| Show A MARKED CONTRAST that was wad a very pretty incident that took place in cuban waters on wednesday last when admiral sampson released t a captured spanish officer and took mm him to his home under a flag of to ruce the spaniards wife living at santa banta cruz some distance from havana a few days previously had pre abated anted hex her husband with a son and he wa naturally aUy desirous of seeing the 1 0 iD inestimable estimable treasure with this ob 1 jo in view and accompanied by a he sought to run the blockade in fumall boat hoping to evade the vigilance of the american sailors he emko rad without his host however ad was vm speedily gathered in upon his explaining to the admiral the na ture of the case he was at once released from arrest taken to the point at which he wished to disembark and there put ashore as previously stated with no other annoyance having been visited upon him than was occasioned by being picked up ir in the way he was such transactions tell a tale more eloquent than any framed by words americans do not fight women and children or purposely oppress them they do fight men when they have to and the more manly they are fought by their opponents the more their liking f for or such work moreover fighting is carried on not to punish or destroy foi that alone but to attain desired ends in the pursuit of which the last cruel and most expeditious means meang are sought how different with the enemy during the three and a half years war in cuba they have wantonly slain four women and children fol foi every soldier killed in legitimate encounters while old people and all other non combatants that could be reached have been herded together like cattle robbed starved abused and permitted to perish slowly and awfully the difference between the is strongly marked and painfully visible |
