Show THEY S IGH FOR R HOME + Our Soldiers at Manila Are Anxious I I i to Return MAJOR YOUNG IS HONORED i i AS JUDGE HE OPENS THE SPAN A JUGE OPS T I lARDS BYSI I I I I You Get Fat In the Philippines Or Pass In Your Checks Boys Wan Ito I-to Fight Christmas Boxes About I Gone Camp Life As Seen By The Herald Correspondent t I Special Correspondence Manila Jan GThe new year full of hope and promise now reigns over the earth and in figuring up the hopes o the new year there Is one which stands out much more prominently than the others Will the glorious gods who presides over our destiny permit us togo to-go home Home sweet home now a thousand times more sweet than ever i was before The old scenery wrapped In the fond cloak of Idealism are I I dreamed of nightly and spoken of daily The one cry ishome home home J why cant we go home I The Christmas boxes are now about empty the good morsels have nearly all been devoured and save a few lone soldiers sol-diers who sneak off in some corner to sample a bottle of peaches or a jar of pickles the boys are living on government govern-ment straight once again But this is not nearly so bad as i might be and to tell the truth the boys are very well I fed for the food is much better than any we have tested since enlisting The pork beans canned horse and potatoes often give place to peas salmon onions fresh beef gravy fruit and pickles Privates Jenks and Ryan of battery I A are old bakers by trade and with the assistance o some money from the i battery fund they have converted some I I old stone ruins near the cuartel Into a bake shop They furnish the mess i tables with the staff of life in a form lfe I I which is truly supporting Nice large I I flaky loaves that are relished even I when eaten dry have taken the place I of the hard unpalatable Chinese rolls we are accustomed to eating Commissary Sergeant Williams and I Cooks Clawson and Woolsey are doing J their duty to the government and to the 1 battery They are giving the boys the best of everything obtainable The I I commissary now has taken in a stock of canned fruits and other dainties I I i which the boys may purchase at gov i I ernment cost price Of course the cost varies with the size of the rake i I on the commissary people want to make Back in Frisco it was 121 cents I I pe can and now It is 30 cents for the I same goods Every bit of transportation I transporta-tion has been done by soldiers so that i there has been no cause for the raise In price The Christmas dinner was a feast Indeed I In-deed I surpassed every expectation and ingratiated the cooks and bakers Into the favor of everyone The bill of fare was as follows Chicken potatoes with cream and butter corn and peas jelly pickles pie cake and beer This may not seem big to the well fed people of Utah but to the hardtack burdened bur-dened campaigner it was an oasis on the desert of life I GROWIIG FAT I The boys with few exceptions are growing fat and healthy It is well that I I they are for a thin person doesnt I stand a ghost of a show here You must either get fat or get out There I are some persons who cannot live here I I at all and like a morning glory In a j fierce sun they are taking a short cut for the graveyard Lieutenant Grow has not prospered out here and what Is left of him will depart for Zion on the next steamer MAJOR YOUNG HONORED Major YoungIt is hard to refrain from writing a couple of columns telling tell-ing what a fine officer he Is looms up so brilliantly when compared with other volunteer officers that we cant help but pat ourselves on the back for posees sing such a commander He < has ascended as-cended to the highest and most trustworthy I trust-worthy position in Manila except that ct governor general and for over two II I months has presided over the superior provost court the highest judicial tri > v bunal In the Islands Upon his judgment judg-ment the reputation that the United States is making as a lawful people depends de-pends All cases of serious crime come up before him and he has sent many a corrupt Spanish official to Billbld prison The government Is employing many o the Spaniards who held minor pOsitions i i pOsi-tions These people think they can I practice the some corruptions under I Uncle Sam as under Spain but they open their eyes very wide when they get a sentence of three years In the penitentiary for falling to report the presence of a gambling i den or some similar 1 offense In a military court a man is supposed to be guilty until proven innocent but Spanish court Interpreters In-terpreters and others who have been present at every hearing have told me that Major Young has never yet passed a judgment without giving the person I every possible chance to prove his innocence In-nocence The court stenographer laments the fact that Major Young goes on hearing a case and letting the accused present testimony after It Is time to close for dinner The court room in which Major Young holds court i is In the old palace i in of walled city It is elaborately furnished fur-nished Behind the chair on which the judge sits is a painting of Spains acting act-ing queen and of the young king On one side is a huge lion holding a globe In its claws Of course the globe has commenced to slip out of Its grip since last May PRETTY GOOD FELLOWS PRET The Third artillery stationed in this cuartel have now become thoroughly acquainted and no more objections can be raised against them for any reason They are a fine lot of fellows and are conducting themselves in a firstclass I manner In my letter nubllshed on Nov 41 stated that they the Third artillery ar-tillery were swiping everything not under lock and key Further acquaintance acquaint-ance with the boys proves this to be untrue as they have never been guilty of such acts of late and it is altogether probable that the things we accused them of stealing when they first moved in were lost in the hurry of moving At any rate I owe them an apology for the implications on their honesty and freely make it The recruits whom Sergeant Brown brought over have now been thoroughly initiated into the tribe of veterans and there is now no sharp division line between a rookie and a vet Many of the recruits have not drawn their sidearms yet but otherwise are fully equipped As Captain Wedgwood of battery A enlisted the recruits he has a tender spot in his heart for them and all the plums in the shape of clerical positions and noncoms are coming their way The older men who have seen service and worked for the good of the battery from the start naturally do a little kicking at the way they are ignored In the matter of small distinctions distinc-tions The recruits who have received the plums are as follows Angus Nicholson first sergeant clerk John Rogers corporal cor-poral Joe Ivins commissary clerk Frank Shelly corporal Odell Tompkins Tomp-kins commissary clerk FIGHTING EXPECTED This campaign life has not lacked for excitement lately The boys have been tied down to the space inside the walls of the barracks and kept in their fighting clothes of brown I seems that they may be called out any minute to do some more fighting and all are anxious for it to commence Rumor thousands of them fioat in on the lazy summer breezes or rather winter breezes temperature SO degrees in the shade which in this damp climate Is harder to stand than 90 degrees In I Utah The rumors give us details of fights and the Xse will be called I out and everything imaginable Shovels sicks and axes have been tied to our guns and the long rOes are all in place for a quick dash to the ePl sd et fn frn trenches As yet no horses have been supplied and the boys will have to serve out in that capacity J we are called I outThe The rumor being discussed now is that Aguinaldo has answered our proclamation amation to the effect that absolute freedom is all they can accept and we I I may start the rumpus tonight Over in the eastern mountains five balloons I rise each night which are the signals I of a secret society backing the revolutionary ionary forces They cause a great deaf dea-f comment in the quarters I The cuartel is becoming quite an old curiosity shop and if we are able to I take all our belongings back to Utah we will have quite a collection Besides the eight field guns we I brought from Camp Kent we have two i light threeinch pups given by Admiral Ad-miral Dewey three rapidfire revolving cannon bearing several dents from action I ac-tion r the fhse of August and last I night another addition was made of I three MaximNordenfelt rapidfire one j I nounders We have plenty of men to man the I whole number and if the batteries ever go into action again there will be a mingling of booms and screeches that will maKe the natives think all I has turned loose on them |