Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-06-16
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THE PHILIPPINES
A STIRRING STORY OF ARMY LIFE IN
TIE PHILIPPINES.
BY Brg-Gen. Charles King.
Copyright 1899, by F. Tennyson Neey.)
CONTINUED
CHAPTER XVIII.


over. For the first time in history
America was sending her soldiery past
the pyramids and through the Indian
sea, landing them, after 40 days and
nights of voyaging, upon the low, fiat
shores that hem Manila bay, and shov.
ing them out to the hostile front be-
fore their sea-legs could reach the
swing and stride of the marching step;
yet, to all appearance, as unconcernedly
at home as though they had been cam
paigning in the Philippines since the
date of their enlistment. This, to be
sure, in the case of more than half
their number, would have given them
since raw recruits were more numerous
than seasoned men. But no matter
what may be his lack of drill or prep.
aration the average Anglo-Saxon never
seems to know the time when he doesn't
know how to fight. So, with all the
easy assurance of veteran, our Yankee
"Tommies" wriggled into their blanket
rolls and trudged away to the posts
assigned them; and once more the army
assumed the aggressive.
There were changes in the compost
ton of the forces even before the move
began. The dudes and the "toughs"
parted company; and the former, with
Stanley Armstrong once more riding
silent at their head, joined forces with
Stewards riddled regiment up the rail
way toward Malolos. Col. Frost had
succeeded in convincing the surgeons
that he would be as much out of place
as his name itself in such cline and
climate, and was in daily expectation
OF an order home. Billy Gray. mending
owly slowly, had been sent to Corregi.
dor, where the bracing breezes OF the
China sea drove their tonic forces
through his lungs and veins, and the
family rising hue Of coming health
back into his hollow cheeks. The boy
had been harder hit than seemed tina
case at first, said the fellows of the
-teenth; but the wise young surgeon
of the Second reserve" and a grave.
faced colonel of infantry could have
told of causes little dreamed of in the
egiment-were either given to telling
the half of what he knew.
That something most unusual had oc.
Cured in the room of Mr.. Gray the day
that the sadfaced, kind old general Wis
tied the hospital at least half dozen
patients could have told; for an at
tendant went running for one of the
women nurses, and the doctor himself
hurried to the scene. 1t was on his
arm that, half an hour later, Mrs. Gar.
rison slowly descended the stairs, her
t]imsy white veil down, and silently
bowed her thanks and adieux as the
doctor closed the door of her carriage
and nodded to the little coachman. II
was the doctor who suggested to Col
Frost that Manila air was not conducive
to his wife's recovery, and recommend.
ed Nagasaki as the place for her re-
cuperaton until he could join her and
take her home. The Esmerelda bore
the White sisters over Hong-Kong way
within week; and they left without
flourish of trumpet, with hardly the
futter of handkerchief; for, since the
battle of the 9Th of February, neither
had been seen upon the Luneta. Thei1
women friends were very few; the men
they knew We're mainly at the front.
The story got out somehow that CARR
son had asked to be relieved from fur.
thcr duty as aidde-camp and returned
to duty with his regiment, and that
Drayton wouldRnot have it. The gen
erals manner ward that hard-work
ing staff office1 though often preoccu
pied as of old, krew even kinder. HI
did not see th9sisters off for China
he was "far too busy" was the expla
nation; but he offered Garrison fort
nights leave and urged his taking it.
and was obviously troubled when Gar
rison declined. "You need rest and the
change of air more than any man ]
know" said he; but Garrison replied
that change of scene and air would not
help him.
There were two young fellows in
Khaki uniforms landed from the hospi
tai launch on the back trip from Correg
idor one warm March day. One wort
the badge of subaltern of the -teenth
regulars, the other the chevrons of 6
corporal and the hatband of famouA
fighting regiment of volunteers; We
the same carriage bore them swiftly
walled city, and the guards at the Ayun.
tamento sprang to their arms ana
formed ranks at sight of it, then dis
pcrsed at the low-toned order of 1t.
commander when it was seen that, in
stead of stopping at the curb and dis
charging an elderly general officer, II
whirled straight by and held two youth.
in field uniform.
"One of ems young Gray, of the
--teenth; he that was hit in the charg.
on the Panay road" said the officer OF
the guard to a comrade. "But who the
devils the other? He had corporal'A
chevrons on. Some fellow Just got
commission, perhaps" And that wa.
the only way the soldier could account
for a corporal riding with commits.
stoned officer in generals carriage,
They had long whirl ahead of them
these two; and the corporal told Gray
as he already had the general and Col
Armstrong, much Of the story Of his
friendship for'"Pat" Latrobe, Of that
poor fellows illness at San Francisco
and all the trouble it cost his friend
and chum. There was strong bond
between them, he explained; and tn.
blush of shame that stole up in the fac.
of the narrator found instant answer
IN that of Billy Gray. Determined 10
see service at the front and not return
to punishment in his rerimenf neve,