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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
TURNING-CRADLE IN CUBA

" HE turning-cradle, attached to the
exterior walls of founding homes,
is q traditional and time-honored
institution in Cuba. The cradle Is so ar
ranged that If any one deposits an in
FAINT therein it revolves and is drawn
inside the founding establishment. and
thereafter those in charge of the institu-
ton take care of the babe until it is old
enough to become self-supporting. Inc
practice is recognized as so pre-eminently
proper that the action of policeman IN
Havana in arresting, a short time ago.
poor woman as she was one night placing
baby in the turning-cradle Of the Casa
de Beneflciencia. or house Of refuge, has
aroused the severe censure of several OF
the Havana newspapers.
The director of the house of refuge de-
nounced the arrest in unmeasured terms.
He pointed out that his institution had
been in existence since 11O4-that is. over
two hundred years-and during that
period only two arrests Of persons depos-
iting infants in the cradle had ever been
made He entered very fully into the his
tory of the custom, and carefully cited the
laws and precedents prevailing from the
earliest times. AS late as 1889 SPANS
royal decree, dated January q, expressly
regular constituted public authorities.
shall arrest any person conveying ex-
posed children. nor make any investlga-
ton whatever into the matter. The
parents of any founding who may later
desire to recover 1t may appear before
the proper judge. and upon proof that the
child is their offspring it is surrendered
into their keeping.
This Spanish legislation continues to be
the law of Cuba to this very day. 1t was
confirmed in 1900. during the first Ameri-
can military occupation. by an executive
order regulating the administrative fea-
lures of the old Spanish code.
According to the director of the Havana
house of refuge the turning-cradle Is a
highly beneficent institution for Cuba.
1t is. in his opinion. a most effective
enables the extremely destitute poor to
find places for the rearing and care or
children whom they might otherwise be
tempted to kill. The director would even
have the existing code SO modified that
poor mothers who, from whatever motive,
deposit their newborn offspring In turn
ing cradles shall themselves be admitted
into the founding asylums. SO that they
may take care of their own children.
AS already stated. only one other arrest
of a mother depositing her infant In
Cuban turning-cra has ever been made
within the last two hundred years. This
occurred during the Spanish regime, when
a policeman arrested a woman just as she
was placing her baby in a cradle. The
judge before whom the case was heard
Immediately ordered the woman set free,
and imposed upon the policeman a sem
tence Of six months Imprisonment, be-
sides dishonorable dismissal from the
police force. on account of his ignorance
Of the law and of it's proper observance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05
IDA Hustled HARPER SAYS
AMSTERDAM IS IDEAL

appearance they look exactly like thou
sands OF persons one sees in New York
or perhaps one should say the New York
ers look like the Dutch, and maybe they
are Dutch. We have often sat in the
street cars and wondered whether GER
tain men and women were Dutch or
American, until we heard them speak
No other city seems so little foreign" to
u.s.. The food Is about the same as ours
and is prepared and served in much the
same way, while the hours for meals are
the same. We could, indeed, feel much
at home here IL 1t were not for that
greatest OF all barriers-a difference OF
language. One Danish lady said: This
spring, when I decided to come to the
congress in Holland. 1 intended to learn
to speak Dutch. but couldn't find time"
A Finnish lady was reading all the signs
and speaking enough to make her way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05
The "Cockney Dialect"
From Lloyd's News.

What has come to be known as the
"Cockney dialect" is not, perhaps, alto
gether beautiful as form of speech
from the point of view of the scholar. but
1t has its merits. 1t is racy, and 1t Is
frequently expressive even if it is some
times independent of the rules of correct
pronunciation as laid down in books. II
is apparently rooted among the people
and forty years of school boards have not
served to make any evident change
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-05

INTERNATIONAL Wom-
L cps Suffrage Congress a
Great SUGGESTIVE Burgo-
master and the Queen-Am-
sterdam a City of American
Ideals-The Dutch Laws for
Women-London Gets Next
Congress - English Women
and the Suffrage Movement.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
FULLY NoUR1SHED.

Grape-Nuts Perfectly Balanced Food.
No chemists analysis of Grape-Nuts
can begin to show the real value of
the food-the practical value as shown
by personal experience.
II is a food that is perfectly balanc-
ed, supplies the needed elements of
brain and nerves in all stages of life
from the infant through the strenuous
times of active middle life, and is a
comfort and support in old age
For two years / have used Grape
Nuts with milk and little cream for
breakfast. l am comfortably hungry
for my dinner at noon
Il use little meat, plenty of veSe-
tables and fruit. in season. for the
noon meal. and if tired at tea time.
tske Grape-Nuts alone and feel per-
fecly nourished.
Nerve and brain power, and mem
DRY are much improved since using
Grape-Nuts. | am over sixty and
weigh los lbs. My son and husband
seeing how | had improved, are now
using Grape-Nuts.
Ny son, who is a travelling man
eats nothing for breakfast but Crane
Nuts and a glass of milk. An aunt
over 40. seems fully nourished on
Grape-Nuts and cream" There's
Reason
Name given by Postum Co. Rattle
creek, Mich. Read THE Road to
Wellville" in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? a new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
interest.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
GRAND RIDGE
Special to The JournaI.

Grand Ridge, Fla, June 25-Fine
rains have recently fallen and crops of
all kinds are growing nicely. Corn is
an assured crop, there being sufficient
moisture in the ground to mature all
early planting. Sugar cane is doing
splendidly. The Cohassett Syrup Co,
has small field of third year stubble
that is tn fourth crop from one plant
ing, and though it was not their inten-
ton TO leave it, and it has been neg
lected until within the past seek. vet
the stand is fair and with fertilizer il
will be a fair crop.
Water melons are moving quite act
lively though the real rush it not vet
started. Twenty-Five cars have been
shipped, most of which are sold on the
track and go to Pittsburg, Pa. and
several OF the finest cars ever shipped
from this station have been sent for
ward this season.
Dr. NJ. Cassett and family have NOV
ed to Jacksonville, leaving the large
hotel in charge of Robert Johns. This
place now offers a good chance for a
young doctor.
Mr. and Mrs w ]. Singletorv are
attending wedding in Tallahassee
the bride being a niece of Mr.. Single
tary.
Mrs. Newton has returned from her
visit with friends in Georgia.
Our new long side track is now fill
ed with empty melon cars. and this *
improvement over former
years, and its utility and the fact of
buyers coming 70 buy from the farm
ers will result in greatly Increasing
The growth OF melons in the future
With melons for a midsummer cron
and sugar cane and syrup for A win
Ter crop, with plenty of hay and corn
meat and milk and fruits and vege-
-aoles, this section is prospecting as |
we'll as the best and ours is a nanny
Ind contented people.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
r.-ARINE NEWS.
VESSELS I'M PORT.
Steam chine

Northcliffe, Br. S., Bufmer, 1855,
St. Vincent to J. H. Christie.
Sigurd. Nor SIS, Onward, 1899. Bridge
tONn to master.
Dora, Ger. IS, Hansen, 1873, Vera
Cruz to German-American Co.
Cayo Manzanillo, Br S., Rudder.
277S. Port Inglis, en- route to London.
to John A Merritt & Co
Harold. Ger, S., Jorsenson. 1892. Belize
to Gulf Transit Co,
Mascanomo, Chisholm, 273S Port Arthur
TO John a. Merritt, enroute to Hamburg
llmenan, Ger SIS, krause, 1649 Gulf
port TO Brown & Co
oaxaco, Mexican S., Ybereta, 1857. New
Orleans to John A Merritt in transit.
Aug. Bemont, Br. S., Clarke, 1857, Dun
kirk to Guf Transit Co.
Clara, Aust. S., Descovich. 2541. PhiIa-
delphia to Gulf Transit Co.
z. o. Saltmarsh, Br- IS, Rogers, 2317,
Tampa to Gulf Transit Co.
Cayman, Br. IS, Bodden. 81, Grand
Cayman to order
John Bright Rr. S., Lewis, 1924, New
Basuta- Br IS. Thomson. 1899. Savan-
nah to Southern States Lumber Co.
Mui td Br N ss; Boyle 1856 Las Pal
Val SaliCe: ItaL IS, Costa. 1888, Savona
Regina, German SIS, Iceberg, Port Ar
Ships
Torridon, italian ship, Conpadoncia.
1897 Dublin 10 or ser,s
Edderson, Nor blk, Larsen, 1906,
Port Elizabeth to order
Ketty, Nor. blk. Hansen, 1859, Newcas-
tie on Tyne to master
Solheim. Nor blk. Hansen. 917. Punta
Arenas Chile TO NICK Oerting & Co
Maren, Nor. bark, Olsen, 1898, Monte
Vedio to master
Gesso, Italian bark. Leboffe. 9SS. Con-
rakry to W L. Witch & Co.
Fiola, Ital blk. PaIazzo S76, MarseiIles
to Pensacola Lumber Co.
Alexander Black. Br. bktn., Mobile to
master.
Rom, Ger. blk. Strack, 1858. Mobile to
master.
SchoonerS
Donna Christina. Am. sch, Mcleod
IES RaIiZA 10 master.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
HARBOR, RIVER
AND MARINE
NEWS
Shipping Transactions and
Notes of Interest Along
The Bay Front.

The schooner Mamie c. Bahlin,
which entered yesterday from King
ston. is owned in ApaIachicola. The
schooner is to load a cargo of lumber
here for Cuba.
The schooners Norwich, Katharine
B. and Frances Ann entered Yesterday
with cargoes of naval stores, and are
at Baylen street wharf loading return
cargoes.
The steamers Belle. Fritz and Eu-
gene left port yesterday morning, all
having heavy cargOes.
The fishing schooner Kwasind, of
the fleet of Saunders & Co, entered
yesterday from the fishing banks with
10000 pounds of Snappers.
The auxiliary yacht Santa Rosa
which was constructed at the navy
yard for the engineering department
of the army came up to the city yes
terday and moored at Baylen street
wharf. The vessel is handsome
one, and is fitted in a most comfort
able manner.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
More About Crasoe.

Robinson Crusoe had just discovered
human footprints on his island
He followed them up.
They led him to a knoll overlooking
the sea on which somebody had put up
billboard with this inscription paint
ed upon it:
Use Bunk's Pills
For AL Liver Troubles.
Is Cents a Bottle
Owing to the avarice and greed Of
the publishers. however. who refused
to incorporate this incident in the story
unless paid regular advertising rates. it
was omitted and the book went to
press in the garbIed and incomplete
form with which the reading public is
familiar.-Chicag Tribune
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
,s,rk of a Burmese Bud.

rns+.,d of coming out party as we
r. :, the Burmese girls entrance
into society begins when she has her
-. e.,rsd. As soon after this as she
faoIs t.S,ned she selects a husband
ond - 10 live in a home Of her own
Tba e.. Is provided by the man, but
II baoo,,ss bis wife's as soon as they
are m.-red. All women, young and
ola o. addicted to the use of tobacco.
Ths a.o,,su seem 10 prefer the very
I.-oo -. mack cigar. Often one meets
. Tomn, % the streets of a village
w,th 80. n these huge cigars in her
mouth and Two or three more stuck in
the holes Of each ear
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
Arrived.

Arrived.
Mamie C. Bohlin. Am. sch, 81.
Kingston to J. A Merritt & Co.
Cleared.
E o. Saltmarsh, Br. SIS. Rogers.
1869, for Liverpool, with 1853 bales
cotton, 964 hhds leaf tobaccot "a. 600
lbs wood handles, $4,000 lbs shuttle
blocks, go pigs copper. 1910 bbIs
rosin, 1872 900 # lumber, 500 tons
coal, valued at sal. 952.
Northcliffe, Br SIS. Bulmer. 1885.
for Mobile, with 4S.1S4 it hewn tim
bel
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26

suRscR,sE FOR The JOURNAL
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
The Bio Head

Donna Christina. Am. sch, Mcleod,
l6S, Belize to master.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26

is >of two kinds-conceit and the big
head that comes from a sick head
ache. Does your head ever feel like
gourd and your brain feel loose
and sore? You can cure it in no
time by acting on your liver with
Billiards. Herbin7. Isn't It worth try
ing for the absolute and certain re-
Nec you'll get?
Sold and recommended by W. A
D'Alemberte. druggist and apothecary,
121 South Palafox street, Pensacola,
Fla.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-06-26
The Way It's Dr.. u

SheI see women of the
coast IN Africa lengthen thai- so.y
by wearing iron rings hecks
He-Gooi gracioun, Cant +bo
1t by looking over the fence - 90
what their neishbors have ONT see
ing on the lines on wash dayEYns
kers Statesman on
The Brandon news., 1908-01-30

Every article in our mammoth store vii
that ever happened in this country. w,
OF the wholesale cost price and aside fir
many things at less than half the manu-
ACCOUNT OF the great money strngency
Will be worth two hundred cents on the
guarantee every article that we sell. VI
The Brandon news., 1908-01-30

In this department very much overstoeked and
must let them go regardless of the price:
75c Mems Black Coored Hats, sale
$3.50 Mems Black Colored Hats, sale pce-------89C
So and S. % Mems Black Coored Hats sale
So and $3.50 Mems Black Coored Hats sale price 88
Boys and Chldren's Hats from 23c up.
All Trunks Suit Cases and Hand Bags also going to
get the knife cut them these during days they travel
out of our house.
beautiful line of Rugs, all sizes and patterns, will be
sold at unheard-of prices-we must clean them up.
Just received the largest and most beautiful line of En-
broidees in the State in Lawns Hamburgs and Swse
will also include in this great Sale at unheard-of prices
Don't fail to take day off and visit this Sale, for
promise you that this Sale will discount sale that has
given in this StaeThe chance of century buy goods
at the prices going to offer them for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06

the question Of GATHERINGS responsibility SNs
has no doubt whatsoever. In one OF ner DeS
passages she presents the feeble mindeo ki"5
as Welding little by little to his mother I'M
pIacahe will and at last completely succuiiiO-
ing. We must quote part of this narrative
He still vavered but fatigue was teiilng upIh
him. he was almost at the end OF MS ~ ,be
turning AWAY from his mother. ne aSNeu VI
ether Councillors for their opinion Ihey 49,
only fndorse hers. The HuguepOts were - -. -
Nv Conspiring they asserted; the danger NJ, 10 1.
SOLE vas Imminent. Then his nerves hnaIS s@s
wav- his Pickering reason yielded i ne ~ ..D ~.
FRENZY his mother had made for came dui a.
Ia mort Diem" he shouted. since you choose ~
LIN the Admiral, I consent! But then you NUS.
also kill all the HuguenOtS in France so lhdt ~"
enc shall be left to reprOach me after ~ Is uone-
with a violent movement. he wheeled Tound upon
Catherine: You have willed it-WelL theh, 81
them ALI kill them aIlt' he cried The roam WI
1Don his Iips-he practically out OF MS
Tftteriug blasphemy. he went away from -. .tle
room. t.and going ont furiOuSly, says AnJOu, ne
left us behind in his closet, where we heid dtDats
for the rest of the day and for good part OF tne
night" The King now fanatic f0r Ihtir
ca7se IF till this hour it had been hard 70
persuade him, difficulty was now 10 Restrain
him." wrote his brother
IT was in the irony of things that while she
gained her purpose the history Of France was
not to be written as she wished This woman
who was ready to steep her hands in any crime
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06

for the sake of her children could not in the
long run save them from disaster. The note or
retribution is struck with curious plangency in
that murder of the Due de Guise with which
her son destroyed the fabric she had labored 50
hard to strengthen. In it she saw foreshadOwed
the triumph of Henri Quatre- Miss Sichel
Celebrates her work with full appreciation Of
the futility Of GATHERINGS shortsighted policy
In other words. she not only portrays the Queen
Mother for her sake, but places her in a
perspective embracing the whole trend Of six
teenth century France. Her book is valuable
no less as picture of period than study
OF a great personality. 1t is also worth read
ing for it's pages on divers important actors in
the old drama, notably Coligny.
Louise de la Valiere occupies a peculiar posi-
ton in French social history. She was kings
favorite and as such is, of course, to be looked
at askance But she differed from most women
of her kind inasmuch as she seems to have fol-
lowed her dubious career with a chiIdlike good
faith giving to Louis XIV an affection abso-
Iutely spontaneous and disinterested. This
fact, taken together with her genuine repent
ance. has always inclined the modern historian
to treat her with a certain compassion. NJ.
Jules Lair has no stone to throw at this young
beauty. He does not attempt to whitewash her
character, but neither. on the other hand. does
he shut his eyes to the undeniably fine traits
that she possessed If all the records are to be
believed, it is true that she had an exquisite
nature No less a person than Nine de Sc
yignt, writing of her on the occasion of her
profession of religious VOWS, says: She did
that-the beautiful. brave creature!-as nobly
and charrningly as she had done everything. all
her life through"
Her tender heart betrayed her. When the
King fell in love with her she fell genuinely IN
love with him, and she certainly shines by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06

French Reformation" we expressed warm ap-
probation of her judicial way of writing his
tory, and added the hope that she would not long
delay the completion of her portrait If she
has kept US waiting unduly for her second vol
ume she has at all events used her time to good
purpose. Her study of GATHERINGS later years
not only has the virtues of its predecessor, but
is perhaps little better written. The author
touch is even surer than it was and her MARIA
tive has a truer balance. Protesting that she
can make no claim to figure as IAN expert his
torian" she nevertheless gives analysis
of her sinister heroine which in vividness and
truth could hardly have been achieved by a
writer of the purely documentary" school. She
is as discerning as she is just. Catherine, after
all though something of a fiend, was also q
woman. and Miss Sichel never forgets her es-
sentaly human traits In one respect. to be
sure she is fain to admit that the woman who
ruled France for SO Icing was totally unrepre-
sentative of her Sex. AN enigma she remains.
this historian observes, because woman with
out a heart is enigmatic.''
The Venetian Ambassador at the French
court in GATHERINGS time uttered wise word
on her character ''AH her aCtions." he said.
have ever been ruled and guided by a most
powerful desire-the desire to reign" The fates
were unkind. They compelled her to her
power from behind the throne rather than from
the throne itself But at least she had the
power and in this volume we are shown with
what deadly persistence she used it. When
once she had made up her mind to achieve a
point she pursued it with a cold, almost IN
canny passion. She was resolved that the
French kingdom should be made secure, and
to that end she would stop at nothing. Hence
S.. Bartholomew 5 Eve. Miss Sichel, as noted
in reviewing her first volume has a lively sense
of drama. 1t comes out in her description Of
the terrible massacre and its prelimnaries. On
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06
ROMANTTC HISTORY.
Some Famous Figures an France
Italy and England

THE LATER YEARS OF CATHERINE DE
AJEDTtI Nv Edith SichcI. illustrated SVo'
np tx AS E. p. Dutton & Co
TOIIISE DE LA VALERIE AND THE E tatLd
LIFE OF LOUIS XIV. From unpu99hssLeu
documentS BY Jules Lair. Tran sIateH t ,
the fourth French edition by Ethel CoipuT ~ n
Mavne Illustrated. Svo PIP. XIII AL u I
PutnamS Sons
COURTS AND CAMPS OF THE ITALIAN
~ PEN AISSANCE Being a Mirror of the Lire
and Times of the Ideal Gentleman man, c fron9
His own Letters and Other Contemporary
sources to Which Is Added an EPlto me- u
His Famous Work. The Book of the court
Ter" with Appropriations and AnnotatlonS
BY Christopher Hare illustrated oV'' PIP
GREAT RALEIGH By Hugh de Seincourt IL
Illustrated Svo DIP. xiii, $40 G. z. Putnam
Sons.
Three wears ago. when Miss Sichel pubHsheo
her volume on Catherine de Medfci and the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06
Joy AND PLEASURE.
BY W. II. DAVIES.

".
Now Joy is born OF parents poor.
And Pleasure of our richer klhd
Though Pleasures free, she cannot sing
AS sweet a song as Joy confined.
Pleasures a Moth. that sleeps by DAY
And dances by false glare at night;
But joys a Butterfly, that loves
To spread it's wings in Natures hght-
Joys like Bee that gently sucks
Away on blossoms his sweet hour;
But Pleasures like a greedy Wasp,
That plums and cherries would deVour'
JOYS like a Lark that lives alone.
Whose ties are very strong, though FEW;
But Pleasure like a Cuckoo roams,
Makes much acquaintance. no frlenos true
Joy from her heart, doth sing at home,
With little care if others hear;
But Pleasure then is cold and dumb.
And sings and laughs with strangers near