The Republican journal., 1899-04-27

or. Hartman books on catarrhal
diseases are easily understood and
.ientifeally exact. Write for them.
%~ecial book for women. These books
- free. DR.. Hartman will prescribe
~ fifty thousand women this year
fee Of charge.
high degree, but like his ancestral casa,
somewhat down at the heels willing to
lavish paint and gliding galore, for
liberal monthly considerations but can
rot be made to comprehend the necessity
of improved plumbing. H. merely shrugs
his aristocratic shoulders and gibbers in
mingled French and Spanish concerning
the unreasouableness of the Americans in
demanding changes which his progenitoIs
never thought of. Finally, when the
government inspector condemned the
beautiful place as unfit for human abode,
my lord gave in ungracefully and hired
some native workmen TO temporarily rem
edy the evil, according to their lights, by
the aid of bricks and plaster paris. The
Inspector says it will remain in tolerabe
condition for about a year, and then the
plaster paris will give way and the poi
sOnous gases again invade the casa. You
say, why not give up this house altogether
and seek another? For the simple reason.
dear SIT, OF madame, that none better,
and few So good, can be had for love or
money in Cuba.
Speaking Of Red Gross work now
going on in the island, Miss Barton
has not yet arrived, being occupied AT the
Washington end OF the line, but her clear
brain and uneming wisdom directs all
movements, through Her staff in the field.
aided by the cable and postal facilities
which President Mckinley has placed at
her disposal. Dr.. Julian Hubbell, general
field agent, is here, with the Rev Alex
andel Kent pastor of the Peoples Church
in Washington, as general director; his
son, Nj. William Kent, as clerk and sEeuo-
grapher; MI. Cottrell, who has been Miss
Baltons financial secretary for many
years; Mrs. Allen K. Capron, widow OF the
gallant young Rough Rider Captain who
was killed, with Hamilton Fish, in the first
skirmsh before Santiago; Miss Elsa Irot-
zig of Sweden: Miss Adams of Boston aud
Miss Belts Of Albany, professional nurses;
and your correspondent, whose underlined
duties are whatever her hands find to do.
With the above named party from the
American National Red Cross came two
representatives of the Associate Society of
the Pennsylvania Red Cross-Mr. Joseph
Steinmetz, late lieutenant IT, S V. Engi-
neers, and Mr.. Guy King, architect both
of the Quaker City. They were sent by
the Associate Society No. l Of Philadel-
phia, for The express purpose of establish
ing ''Home for Children in Cuba, to
be controlled and sustained entirely by
Pennsylvania. They are delegated with
power to rent, purchase or build suitable
house, with hospital and dispensary at
tachments. to be named and known as
charitable enterprise of the Key Stone
State. in full! accord with, but distinctly
separate from, the National Red Cross
Society. 1t is believed that liberal re-
spouse will be made by Pennsylvanians in
all parts of the State, and that the "Phila-
delphia Home will be we'll endowed
and sustained. The need of many such
institutions in Cuba is very great indeed.
With some other members of the Red
Gross, | accompanied Messrs. King and
Steiumetz to Mariana, Matanzas and
other points on their tour of investiga-
ton; and everywhere we found hundreds
of homeless children whose natural pro
! tectors had been sacrificed to the cruel
war. AT present the U. S. Army is dis
tributing rations to large numbers of peo-
ple-for the cost of which Uncle Samuel
is to reimburse himself from the Cuban
custom house receipts. But the greater
need is for homes for the poor little waits,
! wherein the girls especially may have care
and protection, moral and physical, and
become fitted for respectable lives. Such
National Red Cross in Guines, some 30
miles from Habana, in the finest agricul-
tural district of Cuba, which is now ex-
porting large quantities of new potatoes,
tomatoes and other vegetables to the
United States, as Florida did in her
golden days before the frosts. Under the
personal supervision of DR.. Hubbell,
assisted by Miss Trotzig, Miss Adams and
Miss Belts, this Guines orphanage is doing
finely
We have also large and beautiful hos
| pital, for Americans and Cubans in the
Palatino suburb, reached from Habana by
| horse-car. 1t has a hundred beds, cool,
marble-hoored rooms, and extensive
grounds, and is fully equipped for bust
ness when the sickly season begins with
the annual rains. This hospital is sus-
tanned by the American National Red
Cross, with nurses from the United States :;
and the medical force is controlled by the