Show I PARKER IS CHOICE NATIONAL King Alfonso’s Subjects Man ter Craft on Island Wa- AIT Hope GHOSTS Armchair Native Ar Regarded ae Poor 8allor Deaorlbes Beautl- ful Harbor Scene at Havana— Boats of All Designs --Correspondent Havana Cuba— “Are you a Cuban?" asked of the sailor who was taking me about Havana harbor writes a of the Outlook correspondent He answered my question with another: “Can a Cuban sail a boat?” Then he added “No senor we have to come over here from Spain to sail the Cubans’ boats for them And there are many of us in Cuba for that and for other labors — more than a hundred thousand Some come from Galicia where I come from Borne from the Canary islands” All this In Castilian Spanish I had as much Looking more suspected closely at the sallpr I saw that his Icon face resembled those of the north of Spain There are as be said very still in Cuba — and many Spaniards for their benefit to boating hereabouts It Is not to be regretted about noon a breeze Every day It cools you a bit springs up here alter the great heat of the city— much too hot for nrost northerners — and you ait for a long time in your sailboat tacking about the two and a half mile wide Inner harbor Then you sail back to Havana and opposite the landing place enter a to the quaint restaurant Mounting second story esplanade order you your fish In a paper bag and other sea de'lcacies and then looking out from amid the potted shrubs settle down to the enjoyment of a new view of the harbor In it are craft of all sorts — from of Lafayette steamers and the great Oil boats to the coastal Standard steamers and freighters the harbor the motor boats and the lighters the sailboats and row boats yachts cover over the with that' fascinating aft part like the craft on the Italian lakes to keep off the southern sun from the too sensitive voyager The harbor unites' the strenuous with the serene Unloading and load-- And yet the ing means a lot of labor labor seems to go on unnervously perhaps because of the tropical climate which discourages overexertion Alongside there is one of the good old buildings characteristic of Cuba or Spain well adapted to a southern When the body of President Garfield lay la stats in th capltol an old engineer who was employed in the basement and who ridiculed the idea of upon ghosts decided to be revenged the watchmen and policemen who remained in the building through the two large EngHe procured night lish walnuts and securely tied the halt shells to the four feet of a pet cat and carefully turned her loose In Statuary hall The noise of those shells on the In the marble floor at midnight as the distracted cat scampered about trying to get rid of her new shoes gave the watchers the Incident This fright of their lives though a harmless joke gave rlB® to the story of the spectral footsteps who have to which follow all those cross the rotunda in Statuary ball Is closed for the after the building night Marquis Arconatl Visconti of Paris has presented to the United 8tates National Museum the armchair of tha Marquis de Lafayette It la In excellent The frame Is of plain unpolished mahogcondition and has not been repaired In green ailk and worsted cloth Interwoven with a any and it Is upholstered floral design resembling tulips After Lafayette died in 1834 the chair became the property of hit son Edmond de Lafayette who presented it to the t Visconti “SOLITARY ROCK” OF WASE Tbls solid pillar of basalt the Dutsl” or "Solitary Rock” stands FulanI city of Wase In BritAfrica It Is more than a thousand feet high and is reputed The natives say there Is a river on the top of It and that there are people there but that if anyone ever did manage to go up to them he never would return or would return So far as can be seen the demented only Inhabitants of the rock are pelicans marabout storks and huge baboons near the ish East Cuba an English mining THEATER CLAQUE OF GREECE The tricks of theater audiences have been remarkably similar in all ages Alcfphron who wrote of the later Attic comedy shows that the claque was known then and also “young men of the town" who took malicious delight in hissing a play off the stage Theowho died in 288 B C phrastus sketches among his “characters” the man of superior taste whose pride' it was to hiss when everybody else applauded and to clap whan the rest were silent and the annoying person who would hum or whistle an accompaniment to every tune that pleased And Aristotle him himself refers to spectators who brought out provisions during the dull parts of the performance FORTUNE FOR A PET DOG has Its own especial The rotunda haunt The prevailing belief In regard to this particular haunt is that anniveron certain days presumably saries the bent and huddled up figure of a workman with bis tools may be The seen flitting through the section doubtless foundation for this Idea arose from the account of the death ther which occurred of a workman during the early days of the construe He lost his foottlon of the capltol ing upon a scaffold and was killed by the fall to the floor wraith The of John Quincy Adams from all narratives on the subject seems to be the one most often' encountered At times It is alleged that he may be seen In Statuary hall for merly the old house of representatives And the scene of his death acof companied by the whole congress He 1840 gathered In ghostly conclave about is also credited with roaming be all parts of the capltol and may seen at almost any time There Is also the story of Gen Logan who returns it is said to obon serve the doings of the committee military affairs of which he was so Those who claim long the chairman to have encountered the general say that he always wears a black slouch hat and remains either in the committee room or In the corridor adjoining Wilson who died in bis room in the senate wing is also recorded as a constant wanderer about the scene of his death The demon cat legend has been repeated for the last 50 years as the animal apparition which returns at irThe story does not regular periods vary much being merely that of an at first sight but ordinary Tabby which grows to a gigantic horror be fore the eyes of the frightened observer Suddenly this demon cat emits a fierce yowl and with eyes ablaze and mouth open leaps toward the spectator but Invariably leaps quite over his bead lawsuit in which the parties are WITH STABBED ITS SPIRE angry heirs deprived of their inheritance and a handsome griffon dog which hag deprived them of it Is to be heard In the Paris courts Mme Stella Bela Czebo a Hungarian resident in Paris died recently leaving her house horses carriage and an Income of $2000 a year for the maintenance of one small griffon She was very fond of dogs and MOUNT CALVARY RELICS the little griffon was her favorite But she leaves relatives behind her The Church of Santa Croce In Rome and they are taking action for the Is Interesting even to skeptics It Is disinheritance of the pet reputed to have been built by the Emthe mother of the Empress Helena SHOE PINCH The floor of the MONEY MAKES peror Constantine subterranean chapel was strewn with After complaining that a shoe earth which she brought from Mount An unusual freak of the wind Is on which Christ was cruci- which he had borrowed pinched his Calvary In the accompanying picture fied There are three relics there toe Carl Blakeley of Muncle Ind ex- lustrated "Town Hill Commits Suicide” was the and amined It and found $120 In bills which she found on Calvary in a newspaper headline displayed of for cen- Blakeley and a young woman while which have been venerated looked more ke turies One Is a portion of the cross riding in an automobile In the coun- the vicinity but itFor a case of murder during a heavy try were thrown from the machine on which be died a second Is the of the windstorm the tall spire the steering gear broke and scription on the cross and a third Is when church was blown off and falling his were hurled Into a puddle of water bound one of the nails which pierced the roof in the manner shown At the home of The authenticity hands and feet jut not seriously hurt these relics It Is said was revealed to Jr Oro Odle near by dry clothing In- The church has stood for nearly a hunher In a miracle cluding the valuable shoe was given dred years on Town Hill New Hartford Conn them climate with dignified proportions vith two high ceilinged floors with balconies The and broad windows building Is painted a cool gray A little further along the New Havana jostles the old In the shape of a ctructure several times as largo with ct least three times as many floors not as high between joints and with narrower windows some arranged In rroups of two or three and with hot colored shades the looking mahogany building itself being painted a warm olive Furthermore Instead of the usual flat roof appropriate to the tropics this particular foot Is surmounted by MEN DINE TWELVE a red dome over which sways a gilt and doubtless Diana' Now disgusted Twelve meri with 12 good eyes and there are reds and reds And some 12 glass eyes attended a dinner served may be a grateful color feature even by one of their number at a hotel In la the south The Ind the other day Muncle host was particular that every man WHIPS MAN FOR SWINDLE present should wear a glass eye When llnner was over 12 glass eyes were reIn a neat package moved wrapped Os Widow of Oakland Attack and sent to the proprietor of the hotel for Alleged “Bunko” Eight with the request that be inspect and Yeare Ago He opened the package return them In tbs presence of the telephone girl San Francisco Cal — "Now I’ve got and she fainted you” shouted Mrs Emily J Russell as she Calif a widow of Oakland TWISTS BIG BAR a LIGHTNING Duryee horsewhipped Schuyler pioneer citizen lawyer and candimen were carrying a Twenty-twdate for city commissioner Duryee’s hack was cut and his body bar of Iron 29 feet long at the Pittsbruised before he oould get the whip burgh Steel company’s Monessen plant She says that and were about to place It In position away from the woman he bunkoed her In a stock deal in in the foundations of a blast furnace struck the when a bolt of lightning 3an Francisco eight years ago With shape another man Duryee Induced her she Iron twisted It Into an "S” men unconscious and Blleges to dispose of her holdings and knocked all the turn over $4300 to Invest in a mine internally Injured two owned by OF THE CAPITOL' — I In Rural A r Built by Roman Cariiegie AFTER THE PIGEON In Algeria have Explorers In the ruins of the ancient city of Tlmgad The A German inventor has exhibited a unearthed the remaine of a public library erected by a Roman Carnegie machine designed on the lines full inscription on the walls la to the following effect: “Out of funds be flying memThe wings and tail are a queathed by Marcue Julius Guintianue Flavua Rogatlsni's of senatorial of a pigeon and the car Is good Imitation ory by hi will to the colony of Thamagudl hla mother city the erection of a under the direction of the library has been completed at a coat f 400000 aeatercea closed giving It the appearance of the city authority” body of a bird MODELED -- T of Averting cratic Convention Selection of Fight In DemoVanishes With New Yorker rT' ASTY tempting and Baltimore— Alton B Parker of New chosen on Monday as the candidate for temporary chairman of the Democratic convention by the tional committee He received 31 M York was I appetizing Beef votes Senator-elec-t James Ollle ol 20 and Senator O’Gorman Fine for a fight luncheon or a Kentucky of New York 2 Thus all hope oi hearty meal Ready to serve — no from a of the the fall averting fight cooking odor to permeate the house gavel In the Democratic national conand economical as ' vention vanished well Make excel 1 Mr Bryan announced that If no lent com beef hash other good progressive could be preAt Eoury Croesi vailed upon to make the race he would enter the field himself as the Libby McNeill opponent of Parker & Libby The committee after half an hour’s deliberation of the Illinois contest Chicago voted to seat the entire contested delegation known as the Roger Sullivan One way to avoid spending money delegation turning down the case tact brought by the foolishly is to not have any tion Garfield Tea the Natural Laxative la made Twenty-siInvolved seats were The decision does not affect the pres- entirely of carefully selected pure herbs idential contest as all the delegates Many a doting father has paid huncontestants and contostec3 are for dreds of dollars to learn thfit his Clark daughter couldn’t sing WILL BUILD NEW PARTY -— i Willing to Dye Colonel Roosevelt to Cut Ella — Are you afraid to die? Entirely Stella — Not if I feel that the color Away From Party With Which His Is becoming to me Career Has Been Identified Cleveland O — A new party from Long Service the ground up Is the Roosevelt proAfter a series of discussions ten“You say you were In one place for gram years Why did you leave?” with his lieutenants on Monday before "I was pardoned by the gov’nor in which there were leaving Chicago mum” — Judge several sharp clashes Colonel Roosevelt decided to cut entirely away from Had Them the party with which his whole pub"Do you keep accessomotoring lic career has been identified ries?" asked the man entering the deHis decision was a disappointment store' to those who favored the organisation partment "Oh yes’’ replied the floorwalker of what might be considered an Inde- with a bow “we keep arnica and pendent Republican party with which witch hazel' Drug department second various state organizations might co- aisle to the left please!” and still maintain! It was operate hoped a nominal regularity The Village “There must be no compromise no has always “Charley Billingsby straddle” Colonel Roosevelt said aomething funny to say no matter As an indication of his determinawhat happens” tion he said that when he returned to “I know It He’s awful comical” communicate Oyster Bay he would “I often wonder how he thinks of with a number of Democrats wno he the humorous thoughts he has He’s thought might wish to Join the new Just I never heard killing perfectly party him call an umbrella anything but a bumbershoot” LABOR LEADERS GUILTY Morrison and Mitchell ConGompers vlcted of Contempt of Court — Samuel Washington Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell the labor leaders were on Monday held guilty of contempt of court by the supreme court of the District of Columbia in connection with 'that court’s in the Buck Stove and Injunction Range boycott case They will attempt to appeal again to the supreme court of the United States which reversed their former conviction The sentences under the first conviction were: Gompers one year Mitchell six nine months Morrison months Rebel Leader Desires Intervention Cuba — General Pedro the rebel leader according to report declared Monday that he will not surrender until after Intervention by the United States which he desires as he is convinced that the Cuban government will never repeal the Morua law prohibiting political parties on racial lines Santiago Suffragettes Refuse to Eat London — Including Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Lawrence ten women have been released from prison since Saturon health due to account of day forcible feeding The fifty other suffragettes in prison are continuing the hunger strike and the majority are being artificially fed Many are in the hospital Clothes and the Man A colporteur In South Carolina walking many miles through mud ac- cofeted a passerby and suggested the He was repurchase of the Bible fused The next day says the Record oi Christian Work after a night’s rest and cleanup he set 'up his stand in town and had the 'pleasure of selling a Bible to the very man who had re“I fused to purchase the day before met a muddy man yesterday with Bibles” said he' “who looked like a Methodist tramp When I buys a Bible I buys it from a Baptist gentle- man” Needed No More Help acAn American gentleman got quainted with a Frenchman who was very anxious to acquire the English in order American to The language help him said that if he would send his exercises to him’ be would willingly correct them Nothing was heard from the Frenchman for some time but finally a letter came couched In the followihg choice English “In small time I can learn so many and her from his English dictionary as I think I will to come at the America and to go on the scaffold to lecture” Ever Notice A Field of Former President Lampooned — Theodore Roosbveli Washington was lampooned by Democrats and Republicans in the house on Monday for his alleged inconsistency In praising Taft four years ago and subsequently him for fraud and theft condemning In the selection of delegates to the national convention Republican in the glory of its growing? ' Big Fire In Quebec Quebec— Fire Monday afternoon destroyed many buildings the including Chateau Saguenay the cathedral the town hall and the Chicoutimi hotel in 100 Chicoutimi Between and 125 buildings were burned and about 10G0 persons made homeless Post Toasties Indian Com The Best part of selected white Indian Com pearly is used in making This food is carefully Utica Celebrates Utica N Y — Utica celebrated Monday evening when Sherman’s fellow townsmen congratulated him sn his renomination An Immense parade of automobiles and him marching clubs serenaded company Held Her Hand Ring 8toten N Y — Miss Nellie Burns Yonkera of Unlontown has complained to the police that after a stroll In the with a young man here whom she permitted to hold her hand she missed her diamond ring l OF COMMITTEE cooked —in a factory that is clean and spotless — not a hand touching it at any stage of the making Post Toasties with cream a sprinkle of sugar are Teller's Condition Serious Denver — The condition of former United States Senator Henry M Teller who has been suffering for several weeks from heart trouble Is as serious by physicians regarded ' Senator Teller Is 83 yearsoia Banker Killed In Auto Accident New York— Alfred L Seligman youngest brother of the famous family of bankers was killed In an automobile collision at West End avenue and street Monday night and an ideal dish times with berries added Serve some- fresh straw- The Memory Lingers ' Sold by Grocers Pomn v Cereal Company Battle Creek Mlcti Ltd - 7 ’ |