The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-11

FROM the NEW AOAh AiAphASs
Manila, P. l.. April 24,-Why the various
,utea aggregations wherein I began my
indies in natural history contained no
.srabaos. or water-buffalo, l do not I'M
derstand. He is a most curious animal in
sppearance manners and morals. He is
me most provokingly slow beast of burden
mar ever drew cart, and the quetest-
mat is, when he is sober; but deny him
water for any considerable time and
madness seizes him, he becomes drunk
with longing, raging lions are but tabby-
cats. in comparison. He charges, not with
lowered head, but with his curved and
widespread horns brand.shed in defiance.
The air is filled with his beIlowings of mad
ness and the scenery, as DOC" Poets of
Wo1fville would remark, is much pervaded
with this demon of the color OF an army
blanket.
from his speed of one and one-half miles
an hour CESS on rough roads, to hundred
wards in "even time" is surprising al
ways and positively terrifying when first
seen. G company of this regiment has had
carabao, with a Chinaman driver at
taCAed Tor fdtlOnS anu QudA tSlS. - ANN
DAYS ago the driver fell Ill; the bun was
raolecied. and two minutes after this cruel
NEGLECT had penetrated the brutes brain,
Z; company was literally up a tree"
baIf-dozen pup tents, as the soldiers call
tb. shelter tents, were in ribbons, ana the
hull had in the vernacular, "vamoosed.
Resimental headquarters being in his
path 10 a water hole, the spectacle OF
de,d officer of rank and years playing hide
and-seek around mango tree with "a
raging devil, sir! raging devil! was al
forded the reg.mental staff.
NcTamany now gives the bull of H com
many wide berth. He said: Il know
We. We divil. Ye are worse nor the gray
swing mule at Fetterman-her that Kill
ed shorty Esbeck, and him a teamster
for near twenty year, to say nothln
havin' a big family, and OWN me slvln
dollars along O monte!" But the Cone
maugh is in with go mules aboard ana
soon We hope 10 hear them back OF our
lines hee-hawing for. forage as the trum-
peter of the guard blows first call for
reveille in the pink-streaked gray dawn.
Not in the "OId Army"
I'm the old army is an expression that,
when it was uttered by graybeard IN
davs gone by, always prefaced good
story or introduced an experience where
by Youngsters might learn of war. But
in the old army they did not use carabaos
with creaking, crawling carts for trans
uortation nor barefooted Cinnamon IN
ecanty clothes as litter-bearers in the hos
pital corps Money is money, but life is
life. the world over Hence that $40
month could buy such service as these
sturdy, chattering bearers give our troops
annals one. They are not impressed, but
come voluntarily, and as they go trottlng
up to the firing line by pairs with the
hateful white canvas litter hung rom
tbeir shoulders by broad straps, or come
slowly to the rear with a limp burden OF
blue or khaki the little red-white-and-
line card on their sleeveless shirts seems
more than a mere mark of identifcaio ton;
it is almost a badge of personal bravery
Honor and patriotism impel men 20 do
brave deeds. or fame, through the smoke
cloud may beckon to them; but that mere
money could carry man, coolie though
he be- across bullet-swept fields, conVinces
the Occidental mind that it does not yet
know the East or its people.
The experience that befaIs man OF
the West who tires Of soldier cooks and
seeks a meal in Manila at the Hotel de
Oriente or Restaurant de Paris also
causes him to wonder at the ways OF these
people. Both of these places are of Span
ish-Togali management, menu ana service.
A heap of the thick stone-china plates
used is placed before each guest The
heap is never allowed 90 diminish in hight,
for the Filipino waiter who serves you
brings on am additional plate with each
course. This results in most cases in the
patron attempting to persuade the waiter
TO remove a sufficient number OF the plates
to bring the topmost down somewhere
near the level of the eyes, but, as most
OF US speak but little Spanish and no
Togali, success is rarely met with, and
nd far
OF the myriad of water boys, barefoot ana
dressed precisely as the man OF 40, builds
again the tower of china.
Fried eggs form the second course OF
every meal, and the chile-stew, too, is
never absent, and eat my fish now when
ever the man of brown with shirt worn
Chinese fashion thinks to bring it in.
am sure that all the courses are served
as a hopeless memory may direct, always
excepting the fried eggs. do not know
what is the first thought in a Filipino
walters mind, but l am convinced that
fried ducks eggs is the second For
"dulce," or sweets, little cakes are brought
and excellent fruit with Wretched coffee
completes-no, ends a dinner The fruit
brings to mind no tasteless, artificlally
ripened bananas, but real, delicious fruit,
and as for mangoes, l can only wonder
why New York does not know mangoes.
The Hold on the Philippines.
Previous TO our departure from New
York l remember reading in many papers,
We should not fet go or the Philippines"
but since my arrival here l have learned
that we were somewhat hasty IN such de-
claration For surely We have not as yet
a firm hold on these islands. The occupa-
ton of Ilo.lo and Bit of territory on Luz
zon that is but little more than maneuver-
ing ground for an army corps is a grasp
scarcely 10 be considered as including the
entire group. We have not conquered the
natives; we have scattered them. The lat
est rumor is that We have only succeeded
IN arousing a more extended disaffection.
Tribes that have hitherto been neutral, or
at least passive, are now in active rebel
hon. Not that Aguinaldo can equip a
greater force, for IL is wen established that
he now has more adherents than there are
arms 10 supply, so that when one insur-
gent falls or Is captured a amp-follower,
or perhaps, Boloman, steps into line with
the aboudone1 rifle n fppraaea in NUM-