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Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-03-27

be a coming event, in the indeti-
mite future.
There was a sort of monkey
and parrot time bad at the meet
ing # the Secret League last
evening.
Hawaiians viii probably ho'd
several meetings this week to
discuss the situation and the
coming election.
Mr.. W. CT. Irwin who has for
nearly two weeks been confined
to his house, through indisposi-
ton, is around again.
Rumor is that Wagner intends
to open private detective office
of his own. and employ the
mounted police.
Capt,in Houdlette will have,
at least. thirtythree, representa-
tives of the gentler sex TO t,ke
charge of on his return trip.
Fears are somewhat general
amongst plantation owners that
the japanese on al the planta-
ton viii engage in strikes.
A neat rev granite cubing
lines the Palace sidewalk from
Likelike street to the corner of
Richards street and Palace walk.
Thsnks are returned to Mr..
J B Malholm Hawaiian vice
consul general at Honolulu for
news fayors received.
Quite number of prominent
and well known local residents
are booked for passage by the
Australia to the Coast, on Satur-
day next.
There is a stong indie ,tion that
the steamer Australia will carry n
very heavy mail, as well rs other
matter. forward. Don't be late
with your letters.
Large, sweet. in everyway
luscious, are the oyster cocktails
which are daily disappearing
down the oesaphsgus of constant
callers ut Billy Cunningham
corner.
Yesterday was the jubilee
anniversary of the recogn ton of
the independence of the Hawai-
ian lSlrnds by Belgium in 1874.
Time WAS when the Belgian fig
would have been saiated.
The buildings etc. known as
the Kahhi Brewery formerly
owned by Mr.. Gilbert Waller
who expended nearly $50 600
therein. was sold yesterday.
under the hammer. for SIS 600.
The mortgages were the par
chassrs.
The dance given last night by
the Sons of st. George was a
decided success The hall of the
Sons" was decorated in most
tastefal manner and the nnmer-
Gus Sons (and daughtersl of the
CIR IS who met there. enjoyed
themselves immensely and kept
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23
.THB PARISIBNNE
ON WHEELS
SEE WEARS TROUSERS. But KEEPS A VASE
LIKE WAIST.
What the Bicycle Did for B,r-Daring Costumes
And Daring Fsais In Modern Babylon.

Some one once said that Paris was
the hell OF horses and the purgatory OF
the bald-headed man. 1t might be said
also that 1t is the paradise OF cyclers.
In Paris one sees the cycle put 10 all
kinds of uses. Business men ride TO
aud from business on safeties and Pro-
testant ministers go to church service
on them. Bakers boys ride square
tricycles built with cspscious bread
box behind the rider. in delivering the
days's orders. Laundresses ride four
wheeler made to carry clean clothes.
Pestmen use bicycles in gathering the
mail on the route. Telegraph and
messenger boys ride them In deliv-
ering messages. On streets where
there is little wear and tear the wheel
is not only immensely more rapid, but
is cheaper than carfare or the hire OF q
facre.
No wonder that bicycling is in such
favor In Paris. No wonder that-as /
once heard tourist remark-'every
carriage one sees is a bicycle" No
wonder that the sport is fast suppressed
ing horseback riding. No city In the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

That visit was an important one for
the Syrian women. They secured some
patronage from women who knew
them through the mission, and the
next year made such progress that the
'bandKerchiefs they had worn tied over
their heads were given np forever and
American hats took their places. Then
they were politely asked to find other
quarters than the mission house; and
when some Of the ladies who had taken
'au interest ia them requested an ex-
PLANTATION they were told the girls had
hot acquired American habits, and
among other things, did not think IL
necessary 20 remove shoes before get
klng into bed. Thea letters came from
fthe East containing statements calcn-
lated 20 injure the girl, aud the mission
said, anyhow, they were not prisoners,
20 the mission was established for
risoners and not as q cheap boarding
onse.
This created some Indignation, and
veral women were 90 displeased at the
eatment Of the two Syrian girls that
erai designations occurred among
adies connected Wish the mission.
missionary from Syria tried 70
against the reception given 90
The way IN which they were
AFn equality with Amer
re teaid ranorte Of
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

Apparently America was great
country for Syrian girls, and many a
poor Syrian girl in Beyroot, listening
TO the stories that travelled back Of the
fortunes attending the Gobreen girls,
set sail for America to hunt their for
tunes also. The Add FL hours seemed
to fairly leap into fortune.
The last summer saw the height OF
Selma GObreen's fairy rise in the world.
For the first time since she had left
Syria a poor girl, Nine. Add Ell Nour
crossed the water again. But this time
she was accompanied by rich husband
and spent the summer in Constantine
pie as the guest of her brother-in-law,
physician to the Sultan. WHO'S now ele-
waited to Pasha. When she returned
from COnstantinople she was richly
dressed, wearing Paris gown, hat
that was the triumph OF Partisan MILL
merry, aud otherwise handsomely
gowned.
That there still was some friction be-
tween husband and wife their acQuaint-
ances assert. Back in BeYroot still
lives Gobreen, the father Of the enter
prising Hanna aud Selma. Never since
eight years ago had they seen him.
When asked If she did not see her faith
err, Selma simply said her husband
would not let her visit him.
This has been the life of Selma Go
breen Add Ell Nour. II she is a snug
gier her relatives aud friends declare
that it is not OF her own free will, but
because someone had influence over her
and used her as tool.
Mrs. M'GUIRK.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

shower and remain there while you wall
have two stray roads still on my es
tate which lodged there after long wet
spell.
speak thus freely of these roads be-
cause | see in the nigh future the daWr
of a better day. Already thirty or forty
long time convicts are working on the
road from AsheviIle out toward where
George and I live. We have
the labor problem reduced to
science here. Our motto Is:
snake the criminal classes do the
work and convict as many of the col
ored people as possible"
This places the degrading process oil
labor where 1t belongs by birth and nat
ural selection. So the colored convict
is now at work on our roads.
The methods OF building and repair
ing the roads are TO be changed. For
merly the plan adopted along the banks
of Lake Victoria Nyanza, where the peo-
pie live anonymously in trees, has been
adopted. When the roads were too aque-
Gus, irregular stones, ranging in size
from that OF Daniel Webster's head to
the peewee egg, are plunked into this
mud, where they disappear. yet they
may be discovered by riding over them
as you hold on to the seat with one hand
and your nose with the other, apologize
ing meantime to the buzzards for scar
Ing them away from their dejeuner OF
dead horse. have even seen dead mules
along these roads, though it Is said that
the mule. the iackass and the Office
holder do not die.
Each year heretofore the adult males
have been called together by the road
master for the purpose Of ssmpling each
others tobacco and making mud pies
along the highway at 81 per day. The
bed of the road is generally sunken sew
eral feet below the level Of the sea and
then plowed up aud made mellow. like
an onion bed.
Where 1t is desired to defect stream
of rain across the road bed on side hill,
instead of building culvert, the Tar
Heel civil engineer and scientist con-
structs a soft, wet, diagonal ridge or
Golfer dam of red mud, which resembles
the newmade grave of a postmaster; yet,
alas. it is not
10 lOSo Ou o"OSN AOAN -
easily 33H per cent, for L have kept an
accurate account of it for three years,
during which time my wagons, ETC.,
have been entirely renewed.
Landaus and Victorias are not used
much here, but hickory crotch, like
an enlarged wishbone, is attached to an
axletree and mounted on pair OF cast
off wheels from the wreck OF n four
wheel wagon, which completes the trap
unless one should be high spirited and
want box, in which case common
quail trap is nailed on the axle.
Naturally the pathmaster here is con-
tent with things as he finds them-or
as they find him. He does not murmur
or repine, especially during hot wealth
or. If you expect him to repine, you
will have to administer stimuants.
II a wood tick or w. n. c. flea should
attack him, he would heave sigh as
the flea fed. Mayhap he would scratch
the place and say to the insect:
swell, now hope you're satisfied"
1t Is the same with the roads. III a
chuckhole gets formed in the highway
and squirts gallon Of yellow ocher into
his whiskers, he does not blasDheme.
He sees that the mud matches his whis-
kers, and then be lets it dry. The
wind does the rest.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

foot Of Busbee mountain. between my
shooting box on the French Broad and
George Vanderbilt's place. The exhibit
was about the consistency OF mayonnaise
dressing or L K. mustard and of yell
lowish red. You could see that the foot
of the mountain had been bathed In it
for centuries without changing the wa
ter.
Western North Carolina is very noun
famous and therefore beautiful coun-
try, with the soft cline Of the south.
but tie bracing air Of the mountains
along with it. The soil on the uplands
is OF q CHEEKY red. such as one sees on a
cook stove that has been exposed for a
couple Of years and got tanned good
deal
These vermilion roads wrap their
long coils about the mountains Of Bun
combs county and HANG like angle
worms over the precipices. They are
festooned over the brows OF the Blue
Ridge or pour in venetian red cascades
over the corrugated hog backs OF Ca
tawba county.
Many Of these roads liouefy and run
Ike scared jack rabbit ever the farms
or sllp doWn into the fields during 4
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

The corduroy road also originated here.
After 200 years of corduroy road some
of our physicians discovered that there
+, were no kidney diseases in this country,
and so many have come here TO recover
from kidney troubles, bat last year the
post norton on several old settlers who
have used the corduroy roads good
deal showed that they have no kidneys,
these features having disappeared after
q few generations.
But the material for making roads
here is good. In fact, that is about all
it is good for. The stone is not fit for
building purposes, and the soil is not
capable of even raising disturbance.
Last year put $3.50 into seed and $3.50
into gardener. / also hired the ground
plowed aud engaged night Waterman
to replace the ear NUTS on the sweet
corn in the still watches OF the night,
when slumber's chain hath bound US,
in case the July frost should come when
we VOTED not, and yet my flageolet
beans cost me 81 per dozen, and the cost
of the accursed garden prevented my
sons naturalization at Johns Hopkins.
The roads are In sad state after q
long rain. They look like q neglected
candy pull or q 81 mile mush and milk
sociable with nobody to it.
feel this very keenly and am glad
that the colored murderer who is not
ashamed to work is going to mscadam-
ize our roads. 1t is such a delightful
climate, and there is so much OF It that
the roads, when improved, will add
greatly to our lives. so that those DOW
who are cut down at the age Of lis may
be hearty and well for Is or 20 years
longer.
With such advantages otherwise IL
seems wrong that at certain seasons OF
the year we farmers should have TO do
our marketing with . roam heller and
canoe. We have glorious climate the
year round, and people come here from
the four corners Of the earth to get rid
of their tubercles, but the roads are so
rough that one has TO hold In his broad
er principles with one hand and his APP
pendIcltIs with the ether for miles at
time.
II Congress-but never mind. That
is impossible. Possibly the President
but. no, he won't sign IL. For two
years we will be only too glad Ii the
executive and legislative branches Of
the government win prevent each other
from doing anything.
But hugh I'm not very much OF
politls} u believe that we had better
stop ding Bibles 70 other nations
unit have something 70 show for
ROAD de from the long COW trail,
erut red with dead horses. bleached
bopI turkey buzzards outlining \
ioa| jnsaasgmirs thz: 6zroari*
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

through absorption By the skin, life
might be sustained. Christmas and
Easter were her especial holidays, and
on those feast days she always made sp-
propriate gifts TO her friends.
She read the daily papers and some
books, loved music with sll an 0rientaPs
passion. although she did n OF play on
any instrument herself.
Dancing" young man said down
in the Syrian colony, ''she did not know
in her native country, and she did not
learn It here"
In all arts that pertained to the needle
Madame Add Ell Nour was an adept
Her Difference toward old people made
them like her especially, and this Selma
added 20 byteaching some OF them new
and intricate stitches Of embroidery.
Always her manners toward older people
were so deferenJial that they couldn't
help liking her. With many OF her
friends she still retained the pretty
Oriental fashion Of kissing hands.
The ADD Ell hours had their home on
Charlton street, and later moved up
into tat on WaVtrly place.
Before this last happened it became
apparent 70 Selma's acQuaintances that
she wasn't so happy as she might have
been. Madame Add FL Nour was thor
Oughly imbued with American ideas OF
what treatment wives should be ac-
corded. Sometimes she appeared with
black and blue spots on her arms, and
once q clergyman In New England
wrote 20 people here TO inquire about
her saying that the members OF his con-
gregation had taken an interest in her
and purchased her goods, and, owing to
their interest in her personality, were
incensed over the black aud blue eye
and spots on her arms that seemed TO
indicate rough treatment on the part of
some one stronger than herself.
All SyriaRs who come to this conntry
do not, although they remain here
dozen years, exchange their Oriental
ideas Of how 10 treat wife for those
Of America.
Then their came some differences in
the Add Fl Nour household, but Selma's
relatives insisted she ought to live with
her husband, and then there was q Dat
rented In WaYerly place.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

who arrived about the same time a
brother OF Selma's reached New York.
The wife wanted her brother supplied
with employment. The husband was
more partial to his own handsome
young nephew. So the pair did not pull
evenly on that point. 1t may have bean
SsIma's desire to provide for her
brother that GOT her into the Detroit
trouble.
When the pair opened the Waverley
place fat IL was fitted up into an ideal
nest. No fiction paradise or nest OF
fair smuggler could have been fitted up
more appropriately In the imagination
of q novelist. Rich silken fabrics from
the East, embroideries of matchless
fineness, laces and rugs from the Oldest
rugmakers turned the rooms into a
bower OF rich proiusion. Nine. ADD ri
Nour had exquisite taste, which revealed
itself in the rooms. Everything hand
some was procured to please her artistic
eve. Here in this beautiful home the
one-time pedler girl filled every Office.
In the kitchen she was famous Syrian
cook, and made the dishes OF native
cookery, which her husband preferred
to American dishes. Sometimes she
sent samples of these dishes to her
American friends.
VIII.
Where was the smuggler in all this?
According to the authorities she had
been away much Of the last two years.
Her sister, Hanna Mallouff, lived near.
The two boys whom Hanna had left
behind when she first came 10 America
were now grown up and have developed
into fine lads, who have had as good
an education as could be asked.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23
ROADSTER BILL NYE.
A FEW STYLES OF ROADS TINT HE has
MET.
And a Real Picture of the Medal Won by Him
at the Worlds Fair-Ths Glass Of Vehicles
Used in North CarOlina-A Poem by the Riley
Of Canada
copwi,h. 1aa4. ou Eaaar ". Nvs.
Ar HoME, JEsr AFoRE CHR1srMAs.

Among many letters received the past
week is one from Mr.. Earnest Pickin-
pack, of Georgetown, d. c., asking
once more regarding the roads Of west
ern North Carolina, as he wishes to
come here with a stone crusher. He
will do well, l think, to bring it with
him. / would not think Of going three
miles in this country without taking
my stone crusher and stump puller
with me.
A year ago at Chicago, as most every
one knows, received at the Worlds
fair the prize medal shown below for the
most picturesque display of roads. The
particular exhibit which won the medal
was q gallon of the highway near the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

BUDDHA Is WITH Us.
His Disciples Lecturing and Writing
Freely.

His Disciples Lecturing and Writing
Freely.
A refluent tide Of oecultism and Budd-
hism is again with US, due probably TO
the presence OF Rhys Davids, his lee
lures, his interviews and his association
with many prominent men and women.
he is to lecture soon, l believe, at Cam
bridge, or has he already lectured there?
Later. in January, he lectures before
Columbia College.
Apropos Buddhism hear that very
concise and authentic resume OF Bndd-
hism is contained In forthcoming book
"a Buddhist Catechism," by Sbhar-
dra Bhikshu-Bhikshu meaning beg
zing monk, I am told. writes the New
York correspondent Of the Boston Bea-
con. The gentleman author, however.
who wells bis identity behind the veil,
is, I hear. anything but . begging
monk, but as bis name is kept deep,
dark secret, the anonymity cannot YET
be pierced.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

she success OF the two Young women
had gone back 90 Beyroot, and was q
disturbing influence among converted
Syrians and Armenians, and IL was not
just 20 the missionaries for women here
90 treat these girls 80. 1t lured others
who could speak English to this coun-
try, who came for purposes Of pure gain.
The missionaries wanted the converts TO
Christianity 70 stay in their native land
and work with the missionaries
Selma was told what the missionary
said ''Of course, we owe much TO the
missionaries; but we have right like
any one else to better our condition"
was her answer; aud evidently she did
exercise that right.
The two women kept up business 10
selling embrOiderles and all sorts OF
wares. They managed to save enough
to bring Mallouf and the two little boys
TO America, and then another sister
came and settled in Bosom.
The Gobreens were getting quite we'll
known here. At no time, so far as
their friends know, did they claim 10 be
collecting money for any college for
women. II was the first Syrian woman
who came TO this country who told that
story. The GOLreens were after money
for themselves. At Que church enter
tainment Selma appeared in Syrian dress
here ia New York, aud she gradually
became acquainted with people in other
cities.
Wherever they went people found
them honest, reliable young women,
who attended to their own business and
lived upright lives in the fear Of God.
Both Joined the Kings Daughters, and
wear the little silver cross that is the
sign of the order.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23
VII.

Since the details Of the smuggling
have come out. Selma's relatives say
that she must have been under the 10 Z
luence Of one who has not get bea2
caught, although wanted badly. Th}y
do \not bolieRa she acted Of free VA.
One IL ses az contention ia IS
naahew az tha hen
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

one knows that demi-uondaine first
introduced the peIrine. and that all the
striking styles In feminine fashion have
like origin. This naturally retarded
the popularity of the new style.
The fashionable riding schools, how
ever, of which large number sprang
up when lady cyclers began TO multiply,
encouraged women to wear the costume,
and familiarity with the trousers In the
ring made the step easier.
The trouser first adopted was wide
Zouave cut so full as TO give much the
appearance OF a knee skirt In walking.
When on the wheel and In motion, how
ever, the difference becomes apparent.
Sometimes short plain skirts button
ed on over the trousers. to be removed
as soon as the rider passes beyond the
walls of Paris and into the open country.
and the besutiful roads beyond. This
can be adjusted in an instant, and
worn while riding through the crowded
streets.
This compromise was never popular,
for the Parisienne had voted fof trou-
sers, and trousers II was 10 be. but it
served, perhaps, to take the edge OF
the innovation. Now trousered female
pedaling along Paris boulevard has
become such an ordinary sight as 20
attract hardly passing curiosity. Even
yet, one sees good many thick wells,
but they will be doubtless laid aside
soon.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-23

It was eight years ago that, at meet
ing one summer morning OF the New
York Fruit and Biole Mission, at the
foot OF Twenty-sixth street, the women
who were present were greatly interest
ed ia two Young Syrian women who
we're present The morning was sultry
and Oppressively warm, and the two
young Syrians. with their stories and
goods, were almost a godsend TO the
meeting. They had taken a room in the
mission house because II was very cheap,
ADD the house, which was intended TO
gather 10 released prisoners as they
landed from BlackWelPs Island was not
full
One Of the women 81 the meeting left
the hot city, aud when she reached her
home at we'll known country resort on
Long Island, told her sister: There
were two Syrian women at the meeting
this morning, aud 1 have asked them
down here 20 spend the day and bring
their goods 10 show you and mother. /
thOag6t she might be Interested"
In day or two they came. They
were dressed Ia poor clothes, and
brought couple OF bags Of very Ordi-
nary Syrian wares that were not at all
interesting; but Selma had q Syrian
brides dress that was beautiful, and
another dress such as Bedouin women
wear when they carry babies in a hood
on the back OF the dress.
IL was a aovelty eight years ago, and
tbe hostess soon had sent word 70
number OF the ladies living near, snd
Selma entertained them by putting on
these costumes aud explaining how they
werSNorn. She told about the eere-
aSs1efes ~ pinching and so forth which
Syrian brides had to undergo. Hanna
frankly tom Of the husband aud Two
little boys 4 e had left behind in Syria,
aud that she had come TO America 10
earn their pAssaFe aud give her child
rem free lifain free land.
Hanna WAS Ahs older, with traces o.
unhappiness in\ her face. But Selma
was young and pretty, with handsome
black eyes and attractive ways; aud
when they started back TO town the
hostess. who was q kind, motherly wo-
man, felt anxious about the beautiful
Syrian lest some danger might come TO
the pretty Selma 10 strange and wicked
New York. But Selma said she had q
cousin TO whom they could gO-John
Add 81 Nour.