The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 21, 1898, Page 2

poe es ee eat ABOUL CUBA. The Remarkable Natural Re- sources of the Island. bicago Times-Herald, | Now that Cuba is assured of her freedom it may be interesting to in- quire into the resources of the couc- try and ask what may be her pros | pects for prosperity when she is no jonger restrained and overtaxed by the greedy government of Spain. | poldt was amazed at the richuess | The area of Cuba 18 about 42,000 | equare miles. Its greatest length | is 760 miles and its breadth ranges from 20 to 135 miles. Perhaps there | is no space of earth in the equal in| size to Cuba that can begin to com} pare with her in the production of | thoge things that are useful to man. | Antonio Morales,a noted authority, | has prepared a table showing the variety and quantities of the staples that can be raised ona tract of 33 acres in Cuba. A farm of that size produces in one year thousands of pounds of sugar, coftee, tobacco, coca (chocolate), cotton, indigo, corn, rice, sage, banannas and yucca. ‘The choicest lends in California— moted for the variety and quantity of their products—can not approach the soil of Cuba in this respect. With ita mild climate, its exhuber- ant vegetation and the eagerness of the earth to respond to the slightest efforts in the way of culture, Cuba offers an ideal home for the man in Jove with the agricultural life. The commerce of Cuba, even un der the blighting rule of the Span dard, has been great. In 1893, be fore the curse of war fell on the island, Cuka exported 718,204 tons of sugar and produced 815,894 tons. Its exports of molasses to the United States alone in that year were 7,654 hogsheads. Of rum the exports were 9308 pipes In 1893 the Cuban ex- ports of leaf tobacco were 227,865 bales. Of manufactured cigars 147,- 365,000 were exported and of cigar- ettes 39,581,493 yackages. These are only the main exports. They show what may be done with the ex- haustless soil and climate of the island when its people were in a con- dition of virtual slavery at a time when chattel slavery had been abol ished only seven years It is an axiom of economic science that free iabor is indefinitely mcre productive than elave labor, and the industrial growth of the United States is an example of the expansion of indus- try when enterprise is unhampered by the curse of elavery and by for- eign political interference. Cuba's chief industries were growing in spite of the drain upon her before the present war began, for in 1894 her total production of sugar was 1,054,214 tons, an increase of 238,- 320 tons over the preceding year. The natural resources of Cuba are infinite, one may say,in variety. Of ber area only 10 per cent is under cultivation, 7 per cent is not reclaim- ed, and 4 per cent is under forests. Great tracts of the island are practi- cally unexplored. She had in 1894 @ population of a little more than 1,500,000. Of these nearly one-third have been starved to death during the present war. Cuba could sup- portin plenty a population of 10,- 000,000. Her forests are stocked with the finest wood in the world— wood, several species of which are as hard as iron, turning the edge of the ax and remaining imperishable under water. There are found woods invaluable for the dye industry, ebo- ny, cedar, fustic, lancewood, mahog- eny, rosswood, jocuma, acana and many others. There are 50 varieties of palm. Her fruits are valuable and little cultivated. The climate is admirably suited for the olive; and the orange, the lemon, the pineap ple and the banana are indigenous | The mineral resouress of the! island are great, yet the mineral in-| dustries are in theirinfancy. Almost | all the metals are found in Cuba. There are gold, silver, mercury, cop- per, lead and all the forms of asphal- tum; antimony, magnesia, copperas, gypsum, red lead, ocher, salt arsenic, tale and many others. Copper is abundant in all the metamorphic rocks of Cuba. It is true that coal | is yet undiscovered, but undera free| republic capital would flow into the island, and there is no doubt that} true coal would soon be found to re- | place the bitumen that is now used, | and which is found in springs and mines in great quantities. | Cuba is rich in marble, awaiting | | the capital of the speculat or. Great | TRE FOUNDING OF MATANZAS. deposits of this rock are found and | in the Isle of Pines there is marble of a quality as fine as the best of that material used by the sculptor.) Beautifully colorei marble and Jas On the coasts are and per are common immense deposits of rock there are of the pur be salt, ) od, capable of white Fa ing converted into fine earthen ware. Even the illustrious Hum and variety of the mineral wealth of Cuba. How much this wealth has been utilized may be gathered from the fact that the end of 1891 the total number of of at | wining titles issued in Sautiago dis trict was 296. Of thess 138 iron, 88 managave3e and 53 copper. As a pastoral country Cuba was more productive a century ago than she is now, but her pasturee are broad and rich and her poseibilities are unlimited. Cuba, with her grand natural pastures, was just beginning to raige fine Durham and Deyouehire stcck when the ten year war deso- lated the country and put artop to the industry. The millions of acres of frea land in Cuba are ready for the agriculturist, the cattle, sheep and hog raiser, the cotton and fruit grower, the miner and the reducing plant, and even for the silk grower manufacturer. The mulberry to perfection in the according te were and tree grows island. Silk Dr. Auber, are more pro ifie and pro ductive in Cuba than ia any other country onthe face of the globe. Here is a land prepared to yield up utilities that add immeasurably to the happiness of ths world; waiting to blossom into a garden and to swarm with population; to develop almost every art of peacr; to be con- verted into an industrial micrceosem in the macrocosm of ths world at large. Cuba is waiting the hour when the capitelist, assured of peace and uninterrupted growth, may safely enter ard reap the har- vest which nature has prepared for man in the misruled, throttled and neglected Pearl of the Antilles. worms, A Queer (?) Medicine. There is a medicine whose propri- etors do not claim to have discovered some hitherto unknown ingredient, or that it isa cure-all. This honest medicine only claims to cure certain diseases, and that ingredients are recognized by the most skilled phy- sicians as being the best for kidney and bladder diseases. It is Foley’s Kidney Cure. At J A Trimble’s drug store. A Dose of His Own Medicine, From the Detroit Free Press. Having been married less than a month, it would naturally be sup posed that Bimley was one of the happiest men in the country. Bat he’s not. He broods and echemes and indulges in long execrations. He would give half his fortune to get his grip upon a certain person or persons unknown. Of course there is a story back ot this. Bimley married a Ph ladelphia girl. He weat on there the day be fore the wedding and in going about the city he noticed that he was being shadowed. Having acharacter above reproach, this did not bother him much at first, but the thing grew very annoyiog when he was fo!low ed to the house of his fiancee and found the shadows awaiting him when he left. In trying to dodge them he whetted their suspicion and was promptly arreste1. At the station house Bimley gave his name and wes then informei that he was known. Word had been wired from the chief of police in Detroit that Bimley had gone to Philadelphia {o make a big haul and expected to leave with a treasure that would satisfy him for the bal ance of his life. The more he pro- tested the more material be gave the newspapers. It took several hours to clear the matter up and the next morviog the whole story was told under flaming headlines. It one or more conspirators who made free with the name of the chief It set all the harder with Bimley be- unlimited quantities | An Interesting Andalusian Legend. N.Y. Post Thera was o2c3 upon atime a man | who led a very merry life, taking no| | thought of tha morrow; and since to {rua in debt without having the means to pay is the sure road to the poor house, in a very short time our hero was left with nothing he could call his own but thirty days in the month, and .ith nothing to exercise lhie teeth upon but his nails. | that little by little he fell into such |a state of dejection that he would | allow his wife to beat him and his |children to abuse him when he re- tured home at night empty banded, without uttering a word in protest. Finally, he grew tired of hie life, and, borrewiog a rope from one of hia cronies, he went into a fisld to hang himeelf. Having fastened one end of the rope to an olive tree, he was about to put the other around his neck, when there appeared bsfore him a dwarf, attired in a friar’s robe and cow!, who said te him quietly: “What is that you are going to do, my good man?” “Can not your Worship cea what Iam going to du? To hang myself,” he answered. ‘So you, a Christian, sre going to do what Juda3 did? Stop; that isn’t right. Takes this purse, which is never empty, and relieve your neces sities ” Taking the purse from the dwarl’s hand, Unele Curro, for such was our hero's rame, took a dollar out of it, and tien ancther ani another, until he sav that, like the words coming out of a woman’s mouth, there seem- ed to be no end tothem. Seeing which, he untied the rope from the tree, rolled it up, and started for home On the road there wag a tave-n, which he entered, and, call ing for the best the hous; could afforl in meat avd drisk, he paid the score on the spot, for the tavern keeper, knowiog him of old, would not trast him to so large an amount, and he ate and ate, and drank and drank, until finally be fel! off his chair and roiled under the table, The tavern-keeper, who had seen that the purse from which Uncle Curro had taken the mongy remained as full as bsfore, told bis wife to make another purse like it, and when this was done be took Uncle Ourro's purse from his pocket and put in its plaee the one his wife had made. When Uncle Curr> awoke he set out again for hems, as merry asa cricket “Rejoice!” he cried to bis wife and children. ‘Here is money in plenty our days of poverty are over.” He put his hand into his pocket, and took it out again—empty; he put it in again, and aga‘n he took it out empty. When his wife saw this she was fo enraged that she gave him a blow that sent him spinning. More dejectei than ever, Uncle Curro egain got the rope, and went once more into the fields to hang himself. Arrived at the same spot as before, he was proceeding to tie the rops to a branch of the came tree when he heard a voice near by saying: “What is that you are going to do, good mau?” and lifting up bis eyes he saw before him the dwarf, seated astride a branch of the olive tree. “To hang myself like a string of garlic from a kitchen rafter,” answer- ed Uncle Curro, very coolly. “So you have lost your patience again?” said the dwarf. “And no wonder,” replied Uncle Curro,“when I have nothing to eat.” “That is your own fault, entirely your own fault But never mind. Come hero. Take th's table cloth, and so long as you keep it in your possession you shall never want fr something to eat ” ; Was @ practical joke on the part of|Curro a table cloth, and then disap peared among the branches of the | Olive tree. Uncle Curro spread the | tablecloth on the ground, which he cause he is a practical joker himself.|had no sooner done than it was Time only makes him madder instead of soothing him, and there telling what would come off if he spiracy. Two Millions a Year. When people buy, try, and buy again, of Means they’re satisfied. The = United States are now buying Cascarets Candi Cat atthe rate of two million boxes of yearand it willbe three million before New Year’s. It means merit proved, that Cascarea, are the ~~ oe regulator for everybod: e year round. druggist l0cts 2%5e. 50c a box, cure guaranteed. 5 is no} covered with the richest viands, so jexquisttely prepared that not the | Should sucsed in unearthing the con- | king’s cook himself could have sur- i Uncle} |passed them. Of course, |Curro ate until he could eat no longer, and then, folding his table- |cloth, he put it in his pocket and set jout for home. Stopping to rest at the same inn jas before, he was overcome with So} | sleep, end lay down to take a nap. The inakeeper, who recognized him jat once, suspected that hebad some- |thing of value with him, and cau- tiously taking the table cloth out cf jbis pocket, he put in its stead the soiled c'oth from the table of the inn ql cried o “Come, take Then Curro reached to his wife come az this time, word for it, there shall ba no disappo |he unfolded the table-cloth, which, jinsteal of viands, wa3 to be jcovered with stains of all sizes and jof every color. At this broke loose. Wife and children fell upon him and beat him, until they left him a fit subject for the hospital. Then seen the storm again into the fields to hang himself This time he persisted in his pur pose of hanging bimeself, and the dwarf persieted in his thatbe should not. At last the little friar ended the discussion by giving Uncle Curro a cudgel,telling hm that with that in his hands he need never be troubled by any one again, and that all he had to do was to say: “Cudgel, lay about you!” for every one to run away from him, aud leave him in pease and quiet. Uncle Curro took the road home with bis eudgel, as proud as an alcalde with his wand of office, and |the moment he saw hie children |comipg toward him, for |something to eat, with insulting and | | asking tomed to see their mother said to his cudge’: “Cudgel, lay about you!” No sooner had he pro- nounced the words than the cudgel | began to shower blows to right ard left among tho children, until they had scarcely a whole bone left in their bodies. His wife ran to her childreos assistance. “At ber cudgel, at ber, and with a will!’ And the cuigel belebored the wifs eo unmer- cifully that she died of her injuries. The autnorities being netified, the a'calde, accompanied by his officers, pressnted himself upon tbe scene. “Cudgel, lay about you!” said Uncle Curro, as soon as they appeared; and the cudgel proceeded to deal such lusty blows among them that every blow was worth a dollar; so that the alcalde was killed and the officers took to their heels ani were out of sight in a trice. A messenger was sent to the Kinz to inform bim of what was going on, and the King sent a regi- ment of grecadiers to seize Uncle Curro and his cudgel. No sooner did Uncle Curro see them approach than, throwing the eudgel emong their ranks, he cried, “Cudgel, lay about you!” And the cudgel straight- way began to dance upon the ribs of the grenadiers, making a noise like the clapper cf a mill. One it left lame; another with a disabled arm; and the Captain it left blind of an eye. To make an end of the busi- ness, the grenadiers all threw their guns and knapsacks on the ground and ran off helter-skelter, as if they thought the devil bad broken loose do, he jand was running after them With his mind at rest, lay down to take a nap, hiding his cudgel in bis breast, lest it should ba stolen from him during hiseleep. When he awoke be found himself bound hand od foot, and om his way to prison, where, on his arrival he was seatenced to the ignorsinious desth of the garrote. Ona the following mo:ning he was taken from his cell snd ied out to execution. On the seaffold bis hands were unbound; whereupon he took out his cudgel end saying, “Cuigel, lay about you!” he threw it at the executioner, who was quickly beaten by it to death “Set that man eaid the | King, “or he will not leave mea jsubjeet alive; tell free!” |condition that he shall leave the |country!” And thus it wes done. The King gave him a province in the |Ieland of Cuba, whera he built a |city; and there he killed so many | people with bis cudgel that from that day on to this it has been called | Matanzas(rhe Spavish for slaughter). Ferrxax Cazatiero. Levi A. Cass, elitor of the Toledo (O) Commercial, was indicted by the Lucas county grand jury for | editorial utterances reflecting upon anti-Hanna leaders during th: Ohio senatorial fight last January. Unele Curro took a rope, and went} abusive words, a3 they were accus-} bim that I will) So saying the dwsrf banded Uncle | give him a province in America on| Colonel Hi Bledsoe, the noted | Confederate artilleryman, was asked in Kansas City the other day if he would cffer bis services to the Gov- ernment in case of war. He replied that believed be was over aze, but didn’t know as that would make when I esl in the ar the Mexican War,” he said,“-but jidn't count then, so I suppose the fact that I am over age now wouldn't count if I was to again offer my ser-| vices to the Government.” Old Con-| federate soldiers eay that Colonel} Bledsoe will undoubtedly offer bis services to the Government in the eveat of war. He is a man who! | never talks about himself, and it was) io keeping with his usual custom} that he should decline to make any | positive sta‘ements to his inquirers| at Kansas City. He owns quite an) }extensive farm iu Cass County, and | although well along in years, fays lhe was never sick an bour in his life land never expects to b».—St. Louis Republic that | The author of the very strong paper on the public finances of | Spain, recently published in Har- ;per’s Weekly, contributes to the |number of the Weekly dated April |9 a not less authoritative and timely | article on “The Foreign Commerce jof Cubs.” Other impertant features of the number are: Harold Martin | description of the Reconcentrados; | “Busy Scenes at Arsenale,” illustrat- jed with photographs of the United States Arsenal at Watervliet, New) York, takea especially for Harper's Weekly by Albion W. Floyd,through {the courtesy of the Secretary of War; full page illustrations of Spain's | flotilla en route to Puerto Rico, the Flying equadron at Hampton Roads and the scene in the Senate when the Maine report was read. 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Henderson, that valiant old soul who wanted war in the event that Bryan wae elected President, is not hankeriag for war with Spain He is afraid that he may possibly have to pay an income tax on the two or three millions of dol'ars that he made by buying up fraudulently issued Missouri county bonde. The general, like others of his class, is loyal only to the inter- ests of bia pocket book —J+fferson City Tribune. There hes always been consider- sble discursion as to which regiment of confederate soldiers was the Jast to surrender at the close of the civil war, says the Oak Grove Banner. Hiram J. George of this place claims, and perbaps justly so, that Sbank’s regiment, She!by’s brigade, was the last band of southern men to lay down their arms and take the oath of allegiance to the union. 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