John H.
Salem, Oreg., April 10th, 1897.
Dear John:
The Cretan matter seems nearer solution now, and it is to be hoped that all the trouble may result in better conditions for the people of the 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,
H.T.