The Republican journal., 1899-02-02

and also to all the family for was nervous and
eross and | could not sleep. Had four doctors
| trouble | was in bed for months and when
| dia get up, was SIGHT to behold I looked
ing Or Plerces favorite Prescription aud i'll
| few weeks became a well woman Before
| PECAN the use OF DR.. Pierce's medicine I suf
lered all woman could suffer 1T my monthly
| periods but now have pain. The dark
circles around my eyes are gone and I feel better
| in every way. Nv checks are red and my face is
! whltei before my face was as yellow saffron"
sumed an air of superiority over all in the
island, except the army and the church,
in the order named. They were the Shy
locks of Cuba, whose sole business for
centuries has been that of money getting,
at the expense of the natives. Caring
nothing whatever for the island except
to wiring money from it, and still less for
its people except as their tools-they
have held the Cubans' nose to the grind
stone and kept him in condition as near
to slavery as possible. Supported by
| Church and State, they have religiously
prevented his appointment to any office
in his native island, and took good care
that his interests were never represented
at Madrid, From time immemorial they
have bought up the judges and shared
their plumber with the venal politicians
and military authorities; and, in short,
had things all their own way in Cuba.
| Their profits were spent in Spain, where
most of them were educated and when the
war broke out, they helped to form the
great army OF spies and volunteers and
gave large sums to assist the unnatural
mother-country in crushing the land of
their adopotion. To-day they are the
most bitterly uncompromising, bigoted and
nonprogIessive element in CUBA though
their star is no longer in the ascendant.
| and Uncle Samuel VIII have more trouble
! with them than with all the crazy insur-
gents. Numbering not less than $50, 900,
1 they will undoubtedly favor annexa-
/ tion-as they would favor anything rather
than submit to Cuban rule Their prop
/ erty interests here are too great 10 be
abandoned, therefore they will remain, in
stead Of returning to impoverished Spain.
Naturally, the native Cuban regards this
class as a rabid dog does water If allow
ed his own way in the premises, he would
burn them all at the stake-at the very
best he would confscate their property
and chase them off the island,
As showing the widely different views
of these two clements, let me give you
some scraps of conversation which have
come to my ears. A Cuban widow of
/ high degree, whose husband was an
author and scientist of Tepute, once pos
sessed of great wealth, fled with other ref
ugees to Washington when Gen. Lee
abandoned his post. She owned the most
beautiful house in Habana-a marble pal
ace of vast proportions, filled with rare
paintings, fine old furniture and costly
brio a brac collected in several foreign
tours-the last remnants of once colossal
fortune. 1t was my privilege to be a
guest in this house just before the war;
and when the dear old lady came to Wash
lngton, Of course | went at once to see
her. Expressing my hope that the expect
ed bombardment would not injure her an
cesrral home, l was astonished to see her
rise to her feet with flashing eyes and the
manner of an outraged queen. 'Let it
burn" she exclaimed with dramatic ees-
ture. at is all have left on earth, ex-
cept my dead daughters children who
are dependent upon me; but | would glad
ly see it reduced to ashes and ourselves
made homeless as we are now penniless.
if it would aid the cause of Cuba libre one
iotaI'
| am happy to be able to add that the
old time palace was not injured, and that
grand children are at home in their bel ov-
ed Cuba, at least sure of shelter.
One day in the Hotel Paste, where my
room adjoned the parlor, with only lat
ticed door, extending half way to the
ceiling, between, was an Involuntary
listener to a characteristic conversation
Three or four elegantly dressed ladies,
residents of the city, were calling upon
the wife of a Spanish officer who was liv-
ing in the hotel. Said one of them-whom
knew to be the beautiful young daughter
of prominent Conservative, at the tip
top of the creme de la creme of Habana
society-'I wish to God that the Spanish
had blood hounds with which to hunt
these Cuban ours to their holes and tear
them limb from limb '-and the other
gentle creatures warmly approved the SEN
timent. Perhaps the most uncertain
quantity in this parti- colored population