HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-7-8, Page 3'ONE Judaic YEN Rao.
The War GOCen ninany Oran on,
Shafter's Army,
The Aggreesive Action of the S, Soldiery
Against Santiago checked Datil Gen.
erai simmer eceives Deinforcements
—i. Witixerieg Vire :Greeted the llrave
Soldiers of the Itnion-eGallant De-
Kce by the Spenish Admitted,
At neneral Shunter's headquarters, Frit
dine July 1, 4 pan,—(By ,assoolated
Prue despateh boat Cynthia..)—(leneral
Shafter's army has bad its baptesin ot
fire, with desperate courage it has eon'
',mend the Spanish works before Sentiago,
mad at this how is drivina the enemy
into the streets of the eity. Tim victory -
was won at heavy test in killed an
woutuled. It is impossible to estimate thei
loss at this writing.
In some oeses every cancer in a conn
pany was lost,
The Spanish lots Muse have been
neat,. The Spaniards opposing Gen.
Lewton's Division lost in killed, wound -
en or taken prisoners, a,000 men, and lose
on the centre end left must be double
tbat number. Most of our troops took
position during Um night, although owl,
Rates' reserves did apt emete up ROW
Morning,
Gera IsaWton's division, on the extreme
eight, somported by Cepa Oapoi's bat-
tery, divisionin the ceufre
'mad 0011, Wbeeler's division on the left,
supported by Cent. Grime's; bettery,
Mantua on a bifl. formea a line wbints
•stretched storm the wbole wldtb ef the
besin /14 Whieh Smiting ss a dietitian
of telly five eallee,
Attie& Upon, CaneY.
ImMediately in front ot Gen. Lawton
laY Conee, surrounded by blookhouses
and entrenclionents and against tbis point
were the operations directed. Beyond
the San Juan 'elver, 9,000 yards before
the centre and left, lay a line of entrenclat
Meets 4 mile 'West of the oity. Theee two
slielsions were eovered by a heavy tangles'
, undergrowth between the San Juan and
the Bio Guinea. On the ()Unseat) left, tan
the heights beyond Caen Grimes' battery.
behind whieb, in the sbelter of an old
slaw house, wbere the rear cavalry
division was massed, were Gen, Duffiele's
Micbigan volunteers, who moved out at
clayligbt over the line of the railroad from
antenna.
The Antericene laid the advantage et
the sun in the morning, which shone
direetly in the enemy's face.
The engagement opened when the neat
lying outside the mantrap to the barber
beam dropping simile into the lower end
Of the Spiinish (girth works.
This ilring, wbich was entirely by bear-
ings, was no effective.
At 7.20 the and engagement opened
with firiug from Capt. °introit's battery
on the extreme right, upon the blook-
beam and entrenchments before Caney.
This was followed quicitly by simultane•
.ous attacks by Gen. Chaffee aud Col.
'Ludlow, who =mined a nuking position
tho north. The Spanish replied wliii
great spirit and nerve when the Amad-
ei/in shells burst directly over their teen-
ithes„ A few minutes before S o'clock
Capt. Grimes opened with bis battery on
tbe heights to the right of the main re-
doubt, situated in the centre of tho Span-
ish line of entrenebments, directly before
the city.
Spanieli nerdy was eitteetive.
The Spanish reply was immediate and
'wonderfully accurate. The second or third
of their shells broke over one of Capt.
Grimes' guns, killing two mon ami
wounding four,: Both the Spanish and
• A.merioan batteries used shriennel. The
next Spanish shell burst just beyond the
battery and riddled a sugar house, behind
'which Col. Woods' Rough Riders wore
twaitiug a forward movement.
It was from these heights that the Eng-
lish, German anti Japanese, military at-
taches viewed the engagement.
Capt. Grimes' shells, set for a range of
2,800 yards, slightly overshot the mark.
It was Moult to locate the Spaniah
,guns as bey used smokeless powder, and
en thi
s the Ameicans had the worst of it.
Up to this time there had been no in-
lantrv near except on the extreme right,
-where the Spaniards were being hard
pressed by Gen, Chaffee and Lawton.
View F111111 a nanoon.
About 8.30 a balloon was sent up in
/rent of the cavalry division. This thew
the first volley from the Spanish entrench •
manta Though volley followed volley,
the daring onicer salad° a reconnaissance
and got down safely, after having ob-
tained complete details of the disposition
of the enemy. The advance of the cavalry
And Gen. Kent's division imrnediatelv
began along the lino of the main road to
Santiago. It was about two hours later
.before the American advance began
breaking through the cover in front of
the Spanish trenches, It was met with a
murderous hail from Mauser rifles. which
'temporarily stayed the forward movement.
The Spaniards had the range and their
practice was good. The Americans lay on
their breasts and poured volley after vol-
• ley into them ata range so close that the
-opposing lines 'could see the whites of
eiaoh other's eyes.
Capt. Grimes then reopened with Ins
'battery, and in the second duel with the
.Spanish artillerists did much better exe•
ontion, planting shell after shell in the
lirst main redoubt and silencing two
.guns. The Spanish gunners then turned
-their attention to the United States in-
fantry and began dropping shells into the
**Avarice guard.
" A few minutes afterward Clark's tar'-
, ,gade and the right of Kent's division
made a gallant charge up the knoll to the
north of the extreme left of the Spanish
lines and took possession of the baelenda
-in the &miter of an orange grove. This
marked the beginning of a magnificent
oharge through the first line of entrench -
Against a Storm of Death.
The cavalry division and Gen. Haw-
kins' brigade 'Merged up the slope
•against a storm of death. It Was in this
, avant charge that the Americans Were so
badly out up that they started on a
double quick, but no troops could face
• such a terrific fire without annihilation.
The Americans staggered, they threw
.themseives on the gvound; again they
started; again they proserated themselves,
but on, on, up, up, they went, until,
with a oheer, they sprang over the tren-
(rhea dividing the sides of the hill check-
ered with their fallen comrades. There
was hand-tohand lighting here, in which
/an officer of the 24th was mediated by a
Spaniard, but the Spaniards could not
resist the onset of the United States
Ltroops, and they scrambled out of the
trenches and broke over the line of nnells
on whien they were situated, lItitulreds
of the Spanish lay dead or wounded ip
the trenches.
emin ovation Carried teeth a Rush.
The main redoubt was then carried
with a rush. The two remaining batteriee
were then ordered up ad with a reale
and clash (Sept Bates' battery went tear -
Mg up the road, one-- -eared as it was
with a strewn of wou,,,teil going to the
rear. The battery got in position to the
right of the main Spanish redoubt at 3
oadocie and at 8.03 tiapt. Bates sent the
first shell, whieh went whizzing down
the line of entreneareepts, enniadieg the
enemy anunicrouslys,
The Americas) advance line remained
behind the crest of the hills aunt Capt.
Bates had drlven terror Seta tiae alreely
beaten and discouraged euemr.
At this time the American fleet was
glee at work. Sliortly before this despeteb
was evritten. the United letates line again
moved forward and the Spanise began to
retreat ieto the town. The retreat soon
became a route and at 5 o'elocle an officer
just from tha front says the enemy are
topelessiy a sten.
Lien. Sieteer at hie beetiquarters at the
several eretsine of the Rio Quanta had a
constant communication with the front.
Tbe most oritkai time was after the
trenchee had been taken when the am -
Munition ran low. Two pack trains load.
ed With .0 ne Were got to the on by
Lieutenant eiroeite sbortly Atter 0 tnelook.
The Wounded are faireanting
an. Shatter estimates that the lots in
killed and wonstded is not more than M.
THE LOSS A THOUSAND,
An notelet Despatch From Geo, Shafter
States That Nunaber of Americans
Were Seined en Fridas.
Westilegtou, D.0,, July a. --The follow-
ing despatoti from gem abeam' was es-
eeived toelay and mule publio from the
White House;
Pleye del 1Cste, July 8,—To Seeya of
War, Washington. Camp near novillit,
Cuba, July 8.—We have the town well
invested an the north and east, but with
a very thiu lino. Upon approaching we
find it of suoll a obaracter and the Wen.
ces SO strong thee it will be inipostible to
carry it by storm with my Present force.
One losses up Vs (late wt1aggregatc
1,000, but list bas not yet Weil Milo.
But little sickness outside of exhaustion
from intense beat end mini au sit the
battle of the day before yesterday and the
obelost constent lire which is kept up on
the trenches.
Wagon road to the rear is kept up with
some difficulty on account of rains*, but I
will he able to use far the present. Gen.
Wheeler is seriously ill and will probably
have to go to the rear to -day. Gen. Youtig
Is niso very 111, confined to his bed. Gen.
Hawkins slightly wounded in the foot
during a sortie the enemy 11141110 last
night, which was handsomely repu1se:1.
"rile bobavior of the troops was
magnftl-
cent. Gen. Garcia has reporten that he
bolds the railroad from Santiago to San
Luis, and bas burned a bridge and re
moved from S01110 rune; ahlo that Gen.
Panda has arrived at Palma, and that the
French Consul with about 400 Emmen
citizens came into his lino yesterday from
nantingo. Have directed bite to treat
them with every courtesy possible.
• Major -Gen. Shama
• Message of Gratitude to Shaffer.
Secretary Alger sent the following reply
to Gen. Shatter: "To Gen. Shatter: The
President directs zno to say that you have
the gratitude and thanks of the nation
for the brilliant and effective work of
your noble army an Friday, .7uly 1, The
sturdy valor and heroism of oilleere au,1
men thrlll tbe Amerierin people with
pride. The country mourns the brave inon
who fell In batne. They 'lave added new
names to our roll of heroes. R. A. Alger,
Scene of War."
Secretary Alger, when asked what
course was to be pursued in view of Gen,
ahafter's report of tbe conditions at Santi-
ago, said that the Government aid not
intend to make any of its plans public:
and give the enemy an opportunity of
knowing what was inteuded. It is under
stood that Gen. Shafter will at once re-
ceive instructions. War Department
officials have been in conference at the
White House and War Department.
Shatter Will Await Reinforcements.
All of Gen. Shafter's despatches were
not made public for reasons of *impede.
ency. It is understood he will withdraw
to the hills near the city and await rein •
forcements, which will be sent as soon as
possible. Assistant Secretary iffeiklejohn
Is now busy arranging for transports.
Miles Calls It a Draw.
Gen. Miles said the result at Santiago
appears to be a drawn battle. He also
saki the withdrawal of Gen. Shafter to
the highlands of Slboney, near the sea,
would be temporary, enabling the troops
to rest and prepare for future work. Gen.
Sbafter would probably give up El Caney
and the plain not far from Santiago.
FLEET AIDED THE TROOPS.
Did Little Damage. However, to Spain's
Rifle Pits—Snwanee Shoots Down
the Spanish
Off Santiago de Cuba, July 1, via
Kingston, namaloa, July 2, 8 amt —Be-
fore 5 o'clock this morning the crew of
the flagship New York was astir, eating
a hurried breakfast, and at 5.50 "general
quarters" was sounded and the flagship
headed in towards Aguadores, about
three miles east of Morro Castle. The
other ships retained their blockading
positions.
At 10.15 a signal flag ashore wig-
wagged to Admiral Sampson to com-
mence firing, and a minute later the New
York's guns blazed away at the rifle pits,
and at the old fort.
The Simians and Glomester joined in
the echoes, whiele rumbled around and
filled the gullies.
Piring Without Effect.
At 11.80 General Duffield signalled
that his scouts reported that no damage
had been done to the Spanish rifle pits by
the thells from the ships and Admiral
Sainpson told him that they had been hit
several times, but there was no One in
tho pits. ,
Atter that the New York, Suwanee and
Gloucester threw shells every five minutes
into the city of Santiago, but with wbat
effect cannot yet be told.
Santiago Well Invested.
Washington, D.C., July 4.—Shafter
reports from camp near Sevilia, July 8,
that he has Santiago well invested on the
north and east, but with a very thin line.
'Upon approaching it he finds it of snob
a character and the defences are BO
strong that it will be impossible to carry
It by storm with his present force. Hie
lomat to date are a thousand,
A YE eR AGO.
* year ago we wallted the woods,
A year ago today,
The lanes were white with blaelethorn
bloom,
The hedges meet with may,
We trod the happy woodland ways.
Where sunset lights between
The slender hazel stems streamed clear
.And turned to gold the green.
Thrushes sang through the cool green arelt
Where clouds of windflowers grew.
That beauty alt was lost to ine
For lack of love to you.
And y ou, too, missed the peace whielt might,
Have been, yet might not be,
'zone too much doubt and fear Qf tate
.id too emelt love of ate.
Thi e year, 0 love, no thing is ehangedi
As bright a euneet glows.
Again we wall: the wild wet woods,
Again the bluebell blows -
Pat still our drifted Spirits fail
Spring's happiness to touch,
For now you do not care for me.
And 1 love you too nittehl
—D. Nesbit in Good Words,
THE NEPRISTO CAP.
one tied forced her—sbould be looking SEIr
SMICSTATIONS.
with a look of pitiful appeal in her eyes
end with tears at a man who had flirted
rt 1‘11,11esSritr %Ts.: sSee,ara befere' 6ti11' allly 48 PROF. 4O1 -IN MILNE'S OBSERVATORY
Condi on his part looked extremely
ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT
uncomfortable. He may Dave been wish- .
ing that he had sent the old gloves by mail
OP by niesaenster net then, again, he , Kis enthasiastio Study of perthenanes
may not have been altogether sorry to see Mar I.ead to the Recordlog of the
that appealing, look ism' those swimming
eyes. ealeturbancee in Our Planet's Surface bil
don't know," he stammered. shelter observatories An over -nee
"Perhaps I ought not to have brought Wieed—inapertaine or the oaterva-
them But I don't see ester not I don't j twos,
A SKETCHING ADVENTU,RE.,
The Arfierat th004paela.:0;4:44:. /Ind the Use-
:Wierdeley sure -eyed the old cottage with
its shaky fence awl into busbies theough
hie tedueing gitss.
"I think it weuld be better composition
if the gate were ...pen," be said at length,
"It's locited, though," eaid Browe.
"Ole we'll get it open eoraehow it We
necessary," said Wierdsiey cbee.rfally, at -
plying bis eye to the glass egenl,
"Yes, that's whet it wants," said he at
see how I mad have hept them, could I?" lengtb. "If you, could get the obianner,
" non might. have bunted these, mightn't In the very' centee at the Isle of Wight, tebnc'teleiirt tbeeuedthdaenedatIragigahtet*int°Asairres ;01:
smile
your Edue.said„ with a ratbermieeldevoue in a little place called Snide, lives Joint see tee nee is bed. we'll te
Milne, late professor of seismoloa at the est (pen te
•itin 1 :eight," Cortell answered quick- University of Told% Who Probably ga•te-pa eatndseyop4poleinseeit twItat4peot 1p2nleeadnea' it want
ly. "I give you my word, Miss Berson— knows inore about earthquakes than any - nine to be opened?" objected Brown,
1 bee Fed to believe nes--I never thought mar. JUJU Wteelehe, ' ' ' ' . '
of that." ...Oh, they'll see for thesneelves how
' n-r°Iess°1. Itt'ne bas glven his soots lacemeat said InDe ietd
Te n
hutnifest sincerity ss fr
ith which tine freely to ell the world, and for a year or e,"lul*canque it manes the
r' u silet; as he pried at the
was said 4tml the ingenuous teeth that no- 'Mere has been inaltipg every effort. with. I tent with a piee„f sack.
COMnie
Pad the explanation were irreeisti. the encouragement of the British Aeseela-
ble Edna Inenois burst into a hearty tiOil tar the Advaneentent of Science0 his"sik4leutchhhhteioll
ti", 646. 13mvil 48' hi) took ot
it
laugh. which Cortell was not long -111 tale, have earthquake observatories establisbed 1
at various points on the earth's surface, • Wierdeley finay pulled the lock Off liZat that momhe moment tstreet door was witli instruments sham* to his ewn so bodily, swung back the rickety gate and
backed across the road to leek at tne ef-
openea and then the dear of the library, that by ceraparison Q5 records. fuller feet.
wheto these two stima laughing ever an knowledge Mae be had of ram -entente in eyelet did e tell yenta endeeeted hetet
old pair of gloves, end the server); girl, it 04 earthle crest mei cluinges in the delight, "Just what, it wants. NM hurry
"014 Yes; and I forgot to tell. rian Y°t1 her direet and ilistiuctive manner, pro- oceants bed.
know, your old ileme is t.o be married ite i up awl get that effeet befom the shadow
is she? Itbien?" 11°111/111;0"L'al:itirlr.Otihrirki6gtGriLly entharrassinf sinttmtporiteaanreceen cosoci4enteir, ktfotweniedtagceebathsvo
ill the situation The embarrassment was 4 4
May?" And various governments, universities et tne dummy falls amine the gable, and
,si...:ir.ogullet;t.d,, a good neanYi hadn't Ton? 0114' apparent,. The event might hey° seat favorable replies, SO that elOW sto1
IfyounraillPisPedwilben1 l(a)ps fif, ipeegregebtafldileA At,
been (intermit it all the persons concereed Ifeavard Ugiversity, et Cambridge, was 51)0O gikal*Ing aWaT fOr (IOU litO, SO
"Let ille eee. Meneltee Emmet'. 011, Imo looked et tbe ease aa it should have Mesa, bee it$ own enetbgttane Observe-
yoti tell Me, eleten. I'M tee tired to gUe$4- peen looked at; bur, \Nagle the girl, with tory; Yerkee Observatery et Willialue bserbed did both 'Nemec, that they failed to
That railroad bus shalom pie all to plecere °tic() that a, beasts tbat bad heels eropelnit
in the last hundred nallee." clutreeteristio candor, saw only the reality, ltay, Wis., is expeeted to bave one geees se the little lawn et the ewe et the
Youre t00 Wed to exert gs chiefly by theappeaCortell WAS, tor some cemasonBristol, impreesedperhalell shortlySeuth; New AfricaeelZandhas is putting 14p hoes e ban discovered tbe open gate and
your 141111(1, Edam Barsou."
"Well, then, if 'ran. , two; one, at Cape
and elle marries"— ventrally, refleetesi only Cornea's view. Town; Toronto, CaPiela, tat Ons; Dgita
'cl3oh l3nisto1( of ail mem, Old eoCingb
lie at once wainael to the table and, lift- as tbree; Japan bas one; Mauritius bas
to be bet'th
father, isn't he?"
Mg the gloves. said, with eyebrows raised1 one; St:111th A11101104 has one, in Argent
"A
Cortell had beea away five years itl the o
present? Went yen It me into year tine; Beiront, in Syria, is in earrespend-
Je.?
his mother and sister+nice for one, and so also is niberia.
Or
west and bail just made ft long joerney in e lion. n—es este, neee*"nte coital no, tit short, tbete seems to be iittie doubt
wi
Order to Spend tweet' tbreeiveens at home iiitaiinaestaisielea'.*i'ibopeyou.bevenat that within a few months PO fewer tben
th . life had come
beak, it seemed to ban, numb snore then noag„iten me.JA
twenty of these seternie stations Will be
live years older time he was when be left. The worst of it was Edna. was still in operatiott in differept parts of the
laughing, and there were the gloves. glebe, all ectuipped with the Milne
Vlore wee upon him now the steadying Bristol almond to think that thesituation instruments, n
ed all In regular emu -
pressure of large responsibilities, for las deniendtd ii dive), of quiet dignity.
wns vetY Ile" to bnlng tb° head et a lari4e n
"1 reinember you perfealy, Ma Cor- ualle"t°33 With thp bead or central
station at Shide. It is %nee as certain
busluess enterprise. All that he S4W— tell." he saki, bowing. nightly. eniey Ae
even the faees of bis mother and sister— — tha4 a coMperison at records trent ell
as"; again eibitt amuses you so much?' these earthquane observatories will Make
reminded hint of What he bad beim when Dim bete= sariaas in a moments, ahd
It impossibie for an important eetspale
his eyes last fell upon those scenes and ot sb„ inneme sen„ot she become angry.
th°s° f"esi 4°4 bo Sound lthns°14 as ha "It isn't very mirk Of a Joke, Mr. Br's- a4n1StulUnbAducoQr trul9eiier"thaeliSisweabs"whwhohnlirta
Stre°)°41 nt thll length on tb° latthga Vol," elm said. "It you Insist on having preciee location being linamediaiely
wondering bow be could "eV Ilaee heel It, however, Ala Corte') has jest -found= known, as well. as all emential fact.
So ftiV°1°°5 And so jenstislY eitteless o'
consequences in everythingas Ile had been old pair of gloves of mineand bas brought regarding it. And when ie is borne In
In the days that now seemed, to blut to ine tit= to me because it didn't occur to idin mind tbat at present seventy-five Der
to put them in the nre. tont it funnel" cent. ot the whole number of earthquakes
occur in the bed of the ocean, the vale°
"So women Can forget soniethnen Yon opeehaes 1 might appreciate the joke bet- of such etatistics to cable eomPanies
(and what country is not interested In
im
the proper working of am cables?) is
at once apparout.
After years given to studying the
prelatical side of seismology in Japau.
Professor Milne is now studying Its
theoretical side. "nbe instruments used
are simple enough, although admirable
in perfection of adjustment and &Mean,
Mug to the dine distance of history. "1 hardly think so," Bristol anSwered,
see," his sister was continuing bet' talk. ter if 1 know where Mr. Conon found
Bob's thoughts Were Wandering back to these gloves."
the past. Presently Le exclaimed game- As Cortell opened Ms month to snake
what suddenly: "By jingo, 018re, I be- sense answer to bins Edna, putting up ber
Rove I have something. Let me see. When band, said: "This is my business. I'm
do you say Edna is to be married? May?" afraid you will not hose an opportunity of
"Middle of May, I believe." fully appreelatitig the joke, air. Bristol,
"And this is the middle of April. By until you mansige to get yourself into a
jingo( I wonder whether I ought to take better humor for that sort of thing."
It to her or send it?"
She very caretully folded up the gloves
"That's your second 'by jingo' in ono
s mid laid thein behind the (noon oa the
minete. Send what? Wedffing present?*
emantelpiece, while Carton sawed at her
"Eli? Yes' Qf °°11-rs°' tunst - and Bristol stood. lining his nether Up,
wedding present. I knew Bristol quite Then there was an awkward pause for
well. He's an older luau than I inn, isn't some moments until Cartel/ said some -
be?" thlues about going.
That evening Calvin Cotton unpacked ..why, I've hardly had ten words with
a big leather trunk in the privacy of his you yet, Mr. Cartel'," Edna said, With
own room. He took .aut a tin box that a wielsea game° at the other man. "Please
looked as if it bad been designed originally don't go yet. Perhaps—perhaps I may
to hold casb. He unlooked that box and find something of interest to show you if
took out peekage after package of carefully you'll wait a little longer."
tied up papers --receipts, canceled notes, "Then perhaps I had better call at some
memoranda of many kinds, Under all other time," Bnistol said.
these was a leather cased daguerrotype of
his mother. Last of all, wider the case, It was a very awkward situation indeed.
Bristol coilld not stay after this Iast ob-
in seine tissue paper, were a pair of very servation of his, aud Caxton, could not
ranch failed kid gloves. run away Atter Etina's pressing invitation.
Cartel took out the tissue paper pack- Half an hour later Cartel" said;
ago, replaced tbe daguerrotype, the various That did you mean by Saying that you
bundles of inemorandit, canceled receipts :night find something interesting to show
aed other business doeusnents, looked the mon,
tin box and sat dawn to think.
writing table before him, drew up a chair,
i? me suddenly. Walt
no;t3D.,i,d D" said Edna, "Do you bold me
Ho laid the faded gloves on the little tot It oecurred to
rested his elbows on the table and sup- Sho ran out of the room and after a lit -
ported Ms head ou his two hands. As the no while came back holding something
faint odor of the disinterred gloves mine behind her.
to his nostrils a suailo, half of amusement, "Do you recognize this?" and she Bud -
half of tenderness, played over his face. denly produced an old faded red velvet
"But the question Is, how the deuce am
I to do it?" he said aloud to himself after
some minutes of this brooding.
The smile on his face grew more and
more tender. Presently he sighed, and
then ho spoke again to himself : "That has
nothing to do with now, old man. That
was long ago. You've got it to do."
Edna Berson certainly had been a little
disconcerted when the news came to her
that her sweetheart of five years before had
suddenly made his appearance in the town
just at tho time when her engagement to
Bristol had been made public. She was
not vividly conscious of any feeling for
Calvin Cortell that could have been con-
strued as disloyalty to her finance, but she
knew only too even how recklessly tongues
will wag in a small town, where each
man's—or woman's—business is the busi-
ness of all, and, considering many things,
Cortell's sudden appearance just then,
after a continuous Absence of five years,
:night very plausibly be made to bear a
significance that would disturb the smooth
current of her engagement. There had
been rumors that Mrs. and Miss Cortell
would, some time or other, go west to
make their home with Calvin, but no one
had expected to see him back in his for-
mer home.
Edna sat before the fire two days after
Calvin Cortell's arrival, and was medi-
tating over these things when Cortell
himself entered. She was looking for a
Visit not from him, but from Bob Bristol.
Nevertheless she found little or no diffi-
culty in meeting him with conversational
care.
At first, that is. Her old friend or
sweetheart lost but little time in coining
to the particular business of his call, and it
• certainly startled her a little when he said,
"I am very glad I found you alone."
"Glad?' she aid. "Oh, yes. It is nice
to be able to have a little chat. Tell me
about your life out there?"
"I can tell you about that at some other
• thne, " said Cortell. "Just at present I
have to discharge a d-uty. Oh, yes. It
wouldn't be right. At least I wouldn't
like it if 1 were in Bristol's place."
"Like what?" said the girl.
"This"—and he took a tissue paper
package froth his pocket.
Edna opened the package, wondering.
When she saw the old gloves lying there
with the marks of wear of many years ago
Upon them, but also marked with the
folds of many other--later—years of care-
ful keeping, a whole procession of mem-
ories passed before her mind. She Was id
-
lent for sorne moments.
"What ought I to do with thener she
asked. "I don't know. Tell me."
Not the least doubt of it the whole affair
Was excessively silly. It was thoroughly
in keeping with the rest that now this
young woman on the eve of marriage with more pretentious class, and these are sabe
another man—a marriage into which no bie anywhere.—New York Sun.
PROFESSOR MEM' IfILNE.
of working. A horizontal pendulum, er
boom, poised against a knife edge at the
base of a roast, that is the essential
feature. A wire stay from the tuasthead
smoking cap. It was a mephisto, with supports the far end of the boom, and a
sides pulled down and an absurd brush
at ono side. weight hung from it keeps everything
"By jingo!" Cortell exclaimed. "MMut.en Then two baoltscrews allow either leg
did you find that old cap Miss Berson?"
"About a week ago," Edna said, look-
ing a little confused. "I didn't niaow you
were coming home, then."
"Jack stole nay cap, didn't he?"
"Yos. You latil to go borne bareheaded."
"And you would pull off your gloves
a.nd. try to reach for pond lilies."
"And you wouldn't give them back to
me. 1 made Jack give me your cap to
keep in pledge of my gloves."
"Of course you were going to send it to
me?"
"Of course I was."
"By the way, didn't it occur to you to
burn it?"
Then both burst out laughing once
more.
As for the story that Bristol and °erten
had high* words after that and that mutual
friends with difficulty prevented them
from fighting a duel, there never was any-
thing in it. Bristol was a sensible raan
at bottom, even though irascible at times.
He made some sort of apology to Edna
Berson for his exhibition of temper.
But the Bristol-Barson wedding was
poetponed in a quiet way. It never came
off. The Corten-Barson wedding came
off instead, though not until a year after
the incident of the inephisto cap.—Minne-
apolis Tribune.
ot the supporting tripod to be raised or
lowered by the thickness of a spider's
web, and even so small a change of level
as that disturbs the end of the boom.
And that makes a pellet of light move on
a band of paper, and that movement Is
photographed. so that the record shows a
slight loop. As notbing is allowed to
disturb the boom, once the pendulum is
adjusted, it follows that if the record
band shows loops and curves instead of a
straight line, it is because the earth's
surface has moved underneath the sup-
porting column and changed its level.
As a matter of fact, the earth's
surface moves very frequently with
tremors. like a creature of life and with
long heavings caused by distant seismic(
disturbances. And for eaoh of thesis
movements the pendulums give an
individual record, with tharacteristio
waverings and loops on the band, and
queer ups and downs that mean nothing
to the inexperienced eye, but everything
to the seismologist.
In each of these records the time is
marked in hours along the eage of the
band, this being done automatically by
watch over the slit in the red box, that
shuts off the light for an instant, and
naakes a line on the photographic, Ulna.
Telegraph Pole For a Shop. Way to Kill 'Mosquitoes.
A telegraph pole in West street is untie- Two and one-half hours are required
ed as a store. The pole stands in the mid- for a mosquito to develop from its first
die of the street, not far from Gansevoort stage, a speck reseinbling cholera
market. The stock of the "store" con- bacteria, to its active and venue:mut
sists of harness and., saddler's hardware iziaturity. The insect in all its phases
These articles are hung upon iron spikes may be instantly killed by contact with
driven in the polo. The proprietor, who minute quankties of permanganate of
is also clerk, cashier and "barker," carries potassium. It is claimed that one part of
SOnla of the stook oe his person. Lighter thi s substance in 1,500 of solution
weight articles are around his ueek. Our distributed in raosquito marshes will
rycombs, brushes and other articles are in render the development of larvae
his pockets. Ile bolcia a bunch of wine's impossible; that a handful of permangaeo
under one arm and cm ales one lash in his ate will oxidize a ten nine swarop, kill its
band. He cirens idiom his "store," cry- embryo insects, and keeo it free from
ing his wares to the pzessersby. There ,organic :natter for thirty days at a cost
are few streets in Seew York where there of 25 cents, that with care a wbole State
is as xnuch teaming as in West street, and may be leopt free of insect pests at a
lu0St of the trade thet comes th the tele- small cost. An eineacious method is to
gr‘a,pwhhpaotideoiessfiiroamdoia\eillenIsluicerls.a. ins?, That
single pinch of pertimnganate has killed
scatter a few crystaie widely apart. A
is always the question et thosewho notice all the germs in a 1,000-gallen tank.—
the odd place of business, Tho peopriet pehlie Health Journal.
shifts his stock across the street to a place
which he patronizes, and his patronage
pays the rent, but he does not shut up
shop on rainy days Having stored the
bulk of his stools, he goes on a soliciting
jaunt among the shops, carryieg a few
side lines, " like commercial agents of the
Antwerp's Horse Butchering..
Statistics show that in Antwerp alone
nearly 4,000 horses were slauglatered last
year for human consumptionand the
number of shops dealing exolusively in
horseflesh Itt ithe Belgian ports exceeds
SO.
was MTV gulag at It meditatively,
entlY be teen a few steps toward it awl,
miffed the afr of incedern, Apparently
satisfied that it was real apd tbet he was
net dreaming, be stepped out iuto the road
and sterns', quietly oft for paetuesis new.
Tise two artists filietelzed on enemsclotte
of this episede. It was uot mail the man
wile bad been plowing at the other end of
Ilia Aeld next the house steed in Ciao gate
mid 'tailed them in a loui voice that they
came to a knowledge of the things around
there.
"Witere'd tbattoss go?" asked tbe man.
"What horse?" asitea they in a breath.
"inlay, the nose tbat was in tbe yerd
ere," returned the man testily.
"Wbat did. Is loon liae?" asked Mudge
ley calmly,
"Like a hose, you fool I Don't you, knenr
a boss wbea you see, oiler'
"You must mato us," said Wierdeley.
"You see we're from the city and"—
" You're a couple of blame fools, that's
wbat you aro!"
"Thank non," said, Wierdsley.
"Here's old Mr. Higgins' bl
oss wet be
sent out here to fatteu up, got out and. be's
bait way to the city by now. !this'll be -
the eecond time this week, And yott
didn't /lave aoss sense enoiigit to stop
bim. Who left this gate open anyway?
Do yon know that, you chimps?"
"{o," said Wierdsley.
"I'lbet it was that woman of rains
again," said the farmer. "I'll go for her,"
and he disappeared in tbe direction of the
bars.
"Guess we'd. better git," said Wierdsley
as he grabbed his stool and made for his
wheel.
"Just wbali 1 WAS tbinking," said
Brown.—Toronto Saturday Night.
ravorltiam Denied.
"Row dare you accuse us of any suo/t
lenience and partialitylit inceCured the
Spanish official.
"To what do :nu. refer?" inquired thili
terrified citizen.
"You say ow government robs the poor
man, tbereby implying that we aro guilty
of diserimination. I would have you un-
derstand, sir, that, however It may go
against our feelings,
we will rob poor
women and poor ehildren with equal
promptness and precision."—Washington
Star.
Judged From Personal Zxperlenee.
One boy met another who bad a suspi-
cious redness about the eyes and a droop
at the corners of the mouth.
"Say," said. the first boy, "I heard your
father was on a sbip once."
Tbe other quenched a sole and nodded.
"Vas it a whaler"
"Yes, it was. And you bet he learned
the business good too."—Detroit Free
Press.
A Fellow Feeling.
"Do you, mean to tell tne that you gave
that horrid tramp any money?" asked one
girL
"Yes," replied the other. "I hadn't the
heart to refuse him. He said Be wanted.
some cold victuals, and I have known
what it is to suffer for ice cream soda wa-
ter myself."—New York Journal.
A Suggestion.
Early Ryser—Why don't you leave the
matchsafe in one place two consecutive
times? Every morning I waste five min-
utes groping for it.
Mrs. Ryser (sleepily, from under the bed-
clothes)—How do you expect to find any-
thing in the dark? Why don't you strike
a light?—Philadelphia Call.
Discouraging. '
Bob—What's the matter? Has the heir-
ess refused you?
Dick—Well, I don't know that you could
call it a refusal exactly, but we had hard- .
ly got seated in the parlor before she said
it was a pity that all our best men bad
gone to war.—Chicago News.
Her IInhaPPY ExPerlenee.
Mrs. Furst—I just know if rd die he'd
marry again and forget me.
Mrs. Seehmade—My dear, if there be
anything that would make him remember
you kindly, it would be marrying again.
t—Cinoinnati Enquirer.
• Net Like Other Debutantes.
"Has your daughter made her debut
yet, Mrs. Green?"
"I don't think she has. She ain't
obliged to make her own things, you
know. We can afford to buy the best. —
New York World.
Rio Abdication Complete.
"Sorry to trouble you, ray dear," said
Mr. Meeker, "but"—
"What is it?" interrupted his spouse.
"Will you please sharpen this lead pen.
eIi for me?"—Chicago Tribune.
A Pity.
"There's one thing about Chollie. His
clothes are always of correct shape."
• "What a pity the description does not
apply to Chollie1"—,Cencinnati Enquirer.
An Apology.
The Spaniard sighed: "My latest light,
I fear, won't bear analysis,
Ity weapons wouldn't work aright
Seasuse of pen paralysis!"
....1;19trat Wet Press.