The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
OF WARS ALARM.
A Racy, Descriptive Letter
Sent the Journal
By Dwight L. LOOfbOurroW
From the Philippines Il
OF FACTS AND FANC1ES
Animal, Vegetable and Mineral
Life Treated.
ChaDIain SchIeiman Prays For
Grace and Shoots.
Saw Afford Fall and Heard His
Last Words.
OF FACTS AND FANCIES

rSpecial Correspondence State Journal
At tb. Front, South of MaIabon, p l..
February 25 1Sg9-A fair tropical
morning gladdens the face OF the earth
The RAYS of the sun. which are peeplhS
over the eastern hills, glisten adoWh
the stream until the river seems How
ing into a lake of FURNISHED silver The
wide. green valley is waking to its Iels-
urely, untroubled daily life, as though
unmindful of the menacing CLEAN OF
bayonets and the glowerlng glahceS %
artillery. The atmosphere, polluted py
no belching factory chimneys, no doors
Of decaying animal and Vegeta pie me
seems purity itself. The stiffness =
broken only by the mOnOtonous tread
Of the sentries on their beats. the rhy tn
mical seething of the waves on the
beach below, the twitterlng OF plrds' lhe
crow of a distant cock or the lowing u
cattle 1t is a scene of perfect peace
and vet scarce two hours ago heavy ar
tfllery was booming like distant thun-
der and rifles were popping away as
though the destiny of the nation oe-
pended upon each individual one.
MUST FIGHT IT OUT.
Today all is quiet along the line from
Pasay to Tagging and from Malabon to
Caloocan and Santa Mesa For twenty
DAYS and nights American troops nave
fought against a barbarOuS Zoe thdl
outnunnber them three TO one But
now peace has spread her white wings
temporarily over an exhausted soIdlefE.
Anxiously we await the arrival OF
transports bringing relIIorceHlehI9
when we can move forward with Vlgor
We are engaged in a righteous warfare
one OF civiIizatiOn-and though a ma
jority of the troops here are veterans
of the Spanish war and have been long
absent from home. the boys in blue are
anxious to carry it on to successful
close. if it takes years.
A SCENE OF BEAUTY.
Sitting on the brow of a little hill.
looking down into the cool depths of a
river. L can not but contrast the scene
with the one away to the south towards
Manila. Before me 1 see landscape
as of magic. more wOndrously beautiful
than words are adequate to describe.
It is built of shades of every hue. gilded
with tints that run from the heavy yell
low of beaten gold TO fields of flame
and swept with cardinal. No canvas
but those upon the walls of heavens
gallery ever carried such a picture.
There is a great field of ripened rice
with it's edge lifting the frOnds of forest
palms: and Just q I the fart her side runs
a darkened. broken line, as if some wall
had kept its confines from invasion
Across the meadow from the groves
of palms crowds the masonry of
mighty church. It's walls, its great
shadows on the beautiful valley below.
Along the mOat, to the right. across
field of purple and gold. the somber.
shadowy front of a mountain range
mars the sky.
AS l light my pipe and recline Iazily
against a noble mahogany. l gaze to-
ward the beautiful sky overhead. 1t is
as though some winged prOmpter of the
upper spheres gave signal and another
scene enrolled. and none could hope to
match the grandeur of this last revela-
ton Instead of fields and rivers, ma
SOnry and mountains. a rare camelOt
hangs suspended from the heavens.
Such walls of silver with their pinnacles
of gold, such streets of ruby pavements.
with the flashing brilliancy of diamond
gates, such palaces OF light with min
Cling grace of royal hue; such splendid,
gorgeous, ALIEN bra cling light and state
ly carving of Legendary that none but
seraphs might conceive. Mighty and
mute. beautiful beyond expression, yet
hushed as the quivering dawn, it hangs
lingering marvel.
VIEWS THE RUINS.
YEARLY Chamber to my feet and gain
the summit of the hill The view from
here to the southwark is one that is
anything but Soul~inspiring. One could
imagine no greater desolation than that
which ] now behold. BY the aid of
glasses | can see the gravish hllIks of
Dewey's fleet anchored away to the
west and south in the placid waters
of Manila bay. The walled city of Man
lila is plainly visible, with its meats,
draw bridges and walls surmounted by
Anticipated armament. Where stood
Tondo now are to be seen naught but
the charred and smOuldering ruins of
a once peaceful suburban city. BinOndo
and San Nicholas also are in ashes The
trees, once beauteOus, are now stripped
and bare. and broken by shot and she'll
Where once wOrShipped deVOut peo-
pie now are heaps of rock and NAM
moth timber. The ground for miles is
literally strewn with the dead bodies of
men, cattle. horses and dogs Not a
house remains standing. all having been
devoured BY angry flames.
Truly. 1t is a scene Of personified an
Inhalation,
Little bodies of American soldiers can
be seen burying the dead. men and
brutes alike, in little trenches. Groups
of Filipino women are Historically rum
maging among the ruins. endeavoring to
lind even one little trinket to remind
them OF days when cruel war left them
nnaisturbed in the peaceful tranquility
OF their simple lives
SORROW FOR THE NATIVES.
one can not but pity the Filipinos
Ioes bitter and unrelenting though they
be Kept in ignorance for centuries
taught superstitions subjected to afro
cities unworthy of a brute. they are not
responsible for their ermity and hatred
Tor the Americans. They were and are
the dupes of lot of designing scoun-
drelS who have hoped to benefit nv the
ignorance of these SerfS of Snanisb rr,Ia
Aguinaldo, Montenegro. Pillar and all of
these nends who are responsible for the
oiauShtsi o1 their race know very well
that the lnha bitantS of the PhiIippine
islands are unfit for government
They care not for the liberty they so
loudly proclaim is the right of Gods
people.
AGUINALDO'S WAYS.
Emilio Aguinaldo gentleman. scholar
soldier and theologian. so-caIled is not
rislzing his neck for freedom" Once
upon a time he led revolt against the
authorities of Spain. They could not
handle the cunning fellow. and after
having failed in every other wav to
suell the insurrection, paid the gentle