The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-04-25


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soon as he had left she got horse and
Ejoined her husband, riding many miles
through the Cuban hills until she found
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The women OF San Juan Martinez have
also taken a great part in the rebellion.
When the Spanish troops under Cornell
4 were on their way to the city the. people
met and took vote as to what course
they should pnrs1e; the women casting
ballots with:Sthe men. They decided to
burn their city, rather than to have the
Spanish soldiers destroy it. They took
their childrensin their arms and turned
way, as they had given their horses to
the Cuban soldiers. Before they left the
women set their homes on fire, and when
the Spaniards reached the place at mid
night, they. found the city in flames.
When the people of Martinez reached
Guane they found that the baffled SOL
diers were still on their track, and they
burned Guane, as they had their own
city, the women putting the torch to the
houses. They afterward burned Monte
zuela in a similar manner, cutting Off the
Spaniards effeetually. The path OF these
women and their babies was marked by
fire until they reached the protection OF
the insurgent army. 81. M
Hueda Hernandez, an 11-year old girl
is one of the child victims of the war
She lived at Cardenas, and innocently
| took a package given her to carry TO
some friend It happened to contain let
tiers from one of the rebels to a woman
relative in Cardenas, and the child was
arrested, charged With conspiracy
against the government.
Those stories and sights are plentiful
throughout Cuba today The women are
reused TO a state of revengeful hate
through the loss of their loved ones.
There are many women in Havana who
| have relatives with the inSurgent forces.
When the men are near the City, as they
have been so often of late, the women
steal out at night to meet them at the
risk of their lives, taking them food and
clothing. One OF these women said to
me: 4-
| "My husband was no near Havana the
other night that he told me he set his
watch by the o'clock cannon. Will
you not tell the people of America how
sadly we are situated?" she asked me.
1.-The American men are brave and noble,
and, though they may not care to inte.-
fere in this war, surely they will not al
low women and children to he butchered
under the very shadow OF, the American
flag Mr.. Cleveland too, he has lovely
wife and dear children. He must feel
for us! We believe in him. We have
faith that he will yet send US help
dc ofn ~, ho rr-
itas in this country, by the toll Of their
dimpled hands, are playing no inconsid-
cradle part in carrying on the war for
the freedom of their native land. Quiet
ly, and without the glittering ostenta-
ton of faunted patriotism, they have
gone about their work of organization,
until now there is not Cuban colony in
this country of more than dozen house
holds but there is to be found club or
society, formed of girls of Cuban parent
age, for the purpose OF raising money to
send to the wounded soldiers who fall
before the Spanish gnus On the unhappy
little island on the south of us.
There is world of interest in the story
that tells of their noble achievements,
just as there is always fascination and
charm to the part woman plays IN war.
There is yet a pleasing glamor OF ro-
nance lowering over the memories OF the
late war between the states that no his
torian's hand has ever pictured. So with
these patriotic senoritas, who, far from
their island home, are toiling to earn
money to bu.fclothing and food for the
army that is battling for the freedom of
Cuba.
Down along the Florida coast there are
vast settlements Of Cubans. In Pensa-
cola, Tampa and Key West, the popula-
ton is largely made up of settlers who
have come from the Pearl Of the Antilles
with the increasing growth of the cigar
trade on this side, to work in the hum
dreds of cigar factories that have been
planted along the gulf coast OF Florida.
So great is the percentage Of Cuhans in
the population Of Tampa, the stores pre-
sent their signs in Spanish and English
language alike. This class of Cubans is
intellectual, and they make good citizens.
They are represented in the city councils
of Tampa and Key West, and some Of
them hold higher Offices of public trust.
It is surprising to know how much
these little senoritas have done for the
cause. They have sent thousands OF dol
lars to the war-clouded island, and they
enter into their work with hearty zest,
to be sure.
Little Senorita Ffedesvinda Sanchez,
by her own effort, has sent several hum
dred dollars to the camps OF the insur-
gents. She is one Of the prime movers
in the benefit entertainments at Tampa,
and her loyal hands never swerve in the
duty she assumes. She appears at all the
entertainments clad in the regulation
uniform of the insurgents, with broad
palmetto hat, jacket, Winchester, ma
chete and canteen. Nothing could be
more picturesque than these. fairs or
bazars the senoritas give from time to
time, and nothing more admirable than
the womanly virtue, courage and charity
displayed on every side.
Danced Into Title.
The elimination of social sensation
which has agitated the court circles Of
Vienna for some time occurred in New
York the other day in the marriage of
Count Carl Won Kielmansegg, lieutenant
of the Seventh regiment Austrian dra
goons, and Nina Cont, principal dancer
of tho J,,onoriol Onoro AZ Wanna