w k i I f il f it- U ait1 f AFFAIRS JJLMANILA ELIZA ARCHAPD CONNER WRITES OF PRESENT CONDITIONS Jonir or the ntTreln n Mllllni Uni Tlir Inrlllclrnc of Hit It II unrip frrntiiipnt f nlUm J Amerlrnii HoliIU ra Slice In I rortripomloliiT 1 Mamla Inly - -No douht tliu tllOtlgllt llllH OCOIIlTeil 0 IIIONt Of UH that a little inllltariHin occasionally oven In our free country would In a good thing If you have over hud such a thought Manila Ih the pluco to euro you of It Military rule Is a necessary evil at times hut a little of It noes a long way It Is demoralizing to those hi authority this unlimited power of iilmosi life and dealh The military of ficer falls Pito the hahlt of considering himself and his Mud as all there Is tliu civilian as imhody Hven the rea sonlihle iciiuest of a civilian Is to bo denied often merely because thoolllcor Iiiih the power of refusal There Is no body to hold a cheeKreln on hint except Ids own military superior and this one Holdout pulls the string You have heard how the civil courts wore reopened by the military govern- fc 11 I Tl 1ICAI I10UBK IN T1IK llllMllISKS ors order llo decreed that business in them uhould bo transacted In the Spanish language This was tlie death blow to u number of aspiring Ameri can lawyers who had migrated to Ma nila In hope of winning fame and for tune Hut oven that was not enough Tho Judges of this courts themselves through anil through were with three exceptions Klllplno natives If you can Imagine to yourselves tho white people of Mississippi or Louisiana being com pelled to havo their law cases decided by negro Judges and those only you can picture what tho appointment of Tagalo Judges meant In Manila The British government once at tempted the same thing in India ap pointing native judges to try white people There are In India KiMOOOlHMl brown people and only UTOtHH whites nil told but such a howl went up from those whites that the authorities were glad to roMlud this sentimental action as quickly as possible and they did It in a hurry and that was the last of It though the natives of India are a race superior in all respects to the Tagalos and mestizos of the Philippines In Manila the man who has been appoint ed Judge of tho supreme court Is a na tive who has nothing In his manners or appearance to distinguish him in any way from the man and brother who cleans your r hooB or takes care of your horses Tho other day his honor the chief Justice was walking across a hall In tho Judiciary building when he spat upon the beautiful tiled lloor Perhaps he was dreaming of the rathole of a nlpa hut lu which his boyhood days wore passed At any rate he commit ted the above abominable olVense against decency and civilization In presence of the guard of American sol diers who were In attendance Instant ly a hand was laid upon ids honors arm not too gently Dont yo spit on this lluro said a voice In a delightful brogue If that occurs again Ill arrest yo now mind said tho Irish American soldier to his honor tho chief justice of the supreme court The Justice made no reply but passed on quickly But do you know who that IsV said a comrade to his guard I dont euro who it Is I know mo orders All coons look allko to mo iiiHwcrctl tho bold Irishman And It Is certain that till the Tagalo changes his character to something more forceful and capable than his present one no matter to what post of honor military or other authority en deavors to raise him to tho white man tie will continue to bo a coon noth ing more Yet while American military rule lifts the Tagalo at some points above his capabilities at others it lias de graded him below the level of human ity A few let us be thankful they are n very few American otllcers shame their country and the divine Imago of manhood by boating and kicking their native servants like dogs Taking the ouo from this American private sol diers lu the streets have been known to knock down n defenseless native and take away from him tho fruit or other wareB he has to sell They have oven robbed poor old decrepit women of their trays of mangoes or a wizened little Chinese peddler of his bundle of gay silk handkerchiefs and made off with It Fortunately such erlmluuls and dosperadooH In our ranks arc again very few Most of our soldiers conduct themselves lu a way that their fellow countrymen at homo may be proud of them 1 have watched them narrowly mid I know this Is tho truth Hut tho very few who Illustrate the beauty of military rule by abusing natives do not servo to Increase tho love of the Ta galo either for such Kilo or for the American government A ory curious case occurred tho other day One afternoon an American gentlemans coachman did not appear as usual to drive him homo Tho car riage was late and when It arrived the gardener was with It Instead of the coachman Whore Is TomasV asked the Ameri can In the calaboose Honor was tins answer In brief Tonuis had boon anosted for passing bad paper money on China men and unlives llo had III his posses sion a inutility of good gold money that he had got In exchange for his worthless notes They wore American notes livery kind of American money has been hitherto believed In the is lands to be worth Its face lu gold so ho had no dllllculty In getting rid of It American soldiers do police duty In Manila Touiiih old the olllcers at tho prison that he had the stuff from an American soldier whom ho had giv en gold for It After persuasion of u kind unfortunately too well known III the Philippines was used however he told them ho had found It on tho Iu neta and this story lie stuck to Ills master was sent for Where had Toiuas obtained the bills Ills master was one of those queer people who collect curios There Is no accounting for tastes Among his curios was a pile of old American slate bank money Wild cat money I think It was called Tagalo servants go through their em ployers belongings like mice or roaches and Tomus knew what his master had better than that gentleman himself did Tito master trusted Tomas as he would havo trusted his own brother he did Tomas carried his keys and sometimes Ills money Ono day this honest Tagalo asked his mas ter about tli money lying In the trunk Tho American explained to him that It was not any good and thought no more of the matter It was this stuff that Tomas had been passing exchanging for gold at Its face value Tliu honest and trusted Tagalo thought his master was saying falsehoods when he said It was worthless ItlMU TttllflU WllV llllt Villi itll this wild his trusting deluded mas ter Didnt 1 toll you this money was worthless Yes senor replied Tomas Hut I thought you might bo mistaken and I wanted to Hud out for myself which was a defense quite worthy tho su perior Intellect of tho white man But why didnt you toll thoni where you got It asked itis employer Senor answered the little brown man an American soldier told mo It was very had mucho mnlo to have tills money and I feared If 1 said I had It front my master they would punish you too So I told them I found it on the Iunota Once more it will be observed that hero wits a plea worthy the superior while Intelleit The gentleman went to the coin maudiiig olllcer of the prison Thai In dividual wild The follow told us all kinds of lies till we gave him a good belting then we got something like tho truth out of him The whip that had boon used for Ih bolting was shown to Tonuis ma ter It was of the kind known as a snakeskiii riding xvhip a club covered by a skin with rough spines all over It an Instrument so cruel that no humane man will ever strike Ills horse with it And with this thing of torture the Tagalo had been Inhumanly lashed across his naked body by order of an American army olllcer another Illus tration of the beauties of military rule Such Incidents are fortunately ex tremely rare but one has as much ef fect as a hundred would have Tho Tagalo Intellect is only a poor Ilttlo muddled one Incapable of seeing line points hor this reason the natives have not yet boon utile altogether to see the vast superiority of the Immune AMFIIIUAN SIGNAL OKIS AT WOItK and enlightened American rule over that of their old masters the Spun lards The true way with tho Filipino natives Is to treat them neither as white men and equals nor as slavish infe riors but to take a course half way be tween as nearly us possible They should be dealt with like the children they are mildly and humanely but tlruil being led on toward the fullest enlightenment they are capable of at taining What that Is remains to be seen They never yet had u fair ehunce Kl VI A AKCllAltU COXXEH THE NORFOLK NEWS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14 1899 PRESENCE OF MIND m A f5gigftJ wYniy Wilfred tosh Mint wns n cIopp shave nuom Id better hide tho coat lu thlH barrel till Im enfe from tho plrcce J Hut an Italian ragpicker came strolling by and pliked up that cout And Weury Wilfred nearly wept till ho saw a enp And then a bright Idea struck bint hard on the brain Here Bobby he yelled tlmt Uulitius been a ntcalln the coat riuin that shop I seen htm do It L i Z And of com so the coppot took the Italian gent In charge Ill carry the togs choitlcd Weary to the station mister Hut did he Hather not He bunked at the llrst coiner Comic Cuts THE YOUNG TEACHER H I I jL g jgt i ri mill i JKrWM ft iwPrfisi I v 23 I I Ethel with book Whats an autocrut Mabel Mabel Perbon who dthes un autocar of cu e silly lu a high gale mile long waves feet front trough to trough and -It feet high roar along tho tea at JO miles an hour with a weight of 00000 pounds for every foot of their length Upon these n U0 foot ship such as the New York or the Paris will rise like a floating leaf but if the III fated ship drifts upon a lee snore blows of 100 000 tens delivered with remorseful lury crush It like an eggshell Punch It Is terribly hard for a boy to bo lleve In the voracity of his father when ho hears him declare that no ono If truly happy and contented ttulcs ho has work to do Atchison tllobe Let us try to make our lives like wngs biavo cheery tender and tnu that shall sing themselves Into other I lives and so Ifdp to lljtu buidens I and cares WOMAN AND FASHION A Tnnlo IM of AVhKe Tnll Novel Tbonghta In Sloeim A lrcttr Kruok for n Child The dross represented Is mndo with n tunic of white embroidered tulle over a ground of orangu china crape This tunic Is bordeied with black velvet Is 83il8 co A HINT KlillM PAISIS cut low both before and behind and exposes the china crape which forms a yoke The skirt i trimmed round the bottom with a flounce of tho same embroidered tulle New York Herald Prcttr Proclc For Child Silk canvas or twilled foulard should be used for this childs dress if a silk dress is desired But In our chnt about fashion we have remarked how much In fax or is spotted muslin over a col oiil ground This ground could bo MAUROF XVIIITKSIIK either of cambric or of light texture silk lu the present case the trimming is of very handsome guipure lace but It may be replaced by a llounce of the same material as tho dress or by a In xvu flounce Noxv York llcrald Xnvel ThonKhtn In Sleeve Sleeves are being made xvith a band of three tucks around the nrmhoie so as to keep them quite flat and yet give i little relief to the severe outlines xvhleh not every shoulder can do with A sloping shoulder lino Is once more the accepted staudard of beauty For this reason apparently we are In love xxith fichus and xve are coming to scarfs The fichus arc made In batiste in organdy and in net and often in tioxvored muslin but the scarfs are mostly white In Paris they are often made In silk with fringed ends Hero they are generally muslin Our grand mothers xvoro soft surah silk xvltli rich brocaded ends blue and black find ing special favor and many gauze scarfs wore worn at tho beginning of the century xvith embroidered ends so perhaps xve shall come to some of those We are adopting transparent yokes collars and collar bands but tho great art is to make them as high and no higher than they are needed It Is a great mistake to have them so that they turn doxvn lu xvear A novel collar band emanating from Paris is a stitched plain band of ribbon pnss lug through a largo dull gold buckle at the throat and finished off in a pointed short tab It looks xvell for traveling and morning suits Toi lien Fur Full Toques whether of tulle or straw are uoxv turned up In front or more decidedly so on the left side the lat ter arrangement being almost Invaria bly chosen when floxvers are used for trimming Those are arranged in a large cluster covering tho whole of the portion of tho turned up brim xvhleh rises rather higher than the croxvn Medium sized blossoms half opeu roses oxeyed daisies popples corn llowcru and for the early autumn as ters and small dahlias are most ap proprlate to the purpose For trim mlug hats on the contrary large bios t oms are preferred A sudden furore for the gnuidltlorn clematis has lately been evinced Tho particular shades of mauve and lilac natural 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