The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-12

a beautiful polish. All varieties of
vegetation grow very luSuriously.
There is undoubtedly great mineral re-
sources. saw little gold that was
washed out in northern Luzon and was
told of copper in abundance. Coal, al
though that near the surface is not of
good quality Nearly all the minerals
are found in more or less abundance.
Everything is high priced. An ordi
nary meal costs from 80 cents up, ci-
CARS from cent to Is, ice cream, so
called. it being made of condensed
milk is 10 cents, gum Is cents, stick
candy 2 cents stick, street car fare 2
cents. American papers 10 cents and a
great many other articles in propor
ton. A few of the streets are paved
and the rest are macadamized. The
street cars are pulled by the native
ponies and are like the summer cars
used in the cities here. There are
some very pretty residences and
grounds Nearly everyone lives on the
second floor the first floor being used
for a store or stable and the poorer
classes sometimes occupy them The
second floor is often open with nothing
but mating to pull down for protect
| ion from sun and rain. Other houses
have window frames with small divi-
sions in which a thin she'll is placed to
take the place of glass. Most of the
furniture is made of cane or bamboo
A bed made of this material is very
comfortable, the air being able to get
to person from all sides.
The walls of the walled city are
covered in a great many places with
vines which makes them look fine.
especially where the old Spanish guns
are. The wall in places is 40 or so foot
thick with a parapet on top, behind
which the defenders were protected
| don't think those old walls would last
long in front of our modern guns. The
buildings are mostly built of stone, but
some ARE OF concrete and when polish
ed it makes very pretty building.
Some OF the churches are very old. I
saw one magnificiently Illuminated one
night, they were celebrating some
fete dag, having a street parade and
then some exercises inside. There
are great many churches, most all
Catholic. Converts and parochial
schools are also in abundance. 1t was
strange to see boy 10 years old carry
1 ing his school books in one hand going
along the street smoking big cigar,
but everyone smokes men, women and
children. Vegetables are not grown
much. nearly everything of that kind
is shipped in, except rice, which APP
pears to be the staple food. Itisamus
ing to watch the people eat. they squat
around dish in the center and each
person pulls out few grains to the
side, squeezes them together and car
ries them to his mouth with the fingers
Fruits are sold a great deal in the
streets. The bananas are good but the
oranges are course and woody with
very little taste, cocanuts, peanuts
and other varieties are fair only. APP
pies are mostly shipped from Japan.
Eggs are staple article of diet. Every
one keeps chickens and chicken fights
are very frequent. The cattle are OF
a poor grade being very small, and it
is very hard to obtain fresh milk.
The horses or rather ponies are very
small being only about IL or IL hands
high, but can do more hard work on
less feed than any class of horses
ever saw, they are as a rule very poor
in flesh. Every Sunday the Country
Club gives a race meeting about six
miles from town, mostly for native anG
Chinese ponies and they run very fast
i There is great deal of betting done
at these meetings. The ponies are
hitched to two-wheeled vehicle call
I ed carramote. it has seating capac
ity for four persons besides the driver
and those little ponies will trOt out tt
the races, racing with everyone thai
comes near enough and hardly draw /
long breath after going the six miles
;. When well taken care of they get fat
Most OF the heavy hauling is done b,
Carrabou or Water Buffalo, they are
very slow but sure, they are also rid
den By the natives. AS for the heav,
work most of it is done by the Chinese
who appear to be the workers. Two
of them will carry very heavy loads OF
their shoulders. The Chinese also run
a great many stores and some of then
are quite large. The natives ar,
smaller in statue and have finer feat
ures and are not near as black as tn
typical negro They are very lazy
never having had any occasion to learl
to work very much of the time or yer.
Nhard while at it.
: went over to Cavite and saw wha
remains of two or three of the oil
Spanish vessels. they are rustlng ant
, fallinr IN piaras vary fast TaISo visit