The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-03-03
and Death in Cuba's Capital.

How Naleriano Weyler has Muir
Wore than 100000 People by star
,4fiof-
correspondence of The Journal
u.-.NA. Cuba, Feb. II, 1898. Could
..alers OF The Republican Journal
..r. geen with me to-day. it is safe to
-.,-0sJ the United States relief-f fund for
L fering in Cuba would be largely
-.,,a-uted Let me give you an account
st one days experience. | arose with
nk-or rather with the paroquet,
..l.f IS The early bird of this country
--.r8-r to see the rising sun dance upon
.i.-sqagkling waters of the bay and gild
Moro Castle and illumine the rose
,.,.s ny blue and pea green house walls.
Jus. averno (mid winteD is the most de-
,.h.f season of the year in Cuba-the
...Y.8ss and evenings the very perfection
a-a-her, the middle of the day like
,r-s- III Belfast, and the nights chilly
....... 60 require blanket on ones bed.
ra -siaurner in this fair land needs no
.... sntertainment than can be found at
a1is from balcony. The Hotel
t.. at Nbich | am staying, fronts the
...t-,i Prado, with its line of statues
bic rows of India laurel trees,
The spanish troops, in uniforms of
ge cotton, with straw hats-are
. uhIning put through their evolu-
HE music of two brass bands. In
cAere is no such thing as a glass
.. Wooden doors serve instead,
itriced part way up, those on the
por faced with iron bars. Each
t1e Pasaje has its great double
pening upon Juliet balcony" ~
4,ter paved with white marble and
. plth iron iilagree work. The rooms,
r way, are beautifully tioored with
81. vi many colored marbles, set in
aa-ls ike a patchwork quilt, and so
extremely high are the ceilings that one
l., Is if down in the bottom of well.
}g rwashed walls, sky-hlue woodwork,
-ns4n lambrequins and lace curtains,
certified bedsteads canopied with orange
.anu. are all as Spanish as anything in
SPAN vet strange to say, the most out
.-e5us contrasts of glazing colors never
--.1 1o swear at one another in these hot
macs, but somehow tone in agreeably
r.t he brilliant blue and vivid green of
So. 1d foliage.
sording to Cuban custom, the usual
-,aruno. of bread, hot milk and coffee,
We, brought to my room at ! o clock; and
an hour later | was on the way with
ran lady, to visit some Reconcentra-
'-, Probably by this time nearly every
The United States knows the mean
# the word "Reconcentrados, or
~e who were concentrated. They are
81. ountry people of Cuba, who were
eIed over the Island between the few
.- owns, and by Weyler's brutal de-
were driven from their homes and
Ig,led to hubble in the fortified cities
a,bly, they took no part in the wal;
~panialds believe that every Cuban
bel at heart, and 1.-The Butcher s.
... vas one Of determination. 1t is
. saying here: III you put Cuban
lu glass bottle, seal it up and send
spain, the instant the cork is re-
.sa it Will pop out and yell Cuba
ler said that the rebel army was re
"el rom the sons and husbands of
r..>r sou ntry families, and that the
nan at home afforded them secret aid
W lied as spies. The terrible war which
inning spain and devastating Cuba was
-aIeI an end after three long years,
NE. never would terminate while these
s.e> we're everywhere in the land. The
espegate case demanded heroic measures,
, The Marquis of Teneriffe; so the
4ush soldiers secured the country,
Sd ag the people from their homes,
aiming the houses over their heads and
~ all who resisted The eviction of
-'angeline' s. people from Nova Scotia
"as as nothing in comparison, for the
man peasants were comparatively
wealthy and were allowed to take their
n'able property with them. Fancy being
HuI y turned ont of your own homes in
a.tast, with only what you could hastily
Iiect and carry in your hands, the rest
Jeu= burned before your eyes. But that
"id not be a parallel case, because all
I lau have some means in reserve, the
a.-e towns are near together, and food is
Plentiful in the United States. Most of the
iell Cubans, poverty stricken in the best
f tines, had only their palm matched
o.ydges and small patches of ground,
where a few yams and vegetables were
iaSed. There are practically no farms in
Tuba such as we know them in ''God' S
-nntry," Rich and poor are alike sus-
ianed by the products of two great crops,
sugar and tobacco, and when those are
cut off, season after season, as since this
"al began, nothing is left. Even when a
poor man rents SO acres of land, (the usual
MEASURE of the country, he devotes but
az infinitesimal part of it to the raising of
pigs, chickens and vegetables for his own
use The majority of the peasants have