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The Future of Cuba.
Savannah News.
The Cuban minister,Quesada, in
an interview in Washington
speaks confidently of the future
of Cuba. What he says is intend
ed evidently as an offset to the
opinion expressed a day or two
ago by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who
was our Consul General at Ha
vana duriug the last administra
tion of Mr. Cleveland, and up to
the time of the beginning of the
Spanish-Americau war.
Minister Quesada says that
there is peace throughout the is
land, and that there is a determi.
nation on the part of all classes
to maintain order for the reasou
that they know that if disorder of
a serious nature should break out
there would soon be an end to Ch-
ban independence. He says that
President Palma has received
front all parts of the island the
most encouraging reports from
leading men, and that after Cuba
overcomes her present financial
difficulties the republic will be on
a solid basis and prosperity and
contentment will follow.
It is but natural of course that
Minister Quesada should take a
hopeful view of the situation.* He
would make himself unpopular at
home if he should express any
other view, but it is a safe state
ment that thinking people agree
with Gen/Lee. As a matter of
fact there is a great deal of dissat
isfaction in the island, and it is
likely to increase, for the reason
that the causes of the discontent
promise to become more pronounc
ed.
There are about seventy-five
thousand names on the rolls of
the Cuban army of freedom—
twice as many probaly as there
were Cuban soldiers actually en
gaged in the war against Spain,
and their claims amount to more
than $70,000,000. They want the
mouey which they insist is due
them, and if they don’t get. it
pretty soon they will, in all prob
ability, make trouble. They are
quiet now because they are still
hopeful that a way will be found
to raise the money, or at least a
part of it, but just as soon as it
becomes certain that it will not
be forthcoming it is about cer
tain that Minister Quesada will
not be able to say that there is no
sign of disorder anywhere in the
island. , - N
The revenues of Cuba are not
nearly as great now as. they were
during American occupation, for
the reason that the merchants’
will not send thier goods to the
island except *for oash. They
have no confidence in the stabili
ty of President Palma’s govern
ment, and believe that goods sent
to the island on long credits are
likely to be lost. If there should
be discord there would be no force
sufficient to protect property, and
and warehouses and stores might
be broken into and looted.
A great cause of dissatisfaction
is the fact that there are many
more people who want offices than
there are offices. In fact, there
is not money enough to pay the
officials already appointed, and-
as pointed out, there is a steady
decline in the the revenues.
Minister Quesada says that Cu
ba will maintain her indepen
dence. Gen. Lee is of"the opin
ion that the signs of the failure
of self-government are already ap
parent, and that it is a question
of only a short time when the
failure will become so apparent
that the question of annexation
will come to the front. It is prob
able that before the end of anoth
er year the world will be able to
determine whether the foresight
nf H-ar, T.qo r\v Miiiiaf.or OnPHfl.rlfl.
of Gen.' Lee or Minister Quesada
was the better.
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money if it fails to cure. E. W.
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A state exchange is making a
fight to keep the boys of|the state
at work during vaoation. It is
argued that it will be better to
have the boy whitewashing * the
back fence or mowing the lawn
than having him loaf about town
at the butt end of a cigarette.
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Albond Herald.
Former Governor Allen of Por
to Rico has written an article deal
ing with the island which shows
it to ba in a very prosperous con
dition indeed, and the cause of
that prosperity is attributed to
the reciprocal trade relations es
tablished with the United States.
Incidentally, Mr. Allen’s arti
cle demonstrates how tariff duties
figure either for or against a coun
try in the sum total of its pros
perity. Mr Allen attributes the
present prosperity of Porto Rico
and the success of the United
States government in ruling the
island to the fact that there is a
free exchange of products between
the two countries.
The opening of the markets of
this country has caused a revival
of the sugar industry, and Amer
ican capital, to the amount of
severalmillions of dollars, is being
invested in sugar plantations.
The removal of the tariff has giv
en an impetus to every industry
and the results will be of benefit
to this country as well as to Porto
Rico. Mr. Allen says;
“It is important* to note the
fact that under free trade, which
Porto Rico enjoys with the Uni
ted States, there is a saving of one
cent a pound, or 80 cents per-box,
upon oranges exported from the
island to the states, as oompared
with those sent from Jamaica,
Cuba, or any other foreign coun
try. This tariff advantage is a
splendid profit in itself.”
This means success to Porto
Ricau orange growers and cheap
fruit for the American consumer.
Under the improved conditions
resulting from free trade with the
United States it is not only seasi-
ble, Mr. Allen thinks, to develop
the “immense agricultural re
sources of the island,” but to es
tablish manufactures with prom
ise of success. He points out that
during every year of American
occupation there has been an in
crease in the amount of goods im
ported , into Porto Rico from the
United States, and a correspond
ing decrease in the imports from
foreign countries.
The Live-Stock Supply.
Southern Farm Magazine.
Much interest is manifested in
the South in the statement con
nected with a shipment of sixty
head of Texan cattle through Pen
sacola Fla., to South Africa, that
should the shipment turn out well
it is the purpose of one Texan
firm alone to ship at least 60,000
head to be used in restocking the
depleted veldts of South Africa.
The shipment from Pensacola was
of high grades and pure bloods,
none of them being more - than
three years old, picked up in
small lots in Texas and shipped
to Pensacola in the same way.
At the time they were collected
the war against the Boers had not
ended, but the shipment from
Pensacola was made almost at
the moment when it became no
longer necessary for Great Britain
to purchase horses and mules in
this country for army purposes.
Their purchase brought a great
deal of money into the South and
Southwest, particularly Missouri,
between 1900 and 1902, and should
the plan for restocking the Trans
vaal with American cattle be car
ried out, the demand upon the
South is likely to add still further
to the price of cattle. Events in
the United States during the past
two or three months have forcibly
emphasized the opportunities for
cattle-growerB in the South. This
emphasis will be reinforced by
any large draft by another coun
try upon our live-stock supply.
The Same Old Story.
J. A. Kelly relates au experience
similar to that which has happen
ed in almost every neighborhood
in the United States and has been
told and re-told by. thousands of
others. He says: ‘’‘Last summer
I had an attack of dysentery and
purchased a bottle of Chamber
lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which I used according
to directions and with entirely sat
isfactory results, The trouble was
'controlled much quicker than for-
kiI* attacks when I used other
remedies.” Mr. Kelly is a well-
known citizen of Henderson, N. C.
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Encourage the Happiness Habit.
July Chaperone.
The art of laughter should'sure
ly be cultivated; in fact, all and
everything that leads to joy, The.
wish to-be happy, the love of glad
ness and beauty is, I am sure, a
thing to be desirpd; consequently,
it is worth a little cultivation.
Play is as essential a factor in
men’s lives as work. Philosophers
tell us that no man lives his own
life until he plays. Work comes
from the exigencies of life; from
the “musts” of this world, whioh
often push men along very differ
ent paths to those, they would
choose to travel by from inclina
tion or capacity. Play, is, how
ever, his recreation, and here at
his leisure time comes out his
whole soul; his power of. and
choice of play, his greater or* less
er necessity for it, to recuperate
mind and body from the strain of
daily work. t
Envy.
Envy is a disease whioh feeds
on its own growth'. It is its own
destiny. Its prevalence is its se
verest condemnation. It is the
one pain which we suffer. It is
the one weakness which is tocf
strong for all. If it were the
smallpox we. would call in a phy
sician and tack up a red card on
the house. But as it is envy we
fed that we are made that way
and mistake complacency for res
ignation as we submit to its
pangs. As a matter of fact there
is nothing of whioh we can afford
to be envious. Every peach has a
pit-ythough we can’t see it. Life
is life, and God has no special
moulds. The king upon the
throne has more opportunities for
bitter, galling disappointments
than the peasant in the liut.
Each is equally the sport of fate
or the master of circumstances—
as they may choose. When you
are tempted to envy the fortune
of others, bear it in mind that
from every hilltop there looffis a
valley—and that so long as the
heart can desire the lot or the
possessions of others there will
always be others to envy. Envy
is a fruitless waste of priceless
happiness.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
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The Oost of a Constitutional
vention.
Oon-
Tliose Georgians who have been
talking about holding a constitu
tional convention in this state
would do well to refiest upon the
convention of, Virginia. That
body was in session 287 days at a
cost to the state that will not fall
below $175,000. The convention
was composed of 100 members,
who received in per diem and
mileage an average of about $1,-
252. The printing cost about
$84,000, ancl the hire of clerks
about $16,000. Constitutional
conventions are co ( stly,and should
be avoided where it is possible to
make alterations needed in the
fundamental law by legislative
enactment and the popular bal
lot.—-Savannah News.
The Pullman Company, it is
stated, has recently voluntarily
increased the wages of all ol its
employes, except porters. It is
stated, not as a joke but u cold
fact, that as a rule the porters get
more pay, through tips, than the
conductors. How long will the
traveling public continue to pay
extra in tips-for services which it
has a right to expect the company
to furnish as a part of its trans
portation contract?
The article in common use as a
food which has the greatest food
value in proportion to cost is
cornmeal; the article having
greatest cost in proportion to its
food value is the oyster.
Sound Kidneys—Perfect Health.
The use of Smith’s Sure Kidney Cuie
will produce both. Try a bottle aup
be convinced. 50 cents at Cater’s
Drugstore.
Welder, Brown, Russell and Thornhill Wagons cheaper
than yon- ever bought them before, to make room and re
duce storage and insurance.
Sweden’s last census records the
lowest death rate yet attained by
a civilized nation. Daring the last
ten years it only averaged 16.49
per thousand. , /
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