The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-07
Private Miller Of Second Oregon
is an Invalid.
WAS SERGEANT IN "E'
How the Hawaiian Boys Are Doing :.
We're to Be Depended Upon.
Col. L. NJ. Johnson.

Jack" Miller, who was sergeant in
Company, OF the n. G. H., returned
from Manila by the Scandia yesterday.
He has been away exactly six months;
Miller enlisted here in the Second Ore
gOn regiment. Jack was a man in
perfect health when he left here. but
is now gaunt figure. Before he came
to the Islands, early in 1894, he had
been miner in the United States and
had undergone many hardships. The
service in Manila was too much for
him. He says he is much better than
when he received his discharge for dis
ability, but even now is a veritable
walking shadow to what he was in the
fore part of this year, when he was
the alert and quick moving sergeant
of Capt. Arthur Coyne's company of
the Hawaiian National Guard Miller
!said he was delighted to be back in
Honolulu. He will remain here,
though he believes there are fine
chances in the Philippines for men
who get started right and have some
means.
The climate of the Philippines is
"sized up" by Miller thus: A civilian
who dresses for the climate and who
provides himself with proper food,
will be as healthy as in Honolulu or
the States. A soldier has his regua-
ton clothing and his food specified, is
under discipline, frequently does not
get half of what lle is entitled to, is
exposed in all kinds of weather and
the chances are that he will become i'll
at some time during his service. The
sun is very hot Drilling, even for
only an hour in the morning, is ex-
tremely trying. The rain comes down
| in torrents. On tour of duty for two
| hours Il man can get wet to the skin
and dried cut by the sun several
| times.
Gen. Anderson, according to Miller.
held the Second Oregon in the back
ground 1t came about by Col. Sum-
mers, of the Oregon regiment, moving
his command from tidewater shed to
another building. This was reported
by some officious person before, Col.
Summers could send his own report
and the result was stormy interview
between Anderson and Summers and
bad feeling right along.
Miller says that everything is slow
and old in Manila. On some of the
sugar estates they actually use horses
to stamp the juice out of the cane.
Miller declares that the Philippines
can supply the world with sugar, in
digo and hemp. He says lot OF the
| old buildings and the ancient city wall
should be raZed the streets cleaned
and a sewerage system established. 1t
| is the idea of Miller that all this
| should be done under military rule.
| Aguinafdo, Miller asserts, has as his
/ total for claims of every kind about
seventy-fiye men like himself. Their
Congress, with it's high-sounding do
ings, amounts to nothing at all. OF all
the F'ilipinos only about 1000 can read
and write Some of them might be
used as soldiers by Uncle Sam as the
natives are used by the English in In
Idia. The Chinese are the small trades
men of Manila. The Spanish language
is universal there. The officers or the
| Spanish army are fine fellows, but the
men don't care whether their side wins
or loses. Miller says that in any OF
The three sortieS that were made
against the American forces on nights
tof the first week in August, the Span
ish might have won if they had been
real fighters
The former sergeant of e, n. G. H.
saws it seemed as if when a line Of
fcer who was conSpicuously lncompe-
tent was found, he was given fat bii-
let in the commissary Or quartermaSt-