Mower County transcript., 1904-06-01

dred Visayans live and follow TIE GUS
tomsSof their people, as they did at
homes Many beautiful articles and |;
fabrics manufactured sby Tue peOples Of /
the island are shown here!s
The manufacture of all of the arti- /
cles. for sale in the market is illustrated
by families Of Filipinos in the village.
just and pima cloth are made by three
families, one family shows how embroi-
dervis2 made, another family how to
make hats, others show how mats,
canes, wood carvings and novelties are
manufactured. The different methods
of fishing and transportation are also
represented: Girls who can speak
English sell the different articles in the
market: A few good singers and
dancers of both sexes appear in the
theatre, as well as an orchestra of the
best musicians on the island. =.
The Samar Moros, numbering forty,
from the Island of Mindanao, are the
sea-rovers or pirates. They are Mo
hammedans, and for two and a half
centuries they made life miserable to
the Spaniards and the natives Of the
islands. Villages were sacked, churches
looted and Spaniards and Spanish SUBJ
jects made prisoners. In the nineteenth
century even, Musselman war junks
appeared in the Bay of Manila.
The Negritos come from the noun
famous parts of nearly all of the ISL
ands, and are the aboriginal inhsbi-
tants. They look not unlike African
Negroes, but are small in stature, are
extremely low in intellect and primi-.
tive in their methods Of living. They
live on fish, roots and mountain rice.
The Igorrote Village is probably the
most interesting single feature in the
Exposition. 1t includes three tribes,
the Bontoc and Suyoc Igorrotes and
the Tinguianes. The Suyocs are the
miners, and they show their methods
of extracting the metal from the ores
and working. They have their rice
paddys and sweet potato patch. The
Bontoes are the fghtert and head;
hunters, the tattooing on the chest be-
ing the mark of distinction of those.
who have brought in heads. These
Bontoes are also the dog eaters of whom
so much has been written in the papers.
They have already held several dog
feasts. The Tinguianes are the agri-
culturists, and they have laid out their
kitchen gardens along the side Of the
ravine. These people are all under
charge Of Governor I. K. Hunt, who
has seen much service during his four
years in the islands. The Igorrotes
come from Luzon, and it is only since
| 1881 that they have been reduced to
! obedience. Their religion is a kind of
sun worship.
We witnessed one of the dog feasts
Of the Igorrotes, or rather saw the dogs
in the big kettle cooking forit. They
have a great relish fLr this. We asked
one lad how the meat tasted and he
said like venison.o They at first had a
| big. dance and poWWoW when killing
| the dogs, each one stepping out of the
dance ring to give the poor brutes a
| Whack with a stick but now the
authorities require them to kill them
the same as cattle would be prepared.
| Scores of these natives were dressed in
their native costumes, that is they
were entirely naked except having on a
| very narrow loin belt. They danced
for us In true Philippine style and tried
| in every way to entertain us. Some of
the young ones who have attended the
English schools for year or more
could understand us readily when we
conversed with them. They seem we'll
pleased to be under the direction and
protection of our government and
judging from what they say the ants
have little grounds for their foolish
contentious.
The Filipino midgets, Juan (John)
and Martina Mary Della Cruz are
the smallest fully developed people
known to the civilized world. Juan is
20 inches high and 29 years old. Mar
tina is 27 inches high and 81 years old.
They were born in the Island of Iloilo,
Philippine Archipelago. They were
the second and third born in a family
of eight children. The eldest man is
living, 36 years old, 5 feet N inches
tall; the FIVE Youngest children, like
the parents Of the little ones, all OF
whom are dead, were average sized
Filipinos and normal in all respects
Juan has been married and has child
8 years old, who is as large as any child
in the island of that age.
G. D. BELDEN.