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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-10-21
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OF the follow Ing Desirable Building
Lots, suitable fnr residences, sitr ,te!
Waikiki, on The NIL road, ami beng
portion Of the WAIKIKI property OF II.
4. II. LiliuoEs lani:
LOT A-~Size 175 feat front ard lF6 fee
derpi this Lot I'D! ,ins tn
bridge and Is Oh The maii
road leading 10 The Park
The Lor i fenced
LOT BY Joining Lot A, has front
age OF u feet on main roar
aud l. l66 feet deep
LOT c. djo'nlng Lot B, frontage o.
1870 feet on main road, lot
stert drrp.
LOT D-Ac joining Lot @ on mai
road II i"0 feet fro Mag,
and Il drurh Of 1856 eel.
LOT E--.iSe l40 feet by $50 feet II
rear OF Lois A, b, G, n; HI. It
frontage ON new road 8
feet wide, connecting with
main road 10 Park.
LOT F-Ahjoining Lot L; size 10 b.
LOT &c, Joining Lot F. sizc 40 h,
LOT R->d Icing Lot G; size $40 b!
$50 feet
LOT IA lining Lot Fl; size l40 by
800 feet.
All thee Lots are level and well
planted with grass. The v ak XII Ca :
run past the front II lhr Lots.
he Lots are situated about 80 fee,
from the beach.
Parties pu chasing any o. these Lot
wi receive gratis 20 yesr lease Il o
t 'el Of lani on the beach, for erection Of
bath houses and bathing ABILITIES.
keuis payable hemiannu4lly In ad
vancr.
A Chart OF The Properly can be seen
| at my SalcaroUm,
EY- For further particulars apply to
JAS. II. MORGAN,
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paper upon it. He then begins to play

paper upon it. He then begins to play
upon his pipe and to dart out his eyes as
though he saw something near your hand.
His whole frame becomes transformed and
he dances around you like wizard, playing
all the time and keeping his eyes on your
hand. Now he starts back and points at it.
You look and see nothing and he begins to
play louder and dance wilder than ever
Remember his arms are bare to the elbow
and both of his hands are on his pipe.
Suddenly he drops his pipe and continues
his dance with incantations. He points to
the paper again, and while you look and
see nothing be claps his hand down upon it
and pulls up three great cobras, which raise
their hooded heads and dart out their fangs
in different directions, and squirm and
wriggle as he holds them up before you. You
Jump back, for the bite of the cobra is
deadly, and / am told that the snakes used
have in some cases not had their fangs drawn.
A juggler was killed week ago in Benares
by the bite of a cobra, which he was using
in this way, and they are the most terrible
snakes have ever seen. At another per-
formaRce of this same kind / was present
with party of four and we all decided to
ascertain, if we could. how this trick was
done. l stood upon chair and overlooked
the man as he snatched up the snakes, but
could not see where they came from and
only know that he had them and that they
were so big that he crowded them with diff
Guilty into little round basket the size of
peck measure.
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PAGES n TO 20.

SIT seems to me-" said Oakland, 'ths
patriotism in this country is good deal
like costume and depends for its texture and
color upon what part of the country you
happen to be in"
"He means by that" s,id Flutterlip,
''that the farther South you get the thinner
it grows"
"No," rejoiDed the Preston, she means
that it's like all the other masculine vir-
tues, you put it on and take it of at
pleasure; I've seen a man wear three suits
of devotion in one day, because he met
three women"
so ho," cried Oakland, 'fthen I'll bs
bound you were not one of the women"
"But you dare not swear" she rejoined,
''that you were not the man."
"Yes, that's just what shall swear al
ways, when you are present; my constancy
is like the needle to the pole"
'More like the pole than the needle,
think; for nobody's been able to discover it.
If ever / find a man who loves me for .
week, I'll agree 10 love all men for the rest
of their lives"
In the burst of merrinIent that followed
this sally, the Colonels peroration was
heard above all:
''By gad, sir. there spoke the unbounded
enthusiasm of the sunny South. There's no
schoolmarm, skinfint spirit in that By
CAD, sir, the woman who has the whole sex
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HE TAUGHT HIM TO STEAL.

The Story of n Mysterious Dog That Fright
ened the Natives of an Indian Town.
The following story of soldiers dog
is told by a correspondent in an Indian
newspaper.
Shortly after things settled down at Lab
ore, great excitement was created in the
bazaar and cantonments by dog or dogs
money changers stalls. Soon after dark a
dog, sometimes of one color and sometimes
of another, would, without previous bark
or warning, spring on to a podder's plat
form, now in this part of the bazaar and
next in that, and grab all the gold
mohurs and rupees it could in its mouth,
and then dash away with its prize in the
darkness. The thing occurred about once a
fortnight or SO for months. The natives
said the dog was many devils in one, as he
was never of the same color twice, and
could never be traced, and when they saw
it bolting through the bazaar they got out
of its way. Men with sticks were stationed
all over the bazaar, but the theft went on all
the same, and the dog could never be hit or
caught.
The bazaar began to be abandoned, and
the podders to close their shops at dusk.
The cantonment magistrate was at his wits
end, and did not know how to catch or kill
the thief. He communicated his trouble to
the officer commanding the cavalry regi.
ment. who agreed to send him a dozen
mounted men for an hour or two every
evening. The dog was chased more than
once, but always got away in the direction
of the barracks. At last the troopers were
ordered TO use their pistols. and the poor
doggie, black on this occasion, was bowled
over while dashing away alter one of its
raids.
On examination the black dog turned out
to be white one belonging to soldier in
one of the regiments. The man was ar
rested, and most of the money, to the value
of 100 rupees in gold and silver, stolen by
the dog was found in his box. He made a
clean breast of it, and explained that he
had trained the dog to commit these thefts.
He would visit the bazaar with the dog,
point to what he wanted, and then go back
to the barracks. At suitable spot he
would halt, cover the dog with brush and
blacking. and send it back to bring what
had been pointed out at, receive the loot,
wash off the backing, and return quietly to
barracks. The court martial admired his
smartness and intelligence, and gave him
six months for his roguery.
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Intellectual Acrobats,

Ihave received several letters from Amer
lea asking me to look into this wonderful
Indian theosophy. 1 have looked, but it
may be that 1 lack faith. I have talked
with several of the masters. They are
bright, intellectual acrobats, and some Of
the greater of them are more gross than
spirituelle. 1 have also discussed Madam
Blavetsky with the English residents of
India, among whom she has lived, and I
have yet to fad one who thinks her any,
thing else than very clever fraud. 1t may
be the case of prophecies being not with
out honor, save in her own country, but 1
give you her reputation as l find it here.
] am told that an expose has lately been
made of her manifestations, and those tricks
of hers which she is reported as perform
ing are to me no more wonderful than the
jugglery which see here on the streets
every day. Might it not be that her study
of Indian philosophy was accompanied with
the teaching of Indian jugglers? 1 know
not, but 1 do know that the street iugglers
of these Indian towns could, by mixing
mystical philosophy with their slight-of-
hand performances, easily humbug the eyes
of that large class of people in America
who are ever praying for some new thing in
religion and in psychological thought.
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Caste Preiudices.

This caste prejudice enters into everything
in India. 1t forces the foreigners to keep a
dozen servants to do the work of the house
hold, and am told that it is almost impossi-
BILE for family to get along with less than
19 servants. 1 met last week an English
preacher, who had an income of 81, 500 a
year, and he told me it was absolutely i'm
possible ior him to live in India without 13
servants. Said he: "They are paid but low
wages, but there are so many of them that
the sum total is large. You have to have a
man for everything you want done and he
will do nothing else than that one thing.
The man who washes the dishes will not
make up the beds, and the cook will
not attend to the washing of the dishes.
If you keep horses you must have
a groom for every horse, and Tor every
two horses you have to keep man to cut
grass for them. The woman servant who
waits upon your wife does not consider it
her business to wait upon you, and the
servants who do the other work about the
house expect you to have body servant
to run your own errands. If you ask a man
to do anything out of his regular business,
he says it is contrary to his caste, and you
then know that YOU have to submit. There
are hundreds of castes in India. They are
based on religious differences, on trade
arrangements and on social distinctions.
There is a caste of BARRIERS, of beggars, of
thieves and of water carriers. There are
the Brahmins, the Sudras, the cow-skinners,
the corpse-bearers and dozens of others, d.
vided and subdivided until only the Hindoo
can tell you their numbers and differences.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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vale to signal my crew to come, but could
not get above the deck. I thought of the
mate in the rigging and called him to come
down, but he did not recognize my voice,
and thought it trick OF the two seamen to
decoy him to the deck and made no reply
to my calls. After some time spent in this
manner again swooned. Nothing more
was known to me until two days afterward,
when came to consciousness surrounded
by portion of my crew. Daybreak ap-
peared soon after swooned, and the mate
in the rigging recognized me lying on the
deck and notified my crew, who were wait
ing few yards away. They came on board
and found the corpses of the dead seamen;
one with knife piercing his heart and the
other with his neck broken.
"Soon after regaining consciousness we
put for the land, and on the way encount-
cred the gale which drove us ashore. We
all escaped with our lives, but the vessel
was dashed to pieces by the waves. cannot
begin to tell you what we passed through
for two weeks tramping along the coast
toward civilization. But here I am safe,
though considerably the worse for wear,
but still thankful that all our lives were
preserved"
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q Mountain Pink. land o mystical
thought. Through them they would learn
how to annihilate space, to disembody their
souls for the moment and'send them on aerial
errands to other parts of the world. They
would master that wonderful concentration
Of soul which enables its possessor to dis
solve matter into the elements from which
1t was made by a word, and by another word
'fPresto!'' to turn it back into the solid or
liquid form, from which they decomposed
it. One of them, who is now travelling in
India and searching for the masters, tells me
he has heard of Indian theosophists who, by
wave OF the hand, can change glass of
water into the oxygen and hydrogen of
which il is formed, and by the same motion
dissolve the glas particles into their original
elements Another wave and the glass con-
tanning the water reappears before your eyes,
just as full and in exactly the same position
as it was before. asked the man whether
he had seen such a miracle performed. He
replied mo, and upon further conversation
l found that he had as vet seen nothing
which could be called supernatural.
81 have had several talks with the mas
tiers, !" said he, 'and L have been told that L
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The Bellies of India.

Here at Bombay are the prettiest women
of India. They are the parsees. With deli
cate, olive-brown skins, tnev are tall and
well shaped, have beautiful eyes and fine,
intellectual faces. They dress in silks of
the most delicate colors, and the dress
seems to consist OF one large piece of silk,
which is wound around the waist and then
carried up over the body and the top of the
head SO that the face looks out and the whole
hangs in beautiful drapery. Many of them
note, have silk stockings and slippers to
match the color of their dresses, and they
are the brightest and prettiest women have
seen.
The parsees are sun worshipers. There
are only about 10000 of them in India, and
$4,000 of these are here in Bombay. The
men dress in long, preacher-like clothes of
black, with hats shaped like coal scuttles,
and they are very fine looking. Their
Dress when not in business, is often of the
whitest of linen coats and shirts. They are
the best business men in the world. They
own millions of dollars worth of property
here in Bombay, and are largely interested
in the trade of India. They are more akin
to the Christians than the Hindoos in their
methods of living. They believe in spend
ing their money, dwell in good houses and
drive about in fine carriages. They are
charitable as well as rich, and some of the
finest of the public buildings of Bombay
have been built by them. They are of Per-
sian descent and have temples in which
burns the SACRED fire OF Zoroaster.
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your eyes and the soft sephyrous touch of
the air on your cheek, you would scarcely
believe it was December. But these Mary
land days are common in midwinter, and
this old resort, half military post, and half
watering place, has long been noted for
them.
At this particular time it was strangely
and exceptionally lethargic. Nearly every
other resort of human beings in the land
was agitated by excitement or held in the
painful suspense of expectation, for the
country was on the eve of civil war. But
Hsmpden, quaint old Hampden, with its
Government school of disarmed cadets, its
detail of loafng officers, and its one hotel,
half full of Southerners. who had been
coming there for generations, was not in a
condition to be excited. On its military
side it had 40 dismounted columbiads on
the sand and one brass feld-piece for salut-
ing. Secretary Floyd had removed almost
everything but the columbiads, and there
was an uneasy feeling among the Northern
officers that an order might come at any
moment to take these guns to Georgia. On
its social side the visitors were nearly all
Secessionists, and its residents nearly all
Northern officers, and to preserve anything
like the appearance of amenity it was
necessary to avoid all reference to the exist
ing state OF affairs.
The broad old-fashioned esplanade and
parapet are still the most delightful places
in Hanpden when the weather is pleasant,
and at this time they were taken possession
- IL uhr,
of their time in chatting each other and in
watching the sea gulls. The flag staff was
bare of any bunting, and the classmates were
guiltless of guns. Camp stools were scattered
about on the parapet under the awning,
and Cadet Randolf Flutterlip, whose aunt
was reading a novel, amused himself by
dangling piece of the old halyards over
the battlement to casemate below, where
another cadet was trying to catch it. Lean
ing against the flag staff, musingly looking
out to sea, stood Lieutenant Anson Harold,
probably thinking OF his home in northern
New York, and the jolly. sharp Christmas
times that were just gong by, up there.
For he took no notice of the two or three
women who were strolling about, nor of
Aunt Flutterlip, who was emersed in her
novel, with her yellow parasol on one side
of her head, entirely ignorant of the deli
ciously bilious complexion that it gave her.
Suddenly the sound Of voices in concord
came floating up to the parapet, boys
voices, and they curiously took on some
thing OF the brightness of the sunshine.
"What's that ?' said the maiden lady,
suddenly and somewhat sharply, as she
brought her parasol up to carry arms.
Nobody answered.
whats that ?'' she repeated, taking
vocal aim at the Lieutenant.
"That," said he, without turning his
head. sis the crew Of the absent schoolship,
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HindoO Aristocrats.

had curious illustration of the preju-
dices OF the Hindoos in regard to caste this
afternoon. The native sweetmeats of India
are by no means bad eating, and had
stopped before an itinerant sweetmeat mer
chant, and was bargaining with him for
some candy. As did so 1 happened to
touch some OF the stock on his basket-like
table, and he begged me to be careful, as
the Hindoos would not buy anything for
eigner happened to touch. Nearly every
Hindoo cooks for himself while travelling,
as he would lose caste if he ate anything
cooked by a man of different caste from
himself. and on some of the boats L saw
Indian rajahs. who ate nothing from the be-
ginning to the end Of the voyage on this ac-
count. In the jails of India, which are
managed by the English, the cook is always
a Brahmin or of the highest of the Hindoo
castles. The lower classes will eat after his
cooking and are not thus defled. II a cook
was chosen Of lower caste many of them
would starve rather than eat. am told that
prisoners have been fogged and have starved
to death rather than eat from the hands of a
man of lower caste.
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EXECUTION BY ClRBONIC ACID.

A Chemist Says il is Less Elaborate and
Barbarous Than Electrocution.
New York Letter in Boston Transcript
In one of to-day's papers read that in a
neighboring town application has been
vainly made to Mr.. Edison and various
electric light companies to provide for the
killing of stray dogs by electricity. In
Europe it is we'll known that for this pur-
pose carbonic acid gas is often used. That
reminds one that clever chemist the other
day ridiculed execut tion by electricity as a
crude and bungling method of quickly
and humanely depriving human being Of
life.
The really scientific way to cause death
is by carbonic acid gas. All the apparatus
needed would be to have built one air-tight
cell above another, with connecting tube
and stopcock between them. The gas,
which is very cheap, should be put in the
upper chamber, and the prisoner, with a
good cigar, if you like, on lounge, in the
lower. On turning the cock, the gas would
descend, and first slumber and then death
would ensue very quickly, and absolutely
painlessly. Compared with this the electric
appliances, with helmet and foot pieces,
and damp sponges, and chair especially con-
structed, are absurdly elaborate and Curl
ously barbarous.
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4 FILTRATION IN FIRE.
wrntten for The Dispatch by
NYM CRINKLE.

to his country and to the Government in and
out. That man Floyd hates him and ha!
assigned him to this post to ruin him."
'On general principles" remarked Oak
land, ''it is an outrage; on specific lines
it's lacking in lucidity."
''The Secretary of War;" continued the
Lieutenant, sis removing all the war mate
rial South, the country does not know it.
but there are few of us officers who see
the work going on. When the Commodore
gets here these guns will be ordered South
BY that time the country will be in a wild
state of excitement, and will hold the Com
modore responsible for the theft, for that is
what it will be. He will be powerless to
prevent it, but he will get the iull benefit oi
public indignation. Why, there isn't a
hand grenade in the fort, and there are moi
muskets enough to arm squad of ma
rines."
"And if there were," said Oakland, mus.
ingly, "you couldn't use them against the
Secretary of War"
"He's got his agents here, watching us
all" continued the officer, without deigning
any reply to his friend 5 suggested dilemma.
''That woman Preston"
ooh, don't lug her into the political
Whirlpool" said Oakland. "She's an
honor to watering place, and her wit
would have done credit to De Stael."
ST do not question her w.t." said Harold,
"and do not deny her beauty; what par
ticularly object to at this time is her infiu-
ence with the Secretary; between US, she is
the commandant here"
The two men sauntered along toward
Flutterlip as they spoke, Oakland merely
remarking with his superb nil admirari
manner, "Well, old fellow, as neutral
party, wish one side or the other would
take control; it's awfully rough on us So
ciety men not to know in the morning what
will take place before night. If it weren't
for the charming women, here I'd pack up
and get outside Of the States"
"Women," exclaimed Flutterlip, 81 like
that; as if there was more than one woman
here for any of you."
"By George, madam" said Oakland,
"you do yourself injustice; when we are
tired of the raillery of one woman, we re-
store ourselves with the envy of another"
THAT Preston turns your collective
heads. hope the new commandant is fire
proof"
Just at this moment Master Randolf, who
was half way over the coping, exclaimed,
"There goes the Commodore's pennant.
''Then," said Harold, "he is coming here.
1 did not know he had arrived"
The two men bowed, and were about to
leave the parapet, when there appeared at
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HOW TO LIVE LONG.
Some of the Conditions Essential to Lon
gevity-The Secret of II.

Some of the Conditions Essential to Lon
gevity-The Secret of II.
What is the secret? everybody will say.
Well, the chief feature oft appears to have
been discovered long ago by Heine. "a
man should be very careful" said that
brilliant cynic, Sin the choice of his fore-
fathers" The great thing, in fact, to begin
with, is to come of good stock-to have
had line OF ancestors physically and men
tally strong.
Then,we gather, the next step is to be born
woman, or more strictly speaking, a fe-
male. "Women," Hufeland declares, "are
more likely than men to become DID," OF
the 81 centenarians referred to by DR.. Hum
phry, 36 were of what is absurdly called
"the weaker sex"
Thirdly-It is well, apparently, to be
either clergyman or a lawyer; such men
live the longest. It would take too long to
inquire why; suffice it that the statement
carries conviction with it.
Fourthly-It is pleasant for many of us
to know, on such good authority as DR..
Roose's, that wealth does not necessarily
insure prolonged existence. The poor
ought to have every consolation possible,
and it should crafty them to know that, ii
lie is not so pleasant tor them as for the
rich, it is likely to be at least quite as long,
ii not longer. Moreover, a certain proper
tion Of them may be still further gratiied
to learn-the average street-boy will delight
in it-that cleanliness is, seemingly. by no
means essential to longevity. We read of
feminine centenarian who, according to
Dr. Roose, must have been "a singularly
dirty person." She smeared her face with
lard, and thought thatif she washed she
would be sure to catch cold. But perhaps
it would not be wise to argue too rigldly
from even half dozen cases OF this sort.
On the whole, to be clean appears to be
rather q help to health.