Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-12
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The Insurgent Army Nccds No Com,
miseary DcDartment.

missary Department.
One of the most disappointed men in
town is Capt. Buenco. of the Cuban
army. The captain, who is q member
of the largest banking house in San
Diego, Cuba. came to New York last
July on a special mission. He soon fin
ished his business and has been trying
ever since to get back to fight with his
company. Twice he has attempted to
get away, once, it is said, on the Haw-
kins. and again on the Bermuda. The
second failure, which resulted in his be-
ing held in $4,000 bail to appear before
the grand jury, prevented him from go
ing on the vessel when she again weigh
ed anchor last Sunday morning.
Il was all through with my business
on July 90" said the captain, land here
am still, held by this bail until 1 don't
know when. Every time I've tried
to get away something has happened.
If the people in charge of the Bermuda
had labeled their boxes. the government
would not have stopped the steamer
and should be back With my friends
by this time. with a chance to help
them. Here ! can do nothing. am
useless.
Look at Col. Perez there. He and
began together. We We're old school
mates, you know. He stayed and
fought and now he is II colonel. Ii l
could have gotten back I'd be n colonel,
too, or dead. oh, we'll. the rainy sea-
son is coming on. and after that the
fever. That will make the Spaniards
sick. In the last war 3S per cent of
them died of fever-to say nothing of
those VIC put out of the way with our
macllctcs and bullets.
"Of course. they cannot ride at all.
Perez has told you about that; but we
can outmarch them. too. One night,
about Il Year ago. we broke camp and
started to meet Maucu and Marti. We
knew that they We're to land about for
ty leagues away. by Don the next day
VT had marched eighteen leagues, but
we We're not too tired to attack Il Span
ish column that came down on our
flank. IL little to the roar. We had q
lively fight until ) o'clock. when Maceo
and Marti came up. Then, together, we
drove the enemy out of sight.
I'VE ought to have been pretty tired
by that time. Don't you think so? Well,
we We're not very fresh. but orders
We're given to return by the route we
came, and, after hunting up something
to eat from what the S%paniards had
abandoned in their flight. we marched
back the whole eighteen leagues, reach
ing our starting place the next after
noon. You won't find any Spaniards to
do that. We couldn't If we weren't used
to the food and to the climate and
hadn't lived Il of doors all our lives.
another thing in our favor, espe-
cially in the hilly country, where the
woods are dense. is that we know what
plants and roots are good for food and
which poisonous. Almost anywhere in
Cuba there is enough stuff growing
wild to keep n man alive, If he knows
how to get 1t. We do; so, we can go
about without a commissary depart
ment. When we halt for breakfast or
supper, there is a bugle call as a signal
to prepare to hunt-get out sacks ready,
etc. Then a second call, meaning to
dispense to the woods. In n half hour.
perhaps. you will see all the men back
in camp. each with some fruit or vege-
table that he has plucked or dug out of
the ground. We eat those things and
they agree with us. If the Spanish eat
them they have a pain in the stomach.
"All we need to drive the Spaniards
out is supplies. We've more men than
we can arm. So it is no use for anyone
to come to us looking for a job, unless
he knows something about artillery.
Then we might use him, but I do not
know certainly."-New York Press.
AS a fountain finds it's expression in
overlooking, as a river in rushing to the
infinite main, as trees bursting into life
and blossom in the sDringtide. SO God