.'HE SCRANTOX TRIBUNE- FRIDAY. MAY 1898. V k PICTURE OF LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES It Is a Mixture ol Taxes, linrlliqualics mid Rebellions. VAST IlKSOUHCKS Ol' TIIH INLANDS WtllCH SPAIN HAS NOT KNOWN A now to uhi:-wi;atiii:ii and cits fm TOMS AT MANILA-CHANCIJ8 POK ASinUlCANa-THH NATlVLd AND THEIIl CHAItACTBIUSTICU Los Angeles, Cul , Letter In the Bun. Mauley It. Sherman, of this city, has come homo niter a residence of sev eral years at Manila He has been for four years In tho employ of a trading company, which has been buying In digo, camphor, BUgur, spices and hemp In tho Philippine islands for thirty years. As agent for the company ho ( has traveled over ull tho latger Islands, and has had unusual oppor tunities to learn much about the archi pelago. He hays: "If tt United States Bhould take the Philippine Islands ns a possession they would have a most vnluablo piece of property. The possibilities of the Phil ippines ns wealth piodurers can hard ly be overestimated. The oxpotts In 1897 amounted to about $10,000,000, and that In the face of tho blighting op pression of the' Spanish on every en terprise except tobacco and sugu.. United States Consul Wil'Inms nt Ma nila and I hae discussed many times the agricultural posslblllt' s of the Philippines under American push and with Yankee Invention. I believe tho exports from the islands might be In creased to $50,000,000 nnnually In a few yours, and to much higher figures in n decade. Tor instance, the coffee pto . ductlon has for some occult reason of the government nt Mndrld been kept down by a pstm of extra licenses that one must obtain to plant coffee beans, and by heavy import duties on the machinery necessary in preparing the product for market. I hae been among the famous coffee flncas of Cen tral America, nnd I make the asser tion that there nro nowhere in Central America land and water facilities that approach those of the Island of Negros for growing coffee. Tho exportation of coffee in 1S97 amounted to about $230, 000. It ought to have been ten times that amount. CHinF PRODUCTS. Tobacco, sugar, nnd hemp nro the chief products of the Philippines. Tho government does foster these Indus tries so far ns its avarice for taxes will permit. There are 13,000 cigar and cheroot makers In and about Manila. All tho tobacco plantations nnd cigar factories are run by Spaniards. Gen eral "Weyler's two brothers have the largest factory In Escolta a subuib of Manila. They came over to the Is lands about elkht years ago, when their pompous milltaiy brother was governor general of the Philippines nt a salary of $40,000 a year, nnd thoy obtained concessions then that yielded them Immense annual icturns. Sugar Is largely grown on the Islands of Negros and Samos. There ore larg Malay towns on those Islands,, no English sugar buyers over there pay that thcro Is no cane so rich in sac charine properties ns thnt in tho Phil ippines. Notwithstanding the ridicu lously crude methods of cultivating the cane fields and the expensive manner of crushing the stalks nnd extracting the sugar, the profit In tl 3 sugar In dustry Is incredible. The extreme rich nebs of the cane makes this profit. I know of several Japanese sugar cane companies on the Island of Samos that hae made ns high ns $610 for an acre nnd a quarter every jear for a long time. Yankee lnention could easily reduce the expenses of a sugar planta tion one-fourth. No people but the Japanese In the Philippines have the least Idea of how to make machlneiy do the work of man. Think of having bugnr cane crushed by several hundred men with clubs, when simple machin ery wo J accomplish the same pur pose better, cheaper, nnd a hundred times quicker. The Indigo Industry Is run in the same way as two centuries ago. NATUltD'S PRODIGALITY. " herever one goes into the rural regions of the Philippine islands, one Is constantly wondering at the extraor dinary piodlgallty of nature. I cannot tell jou he majority of the Immense tropical forests cf Negres and Samos Thousands of square miles there have seldom been visited by a white man. There are literally millions of dollars in costly woods there, to say nothing about tho valuable herbs and barks to be had in the same foiests. The tt liv elier In the backwoods in the Philip pines sees in the great forests ebonj. logwood, Iron wood, sapnn wood, and tedar, between the forests ind the gni- dens the fruiting trees, the orange, mango, tamrrlnd, guava, and cocoanut In tha cultivated area sugar cane, rice, hemp, tobacco, coffee, cotton, bananas, vanilla, cassia, ginger, pepper, indigo, cocoa, pine apples, wheat and coin The minerals in those regions Include gold, copper, iron, coal, quleksilver.and saltpetre. Prom the sea them comes mother-of-pearl, coral, tortoise shell, ! nnd amber. The animal kingdom keep pace with the vegetable and the mineral. Theie ate goats, sheep, swine, nnd tough little ponies The Jungle swarms with such a variety of fauna that tho naturalist finds there a piia dlse Strange to relate, theie are few beasts of prey worthy of note. Tho llora of the country is as rich as the fauna. THE CLIMATE "I am wondering in these diss, when Uncle Sam Is about sending troops sk your doctor how many preparations of cod- Mivcr oil there arc. He will answer, "Hun dreds of them," Ask him which is the best. He will reply, "Scott's Emulsion." Then see that this is the one vo.i obtain. It contains! the purest cod-liver oil, free from unpleasant odor and taste. You also get the hy pophosphites and glycerine. All three are blended into one grand healing and nour ishing remedy. Sue, nj I ,-i, all druggist. SCOTT & UOW.SR, ChtroUti, New York. from tho Pacific toast to the Philip pines, what tho American boys will think of the climate over there. With tho possible exception of some pnrts of Interior India nnd Arabia, I doubt If there is any better climate than that of Manila. The Islands tench within four degtecs of the equator. The tern perntute is not so very high, but the humidity Is. The most extreme rate must constantly bo exercised to keiq one s physical condition prnperlv tneu all summer long The hottest dnjs n the yaar ntc In Mny nnd June I'oitn liatelv a biee7e usually springs up li tlto early eenlng, nnd thnt tempet the atmosphete so that ono enn pi i some sleep If he Is properly fixed for It, when midnight comes. The moo temperature nt the (Philippines is 7. degrees. In November tho weathei cools and then lor weeks at u ti'ii. along the seaconsts It is nbnut ns iter, perfection as uny one enn Imnglm To cnll the months of December, Janu ary and Pebiuary there winter Is i tnockeiy. Fur seven months In tin year, from April to October, no r but the poot est laborer goes out v doors, unless compelled to do so, b twecn 8 in the morning nnd 4 in tli nfternoon. In Mnnlla the whole jiopu Intlon rises at I and 5 a. in and gi tho work of tho dny out of the u before 8 o'clock Tho houses in opened, servants clean up, mot chant do their business nnd the school ehll dren me busy with tholi tone 'hi 12 wn tho civil and military olllceis ni tend to most' of thelt duties between and 8 a. m. Then when old Sol beg It to shoot his datts down upon tho rout tty more perpendicularly the whil population go into thelt houses of stun nnd of wood with heavy roofs of til and a sort of nspbaltum found in tli i country, and stay there until sundew i It Is n land of siestas, lively one w can sleeps there nil day long, ;u slumber there is reduced to a seh in Hammocks nbound and couclns bamboo nro In evety home, hotel, ch store nnd loafing place The set am nte trained to keep their masters tit mlstt eses comfortable bj btlngin them iced dtlnks or a traj of smukln, material whenever thev awaken aft a nap All buildings ate elected will the Idea of keeping the heat out a much as possible, lluslness is su per '"d all day long; even tho men ,t the whaives quit work for six or si u hours when the sun Is highest. SOCIAL PASTIMES. 'At sundown Manila wakes up Tin. is an opening of the heavy wlnd blinds and an exodus of people fun their homes. Een the trees and slit ul tiery shake off their dtowslness. Th merchants open their heavy stole dnm nnd tho stieets suddenly stmt to llf The pilnclpal meal of the day is servi at about C o'clock, and w ith tho i U I Spanish It is a euemonlous nfi.ilt Thereafter the whole population gm out for a walk. Evening calls nro m id upon friends and the plazas are at the1 gnvest. Tho cock lights take place In the evening, tho old theatre is nlwavs crowded at night especially Sundav nights. "The Luneta is the fashionable ptoni enado In Manila, ana ono mny theie the best social side of the Philippine The Luneta Is a sort of Fifth avonui along the banks of the Passlg tivti The composite diameter of tho popu lation in Manila makes the throngs of people along tho Luneta very plelui esque. A long bridge extends along th Passig and tho piomenaile is acios that. The shops and stores of the i its are close at hand, and nt night thev are gorgeously Illuminated. The stiei t electric lights shed their effulgence mi the moving mass of humanlts, and the music b the band enlivens tho seem 1 never saw such iilctuiesque tin out, s In America. Every one smokes a elgm or cigarette. Theie nie beggars hv th hundred, Hindoos and Javanese in their native garments. The H.'cals, or na tive Indians, come trooplt g nlong In bare feet and semi-nudity. Theie at" the latest Parisian Ptvles and" tho rig gedest, puoi est people imaginable Heie comes n family group with tin patents at the head, armved in gat ments of reds, blues, nnd purples Tin father strides along with n huge cigar in his mouth, nnd his wife with a cigar tte. The dnughteis and sons nio close behind, and each Is smoking a cigar nt elgmette. Next follow a gioup of smil ing, chattel Ing padres fiom the numer ous Catholic churches or the great ca thedral, and all, too, are puffing at mammoth cigais Then theie are Jap anese by hundreds, Chinese by scores, und native Malass and Negritos by thousands Thev all wear light Hon ing garments of gay-colon d fabiics, and all smoke. Here comes a company of native girls with mven hail and the blackest of black eyes, set olf by fresh olive complexions nnd the luddiest of lips. They wear black lnce mantlllai on their heads, and some pietty flower decks tnelr halt Their diess is of loose thin led and white fabrics. As they go sain. tet Ing along behind a parent or chaperon thej u.ll cigatettes and smoke like- old professionals. Spanish soldiers nnd naval oillrers in gaudy imlfoiirs nro always in the throngs that promenade the Luneta at night Heie theie are Europeans in linen suits nnd bamboo helmet hits. Occasional ly one may sre an Ameilcan among the pmmenaders, but there nie fewer thin 150 Ameiicans on Luzon Ilard The parade continues back and forth until after midnight. Fashion and poverty go side by side. It is the only chance that lovers have to seo ono another, an J It is always amusing to Americans to see how these young folks In the Oilent make their passionate longings known to one nnothet. IN MANILA "Manila is a dilapidated old town. It was founded In tho lattei part of tho sixteenth century. There are old walls nnd battlements all about tho city. There have been less than a dozen fait -sized buildings erected in Manila In the last ten yeats. Everything in the city is ancient. People live In old, musty, two-story houses that come ilush with the narrow sidewalks. All have a dull, forbidding look with their boaid blinds and heavy doors, which ate seldom open. In the center of al most every house Is nn open court, known aa the patio. All the rooms in the house open on this putlo, and there the family hold their social gather ings and eat their meals ten months In the jenrs, Some patio3 are beauti fied by palms, beds of flowers, nnd nr bois of vines. The cominercinl build Ings ate all old, too. Tho show win dows nio little, (heap affairs, nnd thotff is none cf the modem conven ient es in any of tho best stores In tho whole city, A unlquo featuro of all homes und ofilces In Manila Is tho uso of tiny square panes of translucent oyster shell Instead of gluss. A win dow ulx feet long und four feet wide will contain 2C0 of these ojster shell panes. Thoy temper tho llerco glato of the sun in tho buildings, nnd in a country whero many people go blind from tho constant sunshine this is a precaution to bo taken. "Spaniards seldom remain longor than llvo jears in the Philippines Indeed, If so long. Ah fast ns they depait for their native land, newcom- r h K hz S3 3ft AT L ,' LE PRICES Infants' Soft Sole Vici Kid Ihitton Shoes; worth 50c. Special at . . " 35c Children's Tan and Black Vici l.ace and Button Shoes; aq worh Si. 2 . At . VOC Misses' Finest Vici Lace and Button Shoes; worth $2.00. Special at . SI. 59' Ladies' $2.50 and Sl'oo Vici, Kid Button and Lace Shoes, all sizes and widths; light and heavy soles. Special e 0z- at y sr Ladies' $2.50 and $5 00 Tan, Vesting Top Lace and Button vici Kiel Mioes. t 11 az( Special at . . 3 1 VO Men's 4. 00 Vici Kid Lacei mil Longicss bhoes. d -j f(i Special at is Ks V Men's $3.00 Vici Kid Lace, snoes, witn patent &' -jri tips. Special at . . s5 At( REAR OF ELEVATORS. tts at live to taKo their nl.ucs. Tho islands have Iilc'Ii lot Kcneuitions a ti'Kiim in which eii)le of influence at Jl.ulilel might come- and leeover thelt lliLincial losses, and vvhete jounn Hpaniatds mlptht in a few Mars make a fottune. Theie ate, however, sc-v -ital Spanish families who have made Manila their home fot jiats. They ate immensely wealthy and live in beau tiful old palaces In IJinodo a pietty residence suburb of Manila. A gen uine census has mvor been taken in the Philippines, but of a total popu lation of nbout .'00,000 in Manila about S 000 ate Spanish Tho ttoops ate te lleved heie once In two veais, but tho tebelllons have been m many in the Islands during the last few jeats that the holdlers have been Kept on duty at Cavlte and othet saulsons longer than usual. taxi:. ' Speaking of rebellions temlnds mo that thete have been seventeen i expect able sized tebelllons in the last Mxty jeats.. It seems sttange that Hiich an easy, slumbetlng, happy-go-lucky race as thu natives of the Philippines should have such tuibulent politics With almost any othoi government over tin m, tho natives could undoubtedly be pene eful and contented Of late jents the rapacltj of the Spanish has lnei eased, and tho poor people are des perate. They long for nny other gov erning power than tho Spanish. I can't begin to think now of all tho taxes and licenses that the people In tho islands pay for their government. All males over lil jcais of ago must pay an annual poll tax that equals $18 in our money. All females must pay $11 as a poll tax. A peison must get a license to gather coooanuts from his own ttees nnd sell them. I have my self paid hundreds ot dollars for li censes for poor farmers who wished to harvest their Indigo crop and sell It to me. l'very nitlilo of fumltute that costs a sum equal to $2 in our money is taxed Thu curtain never goes up at tho thoatet that $10 is not paid to the government. No ono In the Philippines may kill his own ani mals for jnnrket. clip his sheep, or cut down a tree without first paying a feo to somo of the army of colleclois that Infest the country, A couple pny a tax when they wish to bp man led, besides a feo to the padro. The natives love showy funerals, nnd the Spanish decided a few jeats ago that the gravedlgger must collect $1.60 for the government before h" can bury any one In nny cemetery. These sums may seem petty, but It should be considered that the nvetago natlvo has little op portunity to work for hire, that if ho cIoch succeed In securing employment his wages nro often not moro than C ccfots a dny, antl thnt ho Is usually un able to dispose of his farm ptoducts for ensh, being compelled to exchange them for other commodities in nddl tlon to these nnd other taxes that I do not recall, there Is n ta on beasts of burden, a tax for keeping a shot), a tax on mills or oil bubses, a tax on weights and meusures, and a tax on eockflghtlng. At every tut it tho poor native finds himself face to foco with the dlro necessity of paying tribute, and ho frequently sponds his life In an Ineffectual cffoit to meet tho abllca- '& To this stoi;e on Saturday doubly welcome for it is the day set apait lor their enteitainment here. We want them to know this big store better to learn as they grow older that it's their headquarteis for pleasure and for profit. So that's why we've made this coming Saturday Dolls' Day. To every little gitl bringing a doll into the store on this day, we will give FREE a pair of genuine "Vici slippers for her play child's feet. No matter how big the doll may be, or how small, we an fit it. If not, make the slippers to measure. If any little girls or little boys have not been in to have their shoes dressed, let them come today ; it is not too late. Brin" shoos that need brightening we'll make the old seem liUe new. We're doing the same thing- every day for mothers, fatheis, sifters and brothers all to show the goodness of "Via" Kid and "Vici" Leather is so good. To make the dav nteresting to old as well as young, we've ananged for special sales on Children's Goods, and other Goods, for th s one day. The prices aie phenomenally low, and should seive to crowd the store with buyeis. But whether 10 buy or "to look and enjoy you'll be welcome just the same. S Story f incl 'Picture Books Thorn 'im i ,,W, W ,(, W ti i.i ... .-,. . ,M.t ...!ll ,-rn .-. t!tr There are just' "IQr Will buy IOOO Jl-k iy.,11, isailor blouse style sues 3 to 8 'years, and woith 75c. of them, good sies and cleat pr in tings; all kinds of stones. Their regulai JtJ" eight patterns in Linen, !Ciash or Galateas, fast color and non-shrinking. prices are fiom $i.5o. 25 cents to 30 We Have 'cents. Your Bicycles choice Saturd.n !for For the little 5c .cniiuren aim lor; gi own-up folks. ill for little' BOOK DCP'T. mone. s ' tlon thus Imposed. The levcnue goes to Spain to pai the solilieis and nav. "Theie is no escape fiom these taxes. I have beni women whipped In tho tutal towns because thoy had peiluips failed to get a license befoie tlioj sold their annual rop of coooanuts, oi had secieted a ow oi a goat so that the tax eollectoi did not mo It in ins of llclnl lounds Tor tho collection of taxes the Spanish have revlvid the plan which was in uso in Pi nine be foie the i evolution of 1TS9. Poi each dlstilet of .',000 squat e miles a tax col lector Is appointed by tho governor of the province. He Is cnllod a giibetun doiclllo, and he is tesponslble for the estimated amount whlih his dlstilrt should pav In taxes, so that if col lections lall shoit ho must make them good fiom Ills on pocket. He has un der him a number of deputy colleetois, known as cabezas, each of whom col lects the taxes of fiom torty to sixty tax pav ots, and Is peisonallv lesponsl blo for the amount expected fiom each. If they fall to pa up ho dlstiains their piopeitv and sells It If the pio ceeds of the sale fall to eovei the in debtedness tho delinquent debtois nie impilsoned I once saw a doen rag ged, haul-working men on the Island of Samos that had lost their houses cattle lands, and who still owed sums tanging fiom $2 to $40 Thov wic be ing sent prisoners to the Jail atd at Ptintu Chnv alias, while their families vi etc left to shift for themselves. INSUimUCTIONS. "A large book might be wiltton about the populiu tevolts that have spuing up In tho Philippines because of these tyinnnous opptesslons In 1870 the natives lost 5 0u0 of their best men in tebelllon against Spain In 1SSJ they lost sevetal thousand moro men, and 600 ot their leadeis weto beheaded and shot to death In squads at the ganl sons nt Cavlte as a warning to other sympathizing ttbels Tho piesent te belllon bioke out last Juno and was quelled for a time by Spanish troops. Last Januaty 100 rebels wete shot in the suburbs of Manila. Suddenly tho tcbellion broke out again, and now it seems to bo tho most general revolt yef known in the Islands The Intent of this last rebellion seems to be to tld tho Philippines of tho Spanish by any means whether by dynamite, poi son or assassination. Tho natives hoped for a jear or two that Japan would assume control of tho Islands and thnt tho hard, cruel hand of Spain would bo re-moved. When they round that their hopes were gi mindless they rose in armed rebellion. General Schlatter, who was pent to tho Philip pines by the German government last August to look Into nffalts there, re. rorted that the .Tapaneso nro leading tho revolt. Thoro nro 10,000 Spanish legulais on guard In the Islands The Insut gents last fall numbered about 40,000, of whom li 000 were armed with good guns. Tho insut gents have a few Mud cannon cast from melted chinch bells and bits of metal that they gath ered hcio and theie. Manila, llko Ila. ann, has nuturnlly beon In conttol of tho Spanish troops, and thu insut gouts nnvo been carrying on a wnifaro forty and sixty miles fiom Manila, similar to that ot tho Cubans about llavuna. "In the EiiiuunMr oX 1S9S tho order of LY In Scranton IS and ! Vicinity Trimmed Hats $1.84 illnrc in,l Tmlvine in this SntnrHnvr ,.,,W,., ....... .I....'....' ...w.. V... , . -, i f, . -ri t nuve bom ill m.w, sj.uu unci .j.iu. i iic-y ;uc ucuuuiuiiy uimnicci 'r I.. f 4K nrlxh Cnu fll..r,. , r I tl ft 1 1 , ).uiu win ij eLiiiiy ,11 mi; line:. .hi; ilium in mi Boys' Wash Suits your choice of A&r Will buy your choice ofi " ten patterns in small, - 1 !.., ,.-.,... V.- Checks and Stripes, collars to match. 3 to 8 years, and woi th Si.oo. 0$r Will l'uy yur choice ol " seven patterns in Linen, Crash and imitation Mohair, with Positively worth fancy collars and $2.00. Soda See IChioris Water The best in the. In the wm 1 dow. It will city, so everyone, interest and SJJ. .linage you. WYOMING AVENUE, All flavois. tho Kntipunan was sectetly fot mod among the Malais and Chinese Thu purpose was to 'leniove bj blood tho bondage of Spain ' The membeis of the older weie sworn 1 a gash acioss tho left uppei in in. With the blood which issued fiom the wound the in itiate emssed himself and daubed his mouth and solemnly fcwoie that ho would spill the blood of at least one Spunlnid every six months The Span ish got hold of the plot. Uy trials that lasted an hour or two in somo cases and thlitv oi foity minutes each in most cases, 4,700 of the poions sus pected as being in the plot were con victed and shot to death In the month of November. linJ, theie wcie S00 exe cutions on the outskirts of Manila. In ono dav some '" men were stood up before a wall and shot i:aiithquakes "The e.nthquakes in the Philippines, especially on l.uzuti and Negius Islands, deseive a special stotj bj themselves. The whole gioup of Islands Is of vol canic oiigin. There sue seventy vol canoes in constant emption on the lslnnds. Seveial of them ate the most violent In thu woild und aie always being studied by scientists fiom Kit rope and Ameiica. The famous vol cano Mnjara is within sight ot Ma nila An enithquake occurs on an average of once eveiy ten days. I have known smalt quakes to come nt the rate of a dozen a day for a week at a time About a dozen times a jear theie are shocks so severe that people will run about In fright and damage w ill bo done to the buildings. The big btldge over the Passlg river at Manila has been so sweived by eaithquakes twice In in j tesldence In the city that It has been made unsafe for ttavtl In 1SS4 nn tatthquakc neaily ruined the great stone cathedral in Manila, razed many buildings to the ground, locked hundreds more, and 2,000 people on Luzon Island were killed by Jailing timbers and walls In 1SC0 tho gieat earthquake occuried on Negtos Island. It has never been known how many people wore killed then, but the num ber 13 estimated at 7,000. Almost every structure on the Island was shaken down, and gieat gaps, jards wldo and miles lung, weto etneked acioss tho Island. The quake opened seams In the earth from tho seacoast and made passages from the Interior lakes to tho ocean. I suppose If sucli a quako should occur In New York city thero wouldn't be ono building left on all Manhattan Island. SPOUTS. "Tho people at Manila have tho fond ness of the Spanish countries for ex citing spoits. Tho old theater, which seats about 1,500 people, in nearly al ways filled. It pays tho Spanish gov ernment a revenue of about $3,000 a jear. Sometimes an opera or theatri cal company will como there from Paris or Madrid and play seven nights in tho week for months at a time. Operas with a lot of bulfconery and a lot of desperate vllllans aio Immense ly popular at Madtld, and ilinmas In which thoro I a vein of inunoinlltj will diavv for weeks. Whtlo tho play proceeds, boys go aVmit u,0 thuttor vending cigais and svwiotmeuts. Of tun a cloud of tobacco obscures tho stags at tho closo of tho even'115. When n-ocirirf L-ZlOOllli Children's Goods. For .'lccnrtmpnt th.lf SCilOU! .... , -.. ..:.. ti.. i ( tl A - 1 , - -3DL3 wiuuuw, About fifteen .pieces of Fancy Tvced Suitings, 28 inches wide, in all the de sirable medium 'shades. Just the, thing for school and summer cuffs. Woith ,dresses. Regular, 1 price here, 12 Ice 'Cream cents per yard. Your choice Sat- urday Is served in the restaurant at a 7Cyd. times and its good ice cream ktoo. 'WYOMING AVENUE. tho play pleases, a whol" scene will lie lepoated. I once af nded -in 0,1111 Ing night of a new Sn.i.i sh drama, and tho audience cheeifd so liihtlly that the whol" Jirst scio v as lepeatod twice before tho second came on. Thero aio somo marvelous incongruities in the dinnia there, but the audlonco enters so enthusiastically Into the plot that the 10 is no chance for such trill ing criticism. I naw a play last year In which a Itoman soldier shot tho villain to deatli in a room vvlieie thero weie curtains and glass window panes. "Gambling Is unlveisal In the Philip pines. I don't know any one except one half-civ lllzed man on the llttlo Islands In the Philippine archipelago who does not do somo gambling. Thero ate lotteries galore The government getri $1,000,000 revenue a jear fiom the lotteries, and no matter how hard the j times, how sad the Islands may be over some frightful calamity, there are alwajs lotteries in full blast under tho protection of the Spanish Sellers of lotteiy tickets have booths along tho stieets, at tho plazas and wherever tho people congugate for an evening's promenade. Thousands of people will scrimp and pinch a whole month to get money to buy chances in somo lot teiy scheme. The business men lay aside a certain sliaie of their lecelpta to buy tickets The Manila newspapers get a laige patt of their business fiom advertisements for lotteries CHAHACTnit OI- NATIVES "Naturally tho average nath-e of th" Philippines Is a. humble und peaceful sott of a fellow. Ho has very little education and hn no kit ivv ledee of tho world outside of the islands. I know men In Manila who hold government otilces and aie accounted gteat suc cesses there, ,w lie, had never heard of tho United States, and asked me if our country was anywhere near China I guess they have biushed up their geo graphy along that lino sine I lelt tho Islands. The natives ure .simple people, they love to dance slnj and loaf. Povotty Is mote general than anywhere on the lontlnent. Pncler a good government theie would never be a suggestion of a rebellion and theso people could be made prospet ous." NOTES ON NEW PUBLICATIONS. Tho Century company will bring out Im mediately In hook foim a review of Mi (llndstono s life by Jumes Hrje. M. P Mr. Urjce was ono of Gladstone's closest ussneintes In parliamentary life und u member of his last two cabinets. With tomorrow's Philadelphia Ledger will bo Isaueii u handsome picture of Ad miral Dewey and his fleet, 11 by 15 inches in size unci suitable for framing It will m.iko a choice souvenir of the Manllu vic tor. Lnlrd & Lee, of Chicago, have JUHt Is sued un enttrily new ami Improved edi tion of their famous household nnd otllco companion "Conklln's Mnnuul," In tho German InnginHe (Conklln'H IJequpmos Hnnd Iluch), 4i pages with &1 colored mups, the rlnBle tariff In full, and a well classified mans of highly Interesting Information about tho pioent war, tho nrmles and navies of tho bolllgorents, otc, Also tho German tuilff, and statis tics of tho population, army and navy, In clustty and commeico undw L'nipjror William's rule. Sons J1 m Kid" we'll of which none other Children's In a very pretty array ot colors, made with full collars and very Pique Dressses nicely trimmed. Six months to 'three year sizes; worth 65c. Special at 45c. Children's White Cambric .Dresses, with beautifully tucked and fancy yokes, worth 50c, at 25c, Children's All-Over Embroid- 'ered Caps in large assortment. (Special at 12C and 19c. Children's Fancy Vests In light weight and fancy ribbed with colored crocheted neck come in cream. 'ands. Vests ight blue and pink. Special at 5c Slxts-nlno pictures appear in the cur rent number of Collier s Weekly; eight of them are portraits of Gladstone at dif ferent periods of his life, and four havo other subjects, but moro than fifty aro of objects, scenes and lndlvlduils muito specially promlrent unci Interesting bv tho war with Spain Moro than u month ago Mr Hare, of the Weekly's pliotog. uiphic staff went, with two otlir jour nalists, to the camp of tho Insurgent gen eral Gomez witli the first news of Amer ican intervention in Cuba. Mr. Hnro wrote a description of tho trip and took scores of photographs; the first install ment of his narrative, with about twenty of his pictures, appears In the current number, a double-page picture of Gomel, in his hummock, chatting with his Amer ican visitors, is from n Minting by Gil bert Gaul, after one of Mr. Hare's pho tographs. The rhlllstlne prides Itself on being tho boIo remaining torpedo boat of the lltcr urj sqinciron. In its June issue it prlnt3 11 St ' " I'nine poem which Hclltoi Hub bar I 1 II bo petitioned to explain; also othet 1 " f 11 moio 111 less satlsfac- torlly e t.iemseUes. Tho June Century has several features of pirtlculT timeliness. Captain Mahan contributes a. piper describing tho rea sons for tho fulluro of the Spanish Ar mada. This is Introductory to n general article on tho Armada, Illustrated bv Varlnn, and written by William Prederto Tilton, Imory W. I'enn, who served as n major In tho Cub-in army, recounts his expjerlenco under Genernl G ircla in an artlclo entitled "Ten Months with tho Cuban Insurgents " Mr. 11 O Crowley, formerly electrician of tho Toipedo Di vision in tho Conferedite navy, describes "Tho Confederate Torpedo Service ' which ho was larselv lnstiument.il In or ganizing. Crovvliy laid tho mlno which blow up the first gunboat ever destrosed by this meitis Mr Stephen Ilonsal for merly of tho American legation nt Mad rid, writes of "Toledo, tho Imperial City of Spain " the illustration being by Jo seph Pennell. The Juno St Nicholas performs agnln the ieat of finding novelty in tho well exploied field of Action for tho oung. There is n good Inlloon-story, a story for stamp-collectors, u history of tho opera bouffe kingdom of Vvetot, nn account of tho humble buinblo-bee.one of Miss Wooil w aid's delightful ballads of Durley, a sketch ot the wonders a boy can accom plish with a Jack-knife, a queer "darks fuiry-stoiy, und n newspaper reporters ndventuie. Hosules shorter features, thero aro four seiials nnd tho well-conducted departments. Tho illustrations are ns good as can be made In a mug.u!no of uny class. Tho June Scrlbncr, though mado up on tho evo of war, contains evidences of the Impending calamity in several cleni and serviceable war maps, which woo in serted after tho rest of the magazine hud gone to press. Well-known vwltuis and artists will depict actual phases of the war In succeeding Issues, Arrumjements havo beon made to cover tho operations by land und boa. A convenient Spnnlsh-AmerlcRn war ch.it t haH been Issued by Laird & Lee. It comprises between stiff bonrds good maps of tho Atlantic and Pacific seahoaids, Culm, tho Antilles nnd tho Philippine Islands, with explanatory leading mat ter. Tho Rnnd-McNnlly Wir ntlas comprises lSlargo pages of maps covering every poa Biblo phaso of tho present conflict or nny llkolj to grow out of It. These maps nro carefully revised and pffor tko post aulb able Information In cartography.
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