Show CWOOCWORKIIVG IN PHILIPPINES These Inlands arc thlcl < I grown wiih some of the finest and best hard woods In the market Mahogany grows in very many places and Is so common ana so cheap that the native carpcntem use It In great logs for foundationwork In the erection of heavy buildings The flooring of all native houses Is made from woods which if In America would be exceedingly valuable So much or I this hard wood 18 used In the erection of the bettei classes of native store and house structures that the buildings are of alowburning construction That Is tho overturning of a lamp or a moderately light fire will burn Itself out nefore It will Ignite the hard iron like wood fiber Black walnut Is grown In large quantities all over the country I andls so plentiful and choap that thousands I thou-sands of chests are made from It and shipped to olhrr countries Those ehesls are of the antproof design and the local carpenter trade has built up I quite a name for the making and im Inhlng of these strong Little chests Nearly every soldier buys one as soon I I as JIC arrives to seal u his woolen goods In a moth and untproof hox Ebony grows here too but there la no pine pineWith With all this quantity of valuable hard wood to handle the processes nf sawing the limber and putting It Into I shape for market are of the oldest and crudest sort All logs are split by handsaw hand-saw Ing and two t natives push tin saw for a long time before they cut oft n Blnftle board Their aawa are all old and probably mndo one hundred years I ago But the cheapness of labor rot carpenters makes It possible to work I the timber Into buildings at a low cost Carpenters wases tire about 25 cento per day In American money Thqrcare no machlncu for planing the boards so that as soon as a board is sawed from a loc another set of native vorlcmon go at It with phtnejj with which they manage to scrape a fairly smooth nur face on Un board after a quarter or a I days hard labor All woods tOI boxes collins wheel l tires Wagons etc must bo out out by f hand and every tool used bears thu marks of great BRO A chisel II hammer ham-mer a saw or whatever the tool itiav be Invariably I show Indications ot about I ore hundredyears service Tot I with thest ancient tools 1 the workman manages to curve out wagon tires ladS dirs steps handles for brooms turji ingr for housebuilding work etc The turning tools they use are even more than one hundred years old There are V from two to four shops In the avcruc town and In rach of these tho only turning device will consist of a hand wheel turned by I a boy for driving the article to be turned out by means of a band running from a groove In Limo I drivingwheel to a little grooved wheel on the spindle of the article being turned Conespondence Boston Transcript Tran-script t |