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BACK FROM THE PHILIPPINES.
Capt. Frank W. Greer, of Pacolet,
Writes Interestingly of the
People of the Island.
DESERTER ANSWERS BUGLE CALL.
Mr: Editor:?In my last letter I
wound up hablaring (talking) about
how the Southern uien in (lie army
praised the blaueo ?en<?riras (white
ladies) of this land of Dixie.
We remained at the El Depositor
almost a week w hen again we were
ordered aboard of qaseoes to go to
the beautiful poco pueblo (little city)
k, of Tanay. F. and G. companies ol
my regiment garrisoned Tanay, toS
ether doing an equal share m the
ischage of every duty, such as guards
and hikes. Tanay is a coast town,
lying upon the shores of Lnguna de
Bay, with a population of about 2,500.
Some of the residences are
marvels of beauty, so artistically
painted and carved that one in his
, first moments of gazing will be compelled
to admit that these people are
"nobody's fools," at least, in the way
of kihi (house) building. Beautiful
well laid streets, fringed on the sid-s
With the majestic royal palm and
4 - stone moag-gp w t walls around the
ft Plaza, which has stood for many
years, I was told, in whose inclosure
many natives in times of peace
fathered faether as our farmers do
here on Saturdays and sold rheir
many different wares and discussed
many of the domestic questions then
agitat ng them and their people, and
perhaps they too had a great invioible
Ben as our farmers now have.
The tall, slim cocoanut tree is in
and around this inclosure and many
Small bananna groves are scat'ered
throughout the little town. Situated
just outside of the town, in the center
Col a rice-paddy, is the tall walls which
eucircles the ''city of dead." which,
for the suui of $^5.00, Mexican currency,
a native ib allowed to place a
dead loved one in a vault foi one
year. If at the end of that year h<
is too poor to pay another like sum
his loved one's bones are removed
from the vault and ruthlessly cast
into the bone pile. If the native
happens to be so poor that he can't
produce tne amount required tor the
vault at the time his loved one passe?
away he is not allowed to enter the
graveyard, and under no considers
tion, except for money, will the
Priest perform the funeral rites over
the deceased, consequently many
poor heart-broken mothers of some
young men who have fallen, pcrhapR,
a. for whatthey believed was right- their
country?has to take their body and
wrap it in plain bamboo matting (for
thecoffiu goes with the vault in the
rent, but not into the vault) and burj
it ui a hole in some muddy, dismal
warnp.
M V company staid at Tanay with
"G.* company until March 27th,
when we hiked over the mountain tc
. M<*vet toe, and thence to the town ol
Siuiloau where we had it pretty
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lively up to the time we left there on
May 3Uth. We being the only company
at this place it made our duty
wry hard, especially was the guard
so. We maintained three steady
posts and one outpost at night in the
rear of our quarters. Siniloan had
a population of about 3,000, who
upon our arrival packed their clothes
and left, thinking, evidently, by act^
ing thus, that we would leave the
town,'but in which tl ey found their
thinking apparatus was out of fix for
we had come to stay a while. They
came sneaking back in a day or so m
sets of twos until all had gut back.
At first they wouldn't sabe (under
stand) anything that would be said to
them, but in this they soon learned
they wouldn't succeed in driving us
away, so they got quite conversant,
but couldn't help but show their utter
hatred for us, notwithstanding they
vehemently professed to be niuco
amigos (friends) to us. About three
miles in the rear of Siniloan squatting
; at the foot of the mountain was a town
built entirely of bamboo, even the
church, called by the natives Parmay.
On April 12th a detachment under
the command of Lieut. Henry F.
McFuley went into this little town
looking for insurrectors, which were
i known to have been in that vicinity
in the last few day* but we didn't see
anything and couldn't get a word of
informal ion from the natives, so we
i went back to our quarters emptyhanded
and disgusted, believing that
the insurrectors had flown to other
pans more congenial for their safety.
On Sunday morning, the 20th, Lieut.
Col. Bacon, who had come to stay
with us, took a detatchment of eight
men and went to Mavertoc and had a
i talk with the Priest, from thence he
carried us around the foot of the
mountain to Parmay, and just as we
i turned down the street Frank Hogan.
w ho was op the point stopped suddenly,
threw his rifle to his shoulder,
then slowly lowered it as if uncertain
whether to fire or not, when as quick
as a flash he raised it again and fired
and then the fun began in earnest, it
seemed as if we had walked into a
trap and they had us surrounded, but
in a few moments we run them from
their places of hiding and the
trenches, when the command was
given for us to charge upon the insurgents
who had stopped and seemed
as if they were going to make a
stand Such a yell as went up at
that command of charge, Yankee and
Rebel yells combined, did more that
day to dislodge the enemy and cause
? hun to vamoose pronto (get away
quick) than the firing of steel bullets
from our Krags.
i The inhabitants of Siniloan began
i ivnf m *r?/vi?A a.1
W" ur 'I C nuu LUUIC 1CUUIIU1ICU
i towards us as the days went by and
I among seemingly new made friends
; was old Poliehu whom wo nick-named
i jawbone, and from whom we bought
; uiany glasses of lime juice and iloque
i dow (native wine) on a credit, most
i of the latter though, also there
i was Cienti >ns who had a splendid
s'ock of iloque-dow and who were
s much amigos to us and whom we
patronized much. The seuoritas
' were pretty and would say buenos
> dins (g?od morning) to us every
morning to which of course we
would reply as beat we could totbem
which' they seemed to appreciate
very much. About the first week in
i May No. 3 post called the Sergeant
r of the guard and told him there were
I men at the loot of the mountain facing
ma p^st, and that they were either
i carrying bamboo poles or rifles, he
couldn't tell which through the field
> glares. The Sergeant told him to
f keep a good watch and went back to
the guard house. At night the sentry
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saw a light resembling a camp fire <>n
the side of the mountain, lie again
called rhe Sergeant who came and
watched it for a few moments, telling
the sehtry to keep a strict lookout,
for there was h man that ''deserted
at Pa^i a day or so ago and joined
the iuRuureotors." So saying he
went back to the guard house and retired.
At ttie first sound of our
bugle for taps bidding us to retire
f- r the nignt, another bugle began to
sound the same call. At first we
thought it was the eoho of our bugle,
hut when our bugle had ceased the
one on the mountain continued which
cnvincod us that it was no other
hut the deserter mocking us to let us
know he was around, for tho deserter
was a bugler of "L " Co., 37rh Vol
untcera. At eleven o'clock the sharp
report of a lleming'on was heard over
at the mountain and a big led bullet
passed 'he senrry's head and buried
itself in the hard mahogany side o?
the house in the rear of the sentrv.
Our bugle Bounded the call to arms
and in less time than it takes to
write it, we pent such a shower ot
Uncle Yarn's little liver pills through
the darkness toward the traitor and
his gang of cur. throats that doubtless
they 'h'-ught all of Gen. Whcaton's
brigade were there.
On M?y 28th Lieut. James E.
A-thott who was then commanding
our company, (Lieut. C<?1. Beacon
and Lieut. McFeeley having left u?)
received ordeis to move by wagon
and boa's nil our baggage and e<|uipments
to P,ieta for iransjjortation to
Manila, whete we would report to
the commander of the department of
Nor<hern Luzon. We began to ship
boxes of hard-tack, crates of bacon,
etc.. that eyening. The morning of
the 20th a beautiful young girl came
up to the flutters and wanted to see
the interpeier who soon appeared and
began to talk to her. irhe spoke fast
nod in an excited manner, in Spanish
and told him that there were 700 insurgents
lying outside of the town
awaiting an opportunity to attack us.
hut noting occurred that day suspicious,
and we began to think that
she ('he girl) had been told to do this
to see if it wouldn't make us hurry
and le tve. For a truth we were uppieheusive
throughout the day and
most of the night, but by the morn
ing of the 30th our uneasiness was
we'l nigh dispelled. Lieut. Abbott
called for 15 men to volnntrer to go
with the ox carts, which were to carry
3,000 rounds of cartridges and 25
extra rifles. The rifles belonged to
sick men who had been carried to the
hospital during our stay in the town.
All the company volunteered, therefore
making it necessary for the
Lieutenant to pick his men, as he
rouldn't very well spare the whole
company. At 8 o'clock we bid our
comrades good bye, little dreaming
ere the sunset that Decoration Day
that one of the brightest, free hearted
soldiers in our company who we were
shaking by the hand, would pass
away to face the Great Commander.
We got to Paeta and at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon one sergeant and private
came down in boats and told us
everything was all right in Siniloan.
At about 9 o'clock that night as we
were sitting around on the shore of
the bay talking soldier's polities we
heard the splash of oars in the water
out in the darkness, and in a few
minutes Corporal Edward Glover
called hello! to us, to which we replied.
Then he asked if we were
Americans, at which we all laughed,
lie came in to the bank and called
for four men to come and help him
lift something. Wo couldn't understand
what, but what was our consternation
when we got to him and
he said '"I have here Corp ?ral Hart,
boys, who was killed in the fight we
had at Siniloan this afternoon beginning
at four o'clock and lasting
until 6 o'clock, but I tell you hoys,"
his voice almost inaudible from emotion,
' he died like a true American
soidicr?witu his lace towards our
enemies."
(To be continued.)
A number of the lending business
men of Augusta have purchased the
stock in the Augusta Chronicle formerly
owned by Hon. Patric Walsh.
| Editor Edward B. Hook is president of
j the Dew company and will be assisted
i In the production of the paper by Mr.
| Thomas P. Murphy and Mr. Charles J.
I Bayne: Hook, Murphy and Bayne are
i three of the brightest newspaper men
j in the south, and will, no doubt, give
! the people of Augusta a splendid newspaper.?Spartanburg
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SflNTUC SIFTINGS.
"Don't Like a Mule No How."
"If a man courts un<l goes away,
lie may live to court another day.
Hut if a man weds, and courts st ill;
May some dav net in court against his i
will.
Morning, morning, I am glad to
see you again.
"Oh! would I wore a bird, that I
might" well, do various things.
It has not only been the light to
subdue "General Green," but to
regain "lost ground."
I dou't blame the chiggers and
'skeeters from biting the girls but
why they want to eat on we old male
rustics and sing lively tunes I can't
concatenate. Whew!
Not long ago a girl asked a young
man if ho saw the moon vise. "No,"
he said, "but I saw it long time before
it did."
The young ladies who have been
visiting here will all be g">ne to their
homes before this is in print. The
M i*scs Spears, of Jonesville. who visited
the Misses Sartor, left some days
ago. Misses Carrie Gibson, of Newberry.
and Black, of York, who
are visiting their schoolmate. Miss
Dai??y Jeter, will leave for their respective
homes this week.
Mrs. A. Mc.V Pitman and chil
dren, of Greenwood, are visiting the
family of Dr. J. T. Jeter.
I am real glad to know that Miss
Mary Thomas, of Union, has secured
a scholarsmp at Hock Ilili. add I
congratulate her. We here feel interested
as all may claim this place
as her nativity, and she having manv
relatives in and around this town. I
wish tier much success.
Here's ver hoss tuav be slang hut
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it gets beyond that when a big hungry
horse fly cries out, "Here's yer
moss," and then proceed to drill an
artesian well in your body.
I am having hard luck eXpeiience
with mules this year. One kicked
and crippled me for awhile pretending
ne was kicking at gnats, one contested
my seat on his back because 1
milled a hair from his mane and one
got me away from home and from
sotne cauje dropped me, and because
I had no help made rue foot a three
mile trip and carry my saddle on inv
back. But I love a mule compared
to some low down cowards who seek
opportunities to take advantage of a
man.
Cotton, since the continued rains
set in. is growing a rank weed growth,
and this will no doubt be misleading
as to the good qualities of the crop,
and there is likely to be heard soon
report of "the finest cotton crop I
ever had etc." A weed is somewhat
necessary, but a weed is not the
fruit.
Public roads were worked, (some
J\ mi i
paicneu^ 100 soon. i ne neavy rains
have damaged them by washing them
in places, but some places were improved
where brush was put. by
catching sand. If the future could
have been foreseen, and roads simply
brushed well, the rains would have
nearly worked them, saving much
expense
A protracted meeting was in progress
one w?.ek at the Methodist
church, beginning 1st Sunday, ltev.
Mr. Burns was assisted by Rev. Mr.
James from Union. Much interest
was taken but there were no additions.
Thursday, 15th, a meeting began at
the Piesbpterian chuich. The weather
was bad and the attendance was
irregular. The meeting closed Sunday
night, and until October, when
it will be renewed and with help for
the pastor.
Broad river has b<en out of its
banks twice the past two weeks. Last
week it was out several days, and
nearly as high as it was last May.
This makes six times this year.
There bad been some corn planted
on the bottoms after the May freshet |
anr) riivur fha* i o ?II .rl /,r, ?% <> ?* I
uuu Iivn mm ID nil UCSI/MMOU, 1UI It
does not take much soaking of corn
this hoi weather to rot it even if it is
not washed up. Farmers are unable
to work out other late corn, and
that bids fair to be a failure us is
much of the old. Vegetation is
growing so rank that, whore any for*
eign vegetation was lefl in crops it is
getting formidable.
We have had the past week rain
in abundance. Since Saturday
tnorning. the 10th, we have had 5.o5
inches of raiufad to Saturday 17th,
one week. Tbis is an excessive
fall.
On the night of the 10th when
it was so dark at Union with only
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a few drops of rain there, we had a
downpour. In a little over an hour
l.To inches fell. A brother of the
writer was caught from homo walk
ing and waded a creek that had
swollen to 150 yards wide and waist
deep. He found his way home if it
was one of the darkes* nights ever
was. I was out Tnnrsdav night.
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15th, with a wagon six tniies from
home when a storm struck and for
awhile it was inky dark. It rained
too.
About the sorriest corn crop that
I ever saw greets the eye of overt
observer around this p-irt of the
sphere. Cotton is aDo poor and
makes many, no doubr, feel some
shakev. The old sentence. "The
people are poor and the land is too.
and if they don't steal the dirt, I do
not know what in the world they will
do." makes one think that if they
don't steal cotton I don't know what
they'll do. One youug firmer stole
some cotton from the yard at this
station last year, but i learn the
owner made him give it up, and he
kept out of the hands of the law, is
the only consoiation he got. if
any wants a lift by stealing cotton
they had better be practicing slieknejs.
Thank you B. B., and I intended
to accept your invitation to be at
Children's Day at old Padgetts, bu*
we have had so much rain streams
Wf?rr* so h tern nnil tlin n-....rl?.?i. ..-.a a..
threatening all the time that I vei.tured
not on a Inner journey. 1
wanted to see "something" pretty.
I know where it is at. hut not tinwhipping
Waddikin J< e sp >ke of. i
That was cruel in that young lady
but I 0111 going to stand arbitrator in
this case. She should have "kicked"
you herself, then you could have
"kicked" back, provided she hadn't
broke your heart, llir oh! perhaps
she wants to get WadTkin Joel
wrecked. I suspect she is staring
hi in on n road to a wreck. Ni do not
feel your importance too much,
brother. But you fight gentlemen.
I will hold your coats and hats and
while you're scrapping I'd try to
talk to the girl. That is arbitration.
IIKY DKXVKII.
SERMON OF REV.
SAM T. CREC1I.
Upon the Occasion of the Funeral
of Mrs. Sallie Foster near
lCtta Jane, /lug. to, nyot.
(Published liy Kcipiest,!
1st Corinthians.2:9 "Kyi; had not seen nor
ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man the thintrs whieh (ion hath prepared
for them that love him."
The speaker pro vet I from both An affirmative
and negative stand p ?int tie*
happy condition of believers after death,
when t lie reward of the righteous will lie
given I hem and tln-y are permitted to go
in and partake of all t he joys and blessings
prepared for them by their Godly
father. The body is the earthly tenement
of the soul and death i- only the separu
lion of two. Giit-f, soriow ;trmi
ealaoiiiy are no res|iectois of perso is
Tli?'v make then- way into tli?* palace *.?s
well as the humble home. and t licit mission
is t be same in en her ease. Life's
only a d.essing room for the soul to niahe
its preparation to meet its (J si (iivl's
plans a e not so mysterious to us when
we look at them through tl\- eye of faith
and in the spirit of submission to ills
will.
A mighty and glorious d IT 'renee will
lie made in our nature when our bodies
revive bevoud the grave. All the evils
and aec.dents which befall them in this
present evil world will then have los
their power. Hunger, 'liir-t, weakness,
sickness, coir notion anil even death aie
bounded by the tomb. Thv grave iv
then everlasting te* initiation! The\
th.it. rise to the resiiiiei.tion of life win
linngei m> moie, neither thirst. any mote. ]
lieu|iei shall the sun light on them not j
any heat. Kirrn, enduring, unassailable
by pain or distress anil proof against the
uuderui'iiing progress of years, they will,
like gold tried in the lire, remain brittle
and iodest.ruc'iblH tluougb the endless
ages of eternity
Our immortal bo lies will know 110 en?t
either from their own weakness or from
external power. Such his God been
pleaded to constitute the IkxIum of his
children lwyond the grave. I) Mth to
them will l>e no more. In defiance of
time and superior to injury the Unly will
live with him tor ever and ever.
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In his death and suffering Christ has
consecrated and made the crave to all
lie never* and his resurrection has assured
us that the body shall lie raised in dory.
Ilov liouoratile will lie the triumph over
death and the grave when the imkIv will
tie rendered most beautiful and glorious
re-eiuhliiitj the gloriousb-idy of the Lord
Jesus Christ himself who is the Hrst
bom fi'otn the dead.
We are constantly reminded that our
mortal bodies are sown in weakness,
(.tor manitold mlirinities and death in
winch they terminate are peculiar
evidences of human frailty. But the
h > |y of believers will not only l?j raised
oy almighty powers, they will also be
endued with jiowors of which we have
no d-linite conception and lie rendered
Capable of performing the highest duties
ill the h<HVeui> world Heaven is unceasingly
active. All the spii.ts of that
bless-d place glow with raptures nf
divine love, (ilontied Ixnlies are ever
vigorous and hcaltliiul Then who can
conceive how glorious and how exceedingly
great will ho their pleasures
thriuigliuut eternity. Willi ih-ui time
a il eternity on the same ages roll their
aires aiMiy ami leave them as they fou id
lhem. in the blo uu of |?eia?enial vouth.
-Mich is the condition of all of God's
p ople beyond the grave
In 111i-= world old age comes with its
long I ti" of iotiiunties Within a few
\e irs at iwst our hod es ?ro pending and
tottering to the grave The whole f ame
aneo inces that time is encroaching to
prn-tr.de health, strength, vigor, b auty
and activity, in lite dust But how
trio:ions is the contrast of the human
I>o ly waeu it rises in the morn of the
resurrection. Vigor, youth and une'nigtng
beauty triumph over every inti
mity of lime and old age and we are
permitted to worship God m the beauty
iv holiness
(Jh tertihle thought, to all ujrrightenus,
ottdfiieving sinners 1 hat. at. the resurrection
their no lies shall come forth from
their graves like guilty prisoners and
c in<1Quved crimnials to t>e a source of
additional woes to their souls forever and
forever
Has the Lord given yon my brother,
mv sister, healthful and active bodies?
Does he not therefore cill upon yon to
employ them in his service? And hare
you never bowed the knee, nor turned
your i vis, nor extended your bauds
towaid heaven in prayer. If not iny
I collier, mv sister, let vour heart this
day as you surround this bier, be turned
toward God whose mercies you have so
long and persistently trampled under
your unhallowed feet and seek Him
while he may he found and call upon
Him while lb- is near
What a doleful r? ll 'ct.ion it it to think
of enduring God's wrath and ever to Ire
an outcast from h-aven and God's
tin icy, while in joyful contemplation the
believer with an eye of faith can look
lieyoud the giave to a glorious resurrection
Mr brothers, my sisters, lay hold of
God's pr.imis-8 and be comforted and
si rengtiietn d. for in the resurrec ion God
tl; . . i?t > > '
iipiuwir sunn wipe away all leaisfroiu
y ir eyes, and there shall be no more
d -at,It, neither sorrow nor crying, neiUi
r anv more pain Your light alll ei
ion will sho> Uy In; exchangul for an
eternal weight of glory. Those who
hatre lost, near and dear pious, christian
re atives and fri~n Is may n*c?iv? consolation
in view of t'ie fact that they are
with God. Have you not my brother,
my sister, seen the eye which sparkled
wi'li life and lieatr.y rolled in death.
That, ?ongue which once instructed and
encoti a d, sealed in solemn silence, and
h* wlu.le liatn" becoming a lifeless
co p<- furnish' g food t'.?r worms? Toen
console yours Ives. A1 the ivsnriec'to*
t-ei 'm-hes w ill lie rendered tnc irrupt b e
. lonoos, spiritual Indies tad) (Mied like
unto t 'In ill's o vn glorious ho ly. That
you tn-iy let divine light, illuminate your
onder-tandiiigs and Heavenly rays lieam
with consolation up vi your souls is my
praver for Il-s namei sake.
Tne foregoing is not intended as a full
synopsis of what the aoeaker said, ot
v??n an apologv for it It. is only a few
tlinignls I j itoml down wni th I believe
m ist of your re a lo.-s will tp irnctate
and to t.'ietr careful and prayerful
consideration I in >st alt -ct on tte v and
so em ily commend toem. Vox.
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It is believed th it. the discriminsting
tariff which Germany has
placed on American products is the
first step in an Anil-American trade
comhidation.
\ new chargo will he pre?ented
Hgainst, Ad nirwl Schley, the hero of
Santiago, a the court of inquiry,
says a War ington dispatch of Saturday
:
His enemies, it is said, will attempt
to prove that he was intoxicated during
the battle of Santiago.
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