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Evening star., 1898-11-05
MARKET HABIT IN HAVANA.
queer Things One Buys I'm the Me-
tropoIis Of Cuba

From the Chicago Inter-ocean
The Havana market is crowded al day-
break by Spanish, French, Chinese and col
ored cooks of both sexes. Some chefs who
ailect the dignity OF a coat are accom-
panied by their apprentices or scuIIions,
VINO carry baskets Marketing Is always
done by cooks in Havana, because employ
ers are aware that they can drive a better
bargain even taking into account the per-
du'sites allowed them by tradespeople.
Fish caught in Cuban waters are espe.
cially nice. and the pargo a species of red
snapper, is very toothsone as Is the
cherna, which tastes like salmon. No Ha-
Nana cook will buy fish unless they ara
alive, and the fish market with big tanks
iuli or fresh fish, with white marble slabs
ana scales, Is very picturesque. The other
sea food Is also excellent, although the
shrimps, Holsters and mussels are some
what small. The oysters grow on tn. sub
merged branches of shrubs and trees on
the coast. These branches are broken Off
ana sold In the market, but the Cuban oys-
ters are small and inferior to the Amerf-
can. Terrapin and turtles are very fine
ana tortoises have handsome shells which
BRING good price in the market Sea
crabs and land crabs are also good. The
latter grow to a large size, and their bodies
stand high from the ground on their enor-
nous claws. Land crabs burrow in holes
ana their locomotton is clumsy, sounding
like that of a drunken man. Cooks feed
these crabs on cornmeal for several days
before they cook them, as this makes them
more paatabe.
A favorite way Of fattening poultry I'm
Cuba is to put them in barrels and stun
them with walnuts and cornmeal for sew
eral days before they are killed Just he
fore Christmas turkeys are driven through
the streets in droves of from 40 to loo. from
door 10 door, for people to make their own
selection.
Beef is killed the dav before a. Is ,,sed for
it cannot be kept fresh longer than one day
on account of the excessive heat.
When the cook returns from the market
his presence is made known to the house
hold by squawking ducks, cacklng hens or
squealing pigs, for all such live stock are
brought from the market, and they expos
tulate angrily on being carried around in
such close quarters. And pigeons and
doves. with soft eyes. utter a cooling. plain
tive note. as though with a sad foreboding
OF the TRAGIC fate in store for them.
Evening star., 1898-11-05
COMPARATIVE DANGERS,
Soldiers Not the Only Ones Who Ar
in Peril.


The two girls on a Pennsylvania train
from Washington to Philadelphia had in
the course of the first hour become ac-
quainted, and in the next they were QUITE
as confidential as if they had known each
other for years, such is the beautiful sim
plicity of girl nature
"Oh, yes said the gray-eyed one. blush
ing prettily, Il have several friends with
the army in Cuba. Have you?''
No, l have not" responded the blue
eyed one. Il have some acauaintances.
but should scarcely call them friends"
"Oh. don't mean that" exclaimed the
gray eyes, without knowing exactly what
she did mean.
with what command Is hep INQUIRED
the blue eyes, smiling in rather a s,,nerior
manner
"Oh, you tease" twittered the pray ewes.
but, OF course, you know, anyhow and |
might as well tell you. He is the incest
fellow you ever saw, and l want you
should meet him some time He is at San
tiago now, and has been down there since
the troops first landed. 1t was simply aw-
full when he first went down there to that
horrid fighting Every day we sat waiting
for the news that might tell he was shot
or something dreadful had happened to
him. You didn't have any one down there,
and you can have no conception of the
perfectly awful strain II Is to wait for
news from the front when some loved one
is there" and the soft gray eyes grew
moist at the memory.
The blue eyes took upon themselves the
look only blue eyes can take.
"Oh, don't know said their possessor
Il have a friend who plays foot ball.
Evening star., 1898-11-05
A Mud Shower.

Steamers from the orient report that
natives in the vicinity of Java are terror
stricken and sailors on all vessels plying
to the islands of the far east mystified and
alarmed at a continuous shower of mud
and asEes. which turned day into darkness
and lasted thirty-six hours.
The steamers Rorree and Real were cov-
cred six inches deep with mud when the
storm abated The Real was on its way to
Paiso bay. and while in the Gulf of Tomim
at o'clock in the morning the mud storm
came on. suddenly followed by heavy Sea.
One of the members of the crew was wash
ed overheard and drowned. and the
steamer was with difficulty saved, naviga-
ton being almost impossible.
The steamer Borneo sailed 1907 miles
through the storm. 1t reported that the
falling substance was composed of about
equal parts of mud, ashes and rain. Capt.
Tuckey Of the Borneo said that the natives
at Donegal were terrified and prepared to
fee for their lives.
Scientists believe the mud came from a
volcano on one of the islands situated in
the Gulf of Tomini. The whereabouts of
the volcano has not been located
Evening star., 1898-11-05
HumOrs of BaIaklava.

From the Cornhin Magazine.
OF that mad but heroic charge hum
dred incidents are preserved-thrilng, hu-
moreus, shocking. A man of the 18th Lam
GERS, for example, was heard to shout, just
as they raced in upon the guns, quota
ton from Shakespeare, Who is there here
would ask more men from England! - Tho
regimental butcher of the 11th Lancers was
engaged In killing sheep when he heard
the trunpets sound for the charge. He
loaded on a horse; in shirt sleeves, with
bare arms and pipe in mouth he rodG
through the whole charge, slew, il is said,
six men with his own hand, anG came back
again, pipe still in mouth! A private OF the
11th was under arrest for drunkenness
when the charge began; bug he broke Dat,
followed his troop on spare horse, picked
up sword as he rode and shared in the
rapture and perlls OF the charge. The
charge lasted twenty minutes and was
ever before such dariay or such sur.eling
packed into a space so brief. The squad
rons rode into the fight numbering 653
horsemen: their mounted strength wren
the fight was over was exactlv 195.
Evening star., 1898-11-05
Orhs.ais.

Orhcala.
Shall there be no relaxation? Shall the
average person claim
No respite from the jgging fascinations of
name?
Must it be his sad misfortune to perpetually
dwell
Meath the rhythmic incantation of some
photographic spell?
We've chased the nimble proper noun
through Cuba's martial scenes,
Through Europe and the Orient hither past
the Philippines.
And weary maxillary makes the reader
glad to roam
From these foreign complications to affairs
much nearer home.
He turns from Honolulu" and Manila"
to discern
He will learn
OF the way whole towns have risen to ap-
plaud single man:
"Patchogue's' a blaze of glory that ecltpses
poor Penn Yam"
OF the fight in "Cattaraugus" and the
mighty tests of lung
In "Otsego.' ''Tioga" and "Chenango" and
"Chemung"
Things are merry in "Schoharie" and old
observers VOW
Schenectady" has never been much livelier
than now.
go west the tempter whispers. And
Ohios list he'll sean,
To see how "Cuyahoga' went when some
old-timer ran.
The syliables come Gathering forth until
his throat grows hot
'Scioto" 'Tuscarawas," "Chillico.he
"Wyandot."
Wen no more be apprehensIve as posses-
sions heave in view;
Ihere can't be tasks much heavier than
those we've all been through:
There can't be harder trials placed before
us by the fates
Than the cast-off Dutch and .'Iniun, i'm our
own United States
Evening star., 1898-11-05
Captain Paget Under Fire.
From Scrihner's.

FROM Strlhners.
II was in this fight that a shrepnel shell
struck the road within ten inches of the
foot of the British naval attache. Captain
Paget. and lifted five Wisconsin volunteers
off their feet and knocked them down.
For a moment Paget was lost to view in
a cloud of dust and smoke. from which no
ose expected to see him reappear alive
but he strode out of 1t untouched. remark
ing in "A tone of extreme annoyance: There
was a shell in the Soudan once did exactly
that same thing to me- His tone seemed TO
suggest that there was limit to any man :
patience. A few minutes later solitary
tree beneath which he was sitting was
struck by another shell which killed two
and wounded three men. Paget, who had
been In dozen campaigns, took il all as
matter of course and assisted one of the
wounded men out of the range Of the bull
let's from the side of a steep and high hill.
The sight did more to popularize the Anglo
American alliance with the soldiers than
could the weightiest argument of ambassa-
dors or statesmen.
Evening star., 1898-11-05

earned all the rules by heart-never trump
your partners ace, and when IN doubt
tdke the Trick, and when the right bower
- turned down. make II next. and all the
rest OF them
uon see how you could have made a
Lustake after fortifying yourself in that
manner, he commented gently
didn't make a mistake" she protes,ed
men don't see what the matter could
have been
Know. Only scarcely like TO tell YOU
because l know YOU will think n Is sunsr,
sutious and silly"
DID somebody put charm on us?''
don't Know whether il was done ON
purpose or not But there wasn't any
chance for us to have any luck Just be-
lore we played the hand that decided the
rubber. | counted the cards And do YOU
Know, Charley. dear she said. dropping
her voice to an impressive whisper there
We're exactly thirteen,'
Evening star., 1898-11-05
The Kaiser's Big Soldiers.
the London Ch-onicle


1.-The tallest man in his army" who is ac-
companying the German emperor In the
visit to the east, is a grenadier named
Chiemke, who is nearly six feet ten inches
in his stockings. This Frederick William
mania of the kaiser's is an old device of
his for impressing the foreigner. On re-
turning from his first visit to Constantine
pie in 1889 the emperor sent the sultan a
complete set of kettledrums. which he in
trusted to the tallest officer in his army
Lieutenant Pleskow, who is very little IL
at all, under seven feet. Once, indeed when
this Prussian guardsman looked over a
seven-foot garden wall and asked a girl
picking gooseberrtes therein what was the
way to so-and-so, the simple maiden told
him to ride first to the right and then to
the left, and he would find the place he
wanted. The nymph had honestly fancied
that an ofhcer overpeering her garden wall
like that must necessarily be on horseba ckl
Evening star., 1898-11-05
BetFothaIs in Spain.

A curious custom obtains In some por-
tions of Spain in regard to betrothals A
young man who looks with favor upon
handsome senerita and wishes to gain her
hand calls on the parents for three sue
cessive days at the same hour of the
day. At the last call he leaves his walking
stick. and If he is to win the desired bride
the cane is handed to him when he calls
again. But IL he Is not regarded with
favor. the cane is thrown into the street
and IN this way the young man is made to
less.
Evening star., 1898-11-05
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S0me Psychic Rescarch.

The band of small girls had the steaItby
tread and the surreptitious litter which he
trays youth on mischief bent There was
no doubt that they should have been in he'd
hours ago. but the manner in which cniI-
Gren escape the vigilance of their elders on
such occasions will always be one of the
mysteries OF an otherwise progressive ctvf-
hzation- They were running on tlp-toe to
cFeFtake a lady and man who had inst
gotten OH the street car. The lady turned
sharply
why aren't. you at home?' she asked
with remarkable fortitude.
Inc answer came in a tone which betol
ened full confidence in the righteousness cf
d cause: We're out HaHoweenin'."
well, what would you do if | were IN
take handful of flour from under nv cane
and throw it all over your
why, you wouldn't do anything like
that, would you?"
don't know. You see, we're out Hal
loweenn' ourselves"
Wen, l spose it would have to go Rur
look mere, you mustn't think we children
do all that mischief"
Who is it?
II unruly spirits. 1t tells all about
them in book up at our house,
never saw any such spirits"
they're around, though. This is their
chance to have fun But they're too sharp
TO get caught They know how to hide"
But where do they go?''
We'll, to tell you the truth. ma'am T be-
heve they get inside US children
Evening star., 1898-11-05
Licenses for Boarding Houses.

A plan Is being discussed in London for
inspecting, registering and furnishing with
a certificate all lodging houses before they
are permitted to receive dodgers. It Is
claimed there would be many advantages
in such a system. The respectable and
honest keepers Of lodging houses would not
object to 1t. and the only malcontents
would be those whose apartments would
rot bear inspection. 1t would not only
save dodgers great Inconvenience but fre-
quently serious illness.
Evening star., 1898-11-05
The First Bet.

The first bet on record is that referred to
in the twenty-ninth book of the "Iliad,"
which has been rendered into English
blank verse. as follows:
wilt thou a tripod or a cauldron stake
And Agahemmon. Atreus son. appoint
The umpire to decide which steeds are
first?
The layer of the odds upon this occasion
was Idomeneus. the Cretan king. Plutarch
also speaks of wagering. and 30 does So
phocles, and so does Caius Caligula, and
so do many more celebrities who fiourished
in the years when the world was young.
Evening star., 1898-11-05
The PhOnOgraphic Alarm Clock.

FROM the Philadelphia Ledger.
Photographic attachments to clocks sre
extremely amusing if not wholly practical
The alarm is wound UP as usual. and at a
certain hour the photographic attachment
Is brought into play and instead of a hell
a call is shouted to the sleeper: Get I'D
it's 5 o'clock" Various forms of iniunc
ton and invitation to rise may be given
or one may be treated to a little sermonette
on the relative merits of early and late ris-
ing. Platitudes concerning the early bird
may be indulged in and similar exhorta-
tions need not be wanting. At the pres
ent rate of things one may have merely
to wind up clock in order to be lectured
in the most approved fashion The project
of attaching to the kitchen clock a schedule
of things for the maid to do might not be
aniss. At certain hour the clock could
call out: PUT the roast in the oven" 1T
is time to put the potatoes on to boil"
See that the pan under the ice box Is
emptied." Don't forget to churn the but
ter"
Such reminders might be of extreme
utility. the inventor furnishing brains and
directions while the hands carry out these
instructions.
Evening star., 1898-11-05

Bilkias--"Who was 1t wrote Actions
speak louder than woris?"
Harper-'I don't know. but I'll bet the
thought occurred TO him while he was try
ing to sneak upstairSfat 3 O'Clock in the
morning -ChicagoSNews.
Evening star., 1898-11-05

II should think that the United States
would be in favor OF the disarmament OF
Europe. as proposed by the czar, remark
ed Chambers.
Certainly" replied Gummey. 'Tn fact.
we began It. We have disarmed Spain all
right."-Detrolt Free Presa
Evening star., 1898-11-05
\ preIit..itneut.

A dirge for the era of doubt and suspense
When the portals of youth slowly close,
When paths that seemed easy grow tangled
an0 dense
And hope now and then takes a doze
A dlrge-not too sad-for that pitiless age
When all startled you gaze DER the scene
And discover you're neither a lad nor a
sage;
That you're merely betwixt and between.
You're not bald enough to command the
respect
Which to scalps we'll denuded is due;
Your gray hairs encounter unfeeling neg
Because they're so dolefully few.
The boys will not hail you as one of their
clan,
While the old fellows sleek and serene,
Still laugh at your troubles and call you
young man."
When you're merely betwixt and between.
There are laughter and lights in the years
left behind;
There are laughter ands lights still ahead;
But the journey grows weary and long as
you find
The loneliness where you are led.
Oh, better the infant who gnaws at ring
Or Methuselah stately, 1 ween,
Than the man who must bow as they mock
him and sing,
"You are merely betwixt and between"
Evening star., 1898-11-05

1t pays to read the want columns Of The
Star. Hundreds OF situations are filled
through them.
Evening star., 1898-11-05
as 1t wrote Actions

fyou want work read the want columns
of The Star. -,
Evening star., 1898-11-05

What He Needed.

The young man who sat with both feet
on table gazing at a bookcase full of
ieather-covered volumes, did not seem eX-
actly happy, in spite of the nesurely COM
fort of his attitude.
Whats the matter?" inquired the friend
who had been trying to engage him in con-
versation. Got the blues?"
Not precisely"
'IH tell you what you want to do. You
want to come with me to the theater to-
night"
What for?"
why, for recreation. You want to get
your mind off your business"
mo. You've diagnosed the case wrong.
I don't get through more than two pages
of one of those books before some piano
organ comes along and begins playing a
tune that I've got to whistle in concert
with it, whether want to or not. By the
time I've taken a fresh start and gotten
half way through another paragraph, some
man comes along with hammer and be-
gins to play the Anvil Chorus on a long
iron stringer over by that new building.
And before my intellect has CROPPED along
a few sentences further somebody drops in
and tells me a funny story. That's all a
mistake about a mans wanting to get his
mind of his business. What l need is
something that will assist me in spikine
my mind right down to business, so that
every little thing that comes along won't
be sufficient to jar 1T loose
Evening star., 1898-11-05
No Chance to Win.

Charley, dear said young Mrs. Tor
kins. you must not blame me for the
way played whist"
TIN not blaming YOU"
TT wasn't my fault that yen didn't have
trumps when expected you to-"
mo. ] was to blame"
Nov, didH't say that But was get
ting along 20 nicely To the game 4 had
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-11-10
Hanging of JIM Ohoctaw i.

The hanging of Jim Choctaw by
three men in the Spayinaw country
during the search for the body OF John
Morrison, is developing into serious
case. 1t was began Monday in the
commissioners court and continued
next day. One of the three Cherokees,
Sam Boney, who went to Choctaw's
house and took him out at night and
put a rope around his neck and threat
ened to hang him in order to make
him tell where the body of John Nor
rison was, turned states evidence to-
day and related the whole circum-
stance.
Jim Choctaw's real name is Bird;
he has been a somewhat noted whisky
peddler, and has been convicted twice
at Ft. Smith, and served two terms IN
the penitentiary for the same. Cook
has not been arrested, and Sam Boney
was held in $500 bonds and Berry's
bond was fixed at 81 900, and will have
to answer for the crime of impcrsOn-
ating an officer as well as the abuse of
Jim Choctaw. The reward offered by
w. II. Morrison of $500 for the find
ing Of his brother was doubtless the
cause of the hanging OF ChOctaw as
the men evidently thought he knew
and could be made to diyulge it.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-11-10
Rock Oreek NOtes.

Ed Miles and wife have a new boy at
their house. AS this lie the first boy, Ed can
go to town and back in one day.
$ A Perry had load of hogs on the
market one day last week.
Mrs. p. W. Propp has returned from
visit with relatives and friends In Baxter
Springs. She was accompanied home by her
nephew. Don Archer.
$. W. Dale and son, Mark Hanna, have
been quite sick but are reported better.
The ladies Aid society. of Adalr is going
to give a supper and fair Thanksgiving day
and night at the school house. All are in
vited to come and help the ladies; they ex-
pect TO have plenty to eat and lots to sell.
Mrs. Tenent and sons have been visiting
at Southwest City the past week.
The wheat is all up and looks nice.
A young man working for Ed Miles had
his leg broken one day last week by horse
falling on him.
The latter day saint preacher who has
been holding meetings al Midway has been
very successful In having "A good crowd
every night. He has gone now. but will re-
turn this winter.
VIII Ballew and wife are the proud pa
rent. OF a baby girl.
Herb Cox's mother has been quite low
with pneumonia, but is recovering.
There are few boys In this vicinity thai
the grand jury should LOOK after.
John Archer and wife and Prof. r.
Ramey, OF Adair. visited with Rock Creel
| folks last Sunday
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-11-10
Great Profit in Sheep.

There are few if any kinds OF stock
that will increase faster or pay better
than sheep. To illustrate: Ad Roach
picked up three orphan lambs from a
passing herd and raised them by
hand. They increased into a good
sized herd in a few years and the
number sold one time and another and
butchered for home consumption has
long since been lost sight of, going
way up into the hundreds. Last week
Mr.. Roach sold 227 head at one sale,
and short time before sold 30 at an
other sale and has near 200 left. Since
the disappearance of the wolves from
the ranges, aud the tramped out con-
dition of much of the country where
cattle have been grazed so long, it
would be a very profitable animal To
grow. One hundred ewes well cared
for and properly bred and sheltered
would soon increase into a large and
paying business.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-11-10
We Sell the best Groceries.
F. N. RATCLIFF MERCANTILE COMPANY
.puonE 20 vNITA TERRITORY

Last Thursday evening the little
nephew of Uncle Isaac Bertholt,
who lives a few miles east of Che
cotah, met with an accident that
proved fatal! The boy men
toned and a small brother were
out hunting and after the boys had
been absent only short while
the report of a gun was heard.
Shortly afterward the younger
brother, who is about eight years
of age came to the house and
announced that his brother
had shot himself. Hurrying
to the scene the relatives of the
boy found it only too true. A load
of shot had passed into his left
lung and life was extinct. The
small! boy said they had stopped
in the woods and were looking for
squirrels when his brother set the
butt of gun on the ground with the
muzzle against his breast. In some
manner the hammer struck some
thing, the charge exploded and the
entire load of shot entered his
breast ranging upward. He died
in few minutes.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1898-11-10
Chaeo-IiStor.

Tuesday nights production of "Tex-
as"was excellent in all particulars and
was a great" bill for the gallery.
The siege OF the Alamo was realistic
enough to please the most exacting
and if those members of Uncle Sans
famous rough rider regiment who
were present disclosed somewhat OF
excess of enthusiasm, it is not to be
wondered at. Their experience along
in the early days Of July taught them
to appreciate just what the realities of
such a scene are. Albert Taylor, as
Jim Bowie, was a typical Texan of
fifty years ago, and his efforts were
ably seconded by each member Of the
company. AS commedian VIII Car
roll made hit lasting all through the
evening. All the companies now car
ry the magic lanterns, under one
name or another, and those Of the
Chase-Lister are the best that have
been brought to Vinita. The compa-
ny is here for the entire week at pop
ular prices-l0, 20 and 80 cents.