The Elbert County tribune., 1913-09-05

unglazed windows and tiny gypsy fires are light
ed under the house to cook the unpublished" rice,
with possibly a BIT Of cheap fish. for supper. The
pot is often watched by man and woman. wien
ed before their time, squattng their HEELS
each smoking the perpetual cigarette. The wom
an is apt to be holding. always tenderly. the
smallest of half dozen nearly naked children
The man with no less care fondes docile but
spurred game cock. Fields for manly sport
slowly rivang the cockpit with Its ruinous idle
ness and betting. The Filipino women have al
ways shared the passion for gambling with their
men, to the hurt OF the family and Its earnings.
Many of them now learning embroidery. They
do 1t well and find 1t more interesting than
cock fights cards craps
A visitor is lucky who comes upon one OF the
tidier cottages and espies youth with scarlet
trousers and bare bronze torso tumming sort Of
guitar for the benefit of nutbrown maid At
the window above the stills. She has delicate
features and bright eyes and long and strikingly
graceful neck. and mass of smooth, glossy, jet
black hair hangs below her waist her gay
balloonsleeved bodice and folded panuelo. ker-
chief. One waits, half expecting to chorus
emerge from the nowery background and break
into dance song. But alack! such romantic
illusions are rare and feeting. The reality that
stays is homeiy and hard and sometimes tragic.
Manila is beautiful for situation. The bay to
the west is blue the Mediterranean and the
splendor of the sunsets is beyond telling. Some
times nothing Is to be seen but luminous sky and
water. Then OF sudden there appear II just
coast
beyond the long low peninsula Of Cayite for
merly. and still to some extent. used naval
station The fortified island of Corregdor soft
and dim on the horizon. stands in reality verit-
able armed Titan to guard the narrow entrance OF
the vast bay Close beside It the lovely noun
tain of Maribeles suggests earthly paradise.
but In fact 1t Is the unfriendly abode OF the Me-
grtos, race resembling the pigmies of Africa.
Beyond other shores and on other Islands
OF the vast Philippine archipelago other races
unclaimed, untamed. unchristian Among them.
most dreaded by foreigners and natives. are the
fanatical. treacherous fierce Mohammedan Moros.
AS We look at the work In Manila and through
out the Philippines during the last ten years
feel that America has made here its finest mark
the finest and fairest, 1t is not too much to say
made by any western people in any eastern col
ony But It has not done enough. Nor would 1t
have done enough II the material benefits be-
slowed were immeasuraby greater Aitrusm
has still its most potent part to play. its most
immitigable demands to meet There is need OF
more American missionaries. wise. consecrated.
tactfu1 There are such men and women already
at work In the provnces-teachers, doctors, in
structors in manual industry and in farming
uplift workers. who at the same time evange-
lists. And there are those who give themselves
wholly TO preaching and to pastoral work or all
this service 1t would be joy to tell II space
allowed. But We owe far larger ministry to
bodies and minds. and above all to souls that
consciously or unconsciously feeling after God
II haply they may find him.