The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-10

fore he could succeed I'm any of his
schemes Nathan had found himself or
oered aboard ship with his battery, now
ssrvlhs atoot as one OF four companies
Oh req legged Infantry" and away they
went across the seas when the gold leaves
Oh the majority were almost dangling
before his eyes
senior OF his grade in the regiment. Ma =
,nan was not even trusted with the com
,nahu oi battalion. and when not actu-
any prosrated by seasickness his waking
hours aboard ship 'twixt the Farallones
ahu honolulu were given over to the
writins or urgent letters to friends and
hhored and certain state officials. call
ing on them 10 see 10 IL that he was ap-
pointed 10 the colonelcy Of one OF the vol
unteer regiments being raised on the Pa
| cine coast, for that could be done by a
| governor whether the war department
iked IL or not and might insure his being
| ordered back TO San Francisco. The list
or casualties among the officers OF the
| regulars, at San Juan Hill came lust in
| tlme 10 put him out OF all concet with
| the idea OF heading a company In an at
| TACK on the walls OF Manila, still brist-
: ling with Spanish Mausers. Everything
toward securing that appointment man
| could do In the few days left him before
| putting 10 sea Nathan had conscisntious-
~ done leaving to his lieutenant the duty
| OF preparing the bHttery for the voyage
and the possible campaign.
There was no cable 10 Honolulu, but
there the fiotilla had to stop four days
for coal. and while there the o. and o.
liner came after them with letters IAN
Well. wrote Mrs. Nathan's kinsfolk.
We have the governors positive prom
ise that you shall be made lieutenant coll
onel at least. but we've had TO buy off
Bent to whom IL was promised. and to
touch dozen other fellows. We cannot
buy on the colonel Arrange 10 wait ten
HOnOlnlu ha ,iv.s "A
order Will reach you" Nathan knew that
the corps commander would be along with
IN that time and that he would never ap-
prove his detachment TO the command OF
volunteers. Moreover, every officer and
man might be needed for the fight at Ma
Mia. To appeal to the battalion comman-
der or 10 Melville. the general at the head
OF the expedition. would be equally use
less. The game was to appear TO be full
bent on going with the command. but 10
baik II somehow at Honolulu. Permis-
sion could not well be refused him TO go |
ashore. since SO many officers and men
were accorded that privilege. He secured |
charming quarters at the Royal Hawaiian |
and gave a toothsome dinner to a fovial |
party OF his cronies, but the general, who |
was hidden. pleaded previous engage
ment The chief surgeon another officer |
included in the list. marveled for a mo-
ment at the unexpected courtesy, for he |
had very gruffiy secuted Nathan's tenta-
tives at Frisco when consulted as TO the |
possibility Of his getting few weeks
sickness leave or at least permission TO |
delay. but the general showed his grim
Scotch medicine man a paragraph from |
a letter just received from the comman-
der OF the forces. by this time himself on |
the way from the Golden Gate: '1t is
understood that Captain Nathan Is NOV
ing heaven and earth TO get a commits
sion In the volunteers who are TO remain
He ms And 10 ha /
left behind on account of supposititious |
Illness at Honolulu. IN which case let your |
chief surgeon examine him. Sawney will
stand no nonsense. Captain Nathan |
should not be permitted TO shirk this ex-
pedition."
He won't be-" said the brigade com
mander placidy as ne refolded the letter.
And when II was found that Nathan was
ordering an undue quantity Of his luggage
ashore the battalion commander as placid
ly interposed. A tall. spare, almost satu- |
rine veteran was tho major. a soldier who
had shouldered a musket with the very
first and best OF the state regiments that
In 1861 were rushed 10 the defense of
a man with the genius OF a
general bottled down for a generation un-
der the strap OF n lieutenant. a soldier IN
whose hands Nathan had about as much
chance to shirk as he had TO fly.
The captains shore leave expired at
II
the following day. The captains dinner !
went OF I'm style, with much native mu- |
sic sic and no little chamgagns, and then IN
been whisked away In Honolulu files"
The night clerk was summoned TO the
captains room and hidden TO fetch doc
came and found the officer In well slmu
lated agony and prescribed according to
his lights and the captains liver. He
was amazed TO receive a visit at break ,
rttrtl "a / ,
aEd stocky little adjutant, who demand
ID sig sight Of and and, speech with his patient,
arise, quit his bed and go to the dock
md thence 70 the ship. There was moth s
ng the matter with him. said Major Saw ,
hey. dose. OF salts would set him to q
lights, and Nathan's pains and prepara- !
ions went for naught. He and his lug :
rage were on the ship and off for Manila :
here did triumph await him in the shape |
II dispatches from the states TO the ef- :
ect that he was commi isstoned lieuten- | j
mt colonel Second Columbias. and on ac- | r
d to report for duty with his regiment at | A
IAN Francisco. The battalion went into :
ne muddy trencnes ana tne assault OF >
fania minus one ablebodled captain. =
Tho minded not the dollars IL cost him =
o fit at once TO Hong Kong and thence I
" an o. and O. liner back to the states. n
each the islands did the Second Coz o
umbias appear along In December ana | p
1ere pushed forward 20 the eastward | .
uburb In support OF the First brigade.
or insurgent cannon frowned from
ew made redoubts and bore full upon | q
he unprotected lines along the Con- | n
ordia, and 10000 swarthy. scowlpg sol n
ierly surrounded and hemmed I'm the q
lender force OF invaders. All too late
ne government found its little army OF 3
far outnumbered and sternly n
lenaced at Manila and so rushed the n
sgiments OF regulars To the seaboard au "a
occurs. But long before the foremost Il
,uld reach the shores OF Luzon the blow n
ad fallen. Asuinaldo had dashed his de- n
oted follows upon the sturdy ranks IN | =,
ue and. regular and voluteer. and two :.
tile divisions about the beleaguered city ~
ere grabbing with the overwhelming "
'rce OF TaRalogs. m
And In the dark hour just before the
,wn OF that radiant and most event A
II sunday Of the first week IN Febru- ar
~ n strange thing happened. Away q.
II along the crooked estuary of the Con- =. -.
'rdia. fronting on the left the dim. gray ~
one walls OF Santa Ana and on the W
ght interminabie thicket or well nigh | bs
lpasaable sMamn. the thin Ina of tho | fr