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Show ri Even after capturing El Caney and San Juan and advancing upjn the work of the Americans was not done. It wai necessary to hold these positions against any aortic. lTn- less reinforcements arrived at once the h exhausted by men would be their difficult work and unprepared for any assault by the Spaniards. It was this precarious condition that existed on July 8, when the country was gravely alarmed by Sliafters dispatches. There was cause for alarm, not understanding the desperate straits in which Linares was, but there was no justification for the criticism of Gen. Shatter which was indulged in. Ilia work was Riders, all dismounted, and in which well done, and he deserves nothing but Sixteenth and the Twenty-sixtthe highest praise. Subsequent deond Infantry and the Seventy-fir- velopments soon proved these facts. New York were engaged. After the trenches and redoubts werd taken rame a bold attempt by the FAT WOMEN AND THIN ONES. Spaniards to recover them. This oc- The Doctor Tell Soma of Ill Trail blue casioned the fiercest fighting and the with Them. With the coming of hot weather greatest loss of the day. When the Spaniards broke behind the hill and comes also the usual army of women passed between the reserves, who who want to get thin and the regicame forward, with a rush upon our ment of women v.ho went to get fat! breathless men, striking and breaking said the specialist in the breathing the line in several places, their impetu- spell between writing a prescription for h a slim girl who wanted a muscle tonic osity for several minutes made our boys waver. Then, rallying and peering deep into the eyes of a gallantly, they staggered forward, car- woman who said she had nightmare relates the New York when rying confusion irto the enemy. Lawton's division bivouacked for the advertiser. I may jog along in comnight near El Caney without fires. At parative peace all the winter and 7 oclock In the morning they were respring, working and praying with hysenforced by Capt. Capron8 battery, un- teria and prostration and neurasthenia der Gen. Wheeler. Firing began at and anemia and other simple and soulonce. Promptly the Spanish answered ful complaints, but Just as soon as the T SAN JUAN Agua-dore- r want j j j Description of the Battle That Preceded the Surrender of Santiago dc Cuba The Spaniards Fought Like Demons. h, Twenty-sec- st well-nig- wide-awak- e, CAPTUK.ir'O A SPANISH OAjrcfiy the challenge from their forts and warm dayg come and I begin to promtrenches. Grimes battery, coming up, ise myself a little rest and relaxation, opened on the Spanish troops to the in pops Mrs. A. with- -. anxious face and fifty or sixty pounds for whch she right. The common powder used by our has no use and Bets about bargaining troops smoked, and waB a fine target for with me as if I were a Shylock. She the Spanish field battery, which was begs me with tears In her eyes to served by Admiral Ccrveras marines. gaze upon her once sylph-lik- e form The accuracy of the aim w;as remark- and implores me to advise a surgical able. While our smoke gave the ene- diet for her. I tell her to row a boat walk at 5 oclock my our range, Grimes could not locate and take a the enemy'B guns, which used smoke- every morning. I warn her against less powder, except approximately. But, catnips, cool drinks, green peas, and satisfied as to the Spanish position, our all the other pleasures of life, and she men worked like mad. The Spanish goes away radiant. She always loses gradually Blackened, and in leas five or ten pounds during the summer, often more. Strength of will seems than an hour it ceased altogether. After that only one aggressive move to develop with flesh. The slim womwas made by the Spaniards. It re- an is not nearly so persistent A little woman came in to see sulted in defeat, and they abandoned El Caney. At about 10 oclock the me this morning. She greeted me with enemy dashed straight for the Ameri- a wave of her hand, flitted about to can lines. In one or two places our see the flowers in my window boxes, men fell back from their position, but went into ecstasies over my new bookquickly rallied and drove the enemy case, straightened her hat before the ll back into their own ditches. mirror and called my attention to the The Spanish losses must have been little lines around her eyes, Baying, frightful, as they were exposed to a ter- You see how thin I am, and how old rific fire lor a quarter of an hour. The and ugly it makes me. Every time losses on the American side were light, you fly around the room in that mated fashion you lose an ounce, raid as cur sohlicrs lay behind trees I. Then she eat down and spread her had every advantage. r.kirts out, poking them here and pulling them there, drew off her gloves, looked for her handkerchief, mopped her brow and sighed. There goes anT. A fat woman other ounce, would have cmio in'o this nffice.plump-c- d herself down in the firt chair at hand and stayed there, skirt rumpled up or not. That's why she's fat.' Then I preached a sermon. for that is all ran do for the thin woman. She will listen to advlao and likes to hear me draw glowing pictures of how she will look when shn weichs 150, but she wTTT r.ot take her medicine milk end oatmeal usually and gets acute melancholia if forced to go to bed early. Its perplexing lhe way In which dispositions are dealt out The fat woman invariably loves to loll and eat sweet things can he serene and unvrorried. The thin worn in adores exercise.Bcorns sweetmeats and has a positive mania for work and worry. But between them they make a sea voyage necessary for me every July. ten-mi- le wasp-walet- ed pell-me- 1 Travel la Dancing. An average waltz takes a dancer over of a mile, a about him cover half a makes square dance d program mile. A girl with s travels thus in one evening: Twelve waltzes, nine miles; four other dances at half a mile apiece, which Is hardly a fairly big estimate, two miles more; tae intermission stroll, and the trips to renovate her to the dressing-roogown, and complexion, half a mile; grand total, eleven and a half miles. three-quarte- rs well-fille- m THE ATTACK ON SAN JUAN. Own Gencratluu Data llama In Sevilla well-nig- The attack upon San Juan, the Spanish fort near Santiago, was conducted under the command of Gen. Kent, with the main division of the army. It was a bitter struggle, the Spaniards resisting with a determination and fierce enAfter some ergy that was surprising. two hours hard fighting, in which the attack swayed the right of the defense slowly but steadily backward, the ccn-- ! ter broke and the position was won. Driven once from their position, the Spaniards had no heart to return. They continued to fight in a desultory way, but retired after a brief period, the main body retreating upon the intrench-ment- s of Santiago, others hurrying to El Caney, where a hitter fight was in progress. El Caney proved to be the real buttress of Spanish strength. The hill on which it stood gave ths defending force a great advantage. Not only this, the larger portion of the Spanish army had been stationed there, in anticipation of the attempt to cut off the retreat to the interior which the capture of El Caney affected. These two factors combined made the task before the right flank a most difficult one. Had It not been for the exceptional bravery ef the men It could have only resulted in a disastrous failure. The American attack was well directed. From the front Gen. Lawton led with his infantry force of several thousand men. He was supported in the rear by Gen. Wheeler with four light batteries of artillery, on the left by Gen. Young, in command of a force or the regular cavalry and Rough Riders, and on the right by Gen. Garda, with a command of some 5,000 Cubans. It was Garcias mission to pass El Caney to the north and complete the circuit of ths city should the Americans fail m the assault on the town. This was an easy task, with the attention of the Spaniards distracted. He, however, disregarded his orders and came to the assistance of Lawton, and by his brave efforts won deserved praise. It was Lawton who faced the serious work. The character of the lighting in storming the main redoubt was not fully realised. The entrenchments lay west of the hills. Without cover the Americans, in their advance up the slope, were for fully 300 yards exposed to the volley fires of men protected to the shoulders in rifle pits. But they carried the trenches by successive rushes, pausing and huddling behind every hush or rut for temporary shelter from the rain of bullets, like storm-drive- n sheep. The wounded were dragged out of the death hall. After each pause the men, undaunted, pushed on, firing as they ran. When they reached the trenches the latter were full to the brim with the enemys dead. The Spaniards had fled over the summit of the hills, but standing upon the bodies of their fallen comrades, there they remained fighting valiantly to the end. They refused to give way, hut continued the work with their Mausers, enfilading the American line as it came over the trenches. One volley which! a company of cavalry fired tumbled them forward on their faces. This was the charge in which the Sixth, Third. Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Rough VICIOUS PHNANOB. A s, Holy Wavk THE ENGLISH IDEA. ProMuls. THERE BECOMINO In the July Century Stephen Bonsai, WOMEN fata of the American legation at MaSTRONG MINDED." drid, describes "Holy Week" in Sevilla, In describing the Procession of SiWant to lire In Continue That II n lence, Mr. Bonsai says: But there is liven In Our Own I .anil of KvJvi'UmI one muffled figure that bears the heavIJniiratl" Women Utuomer Knit iest cross and walks painfully with unThem to Mlrvtj. shod and shackled fed over the uneven stones, who, owing to the strange and peculiar penances he performs.can women NGLI3II not hope to enjoy tl.c anonymity of -are making an ef-- I his brother penitents. The fort to obtain penance of the fathers in Seville dress, whleh, would Eeem, even as the weight of wJj in their eyes, does their sins, to be visited upon their f not mean skirts. children until the lat generation of They claim that their seed. And least, it is true that with the present the staggering youth before us is the ordinary style of twentieth of Ills name and line who apparel wearing ha done vicafoous penance for the women are obliged sins of his forcfntlier, r. celebrity at the to wear corsets to sixteenth century, who looked "on their for fit secure a good beauty charming wkli the eyes of I)n gowns, a slop aud to prevent Juan Tenodio. He was finally capif disregarded that py anl tured, the legend relates, by a Barbary thisappearance," outward and visible effect they discorsair, and carried a prisoner to Oran, card the steeled protector the hands of where, manacled and chained, he Bpent ths skirts will cut Into the waist, many a long and weary day wishing with injurious effect. That bands at that he were dead. But while he pined the waist line are needed the dress rehopelessly In prison he made a solemn former admits; it Is also admitted that vow that, should he ever regain his a single long garment has a sacklike liberty, he would walk barefooted, and appearance which ia altogether unlovehumbly bearing his cross, behind the ly. The horizontal break in the cosChrist of the Great Power in every tume which is found in knickerbockers madrugada, or morning procession; is aesthetic, the rationalist says, and and, further, he vowed that he would the knickerbockers also follow the make the annual accomplishment of lines of beautiful the natural figure." this vow a charge upon his estate for is admitted that a divided skirt It all time, by providing that should any made by a good tailor may look well, one of his male descendants fail in Its but that an ordinary skirt looks in the performance, his portion of the estate wind like a blown-ou- t bag and flaps should go to enrich the foundation of a from the rides to side side, fatiguing convent. There have been no defaultchain and Itself into pedal, twisting ers among the old gallants heirs; and and wheel. But one of the most imthough the present bearer of the proud portant points made by the rationalist name is a perfumed and scented polio, is and disease germs are colthat mud a dude of Seville society, he too did not lected on the curbs and bus steps by shrink from the sacrifice necessary to keeping the money In the family. And I regret to say that, as be came meekly along In this strange guise, his appearance excited much amusement among the other polios, whose Inheritance had come to them without so unpleasant a condition; and at the Bight of his bruised and bleeding feet much money was wagered on the question of whether he would be able to lead the cotillon at the Duke of Alba's on Easter Monday. But perhqps the strangest of all the array of silent maskers who followed the Christ of the Great Power was a little girl of some twelve summers. clad in her communion robes, weird and ghostly apparel for this the dark hour before the dawn. Her eyes were blindfolded, and, unlike the hoods of the Nazar enes, there was not left the smallest aperture through which she might look to choose and pick her She carried a golden chalice in way. oue hand, and with the other she groped and felt her way. Every now THE ENGLISH IDEA, and then, misled by the deceiving echo of the music, she would turn out of the even the shortest skirts, which reach way, now to the right, and now to the below the knee. left. Once she stumbled and fell, and Much of this is not to be gainsaid, when she rose. In her confuslon.started though it has been proved in America to walk hark the way she had come; that a circular or gored skirt made but the Nazarenes caught her by the close fitting at the hips and about eight hand and directed her on her way inches from the ground, is a prettagain. The little girl in the white y-, modest length; will not blow, and communion dress symbolized that faith will not catch in the wheel or chain which is blind. even when a guard is not used. The fact Is that English and German cyStraiiKV Oreau ('ImmuH. clists who wear skirts wear them too and dangerous Along our Pacific cuast there is gen- long an awkward erally found a platform, about ten length. Such skirts are seen more fremiles broad, sloping away from tlm quently this year In New York and they shore until it reaches a depth of 100 are not modest and they are very ugly. fathoms, and then dropping more rap- It is more possible to make a skirt The edge of the platform, Prof. that will be suitable for riding the idly. says, is broken by 27 wheel and at the same time fall to George David. submerged valleys, some of which are she regular walking length than It is in line with rivers entering the sea. (to make a habit which will be suitable But at least two of them have moun- (for both horseback riding and shop-rintains as lhe shore opposite their heads. But when it comes to knicker(hie of these, called the King Peak bockers, It is found that we are much Chasm, has been the scene of a ship- more conservative than the old counwreck und'-peculiar circumstances. tries. While Great Britain is making The ship ran on the rocky coast and p stand against skirts, all the German was lost i:t foul weather, when the Advertisements of wheels for women rocks could not be seen. It is believed .show the women in the nattiest and vessel unknowingly Snuggest of kniekerliorkers. ihat the Here the followed the line at the submerged Knickerbocker is the exception. valley, or eh.!?, a. and ber captain, flnd-- j ini'gthnt Lis sound in?. showed no bol-- I Vnlllni; Otrrplllar. tom, beli vod be was at a safe dirf There are many kinds of tiiiiee from the const. caterpillars, each employing a different mode of rolling the leaf, but In .III AuiThiMihl all cases the lerf is hold in position by Wo have ex-- I the silken threads spun WL:u Law- v,v to lea; e by the We are able to pillar. haunt are plcDty of birds about in the field. An ' the trees, and they know well put millioi.s of enough alliance of ITnuoe with Spain, armies that within the circled leaves little t of the globe caterpillars reside. But coming fn.Tii they do not need rot chirm us. The r.aHon has find that they cau always make a meat been awakened by honor. Rev. Hugh on the caterpillars, and for the followJohnson. ing reason: The curled leaf is like a tube open at both ends, the caterpilThe the lar lying snugly in th9 Interior. So and the scheme of life can when a bird puts his beak into one end only end in outr darkens and ineffaof the tube, the caterpillar tumbles out ble distress. .Trveysh Parker at the other, and lets itself drop to the is Alveolaris disease a that distance of some feet, supporting itself Pyorrhea destroys the membrane which retains by a silken thread that It spins. The the teeth in the socket, loosening, and bird finds that its prey has escaped, It works end not having sufficient inductive compelling their removal. insidiously and is often far advanced reason to trace the silken thread and before ils existence is known. It is so find the caterpillar, goes off to try responsible for more false teeth than ita fortune elsewhere. The danger beall other causes. Srmptoms, discolored over, the caterpillar ascends its ing bad teeth. Its breath, loosening gums, treatment requires special instruments silken ladder, and quietly regains posand methods not in general use. lienee session of its home. dentists are oftpu powerless to check the disease. W. A. Allen, D. I). S., of Pa, whats the difference Johnny: Billings, Mont., pyorrhea specialist, between puncture and punctuation? solicits advanced eases from dentists. Pa: Not a great deal, my aon. They Satisfactory references from practi- both cause one to stop. P1oh tioners und patients. At Cullen hotel. t self-impos- ed J ra-tlo- g. i dor-mo- I : i leaf-roll-lu- g" cater-Ther- io-- .' j lu-.-- . j j luce-quarte- know-nothin- g, rs j g, |