The Holt County sentinel., 1896-10-16
"WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE Rules
GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF
SAP POI 10

in 1886 IN Holt county along the bottoms
OF the big Muddy" Fever and ague,
you know. spares nobody, neither the
pure. the good, nor the beautiful, SO how
could expect immunity from 1t? What
surprised me most was the mountain
range which runs throng the island,
sometimes rising To an altitude OF G.0O0
feet. Havanna Is IA city Of between 300,-
U00 and 100000. Tine harbor Is one of
the finest. left Key West, Fla, about
l O'Clock at night, and we entered the
harbor at Ilavanaa at sunrise, just as
Moro Castle was firing the morning gua.
The sight from the deck o. 1: steamer is
very impressive. The Moro Castle. Cas-
tello de- la Pun,a and the Cuban iurti-
fication5 look very warliks. out their
strength belongs To the era of wood
en- walls, and would not be :ormiC able
to the modern iron-clad. among the
questions settled by our late war was
the one of wooden war ships. The first
gun which boomed across Hampton
Roads from the Yankee cheese box"
las the Monitor was calledl. sounded the
death kneil OF the battleship Of wood.
Nay, We might say that the first shot Of
the clumsy Merrimac reyolutioniZed the
naval architecture uf the world. The
distance from Key West To IIayanna is
about % miles straight across. visited
the "Isle OF Pines" about 12J miles off
the So Western coast. but why it Is
called the Isle nf Pions," deponent
sayeth not. for did not see any pine
timber. The island is covered with for
ests of mahogany and ebony and guarded
by Spanish troops. was also at Sagras,
Batabano, Cienfuegos. and IN fact, all
the principal towns. The Spanish au-
thontes do not have much "Philadel-
phia" for men who are known to have
been soldiers in the late war in the
United States, as whether "iank. or
or Johnnie" they are supposed to be in
touch with the Cubans in their struggle
for liberty. think they willsucceed, and
more of the Americans who are there
would become soldiers. were the Cubans
recognized as beiiisereuts, but SO So far
as | was concerned did not relish the
the idea Of being placed with my face
against stone wall and shot in the
back by Weyler and his Spanish cut
throats. No, no, Ulysses NJ. Greene does
not hanker after Immortality to that
extent.
We're my article not already too
lengthy might tell you something of
the strange manners aud customs of the
Cubans. of their churchec aud Cathe-
drals, OF the Plaza del Taurus, where
high and low gather to witness the
bull tight of the Plaza del
Gallo: the slia lei and beautiful Alame
da of Regain, the beautiful suburb, of
the plantations OF sugar, bananas, ma ,
guey, pine apples, and other tropical
fruits. but l must desist. shall carry
back to Southland as leave Holt county
very many pleasant memories of acountry
whose people are as genial as its soil and
climate are unrivaled, and when in fu- !
ture retrospect call up its wood clad
hills OF autumn, or its orchard bloom OF
of fiowery. May memory will bedeck it
with halo as softly sweet as a sun kissed !
cloud at night fall. Time may work !
many changes, but it is the fervent wish /,
of The writer, that its touch may glorfy !
rather than disentegrate.
slime is as feather footed as the now, |
So soft his tread we cannot hear him |
go,
Save when We note the clocks untir- |
ing beat,
Marking the swift iambics Of his feet" /
The schools which | visited seem to be |
dong nicely. | was much pleased with |
the teacher at Highland, Miss Burnett,
OF Oregon. She is mentally well equip I;
ped, and though she IS young, l think !
will give her patrons good school. She
is teaching where the writer taught 10 |
years ago. How well remember that |
fall which was supplemented |
by bitter winter. The atmospheric
began soon after the holt !
days. We got the tail end of blizzard
which, like the tail end OF a whale, Is
uaparally tho wnrst
The snow sfted down like the snow
whlte 5Iosso MS from Gods own orchard
trees. which by the way afford little
for the honey raiser. The
last flowers. the plucky golden rod, was
showed under. or weighted down until !
it looked like hooded monk. +;
l shall never forget that winter for
reasons too tedious 10 enumerate. Since !
then can safely say in the language of !,
the poet:
81 have sailed meath alien skies:
[ have trod the deserts path.
have seen the storm arise,
Like giant in his wrath; /
Every danger have known,
That reckless life can fill
And SO on through the whole OF it.
| hope The SENTINEL may have all
The success which its sprightly ages.and .
its gentlemanly and iny..editors merit,
and that Tom, the Deacon and myself
may stand on the 3rd of November on
the bank of the traditional Salt river,
and see the crazy craft laden with
Lungs Lunacy aud Larceny rowed up
the stream by Bryan, Altgelt "Pitchfork
Tillman," and Old Mother Lease reie-