The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14
AGUINALD0 4 CLOWN,
 HIS MEN RUFFlANS
Are Cruel to Captured Women and Have Not the Sense of the
 American Indian.

American Indian.
 WITH THE EXPEDITIONARY FORGE AT FORT SAINT FRANCIS. Cavite, July 7-To-day news as late as July has reached us from the outside world. Everything is in statu quo. Stores are still being landed and gen. eral policing of the arsenal continues unabated in energy. The quarters are gradually presenting a cleanly appear ance. and drains are being built to car ry off surplus water The rainfall is heavy, although without wind or much change in temperature. The men are experiencing certain difficulties which change of climate has brought about. In the Second Oregon Regiment at sick call this morning a long line or men was waiting for treatment. The pre- vailing trouble is diarrhoea, which may turn into dysentery unless properly treated There is also a peculiar fever without any attendant symptoms be yond a very high temperature, some or the patients reaching 104 degrees. with a strong bounding pulse. This Is treat ed incidentally. but the best remedy found so far has been continual Spong- ing with cool water. With each abdom- inal bandage the Red Cross Society is sued a small circular setting forth that mangos might be eaten with impunity. The harm that this advice has done may easily be guessed when we can see the results of mango eating in a fever called in Hongkong mango te- yer" and by the eruptions and boils on the men caused by the same fruit. The number of men sick are few. com paratively, but there might be less had 1t not been for the advice of physi elan, who parts his name and hair in the middle. Any native will tell you that mangos bring bOils and eruptions and that until a foreigner has been here three months or more and thor oughly acclimated he must not touch this fruit.
 The native Filipino is much a Malay, a good deal a Chinese and more of Jap, with more or less Spanish mean ness thrown in. After seeing the many really beautiful Hawaiian men and women and being suddenly thrown into contact with the Filipinos, the com parison is odious. The mestizo is small, 1.-the and muscular; he is flat faced and bullet headed. None of the women are even good looking. They have very expressive eyes, and the younger ones have good white teeth. and that's all. There are no fat people here. It is amusing to see the Filipi- nos when they are at rest, squatted on their heels, chewing beetle nut The older women are given over to this habit entirely, and they have ugly black teeth as a result.
 The towns of Cavite, Carrido, old Cavite and San Roque are in proximity to Cavite itself. They are laid out in blocks, same as cur Ameri- can cities, with but narrow alleys as streets. They are i'll smelling and ez- ceeding1y trying to any enc who has been taught that cleanliness is next to godliness. Whenever any one has slops he knows not what to do with, the street is found the proper receptacle. The town has not a sewerage system, and in many houses there are no conveniences whatever. In the ar 5aral where the American troops are QCartcred there is all aCient and en- tirrly obsolete system of plumbing much cut of repair; still bettec than none at all
 The troops CD of Aguinaldo hold the town proper. They are droll spe- cimens Cf soldiery. They are arlue'i wi-h Msuser, Remington and Spanish ltfcS. T he Remington and Mauscr are new patterns while the Spanish rife vas made in Seville Aresnal soule time in the sixties. Aguinaldo has n1mer- ous staff, some of whom can speak English, and who strut around as if they were upon the staff of real gen. eral and real army. General Agui- naldo. by the grace of Uncle Sam. is an ostentatious individual and full of im- portance. who signs himself "Gobier- nador Dictatorial," and his name the August Dictator"i
 So read passes through his lines, and this mimic fanfaronade of war continues day in and out, keeps from seven thousand to ten thousand Spaniards cooped up in Ma . nila, and it will continue until the sec ond expedition reaches here from the States, and then the farce will end. Then General Merritt will have to turn in and teach these islanders that the capture and detention of non-combat- ants and the loot of cities and villages is not modern warfare. Nor is it hu- mane or right to take delicately nur- tured women and children and walk them for miles through mud and mire in sliopered feet and calico gowns.
 This is what I saw yesterday when a haciendero named Arrivas was brought in as a prisoner with his two sons and wife and four daughters. The mother of the family was a fine appear ing woman of between 40 and 45 years. The daughters ranged from 15 to 9 years of age. I found them near the Oregonian quarters in pelting rain. awaiting the pleasure of the mestizo Filipinos guard to move on. Colonel Summers of the Oregonians than whom no more courteous gentleman lives, ascertained their condition and breakfast was prepared in the officers mess and the family invited in. l had the pleasure of conversing with the old gentleman and found that he was a planter. inoffensive, holding no com munication with either side. He ex- plained that the insurgent officer in charge of the party making the arrest took him, as he said, because he had room on one of his "cascos," as they call the native boat. One of the young ladies showed me the marks on her arms where she had fallen on a shinglv road, showed by the guard when she stopped to tie a refractory slipper.
 Colonel Summers tried hard to do something to alleviate the misfortune of these innocents, but the lieutenant in charge was obduFate and the poor woman had to trudge along in the rear of the long column of prisoners. It was a heart breaking sight.
 There are not many illiterates in this community; nearly all the natives can read. They are shrewd and cunning and have enough of the Spanish in them to be unreliable. They are boast full to a degree. and have a certain amount of romance in their makeup that makes them most interesting.
 They are hooters from the start to fn-