Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-23

has to practice all sorts of cont0rtlonS
 to walk under it without Jumping hiS
 head. 4 ride around the grounds III
 the Intramural railway will give one
 an idea of the size of the grounds and
 the location of the main buildings which can be gained in no other way,
 or so cheaply, and this ride at night when every building on the grounds is outlined by a row of electric lights and some of the largest buildings fair Iy ablaze with them is especially beau tifuI. and is a scene which cannot be described. The electrical effects are simply wonderful.
 Seeing this fair is hard work and so we have taken our first week Tn easy stages.
 We spent oLe day in the Philippine exhibit. This is the largest exhibit at the fair covering nearly fifty acres of ground and the exhibits cost more than s1, GOO, OOO Here we may study the Filipino from the lowest to the highest stage of civilization in which they exist at present and the contrast is remarka ble and the advancement they have made under the efforts put forth by our government is very grat- flying. Five villages showing the na- tives living and doing just as they do in their island homes are very inter esting. The smallest of these, the negritos, "little negro" are an in ferior tribe but expert bowmen. Lit tie boys, six and eight years old sell
 dom miss a five cent piece shooting at it at a distance of twenty feet. They made themselves very useful during the summer by killing the sparrows that infested their villages. They didn't leave bird. The Igorottos are the most numerous of any of the tribes. Physically they are magnifi cent but one in very low state of civilization. They are man hunters as we'll as dog eaters and after one has cut eff twenty heads he is adorned with the beak of a horn bill dyed crimson which he is allowed to wear on his forehead for the rest of hls life. For each head he cuts off he receives a tatooed mark upon his breast. One old fellow has five such marks. We saw the tribe holding "high jinks' over the prospect of boiled dog for supper. 1 have read that they skinned their dogs before they cooked them but we looked in the pot and saw this one and he was not skinned. He was only singed and very poor job of it too They hadn't even cut his toe nails off. 1 tell you you don't see any women in these grounds with pet poodles following them. The Lanoa Moro are tree dwel!ers and in the eth nological department is exhibited a tree with the house of LanOa Moro perched among its branches. Two other tribes, the Visayans and the Bagalves are exhibited and each one is interesting. In the various build ings are exhibited the work of the civilized tribes. Cloth woven from the pineapple fibre most beuatifuI in coloring and as soft and thin as cob web, most eXquislUely embroidered show that the Fiilpinos are not lack ing in artistic sense. Beautiful bas- ketry and hand made implements of all kinds are exhibited. The native woods and fruits and grains show that the islands have unlimited resources. The exhibits in the educational de- partment are wonderful. There are many compositions in Spanish and also in English. The writing is excel lent and the composition is good. l could 6il your entire paper and then not describe all the surprising things saw in the Philippine exhibit. It is clear to me that race which has sur mounted such difficulties as they must have and risen to such high order of civilization, is certainly capable of governing themsevles now and at all times. After spending day in one of the large exhibits it is an unbound- ed relief to spend day among the state buildings where everything is designed especially for the comfort of the visitor, one sinks down and feels that he could rest forever; but 1 will not proloug this article by describing the state buildings. 1 must mention the Arizona building however. It is just tEe cosiest and most restful place on the grounds and the hostess, Miss Drais, presides over it in a most charming and hospitable manner. Here MT. Doran has his headquarters also, and if he finds that anyone from Arizona is on the grounds he hunts them up forthwith and if they don't see everything worth seeing, it is not fo57If pooDIa ara r,ooda 4O