Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-14
IN OTHER LAMBS.

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 Cuba-The Voyage Thither-A ssNorth- er''-HeW to Capture the Island Scenes tn And Around the Harbor of Havana.
 HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 9, 1888. l To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: It would be difficult to find any other iu- | teresting foreign land, when it's accessibility I is considered, so worthy the attention of I American travellers as Cuba. To the average | thought of one who has not visited it it l seems far, repellant, barbarous. It is none ! of these. The great Ward steamers take l you from the American to the Cuban me-
 tropolis in just three days. In that brief
 time one has hardly opportunity for study eff l companions, and no chance whatever for or dinary ocean misery, for you are constantly I reaching sunnier and skies; and there ! are now such hosts of gay and cheery groups making Cuba their winter home that the trip | to the West Indies has positive delights. Nor l can there anywhere be found such interest," | ing and hospitable people as those of this Antilles pearl The genuine American is | welcomed and made glad in Cuba in a way l he can know in no other land. By and by when it is properly part of our own coun- | try it will become the vast winter pleasure ground of continent.
 I TEE VOYAGE.
 l So, too, there is winsome interest in other than ones immediate surroundings in this
 brief sea-voyage to the tropics. There is 1 tranauilizing consciousness in every miles
 added distance from the growl and grip of
 our northern winter. Life's asperities are severer when the relentless elemental forces. | like & horde of desperate maraude1s, come
 out of polar lairs for onslaught. As the sun grows higher at midday, and the north star sinks closer to the horizon at midnight, there
 steal upon the sense vague pulsings of well 1 come languor, innumerable seemings of soothing presenees and consciousness of l blessed rest
 l Nor can one tire of these personal, inner
 realizations in repeated goings from northern to southern seas There are ever and again
 these new-old delights. They come to you l like sudden, sunny smiles on old friends
 faces; and as when you take these old friends | by the hand you look and feel and know be- yond the hand, the face or the presence. to | the intangible reality of half-forgotten good,
 so your heart lays hold in ample affection | upon the old, half-seen sights, half-heard
 sounds and half-known compassings of coast | and and sky in wondrous reawakened l zest.
 It is not altogether through an o'er-quiok. I ened impressibility and seeming that, as in ! t
 balmy airs, there are hourly such changes ae entice the attentive and enthrau the contem- plative mind. All the long way is the l friendly nearness of coast. Here behind the bleak shores lie the fields in wintry fallow. | and one almost hears the beating of barn yard focks or the chimes of countryside bells A bit further are the wide, wind 1 swept tracts of never-winter lands, where in | the deepest valleys the warmth of summer never quite departs. Following this are the vast areas where winter is ever brown, leaf less summer a-chil. And then come the 1 reaches where we know the gray swamps 1 darken from the 1ordly palmetto's shade. and l the still waters sleep in shallows of eternal green; while beyond, in mimic tropic-land | within our own, the red-bird ceaseless sings l and the odorous orange blooms Beneath, in | the wake of our speeding steamer, the white plume, spuming and broadening rearward, grows winter and winter by day, and more | sparkling and iridescent by night, as if in keeping with the matchless visions of frma- ments no eyes behold in northern attitudes; l for nearer and nearer come the stars, until l the mighty cancellations pulse and glow 1 with marvellous colorings and fires. In bird, | fish, wave, horizon, sky and tremulous zeph- l yrs there is constant and witching change; until, having swept past the balmy Bahamas, we plunge into the green waters of the Mexi- nd hafo ho1f Had ir, l contemplation and enjoyment of it all, the weird, mountainous coast lines of Cuba sud denly rise above the far horizons edge, like | dream in whey purple graven upon bed of misty, evanescent blue.
 THE NoRTHKR.
 As luck would have it we came upon Cuba with the most furious of "northers." A l f'norther" in Cuba is the nearly expended | deviltry of one of those blizzards which | Cooke's original 'isotherm" up there in Da- | kota or Manitoba, and after waltzing all over | the North American continent until people l have got tired of it's airs, comes down here | like an old adventurer to make these passion
 ate veined people wish they were dead. l You who know the blizzard in it's healthy | form would smile at it's weakened preten-
 sions here. Though it's real power is gone, | Cubans regard it with even more horror than | we The suffering here on the part of these | people under "norther" when you and l 1 would be quite comfortable in our shirt.
 sleeves, while laughable, is still pitiable. The l sun is shining, the flowers are blooming. the | whole physical expression of nature is one of | comfort and delight. To us it would be sim | ply bright and genial April or October wealth | CT. But the way these tropical natures col- | lapse under even that is something startling. | As there is neither stove nor fireplace any
 wheSe in Cuba, they simply pile all sorts of | cios aing upon themselves, stay indoors, pray | in the name of the saints for mas calor or
 more heat, let the country take care of itself, and, when the 'norther'' has passed on to take feeble whirl at Hayti or Porto Rico, come cut of their abodss dolorous catarrhal 1 objects that would cause sensation in "Be- fore Taking" advertisements.
 And right here is 8 suggestion for those
 flibusters who have designs on Cuba. They
 should not make 50 much fuss about it. All
 that is necessary is an old "tramp" steamer or two and thousand men. Watch the ! United States weather reports along through
 December, January and February. When .
 regular surs-enough blizzard is let loose up
 there in the glorious Northwest, make ready
 l It will surely wind up it's debauch In . l ssnorther" here. It is then that the beauty
 and chivalry of the Spanish in Cuba are
 void of substance and viriity. Observing . closely these prerequisites only, any ordina-
 rily lively American fl1ibuster could sail II
 here at Moro Castle entrance unoppossd, es- tablish responsible government and reduce , these cigarette consuming people to willing , servitude before they could become thawee out for defense.
 IN HAVANA HARBoR.
 . But getting into Havana harDor during stnorther'" was attended by us with som perplexity and trepidstion. The north shor l; of Cuba has but three harbors of value-Ha