J @ STREET SCENES IN HAVANA, & Picturesque and Unique Views in Out-of-the eB Way Nooks. @ od 000200 C0CTTeTCOe You are taken ashore from the ship at Havana by rowboats hooded with canvas against the sun, and the sturdy boatmen give the visitor the first im- pression of the real Cubans. They are an admixture of African and In- dian and Spaniard, with the blood of the African very evidently supreme among the lower classes. There isa frowzy crew of hackmen and hotel- runners’bawling out an almost unin- telligible Spanish patois at thelanding as your welcome to ‘‘the pearl of the Antilles,” and the Cuban cochero im- presses your American nationality upon you at once. Likeother cabmen the world over he considers the Ameri- can as his legitimate prey, and while Cubans pay one price, and foreigners in general a figure one-third higher, the proverbially wealthy American must pay two-thirds more, as a gen- eral thing, unless he be an adept at parrying an overcharge. Havana is dilapidated and pictur- esque, and the traveler will find as much of the bizarre and unique in a stroll up the Prado and about the lesser streets as he has perhaps ever en- countered in a like distance anywhere. To me the most interesting hour in the day in one of those antique towns is in the very early morning, when the place is just getting awake and the hucksters are coming in. These country people arrive in all : sorts of ways for the daily market. One group comes afoot, with tremend- ously heavy loads of fruits and vege- tables carelessly. balanced on their heads or swung on their backs. Here is a swarthy fellow leading a horse bearing capacgious reeded panniers of fruits and stalks of sugar-cane, which latter is a favorite natural confection NATIVE WATER-CARRIER, with the masses, for a copper will buy a long stick of it. The fruits are mostly new to any one not tropic- traveled, and the familiar-looking bananas are tucked in with sapotes, mamayes, aguacates, chabacanos, mangoes, and a great variety of other products rarely ever seen outside those latitudes. This fellow will soon be shouting out his stock with loud-lunged persistency about the streets and into the patios of the houses, and will then sleep and smoke away the rest of the day. Lumbering wains come straining into town, drawn by heavy-necked yokes with restraining nose-hitches. A four-team of these cattle and their great cart will alone block the average side-street, so the country ox-carts rarely get very far into town. When two of them meet there is an ably conducted debate on road rights and considerable native profanity. An am- bulating haystack adds a picturesque touch to the scene and a breath “from the fields. As the diminitive horse under the load swings down the way the grass often brushes the houses cn either side and crowds the foot-men to the extremity of the eighteen-inch sidewalks. An ox-cart, a load of hay and a long-poled volante blankly re- garding each other in a narrow street, and each with an eloquent driver, is a “jam” combination excelled nowhere on lower Broadway. The Cubans are like every other - Spanish-tinctured nationality in their utter indifference to time. Theirs 1s a land of manana indeed, and almost by raving over the delay, as do those nervous Americanos from the North. ‘How many cows there are about the streets!” somebody exclaims, and then he is calmly informed that the morning’s milk is simply being deliv- ered. A bunch of cattle and their driver stop before a house, and the portero comes out with a cup for the morning’s supply. It is seen then that the cows are being milked from there is the view of Cabana fortress across the bay, and of the masts and rigging of the ships in the harbor. | Commerce had not yet spread its wings, and the shipping is not exten- site. A pleasanter walk is through Cuba street, with glimpses into the | barracks of the Spanish soldiers and chance views of the home life of the | people who dwell in their stores and shops. Seeing the soldiers in the barracks one is tempted to ask if they are ever clean. in Havana houses the question will recur a thousand times: How can they help feeling themselves prison- ers behind those massive doors and grated windows? It is better to come to the Cathe- dral this way than to take a cab and drive directly from the hotel. = Com- ing in a cab the two towers stand out just like the towers of innumerable other cathedrals, and the crumbling gray stones are as other time-eaten monuments. But coming upon the A NATIVE FRUIT-SELLER IN HAVANA door to door by the dairymen, for this is the way the acute Cuban housewives have taken to assure for their {ables a lacteal supply which is. entirely fresh and absolutely pure. Otherwise the guile-loving vender might dilute_ the milk before delivering it to his cus- tomers, and ecraftily stir into the watery fluid the juice of the sweet potato to color it up to a duly rich and creamy cast. Even with the cows milked before the door one must con- tinue to watch the milkman, for T have even heard of their having a rubber bag of water concealed under their loose frocks and connected with a rub- HINARI 0 VY, \ Head wiih) | ei AN I dl A A HAVANA HUCKSTER. ber tube running down the inside of the sleeve, its tip being concealed in the hollow of the milking-hand. Only a gentle pressure upon the bag of water within is needed to thus cause both milk and water to flow into the cup at the same time. The milk-venders of Italy and India have also learned their trade to perfection, for they practise this identical trick. Havana has many quiet nooks and corners which escape the American THE CATHEDRAL, HAVANA. nothing can ever hurry them. Over in the railroad yards the crews can sometimes be seen switching the trains back and’ forth by yokes of oxen, while the locomotive engine stands idly by, and -the engineer and firemen smoke cigarettes in the cab. Hours are consuthed by this and like leisure and primitive pursuits, but no one is so foolish as to heat his blood visitors. The walk from the Prado to the little park of the Punta takes hardly more than a minute, yet this spot remains unknown to many. The Cathedral of Columbus may be. approched from it either by a walk along the parapets, on the water front, or by strolling through one.of the nar- row streets lined with substantial warehouses. , Following the quay Cathedral out of some byway unex- pectedly, the whole panorama of its history may sweep across the mental vision in a flash. = As for the sacred bones of Columbus, they are by com- mon report gone. They might have been removed openly with the consent of the United States Government if it had been asked. The ceremony would have been of historic interest, but the painful reflections to which it would have given rise Captain- General Blanco for the mys- tery with which the removal of those ashes was accomplished. Santo Do- mingo can henceforth dispute with Madrid instead of with Havana the genuineness of the ashes. The Cathedral will lose none of its attractiveness if the disputed ashes are no longer in the urn or under the slab which was supposed them. And good poetry and good epitaph writing will be the gainers that the tomb of Columbus is no longer subject to the inscription: POULTRY VENDER. Oh, rest thou, image of the great Colon! Thousand centuries remain, guarded in the n Aud I omembrance of our nation! Don Jose Garcia de Arboleya, a learned Spaniard who wrote a histori- ca) and descriptive manual of Cuba half a century ago, pathetically asked where the muses were when these lines were inscribed. He received no answer. Two Shades. Two misty shades met in illimitable space. “Ah.” thou?” “I sigh,” replied the other, ‘‘over the sad decline of a decaying stage.” ‘“You do!” cried the first. ‘‘How strange! For, know you, this lament- able decline sorely afflicts me as well.” *“To think,” moaned the other, ‘‘that at this very moment a make-up nose—save the mark!—doth move the groundlings to ardent ' admiration. Was ever anything so grotesque, so flippant, so coarse?” ‘““Never,” cried the first; ‘‘it passes belief. This Cyrano’s nose seemeth more like the gibing fancy of a Christ- mas mummy than the staid accessory of a play.” “I am glad,” said the wailing one, “to find such quick and touching sym- pathy. May I ask your name?” ‘“I,”” proudly replied the other, ‘‘am Richard’s hump. And you?” “I am Trilby’s foot.” And they drifted away together.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. cried one, ‘‘why sighest Statistics show that the consump- tion of hay in the large cities is as large now as it ever has been. And of the dwellers | may excuse | to cover | | FACTS OF SIGNIFICANCE, CAUSE AND EFFECT AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE RECENT ELECTIONS. Republican Control of the House of Repre: sentatives Saved by Galns Made in the States \Where Protection Was Emnha- sized as a Leading Issue. A vote for Democratic Congressmen | will be a vote to overturn the Dingley Tariff law, which has been the primal factor of our present prosperity; which has increased the wages paid to American workingmen one billion dol- lars in the passed eighteen months: which made a balance of tra le in our favor of over six hundred million dol- lars last year, and is building new factories and setting more men at work in our mills, factories, logging camps and mines, It will be a vote to indorse the free trade Wilson law, which closed our mills and factories, and enforced idleness and poverty upon American workingmen.—Taco- ma liedger. | It is a fact of history that <in the | States of the Far West the campaign ending November 8 was chiefly fought | on the issue of protection. The ex- tract just quoted from the Tacoma Ledger is a fair sample of the argu- { ments and appeals relied upon by the i leading Republican newspapers of the i Pacific Coast to reach the intelligence of voters. Day after day, week after | week, the journals supporting Presi- { dent McKinley's administration and | its policies spread before their readers | the facts and figures of revived pros- | perity under protection as contrasted with the facts and figures of depres- sion and ruin under four years of | free trade and tariff tinkering. Every { Republican speaker followed the same i line. : i Adifferent policy was pursued in the Middle and Eastern States, more par- | ticularly the Atlantic Coast States. In | these States the tariff was almost en- | tirely ignored alike by newspapers { and campaign speakers on the Repub- lican side. = Naturally it was ignored on the Democratiq side. Republican writers and orators had little or noth- ing to say about the leading feature in the policy of the Republican National Administration. The needs and de- { mands of the American merchant | marine, albeit of vital consequence to {the people of the Atlantic Coast States, received scarcely a word of recognition. So far as the voters of { these localities were informed the | issue of marine protection and the restoration of American shipping was | not involved in the campaign, I Mark the result! The Republican | majority in the National House of | Representatives was wiped out by "losses in the Western, Middle and | Fastern States and the control of the House by a majority now estimated at | thirteen was saved to the Republican | parly by the gains of Congressmen in | the States west of the Missouri River. | Leaving out the gains in these States, { where the doctrine of protection was made the leading -issue of the { campaign, the Tower House ci the I'ifty-sixth Congress would be in the control of a coalition of Democrats, Populists and Free Silverites.- | Phere is possibly a lesson in these | facts that campaign managers would : do well to keep in mind hereafter, “Under Proper Laws.’’ | Naval expansion is inevitable under {the unanswerable logic of destiny. | But what the country most needs isan | expansion of its maritime fleets. Un- { der proper laws that would promptly seb in, and while taking no millions ‘oul of the Treasury it would turn un- i counted millions into the channels of industry and make Amorica as buky a | builder of merchantmen for the outer world as she long has been of locomo- | tives,—Philadelphia record (Free Trade). Here is the definition of the peecu- Har virtues of the policy of diserimi- nating duties that is hard to Deat. Under this very proper law, precisely similar to the law enacted for the same purpose a hundred years ago by the founders of the republic, there would be no taking of millions out of the Na- tional Treasury, but there would be a wonderful turnipg of ‘‘uncounted millions into the channels of indus- try.” We should begin by building a vast fleet of iron and steel ships for by the time this demand was supplied our splendidly equipped shipyards with their cheaper materials and su- perior mechanical equipments would be ready to build ships for the reat of the world. All this, as the Philadel- phia Reeord very truly observes, ‘‘under proper laws,” but in no other Way, All Sections Interested. If Congress would pass a bill to give the same protection to American ship- ping that it does to American manu- facturers and farmers and mechanics, there will be profitable business for the investment of the millions now going abroad at a low rate of interest. paid to foreign shipowners for carry- ing our foreign trade, besides build- ing up the greatest industry in this country—shipbuilding. All sections of the United States are interested in such a measure, but none more so than the Pacific Coast States.—McMinville (Oregon) Valley Times. Breaking Into Our Market. The days of superior woolen goods from Yorkshire mills have ended, as far as our market is concerned. The sole aim and object of the: English manufacturers, nowadays, consists in. the development of every device that will enable them to adulterate their mixtures of wool, cotton, rags and shoddy into such a presentable form that they can hang together until they get upon the wearer's back in the United States. They want some share of our market by crook, if not by hook. —New York Commercial. the American merchant marine, and’ AESTONE STE NES CORDEE PAID THE INSURANCE. Parents After Three Years Identify the Remains of Their Murdercd Son to the Satis- faction of a Jury. A jury at Bellefonte has awarded John Fk. Potter a verdict against the Union Central Life Insurance Com- pany, of Cincinnati, O.; for $1..5.5b, be- ing the face value and interest of a $1400 policy held by his son, George Potter, who 1s supposed to have been murdered in 1894. Young Potter disap- peared from home in the spring of that year, and later a mangled body, sup- posed to be his, was found near Cross Forks. The company refused to pay tne insurance on the grounds of insuf- ficient proof of death. Three years after tne buriat7of the murdered man the father and mother had the remains exhumed and identified them as those of their son. The following pensions were issued last week: ‘thornton Winesburgh, Buffalo, Washington, $6; John C. Neel, Hamilton, Jefterson, $8; John H. Ken- nedy, Brookville, $6 to $8; Jacob Wid- aer, Aitch, Huntingdon, $6; Richard M. Fast, Fairchance, $6: Susan Gohn, Jen- ners, Somerset, $8; Asburg M. lias, Punxsutawney, $6; George Mille, West Bridgewater, $65; Thomas KE. Keon, Pittsburgh, 38; George FE. Irvine, Alle- gheny, $6; Henry M. Gaskill, Erie, $6 to $8; William C. Lutz, dead, Murrays- ville, $6: William Kline, Jennerstown, $10; Greenburg B. Nevling, Smith Mills, $8; Hugh McPherson, Canal Ridge, $12; Andrew A. Washburn, McKean, $3; Thomas-J. Cameron, Lewistown, $24; Emily A. Keen, Tamarac, $8; Mary Porter, Boyer, $8; James Rossell, Van- derbilt, $6; Charles ('. Hern, Pittsburg, $1 to $€: William Stone, Mercersburg, 36 to $8; George M. Dopp, Lenoxville, $8 to $12; John A. Bennett, Indiana, $b to $12; Benjamin F. Noel, Creighton, $6 to $8; William Robins, Keech, $12 to $20; Thomas Bechtel, Marketsville, $10: Angeline Davison, Cooperstown; Ellen A. Brower. Vail, $3; Benjamin Cump- son, Woodbury, Bedford, $8; Reuben Rubendall, Liverpool, Perry, $6; Stephen Atherton, Centerville, $10 to $12; Uriah Stover, Houseville, Center, $6 to $8; Jacob Ritter, Tomstown, Franklin, $10 to $12; John A. Yeager, Center, 36 to 38; George W. Edwards, Enid, Fulton, $8; ' John HH. love, Clarion, $10; Mary Budd, mother, Sharon, $12; Mary A. Ziders, Thomp- sontown, Juniata, $12; Maria W. Wolf, Erie, 8; minors of William Care, Mor- ris Run, Tioga, $18: Moses Johnson, Bedford, $6 to $10; Workman Simmons, Elizabeth, $ to $10; William Dixon, Harrisburg, $6 to $8. Con Rumberger of East Sandy had a terrible encounter with a deer while he and his son were hunting last week. The son fired at a deer, injuring it. The deer limped into the brush, where the elder Rumberger was. Mr. Rum- berger whipped out his knife and at- tacked the deer, which made vigorous resistance. Rumberger cut the animal several times, but could not reach the vital spot. The deer caught the hun- ter on its horns, and after tossing him about, pitched him over a bank into a creek 20 feet below. The son then came up and killed the animal. During the trial-at Allentown of a ‘ase in which the value of a horse was in dispute, Robert F. Thomas, the plaintiff, asked the Court's permission to pray when he took the witness stand. He stated that whenever he said or did was done under the guid- ance of the Lord. Judge Albright granted his request, and Thomas prayed aloud for about ten minu.es. The trial was then continued. Four children of the family of Henry Raudenbush, of Quakertown, were seri- ‘usly poisoned last week by eating tainted cheese at supper. The cheese wag purchased at a local grocery store, and more than a dozen families had bought from the same cake before the poisoning had become known. Phys_ icians worked with the children all night, and nex: mornirg ‘hey were r2 ported out of danger. Property owners of Parnassus who appealed to court from the award of viewers for damages caused by grad- ing lost money by so doing, as the »ourt adjusted the claims on a basis of 35 less than what the viewers had al- towed. Mrs. E. N. Glass was awarded $200; J. S. Alter, $150, and Mrs. M. J. McMath, $750. These were test cases. The others will likely accept the award of the viewers. Burgess Joseph Vanallman, of Holli- daysburg, signed an crdinance taxing poles of all electric light, telephone, telegraph and electric railways within the municipality 75 cents for each pole erected on the street and 50 cents for cach pole erected in alleys. Several days ago there was an advance in tele- phone charges and street car fare. Edward Rock, an old citizen of Penn station, died last week under peculiar circumstances. He went to the home of Adam Underland, a neighbor, who had been stricken with paralysis. While administering to the afflicted man an artery, without apparent cause, broke in Mr. Rock's leg. Before medical aid arrived he bled to death. Miss Nellie Thomas, aged: 22, of Pittsburg, who was injured in a run- away accident Wednesday at Greens- burg, died last Friday. She was the daughter of John C. Thomas, of Pitts- burg, who, with six brothers and one sister survive her. She was engaged to be married to Edward Sanders, of Pittsburg. i A wagon loaded with turkeys, driven by Charles Johnson; cof Upper Rox- borough, vas run into by a trolleycar cn the Chestnut Hill & Norristown Railway the other evening. Johnson's wagon was wrecked and he was severely injured. The turkeys escaped, and there was a wild chase to recap- tere them. At a meeting of the Red Cross at Mt. Pleasant the other evening a net earn- ing of $300 was announced from the carnival, more than $100 of which was reaped from fancy work and candy kcoths. An envelope addressed to the widow of Jesse Noss, of Company FE, from Admiral Dewey was sold for $3). John W. Larkin, a Neshannock township school teacher, has sued John Riley for $5,000 damages. Riley had a wire stretched along the street to pro- tect grass near the sidewalk. Larkin fell over this wire, breaking his nose and sustaining other serious injuries. Miss Rebecca Martin, aged 87, of Paris, Washington county, was burned to-death a few days ago while sitting near a grate fire. . A. F. Welsh, who claims to come from Canada, is in jail at New Castle, on a charge of false pretense. He and a companion are said to have conspired to bunko the confiding housewives of ‘the Shenango Valley by a dress pat- tern scheme. Andrew Allan, superintendent of mining engineers of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, who was burned by an explosion of gas in No. 4 mine at Pitts- ton Tuesday night, died last Friday at Wilkesbarre from his injuries. William T. Chase, an employe of the Juniata shops at Altoona, was run down by a yard engine a few days ago and received injuries from which he died. THE MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. WHEAT—No. 1red............ $ 0@ No. 2 red 65 CORN—No. 2 yeilow, ear No. 2 yellow, shelled Mixed-ear....... .. .i.... OATS—No. 2 white. ... No. 3 white RYE—No. 1 FLOUR—Winter patents Fancy straight winter Rye flour HAY—No. 1 timothy Clover, No. 1 FEED-~No. 1 white mid., ton.. Brown middlings Bran, bulk. .... .. STRAW-—Wheat ahaa 13 00 Prva 12:2 Dairy Products BUTTER—EIgin creamery. 24 @ Ohio creamery 22 Fancy country roll CHEESE—Ohio, new New York, Fruits and Vegetables, BEANS—Lima ? qt ¥ POTATOES—FancyWhite, @ bu CABBAGE—Per 100 heads .... ONIONS—Choice yellow, & ba. Poultry, Etc, I (@ 12 22 FLOUR WHEAT —No. 2 red RYE—No. 2 CORN-- Mixed T BUTTER Ohio 2reamery.. .. : PHILADELP HIA. ‘OATS --No. 2 white BUTTER--Creamery, extra.... EGGS—DPennsylvania firsts. ... NEW YORK. FLOUR—Patents.............. WHEAT-No. 2 red CORN--No. 2 BUTTER Creamery. EGGS —State of Penn LI VE STOC K. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. CATTLE. Prime, 1300 to 1400 ths 5 Good, 1200 to 1300 ibs 4 Tidy, 1000 to 1150 Ibs 4 Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 Ibs 4 Common, 700 to 900 ths.... ... 3 Loew SHEEP. Prime, 95to 105 Ibs Good, 85:40 90 tbs, .......... Ealr, 701t080:Ibs. ... oul, = C0 WH Springer, extra 5 10@ Springer, good to choice 10 Common to fair 3 50 Extra yearlings, light. ..:..... 465 Good to choice yearlings. 40 Medinm 85 Common 00 CO Wa Wi Or CTO LOU Cr Ot y REVIEW OF TRADE, Exports at This Season far Ahead of Last Year— Improvement in Cotton and Woolen Goods. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week: The most significant thing this week has been the entire absence of the cus- tomary nervous fright before or after the meeting of . congress, the presi- dent’s message and the treasurer's re- port. No one showed the least alarm, and nobody could find occasion for any. Money and stock and grain mar- kets moved on exactly as if the gov- ernment were automatic, certain to do or say no more than the people had already decided and expected, and so the gradual betterment since October continues. There is a larger demand for pro- ducts in nearly all the great industries, - larger export . demand for foreign needs, a more healthy domestic demand since seasonable weather arrived and a comforting conviction that November business, the biggest ever done in this country in any month, was but a step toward something better. Kxports last year in December were marvellous, but this year are starting far ahead. The Atlantic wheat ex- ports, flour included, have been for the week 5,636,767 bushels, against 4,312,137 bushels last year, and Pacific exports 556,523 bushels, against 973,083 bushels last year, and prices have declined 21gc for cash, but western receipts of 10,- 135,169 bushels, against 6,213,471 bushels from last year's great crop, stops ar- gument. Cotton shared in the export move- ment fully and nevertheless has risen o=16¢ in price, with a feeling that esti- mates of vield may have been ecces- sive. At the extremely low price yet quoted, foreign buyers do not stop to calculate comigercial and mill stocks on hand. The consumption in this country is not very large, being but lit- tle changed by troubles about wages at the South, though by more volun- tary curtailment to New England, but the demand for goods is better, and has lifted the price of print cloths 4c, and some of the other goods a shade. Woolen goods have been in much better demand and many of the smaller mills have been buying after concessions secured by the larger. The mich broader market is inore healthy and promises far more for the industry and sales of 10,655,200 pounds in two weeks past -at the three chief markets, against 10,852,700 pounds in the same weeks of 1892, are quite in line with the demand in prosperous years. Prices yielded about gc in November, ac- cording to 100 quotations by Coates Bros., and from Philadelphia dis- patches appear to be about a cent lower this week. The rupture of the inchoate rail com- bination, it appears, resulted in lower prices and larger sales in the first week of sharp competition than were realized a week ago. Prices were made in some transactions much lower than were then or are now quoted, and while $17 at Pittsburg is now named. special orders are said to command lower figures. The purchase of 150,000 tons bessemer pig at $10 at a valley furnace and 100,000 billets for Pittsburg at $11 50 of which 40,000 tons went to a hoop mill, with 11,000 tons rods at Chi- cago at $22 and 22,000 tons plates for _one concern at Pittsburg, besides enor- mous orders for bars and plates in car and ship building, a steamship con- tract on the Delaware and a contract for 5,000 tons for bridges at Chicago, give some idea of the heavy business coming forward, just when the works - usually expect a season of idleness and waiting. Pig iron has risen at the East to $1150 and quotations average for pig throughpyt the country a shade higher than at any time , this year, though prices for finished products have recently been declining
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