The Washington herald., 1907-04-30

be first exhibitor at the jamestown Expo
sidon.
lie is only Indirectly responsible for the
brown brothers, and they look as if they
needed a sympathetic guardian, but IN
the two big buildings about Raleigh
quare, housing the exhibits Of the various
departments at Washington, and In the
two smaller structures on either side
given over 30 the Smithsonian Institution
and the government fisheries exhibit your
Uncle is sole exhibitor on all the grounds
Perhaps the government has greater
advantage over the private exhibitors.
who are franticaIly ripping cases open
and shunung pickle bottles in gross over
the blocked floors of the other buildings,
and is thus enabled 10 get its goods into
place for the public first.
Army and Navy Exhibits.
Those who went into the building given
over To the departments of the army and
navy to-day saw Jackies with paint
brushes putting the finishing touches on
the wooden anchors grouped about the
ship models, and soldiers from the mill
tary camp, sweeping up the last piles OF
chips and rubbish about the cases OF
small arms.
Being Uncle Sans wards, the Filipinos
who arrived to-day are not put down
with the common freaks on the warpath,
but have a village of their own-so far,
largely on paper-up under the wings Of
one of the government buildings The
sign which calls attention to the merits
of a Filipino as au object OF interest
gives conspicuous place TO the statement
that only by the consent OF the auth0ri-
ties IN the Philippines has this typical
collection of intelligent aborlsines from
far-away LuZon been brought here at
great expense No more sad-cyed set OF
pacifcos was ever rounded up by dough
boys IN a Moro stockade than those sew
enty-seven. who were plotted out ID the
exposition grounds by their managers
ana dumped through the gates Of the
prepared village.
Five Tribes Represented.
There are I'VE tribes represented by
these Fuipinos-TagaIogs. Moros, Bago-
hos. VIsayans. and IiocaHos. They do not
understand each others language. They
eat different food, and what "a Moro
prepares is "a Tagalog's poison.
This morning there were various pots
rigged up over fires throughout the in
closure. and about these squatted men
with long hair and rags woven through
their uncombed locks. They stewed their
meat and looked mournful. The TagaIogs
and Uoeanos, iu spotless white suits stood
UP around q pine table apart from the
uucl6an MOr0s ard took their ham like
little gentlemen. Their women, with
brown shoulders bare to the winds. sat
apart ia tangled heaps of household goods
and spanked their babies with spitetui-
ness.
There are pine houses here which rep
resent native Filipino hUIs The fact that
the bark is left ON the boards lends en-
chanrmeut ana helps TO carry out the de-
fusion. Each cluster of pine huts has q
neat painted board In the foreground tell
ing what village it is. There is also I'm
plain view a caTbaou cart and brass
bedstead 10 give the local color.
Declare They Are Unhappy.
"When we arrived in San Francisco.
after forty-two days On the ocean. we
learned that our homes in Uouo had
been destroyed by earthquake and FIRE, Do
said q little fellow who had been three
years at am American school. 1--WE were
an sick then from the sea Since then
we have most OF us bgd colds and sick
ness in the chest, We don't know wheth-
er our people have been killed in the
earthquake or whether We viii live to set
back TO our home land We are not hap
py."
"Oh they are just a little homesicl. "
said Sergt Sutherland. who win present
The most instructive and diverting specta-
cles Tor ladies and gentlemen 10 be found
fH.- as-FG1afffrfr q.
get accustomed 10 the place they viii be-
rs happy as larks. And you mustn't ga
before YOU hear our peerless Filipino
band of forty pieces. You don't know
what music is until y0u have heard that
band"
Government Buildings Crowded.
over in the government building. hous-
ing the model post-ofice and the exhibits
of the departments of the Treasury. Agri-
culture, ard Commerce, a large crowd of
sightseers gathered to-day There was
much 90 see after leaving behind the
mule carts and the steam rollers on Pow
haitian street IN the post-0fice display
it was the group of models showing the
various vehicles by which mail is carried
in the dominion OF the government that
held the largest number of spectators.
on one hand an Alaskan posman. clad
in bearskin. drove team OF stuffed dogs
around the corner q salloW-faced wax
p0stmau of Porto Rico kept one GLASS;
eve pcrpetually on the tail of the OK thai
was dragging his cart. An attendant
standing near noticed that q pink-cheekeC
old gentleman could not draw away from
that ngure of the Porto Rican mail ear
rier and his OK. lie went 0a al sides ana
examined the group from every angle,
as there anything / can explain 10 sou
in the pCst-ofiice display" asked the at
tendant at length.
Yes young man. you can. I ran
p0st-ohce in farewell County, H.. and
know something about p0st-0fiice bGsi
ness But what Z want 10 know j.
whether there is q pet OK there. that they
took and stuffed after he died. Out neal
pekiu once old Col. B2rryton, who raT
the post-odice for twelve years. took ans
stuffed his horse Maggie after her dealt
because he cared Cor her whole lot"
Some Unique Features.
In the building devoted TO tie army ana
navy display there are some unique fea.
lures. one of these is the mine tank
Ia a long glass tank filed to the depti
of four feet, there are planted about
dozen miniature stationary mines, eacl
connected by cable 10 the fort built upor
the embaHkmeRt at one END. At the VII
OF an attendant whose head appear.
above the cscarpment of the miniatur.
f5rt hostile feet rides over the waves
in the direction of the fortiaeations A.
soon as tie enemy's boats SAIL over tbs
mine field, flashes of red light squirt on
from the eyes az the torpedoes 10 show
that they are busy blowing up the feet.
lueh Disgusted Folks.
Some folks who came down to the ex