f:
FIGHTING JOE"
V'ulnthe Whoelor Blood Ono Son In the Army. Anothor In the Navy
' and a Daughter Woarlnn tho Rod Ctobs
Fighting families seem to constitute
one of the unusual features or our war
with Epnln. Patriotism Is as catching
ma the measles. Whole households Hre
stricken with It Fathers and sons,
mothers nnd daughters, all come un
der the spell. Take the family of Gen
eral Joseph Wheeler. The martini splr
'It of the old veteran is strikingly ap
parent In his children The General
was a llrecnter In his day, nnd the
taste of tho embers still lingers In his
mouth. Ills two sons and his daugh
ter have Inherited that taste.
"Fighting Joe" Wheeler was n mere
boy when the civil war broke out, but
he soon demonstrated that he had In
him the stuff thnt grent soldiers arc
made of. He was one of the bravest,
keenest and most daring officers In
the confederate army, nnd withal one
of the most successful. It seems to be
In the Wheeler blood.
Genernl Wheeler's nppolr.trr.ent as
major general In command of the env
nlry dlvlson received the plaudits of
both the north nnd south And now
the gallant general has been joined by
his son, Joseph Wheeler, Jr, who Is
serving on his father's stnff. Another
eon, Tom Wheeler, who is Just seven
teen years old, Is a mldshlpmnn on the
Columbia.
Another Interesting member of the
patriotic family is Miss Annie Wheeler,
the 20-year-old daughter of General
"Wheeler. When she announced her
determination to go to Cuba ns a nurse
the genernl was too much of a soldier
tq oppose her wishes She has always
been the Idol of his eye. nnd the pet of
his old friends, but, like a Spartan
father, he only sold' 'If It Is your wish
you shall go "
Miss Wheeler was very much In cor
iicst She had accompnnled her father
to Tampn, nnd uon securing his per
mission, she lost no time In applying
E. C. Elwell, who Is In chnrge of the
You can be married on shipboard,
with the pale moonbeams shedding
their effulgent mellowness on the scene
or If mal-dc-mer threatens Uie fair
Ited Cross arrangements for the cam
paign, to be off for Cuba, nnd no one
chafes at the delay more than this
pretty and accomplished young girl,
who Is abandoning a bright social ca
reer for the battlefields of n fever la
den climate.
. Joseph Wheeler, jr., the general's el
der son, Is Instructor of mathematics
at West Point. He had been granted
a furlough until September, and pre
vious to the declaration of war he had
made all his arrangements for n tour
of Europe, even going bo far as to se
cure his passage.
But the patriotism so characteristic
of the Wheeler family caused him to
niter his plans. "A fellow can go to
Europe any time," he nrgued, "It Isn't
often that he has a chance of fighting
for his country."
And now he Is spending his furlough
In the service of the government, hav
ing received an appointment on his
father's staff. Like his father, young
'Wheeler Is small of Btature, but he has
all the characteristic traits of his fight
Ing sire, and he may be counted upon
to make an equally Illustrious name
for himself If the opportunity Is given.
Tom Wheeler In only seventeen, but
his youthful blood Is Just as hot as It
would be were he twice that age. He
Is still n student nt Annapolis, too
young for graduation, but the fever of
war coursing through his veins had to
have some outlet. He wouldn't be n
true son of his father otherwise. He
PUZZLING SPANISH TERMS.
Many Other Facts Concerning the
Present War.
Porto means port. Rico means no
ble, rich, Illustrious, opulent.
San Junn (St. John) was the name
given tnc islnnd of Porto Itlco by Co
lumbus In 141)3.
The Cnrlbbeon sea washes the terrl
torys of the Carlbbs, whose name means
"cruel men."
All code books carried on wnr ships
have leaden backs, to assure their
sinking If lost overboard.
The letters In n code book are printed
In an Ink that fades when It comes n
contact with wator.
Jamaica Is a corruption of Xaymaco.
a native West Indian name, signifying
the country abounding In springs.
Haytl Is n native name, meaning
mountainous country. The name Cuba
Is of native origin; the meaning Is un
known. ,
At present 3.000 projectiles of the
heaviest sort are completed dally nnd
ehlpped to naval stations for transfer
to worships.
The area of the main Island of Cuba
is estimated at from 40,000 to 43,000
square miles; the Isle of Pines nt 1,214
square miles.
British war vessels are furnished with
lightning rods, nnd Mr. Edison claims
that they are an Indispensable protec
tion to all ships.
Santiago Is the Spanish form for St
James The city of Santiago de Cuba
was founded In 1514 and for several
years was the capital of the Island
Manila was founded by the Span
lards in 1571. It was taken by the
English In 1762, but restored to Spain.
It has often been devastated by earth
quakes. Tobago Island was so called by Co
lumbus from Its fancied resemblance
to the tobacco or Inhaling tube of the
aborigines. Our word tobacco Is thence
derived.
Yucatan Is a compound Indian word
meaning "what do you soy?" which
was the only answer the Spaniards
could obtain from the natives concern
ing their country.
Spain expressed the English of His
panla, a word founded upon the punlc
"span." a rabbit, owing to the num
ber of wild rabbits found In the pen
insula by the Carthagenlans.
The present output of powder In the
Vnited States amounts to 16,000 pounds
a day. of which 12.000 pounds Is fur
nished by one eastern firm, and the re
mainder by a Pacific coast concern.
Porto Rico was discovered by Colum
bus In 1S93, but was conquered by Ponce
de Leon In 150S-20. who, It Is said, re
duced 600,000 natives to slavery. They
were afterward exterminated.
More powder has been burned In the
San Juan bombardment and the oc
casional small engagements along the
Cuban coast than has been consumed
for saluting purposes since the civil
war
Telegraph operators In war are mere
civilians, but Congressman Belknap
haa a plan to organize the telegraph
branch of the service Into an ottlcered
department, having rank and prestige
with the medical corps.
It costs the auxiliary cruisers St.
Louis and Harvard $50,000 a year for
the handling and loading of coal after
the fuel Is purchased. It requires forty
hours for one of the ships to take on
3,000 tons. Coal Is worth 110 to $25 a
ton In the West Indian ports.
In the West Indies, when an Amer
ican warship needs coal It Is towed up
AND HIS FAMILY
was given n furlough from the Nnva.
Academy until October, and the fir
thing he did was to write to the sec
retory of the navy offering his serv
ices. So successful wns he that he It
now serving on the Columbia ns a mid
shlpmnn Thus the army, the navj
and the Ited Oross society are all rep
resented by the Wheeler family
When the wnr of the rebellion broke
out peneral Wheeler was 24 years old
and n lieutenant in the Third cavalry
of Alabama He leslgned nnd was up.
pointed a lieutenant of artillery in the
confederate army During lno summej
of 1SG1 he wns additionally honored by
being appointed a colonel of Infantry
and commanded an Infantry brigade
nt the battle of Hhlloh. In which en.
gagement he distinguished himself, re
ceiving the crpnomen of "Fighting Joe."
He wns then assigned to the cavalry,
became n brigadier genernl. nnd In less
thnn three months major general and
cavalry corps commander, continuing
thnt command during the entire- war.
When the war closed he turned his at
tention to Inw nnd crop raising. In
18S0 ho wns elected to congress nnd
has been re-elected nine times a rec
ord In Itself most extraordinary when
It Is considered that the south has In
many Instances forgotten her heroes.
The tiles of the war department In
the executive mansion show that every
time during the last thirty years that
there Iiob been the cllghtest .Indica
tion of war, Generjfl Wheeler filed a
tender of his servl cs to the govern
ment This was dooe even nt a time
when the law prohibited his being com
missioned, which vould have com
pelled him to serve s a private,
On May 4 Presldrnt McKlnley ap
pointed General Wht'ler n major gen
eral, and assigned llm to the com
mand of the cavalry division now en
route to Cuba. Sinew General Wheel
er's arrival at Tamya he has been
constantly with his command In camp
thoroughly familiarizing himself with
everything pertaining to his duties and
the condtion 'of his command.
General Miles Elnce nls arrival has
shown General Wheeler many social
attentions, nnd seems to be confident
thnt General Wheeler will represent
the United States ns nobly as he did
when he wore the gray years ago. In
fact, It must be salA that Genernl
Wheeler has shared In part the ova
tion showered upon General Lee.
Many Instances of General Wheel
er's brnvery are related by nriiiy vet
erans of both the noitli and the south.
Though scarcely more than a boy at
the outbreak of the rebellion, only a
Bhort time served to display his pe
culiar worth. At Shlloh lie won more
distinction than any other officer of his
rank. He was then placed In command
of cavalry, which he soon elevated to
make that position second only In Im
portance to that of the army com
mander. He commanded the van
guard of the army In advnnce and tho
rear guard In retreat during the en
tire war. and was distinguished In all
the battles of the western army, nnd
commanded In more than two hundred
cavnlry engagements He enjoyed tho
confidence and esteem of his common
dcrs not alone for his skilful and hard
fighting, but also for his good Judg
ment In nil mntters peitalnlng to cam
pnlgn nnd army movements, nnd few
genernls have ever possessed such ar
dent and unstinted devotion ns was
shown toward him by his officers and
men.
to a pier called the coal wharf. A
stout gangplank Is shoved fiom tho
strlngplece to the lower deck, and tho
bunkers are-filled not by derricks, but
by native women, who. to the number
of about two hundred, throng the
wharves, eager to get a "coal Job " Tho
coal Is carried on board in baskets, each
containing an even 100 pounds
After war Is concluded, it la usually
known by the names of the nations In
volved, the defeated power taking pre
cedence. The war between France and
Prussia In 1870-71, In which France was
beaten, was the Franco-Prussian war.
So the Turco-Russlan war of 1S77. the
Greco-Turkish war of 1S97. the China
Japanese of 1S9C Foreseeing the end.
the present struggle between Spain and
the United States Is already fixed In
history ns the Spanish-American war.
A, Spaniard was born In Spain. His
son, who wns born In ''uba. Is not a
Spaniard, but a Cuban If n Cuban
should go to Madrid when he Is two
weeks old and spend all his life In the
place he would still be a Cuban, and
not quite so good ns n Spaniard. If n
Spaniard should go to Havana when
he Is two weeks old and spend all hi'
life In that city or upon a plantation,
he would still be a Spaniard and enjoy
the distinction nnd soclnl position a
Cuban never attains. The sons nnd
dnughters of a Spaniard ore Cubans
If they nre born In Cuba; but the sons
and grnndsons nnd great-grandsons of
a Cuban must always be Cubans, no
matter If they were born In Madrid
and spend their whole lives in that
city. No Cuban can ever become a
Spaniard, no matter what happens to
him. and from the Spanish point of
view Is a degenerate.
Ethics and Business Clashed.
One distinguished gentlemnn from
Chicago, says the Denver Times, was
telling his friend at the Brown last
night why he objects to newspaper ad
vertising. "It wns when I begnn my practice,
he remarked, between the puffs of a
cigar from the seat of war, "down In a
little town In Georgia. Business came
pretty slow, and 1 had made up my
mind that I should not advertise, and
1 want to tell you how It came out.
The proprietor of one of the little pa
pers came to me one day with the re
mark: " 'Doctor. I wont a little ad from you
for the Weekly Razoo.'
" 'I couldn't do it, my good friend,'
I replied: 'for It would be a flagrant
vl6latlon of professional ethics.'
"What's them?'
" 'Why, the rules of the profession.
" 'O. I see. Well, couldn't you let
me use your name In cases where you
are called?"
" 'Yes: no objection to that.'
"'And you'll pay me for It?'
" 'Not a cent,' 1 replied, perhaps &
little harshly, for I thought the editor
was trying to work me.
"Out he went, apparently angry, but
I raid no attention to It. One dav I
was looking at the Razoo, and in It was'
the notice of the recovery of a little
girl In the town, and at the conclusion
was the brief but flattering compli
ment, 'Dr. annt In attendance. I
confess I thought better of the feltow,
and was pleased. The next week,
however, one of my patients died, and
at the conclusion of a very pathetlo
obituary notice was the same line. 'Dr.
22 B P cmfwyp shrdlu shrdl
Gannt In attendance.' You ought to
have seen me get to the office and get
an advertisement In the Razoo."
MAKES FRIOHTFUL WOUNDS.
Spanish guerrillas, whose shots kllld
American marine nt Guantanamo,
may not have mutilated the bodies af
ter death, but It Is believed thnt they
may have been guilty of n, crime Just
as brutal linl of using explosive bul
lets. Surgeons who examined the bodies of
the men wlu died ui Guantanamo have
reported that it Is pnnibl? thnt tn
ghastly mutilation weie caused only
by the bullets ft cm the Mauser rifles
used "by the Spanish, but in the opinion
of men who lime studied the work of
the Mauser rljle there Is much evl
dence to show thnt ihe Spaniards used
bullets that were practically exploslv
thereby violating eveiy law of human
ity In civilized warfare.
Dr, Von Coler witnessed the effects
of one of these explosive bullets, which
struck the forehead of a man at 54
yards. He says.
"The skull was shattered compltcly,
the bones and scalp who torn Into the
smallest, atoms and scntteted In all dl
tectlons. "The entire base of the skull was
broken tip Into separate pieces of bone,
pulpy. Nothing was left of the brain
but a little pulpy substance mixed with
frngments of bone."
Many years ngo every military power
but one agreed that, In war, It Would
use no explosive projectile less than
ono Inch In diameter. Spain was one
of the chief promoters of the agree
ment. The one nation which did not
join In the agreement was the United
States, and It refused on the same
grounds thnt a man might refuse to
sign nn ngreement not to be a traitor
to his country that the mere request
was an insufferable Insult. America has
nover used tho weapons that savored
of barbarism, she has never experi
mented with poisonous shells or sup
plied her troops with bullets thnt would
"mushroom" when they struck llesh.
Spnln hns done these things and Is
doing them yet, though Spain signed
the agreement.
It Is a fact, proved by many experi
ments, as well ns by the British cam
pnlgn In the Chltral, that only under
exceptional clrcumstnncea will one of
the small caliber bullets used In mod
ern military rifles cause mutilation.
The bullet Is specially prepared so
that It cannot "mushroom." It can also
bo special prepared so that It will .
and Spain & troops have found out how
to do It.
The Mnuscr bullet Inflicts a wound
horrlhle enough, even without the Span
ish Improvement. If one of the ordt
nnry bullets hits a man In the chest at
1,000 yards It will pasu through him.
The hole at the point of entrance would
not admit the little linger of a surgeon,
but that at the point of exit would ad
mit his clenched fist.
Under the same circumstances, with
one of the "Spnnlsh Improved" bullets
the wound nt the point of entrance
would admit a man's fist. There would
be no discernible point of exit, for
there simply would be no back left
upon the man thus struck.
This, according to the descriptions re
ceived from Guantanamo, exactly de
scribes the condition of the bodies of
the marines killed by the Spanish, ex
cept that, with true Spnnlsh courage,
they had sneaked up and shot them In
the back. The result was the utter de
struction of the viscera nnd the pro
duction of wounds of such ghustllness
that It Is small wonder the survivors
bclloved thnt deliberate bestiality on
the part of the Spanlntds had produced
the conditions they found.
The marines were probably wrong In
believing that Spanish knives nnd ma
chetes mutilated their dead comrades,
but when they learn, as they will, the
story of the bullets used at Guantan
amo, they are hardly likely to regret
the sternness of the revenge they took
the next day.
The bullets cnrrled by the Mnuser Ti
tles used by the Spnnlsh nre not as
large ns an ordlnnry lead pencil and
nio about one Inch long. A heavy
charge of smokeless powder gives them
a velocity unequnled by any of tho
larger calibers. Because of this high
velocity It was found at first that thb
ordinary leaden bullets "stripped" In
the barrel of the gun It wns also
shown that, because of this same veloa
Ity, they would assume strange shapes
and inflict the most horrible wounds.
Partly to prevent this loss of weight
In the bullet and partly from the dic
tates of humanity the ordnance experts
of every country have Invariably In
sisted that the leaden bullets shall be
Inclosed In a hardened casing of copper,
German silver or nickeled steel. Tho
Spaniards are supposed to encase their
bullets In nickeled copper.
MANY FLAT-FOOTED PEOPLE
Are you flat-footed? A huge propor
tion of the human race of the ptesent
are flat footed, and this is true of mnn
who are giants In statute and strength
and regarded as models of physical
manhood.
The Hat footedness of the race Is a
fact that has been established by the
Inspection of volunteers, who have of
fered themselves for enlistment. Many
otherwise perfectly eligible men have
been repjected by the urmy surgeons
solely because they have Hot feet. The
reason given for their tejcctlon Is that
a flat footed soldier makes a very pobr
marcher.
The flat footed man ban no arch to
his foot. The center of the foot Is on
the same plane as the toes and the
heel. His whole foot lests on the
ground at once. At llrst sight It would
not seem that the effect of this de
parture from the normal would be very
far reaching. Still, experts agree that
In persons with Hat feet the Inltimlty
causes serious injury and notable de
rangements of nearly the entire mus
cular system.
Man's walking apparatus Is arranged
for his comfort and ease In locomo
tion. It is not so in the case of the
man with a flat foot. To him walking
is always awkward and often painful.
Dr. Otto Sutter, who has observed
many cases, said. "Man's natuial walk
Is a process of falling With his heel
as a lever he raises himself on the ball
of his foot. His body falls forward
until checked by the return to the heel,
when It sinks back to earth. Thus the
normal walker Is alternately falling
forward and backward When the cen
ter of the foot touches the ground the
effect Is different. The walker no lon
ger has the rounded bones of his feet
to act as natural ball bearings. The
difference between his gait and an
ordinary man's Is the difference be
tween the motion of a sprlugless dray
and that of a rubber-tired sulky
"The man with Hut feet tan have no
elasticity In his gait The center of his
foot hits the ground first. To accom
modate himself to this reversal of the
usual order he must walk with a stiff
ness that jars his whole frame As
he walks 'stiff-legged' the muscles of
his calf are not bi ought Into play like
those of the normal man. The strain
is all thrown on his thigh muscles and
his pelvis He tires flulckly and is
subject to pains that the ordinary man
never feels, no matter how much be
may exert himself. There Is no known
cure for flat feet."
THE BLACK HOLE OP MANILA.
Spaniards had Prepared a Dungeon for Dewoy and His Sallors-
A Most Horrible Place.
Seattle, (ConeBpondcnco). An aston
ishing bit of news has just reached
this city from Manila. It Is that the
Spanish of that plnce were preparing
their prisons for receiving soldiers of
Dewey's fleet when they heard tne
Americans were coming. For Dewey
himself and his ofllcers the "Black
Hole" had been reserved, for these foei
Ish people really believed they could
capture the American commodore and
his whole fleet, This Information Is
brought by n passenger on one of the
Empress line of steamers Just arrived
frotn Yokohama.
The Black Hole Is In the fortress of
San Sebastian Intra Murros. Down In
the lowest part of this grim old prison,
standing on the harbor front, Is this
most Infamous dungeon known to the
modern world. In this place last fall
160 Insurgent prisoners were suffocated,
while for years past almost every day
Its dark walls have witnessed the
wholesale execution of state prisoners.
Around n small barred window of this
dungeon the people of the town are
accustomed to gather and watch the
progress of the slow death of their
victims from day to day.
It is a virtual burial alive. Not a
ray of sunlight ever enters, nor a drop
of water, nor a mouthful of food Is
given the prisoners.
The entrance to this dungeon is
through a cavernous tunnel In the steep
bank by the side of the fortress. Lux
uriant tropical vines cover nnd drape
this opening, so that the stianger would
never suspect It ns the portal of death.
A long, dump passage leads to the dun.
geon.
The room which hns been the scene
of such trngcdles and which was kept
In reserve for Admlrnl Dewey nnd his
men, Is black In reality as well an In
name, for It has but two small aper
tures, one Is In the stone celling and
la three feet squnre. with heavy grat
ing across It. Near this hole It Is pos
sible to get a faint breath of air from
the court above. To get their faces
near this opening In the celling men
have trampled one nnother to death
and stood on mangled corpses, for the
agony of slow suffocation transforms
them Into demons.
The only other outlook from this dun
geon Is a little grated hole In the floor
through which can be seen below the
green seaweed nnd the bnrnncled rocks
and the muddy tide washing In and
out.
Yet this usunlly soothing wash- of
the waves Is part of the torture of the
prisoners. Confined for days and weeks
without a drop of water to drink, in
a stlfllngly hot atmosphere, the sound
of water that they cannot tuste be
comes maddening. It Is the torture of
Tantalus lmprovpd upon by Spanish
art, for the mythical giant could feel
the cool waters about his limbs even
If they fled away when he sought to
drink.
Here 13 the thrilling story of Juan
Martinez, an Insurgent, who was con
fined last fall In the Black Hole.
"Into this death hole they forced us,
through the small solid door. My ones
and twos my comrades and other Mes
tizos who had been cnptureif came In,
bloody and weary and Hick, and at
once crouched down on the llnor near
the grating. There was no loom to lie
down. We sat foot to foot and shoul
der to shoulder, and still they came.
"Finally a body of su pi eased near
the narrow entrance to the Spaniards
could not crowd the last halt dozen
prisoners In. They closed the door with
a bang and went laughing away We
thought we bad gained oui point. It
was a mistake.
"A few minutes nfterwnid there came
a rattling and clanking at I lie grating
In the celling It was raised and the
body of a man wax flung down head
long among us. lie wax alive nnd
wounded Then came another and nn
other, until the entire half dozen had
been thrown through the trap door and
lay senseless on the stone llnor
"We made room for them somehow.
It wns afternoon, and Ihe nlr even In
the streets outside was breathless We
panted like dogs and tor our clothe
off In the effort to keep from fallirg
dead with the smothering heat
"We must have been a source of
great enjoyment to the Spanish offi
cers All the afternoon they came In
couples and threes to gaze at us thro'
the grating They Inughed and talked
and asked us how we felt. We swayed
and crushed together In gasping silence.
What was the use of replying?
"Ilan Kai and his bjother held the
center of the dungeon They were both
leaders of the Mestizos In the province
of Batanzas Han Kal was a giant In
stature, with a dash of Chinese In his
blood that showed In his oblique eyes
and high cheek bones. They wtre both
desperate men.
"At t o'clock In the afternoon there
came a squad of soldier? to the door of
the dungeon It opened nnd we were
revived by a delicious draught of air.
It was only for a moment In the
apace of a few seconds we were dlrven
back by sword and bnvonpt and Ian
Hal's brother was taken HWtry.
"To death? We did not know An
other two hours passed Two men who
had been crushed into the stagnant
snd airless corners bad died Thl9 meant
more air for the rest of us; but two out
of 163 Is not much, aftei 'all
"At C o'clock there came another rat
tle at the door, another delicious
draught of air. and Han Kal's hrother
was thrust In among us. He was eye
less. His feet had been gashed on the
soles, as a baker cashes a pie Thty
had been burned and seared and black
ened by fire.
"We gazed at him stupidly and then
went on panting and heaving and gasp
ing for breath All but Han Kal. He
spiang to his feet He blasphemed,
railing at heaven and hell He gnashed
his teeth and foamed at the mouth.
Again and again he sprang Impotently
for the grating in the celling
" 'Come.' he cried, 'come and hold me
up. I can break the grating '
AWFUL VENGEANCE.
"Three of us sprang to the frenzied
man's assistance A fourth climbed on
our shoulders Then Han Kal who
was as agile as a greyhound tn spite of
hl3 great size, clambered up He barely
reached the bars with his fingers He
lifted and tugged and swore Looking
up with straining eyes from the bottom.
I saw a face appear siocping over the
rating It was that of the Spanish
lieutenant who had captured him
' With a quick spring that knocked
us all In a heap. Han Kal grasped the
grating with one hand, and with the
other grasped the Spaniard by the hair,
hauling his face close to the bars.
Then, suddenly changing his tactics,
he let go of the grating and threw his
arm around the man's neck and began
to choke him with his right hand.
"Never a sound did the Spaniard ut
ter. His eyes started from his head, his
face grew purple, and he writhed like
a snake In his efforts to get away.
High above us hung Han Kal growl
ing and mumbling at his victim like
an angry dog.
"Sudednly there was a clatter of feet
and some soldiers came running to the
grating. It did not take long to grasp
the situation. Out came their swords
and In an Instant Han Kal was bleed
ing from an awful wound across the
throat. They cut at the great Mestizo
like demons, but Hon Kal hung on, bit
ing and snarling like a beast.
"Finally one of the soldiers knelt nnd
drove his sword straight down behind
Hal Kal's collarbone nnd Into his chest.
It wns the stroke that Spanish mata
dors use In killing a bull. Slowly Han
Kal's head lolled back and slowly his
huge muscles grew limp. His arms un
coiled, hung a little, and then down he
came to the stone floor with a crash,
the dead lieutenant staring down at
him with horrible bursting eyeB from
the grating above.
"About 10 o'clock as nearly as I could
Judge, the moon topped the bastions
of the fort, and a clear, white Bhaft
of light slanted Into the dungeon. It
seemed to rob the night of the Invisi
ble terror of smotheratlon, only to
bring out, with an awful distinctness,
the horrors that could be seen.
"The dungeon was bathed in a sort
of blue light, like that of an Inferno.
The floor was covered with a tangled
carpet of men. Hands were clenched
Into stony rigor. Breasts heaved deep
and convulsively. Faces grown ghastly
In the moonlight with lips drawn back
from the gleaming teeth, and twitching
spasmodically.
' Above we could hear the steady
tread of the heedless sentry, and below
the hungry lapping of the sea. The
tide was rising, and, thank God I
thought to myself the cold sea water
would refresh us.
"Pretty soon those of us who lay
about the floor grating were enabled to
reach the underrunnlng waveB with our
hands. We lapped up the water In
our palms, and threw It over the pros
trate and half senseless tangle of men.
Some It revived. Others It made angry.
"In their delirium some of the men
would moan horrible blasphemies In
the darkness. 'The Spaniards are Chris
tians,' a shrill, sick voice would cry;
"wo are not. They are torturing us
for the glory of their Christ, who died
to save sinners.'
" 'Sh-h-!' another unsteady voice
would moan; 'don't soy that. I am a
Christian. Christ was good. He would
not have treated us thus. God Is good.
He will take care of us. Glory to God!'
DEATH BY INCHES.
"Up came the water, Inch by Inch, un.
til at brief Intervals It filled the grat
ing with a low, half human sob. It
sploshed up Into the faces of those of
us who hung over the bars. It run
snakelike Into the room. With each
transitory filling of the grate the dun
geon fairly seemed to hold its breath.
Breathing did not seem to be a possi
bility while the waves flushed the hole.
"Then It dawned upon my mind that
the Spaniards had put us there to suf
focate. The thought was horrifying
The breathing spells between the run
of the waves grew further and further
apart. The sea was now coming In,
with a long weeping cry that I knew
was a death song.
"The shaft of moonlight had shifted.
1 could see In the lambent glow that
some of the men lay with their faces
under the water. Others, who were
drawing, tosesd their hands about,
weak and helpless. One reclined
against the wall with the water lap
ping about his shoulders. The trian
gular knife scar that marks all our
clan gleamed white on his knee. I
saw with a dull Intelligence that the
scar was on a level with his nose. When
the water reached the scar the man
would drown.
"It crept up nnd up, to chin and lips,
and then to his nose Then, with one
weak, strangling gasp and a vague
tossing of the hands he was gone I
could not help Jilm The water vvas
up to my shoulders and I began to feel
the heavy sense of oppression that
femes before asphyxiation
"Then right In the lacelike fan of
moonlight 1 saw the hat of my brother.
Tung Dow. It was almost on a level
with the water, and I could see his
forehead under It. He was dead.
"Summoning all my strength I crawl
ed up to the slanting floor through the
water toward the little door. I do not
know why 1 wanted to go there One
place was as good to dte In as an
other But I crawled up slowly and
weakly over the multitude of senseless
men Some of them struck at me. like
men In a nightmare Others tried to
bite me
"I passed threp dead leaders of our
organization 1 crawled over the body
of a boy who had Joined us on the day
previous. 1 made my way slowly past
the burned and eyeless brother of Hon
Kal. who was moaning feebly over his
dead.
"I reached the little door, toppled
over weakly against, It and fell witli my
face to the floor. 1 think that fall sav.
ed my life A thin, cool stream of pure
air assailed my nostills. It was so
thin nnd fnlnt thnt 1 could scaicely
locate It What a heaven it was! I
would have fought for thnt crevice
with my life. It came from nn Infini
tesimal crnck undei the door
"Before ninny minutes 1 was n new
man. Just ns the pale shaft of moon
light was fading away I sank Into a
sort of fevered doze that was a first
cousin to coma.
"When I awoke the small grating In
the celling was growing gray with the
dawn.
"What was to be our fate' I did
not know, nnd I cared very little Both
my brothers were dead and I was alone.
1 would far rather have died then than
to spend another night in that place.
Fifty-four men bad been smothered to
death or drowned The others were
so far gone that they could not possibly
recover.
"Why not try to pose ns a dead man
and be carried nut with them? The
thought came to me like a flash. I
would try It. at least
"For an hour or more I waited pa
tiently for the appearance of the Span
lards They came at Inst and so sud
denly that 1 barely had lime to fling
myself down and. haul a dead man
across my face
"1 will do Justice to the one gleam ot
humanity I have ever observed In the
Spanish nature
" 'Too bad.' said one; 'We would have
had fun hanging them '
"That was humane and considerate.
After awhile men came in with stretch
ers and began to carry away the dead.
When my turn came I held my breath.
A Spanish doctor knelt down and felt
my heart.
" 'Why.' said he. 'this man Is alive.'
There was astonishment and regret In
his voice. He rolled me over and felt
my pulse. 'Take him to the hospital,'
he said.
"I watched my opportunity and slip
ped away from the hospital scot free,
the only man, I believe, who ever en
tered the Black Hole of Manila and
came out alive and escaped to UU of
it" New York Journal.
COULD THROW A LASSO.
A very thick set, compactly bulll
man, who wore glasses nnd had a sorl
of rumlnunt smile on his broad, heal
thy looking countenance, was swinging
along a street In the northwest sec
tion a few afternoons ago, apparently
taking his time and observing thlngi
ns he went along, says tho Washing
ton Star. On the good sized lawn ol
one of the residences he wns pnsslng
there was a Hock of half a dozen young
boys In knickerbockers, playing Wild
West. They were screeching and hoot
ing fit to wake the dead, for they were
evenly divided, three of them being
bold, bad scouts, and the other three
'being Indians with nn especial mission
for yelling. They were having plenty
of fun with a couple of lariats, without
being able to exhibit any skill what
soever In the manipulation of the same.
One of the scouts would throw the lar
iat Ineffectually at an Indian five or six
times, with no more result than that
of scraping the Indian's nose with the
rope. Then the scouts would walk up
bravely to the Indian, place tho loop
of the lariat around the latter's neck
nnd drag him a few feet In howling
triumph.
The thick set. smiling man stopped,
leaned up against a tree netting and
watched this sport amusedly. It could
be seen from the expression of his face
that he liked boys. He studied their
play for a few minutes, and then start
ed to walk on. He hadn't taken more
than two steps before the singing of a
thrown rope around his ears Informed
him that one of the lads was endeav
oring to lasso him. Of course the lad
didn't succeed In doing this, but the
thick set, smiling man turned around
good humoredly.
"Bad throw, my boy," said he. "Now,
If I were a fleet maverick I'd be a good
hundred yards away by this time. You
boys haven't Just got the hang of rop
ing yet. Let me show you."
The boys, highly irteased at getting
a grown, good looking and good na
tured man Involved In their play, stud
led the thick set man with Interest. He
stepped out onto the lawn, took one of
the lariats out of the hands of he wil
ling lad and said:
"This isn't Buch a good lasso as It
might be, for it's not heavy enough, but
maybe It'll do."
Then he gathered the lariat up Into
a coll carefull, swung It about his head
a few times In a realistic manner that
made the boys stare, and In the twink
ling of an eye a little chap who stood
about twenty feet away near the steps
ot the house, had his arms pinioned to
his side by the loop of the lariat.
"Cracky!" exclaimed the boys In a
chorus. "I'll bet he's with Buffalo Bill's
show, all right. Aren't you, mister?"
"No, I'm not with any show Just
now," said the thick set man pleas
antly. "I expect'to be with a very big
show Indeed, though, a little later on.
But I've often seen men throw the lar
iat. It's all a knack. Any one of you
boys can learn how to do It if you
practice It carefully."
Then the good natured man stepped
from the lawn onto the sidewalk. As
he was resuming his stroll a young
mnn passed him, and, touching his hat,
said:
"Good afternoon to you, Colonel
Hoosevelt."
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt courte
ously acknowledged the salutation and
passed on, still wearing that ruminant
smile of his.
TROUBLES OF THE LOVERS.
At one of the big hotels of the town,
relates the Washington Post, there Is
staying a pair of recently married
young people whose honeymoon began
under most unromantle circumstances.
They came from a city In the middle
west, and their names well, let's call
them Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Mr. Smith
Is a sprightly young man who for yeara
has made It his pleasure to annoy and
embarrass such of his friends a3 were
indiscreet enough to wed. He has
strapped rice Into their umbrellas, he
has tied white ribbons nnd old shoes
to their baggage, he has chalked,
"We've Just been married" on their
cnrrlages, he has sent telegrams and
postal 'cards after them addressed to
"So-and-So and Bride," he has, In fact,
done everything he could think of to
make honeymoons unpopular. So, there
fore, when his approaching wedding
was anounced divers and sundry per
sons determined to get even with him.
Mr. Smith is sagacious as well as
sprightly, and he boldly declared that
he'd outwit them all. He engaged
rooms for himself and his bride at
three different hotels and berths on
three different trains. Several days
before the wedding the bride's trunk
was sent, empty, to the express office
and her belongings were carried down
to It In Installments. When It was
filled It was sent away by express. Mr.
Smith smiled to himself. After the
weding there was a reception at a fash
ionable club house and the divers and
sundry revengeful persons lay In wait.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith withdrew, went
down the back stairs, through the wine
cellar and out of the cellar door. Around
the corner a carriage was waiting.
They were to enter this, be driven to
the livery stable, step Into another
carriage awaiting them there, and es
cape unobserved, but Mr. Smith's
young brother had noted the cellar
door, and was waiting there with his
bicycle. He promptly sounded a horn
as a signal and rode after the carriage.
The persons In waiting with horns re
paired to the livery stable. The bride
and bridegroom stayed inside. They
knew that their friends were preparing
to make it pleasant for them at the
hotels and at the railway station. So
they slipped out the back way, and at
the end of their resources, went to tho
house of a surgeon they knew, rank
him up. and asked shelter for the night.
He had only his office to offer them.and
there, with a skeleton grinning cheer
fully at them, and an operating chair
the only comfortable piece of furni
ture the room contained, they stayed
till morning and then stole out to the
railway station and left town. They
do say, too, that the bride wouldn't
speak to the bridegroom for two days,
and I don't blame her, nor do I blame
the revengeful persons. Mr. Smith will
annoy no more bridal couples.
With a Rifle.
Adolph Toepperweln, San Antonio's
marvelous young rifle shot, has Just
performed another of his astonishing
feats. With a 22-callber rifle he stood
at a distance of 20 feet from a double
thickness of heavy paper, about three
feet long by two wide, and shot on It
the outline of an Indian's head. It took
exactly 152 shots to do the trick. It
was freehand drawing, as the figure
was not traced on the paper before
hand. This made the feat especially
difficult, as "Tep" had to place every
shot with reference to where Its pre
decessor had gone, and where all the
following shots were to go. In other
words, he had to have every detail
o fthe "drawing" planned out, and con
stantly tn his mind's eye while he was
shooting. One shot fired a fraction of
an inch wild would have spoiled tha
whole picture.
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