The Opelousas courier., 1900-05-19
From an opelousas Boy in Hiawaiia.
On Board U. S. S. Iroquois, J
Honolulu. II. L. April 25, 1900.

l1Uu0IullI HI As EAPtAA N.Y. AUSSe
NY Dear Father:
Yours of April nth to hand to-day
also Literary Digest and "Scientihc
American" which the whole crew ENJOY
as much as / do. Our chief now weighs
345 TBS. he is active, jolly and an all
ROUND A i man; says he is gong 70 Try
your treatment; he wants to Knock OH
15O lbs. enclose u Portuguese stamp
far Father Bacchioci who has written
me for stamps; also for Il. Desmarals,
Jr. Who is your Harry Wilcoxy Is ne
as good n machinist as my old ifiena
Zoder9
Doc, | have been exploring all OF
these Islands and taking notes, II
have come to the conclusion h q they
do not compare with Cuba and Porto
Rico. In the first place these Islands
are all mountainous; it you live on the
top YOU are in mid-winter all the time ;
if you live on the eide it is up hill and
down all,the time. when You receive full
force of the sea breeze. Ii You live IN
the valley belowyou get no breeze at all
and plenty OF mosquitoes. On the coast
Won have Il foe Wow and almost any
| thing else that it takes to constitute a
| happy llome-boating, sailing, bathing,
1.-THE year round,) fishing, &c. But
| everything il cultivated 10y means OF
irrigation, and that gives much trouble
besides being expensive. Honolalu mas
| 10000 inhabitants, street cars, electric
| lights and water-works but oh God
| Doc, one-half of the population IS COM
| posed of Cinnamon and Japs, n pour
ing in all the time. No sewerage, and q
| foot or SO beneath the hard surface the
ground is sobby. with a dlsagreeable
II p II. VE>NIr III & hnnlfh 0t1innr
says the only way to get rid of the pla.
quo here is to move the city. New cases
| are springing up every day or so, and 1t
| has spread to the other islands. Clolers
was never known here until they i'm
| ported these people. Why u govern
ment does not. debar them, l do mo-
know.
Now let me change the subject, ant
talk about Cuba and Porto Rico. There
Won have the same seasons, RAIN etc.
that YOU have i'm the United States, tht
same vegetables, fruits, flowers; and
many tropical fruits besides. You car
select any kind OF land, mountainous o.
prarie, coast d interior, rich or poor
healthy ar unhealthy; yellow jack hal
been epidemic there during the suinmei
months, but Uncle Sam is surely stamp
ing him out in short order. In my opin
ion these are the best Islands OF all TO
the poor man, but we will talk this al
over when Iget home. / have less thar
a year to sdrve now, but | suppose
will enlist again. as you say | have now
acquired a taste of Uncle Sans nav.
and will never be satisfied as a private
citizen. / started in the l~nternatlena
Correspondence School last mouth.
want to brush up a little in mathemat
les Physics ETC., for am getting rusty
I am taking lessons in splicing wIr'
and rope cables which pays the exper
from ten to twenty dollars a splice. |
will come in handy some day. II an!
thing should happen to you, | will se'
Frank through his four years course
AS long as | have a Beau he shall
have it, as we'll as any other member o
the family; it gives me more pleasure t.
send my money home than to spend il
and the most pleasure that | want to ge
out OF it. What is Jno. Ogden Jr. do
ing at Palmetto9 Am glad to hear tina
"Been and Mattye are getting along nice
ly. Also glad to know Mr.. Sandoz j
back in the store with You. NOwIif yO
would skip ont for Sour Lake and sta.
until you get rid of the rheumatism II
foot the bill: FALL work and no pia
makes Jack o bad boy.n Especially j
be is an old boy.) Iget the Courier
regularly. Send me any and all litera
ture for my shipmates asawell MS for my
self. / will bid you al effectionat
good night.
Your SOD,
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