The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-18
A CHASTITY REHEARSAL.
Tale Of an Artist whs Has Returned
From the Philippinss.

HEOA tAo E1hAAWYhA8Ss
To have the details Of his intended de-
capitation rehearsed before him was the
experience that fell to the lot of G. W.
Peters, the artist who returned from the
Philippines recently.
1t was while he was lying in Filipino
Jail, a captive of General Montenegro's
forces, that Mr.. Peters was treated to
this nerve thrilling adventure. He was
captured while In the field near the wa
terworks, making sketches. His sketch
Ing outfit, camera and horse were seized,
and he was taken before General Monte
negro at San Juan de Monti and tried
us spy. This was on Feb. Of this
year. He was imprisoned there and the
next day was removed to CaloOcan.
In an interview Mr.. Peters thus de-
scribed his experience with Aguinaldo's
"Indians," as the Igorrotes are called:
"A score of these savages, fully armed
and with their naked bodies painted in
various colors. Dorced their way into my
cell in the Caloocan prison, and there, for
several hours. practiced on me the pre-
iminary motions of their favorite meth
DDS of putting enemies to death. This
was, of course, In the nature of re-
hearsal, but there seemed at the time no
sufficient reason for believing that the
performance would be long delayed. The
20 bowling savages danced about for sew
eral hours, touching me with the points
of their spears, threatening to cut me
down with their machetes and swinging
their battleaxes just SO as to Craze my
neck. They followed this up with an in
imitable representation of thrusting the
long point of the ak into my neck and
carrying off my head.
II thought it was all of with me, but
a captain came In and subdued the saw
ages, promising that each should have as
many American heads as he wanted just
as soon as the war between the Filipinos
and Americans was declared. 1t was
shortly after this that the outbreak &C.
curred."-San Francisco Post.
rESa:nH OF Inc "a ..~..
Goodwood has come and gone and as
social event has had this year one d!stin-
gushing characteristic. The difficulty of
the tall hat may be said to be at last set
tied. A few years ago the question had
not even arisen Park costume was de
rigueur. The prince was the first to lead
the revolt. He came down one year as
country gentleman 10 Vlsil Cou'es
race meeting. There were tall hats and
frock coats and something Of the male
costume of Frith's "Derby day" on the
lawns under the elms and in the paddock
and the grand stand. He was the excep'
ton. Next year the despotism was less
general.
A rule came t6sbe formulated and fol-
lowed which was, after all, but COM
promise. 1t was this: Country costume
OH the three days of the Goodwood week,
grand tenue on the Thursday, and the
reason given was that the princess al
ways came to Goodwood on the cup day.
This week has seen this irritating excep-
ton swept away. On Thursday the
prince wore a gray bowler hat with a
black band, the Duke Of Cambridge n
low brown pot hat, the Duke of York
low black one, Prince Soltykoff white
straw Honburg, the Duke OF Richmond
n tall black silk, the Earl of Mar an or,
binary straw boatcr. The varieties are
given in order to show that the liberation
Is complete. Chronicle.