The Newtown bee., 1901-03-15
The Newtown Bee
CALCULATIONS:
Last Week, 1850
JANUARY, i, 1889, 600
CIRCULATION:
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
1880
600

BEN FOULoIs IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Maya, Island of Cebu,
December 9, 1900.
received your letter of October ~
to-day. l was awfully glad to get it,
being my birthday. 1t was good
birthday present, and you can be sure
1 appreciated it. l think l told you
about our sending a box of souvenirs to
Lowney, the candy manufacturer; if l
did not will tell you now. About three
months ago, several of us fellows were
eating some of LOwney'S chocolates,
which we had bought in our "canteen,'
when one of the boys said 1T would be
a good joke to send a candy box back
to Lowney, filled with souvenirs OF the
Philippines No sooner said than done.
About 80 of the boys contributed and
we made up box and sent 1T, more FOR
a joke than anything else, although it
was a fine collection. Well, in yester-
Lowney's in which they said that it
was the greatest surprise they had
ever experienced when they received
the box. What do you think they did
with them? Put them on exhibition
at the Manufacturers exposition in
Boston. They said they had crowd
around their booth all the time. They
also made copy of the letter which l
sent with the box, giving the names OF
all the boys, and put that on exhibit
tion ALSO When the fair closed, they
placed them in their show room, and
have them on exhibition all the time.
But the best thing about it is that
they have sent us large box of candy
as Christmas gift, which was shipped
on the transport ''Buford.' So you can
imagine us making ourselves sick eat
ing "Lowney's chocolates" And what
started as joke ended up quite nicely
to our benefit. Well, l have received
the camera at last, and it was in per-
feet order. 1 have already taken 10
pictures this morning. | took several
pictures of the natives during one OF
their celebrations. All day the natives
have been celebrating, and it is the
widest thing 1 ever saw. A number
of the native women were dressed in
all their savagery and executed war
dance in front of our quarters. 1twas
the most disgusting thing have seen
in long time. l hope you will not
worry so much now that you know L
am relieved from all military duty,
and am teaching school. 1 will prob
ably be on this duty nearly all the rest
of my time over here, so don't worry
any more, as intend to return home
as good as 1 left. l have lots of fun
teaching the Filipino boys how to
mangle the English language. Capt
Evans came in while l was teaching,
yesterday, land was very much surprised
at the progress which has been made.
l never thought l should like teaching
school; but since 1 have been detailed
to do it, find l enjoy it very
much, especially this style of
teaching. At present l am using
"object charts" and l have the boys
read the lessons in English, then
way they learn to know what the words
mean. 1 have had several offers from
the higher class of Filipinos in town
to pay me if l would start class in
English, but hardly think l will at
present, as my time is all taken up
with teaching, and studying for my
examination. I will close for this
Maya, Cebu, December %, 1900.
1t is just two weeks now since 1
wrote last, and as it is Sunday and my
off day, thought 1 would write again.
I am just getting over an old-fashioned
tOothache. 1t kept me in misery two
weeks, and my face finally swelled so
that had to go to the doctor and have
it lanced. 1t feels all right now; but
this climate is awful hard on teeth.
l am having vacation during the
Christmas week. Last Friday all of
the officers were down to school to see
the result of my work. They were
and the doctor gave a dollar to the
boy who had the best record. 1t GER
'tainly would surprise you if you could
see how quick these boys are to learn,
and how well they remember every
thing which is taught them. Last
week we received word that there had
been an outbreak on the Island of
Bohol, an island about 10 miles from
this one, and rs of our men were or
ter we received word there had been
an engagement with the insurgents,
but had none killed, although L
Company of our regiment had three
killed and four wounded. The company
are having all they can do at present,
one detachment in Bohol, IS men on
mounted service, and garrisons at two
towns north of us. The detachment
at Minganilla is to be withdrawn the
1st of January, SO that will be slight
relief to the men. l am missing all
the fun by being on special duty, but
l think I enjoy teaching school better
than chasing insurgents over the hills
and never catching them. We are
having fine weather now, and the
nights are grand. Our quarters are
close to the sea and we catch breeze
all the time. Isuppose you are having
a foot of snow about this time. One
of the natives told me snow storm
struck this island many years ago, and
killed most of the natives. l was
sent to Cebu, yesterday, with two
prisoners, one of them a native MUIR
derer, and the other one of our: men
who had become crazy. AS soon as
we arrived in Cebu I turned the sol
der over to the hospital, and the
other to the adjutant general, and
then took him down to the pier and
put him aboard the transport Penn
sylvania, enroute for Manila, where he
is to serve life sentence. 1t made me