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?T "HELL'S CROSSING." Bloody Baptism of Fire on the March to Santiago. CAVALEIME1? TELL THE STOEY. {Wheeler's Squadrons L<e<l hy Wat ! Veteran?-The Single nisrhvray Jam j med With Troops-Orders, Orders, j All Alcas: the Line-Coolness Under Tire. j? ICopyright, 1S9S. by the Author.] . . . VU. v^ roa^ heights as originally intended. Some such order was sent. The story goes on to say that Lawton told the aid he must fetch it in writing; that he went to army headquarters, got it in writing and returned with it to Lawton. At that hour Chaffee's men were charging forward, and Lawton pointed to them, saying to the aid, "It's too late." The aid insisted, saying, "But I must de? liver it." "All right" said Lawton. "Yon will have to deliver it on the Ifeing line. " As that was impossible, the charge went through. ; General Chaffee, when pressed for his -views about Lawton in the El Caney tx?cr?iiess, simply said, "Lawton is a lion." 1 .Lawton started from El . Caney for I the position on the El Caney road heights about dark on the evening of July L At that hour the divisions of Wheezier and Kent were busily digging trenches on the captured crest of San Juan ridge. The story of Lawton's fur? ther adventures in getting into the posi? tion assigned him willbe taken up after a description of the battle of Wheeler and Kent cn the American left. The .whole illustrates the adage, universally / applicable in war, about the best laid ^ plans going "aft agley." In point of ?act, El Caney fell about a day behind \time, and that threw the battle of the San Juan ridge a day ahead of time as 'planned. As the cavalry division was the next in order after Lawton, from right to left, when the army faced Santiago, and was the first to score a success on She San Juan heights, its story should next be told. In the march down from El Poso to the crossing cf the San Juan, the brigade of General Sumner, then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Carroll of the Sixth cavalry, had the lead. At ,that time Sumner was in temporary command of the division. The strength of Carroll's brigade that day in the .lighting line was about 900. The Ninth cavalry, colored, under Lieutenant Colo? nel J. M. Hamilton, on the right of the brigade, had but one sqnadron in the ?gM. It was commanded; by Major A. IX Dimmick. The Third cavalry was led. by Major H. W. Wessels, son of Major General Wessels, distinguished in the civil war. The First squadron was commanded by Major Henry Jack? son and the Second by Charles Morton. The Sixth cavalry, Sumner's own regi? ment, was led by Maj ? T. C. Leno. . With the exception of Wessels, all squadron and regimental officers, like the division and brigade leaders, were war tried veterans. Hamilton had served in the Thirty-third New York, Dimmick in the Fifth New York cav? alry, Jackson in the regular cavalry and Morton in the Twenty-fiph Missouri as a boy, afterward polishing off at Wes6 Point Leno served through the war in the First Pennsylvania cavalry. All | these officers are born soldiers, not car? let knights. \ The brigade lost many men while lying along the road before the advance "began, Grimes' battery having opened on the Spanish works about 7:50 in the morning, drawing fire of shell and shrapnel, some of which fell short of the target on El Poso hill and dropped among the troops lining the road to the front At the very beginning there was a delay at the crossings of the creeks and river. The cavalry was on the right of the road, and the men say that they -crossed the Aguadores several times, and that, including the San Juan, they wad? ed streams six times before they were lined up in the charge. In some places the San Juan was up to the waist, and at other points the water was so deep and the current so strong that some of the men had to be assisted to save drowning. 1 The Third cavalry, which was on the right of Kent's infantry, lost heavily in what is sometimes called "The Bloody Angle," between the Guama and the San Juan, north of the junction of these streams. This place will also go down in the memory of Santiago survivors as "Hell's Crossing." The first man I met at Camp Montauk in the Third cavalry, Captain G. A. Dodd of Troop F, made famous by the Cos? sack drill, carries a long scar down his forehead, which was given him at the angle by a piece of shrapnel. A Spanish shot fired at Grimes' battery knocked over three men of Troop I of this regi? ment. When the brigade came to cross ling the stream., it was halted, and the regiments took position according to the lay of the ground. Themen unship- | - ped their packs and Jeft them in the ! .bed cf the river. The bank in front of- 1 fered a cover from the Spanish fire, and beyond that was a dense undergrowth. The first order heard in this brigade came from Major Wessels to his own regiment. It was, "Tho Third is order eri to go through this brush!" Immedi? ately Major Jackson's squadron deploy? ed as skirmishers and attempted to ad? vance. Morton's squadron deployed 200 yards in the rear as support. Major Wessels observed, "I don't see how we can do it, but we will if we can." j Plunging into the brush, the men found that it wait only a hedge on the border of an opea field. When the skirmishers got through, they called out that there was cavalry moving across the front. That made it necessary to draw the line back. Through the openings in the trees, Captain Morton and others saw the left of the San Juan intrenchments and Spaniards with guns at hand 600 or 700 yards away, looking at the American line. At this time the dynamite and the Hotchkiss guns in rear of the brigade opened fire on the Spaniards. The dyna? mite gun was choked with the first car? tridge, and the cavalrymen say that the Hotchkiss gun was silenced by the Spaniards, who then turned their rifles and shrapnel upon the/ cavalrymen. In this plight the cavalry remained an hour and a half, subjeciei to constant volley firing and to shrapnel. The offi? cers of the brigade estimated that the ? cavalry division suffered from 75 to 90 per cent of its casualties around that j crossing. Dead and wounded were brought there through ranks of men, only a few of whom had been under fire before.* Says Captain Morton, a veteran of 26 battles, "It was enough to rattle the bravest, but not an officer or soldier left the position, except to help the wounded." To some old soldiers it may seem strange that at Santiago fighting men left the ranks to help the wounded. But that is according to the new order of things. Every man has a first aid pack? age in his kit, and it is part of his duty \o apply it when a comrade ia stricken down. If it had not been for this, the mortality at Santiago would iaave been terrible. The first aid bandage stops the flow of blood and keeps the wound clean, also giving the patient relief and hope, which conduce to recovery. In general, officers criticized the "shame? ful neglect of wounded" at Santiago. The next order to this brigade was brought by aids who came to Major Weasels aod told him that the brigade was to advance. They could give no definite instructions. Wessels said that he was not in command of the brigade, but that Colonel Carroll was and was somewhere on the ground. The aids discussed among themselves what was to be done, and finally agreed that the brigade had an order to advance. The cavalry troops spoken "of before as being in front of Carroll's brigade evidently belonged to Wood's brigade. Li attempting to move out of the range of the Spaniards' missiles and also to find clear ground to form in the differ? ent regiments got out of line, a matter which caused some confusion to the bri? gade commanders. It was this state of things which led to the assertion that the general officers were weak at San Juan ridge. The fact is that the ground was unsuitable for forming and charg? ing in brigade columns. The regiments kept well together until they started to go up the hill, when some commands deflected to the right or to the left, ac? cording as they saw favorable ground or a Spanish position to strike at. General Sumner says that the cavalry division was^brdered to take position in the road near the crossing cf San Juan; that he formed his line, and, being fired upon, said to a representative of Gen? eral Shaffer who was present: "We. cannot stay here without heavy loss. We mast go back cr ga forward. " Tne general added significantly, "Forward we went!" There was no lack of fearless and capable men to carry orders to the com? mands through fire and bleed. Colonel J. H. Dorst, the adjutant general of the cavalry division, was seen all along the line all day, and the same of Captain E. L. Howze of Sumner's staff, who was on horseback until the hill was taken. After the aids had settled it that Carroll's brigade was to go forward Major Wessels ordered his second squadron to go forward, supported by the first, and to move at once. Captain Morton says that the majors did not take time to pass the orders along to the companies, but shouted out the command "Forward!" Then the line plunged into an almost impenetrable SCEXE OF CAVALRY ATTACK. [Kote to Map.-Tlie blockhouse, the house north of it and the one on "Kettle" hil!, had trenches. There were trenches? between the blockhouse and the one north cf it. Positions of cavalry regiments are r.pproximate. In the charge the lines nu-r^ed into one. Scale of map abont 1,000 yards to the inch.] chaparral. Again there was a cry that there were troops in front. The line halted a few minutes, and it was seen that the brusn was full of troops, it appears that the Sixth cavalry, the Ninth and the Third, and the rough riders from Wood's brigade were all aiming at the same point. Wood's brigade meantime had had j experiences all its own, which must be J told next in order to fill out the story of the cavalry division in its brilliant and successful dash up the entangled and rocky sloies of ?San Juan ridge. GEOKUK L. KILMER. - mm - Come and see us before buying or trading. Wa can please you with a White-Randie. Old Sewing Machines made new at Ran die's. If you want your machine made new bring it to Randie. Carlyle Silences a Watchman. After several visits in Scotland dar? ing the summer of 1838, Carlyle went home again to Scotsbrig, writes Charles T. Copeland in The Atlantic. On his re<t;rn thence he spent a few days in Manchester with Mrs. Hanning. "He had been put to sleep in an old bed, j which he remembered in his father's I house." "I was just closing my senses ! in sweet oblivion," wrote he, "when the watchman, with a voice like the deepest groan of the highland bagpipe ' or what an ostrich corneraik might ut? ter, groaned out'Groo-o-o-o!' close under me and set me all in a gallop again. 'Groo-o-o-o!' for there was no articulate announcement at all in it, that I could gather. 'Groo-o-o-o!' repeated again and again afc various distances, dying oufc and then growing loud again for an hour or more. "I grew impatient, bolted out of bed, flung up the window. 'Groo-o-o-o!' There he was, advancing, lantern in hand, a few yards ofi* me. 'Can'tyougive up that noise?' I hastily addressed him, ' You are keeping a person awake. What good is it to go howling and groaning all night and deprive people of their sleep:' He ceased from that time-at least I heard no more of him. No watchman, I think, bas been more as? tonished for some time back." English Children and. Xegrroes. The negro is not so well known as one might expect, considering that geog? raphy is widely and often excellently taught in our primary schools. The ideas most frequently expressed con? cerning him are that he is black and a foreigner. Here are some of the definitions: "A black man who lives in India." "A dark man who cernes from America. " "A negro is a slave we read of them in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' " "A gentleman who lives in a foreign country." The country children are even more lively in their descriptions than the town children : "A negro is a foreign man with black skin all over him with thick lips ?nd curly black hair he goes naked." "A negro is a man and they live in a very hot country and they have little huts to live in." "A negro is a black man who acts in a circus." "A negro is a man whose skin is al? ways black, they are strong and they live in huts, and do not wear clothes and they shoot with a bow." "A negro is a man what eats missionary ,5." The Sunday school missionary stories and the traveling circus color the village children's ideas on negroes.-National Beview. Glycerin and Foreordination. A glycerin man in conversation with a reporter the other day said that the majority of those who are engaged in the business of shooting wells believe in foreordination. "I think that a man will not die till his time comes, " he said. "A man is liable to die at any calling, no matter how safe it may be considered. He will pass through all kinds of dangers and never sustain the slightest injury. Than he is knocked out of existence when he least expects it. "Glycerin men have to be quite nervy, but there is not one of them who does not feel that he is in no great dan? ger. They think they will J ?e out their allotted time and will not be blown up until the predestined event is due. We are handling death every day and know it, but by the exercise of caution and common sense there are but few of us comparatively that are killed. The rail? road men are much more liable to acci? dental death than glycerin men are." Bradford (Fa.) Era. Cheerfnl Antipodean TrutI* Teller. An ex-sea captain, now living in Syd? ney, many years ago was in charge of a ship carrying some convicts. The con? victs mutinied, murdered the crew and ordered the captain to navigate them to the islands, and, being a prudent man, he did so. When satisfied as to their conrse, the convicts deliberated, decided that he had behaved himself well and put him ashore on the first large island they came to. He was a musician and took his violin with him. A threatening crowd of savages greeted his arrival, but Orpheus played to them till they thought him a god, brought him unlim? ited pigs and yams and bowed in adora? tion. Finally he married the chief's daughter, succeeded him and ruled the island for years, till a ship called in and he (-ailed away.-Sydney Bulletin. 31 u.st Have Been a Cannibal. The writer of a book of travels, tell? ing of the insect pests encountered in British Guiana, makes a statement of which the best that can be said is that is is probably not so bad as it sounds. "One lady that I knew, while busy at her toilet, felt something crawling on her shoulder. She screamed and called her husband, and he had just time to knock the cen tiped off before biting her in the neck." Discourasinff. First Theosophist-This settles it. I resigu from the society." Second Theosophist- What's the mat? ter? First Theosophist-Why, one of my tenants has gone off without paying his rent and left me a note saying he would try and square with me in some future existence.-London Fun. Cheap Injnry. Casey-Sh ure, an it's th' unlucky mon Oi am ! Clancy-Unlucky be dom'd! Hov'n't ye/, kim out av th" wreck wid only a broken arm: Casey (sarcastically)-An for which Oi only git foive hundred dollars ! Thim fellies thot wor kilt git foive thousand. -New York Journal. There is a curious little Holland vil? lage in Wisconsin named Little Chute, whoso chief manufacture is wooden shoes. The people there areas thor- ; ougbly Dutch as their progenitors. Tho town stands on rho ground where Pero j Marquette had his winter quarters, and where the Dutch priests instructed tho Indians. A Inopportune Deaths. Julius Ca?sar was assassinated-when he had almost completed tbe task of consolidating the administration and dominion of the Roman empire, and his death opened the way to that despotism and corruption which ultimately undid his work. Henry of Navarre was killed when he had almost healed the differ? ences between Catholic and Protestant, which subsequently rent not only France, but Europe, and William the Silent also fell when he was on the point of uniting the Netherland prov? inces into a compact barrier against the encroachments of Spain. In English history Lord Clive died at the moment when he was the one man who could have saved the American colonies and kept the Anglo-Saxon race united, bvi there is the case of Mira? beau. He was literally the one man in France who could have averted the hor? rors of tho revolution, saved and re? formed the monarchy and so spared Eu? rope the murderous career of Napoleon and all the devastation it brought If he had lived ten or even five years longer, the history not only of France, but of Europe and the world, would have been different. It is in fact suffi? cient to say that he would have made both Robespierre and Napoleon impos? sible.-Strand Magazine. Pelican and Duck In a Duel. In Kew gardens, in the presence of a j considerable number of spectators, an affr ir cf honor was settled between a pelican and a duck. The birds had had words together, so to speak, and the pelican determined that the next best thing to making the duck eat his words was to eat the duck. So, after a little thrust and parry on the water, he made for the smaller bird and snapped it into bis pouch. Then a battle royal began inside the pouch of the pelican. The duck strug? gled, kicked, quacked and occasionally managed to get a leg ora wing outside, while his captor threw his beak high in the air, then dipped it into the water, and kept it there, as if trying to suf? focate or drown its enemy. From the look cf the agitated pouch it seemed as if the contest was by no means one sided, but that the pelican was having rather a rough time. At last the duck got his head and one wing out, and then, with a magnificent effort, managed to get entirely free. Once again on the water, the duck de? clined further combat and fled, while the pelican remained, looking as if honor were thoroughly satisfied.-London Tel? egraph. Lovinfr Cnp Proprieties. I have not seen any loving cup passed that is true to its name. The loving cup originated as a matter cf precaution in olden times, when apparent friends had an unpleasant method of killing a friend who was a rival while he was drinking. So an immense heavy cup was made with | a heavy cover. The method of using it can still be witnessed at banquets at the Mansion House in London. The person receiving it stands and ! turns to his neighbor, who also rises J and takes the cover with both hands, j The first person then raises the heavy cup to his lips with both hands, and, having sipped of the contents, holds it ! while the friend at his side replaces the cover and takes the cup, repeating the same precess in turn with his next neighbor. Thus, both hands oeing occu? pied, there is no possibility of one friend stabbing another. In our time the custom has degener? ated, and tho cover, as a rule, disap? peared. Nevertheless if both hands were occupied that would not prevent tongues from wagging later, and words are sometimes sharper than swords.-Phil? adelphia Times. Bine Stockings. According to an English magazine the appellation "bluestockings" originated in the dreEs of a Benjamin Stiilingfleet, grandson of the bishop, as he used to appear at the parties of Mrs. Montague, in Portman square. He used to general? ly wear blue worsted stockings, and he was a very amiable and entertaining man. Whenever he was absent from Mrs. Montague's evening parties, as his j conversation was very interesting, the j company used to say, "We can do noth? ing without the blue stockings." By de? grees the assemblies were called "blue stocking clubs" and learned people "blue stockings. " Excessive Coffee Drinking:. The Moors are inveterate coffee drink? ers, especially the merchants, and they sit in their bazaars and drink continu? ously the whole day long. It has been noticed that almost invariably, when these coffee drinkers reach the age of 40 or 45, their eyesight begins to fail, and by the time they get to be 50 they be? come blind. One is forcibly impressed by the number of blind men seen about the streets of the city of Fez, the capital of Morocco, and this is invariably at? tributed to the excessive use of coffee. New York Ledger. Picking Pockets With Toes. The gauchos, or dwellers in the ex? tensive plains of Buenos Ayres, are marvelously dexterous with both hands" and feet. Many of them have acquired through long practice such skill in using Iheir toes as if they were fingers that they can fling the lasso and even pick pockets with them. Some time ago a Frenchman who was fishing in ono of the rivers of Buenos Ayres was warned to bo cn Iiis guard against the light fin gered natives. He forthwith kept a vig- | ilant watch on his companions, but j nevertheless one day, when his attention ! was closely riveted on his float, a wily ? gaucho drew near, and, delicately in- j serting his foot, extracted the French man's hooks and other valuables from j his pocket.-Boston Transcript. His Way of Finding It. Tourist-It wears ?ne out completely to travel. Chance Acquaintance-Your business compels you to do it. 1 presume. Tourist-No, I am traveling fer my health.-Chicago Tribune. THREE QUEER CITIES. Each One Is Built on Islands Connected by Many Bridges. The city of Ghent, in Belgium, is built on 26 islands. These islands are connected with each other by 80 bridges. The city has 300 streets and 30 public squares. It is noted for being the birthplace of Charles V and of John of Gaunt, whom Shakespeare called "time honored Lancaster,: ' and as the scene of the pacification of Ghent Nov. 8, 1576, and of several insurrections, sieges and executions of well known personages. It is associated with American history by the treaty made there Dec. 24, 1S14, terminating the second war between England and the United States, known as the war of 1812. Amsterdam, in Holland, is built on piles driven far below the water into the earth. The city is intersected by many canals, which are spanned by nearly 300 bridges, and resembles Ven? ice in the mingling of land and water, though it is considerably larger than that city. The canals divide the city, which is about ten miles in circumfer? ence, into 90 islands. The city of Venice is built on SO islets, which are connected by nearly 400 bridges. Canals serve for streets in Venice, and boats, called gondolas, for carriages. The bridges are, as a rule, very steep, rising considerably in the middle, but have easy steps. The cir? cumference of the city is about eight miles. The Venetians joined the Lom? bard League against the German em? peror, and, in 1177, gained a great vic? tory in defense of Pope Alexander III, over the fleet of war vessels headed by Otto, son of Frederic Barbarossa. In gratitude for this victory the pope gave the Doge Ziani a ring, and instituted the world famous ceremony of "Venice Marrying tho Adriatic Sea." In this ceremony the doge, as the chief ruler of Venice used to be termed, with appro? priate ceremonies dropped a ring into the sea every year in recognition of the wealth and trade carried to Venice by the Adriatic. Why He Refused to Pay. .'One dollar, please, "said the clair? voyant. "Not much, " he replied. "PU not pay you a cent." "Do you think I reveal the future for nothing?" "I don't care anything about that. You told me I was to marry three times, and I don't propose to put a premium on bad news."-Chicago News. SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA R. R. CO. ?ser w gCTgBS PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. TIME TABLE, NO. 15. In effect 12 01 a. m., Sunday, Oct. 2, 1898. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. Daily Daily Except Except Sunday. Sunday. Going East. No 78 No. 74 Lv Marion 8 10 am 2 OJ pm Lv Rutbcrfordton 9 06 am 3 30 pm Lr Forest City 9 21am 4 CD pm Lv Henrietta 9 38 am 4 2r>pm Lv Moore9boro 9 48 am 4 52 pm Lv Shelby 10 15 am 6 30 pm Lv Patterson Springs 10 25 am 6 45 pm Lv Earls 10 30 am 7 CO pm Ar Blacksburg 10 45 am 7 25 pm Lv Gaffney Ar Blacksburg 6 40 am 7 30 am Lv Kicgville Ar Columbia Lv Branchville Ar Charleston 4 28 pm 5 20 pm 5 47 pm 8 00 pm 5 40 pm 6 30 pm Lv Blacksburg 10 45 am 6 00 am Lv Smyrna 1110 am 6 30 am Lv Hickory Grove 1122 am 6 50 am Lv Sharon 1137 am 7,15 am Lv Yorkvilie 1152 am 7 50 am Lv Tirzah 12 05 pm 8 15 am Lv Newport 12 10 pm 8 25 am Lv Reek Hill 12 25 pm 9 50 am Lv Leslies 12 40 pm 10 20 am Lv C?tawba Junction 12 50 pm 1120 am Lv Lancaster 1 20 pm 1 20 pm Lv Kershaw 2 15 pm 3 15 pm Ar Camdea * 3 00 pm 4 30 pm Going Weat, No 77 No 75 Daily Daiiy Except Except Sundav. Sunday. 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