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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-12-08

pleasure between long and tedious. hours Of
practice and the more tedious recital.
Not only has Mr.. Hoffman, become an ex-
pert chauffeur. but he has also invented
two variations of motive power which
threaten to revoiutionize the art of automo-
bile making.
Patents have been issued in foreign coun-
tries on these valuable inventions, and the
pianistS first enterprise upon arriving here
in America. a short time ago. was to place
his application with the Patent Office at
Washington. Mr.. Hofmann's attorneys are
of the opinion that he has made improve
ments On present modes that will serve to
make automobilins safer and swifter than
ever before.
In commenting upon his inventions and
his love for the sport. Mr.. Holman grows
enthusiastic. "All my musical friends take
to sport Of some kind or other, with one or
two exceptions. / may say; particularly
those Of the younger school," he said. You
know that NJ. de Reszke makes horses lis
special study and delight when not at work
in grand opera. and has indeed made quite
as much money in Europe running a stable
as he has achieved in music.
MIR. Gerardy. my friend of cello fame. is
an all-around athlete. particularly partial to
the electric tricycle.. He had one recently
built of eight-horse power, capable Of ter
rifle speed. and holds prizes in contests Of
this order.
M. Paderewski is fond of sport. but his
penchant takes a milder form. He is very
clever at billiards. D'Albert is partial to the
bicycle and has taken some long journeys
on the Continent with congenial company.
Rosenthal takes to Indian clubs, dumb bells
and that sort Of exercise. while LEVINE is
an all-around gymnast and has taken prizes
in athletic tournaments. You perceive that
1 am by no means alone in my predilection
for things sportsmanly to alternate my
musical work.
Gasoline and Steam Combined.
Naturally. when one is so enthusiastic
about a sport he sets his inventive talent to
work in the manner of possible improve
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JOSEF HOFMANN'S LATEST
LOVE is THE

Special correspondence Of The Sunday Republic,
New York. Dec. elf it is true, as the
poet aftirms, that 1.-The undevout astrono-
mer Is mad" 1t is equally convincing in the
mind OF josef Hoffman,, the renowned
young pianist, that the man who speals his
days and nights ''in the region of sweet
sounds" without the saving grace of bodily
recreations and mental relaxations from
such q constant strain. will sooner or later
become mentally unbalanced.
The list of musicians who lave gone to
the radhouse Is such as to appall any
youthful aspirant to honors in composition
or the art Of the virtuoso. In fact, not one
of the great musicians can be said to be
wholly and at all times free from any faint
of insanity.
Music and madness seem closely allied.
Being a language Of the passions. an emo
tional vernacular. taking up the thread OF
thought into the higher regions when mere
words have grown Inadequate. constant
pursuit of this mysticism has driven thou
sands to the asylum. And, now that the
stress of competition for the worlds honors
and applause was never so great. the IAN
ger of succumbing to some ma!ady Of the
kind is greater than ever.
But Josef Hoffman, IS a man first and a
musician afterwards. Wonderful as a per-
former, technically perfect, and with a keen
is yet enough Of the earth earthly to :,ppre-
ciate also. that there is something in music
besides counterpart and harmony; that
just as essential to high artistic achieve
ment as a mastery Of thorough bass. and
that the anaemic school Of music is on the
wapp
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ment. While he is improving himself he
feels it more or less incumbent upon him to
improve the sport itself SO far as he may.
Il discovered that. whereas gasoline was
the most available power for automobiles, il
is also the most dangerous. and that. while
electricity is the least dangerous. it is not
SO speedy, nor has it the enduring powers Of
the gasoline or steam motors.
My invention combines gasoline and
steam in u peculiar way. While gasoline IS
used, it is not a primary power. 1t is used
to generate n high steam power, which
steam is itself the motive power OF the We
hicle. Again, in the ordinary steam boiler
the heat surrounds the coils OF pipe contain
ing the water. whereas in my invention the
heat passes through the coils by an inner
tube, the heat II us working from the CEN
ter outward.
Gasoline exploded through these inner
tubes creates a tremendous heat. and the
water which surrounds them. confined in
their outer pipes. generates a terrific steam
pressure instantly, recuperative and even.
Thus. with a single charging of gasoline and
occasional stops for water on the route, /
can make the tour from Paris to Berlin
without tie usual inconvenience of hunting
up establishments where this fuel is sold.
1T Is my intention to have several Of
these autos built as soon as possible after
completing my patents in various countries.
"s " q AaSN4So
test. Every expert in mechanics to whom I
have shown the plans, however, has pre-
dicted great things for my Improvement on
the old system, both in point Of speed and
safety.
Il shall manufacture on the Continent
and If all goes well shall undoubtedly un-
dertake some enterprise here in America,
as this is the coming home OF the automo-
bile. Your cycling movement has been of
great benefit in the matter of good roads
something that is very lacking on the Con-
tinent, except within q few miles Of thu
principal centers.
II took a bicycle journey from Berlin to
Gosten recently. a spin Of some $50 kilos.
and did it in record time, but the roads
toward the Russian frontier were unspeak-
ably bad, for there is little incentive to keep
the highways in proper condition there.
Here. however, 1 note with great salts
faction that from place to place throughout
the country there are excellent roads. even
across the Continent. and that there is
great pride displayed in keeping them in
fine repair. All this will do much to make
automobilins in America a sound and prac-
teal sport"
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Javanesc Mohammedans Abolished
Slavery After Our Civil War

! dont know that the Filipinos could be
ruled through their own people as the
butch rule Java, hut I should think IL Nigh,
be possible on some of the islands. such as
those OF the Sulu archipelago and AIinda-
mao. The JaVaEese are not unlike the Mo-
vos In some respects. They are Mohamme-
cans. and they are ruled by their chiefs.
For a long time they had slavery among
them. and it was late In the sixties before.
1t was abolished. the government paving
each owner 4 certain amount for his slaves.
The prices varied according to age from
sD to sl4o. the latter sum being paid for
able-bodied men.
a great deal has been published about the
terrible oppression of the Javanese by the
Dutch. This may have been the case in the
past. 1t Is not so now. The natives have
10 do police duty and work ON the roads in
lieu OF taxes. and some of them are en-
ployed in the government plantations, but
no one labors for any time without paw
except when doing work for his taxes.
Ihere Is no doubt but that the people are
lar better OIL than those Of India or China,
and the island is more thickly populatea
than either OF those countries. There is
no poverty to speak OF. I have not seen a
score Of besgars in my several THOUSAND
miles of travel in different pats of the isl
and. There have been no revolutions for
years. and as far as 1 can see. the people
are, from an Oriental standpoint. both pros
porous and content.
FRANK G. CARPENTER,
Copyright. 1901. BY Frank G. Carpenter.
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great estate, making 1t its duty to develop
lava for the Javanesc.
me Dutch have spent millions of
dollars here in making roads. in building
railroads and irrigation works. The inter
MAJ improvements of Java are almost as
me as those of Holland. and venture to
say there are no such roads in the world
as mere l doubt whether better civil en-
sns s "a" De found than those who have
oeeh III the employ Of the Dutch Govern
ment. and. as l have said before. II would
poy uncle Sam we'll TO send here for ad-
v.sers 10 our authorities in the Philippines.
l.. this Is done it must be by good salaries.
Inc Dutch pay their colonial officers more.
.nah we are paying our :u-n in the Philip
p.As aiu salaries OF sw' Il week in the
higher places are not Uncommon rrbara
are natives here who are getting SIS a wee,,
ahC school teachers who are getting $50
10 500 per month. ~
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Special Correspondence Of The Sunday Republic.
Batavia, Java, Oct. 3o.-1n this my last
Better from Java 1 wish to mention a num-
Der Of curious little things / have heard
and seen in this Out-of-the-way part of the
world. I might write for a year and not de-
scribe half the colonies the Dutch have in
khe East Indies. l hear of new people and
new Islands every day. and such as 1 visit
Are more strange than the stories told OF
Them.
A ship which has just arrived at Batavia
has brought a New Zealand mining engi-
neer from the Celebcs. He has been in the
employ Of the Dutch Government and has
0pent b last few years in investigating
mineral possibilities of different Dutch
ISLANDS. He tells me he finds traces of gold
almost everywhere. but so far none in pay
~ nunntftfoS
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Mr.. Hofmann's Inventions.

This detailed description Of Mr.. Hof-
mann's inventions is furnished by one Of
his attorneys:
Mr. Hofmann's motor for automobiles
and other uses relates to that class Of
motors. not as yet common. in which an
expansive motive fluid is produced for use
in the motor Of the steam engine type by
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Plenty of Daily Newspapers
South of the Equator.

/ am surprised to find daily newspapers
away out here south of the equator. There
are plenty of them. Every town of any
size has its big paper. There are twenty
six published in the Dutch colonies. There
are six In Sumatra, three in the Celebes
and seventeen in Java, five printed in the
Malay and Javanese languages and twelve
IN Dutch: The largest circulation is that
OF the Batavian news sheet which comes
out every afternoon, and the most i'm
portant perhaps is the Javasche Courant.
the official organ of the Du,cn Government
which is issued from the Government Print
Ing ONCE. where all the Government books
and papers are published. This establish
ment Issues the school books, printing them
In different native languages. It publishes
notices in Chinese. Javanese and Arabic.
as all proclamations have to be put forth
In four or five different languages.
I have chatted with the official publishers
and also with the editors of the different
newspapers as to how the Dutch are treat
ing the natives. They have changed their
policy during recent years. For a long
time they ran Java exclusively for them
selves. but they are now running 1t moro
for the ~Javanese. They are trying to edu-
cate the people and to give them modern
ideas Many fear thai education wilt spoil
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the people as workers, but they say they
must educate them notwithstanding. They
look upon the Javanese as their part OF the
white mans burden. which they wish to
carry as creditably as any OF the other ma
tons of Europe.
Many of the natives are already well edu-
Gated. l have written of the native schools.
They are found everywhere and the number
of students steadily increases. The leading
native officials speak the Dutch and Jaw
anese languages There are natives in pri-
vate business who have had good educa-
tons. There are some doctors who have
| taken n medical college course and been
awarded diplomas. They are licensed hy
the Government to practice and they do a
great deal of work among the natives. Ma
tive doctors are used in all the hospitals anil
they are to he found everywhere occupying
different medical positions under the Gov
rnmen
Dutch Have Increased the
Population of Java.
There is no doubt but that our Govern
ment can learn much here as to the deve!-
opment of the Philippines. TIL Dutch have
scientifically developed Java. Within a few
years they have Increased its population
from 100000 to q. OC0.GO and at the same
rate the Philippine Islands could support a
population equal to that of the whole
Ohiteu states. Inc Dutcn naSe All SOrtS OIL
Experimental farms and gardens here. They
have the finest botanical gardens of the
world at Buitenzorg. and in 1t every sort of
tree and plant that will grow in the tropics.
They have some Of the best botanlsts and
agriculturists in their employ. and they
are always testing the different varieties
of soil for tea. coffee and other plants.
1t was through the Dutch officials that
the immens tea. coffee and quinine planta-
lions have been built up. A hundred years
ago there was not cinchona tree in Java,
and row three-fourths of the quinine of the
world is raised here. The coffee estates
were practically destroyed by the. blight.
but through the Government the Iiberian
coffee trees were introduced and Java has
again become rich as a coffee land. The
government started the tea industry and
millions of tea trees have sprung to life
upon a thousand hills. There has been
trouble with the sugar estates. but the Gov
eminent experiments are remedying the
defects. and the same care Is shown in the
cultivation of other things. The Govern
ment has set out forests of valuable woods,
and, In fact. it acts like the manager Of a
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Relaxation in an Automobile.

With this natural desire to vary the mu-
steal grind with things muscular and recre-
alive. Mr.. Holman takes to athletics. His
latest love is the automobile. and, while on
his present tour through the United States.
his first command upon entering a city is
hat an electric automobile be placed at his
disposal for a run abou now and then at
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Naturally Filtered Water.

Mr.. r. H. Yapp. an English naturalist
who has recently explored the mountain
ranges Of the Malay Peninsula reports that
In several species Of bamboo the hollow IN.
ternodes-the parts Of the stems between
the joints-are stored with large quantities
of naturally filtered water.
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Odd Manners in the Outofthe-Way Colonies Owned by the Dutch
Something About the Celebes, Amboina and the Moluccas-
Queer Foreigners and How They Dress-Hotel Beds and
the Dutch Wife-Yankees in Java-The Daily News
papers-What Our Agricultural Department Might
DO-Can We Rule the Philippines as the
Dutch Rule Java?
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Hotels Are Well Appointed,
but Poorly Lighted.

The contrast between the hotels Of ava
and those OF the Philippines is striking.
Outside of Manila there ID hardly a hotel
Of any size in all the Philippine Island and
the hotels in Manila are uniformly poor.
Here there are good houses everywhere
and where there are no regular hotels there
are Government rest houses where one can
stay at low cost. The average hotel rate
Is about s. o day and never more thar s.
For this you have coffee or tea in the morn
ing. as early as 5 o'clock IL you wish. A
breakfast at 9 or 10. luncheon at
1880 n dinner at about 8. No one
dimes early and after dinner but
The rooms at the hotels are usually good.
All are on the ground floor and nearly all
Mace v~erandaa each guest using that part
q the veranda in front Of his room.
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Octopus Shaped Island Of
Celebes Is UnexDlOred.

/ chatted with him for some time about
The Celebes. These islands lie almost direct
" south OF the Sulu Archipelago-so near.
Indeed. that they might be called our neigh
bon. The Celebes. which is the name OF
b largest island. is bigger than any of the
Phl0ppineA. and It has a coast line of enor-
extent. It is shaped much like an
octopus. with feelcrs reaching out in every
direction. It has more land than the State
Of Missouri and from end to end in its
longest part It is about 500 miles. The ma
t1ve0 are very wild in some sections and
semilvilised in others. The Dutch have
coffee plantations in the civilized sections.
They have had possession Of the country
Tor - yeafs. but have done little with 1t.
The most prominent settlement is that OF
4a1assar. at the southern end of the island.
Here the Dutch steamers stop. There are
several business houses. and the chief ex-
ports OF the archipelago come from there.
I asked he engineer something about the
town. He says It has many Chinese and
Arabs. but very few Europeans. The peo-
pie are Nohammedans and they have n way
Of running amuck a. they do in the Philip
pln0L
Very little Of the Celebes Is explored.
0ee0g . white man, and at times found 1t
very dangerous. He describes the country
~ rich IN the extreme. and says that the
col1eo plantations which have recently been
set out In the north are doing well. He
tells me that the natives haye many tribes
and languages and the different tribes can
not understand one another. In one section
the chief natives wear breech cloths of
bark. They take the bark Of a certain tree
and soak It. and then beat 1t out with NAL
lets until 1t is very thin. When dry it is
glossy and will Withstand the rain.
Profitable Plantations
in the Land of Nutmegs.
This man spent some time in the Mo-
luccas. He knows all about cloves and
spices. n tells wonderful stories OF the
nutmeg plantations. There are some nut
megs here in Java. but the best trees are
found in Ambonia, in the Banda Islands.
the Moluccas and other parts of the Dutch
East Indies There are also plantations in
0umatzA n Borneo. The trees in the
Noluccao are planted and cultivated. They
grow In the shade and require somewhat
the same care az our apple trees. Indeed,
the nutmeg tree looks Just like a pear tree,
its fruit 10 not unlike an apricot or
peach.
The tree does not begin to bear until It is
ten yean old. but after this. If it is prop
erly cared for, It may last a century. A
good tres should annually produce about
three pounds Of nutmegs and one pound of
and at this yield the business is prof.
ltable. The fruit ripens several times a
ysar, and you sometimes see blossoms and
ffuit on Q tree ut the same time. As the
nutmegD rfpen the pulp. which Is about
half IN incl thick, breaks and shows the
nut encircled by . network of mace. In
prepar1ng the fruit for the market the
pulpy outside u thrown away and the nuts
aie dried slowly IN ovens. There are about
million ana q half pounds Of nutmegs ex-
ported from the Dutch East indies every
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Metamorphosis Of Dowager,
Who Was Beautiful by Night.

Notwithstanding this, the same woman
would think nothing Of your travelling
around through the house in the early
morning in your pajamas or sitting on the
veranda in your bare feet and a sarong.
In fact. she would do the same thing her
self.
This is SO more in lava than anywhere
else. The women come not only to early
breakfast but to the noon lunches in a
state Of dishabille that would insure their
summary dismissal from any of our sea-
side hotels. / remember one stately dame
who sat next me at dinner last night and
whom I met again this morning. As she
appeared in the evening she made me think
Of q owager Queen. She was clad in q
soft gray silk which looked as though 1t
came from Paris. Her hair was q La POM
padour and her well-laced-in form. though
a bit overplump, was not u~nhandsome. She
wore diamonds in her ears. at her neck and
in her hair. She was vivacious. and her
conversation was charming. Indeed, I came
carly to breakfast hoping that I might see
her again. 1 did see her and such a sight.
II 1 had had a fan 1 really should have hid
den my face behind 1t to conceal my blush
es. The stately figure had disappeared and
in its place were the fiabby outlines of a fat
old woman hunched up on a chair. l could
see the layers Of adipose tissue plainly
through her thin cambria jacket, which was
half open at the neck. Below the jacket
q gorgeous sarong or bag OF red and black
calico was draped. 1 might Utmost say
pasted: about her hips and stomach. 1t
fell within six inches OF her bare ankles.
which. as she sat there over her coffee and
hard-boiled eggs. her bare feet resting on
the toes OF her heelless slippers, were plain
ly visible. They were not pretty ankles
and the sight rather disguised me. Such a
costume may be all right for the tropics.
but 1t Is to be hoped that It will never be
adopted by the American ladies Of the
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Some Funny Samples of
Dutch Inquisitiveness.

1t Is important that our Government be
well represented here. The officials are
highly educated, and they are. as a rule.
able men. The people are inquisitive. and
as the foreign colony is small every one
knows all about his neighbor. Batavia is L
large city, but as far as its European pop
ulation Is concerned it is little more than 4
village and the people are quite as village
like In asking questions. An American con-
nected with one of our large monopolies do
ing business here gave me some of his cx-
periences. Said he:
when l first came to Batavia I was
asked by a Dutchman how much salary I
got. 1 told him bluntly that I thought that
was none of his blanked business. where
upon he replied: Well, If you won't answer
l will ask the head Of the house / after
wards heard that he did so and 1 am sure
he eventually found out what l was get
ting"
There is little possibility of any one keep
frg such matters a secret. The Govern
ment collects an Income tax on all salaries
and even the Government officials have to
pay. The assessment is equal to about 9
per cent. and you have to declare your sal
airy to the Collector of Taxes. Your decla-
ration is filed in the Recorders office, and
the Government clerks allow the informa-
ton to go out.
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Matters of Etiquette Rigidly
Observed in Java.

OuSCINcu Ill Java.
I have investigated the chances for Amer
leans here. and l should not advise the
ignorant among our people to come to Java
to live. The foreigners Of this part Of the
world are men of fine education. They are
usually college bred. and 1T is rare to find
n man who cannot speak three languages.
The Dutch officials in most cases speak half
a dozen. and the higher classes of the ma
tives two or mere. There is no place where
one 50 much needs to know the customs
of refined society. and no place where mat
tiers of etiquette are more rigfdly observed.
1t is impossible to travel comfortably and
see anything of the people without dress
suits and dinner gowns. This is so in every
settlement Of the far East from Yokohama
to Hong-Kong and from Singapore to Aus
tralia. In most out-of-the-way parts OF
the least known islands you are liable to
find a planter who puts on a swallow-tail
coat for every dinner. and whose wife would
rather resent your coming to the table with
out one.