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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-06
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In many parts of "the land
of the free and the home of the
brave" at this time of the year
building operations are sus-
pended and every man has his
eye on the coal dealer while
watching the water pipes
showing a tendency to freeze
up.
In Honolulu, where spring
is four seasons in the year,
carpenters may work inside or
out.
The unusual operations of
the past year has had a depres-
sing effectupon edge tools, for,
like everything else, they give
way with too constant use.
We have,Fin view Of the pros
pective demand, made a big
buy of the finest grade of tools
obtainable in Eastern maekets.
They are what carpenters and
machinists need all the time,
and when buying the best they
get that which lasts longest
and obviate the necessity Of
breaking in"
We have the Millers Falls
Company Rachel Brace, with
Drill Attachment. The Elk
ms Saw File. Bailey's adj
Unstable Blade Wood and Iron
Base Planes. Steel Tape
Measures, guaranteed to be
accurate. Two-foot Rules in
Ivory and bound with German
Silver. Olmstead's Improved
Mitre Boxes. The "New
Rogers" Foot Power Scroll
Saw with Drill and Emery
Attachments.
These goods are all guaran-
teed to be first class.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-02-06
AMERICAN INTERESTS.

These phrases are well worth consid-
ering: In time of peace prepare for
war" Possession is nine points of
law" The phrases are good, but it
is evident from Lord Salisbury's re-
marks that he deprecates any mil
lenial expectation respecting the
Anglo-American arbitration treaty,
but hopes it will gradually substi-
tute judicial decisions for war.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
FOR SUNDAY READING.
A MORNING SONG.

Awake. awake. dull heart, and sing
The praises of thy Lord and King,
Who gives the new day and the sun,
Hope. health, and every pleasant thing.
He scatters all the shades of night
Out of the darkness builds the light,
And on mans ignorance and wrong
Pounds His eternal law of right.
II He one hour withdrew His care
The earth would stagger in blind air,
And laughter would give place to wall,
And hope to horror, everywhere.
Angels and saints, the white-robed choir.
Praise God all day, and never tire.
AID weaker voices from below
May join and swell the chorus higher.
For praise is privilege there as here.
And each In his own place and sphere,
Angel or man, or high or low,
May take his share and count II dear.
Then wake, my heart. remembering this.
That truest praise true service Is,
And take thy new day from Gods hands,
And work therein for Him and His.
Susan Coolidge, in s. s. Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
THE PRAYERS OF JESUS.
Their Unselfishness, Simplicity, Sin.
certify and Earnestness.

certify ana Enrnestness.
To all who look to Jesus Christ as an
example worthy of imitation, whether
they regard themselves as Christians
or not, the fact that He believed in
prayer and made it His custom to pray
should have the strongest weight.
Prayer plainly had the utmost value
for Him and He clearly believed that
all men must find il equally valuable
for themselves. lie prayed in His
hours of emergency, and so, probably,
does everybody. A famous man once
said: II do not believe much in the
common theory about prayer, but l
am sure that, if were to find myself
adrift in an open boat in midocean, l
should pray to God as earnestly as any
body else would" But Jesus also
prayed when He was happy, and with
as much conviction of the propriety and
value Of prayer then as Mt any other
time.
His prayers should serve us as eX-
amples by reason of the absolute as
surance of Gods interest in us and ten
der concern for us on which they are
based. He went to His Father in that
childlike, trustful spirit which He has
hidden us cherish. And the underly-
ing mood was always that which came
to the surface in that terrible hour Of
anguish in Gethsemane, Nevertheless,
not my will but thine be DONE" 1t Is
noticeable how conspicuous in them
was thanksgiving. True gratitude to
God or man seeks expression. Their
unselfshness also strikes us. Jesus did
not think first and chiefly of Himself
and of what He wished or did not wish.
He loved to pray for others and His
prayers for them reveal His longing
for their highest, hottest welfare.
Simplicity, sincerity, earnestness,
reverence and mighty faith--these
are the characteristics of the prayer of
Christ so far as His utterances Of this
sort are recorded. If we were to study
them more frequently and absorb their
spirit more fully, there would be great
benefit to our own petitions, whether
private or public. If some ministers
who, doubtless unconsciously, have con-
tracted the habit--we had almost said
the disease-of addressing more or less
philosophical essays to the Lord instead
of prayers, would try to learn how to
pray as Jesus Himself did, there would
be an immediate and notable improve
ment in the tone and value of services
of public neutrality-suspicious..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
4 GREAT CHERRY ORCHARD.
How an Immense Crop IL Handled On
a CalifOrnia Ranch.


n California Ranch.
Probably there is no better known
and certainly there are few larger
ranches in the state of California than
that owned by the Meek estate. 1t is
situated little way outside the city of
Oakland and it covers huge tract of
land between San Lorenzo and Hay.
wards. 1t is spread over $500 acres Of
some of the finest fruit-beariLg c, untry
on the Pacific coast. A thousand acres
of this extent is in fruit, for the most
part cherries.
The ranch is owned and controlled BY
the two Meek brothers and their Sis
tiers. how skillfully may be known from
the fact that in spite of hard times and
depressed market there has never
been year when it has not paid, and
paid literally. A full crop of cherries
from this wonderful orchard will bring
its owners anywhere from $4,000 to
$4,000. G# "
The seasons cherry picking goes on
at a great rate, and q little army of
p:ckers toll from tree to tree, stripping
the branches like a swarm of locusts.
The sight is picturesque, for the
pickers come by families and live in
the cherry orchard in small village of
tents. At the height of the season near
ly $50 pickers are employed. They are
OF all ages and both sexes, as the work
is OF such nature that il can be per-
formed as well by women as by men,
as well by ten-year-old girl as by
grown man. The pickers are, of course,
boarded at the expense of the ranch,
and besides are paid from rs cents to
a dollar day, so that wife and two
or three children can make as much
money during the few weeks of the
picking season as the head of the house
can earn during the entire year.
After the picking the cherries are
taken over to the packing house and
handled at once. The ripper cherries are
sorted out and put upon local markets,
while the more backward are shipped
east. The force of packers can dispose
of 420 boxes per day. Two thousand
boxes GO to the car load, and must be
hurried to their destination as speedily
as possible, for there is no fruit that
loses its flavor quicker by overkeeping
than the cherry. For the same reason
the boxes must be rapidly marketed,
for they will not keep many hours in
the heat Of an eastern summer. There
are plenty Of difficulties in the way of
getting the California cherry upon the
dining tables of the eastern consumer,
but with ordinary care and a fair season
the prices obtainable are not bad. In
Chicago ten-pound box of California
cherries can be made to bring dol
lar if properly handled, while in New
York, though the eastern local market
comes into competition, the same quail
ity will sometimes sell for 12 cents
poupd.-San Francisco Wave.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
BY THE DAY.
The Folly of Making Over-Drnfts on
Time.

Time.
Responsibility is limited by ability.
Duty ends somewhere with everyone.
When q man tries to do his best Gods
Judgment regards the measure OF his
power as well as the degree of his fidel-
ity. For man to stop short of his
limit of power is sometimes duty, some
times detection; but to go beyond it is
destruction. Overwork to-day is
charged up against tomorrow, and ma
lures clerk of credits is not a philan-
thropist. Good intentions do not make
good an overdrawn nervous account.
An Old Testament idiom which calls
the daily rate of mama "the portion of
day in his day" calls the sacrifices, the
duties, "the work of day in his day."
That means working by the day."
Lord! for Tomorrow and its needs
do not pray;
Keep me, my God, from stain Of sin.
Just for to-day.
Let me both diligently work
And duly pray:
Let me be kind In word and deed,
Just for to-day"
There is "a fair days work." and at
it's limit it is as truly duty to rest in
the Lord as before it was to work in His
name. There remaineth, therefore,
every day rest from labor and self
reproach for the people of God; and
every honest servant Of God should en-
ter into that rest and cease his works, as
God did from Hiss. S. Times.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12

didn't have money enough to pay his
house rent" and went to Alaska. He
returned July Is with 100000 in gold
nuggets.
Still another notable case was that
of a man so years old, poor and with
q family of seven children. That was
was one year ago. He left his home
in Seattle, and when he came back ne
had 100000 in his pockets and had
mining property worth over $1,0OO,O0O.
There are dozens of such examples Of
luck, but we have no room to more
than hint at the case of the poor Swede
who went to the gold fields two years
ago. He returned this summer with
$4,000 in gold and sold an interest in
his claim for $4,000.
But are these true stories? the reader
may ask. The answer is to be found
in the fact that the United States as
say office at Helena, Mont, received
nearly $4,000 ounces of gold by the
steamer from Klondyke, and there are
other assay offices. a.s
1t must not be supposed that every
man who goes to the Klondyke is as
fortunate as the examples quoted. From
time to time we read the walls OF the
unlucky ones in the paper, who, nat
urally, advise others not to go to
Alaska.
And now a brief description of the
new Ell Dorado will be in order.s, The
greatest discoveries nave been made in
the streams flowing from the east into
the Yukon. They are all in British ter.
ritory, in that vast region marked on
the map as Northwest Territory"
which is one of the provinces of the
dominion of Canada. So. while they are
often spoken of as the Alaska gold
fields, as a matter of fact all the rich
tional stories are told are not in Alas
ka, but just across the border in John
Bulls domain. The one hundred and
forty-frst degree of west Longitude,
which you can see on your maj
stretches from Mount ST. Elias to the
Arctic ocean, is the boundary line. and
beyond few feet at Fort Cuda hy and a
few at Forty Mile there is no dispute
about it. and the relocated mounted
police of Canada keep the bes: of order
in the new mining camps. Virtually,
as far as climate is concerned. the gold
fields might as well be in Alaska The
cold sets in early in September and
lasts till the middle of May; and u is
30 cold that ii is extremely hard to en-
dure unless one has good constitu-
ton. is strong and healthy and is well
provided with warm clothing and fura.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS.
Thoughts In Brief from the United
Presbyterian.

Thoughts In Brief from the United
Presbyterian.
BY faith we stand. For faith takes
hold of God, and in Him there is ever
lasting strength.
Every life is journey from the
present to the future, from the known
to the unknown. The pilgrims, who
follow day by day the pillar and cloud
of the Word and Providence, shall
reach the promised land in safety.
The world will rate you at what you
prove yourself to be worth. Your
family name, your college record may
serve as an introduction, cont after that
you must prove yourself to be worth
something to the world by what you
do.
To mot weary in well doing" to
work for Christ against the opposition
of "false brethren" and in the midst
of wickedness to "shine as a light of
the world" requires strong faith; but
with nothing less should we be sat-
isfied.
"All the threads of gold which run
across our checkered society, all the
impulses upward and onward, all the
invisible growths in goodness and
grace are answered prayers. For our
prayers are not uttered on the house
tops, and the kingdom itself cometh
not with observation"
A heart that can envy another its
pleasure, is never capable of the great
est happiness itself. The world can
never be very bright for one who is
easily annoyed by the joy of little chill
dren. The most miserable old age is
one that is out OF sympathy with
youthful life and happiness.
The Joy of Heaven is unselfish joy.
Think of the angels of God rejoicing
over one repentant sinner. Think OF
the angel choir that sang: GLORY to
God in the highest, and on earth peace,
goodwill toward men," We are APP
preaching the condition of the Heaven
ly host when we are able always to
rejoice with them that do rejoice.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
THE NEW ELDORADO.
Wonderful Riches Of the Yukon
River Gold Fields
Located I'm a wild Country, Far from
the Comforts OF Civilization-HOw
to Get There-Cost of
the Trip.
Especial Letter.l

Within the past few weeks the news
papers have been publishing wonderful
stories of the lucky miners in the gold
fields of tae Yukon river, and all over
the United States and Canada mems
minds are stirred with the golden
possibilities. 1t has long been known
to prospecting biologists that the
streams tributary to the Yukon, and in
some places the great river itself,
wandered DER sands of gold," but it
is within the past few weeks that the
discoveries have been made that have
turned the eyes of the people thither.
Some of the stories read like tales from
fairyland. One man, for instance, who
went to the Klondyke last winter from
Michigan, and who lived for months in
hole in the ground, suffering great
priyations from the terrible cold and
half starved, had almost decided that
there was no gold in Alaska, when one
day, after 20-mile tramp, he came
upon little stream" to quote his own
words, (which emptied into sort of
basin. The water was clear and the
gravelly bottom was covered with mug.
gets" Of course, he plunged into the
icy stream and picked up all the gold
in sight. (And there are not many of
us who wouldn't endure very icy water
for such price, That was the begin
ming of his luck, and when he re-
turned to his home in Michigan two
weeks ago he had a deposit check for
$4,000, and owns an interest in sew
eral mining claims still. gN. o43.
: Then there is the case of man from
Kansas City, who "a year or two ago
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
IRRESPONSIBLE TEMPeRAMENTs
a Trait Many of Us Allow TO Whats,
Our Very Characters. 4ff4

Our Very Characters. fifA
There is perhaps no one factor in the
problem of living ones life and doing
ones work of greater importance than
temperament. When one sees the hosts
of people who are practically the crea-
lures and victims of temperament, one
is tempted to change the Emersonian
adage: Character is destiny so as to
make it read: Temperament is des-
tiny" There are multitudes of peo-
pie who see nothing clearly and dis
tinctly because they see everything
through the mist which rises from some
popularity of temperament; who cam
look at any question disinterestedly
and dispassionately because it touches
their feelings or fortunes at some
point; who can never, with decisive
sense of reality, see an event or an ex-
perience precisely as it occurred, and
hold that image in their mind undis-
torted. There are hosts of people whose
mental processes are vitiated by the
influence and action of tempera-
ment, who, meaning to be thoroughly
truthful, are never to be trusted in any
statement of fact; whose very MEM
cries, without their knowledge, are at
dramatic temperament especially re-
quires the keen development of the
sense of reality. The tendency to see
persons and events in dramatic posi-
tons and relations is fatal to absolute
veracity unless it is balanced by thor
ough sanity of mind. The picturesque
ness of this temperament and its skill
at making reports of conversations
and happenings of all kinds interesting
and striking, are delightful gifts, but
they bring great perils with them.
The person who has these gifts uncon-
sciously groups the actors in the little
drama, shifts the lights and changes
the stage for the sake of the effective
ness which Is craved, and which be-
comes, in the end, stimulant which
must be obtained Such person is al
ways unconsciously playing a Leading
part in the drama which shelf this
person be woman, as is often the case
constantly constructs. She is always
giving herself the advantage Of the
moral situations; she is always put
ting some one else in the wrong.
Her feelings envelop the facts; her
egoism interprets her own action
in it's best possible light, and so she
gradually constructs n veritable myth
"a story which has the basis of fact,
but no basis of truth. One who has
seen this process go on, and has noted
how memory itself gives back, not
what it holds but what Is wanted, SO
that lie is fashioned in essential un-
consciousness, has trembled to think Of
the possible perils Of such n tempera-
ment to its possessor and to others, and
has realized the immense Importance
of making children not only the mas
tiers Of their wills, but of their temper
aments as well. The worst complica-
tons and the most heartbrealling ex-
periences of life have often had their
rise in the workings and distortions OF
an irresponsible temperament. There is
no safety save in the ability to see
things that touch us most keenly pre-
cisely as they are; it Is always better
to mortify ourselves than to lie about
others.-Outlook.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
CUSHIONS IN HIGH FAVOR.
Americans Developing the Luxu-
rious Taste of the Orientals.

Americans Developing the Luxu-
rious Taste of the Orientals.
Fashion has insisted and kept on in
sisting that cushions and pillows
should remain in style, until we are
educated up to an appreciation of their
needs and worth, says an eastern writ
er. Not only are we almost Dis luxurious
as the orientals in our use of cushions.
but there is very general appreciation
of their aesthetic value and of fitness
Of covering, size and shape.
Heart, crescent and other fanciful-
shaped cushions are no longer in vogue,
not merely because they are less prac.
teal, but because we are at length
learning the beauty of simplicity.
Some one has said that "a room well
cushioned is a room well furnished;"
and surely, if one must use cheap furni-
ture, comfort and luxury can be Sc
cured in no other way. They trans
form two-dollar cot or grocery box
window seat into homelike and easy
resting place; make even wood-seated
rockers dreams of comfort, and may
impart just the touch of color needed
to harmonic a motley collection of
furnishings.
Z The covering of cushions for general
use need not be of expensive material
to be pretty. There is almost no end
of medium and low priced fabrics that
are at once suitable, handsome and
durable. Among such are Agra, art
and dress linens, crash, plain and
twilled, canvas yacht cloth, denim,
Japanese Grape, Java print, grass cloth,
awning cloth and ticking. japanese
cotton rugs make charming covers for
floor cushions.-St Louis Republic.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
THREAD TOOTH
Dental Trouble the Result of Using
the Teeth in Place of Scissors.

Dental Trouble the Result of Using
the Teeth In Place of Scissors.
The dentist looked at the incsor
about which complaint had been made
and nodded significantly.
II see," he said. Thread TOOTH"
The words conveyed but little intel
ligence to his hearer, and, failing to COM
prehend their significance after few
moments reflection, she asked what he
meant by it.
"You do great deal of sewing, don't
your" he said.
EYES," she replied in a bewildered
way; "but don't see"
'And you bite your thread instead of
cutting it, don't your" interrupted the
doctor.
81 don't know"
"Well, know. OF course you do.
Nothing else could have made this tooth
look as it does. This biting of thread is
the most pernicious thing in it's effect
on the teeth that a woman can do. 1t is
surprising how many of them have I'M
consciously fallen into the habit. 1t
would require only an extra second to
take up the scissors and clip the thread,
but the woman who sews lifts the gar
ment to her mouth and with those sharp
teeth sewers the thread, thereby gain
ing fraction of minute, perhaps, but
at the same time literally saving the
enamel off her teeth. Gnawing thread
once or twice day cannot possibly be
harmful, you argue. Probably not. But
when you bite it score or more times
a day and repeat that every day in the
year the effect is bound to be seen at
last in what call the thread tooth
IF it was only the silk and fine cot
ton that women bite it wouldn't be so
bad. But you don't stop at anything.
Why, the other day was I'M a house
where woman was sewing buttons on
child's shoe. The thread she was using
was little less than rope in thickness,
but she bit it off just the same. Before
I went away she said she would be
around to see me professionally in a
few days, as her teeth had been troub-
ling her. i asked her which one needed
being attended to. She pointed out the
one that served as scissors, of course.
Ican't tell a woman's age by looking at
her teeth, but / do know whether she
does much sewing az not."-Chicago
Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-08-12
Our Debt 10 Poxterity.

When we have freed our thought
from the tyranny of the present, of the
near, of the material, it is likely to
occur to us with startling force that
the future depends upon us for its
heritage; that it waits with expectant
hands to receive as its main equipment
what we of to-day shall bequeath to
It.; that our immediate descendants
and the world in which we live will be
largely what our action determines
they shall be, that we are to furnish
the capital upon which the world after
US is to do business. Chicago Stand
ard. tHs