New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-29

Manila, p l.. April "a
u,h,, the various Allied Aggregatioas wherein
ho..n my studies in natural history contained
- oorabaos or buffalo, / do not under
..ond He is a most curious animal In appear
800 manners and morals. He Is the most
,rovokngly slow beast of burden that ever
drew cart, and the Quietest-that is. when he
,s sober: but deny him water for any consider
able time and a madness seizes him, he becomes
drunk with longing. and raging lions are but
tabby-cats in comparison. He charges not with
lowered head. but with his curved and wide
spread horns brandished In defiance The air
is filed with his bellowngs Of madness and the
scenery. DOC" Poets OF WoIfviIle would re-
mark, is much pervaded with this demon Of the
color OF an army blanket.
From his speed OF one and one-half miles an
hour 0ess on rough roads, TO a hundred yards in
even time" is surprising always and positively
terrifying when first seen. company of this
regiment has had carabao, with a Chinaman
driver attached "for rations and quarters"
few days ago the driver fell i'll; the bull was
neglected and two minutes after this cruel
neglect had penetrated the brute's brain G
company was literally up a tree half-dozen
pup" tents the soldiers call the shelter
tents. were in ribbons, and the bull had. in the
yernacuar "vamosed.' Regimental head
quarters being in his path to a water-hole the
spectacle of field officer Of rank and years
playing hide and-seek around a mango tree
with "a raging devil sir! raging devil!'
afforded the regimental staff.
McTamany now gives the bull Of H company
q wide berth. He said Il know ye We divil-
Ye worse nor the gray swing mule at Fet-
terman-her that killed Shorty" Esbeck. and
him teamster for near twenty year. to say
nothin' O. havin' a big family and OWN me
swim dollars along o. monte"' But the Cone
maugh is in with 235 mules aboard. and soon
we hope to hear them back Of our lines hee-
having for forage the trumpeter Of the
guard blows first call for revele in the pink
streaked gray dawn.
NOT IN THE "OLD ARMY"
I'm the old Army is an expression that, when
It was uttered by grayhead in days gone by,
always prefaced q good story introduced an
experience whereby youngsters might learn OF
war. But in the old Army they did not use
carabaos with creakng. crawling carts for
transportation. nor barefoot Cinnamon in scanty
clothes as litter bearers in the hospital ccfps.
Money is money, but life is life. the WORLD over.
Hence that SO a month could buy sach ser
vice as these sturdy, chattering bearers give
our troops appalls one They are not impressed.
but come voluntarily and as they go trotting
up to the firing line by pairs. with the hateful
white canvas litter hung from their shoulders
by broad straps, or come slowly to the rear
with a limp burden Of blue khaki. the little
red-whte- and-blue card on their sleeveless
shirts seems more than mere mark OF identi-
fcation; 1t is almost a badge OF personal
bravery.
Honor and patriotism ;mpel men to do brave
deeds. or fame, through the smokecloud. 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 befalls a man Of the
west who tires of soldier cooks and seeks
meal in Manila at the Hotel de Oriente or Res
taurant de Paris also causes him to wonder at
the ways of these people. Both of these places
are of Spanish Togal management menu and
service.g A heap Of the thick stone-china plates
used is placed before each guest The heap L.
never allowed to diminish in height. for the
Filipino waiter who you brings on an
additional plate with each course. This results
in most cases in the patron attempting to per-
suade the walter to remove sufficient number
Of the plates to bring the topmost down some
where near the level of the eyes. but as most
Of US speak but little Spanish and no TogalL
success Is rarely met with, and when attainei
is but short-lived for one Of the myriad or
vaterboys. barefoot and dressed precisely as
the man of forty, builds again the tower OF
china
Fried eggs form the second course of every
meal and the che-stew. too, Is never absent,
and l cat my fish now whenever the man OF
brown with shirt worn Chinese fashion thinks
to bring 1t in. 1 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 Filipino walters
mind. but I 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 din
ner The fruit brings to mind no tasteless
artifcauy ripened bananas but real, delicious
fruit, and as for mangoes I only wonder
why New-York does not know mangoes.
chilled mango is-we chilled mango
THE HOLD ON THE PHILIPPINES.
Previous TO our departure from New-York
remember reading in many papers, 1--WE should
not let go OF the Philippines" but since my
arrival here have learned that We were some
what hasty in such declaration. For surely
we have not as yet firm hold these islands.
The occupation OF Iloo and bit of territory
on Luzon that is but little more than man9u-
wiring ground for an army corps is grasp
scarcely to be considered including the
tire group. We have not conquered the natives;
have scattered them. The latest rumor is
that we have only succeeded in arousing a
more extended disaffection Tribes that have
hitherto been neutral. at least passive are
now in active rebellion. Not that Aguinaldo
can equip a greater force. for it is we'll estab-
lished that he now has more adherents than
there arms TO supply so that when one
iDsurgent falls or Is captured a camp follower