The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-27

HeSS sSeiieu pursuing DIS lloii looii u
room, following in our footsteps and ~
ing in wait for us in shadoWy corners
of the dismantled throneroom and con-
ference chambers. Here, for three hun
bred years, the long line of Spanish
grandees, each in his little day. ruled a
nation with iron hand here Weyler is
sued his grim decree of recommendation,
which murdered by slow starvation
more than third of Cuba's population,
and her Doctor Congosto, the Mephis-
topheles behind the throne prompted to
undisclosed mischief. Here the Infamous
plot to explode the Maine" was
probably concocted, and Heaven knows
what other schemes, that came to
naught, for wiping out the hated Amer
leans. 1t seems strange indeed to see the
Stars and Stripes in conspicuous evil
dence in this holy of HOLES of Spanish
power on this side of the world, and to
note the entire absence of the escutche-
Gus and ensigna, once SO all-prevading
of the late owners. 1t is significant of
popular feeling-or rather of the turbu-
lent nature of race which does not
hesitate to kick man when he is
down" that the throne has been split
into kindling wood its darperies torn to
shreds and all the splendid portraits of
the crowned heads from Ferdinand
down, covered with spittle. All these
interesting relics that were not totally
destroyed in the first fury of the popu-
lace, or carried away, piecemeal, by Gu
1iosity- hunting American soldiers, are
now securely locked in one room of the
dismanted palace.
Every morning the queery is, How
many American newspapers are there in
Havana to-day" AT last accounts there
were seven; but they come and 60 like
dew before the morning sun. All the
small sheets, with an average circula-
ton of perhaps 150 dependant for pre-
carious support upon American adver-
Users. Most of the Spanish papers have
! also incorporated a couple of columns of
scantiest cablegram news, printed in
I English. Two or three of the old-tnle
Spanish papers keep on in the even
tenor of their drowsy way, as in anti
belum days, yelling their daily attacks
on Yankee pigs in the idoma of Old
CASTLE, which nobody of the hated race
| TROUBLES himself to read THE Times of
Cuba" published by Mr. Thomas Daw-
Ivy, VI iLcSlies, 10 NuttliIleo W Supetli
taste by employing native reporters.
The results in cold English print, is
sometimes funny Below are a few
items, reproduced verbatim from yester-
days Times:
"Senor Don Jose easel presented
frightful wounds of the right hand,
having all his fingers broken. He was
conducted to the emergency hospital,
where the illustrious DR.. Sanchez ampu-
tated the fingers with consummate skill
The wounded gentleman said that he
had been monkeying with a printing
press"
Don Julio Moleon, Ga years of age,
living in Gervaso street had his head
badly damaged by the infant, Pedro
Casano, who let a big piece of wood fall
on him from balcony. The Senior
Moleon is in a grave state, presenting
serious symptoms of commition inside
the Uranium"
THE negro girls, Juana Alvarez and
Rosa Mendez accuse four colored men,
whom they do not know, of having tied
them to window and martyrized them
with a red-hot iron. Their burns were
anointed at the emergency hospital.
The savages have not been captured
For many nights people living in the
Cerro have been terrorized by ghost,
which walks there. They notified Senior
Hernandez, the police inspector, who
sent number of his men to arrest the
ghost. One of the policemen saw it and
gave chase, but the spirit escaped. 1t
Is believed to be the ghost of a butcher,
who recently died at "a Tulpan."
A few days ago "the Century Tramp"
Mr.. H. P. Whitmarsh. arrived in Ha-
vana having accomplished his self-im-
posed task of walking the whole length |
of the island. He is the well-known au-
thor of 1.-The Worlds Rough Hand"
who set out from Santiago nearly three
months ago, equipped with little else
than credentials from the Century COM !
pany, for whom he will write his expert
ences. in series of articles. With only
his faithful dog for guide and escort, he
has tramped about 800 miles, being
many times arrested as a suspicious
and detained in filthy prisons.
Thrice he was held up by brigands, who
let him go unframed when they found
him apparently poorer than themselves.
Brigandage in Cuba is still rampant,
in spite of the conquering army. Up to
sixty years ago the coast was infested
with pirates, whose organized gangs
were finally broken up by the combined
pressure of the English and American
governments brought to bear upon the
Spanish. And then it appears that many
Of the buccaneers settled a little way
inland, near the sequestered coves
where they formerly carried OH their
profitable trade, and left to their chill
dren not only large legacies of i'll gotten
gains, but the same rowing disposition
which led them to plumber ships on the
high seas. Therefore with the suppress
sion of piracy, outlaws of various sorts
sprang up in Cuba, who went about as
Tree lances, or banded themselves to-
yether in lawless ferocity. Spain was
lever any more successful in putting
Town this brigandage than in extermin-
lting piracy unaided-or subsequently
n ending the instruction. AS the lat
er developed, Gomez and Maceo put an
md to brigandage for time, by incor-
oorating the robbers into their own
'anks. Hardly was the war concluded
md the Spanish troops out of the island,
before these temporary patriots took
o the woods and resumed their old &C.
The local papers are full of