THE DAILY BR TAMED. INDIANS BY MUSIC MACH was down here on one of our sloops:' Stern is somewhat of a gazinka when it grounds, and daslight had brought the! cigars, condensed milk, tinned ERTAINLY music has al decided influence on - all] <Q primitive people, and you! Z will find that the Sang AE 2% Blas Indians are fond of | it. They have no distinet-| | fre music of their own,! but they lke that of the white man. Tt! is largely to recognition of this fact that) the United States owes the increase of ts trade along their coast, and by doing what, this country could do to stimulate and! gratify their desire it has built up a large I commerce and has made fast friends of, one of the most sullen, suspicious, antago- | LY i - pistic races in the world. ! lol The speaker was Captain Bartling, of] & A the firm of Stern & Bartling. They own| a trading station on a little island down! fn the Caribbean, forty miles from Colon, | off that part of the coast of Panama lying} between the canal mone and Colombia. While that sirip of territory, formerly the property of Colombia, nominally pertains ' to the Republic of Panama. it actually! belongs to and is governed by the tribes) of the San Blas, who are its sole inhab-{ tants. These Indians are peculiar. Living at! the edge of the sea, ther learn to swim | and dive as soon as they ean walk. When | they are three or four years old their! fathers make them canoes, five or six feet | long, hollowed out of logs. In these dug-| outs they do all of their traveling, using , paddles and sails, and become wonder-| fully expert judges of weather and ban] dlers of boats, I : 5 SO BP ca Paddle for Hours. ~sNatarally, they develop powers of endurance and ean paddle un-| futerruptedly for many hours. "He Invited Them Aboard to See| _ How the Music Was Made." tremendous | {watches shop windows with the same "I bave frequently seem my two boat- blankly enrious eyes, expresses opinions or, men dip paddles at three or four o'clock [directs attention of his companions in the in the afternoon and never let up, until! same monosyllabic gutturals." eight or nine the following morning, ex-| Dealings Were Honest. cepting for an occasional five minutes In which to takes drink of rom and water, Bt Wiyes uf iain ohh said Saptaln {outer world, particularly if one has come ng. "The result is a short, broad: : o& into contact with the Shfidasyl ee Fhkteds Yaa thin legged [traders and speculators prevalent in Latin race. males of which all look exactly} orien _ alike, . Ove of the commonest sights to they are nevertheless clean, be seen along the streets of Colon is a honest, and "Party of five or six San Blas men and ineir success and their friendship with the [Shores of which wag the first San Blas boys: frequently they are the representa- 1 had asked Cape} tives of four or five generations in { direct line. and' the only perceptible dif-| ferences between the five-year-old, two- foot-high boy and his seventy-five-year- old.' five-foot great-grandfather are those of Site and age. Al are barefooted; All two stories high, covering approximately owed or aars rolled np to their pn, hundred feet square. They have a --. - Ide denim shirts banging! ypart and warehouses and about fifteen said:--Surest thing you knew. -- oy are PAFFOW | schooners and sloops, which equip at the Iidians are wild about ninsic. and we ard-boiled derby hats of the 'bowler' type, or atill.'trade straws,' made in Germany; abd every lat is perched, balanced or gummed on the crest Mr. Stern and Captain Bartling are. the pe of Americans one likes to meet in the ¢ other, variety of business men. decent And boom shortly after drofiping anchor in Shrewd, keen i to these qualities they owe the mouth of the Rio Diablo, on the {San Blas, which friendship means control Village I ever visited. of trade with the tribe. Their trading sta. | tain "Jim" to tell me which of our great] tion, midway between Colon and the first | variety of "trade stuff" would be in San Blas village a¥ you go down the coast. | greatest demand next morning, and, to he replied, "Records does a business amounting to more than|my astonishment, $200,000 a year in the store, a building | for music machines." Wild About Musie Noting my surprise, Captain. Bartling These | | station, called Playa Dama, and trade have made ourselves solid 'with them by | They buy flour, meal, lard, | must! talong the coast, | tarnishing it, We were on beard one of these tivtle, cloth and such stuff because they > i "Jim" Bartiing' have it, bat they buy canned music be | gra dowe four sizes larger than made the remark with which this narra- cause they like J tive began. We were lazily smoking in big profit is on the sale of luxuries: Mr.! " : A : ! i And each walks with the same swing, [hammocks swung on deck from the main] Stern started the thing. A few years ago! vessels when Captain it. And in all lines the! Defying Perils of the Unexplored Colombian- {Cogneta, Here, if the source of the Riojcliures of Chandless, the intrepid explorer] { Inirida be found. the expedition will de- of the Amougencs in the early sixties | {scend 16 where that river, together withilie, Geliaberg cwrote & thee hundred] 'the' Rio Guaviare, joins the Orinoco at thejiage volume. Af this the German) that undiscovered country of South great island lakes San Fernando. |scientist published review, comparing Adfieriea, the Colombia-Amazoras, | From there Dr. Rive expects to retrace his work and Dr. Rice's in a critical] Dr. Hamilton Rice, of Boston, is now on | his s1éps to some extent and make a detour spirit. Dr. Rice did not reply or she "the way, under the patronage of "Mr. [south until he comes to the Rio Guainia.|A0F resentment of this criticism and the Archer M. Hudtingion, { This river joins with the Rio Usupes, | matter end Now "the nen are left the United States legation in Horaring the great body of the Rio Negro. atin rivals for the-same May and by this time his train is; no! The expedition, however, after finding Mr. Archer M. Humtingion doubt, threading the mazes of tropical | the source, will not follow the Rio Guainia Packer of the Rive forenis. [further than Piedro del Coaly. Here Dr, the Harvard Travelle Few expeditions have ee gone into this! Rice will march northward ~ over the! National region, aml an account of their explora breakwater of Bras and Lopes 10 again tons. is as full of tragedy as is the story | touch the Orinoce, this time at Esmer of the loug Hight for the North Pole. alda, two hundred miles southeast of the The last' fatal etding of an expeditionlakes of San Fernando was that of Eugene Auded, who perished! Once she ©rinoco is reached While on his way to the headwaters of! wil he attempted If this the Caura in MN. Maite, Audré's chief jy accomplished, the descent will he made guide, lost his reason through starvation eastward with the hope ; 'and suffering © Before he died he had ihe headwaters of the Parima. Dr Rice Sixth Fioniyae ; i #0 hopelessly catavgied the expedition inl will {arn his expedition due south god iehan pues win hiotes % the tukuown equatorial jungle that the oxpoets to come upon the Rio iadaviri, known Axinive uid L-iaiese . Sp oer. ix uaiving members of the party Pr or contiguous rivers, which he will follow: The vhien of jhe expeditiva ® before they were discovered by the! to where it joins the Rio Negro at Va del | Lives. | Thomar, a village almost on the equator. | Only a short time before four adventu-{ Ng recounoitres will be made alter that i Colombian youths, Martinianoirime and Dr. Rice will lay his course Francisco Cordova, Nasariol directly for Manaos. Brazil This and Autonio Quintera, were! hopes to reach by July 1. 1912 sly wurdered by the Cableo In- while searching for tie source of the Amazoras T O explore the dangerons realms - of) of | two : __H goal } is the chief although thé expedition, rs' Club and Geagraphic ety have dered their e Colombian g bas supplies amd equipments of the expedi Rice Ms 3 AuSpices ernment free entranie of all tion and they have done more for Dr r permitted than has done f auy prey pedition jn official elp of every kind. Act br. Rive Ritter voty Bauer, a young Austrian « been ath Ascent to its soutce ompanying is Lieatenar of penetrating t ; § ng te Draguons. 1 vou the we ioaned by the Royal Geogra- phieal Noviewy Lomdun. Many especial desir. They are of the me compact ditensione and inclode four in theodolitos, sixtants, prismatic compasses 1 boiling nts thermometers, 0 present." if or Rice bas followed | tptescopes, special Ball chronvms ] a is original plans, he is somewhere on gui st nd tole andiag ies, tilla, which is the first objective pont] ime Kio Itilla about. one degree north at Th Sv a Sy wi, bales 2 yuh plu slotety 8ithe equator. Somewhere five hundred far darabibiny. ! a while hi - eh ny [ules xu the gaat: Seas the headwaters of! For astronomical work at might new -- ui the Rio dupes. a Dh et known German, explorer aud authro-| ingly effective, called "Chromaly tes," have x Columbians whe accompa Ti pologig. The German explorer has #%- | heen taken. These Lamps eliluivate neck ke ob gu earlier expedition to the Riv! conded the Rio Branco and the Uraricoers | of the dileilty which Bas been exper four years ago have since been! vers with the expressed intention 10]enced by (he observers itt the tronics dealt with by the Indians. Taree! croxs to the Riv Negro and then go onl Dr. Rie belrg a graduate Why Sician $ retried Tom that Journey only iio Manaos if possible. fan surgets as well as au explier, woe | _ 8% the result of the hardships sud} Althuogh the German's interests are] cab Jasilitics hgve been arranged for' they bad endured {solely ethuolugical and the American's! gathering medical data. The expedition s plan . it to ascend ile Rio} sopugraphical, the two explorers have lis equipped with a Zeiss microscope nnd southery. sof the Rio: teen Fen rivals for many pears. In| 2.500 giass sides" fae blood tosis, 1: or, as nat wliers its Beud- (1007, white Dr. Ries descended the Rio believed thut the examination of speci: This will detern the soaroe; Vaapes from the Slermy Padarids moun. | sens of Blood taken from the natives wil] plete the sarvey wade in IW0T tains, Dir Uriinberg ascended the samel reveal Beretilore uiknbhen opr uiifeoo the Rie U which is theiriver 10 a ten days' march bivowd the! nisable Form of tropical disvases tributary of the Riv Negra. thejlast grout fall the Rawdal de Yorupact| Besides medical' equipment for rhe gro wibotaty of the Amazon!" {While De. [lice had been Besrly a Ban: purely selentitic purposes. Lr, Rice has determines the source of the dred miles eurer the source than his with bin w larg Mit of Suedicinds snd sur > i overiand ty theiconlrive, be wsned only & mosograph of ical lnetens. Bis (or Vistribition among is of Yaga de'twenty feges. modelled after the tre !the uatives of Were ae wirat i ot 1 = } i | i i {Ce {abont ITISH Wa, 1 » had competition then, and an- S030 jow!_apchore was getting fit of molly- sit a record on an old phonograph fel here trade. Stern in a i wish Lim and started After plaring a few rounds i deck, amd there, in the moon as grains of sand in the sum, canoes loaded with San Blas were fifty ni: With grunts of greeting to about the basi comes to seeing an opportunity, and i! fishermen. bet you he didn't touch a step as he dove] Bartling, the Indians set back into that cabin any started the! ness of the honr and we climbed back on Then be! jdeck to watch them, went on-deck again and called across the} music rolling out of the ports. Rig Indians and little Indians, big water an invitation .to, Chief Carlo fo Eat Tong. manaed by a selue t jong, m 3 i {eanoes, sixty jo0me aboard and see. the musi a8 it Wasi crew of seven men and four paddlers, made. He put the box on deck under; casted with sixoot plraguas, in each [ihe galley hood. and in shout ten minutes} which sat one small Indian boy. The {You could not have squeezed another Iu- bow and arrow men stood erect, their boatmen paddling slowly, watching for "Next day my partner presented 'fhe! «nifles" that indicated passage of a big {phonograph and three records to the vil Gish, on viewing which they would shoot Also he took orders for many pewlan arrow upward at an angle. dian onto the poop deck. ! ! i lage, irecords, the profits on which more than ! { | So accurate was their estimate of the Profit In Musle. {speed of fish and amvow that the latter "Kince then our sales of preserved mel would usually shoot downward fully sev. : 3 Wonderfully Accurate Alm, covered the cost of the gift machine, ! ! i (addy, ready te serve, have increased siead- enty-five feet from the shooter with such ily, and we have sold in the last three force and precision that the fish would (months thirty-six of the musie grinders be transfixed. Now and then there iand three hundred records. Further-!would sound a subdued shout as one of | more. our ability and willingness along! the boys would harpoon a fish as large as | this line have caused the San Blas tolhis cunoe and would be dragged swiftly i the while' his relatives {believe that ours is the most progressive | about hay, {of all the trade stations, and that in rel watched and gave directions, but never| : iturn for the pleasure we have given by interfered uniil his inability to bandie his introducing the little music machines, taj catch became evident, i ter in the morning. after breakfast, First, the Indians came |say nothing of the fairness with which! Ta we have treated them, it is rather np to] trading hegan them to sell to and buy from us. [I ean ongside, bringigk. cargoes of COTOARULS. ot disagree with them. Tomorrow Foul;o,. quis and tortoise shell. These were counted orvweizhed forwara on deck and I paid for in cash. afer which the Indians k the following morning Wontld wander aft and go below to make ample opportunity have to see) will whether I am wrong." At five o'cloc I was launched into one of the most in their purchases. ™ : . teresting days of my life. ' My hammock I'he cabin of our vessel resembled was swung from main boom to starboard | nothing qnite so much as the interior of 8 Drowsily ¥ realized that I was be- rombination -- SFE! store and ship jing swung 1 fully, chandler's shop, excepting that here otc {awoke about midway between the surface noted far greater compactnéss and neat- Our stock consisted of crockery, rail. rather violently. of the ocean and the rail over which 1 ness, {had been catapulted by Captain Bartling, | gingham, tinware, drugs, cutlery, rum, | who struck the water almost simultane- slippers, soap, hats, gunpowder, combs, ously with me. As I bobbed to the sur-{ "trade" shotguns, canned biscuit, bind face 1 found myself surrounded by grin- and buck shot, lard, shirts, machetes, San Blas men and boys, [hair tonic, grindstones, cotton trousers, | bows, arrows, spears and gin, bandana handkerchiefs and bacon, ning, silent {armed with i {heavy lines, all for fishing. We had un-/corn meal, flour and fish hooks, cheap | ehored directly in the centre of the fishing, watches, fish line, pipes and fobaceo, {cho 3 INES butte wad { nearly eversthiog else imagingble. Being very primitive. unable to count above | the Indians after receiving cash ten except by saying "tea and' f for thelr products paid cash for each article pur i chased, | addition, thus avoiding complications of ' i Music Was a Feast. i And each, after baggling over the prices of necessaries, went above and seated himself on deck, apparently. ex- pectant of something. There {mained for hours, until all of the tribes men had completed their purchases, after which Captain Bartling had the "music grinding machine" put on deck with a {stack of naw records. Record after rec ord was run, and at the finish of each the Indians would either "wave it away" or one of them would buy it, handiug over the cash each time, It was a sort of community propositien: they took regular turns around the circle and bought no duplicates. Nor did they attempt to argue about prices, as they had over foodstuffs. At the close of the afternoon the party went ashore, carry ing more than sixty new records of "pre. served music." / That evening, by invitation, we visited {the Clacigue in his village and were splen. {diaty entertained at a. great supper of boiled fish and erabs with tomatoes and {rice followed by a most delectable fricgs- see of monkey. Supper over, we gathered around a glowing fire of hardwood and the new music was played, | I have made many voyages along that coast since then, but T shall never forget (that evening, The stolid faces of the men | shone up in half tones by the firelight, an indistinct smadge in the background, where the women and cHIRlren" wére gathered, while the strains of the "Merry Widow Walt," "My Rainbow Girl" "La Paloma," the "Lucia" sextet, "Cu. ibanola," Gounod's "Ave Maria," "A Hot {Time in the Old Town" rose from the {centre of the circle, echoed from the cliffs 'and floated out over the water. Rvery- {thing from rag time to opera seemed tof {appeal and every selection was listened {to in such silence, with such interest, 'that there remained no possibility of doubting that music has a powerful influence on {the savage. ) TW. G they ve "3 The Inexpensive Two-Horned Rhinoceros # i BY DARIUS DALRYMPLE. éé OW'D you like to take a ten mile ride on a rhinoceros' tail? That's , what I did "Yes, sir, it's a fact, though the story is so strange that some folks joke me But if they'd been back N. Y., in 'TS, when my show was playing there, I could prove what I'm it. in about runing, going to tell you" He words and went on HA pansed to note the effect of his two-horned rhinoceros -was just as bard to find in this country in days as it is now. You eouldan't ne fc of money. 1 those love or a reasonable amount The owner of the show I was with, or the old man, as we called him, | had Lis mind set on hiving a rhino with {wo horns, wally tintugs weedod a up. i jeek and he racuiou tg brace metal, sirengiiened show had a collection of p rlorming ele taiking that bud set the country plisuis Kock-Grinberg, the lamps of a very. simple desigir but excend aid we couldn't boast of much that was hew iB animals, "1h owis die beginning of the scason amd we wore gelling ready to leave Fre wont, Ulils, after showing twice ta very bad The oid blue as a dyspeptic amuiey. thing kad gobke wrong. Just before the was Every: DBs ens, Han slternoun perlormaned, Faiy, our prize is URETER, SOI ga) abd staried le chasing a nm oa that were She was couple of cassvwarios nldeck with ber. alusosy | avkind to death with the fun she wad ving when she stombled ud fell te; There wus 4 Wot of yelling ck wquawking, aed when we got inside © foul Fremont, Mutilds. as the De ground Je ropes and looked her over she Gad broken bev right leg ~ TAs i thay wasn't emobgh tough Tock, iy four of the canvas men had to go and|till we reached Corning. We pitched get into a fight with some of the freshies our tents on a big lot on the outskirts around town and ourmen got locked up lot the place on a blistering hot day in Ro when it came time to load up early |June, The rhino had been featured as in the morning all hands had to turn toa star attraction and there was a big The old man was clean dis-|erowd at the afternoon performance, The couraged. 'It looks like some' one has heat bad affected Matilda'¥ skin and it wished a hoodoo on us, Marty,' he said | was cracked in several places. The old "If thing# don't change pretty |man had placed me in charge of the ani- soon I'll have to close up.' mal and 1 was going to give her hide "Just then up came a farmerish look-la good coating of oil the next day. 1 ing fellow who without any roundabout|thought, though, that a bath in a little talk asked the old man if he wanted to[stream that flowed along the edge of buy a two horned rhinoceros. The sud-|the town would put the rhino in good con denness of the proposition almost took [dition for her oiling. the old man off his feet, but he said that] "We had got along well, the rhino and he might consider the matter if he couldime. So when I put a rope around her see the animal. So the countryman took [neck and led her toward the water I us to a shed back of the hotel, where, [didn't have any fear of trouble. Just stire enough, he had a rhinoceros. tied up [as we crossed the railroad tracks a loco In a stall. We looked the animal over motive came puffing along. Then things from the tips of her two horns to her|began to happen. The man in the cab, feet and she seemed to be all right, The out of mischief, I suppose, pulled the rd help. to me. lis show had been runbing in new A rival © whistle string when he saw the rhine and Matilda was startled for fair, gave a loud bellow and a jork that yanked me off my feet. The rope slid ont of my hands. bat 1 envght hold of ber tall a» it #ashed by we and bong on for dear iife "1 was preily strong in them days and 1 was bond not to lose my grip on an agital that the ob! man valued glmost an mach as he did the whole show. Along the baoks of that litle stream the rhino tore, with me banging i her (8 Some times my leet loached the ground, bot more often they dida't Shooting the chutes #t Coney Island wase't nowhere compated to that ride of mine, The trees Nibued rhino owners have refused sera Hashed by so fast 1 ~ouldn't hardy wre of SI0000 snd mre. The oki m took them. And all the time the brute kept 2 oe . H a RAH TOO% up Wer usescibiy bellowing. "GP Quick. nod when (be show eft! ~pogeey Fide' stop abier for 8 second Fino Wak When she conldu't jump them ste érashed iy Wood knocked them dowy. She as a Ritien went through a barbed wire affair thai "I Thought She Would Get Tired." farmer said that bis brother was a wey captain and after picking the thine up bear some African port bad ses; ber to him "Rbe wasn't any wee to bm, the farmer said, and be wanted to sell Ber. There wasn't much haggling about the price The farmer named $100 as his Sgure. which was ridiculous, seeing' that te jealled, was part of the vireus. "Ble was as well helaired Nhe caught in my clothes and ripped most of 'em off my back. 1 thought she would get tired, but she didn't and we went on aod on. My arms ached till they felt like they would drop off. Alead of us 1 saw a farmer starting with a hay rake to head ber off. But she didn't head. As goon as she caught sight of the man she gal- loped madly toward him end he dived head first inte.a hay stack, "That seemed to satisfy Matilda, be- cause she lumbered right along without trying to dig him out. Once in a while she turned her head halfway around and glared at me. Say, there was so much wicked fury in those eyes of hers that I was tempted to let go of her tail at once. | But we were going so fast that 1 figured I would be as safe In hanging on as drop. ping off, "Across the field we scooted till we came to a road. Matilda bolted up the road, raising so much dust that I was partiy blinded and didn't see a wagon till we were within a few feel of the thing, Bump! she weat into the Wagon, Which was loaded with apples. The whole cargo was dumped out inte the road snd with it two men on the seat. 1 suppose those men thought I was out for an afternoon of pleasure, bee cause they yeliéa 'WHY don't 'you stop her" as we whirled past. By this time 1 had about made up my mind that the rhino was taking a short cut back to ber old home in Africa. As tong ax 1 head gous so far § reckoned THAT I might as well go the whole distance with (ber. While I was wondering if she would futon long envugh to give me a chance ww | write a letter to the oid man and tell him that | hadn't siolen Matilda, she suddenly tewitched off into a path that lesd from the {road into a patch of woods. | "She lumbered along, not paying any als tention to the branches of trees that @almowt blocked the path, till we came to a foot {bridge over a creek. Thi was wiere Matilda showed that she was nothing after sl! but a clumsy brute with no sense, for she tried to walk scsoss that narrow plank. We both went splash into the water and that seemed to bring the brute back to a more guiel state, For five min utes she didn't make a move, and I lay in j the water, too far gone to do anyiking but {give thanks that she had halted. | "Aud now comes the odd part of my story. When the rhino fell into tie water she landed against the bottom Mf the creek, bead first. When I got 16 my {eet I teit Yor my elephant hook apd found that 1 still had it banging to my belt. | igave Matilda » few jabs and she squealed, Then | happaned to glance af heb head and a'most fell down, for her horas were Imissing. 1 looked again and saw them Boating on the water g few feet AWAY "Well, I did sowe thinking std discov ered that Matis horas had been cemented on. She was D6 Wo 8 two horoed rhinoceros than I am. She had the stump of ome boru "remainiug and that smart fellow in Fremont hall given ber two to boost her value The bull man stopped WIRING and looked covetously at the sandwich which one of his listeners still held. "1 picked up the rhind's booed amd strapped thems back on her bead again. 1 dide't have any trouble fa getting ber back to Corning, asd I never 10d the oid mas about the borue beenule | koew it would break his beset if he found oud that Wie two-beraed wae sot & twolwrned rhinoceros." ' n