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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-07
About Mailing Letters.

There are undoubtedly a great
many stupid people in the world. A
large number of them do not seem
to know how to perform the simplest
acts of life properly. There is an
other large class that is careless in
the doing of almost everything. The
people who do all that their hands
tinde.h to do with care and exacti-
tIde are not as numerous as might
IL Supposed in these days of mental
training. The statistics of the post
Office show what dreadfully stupid
and careless lot of people there are
in the United States. The simple
yet important act of mailing a letter
properly ought moi SO often to be
the subject of error as it is. The
Superintendent of the Dead Letter
Department at Washington reports
that 6,266, 1913 pieces of dead mail
matter were received during the
year. The most of them were i'm
perfectly or wrongly addressed. An
average of more than ten mistakes
were made for every man, woman
and child in the country. Of the
whole number of letters improperly
mailed no fewer than 21,670 con-
tanned money, to the amount of S34,-
$50; negotiable paper was found in
24.075 letters, amounting to the
large sum of 1,497, 282, and 3,417
wrongly addressed letters contained
$500 in postal money orders.
From these figures it is very appar-
ent that one Of the good resolutions
of the new year with large number
of people ought to be a determine
ton to be more careful and exact in
the matter of mailing their letters.
The numerous errors now committed
cause endless confusion and trouble
in the postoffice, and are a sad re-
Fiction upon the business exactitude
and Intelligence of our people
News Letter.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-07
EDIsoN's NEW CLOCK.
ro..isil,,,e. of the Speaking rimepi,

Possibilities of the Speaking Timepiece.
Thomas Edison, the phenomenal
inventor, has reached critical stage
in his career, and it would be
strange sarcasm of late IL his latest
invention should make him positively
abhorrent to the growing genera
ton. Over in his laboratory at
Llewellyn Park is this invention.
1t has been tried and found perfect,
and it is Photographic clock which.
instead of Ginning the hours, calls
them out at every quarter in voice
full of clearness. 1t may be fitted
with any ses to suit the purpose for
which it may be intended. To re-
porter it was exhibited recently.
The inventor WIS as cherry and
playful as he always is. The
clock" said he, sis an improvement
and if it were only on the marked
now it wodld save you reporters
good deal of worriment. For in
stance, say you are at political
meeting with dozen speakers card
ed. They are to have each half
hour You know whas fiction that
is. But now, if you had clock like
this, see how it would work" and
here Mr.. Edison placed seS within
it. He pointed the hand to the
quarter OF an hour and voice came
ringing out: This speaker is half
through" At the hslf-hour the
clock blurted out: 1.-THE audience
will please not encore. The gentle
man now gives way to another"
The only fear l have" continued
Mr.. Edison, sis that the young I'M
married folks may not relish it. You
are married! MOI Well, don't give
this out as bride, but when you get
entangled in the preliminaries come
to me and / will give you one that
you may present to the family into
which you aspire to be admitted. 1t
will be fbber. I'm a little in
doubt about the popularity Of the
parlor clock with the younger peo-
pie"
Mr.. Edison has got good reason to
fear. A more tantallzing ornament
to pair of ardent lovers than a
matrimonial psrlor photographic
clock cannot be imagined. Fancy,
for instance, Sunday evening in a
coy parlor with two hearts beating
as one stan led by the voice from the
mantel: "Good night, a fond good
night. In another hour it vii! be
midnight" Then dolefully az
quarter past and each succeeding
quarter comes out its hoarse croak-
ings, until 11:55 o'clock, when it
blurts out:
In five minutes more it will be to-
morrow and every ten minutes sub
sequently the air is filed with its
maudlings, such as "Ahl how still
the hour" mabel, l am watching
thee, la, hap "Methinks l hear the
sp It OF thy mamma I ION TIE s;s'r."
"Please don't heed me; it is my mis-
fortune to remind you that the hour
is half-past II" "Did l hear you
ask me to get that hst;" "Will you
kindly remember me in your pray
ers?" ',Look outl 1 hear footstep,
Ha, hs! L was only fooling theew
I'll soon have to call father to go to
his Office"
And so the clock jabbers on most
exasperatlngly. Of course the words
are set to suit the Giro INSTANCES. If
the wooer be a favored person the
language will be much different, the
tole of the clock will be sweet and
simpering and the words coy and
captivating.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-07
THE LORDS OF LABOR.

In a recent speech at NewcaStle-on-
TYNE John Morley referred to the leaders
OF the workingmen who have tried TO
ameliorate the condition of their fellows
as 1.-The plain, ruSSet-coated captains" as
the ''lords Of labor" and quoted coup
let or two from the following fine poem
by James McFarlan, a Scotch working
man with the soul OF bard. who died OF
consumption in London in 1876 after q
somewhat erratic and checkered career.
They oomel they come in q glorious ms7ch
You can hear their steam SteeiS neigh,
As they dash through skulls trumphsl
arch.
Or plunge mid the dancing spray.
Their bsle-fires blaze in the mighty Jorge,
Their hfe-pulSe throbS in the mill,
Their hghtnings ShiveT the gaping gorge,
And their thunds-S shake the hill.
Hoi these are the TiIanS of toll and
trade
The heroes who WELD no sabre;
But mightier conqueStS reapeth the
blade
That is borne by the Lords of Labor.
Brave hearts like Jewels light the sod,
Through the miSts Of commerce shine,
And souls flash out ike stars OF God
From the midnight Of the mine.
No palace Is theirs. no castle great;
No princely plllar'd hall:
But they vel can laugh 81 the roofs OF
state
Meath the heaven which Is over all,
Hoi these are the TItanS Of toll and
trade, etc
Each bareS his arm for the ringing strife
That marshalS the sons Of the soil,
And the sweai-dropS shed in their battle OF
life
Are gems in the crown OF toll;
And prouder their well-won wreathS, l
t1Ow.
Than laurelS with life-blood wet,
And nObler the arch OF bSre bold brow
Than the clasp Of s COronet.
Then hurrah for each hero, although
his deed
Be unknown by the trump or tabor;
For holieT, happier far Is the need
That crowueth the Lords Of Labor.
Pail Mali Budget.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-07
The Australian Ballot system.

The success of the Australian sys-
tenn of voting at the late elections in
Massachusetts, and Montana renders
it certain that the reform will spread
throughout the Union. In testing
a new system an ounce Of trial is
worth a pound of theory.
The main purposes of a general cleo
toral reform law are perfectly well
understood. They are to secure
secrecy to the ballot, to p eve. bri-
berry and intimidation, to remove the
main prete1s for political assess
me1ts by having the StaJe supply
tie ballots and to free the people
from the domination of professional
politicians. This reform is bound to
come, and ambitious leaders would
be wise to step out of its path
n. Y. World.
The most enthusiastic advocates
Of the Australian Ballot law could
hardly have anticipated such an IN
qualihed approval of that measu 3
as was given to it by the people of
lL1S Slol-. we COA1SSS lAdl+ o.
though we were strong y in favor of
the reform, We had imagined that
after the first trial it would be neces-
sary to urge many of our citizens
not to Judge too hastily Of this new
method, on the ground that slcces-
sive trials would accustom our peo-
pie to what, at first sight, might
seem an intricate system of ballot
ing. These fears have proved to be
groundless. There is not one voter
in hundred IN this State who, after
the experience of yesterday, would
so back to the old order of things.
The Australian ballot plan is not
only destined to be a permanent
method in Massachr sets, but, after
the practical unanimous indorse-
ment the people of this State have
given to it, it cannot fail to bespeed-
lily incorporated into the electoral
methods of the other States of the
Union Boston Herald.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-07
ABOUT TOBACCO.
Some Potent Facts tor and Against the
Weed,

Some Potent Facts tor and Against the
Weed.
The fact that in a single cigar is
contained sufficient nicotine to kill
two strong men is not so terrifying
when it is remembered that the other
substances which go to make it up
have a. neutrslizing effect, though
the schoolboy's experiences after his
first pipe show the dire results of the
drug when taken in unaccustomed
doses, whether large or small. 1t is
no argument in its favor to say that
st-ong men, clever men-aye, great
men-haye smoked and owned no
i'll effects from it. Those strong men
might have been stronger: those
S eat men greater. 1t is not ration
al to argue, as the President of the
United States did when certain Off
GERS OF the army complained to him
that General Grant was an immoder-
ate drinker of whisky, and he re-
Piled: Let me know where Grant
geSs his whisky that I may send
barrelful to every general IN the
army" A Bismarck may smoke but
no amount of smoking will create
Bismarck; rather will it, in nine
cases out of ten, destroy the embryo
Chancellor or statesman. Neither
are the facts that wounded soldiers
OIL the battlefield cry out for tobacco,
that the Indians go for days without
food, subsisting only on the stimulus
of the pipe, that lunatics are allowed
to smoke to allay the frenzy of their
diseased brains, and that by putting
at big cigar the white man pre-
serves himself in tropical climates
from insect pests Though he destroys
the insects) any proof that tobacco is
the health elixir some people would
have us believe it to be; abnormal
suffering, whether of mind or body,
requires narcotic; unwonted situa-
tions demand unaccustomed habits.
The chief harm of tobacco lies in the
fact that the nicotic poison acts by a
system of accumulation; its toxic in
tiue ices are not transitory as those
of alcohol. Moderate quantities
faithfully taken result in chronic
nicoism of the system. The process
somewhat 'resembles that of tanning
it is slow but permanent. Canni-
balls are said to turn up their noses
at the nicotized flesh of smokers
The National Review.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-07
Builders Of Steam Machinery
In all its branches.

In all its branches.
Steamboat, Steamship. Land Engines Boilers
High Pressure or Compound.
STEAM VESSELS of all kinds built complete,
with bulls OF wood, iron or composite
ORDINARY ENGINES compounded when ad-
visable.
STEAM LAUNCHES, Barges and Steam Tugs con-
structed with reference TO the trade in which
they are to be employed. Speed, tonnage and
draft of water guaranteed.
SUGAR MILLS and Sugar Making Machinery
made after the most approved plans. Also, all
Boiler Iron Work connected Herewith.
WATER PIPE, of Boiler OF Sheet Iron, Of any
size, made in sui able lengths for con Meeting
together, or Sheess rolled, punched and packed
for shipment, ready to be riveted on the
ground.
HYDRAULIC RIFET1NG, Boiler Work and Water
Pipes made by this establishment, rfveted By
hydraulic riyet1g machinery, that quality Of
work being far superior to hand work.
SHIP WORE, Ship and Steam Capstans. Steam
Wincbes, Air and Circulating Pumps, made
after the most approved plans.
SOLE Agents and manufacturers for the Pacific
Coast OF the Heine Safety Boiler.
PUMPSADireet Acting Pumps for irrigation or
city works purposes, built with the celebrated
Dsvy Valve Notion, superior to any other
pump.
-1sm Room No. 5. upstairs. spreckels' Block
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-07
A Dangerous Rock.

Some time ago Captain Lee of the
c. 2. steamer Abyssinia reported a
rock as lying off the coast of Japan,
and the position given was latitude
Sc deg. 80 min. north. and longitude
142 deg. % min. east, or Whereabouts.
The Admiral of the English fleet
then on the station told off two of
the men-of-war, on their return from
Hakodate to search for the reported
rock. After spending some time in
vain, they returned to Yokohama
and reported that no such danger
existed IN this particular spot, or for
several miles round. The sealing
schooner Rose, Captain Gierow,
while on her cruise north at about
noon on the 11th of July, 1889, and
while the crew were below having
dinner, ran on a rock and heeled
over so far as to throw the dinner
and plates of the table. The crew
rushed on deck and at that moment
the vessel slipped off into deep water.
After the surprise was over the lead
was thrown, but no bottom could be
found at thirty-fVe fathoms. Capt.
Gierow had just previously taken the
sun, and found the position of the
vessel to be latitude Sc deg. 26 min.
\. and the longitude by dead reck-
oning 142 deg. E. Although this is
not exactly the spot indicated by the
Abyssinia, it Is possible that dan
gerous rock lies In or about the posi-
ton pointed out by Captain Lee a
year ago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-31
New York no 2O11 2-6 10
Chicago OO3 O22 81 6 z
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Columbus Knocks Out the Ath.
letics Twice in Succession.

Columbus Knocks Out the Ath-
letics Twice in Succession.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 80. = The Co
lumbus club won two games from the
Athletics to-day with ridiculous ease.
Mcmahon. who was in the box in the
first game, was very effective, but the
visitors resorted to bunting, and this
won the game. Seward was hit hard in
the second game. Denny Lyons was
suspended Indefinitely for drinking, and
Myers, of the Highland club, played on
third base. Seward has been laid off
for the balance of the season at his own
request, and Hughes is released. Nc
Mahon is the only pitcher left. At
tendance, 1865. Score:
Athletics. $3.50. 1910 O0Oo-3 4 5
Columbus II o % 0O7 D o *-S 8
Two-base hits, McTammany and , Grooks;
many, Crooks 2, Wheelock; double play,
Reilly and Lehane: first on balls McTam-
many, Leblanc, Crooks 2, Johnston and
Sneed; hit by pitcher, WEIGH and Reilly;
struck out, by Gastright q, by Mcmahon g;
passed ball, Baldwin; batteries, Mcmahon
and Baldwin, Gastright and OConnor; time.
two hours; umpire, Curry.
SECOND GAME
R. H. E.
Athletic. 49,. 5000 OO1-2 8 5
Columbus. 2 o l 2 O 1 *-7 II 5
Batteries, Seward and Baldwin; Knauss
and Doyle; earned runs, Columbus 3; Two
base hits, O'Brien, Johnston. Doyle, Reilly
and Leblanc; three-base hit, Knauss: stolen
bases. WEIGH. Johnston Doyle and Sneed;
first on balls, WEIGH 2. Shafer, Myers, Crooks,
Leblanc; hit. Conroy; struck out. by Seward
q, by Knauss 9; passed balls. Baldwin. Doyle;
time, two hours; umpire, Curry.
BAL TIMoRE, Aug. 30.-BaltimOre lost
to-day through their inability to hit the
ball at the proper time. Attendance.
2,973. Score:
Baltimore 20 10000 5 l
Earned runs, Baltimore /, St. Louis 2: bat
terle S, Baker, o Rourke and Tate; Neal and
Munyan; three-base hits, Duffee and Cam
pau sacrifice hits. Ray Cartwright Cam
pau; struck out by Baker 4. by Neal a.; sto-
len bases, Long, Fuller. Miller Power Nc
earthly, Duffee; passed balls, Tate, Munyan
2; hit by pitched ball, Baker: wild pitch,
Neal: first on balls. off Baker 5, off Neal 8;
first base ON errors, Baltimore l, st. Louis /
time, :55; umpire, Emslie.
Rochester and Toledo clubs played
good game Of bali to-day. The Roch-
tiers won by punching their hits in the
seventh inning. Miller, the new pitcher
of the home team, made his debut and
did great work. Attendance 800. Score:
Rochester. OOO1O04o IS Z ?
Toledo. % 8 u 600 O-4 z 3
Earned runs, Rochester 3, Toledo 2; two
base hits. McKeogh, Triffen, Sage; left on
Shelter to Knowles; bases on pals, off
Miller 4, off Cushman 4, off Spragve l;
struck out. by Miller 4. by Cushman 1, by
Sprague l batteries, Miller and McKeough,
Cushman, Sprague and Sage; time, l:45;
umpire, Doercher.
GAME POSTPONED.
Louisville at Syracuse.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-31
MILWAUKEE DIDN'T SCORE.
Minneapolis Increases It's Chances
for the Pennant.

One hit and no run. That is the rec
ord the Brewers made at Minneapolis
yesterday in an interesting contest with
was in the box, and the Milwaukee boys
were not ''in it'' at any stage of the
game. Petit was the only man that hit
safe for the visitors, and that was in the
sixth inning. Griffith pitched fine
game, allowing only seven hits
to be made, but the Norton
ties batted at opportune moments.
There were several grand stand plays.
Miller's stop of a hot grounder behind
second base in the third brought forth
a tremendous yell from the three thou
sand people present. Minneapolis
failed to score in the first Inning, though
there were two men on bases with no
one out. In the second Twohey sur
prised himself and every one else by
lifting the sphere over the fence, and
with two men out in the third Ryn hit
for two bases. Day Was given a life on
Welch's tumble, and both tailed on
Carroll's long double to left. A base on
balls, single by Minnehan, Ryn's dou-
BILE and CAROLS sacrifice netted three
more runs in the fifth. The Millers
failed to score again. Davies was sub
stituted for Griffith in the eighth, and
the first three men at bat went out in
regular order. The visitors had three
men on bases in the sixth, but the duty
that fell upon Dalrympls was too great,
and he famed the atmosphere. Before
the game there was somewhat of a
wrangle over selecting umpires to take
the place OF McDermott, who has a
sprained ankle. Kreig and Dowie were
finally selected, and acted impartially.
The score:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-31
TOO LATE TO AVAIL.
Apostles Begin to Act as If
They Could Play
Ball.
Morton's Sluggers White
wash the Brewers With
Comparative Ease.
Omaha Outplays Kansas City,
and Sioux City VanQuishes
Denver.
Results of Contests in the
Two Leagues and Ameri-
can Association.
A fine day, good play and an exciting

A fine day, good play and an exciting
game should have drawn large crowd
to the ball park yesterday, but did not
A couple of hundred or so saw st. Paul
beat Lincoln in the ninth inning, III
old-time style and In game that,
though Astounding iii errors, had many
fine points. Lincoln put Roach in the
box again, and the Apostles found him
safely eleven times, one of which was
a double. Meekin for the Apostles was
touched up just seven times, of which
two were rounded up just over the
right-field fence for home runs. These
hits were all punched into the two i'll
ningS In which the scores were made.
In the third, four singles and home
run, with base on balls, yielded four
runs, of which three were earned.
Another home run in the seventh
gave the fifth score and tied the
game. Hits by Werrick and Murphy,
with steal and wild throw, gave st.
Paul the opening score in the second.
Mains and Abbey hitsafely in the third,
and when Mclaughlin landed single
to right center Abbey came home from
first base, chasing Mains ahead of him.
Traffiey's tumble of Abbey's jumper, in
the fifth. base on balls to DAILY and
O'Brien's long double, gave two more
runs. The game looked like ten IN
nings when Murphy opened the ninth
with fly to Macullar, but Meekin and
Mains hit safely, and after Abbey had
forced Meekin at the plate and stolen
second, both men crossed the rubber on
Daly's drive to left, and won the game.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-31

Fogarty 8. Mulvey, shindle and Beecher;
wild pitch, Knell; time, 1885; umpires, shy
der and Pierce.
BROOKLYN, Aug. 3O.-Slugging was
the feature Of the game to-day. Wey-
hing's delivery was batted all oyer the
field. Wards men also batted well,
and by making their hits we'll together
managed to win. Cleveland's errors
were costly and so was McGills wild
pitching. Score:
Brooklyn. - 2 o 80 sol Ia "A 8
Cleveland 90 1O1 O 4-1O !c 5
Batteries. weighing and Kinslow, McGill and
Brennan; earned runs. Brooklyn 8, Cieve-
land 8; left on bases Brooklyn 10, Cleveland
base on balls, Van Haltren, Ward 1. Bauer 2,
Orr, Andrews. Seery, weighing, Radtord,
Larkin, Sutcliffe, McGill3 struck out, Joyce,
Seery 2, Van Haltren 2, weighing, Delehanty,
Tebeau, Browning; sacrifice hits. Ward, An
drews 2, Joyce; stolen bases. none; three
base hits, Ward, Kinslow; two base hits,
Bauer 2, Orr, Kinslow, Radford 2, Browning,
Larkin, Tebeau, Stricken; double plays,
Joyce. Bauer, Orr, Stricken, Larkin, Radford,
McGilI, Brennan and Larkln; wild pitch,
McGill; passed ball, Brennan; time. 2:23;
umpires. affney and Sheridan.
New YORK, Aug. 80. The New
rk-Chicago game was close and ex-
citing; excitement was at fever heat
throughout. Comiskey's men won the
first game of the series, but at terrible
cost. In the ninth inning Capt. Com
iskey had finger shattered on ball
thrown by Williamson and it is doubt
full if he will be able to play again this
season. Duffy's home run in the. ninth
inning did much to win the game for
Chicago, for he sent Bartson home
ahead of him. Score:
R. E.
New York ....O Oo2 O1 o 2-6 10 4
Chicago ....O 90 3 o Q 2 o 81 81
Batteries, Crane and Brown, Bartson and
Farrell; earned runs, New York 3, Chicago
Q; first on errors, New York 5. Chicago z;
left on bases, New York z, Chicago 5; first
out, Whitney. Richardson, Williamson, Com
iskey; home runs, osRourke' Duffy two o,;s
bases, Conner, Richardson, O'Rourke 2;
g stolen bases, connor, Richardson, 0'Rourke
g. Crane. Comiskey. Farrell double plays,
Farrell, Pfeffer and Boyle; Pfeffer and Com.
iskey, Shannon and Conner; wild pitch,
Crane; passed ball. Brown; time LAO; um-
DireS knight and Jones'