Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-05-23
FROM MESTREZAT.
He Tells of Some of the Pro
ducts of the Country.
A Walk in the Wood aud Strange
things he Found Many Familiar
Plants and Fruits Many Fatalities
Tading Place Recently In the Regi-
meut Dorsey Very Sick.
TAyABAs, LuzoN, r. /.
April II, 1900.

TAyABAs, LUZoN, +. /.
April IL, 1900
FRIEND kuNkLE.--I have just
been reading fresh assortment OF
American jokes gentleman in
congress speaks of teaching the Eli
pinos To wear clothes. / wish he could
] be here this week TO see the thousands
OF people attending church, the men
dressed in spotless white, andNthe
women most Of them in richest silks
with skirts as white as snow.
Leslie's Weekly for Feb. Sd contains
two good jokes. Oneis a two page
/ cut by G.. w. Peters entitled sProvid-
4 ing fresh beef for our soldiers In the
Philippines. The great slaughter
house at Manila, in which the cara
baos are killed for beef after they
have become useless AS beasts of bur-
deu." Whether this cut was intended
as slur on the government or the
! soldiers, or published through ignor-
ance we know not
The soldiers are fed ON frozen beef
and mutton brought from Australia
! the best in The world Where it is
/ impossible TO reach them with frozen
meat, Australian cattle are butchered
for them at the garrison.
The meat we eat here costs ten
cents gold per pound on the hoof
Joke No. 2 Is on page 96 "Briege Of
Spain at Manila the cut shows an
old suspension bridge condemned years
ago. The bridge OF Spain Is mag
niticent eight arch structure built Of
stone and steel.
La recent letter | spoke Of re.
mark nude by clutch Charlie,
Charlie Brant. when the band came In
to Tayabar. Charlie was In a company
that had little scrap three miles
from here recently and was the only
man killed. | trust that Hand IN
which he had 50 much faith has guild
ed him to more peaceful shore.
A member Of our regiment named
/ Foster from Evanston, Ill. killed him
self last week. He got up at a. III.
took his shelter tent out on the grass,
lay down ON it, and by pulling his
rifle off with bis toe sent bullet In
at his hip and out at the shoulder.
Soldiers become SO accustomed to see
ing the dead IL has little effect on
them, but we certainly had a sad fu-
neral Sunday.
Saturday night the corporal in
charge Of the outpost on the Lucena
road told the sentry he would sleep
awhile. The sentr.s supposed he went
into a shack near by, but instead he
took a hammock and put it up Oh the
outside Of the lines between two trees.
They had been annoyed by gugus try
| ing to get near enough to bolu them.
The sentry saw something move call
ed out .halt" three times then fired
two shots. One shot went through a
tree, the other through the corporal.
The noise woke him and as the spinal
cord had been severed he did not know
he was hurt at the time and said,
"What are you firing att" He lived
about half an hour and requested that
nothing be done with the sentry, he
will be given court-martIal however.
This regiment is noted for It's big
men, our tallest man six feet aud six.
inches, died with fever at Lucena last
week This regiment has had SO
much hard work 1T is in pretty bad
shape, but the men will DOW have
chance to rest up and pull themselves
/ together. We have Two companies
here. One of them has forty men able
for duty, the other fifty.
In the Philippines April and May
are the two hottest months. We have
good breeze and the thermometer
| does not get above 90 in the shade,
but the sun is like furnace, and for
white people to be obliged to walk
much in it means fever and often
death.
Our colonel, Gardner, is governor of
| Tayabas Province and the regiment is
divided up among the different towns
and will not be together again till we
leave for home, and we hope Uncle
Sam will leave US over here as long as
| possible as we want to see all we can
of the country.
One battalion Of the l4th Unfit left
! for the States on March 3lst. One
battalion of the 18th will leave in
few days The soldiers will be sent
to the States in the order they came
over.
| ventuTed out into the woods to-
! day for the first time since my arrival
in Tayabas. There was surprised to
| find wild tomato. They are small
| just like the little tomatoes that grow
at home, the size Of marbles. | also
found wild raspberries exactly like
those in the woods at home and to
my disgust my old enemy the three
leayed poison ivy. The woods around
here for miles are a jungle Of cocoanut
palms. These trees have on them at
all times1a few ripe nuts. many green
nuts of all sizes and set Of bloom.
The bloom looks just like corn tassels.
have counted seventy-five large nuts
on one tree. Dealing in copra IS the
principle business In this part Of tile