Show g 6 I 1 I I N A Bureau of I N With America t the filipinos IL I ene ne In to tha U I I J tM Jive and ere rore Utu II a i lug and Recite Poems About as l School Cheol Manna MAnila Coli Among th And tile the of 01 the Something AboUt sad the Noted Noel JOIY Our Army Officials Are Schools In the Which About tile the Rebellion the else II lards The Loris Lord Pryer ef In and an from r or lous I Islands s I anus the I I t jf G c L 1 by b 3 c eater t tI I jl III A Aug II 1 1 of oC lb the ther r P ct lp D lOr T MM to do In the th 11 t II tIll tilt Ill ot of pUblic I IM system Al not DOl more moo Ibis twenty per runt rat f tile a prop can ean I 4 ad write Thou In few lew of them t cu It I speak and aDd theft are ar of I of I who ha have had 4 no school advantage For the put two 1110 ise owing to the trouble With the II and the Americana of 01 the 1 have been bee I hued to In pry every Oland I 1 have I 1 have found the houses and nearly they are going t ruin In of he h v burned bv the ill others the th have had to 10 tove re ve they were Ire led with Mss 0 A Mt loIT AND ASO TUB With th the advance of our army every nery town has hili bt been n hall ha been n Moen II a u hI Tile The o otara J lI urge t the people 1 hr open the school houses boule end tell theta that they must mut support u orl their own I chola and that must ho bo fir the in ID some the are arll and everywhere are aNt made to 10 or cants tRI a new ot of e tt the tho Philippines have hid had like a public school system Ilem The h heave vr hail had lit most milt of the IaIN a but Ih the have haYe been n nI I b by the and the studies have lIan Islen by 1 them The cb t le has hili been In the and along line of religious Iu l and toda today the object decIdedly I to having the Ibe ralf catechism taken out ot of ott t tiEc II The schools were h lh the reading of pro prayers ell until now every a school had a hung lIun up over oer the teachers 11 The sure prayers nr are used no now bJ b many ot of th lh American teachers one 01 telling m me that she thought It II better to 10 keep up the lie prayers she hll was n a hu her herIN IS IN IANn 4 t present then Is no of the Islands I Each military prescribe for Cur hid hili own district and It is II a sort lOti or of go as you please The only plea where there is II Ilk like II a bureau of education II Ia In fn Here We have hae a a i of at public instruction le 18 Dir Ir George 1 P a Seattle man the IOn of one of the II college of the Northwest Prof In one of the Ih W State Slate and about nine year pur ago 0 finished a of three years at Al lie He has hal had no practical In school r work end and it 11 is II a 1 whether I a aman man who 0 hire baa worked In the schools oll II al h horns Would not bt b better for lor forthe the lit I Mr Anderson ramp came out her hen herat hena at a It a In the Ihl Second cob vol but bUI lit he het hR been placed at al lh the head or 01 this department He tells me Ine that t Lt there are now between tOl tm ty t and amt Aft Atty In Manila with an Attendance ot of tour or five thousand flU u more Inore than une tenth of what lh should hollid be In this city of Th schools with It It one or two Lion are an all the primary grade language used Is II mainly n lIh being taught for only oDly a portion of 01 the da day Th The English teachers luehrs are an In Inmost most 11 places American girls girl the tern Ir or of Ih the bert berg Some tw taw have eve bean Mell school at al horn but mAil many are new for the first time on no the poor Filipinos Many Ian of oC them labor under the th of nut nol know knowing the Ihl Spanish Ill language le hut but they ar are an all learning rapidly suit And their lher lark k ot of normal ar are doing remarkably wail 11 TAy art are Yen very well paid each teacher a salary of 1110 or In III roW old This 1111 II I I think for a year oI of ten lu months It is III more mare than the school wage In n the United States WHAT 18 NEF O What Whal we need nl d hem I la a bureau ot of b by practical A Amerl ran Ilin teachers who b will take charge chari of f the educational system ot of the whole archipelago end direct It from he hen There Ie e s a uPP of at A Auger can teachers so 10 Ih tha there hem could be at al lest are teacher In every and school district with a corps ot of general superintendents who could go 0 from district to and anil see let that the children are being taught The 1111 lest IHl educated of the native t teach aeh 1111 should be ami the work for tor years UMI will haw have to 10 be continued In h Th children should bould he rom corn peU polled to 10 go to 10 school Th They noel new School bull buildings and new school books and In tact n a thorough ot of their educational system lem They fheO are an I nm am told lold In nearly III all pieces anxious to in and perfectly to pay for the best bell school but bUI In order to have these there must mUll be Amer leans et al the head of the school and enough American scat ICI tied throughout the whole to 10 the lump A J I have a I of the pub lio schools of I 1 lun am surprised lit al the And or of the pupils They me vel very Rill apt at In Ing and nr are the equals equal J I believe or of children or of the same age In the Slates Iet me lake Ilke you OU into one of the schools and show Khow you Just how It luk It t la a primary school chool for tor as yet et m tie more mor than tile the Irad grades haul beet been established The Th school Is ie nothing like u ony ny you OIt have seen II Ui t o United States It I ii a bUll log 10 about thirty feet square built upon polls ten la t feet t In height It h has windows made maJI up of a lattice work a It hundred of If little s In sack ach qt of which a piece of oyster oter shell not Pr er than your our thumb nail has lIal been These shells Itell serve to keep out oUI the hot hol sun lIun and the they are so IW transparent that Ule they admit ti light tur tor Ilu study Jy and an work The windows window are always open when the they keep out lh the un sun so 10 the air may sweep el I is a little cocoanut tree In ot of building I 1 am g 1 and we MU through a grove groe tit W banana I trees on 00 our wa way to In the back yard ard when whre the entrance I ii found w we find two Iwo or tb three rooms with little children at al work JIOW SCHOOL DRESS DRESSIn In this school nil All are boys boy for far thus thusis is II no co of the sexes In la lanil nil and the boys boy and girls each bu bate schools of their own Th The boys Rr art artas a as brown u as mulattos mulatto and hair hairis is III rut cut short so 10 that it II stands up III lIt ilki black bristles oVer their little bullet like heads Notice their f eyes They are aff black and the most or of them snap with the Interest they show hoW In the tb How queerly rl they dress It our boys boy wore their clothes li in that way I their teachers would send Ind them straight I home Jell 00 boy Ilea hu hi his shirt tall II I ou outside d of hi his trousers Rn and cacti t III In his hili bare feel or In slippers 11 II without J stockings Fully half of the number cannot help studying out loud accord according Ing to the custom which tees taught In inthe Ih the past but which our teachers are trying to 10 abolish ls we gland and look at the seh I Ilbe native teacher com comes out It m jjr quee to 10 us UI that he keeps hi his OJ t while hI he is IJ teaching and stranger atilt when lie he Pulls cigarettes from hi his pockets ten and nd there sad us to Jilin him In a smoke rooke U lie oft olY the Ihl scholars but the Is 18 Span leh hh and We can eRn say lIty whither the they do well or III A ainis SCHOOl later on I visited one or of the primary schools for tor girls The teachers Were women and among them was an or Iran Ican girl rl who tout me that she ahe found lilt tb children quite as al bright hl a our school children at home With her lIr ae I photographed some of the taking lit tit girls all a a sample and later on made madea R a picture ot of R a class dall Sh She had some ot of th the little ones one recite their ice lell sou antI and they did remarkably welt The teachers are ar an they can an anto to 10 inculcate lII Fourth or of July there was a s hoed 1001 at a pyrotechnic pacha on liberty were fre reed read and Dd the I Or of 1 by uti use of the I Il pat tt l On birthday i A I tugs were caul ul over an all th the these I Iu u se I 1 buildings for the first time and titer WeNt wen lu In ot of I r and hi his hatchet I I whether Ut hatchet ry rr has haM n II much force bra bre as In America Ih the pi child ha Ii tiro Ihu tar 1111 Het n taught to 10 tile truth M Mn ra women and thInk nothing of r II lying suit some ot the hl h Wit were Written b by the teachers and oft off In hr queer accents b by the little yellow them Ina must InUI have hAV 1 med strange to I 1 give IVo here eN n I vl Pam II It was 11 actually J I by a bright fellow ot of ten ln It Is III emitted The Truthful W I an alii a boy And to 10 know bout About U the gnat George Washington And ne why folks tolke love him so 10 Hut I t ve taro heard It aid ot of him That hEe corn 11 hI his early arly youth When II a sad ot of naughty deec deecHe deeds lie He the truth lruth And I believe that Ihal truthful boys boy Will men become And Ani be beloved by every Owr one Like the lbs greet ashington Jl THE TEACHERS TEA m RS It seems funny funn to think of priests 11 iii gowns o ting us as teach tr tra ot of the public echada f U United States I OIl This Thill is the rase litre but bul It l Is n a necessity fill to the Ire rat at al least leaI Tb Tie only high school El the i a nil t to or Jesuit It hll about sue 1100 fru to eighteen n all well dressed Jr and looking The Pro are bl priests ts arid and UI as far as 1111 I could judge from III my conversation with them Men Their college build lug 1111 I I Jut Just next to the Ihl church of San one of the finest I churches In Manua Th The college I P very n large larl litany roo rooms with mahogany and 1 a l which is III to bt be finished In native carved b by the I Filipinos The carving or of the church Interior was done donI entirely hy by natives and It equals equal to In beauty J I Venture any cathedral of l Europe One ot of tile the or of this 1111 I is It iii musical instruction During In my visit I found about twenty boys J seated eal 1 at all hAmm hammering aa away at their exercises nt at the IIII and each eachon on a deferent k key Iw In rooms the boys were engaged In sketching and In others they were wert carving They show ability and 1111 andare are the priests say IH very Ir good goal at All things along the 1111 8 or of the beaux 14 I tend and the most of 01 Its III income from lh the bile school funds MANILA There are aN averal raI co leae here In Manila by the th durrent cieri cal tal orders bUt none whIch wilt will compare with even V tile Ibe ie clau colle colleges of the State SUt aoh hu has a lone lilt flat of In It its but I a as asto to 0 practical aloe modern lines It is III unknown On of the the largest lart colleges St Thomas II s older than all any college In lb the Stales having havn been roundel at al heat ten years yra before our Pilgrim Fathers ath landed on JI mouth lock Hock tit Nt belongs belon to Ih the friar OAt on of 01 the richest of the and one which hat has caused a vast VAIl deal ot of trouble in ID the island The cans also own the coli college or of Ban llan Juan Juande d de Letren which was wa founded In the middle of the s century It w was at this college that thai wa was educated hilt he dot does t teem leem to have hav carried away Iway of his hili school da days for tor he hall ha been one ot of the chief enemies of oC the friars ever Inee his hll In addition to the these institutions I is tb the college of lit Bt b by bythe the In 1801 1101 and then endowed with three ll b by the kilia ot of paIn at al each aeh There IN are mio alo schools for girls here taught chiefly by bythe the nuns nUl such as the colleges of oC Santa Banta Santa Ruses ROlla and I La Concordia so 10 that tbt so 10 far III as name flAme is III COn concerned M Ida phad had nil no lack of educational Ir although there thre I a probably riot not a db city of 01 its Ita else Ille In lh the world so 10 In n educational advantages or of teal v FILIPINOS there then are an many marlY natives or of the better elau who go to 10 Ichon Some Sam girl bId Ii seat ifill to the Italian Invent Convent In and many of the young pins have haVI been educated In Spain There are he here In Manila FIlipino 18 law yell and dentists The re rc rebell bell the flan which Involved Ih the In war with SPAin was lar larI large I the It of a novel written by a FIlipino 1 author JOlt Jae lUlu I This man was educated In Germany and Spain aYS wu famous the tar far Rut mut as an OCUli His HIe no flu I has had bad the eme e effect h here II as t In the friars as ID Tom Tans Cabin had In re l slavery In the it caused him to 10 tobe be soot shot by the Spaniards Ife He was all a poet as well tI as a novelist and is II greatly beloved II by the JIll Ills Is Isnow Isnow now being translated Into liTILE li h TILE LOIUS YEn J a nul of flatly n 1 published to la and ut th r places throughout the ln I I f I soda and Some are In Spanish and nth nthan Ih are an In A paper lok i k very ery strange to American ryes 1 Th rh type MelliS to hl lists been grabbed up UI It it t random and thrown into Ino the columns without to 10 order or reason The language is II harsh containing man many sounds and rather grating on th the ear ar of tile the foreigner J I give you OU here A Aco co copy I ot of lh the Lords Jord Prayer In ma namin sung ma ss langit cas ang n nagia mo ma Naps Napa sa la amen ang mo 1110 Sunlit ang aliK loob mo Qui IS as laps pars para nang M as n mo ma coma eama nang abut canter lit s o 0 too I Ia sa a magma I In looking over oer the prayer you ou will notice that the mOlt mat ot of the C consonants I are lr n na and rats ms and one In every etry eight I II II I It a If g It Is 19 indeed a curIous language j i all or of the names name of the towns nil I to In the islands with M or N but bUI buta I It a ot of them begin With O n of the eight mull n pl of th Philippines nl at least It not Ills Ih the llo though corn com te few can It IS YAN t to the coma the of who tier tl fire are two millions They MI atlO haw have a to lall Sue ua anti and but the literature II mud up ot tracts hy the ot the church The Th I la not unlike the Tagaloa a may bt be seen eln fro from the following u ex extract tract which J I pi P from one of theIr tracts merelY W 10 show how you how the stuff tuft looks In print It ie only one but It II words word man Sang indulgences In an eng mla yon on n nta II sa dill mala maca rag cae macs maca sang aan ml nUn sang lag nga I rug mlp ul sang fling mil asla Ia cu cag IIAn sang nga nalan nl Jesus cag caA con COli dill ran bean l g salud Iud ca on TIU Tur KOHAN As s to 10 the Mora the on only I education which they ther hay have had laad up to now Is II leaf n nIng Ing the Koran The Is all done donI by the priests t Th The books are ahl In III the Arable rable characters and the little on ones squat down on n Ih the floor or the ground and nd In a aing sung tone lone cr cry out t the h prayers until they IhlY have learned them They usually keep R a book before them as they study but a ato as asto to learning to 10 write y In Arabic or u as to 10 an any practical education a as we know It such urh are lue unknown In our Mohammedan land landIn In fart fact In nearl nearly all 11 the Islands edu education cation callon wilt will have to 10 begin beIn at al the round ground and In many mapy ot of them ne new books book will need to be written lor the purpose of teaching The Th superintendent of h don baro our In ha lara number of ReI this letter la III published hir te ands of the arrived ed rand sum h hA II If li d ot In II A great t Inan many of tb the Sen but bUI It seems to II Ill no IIII language should b be |