Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1896, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1896—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 1 IN THE COTTON BELT A Crop That Produces More Wealth Than the World’s Gold Mines. HOWIT ISPREPARED FOR THE MARKET Scenes in the Fields Where the Pickers Were at Work. CONTROLLING THE TRADE ——— 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter.) . Ga., November 9, 1896. D=. THE PAST week I have been traveling through & . some of the richest S cotton districts of the south. I came from Washington to Atlanta over the Southern railway. The line runs down through Virginia and crosses the br of the ie level up- lands of North and South Carolina into Georg’ I rode for hundreds of miles through flelds loaded with the woolly white fiber, and here in Atlanta I am in one of the chief cotton states of the Union. Those who have not traveled through the south in the autumn have no idea of the gor- geous splendor with which nature here dec- orates the dying year. The mountaias are now ablaze with color. Yeu ride through forests where the green pines mix with the leaves of other trees of all the colors of the rainbow. The contrasts are greater than those of the north. The green is greener, the red leaves range ih color from that of fresh blood to a royal purple, and the yellows are of every hue from a pale delicate lemon to that of the purest gold. Such trees are often the setting cf the cot- ton plantations, which consist of thousands of little green and brown bushes which are now weeping their precious tears of snow. In some fields the green bolls or balls con- taining the cotton are just ready to open. W others the rips of the bolls have crack- PICKING COTTON IN GEORGIA and in 184 we had one of the biggest cot- | ton yields of our history. ‘The cotton then raised. amounted, in round numbers, to 9,800,000 bales. ‘This is more than haif of ail the cotton grown in the world. We are, in fact, the greatest cotton growers of the universe, and could we sell all the cotton our lands could produce at high prices, the south would be the richest par: cf the United States. “Today cotton Is bringing be- tween 7 and 8 cents a pound, and at this the planters can make moacy. They are making money now, and the only people down here who are talking of hard times Showing Height of Sea Island Cotton. are the politicians, the office seekers and the political agitators. Tne cotton crop this year will run over 8,000,000 bales. We will get more than $20,000,000 in gold from Europe for our cotton within the next fw months, and the present increase in our gold reserve comes largely from cotton. Our Cotton Territory. But let me tell you where the most and best cotton is raised. During the past few Weeks I have met some of the biggest of our cotton shippers and cotton planters, and have collected matter about the con- dition of the woolly plant in every part of the world. Only a few years ago Missis- sippi and Alabama were the leading cotton producers of the Union; now Texas Is greater in this respect than all the rest. Last year, or rather, in the cotton year of 1893 and 1894, Texas produced over 3,000,000 bales, or nearly one-third of the entire crop of the United States. It was thought that it would produce a like amount this year, but the drought set in, and the re- sult Is that that state has only about one- half its usual crop. The cotton territory of the country can be seen-from the fol- e@ and the field of brown and green is spot- ted or dusted with white. Again places where the erop is ripe t and the great tufts hang out rea E to the ground or into the h: > pi er: ome of the fields are alive with me ering cotton. alk through th bolls. The forme ir rich, soft voices float into the ows as we fly by. At many of th there are bales of ready for shipping to the factori north and Nearly ever, i we one or ml its yard. s are Hi full of Neg white and d z looks like newly put which freshly picked cotton being carried to the gin, where the nust be ta the cotton be sold. Oti bringing 1 Hear that old negro sing as hauls his three bales of cotton along that old cart drawn an ox. H for he sits on his year's crop, and k nows it will bring him the money for his winter’s suppli Where Our Cotten Comes From. The cotton crop is the great money crop If it is good, prosperity shines out of the faces of both darkies and whites, and more than 0,000 souls re- je If ba sa cry of I and want cr. the eabin extent of the not well understood at the north. The cor Cotton Bales Ready for Shipment. ton belt covers 24 degrees of longitude and about 10 degrees of latitude. It now meas- ures about 6),000 square miles, or, accord- ing to the census of 18%, almost one-third ot the settled parts of the United States. This area of cotton-growing territory could be greatly increased, and as it is, only about one-twentieth of it is used for rais- ing cotton. There are in fact only about 2,000,000 acres of cotton plantations, and we have an emptre of cotton soil which has never been tilled. The cotton belt has a pe lation of about 13,500,000, of whom 5,00),000 are negroes. These people produce more than half a bale of cotton per capita or more than three ba h family of five, or from se nine million bales of cotton ever: tton we export annuaily amo than the output of the gold mines of rl It is almost double that of the and silver mines of the United States. SOL it footed up the sum of 3225,000,000, is far ahead of any blood remedy on the market, for it does so much more. Besides removing tmpurities and toning up th down system, it cures any blood ters not how deep-seated or obstinate, h other so-called blood remedies fail to reach. It is a@ real blood remedy for real blood diseases. Mr. Axa Smith of G “I had such a bad matism that neastle, Ind., writes: of tie Pheu- became absolutely _helpless— unable to take my food or handle myself fn any way. I took many patent medicines, but they did not reach my trouble. One dozen pottles of S. S. $. cured me sound and well, and I now weigh 170." Books on blood and skin diseases mailed free by Swift Specitle Company, Atlanta, Ga, 9,837, ‘an bales of cotton, as a rule, than those of Europe,where the re in baies of 40) pounds, and s, in fact, almost ten million ve not the figures of the output last year, but the crop for amounted, in round TS, to fif- te the tuced two-thirds of all n of the world. It will undoubted- ly furnish more than half of the world’s supply this year. “The Great Cotton-Producing Coun- trics. But w are the lands which make cot- ton? Here is the list, with the amount each furnished in 1s: Uakted States. ) bales. 10,000 bales, Me Gre 60,000 10,000 Total for the worl 870,000 bales The cotton area in all the other coun- tries is growing. Europe and Asia would like to be independent of us, and they are doing all can to stimulate cotton rai ing elsewhere. They cannot succeed, ho ‘v, for there is ro soil in the world as for cotton as that of some United States. The famed cotten, which grows on the coast ef South Carolina finest cotton that old Mother Earth has ever worn upon her bosom, and other lands have tried in vain to surpass it. I saw it during my visit to Brunswick, Ga last week. Our ordinary cot‘on plant grow from one to three feet high. The Sea Is land cotion grows like a tree. The plant at the ground is as big around as a broom stick, and it towers aloft to the heizht of six feet and upward, shooting off branches every few inches which are ioaded with cotton bolls. These bolls are as big as a black walnut with the hull on, and when the cotton is ripe it hangs down all over the plant like so many balls of white pop- corn. The cotton is as fine as silk. It shines like satin, and its fiber is from one and a half to three inches long, the longest cotton fiber in the world, and about one inch longer than the cotton from other parts of the United States. All of our cot- ton surpasses that of other countries, with the exception of that of Egypt, which is rot so gecd as the Sea Island, but is bet- ter than the cotton grown back in the in- terior of the south. Egyptian cotton is valuable to mix with our cotton, and it surprised me to find that our manufactur- ers import about 100,000 bales of Egyptian cotton every year. The cotton yield of Egypt took a jump at the time of our late civil war, as did also that of India. The moment ‘Sumter was fired upon cotton went up like a shot. The English factories soon ran out of their supply, and the price of cotton doubled and quadrupled. The Khedive of Egypt took advantage of the situation. He put out im- mense cotton plantations, and between 1861 and 1865 the crop of Egyptian coiton in- creased over four hundred per cent. Since 1882, when the English practically got con- trol uf the country, they have tried to stimulate cotton raising. In the valley of the Nile, and the figures above given rep- resent one of the biggest crops Egypt has ever had. I am told that the English are now attempting to establish cotton fac- tofies in the suburbs of Cairo, and that a mill is now being bullt at Boulak, there, | near the famous museum in which the mummies of the Pharaohs rest. When 1 was in Bombay, India, a few years ago, I saw great cotton factories there, and the English capitalists told me that our war had made India a great cot- ton country. Today it ranks next to the United States, but the Indian cotton ts short in staple and it does not produce more than one-fourth as much to the acre as our American cotton fields. Fully half cf the Indian crop is used by the In- Gian cotten mills, which are steadily in- creasing i1 number, and England has still | to buy the bulk of her cotton from us. | China will eventually use all of her own | cotton in the new factories she is building, | and Japan, so our consul general at Yoko- hama once told me, now uses about $14,000,- 000 worth of American raw cotton, which is shipped to that country not direct from the United States, but via Liverpool. The cotton raised in Japan is of the poorest variety. It is worse than that of China, which is worse than the Indian cotton. It can only be used for very common clotii, and our cotton will always be in demand in Asia to mix with these paorer varieties. Cotton Used as Wool. ‘There is a corsiderable demand for for- eign cottons in the United States to be mixed with wool, and thus gold as woolen goods. We buy for this purpose quite a lot of Peruvfan cotton, which is of a more woolly character than our cotton. The Egyptian cotton goes into similar products and many carpets, hats and clothes which are supposed to be all wool are practically made of these cottons. Almost 75,000,000 pounds of cotton are used every year by our woolen mills and our woolen hat fac- tories annually take about 409 bales. Where Cotton is King. The United States will, it is believed, al- ways control the cotton trade of the world. We could make now m-re than the world’s. supply, and could, I am told, easily run other countries out of the markets had the south a different tem of farming. ‘The iands I have traveled through are no- where haif farmed. ‘ine cotton patches are generally small, and here in Georgia much of the farming is done on the shares. The lands are often owned by men who live in the cities, and advance supplies to the ne- groes, who put in thirty or forty acres and who expect to pay their debts out of their share of the year's yield. Most of the farmers until lately have ised noth- but cotton, and would rely upon the they got from this to pay for their pork, sugar and feed for their stock. They could raise as good corn and oats as the northern states, and the grazing possi- bites of tse ‘upiands of tke south states surpass the best of the northern land. Thi the not di all of its own suppl.es, and will use its cotton as a money crop pure and simple, which will make the southern farmers richer than the same class anywhere else in the world. With the other cotton-pro- ducing countries trying to increase teir yield it would seem to be a mistake to limit the growth of cotton here in order to raise the price. With diversified farm- ing the south cen raise better and cheaper cotton than any other country, and we ought to run the other countries out of the busiress. It costs, it is said, over 8 cents a pound to produce Egyptian cotton, as the lands are taxed per acre and upward, and the cotton fields of China and Japan and India yield comparatively litile to the acre, and that only of the very poor- est variety. In Cotton Fields. But how ts cotton raised? Col. R. R. Murdock, an Atlanta bank- er and cotton dealer, who has handled cot- ton for more than a generation, tells me that it requires but litue intelligence, and that the average negro can produce almost as good a crop as the most scientific white man. The ground is ploughed and har- rowed in March, and the furrows thrown up so as to make rows of hills about three or four feet apart. In April the cotton seed, sittle black seeds about the size of a lemon seed, are drilled in. A few days later the green sprouts come through the soil. ‘The rows are hilled up as the plants grow, and the weeds are kept duwn. ‘The cotton plants are thinned out from time to time, and about the last of July the work of cultivation is done. By the mid- die of June the plants begin to blossom, and fields look like sreat gardens of Mar- shal Neil roses. As the drop off in ant future the south will raise aiready changing, and the bolis of cotton apy They grow to about the size of a black walnut, when they crack open and the beautiful white cotton shows out. The crop is such that it wili keep a long time. It does not ripen all at once, and the pickers go over the fields a half a dozen times during the sea- son of gathering the cotton, which begins in the far south and ‘ sin July, and which la: until late the f. In gia and North and South Carolina cotton is still being gathered at What Cotton Picking Costs. The picking of the cotton is an expensive m. The gathering of the crop of cost, it is estimated, about $60,000,000. The pickers are usually negroes, who are paid so much for each hundred pounds of cotton as it is taken from the pods or bol. Here in Georgia pickers get about thirty-five cents a hundred, but in other parts of the south as high as fifty cents and upward a hundred. in Texas a crop of ) bales averaged a cost for picking of $ a bale. I am told there are faster pickers now than in slave times. Then 10) pounds a day was con- red remarkable work. Not long ago ten convicts of the Mississippi penitentiary picked 18,000 pounds in five and a. haif ays, an average of 333 pounds daily per man. As to the ordinary lavor, it is hard to get ro to pick more than 100 pounds a day, and when he has done that he wants to Stup. Now and tnen the pickers strike but it is more often on account of b ather than dift about pric: ne ‘The womcn and cinidren, well as the men, 40 out into the fields to pick, and for the time the land is alive with black gang. moving through the white fields, who are pulling out the cotton and putting it into t sirapped on their shculders. When a bag is full the cotton is emptied into a large basket, from which it is thrown into the wagons which are to carry it to Not a pound of cotton can be sold before it is g:nned. This process is necessary to get the seed out of the cotton. The lint is wrapped around the seed so tightly that it would take days to separate by hand what machinery will do in a few moments. Some large planters have gins of their own. Other gins are worked on y locality has gins near it, few miles of the cotton field. ted a number of these cotton The lint js sawed from the seed by ular saws, so graded that the seeds sl pass through them, » machine there are brushe: et from the saws, and which will roll it out in a beautiful 'y sheet of what looks like cotton batting, so that it drops on the floor in a mountain of white. It is now ready to be squeezed by machinery into the great bales for the market. Each bale as it comes from the gin is of about the size of a vig dry goods box. It is about four feet square and about five feet in length. It is wrapped with rough cloth, much like coffee sacking, and is bound with bands of hoop iron. Such a bale weighs from 430 to 500 pounds, and is now worth from $30 to $40 as it stands on the scales of the shipper. FRANK G. CARPENTER. A German Joke. Further on From the Detroit Free Press. The Germans have an odd character, a certain baron, who is made responsible for many absurd and ludicrous things. When- ever anything particularly striped or whim- sical happens it is straightway attributed te the baron. Consequently, many amusing stories are related of the baron, just as in this country all kinds of: mistakes have been heaped upon the shoulders of the late Mr. Stetson, the theatrical man. At one time the baron went to Venice, and seeing the pigeons on St. Mark paused in wonder and began to count them. He was getting on nicely with his calculation when some one tapped him on the shoulder. “Here, you,” said the stern-faced brigand, re you counting those pigeons?” “I was,” replied the baron humbly. “Very ‘well, you have to pay me one lira for every pigeon you counted.” “If that is the law, here ar responded the baron, money. ‘The brigand looked over it carefully and took his departure. Then the baron be- came convulsed with merriment and shook his fists boisterousiy after the retreating figure— “ool! Idiot!” he exclaimed. “I gave you forty lire, and-I counted 160 pigeons.” pS Sa aS Looked That Way. From Harper's Bazar. forty lire,” counting out the First Little Chick—“TI'll bet anything ke'’s the captain of the new foot ball team.” FOOD PREJUDICES Primitive and Civilizéd'People Have Queer Notions About Diet. INDIANS WHO WON"? EAP FISH OR PORK But They Love to ‘Feast on Dog and Horses ot SOME SUPERSTITIONS l T IS PROBABLE that at heart we are all more or less sup- erstitious—it is only natural that we should be; but while most men are a little ashamed of this feel- ing and will attempt to conceal a disincli- nation to sit down to dinner in a party of thirteen, or to com- mence a journey on Friday, still there is a lingering idea in the average mind that somehow or other coming events may cast their shadows before, and that certain things might perhaps be better left un- done if certain premonitions are experi- enced. Also we have likes and dislikes which would be difficult to explain other- wise than as survivals of old superstitions. But curiously enough similar ideas when cherished by other people and especially by other races seem to us very odd and even ridiculous. Among primitive people these ideas are more strongly developed, more real as it were, than with us, and more abundant also. They often appear as taboos, things which must not be done; and many of them take the form of food prohibitions. There is but little difference between the taboo of the savage and our own Idiosyn- cracies in food, except that the former applies to a whole tribe or race and the latter to an individual or family. In both cases most excellent reasons can be and are given in support of these taboos. Navajos Won't Eat Fish. This fish taboo is one of the most curi- ous of all the superstitions which have troubled mankind. Some of our Indian tribes, notably the Navajos of Arizona and New Mexico, will not eat fish under any circumstances, although they are acquaint- ed with other tribes whose main subsist- ence is fish, and have seen white men in- numerable eat fish and still live. It 1s doubtful whether any but an inland tribe could cherish and live up to such an idea for a long period, but there is no doubt that such tribes do have a fish taboo now The jo believes, and believes with The Navajos believes, and believes with an earnestness that characterizes all his ideas, that if he should eat fish the most direful results will follow. His body will swell up to an enormous size.and his skin will break out in sores;. while the fish bones, whether he has eaten, them or not, will come out through these*sores. There is a suggestion in this that at some time in the ant past the Navajos came tn contact with some sea coast tribe who were cfllicted with leprosy or some kin- dred disease, but very little is known about these people prior to the sixteenth cen- tury, except that they! probably came into this country from ike far northwest, from some region beyond ‘the present limits of the United States, The fish taboo does uot" stand alone. Much the same idea was “formerly held about pork, and to this day some of the older men of the tribe will not eat It. But this feeling was pretty well broken by the govertment at the time of the last Navajo war, some thirty years ago. At that time practically the whole. Arive | and were deported to Zan Carlo: they liter:lly died by hundred died from home-sickness, which to dian often proves fatal, fed on rations consisting becon the old men, the wiseacres, uted the deaths to the food. Prefer Not to Eat Pork. The younger men,- however, who had eaten bacon without evil results to them- selves, came back to their own country with the idea that such food was not neces- sarily fatal, but if they have any choice in the matter they prefer not to eat it. Sheep and goats, horses, and even dogs are all right; in fact, anything is better than por and it is doubtful whether there is a single hog on the entire reservation outside of th agency. Moreover, they have a pronounced contempt for the man who eats such food, although it is seldom made apparent. A young horse is considered a delicacy, while a prairie dog roasted in ashes is a treat. Horses are killed for food jus we kill cattle for the same purpose, 2 often the occasion assumes a_semi-social character, and friends are invited from a distance to partake of the feast. N could be more absurd than the statemen: put out som2 two years ago and again last winter that the Navajos w starving and were killing their horses for food. It is almosg equivalent to saying that the Amer- ican ptople are starving because they are killing their cattle. The Navajo cannot understand our prej- ndice against horse meat. He claims that a young horse is very much better to eat than an old cow, and .he extends this sta nt to cover burros. It is quite prob- able that a considerable percentage of the venison sold to whites is burro under an? other name. The Navajo regards our prej- udices in this matter as senseless, and takes a malicious pleasure in deceiving a white man, just as the latter sometimes tries to force fish on a Navajo by disguis- ing its appearance and flavor. Not long ago one of the traders on the reservation became very angry because an Indian brought in a burro hide with some other pelts and offered it for sale as a deer skin. He abused the Indian roundly, until the latter said, quietly, “I don’t understand what you are angry about. Two weeks ago I sold you the hind quarters of that beast, and you have since told me that it was very good. What is the matter with the hide?” an In- but as they were principally of attrib- No Taste for Bear Ment. There are plenty of bear in parts of the Navajo country, but they are never killed for food by the Indians. In fact, a large sum of money would not tempt the aver- age Navajo to touch a dead’bear, nor, for that matter, a live one. He will not skin it nor touch the hide after some one else has skinned it. He feels the same way about a coyote, and a coyaje pelt is an ef- fective tent guard, if so digyoged about the doorway that no one can‘.enter without touching it. Quite recently a practical joke involving this feeling came very near resulting in a big fight in a camp on the.reservation. A young Navajo, who was cepbrated for his perpetual good nature, gave his silver bracelet to one of the men 16. keep for him, and the latter stowed it away in one of the tents and threw a coyote skin over the box. When the Indian applied for his property he was told in what part of the tent it was, and eventually he found it; but he came out cf that tent with a face like a thunder-cloud, and ready tg whip any two men in camp, but the authorgof the joke had taken the precaution to Have four or five men about at the denqueyent; other- wise he would have been rdighly used. Late that evening I saw th¢ Navajo scour- ing his bracelet with sand and Water to re- move the contamination of the coyote skin, which had only been near it, not against it, and it was several days before he recovered his usual good humor. The Navajos have the same aversion to snakes that we have, but he never kills one intentionally. The deadly rattler enjoys the same immunity as the harmless va- rieties, and all of them have the right of way on all the trails and roads through- out the country. A Snake Superstition. Snakes are often killed by white men, and the Navajos will witness the operation, but they will never take a hand in it. They believe that harm will befall the man who Kills a snake, and that, within one or two years afterward, he will sicken and die; unless in the meantime the case is taken in hand by a shaman, or medicine OSSSSS OSSS CE SES CESS The The Rest. Test. There are two kinds of Sarsaparilla: The best---and the rest. The trouble is they look alike. And when the rest dress like the best, who’s to tell them apart? Well, “the tree is known by its fruit.”. That’s an old test and a safe one. And the taller the tree the deeper the root. That’s another test. What’s the root,---the record of these sarsa- parillasP The one with the deepest root is Ayer’s. The one with the richest fruit,---that, too, is Ayer’s. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has a record of half a century of cures; a record of many medals and awards--- culminating in the medal of the Chicago World’s Fair, which, admitting Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as the best, shut its doors against the rest. That was greater honor than the medal; to be the only Sar- saparilla admitted as an exhibit at the World’s Fair. If you want to get the best sarsaparilla of your druggist here’s an infallible rule: Ask for the best and you'll get Ayer’s. Ask for Ayer’s and youll get the best. S SOOSSESOOS 6060 GD Pill have doubts? Send for the “Curebook” Ut kills doubts and cures doubters. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. - 2 © o @ o ® o 8 S ) @ . o © 6 © oO =. Fara € @ i) ea) © @ man, and the malign influence is counter- WORLD'S DEBTS INCREASING. 3 GOSSOSOOSCE CO & eooe By Nay w 000, and the Argentine Republic, which acted or expelled. 1 —— (4),000. For the smail bor- I have been informed by several Navajos Thirty-Eight Hundred Million Dollars rs — Bulgaria, Denmark, who have seen me killing snakes that I should make arrangements at once to have a good medicine man “sing over” me, Lut the operation is somewhat costly, the usuel fee being four or five sheep, or a hor: Added to Them in Twen From the Pall Mall Gazette. Whether it be a good or a bad thing for the nations, there is no room to doubt that y Years. ile, Peru, Servia, ete. allowed £150,000,000, Which is prc two-thirds thes: ot nations, the actual obligatic In this ceremony, which 1s an elaborate | the debts of the world are growing steadi- 4 Sto £230,0000,000, one, a small wooden image of a snake <5 A yee 2 ,| Twenty years ago the total was about one on ana iebuehatoe pe and | 1¥- In 1875 it was computed that they W1,0400,000, and the increase of only £! powertil| incantations Of the se stood at £4,750,000,000, as compared with a x), with a capital ition of more the spirit of the snake, whic possession of the man who kille round £4,200,000,000 two years earlier. On} than £1,000,000,000 is ex; the basis of figures, many of which have | tat toney ‘now is “cheaper, pro out of bins ang Salo me worl been obtained by u: : credits are good, than it was in’ " y us at first hand, and are after which it is pow=rless to do 5 t hand, and are on some of its loans England w likely on that account to be more accurate | 314 ‘per cent. than some of the wild guesses to which rious of is man to look at his Perhaps the most ¢ that which forbi¢ mother-in-law or to boll 2uy comm inici certain irrespor ticians have tion with her. ‘Thi common RMONE | treated us, we our e that the many savage tribes, 2 ound in “all | indebtedness of the world today stands at force and eflect among 2 10,000,000, AS probably every one Gne of the odd ide 3 | knows, France ha the way they regarl ihe | of being the tr tae tee - in cenical huts construc debt. The le of interest, the ye a covering of vark and smething like £1 eli Penge te tha double the Great Britain's structure Britain, which ranks as 30.0, Or 128. i. remains and set on fi Itussia follows with | tc pays outa litle is thereafter, known as ancavaeane MEANS esas at head. 1di Leing a sort of SSE Son cuiatan waperals special of J Hungary sessed Avoid Them as a Plague. on th joint » individual debis S AMeihen gua tions of the n in the two por- de i t ste There are many thousands of ‘hi sites all over the reservation, and some of them are very old, but by signs weil known to them all Navajos can identify the plac and they avoid them as we would a plazue. he tion. 1 Hungar ? arce in Italy 18 which works out Spain pay: mounts to usive of 100,000, and t ., 2 “ - . e pital itself is a ta item, h ; ‘would they touch a the more recent foam: ution of the 4 “ otto any anIne iy aed. Abas eee 000,000. In the follow. um in the United Siat of wood or other article that came m pomperiona tor than Is. $d. per a chindi site. If an irreverent white man of the indebtedness of the uses a bit of wood from such a place for a Ao eS EPS SS camp fire, as sometimes ia the In- | £190,000,000 or over: dians with him will withdraw ‘to some distance where they cannot ‘eel the heat or smell the smoke, and r: take of food cooked on su7 will do without any. her than r in Germany it is no more y off-hand wh will sometimes build the ye ee et taal fre off to one side, but they wil: not eet ells it from a coal from the white man arts that is, country oe ile after the usual camp. The chindi is a human-sha spirit, with very large w3. He is not practice ne 730,090 40,008 90.0000, 900,000) 10,009 an evil nei be becomes such only when he is TIsLoo0.000 spirit 1e-000,008 offended by encroachments on his part lar lozazity, which f chindi house, or when lar property is taken men. Then he becom | man debt active only at night, 2 of the | fourteen man who has come under his displeasure | is made miserabie. Bad dreams will haunt } be fitful and broken morning unrefreshe 000,000 Cape Colony uth Australia with na brings up the rear wi £5,17: reduction of fh and Ger- > for the rs of in Iss. Onions, me twelve From the Chic made up sleep will ram the it's this way,” ndlord. “I don't he explain nt to hat inay pte Pgiee de cs en cae Dentennrauleeney py é ‘ le, and 1 don’t want t if immediate resort fs not had to a medi- Turkey, man sh: : °, cine man and certain performed to nd an't very wail st 1 appease the irate gho. victim will be ee eanige yr ares fortunate if he escapes with his life, for cod ins Rak) Bal Ase pibeticnl the chindi will take him vy the throat as | the indebtedness of the nah « < he sleeps aml try. to choke him to dew edz but the whole over the country shall not be cock« There is another kind of chindi IS85 represented an incr the premi Again, I am_ pr must not under any cirenm calculations giving a total for the former | «one: t onions and cabba ar for fire or for other purp: 2 | of néarly £4,00,000,000, Among the minor | right in the right place, but I fcel the wood from a tree which nas been si1ack | debtors Belgium bas increased its obliga | justice to my the neighbors, I by lightning. The ex is that when a tions from £71,000,000 in 1 protest that : uilding on a war tree Is struck some of the spirit of the | in 1895, and in the sam when the wi lightning is left in it and is tran: the Netherlands has gone up from £80,009,- | right plac to any one who handles the wood 000 to nd that of Canada from | and the time about noon. after such person is partic arly liable to | £30,000,000 0,000, The eek debt perfect) that uu can't do be himself struck by lightnin: his icea | stands at £22,984,000, and that of Mexico ai | matters are now, but I rely uw is not very far removed from the modern 000 (as against £63,500,009 in 187: ort when I introduce in while among the new borrow reckoned Japan, scientific doctrine that force traveis along the lines of least resistance. uncil regulating uw »bages in flat buildings. om fac vidi d 1 the bout than d to un- late that le is in y all 4 on ed to e all at, in must sup- n the and Uncle Sam (to Young Jonathan)—“I wouldn’t play with those foreign boys much, they all carry chips on their shoulders. Life.