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Filipino Savages Now onj Path to Prosperity and Civilization. "The most remarkable civilizing experiment in history was under taken by our War Department soon after we took possession of the Philippines.- said Gen. C. C. W&l eutt. chief of the Insular Bureau of the War Department. "The northern part of the island of Luxon. which is a very rugged f?nd densely forested region, is in habited by a race whose occupancy long antedates the discovery of the Pacific by Balboa "They can hardly be called abo rigines??t term which, in the Phil ippines. seems to be properly ap plicable to th* pigmy blacks of the archipelago. Doubtless they came from Southeastern Asia but it may have been thousands of years ago. "At all ? vents, when the Ameri cans fir.?t saw them, the Igorots (as they call themselves) were semi savages. wild folk, living in the most primitive style imaginable, and devoting their attention largely to the hunting of head*. Every vil lage was perpetually at war with its neighbors '?In 20 j ears a change nothing short of marvelous has taken place. Unuer the influence and instruction of th?- Americans, the Igorots have be com* peaceful and order-loving. If^ad hunting has been wholly abandoned. Development of the arts of civilization has progressed. The chlldte-i ~o to school and are taught usefu! arts. " 'War ?s waste. A semi - savage mo?lc of life means lack of utilization of things calculated to promote well-, being. It is only when human beings become civilized that they begin to produce more than they consume, and to save.* "With the acquisition of civilization 1 the Igorots have become thrifty. Thos-> crstw hiie head-hunters have bought many liberty bonds and would doubt less invest freely in war saving: stamps and thrift stamps if they h id the opportunity: hut the Treasuiy De partment. for certain reasons purely fiscal, has pot ?lcemed it expedient to off^r them the little securities in ques tion. "Thev have money to spend now. In one village. Minac. all the inhabitants have become rh'h by binning lime anrl selling it to American engineers for building purpos* s. They find a market fer their agricultural and other prod ucts at the \ :g stores or 'exchang s." maintained by our government at cen tral points. "Practically, before the Americans ra've. they had only two vegetables. ? we??t potat*?es and rice. The former, in t*?nt region. thrive almost without cultivation. Where ric?- culture was concerned, nobody could give anv po?i?f> to tl?osc primitive folks; th^r mountain sides, mile after mile, scal loped with a s*-i les of terrace* all the wnv from the valley to heights I.OjO feet above. " The America*:s have given them 'Irish' potatoes trnd other vegetables and ? ereals. with plows and agricul tural utensils of up-to-date pattern. Thus . they d> not lack products to j"?nd to market, and they are even able to export s:oo?ls of native ma.n? faefuie and other articles to t^n I n-teri States and foreign countries ,l ??ct?not. that to say. by way of ?Manila. "Fo.\ be it realize.), the mountain pi o. 'nee las the territory of the 3::orots is called ? actually has a sea port of its own. connect""! with the in terior b> miles of magivt'cent road - the most remarkable road in the world?which va built bv the former head-hunters themselves under the oi rertion of Am? ; ican . ???_' neer-;. To a ? i cut r- ? the rocky great e? r? of the mounts r an I at Inter ;t overlaps canyons bv suspension bridges. ?"In t! c school.- established bv our government the boy- are taught to make tho;r own c'oti'cs. lo construct furniture. to do carpenter work and iron v.or'\. and iy follow other trades. They even build the looms on which tne girls 'earn io weave cloth. The girls are instructed in dressmaking anil housewifely art. and w hen they leave school they take their looms home to tbeir villages an.I .-how the women folk." Bosnia Gloat* Over Fact World War Began There Sarajevo. Bosnia. Aug. 1?.?This little town, where the world conflagration had its origin in the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdi nand live years a?o. celebrated the anniversary with a monster parade, the center of which was a flower-be decked hearse containing the remains of the student. Prinzip, who killed th" Austrian heir. The remains had been exhumed from the original grave in Vienna and v^ere solemnly reburied in the local crfie tcry. Australia Wants Candy. Sydney.?Australian* are longing to have restrictions lifted on candy. For a year importation cf r?res Vis b^en under the ban, an.j the yearly cost of imported ehoe.olater h id beep ti (MTiA.tiOO. Native goods don't satisfy ! 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It Is f for external use. is absolutely safe and wonderfully effective. And remember, there is nothing to ^ake ths place of MOTHER'S fg-pJ?XT>. Europe's Deposed Rulers Happy in Swiss Exile Such spots of grandeur as this, the Swiss retreat of the former Duchess of Hassen, are being monopoli/rd by former European royalty. It's the Castle of Tarasp, in the Lower Engadine. Most Delightful Spots in Delightful Land Held by Royal Refugees, Who Are Sur rounded by Every Comfort. Ht HAROLD K. BECHTOL. Zurich. Switzerland. ? Switzerland. t|?. asylum of dethroned kings, nuti jectless rulers and blue-blooded re f usees. has more royal inmates than ever l>eiore. Almost every week a new one sneass across the border into exile. Many are living incognito. The Swiss say more than half the dozens of former Herman and Aus trian kings are loafing about some *Some are standing on the roofs cry ing "Pity us"' Some arc dissipating in luxurious places on money they never did any thing to earn. The royal asylum is taking on the aspect of a permanent institution with regular boarders. Between drinks, cx royalty is reconciling itself to a lon? i stay in the Alps. As King Constance admits, the Kin? business is lean pickings. ' Constantine, Ludwig. Karl and all the les,r royal lights can't understand (It. They are subjectless. countryless. Nobody wants to be ruled any more. i Hut don't waste any tears ! None of them is hard up or tnend l The leavings of royalty seem to have a way of taking care of their ???!. Anyhow? These exllc3 live in the most o - lurhtful spots of Switerland They have more and better food, 1 in one meal, than the average Ameri can or Swiss has in two. Have Fnmillea With Them. They are not lonely?most of them have their entire families with them, others haie their friends along. Thev are all surrounded by admiring hangers-on who sympathize. Batter and cheer them up. They have at call anywhere from ! fix to sixty servants apiece. Those who don't live in mountain .astles. or lakefront bungalows hid den away on grounds worth JBO.Oio ?? ncre. live in beautiful suites ot luxurious tourist hotels. Vt Territet. on the eastern point or l.ake Geneva. 1 found the hotels tun ,,f Hernial! and Austrian royalty. llv ink like millionaires and dissipating nightly. They sit about the magnitl j cent lobbies and smoking rooms until i well toward morning, drinking heavily i an,| sympathizing with each other. Often they drink so much they have to be assisted to their rooms. One i woman, until recently a reigning ; duchess. I had pointed out to me three times as the cutup of the party I who drank so much she had to be carried to her apartment. Ludwig. of Bavaria, on the other hand, lives quietly, though magniti ccntlv. with his daughter Princess ; Hildesarde and some close fricnas at the Castle of Salis in rhe moun tains of eastern Switzerland near i < 'hur. He takes walks daily. Is ap proachable. frequently has his picture snapped, and t3 in anything but hard straits. Karl, of Austria, came fleeing into Switzerland several months ago with his wife. Zita. three children and an armv of servants, escorted by Col. Strut t of the British army. * The Swiss Government didn't know whether to admit him or not, tearing 1 at first the opinion of the allied world. But Swiss officials say Britain mter ,,nol. said his life was in danger and ' got him in. I.i*es in Fine Style. Tart of the time he lives in state at WartegK Castle, part of the time ' in a beautiful yellow mansion on the shore of trfike Geneva, about twenty 1 miles from Geneva. He ia there now. ! hunting, fishing, walking and climb ing. [ A few days ago I went out to his i mansion from Geneva. He wotlldn t be interviewed but his aide3 poured out propaganda. He was such u good ! democratic king, they said, it seemod ' a pity nobody would let him rule them. They complained that he was con ; fined In hunting to this one estate. I They had been notified, they said, that J Paderewski's chalet was adjoining and I that if he shot anything on the j pianist's grounds it might mean some I kind of a war between Poland and Austria. And Just because of his love for Austria, he wouldn't get her tn | any trouble even if he did have to ! stay on liis own grounds to shoot. | The amusing thing about it is that somebody is kidding him. Paderew 1 ski's home. I found when I passed It I later, is miles up the lake. Several estates separate It from Karl's exile i home. i In company with other correspon 1 dents I talked with ex-King Constan i tine for half an hour in his luxurious j suite at the Hotel National at Lu cerne. His attitude wag that kings no I longer have any power to do harm, i so why should not people be nice, and 1 keep them, and provide funds ana i thrones, and let them run their courts. Asked about the king business now. he replied' that divine right was an | "exploded idea." "I never did believe in divine rlsht. and neither d!d any other house in i Europe except Lhe German ana A us i trian royalty," said Tino. "The former ' czar never did. I know how demo-. 1 cratic he was personally, but he sel-, ! dom knew what thoae about him were ! doing." I Constantine's manner was anything but kingly. Everybody in the room j had more poise, better expression unci I more grace. He kicked his legs nerv I ously, laughed in high pitch, andj I talked so rapidly that his words rani j together. Constantino fears an attempt on his life and he moves frequently, from re-' I sort to resort, always well guarded, j Tirpitz, of the L'-boats, hides well, I if he is in Switzerland as reports say. i His son. who works in a Zurich banK, says he is in Germany. Arrives In lirrat ll.iste. Max of Baden is reliably staled to! | have arrived in haste one night re-; l cently jn a motorboat that brought : him across L?ike Constance. But he has also kept out of sight. He isj I expected almost any day at his oti1 favorite haunt a mountain hotel near , St. Moritz. j Alphonso. the infante of Spam. ir>es here in Zurich, in a boardin~ house: But the "boarding house" is a mansion ATLANTIC FLEET TO MEET PRINCE Heir to British Throne Will Have Naval Honor Guard. Newport. R. I.?The great At lantic fleet of American warships, together with a big British fleet, will act as guards of honor for the Frlnct of Wales when he arrives nere. according to information thai became known today. The stage ha* been set for his arrival and society will outdo itself In welcoming its royal visitor. "With the perfection of arrange ments now under way. the reception to th* prince will be one of the most elaborate ever accorded a member of a royal family. It will outdo the magnificent reception t< nd^red to King Edward VII., then Prince of Wales, when he. arrived here just before the civil war days. Although the distinguished visitor will remain hert, only about a week, all of the matrons of Newport's set* tlement are hoping for an opportun ity of entertaining him and intro ducing their marriageable daugh ters. Mrs. (.oelrt Hostess. To Mrs. Ogden Goelet. however, has been given the honor of being the hostess of Wales during his short stay. At Ochre Court, Mrs. Goelet's sumptuous place on the Cliffs, the prince will sojourn. He also, however, will spend some of his time at Beaulieu. the William Astor estate and present homo of the Cornelius Vanderbilts. Mrs. Vanderbilt is a daughter of Mrs. Goel?>t. The lattor's daugh ter. Duchess of Roxburghe and her sister. Lady Herbert. are expected from England to aid in the enter tainment of the royal visitor. Naturally the matrons of New port's cottage settlement who have overlooking the city, with beautiful gardens and high wall* The Swiss say he is in Switzerland arranging investments for the King of Spain against the day when he too may be an ex-king in exile in the royal asylum. AlphonJ4o's wife, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, is a first cousin of almost every king and ex-king in Europe. Her friends say she used to weep and cry: "Why doesn't someone stop this terrible war. What am 1 to do? I love my people on botli sides." Alphonso is a kodak fiend and a crack aviator. He runs about Zurich bareheaded and rides up and down to his "boarding house" in a nickel-a ride. public funicular. Reports say Bethmann-Hollwftg is soon coming to live in his castle on the edge ot' Lake Thun near Inter laken. Scheidemann. since his gov ernment refused to si;n the peace treaty and resigned, has been in retire nient in Zurich and Lugano But so far, only one ruler with a job?if he may be called a rulei? has appeared. He's the Prince Counsclloi of Holland. And he pivJved for his vacation ?Zermatt. one of the few stops in the ' world's playground'' where there is no royal refugee! Thc 'ex's" seem to have the reason cornered. daughters married in the peerage of | England will wish to entertain the I prince, but it will be Mn. Goclet and Mrs. Vanderbilt who will prob I ably control his social activities. I Airs. William Watts Sherman, for i instance, is the mother of l^dy . Camoys. who is expected from Eng land with Lord Camoys. after an absence of four years and who is j entitled to entertain the prince by ! right of her # daughter's position, i She has a beautiful place on Shep herd avenue suitable for such an occasion and Mr. and Mrs. Law j rence L. Gillespie, brother-in-law and sister of Lady Caraoys. also ' have an extensive place for enter . taining. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills are ] popular at the court of St. James, but being in mourning for Mrs. I Maturin Livingston, mother of Mrs. I Mills, will hardly be able to do any I formal entertaining. But they may have the prince and his suite drop j in quietly for a luncheon or din j mu\ Ofrrj? >lu> Cntertain. I The presentation of Miss Mabel j Gerry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. El j bridge T. Gerry, to the King and Queen or England last week may lead to another avenue of entertainment ' for the prince. The Gerry place on j the Cliffs is one of the beautiful es ! tablishments here. . The prince will have as a member of his military staff the Marquis of I Blanford. son of the Duchess of Marl | borough, formerly Miss Consuelo Van derbilt. daughter of Mrs. O. II. P ! Belmont. The Marquis but recently j attained his majority. During the j war he was an officer in the British I army. % . i Mrs. Belmont said recently that J when the Prince of Wales comes to ! Newport she will open Marble House for the entertainment of her grand son. Many summer residents, before coming to Newport, are accepting in vitations of Mrs. Belmont to stop at her new residence called Beacon Tower at Port Washington. N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, with their daughter. Miss Flora Whit ney. will be at their pretty home tn Rellevue avenue. There a large ball room was added Just before the war ? to present their daughter. She Is one j of the best ??catches" this season, in ! the parlance of ?he matchmakers, be j ing handsome, accomplished and the j best dancer among the younger peo ple at Newport. Ball on the Flagship. Both Mrs. Goelet ajnd Mrs. Vander bilt must, of course, give way to th? Admiral of the t'nited States Atlantic fleet?Henry Wilson?and his officer* who will be here with mor^1 than 200 craft These officers will r?-rtainly give a ball aboard the flagship Pennsyl 1 vania. and as the prince is coming } over on a British battleship, accom panied by other British war vessels, J the British naval ofllcers will surely return the compliment. The prinet will And the United' States war craft ? dry as a bone, so far as liquor i? con cerned. It is quite diflerent on the J ships of the King of England. j it would surprise no one to learn ? that Mrs. Vanderbilt would give, ? among other entertainment*, a musi j cal comedy show in a specially built theater in the rear of Beaulieu some I thing ot a kind she has done on twe former occasions, once the "Wild Rose intact and. again, a Shubert s-how The performances were pre i ceded hv a dinner and toilowed by j a dance and ? suppei. Many Belle* mt ISenpurt. There aic manv beautitu! \ouns i women for tne prince to meet here { notably Miss Grace Vanderbilt. dauglv ? ter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Vander ( bilt: Miss Flora Whitney, daughtei > of Mr. and Mrs Harry Payne Whit EATING WITH PRIVATES IRKS Officers on Leviathan Ob ject to Hobnobmg with Enlisted Men. ' ; o~:: rp^to -? troop ships, the Leviathan came in ! enH.tTrt # ?mce'? "nd 3.830 .enllgted men. Of the number I 338 were casual officers from everr (branch of the army service ..S I suddenly ordered on board at Brest I ?ii the knowledge of what was . -omlng rhey were surprised to [ learn that they were assigned to I troop quarters and not first class I f<xom,nodations, as the armv reg Illations prescribe, and would eat | their meals standing up during the I voyage like an enlisted man. To say that hundreds of these Offers were -hot under the col lar was to speak mildly. Many asserted that such action was con oinT* *>r<,*k'nK down the dis ? army' a" ""''ted men Teceiv st00d a,ike "> lln" to receive their meals from the regu lar troop galleys on ship. The fo<vl. although plentiful, was not what tnr officers expecte<J either Col. Robert S. Knox, of the regu arm>'- who Wis the troop com mander appointed to bring the offi cers and men across, admitted that there had been somt growling at first but said It wore off during th"e voyage. Had Partaken of Every Meat He said that he had partaken of i dnrlri "It Wa* ?rved on board 1 rm h I t. vovaCfc ar"i that the offi . I"Z, h,nd b'*n Kivn 'wice the space .used for enlisted men. so that the ( transport was only filled to CO per cent 1 of her capacity. He .<Uted that all i provid?d W'th now mat r* ,i' n heet" and Pillows be fore they went to sleep the first nigl.t " "e a',d^ that he had for warded his report of the trip to the cluld LTh '"' !n w"?hlngton and f could not discuss it further. ' suit ^VtkOUt a copy ?f the order is .1. port of ""Nirk*tion In j f ranee that brought about this In i ney: the Misses Theodora and Manor Tiffany, daughters of Mr. and Mrs , "enry F. Godfrey. Miss Roberta W.I lard, called one of the handsome*, young women in society and daughtei w and Mrs' J?seph H. Willard me Misses Suzanne and Bettv Pier son. daughters of Mr. and Mr,. J I4 red Pier.son, Jr. The prince will naturally wish U meet the noted beautiful matrons ol the Newport cottage settlement, wnc include Mrs. Cornelius langerjua,,. Newport, and Mrs. Jerome Napoieor Uonapaite. ot A\ asumgton. as Mtu the most stylish gownea matron o. Newport Mrs. Rogers Pratt of New ) O; ti. There is plenty for tne pr.nn see-the noted Cliffs, the Newpoii Country Club for golf, the Newport casino lor tennis and mornmj stroll, he Clambake Club for sea food Re^ hT3 an,d d,nne"- Ba.lev j Rea.h for >a!t water bathing and t< meet anyone who If anyone" in New Port and where <he greatest of 7l n- fh:ae *s "" Pure 'o be dur "? l"c forenoons, at least. OUR FAMOUS GREEN BAG COFFEE S@ld ?saSy by Ian ?kasr 115 Stores SANITARY GROCERY CO., Inc. novation in bringing the oTfioers home, which explained that: **In order to relieve the present con gestion of_tirst.-class passenger 6 now j in the 'American Expeditionary Force* awaiting transportation to the United States troop compartment* must be utilised, and the limited ac commodations fof messing will re quire the use of troop gal ley a and the test that can be accomplished will be s cafeteria system." Wfcy RubW Was Disregarded. It was added that "in the absence of records and the limited time in which to complete organisations and make assignment", considera tion cannot be given to relative rank with'n the receptive grades." There was a noticeable lack of the noisy enthusiasm that troops I show in nearing land, and there ! were no cheers from the officers a* 1 the debarkation band on the pier I played popular hits of Broadway. I Patrolman Martin Owens, the first I member of the New York Police | Department to offer himself for for I e:gn service when the L'nitod ! States declared war. came on the I .Leviathan. Owens volunteered for j the ambulance service in France, and drove an ambulance that was I donated by the Legion of Honor, of j which he was a member. He now ) wears the bars of an army captain. The former policeman was given a hearty welcome home by mem bers of the mayor's committee and ; many of his old fellow officers, who j went down the bay to meet the j Leviathan on board the Patrol, lie i was plainly to be seen among the i other returning warriors on the i vessel, and waved his handkerchief | to his friends on the Patrol. The distance covered by the Le J viathan, according to Cqmdr. A ] Station, the executive officer, is ap I proximately 6.400 miles. The actual j time of the ship in making the round j trip voyage was fourteen da>i ? twenty-one hours and forty-one | minutes from Ambrose channel tc France and return. 1 Among the passengers broughl ! back on the Leviathan was R*ai Admiral S. S. Robison, U. S. NT.. whe has been serving on the naval ar mistice commission at the peac? conference. Admiral Robison wil: now go to his new post as command' ant at the Boston navy yard. Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, o! the American army air service, re turned from twenty month*' i?r? ice in France He is Tirtueilr tk* pioneer army aviator, with an air record of more than ten yews He sa*d that he would not dare prop* esy what would develop m flyi&ff even within a short time There were four deaths dm ci the voyage, the flrat occurring just he fore the Leviathan eaiied from Brest Those who died mere Walter Orchid. ? ook. of 8ilvoe. Tex., of tubercu losis, on June *i; Prie. Edward Bieeding Company D. LtZd Bngi neers, of Indianapolis. Ino . tuherca losis. on July 1. Prie. Carl Ham cook, 329th Labor Battalion, of Cee - ingtcn. Ga. heart disease, on Jul> 1. ' Corp Clarence Cook. ir7tb L?aboi Battalion, of Lyona, Ca.. of broncho pneumonia, en July I All the bodies were brought to porL The perfected alomd compound tablet* that are tafe and free flow the customary nauseating I and sickening effect*. Medicinal virtue* retain ed and improved by ad juvants and corrective*. 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