North Carolina Newspapers

State Library Vlvertisins Hrings Success., That it I,;'.Vri advertise in the Gold I.i..r, irt kIiowii by its !! As an Advertising Medium The Gold Leaf stands at the head of fj newspapers in this section of the famous nr tilli-'liiUTt iHiriKcoliimn.s AV" SENSIBLE BUSINESS MEN 1 ID not conliriiio toHp'ii L. pKdl immi'V win-re no BRIGHT TOBACCO DISTRICT! Thenuit w ioVatvake an J ftiicvmttful ItutsinesM men ,-i ji;ir"fi;tl)!- returns are seen. use iU columns with the highest That is Proof that it Pays Them Satisfaction and Profit to nemsdisj "HAD R. MAMIKG, Publisher. Oakolhsta,Oarolina,Heaven,s Blessings tteistcd Her." ISUBSCRIPTIOI $1.60 Ctlb. VOL. XVII. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1898. N O. 27. m Little Pimples Turn to Cancer. Cancer often results from an im prity in the blood, inherited from .m rations back. Few people are en-t.r'-ly free from some tniiit in the blood, ., ,ii it is impossible to tell when it will ,: . itk out in the form of dreaded Can What had appeared to be a mere or sprute.h has developed into ;). :ii'rt malignant Cancer. I !:1 ii tsevero Canct-r -vhich was at firat t fi-w l.lotchi-H, that I thought would Sunn J mux away. I was tr' iitl by several ablo j; lysii-iunii. liut In Kplto of thi-lr efforts the Can cit hr'ai until mycon (iition t--arne alarming'. After many months of tnatromt and growing steadily wo rue, I de ruled to try S. S. 8. which was ho ntron(rly recom mended. The 11 rat lKttl- produced an lm- . in, vmii-ii i . 1 Li ii ueiA lour mourns me last nt 1 1 e i c a b dropped off. Ten yearn have elapsed, .Ucutif has returned. ' iil a bik-n of the dl: K. h. WILLIAMS, OilUburg, Mis. It is dangerous to experiment with Cancer. Thelisest is beyond thetskill .1 .liieians. S. S. 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Vial of these famous little Pell.l: ilt i '":t!.aJiboorn.OTeofPileCnre. 1 hh cknuine hesh Japasese Pile . .u only by ! V; AW v.. s riiira.k. r,'r-t'. rr WHVp V 9 )( 4 & a M-w n ra4 4c. S iS 'irn wl H. Thomas. Henderson, H. C. SUMMER RESORTS IN THE MOUNTAINOUS SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH. Urowing in Popularity Each Season Among Both Health and Pleasure Seekers The flountain Resorts of Western North Carolina Destined to Lead all the Rest Easy of Access as Reached by the Southern Railway and Seaboard Air Line. (Baltimore Manufacturers' liecord.) The coming summer is likely to be marked by a decided increase in the patronage of the mountain resorts of the South. For more than half a century the people of the South who have had the means and the leisure have been accustomed to divide their summers between the resorts of the North and some of the older ones of the South. In former years there was a regular migration with the on-coming or warm weather from lowlands to the mountains. The plantation families or the dwell ers in cities of the plains made the pilgrimage, enlivened with the change to out-of-door life of the route, and spent at least a month in some retreat like that of the old Greenbrier White, or some of the lesser resorts whose name is now only a memory. Wealthy families from New Orleans orMobile travelled by steamboat and in their private equipages overland to the heights of the Appalachian range, and there re mained until the on-coming of cooler weather or continued their happy journey to Saratoga or one of the seaside resorts just in their begin nings. That was in the days before the railroads had made accesible and aided in the development of many resorts w hich now rank with the best that the North has or ever had. There are many distinct advantages possessed by these summer refugees. Though m.'.ny of them have all the conveniences of table and appoint ments, they are still close to the wildness of the woods. Within the walk of a well-arranged hotel are mugnilicent stretches of scenery, opportunities for sportsmen and temptations to the invalid to woo health in close communion with nature. The winter migration from the North to Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas. Alabama and Louisiana has become a permanent fact in American life; but the South is not only an im mense sanitarium for the winter, but also for the whole year. From Mason and Dixon's line clear into Alabama and Georgie the Appalachian range forms uuending lines of beauty. Not as bold as the Rockies, nor as sharply defined, perhaps, as the New Eng land Mount Washington, the ranges of the Blue Ridge are yet most pleas ing in their changing color under different skies, their sweeping forms, and, as they rise to North Carolina, their commanding elevations. Com paratively few persons realize that in Western North Carolina there are forty-three mountains more than G'lOO feet high, towering above others ranging from 4000 feet down and one of the chief attractions about these mountains is that they have nothing of the worn appearance of the better known teaks of the Fast, but are full of pleasant surprises and give op portunity for ever-changing vistas to him who idles among them. Moreover, the Appalachian range is really an immense mineral foun tain. Medicinal waters, soothing to sefferers from minor ills and curative of long-standing diseases, either in the shape of a beverage or as a bath, gush from among the rocks at many points. The White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, the Hot Springs, J fee Warm Springs, the Healing spnigs i'1 Bath county, the Old Swoef Springs, Rockbridge Alum in Virginia, the Hot Springs of North Carolina and others at Lincolnton and Shelby. N. C, Cross Hill, S. C, Sweet Water and Bowden, near Atlanta, are a few of the iron, chaly eate or sulphur springs belonging the Virginias, the Carolinas, p.,., nessee .aim deorgia, situated in ituatet: II . healU y P,llrt;s aml surrounuea y and surrounded picture snne views wnicn are attract- jug ever. v year a greater n 11 inner 01 visitors t ban before, lo most of these spring tion is had North. West s turect rauroau connec with the cities of the . tnd farther South, and each vear line' improvements ' ininriiviiiii'nt.s and additional attra uone 01 however, mar beauties which l..,ve been created J'v nature. Tvpieal of liiem all, perhaps, are those in the nVinitv Asbeville, . C The development of that section as a health resort for bt'th the sum mer and winter is large! v due to the enterprise of the railroad the delb-ht of wealthy persons vrho have ...tee visited it. "The city of Asbe ville itself is a monument of the ap preciation of the South as a sanitari um. Its population consists largely of tourists or of those persons, who, ....... .w.;.r it Ihvh determined to s - r r an attraction which casual visitors ATV permitted to enjov. Then there the rioudland Hotel, on the top of I K.,-.n mountain at an elevation of Kiifin .;.. n.t i-mnnmndin? a view j of 50, 000 miles ot territory in uu ' States the two Virginias, two Caro i linas, Kentucky, Tennessee and j: Georgia. From this place there is y an easy access by an excellent j: mountain turnpike to other resorts, such as Eriola Inn, at Linville, and j the accommodations at Blowing Rock, ' where spring Mniospnere seems io j! abide eternjiily. By another route i one reaches Waycesville. tilled with the healing odors of the tir and nresentin" point of advantage for ! nbservino- magnilieeut views of cliff. vallev and mountaia stream, and the whole topped by Mount Mitchell, Crqndf.ither. Roan ana Clingmau s feak. Across the border lies the Lookout mountain, overhanging -v-r-i ...r r"liirl.-. Chattanooga. flOl 1 aaiaua, which seems destined to oe f ..: thrmconds ' ine piace 01 auiatuuu l of hearts, if not of feet, during the comming summer. The very fact which has made Chickamauga a mobilization center for armies of the United States is that which will induce a large patronage of the Southern mountain resorts this year. No one can doubt that timidity on the part of many persons will "lead them to select the mountains for their summer outing, instead of the seashore. The resorts along the coast will probably have a good business, but they must share to a greater extent than ever that bus iness with the secure, health-giving, comfortable and nicturesoue resorts of the Appalachians. IN DAYS LIKE THESE. THOMAS H. STACY, IN BOSTON JOURNAL. O God of hosts, whose mighty hand Our fathers led across the seas, We took from Thee our goodly land. To Thee we look in days like these; 'Mid swelling tumult, bitter word. 'Mid clashing arras and bugles' blare. While war-drums fret the fevered air, In days like these, be near, O Lord. The winds have swept our colors out. Our polished guns the sun has kissed; With measured step and loyal shout, The men trooped by who now are missed, The hilltops signals far away. And sea calls sea with beacon lips, Where ride our far-flung battleships. To strike the foe, at break of day. Forgive, O Lord, that we forget To humble self and Thee to please; Our vows unkept, sins thought, unthought; Forgive, O Lord, in days like these. Our gift upon the altar lies. Accept it ere Thou call us hence, Although Thou saidst obedience Is better than a sacrifice. "l is not for gain or vengf ul spite Our treasure and our life is poured, But for the wronged who have no might. Whose cry has reached the ear of God; In days like these, our motives take, Since whom l'hou usest Thou must trust. And when we smite because we must. Help us to heal the wounds we make. If you have any disease due to impure or impoverished, blood, like scrofula, salt rheum, dyspepsia, or catarrali. you should take Hood's Sarsaparilla and be promptly cured. Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy to operate. Cure Indigestion, biliousness. '2:,c. Lieutenant Hobson. (Atlanta Constitution.) Up to the present time the South has furnished two of the most signal exhibitions of courage which the ex isting war with Spain has developed, viz, the martrydom of Ensign Bagley while engaged in returning the lire of Spanish guns in Cardenas waters and the bold exploit of Lieuten ant Hobson in sinking his own vessel in the harbor of Santaigo de Cuba, at its narrow entrance, for the purpose of effectually entrapping the Spanish fleet under Admiral Cervera. Both of these brave deeds of hero ism deserve to be embalmed in the gratitude of the entire nation; and if history is just to the dauntless spirit of the men who nobly wrought them, she will record their names high upon the scroll of honor which she dis closes to the world's uplifted gaze. In adding fresh luster to the Stars and Stripes these men have exhibited to better purpose the same contempt of danger which characterized the knight errants in the days of chiv alry. While Lieutenant Hobson fared better than Ensign Bagley in that, with the stout-hearted men who shared with him the perils of his ex pedition, he managed to escape to land, still the nature of the enter prise upon which he volunteered stands out with such unique promi nence on account of its peculiar dan gers that he is clearly entitled to the hero's laurel. When Lieutenant Hobson undertook to enter the nar row waters of the harbor of Santaigo de Cuba for the purpose of accom plishing his bold design, he had every reason to believe that whatever his success might be in his efforts to close up the channel he would never be permitted to return again to his comrades of the squadron. He went with the spirit of the martyr to sac rifice himself at duty's call upon the altar of his country's cause. Let pessimists who bewail the degenerate civilization of the nineteenth cen tury contemplate the spectacle of this intrepid officer in sinking his own vessel under the frowning shadow of Morro castle. There is nothing liner in Spartan annals than the exhibition of unruffled fearless ness presented by Lieutenant Hobson in the face of circumstances which might have awed the bravest. Without regard to the justice of the cause which underlies the exist ing war with Spain, it must be uni versally admitted that its lessons cannot fail to exercise the most salu tary influence upon the lives of men who out of its grim horrors are born such notable examples of self-immo lation as Ensign Baglev and Lieu tenant Hobson furnish. It is announced that the vaults of the clearing house in New York contain $140,000,000 in gold belong ing to the banks of that city. Now, if the people of the country had about that additional amount of good, crisp legal tenders to do bus iness with, how much better things would work. Consumption is a diease caused by im purity of the blood, and the first thing to be done in its treatment is to make the blood pure, rich and wholesome. That is half the battle. The other half is the imnretrnation of the blood with cleansing. healing, invigorating medicines. Dr . Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery does both. It tirst puts the whole digestive svstem into perfect order, rids it of all impurities, aud. from the vantage ground so gained, readies out to every fiber of the body and restores all to perfect vigor. It . . -. v . mom iticoacoa cimnlv lv4Mti&A VUiCl 11 J UUj v t v 1 o 1 iu J v manv diseases spring from a set of com mon c?uses. The same disorder may lead to different symptoms in ditierent people What micht be only a little indigestion in one person, may combine with a slight eold in another and result in consumption. A treatment that tones up the whole system is always the safest. A medicine that is good for the general neaitn is pretty sure to cure ordinary diseases. No man can be more than half right. Jeft. The other half is bound to be ORIENTAL TRADE. A FASTGROWINGCOnnERCE WITH THE UNITED STATES. America's Display of Force Likely to Stimulate the Development of its Trade With the Countries of the Orient Increased Trade as Well as Respect for Uncle Sam Will Grow Out of His Showing His Fighting Stock. (Special Correspondence Baltimore Sun.) Shanghai, China, May 3. Amid the rumors which I have been able to trace to a reliable source are a number which relate to the patriotic conduct of United States Consul Wil liams, of Manila. When that gentle man received official notification of the impending state of belligerency he visited the American shipping in Bart to urge and hasten its departure, e then gave warning to the Ameri cans residing in Manila, but most of them, unable to wind up their affairs at so short a notice, preferred taking up their residence on neutral vessels in port. The Spanish governor maintained, to the last moment that there would be no war and urged Mr. Williams to remain. But the consul had business elsewhere. He had secured splendid maps of Manila and its harbors and was anxious to place them in the hands of Commodore Dewey. The British consul assumed , charge of American interests and Mr. Williams left. The friendly feeling of the English is manifest wherever I have been; you would think that they con sider our cause as their own. When the story of misrule, op pression and wanton cruelty of Span ish sovereignty comes to be told, every American will feel proud of his share in putting an end to it. Only a few weeks ago, last month, in fact, the Spanish forces bombarded Cebu, the third city of the Philip pines. The island of Cebu produces enormous quantities of hemp and sugar and contains much mineral wealth. Only recently a company was formed, with a capital of 1,600, 000, to develop the oil and coal fields there. The cause of the bombard ment, it is alleged, was that the friars had taken forcible possession of valuable lands belonging to the na tives. They did not dispossess the owners, but allowed them to occupy their own property upon payment of an exorbitant rent. The owners ob jected and the collecting of these rents proceeded under difficulties, although aided by the authorities. The sugar crops, seized by a collector, were fired, and troops were called upon to aid the law. There was not the slightest op position when the Spanish landed; the rebels decamped, after helping themselves to $200,000 in hard cash, and the Spanish proceeded to shov their courage and chivalry by pour ing in a hot lire upon non-combatants. The peace-loving Chinese resi dents paid the bill. About thirty of these inoffensive people were killed, but the Spanish heroes took great care not to interfere with houses pro tected by a foreign flag. This ac count, true in every particular, ar gues for the cry, "Down with Span ish rule in the Pacific!" Our dear friends and allies, the rebels of the Philippines, are for the most part as great scoundrels as their late masters and will bear a considerable deal of watching. Pa triotism is a word of which they do not know the meaning. Japan has declared neutrality and is prepared to enforce it. The de cree is rather vigorous and remark able, because foreign residents are especially mentioned. It seems that in this proclamation Japan has not forgotten Spain's efforts to prevent the acquisition of Formosa after the war with China. At all events, Mar quis Ito does not favor any little privateering scheme which Spain is said to nurse. Here is the preamble to the official notification: "War having unfortunately broken out between Spain and the United States, we cause the following regu lations as to neutrality to be issued, with a desire to maintain the peace and friendship at present existing between this empire and the two countries above named. Our sub jects of this empire and all persons who are in the dominion 01 this em pire should observe strict neutrality, in accordance with the principles of international law and with these regulations, until the war is ended. Offenders will not only be denied the protection of this empire against the actions of belligerent countries, but will be punished according to the provisions of law in the courts of the empire. lhe proclamation then enumerates the several regulations, and savs, re- fernng to privateers: "No privateers are allowed to enter the dominion of this empire un less they are compelled to enter on account of rough weather or want of material necessary for navigation or of unseaworthiness, but they must at once leave a port when such obstacle ceases." Coal and other necessaries may be procured, but only in such quantities as are necessary for navigation to reach the nearest harbor of either of the belligerent countries." Since Seattle, our nearest harbor, is 4,200 miles from Yokohama, our ships should have no difficulty in securing needed supplies. The attitude of the United States government in forcibly taking Spain to task is exerting an incredible influence upon affairs in the far East. There is not a little appre hension in certain quarters that this new factor mav combine with Great Britian. The immediate con sequence, now plainly perceptible, is a marked pause in the landgrabbing process, so that China owes a grate ful respite to the humanitarian prin ciples of Uncle Sam. Russia and France have been bully ing the members of the Tsung li Yamen, (foreign office,) at Pekin, to secure the dismissal of Sir -Robert Hart, the trusty autocrat of the Chinese customs. They suddenly desisted and Sir Robert is installed as firmly as ever. Russia has condes cended to come to an understanding with Japan. I wish that I could impress your readers with the real importance of the awakening of the great republic. Our trade with China and Japan is growing fast, notwithstanding the fact that the American merchant labored under the disadvantage of being looked down upon by the Ori ental, who only bows before superior strength. The attitude of the United States has, even now, exerted a fav orable influence upon trade. ' it is almost incredible to state the growth in demand of American pro ductions. To mention one instance: The Baldwin Locomotive Works have sold several hundred engines to the Japanese. The Schenectady Locomo tive Works recently sent out Mr. E. W. Griffith, who secured orders for 18 locomotives. I have been watch ing to see if the enterprising Rich mond Locomotive Works could not get a finger in the pie. There is a demand, a steady and growing de mand, for our manufactures both in China and Japan, and nothing but the present decided assertion of our policy was needed to give a grand impetus to our trade. The greatly enhanced respect for "Old Glory" will be no slight factor in promoting the safety of commercial enter prises. The American community of Shaughai is boiling over with patriot ism. The Model Settlement, as it is appropriately called, boasts a num ber of well-known and flourishing American business houses. Promi nent among tbem is the China and Japan Trading Company, a New York concern, having branches in nearly all the open ports of China and Japan and doing considerable business as far north as Vladivostock. Its Shanghai manager, Mr. Eastlack, a Pennsylvanian, is now in the United States. The American Trad ing Company, also of New York, is another big concern with a large busi ness in China, Japan and Korea. It built the first railroad in the Hermit Kingdom, between Chemulpo and the capital, Seoul. There are other large American houses, and now that the Chinese government has opened Wee Sung, at the entrance of the river, Shanghai bids fair to expand into the largest city of China. There are plenty of inducements for American push and energy nere. It cannot be said that the mandarins are waking up, but they are shaken and worried until they have reached a stolid state of despair. Russia, France, England and even little Bel gium are howling for railroad con cessions. The old Confucian schol ars have reached a stage of confus ion; they do not want railroads; they would greatly prefer to do without them; all modern improvements are looked upon with antipathy and dis gust, for there is a dim perception that they mark the beginning of the end. All they sigh for'is to be left alone, and that wish will not be granted. The Chinese merchant is passive; the coolie and laboring class are not so placid. Superstition prevails among them, and they are easily in fluenced against anything represented as likely to interfere with their paltry daily rations. But John is no block head, and will soon learn to see that steam and electricity mean material progress. II. Stein. It is follv for people to subject them selves to attacks of chills and fever and malarial troubles, when by the timely use of Ramon's Lfver Pills & Tonic Pellets and Ramon's Pepsin Chill Tonic they can so fortfy their systems and entirely prevent them. Every one knows these famous remedies, but for fuller information ask your druggist for pamphlets and sample dose. The Star-Spangled Banner. (Parkersburg (W. Va.) News.) That ocean-guarded flag of light, forever may it fly! It flashed o'er Monmouth's bloody fight, and lit McIIenry's sky! It bears upon its folds of name to earth s remotest wave, the names of men whose deeds of fame shall e'er inspire the brave. Ships have crashed and guns have pealed beneath its radiant glow, but never did that ensign yield its honor to the foe! Its fame shall march with martial tread down ages yet to be, to guard those stars that never paled in light on land or sea. Its stripes of red eternal dyed with heart-streams of all lands; its white the snow-capped hills that hide in storm their upraised hands; its blue the ocean waves that beat 'round Freedom's happy shore; its stars, the print of angels' feet that shine forevermore! "One Minute Cough Cure U the best preparation 1-have ever sold or used and I can't say too much In its praUe." L. M. Kannon. Merchant, Odell, Ga. Phil 11 Thomas. NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRACY. The North Carolina Democratic convention went strong on its en dorsement of the Chicago platform, free silver and Mr. Bryan, but in the plainest and most emphatic language declined to accept Mr. Bryan's advice and fuse with the Populists. The people of North Carolina have had enough of fusion with the Pop ulists, and in our opinion the Demo cratic party can win the State back by repudiating fusion and making a bold fight against both Populists and Republicans. That is just what the State convention, under the superb leadership of that grand old Dem ocratic war horse, Thomas J. Jarvis, decided to do. Danville Register. A Man of Means. (New York Weekly.) Mrs. Stuckupp "Is this Mr. Slim purse you have engaged yourself to a man of means?" Sensible Daughter "Yes, mother. He means all he says, and that's the sort of a husband I want." TRIBUTE TO BRAVERY. HEROISM OF HOBSON AND HIS MEN RECOGNIZED BY CERVERA. The Spanish Admiral's Chivalrous Act in Sending a Representative to Ad miral Sampson Telling Him of the Safety of Lieutenant Hobson and His Brave Companions After They Had Blown up the Merrimac and Closed the Channel at Santiago. Lieutenant Hobson and the seven brave men who constituted the crew with him in the perilous undertaking of sinking the collier Merrimac in the channel of Santiago de Cuba last week, having successfully accom plished their object were unable to reach the launch awaiting just out side to take them back to their ship and so fell into the hands of the enemy making their way to Admiral Cervera's flag ship on the raft by means of which they probably escaped death by drowning. The rest is told in the following account: Admiral Cervera was astouned at the bravery of the American sailors who took part in the Merrimac ex pedition. He hastened to uphold the best traditions of the Spanish navy by taking a generous and apprecia tive stand a step that will add honor to his past strategy in the eyes of the world. He sent his chief of staff, Capt. Burtamente Ovideo, on the Spanish tug Colon from Santiago harbor next evening bearing a flag of truce to Admiral Sampson. The Spanish Ad miral through Captain Ovideo, told his adversary of the deeds of the heroic eight, and offered to exchange the prisoners for Spaniards captured by the Americans. This you have already heard, but I will tell you the story in detail. When the lookouts on the New York saw a little black craft steam ing from Santiago harbor at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon there was considera ble curiosity as to the mission of the diminutive stranger. Is it a torpedo boat? wondered the jackies. They gathered their trousers with a hitch and awaited for the summons to pre pare for the enemy and demolish the little craft. As the tug drew nearer the war ship it was seen that there was a Spanish flag flying at her stern. There was another flag at her fore top. It was a flag of truce. The Vixen, which is constantly on scout duty, was nearest the ap proaching craf. She hurried toward the Spaniard, to send t he latter to the bottom if the mission were hostile, but the flag of truce dispell ed the thought of a miniature bat tle. The American vessel ran close to the Colon and acted as an escort to her. NAVAL CEREMONY. j When the two small vessels ap peared at the flagship there was a throng of jackies at the side of the big warship with faces full of curios ity. They saw on the deck of the Colon Captain Ovideo, radiant in his uniform, gold lace and side arms. Admiral Sampson sent the flagship's launch to the Colon, when the latter stopped about 100 yards from the New York. Captain Ovideo was then brought up to the flagship. He climbed up an iron ladder and sa luted the officers of the deck with a graceful dignity. Naturally.on the American ship there was a strong undercurrent of excite ment. Did it mean surrender? The Spanish Captain stepped briskly with an orderly, who escorted him to Ad miral Sampson. The Admiral was seated aft. As Captain Ovideo advanced the officers of the flagship rose. The Spanish Captain was received with marked courtesy. A seat opposite Admiral Sampson was given to him. HIGH ritAISE FROM CERVEKA. Captain Ovideo proceeded to state his mission without parley. He bore the respects of the Spanish Admiral to the American commander of the naval forces before Santiago and desired to inform Admiral Sampson that the intrepid volunteer crew of the Merrimac was safe. It was Ad miral Cervera's wish, said he, that Admiral Sampson would feel assured of the safety of the brave men, who had so greatly honored their country and the American Navy. He added that Admiral Cervera would be glad to release the prinsoners as soon as an exchange could be agreed upon. In reply Admiral Sampson desired the Captain to convey to the Spanish Admiral his appreciation of the com pliment which had been paid to the eight heroes and an assurance that the exchange would be facilitated. The American Admiral spoke briefly, but with great dignity and politeness. Then Captain Ovideo offered to take a change of clothing to the pris oners. Admiral Sampson gave orders that their apparel be placed on board the Colon at once. While this was being attended to Admiral Sampson and his visitor had a pleasant con versation. It was during this time that Captain Ovideo explained suc cinctly and with enthusiasm the manner in which Hobson and bis comrades accomplished their heroic deed, and the thrilling events lead ing up to their capture. STORY FROM INSIDE THE HARKOR. As is now known, the Merrimac steamed into the mouth of the harbor as boldly as if she was going to a pier in a home port. W hen Hobson reached the point where the Merri mac should be sunk he turned the vessel around, so that her length would cover the channel's breadth. Several terpedoes, which wereranged along the vessel's side, were explod ed by Hobson, who performed this task with calmness. The collier sunk under a rain of shells from the bat teries on shore. The night was nuea with the roar and glare of tne a " 1 cannonading. The intrepid volunteers on the Merrimac jumed on a life raft which had been towed alongside. The vawl boat which they had hoped to escape to sea in had been too badly dam aged to be used. There was only one course open to the heroic men." They had escaped death from shot or shell while the collier was being riddled. The only hope was to paddle the raft to a ship of the enemy. Theybegan this task valliantly, and were soon under the searchlight of Admiral Cervera's flagship. The Spaniards did not regard the partv on the raft as having any hostile intent. Hobson and his comrades were picked up at the cruiser's side and were taken before Admiral Cervera. The Spanish commander-in-chief was astounded at the heroic deed of the men. He received them with great courtesy, and asked them to describe their trip. When he asked Hobson aud the latters comrades what he could do for them, the in trepid leader of the little band re plied that above all they would like to get back to their ships and to ob tain a change of clothing. The Spanish admiral complimented them and said he would see that they were exchanged as soon as possible. CAPT. OVIDEO IMPRESSED. Captain Ovideo took in with scrutinizing glance the entire Ameri can fleet which spread in a circle about the flagship and he was un mistakably impressed, although he did not betray himself in words. He expressed surprise at the richness of a nation that could afford to use a 300,000 ship to block a channel. His visit continued and ended with the same ceremony which had marked its beginning. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. The Author of the Nation's Hymn, Another Monument to His flemory . (Atlanta Constitution.) Just at the time when the eyes of the entire country. North, South, East and West, are riveted upon the Stars and Stripes, there comes the announcement that on June 14th, instant, Maryland will unveil in her great metropolis one of the hand somest of shafts in memory of Fran cis Scott Key, the illustrious author of "The Star Spangled Banner." W hue Maryland has allowed more than fourscore years to elapse before fitly commemorating the genius of her departed singer, she neverthe less intends to make splendid re paration for her apparent neglect. She has reared at -rreat cost the marble pile which she will formally unveil in Baltimore next week, and she has furthermore planned to make the approaching occasion one of national interest. With resiiect to the design of the structure, it con sists of a circular pedestal of grantite resting upon a series of spreading bases and rising fifteen feet upward. On this solid mass of rock is mounted the marble figure of Francis Scott Key himself, so posed in mid air as to interpret the opening of the im mortal poem: "Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light." At the foot of the pedestal, in front, is a bronze group of figures, representing liberty teaching the lessons of pa triotism to her young offspring. In the rear of the pedestal is a tablet con taining the full text of the great American poem. The suierblv ex ecuted conception is the work of New York s famous sculptor, Mr. Alexander Doyle. Instead of being located at some central point within the city limits, it occupies one of the commanding sites of Mount Olivet cemetery. lo review the circumstances under which "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written, the British forces in 1814 invaded Washington, at which time the pott was taken prisoner and put ou lxard of the frigate Surprise. While on board this ves sel he witnessed the attack which was subsequently made upon Fort Mc Henry, and on account of the posi tion which the flag hoisted over its battlements occupied, he could distinctly see it at night through the glare which the conflict produced. Itpfnro trio arrival nt dawn ttio firSnrr ceased entirely, but the poet enjoyed" the satisfaction of seeing, when the light returned, the rippling folds of the ensign, and knowing that the British forces had failed to haul it down. Under the inspiration which came from this disclosure he sub- squently produced the poem which is today prized as one of the most sacred treasures of the nation. Toward the erection of the pilr which will be unveiled in Baltimore next week, the Maryland legislature contributed the paltry sum of f.j.OOO. while the remainder of the fund ex pended in the work was raised by popular subscription. 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