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STREET SCENES IN HAVANA. e Picturesque and Unique Views in Out-of-the Way Nooks. You are taken ashore from the ship at Havana by rowboats hooded with canvas against the sun, and the sturdy boatmen give the visitor the first im pression of the real Cubans. They are an admixture of African and In dian and Spaniard, with the blood of the African very evidently supreme among the lower classes. There is a frowzy crew of hackmen and hotel runners bawling out an almost unin telligible Spanish patois at the landing as your welcome to "the pearl of the Antilles," and the Cuban cochero im presses your American nationality upon you at once. Like other cabmen the world over he considers the Ameri can as his legitimate prey, and while Cubans pay one price, and foreigners in general a figure one-third higher, the proverbially wealthy American must pay two-thirds more, as a gen eral thing, unless he be an adept at parrying an overcharge. Havan' is dilapidated and pictur esque, and the traveler will find as much of the bizarre and unique in a stroll up the Prado and about the lesser streets as he has perhaps ever en countered in a like distance anywhere. To me the most interesting hour in the day in one of those antique towns is in the very early morning, when the place is just getting awake and the hucksters are coming in. These country people arrive in all sorts of ways for the daily market. One group comes afoot, with tremend ously heavy loads of fruits and vege tables carelessly balanced on their heads or swung on their backs. Here is a swarthy fellow leading a horse bearing capacious reeded panniers of fruits and stalks of sugar-cane, which latter is a favorite natural confection B NATIVE WATEhR.CAj3~fl* with the masses, for a copper will buy a long stick of it. The fruitse are mostly new to any one not tropi.o traveled, and the familiar-looking bananas are tucked in with sapotes, mamayes, aguacates, chabacanos, mangoes, and a great variety of other products rarely ever seen outside those latitudes. This fellow will soon be ashoutingouthis stook with loud-lunged persistency about the streets and into the patios of the houses, and will then sleep and amoke away the rest of the day. Lumbering wains come straining hnto town, drawn by heavy-necked yokes with restraining nose-hitches. A four-team of these oattle and their great eart will alone blook the average side-street, so thle country ox-carts i rarely get very far into town. When I two of them meet there is an ably i eonduoted debate on road rights and E aconsiderable native profanity. An am bulating haystack adds a picturesque j touach to the scene and a breath from z the fields. As the diminitive horse t ander the load swings down the way c 000 It -~ rP 1AM T A - &ina "y.LA - ow-of hth { bI: T is.4 uo~ugii The Cubans are like every other Spanish-tinctured nationality in their utter indifference to time. Theirs is a land of manana indeed, and almost nothing can ever hurry them. Over in the railroad yards the crews can sometimes be seen switching the trains back and forth by yokes of oxen, while the locomotive engine stands idly by, and the engineer and firemen smoke cigarettes in the cab. I. / A NATIVE FBUIT-SELLER IN HAVANA. V n Hours are consumed by this and like i - leisure and primitive pursuits, but no i one is so foolish as to heat his blood I by raving over the delay, as do those 6 nervons Americanos from the North. z ( abi ~P I- ~J 1Cq~i[-I;YY$ lASt N6 I a te he iet = Id 3 J_ \ 1W0 PP P - vi A HAVANA HUCKSTER. "How many cows there are about the streets!". somebody exclaims, and then he is calmly informed that the morning's milk is simply being deliv ered. A bunch of cattle and their driver stop before a house, and the portero comes out with a cup for the morning's supply. It is seen then that the cows are being milked from door to door by the dairymen, for this. SIs the way the saute Cauban honeewives have taken to assure for their tables a leeteal supply which is entirely fresh sad absolutely pare. Otherwise, the Pe4O~ fngrvender might dilute& the milk before "deli eing it to hias ss. t eiers, -and, craftily stir into the watery fui4 the juice of the sweet 1 p to sto Uio t up to 4a tu d, ·: · -;i. 2'. ·· : - ·i creamy cast. Even with the cows milked before the door one must con tinue to watch the milkman, for I have even heard of their haring a rubber bag of water concealed under their loose frocks and connected with a rub ber tube running down the inside of the sleeve, its tip being concealed in the hollow of the milking-hand. Only a gentle pressure upon the bag of water within is needed to thus cause both milk and water to flow into the cup at the same time. The milk-venders of Italy and India have also learned their trade to perfection, for they practise this identical trick. Havana has many quiet nooks and corners which escape the American visitors. The walk from the Prado to the little park of the Punts takes hardly more than a minute, yet this spot remains unknown to many. The Cathedral of Columbus may be approched from it either by a walk along the parapets, on the water front, or by strolling through one of the nar row streets lined with substantial warehouses. Following the quay there is the view of Cabana fortress across the bay, and of the masts and rigging of the ships in the harbor. Commerce had not yet spread its wings, and the shipping is not exten sive. A pleasanter walk is through Cuba street, with glimpses into the barracks of the Spanish soldiers and chance views of the home life of the people who dwell in their stores and shops. Seeing the soldiers in the barracks one is tempted to ask if they are ever clean. And of the dwellers in Havana houses the question will recur a thousand times: How can they help feeling themselves prison ers behind those massive doors ai 'd grated windows? It is better to come to the Cathe dral this way than to take a cab and drive directly from the hotel. Com. ing in a cab the two towers stand out just like the towers of innumerable other cathedrals, and the crumbling gray stones are as other time-eaten monuments. But coming upon the Cathedral out of some byway unex pectedly, the whole panorama of its history may sweep across the mental vision in a flash. As for the sacred bones of Columbus, they are by com 4 POULTRY VENDER. mon report gone. They might have been removed openly with the consent of the United States Government it it had been asked. The ceremony would have been of historio interest, but the painfal reflections to which it would have given rise may exacuse Captain-General Blanco for the mys tory with which the removal of those ashes was aooomplished. Santo Do mingo can henceforth dispute with 4 Madrid instead of with HBavana the 1 genuinheness of the ashes. The Cathedral will lose none of its attractiveness if the disputed ashes are no longer in the urn (,r under the slab which was suppos-d to cover them, And good poetr and' good 'epitaph wiiting will belthe gainers z that 'the tomb of Columbus is no a longer sibject to the niitijtio ' 1. )ws Oh, rest thou, Image of the great CaQIonl - Thousand centuries remain, guarded in the urn, ave .nd in remembrance of our nation! beIr Don Jose Garcia de Arboleya, a eir 6learned Spaniard who wrote a histori b; cal and descriptive manual of Cubn o half a century ago, pathetically asked in whore the muses were when these ly lines were inscribed. He received ne ter er answer. lth at SiHIOOTING KLONDIKE RAPIDS. of 1any Dangers Presented Even to the eir Water Traveler. s There are dangers en route to the Kd Ilondike, even when the water route n is followed. The river steamer, in o shooting' the dangerous White Horse es rapids a.id Miles Canyon on its way ,s from Lake Bennett to Dawson, goes through many difficulties. On enter e ing the canyon with its huge wall-like Ik sides, there is an abrupt turn, and it t is most dificult to prevent the steam Irt, r dashing against the rocks as the r- turn is made. The illustration rep Sresents the steamer Goddard on her way to Dawson City. She just grazed her side against the sheer rugged cliffs - - 4~-7 ~~K r-J SHOOTING THE WHITE HORSE RAPIDS. as she entered, but the captain brought her round in a straight line with the can yon, and no damage resulted. The engines were kept at full speed to give her steerage way, and as she tore down the river the excitement was intense. After fifteen minutes of suspense, during which five miles of 1 swift water was traversed, the steam er took her last leap in the foaming White Horse, and entered the lower branches of the Sixty Mile. Then on she went through Lake Lebarge to the Pelly River. Though the waters were unknown, and the rocks and sandbars not shown an any chart, the captain, with an apparently instine tive knowledge and with consungmate judgment, cleared every obstacle, not ing each treacherous place for use in future trips. a Wilhelmina is to Wed. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is to marry her cousin, Prince William of Wied. It is a love match, and, while it does not particularly please the s courtiers and royal match-makers, who wanted the young Queen to wed some monarch or heir apparent, the gentle Wilhelmina is happy. h Prince William of Wied is the h second son of Prince William Adolphas Maximilian Charles, whose I famiy domain is at Neuweid, Rhenish Ppussj*, IS x. UBU ts al ad Ii WILLIAM OF WInD, He was born March 26, 1878, and is therefore in his twenty-third year. As Prince of Wied he would have attracted little attention in European court cir cles; as the consort of Queen Wilhelm. ina he will be the first gentlemanin the kingdom of Holland. Only the Queen herself will takeprecedence of him, and his place will be beside her at all oourt and other official ceremonies. Hewill' Dl share her income, and his children .will inherit her throne. In a word he will occupy in Holland the same posi tion that Prince Albe: .ocoupied in England as consort to Queen Victoria. Politeness. "Pausing the other day at a push eart standing by the sidewalk to buy an apple,' said Mr. Nobbleton, "I dropped a niokel, which fell between the curb and the wheel of the cart, an inonrveaient place from which to re m. cover it. As Istooped toplok it up, the veador said: 'Don't,' and hapdedme a nickel from his own pocket. He would pick it up."-New York Sun. 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With idle curiosity he stopped to look at them. Seeing him, and thinking that the rustic might afford them some amuse. ment while waiting, the strangers call ed him in and asked him to dine with them. Burns readily accepted the in vitation and proved a merry, entertain ing guest. When dinner was nearly finished the strangers suggested that each should try his hand at verse mak ing, and that the one who failed to write a rhyme should pay for the din ner. They felt secure in their chal lenge, believing that their rustic guest would pay for the meal. The rhymes were read and Burns read the follow ing: "I, Johnny Peep, saw two sheep: two sheep saw me. Half a crown apiece will pay for their fleece, and I, Johnny Peep, go free." The strangers' aston ishment was great, and they both ex- i" claimed: "Who are you? You must be Robbie Burns." The Savage Bachelor. "They say," said the scientiflq boarder, "that microbes are the cause of baldness." 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