El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-26

you have been talking all day about
tigers. Now, / want to tell you that L
have been % years in India and in all
that time I have never seen tiger.
But perhaps you didn't look for
tigers said the hunter.
And perhaps you failed to look for
missionaries" rejoined the dominic
well, there are missionaries down
here in Malaysia and in China, Japan
and Korea, and the globe trotter who
does not confine himself to the ports
cannot fail TO see them if he keeps his
eyes open. L have already written
about their work in Korea and China
They are doing much in Siam, and
those of the Professionals alone in IN
dia have more than million natives
who are processing Christianity. They
have something like 5000 Sunday
schools going, and there are almost
100000 pupils in their ordinary day
schools. As to medical missions, they
are doing great good everywhere, the
number of patients treated last year
in India alone being over 100000.
There are something like 900 mission
hospitals in Asia, Africa and Oceanica,
and altogether there is Protestant
Christian population among those OF
the worlds nations we consider as
heathens of more than 5000 900.
Fortunes In Rubber.
The enormous demand for rubber for
automobile tires, bicycle tires and 9TH
err things bids fair TO enrich this part
of the world. The jungle is being cut
down and covered with rubber plants.
The sultan of lahore has just sold his
rubber crop at over 81 a pound, and
his plantations have yielded two pounds
to the tree 1 am told he has $50 trees
to the acre, and that he owns thou
f1G ? - ,-o+a HI
is over $4,000 an acre per annum.
If this is true, 1t is no wonder that
capital is pouring into Singapore for
rubber investments. Scores OF planta-
tions are being set out, and something
like 200, 900 acres of groves have al
ready been established. Some Of the
companies have paid dividends of as
high as 500 percent, while 90 percent
is by no means uncommon The plants
used are those which produce the Para
rubber, the trees coming into bearing
at their fifth or sixth year They are
then tapped. and if carefully bled Will.
continue to produce for many years
1t is from this same region that the
greater part of our pepper comes. There
are pepper estates in Malaysia and in
Sumatra over the way. In fact, this
country was first desired by England
on account of its shipments of pepper
Plantations were acquired -Dy some Lon
don commissioners, who demanded that
more and more pepper be sent They
knew so little about how pepper grows
that they asked their agents to see that
the natives planted more white pepper
in the future, as their customers pre-
ferred that to black pepper Now
everyone who knows anything about
pepper knows that the white pepper
and black pepper come from the same
bushes, and that white pepper is merely
black pepper well ripened-
Shortly after that letter came the
amount of silver belonging to the COM
pany in the Singapore office was short,
and in writing about it to London the
agent presuming on the ignorance Of
the people there. said that the def
cheney was due to the. ravages of the
white ants. With their next shipment
the London commissioners sent a bas-
ket of flies, and when. the agent wrote
asking what they were for, the reply
was that they were TO sharpen the
teeth OF those ants
The exporters here say that there is
still money in pepper, but that for the
time the profits of the rubber industry
surpass those of all other farming.
FRANK g. CARPENTER