Your interested reader,
H.T.

DEAR H.T.: 

Our country promises to take care of all her citizens, and so we have not the slightest doubt young Mayer will be properly looked after.

As soon as our Ambassador in Germany has given the German Government satisfactory proof that young Mayer was born in this country, there is very little doubt that he will be excused from serving in the German army.

You are a very good little boy to be so full of sympathy for Cuba, but you must not wish any harm to Spain—­for that is not good of you.  You must remember that there are always two sides to every question.  If we could look at the Cuban war from Spain’s point of view, we should perhaps think that the Cubans were a rebellious, tiresome people who had cost Spain much money; and the lives of many brave men.  We might perhaps think that they deserved punishment, and that General Weyler was only trying to do the best he could for his country, and was not punishing the Cubans more than they deserved.

I say, we might think this if we were Spaniards, and the war was taking our dear friends away from us and making us poor besides.

As we are neither Cubans nor Spaniards we are able to look calmly at the whole affair, and judge it without any personal feeling creeping in to prejudice us.  We have decided that Cuba ought to be free, and that hers is the righteous cause, but for all that we must not wish harm to Spain.

Spain believes she is in the right, or else she would not be willing to make the terrible sacrifices she is making.

As long as she believes she is right we should not call her hard names and wish her ill.  We ought instead to pray that the good God may show her the right way, and give her the courage to walk in it.

Editor.

Dear editor: 

I want to ask you about the seals; do you think the seals will be killed any more?  I want to ask you where the seals are caught besides the Bering Sea?  And don’t you think the bicycle car will be in Baltimore?  I am afraid it will be no good.  I want to know how a car with one wheel that they call a bicycle train runs.  Yours truly,

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sp;                                CharlesC.G. 
     Baltimore, MD., May 14th, 1897.

DEAR CHARLES: 

The seal question has puzzled many wiser heads than ours; and no one has arrived at a proper solution of it yet.

We tell you in our paper this week of a new plan that has been suggested to prevent the mothers and puppies from being killed.

Seals are found in nearly all waters, but the seal whose fur is so valuable to us is found only in the North and South Pacific oceans, and not in the Atlantic.

Seals are found in the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea, along the European shores of the Atlantic; off the coast of Greenland, and off the Atlantic coast of the United States, but these seals have not the under fur we described to you in the great round world, and are of little market value compared with the Pacific Ocean seals.