sir
B, P. lOHWEIER,
THB CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW8.
VOL. LII
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAYMAY 11 189S.
NO. 22
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CHAPTER VII.
The cricket match had taken place.
Tom's eleven, thankn to Dallas, had won
a glorious victory. The guests were gone
from the IIhII. It was a lovely afternoon,
with a soft west wind.
Never had June looked to such advan
"ace as she did that evening at dinner,
f here was a lovely color in her cheeks, a
new light in her eyes; her Toice had a
joyous ring; she seemed to be an Incarna
tion of pleasure and happiness.
"Would not you yonng people like to pre
Into the 'garden?" said Mrs. Ellesmere
the moment dinner was over, and they
obeyed her suggestion with alacrity.
"Let us get Into the boat," whispered
Palias: and June gave a radiant assent.
Twilight was creeping on, all natnre was
hushed; they might have been the only
two living creatures on- earth. And, for
the time being, they would have been con
tent to have the world to themselves. To
night June knew the difference that the
society of another human being can make
to all life, to all nature knew how it can
fill every moment with a strange, heaven
ly rapture, marred only by rememberini
how fleeting is the joy.
Neither seemed disposed to talk much
both were possessed by a sense of happi
ness. The moon came out and lit np the
Bowers on the bank, turning them tc
many colored Jewels.
"How I wish this could last foreverP
murmured Dallas, at last, bending a lit
tle toward June.
She smiled and sighed. The smile was
for content, the sigh for regret.
Suddenly an nneasy-scruple came ovet
Dallas. Was he not acting a traitor'i
part to Tom Tom, who would never have
been disloyal to any human being? Ought
he not. Instead of making love to this fair
girl on his own account, to be pleading hit
cousin's cause? It was extremely repug
nant to him, but the better side of his na
ture was awake to-night. And any
thought of marrying June himself was oul
of the question. Some day he woe Id be
a baronet, with a fair income; not, how-:
ever, in all probability, before he was ,
getting gray and well on In years; he had '
several brothers and sisters, he had debts. I
A penniless wife for him, therefore, was j
a luxury not even to be contemplated in
the remotest manner. Tom lucky chap! .
had no factor to consult save his owr
will and the lady's.
"Ton were not serious the other day,
Dallas asked June, "when you said that
yon did not mean to marry Tom?"
For a moment all June's sense of hap
piness vanished; a cold pang swept ovet
her. She had forgotten that Tom existed.
"Do not let us talk of him!" she said,
with a little gesture that conveyed dis
gust more expressively than she was
aware of.
"Not much chance," thought Dallas,
"for a man to whom a woman feels like
that." He was almost ashamed of him
self for the satisfaction which her action
gave him. "now you snubbed me that
first night at dinner!" he said, with a half
smile, after a pause. "I never felt so
small. You turned your back on me all
dinner time, and, though I was watching
my opportunity like a cat to speak to you,
you never gave it me until, by a lucky ac
cident, you dropped your fan under the
table. "
June smiled pensively, now well she
remembers that evening! how she likes tr
think that he noticed her behavior!
"Why were you so unkind?"
"I wanted not to like you," she an
wers, simply. "I made up my mind thai
I would not."
"Hut you have changed it now, hav
you not?" looking into the depths of hei
eyes.
"Yes," she says.
Why should she lie to him? Ahl sh
has indeed chanced, if there ever waa a
time when she did not like him. But wat
there ever such a time?
"I," he says, tenderly, "have nevei
changed from the first moment that I saw
you. I can't tell you how much hurt 1
was that you would not be friends with
me. The only time I ever thought you
felt a little bit kind to me was that even
ing of the dance. Do you remember?"
Does June remember? Ay, most truly
does she.
She bends her head in answer.
"I was dying to ask you again, but I
dared not. I thought it was best not."
" 'Best for you and best for me, "
quotes June, smiling.
"Only for me," he answers. "I was not
such a conceited ass as to think it coulil
make any difference to yon. And then I
Imagined that you belonged to Tom."
June makes an impatient movement
through the water with her fingers. Slit
cannot bear any allusion to Tom to-night.
"How divinely you dance!" says Dal
las. Then, with a sudden inspiration,
"Why should we not jhave a waltz to
night? My aunt plays dance music
chnrmingly."
"Oh, yes!" echoes Jnne, her eyes kind
ling with pleasure; "let us ask her!"
Dallas takes up the sculls, and in two
minutes they are at the landing place.
He jumps out, secures the boat, nnd gives
her his hand.
Slowly and silently, for very joy's sake
they move together up to the honse.
Mrs. Ellesmere is rousing herself from
her slumbers.
"Auntie," says Dallas, laying a caress
ing arm round her shoulder, "we want
you to do something for ns."
"What is it, dear boy?" she asks, with
a fond glance at his good-looking young
face, consent already implied by her tone.
"Won't yon come into the hall and piny
ns one of your delicious waltzes? We are
dving to have a turn."
""Of course I will," she answers, smil
ing, and feeling extremely gratified at thf
course events are taking. A glance at
June's face assures her that her irresist
ible nephew has made one more conquest,
one to which he is most heartily welcome.
So, with the kindest grace in im worm,
, , unwear-l
tlttK
Tedly while these" two reckless young peo- J
pie, heart be gating r to nearly
drunk with the intoxication or ineir iub ,
and the rhythm of their movements, are."
-ovln with gossamer threads of rap- .t
tha mh of future oaln.
. m - rnil the tTeeS,
-ii 8" - tu
tain Liauas. juutinc, -
. . .v- ,.. ,.M of Some
disappeared from the lynx eyes i 01
uion.- - - . - , tn,
one who was watching them from tn
drawing room window. .
oved to take June as being retired from
prying eyes; but, ah! how different was
It to-day 1 The seclusion which had irked
her so with Tom, from which she had
longed to escape, seemed an enchantment
whoa only flaw waa that it must have an
end.
Xbey war reaching far the tenth time
the evergreen arch which divided them
from the flower garden. Dallas atopped,
and Jun stood still beside him.
"How shall I see you to-morrow?" he
Bays, his eyes full of tenderness and a
touch of regret in his voice. "Tom will
be here, and then my short day will be
over."
June meets his gaze for one moment,
then her eyea droop, and a flickering color
comes Into ber cheek.
"My darling!" he murmurs, and his
arm takes gentle possession of her slight
form, his handsome face bends down to
hers, his lips touch hers, not with the
eager haste with which they have often
times sought red lips before, but with a
tenderness and reverence new to him, but
most exceeding sweet.
And June! Iler heart gives one mighty
throb; involuntarily ber eyea close; for
one moment a trance seems to steal her
soul.
She makes a movement to disengage
herself from his arms; he yields to it at
once; and then, before they have time to
recover themselves, each hears a sound
of hurrying feet and then Tom'a voice
shouting:
"Dal I where are you?"
The awakening is horrible. Tom here
already? Both feel like culprits Dallas
perhaps even more than June.
Dallas shouts in answer, and Tom's big
form looms straightway in the opening.
He does not wear that cheery, gratia!
smile which is the ordinary garb of his
face; he is evidently ill pleased; his light
blue eyes express anything but satisfac
tion. He shakes both by the hand, and
they try to look delighted, and feel secret
ly awkward and a little bit afraid of this
uguaiiy good-humored giant. " He is like
B blg Newfoundland the children's slave
,nj plaything who shows temper for the
time.
r managed to catch the earlier train,"
ne gay9f standing tapping bis boot with
nl ,tictt -i thought there was a chance,
toid the dog cart to meet me."
Then they ply mm wttn questions about
his journey and the Show, and he an
swers them, but he is not the Tom they
are used to. Something is wrong with
him. When they all go into the house
together and June finds Agnes drinking
tea with Mrs. Ellesniero she has a terribly
shrewd suspicion who it is that has been
making mischief and putting ideas int.
Tom's bead.
CHAPTER VIII.
"Dal!"
"Well, old chap?"
Dallas tried to make his tone light and
unsuspecting, but waa conscious that the
effort was somewhat of a failure.
"I heard something when I came back
to-day that that was not very pleasant
hearing."
"Ob," thonght Dallas, with sudden in
spiration, "that confounded sanctimoni
us cousin, I lay a thousand!"
"I am told," and Tom's voice betrayed
evident nervousness, "that Miss Rivers
has been up here ever since I left."
"She lunched here to-day."
"Oh!" remarked Tom, shortly. "Look
here, Dal" with immense emphasis
"there must le a little plain speaking be
tween us. I think you know that I am
not a jealous chap. I have never felt the
least grudge ngainst you on my mother's
account. I have never envied you your
success with women I uever wanted to
succeed but with one; but." dashing his
hand down on the table till every gins
rang, "if you come lietween me and June
Kivers, I will never take your hand again
is long as I have breath in my body."
Dallns, whose thoughts go with fifty
nines the rapidity of his cousin's, has
time during this oration to reflect and
decide.
"My dear old chap," he said, looking
lcross into Tom's disturbed and angry
face and feeling horribly ashamed of his
mn duplicity, "what are you driving at?"
Tom paused.
"I don't like to think," he said, with a
itraight, stern look at his cousin, "that
you have not the same instincts of honor
nnd gentlemanlike feeling that almost ev
er" man has. I never doubted you be
fore; but when I hear of yon sitting band
in hand with the girl whom you know I
'ove "
"Who said It?"
"No matter," answered Tom, to whom
the thought suddenly occurred that he
must not allow Agnes to suffer for her
Sdeiity to his interests.
Dallas felt the time had come to tafie
:he bull by the horns.
"I thought," he remarked, "that the
ast time we talked about Miss Itivers you
expressed a wish that I should endeavor
to conquer her evident dislike to me; nv
now you want to go down my tnroat for
having tried to make friends with her.
I think I can guess who your informant
Is, nnd, perhaps, in the innocence of your
heart, you do not see through her last
move in the game. It is plain enough that
Miss Agnes is in love with you, and would
do anything in the world to set you
gainst her cousin."
Tom was exceedingly troubled. Were
not both Dal'a remarks perfectly true?
Was he, then, only a blundering fool,
ready to be the prey of any one who
chose to play on his feelings? He felt
rather ashamed of himself.
"Perhaps I am wrong," he aald, awk
wardly. "If ao, I beg your pardon. But,"
after a moment's pause, "I know of
course I cannot help seeing how much
more there la la you than in me to attract
woman.
"Pshawr cried Dallas, angrily, thrust
mg nui cnur mu wu riiu, uvu -
rot! Take my word for it. Tom,
-n eZeUr
women. Ilk baring a poor opinion
Vm.- ia .iw.w. .nn
.," ' i-TL .
your own TSJuauon wu. . .
l one.
nnp -'
Tom
rose, too, and went toward hit j
cousin.
.T t . n i.. M h t i
" ww uujuif u "t --
thereby causing a
frank, manly war, tnsreoy causing
'of r to shoot thronADpOW
IzTTJ, ht w .a-iW Put I abatd.
Hit yon to gdvVine your hand on It that
yon will not try to com between me and
my little girL"
So Dallas gave his band and swore to
himself to be faithful to the bond of which
this was th seat Then he went out into
th garden alone, and, stepping Into th
boat, pushed off from the shore, and lay
on his back, looking np Into th moonlit
heaven and thinking with a bitter pans
of this time last night
It was th first time in his life that h
had loved with true, genuine affection,
and It was also the first time that he had
felt absolutely without hope. There was
only on, thins- for It to get put of th
way of temptation as soon as possible.
He had given his word to Tom, and, m
help him, God, he meant to keep it.
The next morning Jun waa sadly pre
occupied during her studies; she could
think of nothing but Dallas and what pre
text he could make to see her to-day.
When she returned home at midday, Mrs
Rivera said:
"Tom has been here."
Jun turned to th window to conceal
her face. Her heart beat wildly. She
waited almost In terror for the next
words. Had he come to complain and
protest to her mother? But Mrs. Rivers'
tone waa perfectly calm and unsuspect
ing.
"He had just been to see his cousin off
by the train."
A sudden dizziness caused June's brain
to reel, a deathly faintness to creep
through her heart: ah had to hold th
i ha lr tightly against which she was lean
ing.
Dallas gone, and without a word, a Una
to herl There had been a quarrel doubt
less between the two men, which had end
ed in Dallas leaving the Hall. But sure
ly he might have communicated with het
by some means. And Tom had told hei
mother nothing; that was evident.
When June could command ber fae
nnd voice, she turned away from tht
vindow.
"Was it not rather sudden, Mr. Brofc
leaving?" she asked.
"I think it waa. Tom said he had a let
ter this morning calling him back to Lon
don." "And how waa Tom?" Jnne asked, try
ng to speak indifferently.
"He seemed in capital spirits."
(To be continued.)
BACHELORS THROUGH SPITE
Men Who Will Not Marry Because of
Petty Personal Objection.
It seems almost Improbable that any
man should remain unmarried all his
life simply to gratify some petty per
sonal feeling of spite; yet curiously
enough such cases are not at ail no
common.
Some years ago two young men who
were sworn friends promised each oth
er never to marry, and by way of mak
ing the thing more binding vowed that
the first to break this compact should
give the other half his Income as long
as he remained In the state of single
blessedness. Unfortunately the friend
ship refused to withstand the test of a
keen business rivalry into which they
were thrown by circumstances later on.
And when one married, the other stub
bornly remained a soured old bach
elor for the pleasure of thus being able
to keep his one-time friend to his reck
less compact. The married man's in
come now being pretty colossal, the
grlmness of the situation may be imag
ined. Another case is that of a well-known,
though somewhat weak-minded, cot
ton manufacturer belonging to Liver
pool. Years ago his master taunted
him that he would never succeed In life
unless he married a woman with suf
ficient brain to supply his own lack of
mental backbone, to use an Irishism.
The thrust rankled; and the young ap
prentice both remained a bachelor and
became successful merely out of a
spiteful, melodramatic hope of one day
being able to fling those words back 1
his master's teeth.
Death from Corns.
All that troubled Mary Murray, of
Brooklyn, after 72 years of life, was
that her corns hurt her so much that
she couldn't get around as brisk and
lively as a girl of her age ought to. She
determined to take heroic measures,
and, borrowing a razor, she sliced off
the annoying protuberances. One of
her toes bled sllghL'r, and she applied
ammonia to it. Three days later she
died. Blood poisoning the doctors said
The Colonel Disapprove-!,
"Won't yon Join us?" said the young
man.
"What are you going to do?" Inquir
ed Col. Stillwell.
"To make up a skating party."
"No, suh," was the emphatic reply.
-I will not join any skating party. If
there Is anything upon which I pride
nyself. It Is my ability, suh, to Indulgt
without excess, suh."
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The most northern post olfice in the
world whs recently established at Spit
zenbergen. (,ondon has l."WI miles of streets: Pnri
COO miles ar-d New Y..rk 575 miles.
-AVhiit is probably the most venerable
piece of furniture in existence is now in
the. British Museum. It is the throne of
CJueen Hutsu, who reigned in the Nilo
valley some. ItilMI years In-fore Christ.
Glass bricks are gri.dually coming j
I. .n UN-, mm 11. I NiIH L i;iilss Will SOOII
be. used for making statues for public
squares, as it resists tin- corroding elfect
of the weather luui-h Ix-tter than marble
or granite.
Twenty wrrls per minute i- the aver
age at which longhand is vr-:feii.
A Coriespondent of i'.:.: 'U'eslminster
Gazette calls attention to the curious jux
taposition of twotingcr posts attached to a
public house near Bridgend. One reails,
"To the Asylum," and the other "To the
Cemetery."
One i.(...;1rod ami f- r ' - -i "lit British
soldier are iu possession -.if the Victoria
Cross.
The Chinese ilictiiv-sry, compiled l-y
Pa-cut-she, 1100 years II. C, is the most
ancient of any recor.!J in literary his
tory In t'.io jungles of Sumat-a t':e largest
spiders are found. Some of the largest
specimens measure eight inches across the
back and have seventeen inches of leg
pread.
Paradoxical as it may sound, there
are several varieties of ti'sh that cannot
swim. In every instance they are deep-
usig their tails and fins as legs
'
sea aweiiers, ami crawl atout the rocks.
.-' Asiatic cholera was nrst supposed to
,lave OI.iBiatHl f,m the
' if ainsjkiiiwl rii'A- nl vu n 1 In.
To hold crayons for black1oard or
j .-. i. I
"lU'S wi a. IB uiiru 1 1 ii I'lamp- :
ing jaws at one end and a sliding rod at
"g jaws at one eni aim a snuing rod at
the other end, to force the chalk into
Ption,
Gay and Picturesque
a Famous
HAVANA, the capital of Cuba,
Is a world-city, known wher
ever the fame of cities has
reached, and deserving of its fame, too,
for like all great cities of industry and
lit. It is unique. Cuba's capital is
;oeval with the Mediterranese conquest
f the Western hemisphere. The name
f the city Is characteristic of the re
ligious Latin races, for when Diego de
Vclnsqucz laid its found at Ions. In 1515,
he christened It San Cristobal de la Ha
baua St. Christopher of the haven or
harbor In honor of Columbus, the dis
rovcrer of the Island. This name, be
stowed upon the city by the conqueror
jf the i.sland. has remained unchanged,
and it is still otlicially so called. But
Its popular name has been shortened to
II aba ii a in Spanish and Havana in oth
er tongues. The city has a population
of about 200,000.
Havana is sited on the west side of
the tuy of its own name one of the
most beautiful bodies of water of its
tlnd found anywhere. The city stands
on a sort of peninsula that is formed
on one side by the waters of the bay,
uud on the other by those of the gulf.
In olden times it was one of the strong
rst of the places of the civilized world.
When ships of war were of wood and
tarried a few guns whose bullets .ere
repelled by granite masonry, Havana
was impregnable. But the "oak levia
thans" nnd the "rock-built cities" of
Lord Byron are now ' historical. On
I he one hand the recent destruction of
the Malue indicates the cause why
granite walls are no longer needed, and
du the other It Is seen how the subma
rine mine and torpedo have developed
gun powder, which enables a ship to
t.md miles wlliiout a harbor and land
shells In a city's heart.
Yet If it were not for Spanish poverty
and decline, Havana to-day might hare
leen ns relatively strong as when. In
15S5. it drove the fierce Sir Francis
Drake away from Its coasts. The fact
Is that the Spaniards have not kept step
with the march of progress. The In
sanity of attempting to defend Havana
with the same implements and methods
of warfare that were successful three
centuries ago Is in perfect keeping with
Spain's anachronism in civilization.
The town, as has already been said,
is unique. It is not Spauisb. It is not
Oriental, it is not European, nor does
it at all resemble anything In the Uni
ted States. It is Cuban. The bay.
ordinarily. Is one of the most vividly
beautiful sights to be seen anywhere.
HumlMildt's description of the ap
proaches to Havana fails to do It Jus
tice, and that distinguished traveler
AMERICAN CONSULATE BUILPLVO.
admits that the picture Is Indescribable.
Cuba aud Havana have ways aud
wards that are all their own.
Slaves to l'rcceden,t.
Havana Is a mystery to the European
and the American. The question, "Why
do you this aud do you that?" Is always
answered with, "We have always done
so; what else would you have us do?"
Why the farmers use a crooked stick
to plow with, why ladles sit in their
carriages while the dry goods clerks
bring out rolls of cloth for them to In
spect; why dark women and even
Mack women powder their faces until
they look as If they had been daubed
with flour; why houses are built to a
line within two feet of the curbing, so
that pedestrians cannot walk two
abreast; why the houses are all painted
in whatever vivid color pleases the
owner most; why an unearthly clangor
of bells drives sleep from the city at
daybreak; why no one ever keeps an
appointment (and never apologizes for
the offense), are questions that Havan
ese and Cubans do not explain or at
tempt to explain.
The almost equatorial sun beats down
upon the streets with terrific heat dur
ing the day, and none but business peo
ple and "low people" are seen during
the early and middle day. When the
sun sinks, however, the lazy Inhabit
ants turn out, and the life of the night
Nuts for Eating.
Nuts are much employed in high-class
jookery, but their value seems not to
e recognized by the majority of coun
:ry housewives, too many of whom let
;he squirrels get them all. Very de
licious dishes are made of chestnuts.
No nut makes a cake more delicious.
Nuts chopped and sprinkled over pud
dings, hot or cold, give a new flavor
and generally Improve them, while
Qlxed through custard they wak a
pfgf(
Cuban Capital Has
History.
0 fr'S . 000 '
is the lively life of Havana. The city
lias not been rcry businesslike under
Spanish rule. Most of the men are
worthless and dissipated. They lounge
In cafes and look only to pleasure such
as the Spaniard delights In gambling,
cock fighting, bull baiting. No thougat
of the morrow is taken, and the result
Is that a more Improvident population
can be found nowhere. Sunday Is Ha
vana's holiday.
As for the churches, thousands of
BLANCO'S
women religiously attend. In Cuba the
church and her children are a woman's
life. She soon loses her husband as her
companion In the home. She does not
read. She never beard of a new woman.-
She has ber little circle of friends
like herself, and some day dies. But
she has been faithful to the church, and
the most striking thing about a service
In th great cathedral is the presence of
the women of Havana and the ateenee
of the men. It Is said here ttmt moat
men go to church but three times In
their life when baptized, when about
to be married and when dead and the
church Is as risid In Its requirement of
the first two visits as the departed is to
be received there at last.
The cathedral is really one of the
finest edifices in Havana. It is built to
BlIiD'S-ETE VIEW OF HAVANA.
last for ages, la It are the remains of
Christopher Columbus that Is, the
tomb Is there, beside the altar and the
inscription. It is also duly authenti
cated that the remains are there, too,
but even Spaniards nod doubtfully
when asked, "Is it true?"
The lottery is the curse of Havana
One of the first cries heard on the
street In the morning Is the scbrlll voice
of a Cuban yelling that he has lottery
tickets for sale. It Is often the last
sound heard at night. It would seem
that all Cuba must gamble to support so
formidable a company of fakers.
All the storekeepers are courteous
and unobtrusive. A visitor experiences
great difficulty In purchasing anything
characteristically Cuban in the stores,
but that is because Cuba produces only
two things, sugar and tobacco, and
buys everything she uses even buys
back her sugar refined.
The easiest thing to buy Is cigars, and
they cost astonishingly less than tn the
States. There is an experience in buy
ing them, because the great cigar fac
tories of Havana, producing brands
that are known to smokers all over the
world, are Interesting institutions. They
occupy buildings so nearly resembling
the ordinary dwelling house that they
would be mistaken for them by a
stranger except for the odor.
Quaint Cuban Houses.
The Cuban house of the better class Is
of the ordinary, typical construction. It
is enormously heavy, built of adobe or
soft stone, to withstand earthquakes
and to resist heat. The rooms are enor
mous, with celling from fifteen to twen
ty or twenty-five feet hlh, all floors,
even in the bedrooms, being of stone,
and the windows covered with great
Iron bars.
The houses of the lower class look no
different from without, but are awful
within, and there the cause of Havana's
scourges of yellow fever Is at once ap
parent. The city Is badly drained. The
bay, with no free course of water, and
comparatively lfttle tide, is a reservoir,
uncleansed, of the city's offal. It breeds
disease, and In squalor where personal
uncleanliuess Is added to the perils In
curred by municipal neglect, the houses
of the poor have become the Incubators
of pestilence. Havana has many beau
tiful parks, squares and public places.
The squares are all ornamented with
royal palms and here and there an or
ange or banana tree, and here and there
an Indian laurel.
No city In the. world is furnished with
such an abundance and variety of foods
as is Havana, with the possible excep
tion of San Francisco. The earth and
the sea give to Its people all the best of
their fruits. The great market of Ha
vana Is without an equal, surpassing,
as It does, the famed French market of
New Orleans. This market covers an
area equal to that of an American
surprising change In this simpl dish.
Stewed apples sprinkled with chopped
nuts and the core space filled with jam
make a good dessert, which need be of
no cost except for the labor used, and
this Is of only nominal value. Philadel
phia Inquirer
Cbcjwlng Apparatus.
Old people who have lost their teeth
and do not care about wearing false
ones find a difficulty la eating their
block, and It Is all under a single roof
There are numberless booths in which
are exposed for sale all the fruits of the
tropics, sea fish, fresh water fish, meats,
game, leather goods. Jewelry and such
curios as only a seaport visited by the
commerce of the world can pick up.
There are seen men, women and chil
dren of every nationality upon the
earth. The wonder Is how so small a
town can gather to Itself such a wldo
range of humanity.
The population of Havana is mixed
and its morale Is very low. The condi
tion of the women remind a widely
traveled man of the women of the
Orient. They are close-kept and live in
tropical Idleness. Mlscegeneration Is
common, and It is no rare matter to find
a Cuban family of very good social po
sition snd of considerable wealth com
posed of persons that would be classed
PALACE.
as quadroons in America. Havana !s
a city of grand surprises for the foreign
visitor. A political mite as It Is lu com
parison with London, there are slums
In Havana that cannot be matched in
the metropolis of the world.
As Place of Residence.
Havana has infinite charms as a
place of residence. Its climate. Its veg
etation, the cheap rate at which oue
can buy all the delicacies of the h
the romance in the very air, the easa
with which a little labor will yield a
large return, the proximity of the sea.
Its middle distance between the Invig
orating north aud the tropical coun
tries of the southern continent, the pro
fusion of Its fruits and flowers all
these things make It a most desirable
place to live, and there Is no doubt that
thousands of Americans had been there
long ago were It not for the blighting
and repressing rule of Spain a rule
that tends to ruin commerce and enter
prise wherever it has sway.
In 1550 the seat of Spanish official
dom In Cuba was transferred from San
tiago de Cuba to Havana, an early rec
ognition of the city's Importance. One
year later pirates under the leadership
of the notorious Jacob Sores attacked
the town, sacked its church and the
dwellings of the wealthy and compelled
the commander of the fortress t sur
render. Sores soon grew tired of the
place and withdrew. But his example
was frequently followed, and numer
ous attempts were made by buccaneers
to capture the city and loot it. Notable
among these efforts waa that of the En
glish buccaneer. Sir Francis Drake,
who assaulted Havana in 15S5, but was
compelled to retire. The first scourge
of yellow fever appeared tn the ship
ping during the summer of 1761. Ia
17C2 Admiral Tooock. with an English
squadron, attacked Havana and forced
It to capitulate. For two months the
city put up a brave defense. In 1763
Havana was restored to the Spanish by
the treaty of Paris.
.The first newspaper published In Ha
vana was La Gaceta de - la Habana,
HOTEL IXQLATKRRA, KESOUT OF FOR
EIGNERS. which apieared in 17S2. In ITS'. the
Jesuits were expelled from the city,
and their church was converted into
the cathedral of the diocese. This is
the church in which it Is said the ashes
of Columbus were-deposlted iu the year
1800. In 1818 Havana was opened to
the commerce of the world.
Col. Hawkins Uncle Mose, I hear
you and your wife had a little dispute
again last night. Which came out
ahead this time? Uncle Mose (dubious
ly feeling a lump on the back of his
head) I's powerful glad to say dat I
kim out ahead, boss; but she mighty
nigh overtook me. Harper's Bazar.
We want it understood right now
that we never count ourselves among
"the friends of the family who waut
to see the remains.'
food. The result la the invention by a
Frenchman of a chewing apparatus.
This is held in one hand, aud a fork in
the other." A piece of meat, or what
ever is to be eaten, is placed between
blades, which are opened and closed
three or four times, and by this menu."
the food is reduced to a state of pulp.
If you love a man, see that he wears '
his overcoat until the weather Is warm
enough to discard It,
SERMONS OF THE DAY.
The Subject of the Address "The SwoWti
Its Mlanioa 'and Ita Doom" l ightj
When Wielded In m Klghtoous Canae
Great Achievements Wrought by Arms.
Text: "My swrord shall be bathed in
heaven." Isaiah, xxxiv., 5.
"It has ooine at last the war that we
lave prayed Almighty God might be
tverte l. The prows of the battle-ships are
:atting the seas, and troops from all the
States of the American Union are on the
way to the front. All the arts of diplomacy
have failed, and momentous questions are
to be decided in battle on sea and land.
Three results will be demonstrated the in
dependence of Cuba, the rebuke of Spanish
cruelty, and the triumph of the United
States army and navy.
"Three hundred and fifty-one times does
the liible speak of that sharp, keen, curved,
inexorable weapon, which flashes upon us
from tbo text the sword. Sometimes the
mention is applaudatory, and sometimes
damnatory, sometimes as drawn, some
times as sheathed. In the Bible, and In
much sec-ular literature, the sword repre
sents nil javelias, all muskets, all carbines,
all guns, all police clubs, all battle-axes,
all weaponry for physical defense or attack,
it would be an interesting thing to give the
history of the plow, and follow its furrow
all down through the ages, from the tlrst
crop in Ohaldea to the last crop in Minne
sota. It would be interesting to follow the
pen as it had tracked its way on down
through the literature of nations, from it9
tirt word in the llrst book to the last word
which some author last night wrote as be
closed his manuscript. It would be an in
teresting thing to count the echoes of th
hammer from the llrst nail driven down
through all the mocbunisra of centuries to
the last stroke iu the carpenter's shop ol
yesterday. I propose to-liny speaking of a
we:i;oa that has done a work that neither
plow nor pen nor hammer ever accom
plished. Sly theme is the sword, its mis
sion, ami its loom.
The sword of the text was bathed in
heaven; that is, it was a sword of right
eousness, as another sword mav be bathed
in hell, aud the sword of cruelty and
wrong. There is a great difference be
tween the word of Winklereid nnd the
sword of Cataline, between the sword of
Leonidas and the swcnl of Benedict Arnold.
In our effort to hasten the end of war we
have hur.g the sword with abuses aud exe
crations, when it has had a divine mission,
as when in many crises of the world's his
tory it has swanur for liberty nnd justice,
civilization and righteousness and God.
At the very opening of th:! Bible and on the
east side of the Garden of Eden God placed
a limning sword to defend the tree of life.
Of the oflieer of the law, St. Paul declares:
'He bear.-tU not the sword in vain.'
Through Moses God eomirau-.leJ: lut
every man his s.vonl by his si-le.' David,
in his prayer, says: 'Gird Thy sword upon
Thy thih, O most mighty." One of the
battlo-shouts of the Old Testament was:
The sword of the Lorl and Gidtion.'
Christ, in a great exigency, said that such
a weapon was more important than a eoat,
for he declare 1: 'He that hath no sword,
let him sell his garment and buy one.'
Again he declared: 'I come not to send
peace, but a sword.' Of Christ's seeoud
coming, it Is said: 'Out of His mouth went
a sharp, two-edged sword.' . Thus, some
times ilguratively, but often literally, the
divine mission ot the sword is announced.
"What moro consecrated thing in the
world than Joshua's sword, or Caleb's
Sword, or Gideon's sword, or David's
sword, or Washington's sword, or Marion's
sword, or Lafayette's sword, or Welling
ton's sword, or Garibaldi's sword, or hun
dreds of thousands of American swords
that have again and again been battled in
heaven. Swords of that kind have been
the best friends of the human race. They
have slain tyrannies, pried open dungeons,
and cleared the way for nations in their
onward march. It was better for them to
take the sword aud be free, than lie uudei
the oppressor's heel and suffer.
"There is something worse than death,
and that is life if it must cringe and crouch
before the wrong. Turn over the leaves of
the world's history, ind find that tiler-! has
never been a tyranny stopped or a nation
liberated except by the sword. I am not
talking to you about the wav things ought
to be, but about the way they have been.
What force drove back the Saracens at
Tours, nnd kept Europe from being over
whelmed by Mohammedanism, and, sub
sequently, all America given over to
Mohammedanism? The sword of Charles
Martell and his men. Who can deal enough
in infinities to tell what was accomplished
for the world's good by the sword of Joan
of Arc? Years ago I lookel off and saw in
the distance the battle-fluid of Marathon,
and I asked myself what was it that ou
that most tremendous day in historv
stopped the Tersian hosts, representing uot
only Tersin, but Kgypt, and Tripoli, ami
Afghanistan, and Beioochistan, and
Armenia; a host that had Asia under foot
and proposed to put Europe under foot,
and, if successful in that battle, would
have submerged by Asiatic barbarism,
European civilization, and, as a conse
quence, in after time, American civiliza
tion? The swords of Miltiades, and
Themostocles, and Aristides. At the waving
of these swords the eleven thousand lan
cers of Athens, on the run, dashed ngainst
the one hundred thousand insolent Persians
and trampled them down Or pushed them
back into the sea. The swords of that day
saved the-best part of the hemispheres, a
trinity of keen steel flashing in the two
lights the light of the setting sun of bar
barism, the light of the rising sun of civil-
ization. Hail to these three great swords j
bathed in heavenl
"What put an end to infamous Louis
WT 'a lil.n nf ,1 n ( cava n I . t... ..-I I . I.
England would have been made to kneel
on the steps of theTuileries, aud the Anglo
Saxon race would have been halted nnd all
Europe paralyzed? The sword of Mnrl-liir'-ngh,
at Blenheim. Time came when
t: ioman war eagles, whose beaks had
jt- .i punched into the heart of nations,
must be brought down from their eyries.
All other attempts had disgracefully failed,
but the Germans, the mightiest nation for
brawn and brain, undertook the work, and.
under God, succeeded. What drove back I
the Roman cavalry till the horses, wounded, I
flung their riders and the last rider per- i
Istied, and the Hercyman forest became the
scene of Home's humiliation? The brave
sword, the triumphant sword of Arminius.
"While passing through France my nerves
tingled with excitement, and I rose In the
car the better to see the bnttle-lleld of
Chalons, the mounds and breastworks still
visible, though nearly live hundred years
ago they were shoveled un. Hero, Attila.
the heathen monster, called by himself the
scourge ot uod, lor tue punishment of
Christians,' his life a massacre of nations,
came to ignominious defeat.aud he put into
one great pile the wooden saddles ot his
cavalry, and thespoilsof the cities and
kingdoms he had sacked aud placed on top
of this holocaust the woman who had ac
companied him in his devastating march,
ordering that the torch be put to the pile.
What power broke that sword and stayed
that red scourge of crueltytbat was rolling
over Europe? The sword of Theodorio
and Actius.
"To come tiown to later ages, all intel
ligent Englishmen unite with tall Intelli
gent Americans in saying that it was the
best thing that the American colonics
swung off from the government of Great
Britain. It would have been the worst
absurdity of four thousand years it this
continent should have continued In loyalty
to a throne on the other side of the sea.
No one would propose a Governor General
for the Unite.! States, as there is a Gov
ernor General for Canada. We have had
splendid Queens in our American Capital,
but we could hardly be brought to support
a Queen on the other side of the Atlantic
vely and good as Victoria Js. The only
ose we have for Earls and Lords andDukes
In this country is to treat them well when
they pass through to their hunting grounds
In the far West, or when their fortunes
have failed, re-enforce them by wealthy
matrimonial alliance. Imagine this nation
f et a part of English possessionf ! The
rouble the mother country bag with Ire
land would be a paradisaic condition com
pared with the trouble she would have with
as. England and the United States make
excellent neighbors, but the two families
re too large to live in the same honse.
What a godsend that we should have parted,
' "imt t can runic ot n-1? "'- ! 1 w ay rn
which we eould possibly have achieved
American Independence. George the
Third, the half-crazv King, would not have
let us go. Lord North, his Trime Minister,
would not have let us go. General Lord
Cornwallis would not have let us go, al
though after Yorktown he was clad enough
to have ns let him go. The battlolields of
!he American Revolution were proof posi
tive that they were not willing to let us go.
any committee of Americans going across
the ocean to see what could have been
lone would have found no better accom
modations than London Tower. The only
way it could have been done was by the
word, your great-grandfather's sword.
Jefferson's pen eould write the Declaration
Df Independence, but only Washington's
jword could have achieved it, and the
Dt her swords bathed in heaven.
"Arbitrament will take the place of war
between nation and nation, and national
armies will disband as a consequence, ami
the time will come Bod hasten it! when
there will bo no need of an American
army or navy, or a Russian army or
navy. But some time after that cities will
have to keep their armories and arsenals
and well-drilled militia, because until tho
millennial day there will he populations
with whom arbitrament will be as impossi
ble as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or a
jungle of snakes. These men who roh
stores and give garrotor's hui?, and prowl
about the wharves at midnight, and rattle
the dice in gambling hells and go urine I
with pistol or dirk, will refrain from dis
turbances of the public peace just in pro
portion as they realize that the militia of a
sity, instead of being an awkward squad,
and in danger of shooting each other by
mistake, or losing their own lif-! by looking
down into the gun barrel tosee if it is lon.l
3d, or getting the ramrod fast in their boot
leg, are prompt as the sunrise, keen as tho
north wind, potent as a thunderbolt, nnd
nccurate and regular and discipline 1 in
their movements as the planetary system.
Well done, then, I sav to the Legislatures
and Governors and Mayors, and all olll"ials
who decide upon larger armories and bet
ter places for drill ami more Microns
snuipmont for the militia. The sooner tho
sword can safely go back to tho scaMiard
to stay thore, tho better; but until th hilt
clangs against tho case iu that llnal lodg
ment, let theswor.l bo kept fre t fr.vn rust;
sharp all along the edge and its point like
a needle and the handle polished, not only
by the chamois of the regimental servant,
but by the hand of bravo and patriotic! olll
sers, always ready to do their full duty.
Such swords are not bathed in Impetuosity,
or bathed in cruelty or bathe 1 in oppres
sion, or bathed in outrage; but bathed iu
heaven.
Before I speak of the doom of the sword,
let me also say that it has developed the
grandest natures that the world ever s.iw.
it has developed courage that sublime,
energy of the soul which dtles the uni
versa when it feels itself to be in tho rilit.
It has developed a self-sacrillen which re
pudiates the idea that our life is worth
more thnn anything else, when f'r a prin
ciple it throws thai life away, as iiiii'!i ns
to say: 'It is not necessary that I live, but
it is necessary that righteousness triumph.'
There are tens of thousands among the
Northern and Southern veterans of our
Civil War who are ninety-live per cent,
larger and mightier in soul than they would
have been had ttiey not, during the four
years of national ngony, turned their back
on home and fortune, and at the front sac
rificed nil for a principle.
"But the sword is doomed. There is on.
word that will vet be written in every
throne-room, in every war ofllee, iu every
navy yard. In every nntioual council. That
word is Disarmament. But no government
can afford to thtw its sword away until
all the great governments- have agreed to
do the same until disarmament and con
sequent arbitration shall bo ngreed to by
all the great governments, any sinirle gov
ernment that dismantles its fortresses, an I
spikes its guns, and breaks its sword,
would simply invite its own destruction.
Suppose, before such general agreement
England should throw aw.iv her sword;
think you France has forgotten Waterloo?
Suppose, before such general airr cinent
Germany should throw her sword away:
how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay
as they are? Suppose the Czar of Knssia
heforesuch general agreement shoul 1 throw
away hissword, all the eagles and vultures
and lions of European power would gather
for a piece of the Russian bear. Suppose in
some future time the United States, with
out any such general agreement of disarm
ament, should throw away her sword, it
would not be long before the our great har
bors would be ablaze with the bunting of
foreign navies coining hero to show the
folly of the "Monroe doctrine."
"What a horror Is war aud its cruelties
was well illustrated when the Tartars, after
sweeping through Russia and Poland, dis
played with pride nine great sacks tilled
with the right ears of tho fallen, and when
a correspondent of the London Times, writ
ing of the wounded after the battle of
Sedan, said: 'Every moan that t . e human
voice can utter rose from that heap of
agony, and cries of water! For the love of
God, waterl A doctor! A doctor! never
ceased. After war has wrought such cruel
ties, how glad we will be to have tho old
monster himself die. Let his dying couch
be spread in some dismantled fortress,
through' which the stormy winds howl.
Give him for apillowa battered shield, and
let his bed be hard with the rusted bayonets
of the slain. Cover him with the eimrsest
blanket that picket ever wore, and let his
only cup be the blenched bone of ono of his
war-chargers, and the last taper by his bed
side expire as the midnight blast sighs in
to his ears: The candle of the wicked shall
be put out.
"In this time of our national trial let us
dedicate ourselves anew to Go. 1 nnd our
country. In the English conllict, called
tho-War of the Roses, a white rose was me
badge of the House of York, anil the red
rose the badge of the House of Lancas
ter, and with these two colors they op
posed each other in battle. To enlist you
in the holy war for all that is good
against all that is wrong I pin over your
heart two badges, the one suggestive of
the blood shed for our redemption, nnd
the other symbolic of a soul made white
and clean, the Rose of Sharon and the Lily
of the Valley.
"And as for our beloved country in this
crisis, there are three reasons why we
should do our best for that. Three reasons:
Our fathers' graves, our own cradles, our
children's birthright. When I say your
fathers' graves your pulses run quicker.
Whether they sleep in city cemetery or
in village graveyard, their ashes are pre
cious to you. They lived well and they
died right. You will not submit to have
their tombs dishonored by the foot of any
foreign foe. Then this hrtid has bc.-u our
cradle. It may have rocked us roughly,
but it was a good era lie to be rocked In.
Oh, how much wo owe It. Dear laud of
our boyhood and girlhood days! And it
is to be our children's birthright. We will
nfter awhile be through with it; v;c will
see only a few more blossoms of the
spring; we will gather only a few more ol
the harvests of the summer; we will pluck
only a little more of the fruits of the au
tumn; but our children, they must get it
through us, ns we got it from our fathers
- a free land, a happy laud, a Christian
land.
The Adams hoiu-sl 1 nt Quinry.Miss.
has lioeii restore I under the direction
of the Qiiiney HUlori.-al soeietv.
An il-s-plii- bui-lu-i- shop has
Ieen
start."l in Baltimore, where all
that touch the fn.-e have U-.li
Zed.
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st.-i il
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erected
wit-m iiiuiiin vum iiuiioi i nil lies l ai
t'haring Cress, fairing Parliament street,
finitiin
I at
Experiments with locomotives on tho
'Vheeling and Ijike Krie railroad show
-hat a slight addition of graphite to tho
oil used for lubricating purposes promot
conomy.
Dutch omnibuses are fitted with l.-tter
boxes.
One of the fierman cities boasts a street
laid with ruller.
Two thousand two hundred trains
( leave Iimlon ordinarily every twenty-
lour hours.
There are nearly in.fion hounds main
tained in the Unite 1 Kingdom exclusively
1 for hunting purposes.
I Kerosene from Sumatra is entering
t the markets of the far East in competition
with the Russian oil.
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