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Show soft job alongside of what we ar up against here. On arrival everybody, not on tho steamer, came forward and greeted me; tbey evidently want to make me feel content on formidable Corregidor. Nor. 7th. Typhoon signal up. Last evening the clouds parted for a brief space and time to reveal a fiercely brilliant 6un, with sheet upon sheet of almost compact rain driving Into its face from every quarter. The wind and rain held sway all through the wild black nlgbt, and they still dominate. domi-nate. Everything is wet Indoors and out, although the bungalows are not flooded, as I am told is sometimes the case. We are deeply thankful we did not run into tho typhoon which destructively de-structively swept a broad area of these waters a few days beforo we put into Guam. Tho desperate thing is evil enough on land, but to be In Its clutches at sea would mean complete surrender. I do hope after this awesome, forbld-able forbld-able Introductory aspect tropic nature will speedily bestow her gracilis favors fa-vors of abounding sunshine, spicy breezes, opalescent seas, fascinating poems of verdure and moBt enchanting enchant-ing nights. We had many sweet and boautlful experienced enroutc which the hard things I have run up against her have crowded remotely into the background. things! It is certainly very fine for my lady, the officer's wife, but It , takes a big w ad out of the officer's pay. There Is only one way to lhe here, and that is by elimination, discard dis-card all your belongings. Your needs are, first, a cook who carries the meals and cooking kit with him; second, a shelter high above ground with walls that open outward; third, a bed. a table, chairs, a lamp, a grass floor mat and several changes of real linen and plain outer garment. These things, with magazines each month, would mean luxury at Corregidor. Corregi-dor. The woods are real Jungles, impenetrable impen-etrable without ax and saw. The vlow from tho nine bungalows (In a row on the crest) is commanding. From the top of the light house just In tho rear ono could make a most excellent drawing of a portion of Luzon, the splendid bay, Manila, tho ocean, Corregidor Cor-regidor and surrounding Islands. The mountain crest across the bay, north of us, Is so like Observatory Peak and the slope to Weber canyon that on glancing out betimes I fancy I am at home. Only we see the greens ln all shades. The Pacific fleet is in Manila bay, big cruisers patrol the waters hereabout here-about Lieut. Coulter has been mado assistant ordnance officer to Capt. Ruggles. He likes the business air hero; much Is dolug in preparation of permanent fortifications MRS. C. E. COULTER. CORREGIDOR A STRANGE PLACE (By Mrs. C. E. Coulter .-Corregidor, .-Corregidor, P. I , Nov. 5. 1903. On tho heights cf Corregldor at la6t. after many Strang scenes and intensely in-tensely Interentliig a9 well as uncomfortable uncom-fortable experiences Indeed, so many things extraordinary have attended this particular voyage of the "Thorn-a1" "Thorn-a1" tht I have kept on th qulvlve at all hours of these many days and nights, and now, at the Ultima Thule, I find m.tself too depleted to co-ordl-naie and properly record events and incident?. That I am here, on the top of this crater, with the great unfriendly sea stretching p.lmost boundlessly and restlessly on even' side and green mountain slopes guarding us in the dlstanc', Is, lo me, after my expe-rleneo expe-rleneo f ycsteiday, n surprising fact. If you should ever feel the need of an .aw akcnlnp, a thrill eueh as can only come when you know ou have Just escaped a fearful death, hasten to Correglrtor. One ascent Js enough for a lifetime. I am up U looks Just now as though I shall never go down Tho ascent of Pike's Peak is quite commonplace, really insipid, compared with this. The crag looks like one only a bird could scale, and the cable-road cable-road with equipment is temporary and crude. The freight car. a mere platform heavily laden, at times pauses In midair mid-air for an Instant on thc almost perpendicular, per-pendicular, II m cllnglDg to a cable on a terrible cliff and the sickening sensation Is one never to be forgotten. I fancy pioneering ln the West was a The storm grows more furious; It seems as though cyclones of the mountain moun-tain wind kind aro beating waterspouts, water-spouts, rising from tho sei below, and all the heavens around, into our bungalow. bung-alow. If thi6 continues on the progressive, pro-gressive, some of your family will be sleeping In wet beds tonight, and it will be easy to maintain a six-foot per month rainfall record In the Philippines. Phil-ippines. We have two small rooms xvith another family share the same living room and moss. Looks as though there Is little prospect of anything any-thing better within the next six months, when It Is expected the permanent per-manent quarters -for officers will bo ready. This ,jlace la suited to the native, xxlth a three-piece xxardrobe and a nlpa shack It's no white man's land. The Island Is Infested with rats, tremendous rats, mosquitoes, the entire en-tire family of spiders, centipedes, scorpions, scor-pions, cockroaches that devour libraries, libra-ries, fierce ants white, black and red kinds and by comparison with tho above perfectly dear gokos, Iguanos and lizards, it is a constant flgbt for survival, and I believe I feel inclined to let the climate and the critters have It. Between the rains and the heat all things grow rusty, musty, mildewed mil-dewed and rotten. Then for every material and fiber there Is Just the ' right 6ort of a predatory insect (or rats) to devour. We have on excellent Chinese cook, an artlit ln rnct, and a Filipino house boy who keeps at It early and late. Lung Wu most mysterioujily provides everything, Jfems to get It from nowhere no-where and nothing; goes out each morning and comes in loaded with stuffs and then cooks and cooks and makes fancy dishes all day long The more w eat the better he in pleased; appears greatly aggrieved when we slight his much-rolxcd and garnished dishes. Really, if it were not for so many clvlliied belonging the care of them I should speedily be ln the fat woman's wo-man's list. Think of the cook bringing In the food and preparing the meals, keeping my lady out of the kitchen and not permitting her to say one word about |