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,

CHARLES C.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 t