The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-18

horse with us. We haint done any thing In all the eight months we've been fighting out here but teaching the nig- ger the game. They didn't know noth- ing at first. They wouldn't fight then, but they fight now because they had good teachers"
 When General Wheeler arrived back
 in Santa Rita after the hike he sent an
 aide over to the hospital to find out if
 there had been any casualties reported
 as result of the insurgent attack.
 Strangely enough, in spite of all the
 thousands of shots that had been fired into the town from the five or six hun dred insurgents who had attacked US,
 none of our men had been hit. The na- l tive residents were not so fortunate
 A -year-old child was struck by a
 Mauser and killed. We heard also that
 a woman had been hit twice while she
 lay in her bed in nipa house on the | Guagua road, about half mile inside
 of our firing line.
 General Wheeler sent his aides to find
 the woman, but they searched a long
 time before they got trace of her. Ti-
 nally Lieutenant Cramer found a Fili-
 pino boy who said he knew where the
 woman was He led us clear through
 the town and out toward our outposts
 on the Porac road. The guide told us l that the woman was at the house of a
 native doctor, who was treating her.
 We found the house, big, pretentious affair, of stone and hardwood, quite the i finest house in the town. Our guide told the family what the Americans wanted,
 and the doctor came to the door. He | was a fat, brutal-looking man. He
 pointed scornfully down the hot porch,
 and there, huddled up on little bench,
 we saw a young girl, perhaps eighteen years old, and who would have been
 pretty but for the terrible distortion of face that her suffering caused her. She was poorly dressed and apparently be- longed to the lower class of the vil- lagers, which was the reason that the fat senor medico had left her to lie in
 the sun out on the bench. The doctor
 said he had treated the woman and
 done all that any doctor could have
 done for her He had tied bamboo
 thong about her arm for a tourniquet,
 and frightened it until it cut deep into the flesh. Then he had taken a dirty
 black cloth and wrapped it about her wounded arm and left her to suffer
 The doctor had not considered it neces- sary to pay any attention to the cruel gash a Mauser bullet had cut along one side of the woman's head. The lieuten- ant told the doctor that the Americans would care for the woman and dress the wound. We started to put some bandages out of the little First Aid' a,1y fa1, %Io
 plies the soldiers for use on the field. Surgeon Major Drake finished the job
 General Wheeler did not take the GUS tomary slesta after dinner that day. It was exceedingly hot and dry. and the generals staff, after the excitement of the night before and the eight-mile ride along the rough Porac road in the morning, were glad to get on their camp beds and fasten their mosquito nettings well down and go to sleep. But the lit tie general sturdily pulled on his boots and put on his helmet and gloves and told his orderly to bring up his horse.
 Why, General" asked one of the staff from under his mosquito netting, Aren't you going to take rest? If we young fellows are so worn out I should think you would feel just little bit tired yourself.'
 I'm all right said the plucky little general.
 But surely you are not going out on this blazing hot afternoon?"
 Yes, I am" said the general I'm going to see that poor woman that stopped couple of bullets that were intended for you or for me-"
 But the doctors will tend to that, General. That's their job
 Its mine, too," said Gen. Joe. Its | my duty to look after this woman" and | he went down the stairs and mounted | his horse and rode away in the hot sum- shine. It was over mile to the house | where the wounded woman lay, and it | seemed two mmiles before we got there Three Chinos, carrying a stretcher, trot- ted along behind. The general had de- cided that the woman should be taken to the hospital and operated upon. We went up to the veranda where the wo- man was still lying outside of the Fili- pino doctors door. The doctor was amazed to see General Wheeler He the general: Este la generale? Este ld GtHtIdlG. w ny q SCHCldl SiiOull come mile under q blazing sky in the middle of the day to see wounded Fil- ipino woman that a Filipino doctor would not even let come into his house, but left outside the door, was something that could not be understood. The Fil- pino doctor stood around and pondered over the question some time. Then he his shoulders.
 "Americanos mucho loco,' he mutt cred, and let it go at that. The Amer can general must be mad, like the oth- er Americans. They were all mad. The doctor looked nervous. He didn't 1now what new form the insanity of he American general and his party night take Dr. Pinkham, the assistant of the Ninth infantry, looked 1t the woman's arms. He said it would be loni and tedious operation o properly dress the wound, and that would have to be done in the hospital The woman said she thanked the Amer cans and wanted them to take care of Ter if her husband would consent. Three Filipino boys were hastily sent ut to find the husband He accepted he offer of the Americans and the wo- : nan was carried down stairs and put l m the stretcher and the ChinoS trotted