An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . feelings to have the execution of a criminal takeplace in the center of the town. The gallows were erectedin the suburbs. Immediately all the natives were set towork to make hiding places where these sensitive ladies,unseen, could witness the execution. From early dawnuntil at 9 A. m. carriages were carr5ing these delicatecreatures to their secret stations. Not one of them in thewhole village of Jaro but was on the watch. They sup-posed, of course, that I w
An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . feelings to have the execution of a criminal takeplace in the center of the town. The gallows were erectedin the suburbs. Immediately all the natives were set towork to make hiding places where these sensitive ladies,unseen, could witness the execution. From early dawnuntil at 9 A. m. carriages were carr5ing these delicatecreatures to their secret stations. Not one of them in thewhole village of Jaro but was on the watch. They sup-posed, of course, that I would be so interested that I wouldtake a prominent part; that executions were commonfestivals in the United States. The criminal himself had no idea that his sentencewould be enforced, even up to the last moment he took itas a huge joke, and when he was taken to the general saidhe would like to be excused, and offered to implicate otherswho were more guilty than himself. Many questions were asked me concerning our methodsof execution, and great was the surprise when I confessedthat I had never seen one myself, nor did I ever expect. THE NATIVES 75 to see one; that my countrywomen would be horrified towitness such a sight; and that on the present occasion Ihad gone to the adjoining town six miles away to escapeit all, I was shown several pictures of the victim takenby a Chinese artist. A man buys at a booth one pennys worth of what isknown as for himself and family. I haveoften looked into the sow-sow pots, but was never able tomake out what was contained therein. The children buylittle rice cakes, thin, hard, and indigestible as bits of childrens stomachs are abnormally large ; due, per-haps, to the half-cooked rice and other poorly preparedfood. When it comes to the choice of caring for the childor the fighting cock, the cock has the preference. Thebird is carried as fondly and as carefully as if it were asuperior creature. It was strange to see how they wou
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