The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1902-11-27
WAITING ON CUBA
Assigned as Reason Roosevelt
Withheld Message" Jake"
Smith Wants Job Back.

order In the Philippines and placed on
the retired list by the president, may
be made to reinstate him at the COM
ing session of congress. His brother
in-law, Judge Bannon, of Portsmouth,
O., has been interviewing senators
and representatives from Ohio and
other States with view of securing
their aid toward the reinstatement of
Gen. Smith. II sufficient strength is
developed the movement will take
definite shape.
: William Brownlow of the rural free
delivery division will represent the
Postmaster General on the govern
ment board at the Worlds Fair. A
feature of the postal exhibits will be
mutoscope pictures relating to the de-
partment work. Some of these will
give representation of officials at work
on mails Of incoLing and outgoing
steamboats, in New York or the Great
Lakes, and on railway postal trains
going at full speed. Other pictures
will show rural free delivery and col
lection in progress. As this system
has been started since the other expo
sitions have taken place. much inter-
est will be taken in the life-like rep
resentation of this scheme. A strik>
ing contrast will be shown of the
workings of the greatest post Office in
the United States and one of the
crudest. The former will be shown
by mutoscope with its hundreds Of
employees at work, aud latter with its
one postmaster dealing out shoes, etc.,
with one hand and stamps and letters
with the other. This crude post Office
will show typical curiosity shop of
shoes, boots, cans of oil, sugar, dyn-
amite and then the post Office proper,
consisting of dozen or so letter
boxes. The action of the city letter
carrier from the time he leaves his
department until he is through de-
livering his mail will also be given.
No pains will be lacking in making
these representations of the depart
ment work excellent in every respect.
Many others than those mentioned
will be produced-some that will be
strikingly unique. ANOTHER exhibit
will be table showing the magnitude
of the post Office work as compared
with three of the leading foreign
postal countries of the world. It will
show the gross amount of postal reve-
nue., miles of mail service performed,
and pieces of mail matter mailed and
delivered.
Minister Squiers at Havana has for
warded to the state department. the
official report of the foreign commerce
of Cuba for May and June, 1902, and
q statement of the trade with the Uni
ted States in June, 1902, as compared
with other countries. The minister
notes decrease in the sugar trade
for the first six months of 1902, as
compared with the same period of
1901, of 143, 900 tons. 10 Offset this
however, there is an increase Of 818,
900 tons held in storage in the hope Of
better prices. The report shows that
Cuba gave to the United States Al per
cent OF her imports aud u per cent of
her export trade. Nearly all of Cuba's
fruit and sugar were marketed in the
United States, as we'll as so per cent
of the islands tobacco. The United
States almest entirely supplied Cuba
with wheat, -four, corn. crude oil, coal
and meats, with the exception of jerk
ed beef. The minister says our live
stock trade should be increased, as
the tariff provisions are favorable and
cattlemen prefer American stocks.
Cubans imports from the United
States for the first six months OF 1902
show reduction of - per cent for
the corresnondin0 period of 1899.
The state department has bsen in
formed that Godfrey Hunter, Jr., son
of the United States minister 1T Guat-
emala City, has shot and killed Will
liam Fitzgerald, Of Grand Rapids,
Mich. Hunter has taken refuge in
the legation and interesting question
has arisen as to his exemption from
arrest.
Yale defeated Harvard in the an
nual game Of football,