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independence Only. tho Cuban Cry.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: In these
days. when the air is full of rumors about tho
reforms Spain is expected to put in operation
" soon in Cuba, and when men heretofore idcn-
titled with the cause of freedom have given i'm
portance to such rumors, it may be proper for a
Cuban to say to tho American people that Spain
Is incapable OF granting reforms which the Gu
bans, fighting for independence, would accept.
1t is time that the peace-at-any-price news
papers should know that to talk of reforms in
Cuba is simply to waste words. 1t is too late
now for such Spanish devices. The Cuban peo.
pie have not taken up arms for so.called Span.
ish reforms" They pleaded for those to which
they were entitled. those which formed tho
basis of the treaty of Zanjon. but they were not
carried out by Spain. When Spain at last,
urged by the very Spaniards on the island,
thought of adopting the so-called nlan Of Ahar'
Zoza: which was an insult to the Cuhans, mas
much as IT embodied no reforms at all, Cuba re-
solved to fight TO the death for absolute indie
pendence.
To suggest reforms is an insult to people who
are shedding their life's blood for freedom. The
acceptance OF such reforms, however advanta-
gcous they may seem to a peace nj -any-price man,
T. impossible after our country has been ruined
our Marti. Macco. Crombct, Sanchez, and 9th.
ers dear to MS have lost their lives struggling
innocent have been murdered and blood has
crimsoned our cities and towns as well as the
battlchelds., our women have been ~insultcd,
mothers end sisters suffered at the hands Of the
most detestable of men! No. God forbid it!
Cuba will fight to the bitter end. animated by
the names of her heroes. stimulated by the cries
OF vengeance Of tho innocents. urged by the
rcmem rance of her devastated homes and
outraged women. Trusting in God, she will
struggle on even alone until the yellow and red
rag floats no longer over her homes, or until
every Cuban worthy of the name has persisted
in defence of her honor;
BATH BEACH. Dec. 70.
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1t must be an immense relief to the Ger
man nation to learn that the Emperor will per.
init the production Of SUDERMASN's new play.
lcrr kRuPP's cannons are made in Germany,
and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. fastest OF
great ships, was built at Stettin. But these
matters are not nearly as momcntous and for
midable as a new Sudermann play, A young
American author the other day lamented the
fact that his stories had not been published in
Paris instead or here. He MAS sure that they
would have attracted some attention in Paris.
Really he should have published them in Ger
many, where literature amounts to something.
Inc kaiser's army is n considerable matter in
the fAtherland, but 1t cannot compare with Herr
supEnMANN. IL Is safe to say that there are
plenty OF Germans who believe that the city
OF Sodom reached the full measure OF its fame
only when the Sudermann play, The Fall
OF Sodom,' WAS published. II is no wonder
mat The Emperor Wac cautious in letting loose
the new play upon Germany and the world.
When the Sudermann novels, The Wish and
Dame Care" were issued from the press the
whole country was inundated with tearA Th-
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SUSB

An FISHERMAN Of Alexandria, Va, found q goia
collar button in the shell OF an oyster. according to q
local paper.
No whites need apply. is tho motto Of q wyan-
dotte county (Kan.> photographer. who takes the
pictures of negroes only.
Thirteen potatoes, oil grown into one, found on
the farm Of a Traverse City. Mich. man, carried an
obvious suggestion and the farmer promptly for
warded the batch to the Hon. Potato Pingree.
When q horse foil into a large and deep well A
Henderson. N. C.. some practical genius attached a
hose to a nearby hydrant and, turning on the water,
hied up the well and foated the horse to the top,
whence rescue was comparatively easy.
1t is said that Mrs. Jesse Huston. who lives on the
Hustonville pike, near Hustonville, KY, had not until
last month spent a day away from homo in twenty
three years. not because she couldn't, nor because OF
any eccentricity. hut just because she loves her homs
and wants to be there to do her work.
Stories are going around the West Of n new bus
which has been dubbed "the mountaineer." because
1t 10 believed to have come down the hillside on a
snowdrift, which has destroyed thousands of heads
OF cabbage in Indiana. 1t is said to be black. to have
across on its back. and to be nearly as large as thu
potato bug.
Gold weather took all the courage out Of two men
who escaped from tho military prison at Leayen.
worth, Kan, and they went to the house of n farmav
near Ottawa and got him to drive them to that c,tv
ana deliver them to the authorities, for doing which
lie got the reward OF 500 that had been offered 10,
the return OF each prisoner.
The telephone ear. from which so many telcphosa
operators suffer. Is a more dangerous anniotion m
Kentucky than &c Is in New York. according to a
despatch from owensboro. which says that Mrs. Mas
gle Brandon called at the central oflce in tho &c.
noon and cowhided an operator for alleged diselospn.
OF her conversation over the wire.
That there is an honesty rising superior to bu.,.
ness aVarice even In this sordid age appears from the
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house" Of the cowley Fathers. costing abo ma
Is to DO established at Westminster with tina snr,or.
OF the Bishop Of London.
NO. 10 Downing street. tho Prime Minister n, ~.
lands onicial residence. is to be preserved. ,horrs
'ne houses on either side OF IL and the street ,,aSIe
will disappear. "~eH
Acetyiene can be neither manufactured no- ,o.
Great Britain now save by express permiss,on -, 49,
Rome Secretary. the prohibition being MAJ. a. VIZ
cent Order in Council.
Italy is able TO turn out fast torncdoho.
ers as well As England. The DESTROYER p,n,a
Se"'' JUN a' sestri Ponente. near Genoa. for ~.
spanish Government. made BOZ knots under 60
arausht on her trial over the measured milo. ~
f'meiy use OF the referendum has preserved n-..
opefA W hArse''ies' The town council having yo,.S
down the annual subvention to the ,h..,u
Mayor demanded q popular vote nm a. .Ao..'o' 'he
the people OF Marseilles voted 10 con,,rn. y. eno
~vention. N"ue 'ne sub
An "act FOR the relief of INDECENT n.ar. .n..
~ Aue'ohe Government. will be applied 70 sa ~
Lar OF Miiltown. who. after occupv,na 80 u
unuer 'ne government. 10 In great distress IN rna,~
the Indian railroad. p'''eS On
,ah"l",aS L|'Eaoeth OF Austria has given up her will.
Achi'o'on' on the island Of Corfu. ana bos 20 ,ni-
contents Including the "pvi,o Aos,u ""' W is
'e'fu 10 her palace In Vienna. This b.d ma"~
oohui''oh OF the town where the villa IA s,,r.,aay
'HV L.S'e'n complications, are the reason. ..a.~
10 her for making the change. A''rood
ihfee LORD Justices OF Appeal sittinv n. a..
oicrown Cases Reserved. - have been cors,n noours
,ssai wrong involved in ordering chops and shers a
.ne value OF four %ShlIingS per dinner n = Saetty 70
%nsha man had only 4 half penny in his mOnnn1
false decided that it is not obtaining goods NV
go, ''S<h'e'' out that It Is obtaining crcd,, ~
petrator. jail Tor the per-
her cornaI. = Just stunned about a large numh,r .,
YEAR oo'ernors' Sir Harry Blake, for n,ns
s sen, , oSptain,GenerAl and Governor of Jam.io" ""Io
Iiemm,na w. Kong, and is succeeded by Sir AuSu.,n.
to govern Rr,s,sh " IN " once permanent omciaI, sent
from 'ms vene1uoia dimeuItv, Sir Walter sendom aas
~. Typrus 70 GuiAns. Sir W. Haynes SMITH , s"s
nAaAnlaS to Cyprus. and Sir Gilbert csrts. rom
IN E.h = yves, Africa becomes the new ao,sr."@
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Bank Credit and Government Credit.

Speaking Of paper money, Secretary
GAGE. in his report to Congress, very truly
says: Credit Is the base Upon which It
rests" With great inconsistency however,
he thereupon proceeds to argue hat a bank
currency which is secured by Govern
ment bonds, and thus backed by the Gov
eminent, is less useful to the community
than a bank currency secured only by the
assets Of the banks issuing it.
Nevertheless, the Secretary comedies that
the people AVE q preference for a currency
resting upon the credit of the Government,
and he therefore proposes that although
there is but little risk in a bank currency
secured by a safety fund of 2 per cent,
still, to satisfy the people, the Govern
ment should assume that risk
This, it seems to us, is giving away the
whole argument in favor of bank currency
as against Government notes. If the con-
viction, that the Governments credit is bet
ter than the credit of the banks, is so
deeply rooted in the public mind that the
notes issued by the banks must be guaran-
teed by the Government, in order to make
them generally acceptable, it is impossible
to resist the conclusion that the Govern
ment may as well itself issue the notes in
the first instance, and enjoy the profits of
the business instead of turning 1t over to
the banks and paying them for doing it.
Between Government credit and bank
credit, Government notes and bank notes,
the people choose the Government credit
and the Government notes.
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Cuba's Tobacco Exports.

The release by Gen. BLANCo, under orders
from Madrid, of 1,645 bales of tobacco
owned by a New York firm, is a very note.
worthy example of the cases of this kind
and nearly the last of them, too, a New
Orleans firm, we believe, being the only
remaining one whose seized tobacco is still
under embargo.
ten. WEyLER's edict prohibiting the ex-
portation Of leaf tobacco was dated NAV
l6, 1896. Our Department of State. on
hearing that certain American citizens
owned tobacco which was detained. al.
though bought for shipment before the
date of this order, protested through Min.
lister TAYLOR, and several of them were
allowed to bring out their property. The
needed evidence as to the time of purchase
in the late case was not, it is said. until
more recently furnished.
fut the main interest in the matter
arises from indications that before long
the edict itself may be revoked, at least as
TO our citizens. 1t was originally imposed
on the ground that the insurgents had de.
str"Eeu so uapy Cuoan plantations that no
more TOBACCO was raised than would keep
the ouoan manufacturers supplied with
"' ~ WIS SAID tlat, without
restricting exports, $4,000 cigarmakers in
Havana would he thrown out of work, with
their families suffering in consequence
The Government might, in fact, have tn
support them.
1t was surmised in this country that
another aim was to take vengeance on the
Cuban cigarmakers here who contribute
to the patriot cause. To cut off their raw
material would be to injure their power Of
contribution. But If that really was the
object, the failure, as has been suggested
to get the fine tobacco of Havana and Pinar
del Rio provinces, covered by the edict, did
not prevent the procuring of other tobacco
and the American factories still kept busy.
Meanwhile Spanish exporters in Cuba and
Spanish importers in this country, whom
the Spanish authorities did not desire to
injure, petitioned for the revocation of the
edict as injurious to themselves.
It is now suggested that Spain may con-
sat to revoke the Sdict. although perhaps
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We have received a thick pamphlet with
a glaring red cover, upon which in huge
letters appears the title, "Satan's Invisi.
BILE World Displayed or, Despairing De-
mocracy." The author is w. T. STEAD, an
Englishman, and the pamphlet so sulphur.
ously entitled by him is described further
as "a Study of Greater New York"
Undoubtedly there are Mugwumps in
this town who will enjoy the perusal of
this historical Anglican production, and
will applaud its depletion of New York as
the most prominent feature of the land
scape of the regions over which SATAN
reigns. IS Mr.. STEAD has drawn his In
SEPARATION chiefly from these defamers of
their country, they must feel flattered &C.
cordingly.
Reasonable New Workers who know their
own town from actual observation of 1t and
experience In it, and who have had an OPP
p~ortunity also to compare 1t with London
and other English towns of commercial i'm
portance, will feel surprised that an Eng.
lishman should have needed to journey
hithert to find "Satan's InvisibleWorld
The truth is that of all the great cities of
the world, there is none which excels New
York in orderlincss. in all the convenience
OF life, and in the sobriety and general
well-being of its population. So far from
causing despair to democracy, it has fur
nished in it's steady improvement in every
thing that contributes to the peace and
comfort of civilization the most conclusive
demonstration of the capacity of a democ-
racy for municipal government.
AS SATAN Is described also as the Father
of Lies, Mr.. STEAD's pamphlet should prop.
erly have been dedicated to his Internal
Majesty.
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Somebody who does not revere the alpha.
bet wishes to have the designations of the
streets in Washington changed from A, b, and
into names which he considers would be more
inspiring and picturesque. People of this GU
rious way of thinking crop up occasionally.
They like /, ., and 3 no more than they do A,
b., and c. and have no sympathy for visitors
from out of town who carefully read the alpha
bet and the notation table on the lampposts. and
then ask the policeman to tell them how to get 10
places. These reformers have no liking for the
ways of convenience and Of order. They con-
slider that Montmorency sounds better than
1O2. and that Washington, Jefferson. or Massa-
soft is more interesting than any mineral.
The same sort OF people object to the grid
iron formation of the streets, 80 common
in American towns. They want diagonal
with something. They arc even eager for
blind alleys. The circumstance that it was diff
tcult. owing to the irrcgularity of the streets,
TO shoot down the Paris revolutionists with can
non. seems to make no difference with them. 1t
is well known that you could shoot ten miles in
n New York street, IL 1t were not for the ele-
waited railroad; but that is nothing to these
people, who seem to court revolutions. How
ever, all that Is necessary is to see tho Alder
will change the name of any street on applica-
ton. As for crooked streets. there is a German
song which tells how anybody can manufacture
them. The method specified, however, is not
feasible for n teetotaler.
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British Treatment of Indian Editors.

Better counsels would appear to be pre-.
vailing with the British administration in
India, at least in one instance. The ex-
~traordinary sentence of penal scrvitude for
life which was imposed by a panic-stricken
Judge on the editor of n Mahratti paper,
the P'otad of lslampur, Mr.. KIsHALKAR,
has been revised on appeal and reduced to
one year. The sentence of seven years
inflicted upon Mr.. HAMoLKAR, the propri.
etor, has been reduced likewise In this
case to three months.
There was no evidence adduced on appeal
that had not been already brought forward
at the trial when these persons were con.
demned. The conclusion, therefore, is that
the court before which they were arraigned
In the first instance had lost its head. In
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Wanted to Go to wau,anro.

He was a typical Westerner, and City Ticket
Agent Dorsey of the b. and o. 8. W. saw It at a
about the stride of the fellow as he entered the
office at the southwest corner of Fourth and
Main streets.
II want to 20 to Wantango,'' said the rustic.
Kentucky or Indiana :" inquired Mr.. Dorsey.
Lord bless You. my friend. it's to WantanGo
in Oklahoma ] want to go"
on from Mr.. Dorsey. (which way do you
want to go g.
i've allus heerd tibet the shortest distance
between two places wus n straight line. and Won
kin start me as straight as you please"
And then the gentleman from Wantango
railway guides.
We'll, sir, the best l can do for you," said
Mr.: Dorsey. is the 3. & o. S. w. to st. Louis.
Francisco"
m tho ticket, mister. I don't know
Frisco l know it's the right direction"
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The Troubles OF Hayti.

Conduc like that of Germany Mt Kiao
Chou Bay and Port au Prince is sometimes
contagious. Kaiser WILHELM did not in
vent the fashion of collecting claims
against weak nations by the seizure of ter
ritory or threatened or actual lombard
ment. England was generations ahead of
Germany in the use of such methods of
settling controversies offhand, and other
nations have resorted to it. Indeed, Ger
many's own application of the law of force
to Hayti has followed England's npplica-
tion OF it to Nicaragua, in the seizure of
Corinto, a few years ago.
Now we hear of n rumor at Port au
Prince that Italy, noting the effect of the
demands made by the German ships Char.
lotte and Stein, is also to try the virtues of
an ultimatum and a threatened lombard.
ment in collecting two old claims against
Hayti. These claims rest, it is said, on the
unpublished murder of an Italian a few
months since and the illegal seizure and
sale of a vessel and cargo belonging to an
Italian, several years ago.
If this rumor should prove true. Hayti
would be nearly crazy with Indignation.
President SAM took the wisest and, in the
end, probably the most economical course.
when he yielded to Germany's threats, yet
1t brought the overthrow of his Ministry
and the substitution of what appears to be
a very good successor. There had even been
n fear of general revolution; but the change
in Ministry thus far seems to be accepted
as a sufficient show of popular discomfort
at the Governments management.
But while the real mistake in that affair
was perhaps the one made at the outset in
the excessive sentence imposed on the Ger.
man LUEDERs, and while an attempt to
resist the Kaiser's navy would have been
madness, when the damages claimed
amounted to only $4,000. yet, If King
HUMBERT should repeat the game of intimi-
dation, there is no saying what the Haytians
might do. We are inclined to think, how
ever, that the fears of the people nave set
afioat this rumor, and that 1t Is really base
less. Meanwhile it is well that the Mar
blehead Is at Port au Prince.
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Indian Maiden Rides ia Wheel. Plays the Piano.
and Sells Trinkets.
From the Lewiston (Mt.) journal.

Lucy Nicolar. daughter OF the late Joseph
NicolaT or the Pcnobscot tribe. is an accom-
pliahed bicycle rider. She is just coming into
her teens and is a young miss Of marked beauty.
and wherever she goes with baskets or Indian
exhibits many II young American who looks
mnon inc Indian maiden feels that the land OF
the ren9bsGots must he the land of handsome
women just now Lucy is receiving private
lnstructions that she may enter the Oidtown
High school. Her instructor tells me that she
is her forte, Lucy is perhaps tho most prof.
Gent piano player on tho island. being the owner
But the skill OF the tribe is not forgotten by this
Young member, for she can make baskets, SC.
as Wen as some OF the older ones. The mother
her. ho hho"
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AFRICAN LIMBLESS COTTON.
specimens or the New Grade Shown At the
Cotton Growers Convention.

Cotton Convention.
ATLANTA, Ga. Dec. 14.-One of tho features
OF the Cotton Growers Convention to-day was
the exhibition of q now variety OF cotton. known
as the African limbless." In 1898 Adolph
Kyle. while wandering over Central Africa,
came across a new species of giant cotton in the
valley Of the upper Congo River. The plant was
not under cultivation, but appeared to grow
wild on the marsh lands. 1t differed from other
cotton in that many of the stalks were as high
as twenty feet; and the bolls were connected
directly to the stalk without any intervening
limb: Kyle cut Off u pie e eighteen inches long.
li9 PLACED it in his trunk and finally came here:
jackson. n planter OF this State. that the latter
and in tho spring Of 1894 Jackson planted a
large number of seed. obtaining only ffty.seven
perfect stalks in his crop. The soil in which he
only AVERAGED eight feet, with an occasional cx-
ception measuring fourteen feet. The maxi.
mum number OF bolls on one stalk was 1877, and
tho ordinary run averaged ffty.scven hollis.
The American cotton averages only eight to
The quality of tho new species was found to
excel the old greatly. The next year the amount
five acres yielded three and a half bales to the
acre. The average Georgia planter considers
himself fortunate If h" gathers three:quarters of
u bale to the acre. From the crop of 1896 there
is enough seed to plant 1900 acres. It is cx:
pe1eted that with proper fertilization the seed
The now variety has five "locks" or di.
visions TO the boil, whereas the old style hns
only four. The locks in the Ordinarv variety
are only three-quarters of an inch long, while
the now kind Is one to one and Il half inches
long. While the brand has been Endorsed as
genuine by Commissioner of Agriculture Mes.
bitt and others. Col. r.. J. .Redding, Superin-
nounces It as spurious. and says that it is sim.
ply IA variety OF u weed that grows in many
places and which Inns been brought to high cui-
~iivation. Tho convention will investigate the
cotton tomorrow.
JIG ellborn, President OF the State Alliance
convention.
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Some of our best known and most ap-
preciative citizens have united in the happy
suggestion to tho Park Commissioners, which
we detail elsewhere this morning, that in recog-
milton of the lifetime services of the late WILL
LIAM A. STILES in behalf of our parks and
toward the general adornnent and identifying
of New York. his name should DO given to one
OF the new parks recently created. Tho Park
Commissioners will honor themselves In COM
memorating thus the aesthetic perceptions,
scientific knowledge. and practical Judgment 80
long and so unstintsdly devoted to the interosts
of the public parks by one of the gentlest and
most loyable of men.
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Lonaon,. wIde-AwaLe Police.
From The London Daily Maj.

From the London Daily Mai.
Here Is the list OF recent muTderers. none OF whom
have been discovered;
The muir Ierer OF the Frenchman BTosetts.
The murderer OF Miss Camp in the London and
Southwestern hallway train.
The murdererof Mrs. Francis at CAmberwell.
The murderer OF Emma Johnson az Windsor.
The murderer OF William Barrett at Upton Park.
The murderer OF the nanIeless corpse found bound
in tho Thames.
The murderer of Miss Marshall at Bethnal Green.
To these crimes must DO added numerous burglArios,
in which an immense amount OF property has been
made away with.
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Kaiser wilhelm dor Crosse. had It been In ex-
istence at that time, could lave sailed readily
from Brcmerhaven to Nuremberg and from
Dresden to Cologne. Tho new play may be dan
gerous with fro and brimstone. 1t Is n Sudor-
mann play. and IL is certainly tremendous with
somo quality or other. Nobody speaks of
GOETHE and SCHILLER In Germany nowadays.
The nation has room only for the name of
SuDERMANN. Thore was another, but he seems
to have passed. We refer to the author of
"Lttle Hanncle."
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The Credit Money or the Country.
From tho Kansas city Journal.

The cost and Inconvenience of tronsnor,iro
money from one part OF the country 10 anothes
was aptly illustrated at Topeka the other dav
railroad to, send $257,Oou to Chicago. II the
money had been sent in greenbacks or gold the
silver, $577.75; but the railroad people reiected
gu three and made tho transfer with a bank
drait at a cost OF only 2 cents. Tho credit
money Is the real. money OF the country, and
laws TO strengthen it are wiser than laws In re.
iation to the coinage OF any metal.