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raved and muttered and struggled, so that at times two men had to hold him down. Just before the surgeon began to operate the boy gave the chaplain his mothers address, and reached out his hand and said, ''So long, chaplain"
 He was typical New York boy. He came from Brooklyn, but nevertheless he looked and talked and thought as you would expect and hope that an ap- prentice from the St. Mary's training ship would look and talk and think. His skin was as tough as a shoe which had remained long in the salt water, but it was beautifully white and spot less, like girls, and the contrast it made with the skin that the sun and wind had tanned was as sharp as the stripes on the flag.
 When the second part of him was sewn up Taylor was carried to a cot and lay there so still that I thought he was dead. They had to inject strych- nine into his veins to keep his heart beating. But a minute later he opened his eyes and turned them to the operat- ing table, where, he rememberd in a half-drunken way, they had placed him two hours before. His eyes were daZed with the ether, his lips were blue and his face was a ghastly gray. He looked up at the four figures leaning over him, their bare arms covered with his blood, and back at the operating table IndI QTlppeQ WlIn IL. w nat ndQ nap pened, who had attacked him, and why, he could not comprehend.
 He did not know that parts of him which had lain covered for many years had been taken out and held up naked, palpitating and bleeding to the ruth less light of the sun. to the gaze of curious messmates crowded at the end of the sick bay, that these parts of him. self had been picked over and handled as a man runs his fingers over the keys of a piano, and had then been pushed and wedged back into place and cover ed over as one would sew patch on an old sail to lie hidden again for many years more, let us hope.
 He only knew that some outrageous thing had been done to him-that he had been in a nightmare, in holland to Taylor, still drunk with ether, these men whose wonderful surgery had saved his life were only the bloody as- sassins who had attempted it and failed.
 He was pitiably weak from loss of much blood. from the shock of the heavy bullet that had dug its way through his body, from the waves or nausea that swept over him, but the boy opened his eyes and regarded the surgeons scornfully. Then he shook his head from side to side on the pillow and smiled up at them.
 "Ah, you can't kill me-" he whts- pered I'm a New Yorker.
 That is the spirit of the men who sunk the Spanish fleet at Manila.
 RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, Correspondent London Times, on board
 the Flagship New York.
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would speak, flashing in the night like a rocket and lighting up the line of the deck and the faces of the men, and it would speak again and again. And the flying steamer, helpless in the long, reaching clutch of the Searchl1ght, and hearing the shells whistle across her bows, would give up the race and come to a standstill, sullen and silent
 The quarter of an hour during which the firing lasted at Matanzas was of interest in giving some knowledge of how a warship in action acts upon her self. With land forces the effect of their fire upon the enemy is the only thought; on the sea, in one of these new inventions of warfare, the effect of the batteries on the ship herself is an added consideration.
 To the civilian the effect was not so tremendous as he had expected. He had been told to stick cotton in his ears, to stand on his toes and keep his mouth open, a somewhat difficult and ridiculous attitude in which to meet death. AS it happened the call to quar- terS came so unexpectedly that there was no time to find any cotton, and, as it turned out, there was no necessity to stand on ones toes.
 I received a cablegram while I was on the New York, asking me to relate how her crew behaved in the action at MatanZas. I did not answer itsbecause I thought there were a few things the American people were willing to take for granted, and because the lombard ment at MatanZas was no test of the crews courage but of it's marksman- ship. There is a story, however, that illustrates the spirit of the men on the New York, and which answers l think, any queries any one may make as to how they might behave in action.
 Taylor, a young gunners mate, was shot on April 26 by a revolver. It was an accident, but it is possible he was more seriously hurt than were any of the six wounded men who went through the seven hours battle at Manila, for the ball passed through his arm and into his right side, and came out nearly foot away under his left armpit. Assistant Surgeon Spear said that if he had tried TO dodee the vital parts in Taylor's body with a surgical instrument he could not have done it as skillfully as did the bullet. which was neither aimed nor guided by human hand.
 It was this junior surgeon Spear who performed the operation, while the fleet surgeon, Dr. Gravatt, watched him and advised. It was wonderful operation. It lasted nearly two hours, and it left the layman uncertain as to whether he should admire the human body more or the way a surgeon masters it. What they did to Taylor I cannot tell in tech nicaI language; but I know that they cut him open and lifted out his stomach and put it back again and Sewed him up twice He could not get wholly un- der the influence of the ether, and he
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N insidious ally to Spain is the bar
 ~ nacle. The United States warships
 now busy in Cuban waters, which
 are particularly favorable to the A A growth of shellfish, are sure to have their bottoms fouled by rank sea growth, and probably the first use to which they will put the fine drydock at Havana will be to clean them off.
 The barracle loves a ships bottom It attaches itself by means of peduncle ending in, the barnacle proper, which consists of five shelly valves inside a general protective shell. It makes no ef- fort to improve it's first selection of a home, because immediately 1t has made its selection and becomes firmly at tached, nature robs it of it's eyesight Swinging backward and forward 1t ab- sorbs its food caught in several tenta- cles looking like fine feathers protruding from the head. It spends the days pleasantly in foreign travel till the dry dock is reached, when 1t is unceremo- niously scraped off and sent to the ma nure heap.
 A tramp freighter engaged in the Southern trade had eleven tons of bar nacles removed from her sides. at one time, exclusive of grass and other growths She had been in the water about one year.
 Grass will only grow on the sides of the ship not beneath, Shellfish grow all over. The waters ship is sailing In
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tain work when they get there within the space of two minutes. It is so on every other war ship in the navy of the United States. And it does not consist entirely in naming a gun and pulling a lanyard. That is the showy work. the work that tells in the dispatches, and which is illustrated in the weekly papers.
 We had several calls to general quarters" at night. They were prob ably the most picturesque moments of the ten days spent on the flagship. To the landsman one bugle call was like another; general quarters" meant no more to me than the fact that the mail was going ashore in ten minutes; 1t was three sleeping Japanese stewards who told me we were going into action Whenever l woke to find them in the wardroom I knew some one was going to fire off a four-inch gun.
 They opened a hatch just beyond my berth and pulled on a creaking ammu- milton hoist. They did this drowsily and stiffly, with the clutches of sleep still on their limtj and heavy on their eyelids. Then officers would run ny buttoning tunics over white and pink pajamas, and bucknng on swords and field glasses Even below decks you could hear t,-e great rush of water at the bows and the humping of the en- zines, that told the ship was at racing speed, and when you had Stumb on deck the wind sweeping past awoke you to the fact that in two minutes five hundred men had fallen out of hammocks and into cutlasses and re- volvers, and that the ship was tearing through the dark water in pursuit of a bunch ot lights.
 And then, shining suddenly from the flying bridge and rising and reaching out across the waves, would shoot the finger of the searchlight. It showed the empty waters, and the tossing white caps in a path of light. "To the left" a voice would ccll from the height of the -~rward bridge and, as thou h it were D; Tt of the voice the light shifted "No, higher," the voice would call again, and the obedient light would rise, turning the glare of day upon a half-mile more of troubled water and exposing on it's horizon a white ,frightenod steamer, scudding at full speed for her life. Sometimes she backed sometimes she changed her course, but the light never loosened it's clasp. It gripped her like a thief held in the circle of pol eman's lantern.
 It was like a cat playing with a mouse, or a hound holding a fox by it's scent. In the silence of the great war ship, where the darkness was so great that the men crowded shoulder to shoulder could not see each other faces, the blockade runner, exposed and pointed out, and held up to our deris- ion. seemed the only living thing on the surface of the waters. She was as con- spicuous as picture thrown by a stereopticon on a screen.
 And then one of the forward guns
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$ OUR NAVY HAS TO MEET IN TROPIC SEAS

The Loo Choo arrived at San Fran cisco on March 26. 1S47, six months to a day from New York. The Perkins completed her voyage on March 6 and the Susan Drew sailed into San Fran cisco Bay on the 18th. The following month the Brutus put in an appear ance, and in February. 1S4S, the Isa- bella and Sweden arrived at Monterey. The average voyage of these vessels was 165 days, and with the exception of the Brutus the ships touched at South American ports, thereby reliev- ing the mon0tony of the long and tedi- ous voyage.
 Colonel Stevenson, the commander of the regiment, was born on the first day of this century, and died at San Fran cisco February IA. 1894. The lieuten- ant-colonel was Henry S. Burton who was afterward major general of vol unteers in the Civil War. James A. Hardie was the major. He served as brigadier- general in the Union army during the rebellion. Among the staff officers were William G. Marcy, the son of the Secretary of War, J. c. Boi.ny- castle. who became an officer in the regular army, and Joseph L. Folsom, who was prominent business man and Federal officer In San Francisco until his death in 1855.
 WINFIELD ]. DAVI0
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"A I the flagship New York during NhI the blockade was full of the
 v ' most novel and picturesque
 incidents, and the change to
 the heat and dust and inac- ton of this base of military operations is painful in comparison. There is all the difference between the deck of a warship cleared for action and hotel piazza filled with ladies in summer frocks and officers in straw hats, en- gagged in reading newspapers one day old.
 On the warship there were also all the comforts of civilization, all the lux uries of a yachting cruise, but there was none of it's ennui and boredom. For if something was not happening, there was always the expectation that 1t was about to happen. Every column Of smoke on the horizon suggested a pos Sible Spanish gunboat, or certainly a blockade runner, and many times each day and night the bells in the engine room would sound full steam ahead and every glass on the ship would be turned to the flying stranger. Some times the New York let her escape, only to run into the jaws of the war ship on the next station, but almost in
 
 throwing shells across her bows, until she backed her engines and showed her colors and a boarding officer went over her side
 The discipline of the New York was rigid, intelligent and unremitting, and each of the five hundred men on this floating monastery moved in his little groove with the perfect mechanism of one of the S-inch guns A modern war ship is the perfection of organization. It is the embodiment of the axiom that "a stitch in time saves nine.
 It is the eternal vigilance which ob- tains that keeps her what she is, the hourly fight against rust and dust that makes her always look as though she had just been made complete that morning. All the old homely sayings seem to be the notices of her execu- tive. There is "a place for everything and everything in it's place" whether it is a proiectile weighing half ton or signal flag No. P, or roll Of lint for the surgeon or the bluejacket in charge of the searchlight.
 A ship of war is like moving vil- lage. It has to house and feed and give employment to it's inhabitants, and to place them at certain points at mo- ment's notice, to face unknown condi- tions and to face them coolly and in- telligently You can imagine the con fusion in a village of five hundred people should they be dragged out of bed at midnight by an alarm or lire. But in the floating village of the war ship New York discipline and training have taught the inhabitants to move to certain places and to perform cer-
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My Dear Stahle: I must apologize for leaving your welcome letter so long unanswered. I have been ten years now without leave, save a few months in Japan and a few weeks in America. when I was in England to bring out the cruiser Chen Yuen; so 1 was very much run down. However, 1 could not we'll go, as I am director (superintend- ent a la c. R. P. Rodgers) of the new naval college, and l did not wish to leave until my first class was gradu- ated. That was in June, and l had six months leave on full pay given me, when up came this bad Jap biz. The Viceroy didn't ask me to stop, but thought it mean to go in such crisis, so I volunteered to stay and leave the college for the time to my senior in- .structor and go afloat, which was glad ly accepted.
 The Chinese don't go in for doctors much-more's the pity. Both in the army and navy we need 'em badly only one-foreign-to our fleet here of fifteen and more big ships, besides the gunboats, torpedo boats, transports, etc, and that is not enouFh. of course.
 We won't have much quarter given or taken in this racket. The wounds made by steel shells in these quick firing guns, AT inch, etc, are horrible. In sea fight lately they had all cas- uaIties killed GA; no wCundeO; but coming from Asan we had 27 poor fel- lows twenty-four hours without a doc tor. Strange, only one died since. All the rest will recover.
 The Chinese put feathers into wounds to stop the blood, and 1t was comical sight to see a lot of disconsolate fowls walking about the decks perfectly plucked, picking at clots of brain and meat, etc, that lay about plentifully.
 I trust that if I am hit badly that twill be instantly fatal. You know always was such a coward about pain. One who hasn't the feeling cannot un- derstand one who has it, though. Any
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how, I am of a very highstrung, ner- vous temperament, and it has been my fate out here to have several very painful illnesses, and I can't stand pain well-so let's change the subject.
 1 had just had a dispatch sent by the peror asking for another decoration, etc, for me (the third thatll bel; first, the Order of the Double Dragon Medal, etc.; second, third Mandarin rank, blue button and rank of lieuten- ant-colonel in my hat-and then this but things are so much upsidedown now that l can't expect it to be noticed.
 I have been commissioned staff con- mander and hold that rank Command er) on this ship, one of the biggest 7500 tons, 320 men, four 30.5 c. m. Krupps in turrets barbette, and twenty six Krupps (15 c. m.), bow and stern, with torpedoes. etc; eight 6-pdr. Hitchkiss, six 3-pdr. f1ve-barrel Hotchkiss, and four 3-pdr. Maxim, Nor denfeldt, $. F. (automatic), besides ten or twenty 1-pdr. Hotchkiss and thirty seven m. m. 1-pdr. Hitchkiss in tops, etc, and some Gatlings; 14-inch steel armor, torpedoes, etc., a good ship and a good crew.
 I have a Chinese rear-admiral and a captain on board. Of course I joined just for this war and they rank me. Both speak English and have been ed ucated abroad at Greenwich Naval Col lege and spent few years in the royal navy
 Don't be fooled about the Chinese by the poor d-d coolies you see in San Francisco. You seldom see northern or Shantung man. They are good lot and will go through hell itself with me.
 Don't believe all you hear about the Japs here, etc. They had their "Yo- shino'' nicely put into pie by one of our worst ships and she is ready for sea in three days now.
 I have lost some very near friends among the officers killed already
 To give one idea of the horrors of war-the first lieutenant of one ship
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makes a difference. In the Bermuda trade ships quickly gather great deal or grass and other marine plants, four ana five inches long, causing loss or two to three knots per hour.
 The use of various anti-fouHng compo- sitions to avoid these growths has had uncertain success. Coasters that have occasion to enter fresh-water lakes or rivers foul very slowly. The fresh water seems to kill off the shellfish and marine groWths In the absence of drydocks to dock our ships In the South 1t might be a good idea to send them for a day or two into the mouth of a nearby river :.
 To call a man a barnacle on board ship is anything but complimentary. Away back in 15I the barnacle was sup posed to be the embryo of a bird, and there is a bird, the barnacle or bernicle
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THE ExECUTIoNER OF SPAIN.

THE EXECUTIONER OF SPAIN.
 Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, in re- cent sermon in All-Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York, de- clared that this country has been ap- pointed the executioner of Spain. A part of his sermon was as follows:
 "Spain's Nemesis Is overtaking her. The long story of Spain's rapacity and extortion, of her oppression and cruelty, of her treachery and perfidy, is reach ing it's continuation. The cup of woe is at last filled to overfowing, and is even now being pressed to her lips. And the hand which is ordained to hold that cup to her lips is the hand of America.
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Viceroy Lii Hung Chang obtained him a position in one of the Chinese naval academies as an instructor. McGiftin gradually worked his way up in the academy and when the Franco-Ton- quin difficulty broke out he was sent into Tonquin waters with a Chinese gunboat. McGif1n was the only officer on the Chinese side who succeeded in capturing a French gunboat and this feat gave him great prestige at court.
 When the Chino-Japanese war began he was appointed to prominent posi- tion in the Chinese naval list.
 The accompanying letter was written at this period to Dr. F. H. Stahle Of this city, friend and classmate at An napolis. It furnishes a graphic de- scription of the war at that time and the horrors of a naval battle. The bat tie of the Yalu, in which Nc Giffin took such a prominent part, was the second engagement in history where fleets of ironclads have engaged. Historians and naval experts have assiduously studied it in order to learn how the new theories regarding big guns, projectiles and armor plate have worked out.
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f ' AT AIN 1NOfI1ON NC
 GIFFIN made a great name for
 himself in the famous naval bat O<tIe of the Yalu between the Chi nese and Japanese. He fought on the Chen YUen, the flagship of the Chi nese squadron, and his courage, re- source and steadfastness in that ter rife conflict of ironclads are matters of history.
 The shock of the engagement com pletely shattered his health. and he re- turned to this country. For a time he tried different physicians and hospi- tals, and at last completely worn out and Respondent, he shot himself with a pistol in an Eastern hospital.
 McGiffin was about 34 years of age at the time of the battle of Yalu. He was a graduate of Annapolis. but the bill of 1882 reducing the navy squeezed" him out. General Grant gave him very warm letter of recommendation to Vice roy Ii Hung Chang, and young Me Giffin went to the Orient to seek his fortune.
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On the 26th of September, 1S46, DOT tion of the regiment sailed from New York in the ships Perkins, Drew and Loo Choo, followed few months later by the balance in the Brutus, Isabella and Sweden.
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