Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-12


the Islanders viii Eventually Make
Good Citizens-No Danger of Ameri-
can Soldiers COMMUNICATING them
4 We're Thoroughly Posted Before the
Americans Got There Many Bits Of
! Information about the People and
their Country.
TAYABAs, z. |.
June 6, 1900.
AS it has been raining little it is
not quite SO hot as it has been. The
mornings are clear and fine just like
some spring mornings in West Va,
when you throw your head back in
fate your lungs and wish you could
live forever. Towards noon 1t clouds
up some which increases as evening
approaches when there is much light
ming and rain in the mountains. The
lowest temperature ever recorded In
May was 70 degrees and the highest
101 degrees. During some years
there has been no rainfall In May and
very little this year.
One of the principal occupations of
the women in the province is making
hats from vegetable fibre. They are
made with great skill and those on
the market range in price from one to
ten dollars gold. 1t takes a woman
about six weeks to make one Of the
finest and it would hardly weigh an
ounce when finished. This work
must be very hard on the eyes.
Along the Pasig river are many tile
factories where they make better and
more artistic tile for floor and all pur-
poses than | have seen in the states.
| notice the Filipino becomes an ex-
pert at anything he takes an interest
in. The best dentist on the island is
a Filipino in Aggie's army. The best
engIaVers, photographers and printers
in Manila are Filipinos. They excel
as musicians, especially on stringed
and reed instruments. With the
American flag on these islands the
Filipinos will play part on the
worlds stage that will surprise them
selves and be an eternal honor TO the
people OF the United States.
never see a good thing but what
wish all my friends could enjoy 1t with
me. When we come out Of the Pasig
river on to Laqura de Bay and saw
the miles of fish traps and thousands
OF ducks my first thought was; / wish
f. K. O'Kelley, Henry Hayes, viii
Joseph, Judge Berkshire and all the
sportsmen in Morgantown could come
here once year and enjoy life to it's
fullest while they do live When
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the river they first start for the lake
and that is where they are caught in
the traps. Every stream great and
small contains fish; the water teens
with them, and there are plenty OF
deer in the mountains.
4 There is good vein Of coal near
here and / saw plenty Of lime stone In
i the mountain. The people having
little use for fire except to cook and
use wood all together.
/ The people raise considerable sugar
cane here. The stalks are large and
black from the ground half way up,
and only require planting every three
or four years. When American ma
chinery is introduced this will become
great industry. | have not yet had
an opportunity to study the hemp bus
mess. / have seen it growing howev-
er. 1T looks just like your garden
rhubarb or pie plant except that it is
about ten feet high.
i / am glad to see the fishing tools
used by the STANDARD Oil Company
over here furnished by Warrington,
w. Va, firm and that the boiler and
steel work for the large ice plant in
Manila came from Pittsburg.
When the people over here say MA
Mia" they make the first syllable
short, give the second syllable slight
accent and pronounce the like ee in
freedom. This is a great improve
ment on the way the word is used in
the states where 1t sounds like one
was calling his mother and sister at
the same time.
/ was surprised to see the children
selling what | supposed to be pop corn
balls, but found them to be made of
rice, the rice sspops' the same as our
pop corn. We are still trying to sam
pie all the new fruits that are coming
in. This week we found one kind
that looks and taste like tomato
that bad been filled with sugar. An
other must be a first cousin to our
pampano but is much larger and has
: a delicious flavor Still another tastes
!, exactly like good sour cooking apple
and is the same size but the outside
, layers come off like an onion and the
. Invisible part is ball that looks like
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, the outside layers grew on.
We nave many variations OF dragon
flies or snake feeders" as the boys
J call them In the states. One of these
is beauty. 1t is like those at home
except its body from its wings back is
brilliant red.
We can buy anything we need very
cheap in the commissary. The large
cakes of ivory soap you pay ten cents
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