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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06

any person to get out of the stOcf
without assistance. After n time Il
punishment Is terrible, for the hea
being forced to occupy one position
as If It We're in n vice-makes Il
women PROSTATE in most cases. TIL
is n great deal worse when three
four are yoked together.
The men, while in 'durance vile
are treated a great deal better than Il
women, although they are tried Al
dealt with in a much more summal
manner. A Chinese prisoner is put
death for the slightest offense, al
there Is no doubt that If he could sa'
his life by so doing he would glad
bear the punishment melted out to d
ladies of the Flowery Land who cor
under the ban of the law.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06

The houses of the lower class look no
different from without, but are awful
within, and there the cause of Havana's
scourges of yellow fever is at once ap-
parent. The city is badly drained. The
bay, with no free course of water, and
comparatively little tide, is a reservoir,
unlicensed, Of the city's offal. 1t breeds
disease, and in squalor where personal
uncleanliness is added to the perils in
cured by municipal neglect, the houses
of the poor have become the incubators
of pestilence. Havana has many beau
tiful parks, squares and public places.
The squares are all ornamented with
royal palms and here and there an or
ange or banana tree, and here and there
an Indian laurel.
No city in the world is furnished with
such an abundance and variety of foods
as is Havana, with the possible eXcep-
ton of San Francisco. The earth and
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the commander of the fortress TO sur
render. Sores soon grew tired Of the
place and Withdrew. But his example
was frequently followed, and numer-
Gus attempts were made by buccaneers
to capture the city and loot it. Notable
among these efforts was that of the En-
glish buccaneer, Sir Francis Drake,
who assaulted Havana in 1855, but was
compelled to retire. The first our
of yellow fever appeared in the snip
ping during the summer of 17Gl. IN
1862 Admiral Pocock. with an English
squadron. attacked Havana and forced
it to c~apitulate. For two months the
city put up a brave defense. In 1IO3
Havana was restored to the Spanish ny
the treaty Of Paris.
The first newspaper published In Ha-
vana was La Gaceta de Ia HaDana'
which appeared in 1882. In 1889 the
Jesuits were expelled from the city,
and their church was converted into
the cathedral of the diocese. This Is
the church in which it is said the ashes
Of Columbus were deposited in the year
1906. In 1918 Havana was opened TO
the of the world.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06

u sinks, however, the lazy inhabIt-
ants turn out, and the life of the night
Is the lively life of Havana. The city
has not been very businesslike under
Spanish rule. Most of the men are
worthless and dissipated. They lounge
in cafes and look only to pleasure such
as the Spaniard delights in-gambling,
cock fighting, bull batting. No thought
of the morrow Is taken, and the result
is that a more improvident population
a be found nowhere. Sunday is Ha.
vana's holiday.
AS for the churches, thousands Of
women religiously attend. In Cuba the
church and her children are a woman's
life. She soOn loses her husband as her
companion in the home. She does not
read. She never heard of a new wom-
an. She has her little circle of friends
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large return, the proximity of the sea,
Its middle distance between the inyip.
Grating north and the tropical IL
tries of the southern continent, the pro.
fusion of Its fruits and tlowers-all
these things make 1t a most desirable
place to live, and there is no doubt that
thousands Of Americans had been there
long ago were it not for the bllghtlug
and depressing rule of Spain-a rule
that tends to ruin commerce and enrer.
prise wherever 1t has sway.
In 1900 the seat of Spanish official.
dom In Cuba was transferred from San.
uago de Cuba TO Havana, an early rec.
ognition Of the clty's importance. One
year later pirates under the leadership
OF the notorious Jacob Sores attacked
the town. sacked It's church and Tho
dwellings Of the wealthy and compelled
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the sea give to its people all the best of
their fruits. The great market of Ha-
vana Is without an equal, surprising.
a it does, the famed French market of
New Orleans. This market covers an
area equal to that of an American
block, and 1t is all under a single roof.
There are numberless booths in which
are exposed for sale all the fruits of the
tropics, sea fish, fresh water fish. meats,
game, leather goods, jewelry and such
curios as only a seaport visited by the
commerce Of the world can pick up.
There are seen men, women and chill
dren Of every nationality upon the
earth. The wonder is how SO small a
town can gather to itself such a wide
range of humanity.
The population of Havana is mixed
and its morale is very low. The condi-
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
LOYAL Denial.

The literal person is sure to furnish
amusement so long rs he inhabits this
terrestrial ball. and that. it is safe
to say, will be while the human race
exists.
Mr.. w. NJ. Shoemaker says. in his ac.
count of a voyage in southern seas. thai
M night. after leaving Il harbor, one
OF the passengers. an Englishman. re-
marked on the'fact that the vessel had
listed materially to the port side.
Oh said Il miSchievouS American.
"thats because we have got rid of all
those heavy English newspapers"
The loyal subject of the crown pro-
tested.
"oh, say, now" he cried. they don't
weigh any more than the New York
Herald. don't you know
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
TOO Quick.

When a maj Is peculiarly quick to see
a possible advantage, and uses his clear
~sightedness solely for his own benefit,
other men are apt to be afraid of him.
That was how it was with Ralph Ber-
nal, q print connoiSseur. He was so
quick to see a valuable thing, and ap-
propriate it before anybody else real
lied Its worth, that dealers got fright
ened when he entered their shops.
What do you want for thatY' he one
day asked, as his eye fell on a certain
sheet in a portfolio of odd prints. 1t
was Il good copy of Hogarth's Mid
night Modern Conversation
Three guineas," was the reply.
"l'll take It," said the connoisseur.
Shall send it to you, Mr.. Bernal?"
NO." replied his customer, quickly.
Il will carry it home myself"
And he was not quite at ease until II
was In his hand. At the first glance ne
had see that modern was spelled mod
dern. The addition of that I'd" made
all the difference in the value. 1t proved
that he had fallen upon the rarest of
the Hogarth impressions. and for this
proof the British Museum had to pay
fS1.
1t was no wonder that dealers felt I'M
easy when he appeared. But on one
occasion he proved himself too sharp.
He entered the shop of a well-known
print-seller, and found the shopkeeper's
wife in charge. AS he came in he no.
ticed that she hastily put something
away in Il drawer. The instincts of the
collector We're Instantly awakened.
What have you got there. Mrs.
TOWN. he asked. Let me see It,"
"Oh, no, sir, it Is nothing YOU would
care about" she replied.
Come, come" said Bernal, 'I know
1t is something good"
W%hereupon the hlushing lady dis
played to the eager eyes of the vlrtuoso
a pair of her husbands old socks, which
she had been industriously darning
when her inquisitlve customer entered
the shop.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
eoAT HUNTING IN ALASKA.
Novel Way to FIRING Wild Goats Into
Rifle Range.

Novel Way to Pring Wild Goats Into
Rife Range.
"They have a queer way of hunting
mountain goats up in the mountains
back of Skaguay," said d. j.. McKin-
ney, the Mayor of Skaguay," at the
Hotel Northern. 'The boys at one of
my camps told me one day that they
had seer some goats up in the hills
and they asked me if l wanted to go
along to hunt them. OF course | did.
and we were soon climbing high up on
the mountains, away above the altitude
that l thought any living creature
would live. Still up and up we went.
The boys were trying to get above a
place where they had seen the goats a
few days before. When they had To-
Gated the proper point, they selected a
huge boulder and got me to help them
tip it over. 1t took the combined
strength of three of us to get the rock
started. When it did get to going the
havoc 1t caused on its way down to the
valley was something fearful. Then
the boys told me to get ready for a
surprise. We all got u rifles ready
and waited. 1t was only a short time
until we saw emerging from the scrub
by growth below us three fine goats.
They came toward us, bounding from
crag to crag and apparently needless of
the danger they were running into.
They came to within sixty yards of us
and we brought down all three.
Il learned then that the goat always
tries to get above rolling rocks, and
that that is a favorite way of hunting
them."-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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like herself, and some day dies. Bnt
she has been faithful to the church, and
the most striking thing about Il service
In the great cathedral Is the presence of
the women of Havana and the absence
of the men. 1t Is said here that most
men go to church but three times in
their life-when baptized. when about
TO be married and when dead-and the
church is as rigid in its requirement of
the first two visits rs the departed Is to
be received there ut last.
The cathedral is really one Of the
finest eliiices in Havana. 1t is built to
last for ages. In it are the remains of
tomb is there, beside the altar and the
Inscription. 1t Is also duly autnenti-
Gated that the remains are there, too.
but even Spanlards nod doubtfully
when asked, us 1t trueT'
The lottery Is the curse of Havana.
One of the first cries heard on the
street in the morning is the schrill voice
of Il Cuban yelling that he has lottery
tickets for sale. 1t Is often the last
sound heard ut night. 1t would seem
that all Cuba must gamble to support so
formidable n company of takers.
All the storekeepers are courteous
and unobtrusive. \ visitor experiences
great difficulty in purchasing anything
enthusiastically Cuban in the stores,
but that Is because Cuba produces only
two things, sugar and tobacco, and
buys everything she uses-even buys
back her sugar refined.
The easiest thing to buy is cigars, and
they cost astonishingly less than IN the
States. There is an experience in buy
ing them, because the great cigar rae
tories of Havana, producing brands
that r known to smokers all over the
world, are interesting institutions. They
occupy buildings so nearly resembling
the ordinary dwelling house that they
would be mistaken for them by a
stranger except for the odor.
Quaint Cuban Houses,
The Cuban house of the better class 4.
OF the ordinary, typical construction. L
is enormously heavy, built of adobe o,
soft stone, TO withstand earthouake,
and TO resist heat. The rooms are enpr
nous, with ceiling from fifteen TO TWEEN
~ or twenty-five feet high. all floors
) even In the bedrooms. being Of stone
| and the windows covered with Srea
Iron bars.
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of warfare that We're successful three
centuries ago is in perfect keeping with
Spain's anachronism in civilization.
The town, rs has already been said,
is unique. 1t is not Spanish, 1t is not
Oriental, 1t Is not European. nor does
1t ut all resemble anything in the Uni
ted States. 1t Is Cuban. The bay,
ordinarily, is one of the most wildly
beautiful sights to be seen anywhere.
Humholdt's description of the ap-
proachcs to Havana fails to do 1t JUS
tice. and that distinguished traveller
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
ONE STAGE TRICK.
How the BIindfolded Juggler Perfo I
Seemingly Marvellous Tricks i


The next time you see a blindfoIdo,
juggler tossing knives and razors win
unerring skill and keeping half A do,
en- eggs unbroken in the air at at oncs
do not let your wonder and admirat,o,
overpower you. You have seer his a,
siStant blindfold him with a handka,
chief Then you have seen a bag q,
heavy burlaps adjusted over his head
and shoulders to exclude even the lipb,
And yet not one egg eve fails. Not oDa
knife yer escapes him.
As a matter of fact, the coarse bur
lap bag has threads drawn out in thu,
part which comes before his face. and
in the adjusting of it the assistant sim
ply slides the handkerchief up or down
little. In taking the bag off again he
returns the handkerchief to its place.
The next time the blindfolded juggle,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
AvANA, the capital of Cuba,

r r AVANA, the capital Of Cuba,
Fl is Il world-city, known wher-
4 l. ever the fame of cities has
reached, and deserving of its fame, too,
for like all great cities Of industry and
art, it is unique. Cuba's capital is
coeval with the Mediterranese conquest
of the Western hemisphere. The name
of the city is characteristic of the re-
ligiOus Latin races. for when Diego de
Velasquez laid its foundations, In 1918,
he christened it San Cristobal de la Ha-
bana-St. Christopher Of the haven or
harbor-in honor of Columbus, the dis
coverer of the island. This name, be-
slowed upon the city by the cOnqueror
of the island, has remained unchanged,
and it Is still officially SO called. But
its popular name has been shortened to
Habana in Spanish and Havana in 9th
er tongues. The city has n population
of about 100000.
Havana is sited on the west side Of
the bay of It's own name-one of the
most beautiful bodies of water of its
kind found anywhere. The city stands
on a sort of peninsula that is formed
on n side by the waters of the bay,
and OIL the other by those of the gulf.
In olden times it was one of the strong
est of the places of the civilized world.
When ships of war We're of wood and
carried a few guns whose bullets were
repealed by granite masonry, Havana
was im%pregnable. But the "oak levia-
thans" and the 'rOck-built cities" of
Lord Byron are nov historical. On
the one hand the recent destruction of
the Maine indicates the cause why
granite walls are no longer needed, and
OIL the other 1t Is sec how the subma-
rine mine and torpedo have developed
gun powder, which enables a ship to
stand miles without n harbor and land
shells in n city's heart.
Yet If It were not for Spanish poverty
and decline, Havana to-day might have
been as relatively strong as when, in
1885, 1t drove the fierce Sir Francis
Drake away from its coasts. The fact
is that the Spaniards have not kept step
with the march of progress. The in
sanity of attempting to defend Havana
with the same implements and methods
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Gay and Picturesque Cuban Capital Has
a Famous History.


owner most; why an unearthly clangOr
of bells drives sleep from the city at
daybreak; why no One ever keeps an
appointment land apologies for
the ~offense), are questions that Havan-
csc and Cubans do not explain or at
tempt to explain.
The almost equatorial sun beats down
upon the streets with terrific heat dur
ing the day, and none but business peo-
pie and ''low people" are seen during
the early and middle day. When the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
Art of Hog Driving.

The difficulty of driving a single hi
was well illustrated at the foot of 81
street the other afternoon at abo|
train time. Some men We're driving
herd of swine to Amherst, and as thu
approached the bridge one of the al
mails became obstreperous and BOLT
toward the city, becoming thereby sd
arated from the rest of the drove.
The three or four men, assisted
volunteers, placed themselves betwe1
the city and the rebellious hog in
semi-circle, while one of their numb
advanced cautiously and began to tel
the hogs nose with a pine brush. TIL
would make the animal turn round, Al
each time he did so he would move
few steps toward the bridge and t
rest of the drove. The maneuvers we
watched with a great deal of interd
by a large crowd of spectators, al
when finally the Maynard one return
TO the bosom of the drove a very au|
BILE murmur of admiration went
from the crowd.-Lynchburg News.
No woman can hide all her imperf|
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
WOMEN IN STOCKS.
How the Chinese Deal with Women
Who Need Correction.

Punishment by the stocks is most
ly confined to the women placed in the
prisons of the Celestial empire. Somd
idea of how the women appear whd
are treated in this name will BID
gained from the illustration, which 4
taken from n photograph. The stocks
are fastened from behind; and all
though there is just room to move thu
head it is absolutely impossible fol
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offers to perform for you ssure him
that a ~blindfolding with a handkerchief
Is quite enough, and that you could
not think of having him smothered by
a bag. Then you can have heaps of
fun listening to him lie about the trick.
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Havana is II mystery to the European
and the American. The question, why
do you this and do you thaty' is always
answered with, I'VE have always done
so; what else would you have us do?"
Why the farmers use u crooked stick
10 pillow with, why ladies sit in their
carriages while the dry goods clerks
bring out rolls of cloth for them to in
spect; why dark women and ever
black women powder their faces until
they look as II they had been daubed
with flour; why houses are built to Il
line within two feet Of the curling. so
that pedestrians cannot walk two
abreast; why the houses are all painted
In whatever vivid color pleases the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06

tion of the women remind a widely
travelled man of the women of the
Orient. They are close-kept and live in
tropical idleness. Miscegeneration is
common, and it is no rare matter to find
a Cuban family of very good social po-
sition and of considerable wealth com
posed of persons that would be classed
as q%uadroons in America. Havana IS
a city of grand surprises for the foreign
visitor. A political mite as it is IN conf
parison with London, there are slums
In Havana that cannot be matched in
the metropolis of the world.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06
As Place of Residence.

Havana has infinite charms as a
place of residence. Its climate, its veg
citation, the cheap rate at which one
car buy all the delicacies of the table,
the omance in the very air, the ease
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-05-06

No woman can hide all her imperf|
lions from her dressmaker.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
POST B. T. P. A.
Will Elect Officers and Select Delegates to
 State Convention Next Saturday.

Post of tfe Travellers Protective asso. citation will hold an important meeting at the Morris hotel next Saturday night at 8 o'clock.
 The meeting is for the annual election of officers, and also to elect delegates to the state convention, which meets in Mobile, April 26 The present officers of the asso- citation are:
 Louis Hart, president.
 Adam Myatt, first vice-president.
 J. P. Lantznester, second vice-presldent.
 E.. L. Higdon, secretary and treasurer.
 There are about 250 members of Post B, and it Is expected that at least 150 will be present at the meeting Saturday night.
 A great deal of trouble has been experi- enced in getting a badger with which to pull off the badger fight, which, as had been announced, would constitute a part of the programme on the occasion of this meet ing. Every effort Is being made to obtain one, and if there is badger to be found he will most certainly be on hand to enter tain the company next Saturday night.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
AUGUST STAINING,
A German Machinist, Claims To Have Been
 Held Up and Robbed.

August Staining, machinist employed at the East Birmingham Foundry and Ma chine shops, was met by an Age-Herald re- porter corner Eighteenth street and Third avenue about o'clock Sunday morning, wandering around In an excited condition in his stocking feet and bare-headed.
 The man, who is German, speaks a very broken English, and in his excited state could scarcely make himself under stood. He finally succeeded in stating that he had ben held up by two white men at the point of pistol, and robbed of $20 in cash, his hat and shoes. He had evidently been drinking a little, and did not know exactly where the robbery occurred, but stated that it had taken place about an hour before
 The reporter assisted him in finding an officer, who took him to the police station.
 Night Warden Hammitt loaned him pair of shoes and an old police helmet with which to get home.
 Staining says that he would know the men if he saw them again, and will make an effort to have them arrested.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
UNITED STATES CONNECTS Will Be Sent to the State Peni-
 tentiary at Raleigh, N. C. ATTORNEY GENERAL GRlGGS Has Constituted That Prison Southern Branch of the Government Pententiary- Order
 Issued by Judge Bruce Yesterday.

In the future all prisoners convicted in the United States court in this district will be sent to the state penitentiry at Raleigh, N. c.
 This order issued by Judge Bruce yesterday on motion of United States Dis trict Attorney Vaughn who was in receipt of information from Attorney General Griggs constituting the North Carolina state pententiary a southern branch of the government pemtentiary.
 Heretofore all prisoners convicted in the United States courts in the south have been sent to the federal prisons at Colum- bus, O., or Brooklyn, N. Y. Just why this change has been made is not known, al- though it is said to have been ordered because of the crowded conditions of the prisons at Columbus and Brooklyn.
 The establishment of federal prison in the south has been agitated for some time, and it has been given out that the govern menu will build a penitentiary at some convenient and centrally located point which will be controlled entirely by the government.
 The establishment of the southern prison is just what the people and the officials of the south have been clamoring for many years. Hundreds of southern men con- vcted of minor offenses against the gov ernment have been semt to Columbus for terms ranging from one to three years, and before tlleir terms have expired they have fallen victims to the severe and rigor- ous climate of the north. In nearly every case the conviots return to the south at the expiration of their terms with badly impaired health.
 Judge Newman, of the middle district of Georgia issued similar order a few days ago, and it is probable that all prisoners convicted in the United States courts in the south will be sent to Raleigh instead of Columbus or Brooklyn.
 The penitentiary at Raliegh is very excellent prison. It is substantially built and the cenvicts are allowed all comforts consistent with their condition.
The age-herald., 1898-03-08
ARMS AND EQlPMENTS
Still Beng Inspected Replies to Gen. CIarks
 Letter of Inquiry.

It is said among the local military com panies that answers to Brigadier General Clark's recent letters of inquiry in regard to the condition and equipments of the various companies were being sent in to headauarters rapidly. What the reports contain could not be learned
 If is known that the inspectors from the eovernor's office will soon be here for the purpose of verifying these reports. and either ordering the defective equipments repaired sold or destroyed. This must al- ways be done before any new equipments are received.