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most places they would take 1he ooii"i and strike him for more.
 Dad wanted to take the dog team and cart to Milwaukee to give IL to friend who sells red hot welners, ana so we arranged to have the team loao- ed on the boat, but just before the boat sailed the dog team was iylng down on the dock, sleeping ana scratching fless s, when the woman dad hought the team of came along and smoke to the dogs in Dutch, and, say' those dogs woke up and started on a regular runaway down the dock, after the laughing woman, and dlsappeareo m the street, just as the boat wh1stled to pull in the gang blanks. Dad ana stood on deck and saw the team disap- pear, and dad said 'Buncoed again, and it is all your fault. Why dldnt you hang on to that off dog?
 Well, we lost our dog team, but we got the worth of our money, for we saw a people who do not eat much be- side cabbage and milk and they are the strongest in the world ,and there never was case of dyspepsia in their country. We saw people with stone bruises on their heels and corns on their toes, smiling and laughing all the time We met a people that work all the time, and never take any recre- ation except churning and rocking ba- bies and yet never have to call ooc- tor because there are no doctors ex- cept veterinary surgeons, who cara for dogs and cattle
 The people we met in Holland wear wooden shoes to teach them patience and humility. With wooden shoes no frenzied financier of Holland will ever travel the fast road of speculation, slip on a bucket shop banana peel and fall on the innocent 'bystander who has coughed up his savings and given them to the honest financier to safely in vest, The bank of Holland is the old woolen stocking, and money never comes out of the stocking unless there Is a string to 1t, and the string is the heart string of an honest people, that will stand no trifling. If dishonest financier came to Holland from any other country, and did any of his dirty work, the women of Holland, who han dle the funds, would give him such hazirg that he would never open his three-card monte layout in any other country. It is country where you get the right change back, and the cows give 18-carat milk, and the hens have not learned to lay small, cold storage eggs. It Is the country for me, if the women would wear corsets, and not be the same size all the way down, so that If you hugged a girl you wouldn't make a dent in her that would not come cut till she got her breath.
 And we left such a country and such a. people to come here to Cuba, where
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zards of strange navies. or perhaps they will shake dice for the carcass. and by carefully loading the dice saw the whole thing off into Uncle Sam, end make him pay the debts of the de- ceased rebublic, and act as adminis- trator for the benefit of the children of the sawed off republic, whose only as- set now Is climate that feels good, but contains germs of all diseases, and tobacco that smells good when it Is fin oonflagrstion under your nose, and does pot kill instantly if it Is pasted up in a Wisconsin wrapper that .s the pure goods. If tobacco ever ceases to be a fad with the rich consumer of 60-ceEt cigars, and beet SUB IT Is found to contain no first aid to Bright's dis- ease, Cuba will amount to about as much as Dry Tortugas, which has purer air, and ths Isle of Pines. which has more tropical scenery and less yellow fever.
 But new the island of Cuba IS a joy, ana Havana Is like Heaven-until you come to pay your bill Streets so widS YOU cannot see a creditor on the othef side, pavements as smooth as the road to perdition, and tropical trees, plants and flowers, with birds of rare plu- mage, you feel like sitting on a cold bench in the shade and wishing all of your friends were here to enjoy a taste of what will come to those who are truly good. In the hereafter, when sud-
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Havana, Cuba.-My Dear Old Greas- CT: We stopped in Holland for couple of days after we left Belgium, ana IL was the most disappointing country we visited on our whole trip. We expect ed to be walked on with wooden shoes and from what we had heard or that duke that married Queen Wilhelmlna we thought we were going to coun- try where men were cruel 10 thelr wives, and swatted them over the head when things didn't go right, but when we saw the queen riding with her nus band, as free from ostentation as department store clerk would ride out with his cash-girl wife, we saw nap piness beaming on the face or the queen and her husband, and saw them squeeze hands and look lovingly ihto each others eyes, we made up ouf minds that you couldn't believe thoSo newspaper scandals.
 And when we saw the broao-shoui- dered, broad-chested and broad-eNery
 where women of Holland, we conciuo- ed that 1t would be a brave or reckless husband who would be unklnd 10 one of them and mighty dangerous oe- cause the women are stronger than tne men. and any woman could whip TOUT men at the drop of the hat, because she could take off her wooden shoes and strike out and man would tnlnk he had been hit by a railroad tie.
 do not know what makes Holland CTS wear wooden shoes. unless they are sentenced to do it, or that they are un- ruly and have to be hobbled to Keep them from jumping fences, but the peo- nIa are so good and honest that after won have met them you forget the yaudeville feature of their costumes, and love them, and wish the people Of other countries were as honest as they.
 For two or three days we were not robbed. and I do not believe there IS
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denly you are taken with chill up the spinal column, and cold sweat comes out on the forehead. and the internal arrangements go, on strike because of the cold. perspiring cucumber you had for lunch, and you go to a doc- tor, who does not do thing to you, but scare you out of your boots by talking cholera, and giving you the card of his partner, the undertaken, telling you never to think of dying in a tropical country without being em- balmed, because you look so much bet- ter when you are delivered st your home by the express company, and then he gives you pills and a bill. and an alarm clock that goes off every hour to take pill by, and furnishes you an officer to go home to your ho- tel with you to collect his bill, and you pawn your watch and sleeve but tons for a steerage ticket to New York.
 Dad has not been much good in Ha. vana, cause he wanted to see the whole business in one day. He got rowboat and went out in the harbor to where the backbone of the Maine acts as a monument to the fellows who yet sleep in the mud of the bottom, and after tying little American rag on the rigging that sticks above the water, and damning the williams who blew up the good ship, we went back to town and drove out to the cemetery where several hundred of our boys are buried, where we left flowers on the graves and cuss in the balmy air for the guilty wretches who fired the bomb, and then we went back to the city and walked the beautiful streets until dad began to have cramps from trying to eat all the fruit he could hold. Then it was all off. and was going to call a carriage to take him to the hotel, when dad saw a negro astride a single OK, hitched to cart' who had come in from the country, and dad said he wanted to ride In tnat cart, If 1t was the last act Of his Ire, and as dad was beginning to swell up from the fruit he had eaten l thought he had better ride in an open cart, cause in a carriage he might swell up so we couldn't get him out or the door when we got to the hotel.
 So I hired the negro, dad got in the cert. and we started, but the OK walked so slow I was afraid we would never get dad there alive, so I told the negro dad had the, cholera and that settled 1t, for he kicked the OK with his heeis. and the OK beloved and run away, and the negro turned pale from fright, ana I guess the runaway ride on the cop- blestone pavement was what saveo dads life, for tho swelling in dads sn- side began to go down, and when we got to the hotel he got out of the cart alone. and I know he was better. Tor be shook himself. gulluped and said. You think you are smart, don't your Sd I will. close. Yours.
 HENNERY.
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the population now comprises the meanest features of the desperate and wicked Spaniards beaten at their own game of loot, the trickiness or the ha- tive Cuban, flushed with pride because his big American brother helped him to drive away the Spaniard that ne could never have gotten rid of alone and with no respect for the American who helped, and only meets him re- spectfully because he Is afraid of be- ing thrown into the ocean If he Is im- pudent, and the worst class of Yankee grafters and highway robbers that have ever been allowed to stray away fire m the land of the flee. That IS what Cuba is today.
 Soulltss Yankee corporations nave got hold of most of the branches or business that there is any money Tn. and the things that do not pay ana never can be made to pay are for sale to tenderfeet. The Cuban hates the Yarkee, the Yankee hates the Cuban, and the Spaniard hates both. and both hate him. In Havana your hoteL owned by a Cuban, run by fankes' with a Spanish or Portuguese cashier will take all the money you bring Into 1t fer a bed at night, and hold your baggage till you can cable for money to buy breakfast.
 It is free country" of course, run by men who will fly high as long as they can borrow money for some one else to pay. ofter they are dead, put within ten years the taxes will eat the people so they will be head over heels in debt to the Yankee and the Span- iard. the German and the Englishman. the Frenchman and the Italian. ana some day warships Will sail into Ha- yana harbor, over the submerged bones of the Maine" and there will be a fight for juicy morsels of the Cuban dead horse, by the congregated ouz"
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Hansen, the first secretary. pending

Hansen, the first secretary, pending the arrival of the new Ambassador.
 Great delight was expressed at the Japanese Legation over the recall or Count Cassini When 1t was stated that the change is regarded as & pro- motion. one of the Japanese attaches laughed and said: Tt Is nice that the Count can SD consider 1t. To me, it looks like changing horses in tho middle of a stream"
 Baron Rosen, who will succeed Cas- sini, is well known to the members of the Japanese Legation here. They say that. he was well liked in Tokio prior to the war.
 The recall of Count Cassini will re- move from Washington the most pie turesque figure In the diplomatic corps. The Russian is the typical diploma, courteous and genial, suave and smil- ing at all times. His dress is always the same, winter and summer-frock coat, silk hat. creased trousers, white spats and monocle.
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Thus we see that of the first six long distance writers, to use a sport ing term no fewer than four are wo- men.
 Long Distance Writers.
 It may be interesting to add rev more records of this description ana again we must start with the ladies Miss Sarah Tytler has published IhLy- seven boks, Miss Florence Warden fiI- ty-two and Miss Evelyn Everett-Green fifty-one. Miss Tytler must be apmost the doyenne among women noveists, for her first story, Nut Brown Maids, appeared forty-three years ago. two years before Lady Audleys SecIss made Miss Braddon famous. Ouida has forty-two novels to her credit Miss Adeline Sergeant forty-four' Ri ta" forty-one, and Annie s. swan thirty-nine. Among the men writers Mir. Fergus Hume is responsible Tor fifty-two stories. MT. Clark Russell for forty-one, MT. Baring-Gould tnir- ty-nine, MT. Norris thirty-four ana MT Marion Crawford thirty-four.
 Almost more wonderful than the writing of so many books is the rate at which some our novelists' especial- ly a few of the more recent among them, produce their stories. One might think that one complete novel In a year was good worK. MT. Meredith indeed, has only averaged one TOT every two years of his writing life ana MT. Thomas Hardy took thirty years to produce nineteen novels; but MT. Crockett and MT. Guy Boothby think nothine. of turning out three. four or even i've within twelve months. It Is only nine years since Mir. Guy Booth bv'a first book "On the Wallaby." ap- peared, and since then he has written no fewer than thirey-one novels HIS second year of writing yielded three yoIrmes of fiction and 1899 saw no fewer than five new stories in the hands of his readers.
 Mr, Crockett is little less prolific posstbly more so, TOT his books are' as a rule, longer than Mir. Booth by'sy-for he is credited with twenty seven novels in ten years. His first effort. "The Stickit Minister" which appeared 1898. was such an encour- aging success that It's author sent forth no fewer than four successors in the following year, and he considers him self at any time, tanks to his splen- did health for half a million words m twelve months.
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dishonest man or woman in Holland except one. There was one woman that played 1t on dad in Amsterdam hut I think she only played him for joke, for she laughed all the time. Dad was much struck at seeing the women selling milk from little carts. hauled by teams of big dogs, and he negotlat-
 ed with a woman for dog team ana cart. and all ore day dad and l put on
 wooden shoes and Dutch clothes and drove the dog team around town, and SO we had the time of our lives, more fun than I ever had outside Of a cir cus but the shoes skinned our feet, and when the dogs laid down to rest and dad couldn't talk dog language to make them get up and go ahead ne kicked the off dog with his wooden shoe, and the dog got up and grabbed a nnouthful of dads ample pants ana shook dad till his teeth were loose, and q woman driving another mess of dogs had to come and choke the off dog so he wouldn't swallow dad, pants and all Dad gave her a dollar for rescu- ing him, and what do you think? Say
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RECORDS IN WRITING
OLDEN FICTION MAKERS SLOW IN
 PRODUCING NOVELS.
Authors of Present Generation Much More Prolific Than Their
 Predecessors.

If the fiction writers of past gen. erations could revisit the glimpses of the moon," few things would sur prise them more than to see the rate at which their successors of today produce their novels, says London Tit Bits.
 Jane Austen's life work is repre- sented by half dozen stories and Q few verses; Charlotte Bronte's great fame is built upon the slight founda- tion of four novels, and her two sis- ters. Anne and Emily, only claim three volumes between them; while all George Eliot's novels, twelve in num- Der, are comfortably contained in six volumes But nowadays 1t is quite common thing to find a writer of any length of standing with more than half a hundred books to his or her credit, and adding to them at the rate from two to four volumes year.
 To the reader who is a bit of a sportsman" it is interesting to re- view the feats of our modern penmen and women, and to see who are hold CTS of the different records in the arena of leters-who is the Hong distance champion" who has the best short distance record to his credit, and so on. If we confine ourselves to fic- tton writers we find that in fertility of production two lady novelists are easily first, with more than a century of books to their names. Mrs. L.. T. Meade heads the list with the aston ishinR record of 1O7 stories, but, as many of them have been written in col- laboration with others. perhaps her claim to supremacy is open to ques- ton,
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to other church bodies. which have been compiled by the Rev. H. K. Car- roll. The whole number Of Roman Catholics under the protection Of the United States flag Is 22,127,S54. or these T,O5s.69s are in the Philippines; 1,573,ss2 in Cuba, 1.o0e.Ooo in Porto Rico, and s2,00o in the sandwicn Islands. It would obviously be miss leading to include the Roman Catholics of the dependencies in consideration of tl~ comparative strength of the re- 1igious denominations in the Oniteo States. Eliminating them altogether, the Roman Catholics of the country still number 12,4e2,7s3, while the next largest church body, the Metnodistss have 6,256,73S members. The Baptista follow with 5,150,815, then come the Lutherans, with 1,7ss.766; the Presby- terians, with 1,697.6s7; the Episcopa- Hans, with S07,922; the Consregational- ists, with 667,951; the Unitarianss with 71,O00: the Christian scientists, with 66,022.
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CLEVELAND IN NORFOLK.
Delighted at Signs of Progress in the
 South.

SOuths
 Norfolk Special to Baltimore Sun.
 Former President Grover Cleveland was here today on the steam yacht Oneida as the guest of Commodore E. c. Benedict, of New York. who Is president of lumber company which has a plant here. Mir. Cleveland said to The Sun correspondent:
 q am surprised and delighted to see the vast strides that are being made in all directions In the South, and look for continued develop ment of her vast resources. That Is not to say" he continued with a smile. that she is not already occupying proud place"
 Commodore Benedict said:
 "Yes, the South is the place where they are going to have the next boom. The region is accessible and full or great resources. If I were a young ster should not think of going West, hut would come to the South. You are going to have very thriving town here, having especially good faeilt- ties in the way of a distributing cen- fer"
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veuezuela,s Foreign Minister.

General Alejandro Ybarra, Venezue- Ian Minister of Foreign Affairs. has lived in the United States almost as long as in his native country, and is married to an American woman, daugh- ter of Judge Thomas Russell. a former minister from this country to Vene- zuela- The general resided for many years in Boston. where his wtfe's farxii- iy lived a long time. He has gained some distinction as an author. t
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Mrs. MarnhalI's Industry.

Mrs. Emma Marshall Is an excel lent second to Mrs. Meade with 105 books as evidence of her marvellous industry, and the third place is prob ably occupied by MT. Manville Fen, the favoirte of boys, whose volumes number only three short of 100. It is difficult to form any conception of such a feat as this of writing 100 vol umes, but we get little near to the understanding of 1t when we reflect that 1t means the writing of probably more than 1O,000,00O words, and that 1t would take a quick writer, work ing six days in a week at the rate of six hours a day. as nearly as possi-
 ble three years merely to copy the manuscripts.
 The late MT. Henry, who Tor many years produced three new volumes a year, comes fourth with the very cred itable score of eighty-four books. John Strange Winter is fifth with sev- entv-seven, all written within thirty years, and Miss Braddon, who ranks next. Is credited with sixty three books. spread over-a little more than
 forty years. If, as Is only fair, we take into account the length of the novels. 1t is more than probable that Miss Braddon Is enti.4ed to the first place among living writers, for 1t Is fong since she wrote her ten millions words for her readers.
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sUNBURNT SHOULDERS

A SartorinI ARIIcti0n Soon Cured by
 HOlt's Dye Works.
 Exposure to sun and rain will fade any coat dyed with aniline dyes. Hut HOIt's Dye Works can restore its color with IOgvvOOd which they guarantee will never fade. su"fri
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The Roman Catholics in the United
 States.

Success Magazine.
 The Roman Catholic population of the United States and It's dependencies is far larger than that of auy other religious denomination. This fact Is brought out by a comparison between the statistics in the Roman CathoIlc directory for 1905, and those relating
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she pulled an old stocking of money out of her bosom and counted out 96 cents in change and gave 1t back to dad, and only charged four cents for saving his life, and that couldn't oc- cur in any other country, cause In
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PREPARE FOR SUMMER
Assist nature in getting the system ready for the depressing Sumner months.

of place physical systems at this season. rev I m ;u ssrn particular alment fired depleted that they totally work or pnyca
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hred, with their energles so depleted that the of any kind. The appetite is variable, they are peevish, hysterical and often unreason- able, the digestion is imperfect, the stomach deranged and altogether they are mere drags in their every day life. To others the return of Summer means the return of disease, for warm weather is sure to force out the hidden poisons and seeds of disease which have ac- cumulated in the blood during the Winter, and some old chronic trouble makes its ap- pearance. Boi1s, Eczema, Tetter, Acne, scaly eruptions, rashes, pimples, etc, break out also at this time, and the heated season is made worse by the burning and itching of these skin tortures.
 During the winter months we live shut-in life as much as possible, breathing the impure air of closed rooms and heated offices; we indulge our appetites to the fullest, eating more of the heavier, richer foods and take great deal less exercise:
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HER SYSTEM BROKEN DowE.

HER SYSTEM BROKEN DOWN.
 r4,susn For over four years suffered from gsnsrsx debility causing thorough breaking down of my ysss 50 that was unable attend to my household onues years ago my cousin who had been benefited by R S o fold me about it. tried it. and 1t has cured me have aiavs been able to attend my duties snce in fa am able to the garden as well a in my houss heartv recommend g. S. to all who may feel the nsso of a thoroughly good blood tonic. Yours EuH "a W oth St- Columbia. Tenn. MRS. J. A. BRITTAlM
 HIS SKIN MADE CLEAR
 The doctors said had pusular Eczezna; woun nesek mt in small white pustues, mostly on my faco ana nano disoharqne sticky fluid; crusts would form and drop o Saaving hs kin red infamed was tormeutsd w1n the tohnC and burning characteristics of the dssase Tor Ave years and during the time used vazons msoosseo soena odntmenxs and washes but these appnoaSaons seemed to make Alter taking B. D. 5. snors tsa heran to improve itchng did not worry mo % much oonfinued the medicine and soon all the ugly s~-ntions disappeared and my skin Is clear hs anybody's. have not been troubled sancs r vrr
 Urbana, Ohio. 6' 1 nsaA1@s
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PECK'SBADBOY ABROAD
After Driving Milk Cart in Holland the Bad Boy and Dad Go to Cuba--The Bad Boy Finds Havana Some thing Like Heaven--In the Harbor They See
 the Backbone of the Maine.
BY HON. GEORGE W. PECK.

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