The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-11-22
Detestable and Uncomfort-
able Features of the
Philippine Life.
SUITABLE HOMES NOT OBTAIN
ABLE.
One SchooIma am Lives With a
Chinese FamiIy...Others Board
in Various Unpleasant
Places.

A report comes from Tacloban, that
a lady teacher in little town seven
and half miles from Tacloban, is liv-
ing with Chinese family, on account
of the refusal of the President of the
place to provide quarters for her. She
was obliged to secure a boarding place
wherever she could, in order to retain |
her position. Whether the stubborn
ness OF the President was due to so
called religious influences, is not |
known.
A few weeks ago one of the lady |
teachers at Tacloban, Miss HOllister,
was ordered to town on Leyte where |
there was no American colony outside
the army. There was detachment of
Leyte Scouts commanded by an Amer
ican Lieutenant. The lady was to
have meals from this officers mess,
but it was expected that the President
would secure quarters for her with
some native family of good standing.
| BY arrangement with the military
authorities, native scout was to be
detailed to be in constant attendance
upon the maestro. This soldier
was not to be in any sense a ''dpg-rob
Der" or servant, but simply a sort of
lady's esquire or orderly, to protect the
American from the undue curiosity or
/
When she went about town on foot, he
was to follow her in full kit. When
she rode In a carrometa he was to fol-
low the vehicle, mounted, with his rifle
slung over his back. He was to escort
her to the school-house and wait for
her till she was ready to return. Pre-
sumably he would ''sit in" and learn
what he could, meanwhile as several of
these Leyte Scouts have availaled
: themselves of the opportunity to secure
an English education. At night he
was to sleep near the door of the lady s
house to be within call in case of any
} alarm. 1t was specified at the time
whether the orderly was to be selected
) by a dolly orderly bucking" contest,
or whether it was to be permanent
assignment. Probably the former, as
by the latter arrangement the Visayan
7 might become SO impressed with a
!, sense OF bis own importance as to rank
his own officer clear off the island.
AT the time that Miss Hollister was
given this lonely assignment and this
rather unique distinction, she was the
Y only lady teacher on the island of Leite
: who was assigned to post outside the
town of Tacloban. 1t is therefore in
q ferred that IL is she who has been com
PEELED, by the discourtesey Of the Presi
I dente Local, to seek quarters with 9
o Chinese family.
There are other wild and woody ex
: periences waiting for the American
: school mistresses. The two at Taclo
a ban took ride through some of the
towns in that part Of the Island, with
the Island Superintendent of Educa
ton, his assistant, and a small escort
e TO arrange for opening schools In thest
. n1uoos At ono NJ tho rnafs xub n % fh
lstopped an army officers wife was con
siderably taken aback to think that tw,
lyoung ladies should go on such a Ions
Iride with so many men, without ,
chaperone, and couuselled them neve
to do it again. It has not been ascer
tanned whether this fastldious matrol
: would consider the mahogany scout
,f proper substitute for q chaperone o
=, not.
!! Two school mistresses of the 'sThoma
I'D crowd, who went north short tim
s. ago, were in fair way to get alonI
10 without chaperones, and all the othe
, luxuries and most of the necessities O
:, life, for while at least. After leav
d ing the steamer. which was to TAX
r them as far as it could go up one Of tn
c. big rivers of the island, they were t
,s make the latter part of the journey il
banca with natives at the paddles
u They were to be more than a week i
Is the dug out, and the character of tn,
s. banks is such that it was doubtful
n they would be able to rest themselve
:, by getting on shore for single me
ment. They were scheduled to ca
and sleep in the banca, with no way @
cooking their food or even maxim
coffee. Those who have travelled i
ol one Of these canoes, with water ballas,
ID sitting on the soft side of split BAN
boo thwart, with no food except wha
can be pried out of can, and war;
IS water to drink. and nice warm waite
TO to sleep in If you stretch yourself il
the bottom of the boat, can appreciat
how good it is to get on terra firm
le again. Any old terra firma will do.