=Stanza 13.= =Aserradero=, fifteen miles from Santiago. =Stanza 16.= =The Cape o’ the Cross=, Cape Cruz, at the southwestern extremity of Cuba. =Tarquino=, the mouth of the Rio Tarquino, where the ill-fated _Virginius_ expedition landed. 54. BALLAD OF PACO TOWN. By Clinton Scollard. Clinton Scollard. See note on “Montgomery at Quebec.” The incident described in this ballad occurred during the battle of Santa Ana, fought on the 5th of February, 1899, and resulting in the total rout of General Ricarti’s division of the Filipino army. The signal-man who performed the daring deed was Lieutenant Charles E. Kilbourne, Jr. Paco is a small town south, and slightly east, of Manila. In Time of Peace. 55. PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES. By Wallace Rice. Wallace Rice. See note on “Blood is Thicker than Water.” “This thrilling international episode earned the thanks and rewards of the American Congress, Captain Hughes, of the Liverpool steamer _Lord Gough_, obtaining a gold medal, and all his gallant men being remembered.”--W. R. The incident took place in December, 1889. 56. IN THE TUNNEL. By Bret Harte. Bret Harte. See note on “John Burns of Gettysburg.” 57. BALLAD OF CALNAN’S CHRISTMAS. By Helen Gray Cone. Helen Gray Cone. See note on “Greencastle Jenny.” James F. Calnan, driver for Engine Company No. 34, in New York City, gave up his life on Christmas Day, 1897. 58. HOW HE SAVED ST. MICHAEL’S. By Mary Anna Phinney Stansbury. Mary Anna Phinney Stansbury. See note on “The Surprise of Ticonderoga.” The story, as related in the poem, is in the main true. The church, however, was St. Philip’s (Charleston, South Carolina), an earlier edifice that stood upon the same site as St. Michael’s. The slave, moreover, received his freedom, not from the city authorities, but from the vestrymen of the church. The fire occurred in the year 1796. 59. THE RIDE OF COLLIN GRAVES. By John Boyle O’Reilly. John Boyle O’Reilly was born in Dowth Castle, County Meath, Ireland, June 28, 1844. Entering the British army at the age of eighteen, he was detected in a Fenian plot, and sentenced to twenty years penal servitude in Australia. He escaped in an open boat, was picked up by an American whaler, and brought to this country. Settling in Boston, his ability won for him speedy recognition, and he was made editor of the _Pilot_, a position which he held at the time of his death, which occurred on the 10th of August, 1890. His most notable contribution to poetry was his “Songs of the Southern Seas.” The disaster at Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, took place on the 16th of May, 1874. The Mill River dam, which burst, covered one hundred and twenty-four acres to the average depth of twenty-four feet. Nearly two hundred lives were lost in the villages of Williamsburg, Skinnerville, Haydenville and Leeds.