Show V w u r MASIA J rAI If A il LI C 1101 t l LA L LI II B Bt The Tho About and tho the How Land bland ThoY pf DORI DO Hot and l Bean Deda and tho Dutch Dutah oe In Jaw fY Tho The Dolly Dally Newspapers Our Agri Old Manners and Customs in the Way Colon Colonies cultural D Might DoCan 10 Cnn Wo WOj Hulo 1 tho Philippines s as nil tho th Dutch RUlo Ilo los ies Owner Owned by the Dutch Duleh j r 9 i iL wv J I T V ATAVIA this my m last lut letter latter l from Java Ina I IW W Hh to mention a number of or Carlotta c lit things I 1 have hava hoard heard and icon leen In this out ot tho way ay port part of at the tUo world I might for tor a u year yer and anil not nol notha do sc rl bo halt llaU tho ha t th col 1 tho Dutch lutch h have havo In thu Eust East Indies Indie I hear of ot noW new people p and now Islands every everyday ever Y day tiny nIl and such ouch as nil I visit no Iro moro more Strange than thO the told of them themA A ship which has Just suet arrived at It linn brought ti n Now Zealand ui ning from tho mho Celebes He lie liehan has han been In III the tho employ of at tho the Dutch government and amI has Spent Silent i ent tho the last few tew yens years In ln Investigating tho the mineral posy pos possibilities of ot mho different t Dutch Islands l gold Ho ate tells no mo o ho finds duds traces of or gold old al almost 1 most everywhere but so o far tar none nuno In InI paying I quantities CELEBES Cl S ISLANDS ANDS ANDSt t chatted with him for tor some nomo time Shout about tho the Celebes These Islands l Ho lie almost directly south ot of tho lie Bulu Sulu arch Iengo so 80 near Indeed that they the might t bo Lo called our neighbors The Tho Celebes Coleb S In III the nano of at tho the larg largest est Island Inland It II ts bigger than any of at tho the thol Philippines l and till It has han a coast COst line lino of at extent It Is Ia shaped much Ilke nn II with feelers reaching out In Iq every direction It has Im more anoro moreland land Iban tho the state of ot Missouri and from n end rd to end cm l In ItH UH longest part art It Itla ItIs Is la about tOO COO miles milon The Tho natives ore very wild In somo soma sections and semi acini civilized In others Tho The Dutch havo have coffee correo plantations In the civilized sec sections tons They Thoy have havo had possession of ot the tho I country for years but havo have dono done I little with It The most mOlt prominent settlement Is la that of or at nt the tho southern end of time tho th Island Hero the tho Dutch steamers stop slop There ore several business houses anti and tho the chief exports of at tho the archipelago tion l there I nuked cd the engineer e something about tho the town Ho lIo nays It has ninny many Chinese and nn Arabs Araus but very cry taw few Europeans The IM people are and they have a n way of nt running amok as ns they tey do In tho the Philippines Very little of ot the tho Is le explored This engineer spent spent many weeks with without without out seeing a t white and at times found It very dangerous Ho IIo describes tho the country countr ns nil rich In the tho extreme and Imy that the coffee coffeo plantations which lava have recently been sot set out Julin In tho the north nr ar doing well Ho lIe tells men that the tho natives native have mo many tribes and man Inn and tho the different tribes can cannot cannot not understand one another In ono one section the tho chief chieff natives wear breech breechcloths breechcloths cloths of ot bark They take tako tho the bark of ot ofa ofa a n certain treo tree and soak Bonk It and then beat Leat It out with mullets mallets until It Is very thin When Whon dry dr It Is glossy and will withstand the tho rain IN TIm TUE LAND OF OP NUTMEGS This nan spent some soma time In the tho I 1 oh Ho Ito known khoW al about cloves r l l v wwW V T TH FRANK G 6 CARPENTER H Ht IH w tH I lN l H 1 1 H l H 11 1 IH lIN IH rl 1 h H 1 H III IIII i I Itt tt l Irr 1 I Iii r 1 4 fi 1 r 1 1 r tr t 1 II n t i tl jN r e evy vy 1 y I 1 1 a 11 Photographed plied for tor tho the Haws by Frank Prank 0 a Carpenter THE WATER WORKS OF BATAVIA JAVA s I I c l I rt ac c c cN I hl ra 1 ci h Ic r cc tNt wF and apices and tells wonderful stories of ot tho the nutmeg plantations There Thero are some somo nutmegs hero In n Java but lI b t tho best bent trees arc re found In In tho the Danda Islands the tha and other parts of or the Dutch Du toh East Enst Indies There Thero are arc also plantations In Sumatra and Borneo The fie trees In fn the cas ens are planted and cultivated They grow in tho the shade shallo and require what the tho same care ns as our apple trees Indeed the tha nutmeg tree treo looks Just like a and Its fruit Is not unlike an apricot or peach 1 The tree treo does docs not begin to bear benr until It Is III ten years yearn old but after this tills It if It Is properly cared for tor It may last a century A good treo tree should annually produce about three pounds of nut mega mogu and Imd one pound of ot mace inaco and at nt this yield held the tho business Is profitable The nult fruit ripens several times a year and you OU sometimes bee Heo blossoms and fruit on a tree area at t tho the same Ime time As tho the nutmegs ti pen tho the pulp which Is about half ball an inch Inch thick breaks and shows the tho ho nut encircled by a n network of or mace In preparing tho the fruit for tho the market the pulpy pulp outside Is thrown wn away and the tho nuts are dried slowly In ovens There are arc about a million mid and mida anda a U knit half pounds of ot nutmegs exported from I th tit Dutch East Enst Indies every year and andr something like 0 r pounds bends Il I of or mace FOREIGNERS ABROAD I have haye Investigated the th chances for tor Americans hero heio and I should not nil nd Viso the tho Ignorant among our people to como come to Java to live The Tho foreigners foreigner of or this part of ot tho the world are aro men mell of or orfino fine Una education They are usually col collego colleRo logo lego bred brod find and It Is 18 rare to find a n man who cannot weak speak cak three languages The Tho Dutch Dut h In ln most casen speak half halfa n a dozen and the higher classes of or tho the natives two or more moro There Is no plane piano where ono one so much needs to know tho the customs custom of refined society and no place where matters of etiquette are arO moro more rigidly observed It Is le Impossible to travel comfortably and see sec anything of or orthe the people without dress suits and din dun dinner dinner I ner nor gowns This Is so BO In every settle settlement I ment moot of at tho the fur fUI east from tram Yokohama to and from Singapore to Aus Au Australia In the tho most out of at tho the way parts of ot the tho least known Islands island l land you YOl are aro liable to find a n planter who puts puts on ona onI ona a I swallow tall coat for every dinner and whoso whose Who would rather resent your our coming corning to tho the table without one oneAL ALIT ALI A MATTER MATTEU OF OP CUSTOM Notwithstanding this tho the same samo wo woo woman man would think nothing of ot your tray trav traveling cling eling around through tho the house housa in the tho early carly morning in your pajamas or sit sub sitting ting oil tho the veranda In your our bare baro feet and a n sarong In III tact fact she aho would do the same sumo thing herself This Is so moro more In Java J va than any anywhere anywhere anywhere where else The Tho women omon come como not hot only to early calI breakfast br but hut to the tho noon lunches In a n state slate of ot dishabille that would Insure their thelt summary dismissal from flom any of at our hotels hol ls I remember re 10 remember member ono one stately dame who sat Hut next mo ma at nt dinner last night and nna whom J Z r met again this morning As she sho ap seared In tho the evening she sho made mado mo think thin of at a dowager queen Rho was S clad In a n soft sott gray silk which looked an as though It camo came from Paris Her Ifer hair hall was wall a la In pompadour and her well laced In form torm though a bit lilt over plump was waa not She Sho wore diamonds In her hor ears cars at Ii nock And lit hi her hair hall Sho BM was rotas vivacious and star her conversa conversation n then tion was charming Indeed I canto canio early to breakfast hoping that I 1 Itea tea sea her III I did see lIil ee her and such mian ft t It If I had hUll had a I fan I J really should havo hau hidden my face behind It Ito to o my The Tho stately figure had and In Its were rare tho time flabby II 1 of ot n a tilt rut c old hi a woman hunched hunched up UI on ft It chair I 1 could see the tho rose layers of at adipose Hosea plainly trough h her thin mobile suet Jack t which wa W I halt half open at It tho the noel nock the th jacket a gorgeous sarong or 01 mg ag of or red and blank calico was might almost say IY panted about liar her hips d stomach 1 ieli liar ach Mh It r within six elx Incho of ot her hor bare lei which an nil ho sat lIot hero Over evor her hr coffee e and eggs lieu her ho bars feet te resting on Oil tho limo toes ut of her lur heelless slippers were plainly visible Thoy They wert not nutty 1111 1011 and th the sight light rather d me sue III such a I costume pay may L bo Lo O nil all right light for tOI tho e t trop trow will I los Ice but It Il In Is to lu be lie hoped bolted that It will wll never nevor be bo by the tho American m la ha ladles hadies dies of tho the Philippines A IvANH LANi OP OJ nOTt T The Tho contrast between the lime of at Java Jo of ot tho In striking II trill I Outside e of ot Manila there thero la Is hardly a t hotel of ot any alzo size lit III nil fill the th Philippine ln and the tho hotels In m Manila ore are uniformly poor Hero thorn thoro arc aro good houses homes everywhere and where I there tharo aro are no regular hotels hot lR thure art are I government vest test houses hOUle whore where one onla con can stay at nt low cost Tho rho hotel rate Is III about 2 u a day d and never nover mure rera rt than 13 3 For I or this you have havo or too tea In iii It the morning as III early eMly us five Oe If Ir you OU wish A tt of nine or ten ton luncheon at It tw and dinner at nt about eight No nw one dines early and after dinner but few people go out o t Tho rho Tao rooms roams at nt tho the hotels are aro Rood good All are aro ro on the tho ground I nearly all nil fare faco verandas each Kuo guest t I using that part of ot tho veranda In front of t his own room Tho The beds bolls are uro ban bana hard harda a 11 desirable thing In tho the U every oVery bed l ha has Itu lIu extra bolster or Dutch wife The Tho stuffed lJ Is IR round and kicks s on cold colli about feet tl Him HIll ld Is III about ilvo feet t t In length length about thir t tavo Inches In diameter 11 I er tend and so sucked packed with cotton that shim sho Is perfectly hard In the warm wann nights of ot the tho trop tropics ics lell this forms an nn excellent support for tor forone one one arm and one ono OM leg thus thu von Illation w Very VOl tow few of or tho the hotels have havo lights and amI In tho ho Interior there thero IB in no gas In tho the rooms guest has hns n II nl ht lamp lam a u tumbler ambler half full of ot water with an nn Inch of ot cocoanut oil all on top In tho the oil 01 Is in a n sort of or tin whistle with I I ts wick running through It The Tho whistle hoots and tho the wick burnt burns nil all 11 night nl hl Without a 11 smell giving RivIng a t light equal lo to that of pt a C flickering candle I 1 usual usually Iy ly Insisted upon u on having a lamp In my lilY room but when when I got It I had hn l to pay 20 cents a I day IllY extra YANKEES S IN JAVA JAV JAVI I There Thero are aro ro very ery tow few Yankees In Java I Tho The Standard Oil company has hB In S and There Thel aro ono one or two largo coffee corr o ox porting firms finns and now and then thon a It com commercial mercial traveler or 01 so 00 Our consul Mr 11 n B a has hns lived In Java for tor many years yeara and ml ho Is II very vor efficient t tHo Ho lie was WIH long vice consul but President McKinley elevated him to tho the head of or ortho tho the consulate consulato Ho Ile has a CIo wide acquaintance acquaint ance anco among tho the Dutch and amt tho the better bettor class natives Ho no speaks Dutch nod understands well how to deal with tho the people Ho JIo Is at nt tho the slime same time an 1111 enthusiastic American nod Is doing what ho he can to t advance the tho Interests Interest of ot tho the United States Slates SAMPLES OF OP DUTCH INQUISITIVE INQUISITIVENESS NEBS NESS It is l Important that our aliI government ba be well represented here Tho officials are aro highly educated and they are aro as Il a n arule nulo arule rule ulo ablo able men The Tho people are arc Inquisitive and as I tho the foreign colony Is small every ono coo knows knouts all nil about his hili neighbor Is a n largo large city but a sa IU for far as IS Its European population Is III concerned It Is Ia little moro more than a n and the tho peo pee pio plU are MO 1110 e In asking questions q An All connected l with ono one of our doing bust busl now 1055 bare bom tiro ho of at his hlo Said ha 1111 1111 When I to camo Batavia I was asked by lIy a n Dut how much sala salar AlII ry Iy r I got Mol I told him bluntly that I thought that was wan nono steno of ot his m hl whereupon he r pod Well va If It you wont 1 l will UK ask the head aj of ot the tho house hou o I 1 afterward h ird that ho he did l HO so and nIHIl nut I am sure eure li lie he eventually found out what I was getting There is I little Ity of ot any In one keeping kooping such uch matters a swat secret lI crt The Th government t dolled nn an n Income tax tu on nil all 11 salaries am nl even the tho government havo to pay The rhe ft assessment e im iU In is equal to about two per c enl cent nt and und you have to declare your salary to th the col lector leetor of ot Your declaration Is ha l In the tho recorders elY olnee and tho thu clerks allow allol the tho tion to 10 go Ito out IN ASIATIC A HOL 1101 LAND luND LANDI luNDI I am nm to find And dally nev pa pals away out here hore of at the equator There Thoro are plenty of oC them Every L cr town of any Imy size lm has hAM iu its big hili B pa paper paper per There Thero are published p u in n the tha Dutch colonies Thera ore six nix In three In the C CelII Celebes l be and seventeen In Java Ova five printed In the Malay and ind languages language lan and twelve In Dutch Th The largest circulation clr tion Is l that of or the now sheet h ot which comes comoH out ovary afternoon and ami tho the most Important m IN Is the limo ho Courant the tho organ of the tho th Dutch government which Is In Issued from tho the government printing cities I hero all nil tho the government book banks and papers are aro published This o meat ment Issues mho tho school books printing them In III different native languages It ft publishes notices In Chinese and Arabic Amble nn on II nil proclamations pro have havo to be bo put Iut forth In ht four tour or five ilvo different languages language I t have chatted tied with wIlh the tho official mib and also 1110 with the tho editors of ot the tho different 11 1 newspapers as s to how the tho Dutch are treating the natives Thoy They have hILY changed their policy during recent years For I or a long time they thoy ran run Java In exclusively for themselves but hut they hey are how running It moro more for tor the thi They Thoy are aro ro trying to educate the tho people p ollo and to give them theta modern ideas Many Iny tear fear that education will spoil ho tho people as 1 workers but they say nay M they thoy mu must t educate them notwithstanding They look ask I upon tho ho Javanese o ns no their part art of ot tho white mans burden which which they wish to carry ns as creditably as n any tny of at tho the other nations of or Europe 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