The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-30

band and sentenced to the most cruel tortures. The Spaniards were at log gerheads whether the prisoners should be baked in ovens or be fried over open fires, but they finally agreed that the common soldiers should roasted, that the non-commlssioned officers should be hanged and that the officers should be crucitied. The first two parts of the
 agreement were readily carried out, | when it came to the commissioned of | ticers the chief of the guerrilla band interfered, as apparently trace of hu- | manity had been left In his breast, and the commissioned officers escaped with partial cruciiXion. One of these lat ter lived near Paris until about twenty years ago, and even at his advanced | age traces of the wounds which had been inflicted upon him could be seen. This same Menzel refers in his me- | moirs to another incident which gives a vivid picture of happenings in those | days in the Spanish monasteries and what interpretation was given by the monks to the term Christianity and | how they carried out their ideas of brotherly love.
 "A French captain one evening quar- tered his men in small village, while | he and his servant went to the cloister | near by. He was received with great courtesy and was treated to every | thing which the monks had at their | disposal in the way of eatables and | rich wines. The captain, who was 0 lover of a good table fortified by good l drink, was finally landed in a cell in a drunken stupor. Thus far everything was charming and the pious brethren | rejoiced as they thought that they had entrapped the confiding captain. But 1 they had not reckoned with his faith | ful servant, who had kept his eyes and ears open. This fellow induced his master to remain awake in spite of his condition. The captain hardly had | locked the door when something began | to move inside of closet, stationed In \ the cell, and as his suspicious had been aroused by the servant he took his pis- | tol and fired into the closet. he shot | was followed by cries and groans. At the same time the servant gave two | alarm shots through the open window | and this brought the soldiers to, their assistance. They stormed the building went to the captains cell and then | opened the door of the closet. In this | they found dagger and bloody tracks | which showed the way which the wounded man taken. These led them l to a large subterranean room, where a l number of dumfounded monks lament | ed over the body of dead man, who | was to have killed the captain One | can easily imagine, it goes without say | ing, that the pious brethren did not en- | joy life much longer: one round of we'll aimed shots sent them without further l preparation to etrnity.
 In this manner war was carried on | by Spain at the beginning of this cen- | tury, and the recent war of the Carlists l but twenty-five years ago-has prov l en how little this cruel nation has learned of what humanity is In the memory of all of us still are the cruel | ties perpetrated at Cuenca, where mol | ten lead was poured down the threats of the prisoners, and the relatives. were | compelled the drive and slash their | naked brothers and husbands through | the streets.
 | These same Spaniards are said to do
 these very things at the present day l with the prisoners taken on the Philip pine Islands where the captured are
 nailed to the walls and then dashed un-
 til they die from exhaustion. Their &C., | ton in Cuba Is known the whole world | over and it cries for vengeance The | manner in which they killed Maceo shows the character of the Spaniards of the present, who boast of their chiv- | airy. They are just the same nuw as
 they were at the time of the royal Philip
 Tt Is hard to believe that these facts | are known to the French officerse who,
 as our papers state, ask en masse for permission to enlist in the Spanish army and navy. We must assume that they are unaware of these data, for
 how could men of so great a nation as
 the French fight in the ranks of peo-
 pie that have punished their fathers and their allies with such cruelty and l in a manner contrary to all laws of
 war, civilization, and humanity.
 "The whole of Europe looks with
 great expectation upon the war now
 waged on the other side of the Atlantic. With our eyes firmly fixeA upon the | Stars and Stripes, we eagerly follow it's l steady advance from harbpr to harbor l and from bay to bay. Wfl1 the flag of | the Great Union soon wave from the
 towers of the old cathedral of Ha-
 vana? We hope yes!"--Albany Even- | ing Journal