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Possibilities of the Language.

''And what has become of jed Thorn
ass" asked the little old man with the
queer whiskcrs.
jed Thomas" said the other, appar-
emily a clergyman, has joined the great
majority"
"Phew! You don't say sol And Seth
Blye, is he livingS"
''Mr. Blye passed away about year
ago."
'Sop But how about old Mrs. Stikton?"
Mrs. Stikton has solved the great
problem.
well, 1t beats ALL How they do hang
outl And all of 'em up to somethin on
common. But it is strange Hasn't there
been any deaths at all down in Seedville
since 1 come awayy"--Boston Transcript
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dial. The movement is hidden by
motto placed in the center of the dial,
as was the case with the empire clocks.
A current pattern is porcelain or
bronze lamp of familiar shape, with a
globe Of unpublished glass bearing hour
marks painted in black. A graceful
woman grasping with one hand at
branch of flowers in relief thrown across
the body Of the lamp points out with
one finger of the other the time on the
globe, which is revolving dial. There
are also all kinds of curious combina-
tions of night lamp, with clock for
ordinary use.
The cut shows a plump little boy in
fantastic dress. He strikes u cymbal
with one hand against the other, which
rests on the top of drum, which is
clock, and holds with his right hand a
lamp surmounted with globe. Another
pattern is medieval herald holding on
one side shield, with dial in the
center, and Oh the other torch which
is an electric lamp.
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A Queer Way to Begin Housekeeping.

In breach of promise case heard in
which FL, 900 was put as the legal value of
the hurt the lady had sustained curious
piece of evidence came out-viz, the gift
of a kitten as sign of making up low
ers' quarrel, and as 'the first step toward
furnishing the house" The faithless do
nor, however, married another lady, but
surely he had given most delicate hint
of his intentions, for cat is always nee
essary. element of the furnishing of an old
maids house-London Lady's Pictorial
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A young gentleman who has just mar
ried u little, understood beauty says she
would have been taller, but she is made
Of such precious materials that nature
could not afford it.
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Building Lots.

At WAIKIKI, ON car line and on
PAI.AMA ROAD near fertilzing plant.
These lots are very cheap and will be
sold on easy terms.
DESIRABLE ACRE TRACTS near the
city and other properties for sale.
BRUCE WARING & CO.,
Dealers in Lots and Lands.
503 FORT STREET.
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IOr Sale.

A brand new, latest model creamer
IF 90 gallons per hour capacity. Very
suitable for dairy outfit. Also a two
horse power gasoline engine in perfect
condition, used only four months. Will
sell either or both at bargain and will
set up if desired.
JOHN GRACE,
Manager Honolulu Dairy Co.
Hl-tf
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Russia has two vassal states in Asia,
Bokhara and Khiva: Both are really gov
orned by Russian residents.
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J. 4OPP & co.
WILLIAMS ART GALLERY.

Having resumed business and taken
advantage of the past two weeks to
renovate our studio we are better pre-
pared than ever to fill orders for views
of ancient Hawaii and, of the stirring
events of the late troubles. Portraits
of the leading characters a speciality.
Our portrait department is open for
engagements, and our work, as in the
past will be up to all of the modern ad-
vancements in our line.
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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
Ingenious Ways In Which Ciockmalers
Throw Light Upon the Dark Hours.

Ingenious Ways In Which Ciockmakers
Throw Light Upon the Dark Hours.
Night clocks have always furnished
the clockmalers with favorite outlet
for their inventive powers. A great
many night clocks were made by French
makers during the empire. Those most
generally used consisted Of an unpol-
ished glass dial. with hour marks paint.
cd black, the dial being circled with an
elegant metal setting At the center
was brass ornament masking a watch
movement. A night lamp was placed
behind, lighting up tho dial.
In modern times great variety Of
night clocks have been made as The
Jewellers Circular tells, many of which
are night lamps in the shape of elegant
vases provided with an unpublished glass
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Heretofore, relatives and friends OF
JOHN X. SUMNER have been buying
goods and having them charged TO the
account of JoRN X. SUMNER, stating
that he would pay on his return from
Tahiti. Mr.. NJ. +. CRASDELL, his agent,
is the only person authorized to contract
any such bills aud will pay nothing
whatever that is ne accompanied by an
order from JOHN X. SUMNER.
NJ. +. CRANpELL.
Attorney-i fact.
577-u.
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Prize Exhibition Of Land Shells.

Any residents. who may have collec.
tions of land shells. which they would
ne willing TO put on public exhibition
are invited to correspond with Professor
w. I. Brigham, Curator of the b. p.
Bishop Museum IL is proposed to offer
prizes for the best collections. The
collections will be disI layed on the
central tables of the Museum Annex.
Every possible facility will be afforded
or naming aud arranging the shells.
The Museum will he open to the public
IN Fridays and Saturdays, and the col
ections will be on exhibition for three
weeks, beninning May 10.
j9S-lmo
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Prisoner-Jedge, is this skinny, red nosed
feller goin to be my lawyeri
Judge-He H. You haveno attorney, and
il is the duty Of the court to appoint coun-
sci TO defend yoa. Are you ready for trial.
"Jest minute, yer honor. He's one OF
these divorce lawyers, amt hei"
ale is sometimes called a adivorce lawyer,
air."
Strengthening himself up-"Jedge. on
thinkin the matter over, ef you hain't no
objections I'll take back that plea OF not
guilty. stole the boz. Chicago TribunA
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FOREIGN MAIL SERVICE,

Steamships will leave for and arrive from
San Francisco on the following dates, till the
close of 1875:
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HAWAIIAN ST A r.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
OF HONOLULU.
AGENTS.
]. A. MARTIN,
STAR Agent Hilo. |
GEO HONS.
STAR Agent Wailuku and Lahaina
ARCHITECTS.
RIPLEY & REYNOLDS,
ARTISTS MATERIALS.
PACIFIC HARDWARE co
Fort ST. |
CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS.
Fort St. opposite Club Stables |
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
G. WEST, Masonic Block.
Tel. $50 Cor. Alakea and Hotel Streets
ENGRossING AND ILLUMINATING.
vIGGo JACOBSEN,
Telephone 16. Pacific Hardware Co.
FURNITURE AND uPHoLsTERERs.
ORDWAY & PORTER
Hotel st.
J. HoPP & co.
"A King st.
INSURANCE. FIRE AND MARINE.
BISHOP a. co.
Firemen's Fund, London and Glob,
CASTLE a. COOKE.
Aetna, Alliance, New England Mutua
PLUMBERS AND TIN-sMITHs.
EMMELUTH & CO.,
Nuuanu St.
RESTAURANTS.
CHAS. LIND
Excelsior, Nuuanu st.
SALOONS.
s. |. Shaw, Proprietor
VETERINARY SURGEONS.
D. SCHNEIDER, d. V, s.,
Club Stables, Fort st
j. M. MONSARRAT.
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND. NOTARY
PUBLIC.
Cartwright Block, Merchant St., Honolulu.
NEW
GROCERY STORE
322 NUUANU STREET,
Between Hotel and King Street, next to Shoot
ing Gallery.
GEO. MCINTYRE
Has opened a First-class Grocery Store as
above. He Will keep always on hand the
best and freshest
American and English Groceries.
Aai do his best to please all customers.
.9-Purcl Asses de ivered to all parts of the
ciy. TELEPHONE lUO4
BEAVER SALOON.
Fort Street. Opposite Wilder g. Co.
II. ]. NOLTE, Prop'r.
First-Class Lunches served with rea, Coffee
Soda Water Ginger Ale or Milk.
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the thread by very artful expediept
He made the company select, among q
number of threads of different colors.
that which he was to use, in order. rs
he said, to prove that it was the chosen
needle, and no other, that was fixed in
the partition. The use of the thread.
which in reality formed the whole Sc
cret of the trick, was thus made to ap.
pear mere expedient for proving that
there was mo deception.
The reader will find in this expert
ment reminiscence of the dart, COM
posed of a penholder, with paper wings.
with which he may have been familiar
at school. and which has brought many
a luckless pupil to grief for praoticing
javelin throwing when he should have
been studying Homer or Virgil.
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PROCLAMATION
EXECUTIVE BUILDING.
HONOLULU, H. l., JAN. 7, 1895.

The right of WRIT OF HABEAS
CORPUS is hereby suspended and
MARTIAL LAW is instituted and es-
tablished throughout the Island of Oahu
to continue until further notice. during
which time, however, the Courts will
continue in session and conduct ordinary
business as usual, except as aforesaid.
BY the Presidents:
SANFORD b. DOLE,
President of the Republic of
Hawaii
]. A. KING,
Minister of the Interior.
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THE HAWAIIAN STAR.
Published Every Afternoon Except
Sunday by The Ha-
waiian Star Newspaper Association, Ltd
ADVERTISING RATES.

ADVERTISING RATES.
Rates for transient and regular advertising
can be obtained at the publication Office.
To secure prompt insertion all advertise
ments must bedelivered at the Business
Office before 10 n. IN.
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erous smaller creatures of the family
of the cockroaches which abound ev
erywhere under the leaves and in
other hiding places. We might also
find few small land snails creeping
among the heritage, and might here
and there see active lizard like
creatures basking in the sun or
hunting for insect prey, while if
we lift a shred of bark, we shall al
most certainly find millipedes or
gallyworms, some them of large size.
In neighboring pond, fed by
small stream, we may observe some
very large bivalve shells allied to
modern fresh-water mussels, and per-
haps some aquatic nevis and few
crayfishes. All these creatures, though
having some general resemblance to
modern types of animal life, are of
species that have long since passed
away, and are known to us only by
their remains preserved in the beds
of the Conformation.
An Old Time swamp
But ascending the highest portion
of land within reach, and looking
westward, we see before us an inter
minable fiat, like one of the great
prairies of the West; but low and
swampy, like the Western "Muskegs,"
dotted with large ponds and covered
not with short prairie grass, but with
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in its use the great root stocks of our
pond-lilies. Trees of this genus and
of different species are very plentiful;
and slender though their foliage is,
make by their branching and close
proximity somewhat dense shade.
Curious Plant Growth.
Allied to these Lepidodendra or
scale-trees, are others still more
grotesque, the Sigillori@ or stamped
trees, which carry their old leaf-bases
in vertical rows, sometimes placed on
ribs which give the trunk certain
resemblance to a futed column,
though thefutings are not depressed
but raised. These trees have the
same curious stigmaria roots with the
others, and similar narrow leaves,
but usually very long, and rise in tall
pillar like trunks either without
branches or with few thick branches
at top. Their fruits of cone like form,
or in long spikes, are borne in whorls
girdling the stem and branches.
These are very abundant trees, of
many species, often growing close to-
getber in dense groves and presenting
an appearance SO grotesque and I'M
usual that their remains have been
one of the greatest of botanical puz-
zles. Some of them we may see more
than three feet in diameter and eighty
feet or more in height.
If, as becomes woodland travellers,
we have furnished ourselves with an
axe or Ratchet, and cut into the
trunk of one of these trees, we shall
find it's structure as curious as it's
form. Outside it has thick, hard
bark, but when we penetrate this, we
find a great thickness of cellular
pith like matter with mere strings of
fibrous bark contained in it, and
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| that of their modern allies. They
often had creeping underground
stems, were provided, like the ferns,
with aerial roots. Allied to them,
were more delicate plants, the Aster-
ophgllites, and Amnularig.
Everywhere, in open spaces, small
and beautiful ferns or clubmosses
carpeted the ground, but in the
denser woods it was numbered with
fallen trunks in all stages of decay
and crumbling under foot, while
many of them, becoming hollow, af-
forded places of shelter to small
reptiles, millipedes and snails, while
not infrequently the unwary foot
might disturb large and venomous
scorpion ready to plung its sharp
sting into the flesh of an intruder.
Monsters of the Deep.
AS We approach the ponds or lakes
of this vast swamp, huge ungainly
monsters as large as alligators, but
in form and structure more resemb-
ling nevis and their allies, scramble
to the bank and plunge sullenly into
the dark water, along the edges of
which are numbers of smaller reptil-
ian animals, some soft and Shiny,
others clad in shining and gaily col
ored armor. Could we launch raft
or canoe in one of the shallow lakes,
we would see that these TEEN with
life. In places they are clothed with
brakes of Calamites. In others they
are dense and green, with aquatic
plants allied to SdlUinio. Every
where they swarm with small she'll
fishes and minute crustaceans, and
in the clearer parts we can see shoals
of small active fishes clad in brilliant
scales, and leaping tocapture insects,
or themselves pursued by hungry
shark-like creatures armed with long
anu Sudip oPihOo w PiO0SSN 0ASAAA
against the teeth of the larger rep
tiles.
There is ample food for the fishes,
for the water swarms with the aquatic
larvae of May-flies and shad flies,
which fit in multitudes over the
water, and at the end of their short
lives, fall helplessly back into the
lake from which they came.
These woods are voiceless, but for
the hum of insects and the occasional
croak of some great reptile, the
splash of a fish or of diving batra-
chan, or the rare fall of some great
tree, decayed below and laundering
to the ground under the impulse of
a gust of wind roaring in the top
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of Florida, which, where the surface
has been burned over, look like black
serpents creeping on it. l imagine
that some kinds at least of one very
curious tree fern must have been
thus recumbent, though possibly
others stood erect. The fern referred
to (Megaphyton) has often a thick
trunk, but with only two vertical
rows of scars of great leaves on the
opposite sides, so that it would seem
to have borne only two large leaves
at time. These must, however, have
been wide and spreading, SO that the
appearance of the tree might not
have been ungraceful. 1t would
seem that all of these tree ferns had
at the base great numbers of aerial
roots descending like cordage to
moor them to the soft ground. Huge
masses of these roots are sometimes
found at their bases, and constitute
an equally effective though very diff
ferent continuance from that of the
spreading roots of the Stigmari@.
In some parts of these great
swamps there are vast areas, like the
crane brakes of the South, thickly
covered with the Calamites which
we're gigantic predecessors of the
mares tails of our swamps, sending
up groups of tall cylindrical stems
with joints at intervals from which
radiated numerous branchlets with
long needle-like leaves. Like the
bamboos of the tropics, these often
grew to twenty feet or more in height,
and attained to dia meters of six
inches or more. They were much
more strong and woody than the
modern mares tails, as became their
greater size, but their qualification
seems to have been very similar to
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most branches without affecting the
ground below.
Strange and curious though the
scene is, it would soon become mo-
notonous and depressing to visitor
from our later time, more especially
in its darker and damper recesses,
and the absence of all familiar forms
of bird and beast. Even the chirp of
a creeper, or the hammering of a
woodpecker, or the bark of squirrel
would be relief in these dreary
woods; but there are no such Great
ures there. They have not yet, in
the great and slow revolution of the
creative ages, come into being.
Uses of Old Forms of Life.
To what end was this vast profusion
of low forms of life, animal and veg
etable, occupying the world forso vast
ages that they would have seemed
eternal to any intelligent beings con-
templating it,-a condition of the
world unsuited to the highest forms
of life, and presenting only an end
less succession of growth, death, and
decay, of forms of vegetable and an
imal life apparently without use and
object. 1t was, however, one of the
phases of that vast series of changes
through which the earth was destined
to pass in the great plan of the Gre
ator, and preparatory to its last and
highest tenants.
In this last aspect we see its high
est uses. The vast vegetable growth
of the period tended to purify the air
of its surplusage of poisonous gases
and to fit it for higher forms of life,
while the continents were being grad
ually shaped into those more varied
and perfect forms which they have now
assumed. More than this, provision
was being made for the wants of ra-
tional and inventive men to appear
in the far future. All our great stores
of coal, on which nations depend for
their wealth, and millions Of men
rely for subsistence and comfort, are
the buried and carbonized remains of
those old forests, which, had we seen
them in their prime, we should have
supposed to be but waste and loss.
They stored up for our far distant
time the light and heat of millions of
years ago. So the Eternal One, to
whom thousand years are less than
a day, has cared for the feeting earth
ly life of his creature, man.
MONTREAL, CANADA, Feb. 1895.
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tall forests or dense jungles of reed
like plants. Even when the midday
sun shines mildly through the warm,
close, misty atmosphere, this land
scape presents no inviting appear
ance, and we might fear to enter it,
not only as probably malarious, but
as affording very wet and PREACHER
GUS footing, and painless and feat
ureless wood in which any traveller
might soon loose his way, while we
know not what dangerous animals
may Turk in it's recesses. But let us
make some little attempt, at least
along the margin, where it borders
on the more pleasant upland.
AS we leave the more open ground
and enter the forest, we are struck
with the strange character of its trees,
some of them of great size and tower
ing height, but all quite different
from anything We have seen. They
are obviously of many kinds, but to
a botanical eye they soon resolve
themselves into few generic groups,
One very abundant tree represented
by several species reminds us OF the
little ground pine ,-Lycopodium den
droideum of our woods, which is not
a pine at all, but club moss, and so
are these its gigantic predecessors,
the Lepidodendrd. Their smooth
round trunks are covered with scale
like bases of fallen leaves, arranged
in spiral lines, and reminding one of
the scaly skin of fish. The stem
forks above, then each branch forks,
and forks again till they end in a
multitude of slender branchlets, all
covered with thin needle like leaves,
and bearing cones like those of pines
or rather like those of our tiny club
MOSES, for they are really howerless
plants allied to these, and bear min
ute spores instead of seeds. Some
of the species have slender branchlets
and small leaves and cones. Others
have stouter branches with very long
leaves like those of the Southern
pitch pine, and great cones either
ndapent on slender stalks or attached
by the base to the branches as in the
red pine. If we happen to see the
roots of one of these trees, which
have been washed out by stream,
we shall find that like the branches
above, they fork regularly, and that
they are covered with great soft root
let's regularly arranged, as thick
as a writing pencil, and of great
length III continuance intended to
enable them to grow in soft water
soaked soils, and in fact, resembling
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To MY FRIENDS.
BY W. MUMFORD.

Let those who believe in Gods partial love.
Speak never again of heaven above,
For If endless woe is as true as they tell,
Twill surely change that heaven to hell.
For who could be happy in heaven and know
That fathers and brothers aud sisters must go
To regions of misery, there to remain
With serpents and devils. and never again
Enjoy that calm sunshine. that peace of the
soul
That reaches from God and encircles the whole
OF creations domain, from east to the west,
All nations to save, all sinners to bless?
What mother could dwell in heaven content
And yet, see her children in hell of torment
And not cry aloud in anguish Of heart
Oh God, from thy heaven now let me depart
With my fond, doting child, oh there let me
dwell
For thy heaven to me is worse than thy hell
What father could in an ocean OF fire
daughter thus doomed to misery dire,
Fer surrounded by devils and demons g i'm.
On ocean of sulphur forever to swim;
With sharp pointed spears and torches of fire
To scourge the poor soul with infinite ire?
Is the God of all truth such being as this?
To create some for mi sery and others for bliss,
To form man from dust then make him a
worm
Then cast him in hell forever to burn;
To make him Imperfect and subject to sin,
And then make a hell to e'er put him in.
Forever to burn in that seething flood
And yet believe the truth. that God is good;
Yet such are the creeds that mortals have be-
lieved,
And such are now taught, and as truths are re-
ceved,
While science and reason and nature declare
Such teachings are false whatever they are.
ALCoNY, o.