The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-11-12

much cnltiynfedSas limit the south,
The secretary lof war states that tie.
custom house receipts at Manifa dir:
ing twenty-fouI working days were
sy$600,O00, Indicating an average Of 4
~ ~ ,0D0,o0O u year when ordersis re.
stored. This #amountt ii is claimed,
would pay the interest twice over OH
a bo1idissue of Sl00.0 DOC, 900 fol. the pur-
chase of the islands, without reference
to the collections from other sources
and the future growth of the islands.
1t will be observed that the sum OF
500. 100000 is being talked of and
there is little doubt the peace commits
sioners have been advised that, if un-
avoidable, they may offer that sum
as q solatium to Spain for territory
we captured from her in time of war.
Preparing for long Stay ntaAIanils
Manila, Nov. 9.-The Americans are
settling down for a long stay at Ma.
Mia. They; apparently believe that
Uncle am has concluded to hold the
Philippines. With the trade POSSIBLE.
tiles here and a bit of Yankee enter.
prise, the Americans will reap millions
and will make .he islands pay for their
own government without putting a
burden upon the people and will bring
peace to n troubled land by keeping
the half wild and wholly savage tribes
of natives amused.
But while the sentiment OF the
army, men and officers alike, is that
the United States will and should keep
the islands; while many of the officers
are renting OF buying houses or send
ing for their wives to come out and
join them; while American capital is
already beginning TO lubricate the
somewhat slow moving wheels of COM
merce in the islands, men and officers
of the army OF occupation want to go
home.
They believe the islands will be and
should be held, but they want some
other fellow to do the holding. The
army, in effect, is sadly afflicted with
nostalgia. 1t is the deadly d~ullness Of
garrison life after active service in the
field that has produced this condition.
Men who fought in trenches before
Malate think it is a waste of good ma
terial to be set to the task of holding
q Spanish city and protecting lot Of
petty Spaniards from the wrath of a
horde of Filipinos, whom Americans,
properly angered, would treat to what
the boys at home call a swift kick
by way of administering discipline
best fitted to the needs of the case.
Test TOO Much Liquor.
More than half the sickness in tile
army I believe to be directly traceable
to the desire to get away and to the
practical impossibility of the grutiti-
cation of the desire SO long us condi-
tons remain as they are. The most Of
the men in the hospital owe their evil
fortune to the propensity, born of
garrison idleness, to test the quality
of liquors of various and most potent
variety.
There is one peculiar drink distilled
from anise which has all the evil eff.
fects of absinthe upon the American
brain, and which has the added evil
effect that three drinks of it will atflict
a man with a desire to rob his own
trunk, and four will make him kill
himself by way of punishment after
he has done it. One poor fellow was
er day, his death being directly trace
able to his appetite for anisette, and
more men are in a fair way to meet "A
like fate.
The officers, of course, try to break
up the traffic i'll this bnneful decoction,
but where every native and half the
Spanish houses i'll the town have small
shops on the ground floor and where
every shop sells anisette either openly
or in secret, the task is difficult. Warn
ings of doctors, unfortunately, pass
unheedcd, although DR.. Farrell of the
First California has a most effectual
method of splitting the stuff into the
street whenever he finds the boys in
dulging their craving for it.
The American soldier in his lusty
strength argues that his stomach is
as good as that of any spaniard or
Filipino, both OF whom drink anisette.
The Spaniard drinks anisettc diluted
and thrives upon it. The Filipino
drinks anisette straight and rarely be-
comes Intoxicated.