Show A TRULY GLORIOUS GI FOURTH it Is great news that is placed before the traders readers on ihla great day the flot alth ith which admiral cervera was to avenge the fate of montejo s ships and lie lies upon the b mcarth the waves or is ir tumbled aimless aimlessly about the beach sh as so many dismantled blasted hulks near where they have ben b bt en n for so long a time another braye brave commanders reputation acne gt ri and he be condemned to pass along with his compatriot spoken of to the th 2 of ships gone command gone honors gone what additional dit ional sacrifice will be demanded of her offspring by the insatiate spanish Mj majoch och j on land what seemed somewhat in the nature of a victory reversed has assumed its former estate and stands out as a triumph more pronounced than before it was at a great sacrifice of precious lives at the price of widespread wide spread suffering and sorrow that the contested ground was wrung from the stubborn hands of the spaniards and when came the news yesterday afternoon that the marvelous achievement could not be followed up without re the americans would have to withdraw and recuperate a feeling so sad took possession of every mind that it seemed as if the community were overspread with a pall the gloom was by no means mitigated because of the casualties having embraced so many who were well im mown own and greatly respected hereabouts all at once the sun broke through the lowering clouds and dispelled the darkness more rapidly than it had gathered it was our light fight on shore and on sea and but one more forward movement seems to be necessary to place the culminating mi mina natine ting touch upon the valorous work accomplished by our forces in eastern cuba I 1 from the orient the tidings are scarce less cheering to the loyal heart deweys deleys long awaited reinforcements and supplies reached him on the lot the expedition having gathered in the ladrone islands on the way that great commander to Is now in a very easy position he can take manila aad and have force enough at his command to preserve order which he will certainly do at all hazards perhaps e ere re this the philippine metropolis has fallen but whether so or not its doom Is registered and an am the delays that may occur amounting simply to postponing the inevitable hour v it seems certain that all the invested cities must swiftly fall spain no longer has a navy worthy the name none that could not and would not be blown into atoms by any ordinary fleet the united states might send against it with no colonies left with her own shores threatened with half of the available aval lable forces with which the war against humanity in cuba was begun either dead crippled or prisoners with an empty treasury and no credit anywhere with resources broken down and energies weakened to the verge of impotency with riots prevailing and revolution threatened will she still choose to go ahead and prosecute this hopeless struggle until she is utterly pros and with nothing to loot look forward to it seems so great names are being made on the american side of the struggle and of so decisive a nature are the achievements which made them and so numerous have they become that any biographical raph ical work now extant seems a vety inadequate and unsatisfactory publication indeed to the list whose deeds have secured their names a place the imperishable scroll which rests securely in fames temple we now plaice place the name of william thomas sampson he had his game well in hand from the first he knew that sooner or later he would have the opportunity of engaging the spanish ships in the harbor and the opportunity came at last he also knew that the spanish commander would surrender or his craft would all fing the watery grave that has receive dl and swallowed them up these im a doubt did as much damage to our baw in front of santiago as the guns in aw hands of those in the trenches tt is all passed now sampson hf brought the contest down to one te be tween men and men and it require requires fio fao wizard to prefigure its outcome fa any deed the outcome has not at any been questionable the only subject tor speculation being as to how soon or how late it would be sampsons Samp sons wm has shortened and simplified that of abw ta land forces and soon must the gold aate crimson emblem of spain from the ramparts of vanquished au tiago then for havana then we trust for peace |