7
IFTEEN years
had been allow-
IHN ed, under the
H plan contem
plated, for wip-
Ing out or pacl-
SL C 4 fylng the sav
ages of Formo
sa. But now it
is to be accomplished In
side of n twelvemonth, and
the Japanese government
has made a special appro
priation of $7,175,000 to
pay the military expenses.
This is on account of
the camphor business. Un
til recently the entire
world has practically depended for its
supply of camphor upon Japan, which
has held a monopoly of the produc
tion of that necessary article. But
the Germans have begun to manufac
ture artificial (synthetic) camphor on
a large scale, and thus are competing
In the market to an alarming extent.
It is very necessary under the cir
cumstances that the supply from'
Japanese sources shall be maintained,'
lest it be replaced and crowded out by
synthetic camphor. The camphor,
trees which formerly grew plentifully'
In Southern Japan have been to a
great extent destroyed, owing to neg- (
lect of a regulation that used to re-j
quire the planting of one seedling for
every tree cut, and so the Japanese
are obliged to look to Formosa, where
the camphor laurel flourishes over a
great extent of territory, in virgin
forests.
Unfortunately, It Is in the moun
tainous interior of Formosa that the
camphor laurel grows—that is to say,
In a region which has been since pre
historic times, and is today, under
eavage dominion. The savages who
occupy this territory are very fierce,
and earnestly addicted to head-hunt
ing. Hitherto the camphor of their
forests has been obtained only with
their consent, and it has been custo
mary to pay money to their chiefs as
an Inducement to refrain from destroy
ing the distilling outfits. Neverthe
less, trouble has been frequent, and
the stills have been constantly de
stroyed.
An unlimited number of laborers
can be hired in Japan for ten cents a
day; but not for any such price, nor
for ninny times that much can men be
obtained togo into the forests of
Formosa, cut down the camphor trees,
and distill the gum, at the serious risk
of losing their heads. It is well known
that the Japanese do not lack brav
ery; but head-hunting to the Formo
san savage is a religion; nothing
from his point, of view is so Impor
tant, and he will lie in wait for many
days at a time near a lonely path in
the woods for the sake of getting one
chop at a passing camphor-seeker.
Formosa is a big island—as large as
Sardina and Corsica put together. It
Is 235 miles long and 75 miles wide.
More than half of its entire area Is to
day in the possession of the savages.
For some years past Japan has pur
sued a rather interesting method for
the purpose of bringing about their
eventual subjugation. She has estab
lished a "guard line" nil around the
mountainous interior, with small mili
tary outposts at Intervals along it, and
has pushed this artificial frontier
steadily forward, so as to restrict the
wild people to a slowly but surely di
minishing domain.
By this means it was expected that
within fifteen years of the present
time the entire island would he
brought under civilized control. Rut
commercial necessity has made neces
sary a change of plan. Camphor must
he had, and It has been decided to
wipe out or pacify all the savages
within the coming year. They can
take their choice which It shall be.
Their numhers are not accurately
mown, of course, but it is understood
that tht*y are pllt up Into no fewer
than 72;! tribes, whose village* com
prise from three to upward of three
bundled house*.
The tribes are divided into nine
«roup'<. which ure mutually hostile,
and which differ one another In cus
toms and languages Some of them,
parti< ularly at the south end of the
Islnnd, have already been partly civi
lize,l, and there is even established
among them a sort of rural free deliv
ery mall s« rvlce, by native letter car
riers In the central range of moun
tain dv -II the tribes of the Vntiuuiti
gr<"ip, \\ filch are very tierce and en
lerprHni? hi id hunters In l<»u6 thejr
became MI troublesome that a military
att " k »,i i m nle upon them, result
ing In their partial pacification
The Atayal, or nothern t-uvages, are
the larfti it and must powerful group.
Th< y limit upon head hunting as the
chief i tid and aim of exist* ure \ hu
man le ad Is necessary as au offering
in all their religious ceremonial*.
When h ill putt) arises between Indi
vidual . decision la awarded to the
one who tlrst •cures a lead A lad
I* not ie<<'gulled as adult until he has
taki n a head Ruf It must be the
heud of a Japanese or Chinaman
Their customary method I* to lie In
wait 111 the Jungle, Rear a frequented
path, hsvoral of them together. In the
hope of obtaining the wuihcoveted
trophy
Thus clvillied •listen- >1 anywhere
near to th. savage border la best i with
no lifi. peril At tin- MUM til ■ 'hM
Intel of the Atayal la particularly
torn 1 pin* te reason at its rteht < •• HI
foiast products, «<tp.i»lly tamphor. It
also contains much gold. It should be
added that the Atayal tattoo their
faces very elaborately, and build ele
gant huts of bamboo, over the door
ways of which are hung as trophies
the skulls of wild boars and apes, and
sometimes those of Japanese and
Chinamen—the latter with pigtails
still picturesquely attached.
They make bags of a peculiar net
work expressly to carry human heads.
One chief, when captured and about
to be executed, said: "I have no fear
of death, I have taken ninety-four
heads and wanted only six more to
make the hundred."
History tells us that the Spaniards
took possession of Formosa In the
year 1526. They were expelled by the
Dutch In 16-12. Nineteen years later a
Chinese pirate chief named Koxinga
drove out the Dutch and proclaimed
himself king of the island, but in IGB2
the Chinese dethroned his successor,
and Formosa remained a province of
the Middle Kingdom up to the war be
tween China and Japan, as a result
of which it passed Into the possession
of the Mikado's empire.
A glance at the map will show that
Formosa is really the northermost Isl
and of the group which we call the
Philippines, being situated only a
short distance to the north of Luzon.
Its wild people are undoubtedly of
Malay origin. But its earliest inhabi
tants were black dwarfs, belonging to
the same race as the pigmy negritos
who still survive in small numbers In
Luzon. Many of their skeletons have
been found In the mountainous Inte
rior, and it la reasonable to suppose
that they were exterminated by the
savages who now occupy their terri
tory.
As already stated, these savages
hnve never been subdued. From an
ethnological point of view, they are
more than ordinarily interesting.
Their garb ranges from nudity to gay
colored garments of their own weav
ing, made from the fibers "of banana
and ramie. The women are kindly
treated and have equal rights with the
men. Hut if a wife loses her husband
after the birth of a child she is not al
lowed to marry again, the idea being
that her business thereafter Is to at
DAISY CAME FROM ENGLAND
Like the Pestiferous Sparrow, This
Import Also Has Become
a Pest.
From Memorial day to the Fourth
of July the large white daisies in some
form, dwarf or tail growing varieties,
aro found In abundance, decorating
the unimproved grounds of suburban
country seats, and yet proving a dally
annoyance to farmers throughout the
hills and valleys of eastern Pennsyl
vania, according to u correspondent
of the Philadelphia Record. No soon
er are the large daisies gone for the
season than the little ox-eyes and the
oiher white ami yellow blooms with
dark centers, known as July and Au
gust daisies, and only exclamations
of delight and rapture are heard from
the appreciative youngsters who are
"out a daisymg "
While the daisies have been well
known both In censure and praise for
tunny, many summers, it Is only very
recently that the responsibility ef
their Introduction Into this country
has In en credibly Hand. Horsham
town.sllip Is declared to be the offend
ing community, and Sir William
Keith. flr*t lieutenant governor of
Pennsylvania, the individual who
brought the flower weed" over from
Kngland
It has been a mystery to many
Penn ylvanians, where the daisies
are the thicken) mid their history evi
dently the moat familiar, as to why
they have become known In the past
as "pMt'k weeds." The reason Is ex
plained when their source of Intro
duction Is tak< n Into consideration.
Thev received thi name from Uraturia
Park, the Montgi utery county horn*
of tiovernor Keltli
Hln< u the histoi le Keith mansion
has been in ruin and even the ancient
trees and shrubbery In Its famous
door yard have largely died out, the
profusion of daisies surrounding the
old home have been the most Militant
monument to the ill < of roionial g »
tinmen' In provincial Pennsylvania
The old ruin of a mansion house
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, igio.
tend to the upbringing of her off
spring. Twins are a bad omen, and
among some of the tribes it has been
customary to tie them to a tree and
permit them to perish.
Sickness is supposed to be a punish
ment inflicted by the spirits of the
dead. Dreams afford a medium
through which the spirits of the dead
communicate with the living. The
Atayal and Paiwan groups believe the
virgin forests to be the abode of the
spirits of their ancestors, and on this
account trees within certain desig
nated areas are never disturbed. Old
men and women have supernatural
powers of the kind usually attributed
to witches, and for this reason they
perform the religious rites for the
tribe.
Spirits of dead persons other than
ancestors are dangerous and possibly
malevolent. The Atayal consider that
the ghosts of their forbears will not
be satisfied unless a human head is
part of the offering made at ceremo
nials. Likewise In the case of a dis
pute between two persons the spirits
of his ancestors will guide and pro
tect the one whose cause is just, so
that he may obtain the first head and
thereby win.
The soil of Formosa is exceedingly
rich, and nowhere is a finer quality of
tea produced. The eastern half of the
Island is covered with jungle, in
which grows the valuable creeper
known as rattan. But the most preo
ious vegetable product is camphor,
which is the resin of a tree that grows
to huge size, sometimes attaining a
diameter of twelve feet.
The only way to get the camphor is
to chop the tree into chips, which are
subjected to a crude process of dis
tillation, the vapor, when condensed,
being deposited in crystals on bamboo
screens. This is crude camphor,
which comes to market in wooden
tubs. It la refined by redistillation.
At the present time Japan exports
about 5,000,000 pounds of camphor
annually, one-fourth of It being ship
ped to the United States. It used to
be refined In Europe and America, hut
now the Japanese refine their own
comphor and ship the finished pro
duct.
( (lonp preserved In memory of Sir
William Keith and tho Ray life her®
of tho dashing, pleasure IOVIIIR lieu
tenant governor) has of late become
known as "the hotno of the daisy."
HIGH MORALS IN AMERICA
Standard Higher Than in England,
American Tells British Royal
Commission.
R. Newton Crann. senior counsel to
the American embassy In Ixmdnn,
told the royal commission on divorce
In England recently that there Is a
higher standard <>f morality In Amer
ica than In Knglnnd.
He admitted that divorce is moru
prevalent In this country/ than In any
other country In tho world except
Japan, hut contended this was due
to the fact that persons of respecta
bility had come to regard divorce as
a firmly . -tabllhhed institution, de
signed to cure unhappinen*.
J A. liurratt, of counsel to the
American embassy, pointed out that
(hero are more varied causes for di
vorce In European countries than In
the I nlteil states In Austria "In
vincible aversion." In llutiKary "vexa
tious luorilocation," In France "prod!-
galit.v and violent disposition," In Swe
den "opposlti of feeling ami thouglrt
amounting to hate" and In Formosa
"loquacity" are considered sufficient
Ntiiunds for divorce.
In Algeria, where there are thirteen
causes, "previous wooing In which no
final acceptance or refusal has bee*
made" was a cause of divorce |iur
ratt argued there is not a single cause
of divorce In any statu In this coun
try that i itniiot be duplicated In
Kurope.
The Deft Hand.
The Widow tin, Mr Nmlth. you'll
never tnak" tne believe that*
The Candidal) I said ! had never
loved a woman till now; not that no
-.woman ever loved me; course, I
«Mil.ll t »v anything *<> atupld aa
> that 112 i n. and Country.
For Hot Days
v' \ I
J' IST the newest and loveliest things
in millinery for the all too brief
midsummer have been placed be
fore the fascinated eyes of the devotee
to outdoors and fashion. Mack and
white or the coldest of colors, lace and
more lace, these are the paramount
ideas that the modistes have put Into
triumphs of execution. Nothing was
ever imagined for the dog days, love
lier than the hat of white chip in
which the contour of the brim Is out
lined with two rolled folds of black
velvet placed on the under side. About
the crown are set large roses made
of fine princess lace and set In dark
green foliage. These flowers of
lace are exquisite. So far the lily and
rose have been made and no other
blossoms can be more beautiful than
they. Wide Val edging for the roses
and all-over patterns for the lillies are
destined to be the favorite, but
j If one possesses a long purse or has
some jards of old lace, please imag
ine roses made of a duchess lace! The
[ finest of silk covered wire has to be
sewed into hold the petals or simu
| lated petals In place. For the rosea, a
I wreath can be managed without cut
ting the lace but for lilies the petals
LINEN DRESS
I |l\
K » lnt|>l' semi prince ■« dre** in
shown hrie thai I a style specially
stifled to Ilii' n The panel from that
extendi the whole letlKth I* attached
to tin Hide* by wide wrapped seams.
The tiiu k ir. not a panel, but the bodice
ami skirt have slight fulness at waist
The turnover collar and cut* are of
embroidered lawn.
Mat. rlati' required <i )ard* V
indie* wide
Draciliti Ovtr Gfevst.
|'i« wotiteii ii ia (o ipnlt/M Hint
bracelet* o*.r glove* mu almost or
'mite a« tail a* In*- mi gtuvi'4 It
unit Wears a bracelet with IOIIK ulnvei
«i all It fbouM t<>' worn under them.
I 'ml If potaibls Ii hould not be nun,
must be shaped; unless each is made
separately by a lacemaker. No one
will be so foolish as to cut up fine
hand made laces. Lilies, therefore, are
destined to be made of the best ma
chine made laces. But, as this season
will not see the last of the lace flow
ers, it is worth while to make separate
petals of rennaisance of other fine
lace, for those who know how.
Numbers of hats In hair braid or
hemp or fine chip are overlaid with
wide chantilly lace. Hlack over white
chip or white over black, is all there
is to tell. Plumes, pompons and
aigrettes finish them; these, too, in
black or white.
The small drooping briin round hat
continues the favorite for motoring
and general wear when the matter of
protection claims the first attention.
Dlack and white striped ribbon and
button roses, made of straw like that
in the hat, leave nothing to be de
sired for such a model. In the picture
the hat is of silver-blue straw, the
flowers of the same, and a long ad
justible veil of white chiffon is an ac
cessory to be put on and off at pleas
ure.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
GLOVES MATCH THE COSTUME.
No More White Ones Are Worn, ar*d
Where They Seem Necessary
Cream Color Is Used.
No more white gloves! Gloves
match the costume, or where they
ought to be white, according to all
social canons, they are cream. Suede
slippers, too. match the costume, and
the stockings with them are -flesh
colored!
Vanity bags of gold clasp now like
!< flat purse. The meshed bags are no
longer plain, but are In two metals —
gold and giimuetal, or cxidized silver
and copper—lnterwoven in a quaint
pattern.
Tortoise-shell is made up into every
thing, from powder cases to umbrella
handles; and there is a great deal of
| gunnicful and Jet seen, owing to the
! kind's death and the public mourning
that Pnrls seams to have assumed with
ICngland, >
For the same reason, orchids, real
and artificial, are on view everywhere,
since they were Ktlward's favorite
flower.
Finally, wooden beads. The fad In*
he nine a craze, and wooden beads. In
black und colors, are as thick as lo
eust* during the plague In Kgypt
Silk Fishnet,
If In your shopping tours von are
fortunate enough to see a ph c» of
silk fishnet, buy It.
The costs mesh offers til tie cover
ing, tint much lb -oration, when u *d
;o\ ur a cunt l asting shade of supple
[ material.
In gray or the favorite twine color
I It alio .si slue int any combination. For
1 entire turbans, for huge bows or for
transparent scarfs to be thrown over
i gorgeous evening costumes, fishnet I
| a valuable asset In tb • up to-dats
womanV wardrobe
A Cushion tujs.
Kcillops—larir • shallow scallops
done in eoar*t" buttonhole stitch with
linen floss or heavy cotton form the
i attractive edge of a cretonne sofa pit
low.
1 It I* advisable to use the natura!
1 lit*'n color of th< background, si I
will In found not' effective than lh«
' < re brilliant color* of the flowers.
RHEUMATISM
MDNYON'S RHEDMATISMS
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine limn in ten when the liver it right tlx
ttomach and bowel, are right.
CARTER S LITTLE JFISBTTT*
LIVER PILLS
gently but (irmly ""N—
--s'i» is."™ "Jam Carters
CMTI CON-JFSMAAR WITTLE
•tipation, JKB HIVER
Indigu^^pP'wPr
Headache, and Diitreo after Eating.
Small Pill. Small DOM, Small Price
Genuine mu>tbeai Signature
STOCKERS & FEEDERS
Choice quality; reds and roans,
white faces or augus bought on
orders. Tens of Thousands to
select from. Satisfaction Guar
anteed. Correspondence Invited.
Come and bee for yourself.
National Live Stock Com. Co.
At either
Kansas City, Mo., St. Joseph, Mo., S. Omaha,
UJiyTCn Afront* s© l * household goods and
TvAll I LU veterinary remedies, spices, extracts,
perfumes, toilet goods and specialties In country
districts, by wagon: pays£.'s per week up.
The Mutual Manufacturing Co., Canton, O.
WntaenE. Coleman,Wasb
r® P ft® tnS 1 i»*ton,D.C. liooksfree. lll«h-
Q H I nil 1 est references. iießt reoults.
1 Thompson's Eyo Wator
AN INSURANCE EXCEPTION.
xid the chronic que> or, "m
man la known by the company he
keeps."
"Say, I'm an Insurance policy hold*
er! Please don't class ine with the
company I keep."
Merely a Prevaricator.
A doctor relates the following story:
"I had a patient who was very ill and
who ought to have gone to a warmer
climate, so I resolved to try what hyp
notism would do for him. I had a
large sun painted on the ceiling of his
room and by suggestion induced him
to think it was the sun which would
euro him. The ruse succeeded and
he was getting better rapidly when
ono day on my arrival I found he was
dead."
"Did it fall, after all, then?" asked
one of the doctor's hearers.
"No," replied the doctor, "he died
of sunstroke."
Taking Father's Job.
"Why should you beg? You are
both young and strong."
"That is right, but my father Is old
and weak and can no longer support
| me." —Meggi ndorfer Dlaetter.
No other man appreciates a helping
i nd lilt' 1 'i man In tr<ut 1
Know How
To Keep Cool?
When Summer's sun
and daily toil heat the
blood to an uncomfort
| able degree, there is noth
ing so comforting and
cooling an a glass of
Iced
Postum
served with and a
little lemon.
Surprising, too, hmv
the food elements relieve
fatigue and sustain one.
The flavour is deli
! cinus—and i'ostini is
| really a fuod drink.
"There's a Rrason"
PO.iTl'll < I HKAt. CO., Ud..
Maul, t'rwk, UV*i
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