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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-10-01

In wars among themselves the inhab-
itants Of the Philippine islands have
shown savage courage. Their priests
have taught them that death in battle
is simply translation to happy life be-
yond 1t is related that at the time Of
the British conquest i'll 1862 the Span
iards made use of native allies. The
British captured Manila by storm, but
before that took place 5000 natives
charged the British, and with their
knives cut through to the third line of
British soldiers. Only 100 Filipinos
survived the charge.
Uprisings i'll tho islands have been
numerous, but generally confined to one
island or tribe. In these affairs the
Filipinos have been brave without rea-
son, but their wrongs were more intol-
cradle than death in battle. Spanish
warfare is horrible in the nineteenth
century. What must it have been in
the centuries past? The Spaniards did
not scruple to slaughter Chinese by the
tens of thousands when they threatened
to absorb the trade of the islands. Every
/ uprising of the natives was attended
with a slaughter of the rebels out of
all proportion to Spaniards killed.
Where the Spaniards lost one the rebels
lost l00 and where ten Spaniards fell
| 1000 rebels bit the dust. Such unequal
warfare would not tell in favor of the
| Filipinos but for the fact that they kept
on rebelling and facing slaughter in the
sublime if vain hope that the Spaniards
would he worried into reforming things.
If all the rehellions of the natives
have been caused by Spain's intolerable
rule combined with a gradual awaken
| ing of the people to the privileges Of
/ liberty elsewhere enjoyed, there is hope
/ that they viii welcome American in
/ reference and join in every effort to
4 establish order, Indications in their
I mode Of fighting around Manila point
/ to an outcome something like that On
/ the other hand, if Spanish tyranny has
/ repealed every noble impulse the United
/ States may find foe as hard to deal
I with as the terrible Cheyennes and
/ Apaches Of the American plains.
GEORGE l.. KuMER.
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be warm or cool at will, to crawl in
without disordering through grass and
bushes. Battle stained and we'll worn.
there is no name for it but 'tough look
ing" but the closer it is examined the
more evident it becomes that it is the
most serviceable under any test that
could be devised.
In the battle at Santiago the ground
was so broken and rough and the bush
es, vines and high grass so general that
the massing of men under eye from any
given point could not be carried out.
BY instinct the officers Of small groups
and the soldiers, under nOncommission-
ed leaders, or even by themselves, push
ed forward, always and always for
ward, shooting at every Spaniard in
sight. Wherever they saw path or
clearing or q knoll which offered an adj
vantage they rushed for it, fought for
it, and in so doing at last brought order
out Of chaos. l hazard nothing in say
ing that without tho high character
and intelligence, the pertinacity and
courage of the subordinate officers and
the enlisted men Santiago heights
would not have been carried ON July l
nor retained on July 2. The necessity
for thorough drill and training as well
as instructive courage to bring soldiers
up to a state of working efficiency was
proved on every company line.
Forty thousand volunteers like these
who fought on July l and 2, and these
men the very best and grittiest imagi.
Fable, would never have carried the
San Juan hills and blockhouses and if
they had by stroke Of fortune tumbled
upon them without fighting would not
have gone forward to the key crest and
its fanks.
This is not the views of a regula1f
but of a veteran volunteer, whose COZ
illusions are drawn from a study
what the regulars as individuals, a
companies, battalions and regiment
did in the several emergencies forced
upon them, especially in the hours bel
tween daylight and dark on July /.
GEORGE - KuATR
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Farmers Break the Buggy Monopoly

1t is claimed that for years buggy
manufacturers have secured exorbitant
prices for their goods, but recently,
through the combined assistance of the
farmers of Iowa, Illinois and other
states, SEARS, RoEBUcK & Co. of Chica-
go, have got the price of open bug
gies down to $3.50; Top Buggies,
22.75 Top Surries, S43.75 and upwards,
and they are shipping them in immense
numbers direct to farmers in every state.
They send an immense Buggy Catalogue
free, postpaid, to any one who asks for
it. This certainly is a big victory for
the famers, but a severe blow TO the car
riage manufacturers and dealers. IL
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chief element in the fighting force of a
body Of cavalry. They are expected to
deliver swift, mighty and telling blows
by rush of the mounted charge. Take
their horses away, and they have no
such element. The regular cavalry at
Santiago had no weapons whatever but
the Krag-J orgensen carbine. Without
horses, without sabers and with no
chance whatever to use the cavalry
formation, they were reduced almost to
the status of a simple body of brave fell
lows, organized into companies and bat
talions who would fight to the death in
any tight place where they were caught.
In the matter Of uniform the new regu-
lar army soldier is out as a campaign
er and fighter There is really little of
the old style military neatness and gilt
ter about it, It is a combination of the
frontier hunter and cowboy costume, TO
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soldiers of these VETERAN OF TWO WARS.
regular regiments, veterans of Santiago
and Indian campaigns, are generally
reticent upon the subject of their
wounds-those, l mean, who carry scars.
On the other hand, they are very curl
Gus to know whether tho men wearing
G. A. r. buttons, whom they meet cas-
ually, have battle scars. Unwilling to
exploit their own nevertheless they
think that scars are the true badges of
battlefield courage.
Drinking is exceedingly rare among
the officers and men of the regular ar
my today This will sound odd to
those who have outwardly carried i'll
mind some drinking fellow as type of
the United States soldier The drinking
man swaggers around and exploits him
self as "a representative Of the army
but really represents the guardhouse ele-
ment, which is very small indeed. The
truth is that the officers Of the army
have no federation for a brother officer
who gets drunk, and they have no use
for an enlisted IMAM who gets drunk.
The shoulder strapped drunkard is
speedily ostvacized and eventually driv-
en- out Of the service.
The reading public IS often deluded
and sometimes amused by scandalous
stories getting abroad in regard to what
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regular army. a
single man with
the smell Of pow
der and the
marks of bullets
upon his gar
ments yields a
tremendous pow
er over men pre-
disposed to mar
tial life. He is a
hero, and his
word is law. his
conduct a model.
The officers and
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G. u INALDO'S
insurgents are yet
to be heard from.
They are bold and
energetic an d,
what is more,
very restless. The
events Of the last
few months have
increased their
disco intent by
opening TIL eli r
eyes to a great fu-
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curry and potash seemed TO add fuel to the
awful flame which was devouring me ! eyas
advised by friends who had seen wonderful
cures made by IL, to try Swiftis Specific. We
got two bottles. and felt hope again revive in
my breast-hope for health and happiness
again. / improved from the start, and a COM
plete and perfect cure was the result. $. S. s..
is the only blood remedy which reaches des-
perate cases. Mrs 7. w LEE.
Montgomery, Ala.
OF the many blood remedies, S. S. s.
is the only one which can reach deep
seated, violent cases. 1t never fails to
cure perfectly and permanently the
most desperate cases which are beyond
the reaeh Of other remedies.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-10-01

a swamp overlooked by the insurgents,
who were massed near bridge. March
ing boldly along the road, the Spaniards
confronted the pass, and, after firing
shells at the bridge for a time, charged
forward. The insurgents held their fire
until the enemy came close up, then let
loose with their Mausers and the four
fieldpieces. In few minutes there
were no Spaniards in sight that were
not lying in the road dead or helpless.
As in Cuba, so in the Philippines, the
Spaniards despised their foe and paid
the penalty Of shortsightedness. Stand
ing off at safe distance, they peppered
the bridge and its defenses with cannon
shot and bullets, but the rebels held on,
not, however, wasting ammunition up
on the distant enemy. Then the Span
iards tried it again, with worse luck
than before. The small field guns and
the Mausers Of the rebels played havoc
in the Spanish ranks. That ended all
attempts to carry the bridge that day.
An American correspondent wrote to
the New York Herald a description Of
the scene at the bridge during the time
the Spaniards were in front Of it. He
stated that the insurgents were very
cool and soldierly. They did not reck-
lessly expose themselves over the para
pet, but kept low and fired, when firing
at all, through loopholes. One active
rebel was a boy Of 49, whose rifle had
been cut down to fit his size. This lad
was eager to get his chance at the para
pet, and, when it came, fired coolly, as
though to make every bullet tell. This
they all did, but the Spaniards shot
wide of the mark, so that the rebels
apologized that there should be so little
real war work going on.
While the correspondent was at the
front the rebels were besieging Cavite
church, an operation which lasted nine
days. 1t was there, he said, that the
Spaniards showed real pluck. AT last
their flag came down, and then the
whole of Cavite province was in the
hands Of Aguinaldo's men. Over 1000
Spaniards had been taken prisoners with
arms in their hands Six field guns had
also fallen into rebel hands. The city
of Manila was then inclOsed on the
north and south by the insurgents, all
with very little aid from Americans,
because Dewey had no troops and could
neither help nor hinder the action of
Aguinaldo.
The moral support given the rebels
by the American expedition was very
great, but it is creditable to the insur-
gents that within three weeks they won
every battle against the Spaniards and
shut them up in a walled city. All this
was done by following the rules of civil
LIKED warfare, in spite of the fact that
during this rebellion of Aguinaldo the
Spanish have been treacherous and
cruel. Aguinaldo has acted with a price
on his head, and less than year ago
insurgents were cruelty butchered in
the public square of Manila.
Aguinaldo held the waterworks of the
city in his control, but refused to dis
tress the inhabitants by shutting off the
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} @ u A RREL
will be struck
up by the regu-
lars with the
volunteers over
the glory won
in this war.
Volunteers are
speaking for
themselves, and
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-10-01
Sacrificed to
Blood Poison.

Those who have never had Blood Poi
son can not know what a desperate con-
dition it can produce. This terrible
disease which the doctors are totally
unable to cure, is communicated from
one generation to another, inficting its
faint upon countless innocent ones.
Some years ago / was inoculated with poison
By a nurse who infected my babe with blood
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-10-01

Skaters regulars, as l have seen
them at their work, are new creation.
Their equal in so large a body, assum-
ing that all under arms are like them,
never before existed in time of war,
that crucial time for trying the stuff
that is in soldiers. We hadn't them in
1912, nor in Mexico, and, of course, not
in the civil war. There seems to me but
one way to account for our having them
now, and that is that the protracted and
terribly severe civil war produced the
battle experienced officers to rally
around them and mold into perfect sol
diers the most intelligent, hardy and
martial minded young men of the coun-
try.
Veteran officers Of martial record and
name and bearing have something in
their presence which will call out the
very best there is i'll any young man as
ISOLATED with them. Generals whose
names had become household words be-
cause of their distinguished services i'll
the war went back to their regular COM
mands as majors and colonels. Very
few of the major generals of volunteers
reached the rank of colonel in the reg
ular army upon the organization at
the close of the war
Thoroughly seasoned war colonies be-
came captains and lieutenants in the
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in making the above statement / only
paraphrase the words of scores of gal
liant field and line officers who fought
at Santiago. The words were delib-
erately spoken at Camp Wikoff in the
division where war worn regulars and
volunteers are camping together. went
to Camp Wikof to study the regular
regiments, expecting to find the theo-
retical, didactic and bookish flavor Of
the West Point academy as outsiders
understand it prevailing, and my ideas
were wholly changed by q week OF
close scrutiny. Almost all of the regular
regiments were led at Santiago by Off
GERS who took part in the civil war;
the same with respect to battalions
and to many companies. All the gen.
eral officers are veterans of the war
without exception, and it is safe to say
that there was scarcely an officer on the
fighting line at Santiago above the rank
of lieutenant who had not been in bat
tie either in the war which ended 33
years ago or against Indians.
In the ranks striking contrast TO
this exists, for none Of the men was in
the civil war. Many have seen fighting
on the plains; but, as rule, the COM
mon soldiers are young men, and if the
ages were averaged l think it would APP
pear that the mean average is about as
it was in the war-namely, about % ..
But what glorious soldiers these young
fellows are--black and white AS to
the general efficiency of the negro sol
diers, their officers cannot say good words
enough about them. Officers from regi-
ments of blacks are transferred to those
composed of white men, and vice versa;
hence have but the common term to use
when thinking of the men commanded
by them, which is "soldier. -
The Santiago campaign brings to the
front for the first time in our history a
real regular army. Almost all Of the
regiments engaged there were regulars.
The more the campaign is studied the
more it will become evident that it is
most fortunate for the nation that this
was so. This is no reflection upon the
volunteers, for was volunteer myself
in 1S61-5 and have written in the
strongest possible language of the PROV
ess of the American volunteer as dis
played in that war.
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faint. The little one was
unequal 10 the struggle,
and its life was yielded
up to the fearful poison.
For six long years | suf-
fered untold misery. /
was covered with sores
and ulcers from head to
foot, and no language
can express my feelings
Of woe during those long
years. / had the best
medical treatment. Sew
eral physicians success :.
sively treated me, but all
IN M f.44f-nega Tho m or
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ture. When Spain was all powerful in
the Philippines and crushed out rebel
lion with remorseless cruelty, general
rebellion was an impossibility. Natu-
rally the great mass-and it is the mass
which must rise up in order TO carry on
a revolution-felt in awe Of the power
which had held sway over them for
centuries and supported itself with
magnifcenoe which was the more i'm
pressive as it approached the barbario.
Weyler declared long ago that the
only way for Spain to keep order in the
Philippines was to change its method
of government there. That means that
the natives have progressed, have learn
ed something of the rights of man and
cannot longer be held as savage chat
tells The most probable effect of the
coming of the United States and the
smashing of Spanish power by sudden
and overwhelming blows is to sharpen
the desires Of the people for greater lib
erty and to spread the notion among
them held by the southern negroes when
the emancipating army marched among
them. This is a year Of jubilee, and it
may be quite as difficult to hold the
ambitious and headstrong among the
Filipinos in check as to discipline their
late masters A Spaniard would say
that the Philippine insurgents are an
unarmed rabble. That is the language
always used by powers that are and
wish to continue to be when speaking
of revolutionists. Furthermore, the in
surgents were compelled last winter to
turn over all arms to Spain. So when
Dewey's guns shattered the hold Of
their hereditary enemy in the islands
the conquered but unsubdued Filipinos
were helpless.
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DUR NEW REGULARS.
A STRONG TYPE AS A RESULT OF OUR
CIVIL WAR.

onicers of Great War acknowledgements
at the Head of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as
Captains and Lieutenants-Th Soldiers
Are Young, but Built on Fine Models.
1925 by American Press Asso-
citation. Book rights reserved
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supply, although by SO doing he might
have brought the Spanish to terms. He
respected the rights Of prisoners of war,
although the Spanish showed no quar-
ter to the rebels.
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might be called morbid and undemocrat-
/ io jealousy among officers of the honor
of their class-that is to say, of the So
cial as we'll as Of the professional hon
| or. One thing is the question of the
marriage of officers to women repre-
senting the enlisted class. Such ideas
may work harm in some instances, but
they do work good i'll driving from the
army those who would disgrace their
uniform and bring disgrace upon the
/ services, to say nothing Of the evil done
to the nation by having such great pow
er resting upon an untrustworthy man.
Just as drunkards are driven out of
the army by the social ostracism of
! their other brother officers so are the
| incompetents of every class. The high
standard of the army is kept up by
| close study and practical exercises. No
| dumb head can maintain himself any
| length of time around headquarters of
! the army This does not refer especial
| ly to the general headquarters, but
these &C any post, regiment, battalion
or company.
AS a rule the regular infantry had
been prepared by its long marches and
skirmishes as we'll as its battles in the
Indian campaigns for the work of in
vading Cuba. The cavalry fought dis
mounted, and to people familiar with
the work done by the army in the civil
war at first this seemed all right. in
the civil war the cavalry played part
wholly unknown before in war 1t
fought often as infantry, and toward the
close of the war the volunteer cavalry
was simply body of mounted infan-
try. That is all right. 1t almost always
happens in campaign that the success
depends upon rushing troops with mus
kets in their hands to a certain point.
But getting them on horseback doesn t
constitute them cavalry in the true
sense of the word. Cavalrymen are
taught to fight on horseback, they live
with their horses, who are their COM
panions and friends and a part of their
equipment for offense and for defense
Our regular cavalry horses have been
taught to lie down so as to make their
bodies breastwork for the trooper to
lie behind and fire over them with safe
ty to himself
In a larger sense the officers and men
depend upon the horse to constitute the
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EAGER FILIPINOS.
BOLD AND WRRLlKE DEEDS OF THE
PHILIPPINE ISLANDERS.

Spanish Cruelty Has Made Them Reckless
of Life-TheY Armed Themselves by
Capturing Mausers From the spaniards.
Three Weeks Campaign at Manila.
tCopyrfght. 1898. by American Press Asso-
citation. Book rights reserved.l
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-31
FILLING ARMY VACANCIES.
Ruling of War Department That Pres
ident Alone Can Appoint Officers
In the tanks.

4 special to the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch says that the war department
has ruled that the president alone can
appoint officers to vacancies in vol
unteer regiments caused by death,
resignation or discharge, after being
mustered into the United States serv-
ice. This will. it is said. invalidate a
number of appointments made by Gov.
Stephens to the five regiments now in
the field. Among those appointed by
the governor. after muster, is Maj.
Henry s. Julian. former chief of police
of Kansas City. to a vacancy in the
Fifth Missouri volunteers.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-31

made after the early fall roundup.
Other purchases mad. by Mr.. Mellick
were the Awbury cattle from Wolf
Creek, numbering some 100 head,
terms private.
In another column will be noticed
the arrival of Mr.. Fred NJ. Winans,
who has for years been associated
with the leading opera companies in
the United States, Australia and
England. He proposes to open a
class for vocal instruction in Lewis
town shortly. having in view the
putting on of n series ofcOmic operas,
including "Pinafore," "Micado." etc,
affording our best amateur talent
an opportunity to present to the
public the ability which we have
always felt sure u young people
possess. He will be ably assisted by
Mr.. John X. Brown, whose musical
attachments are too well known to
need comment. A prospectus will be
mailed to u citizens by Mr.. Fred
NJ. Winans in a few days, with an
invitation to all lovers of good
standard opera, to attend a meeting
at the opera house in order &c put in
concrete form the above ideas.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-31

About one month ago my child,
which is fifteen months old, had an
attack of d~iarrhoea, accompanied by
vomiting. / gave it such remedies rs
are usually given in such cases, but
al nothing gave relief we sent for a
physician aud it was under his care
Tor a week. At this time the child
had been sick for about ten days and
was having about twenty-five oper-
ations of the bowels every twelve
hours, and we were convinced that
unless it soon obtained relief it would
not live. Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy was rec
commended. and / decided to try it.
l soon noticed a change for the bet
ter; by it's continued use a complete
cure was brought about and it is
now perfectly healthy.-C. l.. Boggs,
Stumptown, Gilmer CO., w. Va. For
sale by c. +. Little, druggist.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-31

Monthly Pains cured by DR.. Miles. Pain Pills.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-08-31
A Runaway Stage.

IGreat Falls Tribune of Aug. 26.l
About 10 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing the four horses dra wing the Lew
istown stage became frightened at
the street light at Second avenue
south and Fourth street and started
to run. The driver had them under
control when one line broke and he
was forced to swing the animals,
more badly frightened, into the va
cant lots at the corner, where he CIR
cled them twice. As they came
around the third time the coach
turned over, the driver lost his grip
on the line and the horses dragged
the coach until the tongue broke and
they got away.
There We're two passengers, Mrs.
the coach turned over the man at
tempted to get the woman out of the
coach, but could not. AS she finally
got out, the coach struck her. She
was carried into a house nearby and
DR.. FriZzell attended her, finding that
she was suffering only from bruises
and the shock.
The horses ran down Fourth street
to Fifth avenue south, where they
caused a rancher's team to u and
spill "A load of vegetables. Then the
stage horses stopped. One of them
had a dislocated shoulder, but the
Others were not injured.