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Show r CUT IN HAIL OF SHOT. brave seamen from Amer- ican SHIPS DID DARING AT CIENFUEGOS. CUBA. Spaniards Shoot from Masked Batteriea and Rifle Fits Ipon the Handful of to 'sever the Bluejackets Ordered Wires Leading Into the City. Amid a perfect storm of shot from Spanish rifles and batteries the American forces cut the cables at Cienfuegos Wednesday morning. May 11. Four determine! boat crews, under command of Lieutenant Winslow and Ensign Magruder, from the cruiser Marblehead and the gunboat Nashville, put out fiom the ships, the coast having previously been shelled. The work of the volunteers was perilous, and one was killed a bile bravely doing his duty, six others being seriously wounded. The man instantly killed was Patrick Reagan. None of the ships was damaged to any extent The cruiser Marblehead, the gunboat Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser Windom drew up 1,000 yards from shore with their guns manned for desperate duty. One cable had already been cut and (the work was in progress on the othrr when the Spaniards in rifle pits and a battery in an old lighthouse, standing out la the bay, opened fire The warships poured In a thunderous volley, their great guns be'cbing forth massive shells Into the swarms of the enemy. The crews of the boats calmly proceeded with their desperate work, notwithstanding the fact that a cum- her had fallen, and finished it, return- ing to the ships through a blinding emoke and a heavy fire More than 1,000 infantrymen on shore kept up a continuous fire and the bullets from the machine guns struck the warships a hundred times, but did no great damage. Commander Maynard of the gunboat Nashville was slightly wounded by a rifle bullet that before striking him passed through the arm of an ensign, whose name is unknown. Lieutenant Winslow was shot In the hand, making three officers wounded in all. After the Spaniards had been driven from the rifle pits many of them took refuge in the lighthouse fortress, 4 and for more than an hour worked unmolested on the cable. Suddenly, Just as the work was about completed, the shore battery fired a shell at the boats. It was followed by others, and the Spanish infantry opened fire then with their rifles. Then, like a flash, the Marblehead sent a shell Inland, and followed it with a perfect shower of shot The Nashville was quick to follow suit, and the little Windom cut loose with her In the meanwhile Spanish bullets fell in every direction around the. small boats. Though the attack had come suddenly and fiercely the bluejackets were not dlsmav ed, and, protected by the terrife return fire of the warships, work was continued and the cable cut. The Spaniards had by this time suffered severe loss. Their shots from the lighthouse struck the warshirs several times, and, although they did not do much damage, the fire aroused the determination of the American officers to exterminate the fort. Thereafter, for the moment, the fire of the warships was concentrated upon the lighthouse and the improvised fort w'as blown to pieces. As there were great numbers of Spaniards in and behind the fort at the time there Is no doubt that many of them were killed. The Marblehead and the Nashville ued their heaviest guns, as well as their small rapid-fir- e guns, and hundieds of shots were thrown into the Spanish troops. The Marblehead was struck scores of times by bullets from machine guns and the Nashville suffered to about the same extent. The Windom also had many marks of the fray, Her shell blowing up the lighthouse and scattering the Spaniards in all directions end- ed the battle. The cable w'hich was cut at Cienfuegos extended from that city to Santiago de Cuba. It does not sev er cable communication with Cuba, as there is another line in operation between Santiago de Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica. The severed cable Is owned by the Cuba Submarine company. The one operating to Kingston is owned by the West India Panama company. The latter is the only line not in control of the United States government. The cable from Havana to Key West is controlled by United States officials. It four-pounde- j j j Than Ever Before, and Startling In Their Brilliancy. Now York Sun: Garters are gayer than ever before. No woman dreams of wearing plain elastic bands to keep up her stockings nowadajs. Indeed, garters are now made so many colored that the rival the fashionable hosiery itself when it comes to startling brilA garter can come about as liancy. neat marring or making a womans happiness as. any trifling accessory to her toilet. Women generally, long ago, gave up the elastic band which held the stocking up below or above the knee. Health cultuiLts first tod them that it was injuncts, ire venting perfect cucuation, but the sex clung to it with its tejeweled buckles and beauThen the cutiful rows of ribbon. round garthe ltures told tbem that ter would spoil the shape of the leg, and they dropped It like a hot caka and adopted the cuspender garter or stocking supporter, as it Is ofieaed The newest supporters are called. made of very bioad and fancy sulk elastic in brilliant Scotch plaids or Roman stripes, or else plMn elastic covered with ribbons that would shame Josephs coat, put on full. The catches and side buckles are of white metal, silver, silver g filed and pure gold, and some of then are studden with preOne cious and sum precious gems. waist of the the around fastens style wearer by means of a satin be't matching in color the piedominating color of the elastc; the other fastens at the sule cf the corset with catch p.ns. Both methods are u sa.lsfac ory. The waistband is warm in summer, and destroys the lines about the waist. It is, indeed, impossible for a woman incline! to be stout. The other, if of such a length as to keep the stocking up properly, pulls on the corset and gives the wearer a most uncomfortable, tired feeling toward the end of the day. All of these drawbacks have a tendency to make a woman conclude that after all her great grandmother was .right In declaring that the most satisfactory garter in the woild was a string torn from a selvedge edge of a piece of flannel and wrapped just loose enough for comfort and tight enough for convenience about the stocking above or below the knee. A srmr TQW4 a of C'cxntQoi nv.- ' V ?r ... si- u - KVV- - "V i i ji- v ''jr. 1 w to Cowwsrq 14YN4M or rut Amm fit u (VvOUHMo AMiS (HTTUl WuuLlrt upon which the fire of the warships h shell had been centered. A from the Windom tore this structure to pieces, killing many and burying others in the ruins. The Spanish loss is known to have been very heavy, the warships firing hundreds of shells right Into their midst. The United States cruiser Marblehead, the gunboat Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser "Windom steamed up to the harbor of Cienfuegos early Wednesday morning with orders to cut the cable connecting Havana with Santiago de Cuba. This ta3k was accomplished, but only after a terrific fight between the warships and several thousand Spanish troops, which lined the shore and lay concealed behind improvised breastworks. Soon after the arrival of the warships off Cienfuegos four boats were launched and proceeded in shore for the purpose of grappling for the cable In order to cut it. The warships lay to about 1,000 yards or more off the four-inc- harbor. It was observed that the Spanish troops had assembled ashore, but it was not known that heavy guns had been placed In a masked battery and that the old lighthouse, far out on a neck of land, had been transformed into a formidable fort. The small boats proceeded cautiously OF TH E CABLES, MAY h was a shot from the gun of the Windom which knocked over the lighthouse. In command of that gun division was Lieutenant Crisp, and Cooper was the gunner who fired the shot. The Spanish loss is estimated at 11. four-inc- 400. The lighthouse was demolished, the arsenal destroyed and the batteries on shore silenced. The town wa3 set on fire by shells from the American fleet. The Czar at Home. Alexander III , the late czar of Russia, was said to be an autocrat even in the bosom of his family. Nicholas II., however, is the very reverse. He regards his consort as a good comrade and when in urgent cases ministers seek an audience late in the evening he is invariably to be found in her company, chatting and laughing without restraint. The czar is generally occupied at his desk, while the czarina busies herself with embroidery work. Immediately a minister enters she rises as if to retire, hut more often than otherwise the czar informs her that she is not one too many. French Doctor. Cut Off. One of the provisions of the French code forbids a doctor to inherit property left him by a deceased patient. woman who will invent a really artistic and, at the same time, comfortable stocking supporter will strike a Klondike. WANTED. GIRL FROTESTS BACHELOR AGAINST ENTERTAINING. Chance Visitors Are Borca The Woman Who Work All Day Refuse to Be Convent ionully Femiuine Without Good Keaton for It. 3 Devote my evenings to enteitalning men? frowned the bachelor, a woman, according to the New York Press. Never again! Our mothers did that. It was a matter of getting a man or remaining an old maid, which was equivalent to being Ostracized. The poor dears had no choice. Everything The w'as as the men said then. But bachelor, a woman, yawned. the idea that a woman has to mairy, anyway, is pae. If she works she can do as she pleases. I supiose every woman would rather marry than not, but most of us who have dared to think about it would rather not marry than engage ourselves for life to the Entertain a man just wrong man. any man in the evening, further expostulated the bachelor, a woman. "Of course, everybody kteps one night a week when she sees persons, and for that she changes her frock and tries to be agreeable. And that evening is enjoyable. Your woman friends help you, and it cannot be so slow, no matter how dull the men are. But to put on ones pretties every evening, to hold herself In readiness to play the piano, sing the latest songs or same classic, according to the refinement of the chance visitor, to bother to think up with a topics to consider in man whom there is no advantage in pleasing, is something I hope never to do again. Why should I? Men say the women must entertain men because they have been working hard all day. So have the wemen, many cf us. When my daily task is accomplished I myself want to be pleased. Either I wish to go to a theater or take off my frock, tumble into a loose gown and read or dream in the firelight, or chat with mother or any of the girls who come in. Oh, it is selfish, I know, but it is in line with I see no more use in throwing away an evening than a man does. With women friends you can discuss any subject that interests you. You have not to consider the conventioral-ities- . You can be yourself and talk in an animated way, and it is good for you. Let a man come into the room and the entire atmosphere changes in a moment. The subject of conversation probably w'ill have to be reversed in a twinkling. Then, too, from the habit of ages, perhaps every woman immediately becomes the enemy of every other and sets out to make the caller think she is the prettiest an most vivacious girl in the room. Oh, you need not say in a shocked fashion you thought women are no longer rivals. Among themselves, socially, maybe they are not. And they have thought it all out why they should not be rivals when there is a man around. But we act automatically, the way a snake or some othei such th'rg does with its head off. The preunce of an insignificant snip of a man can change the entire good feeling of a company of women. We do not think about them when they are not around, but you know the hold the habit has on you. The other day I invited one of my women friends to come to my house on a certain evening. She looked unhappy as a result. Going to have any men? she inquired? No, I said. And then she brightened, saying she would come. I am too tired to talk with men after dinner, she explained. Then, the bachelor, a woman, said she did not think it a commendable state, this indifference of women to men in general. It is precisely the selfishness for which we have blamed the men, since we began to think about It. On the whole, I am afraid women are getting very manly, continued the woman, a bachelor, putting on her gloves for her daily exercise at the After half a dozen rounds striking-bashe smiled sweetly and said that womens unwillingness to entertain masculine callers must not be taken too I suppose were only dead seriously. tired. tete-a-te- te er g. Called It Furniture Medicine. The secret of never wanting new things i3 to keep the old ones well mended, said a wise housekeeper, as she exhibited the shelf where she kept what she called furniture medicine. Factories that Make Only Girdles. There were tins cf different colors of The Little Japanese at Home is paints and enamel, biUoLes of several sizes, a bottle of liquid gilt, some good the title of an article in the May St. glue, and remnants of all the different Nicholas. The author says: The childs kinds of wall paper. A handsome six- obi, or girdle, is at first narrower than leaved Japanese screen had been badher mothers, hut Is made wider and ly mutilated by a careess housemaid, longer as she grows older. Sometimes so that two of its panels were un3ight- - it is a foot broad. There are factories and devoted exclusively to ly. She ratch'd the gashes carefully with court plaster, and with a box of masterpieces of beauty and elegance are produced. It is wound around the water colors and the liquid gilt so concealed the patches that it was as good waist and made into a large butterfly as new. A somewhat but bow in the back, the loops of which a little made seat of boy sturdy the are, for state occasions, fastened up to the shoulders, while the wide ends handsome Chinese porcelain umbrella jar, when down came both boy and float gracefully over the hips. jar, the latter in a dozen pieces. It was not therefor discard d, but piecing Eclipses of the Current Tear. it with the greatest care with cement, There will be a partial eclipse of the a biush was dipped in liquid gilt and moon July 3, an annular eclipse of the covered all the cracks, which, from eun July 18, a partial eclipse of the their directions, really added to sun Dec. 13 and a total eclipse of the its oriental anDearance. Short Skits. moon Dec. 23. g, top-hea- zig-za- g MEXICOS SCENIC WONDER. Waterfall after-dinn- SCENE OF THE FIGHT OVER THE CUTTING NOT MEN GARTERS ARE GAYER. of Juauacatlan, Known but Flcturesquo Cataract. From the St. Louis The great waterfall of Juanacatlan la oneof thegrandest, though least known, scenic wonders of Mexico. The immediate approach to the falls is in itself an artist's dream of rural delights. Leaving the railroad at the little station of El Cr.tCiho, one is conveyed trfnrar for a distance of five miles throuch a beautiful circular valley thousands of acres in area and resembling in the graceful curves of its surrounding hills and the delicate tints of its labyrinths of wild flowers a mammoth seashell. At frequent intervals above the tops of the long grasses and tropical shrubs glimpses are caught of the broad, winding Rio de Santiago, its waters hastening onward to the mad. Having traversed of this enchanting perhaps landscape, ones eye gradually becomes conscious of a low, distant murmur, w'hich steadily increases to a deep rumble, and from that to a the tram-cmighty roar, and comes to a standstill at the very brink of a high precipice, from which is viewed through clouds of vaporous mist the sight of thousands of tons of water plunging over a wTall of gray granite In a steady, unbroken cataract S60 feet in width for a sheer distance of sixty feet in a seething, eddying vortex below. For a time the mind is apt to be held in rapt contemplation of the spectacle; then, by degrees, the senses are awakened to the various characteristics, the exquisite effects and weird vagaries of the foaming, falling waters. At the extreme further shore a portion of the rushing flood is turned aside by a spur of granite and hurled against the face of the confining wall, from which it rebounds e in a fine cascade, w'hile from the top of the precipice on the nearer side 4ong trailing vines droop down and reach out their tendrils as if in vain efforts to grasp the descending torrents. Associated with these falls is a strange and beautiful phenomenon. It is the constant presence of myriads of gorgeous butterflies, which flit in and out of the rifts of the great cascade and to and fro through the clouds of drifting vapor, seemingly attracted and fascinated by the dazzling, buffeting avalanche of foam. Globe-Democra- two-third- t: s pm-cutl- y ar veil-lik- Battledore and Shuttlecock in Japan. Miss Ida Tlgner Ilodnett tells of the sports and pastimee of boys and girls In her article on The Little Japanese at Homo in May St. Nicholas. Miss Hod nett says: Playing ball and battledore and shuttlecock, as well as belong especially to the first of the year. The balls for little girls are made of cotton cord covered with strands of bright-colore- d silk, and the children become very skillful in making these balls themselves. Sometimes the ball is merely bounced by the child as she kneels before It; sometimes she stands, and, striking it to thq ground, whirls quickly around in time to strike it again a3 It rises. Battledore and shuttlecock Is played in the streets not only by girls in twos and threes and in circles, but also by a whole family. Father, mother, sistera and brothers, all Join in the game, knocking the shuttlecock from one to another; and if one fails to hit It in time to keep it from the ground, all the other players rush to give that one a light blow with the bat. Sometimes the punishment for failure is having a circle drawn round the eyes, or the face otherwise marked. The bat is of wood with one side plain, the other ornamented with the picture of some n character of history or roa or mance, singing girl. The shuttlecock consists of a small, round center-piecpainted or gilded, stuck round with feathers, as petals are ranged round the center of a flower. kite-flyin- g, well-know- e, Cowper and Ills Crltlo. The poet Cowper bad once sent a poem to the publisher when some friendly critic took the liberty to alter a line to make the poem smoother, supposing that Cowper would be grateful for the favor; but Cowper did not think oily smoothness the only merit of poetry, and so was very Indignant. said he, I did not write the line, that has been tampered with, hastily or without due attention to its construction, and what appeared to me its only merit is now entirely annihilated. I know that the ears of modern are delicate to excess, so If a line does not run as smoothly as quicksilver, they are offended. A critic of the present day serves a poem as a cook serves a turkey fastens the legs of it to a post and draws out all its sinews. Give me a manly, rough line with a deal of meaning in it, rather than a whole poem of music periods that have nothing but their oily smoothness to recommend them. There is a roughness on the plum which no one who understands fruit would rub off, though the plum would be more To guard me polished without it such all from meddling,1 future for the I assure you that I always write as smoothly as I can, but never will Bac-riflee the spirit or sense of a passage1 to the sound of it. verse-make- rs j |