The Red Cloud chief., 1898-12-16
Asyes. shin lad ms,

psves. n snip mao lus'
frpm Manila and the sailors
.>.n we knew what was good
USeA did not want TO go 10 Manila.
. - Is o large Y. M. y. A. building
pYn that Is free to soldiers.
Tt Is AlSSPb building containing a large
library and reading room, writing room
with paper and envelopes free, bathing
rooms and rooms for resting, with
checkers, chess, and all other kinds ~
games. Us boys make 1t a point to-
visit the place every time we take n
trip to town.
1t is laughable to see the natives
when they move a building. They
never use q horse, but use pulleys
and a long rope and have round sticks
Of wood for the building to roll on. and
then they get all the natives aud Chi
namen In the country to pull on the
rope, and Of all the hollering when
they get it started you ever heard
The Cinnamon are very stout. They
will start with a pole over their shout
ders with n bushel basket on each end
full OF fruit and IL IL is very heavy they
will go on the run for miles at a time.
News is scarce, the only thing new is
one day u football game, then a foot
race and then a match game Of ball.
We are all well and getting plenty to
eat, but the monotony Of nothing to do,
very little news and very little to read
Is the worst thing we have to contend
with.
Two Of my tent mates and | took a
trip to the great Pail, about ten miles
distant. We took the street car four
miles and walked the rest of the way.
The road runs up grade for six miles
past some fine scenery, past a govern
ment nursery where there was a force
of men planting some valuable trees,
past some greet jungles where one
cannot hardly crawl and one could
walk on the tops Of the trees some
twelve or fifteen feet high. The Pail is
where about 600 men were forced over
in one Of the revolutions that took
place some years ago. The road leads
up a valley between two peaks that
extend up and look like small islands
above the clouds After walking about
six miles the road comes out through
the pass where the wind blows a gale,
to a great bank 1000 feet straight down.
From here you can see all the other
parts of the island. The road in order
to get into the valley was cut and
blasted out OF n perpendicular bank.
The work was so dangerous that it was
done by convicts. With the mountain
over our head some six or seven hun.
dred feet high covered with shrubbery
and straight down or the other side
till IL would make one dizzy to look
down. Here the road twists around
the mountain side until IL gets to the
bottom and then of to the sugar PIN.
t%ations. W. we're fortunate In bringing
our ponchos with us for on our return
we encountered a great rain storm,
About nine o'clock we came into camp
n tired set OF fellows, yet feeling con,
iident that what we had seer was
worth a great deal more than the
trouble we had taken.
November 9th we received orders t6
break camp at 2 o'clock on the mex
day and march to the wharves bount
for Manila. We will sail out of tn,
harbor about two o'clock pm. l fee
fine to stand the trip of about sixteer
days on the water. In about six weeks
you will hear all about our great tril
to Manila, $500 miles distant, or abou
half way around the globe from til,
great city of Red Cloud.
ALBERT ii. KEENEY,
Co. A, LIST Nebr. Vol.