The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-13
ALL
DISEASES
OF MEN

Not only are the outward evidences OF
head. Then Immediately our troops ana
the Spaniards presented arm While The
American flag was run up. our band NAV
ing The Star-Spangied Banner and lha
Helena firing a 2l-gun salute As soon as
this was done the Spaniards marched the
length of our troops while we presented
arms. and then both bodies marched 10
their quarters again. When the ceremony
was finished we came back to dinner.
Among the crowd watching the function
were some MOros, a feudal chief and a
number OF his retainers. Queer chaps they
all We're In their thin, skin-tight trousers
8aily-colored furbans, shirtless bodies COW
cred With thin Elton Jackets, embroidered
or plain; each one carried a sharp native
bolo stuck through his sash in a wooden
scabbard and some of them carried old
Remington rifles. One of the officers of
the Twenty. third had taken his bicycle, :ha
first ever seen or heard of in these ISL
ands. l think the Moros must have seen
magic in it, for the chief and his people
followed it and handled it as long as they
could, and their wondeFment and puzzle
ment We're laughable.
Bought II Gold Brick.
The presence of the Sultan there at that
time, or the cause of it rather, is the KEY
of the present situation. He went down
to see just where he and his kind are to
stand in the new administration, and his
future course depends upon the assurance
| he received. As far as | can understand
it, and the Spanish general does not seem
| very clear on the subject. from time i'm
memorial the Suu Archipelago has been
| ruled by the Sultan Independently of any
| foreign Power; has been independent, in
| fact Each year the Spanish government
| has paid a fixed sum to this SuItanate
M -
many have been doing the same Prac-
| tcaly these three Powers have been pay
| ing for privileges allowed them The privi-
| lege allowed the Spaniards was chat of
| living at Sulu. They never have collected
a cent of taxes or tribute The rights
| which the Spaniards ceded us in Sulu
| group were not right at all. as they had
| none to cede, and unless the Sultanate
! agree TO give us certain privileges. such
| as he may wish, we can claim nothing
| without interfering with the Independence
! OF people who have been independent for
| centuries under government they have
| established and held intact the whole time
| on the 10th the Leon XIII got away
| and took the inhabitants of Sulu with
! 1.-THE last representatives OF misrule
| of 300 years. Our captain visited the
| DatO or native chief of Sulu Che most
important man next to the sultan), and
| the Dato, with his suite of seven or eight
men, returned the visit within a short
| time, inviting the captain to visit him
again and bring a number of officers
| The Dato is a man of about 80 years.
| lighter as to complexion than the common
nerd and slight and graceful, but rather
| ioungy' and catlike in his movements
! His teeth are black and worn away from
| chewing betel nut and lime; otherwise he
| is fairly gOod-looking On his visit 10
the ship he was bareheaded and bare
rooted and was dressed in as kin-tight pair
OF kakee trousers, a bright sash and an
Elton jacket OF kakee, with bright embroid-
cry on 1t.
A Visit to the DatO.
On the following Monday we made visit
| to him. We started from the ship and
| went to the wharf at Sulu, where we pick
ed up some officers from the Princeton and
from the army post. Al noon we steamed
about five miles down the coast to the Da-
| to's house. His house, like that of the
| Malay in general. was built of piling some
distance out in the sea, and we reached II
in sailboat and climbed short, vertical
| rough ladder that led to a wide door open
ing into large, lofty room, its ceiling be-
ing the thatch of the roof There were
! two boatloads of us, and the first boat
| load, of which | was one, had to stand
around and wait until the second could
| come, bringing the senior officers and the
| interpreter, / in the meantime explaining
/
| tain would come later, the Chinaman ex-
| planning the same thing to the Dato, who
came in shortly after We got there.
| The room was very large one and fur
nished with table and large cahopied bed
| and numerous chests on the floor twenty
or thirty rifles on the walls and few bent
wooden chairs scattered about. OF these
| latter there were not enough when our
whole party had entered, so some nimbla-
footed Moros climbed under the thatch
and brought down more. We were ALI
| seated in a circle about the foot of the bed
where the Dato sat in state The bed
was a canopied one such as are used all
! over this country, with a rattan mattress,
| over which was spread a green coverlet
| Piled a the head Of the bed were numer-
Gus Sausage" cushions of green, with
white linen trousers on them The Dato
was dressed as 10 his legs in skln-tight ka-
| kee-coiored trousers; around his shoulders
was thrown a dark plaid, or rather this
| vas around his neck; his body was bare;
he was as polite as possible all the time
A Bumptious Boy.
His little son, about OF 10 years Of age,
was brought in and spoke 10 US and show
ed that he had inherited from his father
| the habit Of command. showing il in his
| looks and in the way hat he "b.ffed" and
| bit the other children that came In his
| way He was bare bodied and wore a pair
| of green brocade, wide trousers, with a
! broad white sash band that he would haul
| taul around his little brown body and tuck
II in at he waist. His father chewed betel
nut while he smoked cigarettes.
As soon as we had come there began to
| gather retainers, all armed with wicked
| looking "borongs' or kris" and a piratl-
cal-loolSing crew they we're. When we had
sat talking and looking for some tine the
! Dato asked II We cared 10 see the mar.
ket and sent men to guide us to 1t. AS we
passed from the big room to the platform