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Show DESCRIPTION OF PHILIPPINES. Frank Van Allen, a Waterville voung man who is soldiering in the Philippines Philip-pines has a poor opinion of that part of the srlobe. He writes home: "The Philippines Phil-ippines are a bunch of trouble gathered together on the western horizon of civilization. They are bounded--on the north by wreck and destruction, on the east by rainstorms and typhoons, on the south by cannibals and earthquakes and on the west by hoodlums and smugglers. The climate is a combination combina-tion of electrical changes and is especially espe-cially adapted to raising cain. The soil is extraordinary in nnising large crops of trickery and insurrection. The inhabitants in-habitants are industrious ia their chief - t. . occupations, trench-digging, manufacturing manufac-turing the bolo knives" and reloading Remington cartridges. Their chief amusement is cock fighting. Their diet consists of boiled rice, stewed rice, fried rice and rice. Malaria is very much in evidence here and the islanls on occasions occa-sions have been shaken with a chill. The Philippines would be an appropriate appro-priate gift to a deadlv enemy, for the climate is pleasantly healthy for wrecks, tarantulas, alligators, boa constrictors, con-strictors, scorpions, centipedes and snakes. Tbe native is a friend at the point of a Krag. The islands in general gen-eral are a God-forsaken, cannibalized. Aguinaldo-inflicted, blot on the face of God'i green earth.." Eichange. |