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From the valley of damp and wild forest up to the barren, hot, sultry sunny unclear? was a decided extreme here, the sun threw his ways as sharply as Thor his thunder. Here, the pride and flowers of our nation lay dying and for what? Liberty, humanity-loving America, sacrificed what was noblest in her nation. Every act which has brought the world higher in the scale of civilization has cost lives. But truly nothing could be equaled to this. It is is it braver and more heroic to die in a fever camp for one's country than before a change of whizzing bullets, and the noble boys struggled with the ?enemy? most grandly. It is braver, but the glory is never granted.

The supplies which our nation had sent, now were distributed. Cots with [] [] tops were brought into the wards, pillows, bed linens and many necessities and comforts []found. how luxurious the boys who received items would be, The nurses rolled up their sleeves and began work.

"Do not stop to gather up those rocks I will find some Cuban to do that." said the physician as a nurse brushed aside the stumbling blocks that covered the ground.

"How is our Willie? the physician asked some days after. "Willie is improving, doctor."