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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1890)
MEXICAN SOLDIERS. THEIR GREAT POWERS OF ENDURANCE ON THE MARCH. * Toiling Along the Hot Plateaus for ; Hours at a Stretoh, In the Mexican service as in our own, the garrisons throughout the country are changed in due order from post to post,.so that the soldier's life is pretty evenly divided between the hard places” and the easy ones.‘ Even the Lard places, however, in some respects are not so hard as those to which our own troops are accus tomed; for Mexican garrisons are maintained not in desolate frontier forts, but for the most part in fairly good barracks in cities and towns. ‘When Indian campaigning is in order, the field force is detached from the nearest available point; and when the campaign is ended, the troops come back to civilization again. On the -other hand, the Mexican soldier is fed - mainly upon beans and Indian-corn; his bed in barracks usually is his al lotted place on the floor, where he sleeps rolled up in his blanket; and on the march—since the army practically is destitute of a baggage train—he has to carry the whole of his kit in addi tion to his arms. The lack of a baggage train is felt with especial severity when a regiment is transferred to a new post, for the soldier then has to choose between what few belongings he has gathered about him, and carrying them with him on his own back. Fortunately for his comfort in this situation—his pay being small and his fondness for gambling large—he is not often heav ily laden with personal property; but + his lading of arms, accoutrements, and mess properties usually gives him about as much of a load as he can very well dispose of. Sometimes the regimental band plays “¢La Golondrina”—which is the near est equivalent in Mexican popular music to ¢“Home Sweet Home!”’—as the men file ont from their quarters, form in column, and set off to the new station to which they have been as signed. But this touch of the musical, probrietics is less often added than -omitted. Asa rule, the regiment just walks away, the men in tolerably good form while traversing the streets of the city which they are leaving; and then, being fairly out on the highway, going along with ragged files and pretty much as they please. Their service uniforms—an admirably sens ible dress, consisting of blouse and trousers of brown linen, linen-covered _caps, and sandals—are mnot especially soldier-like, according to our notions; but to this light rig they unquesticn ably owe in part their extraordinary capacity to withstand fatigue. Marching on the Mexican plateau is a severe strain upon both muscles and nerves. Unless some especial purpose is to be served, garrisons are shifted in the dry scason, when the roads are ankle-deep with dust, and when the sun beats down, hot and strong, from a relentlessly clear sky, and casts upon everything a blinding glare. It is the way of roads in Mexico, especially in the Northern states, to seem intermin able. One low ridge of rocky hills is ascended, and from its crest another ~like ridge is seen half a dozen miles away across an arid valley, over which the waves of heat shimmer and undu late, and in which the only vegetation —if g 0 cheerful a word may be usedto describe such brown and yellow bleak ness—is thorny cactus, tufts of Span “ish-bayonet, and a few distorted and scraggly pita palms—a desolation so ~ complete that it - seems unnatural and ~ unreal. ‘ . All day long, saving onmly the hot ~:haltj at noon, the march continues | b“th‘x'ough this utter dreariness, op- | _ pressed by the blighting sunlight, the | ~ head of the column (where the officer | _in command rides in plucky erectness) | _raising a cloud of dust that grows thicker and heavier with each succes give file, until the rear-guard literally is lost in its dark density. The smaller | eSy sofke o, i nove | rarelv beconie exhausted by the way; and at night, when a halt is made at some little town, or at some hacienda where water can be obtained, and when the cold delicious wind sweeps down refreshingly from the hills, they are as lively, and go at their rations of frijoles and tortilias with as much zest as though their eight or ten hours of toiling through heat and dust had been no more than a paseo—an agrecable stroll. It should be, and doubtless is, a cause for thankfulness throughout the Mexican army that with the building of the new railroads, by which all the important cities in the republic, ex cepting Oaxaca, Durango, and the forts on the west coast, have been con nected, the arduous marching hereto fore attendant upon garrison transfers in great part has been done away with. The increased military strength of the federal government that has come with this change is obvious. Large bodies of troops can now be moved to nearly all important points expeditious ly and without waste of strength by the way.—[Harper’s Weekly. Massacre of Chinese in Formosa. The last mail from China brings news of the massacre of a force of Chinese troopsin southern Formosa by the aborigines now in revolt there. The natives, or savages as they are called, aided, it is said, by a number of half castes, planned an ambuscade. Putting on their sandals reversed, they made a number of tracks connected with a particular spot. Messengers were then dispatched to th: nearest Chinese post with news of an outbreak and an appeal for assistance. The troops went out, the commanding offi cers, it is said, being considerably in the rear. Pretended sufferers by the raid appeared from time to time. On reaching the tracks the soldiers fol lowed them up and fell into the trap, when all but a very few were killed. Out of 200 which left the post only ten escaped. It is reported that, for ‘the first time in the history of For ‘mosa, all the aboriginal tribes are banded together and act on an organ ized system. Thus the eighteen tribes of Bhotans in the South, numbering about 5000 warriors, were concerned in this am bush. Shortly after the disaster the Chinese issued proclamations offering $lO reward for the return of each of the guns lost on the occasion, and sub sequently the Chinese general began negotiations, in which he was greatly hampered by the bad faith shown on many previous oceasions to the na tives. At last, and with many pre cautions on the part of the latter, a meeting was arranged,and a peace was patched up for the time by means of large presents and larger promises to the chiefs. The pastis to be forgot ten, and the savages are to live on terms of friendship with their Chiness neighbors. From subsequent infor mation, however, it appears that the disturbances in the south of the island have broken out with more violence than before. ; Japanese Etiquette. j A writer on the New York Star, who attended a ¢“blow out” of the Jap anese club’ there, afterward writing iabout it, said: ¢<l.was interested in } the difference in etiquette between Japan and the occident. Though there were a hundred or more present, the rooms were deserted. Every one ‘ talked in whispers to every one else. ‘ The refreshments were served by wait ers who were silence embodied, and every Oriental who did anything, said anything or heard anything expressed his pleasure by bowing from once to three times, until the American ecye was weary with the excessive courtesy. They even go so far that when a per son reading a newspaper turns it so as l to make anoise, he makes a bow of apology to all within earshot, and all | who hear the sound or see the bow,bow in return, as if to say: ¢Do not men tion it.” Al bR ARG R Irrigation in Utah. The great Bear River Canal in Utah, for the construction of which $2,000,- 000 has been provided, is expected to be one of the most extensive irrigation works in this country. It will imi. N SN Hea An rn idaho. ROMANTIC SIDE OF CRIME. Story of a Grand Bank-Robbing Combination, Until recently there was stored in the big vault of a Dearborn street safe and lock company a set of burglar tools that figured in one of the boldest attempts at a bank robbery that has been recorded in many a year. About ten years agofifteen expert safe burglars conceived the grand plan of robbing the Louisville National Bank at Louisville, Ky., and getting away with abesat $1,000,000 in cold cash stored away in the bank’s vaults, They went about the hazardous undertaking systematically and carefully. They had a leader, a trained safe-blower, who had cracked dozens of safes, and he occu pied a full month in laying plans, per fecting means of escape and preparing his tools with which to open the avenues to the golden treasure, Although there were fifteen men in the gigantic conspiracy, but five we e to do the actual work, the bualance were to be on the watch at different peints. The orders were to silence all passers-by or watch men who discovered anything, but to do the work with as little noise as possible, using revolvers only as a last resort. The burglars got to work about 11 o’clock in the night, having captuared two watch men, chloroformed them and stowed them quietly away in a rear alley, where two confederates watched over them, It took two precious hours before the daring men got into the building, they being compelled to saw through some immense \vim.llm\'-i)ars. About 1.30 in the morn ing they got. at the doors of the big vault, where paper money, gold and specie to the value of over $1.000,000 were stored. There were about four inches of solid chilled-steel to bore into before a charge of powder could be suc cessfully inserted and touched off ; but these men accomplished all this, and about 4 o'clock in the morning there was a dull roar, the building shook and a heavy piece of the vault door flew off and crashed to the floor. A golden stream flowed out of the orifice, and the thicves crept back to where the treasure was. and began filling the heavy canvas bags they had brought with them. They se cured in all about $20,000, this being all the money within reach, the hole in the vault door not being large enough to ad mit a man. When they had gathered all that they could the intruders started out. . They were met at the point where they entered by a half-dozen detectives, who captured the whole lot. At the trial it developed that one of the burglars was a detective, who had learned of the gang’s robbing scheme, and had ingra tiated himself with them, finally becom ing one of the crowd. The company that furnished the vault that was blown open secured the tools the burglars did their work with, and exhibited them as an advertisement in their business, the claim being made that with the charge of powder the burglars used half the building ought to have been torn down, while in reality but a comparatively small piece of the vault door was wrecked.—[Chicago Tribune. M S GBS G R Earthquakes and Tornadoes. 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