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The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
LONE LIFE OF THE CREW
 ON THE NEW LIGHTSHIP

a different answer. The service calls for three months on board ship and a months shore leave. But. of course, it may be that after mans three months are up the weather will be so bad he cannot leave the vessel. This may keep him on board some weeks longer. so that there is no telling how long he may be on board at stretch
 None of the crew have ever been on board lightship, but all seem to real ize what their lot is to be after they once get anchored out on the bar
 When the weather is fine it will be like paradise" said the mate. We will have very little work to do and can lie on deck in the sunshine and let our ship swing We can listen to the water gurgling under her keel and hear the sea birds scream as they fly about. There will always be ships and tug boats in sight, so that I don't think we will be lonesome"
 "But when the weather is bad?"
 "Oh, I don't think about that. It's going to be nice for some months now and when winter comes we will be used to it and not mind. Besides our vessel has bilge keels and carries sea anchors, so she Will not roll very much. And if the weather become very rough we can steam ahead so that she will take the seas nicely and it will be just like taking a long voyage"
 1T have never been on board a light ship said one of the oldest members of the crew, but I have been anchored in a gale for days at a time and I tell YOU there is no fun in it. I do not ex- pect our life aboard the new ship to be like taking a pleasure trip. But it's my business and I am glad to do it. This is the best job I have ever had, and will be glad to stick to it.
 When I think of my past experience, though, it seems awful You have no idea how monotonous it gets when the weather is bad. Everything about the ship gets damp and cold and how she does roll Day and night and night and day the never-ending movement keeps up. Now it is on one side and now on the other. Now she pitches up and now she pitches down. Then something gets the matter with one of the lamps and you have to go aloft in rain and darkness while the whole world seems swinging beneath you. The days drag on so that you forget all about the cal endar and can only wonder what is going on in the world that is so near and yet so far. But when fog comes LID and the bells and whistles are going day and night. then our troubles will begin. But I don't want to talk about that. At least not until my business compels me to. I say, though. isn't this
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

all exactly alike in every particular.
 The San Francisco is as trim a look ing vessel as ever Q sailor clapped his eyes on. She is IA feet long and 30 foot beam. Built entirely of steel with copper bottom and bilge keels, and on the lines that have been found to be the best adapted to the service, she is strong enough to weather any storm that has ever blown in the history of man.
 The new lightship carries two masts and on the top of each there is a crows nest containing three electric lamps. The power plant consists of an engine to drive the propeller wheel, engines and dynamos for the signal lamps and for lighting the vessel, machinery for fogbeu and automatic foghorn. There is also steam gear for handling the two big anchors. In fact, nothing that mod ern science can suggest has been omitted from this vessel. She is simply perfect.
 Nor is the mechanical part all that Uncle Sam has looked out for. He has also considered the comfort of his men and endeavored to make their lot as agreeable and pleasant as the circumstances will permit of.
 There are two cabins. One is locat- ed anidships and the other takes up the afterpart of the vessel. Both are as finely finished as the cabins of many firsteclass passenger steamers. And they are every bit as clean and com- fortable. The captains cabin is gem in it's way, and the main saloon is fitted with big cushions and easy lounges. Each man has a stateroom to himself and if he is not comfortable it is his own fault.
 "The focastle is the finest fo'castle I ever saw, and I have been on board many fine ships" is the way one of the seamen described his new quarters. Ana when a sailor talks that way no fur ther praise or comment is necessary.
 The cooks galley is as perfect in ap- pointments as the cuisine of the Pal ace Hotel, and the cook says the crew is going to eat as well as the guests of that famous hostelry do. Which being the case it is safe to say there will be no insubordination among the sailors. All will be as happy and obedient as if the millennium had come.
 But how do these men look upon their possible imprisonment on the ves- sel for months at time? The ques- ton was asked of several, and all had
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
KANSAS CRUSADE
 AGAINST GUM CHEWING.

THEY are always doing something
 different" in Kansas. When they
 are not fighting grasshoppers or | electing farmer legislators they
 are doing something else out of the ordinary.
 The latest is a, crusade against the habit of chewing gum.
 It broke out almost simultaneously in two different parts of the State.
 At Pleasanton one of the teachers in the public schools found that nearly half of her pupils had become inyeter- ate gum -chewers.
 She deprecated the habit and pleaded with them to stop it, but all to no avail. She resolved to adopt heroic measures A few mornings ago she supplied herself with a liberal quantity of quinine.
 When the pupils assembled several of them were working their submaxil- laries at lively gait.
 The teacher waited until the morning session had convened, and then com pelled the gum-chewers to disgorge their quids.
 A nice, white coating of quinine was applied to each wad of gum and then they were not only urged but coerced
 
 mastication.
 But the gum had lost its good, sweet taste.
 After the recalcitrants had been sufficiently punished the teacher al- lowed them to remove their cuds, but since that time there has been no gum chewing in that particular room of the Pleasanton public school, whatever the pupils may do on the outside.
 About the same time Rev. A. S. En- bree of Topeka conceived a violent dis like for the gum chewing habit, and de- terrnined to raise his voice against it as public nuisance and a blot on the community
 This he did, both in his pulpit and through the newspapers, and for sev- eral days there has been a violent dis cussion of the subject in Topeka Many people are not inclined to the belief that chewing gum is either foolish, un- wise or sinful, and the chances are that the practice will not be wiped out at once.
 However President A. H. Taylor of the State Normal has taken a hand in the crusade, and has given his moral and personal support to the Rev. MT. Embree in his efforts to eradicate the gum-chewing habit and cause a slump in the tutti frutti market.
 In a private letter to a friend at To- peka. President Taylor says:
 Chewing gum is as nasty a habit as the use of tobacco, and a gum-chewer becomes as addicted to the habit as tobacco-chewer. Then it is always stuck on the furniture and looks bad. I am putting forth my best efforts for the abolishment of the habit here"
 From which statement it would ap pear that a gunl-chewer will never be able to make a hit with President Taylor.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

~ H, I don't mind it in the least. To be anchored in front of the Golden Gate for three months
 and never going ashore is to me
 just like taking a long sea voy-
 age The only difference is that in this case you don't get anywhere"
 The speaker was Captain A. J. Low ell. master of the handsome new light ship San Francisco, that within few days will be anchored out on the bar to replace the time-honored whistling buoy. At present the new lightship is laid up beside the wharf at Goat Island receiving the last finishing touches be- fore going on her station as part of the United States Lighthouse Department.
 These are busy times out on the new vessel, for there is a great deal to be done yet in spite of the fact that the craft has been declared to be finished" About twenty men are now at work on her. Machinists are turning over" the engines, electricians are examining dy- namos and testing lights and wires, carpenters are finishing woodwork and painters are giving the last touches here and there.
 The entire crew has already been se- Iected. and they are willing and able-bodied corps of men. The vessel will be in charge of Captain A. J. Low ell Julius Huebner will be first mate, Charles A. Lee chief engineer and AL bert H. Pep CT assistant. Stephen Case and Jefferson Todd will be firemen. There will be six seamen, as follows: John FalIon, D. Mccarthy, Severin T. Orindersen, T. Winters, Fred Pruss- mann and Charles Carlson. A. o. Chris field will act as cook.
 All of these men have taken up their quarters on the new vessel, and are ready and willing to go to sea at any tine-even if they do run the chance of%4t getting ashore again for several
 As. Furthermore, they are all proud of their new ship.
 And they have good reason to be proud of her, for she is one of the finest lightships afoat There are only two that equal her and none that IS her su- perior. The San Francisco, No. 70. IS a sister ship of ships 68 and 69. The former is anchored off Diamond Shoals on the Atlantic coast and the latter off Fire Island, near the entrance to New York harbor. The three vessels were built out of the same appropriation. from the same specifications, and are
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

a fine ship we have? She's the finest I ever saw"
 Whatever any of the men thought of the long, monotonous days that they must spend on board the new lightship out on the rolling bar all were anxious to get out there and get to work
 If all goes well the new lightship will be anchored on her station before the 1th of next month. And there she is expected to remain, unless some serious accident happens to the machinery, pitching and rolling in the angry waves for six long years.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

H, I don't mind it in the least.
 To be anchored in front of the Golden Gate for three months and never going ashore is to me just like taking a long sea voy-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-26

"Hearkcn" said Margaret Houyuet addressing
me- "hearken. Honorable Master secretary
Men are vile beasts all Yet this poor
carrion"-she gently touched the breast or the
corse with her bound hands and stopped Tor
moment Again in the silence the bells chimed
far and faint "Ay. hear YOU said Margaret
Hcuyuet He was a tall man.. went on the
woman, "and ne was mine. He was my man
He broke his monks vows to come to me-and
very long ago we dwelt together In Bruges CITY
But the new religion whispered in his ears DAY
and night and plucked his sleeve and called
him out Of dark places. and he went away
and after many years he came back. ara
when he saw me-when he saw me. he raiied upoh
me In the street and drove me from him. Be
fore the Mother Of God. Honorable Master sec
r.: Iry this is truth.
she turned swiftly and flung herself upon the
body with little cry. slipped the loop OF her
arms over the stone at its head. ciasping 'he
shoulders. and rose to her feet The swaddIed
shane rose with her. cinctIred with her arms
and before a hand might be lifted the living
and the dead plunged into the flowing water
and sani< before our eyes
Thus betrayed into the hands OF the hoy
Drice by his own fooliShncss. which leaped OUT
upon him after fifteen years. persisted this f'"l
hrrctic-N. cope Cornford in The Lohuo"
outlook
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-26

his middle and a leathern collar choking him.
one thrust a tore into the pile the flames
sprang up and the people. with a great roaring
cry pressed upon the soldiers and fought with
them Whereupon the executioncr. fearing a res
cue. lcaped upon the faggots and stabbed the
prisoner to the heart twice But the halberdiers
drove back the people. From where stood
the bright steel REDEEMED and the mob
seeing that their man WAS dead presently drew
off. We left the fire = it was. the flames busily
climbing and a dusk pillar Of smoke overhang-
ing the open square. for the soldiers burst not
then remove the body
Very early the next morning. before the city
was astir. / went with sergeant and a file
Of haberdcrs to take away the corse The fog
Of dawn hung low upon the dripping roofs, and
the jingling chimes Of the Cathedral fell muiiled
upon the ear as we came into the solitary mar
ket-pace The scorched and tattered body u
the hereto dropped upon the blackcncd stake
and sitting in the ashes beneath. with her chin
in her hands. was the woman Margaret Hou-
yuet. Her eyes pccred through the veil Of her
long black hair. which was all sprnkcd over
with ashes. Seeing draw near. she rose and
went a little way off and stood still in the dusk
shadow while the soldiers wound the body Of
Gerard Oeicr in 4 sheet and laid II upon
hand bier and set the burden on their shoulders
The woman followed us. like a stray dog. all the
way 20 the riverside. where. At a point below
the town. the boat was mocr"d. She stood
watching while the bier Land in the for"
part Of the boat and the men took their places
and her fac. was the face IF soul in torment.
such an one as | have often had opportunity To
observe in my employment. Seeing myself
/ about to embark. Margaret Uouy uct came tow
ard me- twisting her hands together
Good my lord. for the love IF God. let me
come into the boat" said she For tho love
OF God and the Mother 4 God. hinder me not
Honorable Master Secretary"
+ tod her | could not grant her request. and
commanded her 10 60 hence. Bu, sh- kn"'lod
down that strange woman al white "ith ashes
and covered with her snai.y hair iui would
have clasp.d my knees while she sought me-
in weeping voice.
GIVE the woman her viii. honorable. we
shall all bo ~, rioonrI ,isc." Iuoth The sergeant
Surely she hath the Eye
Wilinr 10 See tn. .nI yielded and hai" h"r
10 20 in the boat Il she listed Whrr'upon 'h"
woman STEPPED nimh.y across thr th"lfis ana
sat down over aeair.f he bicr. Tho Non INT III
into mlIstrcam Nhil" 1nr fastened with ropes
a great stone At the head and another at 'hr
foot II tn. cors. TIA. mist huns inlck
about Us that ~ rliiri .'"n'ath n'vias dome
II ,apor. lni aneAns ;Ain and Aigh. Hkr d
spray Of b,lt.n silver heard 'h" iiinf
chimes II IA. Cathedral tower M.rrir''
Uouyu.t sat twisting d green korh'rf about
her wrists and drawing last knot with beer
tooth Tn. mon presently hr.d their ars %
order that thr b,ij might Dee committed 20 Do"
nowin, water according % our custom 100 these
affairs Then ih. woman got. to her feet ana
stood with her bourI hands in front u Der, me
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-26
SHiKERS ~ GEORGIA.
rrnm Tho -K,itImorc sun.

From Tn" baltimore sun.
At Brunswi k saturday asst the SHAKER ~
ciety # Union village. OHIO. 'pnciuh'" ,"'
purchase II II .ODD acres If Georgia 'ahu 81"
afrd m Pierce Ware and Charlton counties.
Tho deal involves about Sl1JbD. and a portion
~ the purchas. money has been paid Ih' pui-
pose If IN. purchase. II Is announced. IS u 10
rclop a part 4 the .nad for stock ana sh''P
RAISING and 20 DISPOSE II me remainder Z" 4
,i.sir, MI. class Of Northwestern farmers. II IS
,i;.Ic-ytouI that the Shakers wal! devote thrr
,,.rsonai attention 90 developing this land. Ih'y
have already over $3oWo IN GIynn county
farms and il IS their purpos" - cNeh'ualS
,,oy. Tho .u'ir.. Ohio shaker colony 10 'i"'rgla.
Thy hat. oyer >-anWm invested IN ONO ana
th. bringing IF his sum 20 Georgia "Ill. II Is
Thought prov. lastly beneficial 10 thr state.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-26
As EIGHTY THREE PoTND StLH"N.
rom The attic Times.

From The SrIttle Times.
state Fish Commissioner Little mas serurtu
an cightv-thrce- pound salmon. when VIII pe
Skinned to Omaha and exhibited as one oil 'he
nrndu,,s NJ this state The salmon is the larg-
act oc tie kind ever caught on the 'oluinpEa
river and merited the 500 reward offered ~
the canncrym,n for all fish weighing over sew
cnty-tive pounds-a reward very seldom EnInr '
ham on June - and sold to the Aberdeen rack,
ing Company Of Ilwaco. The cannery preSehted
the fish TO the Comm missioner Inc pls nsn
measured ( feet inches in length ana .'oh
inches I'm eirth state Fish Commissioner Little
sent the fish to coldstorase plant - Astoria
TO be frozen in cake OF Ice
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30
BY AUTHORITY.
WATER NOTICE.

In accordance with Section / of Chapter
XXVI. of the laws of 1886:
All persons holding water privilege or
those paying water rates, are hereby noti-
fled that the water rates Tor the term end
ing June 30, 1899, will be due and payable
at the office of the Honolulu Water Works,
on the LIST day of January, 1899.
All snch rates remaining unpaid for Is
days after they are due will be subject to
an additional 10 per cent.
All privileges upon which rates remain
unpaid February 10, 1899, $50 days after
beco ing Delinquency are liable to suspen-
sion without further notice.
Rates are payable at the Office of @
Water Works in the Kapuaiwa Building.
ANDREW BROWN,
Supt Honolulu Water Works.
Honolulu, H. l., Dec. 20, 1898.
1077-10t
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30
Planters Monthly.

Editor Whitney's Planters Month
ly for December is out and has
these leading articles:
Notes on Current Topics.
Annual Meeting of the Hawaiian
Sugar Planters Association.
Presidents Address
Statement of Hawaiian Sugar
Crop from October l, 1898, to Sep
TENDER Both, 1898.
Report on Cultivation.
Report on Fertilization
Work Of the Experiment Station
and Laboratories.
Report on Manufacture.
Report on Machinery
Report on Forestry.
Some Notes on the use OF "Clari-
phos" and Acid Phosphate.
Index to Volume XVII, 1898.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30
IRRIGATION NOTICE.

Holders of water privileges, or
those paying water rates, are hereby
notified that the hours for irrigation
purposes are from 6 to 8 O'Clock a. m.
and from to 6 o'clock p, m.
III, Holders of water privileges on
the slopes of Punchbowl above Green
street, and in Nuuanu Valley above
School street are hereby notified
that they will not be restricted to
the irrigation hours of 6 to 8 a. m.
and A to 6 p. M, but will be allowed
to irrigate whenever sufficient water
is available, provided that they do
not use the water for irrigation pur-
poses for more than four hours in
every twenty-four.
ANDREW BROWN,
Supt. Honolulu Water Works.
Approved; j. A. KING,
Minister of Interior.
Honolulu, H. l., Sept. z, 1898.
990-tf
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30
Oahu's New Officers.

An election of officers was held
last evening in Oahu Lodge No. l,
Knights of Pythias with the follow
ing result:
@. c., Geo. E. Ward; V. O., Bro,
Ericsson; Prelate, DR.. st. Clair; M,
Of w., Bro. Becker; X. OF r.. and S.,
Bro. Kilbey; NJ. OF E., Bro. Dali; M
of F., Bro Kidder; M. at A., Bro.
McCready; l. g., Bro. Doak; o. e.,
Bro. Wolters. These officers will be
installed on Thursday evening next
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30
For the Holidays

Camars & Co., on Fort Street,
offer choice brands of wines and
liquors put up in assortments to
suit. The clarets and white wines
carried by the firm are of the very
finest quality. A limited quality Of
the wines of Oporto and Zeres,
direct from the old country, is offer.
ed to all who desire to celebrate a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year. Leave orders at the Fort
Street Store or by Telephone 140.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30
ANNFXATIoN A BLOW TO SUGAR
INDUSTRY.

American Producers Protest Against
the Acquisition Of Tropical Ter
ritory.
CHICAGO, Dec. ola conference
between the officers OF the American
Sugar Growers Society and manu-
facturers OF beet sugar machinery
and represent atives of the beet sugar
factories now in operation was held
in the Office of the Orange Judd
Farmer, in the Marquette building.
The question under consideration
was the effect of the proposed an
nexation of sugar producing terri
tory in the West Indies and the
Philippines upon the development
American sugar producing interests.
The sentiment was unanimous
that the acquisition of tropical sugar
territory would seriously affect the
development OF the beet sugar in
dustry unless some arrangements
were made which would protect the
domestic product against the opera
ton Of free trade 10 sugar from the
new colonies. 1t was decided to
make formal protest to Congress
against the sacrifice OF the interests
Of American farmers, labor and
capital for the benefit OF tropical
regions. A COMMITTEES was appointed
to draw up formal petition to Con.
gress protesting against the acquisi.
| ton of territory.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30
More Chinese Litigation.

or the SO Chinese who arrived by
the Doric ~ were permitted to land
on their permits being found to he
in strict accordance with United
States law, and the balance Of 66
were sent to the Quarantine Station
on write of Habeas Corpus and other
legal proceedings to await the de-
cision OF the Courts.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

The Doric left shortly after the
scheduled time this morning being
detained by the Chinese proceedings.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

The Board OF Education met yes
terday afternoon aud transacted
considerable routine business.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Tenders are called for the con
struction Of a Masonry tower for tn
Diamond Head light.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

The British bark Williscot which
arrived yesterday applied for Ha.
waiian register this morning.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Y. M, @. A. New Years receptio
and concert in the evening on Nor
day next.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

The Marine Board of Survey re-
port that it will cost $4,000 to re-
pair the Columbia for her voyage to
San Francisco.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Mr.. Charles Brown of Holister g.
Co. returned by the City OF Peking
after an enjoyable trip to his old
hOme
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

The Doric brought the following
passengers for Honolulu yesterday:
L. F. Dredge, 5 in European steer
age, 622 in Japanese Storage, SO
Chinese steerage. For San Fran
cisco, she took away to-day the fol-
lowing: Mrs. E. B Carroll and sou,
Mrs. l.. T. Hanchett, Miss Beals,
Mrs. r. F. Woodward, Mrs. E, a.
Counea, Miss l.. K Hart, Miss Kel.
ley, Miss Pauahi Judd, l.. B. Newell
and wife, Chas. S. Desky, Mrs. @.
Mertens, @. l.. Stewart, F. N. Dscon,
Miss E. A. Evens, A. B. Bauman,
Capt. l.. n. Turner, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. Clever and four children.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Charles s. Desky left for Cali
fornia this morning and will be
gone for month.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Archie Gilfillan is back after a
very jolly trip to the mainland, and
is ready to go into harness again.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Baseball between Bennington's
and Engineers tomorrow afternoon.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Ring up Telehone l13 il any one
desires good rubber tired hack
With careful drivers, }. S. Andrade,
Manager City Carriage Co
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

The funeral OF the late Mrs. Chas.
Hammer will take place at 4 o'clock
this afternoon under Masonic aus
pices.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

For desirable goods at desirable
prices you must go to Sachs.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Cricket match at 1:30 on Monday
All players should turn out.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-12-30

Feather Boas and New Neck wea,
largely displayed al Sachs.