St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-02-28

There is one American product with
which you can buy natives very soul.
can take single plug of American
sweetened plug chewing tobacco and
travel on foot and moneyless from one
end of Negroes to the other and never
want for nights lodging mess of rice
or shell of tuba. ! do not exaggerate
when | say that l believe that il Uncle
Sam offered plug of tobacco to each
man, the Papiecios would come in and
surrender in a body. The only place
where 'muscadi," as the natives call it,
can be purchased is at the American
Commissary's. OF course. only soldiers
can buy there. For a single chew of
muscadi native will do weeks wash
ing for a soldier. Why sweetened plug
is on sale only at the commissary's do
not know. II 1t is because OF high duty
it would pay to start factory here.
1t takes thirty days and nights Of the
severest description of exposure and
hardship for me to earn SIS go over
here. I'd cheerfully give that SIS go for
a good photograph of myself as made
my debut the other day on the back of a
water buffalo swimming the Balinbagin
river. The water buffalo horns spanned
four feet ten inches. Most of the other
fellows are in the same fix, more or less,
and would play high against photo
grapher's game on pay day. Whether
the powers that be would permit a
photographer to ply his trade among the
troops cannot say.
Partisan fashions do not arrive in
Negroes. At ten PAGES one native woman
looks just like every other woman.
They all wear the same thing. That is
couple of yards or so of red calico. 1t is
always the same pattern. and bright red.
1t is made In Manchester or Belfast. The
women of the Philippines wear out
enough of it in year to bandage the
globe. Here is a chance for some enter
prising Fall River man to prepare for
prospective trade.
We all want an enterprising patent
medicine man over here. We are never
i'll, but we are usually almighty sore. A
pin scratch in this elm ate takes month
to heal, cut takes four OF FIVE months
and trivial wound year. The native
who gets sore on his leg at Is, at 60
still retains it as a souvenir OF his youth
We want the patent medicine man to
send us lotion that will promptly heal
scratches. sores and small wounds in
this climate. Well put him in the class
with Col. Sellers. There are nearly 100,-
900 American soldiers here, and every
one of them has two sore feet, and each
foot needs bottle OF that lotion to be
taken internally, externally, and etern-
ally.
There's field here for young doctors
Not that it is sickly. for il isn't. But be-
cause there are no doctors here. There
are lust four. natives. on the island.
They charge $500, Mexican, for visit.
Few natives can stand that. So the ma
tive who gets a collie, just resigns himself
and dies, when dose Of Jamaica ginger
would pull him through.
see by extracts from home papers
that Mr.. "Lo! the Poor Indianl" says
that the parallel between these islands
and the American of our Indian. killing
forefathers is false one. He saws that
I settlement will not follow the rife over
here. The islands are filling up with
civilian Americans right now. When
reached here in October Freedom Of
Manila was an eight page daily with d
, few advertisements. Now it is twelve
, page daily and the advertisements o.
, American business firms are crowdiue
out news. Americans are coming here in
shoals. About one in every ten dis
, charged regulars stays right here. They
, start shops and take places as planta.
! ton overseers. In the latter capacity
they are assisting the army to settle the
. centurv-old Papiecio problem. You can't
coax 800 Papiecios within FIVE miles of a
hacienda after they see an ex.rtg uar
} with Krag on his shoulder, slouching
through the fields in the capacity OF over.
seer. The Krag "talkee mucha toe
fast"
l write this in quarters in the second
story OF big Spanish house at Isabella
J Negroes. Down in the room beneath me
there is captive Papiecio captaln-ont
Of your noble patriots. He sits on the
ground with his feet in stocks, and 6
brutal American regular watches his
every move, and wishes the fellow would
try to escape, so that he could pump him
. full of peep holes. The native Civil Pres
: ident of this pueblo would give $1,000
! gold for a revolver and five minutes
, private interview with him. There isn't
native or Spanish resident OF Isabella
r who would not kill him with as little
t conjunction as he would a mad dog
{ He has been in the mountains ten wears
His record Of crime fills fifty odd pages O
the records of the local criminal court
5 He has set the torch to much property
He has wantonly slain many peaceful
hard working natives, sparirg neither
old women nor babies He has murdered
f ten.year old girls. He bears his history
r in his face. You look at him and say
| There is creature who would cut the
throat OF girl baby aud laugh to SEE
the blood run" This noble patriot, thi.
George Washington the Second, wher
captured carried a commission from
Aguinaldo, and wore at his side gold
mounted sword, gift from Aguinaldc
as a token of his high esteem. Come
over here, Mr.. Lo, and let us introduc,
: you to your friends. 1t might cure you
Meanwhile, here is Negroes, waiting tc
be wooed and won. Negroes. of which
| the Spaniards had an epigram. that
/, freely translated, would go something
2 like this:
Six continents and many isles,
OF nothing God, He made all those;
And then of prime, selected, hand-picket
' stuff,
I The good Lord God--He made Negroes
/ -[New York Sun.