The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-11-09
SPANISH SOLDIERS AT HOME.
Their Pitiabie Condition Upon Return
ing from Cuba aud Porto Rico.


iug from Cuba aud Porto Rico.
The conditions existing on board the
transports that carried the Spanish sol
dicrs home Ia Spain. from cuba and
Porto Rico. were uuspeakab,y horn /
bic Even the censored accounts which
the Spanish journals wcrc permitted
to publish are TOO offensive TO deeeney
to bear repetition \ writer in the
Anglo .Americau, who was at Malaga
when the troops consigned To that
pace dlsemharked, gives Il pltiably
graphic description of the narrowing
SCENES She Witnessed as they made
their way through the city, Many
helplcssly weak from disease or star
Walton, or sick unto death were tolted
along in carriages. Behind followed
their comrades. a ghastly procession,
IN Il plteouS iravcsty of a march
swaying. lettering, reeltng: famine in
their pinched and ashen faces. theft
skeleton forms clothed in nolsome rem.
nants of garments, or swathed IN the
tattered remains of blankets.
fainting by the wayside. \ woman
FASTENED toward him. kuelt to lift his
head, and tendersy supporting II on her
shoulder strove to comfort him. \
Kind hearted eake-seller thrust a por-
ton OF his wares into the soldiers
nervelss hand. Then. MS the soldiers
comrades. catching sight of the food.
broke ranks. and threatened to desp0il
the vender. he threw his stock broad
cast among them
Boys he said, ITS all I've got.
wish had more for you"
lust ut that moment an officer
passed accompanied by his wife. Il
large. whitefaeed. fat person. aud the
officer shouted imperiously to the peo-
pie, 'Qultarse. qultarse" cOut of the
way there! Make way thereto The
crowd parted little, ana at that mo
ment the woman, sitting on the ground.
supporting the sick soldier. caught
sight of the jewelry on the officer )
wife.
I'm an instant the pity in her face
vanished. Advancing her head Ike a
snake over the PROSTATE head resting
upon her shoulder. with cleaning eyes
and barred teeth. her voice rising to a
harsh scream, she cried, threateningly
Muieres. mlrar n esta mujers
cW0men, look at that woman,g And
then, Look ut her jewelry. bracelets
aud rings, Look at her cursed fat body
and look at this boy tearing open his
skeleton form.
The officer and his wife. badly
frightened, as they had every reason
to be, hastily retreated from the ring
Of threatening faces and made their
way us quickly as possible down mar
row side street, followed by the bowls
and taunts of the now angry crowd.
They We're lucky TO escape so easily
from the mob"
When people of the Englsl-speaking
race wish to do honor to a man. they
give him dinner; when human misery
is to be allevIated. they get up sub
scriptlon. True to this characteristic
of the race. the English and Americans
soiOurnlng at Malaga bounteously pro-
vlded money to buy medicine. food and
clothing for SPANS sick. starving and
ragged defenders-a duty their own
government had neglected.
Among the applicants for aid was a
youthful sailor of Cervera's fleet. whose
presence brought the one CLEAN of hap.
py human interest into the depressing
picture of misery.
"IIe had been prisoner In Ports.
mouth, y. H.. and was still dressed In
the clothes with which he had been
provided, and, thank God. they were
a credit to the people who had given
them. \ warm. blue serge suit, good
underelothng. shoes and socks. every
thing well made, stout and strong, ex.
actly the same as those provided for
our own 'bluejackets.'
"IIe said. taking hold of his sailor
blouse. These clothes We're given To
me by the Yankees. They're very nice,
aren't they
I'VE agreed very cordially indeed,
and with suppressed smiles we asked
II they had been well treated by the
Yankees, and he, in bllssfu ignorance
of our nationality, launched out into
delighted and eager panegyrle upon our
people, their works and ways.
Kind? l should think they were
kind. They gave us meat every day
He certainly though earthly praise
could not go beyond this"
No incident of the war conferred
more honor upon our own nation than
our treatment of Cervera's men, and
the comments of the young sailor show.
ed that 1t was appreciated.
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