. The literary digest. estern provinces justwhat their army sits on. Every man,woman, and child, and every domesticanimal, wherever their columns havereached, is under guard and withintheir so-called fortifications. To describe one place is to describeall. To repeat, it is neither peace norwar. It is concentration and desola-tion. This is the pacified conditionof the four western provinces When they reached the town theywere allowed to build huts of palm-leafs in the suburbs and vacant placeswithin the trochas, and left to live ifthey could. Their huts are about 10by 15 feet in size, and for w
. The literary digest. estern provinces justwhat their army sits on. Every man,woman, and child, and every domesticanimal, wherever their columns havereached, is under guard and withintheir so-called fortifications. To describe one place is to describeall. To repeat, it is neither peace norwar. It is concentration and desola-tion. This is the pacified conditionof the four western provinces When they reached the town theywere allowed to build huts of palm-leafs in the suburbs and vacant placeswithin the trochas, and left to live ifthey could. Their huts are about 10by 15 feet in size, and for want ofspace are usually crowded togethervery closely. They have no floor butthe ground and no furniture, and aftera years wear but little clothing ex-cept such stray substitutes as they canextemporize. With large families or with morethan one in this little space, the com-monest sanitary provisions are impos-sible. Conditions are unmentionablein this respect. Torn from their homes,with foul earth, foul air, foul THE death. Courtesy of The ChristianHerald. 362 THE LITERARY DIGEST. [March 26, 1898 and foul food or none, what wonder that one half have died andthat one quarter of the living are so diseased that they can notbe saved. A form of dropsy is a common disorder resultingfrom these conditions. Little children are still walking aboutwith arms and chests terribly emaciated, eyes swollen, andabdomen bloated to three times the natural size. The physi-cians say these cases are hopeless. Deaths in the streets havenot been uncommon I went to Cuba with the strong conviction that the picture hadbeen overdrawn, that a few cases of starvation and suffering hadinspired and stimulated the press correspondents, and they hadgiven free play to a strong, natural, and highly cultivated imag-ination. Before starting I received through the mail a leaflet,published by The Christiati Herald, with cuts of some of the sickand starving reconcentrados, and took it with me, thinking t
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