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The roof is supported by huge arches which rest on marble pil lars. Through the entire length of the centre extends a broad counter of white marblo. One side of the struc ture is open to the street and the op posite side to the harbor. The history of its origin is not the least interest ing incident connected with it. Early in the thirties of the present century, the greatly commended and severely criticised Tacon wielded the Spanish power in the island of Cuba. With great energy ho attempted to correct abuses from which tho island suffered. One of the most flagrnnt which met his notice was the whole sale smuggling carried on in the port of Havana under the very nose of the port officials. There was a duty of ten dollars a barrel on flour brought into the island, and many other articles were highly taxed, so that a very com fortable living offered itself to anyone daring aud cunning enough to run the risk of smuggling. Tho numerous bays and finely protected harbors of the West Indies afforded shelter for the swift craft of the smugglers. Tacon determined that stopped it should be, nnd that at onoe. So, com manding the presence of the officers of the fleet, he gave orders that the long, lazy corvettes in the harbor should hoist sail aud proceed at once upon a search among the bays aud straits surrounding the island for the haunts of the outlaws. Four months passed, and in spite of his vigorous efforts there was not the least abatement of tho evil. Cargoes of smuggled goods were landed in broad daylight under the very guns of Morro Castle. Tacon was only wiser to the extent that ho had learned the smugglers were led by a bold, daring fellow called Marti. All indications pointed to tho fact that Marti was an unusual man, pos sessing marked executive ability, great power over his associates and wonder ful cleverness in personal adventure. A high reward had been offered to tho person who would deliver him, dead or alive, at the Governor's palace. By occupation he was supposed to be a lishermau, and might often have beeu seen on one of the million smacks that plied betweeu Yucatan, Florida and Havana. His ability to adapt himself to masquerade permitted his frequent undetected visits among tho Government officials, by which means he kept himself informed of every de tail in their plans against him aud his followers. One cloudy evening near midnight, a tall, commanding figure, wrapped in a military cloak, lurked in tho shadow of tho gate post at the Governor's palace. Carefully and deftly stealing his way, aided by the shadow of the wall, he reached the marble steps. Ascending the broad marble Btairway, ho entered the apartment of the Gover nor, whom he found writing at a table. Looking up with contracted brows, Tacon demanded: "Who enters here unannounced.and at this hour?" Giving tho military salute, the stranger replied: "Excellency, I am here on business of great import to tho Government." "How came you past the guard?" "Never mind that, Excellency, I " "But I do mind," interrupted the Governor, growing impatient for an explanation of this extraordinary visit. But the wily visitor made a judi cious, calm reply that warded off fur ther explanation, aud proceeding cau tiously, succeeded in gaining con firmation from the Governor's own lips that he had not only offered a free par don to anyone who would turn State's evidence and reveal tho haunt 3 and doings of the contrabandists, but that ho had offered a largo reward for any information whatever concerning them —a double reward to anyone who would deliver up their leader. He so guardedly and skilfully conducted the conversation that ho gave no clew to his own identity until, having bound the Governor by his honor as a kuight, ho told him that he knew his character well, and that ho would ful fil his promises. He then announced himself as Captain Marti, saying he wai ready to fulfil to the letter his part of the contract. Unconsciously he reached for his pistol. Mnrti, noticing this, took his own from his bolt, and laying them on the table, said: "Heuceforoe I havo no use for these. Hereafter my weapon is to bo diplo macy." Tacon found himself in the ridicu lous position of huving granted a freo pardon to the man upon whose head ho himself had set a goodly price. He could not but admire the shrewdness of this follow. The exchange ola few more words brought about the understanding be tween tho two that Marti should be placed in confinement over night*, his name concealed, and that in the morn ing he should start as pilot on a ves sel that should be guidod to the ren dezvous of tho smugglers. The ex pedition was made. No human being was found anywhere, while unmistak able uigns of very recent habitation by the outlaws were manifest every where. A few small ships and their cargoes, amounting to very little, were captured; but that was all. Tho Governor was satisfied that the haunts were made known, and no one else inquired very closely into the matter. On the return of the expedition Tacon was about to pay to Captain Marti the promised reward, when the latter interrupted him with a peculiar proposition. He said he was im mensely wealthy, and cared not for money, while the treasury of Cuba was poor. He proposed that, instead of the reward, to him should be granted a monopoly of the fish trade of Havana, and that he bo permitted to employ his contrabandists as fish ermen. In tho event of such a grant he promised to build the finest fish market in the world, and at the end of twenty-five years to return his privilege of monopoly and the fish market to the Government. Taeon accepted the proposition, seeing in it his opportunity to hold control over Marti. And for a quarter of a century the Havana market was supplied with the finest of fish caught by smugglers, absolutely safe from the law in all that they did. This monopoly filled to overflowing the already well-supplied purse ol Marti, aud he looked about him for another investment for his money. He conceived tho idea of a theatre mon opoly, somewhat on the plan of hij fish market. He communicated with Taeon, who granted him the privilege for twenty years, 011 condition thai the building be made the largest ol the kind ia the world and named Tacon. Danger In Poaching. No offenders against the British law are punished so severely os the poacher. The fields and the woods of all Eng land are now overrun with game. Hares are as plentiful a3 flies almost, while partridges, pheasants aud the like are so numerous as to be in some places actual pests. Yet they are not for the laborer, or the plowman, or the rus tic of low degree. Should some poor cottager, with larder lean nnd pocket empty, steal out at nightfall to a spot where he knew hares were feeding, aud making his way through a field gate or through some well known open ing in the hedge, fire and kill a single hare, he makes himself liable to prose cution for trespass, for carrying a guu without a license, aud for having game in his possession unlawfully. If it should happen that he is near tho highway when the shot is fired, he ia also liable to bo prosecuted on the charge of firing a gun ia proximity to the public road. If he is arrested there is no escape from long imprison ment in tho jail. It is this stigma that turned poach ing over to the moral delinquents of the parish, although tho "amateur poacher" is still to he found in every neighborhood—some sport-loving.rus tic of good name and standing from whom the rigor of the law aud the dis grace that would follow detection have failed to drive the fascination of a night spent among the rabbit runs and hare paths. Tho amateur poacher is au eager spirit, aud he argues that a law which declares that the love of ad venture in the field and a genius for woodcraft are criminal when possessed by those unfavored by birth or for tune, is a law against a higher law of nature, and one against which it is no crime to wage war.—New York Sun. "Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters.'* Lieutenant Charles M. McCarteney writes an article on "Ocean Storms" for St. Nicholas. In desoribing the great hurricane off Nova Scotia on August 29, 1891, Lieutenaut McCart eney says: The Indiana was kept dry by the dripping of oil from both bows; aud although tremendous seas were run ning aud breaking, they could not come on board. This was certainly a most practical illustration of the old saying as to the "pouring of oil on troubled waters"— a proverb as old as the Bible, but only very roceutly applied, thanks to the Hydrographio Office of the United StateH, aud now very generally fol lowed by scameu the world over. It was an American also (Redfield) who first thoroughly found out and ex plained tho true character of these re volving storms, and to him all seamen are forever indebted. In nsing oil, it is astonishing how small a quantity will suffice—just a quart or two, iu a hag stuffed with oakum, linng over the bows, and al lowed to drip, drop by drop, on the sea, where it spreads out iu a thin, greasy film over the surface of tho water. Over the film the wind slips, as it were, and has no power to bank the water up into waves which would break over the ship. Hundreds of re ports are oa file in the office, attesting the marvelous results of this simple agent of safely. Eyeglasses and Spectacles. "You say you never wore spec tacles?" said the near-sighted man. "Well, if you ever put on a pair you'll never wear anything else. I wore eyeglasses for years. I thought they looked better on me, aud then I im agined that they were more conven ient; that I could take them off aud put them on more readily and all that. But after wearing a pair of spectacles once for a few days—l had put them on, as I thought at first, temporarily —I discovered that spectacles were tho glasses for comfort. "There are, to be sure, people who do not wear glasses all the .time, but only for reading or writing, aud soou, to whom eyeglasses may be more con venient; aud theu I believe tbut eye glasses are made nowadays that have more seieutifically adjusted grips, and all that sort of thing; but I tell you that the thing for roal comfort is spectacles."—Now York Suu. At Russian railway stations griev ance books are kept in which passeng ers may enter complaints. The books are scut to the central office once a month aud all complaints investigated. I Heroes o .a T ." From the Chicago Times-Ileraid. I The feeling of admiration for heroes of war seems to be lunate in the human heart, and is brought to the surface as the oppor tunity .and object for such hero worship presents itself. Among those who proved their heroism during our Civil War was A. SehifTeneder, !of 101 Sedg- t&W. wick street, K r^3o ! Chicago. lie is an Austrian to America at the age of V twenty and VVF $ -fi'i ;Ayl soon became was living It. Milwaukee ¥l/\J\ \ when the call \p( J / for volua- WJ J teers came, k IJ/ early in 1562, and he rr " . promptly en- ® rwnwrt a mown* listed in Company A. of the Twenty °'rth 'Visconsin Volunteers. In the Army of the l'otomae our hero saw much flglitiug, cam paigning in the Shenandoah Valley. In the first day's lighting at the battle of Gettysburg, SehifTeneder received a wound in the right side, which afterward caused him much trouble. With a portion of his regiment bo was captured and im prisoned at Bell Island and Aodersonvillc and afterward exchanged. He returned t his regiment, which was transferred to the army of General Sherman, and marched with him through Georgia to the sea. In this campaign Mr. Sohiffenedor's old wound began to trouble him and he was sent to the hospital nad then homo. He had also contracted catarrh of the stomach and found no relief for years. "I happened to read an account of Dr. Williams' Pink Tills for Pale People about a year ago," he said, "and thought that they might be good for my trouble. I con cluded to try them. I bought one box and began to take them according to directions. They gave me great relief. After finishing that box I bought another, and when I had taken the pills I felt that I was cured. I recovered my appetite and ate heartily. I can testify to the good the pills did me." Mr. SehifTeneder is a prominent Grand Army man in Chicago, whither he moved some years ago with his family. MILITARY PUNISHMENTS. Death Is Resorted to Only In Extreme Cases Except in War. The systems of deciding the various military punishments in the United States is by court-martial. Certain offi cers are appointed by the military au thorities to hear the facta in the caso and whatever defense the culprit may care to make, explains the Philadel phia Inquirer. When they have heard all sides of the subject they decide whether or not the prisoner deserves punishment and of what kind it shall he. The punishment used in the Am erican army and navy are: Death, confinement in the guard house or in a military prison, hard labor (for some of the worst offenses with ball and chain), forfeiture of pay, dishonorable discharge from the service and con finement on bread and water, but the latter cannot he for more than four teen days at a time. If the culprit is an officer, sergeant, corporal, etc, lie may be reduced to the ranks. Death Is seldom resorted to except in very extreme cases, but in time of war this mode of punishment is more frequent. A soldier who falls asleep when on picket duty and thus gives the enemy a chance to surprise the camp may be sentenced to be shot. Great cowardice in battle may be punished in the same way, and every boy knows that a spy, if captured, is apt to be hanged. Sple9 are very dangerous to the welfare of an army, and while being shot does not seem so bad to some soldiers,, the thought that death will come by hang* ing is much dreaded. Desertion also Is frequently punished in war time by death. During our civil war if a sol dier or sailor was caught stealing from his comrades he was severely punished, more so than he would have been had be not been in the army. A novel way cf punishing a coward was to march him through the camp with a placard bearing the word "coward" fastened about the neck. The officer in charge of a military prison once adopted peculiar way of punishing a man who tried to escape. The fellow found a ladder and oce night placed it against the wall of the prison. Intending to climb over and get away. Ho was caught, and the commander ordered that for five hours he should climb up the ladder and down again. The sol dier laughed at the punishment, but pretty soon his back began to grow lame, and at the end of the five hours he had to bo taken to the hospital. If any of the boys who read this article care to visit Governor's Island, or any military station, he will see a number cf men digging about the grounds, wheeling dirt and stones and doing \e work of a laboring man. These sol diers are dressed in brown canvas suits, and each has a large number fastened upon his back; some among the num ber may be wearing a chain about one ankle, and a small cannon ball will be fastened to one end of the chain. These soldiers are being punished for fight ing with their comrades, disobeying or ders, or leaving the post without per mission, or overstaying their leave of absence. In both the American and English service probably the worst punishment next to being sentenced to death is dishonorable discharge, when the culprit loses not only his profes sion, but is disgraced In the eyes of his friends and acquaintances. Helping Bankrupts to Hcgln Afrosti. The bill which became a law In the closing hours of Congress wns a com promise on the Nelson bill in the Sen ate, and the Torrey bill in the House. It is the result of an agitation among business men of more than fifteen years' duration. The bill is quite lib eral in its provisions, especially on the terms of discharge. It is confidently believed that this legislation will en able from 150,000 to 200,000 bankrupts to fu'ly re-establish themselves. Furthermore, it will enable manufac turers and merchants to securo a fair division of their debtors' property, and go a long way toward preventing em bezzlement, fraud, and useless waste of valuable property. It will be of great assistance to the bankrupt who, though honest, has been forced to the wall. BABY FOR A CHURCH'sIdASCOT. Wee Bit of Huinnnlty Cuts Queer Capers lu tile Pulpit. Central Methodist Church, of Mem phis, Tenu., has a mascot. Now "a mascot is a mascot" to begin with, but this particular mascot is a wee tot of three, probably four summers. She is just a little dot of humanity that bo longs to everybody ano to nobody. She is no higher than the chancel rail, but makes herself at home in the big pulpit-chairs, in the pews, ou the or ganist's seat, or any place where it suits her fancy to be. Her name is Nelle, and that i's all any one knows. She goes to Sunday-school and to church, and visits the neighbors with the freedom of a Westerner who scorns restraints and formalities. The people in the neighborhood do not take kind ly to her informal visits, but the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Hamner, the pas tor and his wife, receive the little stranger and treat her with much con sideration. The result is she is very fond of them, and shows her apprecia tion in one very promising way. Little as she is, she could give an "old salt" some points on the modern methods of swearing, but Dr. Hamner has told her it is not nice to swear, and she religiously refrains from swearing when in his presence, and is his most attentive listener during the sermon. She may deliberately enter the pulpit and climb up into one of the pulpit chairs or sit on the step 3 of the chan cel or stand on the chancel cushion and rest her little chin in her hands while her elbows rest on the rail and she gazes intently at the speaker dur ing half the service, but she hears every word he says. The other day she took her seat in the gallery anil scattered rose leaves on the congrega tion below. She horrifies the staid and formal members of the congregation, and more than one has tried to restrain her and keep her in dignified bounds, but they might as well have tried to have restrained the sparrows of old that built their nests in the altars, told of in the Psalms. Like the average woman, "when she wills she will, and there is an end of it." Nelle is a brown-haired maiden whose straight locks her mother keeps braided iu two tiny braids down her back, or rather her neck. She is neat ly dressed, and is sun-browned until she is "brown as a berry." She speaks with a foreign accent, ieading those who do not know her parents to be lieve she is either a descendant of the American aborigines or of some Euro pean nations, or may be of the isles of the sea. Bismarck's Intolerance of Authority. By one of those strange contradic tions which aro notuufreqnentin such characters as Bismarck, this great apostle of supreme and unquestioned authority was always singularly in tolerant of every kind of authority himself. Ilis Saxon Bos well, Dr. Moritz Busch, has chronicled with ad miring minuteness the first Hashes of that haughty aud indomitable spirit which was oue (lay to trample in the dust the pride of Austria aud of France. Being called to account while a student at Gottiugen for some breach of university rules, Bismarck swag gered into the presence of the horri fied President, booted and spurred, with a rakish student cap and a sorely stained velvet jacket, an enormous bulldog at his heels, aud a cudgel worthy of Donnybrook Fair under his arm. Later on, not long after he had entered the Civil Service, a superior official to whom he had to make a re port began to drum carelessly on tbo window pane with his fingers while Bismarck was speaking. Tbo haughty "Junker," determined not to bo out done, deliberately walked to the other window and struck up a louder tune upon it. On another occasion, being kept waiting for a considerable time by one of these little great men, and then curtly asked what he wanted, the future Chancellor sternly replied, "I came to ask for leave, but now 1 re quest my dismissal." Such sallie* as theso, coupled with his almost boyish love of athletic feats, his reckless ex posure of himsolf to all weathers, and his wild gallops across country at the imminent risk of his neck, earned him the nickname of "Mad Bismarck," and made many prim old gentlemen of tbe Metternich school shake their empty heads over him as a wild, harum-scarum lad who would come to no good.—New York Times. The Old .Tacky of the Navy. The ancient Jacky has nearly go no out of the navy— along with the smooth-bore guns and the runuiug rig ging. Not wholly gone, because we still retain some of the old ships, mainly for sentimental reasons, 011 the navy list; and a few 6f the new gunboats are provided with sails, be cause there aro times when a man-of war can'cruise just as well under can vas as under steam, and so save money for her owners. Then, besides, we still cling to the old Jacky education. "We teach knotting and splicing ropes, aud loosing and reefing and furling sail, and getting up and down yards and fitting rigging, to the young enlisted apprentices, wlth the same gravity an l insistence that we enforce this obso lescent knowledge upon their future commanders at Annapolis. We sim ply cnuuot get rid of the idea that the real difference between the sailorman and the laud-lubber is, that the formei has this information stored away somewhere iu his noddle and the lat ter has not, regardless of the fact that it may be quite as useless for all prac tical purposes to the oue as to tht other.—New York Independent. 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