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Show 0 AMERICAN FORK. UTAH SATURDAY. SKITEMHEIt 31. VOI A to BATTERY 1I0RSE. "I ain't no liar," said the veteran a circle of comrades at a campfire, "and I'll tell you about a horse we had fn our battery. We was rendy vooing at a place which wasn't nothin but a sandbar, and horses was shipped out there from the North. Many was shipped but few was landed. The Black there, so the surgeon said, like a bounty jumper, and held up his leg for Regard Hlu a Bar rrmwt treatment But that ain't so remarkNaval Man. able when you think of it, for hed de Cervera y Topete Conds Pascual every day, de Jerez Marquise de Santa Ana is seen the men go to sick-ca- ll and, of course, he could see the band- the somewhat lengthy name and title ages and smell the ether. So then of the Spanish admiral. He la now aint anything so remarkable aboui 65 years old. lie was born in the that! province of Jerez, where his father, But what gin him his great reputa- Carlos de Cervera, was a man of large NO. 44. 1HW If You were Acquainted with Our System You Could Understand Why iL the best tion was what happened in anothci wealth, owning several estates, and was Prince, she started out with moren battle a little later on. Hed got si! known as one of the richest wine three hundred, and juMt two beasts liv- right by that time, and he and the Car merchants of Spain. Cerveras mother ed out the voyage and was landed on was plunging about as usual while be was Marie Porpete, a daughter o( the island. Our captain, he froze to was in battery and the enemys guns Count Porpete y Velle, of the royal was making it hot for us. We was all family of Spain. He entered the naval one of em. A brute he was the horse, 1 mean but doing our part noble, the men working academy at San Fernando when H the captain saw something about him the guns hard as they could and the years old, and was graduated three that looked promising and he under- Cap swearing as hard as he could, years later, in 1854, and was after when we got a volley of musketry ward attached to aeveral different took to educate him. 1 "We was drilling hard every day, among the gun detachment where training ships to prepare himself for numthe and three man, number was naval warfare. In 1859 lie experienced in going thro the manual of the piece thro his first campaign in the expedition the sand, and we bad a boy for a ber four man went down, shot off to sent out by Spain against Morocco, and He had Just stepped bugler who was trying to sound the the head. for his services was promoted to first calls revelee, stable call, boots and pull the lanyard when he fell, and tbs in lieutenant. He was next attached to horse on his right was sitting saddles and all that. The boy made Cap us an expedition sent to Cochin China, some progress, but this 'ere horse he rear of the gun, while the rest of the Afterward he was attached piece as in 1862. learned faster than the boy, and in had all Jumped clear of Fire! to called the Spanish. legation in this city, three days the horse knew that stable the sergeant an was made a captain for Instant, was confusion and subsequently "There and fed. call meant he was to be w boots and saddles' meant hed got to but the horse seen the situation and In the Spanish navy and placed He a of sent and to command done. Peru, sprang be to ship the knew thing go to work in the Band, so what does rehe do but pull away from his halter like lightning, grabbed the end of the where war was in progress. He a when round short there mained only time, and go off up the island whenever ne lanyard with his teeth, swung War in Cuba broke out hears the bugle go Boots and saddles. so as to be out of the recoil and pulled the Ten Years' "But the Cap. he got on to this trick, off that gun! It was the shot that and Spain found It necessary to recall Peru In order to engage and so one day when he intended to saved the day! It killed the command- her fleet from of Cuban ports. Dur blockade a in his of the officer enemy, adjutant the told mount and give us a drill he ing of the Ten Years some the progress und Ing yet The general and three aids bugler to sound stable-cal- l. was recalled Cervera Admiral War human!" a horse ain't tell you hone woke up his appetite for a square folks made secretary of the Cuba from and is alive ne he today?" 'Do mad how suppose you see meal, and you could navy in the Spanish cabinet. When he was when Instead of a feed he was set asked one of the hearers. YOUNG ANU again entered active service in th on the I said veteran, no liar. ain't to work flying about with the Cap and I won't undertake td say whether navy he was created an admiral and him. In command of the Pelayo, the "I was watching him, and I said to he is or not." William Ward Carruth. placed IN and first only battleship in horsell the boy, You look out, that Its was the construction navy. Spanish GIRLHOOD OF YESTERDAY. get even with you!" The boy snickundertaken and carried out under his ered; but In a minute, as the Cap was Virtues We Might Well suggestions. He has been adjutant a for riding past him and pulled up Revived. Wish to the and several years queen regent, second to swear at a number one man Arabella Is safely shut away in an ago was at the head of the Spanish for not handling the sponge-staright, old and there is nothing naval commission sent to Iondon to the horse he let fly with both hind feet left daguerreotye, to but a few dead rose confer with similar commissions from her memory and caught the boy right in the Jaw! leaves the and fading dreams in the other European powers regarding maThat youngster didn't sound no more hearts of the old. Bays the Womans rine matters. He bears fifteen medals, calls right or wrong for a month, Home But we should of- bestowed upon him by the Spanish Companion. can tell you, but the next day I could ' a ,.' to fer tribute of praise government, anSvln counts him as her menmry see the horse was sorry, for now he certain '"sweet endearing young her foremost naval man. ' didn't have no sign of a warning for , charms" which are almost lost arts drill. or whether it was to be dinner -at the threshold of the twentieth cenAutograph Maul. Well, we got over to Louisiana and faint a wan While Arabella pale, this Dickens True, tury. visiting country, the battery was all horsed up, six to star in the brilliant light of the new one morning receiving's letter purportevery gun and caisson, but that horse old ing to have been written by an Engof the Caps (tor they stuck together) girl, and yet. looking into that line lish laboring man and his wife, in the Just right (in daguerreotype other could double discount every which, in rough phraseology, they beast in the crowd. He give up nis of vision), one sees some sweet, been have which atated that they heard a great deal repropensities trick of dodging drills, for hed learned of duBt and banished cobwebs the to specting the beautiful hooks he had to like em. and it was better than new written, and the good he had done for circus to see him and the Cap flying age, but which even the proud If it is "ub poor folks, aud asked his permisup and down the Hue when the guns girl would do well to adopt. to be modest, then it is sion to name their little baby boy after was In battery. They was a pair, tell you! The Cap with his tongue and a grand, good old fashion, and we need him, promiaing to so educate him that the past and give he might fully appreciate the works of the horse with his heels, both ready to dig it up out of nineteenth-centurwill y the novelist. Dickens sent a letter to let fly at any man or beast that it. a genuine you want to save money, send tor our booklet, old boom. was he that know gowns, to that proud stating didn't come up to the scratch. Some after his name had been conferred on the everything'. Sent Free for the Asking;. days we. boys would swear they was a songs, old plays, are liorn again new gen- child In recollection of his writings, explain of and to years delight burial, and of devils ought together pair and wishing that the H'lle one lntgnt be dismissed the service, but generally erations. Happy If some we was mighty proud of em. and al virtues long abandoned and forgotten become all that his parents hoped to ways watching out of the corners of might be resurrected and become the see him, adding that if he could ever rage! After the cheap Jests and shrugs learn that he had been the means of and mannerisms of society a pure, awakening in the little one any new and a defrank, unspoiled manner is like sun- love for bis shine on the waters of a brook after sire to help them with bis sympathy, the yellow glare of gaslight. Arabella he should feel much pleasure In the was wont to sit in a state of sweet knowledge. This first letter, it apthe was absorb and eloquence receptivity merely a subterfuge on the pears, of nun, which, though perhaps inglorpart of the son of sn officer in the arious. was at least restful. Therefore, my, whb was desirous of obtaining the she had that pearl of all manners re- autograph of the novelist for his colpose. The new girl, on the contrary, is lection. He was ashamed of the mean all the time making a palpable effort trick be played upon Dickens, but from to sustain her reputation for brilit he gained a far higher appreciation liancy. Now. the conscious effort to of the character of the writer than he be continuously witty and entertaining otherwise might have had. may be as trying to the nerves as those deadly pauses which occur beTha Study af Hart aria. tween ideas (and which unquestionably Prof. E. E. Klein, speaking of Modoccurred pretty frequently between the ern Methods in Bacteriology" before Ideas of our lost Arabella). The girl the Royal Institution of Great Britain who is determined at all hazards to a short time ago, alluded to the great fill up silence, and tukes that task advances that have been made in this wholly upon herself is sure to become science since its inauguration by Koch maM'kitirkrs or and pfalkrs ix exhausted, and exhausting. Isnt the in So far has the study of new girl, by demonstrating her power bacteria developed that, it Is now posPULLED THE LANYARD, to do anything. In danger of having sible not only to count, but also to onr eyes to see what they'd be' up everything thrust upon her? Material and workmanehif weigh them. A postage stamp 8 inch A specialty of all kinds of cemetery work. next. and 4 wide would carry long, "The first fight we was in a she'll A Now Iilra. of the typhoid fever liactiu, and guaranteed or money refunded. Send for designs and prices bust mighty near the Cap. and out nf The man who beilevrB in making the if the layer were made a tenth of an PROVO UTAH WIST or TAYWb KUOS. VCHX1TORK CO. the saddle he went just by the con worst of everything happened to see Inch deep, there would be 2,000.000.000,-00russlon. He warnt hit. and swore nt the Washington monument looming If fifteen drops of bacteria were me to go back to my gun when I ran up in the dlstanre. immediately he let fall In a cup of broth, they would to pick him up. He was trying to heaved a deep sigh. "What's the trou- produce In twenty-fou- r hours 80,000,-00mount, but the horse wouldnt let him ble?" inquired the friend. "Dont it Tbe degree of refinement mani"It has been fested by tbe bacteriologist in his reand we could see the beast hold up suit you?" "Not quite. one fore leg while he sidled aud approved by the monument experts searches is shown by the statement of It is Manujmrtttrert of-swung about on what was left. And from all parts of the world. same that it is now pos-- ! the authority But if then the Cap quit him and called the very good as far as It goes. one part of sewage to let him have his some enterprising man would fit it up slble to detect guidon-bearin 500,000 parts of wa contained when horse, which the bearer was darned with mercury and a glass tube what a ter. Seiistcaei. Tibia ti, Curbing. Etc. glad to do and run back and get under fine thing it would be for measuring Star. this weather. a caisson. Washington NEW DESKINS AND lllGli GRADE WORK A SlACIAI.TY, Shi Latdi lb rrorewlon. "And after the scrimmage was over we can't with no "Its use; keep up TTUb Provo. where do you suppose we found the Grasshoppers are so thick in some Maud." What's the matter now V is field said it that the bos Canada that of at horse? Why. parts Cap's ago Shes got engaged by American Utah, Agent, pltal. with the brigade surgeon dress often the Inserts my lie seen floating Dispatch. river. Soorelols the Walked back down a foot thick right Ing his wound! wall-eye- Ladies Shoes, Mens Shoes, Childrens Shoes. Cheaper than any House in the World; lop-sid- ed d, EVERY CONCEIVABLE STYLE AND SHAPE. OLU. RUBBERS FOR THE SHOE LINE. EVERYTHING flrst-clas- R ! Ladies Oxford Ties and Slippers for Dress and Comfort. ff . . . Ji T A 4 - - nTPS' BISE1 BOOTS, KrTTNrj BBECB SHOES. ed Men5 and Children? Slipper?. SHOES- ed it If ed ed DAVIS SHOE COMPANY fellow-creature- s, MONEY BACK SHOEISTS. SALT LAKE CITTT. PROVO MARBLE WORKS ft. 1881-188- B- Frilly Manager, 2. 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