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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1900)
10 THE ILLUSTRATED UK IS. Scpti-nilier Hi. lixn). Tin; Ii.i.i;stkatki Bi:k. Published Weekly by The Itee Publishing 1 1 ) . . 1 1 1 . lice lltiililltlg, (JIMIIilll, Null. I n. c, .". rcti h per ropy per year, U hi. l-:ti n-ii m tin (tniiiliii I'oMtullli'u Hit Second ii.ss Mall .Matter. K.r a.lvi rMslng rates nddrittH Publisher. iiritiinnliall'itiH relating to photographs r urtipq fur publication iihould bo nd-ilri-HHLMl "IMitor Thu Illustrated Ilee, Omaha." Sewing Machines If you think of Inlying n Sowing Machine HUH I'H It makes no differ once what make of machine you want SHU UH. Vou may want a DAVIS HAM, 1IKAU1NO ()r STANDARD SINfiKK or a eheap machine for Jir, No (llffercnce which, wo can anil yo uml nave you money. HKH US Wi have NO agonta, we pay NO oomtnlH Hlons. ho YOU will havo to 8HI3 L'S Wo rent machines for 75 centH pe wcelt. We repair and sell parts for all makes of machines manufactured. Monday we will hcII our second hand sowing nmchlncH for ono-haP regular price Some will he Hold low an SI. oo Indicating Filipinos (Coiitlmicd from Ninth Pago.) Inuulcato Americanism. Last I'ourth of July thuro was u Hchool celebration at which pyrotechnic speeches on liberty wcro made and the Declaration of Indupendunco roa hy one of the pupllH. On WnHlilngton'H birthday American Hags were put over nil the Hchool buildings for the flrat time, and there were appropriate excrciHCH In com memoration of little (Icorge and li I h re markable hatchet. I iloubt whether the hatchet Ktory Iiiih aH much force here a In America, for the Filipino child has thus far not been taught to reverenco the truth. Men, women and children think nothing or lying and Home of the poems which were written by the touchers and prattled off In (Ulcer accentH hy theHo little yellow Fili pinos must havo seemed strange to them. I glvo hero a specimen poem as It was ac tually recited hy u bright little fellow or 10. It Is entitled, "The Truthful Washing, ton." Truthful WiinIiIiikIiiii, I am a Filipino boy And not Hupiioscd to know About the ureal (icorgo Washington And why folks love him ho. Hut I have heard it wild of him That from his early youth When accused of naughty decdH lie alwayH Hpoke the truth. And I believe that truthful boys Will truthful men become, And be beloved by every one, I.Ike the great Washington. It Hceuis funny to think of Jesuit priests, In their gowns, acting us teachers of the so wanting In educational advantages of real value. There aro many natives of the bettor classes who go to school abroad. Some girls are sent to the Italian convent in Hong Kong and many of the young Filipinos have been educated In Spain. There nre here In Manila Filipino lawyers, doctors and dentists. The rebellion against the friars, which Involved the people In war with Spain, was largely the result of a novel written by a Filipino author, Jose Ilizal. This man was educated In (!orniany and Spain and was famous throughout the far east as an oculist. Ills novel has hnd the same elTcct hero as to the friars as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had in exciting feel Ing against slavery In the United States and It eventually caused him to bo shot by the Spaniards. Ho was a poet as well ns a novelist and Is greatly beloved by the, Tagalos. Ills novel Is now being trans lated Into Kngllsh. Tin- l.oril'N I'rnjvr In Tiimilo. There are a number of native newspapers published In Manila and at other places throughout the Philippine islands. Some are In Spanish and others are in Tagalo. A Tagalo paper lookH very strange to Ameri can eyes. The type seems to have been grabbed up at random and thrown Into the columns without regard to order or reason The language Is harsh, containing many nasal sounds, and rather grating on the enr of the foreigner. I give you hero a copy of the Lord's prayer in Tagalo: "Atna namln sung ma sa langit cnsain bahlu ang uagla mo. Napa sa ambln aug cahaviau mo. Sundln ang loob mo nqul sa lupa para mmg sa langit lllgyau mo oam.i Rem-Slio Typewriters I'OR SAI.I! (lit RLNr. 6 Remingtons, $25 to $45.01) I Smitli-Premier $.15.00 I Caligrapli $10.00 i t Til HUH UTTI.K FILIPINOS Bicycles. Tlio hu'tfosl Htoek in tho oily tit rn ducuil prions NtBRPSKft CYCLE GOMPMY, Cur. 1 St li and llarncy Sts. Geo. V., Mickol, Miiniiger. Telephone !((: All tho I. lid lex Kill Gold Medal Chocolate Bon Bons lly Kxpri'MH, 1, St, 3, unil R iiouuil lioxca, (Kle u pound. W. S. Balduff, 1518-2U I'liruuiu Hi., Omitliu. Nel. Omaha Loan and Building ASSOCIATION. Purely Mutual and Local. Dlvldonds at 0 Per Cunt per A niiuiii Organized May 1st, 1 893. Assets, $324,717,11, 1704 Furmim, Bee HuildiiiK. aiCO. M. NATTINOEIt. Secy. publli hi IiimiIh of a I piled States possession I Thin in the case here, but It in u necenlty, for the present at leant. The only high school of the Inlands Is the tenco, or Jesuit college It has about sou pupils boys, from II to is, all well dressed ami bright looking. Tho professors aro darU-faced, lilucU-hulrcd Spanish priests, ami. as far as I could Judge from my conversation with thoni, well edu cated men. Their college building Is Just next to the Church of San Ignaclo, one of thu lliumt churches In Manila. The college Ih very large, comprising many rooms, Moored with mahogany, ami a theater, which Ih to I bo Ilnlshed In native woods carved hy tho Filipinos thcniHelvcH. Tho carving of the i church luterlo. was done entirely hy nn j lives ami It equals In beauty, I venture, any cathedral of Kurope. One of tho features of this college l its mimical instruction. Dur ing my visit I found about twenty boys Heated at pianos, all hammering away at their oxerclscH at tho same time and each on I u different key. In other rooniH tho boys were engaged In sketching, and In others they were carving. They show considerable artistic ability ami an, the priests say, very good at all things along tho lines of tho beaux arts. This school received. 1 under stand, the most of Its Income from the pub lic school funds. Miinllii (.'olleuex. There are several colleges hero In Maulla managed hy the dlffereut clerical orders, but none which will compare with even tho second-chiHH colleges of the United States. Kach has a long list of studies In ItH curriculum, hut as to practical educa tion along modem lines It Is uukuown. One of the largest colleges, St. Thomas, Is older than any college In tho United States, having been founded nt loaBt ton years before our l'llgrlm Fathers lauded on Plymouth Hock. St. Thomas belongs to tho Dominican friars, one of the richest of the clerical organizations and one which lias caused a vast deal of trouble In the Philippine Islands. Tho Dominicans also own the College of San Juan de I.etran, which was founded In tho middle of the seventeenth century. It was nt this col lege that Agulnaldo was educated, but ho does not seem to have carried away pleas ant memories of his school days, for ho has been one of the chief enemies of the friars ever since his graduation. In addition to these Institutions Is the College of St. Joseph, founded by the Jesu its In 1601 and then endowed with three professorships by tho king of Spain at $10,000 each, There are also schools for girls here, taught chlclly by tho nuns, such ns tho colleges of Santa Isabel, Santa Hosa and La Concordia, bo that so far as name Is concerned Manila has had no lack of edu cational Institutions, although there Is probably not n city of Its size In the world na inn naug amiu i.inui -,i .u.ioiu.s Pat.i arin o mo cami sa dllan masama " In looking over the prayer you will no tice that tho most of the consonants are n's and iii'h and one In every eight is a g. It is Indeed a curious language. Nearl) all of the mimes of the towns in the islanu begin with M or .V, but a great many of them begin with (i. Still, of the S.000,000 people of the Philippines at least one third, If not more, speak the Tngalo, though comparatively few can write It. Next to the Tagalos come tho Visayans. of whom there are perhaps L',000,000. The) also have a language and literature, but the literature Is largely made up of tracts published by the missionaries of the Cath ollc church. The Vlsayan Is not unlike the Tagalo, as may he seen from tho following extract, which I copy from one of their tracts merely to show you how the stuff looks In print. It Is only one sentence, hut It con tains llfty-four words: "Sarang man maca-agutu sang ludulgcncla pleuarla ang mga tngumatayou nga sa dill maca confesar cag maca calauat tungud sang mga enlua ngan sang hluull cag mabug-at nga baltatlau, mag hlniilsul sang Hang mga sala cag manuaiig sang sautes nga ngalati til Jesus cag con dill sarang macahlmo slnl bisau tuyoon lateaug sa salmi sang cahubut on." The Moron mill tin- Koran. As to tho Moros, the only education which they have had up to now Is learning the koran. The teaching Is all done by tho .Mohammedan priests. The hooks aro In the Arabic characters and the little ones squat down on tho floor or the ground and In a sing-song tone cry out tho prayers until they have learned them. They usually keep a book before them as they study, but as to learning to write essays In Arabic or as to any practical education ns we know It, such things are unknown in our Mohammedan land. In fact. In nearly all the IslandH education will have to begin nt the ground, and in many of them now honks will need to be written for tho purpose of teaching. The superintendent of education here In Manila has already ordered a large number of books and before tills letter is published soma 20, 000 will nlreody have arrived and bo In the hands of tho people. A great many of the hooks aro in Spanish, hut it seems to me that tills language should be changed for Kngllsh Just as soon as pos sible. The quicker we can open the doors of our literature, religion and Ideas of political morality to these people the quicker we can make them respectable American citizens. I doubt If much can he done until they have learned the Kngllsh language, and It seems to me that the chief hope Is In tho children and not in the grown-ups, who have been bred and raised in Spanish cor ruption FHANK O OAHPKNTKll, IB MBVDBHVaflHHHLilHHB The nhove cut shows a portion of the maguillccnt new billiard parlors opened last Juno hy Mr. Harry Symos. Nebraska's champion billiardist, who engaged Jake Schafer "the Wizard" and Lloyd Jevine, the champion three cushion player of the United States for the occasion. Tho room contains twelve Pflster mahogany tables, two of them being the large professional size, ."ixlO, manufactured by the Mrunswick-Halke-Oollender Co., tho order being placed through their local manager, Mr. John C. Sei dell. 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