Show tIt SOME HUSKY CHILEAN PEONS lp MM n u uThe The traditions of ot the bd the port POrta and San w hUh 1118 In III fur tAr more 1110 ex H than In Is generally re reto to undergo a revolution and the change h II the ancient vay ot thing thin Is Ii a formal Connal lon that for tor strength the of ot Chill Chili the recoils of Ctt the orl Ilor many yeara tara th the Chilian have av d 1 or dr III ra from California with th sacks clel of ot weighing about a 35 32 pounds Hereafter the sucks leek h wilt will go 10 Into the holds atI and ancl and out again at al Ban S n will contain but OO pounds l of at tho HIe stuff each and the who man UI n tile the car carriers r r lieu want more than one day tJay ort off to 10 give gle vent to their gl c The ablo sea 1411 seaman man sees an end to 10 the vision Islon of a n broken back und snapping 1 he ho Is It hardly less happy because the peons down In Chill Chili they hear about aboul the change will laugh and pity tho puny sailor At Union wharf No 1 the British h hip Euphrates hart hall been b n discharging a n cargo of ot 2600 tons tOilS of s ter In the hold of ot the ship shill tWo seamen some sometimes times three pull the heavy brow sacks from their places In the pile Pond and lift them upon the to be wheeled bo be beneath neath the hatch where the rope rOlle was wall run runaround around four sacks at 11 a time Tho sea lien seamen men took turns at qt ln the heavy and aM each Mch was G glad to tumble nto I n J P abUt fall Oyer The Th f San n Fran cIsCo was tho blUFf part of the whole to tho UIO fellows tello who manned the v essel yeuel Tho scene oft arc Jun when tho Eu Euphrates took on her cargo waa w very ery different Indeed Owing to the shallow mss of ot the tho harbor d ea ships have to drop anchor a Ct mile from shor Na No Natives tives steer the out on lighters The hoist Is mt t to going tho lI e stuff Is lifted over the side and let down dOln Into the hold where an perform begins The first dozen socks dropped In the empty hold arc used to form torm a 1 table On this alt nUth the Ing sacks lire are lumped dumped On the tho stands a Chilian peon ton He loosens the ropes of the hoist hulst as other peon shove their right shoulders up to the table Upon each right shoulder braced by byan byan an arm ann akimbo the man on the shoves one of the sacks The Tho Thet t u u U w w w led native turn lightly Wl UI his weight trot to I tilt the t II nc c n nI I of oC the tho ship and with fl lt Ih If Of ot r rc bin hl shoulder nd the big bt Melt Aek flying U ly into It place Back on ft do n IH trot hI goe to ret get another ruck t t loch Huch rapidity do the the tha e ewick wick never touching oua fl ir t r 1 and that lw to o men can J Ju u 1111 rut fait aa uh lell can cAli drop p n down don four at a i time In a day d each Chilian will stow 1100 It f nek with willi Ufo eat und he to 10 little feels ls j lie th result of ot his hi t he Is II I willing to MB Ila and help helO shift thing 13 about deck or will welcome a 1 chanco 0 to dhe e after In the th for an I hour t The strength and endurance endl of oC Ute the or orP r P who the saltpeter ships U Is Uman man clou WI They are ale fht unending 0 wonder of every 1 10 o who ills 11 to lo one OM side mid and smokes hh a nI he h watches them jut But It Ills is not air an unmixed pleasure for COr already he I logins 1 to think of at the struggle l lo he I and andone ont one or OJ even two others of his vi will have hav with those same sacks at Bun n 11 I t IThe The peons eOns nr not large nan In lit feet It il of the best besl of oC the gangs who t w think nothing of at earning 3 01 PI pound racks on their In It l dlLY are undersized men H vv they gain their great greal Is hard to explain ln t f the he say they Just grow that f way Doubtless their sImple dIet open eo air life and the necessity of hurl hard work f from their early childhood havo much I Ito to do with it It Is said that tile the men I Iwho who nho handle the sacks of ot niter York work at atit atIl it Il until they ar between 40 fl and 60 and r th die ore off rather suddenly Hut there I uTa notable exceptions ex The skippers shippers p pc c rAY y that the best worker at are two men f flost lost i t CO Tho peons go balOt ot I st 1 U fOOl only i thin shirt trous a ere ert while working and tho akin on tho tight right df f the old Is I almost like leather lanther I O For a n great many years Ute tHo sailors r June been beell spurred purred up to handling the heavy slicks sacks by pride They The would not I I admit that the wight which h one aile peon penn jj M thought ht light was lUS more than Ihan two sail sailors t tors ors could rould handle with comfort But Dut t the spirit of ot protest the heavy t slicks sacks Is no lunger smothered Thero lr tr have been some desertions s when port h I vi aa IM reached and s iJ cc have be b en n barely avoided It Is an nn ja III by lIy th powder foe tD tor torl I OH the jr Ir fertilizer conn antes and Ind other ex B 0 Importers of ot saltpeter I from r Chill Chili that they will bo be pleased to re ro receive le th lr consignments hereafter In 1 not more than l pounds each The reason reMon Iven to t the Chilian producers and shippers la that g 3 5 pounds of the stuff Is 15 too likely to o 0 burnt Us Its sack lack Hut It has haB taken a q good fl many years to lo find this out Ind neither Ml iU the sailor the shipper nor the th grinning a 1 reon feon will havo havn any doubt concerning ci tl the real reasons for tor the 1 I |