O. W. Coursey, (U. S. Vols.)
Author of
“History and Geography of the Philippine Islands.”
“Who’s Who In South Dakota.”
“Biography of General Beadle.”
“School Law Digest.”
THE EDUCATOR SUPPLY COMPANY
Mitchell, South Dakota
Copyrighted 1914
By O. W. Coursey
The Woman with a Stone Heart
Introduction
To those whose love of adventure would cause them to plunge head-long into an abyss of vain glory, hoping at life’s sunset to reap a harvest contrary to the seed that were sown, let me suggest that you pause first to read the story of “The Woman With a Stone Heart,” Marie Sampalit, dare-devil of the Philippines.
Perhaps we might profitably meditate for a few moments on the musings of Whittier:
“The tissue of the life to be
We weave in colors all our own,
And in the field of destiny
We’ll reap as we have sown.”
—The Author.
Dedication
To Her, who, as a bride of only eighteen months, stood broken-hearted on the depot platform and bade me a tearful farewell as our train of soldier boys started to war; who later, while I was Ten Thousand miles away from home on soldier duty in the Philippine Islands, became a Mother; and who, unfortunately, three months thereafter, was called upon to lay our first-born, Oliver D. Coursey, into his snow-lined baby tomb amid the bleak silence of a cold winter’s night, with no strong arm to bear her up in those awful hours of anguish and despair,
My Soldier Wife, Julia,
this book is most affectionately dedicated.
“Only a baby’s grave,
Yet often we go and sit
By the little stone,
And thank God to own,
We are nearer heaven for it.”
—O. W. Coursey.
List of Illustrations
- Page
- Marie Sampalit 10
- Region Around Manila Bay 29
- Admiral Dewey
Table of Contents
- Chapters: Page
- I. Love Defeated 9
- II. First Shot of A New War 25
- III. Avenged Her Lover’s Death 41
- IV. The Interval 57
- V. Filipino Uprising 69
- VI. As A Spy 81
- VII. Off For Baler 93
- VIII. The Gilmore Incident 105
- IX. The American Prisoners 113
- X. Death of General Lawton 131
- XI.
Marie Sampalit
“The woman with a stone heart.’