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him, Uncle Van delighted in hard game
it appeared to be very hard game to him
from the number of shots he missed
and Miliie grew in vigor, ubiquity and,
it must be added, intensity of color as the
hours wore away. 1t was close on before
Charlie, with a groan, could throw down
his racquet.
Poor boy" said Mrs Marland
Charlie, dear" called Lady Merceron,
who had been talking comfortably to Mrs
Bushell in the shade, 'come and hand the
tea. I'm sure you must all want some.
Millie, my dear, how hot you look!'
''She never will take care of her COM
plexion," complained Mrs. Bushell.
Take care OF your stom-your health
and your complexion will take care of
ITSELF observed Mr.. Vansittart.
Charlie! Where is the boy?" called
Lady Merceron' again.
The boy was gone. He was flying fast
as his legs would take him to the Pool.
Where was that cherished interview now
He could only hope for a few wretched
minutes hardly enough to say good by
once-before he must hustle--yes, posi-
lively hustle Agatha ou of sight. He had
heard that abominable Sutton remark that
they might as we'll start directly after tea
He was breathless when he burst through
the willows. But there he came to a sud-
den, dead stop, and then drew back into
shelter again. There on the bank, scarcely
a dozen feet from it, sat two people-a
young man with his arm round young
woman's waist. Willie Prime and Nettie
Wallace.
He felt for his watch. but he had left it
with his waistcoast on the lawn. What
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A Cure for Bores.

Of the Hungarian Statesman, Francis
Deak,. it is related that he used to rid him.
self of troublesome visitors by telling them
the following story:
''Once, when in Paris, Napoleon | paid a
visit to hospital for old soldiers Here
he perceived among the rest a man who
had lost one of his arms and he entered
into conversation with him.
"'Where did you lose your arm?' asked
the Emperor.
at Waterloo, your Majesty
"'Then, no doubt, you curse the En-.
peror and your country every time YOU
look at your mutilated limb?i
No, indeed, protested the veteran
for. the Emperor and my native land
would readily sacrifice my other arm il
need be-
"'I can hardly believe that the Empe-
ror quietly rem arked and passed on.
'sBut the Soldier, anxious to prove that
he was in earnest, Immediately drew sa-
Der from its sheath and Topped off his other
arm.'
Here Deak would pause and fix pene-
trating look on his visitors.
"Well, what have you to say of such a
man and such an action?"
"a most sublime act of self-sacrifice! A
truly noble characterl'
This was the style of reply invariably
given.
"But the story has one flaw" he would
gravely add.
What is that, pray?"
at is simply impracticable. How could
a one-armed man contrive to cut off his
only remaining arm m?"-Aftenbladet.
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in warm golden lights. This picture has
attracted much attention and gold medal
from the Midwinter Fair art judges and is
good example of Mr.. Joullin's style,
though heretofore he has done little in that
line. When asked what he had in view
Mr.. Joullin confessed innocence of any
defined plan of future work and looked
around his studio much as a man would
say, "are not present conditions good
enough?" OF all the male artists in San
Francisco Mr.. Joullin is probably the most
clearly representative of that well-bred
Bohemianism, talked of so much and real
ly seen so seldom. His studio is one of
the most beautiful, his pictures admired
and the man popular. If there is but slug
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volumes, "society here pats art on the

volumes, "society here pats art on the
back, but the encouragement is limited to
that somewhat doubtful compliment"
Just then young pupil Of Mr.. Joullin
entered and sat down for chat about
recent reception. When in the midst of
description of the fashionable mob of the
night before Mr.. Joullin promptly ordered
the pupil to 'go to work." and the differ
ence between the tons and luxurious posi-
ton of the speaker caused an irrepressible
shout of laughter from the scholar.
From ceiling to floor Mr.. Joullin's
studio is crowded with arms, draperies and
choice hangings.
Chinatown in this city has always been
pet field of the artists and all the appur-
tenances of josshouse shrines are in evil
dence. Photographs of Partisan student
life are cheek by iowl with their compile
ments-nude studies-while opera scores
are mixed up with the last magazines.
Over near the piano stands the artists
last-and one of his best-work. 1t is a
young girl in pose of indecision with pen
poised in air over a sheet of writing paper.
The title, Spring" the maiden's fancy
lightly turned to thoughts OF love while
the sun from window behind clothes her
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Here we are" said Charlie. "Why,
JNbO:e

Here we are" said Charlie. "Why,
hullo! Who's that?"
A dripping head and a blowing mouth
were visible in the middle of the Pool.
''Willie Prime, by Jove! Morning,
Willie" and Charlie set about hinging off
his fannels, Victor following his example
in a more leisurely fashion.
Willie Prime was IA little puzzled to know
how he ought to treat Charlie. "Charlie"
he had been in very old days-then Master
Charlie Chat was Willies mothers doing)
then Mr.. Charles. But now Willie was
set up for himself. He had played bill
lizards with a loru. and football against the
Sybarites, and incidentally hobnobbed
with quite great people. 1t is not very
easy to assert q social position when one
has nothing on and only ones head out of
water, but Willie did it.
Good -morning-er- Merceron;' Said he
Victor heard him, and put up his eye
glass in amazement; but he. in his turn,
had only a shirt on, and the hauteur was a
failure. Charlie utterly failed to notice the
incident.
as it cold?' he shouted.
"Beastly," answered Willie. The man
who has got in always tells the man who is
going to get in that tits 'beastly cold"
Here goes!' cried Charlie and a min
ute later he was treading water by Willie's S
side.
"Miss Wallace all tit?"
"Thank YOU, yes, she's all r ght."
'.And her friend7"
''All right, | believe"
"And when is it TO be, old fellow?"
''Soon as get a rise"
"What?" asked the unsophisticated
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He sings, is good swordsman and prom
inent in all the dainty amusements of the
beau monde.
Although pupil of Bougereau and
Fleury at Paris Joullin, in matters of sub
ject, is law unto himself. His subjects
are generally gilded or silken-clad. In the
course of a chat about art in San Francisco
Mr.. Joullin said: "As a matter of fact
there is little or no art here, for there is no
true art feeling among those who should
aid by their encouragement the cultivation
and establishment of what might easily
result in a distinctively Californian and
high-class standard of work.
''Does not society here encourage art?"
"Well," and Mr.. Joullin's shrug spoke
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CHAPTER w

Mr.. Vansittart Merceron was not quite
sure that Victor Sutton had any business
to call him "Merceron.'' He was nearly
twenty years older than Victor, and man
OF considerable position; nor was he, as
some middle-aged men are, fattered by the
implication OF contemporaneousness car
ried by the mode of address. But it is hard
to give hint to man who has no inkling
that there is room for one, and when Mr.
Vanstittart addressed Victor as 'Mr. SUIT
ton," the latter graciously told him to
chang the Mister" Reciprocity was inev-
liable, and the elder man asked himself,
with sardonic grin, how soon he would
be 'sVan."
Coming to bathe, Merceron?" he. heard
under his window at 8 o'clock the next
morning. "We're off to the POOL
Mr.. Vansittart shouted an inaudible
negative, and the two young fellows started
off bv themselves. Charles manner was
affected by the ceremonious courtesy which
a weil-bred host betrays toward a guest
otvery well beloved, but Victor did not
notice this. 1t seldom occurred to him
that people did not like him.
Eyes" he was saying, IN just %. I've
had my fling, Charlie, and now shall get
TO business"
Charlie was relieved to find that accord
ing to this reckoning he had several more
years "fiing' before him.
t'Next year" pursued Victor, II shall
marry; then | shall go into Parliament,
and then l shall go ahead"
II didn't know..yoq were engaged"
please myself, You see; I've got lots of
coin" {"
",oh, yes; but can you please the lady 2'
asked Charlie.
my dear boy" began Victor, "when
you've seen little more of the world"
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GLIMPSHS OF
THE STUDIOS.
Mr.. AMEDEE JOULLIN'S DAINTY
WORKROOM AND SOMETHING
ABOUT THE MAN.
NO REAL ART FEELING HERE
SOCIETY PATS ART ON THE BACK
BUT OFFERS NO ENCOUR-
AGEMENT.

tits Just as true that an artists studio is
indicative of his methods of work as it is
true that mans library proves the tenor
of his thoughts. Amedee Joullin is artis
tically artistic. His studio is his mirror.
There are visible none of the dirty paint
rags of the enthusiastic amateur or careless
handworker. One sees more silk drapery
than paint rags in Joullin's rooms.
This is true of the man no less than his
studio. In appearance he is tall, broad
shouldered, dark-eyed and handsome. ALI
his manner bespeaks the luxury-loving
Gaul although he is a native Californian.
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GREAT GAME DISAPPEARING.

The Introduction of Firearms Depicting
the Hunting Grounds.
The Introduction OF firearms and espe-
cially breech-loading firearms and the
rapid opening up of one great hunting
ground after another have wrought within
these last sixty years such incredible havoc
that great game are now rapidly approach
ing period of extinction. Men begin to
wonder what their descendants in the next
century will have left them in the way of
sport.
1t is quite certain that even the remoter
corners of the world cannot much longer
support the inoessant waste of animal life,
and it may not be improbable here to con-
slider briefly the sad tale of a vanishing
fauna and the ways and means by which
II II is not already too late-something may
be done to preserve the rarer and nobler
creatures still left to the wilderness.
North America has been almost de-
stroyed as game country. The bison has
gone, the wapiti, the moose, the cariboo
and the bear are going fast. OF South
Africa, a country more prodigally endowed
world the same miserable tale has to be
told. Only in portions of the virgin veldt
of the Mashonaland, the regions of the
Pungwe River, and the least easily acces-
sible deserts of North Bechuanaland and
the Kalahari, are there to be found fair
representatives of that astounding fauna
which not long since gave unSpeakable
charm to plain and mountain, karroo and
kloof, from the southern shores of the
Cape Colony right away to the far Fam
besi. And even in those distant and diff
cult wilds their numbers are daily and
hourly diminishing, so that apparently in
few more years the great game of all
Southern Africa will be but a memory
In India the same war of determination
has been and is necessarily waged and
with the same results. The Indian lion,
the great mailed rhinoceros, the guar,
buffalo, sambur, bear, even the tiger itself,
and many other species of great game are
vanishing rapidly. In other countries the
same process is going buSily forward at the
hands of white and native hunters with
apparently the same inevitable ending
complete determination. Not until the
European began to move abroad and fire.
arms came into use was there any sensible
decline among the mammalia of America,
Africa or even India.
In the days of matchlocks. and even of
flint guns and smoothbores the destruc-
ton proceeded, of course, much more
slowly than at present. But with the in
PRODUCTION OF percussion caps great
change came quickly in the annual bill of
slaughter. Improvements in rifling and
precision rapidly followed, and finally came
the modern breech-loader to complete the
work OF destruction.
1t is now, unless some effectual method
of preservation can be quickly introduced,
absolutely certain that the complete
determination of the great game of
Africa, America and Asia is merely
d question of years. And in Southern
Africa especially this period of extinc-
ton is very close at hand. The quagga
Equus quagga) has vanished; the white
rhinoceros has been all but shot to extinc-
ton; the giraffe, the elephant, the black
zebra and most of the great antelopes are
fast disappearing -Fortnightly Review.
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gish encouragement for art in San Fran
cisco, it does not seem to worry Mr.. Joullin.
He is young and there is time yet for work,
meanwhile there is the present and artistic
Rohernia
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A true statement coming directly from
the lips of an honest man peculiarly places
the virtues of the Household Remedy be-
fore the public. 1t is even so. Edwin l..
Dole is known to the people of San Fran
cisco. He is honest. His trucks stand at
the corner of Larkin and McAllister streets
every day of the working week. He lives
with his five children at 13 Thirteenth
street. He has indorsed the Home Rem
edy, joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla. His
own plain language fittingly tells what has
been done for him:
THE EDWIN w. JOY COMPANY
GENTLEMEN: / send you the
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only picture l have at the present time,
and must tell you that would not allow
my picture to go into the newspapers at
all did not feel that was under obliga-
tions to the owners of the remedy that has
done me SO much good. had been taking
remedies and had been treating with
doctors for nearly five, years. l was sick.
My stomach was completely out of or
der. had a peculiar desire to scratch and
scratch and scratch all the time 1 could
not eat anything without suffering after
ward. A friend advised me to use your
joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla. 1 went to a
drugstore in the city and asked for
it. The polite clerk talked me out of
buying Joys Vegetable Sarsa parilla,
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Natures Own Remedy
Pure Blood Pure Blood
but
Vegetable
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and gave me Sarsaparilla with Iodide of
this beastly stuff, and my body became
one mass of big blotches. went back to
the big drugstore and told the man at the
counter 1 wanted bottle of joys Vegeta-
bic Sarsaparilla. He gayeit to me. can
now truly and honestly recommend Joys
Vegetable Sarsaparilla. l give the medi-
cine to my children. find it brings out
no pimples. 1t is good blood medicine.
If any one doubts this statement let them
write or call upon me.
[Signedl EDWIN L. DOLE,
13 Thirteenth street.
Express Business, cor. McAlhster and
Larkin streets.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-14

The difference between tribes" and
nations" of Indians is not generally
understood, the two terms being fire.
quently COMPOUNDED. Mrs. Harriet Max
well Converse thus marks the distinc-
ton: 1.-THE Seneca Nation is composed
of eight tribes, and this nation is as dis
tinct among Indians as France, Germany
and England are distinct among the ma
tons Of Europe, The six nations com,
posing the original confederacy of the
lroquois, one of the most powerful con.
federacies ever known among primitive
peoples, included the .Onondagas, the
Cayugas, the Senecas, the Mohawks and
the Oneidas The Tuscaroras were add
ed in 1923. The name Iroquois was not
their proper Indian name, but was de-
rived believe, from the French and
has been used instead of Ho-de-man-
san-ne, which, being interpreted, signi-
fled the people of the long house. Only
three of the original nations retain res
ervations in New York state, the Mo,
hawks, Cayugas and Oneidas having
crossed the border to Canada with Brant
and Sir William johnson during the
Revolutionary war.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-14

Professor Elihu Thomson explains about
the intense current of electricity which he
allowed to pass through his body recently
and says; Il did not take 100000 volts,
but simply allowed what we call very
high frequency current to pass through my
body did not feel it a particle, and If
had had my eyes shut | should not have
known a thing about 1t. My arms feel as
though ! had been lifting some heavy OBJ
ject; otherwise l do not mind it at all.
Charges such AS that which ! took are
known as electrical oscillations, and could
take five times what did or enough more
10 illuminate an arc lamp. had no fears
OF undertaking the feat, as had done it
many times, and in the near future shall
try and see how far it can be carried-that
is, so that will feel it directly. | did IT
many times at the Worlds fair, to the sur.
prise of many scientific men. explained
it, and finally many gentlemen tried it.
They did not feel it and had the same ex-
perisnce as did"-Boston Transcript.
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Every yachtslnan knows that ship can
sail faster than the wind-that is to say.
II the wind is blowing 10 knots an hour
a ship may be making l2 or Is knots an
hour Now, it is obvious that if the ship
is sailing straight before the wind it can
not, at the utmost, travel faster than the
wind itself is blOwing-as a matter of fact,
it will travel much more slowly. If, ON
the other hand, the ship is sailing at an
angle with the wind, it seems at first sight
that the wind must act with less effect
than before, but as n matter of fact the
ship not only sails more quickly than be-
fore, but more quickly than the wind it.
self is blowing. Let us consider the diff
Guilty in the light of the following expert
ment:
Place ball at one side of the billiard
table, and with the cue, not held in the
ordinary manner but lengthwise from end
to end of the table, shove the ball across the
cloth. The cue here represents the wind,
and the ball the ship sailing directly before
it. The ball, of course, travels at the same
rate as the cue. Now, suppose a groove in
which the ball may roll be cut diagonally
across the table from one corner pocket to
the other If the ball be now placed at
one end of the groove and the cue held
horizontally, parallel with the long sides
and moved forward across the width of
the table as before, the ball will travel
a long the groove and along the cue, dag
ognally across the table in the same time
as the cue takes to move across the width
of the table. This is the case of the ship
sailing at an angle with the direction of
thewind. The groove is considerably long
er than the width Of the table-more than
double as long, in fact. The ball, there
fore, travels much faster than the cue
which impels it, since it covers more than
double the distance in the same time. It
is In precisely the same manner that a
lacking ship is enabled to sail faster than
the wind.-European Travellers Book.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-14

An American writing from London
says; 1t is very desirable just now that
an exceptionally sharp eye be kept on
the arrivals in New York, for the re.
duction of rates consequent on the steer
age war is attracting very undesirable
class of emigrants to Liverpool and the
continental ports of embarkation. Nine
dollars, which is now charged for steer
age passage from the Mersey to New
York, includes not only the usual outfit
of bedding and so on, but also the cost
of the railway journey from London and
Liverpool as well. And, in case of pas;
sengers from the south and southwest OF
England and South Wales, the fare in
cludes the difference, if any, between
the railway fare to London or South
ampton and that to Liverpool.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-14

VI all the extraordinary stories of female
adventuresses, the account of the career of
Golden Hand, Russian woman recently
condemned to Siberia for life, reads most
like an effort of fiction.
Remarkably attractive and good looking,
and speaking fiuently Russian, Roumanian,
German, French and English, she had been
married l6 times and in turn ran away
from each of her husbands, carrying off
everything upon which she could lay her
hands.
Once before she was condemned to ST.
IBERIA, but had not been there long before
the chief overseer fell victim to her wiles,
married her and went off to Constantine
pie. But after a few months his wife bolt
ed and soon after was recognized in Mos
COW by police official, who proceeded to
arrest her.
In response to her urgent pleadings, how.
ever, he delayed marching her off upon the
spot, and, like the rest, speedily succumbed
to her destinations, with the result that the
woman again escaped and lived some two
years in Russia unmolested.
But her sixteenth husband, after she had
made off with the bulk of his worldly pos
sessions, finding out who she really was,
speedily landed her in Jail, where the law
yer intrusted with her defense had an OPP
portunity OF approaching her skill as a
pickpocket. When he went to see her in
her cell, she presented him with a gold
watch and chain as token of her gratitude
for his efforts in her cause. Feeling in his
pocket, he afterward discovered that the
watch and chain were his own.-London
Tit-Bits
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-14

The word "iayhawker" became gener-
ally known during the war of the rebel
lion from the application of it to himself
and his soldiers by Colonel Jamison of the
Seventh Kansas. The appellation passed
from this regiment to all Kansas soldiers
and was finally applied to the inhabitants
of Kansas themselves. The Kansas "herd
book" gives the following story as the or
igin Of the name;
Early one autumn morning in 1856 Pat
Devlin, a noted character in Kansas in
those days, was seen entering the village
OF ossawatomie, riding a mule loaded
down with all sorts of articles. A neigh
Dor met him and said;
"Good morning, Pat. You look as II
you had been out on some kind Of forag-
ing expedition.
"Yes. I've been out jayhawking."
4"What do you mean by jayhawking,
PATTI never heard of that word before"
\ "Well, I've been out foraging, and while
hiding home on my haste bethought me
az the bird we have in Ireland we call the
jayhawk, which takes delight in worrying
its prey before devouringit, and | thought
jayhawking a good name for the business
was in myself kansas City Times.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-14

The most valuable tree produced in New
South Wales is the so called red cedar, Ce-
drela australis, which owes its common
name to the sweet smell of its wood. 1t is
much lighter in weight than mahogany, al
though it bears considerable resemblance
to that wood and is used for the same pur-
poses-that is, for cabinet work and furni-
ture in general and for the fittings of build
ings where the cost is not too great. Where
it is kept dry it is very durable. Natural
ly OF pleasing red, it turns to deeper
and richer color with age, aud some trees
have beautiful grain. In The Agrcultur-
al Gazette, published at Sydney interesting
particulars are given in regard to the es-
tablishment of forest preserves in this tim
Der, and it is gratifying to learn that even
in this 'new country extensive plantations
of young cedar are being made every year
and are fiourishing finely.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-14

The traditional annual banquet of the
sour herring" SO called, came off ON All
Saints day. 1t was numerously attended
by the fraternity of the undertaken assist
ants and derives its name from the fact
that when the custom was first established
and these assistants were only called "por-
tiers" they assembled once year for So
cial entertainment, the time coinciding
with arrival of the sour behring's in TIE
Paris markets. The festival was sue, eeded
by ball, at which, as matter OF course,
the fair partners were treated to bier" and
offered floral tributes in the shape OF bou-
auets and wrsaths.-Ameriean Register.