10 THE CXMAUA DAILY BETS : .STXDAY , ITKHIU'AK V 11 , 1 ! > 0 < > .
SHORT STORIES OF THE DAY
Widespread Influence of a Handsome Portrait
Frintod in The Illustrated Bee.
NATIVES OF THE HILLS OF OLD KENTUCKY
Srrrfinl < ilH'f Ml luit | CHUN n llrlvf
Scnunlliin . II. Krnl In tinllnlc
of 11 .Mtilll-MIMIniinirr .l
IXcllr Oiirr n llritUi'itllin.
Thnt the Influence ol the publicity of a
handsome portrait printed In The Illustrated
HOP intends to Iran mis feV people wet of lo
Known by developments In thu case wherein
tlio original bccamo nt once the recipient
of varloim lottora from numerous niltnlrcrs
nnxlous to make her acquaintance. The Hcu
printed ono of lh < e letters not long ago
from an enthusiastic cultivator of llio fair
sex residing at Attica , Ind. , which publica
tion has brought out this protest from the
Ledger , the local Attica paper :
The 1/odgcr would naturally have no re
marks to make about thin letter , for wo
Hrf where the young man Is right If tin ;
Klrl wan a "Htunnor. " Hut then It Is not
patronising home Industry and wo rail him
down on Unit si-ore. If we can In tiny
way nsHlsU ihn Attica young women In
whining the niltnlri'llon of tills amorous
yniiiK man wo .shall be < lcllehtc.il lo do f > o
n n < 1 Hhnll take mViifliiro In publishing thu
portrait * of any who wish to enler tile
race against the Omaha beauty.
The hint IB a good ono. What Is the mat
ter with the Omaha men that they do not
plow their own Held ? v
I "H will be hard to convince the average
! Kcntueklan away from homo that If Ooebel
I was shot by a nattvo Kcntucklnn It was not
' done by an nntl-Hoohcl democrat , " said a
! man from the "dark and bloody ground"
j yodtcrdny.
' "Outside of the larger cltlc ? , where the
Influx of Immigrants has destroyed loal
| traditions , there have been but few murders
on account of partisan politics , and you will
remember that tlio last murders In Frank-
I fort which caused such widespread comment
were the result of a quarrel among mem
bers of the same party.
"The character of the native of the hills
, of Kentucky Is a peculiar one. Murder Is
' not looked upon with the same degree of
horror as by people of other parts of the
country and the punishment mctcd out for
the killing of an enemy Is regarded 'by the
people of other stairs as entirely Inadequate
to the gravity of the crime : and yet under
conditions peculiarly Kentucklan the pun
ishment Is generally Justified by the facts.
Hero In Xebraaka H Is a perfect self-defense
if the accused proves that the victim of hla
< bullet had threatened his life and that ho
i had knowledge of the threat , coupled with
1 the knowledge that the man making the
1 threat was a person who would carry out
his expressed Intentions. Well. In Kentucky
it Is always taken for granted that when
ever persons come to blows and no ono Is
killed at the time that each party has
threatened to kill the other at wight , nnd
this conclusion Is warranted by the fact that
1 no such encounter was ever known to result
olhorwlsc In the stale. So when the sur
vivor of u subsequent encounter Is placed on
trial for murder he always has this assump
tion In the minds of the Jury In his favor.
"This condition Is the result of years of
local tradltlonn and training. The original
1 settlem of Kentucky were men of the strong
| liand ; men who fought Indians with Daniel
Boone and who had the disregard for law
| that marked Dick Johnson , the popular hero
I _ of the Kentucky fireside who is credited
i with the killing ot the famous Indian chief
j Tecuinneh. and who married ono of his negro
J slaves mid afterward offered any white man
I -who would marry either of his daughters a
j buHhel measure full of silver dollars. Xot
; that ho found any takers among native Ken-
j tunklans. but ho 'gloried In his spunk' In
i ecttlng at defiance the social laws which
' denied n man a right to do as he pleased.
, "Tho descendants of these pioneers have
lived for 100 yearn In n land considered in
accessible to railroads and other Influences
of civilization. Somp bright minds have
I been produced who have made Kentucky
famous In the union , but the largo majority
care little nbout what Is going on In the
world at large. Confined in the small area
of their native hills they take Interest only
in local and family affairs. They could toll
you very little about the war against the
Boers or even that In the Philippines , but
they can toll you the Christian name ot
their ancestor who first settled In the coun
try , and In many Instances of all of his
descendants ; nnd that Is the reason for so
many of the murders , accounts of which fill
the columns of the papers , for these men
remember and hand down from generation
to generation the story of how these pioneers
neers wreaked vengeance upon their ene
mies when butter law was not at hand until
they como to believe that theirs was the
only manly way of punishing crimes com
mitted against the person , and that the man
who falls to wipe out an Insult with blood
is a degenerate son. I know of two cases
where men have been forced by their own
families to leave the state because they re
fused lo declare- their Intention of killing
those who hfld injured them , nnd are now
exiles from homo because they would not
bo bound by the traditions of their race.
Asldo from their belief In the law of re-
VCIIRO tbceo Kontucklans are good neigh
bors and friends , and many a man has been
defended by them even to the taking of life
for no other rcapon than that ho was in thu
company of a friend when trouble arose. In
my opinion there Is only ono solution to
thp question o' Kentucky murders and feuds ,
and that IH the advent of civilizing Influ
ences and the breaking up of what might
bo properly termed 'tribal' Influences. "
During the recent cold snap the proprietor
of a certain hoarding and rooming house on
Went Farnnm direct wns sorely prcrae-i for
a means of hettln ? the upstair * rooms. The
current of air rushing upward from the furn
ace seemed to lrs > j all warmth by the time
It reached the BC-aond floor , and the roomers
wrro "kicking. " Something had to be done.
The proprietor went to the basement and
piled on coal until the furnace was red ; then ,
climbing the stairs to the second floor , held
his hand over the hall register.
A faint , tiokly breath of tepid air arose.
This would tir-vpr do. With monkey-wrench
and screwdriver he took off the reglst6r to
let moro heat pnss up.
One-thirty o'clock. In the dining room on
the first floor a dozen hoarders were sealed
about the long table , waiting for the mld-
dny meal. Ily each plalo reposed n dish of
cranberry aauce. The big bunches of celery
Iroked temptingly fresh and crisp , whllo
from the kitchen floated the odor of roast
turkey and wage. The boarders were hungry
and impatiently nwaltod thp advent ef the
hlrcrl girl with the steaming bird. But the
hired girl was upstair * .
"KverytliltiK comes lo him who waits , " re
marked the Insurance agent.
Scarcely were'the ' words spoken when there
was a craoh , n rattle of falling debris and
the crackle of splintering laths.
Instlctivoly every eye was directed up
ward toward the center of disturbance.
Then , In the smallest fraction of n second ,
every uyo was clcscd with hands , napkins
and handkerchiefs prcased over them.
The dust from falling plaster 1 peculiarly
Irritating to the sensitive eyeball.
Hut In that Infinitely short space of time
the boarders had caught a glimpse of oame-
thlng long , dark and shapely dangling down
ward from the celling something that term
inated In a No.I shoe.
Three minutes later all hands turned In
to help clear away the wreck. The Insur
ance agent got n coal scuttle , the window
trimmer wielded the broom , the dry goods
clerk hold the dustpan while the landlady
whisked the things off the table and pre
pared to set it anew.
"Well , I never ! " said the landlord , emerg
ing from the basement. "Who did that ? "
"You ! " snapped his wife. "You had no
business to take that register off. "
The hired girl didn't come down for dinner
that day. She said she wasn't feeling well.
Residents ot Omaha who know W.
II. Kent , a newspaper reporter who worked
hero away back In the 'SO's , will understand
this story better than those who never had
the pleasure of acquaintance with the er
ratic , but clever Mr. Kent. In the summer
of 189f > Kent wns employed on a St. Joseph
newspaper. He received a letter from a pros
perous brother In Indiana extending him an
Invitation to make ono moro visit to ths old
home. The Invitation was accompanied by a
draft for $ .10 and a railroad pass from St.
Joseph to Crawfordsvllle. Kent got as far
as Chicago on his way to Indiana , and he
might have gone further without Incident ,
but for the fact that ho met his old friend ,
William Llghtfoot Visscher , n well known
poetic genius who has played engagements
In all the larger cities of the country. Kent
spent his $50 In renewing acquaintance with
Visscher. Vlsscher was also liberal with
his funds as long as they lasted. After they
were broke they dicussed ways and means
for recuperation. At that time Visscher was
a space writer on the Chicago papers.
"Why don't you write a story about my
Alaska railroad ? " Kent asked.
Hwas , a happy thought. Visscher knew
that Kent was the originator of a scheme by
which the world was to be encircled by a
railroad crossing Bering strait , and connect
ing Siberia with Alaska , extending through
Russia and Into the heart of Europe. ' So
Visscher wrote the story. He sold it to ono
of the Chicago morning papers. It made two
columns andrfi half. It was a good story , but
the funny part ot It was that the introduc
tory paragraph read something like this :
AV. II. Kent , a multi-millionaire of St.
Jopepb , Mo. , Is at the Auditorium Annex ,
enroutoi to New York , where be goes to
confer with Wall street magnates with ref
erence to the building of a railroad around
the world , connecting- way of Bering
straits. Krom New York 01 r. Kent will go
to St. Petersburg- confer with the. czar
of Ilusshi , ns itbo Russian government is
deeply Interested In his project.
And so the story ran , whllo at that very
blessed moment Kent , whom Visscher pic
tured as a imultl-mlllonaire , was anxiously
waiting for Visscher to rise the price of a.
drink , a supper and a bed. It was true ,
however , Kent was the originator of the
Russian railroad scheme , dlsplte the fact
that ex-Governor ( Jllpln of Colorado was so
accredited. Kent figured out the plan and
was for several years during his residence In
Omaha In comunlcatlon 'With the Russian
authorities.
Somebody once wrote an alleged Joke to
the effect that there may bo plenty of civil
engineers , but no civil brakomcn. This joke
doesn't always hold good , and ono instance
of departure is the cato of Judge Lee Ks-
tolle. Many of his friends and admirers who
observe the graceful manner in which he
fills his pasltlon on the district bench arc
not aware that the judge once twisted
freight brakes on a railroad and that ho
could jump from car to car as easily as ho
now wheels about in his revolving chair
back of the bench. Yet , that Is a fuel , for
Judge Kftollo says so himself. Away back
in the latter CD's it was Lee Kstello , brake-
man. Ho ran on the Missouri Pacific and
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Your name and address on a postal card will bring you our new spring catalog , out about March 15th.
15th and Capitol Ave. 15th and CapitoS Ave ,
Jefferson City , the capital of Missouri , was
ils headquarters. It is uald that Judge Es-
ello could set the brakes as quickly as any
nan on the road and he entered Into the
details of his work with the same energy
and enthusiasm that afterwards character-
zed his career In the law , The judge quit
railroading because he liad long had Incllna-
lon for the legal profession , but he declares
he has n warm spot In hla heart for train-
nen and especially the men who twist the
brakes.
"It's too late to make any objection now , "
said the conductor of the Pullman on the
ast train as It rolled into the depot , "but
would like to know just how you managed
to get that dog Into the car without being
observed. " The wcoian addressed smiled one
of those sweet smiles which only a woman
vho has scored a notable triumph can , and
> estowlns n look of disdain on the con-
luctor , swept out of the car without even
replying. The small dog which she held In
icr arms looked as contented and thoroughly
at home 33 though he had spent his entire
Ife on a Pullman and wns totally oblivious
o the fact , that dogs are strictly barred from
the comforts of palace car service.
"I have been In the business a good many
ycnrs , " said the conductor , "and I have
lattered myself that It takes a pretty smart
ono to get ahead of mo llko that. I never
lad a suspicion there was a dog in the car
null just a few miles after leaving the last
stopping rolnt. 1 was passing the stateroom
ami the , < leer was open. It was supposed to
IT occupied by two women and I noticed
that a chain was hanging down beside ono
of them , the other onrt concealed beneath the
folds of her dreps. I was a little curious
and when I came back 1 glanced Into the
ptntcroom , From beneath the dress the nose
of n dog was protruding. 1 didn't say a word ,
Hit I would llko lo know how the woman
worked It to get that dog In the car. I
congratulate nysclf , however , that the dog
was satisfied with the service and slept
well. "
W. V. Porter , secretary of state , Is ono
of the moHt unique and original characters
ever noted In the political arena of Xc-
jiar-ka. Mr. Porter Is a populist but those
who have ever had the pleasure of seeing
ilm knew that nt a glance. He was in
Omalm n few dayti ago as a witness In the
namlamus proceedings against Albyn Prank.
\ftei- Secretary Porter had given hlu tcstl-
nony , he had tcvoral hours' leisure hanging
icavlly upon Ills hands , but did not dare
leave the court room because ( hero was a
possibility that ho would be recalled to the
wltncaa stand. His way of killing time waste
to go to the rear of the court room , throw
: iU vallEO < in the end of n seat , cover it with
Ills overcoat to lend eoftncss and then
stretch his long , Llncolnesquo form out for
quiet siesta. The court ballitf looked at
him H3 much as If to say : "Well , I don't
< no\v about that but then , he's secretary of
state. " Mr. Porter , despite his erratic'poli
tics. Is accredited with being ono of the
brainiest men In tl'e state , and ho has n
way of his own for doing everything.
EVENTS IN WHIS7 CIRCLES
WOIHIMI'H Mulil < < lnOniiilui AVlllsl
L'luhViliiiNilny i\i-iilnu :
Toin-nry til Lincoln ,
Five tables were occupied nt the rooms
of the Omaha Whist club on Wodncodny
night , the women friends of the members be
ing the guctitH of the evening. While the
players did not devote themselves to the
details of the game with their usual single
ness of purpose the stores were , on the
whole , creditable and a number of striking
situation ! ) oLcurrod. The score for the even
ing waa a follows :
XOItTII AXD SOUTH.
Mrs. HrlnkiT iinJ 'Mr ' * . Coutmit 171
Mr. and Mis. Wallare 170
Mr I'outant nnd Mrs. I.lmey. ! ' . MS
Mr. Uuvlx ami Mrs Potter WS
Mr. Haveratlek nml Minn Olnturf JiJ
BAST AXO WEST.
Mr. nnd Mrs. UflU'l ; 164
Mr llfth nnd Mr * . ( Marl ; ICO
Mr. Orr utul Mr * . OK.ICII US
.Mr Hoult < T iiml Mr . Martin 150
Mr. IVttiT ur > 4 Mr * . iMvis 131
Omaha waa well represented In the tour
nament of the Central Whist league on Fri
day and Saturday , at Lincoln , a large dele
gation from the Omaha Whist club attending
In a body. Among the Omaha players were
Messrs. Garner , Hedlck , Calm , Morsman ,
Scrlbner and a number of others comprising
the cream of the local whisters. The Omaha
contingent had put In faithful practice work
and expected to make a creditable showing.
The session was ono of the most Important
ever engaged In in the west and about
twenty clubs were represented. Among the
teams entered were the following : Dos
Moines ( two clubs ) , Sioux City ( two clubs ) ,
Council Bluffs , Sioux Falls , Kansas City ,
Lincoln , Cedar Rapids , Denlson , Chariton ,
Centorville , Deadwood , Hot Springs , Kearney
and Omaha ( two clubs ) . Deadwood , Hot
Springs and Kearney have been added to the
membership since the convention at Omaha
onu year ago.
The prize hung up for the victors consists
of the Richards trophy , a handcome loving
cup. The prize has twice been captured by
thu DCS Moines team nnd according to the
terms of the contest will become the perma
nent possession of the lownns If It is se
cured once more. Unusual Interest , there
fore , centers about the present contest.
The American whist team of Boston , con
sisting of II. II. Ward , captain ; C. S. Street ,
E. C. Fletcher and II. Jones , defeated the
Athenaeum team of Toronto , Canada , In Buf
falo last week by n score of 317 to 314 , the
American team winning by three tricks. The
contest was for the American Whist League
challenge trophy. The Athenaeum players
were H. J. Colcman , T. I ) . Richards , J. C.
Frazer and George C. Beggar , captain. Seven
hours were devoted to the gumo. The contest -
test was umpired by E. L. Emlth of Albany.
Thy challenge trophy can only bo retained
after a club has won'lt twenty times. The
previous cup was 'on by the Hamilton
club of Philadelphia. The next game will
bit played at Boston between teams from the
American Whist club nnd the Baltimore
Whist club.
f IN THE WHEELING WORLD , f
The good roads bill drafted by the Leagiu
of American Wheelmen has been introduced
In the ocnato and house of rpprcientutlvcu
by Pennsylvania members. It appropriates
the sum of $ . " . ,000,000 Tor the Improvement ,
of public highways. There Is no Indication
yet what the- fate of the bill will be , but
that It will encounter a rocky road , If not
a Sploiikop , Is fairly certain. Even If con
gress should appropriate the money , the
question of where the roadi should be built
would provoke a content that would drive
the comnilEtiioiiLT.s Into an asylum.
The Xew York state division of the
League of Anicr'rnn ' Wheelmen has mimed
Ueorgo 1C. Hldwrll , collector of customs for
the port of Xc-w York , ua lt candidate for
president of the League of American Whcol-
mm. and its officers liitlmato that other
plates will support Mr. Bldwell , The ofll-
clals of the Ktuto division are not certain
that Mr. Bldwell will rntcr the Held , but
If his mime Is prraontcd at the national as
sembly to bo Jield In I'hlladolpllla next week
and ho Is unanimously chcscn president , It
lo expected that ho will accept.
The question or dropping race ccntrol will
como up ot the League of American Wheelmen -
men assembly next -\erk. Former Prcdldent
Potter will introduce ; < ! iirndincnln to entirely
cllmlnato refere-mo to racing In the consti
tution and by-laws of the league. Another
amendment will bo introduced looking to the
rotcntJcn of amateur racing only. This pro
posed half-way measure , however , la very
distasteful to League of American Wheelmen
members In this part of thecountry. . Hy
these it U confidently believed that Mr. Pot-
ter'n amendments will bo carried by the re
quired two-thirds vote.
With racing out of Us way. the league will
turn Ub attention with rp --t l vigor to
building up Us inembiThl- ' . -arlng for the
rights of cyclists and agitating and securing
the improvement of the public highways and
the building of cycle paths. These arc i- :
true interests , from which its attention luij
been more or less diverted by the squabble
over race control.
Organized action In favor of good roail
Is growing steadily in the east. The latent
recruits to the movement are the makers
and builders of automoblloj , comprising
quite an army of energetic boomers as en
thusiastic as the bicycle fans were flvo
years ago. Representatives of the new and
thu old forces came together In Xew Yorlc
City last week and mapped out a plan ot
campaign. Among the speakers at UK- meet
ing was General Roy V. Stone , chief of the
roads division of the Interior department.
General Stone advocated the establishment
oi postal savings banks and the investment
of the funds In county bonds Issued for road
Improvement exclusively. "The campaign
for postal savings banks , " said General
Stone , "Is already half won. Another grand
undertaking which I would recommend. "
The progress of good roads in Xcnv Jersey
was detailed by Henry I. Rndd , commis
sioner of highways of that stata "Slnco
ISM , " said he , "tho state hun appropriated
and spent Jl'.L'OO.OOO and built about -HO
miles of hard road. Last year the appro
priation was $130,000 and the number of
ir.llcs built was 115. The zctil of the people
of Xew Jersey for good roads Is now greater
than over. It Is now possible for bicycles
and automobiles to travel over nearly l.OOU
miles of good roads. State aid Is nccnisary
for the establishment of good roads. "
The movement IK gradually expanding
westward , though not as rapidly as it
should. As It involves a largo drain on.
public treasuries for first cost anil for re
pairs , a campaign of education must bo
procecutcd first , to demonstrate that the
liiVcBtmcnt pays.
The slump In tlio popularity of wheel
riding In Philadelphia Is strikingly shown
by the report of the park guard of that
city for ISO ! ) . The statement Is made that
but 7Sr > ,300 bicycles entered Falrmounl > park
last year , being loew by 327,228 than the
llRUiTB for the previous year. What those
who have abandoned the bicycle have sub
stituted in its place Is only partly shown in
the report. There was an Increase of 200,000
pedestrians over the previous year. A good
many who have abandoned the wheel have
doubtless taken to walking ; a few have
taken to horseback , the Increase In rqiicu-
trluns numbering 3,282. Others have taken
to driving , the increase of carriages reaching -
ing 23,001.
Kddlo Cannon Bald , formerly of Buffalo ,
but now of London , England , Is buck on his
native heath for a visit and tells of hla
future plana. Bnld waa once the champion
bicyclist of the world , but now Is the quasi-
partncr of Ted Sloan on thu running turf.
"Xo , 1 will never ride as 'n ' on American
sell , " eald Bald. "Last seaKon I knew before -
fore I started tialnlng that it would bo use
less for mo do train , but I trained and
worked hard. I could not get down to con
dition. The result waa two or three races
and then I quit. There Is not enough money
in America and what little racing I do will
bo In Paris. J have had good contract
offered mo and I will accept them. I will
tiQver bo Keen In competition again. My
efforts in Paris will bo confined to match
ruccB. Zimmerman fa to cross the water
and a race between Zimmerman and jnypelf
Is possible. Blatch races are the third In
Paria. and they draw i-nmonso crowds. A
good inatKU race rider ran roln money.
"There U moro money In tlio horses for
mo thun bicycling. 1 will stay In this coun
try until March 1 , when Slcan and J will
leave for Newmarket , England , where I
have a country house. I will train at Now-
market during the spring and summer and
keep In good condition. In the early fall 1
will move to Paris and start riding In match
nicen. You can positively ntuto that I will
never again race In this country. Match
I aces across the water will bo my forUi
when the runners do not occupy tny atten
tion. "
PRESENT CONDITION IN CUBA
Unless Oaref'il , Iinorant Investors Almost
Sure to Eo Fleece.5.
REAL ESTATE SHARKS FIND VICTIMS
Oiiinlia .linn Iti'turnt'il from ( inn of
C : < - Aiitlllt-N Toll * UIMV lie Finds
llllHiltt'HN IUHl ClINtOlllN Oil
Hie iHluiul.
H. F. Hake , an old resident of Omaha ,
who has returned from a visit to Cuba , was
speaking the other day In regard to the
Itland und his observations there.
"Cuba today , " said he , "is a good place
for investment by men who depend upon
their own judgment and who watch their
own investments , but prospectlvo investors
should beware of the man who Is promoting
a company or who Is locating colonies. Kariy
after the Spanish war u number of Amer
icans went to the island and purchased land
for a song which was dear at the. price nnd
started companies for the purpose of colonizing
nizing the lands. The native Cubans were
not backward In peeing the profits to bo de
rived and sonio of thuni have gene into the
bounces.
"Ono of these companlro was organized by
two men , J. M. Ban-Is and u man named
Johnson , who purchased a tract of land
known as the Ortcv. grant , on an Island near
thu Isle of Pines , and called by tlii'co men
by the fcamo. name. These men succi'edcd
In getting themselves Interviewed and an
Interview appeared In The Bee. under a
Wellington date JnKt .May. Mr. Harris told
of the beauty of the Isle of I'In OH and thu
richness of thu vegetation. Ho uald that a
line of steamers plied between tlu Island of
Cuba and Xow ( Serena , a port on thn Island.
I spent two weeks on the Inland. Unfortu
nately the Isle of Plmti , 'which ' contains the
port of Xew Gerona , Is not the Island which
Bnrriii and Johnson have for sale. Their
Isle of Plneu Is a swampy tract of land with
out port or town. Much of it Is below the
sen level and oil of the valuable timber
which can Ho brought to the market has
bctfn cut nnd sold long ago. The other Isle
of Pines Is a good enough place , but little ,
if any , of it IH for nale.
"A few days before I left Havana I wan
offered n tract of i',000 ' acres of land fifty
mllt'H from the city for | 10,000. 1 wont out
to look at It. It was represented as being
covered with rich timber and HO It was , but
so rocky nnd InactcK&lblo was It that the
timber could not bo reached , and this IH a
sample of the land that is being offered by
unprincipled promoters to American Bct-
tlcre. Just before I wtartcl homo I met an
American from Puerto Principe , who said
that together with several famlllcH ho had
purchased hind from ono of the colonization
companies , and uhcn they came to nettle
on It they found that It wan worlhlets. He
further bald that sonuv of the colonists ware
destitute and had applied to the American
military authorities for uttsltitanco.
"There Is no occasion for such misrepre
sentation , as land In Cuba Is cheap , and
when it can bo cultivated at all will produce -
duce anything. Ono man this year will uko
$5,000 off ono acre of tobacco land , and un
developed land of the eamo appearance In
the same neighborhood can be bought for
$20 per acre. Good land can bo bought at $ " >
to $20 per aero. Sen your land before you buy
It and you will make no mistake.
Condition "f tin * riiliiniH.
"Tho American people have a mistaken
Idea of the condition of the native Cubans.
j-on.P . of them nro ntlll rich , and during my
may In the Island I did not ( ire ono portion
suffering from hunger , though In the largo
cities , where many have crowded to live upon
the generotity of the Americans , there maybe
bo some suffcTlns. hut In the country there
Is no occasion for any. An acre of Cuban
neil will BUataln a family. At one place
where I stopped I counted llfU-en varieties
of marketable vegetable * growing at one
time , and aside from tobacco all were
edible. The system ot employment of farm
laborers Is such that no one need titan c.
The owner of the plantation does not farm
the land himself , but leases It to the tllk-t
of the eoll. The proprietor advances all
necessary seed and farm Implements , and
at the request of the cropper will advama
him food until the crop is harvested. When
the harvest comes the crop Is turned over
to the planter , who sells the product of thu
entire plantation and after deducting the
vnluii of the advance turns over HIP re
mainder to the man who farmed the land.
In addition to the land upon which the prin
cipal crop is grown , ouch owner of a planta
tion must provide the cropper with enough
land , without rent , to raise vegetables for
himself and family , M > you FCC the lot of the
poor Cuban Is not a hard one , compared \\ilh
the condition of similar classen In other
countries.
"While Cuban toil brings surprising rc-
eiilte , the Introduction of American methods
will greatly Increiise them. Almost all of
the plowing IH done with wooden plows. The
land has to bo Irrigated and generally this
is done by hand. At one place 1 vlnltcd I
saw n Cuban drawing water out M an
eighty-foot well for Irrigation pui-pcncs. The
bucket ho used was n five-gallon tin ran.
attached to the end of n rope , to the other
end of which wns attached an ox. There )
was no pulley , but the rope ran over a pole ,
the ox backing up until the liuckot was filled
and then pulling it to the surface. ThM
w.itcr was poured Into a tank until a .suf
ficient quantity was secured , when the man
carried * It In uprlnklcrs ami poured It over
the growing tobacco.
Aiii-lcnt UrtlHiilx.
"These Cubans are wedded to their anc'ent '
methods , and a utory Is vouched fcr by
Senor Canovas , one of 'Havana's ' loading
brokers , which well Illustrate : ] their methods.
Kvrr since the Spaniard ! ! flint enslave. ! thu
natives the laborers have carried heavy lou'.s
upon their heads. .Some time ago the UnU < il
Slates government sent a lot of raad-nmkln :
machinery to a remote part of the Island
and the work of repairing n piece of road
was entrusted to a native under Aiiicrli.ni
Bfpervlalon. The natives started to wurK
nnd ran the whorl-scraper until It was Illicit
A force of men then mounted thn hrrijirr
and began lo shove ! the earth Into the whei'l-
barrowH. When the first wheelbarrow was
filled two natives m-lzrd It and placed It upon
the head of a third , who carried It away.
"I llko Cuba and think that It IB henlthj.
I am more afraid of typhoid fn\or th.in of
yellow fever on the Island , for I believe that
If an American Is temperate' and exercises
ordinary care ho will bo safe. The natlvn
and the Aenc'n-
have no Idea , of cleaiillnebs
cnns who frequrnt the tmtlvo quarters ara
most liable to the distune. "
IniliiirlliiK Hi-lKliiii lliir < - ,
Several liuinlrf'il IlrlKlnn harow Imvn been
shipped Ini" I'hu.iK'1. presumably for lin-i-'i-
Ing piiriitit.i- < Tli"i i hnrpH are cold by
KiiKllxli pmiitry ili-iili-rs as n hiilmtltiitu fur
c-hlrken and turkey.
Mrs. } j. 3M. Idol , Winston , N. 0. ,
writes ; "Cancer in hoivditnry in
our family , my fiulier , niptor , and
iiunt having died from thisdrcmlfiil
diseuHis. J was thoroughly alarmed ,
therefore , when a malignant Gnn-
cof apjioaiTtl on my Bide , and at
enco KoiiKltt the treatment > f the
best physiuinns. They were nimble X
to do tiny good , however , us ( he
Cancer continued to jjrow worse
and spread. I then tried S. 6. H. ,
which forced the dineaKu out , nnd
cured mo permnnontly "
( Swift'ti Specific ; 1 * tlio only hone foi
Calmer ; it cures the most malignant
i cases , Our treatise on Cancer sent frco
i by the Swift Ppuuiiic Co. , Atlanta , Ua.
