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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-04-02
What I Saw and Heard
in Honolulu.
ny DAVID GRAHAM ADEE.
From the Repabhc.
CONTINUED fRoM YESTERDAY.

bllu pdldldDlC JurO, OF kdlO,
from which was made the
favoritc and universal poi,
half an acre of which potato
like root will suffice to sustain
a score of families for a year.
There were edible birds by
the hundred on branch and
bush, and several kinds of
sea-weed grew near the beach
inside the coralreefs which to
day are an acceptable dish as
salad CT jelly to the native
fisherman and rustics of the
islands. The conditions of
sustenancc being, then, favor
able to life and health, was
the nature Of the islanders
mfavorable to either, or to
human happiness? Let us
see!
When Captain Cook acct
dentally ran across this iso-
lated group of islands, a little
more than a hundred years
ago, he found them, he
states, peopled with some
four hundred thousand souls :;
Il gentle, tender, dark-eyed,
brown and shapely race, tail
and handsome, in appearance
not unlike Andalusians or
miable MeXieans, although
of the Malay family. These
ancient children of the sea
and the sun received the
crafty captain with the will
ing bestowal of all the hospi-
tality they had to offer, and
were even anxious to show
this strange sea-monster all
the respect and honor due Il
deity, so that he complacent-
ly assures us that they mis-
took him for a god, until he
mdeceived them by the com
mission of the very mortal
crimes of eXtortion, murder
and seduction. Then they at
once recognized in this brutal
Yorkshire mariner Il man and
n rascal. But his servile fol
lowers had emulated his wor-
thy example, and the simple,
yielding islanders of Hawaii
were hopelessly and fatally
infected with a vile disease
which before, with their pure
habits of cleanliness, was
utterly unknown amongthem
Fortunately, Cook was killed
while ruthlessly raiding md
looting these primitive, I'M.
suspeeting people, and his
ships and fellow-pirates wer,
driven off, leaving, however,
the seeds of disease and deatl
behind them as blessed
reminder of the English
sailors visit to their thithert,
happy and wholesome shores,
To be sure. they worshipe6
idols, but thereafter THEN
blind idolatry of the whit,
man and his interesting ways
of thought and life We're gon,
forever. Poor, harmless, in
nocent islanders! They hat
asked for enlightenment an6
they had received destruction
To them the mythic apple Of
Eve had turned to dead sea,
fruit, Then they We're left
severely alone, to think over
the heneiaetions of British
civilization, until about the
year 1920, when Amerios
suddenly took them in tow
and converted them to christ,
ianity. a good deal has beer
spoken and written about tn,
missionaries having made the
sweating and swimming son,
and daughters of the still
Pacific wear store-clothes
but doubtless with MALE,
..e...s.e. All ,.,,l,kxs l1aol
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
Bringing him to TaW.

Two men were standing at the gate OF a
country farm-yard whiting sticks and civ
ing each other dots about managing Wo-
men. "Talk sassy to 'em," the man on the
outside of the fence said, can yell see how
they'll be fotch down.
Just then the cabin door opened. and
read headed, long necked women yelled:
"Say, 'Zeke ther four's outr'
s'Out whar ?" he yelled back.
"Outen Their bar'p' she answered.
"Wall, put it back an cover it up tight
En-" he replied, while the outside man
grinned.
"Don't you see how she's hacked a.
readyP' he laughed, when the fiery top
not disappeared.
II does" spoke the elated victor. Pre-
sently the same shrill voice cried:
"Zeke, Use gwine over to mars an eff
ye think Their measles air ketchin, I'll leave
ther baby hyar.'
Dunno whether they's ketchin' er not, -
replied the husband. GIVE never seed 'em
ketch enything."
Again the head was drawn back, amid
applause from the outside. The next time
the door opened the muzzle of a shotgun
was poked out, and bead drawn on the
saucy man.
'Zeke," came the solemn voice.
''Melindy," he gasped, looking in vain
for some place to dodge.
sZeke," she continued, "the four's
out"
''All rite, Pm off ter the mill at once" he
answered shiveringly.
81 exc, Pm gwine over ter mars fer a
spell, dye think the measles is ketchin' %
"No, Melindy, seed pap ter day, an he
sed the chillunz wuz all WE'LL"
.sKerrect," she said, lowering the gun,
'1'm off. Ye can sorter clean up the place
till I git back, but be shore ter stay inside
while I'm gone"
Gail right" he answered meekly, NOV
ing aside to let her pass.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
Keep Out Of Debt.

The best advice that we can offer is con-
tanned in the four short words, 'Keep out
of debt" says popular writer. This
should be taken especially by the young men.
One of the most fatal steps a young man
can make is to contract debt. 1t mort
cages his future. 1t means in nearly every
case that he is living beyond his means.
Debt is what ruins SO many of our business
men. They begin with small accounts
and as their business increases they increase
their accounts, and finally their habits OF
living have become so expensive that the
debts begin to far exceed the returns of bu-
siness. The result is failure, disappoint-
ment, and disgrace. young man starts
out in life. He is quick, apt, and success
full. He gains the confidence of employers
and acquaintance. He is honest and up
right, and merchants had rather have
a bill against him than not. He is fiattereo
by the confidence that is reposed in him.
He buys fine things, goes in good society,
and from frugal style of living he branch
es out into an expensive style. At tlrst his
debts were small and he found no trouble IN
meeting them. But they have now become
a burden, and to straighten things out ne
cessitates vigorous struggle Self-denial
comes harder than it once did, and the
debt becomes a matter of worry that VII!
not be quoted. If sickness comes, instead
of having fund to draw on, there is de-
ficiency that each days illness makes larger
and more difficult to wipe out. Things
have changed since long ago. Then it was
customary for the young man to practice
self-denial in his youth, to work hard, gain
a competency and enjoy leisure beyond the
line which divides yowth from old age.
Now, it seems that the young man works
on different principle-his aim is to enjoy
the sweets of life at once and save the labor
and self-denial for future day. There is
enough of pleasure-healthy, joyous pleas
ure-that comes with legitimate and sue
cessfnl work, SO that young people can afford
to live slower for few years that they may
be better able to enjoy the years that follow.
Thrift is stranger to these times. The
tendency is in an opposite direction. Debt
contracting is the rule, not the exception.
Nothing should be more carefully avoided
by young people. Debt is great curse.
1t brings no comfort. On the other hand
it is accompanied by anxiety. The young
man who keeps out Of debt and secures a
balance on the other side of the ledger, not
only forms correct habits, but he gains a
satisfied peace of mind that cannot be Sc
cured in any other way and he stands armed
and ready for an emergency when it comes.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
A Word to WOrkingmen.

eff you elect Hancock you choose pauper
wages, idleness, and the poor house; but if
you elect Garfield you will get higher wages.
steady work, and prosperity Such were
the words addressed to the workingmen
and placarded On the manufactures pre-
ceding the last Presidential election. I'm
der the inspiration of these deceptive as
surances, and the protection fraud so often
played upon their fears the laboring men
were rallied to the Republican standard,
and what has been the result? With a
Republican in the Presidential office, and
Republicans controlling every department
and every act of Congress, it is now in Or
der for the workingmen to inquire how
about the promises given-where the higher
wages, where the steady work and prosper
ity? In what part of the country have the
promises been verified? Notwithstanding
that high protective tariff has been in ex-
istence all the time, and is still in existence,
everywhere laboring men have been work
ing upon half time and wages falling regu-
larry from Maine to Oregon. Why is this ?
The workingmen will do we'll to do little
tn mixing for themselves, and it may occur
to them that their happiness is not entirely
dependent upon the success of party whose
legislation is SO entirely in the interest of
monopoly that they are incapable of dis
eliminating in favor of labor, or keeping
good faith in their promises. Valley Echo.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
Bedding Corn Land.
By our Agricultural Editor.


The practice of planting corn in drill and
cultivate all one way, is becoming more
common year by year. 1t is a plan that
suits well low stiff lands that do not put up
grass very readily, and also On new ground
where distance only one way is required
1t is well to throw the lands into beds, ex-
cept on very light soil, especially as this
puts the seeds above water, in case of heavy
spring rains, and also saves time and labor.
By having the beds uniformly the proper
distance apart for the rows, you may at
first throw up only a part of the bed,
enough to plant upon, and after the crop
is planted the beds may be finished at
leisure. Once in bed, corn land may be
kept SO for an indefinite period, only re-
versing the ridge every spring, so as to put
the centre of the new bed in the middle of
the old balk. Corn planted on beds is
much easier to pillow than if planted level,
and being cultivated all one way more stalks
can be allowed to the acre without having
more than one in hill than by the other
method. We advocate the drill system for
corn, and the bedding of all stiff clay or bot
tom land. 1t is system well adapted to
narrow fields, or to meadow borders, hill
sides, &c. On rich land more corn to the
acre can be made in this way than in any
other The beds four feet wide, stalks two
feet apart in the drill, gives more hills to
the acre than could be plowed if planted
both ways.-Petersbnrg hder-Appeol.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
WHY DON'T THE GIRLS PROPOSE

Why don't the girls propose, papa?
Why don't the girls propose?
Each one seems coming to the point,
And then away she goes.
Though tits their privilege this year.
AS everybody knows.
They flirt in quite an awful way,
But, oh, they don't propose.
I've read the latest fashions,
talk of plat and frill,
And discuss the newest color
With quite consummate SKILL
am au fat on bonnets,
Know thing or two of hose.
And seem to interest them,
But they won't-they won't propose.
That most feminine of columns
In the excellent Bazor,
Where the queerest sort of queries
About making dresses are,
Ihave studied with attention,
Till Que really would suppose
That my language would attract them,
Yet still they won't propose.
I've practiced charming Innocence.
And weeping at The play;
And l can drop my eyelids -
In most engaging way;
I've studied bard TO blush and lisp
My Eyes" 'es and my mo" e.
And smiled with sweet persistence;
But they will not propose.
It's really very hard. papa;
There's cause for just complaint;
I'm even trying to teach my self
The way TO scream ard faint;
But while practice every art,
Too fast the leap-year goes.
Why don't the girls propose, papa?
Why don't the girls propose?
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
The Malone Dynamite Policy.

At last it has taken the form that all con-
sentative men expected. The teaching and
example of Malone, the Outcast, has done
the work he projected. The seed has borne
the fruit he desired. He has worked the
unfortunate negro to the pitch where igno-
rance takes on frenzy and frenzy attempts
to make itself contagious.
A Malone meeting called 'anti- Bourbon"
and "LlberaP' was held in Norfolk few
nights since. The Landmark mentions that
one of the negro orators said in his speech
before this meeting that ''the way to vote
was to put dynamite and powder with the
ballots" Here is genuine Mahoneism.-
Here is subject for reflection, North and
South: Dynamite and powder" must be
introduced in the Virginia elections. The
law-abiding people of the State can think
over this. It is useless for them to close
their ears to these incendiary illusions. Such
language at this time is full of meaning. 1t
is upon the very eve Of the coming canvass.
1t is made in an open meeting called by
Mahone-the first held in accordance with
his recent instructions.
At safe distance, in the capital of the
United States, he gives his orders; he at
tempts to raise storm, but takes care to
be beyond reach of the gale. The negro
voter mas on many occasions Wltnn tno past
few months given evidence of restlessness
under the Malone leadership. Promises Sc
literally made have no: been fulfilled. Bene.
fits which were pictured have faded until
the picture thereof is now but memory
The outcast, the baffled renegade has be.
thought himself of one cry by which he hopes
to reunite the negroes-'dynamite and
powder"
Mr.. Sherman's committee can remember
this. The utterance is by negro, by a Ma
hone leader. But regardless of Sherman 6
miserable and abortive scheme to villify Vir.
gnia the men most concerned must remem-
Der this incendiary remark. They must not
lose sight of the plots by which Malone is
endeavoring to consolidate the colored vote.
He regards the members of this too readily
deluded race as a pack of hounds, and his
cry for keeping them together is dynamite
and powder. ''-Riczmond State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
THE sPRING POET.
IT'S now the blithsome season

IT'S now the blithsome season
When poets without reason
Send their essays to the papers every day;
They treat of budding flowers,
And welcome springtime showers
And elfs and fairies called by them fays.
The SUMS refulgent rays
Most generally plays
The leading parts in pastorals like these;
Then the moonlights ambient CLEAN
Is rhymed with silvery stream
And the poet thinks it "iust the cheese"
And then he ambles on
With rhymes and lines forlorn
Of birdlets, streamlets, lakelets. by the score.
Till he thinks the divine aff1atus
Has ceased with joy to eate us.
And for the time he rhymes no more.
Then gayly doth he send
This poem which will rend
The tender hearts of all who do peruse it.
Then the paper he doth buy
And greatly wonders why
For page the first the editor didn't choose it.
Then doth the editor smile
smile that's full of guile,
And he sends boy to call ragman in;
Then to him doth he say,
"Now, what's the price you'll pay
Me for the paper in that bin? ?"
And the bargain he doth make,
And the ragman he doth take
Aweek' IS accumulation of poems on the spring
Then the editor doth speak;
pray drop in every week,
And next time do you wagon bring"
philadelphia Call
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08

Vital Questions
Ask the most eminent physician
Of any school, what is the best thing in
the world for quieting and allaying all irri-
tation Of the nerves and curing all forms
of nervous complaints, giving natural,
childlike refreshing sleep always?
And they will tell you unhesitatingly
''Some form of Hopsr'
CHAPTER l.
Ask any or all of the most eminent ply
sicians:-
"What is the best and only remedy that
can be relied on to cure all diseases of the
kidneys and urinary organs; such as
Brights disease, diabetes, retention or ina
bility to retain urine, and all the diseases
and ailments peculiar to Women
"And they will tell you explicitly and
emphatically "Buchu."
Ask the same physicians
"What is the most reliable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia; con-
stipation, indigestion, biliousness, malarial
fever, ague, &c - and they will tell you:-
Mandrake! or Dandelion p
Hence, when these remedies are COM
bined with others equally valuable
And compounded into Hop Bitters, such
wonderful and mysterious curative power
is developed which is so varied in its opera
tions that no disease or ill-health can posi-
bly, exist or resist its power, and yet it is
Harmless for the most frail woman, weak
est invalid, or smallest child, to use.
CHAPTER II.
Patients
Almost dead or nearly dying"
For years, and given up by physicians Of
Bright's and other k dney diseases, liver
complaints, severe coughs called consump-
ton, have been cured.
Women gone nearly crazy!
From agony of neuralgia, nervousness,
wakefulness, and various diseases peculiar
to women.
People drawn out of shape from excruciating
pangs of rheumatism
Infiammatory and chronic. or stuff ring from
scrofula!
Ery sipelas!
Salt rheum, blood pts wing. dyspepsia, in
digestion, and fact almus: :.l' diseases frail
Nature is heir to
Have been cured by top BitteIs, proof Of
which can be found in ss..ry neighborhood in
the known world. april '83-1y
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08

1t is understood that General Malone
treats with contemptuous disregard all ad-
vances of the straightout Republicans to-
ward Coalition on equal terms, and says
they are bound to 60 with him as they have
no where else to g, and that if they don't,
there are SO few of them that it will make
no difference. From the way such a pro-
nounced straightout, one too who has been
treated SO badly by the General, as Capt.
W. S. Lurty of Harrisonburg comes to Lis
suppt 1T, it looks as if the General is right
in his estimate of at least some of the
straightouts. But that all of them can
not be gagged by Capt. Lurty's standard,
and that all Virginia Republicans are not
''apostates FOR the price of their apostacy,"
as Capt. John Wise says they are, the Gen
eral will discover on the 30th inst, when
their State convention will be held-Aler.
Gnzeffe
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08

The Richmond Dispatch says the ''to
bacco planters of Virginia and of the coun-
try generally prefer free trade in tobacco
to free trade in champagne wines, silks,
diamonds, or what n It," Yes. but all the
people of the State and the country prefer
free trade in sugar, rice, salt, fuel, clothing,
hats. shoes, building material, farming i'm
plements, medicines, and all other necessa-
ries of life, even to free trade in tobacco.
But the tobacco planters could also have
that if the revenue of the government were
collected as the trainers of the constitution
supposed it would be.-Aler. Gazette.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
Among the Whitest Things on Earth

Are teeth, beautiful and preserved by
SOZODONT; and the rose is scarce sweeter
than the breath which becomes aromatic
through its influence. It is the very pearl
of dentifrices and the surest preventive Of
dental decay in existence. It remedies
with certainty canker and every species of
corrosive blemish upon the teeth, and coun-
teracts the hurtful influence upon them of
acidity of the stomach. The formula of its
preparation includes only botanic ingredi-
ents and it contains only the purest and
most salntary Of these,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08

TIMELY SUGGESTIONS. are good
fertilizer for currant bushes.
Cut down dead apple trees They serve
as breeding places for insects.
Bad roads are good for the wagonmaker
and bad for the wagons.
Dark beehives are warmer than white
ones.
: Cut potatoes before feeding to cattle.
White oak makes more desirable gate
posts than hickory.
Buy only such commercial fertilizers as
are very fine.
Horses will not suffer from CALLED should
ers if their collars are kept clean.
Never mix wood ashes with anv other
manure. One destroys the other.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08

If the straightout republicans of Virginia
expect any recognition whatever at Chicago
they will do well to have not only full
convention on April Both, but convention
made up of real Republicans from every
county in the State. The difficulties in the
way of recognizing them will be great
enough at best if the convention at Rich
mond ON the Both should be mere gather
ing of commercial politicians, picked up
here and there by chance, those difficulties
would become insurmountable, no matter
whose friends may control the Chicago con-
misunderstanding nder-Appeal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08

A PRINTERS PARoNoMAsIA.-Ap pretty
and dashing little lady who called at the
Newspaper Union the other day to see how
type was set up, and asked the foreman if
he could print kiss.
ooh yes" said he, if I was allowed to
lock up your FORM"
"Now, you are imposing on me and
won't stand it. If that's your rule
think it's a case where I'd be justified in
hitting you with Stick"
''Be composed miss, and Tll speak
'planer' to chase away your fears. Not for
all the 'quoin' in Christendom would take
advantage of your ignorance, and 1 would
give you proof that you are not my 'dupe
rather, would slug the person who had
lead you to think 500
"Ah, yes, know" she replied. 'These
'stereotyped sentences I've heard before. but
in shorter space Of time than this I've
known printer to take an 'em brace But
couldn't column man gentleman, who'd
do SO; could your
'1'd like to put displayed head on
him." was the foreman's reply as he went
off to swear at the 'devip' down the eleva-
tor
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
Mr.. Vance Hauls Mr.. Hoar over the Goals.
From the Senate Proceedings on Wednes-
day, March 10Th.

Hioih tuo Ccudto IrOceeQlngS on WoQneS-
day, March 10Th.
Referring to remark made by Mr.. Hoar,
on Tuesday, in relation to North Carolina's
illiteracy, in which Mr.. Hoar had spoken OF
the old North State as being at the tail OF
all the States in the matter of education
Mr.. Vance spoke sarcastically of the pros
trating effect of such blow.
He said his case and that of his State re
minded him of the story of young fellow
who went to a circus, and, getting into a
fight with the man belonging to the show,
was knocked down.
His friends hearing the young man bel
lowing went to him and tried to soothe and
cheer him. They raised him to his feet
and told him to brace up and be man, for
itwasn't such an awful thing to get knocked
down.
TT isn't getting knocked down that hurts
my feelings; that isn't what Pm crying
about" said the rustic; don't mind the
blow, what hurts me is that they knocked
me down with the same stick that they use
to whip the monkeys WITH
1T Is not that my Safe is called the tail
State that pains me" said Mr.. Vance, 81
and the people of North Carolina could bear
that well enough, but it is crushing to think
that the blow came from the Senator from
Tewkesbury."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08

CAN VIRGINIA BE SoLD?-Democrat
throughout the State must continue to per-
feet their organization. Let each county
at once organize, and in addition let a Dem
ocratic club be formed in every precinct.
We would see Democl ats vie with each
other in the work of getting up effective
clubs. The attempt is being made again
to put Virginia in the market. Malone,
the Outcast, claims that he can sell her, and
the corrupt Republican ring is ready to be
the purchaser.
virginians should have learned by this
time that it is dangerous to remain inert.
If the shackles are once more around us,
then farewell to p osperity, to liberty, and
all that would render Virginia habitable
We cannot afford to put off until the eve of
the campaign the matter Of organization.
Let the roll of the counties be called at
once, and let them be ready and equipped
for active duty. Let he State take her
proud position in the grand old Democrat
ic column.-Richmond State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-04-08
The protectionists derive their chief su

The protectionists derive their chief sup
port from the working men. And yet if
any working man will compare the pur-
chasing power of dollar now with what it
was when the tariff was low, and then COM
pare his wages now with what they were
then, he will have realizing ense of the
fact that whoever the protective tariff may
protect. if it really protects anybody, it
certai ly doesn't protect him.-Aler. Ga
zette