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CUBAN AS A MAZEPPA. ADVENTURE WITH A BAND OF MERCILESS GUERRILLAS, Benorita Monica Tied to the Back of a Wild Hone Which Was Turned Loose on the Plains Her Compan ions Murdered. Rescued aad A-rensed. There Is one happy young woman in this town, writes a Sun Antonio, Tex., correspondent. Her name is Valencia Monica, whose father is an officer in the Cuban army. Miss Monica is the heroine of a most remarkable escape from the hands of the merciless Span lards. ... About a year ago she was In Cuba, and, in company wtth a family of re conoentrados, she attempted to make the Journey across the country from the little interior plantation of Palma to Santiago In the hope of finding some opportunity at the latter place to es cape to the United States. 'An officer wtth a spark of humanity in his bosom, touched by the miserable condition of the unfortunates, furnished them with a pass and assured the young lady that no soldiers would harm them. 1 Tbey passed several columns of sol diers In safety, but one evening a dozen or more drunken Spanish guerrillas rode up to their cart and overturned it. Ilk?" VALENCIA MOSTIOA. The young lady showed her pass, but the leader paid no attention to it. Af ter offering her a drink from his bottle "he staggered against her and made an attempt to take her face in his hands. Now thoroughly alarmed and prefer lng death to dishonor, Uurlittle Cuban quickly drew a stiletto from her bosom and sprang at the monster's throat, barely grazing his beard with the keen blade. .." , "I cannot tell you wliat happened or at least repeat one-half of the horrors of that terrible night." said Miss Moni ca. "I cannot recall It without a shud der. While drinking and carousing they butchered the man who was with us with their machetes, and laughed at his dying agonies. One threw a lariat over my neck, and after they had dls- WILL THE CUBAN LEARN HIS LESSONS? I -VIVAN LOS AMERICANOS r FIGHT TO A FINISH. . . IQIJEm'-. ' mat's back and shouted to hlsr comrades to fetch ropes. ' "Let us have some fun," he roared. "Lash the little rebel to the wild devil's back and turn htm loose and we will , chase her off the Island aad save some body the trouble of slaying he.", The next moment the fiends were blading the terrified girl on the back of the equally terrified bores. Before Miss Monica realised what her tormentors were doing one of the wretches cut the rope that was about the horse's neck and fired a pistol. The frightened animal sprang into the air and struck the earth running. Pistol balls rained about him, but, unharmed. he seemed to sail above the earth with the wind, and was soon beyond the reach of the guerrillas, The gtrl bad little hope oi escaping with her life. But her good angel had not deserted her. A party of Cuban soldiers who bad followed the guerril las saw the horse coming. He was nearly exhausted, and when he saw the soldiers' horses be ran among them and stopped. He was completely frightened out of his senses, and so weak that he made no attempt to move when a soldier threw a rope over his nock. Many ot the Cubans knew Snor Monica, and their anger knew no bounds. At sunrise tbey fell upon the guerrillas' camp and shot every one of them to death except the leader of the gang, who was enptuned and hanged latex In the day. , Duel to the Death Between Wounded American and Spaniard. The battle cry, "Remember the Maine," still ring In the ears of the wounded Americans on the field of Santiago. Roundabout lay the bodfcss of the dead, keeping silent companionship with the wounded. Groans and sighs filled the air. . The brushwood, thick and sturdy and straight, trampled down by the hoofs of the Rough Riders' horses, was saturated with the blood of friend and foe, until It no longer bid from each other's view the fallen of two nations. In the distance the sharp report of the guns told of the onward march to How Gen. Miles and his staff were cheered as they Ponoe, Porto Rico. Always Clothed in the Very Plainest Kind of Frocks, Those wise little mothers who decry the American habit of overdressing wee bits of babies will be interested to know that Prince Albert, the small mite of 4 years, who Is in the direct line of succession to the throne of En gland, wears the plainest kind of Proper Uses of Tobacco. The question as to the injurious or beneficial effects of tobacco Ls about as old as the praeticB of using (he "weed" among civilized people and, apparently, ls as far as ever from settkanent Prob- TUB DiJEt. TO A victory. It goaded the wounded Amer icans to action the stricken foe to re venge. tTom behind a tuft of grass on the blades of which blood hung con gealed, a head arose. It was the visage of a Spaniard, deathly pale, with stream of blood trickling from bis tem ple. ' His fiendish gaze was fastened upon the outstretched form of an American soldier, who, face downward, lay with his head against a tree.' He was still, as one In death, bis life blood ebbing away, he. thought, through a wound In bla sl4. .' ; - Slowly the Spaniard propped v his arms beneath his body and grasped hts gun. There in the brush beside htm was his deadliest foe. Crawl to his aid? Not be. He would riddle the body with Mauser bullets. He would rejoice to mutilate even the lifeless to demonstrate his hatred. Quick as a flash he fired, the bullet striking the American in the leg. The sting of the lead brought the BoMler hack to con sciousness. At a glance he took m the situation. The gloom of fierce, fiendish hatred in the eye of the Spaniard con vinced him that this would be a duel to the death. He returned the fire, and sent shot after shot toward hts an tagonist's quarter. A fusillade fol lowed, and ceased only with the death of the Spaniard. The American, who had dropped In Ms tracks beyond his battle line, was rescued by his com rades, who had been attracted to the spot by the terrific struggle of the two wounded men. St Louis Republic. SEN01UTA MONICA LASIIED WILD HORSE. armed me they bound my hands to a tree." A very slight circumstance doubtless iaved the young lady from a fate worse than death, tlwugh it subjected her to one of the most frightful ordeals ever endured by nwrtal flesh. One of the guerrillas came into the camp loading a very wild-looking black BtalUon, which he in his drunken reck lessness declared was the devil's own addle horse. They had Just stolen tho fine animal, and he had thrown every one who had mounted him, "Do you thiuk you could ride him, my little tigress?" said one of the guer rillas, approaching Miss Monica and making an attempt to become famil iar. Her answer, which was, "I should like nothing better than to try," seem ed to tickle tho desperate characters Immensely. Miss Monica says that She hardly knows why she made such an answer. She realized tliat he had no chance of escaping from the drunken let and would willingly have exchang ed bcr position for the back of the wildest horse In the world. "All right," shouted the guerrilla chief, "the little tiger came near cut ting my throat and I will Just send her to the devil on horseback." The big guerrilla ialased the young irlrl Id bis arms, and, running to the wild horse, he threw her across the am ably, however, the general testimouy of physicians and scientists would be found to bo almost unanimous that un der certain conditions and used in mod eration tobacco is a friend to man. Especially has there been a change of views in this resiect since studies have been made upon bacteria of the malign kind. One of the latest advocates of tobacco is Dr. Norman Kerr, an Eng llsh physician, who says that ft would be impossible for him, without disloy alty to science and truth, to denounce the smoking of tobacco as always in Jurioua. On the contrary, as In the ease of asthmatic paroxysms, or inheritors of narcomanlacol intoxication, tobacco is a valuable remedy lu warding off morbid impulses. In the case of sol diers In trenches, or when kept with' out sufficient rations, tobacco, he says, lRooines a friend indeed, cheering the fainting heart and allaying the gnaw lng of hunger. Tobacco smoke is also a disinfectant and ls especially valu able as a prophylactic against yellow fever and In destroying the microbes of cholera and pneumonia, That tobacco ls greatly abused does not admit of question, but It ought not to be for gotten that it also has Its proper uses. A Sermon on Money. A colored exhorter said recently, the course of a sermon on "Money, the Great Evil:" "My brotherhr', money cause mo trouble in dis worl' dan anyflng . knows on. Foe, ls de devil Is In de dol lar! When I see a man wid a pocket full er money I say tor myself: 'Dor a man what needs a guardoen,' and feels des like takln' bhn home en lock' in up dat money fer him. Ef any er you in de hearln' er my voice ls got money on yo' pusson, bring it right heah, and lay it on de altar, en go yo' ways, en leawne pray over It till blesslu' come tor it. Doan wait ter count It; dee come forward en unload,' Atlanta Constitution. When a girl's marriage Is announced it is recalled how many time she had been engaged before. BaffP'pea In India. Several Punjab regiments of Infantry march to the sound of the bagpipes, The harsh tones of the Indian Instru ment, and Its limited range of uotes, Jars on the ears of Englishmen. "That tired feeling," which Is common to all who live outside the Land o Cokes when the national music Is in full blast ls actually shared by the Highlander himself when the pipes are In the hands of a Goorkha, There ls no one who expresses such pain at the sound of the native Indian bagpipes as our Scotch friends. In their estimation the Goorkha is Just "makla' a fule of the Instrument" Mrs. I n trail o Where Is your fatherl Adult son lie Is at the store, editing his edition of "Society As I Have Found It" Mrs. Intrude-What! A bookl Son Yes: a ledger, full of unpaid and ud collectable bllls.-New York Weekly. toic through the streets of ENGLAND'S FUTURE KING. ality. The marriage was unhappy. There wiy violent quarrels and dispu tations until ihlngB were brought to a climax one ntght In LVdmoaico's, when 'Jock" threw a plate of Ice cream Into his wife's pretty face. A sepairatlon followed and Mario went to live with her father. Who was in Italy. Her nervous system was entirely broken, and at her father's advice she returned to America to seek rest In a sanitarium. In a few hours after her landing 6he was In BJoomlngdale Asy lum. SIZE OF THE PHILIPPINES. The Islands Compared with Some ot Onr Seaboard States. A good idea ot the size and extent of .. the Philippine islands, about which so many conflicting statements have beeu made sines the group came into promi nence a few months ago, may be ob tained from an observation of the ac companying map. The Islands ara there shown superimposed upon a map as a part of the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, beginning at the north with New York and extendi nj through South Carolina. The Puilip- ; , pine group and the States are drawn to; precisely the same scale, so that m& comparison is accurate. ; )."'' ' ' The total length of the group, from: the northernmost, point of Luzon to the southern extremity of Mindanao, is about 050 miles, or fifty miles less than the distance from the northern boun dary of New York to the southern point of South Carolina. .The Philip-: pines have never been thoroughly sur-i veyed or explored, and consequently1 the estimates of the total area of the several hundred islands of the group hove differed widely. The most trust worthy calculations fix this total area to be between , ,114,300 and 115,300 square miles, an extent of territory equal to the combined areas of the States of New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Maryland. The largest of the Philippine islands, Luzon, upon which Manila ls situated, has an area of 40575 square miles, being thus of almost exactly the same size as the State of Virginia and over SfiOO square RELIC OF MEDIEVALISM. pnixcu AinEim frocks and bonnets. The children of the royal family ore always clothed simply. Their little arms are unham pered with frills and furbelows, and ribbons and bows are not continually getting Into their precious mouths or tickling thedr soft, pretty necks. Little Prinos Albert, whose picture is here given, wears tucked skirts of pique and blouses of the same material, trimmed with braid of plain white or turkey red. The children of many of the welWo-do Americans are costumed In small gar ments every bit as costly. Prince Albert's younger toother, Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George af York, who is one year younger than the eldest baby of the Duke of York's Interesting family, plays his baby games in ordinary frocks of nainsook, trimmed perhaps with a fow dainty tucks or edgings of delicate hand em broidery. The little sister, Princess Victoria, wtoo was 1 year old April 25 last, has for everyday wear plain fine little slfps that have neither heavy lace-trimmed flounces to hamper her jmall legs or elaborately made yokes to fret her infant mind. Qnintoin Said to De the Only Fnrviv lng Specimen fro England. A curious clause, taking one right back to the middle ages, appears in the title deeds of a house which is now to be sold tin the village . oi OCbam, In Kent, says the Westminster Gazette. Scheduled as port of Che "messuages, lands, hereditaments and premises" ts the village quintain, which still swings on Its stout oaken post before the house, and tbe purchaser must coven ant to keep the relic of a bygone pas time in good repair. One end of the swinging crossbar of this quintain (said to be the only surviving specimen in England) is shaped tike a square tar got pierced with a number of holes Into wihlch the point of tbe player's lance would enter. When struck It would, swing round, and unless the player were nimble the sandbag bung on the other end of the crossbar would swing round and unseat him. Here is a chance seldom met in these modern days of getting back' into medievalism. The VICTIM OF CONSPIRACY. Beautiful Mrs. "Jack" WlUnerdtnge Friends Claim She Is Not Insane. Par same time past New York society has been deeply interested in the un fortunate case of Mrs. "Jack" Wilmer dlng, the beautiful scion of the Vender- MBS. "jack" wilmbbdiso. but family who ls confined Bloomingdale Asylum. Her in the friends claim that she Is not Insane and that she ls the victim of conspiracy and rthey have gone to the courts to secure 'her release. Mrs. Wilmerdlng was Marie AHen, the daughter of Vanderhilt Allen, and grandndece of the old Commodore Van derhilt. She was a pretty, dashing girl, and "Jack" Wilmerdlng fell in love with her and married her in 1802. Husband and wife were both fond of gayety, and Mrs, Wilmerdlng epent money freely. She was not without some fortune of her own, and her gowns were the- envy of many women who bad more wealth but less origin- ill Yx " T f TUB QUIjrlAIS AT OFPnAM. owner has only to don the contempo rary costume, tUt at the quintain and imagine thast the dock bos been put back a few centuries. True Hospitality. r- The Washington Post prints a "true story," told by a retired army officer, The occurrence happened in New Mex ico. Colonel X. was making a long march, and the provision wagons had gone astray. He was hot and tired and hungry, when he met Major BM who Invited him homo presumably to some fort to breakfast The major's fortunes were at a low ebb, and when the breakfast was brought on it proved to consist entirely of rice rice cooked In the wonderful Southern fashion, with every kernel perfect The hungry guest ate a spoon ful. He detests rice. Then be waited for a second course. 'Have some rice, colonel," said the major, whom nothing ever disconcerts, quite as if the rice had but that mo ment disappeared. "Nor snapped the colonel. "I'm Kentucklan, sir, and I don't eat rice. don't eat rice, sir. Give me something else." "Why, certainly colonel, certainly,' sold the host "Try some of the mus tard; it's very fine, sir, very fine." Juggernaut Story a Fake. The ghastly stories told of many of the Indian fanatics who, at the relig ious festivals, throw themselves be neath the wheels of the Juggernaut car are for the most part Imaginative. These car festivals, which sometimes attracted as many as 100,000 pilgrims, have certainly resulted In loss of life: but it ls stated these deaths were pure ly accidental. Every woman is secretly proud of her guests who dress well. SIZE Or TBS MILIPPUili.8. miles smaller than New York State. In length Luzon extends for about 475 miles and would reach from a point slightly north of, the northern boundary, of New York almost to the mouth of the Potomac Blvd. 'Mindanao, the next largest of the isl ands, has an area of 37,250 square miles. It would require the combined- territory of West Virginia and Mary land to equal the Island In size. Min danao extends nearly 300 miles from north to south, or, hi comparison with the part of the map upon which H is superimposed. It would reach from the' mouth of the Roanoke Elver, In North Carolina, to Charleston, S. C. Project ing from Its western coast Mindanao has a long, irregular peninsula, which makes the extreme width of the Island something over 300 miles. The two smaller islands of Mlndoro and Panay, upon the latter of which is the port of Hollo, are each over 4,000 square miles In area. Together they equal in else the State of Now Jersey. Samor Island, southeast of Luzon, eov ers 7,000 square miles. There are estimated to be about 1,- 200 islands In the Philippine group, though any accurate statement Is Im possible Probably not more than one- third of these are Inhabited. It Is as difficult to obtain correct statistics re garding the population of the Philip pines as It ls to get a definite statexaent of their area, because a careful census has never been taken. Various writers estimate the present population at from 8,000XX) to 10,000,000. Worldly Wisdom. . A relative whom Mrs. Uppennp hd not seen for many years came one day to visit her. "Maria," said Mr. Uppennp, after the family had retired to rest that evening, "it seems to me you weren't any too cordial to Cousin Harriet considering the fact that this ls the first time you and she have met for nearly a quarter of a century. You didn't even smile when you greeted her." "Henry," replied Mrs. Uppennp, "have you noticed that when I smile it wrinkles my face all over? Well, I didn't want the wrinkles of twenty-five years to take effect on her all at once." One of the most distressing things In the world is to hear any one scold who ls so old and feeble that his breath gives out Men do not propose marriage outside of novels, though the result of calling on a girl and treating her to soda la Just the same. What has become of the old-fashioned people who on a hot afternoon used to make their own soda water? Some politicians are like corkscrews rather crooked, but they have a strong pull. 4