• VIVAN LOS AMERICANOS!”
WILL THE CUBAN LEARN HIS LESSONS?
CUBAN AS A MAZEPPA.
The Island» Compurol with Sonic ol
Oar Seaboard State».
ADVENTURE WITH A BAND OF
•MERCILESS GUERRILLAS
Señorita Monica Tied to the Back of
u Wild How Which Was Turned
Loose on the Plains—Her Compan*
ions Murdered.
Rescued and Avenged.
There is one happy young woman in
this town, writes a San Antonio, Tex.,
correspondent. Iler 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 mercileM Span
iards.
About a year ago she was In Cuba,
and, in company with a family of re
concentrados, she attempted to make
tl>e Journey pcroes 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 Stat«»). An officer
with 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 I
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that no soldiers would luirm them.
They passed several columns of sol
diers in safety, but one evening a dozen i
or more drunken Spanish guerrillas
rode up to their cart and overturned it.
VALEXCIA MONICA.
The young l.Kly 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-
ing death to dishonor, the’llttle Ctthan
quickly drew a stiletto from her bosom
and sprang at the monster’s throat,
barely grazing his Until with the keen
blade.
“I cannot tell you what 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, ami laughed at
hly dying agonies. One threw a lariat
over my neck, and after they had dis-
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tnal’s back and shouted to bls comrades
to fetch ropes.
“Let us have some fun," he roared,
“Lash the little rebel to the wild devil’s
back and turn him loose and we will
chase her off the Island and save some-
laxly the trouble of slaying her."
The next moment the fiends were
binding the terrified girl on the back
of the equally terrified borse.
Before Miss Monica realized 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 al>out him, but, unharmed,
he seemed to sail above the earth with
the wind, and was soon beyond the
reach of the guerrillas.
The girl had little hope of escaping
with her life. But her good angel had !
not deserted her. A party of Cuban j
soldiers who had fallowed the guerril- !
las saw the horse coming. He was ■
nearly exhausted, and when lie saw I
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
neck.
Many of rhe Cubans knew Honor
Monica, and their anger knew no
bounds. At sunrise they fell upon the
guerrillas’ camp and shot every one of
them to death except the leader of tlve
gang, who was captured and hanged
later in the day.
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FIGHT TO A FINISH.
Duel to the Death Between Wounded
American urul Spaniard,
The battle cry, “Remember the
Maine,” still ring in the curs of the
wounded Americans on the field of
Santiago. Roundabout lay the botlh-s 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 tbe blood
of friend and foe, until it no longer bld
fro-ru each other’s view the fallen of
two nations.
In the distance tbe sharp report of
the guns told of the onward march to
ably, howqrer, the general testimony of
physicians and scientists would be
found to be almost unanimous that un
der certain conditions und used in mod
eration tobacco Is a friend to man.
Especially has there been a change of
views in this resqiect since studies haw
t>een made upon bacteria of the malign
kind. One of the latest advocates of
totxu’co Is Dr. Norman Kerr, on Eng
lish physician, who says that ft would
be impossible for him, without disloy
alty to science and truth, to denounce
the smoking of tobacco a-s always in
jurious. On the contrary, as In the case
of asthmatic paroxysms, or Inheritors
of narcomanlacal 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,
becomes a friend indeed, cheering the
fainting heart and allaying the gnaw
ing of huuger. Tobacco Smoke Is also
a disinfectant and 1s especially valu
able as a prophylactic against yellow
fever and In destroying the microbes of
cholera and pneumonia. That tobacw»
Is greatly abused does not admit of
question, but It ought not to be for
gotten that It also has Its proper uses.
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Always Clothed in the Very Plainest |
ENGLAND’S FUTURE KING.
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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 tn the direct
1 line of succession to the throne of En-
| gland, wears the plainest kind of
A good Idea of the size and extent of
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the Philippine Islands, about which so
many conflicting statements have been
made since the group came into promi
nence a few months ago, may lx- ob-
tained from nn observation of the ac
companying map. Tbe islands are
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there shown superlnqtosed upon a map
as a part of the Atlantic sealioard of
the United States, beginning at the
north with New York and extending
throng!) South Carolina. The Philb»- •-»
* pine group and the States are drawn to
precisely the same scale, so that the
comparison is accurate.
The total length of the group, from
the northernmost [sjlnt 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 Y'ork to the southern
,
point of South Carolina. The Philip
pines have never been thoroughly sur
veyed or explored, and consequently'
the estimates of the total area of the
several hundred Islands of the group
have differed widely. The most trust
worthy calculations fix this total area
to be between 114,300 and 115,500
s)juare 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
altty. The marriage was unhappy, which Manila Is situated, has an area
There wet}' violent quarrels and dlspu- of 40,875 square miles, being thus of
tatlons until things were brought to*a almost exactly the same size as the
climax one night in Delinonico's, when State of Virginia and over 8,000 square
“Jack” threw a plate of ice cream into
his wife's pretty face. A separation
followed and Marie went to live with
her father, who was in Italy.
Her nervous s.vstiun 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 she was In Bloomingdale ¿Asy
lum.
RELIC OF MEDIEVALISM.
Quintain Sahl to Be the Only Fnrvtv-
ing Specimen in Englund.
Proper Uses of Tobacco.
The question as to the Injurious or
beneficial effects of tobacco is about as
old as the practice of using tin* •‘weed’*
among civilized people and. apparently,
is as far as ever from settlement. Prob-
SENOR1TA MONICA LASHED TO A WILD HORSE.
armed me they bound my hands to a
tree.”
A very slight rfrcunistance doubtless
saved the young lady from a fate
worse than death, tltotigh it subjected
her to one of the moat frightful ordeals
ever endured by mortal flesh.
One of the guerrillas came into the
camp lending n very wild-looking black
stallion, which he In his drunken reck
lessness declared was the devil’s own
saddle horse. They had just stolen the
fine animal, and lie tuid thrown every
one who had mounted him.
"Do you think you could ride him,
my little tigress?" sold one of the guer
rillas. approaching Miss Monica and
making an attempt to become famil
iar. Her answer, which was. "I should
Like nothing tx-tter than to try,” seem
ed to tickle the desperate characters
Immensely. Miss Monica says that she
hardly know« why she made such nn
answer. She realized that he had no
chance of escaping from the drunken
vet and would willingly have exchang
ed her position for the bock of the
wildest horse In the world.
“All right,” Shouted the guerrilla
chief, “the little tiger cnme near cut
ting my throat and I will just send her
to the devil on horsetmck.”
The big guerrilla seized the young
girl in bis arms, and. running to the
wild hors >, he threw her across the aul-
SIZE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
TUB DUET-
A cirri: ms clause, taking one right
back to the middle ages, appears in the
title deeds of a house which Is now to
be sold hi the village of Offinim. In
Kent, says the Westminster Gazette.
Scheduled as part of the “messuages,
lands. hereditaments anti premises” is
the village quintain, which still swings
on Its stout oaken post before tbe
house, ami the purchaser must coven
ant to keep the relic of a bygone pas
time tn good repair. One end of the
swinging crossbar of this quintain Isold
to be the only surviving specimen in
England) Is shaped like a square tar
get pierced with a number of holes into
which the point of the player’s lance
would enter. When struck It would
swing round, and unless tbe player
w « tc tilmlde the sandbag hung on the
other end of the crossbar would swing
PBINCB ALBETTW
round and unseat film. Here is a chance
frocks and bonnets. The children of seldom met In these modern days of
the royal family are always clothed getting back Into medievalism. The
simply. Tbelr Uttlu arms are unham
pered with frills and furbelows, and
ribbons and bows are not continually
getting Into their precious mouths or
tickling their soft, pretty necks. Little
Prince Albert, whose picture Is here
given, wears tucked skirts of pique and
blouses of tbe same material, trimmed
with braid of plain white or turkey red.
The children of many of the well-to-do
Americans are costumed in small gar
ments every bit ns costly.
ITlnce Albert’s younger brother.
Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George
of York, who Is one year younger thiin
the eldest baby of the Duke of York's
Interesting family, plays his baby
games In ordinary frocks of nainsook,
trimmed perhaps with a few dainty
tucks or edgings of delicate lianil em
broidery. The little sister. Princess
Victoria, who was 1 year old April 25
last, has for everyday wear plain fine
tittle slips that have neither heavy
lace-trimmed flounces to hamper her
small legs or elaborately made yokes to
fret her infant mind.
victory. It goaded the wounded Amer
icans to action—the stricken foe to rt“-
venge. From behind a tuft of grass
on tbe blades of which blood hung con
gealed. a head arose. It was the visage
of a Spaniard, deathly pale, with a I
stream of blood trickling from his tem |
ple. Ills fiendish gaze was fastened
upon the outstretched form of an |
American soldier, who, face downward, !
lay with his bead against a tree. He '
was still, as one In death, his life blood
ebbing away, be thought, through a
wound tn bls side.
Slowly tbe Spaniard propped his
arms Ixmcath his txxly and grasped Ills
gun. There tn the brush beside him
was hts deadliest foe. Crawl to his
aid? Not be. He would riddle tbe
Ixxly with Mauser bullets. He would
rejoice to mutilate even tbe lifeless to
demonstrate his hatred. Quick as a '
flash he fired, the bullet striking the
American tn the leg. The sting of the !
lend brought the soldier hack to con |
sciousness. At a glance lie took In the
situation. The gleam of tierce, fiendish
hatred In tbe 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 his an-
tagonfsC’s quarter. A fusillade fol j
lowed, and ceastsl only with the death |
of the Spaniard. Tbe .American, who
had dropped tn his tracks beyond his
VICTIM OF CONSPIRACY.
twittie line, was rescued by hts com
rades, who had been attracted to the Beautiful Mrs. “Jaeh“ Wilmerdinir'K
spot by tbe terrific struggle of the two w Friends Claim she Is Not Insane.
For some time past New Y'ork society
wounded men.—St. Louis Republic.
has bism deeply Interested In the nt«
A SiTinon on Money.
fortunate case of Mrs. “Jack” Wilmer
A colored exborter said recently, tn ding. tbe beautiful scion of the Vander-
the course of a sermon on “Money, tbe
Gnat Evil:”
“My hrothertn', money cause mo’
trout kb- In dis worl’ dan anyflng I
knows on. Fac. is de devil Is tn de dol
lar! Wlx-n I see a man w1d a pocket
full er money I say ter myself: ’Dor’s
a man what needs a guardeen,' and I
feels des like takin’ him home en lock
in’ up »bit money fer hint. Ef any er
you in de hearln’ er my voice is got
money on yo’ pusson. bring it right
heah. und lay It on de altar, en go yo’
ways, en lemme pray over It till it
bl easin’ come t»-r tt. Doan wait ter
count It; des come forward en unload.”
—Atlanta Constitution.
Bagpipes in Indio.
Several Punjab regiments of Infantry
march to the sound of the bagpipes.
The harsh tones of the I nd Lin 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 1-and o’ Cakes
when the national music Is In full blast
Is actually shared by the Hlgal.uuler
himself when the pipes are tn .lx»
hands of a Goorkha There Is no one
who expresses such pain at the sound
of the native Indian bagpipes as our
Scotch friends. In their •■stlniutl»« the
Goorkha Is Just “makln’ a fule of tbe
Instrument.”
Mrs. Intrade— Where Is your father?
Adult eon- He Is at the store, editing
blsedltionof “Society As I Have Found
When a girl's marriage Is announced It” Mrs. Intrade—What! A book? Soo
It is recalled bow many times she bad —Yes; a ledger, full of unpaid and un
been engaged before.
collectable bills.—New York Weekly.
MRA “JACK" WILMERPINO.
blit family wbo is confined In the1
Bloomingdale .Asylum. Her friends
claim that she Is not Insane and that
she Is tbe victim of conspiracy and
they have gon»- to tbe courts to secure
'her release.
Mrs. Wilmerding was Marie Allen,
tile d«ug!«ter of Vanderbilt Allen. and
grandniece of the old Commodore Van
derbilt. She was a pretty, dashing girl,
and “Jack" Wilmerding foil In love
with her and married her in 18U2.
Husband and wife were both fond of
gayvty. arxl Mrs. WUmecdlng spent
money freely. She was not without ;
«tune fortune of her own. and her'
gowns were the envy of many women '
1 who had more wealth but less origin 1
m QUINTAIN AT OFFHAM.
has only to don the contempo
rary costume, tilt at the quitetaJn and
imagine that the clock bos been put
back a few centuries.
owdct
True Hospitality.
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 B., who
invited him home—presumably to some
fort—to break fast.
The major's fortunes were at a low
ebb, and when the breakfast was
brought on tt proved to consist entirely
of rice—rice cooked In the wonderful
Southern fashion, with every kernel
¡«erfect. The hungry guest ate a spoon
ful. He detests rice. Then be waited
for a second course.
“Have some rice, colonel," said tbe
major, whom nothing ever disconcerts,
quite ns if the rice had but that mo
ment disappeared.
”No!" snapped tbe colonel. “I'm a
Keutuckfan. sir, and I don’t eat rice. I
don’t eat rice, sir. Give me something
else.”
"Why. certainly colonel, certainly,"
said the host. "Try some of the mus
tard; it's very fine. sir. very fine."
Juggernaut Story a F’ake.
The ghastly stories told of many of
the Indian fanatics who, at tne 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 l)X»,fiOO pilgrims,
have certainly resulted lu loss of life;
but It Is stated these deaths were pure
ly accidental.
Every woman Is secretly proud of her
guests who dress well.
SIZE OS THS PHILIPPINES.
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 River.
Mindanao, the next Largest of the Isl
ands, lias an area of 37,256 square
miles. It would require the combined
territory of West Virginia and Mary
land to equal tbe Island In size. Min
danao extends nearly 300 miles from
north to south, or, in comparison with
the part of the map upon which it is
superimposed, it would reach from the
mouth of the Roanoke Rh cr, 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 Mindoro
and Panay, upon the latter of which is
the port of Iloilo, are each over 4,000
square miles in area. Together they
equal in size tbe State of New Jersey.
Samar Island, southeast of Luzon, cov
ers 7,000 square miles.
There are estimated to be about 1,-
200 Islands Ln tbe 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 Is to get a definite statement
of their area, because a careful census
has never been taken. Various writers
estimate tbe present population at from
8,000,000 to 10,000,000.
Worldly Wisdom.
A relative whom Mrs. Uppenup bad
not seen for many years came one day
to visit her.
“Maria" said Mr. Uppenup. after the
family had retired to rest that evening,
“It seems to me you weren't any too
cordial to Cousin Harriet, considering
the tact that this Is 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. Uppenup,
“have you noticed that when I smile
It wrinkles my face all over? Well, I
didn't want the wrinkles of twenty-fire
years to take effect on her all at once.”
One of the most distressing things
In the world is to hear any one scold 'ft
who Is 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 afternoou used to
make their own soda water?
Some politicians are like corkscrews
—rather crooked, but they have a
strong pulL
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