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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06
A Return to Capital Punishment

A great many people think it is pretty
bad business for the state to kill a man
because that man has killed some one
else. They are quite right. 1t is very
bad business, and if any other procedure
could be devised capital punishment
would be abolished at once.
Michigan has given Imprisonment for
life fair trial. No criminal has been
executed in that state for nearly 90
years. 1t was, however. recently voted
by its lower house that the death penalty
be Observation-Disclosures is to say, the
policy of leniency has utterly failed, and
II is more than probable that Michigan
will again resort to the hangman's rope
The people were startled one day by
the news that life convict had murder
ed his keeper and made IA desperate push
for liberty Then the question occurred
to every one at the same moment, why
shouldn't every life prisoner do the same
thing. since under the laws of the state
no additional penalty is attached to the
crime2"
Such a villain. when caught red hand
ed after second murder, is no worse
| off than he was before he killed the keep
er. He was in for life anyhow, and
when arrested he will be in for life
again, but it is the same old life. If he
succeeds in escaping. that is 50 much
gain, and if he fails he loses absolutely
nothing. The abolition of capital pun
ishment is therefore an almost irresistible
incentive to kill prison official ant
make a dash for liberty Yorl
TalaUram
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06

The fame of the song The Girl Left
Behind Me" is worldwide. No British
man-of-war leaves harbor. no British
regiment leaves its station for foreign
service, without the plaintive air being
heard by the men who are leaving and
the girls-their mothers, sisters, wives
and sweethearts-whoa are being left be-
hind. This song, like many another
that has stirred the British heart at
home and abroad, that has given valor
in the fight and brought the soft recol-
lections Of the motherland amid the
horrors Of the battlefield, is anonymous
1t is no doubt of Irish origin, but no
one can tell who wrote either the words
or the music II has been found in a
manuscript dated about ITO. THE air
was also taken down." says Bunting,
from a. O'Neil. harper, A. D. 1900. au-
thor and date unknown. The air was
written for march, and the English
version of the words, called Brighton
Camp, differs considerably from these"
Chappell, while he put in an English
claim to the air. admits that it may be
Irish. He thinks it was probably writ
ten in 1853. when there We're encamp-
ments alolg the coast--at Brighton
among the rest-where many tunes of
this sort originated. Wherever it was
first played, it is now almost century
since it became the soldiers and sailors
loath-to-leaye, and it has so long been
played on every man-of-war as she
weighed anchor and for every regiment
as it quilted a town where it had been
stationed that an omission would be
thought a slight upon the ladies.-To-
ronto Mail.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06
Trying to BE Polite.

An old man rode up to the door OF
Cumberland county postotiice on gig.
AS soon as the postmaster spied the Wis
itor he tore around behind the little case
of boxes. grabbed a letter and paper
and darted out of doors at the same high
rate of speed
Here's your mail, Mr.. Smith Little
rainy, isn't it? Hope your grounds look
ing WE'LL" etc., until the old man tucked
his mail under his leg and drove away.
The postmaster saw fit to explain a
little when he came back. That's one
of the old seed Democrats of this town,
and"-with a burst of contidence-''it
always pays to be polite to them kind. ]
don't know as it will amount to any
thing, but it don't cost cent, and, con.
tinued this rural diplomat, with wan
smile, there amt any signs of new
postmaster being appointed yet" All of
which indicated the state of suspense of
the fourth class postmasters in this de-
voted country. Journal
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06
A Rare Plant,

A lot of Detroit girls were talking
about the young men of their acquaint-
ance, as girls in Detroit and every other
town are won't to do, and one they called
George seemed to be in their estimation
a degree above his fellows.
YES" said blond with lovely brown
eyes, 81 do think George is nice"
81 should say so" chimed in a spar.
king brunette. He knows more than
most of them and isn't so horribly soft
at least not all the time. Indeed con
slider him quite deciduous.
"DeciduousY chimed the crowd
What do you mean by thatf"
"Oh, he isn't evergreen" she sale
smartly, and the sentiment passed unan
imously. Detroit Free Press.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06
The Glory of Romc,s Prime.

We may still stand on the tower of the
capitol and survey that glorious pano-
rama bounded by Tuscan, Sabine and
Alban hills and dream what that scene
was some LOO or 800 years ago. The
Forum below was one radiant avenue OF
temples, triumphal arches, tr1umphal
columns, colossal statues. monuments
and votive shrines-the senate house, the
rostra, the sacred way on the one side;
the circular temple of Vesta. the temple
of Castor and the basilica of julius on
Che other; above on the right the temple
of Jove; on the left that of Juno, and the
towering palaces of the Palatine and the
Circus Maximus beyond the valley. Far
us the eye can reach would be vast thea
tiers, enormous baths, colossal sepulchers,
obelisks, columns, fountains, equestrian
statues in marble or in bronze
The walls of these sumptuous edifices
are all of dazzling brilliapce in oriental
marbles, bright with mosaic AMI with
frescoes, and their roofs are covered with
plates of hammered gold In the far
distance, across terraces and gardens
shady with the dark foliage of cypress
and stone pine, might be seen the aque-
ducts which bring from the mountains
whole rivers into the city to fill its thou
sand baths and its hundred fountains
And between the aqueducts and the
porticoes, far as the eye can reach to the
hills beyond. villas CLEAN in the sun
with their terraces, gardens, statues and
shrines, each a little city in itself This
earth has never seen before or since so
prodigious an accumulation of all that is
beautiful and are.-Frederic Harrison
in Nineteenth Century.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06

Il see by the paper that the secretary
of the navy has ordered one of the war
ships to be docked,' said the foreman to
Mike Delany.
IAN phat can that be for, dunno"
replied Mike. Maybe she was wan
that was behind time an come in too
late in line the day av the prisseshun.
Mount Vernon News.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06
Uselessness of Parliamentary Debate.

The actual unimportance of debate in
a legislative assembly, so far as influ-
sncing votes goes, is strikingly illus
trated by the action of the British house
of commons ON the home rule bill. There
have been weeks of debate, participated
in by the greater as well as the lesser
leaders of both parties, and yet when the
vote was taken it was exactly along party
lines. The division was precisely what
it would have been if not word had
been spoken. Boston Journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06

1t is said that five minutes after the
cyclone that struck Cisco, Tex, several
weeks ago, spreading death and destruc-
ton in its path. the moon was shining
down upon the ruins from a perfectly
clear sky, and the shrieks of the wounded
and the means of the dying could be
heard everywhere.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-06
Case For Maternal SINNERS.

When boy of IA elopes with and mar
ries girl of IS, who runs away with
whom? This is the condition of affairs
up in Clyde. And what shall be done to
the runners? Referred to the home COM
mittee on judiciary and the maternal
subcommittee on appropriate and usual
punishment New York World
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31

HOODS PILLS are the best family cathAr-
tic, gentle and effective, Try o box.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
LATE T.

Bar silver wus s311 yesterday.
The Senate is still debating the
ant.-0ption bill.
Cleveland refused yesterday to an
nounce his views on the Hawaii at
fair.
The appropriation bill Of the pres
ent Congress will show a slight re-
duction over that o. last year.
The House Committee on Appro-
priations has decided not to give the
experimenting rain-make:s any mole
money.
Mrs. NJ. L. Comack renewed thirty
votes and Mrs. Walter Muira two for
US. Senator in the North Dakota
Legislature yesterday.
A Washington dispatch says that
Blaine left all Of bis property to his
wife and made her sole executrix
without bonds. The estate is valued
at SS0O,OOO.
James G. Blaine was buried at Oak
Hill cemetery yesterday. Business
was suspended in Washington ard a
large procession followed his remains
TO the grave.
The Legislatures of Nebraska,
Washington, Wyoming, Montana and
North Dakota are still balloting for
U. s. Senator with no prospects of
breaking the deadlock.
1t is said at Washington that Great
Britain has instructed Sir Julian
Parnceforte to protest against the
action of the United States in the
Hawaii matter and against annex
alton.
In the Senate yesterday Chandler
offered O resolution requesting the
President to enter into negotiations
with the provisional government of
Hawaii for the admission Of the is.
lands as a Territory. White (Dem)
objected to immediate consideration
and it went over until to-day.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
A Wager Of Death.

The Reno Gazette says that Albert
Hoffman made a bet Of SO with Henry
Bishop, a bar keeper at the Weiland
saloon, that lie would take his own
life Sunday night. Hoffman after
making the bet started for home and
on reaching there went directly to the
barn, In the rear Of his fathers resi-
denee, and shot himself. DR.. Phil
lips soon arrived and found that the
young man had shot himself through
the stomach and that the wound vas
almost certainly fatal. The doctor
says there is a bare possibility of the
PATIENTS recovery, but that the
chances are extremely slim.
Roberts called to zee the nstient
during the evening and was informed
by him that he was feeling first rate
and wanted to die.
The cause Of the rash act is q mys-
terry. Hoffman was not at all intoxI-
Gated, and the only inference is that
the deed was the result Of general de-
Lpondeuoy, which had merged into at
least partial insanity. Ife is % years
of age and has lived with his parents
in Reno for q great many years.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
Our m

Frank D.. McBeth, OF California,
arrived in Dayton to ssume the
Principalship of the Dayton SCHOOL
Exchange.
1t would be a waste Of good money
to keep up the schools of this State.
when aftor the boys aud girls have
graduated they are not considered
competent to teach. But it ever
there is a vacancy the various boards
Of trustees Immediately send away
for a teacher. If the children canno;
be so we'll taught that they will Ee
fitted for any position IN their own
home or elsewhere, what is the use of
keeping them at school at all. Viz
ginia, Carson, Dayton and Reno have
all been importing teachers for the
last twenty years, and now whenever
their young men or oDe want
schools they are obliged TO go to the
country to teach. 1t is all wrong.
Why not give our own people q
chance.-Hawthorne Bulletin.
The above voices the sentiments
often expressed in the INDEPENDENT.
What i~nducement have the boys and
girls of Nevada to fit themselves for
teachers il u school officers prefer
those from other States? None that
we can see.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
Ought TO Get it.

The bill introduced into the Assem-.
bly, yesterday by Mr. Massey for the
relief Of Assessor Eggers is to refund
the sum of sI38 paid by him to the
State for forty-six poll tax receipts
lost Ia the mail between Fairlawn and
Elko. Last Summer when at the
ranch OF the Nevada Land & Cattle
Co, the Assessor left q book Of poll
tax receipts, numbered FROM 1901 to
1850 inclusive, with Mr.. Guernsey,
the Superintendent. About the 10th
OF October Mr.. Eggers wrote to Mr..
Guernsey to make his return aud re-
ceived n letter enclosing a check for
e12 for four poll tax receipts sold and
stating that he had sent the unused
receipts by mail under seperate cover.
The receipts have failed to reach
Elko and, when Mr.. Eggers made his
settlement with the county, he paid
the sum Of Sl3S, the value Of the tax
receipts, into the treasury and it was
spportioned TO the State. The bill is
TO refund to Mr.. Eggers this amount,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
ANAcHRonlsMs ON CANVAS.

Ono Painter Armed the Children or Israel
with Guns.
The anachronislns of painters would,
according to the st. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat, make n curious chapter in a col
lection of literary and artistic oddities.
The famous Italian painter, Jacopo Tin
~toretto, in one of his most celebrated
pictures, the Fall of Mamma" when
representing the children of Israel
gathering mama in the wilderness,
tool the precaution to arm severSl of
h men with guns. He was not put
done by Cigoli, another famous Italian
artist, who represented the aged Simeon
at the circumcision of the Saviour as
wearing q pair of spcctacles,
while Verrio, in a picture of Christ
healing the sick, fitted out the by
ISLANDERS with th~ree-corrercd cooked
hats and full-bottomed wigs. The
noted Durcr dressed the angel who OK
PEELED Adam and Eve from Paradise in
q gown with %fiounces, and in his picture
of Peter denying Christ represented n
Roman soldier as smoking u long Low
Dutch pipe. The Dutch painters have
been famous for their anachronisms. One
represented the wise Incn who visited
Christ as wearing cavalry boots, spurs
and long sabers; another represented
Abraham as about to shoot Isaac with
n blundcrbuss. Berlin, in q picture of
the Virgin and the child, shows them
listening to a man playing the violin.
The French Dubois, in q picture of the
Last Supper, placed on the table n COB
let filled with cigar lighters, while Tar
rant, to complete the list, represented
the expulsion from Eden, the unhappy
pair being driven out into a swamp,
while no far away u man with q gun
was shooting ducks.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
HOW A STEER TOOK REVENGE.
Getting Help, 1t Proceeded to Punish .
Cow which Had Hurt 1t.

Cow which Had Hurt 1t.
A cow and q steer-the latter two to
three years old-were the only occu-
pants of the barnyard where an occur
renee described by the Popular Science
Monthly took place. A batting of hay
was put to them, the cow taking pos
session. The steer wished to share il,
but the cow, like some higher animals,
was selfish, and was bent on taking the
whole of it, and as. often rs he would
maneuvcr around from side to side to
get a bite she would drive him off at
the point of her horns. The steer was
SO persistent that at last the old cows
patience gave way, and. making a de-
termined and vicious charge on him,
punished him severely, though he was
her own offspring. The steer felt bad
ly hurt, not only in body but evidently
in mind as well, md Immediately start
cd out of the yard and off down the
lane toward the pasture, where were
the rest of the stock, believing VEN
geancc at every stepin n language which
was unmistakablc to the bystander
and which the mother we'll understood,
rs she ceased eating and listened in
tently to the threatening of what was
to come. When these died away in the
distance she resumed her ration. but
with evident apprehension. In due
time the steer was seen returning,
bringing with him q companion larger
and stronger than himself. AS they APP
preached the rumblings of rage and re-
vcnge could be. again heard, which
grew louder as they came nearer. The
cow took in the situation Mt once and
wa now Reconstruction. As her assail-
ants rushed into the yard she lodged
them and rushed out ut lifc-and-dcath
speed and away toward the rest of the
stock in the field, with her pursuers
close in her tracks.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
A Free Dance.

Being about to retire from the man
agement Of the Depot Hotel and wish
ing to show my appreciation OF the
many kindnesses I have received from
the people of Elko, I hereby cordially
invite all my friends to a free dance
at the dining room OF the hotel
this evening". Dancing will begin
promptly ut 6 o'clock and close at IL
o'clock sharp, when I retire from the
management OF the hotel. Come and
have u good time.
JAMES CLARK.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
SALMAGUNDI.

Moyesnow last night.
Dopt forget that Uncle Jimmy
Clark wants to Q you tonight.
w. A. Moody shipped a carload OF
mules from Elko to MERGED, GAL, to-
day.
Ed. Carville shipped three cars of
beef cattle from Elko to Oakland, and
J. M. Dorsey two cars from Halleck.
today.
H. Prudential, who came down
from Mountain City with the remains
OF w. f. Ross, left for home on the
Tuscarura stage this morning.
Attorney General Torreyson has ad-
tised State Controller Horton to draw
warrants upon the Legislative Fund
and Treasurer Egan is advised to pay
the same,
Senator Brice has commissioned a
friend in Lima, Ohio, to purchase aud
distribute 100 tons Of coal and 100
barrels of flour to the suffering poor
ia that city.
The World Almanac for 1893 will he
chock full of valuable Information.
The price is S.25. If you want n copy
send your order to the INDEPENDENT
office and We will get it for you.
A blind man with a band organ has
been parading the streets of an east
ern city bearing the following placard:
81 anu blind and the father Of nine
children, by a horrible accident"
A joint resolution favoring the an
nexation OF the Hawaiin Islands was
introduced into the Assembly yester-
day by Mr.. Mccarthy aud referred to
the Committee on Federal Relations.
There will be a pink domino ball
at Freeman Hall on the evening of
Feb. IA, st. Valentines day. See the
ad. in another column aud il you
wanteto enjoy a pleasant; evening be
sure to take it in. .
Assemblyman Melarkey went out
to Mason Valley last Sunday to con-
fer with his constituents in regard to
their warts in legislation. He says
some OF them want not only free coin
age, but free whisky, with a ratio Of
16 to. THAT is sixteen drinks to
where they get one now.-Dayton
Times. :
White Pine News:--The usual
tinkering with Constitutional amend
monts are on again in the Legislature
Such amendments 30 far have been
barren of results. The only way to
set aside our present high pressure
form OF government, and Mt once, ia
t. call n Constitutional Convention
We would get more than ever on ia q
cost Of the Convention in one year
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31

Carlin, Nov. %, 1892. IL.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
Tho Plain Truth

lie good enough for Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla-there is no need Of embellish-
ment or sensaticnalism. Simply
what Hoods Sarsaparilla does, that
tells the story of it's merit.
Hoods Pills are easy, yet efficient.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
Settle Up.

We have been compelled TO send
out bills this week to a number OF
our subscribers who arD in arrcnrs
for the WEEKLY INDEPENDENT. Some
OF these arrearages are quito largo
and must DO settled before tho Hrto
January. II you have received n bill
for the amount due u, PLEASE call
and settle up,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
The Shah's Little Joke.

''In an art exhibition of London"
wrote the shah of Persia in the journal
he kept during his last visit to Europe,
''wc were looking at q painting repre-
senting an ass. / asked: What is the
price of this painting?' The director of
the exhibition, VINO was a corpulent
man, with IL white beard, looked up
the price-list, and said: One hundred
English pounds which are equal to
two hundred and fifty Persian toman.
i answered.: The price of n live ass is
ut the most five pounds; why should
this be SO dear when it is only the pic
ture of on ass"' The director replied:
Because it causes no expense and eats
neither hay nor OATS / said: Although
It causes no expense, it can, on the
other hand, neither carry burdens nor
give a man a ride We both laughed"
WAYS OF SATAN.
THE devils best time to make hay is
when Christians are not busy.
THE devil never puts on mourning
when u stingy man joins the church.
TIE devil has TO work extra hard to
get hold of children who have good
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31

Banjo, violin and guitar strings, q
ne assortment, at MuIler's. .
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31

DR.. Moore, the dentist, is homo
again. Gold crown and bridge work.
Artificial teeth without plates.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31
Dissolution OF Partnership,

VA AniP'
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership existing between B. B.
Ennor and r. Q. Cunningham, in the
retail butchering business in the
town Of Carlin, Elko county, Nevada
is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent.
r.. Q. CUNNINGHAM,
B., B. ENNoR.
Carlin, Nov. %, 1892. l1-26 2m
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-01-31

It is said that the Virginia Enter
prise, including the brick building in
which 1t was published, can be pur-
chased for $4,000.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-07-01
A RuMORED NEWSPAPER SALE.

The recent visit of Col. Max Frost, edi-
tor of the Santa Fe New MEXICAN, to this
city has revived the rumor that that
paper is to be sold to the Democrats. It
will be fortunate day for the Dem ecracy
of that territory when such a sale is
effected.
Tho New MEXICAN is the Oldest paper
in New Mexico. Started as weekly in
the old days of staging, it became daily
when the telegraph line reached Santa Fe,
some twenty five years ago. 1t has ac-
quired prestige in New Mexico which
no other paper possesses. At all times a
staunch Republican organ, it has also
been devoted to the industrial and com
mercial welfare Of the territory and to
the general interests of the west as we'll.
It Yields an influence which is certain to
tell in no uncertain manner upon the
future of the party which may control its
utterances.
If the Democracy Of New Mexico shall
obtain the ownership of the paper the ad-
mission of that territory rs state would
be assured. How much truth there may
be in the rumor of sale the News does not
know, but it does assert that with free
coinage democratic flag at the head of
the New MEXICAN, there would be no
doubt about the future political aspect of
the coming state.-Denver Rocky Mount
ain News.
The News is the leading and the strong
est Democratic paper in the southwest,
and looks upon this matter from tho
proper stand point As the News truly
says, the New MEXICAN has prestige
that no other New Mexico paper has; it
has been true to the city of Santa Fe, to
the Republican party and to the people
of this territory for thirty years, and has
done excellent work in every direction
during that time.
The New MEXICAN doffs its hat to the
News for its kindly compliments and re-
| turns many thanks. As to the sale, how
ever, that is Inject away OFT in the
misty and shadowy future; that the
Democratic party would be immensely
strengthened by the purchase of the New
MEXICAN no reasonable man, at all ac
| quainted with the conditions of New
Mexico, doubts; that the Republican
party, as long as the New MEXICAN is :
Republican journal, has an excellen,
fighting chance for supremacy in New
Mexico is equally true.