The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-26

grand Saxon tune hsplacing fairs Of Old
CASTLE. After a few momeuts silence
one Of the Riders started way Down
Upon the Wabash One line was very
pretty'-"rhe moon is soft and fair upon
the wabash; from the hills there comes
the scent of new mown hay
Great hcaVeusl / said TO Capt. Luna.
what recollections that must bring to
them among these stenchful trenchesF
''Theh they sang Sweet Rosy OGrady'
Finally somebody started Nearer. My
God, to Thee The boys sang 1t through
every word. Two or three hymns were
sung, the lads with splendid voices, max
ing the little hills rejoice,
They seemed to know the words and
tunes so well that / remarked TO Arizona
Sam. These boys know hymns pretty
well. Sam.
'Parson.' said Sam, cycling me condo
soeudiugly. them yer, feilers has got good
memories It's a long time since any o
that lot heard them hymns In church. Ana
ez fur religion. ef you want TO know, them
boys needs tobacco a great deal more than
they needs hymn books
1T was those Arizona men that young
Bert Mcmillan, son Of Commissioner Nc
MILAN, OF New York, joined. ! saw many
of his letters TO his father, in which he
shows the true man and soldier. In one
letter he says he did not wish to Join the
New York mnllonaires, but rather these
cowboys; for he said. they Were perhaps
rough outside, but true blue from stem TO
stern.
when one reads this boys letter where
he tells his father how he bagged two
spanards in a fight and how next morn
ing he kissed his mothers picture. read
The old Bible and prayed for them al home
one feels the days of chValry and honor
have not passed.
"A New Mexico Rider told me Of Bert
"a M al
but he could shoot well, and he want soon
turned He was one of the first to get to
the top o. the hill
THE sufferlngs Of the refugees at FL
Caney were frightful. A Spaniard offered
500 in American gold for 100 pounds of
flour one woman | saw gave a soldier "a
gold bracelet for two bareback, Many "A
time a bottle Of wine sold for one hard
tack and IA machete for mouthful OF
meat.
L gave a woman who had diamond rings
and a cashmere shawl one spoonful of por-
ridge. She ate with dignity, but evident
starvation. 1 did not get her bracelet. Sol
diers gave away their breakfast 1t was
AN awful spectacle of mlsery-old, young,
rich, poor. while, black, yellow. red-a ter
rible mosaic of misery. 1t ended as all
things terrene must.
when the Americans entered the city
Garcia went off to sulk. Perhaps he was
honorable, but l have no doubt his sol
diers meant TO loot. The only evidence Of
loot ! saw was Cen Wood with Capt
Luna-the latter the only full blooded
Spaniard in the American army calmly
paying two prices for their dinner at the
Cafe Venus.
wood was fine selection for governor
He said he was not afraid of the fever
but he would take every precaution. II
the board OF health in Santiago would
- A.. III ,,f.A md them
If not dismiss them and get board that
would
"The spanlards are dirty; the Cubans
dirter The Spaniards are hungry; the
Cubans hungrier.' A negro, of the Fourth
cavalry described our Santiago allies as
eaunest lot o damn scoundrels' he ever
saw.
There would not be nearly so much few
er IL the men were treated rightly. There
was, and U.s. an alarming want of food,
delicacies and medicines in the army Of
occupation.
Il saw Gen. Ludlow and Gen Wood
and Col. Roosevelt, all within the space
of an hour. come to Clara Barton az the
pier where she was unloading her stores
from the State of Texas. and simply beg
of her for corn meal and rice milk and
a few dried fruits
"'Our men are sick they sald,' and
more will be sick.
Miss Barton helped them all. But when
they had gone she said to me: If the
American commissary cannot send IN food
in time Of peace to a handful of men
what could II do with an army as large
as that we had in the civil war
Gwen the iron VIII Of Theodore Rooso-
welt was shattered when he. half Ill him
self, sat on the stump Of cocoanut tree
as / bade him goodby. He had l2l men al
out Of 430, and Is men III In one company
of 50 men.
IF we were hemmed I'm by the army
he gloomily remarked, or II we were max
ing a last stand for national existence,
we could bear it and move without com
paint. But we are in land of peace and
behind us ,the great America, with grana-
ries bursting with every kind OF food and
/ cannot buy at any price food or deiica-
cies for my sick men.
Il thought the climate of Santiago de-
Iightful and left the sweet green country
with regret The city was peaceful, and
our soldiers went about the streets chat
ting with the soldiers of Alfonso XIII.
Our rules IN Santiago would allow no in
dignities to be heaped on a conquered foe
Under the Stars and Stripes the weakest
is protected, the strongest must obey. The
Cubans sometimes scowled Even the
Americans sometimes could be heard say
ing:-"This isn't much Of a surrender
These Spaniards are having better time
than We But 1t was McKinley's master
stroke He who bends above the fallen
stands erect.
after the ship Concho's voyage Dante
should rise from his grave and add an
other canto to his 'liferno
'"The grass was sprouting on the graves
when left. The Sierra Maestras were stlil
like springtlme In Spain. sim the heavens
bent, but forNhe first time domed a land
without a self or peasant. Still sang the
streams and bloomed tho flowers. It's al
ways spring in Andalusia."
Iron Horse and stag In Race.
From the Montreal Witness.