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batting begins crowds of buzzards dot the
blue sky as far as the eye can see. Evil
birds. they know we'll what gathering in
this place means, and hover over it with
grewsome suggestions.
Poetry of the Bull Fight.
Pesently all eyes are turned toward the
gally decorated box opposite the en-
trance; La Grau," master of ceremonies, is
entering. He rises smiling, waves white
kerchiei, there is dash of music, the gates
are thrown back and a superb black horse
leaps into the ring. Bravoi He is we'll
ridden, and of excellent mettle; curvets,
backs, rears, plunges, all in the rythm of
the music; bends his graceful knee and sa-
iutes, before the decorated box. Now, there
is blast of trumpets, the band plays mar-
tial music and the gaily costumed ''rnata-
dores" enter, 10 or IL in number, followed
by two mounted ''toreadores," with long,
blunt pixies. ALI advance and salute in
courtly fashion. But look again; can these
gaudy. tinsel-bedecked. Misunderstanding
fellows be the graceful toreadores of picture
and song? Are all the red mantles of our
Spanish fans SO tawdry and faded as these?
And the horses, are these spiritless, blind
folded street-car hacks the fiery stations we
have so fondly imagined?
But there is little time for reflection, the
black horse and his rider have disappeared,
and at the same moment from the opposite
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that winter travel sets in in so strong current
toward Florida, and the Plant Steamship
Line has brought Havana within less than
so hours from Tampa, there Is reason to be-
lieve that many more of our floating popu-
lation, winter birds of passage, will avail
themselves of a week in this quaint, wicked
old city.
Summer visitors to the Maine coast re-
sorts will recognize an old friend in the
trim steamer Olivette, which plies between
Boston and Bar Harbor in the summer and
Mobile Tampa and Havana during the
winter months. She and her sister ship, the
Mascotte, manage three round trips week.
Not the least interesting feature of the voy-
age will be found TO be the stop of five or six
hours in Key West. This little island OF
tobacco factories is the last patch of the
United States, and its population OF near
Is. 600 cigarmakers will turn out in large
proportion to greet you at the dock. Life
seems not to be spiced with too abundant
variety in their community of ~ square
miles, so that any whitf from the outside
world is hailed with delight.
Docks Cleared With a Hose.
When the Plant line first began to make
this port they had difficulty in landing
passengers or cargo, the crowds pressed so
eagerly around the gangways. After re-
peated and Intellectual attempts to clean the
docks, the ships crew turned the hose on
them, and as there is nothing a Cuban
(they are nearly all Cubans in Key WesD
fears more than bath, the way was soon
clear. Since then the crowds are less per-
sistent, but the docks still swarm with them,
and a motley appearance they present
Every imaginable shade of color and cast OF
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features: Spanish, American, Chinese
Cuban, Indian, Mexican, Negro, and the
same in every incalculable degree OF inter
mixture.
You may take carriage if you wish and
ride all over the island in an hour, but it
will not be specially pleasant, as the streets
are inches deep with dust, for although they
have water all around them in Kew West
they have none to waste on the streets, and
seldom have rain in winter.
Arriving in Havana, you are strnck with
the beauty of the harbor, and it NAV not be
generally known that the sugar, tobacco
and fruit trades make this the sixth COM
mercial port in the world. For beauty and
scenery IT is unsurpassed: its narrow mouth
is efectually guarded by the iorbidding.
though ancient, walls OF Castillo del Moro;
on your left stretch graceful palm-grown
hills, while on your right lies the city of
Havana, magnificent panorama in water
colors.
A Wonderfully Harmonious Picture.
The prevailing style of architecture is
that OF Southern Europe. houses square,
with protusion of courts and arcades; the
walls are OF stone, covered with stucco and
painted In charming variety of pale greens,
yellows, pinks and lavenders, and the whole.
bathed In the morning sunlight from across
the bay, presents wonderfully harmonious
picture.
The courtesies of the docks are extended
only to Spanish vessels, and the Oliyette
will cast her anchor in the center of the bay.
surrounded before her screw has stopped
churning the waters by a myriad quad
AMOS" small craft OF awkward design.
vieing with each other fer the privilege of
carrying off passengers and luggage.
English speaking couriers from the leading
hotels come aboard the vessel, and your
only care will be to point out your luggage
and you will be spared the gentle harrass-
ments of customs officials, cab drivers and
all similar nuissnces; and while this paper
is not designed as an advertisement of
Havana hotels, it will be allowable to saw
that in no city in America or in Europe will
the entertainment of guests be so carefully
aud successfully looked after as in Havana.
Connected with the leading hotels are in-
telllgent and obliging Interpreters who
make 1t their cheerful business to show you
TO places OF interest, put you in the way o.
economic purchases, talk Spanish for you,
guard you from imposition, and, in short,
see that your stay in Havana is so pleasant
that you will come back again.
Paris Without Its Elegance,
Cubans are proverbially slow. and NAV
well be SO, as their coolest weather in
January is as balmy as our temperate June;
and II moist is as sultry-and yet the man
ner OF LIE In Havana is ANYTHING but slow:
IL is Faris IN cruder form; Paris without its
elegance and with all its vices. IT is the life
Of the cafe and the amusement hall. From
to each morning there is military music
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CUPPING IN RUSSIAN PRISONS.
A Curious Custom by Which Old Criminals
Avenge Imaginary Wrongs.

A curions Custom by which Old Criminal.
Avenge Imaginary Wrongs.
A curious phase of prison life is exhibited
by Moscow paper. 1t often happens that
a respectable man is confined in prison for @
few days for some slight offense. At times
even an elder Of a small community must
submit to such a penalty for what the
Russian law calls neglect of duty.
Such a person is retained in large
room together with lot Of
obdurate criminals, who are either awaiting
trial or sentenced to be put at hard labor in
a fortress. When the respectable prisoner
comes among them they begin to press him
for "a treat Of good fellowship" He must
send for bottle of brandy. If he is not as
liberal as they want him to be, they harass
and torment him.
Should he make threat to com plain be-
fore the authorities of their conduct, they
Immediately decide upon performing on him
the operation of cupping," as they call it.
The poor fellow is then stripped naked,
stretched on a bench and held fast. His
mouth is stuffed with a rag so that his cries
cannot be heard outside. A spot on
his breast is made wet, and one of
his tormentors rubs it with his un-
shaven chin until the skin becomes red.
Hereupon another one slaps the spot with his
fiat hand with all his might. A large
blister Immediately appears on the wounded
place. This is what they call setting cup.
Six or eight snch "cups" are sometimes set
sufferer, so that he is unable to lie down for
several days. In some instances more
serious injuries are caused by the blows he
receives
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Cuban temper. Cuba in gala costume, un-
less you chance to be there on some national
holiday. The recent New Year was cele-
brated in Havana by the greatest bull-fght
ever seen in the place, and Havana was
happy.
''Six bulls direct from Spainl' was the
English of the exclamation heard every
where about the streets. Americans in the
city, Of course, all went "to see what it was
like" and it was noticeable that they soon
found out; nearly all came away in disgust,
some of them in as short time as five min
utes.
Come in with the crowd and we will see
it for ourselves: The amphitheater of three
stories, inciosing sandy arena of perhaps
125 feet in diameter, will seat nearly IL, 200
people; 10, 900 or IL, 900 have already taken
their places and the shady side is denselv
packed, for although it is the 1st day oil
January the afternoon sun is beating fiercely
on the less fortunate occupants of the east
ern side. You are surprised to notice that
there are few women present, scarce one in
hundred; but boys by the scores, little
fellows, almost babes in dresses. The band
plays bright Spanish airs, but their music is
almost drowned by the cat-calls and fish
horns of the eager crowd. Long before the
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CHAPTER XI,

One day in my quiet rounds through this
new Eden on earth, and when quite alone,
Icame upon a group OF gray and serene men
and women of most venerable aspect. They
were gathered in grove by fountain near
field Of corn. Not far away were herds
of cattle ruminating on the sloping brown
hills. Farther on and still up toward the
higher lands were focks of sheep, white and
restful as summer clouds.
As approached this quiet group of ven-
erable people, they, rather by act than word,
made me one of their number, and sat
down in silence on little hiIlock Of wild
grass IN the shadow of broad palm tree.
How perfectly serene. how entirely satis-
fed they all appeared. How unlike ths
garrulous and nervous and never-satifed
old women of the social world in the great
cities in which had dwelt, were these
tranquil and serene old women here. They
were beautiful women, beautiful in body as
in soul. They literally made me in love
with old age, even before they had opened
their lips to speak in their low sweet fashion
of the beautiful, beautiful world about
them.
And these benign and restful men herei
began to recall the old men, old beaux
roues, whom had continually encountered
in London, Paris, Rome; their wigs, pow
der, paint; their terror at the approaches Of
time. their dismay at the thought of deathj
their lies, the lies on their lips, the lies in
every act of their lives; their lustful lies to
women, their foul and most despicabls ex-
istencel
All, mel thought I, why may q man not
grow in grandeur as he grows in years like
the mighty trees OF forest? Is a man less
than a tree? Shall a man who is made in
Gods image make himself less than o tree
that is cat down at will?
"We meet here, or in some other like
pleasant place, daily" began one of the mos
venerable men, ''to take lessons. We are
children at school you see," and he smiled
pleasantly on the group of gray heads under
the palms round about.
"But you have no books"
"We desire thought, rather than books,
If Shakespeare found in the books of his
day only words, words, words, what shall be
said of the books now that deluge the earth
daily?"
"But we have books" protested, "every
now and then that CLEAN like lightning
through cloud."
'Yes, there are veins of gold in almost
every mountain, CLEANS of light in almost
every storm cloud a. you suggest; but why
have the storm ct all; Why labor with The
mountain Of old errors or taxa light from
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THE ACCIDENT OF BIRTH.
The Little Circumstance That Determined
q City's Location.

The Little Circumstance That Determined
q City's Location.
According to Seattle man, it was case
of necessity when the city Tacoma was To-
Gated on Puget Sound. ''The Northern
Pacific" he said to a New York Tribune
writer, ''was obliged to reach tidewater with
its Western line by certain date. The
financial furry come on and it was difficult
to raise the funds necessary for the COM
pletion of the road. Yet large land grants
and heavy subsidies were dependent upon
the reaching of salt water by certain date.
1t was the intention to place the Western
terminus OF the Northern Pacific far to the
north and west of the present location, but
in spite OF the untiring efforts OF fnanciers
in the East and engineers in the West it
was seen that the point selected could never
be reached in time to save the lands and
funds dependent upon reaching salt water.
The management of the road ordered the
engineers to push toward the nearest point
on the sound without regard to the ter
minus"
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| through the dust aud mud, the dust was
watered, the mud was drained, all through
the same force, and in this same furrow we
planted the banana slip. the olive branch,
the mulberry tree, and all sorts of trees from
all lands. Then we had only to widen and
duplicate the burrows and then SOW them
with rice, then dam the furrow and it was
flooded and brought to perfection without
further effort Cane, wheat, maize, corn, all
things under the sun, in fact, came to US and
nourished US almost without a stroke or bit
of help from our hands,"
$50 it would SEEM" I said, as 1 glanced
out through the glass palace over the bound
less sea Of green.
Sand now here is one thing must beg
you to note distinctly. We not only have
had all the time that God has given us
because of kindly cline. but we have
husbanded it. We have cherished and
housed and husbanded time as others do
gold"
looked into her glorious face inquir-
ingly. ..
man, 30 called, spends his time in watching
his fellow man. How many men in II is
city on earth, London, it takes ten men to
watch and keep that one man at work. In
the country the proportion OF workers and
watchers is about evenly divided. Some
times these English take it in their heads to
hang one of their number. They actually
spend a lifetime, or what would fully ag-
gregate long lifetime, in taking that one
mans life. But we have no police, no
judges, no juries, no clerks, no jailers, no
loaiers or idlers, indeed, of any sort. set to
watch ourselves. So you see we
have to ourselves all the time that God and
genial CLINE can give. And this
answers, in some sort at least, your first
inquiry"
GAS for the second, our law and order, we
found that here; here with these savages. so
called. It Is true they had only the germ;
we have given the germ growth. They had
laid the keel of our ship Of state. We have
helped to launch it, that is all.
'You see, the Indian is and always was"
she went on, "the truest and most perfect
of the field, chase, everything indeed but the
bow in his hand and the blanket on his
back was as much the property of his broth
er az himself. And so there was no stealing;
there was no temptation to robbery or MUIR
der for money or property. With this mill
stone of temptation taken from about
mans neck see how tall and erect be could
stand. Take away the temptation to lie
from the clerk who sells goods, from the
groceryman, the politician, the preacher,
who begs his bread from behind his broad
cloth, the priest, all people, in fact, who
live in idleness upon the toll OF others, and see
what long and strong step forward man
has made and how little friction will then
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Two Pensions for One Widow.

II have" says a Maine pension agent,
what I consider funny pension case on
hand. Several years ago L secured pen
sion for soldier of a certain regiment and
company, and then, after his death, Sc
cured pension for his widow. Now she
comes to me to help her secure another PEN
sion as the widow of another member of the
same regiment. You see that since I Sc
cured her first widows pension she had
married comrade-in-arms of her first hus-
band, and now that he, too, is dead. with a
frugality and economy that is commendable
and according to Scripture, she is applying
for the second pension. have never known
exactly a similar case"
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ingly exhausting. Long before the weary
victim can sniff the fresh air from above, he
finds himself trying to recall what it was
Virgil said about "Descensus averno
facilis. " etc., but the "way OUT being the
rub of it.
Most Novel Vehicle.
But the interest of the day eliminates in
the volanta ride. The construction of the
machine is simple enough. consisting of an
enormous pair of wheels more than six feet
in diameter, drawn by extremely long,
springy shafts; between the shafts is swung,
on leathern springs, an ordinary phaeton
box, which swings and careens, when not
loaded. ia such fashion that you think you
would be shaken to pieces in it. But when
you are comfortably settled and go swinging
over roads with rocks and gullies in them
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CHAPTER K.

CHAPTER z.
By degrees I came to be more with her
now.
"These things I constantly wonder at
here" was nv remark to her one morning
after I had studied the place and her
achievements well for week. 1.-THE mar
yelous growth of your groves and city, the
law and order and the larger intelligence of
your people,"
'In the first place, to answer you in your
order, we have here 365 days In the year in
which to toll, fashion, build. Beside that.
these trees, plants, cereals, and all things
that spring from the earth have II full and
fervid months in which to grow; while in
most places they have but about four, six
or seven at the farthest. So you see that
we have three or four times as many days
and months in the year here as in
other places. All that this desert, so called,
was waiting for came when we brought the
rain and bed water down from the trout
streams or from our artesian wells at the
mountain base on every hand. The water
followed these channels and burrows down
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and parade drill on the "Prado," near the
center OF the city. The business of the city
is transacted between the hours of II and 8,
and at nightfall the city is given over
wholly to the business Of pleasure.
Within stones throw of each other are
theaters galore, where may be heard Span
ish opera, French opera, italian opera, to-
gether with drama, pippit show. circus,
stage performance. All night long the
streets are noisy and rife with people. In
one respect, however, we still excell them In
the States; there is very little drunkenness;
much wine drinking, but their bartenders
seem not to have reached the proficiency of
our all-Americans in concocting mixtures
of unadulterated badness. As for tobacco.
everyone smokes In Havana, men women
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THE ANGELUs BELL.
Something About the Custom Portrayed in
Millets Painting.

Something About the Custom Portrayed in
Millets Painting.
New England Magazlne.I
The Angelus is a prayer to the Virgin,
introduced by Pope Urban II. in 1895, as
an intercession for the absent crusaders. 1t
begins with the words, Angelus Domini
nuntiavit Mari@-The Angel of the Lord
announced unto Mary. Then follows the
sslutation of Gabriel-Ave Maria. etc. The
prayer contains three verses, and each verse
ends with the salutation, Ave Maria; and
1t is recited three times day, at the ring
ing of the Angelus bell, so named from the
first word in the prayer.
After the crusades, the custom languished
until, in 1927, Pope John XIII. ordered
all the faithful to recite an Ave Maria at
each ringing Of the bell. He announced an
indulgence for each recitation. Other names
are the save Maria Bell" and the ''Vesper
Bell"
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an audience cannot appreciate it before # is
over. Let me purposely drop the potato
and catch it on the knife blade just as it is
only an inch from the floor and they burst
into applause. 1t is so unexpected. Two
others of my most difficult tricks, one, bal
ancing a cigar on top of another on my fore
bead and tossing it from there so that it
turns over once and falls point first into a
cigar-holder in my mouth; the other, whirl-
ing hoop in my right hand with glass Of
two balls through it with my left hand,
have been watched with stolid indifference
by an audience that went wild over juggling
two plates in the air, one of the simplest OF
tricEe
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Where the Crooks Live.

Cincinnati Enquirer.I
"If they would look in some Of these
neighboring towns" remarked an ex-detec-
tive, 'they might find few OF the crooks
who have been tearing the city wide open.
A shrewd burglar or thief selects q place
as his home. While there he is as innocent
as the most honest citizen. 1t stands him in
hand to be so. He's got to live somewhere.
o course, the authorities know his calling.
Generally he keeps the Chief Of Police
posted as to his movements. There 10 q
tacit understanding that if protected be
will do nothing wrong at home"
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SORROWS OF THE JUGGLER.

His Most Difficult Feats Often Fall Flat on
the Audience.
Cinquevalli. the French juggler, says. in
the San Francisco Examiner, that it is hard
to tell what is his most difficult trick. "As
a usual thing" he goes on, "the easiest
trick is the most snowy and gets the most
applause, while some very difficult feat
will not get hand as We say. For in
stance, the trick of throwing a potato in
the air, dividing it with one stroke of the
knife and then catching the two halves,
one on the fork and one on the knife, is
perhaps the most difficult, and took me
nearly two years to learn. 1t is SO quickly
done, however. and apparently so easy that
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In a Mongolian Resta urant.

Etiquette must be observed in Chinese
restaurants. For example, when you drink
tea you must pour out little into the cup,
rinse it around and empty it upon the floor.
Whether this libation is precaution in be-
half OF cleanliness or whether some god
must be propitiated, know not, and it is
needless to ask questions about 1t, for upon
all points pertaining to his own life and Gus
toms John Chinaman is strictly non-com-
initial.
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E of the States know
very little of our
neighbors in the
West Indies, and yet
there is no direction
we may turn that will
bring us so soon into
a civilization totally
different from our
own as the way to
Cuba. The tourist
beaten haunts of Eu-
rope can show no
more thoroughly un-
American city than
Havana and now
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPA1

SYNOPSIS
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humility, and that humility of soul which is
the only true dignity begin to see, and to
say lovingly one to another: The infinite
God is the aggregate man."
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A LAND OF SUNSHINE
That Smiles a Welcome to Tour
lists Who Flee the Rigors
of Northern Winter.
THE DELIGHTS OF CUBA.
Havana as Much Given Over to Gayety
and Pleasure as Paris.
THE OVERLAND TRIP TO MATANZAS
Description Of the Great Ball Fight Given
on New Years Day.
A SPORT WITH SCARCELY ANY DANGER
THE DELIGHTS OF CUBA.
Havana as Much Given Over to Gayety
and Pleasure as Paris.
THE OVERLAND TRIP TO MATANZAS
Description Of the Great Ball Fight Given
on New Years Day.
A SPORT WITH SCARCELY ANY DANGER

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.l
STEAMSHIP MAsCoTTE, Jan. s.