The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30
AFTER MANY DAYS
n T1NDERER RgTURgS TO THE
OLD HOMESTEAD.

Not an emaciated Rip, rising from twenty
years Of stupor to find his Wondering gar
ments dropping piecemeals from his
limbs and tho wormeaten stock
falling away from the barrel Of his trusty
gun, but an elderly gentleman, returning well
| preserved, though gray bearded from another
continent, whore, in twenty-five years he has
married and seen children and grand children
| gather about his hearth.
He returns to the ,old homestead to find
everything just as it was except, that the trees
! and the people have grown. Time has carried
off some Of the older members Of the family
| and upon the faces Of othors he has carved
| deeper the lines Of light and shadow.
| What flood Of memories must have over
! whelmed him as he turned the brow Of the hill
and the old landscape opened out before him |!
| There was the same expanse OF field and
meadow, shut in by wooded hills and
wrapped in dreamy stiffness that
would have enchanted tho chronicler Of the
Legends of Sleepy Holow.i
There was the old house, with its broad
brown walls hid in the foliage of trees that
were yet unable to hide the fiat roof OF the tall
chimneys from which thin smoke slowly as
cended.
On near approach there was little change
The spruce trees, though four times as large,
were in their old places, and the lockwood
bordered the same sinuouS walks through the
flower yard. The curtains at the windows
looked much the same. The massive
mahogany furniture in its
place and even the boyish bric-a-b rac of the
Wanderer was there a stuffed duck that he
had shot in the marsh held its wonted place on
the mantel and its pumago was as brilliant as
ever.
"Therc was my sister" said he, "and her
daughter-a child in the arms when loft, had
grown UP to tall womanhood. My sister would
not have known me but for few marks my
beard was black when left and now it is
almost white
"For days it seemed like dream; I could
hardly realize IT, 1t was as il had gone back
twenty years to the time when / left home
Just after the war and went to Brazil"
This Rip Van Wrinkle then had not lost
twenty years. Though all those years were
life apart, they were not blank and he came
home rich i'll tho experience of two continents
the one of his birth and the other of his adop-
ton, knowing the resources of both as a man
can know them in a residence of a score of
years. his enthusiasm proportioned to his ex-
perience and with his heart set on bringing
closer together two countries, which are in
many respects the compliments of each other.
This is the experience of DR. George s.
Barnesly whose middle name is suggestion
of the work that he has it i'll his mind to set
in motion.
OF those concerned in the building of the
first ocean steamer that crossed the Atlantic,
Mr., Scarborough, q wealthy merchant OF Say
annah, bore leading part and heavy share
of the expense, and but for him the Savah-
nah" might not have crossed the ocean from
Savannah to Liverpool in 1915.
His grandson, DIR. Barnesley, now has in
view the importance OF another line of steam
ers from Savannah to Para and Rio Janeiro.
Brazil, said he, lis larger than the United
States without Alaska, aud the valley Of the
Amazon, which has about two-thirls of the
area OF the country, is reached by the twenty
or thirty tributaries OF the Amazon, with their
total navigation of 10000 miles. The popula-
4 y -. ~ 10 4
of which large number are Indians.
The whole population Of Brazil is
estimated at 100000, and the larger part of
it is in the proyineessouth OF The watershed of
the Amazon.
"The mountain systems in South America
are similar III situation TO those in North
America. The Andes on the west are the con-
tinuation of the Rocky mountains, and the
coast range along the Atlantic coast OF Brazil
is analogous TO the alleghanies in the United
Statesl The coast range rises abruptly near
tile tHantic oaan and. man Ascending it
finds on reaching the top that he is on an eeya-
ted table land that averages 1000 feet above
the sea, though there is one place in the SOUTH
eastern part VI Brazil which has an altitude OF
10000 feet"
"Thc principal staple of agriculture" said
he, lis coffee. II is en- immense business,
which probably almost reaches the vel
ume of the cotton business in
this country. A line Of steamers
to Savannah would give great deal Of that
business to that port aud Atlanta would be the
distributing point for coffee in the south.
"The India rubber trade is also au immense
industry Millions of dollars worth are ex-
ported annually and Para. NJ the mouth Of the
Amazon, a city of 100000 inhabitants, is sup
ported entirely bg tho rubber business.
"Itio Janeiro is the Paris Of South America
There we have ali the style Of the French and
the latest fashions appear there within
two weeks after they appear in Paris. 1t Is Il
magnificent city, paved with granite blocks,
such as you have IN Atlanta, and they have a
hotel something like the Kimban house, bat
| built of marble.
"'rhe people have as much culture and refine
| ment as you will see in any cities Oratory is
| much cultivated in Brazil and Il
| have heard there men equal
! TO Ben tiiU, and Clay and Webster
| Their style is very elevated, and the Portu-
| geso language, as they speak it, is very beam
I tiful. II sounds like music. and aboands in
I beautiful images The Portuguese language is
/ called the eldest daughterof the Latin"
"Gou see there, among the different tribes
/ Of the Portuguese, some of Moorish mixture
! from the south OF Portugal, and some from
! the northern provinces are the pure Latin
/ type, tail, splendidly formed, with small hands
/ and feet fair Skin, black hair and Roman noses.
| They are graceful o0nrtly and hospita6le and
I especially friendly TO people from this country
"Dcm Pedro is constitutional emperor and
/ is, in fact no more than president Tor life.
| The constitution OF Braril5 Just like ours with
! the eACeptiQN that the emperor ElS q ire ten
| uro of Office. The army has already declared
| that after the death Of Emperor Dom Pedro
| Brazil shall be a republic.
! The emperor is q iine old gentleman, affable
! and unaffected In conversation he is Just as
l unconstrained in his manner, and talks Just as
/ freely as we are now. lie is intelligent and
/ splendidly edUcated-speakss six or seven lam
1 guages. That signature "hnperator' on,that
I document il his. II is a very bold hand and
/ think lie wrote it with quill PEN"
/ Were yoU in Brazil when emancipation
/ went into effect ?"
"Nes, / was in Rio and there were 100000
/ people in the streets. I was in procession Of
! l5000 1t was day Of ringing Of bells and
/ professions Everybody white and black was
I ia good humor, shaking hands The re-
I markahle thing about the day was tho absence
I OF disorder. The police had no arrests TO
make that day. Eyerybod seemed 10 want
I emancipation.
! 1T had been brought about by the agitation
\ OF about ten years. What did most To bring it
/ about WAS the play OF "Unce Toms Cabin, -
( which had been dramatzed to suit the eoun-
I try and had been played about the country for
about ten ysars. Finally public sentiment
forced the lower house and the senate so pass
/ the emancipation act. Then the princess tel
Z egtaphed 90 the emperor and he replied tell