The herald., 1898-11-17
SOLDIER BOYS NOW THINKING
OF COMING HOME
ALL KINDS OF: RuMoRs
storekeepers Becoming Anglicised
and Catering to American Trade.
Some Queer Customs

waiting for the news of some kind of def
mite settlement of the late difficulty before
undertaking anything of an important M
ture. True, the engineer corps and other
departments are drawing up plans for the
construction of sewers, improvement of har-
Dor and roadways, construction Of new water
works, etc, but the work is done by the
ormy officers and tho only extra expense to
the government is for the material used in
making plans and estimates, and should the
islands become the property of the United
States the needed improvements will be in
such shape that work can be commenced
Immediately and much valuable time saved
The air is full of rumors, but few of them
have any foundation. One can start any
kind Of a report, no matter how absurd or
improbable, and will find any number who
will believe it. For instance, one of the
ships in the harbor fired salute last even
ing and this morning was told land the
person who told ME evidently believed it,
that the king of Dahomey had arrived with
a feet of four cruisers to pay an official
visit to General Otis.
The reports which are most often circu.
lated are in relation to the movement of
troops. Hardly a day passes that do not
hear some OF the soldiers talking about going
hone, and if you take the trouble to ask they
will say, "Why, l was told that the Thir-
teenth Minnesota, or the Tenth Pennsyl-
vania, or the First California, had been or
dered home and are going TO leave at the end
OF the week."
suppose that the reason such reports are
so readily given credence is because the men
are so anxious to get started on the home
ward voyage. There are many among them,
however, who are anxious to get their dis
charges here and go into business of some
kind. for all realize that there are splendid
opportunities in almost any line in which
one cares to embark. Should the United
States keeps the islands an American civilian
colony of several thousand would only be Il
matter of a few months.
The Scandia arrived here on the Sd, bring
ing twelve more Los Angeles boys, Sergeant
Charles Weise and Privates A. J. Crosse, H.
j. Hull, Jacob Purkiser, z. Barrow, 0. +.
Patterson, G. f. Hunt, o. A. McGilvary,
William Yerger, Roy A. Brousseuu, James
Pendleton and Harry Stiles of Battery d.
They came as guard for the pay depart
ment funds brought by the Scandal, and
say they had a very pleasant trip of it. The
Scandia took a portion of the New York
regiment from San Francisco to Honolulu
but from Honolulu here the only troops on
board were detachment of the hospital
corps and the battery boys. All are well
and glad TO get here even If they were too
late for the excitement. At present they
are with the other detachment that came on
the first expedition at Cavite, but it is ex-
pectcd that all will be moved to Mania
shortly as the naval authorities are to take
possession there.
The attempts of the storekeepers and
others to catch the American trade by the
use of signs printed in English are often
conducive to n good laugh; in restaurant
one will often find such legends as the fol-
lowing:
'l'ried Eggs, ten cents per couple"
"Chicken fried, for the one-half 80 cents"
Or in stores:
"Reparation of Watches"
"Handkerchiefs for the Ladies OF Silk,
One Dollar the One" and there is not news
paper published that does not contain such
advertisements as these:
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR SALE
To be sold a very good forniture all ale
giant and modern a fine table service bacar-
rat a fine MILFORD carria1e with goo1 pair
bec of horses a very fine collection BOOKS
and got up with utmost care a Rockavay
carriaje With horses With harness.
Plaise Apply to Barbosa street numero =.
Messrs. haul Craw ford & Co. (of Hong
kongO beg to announce that then pare
opeuid store at no &c Escolta for the sale
OF Wines spirits ana proVlsions h,o nrcas OIL 'he
Manila 10 october 9S.
TO LET
The ventilated house n 50 on the Marques s
de Comillas street. Apply to s. Miguel
Etreet n. 2.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
For naturalist and an amateur Having
to absent for Europe the owner 1t will sell
a pair of while stag still unknown On the
best zoology garden of the, void (Paris
and London). The mentioned animals are
very rare and singular.
The price Is eighty punds. II can be seen
from to IL a IN ana from 10 p. m.
Cabidlo N. g.
The natives arc much like the southern
negro as regards the carrying of bundles,
only | think they carry it to even greater
extremes Everything, from a can of sar
dimes to trunk, jars of water and articles of
solid metal, is carried on the head, and they
will go swinging along at a fast walk with
things on their heads that they could not
lift from the ground and had to have assist
ance to raise. The women wear no hats,
and, besides their hair, which in most cases
is extremely thick, they roll handkerchief
into sort of crown, thus making softer
and firmer base for their burdens. The men
seem to be averse to carrying anything any
way, and if there is woman along you may
be sure the man carries little more than his
walking stick, an indispensable adjunct to
any native who pretends to belong to the
upper circle.
All the women use powder. The senorita
who boasts of pure Spanish lineage uses
very little, not enough to be noticed except
on close inspection; the mestiza, or half
caste (who tries to give the impression that
she is entirely Spanish), endeavors to bring
her complexion up to the Spanish hue by the
use of more; and the native (who claims
that she is just as good as the mestza), has
considerably more of color difficulty to
overcome, and the result can be better
imagined than described.
The men are, as is the case everywhere.
more democratic, and the feeling between
the different classes is not nearly as strong.
but the various classes can be easily recog.
nized, for the half caste and the native who
wishes to apear in Spanish role adopts the
Spanish style of dress and is, in his own esti.
nation, immeasuraby superior to the men
who appear in native costume
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