Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 13, 1891, Page 15

THE OMAHA ATTHE GOURT OF A SOUTH SEA KING. A Narrative of Life on the Group of Gilbert the South Islands, an Out-of-the-Way Pacific. By Robert Louis Stevenson. PART 11 Copuriaht 1491, volution are the common suc- cossors of reform, yot Nanteitei died (of an overdose of chlorodyne) in quist possession of tho throne, and it was in the reign of tho third brother, Nabakatokia, a man lame in body and feebls in charastor, that the storm burst. ‘Tae rale of the high chicfs and nota blos seoms to have always underlain and por haps alternated with monarchy. The Old Men (as they were called) have a right to sit with tho king in the spaak nouse and debate, and the king's oblof superiority is a form of closure—‘the speaking is ove After the long monocracy of Nakacia and the changes of Nanteitel the Old Men doubtless grown impatient of obscurity, and they wero | beyond quoestion jealous of the influence of Maka., Ca rather earicature was called into use; on ran round society; Maka was roported to have said in church that the king was the first man in the fsland and himself the second; and, stung tho supposed affront tho chiefs broko into robellion armed gathe In tho space of one forenoon the thr ”mnr Nakacia was humbled in the dust. The king sat in the moniap before the palaco his recruits, Maka by his side, both mon, and meanwhile, in the door of a hous at tho north entry of the town, a chiof nad taken post ana diverted the siccors as they came. They came singly or in groups, ea with his gun or pistol sling about his nock “Where are you going!” asked the ohiet “The king called us.” they would reply “Fere is_your place; sit down,” return tho chief. With incredible disloyalty, obeyed ! and suflicient force be togather from both sides, Nubakatokin was summoned, and surcendered. Kings Were Murdered, About this period, in alinost every part the group the kings were murdered; and on Tapitucal the skelcton of tho last hangs to this day in the chief speak house of the isle, & menace 1o ambition Nubakatokia was moro fortunate; his life and the royal stylo were spared to him, but he was stripped ~of power. Theold men enjoved a festival of public speaking, the laws were continually changed, never enforced, tho commons _hail an opp ity to regret tke merits of Nak i king denied the resou f rich | marriages and the scrvies of a troop of wives, fell not only in disconsiveration, but in debt. He died some months before my arrival in the islands, and no one regretted him. rather, all looked hopefully to his successor. This was by repute the hero of the family. Alone of the four brothers he had issue, a grown son. Natiata, and o daughter ! years old. It was to him, in the hour of the revolution, that, Nabakatokia turned too lato for help and in earlier days ho had been the right band of the vigorous Nakaeia. Nan- temat, Mr. Corpse, was his appalling uick name, und he had earned it well. Again and again, at tho command of Nukaeia, ho had surrounded houses in the dead of night, cut down the mosquito bars, and butchered familics. Here Was the Har Here was Nakaeia redux. moued from the tributary rule of Littlo Ma- kin, he was installed, b proved a puppet and a trembler, the unwicldy shuttiecock of orators, and thie reader has seen the remains of him in his summer parlor under the name f Teburcimon, The chango in_ the man's character was much commented on in the island and vari- ously explained by opum and Christinai To 1y eyes there seemeino change at allo rather an extrome consistency. Mr. Corps. was afraid of his brother. King Tebureimoa is afraid of the Old Men. error of the first nerved him for deeds of desporation; fear of the second disables him for the least act of government. Ho played his part of bravo in tho past, following the Lino of ieast resistan butchering others in s own defense; tod: grown elderly and heavy, a couvert, a roador of the bible, perhaps a penitent, fconscious at least of accumulated hiatreds, and his memory charged with images of violtnce and blood, ho capitulates to the Old Men, fuddles him- self with opium, and sits among s guards in dreadful expectation. The same coward- ice that put into his hand the knife of the as- sassin deprives him of the sceptro of a king, A talo that | was told, o trifling incident that fell in my observation, depict him in his two capacities. A chief 'in Little Makin asked, wwan nour of lightness: “Who is Kaein? A bird carried tho saying, and Na- kkaei pleoad the matter in the hands of a com miutce of three. Mr. Corpso was chairman tho second commissioner died beforo my ar rival; the third was alive und greon, and pre- sented so vencrablo an appearance that wo gave him the name of AbouBen Adhem. Mr. Corpse was troubled with a scruple; the man from Littlo Makin was his adopted’ brother; in such a caso it was not, very dolicate to ap- vear at ull, to strike the blow (which it soems wis otherwise expected of him), would Dbo worse than awkward. [ will strike the blow,” said tho venorable Abou; and Mr. Corpso (surely with u sigh) accepted tho compromise. Decoyed and Butchered. Thoe quarry was decoyed into tho bush; he was sot to carry o log; and while his arms wore raised, Abou ripped up his belly at a blow. Justico being thus done, the com- mission, in a childish horror, turned to flce. But their victim recalled them to his side “Youneod not run away now,” he said, “tyou have done this thing to me. Stay." Ho was somo twenty minutes dying, and his murdorers sat with him the whilo-a scoue for Shakospeare. Al the st of a violent aoath, the blood, the fuiliug voice, tho do- composing features, the chauged ' hue, aro thus present in the memory of “Mr. Corpse; and sinco he studied them in_ tho brother o betrayed, ho has some reason 1o reflect on tho possibilities of treacherv. I was never more sure of anything than the tragic qual- ity of tho king's thoughts; and yet I had but the one sight of him at unawares. 1 had an errand for his car. It was onco more the hour of tho siesta; but there wero loiterers abroad, aud these directed us to a closed house on tho bank of the canul whero Pebureimon lny unguarded. Wo entored without ceremony, being iu some haste. Ho lay on the floor upon a bed of mats, reading In his Gilgort Island Bible with compuuction On our sudden entrance tho unwieldy man ed himsolf half sitting so that the Bible d on tho floor, stared” on us & moment with blank oyes, and, having recognized his visitors, sank again upon the mats.’ S50 Eglon looked on Ehud. A Monarch's Income, Tho justico of facts is strango, and strange- ty just. Nukaeia, the author of these deeds, died at peace discoursing on the craft of kings: bis tool suffors daily death for his cn- forced complicity, Not tho nature, but the congruity of men’s deeds and circumstances damn aud save them, and Tebureimon from the first has been incongruously placed. At home, in a quiet by street of & village, tho man had been a worthy carpenter, and oven bedeviled as he is, N shows s private virtuos. He has no lands, only the use of such as are impiguorate for fines, He cay enrioh himself in tho old way by marria “Thrift is tho chiof pillar of his fortune, and hoknows and uses it. Eloven foreign trad- ers pay him a patent of §1(4, 50mo two thous and subjects capitation at the rato of #1.00 for a mau, 50 cents for a woman, and 1 shil ling for a child, Allowing for the exchange, perhaps u total of £300 & year. He had been some nine months on the throne, had bought his wife a silk dress and hat®tigure unknoiwn, and himseif a umform at $300; had sent his | brother's photograph to be enlarged in San Francisco at $50; haa greatly reduced that brother's legacy of debt, and had still sove eigus in his pocket. Au affectionate brother, @ good ecouomist, ho was, bosides, & handy carpenter, and_cobbled occasionally on the woodwork of the palace. 1tis not™ wondor- {)ulum\ Mr. Corpse has virtues; that Te ureimoa should bhave a diversion filled wme with surprise, This chapter of history 1 have collected | from the lips of eyewitnesses and actors: Maika himself, Mr. Beuson, an old resident, aud a fair helper, Mrs. Adolph Rick. | Primitive Industrios. | When we left the Juuwu wo were still but Msafarers ashore; aad within the hour we bad | ‘War and re wero spoken ¢ of 1 of Iron; Ho came, sum- and Bacchic glee; | [ installed our goods in ove of the six foreign houses of Butaritari, Two San Francisco firms aro here established, Messrs, Crawford and Messrs, Wightman Hros.; the first hard by the palace in the midtown, the second at the nortn entry, each with a store and bar- room, Our house was in the Wightman com- pound, betwixt and bar, within o fenced enclosure. Across the road a few na tive houses nestled in tho margin of the bush, and the green wall of palms rose solid, shut- ting out the breezo, A little sandy cove of the lagoon ran in behind, sheltered by a ver- andaed pier, the labor of queen’s hands. He tho tide was high, sailboats lay to wded. When the tids was low the boats took eround some half a mile away, and an endless series of natives descended the pier stair, toilod across the saud in strings and clusters, waded to the waist with the bags of copra, and loitered backs thoir ¢ Thomystery of the copra trade tormented mo as I sat and watched the profits drip on the stair and the sands. Iu front, from shortly after 4 in the morn ing until’ 0 at night, the folks of the town streamed by us intermittingly along the road; families going up the island to make copra on their lands: women bound for the bush to gather flowers against the evening toi and, twice a day, the toddy cutte h 'with ‘his knifo and ‘shell. In the fi gray of the morning and again lato in afternoon, these would stragele past about their treetop busiuess, strike off hern and there into tho bush. and vanish from the faco of carth about the same hour in morn- inz, if the tide be low in the lagoon, you » likely to bo bound yourself across tho island a bath, and may cuter close at their heels ailoys of the palm wood. A Bit of Nature. Right 1n front, although tho sun is not yet risen, the eust is already lighted with prepa- ratory fires, and the huge accumulations of the trade wind cloud glow with and hello- gruph the coming day. The brecze is in your tace, overhead in the tops of the palms, its playthings, it maintains a_lively bustle, look whei ou will, above or below, there is o human presence.” Aud right overhead the 1 invisible singor breaks from the thick leaves; from further on a second tree. top answers, and beyond again, in the bosom of the woods, a still moro distant minstrel perches and sways and sings. So, all rouna the isle, the toady cutters sit on high and are ked by the traiewitds,and have a vicw far to seaward, whero they keep watceh for sails, and, like higo birds, utter their songs in the morning. They sinic with a certain lusune tho volume of sound and tho articulate melody fall unexpected from tho treo top, whence wo anticipate the chat- tering of fowls. Aud yot in a sense these sougs also aro but chatter; tho words are ancient, obsclete, and sacred; few compre: hend them. perhaps o one perfectly; but it was understood the cutters “prayed to nave good toddy and sang of their old wars.” The prayer is at least answered; and when the roaming shell is brought to your door you have a boverago well “worthy of a grace.” All forenoon vou may retucn and taste; it only sparkies and sharpens and grows to bo anew drink, not less delicious; but with the progress of the day, the fermentation quickens and grows u_ twolve hours it will b yeast for bread; ' in two days more a deovilish intoxicant,tho counsellor of crime. Very Scant Apparel. The men are of a marked Arablan cast of features, often bearded and moustachioed, often gaily aressed somo with bracelots and anklets, all stalking hidalgo-like and accept- ing salutations with a haughty lip. The hair (with the dandics of either sex) is worn tur- banwise in a frizzled bush, and like the dag- gors of the Jupanese, a pointed stick (used foracomb) is thrust gallantly among the curls, The women from this bush of hair look forth enticingly, The race must not bo comparea with the ‘l'ahitian for fomale boauty. I doubt even if the average be highs but some of the prettiest girls and ono of tho handsomest women I ever suw wero Gil- bertines. Butaritari, being the commercial center of tho evoup, is ISuropeanized; the colored sacque or tha white shift aro common wear, the latter for the evening; the trado hat, loaded with flowers, fruit and ribbons, is unfortunately not unknown, and the char: acteristic femalo aross of thé Gilberts no longer unmversal. The ridi is its name—a cutty petticoat or fringe of the smoked fibre of tlio cocoanut leaf, not unlike tarry strings; the lower edgo not 'reaching the mid-thigh, the upper adjusted so low upon the haunches that it seems to cling by accident. A sneeze, you think, and the lady must surely bo left dostitute,” *“Tho perilous, hair ~breadth vidi, was our word for 1t; and in the con- flict that rages over women's dress it has tho misfortune to please neither side, tho prudish condemning it ns insuflicient, the more frivolous finding it un- lovely in_itself. Yot if pretty Gilbertino would look her best that must be her cos- tume, In that, and naked otherwise, she moves with an wparable liberty and grace aud lifo t s tho poctry of Mi- cronesia. Bundlo ber in agown the charm is tled and she wriggles liko an English woman. the the The Night Police. Toward dusk the passers-by became more gorgeous. The men broke out inall tue colors of the rainbow, orat least the trado room, and botu men and women began to bo adorned and scented with new flowers. A swall white blossom is the favorite, some- times sown singly in a woman's hair like stars, now composed in a thick wreath. With the meht the crowd thickened in tho road, aud the paddling and brushime of bare fect beeame continuous; the promeuaders mostly grave, tho silence only interrupted by gigaling and scampering of g children quiet. At9 bedtime steuck on a bell from tho cathedral and the lifo of the town ceased. At 4 tho next morning the sig repeated in the darkness and the innocent prisoners set free; but for seven hours all must lio—I was about to say within doors, of a place where doors and even walls aro’ an exception—housed, at least, under their airy roofs and clustered in the tents of the mus- quito nets, Suppose a nocessary errand to oceur, suppose it imperative to send abroad, the mussengor must then go openly advertis- ing himself to the police with a huge braud of cocoanut,which flares from touse to house like & moving boufire. Ouly the police them selves go darkling and geopo in the night for misdemeanants, 1 used to hate their treach- orous presence; their captain in particular, a craftly old man in white, lurked nightly about my premises till I could: have found it in my heart to beat him. But the rogue was privileged. The Friendly Parson. Our enclosure, round which this composite of degradations wandered, was of somo ox tent. In oue corner was a treliis with a long tablo of rough boards. Here tho Fourth of July feast had been held not long beforo with memorable consequences, yet to be sot forth; hore we took our meals, here entertained to a Qinner the king and notables of Makin. In the midst was the bouse, with & veranda front and back, and three' rooms within, In the verauda e slung our man-of-war hammocks, worked there by day and slept ut nigut Within were bects, chairs, a round table, a fine hanging lamp, and portraits of tho royal family of Hawail. Queen Victoria proves nothing, Kalakaua and Mrs, Bishop are ding nostic, and tho truth is we were the stealthy tenants of the parsonage. Ou the day of our arrival Maia was away, faithless trustees un- locked nis doors, and the dear rigorous man, the swora 0o of liguor and tobaceo, returned to find his verauda littered with cigurettes ana bis parlor horriblo with bottles, He made but one condition—on the round table, which he used in the celebration of thesacrament, ho begged us to refrain from selling ligour. In all elso he bowed to the uccomplished fact, refused rent, rotived across the way into o native house, and, plying his boat, beat the otest quarters of the islo for proveader. He found us pigs; I could not fanoy wheve, no other pigs were visible. He brought us fowls and taro; when we gave our foast to the monarch and gentry, it was ho who plied the wherewithal, he who superintended the cooking, he who asked grace at the table, aud when the king's health was proposed, ho who started tho cheering with an English hip-hip-bip. Thero was uever @& more fortunate conception; the heart of the fatted king exiited in his bosom at the sound ‘Take kim for all in ali, I have rever kuown @ m O re ongaging person than the parson of Butaritari, His wirth, bis kinduess, bis mo- bile, frieudly feellugs brimmed {rom the man rd to renew | D \th BEE spooch and gostura, , o loved to oxagger- Ato, to act and overact the momentary part, to exeroise his lungs aud muscles, ‘and to speak and laugh with his wholoe body. Ho had tho morning cheerfulness of birds and | heaithy children, and his humor was infee- | tious.” We wero next neighbors and met | anily, yet our salutations lasted minutes at a stretch, shaking hands, slapping shoulders, capering liko a pair of Morry Andrews, Intighing to split our sides upon some pleas. | antry that would scarce raise a titter in an infant scnool. It might be five in the morn ing, the toddy cutters just gone by, the road empty, the shade of the island | far on the lagoon, and tho ebullition cheered me for the day. In the Dim Cathedral, Yot I always suspected Maka of a socret melancholy: these jubilaut extremes could soarco by constantly malntained. Ho was, besides, long and lean and lined and corded, and a teiflo grizled, and his Sabbath coun- tenance was even saturnine. On that day we made a procession to the church or (as 1 ys call it), the catbedval; Maka ou the hot landscape) in tall , black frock coat, black trousers; ' under his arm the hymn book aud the Bible; on his face a reverent gravity: beside him Mary, his wife, a_quiet, wise, and handsome clderly lady, ‘seriously attired—myself following, with singular and moving thoughts. Long before, to the sound of bells and streams and birds, through a green Lothian glen, I had accompanied Sunday by Sunday a minister in whose houso I lodged, and the likeness and the dif- ference and tho series of years and deaths profoundly touched = me. In tho great dusky, palm-treo cathedral the congregation rarely num- bered thirty. The men on one side the women on the other wyself posted (for a priviloze) nmoagst the women, aud the small missionary contingent gathered close around the platform, we were lost in that round vault. The lessons were read anu- phonally, tho flock was catechised, a blind youth repeated weekly a long string of psalms, hymns wero sung—I never heard worso singing—and the sermon followed. To say T understood nothing were untrue; there wero points that [ learned to- expect with certainty; the nanie of Honolulu, that of Kalakaua, the word cap’nman-o'-ma the word ship and a description of a storm atsea, in- fallibly occurred; and I was ot seldom ro- warded with the name of my own sovereign in the bargain. The rest was but sound to the ears, silence for the mind, a plain expense of tedium rendered unbearablo by® heat, o hard chair and the sight through™ the wide doors of the more happy heathen on tho green. Sleep breathed on my jonts uand ayelids, sleep hummed in my eavs ‘it reigned it the dim cathedral. The congregation stir- red and stretched, they moaned, —they groaned aloud, they yawned upon a singing note as you may sometimes hear a dog when he has reached the tragic bitterness of bore- dom. In vain the proacher thumped the le, in vain ho singled and addressod by name particular nearers. (To be Continued.) (u_ blot S C—— DRIFTED APART. WRITTEN FOR THE BEE. Lost, and I know not where thou art; I know thou art changed in miud and heart, Aud dearest friends will drift apart Upon time's treacherous tido. And yet I dreamed t thou and [ On waters calm, 'neath cloudless sky, Would onward float, forever nigh, Across life's ocean wide. And still I mourn tho luckloss day I marked thee slowly clide a My heart 1 piteous tones cried, And leave mo not alone No answering word or look from thes Came through the distance back to me, Ouly the waves of life's deep sou Mado melancholy moan. No answeriug word, no farewell kiss, Ouly a vanished dréam of bliss— A void that aches for what 1 miss EF'rom out my life aud hoart; So, weary of the world's dull ways, I scorn alike its blame aud praise, Aud sigh for joys of bygone days, Ah, me, to dvift apart! Iloved thee, I who love so few; I teusted theo and loved thee, too— They always trust whose hearts aro true, Nor fear tho change of years. Some hearts are made to love Somo brows to ever ache with pain; Some Lips to sing a sad refrain— Some eyes were made for tears, 1 quit the busy haunts of men And secl sweot solitude ngain, With frienaly book and faithful pea— These are not lost to me. But, love, I know not whero thou art; We change in mind and chango in heart, And this1s why we arift apart Upon time's storm tossed soa. Hunnerr MONTGOMERY. HOUSEHOLD BLO, A Startling Wish, “An amusing incident came under my no- tice recontly,” remarked a friend to the St. Louis Republic Man About Town. “I was visiting 1n the family of an old acquaintance where there wero several children, ninong whom was a bright faced, “curly, ' flaxon- haired hittle girl of 3 summers and a cherub babo of 1S months. Tho other chiliren were on theeve of leaving for a visit to a neizh- bor'sand the litto girt was ploading with her mother to bo allowed to go too. “Why, darling, responded the mother, ‘if you were togo, poor baby would be left all alone, and sho would weep her little eves out.” This This scemed to pacify the child and she sor- fully withdrew from tbe room. Iua few moments, bowever, she returned with a very thoughtful face and,approaching her mother, said: ‘Mumma, I wish littlo sister was i beaven.' oM. The Smart Boy Gets Off One, Philadelphia Times: “Ma," said the smart 10-year-old boy at tho dinner-table, as he picked up an ear of corn, “I don’t want this corn.” *Why not, my son?’ “Because it is too old." “You aro mistuken, my son. It isa very ud tender e.r.”” What mado you think it was old +Oh, becauso It has ‘whiskers on it,” he re- plied, whilo putling off "some of the'silk the ook had left on ¢ Wantedlt Applied. Puck: *Pa,” said little Johuny Cutely, *I heard you talking with Mr. Brown just now, and you said you—you didu't believe in future punishment.” “Well, Johnny," repliod the old man, *the subject I8 & strange ove for you to speak about; but, really, I don't.” - “I'nen, I suppose—I suppose that lets me out o' tho lickin’ you promised me after sup- per.? wmi aits, tpoch: Teacher—Johnny Cumso, if your ather can do a pieco of work in soven days, and your Uncle George can do it in nino days, how loug would it take both of thom Johuny—They'd never get it done, ,Thoy'd sit around and swap fish stories, A Difference. Burdette " said young Mittimus, coming in from school, “thd teacher says I've got to commit thirty lines of try to mom- ory by tomorrow morning. 1 never can do ie.” “Eshay committed & poc this afternoou.” Not Much Ahead of Him. Chicago Tribune: Tommy —My maw knows all about Delsarte an’ your'n don’'t Willio~That's nothin't My maw’s got the hay fever an’ your'n hain’ ¢ Know It whero did the justico, “that's easy; I for ton days in five minutos Tho ox-I como from ! “Mamma—t'vom heaven, darling. The ex-King—The littlo beggar know wheun he was well off, did he! the baby didn't Spilled Milk. “Why should we not cry milk ! asked the teacher. “Because,” replied tho favorite scholar, twe can recover ubout half of it by going o the nearest hydrant.” over spilled Two for a merville Journal: A Georgia mother sold her twin babios for a dollar. Some arusty old bachelors would be willing to sell a whole orphan asylum for less than that, Fan Chauncay M. Dopew says 600 babies have been named after him B Excelsior Spriugs Co's Soterian Gluger o, hl NDAY, SEPTEMBER FORTONES MADE‘W A YEAR. The Field For Amerioan Monoy and Money « Makers Sonth of the Rio Grande, MEXICO AND What It Costs to Live in President Diaz's Nation — Manufac- turing in Onr Sister Republic, Mexico Crry, Sept. 7.—[Special Corre- spoudence of Tur Bek.]—'What does it cost to live in Moxico?" I asked this question of a young American dentist who was practicing his profession in thecity of Sun Luis Potosi. Thisisa city of about 100,000 peoplo, It lios in the north central part of Mexico and is in a rich farm- iug country. Tho young dentist lives very nicely. Like all of his kind in Moxico he is making money and ho is saving enough to make him rich within the next ten or fifteen years, Said he: *Ikeop n closo account of expenses, and as I figure it, it costs mo just about €117 a month. My living costs me for table expenses §2a day, or §0 a month. I pay $25 o month for my bouse and I have three servants, who averago $ a mooth apicce. I might got along with less servants, but not very well. Hers every rospectable follow has to have ncook,a man and a chambormaid. The cook won't go outside tho kitchen and you have somo trouble making tho chambermaid wait upon the tablo. My boy tends to the front door, waters the streot in front of my houseand runs my orrands. He sleeps in frontof the door at night and docs the most of my marketing. In addition to the wages of the servants I havo to give them so much a day for food. Kach of them oxpects 6 conts every morning for tortilias or tho corn cakes, which constitutes the broad of tho common people. They olaim that thoy don’t like my food, but I have a sneaking idea that they steal itall the same. Then every weelk I have to give them 6 cents extra for soap. This is the custom and they want the money and not the soap. I onco bouglit twonty-five pounds of soap and tried to dote itoutto thom, but they wouldn't take it. Then tn addition to this I have my wasbing andironing. This is never done in the house in Mexico. There fara public washer- women who pound and rub the clothes to picces after wotting them with cold water which they get from tho public tanks or ditehes. They wear out tho clothes 1n one- third tho time that they would bo destroyed by the Cinese laundry and I pay them a month for doing it. My butter costs me 75 conts a pound, my milk 17 cents a day, and pay about 6 cents a day on the averag for charcoal. All the cooking in Mexico i done with charcoal and thero is not a cooking stove in a Mexican family the country over. Mexican houses have no chimneys and our cooking utensils aro all made of clay.” “How aboutincidental expenses,” 1 asked. “They are vory high,” was the reply. “*Money slips away hero fastor than you would think, and [ would like to give you some of tho items. An ordinary haud-me-down suit costs from 320 to 30, Underclothing is very expensive. Calico costs 1S cents a yard, A very ordinary silk nccl-tie sells for $2. Linen cuffs are 50 cents a pair and colla aro three for $1. Coal oil costs 87 cents a gal- od tea costs $2.50 a pound, and can- ned meats are expensive. Take oue of those 15 cent cans of lobster or salmon, which you can buy any place in America, and it will cost 37 cents here, and a cake of Pear's soap will cost you cents. Canued fruits are from 75 cents up, coffec costs 23 cents @ pound in the bean unground and chocolate is 40 conts a pound, Bread costs 12 cents a loaf, you can buy tho same at home for 5 cents. Tavle salt costs 6 cents a pound. Klour is a shilling a pound and the better classes of imported articles are very mgh. I pay 25 cents a pound for macwerel aud codfish costs cents, a pound. American cheese is b0 cents a pound, and lump sugar costs 14 conts a pound. I pay 25 cents a pound for strawnberries and we raise theso in - some parts of Mexico all the yoar round, My clarot costs mo SL50 a bottle and I pay 10 conts a quart for potatoes. My wife's dressos count up I can tell you, and a man has to make a #00d ot of money 1n Mex- ico in order to live as well as he doos at home.’” How One “I suppose you make it was the reply, “and any who will come here and stay cau do likewise, T made £,000 the first year and [ have dono considerably better rizht along since that time. I can eharge bigger prices. 1 get from $100 to §150 for a full set of teoth on rubber, “The same thing in tho states cost you $1b, Whenever I administer gas [ charge” $10 for the pulling of a tooth, and when & number are pulled I chargo 310 for the first tootn and £ for all succeeding ones. Kor jerking out a tooth without gas 1 charge $2, and in the United Statos you would only ' got 50 cents for this woric. As to fillings they rango from $ upwards aud gold fillings cost from 315 up into the hundreds according to the size of the cavity and to the sizeof tho bank account of the man who has his teeth filled, 1 always get $500 for making a sctof teoth on gold aid all other business is done at vroportionate rates. | know of mapy dentists who are making more than 1, and 1 know of a num- ber who charge moro than I ao. I often make £1,000 a month, but dentists in Mexico City ke move, und I know a mad thore who get's 50 a tooth for any kind of filing, and who come to Mexico from South America, where ho made £10,000 in a single year. Ho is a good dentist, but his charges ard terrible, In the wean time I am tuyesting all Tsave in Moxico and [ expect to make a fortune.” Living in Mexico O There are about 700 Amer living in Mexico City. Some of thesoare very wealthy. A fow own houses, and quite a number have vented establishmonts. ton, Thomas Brau- niff, who was, [ understand, born on Staten island, is snid to bo & number of times a mil- lionaire,and his income must be considerably over $100,000 a year, He is president of the Moxican railway which runs to Vera Cruz, aud is ono of thi.leadiug owners of the Bank of London and Mexico, which is the biggest bank in the country. He is bulldme a honse which will cost $100,000 on'the 1’aseo, which is the fashionablo drive of Moxico City, und he is the richest American in Mexico. Gen- oral John B, Frisbie is another rich Ameri- can. Ho owns some golil wines near Toluca and bie has one of the most omfortabio homes in the capital. Ho telis'mo that liviug is hig in Mexico and that his expenses there are about as big as they would bo in Washington, The same is the verdict of tho othor Americans whom 1 have met here. Rents aré high and luxuries oxpensive. that1s im- ported Is high and a g o 3 oy muking is for the Ameriean to go to Mexie study the needs of the peoplo aud start facto ries there for making tha aricles that are now so highly protected by tho tari¥. I the matter of nails for ipstance, Theso cost from 16 to 25 conts a pound and they aro so expensive that a great part of the building of Mexico is doue with ropes instead of 1s. Hero in Mexico City within a stone's throw of the lturbide hotel an immense building 13 boing erected. The scaffolding about this ling is tied together with ropes, the raf ters being spliced in this w Many of the huts of the southern part of the country have roofs of thatch tied to rafters with rods and some of these huts have not a nailin thom Fow wooden buildings aro kuown in Mexico, Tho average houso hus neither cellar nor garret und the which we wake with uails aro ingeniously constracted with brick and mor tar I have soen fences whero the boards and poles were tied to the posts and a crato that I got the other day to carry pottery ia was made of rods tie together with strings, All classes of building material are costly here. You have to pay from &5 to $10 per 1,000 for flooring, and glass is very hi A great many of the cheaper houses have no windows in the glass sense of the word, The openings are covered with iron bars and are fastonod at might with close woodon Dentist Got Ricl said 1. *Yes,I do,” American_dentist HER VAST POSSIBILITIES, 1891 —SIXTEEN 13, PAGES. shutters. Tron during past years has been largely imported from Belglum and there is a good chance for American iron. The new railroad which is being built south towards the Isthmus of Panama 18 opening up a coal and iron region and the Amorican ca pitalist that gots fnto this fleld soon is bound to make # bik fortune, Chances for Money-Making in Mexico, Moxico, in fact, offors better chances for the same amount of money, brains and he: to tho Investor and business man fortuno-maker than any othor in tho world today. During my stay of two months in Mexico I have traveled over a Iarge part of tho country, and I have mot hundreds of Amoricans, some of whom wore delighted with the people and their sur: roundings and others of whom wero thor- oughly disgusted with them. Among thom all, however, I did not find one man who did not think that the chances for monay-making wera groater hero than anyiwhero else in the world, and hundreds of Americans aro taking ad tago of the situation and making for tunos, As to climate, there is no better climate in tho world than that of the Mexi can plateau. Wo rush for the White moun tains in the summer ay wo ‘mhh!m our- solves happy if we can lLve du August on the top of Mount \ Still all this Mexican plateau, which mak up, I should say, more than_three-fourths of Mexico, I8 higher up in the air than Deer park or Cresson, and muich of it is higher than Mount Washington. tlero you have per- petual summer tho vear round. The air always pure and is one long Juno day sum mer and winter, spring and sutumn, Voo tavles of all kinds are in the marke 1 the time and strawberries in parts of the country are always ripe. Ifor poople troubled with diseases of the lungs or the digestion, tho cli- mato is a cure all, and I have met a score of heaithy looking Americans who told mo they bad been sent to Mexico to die. 1 am no heavy woight myself and my average is about 100 pounds. Still I have never felt botter than during the weeks 1 have been in Mexico, and tho air braces one up as ove charged with champagne. This country is about one-fifth the size of the Unted States 1t bas, until tho last twelve vears, been torn up with revolutions and its people have not had time to look into their own povert sce what they have. No good geological suv voy has over been made of Mexico, 1ts agri cultural rosources have never been estimated and its mining territory has never been fully prospected. There are now moro than 2,000 miles of new railroad being built in tho cou try. These roads go into states which her tofore have been penctrated only on mule- back, or by stage lines,and they open up what i3 sdid to be a richer part of Mexico than that now known. Manufacturing Field, Take for instance the field of manufactures, At Monterey Philadelphia capitalists, and not ve capitalists oither, started a knitting factory about a year ago. They ot a concession from the "governor of tho stato providing that_they should be the only kuitting factory in it for twenty-fivo years, they are now turning out 200 dozen vairs of stockings per day. T'he duty on stockings is 50 great that thoy can sell at a high profit. They use Mexican girls to work the machinos, and are maling lots of money, ‘Mhere are fwo big American smeit- ers in Monterey, which are making mon and I understand that Seazur, Guoernsey Co., have ostablished a plow foundry near Pucblo and are doing well. There 1s a furni- ture factory at Monterey run by Americans, which is doing well, and the furniture tield is oo that can_be worked with profit al! fastenings | over Mexico. You have here the finest wood in the world, Stillall furniture is imported. Where ebony, mahogany and all kinds of hard wood are found in tho forest there is no reason why Moxico should not export furni- turo instead of importit. The cost of any land of furniture is cnormous. Desks which cost #% in the United States sell for $100 in DMexico City and tho cheapest of school desks are apicce. Furniture imported iuto Mexico pays duty by weighit and I am told that all kinds of nard wood furniture have to pay cents a pound beforo thoey can cross the frontier. “Then thero is a state duty, the heavy freight rates and other items which double "the_cost of almost any article imported. There is an American furniture store m Mexico City which is making a_great deal of money by importing American furniture and selling it here, and there is a Germar here who bas gotten rich out of furnitare selling. He sells parlor suites all the way from $300 to $2,500 a set. Thero are & number of cot- ton factories in _ Mexico, and thero are a number of large mills near Orizaba, which make print goods. Ivery, thing is'protected here by the highest duties and almost auy kind of a factory ought to vay. Cattle and Packing Interests, Meoxico City will so0n have the biggest pork pucking establishment in the world. “This is built with Mexican capital, but is being enginecred by Americans, and it promises to control the meat market in Moxico City. It is called the Mexican Pack- ing company and its head is an Aztee million- airo named Sorano, who started lifeas a mat peddler and who_is now one of the richst busiuess men in Mexico City. The American end of this establishmont is tho firm of Morris & Butte, bright young feliows who own o packing house at Kansas City and who are managing bir establishment here. They havo constructed a vast house ou tho Ameri- can plan, with machiuery of tho latest kind and they propose to make soap and 1co and a half dozen articles in_aadition to supplying the capital with all kinds of meat. Their building cousists of an old church containing a vast area, and they have added to this and remodeled it until they have a wonderful es- tablishment. They havo their own cars for tho shipping of pigs from the United States to Mexico, and they will probably make big fortunes for themselves aud the Mexicans who aro connected with them. The discov- ery of tho new coal fields and tho iron mines injOaxaca opeus up a big fieild of manufac- tures of all kinds of iron work and thore 15 a big field here for the making of paper, All kinds of stationery are importod ana the prices are exorbitaut.” Tne only kinds mado are tho coarser vavieties of printing paper, and with its great number of fino tibres there is no reason why Mexico should not make as beautiful paper s thoy turn out in Jopun Thero aro now oighty-four cotton factorics i tho couatry and a dozen odd woolen mills, Money in Mines. Tho mining possibilities in Mexico T have discussed briefly in a former lotter, There is 1o doubt but that it is the greatest mining country 1n the world, and the precious met iu the next twenty years will con from hore. Thero are a thousaud abandoned mines which could be work with profit by tho aid of modern mothods and modern ma- chinery, and the new railroads are opening vast fields, some of which have ne beon prospected. There is silver gold and othier mines, and down in the state of Vera Cruz, near Tawmpico, thore are vast bods of asphalt and asphult fountains, which have been bought by two young Americ and the produst of which will soon come iuto competition with the ‘Trinidad asphait. This asplialt doos not need to bo dug. It bubbles up out of the ground, and can bo turned into barrels, tnd by the timo this lo ter is published tho ageuts of the company will be offering it for sale to some of the big Amorican cities. Mexico has vast forosts Which aro now about to bo opencd up so that their woods can be exported, and in the field of agriculture there iss0 much to bo said other letter. (. CARPENTER, The Brid ot R Bastwood in Quiver, Her mother's face as young and fair! This is what father scoms to sco As Ethel kneels beside his chai Hor sweot eyes gazing tenderly Into his own, whilo in his hoort He feels how quickly they must part, ay, wing more beantiful and ro like her mother day by A perfect flower of maidenhood, How pure, how bright, no words can say. Ho faiu w keop ner by his sido Who soon will be a huppy bride. "or twe nty years his thoughts go bao Aloug a shadowed path of life, To find, with sunshine on the tr I'he long lost vision of his wife What wonder if his oyes grow dim That face so liko upturned to him, ok, Ah, well, his thoughts are unconfessed— He would not mur her joy tonight! He knows youug birds will leave the nost, And paints her future fair and bright. One last fond kiss 15t not stay Tomorrow is her wedding da sho 1 Soterian Excelsior Springs Co's GENERAL GOOD FEELING Seems to prevail among SUIT BUYERS so far this fall, whether it's the elegant (lv\mxh we're showing in our new stock or the extreme low price for which we *sell ' em,” or be the cause what it may, we are reveling in the full enjoyment of a | splendid business, and WE THINK the people’s confidence is imposed in us from past dealings has much to do with it. We're making every effort this fall to stre ngthen that confi- dence. We've got the bargains to do it with. SCLENDID BUSINESS SUITS OUR MAKE $10 TO $18.50. (Don't confound them with common ready-made clothing)s Fancy Cassimere, Fancy Cheviots Worsteds, Scotch Plaids Wale Diagonals, and all in Men'’s Suits for dress, wear, Unfinished and Checks, neat the leading styles business or general ranging at such prices S10, 120, S13.0, $15. §16.50, $18, §20 §22.50, $2 lhurcs no trouble to secure a perfect fit in our make of gare ments, No time wasted in re-sewing. as 0 Boy's and Chldren s Clothing The same satisfaction prevails, once a customer, tomer. ALWAVS @ cus FURNISHING GOODS AND HATS Our assortment in the PIL_V.II]H!‘T styles that of any house in the city. Low goods built up these departments Whe rotaloy 0])])0<|lo 1\\'n\'< cross over our fine display in shn\v windows. is probably twic prices for first quality and get a good look at 'BROWNING, KING % GO, Goods Are Not RELIABLE CLOTHIERS. Satisfactory. S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas. 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