as os = 2" baie =Dp. J. waicnEditor Reflector: -~southern lsud Ies,flowers, wheresunshine. |Florida would be~Tegistered at thetelry in which Iwas as carefullyrile tra~ Entered ws second-class mail matter.ss. FROM CUBA,- Whata Pitt County_ *. ~Heard in Cuba,3 BY J. E. LANGLEY."" Havana, Cusa, Feb. 23rd, 1895.While sitting in my -room . withne of those far famed Havanaigars in my mouth, my thongitsander back over the suopyrough, where the air is laden~with the orange blossoms andwhere the fields -are forever car-peted with natureTs loveliest flow-- ere. lf you will grant me the~space in your valuable paper, Iwill endeavor to try and tell yourTeaders, manv of-which are myfriends, what I saw and heard othis, my third visit to Cuba Ileft Richmord Va., on Jan. 10tb_ and came direct: to Charleston. 8." ©., atter which Lvisited Columbia,Augusta avd Savannah. Treooeame across into Florida, the lund grance from the biossoming trees= and enjyelthe spring. sunshine_ which owes brightens everything. It isindeed aland lualledby the breezes and kissed by theSome of you whe nowae.eiaibedwimost astonisheltail -abont the beautifal _ edilice7 é arranged asnough it were a palaces. Theroows, offices and patlrs are_-"supeib in their appointments,_ whilethe tab'e was simply divyive.T veling up the St. Jubusa Jxcksonyille to Sanslong. the banks ¢: Boy Saw and*haye. passedI sniffed tra-%,Fs, wo e astonished at}_ the magnificent hotels and, too, athe bill one pays when he lk aver.When I reache | St Augustine andPonce de Leonmy astonishment turned to woo-d-r.and the elegance of the bos-Was a guestme. Every dethe renowned Tampa Bay. hotel, |cows:to your door and milk what -_which is just as sublime,only more|you want, and then to the next *so; than the -Ponce de lLeon./door, &ndsocn, until they haveof it Iwater(in fact I coult not havejand¢lean. = ~gone any other way unless I haddistauee ef 250 miles.- Our yoyage down the gulf took about~ 24bheurs and was a-pleasaut trip.[ue first thing greeted us on ourarrival was about 12 or 15 littleboys (elothed only in atmosphereand water) swimming out 10 theeuifto meet the ship. Wheu thesbip neared-them the little natives(Gubans) began to solicit nicklesand pennies from the passengerswho would throw them in the,water to see the little fellows divefor them, and they would getevery one ofthem. They followedthe ship and kept this up for aguarter ofa mile or more. KeyVest, oTne Island City.� Lastbout 25,000 people who ~arelargely Cubans. © Very little Eng-lish 1s spokeu there. The Islauds 6 miles loug, 3 miles wide ands ll feet above the sea level..Its commercial _ipdustries aiéprincipally cigar manufacturmgand sponge fishing. While there[I saw u Banyan tree in the MnitedStutes barracks, tne only tree ofits kind on Americau-_soil. It isa native of Indiv. FeHaving odone� oThe IslandCity� we next sailea for Cuba, alists .cs Of 9) miles... The schedale is $9 wares l as not to - getto Cuba befure sun rise, as noforeign ships are allowed tu passMorro:Castie {entrance to theharbor) after sun down or beforesuu rise. This is a law of. theengage:l wings) to Key West, al-sometimes dioeescs.mutatis mutandis,Spanish government. Then theauehored out about a-mile fromshore where itis met by a scoreof ewalil boats which for one dollar they transport a passengeraad his baggage to the shore.shines, �,�0 adit Yo the grtig8|ple aud the tremendous eeey oHship is not allowed to land but is | in2zTuere bttle cutters are each mzn-, iby one man and you would¥ 3 howeOks very neat[To BE OONTINUED.]TSeTHE ENGLISH PARISH. .History Tells Us But Little of the. Early Ones. |It is tobe remembered that, as jn "the apostolic age the work of con-verting the worldTstarted from: thegreat towns, so was this-cmphatic- .ally the ease in:Gaul. . How-early or .bow late the practice became general "of calling the ~country cure theparish and the Episcopal see thediocese, I have never been able to _discover. As early as the fourthcentury we tind mention of country:churches with lands belouging to -them, andin the next century the ~numbers of these foundations somuch increased that Sidontus (A. ~~D. 480-488) mentions a visitation he "made of the rural churchesin his = "diocese (Auvergne), and we notice &that by this time these.settlements_are someiimes called parochiae andof Lritain.[his hotel is 1200 feet long, think| gone around. ~The man who does, ~the milking is dressed oin pure |~From Port Tampa I went by |white linen, and loZLater on, Gregory of Tours (A. .D. 539-593). more often calls. the _country cures dioceses andtheEniscopal see the parochia. Bat, -call them. what you will, wearefairly well instructed as to theman="nerin- which thé country parishes ~~(as we caH them now) rose up. in=Gaul; and | have a suspivié6n thatwuat was true of: Gauk was true,havea suspicion that if we had forBritish history anything approach-to that wealth of oritinal sources;which we have for early French. "history during the first fiveorsix "centuries of our era, weshould haveevidence that some"perhaps many--~condition of affairsT anterior to.theT Saxon conguest."Nineteentlya iptiog 28 cents per Month: | pag iat ty-of|thing: saw in» Havana that-at-oSubscription 28 cents per Monthy |1g.000 scale. Here we find. the|tracted my attention was the waylargest hotel in the United States,|they serve milk. They drive the _#+ae; ae aS5 -#-aebiro."of our English parishes existed asT °ecclesiastical parisbes, with pretty ~: 7 a much the same boundaries as they: §\sf the|be amazed at the number of peo-| have to-day, and are survivals of a