Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-01-14
THE REAL REASON FOR THE RE
CENT REVOLT.
A PERSONAL GOVERNMENT
Change of American Military Leaders
Captain Pershing Ruled Them
Absolutely Because They Feared
and Trusted Him-No Interference
with Religious Institutions.


and British north Borneo lies a bit of
the world of romance 1t is a summer
sea. always calm, yet always fresh and
cool under the breath of the monsoon.
The water is wonderfully clear. and
from boat one can see the bottom
ten fathoms down, with dark coral
reefs and the dazzling white of coral
sand, and fishes of strange shapes and
hues, brilliant seasnakes, and now and
then shark. Dotted here and there
are little islands covered with freshest
green down to the very edge of the
cleaning beach, and sometimes so
thick that, as someone put it, they
seem to be crowding right up to the
boat and trying to eat out of your
hand. In those winding waterways the
boundaries of sea and air become con
fused, and often the peak of some lit
tie isle seems to hang suspended in the
sky. the region has, a soft dreamy
beauty that never gets to seem quite
real.
The people are hardly decided
NnClnNl tASf live Ol SCd vi ldtlu. lZiIIlG
brown bowlegged villages rise on piles
far from the shore, and everywhere
glide the long, swift vintas, and proas
of pirate memory, with gay sails of
red, white and brown. For centuries
these nomads of the sea terroriZed all
who came in contact with them, and
today they make life very interesting
to anyone who ventures among them.
The Sultan of SuIu.
The largest Island in the group is
Jolo, ruled, nominally, by that most
puissant monarch, the sultan of Jolo,
or Sulu, as Mr.. AIDE prefers to say.
AS matter of fact, the poor sultan has
only the power which his fighting men
give him, and there are a dozen dattos
who could whip him with ease. Every
little village has its own hereditary
chief, who regards himself as of royal
blood, and does very much as he
pleases. These little lords of half-a-
dozen huts exercise without question
the power of life and death over their
followers. and keep at war or peace
with Their neighbors, at their own
sweet will
The town Of Jolo always surprises
one who comes there from other parts
of the Philippines. Manila and noilo
and Cebu, the centers of population,
are simply heaps of ramshackle build
ings, dirty and uncomfortable and des-
olate. And the voyage southwark is
through islands which grow more and
more thinly populated, till, when you
have passed lonely Basilian, you feel
as though you were entering an unin-
habited world.
a Clean Town.
From the anchorage one sees only a
struggling native village, built on piles
over the water, a long pier, and one or
two red-tiled roofs peeping from a
great mass of foliage. At the end OF
the pier a white gate yawns in high
white wall, and in three steps you pass
from the wilds of the Orient into a
Spanish city, and, oh wonderful, a
Spanish city that is clean. The wide
straight streets are beautifully macad-
amized, and shaded by double rows of
magnificent trees. The broad side
walks are well kept and bordered by
neat cutters of cement, and the houses
are big and square and airy, built in
the finest Spanish style of white r'as-
ter with roofs OF red tile. The entire
! tcwn is surrounded by massive wall.
At the eastern end of the town is
q main rallyport. which was always
most interesting spot in the place
Just outside it is established a
ppak-room, where Moros COM
kwn are requested to deposit
A few steps outside that
gs one to the region of
Utilities.
friend of mine, who is
Scholarly than an advent
went down to Jolo. He
pleased and impressed by
in the course of his wan
few hundred feet out Of
American soldiers were
he felt no hesitation in
watch the crowds of
assersby.
"a Amuck.
WAS an uproar, and
Avery white clothes
bad and throwing
y&& navy knife-witn
man had three
lid throw them,