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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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design was taken from aSpanish harp when Mexico was under Spanish control. They also have theviolin, the flute, and an instrument closely resembling the clarionet. Theirmusic is wild, but full of weird harmonies, changing from grave to gay witheasy transition. The Mexicans delight in the music and encourage theYaqui musicians to play for them. And these are the warriors who are anxious to fight for Uncle Sam in hisbattle with the Dons. HOW THE BATTLE BEGINS ON A WARSHIP. Vast in bulk, huge in girth, powerful as a floating Gibraltar is a modernbattleship. A leviathan of death, with the nerves of a school-girl; a behe-moth of destruction, with the heels of a race-horse; a Frankenstein of war,controlled in every detail by a master mind. //Oiy THE BATTLE BEGINS ON A WARSHIP. 131 Lying inert upon tlie water, motionless and apparently asleep, there isnothing more deceptive than a modern battleship. The guns are swathedand deserted, no smoke spouts from the funnels, the magazines are closed,
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the decks are lifeless except for the guard, and the whole effect is that ofpeaceful clumsiness, of awkward inaction. Yet, it is the idleness of a wonderful athlete, the slumber of an iron 132 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMNAITY. giant, endowed with almost every power-possessed by a human being, eventhat of sight. In the curving steel ram at the bow it has a nose that is not much in thematter of smelling, but is terribly effective in other ways. Its breast issheathed in steel. The huge funnels are the nostrils, through which themonster breathes. Its mouth and t^eth are the mighty guns which peepfrom the barbettes and ports. Below decks are the great furnaces, which act as a digestive apparatus,or stomach, which devours food in the shape of coal, by means of which thegiant is kept alive. Here also are the boilers, or lungs, which work the valvesof the cylinders, or ventricles. By these ventricles the screws and rudder,which may be termed the heels and feet, are worked. In the vitals, or bowelsof

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