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Show THE GREAT TONTO DAM. PEONAGE IN THE SOUTH. A VERY BRIGHT FILIPINO STUDENT. WHAT THE EYES TELL. Will Be Used In Irrigating a Tract o Origin of the Cruel Practice Recently Two Hundred Thousand Acres. Brought to Light In Alabama. The Remarkable Record Made by Jose Lacson y de Paula, a Native "The recent indictment of thirty-siNearly Half the People Have Either One of the wonders accomplished In, Blue or Gray Eyes. white men of Alabama for holding neof Negros Island, at Georgetown U niversity An Intellectual Marvel. the last year of the Nineteenth cenl in a state of peonage, by the The color of the eyes has hitherto tury and the first years of the Twenr groes at Montgomery, chiefly concerned the novelist and the tieth, the Assoudan dam on the Nile, grand jury sitting Jose Lacson y de Paula, a young ars established in 1G11 the Real stitis-tica- n is one poet, but lately the recalls Alabama the fact that will soon have a rival in this country do St. Thomas. All these uniFilipino student at Georgetown unlver-elty- , of the states that have adopted a conhas been looking Into them. In the great Tonto dam, which is ex-- , D. C, ia an intellectual marvel. versities have existed before Harvard stitution avowed purpose of which the It Is announced that, taking the pected to turn the Salt river valley in, Less than twenty years old and with a was founded, and though they cannot Is to of his the negro political deprive average of Europe and America, 44.6 Arizona into one of the garden spotSj the number of Harresidence in the United States of not boast of under the federal constitution," per cent of men have light eyes, in- of the land. This is the first of th rights Quite four years, he has taken two de- vard, praduates they can boast that says a writer in The Independent. cluding blue and gray. The proportion Beveral great projects provided for bw grees, neither of which was ever be- vard graduates they can boast that condiirrigation to be of women having blue or gray eyes p the Hansbrough-Newland- s defined that "Peonage Is fore granted to one so young, and won tlon that Harvard ever required. ia congress. last of 32.2 per cent debtor the act the tion In wh'ch affairs passed by one gold medal under remarkable cirWith this in view can we say that in qualified serviheld the creditor by would seem, Bays the New Yorkj In other decidedare blue It words, eyes In been in has education the medals. cumstances, and four sliver Philippines condito tude This a debt. out work ly rarer among women than among Commercial Advertiser, as if nature many ways he is considered the most sadly neglected, as some claim? To tion has Mexico for in existed years. men. had had some such scheme as this inj brilliant student who has ever attend- say so would be to go against the irreof territories When the present Men have light eyes oftener than wo- mind when she laid out the country futable evidence of facts. ed Georgetown. came the the and under New Mexico But then we are not going to say men, but In the Intermediate shades be- tor she not only has provided in Lacson was born in Negros Island, was found It the of for dam, manner congress, jurisdiction most favorable tween and dark the percentage of In November. 1883. His father, Philippines is perfect and cannot be that the local laws and customs rec- the wolight sexes is very nearly the same. and resulting reservoir, but Bhe ha Lacson, is a wealthy sugar plant- improved upon. Neither. Education in In this Intermediate category are bo arranged matters that the waters, er and was governor of the island the Philippines if carried out as it was ognized the system, and It continued an act until 1SC7, when (by congress bebrown and hazel eyes. The percentage themselves will provide the power under Spanish rule.. Gov. Lacson planned would have produced a people 2 of that year) abolMarch approved to States came a friend of the United of these among men is 43.1, and among needed In the construction, and aften better educated and better able govished In States United the peonage that is done the power needed to pumpj . Amerwomen 15.1. of to Manila ern the Boon after the battle themselves according Bay, The-flaand was one of the first native rulers ican standards; but, unfortunately, the and the territories thereof. The law on The percentage of black eyes is lar- them into the spreading canals. this in found Is Sections a 1,990, of subject long, will be built at the head to recognize American sovereignty. It dishonesty of those in power and some ger among women than among men, was through his influence that the other causes hindered putting in prac- 1.991, 5,520 and 5,527 of the Revised being 20.7 per cent for the women, narrow canon at the foot of a natural rock basin, which marks the Junction American army encountered little op- tice the most appropriate system of Statutes. This condition of qualified while among men it is 12.3. servitude Is prevalent in the South, of Salt River and Tonto creek. It will Occidental in for the could be framed education that Negros. position Blue eyes are considered to possess in some places the horrible atrocand be of solid masonry, 255 feet high and Roman Lacson was placed in a pri- Philippines. ities perpetrated have led to the Indict- great attractions. This was the case 200 feet wide. At the top It will be 18 vate school when he was four years The educational system In the Phil- ment and the Greeks and Romans of clasprosecution of a few offend- among feet thicli and at the bottom 180 feet, old. Two years later his mother died, ippines as it was found by the Amertimes. sic Upon the Goddess Minerva with the for ers statutes. of these violations slope on the downstream side. and ho was sent to Manila to be edu- icans was Incomplete on account of was bestowed a surname to signify the arched upstream to give it will It be the few prosyears "During the last cated by the Jesuits. He entered the the causes mentioned above. But was blueness of her eyes. of of rivalled has that south the greater stability, the ends of the arch Ateneo Municipal de Manila the Jes- the government justified In Bupplant-In- perity have ever been the Ideal of being built into the solid rock walls at eyes Gray lademand for other The section. uit college from which ho graduated the old system by the new Amer- any all great novelists; among the number the Bide and the bottom with honors in 189S. He went to Ne- ican system? No one can tell; the fu- bor has been phenomenal, and em- Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Wilkle Into the bedrock 31 feet below the rivgros for a vacation, and it was decided ture will answer. We can only hope ployes, especially in the naval 6tores Collins and Charles Reade. Most of er bottom. to complete his education at the Jesuit that the system will be modified as Industry and on the plantations, have the heroines in fiction are workin had great On either side cut out of the solid securing difficulty college at Bilbao, Spain. While he was soon as some of its points are found gray-eye- d maidens. workof men. to this of the walls will be a spillway, descarcity rock Owing at home the war began, and his defective. Of the living great, as well as the 27 feet lower than the crest of the a demand men been there has great parture was delayed. His father asked Leaving the public schools, let us most have eyes of gray flam, so that in case of a repetition of for troops with which to support the give a glance to the colleges and uni- for convict labor. In many instances famous dead, blue. the greatest flood ever known on the American flag, and the First California versities. These have been since they persons, white as well as black, apShakespeare had eyes of gray; so had river the water could flow over a spill-tvaparently without money or friends, volunteers were sent to Negros. The were founded in the hands of ecclesiconnearly all the English poets. Coletwenty feet deep and yet leave a chaplain of the regiment was the Rev. astical corporations which have con- have been arrested by the local Father McKinnon, who was a graduate trolled the education in the Philip- stable and arraigned before the police ridge's eyes were large, light gray, margin of seven feet before it could or justice of the peace court. At this prominent, and of liquid brllllarcy. reach the crest of the structure and of Santa Clara college, a Jesuit institupines. It has been customary for an Byron's cye3 were gray, fringed with pour over the masonry In a cataract tion at Santa Clara, Cal. Through his Among the corporations the most point Additional safeguards will be found in influence Gov. Lacson decided to send prominent Is that of the Society of employer or agent of a large employer long black lashes. scene on and to were the of labor Charles Lamb's glittering eyes the outlet tunnels, which will be six by appear bis sou to Santa Clara, instead of to Jesus, commonly known by the name to to one the induce in dissimilar color, plead guilty prisoner being ten feet in dimension. strangely of Jesuits. They were In charge of the Spain. with the understanda trivial of other ' the offense, gray specks hazel, having of San and old of man entered Santa Clara The young Having provided what engineers reIgnacio university Is quite in the Iris. Chatterton's brilliant gray the that (who employer ing and of San could then the In September, 1S99. gard as an ideal site fof such a strucJose, lie Royal University often in conspiracy with the court of- eyes were his most remarkable feature. ture, nature furnishes most of the Meneo of In de are the head few a at of the words yet English. Bpeak only ficials), would pay the fine and prevent Under strong excitement one appeared materials close at hand. The dam will his first year he won a gold medal Manila. an Imprisonment. A written acknowl- brighter and larger than the other. reddish It Is owing to their efforts that the offered by Archbishop Riordan for the je built of hard, of debt Is generally secured edgment As to green eyes, they are for glory. tandstone, which forms the wall of the best essay on the Christian religion. most prominent men In the Philippines are able to discharge well the from the victim, in which he agrees to The Empress Catherine of Russia had :anon. Less than two miles from the Tlje essay had to be written in English work for the person paying the fine. of this hue. In Don clay, sand )hd competition was open to the col- duties of their positions. The three na- either on his plantation or in his labor eyes are thus referred to:Quixote green ilte are found all the needed and mortar for ind limestone eyes the lege. Lacson wrote his essay In less tive commissioners, the chief justice of to the taken is then victim The camp. a I now think on It, Sancho, thy very important Item, as the "But, than three hours after the subject was the supreme court, the solicitor generIs finds he of and that labor, place Is a edwas site of her beauty little al and many others have all been forty miles from the nearest, description announced. If a he convict. like there guarded In of absurd that particular comparing railway. :At the close of his second year he ucated by the Jesuits. Rlzal. the greatturnds to and works diligently so as to The problem of power has been as graduated with the degree of Master of est man that the Philippines ever pro- pay off the debt due his employer, he her eyes to pears. Sure, such eyes are more ke thos(, of a whItIng or a 8ca Arts. He was then only seventeen and duced, was also educated by them. settled. Fifteen miles back of asily kinds of goods at bream than those of a fair lady, and in all with i charged in success a who has was the Their system was the youngest fludent the dam the river will be diverted Into and the debt is held over my opinion Dulcinea's eyes are rather -iigh prices, Santa all at the and eight-foo- t ever received that grce Filipinos hope canal, which will be car hilippines for an indefinite period. If, on the like two verdant emeralds, railed in in him noHe to. also their continue left will be ried Clara or any other college. the edge of the reservoir, they other hand, he revolts and escapes, he with two celestial arches, which siguily tbovealong water won silver medals In astronomy, polit- ble work. mark, to the dam. high is run down, arrested without process, her eyebrows. Therefore, Sancho, you will be dropped water ical economy and chemistry. There the to the private "prison, and had better take your pearls from ber through a penstock over 200 feet to It Is his ambition, when his educa- "BUDD" WAS A RATTLING HAND. returned beaten brutally, because eyes and apply then to her teeth." turn turbine wheels and generate elecprobably tion Is finished,: to return to the Philof contracts the provide for all Green eyes are not popular howev-r- . many tricity. This will give power to run the ippines and engage in newspaper work. A Pretty Romance of a Kansas Farm of this. as "verdant them of Cervantes spoke Boccaccio. Modern In that way he believes he can do the Some icment mill, to light the works and to Worthy Another way of securing victims is emeralds.' but more usually they are run all the necessary machinery. moat In educating his countrymen and "One day last Bummer," said Farmer or his agent to pro likened to the caL Very few heroines preparing them for the Independence Bill Bltts to a group of Ottawa friends, for the employer The length of the canon through or city and to hire have green eyes. Jane Eyre and Rose, some to town ceed when he hopes will be granted them vhlch the water must run before reachaccording to the Ottawa Republic, "I to pay them In Robert Elsmere. are tbe only two they have proven their ability to gov-r- was over at the burg and a friend of a lot of laborers, agreeing canals Is about thirfare we can think of at the moment Lon- ing the Irrigating railroad and their certain wages themselves. mine brought a couple of strangers to two points In this, and at ty miles, and to advance don Exchange. e In talking of educational r iv itages me and said they we're looking for to the place of labor, imall dams will be built for the of getting power to generate elec- in the Philippines, young Lacson says: work. One was a m.ui of about 28, the (hem provisions from the company the Fighting a Brigand With a Camera. There Is hardly a problem more diffi- other a Rllght boy. I didn't need any ftore, or, as it Is commonly called, trlcity. It Is estimated that these will and laborers The arrive, inWilliam Farquhar Payson, whosf furnish no less than 15,000 horsepower, and would commissary. but later on, help just then, cult and more Intricate among the to the em new novel. "The Triumph of Life," is numerable ones that the government told them that if they wanted to go at the outlet are Indebted ahich will take care of not only the trad out1 calling forth the most diverse opinl-Jiisof the United States has to attend to out to the ranch I'd feed them, and ployer, who sees that they tcneral pumping, but ought to bring in and la bad an amusing escape from robbery, than the governing of its newly ac- when the time came, In a week or so, their wages at the commissary, revenue from sales to private t good Instances, by a system of deduc and perhaps murder, by a Sicilian concerns. quired colonies. This difficulty Is would put them on the pay roll. They many and tions false entries, manages to brigand not long ago. Mr. Payson and greater in the case of the Philippines agreed, and were handy about the The dam once built, there will be a in debt his wife, wandering about a remote than In the rest of them, not on ac- house until my crop was ready. Then keep the laborer perpetually 25 milea long and from two to lake so much part of Sicily, came face to face with count of natural causes, but of causes said I: 'I don't want but one of you; If the laborer has a family, miles mlde. It will Irrigate a three must a locally notorious brigand, who might which have inadvertently crept Into the boy can find a job easily la the the better for the employer; they of tract 200,000 acres, which has allive out of the commissary and if the have been a model for a comic oper.i neighborhood.' the relations of the two countries. been plotted out by the associaIs costumer. Mr. Payson wu Immediate- ready The Americans have a wrong Idea "They didn't like that. Didn't want laborer runs away his family In of it and upon Its suo control tion at the camp. The writer has ly seized with a desire to photograph of the Filipinos and the Filipinos have to be separated I saw that. Finally are likely to depend or :ess failure the man asked me If I'd pay one good .nown of an employer withholding tbe man, but no sooner did he move to iimilar a wrong Idea of the Americans. projects In that part of the To correct this ought to be the duty price for the two, and I closed too young children from both father and adjust bis camera than tbe brigand's jountry. mother for the purpose of forcing the hand moved to hbi dirk. Mr. Payson of not only the Filipinos that come quick. man was I a payment of a debt. If the laborer es- politely laid aHe tbe earners, and prj-the here but alv of the Americans that go "Well, hit bargain; A Responsible Party. a farmer, both were Industrious, and capes, the machinery of the local reeded to explain In bis most dulcet to the Philippines. Wendell to Phillips, tbe abolitionist, It Is genera'ly believed that the ma- that boy developed Into one of the criminal Jaw is put In motion arrest Italian. Slowly, but surely, he discov- never a negro slave to wait desperate-loof tinder tbe and his return permitted of him I Inherent ered the charge bad. ever are vanity without best of the any plow boys Filipinos jority him. Is arIt related Is that one day )n a of The Idea picoking "One day we moved a stack of hay false promises. If the runaway education, but If any weight Is to be in while S. before the In tried Charleston, C, he came ture of himself all his glory actually attached to the testimony of foreign It was heavy work, and I noticed that rested he is seldom to late In table at the hotel, dinner the he often and courts. The arresting officer, finally softened the fellow, travelers in the Philippines we shall the boy, who did a man's part, looked when a ind the Induces underst negro attempted to serve inding greed to pn. with the find that education in the islands Is fagged that night. Next morning the the pay of the employer, he "How long have JU asked: in to to than work the tim, victim rather rhould receive return that he picturj iot far behind that of Europe. We man came to me and said: Mr. Pitts, I ain t got no time to a been a slave? to to zn nature of bond returns he To the H. return. Jail, and to explain we are going to quit.' He appeared to find, for instance that Mr. Robert , car-clem talk foolish about to load Mr. a of with er debt questions," the I heavier was sure surprised photograph. Iysor. thoughtlessly Micking, in hi book. "Recollections of be worried. five minutes ilave "wld k a Is twx small 1 bo for arrest and ket the of his from only cost drew 'We replied, asked. pursuit Manila and the Philippines," says: 'What's the trouble? told the for Mr. dinner." a no Is same time Often th dnrloin at fe-in Phillips him. are process a who 'The ided: Indians "Th'-rhave no fault to find. he proof, are very would he that ilave to leave the room, th" ar Issued which fur I Strang-but the obof roll was money, employer arrest, the to's name) fart is. Ibid (that finable to real, and have always him the not serve at Mr. him let then table; demanded. the rests returns Payson on can without and nvn pris herself process, promptly my wife, hurt lifting, served that the Manila nerving "I on himself. sewould can't wait he he to :hat oner the Ms took inflicts if and be that 1alrfr work. mony morn their such hard do camp not etplainH any board ships an! comprising " Vaus-said the lo euh." n it The vere waiter, of have the the ?houl rh?v dat, as laVr io to rur mm'. photograph. want Many al to oft' continue! much "I hrnn Bifts, Fay,' tr" h.ie I Is contract contain provisions to the ef man hesitated a moment and chose 'sponsible for !e pilber on de table, naTTK. to the ship's ara murmur ran through the crowd vib,rribc I he atnrv, him- ff Phtlttna lol.l nik'" i Srls I h n r tin; British seamen on "that I never bad a hotter woman In feet that !( lalxrer consent to allow the pho'c?graph, II.rper. 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