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and nine-tenths of his men had their native queridas. When the lieutenant left the place and came up to Cebu, peparatory to sailing to the States, the woman came and lived with him. In another place we were told that the women all took to the hills while the town was being garrisoned by a volunteer regiment. The results of this cohabitation are beginning to be apparent, and are deeply deplored by the best of the native people.
PLOUGHING A RICE PADDY WITH WATER BUFFALO.
One young fellow a fine type of his race told the follow- ing story: When a volunteer regiment came to his town, he was taken out and given a beating as being an insurrecto sympathizer. The next day he took to the hills, and joined the insurgent forces and became a captain. By and by he saw the uselessness of continuing the struggle, and, a regiment of regulars having succeeded to the place, he came in, surrendered, and was made chief of police, and succeeded in inducing a thousand of his countrymen to lay down their arms.
An ex-soldier told of helping one day to capture three hombres, who were suspected of knowing the whereabouts of the insur-
