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SAMPSON’S FLAGSHIP, THE NEW YORK, FIRING A NATIONAL SALUTE OPPOSITE GRANT’S TOMB. SHAPE WAS HIS FORTUNE. Gen. Macias, Captain General of Porto Rico, Favored by Isabella. One of the. interesting personages whom the Porto Rican campaign has brought to public notice Is Capt. Geu. Macias. His life story is romantic. Away back in the ’50s a young soluier enlisted in one of Spain's Basque regi ments of remarkable physical pulchri tude. Six feet In stature, with flue dark eyes, he was the perfection of a good-looking youth, whose mental en dowment was uot equal to his personal attractions. As he was trained lit mill- / i may be used in place of the cup, but Is I not so satisfactory. In serving the coffee put the sugar ami cream tu the cup and then i»mr on the coffee and the result will rival the famous Vienna coffee. To make good coffee from package coffee take a tablespoonful for each per son. add one egg, mix well and add a cup of cold water for each spoonful, i After boiling add a cup of hot water to replace what has steamed away. Cof fee to l>e used for dinner should be pre- pared In cold water In the morning. jf this method is tried It will be found a great Improvemeat on the old way of boiling at the precise moment the cof fee is wanted. GiRL THAT HOBSON KISSED. Mía» E nun a Arnold, the Heroine ot the Summer Resort, CAPTAIN GENERAL ill, recent demonstration at New York In honor of the Bautin'S fleet was a tribute well deserved by the officers and men of the navy. The army has done well, but the navy has gathered the lion's share of the glory. And it may be confessed, now that Dewey and Schley and Sampson have taken their places beside Decatur and l’erry and Farragut, that the triumphs of the United States navy were as surprising as they were gratifying. It is safe to say that most people were decidedly uneasy when the war licgan us to the effectiveness of the navy. Our warships had lieen running aground, smushing their machinery and jamming their turrets every time they left port, The mishaps of the Texas had become a subject for humorous comment and the mud bank misadventures of The the Dolphin constituted a stock topic for the newspaper pnrngrapbers. country was distrustful—and with some cause—of tlie fighting and seagoing quali ties of the untried buttleehli* and cruisers. But with the first clash of arms the navy redeemed itself. There was no more machinery smashing, no more turret jamming, no more running aground. The once "hoodooed” Texas quit her ean- tankerous tricks and went through the war without starting a rivet, The Oregon sailed around the Horn, fought in the battle of Santiago and sailed for New York —four months at sen in us good condition ns when she left San Francisco. The Dolphin dodged all the reefs in the West Indies and gave a gallant account of herself in half a dozen lights. There wasn’t u screw loose in the North Atlantic fleet and Admiral Moutejo cun testify that Dewey’s squadron was up to the high est standard yf from first to last. Hence it is that the American wel come to finrr.ps« was doubly warm. The vessels composing it went to sea under more or less of a cloud. They returned in a blaze of glory and victory which shed its radiance over both ships and sailors. The United States navy is ull right. Long may it rule the waves! T SAMI’SOX It ECHI VI.NG. will be seen that on no continent or group of islands where this fatal belt crosses has there been peace, while the battles fought within its boundary have been fierce and accompanied by much bloodshed. NO PEACE IN IT War’» Death Belt Which Girdle» Barth with a Fightiuu Zone. Our war with Spain brings out remarkable fact that all of the battles fought 111 the world for tlie past twenty years have occurred in one fatal, nar GOES THROUGH AS IF GREASED. row zone of the earth’s surface. That Soft-Pointed Projectiles Will Pierce zone runs just above the equator. It the Hunlest Armor. Is only fifteen degrees wide, extend The present superiority of shot to ing from 8 degrees north to the Tropic of Cancer, and yet the belt does not armor is largely due to the simple cross a single continent or large group i expedient of placing, a soft metal cap of Islands which has not been literally over the point of the projectile. It is a matter of history that, just at strewn with the dead and dying. Cuba is In that zone, and Spanish official rec the time when armorplate makers were ords prove that In recent years 400,000 discouraged by the ease with which the people have been killed by hunger or gun-makers were able to penetrate the tlie sword In that unhappy island. All toughest nickel steel, Mr. Harvey pro told, the dead 111 the many battles In duced his brilliant Invention for giving the Philippines, at Formosa, at Khar an Intensely hard face to the plate, and toum mid Santiago number 430,000. All succeeded in smashing up the projec of the engagements In tlie Spanish war, tiles tit the niomel t of Impact Shots though fought on battlefields some 20,- which theoretically should have passed (XX) miles apart, are nlnlbst on a direct clear through a llarveylzed plate failed line «4til one another. The battle of to <lo s<x because their points could not Sanltago ami the uaval victory of hold together long enough to break In Sampson mid Schley, with their ac- through the highly tempered face, companylng loss of life, occurred on whh’h wits made so hard that It could latitude 20 north, Cardenas. Matanzas cut glass like a diamoud point Subsequent to the appearance of Ilar- and Havana all lie Just north of 20 degrees. Manila lies almost under Un veylzed armor the makers of projectiles had been trying to produce a shot latitude of 15 north. It is estimated that during the vari which should combine the necessary ous rebellions which have arisen in hardness and toughness to enable It to the Philippines during the last few split open the hardened face and hold years fully 20,0(X( soldiers have met together until It had wedged Its way their deaths at the hands of the Span through the Ixsly of the plate Itself. lsh soldiers. Just before the opening Previous to the year 1890 a few of the SCIILET OX TUE BRIDGE best makers had met with partial suc cess. The Holtzer shell In Europe and the Sterling Wheeler In this country had succeeded In breaking up the face; but the effort proved too much for the shell, which lapsed before It could get entirely through tlie plate. This has been the case almost Invariably when been a member of the Reichstag, but, like his sturdy father, has always re fused to accept a title from the Govern ment. limit cross-country riders In England, and owned many first-class steeple chasers. Lady Minto is still one of the best lady skaters in England, a recre ation which she practiced and gradu Receipt In Full. ateti in at Ottawa. The family resi There is a passage in the following dence at Warwick, Boxburgshlre. is paper which might strike the observer among the beet known of the great as somewhat facetious, but be Is as places In tlie lowlands of Scotland. sured that no such effect was in mind when the sentence was Indited. The paper referred to Is a receipt originally given by an enterprising firm of Har- rlsburg druggists, mid tile form used was In common vogue at the time. Thus it runs: “Received July 21, 1793, of Mr. David Scarlet the sum of £200, in full of nil accts since tlie year One, when the Devil was a suckling baby, up to this day. being after the celebration of Independency. (Signed) "FENTON A HI NT “Longevity to Washington and G save the Congress."- Philadelphia Ledger COUNTESS AND HF.« DAUGHTER. Greatest of Known Forces. The greatest force known to science Is that produced by the contraction and Improved, reforged Harvey plate has expansion of metals, resulting from the been attacked. action of heat and cold. For many months the reforgvd Har- veylzed plate held Its superiority, and When the paper announces that a It looked as though the final victory in woman has gone to visit Indefinitely, it the long contest between shot and means she will stay as long as her armor was to rest with the armor. The hostess will staud It SOFT-POINTED SHELLS. tary exercises, well set up by his drill, he soon became tlie talk of the feminine part of Madrid. The Queen, Isabella Sequondo of Spain, was a good deal like her ante- type, Catharine of Russia, In at least one respect. “She liked a fine figure of a man.” One‘day It hapi>ened that the young Basque recruit was among the detail drawn for guard duty at the palace. The Queen saw him. She dis tinguished him by speaking to him. The honor so disconcerted the Basque recruit that he forgot to present arms at the proper time, and was conse quently told off for heavy punishment drill. But it never came. Two weeks thereafter the recruit, whose name was Francisco Caesar Santa Ana Macias, "because of extraordinary capacity," was gazetted to lie lieutenant of the Cazadores Royal de Bascayn, one of the oldest tegiments and most honor- able tn the service of Spain. "Who the devil is this fellow Ma cias?” swore Capt. Gen. Concha, the honorary colonel of the Cazadores de Biscaya, “and who recommended him for promotion?” The old courtier to whom this was addressed dkl not an swer. He looked his friend in the eyes and slowly winked. In six months Macias was a full colonel, Macias made no enemies. lie studied to im prove himself. He had masters in all branches of culture and became one of the first scholars in the army and the first swordsman In Madrid. He went up step by step until he was captain general of Madrid, the youngest to hold the honor. Subsequently he was made captain general of Porto Rico. next move on tlie part of tlie artillerist EARL AND COUNTESS OF MINTO was of a very extraordinary but very successful kind. He placed a cap of The New Vice-Regal Representatives at Ottawa» Ont. soft steel over the point of the shot to The Earl of Minto (Sir Gilbert John protect it, and the soft cap enabled the Elliot Murray, Kynynmound), appoint shot to get through. ed governor general of Canada, to suc ceed Lord Aberdeen, comes of an an Coder His Nose. cient family. Ills ancestors have been NAPOLEON OF SOUTH AMERICA, She's a tender little maiden, With nut-brown hair— A witching little Isxly, Wants to Unite All the Republics, with Himself us the Head. With a charming air; I love her, though I never Nicolas de Pierola. President of Peru, Yet have told her so, is called “the Napoleon of South Amer And there'll be a big explosion ica.” Pierola recently called the atten Some day, I know! tion of the Lima Congress to the dis pute between Peru and the United She smiles upon me sweetly States, which began in 1883 and has When our glances meet, lasted ever since. Then along comes Then she pounds Iler keys and blushes And becomes discreet, Commodore Carlos Ferryros, of the Pe And the “old man” vainly fancies ruvian navy, on his way to France to That she loves him—oh. buy war ships for his country. Pierola But there’ll be a big explosion is known to be a man of boundless am If he could know! bition. His one desire is to unify all —Baltimore Herald. the republics of South America under one central government with himself The Krupp Gun Works. at its head. This man, like so many Herr Frederick Alfred Krupp, of Es others who have risen to prominence sen, Germany, Is the largest employer in South America, came In on a wave THE EARL OF MTN TO. of labor in the world. On the pay rolls of the great Krupp establishment are statesmen and soldiers, and he lias fol of revolution. That was in 1879. His more than 25,000 men. Thirty-four lowed in their footsteps. He was edu reign as dictator was short and he was Governments have made purchases cated at Cambridge, and won fame in swept out of power when Peru was de there. Herr Krupp, the son and the Northwest rebellion In 1883. He feated in the war with Chile. Three worthy successor of the great Krupp, married tlie daughter of the Hon. years ago Pierola once more struck for is only 42 years old. His employes live Charles Grey, a famous beauty, and in "model houses,” have schools, baths, they have four children. The Earl of libraries, hospitals, and pensions under Minto Is Destined to be popular. Twen Ills direction and co-operation. The ty-five years ago. as Lord Melgund, he present head of the establishment has wes recognized as one of the most bril- WAR’S DEATH BELT WHICH GIRDLES THE EARTH WITH A FIGHTING ZONE. of the war between the United States and Spain no one Imagined that an American force would ever be engaged In this out-of-the-way spot, and yet the first great battle of the war was fought at tills great distance from the contin ent and within the bloody sone. The Lad rones, which witnessed several engage ments between the Spanish forces and the natives, are well within the fatal ■one. The fighting In centrnl Africa, In which the British soldiers have lieen engaged, has all occurred within the limits of this zone. So too have the various battles In Sierra Leone, result ing In the loss of 100 lives, been with in this boundnry. Many engagements have also been fought around Khar toum, which Is just south of the six teenth degree north. The loss at Khar toum Is fixed by the English govern ment at 5,000. In Centrnl America the bloodshed Is almost entirely confined to the narrow strip of land crossed by this fatal belt. Only a few months ago such an upris ing occurred, ending In the assassina tion of Barrios, In which 150 lives were Mcrlflced. All the fighting was done between the degrees of 14 and 15 north. The Japanese fought the Formosan reliels this year under the Tropic of Cancer, which Is 23 degrees north. It MACIAS. though Lord and Igtdy Minto are emi nent society ¡>eople, he Is a man of great energy and activity, and he Is sure to make every possible endeavor to do wliat he considers to be his duty In all parts of the dominion, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Tbe little green apple is always ripe I enough for mischief Miss Emma Arnold, of St. Louis, Is the heroine of the Eastern summer re sorts. The story of how she kissed Lieut. Holison, of Merrimac fame, has been telegraphed all over the world and now she daily receives scores of let ters asking for her photograph or a lock of hair. In New York they have'a new drink called "Hobson’s Kiss” in honor of the event. Miss Arnold tells the story thus: "I did not ask Mr. Hobson for a kiss. He had just kissed a little girl and I said to him, ’How I wish I was a little girl again.” He said, ‘Would you like to be treated as one?* I answered ‘Yes,’ and he kissed me.” MBs Arnold is the daughter of a wealthy St Louis man and is a ladle In society there. Miss Arnold made her debut two years ago at the big ball of the Columbian Club, and her beauty bedazzled all who were fortunate enough to see ft. Iler face and figure are simply perfection, and while every body Is congratulating her on having been kissed by Hobson there are those MISS EMMA ARNOLD. who think the young lieutenant should come in for his share of the handshak ing. Water Pow r. The large plants for the utilization of water power in our country now fur nish 72,000 horse-power, with the pros pect of an increase to 150,000 horse power, when all are completed, In ad- ditlon. there are a vast number of smaller ones used In miues or in light- ing towns. Switzerland comes next with 48.000. France will have 18,000 when the plant on the Rhone, near Geneva, is com pleted. Germany and Italy have less than 20,000 horse-power each. Norway and Sweden each have about 15,000, with possibilities of great development. England comes last with only 4.000 horse-power. Some 15,000 of the power credited to America belongs to Canada, a country which abounds in undevel oped water powers. These water powers are made to do all that coal can do, except raising a smoke. A coal bed is exhaustible, and every ton taken from it brings it near er Its end; but the energy of waterfalls Is inexhaustible and will be available for man’s needs long after the last pound of coal Is raised from the mine. Not the least remarkable feature of this new departure is the size of the turbines employed. One hundred horse power used to be regarded as a large amount to be given by a single wheel. Some of the turbine at Niagara develop fifty times as much. The next great movement may be the utilization of the tides. In which there is an immense re servoir of power. We may see the day NICHOLAS when the great amount of water power supreme power and won. He organ In Alaska Is brought down to a tem ized an army In the mountains, over perate region and Is more valuable than threw the government, and marched the gold under its frozen soli.—Hart to the palace over the bodies of 1.200 ford Courant « > slain men. The President at that time was Justiano Borgono, who assumed Already Drilled. the role on the death of President Ber Mrs. Peque—There seems to be a mudez. April 1, 1894. Pierola is a son- preference for unmarried men for the in-law of the late Emperor Iturbide, army. I don’t see why that should be of Mexico. the case. Henry Peque—Neither do I. Married Coffee Which Is Good. To very many people a cup of coffee men might not amount to much for ag means the whole of one’s breakfast and gressive fighting for their own part, but If that cup Is uot perfect half the day they would be just the fellows to stand Is spoiled. There are several different without complaining any number of sieges or constant harassing from th« ways to make splendid coffee. One method is to have a tinsmith enemy.—New York World. make a cup of perforated tin about the practical Information, size of a coffee cup with a securely fit “Say, pa,” asked the little son of a ting cover into which Is soldered a ring railway conductor, “what’s an ex by which It may lie removed from the chequer?” pot before the coffee Is served. Into this "Ah ex-checker!" exclaimed the tl.’k- » cup put a small tablespoonful of pul- vertzed coffee "or each jierson and let et puncher. “Why, that must be a re It stand all night In the coffee pot with tired baggageman.” one cupful of cold water for each spoon None Whatever. ful of coffee. In the morning place It Flustered Old Lady— Does It make on the stove and let it come to a boll any difference which of these cars I and then keep It hot on the back of the take to the bridge? stove while breakfast Is put on the ta Polite Pedestrian—Makes no differ ble. Before serving remove the cup ence to me. madam.—Brooklyn Life. containing the grounds and add a cup of boiling water and you have coffee Poets are born, but some of them which is perfect. A thin muslin sack manage to live It down.