The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-09-19

i-ihS IellI1'Jc No VII Zig NloANi VI N1ti'
The harbingers of victory. Selected.
SOLDIERS TRAGIC ROMANCE.
Lieut.. w j. Wiley, who served in
the Philippines in the Twentieth Kan
sas Volunteer Infantry, tells an inter-
esting story of the tragic romance of
an American soldier and native Ca
marine girl. He says: When We
landed in the Camarines we found the
people to be very friendly but the in
surgent Tagalo soldiers had treated
them so cruelty that they were afraid
to act openly as our friends. The
Tagalos had erected a system of i'm
mense breastworks about six feet thick
and with deep trench in front, very
similar to those which we We're obliged
to capture in the advance north from
Manila. We rested in front of these
trenches for two or three days while
a detachment of the troops was sent
around to the north side of the city
Another detachment was provided with
rockets, and the unders tanding was
| that when they reached certain po-
| sition a rocket was to be sent up and
| the rebels would be attacked from
| both sides. AS l have said, the ma
| tives had no love for the Tagalo SOL
| diers in front of the trenches and kept
| the rebels hemmed in. We allowed the
natives to come and sell fruit to the
| boys. One of the men fell in love with
a pretty Camarine and she agreed to
marry him if he secured the rescue of
| her father, who, it appears, had been
| imprisoned by the Tagalos for refus-
ing to join the ranks. She told the
corporal how they made the old man
work and failed to feed him, whipping
| him with CATO nine-tails when he
| failed to do enough labor. She sc
worked upon the feeling of the cor.
poral that he swore he would kill ev-
any effort to capture. Finally, one
\ NIGHT tha sannrita- came to him anG
told him she had learned a way
through the swamp west of the city
| by which small force could get il
and surprise the outfit The corpora
| came to me with the story and urged
that a small detachment be sent in.
was at first inclined to ridicule the af-
| fair, but finally agreed to talk with the
girl. After going over the matter with
her for an hour | decided the thing
could be done, and, going to the colo
mel, asked for a detachment to make
the attempt. The boys had been ly-
ipr IL low bo l,n
they were becoming restless, and so
the colonel finally said: If fifty men
will volunteer to go with you, you can
make the attempt The corporal was
delighted, and in less than three min
utes we had over one-half of the regi-
ment planning to go. l selected my
men, and. accompanied by the girl.
we started out. Through the jungle
and swamp she led us until finally we
saw bright glow of what we after
ward learned to be the cigaret of
Tagalo sentinel The girl stopped and
pointed to the light and said, 'Soldado,
thereby giving the alarm. We crept
forward and We're within ten feet OF
| the sentry when the corporal stumbled
and that stumble cost him his life and
| the life of his girl. We sprang for
| ward and as the corporal Drained the
sentry one of the Tagalo guards forced
| his long bayonet through the body of
| the corporal and he fell to the ground
corpse. The girl gave a wild cry,
and, springing to the side of the cor
poral, she quickly learned he was dead
Selling the big cots revolver which
he wore in his belt she stood across
his body and laid out four Tagalos be-
fore she was killed herself. Mean
while the remainder of the detachment
had got into action and we drove the
rebels out of the city and into the
arms of the other party which was
coming up on the other side. The cor
poral and the girl We're the only ones
| killed on our side and we buried them
together. Utica Globe.
| GENIUS AND HIGH LINEAGE.
"The puppies fight WELL" exclaimed
| Wellington as he saw the tops and
dandies of the guards Drawing the
French fire and dying like men Blood
will tell" exclaimed the British nation
when the names of the noble and COM
missioned dead appeared in the Gazette
after Waterloo. Their meaning was
that noble ancestry begets noble
brood; that line Of gentlemen for
| forefathers gives man certain spir-
| If ctomina and aourooo which +ba Won