Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-07-27
TRBACHERoUs FILIrfNos.
American soldEers Are Fast Learn
ing to Know Their Sly
Ways.

The Filipino amigo is allowed to
enter our lines, but not to pass out OF
them (if we can prevent it,. Too often
4 hostile is an amigo" when he can
hide his gun before it is observed. Per
haps one in ten of the population which
deserted the territory that we have oc-
cupied has returned. They come, men,
women and children, each bearing
white shirt held a1oft on bamboo pole
in token of their peaceful intentions.
How many are spies and how many are
not only Aguinaldo knows. 1t is not
for American good nature to differen-
tate, though gradually we are grasp
ing certain peculiarities of the Filipino
mind. The morning that we advanced
on Malolos an ''amigo" came trotting
down the track, and soon found himself
before Gen Macarthur with an inter
prefer at his side.
II told my friends that I was not
afraid he said. And 1 have come to
you for them. Is it true that you will
kill us if we remain in our homes, as
Aguinaldo says that you will? We do
not like Aguinaldo and if you won't
kill us 1 want to go back and tell my
friends to stay"
Upon being treasured, he cOurtesied
and trotted back down the track. just
after he had entered the clump of bam-
boo beyond a stretch of paddyhelds a
volley came from it 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 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 as that as long as
there were any volunteers around. Ain
officer happened along at this moment
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 war
with the insurgents is 20 per cent. A
Third artilleryman is a proud being, as
proud as Kansas man.
Gen. Lawton thinks that it is wrong
~ AOOS
pens to cross a soldiers path and
cackles to be caught. Maj. Kobbe
thinks that it is wrong for a soldier to
look at a chicken let alone loot 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
irnJIh1a him and his aids n fhsa
little man when he praises them, and
love him even better when he confounds
them, took it upon themselves to ask
Maj. Kobbe to send a bed from de
serted house to the colonel's tent.
In due time a plodding water buffalo,
bed on cart. and 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.
Maj. Kobbe,' said the Third artiI-
leryman, standing as stiff as a rod,
presents his compliments, sir, and
sends this bed, which you ordered
ga bed!" exclaimed the colonel.
''What in the devil do I want with a
Ordered, was it? Adjutant, you've had
something to do with this?''
ing on, and, considering that old wound,
I didn't know as you would mind being
lifted up off the ground little"
Inasmuch as he had brought 1T, the
Third artilleryman was allowed to leave
it. The adjutant had almost persuaded
the colonel to have it in his tent, when
suddenly he baked completely. Before
rolling up in his blanket on the ground
he was reconciled to it 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-
casionally 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 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
relief from the monotony of life in
trenches on the south line, with the
bother of officers making them eternal
1y keep their heads down on account of
stray bullets. - Frederick Palmer. in
Golfers Weekly.
Education in Russia.
The power of the tsar system rests on
the ignorance of the people. Dissipate
| ignorance, and the power of ministers