The Republican journal., 1898-07-14

| 1t is the great blood-naker and flesh
/ builder. 1t cures QS per cent. of all cases
| Of lingering coughs bronchial and throat
| affections, weak lungs, bleeding from lungs
| and kindred affections Do not wait until
| the lungs too far wasted to admit of
being cured.
AS You know, five years ago the doctors had
given HE mp to die with consumption. writes
Mr. + O. Mckinney. OF Deepwater. Fayctte Co.
W Va. 81 took treatment from Or. X
Pierce and am entirely well now had taken
steadily az directed. his Golden Medical Dis
covery'
DE- Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation One little Pellet - is dose
and the nearer sandy slopes, covered with
chapparel-up which our soldiers storm
ed, under broilng sun, few weeks
later the same which our brave bows
climbed that fateful morning, many of
them to their death, singing the Star
Spangled Banner in the face of fearful
odds. To all Americans, these blood
baptized slopes will henceforth be sacred
soil Then the shoreward vision is bound
ed by intermnable.gray cliffs, surrounded
by screaming sea- birds and beaten by the
restless Caribbean; backed by hills that
might be the Blue Ridges of Pennsyl-
yana, if they were only little higher
and There we've more of Them Their
gentle slopes are bathed in the same blue
haze, and their flat tops, with white
clouds floating over, look like Titan
down until lost IN the sandy mainland: an
indication that the eastern tip of the island
is nearly reached and Cape Maisi may soon
be sighted Rounding the island in this
direction you are almost certain to en-
counter boistelous pillows that cause the
most hardened sea-g oers to cast their
bread upon the waters, hanging in limp
bunules over the rail: and when a crowd
Of passengers, decidedly mixed rs to color
and ''previous condition, are all doing
the same thing with more or less vehem-
ence, mules braying and cattle believing
in sympathy the historic interest of
the region for a moment fails to charm
Just beyond is the islandof Hayti, separ-
ated from Cuba by the swift and narrow
channel, marked on the map as the ''Wind-
ward Passage 1t was at Point Maisi,
you remember, that the word West Indies
was first applied. When Columbus sight
ed it, he believed it to be the extreme east
ern end Of Asa-the border land Of the
Grand Khan, whom Marco Polo had so
graphically described. Hence he named
L., l. l
and Omega" and going ashore dispatch
Ell an embassy to the imaginary potentate,
with gifts and concilatory messages. As
we know, there was no Grand Khan at all.
nor any city OF mighty proportions, such
as that colossal liar, Polo, had described
But Columbus found some Indians at Maisi
differing from any he had seen before.
They mad palm leaf huts, built in pyra-
midal shape, and when first seen were
smoking tobacco-a plant with which the
Spaniards We're unfamiliar. Says the his
torian Las Casas, in his narrative called
Gel Primora Niaje de Colon" THE First
Voyage of Columbus,) He beheld sew
eral of the natives going about with fire
brands in their hands and certain dried
herbs which they rolled up in leaf, and
lighting one end, put the other in their
mouths, and continued exhaling and puff
ing out the smoke. A roll of this kind
they called 'tabac, name since trans
ferred to the plant of which the rolls were
made Another historian SAYS that the
aboriginal method was to inhale smoke
through two cane stalks, forked and hol-
low, inserting the forked ends into the
nostrils and applying the other end of the
cane TO the burning leaves, and he adds:
ut is very evil and perncious habit
producing insensibiity." Near Maisi are
some very extensive and curious caverns,
which must have been much frequented
by these old time smokers, for petrified
crania and many strange relics are found
in their recesses.
Soon after rounding the cape you come
to Baracoa, tiny town on a little harbor
whose entrance is extremely narrow and
difficult of access. When once inside the
land-locked bay, whose tranquil waters
mirror the bluest skies and greenest hills
and tallest palms imaginable, you no
longer wonder at the glowing report which
Columbus gave of it to his Sovereign.
Having named it Puerto Sante he wrote
this quaint description, which is as true
today as then: 1.-The amenity of the
rivers, through which the sand at the bot
tom may be seen; the multitudes of palm
trees of various forms, the highest and
most beautiful l have met with, and an
intiaity of other great and green trees;
of the fields, render this country. Most