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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-27
SOME CLOSING NOTES.


Few Incidents of the Last Soldiers
Reception
Captain Il. w. Young of the Utah
Artillery, is brother in law of NJ,
Schweitzer of the firm of Schweitzer
g. Co., Honolulu
y Il Il u X
Corporal kimber of the Oregon req
iment, who was left over here from
the first expedition, got away with
the Colorado troops on the China. He
Will rejoin his old command in Ma
Mia.
X X X *
Inc following members of the Sons
OF the American Revolution were in
honolulu. members of the second ex-
petition of United States troops to
Manila: Colonel John w. French.
Iwenty-third United States infantry.
vice president of the Texas society.
Dr. George II. Penrose, assigned TO
the Twenty-third United States in
tantry, senior vice president of the
Utah society: Colonel French is bro
ther OF Mrs. Professor Weir of Yale.
served in the late civil war. and at
lts close was with Grant.
X & Il * II * *
Dr. Penrose is a cousin of Rev. Ste
phen l.. b. Penrose, president of the
Whitman College in Washington.
& 4 X = *
/ Corporal A. w. Powell of Company
l, Tenth Pennsylvania. is a classmate
of a. F. Judd, Jr., at the Yale Law
school, and spent the day with the
Judds.
Il Il * x il X X
\. SiIverstein is a member of the
colorado regiment attached to the Red
cross. lie graduated from Yale in the
year 1897 with the Cookies. Baldwins
and Judds. and was taken care of by
I. NJ. Cooke, Jr.
x s. x X * *
Everything is very neat and attrac-
| tive at the Red Cross hospital. In
fact no more beautiful and home like
| place could have been selected for the
| institution. Back beneath bower a.
trees, palms, and towering vines.
with ample light and breezes fresh
| from the mountains. the Chld's Gar.
den is peculiarly adapted to its pres.
ent purpose. Over 100 of the most
| prominent ladies of the city and al
the physicians are on the list of vol
| unteers for service to the sick of I'm
Gle Sans army at the hospital.
|
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-27
Facts About Health
1t is Easy to Keep We'll II We
Know How
Some Of the Conditions Necessary
to Perfect Health.

The Importance of maintaining good
health is easily understood, and it is really
a simple matter il we take a correct view
of the conditions required. In perfect
health the stomach promptly digests food
and thus prepares nourishment. The
blood is employed to carry this nourish-
ment to the organs, nerves, muscles and
tissues which need it. The frst great
essential for good health, therefore, is
pure, rich blood. Now it is certainly n
fact that no medicine has such
A Record Of Cures
as Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t is literally true
that there are hundreds of people alive
and well today who would have been in
their graves had they not taken Hoods
Sarsaparilla. 1t is depended upon as q
family medicine and general regulator of
the system by tens of thousands of people.
This is because Hoods Sarsaparilla makes
the blood pure. This is the secret of it's
great success. Keep your system in good
health by keeping your blood pure with
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which absolutely
cures when other medicines fail.
" had pimples on my face and large
boil on one hand. l began taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla and after using three bottles
was cured" ]. w. JOHNSON, South
Broderick St., San Francisco, Cal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-27

Get picture of Rear Admiral Dew
ey in The Star Portfolios. Five new
parts ready. Adime each
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-27

HAWAIIAN JOCKEY CLUB.
JULY 4, 1898.
OFFICIAL PROGRAM.
(SUBJECT TO CHANGES.)
FIRST RACE-PURSE 500.
Trotting and Pacing to Harness;
mile heats, best two in three. $3.50
class.
SECOND RACE-PURSE $780,
Running race; half mile dash dash;
free for all.
THIRD RACE-PURSE 500.
Running race; five-eighths mile dash
for Hawaiian bred horses.
FOURTH RACE-PURSE $3.50.
Trotting and Pacing to Harness; mile
heats; best three in five; free for
all.
FIFTH RACE-PURSE 500.
races one niile uash' lree
"ii'
SIXTH RACE-PURSE 500.
Running race; one mile dash, for Ha-
waiian bred horses.
SEVENTH RACE-PURSE 800.
Running race; three-fourths mile
dash; free for all.
EIGHTH RACE pJrRSE s,oo
ruo+t;, ~ :,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-27

General admission. so cents.
Grand stand (eXtra), so cents and 81
Carriages Gnside course), $3.50 each
Quarter stretch badges, S..
Per order committee.
j. s. WALKER
Secretary Hawaiian Jockey Club.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-27

Five new Portfolios at Star office.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-27

Corporal kimber of the Oregon reg
iment, who was left over here from
the first expedition, got away with
the Colorado troops on the China. He
will rejoin his old command in Ma.
Mia " 49,"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

the inexplicable conditions in Cuba.
Their own kindred and relatives in
many cases are in the ranks Of the
revolutionary forces, but they seem
animated by a ferocity that is as
wicked as inexplicable. All the Cap
tains-General have depended upon
them principally for support, and the
civiles have returned their apprecia-
tion of this confidence by their bru-
talities and demoniac actions when
ever an opportunity occurred for mas
sacre and unjustifiable killing.
They are not we'll "set up" do not
present the martial bearing of Brit
ish or an American soldier and invite
the contempt of the Anglo-Saxon by
their lack Of many military character
istics. Still, it does not require much
strength to pull trigger, and by
practice they may become as good
marksmen as any habitant of more
northern latitude.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
Poultry Notes.

If your hens wish to sit let them do
so.
Late chicks are surely worth raising
If we give them proper attention.
Cure egg g-eating hens by using por-
celain nest eggs and darkening the
nests.
Make the hens pick up whole grain
after it is scattered broadcast Then
each will get her share and all will
have to work.
When fowls become egg bound and
mass collects in the egg passage, in
ject some linseed oil and remove the
matter. Overlooking often causes the
trouble, or lack of lime.
Feed the chicks three times q day
on any thing that they will eat. Leave
no food remain over after they have
eaten. Between meals scatter little
millet seed in litter to scratch. You
can oyerfeed chicks and kill them.
There is no ''sure cure" for roup
any more than there is a sure cure for
consumption. When fowl gets to
that stage that it's owner must waste
valuable time endeavoring to cure it,
he should destroy the bird as mat
ter of economy.
When flock is fed with the refuse
from the table the hens are capable of
appropriating and saving that which
would otherwise be wasted, and though
in fact an expense has been incurred,
as the refuse possesses certain value
yet the hens provide market for it
and permit of it being exchanged for
eggs.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
Intensive Farming.

Intensive farming will not be prac-
ticed on large farms where land IS
cheap and plentiful. Only when the
country is more thickly populated will
improved systems be adopted. In
Europe every square foot of land is
utilized to the best advantage, just as
is done in this country by market gar
deners near large cities. The propen-
sity to grow all crops at the least
expense for labor is the cause of our
present system of farming and leads
us to grow only thirteen bushels of
wheat per acre, on an average, while
the European farmers average more
than twice as much. Even with corn,
which is natural plant, the average
yield is only one half the amount it
should be. An increase of but three
bushels more per acre for the whole
country of wheat would give us twice
as much for export as we now have for
1897, or 100, 00o, 900 bushels. Jnten-
sive farming also applies to better
management of stock. The pastures
would be small, if used at all. and they
would be kept up to the highest de.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

United States, and are accepted by
General Miles and Secretary Alger as
official.
The Spanish reports, however, are
not to be relied upon. Their army is
largely mythical. Nobody knows how
many poor fellows have died in the
field resisting insurgents, and the
ravages of disease are still more diff
cult 10 ascertain; first, because Span
ish statistics in all branches of the
Government are notoriously incom-
plete and inaccurate; and, second,
because it is for the pecuniary inter
est of the officers to conceal the NOR
tality of their men. There is no regu-
lar pay department. The soldiers
receive their miserable stipend of three
or four silver dollars a month from
their regimental officers. The col
onel of the regiment sends in requi-
sition at the beginning of every month
for compensation for SO many men,
and he makes the pay roll as long as
possible. When the money comes he
divides it among the captains of COM
panies, and the captains divide it
among the men. 1t is one CT the cas-
lest and most popular methods of
robbing the Government for tie Off
GERS to double the number of men on
duty and divide the money that is
forwarded for their pay. 1t is fa-
vorite saying in Cuba that when an
officer makes report of battle he
represents that most of his troops
have been shot while gallantly charg-
ing the enemy, but they all come
alive again before he makes up his
pay roll. 1t is we'll known that since
the blockade began General Blanco
has impressed in the army every able
bodied citizen within reach of his
conscript office, and the insurgent
sympathizers have enlisted in great
numbers with the expectation of being
able to serve their cause more effec-
lively inside than outside of the
trenches. This class of people, how
ever, are not to be depended upon by
either side.
The abundance of the physical re-.
sources of Spain and the soldierlike
qualities of the men, even when they
have received brief military training,
have been a surprise to many.
Pre- eminent are the Albarderos,
who take their name from the halberd,
a picturesque old weapon they carry,
no longer of any fighting offensive or
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
An OdOrless Onion.

The latest product of scientific pro-
pagation is the odo.less onion. Just
how an onion can be odorless and still
remain an onion is not explained. To
most people the odor is all there is to
an onion, AMI that is enough. The
elimination of the characteristic fea-
ture of a vegetable of such long and
strong standing in natural history
ought to be reckoned among the
proudest achievements of man. But
an onion deprived of that delicious
tang and the penetrating scent which
goes with it can hardly be an onion.
The palate which loves onions will not
recognize it; calling whitened, in
nocnous, insipid, plated bulb an onion
will not make it one.
No trEe lover of onions will hail this
new invasion OF science. He eats his
onion ut dead Of night, in silence and
solitude. He re. oices in it and sleeps
upon it. The incense of his praise
fills the room and soothes hin to de-
licious sleep. He rises in the morn
ing after his sacrifice to pass the day
in publication, to see no one until the
sun hath sunk. 1t is o luxury and
worship. Shall he yield all this de-
light for an odoiless bulb? Let others
DO as they will, he will not. An onion
without al odor wo ald be ashamed of
itself. Milwaukee wis Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

OF their educational course these ar
tillery cadets become second lieuten-
ants and are promoted to the full lieu
tenancy on appointment to the corps
at the close OF their scholastic term at
Segovia. The arrangements for the
training and maintenance of the effec-
tive condition of the artillery seem to
be excellent. That they know the art
of war there is no doubt; that they can
practice it successfully is question
for discussion.
The general impression of the men
both in the Spanish army and navy is
that they have good fighting qualities,
though they are not capable OF any ex-
tended exertion and can never compare
favorably with the Anglo-Saxon ele-
ment. But while the file has always
received commendation it is the con-
census of unprejudiced opinion that
they are GLADLY officered." Many ex-
plantations can be offered, but there is
much luxurious ease about the don 8
life, and even in the army he will not
forget the first consideration for his
personal benefit even if discipline
must suffer. The best soldiers, the
flower Of the Spanish army, have been
sent to the Philippines, those rushed
out to Cuba having largely been con-
scripts and rude youths taken from
the farms to shatter their health in the
fever laden districts of the ever
Faithful isle"
The peasant boys that Spain has
driven across the Atlantic Ocean are
representatives of her most ignorant
class, and their own utter lack of
knowledge of hygienic conditions helps
the lurking disease to find ready and
hapless victims. Some of them nat
urelly become imbued with the mill
tary spirit and make passably effective
soldiers, but the majority have no lik-
ing for their enforced profession of
arms, and, controlled by a home sick
feeling, i'll clad and half paid, per-
haps not for months, they very fre-
quently welcome death as relief to
their desperate environment. The
home guard of Havana, called Guarda
Civiles, native born and consequently
Injured to the climate, is the promi-
nent armed force of Cuba. They have
been thoroughly drilled, are vicious
fighters and thoroughly hated by the
insurgents, who recognize them as the
dreaded genuine enemies of all liberty
loving progress.
In fact, the loyalty Of the Guarda
Civiles to the Spanish crowN is one Of
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
Market the Old Hens.

During the hot months all old hens
that is those past one year, should be
fattened and sent to market. If they
are not it is pretty safe to say they
will not begin to lay before late in
winter, or perhaps not till spring, and
besides hens usually bring good
price during those months. Aside
from the fact that old hens are not
layers, the young stock needs the
room they occupy, and it is surely
poor policy to keep those which do
not pay profit and allow the pullets,
which we rely on for winter eggs, to
suffer for want of room.
Begin two weeks before sending to
market to feed all they will eat and
give all the milk they will drink. In
that time they should be just fat
enough to sell well, and heavy enough
to pay we'll for the extra food given
them. Do not delay too long, as they
will begin to moult during the latter
part of August and certainly half
naked hen is an unsightly object to go
to market.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
storm House. for Distant Fields.

Summer storms often come up
quickly. If the farm is large one it
is usually impossible for men at work
in distant fields to run to the house or
barn for shelter. A tree does not, ex-
cept for very few minutes, afford any
protection, as the steady drip from its
leaves is nearly or quite as bad as be-
ing out in the storm. Years ago we
knew farmer whose farm was long
and narrow, with the house and build
ings on the public highway at one end.
Near the other he built what he called
storm house, 14x14, with good
roof and large enough door so that the
teams could be run under it in time of
sudden shower. 1t was also a shelter
for tools at night. Such storm house
did not cost very much, and was much
better than getting men and teams
wet, or to save themselves from this
by taking shelter under trees, which
in thunderstorms is about the most
dangerous shelter that any one can
seek. American Cultivator.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
Few Die of Old Age.

1t is estimated by competent foreign
authority that only 900 persons out of
100000 die from old age. willie
1900 succumb to gout, Is, 400 to
measles, 2700 to apoplexy, 1000 to
erysipelas, 1900 to consumption, 49,
900 to scarlet fever, 5000 to whoop-
ing cough, 10000 to typhoid and
typhus, and $4,000 to rheumatism.
The averages vary according to local
ity, but these are considered accurate
as regards the population of the globe
as q whole.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

promotion on seniority within the
corps. The men (privates) must be
sergeants of good character and the
best qualifications. In other words,
it is battalion without private sol
der in the ranks.
The group of hussars at Madrid is
representative body. The Spanish
cavalry includes two hussar regiments,
designated as the Princesa and the
Pavia, which are regarded by their
officers as, the most distinguished of
the mounted regiments. The cavalry
officers enter through the college at
Valladolid by competition, and after a
course of three years are appointed
to their regiments as Second Lieuten-
ants.
The ARTILLERY of the Spanish army,
like that of the English royal artillery,
includes the horse, field, mountain
and garrison branches, and the gun
factories and other establishments are
in relation with it. It has charge Of
stores of guns, arms, ammunition and
material, aud is provided with field
ranges, gunnery schools, scientific
and practical museum and other nec-
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
Difficult Work PAYS Best.

It is a common complaint among
farmers that farming does not pay.
They are in competition with farmers
in all countries in most agricultural
products, and as these foreign farmers
are content to work at almost nominal
wages, unless the American farmer
can produce larger yield per acre,
and thus make his crop cost less per
bushel, or by the pound, he cannot
expect to make good profits. The farm
er who succeeds best is usually one
who is not afraid to tackle the most
difficult and puttering work. To the
farmer used to growing potatoes
the growing of strawberries seems
very small business. Yet we
can tell him that many strawberry
growers have made more bushels of
strawberries per acre than most potato
growers get of potatoes. And cheap
as strawberries often are, they are
even then much higher than are pota-
toes, and will yield more profit per
acre.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21
A MONUMENT FOR LAFAYETTE.
Movement on Foot to Erect q Memorial
Over His Grave in Paris.

AOVement ON FOOT TO ErecC memorial
Over His Grave in Paris.
In deserted corner Of the ceme-
terry of the Convent of Little Picpus,
in Paris, lie the remains Of the French
man who was Americas best friend in
the time Of her sorest tneed-Lafayette.
His grave is decorated only by a plain
slab, and seems as deserted as was
Victor Hugo's immortal hero, Jean
Vatican, when he fed into these
grounds with his little Cosette in his
arms to escape the prosecutions Of In
spector Javert.
A movement is now on foot to erect
fitting monument to this brave
Frenchman who sacrificed his all for
us. 1t is purposed that it shall be
paid for by the school children of the
United States, in contributions of
small amounts and that it shall be un-
veiled rs the great event of United
States day in the Paris Exposition in
1900.
When first built the tomb was two
or three feet above the ground; now
the foundation stones have crumbled
and the top has fallen almost to the
earth. Rain and time have dealt cru
ely with it.
President Mckinley has consented
to be the honorary chairman of the
commission in charge of the raising of
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

which began in April, 1895, and 1
General, 6 field officers, 55 regimental
officers and 704 men nave died of
wounds received, in battle, making
casualties 2 Generals, 13 field officers,
10S regimental officers, and 2O1S men.
Upward of 40, 900 men had returned
to Spain. The same statistics showed
that 318 officers and 1890 men have
died Of yellow fever and 1877 officers
and 4065 men of other diseases,
making the total mortality on the
Spanish side during the insurrection
56,638 officers and men.
On March l, 1898, there were sup
posed to be 96,2S7 Spanish soldiers
under armD. with $4,000 volunteers.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

sent to Cuba during the last three
years have been drawn mostly from
the first reserve, although the per-
manent army has. furnished the larger
part of the skilled artillerists who have
been handling the big guns upon the
Notifications.
While it is impossible to get accur-
tate statistics, the military journals at
Madrid have published statements
showing that ten Generals, 615 field
and staff officers, 1922 regimental Of
ficers, and $50, 435 soldiers have been
sent to Cuba mp to November 1. 1897.
Since then reinforcements have been
received twice, $4,000 at one time and
10000 at another.
Up to March l, 1898, 1 General, 7
field officers, So regimental officers
and 1914 men had been killed in bat
tie during the present insurrection,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

essary adjuncts. The actual forma:
ton of the artillery is thirteen regi-
ments of the field branch, each of
four six-gun batteries, a regiment of
horse artillery and three belonging to
the mountain branch, all these having
the same number of batteries and
guns as the field artillery. There
are additionally ten battalions of
garrison gunners and four companies
of artificers. At the present time the
Spanish army has guns of two kinds
the Krupp and the placencia, of
bronze or steel, with 3.5 inch and 81
inch caliber.
The officers of the force enter
through the college at Segovia, the
admission being by competitive exam
ination between civilian candidates
and young officers from other corps.
The studies cover period of six
years, and promotion is always by SEN
iority, but on reaching the fourth year
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

was estimated at !, ,083, 595 men.
All Spaniards. between the ages of
nineteen and forty-five are numbered
in the second reserve, and are liable
to be called upon for active service at
any time they may be needed. All of
them are supposed to have served at
least three years in the first, or active
reserve, which corresponds to our
militia. Every boy, upon attaining
the age of nineteen, must enter either
the permanent army or the first re-
serve, and serve three years. About
lOO,0 come within the provisions
Of that law annually, so that there is
constant change from the permanent
army to the first reserve. Then, after
six years, when the citizen has reached
the age of twenty-five, he goes into
the second reserve, and is subject to
military duty only in.time of war and
after conscription. 1t may be said,
therefore, that 250,000 men are con-
stantly under arms in Spain and its
colonies. The first reserves are used
for coast guards, customs inspectors,
and for police duty in the rural dis
tricts, and are likely to be detailed for
service in the guarda civil. which COR
responds to our city police and the
gendarmes in France.
Voluntary service is accepted ct
eighteen years of age, but the pay is
50 small, only twenty cents a day, that
very few Spaniards ever think of en-
listing until they are compelled to do
ro Rv tho nov,napt of S0O0 opv, ,,ar
son may purchase exemption from
military duty.
The 210, 900 soldiers who have been
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-07-21

defensive) value, but used as an arm
OF ceremony, composed largely of the
aristocracy and including picked men
from the whole army. This force is
organized in two companies, with a
total of forty officers and $50 men, as
the personal guard OF the King and
for interior service in the palace. A
Colonel is appointed as Captain, a
Lieutenant Colonel as First Lieutea-
ant, and so the grades continue, a
First Lieutenant serving as s'caporal. ="
All officers Of the Spanish army are
eligible for the Albardero Corps, one
half of the vacancies being filed by
candidates selected for their special
qualifications and the remainder by