The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-01-26

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dyspepsia. I had tried everything possible to
cure it till last week while playing at B. F.
Keeths Bijou Theater, Philadelphia, in the
Nelson THO, a professional friend of mine
advised me to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. tried it, and, thank God, with
good results"
Constipation is promptly cured by DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. All medicine
dealers
waved a flag at Frederick town, and there
are even grave doubts of the authorship
of Shakespeare; but the truthful chron-
icler is sometimes compelled to do it,
The naming of Cienfuegos did not come
about in this way nor was the fiery cogno-
men bestowed on account of the heat, as
one might well suppose on a summer S
day. The original Spanish town, which
christened San Sebastian, disappeared
more than two hundred years ago. The
city of to- day sprang into being near the
beginning of the present century, and was
named in honor of Senior Don Jose Glen
fuegos. then Governor General of Cuba
whose administration was signalzed by
such important events as the cession of
Florida to the United States and a mighty
agitation for the suppression of slavery,
which led to the speedy end of that abom-
Unable institution in all the Spanish colo
MES. CienfuegoS was created by the
eXigencies of a growing sugar-trade. The
finest plantations of the island are con-
nected with it, either by rail Or water
way; and what iu will become in the
radiant future, under shrewd American
fostering, with plenty of money to develop
the Incompatible resources of the sur
rounding county, requires neither a
prophet nor the son of prophet to fore
see.
To-day there are three tolerable hotels
i'll the place, besides dozen tiendas,
cafes and casinos The last named popu-
lar resorts, Spanish for club houses),
which are such prominent features of all
Spanish American cities, are particularly
numerous in Cienfuegos, to the detIiment
of domestic Institutions The finest club
house in Cuba is found here and, strange
to say. is owned and frequented by up
wards of five hundred Cinnamon. Its
president, an almond eyed Celestial was
educated at Harvard and speaks good
deal better English than many Englishmen
with their 'cawnts'' and 'doncher
knows" The place is worth visiting,
being fully up to its kind in San Francis
co.
A broad hallway, paved with white
marble, leads to a magnificent sala,
marble tiled and pillared, which opens
into a vast courtyard where palms and
pomegranates flourish around central
fountain. Up stairs, in a big reception
room, Joss sits, surrounded by other gods,
and occasionally the smoke of heather
worship perfumes the atmosphere of the
Catholic city. Close by this swell Orien-
tai casino is the Romish cathedral, double
lowered and extensive, but too new to
possess much OF ''the odor of sanctity'
1t has broad esplanade in front, and one
OF its towers is much taller than the
other, filled with little bells perpetually
tangled out of tune
On another side of the same plaza is the
Government ''palacio," from which our
flag will float before many days. 1t lis not
much of palace, according to American
ideas, and will need rebuilding to make
it fit abode for Prince Charming Dusen-
bury and his aides de- camp. 1t is f1anked
by a long line of barracks. now filled with
Spanish soldiers making ready for depart
ure-every mothers son of them frail.
under sized and dispirited, like Cassius
with lean and hungry look" Not far
away is tue opera house, quaint, OPEN
air theatre, the market place, town hail.
military and public hospitals, (both of
the latter filled to overhowing) and the
famous palace of the Segundo Cabo. or
military commander. The latter is more
of prison than a ''palace," with it's
enormously thick walls, double doors
always shut, and with sentinels pacing
before them, and little barred windows
high up under the caves, which like closed
eyes disclose no secrets. There are dun
geons below it, aud secret passages con-
Meeting with the forts and prisons; and
gruesome tales are whispered of deeds
| committed therein which would shame
the darkest days of the Spanish in
quisition-of political prisoners, whose
only crime is love of Cuba libre, COM
PEELED by nameless tortures to implicate
their friends and confess to sins they never
committed.
The central plaza is fine, large square,
lighted by electricity, with enormous
ornamental gas lamps set at intervals