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Senator's Expert knowledge.

Senator Foraker. while debating the
pure food bill, was getting warm on
the subject of fusel Oil in whisky. He
had submitted to several Interruptions
and his patience was about exhausted
when Senator Ti!iman asked him a
question. The Ohio man replied some
what pettishly, whereupon Tillman
said: Il was head barkeeper down
in South Carolina when the dispen-
sary system was inaugurated, and
know what l am talking about" Mr..
Foraker allowed him to go on, and in
five minutes the Southerner amply
made good his boast and had shown
that he was the best posted man in
the senate on the making of whisky,
and had silenced everybody, Foraker
included. Il am not much of sharp
on the taste of whisky, but know all
about the making of it," he ended
triumphantly, and no one could say
him nay.
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WRECK on cheyenne Northern.

Cheyenne.-The engine and the
mail and baggage cars of the north
bound passenger train on the Chey-
enne & Northern railroad, branch
of the Colorado & Southern, broke
through a trestIe, at Buekhorn, 1875
miles north of Cheyenne Friday, and
fell into the canyon. Engineer Don
ahue, Fireman Rex and Mail Clerk
Benjamin Guy, all of Cheyenne, were
injured Rex is internally injured and
may die. Guy is seriously hurt and
may also have received internal in
juries.
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Eminent Preacher Recuperatlna.

Rev. DIR. Minot j. Savage of New
York, pastor Of the Church of the Mes.
siah, has retired from the active dut
les of the pastorate for a few weeks
and is now resting at Redlands, Cal,
where his son has a charge. Mr..
Savage is with him. Dr. Savage,
while in need of much rest and quiet,
is not alarmingly i'll. He may be able
to take up his work again in a month
or two, Rev. Robert Collyer. who re
tired as the active head of the Church
of the Messiah some time ago, will
attend the pastoral duties until DR.
Savage returns.
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'undle OF her working clothes that
me may be ready to go at once to
Pc home Of sonora, her potential mis-
Pess' and gracefully gesticulating
pairs or knots of the women of the
poorer classes on their way to or from
ehurch or market.
lhey are indeed wonderfully 1.-THE
end graceful in our eyes, these women
n the people with their slow-footed,
paJestic carriage, the carriage gained
N generations of carrying burdens on
Ple mead, and, alas! not to be initial
II. Each one is bareheaded as she
fhJoys her gossip, yet about the
'noulders bangles a scarf of lace or
fVen long strip of some light CLOTH
fernaps by and by she will take leave
her friends and saunter across the
Plaza to the dim. cool entrance of the
nurcn. pausing at its portals to ad-
''St the scarf into head covering
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German Ambassador popuIar.

Baron Speck Won Sternburg, Ger
man ambassador to this country, is
one of the most popular members of
the foreign set in Washington. He is
approachable, democratic and prob
ably knows more of American insti-
tutions than any other diplomat from
abroad. He is a constant visitor at
the White House and frequently ac-
companies the president on long walks
or horseback rides. The friendship
between President Roosevelt and
Baron Won Sternburg began years ago
when they were both young men and
holding humber positions in the SER
vice of their governments. Mr.. Roose-
welt was at that time member of the
civil service commission, while Won
Sternburg was an under secretary in
the German legation.
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Where Children Play.

If the plaza be situated in the dis.
tricts where the poorer classes pre-
dominate the lightly clad children dab
BILE, laughing, in the water of the toun-
tain, from which by and by the police.
man will benignly move them on Old
colored men and women doze lightly
on the benches beneath the trees
stately nurse in blue waist, white
skirt and scarlet embroidered shawl
passes with one or two charges on
their way to school. A bread pVddler
with his long, fiat loaves of the ex-
cellent Cuban bread piled high In his
wide, shallow basket and poised upon
his head the basket lined with scar
let wooden cloth, pauses to light
cigarette.
Across the dreamy stiffness of the
plaza comes the musical tinkle of the
bells on the harnes of team of
mules, or the creaking of the heavy
OK cart, as the great, velvety-eyed
beasts draw their burden slowly as
the snail draws his, all unhurried by
the perfunctory cracking of the dri~-
er's whip.
Sunday is a gala day in the plaza,
for then the men are free to enjoy 1t
as well. Here one sees the bootblack,
introduced by the Americans and
heartily welcomed by the Cubans, ply
ing his trade with deft brown fingers
and flashing teeth. Here fit members
of various religious orders in quantity
curious garb while from the church
one catches echoes of rolling organ
notes and perhaps the fash of vest
ments or a faint odor of incense.
Gay colors and light laughter, bril-
liant sunshine or wonderful whlte
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Gn

and pausing also on her exit to re.
move ii.
In the more pretentious plazas a
fountain softly tinkles and gay beds
OF scarlet and yellow blossoms make
rich contrast to the insistent green of
grass and palm and the almost UNI.
real blue of the sky, a blue so deep,
so rich that it reminds you of the
scenery of the opera on our northern
stage, and the picturesquely clad won.
en- and children might almost be the
happy villagers" whose gayety is
the direct result of climate which is
a spendthrift of sunshine.
The rural guard passing through the
plaza is not the least picturesque of
bsures. He is trim and natty in his
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-03-08
hermann Delays Arralanment.

Washington the criminal court
Saturday counsel for Representative
Binger Hermann of Oregon were CIV
en- permission to file demuTer to
the indictment against Mr.. Hermann,
charging him with destroying certain
official letters concerning the affairs
of the United States general land Of
fee. Arguments on the demurrer will
be heard March 16. The action taken
by Mr.. Hermann postponed his ar.
raignment, which was set for Satur-
day, until the demurrer is disposed OF.
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The German people subscribed be-
tween s10,o0O,0OO and s12,O00.000 for
new hospitals and other charitable
works in honor of the silver wedding
anniversary of Emperor William and
Empress Augusta Victoria, which was
marked Feb. 81 by the wedding of
Prince Eitel Fritz.
Their majesties announced several
months ago that they would not re.
ceive any presents from their sub
iects on the occasion of their silver
wedding. They urged all who con-
templated a wedding gift to give the
money to charitable enterprises.
The result was almost unparalleled
In German history. Municipalities.
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mercantile companies and private in
diyiduals poured out money for char
ity. AS a result 100 new hospitals or
extensions to new hospitals have been
dedicated.
The wedding of Prince Eitel Fritz
and the Duchess Sophie Charlotte of
Oldenburg was almost replica of
that of the crown prince and crown
princess last June. The Duchess
Sophie, as part of the pageant, enter
ed Berlin on the evening of Feb. 26,
proceeding through flower and ban
ner bedecked way to the castle,
where the emperor, surrounded by
his family and numerous German
princes, welcomed her.
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nu.s. of Mexican President.

prof Baldwin of Johns Hopkins
university, has just returned from
Mexico, where, at the request OF the
Mexican government, he has spent SIX
wears inspecting the educational sys.
fem of that country as guest OF
President DiaZ.
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Oldest True D. A. r.

Mrs Drusilla Hall Johnson, VINO
d,ed recently at Northampton, Mass
was believed to be the Oldest true
daughter of the revolution.
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Especial Correspondence

Il All roads in Cuba lead to the plaza,
j nublic square, and a town without
4 nlaza would be like an egg without
IN or beauty minus mirror.
nut then. no town Is without its
oza and most of them can boast
rs series. Each of the larger town
its municipal band, and upon at
ct one evening of each week 1t
u avs in the principal plaza. Then the
Uayo is a gala sight, worth going
&any mile 10 witness.
In is then that the houses, so jeal-
sly closed by day open wide their
bors and from them step sonora and
o senoritas, her daughters, all bend
To- their steps in the one direction,
HESS indeed, they belong to the
ealtbv classes and own carriage, or
rhaps hire one for the promenade"
it is called 1t is gay then, th,
x Iaza with its neat walks, where ,ne
34ectric lights twinkle a merry well
s hme where the fountains splash
s. bftly and the royal palms toss their
eornful heads in the cool breeze of
kening.
# The picture is pretty one, whether
he sees it from the slow and stately
Focession of open carriages moving
v bout the outside of the square, or
bins the throng sitting on the numer-
bs benches or promenading up and
Sbwn in gay knots upon the walks,
=[/&, LIB do, e,,1
liz shadows of huge, graceful palm
kaves.
# Be sure that the plaza is chaperon-
"a by church, graceful bulk now
eainst the dark blue velvet sky by
hy, a splendid pile of color, for it is
sually old, sometimes with history
j enturies long, and bears traces of
lind and weather on its soft-hued
rails.
's&l in Gala Attire.
8 The people reach the plaza early;
)38enor in his suit of immaculate white,
NTH his hair and boots shining beau.
fully and his cigarette alight; SEN
n a in the black, which was until
&sery recently the uniform of the Gu
Ian woman when she was afoot; seno-
"a TIA is a splendid splash of color. her
i Dry gown is of vivid pink, blue,
"a hauve or red, with perhaps general
reference in any gathering for pink,
be color of girlish dreams. She has
so abandoned her mantilla, save in
4 be country districts, or perhaps for
(: hurch wear; but she retains the rose
pir above the left ear. That flower
q indispensable, and poor indeed
Fould be the girl who could not afford
me at least for band night" One
n only guess at the coquettish care
&iven to the place of the vivid bios
Bther's house.
|2& One thing is strange here to Ameri
Ian eyes on these gala evenings, and
bat is the isolation of the sexes. One
ees the girls in brilliant groups, each
4ne a symphony of color, or walking
are no absorbed young couples
.4trolling together, unchaperoned and
And yet let no one i'm
%Aglne that no winged shafts of Cupid
IRE let loose tonight; for the eye Is
ELOQUENT in Cuba and the most demure
seporitas must sometimes lift hel
f 3wn from the ground.
4 laza in Daylight.
Nor is the plaza neglected by day
4ere sit or loiter many a picturesque
roup-old men past their work, gay
clad nurses with children, servant!
Faiting to be hired, each with a small
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moonlight, music and the fountains
tinlkle, the melody of ancient bells
the soft rush of breeze-flled palms
high above, make a series OF memo
ries of the Cuban plaza which linger
in the mind of him who has known
them for many day of absence
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'Iaza in Daylight.

Plaza in Daylight.
Nor is the plaza neglected by day
Here sit or loiter many picturesque
roup-old men past their work, gay
y clad nurses with children, servants
Taiting to be hired, each with small
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

olous and Ieetle too lively by the sisters in the
o Gnu VINO set out TO make life tte less Joy
took turns calling the house and asking for her
would call up as late as o'clock and express DIS
may when the minister explained rather rater!ngly
some old schoolfriends. It ended in the young
couple going away. for they couldn't stand this
Sometimes there are rather warm fights over
the phones when one subscriber 1t little too
on giving the crochet pattern OF a tidy over the
tSeiepnone, me woman az the other end requiring
her son 10 hold the receiver 10 her ear while she
crooheted according to directions The ether sub
the switchboard had-to in and call tie tidy on
Those two women were so mad that they threat
1t for just such things as that they had con-
scented 20 phone in the first place. OF course
but. far from resnting it. the other subscribers
run TO the instruments when they get wind that a
recipe Is In process of dctaton. and they all calm
Some smart Alexis who drove out from the
city and tried 10 buldoze a shrewd farmers wife
have the telephone thank for their failure They
that eggs had dropped Several cents that .Iav IN
the city. The woman was puzzled 10 know why.
for at that particular season OF the year eggs
no drug on the market. The smart AIecks Claimed
that they knew what they talking about Tor
just skipped into the house and telephoneS 10 a
large produce store and came back with the infor-
thew had gone up two cents So the sYnart f b p
10 pay a Itto extra for their trickeTy.
The custom OF the telephone companies OF call
ing up the subscribers every ng and giving
them the correct time is much appreciated by the
farmers wives FOR country clocks generally keep
ragtime The weather reports that are given to the
subscribers every day are much appreciated by
whether they'll make nip into town or not or
The social side of the teiepSSne iS Of OF cn @T
what appeals most to the women anyr I have hsar,i
time gassing at the phone. instead 81 dong her
work, But the .ife OF a farmers wife Is hard az
gradse their women folks whatevrr plea,ur. thsy
set out OF the talephoco."
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A LONG STEP FORWARD.

The laundry and the storeroons and the fncin-
orator. and so forth. will be In the hack OF the
basement: the front basement will be a kinder
Sarten or playroom for the children. And the
kindergarten. the courts. the entrances 70 the
buildings. the yards the roofs all are to be made
as attractive as possible. One defect of most big
tenement houses, even model ones is their bar
rackiike feeling. The architect of the Phipps
houses tried as far may be to avoid this
IL has not been decided exactly what rents
will be charged for the apartments Probably
the rents VIII range from about S12O to $500
year. IL was Mr. PhipDS's intention to have the
buildings earn about per cent on the original
cost-of course. after maintenance and repairs
are allowed for-but, owing to the expense OF
ton OF several features not planned at first, it
seems likely that they will hardly earn that
much. Whatever profit thew do bring in will be
applied to the building OF more model tenement
houses in the future
The 35th-st. group OF houses VIII be ready for
occupancy some time next winter. probably.
Sites for the two other groups to be erected with
chased; one is at 9th-ave and 2Oth-st the other
AT 64th-st. and West E,nd-ave A few years
should ses them all COMPLETED and If they are
managed as well as they built-and cODSid-
ertng that the board OF trustees includes such
names as Robert de Forest. Elgtn r. L Gould
Isidor Straus. John Phpps. Alfred T. White and
John Arbuclxle, they have a reasonable certainty
OF it-they will make shining spot in the his
tory of New-Yorks tenement houses.
After examining these houses carefully the re-
porter came 10 the conclusion that they consti-
tuted long step indeed from the old time tene-
ment house toward those perfect ones Of which
he had dreamed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25
FUNERAL FANCIES.
What Cndertakers Often Hare to
Contend With.

After the doctor and lawyer had told Of their
trials with cranky people the undertaken told his
tale Of woe. You fellows don't know what trouble
IS. he said IF you had TO buck Up against the
superstitons that I do you'd have a right to
talk. Most people think that our business is as
dead as X to be. but We have some right
lively times. I can tell you.
The white horse superstition is Of our great
est bugaboos- Again and again l have had people
refuse 10 go TO the grave because there happened
70 be pair OF white horses on one Of the car
riages. They said ii would mean that they would
die before a year out. now, when order
my carriages for funeral procession. always add.
And no white horses, please Then there are the
people who believe that If they ride IN the last
carriage they will be dead before the end OF the
year. and II the last carriage Is the proper place
for them according to their relation TO the de-
ceased person. there is end OF a row.
There are many persons who cling TO the old
fashioned superstition that the coffin must be
placed in the room that the head Will be toward
the west the corpse will be uneasy IN it's grave,
and IN small room II is not always easy 10 ar
range it So without blocking up doorway.
Some Italians insist that the body be taken out
OF the house IN the way that the person went
out last alive On occasions have even had 20
take out a window tear down a partition TO
crafty this within. observe this superstition, for
Of course heavy coffin cannot be taken of the
house with the with which live person walks
out.
Into the conn Of baby the italians pour guam
titles of bonbons. so that II will not be lonesome
its way to Heaven But that isn't circurn-
stance what people ask put into
the collins. ! often put in jewelry. pet pictures,
trtnkets OF all sorts letters addressed 10 one
who has died previously. revolvers the person
may shoot himself II he is perchance buried alive.
and even pitch pipes
Then there are the insanely cranky notions OF
seemingly intelligent people. One wouldn't let
me eunbalm his wife. for he said IL would be i'm
modest. sure that We removed all
the organs and sent them to medical college. so
she remained glued 20 the spot while we eubalmed
the body Of her One young husband refused
to look at the body Of his wife saying he had
promised her he wouldn't she had been beautiful
IN life and she didn't want him to think OF her as
anything but beautiful.
THE Italians have superstition OF whlch
strongly approve and that IS that the soul OF the
dead does not rest easy until the undertakers Dill
is maid An italian mother Will never go 10 the
funeral Of the first OF her children TO die our
7 do not know just the reason for IT, There IS al
ways a leader a sort of conductor az an Italian
funeral who rides in the first carriage ana sees
10 II that each attendant at the funeral pays %
cents for his ride. He also will not permit trot-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25

him. us there anything phlanthropic about
the management Of these tenements? These
kindergartens for the children in the easements.
now: who maintains those?"
Nothing at all phlanthropic.' said the old
gentleman. The builders put kindergarten
rooms in the Easements but the kindergartens
are kept by private teachers. who are glad to
hire the rooms: the parents are equally glad to
pay the teachers a trife for the sake of having
their children kept off the streets These houses
are all managed business principles; there
is patronage of the tenants. and as little in
reference with them may be: that is the
secret of the success of NETWORKS model ten
ements.''
The reporter watched the old gentleman walk
away Il WISH, he said 10 himself II had
asked him-nOw what IL I wanted to ask
him?' He put his hand TO his head; all at
he felt curiously bewildered He fancied
he heard music. Was 1t band playing in the
park? No, il mandolin, and-he couldn't
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-25
Agent for Farmers Telephone Company Declares
That His Experience Proves They Are.
and Very Much So. Al That

unsolved until few weeks later. when the stork
paid visit 10 the farmers house Then the fire.
quent wailng OF infant heard by other sub
scribers talking on the line. explained that these
people ad got their fun out of the telephone not
by talking themselves. but by hearing others talk
Funny thing happened IN a town where there
was q long string OF telephones. A woman at the
lower end of town telephoned her neighbor that a
mad dog was coming up the road toward the
neighbours house. and he declared he would kill
the beast before il could get further. But he
eager to hear the particulars that the dog got
past before ne was ready for IT, Accordingly, he
telephoned TO his next neighbOr where the same
thing happened. until IL had about every on
that entire line yelling mad dog the phone
and meanwhile the animal vanished utterly
"A young natron who lives a large farm
wanted her husband in a hurry day when the
baby became suddenly sick She had no one whom
he was working. But the boundary OF that past
happened L be close 10 her neighbor's
house Accordingly She telephoned the ne!ghbor.
who went out and delivered the message
In a town where the farmers accustomed
to market their berries for home consumption a
farmer had a large load to dispose OF Satur-
day He a little late Ia starting. however.
and was discouraged TO two OF his neighbors
the demand not great enough for both those
berries and his Then he suddenly thought OF
the telephone, which had been installed only the
day before IN his home. and within ten minutes he
the village at his leisure.
"A minister's wife in a gossipy humdrum viii
lage. rather suffered from the rural telephone I'm
afraid The minister was new, and this his
first parish. His wife was young. gay. fun-
loving person who liked TO go TO town . often as
possible Accordingly. she was put down ~ kyty-
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TO have II wasted on the cows and horses IN the
barn
The president Of a sewing circle found a
was too severe to hold the regular business meet
al subscribers. and the meeting was held the
phone each member holding a receiver 10 her car
and concurring dissenting suited her.
"One Of those pleasantly garrulous women con-
fessed TO that her husbands taciturnity had
always been thorn in her flesh. Those long.
silent evenings with him used TO drive ne nearly
wild she said. but I call up my daughter
Maria. the minister's wife. my nephew Tim,
and discuss all the OF the day. I up all
my telephone talk until after supper. I
make the evening pass pleasantly
THE practical ways IN which the farmers wives
the phone and trolley numberless. For IN
stance. last summer I called a thrifty housewife
who was preparing some cherries. She tele-
phoned 10 her daughter that she having them
picked, and II her daughter wanted 10 do her can
ming that day she'd send along a mess OF cherries
by the next trolley The daughter did, and put
her syrup TO boil at once For n nickel the
next trolley brought the cherries. and the
daughter had her canning all done before dinner.
In tiny town the wife, as usual decided
It not used Consequently the who
went out TO renew the contracts thought It hope
less TO ask these people TO But his propo-
sition TO take IL out met Indignantly Well
guess you don't take II out. said the farmers wife
We wouldn't know how 10 do without it Tho
contract renewed. but the mystery remained