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The age-herald., 1898-01-01
A Palpable "Fake."

From the Chicago News.
 Little Willie--"I see it says In the. paper here that St. Louis mans throat was cut by his collar. Wasn't that terrible?''
 "Wilie's Papa-'Now, I wonder if that correspondent thought anybody would be- lieve a real St. Louis man had ever worn a collar?'
The age-herald., 1898-01-01

that there should be an increase in. the cash necessary for payments. If the cur rent statement reflects the actual business of the banks, the deposit gadn during the past six days has been in cash rather than in credits,
The age-herald., 1898-01-01
Notice of Stockholders Meet.
 ing.

The annual meeting of stockholders of the office of the company in BirminghsnE Ala, On Monday. January 1o 1898, at 10 o'clock,
 Secretary and Treasurer.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-03-09
Race Program
For March 10, 1898.
Races to Commence at ! P. M. Sharp.

LIST Race-PACIFIC CYCLE & MAN
UFACTURING CO.'S PURSE,
$500 One mile dash for profess
sionals, to beat 2:25, or no race.
ID Race-CALIFORNIA FEED CO.'S
PURSE, $1,000. running race
for Hawaiian Bred Horses.
Sd Race-CLUB STABLES PURSE,
$500. 300 Glass. Mile heats, 2
in 3. For trotters and PAGERS,
4th Race-SEATTLE BREWING
CO.'S PURSE, 5000. Half mile
dash. Free for all.
5th Race-HAWAIIAN BICYCLE
CO.'S PURSE, $500. Mile dash
for amateurs, to beat 2:35, or no
race.
9th Race-UNION FEED CO.'S
PURSE, 5000. I mile dash.
Free for all.
7th Race-ENTERPRISE BREW
ING CO.'S PURSE, $4,000. Free
for all trotting and pacing. Mile
heats, 3 in 5.
Sth Race-FASHION STABLES
CO.'S PURSE, $4,000. Running
race. Mile dash. Free for all.
9Th Race - MANUFACTURlN
HARNESS CO.'S PURSE, $685.
90. Gentlemen's driving race for
road horses, to be driven by the
owners.
10th Race-CITY SHOEING SHOP
PURSE, 5000. $50 class for
trotters and PAGERS. Mile heats,
2 in 3.
18th Race--SPECIAL RUNNING
300 PURSE, 10000
An Entrance Fee of 10 Per Cent OF
the purse given will be charged on
all Races.
National Trotting Rules will govern
all Harness Races and Pacific Coast
Blood Horse Rules to govern all Run.
/ ming Races.
Judges for the Day: Capt. A. n
Tripp, TheO. Hoffman,, Capt. j. G.
| Cluney.
Starter: G. b. Wilson.
S45 I'd PER COMMITTEE.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-03-09

Continued on Third Page.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-03-09
J. S. WALKER,

GENERAL AGENT FOR HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
Royal Insurance Company.
Alliance Assurance Company.
Alliance Marine and General Assurance
Company.
Sun Life Assurance Company Of Canada.
Wilhelma Of Madgeburg Insurance Com.
pany.
Scottish Union and National Insurance
Company.
Room l2 spreckels Block, Honolulu, H. l.
The Evening Bulletin, rs cts. per
month.
The herald., 1898-10-10
COMPROMISE IMPROBABLE
Courts Must Pass on the Oil Limit Or
dinance-Council Forecast

1t will not be surprising If council finds
considerable difficulty in obtaining a quo
rum for their regular weekly session this
morning. The Republican city convention
will meet at the same hour as that set for
the city dads to convene, and 1t Will be
hard for the Republican members to forego
the pleasure of attendance at their par
tvs deliberations. 1t Is therefore fortu-
nate that there will be very little important
business up for consideration ard unless
some exhaustive debate is precipitated by
some new and unexpected controversy. an
early adjourn ment and a scramble for the
convention hall and the races may be
looked for.
The disposition Of the oil operators pc
tition for a reduction of the oil limit will be
the matter in which most interest will
probably be taken today. If they have not
already decided on the recommendation to
be made. the board of public works will
meet this morning before the general ses-
sion and determine what their report shall
be- 1t is safe to predict that the petition
will not be granted, even though at the
hearing on Friday the oil men made fa-
vorable impression on their side of the
question.
directed toward a modification of the or
dinance on the ground that it is broader
than it need be to accomplish that which
1t purports to aim at. viz, the protection
of the parks. Council is not so blind that
1t fails to see the truth in this claim. But.
while the protection of the parks Is the
only purpose which the ordinance declares,
it is undoubtedly also intended as a protec-
xl,- oI; f1 hn tsV.
ritory in question and it is really on this
ground that council desires that 1t shall re-
main undisturbed. 1t Is useless, therefore,
to expect that the members will recede
from that position unless forced to do so
by the courts
One point In which the oil men feel espe-
cially aggrieved is the fact that the coun-
Gil has ignored their oft-repea ted requests
for an opinion from the city attorney as
to the legality of the ordinance Council
argues that 1t would be questionable pro-
priety for them to furnish legal opinion
on an ordinance they themselves passed,
and the oil men reply to this by insisting
upon their rights to such service from
one whom they help to pay. In addition
they contend that 1t is only proper for the
council to avoid plunging the city into lit
gation If possible.
The new charter will be formally filed
with the council today and another long
pending matter will probably attain its
final development in the formal anrounce-
ment by ]. C. Kays Of the appointment of
the third arbitrator of the water contro-
versy. Mr.. Kays' report in the matter is,
of course. dependent upon Colonel Men
dells' refusal or acceptance of the np-
pointment.
The much discussed protests against the
opening of an alley from Fourth to Fifth
between Hill and Broadway will probably
be set for hearing again and the usual
bunch of other protests and petitions In
street, alley and sewer matters will be up
for consideration.
The herald., 1898-10-10
BY HIS DIAMOND
Tribulations of the Owner of an Un-
usually Large Solitaire

A New Orleans gentleman in the cotton
trade is the possessor Of fine old-mine
of extra ordinary brilliancy, which
weighs about three carats and half and
is valued we'll up in four figures. Happy
possessor" is the stereotyped phrase in ref
erence to such an article, but the gentleman
in point protests that the gem has brought
him anything but JOY. IAN unusually large
or valuable stone is an internal nuisance,
he said the other day. This diamond Of
mine is Just big enough to attract unpleas-
ant attention, and good many people set
down the wearer of such a thing as some
kind Of gambler or sport. A fellow has to
hye it down, so to speak, and convince
strangers that he is a decent sort Of chap
IN spite Of his jewelry. Then, again, 1t IS
only common sense to take special precau-
tions against losing it, / do not trust the
solitaire to an ordinary spiral, but the set
ting is arranged with a suitable nut and
spr.ng catch at the back which hangs to Il
manly breast.
1.-THE device is rather hard to work, and
when I try to put it in clean shirt the
chances are two to one that l ruin the
bosom Of several before I succeed. I am
really afraid to figure up the amount Of
money the confounded thing has cost me
IN laundry bills, enough to build a small
stone Incidentally suggests that the owner
is rolling in riches, whereas he may be roll
ling in poverty. A few years ago a sharp
The herald., 1898-10-10

$50 continue the ownership of ala
Riohts
o
further
o
of
of three
Of
proposed
council signed by
ACQUISITION OF acquisition duty the
preceding municipal privilege
provided exclusive
will with general prohibits saed officer OF the city
ingenuity
of municipal
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turn in the market left me mighty hard up
for the time being, and whenever l would
meet a creditor (and had a fine collection
of EN- just them he would look reproach-
fully at my diamond. Several Of them told
me that they couldn't see why man should
be broke with headlight Nike that under
his chin. 1t seemed unnatural. incongru-
Gus, and they accordingly received my pro-
testations with suspicion. Add to all this
the haunting fear that the gem will be lost
and the real. actual damage of getting sand
bagged on account Of t some dark night.
and you will understand why the possess
sion of that kind of an ornament is not an
unmixed delight. New Orleans Times
Democrat.
The herald., 1898-10-10
DEATHS
CROCKER-In this city, at the residence

CROCKER-In this city, at the residence
of her nephew. f. G. Fuller, Mrs. Mary
w. Crocker, widow of the late Captain
Mendal Of the East India merchant
service, aged 81 years.
Funeral Monday, October 10, al o'clock,
from No. $40 Mission road. Friends and
acquaintance invited. Interment, Ever
green cemetery
LEVY-On October 8, 1898, Walter S., be-
loved son of e. j. and Jennie Levy, aged
years, months, 8 days.
Funeral Monday, October 10, 1898, at 10
4. M, from residence of his parents, 12F
South Hope street. Friends and acquaint-
ances invited.
LAFFARGUE-At Tehachapi, Oct. s. 1898,
Mrs. Marie Laffargue, a native Of
France, aged 20 years, and Adalene Laf-
fargue, aged 2 months, native of Cali
fornia.
Funeral from the parlors of Robt L.
Garrett & Co.. $40 North Main street. Tues
day. Oct. 11th. at a. m. Friends invited.
Interment at New Calvary.
RICE-At 119 North Workman street, Oct.
.. 1898, William H. Rice. aged vs years,
The herald., 1898-10-10

fees and keepers Of hotels a
The number of city police
of the city. Elaborate provis
property found In the posse:
of authority, too often perp'
lice alarm system, of one box
police board, Is provided FOL
The board of freeholders
and in many ways provided
The herald., 1898-10-10
Notice to Voters

All Silver Republicans are earnestly re-
uuested to call at headquarters, 312 West
Second street, as soon as possible, to enroll
their names. Do this at once. so our forces
may be thoroughly organized without de-
lay BY order county committee.
The herald., 1898-10-10
ORIGINAL Tal!y-HO Stables

There are two Tally-Ho stables. The
original, the excellence of which Is well
known to the public, is still at the old
stand, 107-109 North Broadway. (Tel. Main
148), under new management. Hack
stand, Hollenbeck hotel, Tel Main 16S
H. LEITHEAD. Prop.
The herald., 1898-10-10
The Fire
Department

to the trial. Pending IL
commissioners may &C
has authority to destrt
firemen's relief fund is
ing empowered to prov
Section GAG provides
the Underwriters Fire
The herald., 1898-10-10
THE NEW CITY CHARTER

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in sss Quantities
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Question assss
Quoting due board forthwith
majority
limited D 200
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too often @ ] @ 's Snd @ tne
ponce ne board Of eehoders
and many ways for @ prov % of ar % n, mad one
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health oeer largely However by the new charter The health
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Streets

giving this city the benefit {
1slation.
The herald., 1898-10-10

RouAd trip, So; tickets good for return
within 80 days. Trains leave at S:45 a. m.
and 2 p. m.
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Fire Marshal

terials, together with
stances where the &C
The proposed char
construction and mai,
The herald., 1898-10-10

Wall paper. late styles, low prices, at
A. A. Eckstroms 1924 South Spring street.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
A Rather "Close, NentucIzian.

1 heard of a Louisville man who was
pretty close, says a writer In the Nash
vile Banner. There died preacher who
was perhaps the most popular man in
Louisville. His friends undertook to raise
a neat sum of money for his family, and
did raise a goodly sum. Somehow they
succeeded in getting a contribution from
this man 1 am telling you about. but in
stead of giving cash he gave his note at
ninety days. The committee tried to get
him TO pay cash, but he refused, and they
left with the note. There were two or
three other notes, but when the commit
tee explained to the givers that they would
like to make 1t lump cash contribution,
they all except this one took up the notes
and paid the money. When all had paid
cash except this one, they went to him
and explained the situation. He declined
20 make it a cash subscription, but finally,
in answer to the committees repeated ap-
peals. he agreed TO pay it in cash if the
committee would discount the note. This
they did, deducting the bank discount for
the time the note had to run. He was a
very close man.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
An odd Christening.

There lives a man in Detroit says the
Free Press, intelligent, prosperous, and
happy, who does not know that he has a
deprivation philosophically and seems to
regard it as something of distinction to
be alone in the world
Nearly fifty years ago." he relates, ct
was picked up by slow sailing vessel
some 600 miles out from Liverpool. 1 was
a lusty youngster of five, dashed to mast,
a pleasing assurance that the parents
whom 1 barely recall loved me and had a
care for my safety in the catastrophe that
must have caused their own deaths. was
cold, hungry, thirsty, and sleepy when ia
ken aboard the old-time trader. My APP
pearance was, of course, against me, and
my clamor to be supplied with creature
comforts did not please the gruff captain,
who had a dense ignorance of children and
their management. His first order was to
give me the ropes end, but there was sue
cessful intercession, and 1 was cared for
while he growled at his hard luck.
but the captain took sick and found
more comfort in my prattle than in any
thing else provided for him. He took a
great liking to me and called me his son
AS soon as he was up he decided that
must be christened, one of the few things
that he knew should be attended 10 in this
case of children. OF course, there was nc
chaplain aboard, so the captain himself
undertook the ceremony. He gathered tbs
crew about and with a mixed knowledge
of his duties he glared about him as he
asked whether any one knew just cause
why 1 should not be christened.
IF there is he roared speak up like
a man or forever hold your clapper." Their
he suddenly cracked a bottle of wine ovel
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
Mr.. Con1nocE.s Hoodoo.

Among the anecdotes of Charles Walter
Couldock, which Efie Ensler tells, is this:
There are some plays" said Miss Els
Ter that are the actors hoodoos. Some
thing is certain to go wrong every time
they are produced. Louis the Eleventh
was Mr. Couldock's hoodoo one engage
ment my father wished him to play II.
He refused and began to swear terribly.
Now. my father had an infallible meth
cd of bringing Mr.. Couldock to terms on
such occasions. Mr.. Couldock got mad,
my father got madden, and finally Coul-
dock would come around all right. He
did so in the case in question, and the
play was produced.
IAN went swimmingly until the last
act, and everybody hoped that the evil
spell was broken. 1t was not Mr.. Coul-
dock died and laid there on his couch
waiting for the curtain to come down.
But it didn't So what did he do but come
back to life. go to the side of the stage,
give the necessary order, and then return
to his bed of death.
Then. when the curtain was down,
there was terrible time. He frothed at
the mouth and declared that never again,
so long as he lived, would ne play Louis
the Eleventh. Then he tore off all his
stage clothes and tossed them angriy
upon the floor. My father picked them up
and carefully carried them to his dress
ing room.
"The theater In which we were playing
had very long windows that extended be-
low where the floor was put in the dress
ing rooms This left a sort of pocket.
My father absent-mindedly stuffed all
these clothes down this hole.
when Mr.. Couldock came around a
year later, father wished him to play
Louis. They had the same sort of a
time, but finally Couldock had an inspira-
ton.
I'D play it. but I haven't the cos
tunes.
Yes, you have said father. Here
they are So he took his cane and fished
them out They had been there untouched
for a year, and they were covered with
cobwebs.
And so, much against his will, Mr..
Couldock had to play Louis the Eleventh
again."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
wITCHING EYES AND JURIEs.

If Mrs. Fayne Strahan Moore, formerly
pet Strahan, well known in Atlanta So
ciety, should escape the grasp of the law,
il would not be surprising to see her on
the stage shortly as the star of some ma
chine-made play constructed especially to
fit her. Mrs. Moore, as is very well known,
is on trial in New York, with her hus-
band, on the charge of having worked the
badger game on and robbed Martin Ma
hon, hotel man. The yellow journals of
the metropolis have discovered Mrs. Moore
to be very remarkable woman, and they
are giving her an abundance of notorety
such as would be very useful to person
in the show business.
Mrs. Moore, 1t is alleged. is not only a
very handsome young woman, but she
has most witching eye; a hypnotic eye,
in fact. So strongly did the yellow jour
nails write up the hypnotic eye" that
the counsel for the state took note of its
powers and requested the court to order
that Mrs. Moore be kept out of the court
room until her presence was actually nee
essary. He feared the power Of the mes
meric glances upon the jury. The court
declined TO order the sequestration of the
woman while her husbands case was on,
but directed that she should be seated
where she would be unable to exercise her
witchery upon the jury. With this ba-
sis to work upon, the yellow journals have
been interviewing oculists, hypnotists
mind-readers fortune tellers, astrologers,
lawyers, doctors and others. respecting
Mrs. Moore's hypnotic eye and the secret
of her power. There does not seem to be
room for doubling that she has got in
the work Of her eye upon some OF the
newspaper boys and they are proceeding
TO give her advertising that she could
not otherwise have secured
Meantime there are experts who assert
that there Is nothing peculiar 10 or about
The young woman's eye. They declare
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

Among the laughable scenes of life is
woman trying to catch a flea, says writ
er In the New York Press. But she isn't
a circumstance to Frank Thurber, about
whom 1 had a recent paragraph. In the
office in the old building, at Chambers and
Greenwich streets, Dick Healy, the invoice
clerk, made about 500 out of his chief
and the wicked flea whom all mankind
pursueth. Out of the deep quiet of the
counting room would spring a demoniac
yell, and a long lean body would shoot
into the air. A flea had made tracks
across Thurber's manly breast, and he was
'cussing a blue streak that would make
hell hot" as the phrase goes. He was a
past master in the art of cursing. He
would fling to the winds the most original
and expressive oaths-whole cataracts of
them One day he grew quite ashamed
and agreed to give Dick Heaiy $50 every
time Dick caught him swearing After
this had cost him $500 in a few weeks,
he called the contract off and stopped the
cursery habit by mental resolution. They
say he cannot spell damn" now. But
he still hates fieas.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
A Question.
From Harpers Magazine.

From Harpers Magazine.
1 asked the wind for WORD of him,
The wild west wind that scours the sea;
But all the sky with rain grew DIM
And dead leaves trembled on the tree.
1 asked the sea, so sul and gray,
Signing strange secrets DER and DER;
But with a moan it stole away,
And left me on the wide, wet shore.
l asked the sea bird proud and shy,
The plaintive bird that never sings;
He swooped toward me with a cry,
And on a far wave curled his wings.
I asked the moon, the harvest moon,
Hanging so still in Heavens high place;
But while | spoke she paled and soon
Gathered the clouds about her face.
And with a sudden throb knew
That my poor nope had been in vain;
And round me wept the heavy dew,
And the leaves fell. and sobbed like rain.
Ethel A. Ireland.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04

that the only influence" she possesses
is that which any handsome young woman
with ianguishing eyes can exert. and to
which most men, jurymen included, are
susceptible. In connection with the power
of pretty and soulful feminine eyes upon
a jury, the New York correspondent Of
the Philadelphia Press tells a tuoching
story OF a court scene. The late James 7.
Brady was counsel for "a young woman
in a case involving an attempt to break
a will: His client sat by his side. She
was a very beautiful young woman, whose
eyes seemed always to rivet the attention
of those upon whom her glance fell. There
was a pathetic expression which affected
every one. She sat watching the jury
during the course OF the trial and at
last there was some complaint that she
was attempting by means Of her glances
to excite the sympathy Of the Jury. Then
Mr.. Brady arose and in one of the most
touching and beautiful of all the ad-
dresses he ever made in court, he spoke
of the blessings which every one who
had an appreciation of beautiful things
and could see them enjoyed, and dwelt
for some moments upon the happy lot
of the jury who could see the budding of
the flowers-it was then spring time
and the charms of nature, then sudden
ly turning to his client, he said: That
blessing is denied my client for, though
she has eyes which seem to look upon
you gentlemen, there is no vision in
them, for her sight has been taken from
her.
"She has been, in fact, the victim of to-
tai paralysis of the optic nerve which
had not impaired the beauty of her
eyes, but had given to them that singu-
lar pathetic expression which she was
thus falsely charged with employing that
she might secure the sympathies of the
Jury"