The times., 1898-03-04
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.


ECHOES FROM ABROAD.
While it is Indignantly denied in Madrid
that there has been any movement on
the part of the Spanish government with
q view to obtaining the extension of the
time limit which President Mckinley was
alleged to have given to the Sagasta
cabinet for the termination of Spanish
military operations in Cuba, and which
expired March T. the dispatches from
America. insisting that Spain has hum
bed herself so far as to petition the
United States Government to abstain
from interference in Cuba for two months
longer are driving the people in Spain al
most wild with anger.
Naturally, the story has served to rem
der the denunciatons of everything
American more violent even than before,
and everybody is asking how mucii
longer Sagasta is going to permit the
kingdom nation to he insulted by the
Yankees" The idea that the American
people should believe for one moment
that the Spanish people would tamely
submit to President McKinley's naming a
date by which the suppression of the in
surrection in the Antilles must be COM
peted touches the national pride to the
very quick and is spurned with derision
since any acceptance of such a message
from President Mckinley would have
been equivalent 10 an admission that the
United States had right to interfere in
Cuba. And as for the notion of Spain
in the position of a suppliant at Wash
ington entreating for n little more time,
it is declared in Madrid to be a piece of
downright American insanity.
Spaniards are more determined than
ever not to tolerate any American inter-
ference in Cuba, and they see in the
American war preparations not so much
an outcome of the Maine disaster as an
intention to interfere in Cuba in such a
manner as to force on war with Spain.
OF course the ministerial newspapers try
to put the best face on the matter posi-
bic. But while the editorial comments
speak of the friendly relations between
the two countries, and insist that they
have never been more cordial the news
columns of the very same sheets record
all the preparat tions which the govern
ment is making with view to war with
the great American Republic. Almost
everything offensive to Spain and calcu-
lated to infiame Spanish passion, that is
published in the American papers is be-
ing repeated in Madrid, not merely by the
opposition papers, but even by the semi
official organs of the war element of the
cabinet, while the Carlist newspapers are
loudly demanding how much more indig
nifty the present dynasty will permit
America to place upon Spain before re-
senting ii with war.
The only thing that saves Sagasta from
being subjected at once to military pro-
nunciamento or to popular revolution
is the belief that he is in some manner
engaged in triclling the Americans. being
famed as the greatest political trickster
in Europe. No one attaches any credence
to his words, in which respect he differs
from his great adversary, the late Senior
Canovas. and his only redeeming point
is his devotion to the queen regent and
to the little king, to safeguard whose in
terest is his principal consideration, and
for the sake of whom he would sacrifice
not only his life, but even his country.
Great interest is expressed in Madrid
/ in the reports that are likely to be made
by the Spanish divers who, according to
Havana dispatches, are now engaged in
examining the Maine wreck. and it is
taken for granted that their discoveries
]
due to some mishap that occurred on
board and due to what all the papers in
1 the Spanish capital allege to be careless
( ness and laxity of discipline, any demand
! on the part of the American Government
/ for an indemnity for the loss of the ship
/ and for the lives sacrificed is certain to
/ be not only resisted, but resented. 1t is
/ taken for granted that the report of the
I American Court of Inquiry will be to the
affo hot -CsnI I,x,
! torpedo or by submarine mine, but
| that no attempt will be made by the
! United States Government itself 10 con-
meet the Spanish government Herewith
/ whatever the American newspapers may
/ have to say upon the subject.
The Times learns by cable that the
! court in London has refused to discharge
the decree in bankruptcy issued against
! young Henry NJ. Cornell last November
/ Young Cornell IS a New Yorker, who
sowed the wind and who is now reaping
the whirlwind. His story is that of a
man, an inheritance and a woman There
is also a wife in the story, but she Sc
| cured separation
Cornell started well, held the pace for
a time, then broke and finished badly
! And it cost him 500, 900 a year To do it,
man.
Before ]. b. Cornell died he had great
hopes of his son, Henry. There was an
| enormous iron business to be carried on :;
/ there was prominent name to uphold
Mr. Cornell looked to his son Henry TO
do this so he died peacefully in 1887 leav-
ing the son a fortune to lit him for the
duties the name and the business i'm
posed upon him
/ But young Cornell had other thoughts
than those of workaday life at the iron
mandatory. especially when the reading
of his fathers will disclosed that he had
been beaueathed an income of so 600 a
| year and a cash sum of $l25, COO
| He had been married in England some
time before, and until the fortune came
| Cornell had lived in quiet contentment.
The money. however, changed all this
With his wife, young Cornell came back
to this country, and then began the
| spending of the fortune Mrs. Martin
came upon the scene.
And after awhile Mrs. Cornell heard of
her. She never saw her, but her friends
| told her of the woman in East Fifteenth
| Street. New York.
A little while, a few more bits of news
from these friends. and Mrs Cornell went
back to England. She was a Roman
Catholic. so she could secure only IA sep
aration.
Her departure removed the last re-
straint upon Cornell and he plunged in.
Mrs. Martin ran up high bills. she
| presented notes of $4,000 to the iron firm
/ and they We're paid. because Henry Cor
nell had sanctioned them. Modistes and
miiliners sued for their bills. and al
though Cornell was spending $4,000 year
more than his income. they had to be
paid. This was how he went to bank