THE COURIER
II
LITERARY NOTES.
Are women mean in money matters?
is the subject of a symposium in the
Christmas issue of the American Queen,
The symposium is cleverly worked out
by Gertrude Atherton and Adeline Sar
gent. Lois Knight contributes an ar
ticle on Christmas Church decoration,
and gives a number of original illustra
tions for adorning churches in holly and
and mistletoe for the holiday season.
The cover is a clever sketch by by Tra
ver, titled "Under the Mistletoe,' pre
seuting a woman paying the forfeit of a
kiss beneath the mistletoe bough.
The most sunguinary naval action of
the war, and on that showed well a
phase of that reckless daring and cool
effrontry displayed by American soldiers
and sailors, was the engagement be
tween the American vessels and the
Spanish gunboats off Cardenas May 11,
1898. The torpedo-boat Winslow went
within half a mile of the wharves of the
town, with the intention of drawing the
Spanish gunboats from their hiding
places, and inducing them to give bat
tle in the open. Suddenly, from behind
the corner of one of the piers, their
came a flash, followed by a faint puff of
vapor, and a shell screaemd past the
Winelow. and before she could turn,
from three or four other places came the
the Hudson struggled for more than
twenty minutes at a task that at each
moment grew more helpless. At last a
fortunate sheer, a quick shift of the
helm, the line was thrown, caught, the
hawser was bent on, and the two little
crafts started to draw away from their
most dangerous position.
It wa9 at this time that the tragic
event which has given this engagement
its sad prominence occureri. The offi
cers and crew of the Winslow were
gathered along her rail, waiting to grasp
the expected heaving line. Grouped
around the starboard gun were anofticir
and four men. And they stood there,
says Lieutenant Earnest E. Mead, the
navigating officer of the Hudson, in his
article on "The Rescue of the Winslow"'
in Harper's Magazino for December,
the man szpectant, every nerve faint,
waiting to grasp the elusive line, which
was their only chance of escape from al
most certain destruction, the officer,
self contained, smiling, a perfect antidote
to nervousness in his calm bearing.
The next instant they were gone. A
flash barely visible in the glare of the
sun, a report, unnoticed in the noise of
the battle, a faint puff of vapor, and, as
it cleared away, it was seen that five
men bad been wounded, kilied, de
stroy cd by an enemy's projectile. One
cry, a few muttered curses, and the crew
hurried to their stations.
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precision came the destructive projec
tiles and the fight was on.
The Winslow was soon followed by
the Wilmington and the Hudson, but it(
was to the Winslow that the Spanish
gunners devoted their energy and their
shells. One of the first shots struck her
and partly lamed her. Fairly deloged
with shot and shell, and strnck in a doz
en places sh still fought on, and it was
not until her steering-gear was injured
and she became unmanageable, that her
commander thought of withdrawing.
Bat then it was too late, for her machin
ery was stopped and she was rapidly
drifting towards shore.
It was then then that the Hudson
came within hailing distance of the Win
slow, and Lieutenant Bernadau, the
commander of the Winslow, called out
that his vessel was totally disabled.
The Hudson was steered for the Wins
low, close enough to throw a heaving
line to her. The line fell short. Re
versing the engines and putting the
helm to the starboard, the captain of
the Hudson tried to back his vessel
down to the Winslow; but working di
rectly against her helm she backed
aaound until she was bows on to the
Winslow and, moving directly away
fiom her. The water was so shallow
that the Hudson wasunmanageable.and
fate in the garb of the regular afternoon
eabreeze was setting the Winslow every
eaoment nearer the shore, and into a
zone of more murderous fire. Back
aad forwpad, swerving this way and that
Aguinaldo was born on the 22d day of
March 18G9, at Cavite Viejo, and his ed
ucation was such as the schools of the
little country town w re able to provide
KMILIO AOC1NALDO
from Huru'i Weekly Copyright. 1898, by Han'
Brothers.
and his lire was spent in business to his
twenty-fifth year, when he was elected
Mayor of Cavite. On the 20th of Aug
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ncWScJ was in danger
PLUG there would be
an army of men (who chew it) ready
to rescue it: large enough to shovel
Spain off the map of Europe. No
other chewing tobacco in the world
has ever had so many friends.
Remember the name
vhen you buy agaifL
ust, 189C, the governor of the province
of Cavite reported to Manila that every
thing was quiet in Cavite, and no in
surgants to be found anywhere. Agui
naldo on his way home the day after,
the 21st of August, 181)6, heard that a
warrant had been issued for his own
arrest on tbe charge of siding with the
insurrectionists. Instead of going home
according to Captain W A. Harper, who
writes of his interview with Aguinaldo
in Harper's Weekly for December 3d, be
gathered twenty of his friends around
him and waited for the arrival of the
warrant. On the 22d a captain of the
civil gaurd and two sergeants appeared
to arrest him and were promptly killed
ThiB started the revolution which has
culminated in making him president of
the Phillipine republic.
in the desert of Takla-makan all these
go to make up an almost unparalleled
story of human daring, suffering and
endurance.
The man to whom the agonies of
starvation and exposure were but minor
considerations when weighed in thebal-
Dr. Sven Hedins' account of his ex
traordinary journey accroes the conti
ffett of Asia is one of the most thrilling
narratives of endeavor, in the face of
well nigh overwhelming odds, which has
ever been written.
Dr. Hedin left his native city of Stock
holm in 1893, and from that time until,
in 1897, his task was accomplished by
entertng Peking, he was engaged con
stantly in a desperate struggle with the
tremendous diffculties which beset his
way. His successful passage through
Pamir, where progress beeame a cease
less battle against snow and ice and
cold, where often the only method of ad
vancing was upon the hands and knees;
the thrilling ascent of the "Father of all
Ice Mountains." Mus-tagh ata; his ter
rible fight againet thirst and exaustion
ifPv III,
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nim "Tlinmjh m fontr cl,, 1809. by lArr I
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ance with the cause of science, the man
who, after nine days without water,
paused on the brink of a stream to note
his pulse before and after drinking
surely possesses tha perseverance which
must eventually surmount all obstacles.
"Through Asia" which has just been
published by Messr. Harper & Brothers,
opens to the reading public the portals
of a new world. It is the account of
what, with the sole exception of Nan
sen's attainment of "Fatbrerest North,"
was the most extraordinary journey of
of the century.
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