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TO PORTUGAL, land of almost
eternal sunshine, American in
vestors are going, with great
schemes for the development of
the latent resources waiting only for
the capital and energy necessary for
their unfolding. In the Roeio, the
principal business street of Lisbon,
buildings have been secured to re
model or newly build large store
houses. At Mount Estoril, the Palm
Beach of Portugal, the important
hotels and concessions have been se
cured by Americans, with the purpose
of making it a rival to San Sebastian
on the Spanish coast, says a writer in
the Christian Science Monitor.
An electric railway will connect it
w?rh Lisbon and Cintra, whose chief
attraction is the Pena castle. Cintra,
once the home of the Moorish kings,
and later occupied by the kings of
Portugal.
A large casino is being erected on
the beach, and several large hotels of
American design and furnishings will
be built along the shores of this
-charming site. And of Vigo, Spain,
the American investor will concern
himself—there he has taken up the
-extensive harbor improvements and
inland communications, thus to realize
the vast undeveloped mineral possi
bilities of the Galician hinterland and
Leon. Railways will be extended to
Madrid, making a more rapid route
for tourists between Paris and South
America.
Everything but Energy.
Portugal is a country rich in all
things save in popular energy. Ger
many and France, until the late war,
exploited its sardine industries, one
of its most valuable items of com
merce. The cork forests are abun
dant, and the olive and grape are very
prolific in their yield. Tropical and
subtropical fruits of many varieties
abound, and can be bought for trifling
amounts.
The Portuguese peasants have been
called the most kindly and dependable
of all Europe. Each province is dis
tinguished by a different and most
picturesque costume. The excellence
of its climate; the varied aspects and
diversity of its vegetation; the multi
plicity of Its hot and cold springs;
the progressive improvement In its
hotel accommodations, offered at a
lower price than that of any others in
Europe, make Portugal one of the
most favored of lands for the ex
ploitation of the tourist.
At the present time the Mother of
Navigators, as Portugal has been
named, is less known by geographers
and archeologists than any other
country on the continent. No lands
have been better glorified by nature;
am£ burled Roman and Celtic-Iberian
cities, treasure houses of. antiquity,
are rich mines for conquest with pick
and shovel.
Portugal is an agricultural country,
but the sardine industry makes up a
large part of her commerce. Millions
of boxes of this product of Portu
guese cannors bear the imprint of
French packers, some even with
France as the country of origin. The
abundant olive lends Itself to the
packer of the better-grade sardine,
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The cork tree, which produces a
new bark once in ten years, gives an
important article for export. Each
stripping furnishes about $10 worth of
bark per tree. The other woods most
abundant are the acacia, poplar, e!m
ash, eucalyptus, pine and oak. About
one acre in five of the total area ot
Portugal is wooded. The more re
mote agricultural and timber districts
handicapped by the lack of even
reasonably good transportation facil
ities, either railroad or wagon.
Conglomeration of Races.
Ethnologmally Portugal is a con
glomerate. The people of the north
ern province of Entre Douro and
Minho and Tras-os-Montes are of
Galician sto'dr; in the lower provinces
the Portuguese have intermarried
with the Arab, Dutch, French and
English, and, in one province, rhe
Frisian.
The Jews, after their forced con
version by King Emanuel, intermar
ried with all races. On the southern
coast from Cape St. Vincent to the
Spanish frontier the influence of Afri
can ancestry is yery apparent—due
to the importation of slaves for serv
ice in the olive groves and vineyards
of Alemtejo and Algarves.
Portugal has a distinct national
personality in art, music and litera
ture—each having a uniaue vigor. It
Pena, Portugal.
has been said that all Portuguese are
singers. On fete days and on Sum
days the roads abound with gayly
costumed peasants carrying mandolas
and singing the songs of Portugal, in
spired by Camoens, whose poems have
enriched the literature of Iberia.
In art and architecture the names
Carlos Reis, Santos Braga, Texeira
Lopez, Colombano, Adelide Lima,
Malho, Salgade, and Fernandez stand
out. The cathedrals, veritable monu
ments to the architectural genius of
succeeding generations, vie with the
noblest examples of ecclesiastical
edifices in Europe. The sandstone—
so abundant in Portugal—lends itself
to the sculptor’s chisel.
NOT YET FULLY CIVILIZED
Solomon Islanders at Times Apt to Go
Back to Pleasant Diversion of
Head Hunting.
The Solomon islands are famous as
one of the last strongholds of head
hunting and cannibalism. Some of
the natives have been converted to a
civilized respect for human life, but
the native taste of the Solomon island
er still approves a ceremonial feast
once In a while, with several members
of a hostile tribe tastily cooked and
served.
Head-hunting has for centuries been
a part of the islander’s religion and
is pursued with great zeal and a kind
of ecstatic enjoyment to all except
the victims. Head-hunters from one
tribe set out for a hunt to the lands
of another tribe. They swoop down
on a village, seize as many victims as
possible and escape. The trophies of
the chase are impaled on posts as evi
dence of the hunters’ prowess, while
the feast which follows consists main
ly of the victims.
If the attacked tribe knows of the
plan beforehand it will retire to i+s
tree houses, where it is safe for a
while. These houses are built fifty or
sixty feet from the ground In the
branches of giant trees. Ladders hang
from them and up these the agile na
tives climb and then pull up the lad
der.
Usually a hunt is now instituted
only for one or two sacrifices, and
skulls as decorations in the houses are
less fashionable than they once were.
This is a favorable sign, but the real
Solomon islander is far from tame and
it apt to relapse any time into the
ways of his fathers.
WONDERFUL WORK OF NATURE
Grand Canyon of Arizona, Now a
National Park, Called Most Sub
lime of Earthly Spectacles.
Grand Canyon National park, in the
northwest corner of Arizona, is the
newest of our national playgrounds,
having been brought into the national
park family by an act of congress in
1919.
The canyon is a titanic gash in the
earth’s crust, a stupendous chasm, in
places 10 to 13 miles wide from r>ra
to rim, over 200 miles long and more
than a mile deep. This wonder of
Nature, said to be the most sublime of
earthly spectacles, is a composite of
thousands and tens of thousands of
gorges.
Long years ago bronzed savage?
built their dwellings on the sides of
its cliffs. In 1540 one of the earlj
Spanish explorers stood on its brink
and gazed with awe at its vastness:
a Franciscan priest 200 years later
was the next white visitor; then for
more than 80 years the big canyon re
mained unvisited except; by Indian?
and an occasional herdsman or trap
per.
Now the skill of man has made i1
accessible both by train and by auto
mobile, and every year thousands of
tourists view this crowning wonder 01
the American west.
Feast of Purim.
The feast of Purim, corresponding
to the fourteenth day of the Hebrew
month of Adar, is a joyous festival of
the Jew's, celebrated by them in com
memoration of their deliverance from
imminent destruction as narrated ir
the Book of Esther, from a Persiar
word meaning “lots,” the festival be
ing so designated because of the lots
that are said to have been cast bj
Haman, prime minister to Ahasuerus
king of Perisa, to determine the day or
which to carry out a plot of extermi
natlng the Jews.
I GENERAL OBREGON HAS
REMARKABLE MEMORY
NOGALES, Ariz., June 15 (by As
sociated Press).—General Alvaro Ob
regon, leader in the movement that re
cently overthrew the Carranza govern
ment in Mexico, has a remarkable
memory, according to H. Percy Meak
er, an Englishman who has resided in
Sinaloa for many years and who, dur
ing the recent war with German, acted
in an executive capacity for the British
government.
“One of the easiest things General
Obregon does,” said Meaker, “is to
deal out a complete deck of playing
cards to a party of seven, memorizing
the cards each receives, then, begin
ning backwards, tell each man correct
ly the cards he holds.
“He remembers whole columns of
newspaper articles, and, many days
after reading them, can repeat an en
tire article verbatim. He remembers
accurately incidents years back. A
great deal of the book ‘Eight Kilomet
ers of Campaigning,’ is written from
his marvelous memory.”
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