Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-09

the Emperor King was Baron Morez Won Teuber.
"Von Teuber? repeated the Colonel as he shook the
hand of the elderly aristocrat @Can it be- Sir that you
have boy named Franz Teuber?'
Indeed your Excellency,' replied the elder Baron,
@Franz Won Teuber is my son. May inquire how he
CHANGED to win your Excellencys attention."
Splendid" cried the Colonel in his heartest
"De-ligh-ted l to meet Franks father! Let
compliment you, Sir, on having son who is both
splendid gentleman and of the outdoors after my
own heart. Why we discovered the Panama Canal to-
gether!"
Hoch soil Franz leben!" was the toast that night at
the senior Won Teubers table.
BANANAS atmosphere appealed to young Won
L Teuber When the Presidents tour of inspection
ended he finished his photographs in Colon, and re-
manned behind Before he had tired of wandering about
Colons muddy streets of onestory adobe houses, he
heard that horde of grasshoppers sweeping over
the Republic of Panama laying waste the farming lands.
"They were gigantic grasshoppers, said he "as big
mans hand and with Unsuitable appetites. On the
heels of the news of their incurson half naked peons
bearing shrines and crucixes, ocked into the city to
pray the plaza before the cathedral for relief from the
winged pests, which stripping the ground bare of
crops Soon growing with hunger the poems ceased to
pray Instead they gathered before the gaudiy painted
presidential palace threatening revolt food was not
Forthcoming. had heard somewhere that the Depart
ment of Agriculture had succeeded in stamping out just
such pests in some parts of the West the day
called the swarthy little President who abjectly
frightened by this time and offered to destroy the
hoppers if Congress would vote five thousand dollars
for expenses and five thousand as my compensation.
He clutched at my proposal and summoned Congress
in extraordinary session the next day In an hour the
credits had been voted and had cabled to Washington
for instructions. They arrived, of them, the
first boat. Persons touring Panama during the next
month must have been surprised to the entire popu
lation armed with squirt guns, spraying crops and foil
age with solution of lead while the barefooted army
saw it that peon evaded his duty But went
at it, and grasshoppers became scarce as diamonds
in Panama"
WITH money in his pocket, Won Teuber about
w to Law siege to New York once more when he
1ea that To he
willing to search for American named cambridge,
who had set out to explore the country of the San Bias
Indians and had not been heard from. The San Bias
live in villages high up on the mountain ranges of south
Central America, hundred miles back from the
coast AS they, alone among the Central American In
dians have retained much of the civilization of their
ancestors the Aztec rulers of Mexico too have they
maintained traditions of bitter hatred for their white
conquerors So successfully have they resented the in
rusion of white into their country that their hostility
large factor in the abandonment by the United
States of the project to build the canal
through their territory-an enterprise far easier and
less expensive than the cut across Panama. Though
Won Teuber appreciated the hazards of trip to the
San Bias lands the lure of the adventure ouweighed
them and, with his old equipment of dog tent" and
rifle he set out alone toward the mountains.
AS he neared the foothills he had the good fortune to
fall in with party of lowland Indians returning from
trading trip among the San Bias, who told him that
warriors from village to the north within the bounda
res of Costa Rica had boosted of capturing white
man, whom they intended to sacrifice month later at
the Feast of the Sum- Sure that he had located his man.
Won Teuber struck off to the north, up the well
mountain trails travelling at night for greater safety
For a week he had proceeded thus, without meeting
soul, when he awakened at day, to find
four braves of the San Bias gloatng him. Before
he could his gun, they had pinioned his and
hobbled his feet. One of his captors ran ahead
Soon he heard the beating of cowhide drums and the
eery screening of native flutes approaching through the
forest. In another moment he surrounded by
hundred dancing, chanting warriors, who made him
understand their qualification at having two white
instead OF one, to appease the Sun God.
The village to which he was led consisted of half
hundred huts, with pretentons to comfort,
ranged about square, in the center of which stood the
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