AN OLD FIGHTER.
Dr. Leonard Wood who is to be
Colonel and Command
the Rough Riders.
No command in the Uuiied
States army or the voluuteers is
attracting more attention nowj-dured every posible hardship
tnan the Regiment of Rough
Rulers whicu is being organ
zed by ex-Assistant Secretary of
the Navy Theo Rooseveb. Mr.
Roosevelt not being an experi
enced military man, took the
place of lieutenantscolonel of
the regiment and his friend, Dr.
Leonard Wood, the famous In
dian fighter, is to be the colonel.
As soon as the Texas cowboys
are organized into1 compan
ies and the commanders named
the regiment will be sent im-
m .diately to Cuba to cooperate
with the troops who were re
cently sent over. The regiment
will be the most formedable
cavalry regiment ever put in the
field. All of the members of the
regiment will be men who have
spent years on the plains, and
all the while be was facing im
mediate death froin starva
tion and massacres. Through
the roughest and wildest couns
try on this continent he went
after Geronimo, and his handful
of men hung bravely on the trail
despite their hunger and thirst.
bmally after the troops had en
tney came upon the Indian
camp; and by one determined
assault captured the blood thirs
ty chief, and his band ofassasins
The regulars, with Dr. Wood
at their head, then returned in
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uiuiupii wun ueronirao as a
prisoner. Ke had barely time
to imprison his captives in Tex
as before he was called upon to
go m pursuit of another band of
Apaches who were murdering
the settlers in Western Texas.
Wood followed this band
across the state and finally drove
them into Mexico. He at last
lobt them in the uncivilized
wilds of the mountains south of
the Yaqui river. They never
troubled the settlers again.
The last dangerous undertak
idg in which Dr. Wood distins
who are used to rough riding jguished himself was in 1888,
1 n t" 1 i 1
and an kiucis ot nam experien
ces. A medal of honor, awarded
to him by congress, is worn by
Colonel Wood. This was given
him in recognition of his many
acts of daring in the wild west.
when he was sent after Apache
Kid, the vvorstJndian chief who
has done murder in Texas. Dr.
Wood captured the chief and
had him sent to a California iss
land. He was imprisoned there
It was Colonel Wood who cap ! for awhile, but finally escaped
turifd the celebrated Indian chief and returned to his trade of
Geronimo, who crossed the
southwest with his band of Ap
aches and left behind him a
trail mtr'ced with blood of wo
men r.;:i 'ioics. "Hundreds of
unprot ci ! settlers, with their
familit.-., were ruthlessly mur-.
murder. Since his duties as
an Indian fighter have ended,
Dr. Wood has been stationed
in California and Georgia.
Chased the Eagle.
Kty West, May 16. Advices
dered by the Apache chief, and received from the southern coast
it looked as if the entire south- of Cuba say that a Spanish gun
west would be overrun by the j boat, taking advantage of thede
warlike savages. The Kigth parture of the Nashville and the
United States infantry was divi" j Marblehead after the fight at
ded up so that the only availa- tCienfuegos, last Wednesday,
ble portions did not have officers ' chased the mosqnito fleet boat
of rank. Dr. Wood was at that 1 Eagle off from Cienfuegos. The
time surgeon and had the rank J Eagle blazed away, and in re
of captain. When it was found , turn was struck several times,
that the soldiers must go on the riie Marblehead, hearing the
warpath, the detachment and , firing, came back to help the
with a small force of men he j Eagle. The Spaniard, however,
left on the hardest task ever ' escaped. The Eagle's injruies
laid out before a crowd of men. were slight
He took up the trail of the In -'.
dian chief and his band, and for 5?1 ip2:.3- n .
2,400 miles he followed, though Kmd You Have Always Bought
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Key West, Fla. In the out
skirts ot town where the smail
Spanish, cottages cluster silent
and sun burned along the nar
row street is the City Cemetery
of Key West Near the main en
trance, which is guarded by
1 .11 i .
creaicy oia wooaen gate. is a
group of newly made graves.
1 hey are in the potters field
the part of the burying ground
set apart for the pauper dead.
These are the graves oi the
heroes who lost their lives on
the battleship Maine in Havan
na harbor on the night of Fed-
ruary 15. Above each mound of
glitteiing white limestone soil
a small American flag droops in
the fierce sun that beats inces-.
santly down upon the island.
l'he flags are faded and frayed.
When a breeze comes up from
the ocean they flutter sadly for
a moment and again drop to
the scorching earth. On the
center of each mound is a
small glass goblet which still
holds the discolored stems of
flowers. They were put here by
a lady from Philadelphia, said
the dreamy old sexton, but t
don't know who she was. She
came here about ten clays after
the bodies buried and put flow
ers on all the craves. I ask-
ed her who she was but she. said
no matter.
And these faded little flags
and withered stems of flovve' s
are all that mark the resting
places of the heroes of whom
the civilized world has been
talking since the fatal night,
nearly three months ego. There
is nothing else to story the strand
ger who passes the potter's
field where the heroes of the
Maine are sleeping. The place
where the graves are was evi
dently prepared in great haste.
iear the little white mounds on
all sides are unsightly heaps of
litter and rubbish. In one spot
stands an old hearse, weather
beaten and ghastly in its very
aspect of loneliness and decay.
Tne sexton said it had once beeu
used as the city iiearse, but one
day it broke down while carry
ing a body to the potter's field
and there it still stands.
Just to the north of the rest
ing place of the Maine sailors
is a small iron enclosure which
marks the grave of Bridgett F.
Hoffman, who died in 1864. "I
guess we will have to call her
Mother Hoffman," said the old
sexton, "for she is the only one
buried here who has got a name,
and I think she ought to be
flicther to everyone in the pot
ter's field."
Very close to the twenty four
mounds is a group of thirty six
naval seamen who died of yel
low fever. The sexton, however,
was unable to tell when they
were buried there. Nothing on
the 12 inch slab, at the head of
each group, tells the story of the
life or death of the seamen. The
names and the words, "United
States Navy," are alone carved
upon the slabs.
But nature, even with the
barren lime rock below i.re the
scorching sun above, seems try
ing to do what the hand of men
has failed to do in beutifying the
graves of the heroes.
The luxuriant trees of the
tropical species aie all about the
newly made graves. On one
side a massive gieen cactus lifts
its pulpy foliage high in the air.
On the opposite a row of tropi.
cal trees, refreshingly green,
are in full bloom, and with every
breeze cover the sun burned
mounds with beautiful scarlet
flowers. Near another side ot the
little burial plot is a row of roy
al spruce pines, which throw a
shadow upon the graves in the
afternoon and through whose
branches the sea breezes con
stantly sing when the sun has
gone down.
Rarely does anyone visit the
place, it is without care or atten
tion, a bycorner of the island,
for two centuries Spaniards, ne
groes and fisher-folk have put
their dead and forgotten them.
Perhaps one half of the graves
in the cemetery are those of un
known sailors, whose sleeping
places are unmarked. Mo.st of
the inscriptions on tombstones
are in Spanish. The graves of
the Maine's victims are sur
rounded by tombstones with
bpumsn inscriptions. it is a
picture of melancholy desola
tion. The grave yard is located
on a high point in about the
middle of the island and from it
the great stretch of blue ocean
may be seen on either side but
half a mile distant There is no
soil there. The graves are sim
ply carved out of the limestone
and rock. All day the sun beats
down upon the barren white
rocks surface until the scanty
vegetation curls and crackles
in the heat. Rarely is there
a sound to break the mel
ancholy silence. Sometimes
one hears the cry of the sea bird
or the soft parrot like voices of
the Spanish children in the cot
taes near by. But that is all.
WHY AMERICAN GUN
NERS WIN.
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The Old Confederate Naval
Fighter Explains Their
Success.
Mr.John W. Reynolds, of 1 ,S3 1
Edmonson avenue, a North Car
olinian by birth and formerly
Master at arms on the celebrated
Confederate ram Albemarle, de
clares that the recent exhibition
of American naval gunnery at
Matanzas is not the first exam
pie of the natural skill of the
bluejackets.
"Americans are natural born
marksman," said Mr. Reynolds,
a fact which history has long
since demonstrated. Perhaps
one of the most striking expla
nation for their success is found
in their superb couiage. That
invests them with coolness and
self possession, two special qual
ities which are absolutely essen
tial.
I have had large experience
in heavy contests with naval
guns. When it is remembered
that I was'aboard the Albemarle
during the days of her career
in 1864, it will be readily un
derstood what I haye seen. Thatj
boat, perhaps, engaged in the j
fiercest naval battles -which
have been fought in the last half
century. Reference to the
memorable conllict in Albe
marle Sound is a sufficient il
lustration as to the character of
her fights. That was an in
stance in which the three qual
ities of courage, coolness and
expert gunnery were virtually es
sential. The situation was one
of life and death. It was one of
wh'cli the least trepidition, the
slightest touch of confusion or
wild excitement, the most triv
ial inacuracy in the matter of
markmanship, would have causs
ed a heavy loss in every detail.
"As it was, there was display
ed a perfection of bravery and
splendid dexterity in gunnery
which proved the excellence of
American markmanship, both
Federal and Confederate; in fact
the general prowess which that
battle called forth demonstrated
to the world that the combined
puissance of an amicable Amer
ican nation would constitute a
power utterly invincible. It
clearly disclosed that a union of
Northern and Southern forces,
endowed with their intrepid
pluck, and self possessed cool
ness, and calmness in battle,
would qualify the nation beyond
the peradventure of a doubt to
successfully combat the best na
vy;afloat.
"I understand the striking
differencces between gunnery-
today and what it was a gener
ation back. At the same time I
know equally well that exactly
the same qualities which made a
good gunner then contribute to
the same end now. A good
American knows no such thing
as fear. The word timidity is to
him an unfamiliar term. For
that reason his4 nerves become
fluttered with an excitea anxi
ety. There is nothing which
more quickly destroys accurate
and deadly gunnery than either
nervousness or excitement.
"There may not be much of
the close range firing in this
contest such as we endured dur
in the days of the civil war. In
the first place I do not believe
the Spaniards will suffer us to
approach too close to their boats.
Nor do I apprehend much danger
rom the play of Spanish guns.
Our only source of peril, if
there be any at all of conse-.
queuce, will be found in the
Spanish torpedo boats. Their
action in battle is strickingly in
laimonv with the Spaniard's
natural treacheiy of heart. They
are boats which seldom attempt
o perpetrate their havoc except
under the cover ot darkness
01 fog or uutil a heavy curtain
of smoke obscures and hides
their mauouvres, and then they
will attempt to steal up and
strike some covert and stealthy
blow. Therefore they need
watching.
"Americans of today and
Ameiicans of thirty years ago are
very largely the same. Our
present age gunners on board
our fleets, are compelled to han
dle large guns and more compli
cated machinery. But the same
qualities which made the gun
ners of the past are equally req
uisite for the gunner of the
present. And " those qualities
are couspicuous on every ship.
"The condition has arisen in
which I made a prediction, and
it is a prediction which was
made thirty four years ago, based
on experience, not on mere
speculation. I have stood in the
midst of a storm of shot and
sheli in which Americans alone
were the hurlers of the thunder
bolts. I said then that the
world contained no race of men
whus capacity for victorious
fighting could parallel the Uni
ted States. What I said then I
am now prepared to reiterate.
Time will soon show that when
the American guns are trained
on the Spanish enemy and Am
erican blood begins her united
fight, the ultimate issue with its
train of events, will be a speedy
triumph of the Stars and Stripes.
Spain can never stand under
our American dash." -Baltimore
American.
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