island.

I certainly do hope the Cubans will gain their freedom, for I think
their cause is a just one.

EDITOR.


DEAR EDITOR:

Mrs. B---- takes your paper and she reads it to me every time it
comes. I hope you will have more about Cuba this week coming than
you did last week. I hope that Spain won't get her $40,000,000. I
also hope that next time when the Greeks retreat from some place
they will do it better than at Larissa. I wish that there were some
more about the big Python. It is nice that Mr. Havemeyer has got a
Little Venice on Long Island. At the Tennessee Centennial it must
be fine fun to go up in those cars! I hope that Mr. Mayer will get
out of Germany before he will go into the army. Do you think that
America can get him out? I hope so. I wish that your paper would
come two or three times a week instead of only once. I hope to get
one or two subscribers next winter, for I am going to school, and I
will ask the boys there. Please put this letter in your newspaper.
I hope Mr. McKinley will send some American men to Cuba, and I do
hope that Spain will have lots of Carlist troubles and South
Africans too. I hope that you will get _lots_ of subscribers.

Wishing you very good luck to your paper, I am ever

Your interested reader,