The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-16

kazed out OF their windows ana over the
garden palings and ina ined for fun that
the land beyond was a far. strange coun-.
try, and that the familiar brook was a
mighty mountain river. roaring through
tht heart of Asia and that the neighbors
were men OF savage climes.
Uncle Sans dry book of figures Is like
a window that opens into the story-lands
OF the world. The stories jump all around
from the Pacific Islands to London, and
from the Azores to Australia. And some
most common articles suddenly get new
interest when we see from what queer
places they come.
For instance. where do you suppose the
most of our imported beeswax comes
from? 1t is sent from the island that we
made free-Cuba. And its neighbor in the
vivid blue Caribbean Sea. Santo Domin-
go, furnishes the next greatest quantity.
The black republic, Haiti. which Is on
the same island, also supplies great
deal In Haiti and Santo Domingo the
beeswax is brought to the dingy little sea-
port places by natives from the interior.
Most of these ports have certain days
when everybody comes in to market.
Then one may see early in the morn
ing. as soon as the wonderful sulphur
yellow dawn begins. long lines OF small
! black donkeys winding down the narrow
phtHS Oh the Dtdutllul .thdt
rise almost from the sea. Each donkeyq
They are made Of plated palm leaves and
OF stout grasses. and they are stuffed
fun of all the strange products of the
land-great vans like immense sweet po-
tatoes; pine apples that fill the hot morn
| ing air with delicious odors; fat, little
red bananas great plantains like yellow
| bananas only much longer and not nice
| to eat raw; big piles of oranges and
grape fruits; green coffee berries Just as
| they have been picked, and beeswax.
In looking again through this window
| of Uncle Sans, we see that most famil-
| lar and commonplace thing. the onion.
But where do you suppose we see 1t COM
| ing from? From Egypt the land Of
obelisks and pyramids and buried Pha-
raohs.
We call on many other lands for on
| ions, too. England sends US the most.
Then comes beautiful Bermuda, the land
OF lilies. Then come Spain, Cuba, the
British islands In the West Indies, italy,
Canada, Mexico and France. few years
ago we imported many thousands OF
bushels from Switzerland. Now and then
a few come from China.
Uncle Sans children really do need
lots of food. Such a thing as cheese. for
instance, comes to them from twenty-one
countries, and some OF them are the very
last ones that you would think OF as
shipping cheese to America. Who would
| suppose that Uncle Sam gets some of his
| cheese from Turkey? Almost ton of 1t
was sent to us from that country last
year. The year before we even got some
from Egypt.
Eggs make a curious story. too. The
Chinese empire shipped more to us last
year than did any other foreign country.
The Chinese hens had to lay fast to sup
ply our demand, for $4,000 dozens were
sent to Yankeeland. Hens in Canada
Mexico, Japan. England and France had
to help.
The sheep herders of all the world had
to watch fiocks for US. Rough, lonely
men in rude shanties in Australia and
New Zealand. half-breeds in the wide
plains of Argentina, in South America
sedate faxen-haired little shepherd boys
in Belgium, Germany and France. wild,
armed Monaghan lovers in China, mount
ed Tartar herders on the Russian steppes
Peruvian Indians blanketed Uruguayans
all tended sheep whose fleece finally
reached Uncle Sam.
Men fought wolves in Russia. jaguars
in the Argentine and in Peru. fiesh-eat-
ing parrots in New Zealand. and robbers
| in China, that the big republic, of which
many of them know almost nothing.
might have the wool at last. The cloth
| ing that you are wearing now may be
made from wool that has had adventures
| that would make the finest story book;
| and 1t would all be true.