Show TALES FROM THE ORIENT Dr David P Barrows Assistant Superintendent Su-perintendent of Public Instruction lias been given entire charge of the schools In Manila IIe will reorganize them according ac-cording to moJern Ideas Under the Philippines commission a night school has been opened hi Manila for the purpose of instructing In English En-glish More than 200 students arc attending at-tending and another school will be started Carl C Plehn has arrived in the Philippines and has commenced timework time-work of inquiry into the conditions of the internal taxation There ho will have charge of the first census ever undertaken In the Philippines The typhoon at the close of Septem bw was felt over the entire Japanese group A vast amount of property ushoro and afloat was lest rayed and there was heavy IOST of life Hundreds of houses were blown down Hooded or otherwise destroyed At Toklo three lives were lost Two bundled Namudzu fishermen were blown out to sea and all are believed to have perished |