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The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-02-25

have visited nearly all the Courts Of Eu-
rope, for the purpose of exchanging views
in personal conference with the various
Cabinets, touching points likely to come
under discussion in the approaching re-
vision of existing treaties
After his arrival in Japan, Mr.. Brooks
received official information that his I'm
perial Majesty, the Mikado of Japan, was
graciously pleased to grant him special
audience at his Palace, on Tuesday, Oc-
tober l4th, to express his appreciation of
fifteen years of faithful service rendered
in the interests Of Japan.
His Majesty, who was dressed in the
most elaborate court costume of mill
tary field officer, received his guest stand
ing and addressed to him these sentiments
of appreciation, in the Japanese language,
which were at once translated by officers
in waiting:
81 am gratiied to meet you here for
the first time at my Palace. You have
performed your duties faithfully and yea
lousy for many years as Consul at San
Francisco. You have extended all neces-
sary assistance to my people in the kind
est and most watchful manner, doing all
things for the best; and express my en-
tire satisfaction with your conduct and
with the able services you have rendered
my Ambassadors Extraordinary, to whom
you have been attached, and whom you
have accompanied around the world in
their mission to the various Treaty
Powers"
To which Mr.. Brooks answered as fol-
lows:
Before returning to America, / am
grati6ed to have the opportunity of per-
sonally expressing to your Majesty the
deep sense of respect and appreciation
with which / have received and enjoyed
the Commission which it has been the
pleasure of your Majesty to confer upon
me. deem myself fortunate that your
Majesty has deigned to observe the devo-
ton with which l have constantly labored
to merit your AIajesty's high apprecia-
ton. I beg to offer the expression of my
acknowledgements for your Msjesty's
gracious allusion to my service, and to
hope that your Majesty will be we'll per
suaded that the remembrance of this oc-
casion will always be precious to me.
May your Majesty's reign be long, peace
full and happy"
Tea was then served, and for nearly an
hour Mr.. Brooks was Intercepted in re-
gard to the products of California and its
material wealth and commercial impor-
lance, and when he assured them that this
was mostly the result of twenty years,
the remark was made by the Chamber
lains, "what may not Japan do in our
lifetime, with natural resources nearly as
great, and far greater population n
A full-length portrait of the Emperor,
in the suit worn at the audience, was then
presented to Mr.. Brooks, in the name of
His Majesty.
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I The japanese Consul at San Francisco Received
by the Emperor and Congratalated---A DIS
tIngzIshrd Honor Conferred on Our American
Consul.
/ 1t is well known that Charles Wolcott
Brooks, Of this city, held the Office of Con
sui of japan for California during period
extending nearly to the Inauguration Of
I foreign intercourse with that country,
brought about by the United States ex-
petition under Commodore Perry. Upon
the advice and suggestion of Hon. Town
send Harris, who concluded at Simods
the first commercial treaty with Japan, he
was named as commercial agent, which
Office be held so aeceptsbly to the Ja-
panese Government that commission as
full Consul was subsequently forwarded
to him, which Ess renewed under sue
cessive changes of Government, and which
Office he continued to fill until relieved to
accompany the Embassy accredited to the
Treaty Powers in their journey around
the world.
From our earliest intercourse With U.s.
pan, Mr. Brooks has realized the differ
enee Of character and race existing be-
tween the Chinese and Japanese. He has
become widely known as entertaining
favorable opinions of the natural cspabili-
ties Of the japanese race, and has mani
tested from the beginning a firm faith in
their future, believing them worthy of our
deepest sympathy and most earnest en-
e0uzgement In this belief, commencing
s-hen they were but little known, and
comparatively frisndlesz, he has ever con-
tributed with the genial warmth of an en-
thusiastie and PereTering nature, to ad-
vance every good movement tending to
raise them in public estimation
Those who have been long residents Of
San Francisco can readily bear testimony
to the untiring devotion With which his
personal care has been extended around
these strangers among Us, from the years
when they first emerged from seclusion,
to the vast troops of newly-arrived stu
dents. who, ignorant Of our language and
customs, reached here on their way to
Europe and the Atlantic States. Compa-
rztively large number Of ship-wrecksd
Japanese seamen are annually rescued
from wrecks and islands, and brought to
our port. and to these, IN their utter want
and restitution, he has invariably extend
cd all necessary care ssd friendly inter
est, caring for the sick, burying the dead,
and returning all that were well to their
native land How often have japanese,
in every rank Of society, in the utter help
lessness Of strangers IN . strange land,
placed their whole dependence upon him,
and found every possible assistance with
the tenderest and most FstchfHl csze1
Latteriy, Mr.. Brooks has been absent
from our city, having accompanied the
Embassy IS an sttachs, on their tour
around the world, dzzing which they
The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-02-25
HAWAIIANGAZETTE

s [NoTk-The following essay was read
by appointment before the Hawaiian Mis-
sion Children's Society, by c. ]. LYONS,
on January 81. The appointment had
been made two months previOusly.l
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Good Recipes.


Blackberry Wiae--The season for max
ing this pleasant beverage is approaching
We give below two recipes for making it.
The first one has been used by us for sew
eral years, and is highly approved. The
second is from Hon. Il. j. Henkle, of An
ne Arundel, and his Wine is, we think, the
best made in that county.
"O~ Waycf Making Blackberry VINE.
Measure your berries and bruise them to
every gallon adding one quart boiling wa
ter. Let the mixture stand twenty -four
hours, stirring occasionally; then strain
of the liquor into cask, to every gallon
adding two pounds of sugar, cork tight
and let it stand till the following October,
and you will have wine ready for use,
without further straining or boiling.
DR.. HenkIe's Way.-Take 100 quarts
of blackberries, crush them and press out
the juice. Then dissolve 10 lbs. white
sugar in 29 gallons cold water. Measure
the syrup; add the juice, and as much
more water as will be required to make 40
gallons in all. If you want to make a
smaller quantity preserve the above pro-
portions. After putting it in the cask
Gone that has recently had whiskey is pre-
ferred, set it in the cellar or other cool
place with the bung open to the air until
Christmas. Then stop tightly or bottle it,
Blackberry Cordial--To two quarts Of
juice add one pound of white sugar; half
ounce nutmeg; half-ounce cinnamon pull
verizea; halEounce cloves pulverized. Boil
all together for a short time, and when cold
add pint of brandy.
This syrup is said to be almost spe-
ciic for summer complaint or diarrhea
From teaspoonful to wine-glass is to be
taken, according to the age of the patient
until relieved 1t has been made and sue
cessfully tried in the family of the Editor
of the Gasete for many Years
Caram Whe.-To a quart of juice
add three quarts of water AMI four pounds
of sugar, brown or white.
Another.-Two quarts of juice and two
quarts Of water, to which add four pounds
of white sugar. Mix all, and put it in a
nice keg, where it had better remain
year, though it is very good to use in six
months. Marlborough Gazette.
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WESTMINSTER, MD. SATURDAY JULY H. 1874

field of rich corn, hedged in by garlands Of
precious flowers; while tho healthy religi-
Gus feeling throughout seems like golden
sunshine, lighting and warming the whole
with its benefcent rays.
Misunderstanding can be more degra-
ding to womanhood than to marry in order
to eat bread and yet Il is not only done,
but special plans are laid for it by worthy
parents, who exult 10 proportion to their
success in driving bargain. Better far
to sec an innocent pair Of young lovers
brave enough, while waiting for happier
times, to work till by their own industry
they can rear a roof.tree over their heads.
Better far the lonely old man, in poverty
and sorrow, than the welded wife who has
brought with her no love nor devotion to
sanctify the tie which, without them,
cannot be true marriage in Gods sight |
The marriages cemeuted by interest, and
those formed by leyity, are equally produc-
tive Of sorowful consequences.
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TaE WoRLp LIVING BEYOND ITS
MEASs.--Ncarly every nation in the world
is either borrower or a lender, and the
startling declaration is made by writer
in the London Daily Telegraph, that the
world, regarded in the mass, is living be-
yond its means" During the ten years
ending with 1872, while England reduced
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Moral Courage in Daily Life.

"Moral Courage" was printed in large
letters and put as the caption of the follow
ing items, and placed in a conspicuous
place on the door of systematic merchant
in New York, for constant reference, and
furnished by him for publication:
Have the courage to discharge debt
while you have the money in your pocket.
Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much
your eyes may covet it.
Have the courage to speak to friend
in seedy coat, even though you are in
company with rich one, and richly
attired.
Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary that you should do
so, and hold your tongue when it is prudent
that you should do so.
Have the courage to own that you are
poor, and thus disarm poverty of its sting.
Have the courage to tell man why you
refuse to credit him.
Have the courage to tell a man why you
will not lend him your money.
Have courage to cut the most agreeable
acquaintance you have when you are
convinced that he lacks principle friend
should bear with a friends infrmities,
but not with his vices.
Have courage to show your respect for
honesty, in whatever guise it appears, aud
your contempt for dishonesty and duplicity,
by whomsoever exhibited.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until You can pay for new ones.
Have the courage to prefer comfort and
propriety to fashion in all things.
Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance, rather than to seek for knowl-
edge under false pretences.
Have the courage, in providing an en-
tertainment for your friends, not to exceed
your means.
Have courage to insure the property 10
your possession, and thereby my your
debts in full.
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ASCENT OF SAP IN THE BARK OF
TREEs.-M. Faivre has recently performed
series Of experiments on the mulberry.
hazlenut and cherry laurel, which he
considers goes far to prove the fact that
the substances which supply the food Of
plants have an ascending motion in the
bark. For this purpose, he made perfect
or imperfect annular incisions through the
bark, or detached pieces Of the bark, 70
which buds we're attached, or removed
entire cylinders Of bark from the trunk.
The result Of the experiments was that the
buds always continued to develop when
the communication remained uninterrupted
with the lower portion of the trunk while
when this communication was completely
destroyed, the buds invariably withered
away. If the bud was separated by a
perfect annular incision, il withered the
more slowly the greater its distance from
the incision; and in these cases the starch
disappeared entirely from the portion Of
the wood above the incision between it
and the bud.
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The ATMosPHERR.--1t surrounds US on
all sides, yet we see it not; it presses on
us with load Of fifteen pounds to every
square inch Of surface Of our bodies, or
from seventy to one hundred tons on us
in all, yet we do not as much as feel its
weight. Softer than the softest down
more impalpable than the finest gossamer
1t leaves the cobweb Gndisturbed, and
scarcely stis the lightest flower that feeds
on the dew it supplies; yet it bears the
fleets Of nations on its wings around the
world, and crushes the most refractory
substances beneath its weight When in
motion its force is sufficient to level the
most stately forests to the earth--to raise
the waters Of the ocean into ridges like
mountains, and dash the strongest ships
to pieces like toys. But for the atmos-
phere, sunshine would burst on us and
fail us at once, and at once remove us from
midnight darkness to the blaze Of noon.
We should have no twilight to soften and
beautify the landscapes, no clouds to shade
US from the scorching heat, but the bald
earth as it turned on its axis, would turn
its tanned and weakened front to the full
and unmitigated rays of the lord Of day.
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CHARACTER is PowER.--It is often
said that knowledge i power--and that is
true. Skill or faculty Of any kind carries
withitsuperiority. So, certain extent,
wealth is power, and genius has . transcen-
dent gift Of mastery over men. Buthigh-
er, purer and better than all, more con-
slant in its influence, more lasting ia iss
sway, is the power ofcharacter---th pow
er which emanates from q pure lofty
mind. Take any community, who is the
man of most influence? To whom do
they look up with resessnes2 Not the
''smartestp man nor the cleverest politician,
nor the brilliant talker, but he, who, IN
long course Of fyears, has tried the extremities
Of prosperity and adgesity, has approved
himself to the Judgment Of bis neighbors,
and Of al who have seen his life, as worthy
to be called wise and good
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The Tampa (Fla.) Guardian says that
few Of its readers, outside Of Tampa, are
aware Of the fact that the manufactures
Of cedar pencils in Germany and other
European countries are indebted to this
coast for the supply Of most Of their mate
rial yet such is undoubtedly the fact
This cedar is gotten out and hauled to
Tampa in the shape Of nicely hewn logs,
some ten feet in length, worth on anaver-
age, fifty cents per square foot. This tim
Der is then shipped to New York, sawn
into smaller slips, cedar pencil length,
and thence sent 70 Europe. In the ante
beilam daysthere was large mill in active
operation, saving this cedar but the pro-
prietor dying, the work was suspended.
AT this moment the cedar mill is doing
nothing, for the reason that the nan to
whom il is leased awaitssuitable machinery
from the North. There are q number Of
boxes packed with sawn cedar lying out
in the weather near the mill, some of
which are broken open, and contents scat
tered to rot. The cedar logs, as hauled
in by the farmers, are in piles about town,
and in heaps along the river. The cedar
forests up the river are almost inexhausti-
bic, though, in the swampy hammocks,
eauseways have to be built to facilitate
the getting out Of the cedar.
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0sE IDEA OF Poverty. 1t was Bul-
wer who said in nine cases out Of ten pow
erty is an Idea. Some men with ten
thousand dollars year suffer more for
want Of means than others with three hun
dred. The reason is, the rich man has
artificial wants. His income is ten thou
sand year, and he suffers enough from
being dunned for unpaid debts to kill a
sensitive man. A man who earns dollar
day, and does not run in debt, is the
happier Of the two. Very few people who
have never been rich win believe this, but
il is true There are thousands and thou
sands with princely incomes who never
know a moments peace, because they live
beyond their means, There is really more
happiness in the world among the working
people, than among those who are called
rich-always providing that poor folks do
not in smaller way emulate the prodigal-
ity of their rich brethren. Poverty is
simply the question Of good OF bad man
agement Of money in hand.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-11

A recent writer says:-aFrom twenty
Eve to thirty-fve is the true time for all
the enjoyment Of a mans best powers,
when physical yigor is at its highest, and
human passion is at its full strength.
During the last half Of this decade man
should be assiduous to construct a system
Of philosophy by which to rule bis life and
to contract chain Of habits intelligently,
50 that they should not sit too lightly upon
him, and yet cautiously, 50 that he should
neither be their slave nor too easily east
them aside. The exact proportion ofphy-
steal and intellectual strength should be
gauged, and the constitutional weakness,
or, in other words, the disease toward
which a tendency exists, should be ascer-
tanned
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-07-11

The late Edward Everett condensed into
a single brief paragraph his estimation Of
what constituted good education. Here
it is ITO read the English language wen,
to write with despatch neat, legibIe hand,
and be master Of the first four rules Of
arithmetic, SO as to dispose Of at once, with
accuracy, every question Of figures which
comes up in practice---I call this good
education And If you add the ability to
write pure grammatical English, l regard
1t as an excellent education. These are
the tools. You can do much with them
but you are hopeless without them. They
are the foundation and unless you begin
with these, all your aashy attainments,
little geology, and all other ologies and
osophies, are ostentatious rubbish. That
education is imperfect which stops short
Of the full development of the moral in
tellectual and physical powers.
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WHITE CLoyra As A HONEY PLANT.
An English writer says: White clover is
the queen Of honey plants. II is widely
cultivated in this country, and continues
to flower a long time. In Scotland the
farmers use more white clover seed in lay.
ing down the land in grass than the farm
ers Of England do, hence the cloyer-6elds
are better there than here. And the use
Of lime and boue-dust. as manures, has q
great influence in the production Of clover,
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So PER ANNUM.
Select poetrp.
THE OLD ARM CHAIR.


love Il love ii and who shall dare
To chlde me for loving that Old Arm chair7
I've treasured II long as a holy prize;
I've bcdewed Il with tears and embnimed Il with
sighs.
'Tis bound by thousand bands 10 my heart;
Not tic will break. not link viii start
Would ye learn the spellg mother sat there.
And u sacred thing is that Old Arm Chair
I've sat and watched her many day
When her eyes grew dim and her locks were grey
And almos, worshipped her when she smiled
And turned from her bibln to bless her child.
Ny idol was shattered, my earh-star fed,
Years rolled on, but the last one sped,
And learned how much the heart can bear
When saw her die in that old Arm Chair,
'Tis past It's past but gaze ON Il now
With quiycring breath and throbbing brow.
Twas there she nursed me. twas there she died
And memory flows with lava tide.
Say II Is folly, and deem me weak,
While the scalding drops start down my cheeks:
But love fl love 81 and cannot tear
My soul from my Mothers Old Arm Chair.
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Charcoal isa valuable internal palliative
in dyspepsia, and in many ofihe disorders
affecting the stomach and bowels. Taken
in doses Of . tablespoonful hight and morn
ing, i i cleansing, soothing, and healing
% foul sores An occasional dose Of the
powder produces a favorable improvement
IN sallow or tawny eomplexions.
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A number Of hotel proprietors, Journal.
lists aud others met at the stnrseyanE
House the other day, at the invitation of'
Mesara Warren and Charles Leland. ior
the purpose of examining the plans Of the
new Palace Hotel, now being built ia San
Francisco, at a cost ofsi 100000. Every
one expressed delight and astonishmont
with the vast proportions and complete
arrangements for the new hotel, which will
cover whole block $50 feet by US, or
$4,000 squire feet The furniture for
this palace win cost 100000, and there
will be accommodations for 200 guests.
6l.5O0,0oO win be required to complete
the hotel. The apartment win be very
spacious and finely decorated. The dining
room will be 165 feet in length, IS feet
in width, and % feet high and the break
fast-roOm ITO feet long, IS feet wide, and
2S feet high. There win be ZOO feet Of
arcades, IL feet wide, connecting with 20
stores, in which the guests Of the hotel can
do all their shopping without being expos
ed to the weather. On the second floor
there will be ehildren's dining-room, d
ladies' billiard-rOom, and an elegant parlor.
All the rooms in the hotel will be lighted
directly from the open air. California
possesses a temperature Of remarkable
evenness, making it "a desirable place of
residence the year round The thermom-
eter does not fall below so degrees in the
winter, nor rise above 6s degrees in the
summer. With such fine hotel tourists
win be attracted 70 San Francisco.
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Itissaid that Prince Leopold, The Young
est son Of Queen Victoria, delivered =
speech in English, French and italian. On
the occasion Of his admission % tie Ma
sonic ffatefhity.
, 1874-05-31

District Court, in Maine, was, prior to the War,
young lawyer in this city. and IN occaAlon.l
writer for The TRIBUNE, hs being protege OF
the iato DR.. Ray, who was at that time one OF its
editors.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Grand P1citfc-F. Il. Towes, New York; Gen.
John Watson. Arizona; 8. Evaas. New Zea-
land; Alexander Brown, Philadelphia; H. &.
Sa1ord, Cairo; c.. T. Webster, Hartford,
Conn; William Simpson, victosia, Aus-
tralia Alexander Agasslz, Cambridge; D. II.
Kelley, Wisconsin; George 2. Barbour, Philadel-
phia; George q. Webster Men York.
Palmer House-Jobn i. F1eck, Memphis
the Rev. John r. McDougal, Florence. Italy; The
Hon r. H. Smith England; tho Hon. Wm. T.
Crosby. Poughkeepsie; the Hou- c. ?. Thayer,
q. s. E1preas Co.. New York; the Hon. T. II.
Pomeroy, American Express Co.. Auburn, N. y;
tho Rev. Thos. Hart, Fort Garry; H. G. Van
stenvyck, L. Crosse; G. J. Lydecker, Q. s.
Engineer Corps, Washington City. Tre-
7nout Uouse-The Rev. u. E. Dwight.
oswego, Ills; the Hon: 1lilo ~ Smith,
Detroit; Gen. ". ". Horton, New York ;
J. r. BARTLETT, II. D., Milwaukee: ]. B. Seward,
New Yo,k; George F. Merritt, Boston; the Hon
J. u. Caldwell Portland. Nc; G. e. Aoore'
New Zealand; c, a. Newcomb, St. Louis; Gen.
". ". Beebe. New York. :. Sherman uo1sse-
H. J. Swift, New York; tho Hon. John F. Smith,
Ereeport; E. u. MoHatt, Philadelphia; Gen.
". B. Hazen, Fort Bu{oEd: J. s. Mitchell
Washington City; R. H. Clark, Philadelphia; J.
". Cline, johnstown, y. !.