Hope amoebic dysentery cured.

Great province this, only 150 miles from Manila with air as bracing as Adirondacks or Murray Bay.

Only pines and grass lands.

Temperature this hottest month in the Philippines in my cottage porch at three in the afternoon 68.

Fires are necessary night and morning.
"_Taft_." As quick as the wires could bring it, he received the following reply: "_Washington_, D.C., April 16, 1903.
"_Taft_, "_Manila_.
"Referring to telegram from your office of 15th inst., how is horse?
"_Root_." When he read it his shouts of laughter, rolling over the hills of Baguio, must have been audible half a mile away! Mr.Taft's sojourn in the hills put him again in fine condition and made it possible for him to return to Manila and resume the heavy burden of work which there awaited him.