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atus of the Colored man in Cuba was shown to Rev. Father Wal

ther Yates had resided in that climate

d gentleman. "Of course, the article is very incomplete, there are

refer to call it, the Aethiopic Race, not only in Cuba, but in all the West Indie

sus figures were notoriously misleading. The census shows less than one-third colored. That is said not to be true. As soon as a man with African blood, whether light or dark, acquires property and education, he returns himself in the census as w

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o what do you ascribe the abse

cial life of our churches. Among Catholics all men have always been on equal footing at the Comm

ised this religious equality and fellows

lled Blessed Martin De Porres. His name is much honored in Cuba, Peru, Mexico and elsewhere. He

ver the Sanctuary in St. Joseph's Church. It is simply horrible to think that

ent dispute arose when a restaurant keeper from Alabama refused a seat at his public table to the mulatto Colonel of a Cuban regiment. The Southerner was perfectly sincere in the declaration that he would see himself in a warmer climate than Cuba before he would insult his American gu

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arriages beside white husbands or lighting up an opera box with the splendor of their diamonds. There was a wedding in the old cathedral the other day, attended by the elite of the city, the bride being the lovely young daughter of a Cuban planter, the groom

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sed to pay, which is quite another matter, considering Blanco's habit--the unusual hire of $20 a month, showing his appreciation of the colored man as a soldier. If General Weyler evinced any partiality in Cuba, it was for the black Creole. During the ten years' war, his cavalry escort was composed entirely of colored men. Throughout his

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E GREATES

of Mayari where all the people have Indian blood in their veins. Col. Martinez del Campos, father of General 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 his sweetheart, having a wife and children in Spain, but when he returned to the mother country he took the boy along. According to Spanish law, the town in which one is baptized is reco

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the appellation was bestowed upon him by his grateful countrymen after he had captured fifteen Spanish ensigns. Everybody seems 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 officer fell

g Havana none attracts more admiring attention than General Ducasse, a tall, fine-looking mulatto, who was educated at the fine military school of St. Cyr. He is of extremely polished manners and undeniable force of character, can make a brilliant addr

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a vital spot. Bleeding from several wounds, he still stood erect, and, pointing to his heart, said in a clear voice, "Aim here!" Another mulatto author, educator and profound thinker was Antonio Medina, a priest and professor of San Basilio the Greater. He acquired wide reputation as a poet, novelist and ecclesiastic, both in Spain and Cuba, and was selected by the Spanish Academy to deliver the oration on the anniversary of Cerantes' death in Madrid. His favorite Cuban pupil was Juan Gaulberto Gomez, the mulatto journalist, who has been imprisoned time and again for o

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Conservatory of Paris, and in the following year won 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 H

ers, masons, shoemakers and plumbers. In the few manufacturies of Cuba a large proportion of the workmen are Negroes especially in the cigar factories. In the tanneries of Pinar del Rio most of the workmen are colored, a

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an flag, has an area of 3,530 square miles. It is 107 miles in length and 37 mi

d mulattoes as that of the neighboring islands, is about 9

forty seven navigable streams. The road

valued at $10,181,291

salt, coal a

a variety of highland rice, which is easi

ies is grazing. St. Thomas i

e, cotton and potatoes cons

sts of prey, no noxious bir

d grass are

great foe o

live to be one h

e island is the ortegon, which

nt on the north coast

rt the pest

spoken, and education

poor, owns a horse and

-heart, a gamecock, a horse, a hammock, a guitar and a large supply of tob

ravellers. San Juan Harbor is one of the best in the West Indies, and is said to be the third most

en 1509 and 1518 kil

ilt in 1511, is of gre

easant. At night thick clo

shopping are do

s abolishe

tely formed. Many of them are pretty

rry clothes or provisions, are hung on either side of th

ry a basket handled sword a yard and a quarter lon

s is an island fashion tha

s affairs. His palace is at San Juan, the

ric monuments that have attracte

sh custom, men are

at roofs, both to catch water and to

where they bring their famil

s, gamblers, speculators and fugit