Show I qz 1mt m cori tIN I I UNITED STATES AND CUBA I It is well known that the United States Government in ordering thec election last month of a Cuban con iitltutlonal convention entertained the lively hope that this body would aco the propriety of arranging for cxtrcme intimate relations between Cuba and y Statesrelations which tho United while leaving ordinary affairs of Internal Inter-nal government wholly to the Cubans I would placu external ulTairs under the aegis or the United States We must Senator In nil sincerity agree With Bcveridcc that It would he vcry unfortunate un-fortunate for Cuba to have our American Amer-ican school administration withdraw at this time while it is our further conviction con-viction that we owe It to ourselves to of Cu retain a permanent supervision ban sanitary affairs with n view to I protecting our Southern States against yellow fever and cholera Cuba needs I lIve years more of the present regime under Gen Wood after which it ought to have perhaps ten years of Territorial government like that of Oklahoma or New Mexico and then it ought lo be admitted as a sovereign Stale into tho Union But Mr McKInley Is In no way responsible for the absurd and mischievous mis-chievous pledge made by Congress on the eve oC our going to war to the KfqcL that we were not going to annex cuba l1t Is as ridiculous lo think that we arc really doing n good thing for people who live In Cuba by ordering them to adopt a Constitution and run an independent Government as to think it an act of generosity to shove a handful men women and children off to shift for themselves in a small open boat In midocean When they might just as well have been comfortable comfort-able and Rae on hoard a big steamer Undoubtedly there are many Intelligent J gent Cubans who think it beat that the 4 Island should have Its independence j first and should then seek annexation frat Under nil circumstances on Us own free motion al I cumstances there is much to be aW in favor of this view There Is Just now great irritation In Cuba over that rart of the War deparlments cal for the convention which makes It the COnventions con-ventions duty hLo provide for and agree cntons the Government of the Unllcd States upon the relations to exist I ex-ist between that Government and the Government of Cuba The Cuban leaders lead-ers took great intercsl In the election l not more of the delegates but probably I than half of the registered voters attended at-tended the polls The convention will I Include some of the ablest men in Cuba ot Incude and Us session will begin at Havana on Monday November r > th the day before our Presidential election From I in the I The Progress of the World American Monthly Review of Reviews I for October MISSIONARY BOXES TJiero have been missionary boxes sent to the heroes and heroines of the church lighting her battles In the van that have done more harm than good I in hurt pride and damaged suitra I sped To 0 lady and a gentleman use the terms advisedly were sent I clothing old shoes old hats old collars I col-lars cravats gloves fit only for the I ragbag Ashamed lo send them anywhere any-where else tho donors sent them to the unknown missionaries and as everything that came to the church lobe lo-be sent was jammed in without cure 01 discrimination the arrival of the II box partook of the nature of an insult to these heroic gently bred people Fortunately this stale of affairs is not often found It ought never to heA Ministers Wife in the October Ladles Home Journal A WALRUS HUNT I TonsWee signals to stop rowing and to crouch in the boat The seamen sea-men bend double ocr the oars with only their backs shelving above the gunwale The Huskfos peer over the bow their harpoons poised for the cast and the lines and floats and drags all free ready to be thrown overboard Tong VcR left hand la behind him signalling expressively to sigaing the boatswain who his placed a piece or gunnysack In the oarsocket and 1 bending is sculling noiselessly but swiftly for the pan I Is a breathless moment We are so near that we can plainly see the sundried hairy hides enveloping fold on fold of rubber that furnishes these animals their protection protec-tion from the cold They ure apparently appar-ently east asleep on the nakea ice but we have had experience before or sud don awakenings and o wellnigh miraculous disappearing for the walrus wal-rus Is the sea elephant and with all 1 his clumsy moss ho moves without huste but with incredible swiftness And now a bull who Is lying 1 head toward I to-ward us lifts himself awkwardly on his fore llippers and scans tlie boat I through unintelligent e cs deepset m his wabbling head while his wabhlng whie mus I tacl los bristle and his long Ivory I tusks gleam In the sun This is the supreme moment for us There has been a growing tension of suppressed j excitement but now we break away At a signal from TongWee the seamen J sea-men bend to their oars to cover in all speed thc thirty yards to the pan We get a shot or two a the animals make for the water and n good shot will drop a walrus in his tracks The mate shoots handily and a bull in mid career falls dead on tho brink tuls of the pan a bulk of quivering fat while from n wound in the back of his head a stream of Ktcumlng blood shoots up ward spouting like a fountain and crimsoning the white Ice From With L Arctic Highlanders by Walter IUt A WyckoIT in the October Scribnera I THE PROSPECTOR 1 13ut If a man loves adventure ho 1 call find nothing that will offer so much lo satisfy his passion as a life of mi ning and Uf proKptcting The prospocto 1ho f is the adventurer Ii < e1urer par excellence of the c Kockles From the moment lie I staits upon his career In the SfUlts Ils CUIr mountains bay I lug behind him the collection of color IIMS and wludbeaten n shanties I g adt ln les icnown i the is city adventures u en urcs greet him at every turn Aa he I picks his way through I a wilderness of rocks and fall I en trees having left the meager trail I far behind over on thu lookout tr1 1 I faint sign of the outcropping oCh prfclous metal his passage Is I almost 1 E t1e to be disputed b ft wild beasts But whatan excItement there Is In seeking I 1 for gold It is 1 I stronger and more In tense than that 0 C the sumblep at tho < I 1Cl table staking his last dollar Slnll grIS on i dolar the turn oC a card 1 The prospector ma I be lIe mlY i penniless ho may have put his last 1 cent into the grub that is now fast 10 no I oied onto the back bacl of h8 I I burro I vet I one stroke oi bits pick ly 1 likely I to un Ul cover treasure that will transform wi t1n tOI him Into a millionaire 1 thlm lie a mlJolHirC sits down to a meager meal 1 cooked over a rude fire n between 1 f wccn a few atones but all the lime feels about al lm frels him the presence of I gold irIcaps his Lire 16HSf 1S llhals bUilt on the und or a ledge that Ls hOCltCC 1Cdte Lc chockfull I of gold Perhaps he is i slUing ° n a rich 1 Outcrop I ping that Is 1 Hlt simply covered with i1ll small stones t9rlVID there Js I Sold beneath the thet t big tree just across the ravine Gold may be everywhere 1C he can only ilnd Is It rc must Ibid It Surely his lUcI not loss than lct other thn melts I lryUrc Lhc ztrics on 8cahIn the loft iest I g alW tlC lof pcalts rO wberc t Pcl r sncw lies all thr year around and even his heavy blank ito arc not sufficient to keep him warm at night Pt t night diving Into all Torts al Sorts of cay orns and Vifts In rs Hrs the rock caves anI brocl explarlng perhaps wild beast to be chased 9ut band wJd occupants braving a thou und dangers that he raving tho means lit ease oC passing the l mta of his days And how does It all end in al Inmost cases the out alono daring prospector who sct s meets his 1 s death mllca and inlles away from any hum micH iOIiig How nobody ever know His IOiiC may never bo found bonet Ja JCel Tie dlsappeara IItJ 11Ppeaa n ti C ° ICtly UiJ last wlllt er sK But should I the 1 prospcptm strike It I I rich his adventures will go on as long ns he remains In the Rocky niountulns If bin find Is worth anything as a poor mans claim lIe will put up a rude cabin and xo to digging concealing what gold he takes out In n place sft cret to himself But he will have to guard It all the time for covetous miners who are not so fortunate would not hesitate to take his life If they could get possession of his little pie of I yellow metal His rifle must be his Constant companion and he must bo ready to use It at the first sign At night he must sleep with one eye open I a stranger approaches the cabin he must be ready to dispute hit rltjht to be there The few years a man may put in i at this kind of lift are most wearIng wear-Ing i and should the prospector conquer con-quer all risk and get back to his native tour with a plc his friends will look l upon him as an old man though he Is still under 10 Only the unknowing ones will envy his fortune The man who works In the developed I mines Is also having adventurous experiences ex-periences all the time The tunnels I shafts and drifts arc liable at any moment mo-ment to cave In and bury the worker under tons of rocks Or perhaps he maybe I may-be imprisoned without food or water and pass many days of horrible suffering suf-fering hi darkness and silence Will Sparks In Alnslees THE CHIPMUNK Hero by this rock beneath this moss a halo LcndB to his home tho den wherein ho sloops Lulled by near noises or tIm cautious molo Tunnellnrr his nilno like sonic ungainly Troll Or by tho ceaseless cricket there that keeps l Tuning above him Us monotonous lute Or jflowor sounds of grass that creeps and creeps And trees unrolling mighty root on rooL Such Is tho music of his sleeping hours Day hath another tis a melody Ilo trips to made by tho assembled flowers flow-ers And light and fragrance laughing mid tho bowers And ripeness busy with the acorntree Such strains perhaps as filled with muto I nmaze Tho silent music of Earths ecstasy Tho Satyrs soul tho Faun of classic days MUdlson Cawcln In Harpers Magazine for October I THE SOUTHS TYPE OF YANKEE David F 81 Clair writing on cotton mill development in the South In October Octo-ber Success says This Industrial life has begun to exhibit a social phenomena phe-nomena all its own I Is creating a type of Southern Yankee who Is for the mot part of Scotch or ScotchIrish descent having all the moral fiber of the Puritan He lacks none of the self relianco organizing capacity initiative and inventiveness of tho New England er of a generation ago He Is yet by temper a master and not a boBS nn all around man and not an expert In his heart are all the fine impulses all the honesty and courage of old in his head 1 all the capacity and enterprise of the new He Is not smart Money does not make him vulgar for tradition and I sentiment are still strong in him He is working like a beaver to organize industrial I and commercial forces and I he works as yet with open doors The newspapers publish the resolutions of his meetings He docs not bribe ton councils and legislatures There Is yet Lr too much In the South for everybody for the reign of industrial greed and I he knows It I A cottongoods trust Is and impossibility under present condi ton tonA1IRICANMNATURES AMERICAN MINIATURES There has been a revival In this country coun-try of the art of miniature painting and in the October Century Pauline King tells of the men and women who are responsible for It One of the Illustrations talons to Miss Kings article forms the frontispiece of the number The writer says Although popularity does not affect artistic standards it Is interesting to note that It is I now as much the mode to have a portrait done in little as it was when Mr Pepys felt that no man of taste could afford to be tone t-one of Coopers miniatures and deciding decid-ing that Mrs Pepyc should sit to the artist as soon aa possibly recorded the mosrivB of thf work in his immoral Diuiy Brforn a roally Just estimate of miniature palming Can be made all feelings of condescension on account of the smallnesa of the work must be laid aside Quality alone Is Qlalt to be considered in matters O art and no distinction can be allowed between alowcd a portrait of two Inches and one of as many feet merel on account of their proportions Moreover More-over the small picture should notbo looked upon as 3 curiosity for its form Is l perfectly legitimate one and has been In constant use since antique times Such narrow limits are no more to be despised than those of the sonnet and what was not considered a too scanty plot of ground for Holbein and the Clouets needs no more apology npolosy than Miltons choice of verse TH LENIENT JUDGE Fevif any Judges can be severe with n prisoner who has made them L laugh Just why this should be so Is a problem for psychologists but that slich is the case can be testified to by any one who has much to do with the courts A case in point occurred not long ago in Center street Policecourt Polcec01rt An old darky had dal been arraigned on a charge of shooting craps Deed Jedgc I didnt shoot no I craps protested the prisoner How about It officer asked the court COUt hI saw him with my own eyes said I I the policeman No no Jedge still protested the t sUI lcl darky he didnt fee me shootln no I 10 craps I wasnt playin deed I wasnt Now look here said ec magls J Irate which am I to believe The f belee The onicer swears positively ho saw you 01 playing and you swear equally as positively that you were not What am I to do lt The prisoner evidently appreciated cVldenty ap 1eelatcd I the unfortunate position of the court Ho scratched his head in perplexity heaved a long sigh and sid perplcxiy Val I donnor Jcdge we all has our troubles lie was discharged Xcv York ilail and Express al CHINESE CHILDREN I I hats often been supposed that the play life of Chlneso children is ehldlcn mea ger Let me say I run prepared mcl to show that their play lift is as rich and I varied as was the play life of Kuro 1 pean and American children beforo the time of Frederick Froobel and the kin dergarten except in the matter of toys find books Since that time the inven hive genius or the WcBt has IKS B JLS0 cclipscd 1 eclpscd that of the Jast Tho child Is without picturebooks as wo understand that term He may have a badly illustrated copy of the threecharacter historical classic or the Twentyfour Examples of 01 Examplel Filial I Fihl Piety but no one In China has ever thought of making a book of animals a book of soldiers or n book of nut ser > rhymes for the little ones Har Iers Bazar HIS AUDIENCE HELPED I An Instance of the way in which a proprietor of a puppet show In Gel many evaded through the help of his audience the law governing majestats govelning I beleklKunff has lately como over In I the course or his entertainment ho I I showed the figures of various folks of note and gave what lie considered to be their chief characteristics Atnoinr I chll13cterlstcs those shown were the three Among thlcc lman I Kinpcrors Kaiser Wilhclm 1 said tho showman wl cvor be remembered I remem-bered by his saying I have no time to be weary The most characteristic I utterance of Kalsor Frkdrkh WOP utClace Learn to suffer without complaining I Our present Illustrious ruler will cpr be Inseparably associated with his famous I I fa-mous remark Augusta pack the trunks The oIllccrK of the law fell I I on the unfortunate man on account or this last remark which was reckoned an Insult to his Majesty and he wont i to jail for two months When he camo out he resumed his show and again splice his little piece about Willlnsu I I and FrederIck and added that he j was not permitted to repeat the most I diaracUrlHtic remark about the present pres-ent Emperor whereupon his audience I rose as one man and shouted Au gustn puck the I trunks l has been j I j the making of his fortune N Y Coin j Ii i i I mercial Advertiser I I WOMENS WEAPONS WOlNS VONS I I A search of a years record of cases in the Police courts of Chicago throws some Interesting light on domestic I I warfare I was Artemus Ward who L said My wife Is one of the best I wlmln on this continent altho she isnt L always gentle asa lamb with mint i I sauce and it was Lord Byron who 1 1 inquired i But 0 ye lords of ladles Intellectual j Inform you us all truly havo they not henpecked I ha remained for the Chicago Tribune Trib-une however to tabulate the list oC weapons which lovely woman uses when she feels that way From this I list l it would appear that a woman with a rollingpin is more tan twice as likely to assume a belligerent attitude atti-tude as a woman with l mop while a woman with a broom Is ISC times ns dangerous as a womun with a lamp or a nursing bottle Here Is the list Brodm handles ISC Table knives of all kinds IlL Stovelid lifters 70 Rollingpins n Tfil fl I Plates and dishes Hatpins 55 Hairbrushes and hand mirrors IS I Mops 33 Revolvers SI 1 Flatlrona 29 CurlingIrons 2 1 Umbrellas Shoes and and slippers parasols h f 1 Scissors S l Forks b G Books 4 Potatomashers H Hidingwhips Lamp 1 Ill I yurslngbottle 1 ll lngbollc S SINGULAR COINCIDENCE Billy You say I was born In London Lon-don pupa but wheiii was mother born Father In Liverpool Billy And whore were you horn papa PtIHLlalh rIn Glasgow Billy Its very strange papa that Up we three should havo met PIckMc KITES AS LIFESAVERS The general public has hitherto regarded re-garded tho experiments of the scientific scien-tific kiteflyers as more curious than practically useful I was admitted I that kites afforded means of studying upperair currents and temperatures and that the knowledge thus gained might enable the making of more accurate I ac-curate weather forecasts I was found that a camera could be worked on a kite high above the earth and that correct pictures of unknown or hostile territory could thus be obtained This showed how kites might be made useful in war Now useful Mr William A Eddy of Bayonne N J one of the most successful kite flyers suggests how kites can be used to save life from wrecks on our sea and lake coasts One of the chief difficulties in rescuing rescu-ing men from such recks Is to got a line to them Often the wreck lies too fur out to be reached with the rocket line and the sea Is so violent that to I send out a boat Is an extremely dangerous dan-gerous task Mr Eddy has found by recent experiments that It Is easy to make kites I of proper dimensions carry I n line to a wreck This he does by i attaching one end of the line to his kite and the other to a keeled buoy If I J the kite be sent up from the proper place on shore It will drag the buoy out to the wreck even against the wind This I docs on the same principle prin-ciple that f boat is sailed across the wind To show just bow this Is done we may take such a wrEck as often c cura In the vicinity of Chicago The Lake Mtchi vai I oct run north aid jouth und the gales vhich uuuee utrandlngs upon Its sLioaja hereabouts are generally from the northeast In such a case the lifesavers provided with proper kites an l buoys would take position 01 shore northwest of the wreck Their kites would be blown I off southwest by the wind but the bilOy prevented from drifting by its keel would be carried southeast toward to-ward the wreck Communication with the stranded vessel once established establshed Its crew could be brought ashore In the lifecar or a boat could be worked out along tho line The method Is so evidently feasible that we may expect In the near future that all lifesaving stations where the directon ni lCesaving t shore and of I atd the dangerous gales moles its use practicable will be pro vided > with kilo apparatus Mr Eddy also believes that kitefly leltel ing may yet show the way to reduce the electricity of the atmosphere to mans service He has obtained a small electric light by putting f nonconductor non-conductor in a kite wire He has also run a small motor by the electric cur rent brought down a kite string But whatever may be the result of such experiments whose dangerous nature Is I evident tho scientific kiteflyer 1ature has proved his usefulncKK by devising a means for saving lives from wrecked L vesselS Mr Eddys suggestions on that line plainly deserve to be followed up by the proper public authorities Chicago Inter Ocean A CONTRADICTION r Politician My boy the door to every I successful business is labeled Push Thoughtful YouthIsnt your busi ness a successful one sir Politician Well yes I flatter myself that It Is very successful Why do you ask that Thoughtful Youth Because sir I see your door is labeled Pull Detroit Free Press PARK LIBRARIES Librarians throughout the country arc watching with Interest the experiment which Is being tried in Brooklyn of es tidal lsii lug branch libraries in the parks Wilh some misgivings the park mllfhlngs JJlk coin COt missioner two summers ago allowed a building In one of thermal mrks of the city lo be used as a free circulating library The library was opened with It few hundred books and a small read mml ingroom and visitors had the privilege oi taking tho magazines and prllcgc f read under the trees of the park The park became more than over a center of life for the neighborhood The number of visitors i increased their behavior im bclu 11 proved and instead of sitting listlessly llcssl On the benches they provided them selves with < them o1e books whllo groups of chill 11OUpS dren who had been Inclined lo plav until quarrels ensued became constant cOlstant patrons of the librarys resources in fairy into and adventure Aa a result or the summers experiment the park department adopted the plan in other parks and there are now three park libraries with hundreds of dally purl dal tors The libraries are under the control and management of the city but their establishment is due primarily to the prlmnrly work of the Brooklyn public Library as Publc sociation which was formed a few days ago in the hope of glvlnc a free librarv system to Brooklyn The Ibrll of this movement Is largely due suecelE the ef forts of Mrs Mary K Craigle the Urst president of the Brooklyn I Public lnt Publc brary association who added to her bo ll ot In the Influence of le Inlueueo good literature good Jte e a steady resolve that the people of Brook Ivn L should have a five library now a i matter of course throughout New England Eng-land towns The placing of libraries In email r ark is her Idea and to all familiar fa-miliar with the Idle condition of the people who fill park hlnehes the presence pres-ence of a library with Its stimulating entertainment and Inspiring thought would aecm to ho worth duplicating in every city and town New York Outlook I Out-look I I THE STRENUOUS LIFE 1 New Kcporter < tired out Today is Saturday and you know that this State I now has n Saturday halfholiday law which City Kdltor By Jinks I nearly ort g or-t It Rush out and yet up a fivecol umn oracle1 on how the day Is being observed i ob-served Now York Weekly I EOW A HUSBAND WAS TAMED Tim daughter of a certain Senator has f husband who Is disposed to be critical Most of his friends arc men of great wealth who live extremely well and asssoclatlon with them has made him h somewhat hard to please in tho matter of cooking For somo tlmo the i tendency has been growing on him Scarcely a meal at his homo table passed without criticism from him What Is this meant for he would a tic l after tasting an entree his wife had racked her brain to think up What on earth is this ho would say when dessert came on Is this supposed to be n salad ho would Inquire sarcastically when the lettuce l was served The wife stood its a It-s long as she could One evening hoI ho-I came home In n particularly captious I humor Ills wife was dressed in her most becoming gown and fairly I bubbled over with wit They went Into In-to dinner The soup tureen was brought in Tied to one handle was a card and on that card the Information In l n big round hand This Is soup Roast beef followed with a placard announcing This Is roast beef The potatoes were labeled The gravy dish was placarded The olives bore a card marked Olives the salad bowl carried a tag marked Salad and when the ice cream came In a card announcing This Is ice cream came with lit The wife talked of a thousand different things all through lie meal never once referring by word or look to thc labeled dishes Neither then or thereafter did sho say a word about them and never since that evening has the captious husband ventured to Inquire i what anything sot before him I Washington Post i THE REAL DANGER IN MOB LAW Can any community North or South expect to escape the condemnation of civilized people everywhere for highhanded high-handed crimes against civil liberty and I personal rights Especially can any community escape criticism for justify ling l and defending such conduct This attitude ll stimulates the very spirit of I lawlessness l dissipates sd C taint I and subtly deadens the moral conscience I con-science of the community which It has taken centuries of progress to build up and upon which more than upon any laws l and constitutions the strength and c soundness of society depends This J1is laxity l of sentiment once started and 1 encouraged spreads the more rapidly because Its true nature Is not appreciated appre-ciated The specious arguments used I in i defense of these practices with their I shallow seeming of common sense and plea of necessity slowly gain a foothold I in I public opinion and develop a semi I cynical expediency typo of moral I philosophy which by its very shortness short-ness of range Is the essence of immorality I im-morality This Is why the Southern attitude at-titude on the race oucsllon H more lana Ian I-an outrage on the negro I tends to disintegrate dis-integrate I thc moral liber of the community commu-nity and undermine some of the basic essentials of wholesome national life From Review of the Month Guntons Magazine for September I i A PUELBO LEGEND Through all thegrotesque darkness of Pueblo superstition writes Clarion Hill in Frank Leslies Popular Monthly Month-ly l for October runs a bright thread of poetic legend and one legend since It I Is woven around tho ruined estufa ii tithe ti-the ruined Pueblo of Pecos has a right tp be told hero Pecoswan I founded ov the mangod I the great Montezumi hinatelf uncl in therefore probably hit a protective he I lerest In K ui any rate when thc uyurohisrSpaniards Icy upon the conquered con-quered Pueblos a cursed rule of re stralnt and wrong Montezuma Invoked In-voked against thorn the aid of his brother gods In heavcji These told I him to plant a tree upside down beside the chief estufa of Pecos and to light a holy lire upon the altar and If the flro were kept burning until the tree fell then would there come to the rescue of the oppressed a great paleface pale-face nation and deliver thorn from the Spanish thrall So the fire was lit and n sentinel 1 posted to iuard Us sacred flame and the tree was plan led under the circumstances cir-cumstances the planter would be ex cuaable In planting the tree as insecurely inse-curely as possible But year after year passed and the tree remained standIng stand-Ing Sentinel succeeded sentinel and the tame lived on loneratlons withered with-ered away yet deliverance seemed no Iearer One day there camo a rumor from old Santa Fe that the city had surrendered to a whitefaced people Was this time band ot deliverers That day at noon the scored tree toppled and fell Spanish rule was no more Tho prophecy had been fulfilled I Ihore be an unbeliever of this legend let him go to the ruins of Pecoa and see for himself that whereas the city was built upon a mesa so barren that no trees are there nor ever have been there yet across the crumbling eslufa lies the fallen body of n plno o mighty growth The like o it is not for many miles around Whence then t did it come |