Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-04

Tney fought them pIoody Spaniards at
their own familiar game.
And tine gents from Santiago didn't like it
quite the same,
Fer you plug yer next door neighbor with
a rifle ball or two,
And he don't feel SO robustous as when
he's a%-pluggin you.
And when them Santiago gents wus fin
ished to their cost
Then Teddy's boys they took a look and
found that they wus lost,
And as their crewel enemies wus freed
from earthly pain
| They all sat down TO wait fer friends to
J lead EN- back again.
MORAL.
That's the tale of Teddy's Terrors and the
valiant deed they done,
But all tales they should nave morals, SO
Of course this tale has one.
So paste this idea in yer cage, wotever
else you do,
Fer perhaps you'll thank me fer it yet be-
fore yer game is through.
The soldier boy that wears the blue Is
gentlelike and meek,
But l doubt he'll mind the Bible if you
soak him on the cheek,
And should you git him riled a bit you
want to have a care,
Fer If he ever starts to fight he'll finish
Gawd knows where!
The humorist also falls into ths ranks
alongside the poet and shows the Eng
lish speaking residents of the island
that a man may be funny even in un-
regenerated Santiago. His theme is the
time honored one of the EDITORS per-
sonal tribulations, which are recited as
follows:
"We must ask our many friends to
excuse the appearance of this, Cuba's
first American daily. There is some-
thing in the climate or in the atmos-
phere Of this blessed country which dis
poses every one and everything to go
easy. Even our American reporters,
who have come down here to write for
their papers and tell our people in the
north all about Cuba, say that it is al
most impossible for them to get al in
spiration here. We hired an editor and
two American printers to help us with
our undertaking, but the editor, after
sitting two days in the office, with his
feet OH the desk, smoking cigarettes,
suddenly disappeared. We then made
a personal appeal to our friends for
| copy, all of whom promised us their
aid, but they no ooner grasped their
! pens to write than they were overcome
by the magnitude Of the task before
them. Several doctors were sent for to
attend them, but the doctors, learning
thof fhoro rrou coppofhinn RI do o1co
collapsed. In a frenzy we tried to turn
out copy ourselves, and then we found
that II American printers had also
disappeared. After searching two days
for these most important factors in our
undertaking we found one of them over
come and Frustrated at the foot Of the
stairs leading up to our lodgings. An
ambulance was called, and the unfortu-
nate youth was taken away to the yell
low fever hospital, where he since has
been composing verses OF the Cuban
war. Our other printer, we are told,
fell into the hands of certain Cuban
liberators, who convinced him that life
in the country was so much preferable
to city life that he Immediately joined
them, taking to the woods, where he
has since been living on mangoes and
government rations. We have now sue
ceeded in getting some Cuban printers,
who have so far worked industriously,
but W. are in constant fear that they
may be inspired with utopian ideas and
also take to the woods"
The typographical accuracy Of the
paper is concisely exhibited in the fol-
! lowing advertisement:
: TREN DE LAVADO /:
: LOS HABANEROS.