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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-07-29
SHORT TALKS.

Borrowers from the Pioneer
Building and Loan Association can
repay their loan at any time by
paying one months extra interest.
onoo tIo,,.,. $3.50 TO 9:3oa. N.
n to5 p. III.
CHAMBER or COMMERCE Rooms.
A. V. GEAR,
7o7 Secretary.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-07-29

ANNEXATION resolutions are as
much in fashion as ever.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
THE PRETTY CITY PIGEON.
He Soon Drops Country Ways and Get
to Be a Bird of the World.

He Soon Drops Country Ways and GeII
to Be Bird of the World.
The city pigeon affords an illustra.
tion of the radical change which artif.
cial surroundings produce in animals
and birds. Naturally one of the shyest
of birds, the pigeon, after short ex.
perience of urban life, becomes as thor.
oughlv at home as the sparrow. But
while sociable and confding, the pi.
geon is never obtrusive or impudent, as
his little British cousin is. Pigeons
settle down on the busiest streets and
gather up the food which is scattered
about in abundance with quick, ener
getic motion of the head, as undis.
turbed by the clatter of the forest OF
horses legs about them as if they were
in the primeval groves of their ances.
tors Horses in getting at the bottom
of their monday nose bags spill great
deal of the grain, and the cutters are
favorite resorts for the birds.
On this account, says the Chicago
Tribune, the proposition which has
been ventured on several occasions OF
abolishing the practice of making a
kind of equine lunch counter of the
space around the city and county build
ing would not be popular in pigeondom
particularly that part of pigeondom
which has its headquarters on the root
of that imposing structure. This has
through many administrations been 9
favorite breeding place for the birds
and they literally swarm there They
may be seen all day long futtering
among the capitals of the pillars o.
perching on the head of Demosthenes
or some other of the stone notables
over the entrances. Occasionally in the
summer time one of them flies through
an open window into one of the offices
and on one occasion one of them inter
rupted the proceedings in dry case o,
law by fluttering into one of the couMt
rooms.
In the winter time the big warn
chimneys afford comfortable shelter
from the winds, and the spar
rows resort there a good deal also
A good many people in the out
skirts of town and in the suburb,
have pigeon boxes in their barns, but
most of the pigeons downtown have
nests around the big elevators. They
get fat from the leakage CT the graiI
cars along the tracks, and are seldom
molested by anything more formidable
than the small boy with his ''nigger
shooter" as the elevators are kept a.
nearly rat-proof as possible
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
POKER IN ALASKA.
An Experience That Makes a New Yorker
Want to Return to Juneau.

An Experience That Makes New Yorker
Want to Return to Juneau.
"a select little poker party was on
in Juneau the night before left" said
man who has just. returned from
Alaska, ''and the game sweetened up
in good shape in few rounds. Poker
is the same in Alaska. as it is in New
York or Florida, only perhaps it's
oftener. In the course of the game a
jack pot assumed ample proportions,
and a noted local player opened it with
bang. One after another laid down,
and only one man stayed in to fight it
out. He drew one card to fill straight
flush while the opener stood pat. The
opener pushed out a little stack of
chips after the draw. His opponent
threw down bob-tail flush exclaim-
ing.
eff i had caught my man 1 would
have seen you and raised you clear to
the ceiling
"'Well, here's your man. said the
opener handing him the desired ace Of
spades, and now go ahead with your
blufing.'
''The other player looked at the
opener in amazement. The straight
flush man, for that was his hand, bet a
stack of reds. The opener saw him
and raised at the same time remark
ing:'
"'Talke back your chips old man. /
don't want to rob you
"'Rob me! Well. guessrnot. You
can't do it without gun. I've got
royal flush and nothing beats that but
a siX-shooter.'
1.-THE opener looked dazed and then
throwing down an ace full on kings he
said:
'Dashyty-blank-blank. OF course
you have. I'm the oyster and I've been
opened in shape.
my friend Mr.. Goodplayer had to
set 'em up for the rest of the evening.
Wasn't that soft target? Pm going
back to Juneau sometime. IN. Y. Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
SCIENTIFIC STUDY.
Powers Developed by the Observation of
Plant and Animal Life.

Powers Developed by the Observation of
Plant and Animal Life.
The first thing that all beginners
must learn is to see a.thing just as it
is. None of us have this power fully
developed. We go through life with
our eyes only partially open. We do
not see things as they really are. The
first power that a proper study of
plants and animals develops is
that of observing accurately. None
do this when they begin the work.
Usually they see at first only vague
generaEties. But the best stimulus to
seeing accurately comes through ex-
pressing what has been seen. This ex-
preston should be required of the
pupils in three forms notes
and oral discussions. This is very
valuable part of the exercise. To be
able to express accurately with a pencil
point what is observed is a power OF
inestimabl value. However, the
power to observe accurately is not nee
essarily accompanied by the power to
express accurately, but the former
must precede the latter. No one can
draw accurately what he has not seen
accurately. And along with this men,
tai development must also go moral
development. Seeing accurately is only
seeing the thing as it actually is-that
is, seeing the truth; and drawing and
describing are only stating the facts.
or telling the truth. Here is where the
temptations lie. An indolent or care
less pupil finds telling the exact truth
with his pencil point to be arduous.
and is tempted to distort or only par
tally represent the truth. But accu
racy of expression must be a constan.
drill in truthfulness.-A.J J. McClatchie,
in Popular Science Monthly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
WELL-FED HORSES.
Among the Persians the Animals Fare
SumptOOusly.

Among the Persians the Animals Fare
SumptOOusly.
Certainly my fathers stable was
sight for sore eyes. A series of
rectangular holes in the wall of the
courtyard formed the managers, to
VIII ich the horses were secured by head
ropes; the heels of each animal were
also fastened by ropes of black camel's
hair to big iron pin driven into the
ground behind it. Each of them was
covered by light woolen sheet, and
they were all eating away as though
for dear life, it being early summer,
when, as my father informed me, all
horses are fattened on grass for
couple of months, and do little or no
work.
There was great heap of freshly
cut green barley, and boy was busily
occupied in cutting this into pieces
some three inches long by means of
sort of saw-edged sickle. AS soon as a
horse had emptied it's manger it would
look around at the head groom, who
was seated on a brick platform in the
middle of the stable yard, and neigh
then the head groom would address it
by its name, and say affectionately:
eyes, my SOUL you shall be attended
to immediately" then he would call to
a second boy, who would fill the ami
malls manger with the freshly-cut
green barley grass.
This goes on all day and all night,
Madge," said my father, with a laugh;
none of these animals get any grain,
and they couldn't grind it if they did,
for their teeth are temporarily
blunted by the perpetual MUNICH
ing of the green barley stalks.
Each horse will eat a mule load of it in
the twenty -four hours, and they are all
as fat as pigs, as you shall see. Now
is the horses annual holiday" and
then, by my fathers orders, the beau
tiful creatures were stripped one after
the other, and I confess that / had
never seen horses so fat or with such
shiny coats before. But not one of
them stopped eating for an instant,
and the long tails never ceased switch
ing and twirling and brushing off the
flies in a scientific manner. They
never cut horses tails in Persia, they
would consider it cruel; and. the long
tails, most of which almost touch the
ground, certainly add to the animals
appearance. Behind an Eastern Veil
DIR. Wills
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
knew Her business.

''It do seem funny to me" complained
the Georgia mother, that you will
stick to that ST Lovingood, that amt
got nothin' on earth but that there
little ten-acre farm that everybody
knows is wore out. when you got a
chance to marry that there rich man
from the north. What is the matter
with you, Polly, anyway? THROWN
away a rich man for a common, ornery
cracker! What Excuse you got?"
The maiden smiled a wan smile
Polly wants cracker" was all she
deigned to say--Cincinnatl Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
BuzzlNe IN HIS POCKET.
The Alarm Clock He Carried WOuldn't
Stop Ringing.

The Alarm Clock He Carried WOuldn't
Stop Ringing.
An engraver, who always uses a
clock to time his work at his place of
business, was the victim Of a practical
joke the other evening.
For some reason it was necessary to
take this clock home on car, and his
brother fixed it so the alarm would
sound during the trip.
The car was going along smoothly
with the man standing in quite
prominent place when the alarm
sounded.
The passengers, trying to locate the
noise, found that it originated in an
innocent little package held in the
gentleman's hand, but the scene
reached it's height when the man be-
came frantic in his endeayors to hide
the timepiece either in his coat-pocket
or inside his vest.
Some one from an obscure corner re-
marked that it was time to get up for
breakfast.
The owner of the clock was just go-
ing to hurl it through closed window
when with few closing taps of the
bell it became silent. Dis
patch.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01

back to the house, Pat refusing to ba
comforted. Next morning there was
quite levee outside to see the man
who was going to die or go blind be-
cause of the fish, for the tale was
known in all parts, although do not
say that it was entirely believed.
was told of this man and that man
who had all suffered something for
their temerity, when I wanted to &c
fishing Pat refused to take me. 'Ye
can't put yer blud on my hans, boss,
was the way he put it.
$50 / went by myself, and purpose1y
6shed up toward the wall, being de-
termined to have another try for that
piece of hoodoo bric-a-b brac. Arriving
at the pool fished and fished, but only
caught two small ones, and when about
laying off for lunch / saw CLEAN Of
silver in the weeds at the other side OF
the water, fifty yards or SO down the
stream. The water was about one hun
dred feet across, and to this day ! dc
not know what prompted me to &C
casting for dead fish, but | took OFF
my fly and put on a fair-sized bass
spoon hook and at the second cast
dropped it over the fish, and gently
towed it across to my feet. It was my
trout of the day before e-dead-as dead
as imperial Cesar. There was some
thing peculiar about this fish. Look
ing closely could see that the front OF
the jaw, the round bone in which the
hook generally holds, was clean gone,
torn out years ago. The thin mem
brane remaining had a fringe-like ap-
pearance, and one eye was blind and
gone, the socket being practically
empty. This then explained the wild
stories about the fish. He was wall
eyed, and he could not be hooked ex-
cept in the lower jaw, and even then
on very light tackle he would be very
liable to break away, for he weighed
three pounds and five ounces. But for
his night and half day in the water he
would have made very fine mounted
specimen.
$50 / lifted the hoodoo, caught the
Phantom Trout, and am neither blind
nor dead, and have no more idea how
form of an accepted and current legend
than you have. But 'Sunnyside' was
the name of the old Britisher's, place
according to Pat, and that was where
our hoodoo came in yesterday and to.
day. The story ought to lift it, and
we will catch fish tomorrow"
But we didn't. 1t was bitterly cold.
and sport was very poor. Our April
Foolship w as for keeps!-Outing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
THE CHEF SURPRISED HIM.
Discoveries Made by q Diner in the
Kitchen of French Restaurant.

Discoveries Made by q Diner In the
Kitchen of French Restaurant.
A man who prides himself upon his
knowledge of cookery complained the
other night of dish that was served
to him in his favorite restaurant. The
French waiter summoned the French
proprietor, and the latter offered to
make the dish so that it would satisfy.
The gentleman waited half an hour
while the second experiment was
made, but the result was no more sat
isfactory than the first. There was a
vast amount of apologizing and shoul-
der Struggling on the part of proprie-
tor and waiter, but neither seemed
able to comprehend the cause of the
patrons dissatisfaction. Two friends
of the kicker smiled at his discomfit-
ure, and made unpleasant illusions to
his inability to get what he demanded.
They also suggested that the failure
was due to him rather than to the res
taurant, That made him determined
to prove the correctness of his posi-
tion.
LET me see the Chef he said to the
proprietor, land l will show him how
to make this properly"
The proprietor apologized for being
una bic to produce the chef, explaining
that he was so busy in the kitchen
that he could not leave.
''Well, then, will go to him." said
the gentleman, and jumping up from
the table he rushed down the stairs
leading to the kitchen.
The proprietor and waiter both
st 1stpH af this md 30 hboroI of oaOb
other furiously. The former was evil
IDENTIFY scolding and the latter protest
ing. Both appeared in danger of dis
locating their shoulders. Finally the
proprietor walked away, looking very
much annoyed. The waiter stood aside
with scared look on his face. Pres
emily the gentleman reappeared and
resumed his seat at the table. He
looked very solemn, but there was a
twinkle in his eyes. The waiter
watched him furtively, but moth
ing was said until one of
the other diners, who recognized
that the walters presence was ex-
erting a restraining influence on his
friend, dispatched him in search of
some pickles. Then the kicker leaned
back in his chair and laughed deeply
but silently.
This is the best joke ever perpe-
trated on a gullible public" he said.
'You know how much our genial host
and his talkative waiter have said
about their fine chef, and you know.
how often they have insisted that no
one but Frenchman could cook any
thing decently. Well, you should see
their grand chef. I almost fell into
the fire when was introduced by the
chief scullion. In the first place the
chef wears skirts, and in the second is
the possessor of as fine a brogue as
ever went out of county Cork. Think
of it, the chef of one of the best
known French restaurants of the. great
American metropolis is an Irish wom-
an! But I'll tell you she graspea my
idea about the cooking of this dish i'm
mediately, and we'll have it in first
class shape in jiffy."
The prediction was verified. IN. Y.
Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
MODEST.

q need brownstone house in town,
At least four stories high.
zone that's been bought with cash paid down;
No mortgages, say
i also need summer place
At thing fine
For If IN in the social race
TdcnoVe in the front line
''Th, vulgar herd is not for me;
In travel, near and far,
I'd much prefer, you know, to be
Within my private car.
,SOf course my purse must carry gold;
An income I'd prefer
sOf, say, a hundred thousand cold,
At this Ia not demur.
"A hundred head of horse or so.
Some yachts, say three or fear;
I'D be surrounded as I go,
With menials galore
That's all For nothing else sigh
Within this mundane whirl;
Ill be content, you see, for
Already have the girl
Tom Mason, in Puck.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-01
PlTH AND POINT.


The Professor-''What do yOu re-
gard as the most Objectionable feature
in our modern plays?'' First Nighter
The scale of prices. THE Great
Divide.
$50 the insolent fellow refused to-
pay his rent?' ''He did not say so in
words, but he intimated it." "How
so?' He kicked me downstairs. lie
Figaro.
-Dora-"Have you decided what you
will wear at the hotel hop tonight"
Cora-''Do you know, have thought
of absolutely nothing. "-Clothier and
FurniSher
Mrs. Norris SIN this book 1 have
written down most of the little incl
dents of our married life" Old Bender
-"Ah! Sort of family scrap-book, eh?''
Brooklyn Life.
-"How's all the boys maxim out
now?" ''None of 'em a-doin' of any
thing, 'ceptin' of Jim AN what's
jim a-doin' of" "Loafn' aroundp'-At-
lanta Constitution.
The Cigarette. Man Cuff
''There's nothing quite as rank as a
cigarette, is there?" Old Man Nuff-"I
can't recall anything, unless it is the
party smoking it."-Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Dunn UNPAID bill in his hand)
-"When shall call again, Mr.. Owens?"
Mr.. Owens-"Well, it would hardly be-
proper for you to call again until
have returned the present call. "-Har-
per's Bazar.
-He-''Wasn't Browns wife named
Stone before she was married?" She
eyes, and it was very suitable name
He-"What do you mean?" She-"Oh.
nothing! Only she threw herself at his
ad."-Life.
"A Close Father.-She-''You must
ask father for his consent" He-"He
won't give it to me-" She-''Why not?'
He-"He's too close. He never gave
troit Free Press.
Student -"several of my friends
are coming to dine here, SO l want a
big table" Mine Host-"Just look at
this one, sir. Fifteen persons could
sleep quite comfortably under it,
F1iegenden Blatter.
-Fogg thinks it remarkable in,
stance of the superior intelligence Of
the house fly that it can remember,
after lying dormant all winter, wHichi
member of the family is possessed of a
bald head. Boston transcript I
Ethel Cooking at the statue of the
Venus df Milol-"It seems to me, Maud
that the women Of ancient times had
larger waists than they have now
Maud-"Well. perhaps the men hadt
longer arms. s."-Pearson's Weekly.
Benevolent Old Lady-"Why do
you drink? Don't you know that rum
is your worst enemy?" Red-NosedI
Mike-"Jhat's zhust wasser matter.
Don't zhe Bible shay man shouldE
love IL enemies?"-Philade Rec
ord.
-''I want to see a big, roomy fat
exclaimed the pompous man, as het
strobe into the real estate agents
office, land I'm in a hurry, too.''
You'll find a mirror in the wash4
room," replied the clerk, politely
Chicago Post.
-''Married!' sighed the elderly
friend Married, and with no provi-
sions for the future NO. smiling
ly chirped the young bride, there are
no provisions for the future in the
house. He just detests canned goods.'
Indianapolis Journal.
"A Mount Washington school teach
er told her pupils to write sentence
containing the word towards. This is
what one small boy produced, after a
great deal of mental exertion: 81
tored mys pants yesterday
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-09
WORK OF NIGHT SCHOOLS
Educational Exhibit Now in
Place at the Y. M. C.. A.
Building.
George B. Hodge Delivers an Instructive
Lecture on the Subject-An
Invitation.

A very important and excellent educa-
tional exhibit from the evening classes of
the associations in various parts of North
America is now in place at the Association
building corner of Mason and Ellis streets.
The Importance of this com aratively
new educational movement will be under
stood when it is realized that in twenty
five cities where the work is now aggres-
sively carried forward there are more
young men in their night schools than are
found in the public day high schools of
those cities.
The exhibit emphasizes industrial and
science work, and each drawing-piece of
wood or iron work is precisely as it left the
pupils hand, and when executed was not
expected to be publicly seen; hence does
not partake of those characteristics usually
belonging to work especially prepared for
showing. 1t shows the actual kind of class
work done in these schools.
The average age of the %, 800 young
men in these $50 association night schools
is % years. They are young men of ster-
ling character, commendabIe energy, and
are making most helpful use of the asso-
cations privileges to increase their capital
and wage-earning ability.
They are young men who have been de-
MED the privileges of an early education,
and VINO are busy during the day earning
their livelihood: and thus cannot take ad-
vantage of the grand public day school
facilities.
From startling facts at hand it was
shown by Secretary Hodge last night that
but five young men in every 100 through
out the continent were prepared by educa-
ton for their occupations and business
ninety-hve were not.
The international committee of Young
Mems Christian associations, under whose
auspices this exhibit Is here, are encour-
aging special effort given along industrial
and scientific lines because of the much
greater need of help for young men in that
direction.
There are three times as many positions
in the industrial field of labor waiting for
men of ability and training as there are
men prepared for them, while on the other
hand there are three times as many people
fitted for commercial positions as there are
positions to fill.
The exhibit shows fifty of the seventy
five different lines of definite work oper-
ated, and comes from fifty or more associa-
tons in North America.
Its object is to encourage each associa-
ton to make more efficient its work in this
direction and extend the same as aggres-
sively as possible along industrial and sci
entific lines.
The international committee regard this
City as the metropolis of the Pacific Coast
and realize that definite efforts put forth
for the $1,000 young men within it's borders
mean very much for not only the coast
but for North America.
Every citizen is requested to inspect the
exhibit before Saturday night at 10 clock,
at which time it will be taken down. Ad-
mission entirely free and all welcome.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-09
WOMEN IN THESE CASES,
Conductors Betrayed by Female
Detectives for Carrying
Ladies.
Another Woman Who ATTEMPTED to
Travel on a Scalped Ticket
Cleverly Caught.

The passenger department of the South
ern Pacific Company has for some weeks
been largely engaged in settling side issues
incidental to its daily routine and now re-
suits are beginning to show themselves in
more ways than one from day to day.
Shortly after the arrival of c. P! Hunt
ington in this City overland passenger
trains on the Southern Pacific were placed
under surveillance. 1t had been suspected
that in several instances women were al
lowed by conductors to ride free over yari-
Gus distances. The railway company COM
pared its tickets with those of the Pullman
Company and found to its dismay that
there were lady passengers who had paid
for pullman berths but had no railroad
tickets. With this knowledge in its pos
session the railroad company placed
women detectives on the Central Pacific
trains between Oakland and Ogden. Nine
conductors were caught giving free rides to
women and were promptly dismissed.
A woman tried to travel as far as Red
lands in Southern California on the Los
Angeles train Thursday night with
''scal pee" ticket. The ticket read "Red-
lands via the Santa Fe to Chicago, and
return over the Central Pacific via San
Francisco and Los Angeles But the
lady's signature did not correspond with
that on the ticket, although she persisted
they were both identical To convince
the conductor she exposed her baggage
check, the number of which was noted
Upon examination of the baggage the
name of Mrs. Young was upon her trunk.
When Mrs. Young heard her name men,
toned she collapsed, whereupon she was
invited to step off the train at the grain
sheds