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These were rather light skinned, and some
quite good looking, and all wore girdles
of drac@na leaves.
Neither Darro nor his people smoked,
though they knew the use of pipe and
tobacco, and at one time had been given
both by a sandalwood ship. I promised
to give them a present Of a ten pound case
OF plug tobacco and q gross % clay pipcs-L
was thinking Of recruits. l sent on to the
brig for the present and when IL arrived
and l had given nearly $50 cannibals a pipe
and a plug Of tobacco each, the interpreter
and l got to work with Darro on thes subject
Of our mission.
Alasl He would not entertain the idea
Of any Of his fighting men going to an
unknown and for three years. We could
have, perhaps, a score or so of women
widows or slaves. Would that suit us? No,
/ said. We did not want single women or
widows. There must be a man TO each
woman
Darro was very sorry $50 was y. But
perhaps l and the captain would accept
two OF the youngest Of his female slaves
as a token of his regard for us?
Morel and l consulted. and then we asked
d AFRO if he could not give US two slave
couples-two men and two women who
would be willing to marry. and also willing
to go to a country and work-a country
where they would be well treated, and paid
for their labor. At the end Of that time
they would be brought back TO Darro. il
they so desired.
Darro smiled and gave some orders. and
WI s%trapping young men and two pleasant
% naA .,n vnrnN h-,uhk "
inspection. All were smiling, and l felt
that a bishop and brass band ought to have
been present TO have performed the mar
riage ceremony.
These were the only blackbirds we Sc
cured on that voyage from Rock Island; but
three and a half years later. when these two
couples returned to Darro. with a vast
wealth Of trade goods. estimated at trade
prices at E72. Darro never refused to let
some Of his young men recruit for Fiji or
Samoa.
! never saw him again. but he sent mes
sages to me by other blackbirdinR vessels
saying that he would like me to come and
! stay with him.
And. although he had told me that he had.
personally. partaken OF the flesh of over
ninety men. l shall always remember him az
a very gentlemanly man. courteous. hos
pitable. and friendly. and who was horror
struck when my interpreter told him that in
England cousins intermarried.
THAT is hOrrid. an unutterable thing! II
il inconoeivable to us. 1t is vile. wicked and
shameless. How can you clever white men
do such thingsl'
Darro and his people knew the terrors Of
tho abuse Of the laws Of consequently.
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lead as the fulflment Of a pledge made by
the survivors.
That at Plogonven, constructed in 1854,
was the earliest Of the type and was in an
indefinite way a model for the others.
But the most famous and the most inter-
esting is the calvary at Plougastel, a little
town away from the beaten paths OF travel
on a rocky peninsula that iuts out into the
Bay Of Brest.
The ITO figures, which are three or four
feet in height, are arranged in groups
around a massive piece of masonry made
from stones gathered on the hillside and
surmounted by three crosses. The groups
represent incidents in the life Of Christ.
One shows the entry into Jerusalem;
another the Resurrection, another the in
ferno. The carvings are the work Of monks
whose monastery once stood near the site.
The figures are all quaint, while the con-
ception Of the scenes depicted Is medieval
and to the modern mind droll.
The inferno is an immense, wid open
mouth, into which demons are casting a
nude woman. The men in the professions
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have strongly marked Hebraic features,
are dressed in Breton costumes and are
playing tambourines.
The Bretons built their calvaries OF stone.
The devout people Of central Europe, the
T~yroleans, Swiss and Bavarians,. who were
also great calvary builders, found their
material in the nearby forests. The Tyro-
leans showed great skill in wOodcarving,
nd some of their most elaborate creations
we're inspired by religious zeal.
The scenes that the Bretons pictured in
stone the Tyroleans often represented in
paintings upon the outer walls OF their
homes. Their shrines were generally placed
where some tragedy or misfortune had
occurred.
A cross marks the spot where two SOL
diers returning from war were frozen TO
death in sight OF their homes A tablet
asks for remembrance of the woodman
who was killed by falling timber, and a
memorial with a cross in a valley relates
how the village that once stood on tic spot
was swept away by an avalanche.
The traveller from the Tyrol south car
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mark the differences in the races and re-
ligions Of the composite Austrian empire
by noting the wayside shrines. The wooden
crosses Of the Latin church change to stone
chapels or pillars with Byzantine images
in the Greek Church communities OF to Cor
geously decorated shrines In the Italian
provinces.
Tha calvaries Of the Black Forest, in
Baden, are almost as numerous as those OF
Brittany and quito as original in design.
They are more often the offerings Of indi-
viduals than OF the towns.
The peasant raises an image that he him.
self has carved in front Of his home or on
the roadside near his farm, 30 that he and
his may always he under its sheltering
influence. In the long winters he has muc
leisure which he devotes to the calvary.
Besides the image Of Christ, which he
pictures In agony, he carves out a soldier,
with spear in hand, mounted on a horse,
and all the other reminders Of the Passion;
even 10 the sponge with vinegar and the
dice that decided the ownership Of the vest
ments-a hundred representations in all
and Axes them to a pole that he raises by
the wayside. Not i~nfrequently he sur
mounts the whole by a figure Of the cock
that crowed at the time Of Peters denial
as warning to the weak and backsliding
Christian.
The southern German calvaries are often
intended to teach the beholders some salu-
tary lesson. At Freiburg, in Baden, in front
Of an old chapel, rich in medieval painting
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vessel, killed a few Of the coolies, and
drove the rest on shore, where for some
days they we're not molested, the natives
being too busy in plundering the ship. But
after this was completed they turned their
attention to their captives, marshalled
them together, made them enter canoes
and carried them on TO u small but fertile
island.
Here they were told to occupy a deserted
village, and do as they pleased, but not to
attempt to leave the island. The poor
Cinnamon were overjpyed, little dreaming
OF what was to befall them. The island
abounded with vegetables and fruit, and
the men found no lack Of food.
But hey discovered that they we're
prisoners-every canoe had been removed.
This at first caused them no alarm, but when
at the end of the week their ~jailers appeared
and carried of ten of their number, they
became restless. Ands then almost every
day, two, three or more were taken away
and never returned.
Then the poor wretches discovered that
| their comrades we're being killed and eaten
DAY by day.
TO escape from the island was impossible,
for it was four miles from the mainland
and they had no canoes, and the water
was literally alive with sharks. Some
OF them, wild with terror, built a raft out
Of dead timber, and tried TO put to sea.
They were seen by the Rossel Islanders.
pursued and captured and slaughtered
for the cannibal ovens, which were now
never idle. Some poor creatures who could
swim tried to cross TO another little island,
two miles away, but were devoured by
sharks.
And so, without arms to defend Their
lives, they saw themselves decimated
week by week, for whenever the natives
came to seize some OF their number fol
their ovens they came in force.
Six OF seven months passed, and then one
day the French corvette PhOque appeared
of the island. She had been sent by th'
Governor OF New Caledonia to ascertain
II any OF the Cinnamon we're still on th'
island, or il all had escaped.
Two only survived. They were seer
running along the beach to meet the boat
from the corvette, n we're taken on boar
half demented-all the rest had gone int
the stomachs Of oannibals or sharks.
At the present time the natives OF Rosse
Island are subjects OF King Edward VII
and are included in the government of tn,
possession Of British New Guinea, have
resident missionary and several trader
and are we'll behaved. They would cas-
up their eyes in pious horror II any visitor
now suggested that they had once beer
addicted 20 long pig
Ten days after passing Rossel Island We
were among the islands OF Dampier and
Vitiza Straits, which separate the western
end Of New Britain from the east coast Of
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getting a number of these cannibals to re-
cruit for Samoa. l considered myself a
good amateur surgeon-I had had plenty
of practioe-and at once volunteered to go
on shore, look at the injured gentleman
and see what / could do.
My friend Bobaran in New Britain / had
cured OF an eczemio disorder by a very
simple remedy, and he had been a grateful
patient. Here was another chance, and
possibly another grateful patient; and being
a gunshot wound / was rather keen on at
tending to it, for the Polynesians and Melan-
esians will stand any amount OF cutting
about and never finch. And there are no
ooroners in the South Seas to ask silly
questions if the patient dies from a mistake
Of the operator.
Morel, the captain, the interpreter and
myself went on shore. The beach was
crowded with women and children, as well
as men-a sure sign that no treachery
was intended-and nearly all Of them tried
to embrace my interpreter.
The clamor these cannibals made was
terrific, the children being especially voci-
ferrous. Several Of them seized my hands
and literally dragged me along to the house
Of the wounded man; others possessed
themselves Of Morel and the interpreter,
and in a few minutes the whole lot Of us
tumbled, OF rather fell, into the house.
Then, in an instant, there was silence.
The excited women and children withdrew
and left the captain, the interpreter,
some male cannibals and myself. with my
patient, who'was sitting up, placidly chew
ing betel nut.
In ten minutes Morel and / got out the
bullet, then dressed and bandaged the
wound and gave the man a powerful
opiate. Leaving him with his friends, the
captain and / went for a walk through the
village. Everywhere the natives we're very
civil, offering us c%oooanuts and food, and
even the ome and children did not show
much fear at our presence.
Returning to the house, we found our
friend was awake and sitting up on his
mat. He smiled anably at us and rubbed
noses with me, a practice / bad never be,
fore seen among the Melanesians Of Thu
part OF the Pacific.
Then he told US that his women foil
were preparing us a meal which woulC
soon be ready. l asked him gravelJ
! through the interpreter not to serve us any
human flesh. He replied quite calmly that
there was none left-the last had been
eaten five days before.
Presently the meal was carried in-baked
pork. an immense fish OF the mullet kind
yams, taro, and an enormous quantity OF
sugar cane and pineapples. The women
did not eat with us, but sat apart.
Our friend, whose name was Darro, had
six wives. our OF whom were present.
He had also n number Of female slaves,
taken frouV an island 10 Vita Straits.
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New Guinea. 1t was an absolutely new
ground for recruiting ~blackbirds, and our
voyage was in reality but an experiment.
We (the officers and u knew that the
natives were a dangerous lot OF savage
cannibals, speaking many dialects, and had
hitherto only been in communication with
an occasional trading. pearling or andal-
wood seeking vessel. We had no fear OF
being cut of, however.
We had a fine vessel. with a high free
board, 80 that il we were rushed by canoes
the boarders would find some trouble in
clambering on deck; or the main deck we
carried four six Founders, which we're al
ways kept in good order. Then our double
crew were all well armed with Sharp car
| bines and the latest pattern Of Colt re-
, v~olvers, and, above all, the captain had
confidence in his crew and officers and they
in him.
|, the recruiter, had with me as interpre-
ter a very smart native Of ISABEL Island,
Solomon Group, who, five years before,
had been wrecked on Rock Island, in Nitiza
Straits, had lived among the cannibal natives
for a year and then been rescued by an
Austrian man-oR-war on an exploration
voyage. He said that he could make him.
self we'll understood by the natives, and this
/ found to be correct.
We anchored in a charming little bay on
Rock Island (Baga), and at ono some
hundreds OF natives came of and boarded
US in the most fearless manner. They at
once recognized my interpreter and danced
about him and yelled their delight at seeing
him again.
Every one OF these savages was armed
with half q dozen spears, a jade headed
club or powerful bow and arrows and a
wooden shield. They were a much finer
type Of savage han the natives OF New
Britain, lighter in color, and had not SO
many repulsive characteristics. Neither
were they absolutely nude, each mar wear
ing a girdle Of dracena leaves and although
they were betel nut chewers and carried
their baskets Of areca nuts and leaves and
powdered lime around their necks they die
not expectorate the disgusting scarlet juice
all over our decks, as the New Britain natives
would have done.
We noticed that many Of them had re-
Gently inflicted wounds, and learned from
them that a few days previously they haC
had a great fight with the natives of TupinieI
Island, twenty miles to the east, and hsC
been badly beaten, losing sixty men. But
they proudly added. they had beer able Il
carry OF eleven OF the enemy's dead, and
had only Just finished eating them.
The chiefs brother, they said, had beer
badly wounded by a bullet in the thigh-the
Tupinier natives had a few muskets-and
was suffering great pain, as the doctors
could not get 1t out.
Now, here was a chance for me, some
thing which would perhaps lead TO our
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BIT LOUIS BECKE.
AUthor OF -BB Rect and Palm &c.

Author OF BY Rect and Palm &c.
Mr.. Rudyard Kipling has spoken Of what
he terms the Great American Pie Belt
which runs through certain States, the peo-
pie Of which live largely on pumpkin pie. In
the South Pacific there il what may be
termed the Great Long Pork Belt, running
through many groups Of islands, the savage
inhabitants of which are cannibals.
This belt extends from the New Hebrides
northwesterly TO the Solomon Archipelago,
thence more westerly to New Ireland and
New Britain, the coasts OF Dutch, German
and British New Guinea; and then, turning
south, embraces a considerable portion Of
the coast line Of northern Australia. Forty
wears ago Fiji could have been included, but
c~annibalism In that group has long since
ceased: as also in New Caledonia and the
Loyalty Islands.
The British, French and German Govern
ments are doing their best to stamp out the
practice. Ships OF war patrol the group,
and wherever possible, head hunting and
man eating excursions are suppressed, but
some Of the islands are Of suchJvast extent
that only the coastal tribes are affected.
In the interior, practically unknown to
any white man, there Is a very numerous
population Of mountaineer tribes who are
all cannibals, and will so remain for perhaps
another fifty years, unless, as was done in
Fill by Sir Arthur Gordon, now Lord STAN
more, a large armed force is sent to subdue
these people, destroy their towns and bring
them to settle on the coast, where they may
be subjected to missionary land POLICE in
fuence.
During my trading and blackbirding
voyages l made the acquaintance and in
deed in some cases the friendship Of many
cannibals, and at one time, when l was
doing shore duty, / lived for ak months in
a large cannibal village on the north coast
OF the great island Of New Britain, or Tom
bara, as the natives call IL.
! had not the slightest fear Of being con
verted into Long Pig (puaka kumi), for
the chief, a hideous but not bad natured
savage named Bobaran, in consideration OF
certain gifts Of muskets, powder. bullets
re-, and tobacco, became responsible for
my safety with his own people during my
stay. He could not, Of course, guarantees
70 protect ND from the people OF other
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many notches in his revolver as his
colleague, "Bill" Cody. He has been
tried for and acquitted of murder. He
Is the largest land owner in the South
west, and probably there are few great
or landlords in the world. He is worth
S30,000,00O.
William Cornell Greene was born in
the Empire State in 1851, which makes
him 30. He received a common school
education at Chippaqua, Westchester
County, and went to Arizona when he
was Is years old. For three years he
worked for tea house, but he was dis
satisfied and restless. He jumped at
the chance to go out with the first sur
veying party Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. In 1870 he left the survey to
locate upon land where Fargo, capital
Of South Dakota, was built. He took
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ANCIENT WATER VILLAGES.

Relic of old Customs Prevailing in
the .sSpreewaId.'
One of the most interesting regions
in the 'old fatherland" is the so called
"Spreewald,' the forest OF the Spree,
situated not far from the German cap
ital. in the province of Brandenburg,
Each village is a little Venice, every
house little island, and these islets
are connected by bridges sufficiently
raised to allow boats to pass under
them. Most of the houses, with their
barns and stables, rest on plies, and
there is generally strip of artificial
terra firma either in front or at the
rear of every building. BY means of
these land strips and of the bridges the
slender land communication is Kept
throughout the district, but most OF the
business and amusement are carried
on through the canals, which not only
form the main highways, but penetrate
and cross and recross the whole region.
It is on these lagoons that all traffic
is conducted in boats during the period
from spring when the last vestlges CT
frost and ice are disappearing until
the end of autumn. You see the letter
carrier shoot up and down the canals,
performing his duties in his frail craft;
the police glide leisurely along the
banks, watching everything going on;
peasants bring the products of their
toll to the nearest towns; children go
to and from school; young mothers,
dressed in their Sunday clothes, are
roved to church, carrying in their arms
a small, queer looking bundle from
which two large eyes in tiny face
stare at the stranger in wonderment-
baby is going to be baptized, an i'm
portant moment with this strongly re-
ligious people.-Technical World Mag
aZinp
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20 dry out and on this account its quail
ity is often impaired, bringing its mar
ket price considerably below what it
should be. Sun and wind both play
part in the curing process, though
the wind is the more important factor
of the two. Indeed the sun alone is
likely to bleach and discolor the clover
after it has been cut. The hot rays
of the sun withers up the leaves, pre-
venting the natural escape of the water
from the stems. To illustrate this more
clearly by an example, take two trees
that are cut down in June, when the
leaves are in full yigor. Have the
limbs removed from one so that no
leaves remain. Allow the other to lie
just as it fell Examine the trees two
or three weeks later, and you will find
that one trunk contains far more water
than the other One tree was sucked
dry by the leaves, the other was
trimmed of leaves, and no pumps were
at work to drain the trunk dry. When
clover hay is spread out to the sun the
leaves which contain these little pumps
are put out of action. because they are
shriveled and dried up, and cannot do
their duty If, soon after cutting, the
clover is piled in fair-siZed windrows,
and left fairly open TO the wind, the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
MODERN HAYMAklNG.

Work in the Hayfield Not the La
bOrious Process of the Past.
Haymaking is not the laborious pro-
cess that it was fifty years ago, or
even ten years ago Every step can
now be accomplished by machinery,
from the cutting to the final storing
In the NOW or stack, except the ar
ranging of the hay on the wagons
These conveniences permit rapid hand
ling and enable the farmer to make the
best use of every dry day or half day.
The side delivery rake combines the
work of the dump rake and tedder,
leaving continuous windrows that can
be taken up by the loader. The curing
of timothy is a comparatively simple
matter if rains can be avoided and
there are no coarse weed stalks mixed
with it. Glover hay is more difficult
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-06-29
BUSY BILL GREENE.
Adventurous Career of the Copper
King of Mexico.

Adventurous Career of the Copper
King of Mexico.
The man who owns the Cananea
mines in Mexico, where the race war
between Americans and Mexicans ragged
for several days, is known as plain Bill
Greene in Arizona. New Workers call
him Col Greene, but his truthful bog
raphers write of him as William Z.
Greene and refer to him as president
Of the Greene Consolidated Copper
Company. Few men have had careers
as adventurous as his. The East was
too slow for him as youth, ana ne
went cow punching beyond the Mis-
souri,. That proved to be rather mia
occupation in time, and SO the dashlng
and wide-awake youngster organized
and led several voluntary expeditions
against the Apaches. Greene has as
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porary home of Major I. H. Tomlinson,
who has lived since the recent 6npleas
antness in a cistern at the corner OF
Broadway and Jones street.
The cistern is in the summit Of a
hill on the Demarest estate and is
reached through a short tunnel. A rough
opening has been made In the wall, and
in this primitive doorway the occupant
may be seen smoking the pipe Of con.
tentment, as Indifferent to earthquakes
as were his ancestors or the stone age.
A cat shares the subterranean apart.
ment and pictures from the magazines
have been pasted upon its walls. II
had been the intention Of the owners
Of the property to make curio room
Of the cistern, which is about ten feet
across, and it's walls had been covered
with whitewash. The smoke of the
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In the Meerschaum Mines.

Few of the smokers to whose hearts
q meerschaum pipe is dear know any
thing of the history of the material
Some interesting particulars Of its
source and treatment are given in the
Board of Trade Journal. The district
Of Eskischehir. Asia Minor, supplies
the whole Of the meerschaum used
throughout the world and the industry
gives employment to about 1000 per-
sons, mainly Kurds and Persians. The
best yield is obtained from mines. but
supplies are also still obtained from
the sea.
The methods Of working are primi-
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tive and no attempt is made to secure
immunity from accidents, although
these occur from time to time. Batches
Of from three to fifteen wOrkmen are
set to sink a we'll about one meter in
diameter and no propping up is effected
until they strike at depth Of twenty,
forty or even sixty meters bed of red
clay, in which is found meerschaum
mixed with serpentine in pieces rang
ing from the size of hazel nut to that
of an apple. The extraction Of these
pieces is often attended with great diff
ficulties, but work is carried on day
and night.
When purchased by the wholesale
merchants the meerschaum is humid,
heavy and Of yellowish tinge. 1t has,
therefore, to be dried, either in the sun
or in kiln, according to the season
waste away, .hsaS prns it a snow-white
color. 1t is ami ard rubbed with hot
water and LIT s y ond finally polished
with wax ssat sli ~ then ready to be
placed on the market.-London Tele-
graph.