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II Southern Islands of The Philippine Group OMAHA ILLUSTRATED HEE. April 8, 1000. at llio llttlo tho Spanish know about tho different parts of their Philippine posses sions. Thoy soldom penetrated tho interior and Bomo of tho best parts of tho country aro In as virgin a stato as when Ferdinand Magellan landed on tho Island of Mindanao tin thn 91af rt f irn I.. . ... (C'oi.vrlirht. l&GO. !.v Prm.k n. n i ...... ... . . . 17-.. ""v iwemy- . - - - .v. iilt.i . I Y wi IIHIIOH J1T1II InUf rvH I 1 fl.ro n..l 1. I., t U 1 fl II VOfl f O nf n. 1 1 1. . - . " .... .ww unt; HIV I.I1U 1IU m IU ----- wm.m M.IVI WUIUiUUUO discovered st n.nVvq v t p ,,; ; ;, A,, ' y 0,10 of 1,10 c'XIIor", ln 111,8 brnncn or th Amorlca- Tllat contains from 30,000 ill m I " ""A department. to 40,000 square miles. It Is perhaps the ti, ' it, .100?-(bI'flal Correspondence of Thin ship has been fitted up according to Sliest part of tho whole archipelago, and , f UC-J-1 a'n my "rst stopping placo Cnptnln Ilyron's directions. It has ventllat- u Ia Populated almost entirely by savages, uuor leaving Mutilla on a tour of tho south- Inir fans. whtM. , . ,. V . '"'"I'l ino is anus. ! am stableB and at tho samo tlmo tho foul air Is writing, was practically unknown to the on a mu hi transport, which Is bound for all taken out. Tho air of tho hold of tho rcat tho world until thirty years ago, and !, i , , W"y ,.',orla. l" tako wn01"'' Bteamer l thus kept as fresh as that of tho toJay u la Imposslblo to get accurate data u" i iiT0" ""I'Plles for our garrisons, deck and with tho washing and cleaning of concerning It. It hns mountainous dlstrlc s esh all travel moro than 2,000 miles before tho stalls with the hoso every morning there ""rough which whlto men have never gone I lace, whlrh hnvn nn. . . ","l"y " mr 8mCl1 ",)0,,t Ul,J lfa- n in places winch havo not been open to trade or a Dutch kitchen. fron we snail Hjicnd several days at travelers, YOUNO A.MHIUCANS OF PANAY. uuu our soldiers who recently crossed It from south to north found naked savages A mule Is worth more than a soldier ovor "vlnB ln 1,10 woods. And still the Islaud Is uxuueuingiy ricn nni us lowinnua navo now u considerable population. It is half again ns largo as l'orto Hlco and has a vast deal moro cultivable land. I havo learned somo thlng of it from tho old English residents of Hollo and from tho Filipinos, and have also tho results of tho Investigations of Lieutenant Van Dctnnn, tho topographical engineer on tho staff of General Hughes. Lieutenant Van Deman Is a closo observer. Ho has been on ull of tho expeditions our soldiers havo mado throughout tho island and Is now making maps of It for tho use of tho War department. Ho has kindly sketched a map of tho island for this letter. 11 It-It I'IiiIiin) line viiloreil MoiintnliiN. From tbu map It will bo seen that Punay Is of tho shape of an equilateral triangle. It looks small oti our maps at tho Philippines, but each sldo of It Is almost 100 miles long and altogether It ha moro than half as much land as tho stato of Massachusetts. It Is a land of mountains and valleys. Low ranges cut It up into threo great parts, rp rosented by Its threo provinces, Antique at tho west, Caplz at tho north and Hollo at tho south, with Its district Concepclon ad joining it on tho east. All of theso provinces aro much tho samo ln character, being rolling hills, mountains and valley plains. Tho mountains havo Thoro somo wood, but not tho flno timber of Mln- oach place landing cargo, and In our tour hero In tho Philippines at present tlu, tin,... , uiti, i.i ,. J V adequate; means of transportation of danao, Mlndoro and parts of Luzon. Tho but w III all 2lr .I T, , ', ; mon. r lmgKnso' nml "ack trnlD8 and carts P,a'n aro tho only parts much cultivated, r "?Y c "-ound tho great ro In demand at all of tho posts. Tho only and many of them nro unused. Tho war fl own S C 1 .""i Ct C y ""' ftVnllttb, a",m!U ,fl 1,10 Wnt0r burra'' wnU ha3 ruI" may of th 8 and you eeo S , l . U ",m "llla"1 8'lV"B.CH; cnu mak0 on'y nl,out ono 110 " burned sugar mills here and there. The . .... ..., n.i.i.,.,0 .- ., ,,uUi iui nny Kinu or a load and which Is of llttlo country Is still filled with ban ... I- .till 41 1 1 .1 ...111. t 111.- .1 n !.. .... .... . . .. J . " " i.ttiu tlUllUV 1H HLllI 11IIL1I Willi UUIIUIUS UI1U irn L f Vri. Jn 7r '8 '"" U8 l" hl"8- Th horaM or th0 country Buorrllla.. and neither llfo nor property is his treaty rle n lp an, pei.ee. nro so small that ono of tho army mules Bfo from them. Tho Tagalos who came here n- .i,i J ni ' .. . . ' could ?wa,low a PHIPlno steed of tho aver- havo united with tho lawless among tho , ,w v., u(,u Blzu wlUH)ul Atlantic. It Is a vessel as long a a city stomach so small I. and of CocoiiiiiiIn anil Itlcc. mucu distending Its Vlsayans. nnd they co over tho island In that OUO of tho mulo l.inil nf nnvwhnrn fpnm linlf n ilnion in stenllng and mentlonable out large forco tons of hay, oats and otner cargo aro Htored. Interior Bhould havo Its pack train, with ot ho Island will nrohablv not bo secured Tho ship Is so high indeed that If It stood In experienced packers to handle tho mules, for months to So. ui. niii-m. im uiifi utvn nwiuu uu ivmiiH wo navo ono gang oi pacKcrs on hoard who oyoii with tho llfth-story Hats, and when tho now and thou pack tho mules on tho deck moliu r. t n t ti 41 ... .....i.-n a.o , . ...ii . uAu.i.Bu . ..,.., u .niv oi mo sieaiuor ror practice. Tho character of Panay makes It a hard aro almost twlco as high up In tho air as tho At present thero nro about 3,000 mules country for campaigning. Tho country Is rK,f of a two-Htory house mid horses In tho Philippines, but somo of wo watored. being cut up by streams as When I came on tho ..hip I was told that 1 tho best of tho army olllcors tell mo that ninny ns tho volna of a leaf. Theso streams . .. ... ,u ... .m.k.i ... ...... k u reo nines uus numuer couiu uo UBOd to In tUo wot ecason no04l tho iowan(fl nnd tho captain not logo. I was told that there advantage. turn thom ,nto a vnst nk abovo whc, wero plenty or comforts for tho mules but ,, r Ml...lr,.. whwi tno rnln ceniM tho ,IttIo grecn wnlIs none- for passengers, and that should have Wa loft MnnlIa nt nlf,ht awoko t0 of th(J rcu flcU,9 , ,B Ilnpo?tllu,t, to sleep on tho deck. I replied that as this flul our Btenmcr C()nstnK ftIollg tho gr01,t to mo ovcr tho flol(l8 nt thIa tlme nllll ,. was my only wny of reaching the posts ,,,, of Mndoro. Wo kopt lt ,n Blght tho tloeili nmoflt lnip0Mlb,0 to do s0 wlll, ftn would risk It. So I havo bought a cot and lnost of tj10 imy iUi bIl)0 Bmok moUntalns Aniorlcnn horso or mulo at any time. When an army blaukcit, and rolled up In It I sleep out under tho Htnrs as tho mules Htamp nnd bray beneath mo. It Is not nt all bad, I as sure you. I eat with tho captain, have my bath from a bucket of salt water on deck and wrlto en n tnhlo which 1 have fixed up at tho stem nf tho ship. Tho Port Stephens Is essentially nnd puro ly a mulo ship. Its guests nro theso long carcd animals, each of which hns a stall or room threo feet wide to himself, 'fho stalls nro arranged In long Hues, n doublo row on each story nnd tho animals faco one nu other, with their tails turned townrd tho sea. There aro Inclined planes or stairs by whloh they are led up to tho exerclso deck oud by which they nro taken from story to story. They nro, lu fnct, trented with as much rare ns the men. They nro fed rogu lnrly and given a foot and leg bath every morning. After their bath they nro brought urstnlrH for their constitutional and then tied thero for a tlmo with tholr faces toward tho aim, lu ordor Hint thoy may seo tho wild ocean ns It rolls. They aro carefully In spected every morning nnd their temperature Is taken four times n day by tho mulo doc tor. If they nro nut Just right thoy get a dose of medicine nt once, and are moro care fully fed. Ab a result tho mules nro today in better condition than when thoy loft So attlo threo months ago. They have wenth orcd somo of tho most terrible of ocean storms, havo been Renslck nnd battered about nnd still only flvo hnvo been lo.it In tho enrgo of COD. r-tO,O00 Worth of M.iI.-n. Tlio cargo of ono of theso transports Is a vnlunblo ono. A mulo by tho tlmo It cots to tho Philippines costs Undo Sam nt least 1400 PHACTIC1NO AT PACKING JlULIiS ON TUB POUT STKPHKNS. rising In places almost straight from tho tho fields dry with tho dry season they do water's edge, and rolling ono ovor tho otbor so only on top, so that what seems solid until they lost themselves In tho clouds, ground Is only a crust. Thl crust will sup- Wo were not near enough to distinguish port a llttlo Filipino pony, but a mule wlll tho chnrnctcr of tho land or its vegotatlon, break through It, and before you know It but could tell that tho mountains nro hoav- you will find that ho has sunken up to his Ity wooded, nnd It Is said that tho forests ears In tho mud. Tho only animals that nro full ot mahogany teuk and othor valu- can bo used to work such lands nro the ablo trees. Tho Island Is ono of tho largest wntor buffaloes, who wallow along, half fltlfl lllA IIIKIllirtl. I. .l II 111 ri . U worth ni t"nn nnn o ael ma of tho Philippines and ns yet Is practically swimming through tho mud ns they drag i,n. i!! .J ,' ,, S(,n,0f V,ora noxPond. It Is bigger than tho state of tho rudo bamboo harrows or plows propnr- ,,( frn q im . ,. ' yv'"K bc,n Connecticut nnd has a population of about Ing tlio fields for rico planting. Kven the I. . mi llnC0 10 WftEhln- 100,000, nlmost nil of whom nro Bnvnges. military road which tho Spanish built Is ion ami tnonco forwarded clear across tho ti... iu ..,i in.n ,ini. i.nu nhmn r. una imi. .i. iu. . ui,n. . ,.i,.. tiv t u tu uu otitti tw w w v UIVIU IIIU Vllttll lb LI UOVi IT IIL'I U It, lO UUIU(I i-uuuui.u o ncau o, so umt tiioy havo trav- ,)eoplo, but tho most of tho Inhabitants thoro aro unfathomnblo mudholes making oied Bometlilng llko 1H.000 miles in coming Uvo lu tho wilds, go entirely naked nnd u impassable for tennis. Tho rice Is planted to Manlln. Others camo direct fiom Ken- subsist upon roots, fruit and such fish and in tho water and It receives llttlo cultlvn- tucky nnd Missouri, hut nil hnvo cost so gamo ns thoy can catch. Doan Worcester, tlon. m!r.h tnnL'i1 Pnyfl .t0 tnk? nr0. f wh0 vl8,teJ 11,0 ,B"lni1, c,c80rlbe8 U aa un" I wont with Lieutenant Van Deman for a Tho captain quartermaster who has charge healthy In tho extreme, but hla explorations rlllo lnlo tho ctry t0(,ny, nni, no eU()WP, of thom nnd much to do with carrying tho did not cxtond very far Inlnnd, and both mo Iamls w1llch wero ho gnl(li typ)ca, of nU Horses nnd mules for our armies in Cuba ngrlculturnlly and mincrally tho land is tho pwlnnds of Pnnay. Thoy were llttlo nnd Porto Itlco. Ho Is Captain Joseph C. unprospocted. It Is so notwithstanding It pntehes of black mud In which rico was uyron, who wns woundod whllo ln tho nrmy lies within only a fow miles of tho Island growjnB nni fth0ut which thoro wore groves In Porto Rico and nftorwnrd assigned to tho f Luzon nnd bo that It enn bo reached by of coconnut treco. Among tho trees were quartormastor's department. Ho transported boat in a Tory few hours. moro than 5,000 animals to and from tho 1 ara mo anJ noro surprised ovcry day (Continued on Flfteeuth Page.) Pfif Qcil That Desirable Dwelling, 1 VI LDtli Nn 264Q na,ney st),eet South fronr, 50-foot lot, large barn, price $5,500. Alfred C. Kennedy, 209 First National Bank Building, Omaha. Stripped of nil weight, divested of nil show, Tho single aim ot horse and man to go, I A 1) f 1 U Ask your mnn to go nnd look ovor tho finest vnrioty of UiVillikl Stanhopes. Tra's Hunabouts, Vehicle Novel tits and graceful transformations on wheels ever exhibited In Omaha. 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