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Show -.. "Attractions"! the Philippines. An American In tho "Philippines, writing on business to a friend in Washington, Incidentally sums up his Impreaslcns of our annoxed territory thus: "Tho Philippine Islands are a fierce proposition. I would not tako Governor Taft's Job, and you know how avaricious I am. Hero are tbo attractions: DugB, ants, lizards, mos-qultooi, mos-qultooi, snakoB, beriberi, leprosy, cholera, bubonic plague, fovors, dhou-boy dhou-boy itch, etc. Nojvs M a month behind be-hind all the. time. Ink costs a dollar (Mexican) for a half-pint bottlo, but tho man who stays horo to noil It de-sorve3 de-sorve3 tho prlco. It Is inconcolvabla to mo how nny whlto man can 'en-Joy' 'en-Joy' Manila." |