Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 February 1899 — Page 4

fHE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

CtlvRLES BALCH, Proprietor.

Publication Offlco. No. 503V4 Ohio Street. Telephone 468.

The Mall Is sold ID the city by newsboys and all newsdealera, or will be delivered to any address, by mall, at the rate of $1 a year, or SO cents for six months.

Entered at the Postofflce at Terre Dante, Ind., as second-class matter.

The trust buHine.ts has not been doiog much this week, but few new ones being announced.

The annual mid-winter meeting of the .Southern Indiana Press Association will be held at Seymour March 2nd.

The Illinois Steel company has sold its entire output for the present year, amounting to no less than 550,(XX) tons, and sill the other steel mills of the country are doini* an enoirrmous business. Every branch of the iron and steel trade is feeling the general prosperity of the country.

The legislative appropriation bill as agreed upon by the house committee provides for an expenditure of $4.02K,74"J,9H, of which 155,712,i)H, will be required the first year, and ?l,H~:5,(KKl will be paid out the second year. Of course this is subject to amendment, but it is not to be expected that there will be any reduction of the amount.

Another army transport, the Sheridan, sailed from New York for Manila this week, having on board 1K55 enlisted men and their oflleers. As most of the latter took along their wives and families they doubtless expect t.o stay a while. The trip is expected to take about fifty days, and will be a new and novel experience for Uncle Sam's boys.

The iron and steel workers of Pittsburg have started a movement, having for its object the abolition of Sunday work in the mills, in which hey are having the earnest co-operation of the Federation of Churches. The movement, is all right and should meet with success. The Sabbath day was made for rest, and no man should be debarred the privilage of enjoying it as such The man who works hard six days of the week is entitled to a rest on the seventh, and should have It.

Hefore the body of the late President Faure had been placed in its collin the streets of I'aris were crowded with howling nioWi making demonstrations for and against principally against,, the new president. Fights were numerous, and there have been brawls without number. That's the French way. hike a mine the French people are so constituted that a very small spark will at any time cause a fearful explosion. It would be no surprise to see the republic disappear with one of these explosions one of these days.

The British war otlice gave out the statement this week that the Kitchener campaign in the Soudan cost the dervishes 11,000 killed and Ml.tKK) wounded. This was what they call in England an "expedition," and they have none of that style of patriots, of which this country seems to enjoy a monopoly, who hold up their hands in horror while trying to cripple the government in its efforts to bring about peace and introduce civilizing methods where barbarity has heretofore prevailed.

In all the talk about "the consent of the governed our home Phitippiuo patriots seem to conveniently forget that some thirty eight years ago a considerable portion of the people of the I'nited States withdrew their consent to being uoverned by our common country, and that it required over four years of weighty argument to overcome their objections. Hy a singular coincidence the same arguments are being offered by the same people to day, and their objections are being overcome in pretty touch the same way.

A pleasing dispatch from Manila this week was one announcing that the inhabitant of the Negros island had volunt-ar-jiv raised the 1'nited States Hag over that territory immediately after the capture of Uoilo by tieneral Miller, claiming Ameri-j can protection and offering the allegiance of the people. The island is 1,'Ci miles long, about twenty five miles wide, and has •AVi.ST.! inhabitants It is one of the richest of the Philippines, abounding in mineral wealth, gold, copper ami sulphur, while on it* eastern slope is a v«in of good steaming coal from ten to twenty feet in thickness The people of Negros are to be congratulated on their good sense, and it is to I* rwgrettod that they cannot impart Mne of it to the Philippines of America.

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their own way. It may be no improvement on the Pullman method, but it will be free government, and that is what the people want.

There is a great deal of talk these times abontthe proposed army reorganization in this country, and the cost thereof. At present the pension roll of the United States foots up $150,0000,000 in round numbers. On a peace footing the army cost $51,000,000, making a total of $201,000,000, per year. The highest priced army in Europe is that of Russia, which costs $149,000,000. Germany comes next, with a total cost of a little over $141,000,000. France is third, with a cost slightly Jjelow $124,000,000. Then comes England with $88,000,000, Austria, 86,000,000, Italy, $46,000,000, Spain, $38,000,000 and Turkey $30,000,000. From these figures it will be seen that although this country has not much of an army to boast of it still takes pretty good care of its heroes. And when the pension applications on account of the recent war get a good. start the annual expenditure on account of the soldier element will be increased very considerably.

AMUSEMENTS.

Those popular and famous entertainers, The (iormans, Johu, James and George, of well remembered minstrel fame, will make their annual appearance here at the Grand Monday night next in James Gorman's funny musical comedy, "Mr. Beane from Boston." Since last seen here the comedy has been entirely rewritten and brought up to date, in fact in its present shape, with many new and novel features, it is considered b5* the ablest of critics as one of the funniest plays now before the public. Some twenty singing and dancing specialties are introduced during its action, while the company engaged to support the Gormans is one of the strongest ever seen here iu musical comedy.

One of the big financial as well as artistic stage successes of the present day is Edwin Mayo's performance in that masterpiece in naturalness, "Pudd'nhead Wilson", from the pens of Mark Twain and the late Frank NJayo. "Pudd'nhead Wilson'" is a triumph in a kind of realism that all of us can see more of to some profit. At the Grand Tuesday night.

Next Thursday evening local play-goers will hare a very brief gliinpseat the tragic stage, and apart from the genius of Madame Modjeska the scarcity of tragedy of any kind nowadays would alone attract a liberal patronage. Of the many talented bidders for public favor she appears to be the only actress or player of either sex, for that matter, who has been able to maintain an exclusively Shakespearean or classic repertoire. That time has no deterring effect upon her ambition is very well evidenced by her elaborate scenic production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, which we shall see for the first time here on this occasion. The Shakespeare version of the "Sorceress of the Nile" is so little known to the present generation of play-goers that it will invite a^ .much curiosity as interest. Whether Modjeska will present as sizziugly passionate a Cleopatra as the divine Sarah, or less divine contemporaries, is hard to foretell. That it will be a queenly Cleopatra and one endowed with enough intellectual as well as physical charm as to make some excuse for the follies of so great a man as Mark Antony is very certain.

Charles II. Yale's new big laughter making surprise, "The Evil Eye, or the Many Merry Mishaps of Nid and the Weird, Wonderful Wanderings of Nod," is a most distinct novelty, framed and punctuated in such unique and fanciful surroundings, so lavishly embellished by .brilliant scenic and remarkable trick environments that it stands without a parallel as a new offering in the amusement world. At the Grand next Saturday night.

Among the attractions booked for the opera house in the near future are the following:

The Gorman*. Mr. Beano from Boston. Pudd'nhead Wilson. Kvll Eye. Daniel Sully. I'nder the Dome. Tim Murphy. Going to the llnees. Yon Yonson. Anna Held and the French Maid. What Happened to Jones. Hntida Uossa. Do Wolf Hopper Opera Co. Town Topics. Ferris Comedlaus. Chicago Orchestra. Lewis Morrison. Sol Smith Russell. Clay Clement, (return). Walte Comic Opera Co. Kichard Mansfield. Robert. Mantoll. James-Kidder- Warde-Co.. and ethers.

Th« report that the Park Casino has been leased for the coming season is denied by Receiver Jump, who says no one has I approached him on the subject up to this time. It can, however, be stated on

ho MHMU to know all about what the peo-S authority that the fair association has pie of those islands don't want, been considering the practicability of putting on attractirfhs at the fair grounds

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THE COLORED MAN.

HE IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE AFFAIRS OF CUBA.

But the "F. F. V.'s" are Displeased With His- Social Status—Army officers, Educators, Scientists, Poets and Musicians of the Dusky Itace. Special Correspondence of The Mall.

TJERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.r FEBRUARY 25, 1&99.

MATA"ZAS, Cuba, Feb 9.-—Speaking of the trouble that Americans in Cuba are encountering in their task of reconstruction, it should be borne in mind that there are two sides to every question, and the Cubans themselves may not be without their troubles at the hands of Americans. So difficult it is for people of different blood and temperament, born and reared to other traditions and customs, to look at things from the samp point of view. For example: Not least among the problems of reconstruction is the social and political status of the colored "man and brother." In benighted Cuba the shade of a man's complexion has never been greatly considered, and one finds dusky Othellos in every walk of life. To the F. F. V. element of Americans—full of the race prejudice which exists nowhere on earth with such venom as in the Land of the Free—the smallest approach to equality is simply intolerable. The present cloud on the horizon of happy reconstruction—at first no bigger than a man's^hand but now foreboding a tempest arose when a restaurant keeper from Alabama refused a seat at his public table to the mulatto colonel of a Cuban regiment. The Southerner had been brought up that way and was perfectly sincere in the declaration that he would see himself in a warmer clime than Cuba before he would insult his American guests "by seating a d—d nigger among them." To the colouel in question it was a novel and astonishing experience, and is of course deeply resented by all his kind in Cuba, where the color line has never been thought of, for the reason that African blood may be found, in greater or less degree, in some of the richest and most influential families of the island. Therefore, as it is not prob-' able that a temporary influx of foreigners will be able to draw the line very taut in the land to which the cfilored man was born, it would manifestly be the part of wisdom for those who cannot endure it to return to the Home of the Brave, where their inherited race prejudice may have full swing.

Had the Moor of Venice lived in this country, he would have found no reason for the remark, "Mislike me not for my complexion,"—for few Barbantios would have objected to him as a son-in-law on that account. Iu high life and low, the blood of the aboriginal Indian, mixed with the Latin, has been as often stained with the African as adulterated with the AngloSaxon. Naturally, "ther shadowed livery of the burnished sun" is no disgrace among these Creoles. In the creme de la creme of the aristocracy are mulatto families—growing whiter with each generation—which have been rich and powerful since away back to the days of their forgotten ancestors on the Congo and others with tolerably fair complexion, whose peculiar kink of hair and shade of finger tips betrays the dusky drop which in America would be fatal to all social aspirations. In Havana you need not be surprised to see Creole belles on the fashionable Prado—perhaps Cuban-Spanish, Cuban-English, or Cuban-German blondes promenading with negro officers in gorgeous uniforms or Octoroon beauties with hair in natural crimp, riding in carriages beside white husbands, or lighting up an opera-box with the splendor of their diamonds. One of the finest houses in Matanzas is owned by a Viscount of once fabulous wealth, the color of whose spouse it would be a stretch of courtesy to call cafe au lait. There was a wedding in the old cathedral the other other day, attended by the elite of the city, the bride being the lovely young daughter of a Cuban planter, the groom a burly negro, black as the ace of spades. Nobody to the manor born has ever dreamed of objecting to this mingling of colors therefore when some newly-arrived foreigner—possibly au ignorant fellow who has no status at home worth mentioning—declares that nobody but those of his own complexion shall eat in a public dining-room, there is likely to be trouble.

When the war began, the population of Cuba was a little more than one-third black now the proportion is officially reckoned as 525,684 colored, against 1,631,600 white. In 1898 two negroes were serving as secretaries of the autonomist cabinet. The last regiment that Blanco formed was of negro volunteers, to whom he paid—or rather, promised to pay, which is quite another matter, considering Blanco's habit—the unusual hire of $20 the month thereby showing his appreciation of the colored man as a soldier. If Gen. Weyler evinced any partiality in Cuba, it was for the black Creole. During the ten years war, which ended twenty years ago, his cavalry escort was composed entirely of colored men. Throughout his latest reign in the nnlncky island be kept black soldiers constantly on guard at the gates of the government palace. While the illustrated papers of Spain were earicatnring the insurgents as coal-black demons, with horns and forked toe-nails, burning cane-fields and butchering innocent Spaniards—the Marquis of Teneriffe chose them for his royal bodyguard.

By the way, the lieutenant-colonel of his guard was a Spanish-French negro, born in New Orleans, who was once a servant Of ex-Senator Pinchbeck, of La. Before the war he *ras a peaceful chiropodist in Havana. To-day he diplays a daxsling army of military d«csrations, is chief of the firs?-brigade and an undoubted I power in local politics. He also owns a I tri-we*kly newspaper which is principally filled with reprints from the American I press, of lynching* and roasting* at the I stake of negroes in oar Southern States, and invariably points the moral and adorns the tale by arguments against

annexation to the United States.. I A* everybody knows, one of the greatest

generals of the day, considering his environment, was Antonio Maceo, the Cuban mulatto hero, who for two years kept the Spanish army at bay and led them a lively quick-step through the western provinces, to the very gates of Havana. As swift on the march as Sheridan or Stonewall Jackson, as wary and prudent as Grant himself, he had inspirations of military genirs whenever a crisis arose. It is not generally known that Martinez Campos, who owed his final defeat at Colisea to Maceo, was a second cousin of the black man. Maeeo.'s mother, whose family name was Grinan, came from the town of Mayari, on the north coast of eastern Cuba, where all the people have Indian blood in their veins. Colonel Martinez del Campos, father of Gen. Martinez Campos, was once military governor of Mayari. While there he loved a beautiful girl of Indian and negro blood, who belonged to the Grinan family and was first cousin to Maceo's mother. Martinez Campos. Jr., the future general and child of the Indian girl, was born in Mayari. The governor could not marry bis sweetheart, having a wife and children in Spain but when be returned to the mothercountry, he took the boy along. According to Spanish law the town in which one is baptized is recognized as his legal birthplace so it was easy enough to legitimatize the infant Campos. He grew up in Spain and when sent to Cuba as captaingeneral, to his everlasting credit be it said that one of his first acts was to hunt up his mother. Having found her, old and poor, he bought a fine house in Campo Florida, the aristocratic suburb of Havana, established her therein, and cared for her tenderly till she died. The cousins, though on opposite sides of the war, befriended each other in many instances, and it is said that more than once CaptainGeneral Campos owed his life to his unacknowledged relative. Antonio Maceo's devotion to the cause of Cuba libre was like that of a mother to her child. Money could not buy him, nor specious promises deceive, and he died as he had lived, standing nobly by his principles. His halfbrother, Jose Maceo, was captured early in the war and sent to that dreadful African prison, Qeuta, whence he escaped, later on, with Quintin Bandera and others of his staff.

The last-named negro colonel is to-day a prominent figure in Havana. "Quintin Bandera" means "fifteen flags," and the appellation was bestowed upon him by his grateful countrymen after he had captured fifteen Spanish ensigns. Everybody seetns to have forgotten his real name, and "Quintin Bandera" he will remain in history. While in the African penal settlement, the daughter of a Spanish staff officer fell in love with him. The little blind archer who laughs at locksmiths induced her to assist his escape and flee with him to Gibralter and there he became a British subject and married his rescuer. She is of Spanish and Moorish descent and is said to be a lady of education and refinement: at any rate she taught her husband to read and. write, and feels unbounded pride in his achievements.

The noted General Jesus Rabi of the Cuban army is of the same mixed blood as the Maceos—Indian, negro and Spanish. Another well-known negro commander is General Flor Crombet, whose patriotic doeds have been dimmed by his atrocious cruelties. Somebody has aptly characterized him as the Desnalines of Cuba, and Antonio Maceo its Touissaint l'Ouverature.

Among all the gold-lace-bedizzened officers now swarming Havana, none attracts more admiring attention than General Ducasse, a tall fine looking Mulatto, who was educated at the French military school of St. Cyr. He is of extremely polished manners and undent able force of character, can make a brilliant address, and has great influence among the masses. To eject such a man as he from a third-rate foreign restaurant in his own land would be deemed sufficient cause for a call to arms. His equally celebrated brother, Col. Juan Ducasse, was killed last year, in the Pinar del Rio insurrection.

Besides these sons of Mars. Cuba has considerd her history enriched by the achievements of colored men in peaceful walks of life. The memory of Gabriel Concepcion de la Valdez, the mulatto poet, is cherished as that of a Saint. He was accused by the spanish government of complicity in the slave insurrection of 1&44, and condemed to be shot in his native town, Matanzas. One bright, morning In May he stood by the old statue of Ferdinand VII in the Plaza d'Armas, calmly facing a row of musket* along whose shining barrels the sun glinted. The first volley failed to touch a vital spot. The brave victim, bleeding from several wonnds, still stood erect and pointing to his heart said in a clear voice, "Aim here!"

Another mulatto author, educator and profoundHhinker was Antonia Medina, a priest and professor of San Basilio the Greater. He acquired a wide reputation as poet, novelist and ecclesiastic, both ia Spain and Cuba, %nd was selected by the Spanish Academy to deliver the oration on the anniversary of Cervantes' death, In Madrid.

His favorite Cuban pupil was Joan Gnalberto Gomez, the mulatto journalist, 'who has been imprisoned time and again for offense against the Spanish press laws. Snor Gomez, whose home is in Matanzas, is now on the shady side of forty, a spectacled and scholarly-looking roan.

After the peace of Zanjon he colaborated in the periodicals published by the Marquis of Sterling. In *19 be founded in Havana the newspaper La Fraternidad, devoted to the interests of the colored

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One might go on multiplying similar incidents did space permit. Some of the most eminent doctors, lawyers and college professors in Cuba are more or less darkly "colored." In the humbler walks of life one finds them everywhere, as carpenters, masons, shoemakers and plumbers. In the few manufactories of Cuba a large proportion of the artisans are negroes, especially in the cigar factories. In the tanneries of Pinar del kio most of the workmen are colored also in the saddle factories of Havana, Guanabacoa, Cardenas and other places. Facts do not bear out the oft-repeated statement that the Cuban negro is lazy and will not work. Two hundred of them from the insurgent army are now employed by the American authorities at Marianoa Beach and Quenado's camp, and Captain Hunt, the army paymaster, says they do their work better and with a deal less grumbling than did the Yankee boys at Santiago, who used to say, "We came here as soldiers, not as workingmen." Although the insurgent army is not yet disbanded, the sugar planters get plenty of help from their ranks by offering fair wages.

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Another beloved exile from the land of his birth is Senor Jose White, the Cuban Paganini. His mother was a colored woman, of Matanzas. At the age of sixteen, Jose wrote a mass for the Matanzas orchestra and gave his first concert. With the proceeds he entertained the conservatory of Paris, and in the following year was awarded the first prize as violinist among thirty-nine contestants." He soon gained an enviable reputation among the most celebrated European violinists, and covered with honors, returned to Havana in January of '7.r». But his songs were sometimes of liberty, and in June of the same year the Spanish government drove him out of the country. Then he went to Brazil, and is now President of the Conservatory of music in Rio de Janeiro.

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race. For« certain fiery editorial be was pf«tre»sln« stomach il*esse deported to Cento and kept there two Permanently cored by the masterly powyears. Then he went to Madrid and erg of South American Nervine Tonic, •saomed the management of La Tribnna: invalids need suffer no longer, because and in 1800 returned to Havana and re-1 tbia great remedy can core tbem all. It is so mad the publication of La Fraternidad. a core for the wjote £"r,d of a S S

Ce*tor Ponce de Leon, who show* scarce-i g^ngs is marvelous and surprising. It makes no failure: never disappoint*. So matter bow long von have suffered, yonr 1 core ia certain under the use of this great about sixty years ago, but on account 01 giv\ag force. Pleasant and always his revolutionary newspaper. La Verdad, safe. Sold bj all druggist, in Terra Haute, waa exiled aod his property confiscated in lad.

Nestor ly a trace of the African Mood in hi* reins. Senor de Leon waa born ia Havana

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For the year ending Decembr 31 1898 According to the (Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York

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