The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-06-10
WITH THE TWENTIETH.
The Registers Correspondent Reports the Daily
Doings Of the Boys In csmp-Some
Interesting Notes.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 81.

the Philippines, few hearsay re-
marks may not be out of place.
Lovely climate" lie the general
epithet one hears applied by anna
tours in a vague way to the region
around Manila. The tropical rains
last from June to October. From
about November 10th to March 18th,
every day IL like beautiful June
day. with cool morning and evening
thrown in, the thermometer marking
from about 40 degrees at night to per-
haps 40 at noon. From March 10Th
till the middle of June the heat grows
terrific, until it is said to become I'M
besrsble. The climax happens about
the middle of May. 1--WE are glad it
is over, for by next year we ehall be
on our road hDme.) 1t gets 30 hot, a
man tells us, that the heat flies about
in zigzags and the ground flies up to
meet it, and the combination will
make your head swim. 1t lie hot and
dry and dry and hot! No rain, yet
not q drought, because it never rains
and can't rain at that time of year.
1t doesn't know how! The hot wealth
er Is only hot, The climax only lasts
about three weeks. In the rainy
season it only rains. There are no
postponements on account of weather,
because there is only one kind of
weather at a time. There is lots of
comfort in this for the followers of
fashion.
When the rains come, hug well the
| first few hours of delicious relief;
but there comes time when an extra
raindrop breaks the eamePs back.
But at first! The earth relents and
the ground sends up grateful fra
GRANGE which you drink in with deep
breaths; the shrubs shine, open their
leaves and lift up theft heads to the
welcome dOwnpour. Two months
later the gates and fences begin to
sproul; you have to rush to the look
ing glass every few hours to be sure a
green shoot has not grown from your
ear, your shoes mould over night
in fact nothing you touch Is fee from
cleanliness.
The white ants nibble and chew
trenches through books and papers
then you wonder how you ever stood
at the window drinking the scent the
earth exuded and threw out your
hands to catch what Austin Dobson
calls "sputtles Of rain" "Sputtles"
indeed! Waterfalls, cataracts, delu-
ges, they soon develop into.
The poultice and the mold are joys
compared with the insects which are
in rampage, and on you. A swarm
of flying beetles once announced the
advent of the monsoon to startled
family living in the east, and having
settled thickly on the dinner table
the army proceeded to walk up stairs
literally and occupy the beds! Never
would one forget such DiRht! Armed
with slippers, shoes, boots and various
other missiles, the family, assisted by
its dependents, mangled and squashed
millions of these scrunching, sicken.
ing invaders. But this story Is not sc
bad az the one told of a family on 9
tug boat ON rum to A bisynnia for 6
cargo of sugar. Decks, cabins, sa
looms, and the captain and crew were
covered with cockroaches, which haC
been in ambush till the boat set sail
and then darkened the air like 10
Gusts, and for each 100 killed 7,00l
sprang up, fully armed to take thei
places. JORDAN.
SECOND EDITION.
Our first battle was won today
Col Little issued orders that no mem
Der of the Twentieth regiment shoulC