Fighting in Cuban Waters

he newspapers are going li

I ran out of 'Globes' and 'Heralds' before seven

n Walke. We didn't sink so many ships as Dewey has at Manila, but we sank some, and smashed many a shore battery in the bargain, along the banks of the Mississippi. What does that

it that Dewey is now bombarding Manila, but the news is not confirmed. But it is true that our

way we did down South. Perhaps Dewey is waiting for additional instructions from Washington. I hope he

r a pause, during which he served out half a dozen newspapers to as many custom

s game leg of mine, and my age being against me, I'd go over to

t of the

threw back his head and gave a laugh. "That puts me in mind of something that happened when the Civil War started. A young lawyer in New York locked up

I could go toget

nd they want young blood. By the way, what

ow at Camp Black waiting to be sworn into the Unite

d and twenty-five thousand volunteers. But give me the deck or gun-room of a warship

an," he answered. "He is out on the Pacific now, somewhere between the Hawaiian Islands and Hong Kong. He was

hilippines. It is a pity he is not with Commodore Dew

Newell-he never wanted to be called Philip-entered the stand to help his young assistant. The stand was situated in the hear

d again to his employer. "Mr. Newell, what if

u really mea

n thinking the matter over ever s

your guardian's consent,

he answered that, as Ben had already joined the soldiers, I c

n the back, for twenty odd years on land had not taken his "sea-dog" manners from him. "Enlist, my lad, enlist by all mea

a young man named Gimpwell

badly, for he has a si

any expe

d a railroad stand

break him in without much

ant to go

and Key West, but there is no telling when they will start for Cuban waters. Besides, I've been thinking that if I could manage it, I sho

can go over to the navy-yard this afternoon and see what you can do,-

been in Buffalo, where at the death of their mother, a widow, they had been turned over to the care of the

first to San Francisco and then to Honolulu, the principal city of the Hawaiian Islands, where he shipped on a vessel bound for Hong Kong. From this ship he was cast overboard with a Yankee friend named Luke Striker, and both were picked up by the flagship Olympia of the As

the Russell brothers had secured employment in a hardware establishment, but this place was burned out, and then Ben enlisted in the 71st Regiment of New York, while his intimate friend, Gi

a farmhouse to inquire the way, had his clothing torn by a bull-dog that was more than anxious to get at what was beneath the garments. Walter hardly knew what to do, when a tramp put in an appearance, and sent a well-directed stone at the dog's head, causing the beast to slink away. The tramp introduced himself as Raymond Cass,

p and demanded to know what the youth was doing on his premises. Walter's tale was soon told, and Farmer Hardell agreed to give him a

ld lady who had waited for a week for a travelling glazier to come around and do the job. In addition to this, the lad worked for two days at a village blacksmith's establishment during the absence of the regular helper who had gone to his aunt's funeral in another place, and also found a regular position with a

duty was to truck freight on and off, and the work blistered his hands and gave him many a backache. B

one after another stared him in the face. For over a week he tramped up and down, without so much as a "smell of an opening," a

cifully. The small boy had turned into Province Street, and the big boys had followed, and here they had thrown the little fellow down, and were on the point of kicking

fellows. "Do it again, Dan Brown, and we'll give it to you worse," and t

had lost no time in following the small youth to Newell's place of business. Here Dan's story was told, and the lad put in a good word for Walter, with the result that the youth was taken for a week on trial. How well Walter pleased the old naval veteran we have a

had belonged originally to Mr. and Mrs. Russell, heirlooms which were not to be disposed of under any circumstances. On his trip to New York after Ben, the articles had been stolen from him at the Post-office-something that had so frightened Job Dowling that he had consented to Ben's enlisting in the army with scarcely a murmur, fearful the youth might otherwise have him brought to book for what had happened. A vigorous search had been made for the thi