The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-08-05
FIIIpIEos
Amerlean soldiers Are Fast Learn
lag TO Know Their sig
Mala.

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The Filipino "amigo" Is allowed TO
enter our lines, but not TO pass out OF
them az we can proven, it). Too often
4 hostile Il an "amlgo" when he can
hide his gun before IL Is observed. Per
haps one in ten Of the population which
deserted the territory that we have oe-
cupied has returned, They come, men.
women and children, each bearing a
white shirt held aloit on a bamboo pole
In token OF their peaceful intentions.
How many are spies and how many are
not only A~guinaldo knows. II Il not
for American good nature TO differen-
usts, though gradually we are grasp
ing certain peculiaritles of the Filipino
mind. The morning that we advanced
on Malolos an amigo" came trotting
down the track, and 1901 found himself
before Gen. Macarthur with an inter
prefer at his side.
Il told ny friends that was not
afraid" he said. And l have come to
you for them. Is Il true that you will
kill us II We remain In our homes, rs
AguinAldo says that you will9 We do
not like Aguinaldo and II you won't
Kill us l want TO 90 back and tell my
friends to stay"
Upon being treasured, he courtesled
and trotted back down the track. just
after he had entered the clump OF bam-
boo beyond a stretch of p~addyfelds a
volley came from II fairly into our posi-
ton.
Maj. Kobbe, Of the Third artillery
lighting as infantry, Is provost mar
shall of Malolos. which is as good as
saying that the surface filth of the town
has been swept up and dumped into the
river. A Kansas man asked a private
OF the Third when the major was going
to wash and iron the streets, and the
Third artillery man said reform
couldn't go as far al that as long as
there were any volunteers around. An
officer happened along at this momen
and prevented an internecine combat.
The major will be remembered as hav-
ing lined his men up and put them
through the manual of arms after they
had fought all day and lost ten per cent.
Of their number. Their total loss in the
field since the beginning Of the wal
with the insurgents is 20 per cent. A
Third artilleryman is a proud being, as
proud as a Kansas man.
Gen. Lawton thinks that II Is wrong
to loot a chicken, even though It hap
pens TO cross a soldiers path and
caekles to be caught. Mai Kobbe
thinks that 1t is wrong for a soldier to
look at a chicken, let alone loot a piece
Of household furniture, lest it shall ex-
cite his imagination and lead him into
temptation. Recently an old wound
which Col. Funston received In Cuba
while fighting with Gomez began TO
trouble him, and his aids, who love the
little man when he praises them, and
love him even better when he confounds
them, took 1t upon themselves 10 ask
Maj. Kobbe TO send a bed from a de-
serted house to the %colonel's tent.
In due time II ploddlng water buffalo.
a bed on a cart, and u private Of the
Third arrived at Col. Funston's head.
quarters. The aids recalled that they
had not mentioned the affair to the
colonel yet and held their breath.
MAI. Kobbe," said the Third artil-
leryman, standing as stif as a rod.
presents his compliments, sir, and
sends this bed, which you ordered"
"A bed" exclaimed the colonel.
What In the devil do / want with a.
Ordered, was itp A%djutant, you've had
something to do with thls?"
We'll, sir, the rainy seasons com
ing on, and, considering that old wound,
didn't know as you would mind being
lifted up of the ground a little"
lnasmuch as he had brought It, the
Third artilleryman was allowed TO leave
IT, The adJutant had almost persuaded
the colonel to have 1t In his tent, when
suddenly he baked completely. Before
rolling up In his blanket on the ground
he was reconciled to 1t as Offering a
good seat during the day.
While MacArthur's division dozed in
Its shelter tents and fought mosquitoes;
while the outposts in advance were oc.
easionally fired on and less often replied.
as they watched the insurgents In front
OF Calumpit terrifying themselves in
stronger trenches day by day, and while
bath OF the two daily trains, with sol
diers for conductors, brakemen, fire
men and engineers, carried back to the
hospital in town a few men who had
fallen victims to the climate or had been
wounded In guarding the railroad track
then 1900 men of Lawton's division
were having their turn in the field as a
relief from the monotony Of life in
trenches on the south line, with the
bother of officers making them eternal.
~ keep their heads down on account of
stray bullets. - Frederick Palmer, In
Golfers Weekly.