The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27

i'll practical peace TOT years fof feNoiu-
 tions and proclaimed republics and sic-
 tatorships spring up throughout South
 America like mushrooms. But prosperity
 brought envy down upon Acre. Settlers began to pour in. Most of them did not
 know what kind of a republic this "as' | and less cared. One government IS
 much like another there. It is like the | saving about rum only turned around. | There are poor ones and poorer ones, but there "ain't any good governments.
 The intimation that somebody was act ually making money aroused all the fa- tional pride of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru l Soldiers began to move. The old boundary l disputes all came up with new light on l them.
 Now it is not matter of almost year l to move troops into that country rom many points of it's confines. Troops rom l Peru and Bolivia had to take ship at the
 Pacific coast, go north to the Isthmus of l Panama, cross it, take ship again ana l go south, and then finally make their way up the Amazon country. That re- l quired much time. The Kings of Acre l sat tight and hastened only in their | amassing of honest wealth. They knew | that when the troops arrived the game of empire would be finished.
 Catalogue of Revolutions. l What happened after those troops did | come-after months and more months of l weary marching and swimming and ca | noeing and climbing-reads dispiritingly and tediously like a catalogue. Some of l the Kings of Acre Tit out. The eX-
 baseball players departure was sudden.
 He had reasons. He had more than S6Oo,- | 600 banked safely in civilized banks. Many of his comrades doubtless are | tramps todap, as they began. It is the | way of Ruritanians.
 l Some of the Kings elected to stay and | fight. Several of them found 1t fatal. Others went to prison. Still others have 1 kept 1t up ever since, and they change from dictators and presidents to fugi- | tives and back again so often and so sud- l denly that 1t would be quite impossible to I trace their careers.
 l Parravicini, fled before the Bolivian 1 troops. While they were chasing him an- l other body of Bolivian soldery entered | Puerto Acre and established headquarters 1 there. While they were In the act or | settling down for a rest Brazilian en- l gineer, Gentil Norberto. proclaimed
 new republic right under their noses l He imprisoned the Bolivian officers and went on to spread the glad news While 1 he was away the two officers so worked 1 on the mercurial population with mani 1 festoes Ca favorite Latin method Of war | fare) that Norberto had to return ad re- | lease them. Later the Bolivians abandon ! ed Puerto Acre lon account of the c1i- | mate." They needed no weather prophet l to tell them that 1t was going to be hot.
 In the meanwhile another body of Be- | livian troops had been advancing from
 another direction Suddenly they met, not | Norberto, but a brand new dictator or rather, three, for Hipolito Moreira. Ed l PaS Alen9n6Tinn ! had formed triumvirate.
 Then fighting began afresh. Troops be- gan to move in again. And while they
 were in the midst of 1t, Manuel Felicio, cruelty defined as a highwayman, pro- claimed himself dictator.
 Last year a general peace was arrived at" Then there was comparative quiet
 although there never was a time when
 some kind of a revolution was not on
 foot. But with the news that the Bolivian government had granted rights to the American syndicate, all the troubles bid fair to begin again. IT there is to be any money made down there, Bolivia. Peru and Brazil all want 1t. Brazil threatens all kinds of things now If the American concession stands. To an extent Brazil has the upper hand. because at present the best way to market is over it's was terways, through It's territory to the At lantic coast.
 But Peru has plan to get in far ahead of them all and build a railroad that shall tap the rich country and carry its product to the Pacific coast over the mountains.
 To ascertain the best route. that nation commissioned a French engineer, Albert de Lautreppe of Paris to explore the country and find road. He led an expe- dition and reported that the plan was feasible.
 Now he has arrived in New York with remarkable news. He found immense rtv- CTS spanned by wonderful bridges made of basket work by the natives. More ra- markable than all. he found tribes of can nibal Indians. whose boast was that they never had allowed white men to pass through their country. By diplomacy and generous presents he managed to win, if not their friendship at least suffer ance, and he reached his objective point after many dangers, but without being harmel
 His first experience of the savages was after passing Mount Camant after many days of voyaging along the Marcapata River. One morning the camp was alarmed by the cry "Chunchos!" and looking out of his tent he saw tall, straight men peering at them from the woods. They had mothcr-of-pearl dishes in their noStrils and gaudy feathers stuck through holes in their lips and cheeks. Some of them had slits in their upper lips( through which they would thrust their tongues frequently.
 They were armed with bows and ar rows, and after Le Lautreppe had won their confidence ne went hunting with them and say them drive their arrows clean throguh a tapir, notwithstanding the animals thick, tough hide. The ex- plorer says they could fight men in ar- nor, so hard do they shoot with their simple arms.
 He found them entirely without ele- ments of humanity. They leave their sick and wounded without attempting to help them. They let their dead lie where they expire. They do not even try to help each other when accidents befall men- bers of hunting parties
 The Chunchos openly and without the least apparent thought of its horror de- scribed to him how they had killed band of white men in a rubber camp and eaten them in celebration of the victory.
 From the land of the Chunchos the ex- petition passed into the country of a still worse tribe, the Huachaparis of whom even the Chunchos were afraid. For days the explorers were conscious that they were surrounded by hundreds, if not thousands. of the savages, but they could see none. and only the footprints and the rustling in the undergrowth gave them warning of the presence of their
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