Show 0 6 r fARMING IN Tilt i 1 iI A nille Through a hundred Miles of lice ItIce FIeLdS I of the Woe lUoc P filL I V t and the t Only I d of f th It hi 1 0 Sto of Ge Wheeler S 1 Queer co of Country c Life In ostern Luzon I 1 r I c fJ S 5 r 1 5 G Ell S LO Press PreeL the 1900 19 February 7 have all dRY through one of this of f thC with General i I h LIe corne LZ sn hll hie staff from Manna Manila over and ni of lan to t the little town I re the now hAs hils hh hl Wo Bro I north ot of Manila and within forty S end of the railroad on the theof tilt of teI II This reaches of lf of mil north of that point anti and bo bot boI r the thetIs its Il tall tail out to t I y distance of at least 20 O Or a I J From this you ou may get Iet I t r te ld of the great grent size of Luzon r tram from Its were ero to bo be built If a poInt to the extreme north fJ It If be longer than the distance York citY olty and n New ew 11 part VArt of at the tho Island Is d ci where It Is on the average f I r wide and longer than thano r o e to It fully US ns great rr 11 that of oft 1 IJ J an area tt t Stats of Ohio and arni nn an enormoUs ol of good land I have met dur 1 my tay itay In the Philippines men ment t f t alert part of It and all k of Its lis fertile alleia and rich richI I Sf It 11 has mountains coy coyet rt et valuable timber and deposits aDd gold Some of the tho have bays just returned from the ox north tell mO me the sa savages ues there I aed ed them gold nuggets and Quills of rd r d dust dUlt and coarse gold Th the tho thor ther r TIe wear rude rIngs ot of pure is and that th the Chinese se travel to tors rs earth and nd trade with them for the ther r IoU IGUS metal I to make nn an r north before I leave lh the when I 1 ahall be bc able oble to tog g a futter detail ot of Its mineral ro fJ THE VALLEY ALLEY NORTH OF MANILA I J I could show you the rich val nl icy ler all along both sides silles ef lb the railroad from Manila to the C or nf Il Is II a 11 vast ut flat lIat rice n ii J I from thirty to fifty wide and andr andI I r f than one hundred miles long and lid ther 1111 Is a patch ot of corn cornI corna I a abo above some few 1 or f PIle al green Ireen sugar but mt cst II i all rIve Ille rice rice There are aref f I saw MW none except some someI L I J the cane fields You cam cun look of level now gra gray with the harvested rice hut green whore the vegetation Is sprouting UI the out oU otT Noor the ll nt at IO least t there la 15 rio Irrigation The fields are ure very vory small and each euh Is surround d b by A little mud gress grown keel Itell In the water but the water from Ih the floods ot of time the rainy Ion on when It rains for days anU days dropping time the water vator almost In streams trem I 1 nm am told that the tue rainfall In parts of the valley Is II as much as ight feet teet lit In a year so that it If all 1111 the cater W was I held In It Would almost rover the head hend of the average standing upon the of at one of hi his brothers Now ow Is comparatively 1 dry The wells about fields are usually about a toot foot and not more macre than eight inches wide They The form the through the country as aB the water tails fall some If thorn art r quits Some parts ot of the valley aller have a slope and In such the fields are tar ter raced meed rising gently gentl from one platform to another The valley Is spotted with groves grovel clumps of at tail bamboos great rent ot of green with stalks fifty feet tall tail and which quler or er with every etry passing You seeS see but few fow housed The They are In most moat eases hId by the bamboos which hade them The rhe pee JO do not live on OH th their tr but In and towns 1 alon the roads just UK as do this the tanners ot of France and Germany ian ot of them walk miles to their work vork every nery everyday day I 1 ani am told that the roads are near nearly eer everywhere lined with hous houses s sund und and that little towns consist of ofa ofa a single street se miles In length COUNTRY SCENES flut Dut let me siva give you ou some ome pictures of our Filipino subjects subject as the they worl rork In their fields You must first Imagine the beautiful valley alley made up of II a great patchwork or of these little sliver silver gray patches sewed together with wide strips ot of green and embroIdered with Ith wild wildflowers flowers You must add mountains as blue as the flue lue Ridge or th Allt henle rIsing and railing falling In rugged away oU off at the right and the left and through the vai Icy ler these thue tall tufts or of bamboo green Upon this as D a background the Fill pi os stand or rather stoop more mon pie een than their There are hundreds or of women dressed l lIn In queer clothes In which bright ht rod red often forms te Ipe principal color They have grant greal round tints lIke bread bowls turned upside down short jackets which always teem acorn to be just about to fall all oft off from their shoulders skirts which are aro often tucked p so EO that half n a leg III shows and bare feet The men shirts shirt outside their thin cot cotton cotton ton aUllman and Than or of have on great hate like the women Timer There are alSo children or of all ages sonic ome dressed much Ilk like thaW parents and a ew with almost no at all Set See that bay over oer th there re lie III ha bu ft a white shirt the tall ot of which just touches hi his hips with witha a black belt round his hll waist alt The rest reat or hl his bOd body iii 15 all bare us AI then he be was Ya born file mt ot of the rice how been cull cut weeks week ego aco The bens bends hAve leep i tl n ort oft one b I ono lieu tte up In bur burdIN I dIN dIes not m much ch bigger than n a bouquet and carried to be b I threshed half ot of the stra lor or sonic i is 45 left lett In the field pad find peo are now going through C the They tip tie them In b bUndles and shock them up In low s Md and small plies piles Each Earh girl Airl hns ha hook like liken n a knife with II a long arid she ahie sheI I bends bende over low nl as she cuts cuU omo of the he irli are arc quite pr pretty tt and aM visions 1018 ot of nu h as 08 she eho gathered the straw to old come before you youA ou A IlUM N m But Dut what ore are they doing In fn that field oVer oer there Amen and n a woman fitI fac lag Ing each earh other are hanging n to 10 a pole ole nailed to bamboo stakes In and jumping up and down on Iho rice straw whIch n fibs under H That ThatIs Is the human ot of Luzon They are trending treading out with their weight weigh I the mice left lett in the straw stra The crop Itself I Is thre the tle groin grain is III first cut cui The little burdIe ne stacked up about aboul the hut or with their heads t on the llie ground Inside nn an to thoroughly ripe the heads or of the sal are put tn In n a mortar mad by hollowing out n ft block of hard wood and men or Women pound upon Ullon them with great wooden pestles thus thul threshing the rice rial from the stra straw The winnowing Is done b by the wind the rice ric being thrown Into Inlo the nil air again and again caught In a tm tray 1 AND ND Wo We look In aln for tor cows ant and horses in III the fluids of this valley Ilme ponies of Luzon are rol raised ed In other and the tho only anImals visible are Bre the water buffaloes or caribou and no now and then an ugly ully black pig 1111 The cAribou are everywhere They drag great farm tarm carts corts with wheels n IL yard In the they haul sleds through the rice for the ground Is so 10 soft that no wagons are used there theN You sod see them plowing along with their heads down dragging rude plows like those thole of the Scriptures s Tho They are 1110 rid den as do s driven The men nto nt les to o 0 fr m the field Xoi 8 them ridden b by bythe the children und and 1111 stranger tb lire are ridden hY the tho biNs Every other buffalo you OU see seo In the Old bus hili a 11 bird birdon birdon on its hack back III Ic Ii a caribou now with a l griat bitt IJ lit on him l Further on r I h another with u a crow on Its 1111 b bak Ik bled bird At It tit but hur th 1 lItand Itne it Its that the IIIi B tre gool 1001 fly and that thatty ty live otT orr the Inserts are re try lil rt to live ort off him himlI lI fl OF ot of threshIng the reminds remind ma Ine ot of nn an created Quite an In General I sonic The rhe lOun lna of If the pestle In ine tice muk n it boom boom b bom Qin In its lis it Ir regularity sounds hue Itt firing ot of musketry 0 Iho Vere to be beery tr ery cloSe to Gin Gen Viler ne It ity when 1 E V Smith t f the en n lie be heard It seemed to two mil mIls oft o and It came ame In Irregular ul lr Theta botn boom ne wu was 11 y k tr lI 1 kA k IT 55 5 n do you OU h har r that Yes sir Ir th It sounds t lile ie nf as f tich they wee fir firIng lag Ing over oer fit at I 1 think we bad I better go o to time lookout ani find whether anything earn enn be seen Thc Tte lookout was tree In n a aman man was d with II a pui of glasses to sean scan the tho country and guard against surprise Upon being asked as asto asto to whether r he saw anything tha Hn aen that thai he did not but that h Itt was Wils certain there Was wal about two miles oft off Upon the tho general and hi hk staff started with tIm tho regiment In thin dl di As Ait they come carne nearer the they were vere ubI able to hate ate It and th they that the shots came not from muskets but from the M t th the There were weN n a hat but dolen disen women and one ant man fit at wiek and that wo wn all 1111 Since then the Incident has been known In Wheelers brigade as al the battle of the rice J oundell A somewhat l similar case cale ot of prema premature ture tUN excitement occurred JUt Just outside near La In Loman church In whIch the infantry formed the actors It was as when whon the regiment wn was new flew to the J The Idler lied b been n placed there on guard ua when they saw law what they thought were elg nate nals flashing here and there through time the darkness The They eliot III at them only to barn afterward that they hall had been fighting the Ole fire nI It t 1 sail that OM But Duet nurr I sent nr tl t tilt the criers for or theta to forward him n a lilt lIat vf of th time ON OilY I IN I TUG TihIt The railroad which goes through this I is the railway of the Philip pixies It 11 is II In bAil condition hia ha hang ng ing been bien torn up again and again b the t lUr nt Many Ih ot of the statiOns are In ruins and there are eight low tying near in III one Or Of Orthe the rivers cross l the track You which see the or of It at every evry few mil and In some Places Illace the fortifications thrown UP b by our sol aol dim diem behind thoy lay and hot eliot hotot ot at this the enemy Ie railroad belong to an English which wilt will at attempt tempt to make the Americans pay fOr their t le of time the road Jt It is II isa n a qUe question whether anything should be paid for tor th the road I told wag flU oper lit il by and the Im m l ot of the company were the mIll flaB who did the lItot demege to the rail railroAd railroad roAd its de depots Oll and rolling stock The railroad Is mil miles Ion long It Il goes through a t country as 1 fiat Ilat a as a floor ana ano anaIt It its must mua have been com easy and cheep mHp It has rails raUl a gauge ause ot of forty Inches and aud rolling roiling stock rain Th This cars ess have been n repainted and la Is with the tho brand brantl of the United States They Thuy are re old boxlike affairs uncomfortable to an There is II first second and third class clan the tint first not b be beIng Ing better than that of at our emigrant cars I is J I should judge not over above the tho surround surroundIng Ing country It seems to tJ be enough to vre It from the floods ot of time the rain rainy season The h has lIen been In operation for tor eight years Jl It wu nail t built on a 11 guarantee or of eight tier rent tom from time the Spanish government But Butha tit ha tidIed and those thOle Vb claimed they had 1111 to aY so h to the government In the way of fJ bribery that they could make no Th The original ca capital Will was to be 1 loss than hut hul the road Is now lOW I bonded Uti up to the neck and what will I Ibe be 10 with rith It when patios permanent I comes is II not nol known It Ii hould be bea bea a very er valuable property for It runs nine through one of the richest parts ot of the Islands and must have In the neighbor neighborhood hood of square quare mil miles of rice and Ind augur lands along ailing the track It hu has II ci ciso so 10 other which It taps con the northern part of the Island with Manila OUR oun SOLDIERS nUN HUN TIlE TUE noD At present the road Is run entirely by bythe bythe the soldiers The They are the brakemen and the engl engineers the mall mail clerks and the station min Every train has hall gu guards In uniform upon It and nt at ever every sta sla station tion there Is 18 a company or so read ready to defend any attack Now and then sofia one shoots lit at the ears a as they go flying elan We had one such shot on the WilY way to tn but no one was hurt Until recently none but soldiers allowed to travel un on th the road Odd n a pus pass but It Will soon oon be open to both and ana freight ot of all kinds and It mn y be that It will be handed back Inck to Hs owners In a short chart time Is n a typical country village At least It Is of timis part ot of Luzon Nearly Nearl eer every section ot of these thet Islands has haR of Its own oln Time The dialects are so fO different that It Is raid aliI that tim th PeoPle of south era frn Luzon LUlon are oro unable to make them s in the north At the same time th Taralo and Spanish are enough to win olio to lo trade nn any anywhere where whre The people are not nott t Flue fhe ordinary ordinal nan mn does dOH not know an any anything thing thin about country ten or fifteen fUtten In miles litH beyond him Not long ago unset w wes asked If timers there wets eft not Sam Born tacit inn In his hili villa who could guide Ruhle one ot of the regiments over the mountains 11 replied that he thero vu a mil man n in the town who Vho had over ever been to lie tte mountains Only the few Cew set t of time the Filipinos of at northern Luzon have over oer visIted lIlted Manila and nil as a rule the average man seldom goes he five miles mUes away from home OutsIde the savage regions the hou houses s sat of at the people are much the annie eer every everywhere where lOvery lInge hiss Itu 1 a plata or open SPlIce space In time the with the UIO hu h the and same of the beet houses facing It Hack or of thIs often oUen running for tor miles Into the tho the roads are arc lined with thatched huts buts made ot of poles of bamboo and having walls of woven and roofs roof ot of palm paini Thes huts hute are usually from three to six lx feet teet above time the ground In order to be out of the way 8 of the water In the rainy season They rhe are so high up ui that list the tel b buffalo and other live lY stock of time the owner can be stabled under the lint This often QUen forms n a shelter for the Ille farming tools toola and nd ledi The hou tf of the better chase hB have a first 1111 of stone atone and n a story of wood Is II no plaster lii any or of the houses the walls are of boards and nd the windows which are very 1 large or of a lattice ark vork ml filled with thin ot oyster r shells The best bett houses ot of the Uti country towns town as al well ell u Manila use lie lieI the ground floor for Cor tb the stable anti tb the I lady or gentleman who goes out to call callon callon on a 0 rich Filipino friend his hal oft often to walk alk carefully b by tb the horses hOrM In order not to soil loll WI hi or orlier her dress drea dressI I do not know how hew time the country look In times of peace peale Jut Just now the theare are very r Very err I should bould think hun sue 60 would buy bur IU cli hi dry good In Pani nl Que and leave considerable chan change after the purchase w wa made The Th 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