The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1899, Page 18

= — ' T, MILLER, LWL A RONVAE MRS, ADMIR AL THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, — 7 AN f=R=E-E-R=R-2 =83 =F-F-F-3-F-F-F 3 =F-3-F-F-F=F=F-F-F<F-F-3-F=F-F-F-F-3-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F=3-F-3-F-=3-F ==} o o o needed ? 1ave asked themselves. o o o o ped T 500 10 010 0615 505 10 00 030 006 061010 00100100606 1010 06 06 1010 006 10107 900 X 06 06 0.0 100 1 06 00 00 10 0 0 06 0 0 MRS. ADMIRAL KAUTZ, Wife of Is it the bravest thing to run away with our husbands to the fleld of bat: e or does it require more courage to e at home? né‘*’ha::xz] is a difficult question. I know a woman, & young mother, whose sense of duty augmented the force of her generous heart—and if deserved a medal for ever wor ourage it 1 : 3 '1';'1‘4’5( t 1 port was leaving for Manil This wife had liste jast call to arms with heroic le her heart beat time to the It was her duty to co old mother with “O, he’ll com all covered wi Lurels, and we ind bat at the lifted baby up high and her brave volce :n she said “‘God bless for the last ki id not falter wt you, dear. Come back to w * Her smile was the last that greeted him: her hapd was the last to wave good-by, and the first to strengthen the feeble old mother. But that night when the others had sone to rest I heard her rocking her by: the little lullaby was broken by mother’s sobs, and the wondering . the S it braver to stay at home while your loved ones are away fighting for their country, or to go out with them and share the danger, so as to be on hand with comfort and care if That is the vital question numbers of women married to soldiers and seamen are asking or Certainly the women married to the brave men in the army and navy should be most able to judge what constitutes feminine heroism in this regard. answers to the question by several well-known representative women. the Admiral of thz Philadelphia baby face was washed by the moth- er’s tears, for she was saying: “He will never come back, baby, never, never again.” When I saw the Philadelphia leave Coronado, without the full complement of crew, nurses, physicians and engi- neers, it was indeed hard to appear courag but when I learned that she did not carry enough coal—that even to-day she could not make the trip to Auckland for the lack then I knew the wisdom in di y ing the small boats, and that the Philadelphia feared a boar attack. Oh. is is the prof of courage—to see nd to refrain from sharing it with : you love, because his reason and ations demand that you must not v. That and that alone prevents many a woman from following her husband to war, and is a crucial test of an unselfish heart. Admiral Kautz sailed under sealed or- ders from California, but from Hono- lulu he wrote me: “Whatever I do and wherever I go I want you to un- derstand that T am obeying my orders, and that no matter what life holds for me while serving my country—even if I do what I know to be wrong—I want you to feel that I am doing my duty.” . iy MRS. LIEUT. MILLER, Wife of the Flag Lieutenant of the Philadelphia. Herolsm in woman I8 a thing that cannot be measured, therefore it can- It comes up like a not be compared. prayer, under the most discouraging difficulties, and her greatness lies in her ability to be cheerful when gov- erned by the same circumstances be- fore which a man would quail. The bravest woman in- times of war—is she one who fight the stays shall alwa equires more fortitude to at home until I have tried it in he fleld. I belleve every woman’s de- eire to be near scenes of confilct springs es to the home? from the wish to give relfef to the fall- en, and no woman ever yet let her hus- band go into danger without feeling that he would be sacrificed, just be- cause she feels him to be the bravest of all brave men and knows that he will court disaster to pluck the green bow for her. There is a difference in the herofsm of men and women. A man concentrates his energies and ef- forts for the supreme attempt, and a woman accomplishes the same results by carefully attending to the details. After all has been said all herolc ef- fort ends in this—be it man or woman— feg=gegaged f =3 o o Here are the 2 el o ped b= the keynote is unselfishness. Before the news of the Bamoan actfon had reached us Mrs. Kautz had written to the admiral of some matters that had given her annoyance, but when the shocking news came in less than an hour we were on our way to San Fran- clsto to be near the news center. Mrs. Kautz did not rest until she had recovered a letter from the mail in which she ha® written to the admiral yme personal losses, for she said Admiral Kautz must not be bothered by petty affairs at such a time.” Doing the little things of life consti- tute life's greatness, and for its battle- field we need not go beyond cur door- iilnp&' nor the longings of our own heart o e s Nothing in this world so effectively raises a man to the highest standard of which his nature {s capable nor brings to the surface the very best that is fn him P O] MRS. DR. McVAY, Widow of the Just where a woman's be in time of war is 4l impossible to answer. Much depends upon the conditions of the home, the woman, and most of all the wish of her husband, who is always better able to judge in such matters what is best. That which is distant can only be seen in large outline or felt through the finer sense. that possesses every wife— the feeling of intuition when danger menaces her own. For my own part I simply cannot say which {s the braver thing to do—to go where duty Is or where you feel it to be, or to stay at home in obedience to reason and advice of friends. Every woman must decide that for herself— and then if she finds herself bereft as . lace should cult, almost as the encouragement and stimulus of a bd woman in his home. Behind every ucceseful man is the influence of some good woman. We sometimes say that women know very little of business, and, Judged from the business standards of men, this is technically true. The rea: e enough, in reation fitted i; the other is not. But the most powerful, if silent, factor in world of business to-da neverthel the influence of womai She it is who stands behind the man, in- fusing new hape, new courage, and point- ing the way to a new beginning, nnd often by her instinct succeeding in settling im- portant matters in a single moment where days of planning along business lines have brought only fallure and deeper gloom. How often the women of this land have been the means of averting business dis- asters or the multiplylng of failures with further complications the world will never know. But there are men who know it. It may sound smart to some ears to say that “‘a woman breaks a man,” and, alas! that it should be true in some cases. But it is also true that more often woman makes a man. We read and hear of the former, and sometimes, because of certain conditions of circumstances, we are in- clined to exaggerate their number. But that is only because of the noise they make. Happy marriages are silent, and far outnumber the unhappy ones. ‘Whenever we hear of an unhappy mar- riage we should always remember that there are thousands and thousards of happy unions of which we never hear. Where love is kept alive in a home un- happiness has a hard time gettin hold, and as the good women in the world far exceed the others, a young man stands a pretty good chance of getting one of the right kind—that is, if he can give, so far as any man can giye, a pretty good equivalent for what he asks. a foot- Late Dr. McVay, U. S. A, Manila. I have done she will feel the truth of ““Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.” All of my married life has been a military one, and I have spent much of it on the Mexican frontier with my husband. Such a life is always at- tended with dangers, but it had no ter- rors for me. I felt that I belonged there, and so when I was called to Ma- nila T am sure that no thought of fear beset me, nor deeds of bravery either; I only followed the dictates of my own heart and joined Captain McVay at Manila. Reviewing the months I spent there, I do not think I could have lived else- where, knowing that my husband was 11l with fever, and it will ever be my 'solnse that I was with him to the last. MRS. LIEUT. E. L. BEAGH, Wife of Lieut Beach, U. S. S Baltimore To ‘llve in_a hostile city is by no means the greatest sign of female bravery. Why, if a woman is strong physically, the excitement ig exhilarat- 1899. ing if not experienced too long. I am sure that I felt more courageous in consenting to leave Manila than I did in entering it last year. Then the city was under military control and per- fectly quiet. There‘was quite a little of social life during the months of No- vember and Decembér, such as din- ners, dances, drives and promenades on the Lunetta. After the proclamation of General Otis, however, and the de- flant reply of Aguinaldo alrs in the city assumed a more us aspect. Then came the test for the nervous women to show their heroism. We were often startled in the still of night by the call to arms, but so many false alarms were given that on the night of Feb- ruary 4 I obeyed my inclination to sleep until I felt certain that trouble was at hand. That night will always live in my memory. The excitement, thcugh silent, was Intense, and the courage that comes up- im every woman'’s heart rose to the occasion then. The sound of the galloping hoofs, the quiet mustering of the trocps, the commands in the dark, thrilled every one who saw it with a serious feeling ‘We took.up our residence in the bas ment for safety, because the bullets were beginning to whizz pretty livel MRS, LIEUT. J. F. LUGEY, Wife of Lieut. Liucey, Battery D, First Ga Burning of San Roque. From a Photograph taken by Mrs. Lucey. about our quarters. The Colorado boys camped next door, and when they were mustered out at 9 p. m. all of the women in our household went to the windows to shout, “Good luck, boys! Be brave!” “Adlos, adlos,” came back the cheer- ing answer. “We'll fight for our Am- erican women.” We watched all that night, and when along toward morning the ambulances began to come in, bearing the wounded and among them the dead body of a Colorado boy—then the women showed their courage. They brought out drinks and refresh- ments for the returning soldiers, who greeted them with three ringing tu- multuous cheers—not for the success of the skirmish, not for the red, white and blue, but three stirring, agitated cheers for the “American women.” The women visited the hospitals, wrote letters for the wounded, said prayers for the dying, sang encourag- ing songs for the homesick boys and soothed the aching heads with their tender hands. This was their mission. One American woman had two sons in the field, and every day she visited the trenches to inquire for and speak to her darling boys, and ev day she came back to her home with their promises of bravery newly pledged from their lips, and every day. the sons of the absent mother watched for her sweet face and blessed her as she passed them. But there is a bravery surpassing all this, and it belongs to the wife who stays at home. B fornia Artillery. ‘Which is the braver, the woman who remains at home, after seelng her hus- band sail away to an unknown coun- try, while she courageously takes up her life alone, enduring awful suspense, struggling te stifle the craving to see. if only for a minute, the absent one, and striving to feed and clothe, per- haps, a number of little ones: or the woman who follows her husband to war? In my opinion, the former {s the braver? I have lived in Cavite, and know that the excitement of conaquest bolsters up the courage to do and dare. And really, after all, that is not hero- ism. The insurgents had frequently threatened to attack Cavite, and sev- eral times we women were hurried off to Fort San Felipe. At the slight- est sound the men were up in arms and chasing madly down the street. leav- ing us to protect ourselve An offi- cer’s duty is to his country, and a wife at such a time is only a care. On the morning of the 5th of February we were awakened by the bursting of shells and the roaring of guns. We forgot to eat breakfast and ran llke mad up and down the sea wall, strain- ing our ears to catch the fragments of conversation. The navy, artillery and Winchesters thundered their reports OROXOXORODXOHOXDAOXO¥ DX TRAGEDIES CAUSED BY TR In a Lancashire coal mine, a féw years ago, a callous youth viclously pricked a pony with his penknife. The wounded an- imal kicked out furiously, overturning and breaking several safety lamps. The naked flames fed the foul gases in the air and created an appalling explosion which wrought the death of over a hundred miners. Sun-rays shining through a decanter of water on the cartridge of a loaded rifle glew a sleeping man on a lounge near by. The Innocent owner of the rifle was ar- raigned for the supposed crime, and was sentenced to death, when the testimony of a shrewd detective solved the mystery and secured his reprieve. A spark from a truant fire-balloon in the nelghborhood of New York one cele- bration day drifted through the open door of a gunpowder factory and created in a moment a miniature earthquake, slaying six men and woefully wounding several others. An Italian Countess, entering her cham- ber one evening with a stout stiletto bon- net pin in her band, stumbled over a pet upon the air, and Mrs. Diss and I—the only women in Cavite at this time— prayed for the safety of our American boys, while at the time there was a hope that there would be fewer Fili- pinos for our bo All human fe to fi > lost, and I wished that I we on a man and that I might have my share in the contest, which we watched from the tower on top of the house where the colonel had his headquarters. Shell af- ter shell was thrown from the Monad- nock into the lines of the insurgents, destroying lives, block houses and nipa huts. I found myself rejoicing at this awful destruction, and hoped and prayed that the warship ‘“Manila” would begin firing at the enemy. I wondered, as many others did, if Admiral Dewey's terms would be ac- cepted by the rebels, and half wished in my heart that they would not, In order to give those in Cavite a chance to fight. The excitement of war overcame all thought that the Filipinos were hu- man beings. If the unnatural, fiendish exultation which posse: woman while witness- ing a battle called bravery. then give me the stian, sympathetic heroism of the wife who stays at home. It 1s sweetér and greater. FO¥G *%Q FLES dog and fell prostrate on the floor, the perilous pin plercing her heart and caus- ing Instant death. The heartbroken Count, suspecting a_ jealous noble of the supposed murder, shot him -dead on the street next day brother of th edy the true cause of the trouble was re- vealed. A young bachelor in London, of participating in the wealth o country uncle, Invited his rich spend a week with him in town. During dinner one evening the nephew—aquite un- aware of the perilous character of the combination—passed Chart > wine and bananas o his uncle, who parteok freely of both, thus producing a peculiarly pote ent poison, which caused his deat he nephew’s deep concern turned to dismay when he learned later that the absence of eny will shattered his hopes of fortune, and his chagrin prompted hi ema- turely end his existence. . = '© Prema A German family, seven in number, lost their lives by a somewhat unique acei- dent. They slept in one large apartment lighted by gas. Before retiring the fathet hung his overcoat above the gas burner. During the night this garment slipped and fell on the tap, turning the gas fun on, and so suffocating the slumbering in- mates. A defect in an axle, g0 small as to es- cape the scrutiny of the vigilant plate« layers, led to the most melancholy dis- aster ever known in the U tates The fated traln caught fire, the rails and descended a steep decl In this appalling accident more 0 lives were lost. \ A trifing but irreparable misunder- standing between the captain and e neer of a stately steamship some ye since led to the loss of the vessel 400 passenge = ship was cause tr speed ahead obeyed, with vessel struck a roc! A faulty link in a huge caused one of the d kind that ever occurred The ck girders to fall upor h, twelve of whom ar Polish tenor singer nce lo: s 1\ which a careless cook onaily dropped a brass nail. aused cance from which ¢ junds she had Slapad = ted disorder, wh The ghostly —_—————— What Presidents Cost, TDF X high, but we t " Tt costs us executi yund, our Western n ay. The Pr ¢ finding comprehensive covering about possible requ ment of a family. doorkeepers, te secreta engers and E ants, year. The there is a d of $8000 a year, which dent may use according to his cretion. In furniture and repairs to the Whits House the sum of $16,000 more, to be used by the direction of the President, is pro- vided by the nation and is always ex- pended. For fuel alone $3000 is allow: and for nec ; repalrs to the gree > Presidential ts-to the snug s 000 a year more > 'two aggr: Republi i dent rather cheaply.—Boston Journal. el struck the foret came here was his unbutte While there is no end of issued to this man—fine clothes, ses, lace, pompons, and I don't know what not— he keeps it In a chest in his barracks and he hates the sight of it. Nothing but a sentry with a loaded gun and positt ders to kill could make him keep his coat buttoned. This is because he is an American, and this s the natlonal char- acter. A foreign officer asked at Tampa last spring: “Why does he have all this tent- age, all th transportation, all these cooking things—surely he does not take it to war?” “Wait,” T replied. Later the officer saw him at Santlago, and the property was left behind. He trudged along with his blanket roll, his “three da in the hav ack, his am- munition, tin cup and meat ti He was light d fieldlike—very much admired by the foreigner. Only one regiment at Havana has the karkie clothing, and none have the cork h or panama hats so much needed tropics. The official os- i ington should be made to pull their h out of the sand and look up; but, alas! ther no one to make them.—Frederic Weekly. Remington in Collier's