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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17

An Italian savant has been inVesti-
eating the question whether animals
can foretell earthquakes. On one side
there are many instances given which
show that they do. These instances
are taken from observation of horses,
Gagged birds and barnyard fowls. These
have been observed to show not only
uneasiness, but great fear some min
utes before the shock. On the other
hand there are many seismic observers
who do not believe i'm the theory, and
who claim that animals show fear dur
ing the shock but not before it. 1t
would be interesting to have the views
of Observers in Hilo, Kau and Kona
upon the subject. The Kau and Hilo
people are always getting little shakes.
If they have not yet given their minds
to the subject they might now. The
Star viii see that their observations
are sent to Cosmos" and duly chron.
/ icled.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17
WV. DIMOND,S

Our customers tell us that our
novelties are the best that have
ever been sold in Honolulu. AS d
rule kitchen novelties and labor
saving tools don't amount to much.
Ours do.
The Quick-Cut Mincing Knife
is one that cuts around the corners.
Being made half round, it is the
best for chopping in a bowl. FIT
teen cents is the price.
Every housekeeper knows that
small bits of soap accumulate in
the kitchen until they are thrown
away. The Kitchen Soap Shaker,
made of wire, enables YOU to econo-
mizc in respect to soap.
Half the fun of camping out is
in being able to flip a Flap Jack in
the pan; but half the hunters and
half the cooks don't savey how. We
have a Cake Turner that does the
Tipping automatically. 1t costs IS
cents for a dollars worth of salts
faction. It's made on the no-wear
out principle.
The Premier Egg Cup is a novel
ty that should be in every home.
1t saves scorching the fingers in
opening the egg; it saves disap-
pointment in the way of naturcd
eggs being sent to the table, for by
its use the age of an egg is ascer-
tanned before it leaves the kitchen
1t guarantees satisfaction in every
way.
We've more novelties than we
can write about in one ad. Sink
Brooms at Is cents is one of them
and Worlds Fair Toothpicks i:
another. All good for the house.
For staples we have: Handsome
Candelabra Lamps in Brass; Roya
Banquet Lamps Wrought from
for SOLO each; Crystal Font Stree
Lamps; Brass Railroad Lamps
: excellent for steamer pursers)
Wire Epergnes for the table. Al
cheap.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17
@imeRy @opicS.
'': FEBRUARY II. 1897.
New Process 4" Blue Flame "
Oil Stoves,
Golden Anvil Ranges,
Pansy Stoves.

Nothing is so annoying in
business as being disappointed
in the arrival of goods that
are easily turned into money
and in a great many instances
prevented from filing orders
that have been placed in adj
vance. This has been our ex-
perience with the New Pro
cess "Blue Flame" Oil Stoves.
Owing to the immense sale of
these stoves in the United
States, the makers have been
unable to ship until now our
invoice ordered some months
ago, the same having arrived
on the last Australia.
Possibly the most positive
proof of the success Of the
New Process Stove is the re-
suit obtained in baking. By
the use of a simple device it is
impossible to turn the wick too
high, thus ensuring a steady,
perfect flame at all times. The
use Of coal oil (kerosene) is SO
general that every household
is provided with it; hence there
is no annoyance in the matter
Of procuring fuel. The num-
Der "105" has three burners,
and No. "1O6" four burners
otherwise, they are exact
counterparts of each other.
We have few Of the small
sizes in Golden Anvil Stee
Ranges, and a fine stock o
Pansy Stoves in numbers 5
6 and 7.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17

Consul made a speech, and ii was a
pretty strong one, according 20 re-
ports.
He said he hoped no acts of Austria
liam legislation would so irritate the
forty millions of warlike people in
Japan as to convert them from friends
into enemies. And then he went ON to
point out that some day a federated
Australia with Japan would dominate
the Pacific.
This is text enough to preach an
neXation of the Hawaiian islands to
the United States. How can the peo-
pie of the United States be so blind
as not to see the danger which is ris.
ing in the future?
Of course the above utterances have
caused great displeasure in the Austria
liam colonies, for they contain practic-
ally a threat that if they do not com
mercially and politically play into the
hands of the Japanese, they may look
out for something unpleasant in the
future, but if they are willing to play
second fiddle to Japan, why Japan is
willing to make use of them as long
as it suits her to dominate the Pa
cific" with their assistance. When it
doesn't suit she will dominate the Pa
cfic and the Australian colonies too.
That is the plain English of the after
ances.
If japanese official feels himself at
liberty to talk to the powerful colol-
ial governments of the South in this
strain. what might not be said to the
Republic of Hawaii As fact nothing
will be said, because the japanese
/ Government looks upon the islands
as a fruit ripe for plucking when nee
essary, unless the American Govern
ment chooses to annex us. The policy
of Japan is to keep us Independent UNI
til the appointed time. 1t will keep us
supplied with labor, it will flood us
with tramp steamers and students
with dummy cheques in their pockets,
and it will compete with our mer-
chants by undcrselling them. There is
hardly a line of articles that the Jap
anese do not manufacture. Only yes
terday the writer saw a Japanese cleo
trio battery in use, and "A very well
manufactured article it was.
Meanwhile party here and IA party
in the United States, with all these
facts before their eyes, clamor against
annexation. The Star maintains that
annexation is not only vital to the
Anglo-SaXons settled on these Islands
but that it is vital to the whole cause
of Anglo Saxon civilization in the Pa
cifc. BY not anneNing these islands
the United States will throw back the
civilization for many years. and per
haps forever. 1t is a small thing that
thrown one side or the other of even.
ly balanced scales will make one side
90 up and the other side go down. Ha
wall is the hair that is likely to turI
the scale between the East and thu
West
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17
NN!w@<~>>,~Q~.
Won HOLT BLOCK.
Delegates

IF a wife wants to have her
husband think as much Of her
as he does of his maternal
parent she must look to the
larder and see that it is pro-
vided with plenty Of things for
the inner man. But quantity
in this instance is not the only
essential; quality plays an I'M
portant part in food articles.
You can fill a dish with
peas, but if they are not Of
good quality they will remain
full. We are now selling
genuine Petit Pois in one and
two-pound tins that are re-
markedly good, and cheap.
Another delicacy is Pre-
served Mushrooms-new here
and we are selling them to
people who regard a good din
ner as a requisite to happiness
on this earth. Black English
Mushrooms, and many French
Mushrooms go a long way to-
ward filing a man out around
the vest pockets.
Another trife worth think
ing about is genuine English
jagged Hare. Where is the
Briton who would not 90 a
long distance for a lunch where
jagged Hare is one Of the
courses?
We have a store full of such
things-too many varieties tc
mention in a week. Pickles o.
every sort-from the ordinary
bottled to Batty's Nabob
Tippo Sahib's Curry Powder
Orange Marmalade in stone
jars; Cross & Blackwell's Jams
in glass, and a thousand othel
things,
j. T. WaterhO1aGc
J QUEEN STREET, HONOLULU.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17
DON'T CHANGE THE HOUR.

Several parents of children in the
to ask The Star to state a possible
grievance. They seem to have notion
that opening hours of school are going
to be changed. Such Il move was con
Board few months ago, but the mat
ter was then dropped. 1t appears to
have arisen again.
There is no doubt but that regu-
lation opening the schools an hour
earlier than is now done would prove
a distinct hardship upon the majority
of families. This is IA city in which the
families largely do their own domestic
work. True the people rise early, but
the beds have to be made, the rooms
swept, the younger children have to be
washed and dressed, and in this the
elder children all have to help. This
of fairly well-to-do families who can
afford to keep a cook. 1t would be
hard upon such families if a new regu-
lation were to 90 into force, for, as the
work of the house must be done, as
one of those who spoke to the writer
said, "Who would do the work? Why,
the already overburdened mother
But if it would fall hard upon people
of this class it would fall far harder
upon the poorer classes, where, in adj
dition to the domestic duties mem
toned above, the housewife has to do
the cooking. Among the Portuguese,
where the father goes early to labor,
the children have to attend to the gar
den patch and see that it is watered,
they have to milk the goat and do IA
hundred necessary duties. You will
never see Portuguese children playing
about the roads in the early morning,
they have too much to do. 1t only re-
quires a visit to the slopes of Punch
bowl to prove the fact
The convenience of the parents and
children is what should be paramount
with the Board of Education. The idea
of opening school earlier emanated, it
is said, from some of the teachers. OF
course to person who has no iomcs-
tic duties, who simply gets up, say at
=, has his breakfast served by some
one else at :, and then has no bed max
ing to do or children to wash and
dress, etc, it must appear feasible TO
begin earlier-and to such the adNant-
age would be, in many cases, pecun-
iary one, for, closing early, they
would be in position to gain half a
days work IN the afternoon.
The fact is that whoever did propose
the change must have done it without
due thought OF the social conditions
OF the people here. In Il boarding
school il is possible to begin at any
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17
Blessed Are the Dead that the
, Rain Rains On"

This saying does not apply to
the living, and if you don't want to
be blessed with a severe cold, the
outcome of a good drenching, buy
one of Kerr's English rain coats,
that will withstand any storm. Only
q few LETT
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17
PRESIDENT DIAZ DECORATED.

BERLIN-The Reichsanzeiger Off
cially announces that President Diaz
of Mexico, has been decorated by En-.
perOr William with the grand cross Of
Rainier" President Diaz issued m
edict to the effect that no beer except
the sparkling Rainier" be served in
public places, or on state occasions.
On tap or i'm bottles at the Criterion.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17

HAWAIIAN HARDWARE CO.
FORT ST, opp. Spreckles' Bank.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-17
Look Out for SQUALLS"

The latest squall is dimities at IL
yards for one dollar at Kerr's,
Don't miss them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

Chicago. July 3.
q ~ f0liOws
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09
RICHMOND.
Narrow Escape from Injury II Not Death Of 4
Young French Lad.

Richmond, July 7.-(SpeciaD.-A
French boy, who was riding up Front
street on a wheel Tuesday evening
collidel with a team going in the oppo
site direction, the bike going out from
under the boy who, grabbing hold OF
one of the thlls of the carriage. held
ION until the horse was stopped in front
If the cotton mill The frightened
animal went down the street upon the
dead run and fer a moment the boys
life seemed to hang in the balance, his
body sWaying back and forth with the
mGtion Of the wagon. How the little
FELLOW managed to clear the horses
heels is mystery TO those who wit
messed the incident, but upon being re-
leased from his perilous position h.
slipped cut of sight uninjured. The
bike was slightly damaged
Miss Maggie ONei of New York,
formerly of Richmond. is passing a few
days with friends in town.
The thermometer registered SIS in the
SHADE here, Wednesday the sort Of
weather Kennebec ice dealers have
been wishing to see.
Main street has been turnpiked from
the Free Baptist church to Baker
bridge
The Richmond Lumber Co. expects
to shut down its mill for few days,
Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09
ALL AFRAID OF HIM.
Mrs. Brown Tells Where the Murderer Spen
the Past Week.

New York, July 7-ffow Martin Thorn
spent the last week while the police all
over this continent were looking for him,
Is told by Mrs. Hoven. who keeps Il
boarding house.
II week ago" said Mrs. Hoven. sat
about 10 O. clock in the morning. a str4n-
ger rang by door bell and asked me when
came TO the door If | had any furnished
rooms To rent He carried in his hand Il
new dress suit case. 1t was the only
baggage he had. ! took him to the front
room on the second floor. He liked that
one very much he said, Immediately en-
gasing IT,
shortly afterward. this man, he never
told me what his name was, went out
He took his valise with him. He seemed
very much afraid lest he might lose sight
s1f It. Before he went he said that he was
"A married man and that when he re-
turned in few hours, his Wife would be
with him.
My new boarder came back in about
half an hour, He was alone. My little
slaughter answered the bell. The man
went straight to his room. | never saw
him personally after his first call when
he pretended that he was a great friend
7of my husband. My husband has been
dead three years.
"He tThorn) used to come in at night
after the rest Of US had gone 10 bed He
would leave the house carly in the morn
ing before we were out OF bed. once or
twice only did he come In the day time
NV little boy Willie saw him then.
Everything about him was mysterious
| was not the only one in the house who
was afraid of HIM He impressed all my
hoarders in the same way. But it did not
seem possible that he could be Thorn"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

making what might he called seven con-
seeutive ninth~inning victories.
Billy Hoy has an appetite that is COW
eted by more than one member OF the
tribe of Ewing. In ordering he simply
takes a bill of fare. marlSes the dishes de-
sired and hands ii to the waiter Dusty"
Miller looked with envy upon the mute.s
epicuroan surroundings and then counted
tho ordered dishes that had been missed
on him. Hereafter" said Dusty, Il am
going to mark up my menu card say
TO the waiter I'm deaf and dumb. Here's
my order. Then Ill get what / want I"
The Australian team is travelling in
hard luck. 1t has not nearly made ex-
penses, ana the members held a meeting
last week aud decided to so home About
$4,000 WAS subscribed in Australia for the
expenses on this trip. This and more has
been spent. and now the individual play
ei's are footing heir own bills. They had
more ill-lucS June .. when, having left
their baggage in a pilp in the hotel they
came back to find that a number of their
dress suits and other clothing ard Vaiu-
al,les had been stolen. They will Doubt
less leave very shortly for home. one of
them remarked that they found base ball
in this country too fast for them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09
SULTAN WANTS WAR.
Is Prepared and Snaps His
Fingers at the Powers.
Will Resume HostiIities II Peace Is
Not Declared il a Week.
Has Nothing to Fear 900. 600 Men Ready
to March on Athens.

London. July 7.--Greeco- Turkish
affairs appear to be re-entering an in.
teresting stage. Wednesday. the Porte
despatched a circular ~ It's representa-
tives abroad containing a skillful do
fence of the Turkish case and declining
to consider any frontier ane in Thes-
sally north of the river Pencios. which
it regards as The natural boundary
1t appears that the Sultan has con-
WINGED himself that the Powers VIII not
resort to coercion, ana has decided to
test the alleged concert of Europe 10
the utmost.
On Monday he summoned a council Of
ministers for an extraordinary sitting 10
the fildiz Kiosk. with the result that af
ter a heated discussion, a report was
drawn up in favor Of resumipg HOSTILE
ties. if pence should net be concluded
within n week
The minister Of war set kilograms to
Edhem Pasha announcing the decision
The Turks are rapidly strengthening
their positions IN Thessaly, massing
troops IN Demoko, and terrifying Veles-
tino
According to a cireumstantial report OF
Il conversation between the Sultan and
an officer of his house hold Abdul Hamid
complained that the war had hcssli forced
upon aim and that when he was victor
iouS. Europe refused him either territory
or indemnity, 1nfrefor. he intended 10
resist 10 the utmost He said:
We have nothing to fear The six
Powers failed 20 eoerce Vassos and his
ze,a adventures, What can they do
against 3oo0,e10 victorious troops In
Romelia2
"Supposi'pg they wished 10 coeree me,
who would undertake the task2 ! have
Information from all the capitals of
Europe Indicative OF the indecision of the
Powers.
"Fhhem was fool not TO have sur
rounded the Greek army and to have adj
vanced To Athens. but he may be there
yet. If no concessions are made within
a few days, ! shall give the order 10 adj
vance. We can dictate our own terms
from the Aeropolis Everything Is ready
for immediate action
According 10 this report, the Sultan
does not see any possibility of Russia and
Germany attempting coercion. and de-
chtred that he was entirely ready 10 meet
them both.
The foregoing may he perhaps only 4
bluff, and Il is even alleged In some
quarters, among others by the Italian adj
mifal, Cancvaro, at Crete that peace Is
actually in view.
But IT is significant that Gen. Smolenskl
had long conferences with King George
and NJ. Rail- at Athens. today. and Will
start for Thermopyhe, tomorrow. TO as
sumo the command Of the first division.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09

The house physicians to serve at the
Maine General hospital at Portland, for
the coming year have just been APP
PORTED. They are Or. George NJ.
W3otlman of Westhrook, DR. Nathaniel
Z, Butler of Portland, and DR.. Charles
NJ. Leighton Of Portland, all graduates
If this years class of the Bowdoin
Medical school.
Chief Justice Peters has announced tho
decision Of the court in the somewhat
noted quarrel between Bath and Bruns-
Nick over a bridge across new
Meadows river. The suit was a man
d3muS proceeding on the part of the
Inhabitants of Brunswick against the
c+iy 81 Bath, ana the iefsiustice, in or
dsfin2 that a pcremptofy writ shall he
issued against Path by the clerk of Saga
dahoc county holding that Bath mus
maintain the bridge until the public way
over It shall be discontinued BIZ the com
mi~sioners Of tiie two counties or until
the city may obtain relief from its self
assumed liabilities. by some act Of the
legislature,
A Wen known bookkeeper for one 81
the wholesale hotses in Portland has A
farm about five miles out of the city
10 which he returns each day at the
clese Of business It's right smart
kind of farm. too. and amongst hts
pei stock are two dogs a Scotch terrier
ana Newfoundland, and they are in
paTahle companions W hen he go;
home about O'Clock on a recent night
he found the dogs missing, but finally
tarned an ear in the direction of thu
woods. He could hear the deep voice
ut the Newfoundland at short intervals,
end he detected mournful cadence III
the tones, He procured a lantern. fol-
lowed the sounds. and half a mile from
home found the big fellow tearing away
at the edges eff a crack in the body of
n tree about two feet from the ground.
The big fellow stepped aside as the
bc0kkeeper approached. and as the
light of the lantern fell upon the open
ing there came a joyful yelp from thc
interior OF the tree. The tree was hol-
low. and a Woodchuck had found q
home in the cavity by burrowing be-
meath the root, and coming up into the
tree from below. The terrier had fol-
lowed him into his habtatfon, and
there had been a fight which had re-
suited in a dead chuck. In the scrm-
mage. however, lot of rotten wood
had fallen and stopped the hole. When
the master arrived the terrier was try
ing To gnaw his way out at the split in
the body of the tree and the New
foundiand was tearing away at the ex-
terror edges.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-09
New York Produce MARKET.

New York, July s.
FLOuR-Receipts, 2l.S2a bbls.: sales.
1900 pkgs.; state and Western, firm and
held higher
WHEAT Receipts. 1925: sales 500 600.
opened steady. eased off under short sell
ing. but turned strong and active again
on covering; September. 12AM73h; De-
cember 7ihm15.
RYE Steady, No. Western, 1864. elf
Buffalo
CORN-Receipts. A.975: sales. Go,Ooo:
opened weak and rallied with wheat, but
oased off.
OATS-Receipts, 1900, sales. none
quiet and barely steady; track white q
ei30
BEEF-Steady.
PORK-Dull.
LARD-Dull and nominal.
BUTrER-Receipts $50 pkgs.: steady
state dairy, 10atl4; state creamery. Halls:
Western creamery, Halls; Elsins, Is; fac
tory 1bnl0ib.
CHEFSE-Reeeiots. Gi47 pkgs: quiet
state large. i12@7ss; do. small. Thm7h
EGGS-Receipts. 7l07 pkgs.: steady :;
stato and Pennsylvania. l2Mi2la. West
crn. 10ie.
SlTGAR-Raw. firm: refined. firm
PE1iROLEUM-Dull refined all ports.
s5.95M$6
COFFEE Dull: No. T. III.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE-Quie
MOLASSE,S-D
RICE-Steady.
FIGHTS Steady.
ROSlN-Quiet
TALLOW-Quiet.
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SHIPPING NEWS.
Maine Ports.

icEBoRo-July 8 ar. sch Mary Il
Judge
sld sen Carrie 4 Norton. wylio. 74e
tons OF lee for Baltimore
BANt.OR-July 4 ar sim City Of Pan
gor Ingrahan. Boston: sch Stephen Nor
ris, Hanna. New York
Sid, sim City of Bangor. Hngraham.
Boston; br katahdin, Dahnnger New
Nevenger, Phillips, DO; Omaha. Dorr.
Boston; Sandy Point, HGrd, DO
RotkbAND-July s, ar. schs FRA y
Films. Garston New York; Charlie and
Willie, Post New York
pORTLAND--July \. ar. schs Sarah r.
Palmer. Whittier. Baltimore: Ad,lie NJ
Anderson. Taylor. do; + II Oaiorne.
White. Albany; Forest Belle. Beal Bos-
ton; w III Dewitt. do: Emily a Staples.
Sellers. Penobscot for Boston; W T En-
Cid schs George f. Wolcott Reed
henntfpec and Baltimore. Scbago Thomp-
son, DO. and New York. Falmouth Wal
Lace, =. and Philadelphia
Sid, bk Robert Ewing Nova Scotia: sch
Lucinda Sutton, Ranger
CALAls-July $, sid. schs Hattie Mayo.
Deveneh. Julia and Martha New York.
RED BEACH-Sld, sch Edith Mcintyre.
Washington.
MACHIAS-July 5, ar. sch Gamma
Boston; Josie. Boston.
sA,Co,-Juiy 5 cid. sch Silver Spray.
SIND River \ s
Ar sch Edward W Schmidt. PhiladeI-
BooTHBAY-Jaiy :. ar. sch Conductor.
Gloucester; Yacht Meteor Boston.
IN. schs Empires. Rockland Mary j
Elicit. bamarisectta; Marie GIrl, Wey
mouth, y s: AgT s Mabel Portland
BATH-July :, ar. schs A II Smith. New
York for Gardiner: sarah +, Ward. Bos
Sid, schs II d Bibber. Balamorc. r \
Ianlane, DO; Horny l. Pockham Do: Wm
l. Efkins. New York