The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-05

Stories of the modern race Of ANA
TONS. in the Philippines, f1ercer and
more ood-thirsty than the ancient
trib on the Black Sea described in
Grecian legends, We're told yesterday by
Miss Elizabeth Mccormick. Miss Nc
COrmick returned TO her home in Salt
Lake last week. She has spent three
years as a nurse in the government SER
vice, the last year in the Philippines.
The greater part of this time she was
at Zamboanga, in the southern group,
within twelve hours ride from JOlo,
where the famous battle with the
Moros took place last spring. She
nursed some of the victims of the bat
tie, and during her years stay came
into close contact with the Moros.
Miss Mccormick declares the MOros
are not to be classed with ordinary
human beings-they are of such low
order. In her opinion, moreover, the
women are worse than the men,
Beasts OF Burden and Soldiers.
The women are tire real beasts of
burden, despite the use of the water
caribou" said Miss Mccormick. They
are the real fighters, too, singing the
bOlo with great skill and strength.
They have much better muscular de-
velopment, in consequence, than have
the men, and they may be relied upon
to hold not only their own, but the en-
tire fort against regiment:
They are the fierce fends who lie
i'm the grass TO cut the muscles off a
soldiers legs as he comes, perhaps, on
an errand Of mercy or help to them.
And when all other weapons failed as
was the case on the mis-reported battle
of JolO, ON Mount Dago, they used
their own babies as missiles to fire at
the heads of the American soldiers.
They are not women in any ordinary
sense; they are fends more cruel and
fiercer than the horrible men for whom
they labor,
Battle Fought by Women.
Il was back in Zamboanga when the
battle of JOlo was fought. and while
saw none of the fighting. 1 saw all the
horror Of our wounded men who were
brought in. The true account of the
affair will never be known, but ii is
sufficient to say that reports did not
do justice to the American soldier, nor
to his trusty helper, the Filipino. who,
of course, hates the Moro as the Moro
hates him. The native cOnstabulary
led the charge like the valiant little
brown men they were, and they Went
uOWn before lHDSe IenUlSH illHt dHO
women like so many ants. While l be-
lieve we lost no one man by actual
death at the time, many of the finest
men were manned with the barbarous
sings, the bolos and the dread knives
welded by women concealed in the
long grass so that they will forever be
cripples
"This practice Of lying in wait and
slashing the muscles from mans legs
as he passes is one of their favorites
in times of comparative peace as well
as in war and some of the best in the
army came in for a share of it. 1t
was all too horrible to talk about, the
brutality and cruelty shown by those
creatures called women.
1.-THE remark of an American soldier
might well be echoed by each and
everyone:
~ don't take my hat off to no lady
what has bOlo in her hand
mo consideration could be expected
in reason for the sex of such Great
ures."
Fine Hospitals on Islands.
Going on to tell of her varied expert
ences in the islands, Miss Mccormick
said:
Nothing could be better for the SER
ing of the first reserve hospital at Ma
Mia. The large, cOmmOdiOus quarters
are supplemented by every sanitary
convenience, some of which il is al
most impossible to realize have been
arranged since the beginning of the
Spanish-American war The physi-
clans are all of the modern school, and
only the most skilled nurses are EN-
ployed. The results in operative cases
are wonderful, the Filipinos and even
the Moros are responding to treatment
readily, despite their habitual dirtineSs
and lack Of all semblance of decency in
the ordinary care of the body. The
American soldier, however, makes the
ideal patient, with his submission tC
discipline and his ready obedience to
orders.
Conditions at Zamboanga, i'm Min
r>danao. i'm the southern group, are very
similar as to facilities, the hospital be-
ing exceedingly well equipped and SAM
tary. Zamboanga is a full seven days
Journey by the inter-island transports
from Manila but this seven days was
added to in our case by three days
quarantine, which we spent in a near
by port. The quarantine laws are very
strictly enforced. and we were really
not allowed to land for five days, dur
ing the siege of cholera last year, nol
were we allowed TO taste any OF the
native foods during that period. We
reached IIoilo five days out, and five
DAYS later we were i'm Zamboanga, the
largest town of Moroland.
q Peoples Entirely Distinct.
2 "Tbere is a great deal of misunder.
standing in regard to the status of tn;