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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
the castle.
Two episodes more will close the
story of Antonio-his trial and punish
ment.
CHAPTTR XXXv.

| CdAPIIh AAAV.
The Last of Antonio Ell Cubano.
The trial came on in a couple Of days
after, and proceeded with celerlty
unknown in England or Scotland eltn-
| er. We were all examined, and pre-
viously were sworn, not on a B1Dle'
but over two sword blades held In the
| form of a cross-for such is the OLD
| chiyalric custom in a Spanish court
of law.
Without hesitation the judges found
| Antonio guilty; he was sentenced TO
| die by the garotte, and heard his doom
| with apparent apathy.
The tfndal of the Lascars was re-
| leased. as it would appear that he had
acted under compulsion; but Benito
| Ojedo and eight other Spanish sea-
men were sentenced to work in the
| Notifications or on the highways for
| ten years, in chains, as felons or gal
| ley slaves.
A few days later we found a great
crowd of colonists, citizens, mulattoes.
creoles and negroes. all in motley and
gaudily striped linen jackets and trou-
sers, assembled in the Plaza, where a
guard of Spanish infantry, with mus
| kets shouldered and bayonets fixed,
kept back the people in the form of a
hollow square about a raised wooden
platform, which was covered with
black cloth and wherein was placed
the garotte.
SIT is for the execution OF Antonio,
a Cuban pirate, who is to die by the
garotte," replied soldier.
This instrument of the law was SIM
ply an upright wooden post rising from
the platform. At its base was a low
stool, on which the condemned are
seated, and about three feet above that
appears an iron ring with a handle
and screw, by the compression of which
they are strangled, instantly or slowly
according to sentence.
The crowd was very impatient; the
hour at which the grim scene was to
have taken place was now long past
Loud murmurs arose from the people,
who had heard most exaggerated
stories of Antonio's stature, strength
and ferocity, and chances of anger and
impatience were darted at the gilt dial
of the town house, on which a black
banner was hoisted but half-mast high.
We recognized nearly all the crew of
the San Ildefonso in front of the mob;
and there, too, were q number OF Brit
ish sailors of H. MS steam sloop OF
war Active, which had anchored in the
harbor that morning.
Several priests in long, gray robes
were hurrying to and fro, begging a
"peseta" to pay for masses for the soul
of the condemned man.
AS neither Hislop nor I had any de-
sire to witness scene so barbarous
and revolving as an execution, we has
tened to our posada to breakfast, where
we were some time later Joined by
Capt. Jose Estremera, who had just
come from the Castle of Santa Cruz,
where the culprit was confined, and
who gave us all the particulars con-
corning the execution of Antonio that
we cared to know.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14

Mrs. Jollyboy-'Where on EARN have
you been?" Mr.. il cannot tell a
lie; I've been at M offish." Mrs. j.
That's where we differ. 1 can tell a
ie-when I hear one."-Stray Stories.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14
Not . Model for a Wife.

$50 that young artist married his
model, did hep"
He thought he did, but he has since
Informed me that he has discovered
hat she is no model, except for a
painting. Post.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-14

The latest designs in calendars for
1900 to be had at the HERALD Office.
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lost and which was only put down by
the aid of ship of war.
Absenteeism, which has been the
bane of Ireland, has not been the least
of the active causes which have re-
duced West Indians to restitution
Plantations here, like estates in Ire
land, are run in the interests of En-
glish capitalists. whose sole aim is to
squeeze as much as they can out of the
lana ana out OF the unfortunate people.
Ihese vampires nave drained the life
plood or the Islands and, by a short
s1shteu' WdsteIul system OF cultivation,
nave Impoverished the soil and i'm
pared ITS fertility.
Inc eHects OF TINS unnatural and per-
nlclous system may be seen in the
ragged, saunt half-starved, physically
degeherate negroes, whose bodily con-
dltlon, 1t Is no eXaggeration to say, is
worse to-day-emphatically worse
than during the days of slavery. To
the Legrees of the ante-emancipation
days the slave was valuable asset-he
had = pecuniary value To-day human
flesh and blood are cheap, and are con-
sequently lightly valued. The owners
OF plantations, which even now clear 10
to Is per cent. decline to advance the
starVatioh wages paio 10 tne Iaporers-
VASES Wiicl are barely suliicieht 10
MAINTAIN amman existence at a low
eop.
Governed as they are by the official
clique at Downing street, whose chief
interest in the West Indies is the Off
cial patronage which they place at their
disposal, West Indians have no living
interest in the government of their
country. Here, as in Ireland there IS
an English garrison and the symp-
athles OF the people nave become COM
pletely allehatea.
The colonies which, under the old sys-
tenn of representative government, were
in a prosperous and financially sound
condition, are, under crown rule and the
bounty system, drifting helplessly into
Bankruptcy Office after office has been
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men would not dare to venture.
In speaking of the Union Pacific eX-
press train robbery and the ease with
which the robbers gave the officers the
hot foot and disappeared into the Bad
Lands, Detective Hans said:
From the scene of the robbery near
Rock creek to the entrance to the Hole
in-the- Wall near the Powder river, on
the east side, it is about 100 miles. Once
away from the region of the Medicine
Bow mountains, the robbers undoubt-
eddy struck the trail of the old Rock
Creek and Fort Fetterman stage road
and went due north, having in view the
Hole-in- the Wall as their objective
point, where they would be safe from
capture If they were provided with am
pie ammunition.
1.-THE trail is a circuitous one, wind
ing around rocky, craggy mountains
and foot hills, across deep gulches and
ravines, and at times over level coun-
try, and where, almost any place,
man could hide from a thousand men
in the sage brush.
persons acquainted with the topog-
raphy of the country can travel faster
as they can avoid many almost impass-
able barriers along the route by cutting
across the country, where as tenderfoot
must travel along the beaten path or
take his chances of losing his bearings
or being preciptated down a thousand
or more feet to the bottom of preci-
pice
THE Hole-in-the-Wal is so-called
because 1t resembles a mammoth hole
or depression in the earth. 1t is about
40 miles long and 20 miles wide. The
sides of the wall are from LOO feet to
200 feet in heighth and in many places
perpendicular. There is but one en-
tro RI 10 mr.
that at the east side where the Powder
river runs into the Hole district. The
Hole -in-the- Wall is a n-shaped tract
containing several small streams, in
Guiding the Powder river and Buffalo
Fork, North Powder river and Red
Fork, all tributaries of the Powder
river. The Crazy Woman's Fork, a
branch of the Powder river, enters the
Hole above the Powder river a short
distance. and here one may enter the
Hole, but it is hazardous undertaking
for man, as the rocky bluffs overhang
and project hundreds of feet from the
ground.
"Once in the Hole one feels well re-
paid for the effort in undertaking the
trip. Rich fertile soil, beautiful foliage
plants and green foothills covered with
| trees present a magnificent appearance.
THE Hole-in-the-Wall was consider
ed a safe retreat not only by the out
| laws who preyed upon the overland
stages and pack trains, but also by the
| Indians. / remember that in NoVem-
| ber 1876, Chief Dull Knife and stand
ing Elk made their escape from General
| Crooks command of Is companies of the
3rd and 4th cavalry after hot fight on
| Crazy Woman's Fork. near where Fort
| Mckinney was later located, ana ned
| to the Hole-in- the-Wall. The Chey-
| ennes sought safety in this region and
sol, haF
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Bell Ringers Of the Giralda
Perform Most Daring Feats.

ward with another thunderous note to
mark its passage.
But the most terrifying part of the
daring performance to the spectator is
the sight of a bell ringer calmly sway
ing the bell while it hangs far out of
the belfry over the city, for the out
ward swing sends the counterpoise
with the ringer into the space beyond
the arch, and one can see the ringers
astride their brazen mounts, like new
centaurs, borne out into space. Should
they lose their balance, God receive
their souls, for the work would be their
death.
The bell ringers have each their own
way of mounting the bell. Not all of
them prefer to stand astride the metal,
but other methods of ringing the peal
of the Giralda are not less dangerous
than that described. One ringer makes
a practice of ringing his bell with
rope attached to the neck of The great
changing mass. To pull this rope from
the safe position of the belfry tower
would not make the tongue of the bell
talk vigorously or quickly enough for
the bell ringer, so he shins up the rope
until his head is level with the lower
rim of the bell, and here he holds on
and does his hauling, swinging with
the motion of the bell and enjoying the
most daring athletic exercise ever at
tempted for the pay of bell ringer.
1t is not always a professional bell
ringer than stands astride the bell or
swings on the rope. The daring youth
of Spain count the ringing Of the bells
after the fashion in vogue in Seville
as one of the feats of which it is per-
missible to boast. The belfries are
easily accessible and it is not unusual
for the sleeping citizens to have their
rest disturbed by the braZen tongues Of
the bells ringing out on the still night
air in angry protest against the dis
tGrbance of their non-working hours in
such an unseemly manner AT such
times the citizens know that party of
high-spirited youths are risking their
necks by swinging the great bells with
out the aid of ropes.
One would IHlnk lndl the spanish
coroner would frequently find need of
his services owing to this peculiarly
primitive and dangerous manner of
ringing the bells of the Giralda, but the
records show that there have been very
few accidents and none is recorded of
one that resulted in death through the
ringer falling from his perch into the
street below. The accidents that have
occasionally happened have been
through the carelessness of the ringer
in not measuring his distance accurate
ly as the bell swung through the arch
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Islands IN the Antilles
That Want to Come to Us.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
st. Kits, British West Indies, June
10.--Is there room at Uncle Sans fire.
side for another adopted son? If so
there are 100000 free, intelligent, in
dustrious people willing and anxious
to throw in their lot with the United
States. Matters here have gone from
bad to worse, owing to the neglect of
the British government and the indif-
ference to our petitions, and thus a
once prosperous country, although ex-
ceedingly fertile, is being gradually re-
duced to its primitive condition. This
has naturally bred the greatest dissat-
isfaction and all classes of the COM
munity are united in urging the home
government to open negotiations with
the United States looking to an ex-
change of these islands for territory re-
Gently acquired in the Orient
The movement in favor of union with
the United States may be said to have
set in Is years ago. About that time
the great depression in the price of
sugar-the staple product of the islands
with the consequent curtailment in
the expenditure of the plantations,
made it clearly apparent that power
full and pernicious agency, in the shape
of the export bounties granted by Ger
many and other countries to their
sugar producers, was at work, which
If left unchecked, would eventually
make it impossible for the inhabitants
of the islands to live and thrive The
apathy and utter Indifference of the
British government to this state of
things has convinced the intelligent
section of the people that there is no
prospect that John Bull will alter his
course or will take steps for their pro-
lection.
Emigration to the United States was
natural consequence of the depres-
sion caused by the bountes. and now
the ties that bind us to the republic are
not only those of gratitude to people,
who in our dire distress have helped us
more than we could hope commercially.
but the closer and stronger ties of blood
relationship. Few families there are
In these islands who are not represent
ed in the United States Already
large part OF the island OF Nevis has
been throwa out of cultivation; only a
small fraction Of 1t is being titled. The
agricultural laborers are now, in the
very middle of crop" leaving the ISL
and literally by the hundreds; the bet
ter class are leaving in shoals by every
steamer for the United States. while.
in the case of those who remain. it is
painful to contemplate what the state
of the laboring population will be when
the crop is over and no work can be
found for the people. No doubt in the
case of officials, whose salaries are Sc
cured, the future seems all right, but
then the officials are very few, and to
the thousands who must sink or swim
with sugar, the outlook is as black as
II could we'll be.
The people who in the past slept like
Rip Van Wrinkle. hardly conscious that
they lived, are now awakening, and in
1896 the general discomfort in this ISL
and expressed itself in labor strike
and geness1 slot, in which lives were
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The recent robbery of the Union Pa
cific overland train near Rock Greek,
Wyo. by train robbers and their sub
sequent escape into the region known
as the Hole Elm the-Wall has attracted
attention to that country and those I'M
acquainted with the topography and
geography of that portion of the Great
American desert will be interested in
what Fred M. Hans, a special agent
for the Fremont & Missouri Valley
road, has to say concerning it. There
is perhaps no man outside of the imme-
date road agents so we'll versed in the
country as Mr. Hans.
For years Mr.. Hans was employed as
a government scout and guide in the
service of Gen. Nelson A Miles, then
Colonel Miles, General Brooke and 9TH
er army officers during the Indian wars
of 1876, 1877 and 1878. Mr.. Hans person.
ally conducted General Phil Sheridan,
Colonel Miles and command around
and into the Hole-in-t he-WaH in 1876,
and has made several important cap
lures of notorious crooks, road agents
and stage robbers in the bad Lands"
in the immediate vicinity of the Hole
n-the-Wall.
In 1879 Detective Hans trailed for
weeks desperate and notorious out
law known as SHACK Nasty Jim," who
robbed stage coach, into the Hole in
the-Wall, and single-handed and alone
captured him, delivering his prisoner
to Colonel Adams of Fort Mckinney
The same year Detective Hans appre-
hended two desperadoes, Jack Hawkins
and Bill Cole, after a large posse had
pursued them for 200 miles. and finally
gave up the job as fruitless after the
fugitives had entered the Hole-in-t the
Wall. Hans also later arrested Tom
Lawton, the notorious cattle rustler,
and his pal, Harry Keys. in the Hole
in-the- Wall, with several government
horses which they had stolen from
Fort Mckinney. Keys was killed by a
soldier in trying to make his escape
from the prison later.
Detective Hans knowledge of the
country and his acquaintance with the
modes and methods employed by the
outlaws who make this region their
rendezvous peculiarly fits him for spe-
cial government duty in expeditions
into that country, and he is frequently
called upon to visit that district in
search of criminals. 1t was only a few
weeks ago that Detective Hans was
called upon by the postoffice depart
ment to go to the Hole-in-t he-Wall re-
gion in quest of two postoffice robbers
who had robbed Wyoming postoffice
safe, and on May % last he landed his
men. locating them in a secluded place
in the Hole-in- the Wall Hans cour-
age and peculiar unassuming methods
win for him success where less daring
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The most extraordinary and thrilling
spectacle in the world is that presented
by the bell ringers of the Giralda in
Seville. whose daring method of sound
Ing peal over the city is unique. In
the United States bell ringing has been
reduced to the simple touching of
keyboard. as in playing a piano. BY
the aid of electricity. that labor-saving
factor with which Americans have done
such wonders, the mere touch of a key
Is made to swing a ponderous bell, the
manipulation of the keys playing a mel
ody on the mass of metal as easily as
though the instrument weighed no
more than a toy. In primitive Spain
the bells are rung by hand and the
ringers actually stand astride the bells
to sway them in their ponderous move
ments to keep the hammer going.
A bell ringer of Seville must be an
accomplished athlete and possess
cool head and a sound heart. Any at
tempt to sound the bells by Spaniard
who did not possess these attributes
would result in the body of the ringer
being hurled down, down, down, from
the dizzy height of the belfry in which
the bell is housed to the streets Of the
city below.
When the city is to make merry on
high days and holidays, or any other
occasion that requires the ringing of
the bells, the bell ringer climbs to the
belfry, and, with the assistance of a
rope and steps cut in the wall of the
tower, mounts to the bell and stands
astride the shoulder of the brazen mon
ster. Then he presses the bell with his
feet, holding on himself to the cross
piece upon which the mass of metal is
wung. Gradually the great bell sways
to the muscular movement of the man
astride it, until it acquires a momen-
tum that swings the hammer, first
gently and then with gradually aug
menting force as the sweep of the bell
widens, until the air is trembling from
the giant blows that strike the massive
sides of the monster.
The mere vibration of the atmos-
phere as the huge bell rings out would
be enough to make an Impractical
operator turn dizzy and fall from his
perch. But, with the most awful din
raging around them. for many bells are
laundering out their notes at the same
time in the belfry in obedience to the
movements of their riders, the men
who ring these bells bend and rise and
fall with the action of the DANGEROUSLY
protesting metal, now appearing to the
observer from below to be in a perfect
ly horizontal position as the bell
reaches the limit of it's swing, and
again rising gracefully to an upright
position as the monster sways back
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ROMAN RUINS IN ENGLAND.
Excavations Rring to Light Traces of a
Buried City.

Lately the British Society of Anti
quaries has completed the excavations
of a Roman-British city near the site
of which is now the town of Silchester,
and not far away is Reading. The
archaeological finds there are said to
them is certainly highly interesting.
They have been placed in the rooms of
the society in Burlington house.
1t appears that as far back as the
reign of Henry VIII. it was suspected
that something unusual lay beneath
the crops, which showed very peculiar
varieties of color, but it was not till
1864 that the rector of Strathfieldsaye,
with the encouragement of the then
duke of Wellington, commenced the
digging and delving which has now
yielded such excellent results.
1T is now clear says the London
Chronicle. that in the days when the
ancient Britons led a life of tribal war
fare one tribe possessed at this place
sundry Businesses to which they could
retire when attacked, with their cat
tie. Then came the all-conquering Ro-
man, and made Of the rude refuge an
imposing city, with high walls, a num-
Der of gates and important buildings.
Naturally, throughout the time of the
Roman occupation, the city underwent
developments, and at Burlington house
to-day can be seen the beautifully tas-
selated floors of the villa which some
noble Roman built over the ruins Of
the original shelter of his less favored
predecessor. In the glass cases Their
are coins and ornaments, and on the
tables specimens of delicate pottery
testifying to the luxury of an age when
our rude forefathers brought their
f1ocks and herds into the market place
and wondered at the treasures dis
played in the shops which were ranged
around the now vanished town hail.
From the maps and plans the visitor
with Roman precision and gain an idea
of the busy life of the place, with it's
temples, baths, amphitheater and 9TH
er adjuncts which made it much more
than a mere camp or military station
There are reminders also of the Steiner
side of life in the pit, with it's rows of
pointed wooden stakes for the capture
of wild animals, the grim looking iron
gyves-prohabl bly, used on many a cap
tive Briton. etc. The home life of the
period is illustrated by the stones for
grinding corn, the well preserved sets
of hooks for hosting barrels and the
large brick on which the maker, in
merry mood, wrote the word Stats,
which remains to-day as the sole me-
mortal of his life and being.
Altogether Calleva, as the town Is
supposed to have been called, has fur
nshed the present age with many in
tensely interesting relics-whch are ev-
cry year added to-of the days when
imperial Rome ruled in Great Britain
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WAS SHORT ON GOOD STORIES.
Predicament of Woman With Seven
Calls to Make.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Seven visits to make in one after
noon! Well think / can manage it.
| can make an early start. Let me see.
There's that anecdote about Ethers fox
terrier and the cute speech of little Bob
and that aWfully clever thing that Dex-
ter told the other night about the God
deSs of Liberty. Is that all l have in
stock? Oh, dear, no. There's that quo
tation from The Pneumatic Woman
that struck me SO. I haven't got it off
to anyone yet, and I dare say it will go
as original Not one person in 10 has
heard of The Pneumatic Woman Is
that enough for seven calls? I'm afraid
not. Well, there's always the weather
Really, If it came to the point I'd rather
talk Interestingly about any old sub
ject than stupidity about a brand-new
one. There's more art in it. l wonder
If l dare risk that joke about Clara
again? I've told it so many times late
ly-indeed, l won't be sure that some of
the times We're not at the very places
I'm going. How mean it is that Maude
made me promise not to repeat that
lovely bit of gossip she gave me this
morning! ] haven't heard anything SO
delicious for a long time. Well wit
a sigh, Il promised on my word of h?.'-
or I wouldn't tell, and another
sigh. why. here we are at Mrs. Some
bOdy's. l wonder if | have enough to
talk about for seven calls? oh, well,
some of them may be out-and-oh
dear, if only hadn't promised Maude.
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elist are everywhere to be found with
in her borders and the fancy of the
poet will some day delight to cast the
glamour of romance about scenes and
incidents worthy of the pen of any
writer.
In the history of the Palmetto state
it has fallen to the county of Abbeville
to be a conspicuous and important ac-
tor, and many of the most interesting
chapters in the story have that county
as a background. 1t was in the county
of Abbevile, the birthplace and home
of John c. Calhoun, that the Southern
confederacy had both it's cradle and its
grave. The first ordinance looking to
the secession of the state from the
union and the formation of the South
ern confederacy was adopted in coun-
ty convention at Abbeville court house,
and there too, within stones throw