Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-01
CAROLINE ISLANDS.
POSSESSIONS OF SPAIN WHERE PER.
 PETuAL SUMMER REleNs.


  They Stretch About 5000 Miles From aazs
 to West - Thermometer Rarely Goes
 Above 90 Degrees-Fhs Natives Arc semt.
 Ssvages and warIiAe.
 If the United States should obtain control of the Philippine Islands. fl would then be only a question of a short while until the Caroline Islands pass into American rule. The Caroline Islands over which Spain now holds sovereignty, stretch about 2,000 miles from east to west, and though near to the equator, and iii a climate of per- petuai summer, the thermometer ranges from 74 degrees to ST degrees through the year. Within the group there are five islands, of basaltic form atloE, some of them having high noun talns from 2,O0O to 5000 feet high. These are Kusaie, Ponape, Ruk Yap, and PeleW kusaiG and Ponape have been called the Gems of the Pacific. For over thirty years the mieronesian mission has fourished in the islands. island after island having been visited by Christian teachers, and no one ever visiting there, ever saw any sign o1 ever had the rem otest thought that any European nation claimed sovereient4 there. There were no spaniards on the islands, no Spanish vessels in the waters. The natives were absolutely Independent and their chiefs were not even asked to recognize any authority outside of their islands. The Caroline Islanders are e1aborateIy tatooed. but their clothing is of the slightest. The characteristics vary somewhat on the various islands but most of the people are savage and werlfke. While not noted for cannibalism, it is said that on some of the islands there is not an adult who has not tasted human flesh. In 1888 more than thirty different fs- 5ands WeFe occupied by native Chris s.an teachers trained under rneriean missionaries; the ee3pfe were Chris hanize4i liquor and tobacco were aanz zslsed from the isi1nds and the Ten Commandments" became a code of iaWs. There were established forty seven churches, with 4,500 members and fifteen native paste. Such was the condition of the islands in 1888 un- iii question of territorial rights was disputed by the European powers be- cause of Spain's enforcement of her claim Of sovereignty. The matter ia dispute was referred to the pope for afz bitfation who in lis discussion gave the Marshall Islands to German. the Caroline Islands to Spain. and the Gf1- bert Group to England. After that Spanish governor. six Roman Catholic priests and fifty Spanish soldiers were sent to Ponape Since then no Amerf can missionary has been allowed to remain at Ponape The Micronesian missionary boat has been forbidden to toNcn at any point of the islands ex, cept at the Spanish narbor. Recently, after years of delay. the Spanish sov- ernment has paid ST, 800 for the Amer iean mission property destroyed Spanish vessels seldom appear in th, Ruk archipelago or at Kusaie and they have no difficulty os these lslands.
 A Cup Board.
 A cupboard-or, to be more specific, q board upon which to hang cups-is a pretty conceit for a dining-room. It is easily made, being simply q board stained and vanished, into which brass cup screws are driven There may be shelves above, as ornamental as desired, to place the saucers upon, or these, too, may be placef on the board, each supported by two screws. If shelves are used, screws may be driven in the underneath side of them and odd cups, cream pitcher and tiny teapots hung from them with very pretty result. But to keep the entire board and shelves for ones collection of c,1ns and .sancers is far lnnra nri o.