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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-22

y
Waiting for business to grow.
The only way to get trade
is to 60 after it and bring it
back with you and keep it
when you have got it. This
is our doctrine and we prac-
tice what we preach. We 60
after the trade of Honolulu
and the Hawaiian islands by
advertising for it, and we find
that it pays us to use whole
columns of the newspapers in
doing so where many mer-
chants only use inches. There
is no use denying that adver-
Using will bring trade, but any
amount OF advertising won't
keep it. The only way to keep
the trade we get by advertising
is to sell good reliable wares,
and never misrepreSent an ar
ticle we advertise. We have
never done this yet and we
don't intend to commence at
this late day. The success
which has attended our intro
duction of the wonderful
NEW PROCESS" BLUE
FLAME COOKING STOVE,
is an instance Of the way we
do business. We accepted the
agency Of this stove because we
knew its merits. We advertiS-
ed it with certain guarantees
which in every case have been
fulfilled. Our sales last week
were phenomenal but in every
instance the stove sold has
done just exactly what we said
it would.
The Wonderful "New Pro-
cess" Blue Flame Oil Stove, is a
coal oil stove that gives a pow
erful blue flame; that operates
without the slightest smoke or
odor; that uses common
Coal-oil (Kerosene); which
will do the work as quickly
and perfectly as any Gas or
Gasoline Stove and in the
operation of which there can
not be the slightest fear of &C
cident. 1t is the most eCono-
mical operating stove in the
world, and a stove that admits
of drawing light and heat from
the same barrel.
We have these stoves in two
sizes. The larger with three
top burners and oven is sold
at SIS; the other with two
burners and oven is $3.50.
Call and examine these
stoves at
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-22
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL %, 1896.

1t is pity there are not more
tourists waiting around when Ha-
wall is providing one of the grand
est volcanic eruptions ever seen
in the world.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-22

The Sheriff of Philadelphia has
received more than 1000 applica-
tons to SEQ Holmes hanged.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-22

PART I.

Three Hawaiian Solos and Choruses-Aia
lliki Mai, Alma Hau, Ipo Lauae.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-22
THE WORLD HAS NEEDED
1T!
THE WORLD HAS WAITED
FOR 1T!
THE WORLD CAN NOW
HAVE IT!
HERE 1T Isl
a man may guy
And II man may lie
And a man may puff and blow

But he can't get trade
By sitting in the shade
Waiting for business to grow.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-04-22
HOBRON DRUG CO.,
pHhG GlSTS
To Let

COTTAGE WTU pOuR ROOMS,
bathroom riop uppu.ll rallHay nrpn,
l'w prT MONTH. A.py 90 lAlAAiA
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The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

"craps" on the sly in dark corners; dis
cuss the Brown scandal, and laugh at the
shortcomings OF humanity in general.
Take some of these white rats" out of
their miserable haunts, give them bath.
dress them IN neat clothes and their bright
ness and good looks might attract atten-
ton. Christian charity need not sail to
Asia for subject.-there are very appropri-
ate subjects for treatment here. They are
little books, conta lining tales of poverty,
and they are bound in rags.
Stroll down to Whitelaw's wharf some
morning when the sun is smiling, and you
may witness an exceedingly common ex
ample of wharf-rat industry. There is a
loose board at the beach end of the planks,
one foot wide and two feet long. This is
raised up and couple of urchins-8 or 10
years old, perhaps-lower themselves to
the rock foundation underneath the wharf.
There the teredo has been pursuing his
work of destruction; and there laborers
are engaged in replacing the ruined spiles.
A teredo-eaten spile is rolled aside; but
it does not block any passageway for long,
for the urchins twain are on hand to Crap
pie with it. They do wonderful things
these little fellows; they CARRY burd ems
as big as themselves. A head is poked up
through the hole in the wharf, and voice
cries, Hey, get move on-lower de
rope" An arab aloft on the wharf let's
down the rope, and straightway rises an
indignant voice from below, "Make loop,
you Chinamanr' The loop is made, the
rope let down, and soon the signal to
pull away" is waited up from the
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

YH \ the thlrty-nine years OF his expert
ence on the turf Orrin A. Hickok. the
famous trainer and driver OF trotting
and pacing horses, has handled the
ribbons in sufficient mum Der of mile
heats in public races to cover a distance
which, on stralghtaway course, would be
a little greater than the distance between
San Francisco and New York If the
average gait were 2:2Q, which means rate
OF 81 81 feet per second, the actual time
consumed in travelling 303S miles or a
distance equal TO that between this City
and the metropolis of the Atlantic side,
would be days % hours minutes and 40
seconds.
Orrin Hickok is Sc years old. and since
he turned his seventeenth year he has
been continuously occupied in training
and driving trotters and PAGERS. His
father was great horseman and main
tained a horse farm in Ohio. In his.
youthful days Orrin had a fancy for riding,
but, growing rather too heavy for that
style of racing, he made driving his
speciality, and to-day his trim figure is
familiar in all the grand circuit tracks of
America. From his fathers farm in his
native Buckeye State, therefore, Orrin
drlfted into the racing field beginning his
public career at Chicago in 1856.
1.-The first celebrated trotter brought out
by me-" said Mr.. Hickok the other even
ing, WAS the mare Lucy. In 1871-72 the
two fastest trotting horses in the world
were Goldsmith Maid and Lucy. In 1872
the latter won the $4,000 trotting purse at
Buffalo, N. Y, IN 2:lSA. II was wonder
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! full time in those days. In the spring of
that same year Goldsmith Maid electrified
the sporting world by rounding the mile
in 2:16A at Boston. The astonishing
records of these latter days are attributable
in no small degree to the assistance of the
bicycle sulky. Since Lucy's time ! have
driven Hulda in 2:08 and Angie D, the
PAGER, in 2:07. One of my present string
of trotters, Buzzeta has record of :06ss4
and at Lexington, Ky, last October, / won
the record for double teams with Miss
Bita and Josie d in 2:12L.
You seldom hear of long-distance trot-
ting races in these times, but IN 1874 at
Oakland, drove Jack Stewart in a race of
twenty miles, circling the mile track
twenty times in SO minutes and SO seconds
and winning purse of $30O0
In the best racing years l have driven
from forty to fifty races, generally the best
would perhaps be liberal average. Last
year was an exceedingly poor year and the
number only reached ten.
"Horseracing has been my life business,
and it is hard business to break away
from. If | had my life to live over again,
though, knowing what do of my chosen
field, Iwouid never engage in horseracing.
1t has pleasurable excitement to the
throng; it has moments that thrill one
through and through; but the business of
horseracing is fraught with much worry
and anxiety. 1t is full of uncertainties.
To-Day may be the possessor of world
beater, worth his weight in gold. To-mor-
row, according to schedule, he must trot
the race of his life, to save his old laurels
and win new ones. In the night, however,
he may be injured, and SO hopes are shat
tered and we have dead weight for the
weight in gold. Horseracing is business
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

black eye and a sharp face sauntered up.
He introduced himself as George Lang.
Baldy supplied the information that Lang
was "de champion fist-fghter O. de gang,
but licked i'm wild de gloves"
Lang said he elearned to fight "up in Cir
vans lot on Bay street"
Billy Wilson loaned US de Gloves said
the champion, can I done up all de kids
but Baldy. Badly put me out wild de
gloves, but Wen he tackles me fair fist,
den's Wen you'll see who's de champion. -"
This intimation was too much for Badly
who cannot afford to allow such doubts to
shake his prestige with the gang. A chal-
lenge Immediately followed Lang's clos
ing sentence The date of the fight re-
mains to be set 'Tilly, the Rat" de-
scendant of the Caesars, and Patsy Kelley,
a bright roguish-looking lad of 10, vol
unteered to act as seconds. There will be
no danger of police interference in this
championship battle, because the White
Rats OF the Wharf" unlike the Corbett
and Ftzsimmons ilH, are genuine sports.
mean what they say, and abhor the name
of "faker''
The wharf rats" range in age from to
Ia years, Badly having reached the latter
figure. Could many of these boys have
proper care and training, they might dis
tinguish themselves as men. Perhaps
some OF them WILL in spite of their youths
environments, in spite of associates with
vicious elements; in spite of all the evil
influences around their daily lives: for
they are not all bad, and some OF them are
surely diamonds in the rough"
But any article that touches, even thus
lightly, upon life among the youth of the
water front would be incomplete without
some reference to the endeavors of a num-
Der OF good-hearted people of means to
smooth the rough lot of the urchins of that
locality; and, of course, the youngsters
thereabout are not all TO be deemed white
rats" There are many little boys and
girls on the front who are positively eager
to acquire the mental arms of learning;
eager to improve themselves by all avail
able means. There are more, however.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

that demands great care and increasing
watchfulness.
There is not SO much money in racing
as many seem to believe. They hear OF
large sums won, but not so much about
the big sums lost. On this coast the run
ming horse holds the leading place of inter
est at present, and trotting is necessarily
Gull. now have string of sixteen trot-
ters IN training at Oakland. These l will
take East for the grand circuit-Detroit,
Cleveland, Chicago, New York and other
big tracks-about the 1st of May. This
string represents the finest stable l have
ever had. | always drive my own races
and superintend the training of my horses,
having trustworthy men to assist me-"
Twenty races year for thirty-nine years,
II we accept an average of four heats to each
race, would make grand total of 312O
miles travelled by Mr.. Hlckok behind his
trotters. This, if he were driving on
straightaway course across the continent,
would leave him eighty-two miles to spare
after journey from here to Gotham.
Long ago somebody suggested a National
boulevard from the Atlantic to the shores
OF the sundown sea. If the bicycle and
the electrocycle do not retire the horse too
soon the country may yet stand along
30oO-mile paved highway and witness a
passing race drivers and trotters chang
ing half hourly or thereabodt) across the
continent from sea to sea.
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concluded that here was the place where
fair endowment for the promotion OF sci
ence would do the most good. lie must
have reached this conclusion after mature
delIberation, for he evidently cherished
the most sanguine expect tions OF the lus-
ter of the institution which he was to
found. "On my fathers side," he wrote,
81 am Northum berland, on my mothers s
l am related to kings; but this avails me
not. Ny name shall live in the memory
of man when the titles of the
Northumber and the Percys
are extinct and forgotten" And
yet it seemed for while as if his bequest
was to be futile. He died in 1929, and it
was six years after his death that the
United States legation IN London was no.
titled that his estate, amounting to about
one hundred thousand pounds sterling
was held in possession of the accountant
general of the Court of CnaEcery. There
came from Congress a chorus of objection
to the acceptance of the gift on the ground
OF National dignity and OF the less worthy
consideration that Smithson had tried
to get Immortality at too modest price.
1t was mainly due to the efforts of John
Quincy Adams that this opposition was
finally overcome. and Richard Rush was
sent to England to prosecute the claim
OF our Government to the Smlthson be-
quest.
Inc decision OF the court was reached
with celebrity quite unexampled IN the
history of that tribunal, and by Septem-
ber, 1888, the first proceeds of the legacy,
in the form of 104, 800 gold sovereigns, were
duly delivered to the Philadelphia mint,
where they were promptly recoined into
sos, ,31S American dollars. Two supple
mentary returns from the bequest were re-
ceived, amounting to about $4,000, and
the permanent fund, swelled by some re-
cent bequests, now amounts to $9l1 900,
which is held as a deposit bearing per
cent interest in the United States treasury.
1t took eight years after the receipt
of the bequest to enable the wise men
of the Nation to decide what to do
with it, and to Joseph Henry, who became
the first secretary of the institution, is
mainly due the credit of showing how the
intentions of the founder could be most
effectively carried out. Henry's plan was
based on the conviction that Smithson's 8
intention was to advance science by orig
inal research and publication; that the es-
tablishment was for the benefit of mankind
generally, and that all unnecessary expend-
itures on local objects would be violations
of the trust. In that spirit the institution
was conducted through whole generation
by Professor Henry himself, and through
another by his successor, Professor Baird.
| In that spirit it is directed now by Pro-
fessor Langley and his associates. each
year Of its history making substantial ad-
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

Y~ OWN on the water 'front.' aion G
Z N where Telegraph Hill frowns
down, like another Gibraltar, on
II the beach and on the wharyes
at the foot of Sansome street.
fiourishes a fraction of the Citv's popula-
tion which directories fail to discover,
which does not figure on the voting regis
Ter, nor on the tax lists; yet which plays
role of absorbing interest in the complex
drama of everyday life, and which con-
stitutes a rather striking factor in the sum
total of the metropolitan makeup. The
members of this fraction OF the population
carry on commerce without capital; they
are wreckers without license; tradesmen
unknown to trade; philosophers without
learning; spectators who invest nothing
and make something out of it; strangers
to the schoolroom and apt pupils in the
worlds roughest school. They have eyes
that sparkle and wits that fash; they dis
play nerve that astonishes and glory in
slang that shocks. They are self-reliant
shrewd, smart, bold, saucy, quick with
answers, and capable of doing good turns
toward the needy as well as mean turns
against the objects of their hatred. They
are called the white Rats of the Water
Front"
They know nothing of Altruria, but
they practice the cooperative system, and
every member gets his fair share of the
receipts of their numerous enterprises.
They know more about the daily history
of the City than most of the people in it.
They make nickel wagers on the races;
indulge in the seductive negro game of
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

Do you feel hurt I
Pains in the legs,
below the knees p? .
Feet cold day time,
burning at night ?
Many other pains
and symptoms ?
They are caused
~ poor circulation
because your heart
action is weakened
by nicotine, and
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

forty dollars fore dey got away. Say
Maybe we didn't sport. Ell? De whole
gang fed in de high-toned hash factories,
and bought meself suit O. clothes way
up in G. De big blokes blowed demselves
all over the water front and up in de stores.
De swag was all 'round-everywhere-
wen de cops got onto it. Say De whole
cheese was bogusp
Badly stopped a moment to allow the
fresh listener to his oft-told story to re-
cover from the surprise that should follow
all such climaxes. Then he scratched his
head and wound up: "Dem was high
rollin' days on de front. l was 10 years
old den, and dat's four years ago. No more
Doodle found down here-dis amt no safe
deposit'
You spoke of hunting for bones Will
lie?"
"Yep. Bones is t1rty-fv cents sack.
De bones is used to pure de sugar up de
refinery"
"Well, what do you find, for the most
part, in the dumps? and what profits do
you make?' pursued the inquisitive man.
''Scrap-iron-lots of it-quarter cent a
pound. Brass-one cent pound. Rags
say, dey rob US on rags-fve cents for de
sack! Amt dat robbery? Bottles-one
cent apiece. Beer bottles-two and hall
cents"
The boys pick rags and hunt scraps and
bottles on q strictly partnership basis
When sack is filled with scraps it is
dragged to the junkshop and the money
realized from the sale is divided among
the mem bers OF the gang. The money Is
spent in sucn luxuries as swimming at the
baths, crossing the bay for an excursion,
visiting the Cliff or in feasting at chop
house.
Owe finds loads O. stuff we don't look
for in de Dumps" observed Baldy. "Once
dere was pair o roller skates-good as
new. Den dere was pair O dese-w'at
you-call-'em glasses wat de high-toned
jays squint t'ro' at de balleydancers. l,
was ivory, too. But scraps is de stuff
wat counts On de long jog"
A husky youngster with piercing
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29
A ROMANCE OF SCIENCE,
Approaching Semi-CentenniaI of TIL,
Smithsonian Institution.


Smithsonian Institution.
Next September will be celebrated the
semi-centennial anniversary of the birth
of the Smithsonian Institution. The fact
that this event viii excite most sympa-
thetic interest wherever throughout the
world there is a home of learning or a
place for the pursuit of knowledge is the
strongest possible testimony to the unique
character of our National center of scien-
titic research. Its history reads like a
romance rather than q leaf from the
most commonplace period of American
annals. The impulse that prompted
James Smithsonian illegitimate son
of the first Duke of Northumberland
to write in his will in 1926 the follow
ing passage came from nobody knows
where: II bequeath the whole of my
property to the United States of America
to found at Washington, under the name
of the Smithsonian Institution, an estab-
lishment for the increase and diffusion of
knowledge among men," Smithson never
visited this country, and there is no evi-
dence that he had any but the most super
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

who must be attracted and lured by anus
ingipastimes and healthful diversions from
the influences of the streets.
There is a City Front Boys Club in the
second story of the brick building at 615
Sansome street. That club is a scheme OF
splendid promise. 1t has nearly hun
dred members at present, and as it is
growing continuously it is probable that
verv soon the whole building will be leased
for the benefit of the boys.
There are some ten classes of these
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

fcial knowledge of the character of its
people and its institutions. His library
contained only two volumes relating to
America, but the writer of one of these
predicted that Washington, then town
of 5000 inha abitants, with the stumps of the
virgin forest still remaining on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, would one day rival in mag
nificence and splendor the cities of the
whole world. He may have heard, too, of
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

the passage in Washington's farewell ad-
dress recommending as an object of the
highest Importance the founding OF insti-
tutions for the increase and diffusion of
knowledge.
In any case Smithson, who was himself
a scientific investigator of no mean fame,
and was, indeed, declared on competent
authority to be one of the most accom-
plished mineralogists in Europe. doubtless
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

Ceylon has spider which spins yellow
web, the threads of which are almost as
large as button-hole twist. Its webs are
often from six to eight feet across.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29

ditions to the sum of its usefulness and it's
well-earned fame, both home and abroad.
Boston Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-29
NEW TO-DAY.
DON'T DRAG YOUR FEET.
Lifeless Movements and
You're Always Tired.
Poor Circulation Caused by Tobacco-Heart
Action Seriously Affected and
Blood Nicotine Tainted.

q, Do you feel hurtf
J !:
Pains in the legs,
ka ~ below the knees !.
IN W q Feet cold day time,
| Ny A burning at nightf
~ " Many other pains
~ and symptoms?
NJ - They are caused
x " poor circuIatlon
because your heart
~ action is weakened
by nicotine, and
your oioOu is tobacco poisoned. Tobacco weak.
ems the heart-sction, the blood is not pumped
fast enough. Your feet get cold ache and burn
by turns. No wonder YOU feel ike putting
them head-high when You sit down.
Don't you know that tobacco weakens all the
nerye-centers, and is the cause OF many weak,
tired, hieiess, hstless feeling 2, ro
There is guaranteed cure, Mol Bac. which
has cured over 800 900 cases. and viii cure you
just as 1t has Senator Ellington and the Hon.
X: II. Pearce, who
USED TOBACCO 81 YEARS.
THOMPSON, Ga, Nov. o.
Dear Sirs-After using tobacco nearly twenty
seven years l took two and one half boxes OF
habit and have not tasted tobacco since, neither
have any desire for 1t. 1 had previously tried
number OF antidotes, but without success Some
months ago procured three boxes for the Hon. G.
H. Ellington, of this place, late state Senator and
now President OF the Farmers State Alliance Of
Georgia. He had used tobacco excessively for
thirty wears He used two boxes of No-To-Bac and
Immediately discontinued the use Of tobacco.
Yours truly,
r. Il. PEARcE, Clerk of Supreme Court
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Syndic's Sale.

Notice is hereby given that ii
conformity to a resolution of the
creditors of the insolvent Moses
Fischer, I will offer at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder for cash
the entire stock of goods surrender
ed by sale Moses Fisher to his cred
itors. Said stock Of goods to be
sold in convenient lots to suit pur-
chasers, and at the discretion of the
syndic, at the late storehouse of said
Moses Fischer, in Abbeville, on Fri
day and Saturday.
18th and 18th, 1896,
r. Fl. MILLS,
By, 20. Syndic.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Tired of Kansas.

Missouri papers are alleging thai
this notice was recently found pasted
on the walls of a deserted homestead
in the arid region of Kansas: -Four
miles from a neighborbood; sixteen
miles from a postofice, twenty-five
miles from a railroad, fourteen miles
from a schoolhouse, forty-nine miles
from a church, 100 miles from tins
Der, 200 miles from a Democrat, half
a mile from water, q quarter Of a
mile from hell and the same distance
from a Republican. Gone to Mis-
souri,, which is Gods country, to get
fresh start"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
BEFORE THE
COURTS.

Superintendent William F. Ow-
ems, Of the Southern Pacific Com.
pany, appeared before Recorder
Finnegan, of New Orleans, Thursday
and made two afidavits charging
ex. Conductors Marx Neuhauser and
Joseph Karr with breach of trust
and embezzlement. They are al
legged to have embezzled various
sums of money at different times.
Neuhauser and Karr were discharg-
ed by the company some time ago.