Show Ir f r I in t 1 IL t1 U 1 EEN CITY 0 F CUBA C U CAAl 10 1 A e > L I Nttfl1ef60US Quaint Phases of L feIn fe-In d2C Capital of the JI Pearl of tile Al1til1esJ MAGNIFICENT IN SOME RESPECTS PRIMITIVE IN MANY OTHERS lf ht UNTo UN-To look Into Havana to I la look Into tit cities of Spain Thus a well I known letter describes the largest city if the Veil fmllc and the capital of Cuba W rl nl 1 Kit true that I Hatana ll morellkr the mill ut Hpaln than any other luwn 10 to found In tropical America Here the Iranian have ruled rot nearly four icnlurle Many of the Inhabitant are galled Hpanlanli who live up to the uilomii tit the horn country TIlt oftl ills 1 who govern Ibo place come llrwt from Spain and there ll Unit In I Hit I I Illy I that I I li I not Ppanlih Tho customs tt the HpunlirJi mil the peeullirlllci if the native go to make up the Inter lifting thing lint strike the visitor Mm the north At tery turn lit finds something new In him front the man irr In which the place In I governed to live inilliojl < emplo > ed by I Ibo native farmer who nuck 1 Into the city every Horning to Mil their ware With Inn exception of a few modern lulMlnin and the dirty streets lluvina i different In every wayfrvin give larger films of the Unlit late and whll A contain or did contain inure than j KQOOO I Inhabitant before Hit war It li n a pilniltlv ilatt N far in Improvement Improve-ment Are concerned There art few target and Impoilng building in the II lice What the city lacks however In modern structure It make up In a umber of building that were con itiueted early In the sixteenth century Each of thee bal an Interesting hUiu ry The city In itself In I Imiwiing ami 1 II li writ worth vtilllng Th ililui will leave a lasting UnpitMion especially those to tit I fount In tin country just lutildt of its corporal limits The visitors Hri view of iht city li I aol t obtained until the strainer points I ler bow Into the toy from the IM The water IIUIld of The harbor It rauih an1 runt rapidly whllt that In the bay li irnooth und almost without currunt fht enter arising from II art tlcknliur I I Bad If the trip down the wait hall horn I pleilMnt ant without Hit dlxiiirvoal I ftaturrt 1 t lea travel the chances ar > I I that the tourlit will bt overcome before j life ship reaches nnchorait This will I lot be rallied by the htnvy leoi lither for there art non but by give odor < from the Irarklili Asters uf Hit liarlior which li I often lurtlelent In Precipitate I the nautM that has kttn foucht off on the wax down Ai the vend 1 nun the land l Ibo flight house at the entrants lu the harbor loom up It li I en u promontory Jut Unit out Into Ihe fire Surrounding It are the Cray wall and the lurrtied end of flip rorlluMtloni Including the norm Castle In which m many political politi-cal rrlKnet of the crown have met a crul file 1Mb allies 1 of the harbor are dolled with rorll and Und Mlierte They vivo the place a wtll protected IP pearan From the waters edge 10 the top of the hllli and long before the silly comet Into view may bo seen the fort with their gun frowning down on the strainer which look IIh a small hot fititt them Like most of the hirbor In Use Wet Indlet Hut of Havana Is I r1 VIA I 111 Ila 2 a n 1 neither U I hit nuint There an few If male Closed rabj in Havana The pub I lie nmtjrancM art mad up I vie loiln and The Picturesque > ilnntra I tht letter of which art peculiar and art to be found only In Cuba A few ihuu I ni rI mn > l of the Vehicles art to bt found j about the principal > lrr li and around the Public plovion or looks The fum an very law and the vabmtn bar con sciences They art IMH In the howl of drlrlnc around ont block halt a < I irn Ilinn and then demanding n Itnt I fee The vlilior arrant with ont of them onl 1 under tht thadt 6f Hit lip it the Victoria ht li I taken through the city where the more Important ulahti art lo bo nTh n-Th horni urged In these Conveyances art n llv < anlmali and are cry small What they lack In Hit they make up In steadiness and ilrtnilh They art driven at n rapid rate over the illmy Unit and II 1 U I Wonderful how seldom I they too I their feeling They never seem lo firm They art apparently just an fresh In file evening after a long Journey Ihrnuxh the hot sun at liver were In the morning I when they started I out The drlreri I like their nnlmiU art understood and ther too have wonderful I wonder-ful powers of endurance While the UftorUi are like the moll 8 secured on a heavy Oil The back of ht body It I fastened lu the axle by two l larro I iprlnw Willie In franc II 1 U At l tattled to the thafta by mean of straps From the lop rf the body li I suspended an nrren to keep out the nun The OWN art about 30 feet long Two herself art generally flood to draw the mrtisxeonv between the shafts the other outside and fastened Hit wagon IX colors The Ihlll horw ai the outside out-side animal It called carrln a heavy nddlr In whlrh the caballeros Pits and ptln his whip with unceanlnir energy en-ergy The body of the volant roll from lido to oldo ni the odd looking vehicle goes duhln Ihrouh the street or over the reunify roads neither of which art well paved This however don nil lioihr the driver lit knows the strength of hit cortical I and ht itIme bent on Irxlnir no time In gelling from ont plan lo another The ran at which A Procession of volanlei ran Voter uround ti I methlnc ai amusing Inira U 1 li I surprising The hotels of Havana an u good AIn any In the Weil Indict They art tup piled with everything needful atr 1 the comfort of the guests The one pt cullartty about them li the wlndown hut this does not refer lo I the hotels alone They art near ilia elllng and art imall and rrreened with heavy thereof there-of Iron No ont known why this li I don except It 1 liff l lo keep the guests from dropping heir trunks In the ground and liking French IMVO I It tin city were ai clean ni the hnteli It Would Indeed be A modtl pint of rnldcnr but unfortunately un-fortunately unit thought Mfrai In bt given lo the effects whlli are flllhy except a few of lilt more Important onet onA short dlttanct from the hotels li I the Mlheilral whir the lionet of Colum but found their retting place after bt > tendant to how ihm through the j building I and have th m inpecl the fine painting and 01olulry l rr 14 I one or file din 1 > m that section I mwt imposing and fur rtebne In fur 7 11inom I will I compare com-pare favorably wllh n my of Ihe dub in the Unite Slain Kl 1 tirade is I file IIn1 treat In Cuba I II I li I very wW and > H 1 pa Told In the center drill and ne the Junction wllh I found beautiful othtr lirteti are I ho I IO u tlattury Along the walks 1 and dIV were are the nnrt Parent and trop cal pMati on the island The itrttt 18 I two mile 1 long and U fr niperlor to Many to he found In the larger l cllli of the I north It U to 1IIn what Ilflh avo nUt li I to Nw York The IInAlt I do 17ros her list famous I bulinght lk place U I almost In the center of the io Yn II Is I ft large I Citron Jar I wasden hulldlne Arid Is 01 repulsive In A promotion at IA I file armiMrnint that U I earned on Inside of It The old portion ot th city sellers moat of lh builnew Is l carried nn hat uirrmv atvt dirty virootli i OUtr Is I the main bu > lne < lhornu tf i Jileff Is every ev-ery kind of Start frm tlio mall Hand nf the native where unuvenlrt rf the city and lularxl1 art ocI lo the facts places when ont can grtanything from dry oodi to machinery Business li I Carried on Curlnt the morning and late afternoon The clerks flood around tmoklng cigarette and even when attending to Hit wants of customers carry Illhted cigars and ilg lifetime II M nli that everybody in Havana pmoket from the child lo the olJetl 1 Inhabitant whether It be I man or man II I lia l not an Infrequent tight laM la-M old women with Irr l bundles on their bonds going along the street with big black tiger 1 In their mouthi while little children scarcely able lo walk will bt round Putting away at the fragrant word l which seems almost grow wild Haynes lot l Ibo center of The tobacco Industry In-dustry and li I filled with Offer factories In which the majority of the poiulatlon find employment There It no rattling of milk cons or the oqti king of peddlers In the street to distort Hi slumbers of the weary Neither are then any fruit Hindu to lake up portlont of th sidewalks Iv 1 erybody apart from the itorekecpeni who has anything lo tell carries him ware on lior > l > ack It In I not uncommon uncom-mon In vet In the early morning peddlers dler driving from eight to ten hortei Ions the itretti The beam art covered cov-ered from bead to tall with farm product prod-uct They ar not harnessed IUrh horn has around his neck a rope which U I lied lo the tall of the animal next ahead They go through the itritlt In this tanpom laiMon haltlne now and or f sk fill Ai 11p inn Ar Too JIM c lop I P L W 7 kvVi oll IW till I Aill t A PEDLIE W se 4 a M < rfr SSTk 7 1 xfcl < sal pt If lindUMkeO sival l whatever t lit may bt Paid 1 1 of the Wave It It I well protected fram lnva > lu At the ileanwr pence Into Ibq bread Uy the city toakia lit npiwannr and with It the ttuiomi of Settle In nil the pomu and dlnlty they can mute Th voorfil vearetly 1 comes to anchor before It li surrounded by a twarm of mull boat In hkh the native bum IAI men and women carry alt i via or goods rr MI 1 Their wares tcfigtM mainly of rreth Jorge and vo < ratfta 1 Iluium dark skinned illative dill 4r rylng heavily fallen uatketi I tilled with garden Produce climb the mon ladder JIM In the Vilest bewitching atylt offer thtin in thi pa < nger < 8oiru > ouii > HUM girl thit ont 11I11 rMmly help buying lugarcan fruits and flowers of all kind from Moral Tin price art roo inarkably low and halo the pantn Were art aware of It they have burdened IhinMlve with a lot of stuff limy hAve no use for One on short Hit vliltor gets n good Idea of what he li I lo expect and Although 1 Al-though far from h mt In Is I struck by it familiar ngiirftbt cabman He to I different however from those one Missile at give retried or ntr the nquiroi I In rl clil htr Cuban ambition U 1 not up lo Hun that art found In Hit I north is r I r I copy cJJt 898 rt < EL Dr RANDOM SKETCHES ABOUT HAANA hh L Onto to M found in tnt large oiiiti of give Ilnlinl Diatom the volatile l are no hni I loan iald peculiar lo Cuba and they I lie Hondtrfully and fearfully con Itutlnl They art used for nrvlc I moitly outilde the city There ar ryl no Comparisons lo be found In ill the In eniloni on earth In ho lint of wheeled n nv > ytnee that would do juttlit lo this queer carriage In appearance III la dnngemui yet one InII I and Mated fear gives way and < niturt rlnn The body of the > oiinl itiwnbl the lop of a buggy II I In I placed well In front of a iwlr of large I strong wheel Ill rooted from place to plat a number I of lime Title wag bulll I In ICM A large tablet on ons side ol U allows where the remain of the great discoverer Jig At the rnd of two of the most Impair lint treeti li I iltuated Ihe winter l > ala I al-a 0 of the governor general III li oppo Its Ih Plane dt Arm and facing Hit linipiu uhliii was erected lo the memory memo-ry of Columbus This I ll hio flno1 i Hon of the city and to I the horn of Hit I wealthier Oneself The Cailno Eipanol or Hpanlih club li I tier and li well worth a viilt Tourist ar always wet coined and It li I the delight of the at thin lo allow Hit owner to bargain with a prospective Purchaser Th liorie Art sometimes in cvmpletely covered that It to I impossible I to tell w lint It cur riling the load of mot lrrw lrr grain or garden truck the fruit vendors cover the lisocks of their horiei ultli looiely woven Ulet I filled still frulK slower and vegetable tastefully affronted Great IIAlk of Sugar MnG 111OVerild feet Ionic will stick out of the title or the baskets while the fertile and flowers art piled high In I I the center The Method of telllnc milk and pUl 1 I try 1n the itrangMt of in the eight I I Imagine 4 milkman drlvlnr I peveial com before him up to your door and milking required mount While you wall and Hit cow iianill patiently chewing lit cudl That li the cm In Hnvniia There li no aiming art chalk and Water on the people 1 Tlity know the milk u Itself and Iliffchlelseria have not been In cold itorajs for ei > eral month before they are brought out forget for-get Vaulter placed In I crates on the baekt of horiei It I brought lo the city every day All you have lo do In I lo mak your Mltvtlon from among Hit lot and they are Killed for you Occasionally ont of the c rat 1 es will break aM the chlckent 11 out Then Iht o li a Poll bit to capture hem The mail bay who like his parent U lazy I itim I some energy Into him He leaves hit resting Place 1 In tome coal shaded flat Awl elntu on a Chose after Hit rhlken hut not rad to relate for the purpose of returning re-turning them to their owner The Cu In l boy u I fond of poultry ixiwlalty If he can get It for m thing When such an accident doe occur Hit owner keept it closer walch on the small boy than ht does on the chlelions The pMJ era do n thriving buMnen and before Iht un l > egln to solid down him irchlnc rr they have mid out Rod are either on their way home or In 1101714 cafe trying their luck at the cam blind able Another quaint feature of Hat ana lift 19 I tile Chino merchant Three are IImany many of them They go through the ilrreli carrying lure palm leaf Iklll impended from a long pole whKi they carry over their Shoulders They sell their waree its do the nullvei by going from house in house Ther are num force of Chinese employed In the litrgt cigar factories and on hi pltnlatlont that dot the surrounding country While Havana lilt many Interesting right there fire a number to IM found In the country a few mile out The valley of the Tlimurl a paradise It U I lIuII l < l between two high hill and U I covered wllh sugar and tobacco plantation plan-tation while In the hill li I lo go t found tome of the flneit Iron ort In the world The famous Ilellnmar coves Art In the Yumurl and art well worth a Visit The mOIl comfortable way la get to them li In ft Voltage although a rail rod reaches them The road however U I like many things to he found In Cuba It It I primitive In the extreme An oM uood burning locomotive and n car that aw Hi best days many tear ago comprise the equipment Too by rail meant not only a shaking up but Iht chances of losing an eye or two by tbt cinders thrown from Ibo wide mouthed smokestack of the locomotive The trio Into the Tumult valley and firm cave of nellnmar will never bt regretted nor will the tlltl la Havana despite Hit mn Inconveniences and annoyances 10 which ont li subjected THOMAS If J180l Disinfecting Dig Library It to I claimed the book of a circulatIng circulat-Ing library art Habit at ont tire or another an-other lu become the ttlikle through which Infectious diseases may be dli initiated A good deal I hat been written writ-ten upon this subject In recent years and now It In I once mor rnh1 by the statement that Dr Hilling of the New York public library lull completed a I plan far Ilor dlilnfectlon of bocki used f hrr 11 I In the circulating 1 diparlment I jusNew York paper In n luetplng manner says that every physician know the book of a circulating library to be channel for Iht spreading of contagion unteli treat eU by Rome effective ilerlllilhg Process Ikjrrowern from New York great library libra-ry It li I added will tun no risk for Dr lulling Plan hat been put In duration Thin plan li I the use of the Vapor of formalist AI it dlilnfeclant lurh vapor Ilielt being termed formaldehyde limit I book n < It ll I returned li I placed In the uterlllilng apparatus which consists of a double walled box of ttuultn or Owed lib Iron Inside this box shelves are placed for the book and there are openlngi for the escape of the vapor A rauctr for holding Hit formalin lo which n little water li I added and genii beat applied completes the apparatus Tile ntm li I applied lo tile bottom and Iht vapor clrculntet agent tile opiuia tui through the space between Hit walls Blr Mark Anthony Trultt who limit juit died In County Tlpperary at the age of to year pent liters than halt a century cen-tury of his life and three fortune In trying to perfect a flying machine |