The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-07
CIENFUEGUS.
CONTINUED from Fourth Pagc.)

her arms, what was the lady's horror to
find inside two toes and five bloody fin
ger-nails, evidently torn from their
roots, and note signed by her hus-
bands name begging her for Gods sake
to rescue him at any cost. The distract
ed woman did her best to sell the store
and all she possessed, but nobody was
buying property in those troubled times
She begged on her knees of the alcalde
and everybody she knew, but the people
were all so poor that her frantic appeals
could not raise a 1.-THE of the sum de-
manded Meanwhile, every day or two
brought home another gruesome re-
minder of the unfortunate husband and
father,-maybe found in the morning
mysteriously tied to the door-knocker, or
tossed through the window-bars Is the
family sat at dinner, An eye arrived in
this manner, a foot, an arm; and when
at length a CHASTITY human head,
propped up on a stick against the open
window, greeted her with reproachful
eyes the wife went into convulsions
which ended in death, leaving a family
of orphans to the charity of the town.
To get a good general idea of Cienfue-
Cos the stranger should climb to the top
of reservoir hill, the only commanding
point in the vicinity. For two or three
miles the city stretches east and west,
curving around the crescent shaped bay,
while countryward are the plantations,
green as the greenest, with their neat
villas and sugar mills and scattered
groups of palms. The parti-colored ca
sas-pink, blue, purple, green, often all
the hues of the rainbow combined on one
wall-are built in the usual Cuban style
around an open courtyard in the mid
die. though there are more two and
three stored houses here than any other
place in central Cuba can show, The
few note worthy public buildings are
grouped around the inevitable plaza-tha
latter large and handsome square well
lighted by electricity and ornamental
gas lamps It's broad marble walks are
bordered by palm trees and f1owerb beds,
with fountain in the middle surround
ed by statues and benches. while each Of
the four entrances is guarded by the
two lions of Spain, one asleep, the other
awake, couchant on tall pedestals.
These lions are as common in all the
Spanish possessions as the eagle in I'm
Gle Samuel's-in the parks, before the
public buildings and often in the
grounds of private houses; and always
one watches fierce and wide awake,
while the other sleeps. Right under the
noses of one of these royal pairs an
American band was playing 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner as we passed through
the plaza.
One side of the central square is occu-
pied by the great cathedral, with its
broad esplanade in front and double
towers, one much taller than the other
filed with little bells perpetually jam
gled out of tune-all too new to be inter-
esting. On another side is the govern
meut spaIacio,' faced with stately col
onuades and thanked by long line of
barracks Not far away is the opera
house, a quaint open-air theater, the
market place, town hall, military hos
initial and the carcel, or prison, which be-
came so unpleasantly famous during the
late war. Sentinels pace perpetually
before its closed doors, and the little
barred windows high UP in the enor-
nously thick walls are like shut eyes
that betray no secrets They tell us that
secret passages connect the dungeons
below it with the forts, the palace and
tribunal; and that deeds have been COM
roitted there which would shame the
darkest days of the inquisition, In the
snacious Alameda (grove of elms) at the
edge of the town, fashionable Cienfuegos
drives or promenades on certain AFTER
Moons of the week when military bands
NAV Nowadays a large proportion OF
the people speak English, and those who
40 not know it are studying with might
and main; while the presence OF so
MANY American soldiers, American doc
TORS. dentists and photographers, depart
nant stores run on the American plan,
not 70 mention American saloons on eve
~ corner, justify its frequently heard
cancellation of "A Yankee town" Cap
tain Baker, who was consul here before
the war. is now captain of the port, and
CAPTAIN Bean is quarter-master, and the
two the about the busiest pair in CUBA.
The Hotel Union said to be the best in
e,ienfuegos, is odd enough to deserve a
paragraph. The words English
spoken figure prominently in its adyer-