Fair play., 1876-06-08

cupations OF life in which the Spaniard.
and other foreigners around him gel
rich enough to buy him and sell him
again, and, while he may learn 10 work
some time. has evidently TO: Yet 20,
down to that point.
THE CUBAN IN THE COUNTRY.
This is the Cuban of the city and the
plantation, L class immensely III the
majority. The other class, who DO
work, are brethren to the Rio Grandc
Mexican. They are ''peasantry'' in the
European acceptatiOn Of that term.
lie is the same man who is Il 'Gaucho'
in South America, q "Greascr'' in Mex.
leo, and a "fmajiro" in Cuba.
That this effeminate man will fight |
have no doubt, for Ike all his class he
has the faculty of filling his soul, when
hard pressed, with a feeling which
makes death preferable to good many
other things, and possesses him with L
desire to distinguish himself in the man
ner of it, But before he does die or
suffer much, indeed, and while there re-
mains Il hope, he will often resort to
means of helping himself which there
are men who would not. l have known
4 Cuban, arrested only some weeks ago
on suspicion of being implicated in
some political ofiense, name all the par
ties who had fed him, given him money
and hidden him on their premises, but
who had no knowledge Of what
he Was suspected of, before he had
been in confinement .n hour. l
said he had Il smooth and extensive vo-
cabulary. 'Tis Il pity, too, for he tells
secrets like q machine. He lays his
political eggs very silently, like a hen
in Il barn, but he must needs go and
cacklc afterwards. Every one who re-
sides here knows of many :. cunningly
devised and silently concocted plot.
carefully elaborated in Ill It's details,
which would have done wonders for the
cause had it only succeeded. But some
body told his friend about it, at the risk
of all their lives.
LONG SCFFERING.
But I ought finally to add that the
Cuban is one who has all his life borne
much and borne it well. No one will
deny that all he is hopin. and strus-
Cling for, and diligently and profusely
upon, he has a right to.
Within the last eight years there have
become established in Cuban house.
holds many memories that nigh; tell
well in the romance of history, and
which hold in them the germs Of an
endless struggle against the Spaniard.
Those l will have space to relate are
hardly fair specimens of the dramatic
interest that attaches to most of them.
There was man not long since resi-
dent here, ut whom every body looked
askance rs he passed by. He was
known in whispers AS "El Citado,"
ss The Summoned" Two or three
years before, he had been the prOsecu-
tor before military court in the trial
Of 4 mulatto for furnishing food to the
rebels. lie conducted the prosecution
with great zeal, and, rs is said, rather
unscrupulOusly. So, one morning the
accused was brought into court to hear
his sentence of death. He pro-
tested his utter innocence Of the
charge, and, suddenly .urnin"
to the prosecutor, and pointing
with his finger toward the visible hcav-
Ell, said: ''And As for you, Don Saliva
tor, do cite you to appear with ne be-
fore the throne Of God to answer my
account" Ii Don Salvador turned pale.
is they say he did, it would be no won-
der, and if he was thereafter marke.:
man i. were still less. Within year or
two he died. and then people said. he
has gone to meet the mulatto.''
Many times indeed have TIE drl;.i>
oeaien 10 drown The r.cds nj those " no
ire about to die for the cause of this
sland, and many times have they, who
we're at the moment the strongest, hesi-
ated and trembled at the effects of
heir own work. Hearing as much as
have of the domestic and unwritten
history of the struggle have wondered
it is not the characteristic of eifemin-
tie men to die bravely if they needs
must die. ..w. 5.
A Boston Boy ON Fish.