THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906.
CHARGES AGAINST
AN INDIAN AGENT
Pendleton Business Men May
Ask Removal of 0. C.
Edwards.
COLLUSION WITH BANKER
Alleged ThHt V. Li. Thompson, Cash
ier of Commercial National and
Official Guardian or Umatilla
Heirs, Abuses Powers.
PKXDI.KTON'. Or., Oft. 23. (Special.)
That there is a collusion between O. C.
Edwards. Indian a sent on the Umatilla
reservation, and V. L. Thompson, cashier
of the Commercial National Bank, of this
city, who is also the official guardian for
sill Indian heirs on the reservation, is
(.penly asserted by many prominent Pen
dleton business men and nearly all lessees
of Indian lands. So Incensed have the
people of this vicinity become at the
liiKh-handed manner in which the two
men have been carrying on the reserva
tion affairs that it now seems certain
that meetings of the local commercial
bodies, the Umatilla County Development
League, the Umatilla County Wool Grow
ers' Association and the Inland Empire
"Wheat Growers Association, will be held
immediately to prepare petitions to be
forwarded to the Department of Indian
affairs at Washington, demanding the re
moval of Kd wards as agent for the Uma
tilla tribe.
Will Swear to Charges.
it is alleged by the most reliable men
in the city, men who are willing to go
on the stand and swear to the truth of
their statements, that it Is impossible for
any man to lease Umatilla Indian lands
unless lie Is a patron of the Commercial
Hank, and that It is only possible for
persons connected directly or indirectly
with the hank to purchase the heirship
lands, wricli are supposed to be sold at
public auction to. the highest bidder.
it is a well known fact that all pur
chases of such lands made so far have
heen negotiated through the bank, and
that apparently there have been no trans
. fers of money. It Is asserted that Thomp
son lias gone bold'y to the lessees of
Indian lands and told them that unless
they patronized his bank he would see
that they lost their lands. It Is also said
that he iias gone to merchants and de
clared that he had control of the trade,
not only of the Indians, but of the white
people living on the reservation, and that
lie would not give it to them unless they
transferred their accounts to his bank.
One Proof; of Collusion.
That the Indian agent is co-operating
with Thompson is Haid to be shown by
the fact that Thompson was appointed
guardian for the Umatilla reservation
heirs at his instance, and that though he
lias been given unmistakable proof that
Thompson is using his position to secure
business lor his bank, the agent makes no
effort to have him removed.
Yet Edwards declared when the guard
Ian was appointed: "If at any time it is
Hiown that Thompson is using his in
fluence as guardian to draw business
away from other hanks, I will have him
removed."
KlfXIEVK.l) 11RST WIip DEAD
Seattle Man's Second Spouse Re
leases Him From His Vows.
6KATTLH. Oct. . 2.".. (Special.) Julius
i'urker, a Russian, begun suit today to
annul his marriage to Catherine Blanche
I'urker. solemnized at. Victoria last April.
Tarker thought hfs wife. Sophie, had
been Killed in one of the Russian massa
i res and took a second helpmate. When
Sophie came through the bloodshed safely
.in.l migrated to Seattle to tind Parker,
lie a,-ked permission to return to her.
The second Mrs. Tarker was willing, so
he seeks an annulment of his marriage
to his second wife.
Kusene V. M. C. A. to Open Kooms.
Kl'UKNli Or., Oct. 2:.. (Special.) The
immediate opening of the Y. M. C. A.
rooms pending the, erection of a $20.0uO
building lias been decided upon by the
directors of the Eugene Association. A
location will be secured in the business
section, and for a beginning the associa
tion will provide reading-room, gymna
sium and baths. The canvass for mem
bers will begin the last of this week. The
membership is to include both men and
women, the rates for the latter being
one-half those for the men. because the
gymnasium and bath will be at the dis
posal of the women but two days a woek.
Logger Is Drowned at Astoria.
ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 25. (Special.) Gust.
Hannilla and August Chris Alatalo, two
loggers, attempted to go on board the
steamer Shamrock, which was lying at
her wharf, this evening. Both fell into
Cue river. Hannilla was rescued, but Ala
talo was drowned. His body has not been
recovered.
FOR THE OFFICE MAN.
What He Must Do to Possess Health
and Strength.
(Health Culture)
The main quesuon just now is: How
shall the office man keep his health
how. being in that line of work and de
siring to remain therein, shall he gain
greatest success in practical results and
at the same time keep such health and
strength as shall make life worth living?
one of his greatest sins is that he eats
Incorrectly.
In ordinary cises I would suggest for
the office man two meals a day one
light and one heavier. The first ' meal
may be taken cither in the morning or at
noon. If in the early morning it may
consist of cereaj with milk or cream",
bread and butter, fruit and a glass of
milk, in which one 0r two eggs are beakrn
tip. If the meal be taken at noon, it
might be made up of some simple salad,
dressed with olive oil and lemon juice:
bread and butter, fruit and a glass of
milk. The heavy meal of the day should
be taken in the evening, and might be
made up of peas, beans or lentils; baked
potato, boiled rice or other cereal: a
sinple salad, a crust of brown bread, with
or without butter; fruit. A cup of weak
tea with this meal would do no harm.
As to the use of meat, 1 may repeat what
1 have so often said, that meat is neither
a neeessary or a wholesome food, and the
office, man. like most other people, will
find it to his advantage to use little or
no meat in his dietary.
For the office man. whose work is -indoors,
sedentary and taxing upon the
mentality, exercise is of peculiar import
ance and value. As to exactly what exer
cises are taken, no special directions are
ecessary beyond saying that the exercise
must not require much exertion of either
mind or body. It must be effortless, or
.8 nearly so as possible. The so-called
"double contraction" exercises, gymna
Bium work, handling heavy weights, long
walks or runs, games in which there is
keen competition, each man striving to
outdo the, other all these are injurious
to any man, but particularly to the office
man.
What system of exercise should be
taken, then? Those that would uplift
and expand the body, which, through
bending over a desk, is necessarily more
or less collapsed and depressed. This
would increase the activity of the heart,
lungs, stomach, liver, bowels and other
vital organs, sending to the brain better
supplies of good red blood, and there
fore increasing the mental as well as
the physical powers. They will relax
nervously .tensed muscles and develop In
the office man the ability to move easily,
to economize his force and to prolong his
life.
I would suggest, as a rule, that six
exercises be taken, two stretching, two
breathing and two relaxing: that these
are practiced for from five to ten minutes
twice a day. The relaxing exercises have
a peculiar value In relieving nervousness,
excitabiiity or Irritation. If any nervous
office man will practice relaxation exer
cises carefully and perseveringly he will
find, in a few weeks, a marked change
In his condition.
KISSES IN HISTORY.
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Chaste Salutes That Raised Regi
ments and Bought Votes.
London Post.
No more celebrated kiss was ever
given than that bestowed November
22, 1581, in the gallery of Greenwich
Palace, by Queen Klizabeth upon the
Due d'Alencon, one of the suitors for
her hand, whom, in the presence of
Walsinjfham and Leicester, she kissed
upon his coarse lips, and placing her
CHARGES BAD FAITH
Coldwell Socialist Assails Fed
eration Lawyers.
HAVE SLIGHTED HIS PARTY
Editor Titus Asserts That Defense
Fund Has Been Diverted to Help
Out Democrats In the
Present Campaign.
BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 23. (Special.) H. F.
Titus, publisher of the Socialist, a weekly
paper at Caldwell, has a remarkable
signed article in the issue just out. In
this he charges that the attorneys for the
defense in the case of Moyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, charged with the murder
of ex-Governor Steunenberg, have devot
ed a great deal of attention to an effort
to defeat Judge Smith, Jn the Seventh
District; that they used money from the
"defense fund" in an attempt to prevent
Smith's nomination; that they also used
money to bring about the nomination of
Bryan, the Democratic nominee, and that
they now have emissaries in Canyon
County, paid from the same fund, to in
duce Socialists to vote for the Democratic
candidate.
Titus makes a long plea for -support of
the Socialist party ticket throughout. He
says that he discussed the Judgeship mat-
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1 OREGON PIONEER AND INDIAN WAR VETERAN DEAD
t .. - - HUDSON. Or.. Oct. 25. (Special.)
The remains of Samuel K. Hud
son, an Oregon pioneer and Indian
War veteran, who died October 20,
at his home in Beaver "Valley, of
acute Indigestion, were laid to rest
in the family lot In Woodbine Cem
etery, at Hudson, Or., Tuesday,
October 23, at 2 P. M. The funeral
services were conducted by Rev.
Mr. Kemp, of the Methodist Epis- x
copal Church of Rainier.
Mr. Hudson was born Januafy
16, 1S20, in Alabama. He went from
Alabama to Arkansas while a
young man, where he married Miss
Nancy Murdock In 1848. They
crossed the plains by ox-team to
Oregon In 1S52. He took up a dona
tion claim in Cowlitz County,
Washington, on Arkansaw Creek,
which he named for his home
state.
In 1868 he moved to Columbia
County, Oregon, where he had
since resided, a respected and
prominent citizen. He lived an up
right Christian life and was known
far and wide for his hospitality
and generosity.
? ti,s wire died June, 1887. He was the father of ten children, seven of
J whom survive him ,as follows; aimuel Hudson, of Milton, Or.; Francis
I Hudson, of Maygers; James Hudson, of Hudson; Mrs. S. H. Tryon, of Sac-
T ramento, Cal.; Mrs. J. H. Elwcll, of Rice, Wash.; Mrs. P. W. Washburn,
!of Maygers; Mrs. T. J. Ejverman, of this city.
Mr. Hudson was a member of the Indian War Veterans and Oregon Pio-
, neers, in both of which he took an active interest.
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Kumuel K. Hudson, of Hudfton, Or.
ring upon his finger, presented to her
courtiers as their future master.
With true sincerity did another Eng
lish Queen grant a like favor, though
the kiss given was but that of friend
ship and esteem. It was at the con
clusion of the . Crimean War, when
France and Great Britain being, as at
present, on the best of terms. Queen
Victoria paid a visit to Paris. Her
meeting' with her ally. Napoleon III,
was of the most 'cordial description,
and the Queen reached every heart,
when, throwing ceremonial to the
winds, siio touched witli her lips" the
Emperors cheek, with that, kiss doing
more to cement the good will between
the two countiios than any amount of
formal courtesy would have affected.
Everyone has oeard of the famous
kiss bestowed upon a butcher by
Genrgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. In
1784 Fox was contesting Westminster
In the Whig interest, among his keen
est supporters being the beautiful
Duchess, who entered heart and soul
into the spirit of the election, gaining
many a vote for her protege by her
golden speech and sparkling eyes. One
man, however, a butcher, remained im
pervious to her wiles; neither beseech
ing glance nor persuasive word could
move him. But the Duchess was reso
lute on gaining her end; she offered
a kiss for the man's vote. Such a. bribe
wus irresistible.
The efficacy of a fair woman's kiss
was incontestably proved when, in
1794, the , famous Gordon Highlanders
were raised bv the lovely Duchess of
Gordon, who was directly instrumental
in gaining a thousand recruits by the
donation of a guinea and a kiss apiece.
In a sense, many of these kisses may
be said to have been fatal, for In an
encounter with the French shortly
afterward more than 250 were either
kilied or wounded.
Alain Chartler, the French poet, is
the hero of a romantic legend. One
day he sat down in a public place, and
being weary and exhausted by the heat
of the day. tell into a slumber. As he
slept. Margaret of Scotland, the wife
of the Daujhin, afterward known in
history as. Louis XI, chanced to pass
with her attendants. She glanced at
the unconscious man and recognized in
iilm the poet whose verses she so loved.
Then, motioning to her maids to be
still, she gently stepped forward, and,
stooping, imprinted a kiss on the sleep
ing poet's lips.
Pretty, too, is the story of Ingeborg
Vinding ami the poor student, Paul
Vendclbo. The latter, whose empty
purse -was a sad trammel to his ardor
after knowledge, was promised by two
noblemen a foreign tour conditional on
his being able to obtain a kiss from
the fair Ingeborg. Nothing despairing,
Vendclbo one morning approached the
lady as she was seated at a window,
and boldly made confession of his hard
case. Ingeborg heard him in silence,
then bent down her proud head and In
loving charity gave him a kiss.
At times, however, a kiss has been
the prelude to a tragic sequel, as that
bestowed in 171S by Prince Ferdinand
of Bavaria upon Princess Thyra, the
near relation of a ruler of a neighbor
ing state, where he was on a visit.
Th's affectionate greeting, a heedless
whim of the moment, was given under
the very ees of the Princess' be
trothed, who. naturally taking um
brage, soundly rated the thoughtless
Prince. Words came to blows, which
resulted in a duel being arranged, and
diplomatic relations between the two
states were broken off. In the war
that followed, although hostilities last
ed but six weeks, over a thousand
lives were sacrificed.
' Could ot Sleep for Coughing.
"A customer called me up one cold
nicl-.t last winter, wanting a bottle of
OlTamherlain's Tough Remedy for his
mother, who had such a cough that she
could not sleep." says E. Mixon. of
Stallings. Ala. "The next day he told me
ti'.at one dose of it relieved her and that
she rested well for the remainder of the
night." This remedy is for sale by all
drugg"
ter with Moyer and Haywood in the jail
here, and that they urged support for the
Democratic candidate. He criticizes them
for abandoning the Socialist candidate,
holding it. would do them and their cause
more good to cast a large Socialist vote
than to defeat Smith.
Titus also publishes a letter, received
from another Socialist, calling attention
to the fact that Socialists in the vicinity
of the home of the writer of the letter
are supporting Stocksiager for Governor
on the theory .that it will be advantageous
to the men accused of the Steunenberg
murder to have the Democratic candidate
elected.
It is stated by Titus that he finds the
disposition very general among Socialists
to take that course, and the receipt of the
letter prompted him to write and publish
his communication.
ISLANDS THAT FLOAT.
Examples of Land Freaks in Mexico
and England.
London plobe.
. The Isle of Delos, now Mikra Dill,
is a classical example of an island that
floats. For when Leto, in her wan
derings came to Deios, it was a floating-
island drifting- about in the Aegean
Sea. To render it a more secure
dwelling place for the wanderer, Jup
iter chained it to the bottom with an
adamantine chain. And since the isl
and really is a granite mass, with roots
stretching far down into the realms of
Pluto, the latter part of the story is
not without an element of truth. Its
adamantine anchor sticks deep in the
earth.
To pass on, however, from the floating
islands of fiction to those of fact, we
note tirft those of the Mexican Lakes.
These were among the most wonderful
things seen by the Spanish conquerors of
that wonderful country. "There are two
sorts of them," says Humboldt, "the one
in movement and driven about by the
winds, aud the other fixed and attached
to the shore." They bear crops of peas,
beans, potatoes, and other vegetables, and
are gay with varied flowers they are,
in fact, floating gardens, supplying the
cities with vegetables and flower. One
of the great sights in Humboldt's time
was the boats coming down the canals
laden with the produce of these strange
gardens for the cities of Istacalco and
Chalco. The finest promenade in the
neighborhood of Mexico was around the
lakes and among thee floating islands.
They were known as Ohinampas, and they
have been traced back to the fourteenth
century. In their structure they are part
ly natural and partly artificial. Masses
cf tangled vegetation collect in the water,
and when these natural rafts are strong
enough soil is laid upon them. Then
they are cultivated, and sonn bear abun
dant crops. The moveable Chinampas are
towed or pushed with strong poles from
place to place. On one of a group may
be seen the floating cottage of the guard.
Such were the floating islands of the Mex
ican Lakes in the time of Humboldt.
They are further described by a more re
cent traveler, Brocklehurat. He found
that the lakes were partly covered with
tangled masses of reeds, water plants and
bushes. As soon as such a mass became
strong enough several layers of turf were
laid unon it. This was covered with
soil and the garden was made. At the
time of the Spanish conquest there were
thousands of these islands on the lakes,
and the Aztec kings derived a large part
of their revenue -from them. From 100 to
200 feet long, and from 10 to 100 feet wide,
they were fixed by long willow poles
driven through them to the bottom of the
!ake. where they took root. In Brockle
hurst's time they were all thus anchored,
none were free to float around witn
'hiph-born damsels under jasmine bow-,
ers." as they were when Humboldt de
scribed them. Dal Lake-, near Sringar.
Kashmir, has also its floating gardens.
Here the soil is placed on aheets of the
broad leaves of the water lilies and great
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
$5
M
00 Fine Wh
olesale
-OF.
Nathan S Wertheimer Co.
73 Front Street, One Door From Oak
Wholesale District
Sale
A
M
Goes on Retail
Tomorrow at 9
Sale, lasts 7 days only. The entire whole
sale stock without reserve will be sold, con
sisting: of over 10,000 men's and boys' Suits,
Overcoats, Cravenettes and Pants. This
splendid stock will be forced out at actual
manufacturers' cost or less, saving-the cus
tomer the wholesale and retail profits
bringing- the goods down to
One-Half Regular Retail Price or Less
Clothing Stock
i ; a tl I s e3 ' ' I
ILvV: rj( n Li
2000 Men's Fine Suits
Consisting of double and single-breasted
sacks; black, blue, gray, brown, oxfords
and fashionable plaids, checks and silk
mixtures. These lots consist of all colors
and, kinds at each price. Owing to im
mense quantities, we cannot describe each
lot separately. The prices quoted repre
sent actual manufacturing cost (aver
aged), and is about one-half regular retail
prices or less.
Lot No. 1.
Sli QR- shoying, $10 retail
Ti 03 values.
Lot No. 2.
SO QCExtensiA-e display of $15
OiU J retail values.
Lot No. 3.
SQ "7 EBusiness and dressy suits
Oi I J to $18 retail values.
Lot No. 4.
SQ f C Elaborate line suits to $20
u 1 0 9 retail values.
Lot No. 5.
011 Cfl Gigantic assortment to
U I 1 1 J U $25 retail values.
Lot No. 6.
Over 1000 suits, val
ues to some are
even sold higher at retail.
Odd Knee Pants
About 2000 pairs ; yours at whole
sale cost yes, a good deal less.
1 En Tw0 Pair for 25? Good
I 3b quality. -
Q C n Wool, worsted and corduroy,
UwU worth Toe.
Choice of all our Knee Pants.
Worth to $2.00.
S13.85
65o
' Fall and Winter Overcoats
and Cravenettes
This stock is in excess of 1500 garments.
We only manufacture the best and finest
grades. Careful dressers will really ap
preciate the correctness of styles, work
manship, and the richness of materials.
Lot No. 7.
Si Q C fedium heavy up to $10
lUJ Overcoats.
Lot No. 8.
ST C n Overcoats and Craven-
i3llettes to $16.00 retail val
ues. These garments are hand
tailored. Lot No. 9.
SQ '7CSilk Serge and Venetian
U 1 1 3 lined Overcoats and all
colors and kinds of Cravenettes to
$20.00 values.
Lot No. 10.
S1 1 R fi Select garments, Pad
I 1 1 3 Uock Overcoats, French
back and extra fine Cravenettes to
$25.00 value.
. , Lot No. 11.
Q QR "ne hignest class of ma
U I0U3 terials and finest styles
and workmanship to $30.00 values.
50C v
For
,rests
Vests
choice of
500 Odd
Children's Overcoats
At going to press with the announce
ment, it is impractical to quote intelligent
ly all price details ; but the elegant stock
will be sold at less than manufacturer's
cost-.
AO0 VII
S1.35
Boys' and Children's Suits
Double-Sewed Tape Seams
Guaranteed Not to Rip.
Sizes commencing at 3 years and up to
about 12 sizes 3000 Suits. As this firm
manufactured and wholesaled nothing but v
high-class and novelty goods, the sizes
naturally run accordingly. The finest
Silk Velvets, Serges, Velours and real
Scotch materials. Costly and elegantly
trimmed, fashioned and tailored. This de
partment will be closed out at an actual
loss on manufacturer's cost.
Represents Suits to
$3.50 retail value.
Q1 QC Represents elegant Suits
0 1 1 03 to fully $4.00 value.
0ft in Elaborate to $5.00 or even
uZi4U better values.
yc Elegant up to $6.00 retail
uZi I 3 values.
0 K Tremendous display to
UJi3 $7.50 values.
O Q Q C Powerfully Splendid to
UUi03 $8.50 values.
Sh Q K ilk civets, etc., easilv
TiU 3 $10.00 values.
4800 Pairs Pants
Embracing, the leading fabrics and styles
of this year's Pantsdom. Prices quoted
are less than one-half retail value. Sizes
from 27 to 36 inseam, 28 to 50 waist. .
ORfi Substantial Working $1.5
UJb Pants.
Q En Hundreds-Splendid to $2.50
uub Pants.
Vast display of up to $3.50
Pants.
Extra good to $4.50 values
at retail.
Best qualities average our
.00 retail value.
S1.5
S2.1
S2.85
WHOLESALE STOCK SOLD AT RETAIL. WHY?
At this season of the year all regular retail stores have their
entire Pall and Winter stocks in the house. This $50,000 to $60,000
all high-class stock is too large a proposition for any half-dozen
stores. Having determined to dissolve the partnership of Nathan
& Wertheimer Co., we have concluded to wind up all business
affairs and sell the stock at sacrifice retail sale at once.
MAIL ORDERS
Accompanied by cash or equivalent will
be filled at once, we ask that out-of-
town people use care in sending sizes and describing character of
goods desired.
FAR CAIF 1TIYTI1RFQ Safe, desks, sample trunks,
iUR jilLL, riAlUALj glass partition and all fix
tures usually found in a wholesale business.
PAWf I IlTHMr RFM ARK This Bale begins 9:00 A- M- sharp, Saturday, October 27, and ends in seven
tUiltLUlilllU ULlUnfUiJ days, Saturday night, November 3, 1906. Beginning Monday, October 29,
the sale will open daily at 8:00 A. M. and close at 6:00 JP. M. sharp, except both Saturdays the sale will be open
until 10:15 P. M. -
quantities of vegetables ar grown on
thTbe gardens of the Chinese boatmen
are floating islands towed behind the
boats as they ply their business over the
lakes and rivers. A raft of bamboo in
terwoven with reeds, and long grass is
first made, and then covered with soil.
On this the boatman grows his onions
and other vegetables, and his garden fol
lows him as be journeys up and down
the river. A marvelously convenient ar
rangement for supplying green stuff!
Other lakes have also f heir floating gar
dens, though these mehr not be gardens.
Humboldt, indeed, remarks that they are
found all over the world. Darwin met
with them In Chili during his famous voy
age on the Beagle. Lake Tagua-Tagua
In that country is celebrated for its
floating islands. These are formed of the
ptalks of dead plants intertwined, and
on which living plants take root. They
form circular masses four to six feet
thick, of which the greater part is sub
merged. Sir Charles L,yell has noted that
floating islets of matted trunks, with liv
ing trees standing erect upon them, are
met with at sea 50 or 100 miles from the
mouth of the Ganges. The Amazon, Ori
noco and Congo float down similar bur
dens. Young trees root themselves upon
them, and flowers open their blossoms,
making these rafts Into veritable floating
gardens. They are also ships on which
various voyagers have taken passage. Al
ligators, serpents, monkeys, tiger cats,
and other animals are thus carried down
the rivers to the sea. On one occasion a
party of four tigers landed at Monte
video from one of them, to the no small
surprise and alarm of the inhabitants.
England's example is the curious float
ing island of Derwentwater Lake. After
being lost to sight for some seven years
It appeared again In the Summer of last
year. It remained visible for several
weeks, and then disappeared. This er
ratic appearance at intervals of from one
to seven years is one of the moat striking
peculiarities of this island. A hot Summer
favors its appearance, and its favorite
months are July, August and September.
The island floats, but remains attached, to
the bottom by the sides. It comes up near
the southeast end of the lake opposite
Lodores and some 150 yards from the
shore. The most probable explanation is
that it is a sort of large bubble of felted
vegetation raised from the bottom of the
lake by gases of decomposition.
It is interesting to note that Miss Har
riet Martineau, in her "Guide to the
Lakes," mentions a floating Island on
Priest's Pot, a small sheet of water near
Esthwaite Lake. Trees were growing on
this island, and it seems to have floated
to the side some time In the early '60s.
Havana Theater of White Stone.
Cuban Review.
The history of the Tacon Theater, of
Havana, which was recently purchased
hy the Spanish Dramatic Company for
J5.5O.00O, is interesting. In the year 1835
Francisco Marty, who was then the
leader of a band of pirates which infested
the Island of Cuba, and who had a price
of 110,000 on his head, was captured and
ordered to be put to death. Seeing there
was no hope for him, he asked leave to
see General Tacon. who was then Governor-General
of Havana, and told him
if his life was spared he would denounce
his entire band and assist him in ridng
the island of the number of pirates which
infested it at that period. Accordingly
General Tacon gave him a two weeks'
parole, and inside of a week Marty had
denounced his fellow-pirates and turned
them over to the government. For this
service he was pardoned.
In 1836 Marty asked for the concession
to build a national theater on the site
of Parque Central. It was granted to
him. General Tacon went further, and
allowed him the privilege of the use of 40
convicts who were then confined in Morro
Castle to assist him In the work, each
convict receiving the sum of 20 cents a
day. In 1S38 the theater was finished,
and Marty, as a proof of the gratitude
he felt toward General Tacon for sparing
his life, named it El Teatro Tacon. Dur
ing the insurrection in Cuba many excit
ing incidents took place here. In one
instance a regiment of Cuban insurgents
barricaded themselves In the theater and
held it against the Spaniards for three
days. Finally they were starved out,
and as they were making their escape
all were shot
W hy Flavius Left School.
New York World.
The late Flavins Josephus Allen,
long known to New Yorkers as the
proprietor of the Astor House, was
born and brought up. as they say, at
East Peering, Maine. He attended the
district school, and did not get on well.
Finally, in despair, the teacher said
that unless he could master his geog
raphy he would have to leave school.
Flavius gazed Badly at the map on the
wall and growled out: "I'll never un
derstand how a river can run up hill
the way they do there." Then he re
tired from the halls of learning.
The City of Great Britain.
London Spectator. .
Unless we command the sea we cannot
keep open the roads by which our people
are fed. Britain has In effect ceased to
be a country. She is now, considered
from the political and military point of
view, a city, though a city with very large
parks and pleasaunces and kitchen gar
dens In which to grow their flowers, fruits
and vegetables. A city, from the point
of view of war. may be described as a
place which, if besieged long enough,
must fall, since supplies once consumed
cannot be replenished. Britain answers
to this description. The moment the sea
roads to her are closed by an enemy she
is, ipso facto, in a state of siege. Face to
face with a need so imminent. It would
be madness for us to give any considera
tion to what we hope or believe are the
intentions of this or that foreign power.
All that we can rightly do in considering
how to secure our national safety and in
dependence 1r to count ships and guns
and to compute the units of naval efficiency.
Conceit of the Esquimaux. "
Century.
The missionaries tell me that th
Esquimaux are a most conceited race,
anrl that their own opinion of their musi
cal gifts Is very high. The first time the
missionary's wife of whom I have spoken
played on the piano for them they ex
claimed, "She plays almost as well as
we." This conceit of the Esquimaux
makes the missionaries' tajk very dif
ficult. What can a teacher accomplish
when his pupils think they know more
than he? The Esquimaux do not even at
tempt to argue, but simply shrug their
shoulders and say with a supercilious
smile, "That may be so in your opinion.
but ." And so, in spite of nearly ISO
years of religious training, many of them
are still only quasi-Christians, and the
traveler may still pick up curious hits of
heathen folklore among them. (
Makes Fare 2 1-2 Cents in Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind Oct. 25. The
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad
Company today announced that, beginning
November 1, a straight fare of 214 cents
would be charged in Indiana.