The Woman with a Stone Heart / A Romance of the Philippine War

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n made governor-general of the islands. He had received about 15,000 troops f

to be held on the Luneta-a beautiful narrow park paralleling Manila bay and ex

aces, running high jumps, wheelbarrow race, fat man's race, running broad jump, high kicking, fancy club swing

nt from Manila bay about 100 feet, is a large bandstand. This served as

s had assembled around this bandstand to hear the Address of Welcome and to witness the sports. When the speaker arose to deliver th

ess, and this occasion one long to be remembered by those who have assembled here this afternoon, I

ll-riven wrecks (part of unraised Spanish fleet visible above the bay) would not bespeak the down-fall of a sister nation, and we ourselves would not have been permitted to assem

ion of territorial expa

Americanism: that wherever the old flag is established through sacrifice of American blood, whether it be on the barren sands of the desert, at the frigid extremes of the earth, or on the rich and fertile islands of the sea, t

hrough the dense crowd which was gradually becoming more compressed, until she reached a car drawn by two Chinese ponies on the old street car line running south from Manila to Fort Malate and

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on. I heard one of the speeches. It was awful bad. The fellow talked loud. He swung hi

he said no power under the sun would hau

es to see my Uncle (Colonel Miguel). He'll fix those fellows.

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sted of music by the California band, singing by the famous Washington Male Quartet, fancy dancing, selected recitation

onclusion of the program at once and to order all soldiers to report immediately at their respective regimental headquarters;-trouble had been repo

of a short time when blood would be spilled in abundance. The Filipinos occupied all of the block-houses-some seven

be permitted to shoot. They tormented the American soldiers daily with hideous pranks. They grew bo

from America. Occasionally she would take the train and go up to Malolos to see Aguinaldo. She was the best posted person in the Philippines as

hey had recently purchased. They had in it all of their most precious household trinkets. As they passed Colonel John M. Stotsenberg, commanding th

tle trip," re

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"Mother is getting so nervous that w

n command of all those thousands of troops that are now assembling in the

eclared with an empha

o the hands of his mighty army. He told her that he had chosen the east side of the city as his main point of attack, so that Dewey could not reach his troops with the shells from his gun boats in case he tried to assist the American army, without elevating his guns

denied also. The colonel's face flushed. Pulling back the flap of his tent, he said emphatically: "Do you see that gun, M

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ss the valley. The Filipinos were smarting for trouble. They wanted it badly. Wherever and whenever possible they improved every opportunity to bring it about. The trouble came. Colonel Stot