Show V RAPID OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC BY FREDERIC FREDE RIG c d HASKiN J p is doubtless s no country in u which T Ji f f cans bare ft a greater gr ater interest than Cuba because we started this little island in business for Itself We have almost almo t a paternal solicitude in Its welfare because bause b a without our Instrumentation Us present era I Io of o independence would have been impossible The rhe Thep political p life lite of at tuba Cuba may bo be reckoned by h b three peri pert periods period od namely The colonial the tle American occupation aad he present PT ent republic A A review of ot conditions as revealed by the vital ita statistics offers much that is i interesting I That the e health h l h of of th th people pe le of 01 the ih island d con continues to ta Improve is cause causa for fN much congratulation In the tho city of Havana the death rate is now fifteen to the thousand thonsa thou t Js a most excellent showing ng w lien it is considered that in 1880 under the od re Te RIme the mortality was forty Jo P a the thousand In 1880 over 1100 people died in Havana from rom yellow fever r and smallpox sm while last year there th re was as not ot a single Ingle death during the twelve Months from either t disease It Is rumored that was wag in a bad sanitary condition but this is the one of cf the tb Isi Island sl and where all the streets are well ceU drained iid Id pv raJ d dJ J with asphalt All thoroughfares have an aLit aLitt s soline t oline toward the sea hence the th tropical rains help heln unsanitary accumulation accum if nothing else eo el O Wore loRe dong The T e continued benefits arising from the sanitary s which w was ws Inaugurated In Cuba by b t t Americans makes s the outlook for Panama seem hopeful f 1 SCHOOL WORK IN CUBA CUBAt t p There does dots not seem e to tole be any great grat t increase in tn tnt t tho school lt IB Is practically where the th Amer AmeI t c 1115 left It rood provided for about 25 per nt of the public revenues to for fort t instruction which was something like 00 OO annually The latest reports show that about abo t 24 per pel cent of the revenues are ro ra being utilized d tot fox edu educational purposes and that SO per par cent c nt of this Is for forthe fort the tze t e primary and grammar schools There was vas not nota nott t a Spanish stenographer st or typewriter on tile the island iSlan d I when whan the Americans took possession but w there tre th re are numbers of both sexes Several classes n short shorthand shorthand I hand hend and typewriting have recently graduated from fron tro the schools Expert Export telegraph operators are also being bein turned Gut eDIt Uy bl b the schools The telegraph lines of tho the re republic r public belong bel n to t 0 the government There Theio Th ete are i I ena ene en stations connecting the six sis provinces Last year i about messages mes ages were sent over the lines at atan fJ an average price of 01 cents oon eoa per pop telegram f Cuba now has telegraphic communication with the 9 United States Mexico Central and South America L II and the Antilles f The law passed in January of this year authorizing lug ing the president to dispose e of the public forests has r caused used considerable activity ac among the lumbermen Where There are ae a e millions of acres of wooded lands in Cuba Cub ly most post of which are unexplored forests containing Building timber of all kinds as well as that used for tanning rope making resin etc also indigenous fruit trees that produce seeds from which oil Is man manufactured manufactured A portion of ot these lands has been rented and the tha forests exploited The lessees are taking out mahogany cedar firewood charcoal etc The value of ot Cuban timber Umber may be better understood when it itis itil L il is stated that In remodeling an old prison in Havana t some door and window frames were removed which i bad had been put p t In something over years ago aio yet which were as ts sound as when first out outGROWTH outGROWTH outGROWTH GROWTH OF OP mT INDUSTRIES 4 The Tho fruit Industry is growing in importance There Thare is a fortune fort ne in the culture of pineapples p Some I few of the sugar planters pending the revival of the sugar industry have turned their attention to this fruit Over plant can be set in a single acre When the growth is established d cultivation I v is unnecessary sary y because the spiny points mo me monopolize the ground to the exclusion of weeds and 4 1 animals can no more commit depredations than in a I 1 cactus field eld Ninety per cent of or the plants will bear bearin bearin bearin in twelve to eighteen months and as a rule five crops are out ott from roin one ono planting I was told by several deal dealers dealers ers that there was never a glut slut In the market for pineapple the demand always exceeding the supply The T 9 ng crop In Cuba this year may reach boxes Th The Cuban orange never has an acid taste and its flavor is unusually fine Grapes raised I BY y RUFUS ROCKWELL WILSON a HB late J lo Leonard Leonrd Swett speaking from firsthand knowledge of the facts once said that the I expense exp nse of first nomination for tor including the tAe cost ol or headquarters h tele telegrams grams gramz music fares of delegates and incidentals ta did cUd didI I not exceed It cost the national l ls s to t elect Lincoln in 1860 than it does doo to many a state sato canvass of ot the present time That committee committe said Mr Swett spent a sum sm that would now ow seem scent tem contemptible but it did id its work as 1 y and an successfully Uy as any committee the thearty 1 party arty has had since In 1864 at the most critical hour in the history of ot the thc nation the sum of waa as an all that was spent to secure the reelection of Lincoln Linco It is a far cry from 1864 to 1904 1901 and it Is well within the bounds to say that it will wilt coat more than to elect a president lIre this thi year rear This sum willbe will be spent by the national committees of the two great parties and does not include the funds eel col collected and disbursed by the several state committees and tind other oth smaller agencies The use of ot large l ge sums of money in politics as has been inferred is 19 a growth of af the last forty years Previous to that time political oat cal campaigning c was largely a matter of hurrah and sentiment but in the later iOs business men alert shrewd and fond of system and order began to take the management of politics politico into theIr hands and a wonderful change in methods and nud measures was effected To Smauel J Tilden more than to any other man is due the credit of perfecting the system tern tem thino of campaigning now in vogue He lie had bad a gift for foJ forthe forthe the management manag ment of men on a large largo scale that amounted to genius He saw w that great issues which arouse the 0 enthusiasm of the masses musS c though most essential are not in themselves sufficient to Insure success in a campaign but that th t of it the work woric to be effective must be done in secret and that it was of or the iho first importance that every Voter Vot should be brought into personal contact with the cam campaign cam campaign management ma This Thia required a comprehensive system stem great volumes of f correspondence ana an al almost almost almost most unlimited use ot printed matter In a word an organization which reached ranched out out and nd embraced every home and fireside in the land and the operation Q which involved the expenditure of ot vast sums bf of money Time stamped methods with tIe the e seal ael s l of success and d they have taken the place of those these t Q form formerly j jerlY erly employed In 1878 mote moie than waa was cob col collected and spent by the th campaign managers of the j two great t parties Four years later at their I disposal more OJe than n and nd Jn n 1894 the U cam campaign I GOat cst not less loss than l and in the cam campaign campaign nain of ot 1882 lSe the t e expenditures ot o the two national committees were ware re quite Finally In 1896 1806 pore more than qua and and in 1900 an au n even oven larger I amount mount passed through the th hands h of ot Chairman i Ianna a and Chairman Jones and their associates j jut But ut th the that the greater part of the there e vast I Ims sums ms Is used to corrupt voters voter is a false and silly j one N if not all of ot the moneys mone collected are anticipated by the legitimate le expenses of the th 3 aign These over cover a wide range and theIr volume v lUUle swells with every succeeding can campaign The first work of a national committee is to pre prepare 1 pare parc pan literature Those documents d not only the people but bat give to orators and an writers a amass awa mass wa of ot facts and arguments They are ar e in Ia the main the tiie speeches p chOB of or leadin leading senators and congressmen m but hut often otten brief and trenchant cards rd and circulars i which pierce with a single ingle shaft aft the armor aymor mor of the th enemy are re employed with telling teng effect In 1884 iSRi tha the famous Rum Burn Romanism and d Rebellion utterance of qt Pr r Burchard w ed on small cards card and 1 bj M Wore b q hmo j J tot A Cuban Sugar Mill A p Street t Scene ne in in Havana r s p C r c V r f 1 c a M 1 I 4 t j tI 0 i i I r r J Jt I s wJ f ft I i 7 fi t 41 ra j t 1 1 i I I II 1 I Tc r I p z c c j ji i 1 W rr I I 3 S rr T rt p S g a aA A LP I ii 4 a J cw I w S 3 p J Jw I w S j f 7 S 4 S 3 e ew Jb I w dI dIr r S i Si 4 5 F 1 Ao I A Glass Class of Students in ui in Telegraphy A Sprightly Cuban Guban School Maam Maarn 4 on the Island a very excellent quality Truck farming iff an established od industry Last spring the tiie u e early Strawberries from duba found a aready ready reads read sale in the New York market mariet Many new and apricot orchards are being planted There seems seems nothing to add about tobacco except that great success has attended the use of cheese cheesecloth cheesecloth cloth clot nets to t protect the growing plants from the at attacks tacks of oJ o as well as to preserve the moisture Tw known planters of Pinar del Rio province whOre where the worlds finest tobacco Is report a yield of bales per from protected plants while by the th old method the output from the same ground amounted ted only to bales The Cuban tobacco oco crop for the past season se was wa bales which was marketed at an average price of 2175 per bale bal 1 S SCuba Cuba C ba makes rather a good showing on her bees but much m fihe lUge t on onee n bee culture is s loit bec the bes b n finding themselves tha the necessity of g tr liM food for r a winter day give themselves Io T of the country lo the th Sunday Sund before election The effect was most disastrous d s ana and as a there was little or oo o ome time me in eh to counteract It it had much to do in determining det tho the result rosult of the election This year the two national committees will wilt probably spend pend 1 fully fitly In the preparation publication and anit cir circulation circulation of oC of documents This represents a mass manse of I printed matter large enough to filla fill a small l freight train and it is an open op n question whether r not too to 0 much money is not spent in this t is way Still So BO shrewd a politician as a Hill HUI i is of the opinion that this th ia plan P lao n of appeal a has more moro influence in on on the and anU doubtful than any other I Each of r the national committees also maintains maintain throughout the campaign a news bureau which under thE tM direction of experienced political writers supplies partisan news and arguments to t the t 6 smaller crueller newspapers A good many newspapers are subsidized newspapers rs in ii foreign tongues and fUld certain class cl journals I There Theme are hundreds of these kinds l in the larger cities and towns nearly every one of whose edItors in ready re dy to support either party for a con consideration They do not say so openly but they an announce announce announce early in a campaign that unless they are helped in i some way by ly the national committee to h they appeal It will be b inconvenient for them to t devote devoe a proper amount of space to booming the candidate candid ie Payments tg to t these political p soldiers of fortune usually sua ly take the form of standing orders for fora I Ia Ia a certain number of papers pap rs of each issue the orders ranging from to copies The campaign orator does not cut out the tha figure in iI politics that Chat Tie he did in former years the multiplication tion of printing ting presses and telegraph line lines has bas streak a heavy h vr blow plow at his prestige as a creator and molder mOI r of public P opinion but his influence Is still great and must be P taken into account by y campaign I managers During the months month of or a national cam campaign campaign hundreds of at speakers of or and local re are ar kept 1 b the national and stafe sta committees s the efforts Qt those under the tho t I direction of at o the nal organization being aa as a a arul I Irule rule rul confined to t the e lose e and a ann cl doubtful d stat states The I expense exp of all of these thae speakers are paid but their theft I services Jare are generally given without expectation of monetary reward In the cases of men of ce I tio l of oratory or of those who cannot lannot afford to their business without a money recompense fees fe are paid though ush an effort is generally made to I keep the th fact of such aSCIi S payment secret as us l 5 when it Is known the orator Is looked upon as a special pleader j and antI his arguments carry little weight The result esil of this flood of campaign carn Paio T oratory O ra tory is an open ques question lion tion As A Republican mass meetings are attended in inthe inthe 1 the main mai by Republican can the number of or con converts verts veris made m e by them must be small Still SUI they serve serveto serveto serveto to enthusiasm to maintain and improve din dig discipline and 11 nd as it wece to close up and steady the party parly ranks Very useful for the same purpose are i the campaign ca clubs and societies whose organization org niza tion and equipment cost In the aggregate a large sum aum The Tf e money which a national r committee tee g eves ves vesto to Its f state committees Is sent tent grudgingly and andt the latter are always urged to raise al they can cal themselves the S 1 I The Routine work of a national committee re Te I the t e renting of spacious OUS quarters the employ t Qt a large 1 stenographers and messengers m rs e well paid for their ser servie services vie vices s and a d the committee generally sustains the ex cx expense posse pense of of the party parades and demonstrations demonstration held In New ew York City during the campaign months These parades p rades and demonstrations do not materially alter result It In the metropolis m op Us and amid are ar not n ot expected p e ted to l but ut their influence Influence as Imposing Is js believed to havea have a good effect upon the country at 91 lius that while th the ed 1 mi J B J up to riotous tOtS living thor they can gather all the year r The sponge fisheries have always alway been an established li hed industry in Cuba the best being in and alid rien although several other ports are en engaged engaged engaged In it The total production during the last season n was 9 9 dozen sponges including all aU grades valued at This shows an increase of 72 per pcr cent o over oer er the catch of af the previous season Commercially It is conceded that the th finest sponge in inthe inthe inthe the world cornels c coni m from Cuba not excepting those from Greece and the Levant The fine variety called the silky silk sponge pange is very ery small Aside from being very t I fiD in Ia texture it is filled fined with extremely small hairs render it invaluable for |