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UNITED STATES LEGATION IN brazil.

from his own trees. and hts cook goes
out Just before the meal and gathers the
bananas from the back yard.
How Col. Drynn I.ives.
The house itself is A typical Brazilian
villa OF stone and stacco with large
portico in front upheld ley gray Dcr!e
columns II Ia Of hut one story, but II
covers great deal ef ground and has
many rooris. The ceilings are high and
the rooms large ana airy. They are light
ed by electricity furnished BY the water
falls near by Anong them are plenty OF
s,.eulrg apartmessa 50 that the minister
can entertain n number cf guests at one
time He often has party or Hraxlhan
ladies and gentlemen from Rso 20 spend
the night with him. and Ia faet there =
seldom time when the legation table
has ret from one to dussn guests r-s-
cry week he gives q reception al which
ttsssa is music Or sorte other attractioH
and Ia which the ladies well rs gentle
men are glad To come. He gives frequent
dinners ard You may meet AZ us taoie
ths cabinet ministers and other leaainS
brazilian officials as wen as the news
.,apsr editors and the most celebrated
tsle', II all ciasses. A; the last FOURTH
~ luiy he gave A dinner 20 the Americans
ana among others holds frequent enter
elements for the missionaries
C,..~ "a the nrasiitans.
As - result Of his personal pepn'aFits
hsa rs social entertainments minister
f'~yae Aas gotten very close 70 tire powers
tAa' hs y nrasIl. He has perhaps shs
s.iess .ga.sartant diplomatic post o. thss
continent I have already told you tsat
the I}ysxllsan$ numbered mere than ha3s
she peocia ~ South America and isst
shxy own nsore .fsn half the land They
have 4 gTest empire az usdeveior~d re-
scarves and the chances for American
capita ard trade with them shausa ne
gvess We pay them nnar~ fssa SKY
'atl.oa dollars every year fer shsas FsHs'"
pr.s chgeny coffee ana rubber, anc IN
stur5s fhsv are rscss increasing tsesr rslr-
chs~es f~nsss KS Il - ~ vast Importance
thst the relation between the two re<s-
I3es sheuld he pleasant
A. far as I can learn Cox Bryan ss-
psecsares this ard 10 eosnx much - pr
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sersnt syery hour. | have been living at
Fesrnpes's during my stay here and so
% and come frasn sh~ city daily. The
ether das when We ief, the tops 81 the
mountains. kie and the hafhar were COW
ef<d wish a sheet af hiliowy clouds. Not
tree nor blade Of grass couid be seen
eAss % the mountains. ara we appeared
70 BE locking down upon a sncw scsne
81 The Arctic ocean. ~ other times the
esnads SEEMED 20 ,lew ia rivers az silver.
which empty ca, upon tho plains into a
great e'eaa lake, Now yeu ride through
These clouds est your way 81 she bay
Ana ssain when the clouds iIft ana the
Sun ceines our you sail over thar wonder
tut sapphire shset of water 20 tho red
foossd. whifs~wailssi efsy ~ Rso.
Ia r.tropoit..
wish you could be wsta ME ma ssv
IN FesSapolis. IT IS cam@iaa.s,e ~
swisfeFfaaa sta 1apaa ~ the trop.s~ and
ths temperate Eafrs The Alsfs eerv.,..,,ss
ing II arr covered WITH vsS,it.xe ~ -.
pure air - moist and All green sh,or<
grew iusurssstty. Dom refeo asa -.
palaces here sra be laid ots TIA ,as,..,
NEST Beautifully Ar aaae6get Glisa sytte,
running water flows through Il. Tht~ .
crossed by y~ss bridges. whteA 81 IN 4tsh
The picturesque surroundings.
The houses aFe beautiful. they are -
el varieties ef architecture aashowxr f,a
Hrasiliaa predominant. TIE pxsgse.ats 81,
mostly made 80 g TIE rich Tee
svells 81 Rio have ths!r summer bonn.
here The reading Foreigners doing sHxt-
nwss In Rtn 1--we here "a escape the yaliaw
ttser dangers 80 Re ara 81 hack am
sosth daily. Al fT;FogAolis are sAe hc;sex
a. all tie diplomats. ARA Il IA Nvra thar
esy American nsiriSter hax Aa$ legz.tss,
Our American Minister 10 urax,s
came 70 pssreposis - anA aus hoy
Uncle Sans ehssf Representative Nv..
md whs' ts"v are ds.s1g for u. la praetf
Before | describe rise legation wsa,f g.,
@y word aS&u, the minister h stz-ety
Ieu have hsasSs * hss. Ills name is
Cnatss~ page iisNsn and he has tor years
esen wsii known im llfsnofs ana th~
AssAses He Was ~ ous tffsu a sasnee l,,
Ne West and was member os the code
seao legislature. THIS Was when - WA
efi~ more than boy. and aefsrssar ~
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About Our Aperitap Mipister and
His Legation 1t PetropoIis.

when he came hack 20 his home In Illinois
ne Vas sent 10 the legislature Of that
state.
Minister bryan comes from Chicago.
His father In Thomas b. Bryan. a we'll
known lawyer os that city. HIS mother
= OF the same family a. Thomas Nelson
rage. and he In also related te the Lees
Of Virginia He remembers how be was
once dandsed on the knees OF his great
grandmother, the sister OF Light Horse
Harry Lee.
This was In fs9 Gel Bryan was ,h-n
three years old ard he must have been
nne-looking baby. He Ii now H. bat
ne - hne locking stfii- In this land OF
little men he towers like a giant above
the Portuguese and Braxilians. and wnea
with his tall hst and dark morning suit.
his Prince Albert coat tightly hutfoned
around his wsia-nlied form. he goes at a
2tse pace along the Onvfdor. he is in truth
the cynnsure Of the promenade
Minister Bryan in abvus six feet tall.
he has form, complexion and features
not unlike thcAe OF King George Of Greece.
ard when h~ waited Greece some years
ago he was again and again mistaken for
the king and during one ride II In said
al Athens tipped It's hat TO him
Col Bryan is man Of fins education
and high social culture He speaks French
and German nucntiy and since coming
that he can carry on his diplomatic con-
VIBRATIONS without the use of an inter-
prefer. He was, you know. first chosen
by President Mckinley TO represent ux
In China, but the appointment was after
ward changed to Brazil. 1t seems to ma
that the change was q w!se ono. for Col.
Bryan II especially fitted for his present
position.
AZ the Anestean Legetisu.
Ia Ia
w1thstanding this he keeps house and
entersains quite as much as any Of the
married ministers OF our diplomatic corps.
He has with him the serrssary OF his
legation. Tom Dawson. OF Iowa. his mill
tary attache. Lieut.. James A. Shipton.
and his own private secretary. William
A. Lowry. OF Chicago. With this corps
he has what In perhaps the most popular
bachelors hall among all our foreign
ministers. The American legation build
Ing II one OF the finest houses in Petro-
polls II Ia opposite the park which SUR
rounds the old cmperor's palace. and
back OF II the hills rise precipitousIy
forming a green wall lob feet high II
has beautiful grounds about Il. separated
from the street BY stone fence. with
large gate posts, upon one OF which In
the eoat-of-arsns OF IA. United States
Entering. you find yourself In a garden
filled with plants and trees which are AL
moet unknown In our country. The ca
melia. which with IN IN a hot house plant.
Is here fine tree. and those in the lega-
ton garden are great masses of red. pink
and white blossoms. Then there are
sbushes 81 rhododsndrens as big as good
sized haycocks. and axaieas such as you
have never seen. There are a doxen dsf-
ferent varieties Of palms upon the lawn.
and at one side OF the house there Is
little orange grove loaded with ever
green leaves out of which show golden
balls OF fruit. During "a breakfast at the
legation the minister often eats oranges
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II !s managed by American women as
teachers. The college building was built
by rich Brazilian for home. II is on
top Of one OF the mountain peaks Just
above Petropoiis. and IL Is "a much Ike
a palace as any OF the buildings there.
Its rooms are very large. with ceilings
from fifteen TO eighteen feet high. Its
bath room In as large as the average
American parlor. with a shower attach
mens. There Is swimming pool Of mar
BILE In the floor. The kitchen IL walled
with porcelain tiles. and. on the whole,
I doubt is there is a girls school in the
United States as well furnished. |. has
American desks and the latest appliances
in the way OF education. ouch as models.
maps and instruments. It's students come
from good Brazilian families. and iss edu-
casional reputation ia OF the highest
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
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vestsng in all sorts Of things. They al
ready control the best railways. They
own sugar factories. coffee estates ana
have organized dock ard harbor COM
panies.
Germans Are Gohbling Fat Things.
Within the pas. year or SO the Ger
mans have been putting a good deal OF
money into Brazil They are buying tram
ways in many of the towns and organix-
ing electrical companies. They own a
number OF large breweries and you find q
German merchant in almost every from
tier town. Down In Southern Brazil about
oue-feurth Of the inhabitants are Ger.
mans. and In one or two states they own
the bulk 81 the property. They have large
farms and there are many German col
onses. Capitalists N Hamburg have
hongh. large blocks Of land ard they send
ou, their emiEranss 20 coion.ze them
The result Is that most Of the importa-
items come from Germany. and a little
slice ~ Germany has grown up IN South
ern Brazil The Germans there retain
their language and customs and although
shey are nornnaliy BraxiIians. they are
for the fashersani IN international mat
tsrs. Within A short time a direct line
AZ steamships has been established be-
tween Hamburg and the south Brazilian
ports. and shesr connection with Germany
grows closer every year.
Business I'm Rto.
As 10 business In Rio. most OF the retail
establishments are in the hands OF the
Portuguese They are excellent business
rssn successful and honest. Some Of
them handle American goods. and I fna
that American goods are well isk~i by
she Rraxsiians. Our agricultural machsn-
evv s. popular and all kinds af American
machines SIRE well though; ~. Oar hard
ware stands al the top. and our cot.nns
are considered superior 20 those oS Europe.
az hate however. Brarii has been sstah-
gssnfng cusfor mills % her own. There il
a heavy protective tariff OF cotton. and
I understand there Is much money in the
business. shall learn more about this
in the cotton regions further north
An Ameetcan College In Brazil.
Among she American Institutions Of
Rrazn which are sfnfng great deal of
gard Is enslsgs for girls At retrcpoiis-
Tsss ~ supported ! am told. by number
u the women q the Methodist church,
@se each roy - cents . week toward T.
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These same sharps were advertised by
our newspapers under great bend iines
as being about 10 go 10 Soath America
as advance guards e American trade
and manufactures south OF the equator"
ia there much OF this. Mr. Seeger,''
I asked
Not a gYsa, deal" was thu reply. hut
ii Is well 20 LEI our merchants know how
they are liable We he taken en- and our
trade d!sgraced No one who mas nc, beer
here can appreciate the sharpness of the
competition. The merchants Of France
Great Britain and Germany are fighting
the United States and they do not hest
tate to take advantage ~ such things
10 dlsparaxs our trade and 10 run down
Americans
''liow about advertising In the Brazilian
newspapers. MIR. sesEer9'
- should think IL nght paY some
times was che reply. ''fsn' I should say
IL would BE- better 80 establish here in
Erarsi weekly Or monshiy American
trade paper printed In Portuguese. Such
a paper weuid be seif~sapportfrg within
six months II could tive upon ths. al
vertssen,ens~ ~ Brazilian merchants and
exporters ard II wauid do much more
good than fifty thousand dollars mp mere
now spent IL publishing so-caIied sxport
papers in the United States ard in send
inx ea; useless circulars"
Oar Trade With Hrastl.
sseiieye Consul General Sesger n r7ghs
as 80 circulars and catalogues Those
seat here are waste ~ postage THE
ts~s way for our exporters 10 operate IL
Through ~nca business he9ssvs AZ have
branch establishments here. or by sending
nsa wso understand Spanish nr Fortu-
Suese 10 take orders and dram tha mar
kess IL Hrannaers are sent they should
surse back regularly. sr1ns year 70 year
and they slaea'a have supply IN Bic
from which they could deliver goods when
s1ta.
A. IL Ia row. notwithstanding we take
the assIk ~ rhe Brazilian experts. the
foreigners DO the business TIE most -
the aunravsstsons ccrne through English
and Germans the easef American SSascs
s>e.rx skose which devote themselves only
- exporting eaSee4 TIE ErEssss are In
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gslghted. 1859. by Frank q. Carpenter.
Petrspoiis. Brazil. March ~. 1850
- AVE you ever beard Of Petrop-
81 oils? Ii 10 where the president
II OF Brasil end the leading offi-
etais go In the summer. and
1&nEo the foreign ministers live all the
e round II II in the mountains lust
81 II Rio, at an attitude Of more than
ExhnH mile above the sea, and you can
neA 4 In less than three hours The
tgy about II II more like that OF
EH4nRs1And than the tropics, and ifa Gle
- = such that into II the yellow fever
EMper comes.
syposs you could put a range OF hills
- feet high just back Of New York or
Ese6slphis. and away up Ia their tops
- = beautiful city Of aay 30.o0D papuia-
H&13 Suppose you could reach this by a
ri tide across the most beautiful bay OF
Ele World and then climb the hills by q
EGH 1oa0 Hike that which gees up Mount
EoeA3uxt1n- II you can imagine this you
f6ee Pefropolis.
10 - TO II you first ride twelve miles
~ Steamer. Next there are cars which
6ek you over the swanps AZ the foot
FL tie mountains, where you get q little
1N19wtn locomotive which nwishes you up
r. Inclined plane 10 steep that you have
n keep your feet on your vaiise 10 pre-
1T II rolling down to the end OF tho
Em.
y the Svsosser1anA 81 Drast1.
~ ride In wonderfully beautiful. Great
q e9ns :1oaded with orchids stand high
1--we the jungle of matted green bushes.
nss are fern trees waving their myriad
- ~ the train and tall feafhery bam-
- rustic in the hre01e a. the little en-
E1e ppffa by. Now you are on the side
III tsvAn mountain hanging over a RAJ
- 80 feet deep. and under great green
uotted wall 400 feet high. Now you
nnnd \ curve and the rocks rise above
- Ike q great fort. They are brown
- grim. Massive blocks OF stone a
neueand feet thick and weighing shous-
rs - tons hang over you. and mighty
I'll &eeo feet high sppears 20 be about
H. drop down upon you. have seen
- Of the rock wonders Of the world
~ formation Of the Andes. the Hima-
MAS and the Alps have. their OWN feat
4es Of picturesque Rrnusseus.-s The Gar
- Of the Gods and the Yellowstone arss
~ their own kind, and 50 II is Of this
sasst range Of Brazil. II 10 different
I'm any other. picturesque In the ex-
n1mes 4nnd gorgeous In its clothing uf
tuuri06t serdurr.
Tue ~eews OF Rio ana it, great bay are
significant and the cloud effects are Diff
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A reward 81 t-1 In offered By the Mes
COW aasnc-sst@w scs the arrest OF tie three
seee who broke TAIL there on Sunday.
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"a Bachelor Diplomat Enter
l1ips and His Saccess With
r. BfAziIia1s-A Chat With
II CeDsal General It Rio
1bsut the American Trade.

1ps1ghted. 1859. by Frank q. Carpenter.
Petropoiss. Brazil. March ~. 1850.
AVE you ever heard Of Petrop-
oils? Ii Ia where the president
Of Brasil end the leading offi-
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-08-04
NEW RUSSIAN FUEL
Astatki One OF the Principal products
of Baku Oil Fields.

In appearance astslhi, II product OF
the oil wells of Baku, is dark, wise
Gus fund not more ipflammable than
coal. As IA steaD producer it has no
rival, and the demand for II i, purpose
is constantly on the increase. Moth
ing else is burnt on railways in central
Asia, the Caucasus and southern Rus
STA, on the black sea, Caspian and
river steamers, and IN the innumerable
industrial works which are springing
into existence on the Azov iittoral. In
the RAILWAYS which employ this sub
stitute for coal locomotives tenders are
not piled high with black diamonds,
but carry a sheet-iron astatk tank,
which is filed by pumping or the force
of gravity. Numerous are the systems
Of feeding furnaces with astatki; and.
indeed, every engineer has his own pet
apparatus. The principle of all is
that of the Root blower. A current of
steam, or preferably air, carrying with
II the fuel il minute subdivision, is
forced at high pressure through noz-
zie, called "pulverizer, into the
luOuIdi OI the UOIltT W Dc
heated. The result is an intensely
white, roaring flame, and in pulver-
izers OF the latest type the value of
astatki, as compared with coal on q
steam raiser, is as q to The former
sells at Baku;t $500 per ton, and
when tho pipe line connecting that
place with Batoum is com ple,ed, astat-
XII; will be delivered at the steamer
side at something like "a 90. AT the
latter price coal will clearly be unable
to complete with its youthful rival.
Nor do the advantages of astatki and
with its cheapness. Engines burning
it require no army of stokers, for all
that is necessary in the largest is u
man to regulate the supply by taps.
There is no smoke, litter or dust.
Many q passenger by ocean steamer
will bless the day when astatki shall
supplant coal; and stokers who are
roasted alive in tropical waters will
have still greater reason to be thank
full for the revolution.-Pal Mall Mag
aziee.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-08-04

II t. Supp0,ed That CahpZa de- Va"a.
who va> M. .ir,r white man ~ cross
the pr">"nI 'Dili'"rl If the Unired
S'a'c> from Atnu'i" 10 Pacific, went
tirough 'h- Groat Bend country. liz
hsd WIN him three companions. ore
of whom WIS - negro, and III" party
hal u" food supplies except what IA
ture afforded and ih" Indians gave
them Starting from Florida in June,
1927. hey did not see white person
until Apli'. lj3G-ncaily zine Years
when hey reached SinalOa. in Mexico.
and there came across an outpost of
the Cnwez invasion.
The Great Berd country. g. We ~
come # It's parts is very little known
TODAY. ~ thorough exploration of it
having ever been made 1t is "A region
OF lost mountaIus, as they might be
termed. as W. Il Of lost rivers. Some
hundreds IF mines ID The nor:hward
the rhainb,f IA" X ,ckies loses its con-
,inuiiI. ant thence III southwark di-
recti,n the mountains are scattered in
isolated ranges and peaks, forming no
homogeneous system. Some of them
are domes like sugar-loaves, others are
blocked. shaped mesas, and others yet,
when seen in groups from distance,
look like the spires of distant cities.
The Pecos and the Rio Grande are the
only streams in all that territory that
reach the ocean eventually.
Here and there occur springs, though
rarely, and in their neighborhood cattle
ranches are found In the "bolsons,"
between the ranges, hopeless deserts
though they are. water may be got by
digging deep for IT, The bolsons are
basins filled with debris from the
mountains, and water is usually held
in their bottoms, if the dry and porous
strata above reached through. 1t is
one of the oldest freaks in the domain
of geological curiosities.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-08-04
THE AMERICAN cup.
How the Great international acht
Race Started.

When the Amer "a say, he Rev, W
of Rev Jews Tor Augasl speaking If the
first international yacht. rrachc HAVE
early in August 1891 she rap,o tito d
up tor the race and lhcn proc, e,ied 10
Cowes. The visitor arrived Un dark
night and it must have becn An inter.
esting moment when the dawn showed
her 10 the great fleet of English boats
full OF yachlslneu slraining he T. eyes
To SIZE up lie stranger. The Yankee
craft was about IS q ilrIenf nom IN
English yacht as could BE- imagined.
with her great beam and sha i6w hull
while the typical English cut'er of toe
period was HE "plauk-on END" yaii-iy.
She soon showed her melllc by defeat
1t one Of the fastest buats in a hInsh
lot" CO"es, and 90: sgChi, Yenent made
II more dlilicuu H.. her 10 arrange her
races Al las', hOAcy,r, She was. !.
lowed 10 Sail under the regulations If
the Royal Yacht Squadron In those
days no allowances were mad" for ton
mage, sail area, or any thing else. All
tn" boats, BIZ "t little. started n, aud
the one that came ia first won. Eight
cen yachts were entered, ranging from
the little cutter Aurora, of AZ tons, TO
the three mated schooner Brilliant,
OF 1872 tons, The America beng two
masted schooner OF 10 tons. Fifteen
OF the yachts started. The America
did not get of among the first, but be-
fore a third Of the distance was trav
II. l.. a 4
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-08-04
A NEW LINE
One to be Butt Between New York
and Chicago.

Chicago, July 27.-The Chronicle
tomorrow will say: A new through
passenger line is to he established be-
tween Chicago and New York by the
Delaware. Lacawanna a. Western and
the Nickel Plate roads. Notwithstand-
ing denials, it IS learned that close
traffic alliance has been entered into
between these two companies, one of
the features of which will be the es-
tablishment of through passenger train
service between the two cities The
arrangement between the Nickel Plate
and West Shore. by which the former
ran through sleeping cars between the
east and west will be discontinued.
The new line covers territory that
has been untouched by through service
heretofore. To make the new service
uniform for the entire distance the
Lackawana will use Wagner sleepers
instead of Pullmans Fast trains will
be put on as soon as the details of the
arrangement are complete. The dis
lance from Chicago to New York by
the new line is 943 miles,
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ton and Golden Medical Discovery They
helped me steadily. could see that was gain
inC When | wrote 10 you | weighed eighty
seven pounds ! now weigh ninety-nne can
cat anything want TO, my appetite Is good. !
can work all day and not feel tired at night.
have no more beariug-down pains.
Suffering women everywhere should
write to Dr. Il. V. Pierce, Buffalo, y. "
and receive his advice, free of cost
For over thirty years DR.. Pierce has been
chief consulting physician Of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Instituts- at Buffalo
N Y On the staff of this great institu-
tion are nearly score of regularly gradu-
ated, skilled, experienced physicians, each
of whom is a specialist in the treatment
of some one group of diseases. It is the
greatest establishment of its kind in the
whole world.
Every letter has prompt and conscienti-
Gus attention, and is regarded as sacTedly
confidential. All correspondence Is carried
on in plain envelopes, so your private
affairs are kept safe from prying eyes.