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DURHAM, APRIL 5, 1900. Frank Irwin Gives a Description of the Wan the Philippinesâ€"The Yank’s Haven’t Everything Their Own Way. The following extracts from a let- ter from Frank Irwin, son of ye Edi- tor. may be interesting to some of our readers. The letter dated Feb. 8 reached us on the 215th of March. Af- ter a few familiar paragraphs he talks about the war with a. description of the Filipinos in which he says; â€" They are a lazy, filthy, ignorant peOple, to say the best of them. They are about live feet high, copper colored generally, slightly oval eyes, treacherous and deceitful, and are great people for picking up anything that is not chained down. They used to come around our barracks. and eat out of the slop-barrel. 'l‘hey live in bamboo shacks and usually chain their hogs under the houses. They are great tobacco users, men, women and children from {our years up, using it continually. Well, when I wrote you last, we were in Cebu. but now we are in the mountains some 15 miles from here. Since my last letter we have had several scraps. In the last. letter we were in Cebu, but. over a month ago we started out to give the insurgents another whipping, About three weeks after coming into Cebu, “ H,” that is my company, went. one way alone to take some forts, while "' I ” and “K ” went an- other tome. We were the only company that reached our destination, the other companies gatting lost in the moun- tains. We went up. expecting these other companies to jom us and fire on them from the other side. We opened up at 9 o’clock a. m. and kept it up till 4 p. m. and the insnr- gents were still in there. and firing as much as we were. We fell back, and camped on the bank of the river, set out our outposts, and all went well until about 10 o’clock when insur- gents approached under cover of darkness and fired on the outposts and camp I was on one outpost and a bullet or_two came uncomfortably near me. so I sat down. About 1030 Captain Hanson called in the outpost and we beat a hasty retreat down the river. “’9. marched from 10.30 till 3.30 in the morning. and then the river got so rocky and stoney that we couldn’t get the horses through, so we halted. Our Cap- tain called for a man to go with him. and I, being close to him. stepped 01 t We tried to get a trail to make our way around the rocks. but it didn’t work, and after half an hours hard search gave it up. We then camped for the night, or rather "flopped” into the river and lay down tiil daylight at about six o’clock. We then Started out, but found out. just in time that we had camped under the forts. W'e couldn’t help it, but cheerfully took our breakfast of “lead and can- non balls ” and marched on. About 9 o’clock we had breakfast and an hours rest. We again set out and marched till 1 o’clock when we reached an American soldier camp. I tell you it. was a pleasure to fall down and rest there, for we were all played out. \Ve set up tents in this camp (Camp Rowan) and stayed for three or four weeks. The next. thing was i SCOII’S filifiéli; -5 P-) Tum- no, on” if]! Flynn- THE CHRONICLE. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. W. Irwin, Editor and PrOprietor. to find a place for the artillery can- nen, so one morning I was told to go out with a party consisting of 45 privates, several commissioned ofic- ers and a detachment from the artil- lery. We marched all morning and Stopped at noon to eat and survey the country. We could see the in- surgents flocking to their forts. Not having found a suitable position we started on our homeward path, and proceeded down the other side of the range. We walked along the range for quite a while in front of the fort, when they fired a cannon at us. It either went a mile or two high or not far enough for I could hear nothing of the ball. Then they commenced with rifles and cut up :the dirt- all around us, \Ve got into a wooded gully, and went down into the river and still they fired on us. You could hear the bullets going through the leaves on either side of you but lucky for us none came in. There is one curious thing about those rifles, that is a rifle barrel, at long range shoot- ing they go a little to the right, and do not shoot exactly straight. For instance, in shooting at one thousand yards, suppose 'the target to be a clock, you aim at seven o’clock and make a bull’s eye. I don’t think these nigger-s understand this or they would do more damage. After resting in the bushes in the creek bottom we opened fire and as tne niggers got excited and were shooting high we fought our way {or about four miles and only got two men wounded. We ,came to Cebu and a month ago or more (Jan. 5th) started out to destroy their big forts. But 1 must haStcn on. D Company planted the cannon, and when all the troops got out the artillery opened up and the infantry charged the hill and took the forts. The first shot of the cannon went through one fort and killed twenty insurgents. We got the fort after a stiff fight with only a few men wounded. The enemy had 109 killed and I don’t know of the wounded, no prisoners. My motto is with these peOple “ No quarter " for I know they would not give it to me, and I have seen six butchered into an unrecognizable mass and eight more missing. There was a scrap here the other night, the Co. H. 19th Feby. Filipinos having adopted guerrila warfare, and Captain Smith. of D Company, \\ as killed. The report of the Registrar Gen- eral of Ontario for the year 1898 has just been laid before the Legislative Assembly. The report is supposed to be a correct record of the births and deaths, and also of the marriages which have occurred in the Province of Ontario during the year, and such it ought to be. But a very cursory examination of the It turn will Show that there is something radically wrong somewhere. Beat respects to all and hope you are all well. The total number of births record- ed in 1898 was 46,599, having a decrease of 724 from the number given in 1897. The counties show- ing an increase are those in which growing and manufacturing cities are situated, as for inStance York, Wellington and \Ventworth. On the other hand the more notable de- creases are said to have occurred in the counties which are very largely agricultual, such as Bruce, Grey and Ontario, and where in the normal condition of things there, decreases should have been increases. The total number of marriages in 1898 alsovscems to have fallen off slightly as compared with the prev- ious year, thus, in Western Ontario, and GSpecially in the counties lying upon Lake Erie the decrease was very marked. while in Eastern On- tario there was a corresponding in- crease. But upon the whole, there appears to be a distinct tendency to delay marriages which means that the proportion of marriageable per- sons in the community decreases, and pro rata of course there must be a decreasing birth-rate. It may be, however, that this pessimistic View of the general trend of the population is not borne out by the real facts of the case, that it is the Division Registrar who is at fault, and these ugly figures recomed in the Registrar Generals returns have risen from the imperfect re- tums of his suboxdinates, If so. then the scene: the facts are known the bettex for the peOpIe as a whole. and for Canada in the eyes of the world. We may here remark that the registration of births, deaths and marriages is of the very highest im- portance. and that all persons con- cerned should aid the Division Registrar in his workrâ€"Com. \ A certain gentleman in a. neighbor- ing town was good enough to go to meeting but could not remember the text, and his wife would make fun of him. So on Sunday the text was: " An angel came down from heaven, took a live coal and placed it on the alter.” He kept. this in his mind and went. home. His wife said. Well forgotten the text, I reckon? He Said, "Oh, no: I’m too fast for you this time.” She asked him to repeat it. He said: “ An Indian came down from Grand Haven, took alive colt by the tail and jerked him out of his halter.” Decreasing Birth Rate. Joux F. IRWIN. Mr. Bearman, of the Scone Electric works, has installed a two thousand light dynamo at a. cost of $2800. Port Elg in has decided on 3. Don)- inion Day gcelebration J uly2 Mr. Robert Russell, Treasurer of Proton township for over twenty years died recently from paralysis. Sydeuham township defeated the By-law submitted last week to raise $40,000 tor a permanent road im- provement fund. MnJohn Mitchell, of the Experi- mental Farm, Clarksburg, shipped sixceen boxes of fruit to the Paris Exposition. \Vroxeter is talking up 3 Furniture Factory now-and Editor Townsend is helping it along. One hundred $25 shares have already been asked for. Guelph Central Exhibition fall show has been set for'i‘uesday, Wed- nesday and Thursday, Sept. 25th, 26th and 27th. Mr. Robert Gilray, father of Rev. Alex. Gilray, and Thus. Gilmy, Ex- Reeve, of Eupbrasia, died at his home new Epping on Monday the 281k ulc., in his 84th year. A Brant farmer sold about twenty- five hardwood trees this winter, not one of which was green, all having been killed by the caterpillei's last summer. The Independent Order of Forest- ers at Arthur added the net proceeds of a concert, $61.32 to the Canadian Patriotic Fund. The total proceeds were $105.07 and eXpenses $43.75. The Owen Sound Times advocates the establishment of :1 Joint: Stock Co. to commence absteam laundry business. The Chinese laundries it claims are destructive and unsatis- factory, the Chinamen undesirable citizens, and, the entire profits of their labor go to China through the big agencies or banks at San Fran- cisco. The Hon. Wm. Mulach, acting Minister of Public Works paid Thorn- bury and Meaford a visit to inspecx. the harbors. At both town: he met with enthusiastic receptions. Mr. Phil Lawrence while loading saw logs attempted to prop one with his knee. The prOp slipped and the log came down on his leg injuring cords so that he will be unable to work for a. while. The boys turned out last Tuesday and cut. his suin- mer’s wood and danced at, night. Torn Lawrence is going to Glenelg to be M1°.James Allen’s right. hand man for the summer. - He is a hush-- ler and the Edge Hill farmers will have to' keep moving or he’ll get ahead of them. Wood bees are the order of the day and dances at night. The list for this budget is Messrs. 1). Mc- Kelvie, W. Watson, John Moore and F. Hargra've. ’ Mr. James Allan is going to draw cream to the Durham Creamery this summer. He is dunking of taking two routes and drawing every day. If he does as much driving at night as usual he will be going all the time. Messrs. John Moore and Robert Matthews have purchased the Lamb farm which has been tilled by Mr. J. Allan for a good number of 3 ears. Mr.Fred Foot has engaged with Reeve Morice, of Normanby, for the summer months. ' Mr. Geo. Henry is going to Spend the summer at. Shallow Lake cement we rks. He will be missed as he kept up the reputation of this part as a Sport. Mr. Wm. Calvert is putting a lean- to to his barn this summer. He had a gang of men making timber for it last week, contractor Jim Eden hew- ed it in one day, He can do big work liewing as well as cutting wood. Miss Kate Dixon has returned from the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph where she took a course in the Dar-yine' denartment and succeed- ed in coming out second on the list. Well done Kate. W001) Wannaâ€"Three or four hundred cords of ruugh wood wanted at the Durham Furniture Factory. Mr. John Henry Moore, son and brotheroin law of Mr, Joseph Moore has gone to Owen Sound for the sum- mer. COUNTY AND DISTRICT. HENRY’S CORNERS. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Two severe cases that were completely cured by the Great Blood Purifier and Healer, Suffered For over eleven years I. 1 1 Years. suffered with Dyspepsin and tried everything I could think of, but was unable to get relief until I took Bur. dock Blood Bitters. I had only taken one bottle when I commenced to feel better, and after taking five or six bottles was entirely well, and have remained so ever since, and feel as though B.B.B. had saved my life.-â€"-Mrs. T. G. Joyce, Sta‘nhope, P.Q. Covered My little boy, aged 10 With Sores. years, was a. complete mass of sores, caused, the doctor said, by had blood. His head and body were entirely covered with sores, and we could find no cure. FinallyI got a. bottle of Burdock Blood Bitters, and before one- half the bottle was gone he began to improve and by the time it was finished there was not a sore on him. GOOD FARMS and Splendid Hanover Properties FOR SALE or EXCHANGE. Properties Bought and Sold on commission. Debts Collected. Old Notes Bought». He has recently lent- monoy to borrowers in \Valk- ertou. in Durham. in Holland, near Mildmay, near Southam mm, a short distance from Owen Sound, and “'11 ' do pvople go to him from such rent distmm-s.’ Bvcauso they make mono ' by ( oing so, it: tlugv_d_jc_l_u_‘_t‘_t_l_1_(_e‘\;l\1£11dn't go to im. They . fi'mfifi inn“ I.“ Has boon at the business for nearly ‘20 years and knows the ins and nuts uf it. and always studies to give. his cusmmcrs a good bargain, knowing that in the end it. pays him as well as them, That, in fact. is the reason why he to-day has the best business uf the kind in \Vcstcrn Ontario. Debts Collected. Old Notes Bought. Ocean Tickets for sale. Deeds, Mortgat’res, Leases, “'ills and other “'rit- mgr! ea retull y drawn. ' Fire, Life. Accident, Marine and Plate Glass IN- SIYRANCES placed at lowest rates. in Good Communies. twine» Difficultiesarranwed. Creditors settled with. Any and every Tciml of legitimate busi ness attended to and everything kept S'l RICTLY PRIVATE. ALWAYS PROMPT. Never negligent. CHARGES MODERATE. CALL I'l‘ WHAT YOU LIKE Everybody seems to want MONEY, and ['1‘ IS sum’msxxu how many people go for it to so if flu \ didn t tlu v \multln t go to him. The: «rt.- t CHEAPER INTEREST and BETTER TERMS. I used the 3.8.8. as a wash as well as internally, and it seemed to give great relief as soon as it was put OILâ€"Mrs. Philip Mitchell, St. Mary's, Ont. 1‘10NEY_;_$ $ $ $; Slightly nearsighted to-day. More so to-morrow. Progress of near sight is the forerunner of blindness. The smallest amount of near sight should not be neglected. Examination free. HE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS for sale lots 8 91:30:52], Egreryont: MaoFARLANE Co. J. for sale lots 8 on con. ’21. Egremont. and 30:: con. 4, S. D. R., Glenelg. Lot8 consists of 100 acres. 90cleared. well watered and fenced. 70acres fit to run machinery over. Good large brick house with wood shed 20x30 and driving shed same size and bank barn. small orchard, 19.; miles from school. Lnt3 consists of 54 acres, '25 cleared. balance hardwood bush. Clear title. Will be sold on easy terms. For further particâ€" ulars apply to JOHN WHITMORE. March 27th. 1900. Durham P. O. March mu, 1K1). March 27th, 1900. 11. H. MILLER, WELL BRED JERSEY BULL Sixteen months old. Apply to WM. LEGGETTE. Silver Creek Farm, Vickers. THE HANOVER CONVBYANCBR. Breenhacks ; CASH ! Farm for Sale. H - H . M I LLEJ R , The Hanover Conveyancer Druggists and Book sellers. Bull for Sale. â€" H. H. MILLER -- \\ N C ar Sight Attend the Best-4t Pays! ~â€"vv--I - ercise great care in clloosing a school. Money is not easy to get therefore it should not be spent foolishly. Before you decide to spend a duller let us correspond with you. Our cata- logue tells you about our superior advantages. Commence your course now. Our attendance is increasin year by year. A large number of recent stn ems have accepted good situations. Students in attendance this year from Canada, United States and Newfoundland. YOUNG MEN AND \VQMEN SHOULD O nrlnan 0"an “n -.. -l. _ - -:__ MAPLE 59.00 57.00 55.00'""" BIRCH - 9.00 7.00 5.00 “ SOFT ELM 9.00 7.00 5.00 -‘ BASSWOOD 9.00 7.00 5.00 5‘ BEECH, 7.00 5.00 4.00 '5 BLACK ASH 1100 8.00 5.00 “ PINE cut 1455.11.00 8.00 5.00 ‘- CEDAR 6.00 5.00 4.00 sPRUCE 7.00 HEMLOCK $4 to $6 accord’g to leng. TAMARAC $4 to $6 ” Logs will be classed according to quality and size, and to be cut as much as possible, 12 ft. long, allow- ing three inches. Shop will be open every Wednesday and Saturday. T. MORAN, Pumps of all Kinds. Ail REPAIRING promptly and prop- erly attended to. NEW PUMPS AND REPAIRS. DIG, DRILL, CURB, RIB-CURB, PRESSCURB W'ELLS. All orders taken at the old stand near McGowan‘s Mill or at Shop at Charter Smith’s Foundry. W. D. CONNOR‘ LI. Shoes made for all kinds of diseased )r deformed feet. A CALL SOLICITED. ALL WORK GUARANTEED at “Live and let live” PRICES. Sewing Machines Pumps. IMPLEMENT WAHEHUUMS Winter Goods 1 Mill Streetâ€"In Rear of Calder’s Block, Lower Town, Durham CHAS.M°KINNON’S General Blacksmith. I'ORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY. Galvanized and Iron Pipâ€" ing; Brass, Brass Lined and Iron Cylinders. I BEG LEAVE T0 INFORM MY CUS- TOMERS and the public in general that I am prepared to furnish BELL PIANOS and Organs. CUTTERSâ€"Large Stock, Best Makes Cheaper than ever. ROBES~ Large Variety, from $4. 00 up. ROOT Pulpers, Straw Cutters. c. NEW WILLIAMS and RAY- STOVES~Alarge stock of Mo- Clary’s famous Model Cook- ing Stoves. Fancy Parlor Stoves, Box Stoves. Coal Stoves, etc... at prices that will surprise you. Pumps from $2 upward CEN7'1 STRATFORD. Ont. MOND, a Very Large Stock of the latest improved Cabi- net. and Drop Top Stands, at The Very Lowest, Prices. SEE THEM! UPPER TOWN Manufacturer of And Dealer in â€" GEORGE WHITMORE, DURHAM J. W. CRAWFORD. ,W. D. CONNOR. V»: o 41/ .I/P u'O‘ IS $144 s1» ’4\ $22 ’1‘? Sch 49‘ S I “(if \VI 3? Just Received .w. \Ve are doing the V 0‘. 71 w fin"... mwéc Clover Timothy Seed. H. PARKER, IF YOU ARE IN W'ANT OF COAL OIL, we have the quality in both Canadian and American. Improdzd LerWa \‘V/ , ’ AN IMMENSE ASSORTMENT 0]? 7°: Dt Recelved Plow Lines, Trace Chains, Etc. 93%. “re are doing tPe WHIP bueiness of this northern 533/4 country. Our 29¢ Whlp xs somethmg extra for the money. ’1“ Paints I Paints ! Danish White Oatsâ€"400 a bushel. Import of Seeds Now on Hand. -‘0‘ We have just received a very large shipment of ReadyMixed Paints in nearly every shade. You are sure to get 1h: quality if 3,011 deal with us. v4 April 5, 1900. DURHAM. s1 '7! 4'14 r), NI; NI, K\V, Ah )‘D' -. ...--3-"‘-‘- w 4w 'Im‘ 4w- ’4‘