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FEAR OF GERMAN INVASION
Set Warranted by Number of Kaleert
Subjects at Present Residing in
South America.
German migration to South
America, and especially to soma
of the southern states of Brazil, j
is periodically a cause of com
ment and concern to some who
think they see therein a sinister
scheme of imperial conquest, j
For two or three strong reasons,
says the New York Tribune, such j
fears seem to us to be not well
founded. One such reason is
that the number of Germans in
Brazil is not, after all, ominous
ly large. The total population of
Brazil, according to the census
of 1890, was 14,333,915. No later ■
census returns are available, but
careful estimates now place the
total at more than 17,000,000, of
which number less than 3,000,000 j
are Indians and negroes, leaving I
certainly more than 14,000,000
whites. Of these, in 1901, only
2,700,000 were immigrants, and
of the latter number only 300,000
were Germans.
The latest and highest esti
mate of the number of Germans
in Brazil is only 450,000, or a lit
tle over three per cent, of the
whole. Really, we cannot regard
that as a dangerous percentage.
Nor does it represent the largest
foreign element, by any means.
Portuguese immigrants into Bra
zil are twice as numerous, and
Italians three times as numer- j
ous, as the Germans. Nor yet
are thpsp (rprmans an mnsapd In 1
certain states as to form a ma*!
jority of their population, si
some have imagined. Germans
are most numerous in Bio
Grande do Sul, where there are
20^,000 of them, but the whole
population of the state is 900,000,
so that *the Germans are less
than one-fonrth. In Santa Catha
rina the Germans are 100,000 in a
total of 300,000, or one-third,
the largest proportion in any
state. In Parana they are 47,000
in 280,000, and in Sao Paulo 30,<
000 in 1,430,000.
It is pointed oat ns ominous
that these Germans continue to
use their own language, to pub
lish newspapers in German and
to demand the official use of that
language in courts and schools.
Well, the same may be said of
Germans in New York, and in
Milwaukee, and in many other
parts of the United States.
The conquest which Germany j
hopes for in Brazil is not polit- j
ical, but commercial. The profit
she looks for in this migration of
her subjects is to be found in in
creased commerce. In that Ger
many reckons shrewdly. Every 1
shipload of Germans landed in
Brazil creates a1 demand for
many shiploads of Gefrman man
ufactured goods. Every so-called
German colony in Brazil means
a market for German trade.
Upon this feature of the case too
much stress cannot easily be laid.
Provision* from Tress.
There is a tree which grows in
Sumatra, Algeria and China which j
is known as the vegetable tallow i
tree. From its fruit large quanti- j
ties of oil and tallow are extract !
ed, and the fruit is gathered in j
November or December, when all j
the leaves have fallen. Excellent
candles are made from the berries
of a tree which grows in some
parts of South Africa and the
Azores. At Sierra Leone is found
the cream fruit tree, the fruit of
which is very agreeable in taste.
In Ceylon there is the breadfruit
tree, from which a food is made in
the same way that we make bread.
It is said to be equally good and nu
tritious. In South America we
And the milk tree.—Philadelphia
Ledger._
Curious laddwi
A man on Twenty-third street
furnished much amusement to a
number of people on a recent j
windy afternoon by a predicament
he fell into, or rather that fell
onto him A large gunny sack:
dropped from the roof of one of
the buildings, and, as it descend
ed filled with air, coming down
with mouth wide open, like a bal
loon. It struck the unfortunate;
man squarely over the head, cot- ,
ering him completely down be
low ^the shoulders, and pinioning
his arms so that he had difficulty
In extricating himself. He strug
gled as if he thought he was being
kidnaped until be managed to get
tfcs sack eff his head.—N. Y. Poet
first of naval battles.
It Was Fought in Maryland Waters
in the Early Colonial
Days.
April 23 of this year was the two
hundred and sixty-ninth anniversary
of the first naval battle fought in
American waters. On that date two
armed forces met at the mouth of the
Pocomoke river, within the boundaries
of the province of Maryland, and set
tled, at least temporarily, the authority
of Lord Baltimore. The settlement at
St. Mary’s had been made but 13
months when this test of arms oc
curred, says the Chicago Chronicle.
About three years before the land
ing of the Maryland pilgrims under
Gov. Leonard Calvert, by virtue of the
grant of the territory from Charles I.,
a trading post had been established by
William Claibourne, of Virginia, on
Kent island. It was not a settlement
intended for permanent homes and the
tilling of the soil, but merely a place
fixed upon by Claibourne for conven
ience of trade with the Indians. Kent
Island was clearly within the jurisdic
tion of Lord Baltimore, but Claibourne
very foolishly resisted his authority
ind refused to take out a trader’s li
cense from the proprietary’s govern
ment at St. Mary’s. This stubborn
■tand of Claibourne resulted in the
capture early in the year by Capt.
Thomas Cornwaleys, one of the Mary
land commissioners, of a vessel be
longing to Claibourne for trading in
the waters of the Chesapeake without
a Maryland license.
Claibourne realized now that he
would either have to break down Lord
Baltimore’s authority by force of arms
or be compelled to submit to that au
thority. He chose to fight and, accord
ingly, he fitted out an armed boat, the
Cockatrice, which was manned by 30
men and placed under the command of
Lieut. Radcliffe Warren, who wa3 com
missioned by Claibourne "to seize and
capture any pinnacles or other vessels
belonging to the government of St.
Mary’s."
This was a declaration of war and
when the news of the rebellion reached
Gov. Calvert he at once determined to
put It down, as becomes a governor
whose rights are denied and whose au
thority is defied. Knowing the strength
of the insurgents, he wisely fitted out a
superior force, with the full determina
tion to crush the spirit that was giv
ing him no little trouble. So he
manned and commissioned two vessels
—the St. Margaret and the St Helena
—placed them in command of the gal
lant Capt. Cornwaleys, with ordhrs to
search out and destroy the enemy and
reduce Kent island to submission.
The little squadron sailed.out from
St Mary’s with the Maryland colons
flying from the flagship and animated
by the same courageous spirit that two
and a half centuries later inspired an
other Maryland naval commander in
his gloriously successful search for the
Spanish fleet tn the waters of the West
indies. Their course took them across
the bay and soon they were rewarded
by sighting the sail^ of the insurgent
shi; off the mouth of the Pocomoke.
Corr.wabsys skillfully maneuvered his
little fleet so as to prevent the escape
of the enemy and both sides cleared
for action. The insurgents delivered
the first fire, and so true was the aim
that William Ashmore, of the Mary
landers, fell to the deck, the first
American sailor whose life was sacri
ficed while in action upon the altar of
duty. The sight of their dead comrade
inspired the Maryland men to greater
determination, and. made more deadly
their aim and threefold more terrible
their revenge. Their first lire killed
the enemy’s commanding officer
Lieut. Warren—and two of his crew.
The insurgents having lost their leader
and ttfo of their comrades sind seeing
certain destruction staring them in the
face, were brought to realize that dis
cretion was the better part of valor and
therefore they wisely struck their col
ors and surrendered themselves and
their vessel to the victorious aMry
landers.
Kent island was afterwards subdued
ind Claibourne stripped of his posses
»ion. But he did not cease to be a
source of great trouble to the settlers
if St. Mary’s and more that once suc
ceeding in destroying, for a time, the
government of Lord Baltimore. But
that belongs to another story
Thefts from Hotels.
A certain hotelkeeper in Washington
•ays that the people have no idea of the
small depredations that are committed
by guests, most of who are people of
money enough of their own to refrain.
He declares that not long ago he bought
700 yards of toweling for his rooms, and
before he had time to learn whether or
not the rooms had been supplied, the
whole outfit was gone, says the Washing
ton Post. “They are drummers, and
women and all kinds of people who took
them," said he, “and probably they did
not think it was stealing to take things
iway from the hotel. As to downright
theft from rooms, or bilking in the mat
ter of meals, there is much less of it in
hotels than you woul(J suppose; but
Lord! bow they will crib the soap and
linen and spoons!”
Far from Home.
Relative—I notice that you have at last
got acquainted with your next-door
neighbor, who has lived alongside of you
for the past ten years.
Mrs. D’Avnoo—Yes, we were inuti
luced to each other ar. the Pyramids oi
Egypt, and I found her a delightful com
panion. We became very intimate.—
London Tit-Bits.
His Limited Circle.
Solon was inventing his motto.
“What do you think of 'Know thy
self?’ "he asked.
“Fine,” they answered, “but can’t you
get acquainted in any better circles?"
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