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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-15
CAN'T BE BEAT!
WHAT?

My $1,000 Bath Tubs, lined with best
quality, No. 10 zinc, 6 in. Pipe, Chain and
Plug, with wood rim all complete. Other
dealers are dumfounded, and resort TO ali
manner of Tricks and Excuses.
Be not deceived, these Bath Tubs have
been sold for $l4 until l reduced the price,
l am prepared to do all work in my line
and guarantee satisfaction. Estimates fur
nished.
If you want good Job cheap for Cash,
ring up Telephone S44, p.nd I am your
mann
JAS. MOTT JR,
Tinsmith Il Plumber
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-15
1896 Rambler,
$500

As is customary nearing the
close of each year, the makers in
order to get ready for the ensuing
year, offer the present 1896
wheels at reduced prices. We are
now prepared to give our Gus
toners the benefit Of these reduc-
tions IA long as our stock holds
out. For those wishing an up to
date wheel of the highest grade,
one which we can guarantee to
the fullest extent, we would offer
the "RAMBLER." AS to i'm
provements for the coming season
we would say we anticipate none.
Such changes which may be made
will, as has been the past two
years, be changes immaterial to
the improvement of the wheel in
general.
Kindly give this some thought
or call your Reconsideration to it
and oblige.
Yours truly,
E. O. Hall & Son
LIMITED.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-02-15
timely Topics
ON -
STOVES AND RANGES,
ETC, ETC.

We are happy in being able
to announce that we have at
last received a fresh supply of
the New PROCESS BLUE
FLAME Oh STOVES, and sew
eral of our customers who have
been awaiting their arrival are
already using them. The merits
of these stoves are too well
known to need repetition. They
burn with a clear blue flame,
give out no smoke or smell,
are clean, neat and economical
and absolutely safe.
The GOLDEN ANVIL STEEL
RANGE, handled by US, is as
near perfect as can be made.
We have much pleasure in an
nouncing a reduction in price.
They are now selling at $50.
We have also received an
other big lot of the justly cele-
brated PANSY STOVES in three
sizes, 6's, rs and 8'S. They
are the best stove in the mar
ket for the money, handsome,
durable and cheap, with all
the latest Improvements.
If you are in need of anything
in the line of stoves or ranges
we can surely suit you.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04

Now. although he had told me he intended
to steal tho Shah. Cant. Blake said nothing
about his method; and when he got to work
that very night. / had no iGca that what was
happen!nn came from his hand and was the
outcome OF his knaVish ingenuity.
had gone off watch at midnight, had turned
in. and had been sleeping some hour and a half
whom the fireman CAME 10 rouse me.
He said. she's half full of water, sir, and
one of tho bilge pumps Is broken down. It's
two foot deep over our foot-pla .es already, ana
coming in like a miil-race. III reach The
fires directly, sir, and then It'll be n case OF
Colleen Shore Tor all hands II we don't look
out, She must have started n plate as you
SAID, sir. when she took the ground IN the pass
yonder."
or course. the yarn about the plate being
started when she struck on tho bar ought 10
have given ne Tho hint, But II did not. When
n man Is woke out of his sleep with news that
the ship is settling under him, he has enough
10 think of in tho present without bothcrinS
his head about things Of that Kind. ard Lust
slipped on n pair Of boots and ran TO The engine
room in paiamus, just rs ! was,
The chief and the third were hard at work
ut lie LroKen bilGe pump. but wasn't easy
side n good ten foot of water soused over their
ears. The wat-r was gaining, there was 10
mistake RbouT that; you could feel the stehni-
or grow more sOdden with eyery roll, ana II was
clear enough that with the one steam pump
we had working we could not Keep her
niloat another two hours. The stokehold was
Tul OF steam from tho ashes falling into the
water. ana presently the splashtng began 10
MT Tie bottom OF the fire bars. and the steam
| grew worse. Then the.ires started 70 die; and
the guRges fell 80 thnt you could not 800 them'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
HIS MAJESTY or SIAM
Will no Hero About september, ana Will Abide
with us n Month.

His Majesty the King OF Siam, who will return
to his country by way OF the United States after
n visit to Europe this summer, as told in TnE
Sun on Monday, is expected to reach Now York
in the early part of September, and will remain
in America about II month. The bangkok news
papers Of Feb. &, which have just been received
here. say this about the trip:
at IL now almost definitely settled that his
Majesty the King will make II trip 10 Europe
this year, and that he will leave bangkok on
April Z in the MahHchakkri. The European
tour Is expected to occupy about eight months,
and, according to, present arrangcmenis, his
Majcsty's suite will consist OF 7. X. II. Princes
Sommot. Mahlt. and Sanphasat, Phya STisdi.
Ma! itljauat, Nom Anuynt, and two royal pages.
During tho voyage 10 Europe il. II. II. Prince
SanplAsat will act rs alde-dc-Calnp to his
Majesty. hut on arrival those dutio5 VIII hc m
dcriak6n by H.. r.. IL. Prince, chiraX. II. i. II.
Prince Swasti Sobhon will also meet the King
in Europe
GA lis visit here the King will visit Washing
ton. Chicago, 81. Louis. Denver. salt Lake City,
and San Francisco. He will take passage at
San Francisco OH one of the Occidental and Ori-
entail line steamships 10 Yokohama, where the
royal yacht Will meet him and convey him back
70 Bangkok
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
THE FIRST COLONIAL NEWSPAPER.
Tho Newspaper or the Early Days and OF This
Present Time.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SCS-Sir: In an
article recently published in the New York Times
on the Colonial Newspaper Press" 1t is stated
that the first newspaper published in the North
American colonies was the Boston Ners Letter.
in 1904. This. however, is an error. Tho first
attempt to publish'n newspaper in the colonies
was made in Boston in 1890. The paper was
printed by Richard Pierce for Benjamin Harris,
and only one copy is known to be in existcnce;
and that copy, as we are told by n recent writer
in the boston Transcript, is now deposited in the
State Paper Office in London, where it has been
seen and examined by the Rev. Joseph b. Felt,
the librarian of the Boston Historical Society.
The first number of this pnpcr-probably the
only one over publishcd-bears the date Of Sept.
81. 1890. II Is n small sheet OF four quarto
pages, ono of which is blank, and contains II
record Of passing occurrences. foreign and do
meftic; Four days nft ;r It's Is publication hi it was
~islaturc Of which stated that it came out con-
trary TO law, and contained reflections, OF II
very high nature" Accordingly, IL strictly for
babe anything in print without license first oh.
taincd from those appointed by the Government
4 fcw words about the Boston iSS,rs Letter
may be OF, interest; II was begun in April.
l19i, by John Campbell, and was Printed Enlt sh BY the ne
sheet Of foolscap; The frss nam9Gs contained
the Pretendor. James VIII. of Scotland, who
was said to he sending over Popish missionaries
from France; three paragraphs of domestic in
tclligence: four items OF ship news from Philn-
dcIphla, New York, and New London, and one
advertisement from the editor: The paper was
continued fifteen years, weekly. upon The half
sheet OF foolscap, without, n rival ON
tho continent, and continually languishing
for want of support. In 1910 the editor
made n great effort to enlarge his paper. Hc
stated in his editorial that no found 1t 10 be i'm
possible. with n weekly half sheet. TO carry on all
tho public occurrences of Europe. with those Of
the American colonies and tho West Indies. He
was then, he said, thirteen months behind tho
news from Europe; and TO obviato tho difficult
Is ho proposed TO publish every othor week a
full sheet OF ioolscap. lie a%fterward announced,
as the advantage of this, enlargement, that in
eight months he was able to bring down the
foreign news to within five months OF the date
of his publication.
What "A contrast between tho newspaper of
that day and our owu! Then news from England
tiyc months old was fresh and racy. Now We
must havcit in the same number of minutes.
Then news seven days old from New York Ia
liO-ton was swift enough for an express. Then
four little foolscap pn pcrs u month contained all
that the world was doing that any one cared IN
know. Now a paper published every morning
as largo a6 a mainsail needs q supplement-, and
! presume there is not an. editor in any Of our
large cities or villages who publishes half the
matter he gets. WILLIAM l.. STONE.
Mt. NEENON, March 20.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
A SING SQUIRREL.
Tho Queer Little songster That n New Hamp-
shire Gunner Found In tho Woods.

"You have heard OF singing mice, no doubt"
said J. X. Sanford, formerly Of Dover, n. III.
MOT long ago ] read several interesting ao-
counts of them in TIE Sun. have never heard
n singing mouse, but l heard q singing squirrel.
1t was several years ago that, while cunning ono
day in the woods near Dover, n. H., my atten-
tion was drawn 10 what seemed the singing of a
bird somewhere among the branches Mt u little
distance away. The note was SO peculiar that I
turned my steps toward the sound 10 soc what
species OF bird was making it. 1t was some time
before j could trace tho note 10 its source. Then
j found out that it came from a rcd squirrel, sit
ting upright on n bOugh, singing away ~ If in
love with his own melody. AT sight OF me ho
stopped, but ns j remained perfectly still he
presently pipcd UP again.
LAS 10 the quality of his melody, I should
compare it to the single note of "a canary UNI
usually prolonged, With no variations except in
rising or falling and inCrcaSc or decrease OF vol.
UInc. II may have been "A call 10 Il mate; IL GER
tnlnly had nothing In IT OF the scolding character
associated with the Chittcring Of the Northern
red squirrel, TlnrC was no movement OF tho
throat that | could discover in the production
Of the sound. From time 10 time hc would stop
his singing, ana presently. after three or four
minutes, would start up again; always in tho
beginning with u low note which increased In
volume until shortly before the next pause. I
remained on the spot u half hour listening, and
went away leaving the squirrel singing away
with as vigorous q note ~ ever
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
From the Indianapolis Sentinel.

Tho attention Of the city sanitarian has bccn
called to fake" limitations OF maple moiRsscs
that are being sold on the market and in some
stores. The fraud is ono that Is worked every
year during tho season Of n!nnIe molassCs ana
In making the Imitation, aud the peculiar flavor
* aivcn 10 Il by the uGc Of hickory bark. II is
said lhNt only Il small proportion of the sO-callcd
syrup rrtlilcd in the market IL the genuine arti-
Gle. II is said that there are several OF the =" fac
tories now operating in tho city. In some cases
The imitation h 80 perfect that IL is very difficult
TO drlo"tit.
City Slnitarian Clark has been looking up tho
authorities. and he has found no law TINT will
enable him TO arrest the manufacturers and
vendors OF the fake article. There is nothing
deleterious to health ia the composition, he says,
and he cannot order his inspectors to make ar
rests. A very clever imitation can also be pro-
ducod, he says. by the use OF ground corncobs in
place Of hickory bark
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04
Indian Towns Are cyclone Proof.

From the Washington Erenin0 Star.
"Pcoplo out West" observed a Kansas Congress-
man. "have learned a number OF things from the In
dians, aud many OF them are OF value. Probably the
most valuable has been III the matter OF cyclones, We
have learned that whenever q city or town was built
on tho sl;a Of an old Indian settlement. II has been
free from any Of the cyclones which have now and
then come along IN tine Western country, These
tuwnH which arc located thus fortunately use their
Indian origin as uu advertisement and as u guarantee
for settlement. The cyclone Insurance companies will
insure "A policy on houses In an Indian settlement
town for one third the prices thoy charge for similar
policies In other sections.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-04

Now, the end of this ~pirAting business came
In n way which no one had quite foreseen. and
though tho underwriters did not get back tho
Insurance. they had naid on tho Shah, tho
George NJ, Washington was never turned into u
tangible profit by those who hid stolen hor.
IL seems that sir. Knowles, the former first
mate, had taken the starboard liicbOat safely
enough into Key West, had found himself out
of n berth. got the Offer OF u Caltaincy on n
guano Lark then In Panama, whose late master
had died of coast fever, and had jumped at
the chance. lie OF a cast down 10 Aspinwnll
I'm IL freight steamer. crossed the Isthmus hy
ralirOad. and left Panama for tho south tho
very day we pulled our II chors out OF that bay
Of Cuba. 1t was not much Of u coincidence
Tint no should 10 coming into CallaO road
sttul through tho north channel past San
Lorenzo ! land when We were steaniing in
through the southern.
We were In first aud lad brought to an an
thor. whiting for the acalth officer. l was half
dead with work and heat, and had come up out
OF the engine room. and was sat in "a chair un.
der tho bridge deck awning, getting u spell OF
resi-. There was u glare from the water which
hurt. 80 by way of ease kept my d'owSy
ewes on Il little old bark that was coming in
under lower topsails. with lust enough bfeeIs
10 Give her steCragewny. She was heading
so as 10 pnss within a dozen yaids of us, and /
watched lci with eyes that did not sec. Pros
emily the sound OF voices came TO my ears.
The color Of her sides Is different, the fun
nel's diferelt, those lump topmnsts are all
ferent, and the wheelhOuse is unshipped from
the upper bridge. Still, she's remarkably like
my old ship for all that"
s'But she's got a starboard hfeboat Il was
The advocate., 1897-04-14

office show that Street is entitled TO one
days pay more than he has drawn. Har-
vey drew no more than was due him.
The permanent school funds advertise
ment for Kansas bonds in Eastern papers
is bringing good returns. The idea Of Su.
perintendent Stryker, who has charge Of
the bond business, is that better and safer
bonds can be secured from the owners de
rect than through local bond brokers who
get better pay for the sale Of poor bonds
than for more valuable ones and cOnse-
quently are more interested in selling the
former than the latter. The bond brokers
don't like the boards way of doing business,
but 1t ought to suit the people, as 1t means
that the permanent school fund win be in
vested In the best bonds on the market.
The advocate., 1897-04-14

and vital issues between the people and con-
centrated wealth.
The address is issued "Eo the People"
and after elaborately insisting that the
tariff is not in issue, that it is presented
only to distract public attention from
the real causes of our troubles, and that
therefore these Populist Congressman
and Senators will not discuss the sub
iect, they conclude their address by say
ing they will discuss it, and give their
reasons for it in the language following:
While the Populsts will do all in their
power in both houses OF Congress to remedy
the manifest defects In the Wilson bill, and to
secure to farmers and laborers such protection
as shall correspond with the protection In
both the Mckinley and the Wilson bill OF fin
ished products, to equalize the burden Of tax
alton necessary to raise sufficient revenue, and
to also equitably distribute the benefits result
ing from such tariff, yet IL they refrain from
voting for or against the Dingley bill on its
pearance Of promoting the continuance Of the
tariff agitation to sidetrack the vital and over
shadowing questions of financial and monop-
oily reforms and also to avoid giving
countenance to the contention that any tariff
legislation, however wise and just, could re-
move existing evils and bring general pros
perity.
They will oppose the discussion by
doing "all in their power in both houses
of Congress to remedy the manifest de-
fects in the Wilson bill, and to secure to
farmers and laborers such protection as
will correspond WITH" ETC.; "yet if they
refrain from voting for against the Ding
lev bill 4 :"
This is not clear. Our Washington
brethren are taking up unnecessary bur-
dens. TIE reason they do not intend to
vote for the Dingley bill is, that they are
opposed to it; and the reason they will
not vote against it is, that they do not
wish to become in any degree responsible
for the Republicans failure to bring
about the prosperity they promised
And these are sufficient reasons. Had
the address said that much and stopped
there, it would have been quite enough
for the occasion, besides being clear and
honest.
The advocate., 1897-04-14

WANTED-A Few Coon AGENTS, to
make personal house.to-house canvass
for subscribers to the ADVOCATE. One
to each Congressional district is enough.
Men or women Of intelligence and char
acter can make good wages for one year
at the terms we are prepared to offer to
suitable persons. None need apply who
are not we'll known at this Office or who
do not produce good recommendations
as to special fitness for this class of work.
The advocate., 1897-04-14

sl33 per year. For electric lighting alone
the city pays annually $4,000.
From these figures the engineer draws
this conclusion: "That this is an enor-
NOUS sum to pay for the light received
needs no argument, but the city is tied
by contract to pay the now fabulous
prices, although at the time the fran
chise was granted the prices did not seem
SO high. The only relief is municipal
ownership. With the plant in the hands
Of the city almost enough money could
be realized from commercial lighting to
pay the operating expenses Of the plant.
This would save the city annually nearly
$4,000, which, in four years, would pay
for a plaut more than equal to the city's
needs"
The advocate., 1897-04-14
Municipal Ownership.

City Engineer Ellis Of Kansas City,
Kas., in his annual report recently pre-
sented, has taken up the question Of
municipal ownership Of the electric light
plant. He takes the figures of that city's
expense for lights and from them makes
an argument in favor of the city erecting
it's own plant. According to the report
Kansas City, Kas., streets are lighted by
5O2 street lamps ofvarious kinds, and the
annual cost of this service is S25,363.
There are 135 arc electric lights OF 1000
candle power; l03 incandescent lights
Of twenty-five candle power; thirty gas
lamps Of eighteen candle power, and 234
gasoline lamps Of fourteen candle power.
The average price of each arc light ID
The advocate., 1897-04-14

The Globe Democrat states a great
truth in the following language: "Eyery
country will pass through the successive
stages in industrial development In
which a hign tariff should gradually
shade off into free trade. England
reached that stage forty or fifty years
ago, and the United States may come to
it forty or fifty years hence"
The advocate., 1897-04-14
First published April "A, 1871
Advertisement for Bids.

Pursuant to the provisions OF Senate bill
53l, published in the official state paper, March
10, 1897, now ask for bids accordlnEs tQ tne
condiLions OF the above mentioned bill first,
for text books; second, for manuscripts; ana
third, for the publication OF text books tp
supply the schools OF the state OF Kansas.
All bids and communications should ~ aN-
dressed to the Chairman OF the Iext booK
Commission, Topeka, Kansas.
Wat. STRYKRR,
state superintendent Public InssyuGkl0s.
The advocate., 1897-04-14
Opposition in the Senate United.


The following item of news is sugges-
tive as a sign Of the times:
"WAsH1NGToN, April lO.-The final
agreement among Democrats, silver Re-
publicans and Populists in the Senate,
looking to a permanent coalition, was
reached at meeting Of representatives
Of their parties held in Senator Germans
committee room at the Capitol to-day.
"The agreement had it's origin in the
effort to reorgAnize the Senate commit
tees, but is destined apparently to reach
far beyond this situation, and in fact to
the future proceedings Of the Senate on
all matters, if not to the extent Of shap-
ing party policies throughout the
country.
"There we're present at the meeting:
Democrats, Senators German, Cockrell,
Walthall, Jones Of Arkansas and Murphy;
silver Republicans, Senators Cannon and
Mantle; Populists, Senators Allen and
Pettigrew.
"With reference to the matter Of the
Senate reorganization, it was decided
that the combination should hold out
for the assignment of Democrats to all
the places on committees heretofore held
by Democrats, while it was agreed that
the Republicans should have the places
hitherto filed by Republicans This will
give the Republicans all the committee
chairmanships vacated by the retire
ment of Senators Cameron, Sherman,
Dubois, Squire, Mitchell Of Oregon, and
Brown, but it will give the combination
about seventy vacancies, while it allows
the Republicans only about thirty.
"The combination decided against
making any concessions, even that pro-
viding for allowing the Republicans to
fill one OF the three vacancies in the
Committee on Appropriations.
"The silver Republicans say that their
principal incentive in entering the coali-
tion is to protect the Finance committee,
which they feared might become an
anti-silver organization in case the Re-
publicans were allowed to have their own
way in committee organizations. All
intention to interfere with the passage
of the tariff bill through the Senate
through the combination of Democrats,
silver Republicans and Populists is
denied by the parties to the agreement" !"
The advocate., 1897-04-14

from the Burlington Hawkeye.

From the Burlington Hawkeye.
Probably the reform that ia needed in
seed distribution, and Of which there is
already a premonitory symptom under
Secretary Wilson's administration, is the
diminishment Of the common variety Of
garden and field seeds, and greater at
tention to the introduction of new varie-
ties and a special effort to foster
production according to soil and climate.
We have aforecast Of this in the energetic
effort of the new Secretary Of Agrlcul
ture to develop the culture OF the sugar
beet. This is an eminently timely and
practical move. It "means business"
Tue Sultan Of Zanzibar has issued proc
lamatiOn freeing the slaves