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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1901)
V, THE ILLUSTRATED EK. December 1, 1001. DON'T BE Strange Customs in Asiatic Holland SO THII FREE REMEDY. Many Indies nnd gentlemen who XATIVKS MAKINC COPKA IN T1IU ISLAND ()!' COCOS, A TIOKU LILY KIIO.M HOLLAND'S HACK WOODS. (Copyright, l!)l, by Frank (I. Cnrfentor.) lOKIUIAIA. Jiivii, Nov. :i. (Special Correspondence of Tin- Hoc.) Sncrhain Ih wllliln u half Iniur'H rlilo of the Island of Madura, an other nf tin! Dutch Kant IiiiIIch. I iloii't know how many Islands the Dutc'i control In 1 1 1 1 m i,irt of the worlil, hut they muni number thoii'amlH. The ocean here In peppered with their possessions'. I camu to Java from AiiHtralla inn) New (iuliica ami my whole way wan through IhIiuiiIh. Wo hiiIIciI for days la sight of one little archi pelago after atiolher, now under thu Bhailow of ureal volcanocH ami now almost skirting the cm o.inut-llncd shuns of Ital Ixlctu. The iHlamlH lie like stopping stones on tho face of the Imllau ocean fioiu hero to (ler maii Now (luluea ami the Dutch Packet lino of steamers make regular trlpH from one to another Anionu Hie .tliiilnrN. 'rliere are regular ferry boats from hero to Madura ami the natives of that iHlaml come to Socrhala to traile. Tho Inland In nun ti like Java, hul It Ih not ho rich. It Ih very Hiuall, hut Ih thickly populated ami the people are wilder ami fiercer than thpso about here. They are a Jealous people ami have frequent iIiicIh on account of JealoilHy. They uho knlvcH ami lanccH In their llghtH ami It takeH Heveral coniianlcH of Dutch HolillerH to keep tbein In order. I have Been some very line cattle from Madura. The iHlaml Ih noted for ItH beef. Thu people are very fond of their Htock and treat their cattle quite an well, If not better, than their clilblien. They waHli their cowh all over every day. They keep I hum tied up and cut much of the feed for them- The rcmilt Ih that the aiilmalH grow ho fat that some of them can only walk a few Htepn without resting. Tho uatlvcH uho their cattle an driving animals and ono of their ureal amusements Ih cuttlo racing. The nuliualH are raced in pnlrB, tho owner standing' on a board fas tened to a long polo tied to tho yoke, Tho end of tho board la JiihI about uvea with thu hind legs of tho cattle ami thu man rents hla liandH on thu HaukH of bin boasts as he urges them onward, yelling nil thu time mid now and then slapping ono to mnko It ko faster. Thu moHt of tho salt of Java comes from Madura. It Ih from evaporated oca water. There are great reservoirs into which tho water Is Mowed ami dried. Tho working an under thu government and tho nalu of fait brings In a largo part of tho govern ment revenues. All over Java thoro are salt warehouses where merchants and pri vate parties can buy salt, Tho smallest amount sold Is four pounds and tho prlco of this Is 111 Javanese cents, equal to 8 cents American, bo that tho cost Is about 2 cents a pound. The merchants later on ro tall thu Halt to the people at a higher coat, but not much hlghor, for they can go to tho warehouses and buy It for thoinselves. KliiK tilt Coi'im IhIiiiiiU. Have you over heard of the Cocoa Islands? I met their king tho other day. lie Is half Kngllsh and half Kaat Indian, but ho speaks our language with a cockney accent. Ho Is a little fix'.) king. Indeed, you would hardly call him a king at nil, for ho Is only a big planter. As I chatted with him on tho stenmor I naked him what hla business was and be told ino bo owned tho Cocoa lalnnds and nil they contained. I had never beard of tho islands. I felt ns Ignorant na did Judgo It Hoy of Vlrgtuln when President Hayes appointed him to represent Uncle Sam In Zanzibar. Th Judgo, who kuuw more about politics than about geography, Htnrted out, but nt tho end of three months cniuo back to tho State department nt Washington and sent In his resignation, Baying that ho bad coasted half way mound the wcrld, but that ho could nut 11 ml tho blanked place. 1 aHkcd tho owner of ttio Cocoa Inland whero IiIh property was and what It was. Ho told mo that It lay Jimt about TUU miles HouthwcHt of Sumatra and 1,200 miles from Singapore. It consists of twenty-four Hinall coral lslanda which have been planted In cocoanutH. Tho man has now hundreds of thousands of eocoanut trees and ho har vests something like 0,000,000 cocoanuts overy year. Ho told mo how ho managed his islands, he said that hla gross receipts annually amounted to 70,000 and upward. Tho cocoauuts are gathered when they fall and the meat Is taken out ami dried In tho huh. It Is then barreled up ami sent nway by the shipload. It requires about COO men to do tho work, and these ami their families coiiHtltute tho population. The king lives all alone with li Ih family ami thu natlvcH on Hicho iHlands. Ills nearest shop ping place Is llatavla, whero he comes In a little schooner every three months or so. Tho trip Is one of seven days, If tho wind Ih right. If he strikes a calm, he may bo a mouth on the wav. I aHkcd li I til how ho liked It. He replied It was not hail, but rather lonesome. Ho thinks that cocoanutH could be grown on the Philippine Inlands at a prollt, ami tells mo that a good grove ought to net at least a dollar a tree a year. Tho nuts are planted fifteen feet apart. Tho trees ro- qulro no cultivation to Hpe.il; of. and each tree will produce from no to 250 nuts an nually. I saw a great many eocoanut plantations during my ntay In tho Philippines ami was told that the trees each netted Just about a dollar a year. They begin to produce at seven years and continue to yield fruit for many years. It Is estimated that thcro are more than 110,000,000 eocoanut trees In Java and Madura, ami I llml the natives drying cocoanutH to mako copra everywhere I go. The copra Ih shipped to Kurope, where It Ih used to make eocoanut oil, soap and other bucIi thlngH. I'roin the hunk brushes and matting are made, thu fiber being very coarso and durable. It takes 7,000 cocoa nuts to mako ono ton of liber, and the best liber la worth from $7." to $100 per ton. Coming westward from Thursday iBland, Just north of Australia, the II est largo bodies of land I saw were a part of the Timor group or the Lesser Sunda Inlands. I Hailed right through tho littlo archipelago, going between Wetta Island and thu great Island of Timor. Timor Is threo times as big as Porto Hlco and Is about equally owned by tho Dutch and Portuguese. 'I'll Dutch part of It Is far better ruled and far more pronpcrotiH than thu Portuguese part. Kach hccIIoii hit a ItH capital, but that of the Portuguese 1)1111--la a miser able village of clay liuta, thatched with straw, whllo that of tho Dutch -Kupang - la a fine little city, with a popiilailon of 7,000. About Dllll thcro are coffcu plantations run by Chinese who squeeze thu llfu out of the people. Tho natives are a mixture of Malays, Papuans and Polynesians, the most of whom aro soml-savage. Some are head hunters, whoso chiefs sacrillee a certain number of slaves at every royal funeral. Tho Dutch have not half as many people ns tho Portuguese, but their country is better governed. There In a resilient gov ernor who advises with the native chiefs at Kupang, and there aro soldiers to keep the people in order. There is considerable trade, the most of which Is carried on by barter. A valuable article of exchange Is a red bead worth so much that a Blnglo string will sell for Sr.O. Inland of I'lurcx. Passing Wetta Island I sailed on for sev eral days by the Islands of Ombay, Pantnr and others to tho great Island of Piorcs. This la na long ns from Philadelphia to Huston and about ns wide as Porto Kirn at Its widest part. It was onco claimed by the Portuguese, but Is now owned by tho Dutch. Wo could see the volcanoes from tho steamer and were told that tho country was very mountainous, with many volca noes. It has only about 230,000 people, who aro mostly savages. There nre no products (Continued on Seventh Page.) The New Benadom Sanitarium Is located on tho northwest corner of Klghtoonth and Dodge HtreoiH, on tho Dodge street car line Ijis. 1 c. Smith and A. J. Kuhlman have charge of thla new hcwpltal, the only sclent Mr lustltuto of Its kind in the middle west. 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