| Show LIFE IN MAN MANILA terrible condition of AIT aria re r so De crib ed d by a billi tary mention has liin mate of dr J W madara Mai lara the kansas min man who Is gerving ln in the philippines as surgeon in the regular infantry t present dr madara Is doing hospital duty in manila maralla and he writes of events in that city as follows I 1 I 1 get up at 6 a in and attend sick calls before breakfast sick call means that I 1 prescribe tor for and treat from fifty to sixty men every morning I 1 also have twelve hundred filipinos to look aber and treat every day about one third of them are sick ick and dmd doctoring they are aral wounded many of them and bare have all kind kinds of dime aspe so you can imagine how busy I 1 aam atm kept from morning till night the native ill alpino li Is la to look looks and build between the african negro and ape many ot of them thein are cunning cunnin smart quick and slid ready to imitate they go almost naked women and men and peak speak all orta sorts of dialect dialects many of them peak speak spanish ue e go armed here its a they do not recognize civilized warfare and hilll shoot or cut a doctor or hospital corp corps man just as quick aa as a I 1 with wish yo you could ie at them warm swarm around me irlen I 1 go into the prison yard to doctor them I 1 cannot un anler ter stand a word they may ay nor can they understand me but hae have an interpreter who can understand mot most of them but the trouble Is I 1 I 1 cannot understand tand him so we make signs of all kind kinds it in 1 a tough job but I 1 do thi the belt best I 1 can the city Is I 1 very quiet at night under tinder martial law and no 0 dares go on th tho streets after seven p m and no cla church bell boll is I 1 allowed to be rung this la in curfew in dead ear carneil riest if a woman we were re taken lick sick abe she could not end send for the doctor I 1 on ou can hear the sentinels rise all through tb ill night TH d li Is nece astary to keep don clovin the mob no one la Is cafe safe because no one can tell jurt when ahen trouble will arise and ai as the streets are all iery narrow ani ant run irregularly the elf citi in I 1 hard to man age monkeys ilon keya run w IJ J fit clit here lere and there are about twenty of them young and old here in the arsenal yard they atay stay in the trees cocoanut pineapple mango banana and other kinds kinda most ot of the time they often come into our rooms and examine things in general they are great thieves one of them stole capt stevenson a mirror and took it up tip a tree and sat at there admiring him self till the captain cartain cot eo go toad h b fired a shot at him they are very cunning and smart and very fond of tooth po powder der |
