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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25
SCENE OF THE FIGHT OVER CUTTING CABLES H.

upon which the fire Of the warships
had been conferred A four-inch shell
from the Window tore this structure
to pieces, killing many and burying
others in the ruins. The Spanish loss
is known to have been very heavy, the
warships firing hundreds of shells
right into their midst.
The United States cruiser Marble
head, the gunboat Nashville and the
auxiliary cruiser Window steamed up
to the harbor OF Cienfuegos early We'd
nesday morning with orders to cut the
cable connecting Havana with Santa
go de Cuba. This task was accom-
plished, but only after terrific fight
between the warships and several
thousand Spanish troops, which lined
the shore and lay concealed behind i'm
provised breastworks,
Soon after the arrival of the war
ships off Cienfuegos four boats were
launched and proceeded in shore for
the purpose of graphing for the cable
in order to cut it, The warships lay
to about 1000 yards or more off the
harbor.
1t was observed that the Spanish
troops had assembled ashore, but it
was not known that heavy guns had
been placed in masked battery and
that the old lighthouse far out on a
neck of land, had been transformed
into formidable fort.
The small boats proceeded cautiously
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25
CUT In HAIL OF SHOT.
BRAVE SEAMEN FROM AMERl-
CAN SHIPS DID DARING AT
CIENFUEGOS, CUBA.
Spaniards Shoot from Masked Batteries
and Rifle Pits Upon the Handful of
Bluejackets Ordered to Sever the
Wires Leading Into the City.

Amid a perfect storm of shot from
Spanish rifles and batteries the Amer
lean forces cut the cables at C!enfue-
COS Wednesday morning, May II.
Four determined boat crews, under
command of Lieutenant Winslow and
Ensign Magruder, from the cruiser
Marblehead and the gunboat Nashville,
put out from the ships, the coast hay
ing previously been shelled, The work
of the volunteers was perilous, and one
was killed while bravely doing his du-
ty, six others being seriously wounded.
The man instantly killed was Patrick
Reagan None of the ships was dam
aged to any extent. The cruiser Mar
blehead, the gunboat Nashville and the
auxiliary cruiser Window drew up 1000
yards from shore with their guns
manned for desperate duty.
One cable had already been cut and
the work was in progress on the other
when the Spaniards in rifle pits and a
battery in an old lighthouse, standing
out in the bay, opened fire. The war
ships poured in thunderous volley,
thCll 6lVhI 6hho DClSAlh5 lOl I'll lAieioo-
i've shells into the swarms of the enc
my. The crews of the boats calmly
proceeded with their desperate work
notwithstanding the fact that a num-
Der had fallen, and finished it, return
ing to the ships through a binding
smoke and heavy fire.
More than 1000 infantrymen on shore
kept up continuous fire and the bull
lets from the machine guns struck the
warships a hundred times, but did no
great damage. Commander Maynard
of the gunboat Nashville was slightly
wounded by rifle bullet that before
striking him passed through the arm
of an ensign, whose name is unknown.
Lieutenant Winslow was shot in the
hand, making three officers wounded
in all. After the Spaniards had been
driven from the rifle pits many of them
took refuge in the lighthouse fortress,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

was a shot from the four-inch gun of
the Window which knocked over the
lighthouse. In command of that gun
division was Lieutenant Crisp, and
Cooper was the gunner who fired the
shot. The Spanish loss is estimated at
400.
The lighthouse was demolished, the
arsenal destroyed and the batteries on
shore silenced. The town was set on
fire by shells from the American fleet.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25
1T is NOT NICOTINE.
MALLET CORRECTS
CIGARETTE CRITICS
MISTAKES.
Communication in the Scientific AmerI
can" on Matter of Popular NIlsap
northumberland Handkerchief Test
Is No Test At All.


northumberland Handkerchief Test
Is No Test At ALL
j. w. Mallet, professor of chemistry
in the University of Virginia, in a com
munication to the current number of
the Scientific American, says with ref
erence to cigarettes of American man
ufacture:
Ignorance Of easily ascertainable
scientific facts is, however common
enough, as is often illustrated by the
brown, oily material formed in the
smoking Of tobacco being pointed out
as nicotine, though in reality this Is
merely the tar produced by the action
of heat on the woody fiber of the leaf.
Nicotine when pure is a colorless
fluid of somewhat oily consistence and
strong, peculiar. penetrating odor, but
1t darkens on exposure to air and light,
becoming first yellow and then brown.
so that it looks, in this darkened con-
dition, something like the larry matter
which soils a smokers fingers or a
handkerchief through which tobacco
smoke Is exhaled, or is often noticed
as deposited in the stem of pipe.
This tarry deposit has nothing es-
sential in common with nicotine, and
contains but traces of this alkaloid,
when any at ALL
A part, but only small part (about
one-seventh in the experiments of
Melsens), of the real nicotine of to-
bacco, is volatilized without decompo-
sltion; the remainder is burned and
destroyed in the process of smoking"
The simple facts are, that such cigar
cites as 1 have examined, representing
a large part of those in general use
throughout the United States, are
made from pure, light-yellow tobacco
of the high grade produced on certain
special soils, prominently in certain of
the southern counties of Virginia and
the adjacent portion of North Carolina,
with wrappers Of the best quality Of
harmless vegetable fiber paper, and are
entirely free from the adulterants
which it has been asserted are present
with no evidence in favor of such as
sertion, and in absolute contradiction
of the scientific evidence actually avail
able.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25
A little good out of great evil is the

A little good out of great evil Is the
increase of geographical knowledge
brought about by every war or war
scare. Multitudes of people have learn
ed more about the West Indies, the
Canaries, the Cape Verde Islands and
other regions within the last few weeks
than they ever knew before since the
days when, with the omniscience Of
youth, they knew 1t all.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

Clean blood means clean skin. No beauty
without 1t. Cascarets, Candy Cathartic cleans
your blood and keeps it clean, by stirring up
the lazy liver and driving all impurities from
the body. Begin to-day to Danish pimples
boils, biotches, blackheads, and that sckly
bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, -
beauty for ten cents All druggists, satisfac-
ton guaranteed, loo, 25c, soc.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

The Spaniards darkly intimate that
something has happened at Manila.
The impression has prevailed in this
country for several days that some
thing happened there.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

You will enjoy this publication much
better If you will get into the habit of
reading the advertisements; they will
afford a most interesting study and
will put you in the way of getting
some excellent bargains. Our adver-
Users are reliable, they send what they
advertise.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

One of the provisions of the French
code forbids a doctor to inherit prop
erty left him by a deceased patient
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25
: WV OF E.vIH4Nir 10
NSNFpE COS tSo~y~1
[eIoSspo L1SzT-

woman who will invent a really artis-
tic and, at the same time, comfortable
stocking supporter will strike Klon-
dixie.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

The outcome of baseball games and
buckwheat cakes usually depends upon
the batter.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

AS a pugilist would say, It is easy
to land on" Spain in Cuba.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25

There is a rumor that the United
States is getting ready to quote prices
on Canaries.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
THE GALLEY FIRE.
Customs Aboard Ship Concerning It-Saw-
ing and Splitting the kindlings.

Customs Aboard Ship Concerning It-Saw-
ing and Splitting the kindlings.
The galley stove has a rack around the
top to keep the pots and kettles from slid
ing off when the ship pitches and rolls.
Some stoves are provided also with iron
straps, which can be secured to the rack,
across the top of the stove, over the pots
and kettles, SO that they can't slide at all,
but are held down to one spot. AS far as
the fire itself is concerned, that Is kept just
as 1t would be in a stove ashore.
On American deep water ships the COM
mon custom is to burn hard coal, and the
fire Is built anew every day. 1t is let go
out after supper has been prepared and is
built up again in the morning. The cook
is an early riser, for on these ships it is
customary to give the watch on deck cof-
fee at half past or 3 o'clock in the morn
ing On some ships the men get little
snack of something to eat with it. For
the preparation of this early coffee the cook
makes a wood fire. When the coffee has
been made, he puts on coal and starts up
che fire iof the day.
The wood used is usually cord wood
sawed and split. When ship is at sea, it
is not convenient to run out and get a
bundle of kindling wood at the store, and
an ample supply of firewood is taken
aboard at the outset. The customs as to
this wood vary. Some ships take aboard
regular cord wood, which is both sawed
and split aboard; some have the wood
sawed into lengths ashore and take it
aboard in that shape to be split up as need
ed on the ship. There may at times be
some wood that has been used for dun
mage and can be sawed up.
AS to who saws and splits the wood on
the ship, customs vary also Oftenest,
probably, the cook does, saving and split
ting enough to last perhaps two or three
days at time. If there are boys on the
ship, they are likely to saw the wood. On
some ships the sailors saw it and split it
and stack it up for the cook, who is sup
posed to have enough to do in his regular
duties.-New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
Egypt.

From the darkness which envelops the
centuries modern research has brought to
light much that was unknown and for
gotten. With almost the creative touch
1t has made the dry bones to live again
and link by link drawn out the long chain
of the years. What was once but roll of
names has grown to be a record of the
words and deeds of men of like passions
with ourselves. The bygone faces look
forth by the side of modern man and claim
the universal brotherhood.
Egyptian queensl What picture the
name calls up of old time splendors, of tho
light of eastern skies, the soft breath Of
eternal summer, of the great Nile as a
beneficent deity, of monuments and pal
aces, gardens and waving palm trees, of
houses with gorgeous coloring, of princes
and slaves, all mingled on the tapestry Of
timol
Few countries claim such antiquity. OF
none do the estimated dates differ more
widely. An accumulation of difficulties
meets tho student as 1t does the explorer,
period of years almost beyond computa-
ton, language ut first undecipherable,
and even now but imperfcctly read, trans
lations proved later to be incorrect, hasty
guesses of scholars anxious to establish
some favorito theory, broken monuments,
rifled tombs, Inscriptions erased and al
tered. Among all these difficulties lies
the way, but with patience and care and
with imagination for q servant not a
master, one arrives, as the French say-at
least In a measure-at last.-Leigh North
In Lippincott's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
The Irish DimcuIty.

I believe that the full development Of
agricultural organization points the only
way by which the agricultural industry in
Ireland can be saved. The Irish farmers,
who formerly had to compete only with
their fellow workers in the United King
dom, are now brought into competition
with the farmers of the whole world. The
time has come when they must intelligent
" apply to their industry those methods
of combination which have been resorted
to by those engaged in every other indus
trial undertaking, and by farmers of other
countries. The system by which we are
seeking to attain this result has already
proved its economic soundness, and it is
only lack of funds sufficient to send or
ganizers qualified to educate bodies of
farmers, who are ready to listen to them
in almost every parish i'm Ireland in its
principles and procedure, which delays its
universal adoption. May point out that
in providing the sinews of war splendid
opportunity is open for some wealthy lover
of ireland to confer upon her people al
incalculable boon?
The principle upon which under modern
conditions the salvation of Ireland must
DO sought becomes more manifest every
year. The Irish difficulty has long been
rather economic than political, and 1t is
more than ever today. Solve the economic
problem, and in the process the Irish PEG
pie will be SO elevated and strengthened
that they will be able to solve the political
problem for themselves. / am firmly con-
WINGED that all future attempts to deal
with the Irish question on purely political
lines are doomed to share the fate of Irish
policies in the past Right Hon. Horace
Plunkett, M. p, President Irish Agri-
cultural Organization Society, In North
American Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15

VertiseC, and so they arc Tren zero are
American organs. But an explanation il
still sought and would be gratefully re-
ceived Of the meaning of the following
sign, which was observed in the flourish
ing city of Cardiff, in Wales: Gentle
mems clothing cleaned by the American
process without injury to the fabric"
And the funniest part of it all Is the ex-
preston of mingled amusement and pity
that an Engljshman puts on when he is
told that anything in any other country
is not exactly as it is in England.
York Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
THIRTY MILES FOR AN ACORN.
The Industry of a Mexican Bird In Stor-
ing Up Winter Provisions.

The Industry of Mexican Bird In Stor-
ing Up Winter Provisions.
Fred T. Ober contributes an article to
st. Nicholas entitled "A Birds Store
house; or, The Carpenter Bird" Mr.. ODER
tells of the California woodpecker that
bores holes in trees and then fills them up
with acorns. He adds:
Down in Mexico there lives a similar
woodpecker who stores his nuts and acorns
in the hollow stalks of the yuccas and
magueys. These hollow stalks are sepa-
rated by joints into several cavities, and
the sagacious bird has somehow found this
out and bores hole at the upper end of
each joint and another at the lower,
through which to extract the acorns when
wanted Then it fills up the stalks solidly
and leaves its stores there until needed,
safe from the dspredations of any other
thievish birdaor Sur footed animal.
The first place in which this curious
habit was observed was on a hill in the
midst of desert. The hill was covered
with yuccas and magueys, hut the nearest
oak trees were 80 miles away, and SO, 1t
was calculated, these industrious birds
had to make flight of 60 miles for each
acorn slowed thus in the stalks.
An ODScrNer Oh Dlrus reularhs, ihoio
are several strange features to be noticed
in these facts-the provident instinct
which prompts this bird to lay by stores
of provisions for the winter, the great,dis-
lance traversed to collect kind of food SO
unusual for its race and it's seeking in
place SO remote from its natural abode. a
storehouse so remarkable"
Can instinct alone teach or have expert
ence and reason taught these birds that,
far better than the bark of trees or crevices
in rocks or any other hiding place, are
these hidden cavities they make for them
selves within the hollow stems OF distant
plants?
This we cannot answer. But we do
know that one of the most remarkable
birds i'm our country is this California
woodpecker, and that he is well, entitled
to his Mexican name of ell carpintero--
the carpenter bird
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
spanish Peasants Trick.

In one respect the Spanish peasants are
ahead of the rest of the world-they have
learned to make cocks hatch eggs and lool
after the chickens, while the hen, being al
liberty, can and does lay more eggs than
she would II hampered by her maternal
duties. The trick is performed in this
way: They carefully pluck the feathers OF.
the ROSTERS underside, and the bare Skin
Is then irritated with nettles until inflam
nation sets in. The cock soon finds thai
the pain caused by this cruel process L.
mitigated by warmth and softness, ant
this makes him willing and eager, al
though for purely selfish reasons, to hatcl
brood and let the little chicks sit unde
him.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
BEES LIKED HIS DOOR.
How Farmer UnwiiIingly Bought n New
Pair of Shoes For a Tramp.

How Farmer Unwiilingly Bought New
Pair of Shoes For Tramp.
AS sat on the yeranda with the farmer
after supper / asked him if he was not
greatly bothered with tramps, and his re-
ply was:
"Waal, q good many OF 'cm come along
and want bite to eat, and some of 'em
are pretty sassy, but only one man of 'em
ever served me real mean trick"
"Poison your dogy" queried.
at was meaner than that. Wewas eatin
dinner one day in the spring when a hive
of bees started to swarm. I'd bin expectin
it and watchin 'em and had a new hive
ready. When bees swarm, they will light
on most anything handy-a limb, bush
or even the pump. Jest as the bees began
to pour out of the hive and circle around
along comes tramp up the path to ask
for somethin to eat. The queen bee settled
down on his old hat and the hull swarm
follered her. In two minits that tramp's
head and shoulders was covered with bees,
and yells to him for heavens sake not to
try to fight 'em off or he'd be stung to
death"
''He must have been terror STRICKEN"
said.
"Not bit of it, sir. He was as cool as
a cowcumber, and when i told him he'd
hev to stand in smudge till the bees was
killed off he jest laughed. When they'd all
settled down on him and / was goin to
start a smudge, he SEE:
"'Old man, what dye consider this
swarm of bees with in cold cashf'
"'About So SEE 1.
"'Are ye willin to give $3? SEE he.
"'What fur?' seq 1.
"'Bekase yen either pay me 50 or III
walk off with the bizness and sell out &c
somebody elseP"
"And you had to buy him Off" asked
"That's where the meanness comes in, y
replied the farmer. "Them bees was my
property, and l wasn't buyin what was
my own. He offered to take So, but
couldn't see how he could git away with
'em and refused to come down. Then be
starts off. / reckoned the bees would gil
angry and sting him to death, but nuthir
happened. He jest walked out into thu
road and down the hill, and he carried
them bees seven miles and sold 'em for ,
new pair of shoes.
"And he wasn't stung?'
"Not once, sir. Tho bees seemed TO lik'
tho smell of him, and he padded along
the road as grand as You please. Wash
ington Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15

M THE PUBLac-The undersigned 'hav-
purchased the stock in trade and
,ols Of the late William Carline, is now
p,.oared TO do all kinds OF repair work,
,ucb as guns, locks, bicycles. sewing ma
chimes trunks, ETC., also all kinds OF um-
|h,slla and parasol recovering and repair
,nv I shall also carry the same line oil
.sire machine needles and findings.
Please remember the place at William
Carue's old stand opposite st. Patrick
| church. Quincy street, Hancock.
ALFRED MARLOR.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
law. Percy Webber. OF
madison Addresses o
the Y. M. c. A.
,..sua,Iy Large Number I'm At
...-p.-course Well Re-
lived by the Audience.

n percy &. Webber, arch-deacon OF
r.oo who is conducting mission at
a '',,y church, HouGhton. all this week,
a -. 20 men only at they .M.C.A.service
p'' sunday afternoon. The attendance
somewhat above the average and
rs,er end gentleman's ADDRESS was
!, ,seeiyed. He spoke something over
sour on "Peiect MISUNDERSTANDING
nan Jesus Christ as the perfect man
II times throughout his talk, and
.,hed on many OF the evils OF the day
~, drag men down tosin. Toward the
-. ., bis talk he dismissed a number
.maIl boys from the room and talked
acme length on the subject OF "Per-
anal Purity" Arch.deacon Weber will
| IA sss the meeting again next Sunday
\ which time a special ladies' day Will
Ia bald
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
THE ISLAND OF APPLE TREES.

II lies among the outer seas,
Ger many a mile of water wan,
And seldom any living man
Across the clamorous waves has past
And found ere he for death was cast,
Avilion, isle of apple trees.
Atlantis was its name of old.
And many a drowning mariner
'Twixt life and de5,h has sighted her
Gold apples growing on the verge.
Then, as he sank in sitting surge,
Cursed her and all her fruit of gold.
And now upon the boughs one sees
No golden fruit. but only red,
Sweet apples moving overhead
IN soft wind that speaks Of May.
And still one sees and sails away
From that dim isle of apple trees.
-Norah Hopper in Black and White.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15

When the late Mr.. Bradlaugh was once
engaged in a discussion with n dissenting
minister, the former insisted on the latter
answering a question he had asked him by
a simple Yes or no" without any
more circumlocution, asserting that every
question could be replied to In that man.
ner. The reverend gentleman rose. and In
quiet manner said, "Mr Bradlaugh,
will you allow me to ask you question
ON those termsS" Certainly, said Brad
laugh. Then, may 1 ask, have you given
up beating your wifes" This was poser,
for II answered by YES it would Inn
ply he had previously beaten her, and II
By mo" that he continued to do 90
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15

Attorney j. f. HambItzer, OF Hough-
ton, announces new departure in leg al
work. 0ilate Mr.. HambitEer has made
several great successes in adjusting mat.
tiers out OF court. which might otherwise
nave result in great expense to the par
yfesconcerned. He will hereafter make
speciality Of assisting in the adjustment
Of such claims.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
Napoleon Before the Convention.

When Barras introduced Napoleon &c
the convention as a fit man to be intrusted
with the command, the president asked:
"Are you willing to undertake the do
tense of the conventioni"
YES" was the reply. After time the
president continued
"Are you aware Of the magnitude Of the
undertakingr'
Perfectly" replied Napoleon, fixing
bis eyes upon his questioner, land am In
the habit of accomplishing that which
undertake."
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15

The art exhibition that was advertised
TO take place at the Hancock Congrega-
\dona church has been indefinitely post
79oned owing to the absence OF two of the
| prime movers in the affair, Mrs. Z. l..
Wright and Mrs, c. A. Wright, who have
been called to the bedside OF their father
who is lying very i'll at his home in Al
bon.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-15
A Test of Eligibility.

A story is told by Scotch contempt
rary of new arrival at the Border Coun
ties Lunatic asylum, near Melrose, who
was sent out along with some others to
work I'm the grounds. After he had been
working for some time an old inmate, who
had been watching him, came up and said,
Unless We delve wi the rake and rake
wi the spade, ma man. yell bc no lang
here "--London Globe