Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project and the Internet Archive.) The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War. By 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." All of these books are published and for sale by 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