The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-13

When the great transport sailed apdu
Jane Cable tCds one OF her passengers.
idle fancies. In any event. it looked
a long time TO these chaps before they
could get back 10 the States. and she
was worth while.
Perhaps her most devoted admirer
was Lieutenant Bray. Good looking
and coming from an excellent southern
family, he was a great favorite with
all. Jane liked him better than any of
the rest. She would have liked him
still better had he been able to resist
a tendency TO boast of the stock from
which he had sprung. The knowledge
of her disadvantages in life. the con-
trast between their respective posi-
lions. all tended to emphasize the irony
of fate, and she often Yound herself
wondering how this sprig Of true aris-
tocracy would conduct himself IL he
discovered that, after all, she was only
a founding.
1t was Lieutenant Bray who made
inquiries at general headquarters and
found, after considerable trouble. that
Graydon Bansemer's company was in
the north, subject to the requirements
of Young. chief of scouts.
Irksome were the lazy summer
months for Jane. She tired of the at
tentions of men; she sickened with
longing and anxiety. Day after day
she prayed that the troops In, the
north might be relieved. She watched
for the order that would call for their
return from the wet lands above. Sick
ness was prevalent among the fighting
corps; the wet season had undermined
the health OF many. Constant news
came down to Manila of the minor en-
gagements, and she looked at every
report for news of Graydon. Colonel
Hardin occasionally had private ad-
vices from the north. She heard of
Graydon's bravery more than once and
glowed with pride. Down in her tired.
anxious heart she was wondering IL 1t
were possible for her to go to the front
in any capacity.
At last with October came the wan
ing of the rainy season. November
brought active fighting. A general
movement of the troops was directed
against Aguinaldo. In his prime as a
leader he controlled the north. and his
b
! Young began operations on the right.
/ Macarthur on the center. with Whea-
4 ton pushing forward on the extreme
| left. The insurgents fell back from
I Tarlac. There were many big fights at
/ San Jacinto and other places now IA
nous in history.
| The Red Cross society held forth at
I Malolos. reaching gradually into the
1 country north. Sick aud wounded men
+ came into the hospitals daily and in
larger numbers tnan one would have
I supposed. The villages, or barrios. all
! along the line of advance saw their
converts turned into hospitals. AS fast
/ as possible the nurses were hurried up
to them. Men and women in this noble
service did heroic. faithful work both
for the white and the brown men who
went down. From the field hospitals
the men were taken 10 the converts
and treated until they were able to be
moved TO Manila
Further north fed Aguinaldo and
the Filipinos. Wheaton was ordered
to cut of his retreat: Young was killed /.
Cunningham took charge of the scouts
who secured the country. Parties of
ten 10 hiteeu picheu men Ieil out al
advance Of the main body. seeking TO
develop the enemy and his defenses.
These brave fellows attracted the hid
den fire Of ambush, exposed them
selves to all the treacheries OF war
fare and afterward were mustered out
with kind word from the department.
They were the men who tested the ter
ritory. 1t was with one of these
scouting parties that Graydon Ban
semer ventured far into the enemy's
country early in November