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Ii already ini-ludps LOW solrtters, anJ more '
niil lie added until this becomes one of the
chlaf fortlliod placfs of the East Indies. It j
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built natural fortifications about It. The j
camp lies in A plain several miles wide I
wall';! by mountains which rise In blue
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by the sky. It is easily reached by mag
nificent roads, and the truck line of rVllway
irom Uatavla to Soerbaya also goen to It.
TUB DUTCH COLONIAL AltMY.
I have been much Interested m the Dutch
Beldiers'whom I have seen. In different parts
of Java. The Hollanders among them' are
magnificent fellows, tall, straight and well
formed.. They axe especially well dressed
and are Eentlemea. I have talked -with
them'about the army, and I find that there
ere only O.000 soldiers In the Dutch colonial
empire of the East Indies, and Of these only j
16,000 are. Europeans. Wo have several
times -that many Americans In the Philip
pines, and this nottvlthstandlns the Philip
pines have about one-fourth as many peo
ple. The native population controlled by
Holland Is 34.OiM.O0O. It embraces natlves'of
every variety found In the far East. Thera f
are savages as trUd as the hilt tribes of I
Mlndora. and Mindanao, and there ere also
half-educated farmers like our Filipinos of'
Pauay and Luzon. The Dutch have more 1
tribes to control .than we ha-e. and they
understand how to use their soldiers so .'
well that they neod only one European to .
every 2,000 souls.
It was through the kindness of Lord Van I
Bcntham van den Berff that I was admitted
to this encampment. I came In a carriage
hehlnd a team of sandalwood ponies" from
Bsndong. "The whole way through the beau
tiful park was filled with little brown peo
ple of all a?es and both sexes. Now we
f.ent.Jby a market a mile Ion where the
women were squatting and selllnc end we
.found ,'favaeeMHnises 'Almost to the -very
barracks of the soldiers.
HOW DUTCH SOLDnCItt UVB..
I have recently been to the. Philippines.
and. I have seen how colonial soldiers are
Quartered. Some-" of them are In tents, some
In bamboo shacks and some in Filipino
houses turned Into barracks. The Dutch
have been experimenting for centuries as
to the best accommodations for their soldiers-
In this tropical climate, and their
methods can be copied in the Philippines
with profit. The buildings of TJimal consist
of. vast barracks made of. woven bamboo.
The bamboo cane Is spilt In strips when
It Is green and flattened out. Each strip Is
shaved so that It Is about as wide as ordi
nary lath and perhaps an eighth of an Inch
thick;- Many of the strips are forty feet
long.- Th'ey are woven Into great sheets, so
big 'that they form the walls of the bar
racks.. 'They are rain-tight when finished
and are at the same time airy and clean.
Walls of this kind are sailed to studding.
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are cool and comfortable. Each building Is
about 30 feet wide and perhaps 150 feet
long. -There Is an aisle through the center
In which the guns are ptacked and on each j
side of this are the beds for the soldiers. '
Eaoh bed has a good mattress, over which 1
ia a rug of woven straw for coolness. -The j
pettjr officers have rooms to themselves)'
apart' from the soldiers, and the commls-.i
sloned officers have houses as comfortable
any one could -possibly wish.
SOLDIERS MARHY NATIVE WOMEN.!
General Otis and others of our officers
have, decldeoly objected to the wives of our
soldiers going to- the Philippines. Here In
Java the men are -encouraged to choose
wives from among the natives. I do riot
know that the arrangement Is a perma
nent one. It Is probably not when the" men
go back to Europe, but It holds good dur
ing their stav here. There Is a' quarter of
the camp which is devoted to the' wives of
the soldiers. Here they sleep with their
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-children, and here are their quarters while
the men .are cm duty. Many of the women
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but the children are alwaj-s kept outside
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men must pay for the rations.
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the food. The cooking Is done In great
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teachers, and intend! to study three' years
InEurope under ; masters of toe violin and I
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caldrons, and it Is served out at, cost I am
told the expense of feeding a man or adult
Is less than 1 cent a day nnd that a'
child can have enough rice and soup to
last it five days for less than 2 cents. I
spent some time In the women's quarters
making photographs. The "women were
not at all averse to posing, and they
.t'enoed out Into the sun in front of Ihe
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camera. They were all c!nd In Javanese
'.costume. Nearly all had children: many had
, babies at the breast-or astride their hips.
UNIQUE ARMY SCHOOL.
. The Dutch officials take good care of the
wives of the men and sec that their chll-
dren are educated.. The boys are regularly ,
drilled and taught military tactics, with a
view to making 'noncommissioned officers
.of them when they grow 'up. I attended
one of the schools and found about fifty j
little yellow Javanese working away. Each '
was In his bare feet and each wore a tur
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ban, a jacket and sarong.
I heaiu them recite, and they Impressed
me with their Intelligence. There was a
piano in one end of the room, and I asked
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K-". ".-""-' ."""""- ""iicbelllon for cenerntlons. Ths Achlnese
to smg the ijuicn natmna nymn.xney am
so; not In words,- but In the musical notes, j
singing do, re, me, fn, sol, etc., the teacher
siartlng them with his cln, zwc'i, drel
loiter on I saw the boys go through their
gymnastics and drill. I think they are the
equals of any of our own school cadets.
CANTEEN OR SUIJIIURS' CLt.'Il.
The Dutch Government believes In keep
ing the soldiers contented. It spends u.
great deal on amusements for them. Here
at Tjimal there" is a soldiers' club, called
"Th Canteen,." which would be a credit
to any camp of the world. The clubhouse
Is a large one-story- stone structure, which
has cost $15,000 In gold. This represents a
sum equal to three times -that much at
home. The- ceilings of this building are
twenty-live feet high. It has magnificent
tooms looking out upon wide galleries up
held by white Grecian pillars. It has a
theater with full stage machinery and a
beautiful drop curtain with pictures upon It,
sketched In by the officers and painted In
oils by the men. The chandeliers ore of
aluminum and. the floors arc of mar bio. Ths
Canteen has blllard-rooms, rcadlng-rooriis
and cardrooms, and the lawns and ilower
gardens about it are as beautiful at- those
of our millionaires on the Hudson.
COMFOItTAni.K MILITARY PRISONS.
During, my stay here I have gone through
tho mlllatry prison. It Is more comfortaole
than Blllbld, our penitentiary In Manila. It
Is made much the same way ns the .)ar
racki save that there Is a great wall
around It and the entrances are carefully
guarded. The prisoners' are forced to work.
.1 saw fifty of them making clothes ' the
army In one of the rooms, uslnc .American
sewing machines. In another department
were two-score .shoemakers, and in others
there, were Jewelers, 'carpenters and work
ers In iron. The prisoners are paid about
M cents a week for their labor. They are
well fed and well treated. They have- books
to. read from the prison library and their
wives are allowed to call upon them once
very week.
DUTCH AND NATIVE SOLDIERS.
The Dutch and the natives seem to le on
an equality in the army. They march to
gether In "the same battalions, many bat
talions -consisting of two companies of Eu
ropean soldiers and two of natives, or, more
often, one of .Europeans and three of na
tives. The half-castes are on a footing of
perfect equality with the Europeans, but
at least; halt 'the noncommissioned officers
must be" Europeans. All the higher, officers'
com from Holland! - They ore fine' fellows,-
well educated and well trained, Together
with the officials, they form tbe.arisico.ra.cy'
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Weltevreden would be considered flr.e In
any European ECt'tlcment.
I am told that the natives rnake very good
soldiers, although there Is a vast difference
In them, according to the tribes and tho lo-,
cality from which they come. The people
of the Island of Ambslna are especially
brave, and there arc now over 4,000 of them
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ioREIRV -RESIDENTS IS SOLDIEnS
' ,ir foreign residents' are required to servo
n certnlll nunlber of ,,a ,month ,
'the militia. The number r,f days decrease
. .,, beginning -Ith seven days a
,,,, ,,,, ,mallr falling to four days. The.
dr ,3 from t p m t0-6 p m u ycry
seveT0 hut u maea cvcr. foregner,
wh.tner h Knc,,ih American" or Dutch.
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ThIs rcBUIi.on ,Si j suppo!,Ci t0 make tho
forplcn nnnu!at!nn ..ilmMp )n , nf nn
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uprWng of the natives. The Dutch have
had such rehelllSns In thp past, and al
though there Is little danger of It In Java,
In" Sumatra and other plncfs the foreigners
TTIIiel Tw, ottl., fllF Clint, in tvnarirnnv
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There Is a tribe known' ns the Achlncse, In
KcrthwcFtcrn Sumatra, which has been In
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country Is .about half ns big as Ohio. They
have always been noted for their hatred of
foreigners. They fousht the English and
the Portuguese, ami ihev are still fishtlng
the Dutch. It-Is estimated that more than
10.C00 Dutch soldiers nnd natives have lost
their lives In the war which Is now going
on with Achln. nnd that that war has cost
Holland something like $S5,CO0,000.
OFFICIAL DHOKK UP A REnBLLION.
There are other parts' of Sumatra which
are very rebtllious: I henrd the other day
how the Dutch, resident of Palumbang frus
trated a plot In which the native chiefs con
spired to'kfll him and s.;Izc the Government.
The scheme was to set the city afire In a
quarter where it would do little damage,
with the expectation that the resident and
soldiers would run toil. During the burning
the natives expected to capture the fort
and kill the resident and his soldiers, In
cluding the Europeans.
Ths resident, however, was posted by one
of his spies, and did not go to tho fire. Then
the chiefs demanded an audience, expecting
to kill him when he came to If. Tho resi
dent consented, but the nlRht before he
powdered his face until it was a ghastly
whilc, and placed medicine hcsldo his bed.
He then called In some of the conspirators
and told them he was sick, and that he
could not possibly meet the appointment.
He asksd them to have the chiefs come to
the palace Instead on the following day.
CHIEFS PLANNED THE OUTIIREAK.
Tho chiefs then pUnned to start. the revo
lution at the palace, but when they arrived
they w'cre admitted one by one and received
at- the point of rifles in the hands of the
soldier?. The resident came out and ordered
that they be put in prison.- There were Just
enough chiefs to nil nil the. cells except one,
whereupen the resident's 'major domo, a na
tive of high rank, who had secretly been Iri
the conspiracy, said: "There is one moro
cell, your excellency; -who shall that bo
for?"
. "That Is or you, you rascal." was tho
emphatic replj Ho thereupon gave a sign
to the soldiers and they took the man to
prison. -
DUTCH AND THE CHINESE.
i nave" spent some time 'studying the
Chinese question In Java. The Island, Is
'full of celestials.. Ii has about three times
as many as we have In the Philippines, and
you find Chinese quertcrs In every town
and ..In every city. .The Chinese own prop
erty to' the amount of tK.090.000. Thcv.
"hare some'' of the richest plantations' of
.coffee and sugar, and of -recent years have
leased out 30,000 acres rof land., They 'own
acres or. mna, wmch was
ana would increase i
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I their holdings if tho Dutch would allow
I them. to huy.
I THE MIDDLEMEN OF JAVA.
I The Chinese hold about the same position
j here that they do in the Philippines. They
I are the middlemen of the country, tho
medium of communication between tho na-
tlves nnd foreigners. They go about over
the Island nnd huy up the crops and they
engngo in ever)- business which furnishes
considerable profit.
Tho Chinese quarters are set aside for
them by the Dutch official". The law pro
vides that they must live In such sections
and prohibits them from doing business
outsldo them without permission of the
officials. The other day (he Standard Oil
Company of Uatavla wauled to employ a
Chinese as night watchman, but they could
not ila so until the Government gave him
permission to leave the Chinese quarter.
In Buitenzorg, the Chinese section, Is one
of tho best parts of the city. It Is fully n.
mile long, and Is lined with one-story build
ings heavily roofed. Each building has n
Chinese sign nt Its side, and the merchants
within are Chinese. It Is tho tame In Bnn
dorg. Soerliaya and In every Javanese city.
TO I'ROTKCT THE NATIVES.
Tho Government restricts the Chinese to
their omi quarters In order to protect the
natives, for the Chinese are much better
business men than the Javanese. They nro
called the Jews of the Far East, and they
arc everywhere money lenders and monty
makers. If Java was" thrown open to them
to-day and the natives allowed to sell their
lands they would monnpollzo the country
and enslave the people, and It Is only by
careful restriction lhat they are allowed to
remain1 here and do business. In a talk
with one of the resident Governors, a man
-.who has many thousands of Chinese under
mm. J was toia mat it wouia not ao at an
to allow Chinese Immigration without cer
tain restrictions, and that In this man's
opinion, we had done right In excluding
them' from the Philippines. Here the Chl-
l nese pay twice as much taxes as any one
I elfc, and they are clogged In other ways.
They are subject to police duty and must
. take thelr'turns as night watchmen on the
roads.
MARRY JAVANESE WOMEN.
The Chinese hereintermarry with the na
tives. They seldom bring their wives with
them, and a common sight Is a Chinaman
drcsstd In European clothes, with his queue
tucked insldo his coat, riding along In a car
.rlago beside a brown Javanese girl gor
geously dressed. They treat their wives
well and are as fond of their half-cast chil
dren as their ancestral fathers were fond of
them. Many Chinese marry1 half-caste girls
and half-caste children swarm everywhere
in the Chinese quarters.
FAWNHKOKRIIS OF JAVA.
There nro some businesses here which are
monopolized by Chlncw?. Among the chief
ones' nre the pawnbroklng establishments
which nre found by the score In every na
tive city. They are licensed by the Govern
ment, nnd the licenses nre sold at auction,
bilng bought In by Chinese.
The natives are very Improvident. They
live from hand to mouth and will pawn the
very clothes oft their backs. I hnve visited
many or the pawn shops looking out for bits
of antique rilver nnd gold, and have found
In every case Chinese clerks behind the
counters. :
They keep regular books and do an enor
mous amount of small business ai high
rates of interest. They charge 6 per cent
a month on nil loans, or 2 per cent for
every ten days. Ir at the end of threo
months the goods pawned are not redeemed
they are sold nt auction, and the surplus
goes to the owner.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
(Copyrighted, 1S01. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
THE WAITiNG GUEST.
DRAMA IN ONE ACT.
Characters A bell, a bell boy, another bell
boy and a man upstairs.
Bell: Ting-a-llng-ling.
Bell Boy: "There goes the bell. It's your
turn.
Other Bell Boy: "Nothing of the sort. Go
yourseir.--
BcII Boy: "I won't."
Other Bell Boy: "Neither will I."
Bell: Tlng-tlng-tlng-a-IIng-llng.
Bell Boy: "l'bu had better go."
Other Bell Boy: "It's your turn."
Bell Boy: ".My lurn nothing. You' had bet
ter chase yourself upstairs."
Other Bell Boy: "You Just sit there and
see how fast I will go." " " ""
Bell: .Ting-llng-llng-tlng-tlng-a-lingt
Bell Boy; "iA-t's play a, game of uehr
and see who goes."
Other Bell Boy: "All right."
Bell: Tlng-a-lingJ tlng-tinglJ Ung-tlng-a-llng-tlng!!!!!!
Very slow curtain.
SUMMER GIRL'S GObD-BY.
It Deems as though the morn Is hushed,
A somber halo haftzs' above:
A dozen. throbbing hearts are crushed.
A dozen silly men In lore!
And. all because her trunks are thera.
Her golfing bag's and telescopes;
The grinning "Boots," the. coach and patr.
All. seem to mock their once fond hopes;
She comes at last, they stare the men
. A dozen bosoms rise and sigh;
She; climbs' aboard, unbeiped, and then
A smile, a handshake and good-byl
They stand and gaze' far down the read.
The .little sad and lovelorn 'crowd:
Until the coach arid precious load
Are but a distant, dusty cloud.
Untouched are line and rod and rati,
Deserted are the fishing. bights;
The gong sounds forth the noonday meal
But twelve have lost their 'appetites.
Oh, cheer up, chaps, forget-her soon. :
- Let not her absence, cause you pain.
For she'll bo back again next June
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MISS MART
Special Correspondence of The Sunday Hftpublle.
Vincenncs, 1'nd., Sept. I?. Miss Mary Vcn
able, a talented musician of Cincinnati, who
Has been appointed "lrectress of music In
the University of VIncennes, comes of a
family distinguished in educational and so
cltfl affairs. Her father. Doctor W. II. Vcn-
THE RETURNED SUMMER
WtlltTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Roundlle was narrating some of the
scenes nnd Incidents of his European trip
to his clrcfe nt tho club. He said:
"As you know, they lock you Into the
railway carriages over there for better or
for worse. Occasionally the result Is any
thing but harmonious. Putting some kinds I
of people together Is like mixing an effer
vescent salt there must be n vent for the
ensuing trouble or an explosion.
"I whs traveling out of Berlin one day.
Going through a suburb we picked up a
heavy personage, who was enjoying a huge
cigar. After we had lieen locked In he dis
appeared In smoke. A station or two be
yond n woman was locked up with us. At
once ,shf began to sniff at the fog created
by our fellow-passenger. When lie discov
ered thnt the woman was annoyed by It he
threw away tho remains he was smoking
nnd lit a fresh one. just to show how vici
ous he coulct be when challenged. He went
to-work on It like a bellows, taking pains
to blow the smoke Into her corner as far
as possible.
"She began to make remarks to her dog
about It, and the Intelligent animal looked
at the enemy fiercely. The latfer was an
noyed and the Surrounding smoke got
thicker.
"At last the remarks to the dog waxed
threatening and suddenly something hap
pened In the mist. The angered lady with
CONTEMPORARY FAME
It Is to be noticed that although Mr.
George Meredith Is some twelve years the
senior of Mr. Thomas Hardy, the general
acceptance of these two great writers by
the critics dates from about the same time,
writes Edmund Gosse in The International
Monthly. Indeed. If we admit that It was
"The Return of the Native," in 1878, which
settled the question of Mr. Hardy's genius.
It wa not until the publication of "The
Egoist," in 1873, that Mr. Meredith was
granted a like Immunity, and the younger
writer was, therefore, by some months the
elder in critical estimation, In 1S76, one of
the most Influential English reviewers,. after
a careful and by no means ni-nntured ex
amination of "Beauellamp's Career," had
closed Ills remarks by saying, "We rise
from the- perusal of this book with a. con
viction that It Is not ns a novelist that Mr.
Meredith can look for. a permanent name
in literature. As a critic or an essayist
there Ig probably a career open to, him ."
It Is well to bear In mind that such things
could be said ns late as 1878 without ex
citing n protest from any but friends and
close admirers of the writer From this
kind of criticism, at least, both Mr. Mere--dlth.
and Mr. Hardy were safe from 1878-9
onwards; they could still be found fault
with, each could still have his honest de
tractors, but they could no longer be over-
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author and public speaker. His "History, of
the United States," his "Beginnings o'fCuI
ture in the Ohio Valley" and his novel. 'JA.
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cinnati musical Institution. !
WANDERER TELLS A STORY.
the pup reached over deliberately and pulled
the cigar from her neighbor's." face ana
tossed It through the window. The Indig
nant 'victim got back at her like touching
off a keg of powder.
"Quick as a flash he seized the dog' and
hurled it after the cigar. Not a word' had
been exchanged, but each made up for lc
when we pulled Into the station a moment
later. Bent upon mutual revenge, they over
whelmed the guard. She demanded satis
faction for the outrage upon her pup. "'-He
declared that he had been robbed- ot'-tha
only cigar In Germany worth smoklngts
"Of course the everlasting military
sn armed around. The one with the most
gold braid promptly suggested a mutuartar
rcst to settle the -matter. Just as the" ar
rest bid fair to be official the dog blandly
returned upon the scene.
"The lady uttered a cry of rellef'sad"
might have gathered the pup Into her arms
had not the enemy run out. You tee, the
dog had brought the offending cigar. 'back
with him. thinking that-he had been throjwn
from the coach to fetch It! J'
"Well, according to the guard ths. prop
erty having been restored, the culprits wer
released. And both were satisfied, "ons
might have expected such a conclusion In
Ireland, but In Germany never!" ,
The audience was silent until Roundlle
had departed. "How lovely he cap lis!"
said some one. " 'In the days of old Rams
ses that story bad paresis.' rf
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looked, or dismissed as unimportant 'sis-
ments In the literary history of thsnerlod.
In the midst of much nnlikeness. ths two
novelists, whose rise we have been consid
ering, have this In common.a strenuous
determination to express IB adequate 'liter
ary form the Ideas and experiences w)jlcl
distinguish each of themfrom ail other
human beings. In each wsTiave a man1 who
puts the trivial and the'oft-repeatedjmir-face
tricks behind hlm,who will stoop to
nothing which he knoti to be Insignificant
because he thinks that It Will please, and
who deals always wth great emotions as
he personally has son them revealed In the
words and actlos of living men and
women.
By dint of tb earnestness with which
these two greaf Imaginative writers have,
approached llf something harmonious and
stately has trnsfcrred Itself to their pages.
In 5fr. Merlth It Is the sparkle and
rhythm of a divine and Incommunicable
grace, theinelodlous movement of a dancer.
In Jlr. Mtrdy It Is the impressive solidity,
the sunnslon of strength, the fullness of
color la solemn landscape. But the mors'
we reect the less can we' trace a resem
blance between two authors whose main
polo of kinship to their sincerity and. their
prystly adhesion to all that Is best In ths
tt6itlpnal ritual of letters;
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