| Show maln SPAIN AND AM the most reli reliable anto report probably published for a long jong time about the status of the cuban insurrection la is that given byan by an alleged japanese spy apy aud and intended for his bia government although jt it found its way first to the office of captain general weyler it represents the span spaniards tards as ae inactive though su eu parlor in numbers to the rebels and ana states that the general la Is so eo busy buey coajou latt matlog hia profits that he can find no time tim for an actual campaign it con colo eludes elude with an intimation that the time has baa come for japan to seize the philippine islands which the report says cao can be done in the same way that france occupied madagascar spain only a century ago one of the mightiest of the kingdoms kingdom of the he earth I 1 in r now dow suffering from a condition that grems eem to threaten it with dissolution it to is ling to keep the still remaining colonies from which la in earlier aimee it brought home untold wealth notwithstanding her bar immense samorl cubs cuba la is being converted concerted into beabe of nehf her soldiers die from fever favors or are allain by the ln in sur auriente gents the time apparently must come when the struggle tr uRle will cease for lack of money and won men to carry it on and in these theae straits braito tr aito a power but yesterday yeat erday emerged from a coo con dialon of barbarism barba la Is seriously erio irly contemplating the advisability of 0 seizing another of spain chief colo niell what a change in antho the period of a brief century no less leaa remarkable is the situation in eastern europe where the turkish empire once the tb terror of the world is slowly but surely crumbling to pieces the recent butchery of Armon tans in constantinople when of a number estimated at about penona were on toe altar of fanaticism boa baa 60 b turned the tide of public opinion among the sultans aul tana staunchest allies that euord salisbury has baa found it prudent to announce the with drapal of english support rapport from the porte the representatives of the powers are to defend themselves and the foreigners against possible attacks on their residences residence while the liberal mohammedan element is clamoring for the dethrone went of the ruler which probably means that he be Is no longer safe eafe lo in his own palace against the poison or the dagger of the assassin spain and turkey I 1 the extreme west sad and the extreme east of the european continent in too the convulsions of death deat b I 1 yet the former was once the leading power of that part of the globe and before the exploits of the other all europe trembled blou are there not in decatious of an approaching day of judgment upon old conditions and those who played leading parts ther els it ft certainly furnishes sub ab leets for reflection that these two countries nearly always even in their day ol of highest glory were the homes of the two extremes of fanaticism that once met in mortal combat one the cradle cradie of the inquisition with its ita tortures and sufferings inflicted on its victims the abe other spreading mohammedanism with word sword and fife alre s and both may by ibis time have tad iad i ad an opportunity to very vary nearly fill up she measure of their iniquities |
