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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03
Manila Ferry Boats.
Greek Monks Belief.
the New York Tribun,

From the New York Tribune.
1t is a firm belief of the eastern monks Of
the Greek Church that God will not allow
a monastery to be burned. When the Rus
sian monastery of st. Pantelemon at Mount
Athos was burned a few years ago the
Greeks, VINO constitute the great majority
Of the 6.0OO monks on the peninsula, main
tanned that their Russian brethren had
brought the calamity on themselves because
they had fire engines and extinguishers and
did not trust wholly in God. Now the
neighboring Greek monastery Of St. Paul,
which had no fire engines, has recently been
utterly destroyed by fire. 1t is said that
the monastery of St. Paul was the only one
at Mount Athos which has ever been visit
ed by woman. The wife of British am
bassador landed from her yacht one day on
its tiny pier and insisted on entering the
church. In consequence the monks re-
lieving each other by relays. for forty days
and nights maintained a continuous SER
vice of PRAYER to purify the church from
this contamination.
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Christian Endeavorers.

The District OF Columbia Christian En-
deaVor Union has prepared its program for
the annual social, to be held Monday even
ing at the First Congregational Church
After the usual devotional service and a
brief business session the evening will be
spent in social way. The program in
cludes sketches by Mr.. c. X. Bergman,
cartoonfst; section of the "Rebew' or
chestra and other features Refreshments
will be served by a committee of the cor
responding secretaries. The Junior Union
will meet at 7:15 o'clock. when Mrs Teu-
mis- S. Hamin will speak on Some Mis-
takes Junior Superintendent Make, as
Viewed by an Outsider
The Christian Endeavor Society of the
Fifth Congregational Church has elect ed
the following officers for the coming term:
President, Mr.. Roy Tremain; vice presi-
dent, Miss Lula Farnham; secretary, Miss
Martha L. Blanchard treasurer Mr.
George Watt; corresponding secretary
Mrs. Arthur Robb; union delegate, Mr.. J.
A. Reece
First Congregational Church for the last
three years has been having the consecra-
ton meeting at the regular PRAYER meet
ing the last Sunday evening of the month
Last Sunday the society decided to have
conservation meeting half an hour before
the regular prayer service. The regular
monthly business meeting and social was
held last Friday night. the social consist
lowed by songs and recitations A large
number of Endeavorers in the city at
tended the missionary conference Monday
evening at the Eastern Presbyterian
Church Mr.. Beattie led the singing.
after which Mr.. G. T. Murray open
ed the meeting. The principal speak
ers were M. w. w. MILAN, president OF
the Sunday School Association; Miss A. NJ
Meynes of the Temple Baptist Church and
Miss Jennie NJ. Taylor, secretary of the
Peoples Work Of the Washington Presby-
terrain Missionary Union. An interesting
discussion on missionary work took place
at the close of the speeches.
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place L was offered SauSageS about the
size of my little finger for cents apiece.
They Have Good Fish.
I am surprised that the books about the
Filipinos make little mention of the fish.
1 doubt whether there is a country on
earth which is SO blessed in this way.
Fish and rice form the chief diet of the
people. and both are consumed in vast
quantities The fish are of all sizes,
from little ones no bigger than a pin to
some weighing several hundred pounds
each. There are quantities of white bait,
bushels of shrimps, oysters and crabs Of
all sizes in every market. The fish ped
dlers and sellers are women, although salt
fish are sometimes sold by the Chinese.
There is no danger of getting stale fish,
for those Of the markets are sold alive,
being kept there in bamboo baskets of
water. When a sale is made the woman
takes the kicking fish out of the basket,
lays them on the stones and kills them by
striking them just back of the neck with
a club. One of the most common fishes
sold in Manila is a round sunfish not
bigger than a 25-cent piece. In the south
ern islands fish of gold and ruby and
other brilliant colors are common.
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MANY QUEER SIGHTS
Odd Characters and Customs
in the Philippines.
ANIMALS AND PEOPLE
A LAND WHERE STOCKINGS ARE
IN LITTLE DEMAND.
Chief Fishing Grounds of the Pacific
The Waterways of
Manila.
ANIMALS AND PEOPLE
Copyright, 1902, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Ga

Copyright, 1902, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Written for The Evening Star.
/ want to tell you of some of the strange
sights you every day in the Philippine
Islands. Our new possessions ought to be
called Topsy-Turveydom, for everything is
upside down and everything is strange.
Take, for instance, a white carabao in spec
tacles- l saw one in Manila. The carabao
or water buffalo Is the ugliest of animals.
1t is a mixture of hippopotamus, COW
and hog in appearance, and it has been
described a big hog with horns. 1t is
larger than the largest cow. Its horns are
at least half yard long, and its hair
stands out like the bristles of a hog.
The usual animal is a dirty gray or black
color. but there some albinos, and they
are the ugliest of the lot. Their skins are
a rosy pink. their bristles as white as snow
and their eyes almost white. Put one of
these animals into a cart, yoke it there by
a bar across the neck. and drive it with
line through a hole in it's nose and you
have one of the moving pictures of every
day life in Manila. You must add. however.
the SpectaCles. These are two halves of
brown coCOanut shell. so tied together that
they completely cover the eyes and blind
the beast, as ii were. Whether the goggles
are used on account of weakness of the
eyes or on account of the viciOuSneSS of
the animal | do not know. 1 have seen
many such, and am told it is because they
are dangerous and liable to horn.
The Ducks of the Ok Family.
These water buffaloes are the ducks of
the OK family. They have wide hoofs and
they can swim through the swampy rice
fields, dragging their harrows or plows.
They can travel over the quicksands which
swallow up army mules. and they are used
TO drag fiat boats and sleds over the soft
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Cyrus" said Mrs Berkenhead. while
you are on your way downtown this morn
ing I wish you would stop at the green
grocers and"
Cant you forget your London bringing
up for once and talk the United States
language?" interrupted Mr.. Berkenhead
What is green grocer"
"A green grocer is one that would trust
you, Cyrus Berkenhead!" retorted his
spouse.-Chicago Tribune.
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is nothing to hold the heel at the back, and
it hobs up and down its wearer clatters
over the streets. The shoes for children
are about the same as those for grown-ups
and the prices are CorrespOndngIy less A
ten-year-old boy can be shod for ten cents.
and as he wears shoes only on Sunday it
Is easy to keep him supplied.
The Stove Stores of Manila.
I wish l could show you a Filipino cook
ing stove. There are many stores in Ma
Mia which sell kitchen furniture, and which
nevertheless have not a bit of iron in them
The stoves and all the pots, pans and ket-
ties are made of red clay. They are merely
clay bowls with little knobs on them to
hold up the pots on the charcoal fire within.
The average stove is about fourteen inches
IN diameter and eight inches deep and il
can be bought for twenty-five cents The
cooking bowls are equally cheap, as | found
by asking a stove merchant the prices AS
We talked | persuaded him to lift up one
of his stoves and hold it out in the sun
while L Photographed it. He did so, bend
ing over and reaching the stove out toward
me while | pressed the button.
1t is on such stoves that the meals of the
Filipnos are cooked. The natives do not
like our stoves, and one which was import
ed by the wife of an army officer had to
be thrown aside because the servant would
not use it.
A separate stove is used for every dish
some families having dozen going at
every Dig dinner.
The fuel is usually charcoal or little
sticks of wood such as we use for kindling
The wood is sold in bundles so small that
an average ten-year-old boy could carry
a dozen of them in his arms at one time
Scenes About the Markets.
1 spent much time about the markets In
Manila, now and then eating my break
fast at a market cook shop. There are
many little stands there where rice, fish
and other foods are offered for sale
Everything Is sold in small quantities and
D cents will buy you what the Filipino
considers good meal. | remember one
COOK stand on the porch of the market
house in Manila. The cook was a black
haired, brown-Skinned woman bare footed
and bare headed. She chewed vigorously
at qu'd of betelnut as she worked and
her ood-colored teeth and gums shone
out when she laughed. She was cook
ing shrimp patties in a red clay basin of
boiling grease. She would mix some white
sprouts and rice flour together into a
dough and wrap it around couple of
shrimps as big as your little finger. This
she would drop into the pan and in a mo-
ment 1t would be cooked a light brown,
ready to be ladled out with a cocoanut
dipper and served with pepper and sauce
hot to the customer Just beside this
woman was another who sold chocolate
squares wrapped up in green banana
leaves, and beside her a girl who peddIed
out yellow cocoanut candy. In the same
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Our Filipino Cousins Are Odd.

Indeed, everything in Manila would be odd
could 1t be dropped down in the United
States Every store would be a curiosity
and every trade would make you open your
eyes The tailOrs, for instance, all squat
on the floor as they sew. They have hand
sewing machines, which they rest on the
moor or on tables half a foot high and
they use their feet as well as their hands
IN their work. Indeed. every Filipino has
-FOUR hands and twenty fingers for the feet
take the place OF the hands The cooper
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Brave Man.
From the Chicago News.

From the chicago news.
Mrs. A-"So you say there was a man
under your bed the other night. Was he a
burglar?
Mrs. mo: he was my husband We
heard a noise below and while went down
to investigate he crawled under the bed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03
The Shoes of the Philippines.

Speaking of feet, those of the Filipinos
are small and well formed. The women
have high insteps and slender ankles, and
as a rule feel no delicacy about showing
them. But few stockings are worn. l
venture that the Washington girls alone
wear more stockings than are used among
the S0OO.OOO of our Filipinos. Even the la
dies use them only at churches and parties,
and some of the fairest and SWEETEST of the
Filipinos dance with their bare feet thrust
into sandals. If in the whirl of the waltz
the fair dame. cinderella like, happens to
cast shoe, she dances with one foot
bare until she comes near the lost shoe,
when she picks it up with an enhancing
twist of the ankle without stopping the
dance.
The shoes worn by the Filipinos are US
ually heelless. The better class woman s
shoe is a bright colored velvet embroidered
with gold: 1t is often elaborate and very eX-
pensive. In the stores the shoes are hung
up on poles rather than laid away in boxes
and the shoe merchant hooks them down
with a long stick for his customers.
The shoes of the lower classes are half
wood. Every market has It's shoe bazaar
and the one in Manila consists of low ia
bles covered with shoes. The dealer who
is invariably a woman, squats on the table
with her goods about her and gossips as
she sells. All the shoes have wooden soles
with uppers of white or dark leather. There
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soil. They are fond of water. and are to
b seen lying in every pond or puddle TAX
ing mud baths. Indeed. they must have
water every few hours or they Will go mad,
and their owners drive them every now
and then down into the canals for a swim.
These animals do the draying and cart
ing of the towns and the heavy farm work
of the country They are also used for rid
ing and a common sight is a farmer going
to or from work on one of these ungainly
beasts. The children ride them. lying down
upon their backs or sitting with their heads
to the horns or toward the tail, as they
please directing the buffaloes this way and
that by kick or a slap. The animals are
fond of their child masters and submit
TO them without trouble.
Our Filipino Vaudeville.
The street scenes of our Filipino cities
would be continuous vaudeville if they
could be transported to the United States.
Take the men and boys who go about with
their shirts outside their trousers. 1t seems
so queer that you can't get over it.
IF you could drop the Escolta, the
principal street of Manila down upon
Pennsylvania avenue this morning the po-
lice would run in the little brown men who
in their Sunday best are on their way to
church, because of indecent dressing. They
would tell the women to go home and put
on hats and stockings and perhaps warn
them that their mosquito net dresses are
rather too thin for propriety.
The WdShingtonians would stare at the
half-naked Chinese coolies, bare to the
waist. trotting along with great bundles on
their naked shoulders. And they could
not understand one-tenth of the other
queer characters. They would Won
der az the milkman with a great clay jar
on his back, who serves out milk from a
tube Of bamboo. They would wonder at
the chicken peddlers carrying wicker crates
of fowls fastened to poles on their Shout
deTs, and they would stare at the women
going home from market with bundles and
baskets their heads.
The Washington girls would hold their
fans before their faces at the sight of a
naked brown baby riding on the hip of it's
half-naked brown mother. and the boys
would probably hang about the church
doors and itch to tickle the bare feet of
the pretty Filipinos kneelng on the stone
fccrs Of the cathedral with their upturned
feet peeping outside their dresses
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holds the tub between his feet as he puts
or the hoops, the carpenter steadies his
lumber with his toes as he saws and planes
and a woman carrying a bundle on her
head through the street and having a baby
in her arms. may pick up something from
the pavement with her toes. The Filipino
farmer threshes his grain with his feet and
the cocoanut peddler walks up the great
trees with all the facility of a cat or
monkey
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Bare Feet as Carriage Lamps.

A queer instance of skillful pedality 1 saw
one night on the Luneta in Manila. 1t was
coachman using his toes for candlesticks
According to the municipal regulations no
cab may be driven through the city streets
after dark without lights. This man was
the driver of one of the little camarotes
which ply in Manila for twenty cents an
hour. He had taken party out to the
concert on the Luneta. but had forgotten
his carriage lamps. BY the time the con-
cert was over It was dark and he knew
by the law that he must have a light on
each side his carriage he would be ar
rested. He could not stay where he was
all night for his passengers would not pay
their fares unless they were taken back to
the city. The man solved the problem by
making cab lamps of his toes. He borrowed
two candles, and having lit them. stuck one
between the first two toes of each foot He
then stretched out a foot AT each side of
his cab. and so drove on through the crowd
of fashionable vehicles. groaning as the hot
tallow melted by the flames ran down and
CONCEALED upon his bare skin. This train
ing of the feet an additional pair of
hands begins at babyhood. Many of our
Filipino houses have ladders for steps and
the baby who cannot hold on with it's toes
has many falls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

Miss Julia Bonafield Of China gave a mis-
Slonary talk at Douglas Memorial NJ E
Church last Sunday night
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The Mckinley Memorial Christian Sun
day School was opened last Sunday after
noon with appropriate exercises, which were
conducted by Rev A A. Lott. The school
is located at Providence Heights and was
established July p, 1901.
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The Mems Club of Bethany Chapel will
mold meeting Monday night. when an ad-
dress Will be delivered by Commissioner H
%. r. Macfarland. Musical and literary
numbers will also be given during the even
ing and refreshments will be served This
club has just been organized
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An interesting musical and literary enter
talnment was held in the Gunton Presbv-
terrain Church last night by the Sabbath
school. the proceeds to be used for the an
nual excursion. which will be held this wear
at Chautauqua Beach.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

The regular spring meeting of the Church.
me ms League will be held at Epiphany par
ism rooms. Monday evening, May D. The an
nual reports of the executive committee and
treasurer will be read and officers and an
executive committee for 1923 will be
elected Rev. Randolph H. McKim, DID,
VIII deliver an address on THE History
Polity and Prospects of the Protestant
Episcopal Church" Refreshments will be
served at the close of the meeting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

Professor Mitchell Carroll lectured be-
fore the Young Peoples Society of First
Baptist Church Tuesday evening, on The
Greek Athletic Games" The lecture was
largely attended and was listened to with
close attention by those present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

The Young Womens Foreign Missionary
Society of st. Paurs NJ +. Church gave an
oriental social at the church last night.
which proved an attractive entertainment
A novel program, including Chinese songs
given in costume, was rendered and other
oriental features marked the occasion At
the conclusion of the program refreshments
were served and an exhibit Of oriental Gu
rios was an interesting feature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

The new Methodist Episcopal Church at
Hyattsville was formally opened last Sun
day, with exercises consistent with the occa-
sion. DR.. Lucien Clarke of Hamline Church
preached the sermon in the morning and DR..
H. X. Naylor, presiding elder of Washing
ton district, delivered the afternoon sermon
at 3 O'Clock. The church was crowded at
both services.
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be to illustrate the work being accom-
piished by the missionary society.
The corner stone of the new ST. James
Catholic Church, at West Falls Church.
Va, will be laid on Sunday. May l. at 4
pm. The Knights of Columbus, Hibernians.
etc, of Washington and Alexandria will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03
They Have Good Fish.

place I was offered sausages about the
size of my little finger for cents apiece.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

Rev. H. R. Miller. the newly-appointed
pastor of the Langdon M. +. Church.
preached his initial sermon there last Sun
day evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03

The repairs being made in St. Aloysus
Catholic Church are almost completed and
Will add greatly to the attractiveness of
the edifiee when finished. New pews are
being placed in the main auditorium and
stained glass windows are being put in the
lower part of the church
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-21

If the newspaper fraternity Of the
sixth congressional district are any
judges of the signs of the times, and
they usually are, Hon. E. j. Bowers
Will go through this congressional
race with flying colors. -Waynesboro
News.
There are about forty papers pub
lIshed in the district and only four
teen so far have declared Mr.. Bowers
as "our ehoice''-fourteen to twenty
six is the rating, and Mr.. Bowers will
do well if he comes out of the first
primary with that ratio of votes.
You knew Bowers was not much of
a primary election" man. He
wanted it SO the authorities could
order convention, but the supreme
court killed that little hope.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-21
TIE INSURANCE MIDDLE.

The recent decision of the supreme
court constituting the valued policy
law, deprives the people Of the pro-
lection given by fire insurance COM
panies 9n cotton and all the Gotten
centers in Mississippi are clamoring
for an extra session of the legisIa-
ture. The supreme court held that
the "co-insurance clause" in the
policy is void under our valued
policy" law.
Our esteemed contemporary, The
Vickburg Herald, speaking of the
subject says:
There is, it is taken for granted, no
available, acceptable, measure sr
method of operations which can take
the place of the co-insurance clause
AID the blanket cotton policy. Sub
stitute propositions have been made
by the Compress Association, but all
have been met by the same objection
that pertains to that article-non-
enfercible in the courts under our
precious valued policy statute.
open this ground the insurance COM
panIes have taken their stand, and
here we are-up against a condition
that is unyielding to theorizing or
specializing.
The governor ought not to hesitate
a moment, but call the legislature in
extra session and remedy the evil"
Meridian seems to be mere deeply
wounded than other part of the
the state, and she may expect such a
fate when, with all her commercial
interests at stake, she does not seek
her ablest and wisest men to repre-
sent hor interests in the councils of
the state.
The valued policy law was an
issue in the senatorial contest in that
county in 1899, and Mr. Dunn, the
present senator, advocated the law
as the wisest and best insurance law
the people ever had. His opponent
denounced it as the most vicious,
and advocated its repeal.
But sach is the case: You may
follow you preludices an hour and
spend the balance of your life re-
penting it.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-21

1t seems pretty well conceded that
Mr.. Cleveland will be forced to ac-
cept the democratic nomination for
president. In case he should it
would be very interesting now to
know whether or not Mr.. Bryan will
support him. OF course he would
not. But in this event would he be
willing to admit that he had back
Sided or cut loase from the demo-
cratic partys He might contend
that he had not as Mr.. Cleveland is
not true democrat, but goldbug
which has no head, tail, hair nor
hide. That would be his argument
and Just as weak as some Others he
has put before the public the past
six years.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-21

Lumber manufacturers are now IN
vading the big hardwood forests in
the southern part of the state, and
there is, strong demand for the
first quality cypress and poplar. A
few days since two of the largest
trees in the state, located in Slmp-
son'county forest, were cut down and
the amount of lumber secured was
1855 feet. The trees were of the
poplar variety.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-21

The board of commissioners for
the Yazeo-M mississippi levee district
will spend good-sized sum during
the summer and autumn months for
repairs and new work on the levees
of the district. The tax levy has
been fixed by the board at 1874 cents,
or equal to an acreage tax of AZ
cents, and Maj. Dabney, the chief
engineer, is now mapping out plans
for the new work. The board has
refunded s224,0OO of It's bonded in
debtedness at four per cent, the six
per cent bends being called in and
the new issue sold to Chicago firm.