The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-31
and yelled until 8 a. m. without taxing

and yelled until a. m. without taxing
breath.
The president now issued another STIR
ring proclamation full of long, new words,
but as it came out just as storming party
of high school boys were charging a ba-
mana stand it could not be heard. This
shock of these successive American VIC
tories was sorely felt in Spain. The gov
eminent securities were bursted wide open,
and the treasury went to pesos.
A spirit of overconfidence, however on
the part of our armies, flushed with vic
tory, well nigh destroyed the effect of these
signal triumphs. The right wing OF the
American army was led into a carefully
planned am buscade by the students of the
University of Barcelona 1t was Sunday
afternoon. The citizens were just on their
way from church to the bulIfght when
the students suddenly appeared on the
street, dragging AN American flag in the
dirt, stamping it and pelting it with mud.
The police charged the attacking column,
but they were surrounded by the students
and citizens, and outyelled at all points.
They resisted bravely, but were at length
compelled to retire without being able to
understand half the students said.
The action of the president, after this
repulse, was prompt and characteristic of
his ready decision. He called out the stu
dents at Bryn Mawr and Wellesley. A
new horror was added to the appalling ter
rors of modern warfare. The shrill, far
carrying faIsesto of a gi-l yell broke upon
the quivering air like scalp halloo in
the night.
Eva-Evalyn, ol-yokeei
Ira Ia! Tri-li-loo!
Dummy gum mel
Sis, bOoml Boom, sisi
Te-he-heei
The effect WAS terrible. The Spanish
troops broke and fed in every direction,
crying for mercy, fiinging away their
horns and speaking trumpets and begging
for quarter.
It was in this terrible conflict that the
dauntless and chiyalrous fighter Colonel
Mary Yellin Lease met his death. He
was separated from his Jabberwocks dur
ing the charge which decided the fight. A
brutal Spaniard of gigantic stature caught
him by the throat and, clapping his hand
over the colonel's mouth, kept him quiet
for 15 minutes. A forlorn hope, charging
desperately, rescued him and chloroformed
his assailant, but it was too late. The pro-
longed cessa ton Of jawlivary action was
fatal. AS he lay gasping on the ground a
distant cheering was heard: "They hyl
They fy!"
"Who f1yP' asked the dying colonel.
Spanish fy," replied sergeant, with
blistsring sarcasm.
"Then," said the colonel, 81 die speech
less
There was not dry eye on the reserya-
ton.
This battle virtually closed the war
Both countries were weary of the long
struggle. The throat doctors were worn
out. Services in most of the churches had
long been abandoned because the choirs
were too hoarse to sing, and the ministers,
especially the young men, were too hoarse
to conduct any part of the service. More
over, another general election in the Unit
ed States was at hand, and it was abso-
lutely necessary to get the lungs and
threats of the people and all their organs
of phonation in condition for campaign
Of education Consequently treaty of
peace was signed by which it was agreed
that in case the war broke out again only
the students in the schools of deaf mutes
should be called out, and as they would do
all their noiseless yelling with their fin
gers, noncom batants would not be dis
turbed in their rights. The great war
with Spain was over.-Robert j. BurdettG
in Chicago Inter Ocean.