Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1916 — Page 2

The Remaking of Mindanao

THERE was one rich and unruly realm the Spaniards were glad to rid themselves of following the battle of Manila bay. The huge Island of Mindanao, pronounced as though spelled Mind-a-now, known In the Philippines as Moreland, had the reputation of being largely unconquered, as much by the military as by the missionaries. The Mores clung to their religious beliefs &8 tenaciously as they opposed Spanish domination in government, writes Monroe Woolley In the Utica Saturday Globe. But the More archipelago today is pot what It was when we first took np stewardship there. This means that it is not the unconquerable empire it was when the Spanish essayed to rule and run It. For a long time we sought to make the Mores obedient by whipping them —by killing them off. Hundreds, thousands of them, were slain in periodic campaigns, yet Hie' fiery Mohammedans lost no opportunity to treacherously murder our troops and officials at times when pacification seemed apparent. Military operations failing to a considerable degree, and mindful of the hopeless task of the Spaniards, another method was devised to win the people to new government and to new jrays of living. At first the Philippine government smoked a peace pipe with the sultans and dattos, chiefs of community factions, seeking in this manner to make itself popular with the masses. As much good will as possible was thus literally bought. Costly gifts and Junketing trips were bestowed on the tribal chiefs, and they were fawned upon as loyal subjects are wont to do with royalty. Later, brute force was wholly abolished. Kindness and diplomacy were finally substituted therefor, and with this enlightened new system we are gradually and thoroughly remaking Mohammedan Mindanao. Known to and thoroughly explored by white men for centuries past, Mindanao is today just beginning to be lifted from a savage past into the limelight of civilization. The rich realm has never been exploited because the Inhabitants were always hostile to any outside interference. Min-

danao, with the Sulu archipelago—the Mohammedan empire—is well worth reconstruction, and it is per- „ haps this fact which has made us so persistent. Largest of Philippine Islands. v Mindanao itself is the largest island ■sby far in. the entire Philippine archipelago. It is about the size of our own state of Mississippi, and is bigger than Indiana or Ohio. It would make seven states like New Jersey, and is by far much larger than several of our Atlantic coast states combined. To be precise, it has an area of 46,721 square miles. In ancient times the Moros had little, if any, business sense. They had a woeful lack of the appreciation of money. To overcome their antiquated Ideas of trade we have established markets for them in the leading towns where they meet to buy and sell. Some day Mindanao will be one of the leading countries of the world for the production of rubber. The rubber tree grows wild there in great profusion. Although the industry is as yet undomesticated, exports from a single locality have- reached nearly 1.000,000 pounds in a year. The island also produces much hemp, as well as tapioca, cocoanuts and other tropical fruits. We have been successful in giving railroads to that part of the Philippine archipelago occupied by the Filipino, even though foreign capital had to furnish the money, but we have yet to lay the first steel rail in Mindanao, the greatest and richest of the Islands of our insular frontier. Borneo, distant only a stone’s throw from Zamboanga, Mindanao’s metropolis. Is far ahead of Moroland in everything* pave natural wealth.

VIORO D*TTO AND RETAINERS

Mindanao has a larger colony of American planters, engaged mostly in hemp cultivation, than any other spot in the islands, notwithstanding that the people there have always been hostile to trespassers. Many of these have been wantonly murdered, but the fatality list is growing less right along, an evidence that the people are being converted to a new order of things. Many of these brave Americans started business on what they saved from a soldier’s wage, and today not a few of them are Oriental nabobs. Responding to Education. For centuries the More thought the only kind of effective government was that having force behind it. To be kind to him, in his pinion, meant that you feared him. But to be kind, with a means of making kindness acceptable through a standing military force, has completely wrought a change in the warlike people. Under good leaders th® Mores are. good people; under bad ones they, too, are bad. The Mohammedan religion teaches that to slay a white man, or a Christian, is a sure way to get to heaven. Therefore, in Spanish times, and during our early occupation, fanatical Mores used to run amuck, chopping down as many foreigners as they could with their wicked knives. Often it has taken a dozen bullets, wellaimed from a high-power army rifle, to kill the crazed followers of the Koran. AH Mores hate pork as a bull does a red flag, and the military officer who placed the dead body of a fanatic inside a pork carcas and strung the two up in the plaza for the inspection of others effectually kept “running amuck” within bounds in his territory. But today the Mores are laying aside their war krises and spears, are discarding their tight-fitting, gaily colored costumes for modern dress, similar to the Filipinos, and are sending their children for the first time to public schools. A decade hence there may be More professional men, such as lawyers, doctors and scientists. A committee of More chieftains who went to Manila recently to meet Resident Commissioner Manuel Quezos of Washington, himself a Filipino, told the commissioner that schools were

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intensely popular, and asked him to say to congress that as long as that body was disposed to furnish school books that the Moros themselves would furnish the schools and the scholars. Datto Piang, one of the powerful chieftains, has himself erected two costly schoolhouses in Mindanao solely at his own expense. A Moro doing anything of this sort in olden times would have been hanged by his own people. Baseball Has Helped. Baseball has helped wonderfully with the Moros, as it did with the Filipinos, to cement affections for the Americans. It is claimed by a learned Filipino who recently toured Mindanao that in two decades the visitor in Moroland will not be able, so far as dress and manners are con? cerned, to distinguish a Moro from a Filipino. No American baseball fan really knows what fun is until he is privileged to see a hotly contested game of ball between Filipinos and Moros and gives an attentive ear to the game vernacular as it is spoken by our wards In the excitement of the sport With the awakening to civilization the Moro is acquiring some chivalry. One of the sultans thought he had reached the acme of politeness when lie asked the popular daughter of one of our ex-presidents, at the time visiting his palace, to become No. 1 in his harem. Of course, there was a blushing declination, at which the dusky ruler w r as probably chagrined. But the incident goes to Illustrate that the American, as well as the Christian Filipino, la for the first making himself and his institutions acceptable to the remade Mohammedans of our farthest-flung frontier.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

STOLEN BASE RECORD

Max Carey of Pirates Showing Best Speed on Bases. Pirate Outfielder Has Been Making Displays of Speed in Recent Games •—Makes Two Bases on an Ordinary Sacrifice. Max Carey, Pirate outfielder, la showing the best speed on the bases in the National league at present, and if he manages to continue the stride he will get the honors by the time the season closes. Just now he has the stolen base situation well in hand, being far ahead of his nearest competitor. If Max could hit the ball a bit harder —add 20 per cent to his average—he would be the best-looking outfielder in the National league at present. Display of Speed. Carey has been making displays of his speed in lots of games lately and getting away with stunts that but few ball players would undertake. Recently while the Pirates were playing the Reds at Cincinnati he astonished old and young by going all the way from first to third on an ordinary sacrifice. Few base runners In the league could repeat the stunt. And it was with clean fielding on the play and no booted balls. Two Bags on Sacrifice. A day or so later in the same series he scored from third on an infield fly that was caught not more than 20 feet behind third base, the fielder getting the ball in to home with all speed in an effort to catch him. Also he circled the bases shortly after on a clean hit to center that most players would not have thought a triple. In his past five seasons with Pitts-

Max Carey.

burgh Carey has not shown such speed and pep, and with a .300 batting average he would have everything on all the other outfielders in the league.

ODD PLAY IN INTERNATIONAL

Rule Saying Assistance Given Base Runner at Third Base Is Interference Is Violated. v Here Is an old play that came up in a Providence-Richmond game that President Ed Barrow of the International league will have to pass on. as It is told by a correspondent. With Clemens on first, Aragon, the Cuban inflelder with Richmond, slashed a triple to deep center. Clemens rushed around the paths and crossed the pan just as Powell retrieved the ball. It was thrown to Shean, who cut it loose to Brainard to Intercept the flying Aragon. The ball hit Aragon on the head and knocked him unconscious, bounding off behind the stand and out of sight of the umpires. Aragon fell to the ground and failed to rise. His team-mates hurried to the rescue and with the aid of two players Aragon was carried from third to the plate for the winning run. The rule says assistance given a runner at third base shall cause the umpire to call him out. In this case Aragop was not only assisted at third base, hut wqa carried to the plate in the arms of two fellow players. Three minutes later he walked to his position at short-field and played the inning out, apparently as well as ever.

NEAT PROBLEM IN BASEBALL.

It Looks Like Serious Puzzle at First, But It Is Easily Understood When Explained. Here’s what looks like a baseball problem, yet it’s easily explained: In a game the other day, two balls were pitched, and two men reached base. A third ball was pitched and there were no men on base, yet neither a triple play nor a double play was made. Figure it out. Simple enough: The first batter was hit by the first ball thrown. The second batter soaked the second pitch for a single. The man who had been on first overslid second, and a quick return from the outfield got him before he could scramble back. On the next pitch, the man who was on first tried to steal second and was chucked out by a comfortable margin.

THINGS SHIFT QUICKLY IN BASEBALL GAME

Some years ago the baseball world had a small thrill when Manager Frank Chance of the New York Yankees traded Hal Chase tov. Manager Jimmy Callahan of the Sox for Rollie Zeider and Babe Borton. . Borton Alone Is Left. Just to show how quickly things shift in baseball It is interesting to note that only one of the mentioned is still in the American league. This Is Babe Borton of the St. Louis Browns. But in the meantime he was released to the Coast league, jumped to the Federals and went to the Browns in the peace treaty. Of the other characters, ’ Frank Chance is now managing the Los An-

GIANTS’ NEW BAT BOY

They say he receives $30,000 per summer and holds quite a chunk of stock, still John J. McGraw is just one of the boys when the Giants are out there on the field every day. If you don’t believe it, says the St. Louis Times, listen to this: When the Cardinals finished their fourth Inning Friday Doyle was the first batter up in the fifth. “Come on, boys, hurry it along,” called Umpire Byron, and Doyle, from second base, was running to the plate. “Hey, boy, oh, boy, bring out my bat!!’ said Doyle. One guess .—who brought out the bat? —No one but McGraw. The Little Napoleon grabbed the club and skipped out to the plate. Yes, he’s the bat boy these days.

HAS CRAVATH LOST WALLOP?

Home-Run King Not Doing Much With Bat This Season —Hinted He Will Be Replaced. Has Cactus Cravath lost his wallop? Thehome-run king has not done any great execution with his bat so far this 8 season and as he is not a very fast outfielder It may be possible that he will be replaced before the season Is very much further advanced. The Phillies have recently signed Claude Cooper, who was with the Brookfeds last season, and it is whispered that Cooper has been secured in the belief that Cravath is slipping. Cooper had a $7,500 contract with the

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Tip Tops, but was satisfied to sign with President William F. Baker of,the Philadelphia club, at a much lower figure.

Three Stare for Yanks.

Dick* Kinsella, premier of scouts, who is now with the Yankees and expects to keep the owners of that club off lemons, met Captain Huston of the New Yorkers in St Louis and told him what his team needs and does not need. Kinsella expects to buy about three players, but says those three will bo reaT ones. f;^

geles club; Jimmy Callahan has gone to Pittsburgh, where he is boss of the outfit; Zeider is with the Cubs, and Hal Chase is playing with the Cincinnati Reds. Callahan With Pittsburgh. / Another sidelight to the old deal is that Callahan, after being out of baseball for a year, accepted the management of the Los Angeles club, but turned it down later when he got the Pittsburgh proposition. Los Angeles then turned to Chance, and he took it. Today we find Hal Chase with the Reds doing his best to beat Callahan and the Pirates, and succeeding pretty frequently, and Zeider acting in a similar manner with the Cubs.

BASEBALL STORIES

Nobody laughs at the Athletics this season despite their display of Witt. * * * The going in the Eastern league got too strenuous for Mike Doherty as an umpire, and he resigned. * * * Manager Stallings put Pitcher Jesse Barnes on the Inactive list when he took Outfielder Fred Snodgrass off. * * * Chick Baker, a young catcher, brother of Del Baker of the Detroit Tigers, is getting a trial with Portland. * • • Baltimore sent Infielder William Fewster to Worcester of the Eastern league, with the expectation of recalling him in the fall. * * • At a dinner given National league umpires President Tener praised them for their fairness and impartiality. Boy, page Johnny Evers! • * * Junk dealers are paying double the former prices for bottles. Yet foolish umps object to fans throwing these valuable articles at them. * * * Mike Menoskey, recalled by Minneapolis from Duluth, made a good start for his comeback, hitting a home run on his first trip to the plate. « * * * Manager Griffith has filed complaint with President Ban Johnson that pitchers on certain teams are firing the ball at the heads of the batters. • • * If Sam Crawford is to be given a seat on the Detroit bench we know a lot of ball players who ought to be picking currants out of rice-pudding. • • • George Sisler, the star of the St. Louis Browns, was badly spiked In a play at first base during the series with the Red Sox and was forced to lay off. • • * The veteran Danny Hoffman, let out by Bridgeport, declares he Is done with baseball and will attempt no more comebacks. He has gone into business in Bridgeport. * * • We generally notice that cities th»t brag about their climate, and their beautiful streets, and the number of their churches, are too foxy to mention their baseball teams. * . * * Robert Hogg, the first baseman of the University of Missouri ball team for three seasons past, has Joined Hannibal in the Three I league. He will be used In the outfield. V• • * Fans In Hartford are divided as to placing the blame for the poor showing of Charley'Wagner’s team. Some say Wagner has failed, while others say Jim Clark? n’s interference is to blame,

HOME TOWN HELPS

GUARD THE WATER SUPPLY Bubject That Is of Immense Importance in Every Home in the Country. In thousands of farm homes it is now possible to find up-to-date water systems, providing both hot and cold water for the bathroom, the laundry, the kitchen sink, and various other parts of the house and barn. When a water system is once installed the farmer and his family usually wonder how they ever managed to get along without it before, and seldom regret the cost. Yet, in spite of the comparative ease with which the average farm home can be equipped with many of these conven-

A Well Properly Protected From Surface Water. Brick Laid in Cement and Backed Up With Puddled Clay Makes a Practically Impervious Casing. rieaces, how often do we find the country household still depending upon the distant spring, the open well, or at best the out-of-doors lift pump to supply the hundreds of tons of water required fojr each household every year? Inquiry usually develops the fact that the old methods are still retained for one or the other of the following reasons, namely: The cost of sewer systems is assumed to be prohibitive, or else the possibilities of fully utilizing the existing water supply have never been carefully explained and brought to the farmers’ notice. A well can be protected from pollution by extending the tight casing or lining six or eight inches above the ground and covering with a watertight concrete curb having a slope away from the center in every direction. This cover should extend at least one foot beyond thb edge of a dug well, and should never be less than seven feet in diameter for a driven well. A drain trough should, of course, be provided to catch the drip and convey it away to a safe dis-

Sand-Bo* Filter for Cistern. All Water Entering the Cistern Must Pass Through the Filter. The Sand Can Easily Be Removed and Replaced With Clean Sand. tance. An open drain passing around the well at a distance of four or five feet from this curb and leading off to the drip drain tile will help prevent the entrance of surface waters that wash down from a higher point. In many cases, however, the difficulty is of a more serious nature. The stratification of the clay, gravel and rocks through which the well is sunk may be such as to cause percolating water from a nearby source of infectiaa to be led directly into the well. In other instances the soil surround* ing the well may become so thoroughly and so constantly saturated with polluted seepage waters that it will no longer perform its function as a filter, and germ-laden waters are allowed to pass into the well. For these -reasons the location of the well is of prime importance. Considered from the standpoint of convenience, the well should be located as near the kitchen as possible. But whenever such location would Involve any danger of contamination due to surface drainage or to an inadequate kitchen sewerage disposal system, a location on higher ground and above this source of contamination should be selected. Select a site where drainage and seepage from bamy&rds, stock pens and manure pits lead away from the well rather than toward it.

Gardens in Crowded Cities.

Nothing brings the country more near to the city than a garden. The vacant-lot gardens are good in congested places. But there are few who can have a vacant-lot garden compared to those who can have window boxes. Get ready to put up the window boxes in the crowded sections and thus gladden thousands. Gay geraniums and graceful vines that trail their leaves over the sides of the box are the things to plant The window-bbx garden should also contain saucy geraniums, wide-eyed petunias and bright verbenas. The placing of wihdow-box gardens in crowded city'Streets is one of the happiest ways of" casing the lot of those who must live and work in the city all summer.