Show OUR DUTY TOWARD CUBA The outcome of the Cuban rebellion depends on the attitude of the United States and Mr Clarence King In the Forum September urges that we have the right to recognize Cubas belligerency bellige-rency which recognition Is all that Is needed to insure her triumph Mr King Bayo The Cuban war hangs be fore us an Issue which we cannot evade Either we must stand as tho friend of Spain and by our thorough prevention of the shipment of war supplies to the Insurgents aid and countenance the I Spanish efforts to conquer Cuba Into continued sorrow or wo must befriend Cuba in her heroic battle to throw off a medieval yoke Let UB not deceive ourselves Spain alone cannot conquer Cuba she proved that In ten years of miserable failure If we prevent the sending of munitions to Cuba and continuo con-tinuo to allow Spain to buy ships and arms and ammunition here It Is we who will conquer Cuba not Spain It Is we who will crush liberty AccordIng Accord-Ing to American precedent says Mr King neither a state of hostilities nor the setting up of a civil or military organization or-ganization Is necessary to entitle a people peo-ple to belligerent rights The iutiur gents he says further do not ask anything any-thing of us and make no appeal for active ac-tive aid but they are at a loss to comprehend how a great people to whom heaven has granted the t Ictorl ous liberty for which they are lighting and dying should let months pass In cold half silence without one tinging God speedl to cheer them on Into battle bat-tle Last Illness of George Washington The account of the last Illness of George 1Vu pi vate secretary and recently published leaves no reason for surprise that tho disease or lather the tieatmcnt resulted result-ed fatally in the course of a few hours Washington had caught cold by riding In a December train and woke at 3 u in with a chill The tires In I the house had gone down and Washington would not permit any of his family to rise until un-til the usual time In the morning Domestic Do-mestic remedies were then applied and his overseer bled him to the extent of half a pint When the doctor arrived he was bled again A second physician was summoned and the bleeding was repeated The case now looked desperate despe-rate The two physicians had no hope except In one expedient and the patient pa-tient was bled for the fourth time Washington felt himself to be dying and gave his last directions with the calmness of a stoic With his excellent excel-lent habits and line constitution he should have lived fifteen or twenty years longer and his attack would have yielded readily to modern treatment treat-ment History says Washington died of laryngitis but history Is sometimes more polite than truthful St Louis GlobeDemocrat |