The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-29


thing, even himself. Compounds,
houses. people, all OF them are alike
begrimmed with dirt of ages. Into
these houses the Japanese soldiers
have gone. The houses are usually di-
vided into two rooms with a hallway
in the center. The Chinese residents
are put into one of these rooms, the
Japanese soldiers are Quartered in the
other. Every house in every village in
the district covered by the Japanese
armies are thus used As a result the
village streets are alive with soldiers
all the time.
So far the principal occupation OF
the soldiers seems TO have been max
ing the houses habitable. How the
Chinese live in their homes is a mys-
terry No matter in what condition
the house gets the idea of repairing It
never seems TO enter the Manchu
mind This the Japanese are reform
, ing. The soldiers are cleaning up the
compounds, fixing the windows and
roofs. They must live IN the houses,
ard as a result the Chinese are gain
ers. The Japanese soldier likes the
comforts OF life and he insists on being
clean. Therefore he is making the
Chinese houses in which he is quar-
tered comfortable
Soldiers Enjoy Themselves.
But the soldiers have other enjoy
ments besides the repairing of houses.
They are merry fellows. and they en-
JOY themselves thoroughly, much is
the manner of any other soldiers.
Thnx- cfncy 1ns
Japanese games with cards and with
little checkers. Their singing is weird
and strange 10 American ears, their
daneingis gnotesque to American eyes.
But both OF them are interesting for a
time.
But he most exciting and most in
teresting amusement of the Japanese
soldiers in Manchuria is pig hunting
! Every Chinese household in Manchuria
was the proud possessor of a number
of pigs when the war broke not. Now
there are very few of them left. When
tie war came many villages were in
the line of the advancing Japanese
armies. Battles were fought in them,
over them and around them. The Chi
nese fed, and so did the pigs. The
Chinese came back to their homes as
soon as the battles were over, the
pigs didn't. They wandered around
the fields until they were found by. the
japanese soldiers and then they ceas-
ed to be pigs and became pork.
Scramble for Pigs.
"Butah," yels the Japanese soldier,
and then there is a scramble. II is a
cry that brings every soldier within
hearing into immediate action. He
grasps the first thing within reach.
stick stone or sabre, and away he goes.
Out in the field somewhere the doomed
pig is located and with a shout a score
CT soldiers are after him. 1t is an ex-
citing game The soldiers scatter in
every direction in an effort to surround
the pig. Il is usually long chase, for
these pigs are not unlike the razor
backs of the South, and they can run.
Gradually the soldiers surround the
pig and close in on him. The death is
not so pleasant, usually, for il is ac-
Complished with sticks or stones or
anything else the soldiers may be
armed with. Occasionally the pig gets
away, but not often. Even if he es-
capes one band of soldiers. he is sure
70 fall at the hands of another one
later on. In Lao Yang during the long
wait there. one company killed eigh-
teen pigs in single day. Even more
exciting than the hunt described is a
pig hunt by cavalrymen. 1t is as ex-
citing as an Indian pick sticking. A
half dozen cavalTymen take after the
poor pig, riding their horses as fast as
they will go, and slashing at the pig
with their sabres. Finally one Of them
gets poor piggy across the throat and
IN less time chan il talks to tell it, the
camp is supplied with fresh pork.
The Japanese soldiers have, all
things considered, a very good time in
camp. They take camp life as they do
10 the fighting, philosophically, earn
estly, merrily. They have a good time
while they can, but they are ready at
any minute TO give up the almost COM
Portable Chinese house for the trench
es, and the trenches for the charge.
Neglected colds make fat grave
yards" DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup