Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-18
TOPENETRATE W|LDS
Boston Physician Plans Visit
to South America.
IN SEARCH OF INDIAN TRIBE
DR.. Hamilton Rice Will Soon Leave
Paris for Brazil, Venezuela
and Colombia.
IN SEARCH OF INDIAN TRIBE

PARIS, November 1910 penetrate
unknown wilds of Brazil. Venezuela and
Colombia. to discover and trace to their
sources unnamed rivers. and lastly. to
seek to find the habitatiOn of a sup
posed tribe of mysterious Indians. are
the objects of DR.. Hamilton Rice of
Boston. who will soon leave Paris on
a tour of exploration to South America
under the auspices of the Royal Geo
graphical Society of England.
The doctors previous visits to the
wildernesses of northern South Amer
lea have convinced him Of the existence
of a strange tribe of Indians somewhere
in the direction of the source of tho
Orfnoco. The women OF the tribe are
said to live apart from their husbands
in a secret city the greater part of the
time
DR.. Rice will start we'll equipped for
extensive archaeological examinations.
and hopes to contribute valuable data
on the diseases prevalent in the dis
of an attendant. he will be the only
American in the party. He intends to
make up his exploration caravan just
before entering the wilderness. or at
some city like Bogota, and he will carry
cloth. mirrors, beads, accordions. caps
and gloves with which to pay his help
ers and barter with the natives. These
are the articles which experience has
taught the explorer appeal most strong
ly to natives of the far inland.
Growing Burden of Taxation.
Henri Cheron, in report On the budget
for 1912, which will shortly be presented
to the chamber of deputies, calls attention
to the growing burden Of taxation in
which Including ~ don ri
mental and communal charges. amounted
in the year 1907 to over $26 per head of
the population as COMPARED to So in 1908.
Since 1907 the increase, for which the
figures are not yet communicated, is des-
cribed as having been still more Striking.
NJ. Chcron also calls attention to the
excessive number of officials and function
aries of all kinds, of whom there are
nearly 100000 in France, 664.00o being
in the pay of the state and 27S,VUO in that
of the departments and cDmmunes. &c
figures do not include the employees of he
state railroads and industrial enterprises,
such as tobacco and match factories. In
spite of, or rather, because OF, the eX-
cessive number of officials the admins
tration is not conducted in a satisfactory
or expedf>ious manner.
Officials Shift Responsibility.
According to the report. there Is eX-
cessive formality and deay in the dis
patch of business, and general ten
dcncy to shift all responsibility 10 the
central administration in Paris, which Is
so overburdened with arrears tlat in
many cases admins rative questions are
decided on purely formal lines instead
Of upon their merits.
Farmers and manufacturers who use
milk to any extern have beer reduced
to the last extremities by the enforced
rise In the price of that commodity, and
have been experimenting with an ar.i-
fetal substitute for which great things
are claimed.
II has been discovered that by sleeping
the beans of tie sofa plant. variety OF
pea indigenous to Asa. and grinding
EN- afterwai DIS In a mill, white homo
geneous liquid Is OBJ aimed strongly re-
sembling milk in composition. From this
quite passable cheeses have been made,
although its use for drinking purposes
does not seem quite practicable.