Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-09-06


rote, who dimes on dog meat, and
visitors are entertained by Visayan
actors and actresses. Nothing is lack
ing to make the show complete.
The Administration building is a rep.
lea of the government Offices in Ma
Mia, while the Art and Education
building reproduces in miniature the
cathedral within the walled city, even
the mellowed tints of age being faith
fully rendered. A section of the an
cient but still seryieeable town wall
has been reconstructed to serve the dou-
BILE purpose Of a gateway to the show
and museum of arms and war relics.
The other main editices are types Of
Filipino homes, being built Of undress-
ed timber, bamboo and rattan, with
matched roofs and broad verandas.
Then there are the tribal villages
nesting under the trees, some Of the
houses perched high up among the
boughs, others on piles above the wa
tiers of the Arrowhead lake, all of tlfem
actual dwellings fashioned of native
materials by native workmanship and
illustrating the manners, customs and
pursuits of their occupants. Here are
women weaving coarse cloth on
rude hand loom, others making bas-
kets, others tending irrigated fields of
rice. One group Of men are in village
council, trying an offender according
to their tribal laws; others are slowly
moving in a circular dance to the thump
Of tomtoms and the clang of brass
gongs; others, again, are smelling iron
by the aid Of a primitive but most in
gen1ous bellows, the constituent parts
of which are bamboo tube and an air
tight mop Of feathers working therein
like the piston Of syringe. And these
are but few of an almost endless va
riety Of life pictures.
The chronological problem is some.
what complicated one; but, although
there are no fewer than sixteen races
represented among the village dwellers,
the scouts and the constabulary, each
race speaking its own dialect and fol
lowing its own customs, all may be
roughly classified into four groups
the true aboriginals or non Malays, the
pagan Malays, the Christian NIalays
and the Mohammedan Malays.
The first are the dwarf Negritos, with
dark skins and woolly heads, wearers.
Of scanty raiment, proficient in the use
of the bow and poisoned arrow, Il race
Of nomads and forest jewellers, pagans
pure and simple. They live in their
own stockaded village.
Next to them are the Igorrotes,
whose origin is traced back to the first
wave Of Malay invasion. Here, again,
we have scanty clothing, amounting
almost to nudity, but copper colored
skins, long wavy tresses, pleasant fea-
tured faces and fine physiques, even
though the stature be small. Among
these pagan Malays are the head hunt
ers and the dog eaters. They are saw
ages, yet have their code Of laws and a
knowledge of several primitive indus
tries.
The Christian Malays, produced by
the second wave of invasion, are rep
resented by the Visayans, tall and
handsome race, dressing well, living in
pretty homes, skilled in weaving, dye
Ing, basket making, hat making, wood
carving and other handicrafts, must
clans of no mean merit, the one group
Of natives who came early and thor
! oughly under the influence Of the early
Spanish settlers.
Very different are the Moros, who
swept into the islands from the Malay
| peninsula last Of ALL bringing with
them their Mohammedan religion. also
a knowledge of gunpowder acquired
with the Koran from the Arabs-fana-
tics IKE their teachers, pirates, blood
thirsty, treacherous and vindictive fell
lows, ever at war among themselve:
and with the whole outside world De
spite their ferocity they are a clever
race, dress handsomely. have their sui
tans and their slaves and are eXper
seamen, while long continued pillagt
on the high seas has surrounded then
with many of the luXuries and conven
fences Of western civilization.
The buildings of Agriculture. Forest
ry and Fisheries show all the varied
natural products. also the extremely
primitive processes as yet in vogue
while in the Women's building we arr
introduced to number of native man
ufactures, including the beautiful fab