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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-11-30

The unobtrusivc town of Lahaiua
does not often present sa festive an
appearance as shr did on the 23th of
this mouth. For more hsu week
posters had been up announcing
"athletic sports" at he baseball
ground to commence a 5 O'Clock a.
m. Although it was foand impossi-
bic to begin quite on time, the peo-
pie assembled in great numbers and
the sports began at an unusually
early hour.
First on the program was a rifle
match, individual compotiii0n of five
rounds. Two prizes. n wing is
list Of the contestants aud their
scores:
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-11-30
NOTICES!

THE patrons OF the Oceanic S. S. Co.
/ are hereby notified that hereafter
no round trip or excursion tickets will
pc issued for any OF the through mai
steamers. These tickets will, however,
be issued as customary for the local
steamers ':Ausualia" and ''Zealandia. -
Passengers who hold round trip tickets
and wish to take the through mail
steamer will be charged an exna fare of
$25.
Per order Of the Oceanic s.. S. Co.
WIN. G.. IRWIN q CO.,
SIT General Agents. :
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-11-30
PAPER HANGING !

GIVEJ. l. MEYER the Painter call
VI and have your Paper Hanging done
promptly and neatly. l30 Fort street.
z. o. Box 3S7. Mutual Telephone
co.. I5e 4
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-11-30
Desirable Residence Sites
Sk1AA
;I:E
FOR SALEi
FOR sALEl

HAVE Four Fine Residence Sites,
Il situated on Piikoi street, for sale.
The Lots have frontage of 81 feet on
Pilkoi street and are 200 feet deep, are
nicely laid out in fruit and shade trees
and are all covered with grass; water
laid on throughout. The situation of
these Lots and the limited number make
it necessary that intending purchasers
should make early application to the
undersigned, from whom all particulars
can be had. JAS. f. MORGAN.
203 If
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-11-30
FOR SALE or LEASE.

s.s. s. HHE Desirable Residence
&rsss j situate between Young
Esss and King streets, near Keeau-
moku street now occupied and belong
ing to John Leal. For particulars ap-
ply on the premises. 257 I'm
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04
nspltInr,, = Neirhbor.

The workmen employed at one of the
chair making works in an English town
were cutting up a large cherry tree at
the circular saw bench when something
squirted in the sawyer's face and ran
over the bench in ali directions. The
engine was stopped, and an examination
showed that the saw had struck a cavity
in the tree and liberated considerable
quantity of quicksilver, afterward esti-
mated as half a gill The log was care
fully examined, and it was found that
many years previously hole had been
bored in slanting downward direction
through the heart of the tree, the quick
silver poured in and the hole carefully
plugged The rings Of the tree showed
that it was ninety years old, and that
after the hole had been plugged the
growth had covered the head of the plug
with several inches of solid wood.
As it was known the tree came out of
an old cherry orchard at Allerton, York
shire, where yearly "a cherry feast"
used to be held, it was thought the
quicksilver had been put in the tree in
connection with some old ceremony, but
later it was found that up to thirty or
forty years ago quicksilver was thus en-
ployed to kill fruit or other trees
by those who had "grudges" against
their neighbors. 1t was usual to do this
in the dead of night. A piece of bark
was first carefully taken off, the hole
bored, quicksilver poured in, the hole
plugged, and last the bit of bark was
carefully replaced. The tree from the
next rising of the sap began to wither. In
the present case the attempt was a fail
ure, for except where the quicksilver
had lain dt had not penetrated some
inches beyond the end of the boring the
tree was sound.-Notes and Queries.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04

fessed the secret reason.
81 ought never to have taken a clerk
ship" he said, ''and must get out Of
government service as quickly as posi-
bic, or be content to be clerk all my
life, and that would be to surrender. As
it is simply keep along. 1 am nobody.
Just live. My surroundings are mean.
wish to goodness the Democrats would
win in 1880; then we would all be set
adrift.
"It's very hard getting started in New
York, can tell you," said Windward.
''But it's impossible here" retorted
Stevens fretfully. There's no start to
get; though will say this, Windward,
I'm out of the clutches of the money
brokers. 1 had to live on bread and
water to do it, but after three years I'm
out of debt, and I'm worth two hundred
and twenty dollars!'
"Now you talk like yourself" said
Windward.' "Oh, you'll get along,
Peter"
"Well, 1 mean to-" Stevens replied,
= "but must civil service reform myself
out of office to begin with. I'm keeping
my eyes open for chances. I'm cultivat-
ing that private secretary, for instance.
He is in the way of hearing of a good
thing now and then. 1 should rather like
to be railroad man."
"Well, you haven't got married,
Peter" said Windward, changing the
subject.
"Oh, no; of course not" he answered,
bitterly, II can't afford it. And You
don't seem to prosper with Cupid, either.
How is that"
''Oh, am altogether too sensible, ,, re-
piled Windward, with little bitterness
and cynicism in his turn.
81 suppose somebody has carried off
Miss Florence by this time" said Stevens
in a quite casual and Indifferent manner.
mo-" said Windward, "she's sensible
too" And there by tacit consent the two
young men dropped the subject as one
on which they were not yet ready to
converse with the liberty of friends, and
turned to politics, the beauty of the
streets, the oddities of the negro popu-
lation, the topics of congressional de-
bate and what not other commonplaces
of the time and place.
"YOu have come to Washington at
the height of very stupid session"
said Stevens. "There is no politics, and
congress detests business legislation.
The proceeding are dreary enough, but
of course you want to see the two
houses. The senate has resolved itself
into debating club, and is talking
finance by the mile. The house is dis
eussing the new code of rules. Mem
bers don't seem to know that what con-
gress wants is not so much new rules rs
new men. There are the usual old
stagers' besieging the committed rooms. ;"
Il suppose come in somewhere there, !"
interrupted Windward, laughing.
81 don't know whether the French
claims have Como even so far as that in
this congress-" said Stevens. ''But if
so they must fight for place with the
sugar tariff and the electoral count bill,
and interstate commerce, and the re-
funding bill, and the Ute question, and
the Fitz John Porter case, and the
Heather Chinee, and the contested cleo
ton cases, and [ don't know what else.
{ read the other day that there were
over seven thousand bills already intro
duced and now peAling, so you can
guess what chance there is for any one
getting through. But I'm wonderfully
glad you've come down, all the same,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04

darting zigzag in streaks of flame, hot
shot, nimble, gay, quick spurts, like
stars on frolic. 1t was ''smau talk"
of course, but what of it? Suppose, in a
garden, we prefer humming birds to
dodos, and think goldfish better for a
parlor aquarium than walrusesl
There, to begin with, at the head Of
the table, was McArdle, one of the noted
story tellers of Washington, which means
one of the best in the world. And to-
night he was on his mettle, for like most
men of strong character he had streak
of vanity in his composition, and he
knew that Griggs, that fashionable
rounder, would be retailing his good
things on the morrow at the Metropoli-
tan club and the hotels. Possibly the
colonel, sly, silent man, invited Griggs
to dinner now and then on this account,
and possibly Griggs, sly old diner out,
knew how to get at not only McArdle's
table but many others,
ITO BE CONTINUED.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04
THE BOARDERS

The clerk gdzed at the relic moment.
Stevens had met his friend at the rail
road station, where the two young men
exchanged hearty greetings, and then,
as it was late and the traveller was tired,
they went at once to Peters lodgings in
a boarding house near Franklin square,
where room had been engaged for the
visitor. They had much to say to each
other, and yet they found it hard to talk
after this separation of three years, and
were both soon in bed and asleep.
Up betimes-that is, by s o'clock the
next morning-they descended arm in
arm to the dining room, whittier the
landlady's family and one or two of the
boarders had already gone. Introduc-
tons followed, and little by little Wind
ward came to understand the elements
of the group of which he was now a
member. The Iandlady was a pleasant,
bustling, middle aged woman, whose i'm
mediate family and dependencies con-
sisted of a husband sin Office" and
small child, principally lungs. She had
also with her as visitor her sister, Miss
Sophia, whose arrival in town had been
announced two or three weeks previously
IN the columns of fashionable mention
Of the Sunday press. Miss Sophia-the
charming Miss Sophia. the susceptible
Sunday newspapers called her-was IN
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04
Tho Origin OF .Gror.n

Until the time Of Admiral Vernon the
British sailors had their allowance Of
brandy or rum served out to them IN
mixed with water. This plan was found
to be attended with Inconvenience on
some occasions on account of a shortage
in the brandy locker, and the admiral,
therefore, ordered that in the feet he
commanded the spirits should be mixed
with water before being passed around
among the men This innovation at first
gave great offense to the hardy sailors,
who had been used to taking their drinks
raw" the result being that Vernon be-
came very unpopular with his men.
To add to his unpopularity the sd-
miral, who was conscious Of the i'm
mense responsibility that rested upon
him, became morose and gloomy, often
walking the decks for hours without
speaking or looking either to the right or
the left. In these taciturn moods he al
ways wore an immense grogham coat
thrown loosely over his shoulders; this
resulted in the sailors nicknaming him
"Old Grog," and the term soon came to
be applied to the weak mixture stinting-
ly given out to the men, who had for
merly looked for regular allowance Of
pure stuff" "Grog" became quite pop
ular after a time, but not until the origi-
nal mixer of the formula had ''gone to
his reward. st. Louis Republic.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04

He set watch on HORTON. and finally
caught him in the act OF pouring turpen-
tine into the pump. The next day
Branscombe swore out a warrant for
Hopton's arrest for malicious mischief,
and it was served that afternoon.
Hopton resisted violently, but finally
claimed down, and while on his way to
the Office Of the justice Of T. peace ex-
pressed wish to see NJ lscombe
and settle the whole affair The con-
stable was an oblging fellow, and sc-
ceded to this request.
"Kunnel," said Hopton, when brought
before Branscombe, 'let's compromise
this matter"
Every WELL" assented Branscombe
readily. During the past six months
you have committed damages to the ex-
tent Of 500. What is your propositionG
'Its this, kunnel," drswled Hopton.
you drop this prosecuting me, and I'll
let ye off."-Youth's Companion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04

Windward, and you viii be very much
interested in all you see."
1t was perhaps because Windward's
visit had recalled old times, times of
romance and aspiration, that, after his
friend had retired that night, Stevens
unlocked drawer and took out formal
looking manuscript on the Dangers of
Representative Institutions. The au-
thor turned over the pages earelessly till
he came to some dried and brittle leaves
of a pressed rose. The clerk gazed at
the relic a moment, then with an ex-
clamation and gesture of impotence he
folded the manuscript up again, locked
it in the drawer, sat staring into the fire
a while, then, with a second and sharper
exclamation and gesture of impotence,
hastily undressed and was soon asleep.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04


Thursday night found Windward in
the midst of delightful company. The
popular Rev. DR.. Shepherd, Louise's
pastor; Senator Bills and his buxom, an
ecdotal wife, famous for her good stories;
Commander Griggs, of the navy; Mr..
Pollok, who lived in Shanghai with his
niece; a Miss Willis, and himself, as
guests. 1t was a choice group. All
were versed in society, fond of life, and
capable of enjoyingit. Louise was radi-
antly beautiful and in captivating spirits.
The laconic colonel was in high feather,
throwing off epigrams as easily and
brilliantly as a skillful pianist frolics
with the keyboard. The jests started at
the blessing, and from that on it was a
sparkling succession of verbal sweet
meats, mind and digestion working in
that true union which distinguishes the
perfect feast.
They talked of everybody and every
thing; of the need of new opera house;
that the White House was shabby; the
fashionable colors in roses; recent bur
glaries; Conkling; the last hop at the
Marine barracks, and the fight between
Mrs. Capt. Chains and certain senator's
wife over the detachment of Lieut..
Biggs; the absurd creatures in the
Diplomatic corps; the new set of china,
and how to tell real Satsuma from
Awata ware; the work of the associated
charities; ocean racing, etc. Windward
saw his part was to listen and OBJ
serve. These people could teach him
how to make even the weather interest
ing. 1t was like the November meteors.
Whisk! flash! went the word play; now
humOr. in bright, mild sheets: now wit
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04
Hopton,s Compromise.

Near town in the southern part of
Georgia lived Mr.. Branscombe, a
wealthy fruit grower, who was en-
broiled in perpetual feud with poor
trucker named Hopton. The feud was
based on Hopton's hog, which committed
havoc in Branscombe's garden, and
Branscombe finally shot the animal.
War was at once declared by Hopton,
not against Branscombe personally, but
against all his belongings. He tore down
fences, wrung the necks of chickens,
smeared Branscombe's front steps with
paint, and continued this petty persecu-
ton until the fruit grower was exasper-
ated beyond endurance.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-06-04
An Experiment with Hot Water.

In support of the theory that retention
of waste is a potential cause of corpu-
pulency, it is instanced that one physi-
clan cured himself by the use of 1t
water. While under treatment he was
careful not to overeat, and excluded
from his diet some of those foods which
are richest in fat producing elements,
but the dietetic restrictions were not at
all severe, so that the credit must be
given to the hot water, a gallon or more
of which was drank daily. By this
means the accumulated waste was well
washed out of the system, and a rapid
reduction in weight took place. And
what is even more important, perma-
nent cure was effected, for when he
stopped the treatment and ate anything
and everything he craved, there was no
return of the trouble.-Boston Herald.
Streak of Luck,
Mrs. Portly Pompous-Oh, Bridget,
you have broken that magnificent Japan
csc vase.
Bridget-Sure, mum, isn't it lucky that
there was nothing in it.-Texas SiftingS
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09

tration at Washington. She IL . stsikingly
elegant woThan. with a very pretty face and
. graceful and digniied bearing. Bhe
wears handsome clothes. that bsar on theis
face tho stamp Of the famous man-mil1iner
Of Paris. and she cntertSins with most 70
fined hospitality.
Senator Ingalls, IL ssid to have had these
offers under consideration: Twenty thous-
and dollars from a publishing company for
i book to be called Twenty Years in Con-
Rress;" $1,000 to edit Arkell's illustrated
weekly; $1,000 from q review for his views
on cioture and this election bill; $4,000 10
edit the Detroit Tribune; and $4,000 from
a literary syndicate to write a satiricaI novel
or Washington life.
Sir Edwin Arnold saw the emperor Of
Japan at the opening of parliament, where
he presented a very interesting figure. He
is tall in comparison with the majority OF
his subjects. and has strongly marked fea-
lures. His eyes are dark and watchful and
he has a slight beard and mustache. His
manners are at once gracious and imper-
turbably reserved. The mikado wasdressed
in the uniform Of an army general and
wore the broad red ribbon Of the Order of
the Rising Sun.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09

ALL MontaniaHs who love good racing
will rejoice over the brilliant prospects
for the coming season in the Montana
circuit. At least four cities will furnish
purses to the amount of s125,0oO, a sum
greater than that offered by the Califor-
mia circuit and much larger than rae
ing purses in cities Of similar size in the
United States. All difficulties in our
local association have been satisfactorily
adjusted and Helena will be found as
usual in the front rank. The records OF
Montana horses since Spokane's famous
victory have attracted general attention
in the racing world. The Ife-giving
ozone Of the mountains and the gener-
Gus products Of the plains have COM
bined to place Montana along with the
blue grass region as a country peculiar
~ adapted to the raising Of fast horses.
Besides, we have a goodly number OF
wealthy and enthusiastic owners to
keep up the fast increasing stables and
they are entitled to much credit for
their public spirited interest in the
snort.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Jerry Simpson remarked, when he was
introduced to Senator ingalls,: Senator, /
do Dot know whether / owe my greatness to
my head or my feet "Ab,' quickly re-
piled the senator, that may be. but here
after you will have to depend on your
head
Kate Field tells of a Washington woman
who defines courage as the absence of petit
coats. lin her lexicon it is clothes. not sex,
which makes women c~oyardly. She does
not say how bifurcated garments could
give a woman courage to face a bloodthirsty
mouse.
Edison. in speaking to the employees at
the Ogden iron mines at Dover, New jersey,
a few days ago, said: Boys, wait until
next winter and We shall have NJ snow to
bother Ms upon this hill. During the com
ing year | shall invent electric and sunlight
refectors that will melt the snow as fast as
it falls
Sir Walter Raleigh's old home at Youehal
Is occupied now by Sir John Pope Henpes
sey, the new member of parliament for
North Kilkenny. The house contains many
OLD relics OF its former owner, including
the chest in which he kept his papers. but
ms greatest treasure, his tobacco pipe, is
not there.
Queen Victoria as she increases in wears
shows disposition TO make youth and
Rood looks a requirement IN the ladies-in-
waiting and other women about her. She
prefers a comeiy appearance and a fresh
face to the wrinkles that years impose, and
Tor that reason insists tina the women
officials of her royal household shall be
young.
Mrs Morton. If the correspondents are to
be believed, 10 the beauty of the admipis
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09
AN ENGLISH NATIONALIST.
Alfred Russell Wallace Converted by Re-
lamy's Book.

Alfred Russell Wallace Converted by Bel.
Iamy's Book.
BALTIMORE, Fell. 8.-Mr. Alfred I,usseII
Wallace, the distinguished English natur-
alIst, IN a letter recently written to Prof.
*. +. Ely, of Johns Hopkins university.
called forth by reading the %latter's ..PoIit-
ical Economy said:
II am much pleased with it, especially
with your fair and sympathetic treatment
of socialism. Some of your illustrations of
the weakness OF socialism would have sat-
isted me a year ago, but it seems to me
they are all we'll answered in BeIlamv,s
Looking Backward
From boyhood. when 1 was an ardent
aamirer oil hobert owen, have been inter
ested i'll socialism, but reluctantly came IN
the conclusion that 1t was ImpracticahIe
and also, to some extent, %repugnaut To nv
ideas of individual liberty and home nri.
vacy. But MIR. Bellamy has Completely
altered my views i'll this matter. He seeyns
to me to have shown that real. not mereIv
delusive liberty, together with full scona ~
~individualism and complete human ptiyacv
Is compatible with the most tforon1h
socialism. and henceforth / am heart and
soul with him.
1t is, however. a long way to such a o,s,
and your book will, / think, help men TO n
knowledge of the evils that have immaai'
ately to be remedied. ] cannot sec how the
greatest evils of our present system. inv, l.
untaEy idleness and consequent pauperisn,
can ever be got rid of un Ter the system of
unrestricted competition and Capitalism
with labor as a marketable commodity."
Mr. Wallace. in a subsequent letter civ.
ing permission to use the foregoing le,ts
added: '
Il should like to add that do not think
the course of social reform can be the sans
In England as in America. Our territori.I
aristocracy, still retaining much of ths
power they possessed in feudaI times. are
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09

1T appears that in sending out ringing
challenges ove the country our eminen,
heavyweight prize fighters have over
looked the Reverend Sam Pueilistic
Jones. When he takes a contract to
drive the devil out OF a town something
more than a mayor is needed to with
stand the onslaught. When one OF these
officials in q Texas town yentured IL
cowhide Mr.. Jones for alleged d~erogatory
remarks he suddenly found himself sery-
ing as a dust gatherer for the CITY
streets. Then Mr.. Jones flushed with
victory, sent the following telegram 10
his Georgia home:
The one galIus mayor of Palestine. Tex.
tried to cane your Uncle Jones this morn
ing at the depot. | wrenched the cane from
him and wore him out. / am a little dis.
figured, but still in the ring. / criticized
his official career last November. 1t needed
cfiIicising. sAM p. JoSEs.
After all the sinner are converted the
Reverend Mr.. Jones will have no diff
Guilty in making q good living as an at
tache OF a San Francisco athletic club.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09

No GENTLEMAN with a silver voice
and hailing from the west is likely to
step into M WINDOWS Shoes says the
Louisville CourierJournal. Well. then,
what is the matter with Tom Power.
His voice is neither silver nor s~ilvery, and
the people of Montana are doubtful if
he lives in the west. Then again, if the
country wants an economic administra-
ton OF the treasury department, Power
can secure affidavits from the republi-
can state committee that he is the right
man for the place.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09

RANCE is said to be suffering from
an overcoming of the learned profes-
sions. The statement is made that Ia
600 school mistresses anG 1850 primary
school masters are out OF employ ment.
while 1000 lawyers IN Paris are unable
to make a living. Montana is a progress
sive state and will gladly welcome the
surplus school mistresses and furnish
contracts to secure good husbands for
all within a year. The outlook for law.
yers is not quite so good, thou ii there
is still enough left of the DAVIS estate
to get some Of them through unit
spring.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09
Hill Interested.

Sioux CRY. Feb. Ga deal has been
made in New York whereby President Hill,
of the Great Northern. appears as a hacker
of the Pacific Short Zine. The objective
point of this line is Ogden, Utah. A quar-
rel between the Sioux City and New York
stockholders caused the road to be put into
the hands of a receiver IN December. Last
week the Sioux City party, which has
to buy the interest of the New York party.
The Hill interest will then put in money to
complete the line Immediately.