The record-union., 1898-06-12
SOME OF UNCLE SANS NEW WARDS.

the school children are busy with their
teachers. Then when Old Sol begins
to shoot his darts down upon the coun-
try more perpendicularly the whole
population go into their houses and
stay there until sundown. It is a land
of siestas. Every one who can sleeps
there all day long, and slumber there
is reduced to a science. Business is
suspended all day long. Even the men
at the Wharfs quit work for six or
seven hours when the sun is highest.
AT shutdown Manila wakes up. There
is an opening of the heavy board win
dow blinds and an exodus of people
from their homes. The principal meal
OF the day is served at about 6 o'clock,
and with the rich Spanish it is a cere
monious affair. Thereafter the whole
population goes out for a walk The
cock-fights take place in the evening.
The old theater is always crowded at
Sunday Nights.
'INSURRECTIONS AND EARTH
QUAKES.
There are 10000 Spanish regulars
on guard in the islands. The insur-
gents last fall numbered about 10000.
of whom 5000 were armed with good
guns. The insurgents have a few good
cannon cast from melted church bells
and bits of metal that they gathered
here and there. Manila like Havana,
has naturally been in control of the
Spanish troops, and the insurgents
have been carrying on a warfare forty
and sixty miles from Manila similar
to that Of the Cubans about Havana
I'm the summer of 1896 the order Of
the Katipunan was secretly formed
among the Malays and Chinese. The
purpose was to remove by blood the
bondage by SPAIN The members OF
the order were sworn by a cash across
the left upper arm. With the blood
which issued from the wound the ini-
tiate crossed himself and daubed his
mouth and solemnly swore that he
would spill the blood Of at least one
Spaniard every six months The Span
ish got hold Of the plot BY trials that
lasted an hour or two in some cases
and thirty or forty minutes each in
most cases 400 Of the persons sus-
pected as being in the plot were con-
victed and shot to death In the month
of November, 1896, there were 500 ex-
ecutions on the outskirts Of Manila.
In one day some seventyfive men were
stood up before a wall and shot.
1.-The earthquakes in the Philippines,
especially on Luzon and Negros ISL
ands, deserve a special story by them
selves The whole group of islands
is of volcanic origin. There are seventy
volcanoes in constant eruption on the
islands. The famous volcano Mayara
is within sight of Manila. An earth
quake occurs on an average of once
every ten days. / have known small
quakes to come at the rate of a dozen
a day for a week at time. About
dozen times a year there are shocks so
severe that people will run about in
fright and damage will be done to the
buildings. The big bridge over the
Pasig River at Manila has been so
swerved by earthquakes twice during
my residence in the city that it has
been made unsafe for travel. In 1884
an earthquake nearly ruined the great
stone cathedral in Manila, razed many
buildings to the ground, rocked hun
dreds more, and 1000 people on Luzon
Island were killed by falling timbers
and walls. In 1860 the great earth
quake occurred on Negros Island. It
has never been known how many peo-
pie were killed then, but the number
is estimated at 1000 Almost every
structure on the island was shaken
down, and great gaps, yards wide and
miles long, were cracked across the ISL
and. The quake opened seams in the
earth from the seacoast and made
passages from the interior lakes to the
ocean. 1 suppose If such a quake
should occur in New York City there
wouldn't be one building left on all
Manhattan Island"