Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-11-07
HOUSEKEEPING ON STEAMSHIP
Amount of Food Eaten by Passengers
 on an Ocean Liner.

 Amount of Food Eaten by Passengers
 an Ocean Liner.
 One tidy little refrigerator about six feet wide and twice that depth is the buttermans stall in this market under the sea, writes Helen c. Candee in an exchange. Little tubs of butter are arranged on shelves to the amount of 5-o . ponds and in company with tHe-e tt9 eggs. Twenty-Five hum dred [ ts of milk and cream are stored ! separate room, all having been sieli,ized. This market has room especially for salt meats, and here are hams bacon and tongues to the amount of 4000 pounds. There are some articles of food without which the epieure would be unhappy, and which must be alive when cooked. Chief among these are oysters, of which l6,00G are carried to meet the wants of the passengers. Clans are only pro- Vided to the number of 1 300. Lobsters are not abundantly supplied; 700 pounds is all the storeroom shelters. This market in the bottom of the ship contains, besides the things mentioned, fruits, green vegetables and an en- ormous stock of groceries. The latter IS only limited by space, for groceries are not perishable goods a2d will keep from one voyage until another until used. Tea and coffee are used in large amounts-ab thirty-three pounds a day of tea and fifty pounds of coffee. Perlshable supplies are taken on board in proportion to the number of passen- gers booked, and anything of this kind which is left over when the ship reaches port is eaten by the crew.
 Away down in the bottom of the ship the chief steward has a market of his own, one which he has stocked and from which he draws, thus serving in the double capacity of merchant and customer Here is an enormous re- trigerator, and is presided over by a steward who is responsible for every pound of meat within it. Before the ship slips from the dock this room is stocked, for full ship, with 10000 pounds of beef, 2,000 pounds of veal and 5000 pounds of mutton. From hooks along the walls and ceiling of another refrigerator hang punches of birds. very much as dried corn and peppers hang from the rafters of old farmhouses. AS many chickens as can be tied together are hung until 4,000 pounds are slowed away. Ducks are not as popular as chickens. therefore 700 pounds only are proVided-about 100 pounds allowance for each day. Turkeys are liked and 1000 pounds must be provided for the demands of the cook. Pigeons, squabs and other small birds, these are reckoned in pieces. and it is calculated that the family which floats across the ocean will deyour 1600 birds"
 Samoan Gentleness In war.
 War is savage in its very nature, and one looks for war among savages to be peculiarly barbarous IT. such is not always the case among the peo- pie of Samoa is attested by . letter sent from Samoa by an American gen. tlema1 who recently visited Apia, and who gives a description of Mataafas army in camp after a battle between the rival claimants to the throne
 We went all about among the huts where the savages were resting aftei the battle and making preparations for the next fight It was very peaceful scene, for their arms were all conceal cd under the mats, where the men sat, and many of the soldiers were accom- panied by their wives and children They were amusing themselves by smoking and beating tom-toms.
 The Sam0ans are a most amiable race of savages. and white people are always perfectly safe among them Everywhere we are greeted with smiles and friendly mods and the salutatioa 'Talofa, which means Love to you, from men, women and children.
 "0ne instance of their friendly feei- ing occurred during the big battle. A white man who lived In the street where they were fighting. saw tha; two of his horses had straye1 out be- tween the hostile lines. He did n0t want to lose them, and he did not wan; to venture out in the line of fire. So he stuck a white flag cut of his win dow. Upon seeing it, both chiefs CT dered their men to stop firing and hos tilities were suspended while .Ae whi=s man went out and drove his horses .t a place Of shelter. Then the e9n5at ants went at i. again