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HE PHILIPPINES AND WHAT UNCLE SAM IS DOING WITH THEM

tied to his shield with his bloody neck
hanging down.
They have also photographs Of houses
ornamented with human heads. and
have before me picture of two men clad
in nothing more than gee str ng who
are pounding on gongs the handles of
which are the jaws of the human beings
they have probably killed The teeth in
the jaws are plainly visible.
today. but the. American governors of the
tribes write that the custom has been al
most wiped out. Dur ng 1911 there were
no heads taken by the Ifugaos. and very
few anon the Ilorrotes or kalinsas.
Lieut. Gov. Hale was warned that he
would lose his head if he visited one Of
the Kalinga settler ents. He went,
nevertheless. His head is still on.
and others that the government has now
organized what is known as the mountain
province of northern Luzon. That coun-
try Is as big as Massachusetts and Con-
necticut combined, and it is inhabited by
wild or semi-civilized peoples. 1t has, al
together, about FIVE hundred thousand,
many of whom have been head hunters,
and practically all of whom are the de-
scendants Of head hunters.
The province has a governor, who lives
at the capital, which is Bontoc, and it
mas seven lieutenant governors, one over
each of the subprovinces into which the
mountain province has been divided.
in TINS Region there are five great
tribes, all Of which live in villages and
have more or less civilization. Many Of
them have been semi-civilized in the
past, only the wilder ones being head
hunters. Take the Tingyans. of whom
there are perhaps 100000 They are farm
ers living in vi lagos. They have re-
ligion of their own. one part of which is
a belief in spirits who are always hover
ing around them and affecting every act
of tfeir lives. The Tingyans sacrifice
pigs and chickens to these spirits.
Another big tribe is the Kalingas, who
in the last have been famous as head
hunters. They have axes made for chop
ping off the head at blow, and shields
for defense. Some Of them live In the
trees, and they are expert raftsmen and
make their way to and fro as far as
possible by water.
Head bunting has been a religious bust-
ness with the Kalihgas, one of the cere-
monies being the taking out of the brains
and eating them. The chiefs Of these
head hunters are now cooperating with
the American lieutenant governor. They
have settled in villages and are beginning
to farm.
Every one in the United States has
heard Of the Igorrotes. some of whom were
seen at the st. Louis exposition. They
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duty as President. Meeting the funeral
train of the murdered President at Har-
risburg, Mr. Cullom remained aboard
throug out the long twelve-day circuit Of
ton of e. F. Leonard Senator Cullom be-
lieves he is the sole survivor of the
funeral party which accompanied the
Lincoln remains on that long journey to
Springfield.
Uncle Joe" Cannon also has some
vivid recollections of Lincoln. in whose
time he was states attorney In Illinois
while Cullom was part OF the time in the
legislature. The former Speaker first met
Lincoln at Decator. ILL.,, the day before
the state convention. was held there to
elect delegates to the first national con-
vention which nominated Lincoln for
President. Mr. Cannon saw the future
President at the telegraph Office, and
when some one referred to his candidacy
heard him say, I'm most too much of
a candidate to be here and not enough
of one to stay away" The next day
Uncle Joe" saw two Of the original
Lincoln rails carried into the convent on.
heard the crowd yell for the man who
had split them and saw the giant form
of Illinois favorite son passed from hand
" uduu OtcT d SOllu mass u people lTOm
the rear Of the convention to the plat
form.
The last time Mr.. Cannon saw Lincoln
was on a tran in Illinois just prior to
his Inauguration. After he had spoken
with the President-elect he heard a man
ask the question: ABE. be you going
down to see your mother?" to which
Lincoln replied: I'm going to spend a
day visiting her before l so to Wash
ngton to take the oath of office - The
candidate referred to his stepmother, for
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another. and are in fact entering upon q
new life. They like our government
stores where the sales are made at Man
lila prices plus 20 per cent and the cost
OF transportation, and they bring their
basket work, wood carving, weapons and
curious dresses to the exchanges, where
they are bought for cash as curioS. So
far the exchanges have been opera ted
by the lieutenant governors, but il is be-
lieved in time that there Will be men APP
pointed by the government to study the
local needs and to bring in the goods to
supply them.
The government is establishing schools
and is doing what il can TO teach the
grown-upS- One of It's methods is by
the stereopticon lecture. The officers
show moving pictures and other lantern
slides by which they teach sanitation,
agriculture and industries of various
kinds. One picture viii be a v'l.age i'm a
wild state, and another the same village
cleaned of dirt One will show a hut
which is shabby and poor. and another
a hut of the same size well made. One
picture will be that of a head hunter
when he was wild. The next presents
him in citizens clothing, and a third as
an officer of the police force. The peo-
pie like these pictures and they are do
ing considerable good.
The tribal lines are fast disappearing
among these savages of the north. In the
mountain province there now exists 730
miles of good trails. Cars are being run
from the coast to Cerventes, and in a
short time they will reach Bontoc, the
capital In Ifugao there are $1,000 men
who each did ten days work on the road
last year. The old trails have been wi
dened and improved, and 1t is expected
that 300 miles of new roads will have
been completed during this fiscal year
This road work is going on in Mindoro
and otherwheres.
In closing / would say that the wild
men are afraid of the Filipinos and that
there is a mutual distrust between the
two classes. The Filipino despises the
wild man on account of his ignorance,
and fears him for the vengeance he has
shown in the past. A war of prejudice
and hatred has risen up between him and
the semi-savages, and 1t is said that he
has taunted the latter with the statement
that the American government is to be
only temporary and that in time all the
tribes will be ruled by him. This the wild
man fears and he has come to the Ameri-
can again and again and begged him to
stay and continue to give him his rights
in the courts and the other great advan-
tages which he now has.
FRANK 6. CARPENTER
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sible to get many of them into the
schools. In the past they have sent mes
sages to one another on pieces of bamboo.
But I want to tell you what has been
do nm II he cad nun: ers AtItn We
took hold of the islands we had tens Of
thousands OF savages who made regular
custom of killing human beings that they
might cut off their heads and keep them
as trophies. This custom was not con-
fined to one tribe: but it was common, to
the wild men OF the northern part Of
Luzon. Our government officials have
taken photographs of the victims, having
found them shortly after the heads had
been cut of. I have seen one Of a man
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afraid of the foreigners, but they are
gradually beginning to have confidence
in the new cond lions and TO learn tina;
they will not be robbed or murdered.
trails all over NJ ndanao. 1t is making
roads and clearing out the rivers and
streams, so that the wild peope can go
from place to place in their canoes
where. and life and property are now
comparat vely safe In some places the
wild men are used to police their own
country. Human sacrifices are being done
away with. and this is also true Of the
animal sacrifices. Down at Davao roads
and bridges have been made throughout
the whole district There is wireless
te,eeraph station there and telephones
wi soon be put in.
Before l speak of the work which has
been done Luzon and other large
islands where there are semi-civil zed
tribes l want 70 tell you about the Ne
CRITICS. These little people are about
the lowest and most barbarous of our
Philippine cousins.
They are the aborigines, and are much
like the pigmies of the Andaman Islands
and the Ii tie dwarfs which inhabit the
wilds of the Kongo. They are about the
smallest of mankind. l have met full
arm and have seen old men who did not
reach up to my shoulder. The officials
of the census measured nine fui-grown
men and the average height was four
feet eight inches.
These people are as black as your hat
and Their hair is as woolly as that of
the little men of the kongo. They have
wide nostriis, thick lips and fiat noses
Their teeth are black, MADE so by chew
ing the be ell.
The ,Negritos are scattered all over the
islands. They have no LANGUAGE except
that of the Peep about them. They
have no tribal relations to speak Of. and
t is hard to get hold Of them except in
iso .ated cases. The government has
enticed some into the schools, but they
are usually timid and will run from
the stranger. / saw some of them In
the Zambales mounta MS while Gen Fred
Grant was in charge Of that region. They
were almost naked, and their houses were
bark shell, ers or holes in the ground. The
most Of their living came from hunting
and fishing. and they were expert trap
pers Of game They use bows and ar
rows and tip their arrows with pc. son.
AS to the future of the pigmies. the
government does not expect much. The
Negrito Is not numerous enough to be an
impor ant quantity. and the probability
is that he Will be swallowed up by the
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belonging to tribes where one could not
marry until he had killed a human being
These were the Bagobas, and assoc ated
with them were the Guingas, class OF
special murderers appon ed by the chi IS.
They had the right to wear q turban
which looked for all the world like red
banoana handkerchief. The turban was
a license to kill, and one of the wearers
told me he had twenty heads to his credit.
The Bagobas file their teeth and black
en- them They are polygam SIS, and for
merly held human sacrifices on the slopes
of Mount Apo, the great volcano not far
from Davao ! was told that they prayed
60 the mounta ms, and their exact methods
of sacrificing humans to it were shown.
They were very revengeful and carried
on a vendetta from generation to genera
tion lancing or spearing their enemies on
sight.
l have just gotten a report from that
part of the Philippines. 1t is from MAJ.
Henry Gilsheuser, the governor of the
Davao district. He says that the pa
pobas have stopped numbering their fell
lows. and are taking to farming. Many
of them have been brought together in
villages, where they have schools with
regular teachers. In other places the
wild boys are taught by the scouts and
the police. In the town of Davao, which
was practical Y wild at the time ! Wis
tied the islands, there is an agricultural
and industrial school, attended by the
boys of the surrounding tribes. Military
Cf1!l Is gwen ana the DoyS are taught
farming.
When we took possession some of the
Bagobas had little farms and they raised
hemp for their own use. They tore the
fbers apart and wove their clothes from
them. / saw hundreds of men and wo-
men who were dressed in grass jackets
and pants. The pants of both sexes
reached only to the knees. and the men
wore strings OF be Is about the leg at
the same place that the American girl
wears her garter.
Today the Bae obas are farming In
earnest. Maj Gilsheuser says they are
now bringing in something like lou 80
pounds of hemp month and that his
whole district exports ten times that
amount.
Many of the other tribes bring In gums
and wax. and not a few Of the wild men
are iaboring on the plantations owned
by the Christians.
The greater part of Mindanao is wild.
and some of the people far in the interior
are so savage that very little has been
done with them. There are fifteen diff
ferent tribes near Davao, some of whom
still live in trees making their homes In
the branches forty or fifty feet above
the ground These people are much
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tary of legation, and before President
Taft was born he was elected to Con-
gross, where he sat throughout the adj
ministration of Buchanan. which paved
the way for the great civil struggle. He
took his seat in the House two years
before Pryor entered, but was a col
league of that Virginian during the Con-
gress just preceding the disruption.
Although a democrat who had voted
against Lincoln he went to the latter,
when the war broke out, and offered him
his services in the army. Recalling their
interview, he said:
when I saw the President and told
him that l wanted to help, Lincoln said
to me: 'Sickles. I'm glad you've come to
me and l want to have every democrat
of prominence who wants to save this
country from destruction right up in the
front line of the fighting. 1 don't want
you to serve as private. I believe in
pushing the democrats who want to fight
right up to the head, where everybody
can take lesson from their example.
You have been a leader in New York
democratic politics. If you have kept
your end up at that game, surely you
will do to take command of men in the
ned. Go on and raise your regiment
and you shall be a brigadier general. -
Sfckles went ahead and organized five
regiments of his constituents and Lincoln
true to his word, put a star on his
shoulder straps and in the second year
of the war he was major general. He
Is the senior surviving corps commander
OF the civil war and in point of service
is the senior surviving official of our
three branches of government.
X
But up in Orange, N. j., dwells a VEN
cradle sage and another of these CO.
temporaries of Lincoln, who in age, out
ranks Gen. Sickles. This is the Methodist
bishop. Thomas Bowman, now in his
ninety-fffth year, who was chaplain of
the national Senate while Lincoln was
President. James Monroe was in the
White House when this divine was born.
He received his dip oma the year in which
Victoria was crowned, and he was preach
ing in Baltimore during the administra-
ton Of Van Buren,. He has been
licensed preacher for seventy three years.
ors as having passed beyond, but one of
those still survives-William Sprague, he
who married the fascinating Kate Chase,
daughter of Lincoln's Secretary of the
Treasury, and whom that President APP
pointed Chief Justice. That same cam
paign which first elevated Lincoln to the
Presidency returned vii lam Spra lie TO
the governors chair in Rhode Island, and
he came to Washington with the first
troops volunteering from Little Rhody."
After having been thrice elected executive
Of hts state. he retr'roed to WASHINGTON a
United States senator in 1868, and the
same year MARI ed Salmon P. Chases
daughter. After serving twelve years in
the upper house of Congress, he retired
to his home in Narragansett, where he
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No stock in the oft-repeated stories Of
Lincoln's domestic infelicities is taken by
the senator.
81 often visited at his home," says he,
land SO far as my observation went I do
not hesitate to say that not the slightest
credence should be given to the many
false stories that have from time to time
appeared. manufactured largely by those
who desired to write something new and
sensational"
Lincoln was seen in all of his moods
by Senator Cullom, and although at
times he displayed the ungainliness often
described, when the occasion demanded
he arose to a superior dignity and no.
bility.
One of his most vivid recollectons of
Lincoln is his standing over the coffin of
his dead boy Willie. in the east room,
with lips quivering and the tears pour
ing down his cheeks During the varied
fortunes of war Mr.. Cullom visited he
President at the White House, from time
to time, and also at the Soldiers Home
when he lived there to escape the down.
town heat He overheard the interview
between Linco n and Chase durin which
the latter made his acknowledgment for
his appointment as Chief Justice. The last
time he saw the President alive was
about three weeks before his ASA sSina-
ton, when he warned him of his Peril,
but received only the reply from Lincoln
that he must take his chances-that he
could not live in an iron box and do his
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but the Firpinos would like to have a
hand in il Some of them are now at
tempting to make il a political issue and
to have these savages ruled by the ma
tive assembly at Manila But Uncle Sam
knows better. He questions whether the
FIlipinos are able TO even govern them
selves, and the civilization of the wild
men will be continued by the national
government.
As it is now, fully one-eighth of the
population of the Philippines is semi-sav-
age The people have been counted by
our census enumerators and we find some
thing like seven hundred thousand who
rank from the lowest stage of baEbarism,
as shown by the Negrito pigmies. up to
the Igorrots and Ifugaos of northern Lu-
ION. who have irrigated rice fields, vii
lagos with public buildings and other
tn ngs showing Il considerable degree OF
civilization. We have also three hundred
thousand Moros, who are sort OF de-
graded Mohammedans, and of whom /
shall write later on.
Let us first take the wild men outs de
the Moros They are scattered all over
the islands: they infest the mountainous
districts. and vast tracts of country are
devoted entirely TO them. Some of them
are head hunters, many have been slaves
and not a few are as savage as the poor
est and meanest negro of the wilds of tae
Kongo.
| saw great many of these people dur
ing my stay In the Philippines. The lit
tie black ginies peeped out from behind
rocks at me as / rode through the noun
tains, and away down in southwestern
Mindanao / had a chance to buy black
slave girl for SIS. She was an Aeta,
twelve years old, and she only reached to
my shoulder She was half naked. and /
could see that she was as plump as a
partridge, notwithstanding her size.
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Copyright. 1912, by Frank C. Carpenter.)

HAVE entitled this
letter Uncle Sam,
Civilizer. 1t deals
with the wild tribes
of the Philippine
Islands and shows
what we have done
with them after
thirteen years OF
civil and military
rule. The work SO
far has been that
of our government,
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

- our generation,
from its viewpoint
three years beyond
his century mile
stone, Lincoln ap-
pears far away in
the background of
history. To those
of us who thus
perceive him family
through the thick
ening mist of time,
it is surprising to
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dfscover-when we come to count tnein-
how many of his brother leaders stu I'VE
among US, defying the ravaSes OF tiiie'
The boast of having served in Congress
before Lincoln was President would De
received from a living man with little
cresence today. And yet there dwell
IN the great metropolis two men who can
establish this record. These are Gen.
Roger A. Pryor and Gen. Daniel E. Sick
les. Having served as one OF our ENJOYS
to Greece back in the administration or
Pierce, Roger A. Pryor entered Congress
from Virginia during the regime of Buch-
anan, and in the campaign which first
brought Lincoln to the White House he
was reelected to another congressional
term. which, on account of his alignment
with the Confederate cause, he did not
serve.
;-
He knew Lincoln. who released him
from the federal prison at Petersburg,
ard after thus regaining his liberty he
called at the White House to plead for
the life of a brother officer under SEN
tence of death as Confederate spy. His
eighty-fourth birthday will fall next mid
summer.
The other surviving ante-bellum con-
gresham. Gen. Sickles, is in his eighty
seventh year. having first seen the light
away back yonder in the days when
Quincy Adams was President. While
Polk dweIt in the White House and John
Young was governor of New York, sixty
five years ago-more than a lifetime Tor
the great majority of us-he was in the
New York legislature fighting the wings
President Pierce, who came before Bucn-
anan, sent him to London as our secre-
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ROGERA PRYOR.

thus he heard the formers most impor-
tant speeches. beginning with that be-
fore the wing convention Of '46, which
nominated him for Congress, and includ-
ing that before the republican convention
Of SO, when he uttered the words: "A
house divided against itself cannot stand.
This government cannot permanently en-
dure half save and half free" He
listened to many of the Lincoln-Doug-
las debates.
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CURVIVING Cotempora-
- ries Recall Him in Vivid
Pictures-Two Ante-Bellum
Congressman and One Ante
Bellurn Governor Who Knew
Him-Also a Venerable Sage
Who Was Chaplain of the
Senate While He Was in the
White Observation-Disclosures
of Senator Cullom, Who Was
Nearest Him of All Survi-
vors-"Uncle Joe" Cannon's
Memories; Also Andrew D.
Whites, Chauncey Depew's
and Gen. Horace Porter's.
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~. ROBINSON PLANNING
REVIVAL DURING AUGUST

Rev. Dr Ernes, r Robinson. pas
tor of the Polk Street Methodist
church. is planning a series OF revival
meetings IN, same 10 begin about
August ! and continue approximately
ten DAYS 20 two weeks So far the
minister has not determined who he
win have 20 assist him IN the meet
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entral Presbyterian.

Corner T-uth and Taylor street.
N9rn'rg worship at II O'Clock
ti'h s"Tmol by ihe pastor The mn.
sI 1iioUs
Anthem By the Waters OF Rabyiou'
SULLIVAN
Sol Redeemer and My Lord
Dudley Buck
Miss White
Es-l.ug Worship at $50 O'Clock
sermon 1} 'ls pastor. subject Jesus
tl4 t Impression ~ Men
Anthem A. Christ Upon the Gross
Billiard
,.'-' "icome Sweet Grace.
Macy
sunday school. $50 q. M.
EudeatOr. r go p M.
our people Riu boz delighted 10
welcome you iu our services n you
ar. stranger
2 THOMSEN. Minister.
+ T. HlGlNBOTHAM. supt
PROT 49, s. ANTELL. Organist
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Corner Sixth and Fillmore streets.
@nhGay school. s:iJ a. m.
Christian Endeayor, 7:IJ .. m.
Public worship az II a. m. and
b BOO :. m ar both OF which services
tHs H1-I or will preach.
!. y IVY Minister
j. y BEASLEY. Supt
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First congregational

Rev e. A. Boughton Of Fort Worth
VIII preach at ID m A. 80 p.
m. Instead Dt 90" regular evening
sermon a song sermon will be given
Mr. Boughton has Tor several years
been employed ~ an eyangelistlc
singer
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AmarlIIo Chnrch Of rhri.l

Meets each Lords day In the coun.
ty court room
song service. 40 d. M.
Bible study. 1880 a. m.
'ra}er. praise and communion ser.
t.'. Do a.. %
Every member OF the Church OF
Christ Is urged 70 be present The
p-blio is cordially invited Strangers
ore assured welcome
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ENangital Lutheran.

Services next SUNDAY july Z al
: 80 % "a az the First Congrega.
tionai church Tenth and Buchanan
All are welcome.
l.. J.. WERNER. Pastor
,'., Vest 1th Street.