Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-14

still regard slavery as a. divine 49,
Notwithstanding their American Iuleis s,,,
| met many of the dattos u.'hs '
stay in the Philippines and saw some
thing of their wives and saves ne
women are not yelled, as IN otnef NJ
hamfnedan countries, ana bath waves 60
$ ayes 20 about bare faced vas 'ot1
that a Datto was considered ricn dc-
cordine to the number OF slaves he own
ed and that children were stoleh iloti
other tribes to be Kept as slaves. ST. 81;
of ,he dattos We're notorious loi lh'''
cruelty in regard to their slaves met
=, old villain named tito, who gave I'M
beard-of punshments for minor olehseI'
slaves who ran away from him Were
often punished by cutting the teh I'll
below the knee, so that they cou4d "f eI
only with difficulty and could De easIs
caught If they tried agan TO escd Ip
This man had a slave girl " nom ne GUS
liked He bound her over place swarm
ing with red ants and she was bitten ~
death. Tito had man tieo iaN &c,
the trunk Of a tree where he was roast
cd nv the sun during the day and eat1h
Inv the mosquitoes at night. rms TOR
ment was terrible. And calf brougnC
in bv our soldiers for slaughter ana !eie
lied that way died in one day
Tito had also stocks in wren ne leAt
yeopIe 10 die One of our officers 1ouhu
a Moro dead in the stocks. He was lSlh6
rhere. no one having dared to remove me
corpse. - ,.;,,a ar,
tho authority Of a Jesuit priest VINO was
travelling among the Moros Just apou,
the time took hold oil the islai"7- re
wrote about them to one OF the Sehefai9
nf the United States army ana the ititti
included them in his report To the gov
eminent This man described other pun
isbrcuts melted out by the chiefs or THESE
Nohammedan Moros. He says tnat tneS
had one way OF tantalizine their enemies
They would tie a man in the river "here
the tides came in in such way that he
could Just escape drowning by stahdihh
ON his tiptoes and thus keep the water
from entering his nostrils and mouth AT
times of extraordinary tues saeh 'Ai@i
were drowned.
one of our American officials says that
he saw Moro in Jolo who always wore
a bandage over his mouth This was TO
hide from public view its deformlty,
which had been caused, not by nature
but by a datto to whom he nad spoken
disrespectfully. The datto ordered that
the mans mouth be split and opened To
the edges Of the jawhones- rms WAS
done with a kris and il was then ieft 10
heal. Strange to say, the man lVed
Ii is strange that slavery cannot be put
down in the Philippines. The Spaniards
attempted it 800 years ago, and there
have always been laws against it. one
reason for the trouble with the Moros is
that it Is hard to distinguish between
the wife and the slave. The Moros De
lieve that they have the right to as many
wives as they can support and. as nave
said the Koran gives them four fre-
queIltly the chiefs have but one real WIG
and the rest are slaves whose children 90
not inherit rank or titles. Some OF these
wives are right good looking. l relnen-
Der seeing the favorite of Datto Manu-
harem at Zamboanga- The Datto Ma va,
a most fifty years of age, but this 81
was eighteen, and she would nave oeSit q
beauty almost anywhere. Sfe was tatt 70
a Moro, as plump as a partridge anu ~ -,
rich mahogany brown she mt'o Iiio
eyes and large sensual lips 9he wac
dressed i'll a kimono when saw neI anu ~
the datto stood beside her Wnile hiaoe
d photograph of the two.
| asked something as TO the customs custom
of marriage and was told II was idi se t, ,
a question of bargain ana safe ne
husband paws for his bride, ana at the
time we took hold of the Suius tiie aver
age price for IA good-looklnS slrl was
$40 in silver. a water buffalo worth about
SIS. and 500 pieces of rice cake, worth !
cent each or the money paid = went
to the girl and the rest 10 her parents Is
The Moro marriage ceremonies usually
take place AT the house OF tne oiIut.
. They are performed pS a priest, VINO
asks the man ii he taxes the woman Il lof
! his wife OF course, he says yes. The
same question is then put TO the woman
hut she is supposed to let her relative;
reply for her. After this the groom presses