Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1917-01-16

'e"es P0oPf0u INC uerk Jungle WIN
hands that sought the cross-draped
rosary as often ~ the cross-hilted
sword. the little host ranged through
the twilight shades Of the tropic for.
est. and amid the defiles Of La Cum.
bre. perhaps traversing the very
route over which the serpentine Fer
rocarril Central Dominicana pursues
its devious course at more imminent
peril OF life and limb to the unhappy
wight condemned to journey thereon,
than ever involved the conQuistador
In the days when time was young.
The sunlight which cleaned on their
helmets but few short weeks ago
flashed on American bayonets, and
the steep hillsides which hardened to
clang OF their armor have hardly
ceased to Ireverberate with the roar of
the guns Of Bearss as he pressed re
lentlessly on to join forces with Pen.
dleton. the twentieth century con.
queror Of this much war-debated isle
Of the seas.
The site Of the City Of the Gentle.
man is indeed historic ground. era.
died In La Vega Real. or the Royal
Plain. with which for fertility, pro.
ductiveness and natural charm no
other place on earth can compare. 1t
has been the stage on which was en-.
acted some Of the most transcendent
events in the unfolding Of the drama
OF the worlds history. Obscure and
forgotten, far from the pathways OF
modern progress. It dreams on in its
fading splendor Of the days when the
most puissant monarch Of earth was
Its patron, and when theporeat ad.
miral himself led blowers
against the savage 4 i ol1tAe soil
and matched Toledo hfadSs ana un.
falterins courage asaiqfk crpd} weap.
ons and countless nuhien I'm the
Homeric battle OF TAI Real.
Hitler in those epocA = " came
Balboa. and Cortez, yaro, all
as yet unknown to fam sad. we may
we'll believe that as they, tarried
amid the sylvan alIurements Of the
sun.kissed valleys was Conceived the
visions Of remoter lands and seas
whose discovery and conquest were
destined to send their names thunder
ing down the ages Of unborn times.
Since that day in the almost legen-
dairy past when Tarik the Moor cross.
ed the narrow seas and planted the
crescent on the northern Pillar OF
Hercules, the Rock. OF Gibraltar las
been taken and retaken eleven times.
And since the conquistador first
flung the banner Of CASTLE to the
morning breezes. where the forbid.
ding ramparts Of old Fort San Luis
frown upon the Yaque's flood. eleven
times has Santiago passed through
siege and surrender. And on a mid.
summer day, in the present year o.
our Lord, most of khaki appeared
before Its gates. and the city over
which Bartholomew Columbus had
ruled. the city over which the flags Of
five nations have flown, which has
fallen before the might Of Drake. Of
DE Cussy, Of Dessalines, Of Touissant
L'Ovuerture and Of Boyer, and ever
and anon arose triumphant from its
ashes and expelled the invader from
Its portals. was delivered into the
hands Of Colonel Joseph II. Pendle.
ton OF the Fourth regiment OF United
States marines.
This to the Bryan Daily Eagle from
a Bryan boy who is now with the
colors.
PRIVATE JOHN v. WILLIAMS.
18th Company. 4th Regiment. U. s.
Marines. ashore In Santo Domingo
! Santiago. Republic Dominica.