Last Battles of
War With Spain
While the peace negotiations with
3paln were in progreas to bring to a
close the war which has been waged
since April 21, and even after the pro
tocol was signed and a temporary ces
sation of hostilities declared, some of
the most Important battleB of the war
were fought aiyl won. On the day the
protocol was signed Admiral Dewey
and Oaneral Merritt, with the land and
naval forces under their commands,
made a combined attack on Manila,
forcing its surrender in twelve hours,
taking 7,000 prisoners and 12,000 stands
of arms. The day before, at which time
Spain's answer was in the hands of the
president, Manzanillo, on the south
coast of Santiago province, was bom
barded for twelve hours and at dawn
on the day peace was declared sur
rendered. Meanwhile Oerteral Miles In
Porto Rico was pushing his advance
lines on San Juan and even after re
ceiving word of the declaration of an
armistice had several lively skirmish
es with the Spaniards.
While Secretary of State Day and
Ambassador Cam bon of France, repre
senting Spain, were appending their
signatures to the peace protocol, Ma
nila, after a stubborn resistance, was
surrendered.
The stars and stripes were flung out
to the breeze that very evening on a
staff where had floated so proudly the
banner that for .150 years represented
Spanish sovereignty in the Philip
pines. Just as the fresh breeze snap
ped Old Glory straight on the halliards
the sun, which had been behind clouds
all the week, burst out in a flood of
brilliant light, saluting the first free
flag hoisted over the Philippines in
formal recognition of oppression’s
overthrow and freedom's onward
march.
The cheers from land and sea that
greeted the glorious ensign hail hard
ly died away when the guns of Admiral
Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, began
roaring out a national salute to the
new sovereignty in the Philippines.
The Charleston quickly followed, and
then the Raleigh, Concord, Hugh Mc
Culloch, Petrel, Boston and Baltimore,
and even the little Callao, that three
months ago boasted allegiance to the
flag that has now been supplanted.
In Cuba a similar scene, although
not so Important, was being enacted.
On August 12 Manzanillo, on the couth
coast of Santiago province, west of
Santiago de Cuba, was bombarded for
over twelve hourse, beginning at about
8:30 In the afternoon, when the second
rate protected cruiser Newark lay 5,
000 yards ofT shore and threw 6-lnch
shells, and the gunboat Suwanee, the
Osceola, Hist and Alvarado, at ranges
of from 600 to 800 yards, swept the
shore batteries with their 4-inch guns,
6-pounders and smaller guns. The ac
tive bombardment lasted until 6
o’clock, when there was a lull for an
hour. After that the Newark used her
6-lnch guns every half hour through
the night.
At dawn the next day white flags
could be seen all over the town and
also on the hills. Soon a small boat
wua discovered coming out to the New
ark under a white flag. Two Spanish
officers boarded the Newark and said
that they had been Instructed to In
form Captain Goodrich that a peace
protocol had been signed yesterday by
the representatives of Spain and the
United States and that hostilities had
ceased.
Meanwhile General Miles, unaware
of*the dawn of peace, was pushing his
forces on toward San Juan. On Aug
ust 10, three days before peace was
declared, the town of Coamo was cap
tured after a fight, and about the same
time another force was engaging the
enemy near Guayama. In the capture
of Coamo General Ernst’s brigade was
ordered to move at daylight. The
main body went along the military
road, while Colonel Biddle of General
Wilson’s staff, with the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania, made a detour to enter
the town from the north.
They met the Spanish forces outside
the town and a fight took place, which
lasted half an hour. The fire was hot.
The Spanish In the trenches were driv
en out. The Spanish losses are un
known. Our loss was six wounded,
one seriously.
While this battle was being wag"d
the Fourth Ohio was having a sklr
mlsh about five miles beyond Guayama,
The Americans were naught In an am
buscade and had It not l>een for speedy
reinforcements Companies A and C
would have probably been wiped out.
As it was several of them were wound
ed. This was the last fight In the war.
CELESTIAL PHOTOCRAPHY.
Ttas Sensitive Plate Iteveula More Thau
the Kye I'an See.
In September St. Nicholas there Is
an article on "Photography: Its Mar
vels," by Elizabeth Flint Wade. The
author says: Almost the first use In
science to which the new discovery
was put was the photographing of the
moon, the first recorded picture being
made by Prof. Draper, and presented
to the New York Lyceum of Natural
History. His son Henry grew so fond
of astronomical photography that on
leaving college he went to Ireland to -
see the great reflecting telescope of j
Lord Rosse. After seeing It he deter- j
mined to make one like It. The repu- j
tatlon of the Yankee hoy—-that he can !
make not only the thing he undertakes
but also the machl?ie that makes It—
was proved to be deserved by Henry
Draper, for he made and he mounted
the first American reflecting telescope.
With it he took over fifteen hundred
photographs of the heavens; and the
instrument Is still in use In Harvard
observatory. The telescope not only
reveals more than can be seen by the
eye alone, but the sensitive film sur
HKOUCH THREE ZONES.
The Oregon's Voyage it Trlom;>h for Anjr
Ship and a Wonder for a llattleslilp.
Monday, May 9, the Oregon left Ba
hia, and on the second night out passi
ed a lleet of vessels which she believed
were the Spaniards. On May 14 tha
Spaniards were reported at Curacao,
so it Is hardly possible that the Oregon
could have been near the enemy that
nfr’it. With all lights out, however,
she passed these vessels in the dark
ness, according to her orders, which
were *o “avoid all ships and make for
home ’ She put Into Barbados flying
a yellow quarantine flag to keep oft
inquisitive strangers, and within six
teen hours was off again, at full speed,
making 420 miles in twent ’-four hours.
Upon receiving a dispatch announcing
her arrival at Barbados, the secretary
of the navy had given out to the nation
that the great battleship was safe.
Jupiter Lighthouse, on the southeast
ern coast of Florida, was signaled on
Tuesday, the 24th, and again reported
the Oregon to Washington. Two days
later she anchored at Sands Key, off
Key West—safe at home, after the
longest voyage ever made by a battle
ship. And what was her condition
after her wonderful Journey? Her
officers reported: "AH In good health:
everything shipshape; no accidents;
not even a hot Journal.’’ After a stay
at Key West long enough to fling the
coal into her bunkers, she Joined the
fleet. They were drawn up in a wide
semi-circle, and she came sweeping
into the midst of them at fifteen knots
an hour, like a winner of a yacht race,
cheered by all the Jack Tars! As the
Chicago Times-Herald says, her voyage
is “a triumph for any ship, and a won
der for a battleship." Over 15,000
miles without a mishap, and fifty-nine
days at sea, "through two oceans and
three zones," on the alert for an ene
my during more than half the time—
surely it is a marvelous record, and
one not likely to be repeated. Do you
know what it means? A battleship
has fully seventy machines on board,
run by 137 steam cylinders. She la
The flAVAt* VKXT»r* AT Hahzanu.i-0
passes the power of the eye when alli
ed by the telescope, for the camera
records on the films objects which the
eye can not see through the groatest
magnifying lenses. No matter how far
away or how dimly It shines, the light
of the faintest star In time impresses
the film, and thus that which is invis
ible to the eye becomes visible on the
plate. In celestial photography the
camera is kept moving during the tak
ing of a picture. The exposure some
times lasts several hours, and If the
camera were stationary the motion of
the earth would soon carry the subject
out of line with the telescope. The
camera, therefore, is attached to the
tube of the telescope, and the object to
be photographed Is brought into the
lens at the intersection of two cross
wires. Then, by a system of clock
work. the telescope moves so that the
subject occupies the same position on
the plate during the exposure. In
the picture of the Swift comet may bo
seen small white lines. These are the
marks or trails of the stars. The
telescope was adjusted to the speed of
the comet, and as it traveled much
faster than the stars the photographs
of the stars appear as streaks instead
of as points of light. It Is another
curious feature of celestial photogra
phy that a plate may be exposed sev
eral nights on the same subject. I
have seen star cluster and nebulae pic
tures which were exposed, the former
on one and the latter on four succes
sive evenings. The picture showing
the nebulae required a total exposure
of thirteen hours and forty-four min
utes.
Heal Kutute.
Wallace—“We don't want Hawaii.
We wunt no heathen land.” Ferry—
"Hawaii Is no heathen land. It has
had missionaries for one hundred years
and while the natives may be heathen,
the land Is In possession of the Chris
tians.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
'/
/ ) Liyclv Jm/MOh
I w/rn we. Jflq/nvi
*£o<aLMi on He a'oaq ro
an enormous fortress, crammed with
delicate and complicated machinery
To build her, sail her, care for her and
fight with her requires brains, skill,
care, honesty, fortitude—in short, all
tho Christian and a few pagan virtues.
Photography In the Court*.
Photography is often called into
court as a witness whose testimony
can not be Impeached. It is a detec
tive of forged or disguised handwrit
ing; for no matter how clever an imi
tation or alteration, the eye of the
camera will search out, and the sen
sitive plate display, the fraud. A very
important case, in which the entries in
a document were in question, led to
the building of what is probably tho
largest camera in the world. The bel
lows may be extended twenty-five feet,
and is connected with a dark room,
which also serves as a plate holder.
The lens seems out of all proportion
to the size of the camera, being but
two inches in diameter, but its mag
nifying power is so great that letters
one-fourth of an inch in height can
be enlarged to seven and one-half feet
and appear In their exact dimensions
and without the slightest apparent dls*
tortion.—St. Nicholas.
Her Idea of It.
“Well, I'm glad o' one thing. Our
Jim seems to have good religious oom
P’ny.’’ “How is that, mother?" “His
last letter says he’s cornin’ home in a
converted yacht.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Treating » Servant Shabbily.
Hicks— (irudger prides himself upon
his literary attainments. He claims
to be a perfect master of the English
language. Wicks—1 hat’s no reason
that he should treat it so shabbily.
Terrible Stratta In the Klondike.
“Fearful destitution up at the Klon
dike," said Biggs. “Awful," returned
Wimbleton. “I’m told that a wooden
legged man up there had to chop his
leg up into toothpicks.”
which are you?
The woman who tosses her head and
steps on her toe as she walks Is a
coquette. She trifles too much with
love, and Is just the woman to miss
a good husband and be sorry ever
after.
The quiet man will never be happy
with the woman who digs her heels
into the pavement .and seurrici along
•s If she were running a race She Is
businesslike and most likely the wom
an to succeed in trade affairs, but her
manner is one of those simple things
that worry the quiet man to death.
The girl who cannot walk without
skipping is one of those wild, glal
gushers, who, when she has nothing
else to rave over, raves with joy be
cause It is Sunday or Monday, or Tues
day, or whatever the day of the week
happens to be; she is equally depressed
and lives in a see-saw atmosphere of
exultation or despair.
THE MARRIAGE BELLS
The handle turned; as the door
slowly opened a man who had been sit
ting by the fire rose to hla feet. It
was not the woman he had expected,
but, oddly enough, the very Individual
on whose personality his mind bad
been dwelling.
"I was thinking of you,” was his
opening remark, a* he bent to kiss her
hand. The hand was withdrawn. Un
der the clrcumslances the act was not
surprising. It motioned him to a seat.
He sat down, negligently crossing his
left with his right leg.
“Thinking of me—and expecting my
sister,” she replied, archly.
“The very essence of combination,”
he replied, politely.
"So you are going to be married?"
She started abruptly.
“At last,” he replied, Incautiously.
She raised her eyebrows and laughed.
“The experiment might have been
tested before had you elected." The
inference In her speech made her color.
“The natural attitude of a woman Is
unconscious exaggeration.” He at
tempted an evasion.
"You know I have not exaggerated,”
said she, quite flrmly.
“If it were possible, I wish you had.”
His voice was low.
“Who is to blame?” She turned
away. It was almost a whisper.
"God knows I thought you had mar
ried.”
“There was no occasion to think. If
God knew, St. James' would have
known.”
“It was reported In St. James’ you
had married abroad.”
“You believed?" she asked, scorn
fully.
The man bowed an assent.
“How conceited some men are,” the
woman exclaimed.
"That Is wofully true, dear lady,”
said he, quite pleasantly.
“Was It from pique or love?” de
manded she, quickly.
"I sincerely hoped It was not from
love," observed the man.
She made a gesture of Intense resent
ment. "How can you say such things
to me?”
“To whom else should I say them?”
The turn of affairs was becoming com
plex.
“You are to marry my sister?”
"That Is also quite true."
"You Jilted me-” *
"Which Is not true at all.”
"You know that you did."
"You should know that I did not.”
She turned her back to look out of
the window. Her toe tapped petu
lantly on the carpet.
“Circumstances ovef which-”
“It Is an error of taste to quibble,"
said she.
It was certainly no quibble, but he
ceased to explain.
“The whole season you acted as my
devoted slave-”
“To be your slave for a season is to
be your slave for a lifetime,” Inter
rupted the man.
“You evidently possess many lives,"
she retorted, tartly.
“If I did, 1 would lay them at your
feet,” was his earnest response.
“Where so many others have trodden,
I really should decline.” She spoke
disdainfully. “If I loved you then—
which I certainly did not—your con
FORGIVE ME.
duct—I cannot speak of It. I went
abroad, and on my return, It is my
sister. You are bent on keeping in the
family, but the family may not want
you.”
"To shut my eyes with your sister
only I prefer to keep them open—Is to
recall your voice, its very timbre, its
every inflection. Once, when her arms
were round my neck, it was you I eaw,
your face was there, your eyes sought
mine, your lips—oh ,God! Now, do
you understand—I love you still.”
"It is not fair to my sister,” said the
woman.
"Is it fair to any of us?” asked the
man.
“Your marriage to my sister—” be
gan the woman.
“Could it not be to her sister?” sug
gested the man.
"Whom you jilted," sharply said the
woman, by way of parenthesis.
"Forgive me.” pleaded the man.
"Don’t! Have you no tact at all?”
“It would seem I had very little."
She smiled sadly. “Did you really
think I was married?" presently in
quired the woman.
“The story was generally accepted.”
"What of this?” flashed out the wo
man. Her eyes were bright; her lips
drawn tightly together. She held be
tween the fingers of her hand a scarf
pin. The design was simple. A small
diamond glistened from the center of a
coil of golden rope. It could have
been symbolical of great love based on
a greater hope. Through a momentary
transition it became a satire, drenched
with tears.
“Let it be paramount,” begged the
man.
“Paramount! You forget who I am!”
cried the woman.
"For me—the beauty of the world"’
remarked the man. gently.
"Your visit to-day—” she toyed with
I the pin.
“I am thinking of two years ago,”
Ills voice was hard.
“What a cad you are,” said ehe, plac
ing the pin In her dress.
"I beg your pardon,” said the man,
humbly.
She looked at him. and her eyes were
tender as they lingered on the face of
the man. She held the pin In her
Angers again.
“This bond—” commenced she, look
ing at the pin.
"Can there be a bond between us?”
asked the man. eagerly.
"You make me weak. It Is not pos
sible. Yet I love you. Why were not
you true, too?" Her eye glistened,
“But I was. I am. This marriage
Is no criterion," exclaimod the man.
“Matrimony is customarily accepted
as a criterion," said the woman,
quietly.
“It Is nothing.” The man rose to
his feet.
“The Idiosyncrasies of nothing can
be tangible enough."
“What a tragedy my life will be,” de
clared the man, bitterly.
“By looking into your future you
omit my past," the girl rejoined.
“I believe some lives re-enact the
deeds of the past in the actions of the
future."
“What an awful comfort. It will
blight your happiness.”
"My happiness! My happiness—”
and he paused. The rustle of a gown
could be heard on the staL.ase. It
stopped at the door.
“Here comes my happiness,” said he,
cynically.
"Be courageous.” said the woman, as
her sister entered.
"There goe« my happiness," said he
to himself, as the former woman left
the room. At the door she turned;
their eyes met. The lips of the man
met the lips of the woman In his arms,
but his heart had already met the
heart of the woman by the door.
ANDERSON AT ANDOVER.
An Able Attempt at Alliteration Any
how.
Augustus Anderson’s Aunt Abble
anxiously awaited Augustus’s arrival at
Andover. Aunt Abbie annually asked
Augustus, and Augustus always accept
ed, and autumn after autumn, arrived
at Andover, as arranged. Augustus
arrived and anxiously asked Aunt Ab
bie about apples. Aunt Abble answer
ed, “Aye, Augustus, apples are abun
dant.” Augustus ate an apple, and
Aunt Abbie asked Augustus’ assistance
about arranging asters. Augustus as
sisted Aunt Abble about anything ask
ed, and Aunt Abble always appreciated
Augustus' amiable acts. Aunt Abbie's
asters artistically arranged, Augustus
asked Aunt Abble about afternoon
amusements. Aunt Abble allowed Au
gustus any agreeable amusements ap
propriate and attainable. Augustus
ardently admired Andrew Arnold, ar
9hitect, and also Andrew's adjacent an
tiquated abode. Augustus’ absorbed
attention amused Andrew. Augustus
accompanied Andrew around Andover,
asking about architecture, and Andrew
accommodatingly answered all Augus
tus asked. As afternoon advanced, Au
gustus again arrived at Aunt Abbie’s
abode, and Andrew’s and Augustus’ ap
pearance allayed Aunt Abbie's anxiety
about Augustus’ absence. Augustus’
abstracted air attracted Aunt Abbie's
attention, and Aunt Abble asked about
Augustus' afternoon amusement. Au
gustus’ animated account amused Aunt
Abbie, also Augustus’ anxiously asking
about accompanying Andrew Arnold
around Andover another afternoon.
Aunt Abbie amiably assented. Aunt
Abbie's assistant, Ann, arranged an ap
petizing array. Augustus’ appetite ap
peased, Aunt Abbie arranged Augustus’
attic apnrtment, and Augustus agilely
ascended. Aunt Abbie and Ann awoke,
and Augustus, already awake and at
tired, appeared. After Aunt Abble,
Augustus and Ann ate. Augustus ac
companied Aunt Abbie around, admir
ing all Aunt Abbie's arrangements, as
sisting Aunt Abbie and Ann, and anx
iously awaiting afternoon, Andrew Ar
nold, an ', additional adventures at An*
dover. _
A i'trd Life.
"It’s hard to tell just what to do,”
said the man who was sitting on the
back porch in his shirt sleeves. "Yet
one ought to get a start with such bril
liant propects opening up all over the
world,” remarked the next-door neigh
bor, who w 11 mending a hole in the
fence. "Yes, but supposing I had gone
to the Klondike I’d be so far away now
that I couldn’t go and help develop
Cuba. And if I go to Cuba I'll miss a
chance to go when the next rich terri
tory opens up. There’s no use of try
ing to deny it. This is a hard life.”
And then he tilted his chair back
against the wall and went to sleep.—*
Washington Star.
His End Hmlrneil.
A colleague of mine tells me a story
of a Scotch newspaper with which he
was connected. A local celebrity was
dying by inches. His biography was
written, and in the early hours of the
morning a printer’s devil used to be
sent across to ask for the dying man,
so that the obituary might be thor- !
oughly up to date. Morning after
morning the boy asked the landlady
the same question, till he got angry
at having to make the fruitless Jour
ney. At last one morning he got des
perate. "Is that man nearly deid?”
he asked. “The paper’s gain to press
and we canna’ wait ony langer.”—Lorn
don Sketch.
Danfferouii Experiment.
It is a dangerous experiment for man
to reject Christ in this world with the
hope of having a second chance aftei
death. The way of salvation has bet?.)
made plain and simple, and God is
calling to men to repent of their 6lm
and accept Jesus Christ as their savior.
—Rev. P. C. Cromick.
HANDSOME PICTURES.
■
Oftly a Short Time Rnmalnt In Which
to Oct Them Free.
The demand for the handsome game
plaques which have been given away
to purchasers of Elastic Starch this
season has surpassed all expectations
and has kept the manufacturers, J. C.
Hublnger Bros. Co., busier than at any
time In the history of their business.
Their offer to give these handsome
plaques away to their customers will
remain open only a short time longer,
and those who have not already availed
themselves of this opportunity should
do so at once. Not for years has any
thing as handsome In this line been
seen. The subjects represented by
these plaques are American wild ducks.
American pheasants, American quail
and English snipe. They are hand
some paintings and are especially de
signed for hanging on dining room
walls, though their richness and beau
ty entitles them to a place In the par
lor of any home.
Only until October 10 do Messrs. J.
C. Hublnger Bros. Co. propose to dis
tribute these plaques free to their cus
tomers. Every purchaser of three ten
cent packages of Elastic Starch, flat
iron brand, manufactured by J. C. Hu
blnger Bros. Co., Is entitled to receive
one of these handsome plaques free
from their grocer. • Old and new cus
tomers alike are entitled to the bene
fits of this offer. These plaqiv?g will
not be sent through the mall, the only
way to obtain them being from your
grocer. Every grocery store In the
country has Elastic Starch for sale.
It Is the oldest and best laundry starch
on the market and Is the most perfect
cold process starch ever Invented. It
Is the only starch made by men who
thoroughly understand the laundry
business, and the only starch that will
not Injure the finest fabric. It has
been the standard for a quarter of a
century, and as an evidence of how
good It Is twenty-two million pack
ages were sold last year. Ask your
dealer to show you the plaques and tell
you about Elastic Starch. Accept no
substitute. Bear In mind that this
offer holds good a short time only and
should be taken advantage of without
delay.
One fact is worth more than a thou
sand Improved theories.
No-To-Bac Tor Tlfty Cents.
Gusranv«l tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strung, oluod pure. 50c. Cl. All druggists.
Mourning over present troubles
makes us forget past blessings.
Coe's Cough lUhsm
I« the oldr.t and l>cst. It will break up a cold quicker
than anything else. It la ulwajr* rel'ahle. Try It.
New Train Service
via THE PORT ARTHUR ROUTE.
Omaha to Quincy, Omaha to Kansas
City, Omaha to St. Louis. Trains ar
rive and depart Union Station, Omaha.
Many cheap rates during the Fail
months. Ask your nearest ticket agent,
or write Harry E. Moores, C. P. & T. A.
1115 Farnam st., (Paxton Hotel Block)
Omaha. Neb.
Price—Something every man thinks
every other man has.
I shall recommend Ptso'a care for Con
sumption far and wide—Mrs. Mulligan,
Pluinstoad, Kent, England. Nov. 8, 1SC3.
Close your eyes to truth and you
tumble into the ditch of error.
Mn. Hinuow*! Booiliing Hvrop
Fop children te«*thlng.*oftem» th« gruiu*.ream-exlnflam
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A Brazilian has patented an artificial
tooth, which is hollow, and has a valve
in one side, through which the air is
exhausted, to cause the toot., to grip
the Jaw after the tooth has been fitted
to the gum.
A glass firm in Indiana has received
an order for 500 glass fence posts, to
be of the usual size and grooved for
the reception of wire.
The Fall
With its sudden changes, its hot days and
chilly nights, dampness and decaying
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health. A good Fall Medicine in as Im
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Hood'a Sarsaparilla keeps the blood pare,
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gives refreshing sleep, and maintains tiia
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