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Show THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Exhibits of the Islands at the Columbian Co-lumbian Exposition. SluuM Qenul nl Cartof, Native Goods from Java, nod Contribution from Borneo, Sumatra and the . Strait Battlement.. Recent letters and cable dispatches received from Leigh S. Lynch, who is cruising in the southern Pacific in search of features for the world's fair, convey the information that he has very nearly completed his task. He has made all the necessary arrangements tor exhibits from the Ph ill i pine islands, Siam, Borneo, Sumatra, the Straits settlements set-tlements and Java, and is now on his way to Sydney, Australia, where he expects ex-pects to meet an agent who has been doing similar work in New Zealand, the Fiji islands, the Friendly, the Society So-ciety and other groups. It is not unlikely, un-likely, that Mr. Lynch will be able to sail for home within thirty, or at the most, sixty days. When he left Chicago he expected to be abroad until November Novem-ber or December, but he has been more successful than he anticipated, and has made much more rapid progress than at first seemed possible. He says, however, how-ever, that there will be a very complete exhibit of the most important product and industries of these countries, and that they will be in charge of natives. , For example, the sultan of Johore will provide the exhibits from Borneo, Sumatra Su-matra and the Straits settlements, and will probably visit the exposition iu person with his suite. The exhibit which Mr. Lynch has contracted for in Siam is intended to supplement the exhibit of the Siamese government, and is subject to tiie approval ap-proval of the Siamese commissioners. These have not been appointed or had not been when Mr. Lynch wrote but the men who were prominently mentioned men-tioned for the place were consulted, and they all seem favorable to Mr. Lyneh's project, so it is likely that a fine collection col-lection of Siamese gems and curios will be displayed in the space of the Oceanic Trading Company on the Midway ptais-ance. ptais-ance. !-' Java will send not only a fine assortment assort-ment of native goods, but will contribute contrib-ute native musicians, dancers, jugglers and athletes. The nautch girls of Java are as celebrated as those of India, In-dia, and formed one of the great attractions attrac-tions at the Paris exposition. Mr. Lynch's trip has been a most interesting interest-ing one .although undertaken at the hottest season of the year, and subject to certain drawbacks. For instance, on his way to Bangkok he went to his berth one night and found it occupied by two large tarantulas. Bather than disturb them he slept all night, and several nights thereafter, on the deck. An extract from one of his letters written writ-ten at Kioto, Japan,-is worth quoting. He says: "Every native in Japan is talking about the fair In Chicago, and tuey all want to go or send something. At the shop of Nisshimura, the embroiderer, I saw his pieces for the fair. One is a handsome landscape twenty-two feet long and ten feet high, all of the most delicate embroidery em-broidery on silk. He has had ten men at work on it for-nearly a ear and a half, and it will take nearly a year to finish it These men sit on the floor and the frame lies between them, and there they spend their lives, working their eyesight and health into stitches of these won-. won-. derful embroideries. There are a few women at work, but all the best and finest work is done by men. ''Nisehlmura also showed me some marvelous gold lacquer work and wood carving, which you can au see at the exposition. Then Mickawaya, the cloisonne ware man, has some wonderful pieces. This man never puts his name on his work. He says each pieco speaks for itself and tells that no other man could make it but himself. him-self. Of course you all know how cloisonne is made; how the silver wire is.fashioned-out and soldered on the copper baso 01 the article to be constructed, and that then into each interstice enamel la placed forming a figure, and it is then baked and ground down and polished The task seems endless, but thev are -verv oatient ., |