Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-07-29
ABOUT CUBAN
SOLDIERS.
STEPHEN CRANES DESCRIP
TION OF TIIERANK AND
FILE.
TlGir EnOIOllaSS Character.


ROUGH RIDERS \ REVELATION
ALONG CLINE TO SEE SANTIAGO
MANGO FED CUBANs REVOLT.
Writing under the date of Jun
81 frou Siboney, Cuba Stephe'
Crane, special correspondent o
the New York World, writes a
follows about the Cdban soldiers:
The day is hot and lazy, endles
Cubin infantry stragg cling past II
doc of our shack send the yellow
dust in clouds. The Thirty.thirC
NJ chigan is landing in dribbles
upon the beach. -Four Red Cross
nurses-the first American women
20 set foot on Cuban soil since the
beginning of the war-came ashore
from lhe State OF Texas, "a few
minutes ago, aud the soldiers.
disheveIei, Glrty, Dronzed, gazpd
at them with all their eyes. They
we're u revelation IN their COO
white dresses. Lie OCCASIONAL y
moves slowly a. the s,at OF war'
This makes twO days Of tranquility
Tie SpaniardS, when they tied
from the conflict with Roosevelt
men and the First and Tenth regu
lar cavalry, took occasion to tire d
considerable distance; IN fact, they
went H4arlY into Santiago de Cuba.
Tne attitude OF the American
soldiers toward the lnsurgent Is
interesting. So also is the attlt-
nde of the luSuTgrnt toward the
American soldier. One must not
suppose that there was any cheer.
ing enthusiasm At the landing OF
our army at Baiqniri. The Ameri'
can soldiers looked with silen I
curiosity upon the ragged brown
insurgents and the insurgents
locked stOlldly,aim Indifferent J
At the Americans
The Cuban soldier, indeed. has
turued into an absolutely emotion
less character save when he is
msddened by battle. He starves
And he makes no complaint. We
feed mm and he expresses no Joy
When you come to think OF 1t, one
follows the other naturally. IT he
had retained the emOtiOnal ability
to make a fuss oyer nearly starving
10 death, he would also have re
tained the emotional ability to
faint with JOY at sightot the les
tive canned beef, hard tack and
coffee. But he exists with the lm.
penetrsble indifference or ignOr
ance of the great part of tue people
in an ordinary slum.
Every body knows that the kind
of sl mpathetic charity which loves
to be thanked Is often grievOus.y
disappointed and wounded in ten
ement districts where people often
accept gifts an il their own proper.
~ had turned up after short alb
Sepce. The CubaDs accept our
stores IN something of this way. II
there are any thanks, 1t Is because
Of custom. OF course, mean the
raGk and file. The officers are man.
nered both good and bad, true
md assembling, like ordinary
people. But there is no speclOu~
intercourse between the CuOans
and the Americans. Each hold
largely TO their own people and 60
their own ways. The American
does not regard his ally as a good
man for the fighting line aud the
Cuban Is aware that his knowledge
of the country makes his wool
craft superior to that OF the Amer.
lean. He regards himself also as
considerable Of a veteran and there
has not yet been enough fighting
to let him know what Immensely
fol- mldable persons are your Uncle
SamuePs regulars.
The fighting of the rough riders,
by the way, surprised him greatly,
He is not educated ia shat kind Of
warfare. The way our troops kept
gong meyer giving back a foo
despite the losses, hanging on az
it every battle was a life or death
tIuggle-thIs seemed extraOIdi.
nary TO the Cuban. The scene of
The fight on the 24th is now faT
within our lines. The Spanish
position was perfect. They must
have been badly ratified to have so
easily given 1t up at tho attack OF
less thar 1000 men. Here now the
vuItures wheel slowly over the
woods,
ScOvel and Iswam two Jamaica
horses ashore from the Triton,
found some insurgents and took a