THE SAILOR'S FAREWELL, We'll sall away by morning, At the day's first dawn of light, When the guns are loudly booming And we're stripp'd to win the fight. 80 cheer up, my own sweet dove, Let not grief thy beauty stain; As a proof of faithful love. Wear this gem and golden chain. Then farewell to home and wife, I go where my duty guides; "Tis a proud and gallant life, The mate of a sailor's bride. If 1 should fall, my darling, ‘Neath the foeman's deadly hand, Remember 1 died fighting For freedom’s glorious land, Bo chase away all sorrow While the merry bugles play, Though darkness veils to IOrrow, The light will come nex: day. Then farewell to home and wife I go where duty guide "T's & proud and gallant The mate of a sailor's Bunning Me Gauntlet. I found myself, a few a port on t west America during one tious which the South American republics. then an United States ¢ The 8, ¢ ie, bride, in South revolu years ago, coast of of see 80 characteristic of I was engineer on San Francisco. in the hands the forces recognized govern ment; but had making recent gains in places not far away, and admiral, in order protect American interests, brought little consisting of tee San Francisco, Baltimore and the Pensacola, into the harbor, English, French and German men ol-war were present, city on ACTross Once Qf he those assistant the ruiser ol Dart was of the the revolutionists been fo had our his leet, the uch also of a harbor shore the he Hes the broad, lies a ular, deen bay. Summer resort, at the ti write frequented The distance f ! summer resort is only miles in a far around railroad con 0 places and it i £ a remarkable ride that 1 took on that 1 I had & were it quire a langu possih habitants accent whose very | which 1 Mp but me rom the bay. road 1Ze, i and aequa Wis know i he 8 been iad still engineer motives and t I had on his siderable talk he who, how of it ali For a daily Pre fogd fleet, sixty dril a the on a polat To restore ernment grand review at the old su appointed day the port wit pulling a crowded wi The men w. well uniforme government lag veterans o marked t make a goo ‘A gude Scotty, “Ye dinna k tha’ Donna Maria aroun’ von northern entranes of be a great scatter ng The vonna Maria all the other public, was in revolutionary party. After the review in was over [ hurried back to the stat and caught Scotty's engine just Was starting back to the port first train-load of returning troops. On the engine was a government col. onel and some of the field officers of bis regiment. 1 was in civilian cloth: | ing. and as I swung up info the gang. | way, the colonel, in a pompous and | bombastic manner, inquired of Stotty | why 1 was there, i “Amigo de mio," —friend of mine, | said the laconic Scotty, and further explained in very poor Spanish that | 1 was an “Official abordo el buque de | guerra San Francisco.” i At this the colonel relaxed. He and | I were soon engaged in conversation an opportunity of which he availed | himself to impress on me the absolute | bsurdity of any naval force attack. ig with any hope of success a place ned by soldiers so brave as his n, especially when commanded by an officer so valiant as himself. All his fierce gesticulations and grandilo- quent expressions were closely fol. lowed and tacitly applauded by his fellow officers; but while these terri. ble warriors were boasting of thelr pied yt spoke y 6» and showe ROTH over there from His engine slowly flat Ls J d'ye sav?” Slows Indicating #1 he bay, 13 d8 Weil 48 nea r + rly vRaolg 3 f the 1 the possession of the the afternoon on, as it with t The pull was up-grade for the first moved The track was but a few feet above the water of the bay, which it skirted all the way to the port station. Looking seaward, I noticed the smoke of a steamer rising from behind the north point of the bay, and I called the attention of my companions to it. “Es of vapor del norte,” sald the colonel, and the conjecture was plaus ible, for the mail steamer was ox pected; but just then a ball of smoke swelled into a cloud from the gun on the south point of the bay, where the steamer could be seen, Then, even as a moment later we heard the report, a low, ugly, lead-colored, two masted war-vessel appeared from the north. A flash from her bow, and instantly we saw the dust rise from the redoubt on the south point where the gun was located. The fireman with a yell of terror, “La Donna Maria!” took a flying leap from the engine on the land side. “La Donna Marla!" echoed the col- onel, turning pale. “La Donna Maria!” yollad the other officers in chorus. “It's La Donna Maria,” said Scotty, coolly, adding, with reference sure mair the day.” It indeed built by republic, the dreaded Donna | popular subscription | and believed by t to be the most | formidable afloat, | She paid no further attention to the | gun on point, but steamed straight into the bay. Her commander had! our train of soldiers. We were | eritical position. It would re- fully twenty minutes to take the way port all was in the he lower classes there vessel the seen in a quire train station, the rest of the 0 the nearly the we | be under fire, dared not shell the town, for if she attempted it, the foreign! war present would immed) ately have opposed her. A train load troops was a different matter. She at them so long as the endanger anything else, her how gun again, striking the water a few yards off shore without skipped up a few feet above That business way The Donna t and, should Maria had vessels 0 could shells did shoot not Boom! went The shell hundred i ex oding, ar next behind the engine The missle set him wild. the oolonel. the sword he approached commands, ordered kim t summer olley of ies Ou resort, but 3 3 3 which attention to him onsiderable redue Ww the de Sor had reached the remain ing to We and un would be id grade on level track. ahead Donna suell ex. moving tien yar i fies ngine, his sword drawn back ther and secmed erazy eo vith nervousness, nr in we stog } re to go § orders {si the fire a bit” open the firebox door. oul, took the bi ed up the Sonne 1 fire noned seemed impressed oe I¥'8 manner or by his ady ‘#8 hand. Cert: tason to cocked the ox a #111 as still re be eX bad some His men rectly helpless on CArs, i were pe Wis a seaward side Dana engine, a poor affair at her stesm, train Maria best, was MONE UR on Lae the Our fast losing train furiously angry r* "he soldiers on wildly ~y otty for not stop the were eX eited, and back®s and only prevented nz in the cab heir officers were tender looked ii by fact there amd thie in bark at tha rollin or Ick at the yelling tron of rifles in mn contempt, many them were psele in than ssly firing their the direction of the half wi enemy, les away. 1 the fire, and nin the steam gangs, lad.” said Sg off the more two and a my m was doing best tn SOON 8a Ww ‘Stick & ga t Scotty, to never taking his « others, “How's her “It “team 7 reads one hundred and Ave, It's going up?’ pulled other notch. and = e ted Scotts out ti ie throttle an- our speed began to We had about five miles to Douna Maria's did we should make increase If us no serious damage + 20 the shells Another puff and a roar from her | broadside bat tery! She was now about two and a half miles away, and conld use her smaller guns, i Bang! a shell exploded not fifty ards ahead of the engine, SBmasa! a piece of it struck the copper feed pipe of the left injector! Instantly the whole side of tae engine was in a “Bhe’s all right, Scotty, it's only the | pipe!” I yelled: and Scotty never bead. The heroic officers | were cowering in the conl space. i Thud! went a shot into the bank on | the land side; it had passed but a fow | feof over the engine. The steam. | ty pounds. The old engine was tester. | ing up and down like a yawlboat ina! short sea. Then from the bluffs right over our heaas came the roar of a field battery, The government artillery was taking a band. I looked toward the Donna Maria. Water was splashing high be. tween her and the shore, The range was too long for the light battery, We had yet a mile to safety. The Donna Maria redoubled her efforts; her sides blazed: but the aim of her gunners was poor. Seotty grinned as he pointed toward them. “They're rattied, ad.” be said. “They canna hit tha side o° South America tha noo!” And so It was; the faster they fired, the wider from the mark went thelr SUeus, When we drew Into the port sta tion and safety, Scotty, still protected by his pistol, sald to me, “Tell them hombres to go, and go quick !™ I translated, and the officers and went quickly, too! Then, as they left, Scotty stepped over to me, and grasping my hand in a vice-like clasp, said, “Ave, lad, but it's a pity ye're In the navy. Ye'd mak’ a gran’ enginedriver in time, An,’ lad, next time ye're pravin® on ver knees, dinnn ye forget thank God that ye come from a race of men that can Keep thelr wits aboot them in the time o' danger.” Free 8. Bow. ley, in Youth's Companion, went to VILLAMIL A MAN OF NOTE. Well Knowa in New York Society. Villamil torpedo the ex Admiral Fernando of Navy, the boat pert, whose death in the sea fight off reported by Cape Blanco to Madrid, was New York, He made » number of visits to the city, the last in 1854, a tour orld for the of giving them Instruction. a man of much tenacity of a martinet on board ship, but personality when met in a He was born in Astur las, where his wife and daughter living. Up to four years ago, when he was a Commodore, he almost un Known, be had by hard work, and was but seldom the court. In that ordered to Ran Sebastian to for youthful Regent. His envy other has been tain-General when he made with being 500 cadets purpose He w purpose, as pleasant social way are Wis as won his rank seen he act Kiag and appointment Spanish oppor royal f: Hamil Destructor year was guard Queen the as the the excited naval tunity At that torpedo of officers, who desired the of being near the time Y boat designing YI Ena ned his own of the navy size and Regent i rested een iy nie in ng machine and y it, causing ne other 1:1 ddie « SUmmey decided tnke chose the This Minis niral Villamil was g board the Destrocts that 1 was asked vessel, He st, and it rely put a number of splot when | iw was that qo ny representing driftwood fHoat } leneath the the words, the Destructor.” He wen, written find Photographing the Monkey. "One of the most dificult brutes to photograph is the monkey,” «ald a mar in New York who makes a business of taking pictures of all sorts of animals and “You may try as much as you like, but you Will never suceesd in making a monkey look into the center of a camera for even 8 se ond. Its glance always shifts off to one side of the other. Nor will it ever your fix own upon Yours, and I have come to the cone In #ion that a monkey cannot jook at a camera any more than it ean a human being in the face, “Take a dog's hands and look Into its eYOR, The beast will return Your gaze, not for long, perhaps. for the contemplation of human intelligence distresses all animals. But it not so with the monkey. Hold its head as patiently You please between vour hands. Ty i hirds, straight cateh eve of ita head In your two is ing and keep on winking or cast them down to the floor as if asleep or twist them around in a most absurd fashion to look over ane side or the other. but never. even in passing by it. will it cate yours, “Why is this? I don't know, unless regarding our own origin that it does not wish us to find out However, if they are bashful they are very in- quisitive, and if I were to leave my camera unguarded for ten minutes in a cage containing a dozen monkeys half the family would be busy taking photographs of "the other half.” Washington Star. A —— The Bravest Are the Tenderest. That the “bravest are the tenderest™ was once more demonstrated in the fight at Santiago Bay. Captain Phil ip of the Texas made a dash for the Spanish ships the moment they put their noses out of the harbor. When the yellow and red flag was pulled down on the Almirante Oquendo, the commander of the Tevas gave the or- der to his men: “Don't cheer, because the poor devils are dying” The di- rection was as chivalrous as it was characteristic.—New York Sun. a ———————— ~ SPAIN'S PRISONERS, CUBANS RARILY LIVAD LONG AFTER THEY WERE CAPTURED. How One Insurgent Made His Escape From the Dreaded Morro Castle in Havana An Experience That Reads Like a Chapter of Dumas, have fre barbarities “The American papers quently dwelt upon } practiced by the Spaniards upo 1 their unfortunate captives in Cuba.” said # member of the insurgent colony now in New York, “but with all their ac tivity In bringing the cowardly and inhuman characteristics of the Span Ish people to light some of their worst atrocities were never made known. “As a general thing a Caban did not live long after Into their hands to experience much more than the of pain which attended the act of putting him out of however, our enemies were compelled, for one cause to retal SOMe thelr insurgent captives in prison for vary The sufferings of who exper Spanish the enough getting short period existence, Occasionally, or another, of ing lengths of time, those enced the made death appear to them as all their form. of this to unfortunates hospitality of a Jaller a wel no come relief from miseries, matter what its “The country have had opportunity Judge of the | treatment meted out to their prisoners by the Spaniards from the appearance of the few Cuban refugees who land ed here lust fall after hav ing endured | the of incarceration Ha ! vana's Morro. i" i one citizens an 0 horrors in Know in of men i Spaniards and made good of just one « Ase our Was caugn | after having been lodged a dungeon Morro harbor of Matanzas coast of the experi rom in { underneath at the | the rn entrance to Ast island. he story of Hoes of Dumas Mari wi cuaapier Olle “Jose all his He cam wis and spent island, he attended ope He hg Je ars when ! Country SE 10 one « ate at the ion. With Marl gas : all the f fompanion a firing “if vias i Iv allow reach weapon and killed him # $ $i Ui fis CAPLIVe tha in The sol “Mari was bound and placed centre of the Spanish forces i diers plied him with insulting epithets | but he was not badly treated on the whole, and by the time place of his incarceration was reached he had | begun to take quite a favorable view | of the situation. His grounds for con | gratulation were duration | however for any consideration whic | the soldiers had shown him was abun i dantly atoned {or by the commanda it of the citadel “Bound ax he was Marl was thrown down a flight of stone steps into what appeared to be a black hole. One of the turnkeys followed the prisoner down the steps in the ordinary man | ner and unlocked an antiquated iron { door similar to those in the prison Keeps of the old baronial cas ties Europe, The turnkey seized Mari by the collar of his coat and dragged him into a fairly good sized room, with a narrow, heavily barred window at one end. “When left to himself, Mar! turned over the various aspects of the sita: tion in his mind, and decided that if he was going to save hiz life he would have to begin right away. Escape by the window was impossible, amd the the of short send in which Mari had po implements to force his way. Mari was lef: for two days without food. then merely te ceived some cold rice. man with the means of regaining his freedom, however, for Mari buried himself upon the attendant, and. striking him with his shackled hands, 4¢ best him into insensibility “His captors had failed to shackle his feet, and Marl wasted a few val unable moments in attempting to loos en his hands, “He finally found a key on the keep er’'s ring which fitted the manscles on his wrists, and arming himself with the attendant's revolver he made his way cautiously to the head of the stairs and there awaited an opportu. nity of making his escape, There were six sentries posted about the fortress enclosure, but Mari had no dificalty in eluding them, even in the daylight, He knew that his absence would soon be discovered and a search instituted through the surrounding country. He therefore hid durlug the rest of the day, and waited for night before at [ tempting to rejoin our forces, You may be sure he was well received when he reached nis friends” The Boy Hero of Sevilla Among those who fell in the flerre fight near Sevillu, Cuba, wik a New York City boy only sixteen years old, who had in the United States Regular Army ouly since March last, In the circumstances that led to his Joining the Ariny and meeting in con an early but herole death Is a tinge of pathetic romance, Jacob Willinski was his true name, hut he enlisted in the 1st United States Cavalry under the name of Jack Berlin For vears he lived with widowed seversl brothers and | Pitt street, and Wis { School No 24, In Broome | Though only 16 years old, he was ful ly six feet feet tall, and at lenst four years mother | served Been ce there several mother Bisters nnd 16 Lis at No Sires, looked hires His Long I sireet, it w or mare % Dow living ae but his age. { Masveth Inland, [row his | gister, Mrs Ww { No. 12 Pitt he disappeared from last until Apri his nn ‘in ho lives at as learned that home early Fel ¥ hin Wrote to from mother {his enlistipent, “1 "in the United am going meet | the hohe with nin an Army,” where | He explained while Ntates he wrote to Cuba, expect to my at Bale BR one night ¢ his pocke money ving that the excus y would no as tm tated to he accepted 1¢ hie hos return to his mother tid not puck courage home that | phia told with Reaching a day pends Mar: You are hows] kept It Ihe man progesd amused £9 Lg, as Nit fod Ix after which t mu its daily delight of both conspirators ito he 3 aanr wise out for found them away man's wife the York Post. out ot se Cadiz sm Ancient City. The « of Cadiz, ed about 1.000 Phoeni wax la ity Spain, was f years B. O ans. who called it Gadir conqueragd by the whom it passed to Ye®|r 206 B.C the city was then Julin Gaditana mains of a temple of the | Hercules and other the ancient city low water. Cadiz a part of the dominhion the and in 711 it Arabs, who eld it as a portion of the Khalifat of | Candova until 1262. when it was Cap tured by the Christians In 1566 1 captured, pillaged and burned by the English. The booty secured by them was enormous. They destroyed thirteen ships of war, and forty treasure gallons, causing al | most universal bankruptcy in Spain | Unsuceessful attacks on Cadiz were again made hy the English in 18% | and 1667, aud finally in 1702, at the [time of the alliance between Spain and France.—New York Sun. A Dog That Talks. H. W. Meyers, of Vestal, N. Y. Is [ the owner of a dog that can talk. For | Yeats Mr. Meyers has been a stodent | of the voice. In his investigations he | found the vocal apparatus of all ani | mals to be much alike, and especially | did that of a dog resemble man's. He accordingly conceived a simple oper. ation, which at present he keeps a secret, but which he says will, in the near future, be laid before the scien tific world. The talking dog ia of Scoteh collie breed. He has several words in his vocabulary, but those he can pro- nounce plainest are “Oh, no.” When asked by his master to reply he will crouch ag tho in pain, throw back his head, take & long breath and In a deep bass voice distinctly say, “Oh, no." He can also pronounce his name, Carlo, in an nnmistakable manner, by It Cartha the The changed The re "hoenician edifices of visible ter ginians, from Romans in the name of to Gades et sone # il: are stil at wa for of Some time {soths passed to the was Sms —— Miles’ Expedition to Move Hence Upon Ponce, HUSE FIRST TO LAND. No Americans Lost in Making the Land Ing wud Merely a Nomina! Resist. ance Was Encountered Gen. Milos Says Gunnlen 1s 8 Healthful Keglon and it Hus ua Vory Fine Harbor, Guasica, Porro Rico, (via St Thomas, Danish West Indies, )—The United States military expedition, under the command of Ma).-Gen, Nelson A. Miles, commanding the | army of the United States, bas landed after & skirmish with a detachment of Bpanish | Lroops, Four of the Spaniards wers killed, but no { dmerican was hurt, i The American troops will | ward promptly. From Pouce there Is an ex wilent military rosd running seventy-five north to | Ban Juan, be pushed for. | { mies (ruanta- namo, with Massachusetts, Capt. F. J, | Higginson, leading. Captain Higginson | Was in charge of the naval expedition, which consisted of the Columbia, Dixie, Glonesster | ana Yale. General Miles was on the Yale The troops were on the transports Nueces, Lampasas, Comanche, Rita, Unionist, Btill- water, Ci'y of Macon and Specialist, This | was the order in which the transports en- | tered the harbor here. | General Miles called for a consultation, | sunouncing that he was determined not to | Bo by way of San Joan Cape, on the north- | east const of Porto Ries, but by the Mona passage, west of the Island, to land bers, surprise the Spaniards and deceive their military authorities. The course was then | changed and the Dixie was sent to warn | General Brooke when he arrives at Cape : Ban Juan Port Guanica has been fully described to the military sutborities by Lieutenant Whit ney, of General Miles' staff who recently made an sdventurous tour of Porto Meo Ponee, which is situated about fifteen miles from this port, fs to the eastward avd a more difficult place take, Then, again, Ponos itself is some distanes from where the troc would have been able land if that neighborhood had been selected One advantage of Guanics is that it usted close to the railroad conneating with Pones, whieh transportation the American tr secure The Gloucester Heconnoltres the expedition left the to ps to is sit. means of aps hope The Gloucester Commander Lisutenant- seamed inte Guanira r to reconnc With the floot waiting de the galiant little fight- Ing yacht braved the mines which wore sup- } ¥ posed tc found that there were five ciose in shore, o charge Weln wright barb itre id be in the barbor and fathoms of water niet place, sy the rear o the rrounded are high Guanion bay is a by suitivated is. In mi and eo t re Of ab at Inc intains . beach nesties a twenty houses *panish Completely Rurprised. taken by of the I'he Spaniards were completely surprise. Almost the first they knew approach of the army of was the firing of a gun 11 the icoster. whose ofleers nded that the Spaniards haul ag Dosting from a flagstaff in oast of the viliage, A fired into the ay, purposely pr ties burt The Giourcester then X bondred yards of & iauneh, baving on it and thirty men, of Lisutenant Huse re Without encounter- invasing a Gl lemma 2 their 8a oR bd i shells were f the © jee the fort Wuartermaster Beck told Yoeman Lacy to baul down Spanish flag, which was done, and the Americans then raised on the flagstafl the first United States fag to float over Porto Rican soil Suddenly about thirty Spaniards opened | ire with Mauser rifles on the American Lieutenant Huse and his men re. | sponded with grest galiantry, the Colt gun | doing effective work. Lieutenant Normon. who received Admiral Cervera's surrender, | and Lisutenant Wood, a volunteer, shared | the honors with Lieutenant Huse Spaniards fired on the | Americans the Gloucester opened fire on {the enemy with all ber three and sis pounders which ccuid be brought to bear, shelling the town acd also dropping shells into the hills to the west of Gaanica, where a number of Spanish cavalry were seen has- tenlng toward the place where the Ameri- cans bad landed, Erecting Fort Walnwright, Lieutenant Huse soon pul his men to throwiog up a lictie fort, which be named | Fort Waluwright, in honor of the Glouoss. j ber s commander. Then be laid barbed wire {in front of it in order to repel the expected Cavairy attack. The Lieutenant alse mount. ed the Colt gun aud signalled for relnforse. iments, which were seat from the Glou. cester, Soon afterward white-coated cavalrymen were pean climbing the hills to the west. ward, and the foot soldiers wers scurrying along the fences from the town in full re. treat. By 9.45 A. M., with the exception of a lew guerrilia shots, the town was won and the enemy was driven out of ita neighbor- hood. the FEOPLE ABUUT NOTED Miss Elizabeth Ashe of San Francises, who named the torpepo-boat destroyer Far ragut, is descended from a long line of sel diers, and is reiated to the Farragut family, Preseott Belknap, a son of the well-known Rear-Admiral, was in Nicaragua when the war broke out, but as soon as be oouid get home he started for Koy West to join the Bough Riders, Tbe British Society of Arts bas awarded the Albert medal to Pref. Robert Bunsen, of the University of Heldelburg, whose achieve. ments in chemistry ure known ail over the world, Princess Alice of Albaay, sow 16, hay de- veloped the fondness for art common to the women of the English royal family, and Is providing ber relatives with sketobes made by bersell. Hhe has sent one also to the young Queen of Holland as a coronation present,