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are making money. Both hotels and sa.
looms pay high licenses.
American ProfessiOnaI Men.
and sa-


There are a number of our professional
men who have hung out their signs in Ma
Mia. There are half dozen lawyers and
an equal number of dentists and doctors.
The dentists all busy and they all tell
me they are doing well. j know one who
made 500 silver last week and who
claims that he has made as high as 5000
and upward a month. All of the dentists
have high charges. Their custom is among
both the Filipiuos and Americans. Some
OF them occasionally make trips over tho
country, going from army post to army
post to attend to the teeth of the soldiers.
There are several American importing
and exporting firms here. but none far
are doing a very large business. The most
Of the importers deal largely In liquors, adj
vertising extensively the different brands
of American whistles.
There are several photographers, who are
doing well. They charge - cents for views.
de visites. and get big prices for portrait
here for a good Photographic supply house
and for retail dealers in photographing ma
terials.
There Is an American barber shop, an
American shoe shop, one or two American
street peddlers, and. in fact, Americans or
all trades. classes and conditions.
/ would say. however. that there ls no
chance here for the small peddler and not
much for the small dealer. The Chinese
have all the petty retail business. and they
can live cheaply that the petty Ameri-
can cannot compete with them.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Revived After Being SUBMERGED
for Quarter of an Hour

From the Philadelphia Record
After being submerged in thirty feet Of
water for fifteen minutes and then being
pulled out unconscious and almost dead
nineteen-year-Old James Woodward a
sailor Of the British steamer Belgenland
was last evening miraculously resusc:tated
through the combined efforts of the crew
of the police tug Visitor, Police Surgeon
Naylor and the physicians of the Pennsyl-
vana Hospital
The Belgenland has been lying at Wash
ing;on avenue wharf and while working
on deck last evening Woodward was SO af-
fected by the excessive heat that he be-
came mentally deranged. tore his clothing
of ami jumped overheard The spot where
he plunged, because of its great depth. is
known 10 rivermen as Dead Mans Dive"
Notwithstanding the fact that the water
was so deep, Woodward sank with such
force tina, he reached the bottom and stuck
in the mud.
The crew of the Visitor. which is sta
toned nearby, was notified and the men
Immediately set TO work with graphing
irons to recover the body. 1t was fifteen
minutes before they found it, and when
Woodward was brought on shore it was
thought that he was dead. Nevertheless
the harbor policemen began the usual
methods of resuscitating partially drowned
persons, ana after hours hard work
IN winch they were reinforced by Surgeon
Nasior, they were rewarded by seeing
oodward breathe and open his eyes He
Wds theh hurried to the Pennsylvania Hos
piiai where he became violent that II
was found necessary to strap him tn the
ped Although he is delirious il is Thought
he VIII recover from his horrible experience.
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The Anti-IrnDerfalist.

From the Denver Times
He hurled arattemata and invec.iyes bv the s.or.
And maiiy FACED and tore his hair and yioIantiv
swore, ei''iS
And raised ii great disturbance i'm the cr,um. p,,,.
ar 49, "iA"hipieht
As he Yelled Keep out of China, for we've go. 10
He stopped you the corner and he sawed and
cIssed and -aved anu
Until you thought him looney from the way that
h. behaved ~
He backed You gairst a building and he us,un5a5 in
rou- face "
Emphatic condemnation OF the whole Caucasian
We've got to take our horns in. and we've got to
do II quick. "
And il Mckinley doesn't, why, Wen make McKin-
hope the chi.iks viii slaughter every white man in
the lot, 1880 49,
And that not interloper ever leaves the bloody
spot.
You might miss him on one corner, but you'd meet
him ON the rest,
And he'd lam his doctrines at You, this circumfor.
aneouS pest,
With wild aGd frantic frenzy till you sworo bta
rah.i 81. ~
That yo,d ha=,rrsize hts features II he didn't lock
his chin.
Then ON day the news came over, like ray Of
summer SIN.
That t. foreigners were rescued-that the god
wG:k had been done
And this crazy, rab:d frantic frothny anarchistic
Kicked hoe clean through his brand new hat and
yelled:
'.Hooray
usi
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ished and the receipts from the markets
for the three days following were only 81
per day. 1t was turned over to one Of the
United States collectors, and the receipts
rose soon to $50 day. Shortly after this
an American paid the government $50 a
day to collect the taxes, and it is currently
reported that he then made $50 day in
addition. This a rise of more than
$500 per day in the actual receipts. Then
the provost marshal took the collection of
these taxes into his own hands. He saw
that every person paid his tax, and within
two months the city was receiving $3.50 per
day. 1t is now getting from 1919 to s625 a
day, and the receipts are still rising
The charges for market places show just
how every trade is taxed. Every transient
peddler pays l cent per day for each square
meter of ground she occupies l say She
for the marketing is done almost altogether
by women. If the place is occupied for a
week it is considered permanent, and even
If the woman has only basket her tax
may be raised as high as - cents per
square meter None are charged, however
more than 50 cents per day, or S24 per
month, for the right to sell in the market,
and this last charge is for a space about as
large as the average American parlor or
about sixteen feet wide by twenty-five feet
long.
The Deddlers on boats in the canals pay
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All storekeepers pay heavy taxes. Those
who deal in hardware. Jewelry and optical
goods are charged from S4o0 to SLAB per
annum, provided they act also as importers.
If they buy from middlemen the charges
are reduced one-half. Shoemakers who i'm
port pay 500 per annum, drug stores $500,
hardware stores $500 and small shops SELL
ing wine, beer and canned goods, $50.
Chinese druggists are charged $500, and
Chinese provision stores 500.
There is a tax here on the butcher, the
baker and the candle stick maker. The
barber pays so much every three months,
and this is so with many other tradesmen.
There is not a man or a woman doing bust
ness in Manila who is not taxed. and even
the market peddler who brings in a basket
of vegetables has to pay her toll before she
can sell.
Land of Concessions.
A large number of the businesses in the
past have been monopolies farmed cut by
the government. There is a beer brewery
here which claims that it alone has the
right to make beer in the Philippines until
1910. The company has already made a
fortune and today no other brewery can
be started until its concession is with
drawn. 1t has, / am told, violated the
terms of its contract with the government
In that 1t agreed to sell beer in Manila at
price up to the time that the Americans
came in, when 1t jumped to 40 cents per
Etre, which is its present charge
The collection of the taxes of different
classes has in the past been farmed out at
auction. The man who inspected the
weights and measures of the city paid
5000 for the privilege, although the ac-
tual income from such inspection. accord
ing to his report, amounted to 81 400 a year
He. of course, made the difference between
this amount and his profits by blackmail-
Ing and squeezing
The collection OF the taxes at the mar
ketS done in the same Way. When
the government took charge this was abol-
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stood Sentry Over Himself.

From the London Star.
The Dutch commandant who had charge
Of all the British prisoners taken after the
battles of Glencoe, Dundee and Nicholson $
Mex has told Mr.. Davitt the following in
teresting little story:
Going his rounds at midnight on one &C.
casion he was astounded to see an English
soldier acting as Boer sentinel over the
prisoners, and on the commandant demand
ing an explanation Tommy" offered the
following extraordinary account of his
transformation from prisoner to sentinel
over himself and fellow prisoners: We'll,
sir, this ere poor little chap" pointing to
the sleeping form of Boer lad fifteen years
old, was dead broke for sleep after two
nights Of dooty. l takes pity on the little
chap, and 1 says, Look ere, you're regular
done up, you are. that's sartin. You give
me your rifle and take a bit o sleep. and
I'll do sentry go for YOU, 1 will. Honor
bright! 1 won't do nothink wrong, blow me
If l do?' So the little chap went off. It's
all right. sir; don't you blime him, please;
he is only a kid
Il was assured adds Mr. Davitt, that
neither the kid nor the kind hearted En-
giish prisoner suffered over the unique Incl
don
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the news is sent out from headquarters,
the matter of a month year making no
difference. The custom house is still man.
aged on the Spanish system. the old Span
ish duties being in force. The tarin is col
lected chiefly on the weight of the goods,
and quality and price make little difference.
Take the matter of jewelry, for instance.
If silver dollar weighing 412 grains were
handed over to a; jeweier and turned :nto
a bracelet and gold dollar weighing
twelve grains of gold were made into a
ring and set with four hundred grains Of
diamonds, the two articles coming into a
Manila custom house would pay the same
duty. One might be actually worth but two
dollars and the other $4,000, but the weight
would govern the tariff. A pound of canned
tomatoes selling for ten cents in gold and
pound of ported chicken worth fifty cents
would pay the same tariff. and so II is with
scores of other things. Furniture pays It's
way by the pound and so do silks, velvets
and wrapping papers. 1t is the same with
carpets and cottons, with hemp, marble
and drugs, and, in fact, with almost every
importation.
How Not to Do 1t.
The custom house is doing big business,
but it seems to be run on the plan that
Dickens characterized as 1.-The science of
how not to do IT, 1t has an army of
clerks. many of whom are soldiers, and
others civfl officers, but 1t lacks men who
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l cent per day per square meter of boat
surface, or an amount ranging from 3 cents
to 20 cents, according to whether they have
dugout canoes or cargo boats.
A concession was given for the collection
of taxes on horses, wagons and draft ami
mails this sold for about $4,000 for
a term of three years, and on this contract
l am told, one man recently made more
than 5000 a month. Large profits were
made on other things of the same nature
and, indeed, almost every fat government
JOB was a concession
American Business in Manila.
Manila is rapidly putting on its American
clothes. You see American signs on every
street, and although most of the businesses
SO far started are small, the day will come
when there will be large American stores
here handling all kinds of American goods
AT present We have an American drug
store. 1t is a big one, and it does a large
business in novels, light literature and sta
tionery as well as in quinine and pills
There is one American jewelry store. There
should be more. for an enormous amount
of jewelry Is sold here. The people invest
most of their savings in diamonds and gold
ana SILVER ornaments. There are large for
eign stores selling watches and precious
stones, and also East Indian merchants
who handle silverware and all kinds of
1eWelry. l understand the stores are hay-
ms iiidHS ueLldnuS lOF american watches
So far the most that l have seen are of
Swiss make. They are sold at low prices
and are much bought by the soldiers. Our
American watch companies should study
this market and push their goods
one young American is making a fortune
mere In selling fine confectioneries, soda
water, Ice cream and American bread He
opened with small shop, but he has now
one or the biggest places on the Escolta
and Is increasing his business every day
Another successful eSta blishment is called
tne american Bazaar. 1t sells all kinds OF
american goods, and see that its adyer-
!isement In today's newspaper states that
Il mas ten tons of gents furnishing goods
just In from Frisco. Among the items
mentioned are thirty kinds of complete
suits of underwear, and certain garter
at 81 Mexican, which will wear five years.
10 cents year."
Hotels and Boarding Houses.
The chief business that the ex-soldier
goes into in Manila.i is the opening of hotels
and boarding houses. You find Yankee
hotels and restaurants everywhere, adyer-
tised under all kinds of names One is
called Mothers Home" another the Ore
gon Hotel and third the "Washington
Restaurant" We have the Hoffman
House." the "Astor House." the CONNER
cial," the Golden Eagle" the United
States" the Californian" and a dozen and
one other places where you can get cold
iced beer and coffee like your mother
makes" AS to saloons they are to be
bound everywhere, and all the saloon men
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films, worth ST., which were shipped to me
from Hong Kong. The shipment and the
bills Were all in regular order, and the duty
was only matter Of 81 cents. but II took
me n whole half day to pay it. When l
said | was in a hurry for the goods l
was told that they could not be possibly
passed through the customs house in one
day. l tried to get them nevertheless and
thereupon began my labors which lasted
from morning until noon. The box had to
be hunted up and weighed. Then the rolls
of films We're taken out and weighed one
by one, the wrapping paper being placed
top to see that it paid its share of the duty.
II had then TO make out declaration in trip
icate and to chase this from one clerk to
another, through the various offices of the
custom house | venture that a least
twenty-five clerks each passed on that
p cents worth Of duty, each carefully in
dcrsing the three papers and passing them
on TO the next In many instances record
was made in the books. and at last | was
given paper and told TO go to the cashier
and pay the duty. After this | got my
box ] was much better treated than the
ordinary customer being invariably pushed
forward in advance of The Filipinos and
Chinese who were waiting by the score to
have their wants attended to.
can see how this custom system might
have been a profitable to the Spanish
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and nearly ali the men, and the fresh white
or bright colors of their clothes in the
sunlight make a picture which once seen
is never forgotten. The poorest native al
ways has something neat and clean to
wear TO church.
The homes of the poor people in the
Philippines are simple that the house,
wife does not have to work hard to keep
them in order. There are no beds, for at
night the family unroll their bamboo mats
and stretch out upon the floor. During the
day chairs are not In the least essential,
the native being much happier when squat
ted on the ground or the floor, like a mon
key. Sometimes a chest or two, the rolled
UP bamboo mats, a few cooking utensils
of earthenware, and the figure of a saint
are the only furnishings of native house.
To well-dressed Filipino woman her
underclothes are of much concern as
her outer garments, and some of the trous
seaux provided by a fond and indulgent
papa for his daughter would be the envy
of any woman in the west. These trouS-
seaux are almost always made at the con-
vents. being embroidered by the pupils, I'M
der. the supervision OF the sisters. The
needlework is exquisite. being mostly an
openwork on 'pena" and various kinds of
linen. The trousseaux always include
dozens of eXquisitely embroidered hand
kerChiefs. The work is always done in
frames, which are rested on stands. and as
soon part is finished a paper covering
Is carefully stitched over it.
Love Fine Embroidery.
The learning to embroider is one of the
principal features of young girls educa-
ton throughout the islands Whenever it
can be afforded the daughters of family
are sent to convent to be educated. Not
necessarily in Manila. for they have been
established at many important points in
LuZon and in cities of the southern islands,
like I!oilo and Cebu. The openwork en-
broidery is not the only variety taught
by the sisters. Ecclesiastical embroidery
is also considered necessary in this coun-
try, where the number of churches and
priests necessitate large supply of church
vestments, and this is often rich and heavy
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THE FILIPINO WOMEN
Extremely Neat About Themselves,
but Careless Other Ways.
HAVE NO IDEA OF SANITATION
Home Life So Simple That Hard
Work is Not Necessary.
THEIR FINE EMBROIDERY

Written for The Evening Star.
Much has been said of the dirt of Manila,
but if one separates cleanliness and sani-
fairness. then the Filipinos, while generally
clearly, are acknowledged to have abso-
lutely no idea of what 1t means to live in a
sanitary way.
While a Filipino housewife will throw her
garbage directly outside her front door, and
live happily in atmosphere laden with
smells. the interior of her house is general
ly tidy and she herself almost always neat
in her appearance.
Another thing. if bathing is not so fire.
quent in the Philippines as 1t is in America,
the women-both high and low-shampoo
their hair much more frequently and think
nobody well regulated who cannot find time
to do this at least once a week. Most of
the women have long and beautiful hair
albeit it is all Of the same dusky shade,
and take pride in wearing it flowing freely
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are skilled in customs work. 1t has host
of F'ilipinos TO help the other clerks, and
Notwithstanding this ii takes from a day
to a month to get a shipment of goods
through it. If you are in a hurry the Off
Gals will advise you to go and get 4 GUS
toms house broker to attend to your mat
tiers, and after you have attempted once or
twice to do the work yourself you glad
to take the advice. The delay may be due
TO the Spanish system, although it seems to
me that the red tape of the army has some
thing to do with ii.
Take an experience which I had with the
office myself as ar instance. 1t related to
a package of a dozen rolls of Photographic
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Dangers of Boating.

From the New York Weekly.
Clara-"When George and 1 are married
am to have my own way In everything"
Dora-"Guess you WON'T
Clara-"Indeed 1 will. That's the bar
gain. Don't you remember / told you he
proposed to me in a rowboat, and asked
if I'd float through life with him just that
way?"
YES"
well, he was rowing. but was steer
ing"
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officials, where. as a rule, every clerk col
lected his toll, but it is radically wrong for
Americans, and it should be changed at
once. The commercial travellers who are
here from the United States are complain
ing about it. They say it interferes with
their business and they can do nothing on
account of it. Indeed the slowness of the
customs service of Manila has been so no.
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and as beautifully done as the tapestry
Of our ancestors In fact, d Filipino girl
Is not educated till she can do all kinds OF
delicate sewing.
ANNA NORTHEND BENJAMIN
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Didn't Work.

From the Chicago News.
Hardup-"Fm very sorry, but can't pay
you today. You see, the grocery man has
just been here, and"
Butcher Qnterrupting)-"Yes, / just met
him, and he said you put him off because
you had to pay me. So here's the BILL
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Loves Helping Hand.

From the Indianapolis Journal
Belinda, If my salary were raised we
could be married tomorrow
"All right, Augustus: I'll write your en-
ployer an anonymous letter and tell him
we both think he 10 q mean Cd thing"
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1t Was Time He Learned It.

From the Chicago Record.
II waited three solid hours for that palm
reader to get around to me-"
"Well?"
HE told me didn't get on in life because
of my tendency to fool away time
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Saved ON Household Expenses.
From the Detroit Free Press.
While l was away, Kitty. you saved
some house money, of courser'
Yes. Harry. I saved lot; but spent it
all on ice cream"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-09-29

We have the authority OF the
late St. George Mivart for it, that
St. Alphonsus Liguori, in a par
ticularly vivid and orthodox de-
scription of hell, says that there
among other features, ''the sense .l
of smell shall be aSsalled with .
stencil SO great that. by comparl-
son, all earthly stenches would
seem jasmine or altar Of roses.
Did the text not furnish a key TO
the location described, by the SIM
pie insertion of the word "other'.
before earthly" we could read
it and imagine the author to have
been describing an attack upon
his olfactories recel we'd while
walking up Walnut street from
the Southern depot, about the time
the night train arrives. Visitors to
(ireenville who reach the town on
that train must be greatly I'M
pressed,
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1t is with much pleasure thai
echoes from our Southland
are continually conveyed to ul
through the medium Of our news
papers and periodicals, bearing
testimony of the vitality of oul
Southern literature. In two of the
leading monthlies for September
we find credltable poems by Wal
ter Malone and Madison Cawein-
the author of the words of Dixie.
They have not the finish of Long
fellow or Tennyson, but show a
love for, and truly poetic inter-
probation of nature.
Joel Chandler Harris, who has
made Bre'r Rabbit and MISS Mead
ows and the Gals, human COM
panlons for all children, has given
up his position on the Constitution
staff, saying that from now on he
will devote his time exclusively to
literary work.
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Inasmuch as the Times doe

Inasmuch as the Times does
not ordinarily speak in parallels,
but endeavors always to make 1T
self understood, it lie the occasion
of some regret that its brief com.
ment upon the oratorical display
of last week has been wrongly in
terpreted. We are almost tempted
to suggest that some people might
be benefited by a surgical opera
ton of a mild nature; such, for
instance, as having a local veteri-
marian do a little trephining, and
effect an exchange Of the encepha-
on bestowed by nature for the con-
ents of the craniaI cavity of q
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-09-29
AGAIN THE FAR EAST.


The action OF our authorities in
ordering the withdrawal of the
American troops from China is, in
our Judgment, the result of either
criminal weakness or criminal
folly.
1t looks very much as if Mr..
Mckinley were allowing his hand
to be forced by campaign agita-
ton, and, in taking the course he
has adopted, were attempting to
silence those who are denounclng
the administration for not recall
ing our troops as soon as Mr.. Con-
ger was rescued. If his course is
dictated by other motives, then we
think he has wrong conception
# what is the proper policy to
pursue.
That we did not send an army
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wood cnIndlan. But the fault may
be ours and we refrain. Should
the Times ever again have the te,
merity to indulge In any form OF
expression not intended for abso-
lutely literal acceptance, be it ever
so slightly ironically tipctured,
the precaution shall be observed
of appending a proper label