Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1900, Page 22

22 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1900-24 PAGES. a to bring with me either watch or rings. | veiling on July 3._The statue is to be lo- Coal ts known to exist In a number of the One Is so apt to break a watch If one has | cated on the Place f’Jepa. provinces, and I am told that large de- aed WV a fall, and rings are liable to be lost.” * Postts have been Recently discovered not Py My ir om the m er! . t misters MONONOWOWONS |on the rend, Pethaps sos have sumer | There hangs in the Pitts Salon this epring other day a lawyer from Portland, Ore. > NONE TAOS OW ad. Perhaps you have a purse? gs in the Paris Salon P y a lawyer from Portland, i G ) 2) 52) 22). 22) sekse) ek2h se) sep I shall be happy to relieve you of the care|a portrait of a young girl by Alice Archer who claimed to have secured an aption on ) *: ater a Gant dee at searching about the | S°Wel recently of Washington, now Mrs. start to the United State te onenioe ne folds of her dress the young woman at last | 7@™mes of Ohio. The picture is In the very company for their exploitation. There. is & t I | Y, found her pocket and drew from it a purse, | Subdued tones which.; characterized the | some coal not far from Zamboanga, but as ull? i which she handed to Dick, saying with a] artist's work shown in the exhibitions of to tts quality or that in the north I nave ore sigh: aa the Society of Washington Artists. It pos- Rot yet been able to learn, Lr « Ye Tras Account of Ye Celebrated Ride of Richard lieve me, madame, as if it contained a thou- | Sensational beauty, which must impress the I in the streams in many ; sand. The bicycle you ride I will leave with | “Ue Artistic judgment! The picture was nao, but whether it exists in Turpin, Esqre, from London to York, Now for Ye -| you, as 1 would not be found in the pos- | Set pee sary aprect’trom America, and ties has not yet be . First Time Made Publick. session of such a machine at any price.” | Ttuence and, aanitteg: Rithout, any local man. a man who h = “Sir!” she cried, and for the first time | {ifuence an ‘ly on i abot a Ae during their eolloquy, there was a trace of | {y Siri nee goe nap Honore sone cf who Jong time YEITIEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY ROBERT BARR, indignation in her voice, “I would have ae curate pa 2 s of BK d dust am aS you know that this fs a ‘Sweet Violet’ ma- , he Chir 7 « , 1888, by Robert Barr.) ieee y best in the qmarkets thé] A look into thé iocal studios, with few neen disec 2 So orina i am - exceptions, would impress the observer with s pe EO Mo Ral ae le “You should pay no attention to the potion that possibly the artists had de- or > eatid Oy ‘ ridiculous statements of intere cided that Washington was artistically alians already In the mout C ) = Cok" ee There is only one machines made i dead, and that they were preparing to bid . owing to th cavers conditi Winks.’ made by a Coventry company im. | {2Tewell to, the remains by moving out | cl steward ited) of that name, formed last season, | S™multancously. Pictures, framed and un- e with the fi respected fel- | framed, occupied prominent positions in | gistered tive QD hwayman, who well knew the predilec- , that I took to | the middie of the floor, and boxes and ham- ¢ | tien of vuring cyclist for ng OWN | the road ins going Into the com-| mers usurped the places sacred to palette a a part of the thoroughfare th: hould be | pany promoting business! Where I take al and brush, Easels y e side-tracked, and t h | kept sacred for thore going in a contrary } hound he l till, I have the | artists with elevated sleeves were ani | matt order ° } direction. : von | Proud conscionsness of being in the more| by the spirit of express handle | establish his on th ale { the top of the next hill only eleven t line of trade. After ali, a clear con- | unusual! activity- was due to the de | mining property are settle T glimmered, falling steadily to the | . worth ething.”” the painters to.be represented by their best | siz from the army some tin and 5 P en but ten were visible, then nine, |“ «1. that a ‘White Wings’ you are riding?” | work at the exhibition which opened in| devoted himself to pr Z. Pte law ts stend, thatl| oot and to its perfection I] the Corcoran Gallery last evening, to con- He has gone with the Moros back into @ an ew ose cops coule SHARC ia owe plea PO viles er- | ti e open f i - country where the man he rs is sup- w muttered Turpin; “it reminds one | Vicy araat night foueoda twee Rion Sat ieee eee Mire ROSEWOOD BRIDG posed to take his life into his hands. He suf mild and | of the rhyme of the ‘Nine little. eight little. E * Ox = sbi af ve interested the Moros with him, taking up 2 Priming’ on: hin | Seven litle ane. “and he ueran tote should have thought you would go in| The annual report of the trustees of the at civilizea | CS for them at the same’ time Ives had been Hee eee eee eneng Met facie | for @ chainless safety,” murmured the girl| Boston Museum of Fine Arts shows re- ISLE OF MINDAN AO most civilized | says he was. well t ery w to be of ick bad finished his frugal meal < elf tiptoed tmto tick on. wh was exense me. I by the back “LET US NOT FORGET perfect silent wheel air of a peaceful is a ning through he pur country. Since midnight oniy one light fol- lowed him, but that hung on with great nce. Dick for a moment thought of putting out his own lamp, ing tor pursuer and pistoling him as he y. but he refle that, after all. a mean trick to play on a brother put that feel- for Dick was not w t » wheel- which all snipy that asunde 1 one ntil a 1, pulled out h of the wire r ufficient leng? THE REALITI OF LIFE.” true and tru: highwayman's fa ” The night f the ma- rging where an y of oil in the lamp?” id all the tools are ‘n well ofled and the tires ope for your for if it is my pistol e, that evi and deflate you man a sovereign, 2 Was “Phe Bobbies Are Deploying. -d in attempt- w his whistle spol er had well on his 1 effect on oth- It was the signal ‘o brigade of n ted po- of the reer handlebars over ugitive. 3 y of men were astride the o ‘a ke bikes (“worth their weight see advertisement), and the betting was about n, although the in the know freely offered 2 to 1 on Dick. “I shall break the rec: or my neck,” Muttered Dick, as he sped through the @arkness. As he glanced over hi houlder at the foot of a hill he saw a dozen twink- ling lights coming over the brow behind him, like a constellation. “I hope every = ¥ meet will have a bright lamp and eep to his own side of the road," and for the first time in his bold life a tremor of fear thrilled the stalwart frame of the a, t I shail punc- | Was set free, drew it taut across the thor- oughfare and tled the loose end of the wire @ stake on the opposite side of the high- Remounting, he journeyed on toward the north, animated with that comforting sense of Satisfaction which comes to one who, at some trouble to himself, has placed inn cent diversion in the monotonous pathway of a fellow traveler. We should not live for ourselves alone. Just as a neighboring steeple struck the hour of 1 o'clock, Dick. glancing backward, saw the one light suddenly disappear. : appropriate that was!” mused Dick “The hour and the man! Thank goodn has not yet been invente rk is now clear, and I have attend to but the making of a nh Will never be for An- Teeord Ww other gi gor he he saw mp behind him not relit. Day him going strong, far to the north; the rest nowhere. He stopped at a w le Inn breakfast, Knowing it was a good hostelry, for the of the three-winged ‘wheel of * Touring Club was over the member of the C. T. C. ord. of no 1 Richard. night f! tion,” re- e just but with verse, fe he came to a lone h read bisected in a st about the center of It, n sight for miles, he s him a young lady heath ght with no nty zs off and 7 > squarely anted himself ross the thor- ed to speak Was the case, the ground in in which some st that ad from her perch ¢ t char women d she merely happen » sir?” she nes dam,” replied Dick, with rrect bows, learned from ant association with the aristocra- whom he met incic y on their trav- rmitted to term an Inspector of highw: my! all roads lead—not to Rome in m If s I must first apolo- not appearing in proper co: t which I shall once pro- - h he drew atly fitting black silk by two holes for the eyes, over the upper part of his sing the strings to the back of his ind holding them there. ‘Would you mind just tying these i A lady mi uch a neat knot, and they are rather awkward for me to get at without a mirro “With ing on tip deft fi hi to profitable commerce. gize to you f + & de! to rem from hi: replied. the girl, stand- Ja dainty knot with should think it much sends of the mask con- asic, that you could hought of it,”" assented the her a stickler for d ways, and so I stick to the I fear I am inclined to be con- ative: I mix so much with the nobility, 1 know servatiy Am I wrong fn surmising that you are nwayman? himself? uite right, madam; Dick Turpin, en- tirely at your serfice, at this moment ac- complishing his celebrated ride to York, of which you have doubtless read, who hopes, by strict altention to business, to mirit a continuance of that custom which it will always be his endeavor to deserve. I'm sorry I haven't a card with me, but I lett town unexpectedly, and, not to put too fine a point upon It. rather in a hurry.” “How delightful! Dick drew forth a h another low bow, said: “But I am detaining you, madam. In the pleasures of social conversation let us not forget the realities of life. I must trouble you for your watch and any rings or other tle trinkets that I can keep as a memento of this most charming meeting.” am so sorry,” answered the girl; “but when I left home this morning I neglected a hig - Perhaps the famous Mr. uge pistol, and with ari roared Dick, forgetting for the time that he stood in the presence of a lady, and for a moment losing bis temper, “I thought you were a young person of some sense, even if you did ride a ‘Sweet Viole} but such an inconsiderate remark “Iam afraid, sir, you do not quite com- prehend me. If you are caught you will be ht ins; therefore, I should you wou'd prefer the safety life to the ignominy of a death ! laughed Dick. “I didn’t good, indeed. 1 must remem- nd tell it to the boys in the “It ts a perfectly lovely machine that ‘White Wings’ of ” the lady contin- ue ing ey held it better admire i get one for ms de: “Oh, the first cost of an articte is noth- Ing w a get just what you want. If the poli you will not zret the int : 1 woul uu know," replied the young lady, drawing herself up. proudly ‘that I have no followers among the for “IT wish I could say as much,’ said Tur- = mount with entranc- stood aside from it and gth that she might the proportions “T would if, if they weren't so pnditu it cost.” a “If I had that £21 you are taking care S it in for me I would go at once and inves a ‘White Wings. “Would you? to have the pleasure of handing back your money.” “Thank you kindly,” said the girl sweetly as she put her purse in her pocket. She sprang on her wheel, and cried over her shoulder. think those are two police- men approaching down the road; better not follow me, but do some scorching toward York.” Dick saw that he had already lost too much time, yet he stood there hesitating, wondering if after all he had not been bi fooled somehow. It was always thus with the tender-hearted man. His hone was forever being taken advantage of by the unscrupulous of the opposite sex. He mounted his machine and finished his jour- ney to York, a poorer man by £21 than he had been at one point on the journey. ART NOTES. The present rare spring days have called the artists from their winter's sojourn in the studios, where some of them were showing signs of becoming rusty, to the beauty of the open fields. There Dame Na- ture, the mistress of the school, stands ready to ald all who would learn. The cars of the suburban lines bear beyond the brick and mortar bondage of the city laughing maids in twos and threes, or at times in larger companies, attended by an instrue- tor—bodies of Rosa Bonheurs who are afrald of cows. Occasionally the young wo- men painters are commanded by a single young man, numerically, and probably matrimonially, if the term may be useu. His artistic nature is manifested as a rule by a profusion of hair straying from be- neath the ample brim of his hat, which is probably of that soft and rakish type known as the fedora or cigarette; or if he be particularly talented he may be topped off with a plaid or even a red Tam ¢ ter. He may also wear a black and floy bly dra with ng touch of ung mun sits on a rear se and encouragingly through the smok s short brierwood pipe at the laughing group of his fair fellow student on the ead. On the same chance to be another man, of age and rather uncouth appe S slouches in a far corner and views the pa with a quiet air of unde usually a 1 over his e chews the fraye He is also a painte is the dilapidated ng kit on the s rusty black in and he i minute shor! been born; s t. There may be in the little party ahead who m points, and he of the brief- y be able to paint all around him. cannot always tell. * oe The greetings of the artists of Philadel- phia have been sent to Jean Leon Gerome, the veteran French painter, who this year celebrates his sixty-seventh birthday. The idea originated with Mr. Stephen J. Ferris, the artist-etcher, whose son was a favorite pupil of the noted master. The heads of all of the art fnstitutions of Philadelphia, a majority of the artists of that city and a number of people who are interested in art in other parts of the country signed the document. * * * The Art Students’ League of New York will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of its existence by an exhibition at the Fine Arts building fn that city from May 9 to 12, One of the features will be a retro- spective showing, including, if possible, at least one example of students’ work done during each year of the existence of the organization. * * Ok The question of bill boards and question- able posters which has been agitating the authoritles of Washington recently is also creating somewhat of a stir in Chicago. The art associations have headed the move- ment there. The park system of the city has been invaded and many of its most at- tractive suburbs are woefully disfigured by them. In France, England, Germany and other continental countries a tax is levied on this form of advertising. The news- paper is the fit and proper place for the display of matter which requires public notice, and the bald and often objectionable manner in which the bill boards flaunt themselves should be properly censored. * The equestrian ‘Statue of Washington, which is to be unvelled in Paris July 3, as a gift of the women of America to France, has recently been on exhibition in New York. This is the first bronze statue cast in the United States to be sent to Europe. Its weight is 8,200 pounds, and its total height twenty-two feet. It Is also the first equestrian statue wherein the barrel of the horse and the legs were cast in one piece. The monument is thoroughly characteristic of the artists, Daniel French and BE. C. Potter. Mr. French and his wife are at present on their way to Naples, whence they will go to Athens for a short sojourn, and will arrive in Paris in time for the un- There ar 1890 of $6,436. of which The average number of vis- on Sundays was 1,622, The admis- show an increase of 23,113 over the previous. annual report od of the Chicago ) admissions, of the precedin, s amounted to member! di S—virt pum—and rever ing to §. to the mu: from other sources, making a total or this t Wi cash donatior * * Ok There {s less space and there will be a ler crowd at the Paris Salon than 1 this year. Oniy the Societe d 3 Francaise is exhibiting, the So tes des Beaux Ar ring decided to let rminate before at- tempting a public display. Added to this Ar- the Salon at present is only one-half as ge as formerly. irtists who are ors concours hav without ex- ception, reserved thei orks for the © jon. There are a few exceptions, Ben- nt and Jean Paul Laurens and others, but their efforts go only a Ilttle way in destroying the general tone of youth- fulness and inexperience which character- izes most of the picture: ae Sane A QUESTION OF TIME. Concerning an Event Which Occurred About 1,000 Years Ago. He had been told in the business office where he would find the literary editor, but by some mistake he got into the stall of the horse editor, and he approached that equine wonder with the sinuous grace and insidious movement of a young person with a poem concealed somewhere about his person which he was hoping the editor would discharge at the public. But he had no such sinister designs. However, we are getting ahead of our story. “I beg your pardon,” he murmured to the horse editor; “can I speak to you for a moment? “Ce the equine wonde pulling up his pencil till he threw it back on its haunches, ‘Ob, thank you," gurgled the caller. ‘You know, I am so afraid that I may dis- turb the current of your thought. You must be very busy always yes,” admitted the equine won- “Iam kept on the jump, but a man has got to go, you know, if he expects to nes ‘Oh, yes, I presume he does; but I should think that excessive labor would rather dull the keen edge of your wit.” “It does, but ['ve got to hit that much harder licks, don't you see?” said the horse ughing at his happy turn to the 's remark. ume you have, and—but I will not detain you, though it Is perfectly delight- ful to me to be in this atmosphere, don't you know,” said the visitor, longingly. ‘ou will kindly not mention’ the cireum= stances of my call, I am sure,” continued the visitor, “but I have been asked for an article on the ‘Literature of the Oriental Races,’ and I conf to you that I am rather ignorant of portions of the subject, and J thought you would be sure to know. so I came to ask you to tell me what was the tlme of the Rubai: yam “OL what?” dropping his pencil. “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayy peated the visitor, distinctly. ‘Aren't you mistaken?” asked the horse litor, reaching up tor a copy of Track tatistic of Omar Khay- aimed the horse editor, am," re- I'm a ringer if I ever heard of a such a "said the horse Know there's m owning a stable of in this countr By this me the visitor was holding him- self up by clutching the desk with both hand Aren't you the literary editor?” he man- aged to whisper. Ww hardly," laughe 6 equine won- 3 m the horse editor “Oh was all the visitor could utter, and he fled out of the That equine labors. WHAT THE WORLD DRINK National Beverages According to an English Parliamentary Return. From the London Telegraph Under the prosaic title of “Alcoholic Bev- erages” an interesting statement has just been issued by the board of trade showing the production and consumption of wine, beer and spirits in the various countries of Europe, in the United States, and the prin- cipal British colonies, together with sta- tistical tables relating thereto, in each year from 1885 to 1898. In many instances it has been found difficult—almost !mpossible—to collect the necessary information, for, as 1s pointed out, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States are the chief countries which publish any reliable statistics on the subject. Each of these countries derives large and growing reve- nues from the taxation of alcoholic bever- ages, the proportion so derived to the total national revenue being (approximately) in the case of the United Kingdom, 36 per cent; in France, 19 per cent; in Germany, 18 per cent; in the United States, 28 per cent. It ts interesting to note that in these countries the amcunt of drink consumed is the largest, while the countries themselves are the richest im the World. Thus do we find luxury and riches going hand in hand. The “per capita’’ consumption of wine in Great Britain, Germany and the United States 1s relatively insignificant; indeed, the total amount consumed in these three countries, with thelr gigantic population of 160,000,000, averages only an eighth part ¢ what is consumed in France, with its 38,000,000 inhabitants. If, however, our wine bill stands sta- tionary, the beer bill gets bigger and big- ger, and the same may be said of Ger- many and the states. During 1898 31.9 gal- lons of beer per head were consumed—the total running well Into ten figures—t. e., 1,282,470,000._ German brewers had a larger output in that year, though, per head, the population of the fatherland did not drink what is called “the staple beverage” so deeply as did we. In the United States they drink spirits just about as freely as we do ourselves, the average being about one gallon a head. In 1808 the total consumption of spirits in the United Kingdom was well over 41,000,- 000 gallons, while Germany swallowed more than twice as much. “Whether,” says the report, “this large consumption of spirits is due to climatic or social conditions, or how far it is influenced by the amount of the duty on spirits In each country is a question about which various opinions have been expressed.” It is incidentally stated, by the way, that the alcoholic beverages mostly patronized at the Cape are wine and spirits, the consumption of beer being rela~ tively small. Far the Richest of Our Possessions in the Philippines, pa A A LAND OF RIVERS AND LAKES Almost Unlimited Quantities of the | Very Finest Timber. GREAT MINERAL SS WEALTA vE s A, March It looks like a leg of mutton wit! shank, a well-trimmed stem and the sticking out like a handle, and it is, in fact. the richest and Juiciest yp of meat in Unele Sam's Philippine larder. I refer to the Island of Mindanao. T am at Zamboanga, just on the tip of the liule end of the bone, but I have gone about the coasts, and from what T have heard and seen can tell you something about it. I cannot tell you much, for but litule is known. ‘The greater part of the island has not been explored, and it has many regions which have never been trod by the foot of a white man. The Spaniards had their set- tlements only close to the coast, and their wars with the Moros were such that they did not dare to go among the more tribes of the interior. The only men, fact, who have been Inland are the Jesuit missionaries. They have made maps of island, and it is from their note best information comes. These been sent through Gen. Bates shing ton, and Congress will have an opportunity to publisn them, Our Richest Istana I have learned enough, however, to make me believe that Mindanao is the richest and best of all our possessions in the far ¢a It has the advan of belonging almos altogether to the government, and can be opened up just as Uncle Sam plea it will be one of the subjects of congressionai legislation when the war ends, and it wi! for years have an important place in the news from this part of the world. Before I describe its resources and people I would like to show you just where it is. It is very far out of the world, and is the | nearest to the equator of our American pos- 8 s. Here at Zamboanga | am as far south from Manila in a straight line as New York city is distant from Pittsburg, nd as far y from Aparri, at the north- ern end of Luzon, as the distance bet the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Me The whole of Mindanao is more than miles nearer the equator t the Isthmu o? Panama, and Zamboang: a little more than 300 miles from that Jed hottest line of the globe. Still, Mindanao has not Everywhere the troops are a bad climate. ationed on the island the surgeons tell me that the condi- tlons are remarkab'y comfortable. The: ness among the soldier: dering that we are in the tropic: rema little among the nativ Here at Zamboanga, on the coast, I do not find it more hot than Washington city in June, and in the mountainous regions in the in- terior the air should be better. Is ax Big as Ohio. Island of Mindanao is about of Ohio. It may be a few more or less, but no on our geological survey profe = have mover the ground. It is more than 200 from here to Mati, on the east co: The the s as big are will know have just stationed a company of the 31st Regiment, « rout 260m from north to south, where the island is wide S you Will see from the map, Min- dan: has an enormo « t line. its shores in run in and out like the teeth of < - It has numerous and many ge parbors: th the exe tion of the northea ortion, outside ¢ the region of typhoo sand in that of equa- torial curren d oalthough the rainfall is heavy, it is 1 to have a better clim: than Luzon. The topography of dis rolling. Three separate voleanic ranges cross it from north to south, the middle range being the highest, and’ cul- minating in Mt. Apo, near the’ Gulf of Davao. The top of Mt. Apo is more than two miles above the sea. Its peak can be seen by our troops at the town of Davao. It ts an active volcano, with vapor and fire coming from its southern side. The most of this mountain fs wooded, only the sum- mit being bare. The other mountains of the island are covered with a rich growth of timber, trees 200 feet high and twenty feet thick being here and there found. A Land of Rivers and Lakes. Mindanao is well watered. It 1s so cut up with rivers and lakes that {t is said that there are few places where you cannot reach a navigable stream within ten mil travel. It has about two hunired rivers, a large number of which are navigable for small boats. The Rilo Grande, which flows into the bay of Ilana, in the Southern part of the Island, §s about two hundred and ninety miles long, of which one hundred miles are navigable. The Butuan river almost bisects the eastern end country, rising near the Gulf of Davao, and flowing northward into the Bay of Bu- tuan. It has two large lakes, and there are other lakes tiered through the island. The word Mindanao means the man of the lake. It probably comes from the large Jake in the center. This is known as Linao. It has an area of 160 square mile: Another lake, known as Lake Manit, has about thirty square miles, and it lies in an extinct crater. Just south of the town of Niligan, and connected with it by the River Illigan, is the Lake of Malanao. This is the only one of the lakes which the Span- fards attempted to control. They brought gunboats and took them in sections to it, much to the surprise of the inhabitants. In the province of Cottabato there are two lakes which feed the Rio Grande river. They are uniled during the rainy season, when the whole country is flooded. The Zone of the Moros, Mindanao is in Mohammedan land. It ts the zone of the Moros, and its people are far different from those which I have de- scribed living in the northern part of the Philippines. The archipelago may be di- vided into three zones, according to the predominant races which inhabit it. The northern zone embraces Luzon and its n2ighboring islands. Here live the Fili- pinos with whom we have been waging war, and of whom the world knows most. They are the Tagals, Tagalos, or Tagalogs. ‘The names all mean the same and are used indiscriminately, The Tagals are perhaps bone | of the | rh may This includes Samar, ete. hiefly by Vis These yan: . having their pl |, nomi- nally a Below ird and one of s includes the pearl is of be seen map. ke a nes. all ] the way from 7 which, strange to eighbor out here in t These zo remembered. the has i are of various tribe am! ther: dom 4 prov- inc gad 1d_not_be un 1 in the 7. nees of a dif- ferc art of the jan. There are Tagals living am vi aree number of V The Ti nd | tans. The Moros, of w’ © are also | many divisions, are unive Mohamme- dans. The Savages of Mindanno. Leaving the Moros for the time I will write first about the savazes of Mindanao. They are so little known that the ethnolo- gists of our Smithsonian Institution and seological survey will have years of work ir bringing forth to the world their pecu- liarities of life, customs and language. The most of them’ go about in breech cloths. M of them live in the tops of trees, and some make their homes in hollow logs. Among them are the Negritos, or lit- Negrc similar to the little blacks found in Luzon.” There are tribes of these < ed over Mindanao, one containing “a, called M living in th sula of ‘s people us: extremely are of a low state of inte is extremely doubtful if they be civilized. me Not far from the Rio Grande river there is a race of savages called the Torurayes, who live in the mountains. Their houses are built on bamboo poles, the first floor and it could ever being about twelve feet above the ground The inhabitants get into their houses by crawling up a notched stick, which they pull up at night. The houses are madi atch and bamboo poles and are usually small. In some cases they consist of only a roof and floor, being without walls | of any kind,eind having only posts at the corners to support the roof. These people ko almost naked. A man who just re- turned from a trip among them that the men he saw wore squares of cloth sus- pended from a string around their waists, and women wore skirts which were not more than a foot long. The women had j brass rings on their ankles and wrists. The men were armed with bows and ar- rows and spears. The weapons were pol- | Soned, the poison coming from a tree which grows in the mountains, Various Tribes. : The Mindayas are a strange people who live in the eastern part of this island, not far from Mati. We have recently estab- lished a garrison at that point and we shortly hope to get something concerning them. They have fair skins and look not unlike Europeans. tion to these there are many other , some of whom, such as the Bagobos, is and T; are notori- aving human s :. Many of savages are head hunters and all are f supposed to be unfriendly to the whites. AS to this, howe’ certain can be known until can be made. Such of the have gone Ve not been mole that ff the peopl there will be little into the problem of handling the n and the Ny the most ad- whether be so ar, y done by Gen. been but the policy will hold go I find the Moros a mi There are in the netghborhood « dred thousand of them on th have vi everywhere and nt the S of the are large numbers of boanga, and I see them evr are semi-savages, but their histor; cter is such that have to devote one or more special kttors to describing them. They hav used the Spantards trouble for centuries, and until have steadily resisted any union of either religion or government with the whites. es A Royal Principality. In this letter I should like to give some idea of the resources of Mindanao, for, as I have said I consider it one of the most im- portant parts of our possessions. Ihave spoken of the timber. The best of the hardwoods of the archipelago are to be found here. The mountains are covered with trees. In travel- ing along the east and south coast you seo wooded hills rising one above the other. e tending on and on until they lose them- sclves in the clouds, which in this latitude always hang low. The woods are manoz- any, rosewood, ebony and many other varieties. Here at Zamboanga the bulla- ings occupied by our troops are floored with mahogany. The soldiers stamp with their heavy boots over boards which would make piano tops, and I rode my horse toda across the canal over a wooden brid which, with the proper machinery. might have been turned into a $9 dinner table. At the headquarters yesterday IT put my feet on a rosewood floor under the mahoz- any table of Col. Pettit, and this morning took a ride in a dugout, fifty feet lonz, gouged out of a log which, in the United States, would have been turned into ing sticks worth a dollar apiece. Ros ood is in fact the oak of Mindanao, and ma- hegany is as common as pine is in Wi: sin. The Spaniards Saved the Timber. The question as to why the Spaniards did not develop the timber resources of the islands {s often asked. The reason proha- bly is that they thought that they could make more by taxing: foreigners who at- con- tempted to do so. They put the taxes too high, however, and in_ this way pre- vented developments They had rigid forestry laws. The lumber had to be handled in a certain way. The logs must be cut just so, and there were so many fees and restrictions that every big lumber company which attempt- ed to operate failed. Today there are many men looking into the lumber interests and eventually saw mills will be established. There are a few mills here now, but most of the sawing and planing is done by hand. ‘Those who bring the mills should remem- ber that the wood is very hard and that the circular saws which we commonly use will not cut it. The saws which are found to work best are those which go up and down, and band saws, or gang saws, would prob- ably work. Gold and Coal Mines. Mindanao Is believed to be the richest of the Philippines in its mineral deposits. t t although he had $300 in his v which was unlocked, it was not : His claims Me along a river at a distance of about forty miles inland from Zambo- anga. He claims that he found color in pit he excavated, and that In many the gold was found in paying quan- though he did not go down to the He brought some samples of h It is in flakes like bran ‘utely pure. At one place the Moros took him to some mines which had been worked their forty years age, but from which ad bi driven by the Spaniards. remain: of the workings could be plainly n, although large t = had grown up in the pits. One of the captains, who is stationed at the Bay of Ilana, about a hundred miles cast of here, tells has found color in the sands of the ande river, and similar news comes from the provines Long befor? this soldiers will be well northern of r {s published the along the This has the been th ree of the most of the gold and it may be that ¥: gold dis will be made there. Copper {s said to exist tn Surigao and other provinces, and there is also said to be mercury in Surigao. The Land of Cocoanuts. The real gold mines of Mi ever, lie in Its soil. I cannot di wonderful vegetation which we hav about Zamboanga. There are cocoanut trees by the millions, and such cocoanut trees! They are from fifty to a hundred feet high, and some of them bearing. it ts uid, a cocoanut for every day of the year. They wall the shore of eastern Mindanao for miles. You might almost ride for day here and not get out of sight of a cocoanut grove. Many of the trees are notched 60 that the men who gather the nuts walk, as it were, from the bottom of the t to the top on steps. They take the meat from the nuts, chop it into little pie and dry it in the sun. It is then known as copra, and in this shape fs shipped to Europe, wher? the ofl 1s pressed from it for use in the making of soap and other such things. Some cocoanuts are shipped in th: is in Some parts of the fsland the she! dried and their fiber used for making matting. Hogs are fattened on th= nuts and the people eat the nuts and drink the milk. What would you think of turning a splgot and getting a glass of wine from a tree? Well, this very thing is done down here. The natives draw their wine and whisky from the cocoanut trees. They cut off the blossoms and fasten to them bamboo tubes, into which the sap runs. At intervals they remove the tube and empty the liquid into another bamboo. hour: After being left for six it begins to ferment, and before the is over it is turned into a liquor, which, as the Indians say, “will make the drunk come.” The stuff looks like cider, and smells to me somewhat like old buttermilk. It is drunk by the natives both fresh and fermented. Coffee and Bananas. I see many coffee trees In my country about Zamboanga. The trees grow and produce excellent berries. I un- derstand that the soll of almost any part of the coast will raise coffee, and if this is so it should be even better in the mountains. Some of the best coffee in the world comes from Java, which is only a few hundred miles to the southward, and it may be that this island is destined’ to equal the great Dutch colony in its coffee plantations. If so, it will support an enormous population. It is almost as large as Java, and that is- land has twenty-four million people upon ft, about one-third as many as are in the United Almost anything can be raised in Mind: nao. up to iift fet you, shading the ground and producing the most delicious fruit. 1 have visited large hemp planta- ticns and am told that some provinces produce as much as a million dollars’ worth also ra of hemp over The » in the hands ns and Chin Ny nothing The y and numbe ing shipped north FE VK G. ee esque little Marie Antoinette fichus, them over lace blouses whic scarfs coming from the undet cams and tied once in front, with falling ends. Another noticeable feature in summer gowns is the charming fashion in which narrow black velvet ts used. A foulard had a blouse waist trim- med with two inverted crescents formed by lack velvet straps ending in tiny steel but- tons. Another is closed on the left side by these straps and steel buckles. This was worn with a skirt entirely tucked horizon- tally, but left loose at the bottom. The summer evening dresses? A great deal of mousseline, made, of course, with boleros, like the ducks for morning wear, the taffetas and foulards for afternoons— like everything, in short, exc » laces and musiins. Here is a fasc’ mousseline frock I saw worn at a little dinner: and picturesque last evening The entire skirt was tucked, the front in tablier effect, with the tucks loose below the knees, and the round- ed and tucked sides bordered with lace lapped over this. A bolero of tucked mous- seline, whose frilled edge was bordered with lace, had a lace bolero over it, and the decollete was finished with a Uttle fichu of lace and mousseline. a The New Taffeta Coat. From Harper's Bazar. One important garment in this season's wardrobe is the taffeta coat, which first made its appearance here two years ago as worn to be @ great novelty, was more generally last year, and this season appears absolutely necessary. As a rule these are tucked, either horizontally or diagonal- ly, the tucking admitting of a great variety of application. The jackets Are trimmed with stitched bands of cloth or taffeta, or are without any trimming at all. Some are made with revers and high collar, others have neither; but all, in fact, follow closely the lines of the cloth Etons. Other black silk jackets are made rather longer, more on the biazer style, and still others have short postilion backs and loose fronts, and are trimmed with waved lines of tucks. To wear on the cooler days in the spring and summer these Eton jackets with satin ln- ings are best. For hot-weather wear alone it is a much better plan to have these coats without any lining. They can then be worn with shirt waists or faise fronts, and are the most comfortable garment ever in- vented. Until this season it has been al- most impossible to find them, excepting at a few of the more exclusive dressmakers’, but now all the large shops ®ave them for sale, made of good material and in good shape, and not hopelessly expensive. The average salary preachers in the Uni Was $475.35 id to Methodist States last year