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before we left.Philipinos take naturally to music. In fact they are good at any kind of light work. I think every town ofany size has an orchestra. The or-♦chestra of Las Pinas consists of about*twenty pieces and is very tine, considering everything. They play entirely by air. One evening they played in honor of General Lawton, who was making his headquarters at the church. I was surprised when they struck up a “Hot Time In The Old Town.’3 We wondered where they had heard it but afterwards learned that after hearing a piece whistled once they could play it right off. Little tads who were only big enough to walk, whistled our bugle calls all over town.We left Las Pinas June 18th and marched five miles south to Bacorr,ItIMUp with you whether jo« continue the, ■orwo-klUinff tobacco habit, NO-TO-ltA1 rwiorw the deaire for tobaeco, wlth^•at mttoiu diitrwa. ex Um, p«rtA«» theO-TO-IAC fro*own dntfht,*hoit with y, yarhmtUy Oh# y ooret; S bof«*,#Mt, or w#ilery. They used black power and after the first shot was fired, which sent up a cloud of smoke, a v%Hev j from the insurgents came crashing through, which nearly cut down all the rice. I had never before beard bullets fly quite so thick. I was like Mark in Uncle Toms Cabin. I felt all over myself to ascertain if I was shot. Seeing that I could not shoot in my position for fear of 6hooting the artilleryman. I very willingly lay down behind a rice ridge. As I heard the bullets strike In the ridge I thought what a nice thing these ricp ridges are. I then and there made a secret vow that I never would complain about climbing over them.It was not long when the bugle sounded charge. All four companies went through the narrow gap, formed by the rivets, yelling line so manyIndians. And such a yell. The bat-tallion doctor, the hospital corps, and the Chinamen even yelled. Some scouts away over to the left, who had been through all the campaigning here, said afterwards that they had never heard anything to empire frith it. The charge had the effectIONRolt;SpeTuiPotTiTo%tto;Sp*TuiPocTTonRo;TuiPcxTTo^Ro:SpiTuiPolt;T1TcaiSwdrSatelneAdiSfc
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Lebanon Patriot
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 21, 1899
Page 5
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Krystle S.
MD, USA 01 Apr 2020
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