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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-12-20
Ghe Aailg 8nlletin
MONDAY. DEC. 20, 1886.
A MUlAIT0 FILTRATION.

"You go long 'Perionv II
want TO, druffly, but 1 can't"
"W'y?" "Cause my feet is fastened
to de yearth, Miss Rose" 1 don
see muffin keepin' 'em--'less it's
cause day so big, you can't luf
'em." DEEMS massa's own shoes
Is wearing, anyhow, tank you;
I'mired de buckles in 'em dis morn
in, and he says-'Go long, take
ems and den he GIBBS me dis note
to bring ODER, safe and SCUM, and
tell no tales. | wears massa's
shoes, and everybody knows he got
han some feet. No, no, Miss Rose,
faint dat it's suthin else is fast
cnin' oh 'em. Can't you gess?"
claws no--course l can't" "Its
'traction-'traction of grabity, tow'd
dc lubly bein' in whose presence l
now revolbe," claws, Mister Peri
on, you uses such obbrobrious
language" "We's had opportuni-
ties. Miss Rose: we amt common
folks. Sides, Use 'spired by de
OCCASION Specs if you was con-
wersin, wild Miss July, de likes oh
me couldn't understand it at ALL"
and the crimson turban of the
young mulat,o girl gave coquet-
fish toss, and the black eyes flashed
at him quick, sidelong look.
Now. don't go to sayin' dat"
answered her companion, with a
gesture of distress. "You knows l
ncber speake to July less l can't
help it. Course, bein' fellowser-
bants, and eatin' to de same table, l
has to be perlite to her. But l CESS
/ knows who l wishes was missus'
maid, stead of dat pert niggah."
81 wouldn' belong to nobody but
my own young missus. She's de
bestus young lady in de hull Louisi-
any state. Don'r you 'tink she's
berry handsome "She's mighty
hans for q white lady-mighty
handsome, and l don't wonder young
massa t'ink so; but / knows who
suits my taste better!'' "Who,
now ?'-with the most innocent
interest. Wy, dc lubly bein' who
waits on her, in course" With q
flushing brow, again the crimson
turban was tossed. claws, Mister
Perion, you is such fatterer!"
The young colored man leaned
against the gate-post, surveying her
admiringly; her 1.-the, slender form,
clear, yellow complexion, and flash
ing eyes were doubtless his ideal of
female beauty.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-12-20
BEACH RETlRES FROM SCULLING.

The London Sportsman of Octo-
Der 10th has the following :-"Mr.
Decide authorizes the editor to
state that William Beach has de-
cided finally to retire to private life.
The champion has beaten all the
prominent scullers of his day, and
therefore considers he is entitled to
rest on his laurels. His private
affairs now claim large portion of
his attention.
A cablegram represents William
Beach as saying during an amicable
meeting with Edward Hanlan, at the
Cambridge Music Hall, London,
that he had made 100000 during
his brief career as sculler, and he
proposed on his return to Australia
to devote himself to his farm, hold
ing himself, however, in readiness
to accommodate anyone who might
undertake to wrest the Champion
ship from him, on the Paramatt.
He made no formal response to
Hanlan's challenge. j. A. Gaudaur,
Americas champion sculler, on his
return to New York on October Bird,
from London, spoke very highly of
Beach, personally, and as an oars
man. At the conclusion of the race
between the two for the champion
ship of the world, Beach shook
Gaudaur by the hand and said,
"You are the best man l ever met
in my life. "-[Auckland Weekly
News.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-12-20
A MISER'S AMBITION.

New York, December 6th.-The
1ridame's Boston special says:
Harvard College, it is understood,
will be about three or four hundred
thousand dollars richer by the death
on Saturday last in Boston of an
eccentric man, E. Price Greenleaf.
Greenleaf was miser and accumu-
lated his large property by the most
miserable mode of life. For fifty
years he had been a resident of the
picturesqSe town of Quincy. He
lived the life of an anchorite, with
hundreds of thousands of dollars
behind the stout granite walls of the
Safe Deposit Company. He would
deny himself nearly all the privileges
and most of the necessities of life.
BY his death remarkable family
became extinct. He was the last
remnant of union between the
Greenleaf and Price families. They
were Boston-bred people on both
sides of the house. Many members
of both families have lived almost
to the century mark. 1t is SAID
that Greenleaf had a great desire to
be immortalized by Harvard, and
that this was his chief ambition in
life. When it became known short
time ago that his days on earth were
few, he expressed desire to have
his photograph taken. His wish
was gratified. The photograph will
accompany the bequest, and if Har-
ward follows Greenleaf's desire it is
said that the college will have it
copied in oil and hung upon its
| walls
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-12-20

The word "tallth" for height
appears in Mrs. Harriet Prescott
Spofford's story in Iiarper's.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16
Why EnGlishmcn Seek American
Wives.

From the Baltimore American.
The popular taste rel on the other
side OF the water appears to be grow
ing more and more warm toward
America and Americans. The wealthy
and titled men OF the old World are
seeking with increased earnestness
American brides, and it is
to suppose that all they are after is
the parental Doodle. There is a charm
about American girls that the English
do not have. The women of Great
Britain are brought up from their
earliest infancy to maintain a submis-
sive and meek regard for the other
sex. They are taught that the only
thing in life for them is to marry COM
iortably and gointo a sort of serfdom
for the rest Of their lives. No Ameri-
can girl goes into matrimony with any
such idea. She is bound to get the
upper hand if she can ami she has u
sweet and brisk independence about
her that is most attractive to men
who have met with nothing but the
other sort of thing. So it is that Amer
lean girls, who at first shocked for
r,an society, are in great demand in
Europe nowadays rs ornaments to
Haioon md drawing rooms and as
prospective brides to nabob natives.
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Connecticut's "Leather Man,,

Almost everybody in Connecticut
knows the "leather man" He is n
queer old chap. Everything about
him isleather, Hishat, coat, breeches
and travelling sack are made OF coarse
tanned stuff. 1t is seldom that this
eccentric individual speaks q word.
Year in and year out hetramps about
the State obtaining his food from the
kind-hearted people along the route.
Always visiting the same houses.
knocking at the kitchen doors AID
pointing to his mouth his wants are
supplied. Whenever the mute appeal
tor vlctuais is refused the offending
housewife is placed on his mentalblacE
list and her house is never visited q
second time. A great deal of specula-
ton has been INDUCED in by observers,
VINO wonder what this mans story is.
Why should he follow the same path
way around the Nutmeg State as he
has done Tor nearly half u century.
with his face covered by a prizzled
beard, his head cast down in his
solemn tramp, tramp, tramp? Wise
acres IN hamlets irequented by the
leather man" are apt to say, II
his history" Then they spin a
long yarn OF how, when a young man,
this seml-respectable tramp loved a
maiden fair. She would not have the
aspiring shoemaker apprentice. His
scorned affection sunk into melan.
choly. Unable to betake himselffrom
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Twenty Years of National His
tory.
From Mr.. Blaine's Second Volume

From Mr.. Blaine's Second Volume.
The National Government has in
these twenty years provedi its strength
IN war, its conservatism in peace. The
self-restraint which the citizens of the
Republic exhibited in thehour ofnced.
the great burdens which they bore un-
der the inspiration of public duty, the
public order which they maintained by
their instructive obedience to the com.
mand OF law, all attest the good gov
eminent OF self-governing people. Full
liberty to criticize the acts OF persons
IN official station, free agitation OF all
political questions, frequent elections
that give opportunity Tor prompt set.
Element of all issues, tend to insure
popular consent and public safety.
NO government of modern times has
encountered the dangers that beset the
United States, or achieved h etriumphs
wlierewith the Nation is crowned.
The assassination o ftwo Presidents.
one inaugurated at the beginning, the
other at the close OF this period. while
a cause of profound national grief, re.
fleets no dishonor upon popular gov
eminent. The murder Of Lincoln was
the maddened and aimless blow of AN
expiring rebellion. The murder ofGar-
field was the fatuous impulse OF a de-
bauched conscience, if not Il disorder
ed brain. Neither crime habits orinin
in the political institutions or it's
growth in the social organization of
the country. Both crimes received the
execration of all parties and all sec.
tons. In the universal horror which
they inspired, in the majestic suprem.
acy OF law, which they failed to dis.
turb, may be read the strongest proof
OF the stability Of a government which
founded upon the rights, fortified by
the intelligence, inwrought with the
virtues OF the people. For as it was
said OF old, wisdom and knowledge
be stability, and the work OF
righteousness shall be peace!
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16
Building a Great Telescope.

The LARGEST ,.afracti,, 4 ::
.h..- eeiescope IN
'ie "ofia IS now IN process OF con.
structlon in the modest workshop of
the venerable Alvan Clark, the emi-
nent telescope maker, in Henry street,
Cameorldseport. The two disks of
glass 60 to torm the lens of the great
Lick telescope, which will be placed in
the observatory on the peak OF Mount
Hamilton, a bequest OF the California
millionaire, james Lick. These two
circular glasses are VALUED at $4,000
each, and, if destroyed, they could not
he duplicated within the next six
months for millions of dollars. The
disks We're cast in Paris, the order be.
inggiven five years ago, but thefailrres
We're SO numerous that they were not
received by Messrs. Clark until last
September. When finished the lens
will be thirty-six inches in diameter.
SIX inches wider than the one which
they recently completed for the Rus
IL Government. Since receiving the
blocks last September, Mr.. Clark and
his sons have beenconstantly at work
upon them, but they do not expect
to have them completed much before
next Fall. When completed the two
lenses will weigh about 700 pounds.
The work OF polishing the disks has
nov reached that stage where the re-.
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contrasting his free situation with my
own. But suddenly a bright thought
flashed over me. Could not my horse
rescue me?
He was tied to a frail cactus limb,
which he could easily break ifhe chose.
Without losing anytime-fortimewa was
never so preciou&-I uttered a call
which l had otter used to bringhim TO
me, then listene /. with an anxiety it is
useless for me to attempt to depict.
Suddenly l heard the sound of his
hoofs, as though he was strup-
Cling to free himself, and the
next moment / recognized a well.
known tramp, and knew that he was
approaching. Then he suddenly an.
peared on the bank, and looked down
at me, uttering a joyful neigh of recog.
milton.
Peculiar attachment exists between
the huntera and his horse, it was a
habit OF his whenever / called to him
to gallop up to me and press his nose
against my cheek. Reaching out my
hand toward him in my usual carress-
ing manner, | repeated the call.
The next moment he bounded into
the channel and caught him by the
bride. Time was becoming precious,
was already down to my waist in
the water. | seized the lariat, and
passing 1t under the ~saddlegirths. Sc
cured it In a firm knot. i then made
a loop and passed it aroundmybody,
Heaven bless the noble horse! The
tears well up to my eyes when | reflect
upon the grand creature to whom
a lew years ago | gave an hon
orable grave in the broad prairie.
All the time | believe he comprehended
my sore strait, and understood
perfectly well what was reauir-
ed OF him. He knew, too. the treach-
erous nature OF the ground he stood
upon, for while waiting he continued
liftinghis feet and slightly changing his
position to prevent sinking.
Finally, ! had my arrangements
completed, and gave the word to the
horse to move. The intelligent ami
NAL stepped off very slowly, pulling
gradually, but with all his tremendous
strength.
10 my inexpressible Joy, I felt nv
body raising. and in less than a min
ute was pulled clean out of the sand
upon the hard clayey bank.
Thank heaven! and my true, tried,
and noble horse.
threw my arm around his neck
kissed him, and shouted for Joy. And
had not a right to do so? And did |
more than my duty when | refused
all offers to part with him, and kept
INN with all the care and kindness
that would haze nursed a feeble par
ent?
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16
q An Old-fashioned Bow.
Hartford Comm Times.

hartford Comm Times.
Mamma what is Lent?" said five.
years-old Charlie.
"Well, my dear, it is the time when
we so to church a great deal, and do
not have great dinners and parties
because Christ, Jul Lord, tasted forty
days"
And did he go to the club, and to
parties, all the days before Lent, as
you andpapa do?"
"Why no, Charlie! What a strange
question:"
wei, mamma, you never told me,
but Mary Ann told me that he was
real good to little boys. and when
they we're tired one day he took them
right up n his arms and kissed them.
wish he would come here some day
when you and papa are gone, for I
get SO tired, and Mary Ann won't
take me up because she has to hold
the baby, and she says am too bio.
And sheshowed me the pictures in the
big Bible where he gave the hungry
people lots to eat, sitting on the grass.
And he opened a blind mans ewes,
Cook wouldn't let a Door blind man
come INTO the kitchen to get warm
one day, and when l ran and gave him
some biscuit she scoIded me, and said
1t was n sin to feed beggars, and hat
l was an old-fashioned child. Was
Jesus old-fashioned, mamma? for he
was always kind to the poor bepcarsp
Anyway, when am u man / will take
up tired little boys and hold them
sometimes and | will give hungry peo.
pie enough to eat, if it is Lent, O + if it
isn't, for that blind man said: "God
bless YOU, little boy, | hope O will
never know how awful it feels to be
hungry You didn't tell Bridget not
to give the blind mar food, did Won
mamma? She said you did, but |
know better"
"lNell, Charlie, you are rather an
Old little boy foryour years, but don't
hinder me now with asking questions,
Tor l must get ready to 60 to Mrs.
Attleton's reception. Good night,
darling. Now play nicely with baby
and don't worry your little
head about what you can't under
The old-fashioned little boy
away from his mother with
tears IN his great brown eyes.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16
Going Home.

What happiness often fingers in those
two words. INTERPRETATIONS. What
dreams OF rest and peace. after long
absences. In the crowd OF the Lake
Shore depot was a big fellow wearing
q broad. brimmed hat. He walked M
and down the great platform, his
hands in his pockets, smoking and
singing, apparently in the best OF
humor. A stranger who had been
watching him forsome timefnally add
dressed him. From the west?" The
man replied, ~ am" care O going
east?' eyes, sir" $50 am l." the
stranger replied. ut is eleven years
lncel have been east ofLake Michigan,
and now ! amgoing to see the oldfolk.,
in Pennsylvania
CHATS a very brief time compared
with the years I've been away" said
the Westerner, with great vehemence
81 went West in 40, and this is nv
hrst appearance this side ofthe Rocky
Mountains since. live, when I'm at
nome, In Main, and that's where I'm
going now. When left there, | was a
boy OF twenty. Do you think they
will know me now" and he stroked
his lron-gray beard thoughtfully.
"Ihey will if you've got rich in the
meantime"
THAT'S just it, stranger. I've been
on the coast thirty-five years,-a life
time nearly. I've had more than a
thousand prospects that were con
sldered immense. I've been chasing
something, nothing, all these years.
Sleeping or waking, I've seer the gilt
ter OF gold. Did you ever get that
way? No, OF course you didn't. l
nave seen gold everywhere, and yet
could not find it.
my eyes have been strained so long.
my whole being has been so absorbed
IN this cursed search, that it tires me
TO look anywhere or at anything. |
IKE to smoke ard close my eyes and
think. And yet ! do not like to think.
a wasted life is not pleasant for re-
lection"
"Have you relatives down East?"
inquired a man by his side, who was
getting interested.
Yes, Sir, my mother, and that's
what's taking me home, stranger. A
curious thing about that. Forthirtv.
five years l hardly CAV the old lady
a thought. She wrote me frequently,
and | wrote when l had time, but not
like ought to have done.
~ was absorbed in gold-hunting,
when one day | received a letter from
her, containing her photograph. She's
more'n s~eventy-five years old. It
me like an avalanche.
Poor old mother!.' says /. and as
looked up, ] saw myself, wrinkled |
and gray, in q glass, and observed,
Poor fool boy" Well, sir, from that
moment lost interest in gold, quartz
and placers.
When l looked at the snowy peaks
saw my mother. l dreamed OF her
ut night. Her eyes were before me,
swimming in tears. rs they were the
lay we parted. Finally i gave up,
converted what little property had
INTO dust, and determinedto 20 home.
I've been lired from the gold country
,y mothers tears. 1t will pav me
.lcher dividends than the things that
have been chasing so long.
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The Wife Had in Silence,

Boston Record.
Scene: Private dining room at club.
"A company OF gentlemen dining. Mr..
v, a slightly garrulous party, loquitur,
triumphantly;
SHARP boy, my Bob; rather cot
even with him yesterday, though.
Guess he found the old MAJ quite
sharp enough for him. You see, was
this way: | had been telling about
that time when the boat upset at
Lake George, and not n OF the six in
1t could swim but myself, and at the
point where swan ashore with Bob's
mother 1--WE weren'tmarried thenl that
young monkey remarks:
ooh, chestnut
Chestnut said /; what is that?'
"tlt means you've toldit before; it's
an old story, said Bob.
"Pretty soon Bobpased uphis plate
for meat. Quick asa flash:
"'Chestnut,' said l.
What do you mean by that? asked
the boy in surprise.
Its an old story; youpassedyou
plate for more meat yesterday
bob looked pretty streaked, and
said if I'd give him some meat he
would never say chestnut again,
Rather turned the tables on thevou
scamp, eh? And then his mother
said, with a little smile:
"'lou shouldn't notice those things.
Robert. Only think of the years I've
heard your father tell that story
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-16
Beautiful Samoan Island Saw
ages.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Now the male and female Samoan
infest the desk with their iargon and
~nakedness. The boys aud girls dress
alike generally. The dress consists OF
u kind OF dark belt tied around the
waist, withdangles hanging about one
loot below the hips. The tattooed
limbs and light brown form standing
unclad display as fine a physique as |
ever saw. There is now and then an
effort at dress to outshine others.
For instance, a girl flirted in Il
gentleman's gauze shirt, while a
gallant beau sported in the remotest
female undergarment to the chagrin OF
the less beautiful bellies and beaus
with collars on their bare nccks and
neckties around the girls limbs.
The shapely figures of these strong,
model-formed girls are standing re.
Dukes to the women here who lace to
death, and the overdressed spider
legged dude OF III modern civiliza-
ton.
met aboard ship one OF the most
biushlng young girls lever saw. She'd
blush ii the wind played with her
polonaise. She'd disappear for two
days II her shoe string dragged.
When she struck the Samoans she
didn't know what to do with herself
Tor a while, as she could neither climb
the mnst.pole nor get in the engine
room. The sun rose and set in her
tac for several minutes. In the
course of an hour she was up shaking
hands with the chief.
On board ship l met a beautiful
Samoan girl. She seemed to be so
gentle, II she was pretty. She came
alongside and climbed right up the
gangway. She gave me her hand to
assist her aboard. She was seventeen
and could talk broken English. She
was the daughter OF a chief and is a
princess. My princess took a great
'ancy to me, and well, we snapped
ancles. She gazed me steadily in the
eye, rose to her feet, gazed again,
passlonately uttered "Alobat' rushed
to where stood and, strongly clasp.
ing me about theneck, sobbed, "Aloba,
aloha, aloha" 81 am English,''
| insisted. "Ies, l you Iowa, youlova
l me- l remarked that Iwould ifshe
would let up on the compress business,
as ! was not exactly used to hugsins
such clothes yet, but would give my
best. fell in with the princess and
began to learn. The first thing that |
learned was that the young chief, who
was on the retired list, didn't want to
retire. He kept an eye on me and
made several efforts to dust nv pants
with his immense club. l soon saw
that he ment business. Heconsidered
me an intruder. | prepared for war
and communicated with my princess.
She realized the danger, arched her
brow at him, and then had a war con-
ference. He then sulked to his rock.
l understood from the princess that
She IA formally dismissed him from
attendance upon her, and had elected
me. consented to be elected for the
being. Being secure in the castle
l proceeded to be informed, ! asked:
Say, princess, what do you make
an these pretty tattoo marks o vour
for?"
1T is a part of our religion?"
DO those designs mean an%ythinc?"
Eyes; gods and good-luck marks"
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ShrcWd Uncle Stead's Poor won,.
an FIT.

From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal
Uncle Stead" is what they called a
shrewd old gentleman who used to
live IN Winthrop, a little way out O
the village, up the side of the pond
near Read6eld. One of his fellow-cit-
lzens was a man named Loyeiov
Uncle stead met Lovejoy in the vii.
Iage n day, and said to him: Glove.
Joy, there's a poor woman needs some
provisions. Pm willing to supply
her, but Eve sold my horse and have
no means OF getting the stuff to her
Now III buy her a barrel of -four,
n aham, and some other supplies
II you'll carry them out to her With
your team.
Loveloy said certainly. he'd be very
glad to do it. Accordingly. TTrcie
Stead bought a barrel of flour a ham
q bucket OF sugar, etc, and, tellino
Loveloy where the woman lived. SEM
him offon the errand OF charity w;tb
the good things in his pung.
Love]oy easily found the house
where the woman lived. He unload.
Ed the goods,puffing like u grampus
as ne rolled the flour in, and said to
the woman: "Mr. Steadman sent Won
the provisions. He's a mighty kind.
things" 'nese
We'll, / don't know why be
shouldn't send them to me!n excla;m.
ed the woman in surprised accents.
Hes my husband"