Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-12-02
NOT A WHITE MANS COUNTRY.


ton from the Orient. He WAS OF the
Congressional psrty that visited the
Philippines, ChiDs, and Japan during
the past five months. 10 that time he
travelled thirty.three thousand miles, OF
which twenty-five thousand was on
water. Speaking OF the Philippine
Islands last night be said: "Ifthe islands
we're given to me 10 free simple on con-
dition that l should spend the rest OF
nv days over there l would not &C
cept them. 1t is not white msn's
country. could not live there, and
nv life is no better than those OF cur
brave boys who are on the islands de-
Tending the flag"
A Smith College graduate OF last
June, Miss Belsila NJ. Hull, of New
Haven, Comp, he's just written snothee
letter from the Philippines, where she
and other graduates Of Smith College.
the Harvard ansex, and similar institu-
dons are teaching under Government
supervision, and her more recent ez-
ueriences sre more thrilling than those
recorded in her first letter. Tne
letter is dated Vsllsloid, Occidental
Negros, P. l., October II, 1901. She
says that from her experience there is
not a United States greenback 10 that
island. "Ooe thing" she continues,
that / shall be GLAD TO escape from, be-
sides the bad smells and bad morals oi
these islands will be the dirty money.
The change for good $40 bill weighs
As much as q locomotive. II / had ful-
iV realized the disadvantage 10 these
ISLANDS before leaving home. believe
should have hestated about accepting
tbis position" This Smith College girl,
nevertheless, says she will stay it out
until her two years have expired. She
tells about her experience with rats 10
tbe house where she row lives. This Is
what she Gays: ~ is simply running
over with rat. l stood it until l fel.
them tugging at the straps OF my army
cot, when / concluded that it was time
for me to move out unless l wanted 10
find myself in some rat hole In the
morning. l took up my bed, so to
speak, and walked. After locating my
self 10 the msiu room, again attempted
to gain little needed sleep, when to
NV horror the ants ran up the
legs of my cot aod then crawled all
over me and bit. But that is not
circumstance TO having rat run over
your body. l woke up last night 10
the midst of a fearful noise. | thought
insurrec,os we're trying to break 10 TO
murder us, but found that it was only
the rats holding high carnival and the
cat adding to the tumult by growing
aud throwing herself sgainst q closed
door. And then l felt q rat running
right up my body outside the blanket
from my teet toward my head. That
was more than / could put up with
patiently, for, like the msjor 10 the
Pied Piper Of Hsmlin, anything like
the sound of rat makes my heart go
pit-a.pst. So yesterday morning l
bought box of rat poison (price 80
ceuts), aud if there is not another smell
sdded TO the natural ones OF this coun-
try il will be because rats go wsy oil
and die. When l went into my
room to dress yesterday morning l
found my toosh mug and brush on the
floor, the cake of soap chew
Il
ed uD, candle three quarters eaten,
while the calendar psd on my Cornell
ian calendar was pulled right of 10 or'
der that the rats might get at the paste.
But that was uot the worst. AT least
half the roses on my commencement hat
we're eaten of and the bat otherwise
ruined. What do you think of that for
pests? And If should stop TO tell you
| OF the lizards that crawl all over the
walls and the cockrOaches that get into
the trunks and chew up the clothes, and
OF oil the black, red and dapple grey
ants that get iuto everything you would
be glad that you are resident Of tenn
perate zone. Besides ell this, l have
recently discovered nice, large white
worms with brown heads in the biscuits
that our trusty cook buys from the
Chinsmen, hut am becoming 20 accus'
toned to filth and pests that l merely
put aside the part containioe the worn
and 60 on with my eating without re
mark"