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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-12-22
Christmas rrees.

To Germany the civilized world Is indebted
for one Of the most enjoyable of all Christ
mas delights, the Christmas tree, says an old
issue Of The New York Post This custom
was little known in England before the mar
Rage of Queen Victoria, and was, we believe,
introduced by the late prince consort. We
call it q gift from Germany, and yet behind
the quaint figure of Kris Kringle, coming
from the snowy woods, with the tree rising
high above his genial shoulders, laden with
gifts and glittering with lanterns as he sud-
denly invaaes the lowly German cottage on
kindly erfand bent, we see the yet more
ancient toy pine tree. hung with oscilla,
which boys and girls In ancient Rome
looked for on the sixth and seventh
days of the Saturnalia. But we who are not
antiquaries are content to accept these pretty
customs, come whence they may, and to Inn
prove on them if we can. A wide gulf is fixed
between the puritanic days, when Christmas
was frowned upon as a remnant Of evil super
stition, and today, when nothing is too rare
or good for the making of our homes bright
and our sanctuaries beautiful in honor of the
Author of the Christian feast. Wherever
civilized man is found there in one form or
another we find the tokens Of alteration and
gratitude.
Another newspaper says: The most popu-
lar tree for Christmas celebration is the
balsam This tree attains perfection at the
age of 90 years After this it begins to wither
at the top and gradually dies. The large
balsam trees are cut in great numbers for
churches and Sunday schools The branches
are strong and thickly covered with blush
green leaves. They are cut as young as
years They are merely bushes then, how
ever, and are used mainly by private families
Next to the balsans in popularity comes the
spruce This tree, although it attains
greater height than the balsam, has a scroggy
appearance. 1t is cut when it is about ten
years old. The color is not SO good, being
yellowish green, which withers very soon.
The cedar trees are only cut by special order,
as the demand for them is very limited But
they are the most fragrant smelling tree OF
the lot. White pine trees are used by the
grocery and butcher shops to decorate with
They have deep green color and last longer
than any Of the others.
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THEN AND NOW.

We used to hang up our stockings
When was . child. dear me:
Nor ever thought for nlomeut
OF having IN Xmas tree
You see, we were old fashioned ch1droA
Not wise little women and men;
St. Nicholas came down the chimney
We had wideopen freplaces then.
We went 20 bed n the twilight
To wakeu ere yet It was dawn.
And empty with trembling fingers
The stockings on Xmas morn
But now the trea with it, tapeD
L. Lit on the eve instead,
And hugging their Xmas presents
The little ones 20 to bed
But then. pray where Is the stocking
Could hold all the wonderful things
The triumphs Of human invention
The modern st. Nicholas bringsi
Now steam takes the place Of big reindeer
Thost. fleet. fairy coursers of yore;
And since we have closed up the chfmneyD
He needs must come In at the door
Mrs NJ. P. Handy
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The Christmas Holly.

In connection with the holly, which figures
50 conspicuously in all our Christmas decora-
lions, we find quaint old conceit chronicled,
that every holly bough and lump Of berries
with which you adorn your house is an act
of natural piety as well as beauty, and will,
in summer, enable you to relish that green
world Of which you show yourself not un
worthy. In Germany and Scandinavia the
holly or holly tree, is called "Christ's thorn"
from its use in church decorations and be-
cause it bears its berries at Christmastide
The loving sentiment imprisoned in the holly
bough and transferable into every language
viii never be more happily expressed than in
Charles Mackays verses. "Under the Holly
Bough:"
Ye who have scorned each other.
~ Or injured friend or brother.
In this fast fading year;
Ye who by word or deed
Have made . kind heart bleed,
Come, gather herei
Let sinned against and shining
Forget their strife's beginning,
And join In friendship now:
Be links no longer broken,
Be sweet forgiveness spoken.
Under the holly bough
Exchange
The boy who finds his stockings we'll
filed on Christmas morning doesn't care
what the other fellow got.-Judge. :.
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layer told friend confidentialIy that

player told friend confidentially that
he could KNOCK any amount of music
out of the piano. If he only had it
few hours to get his hand in" This
report spread about the camp. but on
being questioned he vowed that he
didn't know a note of music 1t was
noted however as suspicious circum-
stance, that he often hung about the
instrument and looked upon it long,
ingly, like hungry man gloating over
beefsteak In a restaurant window.
There was no doubt but that this man
had music in his soul, perhaps in his
fingers'-ends, but did not dare to make
trial of his strength after the rules of
harmony had suffered so many years
of neglect So the fiddler kept on
with his jigs, and the greasy Mexican
paved his discordant guitar, but n
one had the nerve to touch that piano.
There were. doubtless, scores of men
in the camp who would have given ten
ounces of gold-dust 10 have been halo
an hour alone with 1t, but every mans
nerve shrank from the jeers which the
crowd would shower upon him should
his first attempt prove a failure. Itgot
to be generally understood that the
hand which first essayed to draw
music from the keys must not SLOUGH
its work.
1t was Christmas Eve, and Gnskin,
according to his custom, had decorated
his gambling hell with sPrigs of noun
tain cedar and shrub whose crimson
berries did not seem bad imitation of
English holly. The piano was covered
with evergreens, and all that was want
ing to fill the cup of Goskin's content
ment was pianist.
Christmas night and no piano
FOUNDER" he said. "This is a nice
country for Christian to live In"
Getting piece of paper, he scrawled
the words: e +r.-.t-
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$40 FER A
COMPETENT
PIANER PLAYER.

This he stuck up on the music-rack
and, though the inscription glared
at the frequenters of the room until
midnight, it failed to draw any must
clan from his shell.
So the merry-making went on; the
hilarity grew apace. Men danced and
sang to the music of the squeaky fiddle
and WORKOUT guitar, as the jolly crowd
within tried to drown the bowling of
the storm without. Suddenly, they
became aware of the presence of a
white-haired man, crouching near the
fireplace. His garments-sucha as were
left, were wet with melting snow, and
he had a half-starved, half-crazed ex
preston. He held his thin, trembling
hands toward the fire, and the light of
the blazing wood made them almost
transparent He looked about him
once in while, as if in search of some
thing, and his presence cast such a
chill over the place that gradually the
sound of the revelry was hushed, and
It seemed that this waif of the storm
had brought in with 1t all of the gloom
and GOODNESS of the warning elements.
Goskin mixing up cup of hot egg
nogg, advanced and remarked cheer
lily:
"Here, stranger, brace up! This is
the real stuff"
The man drained the cup, smacked
his lips, and seemed more at home.
"Been prospecting, hey7 Out in the
mountains-caught in the storm,
Lively night, this!"
"Pretty bad" said the man.
"Must feel pretty dry"
The man looked at his streaming
clothes and laughed, as if Goskin's
remark was a sarcasm.
allow long outi"
-Four days"
"Hungry"
The man rose up, and walking over
to the lunch counter, fell to work upon
some roast bear, devouring it like any
wild animal would have done. AS
meat and drink and warmth began to
permeate the stranger, he seemed to
expand and tighten up. His features
lost their pallor, and he grew more
and more content with the idea that
he was not in the grave. As he under
went these changes, the people about
him got merrier and happier, and
threw off the feeling of depression
which he had laid upon them.
7" Do you always have your place
decorated like this?" he finally asked
of Goskin.
"This is Christmas Eve" was the
reply.
The stranger was startled. Il
December twenty-fourth, sure
That's the way I put it up, pard."
When l was in England / always
kept Christmas. But had forgotten
that this was the night. I've been
wandering about in the mountains
until I've lost track of the feasts of
the Church."
Presently his eye fell upon the
piano.
. Where's the player" he asked.
"Never had any" said Goskin.
f"
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$40 81

Unknown Own and the following prop
erty: The 165 # ef piece Of land, bounded
As follows: Beginning At n cor of W
/ OF sec Township Is range 20 running
thence 8 2473 #, thence w 2643 It, thence n
247L thence E 264 # to place Of beginning.
One acre 500 Sc 50
10 per cent delinquency Is
Cost Of advertiser 60
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SIS 20

Mrs Mary Leete and the following
property: Dwelling and shop, lot and
N 80 lots and block "a Musser's divis-
ion $500, furniture 800, stock 9l00 al 90
poll taxes 9 %
10 per cent delinquency 2 70
Cost Of advertising 90
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2 Crane and the following property:
Dwelling lots 2, 4, 5, 6, and eight block
70 Musser's division $500, brick building
$500 40 Al
10 per cent delinquency 10
Cost OF advertising 2 "a
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Unknown Owner and the following prop
erty: 2 small dwellings lot 9 block 10 Proctor
and Green's Davision $500. SIS 90
10 per cent delinquency I SO
Cost of advertising ha 2 90
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DIR Alb Kee and the following pI
erty: Stone and frame building bl,
1913 Tano 8 division 81 zoe IS
Self and Wing Sing Song : polls
III per cent delinquency
Cost Of advertising
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q Is

"a u
Unknown Owner and the following prop
erty: small dwellings lot block 10 Proctor
and Green's Davision $500. SIS 90
10 per cent delinquency so
Cost OF advertising @ 90
SIS so
William Eempter and the relieving prop
erty; SW ofNW4 Of sec 20 Township Is
Range 20, 40 acres $50 5 25
10 per cent delinquency IL
Cost of advertising 90
ss7
C L Stevens and the following property;
The Undivided ! interest in the following
blocks of land; ! 3 49, 7s9 10 IL IL Is
"A Is IS II Is 10 20 81 20 q "a n and 8
division $25 3 rs
10 per cent delinquent o.
Cest of advertising 2 90
CLAnderson az d the following property:
5 Of 5 E Of sec IL Township Is.
Range 20 40 acres go 50
10 per cent delinquency 05
Cost of advertising 2 90
1256
You and each Of you are hereby notified
that the taxes upon your property foi the year
1889 are now delinquent, and you are further
notified that unlts said taxes are paid on or
before tho third Monday in January, A. d.
1890 to-wit January Goth d 1s90-your prop
erty will be seld at the Court House door IN
Carson City. Ormsby County. Nevada, at
o'clock P. II. Of said day to paw said taxes,
together with ten I0) per cent delinquency
and the cost Of advertising.
And you are further notified that such
sale will be subject to redemption within six
months after the date Of sale by payment Of
all said sums together with three per cent.
per nenr h thereon from this date Of said sale
until paid. -
County Treasurer and xoflcio Tax
Receiver
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Chung Wan Co and The following
properly: 3snall dwelling let's l. 4 and
block SO $ T and y Division $3.50. tene-
ment house No 81 800 SIO 80
10 per cent delinquency 05
Cost of advertising 2Oe
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CLAnderson ar d the following property
5 E Of E Of sec II Township Is.
Range 20 40 acres go 81
10 per cent delinquency 0!
Cost of advertising Of
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Mrs John Locke and the following
properly Old building lot IL Block Is
Van and T division $h0 80 %
10 per cent delinquency SO
Cost OF advertising 2 90
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IS 60

Richard Mills and the following
property: Dwelling, lets 2 and and n
IA of lot block ID 8 T and S division
800, furniture and mdse 500 41S 90
Poll tax %
10 per cent delinquency 2 10
Cost of advertising 90
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ITO THE FOLLOWING ma MED
II Pertons, and all owners or claim
ants TO tho real estate and tho i'm prove
ments thereon, Of improvements wien.
assessed separately, hereinafter des
cribed, known Or unknown:
Unknown Owner and tho following
property: Vacant lot bloek Is Empire
$40, Is
l0per cent delinquency q.
Costrof advertisiag zoo
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"a Is
$e4 -

Sin Kee and tho following property:
Vacant lots and 10 and Il Of let 8
block 81 STAND division $50 $45o
Top cent delinquency As
Cost of advertising 2 90
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Victor A Foucalt and tho following
property: Tho w 1sofS Z n of sec IS
Township Is range 20, 50 acres elO0 8 2 so
10 per cent delinquency Is
Cost Of advertising 2 %
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SO &

Joseph II Days and the following
property: The E 4 Of s W N and W Il
OF E Il sec 20 Township Is Range 20, l66
acres $500 81 50
10 per cent delinquency ,TS
Csst of advs rising 2 90
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Is 80

o A Gilbert and the following
property: did house, the E "a feet Of lots
and and E "a feet of N Il of lot block
Pear and G div $lo0, dwelling, II acres
at q peint 165 feetS of the cor OF secs II,
18, lS, 90. and running thence W 695 feet,
thence sos 2-10 feet 3 50 feet, r 437 0-10 IT,
thence e 268 $40. thence N 84 # to place
of beginning. $500, furniture 500, piano
$500. watches and J $50, horses $40, COW
325 $ss 81
10 per cent delinquency S36
Cost Of advertising 2 %
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John Hughes ESTATE Of and the fol
lowing property: Small dwelling, lot
8 and block 50 T and 8 div 3leo So
10 per cent delinquenc.
Cost of advertising 20
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SO E

TT Tenant and the felle wing prop
ertys Dwelling, lot Sleek and
Div $500, stable lot block s r and Div,
$50, Furniture SIPS, Horse and wagon as,
cow $25 $23 Is
Pc ltax O.
10 per cent dslinquency 20
Cost of advertising 90
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-05
A Voice from Hamakua.

Mr.. EDITOR: The so-called mass
meeting for nomination of Mobiles, on
the Reform party ticket, held at Homo
kaa on the evening of November Both.
was so unsatisfactory to large number
in this district, that another will have to
be called for the benefit of those who
were unable to attend. On account of
the clustering and windy night about
forty only out of say one hundred and
seventy qualified Noble voters attended
and the few who for themselves and the
absentees voted for an adjournment
were "sat on" so to speak, for their
pains.
No written party platform was pre-
scented for the consideration of the meet
ing and the audience was RECALLED by the
Honokaa grand sachem who gave the
platform adopted at previous meeting
from memory. Hamakuans so rarely
have the privilege of enjoying the terse
concise sentences of this gifted man that
this depression had its usual soothing and
soporific effect.
Then the nominee from the north end
presented his views. He would favor
licensing beer and wine shops, the open
ing of licensed opium dens, and allowing
the King more veto power. In some
other unmentioned particulars, he was
of the same mind as some gentlemen in
Hilo. Furthermore ranching gentle
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men of Kohala held the same views as
he. A portly gentlemen followed, like
wise a nominee. He agreed with the
first speaker in many instances, especi-
ally on the beer question. The audi
ence further cleaned that agricultural
industry should be supported.
The nominee from East Hamakua
then took the floor. He differed from
the two gentlemen who had spoken, on
the three questions raised, briefly giving
his reasons, and expressed the wish that
such side issues had been left out OF dis
cussion altogether. The ballots for the
ticket were then taken in the following
primitive way: A paper was passed
around, containing list OF the noml-
nees, and each person present marked
stroke opposite the six names he wished
to support, which resulted in the choice
of Parker, Marsden, Purvis, Hind,
Burchardt and Kauhane.
No objection was or is offered to those
nominated from other districts, but that
Messrs Purvis and Marsden are the
choice of Hamakua electors has yet to be
sheWn in more representative meeting
than that held on November Goth at
Honokaa. The only localities OF this
district fully represented there were
Honokaa and portion of Kukuihaele.
Queerly enough, both of these places put
| forward their candidates on the Noble
ticket. Comment is unnecessary. The
meeting had been advertised, it is true
| but it would have been courteous, to say
the least, if an adjournment had beer
allowed, and meeting set, at which the
majority could have expressed theu
views.
The question naturally arises in con
clusion, are these gentlemen who ex
pressed such views, the choice of the
Reform party? That will have to b'
settled at another meeting by the Reform
| party. JUSTICE.
Hanakua, Dec. 2.
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KOhala Speaks.


Mr.. EDITOR: A meeting for the
choice of nominees for Mobiles for Ha-
wall, was held in the Court house Tues
day, November Doth, at which there was
present full turn out of foreigners, and
a few natives. The nominees selected
were Robert r. Hind, Ernest A. Burch-
ardt, Saml. Parker, Jos. Marsden, W..
II. Purvis, and Hon. J. Kauhane. the
delegates chosen to meet the central
committee at the convention in Hilo,
were James Renton, ST., HI. l.. Hol-
stein, and r. S. Kynnersley. A motion
to nominate a Representative for the
Legislature, was withdrawn for reasons
given by Mr.. J. K Kahookano.
If the voting indicated anything, it
was that the foreign elements were not
harmonious in seeking to uphold the
present Government and the cause of
temperance. But since the votes have
confirmed previous indications, it may
be well to look this matter in the face
and call spade spade. Greater privi-
leges and larger proportion of Govern
ment pap for the native Hawaiian is the
catch-word, but it will probably be only
catch-WOrd.
1t is to be hoped that no success will
meet any efforts to plunge the country
again into the conditions that existed
previously to the Inauguration of the
Reform, nor anything be done to shake
confidence in the national credit.
Kohala, Nov. 80, 1889.
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JAPANESE AND CHINESE.

In recent work on Japan by
Prof. James A. Chaplin, of st. Law
renee University, lately issued from
the press of Putnam & Sons, New
York. we have the authors views re-
garding the Japanese in contrast
with the Chinese, founded on his
observations while in Japan. They
are decidedly in favor of the
Chinese. But it may be that the
Chinese whom he met in japan were
men who had had special education
and training for the vocations which
they filed, and for this only the
most accomplished would be select
ed for service in foreign country.
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Hamakua to the Front.

Mr.. EDITOR: On last Saturday night,
November 30th, political mass meet
was held at the Honokaa lyceum, for
the nomination of Mobiles for the Island,
when the following gentlemen were
selected as the choice of this district
Messrs. Robert R. Hind, Ernest Burch-
ardt, Sam. Parker, w. H. Purvis, J.
Marsden, and Hon. J. Kauhane. The
names of these gentlemen will be pre-
scented and supported at the central con-
vention to be held at Hilo some time this
month, by delegates appointed for that
purpose. Several of the gentlemen
nominated and who were present, ex-
pressed their views on general topics of
interest to the voters. Amongst others
the vexed question of liquor licenses
came up, one or two of the prospective
Mobiles were in favor of granting licenses
for beer and wines, and their sentiments
were warmly received and very markedly
so among the employees of one gentle
man, who were there in force. Mr.. j
NJ. Horner, who had been nominated
for Noble at former meeting, strongly
and ably opposed the granting of licenses
in the country districts, and no doubt
lost his nomination thereby; although
we here cannot coincide with Mr.. Horner
in his views in regard to the liquor ques-
ton, (simply because we consider them
impracticable), still we can not but ad-
mire his principles, and never more so
than on last Saturday night, when, in
utter disregard to all political honors,
he stood forth before the people as one of
the noblest works of Gods handiwork.
'an honest man." true to his principles
at any cost. HAMAKUA.
HonOkaa, Dec. 2.
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Pacific Commercial Advertiser
DEC. 5, 1889.
The political contest on Hawaii

The political contest on Hawaii
has evidently commenced in earnest,
and the preliminary meetings for
sounding the popular pulse have
been held in kohala and Hamakua
The nominations made are of course
primary ones, subject to ratification
by the central convention TO be held
at Hllo, December GOTH It will be
observed, however, that the above
two districts have nominated five
men from their own sections, and
one from Kau, thus ignoring the
large districts of Hilo, Kona and
Puma, or half of Hawaii. There are
six districts on Hawaii, and it would
seem the more honorable and polite
course to select one Noble from
each, if suitable men can be found.
Hilo and Puna-nearly half the
island-should certainly be entitled
to two Mobiles, and the two Konas to
another, if they possess men willing
and capable to serve in the gratui-
tous task. OF course, if they do not
possess them, candidates must be
taken from such districts as can fur
nish them, or from any other island,
though such selection as the latter
should not be resorted to except in
cases OF necessity, which do not exist
on Hawaii, Maui or Kauai.