| Show TH TUE E UTAH VOLUN well weve had a payday pay day the p paymaster ay came around last saturday and turned over to the troopers of the two battalions A and B near on to and since then this Is wednesday the boys of batteries A and B have I 1 should judge from spick span new things around these barracks turned over to the merchants and venders benders of manila near on to the average soldier lier has no more idea of the proper uses of money than the ancient israelites had of virtue he buys while his money lasts anything g that in any way appeals to his fancy from shoestrings and safety pins to costly and dell delicate cate silks and stuffs consistent oray only with large incomes they are all imbued with the idea that in the expenditure of one dollar more tun fun can be had bad than in the arning of ten the lawns enclosed by the walls of our barracks have been converted into a menagerie or zoological garden with monkeys as the chief attraction no fewer than six of these ever cute affectionate and disreputable pets sport on the grass climb the trees and guns and perches and steal everything they can get their hands on there is one monkey here they call battery and he is as utterly without conscience as an alpine he eats drinks smokes und and steals like a pirate and has the mook moat innocent and childish look of any monkey I 1 ever saw battery Is a father and a friend to every now new monkey that comes to the barracks mery every time a soldier forgets himself and know what to do with his bli s money he buys a monkey brings it here shy and timid at times frightened nearly to death and Batt battery efy does the rest hg H takes the newcomer new comer in his arms and alyd there they will sit and ad hug and clatter to each other for hours at a time the other day I 1 was wag writing to a of a friend of mine when battery jumped on the table carr eased essed my hand scratched my hand and when I 1 stopped writing to say poor little lattio monkey and make other consoling and affectionate remarks the rascal swiped my fountain pen and was through the iche bars of the window before I 1 could frame an objection once through the ba bars i m he proceeded to unscrew the cap ap ai ana drink it dry of ink entirely regardless of any protestations I 1 pleaded and threatened in vain for of course I 1 could not get through that window and whets I 1 went round to the door battery passed between the tars bars again and in the west foa abs sible manner watched me ahde he picked his teeth with the gold pen I 1 hate bars anyhow and I give gave three cents for a whole wilderness ot monkeys my only show was to en list the sympathies of a dazet soldiers and even after I 1 got them mustered it was no funny matter though there was a good deal of laughing some folks laugh aa nothing to recover my stolen pro property p erl we had a chase unequaled for its mentally and features by anything in we for an hour mione oar bt less legs when battery gave in ran to his master and buried his irish woe it in ald arms like a child with a broken heaps when I 1 returned to my writing tang the letter to my Ir friends lends slater sister was in the gutter A moment later Seft sergeant MIt youngs pet boat would harej on it and a sweet morsel it would have made DOS pasos is another the property of serget sergeant johnosn John Joh noon Bon who s ct a 9 friend to kick him every he ba hears the monkeys name it came about in this way johnson was down town the weather was warm and business was dull in fact the he sergeant made a purchase in ten minutes when up comes a native with a monkey to sell how much for that monkey inquired the veteran of the late war paso headla 1 50 answered the shirtless shoeless hatless amago but the sergeants knowledge of spanish was limited and the natives reply sounded ike a great big pile besides he reasoned it reasonable to pay these fellows all they ask for they are a th elvIng set act they place their prices way up with the expectation of being jerked down here you a paso meadia is too muth much you cheating rascal IT give you dos liasos 2 and not another cent and with that he 2 into the hand of the astonished n native and bore away Ms his prize with a they dont fool me sort of air that pleased no one as much as it did the vender of monkeys Mucha loko much aleko he sald said sa ld tapping his black heed head and f following ol lowing with his eye the vanishing soldier sol daer besides monkeys a goat and a dog the boys have haive quite a number of at birds in cages buirds and cages are good things to buy when you can think of nothing else and you still have a few cents in your pocket it would be hard to think of anything better because when you get tired of the birds you can leave the cages open and they will fly away they dont leave leanie a bad taste in your mouth like Pill filipinos pinos vino or gin A onan man with a bird may not have as big a head next as 00 the man with a jag he may not skink Ull nik he owns the earth and controls tae destinies of nations as dos does the man who imbibes imbiber toa W e freely still of the two senseless methods of getting rid fid of ones hard earned money that of buying birds la to be preferred but there are other imars of rel elving ones pockets here lathe lift the barracks we have loads loada and loads rf vew diew things that have come in since pay day dak easy chairs slippers boxes hats bate eains cains shoes watches belts rings and jewelry canned fruit bosi d delic delicacies keles towels underwear balth scapa relles relics and sea shells of all kinds cigars oo bacco handkerchiefs and articles of every description for vath ladles ladies and gentlemen if there Is a soldier r wont buy while hl his money lasts id like to hear of it they have rave evera even brought in thousands of dollars worth ot of gout headache earache toothache aad other oher varieties of aches aceues too numerous to mention some of rf them bought terms in the guard house onie one of them taking it is feared as aa much as two years and paying tor for it iu in advance that the way to a mans heart is through his stol stomach hach has been demonstrated again this time here in manila nila quartermaster sergela A L wilta of battery A had a birthday fast week and the battery A boys didat do 66 a thing to him they chipped tit ta to the fhe extent of 00 and bought botich zam the finest gold watch to be had in thie city it to Is claimed that since he to hold bold of the commissary the food tUf lipo had been solved to the entire an of the battery and as a E cleme nothing Is good 1 Serge anit ault williams Is forty av year of age and the oldest of the t volunteers in his speech to the boa after the present presentation gAloh he referred to the batles battle lat tle lately fought wid and said treat boys born and ana raised to in utah wold nimit be otherwise than brave jeaa old lift ba referred rif erred glowingly glovIn gly to the attl early 7 wd the pioneers of our proud state ecob t M I 1 A Is progressing nicely we aa have established a spanish class tap of In embers corporal axne ever genial and public spirited b ha to ut the class the tain of most unpleasant memory CRY city of luo de janeiro has ham been fitted out as aa a b hospital ship and will sail tor for san francisco among her unfortunate passengers will be four privates from the utah volunteers they are wagner rowland and tuttle and with them go the best wishes ot of us all before dosing closing this letter let me tell you of a very pleasant affair that took place this ebend ng af fatter ter retreat and in which our esteemed critchlow was the central figure bonne bome days ago sections 3 and 4 of battery B got together and decided to present critchlow w with some mune small airmail token of their thedr love and appreciation tor for his gallantry in action and his gentlemanly and friendly conduct con cori duct duet or bearing to those under him fut IL all 11 times one hundred and fifteen dollars was readily ral malsed sed and expended for a the finest anid and moat beautiful one to be had the is a piece of whitest ivory headed with pure gold elaborately el abot worked on one side of the gold head is the name J F critchlow and on top is inscribed presented by sees 3 8 and 4 bat B U TT T T S V in memory of aug 1 1898 1 that being the night of the great fight and one of the nights through which the lieutenant stayed with his command in the rain and mud well after retreat this evening the two sect sections dons lined up in Seir Ser genat An Ander demons sens quarters and the lieutenant w wa invited was he surprised well yes and ill venture to say that he did not feel as uncomfortable ble while in the trenches exposed to the spanish fire and the drenching rain as he did between those two lines of smiling faces no he be say may much he hla a t throat roat seemed to clog up and so after we heard about taking oft off my official regalia tor for the time and talking as friend to friend of love and honors he could find no words to express press his gratitude for of qualities we seemed to think he possessed out but which he doubted of appreciating a piece of paper on which wits was critien writ tien tien we are your friends and his regrets at being unable to say something that would even in some faint degree convey his hearts feelings wy wiy we just hold in any longer but tell fell to cheering and a like mad it was a piea aing affair though we recruits who had not the honor of fighting by the lieutenants side bout who insisted on coming to time with our pro rata of the money for the maln caln would have felt better belter had the presentation speech contained some slight allusion from which critchlow may have gleaned the fact that we were heart and soul with him in all ah things affecting sections 8 3 and 4 battery B utah U g S vols NOD MOD manila sept 22 1898 |
