The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-02-17

WIS gong up the street and ~ |
passed a rye corrugated iron whole
sale house | saw u very good looking
PHILIPPINE with a white child about
three years old which looks like some
ones baby In lola, butaI won't say
whose. 1 addressed the man In
Spanish and he said II WAS his Guild
aud that Re was PHILIPPINE but its
mother IL spanish. The child waved |
It's hands to me and when | gave 1t
my finger 1t shook 1t for long time. |
The PHILIPPINE, that is the better
class, are very bright and extremely
active and well muscled, although
they are very small of stature. But
l can't say that / like them. I be-
leve I like the Chinese better. There
are a great many Chinese here, more
of them in business here than any
other race. They are all very hard
workers, from the ones who carry
loads clear up to the big merchants.
The loads they carry are simply won
derful. They are wonderfully well
muscled and some Of them very large
and have seen them carrying loads
of $50 pounds almost on the run. l
do not know how much more they
, are capable of carrying, but these
were loads of flour and l could figure
the weight. The Chinese are very
socable and like the Americans and
are all trying desperately to learn
= English. There are blocks and
= blocks of Chinese stores and lots of
grocery stores are already stocked
with American goods, especially
canned stuff and crackers. If you go
in and do not want to buy they will
: bring you n chair and ask you to sit
g down. They often ask you In to take
o a meal with them but | don't fancy
r their grub nor can ] describe 1t now,
r except the rice which is cooked very
h dry generally. When you sit down
d one of them gets his English primer
I or first reader or dictionary out and
d gets you to tell him words and by
pantomime describe and explain SEN
Q fences. They are quick to under
i stand but of course the pronunciation
u lie hard for them. They are mighty
d well pleased If you come often and
: talk to them and teach them. There
9 Is Chinese boy about IA years old at
8 q mill just up the street and he runs
Q out with two or three cigars and a
n box of matches every time he sees
i me. Then in the evening he will
It come around and ask me things and
:. repeat every word / say. He is in
y that way learning to pronounce Eng
n lish very well indeed. None of them
i seem to get tired or discouraged
It We are quartered right in Chinese
n section and 80 1 get to see lots OF
i them. But l have no faith in the
x PHILIPPINES and would not trust them
d with my back turned. They are
y treacherous.
o On Christmas day / went visiting
9 down to Company L for dinner. We
Is currant Jelly. mashed potatoes dress
k ed with cream and chicken gravy
d canned sweet corn, pie, cake, peaches
y and chocolate, 1t was all very nice
:. but the chicken wasn't good. 1t die
o not taste like American chicken a
3. all. They are fed on rice and frui
q and have no fat about them or M
u rich taste. In the forenoon | wen
l,I - 3 IA
< Goth Kansas is doing outpost duty
d They send two officers and twenty
h four men there every day. The place
y is low and swampy and there are
n matched native houses ON both aidel
g of the road.
Here our outposts are in sight of thu
II insurgent outpost sentries. Some
n times you can pass our linee and q
d clear out to the insurgent lines. They
l have trenches and will not allow yoI
If to pass beyond. About a week ag'
x there was some excitement in oul
n camp about this outpost. In thu
Il night the insurgents built a bloch
II house within bamboo shanty on al
g island In the river. In the morning
.. they tore down the bamboo and ther,
It stood block house clear within oul
It lines. The officer of the day sent
v word to Col. Funston and he ordered
the insurgents to vacate the house
Il which they refused to do, The Col
IS then said he weuld drive them out
k and came back and got the regiment
l. under arms. But when he reported
Q 1t to the Brig. Gen. he would not per
d nit an attack on them. 1t was also
II at this outpost too, that two Kansas
o senIrles got scared half to death and
o ran for dear life. They were posted
q far out in front of the others and IN
70 the darkness of the night they imag