The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-01-26

Filipino TailOrs, ShoeMalS- I
ers, Cigars and Lemonade. (
wall, rehearsing the lessons Of lsak
Walton. The fishing was good and Of
great variety, but not having perfected
my Tagalic, / am not able to give the
names that the natives Nsoribed to the
fish, and again, II I were to attempt to
spell them the natives, ut some future
time, looking over the tlles Of The Bill.
ings Gazette, would say that that In
deed was fshy. Oysters, shrimp, lob.
sters and a small shellfsh with IN I'M.
ntterable name were to be obtained
daily ut the market, and these were
good. The market itself was quite a
place; II might DO anywhere ~ the
middle Of nm old street, where one IN.
tive had set down his basket ind an
other native had stopped to talk to him
that was the beginning Of the market,
and very early Ia the morning-possi.
bly, ut . or 8 o'clock until 8 or 0--these
' natives would come IN their boats from
various and sundry places, catrying
various aud sundfy articles Of mer.
ohnndise, from Il pair az rough shoes to
a piece Of bamboo filled with "a suocu.
lent rice. + may not be able to do.
scribe to you the infinite variety that
to an American mind presented itself,
but If you did not see what you wanted
1t was only necessary to ask for IL.
There was the delicious onribOu meat,
carved fiom an old water buffalo that
had become too old 10 DO Of any further
service excepting az food; there wal
tie festive egg, that had become 10 ut.
%tenunted that the yolk ind the white
had mixed together 10 TINT you could
not tell the difference hetween the two.
But all AmerioAn would not buy the
eggs unless he had submitted them to
the process OF looking through them,
but these were 10 old that the natives
finally concluded that they could not
sell them In TINT way, 10, almost In
variably, IL you wanted to buy eggs,
you must buy them hard boiled. They
sprung something new u us when
they found that we drew the line ut the
native egg; II was an egg OF u larger
oalibre and a stronger build, chilled a
duck egg, aud In order to make them
pleasanter to the sight they would rnint
thom a nice, bright red. There was to
be found the fish ~ II had been taken
from the water, and be ID said to Its
credit that II was alive when placed
on the ground or III the peculiar basket
that they carry. You were able to
purchase tomatoes, sweet potatoes, egg
plants, salads, a peculiar kind Of celery,
radishes, small onions and the white
potato. The large onion, such as we
raise, evidently could not BIZ produced,
the soil being too moist, All kinds Of
fruit-cooonnut, banana, pineapple,
oranges, lines and one OF two native
fruits-were also to DO found. The
Cinnamon IN these markets would deal
largely IN fat pork. vermieellli, maoon.
roni and rice, and II he had been nble
to discover u crate Of onions that had
been condemned by the commissary,
would peel \ sufficient number Of these
to have quite a respectable display OF
fresh onions Oh his counter. Nothing
slow about tho Cinnamon. / aver dis
covered him one dny making some
chocolate, and he would put III one
chocolate bean and tour peanuts, nnd
the mixture would be q pure chocolate
ready for table uso.
ITO a v the task Of going home to
meals there were quite u number of
Ia these markets. In one
corner you would find a deoootion OF
I spoke IN a previous letter. In
another you would find q Chinaman
with a small pail filled with boiled
rice, or rice that had been boiled until
It wal a pulp and then allowed to DO.
come hardened. A small glass with q
small quantity Of this PUPPY rice, lost
IN a syrup Of native sugar, was 0 great
aud satisfied the cravings OF
hunger for some hours. / know that Al
ID good because ! tried II once, and had
| had a little more confidence In tho
who sold II and In tho clean.
|iness If his personal habits, | might
nave INDUCED quite frequently. II
was 4 very good substitute for the blanc
mango that the ladies prepare for our
lesert.
ut war a very pleasant thing to be
these tables about meal time, or
'athor, around these booths. One
woman could strike terror TO the heart
II d Chinaman, aud two could put him
o ignominious flight. II ho did not
Happen TO put u sufficient quantity OF
Ihu daoootion In the glass then there
vas expostulation, ~donuneiation, yitup.
'sation-and the dish. And anybody
Who thinks that u woman can't throw
traight, doesn't know tho Filipino
I saw II of them discussing
,er dinner with u Chinaman and the
Jhinaman, not using a soft enough tone
Z voice, she let the dish fly, " struck