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

or, perhaps, Boloman. steps into line With the
abandoned rifle. An increase in numbers will
net. however, embarrass him. We are fighting
guerilla warfare. and guerillas are never sup
pied by organized departments but live off
the country. And In n country where little
boys can bear. by means Of shoulder stick and
cords. burden OF rice that will support ten
men Tor day. there is no difficulty to be
come by a commander when a hundred, or O
thousand unarmed retainers join his force.
The coolie as bearer do wonders with
a springy bamboo stick and little coil Of
cord. He early learns the knack-for there Is
a knack about it-and. when he has come to
maturity, the weights borne are considerable,
and, his gait being a rapid walk. the white
man can never compete with him. l saw four
Chinese carrying an upright piano along the
street. and they actually overlook battalion
of infantry marching out to the suburbs
THE UBIQUITOUS CHINAMAN.
The American laboier accents laborious ef
fort with deep grunts or, his task ended. blows
soft whistles of surpr sc. but Chnaman never
makes such sounds, because he talks all the
time while at work. Here, in Manila, the China
man is the chief contractor for Government
supplies, a stevedore; and as a pedler OF small
wares. or of fruits and vegetables he Is every
where-on the street out along the line of
trenches from Caloocan the north to Pasay
on the south-while a wandering shoemaker,
with baskets of tools and material, he follows
column Of infantry we'll up into disputed
country.
When the American Army landed this
land Of small prices for labor and produce,
but to-day pay dearly for many things, and
many Of us have cause TO regret that Congress
saw fit to cut out Of the Army bill the pro-
posed 20 per cent increase Of pay for service
IN our new possessions. | wonder sometimes II
Congress will recognize our present fighting as
war 1t is well known that it for years re-
fused TO consider our Indian campaigns as war.
The present service may not be war legally
or should l say legal war?-but one regiment
has in four engagements lost over eighty men
In killed and wounded. and the LIST Nebraska
hnd five aiaCo n6 two nj
while yesterday. Maloos, the colonel Of
that regiment John NJ. Stotsenburg. replied, as
becomes q soldier. TO the uncalled-for censure
of the Legislature Of Its home State. He was
killed in action. This may not be war; 1t Is
certainly not magnificent.
The homebound transports are relieving the
| pressure at the hospitals. The first reserve
hospital had day last week 96O patients,
and the hospital for convalescents at Corregi-
dor Island quite many There are no COM
plants heard concerning the hospital service
The food is. perhaps, heavy for the sick and
wounded, but as there Is no epidemic OF hysterla
hereabouts the men fairly content.
1t may not he known. but the fresh beef for
the Eighth Corps comes from Australia In re-
frigerator ships, and is delivered to my men In
perfect condition. Indeed. the interior Of
quarter OF beef is frozen solid many hours after
being unloaded from the ship. 1 heard two
company cooks discussing with all gravity the
advisabty of cutting recess In great
floZen piece and placing therein bottle or
two OF pop" or. perhaps 1t was beer; Ice is
real luxury here; small factory exists. but
the demand Is enormous.
ICE-CREAM SODA ARRIVES.
great surprise has been given us recently
-ice-cream soda has come to town-and we
are hopeful that the Igorrotes Tagalogs. Bolo-
men other tribesmen will acquire the ice
cream soda habit; then the steps toward pri-
mares. conventions and elections will quickly
follow; marchings and skirmshings will be
ended, and we can then go sailing home by
way of Hong Kong and Nagasah-home to
the land where the betel-nut is unknown and
unchewed: where a cloudess day Is sometimes
OF pleasant coolness and where the sun does not
rise and set the year around at by the clock;
a land where there is q twilight, wherein one
may sit and plan Of things other and happier
than Yesterdays IN the Philippines"