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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-23
YATES WILL EXHIBIT.

Mr.. Fred Yates, the portrait artist
has accepted the invitation of the. XII
lohana Art League to exhibit his
paintings. The exhibits will be made
on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
yitational affair, in charge of the Art
League.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-23
SUGAR ADVICES.

Castle q Cooke have been notified
by their San Francisco agents that a
ney York telegram on January, 16 re-
ports sale of 1000 bags of sugar
due to arrive at 3-16 cents.
There has been an upward tendency
in sugar stock since last advices and
in the past two days has taken sharp
advance
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-23
BEAUTY RULES LOVE.

And love rules the world. Perfect
health means beauty-and there's no
easier way of acquiring it than riding
the bicycle. HAWAIIAN CYCLERY,
Way Block, King street.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-23
WASH MATERIAIS.

All wash materials are being closed
out regardless of cost. Now is your
time to buy at N. S. Sachs.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-23
OREGON APPLIES.

McGhesney g. Sons are Offering Ore
gon apples in boxes at low prices.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-23
BORN.

MOORE-In Paauhau, January 21, 1897
to the wife of Andrew Moore, son.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25


Our neighbor the Press. questions our
view of the Hawaiian matter 1t seemssto
us ''all the same bthat in spite Of the
grave objections involved which our con-
temporary states in an able fashion that
the one argument outweighs them all,
that it will not answer for any other
nation to hold the key to the Pacific
Ocean. Our coast line Oh the Pacific de-
mands that we do all in our power to
make it secure and nothing tcould be
more foolish than to give any other mari
time power. about. the.only rendezvous. that
the Pacific affords. OF course in doing
this we have to add few thousand more
Tammany constituents to our population
but every rose has its thorn" One
thing we are sure of that the Islands will
be greatly blessed by the move and it is
not the worst thing in the world for
Unc'e Sam to do good in this way
Christian Mirror.
There.is not the slightest evidence that
any other nation is seeking to get pos
session of this 'skey" Of the Northern
Pacific Ocean, and hence the question Is
not whether we or some other nation
should take it, but whether we should
take it or let it remain as it has been for
the past sixty years, an independent state.
AS for selling it for the purpose of pro-
tecting our Pacific coast we hold in the
first place that our Pacific coast is in no
danger, and secondly that If it were the
annexation of Hawaii would do no good
unless we entered upon the policy of
maintaining a very large navy. The
dangers to this country which need guard
ing against are not dangers from without
but dangers from within. Unless we in
stitute policy of aggression ourselves
we need have no fear whatever of attacks
from without. But population of d.
verse and discordant elements does consti-
tute serious menace to the perpetuity
of our form OF government, The annexa-
tion of $4,000 or 80, 900 Asiatics. of very
different civilization from ours, is not a
good way to diminish this danger. We
have been go certain heretofore that an
Asiatic population was a menace that we
| have passed the most drastic exclusion
acts, yet now the proposition to annex
some 80, 600 or 10000 of that kind of
people is hailed with reclamation as q
means of saving the country AS for
blessing the Kanakas we are inclined to
think that the country is not called upon
to do that until they manifest
q i desire or atssssleast willingness
to be blessed. AT the present
time they do neither. Furthermore the
history of the North American Indians
shows that the comforting of blessings is
not always uppermost in tie minds of
Caucasians.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
THE CHRISTMAS TREE BUSINESS

The first effort to put Christmas trees
upon the market called forth the derisive
comment, "Who would spend money for
green truck that could be had for the cut
ting?" But the sentiment has grown SO
rapidly that the vending Of green's is an
important branch Of trade. The Christ
mas decorations come next in Importance
to the gifts and one is not complete with
out the other. The wealthiest home and
the humblest cot must be wreathed in
green for Christmas, and all of this
branch of business has sprung up within
a score of years.
The first to move in this line was Mr.
Dudley Hartford. stone mason. His
health had failed, and, obliged to aban-
don his trade, he was looking about for
some light employment when it occurred
to him that he might sell some green
wreaths in Lowell market. Nature being
lavish with the material, and all the out
lay required being the labor and the
marketing, this thoughtful man set about
the work, and found a ready sale. This
gave him courage for another season, and
fromSthat small beginning has grown up
the business as it is now conducted in all
parts of the country. Many people are
employed for three months previous to
Chris mas in the work of gathering and
preparing the various styles of trimming.
The cone wreath, now SO popular and
seen on every hand, is an Invention of
this man within five years. The manu-
| facture of this wreath requires system and
skill. In the wreath factory may be seen
rows of boys, each having his part in the
| industry. There is boy for sorting and
wiring the small cones into groups of
three, four or seven, according to nature
There is the moss boy, who moistens and
wires the moss; there is the alderberry
| boy, who prepares the red berries of the
wild alder shrub for ornamenting the
wreath with bright color: there is the
windfr, who prepares the foundation,
and the most skilful hand is one of ex-
| perience who puts on the finishing touch
Then comes the examiner, who approves
and boxes each wreath by itself for ship
| ment.
The gathering and preservation of ferns
. is quite an important part of his bust
ness. Many large cases that are often
thought by freight handlers to contain
Try goods are really packed with forms
that have been gstheFded back in the
hills of Vermont, New Hampshire and
Maine for Christmas business Boston
Transcript.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
CURIOUS THINGS
WATCH.
ABOUT

(From the jewelers. Review.)
Open your watch and look at the little
wheels, springs and screws, each an in
dispensable part OF the whole wonderful
machine. Notice the busy little balance
wheel as it flies to and fro increasingly,
day and night, year in and year out.
This wonderful machine is the result of
hundreds of years of study and expert
ment
The watch carried by the average man
is composed of 96 pieces and it's manu-
facture embraces more than 200 distinct
and separate operations. Some of the
smallest screws are SO minute that the
unaided eye cannot distinguish them
from steel filings or specks of dirt. I'm
der powerful magnifying glass perfect
screw is revealed. The slit in tho head
is 2-l00 of an inch wide. 1t takes 30S,-
900 Of these screws to weigh pound, and
o pound is worth Sl5S5. The hairspring
is strip of the finest steel, about 91-2
inches long, LOO of an inch wide, and
27-70O0 of an inch thick. 1t is coiled up
in spiral form and finely tempered. The
process of tempering these springs was
long held secret by the few fortunate
ones possessing it, and even now is not
generally known. Their manufacture
requires great skill and care. The strip is
gauged to 20-l00 of an inch, but no meas
uring instrument has as yet been devised
capable of fine enough gauging to deter
mine beforehand by the size of the strip
what the strength of the finished spring
will be. A 100000 part of an inch
difference in the thickness of the strip
makes difference in the running of a
watch Of about six minutes per hour.
The value of these springs when fin
ished and placed in watches is enormous
In proportion to the material from which
they were made. A ton of steel made up
into hairsprings when in watches is
worth more than ~ 12 times the value of
the same in pure gold. Hairspring wire
weighs 1-20 of a grain to the inch. One
mile of wire weighs less than half a
pound. The balance gives five vibra
tions every second, 300 every minute, 49,
010 every hour. 432 600 every day, and
! 81 $50. 900 very year. At each vibra-
tion it rotates about | times, which
makes 1877 100000 revolutions every year
Take, for illustration, locomotive with
six-foot driving wheels. Let Its wheels
be run until they have given the same
number of revolutions that o watch does
in one year, and they will have covered
a distance equal to 2S complete circuits of
tho earth. All this watch does without
other attention than winding once every
"a hours.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mrs. Ellen II. Simpson, the widow of
Bishop Simpson. of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, died Sunday in Philadel.
phia. She was foremost in every charit-
able movement in the Church. Few
matters of the Church calling for hard
and incessant work failed to find her in
the front rank, and in nearly all of them
she was recognized leader and fitting
life companion for SO eminent and char
liable man as her husband. She was
president of the Methodist Episcopal Or
phanage. as well as Of the Home for the
Aged, both of which were organized by
her, During the Centennial in 1875, she
was one of the ladies chosen by the Com
mission to represent one of the thirteen
original colonies. She started the Silk
Culture Association, and was q hard
working member of the Western Temper
airy Home. as well as the Indian Assooi-
aition and the W. G. T U. She was
also trustee of the American University
at Washington, director of the Museum
of Art, vice president of the Home and
Foreign Missionary Association, and a
member of the Bible Readers Union.
The Church of ST. Giles, Cripplegate,
London, which was seriously damaged in
the recent great fire, was similarly at
tackled in the year 1547. Within its pre-
cincts were buried the remains of many
distinguished men, including Milton,
Martin Frobisher, John Fox the Martyr
ologist, Robert Glover, famous herald
in the time OF Elizabeth, DR.. William
Bulleyn, and many others, while the
parish register records the marriage of
OIivor Cromwell and Elizabeth Bourchier
on Aug. az, 1920.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
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SaeriGf's Sale.
STATE OF MAINE.
Cumberland s,

AoA1A 49, NJ 4aA@hAAfA-s
Cumberland SIS,
Taken this fifteenth day of December, A.
d., 1897, on execution dated the tenth day
of December. A. D., 1897, issued on judg-
ment rendered by the Superior court for the
County of Cumberland, at 81 term thereof be-
gun and held on the first Tuesday of Novem-
December, A. d., 1897, in favor of Helen NJ
Grover OF Boston in the County of Suffolk
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ex-
ecutriX of the estate of William o. Grover,
late of said Boston, deceased, against II err
vey S. johnson of Nahant in the County of
Essex in said Commonwealth of NIassachu-
sets, owning real estate in said County of
Cumberland for the sum of five thousand
and forty-nine dollars (5G49) debt or damage,
and thirty dollars and forty six cents $50 4s)
costs OF suit, together with fifteen (15) cents
redeemed, viii be sold at Public Auction, at
the Sheriff S ONCE in the city Building in
Portland, in said county to the highest bid
der on the nineteenth day of January. A.
D., 1893, at ten o'clock in the forenoon the
following described real estate, and all the
right, title and interest which the said Her
vey s. johnson has in and to the same, or
had on the twenty-seeoId day of January,
insthe forenoon, the time when the same
was attached on the writ IN the same suit,
to wit: certain tract of land with the
buildings thereon, situated in Freeport in
said County OF Cumberland containing one
hundred and ten (l10) acres, more or less,
bounded as follows:
bllO SOubIlGIIN CDIn6E OIL lana
of James Small, thence northeasterlv
by said Smalls land to Range E, or land of
Thomas Ward; thence southeasterly by said
Wards land and land of George StanwoOd
TO the road leading to Bungannek Landing
thence by said road southwesterly to the
line of Ruth Fsrr's land; thence by said
E,arr's land southeasterly to the land OF
Edward James; thence southwesterly by
said James land to rand of Robert Dunning
to stake; thence southwestern by land Of
Thomas Rogers and William Ward to 2
stake; thence northeasteriy by said Wards
land to y corner thence northwesterly by
lands Of William Ward and Henry and Mel
son Curtis tc the point OF beginning; except
ing the right OF Town Way over The above
premises rs now laid out and travelled. Be-
ing the same premises conveyed to the said
Aervey S. johnson by Reuben IL. Mayberry
by deed dated the fifth day of May, A. d.
1851, and recorded in Cumberland Registry
Of Deeds, BOOK AIS, Page 40.
Dated ut Portland this fifteenth day OF
December, A. H., 1887.
JAMES H. BANKS,
dec1Sdta w3WS Deputy Sheriff.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

The Rev. DR.. W. D'Oryille Doty cele-
DRAFTED the twentieth anniversary Of his
rectorship of Christ Episcopal Church,
Rochester, on Sunday. The interesting
event was marked on the previous
Wednesday by q banquet given by the
Pensioners in honor of their rector. DR.
Doty was graduated from Kenyon Col.
lege, Ohio, in 1862, and later from the
General Theological Seminary. He was
first stationed at st. Paul's Church,
Boston, where he was assistant to the
rector. He was called to All Saints
Church, Brooklyn, and went from that
parish to ST. Paul's, Waterloo, N. Y,
where he remained seven years, until
called to his present charge, where he has
had such long and successful pastorate.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

The agents of the Cuban Junta make a
very feeble attempt to justify the assas-
sination of Col. Ruiz by alleging
that it was necessary to intimidate the
cowardly and corrupt men in their ranks
who were liable to be allured intoimaking
terms with the Spanish authorities
through fear or bribery. They say that
hereafter no Spanish agent will dare ap-
proaoh an insurgent camp, and that it
win be dangerous for any stranger to DC
SO Better reasons than these must be
offered TO excuse deed which was afro
cious and especially repulsive to those
civilized methods which are supposed to
mark modern warfare.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

Russia is not to rest content with a
gigantic railroad across Siberia, for she
now is projecting a great ship channel
which will connect the Baltic with the
Black Sea. The entire length of the
waterway, all of it within Russian terri
tory, viii be nearly 100 miles, but the
canal power will be only 1875 miles in
length, the rest of the route being through
canalized rivers. The channel will be
wide enough to allow the largest war YES
sells to pass through readily. 1t is ex-
pected that the canal will be completed
in about four years, and meantime 1t
will give employment to multitude Of
Russian workingmen. AS a strategic
move, so TO speak, it is worthy of consid-
GRAFTON, for a Black Sea squadron could
quickly reach the Baltic Sea, and Bal
tic Sea squadron find its way without
much difficulty to the Black Sea.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

A feature of '"society journalism" in
Kansas is the publication, along with a
list of wedding presents, of a list of the
young men who have been refused by the
bride. Some persons inoorrigibly dis
posed to oynicism might be tempted to
inquire if this is not done on the theory
that the public desire to scan, now and
then, list of the saved as we'll as that
enunerating the fatalities.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

Secretary Cages reply to the Federation
of Labor which had criticized, or more
correctly speaking. denounced his cur
rency bill, is one of the most admirable
documents we have seen for long time.
Not that its logic is superior to that of
many other papers that have dealt with
the same subject or its positions main
tanned with more ability. Its conspicu-
Gus merit lies in its excellent temper
rather than in any of these things, though
it was able and logical besides.
If financial discussions had al
ways been carried on in this spirit there
would have been less free sil yer sentiment
than there is today. Not that the gold
advocates have been the chief sinners, for
as matter OF fact they have not. Such
phrases as "gold bugs" and "money
sharks have quite as frequently been in
the mouths of the silver men as 'fanat-
ics'' in the mouths of the gold advocates.
But moderation and courtesy in one dis
putant always oompels the other sooner
or later to assume the same tone, though
he might at the beginning of the
disputation have INDUCED freely
in "slang whanging." Had either
side in the financial controversy
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

The New Jersey Supreme Court has
just executed very remarkable change
of front. A fow weeks since it refused to
re open the question of the vote on the
anti-gambling amendment, and declared
that it had become part of the constitu-
ton. Now it grants writ which opens
the question. It is difficult to say just
where we are att on this important
issue
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

persisted in presenting its argument
In moderate and courteous language the
other wouldshave been compelled by the
force of public opinion to adopt the same
method, and what has too often been a
Wrangle would have been an argument,
IN which the side that presented the
strongest case would have had good
chance of winning the support of the
voters No silver man was over convert
ed, or ever will be, to the gold standard
by calling him swindler or Il lunatic.
The only effect of that treatment is TO
harden his heart and make him less
amenabie to reason and argument. Sec
rotary Gage has set style of discussion,
VIII ich keeps open the door to mems reas-
on and give a chance for argument to
get to it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

There Is still considerable doubt as to
the exact figure, but one thing is certain,
Uncle Sans sealskin coat purchased of
Great Britain has come pretty high. But
he must have it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

The Pennington Chronicle pronounoes
the civil service reform law gigantic
fraud" And yet the last Republican
platform pointed to it with pride and
promised to enforce and extend 1t. Was
that platform Gigantic fraud" too?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
Houe shogd Goods.

The ancient Greeks believed that the
Penates were the gods who attended to
the welfare and prosperity of the family.
They were worshipped as household gods
in every home. The household god Of to-
day is DIR. Kings New Discovery. For
consumption. coughs, colds and for all
affections of Throat, Chest and Lungs it
Is invaluable. 1t has been tried for a
quarter of Il century and is guaranteed to
cure, or money returned. No household
should be without this good angel 1t is
pleasant to take and a safe a d sure
remedy for old and young. Free trial
bottles at H. p. S. Goods Dug Store.
REGULAR size o0c. and 81 90.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 20.

The majority for license at the last
election in Boston WAS 1851 greater
than in any city election for seventeen
years, the year 1888 only excepted, when
the majority reached 1904.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
suckien's Arnica salve.

The LIST sALvE in the world fer
Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and oil Skin
Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or
nc pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money rotun ded
Price IS csnts per box. For sale by Ii. F.
s. Goold, 577 Congress St., under Con-
gress Square Hoist
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25

The story is afioat that Senator Wolcott
attack Secretary Cages bill on the
ground that it is fragrant violation of the
bimetallic pledge of the Republican party.
We have expressed grave doubt as to the
adyisability of pressing this measure at
this time, because of the wide difference
Of opinion among Republicans as to just
what changes are needed in our currency
| system, and tho consequent impossibility
| of passing 1t, but opposition on the
ground that 1t constitutes treaohery to
| binetalism seems to us far fetched and
unsubstantial. The platform of TIE
Republican party declared that until free
coinage of silver can be brought about by
International agreement "the existing
| gold standard must be preserved" Sena.
tor Woloott has made tour of Europe
and demonstrated to the satisfaction OF
every body-exnept possibly himself and
Senator Chandler-that there is not the
slightest chance of an international agree
ment for the free coinage of silver. Score.
tary Gage prepared his bill after this
demonstration, and its purpose is to dc
what the Republican party said must be
done, until an international agreement
was arrived at-preserve the existing
/ gold standard. Whether it is absolutely
necessary for that purpose, whether it is
the wisest measure that could be devised,
whethersit can be passed.or not, are AL
questions admitting of different answers
But to claim that the suggestion of suoh a
measure. or its passage even. by Congress,
is treachery to bimetallism is absurd.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-25
ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank of Portland for the
election of Directors for the ensuing year, and
the transaction Of any other business that may
legally be presented. will be held at its Bank
ing Rooms on TUESDAY. the 18th day of Jan
uary, 1895, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
j. Z. WENGREN, Cashier
deco dtd