The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-03-22
sOUALOR MOCKS GAIE1Y
IrrF \ VAGUE UNREST Avail
ING THE CRISIS.
AMFRICA's SPLENDID REPRESENTATION
loteIIigence of Movements of Insurgents
Meagre--spanish soldiery Behind Ok
Months in Pay--Insurgents Reported
We'll Clad, Fed and Armed.

SOCIH ttu IltSS.1
| Havana. March 14-Skies OF turquoise
royal palms with trunks of silver ana
crowns of green. many charming looking
women and fine loking memo, bands
tborouehly melodic, houses whose outer
/ holiness but accents the statue haunted
flower embossed beauties within, occa-
| sional flashes of MONDAY heat rendering
the siesta time almost a necessity, ozone
laden morning and evening breeZes thal
make ones lungs a luxury, sem1-occa-
sional showers with s~ub-trOplcal down
nonrincs-these are some Of the attach
ments and attributes that mark havana
as retaining some of her old-tlme cnafhi.
Narrow. ill-payed streets, unsanltary
and foul-smelling garbage. unclea1liy
alleys and back yards, lack or MODERN
conyenienccs. misery, starvatlol, ulS-
ease. death in countless and appallins
forms, stagnant business, regnant ON
cialism. crowded hospitals, gorged prls'
ons-these, the seamy sides OF the tapes
trv of life here and to the obseryant
The sadness makes discord of the joyful
notes. 4 visit to a relief station makes
the laughing crowd around the band
stand in the ''Parque Central a mock
cry and the gay eQuipage of the rlcn
officer or merchant only brings INTO Dold
relief the mean death cask of the pau
per and the p~acitico.
1t is a cosmopolitan city III 4 way. but
while the Latin, the Gallo, the Indian
and the African predominant IN num-
bers. the Anglo-SaXon holds, as uslai.
his share of public attention. The most
animated conversation among the yolu-
bic Cuban is hushed into quiet OBJ
| SnryatipD f SiUShpp of the HnUlItPU
Maine, comes into view. Sigsbee, alert.
Measant-faced, kindly voiced, medium
in statue but erect in carriage. keen of
eve. ready of tongue. almost d~ebOnnalr
when off duty but incisive, vlg1lant, po-
litely peremptory. sure in
quick i'll foresight, when on board; the
Ifirst man the stranger wants to see and.
if 50 fortunate as to meet hlm, the last
to whom adieus are made.
Then there is the Court Of Inquiry
Sampson, tall. slightly bent as to should
ers as he gravely listens to question or
suggestion. with a face marked with
thought, firm lips, shrouded by grey
mustache and beard. courteous but cold.
quick to detect assumption and quicker
to grasp q point of moment, Il very ideal
president of Il court for whose decision,
it is not too much to say. ChristendOm
waits with eagerness-Chadwick, ruddy,
seml-portly. genial, suave, fluent, hearty,
with eyes nOne the less keen that they
grow merry oil occasion and lips that
can close in lines of iron though, we'll
acquainted with laughter-Potter, bru-
nette. soldierly. quiet but kindly, self
effacing but with the weight of high in
telligence III glance, speech, gesture; the
model Of the executive officer, diploma
fist. man of the world-MariX. a poten-
tial Of high value III any deliberative
body; looking as if he could address
court and jury to marked advantage
should occasion serve, posted i'll every
detail Of his profession Gas indeed are
all his conferees), a man not to be hum~
bugged and in the habit of weighing
even his own thoughts before he gives
them utterance. Certainly a quintette
GolgSbee always being %included) of which
the United States is proud.
Pencil picture might be made of Lee
that dashing cavalry soldier and un-
bluffable consul-general-of Elwell. Miss
Barton.s chief of staff, with the face
and form of PickWick and a heart as
kindly rs that dear creature-Of Sprin-
ger, v~ice-consul, who knows Cuba and
its people is he knows the game Of
Whist-of half dozen other officials
whose names are now almost house
hold words III the States; but suffice it
that all are men to be admired for
strong and manly qualities.
interesting too, to a Dickens. a Thack-
cry, q Dumas or 4 kipling would be the
better class Of correspondents to whom
Havana IS now the habitat Of hope
alas for them that it is hope deferred.
lhey must JOIN the vast mutitudes who
; read their dispatches in playing the
I truly Spanish game of set down." Pa
tlence IL harder 4ere than in the North
for the Islander is 4 observation-disclosures
/ row person anyhow and the Sight of
MS cool Ionchalance while great events
: are having birth IS aggravating Those
OF inns unettantl complexion of thought
who were III the corridors Of the Hotel
lnglaterra must have been startled on
the day that the Associated Press CORE
spohdent read to a group of newspaper
men the bulletin. Senate passes fifty
: Inllllons defense bill this morning. unani-
mously.' What Il cheer Went nm II
4 was startling III its suddenness. inyiro-
rating III It's volume. News from home
e Ill advance of the semi-weeklv stea amor
IS always eagerly desired here and vhon
t was such news there was hand-sbakino
/ Il cr1es of Walked I'D have thcv:
, Hurrah for Congress-" If there was
r an American. civil or official. native or
naturalized, who did not rejoice AT tbn
news, the correspondent IA ~, ~
{ him. ~ hiu
Inc fourth-estate here is the lirolio-,
f factor observable. Several of tho Hoy.
ha ~Wspap are really enternriS;n,
ana Tor all editions the rusn
ana grow vociferous as in tho yaansn
I'Hs. It is a little amusino 49,,
sianclhs over columns and pages Of aov.
: tlhlnehtal manlfestos, ronunciamentns
:, oanoos and the like, to note tha h,;nr
= eullorial paragraph which saws in nf
3r saine old thing. Words arc thev
]natinn TX llothins" The political sit,
+ hean ~ lor as It can be learned, has
ptei gwen from time to time nv c,h 4
lin this, as in the gonar,i IT, = caoic