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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
THE DRAGON OF THE SEAS.

They say the Spanish ships are out
To seize the Spanish main
Reach down the volume, boy, and read
Inc story Ger again.
How when the Spaniard had the might,
lie drenched the earth, like rain,
With human blood, and made 1t death
To sail the Spanish main.
With torch and steel. with stake and rack
lie trampled out all truce,
Until Queen Bess her leashes sl:pt,
And let her sea-dogs loose.
God! how they sprang! And how they tore
The Grenvilles, Hawkins, Drake!
Remember, boy they were your sires!
Ihey made the Spaniard quake.
They sprang, like lions, for their prey,
straight for the throat, amain!
ny twos, by scores, where'er they caught
They fought the ships of Spain.
When Spain, In dark Ulioa's bay,
Broke double-pighted faith,
Bold Hawkins fought his way through fire
For great Elizabeth.
A bitter malt Spain brewed that dayi
She drained it to the lees;
her fa1thless guns that morn awoke
Tfe Dragon Of the Seas.
From sea to sea he ravaged far,
A scourge with flaming breath
Where'er the Spaniard ga led his ships,
Sailed Francis Drake and Death.
No port was safe against his ire,
Secure no furthest shore;
The fairest day oft sank in fire
Before the Dragons rear.
( He made tn Atlantic surges rcd
Round every Spanish keel;
flled Spanish decks with Spanish dead,
The nobest of CASTLE.
From Del Fuego's beeIing coast
10 sleety Hebrides,
He bounded down the Spanish host,
And swept the flaming seas.
He fought till ON Spain's inmost lakes
{ Mid orange bowers set,
La Mancha's daughters feared to sail
Lest they the Dragon met
King Philip, Of his raven reft,
AS forfeit Claimed his head
) me great queen laughed his wrath to scorr
And knighted Drake instead.
5 And gave him ships and sent him forth
To clear the Spanish main
} FOR Eng and and for Englands brood,
And sink the fleets Of Spain.
And well he wrought his mighty work,
Till on that fatal day.
he met his only conqueror.
In Nombre Dios bay.
There, in his shotted hammock swung.
Amid the surges' sweep
He waits the lookout's signal
Across the quiet deep.
And dreams of dark UlIoa's Bay
And Spanish treachery;
And how he tracked Magellan far
Across the unknown sea.
But if Spain fires single shot
Upon the Spanish main,
Shell come to deem the Dragon dead
Has walked to life again.
(-Thomas Nelson Page in Washington Posi-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
GRAB A GUN.

From the Nebraska State Journal.
He who hesitates is lost;
Grab gun!
Do not stop to count the cost;
Grab gun!
The hand writing all can read,
Cuba's children died for feed.
1t Is time for Spain to bleed:
Grab gun!
Do not fear to dare and die:
Grab gun!
Do not pause to question why:
Grab gun!
Hear the cry of souls dismayed,
Asking justice, long delayed;
God Is with us-who's afraid?
Grab gun!
Bid adieu to those you love;
Grab gun!
Put your trust in Him above:
Grab a gun!
Bid your throbbing heart be still
Let your hand obey your will,
Keep your nerve and shoot to kill
Grab gun!
Children starve on Cuban soil:
Grab gun!
Shackled are the hands of toll:
Grab a gun!
For the ones who cry for bread,
For the thousands stark and dead.
Let the sea with blood run red;
Grab q gunl
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
THE FIGHTING RACE.

From the New York Sun.
)"Read out the names!" and Burke sat back,
And Kelly dropped his head,
While Shea-they called him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of dead
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crew of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal passers-all.
Then. knocking the ashes from out his pipe,
Said Burke in an offhand way:
Were all in that dead mans list, by GRIPPE!
Kelly and Burke and Shea"
for Spain,''
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea,
}"wherever there's Kellys there's trouble"
said Burke,
wherever ighting's the game,
Or spice of danger is grown mans work,
Said Kelly, you'll find my name.'
} And do we fall Short" said Burke, getting
mad
When it's touch and go for nfe?"
Said Shea, tits thirty. odd years, bedad.
Since l charged to drum and fife
Up Marye's Heights, and my old canteen
Stopped a rebel ball on it's way.
There were blossoms Of blood on our sprige
of green
And the dead didn't brag." well. here's to
the fag!"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
81 wish twas in Ireland. for there's the
Said Burke that we'd die by right,
} In the cradle of our soldier race,
After one good stand-up fight.
My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade,
But his rusty pixies in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood On the b'ade.''
}"Aye, aye" said Kelly, 1.-The pixies were great
When the word was clear the way!
We were thick on the roll in ninety -eight-
Kelly and Burke and Shea
well, here's to the pike and the sword and
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea"
And Shea, the scholar, with rising Joy,
} Said I'VE were at Ramil les.
We left our bones at Fontenoy
And up in the Pyrenees.
Before Dunkirk, on Linden's plain,
Cremona, Lille and Client,
We're all over Austria, France and Spain,
Wherever they pitched tent.
We've died for England from Waterloo
To Egypt and Dargal
And still there's enough for a corps or crew,
Kelly and Burke and Shea
dwell, here's to good honest fighting blood!''
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
"Oh, the fighting races don't die out,
If they seldom die in bed,
} For love is first in their hearts, doubt"
} Said Burke: then Kelly said:
>"When Michael, the Irish archangel, stands,
The angel with the sword,
! And the batte-dead from a hundred lands
Are ranged in one big horde,
Our line. that for Gabriel's trumpet waits,
Will stretch three deep that day.
From Jehoshaphat to the Golden Gates
I Kelly and Burke ard Shea
well, here's thank God for the race and The
( sodn'
( Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
HURRAH FOR UNCLE SAM.

For the New Orleans Times-D Democrat.
Hurrah TO- de star-spangled flag
= Dat overhead doth wave,
INFERRED dar many years ago
BY our forefathers brave.
Hurrah TO- de big flynn fleet
An monitors. an ram:
Come, clear yo froat an shout 'hip-hip-
Hurrah TO- Uncle SAM
Hurrah, hurrah, TO- free Cuba.
An let de powers rip,
An dat 'ar Diplomatic corps, 49,
An make dem SDaniards skip,
Hurrah To- free country,
What ia amt in Spain,
GIT warmed up good an shout "hurrah,"
Fo' Old Glory again.
B. B. Garrison.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
GIN'RAL LEE.

, must confess l ruther like to read about the
way
The folks turned out to whoop an shout fer
Lee the other day.
know faint quite the proper thing to hev
red blood no more,
The notions takin' hold along the North At
lantic shore,
Tibet gettin' of yer dander up an raisn' Of a
fuss,
Is fur beneath the dignity of any culchered
cuss
They seem to think the stars an stripes was
made to decorate
Their fancy yachts an banquet halls, where
terrapin Is ate,
An where the speeches mostly runs to hifa-
lutin' trash
About the brotherhood OF man an fatherhcod
of-cash.
I'm out O. style. fer I was born afore the
trick was known
J or lovin' every country, an all peoples hut
yer own.
A drum'll stir me deeper than a ticker'd ever
reach,
!, 1 ain't ashamed to holler when l hear the
eagle screech;
So I'll own I've sort O. gloried in the vigor
OF cur consul at Havana, an the gritty
way he stuck go
When his job. was gettin' warmer, with the
Till a lot OF folks that's sneerin' would ave
cut and run away.
A rattle-headed lingo is a funny kind O.
He amt insured again it, an he gifts rldikl-
lous:
But he's got better license an surer right
to live
Then the je.ly-ish contingent tibet they call
conservative.
Perhaps his trigger finger is leetie over
pert;
But he never talks Of money when his ma
tons honors hurt.
N,, % hoin,t hoer, M lingo in what he's
said an done:
But l can't avoid beievsn' he's about the only
Connected with the business as wouldn't hes
itate
To set the guns a-talkin' afore 1t got too
late.
An the reason people cheers i'm is because
they want t shout.
An HIS about the only thing they've got to
cheer about
IT. S. Varnum in Detroit News
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
SPANS DIPLOMACY.

From the New York Press.
Spain's autonomy for Cuba has been a
is now Historically trying it on again with
a new stripe, which she fondly imagines
bitters the fit. One Is irresistibly reminded
Of the. parodist's account of the noble
Hiawatha and the vanquished Mudjokivis:
With the skin he made him mittens:
Made them with the fur side inside:
Made them with the skin side outside;
He, to get the warm side inside,
Put the inside skin side outside:
He, to get the cold side outside,
Put the warm side. fur side, inside,
That's why he put the fur side inside
Why he put the skin side outside,
Why he turned them inside outside.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
RUENA VENTURA.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Boys did you mind the name she bore
That very first prize they brought TO shore?
"Buena Ventura" what other name
Could Fate's decree so well proclaim?
"Buena Ventura" every one knows
Means plain good luck" among our foes.
Come, gladly spread the welcome story,
Buena. Ventura let II be,
With heart and soul and three times three
Good Luck. Good Luck. Good Luck, Old
Gloryi
Buena Ventura,
Hurrah, Hurrah!!i "A. +.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
ADIOS.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Land of garlic and tortillas, 81!
Land of xebecs and mantillas,
Land OF mules and smuggled bitters,
Land of raisins and Of frtters,
Land Of Pedro and of Sancho,
Land of Weyler and of Blanco,
Land Of bull fights and pesetas,
Land of dusky senoritas,
Land Of manners stiff and naughty,
Land of Isabella naughty.
Land of Bobadil and Hamil.
Don't you hear your Uncle SamI7
"Gitn'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
THE BILLVILLE REGIMENT.

Corporal Muster;
Sergeant Buster;
Captain Drillup;
Colonel Fillup;
Captain Shooter;
General Scooter;
Colonies Shorter;
And Firewater;
Brigadier Driveit-
(Not one privately
Atlanta Constitution.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-01
SOME NEW FACTS ABOUT HER
Emily Ross Perry Writes Patriot

Emily Ross Perry Writes Patriot
icaIIy and Touchingly of the
Helped sic Flag Committee to
Design the Stars and Stripes, and
Made the Standard That Congress
Adopted-A Vision of Another
Life by the Descendant Who
Forms the Connecting Link Be-
tween the Flag of Today and the
Original Banner of the Thirteen
Stars.
Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-I was taught
to love the Stars and Stripes and be
loyal to the old flag that Betsy Ross
made for the most of her life; and it's
banner has been emblazoned within
our hearts.
It's stars shine out In bold relief one
by one upon its canopy Of blue; its
white emblematic Of purity, it's red of
and 81. This sacred emblem is ours;
ours because our ancestors and kin
made it and fought for 1t; ours because
the sweet gentlewoman and favorite
needlewoman of George Washington
had within her all the virtues that
make a woman noble and good, indus
trious, faithful to duty, to her God, to
her trust, and to her country in its hour
of peril. Let her banner never go I'M
sullied; our banner that the boys of 81
gave their lives for. Let us raise a
monument to her memory, may her
name be entwined through countless
ages around the flag that our heroes
died to save. Our boys sleep in graves
unknown. Go with me 10 the widowed
and orphaned homes. See the Grip
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16
inquiry into the cases of sick and
wounded men in the hospital.

inquiry into the cases of sick and
wounded men in the hospital.
In the present war, when very few
soldiers are left at the domestic posts
and all the work of any account is
transferred TO the field, the system of
duplicate reports is exchanged for an
other which accomplishes practically
the same purpose by slightly different
means, The medical organization by
regiments, as it exists while the men
are recruiting and in muster camp, is
merged into corps and division organ
ization when they reach the field. The
chief surgeon Of the corps corresponds
in his general functions TO the chief sur
geon at the headquarters of the depart
ment IN time OF peace. He has charge
of the full medical equipment of the
corps, while a subordinate officer, with
perhaps a hospital steward and a pri-
vate of the hospital corps to act as an
orderly, has charge of the regiment.
Between these extremes come the chief
surgeons of divisions and brigade sur
geons. The regimental officer prescribes
for the petty ills of the men which do
not require any considerable treatment.
Ii man is so i'll or has received such a
wound as to need serious hospital treat.
ment, he is turned over TO the custody
OF the chief surgeon of the division.
The regimental officer who makes this
disposal of the case and the chief sur
geon of the division to whom the re-
sponsibility Of the case is transferred
both report on the case The one report
is thus check upon the other, and the
department has the hospital record of
the man quite as completely in war
time as in time of peace.
But this is not all. Much complaint
has been heard from poorly informed
outsiders against the rigidity of the
physical examination through which
volunteer officers and men have been
put since the present war began. This
is an i'll considered criticism. The ex.
aminations have been severe, but they
have been the governments great safe
guard against future fraud on the pen
sion roll. There is the best of reasons
for believing that they will be supple.
mented by another examination made
OF each individual soldier before he is
mustered out of the federal service. If
a man is in sound condition when he
receives his discharge from the army, it
will do him no good to come back ten
years afterward with claim for pen
sion on the ground of disability result
ing from active service
Kentucky DIstnIers Propose to Send Fifty
Thousand One Drink Bottles co Cuba
The Kentucky distillers propose TO
send $4,000 bottles of whisky to Cuba
for the american soldiers when they oc.
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PATRIOTISM IN CHURCH.
An Atlanta Congregation Rose to Its Fe.
and Declared For War.

An Atlanta congregation Rose to Its Fee
and Declared For War.
The Third Baptist church, one of ths
most fashionable in Atlanta, was the scene
recently of remarkable enthusiasm fol
Cuba.
DIR. l.. ID. Broughton, formerly of Vir.
ginia, preached at the church for the first
time the other night, and the edifice was
filled by throng attracted by his reputa
ton for eloquence. He selected Cuba for
his topic. The preacher reached his climax
when he shouted:
"This carnage in Cuba has gone on long
enough!"
At these words tho congregation rose &c
its feet, and DIR. Brougbton added:
LET American manhood vindicate it,
selfl'
Shouts and cries of eve will We willpi
and demands for war were heard. The men
sprang on the seats and waved hats and
handkerchiefs.
The minister stood dumfounded ct the
spectacle before him and shook hands me.
ohanically with the shouting men who
pressed around him. When the people had
been sufficiently quieted to permit his
voice to be heard, DIR. Broughton said:
LET us begin the work tonight by col.
Letting money for Cuba"
This suggestion met with q ready 70
sponse. New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16
MONUMENTS.

j. A. BEVIER-Dealer .in granite and
marble monuments and headstones; material
and workmanship guaranteed. ONCE at the
Calumet Hotel
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16
rne Joke on the Joker.

A good story, of which Mr.. Johr
Kendrick Bangs, the humorist, is the
hero. has leaked out. Some time age
Mr.. Bangs received the following letter
from a city in one of the Pacific states:
Mr.. John X. Bangs:
DEAR SIR-I have been asked TO respond TO a
toast at our board Of trades annual dinner
next month, and Iwrite 10 inquire what would
be your lowest terms for preparing a good,
rafting, funny speech for me TO deliver on
that occasion. A prompt reply will oblige.
Yours very truly, - -.
To which Mr.. Bangs Immediately sat
down and penned the following reply:
DEAR SIR-I am in receipt of your esteemed
Iavor Of the ~ inst. and in renlv would saw
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16

cupy the island. Whisky will also b'
forwarded to the army of occupation II
Puerto Rico and perhaps to Manila y
IL can be transported.
Some time ago Colonel Thomas n.
Shirley, after years of experimenting,
made a small bottle which holds one
drink. 1t is bottles of this kind, filled
with the best product of the state, that
will be presented to the soldiers. In the
hot countries to be invaded, Kentucki-
ans argue. the soldiers will need small
doses of bourbon to make them fight.
The old story of Grant and Lincoln and
the whisky is recited in support of tho
plan.
The plan has not yet been put into
operation, but whisky men out in the
state are pushing it. The plan is for
each distillery TO contribute barrel of
its best make. This will furnish whis-
ky for medical and fighting purposes
for the entire army.-Exchange.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16


tnat my regular l~,o Tor atter ulnner Speeches
Is $500 per speech. have not as yet, how
ever, opened up this line of goods in the west,
and as l am anxious to secure custom in that
part Of the country l will offer you special
terms-namely, $3.50 for such an address as you
describe, the amount TO be paid as soon as
shipment is made If the terms proposed are
satisfactory, kindly let me know at once, hut
in that case / would request you not to men.
tion the matter TO Chauncey Depow or General
Horace Porter, as / should not like them to
know that am cutting rates Truly yours,
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
This letter was duly sent, and on the
day when it reached its destination Mr..
Bangs received the following telegram
Your letter Just received. If Chauncey De.
pews speeches are written by you, then ]
don't want one
New York Post.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16
THE NEW PENSION LIST.
A Method Which Minimizes the
Danger Of Frauds.
system OF ARMY AND NAVY ROLES

The Hospital Records OF the Navy and
How They Are Kept-Enorts TO Recover
Old Medical Journals--The Practice In
the Army-severe Physical Examination
OF Volunteers.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16
of which the department can obtain no

trace.
In the army there is necessarily a
| considerable difference between the
practice in time of war and that in time
| Of peace with respect to hospital records.
In time of peace a duplicate record is
kept of the sickness and wounds of SOL
diers at the several posts. The medical
officers at the posts forward their data
to the chief surgeon at the headquarters
of the department within whose juris-
diction the posts come, and once month
the departments chief surgeon makes
mp report in duplicate combining all
the particulars which had been sent
him from the several posts, files one
copy at his own headquarters and for
wards the other copy to the surgeon
general in Washington, who indexes ii
and is thus able to answer questions
sent TO him from the pension Office and
from the record and pension division of
the war department. Here again we find
evidence of the lessons learned from the
experience of the civil war. From time
to time the post surgeons are bothered
with rules for the accumulation of addi-
tional data required by the surgeon gen.
erals Office and complain loudly of the
red tape system which throws SO much
needless additional work upon their
shoulders. AS matter of fact, how
ever, there is no red tape involved in
the matter. Each of the additional data
is called for simply because, in the adj
justment of pension claims at Washing {
ton, some new feature has arisen which
shows the necessity for a more elaborate f
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16
1st Class End Class
TO

The above rates will apply to all inter-
mediate points. II you have in contem-
plation a trip to the east now ia the time
to take advantage OF this reduction in
rates. For further Information please
apply tn station and ticket agents.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16

DR.. H. Scott, late professor In one Of
the Chicago medical colleges, has leased
the premises. 451 Filth street, and is re-
modelling them into an Office and operat-
log room. His numerous friends and
patients will please note the change.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16

Chelsea district, in London, utilizes
its street refuse by separating the rags
and paper, which are converted into
brown wrapping paper. while the rest
of the refuse is burned in the furnaces
Of the reduction works and the resid.
uum is used in brickmaking.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16

II suppose the secret of his popularity
Is that he talks we'll. f"
Not at all. The secret of his popu.
larity Is that he laughs well. "--Chioago
Post
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16
FUNERAL DIRKCTORs.

sIVRRT OLSON Funeral diectorr ano
practical embalmer. Established In 1870. SCOTT
street. Red Jacket Night Calls by telephone
or otherwise promptly attended 70.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-16

WILLIAM =. nm EED--Emba!mer and
funeral director, Hecla street. Laurium
Thirty-six years experience.
The record-union., 1898-10-03
Weinstock. Lubin q Co. 4OO-4l2 Street Sacramento

as could climbed the masts, only to
fall back suffocated into the blazing
furnace below Even the more merci-
full death Of drowning was denied them,
for the sea was alive with sharks, at
tracted by the glare, swarming around
the ship as mackerel swarm around
bucketful Of curry
Thrty-six hours later another steam
er sighted the wreck and bore down to
the rescue. Out of the original 300
some eighty wretched creatures We're
found alive, clinging to the big gang
way which hung over the side and to
the stern davits and boat tackle. with
the iron hull of the steamer redhot in
places, and thei sharks leaping at them.
The rescuing boats had literally to
fight their way through the ravenous
brutes.
/ saw the survivors as they were
landed, and discoura ged-l looking lot
they were The San Juan, an empty,
scorched hull. was towed in and an
chored in the mouth of the river to
cool off until the 10000 Mexican dollars
in her bottom could be dug out of the
debris, a melted mass And not an
expression Of regret did I hear from
any of my Chino friends over the
disaster to their countrymen "Pah!
coolest was all they Subdivision
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