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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
A YOUNG vANDEnBnT uEno.

The Vanderbilt family has long ago
proved itself skillful in the amassing of
money A scion of the house has re-
Gently proved that there is also good
fighting stock there. The only member
OF the family who is now in the army at
Manila is at present corporal of the
First Washington volunteers. now sta
toned at the Philippine Islands.
This youth, according to a recent dis
patch, is to be promoted for bravery.
He is % years old, a grandson of old
Jacob Vanderbilt and a cousin of Will
liam X. and Cornelius Vanderbilt of
New York. He is wealthy in his own
rlght, but he left life of ease and lux
ury to carry rifle and be under the
command OF men whose incomes aver
age no more than $40 a week.
Young William HI. Vanderbilt, whose
nome IS at Tacoma, sailed for Manila as
a private in Company and was pro-
NOTED to be corporal in short time.
1t is now stated that he is soon to re-
ceive commission.
Vanderbilt has been with his COM
pany in the hottest fighting done around
Manila. For two weeks not a man in
Company had an opportunity to re-
move his clothes, their position being
close against the Filipino lines. They
had to.repulse night attack almost ey-
cry q hours, and when the word. came
to attack in their turn they were in the
forefront of the charge.
One night, when the company was
awakened by heavy firing from the FL
1pinos, Vanderbilt and his comrades
fired so rapidly in volleys and the resist
ance was SO stubborn that every man,
when the attack was finally repealed,
found that from $50 to 200 cartridges
had gone from his belt.
1t was Companies C and Fl of the First
washington volunteers that captured
the two Krupp guns from a large body
OF rebels when the first preconcerted
general attack on Manila was made.
Vanderbilt is popular with his COM
rades and with his officers. He has de-
veloped into fine soldier since his en-
ilstment in last May, and his friends
here are all confident that when he re-
turns it will be with bars on his Shout
der and a sword at his side
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the canvas sacks that held his shot
In the jungle the black ants travel in
what looks like a moving thick black
rope, and woe to the man who would
interfere with the onward march of that
well disciplined army of insects. Scor-
pions and centipeds; are also abundant,
the sting Of the one and the bite of the
other producing great pain and fever
and sometimes proving fatal.
Those Filipinos who have been
brought into touch with the refining in
fluences of Castilian official life show
the usual mimetic instinct OF the saw
age by an imitation of European So
cial functions and characteristics where
circumstances will permit. Professor
Worcester recounts an experience of his
which shows how thin on the native the
veneer of this SO called civilizatfo real
ly is. During his stay in the Philippines
the American naturalist was entertain
ed by some wealthy mestizos at a very
grand dinner. The huge table was set
with fine linen, cut glass and solid sill
yer, while all the guests sat in upho1-
stored chairs and conducted themselves
with due regard for the proprieties. The
next day at noon the professor returned
to the house to make inquiries about q
fountain pen he had lost during the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

cape and is again overtaken She never
really escapes, and her assumed re-
siStance is only in compliance with es-
tabfished traditions regarding correct
maldenly modesty among these heather
tribes
Another race, known as the Tagals,
IS almost as interesting as the Negri-
tos themselves, though slightly above
them in civilization. The Tagals dwell
in the lowland country and build prim-
tive looking huts on piles. They are
more or less engaged in agricultural
pursuits and grow tobacco, rice sugar,
hemp and mangoes. They are fond of
personal decoration and will tog them
selves out in any piece of bright metal
or shells on which they can lay hands.
Their corn is ground in an old fashioned
mortar with a pestle, and their methods
of manufacturing their different little
domestic tools and implements are
primitive in the extreme
The island of Siquijor, which lies Is
miles to the southeast of Dumaguete. is
a land of mangrOve Swamps and ma
laria and has never been very inviting
to the white man. 1t is accordingly of
especial interest to the ethnologist and
the naturalist, few of whom have been
successful in piercing to it's interior
A missionary has been living on the
island for some time, and Sunday is
sort of fete day among the natives.
People come f1ocking into the town of
SiQuijor, which is the capital of the is
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from Iloilo, is rough and billy coun-
try, but one Of the most healthful of the
philippines. The soil is poor, the entire
island being coated with a layer of
limestone, and only the cocoanut palm
is able to flourish. The chief town of
the island is called Salag Dako, which
means literally "big nest" Here the
natives make an intoxicating liquor
from fermented palm sap.
The island of Samar, which is one of
the largest of the Philippines and lies
in the west of the center of the archi-
pelago, is slightly more civilized than
its neighboring island settlements. Cat
balogan, the capital, is a small. clean
and rather businesslike town lying on
the north shore of a fine bay on the
west coast. There are several prosner-
Gus little shops in the town. the chief
business of the island being the buying.
curing and baling of "abaca." the ma.
tive term for the far famed Manila
hemp. Samar is noted for its Immense
pythons. Poisonous snakes, in fact. are
TO De found throughout the Philippines,
but they do not cause a serious loss of
me as rule. The most numerous ia
talities occur in the little island of In
oahg, winch lies north of Mindoro and
is Stunned by the white man. A great
number of Chinese have migrated to
and settled in Samar, they and their
industrious descendants being the bust
ness classes of the people. Inland are
to be found many "remontados,' or ma
tIves who have taken to the mountain
Gus woods to avoid the payment of tax
es. Here they live on yams, mountain
rice, bananas and all live stock and food
stuff on which this light fingered gentry
can lay their unconscientious hands.
Romblon is another small island al
most unknown in the south, with tiny
harbor and a squalid little village with
the same name as the island for it's
capital. The surface of the island is
rough and broken, and such a thing as
road is unknown. The entire island is
under the domination of a wealthy
Spanish planter, who has always got
along comfortably with the natives,
whom he treats with honesty and up
rightness. The growing of ''abaca' is
the chief industry, and the natives are
unusually peaceable and industrious.
One great pest of all the Philippines
is the ants, which overrun everything.
There are red and black and white ants.
big ants and small ants. They tunnel
their way into houses. They attack
wood and clothing, food stuff and furni-
ture. When Professor Dean Worcester
was in Panay, ne discovered one day
that they had eaten his heavy wooden
chests and devoured all the clothing in
side, besides gnawing the pasteboard
boxes from around his cartridges and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

devices on the dial of the clock, and the
inventor says that he will add others
that will greatly increase the value of
the machine. Another assertion he
makes regarding his invention is that
just such clock was owned by Christ.
Wagner is not at all abashed at being
called crank, but rather likes it. for he
reflects that all great men, inventors as
we'll as philosophers, were considered
cranks in their day, at least to begin
with. He is prepared to show that the
clock already has wonderful powers,
and he declares that when complete it
will give the time in any part of the
world and will be regulated by the
movement of the sun, so that it can
never get out of order.
Wagner's theory appears to be that
all occurrences have been recorded in
some way by the motion of the heaven
ly bodies and that with the proper
mechanism all this history can be
brought out and revealed to the world
in exact form, instead of being made up
of a tumble of conjecture and falsehood.
Daniel Decatur Emmett, the author
of ''Dixie," recently celebrated his
eighty fourth birthday. He courts soli-
tude and describes himself as hermit
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
SOME LITTLE KNOWN
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

arrows, and in their use the girls of the
tribe are as adept as the males. When
hunting game, the Negrito uses poison
ed arrows, cutting away the tainted
part of the animal he has wounded with
his primitive shaft. The poison they
use is still mystery to the white man.
It's effect is peculiar, for the man or an
imal injured by one of these arrows is
suddenly seized by an Unsuitable thirst,
but as soon as water is touched death
at once enSues.
All efforts to ciyilize these tribes have
been unsuccessful Spanish missionaries
have taken them in hand and attempted
to educate some of their most promising
young men, but as soon as they were
liberated they at once went back to-
their old tribes and their old ways of
life. Unlike the marriage customs Of
most barbaric races, the Negrito takes
unto himself but one wife and their
married life is a remarkab bly, honorable
one. The method of courtship is curl
Gus. The maiden about to be welded is
pursued by her sutton and takes to the
woods. She feigns to resist capture.
and when caught again makes her es-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
KLONDIKE s
AT PARIS,

Three passengers from Alaska recent
| ly landed at Victoria, b. c., on their
way across the continent to Paris. Their
names are Count de Rouloux, M. p E.
de Wick and DR.. Trewayne. These three
men are French aeronauts and scien-
lists, who went north about year go
IN order to attempt a voyage by balloon
into the polar regions in search of An
dree. Their balloonwas afterWard sold
to the United States government for
war purposes, and the three men went
to Alaska without it to study the con-
ditions now existing in the Yukon val
ley. They soon abandoned their idea Of
getting another balloon and starting
from place so far north because of the
difficulty of obtaining the necessary
chemicals for the manufacture of the
lnflatlng gas and also because the eli
matte conditions prevailing in those re-
glons were found to be unfavorable for
making an ascent there
Dr. Trewayne, however, is nothing If
not original, and he has conceived an
IDEA daring in its originality and mag
innocent in its possibilities 1t is nothing
less than an imitation Klondike to he
SHOWN at the Paris exposition next wear
Inc doctor and his friends have in
terested several of the millionaires of
Dawson City in his scheme and money
is the least of the questions troubling
the enthusiastic Frenchman His main
idea now is to lay the plans before the
managers of the exposition before all
the spaces left shall have been given to
conceSSionnaires.
The plans in regard to the Klondike
scheme are to contract a replica of
Dawsen's main streets. log cabins,
dance halls and other features of the
metropolis of the north It is to be
peopled with genuine Klondikers and
also show an actual representation of
the mining opera tons carried on along
the creeks There is to be so much
realism about it that gold dust would
De scattered about and be washed up
in orthodox fashion, and as far as pos
sible the scenery in the neighborhood
would be duplicated.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
wAGNER's REMARKABLE CLOCK

A man named Jacob Wagner of Mag
ara Falls has been at work for the past
ten years on a clock which he has re-
Gently completed and for which he pre-
diets remarkable things. His personal
ity. as well as the appearance of the
mechanism of the clock, has made him
quite a local celebrity
He has already spent $4,000 on the
clock, and says that it will be worth
100000 when finished. To all appear
ances the clock looks finished now 1t is
about LIZ inches square and has only one
hand, by which he is able to tell the
position, so he asserts, as we'll as the
ages of the sun, moon and stars These
records are made possible by means of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

peculiar sort. The cylinder is inserted
in the piston and with sharp blow
driven home, at once COMPRISING the
air and generating sufficient heat to ig-
mite the dry plant hair. The piston is
pulled out at once and the spark SO OBJ
tanned is soon blown up into a flame.
On the south shores of the little
known island of Tawi Tawi are several
scattered bands of slave, hunting Moros,
who are still actively engaged in piracy
and similar pursuits 1Tawi Tawi is COW
cred with dense forests and the surface
of the island is made up of rough and
broken hills. This condition renders the
place an excellent point of refuge for
fugitives from justice and brigands Of
all sorts. Though there was once lit
tie Spanish garrison at Tataan. the is
land is now entirely given over to its
undesirable occupants.
The island of Guimaras, which is only
some six miles across a stormy strait
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

land, by the hundreds, and after at
wares and gossip hurry away to a
neighboring cockpit to enjoy their ia
vorite pastime of cockfighting. This
sport the authorities by. no means put
down, converting it into very accept
able source of revenue. The fighting is
controlled by law and is allowed on
Sundays and feast days only. A fee was
charged for each fight, and percentage
on all bets claimed by the authorities.
AS all the natives of the island, and, in
deed, of the entire archipelago, are in
veterate gamblers the revenue once OBJ
tanned through the medium of the hum
BILE fighting cock was by no means in
considerable 2 ss-. S.. .s,
The native tradition regarding the
birth of their island is to the effect
that it was thrown up by the angry
sea and that cloud rested over it for
many days, while there were strange
noises and the flashes of many light
nings. The island is. nothing but a
stretch of limestone rock, and the ira
dition obviously sprang from the fact
that the island is of volcanic formation
having been at some remote time heav-
ed up out of the bosom of the Pacific
Travellers who have visited this island
have been impressed by the strange and
wonderful methods by which the ma
tiveS light fire. This is done by mere
ly rubbing together two pieces of we'll
dried bamboo. One piece of bamboo is
shaped like knife blade, and the 9TH
er has long, narrow slit cut in it, The
two pieces are fitted together, and then
the fire maker steadily and slowly rubs
the two pieces of wood together. In 80
seconds the rubbing grows more rapid
and energetic, and smoke 7curls up The
firemaker then. suddenly strikes the
bamboo pieces sharp. blow to dis
lodge any live sparks that may be cling
ing to either piece, and pressing down
few fine shavings on them. he quickly
blows the spark up into a flame.
In another part Of the more remote
Philippines the natives, have still more
ingenious device for making fire. 1t is
known as the "fire syringe and is in
common use among oAelor two of the
wilder tribes. This fires syringe is fash
toned Of a buffalo hornoin the form of
cylinder, with closed base and open top,
into which an airtight piston fits. On
the front face of this piston is hollow
which is filed with dry plant hairs of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

the only Millionaire in the world it de-
rives added interest. He lives in Kim
berley, South Africa, and is rated as a
Millionaire. Mr.. Bright is 81, heavily
built man with gray hair. 1t was his
ambition as boy to become the rich
est man in the world, and, strange to
say. he has accomplished his purpose.
Bishop Huntington (EpiscopaD of
Syracuse vetoed the proposed celebra-
ton of the completion of the thirtieth
year of his episcopal service on the
ground that the money and time are
needed for church work.
DR.. Cahell Whitehead. .assayer Of the
United States mint, who will soon be-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

married % years Feb 230 The Duke and
Duchess Carl-Theadep,s in Batavia. cele-
brate their silver wedtliig April 90, and
the Grand Duke and Duchess Vladimir
OF Russia will complete the twenty
fifth year of their married life Aug. %.
The favorite sport of the mikado is,
like that of most of the Indian princes,
horse racing, but he allows no betting.
and the price of admission to the races
is placed so high that only the upper
classes can attend. The mikado's sta
bles accommodate about 5000 animals.
1t is said that John C. Bright is COM
ing to visit America. His name is or
binary, but when it is known that he IL
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

huge farms on which he raises nothing
but mint, and his venture has proved
very profitable.
A memorial to the late William Black
is now being promoted. According to a
communication from Lord Archibald
Campbell committee has. been formed
for the purpose. 1t is proposed that
friepdsaand admirers of the late novelist
throughout the world be invited to con-
tsibykes The memorial may take the
form 81 a ifeboat for the west coast of
Scotland, provided that useful posi-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

Of Daniel Webster by popular subscrip-
ton, and an association for that pur-
pose is to be organized. 1t is the inten-
ton to purchase the historic farm on
which the great statesman was born in
Franklin, N. H.
General Sir Arthur Cotton is one of
England's oldest soldiers, being in his
ninety-sixth year. On four different oc
casions his medical advisers told him
he had not week to live, and ga years
liagossWhen serving in Persia, his grave
was dug in readiness for his occupa-
Iltfefi.s
= President Loubet of France is a COM
slant pipe smoker.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

come the sultan's director general of in
dustries, is native of Lynchburg, Va,
and is So years of age. He is a gradu-
ate of Lehigh and Columbia universe
ties.
Captain c. Rath, who had charge of
the execution of the four persons who
conspired to assassinate President Lin
coin in 1865, is at present railway post
al clerk and lives at Jackson, Mich.
The United States consul at Tux
pan, Mexico, says that fortunes are to
be made in the cultivation Of the vac
nilla bean in Mexico.
There, is movement on foot to Sc
cure the preservation of the birthplace
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, the Bos-
ton banker and formerly United States
minister to France, has presented to the
Massachusetts, Historical society col
lection of upward of 1900 autograph let
ters written by Thomas Jefferson, his
ancestor. none of which is a duplicate
of any in the collection of congress.
Peppermint Todd, the fusion con-
gresham who represents the Third
Michigan district, is so called because
he became millionaire in the manu-
facture of peppermint extract. He has
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

ton be found for it there. Two of the
northern lights commissioners are now
investigating the matter.
Koloman Sell, the Hungarian pre-
mier, is Sc, man of urbane manners
and benevolent disposition, but fer
vent politician.
Speaking of Mr.. Choate, the London
Daily News says, Really, our luck in
American ambassadors seems mex
haustible.''
The celebration of three silver we'd
dings in the royal families of Europe
during 1899 may be noted, the first of
which was that of the Duke and Ouch
ess Of xe-Coburg- Gotha, who were
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
Those OF Our New Possessions OF
Which Practically Nothing
Has Hitherto Been
Published.
pECULIARITlES OF THE INHABITANTS

to teach that the nation that attempts
to interfere with that faith will find
nothing but trouble on its hands. The
advent of the gunboat of course was a
great discourager of the Sulu islanders
acknowledged profession of piracy. The
intrusion of the American jacky will
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
MAxIMs IMITATION DIAMONDS.

Hiram S. Maxim. the celebrated in.
ventor, has devised a process for max
ing species of carbon which closely. if
not completely, resembles diamond and
will be far less expensive than the nat
ural diamond. The substance when OBJ
tanned is used in the manufacture OF
filaments for high voltage incandescent
lamps, which require carbon posses1-
ing high resistance and made of
highly refractory material.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09

evenings engagement and was astound-
ed to- find his entertainers of the even
ing before now squatting on the table
and devouring rice and fish out of one
common dish with their fingers.
~ ROBERT w. WILCOX.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1899-11-24

The travelling salesmen Of Ohio wer'
practically sold for Mckinley in 1896.
The trusts have been forcing this class ol
men out OF employment at such a rate
as to bring them to realization OF the
beauties OF Hannaism. At q meeting oi
travelling sslesmen held at Columbus,
Oct. 2Sth.. the following pointed resolu
tlons were adopted:
Whereas, By comparison Of prices oi
1899 az against those Of 1895, we find an
advance Of from so to 100 per cent in al
most every household necessity and.
Whereas, The Honorable Marcus A.
Hanna. the political godfather Of the re.
publican party, takes great pleasure In
declaring trusts are good thing; there.
fore,
Resolved, That We dsnounce the re
publican party as the mother Of trusts,
and pledge orr beet efforts to defeat
Hannaism,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1899-11-24

Expansion has always signified the ex-
tension Of our institutions through the
enlargement Of orr frontiers. Irnperial-
ism is not the diffusion of American coE-
atitusionslism over new lsnds. but the
establishment in conquered of territory
by this government Of another Lovern-
ment radically ir:eeoncileble to the spir.
il OF our own constitution and essepIisl.
ly hostile to it."-Bnrk Cochran at anti-
imperial conference.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1899-11-24

A skunk once challenged lion 70 sin
sle combat. The lion promptly declined
tue hoaor. .sHow," said the SKUNK
s'are you airaid?" Every much so,"
said the lion; "ior you would only gain
fame for having the honor to hight with
lion while every one who met me for
month would know l had been In com
pany with skunk" "
This reminds us Of the story about
Henry Ward Beecher's father who. when
asked V by be did not reply to somebody
who bad severely attacked him In .
newspaper. replied that when . youag
man, crossing field ons hight with an
armful Of books, he saw . small animal
and after huiling several volumes at it.
found he got the worst of It, and ever
since had thought it better to let such
animals alone.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1899-11-24

The county court 10 spending abou I
tlc0 fixing up the ylver at Brownsville
which runs directly through the city, and
entiiely for the benefit Of the city, 90
protection. This is almost equal TO
town clock. The improvement is
needed one.
A convention OF members OF the Chris
tian Missionary Alliance was begun In
the Pearee Memorial church this after
noon at 2;30 o'clock. Sessions will be
held, mornings. afternoon and evening
until after Sunday.
MiV. Il. II. Case has sold her fine black
horse TO Mr.. Frank skipton for $3.50.
The horle recently tTotted in 2:47 and Is
one OF the prettiest roadsters in the val
ley.
q The Night Owls, presented few years
ago in Albany with such success will
again he given on Dec. 18th. epecially
re arranged by the author Mr. Char.
BuFggrsf for the occasion. There will be
another packed houte.