The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-19
soldier Letter.
soldier Letter.
The following letter is sent to us
from Waterloo for publication:
B1NANeoNAN, p. i,

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B1NANeoNAN, p. i,
July 81, 1900.
Dear Friend:-I was very glad
to get those papers you sent. News
is so scarce here that a letter or
paper from ones friends is prize.
L thought that piece about Presi-
dent Mckinley was good one.
Several of the boys read it and had
hearty laugh over it. / sent you
a number of papers and with them
was a handkerchief made by a Fill
Pine girl in this town, We are
practically out of the world here
The town has population of 1900
and not horse nor COW and no
road to get away but trail where
we have to march single file over
mountains and through swamps
whore we get in the mud to our
knees. All our ratious aud sup
plies come from Manila, thirty-five
miles northwest of here They
come up the Pasig River and La
gunHde Bay in steam tugs. Our
company is alone here six miles
from any other troups. We have
some pretty hard marches. most of
them at night, as it is 30 hot in the
day time. But not much fighting
we catch them once in while and
have little chase, for they nearly
always run. We took eleven guns
away from them the other night,
without firing n shot. The rainy
season has begun aud it rains near
ly every day. Sometimes it comes
down in torrents for half day,
then every thing gets ahoat.
The Filipinos hero all live in
bamboo shacks with four corner,
cd grass roof and they look like
bee hives from distance. Every
man owns his own house, and if
too poor to own any land, he rents
of his more fortunate neighbor
Then when he wants to move he
invites dozelRof his friends to
the frolic and passes the beno, the
native rum, around few times un.
til they all get strong" then they
pick the house up and walk off
with it on their shoulders, followed
by his wife with the game rooster
under her arm, and the children
from two to dozen or more, driv-
ing the hogs. L saw one move the
other day, over mile, and only set
the house down once, and then be-
cause they were thirsty; they took
a drink of bono and went on.
When they reached their new loca-
ton they set the house, which was
about ten feet wide and twelve feet
long, down on the ground and
were moved"
Like all places, here they have
q grand church built of stone and
covered with a tile roof. There is
a large stone building here, whore
the Spanish soldiers were quarter
ed until Dewey drove them out two
years ago. We now occupy it. 1t
is fine place to live in too, lots of
windows and doors that make it
nice and cool.
We are troubled moro with sick
ness than anything else We have
thirty four men in the hospital now,
and eleven have gone home on &C.
count of sickness. 1 have not been
in the hospital yet, but have been
sick twice, for few days, We
have had small. pox in camp twice,
but every one was vaccinated once
and if that wasn't enough they took
another.
If you hear from Bob Reed, tell
him this is not like soldering in
the States. We carry our guns
loaded here One night we, thir-
teen of us left here at evening and
marched to Tay Tay, and caught fiji
teen prisoners, eight guns and
four boloes, "big knifes," and lot
OF ammunition, but as there were
three hundred Filipinos in the
neighborhood and it was dark, we
just took the prisoners and guns
on to Pasig, making march OF
twenty five miles. We reached
Pasig at daylight next morning
The company pony ahead, loaded
with baloes and ammunition, the
fifteen prisoners in double file, six
of lis on each side guarding them.
One of them was a Lieut.. Colonel.
The rest of them were all barefoot.
ed. They don't wear shoes in the
Filipino army, but they get there
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