. Book of the Royal blue . me was generally MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY IF. LAWTON, I mentioned with some splendid achievement,but all was done in that (luiet, soldierlyway, modestly refraining from forcing him-self into public notoriety, and in generalattracting confidence and belief in hisability. The photographs of (Jen. Lawtontaken in the field invariably showed himtowering over his fellows in his magnificentphysique, his strong and rugged face ex-pressing determination and ability in everyline; his position the embodiment of actionand concentration, and all stamping him at Lawton since May,
. Book of the Royal blue . me was generally MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY IF. LAWTON, I mentioned with some splendid achievement,but all was done in that (luiet, soldierlyway, modestly refraining from forcing him-self into public notoriety, and in generalattracting confidence and belief in hisability. The photographs of (Jen. Lawtontaken in the field invariably showed himtowering over his fellows in his magnificentphysique, his strong and rugged face ex-pressing determination and ability in everyline; his position the embodiment of actionand concentration, and all stamping him at Lawton since May, 1899, and who was alsowith the general during the Santiago cam-paign, and who has furnished the photo-graphs which ajipear herein, tells manyamusing anecdotes, which show that thegeneral was somewhat of a strategist inevery way. He says : I never saw a padre so scared asthat native Filipino father we hauled intoLawtons camp to confess a guide beforeWe shot him. We started out of Nova-liches at daylight over the worst trail. Ihoto William , Wni ,.|M.,l,ll,.l .MAJOK-(iENERAL LAWTON IN THE rillLUriNKS. once the unusual man. It is a weirknownfact, the love and enthusiasm shown forhim by the boys who do the work, and toone who followed closely the pictorial war-fare constantly spread out for inspection,it was not to share in this feel-ing of confidence and regard. If his influ-ence was so potent and his magnetism soirresistible there must indeed be a sad andlonesome army in the Philippines to-day. Mr. William Dinwiddle, war correspond-ent at the Philippines, who was with (Jen. I have seen in the Philippines. We hadnothing but caribou to haul our wagontrain, and they had been dying off fromhard work in the rough foot hills, and asmuch perhaps from want of their dailymud bath. Nobody in the American armyknew the way exactly, and the Spanishmaps we were using were about as accu-rate as a map of the United Statesdrawn by a suckling infant. We founda Fil
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