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very effective preacher, but author of
some of the finest hymns in the collcc-
ton of ''paraphrascs" long familiar to
the people of Scotland. lie was indeed
a mixed character, and had great am
bition to shine as a dramatic writer
like his brother divine John Howe, the
author of Douglas. A play of which
he thought highly was brought out on
the stage but proved failure, which
so mortified him that. according to the
common rumor, he took TO drinking, in
consequence Of which he resigned his
charge and gave himself to literary
work. Soon after he died, few years
older than Burns, but in the very flow
er of his life-only forty four.
What shall we say OF Charles Lamb?
Was there ever a more delightful COM
panion. a more lively writer. a man of
finer clay? His ESSAYS ripple over with
delicate humor. he was the idol of his
friends, hardly one of them but would
have done anything to save him. But
much though he tried to overcome, the
attractions of the bottle were too great
for him. A self-shattered man, he was
a source of grief to those who loved
him best; made apparently to difuse
Joy and sunshine, he too often diffuscd
sadness and tears.
Hartley Colcridgc, the gifted son OF q
gifted father, had still Saddcr history.
At Oxford he carried all before him,
and there seemed TO be no distinction
which he was not capable Of attaining.
In his early youth he became the bond
slave Of drink. After much warning,
and amid untold lamentations, he had to
be expelled from the university. From
the darling of his friends lac became
their despair. The degradation which
dri~k brought on him could not be- told.
lr rrssmere churchyard. in the Lake
aistriSt, j. shown the tomb Of one who
might hare been an angel, but was
more like fallen spirit. Yet his Re
mains" show what fine gifts OF song
and scholarship were his, and what "A
bright and useful life he might have
led, but for the fell fascination that
overwhelmed him.
Edgar Allen Poe, one OF the icost
gifted youths the United Sta'ct has
produced, became the subject OF "a like
degrad atiGR and under the inGnence
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FACTS AND FINDINGS.

THE associated brewers of Great
Britain are said to have subscribed
$500, 900 for the protection OF their trade
at the recent parliamentary election.
THE amount Of beer and spirits con-
sumed per capita in this country in 1891
was sixteen gallons, In 1910 the amount
per capita was four gallons.
THE consumption of beer in Germany
amounted to l,l44, 900, 900 gallons in
the year ls9l-92, against 800, 600, 900 gall
Ions in 1856, an increase OF Ia per cent.
while the population has increased only
4 per cent.
An active Christian worker in tho
slums, when asked how he decided
where was the best place to locate his
mission, promptly replied: by the
smell. Where whisky smells strongest,
there is the most need of mission work"
In 1891 there were 22l, s41 spirit deal
ers and manufacturers in this country.
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SLAVES OF THE CUP.
Men whose Bright Minds Were Ruined
by Drink.


II Is a common observation that IL is
often the most gifted of men that be-
come the slaves of drink. IL is often
the clevcrest workman, the ablest at his
business the man of strongest muscle
and best brain, that becomes at last the
helpless sot. The fine scholar, the
bright, genial companion, the hand
some boy, the favorite brother or son,
seem, ALAS peculiarly susceptible to
the fascination of the siren sisters.
And often the finer the gifts the greater
the degradation. Men endowed with
1.-THE vision of the faculty divine
poets sown by nature, with an eye for
all that is beautiful in the world, and
lips from which pearls and diamonds
seem to drop, are sometimes the very
men that are dragged into the pigstye.
IL Bacchus does not refuse your
coarse. brutalized wretches, to whom
the gutter seems natural home, he
certainly will not be content with this
scum; the refined lady, the cultured
scholar, the artist, the singer, even the
philosopher must contribute their con-
tinRtul W tic llSJ Vi HIS WOTSulDtTS.
How many tears have been shed over
Robert Burns! How many pangs have
shot through hearts that have been
melted by his love and tenderness, his
deep sympathy and intense humanity,
his profound distress for all the sorrows
and sufferings of mankind. How strik-
ing it is to trace the resemblance be-
tween his natural gifts and those of the
psalmist David, and then contrast the
issue of their lives. Both so full of
warm feeling, with bright and sunny
temperament, IA winsomeness of nature
that draws all hearts to them as by a
spell. Both having the poetical gift in
singular profusion, and running, too,
in the same channel-lyrical song.
Both beginning life in similar way,
the one shepherd, the other a plow-
man, tenderly loving the lower animals
and delightiug in the beauties of crea-
ton. In the nature of both a strong
sensual fiber; liable to be overcome by
bursts Of passion, the fruits of VIII ich
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THE Philadclphia Record Vells Of one
brewery there where the one hundred
men who are employed consume twelve
half-barrels OF beer day. A compart-
ment has been set apart for a minia-
ture bar. and one bartender does moth
ing all day but keep the faucet OPEN,
The men know they will lose theirt
places il they get drunk, and so never
over-indulge; but their moderate indul-
gcnce is almost fabulous. Some drink
from eighty to one hundred glasses"
declared the bartender, 'cthers drink
about fifty, while some can only stand
twenty-five to :hirty glasses day"
ADvIcEs have recently been received nj
the headquarters of the Woman's Tenn
perance union in Chicago to the effect
that Queen Liliuokala ami OF the Hawaiian
Islands has become a convert TO the
temperance cause. She not only pays
the license imposed on the temperance
coffee house which the union has
opened in her capital city, but she has
also banished .pirituous liquors o: all
kinds from her table and does not al
low them 20 be served at her state re-
ccptions. She has also contributed TO
the cause of morality in the islands by
prohibiting the public performance Of
certain native dance which was formec-
ly very popular with her subjects.
Medical Temperance Ia Europe.
1t is admitted by professional men
that in the struggle TO check incbricty,
which has SO largely occ1picd the
most cultured intelects on the cou,i-
nent OF Europe, very little has been
done in the advocacy OF practical
abstinence. The prevailing idea i %
alleged, even among members OF the
medical profession there, has been that
the increase Of insanity and Of other
evils from drinking has arisen from
the heavier alcoholS, and that pure,
unsophisticatcd spirits, wines and becrs
are really temperance beverages.
That a departure is being taken in
this respect by members OF the medical
profession is evident from the fact that
such men as Prot. Forel. OF Zurich;
Prof Bunge, OF Basic, and Or. VIII
helm Bode, of Dresden. have eStab-
hshed and are vigorously supporting
total abstinence societies in those
cities.-N. y. Tribune
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At the Grand Central nnnnt

Young Lady-Mr. Conductor, will
have time TO say good-by to my friends.
Conductor - Guess not, miss Th:.
train leaves in two hours and half.
Texas SiftingS
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a Good Feature of the Road.

81 am glad I've struck a slow train,
said the released convict 10 the cor
iuctor on the way down from Sing
Sing.
"Why SOP" asked the conductor
MY hair will be a reasonable length
by the time we reach New York. r.
turned the cx-convict Judge
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Two young apple trees Wore planted
siNty-four years ago near Mcdora. Ind.
by John +. and G. W. Carr sons OF
Thomas Carr Both trees AourishcG.
John died at a comparatively early age
and on the day of his death the tree Ac
planted fell. His brother lived 70 be an
Old man. and died a few days ago ~
Crawforivillc. The tree he planted top
pled to the earth or the day OF his death.
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afterward fill them with remor
the comparison ends. Davi
himself to God in a way that,
the least, never became radio
fective with the other; and
David's life is redeemed from
frivolity, and becomes a blessi
fellows. Poor Burns is over,
drink, and all that was so full
Use in him is only like a light I
on wreck, or a gem half bur
ruin.
A less conspicuous membe
frail brotherhood was John
contemporary for a short tin|
famous preacher Hugh Blaj
higher gifts than his. Loga
minister in the town of Leitl
mort Of Edinburgh. and was n
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Report of the Examining Committee.

OFFICE The MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co New York,
January 25th, 1892
meeting held the
the Committee
by comparison with the of the Company
Committee carefully
the statement all specified
therein of the Company.
n
H. c. Won T. DAVIES,
H. GEORGE
JAS. G..
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and that suffced.
CHARLES w. RIGGTN.

| recall the fact that when was a
French sailor Lad at the time, just before
the outbreak of the civil war, that Amer
lean Jack Tars were considered the pluck
lest and most cool headed men that
walked the decks Of any ships ahoat.
They stood high in the esteem of both
the French and English, and it was
common saying that if the Yankee"
could not go through a gale no one else
could. In some respects conditions have
changed, for the United States merchant
marine is not as large now as it was
then. But though the deep sea ships
have gone, the sailors have not. They
will remain as long as the breakers of
the Pacific and the Atlantic tumble
laundering on the mighty shores of the
Union. At present the navy and mer-
chant marines do not offer wide OPP
portunity to American mariners. They
much prefer to brave the sea on their
own account, either in fishing smacks,
in whaler5 or sealers. But when the
country needs them it viii find that they
are all there, ready to respond to the
call. Few nations have such fine ma
terial to draw sailors from as the United
States The type of American fisherman
who was able to earn his commission
in the naval wars of the Union has not
yet died out
The terrible disaster that overlook
American and German war vessels be-
fore Samoa three years ago is still fresh
in the memory of all. On that occasion
the seamanship of Yankee sailors re-
ceived test which proved them equal
to any emergency. It can only be sur
missed how many more lives would have
been lost in that catastrophe but for the
courage and pluck displayed in battling
against the furious waters and a hurri-
cane the like of which is almost unknown
in marine history. How the Nipsic was
run ashore by Captain Mullen and thus
saved will never be forgotten, nor can
time ever efface the memory of the
deeds of Lieutenant r. NJ @. Brown, of
| the Trenton, on that occasion.
/ f. DE THUMMEL CLOTH,
Lieutenant French Naval Reserve.
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A Hint from Connterfeiters.

The old "greenback" money gave
place, in a measure, some years ago to
'brownbacks." The change was made
because of the alleged discovery that
the brown ink is indelible, whereas the
green ink is not. A FIVE dollar note re-
Gently returned to the National Bank Of
Rhode Island however, seems to dis
prove this theory, as it was a brown
back, the back Of which had been
washed perfectly white. The counter
feiters evidently took this method Of
delicately suggesting to the government
officials thatit is an exceedingly difficult
matter to outwit them.
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-. ,,oaern Education Educator

One of the greatest disadvantages OF
on exclusively college education is that
i u ant 10 foster what Macaulay calls a
"Cbinese cast of mind, that stupid con-
tempt of everything beyond the wall of
the college mans celestial empire. The
defenders Of Il college education claim
as their own every man of distinction
who has attended college, whereas these
men became eminent authors, lawyers,
statesmen, ETC., In spite Of the fact that
they spent several of the most valuable
years Of their lives at college, and were
only saved from the obscurity of the
majority of college bred men by syste-
matically neglecting the dull routine of
prescribed studies and spending their
time in desultory reading.
Bacon, Dryden, Sheridan, Byron,
Scott, Wellington and many other illus
trious men went to college, but dis
dained to subject their intellects to the
Anticipated course of studies prescribed.
Who We're the senior wranglers at col
lege when the men just mentioned were
cutting the classics and reading history,
poetry and fiction? The very names of
the successful scholars are unknown,
but the idle young men" who refused
TO be tied to the mental corpse Of a dead
literature made their names immortal
destroyer. her decks ana sides torn
open, half her crew killed. the Cumber-
land finally went down with her flag still
flying, but before the waters closed over
her forever she sent one more shell growl
. II
1t struck the big bow chaser of the
Merrimac and carried away the muzzle
of the heaviest and most effective gun
of the Confederates. The credit for this
act of bravery is given to a sailor named
Emerson, who coolly fired his gun,
although he had a smashed shoulder and
arm and the vessel was sinking.
Another instance of recorded bravery
is the act Of Quarter Gunner Wood, who
lost both arms and legs, and on being
offered assistance cried out: Back to
your guns, boysl Give 'em fits! Hur-
rah for the fag| The defense of the
Cumberland deserves place among the
bravest and most daring exploits on rec
ord in the annals of the naval history of
the world. The same fate that swept
the Cumberland from the surface of the
seas also struck the Congress, which after
gallant struggle went upin flames.
The details of the blowing up of the
Confederate vessel Albemarle by Lieu
tenant Gushing are well known. Of the
six men who were on board the little
steam launch only Paymaster Francis
A. Swan is now alive. Three of the
crew were killed, and among them two
who helped to fire the spar torpedo
which proved so fatal to the Confederate
vessel
On board all these ships there were
American sailors whom neither the gales
of the seas nor the storms of battles could
cause to swerve. They were ION duty"
and that suficed.
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Stephen Decatur and his crew? 1t was
on the Sd of August, 1904, that that gal
liant sailor boarded and captured two
Tripolitan gunboats in succession. The
enemy had nearly double the men and
double the ordnance on board of his
ships, but he could not resist the on
slaught of those who fought under the
stars and stripes. There are now two
guns at the Washington navy yard which
were taken in that encounter.
They are fine specimens of workman
ship, and their flowing designs and the
crowned mOnograms of some Castilian
monarch bear testimony to their origin,
but they do not inform us that Able
bodied Seamen Sears and Whitridge
paid with their hearts blood for those two
trophies. Those sailors were the first to
Jump on the deck Of the enemy's vessel
and lead their comrades to victory. At
that time all civilized governments
chased the Moorish and Arab pirates in
the Mediterranean, for those freebooters
were internationally branded az outlaws
and they were the terror of the mer-
chant vessels of every nation. Decatur
sea5 was a splendid one, as his vessel was
small and both French and English
ships had experienced many check on
the same spot before.
During the civil war the ram Merrl
mac was much feared, and more than
once did she play havoc among the YES
sells of the north. There is hardly an
American who does not know one tale
or another of the fight between that
J ironclad and the two United States
frigates Cumberland and Congress on
March 8, 1852 To and fro swayed the
chances Of victory, but the wooden YES
sells proved no match for the mailclad
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EN- THOUSAND
miles away from
home in a foreign
land and among
the dead Of a
strange people,
there Is a double
grave. In its cold
embrace it clasps
the bodies of two
American sailors.
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Loss by Fire Last Year.

The loss by fire in the United States
and Canada in 1891 was larger than any
year since 1872, the year Of the disas-
trous fire in Boston, when $50, 000, coo of
property was burned mp in that single
conhagration. The Chicago fire loss in
1871 was upward of $500, 100000. Last
year the total loss aggregated s197, 49,
$50.
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Yacht Races.
1-YACHC RACE-lsr CLASS.

l-1 ACH RAGE lSr GLASS.
COURSE Starting from line drawn in
extension of the Pearl City wharf, down
the main channel, to the mouth of the
harbor, near the reef, lacking around the
stake boat; thence up the main channel
TO the honolulu Loeb, up the Honouli-
uli Loeb to and lacking aronnd stake
boat at the head of this Loeb opposite
Robinson's landing; thence out of the
honolulu Loeb up the main channel
passing between tord's Island and the
Manana Peninsula, to the windward of
Ford's Island; thence down the channel
lying east of Ford's Island making a cir
cult of Ford's Island; thence to the point
OF commencement.
2-YACHT RACED CLASS.
CoURsE:- Starting from line drawn in
extension OF the Pearl City wharf, down
the main channel, to the mouth OF the
harbor, near the reef, lacking around the
stake boat; thence up the main channel,
passing between Ford's Island and the
Manana Peninsula, to the windward OF
tOrd's Island thence down the channel
lying East Of Ford's Island making the
circuit OF Ford's Island thence TO the
point OF commencement.
Yachts will assemble off the foot of
Lehua Avenue in Pearl City Peninsula
at 8 A. NJ.
preparatory gun will be fred on the
Judges boat at 9 80 A. NJ. The starting
gun will be fired at 10 A. NJ. sharp.
The start will be a flying one; the
time Of each yacht being taken as she
crosses the line, but no yacht shall be
allowed more than ten minutes within
which to start after the signal to start
has been given.
Time allowance one minute to the ton.
Each yacht must carry at her maintop-
mast head, distinguishing flag of a
suitable size, which must not be hauled
down unless she gives up the race.
Each yacht shall carry during the
race no more than the usual anchors and
chains. which must not be used as ship
ping ballast or for altering the trim of the
yacht. No bags of shot shall be on board
and all ballast shall be properly slowed
under the platforms or in lockers and
shall not be shipped or trimmed in any
way whatever during the race.
No restriction as to quantity OF sail.
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OLIVER HARTMAN.
SAMUEL ID. BABCoCK.
STUYvEsANT FISH.
RUFUS w. PECKIAM.
GEORGE +. BAKER.
JAMES G.. HOLDEN.
JAMES w. Hustled.
ROBERT A. GRANNIss.
JULIEN L. DAVIES.
LEWIS MAY.
DAVID @. ROBINSON.
THEODORE MoRFoRD.
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PART 2.
Rowing Races.
"a.
< AAsrAA-
E&ts.-.S.< go

3-SIX-OARED BOATS - Sliding SEATS
COURSE Starting from a line drawn in
extension OF the Pearl City wharf, to and
round stake boat at the head OF Wal
PIC Loeb, thence to the point of COM
menccTDent
4-FOUR DARED BOATS - SLIDING
SEATS.
CoUasE Same as in race No. 3.
Course, TO be published later.)
n 3. The Regatta Races will be under
the rules adopted by the Hawaiian Row
ing & Yachting Association.
in all races, two or more boats must
start to make race.
The rowing races will take place at
O'Clock p. NJ sharp.
The signal gun will be fred from the
Judges stand at II 80 o'clock.
Signal for the competing boats to as
semble at the starting line will be the
firing Of gun 10 minutes before the
start of each race.
EG- List of entries will be open at the
Office of the SUPERINTENDENT of the
OAHU RAILWAY AND LAND Co., until
u O'Clock noon, March 18th, 1892.
Prizes for the above Races are now on Ex-
hibition at the PACIFIC HARDWARE
co.'s STORE, Fort Street
TRAINS WILL LEAVE HONOLULU
FOR PEARL HARBOR AT 1890,
9, 10, II, IL a. M, and I, 2, 3,
4, and 4:3O p. m.
! RETURNING--WILL LEAVE Pearl
HARBOR FOR HONOLULU
/ Every Hour.
Popular Rates Of Fare;
5Oc---ROUND TRIP 500
3O06.tf
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
f HARTMAN CHARLES Il. HENDERSON.
w.
w. ID.
A. MCCURDY J. HOBART HERRICK.
E. g.
VM 2. w. Hustled. HERMANN G. Won PosT.
A.G WALTER r.
H.
@. s.
THEODORE MoRFoRD.
a,
WALTER r. GILLETTE, General Manager
ISAAC +. LLOYD, I'd Vice President.
WILLIAM j. EASTON,
FREDERICK SCHROEDER Assistant Secretary.
HENRY E. DUNCAN, JR, Corresponding Secretary.
EMORY MCCLINTOCK, l.. L.. D., +. l. A. Actuary.
JOHN TATIOCK, JR. Assistant Actuary.
CHARLES Il. PERRY I'd Assistant Acuary.
FREDERICK CROMWELL Treasurer
A. FONDA, Treasure
WILLIAM p SANDS Cashier
EDWARD 2. HOLDEN Assistant Cashier.
WILLIAM G.. DAVIES, General Solicitor.
WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller
GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, NJ. ID.
ELIAS j. MARSH, NJ. d.
GRANVILLE NJ. WHITE NJ.
ER-For Full Particulars, Apply
s. b. RO s Il,
GENERAL AGENT HAWAIIAN ISLANDS,
Honolulu, February 1G,
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SAMUEL f. SPRoULLs.
WILLIAM BABCOCK.
GEORGE BLISS.
ROBERT OLYPHANT.
RICHARD A. MCCURDY.
CHARLES E. MILLER.
VIM. Z. Dixon.
FREDERIC CROMWELL.
ALEXANDER II. RICE.
JAMES +. GRANNIss.
JNo. w. AUCHINCLoss.
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CHARLES r. HENDERSON.
HENRY w. SMITH.
GEORGE s. Coz.
AUGUSTUS ID. JUILLIARD.
j. HOBART HERRICK.
DUDLEY OLCoTT.
HERMANN G.. Won PosT.
WALTER Il. GILLETTE.
HENRY III. RoGERs.
ROBERT SEwELL.
S. VAN RENSSELAER, CRUaER,
The record-union., 1892-05-06
NOW IN THE NIORGUE.
Infatuation for Young Lady Leads to
a Mans Suicide.

Infatuation for Young Lady Leads to
a Mans Suicide.
NEW YORK, May 5.-A Herald special
from Hartford, Conn, says; Pretty Min
ME Shirley's admirer lies dead in the
morgue tonight. Although he had a
wife and three children in Boston, Chas.
T.. Sherwood became infatuated with
Minnie Shirley after he located at Hart
ford last November as photographer.
Everything went pleasantly and they had
no trouble until about three weeks ago,
when Minnie's parents heard a rumor
that her lover had a family Minnie's
father traced the report and at last inter
viewed the deserted wife in Boston.
Sherwood became desperate, and after
Intellectual efforts to see Minnie he talked
to his partner last night of suicide. He
would listen to no reason or talk of any-
thing other that the cruel fate which had
separated him from her. He roamed the
streets nearly all night and early this
morning, when Minnie happened to
glance from her chamber window, she
saw Sherwood, who was standing in a
vacant lot adjoining the house.
He made no motion, nor did he speak,
but fixed upon her an awful stare. A
moment later he raised a vial and drank
the contents. Then there was flash OF
a revolver and a sharp report. Sherwood
pitched headlong forward with a bullet
hole through his skull and was dead be-
fore passers-by could reach him. In his
pockets were found Minnie's photograph,
Il lock of her hair and few letters which
bore traces of having been read and re-
read,