Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-23
BULLETS
Are Less Likely to
Kill.
Mortal Food That Leads
to Immortality
Dispensed to Soldiers
In Philippines.
Troops Try It on Dogs Before
Eating.

Relatives of young man, from this
city, who Is serving with the army in
the Philippines, have received an in
teresting letter from him. AS there
are certain passages in the communl-
cation that might cause him trouble
his. naIue Is suppressed. 1t follows:
Manapla, Jan, 27, 1901.
| will give you "A little sketch of
what is going ON over here ut present.
The first concerns our cook. He has
discovered ii couple of new dishes
which he calls Pigs in Il blanket and
Roly POLES" The pigs in II blanket
are pieces of fiat bacon wrapped up
in dough and fried. Roly POLES are
made of dough wrapped around dried
apples and also fried. These two
new culinary discoveries are war
rantcd to kill the hardest dog or sol
dier that ever chased Filipino. An,
other new addition TO our limited
larder is cyaporntcd potatocs packed
IN tins and labeled "Ossifcd Spuds II la
Knrduillc," which Is very appropriate
as they taste very much like saw-drst
pressed into and soaked in soft soap
We had a swell dinner Christmas
that is, we were all swelled with pains
from Indigestion 1t consisted of
strong smelling William Goat, rice,
real live maccaroni, pigs in n blanket,
stewed. The dinner was highly sea,
soned with ants, which | have heard
rumored. our cook believes 10 bc fully
as warm as pepper and helps digcs-
tion better, large particles of food
swallowed without chewing are quick.
ly pulled at by the ants in the
stomach, which our famous
claims was the invention of that
Shakespearcan quotation, viz: II feel
another nature struggling within me-
We also had coffee, which may have
been made from boiling old shoes with
old socks in them. 1t tasted very
much that way anyhow. For supper
we had what we didn't eat for dinner,
with more bootleg favored with
ants. would have hung up my
stockings christmas Eve" only there
were no feet In them.
We also had very swell New
Years; 1t was n real happy one, That
is all of us that were alive were hap
by that such was the fact, We all
wished our famous cook" and his
assistants very happy New Year ANA
few Of them. The bill Of fare was
slightly changed for this occasion and
instead OF the famous discoveries,
which would make Marion Ilarland
turn green with envy, we had the
more famous Gen. Eagcn brand of
prime roast beef butchercd on The
premises with n can opener aud grid.
die cakes. | am going to ship one
of these cakes to the Rubber trust,
for believe | have discovered sub
stitute for rubber that may bring me
untold wealth. We had gravy, too.
We asked the cook what 1t was made
from, but he said he was not giving
his profession away TO common sol
diers, If you think of doing any pa.
per hanging this coming season, please
let me know, for / may he able to got
the receipt from him as he talks in
his sleep. really think that If per-
son were to accidentally sit down in a
dish of this gravy he would carry the
dish around foreyermore fastened to
him. Our famous cook left word with
the guard to be called New Years
morning at am. We all expected
that we were about to get some extra
famous dish, and we were anxious to
know what it would be.
When we fell out for reveille in the
morning we heard a great commotlon