A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . before the heart to heart talksthat had come from over-seas. I dont suppose there is anybody thatknows the value of a letter better than asoldier does. A few blotted lines from hismother or sister or sweetheart are meat anddrink and fine raiment for his soul. Hefeels brave again and good again and —homesick again. He makes life a burdenfor the whole camp until he has borrowed orstolen a scrap of paper and a stubby pencilwherewith to make reply. He sits down insome convenient spot, with
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . before the heart to heart talksthat had come from over-seas. I dont suppose there is anybody thatknows the value of a letter better than asoldier does. A few blotted lines from hismother or sister or sweetheart are meat anddrink and fine raiment for his soul. Hefeels brave again and good again and —homesick again. He makes life a burdenfor the whole camp until he has borrowed orstolen a scrap of paper and a stubby pencilwherewith to make reply. He sits down insome convenient spot, with emotion fairlyoozing from every pore, and for a solid hourhe wrestles with his tools and result probably does not altogetherplease him. He feels that he has said toomuch about his lack of socks, the toughnessof his fare, the flatness of his purse. Allthe love and tenderness he meant to setdown have somehow refused to leave him,even in description. But he knows he willbe massacred if he goes howling for morepaper; and so he sends off^ what he haswritten, counting the weary days until his. A very Popular Spot. 1 1 i V ^% s 11 0 ^-^^^^W^f^*^ ?..•* S m Two Knights and a Pawn. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 95 answer comes. The man who first inventedwriting was, without doubt, the greatest manthat ever lived. On August 25 it was decided to bring allbut four companies of the brigade intoquarters at Mayaguez, chiefly because a greatdeal of sickness had begun to spring up inthe outlying camps. This was accordinglydone. Scientific agriculture and prosperity havelong been regarded as almost synonymousterms in Puerto Rico. The provincial government established andmaintained an experimental station at RioPiedras, for the purpose of promoting atechnical knowledge of the native soil-prod-ucts ; and the results of this step have provedinvaluable. The recent director of the sta-tion, Senor Fernando Lopez Tuero, wrote,while in office, several monographs on tropi-cal agriculture; which
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