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and rode through the town, surveying
the scene of the landing operations and
the camps of the troops. He halted for
a moment before the cottage which
served as the headquarters of the Gu
ban insurgents, where Generals Garcia
and Castillo paid their respects to the
American commander.
About an hour later General Shafter
struck on the road to the front in order
to consult with General Wheeler and
the division commanders, and look over
the field of operations before Santiago
de Cuba. The General said he would
probably return to the Juragua head
quarters tonight.
Permanent hospital arrangements are
to be provided at Juragua at once. The
transport Iroquois, anchored off the
shore, is provided with trained nurses
and all conveniences. Tent hospitals
will also be erected on cliff overlook
ing the sea- There are very few cases
of sickness among the troops, measles,
heat prostrations and dysentery chief
ly. Sporadic cases Of yellow fever are
reported by the insurgents, but the dis
ease is not epidemic.
The troops are in good camps, on high
ground overlooking the sea- The nights
and mornings are cool and pleasant, but
the midday sun is hard on the unaccli-
mated troops in the marches over the
hills. The medical men say that if the
campaign is short. the troops will SO
through in good condition
The movements of the troops to the
front are steadily going on. The Amer
lean and Cuban infantry and cavalry
and long lines of mule pack trains and
batteries of artillery choke all the road
ways over the hills to Santiago de
Cuba.
AT 10 O'Clock this morning General
Pearson's brigade, the Second, Tenth
and Twenty first Infantry of the First
Division, General Kemp commanding,
moved out to occupy a position on the
extreme left toward Morro Castle, and
for a few hours the camp was almost
deserted. Then the auxiliary cruiser
Yale came in sight with the new ar
rivals of American volunteers, consist
ing of the Thirty third Regiment, and
one battalion of the Thirty fourth Reg
iment of Michigan Infantry, command
ed by Colonel Peterman and Colonel
Boynton. Brigadier General Duffield
accompanied them, and the men are
now encamped, awaiting the rest of
the Thirty-fourth Michigan and the
Ninth Massa chusetts Regiment OF,
board the Harvard, which vessel is
expected here tonight
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reach the position of the American
army with his big guns from where
the Spanish ships lie.
No aggressive move by the Americans
is anticipated for sevral days. The
greatly improved before the onward
movement can be safely made. Al
present it taxes the quartermaster's de-
partment to the utmost to get provis-
ions and ammunition Last night one
pack train arrived with supplies to last
until tonight, and as this dispatch is
being written another train of am
munition is coming in. A train OF
ammunition has reached General Chat
fees brigade, and a battery of Gatlins
and dynamite guns attached to the
Rough Riders has been moved to Gem
eral Wheeler's camp.
There is no high ground in the pres
ent position where Hotchkiss or Gating
guns could be put in position, but lit
tie further on is ground where guns
can be mounted, and from which an
Spanish intrenchments.
There were no alarms last night
Many of our officers were amazed, as
they have looked for a resistance to our
advance. The ground over which they
have travelled could have easily been
defended, but the Spanish have stead
lily retired, not even attempting to
harass our f1anks, as the columns
moved on through a natural ambus-
cading country. Apparently General
Linares prefers to place faith in the
defenses of the city, and intends to
make last ditch fight" of it. A few
though only few-hold to the theory
that he does not propose fighting al
ALL
General Garcia, with 900 men VINO
landed yesterday, is expected to reach
the front to-day. The Americans are in
excellent spirits, and there is a remark
able lack of sickness Thus far the wa
ter supply has been good, and there
has been no bad effects from the
changes except a few cases of dysen-
terry. There was brief rain squall last
night
AT noon to-day Major Coolidge re-
ceived orders to clear the road beyond
the front, where the stream doubles
back across it, for the advance of the
artillery. A dynamite gun and q
Hotchkiss gun will be put in position
General Wheeler who made a recon
noissance for half a mile beyond th4
skirmish lines this morning, said he
was not able to secure the desired view
through the luxuriant tropical foliage
so he dismounted and climbed a tree
surveying the Spanish outposts through
his field glass. 1t was a spectacle thai
gave some idea of the wonderful en-
ergy of the dashing exc rfederate
cavalry leader. This feat of .s'litv. II
man 62 years old put to blu - Al
younger officers of his own staff.
SHAFTER OFF TO THE FRONT.
JURAGUA province of Santiago ds
Cuba, Monday, June 9th. per the AS.
sociated Press dispatch boat Wanda
via Kingston), Tuesday, June % ti0 a
m. m.)-(Copyrighaed, 1S9S by the Asso
ciated Press. )-Major General Shaftel
in command of the United States army
of invasion arrived here on board TIL,
! transport Segurancea from Baiquir
with Colonel John Jacob Astor, Cap
| tain Stewart Brice and Lieutenant:
Milya and Noble, his staff, at about :
O'Clock this afternoon. He was met by
General Bates, who was superintendent:
| the landing of commissary supplies il
| the surf.
| General Shafter, in full uniform ant
wearing a straw helmet, was soor
mounted on a large, handsome horse
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Shafter and his base at Baiquiri. Mean
while, further reinforcements are being
prepared and dispatched as rapidly as
the best energies of the department can
direct, and it is believed that several
thousand men sailed from Tampa di-
rectly for Santiago to-day.
The department has had in mind the
difficulties OF the campaign that are
just developing to the public eye, such
as the use for the first time in civil
lied warfare of barbed wire fencing as
a means of defense, and acting upon
the advice of some of our army OFF,
GERS who were in Cuba Willie the fight
ing was confined to the Spaniards and
in each regiment have been provided
with wire cutters, and charged with
the duty of cutting down these fences,
SO as to permit the advance of the
troops. 1t probably will be necessary
to shell out the force defending these
wire chevaux de frise before they can
be cut unless the men in charge of that
duty are to be unduly exposed 20 dan.
field artillery than would be required
in ordinary warfare. The officials here
have been forehanded as to these de-
tails. and, in fact, have provided for
the use of barbed wire by our own
forces, having sent about 80 tons of
this wire with General Merritts expe-
dition.
The lines are being frightened around
Cuba, and it will soon be impossible
for even small quantities of food or
war supplies to reach the Spanish there
The proclamation issued to-day, ex-
tending the blockade to the south coast
and to San Juan, it is believed, will
accomplish this result. On the south
coast the Isle of Pines will be cut off
as a transfer depot for cattle and for
supplies coming from jamaica and Gen.
trail America BY closing San Juan
harbor, the Spaniards will lose the last
chance Of smuggling war supplies to
Cuba, and the future operations of the
army and navy looking to the occupa-
ton of the Island of Porto Rico will be
materially advanced by the establish
ment of successful blockade.
There was no further word from the
Cadiz fleet to-day, though it is still
known to be lying at Port Said, under
pretext of repairing one of the torpedo
boat destroyers. The delay on the part
of the Spanish fleet has not stopped the
preparations for the sending of the
Eastern squadron under Commodore
Watson to the Spanish shores. The
Commodore is hastening with all speed
southwark on the Newark to join and
confer with Sampson off Santiago
1t has BEEN known to our Govern
ment for some time past that the Span
ish Government was trying to obtain
possession of the splendid modern ar
mored cruiser OHiggins. Our agents,
however, have watched these negotia-
tions carefully, and our Government
has been finally satisfied that they
have failed It is needless to say that
the result was agreeably received here,
as the gravest complications nigh.
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CERvERA'S FLEET.
ne Ships Except One Torpedo
1T DESTROYER at Santiago.

: OFF SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Monday,
une =. via Kingston, Jamaica, June
! Sth, ; a. m).-(Copyrighted. 1898. by
the Associated Press. .)-Lieutenan Vic
tor Blue of the auxiliary gunboat Su-
vance returned to the fleet to-day from
another Investigating trip ashore. He
says that Admiral Cervera'S ships are
all in the harbor. With the exception
of one torpedo boat destroyer, they are
at anchor, and show no signs of activ-
ity.
Lieutenant Blue went ashore on Sat
urday, to the west of Moro Castle, ac-
companied by some Cuban guides. He
advanced until about two miles north
of Cahanas, and almost up to the
enemy's batteries. He travelled sixty
miles, and rejoined the Suwanee this
morning. At one time the Lieutenant
f1hfh Do
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wATsON's EXPEDITION.
Expected to Sail for Spain Within
Four or Five DAYS

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-All the
members of the Cabinet were present
at to-day's meeting, with the exception
of Secretary Day, who is out of the
city. At its conclusion it was stated
that the work of supplying Commodore
Watson's squadron with ammunition,
coal and provisions, preparatory to it's
departure for Spain was progressing
satisfactorily, and that in all proba-
bility the squadron would be ready to
sail in the course of the next four or
five days.
The impression which seems to pre-
fCnnfinued on Eighth Pagel
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eighth had gone that Captain Bunce no.
ticed through the smoke that the pirates
were not firing. The smudge from the
burning canvas port coverings had deluded
him. He ordered cessation. Fully forty
solid shot had torn through that old hull
near the water line, and not a man could
now be seen on her deck.
"Out with the boats, Mr.. Duncan" he
said; "they re drunk. or crazy. but t-.ey're
the men we want. Capture them"
Suppose they run. sir-suppose they take
to their boats and get into the woods?
Shall we follow"
mo. not past the beach-not into an am
bush''
The four boat loads Of men which put of
from the brig found nothing but a deserted
deck on the sinking bark and two empty
boats hauled up on the beach. The pirates
were in the woods-undoubtedly. having
kept the bark between themselves and the
brig as they pulled ashore. The two lieu
tenants conferred for few moments, while
the bluejackets clustered around the bows
Of their boats and watched nervously the
line of forest up the beach. from whicn
bullets might come at any time, and had
decided to put back, when q rattling chorus
of pistol reports sounded from the depths
OF the woods. 1t died away; then was
heard crashing Of bush and branch. and
out upon the sands sprang figure-a long.
weird figure In black frock OF clerical cut
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ehus vi american men-of-war As known TO
depend.
Taught To lie Nervy.
II a boy in the navy exhibits at the out
set of his sea life any natural tendency
toward ''yellowness" =" over which he may
or may not have control, IL is the aim OF
the finished tars, IL the lad is otherwise all
right. to knock the saffron tfnge out of
him effectually and forever. The lad who
displays the faintest hesitation on the deck
Of a man-of-war, no matter what he is
asked TO do. or whatever the quality of
the tasks Danger. is marked, and the old
timers never let up on him until the boy
has become nervy even to the point of
foolhardiness. When the hesitant boy is de-
tailed to accompany a party of the old
timers on short cruise in one of the sail
Ing cutters. as like as not the grizzled blue
jackets, all in a kindly, well-meaning way,
will heave the lad over the side. with many
scarifying tales as to the presence of
sharks, two or three times in the course
Of the trip. They will slacken rdge-ropes
on him. and they will find occasion to send
him aloft to the signal yards when the shin
is hove to and beam-enoed. In these and
many other ways they fashion strong nerve
and dauntlessness in the face of danger in
the lad who, upon entering the service
may have been a coward by heredity
There are boys belonging to famous
American families serving their appren-
ticeship In the United States navy, some OF
them from choice and others because their
people have insisted upon it, These lads
were most of them incorrigibles wnen they
entered the service. Thy declined to take
advantage of their opportunities TO obtain
finished educations, exhibited hookey-play-
ing tendencies. and showed strong incii-
hation for the sea. Their people tried to
get them entered at the Naval Academy.
and failed because of the boys lack OF
grounding. Therefore. they put them in as
apprentices. The writer has met up with
at least a dozen lads who got into the
United States navy under these circum
stances, and all of them were toned doyr.
showing the good stuff that was in them
and needed some such rough extraction as
service In a rough outfit. end all In a fair
way TO be fit and decent men when the
time arrived for them 10 DON tn. biuejacket
uniform for more comfortable lives ashore.
To sum up, there are a whole lot of worse
institutions in the world for uniformed boys
good, bad. or Indifferent. than the United
States navy. and certainly none better.
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Into their midst 1t sped with mighty
bounds. and. sinking down, lifted a glad
terance: 30 God. thank Thee. Protect.
me, gentlemen-protect me from these
wicked men,"
what is IL? Who are your" asked Mr..
Duncan. "Were they shooting at you?"
"Yes-at me-who never harmed a fly.
They would have killed me. Ny name Is
Todd. Oh. such suffering. But you VIII
protect me? You are English officers. You
are not pirates and murderers.
"But what has happened? Do you live
around here?'
1t took some time for Mr.. Todd to quiet
down sufficiently to tell his story coherent
yard of the Lord. He had CLEANED among
the poorest of the native population In the
outskirts of Rio Janeiro until his health
suffered. and had taken passage home In =
passenger ship. which, ten days out, was
captured by a pirate brig; and the pirate
crew had murdered every soul on board but
himself. and only spared his life, as he
thought, for the purpose OF amusement: Tor
they had compelled him to dance-he, a
minister of the gospel-and had made him
drink under torture and recite ribald poetry
and swear and wash their clothes. All
sorts of indignities had been heaped upon
him. but he had remembered the injunction
of the Master. and had invariably turned
the other cheek when smitten, and had
prayed for their souls. He told Of the
flight from the English war brig, of the
taking of the old bark in the fog. and the
sinking of the pirate craft, of the transfer
of guns and treasure to the bark and the
interview at sea with the English brig, in
which Captain Swarth had deceived the
other, and of Captain Swarths reckless
confidence in himself which had induced
him to follow the brig in and careen in the
same bay. He wound up his tale with n
lurid description of the drunken debauch
following the anchoring of the bark-dur-
ing which ne had trembled for his life-of
the insane firing on the brig as she passed,
and the tumb!ng into the boats when the
brig returned the fire. of the flight into the
woods. the fighting among themselves and
his escape under fire.
AS he finished he offered an incoherent
prayer of thanlfulness, and the sympathet-
ic Mr. Shack drew forth his pocket flask
and offered it to the agitated sufferer; but
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OF goody-goodiness upon their entrance to
the service become, in nine cases out of
ten, hard customers in the course of their
apprenticeship and not of much account
either for men-of-war or the shore The
reason for this Is not hard to discover Be-
fore entering the navel service the unman-
ageable boys have had their wflirl at juye-
nile righteousness. have mingled in the yor-
tex Of boyish wildness. and are about ready
when they find themselves in the bell bot
tom trousers, to pipe down" and to make
something out of their opportunities. Be
ing tough. they are not easily contami-
mated by the burly roughness of speech and
manner as displayed by the old-timers The
milk-and-water. ginger-lacking boy, on the
contrary, who enters the service with his
mind somewhat too fully stocked with pre-
cepts. maxfms. rules Of conduct and shin
Ing examples of the great. good and Illus
trious and whose shore experience has
been derived within radius of two hum
dred yards from the front gate of his moth
ers yard, steps smack into q world entire
ly new and strange to him when he puts
his foot over the starboard gangway Of q
man-of-war, and. after the absorbent FASH
ion OF such kind Of boys. he Immediately
begins to become unconsciously inocuIated
with the purely surface manners of the
older men under whom he serves, empha-
sizes the display Of these manners in his
own person, and sooner or later becomes
When neal apprentice exhibits q de-
sire from .ae outset Of his seafaring career
to be aad and ornery, for the sake OF
gaining what he thinks is the approval and
admiration OF the oid-time sailors, he IL IN
q fair way to earn for himself .he con-
tempt OF all hands fore and AFT. The old
timers. for the idle purpose OF having fun
with such lad. encourage him 70 believe
that he - the worst ron of q sea cook that
ever picked his teeth with Q Delaying pin,
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Not T." he answered warmly; Hbnt, you
see, those un4odly men compelled me to
clean all their pipes-4O foul pipes-and
90 not doubt that some nicotine has lodged
Bunce told of a chaplain he had once sailed
Wltn whose clothing smelled 30 vflely that
ne himself had framed petition to the ad-
miral Tor his transfer to another ship and
s.a1on. AND the little story had the effect
on Mr.. Todd Of causing him to mentally
swear tnat he'd ship with no man who
oiont allow smoking" and openly aver
tnat no sincere. consistent Christian clergy
man would be satisfied to stultify himself
ana waste his energies in the comfort and
ease OF naval ,chaplaincy, and th&t q
chaplain who would smoke should be dis
s.,. crea,teo and forced out of the profession:
Jul oul iater. when Captain Bunce and his OFF,
cels ngnted Tat cigars, and he learned that
ene AFORESAID chaplain had merely been q
careless devotee Of pipe and pigtail twist,
M ar. I1oo 8 feelings may be imagined (by
smoaelI. out he had committed himself
asdhsl tooaccc and must suffer.
During the breakfast, the two iieutenants
Ieported the results Of a survey which they
hao taken of the wreck at daylight
we md, said Mr.. Duncan, "about nine
Ieet OF water over the deck at the stern
atd ana ABOUT three feet over the forehatch
at low tide. The topgallant forecastle is
awash and the end of the bowsprit out of
water, SO that we can easily reach the
upper ends of the bobstays. There is about
,i ave feet rise and fall of tide. Now, we
nave no pontoons nor casks. Our only
pan, captain is to lift her bodily" And
we nave q diving suit and air pump" said
M. snack enthusiastically, ''and fifty
men ready to dive without suits. We can
raise her, captain. in two weeks
Gentiemen,' said Captain Bunce, grand
ly. L have full faith in your seamanship
and skin. leave the work in your hands,
Which was equivalent to an admission that
ne was fat and lazy, and did not care to
take an active part.
Thank you. SIR" said Mr.. Duncan, and
thank you. sir" said Mr.. Shack; then the
captain said other pleasant things, which
brought other pleasant responses and the
breakfast passed off so agreeably that Mr..
Todd. in spite of the soul-felt yearning for
mouths of the Others felt the influence of
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES

The Junior Christian Endeavor Union
will hold its regular meeting at Luther
Place Memorial Church, corner of 14th and
streets northwest, at o'clock next Mon
day evening. The topic for discussion by
the junior superintendents Is "How to I'M
prove the Music in Our Junior Meetings"
On the evening of April . the Y. p. s.
c. E. of the Maryland Avenue Baptist
Church celebrated its seventh birthday by
social, which included a fine musical and
literary program and light refreshments.
An invitation is extended to all the Chris
tian Endeavor societies in the District to
attend the second quarterly temperance
meeting Of the Y. P. s. c. E. of Lincoln
Memorial Congregational Church, corner
l1th and r streets northwest on Sunday
evening, May To- Mr.. F. NJ Bradley, chair
man of the District Union good citizenship
committee. will deliver a temperance ad-
dress and the vested choir of the cl urch
will furnish music.
Last Sunday over thirty people went ont
to the National Lutheran Home for the
Aged from the Church of the Reformation
and conducted the first of series of re-
ligious services to be held by them every
fourth week in the month. Tomorrow Rev
DR.. William E. Parson will celebrate the
nineteenth anniversary Of his pastorate at
the Church Of the Reformation.
A meeting of the committee on nomina-
tions of officers of the District C. E. Union
for the year beginning September will be
held Wednesday evening, May II. at 7:3D
O'Clock at the Y. M. C. A. building.
Friday evening, May 20, the District c. E.
Union will hold mass meeting in the Mt.
Vernon M. E. Church, South, in the in
terests Of the international convention to
be held at Nashville. Tenn. In July.
Mrs. Gilpin and Miss Bailey. delegates
of the Women's Missionary Society of First
Presbyterian Church to the meeting of the
general assembly in Trenton. n. J., have
just returned home and report fine meet
iLgs and delightful time.
Next Monday evening there will be at
Mt. Vernon Place NJ. E. Church, South 9th
and K streets northwest, a union mass meet
ing OF all the Christian Endeavor societies
and Epworth Leagues in the churches of
that denomina ton in the city and vicinity
Addresses will be made by some prominent
members OF the southern Methodist general
conference, now about to convene in Balti-
more.
The Christian Endeavor Society Of Me-
mortal Lutheran Church has appointed
committee under the leadership Of Mr..
Frank C. Keefer to conduct an afternoon
service at the Lutheran Aged Peoples
Home on the fourth Sunday Of each month
Evening star., 1898-05-07
Un.nswerasle.
Prom Life.

Her Father-'where do you find your
authority for scyirg that the Bible adyo-
cxtes early marriages.
Her Beau-'Didn't Eve marry ON the
day she Wss born?.'
Evening star., 1898-05-07

From the Detroit Free Press.
Some people get 10 much fun out Of
Iife.''
Yes: they get lots Of fun ont Of Hfe be-
cause they put lots OF fun Into IT."
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