The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-06-27

curing here during the last few weeks,
but I'll try to give you some Of the
small details of our soldier life.
Last Sunday two Filipino women OF
Jaro, died, and were buried. The priest
attended TO the preparation of the
cOrpses for burial, and had them placed
in a two wheeled cart drawn by a
water buffalo. Then the relatives of
the dead, the priest, and q guard Of y.
8. soldiers followed, with barred heads.
close behind the cart as it slowly pro-
ceeded to the cemetery. The guard
was sent to prevent the priest from
carrying any arms or ammunition to
insurgents, as the cemetery is situated
near our outpost. Very recently a
funeral vas passing along the streets
Of Manila and women were weeping in
a rather forced manner, go the guard
Of the city su]spicioned the affair,
opened the coffin, and found arms and
ammunition in ii! The fake funeral
party aimed to smuggle them through
the lines to insurgents, but your Uncle
Samuel was not to be caught mapping.
A few evenings ego as a company Of
my regiment was relieving another
company from outpost duty, the ne.
my's outpost fired at them, but luckily
didn'5 hit any of our men. Tae rapid
fire gun was quickly gotten into posi-
Gion and poured a destructive fire into
the insurgents. After firing about 500
rounds our boys ceased fl .ipg to ascer-
tain whether the enemy was on the
run or not, and found that they had
fed in wild disorder.
Ny company had just come off duty,
so we expected to be called out to bat
tie any time during the night, but it
seems that the natives received such q
warm reception" they didn't care to
exchange any more compliments with
US that night.
A few days ago mi of sergeants
went beyond our Ii es to look for in
surgents, so he soon found a party of
them carry ing eggs, and they became
so frightened at him that they dropped
the eggs, and ran away, the sergeant
firing and Wounding two of them. He
picked up the eggs and brought them.
into quarters, and We ate them.
/ was on outpost night before last
and early yesterday morning I heard
insurgents calling hogs, and found a
lot of hogs were eating cocoanuts
which we had pulled from the tell
trees. / suppose the insurgents wished
to get them out Of our lines to prevent
our killing them. The hogs of this
island are very small, and look mn
what like the razor backs" They
live chiefly on cocoanute, maDgoes,
and a kind Of bean which grows here.
The only chickens left in this COM
munity have taken to the woods be.
tween our lines and those of the enemy,
and they can fly as we'll as cartridges.
Recently a lot Of 80 government
mules arrived here, 80 a native was
employed to lead two Of them away,
| wheEeupon Reuben" began to ''wRh
he, wah he" and the native became so
much frightened at the strange mel
ody(O coming from such a curious
looking animal, that he dropped the
halter, ran away, and cannot by any
means 5e induced to go near the mules
again. Our American mules are twice
as large as the email ponies Of this
island, SO it is no wonde the natives
we're surprised at such odd looking
/ animals.
The eff :ials of Tloilo fear an uprising
Of the natives who are working in
to wn and have taken every precaution
to successfully cope with the situation
should they break ouE. There are
many natives employed by shippers
in Lloilo, but our police force is strong
| and there are also the soldiers guard
ing the town. It is thought the natives
may attempt to burn the remainder Of
the town, &c they have already burned
the principal business street. Chinese
have built new roots On many of the
walls of the burned buildings. and are
| merchandising there. The CID fort Of
Iloi!o is being fitted up b. our officials,
and will be used for a general prison.
Cinnamon are doing the work, and the
foreman-a Chinaman-told me be re-
ceived 50. SO Mexican, per day, which
is equal to 81 Is American. When I
told MIN of high wages paid American
mechanics, he was greatly surprised.
Nearly all Chinese on this island speak
Spanish. It is said there are 1 900, 600
Chinese in the Philippines, and | don't
doubt it, judging by the number on
this island.
These islands will never benefit the