The personal appearance of Admiral Dewey is not presented with attractive accuracy in the very familiar portrait of him that has been wonderfully multiplied and replenished.  The expression of the Admiral is not truly given in the prints and photos.  The photographer is responsible for a faulty selection.  The impression prevails that the hero is “a little fellow.”  There is much said to the effect that he is jaunty and has excess of amiability in his smile.  He weighs about 180 pounds, and is of erect bearing, standing not less than five feet ten inches and a quarter.  His hair is not as white as the pictures say.  The artist who touched up the negative must have thought gray hair so becoming that he anticipated the feast of coming years.  The figure of the Admiral is strong, well carried, firm, and his bearing that of gravity and determination, but no pose for the sake of show, no pomp and circumstance, just the Academy training showing in his attitude—­the abiding, unconscious grace that is imparted in the schools of Annapolis and West Point—­now rivaled by other schools in “setting up.”  The Admiral is of solidity and dignity, of good stature and proportions; has nothing of affectation in manners or insincerity in speech; is a hearty, stirring, serious man, whose intensity is softened by steady purposes and calm forces, and moderated by the play of a sense of humor, that is not drollery or levity, but has a pleasing greeting for a clever word, and yields return with a flash in it and an edge on it.

CHAPTER II

Life in Manila.

Character of the Filipinos—­Drivers Lashing Laboring Men in the Streets—­What Americans Get in Their Native Air—­The Logic of Destiny—­Manila as She Fell into Our Hands—­The Beds in the Tropics—­A Spanish Hotel—­Profane Yells for Ice—­Sad Scenes in the Dining Room—­Major-General Calls for “Francisco”—­A Broken-Hearted Pantry Woman.

The same marvelous riches that distinguish Cuba are the inheritance of Luzon.  The native people are more promising in the long run than if they were in larger percentage of the blood of Spain, for they have something of that indomitable industry that must finally work out an immense redemption for the eastern and southern Asiatics.  When, I wonder, did the American people get the impression so extensive and obstinate that the Japanese and Chinese were idlers?  We may add as having a place in this category the Hindoos, who toil forever, and, under British government, have increased by scores of millions.  The southern Asiatics are, however, less emancipated from various indurated superstitions than those of the East; and the Polynesians, spread over the southern seas, are a softer people than those of the continent.  However, idleness is not the leading feature of life of the Filipinos, and when they are mixed, especially crossed with Chinese, they are indefatigable.  On the Philippine Islands there is far less servility