The Newtown bee., 1900-10-19

expecting to move in few days and will probably move nearer to Cebu. hope 1t will be our last move for while. l A big box of books came in the day that l I received the papers. They were from | Mrs Smith as gift to the company. It is not to be opened until we are settled down in our new town. We have had another added to our death list, one of our men who has been in the hospital at have lost heavier than any company in the regiment. I will have to close now ss have some work to do.
 Nsgs, Cebu, P. l., August l, 1900.
 Have received the box of books at last. It came July 30 and with it were two boxes of books from Mrs Smith, gifts to the company. That makes three boxes that we have received from her. Every one is very much pleased with the books and they came in good time as 1t was be. coming quite dull with nothing to read. But now. between Mrs Smiths three boxes and mine. we will have our hands full. But that fruit cake! I got eight of the boys together and we made 3 charge on 1t. When they called the roll about half an hour later we all answer. ed to our names but there wasn't a crumb of that cake left. They told me to say in my letter that they enjoyed the cake very much and that my mother was the best cook in the world, and think that she is. don't see what can be the matter with the mail. The last letter I nearly month ago. have had several
 bundles of papers since then but no let ters. I received two bundles of papers on the day that received my box and also an invitation to the Commencement Ex- ercises, Class of 1900, Danbury High school. With the invitation was the card of Eugenie G. Serre. When Florrie
 writes to Danbury again have her tell Eugenie that under the circumstances I Also tell her to give the family my kind. est regards. Since wrote last we nave made another move. This time to re- lieve 'M" Company of our regiment. They had been stationed in this town over ten months and were sorry to leave. But 1t is about time that we had Q rest, So "A" Company was sent to town nearer Cebu and we took command here. We have fine barracks, made of bamboo. only hope that we have chance to stay here awhile. We have been on the move ever since we came to the islands and think we have earned . rest. We
 surgents last Sunday. One of the native policemen came in and said that there
 was . large band of insurgents near plantation belonging to the president of
 the town about i've miles out. As was the senior non on.commissioned officer was sent out with 20 men to look for them.
 We went out to the presidents planta-
 tion but found they had been gone over i've hours, 60 we made no attempt to
 follow them. The policeman told us
 that there were over 200 in the band and | 0,fkh fhnvn thYoo npnnnRo1a
 had only known about them sooner we
 would have had fl oe time with them as only part of them were armed with
 rifl :s and the remainder armed with
 bOios and spears. There won't be much more fighting as we received word that treaty of peace had been declared in Ma
 nila. Although there will always be
 more or le 8 trouble with the Ladrones,
 and even they are getting scared because
 them. We received word, last night, that
 another man, belonging to our company,
 had died in the hospital at Cebu and also
 the First Sergeant of ID" Company.
 There will be a great many more who | will never go back to the ''Statee." :"
 Don't worry about me as never felt
 better in my life. We have all kinds of exerciee to keep one in good health. Yesterday went out to watch the fun
 oral of one of the swslls of the town.
 The native band headed the procession
 and the only tune played Twas "There'll
 be Hot Time in the Old Town" It
 seemed to be very appropriate. I had
 some work this morning that made me the drainage of the quarters and had
 men digging ditches and laying bamboo
 chain pipe all morning. Well, I will
 close as I have more work to attend to. Naga, Cebu, P. l., August IA. 1900. It has been nearly two weeks since l | wrote last 90 made up my mind to write
 to- day as I am in charge of quarters and
 have nothing to do. received your
 letter of June 10 on Auguet and was from you for nearly three weeks. In the same mail received letter from Ford
 in which he enclosed the. Alumni pro-
 gram. Tell him that thank him for
 sending it and that am very sorry that
 I couldn't be there to take part in the
 game. l.. s. Hunt of I'M" Company of
 the 18th has commenced to organizs .
 native militia company. He has about
 50 natives at present, all we'll built fel-
 lows. They are rationed, clothed and
 drilled the same as our troops. So far
 week they had two fights with the insur-
 gents and killed quite Q number, besides
 capturing six officers. They know just
 where to find the immigrants and will do
 more toward putting down all the trouble than we could in ten years. I
 went into Cebu a few days ago in the Paymaster's boat. On the boat were two
 prisoners, . priest and an insurgent colonel. The priest had . wicked look. ing face and seemed capable of doing most anything in tae linesof crime. We have had several days of stormy weath. CT, the past week, and last night we were treated to an earthquake, or rather this morning between three and four o'clock. was half asleep when I felt my cot
 swaying back and forth. It woke me up and could feel the building swaying.
 There waen't particle of wind so I couldn't account for it. Then I happen ed to think of the eartbq quake which we felt at Manila and knew what the trouble was at once. The sWaying cen. tinued for about five minutes and then stopped. In the morning when we all got up, we found nearly everyone had noticed 1t but very few knew what 1t was. will close here ss have nothing more to write about Your loving son, Ben.
 A THOUSAND TONGUES
 Could not oxpreas the rapture of Annie K. Springer, of 1125 Howard St., Phila- delphia, Pa., when she found that Dr