The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-06-11


heads, and some pretty flower decks
their hair. Fashion and poverty go
side by side. Americans are few, and
it is amusing to them to see how these
young folks in the Orient make their
passionate longings known to one
another.
Tobacco, sugar and hemp are the
chief products of the Philippines.
There are $4,000 cigar and cheroot
makers in and about Manila. General
Weyler's two brothers have the largest
factory. They came over to the islands
about eight years ago, when their POM
pous military brother was Governor
General of the Philippines, at salary
of $4,000 year, and they obtained con-
cessions then that yielded them i'm
mense annual returns. Wherever one
goes into the rural districts of the
Philippine islands, one is wondering at
the extraordinary prodigity of nature.
cannot tell you the majesty of the
immense tropical forests of Negros
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 the val
liable herbs and barks to be had il the
same forests. The traveller in the
backwoods in the Philippines sees in
the great forests ebony, logwoOd, iron
wood, sapan wood, and cedar; between
the gardens and the forests the fruiting
trees, the orange, mango, tamarind,
guaya, and cocoanut; in the cultivated
area sugar cane, rice, hemp, tobacco,
coffee, cotton, bananas, vanilla, cassia,
ginger, pepper, indigo, cocoa, pine.
apples, wheat and corn. The minerals
in those regions include gold, copper,
iron, coal, silver and saltpeter. From
the sea comes mother-of- pearl, coral,
tortoise shell, and amber. The animal
kingdom keeps pace with the vegetable
and the mineral. There are goats,
sheep swine, and tough little ponies.
"There are seventy VOLCANOES in con-
slant eruption on the islands. Several
of them are the most violent in the
world. An earthquake occurs on an
average of once every ten days. have
known small quakes to come at the
rate of a dozen day for a week
at q time. About dozen times
year there are shocks so severe that
people will run about in fright and
= much damage is done to buildings. In
1884 an earthquake killed 1000 people
and ruined many buildings. In the
great earthquake of 1860 it was estima
ted 1000 people were killed.
"Gambllng is universal in the Philip
! pines. l don't know any one, except
the half-civilized men, who does not dc
, some gambling, There are lotteries
galore. The government gets $1,000,
= 900 a year from the lotteries, and NJ
, matter how hard the times, how sac
, the islands may be over some frightfu
q calamity, there are always some lotter
! les in full blast.
"Manila is a delapidated old town
S 1t was founded in the latter part o
. The sixteenth century. There are OLE
o walls and battlements all about tn
< city. There have been less than a doz
/ en- fair, sized buildings erected in Ma
e Mia in the last ten years. Everything
s in the city is ancient. People live il
!, old, musty, two story houses that com
; flush with the narrow sidewalks. Al
a have dull, forbidding look with thei
q board blinds and heavy doors, whic
(. are seldom open. In the center of a
s most every house is an open cour
q known as the patio. All the rooms i
r: the house open on this patio, and Their
It the family hold their social gathering
g and eat their meals ten months in tn
|. year. A unique feature of all home
Y and offices in Manila is the use of tin
70 square panes of translucent oyste
e shells instead of glass. A window 81
IS feet long and four feet wide will col
2. tain 2GO of these oyster shell pane
y They temper the. fierce glare of the su
,c iE the buildingsihnd in country wheI
D. many people go blind from the col
Y. slant sunshine this is precaution
ID be taken.
n. ''Spaniards seldom remain long
n than five years in the Philippines
r indeed, if so long. As fast as they d
Il part for their native land newcome
y arrive to take their place. The island
re have been for generations region
e mhinh manila If inauanna at Ladr