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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-01

rnents were advancing 20 their assist
ance. Because q this act Of gallantry
General Greene promoted Kelly to d
sergeantcy in the signal corps
one Of the most remarks bic displays
Of cool nerve was the adventure ~ Pri~
vate Fred Schmidt OF the South Dakota
regiment. who waa on duty az q sentinel
near Manila when n was approached
By two presumably friendly natives.
"FiupInos. muchos amigos. America
nos cried the tsgo natives. The peEt
instant one Of them drew "a c0ucea I'd
knife and slasnsd the unEgspec
American private twice across the head
Schmidt fell 10 the ground-f9T the
wounds were both horrible ones-agl4
the TWO c0Wardty FIIiplnos t0ck 20 their
heels But the American though
wounded. was a man % nerve. Roll
Ing over on his stomach and wiplng
the blood from MS syeE. 10 calmly
"a SD his rife ard took deliberate aim
Al the szo fuKltlves The nearess che
threw up his hands and feii desd 81 ere
arst shot. Slipping another cartritgs
into his Springfield the wounded sent
lei again took arm a. TIE remaining IA
tive. bat with m apparent effect y
was thought h had escaped. bat ias
neKt morning he wsE found iTirg face
down n some brush stone dad
WILLIAM = WALTETs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-01

Tausig Of the gunboat Bennington sent
a landing party ashore on MaIabon,
young Winship. along with two sea
men. was detailed rs a guard 70 keep
watch on the transfer launch The
landing party, which was made up Of
some 125 men. advanced up the coast
without sending out scouting parties or
advance guards. not expecting to find
any Filipinos in the vicinity Much 10
their CONSERVATION they were suddenly
set upon BY what seemed in the confu-
sion an entire regiment OF insurgents.
The Americans broke and fed for the
boats. hotiy pursued By the natives
Winship. who was Tuning and chatting
on account o. being held back from a
possible brush with the enemy. was
pacing disconsolately up and down the
little deck 81 his boat when he vaS as
founded 70 see the men q the Benning-
ton making their mad rush for the
beach. Behind them he saw the Fill
pinos. and il occurred to him that II
very few minutes his countrymsu would
be penned in between the sea and the
enemy. SpTinging 10 the machine gun
in the bow 81 the iaunch. ne quickly IN
limbered e. The launch vas swung
round and IN less time than 81 takes to
tell Winship was pouring a deadly rain
q bullets into the ranks q the enemy
His FIRE resulted sa the checking u tks
entire Filipino advance. and during the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-01

/ of the modest, unassuming old Indian
/ fighter, General Elwell Stephen Otis,
who is now at the head of the Philip
( pine forces. The splendid campaign of
+ this astute soldier against the Filipinos
has made him the idol of his men here
and enrolled his name on that list of
great leaders who have shaped the his
tory of our country. He has been a
hard fighter and bluff and sturdy
commander but his readiness to face
any danger and to share in the hard
ships of his men has shown that he is
of the stuff of which heroes are made.
And with Otis Will always be remem-
hered such names as Lawton, MaCAT-
thur, King. Merritt and dozen other
valiant leaders who have won distinc-
ton by their dash and courage.
But the man who has made himself
the one hero of all the war in this part
of the world is Colonel Fred Funston of
the Twentieth Kansas volunteers. The
little redheaded colonel' from Kansas,
as he is known among all the men here.
is the greatest daredevil in the Ameri-
can army. He would rather fight than
eat. He is only feet 8, but every
inch Of him is grit When he dupli-
Gated the taking of Lungtungpen and
captured Calumpit with his little band
of men by swimming a river under fire
and when he was the first American 10
enter Malolos, no one who knew the
man was the least surprised. Funston
is a soldier Of fortune and has sought
adventure among the redskins, on the
rail and in the frozen passes Of Alaska.
The little colonel up To the time he was
wounded had always been at the head
OF his men during every engagement.
and there has never come Up a chance
for display of bravery ami daring
that he has not taken advantage of.
When the Aston battery first appeared
in this part Of the world. they were
looked upon as dudes" and there was
tendency 70 think they We're not Of
very much account for lighting pur-
poses. But that mistaken idea was soon
dissipated. on that historic 18th day OF
August, when the battery. almost waist
deep in mud. had 20 abandon their ma
chine guns. they got their first grim
chance for hero making. II was a little
after o'clock in the afternoon when
the order was given out TO abandon the
guns. General Macarthur was hurry
Ing distractedly shout on his little
brown horse after being in the saddle
some nine hours.
What man VIII lead a charge up that
road ?" asked the general of his men.
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! at work stanching the poor fellows
wounds. and it was while busy at this
| that he was cut off by the Filipinos and
surrounded. When his body was found,
the throat was cut from ear to ear, his
fingers were maliciously amputated,
and his remains brutality mutiiated.
Another man who is fully entitled to
his red badge of courage is young Cor
poral Reno, enc of the boyish troopers
of the Fourth cavalry. During the ad-
vance into Luzon he performed an act
of heroism in one of the engagements
with the insurgents which would have
won for him the Victoria cross had he
been member of the British army. In
passing through some rough country q
detachment of so men under Lieutenant
Boyd was sent ahead to reconnoiter.
When the little skirmishing party was
some distance from their main line. the
enemy suddenly opened fire from an
ambush. They were well hidden away,
and the rain OF lead they poured into
the little band of Americans was para
lying. The accommodating party fell
back hastily in disorder, and in the sud
den rush for shelter Private Davich,
friend Of Reno, was wounded and his
horse shot under him. The retreating
party did not pull up until they were
several hundred yards away. well
across a deep stream in a cIump of
trees. 1t was then that Reno discovered
that his comrade was missing and.
without moments hesitation. wheeled
about and dashed across the stream.
Close up under the enemy's fire he
found the wounded private trying TO
crawl away out of range. AS soon as
he reached Davicki, Reno pulled up,
dismounted, carefully lifted the wound
ed man into the saddle and told him to
ride for his life. But Davicki wouldn't
ride. He said, Not until you come
too" So Reno caught hold of one stir
rup and ran alongside as his horse gal
Hoped back TO the regiment. During all
this time the two men were within
range of the enemy's fire, and, though
both of them had been raw recruits,
they displayed the greatest fortitude
while Mausers were Whisting so dis
Concertingly about their ears.
Another soldier hero whose GOODNESS
and bravery will cause his name to be
remembered with pride and pleasure by
all his countrymen is Assistant Engi-
neer Emory Winship, the Georgia boy
who held a whole regiment in check at
a most critical time. When Commander
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THE HourxG INSTINCT or BIRDS

According 70 Mr Tegetneier. there -
a tremendous amount ~ nonsense
talked on the subject - ~" homing IN
stinct II birds. IN fact. he states that
pigeons. which are generally gupposed
20 possess u in a large degree have
simply none and that IL was therefore
a sheer inpossibiIty that the pigeons
which Andree took with him shouia re-
turn.
pigeons. Mr. TeRetmeirr says. must
know the road they are 20 travel. cr
they can d. nothing. ard when he
decided % ~ them between Belgium
ard London hiz birds were taken sew
eral times over the route that fheJ
might know e well
Al first they aers taken out Eve miles.
then ten. ard 20 on 1893 ~ last fheg
knew Tho whole distance over @nlrn
they had 90 fy II BE- easy for pigeons
~ fudge where they are going. f9r ~ a
certain height ere can sfs very .enE
distance This is . fact wsh kH0wB 20
aafanaats. who are perfectly asfpnishei
~ fret ~ finding hor ugrn farihaF
they can zee ffora balloon thar wolia
b. possible from che h.gneet buiflnE.
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I'm do it, sir!' sang out Private
Wade cheerily.
Hold on. general" cried out Ser
geant Sillman. I'm a sergeant, and I'll
lead it,
Thereupon Captain Marsh, who had
been ducking bullets some 80 feet away,
stood up under full fire and ran over to
say. I'm commander Of this battery.
general, and it's my place to lead this
charge"
Very we'll" said General Macarthur.
but don't stand up here under fire all
night"
The men had been groveling n the
mud to make room above fer the Mau-
ser bullets that went singing over their
heads. But they sprang up. and with
nothing but pistols went a the Spanish
tlockhouse No. q like a western cy-
clone. Captain Marsh would rot let one
Of his man get UP the slope ahead of
him, and Il Is no wonder the Span.ards
cleared cut Of that blockhouse in some
what of a hurry. They were not used 70
seeing men charging bareheaded into
the very mouths Of their Mausers.
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nowadays. Modern conditions seem to
preclude the possibility of any two
great powers coming together and set
ling their differences in one decisive
battle such as this old battle of Wa
IeTloO certainly was. Campaigning in
he Philippines presents many features
# warfare that are both novel and sig
lificant. The nature of the enemy and
lis secretive methods required a modi-
ication Of old and established military
principles and made each enga cement
lot so much a matter of maneuvering
and open field tactics as matter of in
iividuai dash and courage With us it
1as been the man and not the battalion
Until the opening of this war. which
am counting as merely the denoue-
ment of the Cuban campaign. il was
not definitely known even in expert
Military circles Just what the most eff
Gcient method of procedure in up to
late campaigning would be. An evil
fence of this lies in the fact of the
.elerity with which the different Euro
pean powers dispatched military repre-
sentatiyes 10 the scene of action as soon
IS hosuHties broke out. 1t has been the
constant object of these official critics
20 watch most carefully the different
American maneuvers and TO determine
from actual observation Just what were
the most effective movements in the op-
grafton Of modern army.
So all aIong we felt that we were
teaching the European powers a little
object lesson in the art of war. Per
maps that put our boys on their mettle
and inspired them with their eXtraordi-
nary audaCiousness. The result has
been that many of those European Off
GERS have gone home with sadly shat
,ered ideals OF army directing. and it
has been generally conceded that Uncle
SANS men have instituted new meth
od and principle of fighting These
roung looking fellows, dressed careless
Y and quietly in their duh brown duck
suits. We're somewhat of a surprise TO
heir foreign observers. who had been
brought up with the idea that a soldier
without his scarlet and glitter and gold
oraid was not tit To carry a firearm
The free and easy rocky from Kansas
ind Colorado. instead of marching
proudly forward in a machine made
company, resplendent with millinery
ana shining metal. slouched along with
IN athletic aimlessless. clad in his mud
stained pair of trousers, from which
probably the last susptnder bottom had
2een divorced and which usually hung
wimly 20 the folds of a faded blue ar
ny shirt.
But when 1t came to going into battle
his same offhand individual sprane
Onward, singing a Hot Time In the
Did Town Tonight" as light heartedly
IS though he had been going off for
lays fishing. He was there for work
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time thus gained the men from the Ben
nington were enabled to get TO their
boats and so escape from the trap into
which they had fallen. Winship kept
heroically at his gun until the last man
was afloat. and when he fell back. with
gasp. there were five bullet wounds in
his body. The commander OF the Ben
nington afterward confessed that but
for the action Of the gallant young as
sistant engineer the whole party would
have met immediate death.
When the battle of Caloocan was at
its height, news was brought back from
the advance firing line TO the hospital
corps that Montana captain had been
severely wounded. Dr. W. c. Hamilton
volunteered TO go after the wounded
man, but his services were too valuable
TO let him out in such danger for so
long time. Thereupon Privates George
Gibbons and Frank Barbee, two San
Francisco volunteers, offered TO go out
after the wounded officer in the am
bulance- This they did. When the am
bulance pulled up. the insurgent fire
was concentrated on ii and the two
brave men who drove it Both horses
were shot in their harness. The stall
wart young Gibbons jumped down from
the wagon, picked up the wounded cap
tain in his arms and started for the
rear.,when a bullet struck him just over
the heart, and he dropped dead. Bar
bee then picked up the wounded man
and carried him On his shoulders a
quarter of a mile back 10 temporary
quarters He then returned to where
his comrade lay dead and succeeded in
carrying his body safely back When
the battle was over, the Montana cap
tain who had been wounded passed over
TO the great beyond, but before going
he handed his belt and revolver 10 Pri-
vate Barbee and told him TO keep them
as a remembrance.
One of those real heroes OF the war
was the Chicago telegraph operator
named Kelly. This young Chicagoan
had charge of the wire from General
Greene's headquarters in camp TO the
trenches about Manila. During the at
tack a bursting shell cut the wire be-
hind the trenches. Kelly. facing a
steady patter of bullets, CROPPED about
for the broken end of the line outside
the camp and followed it up until he
came to the break and repaired it.
Communication was at once opened up
again, and the puzzled troops in the
trenches were notified that REINFORCE
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When Otis began to make himself AT
home in Manila what he did not know
about the Philippines would fill a very
large volume He felt that he must
have a man with an eagle eye and a
ZeuSlike intellect, a sort of military
Sherlock Holmes, who could spend his
time in looking about him and get the
exact lay of the land That man must
be no coward, for his work would take
him right into the teeth of the enemy.
The man Otis hit upon was Major
Franklin ]. Bell. a war hardened old
western campaigner who was not afraid
of rough work and gloated over the
smell of gunpowder like a 5-year-old
over an all day sucker. He went about
the island of LuZon like a restless shad-
ow. and every day or two Otis had laid
before him some new tip on the instr
gents. If it was not a message about
Aguinaldo. il was secret information as
TO what river could be forded and what
town could be stolen into and what
road could carry machine guns and
heavy artillery. Sometimes it was
scrap of a map and sometimes it was
warning regarding a new insurgent
movement. but it always seemed to ar
rive IN the very nick Of time. and il al
ways meant a great deal to the man
who was controlling an army in an alb
solutely strange land.
When the gallant Colonel Egbert was
mortally wounded at the capture of
Malinta, a wave of genuine sorrow
swept through this army of ours He
was 4 soldier who did not know the
meaning OF fear and at the time of his
death was nonchalantly standing in a
shower of Filipino bullets. During the
attack on Malinta he was in the thick
est Of the fight at all times and when ]
he fell. shot through the abdomen. he
met a death that was no disgrace to a 1
veteran who had always been in the
brunt OF the fight.
You have done nobly," said General
Wheaton, barring his head as the
wounded man was lifted on the stretch +.
er upon which he was to die in a very
few moments.
Yes. thank Cod gasped the dying
soldier, but l am cid. and the end has
to come,"
man who will not be forgotten is
Private Biehl Of the gallant Eighteenth /
regiment which did such heroic work
in the capture Of Iloilo. The native at
tack on the American outposts at Jaro h.
bridge was at its hottest. and the man
who left what little shelter was 70 be
had was taking his life in his hands.
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Ammunition was running short, and
things looked gloomy for our men. Just
al this crisis Private Biehl saw Private
Daily throw up his hands and fall, Sc
verely wounded. Without thinking of
the danger he was running into the
young soldier rushed out 10 his COM
panion, picked him UP and carried him
on his own back to the rear. How it
was he was never hit by the rain of
bullets that fell around him is one of
the mysteries of warfare. He was the
nrst man 10 bring news of the scarcity
OF ammunition on the advance firing
line. and supplies were at once hurried
forward. As soon as Daily was placed
in the hands OF the surgeons young
Biehl hurried forward again He had
not taken up his position at the front
more than ten minutes before a Filipino
bullet tore through his chest, and he
fell. crying. I'm done for" In ten
minutes he was dead.
Even more heroic was the death of
DR.. Young OF Utah, 1t was during the
Malabay engagement that our men were
Smelling big stone church full of in
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Now that the bolo Of the Filipino IS
about to be beaten into pruning hook
and the rainy season is coming on ana
The dogs Of war are TO be kenneled the
American boys in this faroft land are
beginning to look with longing eyes to-
ward home Many a man among US
would give a barrel of Filipino peeled
bananas and cracked cocoanuts for one
GOOD bite of old fashioned American pie.
l-ntried young American soldiers who
came out here as pink checked youths
are preparing to go home once more,
looking like war worn veterans. Vol
unteers VINO were once dubbed tin"
soldiers are now the proud possessors
Of that red badge Of courage which
can come only after a baptism Of fire.
But the long fight is drawing to a close,
and the troops. grown tired Of the smell
IF powder. are hankering after the sniff
of a good American orchard in bloom.
At least that is the way I feel just at
present, and l imagine l am not the
only homesick pebble on this oriental
beach
Our war here has not been a Water
loo. In FACT, Waterloos are out of date
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oRIGIx OF THH ~.

The origin - fhe Far in China f. rsii
~ have sprung from the foliowinz lncl-
dent - royal princess very beautiful.
was assisting a. fhe FEAST ~ i1nterHs.
her face covered ulfh = rrspz as uH.zal
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move g. ard III order % Tssr1 her fss-
torres from she common gaze ere faasrd
ff ssl kiy - and 70 SRI fsont = hrr
face th8s sinsifsrfeFssi hidirE hsr
charms ard cooling her trew Tfss sea
vas 80 once adepted threuxhoat ths
klnz51n
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fa1 from TtafY ever a0sn fE Franes ard
n the tire a T@1sis XIV fas Far. rsgef-
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rake 40 - 30 a9esyf ssnaents. fros
nhleh hs kor-s g. abtain an snaaal san
- - $50 trance
There - gaifEri3Tfr fnlns IN reFa
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franc Eor the infant. wbo when hs ar
Tivea al a HufIG ant age ~fll find ttts 50
a nUcieus fo auEwsrt WITH MS penny
saving Ire original deposit - fran
canuot - draws 40 auy fluge aaf Use
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the property could l5e acquired al
reasoHaoi figure. 20 take into consid-
Grafton the question CT its purchase
The Chinese detective force IS a secret
body and the best organized IL the
world They have HI eye upon every
man. woman or child. foreign or NATIVE
IN China. and in addition watch over
each other
K IS related ~ Al2ssandro Guido. a
famous Italian rcet and composer of
the seventeenth century. that he died 81
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Frascati % apoplexy. brought or By dis
covering Typographical error n fiue-
~ printed copy Of poems which he @ss
on MS way 70 present 10 Pope Glen
snt XI
The municipal authorities q None
Belgium. have adopted 3 resolution
hach wlN prevent rhlid-eB from being
born naupesE in that city. Every chlI9
bern ID Mons after being registered o.
fcisily u5ll have a bank sccgsnt open
Cd IN its name with the city Savings
bank The authorities VII ae3oKss
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hospital expenses until she is perfectly
well The wages Of girls vary from s. 70
10 $50 q month. with board.
The Liverpool docks. one 81 the Won
Gers ~ modern commerce. extend along
the Mersey, distance Of SIX and a ha.:
miles.
In the house Of commons at Montreal
the other day Premier Laurier stated
that the lease o. the Plains OF AbTa-
ham. Quebec, would expire May /. 1851
and the property would revert 70 the
ladies' Of the UrsuiinA convsnt The
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personal appearance. He was too apt 20
think genius could wear anything he
chose and never bothered about how he
looked. He probably got the idea from
the fact that two Of MS heroes-Crom-
Wen and Frederick II-were both the
worst dressed men of their time
Il a servant in Germany fails sick her
mistress Is not allowed to DISCHARGE hey.
but must pay A. cents q day Tor her
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FOREIGN NOTES.

There are no large factories for max
ng shoes in Mexico. as in the United
States. There are extensive establish
aents in Leon, Mexico City and Qua
3alajara, but they are not exactly fac
tories. The shoes are made under a
kind Of tenement system. Workmen
receive a stipulated sum for each pair
If shoes made, according 10 quality
CARLYLE was not very careful about his
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Brave Deeds Performed by PriVateS and
Junior Officers Whose Names
Seldom Find Their Way
Into Print

and not for show. He may have been
picturesque; he certainly was not pref
ty. He was too busy at the hero max
ing business to think very much about
appearance, and the record he has left
shows that he pushed the business in
question for all it was worth.
The name that first occurs TO every
one in this connection is, of course, that