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IAMES BUCHAKK‘TETOULD HAVE GIV- EN $100,000,000 FOR CUBA. i‘en Years Before France Had About Con- i ' Sn'ur- ' -. ~ - "“i . eluded Negotiations for the Purchase : arid Cd em0t10n5.W1th hls handherbu 9?- of All Her Possessions 1n the “fest In- dias for One Third That. Sum. What are the chances of Spain ac— cepting a revival of the offer of $100,- 000,000 for Cuba made by Secretary Bu- chanan in President Polk's adminis- tration? Let us see. When the Cuban war broke out in 1868 Cuba’s debt to Spain was $25,000,000. When the present war broke out in February, 1895, Cuba owed Spain $190,000,000. At the pres- ent time Cuba owes Spain little less than $500,000,000. Clearly then a repe- tition of President Buchanan’s offer by President McKinley would be unacccp< table at Madrid and even if the amount were double, Spain by thus ceding her sovereignity over Cuba would still lose $300,000,000 and her best source of rev- enue forever. Besides, the American people after the Maine affair might never consent to pay Spain any such amount as in Buchanan’s time. Nor would they guarantee Cuban bonds even if the Cubans themselves were prepared to buy the freedom for which they struggled from 1868 to 1878 and from 1895 to 1898. With the assistance of the Cubans the United States can drive spain out of Cuba with less than a. total expense of $50,000,000 besides availing herself of an opportunity to fuse together the various elements and populations there into one homo- genous nationality, that has not oc- curred for over a century. A foreign war is the only thing need- ed to do this, and it is likely there- fore, that the United States Will not buy Cuba. upon any terms. But would Spain sell Cuba in case Uncle Sam were willing to buy? The chances are that taking advantage of the pacific character of the American people this is just what the Spanish Cabinet means. and that the President in asking Congress for an appropri- ation has really called the bluff of the Spanish Minister. Spain has already offered to sell Cuba; and the circum« stances under which she was disposed to do so though little known in this country are worth recalling at the present time. About sixty years ago when Louis Philippe was seeking to strengthen his hold upon the French throne, Queen Christina of . Spain, being sorely pressed for 'cash, sent a confidential courier to Paris to see Prince Talley- rand. The name of the Spanish envoy was Campuzano‘and he brought an in- troduction to Senor Aquado, then a. prominent Spanish banker at the French capital. Lord Palmerston was then the terror of all the Chancelleries of Europe, and secrecy was important for the success of the mission. The Spanish envoy was authorized by Queen Christina to sell Cuba and Porto Rice to France for a sum of $32,000,000 and the Phillippine Islands, which, it is said, were thrown in as a make- weight for 310.500.000. When the Span- ish banker Aquado received the envoy from Madrid he sent a rather nervous and mysterious note to Talleyrand hinting at matters of great mutual profit, and the astute French states~ man made an appointment with Aquado and the envoy-of Queen Chris- tina, not at his chambers but at the private house of his private secretary. 'Very soon afterwards Talleyrand saw the Citizen King and made an appoint- ment. at the Tuilleres for Aquado and Campuzano whereupon all sitting around a table at the head of which was the King, the sale of Cuba and Porto Rico was accepted at the Queen’s offer of thirty million taels, the equiva- lent of which in round numbers is thirty-two millions of dollars. Louis Phillippe was accused of mean- ness in everything and was a Luckster by nature. So after the contract in respect of Cuba was signed the King thought he Would cut the price of the Phillippine Islands down from ten to seven millions of taels. Campuzano, however, while carrying out the orders of his sovereign was secretly opposed to selling the pearl of the Antilles to France or to any other nation, and when Louis Phillippe object- ed in the ease of the second pur- chase, Campuzano interposed an objection to the sale. The King, feeling that Campuzano was merely the messenger of Queen Christina and that his objections cduld not stop a purchase already more than half completed renewed his objection, which was again and more emphati- cally than before opposed by the Span- ' ish envoy. At this renewal of his for- mer attitude by Campuzano, Louis Phillippe exclaimed in a loud and im- perative tone—“The reduction in price must be accepted. The terms are too onerous. Seven millions of taels is my offer or else the wholecontract must be thrown into the fire.” Prince Talleyrand was about to speak. He rose from the table and stretched forth his hand for the signed contract and to soothe the King or compromise the situation with that di- plomacy for which he was famous, when the Spanish envoy rose too and pushed his chair back with so much force that it fell on the fender near wmcn he was sitting. Rudely stretch- ing his short body across the table he clutched the signed contract, slowly folding it up and looking the King in- dignantly in the eye remarked: “Your Majesty is in the right; the contract is worthless and fit only to be thrown in the fire. I have pleasure therefore in executing Your Majesty’s com. mands.” Suiting the action to the word the Spanish envoy strode across the room and flung the already signed Cuban contract between the burning logs beating it down with the tongs 1. ‘ the sudden action of the Spanish en- ; apology to the King. ? in Cuba. ; three times as large as that for which 'ihe iSIands with Porto Rico and tho ”'wa or three men sprang up and I t I -7 The King was utterly taken back by VOY. but taking out, the snuff box to which His Majesty always had recourse upon uncomfortable occasions or when :n any dilemma be absorbed a copious iraught, this time also concealing his without bowing to Talleyrand, Louis Philippe at once left the room. Aquado, the banker, who only saw his :hance of making a commission of a million taels vanish in smoke. rushed :o drag the burning papers from the fire while Campuzano trembling with 1721's“ non and excitement, pushed the banker away and at the same moment testily refused Talleyrand’s request for an Prince Talleyrand afterwards state] that in all his experience he had never witnessed such a spontaneous ebulli- lion 0f wrath in the presence of royalty '15 in this attempt of the Spanish sov- SI‘eign to transfer Cuba to France, and which but for this remarkable incident might now be our competitor instead 3f Spain. - Ibwas only ten years afterwards that, Tames Buchanan, when, Secretary of State, directed the American Minister it Madrid, to offer Spain $100,000,000 501' the peaceable cession of her rights But the offer of a sum nearly PhilliDDine Islands was offered to E‘mflce was considered an indignity by the Spanish Dons and a year later when the Whigs came into power John M. Clayton said the offer to purchase Cuba might never be renewed. This fact, however, utterly disproves the allegations so often made that Spain, would part with her last peseta and her last man before she would yield Cuba. She was ready then to sell the Island sooner than pledge the crown jewels, and who knows but she is ready to do so now, provided the consideration is proportionate to Spain’s desperate necessities. Before that country faces its doom Sagasta may reconsider the whole case and in the sober second thought, cede Cuba. Otherwise the story of that dying eagle might be profitably rehearsed in Madrid, and Spain too might 301110' quize thus: “That eagle's fate and mine are one Which on the shaft that made him die. Espied a. feather" of his own Wherewith he wont to soar so high.” _,___________ , Con-iderattonlor Baby. A few weeks ago a tired-looking lit- tle woman, with her thin cape spread out- to protect her burden from the rain, ruShed through the mud in a well- known street to a ’bus. The steps were crowded with men who could not. find a seat, but they made way for her and helped her into the packer ’bus. She stood unsteadily in the aisle, try- lng topreserve her balance as the ’bus humbled along. ‘ “Keep'still, dear!” she sighed, in a weak, tired voice, when a slight distur- bance under the cape was observable. “Why don’t some of you fellows give that Woman with a. baby a seat?" growled a fat man. who was hanging to a. strap. ' each insistedlthat she take his seat. She sank into one of the vacant places, thanked the man who had made way for her, and a frowsy-headed terrier sprank from under her cape and sat in ' :ch" man ! mendable. her lap while he barked at the fat man. Home Means Cookery. “Put it.in any way you choose," said a. recent speaker, herself a woman, “to the vast majority of mankind home means cookery. A woman’s domestic power and influence are, in most in- stances, in exact proportion to her ability to cook or to command good cooking. The old phrase, ‘a notable woman,‘ means, above and beyond ivory-thing else, skill 'in housewifery, and it means this just as much to—day as it ever did. It is a very democratic standard, for it applies no less to the tenement house woman than it does to the misticss of a score of servants, but it is none the less forcible for that. Lil-1c love, housewifery levels all ranks; it is common ground Whereon all wo- men, be they high or low, rich or poor must meet, the only aristocracy that it admits being based upon excellence. "She: "Sir, what do you mean by putting your arm round my waist?” He: “Do you object?” She: “Mr. Arthur Gordon, I'll give you just five hours to remove your arm.” INANIMATE THOUGHT. The Tiger Rug (if it coili'ajon-l'y , Speak)—-.To think, after my adventur- -t cos car'eer,l Ila-ould. come to be'ft'rod on by athing like’ this! 7 l LETTER. Special ‘r‘ill'l'efiplli:"lx?vI-e. 'A committee of-tl:e New 112?}: Presby- tery has reported in fav~:;- of a schenn for counteracting the in..u..:rl.:e of tin saloons by providing for the working people attractive and safe resorts, es pecially in.the evening: Rev. Dr Thompson, Secretary of the Presbyter- ian Home Missions, says this plan is no a new one, but really a continuation o. a. work started years ago. Rev. Dr Rainsford, several years ago, proposer to open attractive saloons, where bee. and other mild drinks ware to be sold The places were to be izzade attractlv‘ with reading rooms, gymnasium, etc “That part of Dr. Rainsfcrd's proposl tion,” says Dr. ThOUTIZS'. n. “was 9.1 right, but the sale of beer was not com "\Ve don‘t intend to dispensl anything to young men (41' old, or to wo- men, that might tend tu give them ap petites for intoxicunts. (in the contrary our aim will be to counteract that up petite by teaching the evils of intoxicat ing beverages.” The Brooklyn ilrlclge. The East River bridge is new pi'acti cally a free bridfe. It was long agc thrown open to pedestrians without toll but a charge of 3 cents was made for a ride on the bridge cars. This toll is stll maintained, but any one using the regu‘ lar trolley cars which now cross thu structure pays 5 cents for the ride to hi: destination in Brooklyn and secures hi: passage across the bridge free. in othe: words, the patrons of the trolley car: save their daily bridge fares both ways This means a. loss of a. large revenue ti the bridge. This depreciation in receipts seems t: be looked upon as a public calamity ll New York. But why should this bridgu be made a source of profit more than any other bridge? The proper view 'U be taken seems to be that a bridge is 2 public highway, and as such should b1 free to the public. Toll bridges, llkl toll roads, are rapidly becoming an achronisms in the older sections of till country. Papers Noted for Their Poets. The Herald is not the first New Yorl paper of that name, as the semi-weekly edition of The Evening Post' was for many years called the New York Her aid. It may seem strange that a daily paper should change its name for a different edition,_but a similar instance was found in The Commercial Adver tiser, which once issued a semi-Weekly edition called the New York Spectator It was discontinued several years ago The Commercial Advertiser and Thl Evening Post, both evening papers were at one time noted for their poets Byrant being the bard of the'latter While Robert C. Sands held the 5am: distinction on the former. He did no; equal Byrant, yet’ some of his poem: were highly deserving. The chief 'edl- tor of The Commercial Advertiser at that time was William L. Stone, th held this position for a quarter centur: and was only remoVed by death whlla in the midst of his powers. He was no only an able journalist but also a his- torian of equal- ability, and was the firs: American editor to become 'historica.‘ authority. His son, who bears the sam. name, is also a noted historian, and hi: “Sir William Johnson" Is the only reli able biography of that remarkable man Like his father he also engaged in news paper work and was for several years city editor of the Journal of Commerce but he is now chiefly engaged in history, to which he is adapted; both by tasu : and application. ' ii“... The Original John Jacob Astor. The founder of the Astor estate was a stout built German, and both hi: features and his speech recalled the “fatherland.” He always'said “dat” f0) that and “tousand” for thousand, am he loved to talk in his native tong-m with his old friends whom he met at tlu German Lutheran Church, of which ht was a member. Most of our busines: men require recreation, but Astor wa: an exception. He neither loved horse: nor pictures; did not visit watering places; had no mania for rare books 01 curiosities, and really had no fad what- ever. His long life was occupied b5 plodding business, in which he founc sufficient pleasure, and he continued tc attend to it until his faculties failed The Astor library was intended to be a family monument, and was thus viewec‘ by his son William, who made a hand- some donation, both of land and money r for its enlargement. William’s sons John Jacob and William, also held the same view, but the consolidation witl ) the Lenox and the Tilden extinguisher the old names and soon the Aster li- brary will be no more. Could the old man indeed have forseen such a resull there never would have; been _an Astor library. While the remains of the original . John Jacob now rest with those of his children and grandchildren, his great- grandson Waldorf has become a resi- dent of England, and another grandson John Jacob, .is voyaging in southern waters in his splendid yacht, the Nour- mahal. Hence New York at pres-3n: contains no direct representatiiie of the family. Waldorf is self—exiled, but Jolzr. Jacob's'absence is due to business en- terprise, as he has important interests in Honduras. He is_indeed displaying a greater resemblance to the original John Jakob than any other of‘tlie family. This is shown by his extensive purchases of land in Bronx as well a: 3 by the Honduras movement. A few - years ago he was simply the 'Jack As- tor” of Fifth avenue, living in the pa- ternal home, but he has replaced tl: latter with the Astoria Hotel, and rim is Colonel Astor, formerly of the Gore nor’s'staff, and also a director in a co— - lossalibank, and is accumulating wealth at the; rate of a’ half! dozen millions : year. He has 'not thus far done muvi fornp‘hilanthrophy', but one may hep that he, they"?i learn that the groan—s happiness isutou‘nd inwhat Goldsmlll. calls “thelluxury of doinggcod." ‘ CYRUS THOl-‘t‘PE ‘ Striped Taffeta Willow?" For the dresw waist nothing its mot! appropriate than‘.“the dainty striped and named taffetas which are now so po;:ular. A 'waist of this sort- worn with a handsome black skirt Or one 01 contrasting color to the blouse, makes a costume suitable ‘ for theater or church wear. " _ ~ A bodice of pale violet. and green striped tazcta, was opened down the front over a vest of finely tucked plain taffeta. Tucks and insertion adorned the blouse and small sleeve. The skirt was of green amazon cloth. White taffeta silk with colored polka. dots is one of the novelties of the sea- son for waists and very dainty they are combined with white mohair skirts. Old-Time Falhlonl. Corsets have been found on the mummies of Eyptian princesses of the Royal Family. ' In 1516 Francis I. gave his queen the equivalent of £3,200 in our money to buy her a hat. The women of the Middle Ages al- was parted their hair with a small dagger. When not in use it was car- ried in the girdle. Wire hairpins were invented in En- gland in 1545. Before that time the femals coiffures were held in place by fine wooden skewers. Philippe le Bel, of France, ordered that no tradesman’s wife should wear a gown made of stuff costing more than twenty pence a yard. In 1364 the pointed hoods word by the ladies often reached 4 feet above 5 the head, making the lady's fees ap- l pear about the centre of her body. From 1784 to 1787 the style of hair- Idressing in Paris changed seventeen times, and went from the extreme of short curls and a skull cap to a hat three feet broad. , , , In the Roman catacombs have been ' found several sets of false teeth, man- ‘ ufactured from ivory, to'repair the rav- ' sea of one is the equine 9: Roman. l eauties. .3 i Kid and silk gloves came into us: lin Europe about the end of the fif- ‘ teenth century. At first only princess~ fies and ladies of high rank were alt, ‘ lowed to wear them. a: r "I 1:; .. *1 Read Thi- Rapidly. ‘ “LR, 5 A comprehensive list of the names of . devices for exhibiting figures by means iof chronophotography given in' a. re. .cently published advertising circular, gshows to what extent this branch of lphotography has taken a place in ca.- ; tering to the popular taste. . The list runs thus: Phantoscope, cri- rterioscope, vitascOpe, cinematograph, biograph, kinematograph, wordoscope, animatoscope, vitagraph, panorama.- ggraph, cosmoscope, 'anarithmoscope, - katoptikon, magniscope, zoeoptrotrope, zphantasmagoria, projectoscope, vari- lscope, cinograph, cinnomonograph, thYDIIOSCOpe; centograph, X-ograph, :electroscope, cinagraphoscope. , Kinetoscope, craboscope, vitaleti- scape, cinematoscope, mutoscope, cln- oscope, animaloscope, theatograph, ’chronophotographosco'pe, motogl‘aph. ' kinetogr‘aph, rayoscope, motorscope. 3 kinotophone, thromotrope, phenakisto- scope, venetrgpe, vitrescope, zinemato- graph, vitoptiéon, stinnetiscope, vivre- scope, diaramiscope, lo terscope, cor.) . minograph, kinea'ptoscope. ' ‘— Q”... y'all... '.. "MI ,- For Summer Wear. . For spring and country wear in the ‘summer improved patterns and quali- : ties of the light-weight wo‘olen fabrics T have been brought out, similar to those 2 which the best business houses import year after~ year, and which are bought as regularly by conservative women. and by fashionably dressed women a1- 50, who consider a tailor-made cos- tume of such a. material an essential part of their annual outfit. The choice among these suitings this year is un- usually varied and handsome, both in monochromes and pretty fancy mix-. A well-made, well-hung silk- 5 tures. 4 ‘ lined skirt of. these fine WOOl fabrics, ’ and an open jacket neatly fitted and i finished, with which various‘ pretty vests, both light and dark, are‘en'suite, ' will always give the wearer a sense of 1 being well-dressed, and can be appro- priately worn on more oCcasions than ' one would suppose. ‘ - People iieitliér" ’acute nor profound :often say‘the "thing "Without effort Which We ' Wan-£78313 ‘fhnvazicn‘z‘: "Seen hu‘utingfor in vain- -‘
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