The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-20

| somersault. The horse lies still. but the
man wriggles out, and runs lmping after
| his soldiers. who are disappearing in the
| town.
over the last field the scouts run.
Don't give EN- chance TO stop in the
| town boys! Garry EN- through Young
| calls, and in another three minutes Only
| the crack. crack! crack, of the rifles in
| the town tell the story that the fsnt
| goes on. Captain Birkhimer and his or
Derby have stuck with the scouts through
| out. and why they have not been shot to
| pieces is a mystery, for they are the only
mounted men in the advance. and fine
| target with their horses.
The scouts dash up along the road
| skirting a broad river which divides the
city little lower down.
"A vanguard OF the enemy holds the
road commanding the narrow bridge, and
three or four more intrepid spirits are
firing from The loop-holed stone church
tower at any scout who dares approach
the opposite end of the oauseway.
Every one of YOU fellows keep away
from that bridge, You'll get killed II
you try TO reach it, Keep under cover,
cries Young.
He is right: 1t is a hot place. and any
man or small body of men attempting to
cross it is apt to be wiped out of exis-
tence. Then the approach is bad for
distance of forty feet on either side of
the entrance-the road bare of houses
giving the enemy a capital chance to kill
troops before they can get to the bridge.
" Wait a minute and / will see if /
can't get to that stone post and look
around. You men stay here and, with
the words, Young makes a rush for the
only place of concealment, behind the
corner pillar of the bridge railing. The
road is cut uD in little patches of dust
which leave fouges in its hard surface
before and behind him, but he is I'M
touched as he crouches behind the broad
column. He peers from tha side of the
pest moment. and then brings his rifle
slowly out and UP. His aim is low and
short. evidently at some insurgent head
thrust out from a building in the street
beyond.
Young had nine notches on his gun.
each one representing a man killed and
his gun captured-nothing else counted
end whether or not he might have added
the tenth notch no one knows.
He stepped out from behind his cover,
and was struck fairly in the knee joint
by bullet from an insurgent Remington.
The great handsome fellow. six feet four
in height-She man with iron nerve and
most marvellous daring, the man whom
General Lawton admired for his COM
manding spirit and cold. calculating. tn
imprisoned bravery, which made him
natural leader-lay where he fell with a
leg SO frightfully shattered that he could
not move.
THE greater pity of it was that Young
was a civilian, not soldier. He had
come to the Philippines in search of gold
and fortune, and had been drawn into the
vortex CT war because, as he expressed it,
he couldn't keep out OF the scrap Into
the life he had thrust himself with keen
relish, but the game was against him.
and hero paid the full penalty of war in
death two days later.
Harrington, the silent man-hunter of
Oregon, who lived completely within him
self and who fought with the scouts al |
ways far in the lead of everyone else !
rushed out from cover to the assistance of I
Young, needless of the raking bullets. Go /,
back, Harrington; you'll get killed here,
pleaded Young. I'm all right, old man;
III take care of myself
But Harrington needed not, and though !
a small man. he slowly carried the wound ,
ed giant back TO the cover of the houses.
Tears stood In Harrington's eyes as,
Sneeiing. he unwound his frst-aid dressing I
and tenderly bandaged the shattered limb.
He only said, I'm sorry. Young And the
face contorted with pain cleared and
family smiled as Young replied: You're
good stuff, Harrington They grasped
hands in their last handshake on earth.
and moment later Harrington and the
scouts had charged across the bridge and
he handful of insurgents left behind were
flying before them. some falling mortally
wounded as they ran.
Two days later Harrington lay dead on
The open field near San Isidro and Young
1reathed his last in the hospital at Ma
Mia"