in sympathy with the striking railroad men."

A week later Company E was paid, and that night a money order payable
to Mrs. Catharine Dresel, No. ---- Baxter Street, New York, for $150,
left on the east-bound train.

In the little cemetery at Fort Meredith there is an elaborate granite
monument bearing the inscription:

"Private Patrick Daly,
Co. E, --th Inf.
He gave his life that others might live.
Erected by his comrades."

A DYING SPANIARD'S REQUEST

An auxiliary brigade, consisting of one regiment and one battalion of
infantry and a mountain battery of artillery, was formed at Calumpit,
on the Island of Luzon, to ascend the left bank of the Rio Grande,
and to form a junction with Lawton some distance above. This expedition
was accompanied by two gunboats belonging to the "mosquito fleet," and
one launch used to tow the cascoes, or native freight barges, bearing
an extra supply of rations and ammunition. This was in May, 1899.

I was provost-marshal of this expedition. When we first entered a town
or city, after capturing it, it was my duty to find out what buildings
contained valuable property, and immediately place a guard over them,
in order to prevent the place from being looted. Large warehouses
containing immense quantities of rice, sugar, silks, pina cloth,
and other things equally as precious, were frequent finds. They had
to be guarded.

We met with but little resistance on this expedition till we reached
the town of San Luis, about twelve miles up the river from Calumpit.

The heavy fire of our infantry and artillery, ably assisted by the
little "pepper-boxes" afloat, soon put our dusky enemies to flight;
and we marched straight into town, with colors flying, over trenches,
barricades, and other obstructions hastily thrown in our way.

Among the largest stone buildings of San Luis was the "tribunal,"
or public house, something after the style of our town halls, with
the difference that it is always open for strangers, who cook, eat,
and sleep in it. Among other useful apartments, it had a cell, probably
used as a "jug" into which the native policemen ran the over-exuberant
youth who was guilty of imbibing too freely of his cherished "vino,"
or the head of the family for the non-payment of taxes, or allowing
his water buffalo to play in his neighbor's yard.

Previous to the occupation of the town by the Am