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Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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afternoon and remain open tillhalf-past five or six. Go to an office in Santiago at half-past eight in themorning, and nobody will be up; go again at half-past twelve, and everybodywill be eating; go again at half-past one, and everybody will be asleep. In the evening the people sit around and take life easy, and smoke, ofcourse, for in Santiago everybody smokes—men,women, and children. Eventhe waiters in the hotels and cafes pull out cigarettes and smoke betweenthe courses. The porters and cabmen smoke at all times and seasons. Thestevedores on the wharves smoke at their work; and even the clerks in thedry goods stores roll a cigarette and take a puff between two customers. Thesenorita blows a cloud of smoke from under the lace of her fascinating, mys-terious mantilla, while negresses walk along the streets puffing away at hugecigars. Children of eight and ten years may often be seen with cigarettes intheir mouths, and it is no uncommon sight to see men and women smokingin church.
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380 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. The country houses around Santiago are infested with mice and lizards.The latter are very alert and active, and quite unlike the sluggish lizardsseen in northern climates. There is a curious kind of mouser, whose pres-ence is rather encouraged about Cuban country houses. These mousers arenot cats, as one might suppose, but large black snakes. As they are quiteharmless, nobody thinks of being afraid of them, and they come and go asthey please—unmolested. The climate is very hot and unhealthy, and it is said that yellow feverprevails there almost continually. This may be true among the nativepopulation, where dirt and ignorance prevail; but civilization and cleanlinesswill do much toward alleviating the rigors of the plague. The people of Santiago being wretchedly ignorant, it goes without say-ing that they are also intensely loyal to Spain and bitterly hostile to all decentcivilization. It was the scene of anti-American and anti-British riots immedi-ate

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