The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-12-10

put IN theirs singing gospel hymns,
holding prayer meetings and trying
to persuade their wicked brothors to
"flee from the wrath to como and be
saved" There is but little animal
life in the Pacific compared with the
Atlantic and the trip becomes monot
onous. This caused great effort
among the very high toned eloment
on board to have some diversion and,
as "ldle men are the devils play
mates" it wound up very NATURALLY in
a scandal or two. Those officers,
however, who had brought plenty of
liquor, molested nobody.
After sighting land again we soon
passed Cavite whore number of the
wrecks Dewey left are to be seen.
Manila is quite near and the first sight
which attracted my attention on land =
ing was big water buffalo which
looked like cross betw Il hyppo-
potamus and u COW. It was hitched
to crude two wheeled cart and driven
by an uneasy looking Chinaman with
breeches out around his loins aud
syphalltic ulcers around both ankles.
After looking around further ]
thought of how an old follow in Texas
described Arkansas City. 1t is about
the worst town on tho Mississippi
River and when asked him what
sort of place it WAS he thought for
some time and then said, "Well III
tell you. 1t is a hell of place"
Parts of Manila are foul smelling,
vermin infested nests of nlggers, Chi
nese, bubonic plague and sin, but the
board of health aud the police are
improving it wonderfully. The eli
mate is simply delightful SO far as
temperature is concerned. The hot
test weather is never as hot as that Of
the Atlantic States, and the coolest
is never cold enough to prevent the
little native children from going
about the streets wearing nothing but
small pair of earbobs. Four Ian
gnages are spoken here, Spanish, Chis'
nese, Tagelog and English. They
are as different from each other as
can be. In the Chinese language
many of the words are spoken with
the mouth closed. They say them
through the nose and seem to artic-
ulate with different infections and by
varying the tones just rs we can
grunt one way to indicate bad smell
and slightly different way to indi-
cate one which is much worse. There
are about fifty thousand Chinese in
and about Manila. l have formed a
most excellent opinion of them; for
they are Economically industrious,
extremely frugal and perfectly re-
liable. As these are the three vir-
tues which lead to financial success,
they are the monied men Of the place.
The Filippinos are by far the small
est and sorriest looking people 1
have ever seen. They are not yel
low like the Chinese or red like the
Indians but are brown and vary in
shade from Claro to a Colorado Ma
duro. But few of them have enough
muscular strength to be valuable as
laborers, and while they are quite
shrewd, none have any mental abil-
ity except those which are blended
with the Spaniard, the Chinaman or
the ubiquitous sailor. They are a
mild, good natured people and are
not bad in any way unless stirred up by
these mongrels who live among them.
BY nature there is no harmony of
thought purpose or habit between a
Chinaman and Tagalo; 30 when
they intermarry the result is crea
ture whose very nature is paradoxical,
and they are the ones who have al
ways made trouble.
The food of tho natives is mainly
rice, tropical fruits and fish, but they
also eat roots, hogs, bats, dogs, grass.
hoppers, Snakes, beetles, monkeys,
lizards, rats and about everything else
that anything else can eat. They will
even eat one thing which I do not be.
lieve anything but Filipino can
cat and that is an ancient and venera
BILE egg. l am told that when one
of them gets to eating eggs which
will pop it is hard to break him of it.
He cares for no other kind and the