Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-23
Fels-Naptha soap is a treas
ure: sc.
Your grocer returns the SC,
if you want it.
Fels & Co, makers. PhilsdelphIs.

which the town of Iloilo is. Quantities
If the same scarce mineral are also OBJ
tanned in northern Mindanao, but actu
ally no attempt has ever been made to
work any of these mines. Sulphur, lead
and copper in paving yields have been
found, while marble quarries exist from
which comes stone of fine quality. As
to the gold product in Mindanao and
elsewhere stories are told of its richness
that rival anything you have heard of
the Klondike. 1 do not know if they
are true or not. One may safely set
down as fact, however, that gold min
ing here offers tempting and remuner-
ative field. The deposits thus far found
are naturally mostly in placers, but
quartz gold is also known to exist.
1 never knew till came here where
manufacturers obtained the mother of
pearl shell from which revolver and
knife handles, opera glass frames, but
tons and so many other handsome arti-
cles are made. l find these shells are
exported in quantities that might be
increased fiftyfold from the Philippine
Islands, They are found especially in
the neighborhood of Jolo and the south
ern part of the Philippines, in the Sulu
archipelago islands, where the foot of
white man has scarcely so much as
trod. Pearls of great value and beauty
are also among the products of this Sulu
archipelago The climate there is cooler
than that of Manila
To say much in little, for the hunt
er, the daring explorer, the botanist
and naturalist. the tourist or the i'm
migrant seeking industrial and COM
mercial advantage there is not today
a richer region in which to operate than
these Philippine Islands, that have
tumbled down at our feet without our
expecting or asking for them.
Even now, in spite of the war, in
spite of the more than half uncivilized
character Of majority of the inhab-
itants of the country, the interisland
trade is so valuable that there is daily
steamer service between some of the
ports and a weekly, bi and tri weekly
one among others. Good sized seago-
ing vessels bring to Manila the cargoes
of rice, hemp, tobacco. etc, which are
shipped to other parts of the earth. The
right name of manila hemp, which is
not hemp at all, is abaca.
As it was in the beginning, 80 it is
and shall be apparently. From an old
historic record 1 find that Chinese cool
les and laborers did the hard and heavy
work of the Philippine Islands $50
years ago. They are doing it today, just
the same If the Chinese were as good
fighters as they are workers, they would
now own the earth. Chinese laborers,
merchants and mechanics having been
pouring into the islands since before
Magellan discovered them, there is
naturally a considerable admixture of
Chinese blood among the natives. These
Chinese mestizos were the most capable
and the most rebellious of her Spanish
majesty's subjects in the Philippines.
When the Americans first came to
Manila, it is no mae than truth to say
the natives welcomed them as superior
beings. They greeted the new white
men as friends and deliverers and
believed the American soldier was
honest and would not cheat them.
Consequently whatever the American
soldier said was money they took as
money. beer checks, patent medicine
advertisements and other trash. They