El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-19
Re les From
The Orient
BACK A NUMBER OF INTER
ESTING CURIOS.
Arrow Heads Made of Mahogany, Cart
ridges Made of Tin Cans and Match
Heads. and Chinese Officials
Queue

| Harry Goodman, an Ell PaSo boy. who
| enlisted in the army in this city under
Lieutenant Curry in September. 1899,
and Joined troop B of the 18th United
States volunteer cavalry. returned to
his home in this city Saturday night
after seeing sixteen months of hard
service in the Philippines.
Mr.. Goodman brought home with
him several interesting trophies of war
from the far-off domains of Uncle Sam.
He has about dozen arrow heads
made of the hard mahogany and CO.
coanut wood. Some of them are al
most foot long and have a series of
rude barbS running throughout their
length. They are all hand made and
it seems they would be too light TO hold
an arrow in position to reach the spot
intended by the archer.
These heads came from arrows cap
tured at Ligao in southern CamarineS,
in the extreme south end of Luzon.
They are the weapons of the Bicol tribe
who are an inferior class of natives.
About 5000 of the arrows were found
stored in a house in Ligao, which the
natives evacuated upon the approach
of the American army. 1t seems that
the house where they were found was
the home of an arrow manufacturer.
Mr.. Goodman also has about dozen
cartridges, few samples of a lot of
5000 rounds which were taken from
the bodies of dead F'ilipinos after the
battle of Guinea Batan between troops
and ID and a. body of natives which
were unexpectedly encountered while
the American soldiers were on the
way to Malaboga Hill.
Some of the cartridges are made of
old tin cans and others are in hulls
irh hn whore
the civilized troops had thrown them
away These were reloaded and in
some cases they were enlarged to make
them fit the Filipinos gun. Some
were modern cartridges that had never
been shot and it is supposed that this
fact bears out the superstition that the
insurgents are being supplied with
war material by some civilized country
The home made cartridges are made
by taking 4 match head for the cap,
which is placed in the bottom of a
rudely rolled cartridge OF old rusty tin
and then covered with powder. \
whftt1ed-out bullet is then placed in
the end. Such cartridge 1t seems
would make the man behind the gun
stand in as much danger as the enemy,
but il is said the insurgents well I'M
derstand the danger of shooting such
loads and will not hold their gun to
their shoulders
MIR. Goodman's collection of relics
NAV be seen at Kiefer's store on I'll
Paso street and with them is as ghast-
Iy n trophy as has so far been brought
or sent home from the Oriental seat OF
war II is a long. black queue. which
in itself is not interesting to people
who see such things dangling down
Celestials' backs every day. but IL is
the story that accompanied it that
makes il give creepy sensations ~ ones
flesh.
Walter Maurice. "a soldier who en-
listed at TT Bliss and went to Pek
with the 9th L.. 5. infantry. sent the
queue to Fred Eiefer. accompanied by
a story to the effect that IL was cut
from the head of Chinese official in
Pekin after the head had been cut from
the officials body i'll compliance with
an order from the English government
The official was a second class manda-
rim.
The same soldier sent Fred some
very beautiful specimens of Chinese
art. They are pictures in attractive
colors on rice paper painted by Chln-
csc artist One is stage scene from
the play "Aladdin's Lamp. as pre-
scented by the Chinese. Another is a
scene in a Chinese park. All beau
tiful at a glance on account OF the loud
contrasting colors. but when looked at
with a critical eye it is seen to be
much inferior TO the work of the Amer
lean artist.