Evening star., 1904-07-16

I American idea of freedom. and the re-
markable types of his own countrymen by
the islands newest master in art, Maru-
| nez. Here, too, are startling specimens of
the Fiipino's ability to carve in wood and
to think along original lines. For exam
pie, consider the pathetic portrayal OF
baby endeavoring to suckle its mother who
has died in sleep, and the grewsome pic
ture of starving dog gnawing at the leg
of soldier fallen in battle with the Amer
cans.
If the exhibits surprise. so much more do
the detachments Of the scouts and the con-
stabulary detailed to the fair The writer
was in time for the constabulary dress pa
rade one afternoon, and he stood watch
ing the natty little brown fellows going
through the evolutions with the precision
traditionally associated with a regular
army post these were some of the COM
ments that he caught:
BY an old man who wore the Loyal Le
gion button: Il never saw anything more
neatly executed"
By fashionably dressed woman to her
companion: why, Frank. 1 didn't know
they could be taught SO much"
By a lover of music: That band Ut is of
eighty pieces) plays every bit as well as
Sousa's."
BY young man sightseer: well, all
got to say is, l saw Uncle Sans boys at
dress parade over yonder in their camp
yesterday, and 1 swear they didn't go
through with ii bit better than these mig
gers
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hibit buildings and in the soldierly bearing
of the scouts and the consta abulary, when
you come to the native villages you ex-
perience feeling akin to a shock of no
small proportions.
Over 200 in All.
You have probably read that there are
tribes galore in the islands, and you have
somewhat indefinite idea that some of
them aren't exactly civilized but you are
scarcely prepared to meet in their native
state some 200 odd brown-skinned people
representing all the tribes you have read
about, and others you have never even
heard of.
In the various villages OF nipa huts are
the Negritos, the islands primitive inhabi-
tants; the Mangiyan from Mindoro who
are just a little above the Negritos in the
scale of civilization; the head-hunting Bon
toe lgorots; the Lepanto Igorots. who have
been miners since the thirteenth century;
the Samal Moros, who as pirates terror
lied the country for many years: the La
mao Moros. the ugliest of all Fiipinos; the
far-famed Sulu Moros; real dattos and sui
tans aplenty among the Moros, and groups
of the more commonly known tribes.
But you Will not be more astonished
than were the residents of Manila. when
| these people were gathered there for pas
| sage to America, at the Igorot's lack of
| raiment; the Samal Moros love of erecting
his habitat in the water. and the average
Moro's decidedly unsuccessful attempt to
hide his nakedness underneath a gaily-
colored piece of cloth of his own weaving
and coloring. Manila had never before
seen such people; the city had not even
| dreamed that the islands could produce
such strange human beings.
Plenty Trouble.
This living chronological exhibit was got
| together by Albert Ernest jerks, chief of
| the chronological survey of the Philippine
| Islands; and he had his troubles while he
| was about 1t.
| Besides employing men to go into the
wild and unmarked interiors after natives
| willing to edlfy their new rulers in their
| far-away land, Mr.. jerks himself made a
| trip into the country of the Lanao Moros,
among the most treacherous of all the
| Moro peoples. Mr.. jerks was accompanied
! by his wife, the first white woman to
| pierce into the wild and unfrequented re-
| g.on around Lake Lanao and to cross 1t.
on the trip to the lake, over the road
| built thither by Capt. Pershing during his
| campaign in that region. Mr.. and Mrs
| jerks had an escort OF five soldiers. Dur
| ing the night that the party arrived on the