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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-06-25
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Persons requiring tombstones
should apply to Fred. Harrison who
has a choice lot OF new designs on
view.
Special bargains in French Chal
lies, Organdies and Dotted Swiss at
l.. b. Kerr's, Queen street. For one
week only.
To appear respectable is to be
decently shaved, which can only be
attended to at the European Barber
Shop. Chas. Molteno, proprietor.
Sheetings, Pillow Castings, Table
Linen and Napkins will be the
specialties at l.. B. Kerr's this week
and great bargains will be offered
in these useful lines.
We will sell for cash for one
month only, 81 pants for SIS, $25
suits for SIS. No humbug, come aud
see for yourself. Medeiros a. Decker,
No. IL, Hotel street.
Ex-Zealandia, the California Fruit
Market received in Camarinos' re-
frigerator all reasonable fruits, fish
and fresh California block butter.
Call and inspect them.
Good eyesight restored by having
good practical optician examine
your optics, and S. E. Lucas is the
only oculist that can do it well at
the Love Building. Fort street
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-06-25
COFFEES

Some are cheap now. Cheap
cereal adulterated coffees are
very plentiful and are forcing
down the prices of the old
Kona product, especially the
medium and lower grades
with which they compete.
The higher grades of Isl
and coffees have declined a
little in sympathy.
Our customers are the first
to benefit by reductions.
Fine coffees are scarce and
no reductions can be made in
their prices.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-06-25
THEREFORE,, COOPERATE.

Attention is called to the benefits en-
joyed by subscribers to the PALAMA Co
OPERATIVE GROCERY co., LID, has
groceries at little advance on San Fran
cisco prices, credit to subscribers to the
amount of shares held, profit Of the bust
ness returned to subscribers every months
probable increase in value OF shares, with
a liberal discount Off monthly bills. And
now what are the risks. We answer none,
because subscribers can either sell their
shares or take groceries to their amount,
il you want to withdraw or go away.
Please consider the above and call or
address, Palama Cooperative Grocery Co.,
LID, for share or for further information,
Par value of shares $25, or $3.50 only
being required to become a subscriber.
Telephone 1865. 920 If
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-06-25
New Stage Line
FROM
HONOLULU TO KAHUKU.
KOQLAU ROUTE.
FOR LEASE.

TOR A LONG TERM OF YEARS.
IL The Desirable Pauoa Pasture Land,
comprising about 400 Acres. About ~
Acres fenced level land on good road
suitable for Dairy House and Sorghum.
The only Ranch Land adjoining Honolulu.
Reasonable Terms to responsible party.
Inspection solicited. Inquire OF
O. W. BOOTH,
elicit Telephone 494
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-06-25
LOST.
The following checks have been lost;

1-Bishop & Co., Check for $40. Drawn
by G. A. Long, Trustee, in favor of Enoch
Johnson, dated June Is, 1898.
2-Counter Check, Spreckels' Bank,
dated June 49, 1898 for the sum OF $40.
Drawn by o. A. Long, Treasurer, in favor
of Enoch Johnson
Both checks are endorsed and payments
have been stopped. Finder will please re-
turn them to this office 923-tf
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-06-25
The Philadelphia's Message.

There would be special fitness in
the detail Of the Philadelphia to
raise the American flag at Honolulu.
1t was this cruiser that Mr.. Cleve-
land sent to Hawaii in 1898 to COM
pei the Dole Government to disband
and permit the royal ensign to be
again raised over Iolani palace. So
good ship should have that record
blotted out by the performance of a
service which will formally unite
Hawaii to the Unions. +. Chro-
nicle.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15
Asleep for Three Months.

Local physicians are puZZling over
the strange illness of Abe and Adrien
Meyer, two sons of a Keya Paha Coun-
ty farmer. 1t is thought that both lads
are suffering from some form of nerv-
Gus complaint. 1t manifests ITSELF
however, very differently in their re-
spective cases.
Abe is about 10 years old. For four
months he has been unable to sleep
more than four hours in a night His
health has suffered little, but he is very
irritable, and, in the opinion Of the doc
tors, he can not long stand the strain
without losing his mind There was
no premonition of his attack except ex-
treme nervousness and a tendency to-
ward insomnia.
Adrien is only IA years old. For q
long time he required more sleep than
does the average boy of his age, and a
few months ago he began spending six
teen or eighteen hours out of the twen-
ty-four in bed. Now he remains there
altogether For the last three months
he has not opened his eyes more than
half a dozen times. On these occasions
he evidently only partially awoke,
spoke in drowsy tone, and within fif-
teen minutes lapsed again into uncon-
sciousness. His food is forced into his
mouth in a liquid form, and a very lit
tie seems sufficient to satisfy him.
Darnell correspondence of Chicago
Record,
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15
She Sold 5000 Stories.

The death of Mary Kyle Dallas, of
New York, was shock and sorrow
to a host of friends and admirers. For
many years she was contributor to
the New York Ledger, at large salary,
and also wrote short stories for Lippin-
colt. Latterly her work has been seen
in the daily papers, and her essays on
women Tor the American Press Associa-
ton COZ manded wide attention.
Mrs. DaLas was member of Sorosis,
the first vice president Of the Woman S
Press Club, and a prominent member
of the Hidden Hand Club, whose pur-
pose is to expose the fake advertise
ments, which prove snare and a delu-
sion to unsuspecting women. Mrs.
Dallas was tall, with a beautiful aris-
tocratic face and stately bearing, while
her manner was so gracious and her
acts so kindly that she endeared herself
to all who knew her.
She was so years of age, and began
to write at the age o2St when she com
posed play that was produced in her
fathers kitchen. In 1888 she estimated
that she had written and sold at least
5000 stories and as many Sketches
Woman's Journal
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15
USEFUL PLANTS.
Vegetable Growths Upon Which Man
Places DeDeudeuce

Vegetable Growths Upon Which Man
Places Dependence.
From the nature of the case, it Is i'm
possible to give with exactness the
number of species Of plants that have
been employed for various purposes;
much more is it impossible to mention
in a brief enumeration all the human
uses OF plants. Root, stem, leaf, flower,
seed, even spores, have been utilized.
And there are numberless plants that
contain some principle or value which
so far has been derived from a few.
Plants useful to man are estimated to
number about fifteen thousand Among
them are five thousand roughly classed
as economic and food plants. The
above includes eleven hundred edible
fruits and berries, and three hundred
edible seeds. Fifty are reckoned among
the cereals, and forty as uncultivated
edible graminoceous seeds. Four hun
dred and twenty are classed as vegeta-
bles and salads, and two hundred and
sixty are listed among the tubers.
There are thirty-seven of the onion
6AOup' anu I'LL -IoO VI dIIOWIOOl.
From thirty plants sugar may be
obtained in paying quantities. Vinous
drinks are obtained from two hundred
plants; aromatics from two hundred
and sixty-siX. There are fifty substi-
tutes for coffee, and one hundred and
twenty nine for tea
Tannin Is present in countless plants,
and has been mentioned in one hun
dred and forty-one, and caoutchouc in
dia rubber) in ninety-six. The near
relative of this substances, gutta-per-
cha, named from one plant, has been
found in at least seven, white resin and
balsamic gums are yielded by not less
than three hundred and eighty-nine.
There are ten wax trees and shrubs,
and three hundred and thirty which
have been made to yield essential oils.
From eighty-eight different plants, pot
ash, soda, and iodine have been extract
ed, and six hundred and fifty are Of use
to the dyer, and to make ink.
About three hundred have fibers that
are of use in the textile arts. Forty
four or more are used in making paper.
Forty-eight have been utilized in max
ing roofing preparations, and seven
hundred and forty have been turned
to account in miscellaneous building
operations. OF all plants known, only
six hundred and fifteen are known to
be in any degree poisonous.
OF grasses it estimated that there are
nearly four thousand distinct species
Of these, fifteen are used for lawn pur-
poses For hay, there have been count
ed as many as forty-five; for soiling,
nine; for pasture, twenty nine. For
soil binders or soil builders, mentor
has been made of sixteen.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

One of the recent extensions of the
use of electricity is in conquering q
balky or lazy horse A Western Penn
sylvania gentleman owned a horse
which he said was worth $1,000, pro-
Vided he could cure him of baking. II
was suggested that he try electricity
lie purchased three-vOlt battery and
connected it by wires with the bit and
the crupper. The battery was placed
In the road-cart to which the horse was
attached. AT first the horse refused to
move, but stood with all four feet
braced. Then the owner touched the
button connected with the battery.
When the horse felt the shock he snort
ed, jumped, and began to move off at a
lively pace. Every day for a week he
was given the same lesson. His owner
(who does not care to sell him) declares
that now he never balks, bites or kicks.
The West Pennsylvania Humane So
ciety, which investigated the method,
came to the conclusion that a small
amount of electricity used upon a horse
was more humane than a whip.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15
Hints on CARVING

To carve loin of veal or mutton be-
gin at the small end and cut the ribs
apart. A fillet of veal should be cut
first from the top, and in a breast of
veal the breast and brisket should first
be cut apart and then in pieces.
A sirloin of beef should be placed on
the platter with the undercut under
meath. Thin-cut slices should be taken
from the side next the carver, and then
turn over the roast and carve from un-
derneath. A portion Of both should be
helped.
A leg of mutton should be carved
across the middle of the bone first and
then from the thickest part until the
gristle is reached. A few nice slices
can be cut from the smaller end, but
1t is usually hard and stringy.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15
Gnat Silenced His Voice.

J. Russell Powell, the basso at Gen.
traI Avenue NJ. e. Church, was to have
made his farewell appearance at the
services Sunday morning, says the In
dianapolis Journal, and large numbeJ
of the friends of the promising young
singer had come to hear him sing his
last song there. Mr.. Powell had two Of
the best numbers in his repertoire for
that morning and was in excellent
voice when he reached the church, but
q most curious circumstance silenced
his voice temporarily. Just as Mr..
Powell stepped into the church door,
way a small gnat flew into his nose and
caused him to sneeze violently, and the
sneeze brought on severe cough,
which in turn ruptured one of the small
blood vessels near the vocal cords. He
took his place in the choir, but soon
found that he could not utter a sound
audible five feet away. Mr.. Powell left
the choir, and a doctor, who was in the
audience, was summoned to attend
him
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15
Pig that Likes Fowls.

Harry Magill, farmer who lives on
Pigeon Swamp road, near Bristol, is
the owner of one of the most remark
able pigs on record. Piggy is months
old and is a retriever of the most pro-
nounced type. He will find birds shot
in a manner equal to the best setter or
pointer dog and do many other things
such as sportsmen delight to see.
Piggy, however, will chase, catch and
devour live chickens with an avidity
never equaled by the most voracious
fox or weasel ever heard Of. When he
selects a victim in the shape of barn
yard fowl for his meal he starts In hot
pursuit and never gives up the chase
until he has his victim within his jaws.
Mr.. Magill stands ready to match his
pig against any other pig in the coun-
try as a retriever, but does not guar
antee that the porker will not make
meal of the game.-Philadelph Rec
ord
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

with children. A happy-looking man,
unkempt and rough-looklng sat upon
the seat driving, and by him was his
wife.
The old inhabitant was shutting
along, when he looked up in surprise
Then he tottered out to the wagon and
shook hands vigorously.
How air We, Bob? 1 swanny, I'm
glad ter see yer n the old lady n th'
chullen all lookin' so well. l lowed
Yaller Jack had cotched We shore"
Tho man did not reply. He was look.
Ing longingly at a house down the
street.
You wuz purity bad skeered that day
l saw you, wuzn't you?" cackled the old
inhabitant
YES" said the man; thank God. I
was" And he looked at his children
and his wife and smiled. A moment
later they were speeding on down the
street and stopped in front of home
like looking house. The man leaned
over and kissed the woman beside him
st. Louis Republic.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

Persistent newspaper readers about
this time would infer that half of crea-
ton was bent on disappearing. There
seems to be quite an epidemic In that
line of human irresponsibility. If lad
is displeased with his home, off he goes
into space, apparently, and the way
young women vanish off the face of the
earth is miraculous, until the police dis
cover them. Wives step out, and do not
return men-and this is not so singular
disappear by the hundreds, and their
relations and families have to make the
best of it. If many reasons for this
were not known, or guessed at, one
might suspect that mankind was losing
the gregarious habit and felt the need
of solitude, of isolation. At all evnts
trammels, whether domestic or social,
have evidently got on the nerves of a
great many people, and to them the one
remedy is to disappear.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

The isolation which has been a fea-
ture of farm life Is gradually passing
away as the country districts have be-
come more thickly settled and railroads
have been built. Farmers wives now
have their reading circles, and alto
gether country life is exchanging it's
primitive aspect for one Of comfort and
convenience. The latest suggestion to
lessen the loneliness OF farm life is by
means of the telephone. 1t is said that
already in Kansas a number Of ranches
are connected with each other in this
way. Cheap wiring is used, in many
cases the barbed wire fences serving.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

An interesting discussion is going on
in some of the leading periodicals con-
cerning Machiavelism in international
affairs. In other words, are fraud, ly-
ing, double-dealing, violence and hypoc-
risy, although to be condemned in the
individual, allowable in the dealing of
nations one with another? A lucid
writer in the Chicago Evening Post in
dicates Mr.. Frederick Greenwood, the
noted English publicist, as the cham
pion of the affirmative Of this question.
According to him ITO save the state
you may do anything wild beast may
do-never mind God or devil, sentiment
or words" While men in society are
bound to observe certain moral stand
ards, in order to maintain the social
fabric, the various states are, in their
relation to each other, 'still in state
of nature" and it is absurd to demand
of them any other conduct than that of
beasts and savageS struggling toward
the survival of the fittest. But it seems
to the pulpit that the gist Of this matter
lies in this: That, while both nations
and persons are alike under the moral
law, the rewards and punishments Of
the former are slower than the judg-
ments upon the latter, and from this
alone the short-sighted find a reason
to think that governments are not re-
sponsible. But, although the mills of
God grinds nations slow, they grind
them exceedingly small; although pun
ishment may tarry it is more striking
when it comes. The past is strewn
with the wreckage of nations who de-
spised or forgot righteousness and were
brought low.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

"Generations of human history teach
the painful fact that society can have
all the beggars she is willing to feed.
AS emotional giving must be put under
the ban, so equally must political Civ
ing be put down. More than S1O,OOO,-
600 every year is spent in what is
known as outdoor relief" by the hands
of public officials. 1t is not too much
to say that this enormous sum, in the
bulk, is not only wasted, but tends to
create and perpetuate pauper class in
almost every community" These are
the statements of an expert, Rev. Sam
uel G. Smith, professor of sociology in
the University of Minnesota, and they
were made in the course Of an address
delivered before Civic Philanthropic
conference. The should be pondered
by every thinking person who doesn't
wish to go on through life encouraging
and supporting pauperism, and doing
society inestimable harm. The man
who gives to the street beggar blunts
the spur of poverty. He creates de-
mand for pauperism, which begets
pauperism. If the public shuts down
on emotional street giving it will abol-
ish street begging, and the able-bodied
who drain the charity that should aid
the helpless, will go to work. Then, if
the charitable institutions are properly
supported, the deserving will get more
and better help than they have ever re-
ceived in this city before.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

A London writer who is disturbed at
seeing so much money going to the
United States, complains because the
great English colonies do not supply
England with what wheat is required.
1t does seem as if Canada, Australia
and India ought to be able to feed the
mother country, but since they do not
it is difficult to see what the mother
country can do about it except to con-
tinue, with what grace it may, to be an
American market America, it may be
sure, will cheerfully go on furnishing
breadstuffs so long as the price is
forthcoming.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

A new brand of philanthropist has
appeared in Maine. He is a gentleman
who believes in the moral and educa-
tional influence of the press, and he has
ordered a newspaper sent at his ex-
pense to each family in his town. And
why not? We endow chairs in uni
versities and provide funds for the
maintenance of educational facilities
of every kind, and it will generally be
admitted that the press is a greater ed
ucator than all of them.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

When proprely made the pumpkin pie
Is the embodiment, so to speak, Of
peace on earth and good will to men,
No man ever plotted treason or formu-
lated dark and damnable designs
while filling his system with genuine
New England pumpkin pie. Other pies
may induce dyspepsia and the horrors
Of nightmare, but the genuine pumpkin
pie may be eaten at the dread hour Of
midnight without tremor Of fear. If
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

In spite Of solemn and repeated warn
ings thousands of adventurers have
gone to the Alaskan gold fields who
will in all human probability face act
ual starvation. The penalty that men
will pay for sudden wealth does not
stop short of life itself. Incongruous
as it may appear, men will barter
health, position, the most ordinary conl-
forts and decencies of life, and will
even run the risk of actual starvation
and death for the mere hope that sud-
and untried countries fill up rapidly on
every report, exaggerated or otherwise,
that sudden wealth has fallen to the
lot of comparatively few. There is a
lurking hope in the breast of every one
of the successors of these fortunate
ones that similar luck will be his. For
that mere hope they will barter every
thing that makes life worth living, and
will, unfortunately, as was proved by
the trail of un-bleached bones across
the continent in 40 and successive
years, sacrifice life itself in the mad on
rush for sudden wealth. The Klon-
dixie gold discoveries are full Of promise
to the active, the vigorous, the strong
and well prepared. They are also sim
lister beckonings to suffering and death
to the merely adventurous, the weak
or the ill-prepared. 1t is passing strange
that the experience of their fellows has
but little deterrent influence on men
when the craze for sudden wealth has
developed into a passion. The world
can only wait and hope that the devel-
opment of the Klondike gold fields will
be accomplished without the ghastly
sacrifice of human life that at this writ
| ing seems within the probabilities.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

Matelotes and other stews of which
rabbit is supposed to form a part are
being Stunned by Parisians since the
rabbits innoculated with miscellaneous
disease germs were stolen from the
Aubervilliers laboratory. The police
say that they have traced the lost rab-
bits, and that all were eaten by Auber-
villiers people, who, as yet, have shown
no bad effects.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15
Eminent stamme erers.

A great many people do not know
that Moses, the prophet, suffered so
badly that Aaron, his brother, did most
of the talking for him. 1t may also be
balm to some people who stammer to
know that Aesop, Virgil and Demos
themes were likewise afflicted. Demos
themes is said to have cured himself by
learning to talk with pebble in his
mouth. Mrs. Inchbold, the famous
English actress, was another who tri-
umphed over a difficulty of speech.
More than one Of the French Kings
have been stammerers, as were also
Claudius Michael H., Emperor of the
East; Mahomet-el-Rasser, King OF
Spain; Eric, King of Sweden; Admiral
Annebant, Tartaglia, the Italian en-
gineer; Boissy d'Anglas, the painter
David, the critic Hoffman, Camille Des'
mouIcris and host of others.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

Postmaster General Gary is very pro-
nounced in his views concerning the in
PRODUCTION of government postal banks.
He says: "Postoffice savings banks
would help the other banks, and they
would constitute one of the greatest in
centives to patriotism. Give a man an
interest in the government, and he is
pretty sure to take a deeper interest
In it."
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

Steadily, and with very little hurrah,
the South is diversify1ng her crops and
multiplying her metal and textile in
dustries. These are the paths that lead
not only to material prosperity, but to
the gradual minimization of the race
friction, which more than anything else
has been an obstacle to the advance
ment of that section.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

pertinent IN popular government. II
those reformers who are so disgruntled
with existing political conditions that
they can see nothing hopeful in the sit
uation, nothing encouraging in the out
look, will compare the elections of very
recent years with those of a quarter Of
a century ago they will find no food for
the nurture of pessimism.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

Charlotte Smith, of the New York
Woman's Rescue League, says if all
the bachelors were compelled to marry
wages would go up. She does not ex-
plain what difference that would make
when fellow would have to hand over
the whole amount anyhow every pay
dAV
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

Misguided energy takes many forms.
Even Demosthenes would have taken
the pebbles from his mouth and have
ceased to urge action had he read the
handbill lately sent out to advertise a
church festival: "All the latest negro
melodies, funny gags, jokes, amusing
dialogues. Twenty ladies in burnt
cork. Music by the best home talent"
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

Somebody who has been to visit Jules
Verne describes that writer of ro-
mances as most abstemious for
Frenchman, drinking cider in prefer
ence to wine. The abstemiousness de-
pends. Cider, If Of the ''hard'' variety,
Is commonly thought to be much more
conducive to romance than wine.
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

The London Lancet says there is an
absolute pathological identity In the
symptoms of alcoholism and of the
condition of one madly in love. In both
cases, that high medical authority re-
marks, separation is a cure. Here is
material enough for a three-volume
novel, but it would not be very roman
The Winslow mail., 1898-01-15

A novel idea in vacations has been
adopted In Boston. The tiremen there
are allowed annual vacations, and the
commissioners have decided to send
every horse owned by the department
out to country pasture two weeks ev-
ing fast