El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-21
Philippine
Julius Schultz Writes That He is En-
jOying Llfe.-keepS Bachelors
Hall and Has TWO Servants
Light Clothing the Only Suitable
Article of DreSS.--Sult Can be
BOUGHT For B or q Dollars.

Bought FOR or DOLLARS.
FERNANDO P. O., July IL, 1899. Ny
Dear Folks-Since my last letter to
| you have had very little time to de-
vote to correspondence, as we have
been quite busy getting things in shape.
We have moved our Office to the GEN.
| ter of the city. Up to this time our
Office was in q box car, but owing to the
increased business we found 1t too
small, 80 consequently had to move.
The house we are living in is small
affair, but quite large enough for two,
and an extra room for work. You
would be greatly surprised il you could
see it. They have no such things as
windows OF glass, merely sliding af-
fairs made of bamboo. When it is not
raining we keep them wide open, which
makes it cool and pleasant.
All of the houses here are made of
BAN boo and straw. Some OF the more
pretentiOus houses have tin roofs and
it takes some time for person to be-
come accustomed to them.
am becoming more accustomed to
the living and ii my health keeps up,
l believe | will like the country.
One thing about this country, which
catches your eye, is the easy going
fashion of the people. lThe1r mode of
dress is simplicity itself, why some of
them haven't ss much as a fig leaf on !;
and one thing is certain they do not
wear any more than the law allows.
A person can't possibly wear many
clothes in this country: rs his health
This being the fact, L am sorry now
that 1 brought so many clothes along,
as nothing but white is worn. 1 will
be forced to give most Of my clothing
away, as the dampness spoils every
thing. Wearing apparel is cheap; we
can buy suits here for two and three
dollars that would cost seven or eight
at bone.
One thing L must mention which 1
am sure will interest you. 1t is abso-
lutely necessary to keep house, as
restaurants are unknown.
Mr.. Greyson, my companion and my
self, have small house with three
rooms in it, and we employ two SER
wants. The post Office department al
lows US one and we employ the other.
The one employed by the post office Ru-
while the other one receives three.
We pay no house rent so you see it
doesn It cost so much. We figure that
it will cost US about fifteen dollars each
per month. Isn't this cheap? For for
ty pieces of washing paid dollar.
Last Saturday l went to the city to
buy some dishes for our mess While
tnere L thOuRnGi WOuld go ana see hate
Franklin as have not seen her yeti I
found her in state of upset, as she is
going to San Francisco to live. Her
husband is som W here in the vicinity,
she says and asked me TO look him up
which [ will do.
We have queer set here called COM
pampsnpan on they are hearthen lot.
| These people worship Idols.I will send
you a sample of the idol as soonss 1 can
get one. Ais UGH things as these are
much sought after.
am having some of my pictures
! developed and when finished will send
them to you.
When first came up here I thought
Spanish was the only language spoken
but this idea prove to be false one,
as the natives here speak nothing but
Iogalo. OF course they understand
] some Spanish, but very little.