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Show V I. V CDTINIIAIL OF SHOT. BRAVE SEAMEN FROM AMERI-CASHIPS DID DARING AT CIENFUEGOS, CUBA. N Spaniard! Shoot from Mukid llattarUa and Blfla I'll I'poa tha Handful of BlneJackaU Ordarad to bavar tha Wire Loading Into tha City. a perfect storm of shot from Spanish rifles and batteries the American forces cut the cables at Clenfue-go- s Amid Wednesday morning. May 11. Four determined boat crews, under command of Lieutenant Winslow and Ensign Magruder, from the cruiser Marblehead and the gunboat Nashville, put out from the ships, the coast having previously been shelled. The work of the volunteers was perilous, and one was killed while bravely doing hia duty, aiz others being seriously wounded. The man Instantly killed waa Patrick Reagan. None of the ships was damaged to any extent. The cruiser Marblehead, tbe gunboat Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser Whidom 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 other when the Spaniards in rifle pita and a battery In an old lighthouse, standing out In the bay, opened Are. Tbe warships poured In a thunderous volley, their great gunB belching 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 number had fallen, and finished It, returning to the ships through a blinding smoke 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, and for more that an hour worked unmolested on the (kble. Suddenly, Just as the work was ilfout completed, the shore battery fired' a shell at the boats. It waa 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 Wlndom 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 dismayed, and, protected by the terrlCc return fire of the warships, work waa continued and the cable cut. The Spaniards had by this time suf--. fered severe loss. Their shots from the lighthouse struck the warships 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 was 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 used their heaviest guns, as well as their small rapid-fir- e guns, and hundreds of shots were thrown Into the Spanish troops. The Marblehead was Biruck scores of times by bullets from machine guns and the Nashville suffered to about the asms extent. The Wlndom also had many marks of the fray. Her ahell blowing up the lighthouse and scattering the Spaniards In all directions ended the battle. The cable which waa cut at Clenfue-go- s extended from that city to Santiago de Cuba. It does not sever cable communication with Cuba, as there la another line in operation between Santiago de Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica. The severed cable la owned by the Cuba Submarine company. The one operating to Kingston la owned by the West India Panama company. Tbe latter la the only line not In control of the United States government The cable from Havana to Key WeBt Is controlled by United States officials. It four-pounde- MEN OARTER9 ARE GAYER. ud Startling In Thdf UrlUlaaay. New Tork Sun: Garters srs gayer than ever before. No woman dreams of wearing plain elastic bands to keep Indeed, up her stockings nowadays. garters are now made so many colored that the rival the fashionable hosiery Itself when It comes to startling A garter can come about as near marring or making a woman's happiness aa any trifling accessory to her t6ilet. Women generally, long ago, gave up the elastic band which held the stockiug up below or above tbe knee. Health cultuiUts first told them that it was injurious, preventing perfect circulation, but the sex clung to It with Its bejeweled buckles and beautiful rows of ribbon. Then the cultures told them that the round garter would apoil tbe shape of the leg, and they dropped it like a hot caka and adopted the suspender garter or stocking supporter, as it la oftened called. The newest supporters are made of very bioad and fancy silk clastic In brilliant Scotch plaida or Roman atripea, or else plain elastic covered with ribbons that would shame Joseph's coat, put on full. The catches and side Luckies are of white metal, silver, sliver g:liled and pure gold, and some of them are studden with pregems. One cious and of the waist the around fastens style matcha belt satin means of wearer by ing In color the predominating color of the elastic; the other fastens at the aide of the corset with catch pics. Doth The waistmethoda are band la warm in summer, and destroys the lines about the waist. It la, Indeed, Impossible for a woman inclined to be stout. Tbe other, If of such a length aa to keep the stocking up properly, pulls on the corset and gives the wearer a moat 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 waa right in declaring that the most satisfactory garter In the world waa 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 Tbaa Knr Before, bill-llanc- NOT WANTED. MEXICO'S SCENIC WONDER. I Waterfall GIRL PROTESTS ENTERT AININQ. AGAINST BACHELOR y. iN Uoraa Tha Woman Who Works AU Day Bsfosss to Ito Conventionally Famlnlna Without Good 8 Boasoos (or It. . Hut bachelor, a woman, yawned. the idea that a woman has to marry, anyway, la passe. If she works she can do aa she pleases. I suppose 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. In man the evening," further ex any postulated the bachelor, a woman. "Of courae, everybody keeps one night a week when she secs persons, and fur that Bhe changes her frock and tries to be agreeable. And that evening is enjoyable. Your woman frlenda help you, and It cannot be so slow, no matter how dull the men are. But to put on one's pretties every evening, to hold herself in readiness to play the piano, sing the latest songs or some 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 women, many of us. When my daily task is accom pllshed 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. Ob, It is selfish, I know, but It is In line with I Bee no more use In throwing an evening than a man does. away With women friends you can discuss any subject that Interests you. You have not to consider the conventionalities. 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 will have to be reversed in twinkling. Then, too, from the habit of ages, perhaps every woman lira mediately becomes the onemy of every other and sets out to make tbe caller think she is the prettiest and most vivacious girl In tha 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 he rl vals when there Is a man around. Dut we act automatically, the way a snaks or some other such thing docs with Its head off. The presence of an insignificant snip of a man can change the en tire 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 bouse on a certain evening. She looked unhappy as a result Going to have any men? she Inquired? No, I said. And then Bhe 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 It is precisely the general. MAT 11. B TH OF CABLES, SCENE OF THE FIGHT OVER THE CUTTING selfishness for which ws have blamed the men, since ws began to think about h of was a of from fire shot the the gun It On the whole, I am afraid women the which warships upon shell the Wlndom which knocked over the woman who will Invent a really artis- are getting very manly," continued the had been centered. A four-inc-h tic and, at tbe mme time, comfortable woman, a bachelor, putting on her from the Wlndom tore this structure lighthouse. In command of that gun supporter will strike a Klon- gloves for her dally exercise at the to pieces, killing many and burying division was Lieutenant Crisp, and stocking dike. After half a dozen rounds striking-baothers In the ruins. The Spanish loss Cooper was the gunner who fired the smiled and said that woshe sweetly is known to have been very heavy, the shot. The Spanish loss la estimated at Called It Farnltara Modlalne. to entertain mas mens unwillingness warships firing hundreds of shells 400. never "The secret of wanting new cullne callers must not be taken too The lighthouse was demolished, the right Into their midst. to the old is ones well keep arsenal destroyed and the batteries on things The United States cruiser Marblesold a wise housekeeper, as seriously. "I suppose we're only dead mended," on head, the gunboat NaBhviUe and the shore silenced. The town was set she exhibited the shelf whore she kept tired." auxiliary cruiser Wlndom steamed up fire by shells from the American fleet what she called furniture medicine." to the harbor of Clenfuegos early WedFactories that Maka Only Girdles. There were tins of different colors of nesday morning with orders to cut the Tha Cur at Homo. and enamel, brashes of several Little Japanese at Home" Is '"The paints cable connecting Havana with SantiaAlexander lit., the late czar of Rus- sizes, a bottle of liquid gilt, some good the title of an article in tha May St go de Cuba. This task was accomsia, was said to be an autocrat even in glue, and remnants of all the different Nicholas. The author says: The childs plished, but only after a terrific fight the bosom of his family. Nicholas II., kinds of wall paper. A handsome obi, or girdle, Is at first narrower than between the warships and several however, is the very reverse, lie rescreen had been badher Japanese mothers, hut Is made wider and thousand Spanish troops, which lined gards his consort as a good comrade a careless mutilated by housemaid, longer as she grows older. Sometimes ly the shore and lay concealed behind imand when In urgent cases ministers so that two of Us panels were unsightIt la a foot broad. There are factories provised breastworks. seek an audience late in the evening ly. She patched the gashes carefully devoted exclusively to and Boon after the arrival of the warhe Is Invariably to be found In her com- with court piaster, and with a box of masterpieces of beauty and elegance ships off Clenfuegos four boats were pany, chatting and laughing without water colors and the liquid gilt so con- are produced. It Is wound around the launched and proceeded In shore for restraint. The czar la generally occuIt was the that cealed as good waist and made into a large butterfly patches the purpose of grappling for the cable pied at hla desk, while the czarina bus- as new. A somewhat but bow In the back, the loops of whloh in order to cut It. The warships lay ies herself with embroidery work. Immade a little seat boy of the are, for state occasions, fastened up to to about 1,000 yards or more off the mediately a minister enters she rises sturdy the shoulders, while the wide ends handsome Chinese porcelain umbrelharbor. as If to retire, but more often than la Jar, when down came both float gracefully over the hips. boy and It was observed that the Spanish otherwise the czar informs her that In dozen a latter the Jar, pieces. It troops had assembled ashore, but It she Is not one too many. was not therefor discard, but piecing Ecllpaca of tha Current Tnan was not known that heavy guns had care with tbe with It greatest will be a partial eclipse of the and cement, masked There a In been placed battery was dipped In liquid gilt and moon July 3, an annular eclipse bf the Off. brush or a French Cat ton I) out on a far old the lighthouse, that One of the provisions of the French covered all the cracks, which, from eun July 18, a partial eclipse of the neck of land, had been transformed g to a code forbids doctor Inherit proptheir directions, really added to sun Dec. 13 and a total eclipse of the formidable fort a Into Its oriental appearance. Short Skits. moon Dec. 25. Tha small boats proceeded cautiously erty left him by a deceased patient semi-precio- tete-a-te- te t after-dinn- er four-inc- g. slx-leav- ed obl-weavl- top-hea- vy zig-za- a Llttlo From the St Louis The great waterfall of Juanacatlan to oneofthe grandest, though toast known, CtanM Visitors "Devote my evenings to entertaining men?" frowned the bachelor, a woman, according to the New York Press. "Never again! Our mothers did thaL It was a matter of getting a man or remaining an old maid, which was equivalent to being ostracised. The poor dears had no choice. Everything was aa the men said then." The of Jaanaaatlaa, Know a but Floturaaqa! Cataract. Globe-Democr- 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 of El Castillo, one is conveyed by a native tramcar for a distance of five miles through a beautiful circular valley thousands of acres in area and resembling In the graceful curves of its surrounding hills and tbe 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 s of this enchanting perhaps one's eye gradually belandscape, comes conscious of a low, distant murmur, which steadily Increases to deep rumble, and from that to a the tram-c- ar mighty roar, 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 wall of gray granite in a steady, unbroken cataract 1 feet In width for a sheer distance of sixty feet in a seething, eddying vortex below. For a time the mind to 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 farther shore a portion of the rushing flood to turned aside by a spur of granite and hurled against the face of the confining wall, from which it rebounds in a fine veil-llcascade, while from the top of the precipice on the nearer side long 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 la the constant presence of myriads of gorgeous butterflies, which flit In and out of the rifts of the great cascade and to and firo through the clouds of drifting vapor, seemingly attracted and fascinated by the dazzling, buffeting avalanche of foam. star-tio- n two-third- y ke Battledore and Hhnttlaooek In Japan, Miss Ida Tlgner Hodnett tells of the sports and. pastimes of boys and girls In her article on The Little Japanese ah Home" In May St, Nicholas. Miss Hodnett says: Playing ball and battledore and ehnttlncock, as well as belong especially to the first of the year. The balls for little girls are made of cotton cord covered d with strands of silk, and tbe children become very skillful Is 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 tha ground, whirls quickly around In time to strike K again as 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, sisters and brothers, all Join In the game, knocking the shuttlecock from one to another; and If one falls 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 tha 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 character of history or romance, or a alnglng girl. The shuttlecock consists of a small, round centerpiece, painted or gilded, stuck round with feathers, as petals are ranged round tha center of a flower. kite-flyin- g, bright-colore- woll-kno- Cow per and Ilia Grille. The post Cowper had once sent a poem to the publisher when some friendly critic took the liberty to alter a lino 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. "I did not write the line, said he, "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 slnows. Give me a manly, rough 11ns with a deal of meaning In It, rather than a whole poem of muslo periods that have nothing bnt their oily smoothness to recommend them. Thera Is a roughness on the plum which no one who understands fruit would rub off, though the plum would he morej To guard me polished without 1L for the future from all such meddling, I assure you that I always writs as smoothly as I can, but never will sacrifice the spirit or Bense of a passage to tha sound of It." verse-make- rs |