Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1931, Page 10

' A—-10 W STEAMERS " QUSTED BY LINERS London Survey Shows Loss of Trade, Except Wood, to Scheduled Ships. 7~ By the Associated Press. S ’ LONDON, August 15—The tramp steamer, which used to nose its way into the strange ports of the world in the hope of finding cargo, probably will s0on join the sailing vessel-fn near-ex- tinction. » A calculation made in T.ondon shows that liners, both passenger and cargo, running on scheduled routes and times, as contrasted with the tramp, o Bays -bouz 70 per cent of the world. ton- nage. Liners totaled but 36 per cent of the world’s tonage in 1913. ‘The chan{s has been particularly no- ticeable in the port of London, where, outaide the timber trade, men'l.g now Ty few tramps, as eomp‘red pre- d goods in & 1s” of vgffiio&o' send “parcels” of up :fl or more on one of the regular line are now on the schedules of the liners. Sea life in general has been changed considerably by the shift from tramp steamer to liner. The seaman no longer signs on the voyage “not exceedln( two years,” but can tell his wife almost to the day when he will return. Jobs are luuller, for cargo liners stick to m of the tramp vestiges THE SUNDAY S MOON IS SUN'S WIFE FLEEING FROM HIM, MANOBOS BELIEVE Celestial Bodies Are Children, Shooting Stars Are Love Messengers, Garvan Reveals to Acadcmy. This is the eighth of a series of ar- ticles on life among the Philippine highlanders based on a remarkable ‘monograph just issued by the Na- tional Academy of Sciences. VIIL. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. fancy is his explanation of the origin u’ | the stars and of sunrise and sunsei. Garvan: “It is said that in olden time the sun and the moon were married. They led a' peaceful life, and two childrer were the result of their wedlock. One day the moon had to attend to one of the household duties that fall to the lot of women—some say to get water and others say to get the dally supply | of food !fom the little farm. Before de- crooned the children to sleep lnd told her husband to watch them, but not to approach them, lest by the heat of his body he might harm them. The sun, who never before had . | been allowed to touch his bairns, gazed fl)fln them fondly and, bending down, issed them. But the intense heat tha issued from his countenance melted the: like wax. Upon perceiving this he wept, and quietly betook himself to the ad- joining forest in great fear of his wife. ““The moon returned, but found only her children’s lifeless forms. In the ess of her grief she called upon her husband. He gave no answer, but feared his anger and quieted her sobs, | but finally, breaking out into one long wail, she seized the burned forms of her bables and threw them out on the ground in different directions. Why Sun Follows Moon. “Then the husband became angry again and, seizing that his wife had brought from the some taro leaves | for of brute animals. mh!- mummn of as lnr tongue, and is ing an eclipse says, “is that & tack brace. dences of darkness on the moon the men rush from shout, shoot arrows toward drum and gong, beat tin cans and yell wild defiance at the monster. If the moon does not become freed from the clutches of this monster, it is believed, there will be no dawn, and in the | eternal darkness that will fall upon the world the evil spirits will reign and all human_spparel will “be turned into The CRIMDII of the world is at- tributed to Makalidung, the first great farm, cast them in her face and went | Manobo, who set it up on posts, like the his way. Upon his return he could not | Manobo house itself, or one great post find his wife, and so it is to this day |in the center. He lives at this central ~ |that the sun follows the moon in an |post in company with a python, and | sternal circle of night and day, and 50 | when he is angry at men he shakes this 1t is, too, that the stars are scattered in | post, producing an earthquake, A vari- the sable firmament, for they are her |ation of the story is that the world is | discarded children, that mm{nnv her | like a huge mushroom supported upon in her hasty flight. Ever an mom,mg star breaks across her path, |but that is only a messenger from her husband to call her back. She heeds it not, but speeds in her never-ending | | Bight with the marks of the taro leaves | still upon her face and her starry train | sccompanying her to the dawn and on |to the sunset.” The rainbow is considéred an inex- | plicable manifestation of the gods of war. At one end there is Lhouzhl to be a huge tortoise, & fathom bre ‘The appearance of the rainbow 18 held to be an indication that the war gods, with | their associate chiefs and warriors from the land of death, have gone forth in search of blood. If red predominates among the colors it is thought that the mightier of the war spirits are engaged |in hand-to-hand combat. If the colors | are dark it is a sign of slaughter. If he rainbow seems to approach precau- | ions are taken to defend the house | ngainst attack, as it is believed a real \var party is approaching. anon a [an fron pillar in the center. The Manobos, Garvan recounts, be- lieve in three mythical giants, Tama, Mandayangan and Apila. All three are as tall as the tallest trees of the moun- tains and their domain is the deep, dark forest. Tama is & wicked spirit who wnyl s wanderers and “devours them. y claim to hAva leen his footprlnu Mmdlymu.n al | natured giant who loves to lw WAr contests. 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