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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-12-03
THE MORNING APPEAL.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-28
THE HAWAIIAN CABLE.
England's Wish Will Not Be Grant,

NEW YoRK, Jan. 15.-The Suns
Washington correspondent tele-
graphs the follwing: An INQUIRY
among Senators and Representatives
fails TO develop sentiment In either
House fsvoring the legislation re-
commended by the President In his
recent message to amend the Hawai-
ian treaty 30 that the consent OF this
Government can be secured for the
construction OF q cable, under Eng
Ilsh auspices, from Vancouver to
Australia via Honolulu.
The Presidents recommendation
has not only brought to the surface
all the opposition to British cable,
but has stirred up the friends OF the
American project who have not been
active during the present Congress.
Already several members have in
preparation bills authorizing the lay
ing OF q Hawaiian cable under the
patronage of the United States. One
OF the members OF the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, who does
not wish to be quoted because he
may be called on TO vote In the COM
mittee, In explaining why there
could be no legislation a. recon-
mended by the President, said today:
"The request on behalf Of Great
Britain IL made In order that it may
secure . military cable in the Pacific
ocean, as il has one in the Atlantic
ocean and everywhere else. II this
cable should be landed In Hawaii
with the consent Of the United
States 10 would DO found that If an
10 A1
States could not send single order
for the movement Of any OF ats war
ships over it. Great Britain seeks
with this cable to strengthen its
military arms. The permission
which is sought for In this message
of President Cleveland, ] can assure
You, will never be granted by the
United States Congress"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-28
A Gable Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Representa-
tive Hit OF Illinois is preparing a
bill for the laying Of a Government
cable between Monterey Bay, CAL,
and Honolulu, according to the sur
vey made by the photographic Office
OF the Navy Department, believing
that President Cleveland's recon-
mendations in favor OF allowing the
British Government to lay a cable
from Vancouver to the islands will
only have the effect of creating q
sentiment In favor Of the cable being
laid by this Government through a
subsidy by Congress. The President
and Secretary of State have been
surprised at the way the former re-
Communications have been received
by members of Congress generally.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-28

Col. John Cockerill, one of the re-
preventative newspaper men Of New
York, is en- route for the Orient as
representative Of the N. Y. Herald.
James Gordon Bennett, his employ
or, believes that the most interesting
troubles Of the Chinese-Japanese
war are yet to come, and that Japan
will be the center of the most lively
and interesting diplomatic news that
has happened or may happen for
years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
A MONSTER PUDDING.
1t Was Built on Savage Island, In the
Village of Liku.

Village of Liku.
had been ten years on Savage island,
and meant to come to England on a
visit, but before leaving went to each
village to say "good-by'' to the people.
We had been three weeks from home
when we got to a little village called
Liku. The evening after our arrival
there was a terrible commotion-men,
women and children were running
about-carrying sticks. some logs of
wood and some big stones. The men
began digging a long, shallow trench
with their sharp-pointed sticks. The
boys brought big stones and firewood.
These We're piled up all along one side
of the trench. The wood was then set
fire to and was soon blazing, while the
stones on the top were getting hot.
While the fire was burning one side
little bundles of something white and
soft were being undone from the clean
leaves that contained them. This was
the paste out of which the pudding was
to be made.
There were no flour, suet, eggs, milk,
plums or currants in it. 1t was the
paste of native vegetable called taro,
and old cocoanut, both grated very fine
and mixed together. A long pudding
cloth was laid along the side of the
trench, and in it the pudding was care
fully wrapped. 1t was not calico or
linen, but nice clean banana leaves.
Over this long cocoanut leaves were
plated. When the stones were hot
enough some were quickly laid along
the bottom of the trench, then the long
pudding laid on top of them and then
some more stones at the sides and on
the top. Some girls had brought
heaps of leaves to lay over the top to
keep the heat and steam in, and the
earth which had been dug out of the
trench was thrown over the top. The
cooks and puddingmal1ers all went to
sleep and left the stars to watch their
cookery. Next morning at eight the
whole village was astir, men, women
and children, all in holiday attire.
1t was soon uncovered and was found
to be well done. Long poles were
brought and laid the whole length.
These were fastened to the pudding by
small vines, canes, etc. 1t was then
rolled out of the trench on one side i;
short sticks were made fast crosswise
to the poles and all was ready for talk
ing up. About one hundred men and
boys then raised it on their shoulders
and with one tremendous shout started
toward my house, accompanied by the
whole village. l measured it before
carving and found it was two hundred
feet long-two feet longer than the
monument of London is high. 1t meas
ured thirteen inches in circumference.
1t was soon carved into pieces four
yards long, and these were distributed
all over the land, men carrying as much
pudding as their strength would allow
to distant villages.-Spokane Review.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31

"And hadn't you the sense to roll
them down when it was dry? Why,
Robert, living with me must have
turned your brain"
a year passed, and not only was Rob
ert Hester still a widower, but he hal
not even begun to take notice. He
lived in the comfortable house which
had been his home for many years, and
it was taken care of by a chore-woman
who came twice a day and cared for the
premises when he was absent. No in
vitation had wheedled him out of his
solitude, and he had never noticed any
of the siXteen-year-old girls who were
to succeed Mrs. Hester. All overtures
of sympathy and respect were put
aside, and it looked as if the most eligi-
bic widower in Green county was to
remain a widower to the end of his
days.
Robert Hester owned a good horse,
which he drove to a covered buggy, in
which he and his late wife had explored
every nook and corner of the town in
which they lived, and much of the sur
rounding country.
After his wife's death he occupied
the buggy alone. 1t was the one pleasure
he allowed himself and he drove more
frequently than anywhere else to the
cemetery i'll which she reposed. He
went there at all hours, but no one
could say whether thrift or sentiment
took him there. The lot was kept like
her flower garden at home. and no other
hand but his touched it. So the specta-
Gle of Roberts horse hitched to the
palings caused no surprise. Coming or
going, he always carried some tribute
of remembrance and affection.
Several times he had observed anoth-
er who visited lot near his own. He
knew her as poor lonely widow,
whose husband and two children slept
there. Her silent, shrinking move
ments, her grief, and the fact that She
was far along the troubled pathway Of
life, gave her a transient interest,
and one day when a storm was APP
preaching he offered her a seat in his
carriage. Such unwonted kindness
quite upset her, and she was silent and
Respondent during the ride home. She
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31

able-loolIing, possibly from association.
1t was noticed when they gave party,
as they sometimes did, that he went
about with the young people and en-
tered into all their sports, and then the
gossips wagged their heads and said:
81 told you sol" They could not hear
him say after the company had gone:
isn't it relief to be by ourselves
mother? / tried to make myself agree
able as you asked me to, but it was
stupid trying. | wish we didn't have
to entertain"
One Sunday he had gone to church
alone-an unusual event, but she hal
insisted. 1t was the beginning of the
end that was coming to their long
courtship, and she wanted to be alone
and thiuk it overflow best to tell him.
And he had come home, disturbing Il
conference with God, to say this:
Mother, how could you let me go
to church with the legs of my trousers
rolled up like that7"
'My dear boy"-he was always her
''dear boy" to the last hand-clasp-"how
could prevent you? You were in such
n hurry you did not present yourself
for inspection"
But you knew they were rolled up
the last rainy day."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31

| had known Mrs. Hester and included
her in a few grateful words she said.
in such way as to please Robert much.
Praise of his wife had always been an
open way to his esteem.
But the widow went no more to the
cemetery. There We're several reasons
for this. First, the days were growing
cold, and she dreaded rheumatism.
Then she did not want that good man,
Robert Hester, to think that she was
| lying in wait for him. And. too. she had
accepted home with family - q
cross, disagreeablc man and his prim
wife-where in consideration of three
meals day and lodging, she was to act
as housekeeper where no servant was
kept. Her property had been taken
from her by an INSCRIPTIONS son, and
she was obliged in her old age to work
for strangers.
| Being a woman of education who in
her youth had enjoyed superior advan-
tages, she felt that her sphere was low
cring and closing her in. Being u
Christian, she accepted the changed
and resignation. But single petty
act of cruelty and injustice raised her
again to the plateau of happiness.
| Going out earlier than usual one
morning with his horse and buggy,
Robert saw a bowed and weeping wom-
an vanish into the cemetery stile. He
waited long time for her to appear,
and then he again invited her to a seat
in his buggy.
All Green county was electrified
when they heard of Roberts second
marriage and saw that plain, sad Mrs.
Black dressed in dark red yes,
! actually red - bridal dress, superin-
looking like another woman in the sun
shine of her new love.
Then he hadn't been unhappy before ?
He hadn't repented of marrying wom-
an much too old for him, and proved it
by rushing off to marry one much too
young? He had selected another moth
/ erly wife, and asked nobody's permits
sion. And he went on living in the
same calm, rational way with number
two, who seemed to fit into all vacant
inches as if she had been to the manner
born.
But the effect of all this on the people
of that locality has been most remark
able. Disparity of age is the rule now
instead of the exception. And it is
always on the brides side. The girls
are hurrying up the time when young
man will consider them old enough TO
marry. Instead of making themselves
younger when their ages are asked,
they invariably add years to their num-
Der, so that they will be considered
sufficiently ripe in judgment for mar
riage with their juniors.
For these unequal marriages are
wonderfully happy, filled with strong
and abiding friendship, a comradeship,
that indicates the true measure of liv-
ing. Some one has said that the real
life never arranges itself exactly like
a romance. And as the value of first
youth is not appreciated until it has
vanished, so love produces a second
youth of the heart-and with it tim.
has no eXistence-years do not count. =
| Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31

spite of the disparity in their ages, he
could now with serene conscience mar
ry again, and this time a young woman.
OF course, they expected him to wait
the year of propriety, but they also eX
pected him to begin to take notice" al
most Immediately, as the girls of the
community We're prinking and preen-
ing before the event was a week old.
That his late marriage could have been
anything but an enforced partnership
was to them an impossibility. With
the arrogance of youth they argued
that he could not have been happy with
q woman old enough to be his mother.
1t would not be at all surprising, they
said, that when he married again he
should choose sweet sixteen as an anti
dote to his first disappointment If
he made a model husband to an elderly
wife. what an ideal companion for youth
and ineXperience!
Meanwhile Robert Hester went OF
the even tenor of his way, not so much
as looking at spinster or maiden fair,
or troubling his head over the manifest
interest displayed toward him. He
was mourning sincerely the good wom-
an who had been taken from his home
and who had made his life most COM
Portable one. No question of disparity
in age had ever come up between them
since he had asked her to marry him
and she had reminded him that he was
twenty years the older.
you will be ridiculed, and | will be
blamed" she said, and persistently re-
fused him.
Then he was very i'll from long,
tiresome fever and she nursed him
through it and he resumed his offer Of
marriage.
There is a law against a man marry
ing his mother" she said to this.
Then be my mother-in-law," he
urged ''only take me for better and for
worse" and he quoted something that
Emerson had just then written, to the
effect that he who loves is in no degree
old.
Yes, but he says 'he'-that is for a
man.
Man in the abstract, of whom wom-
an is a part. If you will not say yes
will conjure up the fever again and you
will be sorry"
In this fashion he urged his suit, bur
she drew a ludicrous picture of the
aged wife OUTLYING the affection of her
husband who found too late that he
wanted youthful society and amuse-
ment. She even rehearsed all the I'M
kind things that would be sure to be
said, making them appear in their most
ridiculous light.
His answer included the illustrious
example of the Baroness Burdette-
Coutts, and at last she relented and
they were married.
If people expected the middle-aged
bride to put on youthful airs they were
disappointed. She was calm and dig
nitied, and her husband looked so thor
oughly satisfied that the gossips were
heart-broken. The world was not eX-
cluded from their domain; neither was
it exactly invited in. AS the years went
by Robert grew elderly and comfort
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
A Question of Brains.

Modesty about ones mental acquire
ments is good thing, but it must have
been carried too far in the case of n
witty Irishman whom a correspondent
once met. The Irishman was at work
at stone quarry, pulling up loads of
broken rock out of a shaft with a wind
lass. The windlass was exposed to the
sun and the labor was very hard, but the
man had on his head a straw hat from
which the crown had been torn. Look
here" said the visitor to the Irishman,
''aren't you afraid the sun will injure
your brain?" Pat paused in his worl;
and looked steadily and wonderingly
at his questioner. Brain" said he
''Me brains, is it? An do We think that
af had any brains I'd be turnin' this
windliss ?"-Youth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
Corset First Worn by Men.

The much-maligned corset was in
vented and first worn by men. The
earliest mention in history of this arti-
Gle is by Aristophanes, who lived in the
fifth century b. C. In one of his
comedies he ridicules a brother poet
who, inordinately vain of his personal
beauty, was dissatisfied with the shape
of his figure, which was far removed
from ideal symmetry, being much too
thin for his height. He therefore hit
upon the plan of improving his ply
sique by encasing his body in an under
cuirass made Of little pieces of wood.
The idea was initiated later on by an
other man, the Emperor Antoninus
Plus, who found great difficulty in per-
suading the Roman women to follow his
example.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
FiRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

-Pop-Overs. - Four eggs; enough
flour to make thin batter; bake quick
ly in cups. This is delicious bread for
supper or tea.-Detroit Free Press.
White Bean Puree.-Put in oven
one-half pint of beans in one and one
half pints of water. Let stand until the
beans are perfectly soft and dry, but not
brown. Pass through strainer. Melt
large tablespoonful of butter and rub
into it a scant tablespoonful of flour.
Add to this quart of soup stock, and
lastly the beans. Boil up and season
with salt, pepper and celery salt.-Chi-
cago Record
Sally Lunn.-One quart of flour,
one-half pint of milk, one-half gill of
yeast, three eggs, two ounces of butter,
two teaspoonfuls of white sugar and a
teaspoonful of salt, beat eggs very light,
mix all the ingredients and set to rise
over night. When risen pour, without
stirring, into a mold and set to rise for
an hour before baking. This the great
supper dish so much used in Virginia.
Western Rural.
Steamed Graham Pudding. - One
cupful each of molasses, sweet milk,
chopped raisins, or any other fruit de-
sired, two cupfuls of graham -four, half
teaspoonful of soda and half nut
meg. Steam three hours. Sauce
One scant cupful of sugar, three table
| spoonfuls of butter, two of flour and
one egg. Rub the sugar, butter and
| -four together, add the well-beaten egg,
pour over it pint of boiling water.
Boil and flavor to taste.-Housekeepe
Rice Snow Balls.-Put one quarter
of pound of rice into saucepan with
one and one-half pints of new milk, two
ounces of sugar and two ounces Of
sweet almonds blanched and minced
fine and boil it till the rice is tender
Dip some small cups into cold water, fill
them with the rice and set them away
to cool. When cold turn them out on
dish, arrange border of preserves or
marmalade all around them and pour a
little rich cream into the center if you
have it.-Bostou Budget.
Lemon Custard.-Ruba tablespoon
| lIl Vi DullcE WIFI InTee-IOurInS OF q cup
of sugar, then beat into this the yolks
of three eggs. Moisten two tablespoon
fuls of corn starch with little water,
and then add the corn starch and two
cups of water to the part already pre-
pared. Add the juice and grated rind
of one lemon, beat up well and cook like
any boiled custard. When taken from
the fire, stir in lightly the well-beatcn
whites of three eggs. Cool in cups and
serve with sweetened cream, or without
dressing of any llind.-Ohio Farmer.
Cherry Tapioca.-Cover one cup of
tapioca with cold water and let stand
over night. In the morning add pint
of water, put over the fire and let it
simmer slowly until perfectly clear.
Take from the fire and add pound and
half of sour cherries and cup of
sugar or more if liked very sweet. Serve
when very cold, with cream and sugar.
If you can afford TO use good cream,
turn the tapioca from the moulds into
saucers and pile whipped cream around
it. If liked, dozen oranges sliced may
take the place of the cherries, or quart
of berries, stewed peaches, or in fact al
most any fruit may be used fora change.
Ohio Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
A Willy FROG.
BY Crafty Stratagem He Saved Himself
from Being Swallowed by a Snake.

!
from Being Swallowed by a Snake.
The south branch of the Raritan river
runs through Clinton, n. j., and along
the picturesque Lehigh Valley railroad
Il is famous for it's black bass, turtle
and water pilots and its wooded shores
are great resorts for fishing and picnic
parties. At Kershaw's mills there is a
large dam, over which superfuous water
empties into a sort of raceway. Huge
rocks and powders support this dam,
and, during dry spell, when very
/ little or no water is running over the
dam, huge, ugly-looking, brown-col-
ored water snakes use the rocks for sun
baths.
1t was at this point that mick" Samp.
son witnessed singular scene recently.
! He was watching the snakes and had
| his eye on an old fellow who, he de-
clares, had scales on him like a sala-
mander, when his attention was drawn
to frog that was hopping along on the
bare ground between the rocks and the
river. The frog was nearing the snake,
apparently unmindful of his peril, for
snakes love frogs and toads But this
frog had evidently been to school,"
81 guess the snake had an eye OPEN"
said Mick" ''for as soon as the frog
came in reach he sprang for him. The
frog, seeing him, essayed to get away,
making high leap toward the water.
Put the snake was too quick for him
and got between him and the water.
1t was then that the frog manifested
! his schooling. lie picked up twig
about four inches long and held it in
for and when | ascertained said | to my
self:
"'Nick, that is the smartest frog i'll
the United States
''The snake seized the frog by the fore
leg and, lengthening out, proceeded to
get outside of him. He opened his jaws
and wriggled forward. In went the
frogs leg and Their, after many efforts,
the snake got the frogs nose and part
of his head in until he came to the twig,
which, extending an inch beyond and
across his own jaws, queered him and
saved the frog. The snake writhed and
wriggled frantically. He relaxed the
muscles of his jaws, but all in vain.
81 laughed so hard and so. long that
l became weak in my knees and had to
sit down and rest before / looked for a
club to help the frog out of the diff
Guilty. Then got big stick and moved
quickly down upon the snake, who WIS
too busy to hear me.
with one strong, well-directed blow
1 broke his spine and paralyzed hirn
and his jaws relaxed, the frog backed
out, dropped the twig, looked up at me
and gave a croak of thanks. Before |
could reach him he gave two leaps and
was in hi $ CLEMENT Philadelphia
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
Hoods
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-31
BISMARCK WAS HER GUIDE.
She Mistook Him for Her Cousin and He
Showed Her Berlin.

Showed Her Berlin.
Fifty-siX years ago, when l was still
in my teens, it was decided that | should
go and spend few months in Rome.
Accompanied by an elderly chaperon
and couple of maids, set out with the
intention of making a short stay in
Berlin. A sister of my father had
married German, and their son, the
German cousin" as we styled him, was
student at the university. l had never
seen him, however A few days before
my departure my father sent him let
ter asking him to take me under his
wing. [ safely arrived in Berlin, and
met with cordial reception on the part
of the German cousin. He was tall
young man with large mustache and
dark, flashing eyes. Twas almost afraid
of him. For three days he was my
faithful companion. To be sure, he
could not speak a word of Swedish, but
We contrived to get along very well in
French. | never had so pleasant a cav
alier to attend upon me; felt quite
proud of my German cousin. The hour
for continuing my journey arrived only
too quickly. Cousin" he said, as I
got on the train, Il have something to
tell you. Strange as you may think it,
l am not yonr cousin. My friend, your
German cousin'-the real one, | mean
is just now so busy preparing for his
exam. that he asked me to carry your
fathers wishes into effect in his stead
my name is Otto Won Bismarck" 1
looked at him in blank amazement; the
train moved off and the adventure was
at an end. In 1880, after forty years of
married life, l happened to pass again
through Berlin. | wrote few words
on card and sent it to the great chan
cellor An hour later | received sum-
mons to his palace, and we were soon in
the thick of an animated conversation.
Bismarck was in capital spirits. Among
other things he said; 81 am indebted
to you for the opportunity of visiting
the Berlin museums; since that time l
have never had the chance. Cote
borpDOSt