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Free Cuba win be prosperous and
| progressive Cuba. Spanish Cuba IL
never likely to b. either prosperous or
! progressive, sententiousIy observes the
New York World.
A chorus Of 1000 voices 10 now In
process of Organization at Washington
to form the leading musical feature OF
the National Christian Endeayor Con-
vention there in July. This chorus IL
to be known as "The 'O0 Convention
Chorus"
Newspaperdom is fairly well repre-
scented In the United States Congress-
by those engaged In making law as
well by those whose duty 1t Is to report
the proceedings of the lawmakers.
There are twenty-seven editors, nine
who have been engaged In the profess
sion at one time, and four others who
followed the printers calling in former
days.
AS soon as 1t seemed likely that the
newly discovered Rontgen rays might
prove to be of value to the medical pro-
fession experiments were begun by
many physicians and photographers
with view to determining the uses
and limitations Of the rays in surgery.
The results in many cases have shown
that the profession will reap great ben
eft from the X rays, especially in the
direction Of surgical diagnosis.
The French Governments new bud
get shows that step has been taken
in the direction of State socialism. Six
hundred thousand francs have been
voted to societies for the sick and
aged, and 400, 900 to societies for the re-
lief of children. This foots up a mill
ion francs, the same sum voted to the
missions that will represent France at
the coronation of the Car, as the pre-
vious vote of 975,OOO francs has been
increased.
The followers of Menelek, King Of
Shoa, while not so large as the fierce
Zulus are about the toughest warriors
in the world. They do not know physi-
cal fear. A New York Press writer has
seen a man jab burnt stick several
inches in his flesh without wncing.
This apparent insensibility to pain is
accompanied with religious frenzy in
battle that renders the soldiers uncon-
scious of bodily harm. They have no
fear Of death and their happiness is to
kill.
A curious application of the Rontgen
rays has been made in France by Pro-
fessor Buguet, Of Rouen, and the chem
list, NJ. discard. They took true and
false diamonds for the experiment, and
obtained entirely different results.
When the rays were applied to the
false diamonds only indistinct images
appeared on the Photographic plates.
The real diamonds, however. allowed
the rays to pass, and as result, much
darker pictures were produced on the
plates. Thus certain method Of dis
covering the quality of diamonds is as
sured.
The attempt of the Italians to get pos
session Of Abyssinia is not colonial
ton at all, even If it succeeds, but con-
quest. 1t may not succeed. The popu-
lation is only about three or four mil
lions, but when population of that
size puts 100000 fairly armed troops
into the field in their own country,
they're hard to beat. The Abyssians
live in the mountains and love liberty.
The height OF their land keeps 1t cool
and healthy, even under the equat orial
sun. They are racially mixed. Some
of them are descended from the old
Coptic kings and from the Phoenicians,
who once ruled all the Mediterranean.
Others are the ordinary Philippians.
According to the New York Times,
which prints partial list of them,
with the names of their owners, the
number Of their occupants and their
street numbers, so far as they have
any right to have such n number,
there are about $500 rear tenements i'm
New York city, occupied by over $4,000
people. These, says City and State, are
peculiar breeding places Of disease and
crime. The law now forbids the build
ing Of any more Of these rear or back
lot houses, but the real problem is how
to get rid Of those now in existence.
They are terrible menace to the
health and well-being, physical and
moral, Of the great city wherein they
are found.
"a good many of the ignorant coun-
try people in Spain," says The Boston
Transcript, ARE very much more cour-
teous to Americans than to English
people, for the curious reason that they
consider them subject also to the crown
of Spain. 1t has been found In out-of-
the-way villages near Gibraltar espec-
ally, where the English occupation Of
that fort is still looked upon as tenn
porary and offensive intrusion of for
eigners on Spanish soil, that the whole
tone Of the people will change when it
is found that a tourist is not English
but American. 'Ah, have a brother
In Havana grim-browed villager will
say, with an infection that implies that
his American interlocntor must Of ne
cessity be from Cuba too"
Never let your passions get the better
of your judgment. The following story
will explain the propriety Of this adj
vice: A German farmer took load Of