiof a reddish brown complexion, very fine physique, and many are really giants in stature.

They are very friendly, honest and They whitewash their hair' during the week and on Sunday, give it an ointment of cocoanut oil wljich gives it a. dirty red color. Their great anxiety is to have red hair, but could not ascertain the reason. All are tattooed from the waist down to the knees and their only garments consist ot a breechcloth, both sexes wearing.the same apparel. The females generally have their breasts tattooed.

March 6 Arrived, oft Apia 4:30 a. COMMODORE KAUTZ. (From photograph sent by Charles D. Elue.) steaming in with the ship "ready for action." The German gunboat Falke, and the British 'snips Porpoise and Royalist, ars in the harbor. Our ship" anchors directly in front of the 'Falke and across the channel.

The boy king. Malletoa. the British consul's ramlly and the American consul's wife and child were aboard the Porpoise for protection. Mataafa and his followers were routed last Saturday. Four killed on Malletoa's fide.

Mataafa lost, eight killed, besides twelve Germans on his side. March 7 to 10 Nothing of March 11 The three nations hold a con-ferenccon. board the flagship Philadelphia-Drill at "arm and away boats for distant service;" target practice at small arms; good shooting. "Weather 97 degrees in the shade. I March 12 Proclamation Issued (I inclose you a copy in English and native languages).

British ship Royalist sails for some of the other islands for the purpose of bringing back the chief." and men -exiled by Ma. taafa. Great activity In the rebel camp, which is in good range of our searchlights and guns. Heavy rains all day. Awful.

storm outside "Grub" is very high potatoes cents per pound: beef IS cents: ham. 25 cents: for Jl: fruit, dirt cheap trade hardtack and soap for it. March 13 At request of American consul we send forty-five men ashore to protect him. Mataafa threatens the town. He has thrown up "earthworks 'and dug trenches 200 yards back ot the city.

English want to shell him but our captain says "No!" The Royalist returns with many natives and sailed again to Pago-Pago for more. Searchlight kept busy all night, watching; the rebel camp. Germans make no pretense of helping us. Second landing party or twenty-nve men canea at p. The.

German consul Issues a nroclamatlnn flSuSSl palace. Tho English again wish to shel: the rebels, but our captain doesn't seem to want to tight. March 14 Our men return this morning. Malletoa's men wept when we left them. The English captain.

Sturdy, comes aboard and gives our captain a good "piece of hi mind" for recalling his men. Result i. we send back 141 men to protect. the Europeans. Mataafa sends word tha-he will abide by Kautz' proclamation and retire, but also says he will not be for the actions of 'his chiefs.

The have threatened to burn the town. An attempt was made to assassinate our Hag lieutenant. Miller, but the British consul came riding up from the rear just as the assassin was about to shoot and rode hiir. down with his horse. March 15 The Royalist arrives with over 200 -loyal natives aboard.

At 1:30 p. m. the English captain comes aboard and tries to Induce us to bombard. At that moment our men at Camp Kautz signaled that the enemy were advancing. That settled the question.

Immediately our captain gave the. order to "cast loose and provide." and in six minutes we had fired it six-Inch shrapnel over them at 2.500 yards range. Five more were llred and they beat a nasty retreat. Apparently no damage. "We continue shelling the woods all around.

Then the Royalist opened up on them back or me cniei justice notice, xne iorpoise gets under way and around the point into good position, and gives them the best she's got. The wood- are nil afire- where her shells land. At p. m. we fired two six-inch shells directly over the American consul's house, one bad results.

The last exploded in his back yard, carrying away the calf, of one of our marine's The last gun rrom the ships was lired at by the Royallt. Volley firing and field pieces doing good execution ashore. MarchilG Firing continued throughout most or the night. Machine guns doing good work. The British lost two killed and three or four missing.

All the Americans accounted for: no casualties. Many dead Mataafa men in the streets. Englishman comes aboard and says about 500 of Mataafa's men killed and wounded. They have retired to-the hills. At 9:30 a.

m. the firing is very brisk near Camp Kautz. At 10:30 m. the German captain comes aboard and was met on the gangwav by our captain. This is the dialogue: Captain White "Sir, I order you to fire on the rebels this afternoon when we commence shelling again." The German captain "You had better put that in writing." Captain White "You just take my word ror it and fire when I do, or get your ship and consul 'out, of the harbor." The German departed ror his ship.

At 3 p. m. the Porpoise steams up along the coast and takes revenge on a village of Matnafa men. She throws In a terriiic lire with six-inch shrapnel and drives some of them toward our position. We cross- llreithem with six-inch shells from the while the men ashore open upon them with their three-inch, one-pounders, gatlings, Colt's automatic and rifles.

No losses on our side, but many rebels killed. At 3 p. m. the ships cease firing. One shell from an "after" six-inch gun burst twenty yards from the muzzle and scared the "Dutchman" almost to death.

He came aboard and the admiral told him not to mind a little thing like that, and if he did not like it to get out of the harbor. We are obliged to fire right over his ship at times. March 17 Firing all around most of the -but at longer intervals. We lost one man killed a'nd one marine became insane frcm the constant strain. Heavy losses to theenemy.

We bury our dead ashore at 1 o'clock. The Porpoise is shelling the woods -now. At 12:30 the uerman captain comes aboard with two boatloads of Ger man subjects and asks our admiral to leave them aboard. Admiral Kautz told him to take care of his own people A boatload of women and children swamped alongside our, gangway. They were.

all. rescued by ADMIRAL J. N. MILLER. RETIRED.

(From photograph sent by Charles 1). tuc.) our men. "Wo have captured 120 of Mataafa's men, among" them three of his chiefs'." March IS Only three or four volleys and two Clinch shells- fired last night. Scouts' report frightful damage from our theilb. reports varying from 300 to 700 killed.

At 3 p. m. we order the Falke outside ot the linc'dt fire and the Philadelphia takes her old berth. AVc captured a spy In our camp this afternoon and he is aboard In irons. March 19 Scouts report Mataafa's men to be far 'up In the mountains.

Capture two to-day who have been drilling tho enemy. Said to be German officers: now in close confinement aboard ship. The native forces went Into the "bush" to-day on a foraging expedition, engaged the rebels and came out victorious; twelve of Mataafa's men killed and many wounded, while "Malletoa men had only two slightly wounded. Vice-King Tamassac led them. The custom of beheading their victims has been almost done away with, but occasion ally tney oring in a neau.

March 20 The Porpoise steamed out to at 7 a. m. on a tour of the Islands. She. is a hustler.

She returned at 5:30 p. m.jwith two large canoes, having destroyed eleven" others around the islands'. Not a shot fired to-day by our men. March 21 Firing began at 10 a. m.

from Campv-Kautz. The enemy appeared in boats and were rcpulted. The Porpoise steamed out this morning for moft- "game." The' Royalist la shelling the hills back of The English and Americans- act like brothers now nnd everything goes like clockwork. Porpoise returns this p. m.

with five large canoes? and fifty prisoners. They were taken ashore and turned oVer to Tamassae for safe keeping, at Camp Kautz. March 22 Our-'scouts and a large party of natives are ordered to penetrate the brush for three miles. At 11 a. m.

firing is reported from their direction. At 3 p. m. the enemy was engaged, with a loss cr eight killed, and we had one slightly wounded. The Porpoise brings in eight more war canoes and many prisoners.

March 23 All the ships fired a Tew shells into the brush back or town last night and this morning. One of our men sent aboard ship Tor cowardice. The boy king, Malietoa. was formally placed upon the throno at 2:30 p. m.

AH took part in the CHAS. D. ETUE. Who Is With Kautz. ceremonies except the Germans, and the enemy, of rourse.

Malietoa. was llterally covered with robes, gold braid and laces. Tamassae. the vice king (really the king), was dressed in the garb of a full English admiral, nnd altogether, with his 2S0 pounds avoirdupois, he looked very silly. His wife to be about the same weight.

Scouts return at 4 p. m. and report they have not seen a single Mataafa man. The Samoan, flac.ta red flag with a white cross) was saluted with twenty-one guns by both -toti imiiufis. ine uermans tooK no part In it.

toii" F- AU STRANGE INDIAN POISON DKCOCTIOXS UNDER. STOOU BY MJRTIIEIO REDbKl.XS. One Kind. Xo IV he it Admlnln- tcrcil. Takes Effect in the Cnuses Complete or Partial Parnljsls.

From the Xcw York Times. "I venture to say that no poisons known to rcicncc the world over can compare in their effects with the deadly mixtures used by the conjurers, or medicine men. of the Cree and Salteaux. tribes of Indians, way up In the Northwest region of British Columbia." said Dr. James Melden.

of Manitoba, before a small group of his friends the other evening at the Hoffman hoube. He was on a flying visit to New York, but found time to narrate the following tale: "These tribes." he said. "live in that vast, wild region from 700 to 1.000 miles north or Winnipeg, just on the border of Eskimo land. Thev are the last tribe to be met with before the Eskimos are reached, and they get along very amicably with them, as hunting ground demarcations are mutually understood and respected. No doubt the extreme rigor of the climate accounts for it.

but thev are conspicuously peaceful for redskins, and perform almost incredible feats of endurance. 1 have known 'bucks' of these tribes to run ahead of a dog sled as guides for over 100 miles. But for all they have such amiable dispositions, just let one or them get his anger or spirit or revenge aroused through jealousy or envy and the Vactim or his wrath meets a death more horrible than the tortures of the Inquisition by he ue of these mysterious, baffling poisons. The modus operandi is simple enough. He takes his case to one or the conjurers or the tribe tor the same custom nrevails among both the Crees and the Salteaux who undertakes the job of removing the objectionable The conjurer then starts oft into the dense forests alone and gathers a collection or barks and herbs unknown to botanists.

With these he returns to his wigwam and th in structive mixture that does the business. Seek Revenge Only "VItU Potxon. "Now for the peculiar way in which it works," the doctor continued. "I want to say, by the way of parenthesis, that these tribes never go on the warpath. They make no use or tomahawk or scalping knife.

They never resort to the popular redskin method of removing an enemy by shooting him down from ambush. Poison is their sole receipt ror settling scores. Fortified. then. With his DOtent drncr.

1he mnn whn 4out tor vengeance manages to have it administered to his doomed foe In his food. It may be months before the effects are visible. At whatever time of the year the poison Is taken It never begins to operate before spring. Here is one of the most amazing features. The first sign is the appearance of sores on the body, and especially on the face, of the victim, in the course of a month or so these would, apparently, dry up and be followed by scales.

But that Is merely the seeming calm before the in ine course or a few months more, during which the poor buck suffers Indescribable tnrfnps thosa Ann na their place great tufts of hair spring uul aiaees oeiore aeatn touows in its most agonizing form, far worse than the tortures from prusslc acid and a great deal more prolonged. fc'i well." resumed the narrator. we had heard these Indian poisons In a vague wav fnr Rnmo tima i H' 5ut Sjow'nB the medical books con- 's ot sort under the head S. i.c,JgJ put the whoIe thing aside ru(Jely aroused one a-Jrom thls Infidelity by the appearance of a about 40 "are 'old enemy's poison. He thei Caller before th scales As, ne was a man of wonderful SWkS? superb Physique, it was hoped ithnSry nad for ntaViy Hfe" mlSlf hhinese rie that tne victim's lite i might be saved if he could reach clvll- ski bineflt ot lnmarifne nad him brought, like a good ndYcJ vaPt Sahara snow ana ice and put him In our hands.

Medical Science Raffled. "Here at last was flesh-and-blood proof of the poisons we had laughed out of deciding and we lost no time in aecidlng to cure him. No mortal was ever ihnt6 rt7ulIy watched and dosed than that redskin. We tried every antidote materia medlca, both simple and f.0,m?Pu,nd but the poison turned and reverb eourt' curing a double sfnn we administered could aS.1 but deadly mixture. The giant buck went through all the stages I have described, until the most excruciating lh put end to his miseries.

All ou? science was bound hand and foot, utterly 'rhe Pfesence of this curious, ew of an Indian conjurer. "now nothing and can learn nothing, he went on to say, "or the herbs that1 enter into this mixture. Like the tricks of savage priestcraft, this poison mystery has long been kept a secret among the conjurers of those two tribes. They are always rew in number and exercise the greatest caution in transmitting it to those come after them. They require a long and severe training on the part of cny buck who reels inspiredi to enter the conjurers mystic circle.

He must retire' to the summit or the highest cliff In the legion and there, night after night, ror months, hold solemn communion with the stars and clouds and winds. This is supposed to give him a profound grasp of the mysteries or nature, which Is all potent in the conjurer's art. During the daytime he lives concealed in a mountain cave, a most awesome, important and secretive being. Of course, in order to be less fleshy and more receptive to the messages of stars and clouds he starves himseir to the bone. When he has gone through his regimen or months aii6 returns, a living but inspired skeleton, to his triho ii i aldered worthy to be vested with all the secrets and sanctities of thn rnninntn' r.

ternity. So severe is the preliminary traln- iiik mat ev are auie to pass tnrough It successfully. As the brewing or these deadly mixtures is the conjurer's chief occupation, they form a sort of college of poison. Poison That Merely Paralyses. "But," Dr.

Melden continued, "there's still another branch of this Indian mystery quite as baffling as the one I've told. These tribes have wonderrul powers or endurance and make great boasts or their running qualities. In this there is the fiercest professional rivalry worse than anvthine among the theater folks and when a cer tain Duck Is outclassed he generally hunts up the conjurer for a modified form of re venge. He doesn't care to kill his rival: It will satisfy him to have him crippled and placed out or the race. The coniurer is ready for business on that basis too, and gives his caller a brew that makes short work or the objectionable buck.

Sometimes these drugs will paralyze the legs or the victim and have no other effect whatever: at other times they so stiffen his limbs that he practically hobbles about on a pair of wooden logs. Altogether it is the most curious poison mystery in the world, more than ever curious among tribes' that know nothing at all of the intoxicating beverages and never brewed any sort of intoxicating stimulant." Learning the Truth. From Tit-Bits. A school inspector was examining a class In grammar, and trjing to explain the relations of adjectives and nouns by a telling example. "Now, for instance," said he, "what am That was an easy Question, and nil th children shouted, "A man!" and then looked around triumphantly, as much as to soy.

"Ask another." "Yes. but what else?" said the Inspector. This was not so easy: but, after a pause, a boy ventured to suggest. "A little man." "Yes, but there is something more than that." This 'was a poser for the youngsters: but. aftefa moment's, puzzled silence, an Infant phenomenon almost leaped from his seat in his eagerness and cried to the inspector: "Please, sir; I know an ugly little man!" Xnme'of the Horxe Not Knotvn.

From the London West End. You would think" that Rudyard Kipling was one of the best known men in the world, especially since his illness. But one evening it was the evening when we had news that the crisis was past I was reading mv paper In the hansom that conveyed me home. As I steeped out I handed the paper to the cabman. "Kipling's all right," I hald.

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HE IS 127 YEARS OLD. Noah, nnl.y Wax a. Tot or Flie When the Liberty Bell Waa Rung-. Noah Raby. April 1.

celebrated In tho poorhouse at Piscataway. N. what ho claims Is his 127th birthday. John Hummer, the overseer of tho poor-house, held his place for thirty years, and Noah was an inmate long before he took charge. Mr.

Hummer believes firmly in Noah Raby's claim, and says that he appears to have the same strength of mind and body as he did thirty years ago. Nonh, Is blind, and when he makes little excur- NOAH RABY. slons abount the groupds ho Is guided by a wire that stretches from point to point. The old man Is feeble, but he makes these little trips at least once a day. Raby spends most of his time sitting calmly In a cushioned arm chair, in which he sleeps In an upright position.

His sunken eyes sparkle like gems, and rive his countenancn a strange aspect. His hair is long and white. nnu ins oeara, wmen lias not cnangeu color in fifty years, say the oldest inhabitants, is Iron gray. His featured are purely Caucasian, although he hays that his father was an Indian and his mother a white. HI accent.

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The traditional practice has proved expensive thus far to the railway companies, but no at ceptlon ot the Western experiment above noted. tempts were raaae to cnange it until the In- tMiBf -wr7lWiV 5B SHaaHv 1 mli vfisaBK ItyMMi taVHI'.