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more fish plates and spikes. After
this fight, our men, who had been
marching nearly a week without hay-
ing had time to recover from the vow
age across the Pacific, were played
out and went back to Caloocan by
train. We remained there until April
is, when we went with Lawton on his
mountain campaign to the north. We
We're gone six weeks and had a brush
with the natives nearly every day.
We fought twenty-five engagements
in the month of May alone. Our wa
ter buffalo, which must have water to
lmmerse in every few hours, died for
want of water or went insane and
had to be killed, and, in consequence.
we were forced to destroy our tents
and blankets. Our shoes and clothes
wore out and when we took San Isidro
and quit we were about the sorriest
looking set of men you ever laid eyes
on. Lawton'S command broke up there
and we were ordered to Baliuag to go
into garrison. l took fifty-two pa
tents from San Miguel to Malolos
with small escort and never saw
sign of the rebels, but, a day or two
later the regiment, going from San
Miguel to Baliuag had to fight seven
times in one day. Coming through
San Ii Defense, Filipino ran into the
street ahead of our column and fired
point blank at the men, He missed
but his act so angered an Irish infan-
tryman that he dropped his gun,
picked up club and, taking after the
man, ran him down and beat his head
in. 1t would probably have been more
| humane had he shot the fellow but
that was not this Irishman's way. His
contempt for the rebel was too great.
We were forced to burn this town to
protect ourselves, as the natives main
tanned a scattering fire from the
houses all along our line of march,
Did you find the work of an army
surgeon heavy, doctor?" he was asked.
1T nearly finished me physically, y
he answered. when / left the army
| weighed but 12S pounds and have
not yet gotten back to my normal
weight. After the return from Malo-
los, the other surgeon died of typhoid
fever and l was left alone to care for
my own regiment, a troop of the 4th
cavalry and battery of the Sd artil-
lery. This l did during the six weeks
campaign and until l was relieved on
August 16 and assigned to the hospital
at Manila, where l remained until l
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What of the Fllipinos as fighters?"
he was asked
Children again. They think more
of their own safety than of winning
a battle. They dig their trenches so
deep that they cannot aim out of them
and must do all of their shooting by
guesswork. When they fire point blank
at our men they seldom hit anyone.
They run at the first sign of our men
getting too close. Most of the damage
| they do is by the first volley. The
rest of their firing seems to be in
the air, more likely to hit the reserves
! in the rear than the men on the firing
line. They are armed with Mausers
and Remingtons. The Mauser bullet
does not make a dangerous wound I'M
less it strikes a vital spot, such as the
brain or heart or cuts the important
organs. Mauser wounds through the
I arm and leg readily heal and do not
i cause the men much Inconvenience"
From what diseases do our men
most suffer in LuZon, doctor?" he was
asked.
Mostly from gastric and intestinal
troubles. There is very little malaria,
save among the old Cuban veterans
| There is a great deal of rheumatism
and considerable liver trouble. Eight
Of ten of the natives are pock- marked
and smallpox is national disease but
does not seem to be particularly fatal
1t does not readily attack the Ameri-
can soldiers, as all of them are vacci-
mated but the few cases of it were very
violent and two or three were fatal
One very troublesome complaint is
the Dobe itch, which is a germ disease
and afiicts everybody. 1t is easily
cured but will not stay cured. 1t ap-
pears in large, red blotches and covers
the entire body.
THE rainy season opens about June
/ and continues until Dec. l. In July
of last year, forty-nine inches fell.
Ten inches fell in one day. While the
season is on it rains all the time but,
when it is over the earth dries up and
there is dust for six full months. -
Madison Democrat.
INVESTIGATION OF DISEASE.