Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-07-26

l have recovered my health, but am
not the same old Fred. We were ad-
vancing ct the time the doctor told
me that II did not leave the lines
would never leave them alive, so I
was transferred to the Hospital Corps
on the 18th OF April, 1900, and on the
18th I reported to the commanding
officer at the Third Reserve Hospital
at Manila. There found they had q
school Of instruction, which Is In ses-
sion from II q. m. to 10 m. and from 8
p. m. to 4 p. m. The lectures are con-
Quoted by a medical officer OF the
hospital. Practical experience, minor
surgery, sword management, duties
Of nurse, pharmacy, fresh air, anat-
omy, physiology, regulations and dis
,clplIne are the chief studies that we
were required to look after.
I attended this school until was
transferred to the main detach-
ment of the hospital corps and was
appointed Orderly for the Command
log Officer. / couldn't be with bet
ter man; he is more like father than
an officer. have liked all my off,
GERS, for IL has been my aim to please
my superIors and look out for their
interests as well as my own; and that
ia the way every soldier should be and
then he will come ont all right IN the
end.
Captain Kulp is the right man In the
right place. He has made the hospital
one OF the best.
There is still some fighting here.
Gen. Pillar, second in command TO
Aguinaldo, has been captured and
landed in prison.
We are getting ready for the rainy
season, which Is near at hand.
The people here don't like the reg
ulars, but give banquetu and banquets
to volunteers, but the regulars are no.
body.
l see the people in the states are
blaming the President Well, / am q
solid Democrat, but don't see who
could run this affair better than MIR.
Mckinley is doing it; but II the people
want Dewey let them have him, but
Mckinley is good enough for me.
Anyway, what does the enlisted SOL
der amount to? Nothing at all. What
encouragement has an enlisted man7
Congress has taken, or someone has
taken away our travel pay. Do they
think for a minute that q man is going
to ruin his health2 l, for one, will
not. / am studying for something
higher. But say, don't blame Nc
Kinley. There are many over in the
states who want to run things owes
here, but all they do is in words. Why
don't they close their mouthsP They
are always anxious to blame rs for our
faults.
don't see as many drunkards here
as did In the states and the soldiers
have a hard enough time without pull.
ing them down further. As for my
self don't complain, but I do for the
others. But for all the ups and downs
the Government could not do without
the American soldiers, for they
amount TO a good deal when in time
OF action, especially the privates. What
could a battlsship do without marines
or sailors9 Could they do without the
gunners, etc? just the same with the
army. The officers can give the COM
mands, but the privates, or enlisted
men, obey them and do the work. 30,
give the enlisted man chance. Give
the American soldiers q chance and
they will do something, but dIscour-
age them and down they will 60.
TIA person would come to this hos
pital about 5;45 each evening, when
we let the patients 60 out walking un-
I'll Z o'clock, they would see one after
another walking on crutohes, and that
would plainly show what a man gives
the United States. A soldier comes
over a well man, but returns home
crippled for hfe. What does he galn9
Not even thanks.
The Commissioner have arrived al
Manila and have gone over to the
southern Island to see what is there,
Gen. Macarthur has OTIS place and
like him very much.
Manila Is about the same as ever
full OF life. We have theatre open
now and have concerts every evening
on the beach.
Isuppose Mexico is booming. Thank
ing you for printing my letters in the
past and wishing the LEDGER much
success, am, Yours truly,
FRED LUCKIE.
The Oentralia Guard says: B. B,
frankie, of Mexico, has been employed
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