The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-03-26

onment of the persons to whom the
letters are sent. The consular Of
ficer advises that all persons writing
to friends in Syria should remember
this and thus avoid possible serious
consequences to the persons receiv-
ing their letters"
81 have been told that one out of
every five Korean houses in Wonsan,
is a place where strong drink is Sold, y
says V. R. Turner of Wonsa, Korea.
Licenses are cheap Almost any
body can be dispenser of ardent spir-
it's. Along with this fact you can
place the following statement which
we often hear, and which appears
correct: Everybody, except Christ
ians, drink"
In Changsa, Human Province. China,
in October, 1914, posters announcing
the evagelistic meetings of Mr.. Sher-
wood Eddy were hung upon the same
notice boards that in 1900 held the
dowager empress edicts pronouncing
death to the foreign devils"
The Filipinos represent five popula-
ton strata. The aboriginal stock is
represented by the more than $4,000
dwarf Negritos, people at the low
est level of social development, who
survive in remote parts of the islands.
The first migration of Malays sur
wives in the wild, unconquered tribes
who live in the mountains, savage
people among whom head hunting
still persists, though this custom is
practically extinct in Luzon.
A second migration of the early
centuries of the Christian era is rep
resented by the civilized though prim-
tive tribes that dwell on the ittoral
plains, and numbering over six out of
the seven millions of inhabitants, and
constitute the chief base of the pres
ent population.
A third migration, also Malay, of
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
is represented by the Moro tribes on
the island of Mindanao, fierce Mo
hammedan people, who brought their
religion with them from Borheo. AS
a result of the mixture of the Malay
blood with the Chinese, the japanese,
md the Europeans who have from
lime to time dwelt in the islands,
here is the "mestizo" population,
which constitutes not far from third
# the entire population.
Generally speaking, the Filipinos
ire a simple, primitive, lovable. teach
Ible and dependable people. They
re kindly and hospitable They have
hown themselves to be capable of
marked development under the leader
hip and supervision of strong race,
nd, with advance in education and
elf direction, will become capable of
Inmate independence.
So far there have been two social
lasses- the educated, governing
lass, chiefly "mestizo", and consti-
lting about two per cent of the pop
lation, and the ignorant, ruled class,
hitch constitutes the laboring portion
f the population. The present ex-
client American public school sys-
I'm is creating a third educated and
fficient class. 1t is in this third and
fiddle class that the hope of the
hillipines for the future lies.
There are four distinct types of re-
gion in the Philippines.
The aboriginal Negritos and the
lvage mountain people are animists.
is reported that among the wild
'ibes human flesh is still eaten as
,ligious rite in some parts of the
The Moros are Mohammedans, hav-
g brought their religion with them
ON Borneo.>
The plain-dwelling tribes are nom
ally Christian. When the Spaniards
coupled the islands in the sixteenth (
injury, they brought with them Ro-
an Catholicism, and within very
tort time these tribes were nominal
Christian. {
Since the American occupation, a I
gorous Protestant mission has been 8
rried on by the various boards, with G