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AMUSEMENTS. “A Day and a Night,” Hoyt’s new farce, produced at the Garrick Theater in New York thi3 week, is said to be one of his best later day farces. The New York Herald says if Hoyt had never written a "Trip to Chinatown,” "A Black Sheep” or others of his bright comedies, the piece would be considered as a brilliant bit of fun.” Uniorittpatcly,” says the Herald, “he set too fast a pace at the start of his career and as a consequence he is now expected to continually produce work excelling each previous effort, whereas his later musical farces are apt to go at a slower tempo than the lively measure struck at The beginning. The Hoyt trade mark is stamped all over the new farce, which consists in hosts of pretty women, costumes that are elegant though brief, handsome scenery, plenty of color, calcium lights without end, up-to-date dialogue, sprinkled with tbe latest slang and washed down with cocktails and champagne.” What plot there Is in "A Day and a Night” hinges on Otis Harlan, who, as a goody-goody Sunday school teacher from Rahway, N. J., comes to New York to select voices for a church choir. He is steered by his friends in the city among a lot of singers who are more familiar with “A Hot Time in the Old Town” than with the doxology. For a time the girls have a good time at the expense of the supposed “goody” man. but in the end it transpires that he knows a thing or two and turns the tables on them to their discomfiture. Altogether the new play is a success and wa u well received in New York. Lawrence Marsten, who wrote the new ■war play, "For Überty and Love,” plays the leading part in it. It will be at the Park the first half of next week, opening with a Labor day matinee. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is on its last two days at the Park. It will not be seen again here this season. One of the up-to-date features of the A1 G. Fields’s Minstrels, coming to English's Monday night, is the famous Faust family of acrobats, seven in number. For the past few years this notable family has been playing in the principal cities of Europe and it is now producing what is said to be the finest exhibtion or acrobatic feats to be seen in this country. Four men and three pretty children constitute the family. Many novelties are promised with the “Gay Morning Glories,” who will appear at the Empire next week. Among them are “The Midnight Frolics,” a graceful ensemble act by eight pretty girls in "startling” costumes; also the "Rag Time Band,” said to be as funny a group of musical geniuses as have ever been before the public. Semon’s Extravaganza Company close* Saturday night. \ Sothern’i New Play. NEW YORK, Sept. I.—The Lyceum Theater opened its doors to-night for the first time this season. Considering the intense heat, there was a very large and fashionable audience to greet E. H. Sothern in his production of Anthony Hope’s first play, “The Adventures. of Lady Ursula.” Mr. Sothern had a character fitted exactly to his style and ability, and was as pleasing as ever, continuing applause marking the end of each act and often punctuating some of the more important scenes. Miss Virginia Harned as Lady L T rsula was piquant and beautiful, rendering her lines with intelligence and effect. PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. D. R. Lucas has returned from a visit to relatives in Chicago. Mrs. S. J. Pattison and son arrived home yesterday from Europe. Mrs. A. J. Simpson went to French Lick yesterday to spend a few weeks. Miss Allglre, of Denver, Cos!., is visiting the Misses Allglre on Talbott avenue. Mrs. Herbert S. Wood left yesterday for a week’s visit with relatives in Bloomington, Ind. Mrs. Mordecal, of Springfield. Mass., is visiting Maj. and Mrs. A. L. Varney at the Arsenal. Mrs. John M. Kitchen went to Chicago yesterday to visit her son, Mr. John Kitchen. Gen. Lew Wallace returned yesterday to his home in Crawfordsville, after a short visit here. Mrs. Harry S. New has returned from Jacksonville, where she has been with Captain New. Mrs. Emmett J. Heeb has returned from a six weeks’ visit at Greensburg and French Lick Springs. Mrs. George B. Gaston and son have returned from Green Lake, Wis., where they were all summer. Mrs. A. L Varney will entertain a few friends this sfternoon for Mrs. Mordecal, of Bpringfield. Muss. Mrs. G. A. Wells has gone to Cincinnati, gcc< mpanled by her father, Rev. Mr. Smith, who has been visiting her. Mrs. W. D. Owen returned yesterday from the north, where she has been for several weeks. Her sister, Mrs. Seekeel, who has

been with her mother at Mrs. Owen's during the absence of Mrs. Owen, has returned to her home in Omaha. Mrs. Mary Louise Salter returned yesterday from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Hays, in Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Scott and 1 tighter, Mrs. Richard Miller, went to Gi sburg yesterday to spend a week with trends. Miss Lucy H. Montgomery will return today from a visit to her brother, Dr. J. S. Montgomery, at Huntsville, O. Mr. s>nd Mrs. David Wallace will go to Cataract to-morrow to spend a few days with Mrs. Zerelda G. Wall ice. Mr. Robert Martindale left yesterday for St. Louis, where he will be married Tuesday to Mrs. Carrie Kelly Hinsman. Mrs. B, F. Hodges and daughter Ruth, who have been at Chautauqua for some time, will return home next week. Mr. and Mrs. William L. Elder and son, who have been spending the summer in Europe, will s-ail for home Sept. 7. Mrs. Fallows, of Chicago, who has been spending a week with her sister, Mrs. T. C. Day, returned to her home yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Kinsey and son Albert, who have been making the Yellowstone Park trip, will return noma to-morrow. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rid and daughter will sail for home Sept. It, after spending the summer at their former home in Ireland. Mr. William Castle, tenor, who has been making a short visit to Mr. and Mrs. David Wallace, has returned to his home in Chicago. Mrs. Ann Arnold, of Chicago, came yesterday to visit relatives and attend the marriage of Miss Jessie Arnold next Wednesday. . Miss Louise Brunner, of St. Louis, and Miss Laura Gellette, of Ashtabula, 0., are visiting Miss Frances Adams, of College avenue. Miss Tula Sater gave a picture shower yesterday morning tor Miss Jessie Arnold. Miss Fay Shover will entertain for her this morning. Mr. John W. Kern left yesterday for New York, where he will visit his son, Mr. Frederick Kern, who has just returned from Santiago. Miss Roberts, who has been at Winona sot several weeks, will teturn Monday and will be with her sister, Mrs. T. M. Goodioe, at the Victoria. Mrs. W. B. Allen and daughter, who have been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coburn, have returned to their home in St. Louis. Mr. J. J. Appel and Miss Margaret Donnan returned from Bay View, Mich., on Tuesday. Mrs. Appel and children will remain until October. The last concert at the German House for this season will be given this evening. It is the concert postponed from last week on account of the rain. Margaret Todd and Miss Nancy Todd left last evening for Staunton, Va., where the latter will attend the Mery Baldwin school the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gates returned yesterday from Lake Placid in the Adirondacks, where they have been for a few weeks since leaving Martha’s Vineyard. Mrs. George E. Townley and daughters, Miss Townley and Mrs. E. S R. Seguin and children have returned from Virginia Beach and the mountaii sos Virginia, whore they have been for two months. Mr. Joseph R. Herod, who has been home on a leave of absence for a few months, will sail for Japan Sept. 20. He and his family have been spending the summer at Lake Plaoid in the Adiror.dacks. Mr. Wallace Foster left yesterday for Deer Park, Mr., to visit Mrs. Eliza Funderberg, whom he met in 1861 when he, a member of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry Zouaves, bivouacked in front of her father’s house in Cumberland, Md. Miss Blanche Grant, who was an instructor in the high school last year and who went to Providence, R. 1., to spend the summer with her parents, will not return to this city, as she has been offered and accepted the principalshlp of a school in Providence. MASSACHUSETTS COWARDS. Secret off Discharge of Sixth Volunteer Officers In Porto Rico. BOSTON, Aug. 31.—The correspondence between Governor Wolcott and Col. Charles F. Woodward, formerly of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, who resigned from the regiment with a number of other officers while in Porto Rico, wa9 given out tonight. The correspondence contains a letter addressed to the adjutant general, dated Ponce, Aug. 5, in which General Miles says: “When the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry was ordered to be ready to disembark near the entrance of Santiago harbor, Col. Woodward feigned sickness. At Guanica, when his regiment was ordered ashore, he again feigned sickness and went on the hospital ship, was examined by Colonel Greenleaf, surgeon, who pronounced him well -and ordered him off the ship. During this time seven companies of his regiment were engaged in a sharp encounter under command of General Garretson. Colonel Woodward was ordered before an examining board and tendered his resignation; its acceptance will save expense of a court-mar-ital. “The lieutenant colonel of the same regiment is incompetent. He remained in his tent while part of his regiment was engaged. He was within sound of the fight and did not even assemble the rest of the regiment to reinforce part engaged, if it should have been required. Acceptance of resignations of both these Officers would benefit the service.” Colonel Woodward’s reply is very voluminous. He says General Miles was misinformed by his subordinates. The colonel claims that for a long-.time he had suffered from a painful stomach trouble and that he was attacked by the trouble on July Zi just before the regimept arrived at Guanica. He says the charges of General Miles are false, but some of them he cannot so prove. Governor Wolcott gives the correspondence to the press at the request of Col. Woodward. CAPT. MURPHY DEAD. Commanded Associated Press Dispatch Boat .Dandy at Guantanamo. NEW YORK, Sept. I.—Captain Edward Murphy, who commanded the Associated Press dispatch boat Dandy throughout the late war, died last night of malarial fever, aged thirty-five. Captain Murphy arrived at Darien, Ga., Aug. 3 with the Dandy and laid up there, returning to New York about a week later. He was in the pilot house of the Dandy and at the wheel during the fighting in Guantanamo bay, when the pilot house was struck by bullets several times. He was formerly first officer of the filibustering steamer Laurada and commander of the filibustering steamer Bermuda, and was prosecuted by the United States government for his connection with the latter vessel. He had a seven days’ trial at Wilmington, Del., and was acquitted. Senator Gray defending him. Captain Murphy had followed the sea since boyhood, was a thorough steamboat man and was a brave and fearless man. He had had much experience in tropical seas and in the Mediterranean, and had been to Greenland with one of the Peary expeditions. On July 15. while in command of the Dandy, Captain Murphv became alarming and a vain effort was made to get mciucal attendance from the army surgeons at Siboney. The captain recovered, however, and was in good health and spirits when he reached the United States. He was taken ill in this city only a week ago. American Microncopinta. SYRACUSE N. Y., Sept. I—The American Microscopical Society finished up its business here devoting the afternoon to pleasure. These officers were elected: President, Dr. William C. Krauss, of Buffalo; first vice president. Prof. A. M. Bleiie, of Columbus. O.; second vice president, Dr. G. C. Huger, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; secretary. Prof. Henry D. Ward, of Lincoln, Neb.; treasurer, Magnus Pflaum, of Pittsburg, Pa. Dickinson and Thurber Full Ont. DETROIT, Sept. I.—lt became known last night that ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson and Henry M. Thurbcr. secretary to President Cleveland during his last term, had dissolved the law’ partnership which has existed between them for a number of years. The reason given is that the practice of the two gentlemen had diverged until the partnership was no longer beneficial te either. Sutro’a Exec a tor* Named. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Sept. I.—Judge Coffee to-day granted Dr. Emma SutroMerritt and W. B. H. Adamson special letters of administration on the estate of the late Adolph Sutro. A slight contest was tnade by Edgar E. Sutro and P. A. Morbio, but the court refused to take cognizance of their plea and issued the letters to the executors named by the millionaire in his will.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1898.

CANTON FRIENDS LOYAL ♦ -■ SHOPMEN AND MERCHANTS WELCOME THE PRESIDENT HOME. 0 His Visit Was Informal Throughout, and He la Now on His Way to Montank Point. s CANTON, 0., Sept. I.—A grand demonstration occurred here at noon to-day in honor of President McKinley and Secretary of State Day. Out of respect for the President's expressed wish that his present visit be informal, the affair was to a considerable extent unorganized and partook largely of the nature of a spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm. The people of the community turned out en masse and from the depot to the Barber residence, where the McKinleys are the guests of Mrs. McKinley’s sister, the streets, bright and cheerful with flags and other displays of the national colors, were a mass of humanity. The arrival was so near the noon hour that employes of many factories succeeded in securing an early shutdown and joined the throng about the station. President and Mrs. McKinley were driven direct to the Barber home, where their stay of a few hours was shorn of all formality. The cheers and the shouts of the enthusiastic Cantonians this morning were more than duplicated this evening in bidding the President and party farew’ell as they boarded the train which is bearing them towards the camp of volunteer soldiers at Montauk Point. The old reception committee and the old Canton troop of horsemen so conspicuous in the campaign which made William McKinley President, acted as escort to the departing train as well as from the arriving train. The hour of departure, 6 o’clock to-night, made It possible for even a larger number of people to gather at the station to witness the departure, and there was such cheering and enthusiasm as has not been manifested in Canton in many a day. The President seemed to greatly appreciate the greetings of his old neighbors and friends and just as the train was starting he stepped upon the rear platform to say a few words to them. He had only time to say: "It always gives me pleasure to meet you and it is always with regret that I leave you.” This sentiment was greeted with cheer after cheer and before the President could say more the throttle of the engine had been opened and his train was under way. Aside from the President, Mrs. McKinley and those who accompanied them from the While House, the train carried Col. Webb C. Hayes, Col. and Mrs. Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland, and Master William Barber, Mrs. McKinley’s nephew’, who is going to visit with her for a time. During the afternoon President McKinley walked unattended about the streets near his old home, calling on some of his old neighbors and friends. Much of the afternoon he spent on the broad porch of the old Saxton homestead which for so many years was his Canton home Here he shook hands with and greeted hundreds of his old friends, who broke over the generally observed plan of giving him the greatest possible rest during this brief visit. At the same time Mrs. McKinley was informally entertaining many of her old friends in the house, now occupied by her sister, Mrs. M. C. Barbe’*. Among those who called upon the President were a number of sclfiers in the volunteer service, lately returned from Cuba, of whom Canton furnished some 300 or 400. Ihe spirit of patriotism is still conspicuous in these young men. and they assured the President that, should occasion again arise, they would be ready again to answer their country's call. Towards the latter part of the afternoon a carriage was called and the President and Mrs. McKinley drove to Wesleyan Cemetery, which they always do when in Canton, to visit the graves of their two children, bu:ied there years ago. and of the President’s mother, who was laid to rest last winter. Not Attend G. A. R. Encampment. CANTON, 0., Sept. I.—lt has been supposed that the President might return to Ohio next week to attend the G. A. R. reunion at Cincinnati, but it was definitely announced that his official duties in connection with the peace negotiations will prevent his doing so. The members of the peace commission are due in Paris, to meet the Spanish commissioners, Oct. 1. It will be necessary for them to leave, therefore, about Sept. 10, and hence therp is only a short time between now and then to arrange their own affairs for their protracted absence and to confer with the President regarding the negotiations and the many perplexing questions which are expected to arise before the final treaty of peace is signed. It is understood that President McKinley will spend the da/ in New York to-morrow, tlough as he desires to avoid attracting attention, his movements are not to be made public in advance. He will be joined by Secretary Alger at Camp Wikoff, Saturday morning, and will then proceed to inspect the camp unofficially. Secretary Alger will return to Washington Sunday afternoon, and possibly the President will the same. CONCLAVE OF KNIGHTS. Pittsburg Making Preparations (or tbe Triennial Gathering. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. I.—Arrangements for the reception and entertainment of visiting Sir Knights and ladies at the twentyseventh triennial conclave Knights Templars, to be held In this city, Oct. 10 to 14, are progressing on a scale which is unique in the history of the order. The reception committee will detail three members to .each visiting commandery. They will meet the visitors at the depot and stay with them in the capacity of hosts and friendly advisers during their stay and see that they miss nothing in the way of entertainments, souvenirs, etc., during the week. In addition, two members of the escort committee will meet visiting commanderies three miles out cf the city and lake charge of their safe arrival at headquarters and also look after the prompt delivery of their baggage. Once here nothing will be left undone to make visitors comfortable. The medical committee has appointed a staff of prominent physicians, who will visit all headquarters twice a day and look after the health of the visitors, also providing medicines where necessary. Gen. J. P. S. Gobin, grand marshal of the parade, states that he expects to have fifty generals of the United States army on his staff. Anew feature of the grand electrical display added to-day is taking the form of a gigantic cross in white electric lights to run the full length of one of the city olocks. Letters have been received from noted electricians all over the country stating their intention of coming here to witness the electrical display. Letters were received to-day from the grand commanders of Maine, Alabama, Washington and Arkansas, indorsing the peace jubilee feature and promising a large attendance from their respective States. DARING HIGHWAYMAN. Clilcago Man Turns Robber to Keep His Family—His Last Victim. CHICAGO, Sept. I.—A robber entered the saloon of Joseph Keanet, 14 State street, and poking a revolver under the nose of Ward Fish, manager of the place, demanded the contents of the cash drawer. Fish showed fight and was shot twice. His wounds will prove fatal. The rebber ran from the place, but was captured. He was identified as James Caldwell, who up to two weeks ago was in the employ of a large wholesale drug house In this city. He was discharged on account of dull trade and turned highwayman. because, as he expressed it, “I could get no work and my family had to live.” He confessed to several robberies committed within the last two w’eeks. PATENT MEDICINE TAX. Treasury Department Says the Law la Being; Violated. WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—The Treasury Department has issued a circular calling the attention of collectors and revenue agents to the fact that the tax on medicinal preparations is not being thoroughly enforced, and ordering an immediate and sys-

tematlc examination of the stocks of dealers, Large manufacturing chemists are reported to be putting up a number of medicines in a style similar to proprietary medicines in general, but bearing no stamp. Medicinal chemical compound preparations, many patented or trade marked, are being improperly put on the market aa uncompounded chemicals and unstamped. The department says the action of the chemists threatens the integrity of the whole tax system under Schedule B as relating to medicinal articles, and calls for the serious attention of the entire service. ANOTHER PACIFIC CABLE. Plana Considered at a Meeting In Plerpont Morgan’s Office. NEW YORK, Sept. I.—At a meeting of the directors of the Pacific Cable Company, held at the office of J. p. Morgan & Cos., plans were considered for establishing cable communication with the Philippines, the Asiatic coast, Japan and Australasia, via Hawaii. Surveys for a duplicate cable, via Sitka, and the Aleutian islands, were ordered. James A. Scrvmser. President of the Pacific Cable Company, will sail from Vancouver for Japan on Sept. 12. PflNfl MINERS RIOTING —♦ ILLINOIS GOVERNOR SENDS ARTILLERY TO THE SCENE. Six Hundred Strikers Carry Off President and Superintendent off tbe Spriugslde Mines. PANA, ill.. Sept. I.—Six hundred striking miners this afternoon seized David J. Overholt and Levi S. Overholt, president and superintendent, respectively, of the Springside mines. The two officials were taken out of their buggy by the mob and carried in the direction of the mines. Rev. Dr. Millard, a minister, of Pana, made a plea to the miners to retease the Overholts and was knocked on the head with a revolver for his pains. The two officials were dragged from their buggy in front of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Depot. The seizure was made for the purpose of demanding the surrender of negro miners who had been working in union men’s places. The miners were soon overtaken by the state officials of the Mine Workers’ Union. Levi and Louis Overholt gave the officers an order to send for a committee of the negro miners. Sheriff Coburn refused and replied, demanding the release of the Overhoits. John Mitchel, national vice president of the union, sent back a note saying the Overholts were not in his keeping. John Mitchel, national president of the United Mine Workers, received a telephone message from Springfield to-day informing him that injunction proceedings forbidding the operation of the Springslde mine until a fire boss is secured, and until the air passage connection with the Pennwell shaft Is repaired, had been begun in Taylorville. All the officers and directors of the Springside Company have been served with a notice to appear in court on Monday to plead. Eighty-six Mount Olive and Staunton miners have arrived here and smaller detachments from other points are coming in by every train. The union officials express doubt whether they will be able to prevent a demonstration against the mine. The leaders declare firearms will not be used, and that all the union miners are armed, and a demonstration could hardly fail to result in bloodshed. The Messrs. Overholt were released at 5 o’clock this evening. The strikers are said to have voted several times to hang the Overholts, but were prevented by their leaders from committing violence. A conference was held to-night between Secretary Ryan, Vice President Mitchell, of the miners’ union, and David Ross and T. D. Kelliger, of the State Labor Bureau, and later they confened with Louis Overholt, who agreed to meet the committee to-morrow morning and submit the concern’s books, looking toward a settlement. Other operators will meet with the state officials. All is quiet tonight. Most of the miners from other towns have returned home. Dr. Millard, the minister who interfered on behalf of the Overholts, is badly injured, but will recover. i. . Artillery Called Ont. GALESBURG, 111., Sept. I.—Battery B. of the Illinois National Guard, received orders to-right to leave at once for Pana, 111. Sixty men. with five Gatling guns, under command of Lieut. Frank Henry, will start immediately on a special train. Trouble between the striking coal miners and deputy sheriffs Is feared, because of the efforts of the mine operators to import colored miners. CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. Subject Considered by American Commissioners Yesterday. QUEBEC, Sept. I.—The American commissioners began hearing representatives from the United States to-day. Only half an hour was given to each representative. Up to 11 o’clock the Gloucester men, representing the New England fisheries; the men representing the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and Warner Milller, of New York, had been heard. Mr. Milller is here in the Interest of the pulp paper industry. The Boston Chamber of Commerce men do not agree with Mr. Miller and the representatives of the lumber industry. Mr. Hall, representing the Boston Chamber of Commerce, said to-day that he would ask the American commissioners to establish, if possible, a more liberal basis of trade relations with Canada. He favors absolute reciprocity. He says all the New England States would be generally benefited by such relation. To Abolish Welland Canal Tolls. CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 1. steps were taken by the Lake Carriers’ Association for the abolition of tolls on the Welland and other Canadian canals at a meeting held here to-day. A motion was made and carried to send a committee of the Lake Carriers’ Association to appear before the Joint American ana British conference at Quebec and urge that tolls be done away with. Harvey D. Goulder. counsel for the association, will appear before the conference with the committee. The chief opposition will probably come from the Canadian Atlantic railroad. WINNIE DAVIS BETTER. Daughter off Ihe Confederacy la Mach Improved. NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. I„ Sept. I. Miss Winnie Davis, who has been seriously ill with gastritis, passed a comfortable day, and to-night is much improved. She is now able to take nourishment for the first time in several days. A dispatch from Atlanta says: A telegram was received in this city to-day from Narragansett Pier, stating that Miss Winnie Davis, who was recently operated on for appendicitis, is dying. Blanche Roosevelt Seriously 111. LONDON, Sept. I.—Blanche Roosevelt, the American writer, is seriously ill in this city, suffering from a complication of disorders. Including brain trouble. National Turner Soelety. OMAHA. Neb., Sept. I.—New York was chosen as headquarters for the next five years of the Bohemian National Turner Society, as the final act of its three days’ national convention, which closed here tonight. The next national tournament will be held at Cleveland In 1900. The next national convention will be held at Milwaukee In 1903. Fred Martini, of New York, was elected sokol chief and his assistants are Joseph Stribr, of Cleveland, and Fred Englethaler, of Cedar Rapids. Chicago was chosen as the location of the Training School for Turner Instructors.

LIGHT ON PHILIPPINES —— SPANIARDS TOO INDOLENT TO COUNT THE SWARMING ISLANDERS. American Naval Officer* Carefully Estimate the Population and the Area of the Gronp. ♦ Cavite Letter in New York Tribune. Spain has had possession of the Philippine islands for several centuries, yet in all that time she has never been able to corner and hold all of her unwilling subjects long enough to count them accurately, and her easy-going representatives have lacked the energy even to enumerate or survey the hundreds of islands composing the group. Asa result accurate information upon either population or area simply cannot be obtained. The American naval officers have gone into both subjects carefully and have made estimates of both, based upon the best official information obtainable and their own observations, making allowance for certain conditions encountered. They place the population of the group at 7,500,000, the area at 143,000 square miles and the number of islands, including the small ones, at 1,200. Recent Spanish reports from the provinces and islands where the Castilian is completely established and his government duly recognized show the entirely tame population to be 5,976,341. The same report places the cumber of natives who defy Spanish authority at 692,000 in the Philippines, and 50,000 in the Carolines, and adds the fact that there were no doubt many concealments in the returns from the peace districts. In the latter connection, the pure Chinese are credited with an actual registration of 49,696, and evasions and concealments to the number of 24,848, or 50 per cent, of the number acknowledged by the wily heathen. The natural instinct of the natives and coolies has been to avoid knowledge of their existence on the part of officials, as discovery and registration have meant harassing taxes. STRENGTH OF THE WILD TRIBES. Spain has never been at peace with all of the black subjects, despite sundry claims as to complete pacification. As stated above, the official census returns gave the strength of the independent tribes at 692,000, but the number is probably far in excess of that. Mindanao and Basilan with 209,000, Paragua and the Solu or Jolo group with 100,000, and the Carolines with 50,000, are officially credited as being the strongholds that have defied the red and yellow, but they are alone in their defiance. There are thousands of natives on the Island of Luzon who can see the shining towers and spires of Manila from their mountain retreats who defy the soldiers of Alfonso and pay no tribute to the Imperial treasury. Mindanao, W'ith its fierce and warlike tribes, knows greater freedom than all, although in nearly every island there are tribes who have remained unconquered for centuries. Their own ability as warriors has been aided by swamp, jungle and mountain fastnesses. Modern methods of warfare have been useless against them, and they have almost invariably triumphed, Spanish experience here is that which Japan is now having in Formosa. Blanco, now captain general In Cuba, was most successful of all the leaders sent to Mindanao. He closed a very successful campaign there in the fall of 1895 with the battle of Laguna de Lanao, in which he completely defeated and routed the allied tribes. He crushed the native army, blockaded the seaports and stopped all trading until peace was sued for. The fragments gathered soon after he left, however, and the actual gain was in the long run materially reduced. The two gTeat centers of population are the bay of Manila and the Island of Panay. The four provinces fronting on Manila bay contain nearly one million people. The province of Manila contains over 300,000, most of whom live in the city of Manila. Panay is a formidable rival of the countries of the world that boast of dense populations, for, with an area of 4,800 square miles, it has a population now placed at 860,000. The figures offer some suggestions to the people of California, who boast of a better soil, more resources and a better climate. POPULATION TABLES. The latest official returns as to the peace population are as follows, the figures being, in most instances, for provinces, but In some for Islands individually: Name. Male. Female. Total. Abra 20.685 20,833 41.318 Albay 146,498 147,281 293.779 Antique 64,887 60,547 115,434 Balab&c 1.319 791 2,110 Bataan 26,923 24.858 50,781 Batamtas 155,434 155,746 311.180 Beoguet 8,000 7,734 15,734 Bohol 121,095 123,870 244,965 Bontoc 6,873 7,112 13,985 Bulucan 119.043 120,178 239,221 Burlas 902 806 1,702 Cagayan de Luzon 48,996 47,361 96,357 Calamianes 6,720 7,571 14,291 Calamianes Norte 14.832 14,277 29,109 Calamianes Sur 82,085 82,828 164,913 Caplz 94,877 100,013 194,890 Carolinas 861 4 865 Cavite 68,224 66,345 134,569 Corregidor 248 326 484 Cebu 257,875 248,201 604,076 Cottabato 3,024 1,114 4,138 Davao . 2,195 1,771 3,936 Ilocos Norte 82.615 80.754 163,346 llocos Sur 87,467 90,791 178,258 Iloilo 210,986 212.476 424,462 Infanta 3,575 3,525 7,200 Isabela de Basilan 717 402 1,119 Isabela de Luzon 25,130 23,172 48.302 Islas Batanes 5,248 5,289 10,517 Islas Mai lanes „ 5,034 5,138 10,172 Isla de Negros 124.841 117,592 242,433 Jolo or Bulu 2,548 348 2.896 Laguna 83,744 86,239 169,983 Lepanto 8,231 7,921 16,152 Leyte 139,003 131,488 270,491 Manila 163,989 136,103 200.092 Masbate Yticas 10,819 10,547 21,366 Mindoro 34,318 33,338 67,656 Misamia 59,439 56,585 116,024 Morong (Distrito de).... 23,710 23.230 46.940 Nueva Ecija 79,319 76,791 156.610 Nueva Vlscaya 9,988 9,391 19,379 Pampanga 112,739 111,163 223,902 Pamgasinan 153,414 148,764 302,176 Paragua. 3,437 2.548 5,985 Principe (Distrito de)..,. 2,105 2.093 4,162 Romblon 17,616 17,212 34,828 Samar 96,421 89,145 185.568 Surigas 34,189 33,571 67,760 Siagan 3,870 3,923 7,793 Tarlac 46,698 46,641 89,339 Tayabas 55,149 54,631 109,760 Union 54,406 55,658 110,064 Zambales 43,753 43,522 87,275 Zamboanga 9,763 7.436 17,199 Totals 3,035,377 2.960,963 5,966,341 The number of priests is given at twentythree hundred: the number of Europeans and Americans, exclusive of Spanish, at one thousand, but no figures as to the Spanish population are given. The latter is estimated by the naval officers at from three thousand to five thousand. There are a large number who have a small amount of Spanish blood, and they are not Included in the estimate. ALL DEGREES OF CASTE. All degrees of caste are represented, particularly in the Island of Luzon, where modified Chinese types are very frequent. The Chinese have played a prominent parr in the history of the group and at the present time they are the dominant commercial type. It is only latterly that they have enjoyed security and that, perhaps, through generous gifts to Spanish officials. They have been under arms a number of times for their own protection. They once attempted the conquest of the Philippines, have been massacred in large numbers and have themselves massacred in turn. Their tireless energy and ingenuity have permitted them to distance readily the lazy and not over-bright native in trade and commerce. Practically all of the Chinese are from Amoy. A limited observation of the native has not created a very favorable impression. He is lazy to a marked degree, and, like the American Indian, permits the woman to do most of the drudgery. He lacks the faintest idea of hygiene or sanitation, although most of the houaes are clean, while their Immediate surroundings reek with filth. There has apparently been little effort made to improve his condition. The writer has seen dozens of lepers In the villages of Cavite province. Many have taken advantage of the opportunities offered for education here by the Jesuit order, and have been carried through the classics, but the majority seem to have suffered from the “civilization” offered them. They are a happy lot, though, and exist with few struggles. The average table bears little beyond rice, fruits and fish, and all are easy to get. The blistering sun or something else has burned both ambition and emotion out of him If he ever possessed either. Practically nothing but his curiosity, which seems insatiable, will stir him from his rut, and the vocabularies of hundreds of thousands of tne tribesmen lack anything that answer for "Thank you.” A sort of wheel of civilization, with Manila for its hub and Mindanao and the

Sulus for its tire, may be said to exist. In Manila there is a native population of position and importance, but as you leave the city and other centers the shading comes quickly, and at Mindanao you find pirates and freebotters and wild mountaineers who know no friend but nature. Aguir.aldo and his followers represent but a small fraction of the people of the group, despite the fact that they have overrun all of Luzon, which has an area of one-third of the entire group, and the control and government of the people of all of the islands offer a series of difficult problems to those intrusted with the task. They have never known just rule, however, and relief from burdensome and grinding taxation may find them appreciative of just rule and stable government. But even along peaceful lines the task of developing the country and bring order to its affairs is a stupendous one. CLOTHING AN ARMY. A Great Undertaking?' Not to Be Accomplished in a Week. Leslie’s Weekly. Army authorities exact that every article delivered must reach the prescribed standard, and no matter how pressii g may be the call, or the urgent need of troops in the field, no article which falls short of the rigid rules of quality as laid down by the army board passes the inspectors or is accepted and sent to the troops. Whatever reaches our troops In the shape of clothing will be the best this country can produce. The great general depot of supplies for the army fs the Schuylkill Arsenal, at Philadelphia. Os these thousand-and-one things which the soldier needs, all of them may be found in the Schuylkill Arsenal. With the exception of uniforms and canton flannel drawers, everything is bought by contract in the open market. An army equipment board decides upon the style, color, trimmings, etc., of the uniform for the army. The patterns are its own. The quartermaster's department advertises for kersey and flannel. When delivered at the arsenal It is sent to the examiner to be tested as to color, weight, warp, filling, and tensile strength. The six-teen-ounce kersey must bear a tensile strain of sixty-five pounds to the square inch. Each piece is examined by three men, and a record of each piece tested is carefully preserved In the inspector's books. As soon after being tested as may be necessary the fabric is sent to the cutting room. Here an army of cutters guide electric cutting knives through forty thickness of sixteen-ounce kersey for trousers and flannel for drawers, thirty-two for facings, thirty for overcoats and blouses. Each piece is then rolled into a bundle and dropped through a chute into the trimming room, where buttons, hooks and eyes, braid, chevrons, pockets, and linings are added; then it is sent to the delivery and inspection room to await the tailoress, who is to take it home and return it ready to wear. There are over 3,000 of these tailoresses on the pay roll, who earn from $lB to S4O per month. When the clothing is returned the most rigid inspection of it takes place. Uncle Sam’s inspectors have to keep their eyes open, as all kinds of frauds are attempted in a small way; even such petty thefts as changing the pocket linings have been attempted. One pocket lining, of course, amounts to little, but In a year’s time the aggregate of such peculations would reach a tidy sum. The gathering of these women three times a week at the arsenal to turn in and take out their work resembles a rush on a bargain day at some great, store. Some of them go as far as fainting in the crush. In fact, some of the clerks have been swept off their feet in Vain endeavors to regulate the crowd. The arsenal makes all the tents used by the army. In this war emergency several thousand have been supplied to the navy. These tents are made by sailmakers, who squat tailor fashion on the floor or on little benches and sew with incredible rapidity at the heavy cotton duck. The men are paid by the piece—i. e., $4 for wall tents, one man turning out a tent of this kind in twelve hours; for the larger tents the men are paid $9, but it takes nearly three and one-half days to make one of these conical tents. Fifty cents a hundred Is paid for splicing tent lines; there are, besides, tent poles and pins, which are supplied by contract. Wall tents and flies riquire ten large and eighteen small pins, conical wall terns forty-eight small pins, shelter tents twentyfour small pins, etc. A Sibley tent complete costs (circa) $25.14; wall tent, ditto, $18.11; tent pins, wall, set, 22 cents; tent poles, ditto, set, $2; a tent stove, $1.25; tent tripods, each, $1.43; hospital tent, complete, $37.14. Shoes cost about $2 per pair; blouses, $2.75; trousers. $2.40; blankets. $3; rubber ponchos, $1.37’/fe; drums, $5.25; bugles, $2..V>; felt helmets, $1.12; cork, $1.25; muskrat gauntlets (but not for Cuba, nor for the Philippines), $1.51; caps, 80 cents; leggings, 55 cents; forage caps, 83 cents; shirts, flannel, $1.97; muslin 29 cents; overccats, $8.21. In addition to these all the chevrons, brassards and Insignia for head wear are extra. The darkblue cloth, 6-4 army standard, $1.20 per yard; blouse flannel, 83 cents; sky-blue kersey, $1.06, and dark-blue kersey. $1.16; Canton flannel, 6 cents; shirting flannel, 69 cents. There are over 300 men employed in and about the arsenal; the pay roll runs beyond SIOO,OOO per month, and the disbursements for supplies over $1,000,000 during the like period. The equipment with which each infantry soldier is provided consists of one rifle complete, one hundred rounds of ammunition for same, one canteen and strap, one blanket bag, one pair blanket bag shoulder straps, one pair blanket bag coat straps, one cartridge belt, one bayonet scabbard, one haversack, one haversack strap, one tin cup, one meat can. one knife, one fork and one spoon. Musicians and color bearers carry one revolver and fifty rounds of ammunition, instead of the rifle and rifle ammunition. In time of peace the Schuylkill Arsenal can clothe and equip the army, but in this emergency many contracts have been let for supplies of all kinds, but always based upon the regular army standard. It is not generally understood that the enlisted men and noncommissioned officers have a clothing allowance, wffiich, for the private, amounts to $57.48 for his first year, $25.55 for his second, and $33.94 for his third year's service. A clean and orderly man can save money out of this allowance: It Is not deducted from his pay, but all that he does not draw In clothing during his service period is paid to him in cash when he finally leaves the service. A regular table showing the cost of each article is prepared by the adjutant general, and, based upon this scale of prices, the men are furnished with such clothing and equipment as they need to enable them to pass the inspecting officer. The prices are furnished from the Schuylkill Arsenal, calculated at about the actual cost of each article. The largest day’s shipments from the arsenal since the war began was on Aug. 6. to Montauk Point, for the use of the troops returned from Santiago de Cuba. This shipment consisted of 20,000 campaign hats. 20,000 pairs of shoes, 20,000 ponchos, 18,000 blankets, 40,000 pairs of stockings. 10,000 bed sacks, 147 hospital tents and 62 wall tents complete. When you study these figures this turns out to be a pretty good day’s work.

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