The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-10

ness long gone, it has been permitted to die out in Cuba. The monstry is now in the possession of the barefoot Commodities quaint figures moving. shadow like, or cloistered in dim cells.
 The houses are extremely pictur- esque; gay with colCr-blue, mauve, orange and pink. White houses are forbidden by law and, indeed, under the brilliant Cuban sunshine they would be dazzling to the eye. The windows have either gracefully wrought iron bars or queer Moorish screens, gay with paint CT perhaps tarnished gliding, and the kitchen with its stove of blue and white tiles and especial little charcoal fire for each vessel, is thing to see and re- member.
 Camaguey retains it's conservatism, courtship is still conducted with the lady on the balcony and the lover in the street below, and society, as we know it, is undreamed of. Perhaps for this reason the scene in the plaza when the band plays, upon the stated evenings is especially gay. About the plaza circle carriages containing wo- men in festal attire, while the inclosure Is filled with gay groups of carefully chaperoned girls, and white clad youths admiring from a decorous dis tance.
 The plaza at Camaguey has at each of it's four corners a royal palm which has a curious history. These palms were planted after the 10 years war in memory of four Cuban partrjnts: martyrs to the cause:B :B1fThe trees were carefully tended by the Cubans, by { whom. their history swas generally l known, the facts, however, being care fully kept from the Spanish officials. The rural guard isefa picturesque sight, in it's uniform of trim and natty khaki, with his wide trimmed hat, for the Cuban looks his best in the saddle. r The funeral of CanIaguey Is not it's least picturesque sight. The poorer classes carry the coffin through the streets with heads uncovered, and in- stantly the head of the passer-by is also uncovered out of respect to the dead. On foot follow the mourners, inhumble every day garb; and yet the coffin is decorated with silver and banked with flowers. siFhe mourners are all males, for no Cuban woman l follows even her dearest to the grave. The peddler Is a useful parsonage in Camaguery; welcome visitor at many a door. He has his regular route he | is charcoal seller, with his wares tied in huge bags across the back of mule; sometimes he is a vender of eggs and fowls; the former carried in a large basket on his arm, the latter tied together in each hand, alive, but apparently indifferent to their fate. The shoe peddler is seen so often that it would seem as if the whole of Camaguey purchased it's shoes at it's own front door. His wares are carried on huge wooden frame, from which they depend on tiers. The shoes are of a surprisingly gay appearance, among which the slipper of red, or blue, or even yellow is much in evil dence, for, after all, the shoe in Cuba is most frequently a slipper.
 Some peddlers carry miniature department store to their customers on small carts piled so high with household needs from lace to tinware. from calico to face powder, and draw by study goat, comically dwarfed by his load, which seems to cause him no distress.
 The babies of the poorer classes in Camaguey, as elsewhere in Cuba, seem to enjoy a pleasant immunity from clothes, or they play about the streets and doorways in natures garb in perfect comfort and Edenic inno- cence, wearing at most, single gar ment, perhaps g. pair of shoes. And this is possible, throughout the sunny year for their are no winter winds to chill; Camaguey is a city of sum- mer!-Four Track News.