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Show ) (Special roads in Cuba lead to the plaza, town without public square, and a an egg without plaza would be llkq a mirror. dt, or beauty minus is without town no its But, then, can boast llZa and most of them Each of the larger, town a series. is its municipal band, and upon at ist one evening of each week it Then the ds in the principal plaza. va is a gala sight, worth going witness, '.i.iy a mile !t is then that the houses, so Joal-is- 'j dosed by day, open wido their )or"s and from them step senora and V eenoritas, her daughters, all bend-- g their steps in the one direction, less, Indeed, they belong to the altby classes and own a carriage, or rhaps hire one for the promenade, it is gay then, thj it is called, neat Its walks, where toe with iza, ctric lights twinkle a merry wel-mwhere the fountains splash iftly and the royal palms toss their ornful heads in the cool breece of 3 e, pretty one, whether le sees it from the slow and stately ocessioh of open carriages moving of the square, or jout the us the throng sitting on the numer is benches or promenading up and wn in gay knots upon the walks, here the lights cast wonderful wav-The picture is a e ii g shadow s of huge, graceful uvea. palm sure that the plaza is chaperon- - Be by a church, a graceful bulk now :alnst the dark blue velvet sky by iy, a jjplendid pile of color, for it is mally old, sometimes with a history nturies long, and bears traces of weather on its ind and alls. soft-hue- d in Gala Attire.' The people reach the plaza early; cnor in his suit of immaculate white, ith his hair and boots shining beau fully and his cigarette alight; sen-- a in the black, which was until II 'ry recently the uniform of the Cu-i- n woman when she was afoot; seno-- a is a splendid splash of color, her iry gown is of vivid pink, blue, auve or red, w ith perhaps a general reference In any gathering for pink, le color of girlish dreams. She has o abandoned her mantilla, save in ie country districts, or perhaps for aurch wear; but sho retains the rose carnation set high in her dusky air above the left ear. That flower indispensable, and poor indeed ould be the girl who could not afford ae at least for band night. One an only guess at the coquettish care ven to the place of the vivid blos-aere senorlta is ready to leave her ithprs house. One thing is strange here to Ameri-a- n eyes on these gala evenings, and iat Is the isolation of the sexes. One aes the girls in brilliant groups, each ne a symphony of color, or walking murely by the side of a duenna, but lere are no absorbed young couples trolling together, unchaperoned and e nnoticed. And yet let no one that no winged shafts of Cupid re let loose for the eye Is loquent in Cuba and the most demure if aeaoritas must sometimes lift her n from the ground. m Ira-cin- iaza in Daylight. Nor la the plaza neglected by day. re sit or loiter many a picturesque ioup old men past their work, gay-clad nurses with children, servants aiting to be hired, each with a small A Number of People v . ? ) 5 if Ir'' t j A '' 'V-- , - . . 4 Acoita 8trset, of her working clothes that way be ready to go at once to home of senora, her potential mis- and gracefully gesticulating or knots of tho women of the rer classes on their way to or from rch or market. hey are Indeed wonderfully lithe graceful In our eyes, these women be people with their Stic carriage, the carriage gained fenerations of earning burdens on head, and, alas! not to be lmltat Each one la bareheaded a the ya her gossip, yet about the alders dangles a scarf of lace or a a long atrip of some light cloth. hpa by and by aha will take leave er Mend and aa un ter across the to the dim, cool entrance of the fch, pausing at Ita portals to ad- th rf into a head covering 1I slow-foote- broken rail two miles west of Sedan caused the switch engine to leave the track just as they crossed a trestle. The Big Horn railroad company has awarded contracts for grading 100 miles from Worland to Muskrat, Wyo, and B. II. Nlcholls, a forty-nine- r a member of Nevadas first legislative body. Is dead at his home In Kanka. kee. 111. L. M. Fox, an engineer In charge o , the Kallspel, Mont., yard engine, was killed while hauling a string of empty A cars from Kallspel to Marlon. Joseph Collins, foreman of a crew Pass on the at the U. C. Camp .Western Pacific railway, was killed' February 28 by a powder explosion. The body of an unknown man was found beside the railroad track att Porters spur, three miles south of Napavlne, Wash. The head was severed from the body. Twenty-twsticks of dynamite exploded on John McClures farm near Tacoma, scattering the bodies of twq Japanese a hundred feet. They were thawing the dynamite In an oven. Meridian, Miss. A tornado, accompanied by a heavy rainstorm, struck! arid pausing also on her exit to rethis city at 6:30 on Friday, and as a move It. result a number of people are dead In the more pretentious plazas s and scores are Injured. fountain softly tinkles and gay beds of scarlet and yellow blossoms make The storm center was In the south-- ' rich contrast to the insistent green of era portion of the city, am pnrtlcu-- ' grass and palm and the almost unlarly heavy along Front street, one real blue of the sky, a blue so deep, of the principal business streets of so rich that it reminds you of the the towrn. Nearly every house . on scenery of the opera on our northern The Front street was demolished. Z Ptlnt. i Itfl Crlok t'yt k Ilium stage, and the picturesquely clad wom9 lutfjf Armour Packing companys plant Is en and children might almost be the The German people subscribed be- mercantile companies and private in- the only building left standing, and "happy villagers," whose guety Is the direct result of climate which is tween 110,000,000 and 112,000,000 for dividuals poured out money for char- the roof of that Is gone. Fire broke new hospitals and other charitable ity. As a result 100 new hospitals or out in the ruins and, despite Jhe a spendthrift of sunshine. The rural guard passing through the works In honor of the allver wedding extensions to new hospitals have been heavy rain, the flames burned flercoly. plaza is not the least picturesque of anniversary of Emperor William and dedicated. A numberof bodies are reported to The wedding of Prince Eltel Fritz figures. He is trim and natty In his Empress Augusta Victoria, which was In the ruins. The city la in total marked Feb. 27 by the wedding of and the Duchess 'Sophie Charlotte of be the electric light plant havPrince Eltel Fritz. Oldenburg was almost a replica of darkness, Their majesties announced several that of the crown prince and crown ing been badly damaged. The tornado months ago that they would, not re- princess last Juno. The Duchess did severe damnge at other points ceive any presents from their sub- Sophie, as part of the pageant, enter- adjacent to Meridian, and all trains jects on the occasion of their silver ed Berlin on the evening of Feb. 26, entering Meridian are delayed. wedding. They urged all who con- proceeding through a flower and banA conservative estimate places the templated a wedding gift to give the ner bedecked way to the castle, number of buildings blow n down at 5? . where the emperor, surrounded by money to charitable enterprises. heav- 1 The result was almost unparalleled his family and numerous German between thirty and forty. The An. effort is being made by the cit& Neville are losers the lest Meyer In German history. Municipalities, princes, welcomed her. of Saratoga, Wyo., to securd izens Hardware company, Tom Lyle & Co., at Saratoga of tho location the Joseph Moore, dry goods and groNEW TREATMENT OF CRIMINAL. KEEP 80CIETY WOMEN POSTED. fish hatchery provided for in ceries; the New Orleuns & Northwest- Senator Warrens and Congressman Woman to Work Out Reformation In Girls Make Good Incomes Acting aa ern railroad freight depot and other Mondell8 bills. Book Digesters . Salvation Army. buildings the names of which are not At Mount Vernon, Wash., Judge A little paragraph In the public Half a dozen clever girls In New obtainable at this hour. The Mobile f sentenced L. D. Ferguson, conan to York Joiner are week this ImportIncomes the as ''7" r substantial well Is as press points & Ohio depot earning safe, ant and significant event In our social as book digesters. Each of them Southern hotel, hut the Grand Avenue victed of murder In the second de' 4 y. history. Twelve years ago a woman has for her clientele women, too busy hotel was considerably damaged. The gree for killing William Pattenson, committed murder In a fit of jealousy. with social engagements toylnd time In the latter butldiug escaped. November 6, 1905, to twenty years In Kj She has been In prison ever since. for reading, yet who wish to keep guests tornado the penitentiary. Now the Home Office, desirous that abreast of current literature. The From the business center the The detectives engaged In ferreta numwhere east to the end, the woman should be given a chance follows note- Jumped digester carefully Hid! of retrieving a broken life, has taken worthy publications in fiction, art, ber of residences were blown down ing out the mystery of a pool of blood and ropes and torn pieces of clothing the Initiative In offering to hand over science, history or religion. Once or and otters badly damaged. Governor-peneral- s Summer Palace. the woman to the care of the Salva- twice a week she calls at the house found In a vacant house have come tc IN khaki uniform and broad campaign tion Army. She will be placed in one of a "client to review the contents of ANOTHER CONFESSION conclusion that the crime was a THE 8TEUNENBERG CASE. the hat, a well-se- t up and soldierly young of the Armys country homes, and will the books read. She Is careful to case of infanticide. fellow. remain entirely under the supervision memorize any epigram or witty sayOne of the Alleged Miss Harriet Richards, a school of that organization, which will also ing that her client might Introduce ef- Steve Adame, a Made Have to twenty-threSaid teacher years old, who Where Children Play. be responsible for her maintenance. fectively In conversation. "It Is re It. of Breast from Clean arrived Barnard, Mo., reforIn the recently markable how little leisure some won If the plaza be situated In the dl This is a new experiment In Seatcommitted suicide la mation of criminals, and one which It men have, said a Vassar graduate tricts where the poorer classes announcement poison by The Idaho. Boise, the lightly clad children dab- Is Intended to repeat In the case of who has adopted the new calling. made that Steve Adams, arrested at tle last week. Ill health and despondare supposed to bo the causes. ble, laughing. In the water of the foun- other unfortunate persons, who are "They can seldom give me a half hour Halne, Ore., on February 20, in con- ency tain, from which by and by the police- not necessarily criminal In their In- all to myself. I am asked to call at nection with the W. E. Sears of Encampment, Wyo., assassiSteunenberg man will benignly move them on Old clinations, but have lost their liberty the same hour as the hairdresser, the has Just and full completed a canvass of tbs sweeping manicure or the chiropodist, and in nation, has made a colored men and women doze lightly through evil chance or circumstance. stockmen of the Platte valley in the A confession. on the benches beneath the tree. London Mall. specially gay seasons all three of s of Interest the Saratoga valley more Is confession far white seconu In these blue This attendants work waist, be nur3e at may upon stately secured association, having In I Men shawl her while sit at a little distance and Important than that made by Harry Wanted Merry skirt and scarlet embroidered Camp, $400 to be used as a wolf bounty fund, Dr. William Henry Drummond, the post her upon current books." passes with one or two charges on Orchard. This statement was mad by wolves and coyotes having become so has A bread of French school. to the Canadians, their way puddler poet James McFarland, the famous detec- numerous and aggressive as to cause Senators Expert Knowledge. with his long, flat loaves of the ex- given up his medical practice and of Governor1 alarm. In the presence cellent Cuban bread piled high in his gone Into coppe? mining in the domSenator Foraker, while debating the tive, who Is In H. and J. A special from Vancouver, B. C., Hawley, Gooding was shallow' basket and poised upon inion. Part of his duty recently wide, pure food bill, was getting warm on his head, the basket lined with a scar- to engage a number of workmen. In the subject of fusel oil in whisky. He charge of the prosecution. says that Harry Hazard of New York Mr. McFarland added that Adams received a four-yea- r sentence and let woolen cloth, pauses to light a doing so he astonished everybody by a had submitted to several Interruptions corroborfrom radical and hla and confession of was Wallace departure exactly about exhausted fully patience Portland, Ore., cigarette. Barrington Across the dreamy stillness of the methods. After asking some more or when Senator Tillman asked him a ated that made by Orchard at every five years for robbing McMillans Jewregarding question. The Ohio man replied someelry store there. Barrington, before plaza comes the musical tinkle of the less perfunctory questions point touched upon by both. confessed that be being sentenced Tillman conbells on the harnes of a team of a candidate's ability as a miner he what pettishly, whereupon McParland Mr. Moreover," window of the store and the broke fiddle said: the "Can I was head you play Inquired: of down the barketper or heavy the creaking mules, tinued. Adams knowB far more of seized the diamonds. In South Carolina when the dispenor concertina? Do you dance or sing? ox cart, as the great, velvety-eyeInner circle than, man the unless noticed was that The coroner's Jury decided that sary system was Inaugurated, and I the workings of the beasts draw their burden slowly as It was able to give a Thomas to at and least Orchard affirmative could did, know I am what reply give unhurried Mr. about" talking by Hampton, whd was killed in the snail draws his. all small Foraker allowed him to go on, and in mass of detailed Information that Orthe perfunctory crackling of the drtv two of these questions he stood a duel with Stewart Carter in a sa chance of getting work. The wisdom five minutes the Southerner amply chards confession did not cover. ers whip. loon at Reno, came to his death aa of Dr. Drummonds course became made good hla boast and had shown In The confession of Adams, he said, the result of gunsnot wounds Inflicted the Is a plaza, gala day Sunday nearthat when it developed that he was the beat posted man In corroborated that given by Orchardj for then the men are free to enjoy it apparent by a party or parties unknown. Three ly all the men he engaged were good the senate on the making of whisky, the sees bootblack, connected different sized bullets were lodged In one Here as well substantial In point every whose fellows humored happy spirits and bad silenced everybody. Foraker his body, none of which were of the introduced by the Americans and with the assassination of I am not much of a Included. kept the mining camp In peace. size used In Carters gun. Carter Is sharp plythe Cubans, welcomed by heartily Adams, however, was atlll behind the bars. on the taste of whlsk but I know all Steunenberg. ing his trade with deft brown finger Hen. What Kansas Owes the about tbe making of It," be ended not at Caldwell at the time of the The state of Washington has been and flashing teeth. Here flit members swans and such triumphantly, and no' one could say assassination nor was Orchard at the larks, Nightingales, In orders quaintly of various religious leave to file In the supreme snd balled granted fowl have been him nay. time of the unsuccessful effort In No- court of the United States a bill of curious garb, while from the church poetic until the world Is very weary hymned vember. The man who assisted Orchone catches echoes of rolling organ of state of Oregon German Ambassador Popular. them. Where Is the robust Amerias set complaint against the notes and perhaps the flash of vest can bard who will write high with Baron Speck Von Sternburg, Ger- ard on that latter occasion, of determination to secure a Judicial ments or a faint odor of Incense. the harmless, necessary man ambassador to this country, la forth In Orchard's confession, was the boundary between the two states, pen joyous brilGay colors and light laughter, The controversy deals with the Jurishen? Why do our children read about one of the most members of Jack SlmpklnB." liant sunshine or wonderful white those fabulous geese of the Roman the foreign set la popular Still anolher statement made by diction over several small Islands In Washington. He la fishcapital? Tbe bens of Kansas are approachable, democratic and prob- the detective was that the Adams con- the Columbia liver, valuable for worthier subjects. Here Is one year's ably knows more of American Insti- fession gave the details of a largo ing purposes only. ,.i ' work of them: 17.226,111 worth of tutions than any other diplomat from Chief of Pollco Michael Dolany of j number of murders that were not rewhich, as a Kansas economist abroad. He la a constant visitor at eggs, declares that George Mitchell, Denver r Orchard. manner to la by any does well to remind the world. Is In- the White House and frequently ac- ferred arrested, has confessed that recently confesthe that stated was further 220. It terest St 5 per cent on 8144.622, companies the president on long walks more than $10,000 by the cleared he To say nothing of broilers and oth- or horseback rldea. The friendship sion had been reduced to writing, mall a was of a theft It pouch at Hazen Juncand acknowledged. make hens Kansas between President er Roosevelt and signed covering tion, Nevada, the offonso with which document, more money for Kansas than do her Baron Von Sternburg began year ago volumiUnus field and In more detail than he la charged. sheep, wool, barley, flax, fruit, sor- when they were both young men and greater made by Orchard. The further that ir1 Doctor Charllo Can, a Chinese phyghum, oats, potatoes. The bcu should holding humbler poaltlonc In the ser- statement was made that Adama bad Is as the of Kansas of vice bird eagle their Mr. Roosebe the governments. ho has bcon a resident of sician, without confession being made this the bird of freedom. Everybodys velt was at that time a member of the promised When talked Butte for thirty years, was murdered antjhlng. civil service commission, while Von with about the matter ho simply Magazine. at his quarters on Colorado street. Sternburg was an under tecretary In made a clean breast of all he knew Robbery was probably the motive for the German legation. Fortunes Made from Lotteries. of this case and of the secret workthe crime, as the Chinaman was reFederation. A man was brought before MagisWestern ings of the puted to le wealthy. Eminent Preacher Recuperating. trate Cornell In New York the other n Northern. Wreck on tick with Dr. Rev. Minot Cheyenne J. The Cheyenno Tribune states that selling lottery day charged Savage of New eta. His honor held him for trial, at York, pastor of tho Church of the Mesthe The and the engine Dig Horn railroad company has Cheyenne. the same time saying: "It may seem siah, has retired from the active dub mail and baggage ears of the north awarded contracts for grading 100 surprising, but I know that some of lea of the Itaatorale for a few weeks bound passenger train on the Cheymiles from Worland to Muskrat, Wyo. the wealthiest families In New York, and Is now resting at Redlands, Cnl, Tho road, It Is said, Is to bo a part of & Northern railroad, a branch enne In now bis are son where hns who a charge. Mr. mingling high society, broke & tho Burlington system, hlch Is now Colorado Southern, accumulated their fortunes through Savage Is with him. Dr. Savage, of tho 125 oxtending to Worland. Cornell told treat at In Iluekhorn, while a of need much rest and quiet, through Magistrate lottery. William Giles has been found guilty wbat he knew shout lottery and how Is cot alarmingly 111, lie may be able miles north of Cheyenne Friday, and with Old Arch. men who had secured fortunes by to take up bis work again In a month fell Into tho canyon. Engineer Don of murder In the second degree by a moonlight, music and the fountain! means of It were today educating their or two. Rev. Robert Colly er, who re ahue, Flremun Rex and Mall Clerk Fort Benton, Mont., Jury. Gtlee wns tinkle, the melody of ancient bells, children In Harvard, Vssttr and other tired as tho active head of the Church Benjamin Gny, all of Cheyenne, were a soldier Nit Fort Asslnnlbolaq and palms colleges. He said that he knew what of the Messiah aome time ago, will the soft rush of breeze-filleof memo- he was talking about and could point attend the pastoral duties until Dr Injured. Rex la Internally Injured and killed another soldier named Ross series a make above, high Btuy die. Guy Is seriously hurt and over a game of cards at a roadhouse. linger these person s ouL Savage return. ries of the Cuban plaza which known may also have received Internal In Giles escaped but was later captured. has In the mind of hint eho Juries. Beardless Angels, Judge Wanted to Know. Covcrnor John Sparks of Nevada, them for many a day of absence. At one of the Brooklyn clnbs the Tbe question of beardless tngela has extended an Invitation to PresiHermann Delays Arraignment ether evening a prominent real estate was long sine settled by s distindent Roosevelt to make a visit to that Guest of Mexican President Washington. In the criminal court state end Join In a hunting expedition Hopkins Johns of operator was describing the beauties guished prelate, the RL Rev, Richard Prof. Baldwin. from Tha a certain tract of land out on Long II. Wllmer, late bishop of Alabama, Saturday counsel for Representative for bear and mountain lions. university, has Just returned of the Island which he bad Just purchased. who was remarkable at ones for hla Dinger llermnnn of Oregon were giv- president has replied to the Invitation request the at Mexico, wberf, who Is now a mem piety and his humor. When some one en permission to file a demuiyer to to the effect that he will likely Join In Mexican government he has spent sis I certain Judge, Division of the asked him' why It wee that the pic-- 1 of syseducational the ber Appellate the the Indictment against Mr. Hermann, the hunt years Inspecting of Bupreme Court, and who la noted for AnI Mr. Annie M. Barkley of tem of that country as A guest tmno charging him with destroying certain was standing near by it bm humor, Its dry near on Dlssa train Insane President geles, became were d without beards, Jhe bishop relistening and while question Sparka, Nevada, and. armed with a of ,and of 8,atPB ,he rnpr1 Ub,m In the about asked to that It teemed property be easy enough to being left the train and began tervolver, Oldest True O. A. Argument on tho demurrer will rorizing the community. She was rapDrusllla Hall Johnson, who question he quietly and Innocently !a make angels out of women, but that M"rch ,0 Th BC,lo.n taken tured near Nlsta, east of Spanks, son b honrl mam sewers there oa Are could the Mass, Into any heaven by a only get qulred, died recently t Northampton, hl" b Mr- - ,,crn!".n!? trus oldest "aloe ahave. hold until her husband arrived to take Modern Women. Brooklyn Eagle. the be aioperty? to 1 wts hellewed which was set for Saturralgnmont, her home. daughter f the revolution. f day, until the demurrer Is disposed oC ini XRi if 't gov-ernme- nt 4 t e, e te stock-grower- ' old-tim- e . d l - The pprisldent hat nominated Chas. p. Hopkins to be marshal for the westAre Dead and ern district of Washington., Scores Are Injured aa Result of Storm at Meridian. Zy 1 IS Correspondence.) Ml out-dd- 101 1 Scene on Plaza One to Delight Tourists 4 MISSISSIPPI Wedding Bells Have Just Rung for Royalty ! T d I-- |