The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-12-10

Heard the latest from the Philip
pines?" queried young Lieut.. Gay at
the Raconteurs' club, as he glanced up
from his newspaper at number OF
the members who, cigar in mouth,
were enjoying the post-prandial hour
of dolce far niente, utterly Indifferent,
in their contentment and comfortable
surroundings, to the wind that rat
tied and the rain that beat against
the windows of their Fifth Avenue
clubhouse. Here's a single Filipino
who has the sand to charge whole
American column!"
"Wow!" chorused his listeners, in
credulously. "And what happened to
the gentle Tagalog?'
"He isn't, or suppose 1t Is safe to
say wasn't a Tagalog, but Moro" re-
piled the lieutenant, though l sup
pose all Filipinos are alike to us here.
As to what happened to him, the dis
patch leaves it to the imagination.
This is all 1t says:
Manila, Sept. 27-Three compa-
nies of infantry, commanded by Capt.
Eli A. Helmnick of the 10th regiment,
left Camp Wears, Island G. Mindaaao,
Thursday, to reconroitre the Moro
forts and recover stolen arms. They
encountered only slight opposition,
The column captured and destroyed
the Butig forts. A few Moros were
killed. The American troops had no
casualties. A fana.ical Moro. armed
with bolo, charged the column alone. u
There was silence for a moment, as
each man, impressed by the dispatch
writer's laconic reference to the in
cident, mentally paid his tribute OF
pity and respect to the battle-frenzied
patriot of the distant isle who thus SUI
perbly had defied fate and the might
Of his country's conquerors and armed
with a useless sword, had courted q
warriors death from half a thousand
lightning bolts. Then a slight, elegant
man Of medium height, with clean-cut
features and a gray pointed beard re-
marked quietly:
THAT recalls similar and very ex-
traordinary incident which l witnessed
in the Soudan in 1886"
The speaker was Stanford Hylish, O
visiting English journalist and ex-
war correspondent, to whom the cour.
tesies Of the club had been extended
The entire company was attention i'm.
mediately, and Mr.. Hylish, on being
pressed, continued:
1T was during the operations, begun
too late, alas! for the rescue of Cor.
don al Khartoum. was with the col
umn commanded by Gen. Sir Herbert
Stewart, which made that famous dasl
across the desert to Metemneh wher
1900 Tommies and bluejackets at Abr
Klea fought of 10000 tribesmen whose
valor is immortalized In Kipling's
barrack-room ballad 'Fuzzy-wuzzy'
An ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Will
your ayriek 'ead of air
You big black boundin' beggar--fol
you broke British square,
The column was made up of the
Sussex regiment. mounted infantry
camel corps OF guardsmen, and
detachment Of men-o'-war's men, will
. troop Of the Nineteenth Hussar
acting as scouts. We hurried alon,
with us four screw guns and q coupl
Of Gatlings. Big Col. Fred Burnaby
Of The Ride to Khiva' fame, was O
the expedition. and rejoicing mightil.
thereat, caring nothing III he had an.
premonition of his fate) that 1t was I,
mark the close of his adventurous ca
Eoer Not having been able to ge
himself sent to the front, he had sc
oufed several months' leave OF alb
'eoqe>, and. armed with shotgun. ha
6vtstaken the army on the Nile. hav
rs dodged. BY avoiding the Egypttal
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