The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-30

ldu Tune TO IGtCn from tue CoiIdl
These the Cubans, being busy going
Roosevelts rough riders found them
The Texas cowboys had affected te
i laugh at the nickname of Weary
7 Walkers" But it CALLED them terribly
They had not been ashore five min
utes when one of them lifted up his
face and shifted.
"Whoop" he yelled; "hosses. There
bosses around, by snakes and Shat
! teri"
He and a dozen others made a wil6
rush in the direction of the wind, ano
there, sure enough, they found the
horses, with the Spanish army branc
on them. There was wild joy in the
ranks Of the rough riuvls, anu they
We're arranging to mount a dozen
picked men on the captured animals
and send them out scouting to fine
more when a bare-legged, ragged Gu
ban came along and claimed them.
According to the rough rider, the
| Cuban said; americana no caballeroi
/ Cubano caballerol'
Get out" said the rider, "or III
knock the stufiing outer yer.''
The Cuban went off to Gen. Castillo
and the general went to Gen. Shafter
and Gen. Shafter sent instructions that
the horses were to be given to the Gu
bans. 1t was a sorry sight for all US
| footweary ones to see picturesque
gang of ragged Cubans ambing gayly
along on the captured horses. We
were all going about offering untold
gold for a .three-legged mule. and
must say-for the Cubans do not es-
TEEN money before their cause-offereo
it in vain.
! There is nothing for it but to walk
and how any one is going to walk more
| than five miles a day in this climate
I L. ] 1efaH Naf trtN IN
! think.
l used to despise the Cubans until
got so filthy, dirty myself. Now that
| my white trousers are black in patches
and my boots are caked with mud and
my coat has a slit up the back, am
| able to appreciate the good points OF
people who are much worse off and
who have not washed themselves fol
| centuries. And the donkey patience
with which the Cubans bear heavy
loads long distances, go without food
and endure physical suffering is moth
| ing less than wonderful.
CUBANS AND AMERICANS.
From here to the front, where the
/ Cuban scouts and guides are. is some
! eight miles as the turkey buzZard flies
| Bue it is as a hundred miles on foot
| through swamps, on morrow paths
across which priclIly cactus spikes
meet, across hill streams beginning to
| be swollen by the rains into rushing
rivers, up slippery mud slopes, along
river beds: through, in fact an almost
| impossible country.
| The American soldier, strong and
brave, caring nothing for difficulties or
/ hardship, and filled to bursting point
with enthusiasm and fighting devil, has
/ seen very little as yet of marching here.
But the little he has seen has taught
him to be indignant that he should be
called upon to carry his tent and his
I three days rations.
By the side of him the Cuban is but a
poor, thin-limbed, half-starved, miser-
able skinned rabbit. But | saw q
Cuban come down the stony hill path
into the town limping, barefoot. He
had cash on his right toe. which he
had bound up with bit of dirty rag
He had walked there and back carrying
on his head a heavy bag filled with
ammunition, and from daybfeak until
now he had eaten nothing but berries
and wild fruit.
It is not that they do not know IA
tigue, or that they have great physical
strength. They do suffer, and suffer
terribly, but they bear their sufferings
throws away everything superfluous
because he does not think he is called
upon to bear all the suffering of carry.
ing them. But the Cuban, though he
is not half so strong, goes on carry.
ing, just because he does not conceive
that he has any right to resent suffer.
/, ing. He has been fighting for year.
without arms that are worth calling
arms, he has been fighting practically
without food, without clothes, more es
pecially without boots-but he has KEEP
on fighting
Up there on the crest of the rock hill
on the right of the cove, is a Spanish
blockhouse which commands the sane
beach and the mouth of the roaC
through the valley. On the left on the
crown of the opposite cliff. is another
blockhouse which also commands the
landing place, as well as the path over
the hill. At the junction of the road
from Daiquiri and the road to Santiago
is another blockhouse. Here and there
along the ridge of the mountains
through which the roads wind you see
a little black knob outlined against the
sky. 1t is a blockhouse commanding
some mountain pass or path These
blockhouses are the marks of VIVA
Spanish government was like in this
region until week ago A few men il
each could hold the country in theil
hands. What we cannot understand
now is that the Spaniards did not try
to hold them against us.
In every hundred yards of the coun
try through which we have marched
there was a position which half a regi
ment could have held against US, il
which they could have ambushed III
lust as they ambushed Roosevelt's i'm
petuous rushers the other day. VIII!
have they retreated as impetuously al
we have advanced? ! do not profess t
understand military matters, but thi'