The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-05
PRIVATE FRANK LICHTENWALTER
Is NOT VERY ENTHUSIASTIC
Over American Prospects in the Philippines Says the War Will
Not Be Over For Some TimeMOre Than Half His
Company Hors De Combat

The natives like to fight at night, and
were surprised and awed by the tactics
of Gen. Lawton, whose presence and
alertness inspired them with a whole
some fear. Nine or ten miles q day was
the limit of progress under a tropical sun
and through rice fields and jungle where
we made our own roads as we went.
When 1 left only 81 men out of our
company of 101 were fit for duty and
company M was called the Jonah
company" on account of our bad luck,
and the fact that we were always in the
fight when there was one. There had
been 20 of our company either killed or
died of sickness.
The climate is almost uncomfortable, the
temperature ranging from 120 degrees in
the heat of the day to so degrees at
night, when the cold, heavy dew falls.
But there are many things about the
country which please the eye and graft
fy our sense of the beautiful. Luzon is
the smokers paradise. You can buy 60
cigarettes for cents and they are much
better than American cigarettes and are
very neatly packed. A cigar that would
cost Csc in America you can buy in Ma
nila for &c, nicely wrapped in tin foil
and protected from moisture. A &c
cigar you can buy for 1c there and a two
for five in America is still two-for, but
two for cent in Manila. The natives
smoke almost continually except when
they are eating. And they eat when
ever they are hungry, their chief dish
being boiled rice and fish.
left Manila June 1S and stopped five
days at Nagaski, Japan. 1 took the
90 n w n n
I reached August 81, and came directly
home.
Do you want to see my relics? Here
are some weapons I took from dead
Filipino. This carbine is sort Of an air
| gun and is used to shoot poisoned ar
rows, which it does very effectively and
with disastrous results. This is a large
revolver and is as deadly and useful as
a rifle Here Is the famous sword cane"
and he playfully made pass at the re-
porter with an innocent looking stick.
The reporter as playfully grasped the
end, but started back astonished when
Mr.. Lichtenwalter withdrew a cleaning
blade and displayed it. The blade was
of very fine workmanship and formed a
most deadly weapon. Returning the
blade to the sheath, Mr.. Lichtenwalter
| showed tDe naVerSdCh III WHICH Ine uedu
Filipino had carried his rice and cigar
cites. "And this bamboo cane" said he
"by unscrewing the top and allowing
the joints to slip out, form quite a
lengthy fishing rod. These gems,
pointing to a ruby and some saphires
'I secured from the altar Of the Engat
church. See If you can open those
boxes and find all the drawers in them
1t is quite a task, and yet the work was
all done by hand. This fan is composed
of feathers painted by hand, and I pro.
cured it from Aguinaldo's palace at Ma
lalos."
He displayed other beautiful and curl
Gus mementoes far too numerous to
mention, and said that money would not
buy the collection. IT had a personal
interview with Fighting Joe" Wheeler
in San Francisco, and was much i'm
pressed by his cordial reception, his talk
and achievements. think he is the
man to lead he Americans on to victory
in the Philippines"