Show FILIPINO BAND manila oct 7 barracks life hath its diversions the other night just before the sounding of tattoo and chuie many of the troopers were in the land of dreams and while others were going there as fast as they could fk a filipino Fili pano brass brahs band lined up in front of the sally front and struck up yankee doodle like the rats of hamlin tumbling out of all kinds of holes and places to follow the pled iper came the rookies as the boys call themselves from nooks and corners ana beds and books and bunks shod and barefooted bare footed dressed and in shirt to see and hear bear and cheer till the air cracked and the freight ened moon retreated behind a pasc passing zing cloud the last notes of yankee doodle doodie had scarcely got butof out of the way bej ore the sentries standing in front gave way before popular clarmore cl armor and to in compliance with a pressing Inyl tation home bome hundreds hon hUn dreas of homesick home sick yan kees the native band entered the barj racks suld and we had a hot time that night hail columbia marching through georgia after the ball america and the star spangled banner all followed in their order each oner one cheered a battle longer and more energetically getic ally than the last god save the was also played and came in for its fuu full share of whole welcome an english crobu could not have received i it with more open and appreciative ears it Js wonderful how bulck these half civilized Pili Fill panos pick anything up here in a very short time they have learned almost to perfection the national and popular airs of the united states and their memories in this connection are little short of marvelous marcelous mary elous they came around again last night and treated US ua to fro piece after piece of all kinds of sweet music and that without a scrap of it written down you ought to have seen the stag dance we had last night I 1 dunt dont believe there ever ha has s been anything to equal it in the past soldiers of all sizes and ages from the beardless youth who a few months since graced the ball rooms of villages and cities in far off utah to gribley griz ley old men who have spent their lives on the frontiers of the west clasped each other by the belted waist and danced as though the glory and welfare elfare of the nation depended upon it the band played and the soldiers i recruits and volunteers those fellows who slept blerk in the trenches to the ping ping boom of spanish bullets and shells who trudged about in the mud knee deep and lived on hard coffee tot for weeks are veterans they abathe and the recruits I 1 say gay danced and yelled and cheered and sang and danced again just like ilke so many boys do at the g good od news of their school teachers demise I 1 it Is 12 wonderful how quick the natives here pick anything up and thas applies not only to music but to everything they can lay their nanda on naturally Nau rally they are bright as many of the boys who gave them their white duck dack suits to wh oan testily for they have not received them one claunc laundryman arr man un an honest one and there therel 1 l fore foie the frym some soine dozens of f soldiers sold fers the ot bw day at these barracks and many pieces there were some ni attl r H belonging to a soldier whose nabow 3 bedenis with that letter and whim brought the laundry back every boak Bo dk and handkerchief and shirt in wr every piece coat and pants panta too weartha Weart la marked with H neatly and f worked with red thread well 04 t s sold ler is wearing weaning every other sold leed t v clothing and blowing his nose A 0 M every other soldiers handkerchief 1 r a few fellows whose names begin S the letter H chalm everything in j we have a native boy here in tx tl office to help us kill time we calf 10 atts A 1 jasper he must be a dozen years OW and weve bought him for va month we could have got the whole family for but we we needed them jasper la Is a arelin dr elin he washes the dishes in two A wa one hot and one cold and manages 1 j 9 get et them dryer than four of US ug camy Z before we got him he brot 4 3 a tin plate since he entered the s imbt ar vice hes got the whitest teeth blackest eyes the brownest alan tinaa the straightest and spring springiest lest tj frame on the island and if I 1 can tarla him home with me I 1 wll wil do it sa taps has sounded and I 1 mut to t bed the amert can mall leaves in the mora E ing and there are a few thousand vt here would like to leave with SC it and while I 1 think of it let me 1 the news what senator cannoth 4 ys f views are regarding the retention lon ot of E these islands many of the volunteer volun teen si who desire above all things to return home have the idea that mr ca cannon nuo Is trying to have them kept here to do garrison duty and they dont like alt lt 3 a bit all sorts of rumors are aft 1 and many are of the belief bellef that the da drat senator te going out of t the way to work them an injury t 5 fi standing the idea is absurd still vr mr cannons position regarding the ty telf SS troops in this part of the world nitta plain in n the news would be glaiel gl a aill i T recel received ired and would allay much urd hard feeling S T hospital reports show that per cent of the american i manila are sick mostly with fevers am j bowel bowed compla complaints tInts smallpox is also ie ported still everything cofeld were a pretty healthy I ot of hus and many of us do not care how M we stay here it if uncle will only givers give g ive us our liberties fifteen do doll fil and fifteen cents a month as s a big tation at ait the same time some of aba tafta more daring and venturesome ot of ut ua T would gladly give up our posH dons a attah take ake t our chances dast night one af the recruits battery A a wem well k salt laker whose name through diw for his friends I 1 went to sleep on hils hia post poat while d datt guard duty this ot of course is 48 a adf a ious offense onename one nae and in hl his s case made more korep ao from the fact he was at leaa least sst par 8 bially under the influence of drink NOD |