The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-21

square mile as Maine 1t is m agricul-
tural state, raising sugar, cotton and to-
bacco. In the warehouses at the WharveS
l saw sugar piled up like sand on the
floors, and in the market place great
quantities of tobacco twisted up in ropes
of all sizes from cables to cloth lines. To-
bacco is here sold by weight, the Gus
toner directing how much of the twist
he wants.
In this trip I see more and more the ex-
tent to to which the negroes have inter-
mixed with the BraZilians. The majority
of the half million people of Algoas have
colored blood in their veins, and of the
town of Maceo there are many more
colored than white. During my stay I
did not see a score of pure whites, al
though there were negroes in great num-
bers. Little negro babies of two and four
years sprawled upon the cobble stone
streets. Negro. boys rode, yellow mules
loaded with kerosene oil cans Slung to the
sides of the animals in the original boxes
in which they were shipped from Phila-
delphia. The cans contained water, and
such boys are the water carriers of the
city, who go from house to house selling
water at about a half cent gallon
There were many fat negro women on
the streets. They walked along with i'm
mense bundles on their heads, their
bosoms pushed to the front as full as
that of the fat woman in the dime mu-
scum. There were little yellow girls and
boys by the score going to school, and
with them other girls and boys of a sal
low white.
l visited the market. 1t covers a square,
but the chief business seems to be done
by women and in many cases by old
slaves. The younger generation of the
colored race are. as a rule, shiftless, and
the best of the negro population is that
which once served as slaves.
The trade of the market was what
Connecticut Yankee would call whiting
business. Most things were sold by the
handful. The chief merchandise was
mandoca, rice, corn and beans These
are the staple foods of the people The
Brazilians are, indeed, greater bean eat
ers than the Bostonians. The latter in
sist on having beans Saturday and Sun
day, while the Brazilians take their beans
twice day year in and year out
IN PERNAMBUCo.
Leaving Maceo we next stopped at Per-
nambuco, or I should say Recife There
is no such city in existence as Pernam-
buco. That is the name of the state The
real name of the city is Recife. The word
''recife' means reef" and Recife gets
its name from wonderful reef which
runs out into the sea for distance of
several miles, inclosing a great natural
| dock, which forms it's harbor. This reef
is stone wall formed by nature, inclos-
| Ing a tank less than half mile wide and
several miles long. The wall rock at low
| tide is perhaps ten feet above the water
At high tide it is almost covered but the
| BraZilians have built another wall on top
| of it, so that the sea dashes itself against
| 1t in vain. l shall never forget my ride
! into this harbor. There was a heavy sea
| outside, and the waves CRASHED their
| teeth as they threw themselves against
| the stone wall, splitting out. as it seemed
masses of snowwhite foam in their anger,
| The spray was thrown thirty feet into
| the air. 1t fell over into the quiet waters
| of the harbor, and as we lay there and
| looked at 1t the sun came from behind a
| cloud and made countless rainbows with
| every wave. 1t was, in fact, a .geyser two
| miles long spouting up all colors, shades
| and tints.
BRAZIL'S GREAT COTTON PORT.
Recife is one of the busiest ports of
Brazil. The city has about 100000 in
habftants. 1t lies right on the sea, being
cut up by arms of the ocean, so that its
people call it the South American Venice.
| 1t is a busy port, about 1 900 ships com
| Ing to 1T every year. 1t is the first place
at which the steamers stop in coming to
| South America from Europe, and it has
| vast trade, especially in cotton and
| sugar. The state of Pernambuco is about
as large as New York. 1t is a great cot
ton state. The cotton is raised on small
| plantations, few farmers growing more
than two or three bales annually. Still
the output is large. The lands are cul-
| ttvated chiefly with the ak, the hoe and
| the bowie knife. The trees are first cut
| down and burned. The holes are dug for
| the cotton seeds, and after this little more
is done except to keep down the weeds
until the cotton is ready for picking.
There is no blowing to speak of and no
farming in our sense of the world Lands
are very cheap, and 1 do not doubt but
that cotton growing after modern meth
DDS would pay.
1t is odd to see the cotton as 1t is
brought here to the warehouses. Much