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THE INSOL EMF SP4NIARDS.

There is one thing in which we shall find it hard to beat Spain, and that is in blackguardism. The Spaniards call us Yankee pigs and other fine names, and they are encouraged in their wild ness by high officials, like the Cover nor of Madrid, for instance. General Blanco, by the grace of Spain tempo rary boss of Cuba, is also not very level-headed man. He talks furiously in his manifesto. He accuses the gov
 ernment of this country of having 'conspired" for nearly a century to destroy Spanish sovereignty in Cuba. He shrieks that the island will never be anything but Spanish, and de- nounces the United States as the "eter- nal enemy of Spain." He winds up his appeal with this ejaculation: ITO arms! Cry a thousand times viva Es- pano!' Viva el Key Alfonso XIII.p Viva la Reina Regente.' Viva Cuba always Spanish!' And in an address to the populace he declared that i've i will throw the Americans into the sea-"
 This hysterical stuff is no sign of strength. Perhaps by and by Blanco will have the pleasure of seeing a car- toon showing Uncle Sam in the act of throwing Spaniards into the sea.
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FRoUDE ON CUBA,
Opinions of the Eminent Historian He Has Visited Cuba Himself and Gt,dfad the Situation

Opinions of the Eminent Historian
 He Has Visited Cuba Himself and
 Studied the Situation.
 If the course of the United States with regard to Cuba Is met with any hostile sentiment in England, the ad- ministration is prepared to meet Eng fish criticism by citing the highest British authority in justification of it's policy. There are some observa- tions on Cuba by the eminent Eng fish historian Froude on the subject of Cubas government and future, which within tie past few days have been read with great qualification by the American officials, confirming, as they do, the righteousness of the ad- ministration's course.
 Froude visited Cuba some years ago. In view of the present crisis in the re- lations between Spain and the United States over the island the impressions and opinions of the great English his- torian can not fail to be of great inter- est to all Americans at this time. His predictions as to the future of the is- land seem prophetic in view of the existing situation. It will be gratify- ing to many Americans to know, too, that justification for the present American attitude is found in the tes- timony of such an eminent English observer.
 In beginning quotations from the English historian on the subject of Cuba, what he had to say about the future of the island probably will pos- sess the most interest.
 He says:
 'iThe opinion in Cuba was, and is that America is the residuary legatee of all the islands, Spanish and English equally, and that she will be forced tc take charge of them in the end whether she likes it or not. Spain governs unjustly and corruptly; the Cubans will not rest until they are free from her, and, if once independ- ent, they will throw themselves or American protection"
 The English historian draws fine picture of Havana He says:
 Havana figures much in English naval history. Drake tried to take il and failed. Pen and Venables failed We stormed the forts in 1740, and held them and held the city until the seven years war was over. I had read de- scriptions of the place, but they hac given me no clear conception of what it would be like, certainly none at al of what it was like.
 Havana is a city of palaces, a city of streets and plazas, of colonades ant towers and churches and monasteries The Spaniards built as they built 1T Castle; built with the same material the white limestone which they found in the new world as in the old. The palaces of the nobles in Havana, tht residence of the governor, the con vents, the cathedral, are a reproduc. tion of Burgos or Valladolid, as if, by some Aladdin's lamp a Castilian city had been taken up and set down agair unaltered on the shore of the Carib bean sea.
 And they carried with them thei laws, their habits, their institutions and their creed; their religious orders
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 be secured to-day, no matter what it costs s,-Harlem Life.
 What! You going out on the stage! You, the daughter of a line of De Pas ters, Wander Gilts and De Veres?" Tt is all for dear little Fido's sake. I want to get his name in the newspapers. ."-- Indianapolis Journal.
 Are you not at all concerned at the fact that Spain has started a lot of ships across the Atlantic?" "No,' re- piled the easy-going citizen. "Spain's all at sea, anyhow. I don't see why its navy shouldn't go along with the rest"
 Victim of hard luck, of course?' asked the sarcastic citizen. "In every shape an form,' answered Dismal Dawson. Why, my friend I never git out of jail but what the weather turns cold or it begins to rain."-In- dianapols Journal.
 What was your first thought" she asked, as she seated herself by his cot, after you realized that you had lost your foot?'' He replied: T thought, Well, this is fine fix to be in; now I'll not be able to ride the bike any more. ''--Chicago News.
 Wife (time, midnight)- Hark! Hus- band! Wake up I hear the rustling of silk and the clank of chains. Husband You do? Horrors! Then the re- ports are true. I was told this house was haunted" Wife (much relieved- "Oh, is that all? I was afraid Fido had broken loose and was tearing my new ball dress. New York Weekly.
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tars exists, ready for use and capable of throwing shells up to 800 pounds weight a distance of from eight to ten miles. The mortar batteries, in groups of four, can drop shells with precision in an area of 200 feet square at a dis tance of at least eight miles and with such rapidity as to insure a practically continuous shower of these destructive missiles along the track which any vessel (and much more any fleeD would be obliged to traverse If by any mir acle an attacking squadron could pass through the fire not only of the mor- tars but of the guns at Sandy Hook, it would instantly pass within the range of the guns and mortars at Fort Hamilton and of those on Staten Island Along the route thus taken the defen- sive explosives would be doing their deadly work. To use the expressive phrase of an officer familiar with the facts, "A Spanish Admiral could no more get within range of New York City than he could sail through the Lake of Fire on cake of ice.'
 But it has been suggested that though the old City of New York could not be reached by the Spanish fire, a good deal of damage could be done in the Borough of Brooklyn. The souls to which the entertainment of this notion gives a thrill of either pain or pleasure may rest assured that it is wholly groundless. The nearest point to the thickly inhabited part of Brooklyn be- yond the range of the fro from Fort Hamilton is off Coney Island, and at least eight miles distant. From this point the most powerful guns of the Spanish fleet would be harmless, even if we suppose that the fleet would be allowed to approach it. The latter supposition we regard as practically untenable.
 We repeat that the people of Great CT New York are as safe from Spanish shells as are those of Chicago"
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the leg to the knee is not as conspicu- ous as it used to be. The right shoe is rather low laced, reaching just above the ankle, and the stockings should match it exactly. The low shoa with rubber sole is the most comfortable and safest, but they are hardly becoming. Skirts are now stitched to considerable weight at the hem, fall close and straight and have a lot of fiat pleats just at the back. Every effort Is made to so arrange the pleats that the skirt will fall without an ugly gaping at the back of the saddle.
 It is still unwise to try to be very different from other well dressed rid CTS. Achieve the degree of jauntiness this picture gained, and you cannot do better. It was gray and black mixed cheviot, trimmed with narrow black braid. You may be a little elaborate in headwear if you stick to the sailor shape. This one was gray and black straw, bound with a Roman stripe scarf that ended in two upright loops.
 A shirt waist after the Russian blouse is novelty, It bags in front and fastens at the side. It finishes in belt of it's own. The inner side of the belt at the back is fitted with strong hooks by which the garment is held to the skirt. The sleeves are severe, and the stock is quite as tailor-made as if the skirt did not end in belt and fasten at the side. The garment is pretty, is easier to fit than the con- ventional shirt waist, and is new. The fastening on the side is a little irregu- lar, that is the only objection
 FLORETTE.
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their bishops and their inquisition. Even now, in her day of eclipse, when her genius is clouded by the modern spirit against which she fought so long and so desperately, the sons of Spain still build as they used to build, and the modern squares and market places, the castles and fortresses which have risen in and around the ancient city of Havana are construct ed on the old massive model and on the same lines.
 Political Future Dark.
 ''The political future Is dark; the government unimaginably corrupt-so corrupt that change is inevitable, though what change it would be idle to prophecy The Americans looked at the island which lay so temptingly near them, but they were wise in their generation. They reflected that to in- troduce into an Anglo-Saxon republic so insoluble an element as one million
 Spanish Roman Catholics, alien in
 blood and creed, with five hundred
 thousand blacks to swell the dusky
 flood which runs too full among them already, would be to invite an indi-
 gestion of serious consequences. A few
 years since the Cubans were on the
 eve of achieving their independence like their brothers in Mexico and South America Perhaps they will yet succeed.
 "The magnitude of Havana and the fullness of life which was going on
 there entirely surprised me. I had thought of Cuba as decrepit state, bankrupt, or finance exhausted by civ il wars, and on the edge of social dis solution, and I find Havana now at least a grand. imposing city-a city which might compare for beauty with any in the world. The sanitary condi-
 ton is as bad as negligence can make it-so bad that Spanish gentleman told me that, were it not for the natu-
 ral purity of the air, they would have
 been all dead like flies long ago. The tide and harbor is foul with the accu-
 mutation of three hundred years. The administration is more good for noth- ing than in Spain itself.
 The Moro as fertilization is, I am | told, indefensible against modern ar | tillery, presenting too much surface as a target; but it is all the grandel 1 to look at. It is a fine specimen o1 l the vauban period, and is probably equal to any demands which will bt | made upon it. The harbor is some | thing like Port Royal, deep lagoor with a. narrow entrance and long | natural breakwater between the la goon and the ocean; but what al | Port Royal is sand spit eight miles
 long is at Havana a rocky peninsula on which the city itself is built. 1 Defenses of Havana.
 | 'The opening from the sea is half 2
 mile wide. On the city side there are l low semi circular batteries which sweep completely the approaches ant l the passage itself. The Moro rises op' posite at the extreme point of the en- I trance, and next to it, further in to.
 ward the harbor on the same side, or l the crest and slopes of a range o1
 hills, stands the old Moro, the origina castle which beat off Drake and Oli, l vers sea generals, and which was cap. tured by the English in the last centu- ry. The lines were probably weaker 1 than they are at present and less ade-
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" UMAN.
FLoRETTE.

My every thought is of her." "Then you must be entirely out of your head" Detroit Journal.
 He's such a mercenary man, I've often wondered how under the heaven you managed to enlist his sympathies." By draft. ."-Detroit Journal.
 That dog seems certainly almost hu- man at times,'' said old MT Pussy. "Yes," replied Mrs. Pussy. He growls over the food quite as much as you do" -Harper's Bazaar.
 Say, mister, would you give nickel to man what never told a lie?" ''Oh, go way, what are you giving me?'' Tt ain't fer me. mister; it's fer me deaf and-dumb brother Baltimore Jewish Comment.
 Customer-Have you any securing sand? Grover-No, we're entirely out of it. Customer-Well, give me a half pound of your sugar; my tins have to
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FASHION NOTES.
To be Aired When Roads Are Dry.

To be Aired When Roads Are Dry.
 Many girl is going without a spring street dress that she may have a new wheel rig. No one needs to be told that the furry about boomers is all over. America will not have them except for very retired country riding. Skirts are longer than last season, too, and ankle length is accounted the best. High boots are no longer the thing. are comic opera-like and uncomfortable. Leggings are disfiguring and untidy. With the ankle skirt the covering of
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CHAS. B. MATTHEWMAN.

Attorney and Counselor at Law. S14, S15. SO6 First National Bank Building. AZ Church Street. Resident Assistant Secretary anu Attorney of the NATIONAL SURETY COMPANY
 of New York.
 Executes Fidelity and Surety bonds and undertakings 0f all kinds. jaA 1y
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SAFE.

Is New York safe from Spanish at tack is a question of interest at this time. We have enjoyed piping times of peace' for over thirty years and had lapsed into a quiescent and somnolent condition in consequence, as regards "grim visaged war" Now, however, we are rudely awakened. Another war has actually begun. The nations war fleet Is ready to move to 'the front" the President will in a few hours issue his call for 00,000 volunteers, and the first gun of the conflict has been fired in the capture of a. Spanish freighter yes terday Were we at war with England cities might be laid under contribution by British warships would be upper most With Spain as our opponent the case is much different. Still the sub- ject is an important one; and by the way, great credit is due our townsman, Captain Charles H. Townshend, for his long and persistent battling for ade- uate coast defences at the entrance to Long Island Sound and for New Haven Harbor, his efforts covering period of twenty years and having been made when peace reigned and the public was indifferent on the subject. Much credit is also due our Chamber of Commerce. which backed the work of Captain Townshend and realized the strength of his claims and his earnest advocacy of the cause in question. The recent efforts of Henry c. Rowe and other townsmen on the subject are also de- serving of honor. The importance of their efforts are now fully seen and realized. New York, one of the worlds greatest cities, is well defended and authorities on the subject assert that she is impregnable against assault. This is an immense consolation. New Haven is now at last being provided with defences and this is a source for congratulation. Our citizens can sleep O night secure from visions of attack guns which are being furnished are not as some with levity have remarked, fit only for smelling oyster beds. There is said to be more truth than fiction, however, in the remark. However, ow- ing to the energy displayed by the gov- ernment of late in adding to. the de- fences of the eastern entrance of Long Island Sound, the Sound cities are now deemed absolutely safe from foreign invaders. Therefore no foreign foe need be expected to visit us and help themselves to guns at the Winchester and the Marlin armories and to the spare funds of the public.
 Now as to New York's defences. A Spanish fleet would have to get safe anchorage within six miles of New heaviest and longest range guns effec- tive. But the vessels could not get near enough to, accomplish anything. They would simply invite destruction from the mines and torpedoes that lie | in wait for them in attempting to get within effective cannon shot distance. The New York Times says on the sub- l ject:
 1 "In order to reach the upper bay, the vessels would be obliged to pass, first, the Notifications at Sandy Hook, where a heavy armament of guns and mor-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-23

An aged citizen of Amboy, Indiana, willed that he should be buried in a water-tight coffin of two-inch blanks, in which there should be sawdust and two comfortables. He directed that a spring wagon should be used instead of hearse to take his body to the cemetery, all of which was done. No other thing he had done in life had in- hicated any eccentric turn of mind.
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
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ADVERTlSING RATNS.

ADVERTISING RATES. Situations. Wants. Rents, and other smali advertisements, One Cent q Word each III. sertion. Five Gents Word for full weeR tseyen tjmesl.
 Display advertisements, per inch, one III, ro sertion, s1.20 each subsequent insertion, e,n to ceiits; one week, $3.20; one month. Slo one year. $40. .- Obituary Notices. in prose or verse; 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar riages. Deaths and Funerals. 30 cents each' Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business tall matter to be nnoblectionahle). and their contracts do nor irrlitde Wants. TO Let For Sale, etc.
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The French are thrifty. One out of every six inhabitants in France has an account at the state savings banks. The amount at the credit of the depositors in the savings banks in 1896, when the last statistics were taken, was $6S0,000,- 900. The rate of interest is SA per cent. More than half the depositors are wo- men, and the vast majority of them belong to the working classes.
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PAINT TALKS. VIII.
Why a Combination Of Zinc and Lead
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Constitutional Amendments

An Important feature Of the
coming November election is
found in the amendments to the
constitution, wh'ch arr to bo
voted for at that time. The first
OF these is one which the Times
has long advOcatnd-t Of ac-
cepting guaranty or surety com
surety on Official bonds. BY this
system the state and county
could feel perfectly sure that the
bonds given by their officials were
valid ana cOllectiblr, WHICH, UNI
fortunately, has not been the case
III many instances heretofore.
The second Is an amendment au-
thOriZng the legislature to clothC
the railroad cOmnnSSl5n with jul
dicial power in all matters to be
passed upon it. This, too, is an
eminently proper measure, for
since We have the railroad com
mission, 1t should be placed in a
position TO make its work effect
i've. The third provides that any
impeaChed official shall be dis
qualified from holding office until
he Is acquitted, and the appoint
ment by the governor Of a sue
cesSOr ad interim. Each and all
of these amendments should re-
celve the hearty support Of the
electors at the November cleo,
ton. -SumtervilIc Times.
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Deputy Sheriff. Nu%ont returned
today from Tampa, bringing the
negro, RomuluS Logan, who rob
bed +. J. Pcachcr's house last
week. The man was captured by
the Tampa authorities, who wired
Nr. Hodge that he was there sub
ject to his orders. The negro is
an old offender and will have 4
hearing before justice Crawford.
r. F.. Lindsay, conductor on
the Ocala-Dunn-li0n run, and
Miss Ellison, q very pretty young
lady Of Dunnclion, only thirteen
years Of age, were married III the
Phosphate City few days ago
BY Justice G. q. Leltner.
Try that cold chocolate with
cream at TroXler's.
General Miles advocates a
standing army Of 10000 men.