The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-18
Treacherous FiIipinos and Mai. Kob-
be's Bed.
From Col.ier's WeekIy.

from Collier Weekly.
The Filipino 'amigo" is allowed to enter
our lines, but not to pass out of them 0f
we can help iD. Too often hostile is
an amigo when he can hide his gun be-
fore il Is observed. Perhaps one In ten
of the population which deserted the ter
ritory that we have occupied has returned.
They come, men, women and children,
each bearing "A white shirt held al0ft on
a bamboo pole in token OF their peaceful
Intentions How many are spies and how
many are not only Aguinaldo knows. IL Is
not for American good nature to differen-
tate, though gradually we are grasping
certain peculariues of the Filipino mind
The morning that we advanced on Ma
lOlOs an amigo came trOtbng down the
track. and soon found himself before Gen.
Macarthur with an Interpreter at his side.
Il told my friends that l was MOI
afraid he said. And | have come to
you for them. Is il true that you will
kill US If we remain In our homes, as
Aguinaldo says that you will? We do moi
like Agunaldo, and II you won't Kill us
want TO go back and tell my friends 10
stay"
Upon being reassured he courtesied and
trotted back down the track Just after
he had entered the clump of bamboo be-
You'd a stretch of paddyfelds yolley came
from ii fairly into our position.
Mai. Kobbe of the Third Artillery eight
ing as infantry Is provost marshal of Ma
iolos, 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 private of the Third when
streets and the Third Artilleryman said
reform couldn't go as far as that as long
as there were any volunteers around. An
officer happened along at this moment and
prevented an internecine combat The
major will be remembered as having lined
his men up and put them through the
manual Of arms after they had fought all
day and lost 10 per cent. OF their number.
Their total loss in the field since the be-
ginning Of the war with the insurgents is
20 per cent. Third Artilleryman Is a
proud kansas
Gen Lawton thinks that Il is wrong to
loot a chicken. even though IL happens 10
cross a soldiers path and cacklea TO be
caught Maj. kobbe thinks that II IS wrong
Tor a soldier 10 ook ~ a chicken let alone
loot a piece Of household furniture, lest
Il shan excite his imagination and lead
wound which COL Funston received In Gu
ba while fighting wsth Gomez began 10
trouble him, ana ms aides, VINO love the
iitUe man when he praises them, and love
him even better when he confounds them.
took il uEon themselves 70 ask Maj. Kobbe
10 serd bed from deserted house to the
In due dime a Pooling water buffalo. a
he'd on a cart, and a private OF the Third
arrived al Col Iunston's headquarters.
The aides recalled that they had mol mem
toned the affair 10 The colonel yet and
MAI. Robbie. . said the Third Artillery
man. Standing as sur as a rod presents
his compliments, SIR, and sends this bed,
which YOU ofdeied."
IN bed" exclaimed the colonel. what
An line devil do ] want with -. Order
ca was it7 Adjutant. you've had something
10 do with this2'
"VyeiI. Sir, me rainy seasons coming on,
and considering that old wound, / didn't
know as you would mind being lifted up Off
lie ground q lttle-
Inssmuch as he had brought II. the Third
Arfileryman was allowed 10 leave II. The
adiutant had nlmOat persuaded the coionef
M have Il in his tent when suddenly he
baiked completely. Before rolling up IN
M blanket on the ground be was reeon-
elled 70 It as offering good seat during
the dnW . ,,., 80, u
shelter tents and fought mosquitoes; while
me outpcsts 10 advance were occasionally
Gred Oh and less often replied, as they
watched the insurgents IN front Of Calum-
Hi terrifying themselves n stronger
trenches day by day. and while both OF
Ire two daily trains with soldiers for
conductors. brakemen, firemen and engi0-
eers. carried back 70 the hospital IN town
q few men who had fallen victims TO the
Climate or had been wounded IN guarding
the railroad traek-then fifteen hundred
men OF Lawton's division were having
their turn in the field as relief from the
monotony OF life in the trenches on tire
south line, with the bother OF officers max
ing them eferna!ly keep their heads down
en account Of stray bullets.