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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
Worlds Finest oroan

Made in 1926 by the master artison,
Nicolaus Handkerchief, and described
as the finest instrument of the kind in
the world, an organ has been pur.
chased abroad by an American dealer.
who is said to have paid 100000 for
1t. The purchase is linked with the
name of Henry C. Frick. The instru-
ment Is of large Cabinet size, with a
keyboard about three feet long. The
case Is richly carved and inside is the
makers portrait and inscription giving
his age and the honors accorded him.
The organ was found in an old cha
teau in the Ardennes region of France,
where 1t Is said to have rested for 200
years. 1t is supposed to have been
seized by French officer at the time
OF the Thirty Years war. Saint-Saens
played on 1t some years ago and pro-
nounced 1t the finest he had ever
touched.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
SUGAR THE STAFF OF LIFE
Tacoma Physician Comes Forward
With Idea That Has Set Scientific
World to Thinking.

The psychologist who discovered
that your liver and your muscles
manufacture sugar while you sleep
has been surpassed by the German
physician who uses sugar dissolved
In water as an excellent surgical
dressing for all sorts OF wounds.
Drs. Jacques Pansot and Pierre
Matthew have just declared that when
animals eat sugar exclusively for long
periods their weight at first decreases,
soon begins to mend and then falls
away again as the diet continues.
DIR. H. Head of Tacoma Park, d. c.,
disagrees with these laboratory find
ings. He says sugar is comparable
to gasoline. AS the latter Is the fuel
of the internal combustion engine, so
sugar is the fuel of the human ma
chine. Sugar. he says. is the staff of
life. and man can produce more en-
ergy from sugar than from any other
food.
A distinguished British heart spe-
cialist has lately proved the efficacy
of lump sugar In the treatment OF
man nearly eighty years old who was
dying with vicious disease of his
heart. After all the usual remedial
measures had failed one OF the maids
asked II there was any objection to
feeding the sufferer lump sugar. The
physician gave his consent and four
Jumps were given in little water.
These were repeated every four hours.
and in week he was well man.
Doctor Berzeller recommends to
one Of the German medical societies
the use of powdered sugar in the
treatment of old, Ill treated and neg
lected cancers. He says the applica-
ton of sugar to the fetid pests les
sens the disagreeable odor and dis
charges. Furthermore the general
condition of the patient improves and
all hemorrhages, cease. Indeed, un-
less you have had a long experience
with cancer patients, you are liable
to be deluded into the belief that the
cancer has healed.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20

territories inhabited by the few nonChristian
Fpinos which under the exclusive controi
of the Philippine commission, | am sure the
shareholders can only be the government officials,
who are Amounted by the secretary of the inte-
rior the Hon Dean c. Worcester, the head OF
the executive department In charge OF said ter
ritories."
But the reports lately received by the secretary
of war state slavery does exist In the territory
under the authority of the Philippine assembly.
Included in this territory Pampanga. where
the little Negr1to orphans are sold after the man.
ner already described; Cagayan, where children
are reported by district official to be enslaved.
whipped AMI subject to work at all times;"
Isabella, where Professor Worcester says slavery
is still common; Romblon, whose native lieuten-
ant governor during the summer just passed has
reported his recent efforts to have returned
to their parents large group Of children enticed
from school, sold for IS apiece; also Tarloc, Ba-
taan, Zambales and numerous other provinces"
where Professor Worcester says slavery prevails.
All OF these have representatives In the assembly.
Without hesitation" says Professor Worcester,
IL express the opinion that apart from false
and foolish pride which makes the persons con-
cerned unwilling to admit the existence of sav-
cry, the chief reason why assemblymen object to
the law which they have tabled is that 1t would
not only prohibit and penaze slavery, but would
necessarily also prohibit and penalize peonage,
which Is so common and widespread that II must
be called general Indeed have no hesitation
In asserting that 1t prevails In every municipality
In the Philippine islands"
While on his last visit of inspection to Palawan
Professor Worcester says he received reports
that Assemblyman Sandoval, who represents the
province In the legislature. had. when he attend
cd that body last year, taken a young native girl
Ia Manila, promising to put her IN school, but
that instead, he had compelled her to work for
him as house servant. She escaped, but he re-
captured hor and returned her to Manila. II have
not made the slightest effort to get the peonage
records Of Philippine assemblymen," adds Pro.
lessor Worcester, but have taken cases they
came. yet three of the relatively very limited
number furnished me concern members or ex.
members OF the assembly. Isit any wonder that
that body refuses to consider law prohibiting
and penazing peonage?"
bill to abolish Philippine slavery and peon-
age In every form is to be introduced In our
congress by Senator Borah Of Idaho whose reso-
luton calling upon the secretary OF war brought
to light the facts In the Worcester report and
Who Is appalled, by the further revelations OF
the Phipps report
After returning to the United States Professor
Worcester will devote some time to lecturing in
favor Of abolition of slavery In the archipelago.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20

NTH Dean c. Worcester's recent report
few Americans had suspected that at
this late day commerce in human be.
ings still fiourishes within the shadow
OF Old Glory.
such Is the fact, unless Professor
worcester and considerable army of
American officials in the Philippines
have been seeing things"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
Ended Lies Troubles.

A pathetic story of poverty and prf
JatNn was unfolded at Paris the 9TH
er day, by the discovery in the Seine
of the bodies OF two young women
clasped in one another's arms. They
were soon identified as the two eldest
daughters of a bookkeeper named
Brucker, who had informed the police
that the girls were missing, together
with boy aged fifteen and another
girl aged eight. On rising to go to
work in the morning, Brucker, who is
widower, was overwhelmed to find
his childrens beds empty and sheet
of paper on the mantelpiece bearing
the words, 1--WE are going to drown
ourselves" The bodies of the two
younger children have not yet been
recovered, but the unhappy father has
no doubt that they, too, threw them
selves into the river. The elder girls
were aged twenty-three and nineteen
years respectively. The family lived
close to the Seine at Auteuil, and the
children apparently had gone down to
the river in their night clothes only.
The father had received notice to leave
his fiat, and was to have moved out
the same day. The girls had only Sc
cured casual work recently, and were
worn out after passing the summer
on one meal day.
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Transfers From a Machine.

A marked departure in the method
of issuing transfers has been made
possible by a new transfer issuing and
recording machine. This machine
prints, records and issues transfers to
passengers on street cars. The print
ing and recording mechanism includes
elements which will print time to the
minute. a directional indication, date,
lines to and from which transfers are
issued, the number of the machine,
the number of each transfer. the com
pany rules and regulations and rec
ord of all transfers issued. 1t Is be
lieved that this device will materially
decrease the time OF issuing transfers
at crowded transfer points, reduce
misuse Of transfers by passengers and
prevent waste Of transfers through
improper neutrality-suspicious. Railway
Journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20

/ ties. without pay for their services. Some are
shipped to China. Some are bought outright for
! cash, from their parents. Indeed even the pupils
In the schools instituted by Uncle Sam have
been secretly enticed from their homes by false
( promises and have been sold into slavery and
peonage.
Those black dwarfs the Negritos. whom many
of saw at the st. Louis exposition, and who
are regarded by ethnologsts the aboriginal in
habitants Of the island. particularly sought
a. slaves. perhaps because their people are usual
v willing to sell them.
= When one OF these is desired by the slave
trader he goes or sends up into their mountain
haunts and enters into negotiations with the
chief OF the tribe With him the bargain is made
for the delivery of girl or boy as desired the
price ranging from $50 to $50, or even $50 The
amounts given are the equivalent of these prices
In our money.
The chief agrees to deliver the slave to
designated party. who will in turn deliver him to
the purchaser, and take the money.
Many Negrito children fall into the hands OF
the slave traders In this way. father and
mother both die, their orphans being left with
one to care for them SO the head men OF
their tribe according to the native custom, be-
. come responsible for the disposition OF the or
phans who are considered burden upon society
To appease the gods and relieve the tribe of
, this burden II used to be the custom for the
heacmen to hold solemn session and condemn
all these orphans to death But as times have
been hard In the hills" in lieu of this slaughter
of the innocents Il has become the custom OF the
headmen to enter into negotiations for the sale
, Of orphans. This procedure has now become
quito popular. well lucrative. so that agents
In the Negrito country are furnishing slaves for
people even in Manila. Thus during the present
year Negrito boy about ten years old was
bought through residents Of San Fernando. Pam.
panea. by Joaquin Aldecoa who paid $35 for him
and took him to Manila by train. Scores OF SINH
lar cases are reported to the war department by
name.
1t 70 customary for the purchaser to call in
priest and have his slave baptized as soon as II Is
purchased, this ceremony. according to the an
Client tradition, establishing ownership on the
;baptismal records. Just does the registration
of cow horse. II also serves excuse
for the statement that the slave has been adopted
into the family Of the purchaser as is always
claimed
supply sergeant disguised slave trader
OF Pangasnan went into the cockpits OF the
.Negrito villages and gathered some interesting
evidence. One Macario Ayson Of Angeles told
him that II he went to Porac he could probably
get Negritos there; or, in there we're
Tor SALE he could get any number of persons to
Ip. out and capture them for him. y .-------.f.i,
"a party OF IS hostile Filipinos. presumably
ldrones armed mostly with bolos entered a
small Negrito village mile and half from
Camp Stotsenburg and after killing three men
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Bought State House.

Perhaps there are some palliating
circumstances about the case because
the victim was simple Italian, not
long In this country; but the scheme
is so old and thin that no one who
reads the papers should get caught.
It was in Boston that Marc Anthony
Otolo. an Italian, met two fellow
countrymen, as he was admiring the
state-hmse. They offered to 60 into
partnership with Otolo and buy the
imposing building. Otolo was pleased
and bit. He gave up his $3.50, which
was put into handkerchief with the
money Of the other men. The hand
kerchief was then entrusted to Otolo
while the others sought a lawyer to
draw up the deed. Otolo found II
contained only some newspaper clip
pings. The bunco men haven't beer
found.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20

traders is to get Negrito parents Intoxicated with
Vino" of which they inordinately fond, and
then buy their children from them while they
are drunk When the improvident Negrito Is
suffering from hunger 1t is comparatively easy
to buy his children.
Under such circumstances says Professor
Worcester, Il have personally known a Negrito
girl of manageable age to be purchased for rice
worth $3.50 in gold.
"A comparatively short time ago." he adds "a
Negrito girl brought in, as a pony or
carabao might be- and offered for sale to the wife
of an English gentleman living in the outskirts
Of Manila"
He gives details 6f the cases of dozen Negrito
slaves known to be residing right in the city OF
Manila.
Another tribe which is especially victimized
by the slave dealers is the Ifugaos. They apply
the name 'jimbut, to their unfortunate fellows
who become articles OF commerce and who often
change owners several times before reaching the
country OF the Bali-uon (Christians). Some time
ago girl OF this tribe seventeen years old. was
sold for two water buffalo some chickens and
small amount of money. while there is record
OF sales of men and boys for amounts ranging
from SIS to $35. Lieut.. Gov. Walter F. Hale OF
the sub-Province of Kalinga. reports that on sew
era occasions when he has been trying cases In
his capacity Of justice of the peace, slaves have
been offered to him on condition that their mas
tiers be acquitted of crimes.
II is still common for Filipinos living near to
the Tagbanuas and Ilongots to obtain children
and adults of these tribes by capture. Slave-hunt-
ing and keeping still prevail in the forest fast
nesses of the Province of Augusan, in Mindanao.
the scene OF many historic slavehunting raids.
Natives living back from the coast in Fam
boanga are reported by the district auditor still
to practice "a certain amount OF slavery" The
heads of families still regard II as their right
and do sell their daughters as wives or concu
bines to the highest bidders"
An American official who has resided In the
Philippines for IA years. and whose duties have
brought him into every province. reports to Mr.
Phipps that almost every person associated with
the Filipinos to any extent Is aware OF the fact
that slavery exists.
Reporting the slave trafnc in girls he says:
Il personally have had a number of offers Of
this kind, and It is a generally known fact that
a large percentage of the Chinese who have Fiji
pino wives or 'queridas actually bought them ut
a stipulated price. A recent instance in which
was offered boys and girls for the small amount
of $40. SIS and $40 was in August OF last year
(1912) in Cebu While route from Zamboanga
to Manila I stopped one day in Cebu, and while
there had several men and women offer to sell
me boys and girls at the price above stated.
inquired into the Of this and was told that
the people were suffering from lack Of food; that
in many instances parents we're unable to provide
food for their children. and we're therefore try
ing to dispose of them to the best advantage"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
MAS AMERICAN BABY
LITTLE MOTHER" PROUD OF THE
CHILD SHE HELD.
Small Girl, But With High Ideals,
Happily Met With by a Writer
Who Describes Her In the
Washington Star. Es

A small girl In a blue frock was
carrying baby with rings in it's
ears The girl was skinny little
tacker. with dark face-mostly eyes
and her grooming voice as she cud-
died the baby somehow suggested
olives. Vesuvius. wayside shrines and
banana carts. But there was nothing
Latin about the fat, bald-headed baby
except the gold wire in its ears.
The small girls street isn't what
you could reliably call a pleasant
place. There is a leathery smell for
ever rivaling the woolly .assertiveness
of misfit hand-me-downs. There is
Babel hum of foreign parent voices,
outclashed by the raw Americanism
Of their juniors, and always-which
is good for trade, of course, but not
cheering thing to see-the going
and coming of customers who must
buy other peoples castoffs, because
Everybody knows the answer.
So the small girl toted the baby to
quiet street where the sun lay like
warm yellow blanket on the bricks
from the trees as II dying were gay
sort of dance.
Then she sat down on carriage
step that she seemed to be acquaintt-
ed with, and kissed the baby on its
baldest spot, where the fuzz had
rubbed off from lying down. And the
baby, to show its satisfaction, gurgled
out that inscrutable symphony OF in
fancy which Ewes little Cain was the
first to voice, and which we try to
speel out "da, da, da."
A woman whose way had led from
the small girls street to the quiet
one, stopped at the carriage step and
offered the baby an apple from a
bag. 1t was shiny red apple. and
the baby smiled at II coquettishly be-
fore hiding its face in the small girls
neck. The girl herself. wise enough
to recognize friendliness when she
saw it, took the apple and lifted the
baby's face. ~
Thank the la-dee, Maggie"
The baby waved its arms and
kicked out two pink socks-one heel
and bunch of toes outside showing
pinker than the wool.
"She is American baby" explained
the small girl with pride that was
downright beautiful. She Is not no
dago. She have rings in her ears be-
cause my mother she will 1t have so,
and her saint name is Magdalena, but
my father he say ii is Maggie for
American, and II she was boy she
might be president-maybe."
why, that Is fine. And what is
your name?"
MY name is Maree-ah, after the
Mother Of God. My mother gave me
to her. / wear blue all time while ]
am child When / woman l have a
pink ribbon bow in my hair. And a
green dress. Yes, II is at the cathe,
dral at Milan that am given to the
blessed mother. But the bambino-
no, the baby, came when we get to
America. No boy shall call her dago.
l will fight him. l will keel him II he
say she dago-"
And as the woman went her way
she wondered what America will hold
for Maggie, whose saint name Is Mag
dalena, when she is no longer a
bald-headed baby with rings Jim her
ears.
And for Dago Maria, when the time
comes for her to wear pink ribbons
and green dress?
Quien sabe!-Washingto Star
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
They Had Met Before.

One of the best-known judges of the
kings bench division and an ex-cavalry
officer by no means unknown In Lon
don's social world met one evening at
a reception and found themselves side
by side. The Judge shook hands warm
ly with the officer and said: Il know
we have met before; ! recall your face
perfectly. Do you remember where II
was?" Che soldier smiled grimly.
YES" came the blunt reply, 1T was
at the Old Bailey, when you were good
enough to tell me that ought u thank
my lucky stars that wes only In the
witness box and not In the docki"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
The Economist.

Mitchell Kennerley, the Com
stocked" publisher, was defending a
"Comstocked' novel In New York.
The book" he said, makes for
righteousness. 1t shows the fallacy of
the various excuses for woman's fall
the excuses OF overwork, OF under
pay, and 80 forth.
Yes. the book shows thHt we all
have glib defense for ourselves. We
are all like the extravagant typewrit-
er girl. whose employer said severe
~:
Miss That's. are you putting any
thing by for rainy dayT
"'Oh, yes, Mr.. Naybobb, the girl
replied, I never wear my silk stock
ings In clear weatheri'"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
4 FZz2Z7YO E4HzZY

On four separate occasions
including the past year-tne
Philippine commission has
passed a bill framed by PROBES
sor Worcester to prohibit siav-
cry and peonage. but on each
occasion the Philippine assem-
bly,, composed of 81 natives, mas
frustrated the attempt by laying
the commission bill on the table,
without discussion and without
assigning any reason whatso-
ever for such course. Inc
only approach to a reason was
a committee recommendation.
four years ago, that the word
slavery be stricken, out OF the
title of the act, because 1t does
not exist in the Philippines
Some time ago the resident
commissioners Of the Philippines
in Washington, Senior Manuel
Quezon, rose in his wrath and
stated:
IF there is anything In the
Philippines akin to slavery or
compulsory service, 1t cannot be
found In the provinces to which
the legislative jurisdiction OF
the assembly extends. Should
there be such a thing In the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20
FILLING UP.

What will we put in the magazine this
month";"
About forty pages concerning what we had
last month"
Yes"
And forty more about what we will have
next month"; = 1872
And them"
That ought to be enough for this month"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20

carried away two small children.
Lieutenant Kyle Rucker of the
Fourteenth cavalry proceeded to
the village, where he found the
body of one victim with head. feet
and hands severed from the body.
The two children carried away.
after. their father had been muir
dered, we're found afterward in the
possession of one Ambrocio David.
who said he paid $50 for them. Al
though one OF the kidnapers was
caught and convicted Of the muir
der, no penalty could be imposed.
under the law, for the selling or
the purchasing of the children.
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Very Different, y
Thirty cents word for, this stuff?"
exclaimed the editor. "a wouldn't
think of It,"
"Sir. am q famous author"
That's Just II. You are famous
author, not famous pusillst or sdo-
cessful spitball pitcher"
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A LONG SUMMER.

Why so bIuer
Il can't AFFORD to send my wife away for the
summer" sss---.ss. 4 ,,s,.. ~. IA
scheer up. Maybe she doesn't miod staying
home"
Il know she doesn't, but how am going {.
have any fun!"-Detroit Free Pross.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-12-20

Professor Worcester's retirement the war depart
ment mas received from another American Official
w. a. fnipps' auditor OF the Philippines similar
report, giving further details or these atrocities
THIS report now have before me in manuscript
FORM From the several hundred pages contained
In these two documents viii CLEAN the gist of the
conditions described and give it to you in compact
pha Record.
Inc armed slave hunters of the Philippines are
round to have been preying upon the Negrtos. If,.
gaos. Tinguians Igorotes, Manobos Mandayas Mo.
ros' faganuas Filipinos and peoples of other tribes
10 ootan these unfortunates they have often killed
their parents or other natural defenders and have
sold the captives to personswho hold them as chat