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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-26
riiS BIRDIE FLEW.
She Was Designed TO BE Number Three,
but Fooled the Old Man.

but Fooled the Old Man.
A dozen passengers Of US got off at East.
man to take the East and West road, and
on the station platform, seated on a barrel
of Kerosene with bis face in his hands, we
found an old man. AS we looked at blm
wo saw tears in his eyes one Of the
crowd kindly inquired what was tho mat
ter, and after two or tIiren sObs the old
man rose up and inquired of us as whole:
Gentlemen, how old would you say
sm?',
cat least TO-" was answered
"Would you say that / had dyed my
hair?"
"We would"
and my whiskers?"
YES
"And would you believe that fell in
love with a gal 1G years old and asked her
to marry meY'
"Of course we would"
"Wnal, that's Jest what did. Yes, sir,
/ wanted he, for my third wife, and when
l got all dyed up she was wilin. This
mornin we started for Peachville to git
married. We had to git off here to change,
and while we waited we sat down on this
very bar1 and cooed and sqLoze hands, and
l called her my birdie. Gentlemen it may
not seem possible that AN old man like mr
could eco and make a fool of hisself, but
that's what / did. We was accom- when
tho train cum along and a young Teller
jumped off and said to Nancy:
Many, doth love to cool?
~ doth, said Nancy.
"'DOth love to coo with an old critter
like that
"'F g the best coo,coo I've got
I'd by what fond name doth he call
you?'
"'Ho calleth me Bis birdie
"'He is old, and he is dyed in the wcol,
and he is 10 mate for thee Come and be
my birdie and COO with me-.
"And say, exclaimed the old man az he
flung down his hat and gestured wildly,
may l be horn swaggled to Goshen if my
birdie didn't spread her wings and fly
away with that chap and leave me standin
here with my mouth wide open"
"That was awfulr' said sympathetic
voice.
81 should say it was, and you kin
imagine my feelins. Icourted Nancy for
six weeks 1t cost me six shillin's to git
dyed up and dollar for railroad fare, and
then she walked off with another man! I'd
hev trusted that ere gal with my lifo, but
at the very fust chance she got she gin ne
the throw down for another coo-coov'
'And what are you going to do about
it," was asked
''Do about it? DO about it?' lie repeated
as he jumped up and down and fell over
the barrel. IN tell you what I'm goin to
do about it, I'm a-goin home. When
git thar, off comes this dye, and them
whiskers, and this hair, and I'm goin over
to the wilder Spoonor, who's ninety y 'ars
old, and say;
Widder, will you coo with me and be
my birdie for evermore, for durn my but
tons if Ill ever trust a gal ag in if l live to
be thousand years old New York
Sunday journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-26

Washington once threw a dollar
across the broad Potomac. We will
try to make your dollar go farther if
you use these columns to boom your
business.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-26

Mr.. Ward L. Smith, of Fredericks,
town, Mo-, was troubled with chronic
diarrhoea for over thirty years. He
had become fully satisfied that it was
only a question of short time until
he would have to give up. He had
been treated by some of the best ply
sicians in Europe and America but got
no permanent relief. One day he
picked VI a newspaper and Glanced to
read an advertisement of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. He got a bottle of it, the
first dose helped him and its continued
use cured him. For sale by all drug
gists and dealers. Benson, Smith &
Co., wholesale agents for II. l.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-26
The PeytectATtIcIe

OF the perfect article in draught
beer don't hesitate to drink the fam
Gus Pabst Milwaukee Beer on tap at
the Royal, Pacific and Cosmopolitan
saloons. Scientifically accurate and
as near perfection as possible. Su-
preme award at Worlds Fair.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-26
And So the Poor Dog Got None.

Old Mother Hubbard, at the end of her
hopeless quest for Il bone, held the cup
board door ajar as her poor dogs tail beat
rhythmic anticipatory tattoo upon the
bare floor.
1T is so hard to disappoint him." sho
murmuref, "and yet-and yeti
A tear fell as she closed the cupboard
door.
81 never could sacrifice the family
skeleton !'-New York Press.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-26
c. BREWER & Co., LTD,
Queen St, Honolulu, H. l.,

AGENTS FOR
Hawaiian Agricultural Co., Onomea
Sugar Co., Honomu Sugar Co., Wal
luku Sugar Co., Waihee Sugar Co.,
Makee Sugar Co., Haleakala Ranch
Co., Kapapala Ranch.
Planters Line San Francisco Packets.
Chas. Brewer & Co.'s Line of Boston
Packets.
Agents Boston Board of Underwriters
Agents Philadelphia Board Of Under.
writer's.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-04-03
AnllOrlsrn n,

When n man claims that he under
stands women you may be tolerably
sure that he has had experience with
one woman whom he found he didn't
understand. Experience is not always
good teacher. The man who has once
taken a sham for reality is apt ever
afterward to take all reality for shams.
An unhappy woman turns for distrac-
ton to things" but with man the
memory of love can be affected only by
a new love. Hence devotion, intense and
sincere as far as ii goes, to fascinating
woman is often only his surprised
tribute, though genuine in its way, to
her ability in helping him to forget an
other woman who, at all hazards, must
not be remembered. Demand does not
always regulate supply; lover may
esk for letters at the post Office for a
year without getting any.-Alice w.
Rollins, in Century.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-04-03
NOTHING TO DO.

have shot my arrows ana spun my top,
And handled my last new ball;
/, trundled my hoop till l had to stop.
And swung till got fall;
,umbled my books all out of the shelves,
Ard hunted the pictures through;
have flung them where they may sort
themselves.
And now have nothing to do.
Tho tower of Babel 1 built of blocks
Came down with a crash to the floor;
NV train of cars ran over the rocks
III warrant they'll run no more.
roe raced with Grip till I'm out of breath
Nv slate Is broken in two,
GO can't draw monkeys; I'm tired to death
because have nothing to do.
Maria has gone to the woods for flowers.
And Lucy and Rose are away
After berries. I'm sure they've been out
for hours,
wonder what makes them stay?
NOD wants to saddle Brunette for me,
nut riding Is nothing new;
." was thinking you'd relish canter.
said he.
because you had nothing to do"
wish | was poor Jim Fosters son,
For he seems so happy and gay,
when his wood is chopped and his work is
all done,
With his little half hour TO play;
He neither has books. nor top nor ball.
Yet he's singing the whole day through
But then he is never tired at all.
Because he has something to do.
American Homes.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-04-03

The whole sum Of life is serviss>
service to others, not TO self
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-04
BICYCLE GOSSIP.

The first 1oO-mile bicycle race given
in this country was held at Manhattan
Beach, N. Y. recently, under the aus
pices of the Harlem wheelmen. The
prizes aggregated $500. This sort of
race has been very popular in Europe.
Chicago has forbidden all racing on
the bouleVards and in the parks prop
er; six miles an hour is the legal limit
of speed. The scorchers are in agony
of mind over these regulations, but the
public is immensely pleased. '
A New Jersey justice of the peace
has ruled that riding a bicycle in New
Jersey on Sunday is legal, provided the
cyclist is on his way to church, or to
perform an act of charity or of neces-
sity. In all other cases he holds that
it is illegal. This decision will last
just long enough to get into a regular
court, and then it will be set aside SO
quickly that the justice will be aston
ished ''' ..'''.' .. '- '''
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-04
SOME NEW THINGS

A new window frame carries rod at
one side on which the window is hung
to swing outward as well as slide up and
down. ...... ....f.. f,,,t..,-..
A new design for summer shoes has
the uppers formed Of strips of leather
interlaced to form an open network,
only the toe, heel, sole and eyelet strip
being solid leather. ....' f#'t,
Feather quilts are being used to make
mouthpieces for cigars and cigarettes,
the quilts being split open and cemented
together to form a cylinder large
enough to receive the end of the cigar.
For use in barroom new cuspidor
is formed Of a metal basin, toreach, the
entire length of the bar, set in recess
in the floor and covered with a grating,
the whole being removable for cleaning.
A Philadelphia woman has obtained a
patent on street car which has pockets
under the car floor to receive the folding
side panels and window sash, thus max
ing a summer or winter car with small
labor.
To assist farmers in hay making a
buncher is being made for attachment
to the cutter bar of the machine, with
steelbowed fingers which gather up the
grass as it is cut and deposit it in rows
on the field. d.. .. .... H.. -. &c.,. ...s
For use in cleaning horses new de-
vice is formed OLA piece of flexible fiber
cloth bent double, with the corners fas-
tened together and the edges left free,
the back forming the handle by which
the brush is held.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-04
FOR FEMININE EYES.

Cashmere ribbons in soft colors and
ichangeable effects are among the new
millinery ribbons.
Very large marabout and ostrich
feather fans are the only rival in the
field to the tiny .spangled empire fan.
An extremely novel idea is the fast
ening Of single long-stemmed
blossom, rose preferred, on the side Of
the dress skirt. 49, ~ ...- .as.. h,
! Petticoats are gorgeous in the ex-
IRENE. They are extremely full and
most of them are made with deep
Spanish f1ounce,. edged with several
lace-trimmed small rUffles.
/ Black and white check ladies' "spats"
are novelty. Back and white suede
kid enters into the composition Of
tailor-made dresses; so do gold or mo-
hair and gold braids also. Tartan or
white muslin are the newest ties. "
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-04
PERSONAL MENTION.

President Folks mansion In Nash
vibley Tenn, is soon to be sold by auc-
ton, by order Of the supreme court.
Senator Nelson w. Aldrich Is back
in Washington after a long rest at his
home at Sharwick Neck, r. /. His
health is much improved.
Thomas Ball.. the sculptor, who has
resided in Florence, Italy, for the last
80 years, has returned to America, and
Intends to spend the rest Of his life
in New York. Mr.. Ball is in his seventy
ninth year. IS Is ST. az
F. w. Aver, Of Bangor, Me-, has a
collection Of postage stamps that tanks
third in the world, He lately returned
from London, and is reported that while
there he sold single stamp of the Ha-
waiian issue OF 1851 for e 700, or near.
ly $4,000. s..S &.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-04
Committee OF Arrangements:
G. Fl. Sproule, A. L. Womack,
@. A. Gardner, II. j. Jones.
Walter Henderson.

Invitation Committee:
Elko-J S Gardner, Ed. Lytton, j T
Wright, James Bett, j b Abel, S e
Rodgers. Henderson Green, P E
Vore,, VIM. Hunter, John McFar-
lane, Chas. Greenberg, Webster
Patterson. ......, ..,
Lamoille-A L Cotant, Jas. Russell,
Jr., Al Griswold, VIM. Rigsby.
Wells-E G Mcclellan, Wm. Krenka.
Ruby Valley-W S Griswold, Adolph
Fink.
Tuscarora-J Eggers, E Dart, w II
Bently, L R Barnard. ....,
Carlin-C N Mcbride, ] Pechard.
Reception Conmittee:
Geo F Talbot, James Brain,
Thos Hunter, CT Hood,
@ F Moore. James Dewar,
Frank Virgins. ..,
Floor Director:
H.. S. VAN DRIELEN.
Floor Managers. .
Ed Bilkey, IN Sherwood,
George Banks, T E Van Drielen,
P s Triplett. Walter Kline,
Jas Holland, J M Thompson,
Best of music has been engaged for
the occasion. ,......... .
TICKETS admitting Gentlemen and
Ladies), $500.
A most cordial invitation is extended
the public.
" ........ |..t.-t. ....l .-... ....,-ss
| " ... @l.on' n" sg
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-11-04
S23,568 80

TREAsURER's RALANoE SHEET.
Cash in Treasury to tie credit Of the
various funds, June 80, 1897:
In State fund. ............S 800 81
Judges salary fund, 80. --
In general county fund.-. 555 IS
In cash contingent fund. 8 20
In INDECENT sick fund o D.. 16 90
In county school fund. 80. SO IS
IA officers salary fund.-. e12-.7O
In road fund .......... -
In County High School fund 534 10
Elko Co. Spec. H. s. fund o
d ...... .......... -. 253 O6
Elko Go High School bond
e., redemption fund ....... 1886 II
.frn. -
Total. "............. 32,30S 70
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

is useful one. It can be worn as a
dinner gown at a pinch with the help
of a lace hchu), though it is principally
made for day wear, and for visiting
purposes. Brooches (silks) of large pat
terms are being adopted by elderly Ia
dies, especially in black, or black COM
blned with mauve or emerald green.
Walking dresses are being made more
OF cloth than of any other material. The
beautiful face cloths are selected for
the autumn, and they are made in very
recherche style, qualified, however, with
the simplicity that the many English
tailors in Paris have taught our eIe-
gantes by means of exquisite work
Blue, red, and green cloths are the
most prominent, grenat and prune push
ing those favorite shades hard. The red
prunes are less fashionable than the
blue tones of the shade. Satin cloths
and cashmere cloths are in favor An
other cloth, a novelty, which has
big future before it, is called here epin-
CLINE 1t is variousIy ribbed, sometimes
having diagonal ribs, not up and down
or from right to left. It can be had
plain or fancy. In some the fine ribs
match the ground: in others the ground
is of a contrasting or a deeper shade;
some are spreckled with a tiny design,
others-and these are the richest-pre-
sent the aspect of an embroidered or
brocaded fabric. The epingIines are
made up into tailor gowns of excellent
style. One exquisite model Of beige
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04
HOW THE NOVEL
SKIRT is MADE.

The skirt foundation is cut on our
seven gore pattern, measuring 4 yards.
1t is scanned and hemmed. On it is hung
a seven-gore skirt of Liberty silk, cut
long enough for a series of tiny tucks
from waist to edge. The tucks flow out,
and being very narrow, have a pictur-
esque Corded effect. This skirt must
be scanned before the tucks are made.
It is hemmed apart from the founda-
ton. which it joins at waist, pocket and
pIacket hole. Bodice lining of the usual
shape, with double right front, so that
the fronts hook together in the centre,
the right front crossing to hook under
the left arm. Fit, seam and bone the
lining, except the side seams. Drape on
the lining two pieces of accordion
pleated silk striped with lace. Re-tack,
stitch and bone the side seams, after a
final "try-on." Berthe of frilled silk.
A coat sleeve lining is covered with a
tucked sleeve of silk, all in one piece,
with modified puff. F'rills of silk form
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

First of all cities in the country to
employ a woman as srreer-cIeaning in
spector is Chicago.
Long ago Mrs. Paul became convinced
that the streets of Chicago. particularly
the side streets, could be kept far clean
er, with no more expenditure of public
money In her domestic life Mrs. Paul
IS not the woman to sweep the dust into
a pile under the sofa and leave it there.
Much less would she undertake to clean
the parlors and leave the kitchen, into
which visitors seldom stray, a mass of
filth. And now that she is in the employ
of the city Street Cleaning Department
she viii tolerate nothing which would
be abhorrent to her as a clean and or
derly housekeeper.
When Mrs. Paul began to inquire into
the Chicago methods of street cleaning
she found that all of the rottenness was
not on the streets. Neither were the
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

contractors in the business for their
health. or for the health Of other citi-
zens. They were on the make, and they
got just as much money from the city
if the streets were half cleaned as they
would have got had their work been
done honestly.
Mrs Paul went into this work not
without experience. She was a vo1un-
teer inspector for a long time, a hideous
nightmare to the official inspectors and
to the lowly men who are paid for do
ing the sweeping and shoveling. Com
missioner AIcGann heard about her, as
she had planned that he would, and she
tried the civil service examination,
passing with honor, and was placed at
the head of the list Now she has got
her appointment and men and material
have been given to her with which she
VIII start on the worst district Of the
city.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

About one-half the distance between
Seattle and Juneau, and lying close
to the west coast of Alaska, is the
Prince of Wales Island. 1t is about
200 miles long, and varies in width
from ten to fifty miles. This island is
heavily timbered, and is capable of
cultivation. It has several lumber
mills and fish canneries. 1t happens
that there is not a strip of land
throughout the vast Alaskan coast, nor
within its boundaries, which bears the
name of Seward, the statesman whose
dream it was to annex this great land
to the American Union, and whose per-
sistence won the battle in 1867, eight
years after the agitation of the sub
ject of purchase began in the Buchan-
an administrator. Why should not
this island, which bears the name of
royalty, and of him who stands next
akin to the greatest sovereign of the
world, be changed to bear the name of
William Henry Seward, tho great
Secretary of State during all of the
Civil War?-SeattIe Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

little bits and rolled with a stone roller
by hand. All along the sides, even out
in the open country, there are cutters
of carefully laid pebbles, and in more
than one place these are beautifted by
fanciful designs made by working to-
gether the white and the black stones.
And they do not seem to work at them
much-just potter around, a little at
time-but the roads are perfect, and
they are all over the islands.
And here, in this paradise of bicyclers,
where one may live at the best hotel
and it is a good one, with the most spot
less of linen and the very best of food
for sixty-five American cents a day
here. where Americans who live too
rapidly may go and get a rest, and
know what it is to live for g, time be-
yond the pale Of the everlasting grind,
here in this place where it is a pleasure
merely to get upon ones wheel for the
very joy of having a perfect road un-
der the tire, there is just one bicycle
owned, a wheel Of the vintage of 1891
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

know It, and especially do those out on
the plains.
Every seafaring man has seen how
moonlight acts Down in the South,
where I've been a good DEAL they say
if the moon shines on a new born baby
it will have green eyes. They say the
same thing in France, too, In Eng
land I've heard a proverb, No moon,
no man. meaning if a male babe is
born between the old and the new
moon it will never be old enough to be a
father.
Some say, too, that If an Unbaptized
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

but velvet dresses are to be much in
vogue this winter. Few elderly and
middle-aged ladies are refraining from
ordering a black velvet gown. Parish
ennes, let me add, often keep their fig
ures into far advanced life; such are
patronizing a very smart gown of the
princess type, fur-edged, open below
the waist to show a skirt of broche or
plain silk-in some distinct color. 1t is
wonderfully CONNIE il faut. The gown
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

Cut a seven-gore or foundation skirt
dn soft silk, not more than 394 yards at
the lower edge. Line with muslin (not
stiff), and edge with false silk hem. On
this mount a bell skirt C6-7 yards at
the lower edge, and very long at the
back for a slight train) in Liberty
printed silk muslin. Seam and hem the
skirt apart from the foundation. Cut
a bodice in lining dow, with front in
three pieces fastening on the left. Fit,
stitch and bone this bodice, except the
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

I'VE were shocked" says a Georgia
editor who has just been visiting Rome
ito see a city in such a state of de-
cay. They doubtless had a big fire
there years ago, and many of the finest
buildings are still in ruins. Here at
home we would have replaced those
buildings in short order. Give us
America for push and enterprise!"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

as well tell him that a whale does not
know when its trail is crossed, even
when it is miles away. WhaIers all
know that, and if they can't explain it
they are just as sure of it as they are
that there is a rise and fall of tides.
Says an old tar, who has been in the
Yokohama trade for twenty years:
Moonlight Will sour milk, too, a lot
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

child sleeps in the moonlight it viii
have no luck all it's life. I've heard
German peasants say, If you spit at
the moon you'll lose your teeth Wood
men there won't cut on waning moon,
nor will the women sew if they can help
it, which all goes to show that the COM
mon people set much store of good or
i'll by the moon. I'm like most sailors
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

cold winter; or is this lavish use of fur
the result of the Russian furOre? A fur
coat is a, necessity in snowy Russia.
Everything is Russian here. The
moujik or Russian blouse distances all
.bodices in the race for popularity, and
fur is being used with lavishness rare
In our moderate climate. It should be
3 good time for furriers. Fur-lined
coats came out last year, but they were
Of a more clumsy type than this years
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

tan. A genuine tartan shawl-such as
Highlanders drape across their manly
forms-is as much priced by the aver
age Parisienne as a genuine Indian
shawl She turns it into all sorts of
pretty things. The latest is a wrap
arranged in a draped style. Plaid
dresses abound; plaid silks and velvets
for blouse bOdices-promise to be
quite as fashionable as they were a little
while ago. On a graceful figure a black
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

side and shoulder strap seams. Then
cover with soft Liberty silk Cmatching
the pattern on the muslin) in three
pieces-a back, a narrow left side, a
double right side. Then drape two
pieces of muslin from the left shoulder
across the right hip. Stitch and finish
the side and strap seams. The front
drapery crosses the opening on the left
and hooks on the right beneath a bow.
This bow (with long ends) can be made
of hemmed muslin or of one of the new
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

ribbed epingline (two tones) has a tailor
skirt of moderate cut, neatly stitched at
the edge and seams. The little coat, a.
triumph of cut, fits neatly, with modest,
easy basques and stitched seams The
fronts, fastening invlsibly with hooks
down the centre, has the breast seam
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

fancy ribbons. Cut an elbow sleeve
(ftting) in lining. Cover with a puff of
muslin Chalf width) and coat sleeve
Of embroidered silk Edge with a
hemmed founce of silk or chiffon Vel
vet can be substituted for the en-
broidered silk. Quantity of material re-
quired, silk (for bOdice), double width,
IL yards; muslin (for bodice and sl1irt),
8 yards. The foundation skirt must be
trained like the muslin skirt.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04
FESTIVE PARIS SENDS OUT ITS DICTUM.
HOWe Styles Are Being Fashioned in the French Metropolis
The Russians are Being Initiated
The Russians are Being Initiate

smart models, and were less general.
A great deal of figured and faconne
fabrics are to be worn. The tartan
fever-aIways periodical here-has
broken out afresh. It is singular what
a love the true Parisienne has for tar
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-04

Paris.-There are new confections ga
lore here. I just saw a coat of green
cloth, trimmed with astrakan, which
had the wing sleeve and the coat lex
cept the coat sleeve) lined with squirrel.
Evidently Partisan furr1ers expect