Evening star., 1899-04-05

we expect to find. FOR the fellows run
across two or three every day. Some Of
them fought braNely: eight stood in their
trenches until the last charge. but this
charge finished them. Some were 50 fr ght-
ened they couldn't run with the rest OF
fhe push. and we found one fellow Who
was paralyzed with fright. He was lying
face downward on the ground in the hone
OF biuffing us into believing that he was
wounded. We rolled him over and al
though his eyes were closed. he couldn't
resist opening them just little to see what
KIND OF creatures We were. and we had to
drag that fellow along with a rope and
prod him with bayonet in order To keep
MIN moving. He probably thought we wers
going 10 give him a last chance TO say his
prayers. Lots Of such things happened
Our battalion had a photograph taken
neer bleckhouse = The fellows had all
Kinds OF Mausers and Reminstons and
swords. machefes. etc. After taking a look
about the block house which was fairly
riddled with shells schrapnei and long
tom bullets. We went oalt to the firing line
and laid around there all day and night
with our rifles ready, ready ourselves too
TO give the Filipinos what they deserved
As luck would have il had to stay back
in the reserve. and didn't get to fire a shot
during the night heard r7lstline in the
pushes beside me and promptly got M and
Saboed my bayonet in the faldage-as dii
others-but the brush was so thicklv tan
gled and dense that we corldn'; Get into
the midst, so we let IL rest, thinking H
might ne n dog or wounded F'lirYiDo and
sure enough, in the morning when q was
neht. found the place where some one
had been lying for some time as AN the
grass was nattened out and there was a
long stretch where a man had cr,v-le1
along into another thicket and half an
hour after my find what should we see
nut a Ftlipino soldier emerge from the
| brush hundred yards away l,aarin,. a
n 10 T.ae IA
he approached us he took of his hat end
gave US some sort of a story alDoalt heint-
IN search Of his caribons hut We sent q
man with him 10 the block house Major
Anderson said he guessed the 'soldado, pnt
ohe name carbon mixed with guard house
so ne found what ne wanted
Under the Blue Sky.
IN the afternoon We moved further TO
the lett, occupying n position on the main
road. Our blankets were brought OUT to
us ana We hivouacked under the blue sky.
Several of us went out with Lieut.. Wilcox
on scouting expedition. / had to draw
lots with one of the other corr,arals =, do
termine which should be the lucky one TO
go. OF course, I expected to los, hU; Tor
once late favored me. and I went We
secuted all through the country clear down
To the San Juan river burning the houses
as We went. 1 got a poor little dog and
S"f him. Ee Him is Dsgk s,i bero tS camp and fed
I
iul 10 hear those dogs moan. Some
OF them were sitting in the doors of
thelr former masters houses and We had
to drive them away before we could enter
put. OF course, war * war. and We had to
look at and into everything as we ad-
Nanoed. j found walking stick ON lis
silver head is engraved p. c. Quite n re
markable find. a stick with my initials on
H. men We got back to the place wher>
our fellows We're We found our shelter
| tents. or pup tents, as We call them. 1
helped put up three-the last one for our
lieutenant. We amused ourselves catchiuc
chlckenS and pigs, and il was lots Of fun
"All the fellows like this excitement buf
We do hate 10 be made TO stay continually
| inside to guard the town. That night after
our scouting experience We slanf IN ,l,r
shelter tents. but the mosquitoes were bar
barous and chewed us up. They are m.
same everywhere We found several hun
dred 'bulos. which the natives had tied up
IN some gunny sacks. an the foot Of A tree
III a swamp. These 'bulos' are long knives
and in their former struggles were the only
arms used by the Fllipinos They are near
| ly like Cuban machete. Every fellow I'm
| our company got one a did many In m.
Itah battery, which We We're supporting
l captured real pretty pony, but didn't
get much fun out of it, as the con1missary
department needs these animals in their
| business. | hated to give It up.
\ We returned to camp Yesterday and
| spent much of the time packing un our
stun in order to turn It over to the COM
missary department for safekeepng. as we
| expect TO move on Malolos inside of a wsel
| but II reinforeements don't arrive by that
| time We will wait until they do w. need
| all the troops We can get
fhe water works Were rendered useless
! by the removal of the cylinder heads an
| the pumping engines, but our fellows skir-
mshed around and found chem an creased
and wrapped up, hidden in the coal house
we aug them out. put them on again and
| now We are getting water as usual The
| Ftlipinos probably thought that when they
should capture the city they would fix up
the place again with these same cylinders
| They had an idea that il would be a reglI-
lar walk over, and IL was but NOT The
| kind they had anticipated"