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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06
Escaped an Awful Risk.

The poker game was at its height. Bcas
on had lost all his money, but he was
burning with tEe gambling fever, and
would not leave the table. He pledged his
watch, a gift of his deceased father, for
chips and quickly lost them all. Then he
laid on the table a ring which had been
given him by loving sister. The chips
he received in exchange lasted just three
minutes. For moment he hesitated, his
face flushed, and he stavted to leave But
when he heard sneering remark about
his poker abilities, he uttered an oath, sat
down again and converted into chips u
diamond pin which was a birthday pres
ent from the girl he loved In ten minutes
he was broke again.
The fever was now burning fiercely in
his veins, ana he cried recklessly: "rll put
up everything possess-the shirt on my
back, if it comes to that. Wild with
excitement, he sprang is his feet and
shouted: II will do you fellows yet.
will keep up the game ever if i have to
risk
He stopped. Ills face became livid. He
looked around like Gagged beast, Then,
making a rush for the door, he moaned
"Not thatl Oh, heavens, | cannot risk
that No, no, mol"
AS he disappeared one of the players re-
marked: Poor devil guess he was GO
ing to put up some keepsake from his
mother.
But such was not the case. For one aw-
full moment Beason had been tempted to
risk his bicycle. --Eew York Journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06
USE THEIR OWN REMEDIES.
Chinese Methods In Cases of Smallpox and
Other Diseases.

"With the exception of the narcotics, the
Chinese use none of our medicines as cura.
tives or remedial agents, and yet they are
a longer lived race than we are, " said II.
W. Ransom of sun Francisco. at is q
serious violation of their rules for any
member of their numerous colony in San
Francisco TO call for or accept the services
of an American physician in cases of sick
ness. They use their own peculiar RENE.
dies even for the cure of so serious disease
as smallpox, though, of course, If the au-
thorities learn of the existence of this
loathsomc malady among the pigtails, they
are yGnkCd off and treated like all the vic
tins of this disease.
at is n curious fact, well worthy of in
vestigation, that when they are subjected
to our treatment for smallpox fewer cures
are effected than when they are permitted
to apply their own remedies in their own
way. So patent has this fact become to
the health authorities of San Francisco
that they wink ut smallpox in the Chinese
quarter until somebody makes hue ard
cry over its existence. The disease is more
common among them than the general
public suspects, and they regard it us n
visitation of divine wrath for some infrac-
ton of the Confucian religious code.
nave seen SHiDCSG WOlnen PDluB
from. house to house in their quarter of the
city with babes in their arms on whom
the dread disease had made dangerous
progress 1t is n Chinese custom to thus
exhibit the atlliction visited en- the house
hold before treatment for its arrest on cure
is begun. This is to warn others to walk
in the straight and narrow path lest their
households too, be singled out for visi
tation of Confucian wrath.
t"Their first treatment consists in swath-
ing the entire body of the victim-in band
ages strongly saturated with an opiate prep
aration. Nothing else is applied for "a
hours. At the expiration of that period
the patient, whether infant or adult is
dosed with gallons of liquids, and this /:
continued until complete cure is effected
or death ensues. They guard closely the
secret of this liquid preparation and can
not be induced even to allow pharmacist,
to look at it. st. Louis Republic.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06
Guarding the Leyees.

Every root of the levees was guarded by
armed men, for, with the river booming
and straining and bullying on both sides,
it is sore temptation for dweller on one
bank to save his fortune by 'cutting the
levce on the opposite side and relieving
the tenseDess of the strain on his own bull
warks by tho trcachcrous outlet into his
neighbor's fields. Then the irresponsible
darky has just enough Imagination to
conceive of free government bacon and
',.pone" under the food conditions which
q sly stab at tho levee would bring with
out any realization of the horrible price he
was paying for it.-'About the World" in
Scribner's.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06
A Elsa M,rn A RrsrRyolR
When ne Comes on Land, a Queer Mni
LUX fires "A NoIIcy In His Face.


LUX FIRES "A Noilcy In His Face.
The luccrcst II all queer eyed animals
is the periophihamus, n fish inhahiting
the coasts of China, japan, lndin, the
Malayan urclipclagu and eastern Africa.
This strange creature when IN pursuit
of its prey, leaves tho sea and comes out
on the sands thus existing for the greater
portion Of its life in an element which.
according IN the nature Of things, ought
tu he fatal tO II. The laws Of evolution
have, however, cmincntly Prepared 1t for
its peculiar mode of life It's gill cavities
are so large that when it ahandors the sen
IL carries in them II quantity of water
which yields up the necessary. supply OF
oxygen.
Its locomotion has been provided for
likewise, for continued use along certain
lines has so developed its pectoral fins that
the creature uses them as legs, and jumps
along AT IA surprising rate of speed. Its
eyes are very large and prominent, ANA
possess for fish the peculiar faculty Of
looking around on all sides; hence its
name, periophthalmus These eyes are
situated on top of the animals head and
present very grotesque appearance.
The favorite food of this fish, says The
Medical Record is II naked mulusk called
onchidiWn. And in the matter of eyes
this last mentioned creature is itself worthy
of remark
( Its cCphalic or head eyes are like those
of other mollusbs and not worthy of spc-
cial mention. But its dorsal eyes, some
times several hundred in number, are
truly remarkable. These dorsal eyes, al
though they are very simple in structure,
in type are the same as those of vertebrate
animals, having cornca, lenses rctina and
"blind spots" In the vertebrate eye tho
spot where the optic nerve pierces the eX-
ternal layer of the retina is sightlcss; hence
it is called the "blind spot. -
/ When this mollusk secs the pcriophthal.
mus bounding over the sands, it contracts
a thousand or so of little hladdcrlikc cells
in the skin of its back, thereby discharg-
! ing Il hailstorm of minute concretions in
the face of it's enemy.
The fish, terrified and amazed by the
yolley, turns aside, and the mollusk is
saved. Thus its dorsGl eyes are of great
advantage TO the onchidium. 1t is not
able, like the periophthalmus, to move
these eyes, yet, situated as they are all
over its back, it possesses the power OF
seeing in every direction.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06
MkR ANo COMMERCE.
The Inventor ~ Potent n Factor In tho
One as In the other.


War is always horrible possibility, hut
when divcs,cd Of It's personal and political
details u cannot hut possess n peculiar
fascination for the engineer, especially
since engineering has So largely entered
into all the methods of modern warfare.
Since the last great war the machinery of
warfare has been almost entirely reCrcnt-
ed, and indeed many devices have been
invented, constructed and become ohso-
lcte without ever having had IA chance to
show what they were worth in actual com
bat Should the great powers become in
volved in warfare, however, there Is no
doubt that numerous mechanical devices,
till the present Kept secret, Will appear in
various lines of fighting machinery, and 1t
is not impossible that, as in the days of
the monitor, ornaments and equipments
upon which millions have been spent will
find themselves RELOCATED To the curiosity
shop overnight.
The restless ingenuity Of the inventor Is
almost MS much Of "a banc to the leaders of
commercial warfare as To the war lords of
miiitarism 1t has been said, and doubt.
less with truth, that the managers of the
great commercial combinations consider
the possibilities OF superseding inventions
as the greatest element of risk in their
calculations. From this point of attack
industrial combinations are almost help
less, for no degree of business skill can
avail when whole plants are rendered OBJ
solete by the advent of some new, device or
process which may supplant the entire
method of manufacture, if not the product
itself. 1t Is this equalizing element which
may, in Obedience to the law of supply and
demand, check TO great extent the
growth of commercial combinations, in
tended to control production, prices and
business. The very success of u business
combination sets inventors to work de-
vising methods, processes and machines to
accomplish similar results by other means,
and no man knows what n day may bring
forth when the tide of invention is turned
in any one definite direction. The nat.
ural laws of the physical forces must con.
troll in the end, and it is to those laws
that the development of the commercial
side, as well as the technical portion of
human industry, must look for ultimate
| guidance. CASTER Magazine.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06
THE kETTLEDRUMME
He Has the Greatest Responsibility In the
Matter of Keeping Time.


Matter of Keeping Time.
81 suppose few of the people who listen
to the music of an orchestra" said mu-
stefan recently, "have any appreciation of
the difficulty encountered in getting so
many instruments to start precisely at the
same instant. And do you know which
player has the most critical position of all
in that respectS Why, the man at the ket.
tledrum. I always regard him with the
greatest admiration, and my wonder is
just as great each time that | see it at the
nicely with which he calculates his move
ments.
"You see all the other players can be
waiting for the signal from the conductor
The vioinists, the 'cellists and the others
at the stringod instruments have their bows
in place, ready to be drawn at the raising
of the baton. The mouthpiece of every
wind instrument, brass and wood, is at
the lips of its player, who has but to
breathe when the signal is given. Only
the man ut the drum is ut u disadvantage.
1t will not do for him to keep his hand
raised with the sticl: poised in the air, at
the height from which he is to strike If
he did this the sound of the beat would be
heard at such an appreciable interval after
the notes of the other instruments that it
would entirely fail to accord with them,
and tho effect would be absurd, so the
only thing for the drummer to dois to an
ticipate the motion of the baton, begin
ming to- strike just u shade before the sig
nal He actually plays out of time, you
see, in order to be in time. That is why
/ always sympathize with his position and
look uDOn him AS a genius i'm the matter
of fine calculation. New York Tribune.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06

How We're friendship possible? In mu-
tual devOtedness 10 the good and true
otherwise impossible; except AS armed
neutrality or hollow commercial league,
A man, be the heavens ever praised, is
sufficient for himself; yet were ten men,
united in l'-,e, capable of being and of
doing what 10000 singly would fail in,
Infinite is tho help man can yield to man,
-Carlylc
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06

1t Is estimated that one-twelfth of the
population of England suffer from govt
a Berlin physician, Dr. Fehlaner, says
that this malady is often due to the ex-
eessiye use of meat
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06

Boss Ito clerk applying for job)-Mar-
ried or single?
Clerk-Single.
Boss-Sory; l only take married men
as clerks.
Clerk-Whyf
Boss-BecauSe they're not in such a
hurry to get home at night -Twinkles.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06

Newton was so small and frail at birth
that his life was dcspared Of He lived,
however, TO be SO, which was also Vol.
taire s age,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06

X When servant
ushcrs u visitor
into your parlor and
- disappears To sum-
l. mon you, leaving
q the caller alone,
- what does the caller
" do? Shut her eyes
- and wait your coming?
Hardly. One sweep
Nv ing glance and every
q thing is noted.
70 The design of your
r. wall paper, color
of your window
II curtains, the wood
work, the mattings,
in fact. all the decorations
r. received the closest
scrutiny.
- Suppose they are all
l. soiled. What is
i the callers opinion?
nj It's our business to
make your home
S pleasant and pretty.
We Can Work Wonders With
Little Money.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-06

Idaho ranks fifth in the production Of
precious mctals-S35, POI ,629 Of gold anG
81, $50, 1858 of silver
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
with his forehead down in the dirt, the

with his forehead down IN the dirt, the
sun beating hot upon him, and the
crowd Of boys and girls shutting out
every breath Of fresh air. The peg
would not move Tie red-faced, shock
headed. thick-set boy, with his face
now all over mud, had forgotten his
comrades, and saw only one thing in
the WORLD that was the stubborn peg.
The bell rang, but the boy did not hear
It. a minute later, after a final effort,
he staggered to his feet With the peg
IN his mouth. The old schoolntaster
was in the door Of the school house
with his long beech switch-the only
person to be seen. There was glee in
side at this new development-her
was fun the boys had not counted Oh.
lmag CINE their surprise when, as the
boy came closer, and the stern old
schoolmaster saw his face, he set down
the switch inside the door and came
outside. One boy slipped to the win
dow and reported to the rest. The old
master. }Was:u pouring water on Lys
Grants hands and having him wash
his face. He gave him his red ban
danna to wipe it dry. What the
school, saw a minute later was the
schoolmaster coming in, patting the
very red and embarrassed boy on the
head" ..-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

orders are also frequent among those
who handle dry skins, rabbit fur, horse
hair, felt and bristles. But the dust
lurking in sleeping apartments is often
a medium of deadly infection.
NJ. Miguel, the French bacteriologist,
who has been experimenting to find
the best means for disinfecting dust in
apartments, finds that chlorine gas,
hydrochloric acid gas, formic aldehyde,
hypochloride of soda and chloride OF
benzyl are Gin the order Eamed) the
most efticacious and quickest in their
operation. His discovery makes de-
cided advance in the art Of diSinfec-
ton, and should be given preference
over the old method of using carbolic
OF sublimate sprays. A towel or sheet
dipped in the commercial solution of
formic aldehyde and hung up in a
room will disinfect it without injuring
pictures, bronzes or other objects OF
art.-Paris Letter..
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
The Life OF = Clam

The CLAIMS body is completely en-
shrouded in the mantle, except for two
openings, through one of which the
foot can be pushed out. The other is
for the siphon, or what is commonly
known as the neck of the clam. In
some respects the clam may be a little
better off than we are, for he has a
little brain in his foot, and also a
gland for secreting strong fbers,
With this he spins a ibyssus, by whicf
he can attach himself to whatever he
likes. He does not even have to search
for his food, but waits for it to come
TO him. He makes a furrow in the
mud or sand, attaching himself to the
bottom by the byssus. Then he pokesg
his siphon up through the mud and
water until it reaches the surface
The siphon is made up of two tubes,
the water flowing in through one and
out the other.
When the inf1owing current, laden
with minute plants and animals reach
es the gill chamber, some of these are
sifted out and retained for food, and
the water and waste matter flow out
through the other tube
The CLAIMS eggs are carried by he
mother on her gfIls. When there are
fish in the water with them, the moth.
er discharges the eggs, which soon
hatch. but if there are no fish, they
carry the eggs until they decay. The
reason of this strange behavior is this.
When the eggs are set free in the wa
ter they soon hatch: and the little ones
swim about until they find some fish to
which to- attach themselves. They live
for time upon the mucous Of the fish
and then drop off, sink to the bottom
and form burrows for themselves.
This curious semf-paris1tic life is no
doubt a reversion to the habit of some
ancient neutrality-suspicious. Monthly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
"A Tyne of the Kirchtz Tribe

"A Type of the Kirghiz Tribe.
~aimes, in cases of richer men, of even
solver articles, with the trappings Of
horses and household utensils. The
kfbitka combines the advantages of be-
sing cool in summer and warm in win
ter S
These nomads who inhabit the step
aue regions of Turkestan and Western
siberia are not the same people as the
true Kirghiz or Buruts who live about
tine lake Issykkul and in the mount
aims of Khokand, and are called by
the Russians Karu-Kirghiz (black Kir-
Efaiz) and also Dikoko1nenny or wild
mountain Kirghiz. They do not speak
OF themselves as Kirghiz which is a
name given them by the Russians, but
are known only as Kazuk, the same as
the Russian Coossack, which, as used
I'm Central Asia, means simply vaga-
1oild or wanderer, and it's application
ls evident.
The Kirghiz speak q language which
Is ONO of the purest dialects of Tar
tar, although the kernel of their race
rs evidently Turkish. It was in the
4aseRinning of the eighteenth century,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
Russian SchOo1bOy Gardeners.

Over in Russia many Of the schools
have connected with them small gar
dens, orchards or grape arbors, in
which the boys and girls are taught to
work. Each day the schoolmaster,
who has charge of the garden, takes
his pupils out and teaches them how
to plant, hoe, rake and reap. In the.
south of Russia, where the country is
almost treeless, the children learn how
to set out trees and what. the best
kinds are, and in some provinces there
is complete silkworm colony in each
school, and the pupils watch the won
derful little silk makers eat the mul-
berry leaves and spin their cocoons,
and help all they can in the work of
caring for the colony. At other schools
bees are kept, and the boys and girls
learn to handle them and guard them
while they are honeymaking.
In this way the boys and girls OF
Russia, by the time they have finished
their school work, know a good deal
about some pursuits which will help
them to make a living.
How would you enjoy some of these
things in connection with your school?
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
The Prince of Guides.

Grindewald has just celebrated the
sevenrieth birthday Of Almer, the
doyen OF Swiss guides. Almer has been
the pioneer of all modern mountain
stormers, to use the picturesque Ger
man word. In the Bernese Oberland
alone he has made the ascent of the
Jungfrau, Moench, Eiger, Wetterhorn
and Sclreckhorn no less than 100
times, and, with the exception of the
Jun gfrau. lie has been the first to set
foot on their snowy crestS. He is also
the only living mountaineer who has
made the descent from the MOench on
to the Wengenalp, and it is said there
is not a mountain peak in the ValaiS,
Grisons, Savoy and Dauphine on
which he has not bivouacked. He has
five sons, all Of them trained from
childhood to be guides, and some have
carried on their fathers work with
English mountaineers in the Caucasus
and the Himalayas. Almer affirms
that none of his climbers has ever had
an accident, but he himself has his
scars of battle. On the Grindelwald
glacier a falling block of ice broke sew
eral of his ribs, and in a winter ascent
of the Jungfrau in 1885 his toes were
all frozen and had to be amputated.
Since then he has retired from work,
and now enjoys a green old age in his
chalet at GrindelWald. u ournal DIES
Debate.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07

when the Kirghiz, through internecine
disputes, found themselves attacked
on the southwest by the kalmucks, on
the north by the Siberian Cossacls and
on the east by the ruler Of Jungaria,
that they began to bid for Russian pro-
lection, and to afford that series Of raj
son d'etre for Russian conquest in
Central Asia. 1t was not, however,
until 1881, on the death Of the bold
Sultan Ablai, who, by skillful coquetry
With7Doth Russia and China, had man
aged to retain independence, that Rus
sian sway became fixed.
1T is curious fact that the Kirghiz
We're converted to Mohammedanisln
by the mistaken efforts Of tie Russian
government. At first but few Of the
sultans had any idea of the doctrines
of Islam, and there was not a mosque
or a mullahin the steppe; but the Rus
slams >Gust Nas they insisted on using
the Tartar language in their inter-
course with them) insisted on treating
them as though they were Mohamme-
dams, built mosques and sent smullahs
until the whole people became out
Wardly Mussulman. When asked what
religion they have (unaccustomed to
such a form of the question: they will
say that they do not know; but at the
same time they will repel with yigor
any insin,ation' that they are not good
Mussulmans.
The kirghiz are in general breeders
OF cattle and sheep, and the search for
fresh pastures is the main cause for
their migrations over the steppe They
do not, however, wander indiscrimin-
ately over the vast expanse, but have
their settled winter and summer quar-
tiers, each volost-as they are now d-
vided by the Russians for C nvenience
in collecting housekeeping it's own
limits
Besides horse-racing, the usual pas
times are wrestling, swinging, and
especially. the national sport, halga,
where enc man holds a kid thrown
over his saddle and every one else
tries to tear it from him. There is one
race, called the ''love chase" which
may be considered part Of the form
of marriage among the Kirghiz. In
this the bride, armed with a formida-
BILE whip, mounts a feet horse and is
pursued by all the young men who
make any pretensions to her hand.
She will be given as prize to the one
who catches her, but she has the
right, besides urging Oh her horse to
the utmost, to use her whip to keep off
all except the one already chosen in
on the steppe, religious ceremony of
her heart. AS mullahs are very rare
any kind 1T Il marriage is unusual;
but one thing must be strictly per-
Toned. After the women have sung
the virtues of the bride, and the men
have chanted those of the groom, tell
ing of his great exploits, how many
cattle he has stolen and in now many
marauding expeditions he has engaged,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-07
f. A Boy With a Queer wit.
George Pomeroy was a very

George Pomeroy was a. very mis-.
chievous boy in school, but quick to
think Of some means to escape punish
ment when caught in a scrape
When in the sixth grade his cousin
from New York State was visiting him.
and one day they went to school to-
gether. They sat in a double seat be-
hind the high stove and were having
a good time, but becoming rather
noisy the attention of the teacher was
attracted and she stole down unno-
ticed by either until she was Just in
front of them. Before she could rep
rimand them, however, George arose
perfectly composed and said:
Pardon me, teacher-Miss Payne.
this is my cousin Frank White from
Buffalo, who, with his parents is Wig,
iting us. Mother would be pleased to
have you call
The introduction and invitation were
so naturally and cordially given the
teacher could not repress a smile, and,
it is needless to say, no punishment
was given. Charlie Monroe in Chicago
Record.