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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-26
WROTHY FISHERMEN.
Ten Natives From Molokai Not Al,
lowed to Leave Town.

Between the hours of 2 aud {
o'clock Saturday afternoon, two trim
looking whale boats, rugged with sails
came quietly up to the ishmarket
They contained five men each, in
Guiding the captain, who had come
all the way from Molokai with loads
of fish to sell. Little did they think
of cholera as they sailed into the
harbor.
The captain proceeded up town to
purchase provisions for the return
trip. While away the sailors got
wind of the fact that there was
cholera in town. This of course
frightened them every much, but
they determined to get rid Of their
fish before starting for home; so
they emptied the boats, received
their money, hoisted sail prepal atory
to departure and sat down to await
the captain.
Their native characteristics were
bound to show, and they confided to
friend at the fishmarket that they
were going to run away on account
of the cholera They did not want
to remain in town for long time,
which they must surely do if the
police authorities should hear of
their presence. True, in his turn, to
native characteristic, the confident
whispered the fact to some close
friend, whom he told to keep the
matter secret. Very soon it was
being whispered around all over the
fishmarket, and Lieut.. Holi, who was
on the scene buying fish, overheard
the conversation Of one of the
natives. He reported at once to
headquarters. Captain Parker and
a posse of policemen went to the fish
market and found the men about to
leave. They were told to vacate
their boats, which were given in
charge of officers. No arrests were
made. The men were very wrothy
and said so in plain language. The
boats were removed to the boat land
ing and put in charge of an officer.
Said one of the men to Captain
Parker as they were walking up
street: "You police officers were
very lucky. In few minutes more
we would have been beyond your
reach" Captain Parker politely
told him that if he had been few
minutes late, he would have taken a
whale boat with five of his men and
given chase Immediately. In case
that they did not stop, he would have
fired at them. This announcement
somewhat dsmpened the spirits of
the sailor. He began complaining
about the circumstances of the fam
lies of the different men. They
were in very destitute circumstances
and dependent upon the money OBJ
tanned from their fishing for living.
He said it was absolutely necessary
that they should return at once. 1t
has not been decided what shall be
done with the men. In the mean
time strict watch is being kept over
the boats, to see that the men do not
go of their own accord.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-08-26
TWAS A POOR GAME.
Unknowns Defeat the Rams by q
Remarkable Score.

The Unknowns managed to win
the game Of baseball on Saturday,
but the Rams had to play the poor
est ever seen here to allow them to
do SO. It was beyond doubt the
worst exhibition of ball playing
ever witnessed in Honolulu. When
explanation is made, it will not be
difficult for any one to become ac-
quainted with the fact.
In the first place the Kams did
not practice during the week, and
informed many of the players of
the other clubs that they did not
want the game. Then when the
game opened it was plain some
thing was wrong. Through Lem
on's faulty pitching and failure to
stop the slowest kind of balls, the
Unknowns piled up seven runs in
last half of the seventh inning, all
of them made on errors. Almost
all of those who witnessed the hip
podrome were cognizant that the
game would be a very tame one.
The Rams made four runs in their
part of the first inning, owing to
poor fielding on the part of their
opponents and in second and third
innings one each, in the sixth two,
and five in the seventh. They
were four runs ahead Of the I'm
knowns when the last half of the
seventh was played, and could have
prevented Captain Thompson's
players from catching up, no mat
ter how hard they might have
worked.
After the first inning the I'm
knowns failed to tally until the
seventh, when by the most palpable
errors they scored four runs, a total
of eleven, to their opponents thir-
teen.
The Rams did not make an effort
to tally in the eighth and ninth,
allowing everything to pass with
out making the least attempt to
stop them. The Unknowns added
two in the eighth and one in the
ninth, winning the game by the re-
markable score of IA to Is.
Toward the latter part of the
game it looked as if the Rams
would win in spite of everything
that could be done, but when they
came to bat in the ninth the play
ers struck at everything that came
along, and made plain the general
feeling that tampering had been
made somewhere along the line.
Almost every one in the grand
stand thought the game was sold,
and so expressed themselves with
out qualification. 1t does not speak
well for the Rams to play as list
less a game as they did on Satur-
day, and, if the game was not sold,
it looked a good deal like it.
If the Rams had won Saturdays
game, and they could have done so
beyond question if they desired,
the last chance of the Unknowns
getting even with the Stars would
have gone by the board likewise
all chance of winning the cham
pionship. The series will close
next Saturday, the Stars and I'm
knowns contesting. If the IN
knowns win that game the stand
ing of the two clubs will be equal
and a deciding contest will be
necessary to settle the champion
ship.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

House document No. so, embody.
ing the conclusions and recommends
tions regarding employment upon
public work of the board appointed
year ago to investigate the subject of
the unemployed, is an exceedingly in-
teresting summary of this part of the
general matter which has formed the
subject of inquiry. The commission
is OF the opinion that most of the mu-
inequalities do not do construction
work directly as cheaply as do con-
tractors to whom such work is en-
trusted but that there are exceptional
instances where city is not too strict
ly limited 0s to minimum rates OF
wages and other conditions where n
municipality can do its work as cheap
ly as private employer OF labor. 1t
is, however, its belief that the quality
of the work done by direct municipal
employment is generally better than
that done by contractors, though more
expensive. Moreover, there are cer-
tain kinds of difficult work which it is
impracticable for small cities to un.
dertake on public account, in conse-
quence of the expense of plant. The
commission has, therefore, come to
the conclusion that no legislation linn
iting or restricting the right of muni-
cipalities as to letting out the work of
contractors can be recommended.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

The New York Post says: The Cot
ton States and international Exposi-
tion, which will open at Atlanta, Ga,
next September, and continue the
rest of the year, will be an affair of
greater magnitude and Importance
than most people have begun to real
ize. Coming as it does SO soon after
the Columbian Exposition, it is m
turally dwarGed in the popular imag-
ination by comparison with it; but,
though of lesser scope and more limit,
ed in its undertakings, it will present
much that could not be seen at the
Worlds Fair, nud it promises to give
entertainment and instruction OF no
inferior order. Twelve principal
buildings will be arranged in the midst
of Piedmont Park, fronting upon a
beautiful lake, the Glare Mer. More
than $780, 900 has alseady been ex-
pended in Frightening the picturesque
features of the landscape, and about
$4,000, 900 will be expended in all to
make the exposition.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

No action of the trustees of the pub
lie library has been of greater moment
than the recent vote of the board to
purchase the pathological collection of
the late Prince Louis Lucien Bona
parte, provided satisfactory financial
arrangements can be made. The ulti-
mate destination of this magnificent
literary prize las for the past three or
four years been agitating the scholastic
circles of two hemispheres. In Eng.
land, the country of the princes birth,
his chosen home and present abiding
place of his collection, movements
have been at different times started to
purchase it as national testimonial to
Mr.. Gladstone, by the B. A. S OF Ok
ford for the pride of their university,
the venerable Bodleian library and
for various other of Britain s
well-known resorts of learning
Our own library acquiring this per-
feet collection, Europe would have to
come to Boston to study It's own Ian
guages and its own pathological his
tory. With the possible exception of
the folk lore collection in the Harvard
library, there is no library in this
country which posses such an exclusive
mine of material in any particular line
as to oblige European scholars to
come across the water for their re-
searches, however valuable and inter-
esting may such library for local pur-
poses. Even our own literature is no
exception, for much the best collec-
ton of American books is still in the
British museum. Philology is not so
dry and abstruse matter as many
imagine. No one can assert that Sam
Weller, Mickey Free or Jim Bludso are
by any means caviare to the general,
yet each and all of these gentlemen is
of especial interest to the philogist.
In fact, it is among just such people
that the thorough philologist such as
the late Prince Louis Lucien, procures
his most valuable data. Among all
the princes 20, 600 volumes with theil
100 languages and over |, 600 dialects,
perhaps not one half are dictionaries
lexicons, grammars and pathological
works proper.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

in officer OF the Immigration re-
strlction league, whose headquarters
are in tins city, has been interviewed
regarding the latest statistics issued
by the immigration bureau. These
statistics show total immigration of
l4O, $50 during the nine months end
Ing March 81, 1895, which is de-
crease of about 1000 as compared
with the same period in 1894. The
league has prepared a bill, which
will be introduced into congress next
winter. 1t debars from landing all per
sons between II and 60 years of age who
cannot read and write English or some
other language, and raises the head tax
from 81 to SO. The educational test
embodied in this bill has now the most
general support among advocates offur-
ther restriction, as being a rational,
effective, simple, and American meas
ure The league has, through the
courtesy of the commissioner and as
sistant commissioner Of immigration
at the port of New York, recently it.
self applied the reading and writing
test in the case of immigrants of vari-
ous nationalities arriving at Ellis isl
and, and is perfectly satisfied that this
test can be easily and effectively ap-
piled. "If We add the educational test
to our present laws" he saye, 1--WE
shall keep ont most of our least desir-
able immigrants, i. e., those who are
the most ignorant, the least capable
of assimilation and the most injurious
economically and socially.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24
A Naval Treat

If Assistant Secretary of the Navy
McAdoo is allowed to carry out the
plans he now has in mind there is a
great naval treat in store for the peo-
pie of Boston this summer. Mr..
McAdoo's scheme is to have the en-
tire north Atlantic squadron visit Bos-
ton so that the people of New Eng
land may see the pick of the navy,
and some vessels that are uneQualed
in any of the navies of the world.
After the Kiel celebration, about July
/, and if there are no revolutions in
Central or South America, and Great
Britain or some other power does not
set monkeying around the great
american eagle, the north American
squadron will probably consist of the
following crack vessels: New York,
flagship, Columbia, Minneapolis Gin
cinnati, Montgomery, Atlanta, Raj
eigh and the monitor Amphitrite.
The Montgomery may still be engaged
in the work of the Nicaragua canal
commission, and in that case another
vessel may be added to the squadron.
Mr.. McAdoo is anxious to have these
ships go to Boston because year ago
the people of the Hub saw the pride of
the British squadron in these waters,
the magnificent Blake, Admiral Sin
John hopkins flagship at the great
naval review, and which up to that
time wos the finest specimen of the
cruiser class ever seen in American
waters.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24
Fruit Grnwer- of the state.

The Massachusetts Fruit Growers
A -sociatiou. organized in Worcester
late in March, has begun active work,
aud it is anticipated that its influence
will be- greatly felt before the season
is ended. The objects and problems
that confront the fruit growers OF the
state are: First, TO utilize the thou
sands of acres of land i'll the state
suitable for the production of fruit
second, to grow fruit of such a quail
ity that the consumer will prefer home
products to those imported from other
sections. \ letter of greeting to all
fruit growers in the stute has been is
sued, which urges all ON to the end
which the association has III view. 1t
says: There being more fruit
consumed, per capita, by the people of
Massachusetts, than any other section
of the country, other fruit growing re-
gions have largely shipped their fruit
into our markets, thus reducing the de-
mand for the local products, when,
without question there are thousands
of acres Of land in the state on which
as fine fruit, of hardy kinds can be
grown as anywhere in the world. "Our
markets are at our doors, and fruit
growers of Massachusetts, can supply the
consumer with fruit in perfectly fresh,
ripe condition in its season, such as
cannot be produced from distant
growers except at great cost. While
the work OF the association Is largely
of philanthropic nature, as the meet
ings so far were held with the inten-
ton of beuefiting all inter, sted in
fruits and fruit culture, it cannot be
sustained without some monetary as
sistauce, and consequently this has
been provided for by making perma-
nent membership aud taxing each
member a small fee.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

The Cleveland Paindealer sums up
the quantity of money which Ameri-
can heiresses who have married Euro
pean or titled husbands have carried
out of the United States, and finds it
to amount to fully 5000, 100000. 1t
cannot be denied, adds the Atlanta
Constitution, that this is an exporta.
tion of capital for which it Is hard to
see that the United States gets any
return whatever. There are no Eu-
ropean heiresses marrying poor young
American scions of noble families for
their titles.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

The Chicago Record says there is a
distinct touch of pathos in the valor
which the Nicaraguans exhibited.
These people believed they were in
the right and they were willing to
suffer and to sacrifice for principle.
A somewhat similar spirit was exhibit
ed when the Germans contemplated
the conquest of Holland. The Dutch
recognized the hopeiessness of resist
ance, but they resolutely determined
never to acquiesce to the contemplate
ed invasion. They said, "Our lives
are nothing to us without our liberty.
The moment the German soldiery
crosses the frontier we will cut our
dykes and let loose the sea upon our
towns and pastures. So the invaders
shall find not the fertility and pros
perity they seek, but simply waste
OF relentless waters"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24
BOSTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
ChanncI Not pccn isnough.

There Is a possibility that the fast
steamship service between this port
and Liverpool will have to be aban-
doncd, ~ experienced engineers re-
port that the ship channel Is in no
condition 10 warrant the steamship
companies putting on this extra SER
vice. According To- the statements of
the gentlemen who have made the in
vcStIgatiun at the request of several of
the big lines, the ship channel is in a
condition that il Is II disgrace to any
city which lays any claim to enjoying
commercial advantages There Is just
sufficient depth of water 10 enable
the steamers of the present draft to
creep mp, with the imminent danger of
at any moment running aground, aud
IT is ont of question to expect that 1t
would be sufficient for boats of greater
draft The feeling among merchants
and those interested in the welfare of
the shipping interests of the city is
that it is about time that some action
was taken looking to the dredging of
the channel
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

Bill Nye might be mistaken by n
stranger for Judge, and, as a matter
of fact, states Frank Leslie's Weekly.
he was lawyer, when lack of practice
drove him into newspaper work in
Laramie. He is a man of very sober
demeanor and rarely cracks jokes out
side of newspaper columns. He has
been known, however, to play prac-
tical joke on friend. John Fox, Jr.,
says that when Lieutenant Greeley
started on his expedition to the North
Pole Nye gave him sealed box that
was not to be opened until he had
reached his farthest point north. 1t
contained axle-grease for the pole.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

Amongst the vast crowds that Wis
tied the cat show recently probably
few were aware of the enormous traffic
that is done in this city alone in cats
skins. Their value lies in the fact
that they can be used as limitations of
other more valuable furs. Oae
wholesale furrier last year bought
twenty eight thousand cat skins,
gathered in New York and Brooklyn
alone. This firm is prepared to pay
ten cents for every cat skin of any
description brought to them in rea,
sonable condition.
Mrs. Devine, commonly called "The
Cat Woman, who obtained consider
able notoriety as the head of the Mid
night band of Mercy, claimed to have
killed 5000 stray cats last fall. If
she was in the secret of the furrers,
she probably netted nice little sum
by her so-called humane mission.
Black cats and gray maltese are the
most valuable kinds, as they supply
sable, but white Maltese or tabhy
cats, after dyeing processes, are all
available for genet or French lynx.
Pusseys coat is also largely used by
druggists for chest protectors and
as n cure for rheumatism, but it is for
the winter decoration of ladies that
the cat has become most valuable,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24
The Kings Chapel Liturgy.

1t has been rumored that in calling
"A pastor to Kings Chapel its present
officers might wave their ancient lit
urgy and submit to the dictation of u
new order of worship by the fresh in
cumbcnt No two congregations want
the same thing, and the fact that
Kings Chapel, ever since its detection
from the Episcopal church, has found
no other Unitarian parish ready to
adopt its book of worship is proof Of
this statement. Its present liturgy,
like the ancient building itself, has an
historical character, and any change IN
its form Of worship ought to be very
seriously considered before adoption.
1t would take away a large part of the
distinctive character of this place of
worship if its present liturgy were
suspended. Any minister, coming to
Kings Chapel on condition that he
Shall be allowed to revise the present
book of worship would be almost Ger
tain to make a failure of it. Liturgi-
cnl revisions are not made in this
way. 1t is impossible to revise litur-
glcs as we revise constitutions. They
are n growth and the book OF worship
at Kings Chapel is Il precious legacy
which the members of that congrega-
ton hold dear,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

A charter for National college for
the sons of Masons will soon be APP
piled for. Pittsburg will likely Sc
cure the institution, states the New
York Recorder The endowment is
100000 The object is to provide
a high collegiate education for the
children OF Masons unable to furnish
it themselves.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

From can esteemed contemporary"
the New York Mail and Express
learns that ''paper hosiery is sup.
planting woven goods. artificial cloth
is made from woodpulp, natural
fruits are artiicially colorel in Paris,
and wooden matches are made of
leather" About the only article of
manufacture that is absolutely pure
nowadays seems to be baking powder.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24
THE STRAFFORD DISASTER.
Monument to Those Who Died in the
ASYLUM Fire, Feb. o, 1898.

Situated in one of the lovliest and mo st
picturesque spots in the winding valley OF
the upper Cocheco stands marble shaft with
granite base, lately erected by the county of
Strafford n. H. to the memory of the victims
OF the county asylum disaster Feb. 8, 1893.
The monument, which was placed in posi-
tion May 4, and has since been lettered, occu-
pies the center of the county burying ground,
an oval knoll containing half an acre, about
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

The San Francisco Post remarks:
Possibly it is none of our business,
but we are inclined to think that for
eigners who come here to marry Amer
ican heiresses should be taxed. They
might come under the head of contract
laborers
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

The "Pngreo Potato Patch" has
come to Boston to stay. This is the
verdict OF the Industrial Aid society,
which for weeks past has been arrang-
ing the details of what promises to be
one Of the most bencticeut charitable
undertakings ever introduced in this
city. Its practicability has been am
ply demonstrated in Detroit, Brook
lyn and elsewhere, and now Boston Is
prepared To- adopt it. The idea is to
provide Il new kind of employment by
the cultivation of vacant lots i'll and
near the city. One of these lots, the
largest, thus far, which the Industrial
Aid society has secured, consists Of 60
acres, situated near the junction Of
Canterbury and Morton streets, Ja-
maica Plain. Another, and much
smaller lot, comprising about five
acres, is in Medford. The society
offers one third of an acre for free
cultivation TO any and all applicants,
approved by the committee. The ap-
pllchnts are obliged to give satistac-
tory references, whereupon a lot Is
assigned to, and the seeds and farm
ing implements furnished. 1t is
optional with the applicant to plant
the entire patch with potatoes alone,
or otherwise The appeal sent out
10y the society for contributions of
money for the purchase of tools and
seed, and for other expenses, has met
with a generous response, so that mp
to date about 81, 800 has been received.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

Without Offering any opinion upon
the merits of the case against the nc
cused inspector, it is certain that this
experience and many previous ones of
the same kind have made the question
of jury reform ripe for treatment,
The Bench and the Bar cannot much
longer neglect it. The stumbling
block in the Mclaughlin jury, as in
scores of juries that have been chung"
before, was the rule that there must
be unanimous verdict or none.
There we're two dissentients in this
case, which was Just the number neces-
sary to defeat decision. Is it con-
sistent with any other American in
stitution or custom that minority of
one should rule in the jury room?
At this very moment the Supreme
Court OF the nation is considering an
important constitutional question, on
which taxation amounting to thirty
five millions of dollars annually de-
pends, besides the settlement of prin-
ciples that touch the vital rights of
seventy millions of freemen. But we
do not demand that the nine Federal
Judges shall be unanimous. On the
contrary, any five of them can over
rule the other four and declare the
law of the land. Yet here in New York,
on the comparatively trihing question
of whether certain man did or did
not wrongfully take bribe of $50, we
will not allow ten or eleven men out
of twelve to say "Yes" or "No."