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.
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