A Sad But Glorious Day

"Victory!" cried the Spanish minister. "Write out a proclamation at once authorlzing our people to celébrate!" "Why, your excellency, what has happened? Have our f orces fallen upon the Yankee pigs and compelled them to cry for quarter?" "No, but one of our battleships has just been scuttled and sunk before the cowardly swine could gain possesslon of it."