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Show KULKll OF HEATHENS. II. K. t-U MAY WBNTTOIBtAND OF CBI1AM AS Olt DntLtBlt. Ufa Anionx tha vllt Alllion,li llaltarlnx ORara tr )UI In In.lura lllra lo ll.n.aln 11. Hill llalnrn t'oo-illlluni t'oo-illlluni In tha lilaatt llava Imoratad. (Special Letter.) When II I! UMay loft llellcvue. l'a, mora than two years ago fur tho Uaet Indies, 11,000 miles from home, ho never thought that he would mako history. his-tory. He weht to the Island of Coram, a possession of Holland, n an oil driller, dril-ler, and now he Is governor general of lloela province, he Is the only whlto man on the Island nnd the ruler of a heathen rare lla was sent from Pittsburg by tho Oil Well Supply company, who secured his services In the Interests of tho Nelhorland Trading Society, with headquarters at Amsterdam. The Island Is-land of Ceram Is being deelopel by this society, and when Mr UMay arrived ar-rived In lloela bay, not many hundred mites from New (lulnra and Uorneri, no steamships landed there regularly. Now a line of steamers enters there, nnd It Is his duty to examine the passports pass-ports of all steamships, as well as Ihoso of traders. This he docs In tho Interest of the Dutch government There are many tribes on the Islands, who havo their princes and princesses, but he acts as mediator In disputes, and many has ho been called upon to settle. Mr. I-eMay expects to return to America. Tho persona ho represents have, however, offered him a salary of 81.200 a year to remain, but ho will return re-turn to his home In llcllevuo. He may iHcldo later to go back to his present Island home. The Island Is 250 miles wide, 500 miles long nnd there Is a chain of mountains running through the center of It llada SUay !mirven!aota. Ho lias drilled n number of oil wells, some of which flow 300 barrels a day. Ho has built bridges In tho Island, made good roads, planted bananas and other fruits and hss done much toward elevating tho heathen about him and bettering their condition. He has been compelled to Imprison some nnd punish pun-ish them In different ways. They have learned to fear him. yet by tho manner man-ner In which ho writes they evidently reverenco Mm, for they bring him presents on nil occasions, and every native la the Island takes his hat off when tho American bores In sight Some fall on their knees and worship him. Mr I.cMsy employs 200 natives In tho various enterprises In which ho Is associated for tiie Dutch company and ho pays his laborers twenty cents a day In Dutch money Boms very Interesting letters have been rlttcn by Mr. I.cMay to hla wlfo and children at Uellevue. He says that the natives have a great habit of playing play-ing off alck In order to rscopo working. He keeps a storebouso full of medicine It. H. LE MAY. for such. One day he bad much trouble, trou-ble, says tho Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Every one of hla employes got tho headache. Ho gave them each a dose of castor oil and that cured their sickness. There are many half-breeds on the Island, Dutch blood being mixed with tho blood of tho natives. The la-land la-land of Coram la near Ambrosia Island. There Is a fort at Ambrosia and tho Holland government keeps a garrison of soldiers therr.-but Mr. I-eMay has never had occasion to call for assistance, assist-ance, for be finds that the natives are a peaceable set. Most every nstlvo In that part of tho country speaks tho Malay language, and the American has learned to speak the language fluently. natural Oaa l-oaad. The first well that was drilled on tho Island by btm struck gss nt a depth of eighty-Ill feet The great force of the gss blew the tools out of the well and they wero carried up through tho derrick der-rick and In alighting burled themselves ten feet Into the earth. The natives fled panic stricken In all directions and thought that Satan had como. Pittsburg machinery la doing the work of drilling wolls. Sov-oral Sov-oral months ago, Mr. LeMay writes, one day, ono of tho loollcs working for him came and asked him to advance htm 814 In Dutch money with which to buy a wife. He was told to bring the woman and If Mr. LeMay thought tho man was worthy of her ho would advance the money. The amount was paid to tho father-in-law of the groom and a prince performed tho ceremony. That day Mr. LeMay and tbo prlnco went hunting. A few days afterward every coolie employed by him went out on a strike. Each wanted want-ed 814 advanced to him with which to purchase a woman. If a woman runs away from her husband In that country she Is sure to bo killed If she Is caught That seems to bo ono of the unwritten laws of the natives, One of Mr. I-eMay's raon ran away with another man's wife and one ilnv he caii'ht the Irate husband dragging the woman along the road to H a place where she was to bo killed. Mr. M !.May threatened to put out the eye M of every man that would lend a hand H to uch a diabolical plot, and this pat JH a stop to the practice. They shrunk S from him. and he has never heard of H the law being enforced from that time, 9B The natives are Inveterate gamblers. He made a ruling somo time ago that jjJ they could gamble only once a month W and seeing that that would not do he 'flju rhnnged It and made It once a week, Wk the day after pay day, so that the na- 'Am lives could get rid of all the money Jfm that they earned. He does not explain 'jum the game that tho natives play. XfA Xo Twttlsht In TliU litaniL YjA He says that they go out Into the jKI woods and gamble most of the night '-KM There Is no twilight In the Island of 'am Ceram The sun rises nt 0 a. in., and , 13 sets at 6 p. m and there Is daylight I nnd darkness almost In the twinkling ' of an eye. Tho Island Is (in tho equa- (IX tor. The temperature never get be- VU low 70 nor abovo 85, and during his IM stay there he has never been sick. He H bolts alt of the water that he drinks, Is ill careful of what he eats and has taught H the natives to do the same thing, there- 1 thereby reducing the number of fevers. H Penrla and precious stones are found In jl abundance. Not long ago one ship left H the Island, carrying 850,000 worth of ' ifl penrla and fine shells. Two men were JH killed by sharka In gathering the con- ! slgnment Ceram la also near nanda ! Island, where most of the nutmegs 31 used on the old continent come from. iM |