The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-09-28

| De Sent TO any address on receipt OF 2I
one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing
only; in cloth binding II stamps Adj
| dress DR.. R. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, N, Y.
| scribed for all corners. the inference is
that the consultation was only another
preteXt for putting gold into Spanish
pockets. A great many surprising cures
have been effected here of persons far
gone IN consumption, bronchial, rheu-
matte and scrofulous complaints. Inva-
lids have been brought from the steamer
on litters, apparently just ready to give
up the ghost who in a weeks time have
been riding over the hills on horseback,
and in month have gone home ''good as
new If the springs were managed by
some sensible, wide awake, judicious
Anglo Saxon, they would soon become
the sanitarium of the Western Hemis-
pheTe, beside which Las Vegas in New
Mexico; White sulphur in Virginia, Sara
toga, and other of our Northern Spas.
would hide their diminished heads. As it
Is, the life can be endured. though lack
ing many Of the ordinary creature COM
forts which render il desirable. Mere
pleasure seekers would better stay away :;
but one whose precious health is at stake
can afford to fight Astounding vermin fer a
season and put up with feas, reaches,
spiders, scorpions and a thousand wrig-
Cling, crawling and singing creatures
which constantly oeset the dweller on the
Isle of Pines You lind the pests between
the sheets and in the food, They pre-
empt your shoes at night and the car
ments you are wearing by day; and if
they dO not take bodily possession of you.
whole colonies OF them settling down com
fortably in your hair, ears, nosyrils while
you are catching forty winks' Of troubled
>lumDer ia intervals Of the eternal war
fare, you are exceptionally fortunate.
Even Eden had Its serpent, you know
and doubtless a more advanced state Of
civilization here viii solve some means Of
diminishing the plague Of vermin. Ex-
penses at tits resort are very moderate.
| The best hotel charges So - a day, Ameri-
can money, for its choicest accommoda-
lions. Saddle horses may be hired at : 50
pei diem. and carriages at proportionate
rates There are many charming walks
and drives III the neighboring hills and
interesting all day excursions may be
made to sugar estates and pineapple plan
tatons. The natives Of Isla de Pinos
seem to be sin pie. kind hearted folk, who
find their greatest pleasure in chatting
with strangers and listening to accounts
of the outer world. To them, all beyond
the horizon rim, or at most, beyond the
limits of Cuba is a terra incognita of more
than Munchausen wonders. The Young
children &C about entirely naked, and the
universal innocence, combined with the
utmost dignity and punctilious courtesy,
is charming to behold
Nueva Corona, on the River Casas,
| backed by green hills and fronted bv an
emerald plain dotted with royal palms is
delightfully."- situated and beautiful to be-
hold from distance, either approached
by sea or by the excellent natural road to
Santa Fe. But it is another illustration
of "' lis distance lends enchantment TO the
! view. Though the capital of the island
and seat of what little government there is,
| its population has never exceeded three
hundred, not including the Spanish gar
rison which in times past helped to make
some third-rate gaiety. 1t is a healthy
| place, however, all the water used coming
from magnesium spring, said to be very
| beneficial in cases OF stomach trouble
Baths have been built, into which water
| from the spring is conducted The bar
racks occupy an open plateau Just outside
the town limits, and are large stone huild
ings with interior courts, capable of ac-
communicating three hundred soldiers.
ueva Corona was the birthplace of
Evangelna Cisneros, the Cuban heroine
so much talked of last year in the United
States, and here her life was spent until
the age of nineteen, when the prosecutions
| of a would be Spanish lover sent her to
the dreadful Recoaidas prison of Habana.
from which, as all the world knows, she
was subsequently rescued by an American
journalist, assisted by several young
| Cubans. Among the latter was Carlos
| Carbonell, wealthy bachelor banker of
Habana. He drove the carriage in which
the escaped damsel was conducted from
prison, and he drove it direct to his own
house, in crowded quarter of the city,
right under the nose of the Spanish Off
Gals. There the fair Evangelina remain
ed several days, until the time came for
her to board an American steamer, dis
guised as boy Everybody knows the
rest. The pretty romance ended, Tor
ought we to say it begun?) in her marriage
| To Senior CarhOnell some months LATER