Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-03-25

to great many strange fires for which
the insurgents will be credited.
From the plantation we turned home
ward, but the wind was light and we were
too "tired" to row. Long before reaching
the mouth of the river it was dark and we
| began to consider whether it was better
to hide he boat amongst the overhanging
trees and spend the night in her or to
take the chances OF being captured by the
scout boats of the guardship while
crossing the bay. 1t fell entirely calm
and we adj pied the former pIan-passng
the night comfortably, and in the morn
ing found only one large snake in the
boat, and that away in the OF her end
! am not looking for chances to make
any more trips into the enemy's country
until the political weather is more
settled, all around. One OF my ambitions
in making that excursion was to capture
bloody machete-one that should be
warranted to have cut off many heads, and
to have carved up many women and chill
dren-the same kind that we read of but
don't believe much in. We never SAW
perhaps it was just as %ell-it might
have been in bad hands, and, il so, ten
chances to one we should have again
forgotten that we had guns in our pock-
cts. l have some little new doubt il men
who have been on the water from infancy
could ever become expert and reliable
scouts in the wild and woody lands of
| Cuba.
Every one should hold fast to his own
legitimate trade. The few American
masters who are here get together and
quarrel as to how our government should
be run and what Spain ought to do.
After one Of our conventions breaks up,
humiiating doubt creeps into my mind
as to whether the best one OF our number
could catch right hold and alone run the
two governments any more correctly than
they are being run.
CUBA's FIRST CARGO OF SUGAR.
have said that there is "no sugar in
sight" but we happen to know where our
homeward cargo is hidden and will be re-
ceiving it tomorrow. We shall have the
distinction, l think, OF loading the first
cargo OF this seasons crop on the whole
south side, il not from the whole islam d.
Glad that we do not go home empty
handed to meet the 81 told you sos"
1t seems to me that the last thing a
great many people learn is to be dishon
est enough to be tactful and ingenious
enough to be genial. When one makes
an invest ment, they tell him he paid too
much or he had better have burned his
/ money; when he has irretrievably ar
ranged to 90 east, they say he ought to be
going west. | hate to meet such con-
foundedIy honest people. After | en-
gagged to come here many adverse opinions
and much adj ice We're freely offered. 1t
was taking my life in my hando, | would
close the outward freight and get
nothing homeWard".
What human hands can one better trust
his life in than those he has longest
| known? | could not see much risk. The
man that we were chartered for | had
long known, and knew him to be one of
! Cuba's mulli-miIionaires; he could
hardly have become too poor to be good
for our freights. | hope there will always
be some places left where all others don't
want to go. During the last two years
We have been in seven ports where there
was no other American flag. There are
now several OF her American vessels in t his
port, however, but only one other does
seem to have any prospect of soon finding
| homewHrd cargo.
This war has been blight upon t. his
class of vessels. When reciprocity was
working we had Il large and increasing
trade here, the amount and prospects of
which We did not appreciate. When that
harder here and was doubtless somew hat
responsible for the discomfort which led
up to the war.
1t is greatly to he regretted that Cuba
had not long ago belonged to the United
States. 1t would be Well if we could hon
orahIy acquire it now, though we would
1t is 5; range hat he most contented and
! Wel-hehaved people in the world are
! thUse whom fate turned out into he wild
est, hardest and most sterile pastures.
| THIS island, by nature, is one of the
gardens of the earth, as rich in its ability
of production as Java and in size a little
greater RICHARDSON
Cienfuegos, Cuba.
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