Arizona republican., 1909-06-12

to. Asked about the healthfulness of
 the city he said it is regarded as more
 healthy since the American cleaning
 up than it is in the country round
 about, which though higher is cov-
 cred with a dense growth of Vege-
 tation which in it's decay produces
 an unhealthy condition. There is lit-
 tie malaria or typhoid in Manila.
 Cholera breaks out occasionally but
 that is a disease that one acquires
 only by close contact and does not
 often attack cleanly persons of good
 habits if they are careful where they
 go. The bubonic plague bothers l sometimes but not often and a con-
 tinuous warfare on rats and other
 methods of prevention keeps it all
 most entirely away from the haunts
 of well ordered people There is con- l siderable leprosy in the islands but 1 there has been a cleanup of that and
 the victims are all transferred to | leper island. Smallpox is very com mon but also in a very light form, so l 1t is not regarded with the horror : 1t is in this country. Probably the
 worst disease in Manila is Amebic dysentery, an intestinal germ affec- 1 tion. If taken in time it is nearly always curable with the modern
 methods of treatment. The worst feature of it is its insiduous nature. One naturally healthy may suffer from it for a long time and hardly
 know he has it until he notes himself wasting away in flesh and this is par
 ticularly true with the strong people who have the habit of wearing it off when they feel sick, without applying to a physician for a diagno- sis Such people often find them selves in a precarious condition be- fore they are really sick. But if they begin treatment promptly their re- covery is quite certain.
 Speaking of the islands resources. Mir. Nelson says one of its greatest resources for the future will prob abiy be the timber. The islands he says have the finest timber in the | world, of the high priced varieties for furniture, cabinet and ornamental | work. Not only is there as much | mahogany and ebony there as any | where. but there are many similar | kinds of very heavy wood, and of all most every imaginable color, some | that will take a polish almost like a | mirror The islands are so far away | that American capital has been slow | to appreciate the value of the is | land woods but a few companies are | now interesting themselves. Con- | corning sugar and other well known | products no inquiry was made. The | mining resources of the islands are | not yet thoroughly known. They will | probably never be famous as a min | eral region though there is consider able mineral in some of them. There | is one fine gold district being ex- plotted in Masbate island and in Ben | guet province there are both gold and | copper mines while on the opposite of | Luzon from Manila rich placers have 1 been worked from time to time.
 MT. Nelson spoke a word of de- l fense of the American soldiers who | have been accused at different times | of shooting Moro women. He says | the MOros are a very warlike people | and are never conquered except when I they are dead. The soldiers, however, | would spare the women. if only from | sentiment, if they could, but often it | is impossible. In time of warfare the | women fall in line and fight along | side the men, dress the same way | and wear their hair the same way | and often are the best fighters, so a | Moros sex cannot be known usually | until after the battle is over.
 It is a peculiarly thing with most | of the Filipino tribes that the women | are really the heads of the families. | They furnish the brains and the men | are common workmen. A man who | has troube or controversy will usual | ly send his wife to settle up the mat ter. Particularly does this pertain | where the family has engaged in | some small commercial line like a i little store for instance. The wife | mess and the man does the | rought work about the place. | In the case of those who | work in the fields things are more | evenly divided. A man and his wife l will both go into the field together l and whichever one gets hungry first | will go back to the house and cook the 1 dinner which consists of a pot of rice. |
 The people generally, says Air. Nel- | son. are much more pleased with the | conditions Gndcr American occupation l than they We're before They feel | more secure in their rights. have less 1 warfare and gre looking forward to | better things. There is a dissatisfied | element of course in those who dislike losing their little power of control over their fellow natives, and there are some. too. who have no civilization to speak of, nor care for any, who would like any other wild tribe, prefer to live by his cleverness with the bolo or oth- CT methods of personal aggrandize- jment.
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