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case of a protracted siege, she would send her torpedo fleet to blockade the harbor of Boston and starve Boston into submis- sion. In Madrid, Boston is well known. It is considered the oldest and heaviest stand by of the American ports and 1t has long been the desire of the Weylerites to lie off Boston harbor and give the Cape Cod molks taste of starvation.
 Immediately upon the receipt Of the "starvation' news from Minister Woodford, the ram Katadin was ordered to Province town to strengthen the defense of Boston harbor, although this for such purposes would have been unnecessary.
 It is impossible to siege any of the ports of the United States. We are the greatest food producing country in the world. The fact that we supply Great Britain with her apples, her wheat and many of her choicest fruits, influenced Queen Victoria in her appeal to us to avoid war. We would feel the blockade of the port of New York; she wrote. And indeed Ger many, Russia and France as well as Great Britain would feel the blockade of the port of New York.
 As for the starving out" the United States no one at all familiar with its con- ditions would dream of such thing. But in Madrid they do not know New York. In Spain they do not know the United States They think we are a little handful of people wild and unprepared-a score of people that can be easily, terrorized into surrender At the time of the Worlds Fair the leading paper in Spain advised Spanish tourists to remain in New York city dur ing the exposition. By sleeping in New York you will avoid the crush of Chicago"
 said this highly intelligent newspaper, land each morning you can take the train for Chicago and after seeing the sights of the Worlds Fair return to New York at night for quiet comfortable sleep.
 Another neWspaper-one that is specially known as the Queen Regents organ, fn- formed Spanish tourists that it would be well to select rooms in New York, (which is a suburb of Chicago"
 All this gives one an idea of how the Spaniards size up this country. If the press knows no better, how can we ex- pect the people or even the cabinet to be more fully informed. When Eulalie came here on her visit, she set the period of her stay for ten days, thinking that in ten days she could spend a day in each one of the principal cities of the United States. She visited Washington and Chicago and then found that her ten days were up.
 In case of the blockade by Spanish war ships of New York, Boston, Charleston or Dry Tortugas,- these places would look to the interior and receive an abundance Of supplies Indeed they get all their provis- ions from the United States now. and so would be unconscious of any effort to starve them out. We get so little from foreign countries to eat that starvation by siege takes the form of ridiculous sug- gestion.
 How long will Havana hold out under the siege? Gomez is waiting to march to the city from one direction; he has leutenants ready to take it from three others; the United States troops are pre- pared to march to Havana at any time. Lee, with his Virginians and Roose-
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THE SIEGE OF HAVANA.

and the Marblehead doing patrol duty at the entrance of the port, with the Mohawk and the Mississippi lying off the guns of Morro. and the Department of the Gulf guarding the entrance to Cuban waters. there would be little difficulty in keeping any of Spain's provision ships from enter ing.
 Havana cannot get supplies from inc in- terior for the interior is held by insur- gents They are within two miles of the city and at night when Havana is asleep, the distant murmuring of the guns is heard over the still air.
 Besides, even though Havana could call on the whole of Cuba for her supplies, she could not then get enough food to feed all her people. Cuba is starving. The re- concentrates are living like Moguis conn pared with the residents of the cities. The reconcentrados are eating out of the sup ply trains, but the citizens of Havana are eating out of the gutter. s- Provisions went up here the day Cuba Libre became a fact. Meat flew to three times it's normal value and flour and grain went up to ten times their original cost. You can't get oats for the horses and you can't get wheat for the people. They could live without meat, and they are living without meat, but they want gran.. Take all the grains from your table and you get an idea of what starvation is. The only thing Havana now depends upon is it's green vegetables. for these in the soft, fer tile Cuban soil spring up in a night Let tuce and radishes are weeds which they throw to the goats. The mules eat the very vegetables which we purchase at the fruit stores at fancy prices But even these are failing in Havana because it is over crowded and there isn't enough for all. The only way of getting food into Ha- vana is by sea. The country today pos- sesses absolutely nothing. It is devastated The very first day of the siege no meat will enter the city. There are no stock yards of consequence near Havana, the cattle being consumed as fast as they arrive.
 There is no alternative but to turn to the horses of the street Excluding the cavalry horses. there are today in Havana about 2,500 horses-almost as badly emaci- ated as the reconcentrados.
 The water supply will go almost as soon as-the meat. It comes from two sources by the old aqueduct-of Carlos III. and by the aqueduct-of vento. The former is small ditch that can be easily destroyed. It conveys water from the River Almedares into Havana, the source of the supply be- ing about six miles out It would be short work to cut it off.
 The Vento aqueduct, which was built only four years ago, draws it's supply of waters from the Springs of Vento, fifteen miles out of Havana One small cartridge of dynamite, exploded near the reservoir or the springs, will make Havana as dry as a bone in thirty minutes. the other sup ply having been stopped quite as readily.
 The demoraliZation that will prevail in the city when it's inhabitants find them selves not only without pure water to
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A Farmers Gun

Naval officers say that with sufficient number of these they could actually guard the entire coast line, making it impossible for the enemy to land.
 The only trouble with this cannon is that 1t does not throw as far as the big guns of the navy. On the other hand, it is more disappearing, if you will allow the term. warship can fire further, to be sure, but it cannot aim as accurately.
 Now, suppose a case. The Spanish terror the Cristobal Colon, Is approaching the shore. 1t opens up it's fire and it necessa- rily does damage. Meanwhile it is con- stantly approaching. During this approach the little noiseless. fameless and smokeless cannon has sent a steady fire into the war ship and does considerable damage to it's parts exposed above the water.
 The warship attempts to destroy the small cannon, of course, but how will if locate it? It is extremely difficult to hit any one spot from a warship. Even Buff falo Bill with his trained eye would find 1t hard to touch target with one of these big guns aboard a cruiser The small smokeless, noiseless, fiameless cannon on shore on the other hand readily hits it's mark. Its course describes the well known parabolic direction and with one of two misses at first will hit the deck or the smoke stacks of the cruiser with unfailing accuracy. This has been. done again and again.
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4 WORKOUT FAD.
/" Spring Medicines" "B1ood Purfiers," and
 "Tonics" an O1d-FashiOned Idea.

Pure blood. strong nerves and muscles. firm, healthy flesh, can only come from wholesome food well dlgested ''Blood pri- fers' and nerve tonic" do not reach the cause of the mischief. The stomach is the point to be looked after. The safest and surest way to cure any form of indigestion Is to take after each meal some harmless preparation of this kind composed of veg etable essences pure pepsin, golden seal and fruit salts, sold by druggists under name of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, and these
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tablets taken after meals assist digestion wonderfully because they will digest the food promptly before 1t has time to ferment and sour, and the weak stomach relieved and assisted in this way soon becomes strong and vigorous again.
 Stuart's Dyspepsia tablets are superior to any secret patent medicine because yoa know what you are taking into your stom' ach.
 They are sold by druggists everywhere for 5Oc. per package. Write F. A. Stuarf O., Marshall, Mich, for book on stomaen diseases, mailed free.
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struction over a marvelously large space.
 Theoretically, every high explosive is dynamite" But dynamite has long since become generic term, meaning everything that has any force superior to gunpow- der. Gunpowder never has been and never will be high explosive. The most val uable high explosive for use on water is is gun cotton. It can be pressed into small, misunderstanding little cakes and is impervious to water and atmosphere. It has S65 times the explosive power of gun powder. Meet to gun cotton comes for cite, after which comes dynamite proper, which is made of nitro o-glycerine and rotton
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Civilization is driving out bloedshed, and the desire to take a mans life, because he w.l1 not agree with you in diplomatic matters, becomes less and less with each generation. Many now think, including the pope and some of our best statesmen, that all might even now be done by arbi- tration, and all agree that the day of full arbitration is not far off.
 Mckinley in fighting the fight that is next to arbitration, he is trying to win
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stone in proportion of one-fourth of rotton stone to three-fourths of nitro-glycerine.
 Touched to the tongue, dynamite has a sour taste, and for a moment produces a violent headache, which, however, soon passes away.
 In the present emergency, when such guns as the Zalinsk and other hfgfI ex- plosive carrying inventions. demaHdg Non- stant manufacture of dynamite, ford eSand gun cotton. the greatest difficultI fs ex- sperienced in getting workmen New hands invariably get sick and theJWofk is left entirely to the old experienced hands who have become "inoculated'' to oitt %
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iti Tea for Havana! This goes to show how sadly in need Havana is of choice sup plies. when its grandees send to Florida and Mexico for their delicacies.
 Havana is now in a state of siege. The port is blockaded. Nothing can enter and nothing can go out, unless the good United States ships that are stationed just out of the reach of Moro's guns give the word. All Havana will become reconeertra and the grandees themselves will stand in the
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the Spanish-American war without blood shed. His commands to the army were: 'aTake Havana if you can without firing a gum" Of course he knew that was im- possible, but he trusted to history and to the success of sieges.
 To besiege Havana is not a difficult mat ter. With the Cincinnati in Havana waters
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streets and look vainly around for SUD- plies on which to spend their money.
 Napoleon won his battles in the open field; Won Moltke won his by strategy; Bis- marck fought with his statesmanship; washington fought by determination and sense of right: Jefferson Davis fought with the spirit of the people he loved behind
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City. either by
  honesty
 
  in thec immunity de republicans
  they have accompls  all
  the still taking nms and a dstaseful had to recommending the rap all Father
  Icantr
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Key West. Fla. May s.-The last provis- ion ship has entered the port of Havana, sailed through Havana waters April 19. the day the president signed the Joint reso- lution of the senate and the house. This provision ship had on beard 1000 bushels of grain and small cargo of fresh meat. It also bore case of choice tea. Think of
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him; but Mckinley is fighting the greatest fight of all History will so record it.
 Every theologian, every deep thinker, every logician every statistician, every his- torian will tell you that the day of the bloody battle is drawing past. In every war of today there Is more of strategy and compromise and less of actual killing
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quench thirst, but without any water sup ply with which to fight the many fires that occur during siege, can well be imagined. The explosion of single American shell in Havana at this stage might lead to a con fiagration which would turn the town into furnace. S ssAsszssssT
 The queen regent announced to Sagasta and the cortes the other day that in
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welt for his first aide, Is thirsting for Ha- vana gore He wants to wipe out that last Blanco insult and the sailors in the harbor are pining and dying to avenge the Maine.
 Will Havana starve itself out in two weeks? It can hardly live longer than that on its present supply of provisions. c. S. RUSSELL.
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The zalinski

Another gun is the zalinskl dynamite gun. In this projectile. the value of the new high explosives is demonstrated. Our erandfathers who, in 1872. fired the old fashioned cannon ball at our cousins, the Britains. would have stood aghast, ap- palled into surrender, could they behold the loading of the Zalinsh dynamite gun. This gun is loaded with the highest known explosive The charge is compressed itno an incomprehensibly small space and Is warranted not to explode until 1t reached its full destination. Then 1t scatters de-
The age-herald., 1898-05-15
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

The firm of Motion & Stickney is this day dissolved by the sale of c. L. stickney's in- terest and good will to T. H. Motion, who will continue the business under the name of T. H. Motion & Go. April 30. 1898.
 TIL MOTION. 5-so-1aw-sw.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
THE FORCES At MANILA
NUMBER or SPANISH TROOPS
THE BOYS WILL MEET.


HONGKONG. May 22.-Thc census
of the Spanish officials shows that
1000 soldiers are in Manila. 1000 in
Cebu. l.5OO in lloilo, 1000 in Minan-
daro and 500 at Layte. There is no
artillery outside of Manila and the
forts
The Spanish political and war cen
ter is. for the time being, here. Spies
are everywhere. They are busy cir
culating reports of disaster to the
American forces i'm the West Indies
and elsewhere. Today they started
rumor that Dewey had been assas-
sinated and following this came the
unfounded report that the insurgent
chief had gone over to the Spanish
and had been given command of the
| Spanish military forces.
! WASHINGTON. May 22.-Admiral
| Deweys squadron will he re-enforced
| by five warships. The cruiser Charles
| ton has sailed. the monitor Monterey
is under orders to 90. and today or
ders were telegraphed to Mare Is
/ land to hasten repairs on the Ihila-
delphia. The Charleston will pick up
| the Bennington at Honolulu. The
Yorktown of the same class and ar
mament as the Bennincton> will he
gotten ready at Mare Island is quick
" as possible. The Bennington and
| Yorktown, although third-rate gum
boats. are equal TO the Spanish gun
boats of the type blown up bv Dew
ey at Manila. II is eNnected that be
fore the new Spanish fleet arrives at
Manila, Dewey will have received the
Charleston and bennington and at
least 5000 troops.
READING. Pa, Nav 22.-Over 500
nroiectileS at the Carpenter Steel
Works will be sent tomorrow to San
Francisco for Admiral Dewey at Ma
Mia.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
COMING THIS WAY.

The astronomers of the University
of California have completed tn ;ir
computation of the comet discovered
Sunday, March Goth. by Professor
Perrine of the Lick Observatory. and
according to them the comet will be-
come brighter and remain in signt
for some time. 1t is now travelling
toward the earth at the rate of ! 900 =
900 miles a day.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
HAD MANY AILMENTS.

For years 1 have been taking med
icines for liver complaint, heart trou-
BILE and nervous prostration, but three
bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla have
done me more good than any other
medicine have ever taken. l hearth
ly recommend it to Others" Mrs. S. A.
Judd, Vernon, Michigan.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
THE BASEBALL GAME.

The Honolulus had a rather easy
victory over the Regiments at Ma
kilti yesterday afternoon. About a
thousand people witnessed the game,
a large ~ cent of them being Wis
ting soldiers. George Angus was the
umpire. w." score at the close of the
contest : BOD to @
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
CHRISTIAN WORKERS.

The regular weekly meeting of the
Christian Workers will he held this
Friday afternoon at 800 o'clock at
the Y. NJ. {. \. hall. The meeting
will be led by Professor Howell. 4
cordial invitation is extended to all
to he present.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
HOP HONG,
Merchant Tailor.

A Fine Assortment of American,
English and Scotch Cloths on hand.
Good Work and a First Class Fit
Guaranteed. Clothes Cleaned and Re-
paired.
No. 40 Nuuanu Street. Honolulu, 81. L.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03

The University of Chicago expended
more than $1,OOO,OOO in the year 1897
OF this 5000, 900 was in salaries of the
faculty.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03

HOODS PILLS are the only pills
to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Easy, yet efficient.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
THE
-THE-
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.
OF CANADA.
Summary of Annual Report for 1897:

Summary of Annual Report for 1897:
New Life Applications re-
ceived during 1897 $50, 1902, 754. 90
Increase over 1896. 80. 5,1S2, 462 10
Cash income for year end
ing Dec. 81, 1897. ..... 2,23S, 1894 IA
Increase over 1896 80. 352, 1896 IA
Assets at 31st December,
1897 ....... .......... 7,322,37 "A
Increase over 1896 80. 934,226. rs
Reserve for Security of
Policyholders ......... 6,S56,752. 90
according to HIM. 4 per cent
Table.)
Increase over 1896 49,. 24,552. so
Surplus over all Liabil-
ties, except Capital -. 314,22o. 10
according to HIM. per cent
Table.)
Surplus over all Liabil-
ties and Capital Stock. 3,271. 9s
according to Canadian Govern
ment Standard HIM. Az per cent?
Surplus over all Liabil-
ties, except Capital -. ss,272 90
according to Canadian Govern
ment Standard Az per cent?
Claims Paid during 1897. 463, 674. 81
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-06-03
NEW zealand kUNET.
Hawaiian
lectric
Company.

The cleanest, brightest safest and really,
On the long run, the cheapest and best light
for use in the family residence, is the mean
descent electric light. Safe; nothing could
5e safer. A few days ago prominent gen
Slemau of Honolulu came rushing down to
che Office Of the Electric Company and said:
~'Give me figures for wiring my house, and
want it done at once; no more lamps for me-
Last night a lamp tipped over and it came
go near setting fire to the house and burning
Efry children and take no more risks"
This is the sentiment of quite a number in
StGe past few weeks, who have ordered their
houses fitted with the perfect light.
just think it over and make up your mind
That you want the best and safest light send
for the Hawaiian Electric Company and tell
tftn what you wall.
We have a complete stock of everything in
Gbis line and have just received lot of the
very latest designs in chandeliers
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-11-03
A MOOTED QUESTION
The Nature of Dinks Stroth-
er's Disease.
IT MAY Be SMALLPOX
The Doctors. However. Are Undecided
The Doctors, However, Are liudec,d.,,
The CASe Has Been lsst,la,ou and
Other Precautionary Measures
Taken. DIR. is.gby's Sta enent

The Daily Press of yesterday referred
to the suspicious sickness of Il negro on
Seventeenth street. and the rumor that
the man was stricken with smallpox
This rumor could not be verified for the
reason that the physicians themselves
do not know for certain what is the
matter With the sick man 1t is en-
tircly possible that it may be case OF
smallpox. and on the other hand, it is
also entirely possible that it may not
This in brief, is the concensus of opin-
ion among the medical men who have
examined the case.
The patient is negro barber who
keeps a shop on Seventeenth street, on
the Acre and lives in the rear of the
shop. He has been removed to a build
ing prepared for him. and the house he
occupied has been closed 1t will he
disinfected and fumigated this morning
This action is the result of IL visit to
the man yesterday by DR.. Bag'by. Presi-
dent of the Board of Health, and Ma
tinnal Quarantine officer DR.. Pettus.
DR.. Baghy was seen last night by a
reporter for the Press and made this
statement:
DIR. Murray was called in to see the
man Saturday ana was undecided as to
the nature of the disease The patient
was seen by several other physicians
and they could not come to any con-
clusion on the subject. first saw the
man Sunday and was then under the
impression that it was Il case OF
syphilis DR.. y. c. Jones saw the man
at the same time, and was Of the opin-
ion that ii was smallpox. On Monday
DR.. Murray concluded it was smallpox
DR.. Pettus and DR.. Greasy saw him
upon that day also The former would
not say what was the matter with the
man. Dr.. Greasy was also undecided
but was Inclined to believe that the
disease was secondary syphilis.
Yesterday DR. Pettus and visited the
man again and we are both still unde-
cided as TO the character of the malady.
We found the man sitting up. There
was considerable eruption on his face
and on different portions Of his body,
and this eruption might have been pro-
duced by secondary syphilis.
We deemed it best, however, to
avoid all risks. and accordingly had the
man removed to a shack which we had
the city limits in the woods northwest
of East End. A colored man who
lived with him. a barber. who worked
in the same shop. is nursing him. and is
isolated with him.
We shall be able to diagnose the case
definitely in three or four days. In the
meantime, the patient is completely
isolated and his house will be
thoroughly disinfected and fumgated
this morning, and every precaution will
be taken to prevent any spread of the
disease. should it prove to be smallpox.
There is no occasion for excitement or
alarm"