Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1890, Page 12

12 LIVING IN PERU. Peculiarities of the People in Some of the Villages. VERY RICH PLANTATIONS. The Fertile Valleys Hetween the Des- erts—Wendertully Productive Vine- yards and Sagar Maciendas—The Plain of Canate. —— £rom Tue Stan's Traveling Commissioner. Pavea, Perv, 1890. HE village of Pisco, which is situated 4 about 100 miles south of Calao, in the »road and fertile plain of Canate, 1s a fair specimen of the coast towns of Peru. Ik; charming littie plaza is surrounded by pre- tentioas casas of adobe, whose outer walls are tinted pale blue, pink, yellow, or gray. The dwellings of the poorer classes, who are principally negroes and.half-breeds, are one- room hovels of the simplest construction. There are whole streets where the houses on either side are built of wild cane stuck up- Tight in the ground, having cross pieces tied on at intervals, withont a nail from top to bot- tom, this wicker-work foundation being plas- red with mud and roofed with straw. Though generaliy windowless and often floorless, these oor abodes, being well whitewashed inaide and ont, present a neat and cheerful appear- ance; and over each doorway a glass lamp is suspended, rendering the streets better hghted than those of many more pretentious cities, THE PLAZA. One side of the plaza is occupied by a very large and handsome church, built in the Li- menian style of architecture, which is a con- spicuous landmark for vessels far out at sea. Near by is the old chapel of the Jesuit fathers, which possesses, among other interesting relies of departed glory. a high altar, most eiaboratety carved and heavily gilded. An avenue of wil- low trees leads to the dilapidated Franciscan monastery, which was suppressed nearly a half @ century ago by order of the republican gov- ernment. For many years its cloisiers have been deserted, its bails empty and its “pleasure grounds.” with their long lines of olive trees, allowed to run wild with weeds and ties. The records tell us that this ancient garden was intended for a place of religious contemplation, wherein the pious monks might enjoy communion with nature as well as with their own souls and com- bine pieasant € cise with their eveaing pray- ers, We read that countless doves once lived in the olive trees. which were so tamo that they were wont to alight upon the shoulders of the friars when the Istter were pacing to and fro “in the cool of the day” reading or repeating their orisons. Eut doves and devotees tong since disappeared, and not a living thing is now to be seen within the melancholy inclosure, ex- cept an occasional zipoloze, the foul carrion crow of Peru, or a turkey buzzard waiting ior some dead thing to rend. THE PLAIN OF CANATE. This region usel to be proverbially un- healthy, and the peopie of Peru suffered much from malarial fever until a ch eight feet deep was dug ail around the town a few years ago, which has drained off the moisture and made it one of the most salubrious towns on the coast. The plain of Canate is thirteen miles long and extends in breadth from the cordil- Jers to the sea. To the southward are many small swamps, where reeds are cultivated for making the matting which supports the straw roofs of the houses, and then a barren bit, cov- ered with stony mounds and clumps of date palms, stretches away to the desert. But to the Borth it is very different. In the immediate vicinity of Pisco are rich pastures for mules, horses and cattle. meadows of alfalfa (tropical clover) and vegetable gardens, each field suz- rounded by hedgo rows of date palms, olive, orange, fig and willow trees. Beyond are purple vineyards and long reaches of yellowish-green sugar cane, each estate separated from its neighbor by rows of willows. DELICIOUS GRAPES IN ABUNDANCE. ‘The grapes grown hereabouts are as delicious as those of southern France and seem to have absorbed the breath of the near-by sea, as well as the su.shino of perpetual summer. Great quantities of wine and brandy, called ‘Italia’ aud “Pisco,” are exported from this place, and their manufacture is the principal industry of the valley. We visited the store house of the winemaker and found it to contain neurly a thousand casks, each cask holding three hun- dred gallons. I regret to say that [ am unabie to give you any figures, having neglected to jot down in my note book information receivea on the spot, but the amount of liquor made is mar- velous. ccusidering the lhmited «istrict, and the value of the exports is in full proportion. “Italia” is the favorite white wine of Peru, though much too strong for general use. and “Pisco.” though a most innocent looking beverage. being colorless as wat contains more intoxication to the cubic inch than any other known liquid, unless it may be the mescal of Mexico. There is a Portuguese here who produces three distinct kinds of wine from the sume grape, one an excellent variety resembling Madeira, another similar to the best Bacellas and a third much like the inferior Rhine wines. There ig also a very fine and cor- Tespondingly expensive liquor distilled from the large white grape, flavored with chirimo- ps, the latter being the most delicious fruit to e found in the tropics. All aloug the beach are Immense ware houses where the common ~-Pisco” is stored in huge red jars shaped much like an egg shell. waitirg shipment to the va- rious ports of Peru and Chili. CULTIVATED BY NEGROES, ‘The estates of Canate are mostly cultivated by negroes, assisted by a few Chinamen. The negro population of these coast valleys was originally imported from Porto Bello, the grea? depot for the slave trade, which was chic fly in the hands of English merchants durinz the first century after the conquest. it was old John Hawkins, one of the naval heroes of Queen Elizabeth's reign, who first set up a Juerative business in African flesh and blood between the coast of Sierra Leone and the Spanish colonies in America, ‘The sins of th: wail be visited upon the children, ution overtook the pirate’s sou off this very vale of Canate, which had then just bezum to receive cargocs of human merchandise. In 15% Sir Kichard Hawkins sailed from England in a vessel which b: mother (the wife of old John) had quaintly but uot inappropriately named “The Repent- ance, for she remembered the heartless avarice ot her slave-dealing husband with shame and sorrow. Leing a buccaneer himself sir Rich- ard had come into these waters on a marauding ex@@dition, when be was overhauled by a Span- ish fleet iu the Bay of Pisco and afteward pat ath. Again in the year 1746 Canate suf- fered greatly fromthe attacks of the English when Anson came ashore and burnt the little fort called Cerro Azal, and carved his name in big letters on the face of the cliff, where it may still be seen. SUGAR CANE CULTIVATION. Next to grape growing the cultivation of sugar @ane engrosses the people in the neighborhood ef Pisco; and as rain never falls, though the Weather is sometimes quite cold, the necessary irrigation requires great care and labor. Bi though the cane iw backward in maturing it of closer texture, containing more juicc than in milder regions and yielding a greater amount ofsugar. The proprictors of the Canate hacien- das are mos Eughehmen, and an excellent class of country gentlemen they are, hospitable, upright and much kinder to their dependents than the Peruviansare inclined to be. ‘Ihe build- ings on the estates are uniformly large and hand- some, and a description of one applies equally toall the rest. Ono side of the extensive ner courtyard is devoted to the trapiche or Sugar mill, the boiling house, refinery and store rooms, while the other side shelters the owner's family in long, lofty and airy apart- ments, ail on the ground floor aud extremely Weli furnished. Adjoining the houses is always a@chape! and aresident priest is maintained, whose duty it is to look after the spiritual wel fare of everybody on the estate, ma the iord of the manor to the meanest cependent. HABITS OF THE INMABITANTS, Life in these isolated communities is by no Means disagreeable. Everybody rises very early, takes bit of bread and cup of coffee and govs about his or her especial avocation, the master riding over the fields and the mis- tress attending tothe house servants. At 10 o'clock a.m. breakfast is served; and the meal invariably consists of soup, eggs, poached or fried and garnished with slices of fried banana, various dishes of meat and chocolate. At 4 o'clock comes dinuer—soup, fish, a roast, some bee pansmas well garnished with ahi or sauce of red peppers, dulees (sweetmeats), wine and coffec. About 9 o'clock p.m. there is supper of ‘tea, bread and dulces. Attached to the house is a beautiful garden of fruits and flow- ers, witha stream of water running through it, from which the lesser irrigating ditches are filled. Besides fruit-bearing trees there are hedges of roses and thickets of geruniums, s bordered by pansies and forget-me- Pelee covered vith chowest cmgnn onl =i THE EVENING a , STAR: WASHINGTON > D. C., SATURDAY. NO the garden is the g pon, OF negro quarters, collection of huts ranged around a central square, the whole surrounded by a high wall. ‘The negroes appear to be a8 happy aud con- tented a lot of people as one can find in a long day's journey. Though no | r slaves their labor 4s still forced, and while they receive lit- tle more than food, clothing’ and poorer lodging they are at least sure of that, of medi- exl-attendance when ill and exemption from the taxes that so oppress those who undertake to be independent. Early in the morning, be- fere going to work, all the women and girls re- fiir to, the door of the chapel and chant a iymn of praise upon their knees, and again at sunset, when the Taber of the day is concluded, thanking heaven for their lives of servitude, GRADUAL EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES. I think it was in 1821 that the rather am- biguous law was passed that declared that all those then in siavery ehould remain so during life, but that their children’ should be free when arrived at the age of fifty, and the grand- children were born free. The avowed object of this slow process was to gradually accustom the slaves to the idea of liberty, and to tit them for it; while at the same time their owners make ready for the change by import- ing Chinese,whose cheap labor, it was thought, would prevent the negroes from striking for too high wages, when entitled to any wages at all. In 1893, however, Gen. Castilla, who was then president of Peru, issued a decree pro- claiming the freedom of all slaves, "As was anticipated, the majority of them were unwill- ing to leave their former masters, to whom they were endeared by almost paternal kind- ness and the recollections of childhood, and therefore the condition of things was not per- bly changed. Jt is caleulated that the “keep” of one of these negroes costs his master not less than $40 a year, and few of them earn very much more than that amount, Ii left to themselves, to work or play according to their own desires, they would certainly earn much less. THE COTTON REGIONS OF YEA. A short line railway connects Pisco with the cotton regions of Yea, running southward with the vine-bearing p!ain and across forty miles of desert. ‘The capital of this department, which is also cuiled Yea, is the largest town between Lima and Arequipa, It lies inland about twe miles, sepgrated from the sea by the des anda range of sandy hills, About half way between Pisco aud Yea the dusty land- scape is beantitied by a forest of date palms, covering an area of several miles, in the midst of which stands a de: ed hacienda named Villa-Ceuri, he word is of compound Spanish and Quichua origin, and means “City of Gold.” A good many Indian graves are found here- abouts, ene of them containing not only its murmy, but pot! suiail idols, spindles and golden ornaments; and the story has gone forth that the ghosts of the dead have driven the usurpers from the estate which occupies the site of an ancient city. The northern edge of the valley of Yea is fringed with an enormous growth of carob trees, or algorbas, as they are sometimes called. ‘This curious tree grows to great size and re- mbles the live It bears a pod which is prized as fodder for mules and horses, ‘¥ hard is the wood that its weight act- y bends down the trunk, twisting it round ud round into coriscrew shapes and making the branches tic knots in themselves, till the tree assumes most fantastic forms, An im- a ive person may see Dore figures and faces in every misshapeu trank and long arms stretched forth in wild despair. THE ESTATE OF MACACONES, Just beyond this “enchanted wood” is the valuable estate of Macacones, which formerly belonged to the Jesuit fathers, and was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles in the war for independence. Then come vineyards and cotton fields, with hedge-rows of fig trees, jes- samine and roses; and then the neat little vil- lage which F. persists in dubbing “Yea and Amen.” It contains about ten thousand inhab- itants and lies in the midst of a lovely plain about six miles from the foot of the cordillera, The adobe houses are built in the prevailing style of the coast, their flat roofs cov- d with tiles, Peaceful as it ook, bathed im golden sunshine and environed by fruitful fields, there is one ever-present source of terror, viz., tho earthquakes, whose frequent visits have left fearful scars upon all the surroundings. In 1745 the older Yea, which stood about six miles farther south, was completely destroyed, scarcely one stone being left upon anothe?, Inthe present town the roof of the cathedral and the walls of one of the churches have fallen in; the churches of San Merced and San Augustin are badly cracked, and (there is hardly a house that has not suf- fered more or less from the mysterious power that none can withstand. A DEWLESS NIGHT, A street leads from the central plaza down to ariver, which, at this season of the year, must be crossed by a bridge made of ropes and wil- low branches, They tell us that the bed of the stream is a dry and dusty road during more than half the year, but just now itis filled by a founung torrent, which goes dancing through the valley between lines of willow trees. Lead- ing from the picturesque bridge is an avenue of carobs and willows, which appears to be the fashionable promenade. At the close of a sultry day the ladies of Yea come out to enjoy the evening shadows; aud, having sent their servants ahead with chairs, they often sit gos- ing far into the dewless night. ‘The valley of Yea, bounded on ono hand by the snowy peaks ‘of the Andes and by arid sands on the other three sides, is covered with Vineyards and cotton plantatious. We visited one of the former, which is situated at the mouth of a ravine, throughs which a mountain road winds up into the interior. Like others in the neighborhoed, it formerly belonged to the Jesuits; and though the yield has fallen off since their day, it now produces an aver: 20,000 arrobas of wine in a year, which se $2 perarroba, The married workmen of this model hacienda are each allowed a small piece of ground rent free, on which they may raise pigs, poultry and vegetables, which their wives and children peddie in the market place, thus enabling the industrious to EAKN CONSIDERABLE EXTRA MONEY. South of Yea the road crosses the river, winds through several miles of vineyards and then enters an extensive forest of carob trees, which have grown to great size and are twisted and gnarled and crippled beyond account, Then comes the sandy desert of Guayuti, forty miles wide, which intervenes between this oasis and ‘another called Palpa, For many miles not a trace of vegetation is to be scen, und the scorching rays of the sun reflect a painful glare, until suddenly, near the north- ern border of Palpa valley, but separated from it about twelve miles by a range of barren hills, the traveler comes upon a succession of vine. yards lying along a mighty river known as tho Kio Grande. ‘This unexpected strip of fertility is all owned by one man, who rents it in sev- eral smal! haciendas, Palpa is also given up to vineyards ana cot- tou fields, except where wheat enough 18 grown tosupply the small population (about 4,000), and there are two mulls worked by water for reducing the grain to flour. As the vali approaches the Andean foothills it branches off into two fertile ravines named, respectively, Sara-Marea and Mollaque, and on the range of hills that divides them is a cele- brated thermal spring and a very rich copper mine. The village of Palpa is surrounded by luxuriant gardens watered from a clear stream whose banks are shadowed by willows and fig trees. And here in this Acadia we have con- cluded to rest awhile from our labors before chmbing the desolate hills that scparate it from the next Sahara, Faxyie 1, Wann, — At the Turn of the Road. The glory has passed from the golden rod’s plume, The purple-hued asters still Hnger in bloom: ‘Ihe vireh is bright yellow, the sumachs are red, The mapies like wrches aflame overhead. But what if the joy of the summer is past, And winter's wid herald is blowing his blast? For me dul! November is sweeter than May, For my Love is its suushine—she meets me today! Will she — Will the ring dove return to her nest? Will the needle swing back from the east or the west? At the «troke of the hour she will be at her gate: A friend may prove laggard—jove never comes te. Do I see her afar in the distance? Not yet. ‘Too early! Too early: She could not forget When ! cross the old bridge where the brook over- flowed, ‘She wiljtlash fall in sight at the turn of the road. I pass the low wall where the ivy entwines; I Wead the brown pathway that leads through the ines: Thastt by the bowlder that lies in the fleld, Whore her promise at parting was lovingly sealed. Will she come by the hillside or round through win she woar her brown dress or her mantel or ‘Tho snhete Gniernbee--Sel: leer watch may go My heart will be asking, What keeps her so long? Why doubt for a moment? More shame if 1 dot Why question? Why tremble? Are angels more Sho would come to the lover who calls her his own, ‘Though she trod in the track of a whirling cy- —lI crossed the old bridge ere the minute had T looked; lo! my Love stood before me at last. As wo mot face to face at the turn of the road! Dr, Holmes in the Atlantic WIPED OFF THE EART Startling Facts Regarding the Coming Extinction of Animals, SOME THAT ARE DOOMED. The Smithsonian Calls Attention to An Alarming Prospect—Whole Species Being Rapidly Wiped Out of Exist- s Destructive Propensity. ——>_—_ STAR roporter learned that "a startling publication is on the point of being issued by the Smithsonian Institution, which will show that many ‘of the most valuable species of animals at present inhab- iting the worid will inevita- bly be driven off the face of the earth and rendered abso- lutely extinct within a few years, For example, the elephant is already doomed. Each year 100,000 of these pachyderms are slaughtered to supply the market with ivory. Up to withina com- paratively recent period commerce drew chiefly upon the great stores of “dead” ivory in possession of African natives, which had accumulated for centuries; but now this reserve stock has been exhausted, and ull the tusks exported from the dark continent must be got ‘*green” by hunt- ing live elephants, Thus the herds are being rapidly wiped out, not to mention the inci- dental fact, according to Explorer Stanley, that every pound of ivory that reaches Europe costs the life of a man, woman, or child, while every twenty tusks are secured at the ‘price of an entire district, with all its people, villages and plantations, This, of course, is due to the int.mate connection which exisis between the ivory gathering busi- ness and the slave trade. One cun get some notion of what 100,000 elephants mean if he will consider that placed in line that number would stretch 180 mules. As for the slaves, they ure secured for the parpose of carrying ivory tothe coast by the Arabs, who attack and destroy the native viliages, carrying off into captivity those of the inhabitants who ‘are serviceable as porters and killing the rest. In this way whole regions in Africa have been de- populated and laid waste. FASHION RESPONSIDLP. It is fashion, however, that is most import- antiy responsible for the threatened extinction of animals well worth preserving. ‘To prove this statement referonce is made to a singie re- cent auction sale in London, at which were dis- posed of under the hammer 30,000 monkey skins, 250.000 Austrelian opossums’ skins, 400, 000 humming birds’ skins, €,000 skins of birds of paradise and 360,000 assorted birds’ ekins from India. In all the collections in the world, Ee and private, there do not exist so many irds’ skins, stuffed or otherwise, as the total of these amounts to, Evidently the beautiful birds of the earth must go, and Australian uch attention will be devoted to the preserva- tion of species which would otherwise be lost to the world—the buffalo among the number. THE GREAT AUK. Everybody knows the history of the great auk’s extermination, A single shell of one of its eggs, without the contents, was sold-the other day at auction for $1,500. And yet this bird was found on Funk Island, off the New- foundland coast, sixty years ago in numbers that were simply countless. But the peop! from the mamiand used to go over to the island in summer and kill them by myriads, to eat and for their feathers, They were very appetizing roasted, and were so fat that they served for fuel, so that half a dozen eat auks did to cook a meal of their rothren for — dinner The result of this was that forty years back the last of these interesting fowls perished and there is no longer one of them in existence. The Smith- sonian has practically a corner on their bones, A while ago the Institution sent a distinguished osteologist, Prof. Lucas, to Funk Island for the purpose and he brought back nearly a barrel- ful of such remains, If you want a skeleton now you will have to send to Washington for it and it will cost you about $600. THE LABRADOR DUCK. Another bird that has become extinct lately ina very extraordinary and unaccountable fashion is the Labrador duck. This fowl was black and white in color and in no way very valuable to man, inasmuch as it fed on fish and a corresponding flavor, but the interest at- taching to it is due largely to tho curious man- ner of its disappearing. So far as it is known there were never very many of these ducks, which used to be shot occasionally by sports- men along the North Atlantic coast from Labrador to Chesapeake bay. A few used to be captured cach year by «# taxidermist at Camden, N.J., on a trot line, which he sct for them baited’ with fish ‘just under the surface of the water. About 1870, however, they ceased to be found, and since then no Labrador duck bas ever been seen, Various theories have been formed to account for the mystery, it having been suggested, among other things, that a distemper was accountable in the premises, Others have surmised that tho birds, being so few, got mixed up with the flocks of other species and were lost. One danger that has to be encountered by birds of a not very numerous variety 1 that, in migra their flocks will loso aight of one another. The pai: of stuifed Labrador ducks now in possession of the National Museum at Washington were killed by Daniel Webster and were themselves the origmais from which the great Audubon made his plates of the creature. EXTINCT FISH, A still more astonishing instance of the ex- tinction of a species is found in the case of the tile fish, which was first found, so far as science is awarc, by vossels fishing for cod a few years ago in the waters south of Long Island, “This fish grew to be forty pounds in weight and was very palatable, so et the fish commission thougit that it might be propagated and ren- dered most valuable for food purposes. U: fortunately, just as the commission was on the point of beginning operations with this end in view, a vessel coming in reported that ithad run across, at a considerable distance out from Jand, great quantities of floating fishes, most of which wore tile fish, From that time until now not oue tile fish has ever been seen, so thatevidently the entire species was wiped out at one fell swoop. One theory entertained is that an arctic current, bearing icebergs, cate unusually near shore and suddenly reduced the temperature of the water to such a low point that the tile fish were all killed. Speaking of extinct fish reminds one that the halibut is growing scarcer year by year, opossums and monkeys have no show what- ever. One dealer last year sold 2,000,000 skins of birds, FUR 8FALS DOOMED. Every one knows by this time that the fur seals are also doomed. Having been altogether. exterminated from the rooxeries in the south ern seas, where they used to congregate in such countless myriads, they are now bemg wiped off from their last resting place on the,two Pribyloy Islands in Behring sea by remorseless pirates in schooners, who kill ten for every oue they get. A like fate awaits, at short notice, the hair seal, 875.000 of which were slain last year for leather and oil. n the alligators, crocodiles aud other reptiles are not spared. Even they must disappear, because their hides ed for reticules, pocket books and ncy articles.” DESTRUCTIVE MAN. Man—more particularly the Caucasian—is the most destructive of animals, His appetite for killing is insatiable, and to this mere taste for slaughter for its own sake the marked and rapid changes at present being wronght in the fauna of the world are largely attributable. Among the valuable beasts now swiftly suc- cumbing to the sportsman’s rifle is the true zebra, which is confived at this moment to a small area in South Africa, while the giraff) is quickly disappearing frou: the same cause. Let loose “a white man with an equipment of improved weapons in the wilds, and he will call it “sport” to slay wantonly everything that he can get a pop at—not for food, bus simply for the sake of taking away life. Mind you, it has been left for civilization to thoroughly develop tnis type of gery. The ouly parrot know to this country, which was formeyly plentiful as far north as Kansas, is now being finally ex- tirpated in Florida by visitors who kill the bird for “sport.” They are naturally tame, and it is easy enough to knock over half a dozen at one bang. ‘They are not good to eat, Dut then they make such a pretty mark for a gun, PASSENGER PIGEONS, A while ago the so-called “passenger pigeon” flew by millions in the Ohio valley as far east as Massachusetts, Now but a very few of them are left. They have been shot by wholesale, and while they lasted were commonly utilized for shooting from traps. It is great sport to take a pigeon that has been captured in a net, put him in a box and pop the po short range when he flies out at about one chance in fifty for his li In this way useful animal after animal is being driven to extinction, The list of those which civilized man has driven off the earth, where God is supposed to have put them for his use, will be an appalling thing to think upou ashorttime hence. Wherevera valuable beast is found in great and profitable numbers the first thought seems to be to go and wipe it out. That is particalarly a Caucasian instinct, ‘The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands, which have for « long time past been most ser- viceable as food for supplying ships that touch there, are being fiually disposed of. No more big ones of the sort that weigh from 500 to 700 pounds apiece remain, but’ only afew little fellows not worth taking. These are land tur- ties and used to be caught crawling about on the islands sluggishly, so little trouble being required to gather them in that a single party of sailors would often bring in as many as twenty from one expedition. Now they are nearly all gone and soon there will be none lett. THE WALRUS TO Go. As to that enormous but comparatively help- less beast, the walrus, its doom is likewise sealed, Before the weapons of those who pur- sue it to get its hide for boots and leather, its tusks for ivory and its whiskers for opium pipe picks, it is quickly disappearing. The method adopted by the hunters 1s to approach a grow of walruses on the ice, and after picking o! the most alert bulls from a safe distance with rifles slaughter the herd at leisure. It was in somewhat the same way that the great arctic sea cow, now long extinct, was utterly anni- hilated. ‘This mighty mammal, related to the manatee and dugong of southern waters, was first discovered on what is known as Behring Island by Bebring’s expedition in 1741. Au en- thusiastic naturalist attached to Behring’s party described it as being, when full grown, chirty feet long, twenty feet around the body and of | about 8,000 pouads’ weight. It had a small and toothless head and its s! was dark and rough like tree bark, ‘the hide was considerably over aninch in thickness and so tough that the satiors had to chop it with axes, A few years ago Dr. an ons of the Smithsonian visited Behring Island for the purpose of procuring some bones of this extraurdinary creature au did succeed iu obtaining an entire skeleton, the dimensions of which confirm the reports made by the naturalists referred to, These sea cows were accustomed to herd about the mouths of strexms and live upon sea weeds, which required no chewing. They were stupid and almost helpless, owing to their bulk and clumsy build. For many years ves- sels sailing for the northwest coast of North America were accustomed to stop at Behring Isiand to — a stock of fresh and salted sea cow. Probably there were not more than 2,000 of the beasts at the beginning; berg Pb emer in reproduc’ their speci it them was willed in en HOW SEA ELEPHANTS WERE EXTERMINATED. Ruthless murder has likewise exterminated recently the California sea elephant, a huge while lobsters are becoming so few and small that the canneries find it difficult to obtain supplies, and shad and salmon aro only kept up by the propagating efforts of the fish com- mission, THE DODO. Most interesting of extinct birds is the dodo, which was a kind of pigeon somewhat larger than a swan, very stupid and unable to fly, its wings being almost rudimentary. It weighed fifty pounds when full-grown, hada huge bill, was provided with a tail that resembled a feather duster and waddled about on very short legs. Its name means in the Portuguese tongue “simpleton.” The dodo is first men- tioned by the Dutch admiral, Van Neck, in his account of a voyage to the island of Mauritius in 1593, His sailors and those of subsequent veasels which touched there destroyed the un- fortunate bird wantonly and it was entirely ex- tinct 100 years later. TWo GIANT BIRDS of antiquity there were, which modern science knows comparatively little about, though some oftheir bones and even their eggs are to this day preserved in museums. Oue of theso was the epiornis of Madagascar, which stood twelve feet high and weighed 1,000 pounds, Only two of its eggs have ever been discovered, and they were found in graves. Each of them was as big as six ostrich eggs. or 143 good sized hens’ eggs. In ancient times the Arabs used to go in their trading vessels as far down the African coast as Madagascar, where they saw these astonishing fowls, bringing back accounts of them which were destined to give riso to the fables concerning the roc of the Arabian Nights. THE WONDERFUL noc, In New Zealand, at a later period, is known to have existed an even heavier bird than the roc, known to science asthe dinornis, which was not quite so tall, however. It stood about nine feet high when grown. The bones of one leg of this creature are exhibited at the Na- tional Museum, and they measure six feet from foot to hip. The dinornis did not have even rudimentary wings, It became extinct about the time Capt. Cook visited New Zealand, aud he might very possibly have found one or more alive if he had tried. When he ar- rived the uatives were still wearing the feathers of the bird for ornaments. Around certain hot aprings in New Zealand great accumulations of the bones of the birds were subsequently found. It is supposed that some sudden change in the New Zealand climate compelled them to gather for warmth in these places, and thero they died, It reminds one of a very plausible theory that is entertained regarding the great beds of fossil animals found in the west in this country. Stress of weather, the notion is, crowded the beasts to a sheltered place, and there a blizzard came and destroyed them en masse. This infor- mation was obtained by a Sran reporter from advance sheets of the Smithsonian publication referred to, written by Prof. Lucas of the Insti- tution, See THE REsT CURE, Its Effect in the Case of a Woman Who Laid in Bed for Three Months, From the New York Times. Ono of the fashionable ways to be sick, or perhaps more properly one of the fashionable ways to get well is to undertake the rest cure, says the Now York 7imes. It is a pity that this method of restoration does not reach the class which it might so greatly benefit, for the rest cure is efficient, but is, alas! expensive and ex- elusive toa degree that puts it on the list of unattainable things for common folks, along with opera boxes, yachts and shooting on the Scottish moors. As its name indicates, it is rest—utter. complete and continous rest. A New York woman who returned recently from a course of it under English advice tells | how she sailed away last March, accompanied only by her husband, who bade’ her good-bye at the doctor's door and came back to New York and their family, while she eutered upon a three months’ practical suspension of anima- tion, Nomember of her household during that time communicated directly with her, It was settled before she went into retirement that if any serious emergeacy ehould arise she was to be informed, otherwise, no news was to be good news. She had a large, airy room, with two or three peaceful landscapes hanging on the walls, ; Books, papers, a bit of work, anything that could interest her, were banished, however, and her existence reduced as nearly as possi ble to ni She was kept in bed and fed with- out being permitted to sit up. Her food was simple, but nutritious, and came with the reg- ularity of clockwork. For exercise vigorous Massage and sponging were daily empioyed, ‘The first two or three days were well-nigh un- bearable. After that she became contented, life droning on in this monotonous, uneventful way, seeming even pleasant and soothing. Her yhysician oly saw her about once a week, and er nurse was no sociable Sairy Gamp, buta deft, quiet, middle-aged woman, soft of tread and placid of face, who was no sort of dis- traction, but to whom, however, one could get wholly tsed and unconsciously attached, At the end of three months sho got up as suddenly as she had laid down, dressed and walked three miles, Then her husband and children, went to her and she traveied with amphibious mammal of the west coast, which w to be nearly twenty-five feet in gth and had @ long proboscis, whence the mame en was derived. Theso wi Do kotios of tae Sect bind asa bar- ricade to preven’ others from 8o im this way the last of them has been destroyed, though an effurt is at present being them for four months, knowing no and with more endurance than any otuer member of the party. Such it is to be wholly rested. LI econ tot sinth ec i rs crim to Boston?” Ticket Clerk—‘I haven't time to talk poli- tics." —New York Weekly. ‘MEN AND Wourn fray and whose , ak praising Hall's color fag acrentng restoring the and prevent- FUNNY BIRDS OF THE WORLD. Freaks io Feathers Found in All Sorts of Out-of-the- Way Spots. THE “BOWER BIRDS” THAT BUILD PLAY HOUSES, THE “BUTCHER BIRDS” THAT IMPALE THEIR VICTIMS ON THORNS, THE “CROCODILE” AND “RHINOCEROS” BIRDS, THE “MOUND FOWLS.” HE NATURALIST dis- covers some very funny birds in trotting about the world,” said Prof. Bidgway of the Smith- sonian Institution to a Srar reporter. ‘For example, there are the ‘bower birds,’ peculiar to Australia and New Guinea, which build on the ground regular play : houses to amase them- selves in. These play houses have nothing to do with their nests, but are constructed usually inthe shape of covered archwrys of little boughs two or three feet long, eightcen inches orso high and about as wide. The birds ap- pear to use these structures simply for the pur- pose of amusement, as if they were club houses, congregating in them and larking about joyously. Furthermore. they are accus- tomed to decorate them with bright-colored feathers, shelis and all sorts of such things. “There are certain birds in New Guinea, cousins of the bower birds, which build play houses also and decorate them outside bY actually planting in the soil young shoots of frowing things and seeds as well, which, spring- ing up, are beautifving. Another species of the same bird adorns its play hou with pretty flowers, which it gathersand hangs in gar- lands in the early morning over the littie roof. When the gariands are faded it gets fresh ones and with them replaces the oid. These birds of the ‘bower’ kind seem to have a | curios, They are fond of making museums of their play houses, collecting for the purpose all sorts of sich attractive things as bits of shining object, teeth of Guad animals and so on. | THE BUTCHER BIND. “One of the most extraordinary feathered creatures in the world is the ‘butcher bird,’ which is common to northern latitudes in Amcrica, Furope and Asia, It lives by preving upon mice and other small animals, Lirds and insects. The funny thing about it is that it impules its victims upon thorny of bushes or other plants, very often simply catching them and spearing them in this way without any seeming purpose to eat them. [t would ap- pear, indecd, as if its intention was merely to wantonly kill. However, its reason for im- paling its prey upon thorns is primarily that it has not claws sufficiently powerful to tear it apart, as an owl or other bird of prey does, with- out some ‘purchase.’ Therefore it fastens it to a thorn in order to dismember the unfortunate at leisure. A group is now being prepared for exhibition at the Smithsonion showing a pair of butcher birds in an osage hedge with a big grasshopper, a sparrow and a field mouse stuck on thorns in the neighborhood of their nest, from which three little ones aro crying for food, REMARKABLE HONEY BIRDS, “Among the most remarkable birds in the worli are the African honey birds, which though entirely wild watch for opportunities to accompany the natives in their expeditions in search of honey, The honey bird seems to ree- ognize, by its equipment or otherwise, a par that is starting out after honey. It immedi- ately joinssuch an expedition und flies in ad- vance as the party proceeds, attracting by loud cries the hunters to the place where it knows a bees’ nest is. There is apparently a perfect un- derstanding between the ho: ds and the natives and the former is invariably given a portion of the honey when the hive is opened and its contents are abstracted, MOUND FOWLS, “In Australia and New Guinea live the so- called ‘mound fowls,’ which, instead of making nesta, construct for the reception of their eggs heaps ot decayed leaves and other such matter. In the mound thts made the eggs are laid and covered over with the same materia!. The warmth engendered by the decompo: the stuff causes the eggs to be hatched, young in due timo burrow their way out to lite and the open air. These newly hatched mound fowls differ from the young of any other species of bird in this one respect—they are abit fly at oncs upon coming out of the eggs, their wings being perfectly developed when they chip the shells. When grown the look something like ordinary brown hens with unusually big feet, “There are certain birds—some of the cuck- oos of the old world and the common ‘cow blackbirds’ of America—which never build nests of their own, but lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and leave them to be hatched by foster mothers, ‘This is a particu- larly uufortunate imposition upon many of the smailer birds, inasmuch as a young cow black- bird, for example, is so big upon being hatched and grows so rapidly as to soon crowd the young ones which belong there out of the nest altogether, thus gotting all the room and all the care themselves. SHEEP-EATING PARROTS, “Curiously cnough there seems nover to havo been any animals existing in New Zealand in early days, save a sort of bat tha: presumably flew across from Australia, There was a parrot which could never in those times have had any opportunities for flesh feeding on this account, and its diet was composed of fruits and seeds, When the country becamp settled by the whites and sheep herding was made a big industry there. something happened that puzzled and worried the shepherds greatly. They found many of their sheep wounded or dying from unaccountable sores im their backs, and it was not for a long time that they discovered the cause, It seems that during one winter, which was very unusually severe. most of the fruits and seeds upon which the parrots had been ac- customed to depend were destroyed, and the birds were driven to seek other means of sustenance. ‘Lhis was discovered by those of them which survived in the carcasses of slanghtered sheep. They found certain parts of the meat to their taste and acquired a liking for it so thoroughly that they never cared to go back to a vegetable diet, Consequently, they made a business in subsequent scasons of attacking the living flocks and biting out the flesh of the beasts with their strong beaks, choosing the ees in the neighborhood of the small of the back, where the fat about the kidneys was especially succulent. When this was found out a bounty was set upon these parrots, and it still remains at a liberal figure in the colony today, “In New Guinea and certain outlying islands there are small ‘bat parrokects,’ which sleep hanging by the feet, head downward. Our Carolina parrokeets do just the opposite, hang- ing at night by the hooks on the ends of their bills, which they stick into crevices or wherever may be convenient. WEAVERS. “You may perhaps have seen in cages tho ‘weaver birds,’which scem to be fond of making enormous nests merely for the purpose of ex- ercising themselves in the art of construction and not to breed in atall much of the time, Supply them with as much string and straw as you please and they will use it all up faster than you could imagine possible in weaving, composing their fabric with a perfection and elaborateness simply astonishing. In some parts of the world it is the custom for a whole colony of weaver birds to join together and build one great big tlat-topped platform two or three yards across, which is so admirably put together as to shed the rain as well as any roof could do, Under this roof they make indi- vidual pocket-shaped nests, The tailor birds instead of weaving their nests inclose them in big leaves and stitch the latter together with plant fibers, just as you would sew pieces of cloth. CROCODILE AXD BUFFALO BIRDS. “Maybe you know about the crocodile bird, which feeds on the ticks and leeches that infest the mouths of the crocodiles of the Nile. It is really a fact, as you may have heard it stated, that the great reptile is accustomed to lie on a bank with its mouth wide open and permit the bird to run about between its jaws and peck here und there as itlista. A similar curiosity in feathers is the so-called ‘rhinoceros bird’ or the ‘buffalo's companion,’ which is found in Africa and lives exclusively upon the ticks which it relieves those animals of. It is always found in company with a buffalo or a rhinoce- ros, and when its Luge patron and food pro- vider is asleep the bird sits near by or on the beast’s back, ready to warning by its cries an case danger approac. FEATHERED DANCERS, “Most of the cranes and some grouse are ad- dicted to dancing for amusement. They have regular gatherings in numbers for the purpose in open places, where they devote some hours pains te vee. about, chasing one other in circ nest of the “swift; which aa an odf- of its bill, is obliged to turn its head ‘if “re ‘alking bird, the best thing “If you want a eho dais to gntacton ene teach it, A crow is more intelligent than rot and ban quite en good vecal facilites Fathormene it has the vantage of possessing ® much more human-like quality of voice, besides speaking more distinctly. There isa crow be- longing to a friend of mine which, while skip- ping around on the floor, says ‘Hop about and turn about and jump Jim Crow’ as plainly as Possible. It is a mistake to suppose that to ee tongue will help its powers of speech.”” —o——— MAKING PHUTOGRAPHS IN COLORS e —= It Will Bo Done Before Long—The Only Trouble Remaining is to Fix the Tints. HERE is not the least doubt in my mind that the problem of photo- graphing in colors will be solved before long,” )Jsaid the eminent ex- pert, Mr. Smiilie of the Smithsonian Institution, to a writer for Tur Srar. “Ianticipate that within the next ten years this long-songht object will be attained. At present the most dis- tinguished experimenters in photography all over the world are engaged upon the subject, and already they have arrived at partially suc- cessful results, There is one Frenchman who claims that he has actually discovered asuc- cessful process, though others dispute his as- sertion, “You must understand that photographing in colors is, in one sense.no new thing. As early as the days of the daguerreotype it was some- times accomplished by accident, That is to say, once ina while the sun picture would be found to have reproduced a color in some mysterious way that no one knew how to ex- plain, It has e been surmised that the curions result was due to a trace of copper that got into the sensitive surface, At ail events copper has been employed in efforts to get colors since and with some degree of success. However, it has becu found much better for the purpose to use chioride of silver, which is made, by exposure to light for a certain time, sensitive to color waves. But the trouble has been with experiments in this line that the colors would not remain. They can be pro- sluced usually now, but how to fix them is the difficulty, so that they wiilstay. Nevertheless, before very long the secret will be such no longer I expect and portraits and other pictures will be paiuted in colors by the camera, RETAINING COLOR VALUES. “‘A great improvement has recently been in- troduced in the shape of ‘isochromatic’ plates, made with « new chemical composition, which, though they do not reproduce the colors actnaily, do give, in a way that they have never hitherto been given, the ‘values’ of the colors of objects. To explain what I mean, look at those two photographs of a vase full of flowers, The vase was in light yellow and the bouquet Was made up of yellow jonquils, blue hya- cinths and white narcissns. Oue of the photo- graphs is from an ordinary plate, and you will observe that all the color valaes are lost. The narcissus comes out white, because it is white; but the yellow vaso Is made black, for the reu- son that yellow takes that way; the jonquils are nearly black also, and the hyacinths look anything but blue. Now, on the other hand, look at this other photograph, which is of the samo vase and posy from an ‘isochromatic’ plate. Yousce that in the latter, though no colors are produced, the tints are so well given by the shading that the hyacinths really look Dine and the jonquils and the vase light yel- low, as in the original. This you cannot help admitting is in itself a great step ahead, COLOR PHOTO-MICROGRAPHS, “Color photography would be agreat help to us in our work of making photo-micrographs of sections of rocks, Inthe so-called ‘lithologi- cal division’ of the National Museum we try to exhibit the various rocks of the world in four ways, We show, first, a block of a particular kind of stone. Next, wo give in figures the eup- porting strength of thatstone. ‘Third, we offer a picture in water colers, showing how a build- ing made of that stone will look. And finally we hang upon the window, where the light shines through it, a greatly magnified section of the stone as it is scen under a microscope by polarized light, For this last purpose a smail piece of rock is ground down until it is the thinnest possible transparent film. Aray of light is passed through prism of Iceland spar, which has the peculiar property of so separa? ing the light waves as to ‘polarize’ the light. as the technical phrase is. Precisely the meaning of this it would take too long to cx- plain in detail, but it is sufficient to say that it has a certain effect of refraction which accomplishes the purpose I wish to describe. ‘the ray of light, having gone through the prism of Iceland spar, passes on through the film of rock, which is mounted on a glass plate, and beyond through a micro- scope, the othe: end of which is fitted into a camera, Thus a very much maguitied image of the rock section is thrown upon the seusitive plate inside the camera and a big picture of it is made. ‘he picture is merely in black and white, but the image produced on the ground glass at the back of the camera is in ail sorts of beautiful colors, each element of which the stone is composed being made by the refract- ing effect of the polarized light to take on a tint of its own, so that the least pretty bit of ordinary cobblestoue is a patchwork of lovely hues. As it is we are obliged to tint the photo- graphs with water colors, copied after the image on the ground glass; but, if we had a way to photograph colors, the exquisitely tinted pictures of the stones could be obtained directly, If you care to look at the windows in the south wing of the museum, which light the lithological exhibition, you will see a number of these colored photo-micrographs just as they would appear to your eve if you looked at the originals through a microscope. They are put up on the windows in ordeg that the light may shine through them and show their trans- parency, exactly as would be the case if you were employing a microscope for the examina- tion of the sections.” —— RUDYARD KIPLING. How an American Author Was Im- pressed by the Meteoric Writer. Thomas Nelson Page in Richmond Times. Kipling 1s just twenty-four years old--a short, square-built fellow, with black hair and mus- tache. He lives in rooms in Villier street, over the Thames embankment, where I spent a de- lighttul afternoon and found him working him- self to death as hard as he could. I don’t find him a bit spoiled by the adulation he has re- ceived. He is unquestionably a great genius and has had a training which, added to his ex- traordinarygift, will make him supreme if he docs not kill himself, His father held a government post in India, and Kipling, as a boy, went on one of -the papers there, the name of which T now forget. Owing to, his position and cleverness he was thrown into the very vortex of that extraordinary Indian life, where, under a burning sun, the force of which we cunnot estimate, 60,000 whites rule | }/* absolutely 250,000,000 of analien and hostile race. I asked him where he got his directness and simplicity of style, which are his most strik- ing characteristics, and Lis power of condensa- tion. He said he used to have two columns to fill, and no more, and thatif he ran over he had tocut out. There could not have been better training for a writer,and the result is that a page from one of his stories is as direct as a page from “Gulliver's Travels.” He has taken Tom Adkins, the English private soldier, under his especial charge. He knows more about him than any one else. He read | mea partof a story he had just finished. 1 found him simple, unaffected, frank and hearty, jast like one of the fellows we know here in ienmond. He is working too hard, and his health is suffermg—for ten hours a day of imaginative composition, day in aud day out, is | + more than flesh und blood can stand. He is at | :bd Toom» at. present in Naples, resting, und I make bold to | + say that in time he will become one standing lights of English literature, His Work the Hardest. 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