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wings of the night winds, and sounding singular and solemn on that vast natural stage,
heretofore a stranger to the exultant notes of Freedom's sons. Night creeps on more
stealthily than a Spanish guerrilla through the dense encircling foliage, until taps gives
warning that the hour for sleep and silence has struck. Soon the entire command, with the
exception of the watchful outposts, reclining on mother earth's broad bosom and canopied
by the starry heavens, is wrapped in merciful oblivion or beguiled by dreams of distant
loved ones. And, alas! many a noble fellow slumbering so peacefully there will, ere another
sun has set, fall fighting into that sleep that knows no awakening, after recording in his own
life-blood his name upon the scroll of his country's heroes.

"Night wanes; the vapors round the mountain curled
Melt into morn, and light awakes the world."

the sharp rattle of the reveille arouses the camp to preparation for the onward march, and
the scene closes with the advance of the army toward the stronghold of San Juan.

THE ROUGH RIDERS' IMMORTAL CHARGE.

The second scene reveals the regiments already named massed in the forks of the trail
at the foot of San Juan Hill, a most exact and effective representation and reproduction of
which is introduced, showing the blockhouse, and breastworks, the rifle pits, and the natural
and apparently insurmountable difficulties our soldiers were obliged to encounter and over-
come in their final and victorious assault. From the fancied impregnability of their position
the superior Spanish force is seen pouring an incessant torrent of shrapnel and Mauser
bullets inot our exposed ranks, which choke up the narrow trail beyond the hope of extrica-
tion, and apparently beyond the possibility of escape. To add to the horrors of the situation,
the infernal Spanish guerrillas, concealed in the treetops and using smokeless powder, which
renders it impossible to locate them, make targets of our wounded and the surgeons and
wearers of the sacred Red Cross. It is an hour of supreme trial and agony, in a veritable
hell-pit and snare. The situation renders division and brigade commanders powerless and
maneuvering impossible. Retreat they cannot; to remain is destruction, and to advance,
according to all precedent and estimation, but speedier annihilation. But, casting theories,
dictums and doubts to the winds, contemptuously fearless of conspicuous exposure, with
splendid intepeditiy, assuming and divining that what must be done can be done, a horse-
man, wearing the uniform of the Rough Riders, presses to the foot of the death-swept hill,
and, calling upon the men to follow him, rides straight up and at the fortressed foe. There
is a frantic yell of admiration and approval as the soldiers--white, red and black--spring
from their cowering position of utter helplessness and follow Roosevelt and the flag. On and
ever onward they leap, struggle and crawl, at first in small groups, but finally in a long thin
line, which widens as it rushes, pants, wallows and creeps toward the flame-crowned summit.
Inch by inch, and foot by foot, it mounts, with a tenacity of purpose, the moral effect of
with carries, first, misconception; next, apprehension; and, finally, unreasoning fear into
the enemy's works. The Spaniards cannot believe that so small a force would dare an
assault so forlorn of all hope. They erroneously infer that an army is charging close behind
it, and as it breathlessly comes closely on for a hand-to-hand death grapple, they pale, they
flinch, and at last they turn and fly in panic. Their gold and crimson emblem of ruthless
oppression is torn from the ramparts, and Old Glory streams on the breeze, triumphant in its
place. Their defences are turned against themselves, and Santiago is doomed.

MULE BATTERIES.

Among the advanced warlike novelties for the first time introduced to peaceful public
attention by Col. Cody in the great Wild West arena is a mountain battery, similar to those
with which Uncle Sam has provided our armies in Cuba, Port Rico and the Philippines.
These guns, as their name indicates, are intended for use in rouhg, hilly country, which may
be impassable for the heavier field-pieces.

Wherever a mule can go one of these mountain guns can be taken, for gun, carriage
and equipment will be carried on the backs of the long-eared, humble animals thus put to