Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-07-07

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ION the way l visited dozen OF
Z more Of the hospitals and took many
Tpictures. Here is one nova snap.
shot Of q poor fellow--one Of the req.
ulars-lving on an improvised cot.
no was shot through the thighs. But
look OF the smile on bis face. .yust
as snapped he caught sight Of me.
de was so weak that he could not
raise himself or scarcely speak. but
his face besmed when he saw me.
"'Sister has one OF those kodaks.
ne said to me, and how much you
remind me Of her. He died, l think.
~ was present at number Of skir-
mishes; near enough to the firing line
to hear the music Of the Mausers and
the crack OF the rifles our boys car.
ried' Indeed. Igot just as close to
the firing line as the commanding
omcers would permit me to 60.
"Here 10 q picture I took Of q Span
lard lying dead Cd the field. He was
sharpshooter. and from his perch in
mango tree had been picking off
some Of Roosevelt's men. A big ne.
gro cavalryman finally located him
and brought him down. badly wound.
ed. There be is, just as he lay when
passed the place.
~ saw funny things. too. saw a
Cuban sell horse for half Of a pine.
apple and piece Of tobacco. l saw
six'footers of the Michigan volunteers
who had fought spaniards almost
hand to hand, run like deers from |
understood land crabs; and saw Cen
eral Shafter-s7O odd pound,-riding
a diminutive Cuban horse.
Zone thing made lasting impress.
sion on me. 1t was the wonderful
cheerfulness Of our soldiers amid
great hardships and suffering"
Miss Rsasoner wrote many interest
ing articles about what she saw amid
the flying bullets on the battlefield,
and McClure'S Magazine and the other
magazines we're glad to rrint all that
they could get from her.
When the war was over she went to
Paris as correspondent for the Asso.
ciated Press, and then on to Holland,
where she was the only American
woman to witness the coronation Of
Queen Wilhelmins. And all the ,
while she was adding to her fame as ,
q correspondent.
In the meantime the Boer war had
begun. As the foremost war CORES.
pendent, Julian Ralph went to the
front for Harpers and Black and 4
White and the Daily Mail Of London. :
Lester Ralph, his son, went with him. .
i was q curious turn Of fate. ,
Lester Ralph was educated in Paris q
Is an artist, and the war in the Trans Il
'aal was by no means his first cam y y
'aign. He was present, with his v
ather, at the fasco between Greece "
nd Turkey, and the little action be y y
Witnessed there only whetted his ap- O
elite for more. B
One day q small British expedition y
'as sent out from Bloemfontein to
ost proclamations, and young Ralph, CO
'oking for pictures, went along. In y;
lie way he witnessed the first san ia
uinary battle Of the war-the am q
nscade at Sanna's post-when the :
oers caught Colonel Broadwood's
tile column in q gulch and killed
captured haiti
Ralph, creeping through the lines,
capped to Bloemfontein, but his
Their, who, with other correspond.
to, hurried to the scene, was thrown
ON his horse and received injuries
,ich eventually caused his death.
Following the smbuscade ct Sanna's
ct, young Ralph was stricken with
. fever. and among the friends who
listed in nursing him back to health
. Rudyard Kipling.
When Msthuen fought his disas-
ms battles along the Modder river,
lph was there, drawing pictures Of
I'm; he witnessed the capture Of
onje. and he was with Roberts =
en- Pretoria fell. And all the while
sketches, published In America
in England, we're telling the story
he great campaign as graphically
were his fathers written words.
IN when It was all over Lester
ph returned to Paris. Il,