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and telling them to fire at it over a level stretch of ground, the extent of which is known to an inch. In actual warfare it is not usual for the opposing forces to measure the ground with tape line before beginning battle, neither does soldier obligingly stand still long enough for the other man to draw bead on him. The man must learn to judge distances and hit mov- ing mark in order to prevent woeful waste of ammunition-and these two essential things rife practice at the new targets will teach him.
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WRONG WAY TO SHOOT.
Ola Style "Bul1s-Eye" to Be Dis
 carded in the Army.
A Lesson Learned by the Defent of the British Troops in the Trans vaaI-Neyy Targets for Use on
 Army Rifle Ranges.
TCopyrieht. 1897. I

When the trained marksmen of the TransvaaI routed the regular troops of Britain at Majuba Hill by shooting with such marvellous skill as to pick off the redcoats like so many deer on a hill. a great outcry was heard in Brit ish army circles against the folly of teaching a soldier to shoot by placing him opposite target and telling him to place a bullet as near to the bulls eye as possible. It was clearly demon strated that between the stationary bull's-eye of a target and the figure of man crouching behind a powder with a deathdealing rifle at his shoul- der there was a serious difference. As result of this outery various innova- tions appeared on the British ranges The figure of man in action, running across a rocky country, was introduced, and a system of moving targets came into use.
 The United States army officials have just come to the same conclusion as did the British after the disaster of Majpba Hill. As a consequence of this awakening there will shortly be issued set of targets to be used at the vari- ous rife ranges that will revolutionize the old system of training soldiers to become marksmen. Instead of the bull's-eye in the center of a square tar get, the object to be aimed at will be a black mark representing, as nearly as possible, the figure of man as it ap- pears when he lies prone on the ground, rife presented in fhe aet of faIipor i'm
 It is argued by army officials that to teach man to shoot at 8 small mark in the center of a target does. not fit
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STANDING MAN
 TARGET

at present in existence, being admit tedly an institution established and maintained for and in the interest of the government service. and conducted and carried on by officers of the United States in the performance of their du- ties as such officers. and under and pur- suant to regulations duly adopted, must necessarily be government instru- mentality, and therefore not taxable under the laws of the United States or by the states. In adopting this view, the treasury department has ordered the assessment for oieomargarine in this case Washington Cores pondence Military Gazette, Chicago
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THE NAVY OF JAPAN.
The Powerful Fleet to Be Built Dur-
 ing the Next Ten Years.


 The naval programme of Japan has received lately some notifications. The four frst-class cruisers will be {, 0,200 tons each, instead of 7,5oo, as first contem- plated. Between this present time and 1906 Japan purposes to have the follow ing war feet:
 Six ironclads, first-class battle ships, from 12.510 to 15,240 tons; one iron clad of second-class and 7,335 tons; six protected cruisers of 9,2o0 tons each, seven second-class cruisers of more than 4,oo0 tons, six third-class cruisers of 5000 tons; 12 cruisers of the fourth class and over f,5o0 tons, three torpedo gunboats of 1,2oo tons, 12 torpedo catch CTS, 115 torpedo boats, and 25 gunboats, etc.
 One of the first-class cruisers will be built in Japan; one ironclad is already building in England; one first-elass cruiser has been ordered in France, and another in Germany. Two second class cruisers are building in America.
 This programme has been laid out with view to the opening of the Rus sian Trans-Siberian railroad and to the Russian naval construction now pro- ceeding. Military Gazette, Chicago.
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POST EXCHANGES EXEMPT.

Articles Sold In Army Stores Not Lia-
 bIe for Internal Revenue Taxes
 The treasury department has decided that articles purchased for army eX- changes are not liable to internal rev. enue taxes. The question arose with reference to some oleomargarine which was being sold at the post exchange at the Washington barracks without payment of the special tax. When the fact became known a tax was assessed for future sales, and the officer in charge of the exchange was notified to settle for past sales. Considerable cor Tespondence passed between the war and treasury departments on the sub iect, with the result as above stated.
 The judge advocate general of the army asked an abatement of the tax on the ground that the post. exchange isan agency or instrument of the United States, and, therefore, not taxable un- der the internal revenue laws. The treasury department held at first that as the exchange is a private arrange ment for the personal comfort and benefit of individual soldiers, it was subject to tax for furnishing manu- factured tobacco, cigars and malt liq- uors to enlisted men, but the judge ad- vocate general contended that this form of exchange passed out of existence and was superseded by the present sys- tenn, which was introduced by the war department on February 1, 1889.
 He argued that the post exchange
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A Joe FoR zoo TuRKEYs.

Turned Loose in H7s Orchard to Save
 II from Invading Grasshoppers
 ". F. Birmingham, of Oakland, few years ago purchased large tract of land in the river bottom below Pollas- ky. and has since put out over 1s,00o fruit trees There was a small orchard on the place when he purchased it, and these older trees are in full bearing, while peach trees but three and four years old have borne large crops. The soil is deep silt, and very fertile. Mr. Birmingham put in large gasoline en- zine and pump, and pumps water from the San Joaquin river to irrigate with. The orchard presents very thrifty ap- pearance. and all the trees that are old enough are loaded with fruit
 The other day an army of grasshop- pers came down from the hills to the southeast and invaded one corner of the orchard They were too young to fly much and could only hop and crawl, but they had a voracious appetite, and within few hours had eaten every leaf from every tree over an area of five acres.
 There was in the garden tract nearly everything in the vegetable line, but the hoppers showed no preference what ever, eating everything clean as they went. Squash vines that were very thrifty, each of which covered space of perhaps six feet square, were eaten off clean. Strawberries were eaten without cream, and every berry and vegetable in the garden went to fatten grasshoppers. And there were mil- lions upon millions of hoppers and hop pers. They are not of the 17-year va riety either, but just common, every day foothil1 grasshoppers with moun- tain appetite. As their wings are not large enough to enable them to indulge the disposition so prevalent i'll both man and animal to hurry on to other lo- calities in search of greener or better pastures, they just hop and crawl upon the trees and vines, and eat, and eat, and eat. It does seem as if they can eat for 24 hours without rest.
 Mir. Birmingham at once put an ad- vertisement in the Republican that he wanted thousand turkeys. A wagon load of turkeys passed through Fresno recently en route for Pollasky, but he wants all he can get.
 As an experiment Mr. Birmingham mixed with a Gf.art of middlings and a quart of bran one pound of arsenic and set the mixture before the invading army. They ate with a relish and marched onward, right on. He says he didn't find dead grasshopper.
 Two years ago the hoppers invaded the same orchard. Mr. Birmingham found Portuguese who had band of TOO turkeys, and at once made arrange ments with him to bring his turkeys down to the orchard and camp there. The owner of the turkeys had several well-trained shepherd dogs, and with their aid 25 turkeys were allotted to each row of trees, and herded slowly sssong, eating hoppers, as they went. Men were sent in advance to shake the hoppers from the trees, and the tur- keys did the rest. The hoppers were totally destroyed and the orchard saved. -Fresno (Cal.) Republican.
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NEW AND NOVEL

A new toy to amuse the children com sists of small balloon hung on rod attached to the ceiling over stove or lamp, the Iballoon rising as it be- comes full of hot air and descending as the air cools, to be filled again and re- turn to the ceiling.
 For use in holding screw in position while it is started into the wood or metal wire loop having acircle of wire at the end to hold the head of the screw Is slipped onto the shank of the screw driver, thus bringing the head of the screw in position. \
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Hunnnn Inanttx.

He was carrying long pole around which a slender line was wrapped, and in one hand he had can that evidently contained bait.
 Presently he met man.
 'Hello," said the man, "are you go- ing fishing?"
 "Yep," he replied, and passed on.
 After awhile he met boy
 Hi" the boy yelled, "goin' fshin', ain't you?"
 Yep" he answered. and proceeded upon his way.
 Eftsoon an equestrian overlook him and refined in his charger long enough to ask:
 Well, are you going fshing?"
 ''Yep." he returned, and still kept on.
 Presently there appeared upon the horizon man in a buggy, and in due time he smiled pleasantly and said
 ''Ah, going fishing, suppose" ?"
 The man with the rod and line and bait stopped. looked at his questioner a moment, and then asked:
 Do I look as if I were going to a strawberry festival or anything of that lind?"
 Then, without waiting for an answer, he climbed a fence and siunk along se- cluded paths as if he had been an es- capped culprit And while he fshed he said to himself:
 q wonder if people ask such ques- tions in order to gratify their curiosity or just because they think they are humorous and original?" Cleveland Leader.
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WOMEN AND THE WHEEL
It Is Well for Them to Ride. Says
 Dr. Sayre.
Bicycllng Means a Healthier Race of Men and Women for the Coming Generation-It Is Better Than
 Dress Reform.
rcopyright. 1Ss7.1

"Women do well to ride the wheel" says Dr. Sayre. "It means stronger, healthier race of men and women for the coming generation. Women were going into a decline. Their nervous force was wearing out. That means a great deal, for the decay of a nation be- gins always with the breaking up of the nervous system of it's women. Nor dau's book on degeneration had some excuse, as it shows by the discussion it brought about. He had some strong points on which to base his argument, but he was not thoroughly justified, and even if he were, the bicycle is prov
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 FLEEING FROM THE GEAR.
4 SIav Colony with Marks of ShacIxIea
 aud Qunsenn TnIes of xNoc

4 Siav Colony with Marks of ShacLIes
 and Dungeon Tales of Woe.
 A carload of Russian Slavs lately passed through here, bound for the Bad Lands, west of Bismarck, where they will locate. They are unable to speak English. There were 21 men in the ,arty, besides women and children, They came from eastern Russia. and were averse to talking about their na- i've country, and seemed to think they were still under the power of the ezar. Whether nihiists or not, some of the nembers of the party have suffered rom the suspicion of nihilism. One of ae men, Michael Lodovitch, claims to 2 brother of the famous exile Ivan odovitch, who has spent n years in ae salt mines of lower Siberia. An- ther emigrant, Tesah Stolstock, was mt to Siberia for life in 1884, and ill bears the marks of the shackles ith which he was confined in under- round dungeons. On the coronation the present ear, however, he was irioned, with 200 others. Later, Stol~ ocl was again arrested as a suspected hiIist, the same crime of which he IS accused and punished before, but escaped. He was joiAed by his sis I in Belgium, and the5 at once start for America.
 Perhaps the worst example of Rus- m punishment in this party is Ivan plosly, a Pole He was never in Si- ria, but for six years was kept in dungeons of Moscow. These dun- ons are under the river, and, he says
 always at least two inches deep h water that filters through the nent walls. From June, 1889, to No. nber, 1896, Molosky saw no ray of 1t, and his only companions were the 5. His offense, so the police claim an attempt on the life of Michael nor, Russian officer of the ezar's rd. Molosky claims that he never
 trial and was only released on promise that he would leave Russia ence, otherwise suffer life imprison- It At the point where these people
 locate there is already quite q iement of their friends, who pre-.
 them about year ago.-Minne- Journal
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wAsHlNeToN.s TEACHER.
Was He 8 Convict Bought by the
 Great Mans Fathera

NEGaA
 Paul Leicester Ford, iD the True Washington, quotes from Rev. Jona- than Boucher that George, like most people hereabouts at the time, had no (other) education than reading, writ ing and accounts, which he was taught by a convict servant whom his father had bought for schoolmaster." He adds that Boucher managed to include so many inaccuracies in his account of Washington that, even if this statement were not certainly untruthful in many respects, it could be dismissed as value less" {. 6o.) On this a correspondent of the Evening Post comments: "If truthful in any respect, Boucher's chronicle cannot be valueless. But how far it is untruthful is question which
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Strength of the National Guard.

The total strength of the national guard, as shown by the returns to the secretary of war recently issued, is 112,- 082 men, divided as follows: Cavalry, 4,945; artillery, 4,716; infantry, 98,849; and special corps, including medical department, signal corps, bicycle corps, bands, etc, 1,777. The annual state ap- propriation for these troops amounts to, in round numbers, $2,s00, ,ooo, while the federal government makes an al- lowanee of $40o,0o0, in stores and sup plies.-MilitarY Gazette. Chicago.
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are weavers, taiIors or any other trade, with little other difference that I can hear of, excepting, perhaps, that the former do not usually fetch as good a price as the latter.' This statement, he declares, was not made at random, nor without as much previous authentic information as the nature of the case would admit of ''-N. Y. Post.
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Growth of Lnndnn.

andon was considered overbuilt in and in that year law was passed nsf building on lots previously un- pied. The cry was renewed in 1900, a London contained 100000 build and again in 1873, the number of spited houses then reaching 52s, ,794.
 ite of the prophets the big city has
 nued to add miles of new streets A year IN. Y. Sun.
 J4 #ahe feeding expenses af the zoolog-
 5ardens average E lO0 2 week.
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OnIY a Doctor.

He's a physician, isn't he?"
 s0h, dear no; only plain doctor. He doesn't charge enough to entitle him to call himself a physician. "--Chi- eago Post.
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Got It for Nof1,in.

De Jinks-The tailor said I could have the suit for $35 cash or $50 on credit.
 Bjones-of course you studied econ omy?
 De Certainly. took it for $50.-Demorest' Magazine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-06-27

can develop physical power quite equal to mans, and she can use tito as con- tinuous advantage. The bicycle will prove this to her satisfaction and to the benefit of her race"
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A Kitchen Trnnehu

Willis-So your hired girl left rather unexpectedly. Is there anything miss. ing?
 Wallace Yes; the kerosene can Harlem Life.
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How He Secured Relief.

How did you come to get divorce from your wife?r
 Her father gave her a piano for wedding present" Town Topics.
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Eyes Hurt by Lacing

The eyesight is very often injured for life by tight lacing
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
HOLSTER DRUG co.
SOLE AGENTS.
The City Of Hamburg

is "a feature of our store and "makes
one hungry" There the daintiest deli
cacies of the world are temptingly dis
played. Findon paddock, cod roe, sar-
delles, herrings, (smoked and pickled)
boiled ham, smoked halibut, spromen
in del, fresh cream cheese, sliced ba-
con, behring's, eastern sausage, import
ed sausages, frontage de Roquefort.
Finnan Mince-Procure a good large
smoked haddock, and remove the skin
by holding that side of the fish toward
the fire, when it will be found that it
can be easily slipped off. Take the
fish from the bone, chop very finely,
allowing to half -.ound of the chop
ped fish an ounce and a half of salt
butter, half a teacupful of milk,
thickened with little flour, half a
teaspoonful of finely minced parsley,
and pepper to taste. Put IL mixture
in small pan and stir vigorously, UNI
til thoroughly hot with a wooden
spoon. Pile the mixture high on a hot
dish and ornament all around with
neat slices of hot buttered toast. Serve
with a garnish of finely chopped pars-
ley or hard boiled yOlk of egg,-Iiome
Notes.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.

She can rumple up fifty dollars
worth of dress goods, and buy a reel
of thread, with an order to have it de-
livered four miles away, in a style
that will transfiX the proprietor of
the establishment with admiration.
She can-but what's the use? A wo-
man can do anything or everything,
and do it well. She can do more in a
minute than a man can in an hour,
and do it better. She can make the
alleged lords of creation bow down to
her own sweet will and they will
never know it. Yes, and more than
that, she can tell good beer from bad.
That's why all sensible women insist
on having Sra yer" Beer. They know
it's the healthiest and best bottled
beer to be had. Phone 1888.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
What Brush's Remedy Will Do.

We desire to be distinctly under
stood that bre0enkiOn is aimed at
rather than cure. AS will be seen
by many of the testimonials, it very
often does effect cure, and even
if not taken until the tendency to
nausea becomes manifest, will al
most always give much relief The
claim, however, is not made upon
its curative properties, but we do
emphatically state that as preven-
tative it is as nearly infallible as
anything mundane can be-and we
only wish to assert that which the
experience of those who use the
remedy will fully substantiate.
Though a comparatively new
remedy, hundreds of appreciative
letters unsolicited, have been and
are being received from extensive
travellers and globe trotters bearing
on the merits of this remedy.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
he

The latest Kodak put out
by the Eastman Kodak Com
pany is the No. 2 Falcon. 1t
takes a picture % x3a inches
square and can be loaded in
daylight. 1t is certainly the
very best value that has ever
been offered, the price being
$500. If you are thinking of
trying your luck at winning a
prize don't fail to call and ex-
anime the No. 2 Falcon. 1t
will please you.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
Hawaiian
Electric
Company.

The cleanest, brightest safest and really,
in the long run, the cheapest and best light
for use in the family residence, is the incan.
descent electric light. Safe; nothing could
be safer. A few days ago prominent gen
tleman of Honolulu came rushing down to
the office of the Electric Company and said:
"Give me figures for wiring my house, and !
want it done at once; no more lamps for me.
Last night lamp tipped over and it came
so near setting fire to the house and burning
my children and l take no more risks"
This is the sentiment of quite number in
the past few weeks, who have ordered their
houses fitted with the perfect light
Just think it over and make up your mind
that you want the best and safest light; send
for the Hawaiian Electric Company and tell
them what you want
We have complete stock of everything in
this line and have just received lot of the
very latest designs in chandeliers.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09

All Kodakers can compete
for the prizes, and by leaving
their pictures with us we will
forward same at our own ex-
pense. You should avail your
selves of this golden opportun-
ity to secure a prize. The
beautiful scenes for subjects to
be found in and about Homo
lulu will compare favorably
with any country on earth.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
A MILLION GOLD DOLLARS

Would not bring happiness to the
person suffering with dyspepsia, but
Hoods Sarsaparilla has cured many
thousands of cases of this disease. 1t
tones the stomach, regulates the bow
els and puts all the machinery of the
system in good working order. 1t Gre
ates a good appetite and gives health,
strength and happiness.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09

The road to success in business i
of an advertisement.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
The Only Known Specific
that will Invariably
Prevent " rIaI de
Tier.
All physicians who are familiar
with its therapeutic action have CIV
en- it hearty endorsement.
What Brush's Remedy Is.

1t has always been supposed, and
with reason, that seasickness could
neither be cured nor prevented, ex-
cept in occasional cases. Power
full drugs have been largely en-
ployed, and have at times relieved
the sufferer, but those which are eff,
fectual in one case are found of no
value in others, while the after-ef-
fects are often quite as unpleasant
as the malady itself.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
Climax.

1t is perfect in every detail.
So simple that a child can OPP
crate it. No one can complain
about the price. The Eastman
Company make none but High
Grade Goods and at Low
Prices.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-09
You
Needn't
hink

Very long, as to what style of shoe
you'll buy next, as a glance at our win
dows will show you dozen new styles.
We have just opened an elegant line
of ladies' Burgardy Southern ties, and
Chocolate Chrome Oxfords, the pre-
vailing fads in women's shoes.
These are both made with the new
extension sole and new tips.