The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-02-02

lin connection with the markets, a
great many young girls may be seen
ia various parts of Cavite with a basket
of peculiar make. in which they carry
such commodities as are readily sold.
These would be cigars, cigarettes, or.
anges, bananas and various other sun
dry sweets, such as they alone know
how to manufacture. During the
whole of our stay on the islands we
saw no candies similar to our own. ex.
certing such as had been sent by friends
to soldiers in the various regiments.
Son the whole, the food received
was very good, for the kind of stuff
that came over from the United States
was of a superior quality, and was pur.
chased at the commissary at the same
rate the government bought it. Vein.
erwursts and sauerkraut. canned ham.
plum pudding-eatables Of this kind.
while not down on the regular bill Of
fare, could be obtained if the boys had
saved q sufficient amount of money for
the same.
"We we're greatly interested in the
habits of various animals, bugs and
insects that might he found on this
island interested in keeping the mos.
quitoes at a distance-and to dc this
it wal necessary for u man to have a
mosquito netting about his bed, as the
insects were sufficiently shrewd to find
any small openings that there might be
in the netting and just keep a mar
awake all night; not SO much by their
music as by their fighting ability. Add
to these reaches that were Of gigantic
size. and various and sundry kinds of
night-bugs that would come up and hit
the side Of the bed or wall, making a
sound almost as loud as the bursting
Of a bladder, and you get some sort Of
an idea what the first few nights we're
like spent in the tropics. You didn't
care very much about going around
after night in your bare feet, least you
would meet a centipede, and you didn't
care to sleep without covering lest the
small varsity Of lizard that was creep.
ing over the wall, looking for the fes.
tive fly. might fall on you and then
crawl off. Truly, these things were
not calculated to make q man sleep we'll
or engage in dreamless slumber. A
late supper, or some IN Of the drinks
manufactured to keep a man cool, and
one or two of these bugs lighting on
him during the night, would make
him see monsters that would make him
swear off the next day from touching
anything within four hours before re.
firing.
"Another class that we were greatly
interested in was the ant family, and !
here reminded of a piece Of poetry
dedicated to Que Of these colonies,
like this:
How doth the little, busy ant improve each shin
- ing minute; n.
For loOting stuff and storing II, the Chlnaman
isn't in 1t,
"They simply 30 through and over
everything in the way Of diff.
Guilty in seeking for the food such as
they care for, to store away for the
rainy season. 1t is an actual fact that
these ants travel in small bodies very
much like a regiment. They seem to
have their generals, captains, outposts
and the various and sundry officers be.
longing to a we'll disciplined body of
men. They go immense distances. II
you should take one of the buildings.
such as were described in II Of our
previous talks, remembering where the
kitchen was, and il some one Of the
Muchachos should inadvertently have
left some sugar or other sweet food up.
on the table, the ants would make a
complete circle of the building and
Would Garry of absolutely all that was