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THE ISLAND OF TUTUILA.
OUR SHARE OF THE SAMOAN GROUP.
BY HUGH H. LUSK.
Undar the new Samoan treaty the
United States becomes the possoasor
of a small island in the South Pacific
Oceau, situated about 930 miles south
of the equator, For some fifteen
years past we hsve had a more or loss
sentimental regard for this island, be
cause it was here that our Govern
ment had acquired from a native chief
a lease of part of the shore of a harbor
on which to establish a coaling station.
The harbor was the only one in the
ftamoan group in which vessels could
lie safely during a hurricane, such as
occasionally visits the group, and itH
only drawback was that it was almost
wholly; inaccessible on the landward
side. Now and then, hut at long
intervals, an American mnn-of-war
has called at this harbor, but it may
be doubted whether any of the crews
ever attempted to climb the almost
precipitous hills that wall in the
placid sheet of landlocked water which
the natives call Pago-Pago. The isl
and of Tutuila is by far the I east known
oi the three main islands that form
the group of Samoa, It lies about
thirty miles south of the other two, on
which alone Europeans or Americans
have settled, either as planters or
traders, and excepting the harbor of
Fago-rago on the southeast, and a
email bay known as Leone, near the
northwest corner, it possesses no place
of anchorage or shelter even for the
smallest trading vessels.
The general appearance of Tutuila,
like that of all the voloanic islands of
the South Pacific, is very beautiful.
As we entered the passsage, from
twenty to thirty-five miles broad, be
tween the islauds, every eye scauned
the ehoree, uuder the impression that
the schooner would be found lying at
some point under the leo of the land.
There was, however, do sign of a sail.
On either sido the land rose high and
broken, clothed from shore to sum
mit in the luxuriant vegetation of the
tropical islands, and as we proceeded
»t half-speed through the passage lat *
became more and more evident t
for some reason our tender lie 4 n °t
arrived. We had reached the astern
end and cleared both island* Imfor®
any solution of the difficult* presented
itself, but then a very small cutter
was (Vscovered lying cLse inshore, at
9 point where a native village could
be seen among th* palm trees that
formed a background to the silver
white coral beach.
The cutter turned out to be a trader
engaged iu collecting a cargo of copra
(sun-dried oocoauut) to be taken to
Apia to the German company’s stores.
We were told we could stay on board
if we liked, but the cutter must go to
Leone Bay, at the western end of the
island, before it would return to Apia.
The prospect of staying on board was
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»o disagreeable that several of the
party determined to try the alterna
tive plan of walking overland to Leoue
and there awaitiug the arrival of the
entter. Leaving all our luggage ou
board, we were landed ou the beach
within a hundred yards of the village,
which now showed among the trees
like a group of overgrown beehives of
the old straw material and conical
shape. The natives were most friendly.
They invited ns into the largest hut,
on the floor of which we wero accom
modated with mats of woteu grass,
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while two girls prepared a bowl of
kava juice for onr special entertain
ment. Personally, I had heard enough
about this famous liquor of the islauds
to decline it, and though my com
panions tasted it, they were wise
enongh to leave it to our hosts to
paralyze themseves with the strange
narcotic. In the meantime we had
contrived to make it understood that
we wanted a guide to show us the
native path over the hills to Leone
Bay, where the missionary lived, and
the offer of a dollar readily secured a
guide, in the person of a young man
of raagoitioent build and appearance.
The bargain once made, we lost no
time in starting. Our guide, who was
dressed in full native costume, which
consisted of a very large and finely
head of hair, and a very
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THE SAMOAN ISLANDS.
small cincture of some kind of native
cloth round his loins, l e< l us along the
beach for a short distance, and then
faced the hill wDoh rose abrupt and
very steep be^ 1B ^ Ihe little village.
The climb v* 9 80 steep that but for
the profus^A of saplings, shrubs, and
cliuvbius plants that hedged in the
narrow path we should hardly have
inanaged it. When at last we reached
the lop we found ourselves at a height
0 f perhans eight or nine hundred feet
above the sea, on the top of a long
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TIIE BELLE OF TUTUILA.
ridge that seemed to run the whole
length of the islaud.
The land, slopes downward from the
central ridge on the northern side in
a succession of spurs, with deep glens
and watorcourses between; but on the
southern coast, especially near the
eastern end of the island, the slopes
eud abruptly in cliffs aud precipitous
banks that descend to the ocean. It
is here that Pago-Pago lies, and Irom
the top of the ridge it cau be seen like
a nearly circular basiu of perfectly
smooth water, shadowed by the sur
rounding mountains, and with only
oue narrow entranceway, which winds
between two lofty wooded bluffs. The
islaud is not more than eighteen miles
long, aud nowhere, I should judge,
much more thnn five miles broad.
From what I saw of the natives of
Tutuila, I should suppose them to be
well disposed to Europeans so long as
they are not much interfered with.
There have been repeated and some
what sanguinary wars among them
during the last twenty years.
There is certainly no wealth to be
extracted from Tutuila. Even the
primitive agriculture of the island
could hardly he muoh extended, as
there is scarcely an acre of level land
to be found there. Cocoannts, indeed,
grow along the shore everywhere, and
even to some extent inland; orange
trees grow to the dimensions of forest
trees; there are nutmeg-trees in the
forest that clothes the slopes; and ar
rowroot, ginger and pineapples abound
everywhere. All thdse things go to
make America's South Sea island a
delightful fairy spot, but they are, and
ranst always be, on too minute a scale to
hold out any temptation to the planter
and the trader. Perhaps, for the sake
of the natives at least, it is well.
The Navy Department has decided
to assign Commander B. F. Tilley, of
the collier Abarenda, as the command
ant of the Pago-Pago coaling station,
which will place him in charge of the
administrative affairs of the Samoan
territory of the Unite States. Com
mander Tilley is no ’t at Pago-Pago.
The naval officers wl b have been on
the Island of Tutuila recently in con
nection with the work of building the
wharf and establishing a coalin g sta
tion in the harbor of Pago-Pago state
that there are at present about 1500
people on the Island of Tutuila, ow
ing allegiance to about three chiefs.
The principal chief is named Man
gum. The people are different from
the inhabitants of the other Samoan
Islands, being particularly peaceful in
disposition.
The population is unique in the fact
that every soul is reputed to be a de
vout Christian. They are so orthodox
that not one person could be induced
to come aboard one of the American
ships ou Sunday, while all of them go
to church. This condition is ascrib
able largely to the influence of French
missionaties.
Nothing has been positively settled
as yet as to the government of the isl
ands beyond the fact that the princi
pal official will be a naval officer. The
general purpose is to have him inter
fere as little as possible with the na
tives so long as they continue in their
present peaceful manner to govern
themselves without friction.
Steyn'a Cyrano Courtship.
President Steyn, of the Orange
Free Htate, took for a wife Miss Fra
ser, who was the belle of Bloemfon
tein. This was many years ago, when
the great Africander was a poor,
struggling law student aud clerk.
Miss Fraser’s parents were very proud
and well-to-do and did not favor the
match. Steyn made lovo and wrote
love letters by proxy, choosing a
prominent young farmer as the go
between. Every day, sometimes
twice a day, Miss Fraser and the
farmer would take long walks and
rides together. Bloemfonteiu made
up its mind that Steyu had been cut
out, when the law student returned
from Europe, where he had taken his
degree. Gossip rose to fever heat
when the news came that Steyn had
called upon the farmer. Everybody
was certain that a dnel was about to
come off. A short time passed in
whioh everyone was on the qui vive.
Disappointment was nothing to the
feeling whioh was created when, in
stead of a duel, there was the wed
ding of Steyn and Miss Fraser, with
the farmer as the first groomsman.—
Philadelphia Post.
Bridget Was an Irish Woman.
A lady had in her employ an excel
lent girl who had oue fault. Her face
was always in a smudge. Her mistress
tried without offendiug to tell her to
wash her face, aud at last resorted to
strategy.
“Do yon know, Bridget,” she re
marked in a confidential manner, “it
is said that if you wash the face every
day in hot soapy water it will make
you beautiful?"
“Will it?” said Bridget. “Sure, it’s
a wonder ye niver tried it, ma'am.”—
Our Dumb Animals.
Effecllte Kutrenchinenti.
With regard to the Boer entrench
ments, it may be noted that, according
to the reports of Boer prisoners, the
comparatively small effect produced
by the English artillery fire is largely
owing to the trenches being made in
the form of the letter b instead of in
the straight lines adopted by European
armies. This pattern, which has been
borrowed by the Boers from old Basuto
methods, affords, it is said, both freer
movement and greater protection.
Many of our present ideas with re
gard to entrenchments have been learnt
from the Turks.—Loudon Mail.
Good Coflee in Boerdom.
The coffee is always good in the
Transvaal, but usually over-sweetened.
When auy guest is in a Dutch house
wife’s good books she shows her ap
preciation of him by loading his cup
of coffee with sugar, which he must
drink, unless he desires to npset her
easily-.- oused susceptibilities.
CRISIS REACHED IN KENTUCKY
BECKHAfl AND TAYLOR ARE BOTH BACKED BY
ARHED FORCES.
They Are Intercepted at Frankfort and
Quickly Placed In Jail.
Almost without warning the Btorm
center of excitement in the Kentucky
gubernatorial struggle shifted to Lex
ington Satnrday night.
Secretary of State Caleb Powers and
Captain Davis, for whom warrants
were issued charging complicity in the
murder of Governor Goebel, after
spending the day in the statehouse at
Frankfort, to which the civil officers
bearing the warrants were refused ad
mittance by the soldiers on duty, left
town in disguise. -Powers and Davis
were slipped aboard a Chesapeak and
Ohio train at 8 o’clock Saturday night
and speeded toward Lexington. A
squad of soldiers, coming from the
governor’s mansion at double quick,
caught the train just before it pulled
out.
The plan of escape was so neatly
laid and executed that it took the
police and big force of deputy sheriffs
appointed to guard the entrance to
the capitol grounds and prevent their
escape, off their feet when they real
ized what had occurred. It was sev
eral minutes before the truth of the
escape of the men was definitely
known.
Chief of Police Williams immedi
ately sent telegrams to Lexington,
Midway aud all stations along the
road, notifying officers of the escape
and ordering them to be on the look
out.
On the arrival of the train in Lex
idgton at 8:40 Secretary of State Pow
ers and Capitol Policeman Davis and
Lieutenant Peak were arrested by the
Lexington police and the sheriff and
deputies. There was a large force of
officers awaiting thefugitives. Powers
and Davis still wore the uniforms of
soldiers and Davis had on false whisk
ers.
There was a wild scene when the
officers broke into the car and revol
vers were drawn by all, but the small
squad of soldiers were greatly out
numbered by the police force of Lex
ington and the large force of deputies
with the sheriff, and the arrest was ef
fected without difficulty.
A local attorney recognized Powers
and also pointed out Davis. They
were seized and hurried to the jail. As
the procession swept toward the jail
some people started the report that
there was to be a lynching, and soon
the streets were packed with people,
an enormous crowd gathering about
tbe jail. Davis, Powers and Peake
were hurried to the upper cells, but
Peake was later released on bond on a
common warrant charge of resisting
arrest.
Davis had $125 in money on his
person and a revolver.
There was found on Powers $1,300.
In the inside pocket of each man was
fonnd a pardon from Governor W. S.
Taylor, duly signed and sealed. Pow
ers made the statement to an Asso
ciated Press representative that he was
not fleeing from arrest. He was sim
ply getting away from Frankfort to
avoid lying in jail as Whitaker had
been forced to do; that he had nothing
to fear from arrest, as he was not
guilty of the charge.
Sheriff Bosworth applied at once to
the armory for a special detail of sol
diers under Captain Longmire aud
they responded, arriving at the jail a
few moments later, prepared to resist
the rumored prospective attack. The
sheriff then designated a posse to sup
plement a squad of soldiers provided
irouble might come and declared that
any attempt to take either of the
prisoners from the jail would bo re
sisted to a finish.
The Sabbath day brought a hopeful
and encouraging calm to the storm.
Judge George Denny, a prominent Re
publican attorney, called on the pris
oners during the day and was closeted
with them several hours. Ho will rep
resent them in whatever legal steps j |
are taken.
BIO SNUFF TRUST.
All the Eastern Companies Will Effect
a Consolidation.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says:
The recent negotiations of the Amer
Joan and Continental Tobacco compa
aies to arrange for a consolidation of
the leading snuff interests of the coun
try are said to have been practically
completed and a new $25,000,000 com
pany will, it is stated, be organized to
take over all the snuff business of both
the Continental Tobacco and American
Tobacco companies as well as the At
lantic Snuff compativ and Helme Snuff
company.
BIO STRIKE RESULTS.
Transit Company at St. Louis Refuses
All Demands of Employes.
Shortly after noon Saturday the
management of the St. Louis Transit
company gave its answer to the de
mands of its employes presented some
days ago by the executive committee
of the local branch of the Interna
tional • Amalgamated Association of
Street Railway Employes. Practically
erery demand was refused.
Rumor That Beckham’s Arrest Would Be
Attempted Created Consternation.
Sunday morning the Democrats and
the Republicans in Kentucky were for
the first time since the present politi
cal complications assumed acute form,
divided into two armed and organized
factions.
Surrounding the capitol and the
state executive building and camped
in the grounds around Governor Tay
lor’s home were nearly 200 state mili
tia, well provided with ammunition,
while iu the corridors of the hotel iu
which the Democratic state executive
officers are located, and in the streets
adjacent to that quilding were sixty
special officers and the men and boys
of a militin company that was organ
ized iu Frankfort during the day, as
the nucleus of Governor Beckham’s
state guard, besides scores or more of
heavily armed citizens, partisans of
the Democratic element.
Within an hour after the democratic
leaders heard a rumor that an attempt
was to be made by the state militia to
take Gov. Beckam into custody a pe
tition had been circulated and signed
by the requisite number of men neces
sary to form a militia company.
The men guarded the Capitol hotel
all night against any possible attempt
to arrest Governor Beckham.
The Democratic partisans say that
should the militia attempt to interfere
with the session of the legislature, per
sistent rumors of which had been in
circulation all day, it would be next to
impossible to avert bloodshed.
The republican officials, however,
deny that such action has been ever
contemplated, and that the legislature
would not be molested in any way.
The formation of the state guard in
Frankfort to support Governor Beck
ham was undertaken by City Clerk
Ben Marshall, who circulated a paper
and enlisted the requisite number of
men who are to compose the new com
pany. The guns for this company
have been provided by citizens, most
of them being either needle guns or
winchesters.
Sunday afternoon a report gained
currency that Governor Taylor had
given his soldiers orders to arrest
Governor Beckham and other officers
of the Democratic state government,
On account of this report the men
enlisted by Captain Marshall were
assembled at the city ball, armed and
sworn in as special police for the pur
pose of protecting the Dem<*‘rrtic offi
cers who are still quartered at the
Capitol hotel. A large number of cit
izens also volunteered and were as
signed to various posts in the vicinity
of the hotel to offer a resistance in
case the tulked-of arrests were at
tempted.
Governor Beckham Sunday after
noon appointed Colonel David R. Mur
ry, of Clover Point, assistant adjutant
general, with the rank of colonel, and
he was sworn in.
The official announcement was made
that this appointment is only tempor
ary. This was regarded as significant,
it being understood that Colonel Mnr
ray accepted (he appointment on ac
count of the gravity of the present
situation, and with the understanding
that he could resign when the condi
tions in the state become more quiet,
According to a statement made by
Governor Taylor to a representative of
the Louisville Commercia 1 , he has
granted a pardon to each of the per
Bona for whom warrants have been is
sued charging them with being acces
sories to the assassination of Governor
Goebel, including Secretary of State
Caleb Powers and ex-Secretcry of State
Charles Finley. In his statement Gov
ernor Taylor recites the conditions
nnder which he claims to have been
elected, and charges the Democratic
contestants for state offices with con
spiracy to secure control of the gov
ernment.
BRITISH LOSS TO DATE.
Bulletin Posted In London Show Casu
alties to Be 15,677.
The war office in London posts a
bulletin announcing the casualties of
the South African war up to Monday
morning as follows: Killed, 2,418;
wounded, 8.747; died of disease, 1,029;
missing, 3,483; total, 15,677.
Boston lias Big Blaze.
Fire early Sunday morning in the
building of the Massachusetts Mncorini
Company, on North slreet, Boston,
caused a loss estimated from $75,000
to $150,000. One man was killed and
four seriously injured.
NO PENSIONTFOR^tX^QUEEN.
Amendment to Appropriation Bill Was
Laid on Table.
The senate Saturday passed the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill with a few minor amendments. A
lively debate was precipitated by an
amendment proposed by Mr. Hoar, of
Massachusetts, proposing to give the
former Queen Lilnokalaui, of Hawaii.
$20,000 and au annuity of $10,000.
The amendment was laid on the table
and the bill parsed.
Did Him Hood.
Doctor—Ah, the little one Iooke
pretty well; the- pills seem to have
helped him. How did you take them
Johnny?
Johnny—With my air rifle; I shot
sparrows with them, doctor.
Our Matlon'R Wealth.
Gold and silver are poured abundantly into
the lap of*the nation, but our material wealth
aud strength is rather In Iron, w>-with the most useful
of all metals, just ns the of a human
belli* lies In a useiul stomach. If you have,
overworked yours until It is disabled, try
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and kidney disease.
• One Drawback.
Robbe-Wieh I could live as long as Methuse
lah did.
bohts—Ob, I d n't know. Think of hnving
discussions. to go through nine of these end-ot-the-ceutury
Thf Best Prescription for Chilis
amt Fever Is a bottle of GrOVK’s iron TssTBi.rsa
Chill Tonic. It is simply anil quinine t tl
» tasteless form. No cure—no pay. I’rloe 5tk-.
Worn j n suffer more they 'rom have disappointment
than men. liens use more of f.iitli
and are naturally more credulous.— Mar
guerite de Valois.
Ton't Tobacco Spit rnd Smoke Your Life Away
'Jo quit tobacco easily v and forovor. be mag.
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I an. the wonder-worker. lb«t makes weak men.
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Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York.
They Threw Hint Out,
Fat Woman—What has become of the rubber
man?
I-lving Skeleton—He got bounced.—Phlladel
ph a Record.
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A Northern Publisher With seuse.
From New York Town Topics.]
A society has beeu formed at Mont
gomery, Ala., with Colonel Francis
G. Caffev as chairman, that deserves
the cordial commendation and support
of all sections of the country. It pro
poses to hold annual conferences to
discuss the race problems of the south,
such as the frauebise, the education
of the negro, religious work and so
cial order and equality. The society
has no theories; its directors are di
vided in opinion upon most of the
problems; it invites the fullest and
freest discussion in order to get at
the truth. I am glad to know that my
life-long contention, that the southern
people are best fitted by knowledge
and experience to deal with their own
difficulties, is now conceded. North
era interference, even with the best
motives, can accomplish nothing,
because of ignorance of the reul
conditions. The south must work
out its own salvation, and I believe
that its people are intelligent and con
scientions enough to do it grandly,
A Natural Ambition.
“That Durham is a man of bound
less aspirations. He’s only a milkman,
and yet he acts as if he wanted the
earth.”
“That’s natural enough; he knows
it’s half water.”
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