The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-01


( With their knives they killed the other
two guards. Leaving the three dead there
on the ground, and the village people
working on oblivious of the staying of
their comrades and the escape CT their
! prisoners. the heroic Americans stole
steathily away
For five days and nights they crept
through the wilderness, ;-aveipg IL the
night and hiding in the day time, living
on what little sustenarce they could ex-
tract from the juice of the berries and
roots, with a terror in their hearts of
/ their recapture and ignominious death
/ for they knew we'll that their escape had
not gone uaaoticed but very short time
and that now the whole village was IN
/ pursuit OF them with d vengeful thirst
for their blood. At one time the pur-
| suers passed within 100 yards of them.
In the meantime. reports of their death
had been sent IN by the commander, and
! Mr. and Mrs. Schaar OF this city received
the SAD news along with the many other
bereaved families throughout the land.
who were receiving just such news. So
what was the establishment of the COM
pany and its commander several months
struggling in emaSated and worn out.
| but happy withal.
When Mr.. Schaar was restored to the
air of liberty and again placed in the
ranks of the boys in blue he gave all
the credit for his existence and cond-
ton TO the efforts of the handsome
Filipino school teacher, for such was his
rescuer who worked all the manipulations
within her power to get him out of
prison. True the honor was due the
girl. but did it stop at that?
The good Master ordained in the begin
ming that man should understand the
meaning of friendship and incidentally
love. Schaar had been saved to his
country. His life was safe and secure
from the barbarities of a hostile race
and he was happy. And all was due to
the young Filipino maiden.
All this young Schaar took into con-
sideration and it was not long until his
thoughts doomed into fragrant flowers of
genuine affection. He learned the secret
of the significance of love. His heart
beat in unison with love probably for
the first time and every one knows what
primitive love indicates The world, too,
not always be looked upon as a mere
theory, that there is nothing like
ones first love. In the light of
circumstances no true human breast
could have shaken the thoughts of a
savior which savior was in the form of
a woman almost as much divine to him
as human.
AS the merciless war drew to a close
conditions changed and in time young
Schaar was sent to the United States.
The faint spark of affection which was
lighted at the time that Schaar, pris-
oner, was rescued lay smoldering in the
ashes CT self-thought and selishness.
Not many weeks after young Schaar
landed on the shores of his beloved coun-
try he began to think still more of the
maiden who had done so much for him.
His daily duties became a drag to him
for he thought of nothing but the love
of the maiden far across the waters, some
fifteen thousand miles away The love
ditties that often sprung to his lips from
his efTeryescent breast of affection and
patriotism were many times sung I'M
consciously and many, many times lis
tened to by his fellow soldiers who could
not but admire their melody. The world,
however did not seem as if did before.
America did not appear to him as happy
a spot as it did some few years back.
The blue-jays that sang in the woods to
his gladstone boyhood splashes in the
brook had an altogether different song.
The flowers. the trees, the whole land
scape assumed vastly different colors
and forms in his estimation. Even the
people here in enlightened America no
longer looked as smilingly as they once
did and the sauve American lasses were
no temptation for his admiration. And
the only cause for all this innovation in
Schaar's nature must be attributed to
the love of the maiden who at that mo-
ment sat dreaming of her American sol !
der in another continent.
The natural sequence at last came and
Young Schaar was reported going back to
the Philippines. Exactly what for no one /