Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1914-08-26

i3ss4 New York. - Mrs. Harriet Chalmers
AdamA returned recently from q hasty
survey Of the odd II corners OF the
world. She saw white rajahs. head
hunters, tigers, pythons and all .the
picturesque $items%o Of life on the other
I side OF the globe. & And being blessed
With the consiste nt inconsistency Of q
charming woman she was most Inn
pressed BY "a American boy just q
i kid Of twenty-five or ereabouts the
sort Of youngsters yop can see on ev,
cry corner. .yi AZ Y { 3 .g5s5
HE was an oficer Of the Philippine
constabulary =, ~ said Mrs: Adams. IN
charge 5of az district in Jolo occupied
by an unsubdued and piratical tribe OF
Moros. We approached Bagsak by
boat Note: That name sounds all
right and looks all right. but 1t isn't
guarahteed) ----"a and Il as our steamer
drew up TO the wharf We could hear
the rifles popping In the town. We
knew that - war had broken out. - Sss 30
crIss tor: Yeunp Officer.
Anything may happen, and usually
does, in Moroland. The inhabit
are very handy with All sorts Of sweap-
5ons, and have no weak antipathy to
blood. But the twenty-two-year-old
officer. In command Of his little squad,
six or eight saddle colored constables,
hoped cheerilys to the pier, and waved
his handkerchief IN farewell. and then
said ss5.t 81 }5sfys
/ -sH'rup.'' E5sS
So that the forlorn little bundle of
brown men. y heir5 narrow shoulders
3bracing IN imitation o. the soldiery
swing Of the white man head, strotted
toward that small hell which was boil
Ing over In 9Bagsak. The boat squat
tered and groaned away from the pier:
MIS-. Adams went to her tiny ca bin to
have her cry. There, didn't seem !
chance for that cheerful youngster
ever to get out alive and the sacrifice
seemed such a useless one. She met
him later, though. He had diplomatic
ally bumped q few Sulu heads together.
So they gave him a feast. and are
likely waiting for the chance to stick
him IN the back. u
After all, heSwas Just = typical on
Ger OF scohstabularys Mrs. Adams adds.
These youngsters-they range in age,
from twenty-five to thirty-twoa are do
Ing that sort Of thing all the time. 50
that peace has very largely fallen upon
the Philippines: She found Eigorrotes
wearing wildcat skins about their
should rs working out their 81 road
taxes Thank the onstables for that
irony. An almost equally valuable
Philippine asset ~ the force Of medi.
cal missionaries
sss ..salvatio p says Mrs Adams, fol-
lows sanitation. The missionaries
carry Bible in one hand, but in the
other they have bottles Of castor oil
for the Interior and coal Oil for the,
surface OF their brown friends" al;
With her husband. f. p Adams. OF
the Pan-American organization in
washington, Mrs. Adams has crossed
South America on muleback. lived for,
months where no white woman has
ever been seen before. and had adven-5
lures that would make. alifetime's talk
for. the average sportsman. This be-
ing considered It Is of certain Inn,
.portance that she | Is q very pretty wo.:
man. On this years trip she visited
sRajah Brooke In Borneo, the third
white ratahs Of his line and the only;
one left in the world. He lives IN regal
state. unbothered By telephones. in
his province Of sarawak. Il adds :
picturesque modern touch to learn
inst Ma rried into 4 }f1ourfshin1 EnR.