Does an Education Pay?

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A TRIP TO CUBA. 687

was necessary to have a passport in order to visit the island. A fee had to be paid and an exaction was made that the person would leave within three months. A second fee was charged when the passport was returned. There is really less annoyance in landing at Havana than is experienced in New Orleans, where one is likely to run across a French official, who is often petty and unnecessa- rily exacting. At Havana there were a number of interpreters and hotel runners. Some Americans have gone there to open boarding houses on the American plan. The better hotels are quite expensive. The rooms are airy, and the open dining rooms are characteristic of tropical lands. Accommodations and service are, of course, inferior to the better hotels in the United States. There is a growing desire to speak English, for it is evidently seen that the tourist promises to be one of Cuba's best crops. (to be continued.)

DOES AN EDUCATION PAY?

Does it pay to make life-long friendship with bright, ambitious young people, many of whom will occupy high places later on? Does it pay to become familiar with all the lessons that history and science can teach as to how to make life healthy and successful? Does it pay to become an enlightened citizen, able to see through the sophistries of political claptrap and vote intelligently on public mat- ters? Does it pay to change a bar of rough pig iron into hairsprings for watches, thus increasing its worth to more than fifty times the value of its weight in gold?

Does it pay to experience the joy of self-discovery, to open up whole continents of possibilities in one's nature which might otherwise remain undiscovered? Does it pay the sculptor to call out from the rough block the statue that sleeps in the marble, and which shall tell ths story of heroism and greatness to unborn generations? Does it pay to have one's mentality stirred by the passion for ex- pansion, to feel the tonic of growth, the indescribable satisfaction which comes from the consciousness of perpetual enlargement? Success.