THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE-SATURDAY. JUNE 23. 1S9S. O t There Is An Immense Difference BCCfstC3.k " Bought at Different Places. There Is Also in " Clothin 95 and in 10 " Clothing Sales.95 8 No sensible man would believe us if we advertised $30 Suits for $10 it can't be done. We tell you in a plain, straightforward way that we "buy more" and "sell more" good Clothing than any three stores in this City. We are well satisfied with our past season's business. The balance of our Spring and Summer Suits will be sold regardless of profit, and on some of the finer grades the cost has not been considered. This is our way of keeping up-to-date merchandise on our counters and making room for the new ideas of next season. A -' Trtt' , m,v. n? -r.rr'.' i.i V9. .lhA . ""Til , i vwssa . Si &s -If. ?$ r -P G jM i ' V ih o ? O o o o o i $ 2 i O o o O $ g Leading Clothiers, f flatters and Furnishers. $ Suits that have sold heie during; this season for $o and $i2. No old or stale patterns anions them. Some neat checks and overplaids in licht and daik colors; more light than dark. Sold This Season for $10 d $12, Any Suit $ in the Lot, w I J ' f I M iJl w Lot 2 A few better grade suits that were marked $12 and $ 1 5. Good well tailored suits in fancy worsteds and a smaller number of tweeds. The patterns are an assort ment of grey checks and ovei plaids in light colors. Sold This Season for $12 md $15, Any Suit $ in the Lot, 1 lints VlvPv Ji V I Lot 3 Suits that would have cost you $15 and $18 in this store a few weeks ago have been put in one lot, all neat and desirable patterns; a chance to get a suit cheap. Sold This Season for 15 and $18, Any Suit $ in the Lot, Some of our very best suits are in this lot. Values up to $20. You can't get a better suit if you pay $$$ at a cus tom tailor's. Some of the best dressed men in this city bought these suits. Sold This Season for $18 and $20, Any Suit $ in the Lot, reus impairment vv- 'ts l'ie '1'1 quality and low price NSl'Xl -" ..- - ... ....... ... -J ..- i nuv. vc navf j;uii.i vntiii ouits u txkeep the little fellows cool, horn 49c up to $3.00. In other suits, either "Vestee" or ij( a : x-'X'v T -r- r n "Reefer", we have a varied ment fiom assort- $1.98 to $4.50. The Dewey Suit for Young Americans Suit and Cap complete, made in regular mili tary style, with gold plated buttons. Compare this suit and the price w ith other stores. rx-j ' m IN 1 11 m HtWg-'' 4 L. I IU They Always Prove Our statements in the Newspapers. Crash Hats New silk stiipe or plain in Fedora or tlat top; plenty of patterns to choose from. 25c and 48c. We have Derby hats that are becoming. You can't help finding what you like here. The assortment is the largest in town. All the fashion leaders' blocks with our name. 98c, $1.50, $2, $2.50. Straw Siats In plain manila or rough chip straw, club colored bands or plain black', qualities the best at these prices : 48c, 25c, 98c, $1.25 s In new styles of silk finished crash, with ventilated seams, patent leather or plain peak. This is a new cap just out this season. 25C and 50C: MMBHM Furnisiiiiig S SWEATERS, in plain cream, white, double woven, in the fancy diamond pattern. Just the thing for your Summer wear. 48 cents. Shirts, neat blue stripe, with two collars and cuffs attached, our $1.25- quality, 75 cents. 8 pecials Balbriggan Underwear, a good quality, regular made and silk finished, summer weight, j 25c cents. t Leading Clothiers, J Hatters f and Furnishers. UNCLE SAM'S CONTRACT IN THE PHILIPPINES Cioioriiing ihs Nalivcs Will Bs No Ga?) UnJ.r.aUi.ij. LIT T1IKUU AHi: CiOU'UNti.WIU.WS NATIT.AI. RH'llUb l'Oi: A.MiilMCAN i.ti:kpius. to uv. i;'.oi'-.mi.v-i.r.Ai. wkm.'ik i:hiui:s auri- ' I IJT'SA!. J'Rimi l'TH - YAitnn i" animal i.ikj;-tiu: N.VIIVU rcriLATio:;-AND thi: snakus. Mar.lty It. tlhcimun, a I.o, Ancfles, "j1 . expert on tlu eubjert of the I'hil i' Pino IslandK, iiavs to a reportpr for i'ii N'ew YrU Sun: The mitifn of the J'Dlllpplnex nre 1 lie jent frum any ru-e tilt I'nlted .' 1. .it's envernment lina over Koverned. A los(ii trl!es thnt I Know nlmut m fl tlieii uic uKuiy mote I don't know dm nit are more tntiaetnlile tliun N'pel.M or Hliiux. lind thry occupy icjt ut oundlntr In uy foitlle t 'ill-is and reulons whPie gold may be in rfd If tltc I'nlted 'Statea Is polns to f 1 Ijllsh a Kcnenmsi, utable Boveru r f nt on Amerlean lluex In the I'lilllp. rim- )cisni'SHtnn, foster the dovclrip. ii fnt of the uatuial tCKotircfs, and do. rive ,protlt for lhi honie Rinernmcnt from the Islnndo. It will all for the vry hlsi-iept adminlttative talent. I'eoplt- do not teallge it how huge the I'liillppine nuhlpelago Is. There a'p about 1.S00 Islands In ull. j.u.op luclf la the Bize of IIIIiimIh aad has a population of H.oon.ooo, .Mindanao has an area of na.ono Miuaro mlUti and a population of 2,000.000. About S.000.000 teoie people nte ge.tttcred nmonR the other 1.S0O odd Ihland?. sonio of which fro only half an aere m aiea and have, only a few fainilii-H of s.uafies IIMnu on them. The illmatlc fondltlons in tho Philippines will be somethlnR tho I'nlted State soldleis have never be fore cxpeileneed. This ttopleal arehl pehiBO icaihes wlthm four debtees 0f the equator on the R.uth, unit Is in tho snmo latitude as Venezuela. Some i'OO of the Islands, nryliiK In aiea fiom HO to 00 Miuaio miles, hae nnver been exyloied, and contain the fiercest and most barbarous taies on this globe. A dozen distinct and dllfetent tongues are spoUen in the Philippines. Spain has never tried to gncm anv of tho group of Islands nutsldo of Luzon, Mindanao, Sulu, Samar, and Negros. Oh, Uncle Sain will have nn even more borious task in bilnging all tho Philippines under the sway of his up. trwdate Bovernment than Knland had In her early cwnuest and eivlllzatlon 0 India. "Tho Chinese In the Island number m arlj half a million The tine Span I it.li. outride ot the s-uhlieis and ballots, who iuiii(i ami no ieiv lew eats, nei 1 number innte than J.noo, the Ibitlb aio about ."i00 stroliK, and the .meili-an! ebnut lr.o. The genuine na tiMs tin ab.iiUmes. are of .Malay otigln, anil have tho face, color, and nianueis of the .Malas. The lace Is ij inn'rlomeiate. Tlie best natives aie handsome, blown, lithe, and giace lul with hair a black as a laveu's wins;, and small hands nnd feet. Then the. are what tin. Spanl.-U call tho NegilloH, The. numbei ::,000,0o0 of the I bllipiH w poiiulntlon, and their might Is unkniwn The) aie as wild as Hot tentots on Mime i emote Islands, and have Leon known to e.u b'tii.an llesh. n P1.1110I11 Island the .Ventos hni piui'tited huniu'i Mr-iltiip foi it-ais. I wtitt tin re once with seeral Indigo buy. its, au ! we saw the k'ill of i s ir of the natives' foimer townsmen stuck up on the bamboo posts about heathtu altars as a propitiation to same spiilt. Tho Net'iltos have woolly heads and black skins. The btown-sklnned or .Malay ulimlglnes who live In the north ern putt of the an hlpelago nn- Known as Hoi ans, and theie aie fully ilfteen tilbis of them, eai h spi'iiUIng a ililfei ent dialect Tho aborigines In the cen tral islands of the Philippines aie the Tngals. They ate bv tat the most in telligent and industlious people. Some of them are about as line people as one wlslus to meet a proud, generous, lioplinble, honest people The abori gines In the southern part of the anhi- ntlago are Vlsalans, and they ate far ii moved fiom the Tugals In Intelli genie n-vl wotth, but arc mild, very dirty, nnd lazy. Tho natives nn Luzon and about tho coast of Mindanao are almost wholly Tngals. Their tervants and luboters are the Nogtitos, MILLIONS IX HUMP. "Hemp is the gieatest aitlcle of on port in the Philippines, and tho olll clal documents In Manila show that In tho last decade about -10 per cent, of nil the hemp grown on tho Islnnds has been sent to the I'nlted States. One llrm In Huston paid an avetago of 3 ccnta a pound in Manila foi "8,000 tons of hemp In the ten yeais previous to last Jumuiry. Outing the same petlod the total quantltj of hemp expntted from the Philippines amounted to ex nctly OH, 100 tons. For a dozen years the Importations of hemp Into tho I'nlted States from the Philippines have averaged $.',100,000 a year. Thete ate immense possibilities In hemp cul ture in tho Philippines, now that tho gtlp of Spain on evety legitimate in dustiy has brjit shaken olf. As sine as the sun tlses and sets there will bo mllllonalie fottunes made in hemp in the Philippines In tho next decade. What tho Yankee fugar planters have done In tho foitlle valleys of Hawaii In the last generation may lie duplicated in hemp in Luzon, Mindanao, nnd Sa mur. There will be a Claus Sprecklct and a Col North In Philippine hemp before we Know it S I'd A It. 'Then thete are some great possi bilities also In tlie line ot foituno inak inl; In the sugar Industiy in the Philip pines. The annual Impoits of i.iw sugar Into the I'nlted States fiom tho Phil ippines dining the last tew je.its have aveiaged $',l.lu.ii0i. The total annual evpotts of iaw sugar ft om the Philip pines have aveiaged $1,, ",00,000 lot some time. Sugar cine giows like magic In the well-wateted valle.vs of the live ihli f Mauds o the gmup. The decom posed lava boll fiom the extinct volia nojs that i tin ninth anil south tluoiigh the larger Philippine islands, side by side with active eaUlKiunke-ninklng volcanoes, has esaetly the qualities for glowing sugar cane. The cane comes to matuilty fiom seed in one year. Tito plantations on Fninnr hold the wotld's record for high pioductlon of ibh cane to the acie. I have known Spanish plnntets on Samar and Luzon to make u dear pmilt of $'100 an acie In one year. The Negtltos laboreis get fiom 5 to 10 eents a day for cultivation. Na ture does tin- lest. With A merit tin in vintlon and tneigy many a man can bet mite it mllllonalie in sugar giowlug in tlie Philippines. All the agi ii ultural methods In the Philippines aie Wm jeara behind the times. Ox cars ate used for transput tatlon and onoii for ploughing. 1 have seen planters using a bent stick or a ptod with nn iron point for a plough, in ciushlng the cane and ex tracting the sacchailue Julie, methods 500 years uld aro still employed. INDIGO. "Indigo plants glow in Inetedlblo Itixui Initio thinughout tho Philippines. Tho soil Is so fertile that the least labor gives surprising lesults. Indigo plants )Uld double the capital used. Many of the tit best families In Manila people who live in Mndild and Paris abuut oue-thlitl of the time and keep up roy al establishments have made their wealth In tho indigo undo. The Alvat aclo family owns an indigo plantation of about j.i.ooo iictcs and an Indigo win Kit on Samar, and It deilves a te entto of fully $40,000. An Ametlcan with half an eve can see many Imptovc ments and economies that might bo niiido there, but ho would not bo thanked for suggesting them to any Philippine or Spanlatd, COCOANUT TUBUS. "Oocoanut trees are a bigger tcsoiirro than ono might Mippose, The fruit Ii demanded in the mnikets of tho world as much as manges and lemons. Uvery part of the tree Is useful. Tho Juices mako oil and wine, tho llbtes of tho leaves Is woven Into cloth, and tho husks of the nuts nre shipped by tho boatload to Hngland for dootmatH nnd other household articles. Pioflls of $250 an aue from a ginve of coroanuts are common, but In this land of tiestas and pinerastlnntloii the people aie .o thrift less, th.tt thrv never rise to meet the matket b extensive planting of e-oeoa-nut ttees. To the native a cocoanut tiee s n vetitablo staff of life. It will fuinlsh his food, intoxicant, nil, vine gar, vessels, brushes, llsh lines, ropes, fuel, and water. A cocoanut pioduces fruit when six years old in tlie Philip pines. I know a tiling Ungllshnian who spent about $.",000 In slatting a cocoanut grove seventeen miles fiom Cavlte, on Luzon. The Spanish were so aftald he would Induce other enter ptlting Ihltlsh to come and do like him, that they uilnul him In a few jeais by all manner of Imposts mid exactions. For instance, he bail to pay about $100 to tho government nt .Ma nila before ho picked his llrst crop, and ho had to pay an export duty of 10 per cent, extra because he was not a native. "To illustrate how marvellously fer tile Is the soil In tlie Philippines, let me tell about the coffee plants. About seventy jeais ago several Spanlatda begun the cultivation of coffee In n little valley away at the not tit end of Luzon. The wete tile llrst eoffeo plants ever known on the Island. A little wild animal resembling the t Ivet of Afiltn (a cross between' it weasel and a fox) began eating and scatter ing tho gtowing toffee luitirs. in n few years the plants growing from tho scattered cofteo berries wore nil over that part of Luzon. For eais past there have been w lid coffee hughes all over the island, and all came front tho civet's scattering "f tho coffee seeds. Thousands of pounds are gathered from these wild bushes by tho natives. ItlCU AND TOBACCO. "Nowhere else does rice grow so pio. Ilflcally as in th Philippines. ' The Chinese control the tice lndui'trv of tho islands, but Uto Nogtltos do thu wotk. Thete aio a dozen Chinese mil llonalies In Manila, and they liav-j mado their wealth largely In tho rlco and sugar ttade. Vnder American management tlie pinilts of ilce grow ing could be easily enlmged. I thin' I am conservative in saying that by tho cttido, lazy wajfl of harvesting u0 per cent, ot the yield Is wasted. It would mako a thtlfty Yankee turnitv gioan to tee the tecklcss waste o( the natives. "Tobacco grows on all the principal Islands. Vanilla, pepper and cala, which ato cultivated elsewheto in tho wot Id, glow wild and in guat clumps on tho Philippluo Islands. Wheat and corn may be grown at the extreme north of tho archipelago. Oranges, lemons and gtiavas llourlsh In tho for cttt and black hills, not the least hoitlcultural sclenco has been exettrd tow at d inaking superior vtnietles of these frult. I have seen In tho tlenso tiopltal fotesta of Mlndanaothnusanda of the tiees of costly woods, as logwood ebony, mahogany cud Iron wo'd f!'e.it foituno await the men who shall git a t niici mn to go and opetate thfe Snilois who have vi mined tar into these forests tell me that the el) n and mahogany tteis there ate the finest they have ever seen. Pln'o-pploa and bananas abound In damp spots, and hip a eouice ot revenue on fonio i.-lnnds, but tlie Central Ametl'an pto duets havo kept these fiulls out of the Ameiican niniketD. GOLD. "Navlgatms who visited the Philip pines In tho seventeenth and eigh teenth centuries all told of the quality tif gold the nattvtis had as ornaments about their net ks. wtlsts and link es, and how the precious metal was tlug In the liver beds of the Islands. 1 have hemtl inetalluiglsts say. that the topo graphy of the Island of Sulu and ('eg litns indicates tho presence of gold. The Spanish have nlwuys been chary about pei mining totelgners, especially Hngllsh and Ameiicar.o. to enter thoBe Islands. Therefore no scientific pros pecting for gcdtl has been done. Tho Spanish, you know, mo the pouest miners of any civilized people. Thy have never done anything toward foi teilng the developments of th copier depe flits of Luzon, et these aio Uonwn tg bo well worth mining. ANIMAL LIFB. "I doubt If any Islands havo such n countless variety of animals and Hying and creeping things ns the Philippines. A stubby variety of h"ises, fat and fuuy ponies, aie used in Manila and towns. Oxen nnd n upeclea of buffaloes aie used for heavy draught purposes. The mountains term with deer, lloats, swine, rubblts and sheep abound in the mountains nnd fmests In nil degrees of wlldness. The wild hogs on Samnr havo sometimes killed natives. There are several hundred vntletles of birds, nnd about twenty that nre not known elsewhere. Parrots are more tninmon In the backwoods than robins are heie. Aniens the toiests close to the coasts nte found peculiar bltds of the swal low tribe. They make the strange food that Chinese ato t-o fond of the blid's nest, lltindteels of natives earn their sole livelihood by hunting at tcrtnln seasons for thoso bltds' nests nnd sell ing them to the Chinese, Of monkeys there nro a dozen varieties. Bats nro simply enormous. They mo of tho vamplie mi t lety. No wonder theie is a vast deal of supeistltlon nnd tlread among people In the tropics concent. Ing vampires. They aie fiightfully tin canny. I have t-een nmplio bats with bodies as large us common house cats, and w ith w Ings that oxpRittl live feet fiom tip to tip. Let any one be seated or strolling alone some moonlight night nnd have one of those black things I'oino Huddenly swooping past hint, and ho will havo some cntigo for nervous prosltation. l knew ono of thoso bats to go sailing Into the big hotel dining room at Manila ono evening when din ner was serving. It came as a hor rible appantiun. Some wuitun fainted, and otln is s-hneked ns they went under the tables The mm tan out of the room.' FISH AND SNAKBS. "The sent oast Is t Ich In many forms of tlsh. The natives, like tho Havvall ans, know how to catch them, too. All the natives in tho Philippines that I ever knew about (except the llch and uiistncratlo people in Manila) nic Ush ers. Thev catch a species of mullet there that Is delicious. When these llsh come up the coast fiom the China Sea In schools tho natives will abandon any occupation nnd even leave a sick hammock to go out nnd angle olf the coast. "A long nnd Interesting chapter might be wiitten ubout the snakes in the Philippines. I never heaid how tunny varieties there ate theie, but theie must be lots of them. A few are poisonous, but most uto water snnkes and aro harmless. The moht dreaded vailety Is a reddisli-biown, long, slim fe'low, known as the mail ano. It Is as deadly as the moccasin of the southern swamps, and more venomous thnn tho rattlesnake. Its bitten victims die In fifteen and twenty minutes. In the dcusest totests of tho bntkwoods of the Islands boa conHtrict nts are frequently found. I have heal el ot some on Mindnnao that woie twenty-live feet long, hut their usual length Is twelve feet The havo been known to crush people to death. CIOAI5 Bl S1NUSS. "The gientost manufacturing Indus tiy In tho Philippines is elgaimakiivi nt ldnnndo, Tho Industry has been lutiiiopollzcd by the Sprnlsh nnd se veio pennltlcs me ininosed upin any one w ho encroaches upon tho innimpn. ly. It yields great levenues to the gov eminent. Two bi others of tlonual V vl'i wete In the tobacco business at Binnndo for it few yeats and they went htult to Mndild to live like pi luces To bneto grows every where in tho islands on S.ttnar scmo of the linest wtanper leaf tobacco In tho world is grown Ono field thrj-e covers 7,000 aclcs. At P.inando tieerly U.'OOO men, women and boys ato employed lu tho cigar and tobactn shops. Butler one roof nnd on one llou! nte I'.OOO wotkets. Tlioh pay averages about 15 cents a dav. Thev leave the shops at sundown in droves A s""d "dun of them go tor u swim Hi Manila bay befoie going homo to eat. All tho people in tho Philippines lovo tho vv uter .Many times I havo glanced along the water fjont at Bln nndo at catlv evening and have si on hund! eils, yes, thousands, of I ho to bin to fnctorv empluves, men, women, old and young, mauled and tingle, laughing, shautlng, plunging and loll ing nbout ir .tlie suif with no mote) clothing than when they were born "I have never seen a Manila man smoking In chinch. It's about the onlv place whoie he tines not smoke. Ilfl smokes in the sttcft cats, ho smokes at the piii'lk tliniiu table, he biiioUcs i verve lime. The presence of women is not considered nt all When enffea Is bt ought on the table the Spanlaid or Filipino lights his clgir cr cigarette, ami begins to send up t louds of smok. He nevr even thinks of saying to the ladles, 'By our leave,' for tho custom of the countiv is to smoke everywhere. If he is not smoking, his neighbor will oiler him a clgaiette The dilver of nur coach will smoke and very likely otfer you a cheioot At the opera the men will walk and smoke between the ait In the -pace behind the boes and balconies You will see finely ilres3cd, seemingly well-hied men with ladb s In lull evening elrCFr entering the thea tu and smoking us thev go. In th piivncj of tin Ii homo men and women smoke fiom tlie Fame box of cigars or elgatottes You never sto a plp In Manila. Jt Is tl - cottnttj of the cigar and tho clgaiette. One of the orld bights to a strangei is that afforded by a balcony lu ftmit of an aristocratic resii'-'i e, t1ll (1 with fashionable gown ed Spanish women, the motliet end her elniiFhtis. and nicies, ill smoking cig m ill. s oi small t Iguis 4 f4.f4--M----H--M--M--f--M- 3 New Houses t In popular neighborhood where values are tncreas- ing most rapidly, will be -- sold at low prices and on -- easy terms. Call and see X them any time between X X 9 a. m. and o p. m. X X H. C. FRINK, X X 747 Prescott Ave. ' ' McMUNN'S Is a prrrarntlnn of the Drug b whliti Its liiiuiloiis .itetts are ifmoveii vvlillo tha v.il'iiiblo ucillcinnl properti-'- ..ro re tallied It iiossetses nil the oeclottvo, anodyne ami nntl-spaMnnilie owera or iipiinn. but produces no sickness of tho hfmtirh r.o vomiting nn costlveness. no I.l idache In acute nervous disorders It is an inv..luiiblt remedy, and Is reconi nn ntluU by the best physicians E. FERRETT, Agent, J7i Pearl bt., Nw York. MKltVniJS TltOUHI.r.8; ALU KIND? 1 cured with Animal Kxtrarti. Free boo'c tfll bow VVASHINUtO-N CHKM1WAL CO Wuabluutua, U. (J.
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