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ZamboangaCopyrighted, IW, hy Frank O. Carpenter.
ZAMBOANGA, March 26, 1900.A A ° you are *°'"K to*W fv- make some explorations
around Zamboangal
-.J J Well, alt I have to sayis that If you want tobe sure of your head
ma had better tie It on with a string!"
These words were uttered by Col. James
f pettlt, the military governor, the man
who had charge of our troop* In Min-
danao, and In the Sulu Islands further
nff to the south of us. Ho has more than
a thousand soldiers scattered at differ-
,nt stations about the southern and east-
frn coast of this great Island and othertroops occupy the leading porta of th«
north.Zambonnga has for several hundred
yr»r» been the chief garrison town of this
part of the world. The Spaniards made
It the headquarters of their army andnavy of the south, and It occupies th«
same position today with the Americans.It la situated on the extreme southwest-ern end of Mindanao, on tho wide but
Hasllan, through which the vesselsmove going from Japan to Australia. ItInn a fairly good harbor, but the ships
hare to anchor far out from tho shore,and passengers and freight are brought
to the own In small boats. o*o of thetransports wns fifteen days landing 700tori* of cargo. The mule transport uponwhich I came had to send Its wagons»ihor»' In dugouts, and the mules weremade to swim. Two steam boilers foran Ice plant, having been hermeticallysealed and plugged up well, floatedanhore. and, altogether, days were takenIn landing stuff which should have con-sumed hours.
Our Mohammedan Capita!.Zamboanga cannot he called a Moham-
medan town, for it Is occupied only byth» troops, the rhlnese and some Fili-pino Christians. It Is, however, the cap-ital of our Mohammedan sone, and fromIt are controlled the 200.(100 or 300,000 Mo-rns who now pay allegiance to T'nclogam There Is a Moro vlllag- which hasmore people than Znmboanga Itself, onthe shore Just above It, and Moros bythe hundreds dressed In gny clothes andwearing turbans, walk to and fro throughIts streets.
Everv surrounding of the place, In fact,h plcturesriue. It look* morf llK<> a bo-tanical Rnrflfn with the accompanimentof a midway plnlsance than an every-day Amerlcnn garrison. It* house* areshaded with cocoanut trees. Tall ban-anas rustle their leaves a* you walkthrough the streets, and all about It lathf moat luxuriant of troplral vegetation.There are miles and mllea of cocoanutgrnvea above anil below It. and when youride out Into the country toward themountain* which hang over It you are?haded by cooonnut tree*, some of whichare a hundred feet high You aee fields ofbananas and hemp, and here and therethe varnlahed green leave* of the coffeebtiah.
The town Itaelf la a (rem. It la eom-twaed of two atresia nmnlim parallel tothe aen The ono nearest the water Inthe main atreet. IU sldea are lined with(Trent trees. t ie branch** of wTvlc,h llmnatmeet overhead, and under them, In thacenter of the street. flows a <«uial whoacw*|era are a* clear as crystal. The cannlla crossed here and there by rustic bridge*
mate of mnhognny. te«.k and other hardwood* It la fe I my a little river at thalower end of the town, and there ia akrldK«' over this which le.ids vo i Intothe market and homes of the Moms.
t'pon thf main street are the offl-»# ofthe njllector of the pos-t, ar- Omaha irnn.Copt. Rw<ihr and also tha general head-quarters of tha Depertmer.t of Mindanao.The headquarter* building V* a larpe
structure. with oyster ahell wlmkrsr* anda great halcuny lookln* out over the sevIn It you will rind the colonel of the Th!r-ty-flr*t regiment ani his ataf*. who havethe management of all tilings here, lothcivil and military Tha merchant*, farbalance, are nil Chinese, but Col Pettttregulate* their llcenaea and they have topay so much a month for the rlirht to se'lgood*. He (\xem WM prlceo of thlnr* 1nthe market, and tells JuM how many eggs
aliall be sold for 10 cents ll* makes'kjuor laws by a stroke of the pen. andifcently announced that no whlsk.v shouldha sold In Z.imbnenga This lawt was verydisgusting to a Utile Irian ax-soldier, who? anted to oi>en n saloon to acll whisky.To hlm the <olonel aald: "You know theretire nnl> two classes t>f people In thla re-gion There are the Moroa and tho Chrhs-twne The Moroa. aeoordlng to their re-ligion. are not permitted to drink, and theonly Christian" here who have money to*l>end are 'he soldier* What you are oakIn* Is that I give you the permission toaell bad whisky to my soldier* Well, sir,you r»n't have It!" Tho Irishman wentsway sorrowful.
Uncle SAW'S Surest Ktern*One of the most curious duties that CV»I.
rettlt ha* I* the acting a* manager to<he Nggeat farm which the I'nlted statesown? It 1* situated about fifteen milesfrom here, and ie so large that a fast
DISCOVERER 01THE CONCORD CRAPE.
Honor to the Memory of the ManWho Originated It
WORK OF EPHRAIM W. BULL.Record Left on an Old Oa Tablir in Nu
HumbU lottagt Star Concord.Maj> hncntl ol Mawthomi.
OUTon th- .<M h*y roait." 1<»» Ihnn
? ecore of mllea from Boston t*om-
m. n. «1..-ra the historic pike hemsa little group of ancients thatstand a* outpoats to quaint and
Concord. and where, in oft recurringr* 's k !.,i many paned windows,
the passing pilgrim may trace the llfe-fce* of gnti.jui! %. there stauds a wee. old-U»hion*d o tiug-
All in spot It >» white this 'VolonliUin the sun. her truant fel-
«'** straggling ill .4 and down the wind-Hi hind :. r 1 wooden hillock
Wts lt«* proi« > i:.g cloak *g Inst the cold\u25a0*Mt of th' noith witd On either aide
end shrub mo* 11 sward leads to theloor nelgbl »rs. i ft * rod* away.
*?* l on the west is the famous "Way.\u25a0We/' where liaw thorns lived. The oth-*r l» a* old having s;. liu 75 as it does*«Uy. a "Daughter of the Revolution."
door and window altering fler> lis-Ijwte to the advance of iht- "thin, red"**? of the t>rant In front, a level,treeiest stretch craw la taxil) away to01? #,ou ches u little etream. sunning
self in the open. In ihe distance a groveWne * fringes th. shores of placid WaU
2 p ° n(i- u 'here Thoresu loved to be%;iui
# whose years are measured
The miraculous "Virgin of the Fort" and her perpetually burning lamp.
The tower officers live in bamboo sheds.
walker could not Rrt armind It In a day.It oon tains between 30.000 and 40.000 acres,and netted thf Spaniards, M I* wild, about$75,000 a y«4r. Within the past few mouthsone of the rhinos capitalists* herp has of-fered to jiay SBO.<XK> a year rental t n it ifths gmernmerot will hand It over to h'mon lea*se, hut an yet his proportion bannot been accepted. The farm contain*large hemp plantation*. and It Is saidthat there are $30,000 worth of hemp nowstacked up on It read r for shipment. Tthas tens of thousands of oocoa.m»t tree.*,Ind Includes sOrnr \al liable timber. ThereIs a sawmill usw>n It. but the* machineryof thla k* out of order. The far-n rnut
operated by the 5-tpanla .!* as a penal set-tlement, and inasmuch as it belonged tothe government. It naturally becom** thaproperty of the IfnHed States The Siwn-iardi worked several hundred ronvittsupon It, and the moat of the revenue* ofIt probably went into the pockets of thoofficial*.
Uncle Ram has two other farms Juatoutside of Zamlwmnga. which came to himin the same way Thev embrace somefine rice lands and a lance banana planta-tion. They aro right on the edge of thotown, and It was In company with thepresident*, or mayor, and QuartermasterSharpley, that I drove out to see It
There wtre per ha. pa fifty men and wo-
men nt work In th» rice fields harvestingthe crop, and, strange to say. they wereworking away under umbrellas They hadput up white cotton upon a rude frame,work, and this was attached to a ;o ! e
which was stuck upright In the g-roun 1,so that they could work away under Itand l>e In the shad They w. re cutting
the rt e stalk I N stalk. ** Is the CUSTOMhere, leaving only about eight Inches <»fstraw on each stalk, and tying tho stalks
up into »heaves from si* to eigtrt InchesIn diameter
? fle»h, and Its fla/vor is delicious. ThenI there is the durian, a fruit wnloh smells! like I,lmburger cheese, but which is so
delicious that you eat it, disregarding theodor. The mangostin Is another deliciousfruit, and In addition then are orangts arillemons, the breadfruits and the papaya,nearly all of which grow wild.
On these farms Undo ftam should mok*some experiments In cattle raising. This Isone of the chief stock region* >f the PMili-pines, but 'he animals ar»> small and noattention has been paid to breeding. Thecattle lt»ok somewhat like Jerseys, bathere and there you see a trace of a humpon the back. They are said to be a cr-sibetween the Indian and the Australianrattle They seldom dresn more than 2V>jxnmds, but they are so scarce that cowsbring more than SIR or *3) gold apiece an lbullocks more The cattle r»re chiefly own-ed by the Moros. who ask ail kinds ofprices, and usually take much less thanthey ask The animals are all grass fe 1and the meat Is excellent. The cattle arerailed chiefly for beef all over the Philip-
i pines, although In s< me Islands, such asj Panay. they are employed as carriage an 1j draft animals The natives, as a rule, use
, no butter, and outside of the towns but lit-tle milk The reault is that there are bu;few good milch cons, although it is b»-
j lleved that such could be bred.Not only the agricultural department,
: but also the geological survey and theJ Smithsonian Institution, should send par-i ties to the Philippines in the near future.; The Islands, as I have said, have not beenI explored, and a scientific Investigation
should be made of them at the earliestmoment. The scientists should be hereit the present time, u hen there are plentyof soldiers to protect them, and whenthey can easily get a guard to accom-
pany them to any place they wish to go.This will make them safe from the sav-ages of the mountains and will enablethem to undertake Journeys which, inthe tin»»-H of an ordinary force, might bodangerous, to say the least.
This especially so In Mindanao, wherethe land, as I have said, belongs almostentirely to the government.
Hotv Soldiers Live Near the Equator.I am living with the soldiers here at
Zamboanga, and 1 suppose the average
man will pity me as h<- reads this Hecan save his pity for himself. With agood mosquit# netting to protect one atnight you can get along as comfortably
lure us at any other army post that theI'nited States owns The regimentalheadquarters building where I am stay-ing. was built by the Spanish official*. Itis a big two-story house, covering per-
haps a quarter of an acre, with balconiesten feet wide running around it, allshielded from the rays of the sun byoyster-shell windows. The house is flooredwith mahogany boards, some of whichare two feet wide and twenty feet long.Its callings are fr«»m fifteen to twenty feethigh. It is right on the beach, and it isa stiff sea bre«-ze which blows through itall day and all night. In the morningand evening we go out and take a bathIn the sea. and I assure you that at thistime of the year the weather Is quite aspleasant as that of any of our middlestat« s in June and July. We have an? x » |Jf nt mess, presided over by MaJ.VlcMahon, one of the features of thebreakfast being a glass of cocoanut milkfresh from the trees In the yard. Themare other good quarters In different parts
of the city, but so far some of the lowerofficers have not been able to get houses
Hwf ami there over tho fnrm woret'hre«hlng floors, each *rr+< ted oti a frame-work of l»nmU»r. so that It was Almost ashigh up In tho air a* an Amerlui wind-mill. The rice IN drawn up from theground to the floor and trodden oirt. by thefeot. tho wind carrying away the chaff,?while tho grains of paddy fall to theground. In the ' <nmna plantation I madea photograph ti> nhow tho height of thestalks, standing be«M*» one of them ju* Idid no They are. I Judge, at leaat fifteenfeet high.
A Chtnce for our ScientistsThese farina offer *plendld opportunity
to our agricultural department to estab-lish an Mat:on down here onthe edge of the equartor. There Uno rich-er soil in the world than that about Zoni-boanga. and the method of handling Itshould be tea ted at once It will nroduce
j excellent coffee, and, in all probability,i cotton, tobacco and sugar. It Is not farI fiom the tew, lone of India and t'eylon,
» and It may be that the hill* of thin great
i inland of M ndanaci will be some lay cov-ered with plantation* of coffee and tea.
!The climate la very similar to that ofJava and Ceylon, and the aoll 1* fully a*
rich.All kind* of tropi wl fruit* can l»e mown
jln the market today I pick I up somej green leave*. and, wonderlog w;*at they
i might be. began to chew them Thevburnt my Hp*, and 1 found hat thev wer«
I from the cinnamon tree, whl h grow* wildjln the forests. The banana* hera have aj flavor such aa you will not And In those ofi Cuba or Puerto Rico. There ate n»ai»> .H
i rletle*. especially of white. >Hlo» And1 green. The green banana ha A a yello**
by the centuries, looms cloae by the path,challenging like a hoary old sentry thoapproach of every visitor. A stalwart ftr.
Junior by many decades, stands respect-
fully at one side and to the rear. Nearit a large latticed frame, fresh painted
and topped by four memorial urns. In-closes a gnarled and knotted vine Othervines with brown and withered Angers
clutch the trellis that lays slog* to theplace on three sides. Ba< k of the cot-tage a dismantled greenhouse shows thewhite masonry of Its black walls, sunkIn the hillside Nearby a pile of field
stones marks the entrance to a neatlyraked footpath that lead* up the steep
face of the hill.It's a peaceful, tidy plait, 1* this h>me
by the wayside, yet full of suggestlve-
ness. Kverywhere bristles the new. yet
everywhere remains the old. From thecottage, for Instance, the hand* of theartisan and dceorator have but Just beenlifted Tat the fashion of th* seven-teenth century is still In her For timehaa dealt sparingly Her frame ht*known two centuries of life. Her spirit
is the spirit of the Inconquerable colon!Pt.\nd though painter and paperer, carpen-ter and mason have wrought largely, thereincarnation has even more than ashad- « of the old In It. In door and wtn-d \u2666 1 yawning fireplace a loving Con-ner vat r ha* left the substance of thethings that were when the arboreal cen-tenan , > in the door yard was but a tendersapling
And why sll this careful preservation?the visitor step nearer the wooden
lattice ar* und tha* withered old vine inthe yard I.e» him t id the words writtenon the oak t.4bl« t
*
: I about to see what 1 c»">uld :
And among our wilding* to beginwith The Tie at thing to do was tofind the twst and earliest grape for :
seed, and this I found in an accl- :
dental seedling at th<> f»v»t of the :
: hill aforesaid The crop was abun- :
dant and tipe In August, and ofverj g- d .uallty for a wild :
gra;"»e l a«d the seed In the :
autumn of Among them the :
Concord was the only one worth :
>a\lng :
Kl'llKAlM WALES BULU
a X
This modest place was the home. then,not of soldier or statesman. < r man "fletter*, but of an humble husbandman. 4
grower of vines, a eultlvator <'f grai»n
Yet hi* was a llfew >rk that > 1 a ? » l»and blessed harvest For what Franklinand Stephenson and W hitney and Kr *>onwere to the mecbani* al KphralmWales Hull was to the horth ultural world.Hut, unlike tht se pet rless th**vine growers' life waa one of poverty
almost of obscurity. The prised relic* whichare now so jealously guarded In andaround the h me where he lived t*-d ofover a half century of well nigh thanklesstoll.
Ill* was indeed a isbor of love In h!s?arren chamber be studied for fifty-nine
year* horticultural *clence and all Itsramifications In hi* vine girt garden at
the foot of the hill he wrestled with na-ture. spading and seeding, {ianiing andpruning, until *he yielded the struggleand gave to him out of the best of herstorehouse
And now that he i* gone, one who knewhim well in his old age. and who, a f< wyears before he died, bought the littletwelve-acre estate. I* enjoying the fulfill-ment of he-r hope of perpetuating hi* mem-ory Mrs l>anlel LaOthrop, who. as ownerand occupant of the "Wayside," was MrHull's frten l and neighbor, ha* undt rtsk-nan ! successfully carried out this praise-worthy task.
The whole scheme, dv wn to the smallestdetails, was her own. She d«"»lgne 1 thememorial fireplace In the cottage parlor,sht laid out the arrangement of the roomsso that they should stand as nearly liketh:we within which Mr. Bull dved a« pos-sible. In short, everything is the produ t
of h* r discriminating Judgment.As to th man w:» m this wayaide cot-
tage honors there has been but little pub-lished Indeed, his life may be rea 1 easilybetween the lines of tho short and simpleannals of the poor." A descendant of goodold Puritan stock, he found that healthand pleasure were to be his jortien onlythrough work in the ;>en air. So, afterlearning the g ldbeater's trade, he short-ly neglected It and turned, like his fore-father*. to the tilling of the soil Thlaprobably lengthened his life, for in earlyyouth he was stricken with a grave pul-monary trouble which waa finally curedscleiy through i.&aiaut duMoor U£a»
Hrleflv told, the** are the biographicalfacts in hi* «rwr; Ephralm Wales HuUwas born on March 4. iSfiii. on Washington
street, Itost on. opposite Brigs'* crockerystore. In the spot where now stand* the |Transcript build.ttg. The house was nn oldtime colonial affair, with i - nw nionii! ilittle yard and lox bordered pain* In |front.
Ilia parent* were Gpaphras Hull andEsther Waleii Mia mother wai a de-scendant of Nathaniel Walet, who nutvov*r fr»m Ki |Un<l in the Jarn<*s In IKV.Ills father Ilr»*tly de* ended from('apt Thomas Bull, who emigrated fromSpeedwell In IflP. The > aptaln *M a
d- :£tlty warrior He first «»-ttied In New-ton 'now r»mt*rldf»). bat remained onlyt;x month*. Then he moved to Connectscut. where he was a mr*n of » »nslderabl«prominence. He dltplay-d great braveryin repelling ;«n Indian attack during thePequot war. having > > mmand of a fort at
the timeYoung Kphralm'? schooling was obtained
at tbt common sch »oi for boys, where, inISI7. he took the Franklin m« !al. being
then 11 year* old. One Incident of hi*early school life 1* that when very email,
so email, indeed, that the masUr held htmon his knee, the good man to>k him overto Cam bridge 'o show to th« Harvard stu-
dents his methyl <.f teaching grammar.Hut hia school gay* were short lived On
entering his tetns he went to w rk forals Anse'.m Ijurist. up n the Neck
near the old Washington hotel. in thiSouth End. Ijaurlat WKI X chemist andasaayer. anil Ha I a labor., *. ,rj on themarsh near by Here yours 8 ill probablylearned hia tradr ->f c Idbeating Al 1# hestarted in for himself tn l>u better. onthe "upper road. a» It ws* ? ailed
Hit marrtage. on September 10. I*2#. in
the Unitarian church. Dor better, wa* fol-lowed by hia removal to B \u25a0;« n. where hetook * houae on Fayette atr»et and set upIn business on Cornhlll Then heto have trouble with hi* lung*. So hacam* to Concord and picked it a pleas-ant houae next to that of h:t brother, Al-bert Lawrence Bull, who occupied the n wfamous "Wayside The h<<u»e he boughtwas owned by a Mr Frer. h. ft ;n w ruhr secured Ir. together with twelve reaof land. The pine b* t and generally beau-tiful healthful surrounding* attrac ted turn*AU proved later of gr©*; "I'.ue
wa* In the fall of either 1*36 or 107, theexact date bring unknown.
In the autumn of 1H43 Mr. Hull sowedthe seed of the Concord grape., but it. wasnot until lAS& that It wa* put on themarket. Among the few tributes to hi*Industry and perseverance was a gold
medal whh n he receive*! In January. 1*74,from the Massachusetts ll«»rtlcu!tural So-ciety for his Concord grape exhibit. Pre-vlouslv Mr Hull had recelv«Hl two otherinttSalf. the society awarding a silvertrophy In J?<»"» for the Concord grape, andthe state board of agriculture present-ing a similar one for seedlings In 1K7'l.
Krlend «»f taimais \u25a0nil Hunlhorne.
Prof, Agassix was one of Mr Hull*lifelong frlen I*. Hi* wotk deeply Inter-ested the great Harvard teacher, somuch so thai Mr Hull was Invited to de-liver three lecture* <>u "Grapes andGrape <'ulture* before the professor aclass, which he did on April 21 and » andMa 4, lMr< That the little vineyardw here he labor-d by no means marker!the limits 'f Mr Hull* interest! is»hi*n by the fact that he was electedto the legislature, serving In the housein l<i>4 and In the senate the followingyear His longest term of public ser-
vice was passed in th<* state board ofagrlcultur* He was appointed by Oov.Gardner, and was sui esslvely returnedb> Govt. Bank* riaflin and Andrew,serving in ail a continuous term of twelveyears
It Is well known thai the affairs ofstate interested Mr. Hull, and that hetook a genuine Interest in current poli-tical events.
He wa* far more than a grower ofgrape* He was a philosopher. And nohigher tribute < an be j>ald him Intellect-ually than to say he was the friend andcompanion of Hawthorne In fact, theintimacy between the two was alwaysremarkable. Hawthorne, reserved andre-tiring toward hit other neighbors andtownspeople would tit for hours in thet ompany of Kphriam Hull, at hit home,finding a full m. Ed >f enjoyment In the
unrestrained Useusslon of men andaffairs.
The life in the little vine-bowered cot-t»g« was not so lull then, even thoughthe tenant was never well off, and was
ften reduced to straitened drcum-?UXcea. Bui wnu neighbors v. Uo lovtd
'"PiSrSs IHobammedan Capital AP?=rs
Group of Moro matdens. Photographed for this letter by Frank G. Carpenter.
Col. Pettit And the Post-lnte ligencer correspondent tn front of mtttttry headquarter*, Z»mbo»ngA.Cot. Pettit tn the crnter.
I and they hove put up *hed* of bamboo
I and ranvHi on the parade ground notfar from headquarter*. These huta havefloor* and walla of bamboo, but their
| roof a are made of tent*. They are fle-j vated about three feet from the kround,] and are by no means uncomfortable.
1 find the soldier* well aat tatted withtheir lot. They are excellent men, coming
j chiefly from Ohio, Indiana anil Kentucky,
with ;i few from Pennsylvania and Ten-. nessee.j Zamhoanga. like most of th« Philippinetowns, 1m under martial law. The Morosare not allowed to bring their knives Into
I the city, and no <>ne can be on the streetsafter dark without giving an account of
i himself. There are nentlnela posted onevery block, and all nigh* long them* *en-
! tlnels call out the hour*. They awakened! me with every call during my first night
\u25a0 or so here. The man tinder the regimentalI headquarters had a voice like the tradi-
tional bull of ltashan He was number 4,! and I could hear his heavy tones ringing
| out upon the night air."Number 4! One o'clock! All 1* well."
This sound would hardly die away beforenumber would break out In a shrilltreble: "Number 6! One o'clock! All Iswell." and then number S would go Iton another key, and so on until numhber12. and even the unlucky number 14. onenight I heard the successive hours from10 until h called, with numerous mmmnndMto halt between time, and warnings to th*passerby t<» *tand up and be recognised.This calling of the hours Is done at all ofthe posts of this part of the world, andthe utmost vigilance I* kept to guardagainst surprise.
Among Our Brothers.The soldiers do well to keep their eyes
and renperted him. mho dsltght+d In hiskindly, gentle manners. hi* keen. alertmind, and bright. cheerful conversationhe found Ampk comptiiMtlon for what-
other blessing* fortune d#nltd him.Mr Hull was a scholar, though he en-Joyed but a fleeting residente withinschool mull*. He pmeUc«lljr oduffttMhlm*elf, Throughout Ms life he enjoyedreading the be* I «u»-» of literature. anddown to the time of hi* death h!» prefer*'ice wa* for such periodicals an theN'ortb American Hrvlew. the AtlanticMonthly. and tha l>e*t foreign scientificwork*.
Mr Hull had three children. The twoboy* died In middle life, after removingt » the We»: The daughter. Mr* MaryEllen Mull T«auriat, 1* still living, thewidow of it ton of the man for whomMr Hull first worked While the graper\ ilture wa« still In the eg perl mental stageMr Hull worked steadily at his trade ofgold-treating, his shop being located In thehouse which stands Just east of his cot-tage.
With advancing ;*ge Mr. Hull grew le«*able to manage thing* profitably on tn«little plate, and It wa« fort una fe that th«home In which he had Vfvtd for a halfcentury fell Into the hands of his good!friend. Judge K. Hoc k wood Hoax, whoV* Ight the estate, Mr Hu.i still continu-ing in it as his borne In JHia Mr*, Ix>throppurchased the place fr-m Judge fiosr.Two year* later, on March $5, 1*26, Mr.Hull passed away.
And now the cottage where for nearlysixty years lived the toiler In nature'sgarden stands rejuvenated, rehabilitated,awaiting the glad day or dedication. Its* neduled for nest Monday. On theafternoon of that day, at the bidding ofthe hostess, thither will flock willingguests, come to pay giad tribute to thememory of Kphriam Hull Two compan-ion* of his youth, themselves now land-ing a the thresh*%! of eternity, will tot-
ter to the place, the friends of his vigor-ous manhood will gather, there will comethe acquaintance!, of Tils old age. snd.eager witnesses to the enduring useful-ness of his honored life work, those who,knowing him not, yet know nls contribu-tion to humanity, will Joyously visit thescene of his toll and his triumph.
Away back In the twelfth century the
THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER. SUNDAY, MAY 13. 1900.
Carpenter.open, for although people are now atpeace with us. and vo call brother*,they are of such a nature thai the brutindiscretion might make them br*.vk utInto war. They c iu>e«l IN-* gpfi-daru uv>rotrouble than any other of the Phillpp tv*races. They are different from the othersIn their manners, < ustoms and reMglon,and the handling: of them If of thom >st delicate problems I'ncle Sam ha* topoire. It is. I believe, a more difficult onethan that of the Indian of the it. gro. Itwill not be a question of making: the M.wros American citlsens so much as k«* pinsrthem i>om bringing about a state .>f an-archy and bloodshed. The questions ofreligious fanaticism are here added tothose of barbarism, for the Mortw. al-though they «r. Mohamme dans, are lltt*eletter than savages.
Their house* are thatch' \ huts, an Itheir only manuf.n tures ar« weapons ofwar In the *hap«> of lances, -poars andmost terrible sw rd« They HT> kniv »s
called laror.gs. which are a sort of cros«I etween a >snrd and ? meal ax. butwhich are no sharp that lam a! :»? to shavathe hairs from the back of my hand withany one of them They have krit *orshort swords, the blades <t whi'h wind Itiand out like a sn.a*>. the*o they u*e f »rdisemboweling th»!r cr-'tnhs ia« y havealso campUans, the wide bides of whi h<ome to your waist when points reston th» tr ? invl. and whk:i arc chlet'y usedfor beheading.
There are Moros who are satd to be ableto cKave a man from crown to waist atone stroke. A favorite cut is through theshoulder, taking off the head, neck andone-half the chest. Including thw arm.They sometimes hamstring their victimsbefore killing them, and in the . use of ? \-
eoutlons a common method is to tie theman's hands behind him and then beheadhim with one blow »f the knit" .V*er aperson is killed he Is often < hopped to
mint- meat by the men and boy* who wishto try their knives on human flesh. Thisis the case not only with tho lower classes,but with the best. One of the daftoa orprinces of liatdlan, Just the other day, or-
si* men to I killed After i '»? exe-cution he came to the place and chopi»e<tinto one <i the d oi bodies with Ins l<»-rong, saying a- he did so to some uf oursoldiers who wens standing by: "1 do itmerely to try my knife
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The Moros And the Spaniards.The Spaniards have never really con-
quered the Moros The) have subduedthem again and again, only to find them-selves with another war on their hands.The were here at the time theSpaniards first came. They are not thoaborigines, but are supposed to be thodescendants of the Dyaks of Borneo, whoInvaded this part of the world centuriesago. The Spaniards did not attempt toconquer them until about lflrt years afterColumbus discovered America. At thattime a Portuguese, who Tiad mad*' a for-tune In the Philippines, proposed to theking of Spain t<> make an expedition toMindanao to subdue the Moro* Mr wasallowed to do so. and the result was thathis head was cloven In two l»y «fiu ofthese terrible knives. Shortly after thisthe became famou* as pirate*.
They organized fleets, and for more than2rtft years were the terror or the n»«aa ofthis part of the world. They atuvkedevery peopled Island, sacited the vtriagesand churches and killed the people. Dur-ing the present century their war junksname Into the harbor of Manila. and thereare white persons yet living In the Phil-ippine* who have been Moro slav Thisdid not stop until IS6O, when eighteen
steam gunboats were p«>nt out fromSpain, and this port of ZamboaiiKa madethe center of operations. Since then therehave been wars, but piracy has, to «,
large extant, stopped, although there laa chief now In the upper part of the cast*ern end of the Island who goes about hihis barge levying contributions from thetowns on the Nhore at the mouth of hiecannon.
Our Posts on MindAnno
Within the pant month or so troop*
have been stationed at all the porta «»fMindanao. The Thirty-first infantry WM
the llrat to arrive, and It Is wmtteredalong the south and east roast. The For-tieth has garrisoned the ports of thenorth, but still more soldiers are needed.The Spaniard* had to keep a largo forceon the l*land and they have erected bar-ruck* and forts In many pTaoea.
The fort here covers about an aora ofground. It has walls twenty feet highand quarters enough to accommodate ftlarge number of men. In one of Its wallaan image of the Virgin ha* been carved,and below thl* Is a lamp which It I* *ai<lhas been burning for mors than 2"U years.It Is known ss the Vlrgtu of the Fort,and the Vlsayan or Christian Inhabitantsof ZambiattK<t go out regusarly and kneelon the ground Iwfote It to pray. There1* a story told of how a gho**ly sheeteerwoman appeared one night to one of thesoldiers on guard snd announced herselfas the Virgin, saying she would wat< hover her people, snd how the nest morn-ing this figure wa* found miraculouslycarved upon the wall.
FKANK O, rAKI'KKTICK.
poet-astronomer of iw*ta penned hiedeathless verse. It Her* today. Arielfrom the grave of him who lived and diedamong his vines there t< *u>s to come theecho of these words:"Ah. with the tit ape my failing Ufa tiro*
Vide,And wash my Hody whence the Idfa hag
died.And lay me, shrouded In the living !<eaf,lly some not unfrequented Harden-side.
That ev'n mv burled Ashe* h a snare.Of Vintag. *hall fling up into the AirAs not a True |>eHever ps**lng byHut shall be overtaken unaware
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Hc»«.' ly»i lterald.
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Anlirram* tj it tre *rnut« tl»« namee ofwell known men and women are oft« r%-tartlingly appropr.a < v, *? C-.IIUI r*l»etter In this w*y than these announce-ments, evolved from t*« great statesmen *
nam*-* when the rein* of powsr «hangdhand* ' <JUd*tone. ?*«> lead* not"' Ma-raeJl, "I lead, *lrt" Quits ss happy i« thecomment on the devoted nursing of Flor-ence Nightit.gsle, ehd' name yields "Fliton, heerlng angel " Among thoee thatar*- most often »jj(,tod we may mentionHoratio NVl*«,n Mote r «*«t a Kilo."''harlea hmm Ftnart. "<'lairrva Arthur'sBeatli'.ate's <at ion. "Quid e*t vert-*wr* l"Wh»it Is truth answered by"fCst Vlr qui ndest.** # It I* the man herspresent"); flwedlst Nightingale. "Himhigh. »swt IJmta," I»avtd Livingstone,"D V , go and visit Nile;" the Marquisof Kipon > r»> n.« ' the grand master-ship of t*.. Yr*-? Ma*<«ns When he becamea Roman**',;. it. 1 H . .juoth f Msong," Charles Prince of Wales , "AilFrance call* O, help !** »ir Rioger Ctiarlas1 Knighty Tlchta<rne, baronet. Yon !
butcher Orton. biggest raac«il her* andmany shorter specimens, *uch as tele-graph, "(great help,'* astronomer*, "nomora stars," and moon starer^ onehug, "enough ? dltors, "*#j tired;" tour-nament, "to run at men, ; nitentUry,"nay, I repent;" Old Englan-i, 'Voldoriland;" rev »JutU»n. "to fov< niin;" fashion-
"one-half >«la»;" lawyer*. "*iy wgre;'*mid*hii>man. "mind hi* map," pu-vrhouae,"(J, sour hope?" Prvsbjriarlan, "beat Inprayer." ew«.theart. "tlierr we sat," mat-rimony, "into my arm. "?Chaiabergf Jv*.r-naL
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