menace as to make some other action necessary. It is not unnatural, however, that we should look forward to the time when Cuba will became a part of the United States, and when the other islands of the Caribbean Sea shall be similarly regarded."

I anticipate somewhat, but after our arrival in Havana I prodded an army officer on the question of Cuban politics.

"The greed for office," he said, "has much to do with the restless and insurrectionary tendencies of the natives. The rural population wants its share and will burn to get it. That's the reason the rich planters want protection. Give them offices and the insurgents will be satisfied."

"But what of party ties?"

"There are conservatives and liberals, but that means Zayas, or Gomez, or Menocal, or some other individual, according to his probable power to 'deliver the goods!'”" "And the native voter ?"

"He's like the foxy Western negro who found what his vote was worth. The canvasser called and sounded the wife.

"Is Mose still a Republican?' he asked.

"Can't tell,' said mammy. 'He ain't been home since morning.'"

CHAPTER XII.

HAVANA.

The Cuban City Beautiful-Governor Magoon a Visitor-A Story on Penrose-Masonry in Toral's Surrender-The American Officers' Club-Tacon the Man of Action-The Mayor and the Tenderloin -Cannon's Tribute to the Drayman-Reception at the Governor's Palace-Columbus's Bones and the Fort of DeSoto-Havana's Social Swirl-The Gypsy Rigo—A Salute at the Morro—The Labyrinthian Fortifications-Where Cuban Martyrs DiedPalma and His Lost Cause-Property Owners Who Want Protection-Dinner at Minister Morton's-The Exciting Game of Jai Alai The Governor Remembers a Friend.

A beautiful city-Havana; naturally, and by the hand of man. With its Prado and its Malecon, its parks, its churches. and its statues; its stately and artistic buildings, its ornamental and substantially-built homes-indeed, there was something captivating about it all. We expected to enjoy ourselves in the capital city, for it had been pictured as another Paris and Naples combined, with a little of Monte Carlo thrown in. The launches were ready, and we were preparing to land when a boarding party made its way to the Speaker's state-room. They might have searched the island over and not done better.

"It's Governor Magoon," said Tawney, as the Taft-like form of the Provisional Governor grasped the Speaker's hand-"another Minnesota boy."

"But he isn't boasting of it," laughed Sherman; “he's been to Nebraska since."

Accompanying the Governor were Major-General Alejandro Rodriguez, the Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban

troops; his United States adviser, Major H. J. Slocum, Second United States Cavalry, and Colonel Carlos M. de Rojas of the Cuban Artillery; the American Consul-General, Frank Steinhart, a Pennsylvanian, hailing from Allentown; Captain Robert E. L. Michie, of the General Staff, U. S. A., who had been detailed from Washington; Captain J. A. Ryan, Fifteenth Cavalry, U. S. A., aide to the Provisional Governor, and Lieutenant-Commander Sypher, U. S. Navy. Trooping along with the party were Mr. Alvord, the New York Herald's representative at Havana, and Mr. Patchin, of the New York Sun.

It was not long before the Congressional party found it had come in contact with a big-bodied, big-hearted, bigminded man. Some of us had not met Governor Magoon before, but we liked him. He "looked the part" of an American representative in a trying position abroad. There was nothing nervous about him. The annoyances of the island were not disturbing him. He was jovial, in fact. I gloried in the knowledge that Pennsylvania had at least been recognized in a consular position-at Havana.

"Yes," said the Governor, "you've got Steinhart, and I've brought him along in self-defence.”

Steinhart smilingly acquiesced, and the Governor told the story. The joke was on the senior Senator from

Pennsylvania.

The Metcalf party had been in Havana a few days before our arrival, and the Governor had received them. They slyly suggested that Senator Penrose was very much interested in Havana, and would probably make some inquiries on his own account. The Governor had not been told the reason, but that developed in due course.

The Senators, it seems, had tired of the monotony of the voyage on the Dolphin and looked about for some diversion.

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