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As she walked along the depot platform a
brakeman met her, politely took her yalise,
escorted her TO ear aud helped her up the
STEPS. But the moment she got inside she
turned on him wrathfully.
what do you mean. sr2" she demanded.
Z" ! beg your pardon" he said in astonish-
ment; whats wrong2"
What's wrOng!" she cried. "Are You try
ing 10 insult me, sir7"
"Of course not, madam" he replied. "I
thought you preferred -
Stop, sir! " she interrupted. as Il your
intention TO intimate that smoker"
"No. indeed" he exclaimed. az never
thought OF such a thing"
'Then why did you show me into the smok-
ing ear of this train 2"
why, madam. thought was paying you
n delicate compliment. j thought that you
preferred 10 SIT with the -
"What right had you TO suppose anything
of the sort, siF2" she exclaimed as she hurried
ont of the car. "Fll report you, sir, for this
INSULT"
lie was getting desperate. but he didn't lose
his temper.
Madam" he said. "perhaps have made a
mistake, but l thought you would feel more at
home there. 1 have never seen you except on
a street car, and there you always seemed TO
prefer 10 sit with the -
She did not wait 10 hear the rest.
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visited ono Of the biggest cigar establish.
mcnts in the country yesterday, aud watched
hal-naked men and boys making cigars. Ia
ono room saw 80 women al work. and both
men and women were pcrspiring most VigOr-
outly, and The Precipitation dropped down on
the tOuncCo as with their mOisU hands they
rolled the leaves into place. j saw one fellow
rolling cigars on his bare, choc0late-colore
knees, and j noted one women xpectOrate on a
cigar which she was making. The sight did
not increase my appetite for tobacco, and the
making OF hiRh-Wlccd cigars Is filthy in the
extreme. j noted, however, that the employees
Of this establishment all smoked, aud both
women and men had cigars in their mouths.
You sec women smoking here Oh the street.
I hcfe are 81 the lower classes. They carry
heavy burdens, and 20 along putting Justify. /
saw negro woman squattcd Uu tic street near
tile llsiHgc Hotel tli- morning. She had big
cigar between her black teeth. and there was
quite little puddle Oi tobacco Juice IN font
Of her The ladies OF the better class smoke
cigarcts, and there are about 100000 cigarets
turned oui here every day. These arc sent al
over The world, and the tobacco trade is the
biggest trade OF Cuba. This town Of Havana
uses i0r Itself, 10 h estimated So 100000 worth
o. eiRaH every year, aud the factory ] visited
lao l.5oO hands, and turned out 100000
cigars year You get cigars here much
cheaper than iu the United States lut the best
cost great deal OF money. ] was offered one
yesterday for dollar 10 Is a. big as -four
ordinary cigErs and Ia made Of the very finest
tobacco.
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harbor Of Havana. j find Cuba furnace
compared with Mexico. The hot moist air
wraps me around like a sweat robe. There are
fewer clothes worn here than In any country j
have visited on the American Continent. The
clerks in the stores wear low-neck game shirts
aud duck pautloous, which are held up 10y a
strap around the waist. Many Of the laborers
on the streets are naked 10 the waist, and the
swels wear white duck suits and Panama hats
Such women as j have seen Affect Mother
hubhards" and the fayorite house dress ls
white ] took a walk through the market this
morning. The vegetable sellers were hal
dressed, and neither women nor mon seemed
% care as 90 the exposure of their persons above
the waists. j saw one man pull up ms shlrt SO
that two square feet of abdomen showed, ana
De scratched his breast as he yelled out the
Spanish names FOR oranges and pineaplles As
20 the naked babies, j have seen scores OF boys
and girls seven, eight, and nine years OF age
who arc as naked ms when they were born, and
they trot about aud play in the dust without
shame or scli-consciousness.
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How the California Yigiianre Committee OF 1853
Healt with Them.


How the California Vigilance Committee OF 1865
TeaIt with Them.
William r. Coleman. Chairman Of the Vigil
lance Committees Of 1851, 'J6 aud II, writes as
follows on this topic in the Century for Novem-
Der: THE next important work was the action
20 he taken with regard 10 notorious ballot box
suffers and other desperate characters. They
were a curse 10 the country. Every one adj
mIttcd it, but no effective action had been
taken against them. Ia many cases they held
the polls at election, aud attacked, MANNED and
terrified those voters who were opposed to their
friends. If arrested. such was the dread they
had inspired, and so great their influence with
the courts, that conviction was almost impossi-
bic. This immunity from punishment in
creased their insOlence aud violence, and 10
was evident that no reform could DO made
while they remained in the State. What was
10 be done with them? They could not be
hanged; they would be a source of expense and
trouble; safe and satisfactory imprisonment
was plainly imprac,icable. IL was therefore
suggested that II. after fair trial, the charges
against them were proved, no course would DO
SO satisfactory and safe rs Punishment, with a
warning never again 10 return under pain Of
death. This was adopted. aud blacklist was
made Of all these notorious characters. Evil
deHcc was collected, and orders were soon given
for the arrest Of these men wherever they could
be found in the State. They were tried, con-
vieted, sentenced. and dep0rted. many Of them
as frst-cass passengers by sailing ships and
steamships, at the sole expense OF the commit
tee, aud m style far above their deserts. This
was not appreciated. bnt flattcred and exalted
them 10 the Relief That they were important
persOnagcs and had suffered great damages, aud
they brought suiis against the committee Sim
gulaTly, or perhaps naturally, these suits Were
only brought by rhoss who were best treated.
vyh glf in ba ST.
brought suits, aud were never afteTWaTd tTOu-
heeotneU
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Havana seems all the hotter from the char
acter of the city. Ii contains 100000 people,
but lis streets are narrow The houses are
close out 10 the street, and their walls are
bright rcd, sky-bluc, old gold, or a dirty pink.
Tie red hot sun pours its rays on these walls,
and the walls throw the rays back at you until
your eyes fairly dance; you think you are
looking through a Kaleidoscope, and wonder
whether you are not in dream. Most OF the
houses are rooted with red tiles and toward
evening the men, women and children crawl
out on the roofs and admire the flowers which
they keep upon them. The houses are bull
much like those of Mexico. There is a little
court IN the center Of each one. They have
big windows, with iron bars in front Of them.
They have no glass ia tire windows and there
Is not chimney, feather bed, or a cooking
stove on this whole island. The people cook
on little stone ovens, and they like hot things
more than the MeXicans. They have very fine
fruits, and ] eat every morning at my hotel the
most delicious oranges. They are prepared for
breakfast in r different way from those ] have
seen in any other country. Tho Cuban cuts of
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A Sswed Fish.

peculiar fish was brought into this port
Monday by the schooner Mildred v. Lee. The
fish Is nearly oval in shape, with a very short
tail: is three and half feet in length, two and
a half feet in width and weighed 112 pounds.
When taken from the water it was Of bright
red color, and the meat is about the color Of
salmon. The body except the head is covered
by small scales, and the back is covered with
light spots. On either side of his back is a
peculiar line resembling q scar, as if be had
been cut and stitches taken in the wound.
The fish was taken on Laiiave bank in a trawl
in three hundred fathoms Of water, but nothing
like it has ever been landed here before (;
neither can fish answering its description be
sion.
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crazy 20 see the beautiful senoritas. had
read poems about them, j had heard OF their
wonderful grace, their beautiful eyes, their
sensuous forms. j have seen during the past
few months quite cumbersome OF them very
beautiful The general average. however, is
10y no means as high rs that Of the girls Of the
United States. Take dozen bean-eating
Massachusetts, maidens, or the same number Of
corn-fed Ohio girls, aud you will find more
beauty in one square inch of the lot than You
will Ia square foot of n dozen girls picked
up az random in Mexico or Cuba. These Cuban
girls have a sort of oleaginous complexion
which does not please one. They have bcauti-
ful eyes IL is trne but diamonds are not pretty
when set in streaked Jersey cream, and fine
complexion is one of the absolute necessities Of
beauty. j speak. however, only OF the average.
Some Of these Cuban girls are queens. i re-
member one ] saw the other night. She had
roses in her dark, Olive-brOwn cheeks, aud her
eyes were large and full Of soul She was the
most graceful woman / have ever seen. Her
tall, 1.-the. sensuous form was the personiica-
tion of ease and beauty as she stood arms
alimho aud hands on hips, in front Of one OF
the mansions Of Havana. She was dressed in
white, and had wonderfully beautiful en-
broidered shawl thrown about her shoulders.
Women wear the mantilla more here than
they do in Mexico. They dress in black when
out driving but their hnuse-dresses have as "A
rule none of tho decollet rut of our fashion,
able society gowns. Cuba, like all Spanish
countries, has large population Of the demi-
monde. Several streets are given up 10 these
women, and at night these are brilliantly
lighted, and rs you walk along them you sec
pretty faces looking out thrOuGhethe iron bars
of the great windows ON the ground floor and
YOU can see through these windows right into
the rooms where two or three girls NAV be
sitting. They are dressed in high-necked
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Speaking Of the markets Of Havana. ] am
surprised 40 the prolusion Of vegetables shown.
There are 20 different varieties Of sweet Iota-
toes sold here. and there are 70 different kinds
81 birds among The game offered Tor sale. There
are no cellars In Havana. The town lives from
hand 20 mouth, and the big Tacon Market has
1000 booths and the whole town gOes out TO
visit il daily. There are flowers by the mil ION,
aud fruits of all the varieties Of the tropics.
The men cry their wares. Ia one Of the poorer
markets Of the city / found crowd which
made me think Of one q the leper c0lOnics Of
China All the manned. blind, and dcaf Of tins
succutash Of races seemed Obe croNdiHg and
iosllinR each other. Much Of the marketing is
done by little puddlers, who bring their wares
from miles into the city 10 sell. and whose
stock, AL told Will not realize more than one
OF two dollars. These drive in la cats pulled
by oxen, the yoke strapped 20 their horns,
and guided by rope reus. fastened TO a
hole IN tile nose. You will 6ud no rudcr
carts anywhere. The only ones l have ever
seen which will compare with them are the
carts Of the lazy Burmese, the wheels Of which
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What is lacking is truth and confidence. II
there were absolute truth on the one hand aud
absolute confidence on the other, IL wouldn't be
necessary for makers Of DIR. sage's Catarrh
Remedy 70 back up plain statement Of fact by
$500 guarantee. They say-"If We can't
cure you make 10 personal, please,l Of catarrh
u the head, In any form or stage. we'll pay Won
300 Tor your trouble in making the trial. -
IAN advertising fake" you say. Funny. ist,,
IT. how some people prefer sickness 10 health
when the remedy Is positive and the guarantees
GJs0lae. Wise men don't put nlOaeV back al
"fAkes." Aud taking" doesn't pay.
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Cuba promises 10 pick up under the reel.
pFOcity treaty with Spain. Before this treaty
was made everything here was vi the lowest
Glib, and prices were down at rock bottom. but
since then There has been a considerable rise.
and tie country seems likely 10 prosper. ID is
terribly in debt and Spain has been bleeding il
for yeBT6. Everything h taxed. The leading
officials come from Spain, aud all receive high
salaries The Captain General gets $4,000 and
peTguisItcs Hnd The officers combine 10 opurgss
the people Most Of the big officials arc Span.
hands, and hear stories Of corruption aud bri.
berry. There is q deal OF Matchmaking going on.
AND % ls by nomoans sale 10 travel through some
parts u tie country without a guard. When
Senator sherman made a visit here some years
ago plot WAS made 10 capture him aud his
parry aud 20 hold him for ransom, aud il ONLY
failed Through change OF their plans. SheF.
man Wa5 az this time President pro tenn of the
Senate, and, ns Hendricks was dead, lie was
Acting Aice-l'reaidcnt Of the United States
ho hriEands know nothing OF the lnterna.
tionHl c0mpl cations which surely would lave
arisen bad sherman been captured. Had theil
plot succeeded, b. might have caused a wal
with Spain aud given us Cuba Spain pet.
&J0O00,O00 year from the country. aud when
you remember there arc only 100000 poopl,
on the island, you Soc that il means tax o
about S25 head.
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HAVE taken a run
from Vera Cruz TO Ha-
wanna. For three days
we sailed around the
Gulf of Mexico under
n red hot sun. The sea
was like silver. There
was no breeze, and the
air was 0ppTessively
hot We stopped az
Progrcsso, the port Of
Nuratan. and this
morning came in under
the great castle-like
fort which guards the
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Mexico Is, however, far superior 90 Cuba.
The Mexican men have more snap aud go abOnt
thcm than these Cubans. and the Mexican In
dian Is, think, Ear superior TO the lower class
Of this island. There would seem 10 be- more
come-0ut ia him, and as Senor Mariscal. the
James q. Blaine Of Mexico, said 10 me the
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the skin Of the orange so that tho yellow Juicy
flesh shows. lie cuts the LITTLE globulcs OF
sacks which contain the juice all around the
outside OF the orange, aud sou drive q fork into
d aud suck the juices out, squeezing tie Lall Of
huid with your teeth. This way OF eating au
orange Is far superior 10 ours. The fruit tastes
cooler and swoeter, aud there Is no better break.
lRsL mursel served anywhere IN The world than
tic Cuban orange. The bananas here arc
smaller than those sold in America. They arc
bCtter favored aud 6wccter.
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NONOIITI.s
WE currkR. 60. 2. 2eru NE.

ut ,. X. CUTTKn. CO. +. 29TH NE.
Morn wakcth The cape.
Aud prHrleih the spray.
White swingeIb the gull
In light ricochet.
The ocean lives under.
The pines live o'eThead,
And the Nation lives aye.
But our Leader Is dead.
Sob. voice Of the sea,
From the cliH-shndowed cave.
Fall, stars. from our pennon
To cover the brave.
Sound, sound lhe assembly;
Mount. comrades, and conner
Our Leader awaiIeth
A filly-made tomb.
Tennessee hath no need
For our presence to-day.
Opcquon Is peaceful;
And Summer doth lay
Her grace where tile Valley
Unfnldeih its lines;
But she covers 10 squadron1
Alurk IN the pines.
No broken ranks wait
For the Heart Of the Fight
To weld them anew.
And turn back tire flight.
Nor call j. for him
When the panic j. fleet
To sweep round fhr Zoe
Aud bar his retreat.
In hush OF rapt sorrow
The cayaleades sweep.
Fame siillcth her trumpet
Aud stoopcth to weep.
The cai-sOn - covered
With iWmoTieIies. starred
With tears Of his dear ones;
And Honor is guard.
Oh, we'll make him tomb
Where his fame shall not die;
And the nations shall know
Where our Ilouorcd doth lie;
For the hearts If his men
Shall our Leader enshTine;
And the tears II our love
Are saitcr Than brine.
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"Pd like to go away for the rest of the week,
sir" said the tired bOokkeeper.
"TheTe Is no need for yon 10 do that" re-
piled the employer. Stay here and the rest
Of the week will come TO you"
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gowns Of white. We're il not for tho locality
you might imagine them 10 he eminently
respectable, save that their faces bear the
brazen look of all their tribe. Some Of these
windows have window seats, aud young women
sit in these and gossip with the passers-by.
The whole is under police surveillance, aud
though open, il is not very much worse than
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IN HOT HAVANA,
The Trip From Mexico TO Cuba, and
q Look at lis Capital.

How fhe Mon, Women, and Babies Dress.
city without CoOlainE-Stoves, Feather
Reds. or Chimncys Cuban Cigars-The
Reciprocity Treaty and Cuban 1RNes-Sol-
dicrs aud Ilrigands- Negroes and Chinese.
1he MRrllets-Pretty Spanish Girls Versus
Americans.
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The average Cuban never feels safe for a mo-
ment He has 20 bride his tongue in the pres
ence OF his best friends, for the spy system Is 50
great that he is not able 10 rely up0n anyone.
All this is very dcmOralizng, both 10 the peO-
pie and 10 business. A man dares not appear 10
be making money, else his taxes VIII he IN
creased, and there is practically little develop
ment going on over the island and yet II Is one
Of the richest islands in the world. IL IL could
have a decent Government or belong 10 pro-
gressive people IL would be one of the most
prosperous. It's shape is thar OF a crescent, d
this crescent is nearly MS long as the distance
from New York to Chicago IL is about AS
broad in the middle as the distance between
Washington aud New York, and il has mount
ain ranges running through il which are said
90 be covered with the finest Of furniture tim
Der. The soil is rich In many parts OF the
country, and in others rs barren as the Colora-
do desert. Only One-tenlh of the land is culti-
waited. and there are great tracts Of the country
which have never been explored. If the
United States ever gets hold OF il il viii boom,
but just now, with bad Government aud an
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New Music.

A new GAR. song and chorus, by J. L. Fee
ney, entitled Welcome, Boys in Blue" has
been published by J. L. Feeney & Co., SIS
Ninth street northwest, Washington, ID. q.
Price 40 cents q copy.
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To PiOumPn.

Cash paid for all Indian arrow heads, mortars,
hammers, axes, etc. of either flint, copper or
other material. Address. b. f. ANDREWS, I2I
L Seth St., New York City.
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Heard Them Talk Before.

He (desperately)-YO are the only woman
/ ever loved.
She-That may be. But IL IL is, am GER
tainly not the only woman you ever lied to.
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Magical little Rrannles-those tiny. sugar
coated Pellets OF DIR. Pierce-searcely larger
than mustard seeds. yet powerful 20 cure
active yet mild in operation. The best Liver
PHI ever invented. Cure sick headache, dizzi-
ness, constipation. One q dose,
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BALLOT-BOX SUFFERS.

'Gen. Sheridan died st his sea. side residence a
NOnquiit, L. l.. August lsS5.
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They get paid only about SIS a month, aud 1
would abOut ms soon meet brigand as a soldier
Of duty. They dress well aud look pretty, but
are by no means we'll drilled. Many Of them
are drafted Ia Spain and shipped here for seTv-
ice. They are treated with little respect by
their officers, and the death rate among them
is very high. Havana is city of intrgues,
and the officials are ways suspecting that they
are going 10 DO supplanled. The action Of the
Government at Madrid is carefully studied, and
the Captain General seldom knows when he is
going 70 be superseded. As a rule he tries TO
get rich as quick ms he can, and he keeps big
detective service 20 watch his enemies. ] am
told There are No least 10000 officials here, and
IL is said that the secret service Of the Govern
ment numbers more than 1000 spies.
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The peoples medicine Hoods SarsapaTilla. IL
success u due 10 its peculiar medicinal meTiL
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other day: "The Mexican poems will, IN time
make respectable citizens, aud in a generation
or 30 they may be educated into becoming first
class men. Such a possibility could hardly be
prophcsied FOR the degraded. mixed, vicious set
Of hybrids known as the lower class Cubans,
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One OF the curious institutions Of Havana 10
the hOrse-hath. Horses are washed here regu-
larry, and 1 doubt IL any Currying in done.
aud scrubbed of aud am told that the horses
like H. In leading the horses the hostler takes
them through the city Ia single file. aud this is
40 whether lie has two horses or a drove. He
rides On the FIRST horse, and the next horse be-
hind him Is tied 20 the tail Of the horse he
rides; the third horse is tied 10 the tail Of the
second; aud SO on 10 the end Of the string. The
horses seem 10 be satisfied with the arrange
meDt, aud there was no kicking.
Before ] came y MeIieo and Cuba ] was
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BY FRANK q. CARPENTER.
(ooryEGHT, 1870

Special Correspondence THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
HAVANA, CUBA, Oct. %
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are made square and which are supposed 90
wear round by turning. There are hundreds
Of dOnkeys Ia this market. the same u lo ami
mails which you see ia Mexico, aud note that
the Cubans have many mules. They do not
hitch these mules together side by side In
teams AZ we DO. IN all eases where more than
Que horse or one mule work together they arc
hitchcd up tandem, aud saw mules pulling a
cart which wHs heavily loaded in this way. The
line Of mules reached for half block. and the
bead mule WAS fully $50 feet away from the
cart.
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XITANTED-Men and Women everywhere married
w single experienced or inexperienced i'm b09k-
selling. or ENTIRELY NEW and BEST ELLING
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terms and fir dealing. Address " WILSON < co,
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There lie standing army here Of about
10000 men, and they are about as poor an
apology ioT soldiers ma you viii Rud anywhere,
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Before came to Mexico and Cuba was
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