CHAPTER V Many Testimonials in Behalf of Negro SoldiersA Southerner's StatementReconciliationCharleston News and CourierGood Marksmanship at El CaneyTheir Splendid Courage; Fought Like Tigers Never WaveredWhat Army Officers sayAcme of Bravery-Around SantiagoSaved the Life of his Lieutenant,

Private T.C. Butler, Company H, 25th Infantry, was the first man to enter the block-house at El Caney, and took possession of the Spanish flag for his regiment.

The following enlisted men of the 25th Infantry were commissioned for their bravery at El Caney: First Sergeant Andrew J. Smith, First Sergeant Macon Russell, First Sergeant Wyatt Huffman and Sergeant Wm.

The public will then learn that not every troop or company of colored soldiers who took part in the assaults on San Juan Hill or El Caney was led or urged forward by its white officer.

THE NEGRO AS A SOLDIERHIS GOOD MARKSMANSHIPTHE FIGHT AT EL CANEY"WOE TO SPANISH IN RANGE.

" THE CHARGE AT EL CANEY.

The fourth of the Negro regiments, the Twenty-fifth Infantry, played an especially brilliant part in the battle of El Caney on July 1st.

" The way the Negroes charged up the El Caney and San Juan hills suggested inevitably that their African nature has not been entirely eliminated by generations of civilization, but was bursting forth in savage yells and in that wild rush some of them were fairly frantic with the delight of the battle.

After the battles of El Caney and San Juan Hill, many wounded American soldiers who were able to travel were given furloughs to their respective homes in the United States, and Lieutenant Thomas Roberts, of this city, was one of them.

San Juan fell many minutes before El Caney, which was attacked first, and I think the Negro soldiers can be thanked for the greater part of that glorious work.

"Before El Caney was taken the Spaniards were on the heights of San Juan with heavy guns.

The blockhouse was captured, the enemy fled and we went into El Caney.

" "No man can read the story in to-day's Journal of the 'Rough Riders' charge on the blockhouse at El Caney of Theodore Roosevelt's mad daring in the face of what seemed certain death without having his pulses beat faster and some reflected light of the fire of battle gleam from his eyes.

No. I. Carta dirigida al Key de Espana, por el Licenciado Dr. Don DIEGO GARCIA DE PALACIO, Oydor de la Real Audiencia de Guatemala, Ano 1576.

Lynch Law at El Paso.

Immediately in front rose a high peak, destitute of trees, which the people called El Volcan.

Turning abruptly to the right and leaving the plateau behind us, we advanced straight up the high ridge intervening between the two valleys, and thence in a zigzag course to the foot of El Volcan, a mass of igneous rock, protruded through the horizontal sandstone strata,the gradual recession of which gives to the country the terraced character to which I have so often alluded.

Leaving our mules here, H. and myself clambered up amongst rough and angular rocks, strewn in wildest disorder, to the bare and rugged summit of El Volcan.

Our view to the northward, however, was obstructed by hills and forests, and our ascent of El Volcan failed to give us a view of the Pass, which we knew must now be near at hand.

The path wound around the base of El Volcan, on the level terrace or shelf from which it springs.

"Kames, El. of Crit., Vol.

"Frost's El. of Gram., p. 43.

"Frost's El. of Gram., p. 44.

'"Frost's El. of Gram., p. 47.

El magico prodigioso.

[10]: "Underneath this hazelin mote, There's a braggotty worm with a speckled throat, Nine double is he; Now from nine double to eight double And from eight double to seven double-ell.

Broad was Robin across the shoulders, but broader was the stranger by twice the breadth of a palm, while he measured at least an ell around the waist.

All together: as now these half-dozen men were roaring cheerfully: "Ma Tonkikí, ma Tonkikí, ma Tonkinoise, Yen a d'autr's qui m' font les doux yeux, Mais c'est ell' que j'aim' le mieux!"

The tail that grew from his back, sir, was six yards and an ell; And it was sent to Derby to toll the market bell; The bell, the bell, the bell; And it was sent to Derby to toll the market bell.

[Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent^, handbreadth^, jornada [U.S.], kos^, vara^. [astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec.

My incantation or spell was as follows, an old Scotch rhyme I had often repeated when a child at school 'Eenerty, feenerty, fickerty, feg, Ell, dell, domun's egg; Irky, birky, story, rock, An, tan, toose, Jock; Black fish!

Storks, snow-queens, moor-wives, ell-womenhow the names thrill one!

He seems to float self-poised in the centre of the boundless nothing, upon an ell-broad slab of stone and yet not even on that: for the very ground on which he stands he does not feel.

As they came nearer they could see it was a dwarf, with a shrivelled-up face and a snow-white beard an ell long.

Methinks a French tailor, with an ell in his hand, looks like the enchantress Circe over the companions of Ulysses, and changes them into as many forms....

Each fen, and flat, and flood, and fell, Gives birth to verses by the ell There Wordsworth, for his muse's sallies, Claims all the ponds, the lanes, and alleys There Coleridge swears none else shall tune A bag-pipe to the list'ning moon; On come in clouds the scribbling columns, Each prowling for his next three volumes.

All Harabs may go to 'ell for all o' me.

Well, they come for me, yappin' an' snarlin' to beat 'ell.

That bloomin' Harab passenger o' mine vaults over into my seat, an' afore I could say ''ell's bells' 'e's off.

I sits where 'e'd knocked me on to a stone pile, wishin' like 'ell for a drink.

'How much do you pay an ell?

How high does it come by the ell?

Yes, buy, I tell you, but not by the ell.

4. Correct Burhans, in the division of the following words: "Boar-der, brigh-ten, cei-ling, frigh-ten, glea-ner, lea-kage, suc-ker, mos-sy, fros-ty, twop-ence, pu-pill-ar-y, crit-i-call-y, gen-er-all-y, lit-er-all-y, log-i-call-y, trag-i-call-y, ar-ti-fici-al, po-liti-call-y, sloth-full-y, spite-full-y, re-all-y, sui-ta-ble, ta-mea-ble, flumm-er-y, nesc-i-ence, shep-her-dess, trav-ell-er, re-pea-ter, re-pressi-on, suc-cessi-on, un-lear-ned.

y=ell~ow | s=ands, And th=en | t~ake h=ands: Court'sied | when you | have and | kiss'd, (The wild | waves whist,)

I think it probably that the expression "Flemish Account" may have been derived from the fact that the Flemish ell measures only three quarters of our yard, while the English ell measures five quarters, and that thence the epithet Flemish was adopted as denoting something deficient.

I think it probably that the expression "Flemish Account" may have been derived from the fact that the Flemish ell measures only three quarters of our yard, while the English ell measures five quarters, and that thence the epithet Flemish was adopted as denoting something deficient.

"What t' 'ell?" said he, looking about him wildly.

Do I get it?" "Ve-ell, lemme see.

"Ay, but if I might give myself the liberty of a very old friend," she answered, straightway taking the ell because he had given her an inch, "there is something I would like to say to ye."