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Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-06-17

The adjourned annual meeting of the Cousins
Society, will be held in tho Vestry OF Fort Street
Church. this evening at O'Clock. Tho Pre.-
dents annual address and the reports of all tho
retiring officers will be road. All who inter-
estsd are cordially invited to attend. Remember
tho hour, O'Clock
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
Something New In Advertising.

II has remained for druggist in New
Haven to find new and highly impor-
tant use for the advertising columns OF
newspaper-one that entities him to
rank with the philanthropists of the age.
BY mistake the ingenious apothecary put
a poisonous compound in prescription
brought to his place by woman, a per-
feet stranger TO him, he not knowing
either her name or residence. When he
discovered the frightful error he had
committed, lie did not sit down to wiring
his hands or waste time in useless re-
grets; he sat down and penned an ad-
yertlsement warning the woman of the
dangerous nature OF the drugs he had
sold her, forbade her using the com.
pound, and requested her to return and
get the proper medicine. He fastened
to the Office of the daily evening news.
paper, where, on stating the case, he ex-
perienced no difficulty in, having the
advertisement well displayed in con-
spicuous place. Half dozen persons
FASTENED to call the woman's attention
TO the novel but very effective danger
| signal. The attention OF almost e&ery
one in the city having sick person in
! their house, therefore likely to have
prescription compounded, was called TO
the curious advertisement, which ef1ec-
tually performed its work of saving
human life. Very promptly the poison
ed medicine was returned, the proper
drugs substituted, and the blundering
apothecary applauded for his presence
| of mind.
Mistakes will happen to druggists as
well as to other MORALS; all errors can
not be set right by advertising them; but
much good can be done, in seemingly
hopeless cases, by the use Of printers
ink. Lugubrious mortals, who can not
discover any good in advertising any
thing at any time, should ponder over
the advertisement in New Haven that
was instrumental in saving human
| lifa
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
Maudlin sympathy for Criminals.
Lewiston (Me.) Journa


Two murders in Main in one week,
both perpetrated by ignorant mer with
low foreneads, indicate that the mlllen-
mum is still postponed, and that the
species is still capable OF intellectual as
well as moral improvement. One oi
these murders is caused by what is term
ed jealousy and the other is the result OF
hot temper. Already the debate on the
revival of capital punishment is renew
ed. The cases are a strong argument foI
the school house and for sound moral
and religious instruction. That both
should 90 together is indicated by the
fact that this Cherry field murderer hast.
ened from a religious meeting to cut his
paramour's throat. A peculiar illustra'
lion of the inadequacy Of passing senti'
ment and mere emotion is given in the
conversation of the supposed murderer
at Katahdin Iron Works, who is ready
to pay all the doctors bills of the man
whose skull he has crushed, and vslun-
teers to support the family of the mur-
dered man-of course provided the un'
reasonable and hard hearted Sheriff ol
that section does not arrest the tender
hearted murderer and deprive him OF
the birthright of free American citi-
zen. In the case of the Cherryfeld muir
der, the papers affirm that an executive
officer down in Washington county be
lieves that the murdered woman is in
great degree responsible for her Owl
murder. Between pity for the victim
and pity for the victimizer, will not some
person with hat full Of brains and a
heart full of the milk of human kindness
now divert some intelligent sympathy
toward the public. and thus help ring
out the era OF "maudlinism" and ring in
the era OF public protection in the Ger
tainty of punishment, without the un
reasonable exercise Of the pardonini
power? In this State notorious crimin
ais have been pardoned out because theil
health was poor, and now We observe
that in Massachusetts bank destroyer
has been pardoned on the same plea
Some way must be devised to preven
criminals from being sick.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
Fashionable Laxiness.
lie Figaro.

"T am almost 80 years old and am
losing my talent of enjoying life," says
the marchionesss Of Musett, Paris, whom
everybody believed to be eternally
young, is losing the power of being able
tOamuse herself and women are wear
ing black dresses as II they were in
mourning for their illusions and their
gayety. -.
They nibble something or other all
day-after lunch comes tea time-"5
o'clock" then they dine and late in
the evening second tea affords them an
opportunity to enjoy the dainties. The
oraudes faiscuses and those who general.
ly love to be busy dolefully that they are
obliged to to transform themselves from
sylphs into carryatides. The woman
fairy has vanished to give place to wo-
man sultana. An almost inert life, made
up of vanity and Incidence, cradles us
now in inactivity.
In the little modern saloon, hung
with, precious stuffs, encumbered with
trinkets, oddities, flowers, screens, plush
covered tables, there is not an object nor
O nook which does not suggest the soft
and silky magnifcence of harem.
The woman, half reclining in her
great fauteuil, distractedly embroiders
or dreamily reads.
The children are releeated to the
nursery; the visits which must be made
do not occupy two hours of the day
Furthermore, the violets in the satin
lined coupe; the iris perfumes Of the
cushions; The warm atmosphere OF the
rolling jewel box nurse the fair visitor in
the same dreaminess, the same soft hal
lucination as of a sleeper awakened.
The torpedo woman no longer exists.
We have now only the morphine wo-
man. numbness of refined Incidence
envelope her body, her wandering
thought, rendered misty by the new life,
caresses only clouds and chimeras.
Indifference, apparent indifference at
least, seems to have become in her eyes
virtue TO be cherished. The woman of
to-day doubtless wishes this epitaph to
be craven upon her tomb.
"From her hands the book has fallen
in wich she never read"
Woman had already descended from
religion to love-that most human of ell
faiths.
Now she is not even sensible TO senti.
ment. Aside from the living works of
faith, which now, alas, gives her but little
concern, is she even likely to devote her
self to the care of her own family and
her own interests.
Rolled up in her luxury like some
island bird in the down of its nest, wo,
man cares only for quiet and comfort, for
the triumph Of her little vanity when she
goes out, for the delights of repose and
of luxury when she is at home.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

who started his credit There is not q
hotel-keeper who ever established
hotel in New York that did not have 10
20 in debt for his beef, which is the
largest expenditure, next to rent, that Is
TO be made. When Hawk came to New
York from Chicago, and took the 81.
Nicholas Hotel he could not pay for his
meat. When Daw took the Astor House
he had nothing. Walton came to the
50. James q broken man. BTeslin had
not q cent when he took the Gileey.
Hotchkiss was worth less than nothing
when he started the st. James. The
butchers maintained these men until
they could make business; and although
the hotel keepers have made money for
several years past, their butchers may
have made more"
How much Is the beef bill Of an aver
age hotel in New York;"
"Well, a hotel like the st. James may
have beef bill Of 81 500 month. The
Brunswick will run. perhaps, up to s., 900.
There Is hardly one of these hotel men
who knows how to make any computa-
ton on on his sef, and he has to accept
the prices put at him by his butcher.
You see, the butcher knows what the
beef cost on the hoof, and can compute
from that the value OF the cuttings, ribs,
etc. That would break the head Of al
most any hotel man TO compute it. There
are butchers in Washington Market
worth q million. They studied the
hotel business with as full reference
to the hotel man himself to the situation
he occupies, and the trade that will come
TO that point, etc. Frequently hotel is
in debt $4,000 for beef already eaten
There is not a butcher who has given
credit to the hotels that has not i'm
mensely prospered, and the hotel sys-
tenn, in fact, is based on beef"
"Have all the hotels been making
money Of late?"
Every one of them in New York.
There is not one of the large hotels that
has not cleared 100000 year for two
years past"
asked how the hotels ranked in
money-making power.
"Well, the Fifth Avenue Hotel clears
more money than any in New York.
Next to that comes the Astor House.
Third comes the Windsor; fourth, prob.
ably, the Brunswick; fifth, l should
think, the Hoffman House."
Among the market.men heard refer
red TO by these hotel folks was one who
deals in poultry and is u rich man at
the same time capital preacher, preach.
ing for nothing in the Baptist church on
Laight street. He handles thousands
of pounds of chickens, ducks and turkeys
in the most werldly style, and then takes
the pulpit aud laws down the moral law
as eioquently as Peters rooster.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
Trying TO Borrow q Half f-Dollsr.
Texas siflings.


Pete Freer is always hard up for
money, and is everlastingly trying to
borrow from his friends. Col. Andrews
has got plenty Of ofmoney, but he does not
like to lend it to Pete, for fear he would
forget all about it. On the first of the
month Pete met Col. Andrews and said
to him: Can you lend me half dollar
for few minutes? | want to pay my
landiady?" 81 am sorry, Pete, but yes.
terday let George Horner have the last
half a dollar had about me, otherwise,
l would be proud to lend il to you"
Next day he made another attempt to
borrow halfa dsllar from Andrews, who
said he had on the day before paid out
his last cent for taxes; but for that he
would let Pete have the money in min.
ute. On the next day Pete made
another attempt to get that half dollar,
but Col. Andrews said he had, on the
day previous been paying his pew rent,
and it took the last cent he had, other
wise he would take much pleasure in
lending Pete as much money as he
needed; that there was no man in Austin
whom he respected as much as he did
Pete Freer. On the succeeding day Pete
once more tackled Andrews, who re-
membered that be had on the day be-
fore contributed the only half dollar be
had to the erection of an Alamo monu.
ment; otherwise be would be proud to
advance Pets the cash. Pete began TO
lose hope, and yesterday, when he met
Andrews on Austin avenue, instead Of
asking him for the half a dollar, he mere
ly inquired: II say, Colonel, what did
you do with that half dollar yesterday
that you can't lend me to day.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
APREsENTMENT OF DEATH.
Postmaster bale, of stapieton, Found Dosd
His wife's Strange Dream.


His wife's Strange Dream.
New York Herald.
Mr. John Bale, Postmaster Of Staple
ton, station Island. was found dead IN
Brownell street, near Harrison street,
Stapleton, early yesterday morning. ne
had been engaged in the post-ofiice up
TO midnight balancing his accounts, and
when he left he carried with him large
sum of money, stamps and other val'ia-
bles belonging to the United States Gov.
ernment. On his way home he stopped
for SOME moments at q billiard room,
and then left, saying he was going to bed.
He was not seen alive after Mr.. Cassiday,
brother in-law of the deceased, came II
the Staten Island ferry boat at l2:l3. on
his way home he passed a man lying on
the ground. SupposiDg him 10 pc IN,
toxicated, he took no further notice OF
him and passed on. At o'clock Mr..
Louis Taylor, OF Harrison street; passed
that way. The PROSTATE man still lay
in the same position. Apprehendlng
that 1t was but trick to rob him, Mr.
Taylor's first impulse WAS to pass on, bu!
on reflection he returned and looked
closer at the figure. Not recognizing
him, but perceiving that he was re-
specially dressed man, he went for as
sistance to Tynan's Hall. Several per,
sons accompanied him to Brownell
street, where the body was recognized az
that of Mr.. Bale. Deceased was removed
to Tynan's Hall and DR.. John l.. Feeny
was sent for. On his arrival he declared
life had been extinct several hosrs. A
superficial examination disclosed a
wound on the forehead, such as would
have been caused by o fall, and bruises
on the face. On the spot on which the
face had lain few drops of blood were
found. Subsequently an open penknlfe
was found at some distance away, but
no importance was attached to this cir
cumstance. His money and valuables
had not been disturbed, and this is re,
garded as disposiDg OF the thesry o.
violence. Death is supposed to have
been the result of sudden tit OF apo
plexy.
Mr.. Bale was about "A years Of age
and was man of very correct and tenn
perate habits. He was married and waf
The father of five children, the eldest OF
whom is girl about IL years old. ne
was Master of Tompkins Lodge, No. AL
and member of the Grand Lodge OF
the State of New York. He was also Q
prominent member of the &. A. M. In
addition to his business as Postmaster
he owned job printing and stationary
establishment. Some years ago he was
publisher ofthe Richmond County ca
sette under DR.. w. G. Anderson. Hif
widow states that at 1890 o'clock she was
awake kened from her sleep by dream
that her husband was in danger. She
could not sleep, and she rose to pray fol
him. She continued praying until 4 a
m. for the safety of her husband, who lay
for hours stiff and stark under the pelt-
ing rain almost at his own door. When
the doctor appeared her first words were
"Where is my husband? Is he dead ol
alive?" She said she had a presentmen
of his death.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
Preparing Cod for Market.

Nineteenth Century. -,
Salt Goldfish is q popular artlcie %
diet. but many who are fond OF II nave
no idea of the method by which 1t Is
The principal industry of Newfound..
land Is the cod-fshery, and the cher
center of the trade is at st. Johns, where
the process of packing and shipping the
salted fish may be witnessed to great
The fish having been dried on stages
erected for the purpose on the shores OF
every bay and inlet in the island, are
brought to st. Johns in small schooners'
and thrown in heaps upon the wharVes
of the merchants. .
There thew are culled over, sorted into
three or four piles, according 10 'neil
quality, by experienced cuilers, VINO
separate the good from the indifferent,
and the Indifferent from the bad, Win
great rapidity and unerring skill.
Women with hand barrows attend up
on the cullers, carry tue fish into an ad-
;oininp shed. and upset their loads be-
side barrels standing ready to receive
them. :.
a couple of boys throw the fish into
cask, piling them up foot or so above
the brim. mount on the top, and having
danced war dance upon them in their
hob.nailed boots to pack them down,
roll the barrel under a screw-press,
where two men stand ready TO take
charge Of it.
Grasping the ends of the long arms Of
the lever, the men run quickly round
couple of times, lift their feet off the
ground, and throwing their weight on
The lever to add impetus to the blow
swing round with it, and bring down the
stamp with a dull thud COMPRISING the
cod. fish into compact mass.
The cask is then rolled out from undel
the press, and handed over to two coop
ers. a,
In a trice the hoops are driven on, tht
cask is headed up, and then trundlee
down on an incline into the hold o
some vessel loaded for the West lndie
or some Mediterranean port. The rap
idity with which the whole process
managed is remarkable.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

THE value OF the New York Sun is rep
resented by $50 share of stock. Of which
one share was sold the other day for
A,lO0 This puts the value of the whole
at 81 .435 900, not bad estimate for a
'small' daily paper. But this sum does
not represent the real value. For rea-
sons best known to parties concerned,
this single share was not bid up to its
real value; it was sold cheap. The actual
price of Sun stock is 5000 per share,
which brings the value of the entire in
terest up to 81, 10000. Five thousand
dollars per share is five times more than
par value, which is 81 900 per share.
For years the Sun has paid so per cent
dividends on the par value Of its stock,
50 that one share brings in the holder
$500 per year. At this rate of interest
IS, 1000 per share is not high price. Mr..
Charles Dana's income from salary and
interest on stock is said to be s75 900 per
year, and Mr.. England's, the publishers,
is very large.-Erchange.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
Henry Claws Property.
John wentworth's Chicago Letter


Mr.. Clay had large and expensive
family, aud he keenly felt his poverty
while he lost no opportunity of express.
ing his gratitude TO friends, known and
unknown, for all kinds Of favors. The
day upon which Mr.. Webster made bis
celebrated speech, IN March, 1850, he
was highly eulogizing ii at dinner, when
some one asked him il he didn't think
Mr.. Webster's influence had been great
" impaired by his allowing certain
wealthy men in Massachusetts to settle
an annuity upon him for abandoning
his practice in the courts SO as to devote
more time to public affaiis Mr.. Clay
responded: "In view of the manner in
which my note was paid at the bank in
Kentucky, do not think ought TO speak
upon that subject. With difficulty had
raised the money 10 pay the interest
when went TO the bauk and asked
renewal. The cashier told me l had no
note there. / asked him what had be-
come of il, and he said he was instructed
TO answer no questions. And never have
been able to find out who paid it; but"
turning to Judge Conrad, of New Orleans,
he said: Judge, always supposed yon
had something TO do with the matter"
To which he responded: Whether | or
any one else had anything to dowth the
m after you will never know" Mr.. Clay
said: an view of my many opponents, l
am as thankful for the secrecy as the
money; but when am free from public
life, I am going to insist upon knowing
who were such benefsctors' When
some one said, "Mr. Clay, your friends
will never let you be free from public
life" an that view, gentlemen" said
he, "bear witness to my inexpressible
gratitude to my friends, not only for
their favor, but for their manner of be-
slowing it," adding that there was but
one unpleasant thing about it-that it
was the only present that he had ever
received that he could not divide with
bis friends. Here Judge Conrad OBJ.
serves, "That need not trouble You, as
you had literally divided the proceeds
before yos gave the note" "You are
right" said Clay, the note was given
principally 10 take up toe paper Of
liieuds which had indorsed."
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

JokEy fellows ere they of the Ohio
Legislature. A bill was introduced the
other day TO give . lady authority to
change her name. Itwas moved TO strike
ont the proposed name and substitute
that Of the honorable bachelor who had
offered the bill. This was done amid a
great hurrah. Then this work had TO be
undone through reconsideration. The
matter occupied the attention Of the leg.
islators for the greater part of the half
day; but they had lots of fun over it.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

MIS- JULIA TEST. Of Richmond, Ind,
has lust recovered watch lost in Pull
man deeper thrse yean ago. In re-
building the car the workman found the
watch Vedeed In corner Of the berth.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

ALEcruRER asks, on . rany day, why
one of the audience had paid the ad-
mission fee and came in and slept all the
while? "Iwill tell you" said the old
man, with shrewd wink of the eye. Il
vas out in the ram, and a. l had no um'
brslla 70 keep me from getting wet, and
tickets are only twenty-five cents and
umbssllas are seventy. Ave cents, ! saved
any By coming In"
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
The Proof-Reader.
Blunderbuss in the Saturday Review.

Blunderbuss in the Saturday Review.
"Papa, who is that sorrowfnl, cad look.
ing man we just metz"
"He is proof-reader on a morning
newspaper, my SON."
"Well, should think he would be
very happy, reading all the news and
pretty stories. Why does he look 30
miseratle?"
There's where you're of. my son.
Happy, indeed! He has cause 10 look
miserable. II! tell you. He is an asylum
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

ACALrroRxn man. worth nearly $780,.
900, recently attended the funeral Of his
son. Just before the coffin was lowered
he unscrewed the silver handles, and
taking them back to town, sold them TO
an undertaken.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

THERE is . lot between Boston and
Mount Auburn which Mr.. Longfellow
for many years kept open thatit might
not obstruct his view of the Charles
River, and the friends Of the poet sue-
esst that this IL the place Of all others on
which 10 build his monument
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

wHILEpreaching from text, "He eiveth
his bsloved sleep," . Toledo minister
stopped in the middle Of bis sermon,
gssed upon his sleeping auditors and
said: Brethren, II is hard to realize the
wondrous unbounded love the Lord ap-
pears to have for good portion Of this
cou~rsOntion."
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

STHKaE is q great deal Of charity In this
sort in tee world. A gentleman said: II
have Just bought q new dress for poor
woman and sent 1t to her" "How very
like you and how very kind of you," was
the rejoinder, "and pray who was the
poor woman whom you made 80 happy?
at Wa my wife" !" was the dry reply.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

TnxY are always discovering something
wonderful out In California. The latest
thing In wonders is canary who refuses
70 sing unless . mouse, fer whom the
bird has been struck with consuming
pasuion. ID with him In the cage.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

In slipped quietly in atthe door, but
catching sight Of an inquiring face over
the stair rail. said: "Sorry 90 late. my
dear; couldn't geta car before" $50 the
cars we're full, too," said the lady, and
further remarks were unnecessary.
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

TIE time Of year is at hand when DIR.
Givnns recipe for the preparation Of
cucumbers will be needed. "Peel the
cucumber, he says. with great care;
then cut 1t into very thin slices, put on
psper and salt At discretion, and then
throw Il aWay."
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

A GENTLEMAN who took 10 medicine
late In life said to friend: "You know
the old preverb-at 40 man must be a
fool or . physicianf" "Yes," was the
reply; "but, doctor, don't you think he
can bo both?"
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

sI'p have you know that my uncle was
4 bsnnistsr Of the law" "A fig for your
bennister!' retorted Mrs. Partington,
turning up her nose; haven't l cousin
- n . corrider In the navy?"
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29
HOTELS AND BUTCHERS.
HOW the New York cxrsvansariss Make
Money Nowadays.
Cath" In Cincinnati Enquirer.

uutH IN CihcfnhAu Enquirer.
l. was speaking TO some hotel men yes.
terday, who gave me q curious insight
into hotel. keeping Of the present day
One cf them said: 'Do you know that
the butchers have made the fortunes OF
all the hotel men in New York City?"
! did not knowit.
why" said he, 'the butchers who
sell meat on credit to these hotel.keepers
are abler men than they are. These
Isncy hotel-kecpers are very superficial
Sian, and BY mixing with men Of posi-
1eo and wealth q their counten ihey
- ~ Nnk thomso1yuD q very able
I = lj1o1 fsuuu4 IAeEu = hardly
- - - 1Aa4 NNlA ~ - ~ ri
- ~ ronea nnt1oFee ~ bslcAer,
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

MN men out Of tan are mean enough
to enjoy saying 70 physician who goes
hunting and gets no game: why didn't
you take your medicine chest instead Of
The Osceola times., 1882-04-29

4 xusszAx oncer, says the Nature, has
invented . very ingenious apparatus for
asosrtainins the depth Of the sea without
the ~ Of . costly and heavy line. In
dssd, no line At all is used. The instru-
msnt conEsts Of . piece Of lead, small
wheel, With contrivance for register.
ing the number Of revolutions and a
float. While the apparatus sinks, the
wheel revolvss, and the registered revo.
lutions indicate the depth. When the
bottom Is reached the lead becomes de-
In1hed. - noet begins to aot and the
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