Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-09

OF the property. In quarrel betweer
Brazil and the kaiser this state nigh
easily bre4k away and demand German pro
| lection.
The climate of Rio Grande do Sui is abou
that of Washington city. In January, mid
summer, the thermometer goes UP higr
as 100 and in the winter month Of July tht
ground is often covered with snow.
North of Rio Grande do Sui are the states
! of Santa Catharina and Parana, both o.
which will some day be populated by Euro.
peans They are very similar to Rio Grande
| and have vast undeveloped areas.
Domain of Coffee.
Above these states lies Sac Paulo one OF
the best parts of Brazil, a state which fur
| nishes nearly all the coffee that is con-
sumed in the United States and one Of the
! richest states of the world. 1t Is at Sac
Paulo, the capital of this state, that this
letter is dated. Sac Paulo is almost all
high. There is low strip of malarious
| land along the coast. Back of this is q
range of mountains about 1000 feet hign
and then plateau. which slopes gently to-
ward the west. The soil Is q rich red loan.
! 1t produces all kinds of vegetables and
! fruits and will grow coffee, corn and grain.
| The lands along the coast are good for
sugar and, indeed, the first sugar in Brazil
| was raised near Santos. OF late the sugar
planting has been largely given UP and the
| people are devoting themselves almost alto
| gether to raising coffee. Many of them have
made fortunes and as result Sac Paulo Is
a town OF rich men.
The Paulistas, as the people of Sac Paulo
are called have always been among the
best of the Brazilians. They were among
the first settlers. The Portuguese who first
kidnaDprS srhny ato ba Tn
dians and made them work. 1t is estimated
| that they captured 100000 Indians in three
centuries. Later on they distinguished
| themselves for their enterprise in other
ways They have now the best railroads Of
Brazil the most modern improvements and
the best government. The state gets its
revenue from export tax and as the cof-
fee exports run into many millions a year.
1t has large revenue
City of SnO PauIo.
like Sac Paulo. 1t is a live, wide
awake city, with good buildings and fine
stores. The people evidently spend great
deal of money. The hotels are fairly good
and there are signs everywhere that the
Pauistas are alive and not kicking.
Come with me out on the streets and
take look at the town. 1t Is clearly morn
ing; the children are just going to school.
There are bright faced little girls without
hats and little boys with hats and bare
legs. They are trudging along with their
books in bags on their backs, over the
cObblestone streets.
Here come the street cars. They are
painted red and are drawn by mules. What
a lot of them there are, They go in groups,
one car following another. until a long
train has passed. Some of the cars are
loaded with freight, They are second class
cars and have two seats only, at each end
A man with a basket cannot get into a
first-class car and people going to market
no one but servants go to market here
have to use the freight cars. There comes
a car loaded with newspapers. We meet
newsboys on every corner and we learn
that Sac Paulo has a half dozen dailies
What a lot of negroes there are. They
make me feel as though / were in Wash
ington or at my home in Virginia The
faces of many of the business men show
African blood. This is often the case for
the color line, as far as marriage is con-
cerned. has not been drawn tight in Brazil
Here come three colored men now. They
are laborers on their way to work. /
listen to them as they pass. That YAH
yah! yah! is just like the laugh OF our dark
skinned Americans, but the language they
are using is Portuguese, and though the