August 25th.
I lost $80,000 yesterday. Perhaps I have spoken of lottery tickets, but have failed to say what an important institution in Manila the “Lotería Nacional” really is. Drawings come each month over in the Lottery Building in Old Manila, and everybody is invited to inspect the fairness with which the prize-balls drop out of one revolving2 cylinder3 like a peanut-roaster while the ticket-number balls slide out of the other. The Government runs the lottery to provide itself with revenue, and starts off by putting twenty-five per cent. of the value of the ticket-issue into its own coffers. If all the tickets are not sold, the Lotería Nacional keeps the balance for itself and promptly4 pockets whatever prizes those tickets draw. Lottery tickets are everywhere, in every window, and urchins5 of all sizes and genders6 moon about the streets selling little twentieths [214]to such as haven’t the ten dollars to buy a whole one. Guests at dinner play cards for lottery tickets paid for by the losers, Englishmen bet lottery tickets that the Esmeralda won’t bring the mail from home, and natives dream of lucky numbers, to go searching all over town for the pieces that bear the figures of their visions.
Four months ago I got reckless enough to plank7 $10 on the counter of the little shop, which, at the corner of the Escolta and the Puente de Espa?a, is said to dispense8 the largest number of winning tickets, and became the owner of number 1700. It sounded too even, too commonplace, to be lucky, but as it was considered unlucky to change a ticket once handed you, I trudged9 off and locked the paper in the safe. The drawing came, and 1700 drew $100. Fortune seemed bound my way, so I made arrangements (as so many buyers of lucky tickets do) to keep 1700 every month. My name was put in the paper as holding 1700, and for three long months I remembered to send my servant to the Government office ten days before the drawing, for the ticket reserved in my name. But for three drawings it never tempted10 fortune. Last week I forgot lottery and everything else in our further straggle with a new piece of American machinery11 which was being introduced for the first time to Manila, and woke up to-day to find it the [215]occasion of the drawing. My ticket—uncalled for—had been sold. At noon I walked by the little tienda whose proprietor12 had first given me the fatal number, to see him perched up on a step-ladder, posting up the big prizes, as fast as they came to his wife by telephone. The space opposite the first prize of $80,000 was empty. His wife handed him a paper. Into the grooves14 he slid a figure 1, then a 7, and then two ciphers15. Ye gods—my ticket! The capital prize—not mine! $80,000 lost because I forgot—and to think that the whole sum would have been paid in hard, jingling16 coin, for which I should have had to send a dray or two! But I am not quite so inconsolable as my friends the two Englishmen, who kept their ticket for two years, and at last, discouraged, sold it, Christmas-eve, to a native clerk, only to wake up next day and find it had drawn17 $100,000. They have never been the same since. Nor have I.
And the machine that caused all the trouble—another whim18 of our rich friend, the owner of the fire-engine, who saw from the catalogues on our office table that American cigarette-machines could turn out 125,000 pieces a day against some 60,000, the capacity of the French mechanisms19, which were in use in all the great factories in Manila. He wanted one for his friend that ran the little tobacco-mill up in [216]a back street, for whom he furnished the capital. If it worked, he was in the market for two dozen more, and vowed20 to knock spots out of the big Compa?ía General and Fábrica Insular21.
Out came our machine some weeks ago, and with it two skilled machinists to make it work. The big companies pricked22 up their ears and appeared clearly averse23 to seeing an American article introduced, which should outclass the French machines for which they had contracted.
One morning the two machinists came to our office and handed us an anonymous24 note which had been thrust under the door of their room at the Hotel Oriente:
“Stop your work—it will be better for you.”
It was perhaps not diplomatic, but we told them the story of the two Protestant missionaries25 who some years before came to Manila and attempted to preach their doctrines26 in the face of Catholic disapproval27. One morning they found a piece of paper beneath their door in the same hotel, reading:
“You are warned to desist your preaching.”
Paying no attention to the warning, they woke up two sunrises later on to find another note beneath the door:
“Stop your work and leave the city, or take the consequences.” [217]
In two days more they were found dead in their rooms—poisoned.
Our friends, the engineers, were not soothed32 by a relation of these facts, but kept on with their work. In three days they, too, got a second warning:
“Leave your work and go away by the first steamer.”
Things began to look serious, and the more timid mechanic of the two could hardly be restrained from buying a ticket to Hong Kong.
When, however, in two more days, a third piece of yellow paper was slipped into their rooms, bearing the pencilled words, “For the last time you are told to take the next steamer,” the matter assumed such proportions that we arranged to have them see the Archbishop, whose knowledge is far-reaching and whose power complete. The letters were suddenly stopped and the work on the machine carried to a successful completion.
Then came the day of trial, and invitations were extended to interested persons to view the operation. [218]The machine was started, and the cigarettes began to sizzle out at the rate of nearly two hundred to the minute. But scarcely had the run begun before there was a sudden jar, several of the important parts gave way, and the machine was a wreck33. It had been tampered34 with, and it was evident that the instigators of the anonymous letters had taken this more effective means of stopping competition.
The parts could not be made in Manila; America was far away, and our two machinists have just gone home in disgust.
Is it a wonder that I forgot the lottery drawing?
Somehow there are currents of trouble in the air, and some of the old residents say they wouldn’t be surprised to see the outbreak of a revolution among the natives. Peculiar35 night-fires have been seen now for some time, burning high up on the mountain-sides and suddenly going out. There seems to be some anti-American sentiment among the powers that be, and only last week matters came to a crisis by the Government putting an embargo36 on the business of one of the largest houses here, in which an American is a partner. Smuggled37 silk was discovered coming ashore38 at night, supposedly from the Esmeralda, and as that steamer was consigned39 to the firm in question, the authorities demanded payment of a fine of $30,000. Our friends refused, the [219]officials closed the doors of their counting-room, our consul40 cabled to Japan for war-ships again, the Governor-General read the telegram, hasty summons were given to the parties concerned, heated arguments followed, and the matter was finally smoothed over on the surface.
But there seems to be a distinct feeling against us, and we have been instructed from home to prepare to leave—making arrangements to turn our business into the hands of an English firm, who will act as agents after our departure.
September 20th.
The cable has come, and we hope by next month to leave this land of intrigue41 and iniquity42. It has treated me well, but complications are daily appearing in the business world, and if we get away without suddenly being dragged into some civil dispute it will be delightful43.
I am glad to have been here these two years nearly, but it is time to thicken up one’s blood again in cooler climes, and I feel these fair islands are no place for the permanent residence of an American. We seem to be like fish out of water here in the Far East, and as few in numbers. The Englishman and the German are everywhere, and why shouldn’t they be? Their home-roosts are too small for them to perch13 upon, and they are born with the instinct to fly from their nests [220]to some foreign land. But, America is so big that we ought not to feel called upon to swelter in the tropics amid the fevers and the ferns, and I, for one, am content to “keep off the grass” of these distant foreign colonies.
Paseo de la Luneta, where the Band Played, the Breezes Blew, and Manila Aired Herself Each Afternoon.
Paseo de la Luneta, where the Band Played, the Breezes Blew, and Manila Aired Herself Each Afternoon.
See page 18.
The Englishman or German comes out here on a five-years’ contract, and generally runs up a debit44 balance the first year that keeps him busy economizing45 the other four. At the end of his first season, he wishes he were at home. At the end of the second, he has exhausted46 all the novelties of the new situation. At the close of the third, he has settled down to humdrum47 life. At the end of the fourth, he has become completely divorced from home habits and modern ideals. And at the close of the fifth, he goes home a true Filipino, though thinking all the while he is glad to get away. He says he is never coming back, but wiser heads know better. He has heard about America, and goes home via the States, to see Niagara and New York. But his first laundry-bill in San Francisco so scatters48 those depreciated49 silver “Mexicans,” which have lost half their value in being turned into gold, that he takes the fast express to the Atlantic coast, and leaves our shores by the first steamer. At home, his friends have all got married or had appendicitis50, and the bustle51 of London, the raw rain-storms of the cold weather and the conventionality of [221]life all bring up memories of the Philippines, which now seem to lie off there in the China Sea surrounded by a halo. And so, before a year is out, he renews his contract, and at the end of a twelvemonth goes sailing back Manilaward to take up the careless life where he left it, and grow old in the Escolta or the Luneta. In London he paid his penny and took the ’bus, he lived in a dingy52 room, and packed his own bag. But in Manila, with no more outlay53, he owns his horse and carriage, he lives in a spacious54 bungalow55 with many rooms, and he lets his servants wait on him by inches. How do I know? Oh, because we’ve talked it all over, now that our turn for departure comes next.
The whisperings of a restlessness among the natives continue, and it is hard to see why indeed they do not rise up against their persecutors, the tax-gatherers and the guardia civil. Ten per cent. of their average earnings56 have to go to pay their poll-taxes, and if they cannot produce the receipted bills from their very pockets on any avenue or street-corner, to the challenge of the veterana, they are hustled57 off to the cuartel, and you are minus your dinner or your coachman. Once in the hands of the law, they are then drafted into the native regiments58 for operations against those old enemies, the Moros, in the fever-stricken districts of Mindanao, and their wives or families [222]are left to swallow Spanish reglamientos. They have not forgotten their brothers, who, dragged down from the north, went to the bottom in the typhoon which pushed the Gravina down. They have not forgotten the execution in the public square. They remember that the Spaniards address them with the servile pronoun “tu,” not “usted,” and some day they may remember not to forget. They are not quarrelsome, but they are treacherous59; they are not fighters, but when they run amuck60 they kill right and left. They do not seem to have many wants save to be left alone, to be able to shake a cocoanut from the palm for their morning’s meal, or to collect the shakings from a thousand trees and ship them to Manila; to collect the few strands61 of fibre to sew the nipa thatch62 to the frame of their bamboo roof, or to gather enough to fill a schooner63 for the capital; in fact, to be able to work or not to work, and to know that the results of their labor64 are to be theirs, not somebody else’s.
But what has all this got to do with our hegira65? These last days have been replete66 with the labors67 attendant on breaking camp before the long march. Clearings out of furniture, selling one’s ponies68 and carriages, closing up of books, shipping69 of one’s cases and curios on those hemp70-ships that are to start on the long 20,000-mile voyage to Boston, and trying to think of the things that have been left undone71, or [223]ought to be done, have all gone to make the season a busy one.
Now that it has come down to actually leaving Manila, I begin to feel the home sickness that comes from tearing one’s self away from the midst of friends and a congenial life. I shall miss the hearty73 Englishmen with whom I rowed or played tennis or went into the country. I shall miss the servants who got so little for making life the easier. I shall miss the ponies, the dogs with the black tongues, and the cats with the crooks74 in their tails; the big fire-engine which we used to run, and which has now been varnished75 over to save trouble in cleaning; the Luneta, with its soft breezes and good music; the walks out on to the long breakwater to see the sunset, and the hobnobbing with the old salts from the ships in the bay, who called our office the little American oasis76 in the midst of a great desert of foreign houses. But the clock has struck, and the Esmeralda ought early next month to start us on the forty-day voyage back to God’s country.
October 22d.
Is this sleep, or not sleep? Is it reality or fancy? Am I laboring77 under a hallucination, a weird78 phantasmagoria, or are my powers of appreciation79, my efferent nerve-centres and their connecting links, my sum total of receptive faculties80, doing their duty? I [224]feel hypnotized. I kick myself to see if this is real, and am only led to conclude it is by looking into my sewing-kit, where the needles are rusty81, the thread gone, and the depleted82 stock of suspender-buttons wrongly shoved into the partition labelled “piping-cord.” I never did know what piping-cord was. My socks are holy, my handkerchiefs have burst in tears, and my lingerie in general looks as if it had been used for a Chinese ensign on one of the ships that fought in the naval83 battle of the Yalu. For two years those garments have held together under the peculiar processes of Philippine laundering84, but now that barbarians85 have once more got hold of them and subjected them to modern treatment, they recognize the enemy and go to pieces. And so the condition of my clothes leads me to believe I am awake, although everything else suggests the dream.
Actually away from Manila, actually eating food that is food once more, actually sleeping on springs and mattresses86, putting on heavier clothes, talking the English language, meeting civilized87 people, and realizing what it means to be homeward bound! It seems unreal after those two years of Manila life that was so different, so divorced from the busy life of the western world; much more unreal than did the new Philippine environment appear two years ago, [225]after jumping into it fresh from God’s country, as the Captain called it.
Here we are, eight days out from Manila, steaming up through that far-famed inland sea of Japan, on the good ship Coptic, bound for San Francisco; and for the life of me those twenty-four moons just passed all seem to huddle88 into yesterday. Surely it was only the day before that the China was taking me and my trunks the other way. And so it takes but eight short days of new experiences, new food, new air, to efface89 completely the effect of seven hundred yesterdays in the Philippines. Those whole seven hundred seem now as but one, and when I think of all the housekeeping, the bookkeeping, the hemp-pressing, and the cheerful putting up with all sorts of things, they all seem to be playing leapfrog with each other in the dream of a night, and I wake up to find the pines of Japan lending a certain cordial to the air that is very grateful. We never knew what we were missing in Manila in the slight matter of eating alone until we got over to Hong Kong again, and it is perhaps just as well we didn’t. To think of the “dead hen,” as they call it, and rice, the daily couple of eggs, the fried potatoes, and the banana-fritters on which we have tried to fatten90 our frames, and then look at the bill of fare on the Coptic! We exiles from Manila have gained over five pounds in these eight days, [226]and would almost go through another two years in the haunts of heathendom for the sake of again living through a sundry91 few days like the past eight, in which the inner man wakes up to see his opportunities, and makes up for lost time on soups that are not all rice and water, on fish that is not fishy92, on chickens that are not boiled almost alive, on roasts that taste not of garlic, on vegetables that are something more than potatoes, on butter that is not axle-grease, and on puddings and pies that are not made of chopped blotting93 paper and flavored with pomatum sauces.
Captain Tayler, the Genial Skipper of the Esmeralda.
See page 227.
An exuberance94 of spirit must be forgiven, for so welcome is the change from the old cultivated Manila contentment that the present burst of native enthusiasm is but natural. Not that I am playing false to the Malay capital—for let it be said that when once you have forgotten the good things at home the articles which that Pearl of the Orient had to furnish went well enough indeed—but that after schooling95 one’s taste to things of low degree it is peculiarly melodramatic to return to things of high estate.
Our send-off from Manila on the 14th was as gay as the sad occasion could warrant, and several launch-loads of the “bosses and the boys” worried out to bid us a last adios. The Esmeralda was to have the honor of taking us away from the place to which she had brought us, and I was thoroughly96 [227]prepared to go through the interesting process that was needed finally to straighten me out after the peculiar twisting which the voyage from Manila to Hong Kong had given me two years before.
The sunset over the mountains at the mouth of the bay was eminently97 fitting in its concluding ceremonies, and it seemed to do its best for us on this last evening in the Philippines. The many ships in the fleet lay quietly swinging at their anchors. The breeze from the early northeast monsoon98 blew gently off the shore, and Manila never looked fairer than she did on that evening, with her white churches and towers backed up against the tall blue velvet99 mountains, and her whole long low-lying length lifted, as it were, into mid-air by the smooth sea-mirror between us and the shore.
Captain Tayler was as jovial100 and entertaining as ever, and the colony had no reason to regret being participators in the farewell. We well realized that our departure was an epoch101 in the life of the little Anglo-Saxon colony, and in a city where important events are registered as occurring “just after Smith arrived” or “just before Jones went away,” it was essential to give the occasion weight enough to carry it down into the weeks succeeding our departure.
Our native servants came off with the bags and baggage and seemed to show as much feeling as they [228]had ever exhibited in the receipt of a Christmas present or a box on the ear. And some of our old Chinese friends, from whom we bought bales and bales of hemp in the days gone by, came too, bringing with them presents of silk and tea. Everybody looked sad and thirsty, and made frequent pilgrimages to the saloon in quest of the usual good-by stimulant102.
The Esmeralda panted to get away, and we had our last words with the motley little assemblage. We were seeing Manila and the most of them for the last time, and I confess both they and the shore often looked gurgled up in the blur103 that somehow formed in our eyes.
The sun sank below the horizon; the swift darkness that in the tropics hurries after it, brought the electric lights’ twinkling gleam out on the Luneta and the long Malecon road running along in front of the old city, from the promenade104 to the river. The revolving light on the breakwater cast a red streak105 over the river. The white eye on Corregidor, far away, blinked as the night began, and, just as the warning of “all ashore” was sounded, the faint strains of the artillery106 band playing on the Luneta floated out on the breeze over the sleepy waters of the Bay.
Our friends clambered aboard the launch, the customs [229]officers took a last taste of the refreshment107 that Captain Tayler gives them to make them genial, the anchor was hoisted108, and, with cheers from the tug109 and the screeching110 of launch-whistles, the Esmeralda put to sea, bearing with her, in us two, half the American colony in Manila and the only American firm in the Philippines.
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