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ious murders are of more frequent oc- currence. On the eve of a tribal war ! sacrifice Is always offered to appease the god if angry and to assure success in arms. On an occasion of this kind, if no slaves are on hand. the chief of the tribe selects from their own num- Der an old decrepit man or woman as sacrifice.
 These people, like the East Indian, wear turban. They are well built, tall and intelligent and are the most handsome tribe on the islands. The color of their skin is a bright yellow
 and some of the high caste women are
 almost white. Their hair is fluffy, long and luxurlant and reach es nearly to the knees, and is worn in knot coiled upon the top of the head and on the men covered with a turban, and on the women by a woven lace-like affair, decorated with different colored feath- CTS. The costume of the men consists of a rt-sleeved jacket made of woven swamp grass and short trunks tied about the hips with piece of grass rope and reaching about half way to the knees. The women wear the same jacket and a short skirt ex- tending to the knees.
 The skirts of the women are skill fully wovenyof very fine grass fibre dyed in various light colors and decorated with shells and beads. Among the better classes these short skirts are magnificent as all of the most intelligent tribes of the islands are very skillful handweavers. They wear immense rings in their ears and noses but some of them prefer cross sticks to rings They decorate their arms and lips with bracelets made of boar's tusks or sharks teeth. In disposition they are resentful and fierce, never for giving or forgetting an injury or insult. In this respect they are like the Moham- adam Moors and they believe that If they die in battle they go straight to heaven. They are head hunters and always take A the head of the man they kill in bat
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a small dab of the wet lime on a strip of leaf in which she raps a piece of the betel nut about the size and shape of a butter bean. This is put Into the mouth and chewed very much as a to- bacco chewer would chew his quid. IL is a common thing to see the girls smoke a cigaret with the lighted end in the mouth have asked number of them whey they did this They claim that they can better taste the flavor of the tobacco by smoking them In this manner. The cigaret is smoked and the betelnut chewed at tho earnA time. This nut Is the product of the areca palm. The eff feet upon the nerves Is to a slight ex- tent narcotic The habit Is very dis gusting to those who look upon 1t for the first time, but like everything else among the many strange things seen in the islands one soon becomes so accus- toned to seeing it that it fast becomes commonplace As the nut is chewed the tongue and gums rapidly become a bril- liant red and the chewer apparently spits blood occasionally, just as the tobacco chewer spits the amber juice of the weed.
 The habit is derived from the Malays, who for ages past have chewed the betel- nut, not only for its narcotic effect but also for the dark red, almost black, col oring matter 1t deposits on the teeth. which they consider mark of distinction as well as beauty.
 The Bagobas, like many other savage tribes in the islands, build their shacks or houses high in the air, elevated on long strong bamboo poles. With the ex- ception of the roof which Is made of nipa grass they are built of bamboo, which material is almost universally used in the Philippines. They are entered by means of bamboo or grass rope lad ders, which are drawn up at night, or when danger threatens from some hostile tribe. This custom not only protects them from their enemies but from rep tiles and wild aninsels as well. It is very similar to tree dwelling and has
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the advantage of affording higher, purer atmosphere than prevails on the surface of the ground and also enables the family to enjoy a better ventilation.
 A neighboring tribe of the Bagobas and the real tree dwellers of the Philip pines are the Mindayas. They are prob ably lower in the scale of savagery than any other of the many tribes of Minda- noa. They build their houses in trees 20 to 40 and even 60 feet above the surface of the ground. The shacks are built of bamboo and nipa with the eX- ception of the floors, which are made of hardwood such as ebony or mahog- any, and the heavy timbers are so close- ly laid together that 1t is impossible to throw spear or shoot an arrow between them. The limbs of the tree are cut off level with the roof and the timbers that form the foundations of the floors firmly dashed to them, so that violent earthquake which is of fre- quent occurrence or severe storm have no effect upon them. Sometimes an in- mense tree will contain five or six shacks or a small village. They are entered by means of a grass rope or a long notched pole which is always drawn up at night. Small children will climb up to their tree homes like monkeys. The Mindayas are fierce fighters, but are not eggres- sive. When attacked by hostile tribes they are more than apt to come out vic torious as their hardwood floors are proof against the enemys weapons and as they are expert archers they can pick off their foes at leisure. The warlike tribes know this and unless they have an overwhelming force of warriors and have made up their minds to lose num- Der of men while chopping down the trees that contain tho houses of their enemy they will not attack,
 The Mindayas a-e hill worshipers, so called, I suppose bscause, like some of the ancient tribes of Palestine. they go to the hills to~ perform their relig- ious ceremonies. Regarding their re-
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true to a greater or less extent in or near all our centers of culture. The tough est' crowd to which this scribe ever preached was in a church situated with in five miles of the University of Vir- ginia. The most phenomenal ignorance that I have ever personally encountered was not among the piney woods of Vir- ginia, nor in the mountains of North Carolina, but in Boston and New Bed ford-two especially cultivated cities
 Lexington is often called the Athens of Virginia, and yet within five mhes of that cultured town there might, few years ago. have been found some of the toughest and most ignorant people any, where this side of Terra del Fuego. Many grown men and women of that re- zion had never heard of the Bible, and did not know that such thing existed.
 But even after the coming of that golden age when illiteracy shall be ban ished from the land the living preacher will still be needed. To ignore that large class of people who can, but will
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born2
 Since last November l have been serving as temporary pastor of the First Baptist church Of this city and I was scarcely warm in my nest when letters began to pour in upon me from the ends of the earth to "use my influence in behalf of people that I had never heard of. Ono begs me 10 help him hunt Up his ances- tors: another wants me to hunt down posterity-that is to say, a youth disap- peared from New York 49 years ago and has not been heard of since, and cant find him?p A third wants my influence in securing him a business position in Lynchburg A fourth wants a featuring engagement here, and kindly offers to cut down his regular price to $50 night and his hotel bill. A fifth wants me to push his typewriter.
 Under such conditions a preacher B tempted to say, "If have not lost my power, I should like to use it; for it would kill me to use it." J. c. HIDDEN.
 Lynchburg, Va.
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deniable fact that in our very eenters of culture there are many men and women and boys and girls who can not read
 For some years I was pastor of the Baptist church in Greenville S. C., then the seat of the Southern Baptist Theo- logical Seminary, as well as of Furman university, of a fourishing high school for boys, and of large female college all under the management of Baptists
 In that congregation were such men as c. H. Toy. John A. Broadus. William Williams, w. H. Whitstt J. C. Furman, J. L. Reynolds. c. H. Judson and D. G. Lyons. And yet on a Sunday night there might have been seen in that house of worship probably as many as 50 eager listeners not one of whom could read a chapter in the Bible. They were not freedmen, but adult white people, Not a few of them were skilled mechanics and Operatives" who. worked hard all the week, and needed the gospel to help them do and bear their work. And what was true in this instance was probably
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not read would be an exceedingly dan gerous experiment in any civilized coun- try. A large proportion of this class will listen with more or less interest to an earnest sermon from an impressive speaker.
 Besides. do we not all know that the people who read the Bible most regular ly and most assiduously are the very people who most regularly and most as siduously attend upon the preaching, and who would be the very last to feel that the preaching is superseded? There is not the smallest ground for doubling that were preaching to be abandoned, there would be an immense falling off in the reading of the Bible and of all other books that are worth reading
 The enormous demands which in our day are made upon the time, the strength and the intellect of the modern city pas tor do not point to his extinction. unless it be from overwork During the first year of my pastorate in Richmond, when I was getting acquainted with the people,
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NFall the many tribes in the Phil
 ' ippines. where more than 125 different languages or dialects are spoken, the Bagaboas and the tree dwelling Mindayas are probably the most interesting.
 These people are intensely supersti- tious as are all the natives of the archipelago, and the Bagaboas in their religious ceremonies offer human sac rifices to their various gods. They en- slave the captives taken in their nu- merous wars with other tribes and 1t is from these poor victims that they get their subjects for sacrifice.
 They are nature worshipers and be- lieve that the great valcano, Mount ADO, is the ruler of their destinies It is to this mountain that most of their sacrifices are offered. The person who supplies the victim for sacrifice is the chief official at the ceremony and is believed to be favored by the god, wh O is supposed to shower oh oice blessings upon him.
 The poor slave, in nude condition, is tied to a tree in a standing posi- tion. and the master of ceremonies grasps the hair of him or her as the case may be, pulling the head for ward The neck thus being put on a tension, the butcher raises his barong, a thick heavy, long bladed knife, as keen as a razor and with swift. powerful downward stroke sewers the slaves head from the body, whereupon the rest of the tribe rush up, one at time and give a vicious cut at the bleeding, quivering headless trunk. At the conclusion of the ceremony the body has become mince meat and the god, if supposed to be angry, Is ap- peased. and if in good humor, thoroughly satisfied and pleased. The sacrifices are always offered to the mountain once year, but should plague or famine appear these relig-
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4 LITTLE more than a quarter of "A a century ago, in the summer of 4 \ 1885, spent some weeks in lit tie village of North Texas It was a wooden town built on sand, houses scat tered hither and thither south of a nar- row gauge railroad The tavern was kept by an old fellow named Ragland and he fed his guests on passably good fried chicken and miserable pork-house ham from St. Louis. The biscuit were pleth- oric with fat, inedfble from soda, an apo theosis of indigestion, a proyocation of dyspepsia, challenge to misery. The corn bread was even worse, and seemed to be made of starch. The coffee was execrable and the milk horrible. In some compensation there were a few fig trees, not entirely barren. In the woods round about there were scrub pine and scrub postoak sand like Sahara, and copperhead snakes like the locusts that plagued Pharaoh.
 In that little town convened that hot month of June the circuit court. The dstEict judge, who presided becames Chief Justice of the state. The district attorney was later attorney-general, and after that governor of Texas. A young lawyer at the bar was also elected at- torney-general, governor, and is now Senator in Congress and leader of the
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THHE institution of the mlnistry-a
 body of men called of God. and
 K set apart by the churches. to proclaim the gospel and administer the ordinances of Christ-is one of the most striking features of organized Christian ity. At the outset of this discussion the question naturally arises whether this institution is to continue to exist. Are we to accept the view so often insisted upon by a certain class of writers, that the ministry is becoming an antiquated institution, which the world has out grown-that the printer has superseded the preacher? In word, will the com ing ministry come?
 If reading the gospel were essentially, and in effect, the same thing as hearing 1t preached by the living voice of an earnest believer in it's doctrines, even then there would be little ground for the opinion that the civilization the prog ress and the culture. of the age have outgrown, ors are likely to outgrow the necessity for preaching. It is an un-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-07
LIFE OF A PlMPLE


The dispensers VI p0ulam, a new
skin discovery. ask that notice be
Given that no one IL urged To puf'
chase Il without first obtaining an
experimental package Everyone
who has tried Il knows that the
nfty cent box. on sale at the Quaker
DruK Co, 1913 LET ay and 400 Pike
. and all drus stores, il sufficient
to cure the worst cases Of ccromu
where the surface affected u not
too largc. The itching ceases on
first application II will also cure
acne. teiior blolehos. sealy scalp.
hives. bafhefa and every other
form OF itch. Including itching feet
Being flesh.eolofcd and containing
no grease. the presence Of poalam
on exposed surfaces. such A. the
face and hands. IL not pefceptihie
Water and soap cannot be used IN
connection with Il, 40 these lrfliate
and pfolong skin troubles. some
times even causing them
Al 20 the experimental package
Of poslam. II can be had free ef
charge BY mail Of the Emergency
Laboratories. 81 West Twenty NTH
street New York Il alone IL suf
ficlcut 10 clear the complexion
overnight. and to rid the face Of
pimpleh IN tweaty four hours.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-07

what you do for an unsfatsful
man 10 thrown away Latin,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-07
ETHEL BARRYMORE
VISITS AND LIKES
THE. A.-Y.-P. FAIR
she IS ONE OF TWO NOTED
PERSONS TO TAKE IN
TIE GIG SHOW.

Two distinguished visitors At the
AsYsr. exposition this week have
been Francis Heney. the graft
prosecutor from San Francisco. aud
Miss Ethel barrymore. the actress
noS appearing here. Roth attend.
ed the exposition practically incoF
nlto Monday, paving no official
calls, and Miss barrymore Vas a.
the iair again on Tuesday. and de.
elafed that she will 90 Az often as
she eau find time this week. She
is playing Lady Frederick at the
Moore She visited most q the
larkc attractions on the Pay Streak
and cninyed them all. Quietly
dressed and accompanied hy one or
two friends. Miss barrymore at.
tractcd little attention. aud few
people who rubbed elbows with her
on the Pay Streak realized that they
we're seeing the shows In company
with one Of the most noted and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-07
|1FT TALKING
| % STUDENTS
..m SHORT ADDRESS Will
~ ras oGLGaeArloN AT
'plArrssvReH, NJ "

.rrsprRGn. y y july IT,
~ a,ar,lsep IN honor of Presi.
NJ, ~ werc held to-day ut Cliii
~ ~ ne. me Catholic summer
~ 4 % session. d.. .
w s,Ieome, bFlefiy addressed
y. .,.arrts llc was introduced
Z a.,.rpor Hushcs OF Now York.
y |. w s,'asr I, feature OF the day $ pro.
v VA A parade Of tho New York
..'.l t,usrlsmen who hte camp
IN rlaitshursh barracks The
s..'',s M reviewed tht troopa
s.,shl ran and oIhora Of the
w.. rsrty will be the guests OF
4 reception A banquet
s,.er q the president viii be
~ !, he Hoiol eham4ain
.s.,sr Elihu Root % View York
,.sl,d The history Of lhe stfag
s,lvpsn the English aud tho
.'s ior he possession 81 the New
~, IN Iraelns rs thread frum The
10, 5ec years sKo of the lake.
~ shores " which today d
'..',r.ilon vas held. by Samuel de
e.nplsia.
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beautiful women on the American
STAGE Miss barrymore was cspe.
eiaill Impressed with the natural
floral heaaty OF the AYsP. E
Mr. lleney'a visit was also a quiet
one He was accompanied By ex.
Senator fed W Mulkey. Of Ore.
son, aud they called at the Orogon
state building, but their presence
WAS not made known to any expo
sition Officials Mr. Heney is avoid
ing publicity as much as possible
on hlH vacation trip, and merely de.
sired 70 see the fair like any pfi
waite citizen. which he did. express
lhg much pleasure in what he saw
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-07
Nevada Freezes In July.
ms Iaitad rfr-.l

RENO. Nov. July THE cold
est July weather NeYcdh experience.
ed was recorded last night. Small
bodies Of water had a LAYER OF Ice
and the wheat In the northern part
Of The state 10 reported to have
been frozen
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& buulion, los Angeles

hstix Rat siss 50. Return
n tssnty.aine DAYS Apply 10
x.1srr Pacific agent for tickets
q sauikern Pacific Shasta route.
III E1li. General Agent s p.
Il 90.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-07

KEW YORK, July According
i, aperied statement by former
~ commissionef Bingham. be
candidate for mayor on an
uIkrsnnzny ticket Il the people
-, Nm.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-12-09
NOT cLsAR on FACTS.

Il the. Tulsa Democrat had stated
ghs facts with a little more accuracy.
the failowl wlag editorial misht have had
\ little more ueleht
sit was not the Democrat which
started the cry thar the Indians had
been robbed The sanctmonious re-
publican press is solely responsible
When tie sacroScanct got gay this pa
per merely called attention q few
facss. As matter Of fact had the
Indian 0eeu left TO stand on his own
feet ard work ont his own salvation
as the negro is doing, the Indian would
be Tar better OF. The negro was rob
bed right and lefs By the Freedman 's
Rureau and other grating creaniEa-
tions h0s he came ont 81 the struggle
the stronger and the better fitted to'
civilization. During the past genera-
tion the negro has made wonderful
strides III education and capacity %
take care of himself while the Indian
has practically stood stin And this
lis entirely and solely due 10 the inter
ference cf governmsnt IN the private
Aaairs 81 the citiseD The indian. &C
carainx to congressional enactment
has Been 3 citi1en 81 the United States
since lSs1 and vet he has never been
permitted 10 exercise any q the priVi
seSes of citizenship OF attend 70 his
own business. unsn the admission q
Oklahoma into the Cnlon Ne was not
essn permitted to vote And ever
nov TIE Indian is hrt ward of th'
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-12-09

uh the patronage, rhey had done
this An their lives ana every time
they decided upon the issues and the
plan 81 campaign they knew they
could come home and have their ideas
endorsed by state convention. They
have failed 10 make the progfess that
was to have been expected Of such
astute gentlemen. They are well vers-
Cd IN the science 81 the calling. but
they evidently forgot that the people
of oklahoma can read and that they
are liable to vote as they please at
the next primary They depend upon
their newspapers for their political
Information these days and do not
delegate their power in the nominat-
ing convention TO some fellow who is
elected delegate. simply because he
has always had the job and wants il
again Yes, times have changed and
It's the newspapers day Bartlesville
Enterprise. (repuhlicanA
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-12-09

interior department. if he is a full
blood No matter what his capacity,
no matter what his talent, the Indian
must depend ON some satrap sent out
from Washington 70 attend TO his bosi-
ness for him and tell him what to
do. The position Of this paper is that
the white man has some rights as we'll
as the Indian and If the white men
and the Indian were left alone to set
lie things this part OF the country
would be very much better of But
the sanctimonious and hypercritical
republican patriots win not accept this
view and insist on whitewashing their
own grafters who have been in charge
81 affairs down here since 1892 contin-
uonsly. and who are directly respons.
tble for whatever of wrong the Indian
has suffered at the hands Of the white
man
The statement that citizenship was
conferred upon the Indians Of Okla
homa in 1892 shows a palpable lack
~ knowiedge 81 Indian affairs. for one
who attempts to advise a reading pub
liz. upon conditions that AFFECT a large
percentage Of the citizenship of Okla
homa. especially in the eastern por-
,son. IL which the Democrat is sup
nosed to have clientele That ths
Indians Of eastern Oklahoma would
have Jared better had they been cast
upon their own resources. free from
the cumbersome regulations Of the
government the Chieftain agrees How
ever citizenship was not conferred
upen the Indians OF eastern Okiahcnia
until March 3. 1901. The congression-
al act 81 iSss. which would have con
ferred citizenship upon the Indians.
was neser enforced. and the govern
ment never recognized the Indians as
citizens until after the passage Of the
act Of March s. 1901
The Democrat has been engaged
in a controversy with the Bartles-
vile Enterprise over the mis-
treatment Of the Indians, AZ
me hands az both the state and fed
eral government It might be said
rieht here that the Indian viii be able
to look after his own interests and
viii be able 70 cope with his paleiaes
bnother in any political contest. IN
which he has an even break.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-12-09
LABOR AGENCIES STOPPED
FROM RODDING CLIENTS

Spokane. Wash. Dec 9.-Labor
agencies are prohibited from exacting
or receiving fees of any kind as com
pensation for services rendered to la
borers in the procurement of employ
ment 81 the terms Of an ordinance
submitted to the city council or per-
sons placing orders for labor for re-
muneration. The penalty provided as
punishment for violations is fixed at
not more than 5000 or six months in
Jail or both.
The enactment Of the ordinance,
which has no opposition in the council,
win give Spokane the distinction Of
being the first city in the United
States 10 iegislate against dishonest
agents in this manner, the purpose
being to break up their fraudulent
practices, against which the laborer
has no legal recourse at present
Mayor Pratt says in his message AZ
the council that the supreme court OF
the state Of Washington has indicated
that employment agencies are sub.
ject to regulatory provisions, and. :
he adds. there is no doubt that the
ordinances suggested will be sustained
hy the courts as q proper regulation OF
this business. The ordinance viii give
protection to those who need and de
serve it most. without taking away
the profit Of a business conducted on
legitimate lines
Hundreds Of individual cases have
been before me during the last six
months. ana my observation has been
such that know it is the daily prac-
tice Of many employment agencies to
act fraudulently and dishonesty in
their dealings with the laboring men
who 20 to them for employment" "
The ordinance is based upon a fed
eral statute for the protection Of sea
men. which declares that If any per
son demands or receives directly or
otherwise remuneration from a sea.
man or any person seeking employ
ment as a seaman for providing him
with employment. he shall for every
such ofense he deemed guilty Of mis-
demeanor