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The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05

leaders, eluded the vigilance Of the
Spanish troops on land after they had
escaped the warships and gunboats
which patrol the water front: and here
they rallied the greater part Of the
men who have given them SUFFICIENT
strength to occupy a number of i'm
portant points on the interior plain as
far west as Puerto Principe.
Here is the city of Santiago de Cuba,
where most Of Gen. Martinez Campos'
10000 troops from Spain have landed,
few of them remaining at the port
while the greater part have been sent
inland to occupy important towns.
Here is the inland town of Holguin.
where the insurgents the other day
forced the railroad company that is
trying to connect that town with Gil
bara, on the north coast, to contribute
500, 900 to the patriot cause under per-
atty If the destruction of it's property
If it refused. Gibara is another port
where the Spanish troops are enter
ing Cuba. Here is Bayamo, around
which clusters so much Of the history
Of the last war, which is already begin
ming to play an important part in the
present struggle. The Spanish troops
have now been pushed in from Gibara
to Holguin in the north, and from San
tiago and Manzanillo to Bayamo, with
the idea of forming line across the
Island. This is all very we'll, but, un-
fortunately for Spain, the insurgents
are already we'll established on both
sides of the line.
Along both north and south coasts
of the eastern and central parts of the
island are numerous little rocks and is
lets on some Of which the insurgents
had collected the guns and powder
which, it now appears, they had been
accommodating for many months in
preparation for the coming war. 1t
would take more ships than there are
in SPANS navy to guard every little
cove on this long coast line against the
admission of material and men in aid
of Cuba's cause. Most of this material
was accumulated on islands along the
south coast from Santa Cruz to San
tiago.
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05

The rainy season has just begun, and
it will last till October. These months
are indeed evil days for the Spanish
youths who have been taken from their
homes to perish, many of them, in the
torrid unhealthfulness Of the Cuban
coast regions. No Cuban insurrecti0n
has ever yet been very bloody, but all
have nevertheless cost enormously in
human life. Scores of the Spaniards,
fresh from the highest plateaus Of Eu-
rope, will die of disease where one will
be killed in battle. No wonder Spain
takes the gravest view of the present
situation. In the ten years. war she
sent 100000 men to the island, and 10O,-
900 of them never saw their ma
tive land again. Prime Minister Ca
novas says Spain will never give up
Cuba as long as she has a man or a
dollar. But is Spain to-day, with an
empty treasury and disconnected peo-
pie, in a position to wage long war
fare in Cuba with people who, even
If they are poor, have advantages which
will enable them to make the struggle
period Of long agony for their enc
mics?
It may be that, for years to come, the
renewed struggle for Cuban independ-
ence, which began in February last,
will go on. If Spain can stand the fear
full drain upon her treasury, If her peo-
pie will endure the appalling death
rate among their soldiers-victims, not
Of bullets, but of the deadly coast eli
mate-who knows but the war may be
waged for decade, like the great re-
volt Of 1858? The Cubans can keep
up the struggle for many years among
their eastern mountains, unless, hap
PLY, they tire Spain out before the
campaign is very old. In the present re-
volt, as in the six considerable upris-
ings that have, again and again.
plunged Cuba into turmoil since 1929.
the Cubans and the Spaniards are ar
rayed against one another. Many peo-
pie have very hazy notions as to the
distinction between the Cubans and
the Spaniards in Cuba. The terms are
by no means interchangeable. When
a Cuban speaks of Spaniard on his
island he means man of Spanish blood
who was born in Spain. II his sons are
born in Cuba they are Cubans. In the
course of one or two generations they
become thoroughly Cubans In senti-
ment, and hate the Spaniards as bitter
IL as though their ancestors had lived
on the island a couple of centuries. We
can hardly realize the cordial hatred
with which these two peoples regard
one another. Associated in business,
speaking the same language. attending
the same churches, meeting hundred
times a day, they never commingle as
once people. They scarcely ever form
mutual friendships, and. in society. II
not IN business, each goes his own way.
n n q disgrace for Q Cuban girl to
marry . spaniard. Her mother WIN not
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05
Looking Forward.

The Japanese government is liberal
and progressive, and what private cor
porations will not undertake it does.
While it owns the telegraph lines and
many Of the railroads, all Of which are
profitable, private corporations own
half of the railroads. the telephones,
electric light plants and street rail-
roads Railroads and street car lines
pay very handsomely. They are ope-
rated cheaply, and the average Japa-
nese Is SO daft upon the subject OF rid
ing that he will spend his last cent to
travel to a distant town and walk
back. The beds OF the railroads are
sodded and beautified. One railroad has
200. 900 cherry trees planted along the
sides. There are something like 10000
public schools in Japan. The buildings
are comfortable and education is CONF
nUlSOry.
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05
Profit in Soda Fountains.
(From the Washington POst.)


"a New Orleans man named May told
me that his yearly profits from his soda
fountain were $4,000. One Sanders, a
Detroiter, who owns an $4,000 fountain.
the finest displayed at the Worlds Fair,
does rushing business, and his sales
run from $500 to 500 per day the year
round. In Buffalo Stoddard Brothers
employ thirty girls to handle ice cream
soda, and it takes 5000 glasses to ac-
commodate their trade. They sell it at
cents glass, and there is net profit
of just 100 per cent. In Boston, Thomp-
sons Spa, the greatest soda resort at
the Hub, easily clears for its owner $780,
900 a year. There are in the United
States 100000 fountains in operation,
and manufacturers are getting more or
ders now than they ever got before"
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05
THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE
Was Built by Oliver Evans, Who
C0uldn,t Law I'm Money.

Was Built by Oliver Evans, Who
Could've Lay Up Money.
The real inventor Of the locomotive
never realized a cent from his inven-
ton, says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. His name was Oliver Evans. He
was born in Delaware in 1855 and spent
all his life perfecting inventions which
were destined to bring him nothing but
more poverty. He was the original In
ventor Of the high-pressure engine
used in locomotives, the only kind that
could be employed to advantage In this
form Of transportation, but realized
nothing for his idea. His application
of the notion to both land and water
power was somewhat novel. In 1904
the municipality of Philadelphia called
for bids for the dredging Of the river
and the cleaning of the docks. Evans
put in a bid lower than any OF his
competitors, and, when it was accepted,
determined to build steamboat to do
the work. He fitted out scow with
steam engine, building both the engine
anu LILO SCOW LII uIS OWA WI AASAAoP'
When the boat was ready to be
launched Evans determined to give
the people Of Philadelphia an object
lesson in mechanics, so he put the boat
on wheels, fitted up a push wheel be-
hind, set his engine to work, and pro-
PEELED the boat through the streets to
the river in the midst of an open
mouthed throng, not a few of whom
had dim idea that he ought to be ar
rested for witchcraft. When the bota
reached the bank of the river the
wheels and axles were taken OIL, the
craft was launched, fitted out with
other wheels, and made to do the work
of dredging the harbor. So far as the
invention of mechanical devices went
Evans had splendid genius, but when
dollars and cents came up for consider
alton he was a mere child and even al
lowed himself to be cheated out Of the
money that was due him for cleaning
the Philadelphia harbor with his new
tangled steamboat.
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invite Spanish youth to her house un-
less she Is certain he il to become a
Cuban in sentiment.
The world does not present q
stranger anomaly than the relations ex-
listing between these two kindred peo-
pies. The explanation is not far to
seek. 1t is found in the abnormal po-
litical relations of the two classes. The
Spaniard goes to Cuba to make what he
can out Of the island and then, as a
rule. he goes home. Cuba has been
SPANS oyster for centuries. Most Of
the thousands of Spanish incomers are
government officials, employees and SOL
diers, whose business it is to make all
possible pickings for Spain, and, incl
dentally, to line their own pockets we'll.
The Cuban stands no chance except in
the industrial and commercial lines. II
he is shrewd or lucky, he may grow
rich in commerce or planting, but he
can take no part in public affairs, he
cannot worship as he pleases, he has
few rights worth mentioning and he
Is taxed to death. If he owns real eS-
tate, he pays thirty per cent Of its in
come into the captain generals treas
ure box. If he kills an OK he must pay
a dollar. 1t costs him SIS year to own
carriage or even an OK cart. He can
not engage in any sort of business
without buying official permission. He
cannot sell horse or build wharf
without paying for a government per-
NIT. The Spanish agents, from cap
tain generals down, have almost abso-
lue authority. Some Of them have been
honest men who have tried to deal just
ly. The names of many of them have
been loaded with infamy. They have
bought their Offices with the distinct
understanding that they were to use Of
fetal place as means of acquiring
wealth. No wonder a deadly hatred
exists between the native Cubans and
the mass of Spanish incomers, all Of
whom are regarded as being. directly
or indirectly, the agents Of Spain for
their impoverishment and abasement.
In January last, while the present
storm was brewing, the Spanish cortes
passed a measure purporting to give
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terror plain. Further, the east end is
nearer one or another of the islands
whence Cuban sympathizers will i'm
prove every opportunity to send men or
material to their friends. It was note
worthy, also, in the ten years war OF
1S6S-7S, that the town Cubans did not
take nearly so active part in the field
as their rural brethren; and while the
town Cubans are in numerical ascen-
dancy in the west, the Cuban planters
are the prevailing white native ele-
ment in the central and eastern parts
of the island.
A reason, however, more potent than
any of these for making East Cuba the
chief scene of the war is the fact that
here alone are found the mountains in
which the Cuban whites and mixed
bloods, with their black help, may
practically defy subjugation. If they
are not strong enough to meet Marti-
nez Campos' soldiers in the open coun-
try enclosed by the coast ranges, they
can bide their time, watch every move
ment of the enemy from the hills,
swoop down upon him unawares when
there is an opportunity to do him dam
age, capture his supply wagons, and
harry him like an insect pest till life
is burden. This is what they did in
1S6S-7S, what they will do now, and in
no other part of the island can they
carry out similar tactics.
WILD onH ra,,0h much IF C11ho IA
it is not the mountainous country that
many suppose. Its most important hill
features, as this map shows, are
grouped in its eastern part. The map
indicates the low ranges Of hills run
ming through the center of the island
and forming the water parting be-
tween the north and south flowing riv-
ers; but these hills are not predomi-
mating feature until they approach the
extreme western end of Cuba beyond
Havana, where they rise to the dignity
of mountains.
The map shows the position Of every
settlement of any Importance on the
island. It therefore indicates all the
places that are figuring as centers OF
operations. Some of the fights. how
ever, are occurring in the neighbor-
hood of hamlets of two or three houses,
whose names are not given on any of
the existing maps. But every day the
dispatches include the names OF we'll
known towns. Among them is Guam
tanamo, on the southeast coast, near
which, few weeks ago, Antonio Maceo
landed with a handful Of followers who
grew in a few days to 1000, and 5000
men are said to have since rallied to
his standard. Near this town some Of
the hardest fighting has occurred. 1t
was among these wooded noun
tains of the southeast coast, the
highest mountains Of Cuba, that
both the Maceos. Maxine Go
mez, the commander-in-chief. ana
Dee Mava, the best-known tnsweens
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05
ABOUT NOTED MEN.

Mark Twain, like Edison, the electri-
clan, has no belief in doctors.
and a day at Florence, while on his way
to Rome. In the latter city the car
dinal will be the guest Of the fathers of
St. Sulpice.
Sir Henry James, the famous English
advocate. is the worst dressed man in
his profession. He is a great favoSite
with the Prince Of Wales.
Prof Max Muller has IA his pos
session handsome gold cigar case pre-
sented to him by the sultan, and bear
ing the signature Of the imperial donor.
Cardinal Gibbons Of Baltimore, Nd,
after visiting the archbishop Of Paris.
Cardinal Richard, has started for
Rome. He will stop a day at Dion
The present car Of Russia, like his
father, is a great novel reader, A par
eel Of the newest English, French and
German works arrives regularly at the
imperial residence.
Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, who Is 30
years Of age. will soon publish two
thick octave volumes on Victor Cousins
philosophy. The celebrated translator
Of Aristotle Is out Of doors every morn.
ing at S.
One Of Robert Louis Stevensons great
heroes was the Duke of wellington. He
used to say that the best thing ever said
of Wellington was this: He did his
duty as naturally as a horse eats
oats"
William Taylor Adams. "Oliver On
tic" the veteran story writer for boys.
although q years old. Is still fond of
travel. He says that in writing his
tales he aims at simplicity Of style, but
makes it point never to write down
to boys.
In referring to the American men Of
letters who have written with felicit.
GUS choice on historic subjects, the Bos-
ton Post places Samuel II. Church. for
his Life Of Oliver Cromwell" In the
same rank with Irving. Prescott and
Motley.
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05
In tho Lobby.

First Amateur say-eh-whom do
Won consider the greatest violinist you
have ever heard?
Second Amateur-Ysaye
First Amateur-Do you mean Isay5
Second Amateur-Yes.
Third Amateur-Is he?
Second Amateur-Ah. to be sure. l
stand corrected-1zzy!
Manager Gnterrupting)tTo avoid
confusion have had these cards print
Cd. Reads) Usage II pronounced
NAzi-e"
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05

Irrigating small tracts of land by
raising water with windmill or other
power is entirely practicable, and is
being adopted quite extensively. A
thousand barrels of water will cover an
acre to the depth of an inch. The r.
rigation Farmer of Kansas reports a
case Of an S-foot windmill with a COM
mon Pinch pipe and q brass-lined
pump, cylinder aka inches, 12-1nch
stroke, irrigating nine acres Of garden,
from which a whole family was sup
ported. and left profit beside. Tho
water was pumped from a 51-f00t well
into reservoir built in a knoll enough
above the ground to be irrigated to
Hood 1t. The reservoir in this case was
loo feet square, and built Of earth. It
cost nothing but labor. An S-inch pump
and 12-foot wheel will lift from a well
20 to SO deep IS to 80 gallons a minute,
with an ordinary wind. This would be
water enough pumped in about eight
hours to irrigate an acre with an inch
OF water. And since, with good culti-
walton, that depth of water would keep
crops growing nicely for many days it
Will be seen that such an outfit would
prove one Of the most profitable invest
ments on the farm. If those who are
interested will write to advertisers of
windmills and pumping machinery in
this paper they will get estimates Of
capacity and cost that will be surpris-
ing. This subject becomes a very i'm
portant one when considered in the
light OF the fact that 10 to Is acres of
well-watered land may produce more
IN season than Quarter-sectiOn
farm.
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05

Near the castle Of Langholm, In Dunn
friesshire. Scotland. Il q place pointed
out where several reputed witches were
burnt during the last century.
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05

No picture II hung on the walls Of the
Louvre In Paris until the artist shan
have been dead ten yeaxA
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05
A CHEERFUL GIVER.
NOVELIST HOWELLS DESCRIBES
REGULATIONS.
A Solitary Half-Dollar In His Pocket
Changed tho Whole Current of His
Feeltngs-Ths Manned Beggar-"Give
to Him That Asketh."

r. W. D. HOW
ellis has written for
the Century two
papers entitled
"TribulatiOns of a
Cheerful Giver,"
giving his expert
ences with the beg
ging fraternity.
The following is
taken from the
first paper, pub
lished in the cur
The Globe-republican., 1895-07-05

Il was the custom. years ago. feg
japanese ladies to gild their teeth.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
Lord salisbury's Deputy.

Lord Salisbury may discover in time that
he has erred in relegating the control of
the Venezuela-America trouble to young
Mr.. Chamberlain while attending himself
to the heavier departments of British diplo-
macy. The Russian question may be trou-
blesome but 1t does not involve such rossi-
bilities as does contempt for the Monroe
doctrine and its present fitness. such as Mr..
Chamberlain is understood to entertain.
With all his cleverness, the secretary Of
state for colonial affairs is scarcely the
right man tc manage such a serious con-
troversy as that in which the American
position is heartily backed by nearly eighty
millions Of people. who have no particular
love for Great Britain, and who have been
so Wearied in the past by luke-warm patri-
ctism on the part of the men in power that
they welcome the present manly stand of
the administration with high favor.
Evening star., 1895-11-01
The H Street Denth Trap.

1t was to be expected in all confidence that
the grand jury, once it should ever official
ly inspect the death-trap on II street called
by courtesy q printing office, would place
upon it the seal of condemnation to swell
the list of opinions against it's further use.
1t is pity that the jury could not have
gene further to take some step toward
compelling immediate abandonment of the
dangerous sections of the building. OF
course 1t is gain to secure this strong en-
dorsement of the public outcry against this
menace to life and limb, yet the grand jury
leaves the case exactly where it was before
by recommending congressional investiga-
ton. 1t may be that this will actually re-
suit in a start being made in this direction.
but all the Investigations in the world will
not demonstrate any new facts. The plain,
simple and economical solution of the whole
matter is to build a new printing shop at
oEce, and to save the time and money ex-
pended on an injury which would merely re-
demonstrate the fact that the old building
has for many years been unfit for use. and
that Its occupancy by the present tenants
involves a terrible risk to hundreds of lives,
not to mention great values in property. If
the grand jury, without exceeding It's
proper functions, could have Instituted legal
proceedings that would terminate at once
the present use. of the building, much would
have been gained and the chances of
prompt action by Congress would be in
creased. But it does not appear that such
powers rest with this body and it's members
have probably done all they could do under
the circumstances while feeling. doubtless,
the fitness of further and more determina-
tive action. This presentation by the jury
should be laid before all the members OF
Congress in such a manner that they can
not avoid realizing that the responsibility
for any disaster that may occur rests
firally and heavily upon them.
Evening star., 1895-11-01

Yesterday the grand jury of the county
court of Alexandria found indictments
against certain violatorS of the plain law
against the maintenance of gambling re-
scrts that has been on the statute books
many more months than the present dis
graceful state of affairs across the river
has existed. The reason why these indict-
ments have been found so tardily is not
officially apparent. 1t has been said, when
ever the officers of the county have been
pressed for explanations, that it, was i'm
possible to secure absolute and reliable
evidence of the violation of any law. In
tits excuse the people of Washington have
never had any confidence. The case was
too plain and the disgraceful disregard for
the law was too open and apparent to JUS
tify even the least attention to the efforts
of the officials to clear themselves of
blame. But why should the trial of these
offenders be postponed for several weeks =!
Their crime against morality was heavy
and menacing. and yet they are granted
time to prepare for their defense. to sur
round themselves with shrewd attorneys,
to cook up false testimony and to invoke
every means to trick the courts and to
evade their just punishment. The people
of that vicinity showed the other day that
they could force the wheels of justice to
move with a swiftness that was startling
ard praiseworthy. Now let them show just
as much consideration fer the rights of
their neishbors as they did for themselves
by compelling the courts to grant these
owners OF gambling hells as little grace as
pOssib1e '-'d ''' w
Evening star., 1895-11-01

dency In this country, at least. is toward
reduction of the opportunities to secure
such favors from the courts. In many
states there is but one cause for absolute
divorce. while in others, notably the Dis
trict, there is a far wider range of reasons
recognized by the law. Here there are
seven. Hence If. under the operation CT
this rule of practice, the papers are kept
under lock in a divorce case, the grounds
for the application being unknown. the
public mind is left free to supply the omis-
SION from it's fertile Imagination, and ex-
perience proves that there is all too ready
tendency to suggest the worst offense
and to ignore the chances of minor causes
such as the local law recognizes. In New
York where the statute grants a divorce
for but one cause. the rule of secrecy. there
strictly enforced, operates merely to keep
from the public view the intimate particu-
lars Of the unfortunate proceeding, while
admitting the grounds without exposing
the parties to the case to unnecessary pub
lie scrutiny.
The courts or the public need have no
fear that the newspapers will ever give
grave offense to the sensibilities of the
community in taking advantage of an alb
rogation of this practice by publishing IN
necessarily personal details of such suits.
Self-respecting journals will exclude from
their columns all such matter as in the best
interests of public decency should not be
printed, while others seldom step widely
beyond the bounds of cleanliness, knowing
it to be a disastrous enterprise. The news
papers can be safely entrusted with such
of the facts In each case of that kind that
the court itself must know in order to pass
upon the application intellgently. Indeed
| it has been found that publication often
serves the court, by bringing the issue 70
| the attention of interested parties who may
have been, accidentally or purposely, de-
| prived Of informat tion regarding the suit
In the interest of justice as well as of bet
| ter marriages. let the papers be made pub
| lie and draw aside this veil of secrecy that
row serves to whet the public appetite for
gossip and to furnish cloak for under
hand proceedings that should really be
made widely known.