THE LADRONES AND CAROLINES. i 1 m HI Value and Beauty of Tfi in the Pacific Ocean. era 8 QIEEI1 PEOPLE WITH Fur out in the Pacific, where the mnn look! as if a charge of bird shot had peppered a spot no larger than your thnmb, the American flag is Hying over the Ladrones. They are lint specks on the face of the deep. Yet there is an empire of island wealth amid the rarest scenery in the world. An earthly paradise it is called. The capture of the Ladroues by the United States with a seizure of the Carolines just to the south of the group makes them of new interest to Americans. The Ladrones are a chain of vol anio islands extending north and south, from latitude thirteen degrees twelv minutes north to latitude twenty degrees thirty-two minutes eonth and in longitude about 14(1 east. They war discovered by Miigellnn, Starch 6, 1521, and nnmed Ladrones from the supposed stealing propensi ties of the natives, Later, in 1008, the islands were named Mnriaua, in honor of Maria Anne, of Austria, the widow of Phillip IV., King of Hpnin. The inhabited islauds are Agrigan, Haipan, Tinian, Rota and Guam. On the other islands are volcanoes spouting fire and steam. The mountains range from 1000 to 8000 feet high, about the altitude of the biggest of the i Catskills. The Spaniards have controlled the islands without interference or seri ous trouble from the natives. There is a small garrison at Agana, the cap ital, where the Qovernor-Ueneral has resided. Many natives of the Caro line Islands have been imported into the Ladrones and the raoes are inter estingly mixed. The blending of the tall, copper-colored, curly -haired, long-bearded and mustached Carolin ians with the Philippian-looking La drones, with their dark Malay skin, A LASItOKB BELLE. has given a new tint to a large num ber of young men and women. The obief produots for sustaining life are coooanuts and bread fruit. They grow spontaneously everywhere. It is said that one eoooanut tree will feed a man. A grove of the frnit trees to the islander is what a herd of cows is to the Pennsylvania farmer. Thete, with the tons of fish in the lagoons, which are natural fish ponds, are responsible for the profound in dolence of the natives. They can support life without laboring. Some of the bread frnit trees are ten or twelve feet in diameter. A eingle tree is oonsiderer - equal in life-supporting cspaoitj to two acres of wheat. Then theito are other pro ducts gnava, eorn, ordinary wheat, bananas, figs and arrowroot. The islands forming the Ladrones, THK BP8INE88 SECTION OP AQANA, beginning at the northernmost, are Farallon de Pajaras, an aotive voloano 1000 feet in height; a group of three rocky islets known as the Urraoas; Assumption, a partially aotive vol canic peak 8848 feet in height; Agri Kan, seven miles in length, mountain ous, and the northernmost inhabited island; Pagan, haviug three aotive cones, and peopled by a few natives; the uninhabited islands of Alamagan, Gugnan, Sariguan, Anatnxan and Paratlon de Medinilla; Baipnu, fifteen miles long, fertile, and having about lfC 3 inhabitants; Tiuian. originally r p H hese Much-Discu9sed stands ffl 1 UL EEnEH CISTOITIS. j possessing 80,000 inhabitants, and now a place of segregation for lepers, With a population of 800; Agnijan, of no importance; llota, with COO inhab itants, and Onam. Guam, or Gnajan, the southernmost and largest of the islands, is thirty two miles long and has a population of about 0000, two-thirds of whom are in Agaua, and nenrly all the restnpon the seaboard, the country inland be ing almost without inhabitant. Agaua, BAULDONAP, A TYPICAL the capital, is also a convict settle ment. It is beautifully clean, and possesses good government officials, a hospital, schools and a churoh. The Spanish residents have usually num bered about twenty, and the regular soldiery about 200, all quartered here. The militia, comprising about all the male population, is commanded by native officers. The oivil government is similar to that of the Philippines. Postal communication has been quar terly. When first discovered the Ladrones had a population of about 60,000. Not one of the original race survives, and the islands are peopled chiefly by Tagals and Bisayans from the Philip pines, mixed 'descendants of South American Indians, a colony of Caro line Islanders who founded Garapan in the Island of Saipan, and numerous Cbatnorro-Spanish half-breeds. The census of 1888 reports a population of 0470 in Agaua, and a total of 10,172 in all the islands, S034 beiug males 0138 females. There nro eighteen schools in the Island of Guam. Only ten per cent, of the Lndrone Islanders are unable to read and write. Spauish is the recognized language ; but many of the natives speak a little English. The climate is good and equable; sev enty degrees to eighty degrees Fahrenheit is the range of the ther mometer. The present population are de scribed as "wanting in energy, of in different moral character, and miser ably poor." They are desoended in part from the original inhabitants, called Chamonos, and from the Mesti zos, a mixed race formed by the union of Spaniards with these natives. On the island called Suypan a colony from the Caroline Islands, which lie to the south of the Ladrones, was estab lished some years ago. These people are the most active and enterprising inhabitants of the Ladrones. Spain has derived no revenue from these islandB, and has done little to civilize the people. At oue time a few small schools were started, but they were soon abandoned. In 1856 an epidemio dostroyed one third of the population. August aud Septomber are the hot test months, and the rain-fall in the summer months is very heavy. Agana, the capital, is well built of timber, and many of the houses have tiled roofs. There are twenty small villages on the islands. So little has been done to civilize the people that they live in about the same primitive fashion as character ized them when Europeans first visited thorn. PRINCIPAL TOWN OP THE LADRONES In one thing the people of the La drones exoel all the natives of the Polynesian islands this is their faculty for building and sailing a won derful water craft with lateen sail. Sailors of all nations for over 800 years have admired their skill with these vesselssi. They era built entirely without metal, and the largest of them wil oarry about seven men. The bosi has an outrigger which is carried on the lee aide to prevent'up setting. It is said that these hosts make wonderful speed, and that ther 33 g$SlT if - i can He closer to the wind than any otuer sailing craft known. Customs, superstitions, dress, NATIVES AMD HfT IS THS LADRONES. ligion, etc, prove that the people of the Ladrones have a common origin with the other races of Polynesia, but they have lived so long by themselves that they have a distinct language. Some writers have argned that the race is of American origin, while TOWN IN THE CAROLINES. others hold that they are an offshoot of the Japanese. Goblen, ' the French writor, who studies the peoplo on the spot, says of them: "The natives are not so dark as those of the Philippines, and are larger of body than the average European. They lived on roots, flsh ana fruits, and were extremely nctive and quick. Many of them lived over 100 years." Another French writer says that he saw them dive and swim so well that they caught fish in their bauds under water. In character the Ladrones are gay and amiable, loving pleasure, aud spending much of their time in out door amusements. The women are usually lighter in color than the men, and many of them are extremely beautiful, with luxuriant hair reaching almost to the ground. The Carolines are like the' Ladrones, only more extensive in number and area, and deusoly populated. The islands are widely scattered into three great groups, the eastern, western and central. Spain originally claimed all the groups, but Germany recently took the Marshall Islands. The cen tral or main group, now belonging to Spain, comprises forty-eight smaller A CAnOLINE WARRIOR. groups, making a total of four or five hundqed islands. Among the products of the country are rioer corn, wheat, sugar, cotton, tobacco, iudigo, bread fruit, castor oil aud kindred necessaries of life. Among the ourious natural features are the palm trees, that produce vege table ivory; banyan trees that grow downward, the seeds being planted by birds high np in other trees, de posited in bark and crevices, sending down rootlets to gather sustenance and moisture from the soil. t Another tree bears a fruit so offen sive in odor that no man not in piao tioe can endure it, but once in a month the frnit tastes so delicious'y that he cannot stop eating until it is devoured. The women of the Carolines are neat and attractive at homo or among their eoooanut trees. The men are indus trious everywhere displaying ingen uity and gentle thrift. The Caroline Arohipelago consists of thirty-six minor groups, of whioh the nine following are the prinoipal : The Palaos or Pelews, Yap, Uluthi, Uleai, -Namonuito, Hogoleu, or Bnk, the East and West Mortlooks, Bonabe or Ponape, aud Kusaie, otherwise called Ualan or Strong's Island. The Pelew group contains some 200 inlands and islets. Th principal isl and is Bad-el-Thaob, whioh in area is equal to all the rest put together. The most important of the others are Kor ror, Uruk, Tapel, Malk, Pelelea and Augaur. The population of the Pe lews is estimated at some 8000, but is probably much more. The language is a very peculiar and bizarre Malayan dialeot. somewhat akin to that of Sulu Archipelago. The prinoipal products are turtle shell, copra and beoho de mer (Holothuria), whioh in the Chin ese markets brings as much as $400 gold per ton. There is always civil war going on in the group between the various tribes, and a firm hand is needed to keep things in order there. Captain Butrnn, of the Velnsco (lately sunk at Manila), who visited the group in 185, gives these natives a good name. Cap tain O'Keefe, however, a wealthy trader of Yap, gives them a doubtful reputation, pntting them down as a folk of piratical and turbulent charac ter. The enormous quartz wheels, the famous and curious stone money of Yap in this group, were qnarried in the Island of Kokial. In olden time there was great commercial activity here, and the Yap and Pelew folks went on extended voyages of trading and con quest. Bab-el-Thoob is rich in good timber. Great quantities of yams, bread-fruits aud cocoannts are grown. Alligators are found in some of the creeks, and a peoiiliar kind of n horned frog, There are two kinds of snakes, whioh the natives railed Bersoiok and Ngnus, both somewhat venomous. There is abundance of good pasture for horses and cattle. Goats are plen tiful, probably introduced by the early Matayan settlers. The Spanish have done next to noth ing to show their occupation, aud everything goes on much as before. There is no Spanish garrison. The country is well worth opening up to honest and energetic trade. DIVING ELKS. Trained n Perform Tricks Tlmt Stem Almost Supernatural. There seems to be no limit to the ingenuity of mau in devising sensa tions to please the public. Especially is this true in the matter of training animals to perform feats whioh at first seem impossible. One of the smallest of insects, the flea, and one of the largest of animals, the elephant, have been pnt through a course of training which has resulted in their performing A DAMNO DIVE. feats which seem almost supernatural. However, it remained for Mr. Will H. Barnes, of Sioux City, Iowa, to train an animal which was generally con sidered to be the dullest of quad rupeds, namely, the eik. His efforts have proved beyond a doubt that the elk is by no means lacking in in telligence, aud his famous diving oiks elicit admiration and wonder from all who see them perform. Mr. Barnes secured the elks when they were young, and though it required un limited patience, he finally succeeded in breaking them in harness. While training tho elks, the owner noticed that they seemed utterly indifferent to what height they jumped from, and ho then conceived the ideaof teaching them to dive. The process was a slow one, but now, after two years of labor, they have attained a marvelous tlogree of ability in this feat, as they make a headlong plunge of fifty feet into a tank of water. Herewith is presented a cut representing the elk making the dive. As will be noticed, the animnl makes a headlong plunge with his feet extended. Strategy In Ilia Ilniiki. Captain J. W. Pratt has told a mighty military story that came to him somehow from the big camp of the United States volunteers at San Francisco.' An infantryman had over stayed his liberty. Detection meant fine and porhaps some imprison ment,' with the most disagrceablo sort of police duty. The infuntry chap was a genius. He pinned strips of white paper down the legs of his trousers. Then he made officer's shoulder straps out of banana skins. Then he boldly walked right through the line, an swered "offloer," and accepted tho night honor of the sentry. 1'acitlo Commercial Advertiser. The Impossible. He "What would yon say if I were to steal a kiss from you?" She "But that is impossible." He "Impossible! Why so, pray?" She "Because you can't steal any thing I haven't got, and no oue bus ever given me a kins see?" Chicago Post. Til Old Bookkeeper at Lunali. "Tha habits that nee doth breed. tt HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES, trailed Herring. Scale and cnt off the heads; clean nd dry them with clean cloth. Sea son with salt and pepper, dredge with flour and broil over a bed of good coals. Serve with onion sauce. Three medium sized boiled onions, chopped fine. Boil cup milk, add ta blftHpoonftil each of butter and flour,' braided, season. When smooth and hot pour over the onions, Plrkleri r:gs. When ettgs are plentiful housekeep ers should seize the opportunity to pickle them. Boil the eggs nntil hard, then lay them in cold water. Remove the shells, and pnt five eggs in each quart fruit jar. Scald as much vine gar as will be needed; add a few slices of freshly boiled red beets, some celery seed, peppercorns, mus tard seed and a pinch of mace. Fill the jars containing the eggs with the boiling vinegar and seal at once. Pickled eggs are a polatable addition to broiled or baked fish, and also are very good eaten with lettuce salad and mayonnaise dressing. Frnit Custard. Take a can of peaches or any kind of fruit and drain off all the syrup and put the fruit in the pudding ilish; take a quart of milk and put it over the fire, when it comes to a boil stir in this mixture: Xhe yolks of two oggs, a half cup milk, one tablespoon ful of cornstarch, a pinch of salt and two tablespoonfnls of sugar, all thor oughly mixed, and let boil two min utes, stirring nil the time; then add carefully the syrup; take off the fire immediately and pour over the frnit; now take the two whites of the eggs and beat to a stiff froth, adding three tablespoonfnls of powdered sugar and two drops of essence of rose; spread over nil, and brown in a quick oven. Serve cold. Olnferbreatl t.lkt Mother tried to Make. An old-fnshioned molasses ginger bread. The following are the pro portions: One-half cupful of molas ses, one-half teaspoonful of ginger, one saltspoonful of salt, one-half tea. spoonful of soda, one tablespoonfnl of clarified beef dripping or yon may use butter, though the dripping is the better one fourth of a cupful of hot water, boiling, and one cupful of flour. The ginger, soda and salt are added to the molasses; the softened drip ping is then pnt in, and the mixture beaten well; next the boiling water is added, then the flour; beat again thoroughly, pour into a well-greased shallow pan, and bake in a hot oven. It will take about twenty minutes to bake the loaf. Woman's Home Com panion. 4'elery Sandwiches With Mayonnaise. For celery sandwiches with mayon naise boil slowly for fifteen minutes four eggs; remove the shells and chop the whites very fine, or put them through a vegetable press, mixing with them a little shredded celery. Cut the crust from the end of the loaf of bread, butter the loaf, cut off n slice a quarter of an inch thick, put over it a goodly layer of the white of egg and celery, then a layer of may onnaise, then a layer of the yolk of egg put through a sieve, and over all another slice of bread pressing the whole together gently. With a sharp knife cnt off the crusts, leaving the sandwich perfectly square. Cover a meat.plate with lettuce leaves, arrange the sandwiches on them, cover with dampened lettuce leaves, and stand aside for twenty minutes. Sand wiches made in this way may be kept fresh from early morning nntil even ing, consequently are particularly nice for picnics. Ladies' Home Jour nal, ( Household Hints. A banket kept on a swinging shelf is the proper receptacle for eggs. Keep potatoes and all root vegeta-' bles in box or bin in a dry cellar. Cranberries may be kept for months in crocks or jars aud covered with wa ter. Cold vegetables and the like must be coveted if not kept in a wired cup board. Milk should be as far as possible separated from other food and kept clear and oool. Freshly made tea and coffee stains may be removed by at once stretching the part over a bowl, aud slowly pour ing boiling water through it. In preserving berries or any other fruit liable to full to pieces, if a small lump of alum is added to the fruit while cooking, it will make it firm. , Baw potato with a bathbrick will remove stains from steel knives and forks, and stuius can also be taken out of tinware and brass in the same way. Two tablespoonfuls of washing soda dissolved in a gallon of boiling water makes an excellent disinfectant for the kitchen sink. Pour in while boil ing hot An effectual way of getting rid of cockroaches is to place slices of en cumber over the floor they frequent at night. They devour this greedily, aud it destroys them. In inakiug jelly it must be borne in mind that the less stirriug there is the better. If stirred too much the jelly is not clear, while the tendency of sugar to granulate is increased by stirriug. A Sanitary Drinking Fonntalii. In Rochester, N. Y., it Is proposed to introduce a drinking fountain whose water supply will be delivered as a short, vertical jet or fountain. Tho person using it places the mouth over the jet und drinks without touching anything but the water itself. This avoids contamination from other users of tha fuuutain. THt MARKKT8. rirrsnvno. Clraln. Flonr and Feed. WHEAT No. lred im M No. 3 red 76 7 COll.N- No. S yellow, ear 41 4J No. 9 yellow, shelled 88 89 Mixed ear 89 40 OATS No. 9 white 2S 19 No. 8 white 26 RYE No. 1 48 4V FLOUR Winter patents I (0 4 63 Fancy straight winter 4 10 4 IS Rye flour 8 00 8 23 HAi No. 1 timothy 960 Clover, No. 1 6 00 fl 60 FEED No. 1 while mid., ton.. 18 00 19 00 Drown middlings 18 (0 10 00 Hran, bulk 18 00 IS 118 BTHAW-Wbeat 4 CO 6 00 Ost 4 50 5 00 8EEU8 Clover, 60 lbs. 3 80 8 00 Timothy, prima 1 48 1 00 Dairy Products BCTTER Elgin oreamery. . . . . f 20D 31 Ohio creamery 18 19 Fanny oonntry roll....- 13 IS CHEESE Oblo. new 8 t New York, sew 8 Frnlta and Vegetables. BEANS Green, V bu 80(8) 6 POTATOES White, bbl 2 00 l! CABBAGE Per bbl 75 10 ONIONS New Southern, bbl 3 25 3 Sj Poultry, Ktr, CHICKENS Per pair, small,.. Mm 60 TCRKKYS I'er Iti 14 19 EUOS Pa. and Ohio, fresh..,. 12 18 CINCINNATI. FLOUR , 8 88 4 IS WHEAT No. 2 red...... 72 78 RYE No. 9 SO COItN-Mlxed 84 OATS H3 24 EGOS 9 BUTTER Ohio crenmery 12 15 PHILADELPHIA. Fi.oun a 4 003 4 10 WHEAT-No. 2 red... 76 77 COHN-No. 2 mixed 87 88 OATS-No. 2 white 8i 88 BUTTER Creamery, extra 20 EGGS Pennsylvania firsts 14 MEW YORK. FI.OCR Patent 4 60S 6 00 WHEAT No. 2 red 80 CORN-No. 3 89 OATS White Western 88 84 BUTTER Creamery. 19 EGOS State ot Penn 13 14 MVK STOCK. Central Stork Yards, Kant Liberty, Pa. cat r IS. Trim. 1800 to 1400 lb $ 5 10r S IS Good, 1200 to 1300 lbs 4 90 8 00 Tidy, 1000 to 1160 tt 4 75 4 90 Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 lbs 4 25 4 70 Common, 700 to 900 lbs 8 70 4 10 HQOS. Medium 4 13 4 IS Heavy 4 10 4 12 Roughs and stags 8 40 8 66 SHtr.r. Prime, 95 to 105 m 4 40 4 50 Good, 86 to 90 lbs 4 80 4 89 Fair, 70 to 80 lbs 8 80 4 00 Common 825 880 Spring lambs 4 25 4 75 TRADE REVIEW. As Uaatul Naabtr tf Hfw 0r4m Han Bws FlsN Rtw Tilt Mm Is IiUblliheL R. O. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week: Prospects of peace have had a cur ious Influence on business contracts, not quite explainable on common sense grounds. Nobody really feared disaster, or exhaustion of national re- . sources, and nobody feared that any body else was afraid of either. Yet orders unusual In number and slse have been placed since Spain asked for peace. In some Industries the gains have been large for about two weeks, while In some textile manu factures It has only begun to appear this week, but It Involves a consider able Increase In the working force. Crop prospects are on the whole more encouraging, for the govern ment's latest report as to corn Is much larger than the commercial estimates, and Its cotton return promises a heavy yield, while allowance Is made for Its habitual error In lta wheat re turn. Money markets show no sign of possible disturbance, securities are stronger, and there Is no harmful spe culation In stocks or products. Rare ly has the financial outlook been more nearly unclouded. The general holding bark of grain by farmers and consequent heavy shrink age In wentern receipts have reduced the visible supply below all past rec ords, but everybody understands that at this date many times that quan tity Is almost within a day's run of Chicago. The more effective change is tho decrease in exports, which have been only 8,237,819 bushels. Hour In cluded, from both coasts, against 8. 832,974 bushels last year, showing but a alight Increase of half a million bushela for two weeks, compared with lost year. The Iron and steel trade fully sup ports Inferences drawn from recent events. The demand for steel Is so heavy that some of the blggeat con- rerns have been buying, one taking 40.000 tons, advancing the price at Pittsburg from $14.50 to $15.35, which was at last refused. Bessemer pig la steady, and other pig there and at eastern and western markets general ly, but rails have been advanced by eastern makers to $18 per ton, the makers of structural beams have ad vanced the price $1 per ton, and mak ers of merchant pipe have advanced the price 5 per cent, while plate mak ers are crowded to the point of refus ing orders, both east and west, and bars are stronger, with many mills engaged for weeks ahead. Illustrat ing the demand are reports of order for 20.000 tons structural work mere, and big orders at Philadelphia for cast pipe and 6,000 tons elsewhere. Kustern works now appear to be crowded to their utmoat capacity as the western have been for some weeks. In the minor metals there Is heavy buying. The aggregate sales at the three chief wool markets have ben only 6, 432.T00 pounds for tha week, about a third of the sales In the same week of U!l7, while In 1S92 for the correspond ing week the sales were 7,184,800 pounds. For the week failures have been 198 In the United States against 239 last year, and 18 In Canada against 88 last year. KEWS NOTES. Friends say that President McKlnlejr Is enjoying the best of health. . . Miss Grace Parker, ot Cincinnati, took a heudache antidote last Monday und died 15 minutes after. - Secretary of the Interior Bliss hears thut 30,0011 sheep have been ejected from Yoeemlt National park. v The public Is warned aguinst 1m p, isters throughout the country who ttiu conducting Ited Cross Societies.
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