THE ISLAND OF TUTU1LA. OUR SHARE OF. THE SAMOAN GROUP. BY HUGH Under the new Samoan treaty the United States become the possessor of a Binnll island in the Honth Faoiflo Ocean, situated abont 030 miles south of the equator. For some fifteen years past we have had more or less sentimental regard for this island, be cause it was here that onr Govern ment had acquired from a native chief lease of part of the shore of a harbor on which to establish a coating station. The harbor was the only one in the Bamoan group in which vessels could lie safely during a hurricane, sncli as occasionally visits the group, and its only drawbaok was that it was almost wholly inaccessible on the landward side. Now and then, but at long intervals, an American man-of-war has called at this harbor, bnt it may be doubted whether any of the orews ever attempted to climb the almost precipitous hills that wall in the placid sheet of landlocked water which the natives call Pago-Pago. The isl and of Tntnila is by far the least known oi the three main islands that form the group of Samoa. It lies abont thirty miles south of the other two, on which alone Europeans or Americans have settled, either as planters or traders, aud excepting the harbor of Pago-Pago on the southeast, and a small bay known as Leone, near the northwest corner, it possesses no place of anchorage or shelter even for the smallest trading vessels. The general appearance of Tntnila, like that of all the volcanio islands of the South Paeifio, is very beautiful. As we entered the passsage, from twenty to thirty-five miles broad, be tween the islauds, every eye scauned the shores, under the impression that the schooner would be found lying at some point under the lee of the land. There was, however, no sign of a sail. On either sido the land rose high and oroken, clothed from shore to sum mit in the luxuriant vegetation of the tropical islands, and as we proceeded t half-speed through the passage it beoame more and more evident that Tor some reason our tender bad not arrived. We had reached the eastern end and cleared both islands before any solution of the difficulty presented itself, but then a very small cutter was discovered lying close inshore, at point where a native village could be seen among the palm trees that formed a background to the silver white coral beaoh. The cutter turned out to be a trader engaged in collecting a cargo of copra (sun-dried eoooanut) to be taken to Apia to the German company's stores. We were told we oonld stay on board if we liked, bnt the cutler mast go to Leone Bs; . at the western end of the island, before it would return to Apia. The prospeot of staying on board was INTERIOR OF A TUTUILA CHIEF'S HOUSE. o disagreeable that several of the party determined to try the alterna tive plan of walking overland to Leone -and there awaiting the arrival of the cutter. Leaving all our luggage on board, we were landed on the beaoh within a hundred yards of the village, which now showed among the trees like a group of overgrown beehives of the old straw material and conical shape. The natives were most friendly. They invited us into the largest hat, on the floor of which we were accom modated with mats of woven grass, 5 PAQtt PAQO, TUTUILA, SHOWING TUB while two girls prepared a bowl of kava juice for our epeoioV entertain XDtnt Personally, I had hoard enongb tboul this famona liqnor of the islauds ia dealiae it, and though my oom 'oil tasted it, they were wise !gjgg H. LUSK. enough to leave it to our hosts to paralyze themseves with the strange narcotic In the meantime we had contrived to make it understood that we wanted s guide to show ns the native path over the hills to Leone Day, where the missionary lived, and the offer of a dollar readily secured a guide, in the person of a young man of magnificent build and appearance. The bargain once made, we lost no time in starting. Onr guide, who was dressed in full native costume, which consisted of a very large and finely powdered head of hair, and very JAVA THE BAMOAN small cinctnre of some kind of native cloth ronnd his loins, led us along the beach for a short distance, and theu faced the hill which rose abrupt and very steep behind the little village. The climb was so steep that but for the profusion of saplings, shrubs, and climbing plants that hedged in the narrow path we should hardly have managed it. When at last we reached the top we found ourselves at a height of perhaps eight or nine hundred feet above the sea, on the top of a long ridge that seemed to rnn the whole length of the island. The land slopes downward from the central ridge on the northern side in a succession of spurs, with deep glens and wateroonrses between; but on the southern ooast, especially near tho eastern end of the island, the slopes end abruptly in cliffs and preoipitons banks that deseend to the ocean. It is here that Pago-Pago lies, and lroin the top of the ridge it can be seen like nearly ciroular basin of perfectly smooth water, shadowed by the sur rounding mountains, and with only one narrow entranoeway, which winds between two lofty wooded bluffs. The island is not more than eighteen miles long, and nowhere, I should judge, much more than five miles broad. From what I saw of the natives of HILLS RIUINO FROM TUB HHOBK. Tutuila, I should suppose them to be well disposed to Europeans so long as they are not muoh interfered with. There have been repeated end some what sanguinary wars among them during the last twenty year. UPOLU TBI BELLE OF TUTUILA. There is certainly no wealth to bt extracted from Tntnila. Even the primitive agriculture of the island could hardly be much extended, a there is scarcely an acre of level land to be found there. Coooannts, indeed, grow along the shore everywhere, and even to some extent inland; orange trees grow to the dimensions of forest trees; there are nntmeg-trees in the forest that clothes the slopes; and ar rowroot, ginger and pineapples abound everywhere. All these things go tc make America's South Sea island delightful fairy spot, but they are, and must always be, on too minnte a scale to hold out any temptation to the planter and the trader. Perhaps, for the sake of the untives at least, it is woll. The Navy Department lias decided to assign Commander B. F. Tilley, ol the collier Abarenda, as the command ant of the Pago-Pago coaling station, which will place him in charge of thr administrative affair of the Hamoan territory of the United Htates, Com mander Tilley is now at Pago-Pago. The naval officers who have been on TAU MANUA H TUTUILA ISLANDS. the Island of Tntnila recently in oon nection with the work of building the wharf and establishing a oonlin g sta tion in the harbor of Pago-Pago state1 that there are at present about 100(1 people on the Island of Tutuila, owi ing allegiance to about three chiefs j The principal chief is named Man4 gum. The people are differeut from the inhabitants of the other Sainoau Islauds, being particularly peaceful in disposition. The population is unique in the fact that every soul is reputed to be a de vout Christian. They are so orthodox that not oue person could be induced to come aboard one of the American ships on Sunday, while all of them gd to church. This condition is ascrib able largely to the iutluence of Freuob niissionaiies. Nothing has beon positively settled as vet as to the srovernment of the inl ands beyoud the fact that the priuoil pal official will be a naval officer. The general purpose is to have him inter fere as little as possible with the na tives so loug as they continue in their present peaceful manner to govern themselves without friction. Blayii's Cyrano Conrlililp. President Stcyn, of the Orange Free State, took for a wife Miss Era ser, who was the belle of Bloemfon toin. This was many years ago, when the great Africander was a poor, struggling law student and clerk. Miss Eraser's parents were very proud and well-to-do and did not favor the match. Steyn made love and wroto love letters by proxy, choosing a promineut young farmer as the go between. Every day, sometimes twice a day, Miss Fraser aud the farmer would take long walks and rides together. Bloeinfontein made up its uiiud that Steyn had beeu cat out, whon the law student returned from Europe, where he had taken his degree. Gossip rose to fever heat when the news came that Steyn had called upon the farmer. Everybody! was certain that a duel was about to come off. A short time passed in( which everyone was on the qui vive.i Disappointment was nothing to thej feeling whiou was created when, in-l stead of a duel, there was the wed ding of Steyn and Miss Fraser, with' the farmer as the first groomsmau. Philadelphia Post. Bridget Wki an Irish Woman. A lady had in her employ au excel lent giri who had one fault. Her fact was always in a smudge. Her mistress tried without offending to tell her to wash her face, and at last resorted to strategy. "Do you know, Bridget," she re marked in a confidential manner, "it is said that if yon wash the face every day in hot soapy water it will make you beautiful?" "Will it?" said Bridget. "Sure, it's a wander ye niver tried it, ma'am." Our Dumb Animals. Effective Kntranehinants. With regard to the Boer entrench' ments, it may be noted that, aoeordiug to the reports of Boer prisoners, the comparatively email effect produced by the English artillery fire is largely owing to the trenches being made in the form of the letter S instead of in the straight lines adopted by European armies. This pattern, which has been borrowed by the Boers from old Baauto methods, affords, it is said, both freet movemout and greater protection. Many of onr present ideas with re gard to entrenchments have been learni from the Turks. London Mail. Good OoflM ill Boardoai. The coffee is always good in the Transvaal, but usually over-sweetened. When any guest is in Dutch house wife's good books she shows her ap preciation of hint by loading his cup of coffee with sugar, which be mast drink, unless he desires to npset her lasily-eroussd susceptibilities. THE DEATH CUP. fcha TmiIt Vli-ilms of the Polsonoul Mushroom Are Man v. It is probablo that not many people ever heard of phallin, not only one of the most remarkable substances in the world, but one of the most terrible pois ons. And it is so very common that litll VA IK" V , 1 -M it can be found in almost every field and swamp in the country, for phal lin is the poisonou element in the deadly mushroom, the "death cup," as it hns been most appropriately called. Not only that when phallin was first discovered it was fonnd that it was almost identical with the poison of the rattlesnake, so that death from mushroom poisoning is very similar to death from a serpent bite. Bnt still more wonderfnl. It is known that varions bacteria prodnoe nearly the same poison the bacteria, ' fcr in stance, of diphtheria and typhoid fever. It seems odd enough that death from thai poisonous mushroom, from rattlesuake bite and from diphtheria should result from practically the same cause. It is said that twenty-five people are killed every year in the United States by eating the death enp, mistaking it for the edible mushroom. It requires only bit of the death cup to kill a piece the size of a pea will do it. Ose case is cited in which a boy ate only third of a small uncooked onp of the deadly mushroom, bnt it was enough to cause his death. Indeed so bane ful is the phallin poison that even the handling of the death cup and the breathing of the spores may produce serious illness. The "death cup" is only one of a number of poisonous plants in America, although there are not many in this country or in Europe. The common est of all is the familiar poison ivy of our fields and roadsides. Contrary to almost general belief, poison ivy is not injurious unless actually touched. Its irritating power is due to a non-volatile oil contained in the leaves, the ef fects of which, while distressing, are not deadly. A very good representa tion of the poison ivy leaves and fruit is shown in the picture. Once familiar with it, oue needs never mistake it for anything else. Poison ivy is muoh more common in the East than in the West; one of its favorite growing spots is along old stone fences and at the edges of swamps. The poison oak, so-called, because its leaf resembles that of a Western oak, is first coiuin to the poison ivy; it is found only ia the far Westoru Stntes. TlinniamU of lol.Ikera, Over in Germany there are C000 children in one distnot alone who ore employed to dress dolls aud help in the manufacture of various kinds of toys. All the children who do this work are under twelve years ot age. They are taught the art of dressing a doll at the tender age of four. At the same time, acoordiug to the compul sory education law, they are obliged to go to kiudergartou sohool for at least one year, and that term is dovoted to suoh things as making dolls and dress ing them, doing everything, in fact, exoept molding tho boadH, which is done by raeu 'expert at the business. After that the German children have three or four years of study, whon they are allowed to go into the doll or toy factories to add to the daily income of the family to the ex tent of a few cents a day. The chil dren who go to the kindergarten have tots of fun making clothes for the dollies, and so fond do they get of the little waxen-faced creatures that they are often sore at heart wheu the ma tron comes around to collect them all to be sent abroad. An Interastliia Troa, The old tree shown in the illustra tion stands in front ot the house of William Bremmer, of Flowertown, Penn. Upon its trunk is an tablet, which reads as follows; iron Henry Kaut, uowara, Wss Hung from this tree Jaaunrv 19, 1777, For UE8EUTION. The accepted belief is that Kent was soldier in the Continental Army, aud some even believe that the tree is haunted by his guoiL i mm. . "ft If 4 HI MRVKfr? I I COWAHO I X - rttaYl J I NEW YORK FMHiOM Designs For Costumes That Have Be come Popular in the Metropolis. New York Citt (Special). The furore for the pulley belt necessarily meant a stock to match, so when mi lady wanted it, of course, it wasn't PULLET STOCK FOB AN ASCOT. long coming. . The stock is very muoh the same as the belt, only, of course, longer, as it goes twice aronnd. The pulley prinoiple ia carried out by the two rings in front, and these allow the PULLET STOCK FOB A FOUR-IN-HAND. ribbon to be drawn as tightly as de sired. Flexible bones hold the ribbon well op in place, yet are pliable enough not to interfere with its being drawn closely into shape. BLACK and Gwrr A QUINTET OK It can be tied in several different ways, two of which are here abowu, namely, as an ascot aud as a four-in-hand. The pulley atock oomes in all shades of satin ribbon and in all wash able gauze ribbon for summer wear. Vive Mlllliiary Novaltla. Women are already buying hats of white straw, lovely soft creations that look light as thistledown. The hares are abont what we are used to, the Pompadour aud the faoe bat, but not horrible, plattery thiugs that look as if manufactured by the thousand. As you see, the bata are not large. Of course, there will be large hats, bnt they are for carriage wear, garden parties or for bridesmaids. That flow ers figure goes without saying. One of the most oharmiug faoe hats is a clever affair of aoft, satiuy bluet braid. It seems built on Louis XI. lines, though these ere not definite. Creamy Beuaiasauoe all-over laoa is gracefully draped over waves of white chiffon. Two turquoise pins hold the front (olds It place, aud buueh in' iii i,vii.niiV Aiii-nH ii iii mi -i i'jj W liT.ii Via ' I t Y ' ' , i 7 Wwx smutty fjg j i i 1 1 of daisies rests on the hair at the left back. The alternate rows of gray satiny straw braid aud gray chiffon ruffiof form this toppy little Pompadour, which is finished off most effectively np at the left front with a splendid pink rose and a liberal bunch of soft ly purple violets. Such very good stylo is this attrac tive hat of pearl gray straw, the crown being of blaok straw. A black velvet drapery rests on the rounding gray brim, and rises in front to form wing like loops. A plume-like strip of oorded white silk is drawn through the blaok jet buckle which holds all this down at the front. For dress occasions this dainty little pink Pompadour, composed entirely of thiekly-laid folds of malines, ia most fetching. It is strikingly set off by the big black velvet ohou, whioh has a rhineatone ornament stuck in its very heart It is so very shapely, too, especially where it rests on a pretty girl's night-like tresses. An altogether exquisite little dress hat is of pastel blue straw. It has a soft crown and a full, soft brim. Mi roir velvet in pastel blue is drawn snugly round it, looped in front, drawn over the crown, and looped down under the brim in the back, where a steel buckle catches it. A generous bnnch of lilies of the valley, backed by their foilage, is planted in frout. Popntar Stria For Boys. Geographical location determines to some extent the juvenile fashion, and garments fashioned in a style that is in large demand in Boston wonld meet with poor showing in New Or leans or San Francisoo. However, the sailor will be in demand all over the country and there is not a doubt that this style of suit is the most be coming for nine boys out of ten. One innovation is particularly no ticeable this spring, aud a good one, too the discarding of braids and fancy nautical emblems, also the cur tailing of size of the collar. Next in importance is the vestee suit. Perhaps we state it wrongly. Perhaps vestees will lead the list. hPBIXO HATH. Certainly they are suits after our own heart, permitting as they do the use S.VILOB SUIT, VKSTBS SUIT, of real vests. 'shirts, eollara. ananan i . ' . ! ucr sua sit cuou nxing. (
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