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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21

Just returning from the wars and SILL
covered with surgeons plasters. From
this he produced a pack of cards and
rendered it to the man who had sug-
gested the game.
certainly, if you will join us; but
what shall we do for table,"
Here is a camp STOOL" said the man
of the world And in a moment four
men were sitting around it, cutting for
deal, which CHANGED to fall to the
stranger.
The cards were distributed rapidly,
and the dealer was about to turn the
trump when loud Shrek pierced the
air and a woman opposite suddenly
sank fainting to the floor.
Don't be alarmed, gentlemen; it is
nothing serious" said the dealer, calm
ly. 1.-THE lady simply caught sight of
her own frightened face in the mirror
and the shock caused her to faint 1t
reminds me of a thrilling experience
an American traveller had while bump
ing through Syria. But, pardon me,
the camel"
Once more no made a movement to
turn the trump, when one of the party
exclaimed:
There can't be better time or rlsco
than this for telling a thrilling expert
ence."
Yes" said another; do give us some
other kind of humping than we are
having here. Let's have the story be-
fore we begin the game"
The stranger leaned back, passed his
cigar case, and, having lighted weed
himself, began:
at is an unwritten law among the
wild Bedouins east of the Red sea that if
an infidel traveller is attended on his
journey by one of the faithful he is safe
from the attacks of Mohammedan rob-
bers. AS long as the Frank as all for
eigners are called, is under the proteQ-
4ion of the StaT and Crescent. the ras-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21

81 gave you that parrot as birthday
present, did not, Matilda?" he asked.
Eyes, but surely, Albert you are not
going to speak of your gifts as if"
ut was young and speechless at the
time?"
Yes with increasing wonder, "and
it has never been out of this parlor."
There are no other young ladies in
this house?"
mo, there are not"
Then why, when kissed your pic,
ture in yonder album, while waiting
for you, did that wretched bird assume
your voice and say: Don't do that,
Charlie, please don't "-London Tel4
egraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
MINING OF PHOSPHATEs.
Where the Deposits Are Found and How
They Are Made Marketable.

The Florida phosphate deposits are
of great Importance, yet their exist
cnce was discovered so recently, and
their extent is still so uncertain that
few persons not engaged in the sale
OF fertilizing materials have much
knowledge of the large industry which
has sprung up in the peninsular state.
1t has practically created a new city,
Ocata, which had population of but
a few hundred in 1870, but is now a
thriving business center with modern
improvements, banking facilities and
ample railway and transportation IA
cilities. Engineering, the leading en-
gineering journal, makes the following
statements concerning the region,
which are of considerable interest as
coming from an unbiased source:
''There is no phosphate region in the
world known to-day that possesses so
many advantages for successful min
ing as the Florida deposits. The grade
of material is the highest average that
is being worked anywhere. The facil-
tiles for moving the products to points
for distribution are good. The aver
nge distance from mines to ports for
shipment is about $50 miles. The dis
tributing stations for the hard rock
districts are Port Tampa, Fernandina,
brunswick and Savannah, the largest
tonnage being moved from Fernan-
dina, where storage bins are located
and loading facilities are good. Port
Tampa, the terminus of the Plant sys-
tenn of railroads, is constantly adding
facilities for prompt handling of car
goes of phosphate, and at present very
nearly equals Fernandina in the
amount of its shipments. Railroads
are numerous and cheaply constructed
when necessary to extend them into
new sections. The machinery needed
to mine and prepare the material is
simple and inexpensive compared with
that generally used in other mining
operations, and the cost of plant
with sufficient land to work upon is
within the reach of small investors.
The working days at the mines are
about $50 during the year. The climate
is healthful, laborers readily obtained
at a fair compensation and skilled oper-
atives are at hand who are becoming
familiar with the business. The min
ing camps are generally well regulated,
and proprietors and employees can re-
side at the mines with safety and with
little inconvenience, as supplies of all
kinds can be readily obtained at the
towns located in the near vicinity of
all the large mining fields. Telegraph
and mail facilities are within easy ac-
cess of nearly every mining camp in
the state. Florida phosphates are
mostly shipped to European ports,
and are manufactured into fertilizers
in England, Ireland, Germany France,
md quite recently shipments have
been made to the Sandwich islands.
Foreign agents of consumers and
dealers in phosphates have their offices
near the center of production, and
contracts for delivery and prices are
commonly fixed at points of shipment,
the material being sold at a price per
unit of its contents of phosphate of
lime. The Florida phosphates are all
used in the manufacture of commercial
fertilizers and superphosphate. "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
Save the Wine.

In Toxic a confirmed tippler, having
occasion to send his servant, a country
girl to buy some sake, which is native
drink, said, placing the empty bottle in
her hands: Nov be very careful and
see that you don't fall in coming back.
If you fall, you know, you will be sure,
one way or another, to spill the wine.
OF course, if you are obliged to fall. 1
suppose you must; but in that case put
down the bottle carefully on the road
and then fall."-Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21

1t is related of successful Glasgow
merchant that, sight seeing in Paris
once, he lost his way. For a considera-
BILE time he wandered about trying to
get back to his hotel. The hours went
by. He never could speak French, and
his Glasgow English only brought a
smile and shake of the head. "Oh for
body wi a guild Scotch tongue in his
head!" he sighed. Then came happy
thought. By signs he bought a basket,
measure and berries of trim French
woman, and, shouldering his stock,
went along the street shouting: Fine
grossets, a bawbee the pine; fine gros-
sets, bawbee the pine" The crowd
laughed at the mad Briton, but the IA
miliar cry soon brought some Scotsmen
on the scene, and the merchant was
able to retire from business and smoke
his pipe in the bosom of his family,
thankful that he had found real Scots
men in his hour of need.-Tit-Bits
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
An Irishm mans Brilliant Idea.

Some Irishmen are naturally stupid,
but their mistakes at times are so hui
morous as to provoke laugh, which
makes one forget the more serious part
of the error. Recently son of Ireland
went out rowing on the lake at IA
nous summer resort. A stiff northwest
wind came up, and, not being skillful
with the oars, in a short time his boat
shipped considerable water. A brilliant
idea then seized him, and, taking the
butt end of the oar, he battered away t
the planks in the bottom of the boat,
finally knocking a hole in them. For
tunately for him steam launch with
pleasure party aboard came along and
rescued him as his boat sank. Upon be-
ing asked why on earth he drove hole
through the boat he replied: An
phwat else would yez do? Sure the
boat was half full of water, an so 1
knocked a hole in the bottom to let it
out; but, yez see, there was so much
more water in the lake that the little
bit of a stream in my boat had no
chance to get out" -Harper's Round
Table.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
Don't Write When Angry.

Never write letter to q man, WON.
an or child when you are angry with
the person in question, or perhaps, ]
had better qualify my advice by beg
ging you, one and all, never to send an
angry letter for 48 hours after you have
written it, and then l would suggest
reading it carefully, and, as the Irish
man said, burning it before sending it. :
We have many of us exhausted all our
rage in the fire of the letter-writing
and have felt all the delights of battle
won by the prowess of our pens without
the hackneyed formality of posting the
epistle. Who is there who has not
written his anger out in this wholesome
way! Do not, l pray, send a cruel let
ter to anyone you have ever loved. You
will but live to regret the act. and pos
sibly with the pallid silence of death
between you and the wounded one. If
mortals were, in these prosaic days,
gifted with invisible powers, l would
wish to be that spirit endowed with a
force which would arrest every angry
word at the tip of each sharp-pointed,
heart-breaking pen.-St. Louis Repub-
lie
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
Telling Fortunes with Apples.

There are three fortunes to be told
with an apple. Peel the fruit without
breaking the skin, and, holding the
long spiral skin daintily by the end,
swing it three times around the head
and let it fall to the ground; whatever
letter the skin then forms is the initial
of the sweetheart or friend who loves
you best. Then, before eating your APP
pie, have some one name it," as they
say, and after you have saved all the
seeds begin to count them, thus:
One 1 love; two 1 love: three love say;
Four love with all my heart
And five l cast away.
Six, she loves; seven, he loves; eight, both
love.
Nine, he comes: ten, he tarries.
Eleven, he coul Is, and twelve, he marries
a more amusing fortune is that of
placing fresh apple seed on each eye
lid and naming each. The one which
remains there longest is the truest and
best. Afamous custom consists of pour
ing a very little molten lead into tub
of cold water; there follows a splash
ing and kissing as the lead cools sudden-
ly, and the shape of the lead reveals tho
future. just as in all oracles ever since
the days of Delphi, and Diana, of the
Ephesians, the scientific work lies in
reading the doubtful forecasts Alright
Louise Willis Snead, in st. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21

Pudding Sauce.-Four tablespoons
Of fine, white sugar, two tablespoons OF
butter, one tablespoon of -four, stil
them together to cream, beat the
white of an egg to stiff froth and add
1t, then pour into the dish gill of boil
ing water, stirring very fast; flavor
with lemon or vanilla.-Boston Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
THE UNTURNED TRUMP.
BY BARNES MACGREGGoR.

HE ferry-boat,
"R a p pahan-
mock" had an
{ perience in
the winter of
1873 that will
never be for
gotten by any
of her passen-
gers.
During one
of her egular
trips between
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21
Information.

Johnny-Papa, what is mileage?
Papa - Mileage is what we pay con-
grehsmen for travelling on passes.--
Puck.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-11-21

1t is said that posts planted in the
earth upper end down will last longer
than those which are set in the natural
position in which the tree grew.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09
DROWNED BEACH.
Harry WEIGH, Car Driver, Loses
His Life.
NOT A CASE OF SUICIDE.

Been III with Heart TroubIe-Found
Floating at Long MISUNDERSTANDING
Employees Bury the Body-Evidence
of Persons Who Knew WEIGH.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09
Vacuum Oils

If a new broom sweeps
clean, a we'll oiled piece of
machinery ought to run
smooth. There is a saving of
$50 per cert. to those who use
VACUUM OIL. An engineer
of one of the prin cipal plan
tatious says of 600 Cylinder Oil
"That one barrel is as good
and goes as far as three
barrels of other kinds"
Those who are agents for
other oils are forced to get
VACUUM OIL to send to their
own mills.
Hundreds of competitive
tests have been made with the
600 w Cylinder Oil against
other grades, and it has de-
monstrated it's value for eco
nomy and utility beyond all
question.
We also handle this oil in
three other grades known as
Vacuoline Engine, Arctic En-
CINE and the Heavy Dark Lu-
bricating OIL.
1t is about time to think Of
placing your orders for picture
frames for the holidays. We
have the finest assortment of
new and unique designs ever
sent to the Islands. Spare us
few minutes of your time
and we will show you the
samples. They are BEAUTIES.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09
COURT NEWS.

The Woodward case occupied all
OF the attention of Judge Magoon's
court yesterday.
Creditors OF the Pacific Trading
Company, bankrupt, filed claims
amounting to $788S.S3 yesterday,
and elected c. Bose assignee under
a $4,000 bond.
Chief Justice Judd discharged
George w. huffman from custody
on a writ of habeas corpus. This is
the young man who was arrested
for debt at the instance of Thomas
KrOuse.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09

the soldiers would not get out OF
the way, and drove into them He
was arrested and tried, but got off.
Lieutenant Coyne was principal
witness for the prosecution, and
was the first man TO see Welch
after his death.
Welch has no relatives in the
city, so the street-car boys have
volunteered TO see TO his burial.
The funeral will take place from
st. Andrews Cathedral at 3 Bop. m.
today. Rev. Alex. Macintosh
will conduct services.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09

We have a full stock of the popular
Beaded and Rocco Border Patterns, than
which there is nothing more desirable or
in keeping with the prevailing styles.
The most desirable, however, has been,
and always will be, the Plain Ebony Back,
with Handsome Raised Silver Monogram.
These we make up in variety of styles
to suit each Individual taste.
Prices on these goods will be found
lower than similar goods in the United
States, being direct importations from Eu-
rope, whereby we save the high tariff on
such goods into America.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09
NOTICE.

All advertisements intend
ed to be published in the
Semi-Weekly GAZETTE must
be at the office of the Com
pany not later than 5 o'clock
P. M. on MONDAYS and
THURSDAYS, and for the
KUOKOA, THURSDAYS; 9TH
erWiSe no assurance can be
given that same will be pub
liShed in the first issue
following.
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE CO.,
GEO. H. PARIS,
Manager.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09
Has
Any
Body
Found
In
Honolulu

A place where they en-
plOy better Workmen than
we do? Or where the cost
of repairing furniture is so
reasonable? Has anybody
ever had any work done by
us that was not Salts
FACTORY BOTH IN PRICE
AND WORKMANSHIP?
There is but one answer,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09
PUBLIC NOTICE.

THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST OF THE
Hawaiian Relief Society is now open at the
office of the Union Feed Company. Sub
scriptlons for any amount will be gladly
received GEO. H FAIRCHILD,
+. w. MACFARLANE
4093-tt Subscription Committee.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18

Old hay answers an excellent pur-
pose, even when the COWS have an
abundance of green food on the pasture.
1t is highly relished by them, and they
should have full ration of it at night.
During the season when COWS are first
turned on grass they should have salt,
and should any of them have the scours
keep them in the barnyard and feed
hay with mess of hot bran and corn
meal seasoned. Green grass is laXa-
tive, and the COWS must not be allowed
too much at the beginning of the past
ure season.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18

Victoria, May 10.-An important pc
tition was telegraphed to the govern
ment at Ottawa yesterday by represen-
tative canning firms having headquar-
tiers in Victoria asking that the Cana
dian tariff be amended, by an order i'll
council if necessary, to enable salmon
and other fish of similar character to
be imported free into the Dominion.
This position is the outcome of the
recent decision of the board OF general
appraisers at New York, given on Jan
uary II, to the effect that the same are
fresh water fish, and as such are en-
titled to free entry into the United
States. The immediate local effect OF
this order is that while American can
ners at Point Roberts, Blaine and other
neighboring towns of Washington state
can now get salmon from British CO.
lumbia, including the Fraser river,
free of duty, British Gamers, under the
Canadian tariff, pay half a cent per
pound duty, equal to or 5 cents on
each salmon, for any fish they get
from the United States. This means
an advantage to American Gamers,
against whom it will be useless to
struggle, and unless desired amend
ments to the Canadian tariff are Sc
cured, many British Columbia firms
contemplate retirement from a once
profitable business.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18

There are few branches of farming
not overdone. There is SO little buck
wheat raised that the flour sells at 5
cents per pound. Then there is a
greater demand for good sorghum than
there is "A supply. Flax is very high
when you want to buy; why not raise
some to feed? 1t will improve the
stock. Fruit raising is not overdone,
ard potatoes will bring paying price
if the crop is well tended. Grass seeds
and clover seeds bring living prices.
Cabbage is hard to raise, but it pays to
raise for the market.
There is money in cheese at 10 and
20 cents per pound. Stock your farms
with COWS, build creamery and sell
milk. There is more money i'll it than
making butter. 1t pays to raise sweet
potatoes. The navy bean sells at 5
cents per pound and is scarce. Seed
down your farms and pasture stock at
rs cents a month. Farm better what
you do farm, raising the best. Read
the papers and raise the crops that are
scarce, for they always command good
price. Farm and Home.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18
SEATTLE MARKETS.

The following quotations are the nr;oou
paid to farmers and producers nv sea ,.Ie
business houses for articles na,nad i". .Se
goods to be delivered in Seattle. '"e
HoPs-Choice, DC per pound
HAY-ln car load lots: pnoat Soul
$6@S per ton; Eastern WASHINGTON slo,,
alfalfa, 80; rye grass, $3.50. e'O'
dRAIN-ln carload lots: Oats. choice
$3.50; barley, $l3 so per ton. whae,
chicken feed, $l5.5O@l6; corn s9s,
cracked, $24. F-f'
PoTAToEs-$7@1l per ton.
BUTTER, EGGS AND PouLTRy-Hapdlad
on commission.
HIDES, PELTs AND TAuow - Haavv
salted steers, over 80 lbs, Az @5c per III.
medium, &c per Id light, under IA lbs
&c; salted kip, &c, and calf, Sc; green
hides, lc less than sailed; dry hides 6G1
&c; culls of above, one-third less dry
elk, COS; dry deer skins, summer, 25c.
good winter, l0@l5; poor and thin win.
ter, DC; sheep skins, 15@25c; full wool
5O@6Oc; wool, 7@7lac per ID; tallow,
21a@31ac.
LIVE SroCK-Choice beef cattle. DO :.
choice sheep. SIC; good hogs, SIC |:
calves, large, &c; small, Ease per Id.
LUMBER - Superior quality, per M.
fir, $5.50m6.00; choice cedar. 81. 90 com.
mon, per NJ, "a; spruce logs, $3.50.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18
To Protect Innocent Purchasers.

Tacoma, May lin order to pro-
tect all innocent purchasers of North
ern Pacific lands who have suffered by
the Schulze defalcation, General Land
Agent Cooper has sent out circular let
tiers to all purchasers whom the books,
as found, do not credit with having
paid up in full. The object is to have
them produce proofs of payment in case
the money was paid but not credited.
A number of such cases have been
found. The total amount of the defal-
cation cannot be told until the returns
are all in. The indications are that,
as Receiver Cakes stated, it will reach
$3.50, 900 to $250,000
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18
a FOREIGN SYNDICATE BUYING.
Negotiations Completed for Placing
American securities In Europe


NEGOTIATIONS Completed for il"cing
American Securities In Europe
New York, May lot was reported
tonight that J. P. Morgan 81 Go. had
completed negotiations for placing
American securities in Europe, A sale
of 20, 600 shares of Southern Railway
common stock has been made to for
eion syndicate, and the stock will
nrohablv soon be listed in Amsterdam.
The completion of negotiations for
he sale of large amount OF l-2 per
cent general mortgage bonds of the
Cbesaneake q Ohio railway to a syndi-
,,ate Of London. Paris, New York and
Boston firms was also reported, and had
the effect of raising the price OF the
stock. Other sales of securities have
been made by J. P. Morgan q CO., and
it is the opinion among well-lntormed
bankers that they represent the entrance
into American securities of the big syn
dictate which made such enormous
profits in handling South African min
ing shares
A large part of the Chesapeake &
Ohio l-2 per cent bonds just CON
tracted for, it is believed, will be
handled by New York banking
house with important Paris connec-
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18

London, Eng, May 1.-THE Prince
of Wales presided yesterday at the an
nual banquet of the Printers Pension
Corporation, an organization under the
auspices of the Typographical Society,
which has for its object the care and
maintenance of worthy aged printers
who are without means of support.
The society provides for journeymen as
we'll as employers who have been I'M
fortunate in business. Five hundred
guests assembled in the banqueting hall
of the memorial institute at South
Kensington, and the prince, who was
given a hearty reception, made dona-
ton of 100 guineas to the fund of the
society
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-05-18
DAMAGES ASKED.
Projectors of Bicycle Riding Acad-
envy Sued by Pupil.

envy Nutu ny a. NPi''
New York, May 11.-Mrs. Mary Lee
werlich, wealthy widow, has brought
suit for $50, 900 against the Bidwell-
Tinkham Cycle Company, school for
beginners. The suit was brought III
the United States circuit court because
the company is New Jersey corpora
ton. Mrs. Leverich is well known in
society, and one of the things upon
which she lays stress is her suit Is
that by reason of her accident, which
happened while she was taking lessons
on bicycle, she was deprived OF all
her customary social enjoyments during
the larger portion of the season.
Mrs. Leverich went some time ago
to the academy of the company. She
learned rapidly and her instructor gave
her to understand that she was most
promising pupil. She alleges III her
complaint that at her third lesson tins
instructor induced her to "go 1t alone, -
Before that he had invariably walked
at her side. Mrs Leverich had not
gone far when she was run into by an
other beginner on a wheel. She was
thrown to the floor, and, according to
her complaint, sustained fracture OF
the ankle, many bruises, and even IN
ternal injuries. Mrs. Leverich relates
that the instructor was careless and I'M
skilled.