.'HE SCRANTOX TRIBUNE- FRIDAY. MAY
1898.
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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-
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,' 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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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IS and
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Boys' Wash Suits
your choice of
A&r Will buy your choice ofi
" ten patterns in small,
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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
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city, so everyone,
interest and
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.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
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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.
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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.