Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-30

and buildings of the fair so that the.
could make a report to their fellow
Itribesmen on returning home. TIL,
natives attracted considerable atten
tion az they walked through tn,
crowded streets of the bustling West
ern city, for, although they made {
brave attempt to appear civilized by
wearing clothes that %purported to bt
those of the white men, they looked
native" enough to suit anybody
A crowd Of small boys followed them
everywhere, chanting in a sacred un.
dertone the rhyme of an i%mpromptu
poet:
"Hark, bark, the dogs do bark,
The Igorrotes are coming to town. -
Antonio and Choanin were the names
the Igorrotes bore. Antonio was dis
tinctly "Exhibit A." for, ~forsooth,
the sturdy little chief of the Bontoc
Igorrotes has a record Of FIVE human
heads to his credit or, perhaps, debit.
Antonio said he liked the Fair, and it
was a relief to receive his testimonial.
For Antonio, the mighty chieftain
will be able to persuade many Of his
ACKNOWLEDGMENT to visit Portland.
When DIR. Hunt was arranging for
the st. Louis exhibit he was consider
ably handicapped by the fact that the
lgorrotes had never been more than
ten miles from home and knew prac-
tically nothing of the outside world.
They had no idea where they were go.
ing or whether they would ever return,
and it was only because they had Hex-
plicit confidence in DIR. Hunt, who had
lived with them for a year and had
always been their friend that they
were induced TO come. And even then,
a good many of the warriors of their
tribe, fighting men six feet tall, who,
while willing to risk their lives in
battle, would not risk an ocean voy-
age. Antonio, though vain, rs a chief
tain should be, admits that some of
these are "better menu than he.
When these mighty warriors, fascinat-
ed by the glowing accounts of Amer
lea, given by the safely returned trav-
oilers, are added to the collection of
natives, the Filipino department at the
Lewis and Clark exposition will be
complete. And Antonio says ne is
sure they will come.
The Filipino exhibit at the Centen-
NAL will, however, contain more than
a miscellaneous aggregation of dog
eating savages who acknowledge Pres
ident Roosevelt as their great chief.
Within a stones throw of the place
where bare-limbed Igorrotes are sac
rifcing and cooking a dog, a hundred
well'trained soldiers CARRIED in the
army blue, will hustle from their tents
as the bugle sounds reveille. These
soldiers will be the Filipino Scouts
and will e~xemplify the results of
American training.
The Philippine display will contain
a comprehensive showing of the habits
and customs Of the islanders, and the
native arts will be shown as well as
the native ~barbarities. In the public
schools in the Island Territory, sew
eral hundred thousand Filipino boys
aud girls are learning to read and
write and eypher, and their cOmpo-
%sitions and examination papers will
prove more interesting TO visitors than
the essay" of Bill jones' boy, or the
e%ffusion of little Mary Smith, the
child poet of Squeedunk Hollow. Fill
ipino paintings in oil and water-eolor
viii also be exhibited and there will
be an exhibit of native liquors, of
saddlery, harness ware, trunks and
travelling bags, and countless other
native products. Native cloths, bead.
work, shells, mattings, hemp rope,