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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
CRUISER FOR SAMOA.

WASHINGTON, December 15.-The
fact that the British and Germans
have landed marines at Samoa has has
tened the movements OF the admins
tration and naval vessel will be
sent at once. At the same time it is
decided in administration circles that
the action of the Germans or the Eng
fish has nothing to do with this pur-
pose. Preparations for the consider
alton of the harbor and naval station
at Pago Pago are being rapidly for
warded.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
CLAUS sPREoKELs. WIN. G. IRWIN
Claus SpreCkelS & Go
b a ~ * IL N - .

- N ~ h ~ TX -
San Francisco Agents-The Nevada
Bank of San Francisco.
DRAW EXCHANGE ON
SAN FRANCISCO-Th Nevada Bank
of San Francisco.
LONDON-The Union Bank Of Lon
don, Ltd.
NEW YORK-American Exchange Ma
tional Bank.
CHICAGO-Merchants National Bank.
PARIS-Comptoir National d'Escomp-
tie de Paris.
BERLIN-Dresden Bank
HONGKONG AND YOKOHAMA-The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation.
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
Bank of New Zealand.
VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER-Ba
of British North America.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING
AND EXCHANGE BUSINESS.
Deposits Received. Loans Made on
Approved Security. Commercial and
Travellers Credits Issued. Bills of Ex-
change Bought and Sold.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY AC-
COUNTED FOR.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
JAPANESE TREE.

There was a Christmas tree at the
Japanese Lyceum, Nuuanu and Kukui
streets, last evening. II. Iwamura,
superintendent of the Sunday school.
had charge of the exercises. Singing
and Rotations, etc, made up the lit
erary entertainment, following which
the presents were distributed.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
NEW DRUG HOUSE.


\ new drug house will be establish
ed at once in the Won Holt block on
King street. One side of the room
lately occupied by II. w. Schmidt &
Son will be used. the other side being
taken by Wall, Nichols Co. for its mu-
steal goods.
The parties to open the house are
new corners. They will carry on a
retail business strictly and will buy
from the wholesalers i'm the city.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
HEAD OFFICE, YOKOHAMA.
IL MI ED

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:
Kobe London, Lyons, New York
San Francisco, Shanghai.
bombay, Hong Kong.
Transact General Banking and Exchange
Business.
Agency Yokohama Specie Bank
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28

INTEREST ALLOWED.
On fixed deposits for IL months, per
cent per annum.
On fixed deposits for months, 3h
per cent per annum.
On fixed deposits for 8 months, 3 per
cent per annum.
Interest Allowed by the Head Office
at Yokohama:
On current deposits, 5Hs per cent per
annum.
On fixed deposits for IL months, z
per cent per annum.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
THE BANK OF HAWAII, LTD,

Incorporated under the laws of the
Hawaiian Republic.
Capital subscribed ..$400, 900 90
Capital paid up ........... 100000 90
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
Chac. M. Cooke ...,...... President
j. B. Anterior ....... Vice President
-. IL locke .......... .CaSnler
+. Z. Atherton .............S Secretary
Directors-Henry Warehouse, Tom
May, F. w. Macfarlane, E. d. Tenney,
j. A. McCandless.
Exchange draw non Wells, Fargo e.
Co.'s Banks in San Francisco and
New York and their correspondents
throughout the world.
Oriental correspondents.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
ing Corporation. The Chartered Bank
of India, Australia and China.
Attention given to general banking
business.
Safe deposit boxes for rent by the
month or year.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-28
CellulOid.
Perfunery.

We always feel:easy when a
customer asks for Perfumery
because we feel that our stock
is about complete. We have
just impaired the latest special
ties of all the leading makers.
Palmer's and Lazell Daley
special odors are exquisite.
We can furnish these goods in
bulk and supply you with a
beautiful cut glass bottle.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
sALuTEs ON A wARsH1p.
Arc All Fired between Sunset and
Sunrise and None Exceed
Twcnty.One Guns.

No salute exceeds 81 guns, and no sa-
lutte is ever fired except between sun
rise and sunset, when the national col
ors must be displayed; but it is also
usual not to fire salutes before eight
q. m. Whenever the president is en-
barked in u ship-of-war flying his flag.
all other United States ships-of-war
and naval stations near which he
passes will fire the national salute.
Side-boys are detailed usually from
the apprentice boys. They stand each
side of the gangway in line and salute
by touching their caps as visiting of
ticials come on board or leave. Com
missioned officers board and leave .
ship by the starboard gangway. War
rant officers, naval cadets and enlisted
men use the port gangway.
After nightfall all boats coming close
to the ship are hailed by the marine
sentry or by the quartermaster with
the words: Boat ahoy!" A flag Off
Ger answers: alag" commanding
officer answers the name of his ship;
other commissioned officers answer:
"Aye, ayes" warrant officers and naval
cadets answer: mo, no;" while en-
listed men answer: .Hello!"
Every officer and man on reaching
the upper deck salutes the national
flag, and this salute is returned by tho
officer of the watch on board.
Flag officers are addressed by their
titles of admiral or commodore; cap
tains and commanding officers are
called "captain;" all other officers arc
called 'Mr.," and not by their official
titles. though in addressing them in
writing these titles are always used.
The surgeons, however, are usually
called Doctor" and paymasters of
any grade ''paymaster."
Boat salutes are given by tossing
oars, which means holding them up
right in the air with the blades fore
and aft, or by lying on oars. by which
is meant holding the oars horizontal
as they rest in the rowlocks. Cox
swains of boats stand and salute when
passing boats containing officers. All
officers and men, whether in uniform
or not, meeting senior afloat or
ashore, salute by touching the cap.
When ship of the navy enters .
port of any nation where there is a
fort or battery. or where ship-of-
war of that nation may be lying, sho
shall fire salute of 81 guns, provided
the captain is satisfied that the salute
will be returned. The flag of the ma
ton saluted will be displayed at the
main during the salute.
National airs of foreign states hav-
ing war vessels in company with our
own will be played by our bands
as compliment.-Lieut. Philip An
dre,ss, in St: Nicholas.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05

Tim does not laugh much. He has a
sort of jocular chuckle with which he
accompanies some of his remarks, as
"What you say" l have habit of
sometimes talking to myself" little
while attending to household duties.
Now and then Tim will interpose with
"What you say?" and then chlckle as
if greatly amused. This question 1
often ask him, when cannot UNDER
stand some little piece of jargon, and
am laughing at him. He has now al
together ceased speaking Spanish, but
when we first got him he knew nothing
else. He seems to be good bird, NOR
ally, for he has never, to my knowl-
edge, uttered an oath, fond as many
parrots are of swearing. Like the
Dutchman's boy, he may sometimes
think bad words, but he doesn't say
them; or, if he does, he cunningly
smothers them in that jargon of his,
at which he now and then chuckles
rather snspiciously, eying me sidewise.
He must be firm royalist, for we have
in vain tried to make him declare him
self a Cuban insurgent.-Charlotte
Boner, in St. Nicholas.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
Kaiser Wilhelm. Aim in Life.

l have known few men so free from
brag or hypocrisy as was the Ger
man prince when he ascended the
imperial throne. On the Christmas i'm
mcdiately preceding the death of his
noble father he wrote letter to
friend 5000 miles away. l have no
right to make this letter public, but
shall be forgiven for this much: The
writer dwelt earnestly upon the year
that was closing, and particularly re-
ferred to the problems of the future,
little dreaming that he was the one
who would be called upon to assist
in their solution. In this letter he con-
fessed that the ambition of his life was
to improve the condition Of the work.
Ing people, to reconcile the rasping
conflict between those who have and
those who have not, and above all. to
make the Christian religion real thing.
He went on jokingly to lament that
some of our American millionaires did
not see fit to leave him legacies for
this purpose; for he was, he said, al
ways hampered for want of necessary
1rads.--Poultuey Bige!Sy, in Century.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
ter which soils a smokers fingers or a
handkerchief through which tobacco

ter which soils smokers fingers or a
handkerchief through which tobacco
smoke is eXhaled, or is often noticed
as deposited in the stem of pipe.
This tarry deposit has nothing essen
tial in common with nicotine. and con-
tains but traces of this alkaloid. when
any ut all. A part, but only small
part.(about one-seventh of the expert
ments of Melsens), of the real nicotine
of tobacco is volatilized without de-
composition; the remainder is burned
and destroyed i'll the process of smok-
ing.
"The sensational statements occa-
sionally made in regard to arsenic, cop
per, ETC.. as present in the paper wrap
pers, would be at once seen to be gross
ly improbable if it were but remem-
bered that the wrapper is single
cigarette weighs little more than half
a grain, and that in such minute
quantity of thin, delicate white paper
there could be introduced but in
finitesimal amounts of such foreign
adulterants without the presence be-
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
puncEHr PARAGRAPHS

She (indignantly)-.He didn't say
thanks even." He-"That's odd.--
Harvard Lampoon.
"Who 10 that nice-looking girl over
there?" That's my daughter "In-
deed! Not bit like you!"-Tit-Bits
Conductor-"lf you want to smoke
In here you've either got to put your
cigar out or else 60 outside. London
Judy.
"Your guest didn't stay long?" mo;
you see she begged me to treat her like
one of the family. did. and now she's
gone.
Jackson-Well, johnson, are you
feeling the hot weather." Johnson
NO, I'm trying to keep from feeling
it."-Detroit Free Press.
"You were always fault-finder,"
growled the wife. "Yes. DEAR" re-
sponded the husband, meekly; II
found you."-Tit-Bits.
What makes you think he isn't one
OF the men who yelled for war SO
vociferously?" Because when it came
he enlisted."-Chicago Post.
She-"The fact that am widow
doesn't make any difference, does it 2"
He-"Yes. wouldn't marry you II
your husband was living."-Truth.
Johnny-"Pa, what's the difference
between puncture and punctuat ton Q"
Pa-'Not great deal, my son. They
both cause one to STOP" - Boston
Transcript.
Patient-"I'm feeling wretched, doc
tor. l take no interest in anything; I
have no appetite, can't sleep" Doc
tor-'Why don't you marry the girl?"
London Punch.
Pat-"Phat does 1t mean phen you
say-a mon is of mechanical turn of
mind?" Mike-"Sure, it's only polite
way of saying he has wheels in his
head. Tiger.
Sunday-School Teacher "What il
the lesson we are to draw from this
war with Spain?" Little Willie Wick
lemeyer-''They amt no lesson in it
fer us. We're teachin' Spain a lesson"
Cleveland Leader.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
RENT FLOWERS FOR HOUSES.
Business Through the Advent
Of Summer AOnths.

This is the season of the year when
keepers of hothouse flowers. who
thrive in winter. are practically with
out employment. There are moro
than 20 concerns in Chicago that make
business of renting potted plants.
palms and other interior decorations
to restaurants, cafes. saloons. and to
families. These plants are changed
as often as wanted. One day there
may be one of the waving pampas
plumes. and in the same place the day
following may appear blooming ger
anium. The uninitiated would imag-
inc that the owner of the room was
also proprietor ct hothouse. when he
isn't anything of the sort. These
plants may be rented for one dollar
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
WHAT NICOTINE REALLY IS.
a Colsr,ess rluaa THAT Become, uark
'''s when Exposed - Air
/. aaA Light.


> In a;communication about tobacco,
in the Scientific American. Prof. John
w! Aallet, 'of the University Of vir.
ginia. says among other things:
Ignorance of easily ascertainable
scientific facts is, however, common
enough, az often illustrated by the
brown. oily material formed in the
nicotine, though in reality this is mere
ly the tar produced by the action OF
heat, on the woody fibre of the leaf.
Nicotine when pure is colorless
fluid of somewhat oily consistence and
strong, peculiar, penetrating odor, but
it darkens on exposure to air and light
becoming first yellow and then brown
30 that it looks. in this darkened con.
dition, something like the tarry mat.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week E.a..s A.x. 4.

All the Chicago morning papers have
raised the price from one to TWO cents
per copy. ~
Peter knass and Herman Elbck were
suffocated by foul air in well near
La Sale, III. =.
The town of Beckwith. CAL, having
population of about 500, was aimos:
wiped out by fire.
i Martha Bean (colored), aged so. and
weighing G:5 pounds. dropped.dcad at
her home in st. Louis. *
The Chinese warship Jutschi foun-
dered during storm ut Port Arthur
and 146 of her crew perished.
Severa! persons lost their lives and
others were badly injured in a fire
in the Berwyn hotel in Chicago.
James Clark, the oldest mason in
the United States, celebrated his
ninety-ninth birthday at Quincy, Ill.
Jesse johnson, Fred johnson, James
Stewart and Luther Stewart, ranging
in age from Is to 10, were drowned at
Paducah, KY, while bathing.
BY the collapse of building being
erected in Boston Morris Brena and
James Sullivan were killed and two
other men were fatally injured.
Jacques Brown and his wifecommit-
ted suicide by placing themselves in
front of passenger train on the Ohio
River railroad at Parkersburg, w. Va,
Howard Fish and Miss Ada Clem.
mons, young society people of Monroe,
ILL.,. were drowned in the lake ct San.
dusky, O., by the capsizing of row.
boat.
The farmhouse of Mrs. j. hartman
near Waterloo, n. Y, was DESTROYED by
fire and Mrs. hartman, her married
daughter and hired man were burned
to death.
Three hundred head of fine cattle
were attacked by bees near Bancroft
Neb.. and jumped over high blutl
into the Missouri river and were
drowned.
A balance has been struck of the
conscience fund" in the treasury o.
the United States, showing that the to
tai amount received since it wa.
opened in 1911 was $297, ,452.
Congressional nominations: Ohio
Ninth district, S. E. Niece (dem.); Mis-
souri,. Fifteenth district, F. f. Will
liams (rep.); Pennsylvania, Ninth dis
trict, Daniel Ermantrout (dem.); In
diana, Second district, w. r. Gardiner
(rep.).
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
The Enxli.h Bittern.

The statement having been made
that the bittern is one of the lost birds
in England, a correspondent writes to
the Daily News tina: so far from be-
ing extcrminated, they are still SO
abundant in one locality that sleep is
hard for strangers because of the loud
noise they make, like bull believing,
and that in this region they are shct
and eaten.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05

vertisement published lately was as fol-.
lows: IA son. elderly, solid and scri-
GUS. is seeking for his father "a strict
and solid man in quiet business) an
demonstrating widow and maiden with
some ready money. Offers. with full
statement of particulars, to be ad-
dressed -. The son can be inter-
viewed by appointment between the
hours of nine and eleven"
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
per- month apiece, says the Chicago
Times Herald

per- month apiece. says the Chicago
Times-Herald.
In summer they are taken out and
fresh flowers. born of rain and sun
shine, placed in their stead. Chica-
gonas do not like the looks of hothouse
flowers when the weather is warm and
natural blossoms are cheap. Bushes
of fresh honeysuckles grown wild in
the mountains of Kentucky and Ten
nessee may now be seen in many
places, Violets are coming in in abuM-
dance. There rnay occasionally oe
found magnolia blossoms, for they nre
plentiful on the bayous of the south
this season. Then there are the native
roses and daffodils and dandelions that
give fragrance and take the room of
the potted plants, which do very we'll
n winter, but look out of place when
the air is soft and balmy anG the tr. cs
are clothed in green.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
coming perceptiblc to common obser-
vation by the senses, aside from the
positive scientific evidence that they
are not present"
A Dewey story.

Admiral Dewey was always strict
disciplinarian, and occasionally in
flicts punishment in curious ways.
Once while in foreign port he sudden
ly ordered the heaviest tackle to be
gotten out of the hold without delay.
After two hours work his order was
carried out, and he then directed that
a large chew of tobacco which had been
thrown under one of the guns be
hoisted overheard. Never again on
that cruise was such an objectionable
offense committed.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
Double Drowninx.

Golden, ILL.,, July 3o.-Wiliam selden
and Miss Minnie Dewitt. of Anna, were
drowned while attempting to cross
Clear creek at Harris ford, two miles
west of here Friday. The recent heavy
rains had made a rushing river of the
creek, and the buggy was capsized.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
Five Drowned.

Chicago. Aug. l.-Death stopped the
picnic of the Chicago Cloakmakers'
union at Columbia park. Willow
Springs. Three rowboats capsized in
the middle of the Des PLANES river
with l3 persons. The heroism of per-
sons on the banks, who swan out and
carried as many as possible ashore,
saved eight.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
DinnPOyesl.

The Spanish gunner got himself
within the barn, shut the door and
bolted it.
Putting his rife to his shoulder, he
took careful aim, and, shutting his
eyes, fired.
"Ha!" said he, "who said I could not
hit the side of barn?"
But when he went to look for the
mark Of the bullet he found he had
fired through knot hole.-Indianapo.
liz Journal ---------.----
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
News In Brief.

Recent thunder storms have shown
shat losses to cattle gathered near
wire fences have been unusually
severe. The wire fence is good con-
ductor of electricity when weather is
dry and the wooden posts make fine
insulators. 1t has been suggested that
it is inexpensive to make metallic con-
nections between the wire fences and
the ground. The Dickinson Press
suggests that small lightning rod
could be placed on the posts at inter-
walls.
VIM. Ste effin of Coopcrstown, mistock
strychnine for quinine, but neigh Dor
with lots of presence of mind ana
kerosene and milk pulled him through.
The Alliance Hail association of
Jimtown, now has sc. 900 acres insured
against $4,000 acres at this season q
year ago. And applications are still
comming.
The president has made the follow.
ing appointments: Register of the
land office of Devils Lake, Ole Serum.
gard, of Devils Lake; receiver of pub
lie moneys at Devils Lake, 81. +. Baird
of Devils Lake.
Two brothers from Benson county
are patients at the insane asylum in
jamestown. One has been insane for
some time, and the other has taken
care of him, and he, too. has now be.
now become insane.
The Burleigh county summer school
for teachers opens Aug. s.
Cakes big water tank for city fire
protection purposes is completed.
A petition is being circulated asking
Gov. Briggs to pardon Geo. Thor, of
Grafton, convicted of blind-pigging. It
was his second offense.
A Dickinson paper says that last fall
c. H. Merry put out 90 sheep with a
party near Dickinson. This spring 90
of the 90 sheep were sheared and the
clip sold for sl2O.45.
At meeting of the Bismarck board
recently, it was voted to admit no
children below the high school from
outside counties.
A 5-year-old boy at Sherbrooke was
run over by lumber wagon, the
wheels passing o-er his head and in.
Jurlug him badly, but not fatally.
Pembina county held its fair at Ham.
ilton July 27-?9
Pemb bina levied tax of 81, 900 TO,
county purposes.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
Not Guilty.

Two Cinnamon were arrested at
Pembina by the American customs
officers and taken in charge on sus-
pition of. endeavoring to traudulently
enter this country from Canada. Both
men are residents of Grand Forks
where they have lived for many years.
They went to Winnipeg on the excur-
sion, and were spotted by the officials
on the way home. A hearing was had
before Commissioner Caruthers, when
the matter was cleared up, and the
men were liberated.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
Injured Indians.

When an extra crew of Italians was
approaching Spiritwood after their
days work an accident occurred which
resulted in serious injury to two men.
The car was we'll loaded and one of
the men fell from the car and ahead
OF it. The car ran upon him. throwing
it from the track and two men under
meath. By good fortune only two men
received broken bones. James Mas
sella had his left arm broken and re-
ceived severe bruises on his back. Sal
vator iarzilla also had his arm broken.
sustained severe bruises on his face
and cuts on his legs. The third man
on his legs. The third man was not
injured sufficiently to be sent to the
hospital. BY strange coincidence the
three men injured were numbered
225, 225 and 227. Massella and Marzil-
la were sent to the Brainerd sanitari-
um today.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
Blind Piga

At Forman the blind pigs run by
Allen Osborne and E. j. Hendriks were
broken into by burglars. They Sc.
cured nothing at Osborne's bnt in
Hendricks place full cask ofliguor,
beside a quantity of canned goods and
cigars, were taken. Tracks of buggy
were traced for some distance,
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
sufYocated in a Wen.

Ottawa, Ill, July 3o.-Peter Knass
was overcome by foul air in a we'll on
Herman Elbek's farm, five miles north
of La Sale. Elbek went to the rescue
and he, too, was overcome. Both were
taken out dead.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
secre< Order..

It is stated that there are in the
United States over 50 distinct secret
orders, with over 10000 lodges, and
5,500,000 members.
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
ON THE DIAMOND.
Standing of the variou. Club. In the
Leading Baseball Orwanixa-
tions Up to To-Day.

The following table shows the num-
Der OF games won and lost and the
percentages of the clubs of the lead
ing baseball organizations. National
Griggs courier., 1898-08-05
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
Severe storm.


About 5000 acres of grain were to.
tally destroyed by hail in Cass county.
The point Of the storm was two milea
southwest of ,Casselton. The storm
vent over three townships in the sha PIE
OF crecent. From statements made
by the farmers, there must have been
. meeting of two separate storms, and
farms in the first storm were un.
touched. Al Casselton the clouds were
not threatening and scarcely any rain
fell.
Among the principal losers are: O.
Dalrymple, l,400 acres; Fowler Broth
ers, 5000 acres; E. j. Green, /, 800 acres:
J. D. Trammell. 3,aeo acres; F. j.
LANCER, 1000 acres; j. Ditmer, 1000
acres. There are fully dozen farm
ers who lost section and many half
sections of grain were totally de-
streyed. 1t is estimated that 10 per
cent of the farmers were insured. The
report that $4,000 acres was more or
less damaged is exaggerated, but it is
very hard to get at the facts in the ex-
element that prevails there. Some
farmers may lose their farms in con-
sequence of the storm.
Drowned
The body OF young man supposed
to be VIM. Mason was found in the
Red river north of Grand Forks. Ma
son was about 10 years of age and was
. comparative stranger there. he
came to Grand Forks only q few
months ago and nothing is known OF
his relatives. He had been employed
BY John Lynch. driving one of his ice
delivery wagons, and there is some
money coming to him, which he has
not called for. Mason attended q
dance at the Selkirk House, and it is
reported that while partially intoxicat.
ed he got into some difficulty with an.
other man and fourished knife
threatening him. Later he was seen
over on the East Side very much in
toxicated. 1t is supposed that he may
have fallen from the bridge anl
drowned. The Walsh county corone,
Is making an investigation.