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I: fir* ws .b\ THE HERALD-ABVJJCG MILBANK, 8. D. W. W. Downik, Editor ana Pnbl OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY, FRIDAY, PRB 17. 1H99. The While flan'* Burden. Following are the now famous lilies of Rudyard Kiplinp in re ference to the new obligations whi*ch the recent Spanish war plac'd upon the American people: Tak» tip the White Mkd's lliif*WII— Send forth the bept ye bresd— Go. biafi yonr eons to exile To scrsp yonr ciptives' neetft To watt in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild Yonr new eancht sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's burden— In patience to abide, To veil the threat of Terror And cheek the fho\v of pride: By open speech and simple, An hutidred times made plain, To seek another's profit And work another's gain. Take np the White Man's burden— The savage wars of peace— Fill full the month of Famine, A^id hid the picknese cease And when your goal is nearest (The end for others sought) Watch sloth and heathen folly Bring all your hopes to nought. Take up the White Man's burden— No iron rule of kings, But toil of serf and sweeper— The tale of common things. The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread, Go, make them with your living And mark them with your dead. Take up the White Man's burden, And reap his old reward— The blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard— The cry of hosts ye humor (Ah, slowly!) toward the light— "Why brought ye us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian nuhtT' Take up the White Man's burden— Te dare not stoop to less— Kor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness. By all ye will or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and yon. Take up the White Man's burtakl Have done with childish day**—• The lightly proffered laurel, The easy, nngrudged praise Comes now. to search your manhood Through all the thankless years, Cold, edged with dear bought wisdom, The judment of your peers. —McCiure s Matrazinefor February. EHNON. Editor Hekald Advance It was a folly company of friends and neigh bote that assembled at our home on the eve •ing o( the 21st inat. The affair was in Me nature of a surprise, planned by our daughter and neighbors, and was most •uceessfully curried our, to theenjoyment of all were th« recipients ot some handsome presents from those present it being the fortieth anniversary of our Marriage. After which refreshments were served, and at a late hour the parly dispersed, all leaving behind them their best wishes tor a long and happy future. Xbrty years through sun and shadow, Forty yean ot toll and strife. We, my friend*, have walked tqgettMfi Down the rugge4 road of life, Si the spring of life we started, And through all the •umtner land. Howards the golden autumu country, We have journed hand In hand. Many of those early friendships, Seemingly as bright ours. Bare long eince been snapped asunder. Memory alone endures. We have borne the heat and burden, When our hearts were ail atclew, gather in our harvest, With tejoicing as we go. •e have had our time of gladness, Twas a proud and happy day, ftfa, the proudest of our journey. When we felt that we could say, W the children we have reared, Looking fondly on them then, Yirtuous woman is our daughter, Our sons are noble men. We have had our days of sorrow. Those times of anxious fears, When we could not see the mile stone, Through the blinding of our tears. Wbe Loft has been merciful and kind, And we thauk him for bia care, tough often taint beneath our load. He will with us the burden shara. •?#. V. E. Pbisst. The spring term of the Wiscon *ta Business University of La Crosse, begins Monday, March 6th. Students entering on or before that time will receive a three months' course in book keeping or a three months' course in shorthand, free. For special information retative to this offer, 'address Wisconsin Business University, La Crosse, Wn« CKkmm* of'Cltaaate la Asia, l*rofeeeor Muschketoff records the ftttt that observations at eight glaciers ill the Caucasus extending over a period «ight to ten years show that they are steadily receding. The termini of the gladon are retreating from 8 to 88 mtsrs every year.—American Geo inphical Society's Bulletin. Mto Rssallsl aa lastnss, "Mrs. Peddicord," said that lady's husband, "did you ever say anything that you afterward regretted saying?" "Onrtainly. I said 'Yes' once and k»w been sorry for it ever since."— Detroit Free Press. r„ r,v LINING UP AT EL CANEY. Lawton's Flank Attack on the Heights Around Santiago ffmiEa OF THE FIGHTING MEN. B1 Csnry Citadel—Blind Trenehea, Loopholed Portreise*. Barbed Wire Bedgsi and Smokeless Mauera. Desperate Grit of White and Black Regnlars—Had to Be Held lit. [Copyrijjht, 189S. by the Author.] V. APRON'S bat tery opened the bull at El Caney at fi:85 ill the morning on July 1. The first shots were 8 inch nit'lls at 2,900 yards range, aimed at some Spanish cavalry moving out of the village of El itjCaney toward Santiago. One Spanish officer and 16 men were killed. After that the battery, which consisted of four breechloading field rifles, fired shrapnel at the trenches around the etone fort, which was 2,400 yards distant The ar tillery fire was kept up at intervals un til 11 o'clock, directed by General Law ton himself, who staid with the battery. At times the fire was on the fort, again at the loopholed church, the stone build ings around it and the blockhouses on the outskirts of the village. It was supposed that the artillery fire would practically reduce El Oaney, leaving to the infantry the work of rounding up the fleeing Spaniards. It was not known to the American leaders how large a force the Spaniards had at El Caney. At the first shot of the bat tery, the straw hats of Spanish infantry appeared along the ground northeast, east and south of the blockhouse and also around the village. The buildings in the village were loopholed, even the tall church belfry, and the streets were barricaded, behind which Spanish in fantry found cover. The blockhouses and the trenches there, and also all the approaches to the village were hedged in with barbed wire fences. At first the movement of the infantry in position on three sidee of the stronghold was BATTLEFIELD AT EL CANEY. [Not# to Uap.—The positions of regiments were as indicated at some stage of the battle. Owing to its Hmoking Springfield rifles the Sec ond Massachusetts changed position to avoid exposure. The scale of the map la abont 1,000 yards to the inch.] necessarily slow, but drew a steady fire from the Spaniards'. It was evident that Law ton would have to fight for the pos session of El Caney. Lawton's division comprised the brigades of General A. R. Chaffee, Colonel E. H. Miles and General J. H. Ludlow. Ludlow and Chaffee, like Lawton, were veterans of the civil war. Each brigade consisted of three regi ments of regulars, excepting the Second Massachusetts of Ludlow's brigade. Ludlow was new to the brigade, having taken command on the 29th. The work cut out for Ludlow at El Caney was to bold his line as close as possible to El Caney in support of the main infantry attack, which Chaffee was to make on the northeast, and be ready to cut off the retreat of the Spaniards toward San tiago, as well as to prevent re-enforce ment by troops coming out of Santiago. The Twenty-second infantry had the right of Ludlow's brigade nearest the fort, and at first there was a wide in terval between it and the left of Chaf fee's brigade, east of the fort. The Twenty-second had eight companies, 600 strong, under command of Lieuten ant Colonel J. H. Patterson, a veteran of Sykes* regular division in the civil war. Patterson was wounded early in the fight, and the command devolved upon Major W. M. Van Horne. Wikoff, the colonel of the regiment, was that day in command of a brigade in Kent's division. When the regiment advanced in battle formation along the road to El Caney, it was fired on from the under brush, some distance in front of the tort and the town of El Caney. The men followed up until they reached good range position. The ground was open, in some places covered with oora and cultivated shrubbery, all inclosed with wire fences and hedges of cacti. No Spanish breastworks could be seen. The regiment remained under fire from 9 a. m. until 6:80 p. m., and lost 5 offi cers wounded, 5 men killed and 89 wounded. On the right of the Twenty-seoond was the Eighth regulars, a fighting com mand dating back to 1838, when it was organized with General Worth as its first colonel. Major E. B. Savage, who served in the oivil war in the One Hun dred and Fifteenth New York volun teers and was with Ames in the desper ate battle of Fort Fisher, commanded one battalion at El Caney, and the regi ment was commanded by Major Conrad who later died of fever Ti:ere rr seven companies of the Li^L. in fight, numbering 450 men. meat got within range of tb sharpshooters at about 8 o'clock. While advancing toward a field adjoining the road leading to El Caney it formed in line and charged forward toward the blockhouses at El Caney village. When within 500 yards of the blockhouses, the regiment found a rise of ground which served as sheltei, and there it remaiued until 4 o'clock. The losses of the icri men began when the sharpshooters opened on it and coutinued during its advance to the shelter and while lying there. One officer wounded, 0 men kill ed and 45 wounded were the total cas ualties. On the line with the Twenty-second and Eighth regulars was the only volun teer organization engaged at El Caney, the Second Massachusetts, a militia regiment with a history in war and in peace. The commander of the Second Massachusetts, Colonel E. P. Clarke, is a splendid type of a militia eoldier. He had no war experience befoie he went to Cuba. Lieutenant Colonel Shnrnway and Major Whipple were both war vet erans. The strength of the regiment at El Caney was 935 men, but two coni panies were detached as a reserve. Th Second was armpd with tLe smokku, S i n i e i e a n n a u a y e w fire of the Spaniards. Lieutenant Fielu and Captain Warner were killed and Captain Hapgood seriously wounded Total loss, 46 killed and wounded. General Ludlow was personally con spicuous along his line all day, weariuu a white straw hat. His horse was sho' under him early in the fight. The gen eral said that he had to hold in his men instead of encouraging them. There was no flinching nor crouching. The work of the brigade was rather negative than positive, because, while it advanced well in the front in order to get cover from the Spanish bullets, it could not at all times answer the Spanish fire, for fear of shooting into Chaffee's men, who had the chief role in the battle and were pressing up closer and closer to the Spanish works on the north and east. The interval between Ladlow's and Chaffee's brigades was filled about noon by the Second brigade of the division, commanded just at that time by Lieu tenant Colonel A. S. Daggett of the Twenty-fifth United States (colored). Colonel Daggett was a soldier in the civil war in the Fifth Maine, one of the hard fighting regiments of the Army of the Potomac. He has recently been pro moted to brigadier general for skillfully handling the brigade during a crisis July 1. At El Caney the Second brigade con sisted of the First, Fourth and Twenty fifth regulars. The First was detached to guard the roads in the rear of the division and also to support Caprou's battery. About 11 o'clock Colonel Dag gett was ordered to lead the Fourth and Twenty-fifth to a position south of the fort, where there was a gap of three-fourths of a mile. The stone fort against which Capron's guns had been thundering was pointed out to Daggett as the objective of his brigada The trenches aiound the fort were very heavy, extending on three sides. These trenches as well as the smokeless pow der were something new to the Ameri cans. The Spanish trench is about 50 yards in length, just wide enough for men to stand in in line, and deep enough to cover the body up to the shoulders. The soil taken out of the trench is spread over the ground, and if its color is not like that of the earth it is cov ered with brush or leaves or sod. so that from a distance an enemy cannot see the trenches except when they are occu pied by men. The men keep out of sight except when they rise to fire. There are no exits from the trenches. Men are put into them to fight and repulse the enemy or be killed in the ditch. The Spaniards had no skirmishers nor outposts at El Caney, but were ready with their blind trenches, loopholed fortresses, smokeless powder and barbed wire fences to slaughter the Americans at close quarters. The Twenty-fifth regiment i«ng di rectly opposite the fort. Colonel Daggett led it forward across a stream 6 feet wide and 1 foot deep. The men found some cover under the high bank, but beyond the bank the ground was open. Across that ground the colored troops advanced by rushes—that is to say, they rushed in groups of platoons from cover to cover. By successive rushes of 40 or 60 yards the Hne steadily ad vanced. On its seoond advance from the bank the regiment met with its heaviest loss. Volleys were poured into it from the stone fort, from the village and from blockhouses on ite left. Colonel Daggett says that many of the Span iards left the fort and came out into the open, seemingly deliberating wheth er to surrender or attempt to reach the village. Their combativeness was gone. He supposed they were about to surren der. The fort had been breached in many places by Capron's shells, and just as the Twenty-fifth got abreast of it a company of the Twelfth regi ment of Chaffee's brigade entered through a breach and got the flag which had been out down by a shell. The strength of the Twenty-fifth regiment was 850 men, but only five oompanies, numbering 200 men, took part in the charge. The principal loss of 41 killed and wounded came out of the 200. None of the officers or men of the regiment, excepting Colonel Daggett, had ever heard a hostile shot before. Three of the companies in the oharging column were gallantly led by three young lieu tenants, Caldwell, Moss and Hunt. The Fourth regiment, on the left of the Twenty-fifth, did not advance be yond the line within 500 yards range of the fort, from which the Twenty fifth oharged. The reason was that fur ther advance would have brought it un der an enfilade fire from the village, the blockhouses around it, as well as the fort itself. There was smooth ground in front of it all the way, and Colonel Daggett was satisfied that it would have been annihilated in attempting to ad vance. Company of the Fourth skir mished on the front of its regiment to within 800 yards of the fort and lost 28 of Us men wounded out of 48 in the GEOEGS L. Kii.W»H, $100,000 To Loan on Grant and Roberta Coun ty Farms, payable at our Bank in in stallments, Onte Fifth or One-Tenth each year. 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