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anything, passed him the minister's tele-
gram
you've done your part. and I won't
forget that" was the mans only COM
ment. But I am going to take her
home" he added. half turning when he
got to the door.
went with him. There wasn't any
thing to say to him-there never is. when
a man is locked up with his own soul
but somehow I hated to see this man
walking through the quiet. baking streets
OF Mazatlan by himself. He seemed too
terribly alone.
he told me that he wanted to find the Pa
cifc Mail agent, and 7 led him to the
pier, where Greaves, busy with the cargo
of the Colima, just in from San Francis
about. I called him. and he came over
TO a quiet corner of the pier Where l.
stood with the captain. Greaves knew o.
the mans plight.
II wanted to ask you something. sir,
said the captain. in that almost inaudibe
tone that sounded so queer coming from
the throat of huge man of the sea
my daughter has died here. and
Yes, I know put in Greaves. Il
heard about it. I'm mighty sorry. I'd
like you to know that Ny wife and
are going to attend the funeral"
IT'S good of you and the wife to think
of that said the captain. But the
funeral is not going to be here. It's 60
ing to be in Maine. She is going to be
buried alongside her mother"
u SHOULD nave said temporary inter
ment." said Greaves
Yes, knew you meant that said the
captain. but there isn't going to be any
But you've been told about the law.
haven't you?" inquired Greaves. begin
ming to sense what the man was get
ting at.
Yes I've heard about that law" said
tine captain But promise that a man
makes to a dying woman is something
beyond all law. That's the way | look at
it. and I'm law-abiding man"
II tod the agent what the consul had
done. and the result. Greaves shook his
head:
e: always works out that way" he
said. 1--WE known it to happen time and
again. MeNicans are a set people, a stub
born people. It's hard to move them in
could do
The girl was to be inferred in the
strangers section on the following morn
ing The captain found that out before
leaving me to return to his ship.
An hour before shutdown that evening
an eight-oared longboat put off from the
Kenmore Queen. Capt. Green held the
tiller, and his mate. another burly, self
contained man from Maine, was in the
for'ard seat. The longboat was pulled
alongside rickety little small-craft pier.
and the captain and his mate debarked.
Their coats lifted a bit as they stepped to
the little pier, and l noticed that each
man had belt with two guns strapped
about his waist
A placid gray burro hitched to low
bodied coffee dray waited in the road at
the street end of the pier. I'd felt that
I could attend to that much, even If I
couldn't do any more, seeing that I was
in MaZatian on a business errand that
required that I keep on an even keel with
the authorities.
The captain and his mate stepped on
board the coffee dray, and the captain
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ance they look as though the first heavy
wind would shake house and natives TO
the bottom.
X
1t is probably true that in no part of
the Philippine Islands We're members of
the non-Christian tribes so robbed and
oppressed as We're TIE Bikidnon people
prior to the establishment of a special
government for their protection. They
are an industrious lot of savages. and
bring down to the coast hemp, cocoa
and coffee in considerable quantities.
These products they were formerly COM
PEELED to sell to the Christian Filpinos
at prices fixed by the latter. to whom this
arrangement was most advantageous.
When the Fnpinos realized these people
were to be given the same rights as
themselves the plan met with their most
bitter and determined opposition. The
FiIipinos kept this up for more than two
years. until they We're told. in so many
words, the Bik.dnon natives We're en-
titled to the same rights as themselves,
and that Uncle Sam proposed to see they
were protected in their rights. Much of
the opposition disappeared shortly after
this ultimatum was announced
The question Of the control Of these
Christian tribes by the Filipinos is
now agitating the islands. 1t seems the
Filipino, the Igorot and the Moro are
of common racial origin. But, it is
said, so are the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
There exist between the Filipino, on
the one side, and the Igorot and the
Moro. on the other, far greater differ
ences than those which distinguish
the Germans, the English and the
Americans. Indeed. the width of the
gap between the Filipino. whose Malayan
blood has been profoundly modified by
intermarriage with people of other
races, and who has attained to de-
gree of civilization far above that ever
reached by any other Malayan people.
and the wild man Of the Luzon noun
tains, with his pure blood, his mag
nificent development and his primitive
customs and instincts, is very great, and
is exceeded only by that between the
Filipino and the Negrito, who stands
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All of them began to roll cigarettes.
But they kept very quiet. Even the
chatter Of the idlers outside the group
of soldiers ceased.
The mate took Up the bur os eias
and shook them. The burro 81 . ed out
slowly. That part of tie ri IF o. .iers
obstructing the burro's rath oke AS TX
at a word of command. TIE "a tain.
standing beside the box, with his back
to the burro. and facing the quiet COM
pany OF cigarette-inhalipS soldier SAIL
no word as the burro slowly plod led for
the little pier where the longboat was
waiting.
You have failed of your duty, tho
health officer almost screamed. standing
directly in front of the lieutenant, and
Hacking his arms wildly.
The lieutenant blew cloud of smoke
into the health officers face. He knew
the temper OF his men. lie had seen
from the corner % his eye how tic two
huge grirgoas and the hoH they had de-
posted on the dray had made their APP
peal. Grinsocs are not loved in Mexico.
especially by Mexican soldiers. But thcS"
two men were more than 2rinSoes-theN
were men; ard one of them was standing
alongside his dead. ready 10 join his
dead If the leed should be. After all.
Tie hearts OF men are just about the
same the worii over.
AS the dray passed down the little
street. which was rapidly being enveloped
IL the dusk. the women stepped from
The doorways of their houses and knelt
on the pavement, praying; and the young
man illers along the way removed their
wide hats of straw and crossed them
relVeS.
They knew that a law of Mexico was
being broken: but somehow the law OF
God. always first in the minds of a sim
pie people. seemed to be in this aifar.
and SO the women prayed and wept TO-
the dead girl, and the men along the
way tugged at their serapes and crossed
themselves after they had barred their
heads.
When the sun came up the next morn
ing the Kenmore Queen was gone from
her anchorage. Nobody ever understood
how the captain had contrived to
squeeze through the narrow neck in the
black tropical night without pilot.
But gone she was-and the captains
"little girl'' was homeWard bound.
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captain, simply, pausing before the health
officer, who continued to fill the narrow
doorway.
The health officer was by this time SO
excited that he was trembling. Maybe
it was because the sight OF the two huge
gringoes looming SO far above him. as
they stood close to the doorway. alarmed
him. perhaps. too. he had caught S:ght
Of the holsters protruding from under
their coats.
Where to take herr" the health officer
asked in tremulous voice.
Aboard my ship" said the captain,
just as quietly as he had spoken of the
matter in the morning.
But that is not to be- spluttered the
health officer. There is law-you
know the law?''
Yes. l know the law" answered the
captain. And it goes against me to
break it. It's the first time I've ever
tried to get around law. But there's
no other way. l am going to take that
child aboard my ship.
But she is to be buried here in the
morning-that is the law said the health
officer. huskily. He still kept his position
at the door,
mo. she is not said the captain, in
the tone Of a man making simple denial
of matter-of-fact question. Stand
clear"
The health officer. budging not. con-
tinued to splutter protests. The a ' ~
reached out one hand and gently pulled
the health officer from the doorway. The
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ship dock, stared hard at this one as she
came bellying in through the Neck under
her own CANVAS. It was the first clipper
the steamship agent ever had seen in
Mazatlan waters. and he had siestaed
away many years Of his life there
She looks like ono Of those old Amer
loan hookers that used to be in the China
tea trade" he said. Some contour and
stsp-alons to her. sh? But wonder what
her skipper expects to pick up here? \
cargo Of compressed Sleep"
The sauare-riEysr. doing twelve knots
easily as she shot through the Neck un-
der the outside breeze, headed then for
the middle Of the harbor. came about
and shot her mudhook. Presently her
signals. handled very sailor-wise, began
10 f1utter. She was the kenmore Queen
Seattle for New York Sick on board
Non-contagious. Health officer wanted
Urgent Sick to be transferred to Mazat-
Ian Hospital. Urgent again
The siesta habit hadn't SO eripped
Greaves. the Pacific Mail agent, that he
couldn't show a sample of North Ameri-
can hustling when the need came In
jiffy he had his sleepy dock quartermas-
Ter answering the Kenmore Queens sig
mails. Then he sent d messenger for the
health officer, who lived only a little dis
lance away. The health officer, a whis-
kered half-breed in rumpled and soiled
whites, moribund from being awakened
in mid!siesta-it was about . in the after
noon-presently crept down the pier
Into your cutter, Jose, and see what
ailinS aboard that one with the yards
out yonder.'' said Greaves to the slum-
berous health officer. Treat her right
she's an American. Somebody sick on
board that needs to be brought ashore.
It's nothing catching, 1t appears. Sheer
on-theyve given us hurry signals"
Fifteen minutes later the health officer S
steam cutter was alongside the pier
again. She brought. lying with wide open
but unseeing eyes on q ships bunk of
canvas, girl of about twenty, with the
stamp Of death on her face. The pallor
on her finely chiseled features was ter
ribie to see. She was gasping for breath.
1t was pneumonia. Bending over her
and stroking her forehead with his rough
hand was the girls father, the captain
of the Kenmore Queen. He was burly
man, not much above forty-fve, although
his black hair and beard had silver
streaks that somehow looked as IL they
had not long been there. In his eyes
there was a look of pain, of despair, that
l had never seen before. There was
an aspect of hopeless misery about him.
his broad. punched shoulders, the bronzed
unconscious girls white forehead, that 1t
hurt to see.
The hospital at Mazatlan is. or was.
q 'dobe makeshift that had been a ware
house. 1t was only about 300 feet, at the
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almost all of which is covered by virgin
forest. This makes it hard to reach them
But Notwithstanding these disadvantages
during the past year there has not beer
a single case of attack upon Americans
or Filipinos who have passed through
their country.
With the wild tribes in Palawan J-nclt
Sam has another hard nut to crack. TIL.
Moro population of this island is chiefly
composed of renegades who have beet
driven out of Joio. north Borneo and til,
islands which lie between Forth Borneo
ard Baiabac by their own people because
of offeLSeS against the Moro law. They
are regarded as criminals even by ths
Morns themselves. With few exception:
they depend fo- a livelihood on tishine,
thieving and such products as they can
obtain by depressing the Tagbanuas. This
criminal population has been steadily
growing. but the government believes
with proper precautions and safeguard.
II Will ultimately be able to show thes.
natives the proper way to live. Hers
again is where the moving picture plan OF
teaching is to be brought into play. Judg-
ing from results obtained with the Other
natives. TIE authorities expect good re
suits.
A peculiarly striking illustration of The
use of moving pictures ard the good
compllshed thereby Is that afforded y!
the work in Mindoro. Cholera appeared
in this province in the very settlements;
where the natives had for q long time
passively resisted the efforts Of the health.
authorities and would not clean up.
NeighbOriEs settlements had taken heeC
of the governments crusade aud things
were in pretty fair shape. SO this RENDERED
il comparatively easy tn prevent tn,
spread of the plague and contine it to
that settlement. which had persisted in
it's old-tine dirty habits. The lesson they
learned through this visitation was not
lost upon them. They had previously
been warned that cholera would be likely
to attack them if they did not clean up,
and so it did Shortly after the plague
had been stamped out there was a great
change in that settlement.
In AguSan. MindorO, the bulk of the
population is made up of wild trbes-tlle
Negritos. Manobos and Mangyans. These
people. formerly most Industrious in the
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determined to enforce that law in the
cases of Americans because il was the
nted States that virtually imposed the
law upon Mexico. / am sorry. ] wish
could help you. But I know by eX-
perience what a sure-enough stone wall
this law is
The skipper. grown so oddly old since
I'd seen him the cay before. fumbied his
cap between his gnarled shaky hands
Maybe he said, hoarsely, iii you'd
ask the authorities
I'm going to take her home. man
that's ALL" he said. almost as If speaking
to himself, as he picked at the leather
strap on his cap. Home is where she
belongs. The last thing l ever promis I'd
her mother. that sailed the seas with me
on the first ship I ever had and that
died on that ship lying out yonder, IVES
that I'd take this little girl home Il"
Once again something came into his
throat that caused him to tug at his COL
lar. IF anything ever happened to her,"
he added after a pause II took her
mother home all the way from Singapore
when she died. and the snow lies over
her today up yonder in Maine in the little
town where she was boRn-and where 1
got her.
1t seemed odd to hear a man speak Of
snow with the heat Of a mounting sun
on February morning in Mazatlan COM
ing pulsing through the windows. The
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close to the bottom Of the human series.
Tie Moro Is not only of a much later
and far purer Malayan origin than the
Filipino, but he is a Mohammedan with
all that implies.
So far 3 records show. the Negrito
was the original inhabitant Of the
Philippine Islands. and he. therefore,
according to Mr. Worcester. has tho
only territorial rights in the islands
based on title acquired bv other means
than conquest or pur base. The wild
man Of the hills is the descendant of
the Malay invaders. who drove the
Negritos before them. Ills ancestors
were in turn driven before the Morns.
who were the latest and most warlike
invaders to enter the islands prior To
the advent of the Spanish.
The Filipino o. today is the descendant
of prim tive peopl s who were e NJ con-
quered by the Moros at the TIM of the
Spanish invasion. ard OF fore gners or
various races who have intermar!ed with
his ancestors Mr.. Worcester says: The
Filipino has absolutely no claim To- the
territory of the Moros, or To thattof the
Wild hill tribes, which he has never IN
habited or even temporarily occupied it
seems that the Filipino asks that This ter
ritory of the wild man be turned over to
him. but at the same time, While claiming
the right to control the Wild man. he
denies the right Of the Americans to con-
troll him
With rare exceptions the Filpinos are
ignorant of the wild man and his ways.
They seem to have failed to grasp the
fact that the non-ChristianS WHO have
been contemptuously referred TO in the
FIJI pino press as n few Thousand saw
ages asking only to be let alone NUM-
Der more than a million and constitute
full eighth of the population of the is
lands The FilipinoS have already been
afforded opportunity to govern the nom
Christians, but the results can be guessed
at when IL is stated that in many OF the
provinces where there are non-chrIstlan
tribes. regularly orgaiized, with Filipino
governors. and provincial boards cor
trolled by the Filipinos. not one sihglr
important measure WAS ever originated
looking to the betterment of the condition
of these wild men by a Filipino during
the seven or e.gnt years lie was gwen
opportunity to govern them.
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Jaw winch these people at some time
separated a.,I IRON , their victims or enemies
grotesaue hand pieces are preserved with
great care: On all special occasions
they are brought forth and exhibited with
much pride They are also used in the
tribal games. which take place at stated
periods during the year.
In speaking OF the Moro province. where
the most formidable Of the wild tribes
dwell, Mr.. Worcester says:
Head hunting, slavery and piracy are
now very rare. In many instances the
wild men are being used to police their
own country. Cnspeakable filthy towns
have been made clean and sanitary. The
people are learning to abandon human
sacrifices and animal sacrifices. and to
come to the doctor when injured or i'll.
The old sharply drawn tribal lines are
fast disappearing. BOntoc Igorots. Ifu-
gOas and kal!nsaS now visit each others
territory. where formerly they visited
only for the purpose of taking heads, At
the same time all this has been accom-
plished. the good will of the people has
ton of what has been done for them and
are ortspohen in their wish that .Ameri-
can rule should continue They would
he horror struck at the thought that they
he turned over to Filipino control"
The wonderful result of American rule
among the wild tribes of the Philippines
might be shown, when it is said that dur
ing the past year. among more than IT,
,.Nt Ifugoas. there was not one head
taken. This is a great record when COM
pared with former years. and especially
previous to American occupation. when
it was a common thing for these savages
to he at war with each other. and the
number OF heads taken would run up into
the thousands Among the IgorotS and
tI1a L ol linz fharn
head taking during the year, but they
were rare and so isolated as to be eX-
tremely hard to locate.
In Apayao province Uncle Sam has
difficult problem to handle. Head hunting
with this tribe is intimately connected
with certain religious beliefs of the wild
Tinguiars who inhabit this province. and
for this reason the government has found
if hard to convince the Tinguians that
head hunting is not necessary tohe'p
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NCLE SAM Instructs
= ~ Wild Tribes - Work of
Retaining Former Head
Hunters to Civilization
Used to Show Natives How
to Clean House - Popular
Among All Wild Tribes
Savage Moros at Once At
tracted-Ifugoas, Mangyans,
Negritos, Fascinated With
the Moving Pictures-To Be
Permanently Employed by
the Government in Teaching
Natives Methods of Cleanli-
ness.
Copyright. 1911. by William l.. Altdorfer.r
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were done around their houses. From this
time on they seemed to take an interest
in their home surroundings, and now
many of the nipa shacks which formerly
appeared about to tumble into the streets
present an altogether different appear
ance Streets have been cleaned up. In
fact. the moving picture show, so far as
Uncle Sam in the Philippines is concern
ed, has come to stay. 1t has been adopted
as part and parcel of the system of edu-
cation of the natives.
Dean c. Worcester, secretary of the in
terror for the Philippine Islands, gives a
graphic description of the Improvements
which have been and are being made with
the help of moving pictures in report
just received by the insular bureau OF the
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Sword Swallowing.

GORGE BARR McCUTCHEON, the
~ novelist. was praising Chicago at
the Chicago Athletic Club
"a New Yorker" he said. visited US
the other day and was disposed to snecr
at all he saw. When he registered at his
hotel he said to the clerk warningly and
haughtily:
Remember. now, I'm from New
York
Yes, sir. said the clerk. with poli;s
smile. I'll See To il, sir, that a knife is
served with your pie.
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head of the rough-cobbled, quiet little
street. from the pier. The girls father,
Greaves. the steamer agent, the health
omcer and took our corners at the bunk
litter and carried the girl there the old
women in their 'dobe doorways murmur-
ing words of pity: they knew how to
interpret what was written on the girls
face
The ground floor of the 'dobe hospital
was an open ward, mainly for the ac-
commOdation of sick rurales; a number
or the little Mexican soldiers, a few Of
them In delirium, were stretched on cots
In that ward when we got there. There
were three bare little private rooms for
above
We carried Ceylona to one of these
rooms. She was Ceylona because she
mad been born aboard her fathers ship
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manned for Uncle Sam to do 50 by a
unique means of the ever-fa scinating
moving picture show. The wild men have
been taught the difference between the
clean and the unclean ways of living by
means Of graphic pictures thrown on the
canvas
In the words of an official recently re-
turned from among these people:
Just to watch the many emotions pic
tured on the faces of the former head
hunters when the pictures were first
shown was worth the many hardships
endured to bring the word Of civilization
TO these children. For they are but chill
dren in the simplest sense of the word.
They sat on their launches. or rather
squatted in the fashion Of the Indian.
and there passed across the faces of all
present all the emotions of which the
human being is capable. Astonishment
amazement, incredulity, quickly followed
one upon the other, until it settled to
one of extreme pleasure and satisfac-
tion.'
Some of them afterward were heard to
say il was the work OF the devil Others
claimed IL was magic, black art and
many other guesses were offered. but in
the end all became apparently convinced
that the pictures came not from the devil.
but were for their best interests. After
the first show was over. in one of the
small settlements of the Igorrote country,
1T was interesting to see them infinitely
inspect the machine. 1t was hard for
awhile to get them near 1t, but after con-
siderable persuasion they gingerly APP
preached as if in fear it would go Off
They would go over the stretched canvas
and finger it as though looking for some
thing hidden within, all the while with
the greatest look Of wonder and amaze
ment on their faces
After several exhibitions showing scenes
familiar to all. there was thrown on the
screen picture showing the streets and
the houses in the various settlements, In
all their old-time filth and dirt. I'm
mediately following this a picture would
appear showing the same streets and
houses after they had been cleaned up.
The pictures were explained by an in
terpreter who accompanied the show 1t
was not long before the natives began to
sit up and take notice. Many little things
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health officer battered over to the rcra:eS
barracks. only a square away, as the
captain and mate entered the hospital.
The captain knew that his daughter
body, ;ncased in the rough stain d box.
was in a little detached cooling room at
the rear of the dobe hospital. Tnithel
he erode oassiur tn" c's o. tn s +
soldiers, his mate just one step behind
him. The :Wu whit -robed sisters were
in the cooling room. The captain and
mate took off their caps. The sisters,
alarmed. huddled close together.
The rough stained box stood in a
shadowy corner on two boxes. The lid
had not yet been put in place. The face
of the dead girl was covered with
shroud. The captain gently pulled back
the stroud from the face and gazed,