MEMORIAL DAV.
The'mist of battles hns rolled away:
Peace, glorious peace Is ours to-day;
And added stars In our banner glow;
The dear old (lag of the long ago.
We think of the founders of this blest
land.
Our grandslres brave In stern com
mand.
And listen still a* the vot'rans tell
Of vlefrlea won, though the foe fought
well;
Of retrieved disasters, of great defeat.
The onward inarch and the forced re
treat.
Then turn where our childhood’s heroes
real,
WhUe gentle fancies soothe the breast.
Then while we place on each soldier s
plot.
On ouch hallowed grave, the forget-me
not;
Thankful to God for the courage shown
Uy those we were proud to call our
own,
That Might, triumphant, may closer bind
The ties of royalty all mankind;
With the Inward prayer; May all wars
cease,
And men be skilled with the skill of
peace.
—George l;ancroft Griffith In Woman’s
Magazine.
"Good morning, Aunt Ruth. You
tee I’m on hand bright and early for
my lilacs. Aren’t we going to have a
beautiful day?" said Antoinette, cheer
ily, seeming to have caught the con
tagion of the bright May morning.
"1 am so glad it Is pleasant, for I
well remember how rainy it was last
Decoration day. I'm sorry tho lilacs
are a little backward this year; still
I think we shall find enough for a fair
showing. Did you bring a basket?”
"I did. The self-same one that has
clone service for the last three years.
Ralph is coming for me about 11 o'
clock."
With that they started for the gar
den.
Miss Bosworth, “Aunt Ruth," as she
was more familiarly known—was one
of the oldest Inhabitants of Bleas&nt
vtlle, a sleepy little town nestling
among the Berkshire hills, Its quiet
undisturbed save by the buzz of the
bawniiU, and, in summer, the busy
hive of workers at the canning fac
tory.
Everybody knew Aunt Ruth, and
none knew her but to love her. She
was one of those elderly women—shall
we suy rare?—who had preserved a
sweet, happy nature, free from disa
greeable habits both of speech and
manner. Although over lip years old,
she Still possessed that blessed faculty
ct adaptability which made her a cov
eted companion of both young end old.
Children were attracted by her cookie
Jar and a fund of delightful stories,
while those of maturer years were
charmed with her personality and her
entertaining conversation, which ever
sparkled with subtle humor, despite sn
unmistakable undercurrent of sadueas.
which at limes betrayed Itself in her
tags
Antoinette Rathtmn was particularly
fond of Aunt Muth, and many happy
heura they spent together, reading or
discussing the various questions of the
day.
Antoinette was Just now In a most
peatittc stats of mmd. That which
mas** the world go round had touched
gar life and Imparted to It fresh en -
thwalasiu and delight, and this i%eora*
lion day morning aha seemed unusual'
ly hnppy.
•grt. alt. Aunt Ruth." she said
-ifcare la a* aeaeua of the year quit*
hi femMtttfw! to me a* the springtime
when ev ary thing seems fairly buret lag
• Ith Hie and delighting tg life."
*ga my dear. It la because you are
Just now In the springtime of life your
self. You seem to me very like that
little shrub yonder, the buds Just peep
ing out which shall so soon unfold Into
the perfect flower. So do I see In you
the possibilities of a beautiful and no
ble womanhood. But haven’t we
enough lilacs? The sun Is so warm!"
“Yes, Indeed, we have and I don’t
care to rob you even for a good cause.
I am relying upon the girls for a good
ly supply."
"It's your Sunday-school class, isn't
It?”
"Yes,” answered Antoinette. “Aunt
Ruth, won’t you go with us? That !
would make our party complete. Do
say yes.”
"No, I would rather go alone. I am
glad, though, that you arc Interesting 1
your class In this way, for it seems to j
me that children in these days have too ;
little patriotic spirit, and too little ap
preciation of the cost of liberty. The ,
decoration of the soldiers’ graves j
means little more to them than a half j
holiday from school and a happy time
gathering flowers. After all, I guess j
It Is better so. Ret them have all the |
sunshine possible; the shadows come I
soon enough to all of us.”
"Aunt Ruth," said Antoinette, ten
derly, "I’ve wanted to ask you some
thing for a long time, but I don’t know
that I ought.”
"Certainly you may. What is It?”
"Will you tell me whose grave you
visit so much, and on which you al
ways put such lovely flowers Decora
tion day?"
"You will be surprised, my dear,
when I tell you that I don’t know. It j
Is an unknown grave, but all I needed
to know was that he was a soldier.
When did you say Ralph was com
ing?”
"Not till 11.”
“Then come into the sitting-room
where it is cool and let me tell you a
hit of my own life. Somehow 1 feel
just like It this morning.”
They laid down their flowers and en
joyed the restfulneas of the cozy room.
"I’m going to lie down," said Aunt
Ruth, "and you bring the hassock and
sit right beside mo and let me tell you
what is In my heart.
"When you came In this morning
so happy and light-hearted my
thoughts flew back thirty years, when
1 was about your age, and had just as
much to make me happy a3 you have
cow. I was engaged to a noble man,
and, strangely enough, his name was
Ralph, too. He was a lawyer, and his
fine mind gave promise of a brilliant
career. We were to have been married
in the spring of ’63, but when the war
broke out his country’s call appealed
to his noblest manhood. He didn’t say
much at first, but I knew that the only
obstacle In the way of his enlisting was
the pain it would give me. Ho was
perfectly well and strong, an added
j reason for hts going. Ah. well do I
I remember the night we settled It! How
| earnestly and tenderly he talked about
! It! In a few days he was gone. It
| tcok more courage than I then thought
I to make that sacrifice, but mjr sense of
duty to country would not allow me to
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another, and another, and finally
one came In an unfamiliar hand
and told the story 1 so much
feared. They thought he was
killed In the battle of Gettysburg, In
the desperate charge at the "Bloody
Angle,” where so many brave men on
both sides gave up tlielr lives, but dili
gent search brought nothing more def
inite. I sometimes wonder how I have
lived through all these long thirty
years, but you know we poor mortals
can endure more than we think. I
have much that Is pleasant to look
back upon, and much In the future to
dream of. And now about that lonely
grave. He was a soldier, too, and
there was no one to care for him, so
I love to place my flowers there, and
cannot help feeling that perhaps anoth
er Is doing the same for **-»ph."
A whistle interrupted the story and
Antoinette stooped to kiss the dear old
lady, and In a moment was gone.
Late that afternoon, after Antoinet
te's class had gone and tho cemetery
was quite deserted, Ralph and Antoin
ette lingered at a little distance from
that grave, quite unobserved by Aunt
Ruth, and watched her arrange the
flowers.
"Do you know,” said Ralph, "I never
saw anything more pathetic. The men
who enlisted and fought with courage
and fearlessness were indeed brave he
roes, but not an atom more heroic than
the women who gave their husbands
and sons and lovers to die for their
country, aud have lived on, year after
year, bravely and cheerfully hiding
tUelr loneliness and heartache behind
a happy face. All honor to them!”
Tho Memory of the Dead.
There are few Influences so hallowed
to the living as the memory of the
1
AT GRANT’S TOMB.
| dead. They make good mer. better;
i sometimes they make bad men good.
it is a grateful and beneficent cus
tom which h.'i been established of de
' voting one nay in tl.e year especially to
the commemoration of the virtues of
the dead. Their memory comes to us,
bidden or unbidden. It romes with the
morning light; It comes with the even
1 lug shades; It comes In the stillness of
the ulght. Whenever It comes It Is
; always welcome and precious. Indeed,
one of our chief companionships, which
wo cultivate aud enjoy more almost
than any other. Is the recollection of
those we have loved and lost.
In the formal appropriation of Mi ra
' crla' day, h »wev«r to the decoration c*
I graves, there Is n manifest, outward
! sign of respect which Is seemly and |a
| keeping with our ever-present feeling
I of affection for those who have gone
J before us. Many Improve It by car
j rying flowers to the spot where their
| loved ones lie. all Improve It by re•
| culllrg In more vivid fancy the forme
! and qualities of the sleepers we sigh
In rain f- r the pow.i to awaken New
York Ledger
Amerlvwe g*»« for »uflm.,1
Itueegruwer 1. M Noe of kladisun.
N J . has suited the problem of park
1 mg American Ueauiua Home time sen
k« bad aa order fur a huge t uu h of
I tuta vsttety fretn a lad/ »b« wlanad to
ns< ike in to Kurupe with her. In
lacking roses Mr N * Inserts esc a »|
j ike Umg »t« ius Into a potato, and st
il.su StlItsl after Iks voyage iaey
st re band to tie aa freak as if they
errs .tvs' taken from Ike gfvenk ws
la k letter tke lady said Iks lb.were
j kept well fur a kombwf of days after
key arrival, sad Ikelv lessty eat
•natty so a .«1 by k«t Kagl.^h ft. >.i>
j CUT IN HAIL OF SHOT.
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. BRAVE SEAMEN FROM AMERI
CAN SHIPS DID DARING AT
CIENFUECOS. CUBA.
Spultrdi Shoot from Mukwl DiitlirlM
and Kllla Pita ('pun tha llauilful of
llluajarkat* Order. <1 to Sever the
Wire* Leading Into the City.
Amid a perfect storm of shot from
Spanish rifles and batteries the Amer
ican forces cut the cables at Clenfuo
gos Wednesday morning, May 11.
Four determined boat crews, under
command of Lieutenant Winslow and
Ensign Magruder, from the cruiser
Marblehead and tho gunboat Nashville,
put out from the ships, the coast hav
ing previously been shelled. The work
of the volunteers was perilous, and one
was killed while bravely doing hla du
ty, six others being seriously wounded.
The man Instantly killed was Patrick
Reagan. None of the ships was dam
aged to any extent. Tho cruiser Mar
blehead, the gunboat Nashville and tho
auxiliary cruiser Wlndom diew up 1,000
yards from shore with their guns
manned for desperate duty.
One cable had already been cut and
tho work was In progress on tho other
when the Spaniards In rifle pits and a
battery In an old lighthouse, standing
out in the bay, opened f.re. The war
ships poured In a thunderous volley,
their great guns belching forth mass
ive shells into tho swarms of the ene
my. The crews of the boats calmly
proceeded with their desperate work,
notwithstanding the fact that a num
ber had fallen, and finished it, return
ing to the ships through a blinding
smoke and a heavy Are.
More than l.ObO Infantrymen on shore
kept up a continuous Are and the bul
lets from the machine guns struck the
warships a hundred times, but did no
great damage. Commander Maynard
of (he gunboat Nashville was slightly
wounded by a rifle bullet that before
striking him passed through the arm
of an ensign, whose name is unknown.
Lieutenant Winslow was shot !n tho
band, making three officers wounded
In all. After the Spaniards had been
driven from tho rifle pits many of them
took refuge in the lighthouse fortress,
SCENE OF THE FIOHT OVER THE CUTTING OF THE CABLES. MAY 11.
upon v/blch the Are of the warships
had been centered. A four-inch shell
from the Wlndorn tore this structure
to pieces, killing many and burying
others In the ruins. The Spanish loss
is known to have been very heavy, the
warships Aring hundreds of shells
right Into their midst.
The United States cruiser Marble
head, the gunboat Nashville and the
auxiliary cruiser Wlndorn steamed up
to the harbor of Clenfuegos early Wed
nesday morning with orders to cut the
cable connecting Havana with Santia
go de Cuba. This task was accom
plished, but only after a terrific fight
between the warships and several
thousand Spanish troops, which lined
the shore and lay concealed behind Im
provised breastworks.
Soon after the arrival of the war
ships off Clenfuegos four boats were
launched and proceeded In share for
the purpose of grappling tor the cable
In order to cut It. The warships lay
to about l.Oou yards or more off the
harbor.
It waa observed that the Spaniel,*
troops hail assembled ashore, but It
was rot known that heavy guns had
been plred In a masked battery anil
that the eld light house, far out on a
neck of land, had been transformed
Into a fctmldabla fort
The small boats proc «*ded cv, t tonal y
and fur mi re than an hour wuilmi un
tosltitol an the cal l* <odd« n > )ust
as tie w rh waa about rompUted. the
shore battery fired a shell at the boats
It was followed by ethers and the
dpentvh Infantry opened fire then with
their rt* *• Then. Ithe a fi»->h, the
Mutblel- *vd sent a shall Inland, and
f• tlswef it with a pwyfaet shower of
shot The Nashville v»av gi»! k In f d
!«•* tut and the HU>» Win Tom tut
Indw* with Mr fnttr |otted*rs.
In the w 4»*h,'« r> ftai.n tuHe's
f« it .n evert dlft'ltas gye tad the
ttw*l| boat* Th.otgk the attach had
% ms * t«M*ni» and it*'. the t po»■
tected by the terrific return fire of the
warships, work was continued and the
cable cut.
The Spaniards had by this time suf
fered severe loss. Their shots from
the llghthourc struck the warships sev
eral times, and, although they did not
do much damage, tho Are aroused the
determination of tho American officers
to exterminate the fort. Thereafter,
for the moment, the fire of the war
ships was concentrated upon the light
house aud the Improvised fort was
blown to pieces. As there were great
numbers of Spaniards in and behind
the fort at tho time there Is no doubt
that many of them were killed. The
Marblehead and the Nashville used
; their heaviest guns, as well ns their
I -.mail rapid-fire guns, and hundreds of
(hots were thrown into the Spanish
troops.
Tho Marblehead was struck scores of
times by bullets from muehtne guns
and the Nashville suffered to ebout the
name extent. The Wlndom also had
many marks of the fray. Her shell
blowing up the lighthouse and scatter
ing the Spaniards In all directions end
ed the battle.
The table which was cut at Clenfue
gos extended from that city to Santiago
de Cuba. It does not sever cable cam
munleatlon with Cuba, as there Is an
other lino In operation between San
tiago de Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica.
The severed cable Is owned by the Cu
ba Submarino company. The one op
erating to Kingston Is owned by the
West India Panama company. The lat
ter Is tho only line not In control of
the United States government. The
cable from Havana to Key West Is
controlled by United States officials. It
was a shot from the four-inch gun of
tho Wlndom which knocked over the
lighthouse, in command of that gun
division was Lieutenant Crisp, end
Cooper was the gunner who fired the
shot. The Spanish loss Is estimated at
400.
The lighthouse was demolished, the
arsenal destroyed and the batteries on
shore silenced. Tho town was set on
fire by sheila from the American Ccet.
Called It Furniture Medicine.
“The secret of never v/anting now
things Is to keep tho old ones well
mended," said a wise housekeeper, as
chc exhibited the shelf where she kept
what she called “furniture medicine."
Tbore were tins of different colors of
paints and enamel, brushes of several
sizes, a bottle of liquid gilt, some good
glue, and remnants of all tbn different
kinds of wall paper. A handsome six
leaved Japanese screen had been bad
ly mutilated by a careless housemaid,
so that two of Its panels were unsight
ly. She patched the gashes carefully
with court plaster, and with a box of
wutcr colors and the liquid gilt so con
cealed the patches that It was as good
as new. A somewhat top-heavy but
oturdy little boy made a neat of the
handsome Chinese porcelain umbrel
la Jar. when down came both boy and
Jar, the latter In a dozen pieces. It
was tint therefor discarded, but piecing
tt with the greatest care with cement,
a brush was (Upped In liquid gilt and
covered all tits cracks, which, from
their xlg-rag directions, really added to
I Its orient*! appearance Short Shits.
T»o Natural low.
Water wiu cxtltiMiiah Hrs I erause
the water form a casting over
the fuel, which k. p, It from the air.
and the ivsttiskn of water tn'o
steam diaws off the ha’ f nu the
burning fuel, A little water irsh»e
a tire fiercer, while a large quantity of
water put* It ml. I he explanation
U that w iter tt composed at ukygea
and hydrogen When, therefore, the
Are • an <le unpmr the water Into Ita
elatp'e elements It eetvwa as fat I to the
dative,
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CARTERS ARE GAYER.
Than Ever Before, end Startling In Tholr
Brilliancy.
New York Sun: darters are gayer
than ever before. No woman dreams
of wearing plain elastic bands to keep
| up her stockings nowadays. Indeed,
garters are now made i?o many colored
that the rival the fashionable hosiery
Itself when It comet to startling bril
liancy. A garter can come about ns
near marring or making a woman »
happiness as any trifling accfrsory to
her toilet. Women generally, long
ago, gave up tho elastic band which
held the stocking up below or above tho
knee. Health culturUts first told them
that It was Injurious, preventing per
fect circulation, but tho sox clung to
It with Its bejcweled buckles and beau
tiful rows of ribbon. Then the cul
turlsts told them that the round gar
ter would spoil the shape of the leg.
and they dropped It like a hot calte
and adopted the susprnder garter or
stocking supporter, as It Is oftened
called. The newest supporters aso
made of rery broad and fancy s Ik elas
tic In brilliant Scotch plaid* or Roman
stripes, or else plain clastic covered
with ribbons that would shame Jos
epb’s coat, put on full. The catches
and side buckles are of white metal,
silver, silver glided and pure gold, and
some of them are studden with pre
cious and BcmI-preclous gf,ms. One
stylo fastens around the wel.t of the
v,carer by mrans of a satin belt matc.i
Ie* In color tho predominating color
of the elastic; the oth^r faster* at the
side of tho corset with catch pins, D -th
methods ore unsa’lsfaclory. The waist
band Is warm In summer, and de
stroys the lines about the waist. It
la, indeed, Impossible for a woman In
clined to be stout. The other, If of
such a length as to keep the stocking
up properly, pulls on the corset and
gives the wearer a moat uncomfort
able, tired feeling toward the end of
the day. All of these drawbacks have
a tendency to make a woman conclude
that after all her great grandmother
was right In declaring that the most
satisfactory garter In tho world was
a string torn from a selvedge edge of
a piece of flannel and wrapped Just
looee enough for comfort and tight
enough for convenience about the
stocking above or below the knee. A
- 71
womun who will Invent a really artis
tic and, at the same time, comfortable
stocking supporter will strike a Klon
dike.
Pressure of the lies.
There are spots In the ocean where
the water Is five miles deep. If it Is
true that the pressure of the water on
any body in the water Is one pound
to the square Inch for every two feet
of the depth anything at the bottom of
cue of the "Ove-mlle boles'' would
have a pressure about It of 13.200 feet
to every square Inch. There Is nothing
of human manufacture that would re
sist such a pressure. That It evlsts
there Is no doubt. It la known that
the pressure on a well-corked glass
bottle at the depth of 300 feet Is so
great that the water will force Its way
through the pores of the glass. It Is
also said that pieces of wood have been
weighted and sunk In the sea to su> h
a depth that the tlsaues have become
■o condensed that the wood has lost
it* buoyancy and would never float
again It could not be even made to
burn when dry.
The I'm si Uuma.
Aleva.ider 111. the late rur of Hue
els. wae said to be an auiornti even In
the bo«t» of hta family, Nicholas II
however, I* the very reverse Me re
garde his consort as a good comrade
and when In urgent caaeg minister*
I seeh an audience isle In the evening
b* in Invariably to he found la b«r com.
paav. chatting and laughing without
restraint The rsar is itnerally orrw
1 pled at bis dash, white the rsartaa hue
tea hsreelf with embroidery work im
mediately a minister eaters She r«see
ss if ta retire, but more often than
otherwise the rear inform# her that
the la net awe tew many,
VrtMteU Itochu | |»j|
On- of the pee v isles * 4 Vvtwch
1'“*• fur: is a d<» i>» to Inherit prop*
! * “‘ v Wl him by n d* v -se*t patient
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