Among the Natives of Holland's Best -Managed Colony
(Copy light, lil, by Krank (J. Carpi liter )
BANDONti, Jam Ann -I l.Spuclal
'orri'Hminlt'tii ' of Tin' lice I am
'bight' d Willi In mi It shows
li.it c inii;lii ilo In Hiii l'lilll
lilni h iiinl I 'in lo llli ii Tin' Dutch
liavn maili' HiIh Island ii very (ianli'ii of
I'M ul). It Is a putadltic of the triiili H.
IIMll IH, I bclll.'VO, till! in i h L lii'iiiilirul spot
tin (I'iiI'h green rnrlli. It Is nf tlir am
charmler iih many of tin' Philippine
islands, ami Itn iniiiititiiliiH an' nut iinllki'
those of I 'nt tu ltlc.ii, although tny uri'
grander ami higher
Java Ih in an I' tliu cqil.Uor t hail miy if
"iir inliiiiliil km hsIoiis, lull a great part nf
it li.i si a Km il i Innate, ami tlm llnllamkia
'hero 1 1 1 1-1 v ll Ih lint trim that Ami Means
ami Mower ganloiis In doing your shopping
ThM Is ho all over Java. It Is delightful
liny I, Mr W.-ll.
Ah far an I . tin keo tin- forelgneis live
hotter hero than al home No city In nul
lum! compares with Handling for comrort
ami I ilimlit whcihcr there ar any In which
tlm children uru moio healthy uml tin; poo
plu inoii' prosperous. 'I'hn Dutch girls are
plump ami fat babies ahoiiml. Tlm ehll
'lun enjoy Hi oinsolvus. 1 have met nianv
purlieu of I r 1 a riding Id -voles aii'l have
seen Hcvernl uiroinnb.b s IMug i.lung over
i lie ( H'cllciil mad of the Mind. Von inn
luy anything l"i wiiiii In ihe t hh mil
ill" llviiiK Ih as good iih that of lltiropc
How would yon llku a liotel which fur
nishes Its guest-: Kin cocktails freo twice a
wk WRv' jHw
cooiciNt! is donh oi'tsidi: 'nil': um si:s
i annul live In the tropics. The highlands
of the I'hlllpplneH are healthv, anil llan
iliiiii;, f i otii where I ilate (hit Idler, wonlil
lio u heal III resort If It conlil lie ilroppcil
ilown 11)11111 Um IT II t It'll StlltCH.
TIiIh country Ih a laml nf niniiiilaliiH.
Tin le Ih a range running through II fnnii
(lie ciiil to the other, ami It has more vol
canoes to the square tnlle than almost any
laml on the globe. I wIhIi 1 conlil show you
the nionutnliiH through which I rule com
ing here, dn all Hides of mo were extinct
volrnnocH rovereil with green ulniest to
their leH. The lower HlnpcH were tiirnood
wlHi rice Holds, ami iiliovo them pines anil
fmiHlH extending on mid on until lint In
the i ll hiIh. Now we crossed plains as fer
tile iik Did Nile valley upon which water
hulfalocH ami fat cattle fcil. now we shot
through groves of cicoamit trees ami
wiiiml iiir way about through the rice ter
races In places the rlco wits Hooded ami
the trees which lionlereil the tlelils wore
iloiililnl. making other trees tutncil upside
ilon ii In the water. We passed liumlreils
of villages of huts mailt' of platted biinhno,
went by ten pl.iiiliitlons ami coffee planta
tions ami on past forests nf tpilnine tries,
and at hiHt catuu to this town mi a beauti
ful plaliati twenty-live tulles In width sur
rounded liy mountains.
In I lie I tenet of .linn,
Handling Imh uIh nt IIO.OUO people, and of
tlicsu l.fiOO arc Hiiriq cans. The remain .or
are Jiivaneso with a jpiiukllug of Chinese
and lmlf ciiBteu. The city Is a erv liitnn
U a 1 garden. The ho. nos of the fori Ign rs
aro Hhadud by the ginmliMl trcts of 1 1 i .
tropica. They are surrounded bv Inwis .m
velvety and as will ki pi ns those of old
IIiiKluml and (ho wide drives whlih bad no
to the more preteulloiM homes am In twee. i
inns of royal palms, s mo mine than a h m
dted fiot high The furelKiiers live in vil
lus, Willi walls mid porticoes of snow white,
loofed with red libs. Many of the houses
are InrKO. They are all of oue-slorv and
exceedingly comfortable.
Kvon the stores are villas. They urn sot
back from the street, with vards In front
of them and palms and tropical llnwcrs or
namenting Ihelr vi'r.imlas. Tliere Is one
Just opposite my lintel shaded hv a tree
whoso wlilo-spreadlng blanches cover about
one-fourth of an acre, while on Its Kre.it
trunk scores of oribldH are growing. At
the base of the tree are tropical plants In
pots of red clay, uml as you ku Into the
store It In by some curious dwarf palms
growing In tubs on the veranda. That In a
Jeweler's shop. A little farther on Is a
drug store In a similar garden and If you
would buy Krocerles. clothliiK or bookB
you will have to walk throiiKh palm trees
day? That Is what I k. t at thu Hotel llo
uian here In llamlnni: The IiIk tiottlo Is set
out on the table on the liotel veranda, with
bitters beside It, and you take as much
ns you nieast. The bottle contains Hol
land Kin so old and so hot that two tnblu
spooiifuls would kIvo a clKar Indian an ap
petite. The cocktails are drunk by both
woinin ami men, and they are, I am told,
fiirnlslud free nt all Ihe holds. In ad
dition, I he llviiiK is good mid exceedingly
cheap. Hire at llotnan's I pay : KUllders,
or about V- a day, and everythlm; is lu
i hided. This Kivcs me also my hath morn
IliK and evening. There me sttlUKS and
teeter boards on the lawns for the children
and all soils of gymnastic conveniences.
The hotel has a bllllaid room and reading
mom. mid every Knest has a sitting room
ami bedroom on the ground Hour.
i uxt I lie alltes.
The natives of Java live very simply. A
few uf tho chiefs and nobles have houses
llko the Kiiropeaus, mid tho regents have
palaces which are largely kept up by the
Koverninent, but tho Brent mass live In
lints of woven bamboo, thatched with palm
leaves. Tho walls of many of tho houses
are Just llko basket work: they aro woven
In great sheets mid sold by the yard. I
frequently boo a pair of brown, bare legs
trotting nloiiK enrrylug tho wall of a house.
The wall Is bent double; It entirely con
ceuls tho man within, mid looks much like
the cover of nn emigrant wagon moving
along upon legs.
The native part of Handling Is outside the
fi reign section. It Is a bamboo village
mid contains about IM.OOO piople. It Is di
vlded up Into streets and alleys, each hut
having Its little garden about It. Tho
houses are all numbered and the govern
uiciit In ops a record of every family. Nearly
all tho houses are small, on tho average
not mure than llfleen feet square, ami so
low nt iho front that you have to st.op in
enter them. The thatched roofs overlmng,
covering tho verandas In front of the houses
and sometimes the seats nroiind the sides
The ordinary house contains but one or
two rooms, a recess In the rear forming
the sleeping placo for tho family. The
poorer houses have nn beds, for tho people
sleep on tho Hour. Tho cook stove Is a
clay bowl with n draft below It. Tho cook
ing Is done outsldo tho house except In wet
wenther, mid as tho stove Is portable this Is
uislly arranged.
Country uf lllouex,
Tho houses in different parts of Java aro
much the same The Island Is as big ns the
Btalo uf New Vork ami Its 25,(iU0,0UU people
llvu In vlllngis. You sue no liousis scat
lend imr ihe laudscapi Tin re ale u
burns In He Melds and n buildings whit
ever i.utniib' ihe Inswi-. iXiipting ill ill.
tobacco, stigur ami indigo pl.ini.itlt us.
Tin rt, are souietimis sin ds on high poles
In thu rite distilcts, but these aie used
merely as watch huiB"S to kei p the birds
uway from the crops. The piople walk
long distances to their woik. They labor
In gangs ami are often paid a sharu of the
crop, bringing the sheaves of rlco homo
with them fiom thu Harvest. Almost every
house has a rlco granary conueuled with It.
Tlm is something llko a corucrlb, sloping
out nurd us It goes Up and ellilltlK in a
tli.iiih'd roof, which makes it quite plciur
esi,u. The rice Is stored uway III the
hlnaf a nd tlircsli.il out as tietiletl by tile
1.111.11 with pestle ami mortar.
Many of the h .usus have pigeon coops on
pubs t reeled bt'Sldo them, liiiul.ilUle eill
- ion - of the hoiiheH below. Thu J.ivanesu
breed many pigeons. They havo strings
hanging from the plguui In.uscs to thu
gioiiiid, by which they communicate with
i he birds.
Thu government keeps a record of tho
Mllugts as well as of the houses. Thu gato
io every street has a number on It and, l
vcniure, thu olllelals tan lull Just exactly
how many pioplu llvu In each street ami
house.
Miiliiiiiiiiicilaiilsin in .lata.
1 visited thu gieal Mohamiui dan moiinie
ere al Bandung ami had a chat with some
r thu priests in charge or It through my
ii rpleiur. The un.sque Is a beautiful
hue building with many white i ultimo I
ophildlng Its portltots ami with a Hull
ii.ua' "I w.ii.'i B' p.iratlng It fiom thu coum
. , I inn I. i- . ei p enough, howuver. tu
nt -ssiiate ili.ti nil it 1 1 go In shall take
olf their shoes. I wa told that I could
Miter If I would mine in bar f .oted ami It
v.as thus that I paddled tl.rmg.i thu iimaL
and tranquil up thu wide steps of this
sliilue of Mahomet. Here I met an old fel
t( w In a Inng gown mid white luibnti who
walked with mo through the mosiiiu. We
v allied up thu steps Into a room about ZlIU
feet square, lighted from the top by heait
tihapeil windows coveied with a wrought
li mi grating. The Hour was of black mar
ble ami at tho back was a pulpit of white
ml gold, where the I man stood and called
t the prayers Tliere were mats before
Ins pulpit and upon them several baie
riioicil .latnli.se wire llsug and falling III
lieir devollui's 1 am told that the pious
Mi hammeilans here pray live times a tlav
They begin at da t break ami pray again at
noon, at p tu . nt ii mid al night
l.ll.l- I'llllllllll MlllllllllMICllllllN.
The mass of natives aro very loosu as
o their religious observances The men
l ldin go to thu mosque mid their .Moliam
.1 danism Is uf a character inure llku that
( cur Sulu Islanders than that of Arabia
nd Turkey The head of the religion Is
tut' ii 1 1 n ii of Holo, a state of interior Java.
This man bus n similar position to uur sul
i.iii of lllll. The piople look up lo llllil
..ml have faith In his divinity. Their respect
I ir him IneiiasiM. however, In proportion
in the distant!' they live Hum him. the
. h.ii 1. ns of lobi being more lax even
tl . n thus" i f tt't si .la. a
Among other features of Javanese Mo
haiumeiimilsm Is an abhorrence of pork.
Tho people will not eat this meat, for they
i t iiHltler It unclean. Not long ago a native
chief had a Mohammedan killed. He was
supposed .o bo a salut. After his death tho
people dollied lilni ami began In pray ovur
his grave, whereupon the chief burled a
hog In thu grave mid the people prayed
thero mi mure.
The Dutch olllidals tell me l hey have
more triublc with the Mohimiiieilaii fa
muli s than with any other class of natives,
ami for tills reason they ill-it ourngo the
pilgrimages to Mioca which aro now and
then made by the Hadjis. It l-t round that
the people look up tu such men after their
t ft ii i it. They think they havo stipei natural
pint i is. a fil the Hadjis use this feeling to
create, trouble with the government. In
fait, nearly every rebellion In Java has
been fomented by tlicsu men. livery Java
nese Mllagi has Its priest who acts In some
matters us Judge. He had to do with mar
ritigts, dlvori es uml funerals, ami also with
tho circumcisions which are common in
many parts of thu country.
Vallte Chiefs mill .'Nnlitili.
! Ilml that there are distinct ranks of
society In Java. Thu country has Its rich
uml Its poor, Its aristocrats ami plebeian.
The lower classes respect the upper and
allow them to rule, ami the Dutch have
tuki'ii iiilvautage of this by working entirely
thioiigh the chiefs. Right next to the
miiMiio Is the home of the native regent of
sumo of It. it Is a mllu trail; with a Hue
grandstand mid hundreds of bamboo sheds
or shelters on poles nearby In these sheds
thu natives sit eross-leggi d to wutdi the
races. The gianilstands aie luigily given
up to thu rich, thu nobles mid ihe Hiiro
ptnns At ilo races the chief purse is l.uOu
gulltltrs, uml horses from all pans i,f the
Island take pall. Some i.f the nam. . bu N
have their own stithies, especially Hie Bill
tans of Solo ami DJokJa. There ate often
f.O.uoo people pri heiit al the meetings The
horses are Australian horses and ponies
from Java ami th surrounding Islands
The ponies are fi.und best f. r cidliary
travel mid they are largily usul ly the
army. Tiny can travel over ihe rice lands
where the bcavli r lu.rsi s will sink HikmicIi
NATIVK KICOKNT AND SKUVANT
Ikindt.ug. a Jnwimso who receives from
the govi riiiueiit 1.200 guilders, nn amount
equal to $l!sO of our money per month, as
well as many presents fiom his own people.
I don't know how largo his totul lucomu
Is. but It must bo gnat. He has tho ills
iidvantngc. however, of having to support
all his relatives. Whenever n native gots
n fat olllco or maki s a rich strike of any
kind his poor lelatlLiis from everywhere
come ami squir down upon lilni. This Is so
in many other parts of thu far east. It Is
especially so In (-lilna, whuro n rich man
often has to support hundreds. In Canton,
for Instance, I met one millionaire who was
keeping 100 of his sisters, cousins and aunts
uml Ihelr llltlo ones, ami gritting his teeth
as he dltl so.
The regent i f Handling has a largo colony
if buildings about his house for his rela
tions, lie gets as many of thorn as hu can
In thu government service, thus rullovlng
himself. Ho lives well and, 1 venture,
i-pentls the greater part of his Income.
There Is a raco track outsldo the city
which probably enables him to get rid uf
It may be that we shall have lo use pi me
in the IMlilippiues for the same reason,
h' nrt Iii.iiiN In Hie Wni'lil.
Ami this brings me in th" ro.ids . f Java
They nre by all i dds the l.isi tf any i nun
try of the world, and thai nolw Ithsinnillng
Java Is on the tdge i f the equali r In i ne of
tho rainiest parts of the globe. What Is
needed mole Hum anything else fir the de
velipimnt of the Philippines ami Pi.rto
Klco Is good roads. The I Hi I eh f. uml Java
much as ih.. Philippines are now. They or
ganl.eil a system of road building mid
fi recti tho natives to eairy it out A certain
mm nut of labor hud always been given lo
the chiefs by the natives. This labor was
applied to toad building. Hat Ii mail uus
required to work so miinv diys n year en
public Impioveuicnts and the resull Is th'
good system of highways found In Jata lo
day. Most of the ri nils are inn a 'iiml.ed
They are ballasted with br. ken sti ne-i
gi'Liiml lo the size of a nut mid rolled
huh nth with heavy Iron rollers
Knell side of I lie roatl has Its gutter ill
(Coilliliucil on Highth Page.)
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