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y SWARMS OF MONKEYS HUNTING STRANGE GAME IN THE IS LAND OF ST. KITTS. Experience of a Taxidermist In a West Indian Isle Shooting: Odd Game Tho, Man Who Shot a Monkey and How It Affected Him. tSpecinl Correspondence. Basse Teiire, St. Kitts, Sept. 14. 1 had intended to sail direct from the Venezuelan const to the United Stntes, but meeting with tho captain of a tramp steamer, who offered me passage to this island, I changed ray miud. And I'm mighty glad I did, for I havo gained thereby an experience which falls to but fow in tho course of a lifetime. St. Eitts Is a small island, but one of tho most beautiful in tho West Indies. It may bo said to consist of a volcano (ex tinct) which is surrounded by groat for ests and theso again by a broad oirolo of cultivated land devoted to tho culture of sugar oane. A good road, smooth and hard, encircles tho island and gives ac cess to every part, whilo tho numerous sugar estates are tho abodes of omo of the most hospitable planters of Scotch and English origin that tho wholo world can show. Having a lottor to ono of them, I lost no timo in getting out to his planta tion, and tho very uoxt morning ho sent mo into tho woods to look for monkeys, for, in truth, with tho taxidermist's ar dor, that was what I came here for, having heard that tho island was liter ally alive with them, as it is. In this island and tho near island of Nevis they fairly swarm, living in tho forests, but descending upon tho caucflelds and committing great havoc Now, whilo there may not bo any in terest attaching to a monkey such as wo seo in company with tho hand organ "dngos" or in tho Central park menag erie, the real wild articlo has n great attraction for me. In tho first place, ho is wild and shy and roams tho forest trees with tho sagacity of a human be ing. It takes a good hunter to get ono, so alert and cunning is the animal in his nativo wilds, and that fact put mo on my mettle, for I havo shot ubout every kind of wild gamo in theso islands, including tho great parrots, pigeons, deer, partridges, ignanas and wild guinea fowl, and wanted to havo n shy at tho monkey. But I don't want another. Tho hospitablo planter, a brawny Scotsman, Mr. Morcer, sent out with mo hia best inonkoy hunter, nu old black man, whoso shrewd faco suggest ed that perhaps away back in tho dim, distant past somo of his ancestors may "AM I XOT A MAX AND A MONKEY?" have been related to thoso of tho forest people. Ho was not exactly tho connect ing link, but ho was about as cuto and cunning as tho monkeys, and this was tho reason ho had been selected to guide me. At last, after two hours' riding through most benutifuvegetntion, all tho whilo ascending, wo reached a broad level in a depression of the mountain ridgo 2,000 feet abovo tho sea. "Too lato for do monkey," said my sablo guide, shaking his woolly head. "You no know monkey, eh? Ah, him bery wise. Him no ketch wiv chaff. " Wo waded into tho groat, silent woods, whero tropical trees overhung a deep raviuo and n steep hillsido was covored with rank and denso vegeta tion. Thcro, by tho bank of a gently flowing stream, I eat down to breakfast upon a most bountiful repast of cold roast guinea fowl and trimmings, ac companied with two bottles of nlo and a squaro bottlo of old St. Kitts rum. The last thing my gonorous host had said as we loft tho plantation was, "Havo yon got a corksorow?" And in order that I should not miss it ho had put ono among tho provender. Tho breakfast over, wo climbed tho hillsido to its summit, whero tho tall trees grow, and thero waited again for signs of monkoys. My guido tells mo they have now retired, most of them, to tho distant mountain tops, whero they breed, constructing nests of twigs and leaves in 'low trees on tho cliffs. They bring forth ono at a birth, sometimes two, aud tend tho young with all tho eolicitudo displayed by a human mother for her offspring. At this season thoy aro moro shy than in tho dry season and during tho hurricane months, and tho old man adds that I shall bo lucky to got a shot anywoy. Wo conversed in whispers, and my frioud told mo a groat deal of interesting monkey lore so in teresting, in fact, that I nearly forgot tho objeot of my coming hero. But all at onco tho old darky placed a finger against 'his lips and shook his head warningly. "Shu, massa, mo heah dom monkoy quarrel. Doy mus' bo right obor our heads." I looked no toward tho tops of the immense trees and saw a something that appeared no larger than a cat crouched upon a limb piokiug floods from tho twigs and eating them. This object was a long shot off, but I drew up my gun and let it have tho left barrel, then ns it slipped over tho limb and recovered itself gave it tho right, both barrels charged with duok shot. Tho second shot caught tho animal in midair, and it fell into a thick topped tree, whero it lay quito still and out of sight. Great drops of blood pattered down upon tho leaves around us, and my guido excitedly shouted: "Ho'sshotl Ho dono gut dutl Ho dead monkey fo' sliuah, sail I" But although ho may havo been a dead mon koy ho wasn't destined to by my mon key, it seems, for, despito of all our ef forts to dislodge it, thero it staid, sus pended botwoen heaven and earth, out of sight in that giant tree. At sound of my first shot thero was a rustling of treo tops all around us as tho troop of mon keys to which tho ono I had killed be longed slipped out of rango without a single cry. They had been feeding all about us, but so sly wero thoy and so quiet that wo had not suspected their presence. Leaviug mo watohing tho treo in tho hope that my gamo would fall, old Tuckor went off after tho monkey baud. In about an hour I heard a gun's report, and somo timo lator tho old mau camo back, bearing with him a monkey which tipped tho scales at nine pounds. It was still warm and bleeding, its mouth full of seeds, which it had been eating when shot. And on its semihuman couutc uancowas an awful grin, which seemed to me to bodo anything but good for its slayer. I was glad then thnt my monkey had not fallen to tho ground, for at sight of its horrible faco I should havo felt liko tho murderer of a baby. But I went to work and skinned tho specimen, and it is to bo preserved in a museum in tho United States. All tho whilo I was engaged in this operation old Tuck er was smacking iiis lips and feeling tho tender flesh, liko a cannibal gloat ing over a missionary banquet. "Will mo eat um, massa? Yis, sab, eat um all, an crack do skull for do brain. Fo' do brain, sah, nick mo wiso liko mon key an heah um long ways off. An of you no want do skin, sah, mo gib um to ma pick'ny to sleep on an mck um spry, liko do macaque himso'f. " Tho flesh looked liko good meat, but tho rescmblanco of tho skinned animal to a flayed infant was too awfully sug gestivo for mo to idish it. I declined tho old man's invitation to the prospec tive feast, much to his satisfaction ap parently, for, as ho said, his family was largo, and thoy all doted on mon key. Ho said they would not only eat all tho meat, but mako a soup of the bones, and this reminded mo of what a planter told me that tho sight of tho monkey skulls as ho onco saw them bobbing about in tho 60up was too ghast ly for anything. Bub tho flesh is said to tasto liko tho tonderost voal. 0. A. Fukber. PRINCE EDWARD LAND. Tho Simple Capital of u Ilrltlsh Province and It American Visitor. Special Correspondence). Charlottetown, P. E. I., Sept. 10. This little town is cut off from the world in an aggravating way. Tho coast of Nova Scotia is in plain view along most of tho southern coast of Princo Ed ward Island, but tho transfer by bont from Pictou takes threo hours, so it is almost as long a journey from Halifax to Charlottetown as from Halifax to Sidney, twico as far away. This fact and tho utter nbsencoof any picturesque feature on tho island would mako Char lottotowu n placo unknown to any but commercial travelers or insurance agents if it wero not that a Boston steamship lino has made this placo its terminus. Once a week tho big. ship from Boston, which has stopped at Halifax and Hawkesbury en route, comes to her wharf at Charlottotown aud discharges a shipload of prtssengors. Thoy aro chiefly from Boston and interior Massa chusetts. Somo of thorn aro from Now York aud Philadelphia aud ovon cities of tho west. All havo como for tho sail. They don't caro a flg for Charlottetown. Tho chanco to spend six days on the ocean with opportunities at several in tervals to "get off and walk" for a chnngo draws from 50 to 200 people from Boston overy week. Many would much rather stick to their pleasant berths aboard ship when they reach their destination, but most of tho pas Eongers go ashoro for tho night. So Thursday nights aro gala occasions i u Charlottetown, and tho greater part of tho population gathers at tho wharf. Tho peoplo aro ranged in tiers on a bauk that looks down on tho landing, aud thoy fight for position near thoontrauce to tho shed through whioh tho travelers must pass. What satisfaction this crowd gathers from gaping uncomfortably in tho semidarknoss at tho string of com monplaco men and women, satchel laden, filing out of tho shed is compre hensible, I think, to uono but n Char lottetown mind. That thoro must be somo satisfaction is plain from tho fact that tho crowd is as great at tho end of tho season as it is at tho beginning. They havo primitive ways of run ning a hotel in this country. When you register, tho clerk assigns you to n room and waves you toward tho stairway. You climb throo flights of stairs and find your way along tho hall to tho room. Tho door stands hospitably open. Tho koy is in tho lock. This at least is an improvement on Halifax, whero tho keys, having no tags attached, aro car ried off by tho guests, leaving the uoxt occupant of a room no protection but a chair braced against his door. Charlottotown surrounds jQueon's square, an oblong strip of parking very prottily laid out. Facing tho park arc tho provincial parliament buildings of graystouo. Adjoining nre tho postofficc and tho city hall. Beyond tho postofilce is a long market, whoso odors aro au offense against tho pretty placo. Outsido this squaro Churlottctown suggests nothing so much as n small county seat in Illinois. All tho mer chants of tho town aro gathered in two or threo streets near tho square, and their establishments are very liko American country stores. All tho sights of Charlottetown can bo exhausted in half an hour, and tho traveler wel comes tho timo when a blast from tho steamer's hoarso whistlo warns him that it it timo to start on tho homo ward trip. Grant Hamilton. COFFEE IN MEXICO. An Attempt to Get American Capital In terested In It. Special Correspondence St. Louis, Sept. 22. Tho peoplo of St. Louis who know tho Hon. Thomas T. Crittenden, consul general of tho United States at tho City of Moxico, havo been writing to him for informa tion about coffeo growing in Moxico. Mr. Crittenden was enco governor of Missouri, nnd his friends aro num bored by tho thousauds. So ho has found it necessary to get our through the stato department at Washington a circular which ho will scud to theso inquirers. It contains a great deal of good advico to peoplo who aro planning investments in coffee plantations. Tho occasion of all theso inquiries was tho recent attempt of promoters to interest American investors in coffeo plantations in Mexico. Tho answer which Mr. Crittenden has prepared for tho benefit of his corrospoii'Vi'tR will havo au unfavorable influence on tho booms, and tho promoters will not thank him for it. Mr. Crittenden warns his friends not to believe tho exaggerated reports scut out from Mexico. Many of them, he says, aro highly colored for a purpose. "As a rule," ho says, "I would not recommend anybody to undertako coffeo raising in Mexico without sufficient cap ital to pay for 250 acres of laud, cash in hand, and havo at least 5,000 in Mexican currency to meet tho first year's expenses. Two or moro individuals may club together and aggregate the abovo mentioned capital, or moro, nnd accom plish tho samo end, but by no means let any small capitalist undertako to culti vate over 100 acres in coffeo and other necessary crops. This 100 acres may bo made self supporting tho first year by cultivating 25 or 50 acres of it in coffeo and other things in connection with chicken nnd hog raising, having a vege table garden, and, by all means, a me dium sized nursery of 25,000 coffeo seedlings to bo ready for tho balauco of tho 100 acres." Mauy failures in coffeo growing in Mexico arise from tho fact that tho man ager of a plantation is fresh from tho United States, with no knowledgo of tho physical conditions or tho languago of Mexico and with no understanding of tho management of Mexican labor. Conditions for cultivating coffee, too, aro different in different parts of Mex ico, and planting should bo undertaken only by an expert. Tho greatest difficulty about coffeo growing is found in tho fact that no realization on tiio investment can be had within four years. The cost of or dinary coffeo land is 10 an acre. Clear ing costs $10 more. Tho cost of trees and planting is $G. 20, and there is a re cently exacted annual stato tax of $4.05. That makes tho initial cost $150.85 per acre. Every year tho planter must pay $1.05 stato tax uud $3 to $0 per ncro for weeding. In four years this adds about $10 to tho original investment, making the cost beforo production $70.85 per aero. At tho end of tho fourth year tho yield is about 310 pounds of coffeo to tho acre. On this a federal tax of 2 cents on each $20, a municipal tax of about 1 cent per pound nnd an export dnty of about l.Vjj cents n pound aro charged. At tho present prico of coffee ono would realize $03 an aero on the crop, but tho gathering of coffeo costs $12.04 nnd tho preparation of it $12.04 per aero, so tho outlay, not countiug in terest on investment, would bo $94.03. Tho original home of coffeo is sup posed to havo been upper Ethiopia, and it was transplanted thenco to Arabia Folix. It is still a controverted point whether tho boverago was known to tho Greeks and Romans." Tho Persians adopted tho berry after the Ethiopians, and tho Arabs aro eutitlod to tho orodit for its moro genoral iutroduotion into Europe From Arabia tho uso of coffeo passed to Egypt, reaching Cairo at tho be ginning of tho sixteouth century. From Egypt it passed to Syria, thouco to Greeco and Constantinople A. D. 1554. Coffeo was introduced into England in 1032. Franco adopted tho uso of tho berry ton years after England. Italy claims tho honor of having discovered its merits prior to Franco, and it is said that an Italian oarried coffoo to Mar seilles in 1G44. Tho increaBO in tho production of Mexican coffeo ia about 88 por cent a year. There wero in 1805, 50,000,000 coffeo trees, producing 54, 000,000 pounds of coffeo. Its uso by tho Mexicans in creases every year. Tho uso of coffeo all over the world is increasing steadily. Tho domnnd for it has become so great that many "coffee substitutes" aro made. Somo aro sold under plain labols, but many aro used to adulterate coffeo. This deception has gono so for that thoro aro imitation cof foo beans, whioh can be distinguished from tho gennino only with much diffi culty. Tho best woj to distinguish a Dogus bean is to look for the fiber from the hull, which clings to tho crack in the genuine bean. The imitators havo not learned how to make bogus fiber yet. Imitation beans aro made of mo lasses, flour and many othor ingredients. As for ground coffee, it is usually adulterated, and tho only safety of the coffeo drinker is in buying green coffee and roasting and grinding it at home. Fresh roasted and fresh ground coffee is tho only good coffee anyway. Percy Cortelyou. TURNING THE TABLES. Wanted Her Hmbnnd's Opinion Aliont Many Trivial 1'olnU of IJrisi. A certain up town Clevelauder is the happy possessor of a marital interest in a very pretty and accomplished lady. She is fond of nico clothes and always looks well dressed, and her husband is jut as proud of her as ho should be. But from u technical point of view ho knows nothing whatever about her gar ments, and it bothers him greatly when she assumes that ho does. She fires broadsides of questions at him when ever she is dressing to accompany him. "George, how does my skirt hang?" "Is it too long in front?" "Does my belt cover tho pins?" "Do you think this gown is becoming?" "Is my collar down at tho back?" "Aro thero any wrinkles in this waist?" "Is my hot on straight?" Theso and a hundred other interrogations aro fired nt him at short intervals. If ho doesn't pay close atten tion sho gets cross. So ho pretends to listen carefully, and answers glibly, al though always at random. Tho other day n neat way of getting even dawned upon him. When ho was dressing that niht for a party, ho sud denly called his wife from the adjoining room. "Alma," ha said, "do yon think theso now trousers haug just ns grace fully as they should?" "Why, George," sho said. "I don't know anything about it. Why do you bother me?" "Hold on," said George, "I was wondering if this shirt besom sits quito right?" "Of courso it does," snapped Alma. "And theso shoes do you really think they aro becoming to my com plexion?" "What n silly question." "And hold on, Alma isn't tho coat a littlo long in tho tails on ono side, I mean and can't you pin it up?" "Why, George, I never heard yon talk such nonsense. You haven't been drinking, havo you?" "And just wait a minute, Alma." Ho quickly raised his silk hat from tho dresser and clapped it on the back of his head. "Now, dear, pleaso pay at tention. Is my hat on straight?" Then she understood his wicked littlo game. They walked together in silence until they camo within sight of their destina tion, aud tho deeply wounded Alma mauaged to stammer: "Well, George, you mean old thing, is my hat really and truly on straight?" Whereat they both laughed. Cleve land Plain Dealer. ( STONE OF SCONE.' Tho KnterprlshiR Schoolboy Who Slept In the Coronation Chair. It is a long walk from tho dining room of tho Westminster school to tho coronation chair, which stands behind tho old stone screen just back of tho altar in tho abbey, but there is an in teresting collection between tho two. This chair, as is well known, is a rude, heavy oak chair, much worn by time. It contains tho "Stouo of Seono" aud was mado by tho order of Edward I in 1297, and every English sovereign siuco then has sat in it to bo crowned. A stout railing in front of tho chair restrains tho crowd of visitors from coming near, but if they wero allowed to examiuo it ns closely ns I was for tunate enough to do they would find cut boldly into tho solid oak seat in such sprawling letters as tho school boy's knife ninkes upon his desk, "P. Abbottsleptiu this chair Jan 4, 1801." P. Abbott, it seems, was a Westminster schoolboy, nnd a tradition, which thero is overy reason to believe is true, tells that ho mado a wager with n school mate that ho daro stay in tho abbey all night alone. In order to win his wager ho hid in some corner of tho old building until tho doors wero locked for tho night aud thus was left nlono there. Fearing, howover, that when morning camo tho boy with whom ho had mado tho bet would disbeliovo his statement that ho had won it, ho determined to have somo proof of tho fact, aud so sp3iit tho hours of tho early morning in carving on tho coronation chair tho seuteuco which, oven now, nearly a century aft er, bears witness for him. It is disap pointing that tho tradition does not record just what form and nmouut of pnnishmont was visited upon tho lad for his escapade, and that history does not toll us of his later years. I wonder whether tho courago and grit which this deed manifested foretold nn ener getic, successful lifo or was dissipated in moro bravado. Max Bennett Thrafeh or in St. Nicholas. Whinlters nnd Mourning. Somo Hindoos wear mustaches and beards turned up, but ull wear whiskers, which nro shaved off onco when an adult of tholr connection dies. Tho shaving off of whiskers is thus a sign of mourning. l'oorly raid Jmtice. A Greensboro (N. C.) Justice of tho pooco states his profits from tho ofllco so far at SO cents cash in costs and half soling of his boots by a cobbler litigant against whom costs.wcro adjudged. THAT WICKED HABIT A DRUMMER'S VIEWS OF SMOKING AND ONE OF HIS STORIES. Ho Can Tell All About n Man I'rom tho Way He Smokes a ('linn A Hanker Who Kdcapeil Itiiln lteoutiM' of tho Sociability In tlie Smokln:; Iltiblt. "You can tell a good deal about a man by tho way ho smokes n cigar," raid n traveling man in a philosophical mood at ono of tho hotels tho other day. "And it goes without saying that you cau also tell something of his disposition by tho brand he generally smokes. For instance, you seo him coming out from tho dining room after regaling tho phys ical man with tho delicacies of a first class menu. Ho sits on tho cool sido of tho building, draws a long black cigar from his pocket and bites about half an inch off from ono end, sets tho other to blazing aud is soon puffing great clouds of smoke that ring aud curl all around hhn. If ho pulls at it furiously, I al ways think ho doesn't know how to en joy a good cigar. He will probably smoko two cigars while another man is enjoying one. In that event, it is gener ally a mild weed that ho prefers. At any rate, it is an indication of his nerv ous temperament. Sucli a man is never happy unless ho is in tho midst of con stant change. Ho is impulsive and even hot tempered. If you want to sell him any goods, it should be policy on your part not to cross him if you can avoid it. "Then there is tho other fellow who methodically takes his knifo out of his pocket while he continues talking to his companion and slowly trims tho end of his fuvorito brand, returns his knifo to his pocket and settles back in hi.s chair for a quiet smoke. Putting tho cigar into his mouth, ho generally chews tho end of it for fivo minutes beforo tho lighting operation is performed. And when ho puffs, yon would hardly know it. The delicate white ash hides tho fire, and tho thin lino of smoko is hard ly visible as it curls lazily upward. Yet ho nover has to relight his cigar. Such a mau is introspective, cool in an emer gency, logical in his thinking and just tho opposito in temper to the ono I pre viously described. If anything star tling should turn up, he would never ap pear surprised. If ho gets beat in a game of high five, ho never shows his chagrin. And I venturo to say that if his lifo purposo wero thwarted and ho has one very fi-w people would ever know it. Ho would suffer liko the Spir tan boy with tho fox concealed under his coat aud gnawing out his vitals. Somo would say this is all bosh, but I fancy there is something in it." Aud tho man relapsed into silenco again for a moment whilo ho watched tho bluo rings wafted away by tho cool breezo that is fco graceful en a hot August day. "Speaking of the wicked habit of smoking, "ho continued after a minute, "I know a man who conscientiously de clares that it is not to. Ho says that if ho didn't know how to enjoy a good cigar ho would havo been a poor man today. That sounds a littlo strange, doesn't it? Well, this is how it hap pened, as tho story teller says. He was seated in front of tho Southern hotel, St. Louis, ono day. Ho was a traveling man and had lit his after dinner cigar. A gruff looking gentleman was seated next to him. Ho was smoking too. They sat thero in silenco for several minutes, perhnps a half hour. Finally the drum mer was aroused from his reflections by hearing an expression from his neigh bor's lips which Noah Webster never invented. Ho was going through his puckets for a match. The drummer po litely teudored him ono from his neat littlo matchbox and handed him n cigar, too, adding that ho had better take a fresh one. From that they fell to talking, first about cigars. The gruff gent wanned up at onco and wauted to know whero tho drummer got such a choico cigar. It happened to bo a first class brand which the latter had picked up in tho south. From that the two fell into quito a pleasant conversation. Tho drummer loft town that evening. But they mot by chanco several times after that, and gradually a warm friendship sprang up between them. " Years afterward tho traveling man was engaged in the banking business. Of courso tho only way a drummer over becomes n banker is by tho timely death of n rich relative Well, ho still retained tho friendship of his St. Louis acquaint aiico and often heard from him by let ter. Tho drummer wns prosperous until his bank, like many others in 1893, was drained with n terrific run. It seemed as though ho must fail unless ho had a fow thousand dollars to tido over tho next day. As ho sat thinking tho matter over in tho cool air of his front yard a man camo strolling through tho front gate. It was his friend. Of courso ho asked tho banker what mado him look so pale, ami tho story camo out littlo by littlo. Tho next day tho bank had un limited capital to back it and was soon on a solid footing. It was all through that cigar smoked severnl years before, so tho ox-drummer said. Now, my wifo would say that was no argument for such a filthy habit, and that her husband had never had any such fabulous experi ence. That's tho way with pooplo who won't reason about theso things, isn't it?" And tho traveling man pulled out two fresh cigars from his pocket nnd left one behind as ho went hurriedly to settlo up his bill in timo to catch a train. Omaha World-Herald. Dejfeueruto Toes. An Italian criminologist hnfi discovered that criminal dogencrncy shows itself In tho toos of Its eubjecti, wobbod and pre-' honsllo toos being common among con vict. ' !JM')i 'iVi-,.rtf'ilV Vt. Lv4k,b w . . . . V j .14,- v