Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-09-28

woke up and started on a regular run
away down the dock, after the laugh
ing woman, and disappeared up the
street, Just as the boat whistled to pull
In the gang planks. Dad and i stood
on deck and saw the team disappear.
and dad said "Buncoed again. and Il
is all your fault Why didn't you
hang on to that on dog?"
Well, we lost our dog team. but we
got the worth OF our money. for We
saw n people who do not eat much be-
side cabbage and milk, and they are
the strongest In the world. and there
never was a 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 q people that work
all the time, and never take any recre-
alton except churning and rocking ba-
bies, and yet never have to call doc
tor, because there are no doctors ex-
ccpt veterinary surgeons, who care LOT
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 q bucket shop banana peel, and fali
on the innocent bystander VINO mas
coughed up his savings and given
them to the honest financier to safely
invest. The bank OF Holland is the old
wooden stocking, and money never
comes out Of the stocking unless there
is q string to It, and the string is the
heart-string Of an honest people, that
will stand no trihing. II q dishonest
fnancier came to Holland from any
other country, and did any Of his dirty
work. the women of Holland, who han
die the funds. would give MIN such a
hazing that he would never open his
three-card monte layout in any other
country. It is a country where you get
the right change back, and the cows
give 1S-carat milk, and the hens have
not learned to lay small. cold storage
eggs. 1t is the country for me, II the
women would wear corsets. and not ne
the same size all the way down, so that
IL you Rugged q girl you wouldn't
make a dent in her that would not
come out until she got her breath.
And we left such country and such
a people to come here to Cuba, where
the population now comprises the
meanest features of the desperate and
wicked Spaniards, beaten at their own
game of loot, the thickness OF the ma
tive Cuban, flushed with pride because
his big American brother helped him
to drive away the Spaniard that he
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 i'm
pudent, and the worst class OF Yankee
grafters and highway robbers that
have ever been allowed to stray away
from the land of the free. That Is
what Cuba is to-day.
Soulless Yankee corporations have
got hold of most of the branches OF
business that there is any money in
and the things that do not pay and
never can be made to pay are for sale
to tenderfeet. The Cuban hates the
Yankee, the Yankee hates the Cuban
and the Spaniard hates both, and both
hate him. In Havana your hotel
owned by a Cuban, run by a Yankee
with a Spanish or Portuguese cashier
will take all the money you bring into
It for a bed at night. and hold your
baggage till you can cable for money
to buy breakfast.
1t is free country" of course, run
by men who will fly high as long as
they can borrow money for some ono
else to pay, after they are dead, but
within ten years the taxes will eat the