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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-30
SPANS ARMY STRENGTH
HAS BEEN WEAKENED BY CUBAN
WAR.
Lost Seventy Thousand Men-Cah
Still Muster a Force of Six Hundred
Thousand Fighting Men.

The present force of Spain in Cuba
is as follows: Regular, $4,000 men.
Of his number it is estimated that
10000 of them are effective for militia
ny purposes. They are distributed
throughout the Island as follows:
About $4,000 are in the two eastern
provinces of Santiago de Cuba and
Puerto Principe. and the remainder
are in the provinces of Santa Clara,
Matauzas. Havana and Pinar del Rio.
There are about 10000 members of
what is known as the volunteer ar
my. These are mostly in the province
of Havana and are largely in the ma
to our state militia. There are $4,000
who are not effective for military du-
ty for various causes.
The strength of the Spanish army
at home and including her nearby pu-
sessions. is 100000 men. which i'm time
of demand for additional soldiers may
be increased as follows: First reserve,
$4,000: second reserve, 100000, all of
whom are instructed in military tao
tics. and second reserve. all OF
which are not instructed, of 10000,
making in all grand total of Co.,
600 men. Since these figures were re-
ceived here, recent drafts of $4,000 10
| strengthen the army i'm Cuba. leave
! only $1,000 men of Spain's regular
army now in the peninsula, the Baleu-
rio Islands, the Spanish possessions
in North America and the Canary Is
! lands.
In the Philippine Islands Spain has
an army of $4,000 men, which include
! about $4,000 native troops. Several
regiments of the latter were disabled
and disbanded during the late insur-
rection in the Islands. and i'm time of
war, it is said. they are of very little
use to the Spanish government.
In Porto Rico there are 5000 Span
ish troops, which, in the event of hos.
tiIities, could be supplemented by
! 1000 volunteers.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-30
Hawaiian
.n..lEz.l.zzEz...A..1.
6 lectric
Company.

The cleanest, brightest safest and really,
in the long run, the cheapest and hest light
for use in the family residence, is the mean
descent electric light. Safe; nothing could
be safer. A few days ago prominent gen
tleman of Honolulu came shing down to
the 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
so near setting fire to the house and burning
my children and | take no more risks
This is the sentiment of quite a number in
the 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 senl
for the Hawaiian Electric Company and tell
them what you wall.
We have complete stock Of everything in
this lire and have just received lot Of the
very latest designs in chandeliers
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-30
c. AKIMA, TAILOR.

The reputation of my Tailor shop is
well known. A large assortment OF
Cloth constantly on hand. Prices low,
Dyeing, Cleaning and Repairing
done.
NUUANU STREET, NEAR HOTEL.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-30
We HAVE THEM,
BY the last Zealandia a full line of
Sylph and Overland Bicycles

These are the Wheels that have u
worldwide reputation for stability
and reliability. Strictly high grade,
in the fullest sense of the word and
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-30
Wall Paper
Confessions:

That satisfied feeling that
goes with a clean, newly
papered house, is worth
twice it's cost. We have re-
moved the principal obsta-
Gle which stands between
you and New Wall Paper by
cutting the price down to a
minimum. This is an extra
ordinary confession on our
part. The quality of our
stock is unequalled-in va
riety it is matchless.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-30
Guaranteed for One Year from
Date of Sale.

They are made by one of the very
oldest firms in the building of BicS-
Giles in the United States. Nineteen
years of experience in this line en-
ables them to give the riders of their
Wheels the benefit of every up-to-date
feature that has been demonstrated
to be practicable and durable. They
are the handsomcst, and lightest run
ming Wheels built, gear considered.
1t will be to your interest to inves-
tigate them before choosing your '9s
mount.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-03-30
PASSENGERS.
Arrived.

Per S. S. Alameda. from San Fran
csco-T. J. Birch. Miss \. Burbank.
Miss Mary Burbank, George p. Castle,
Miss Lillian Croker, George S. Ev-
ans, George II. Fairchild. wife, two
children and nurse, r. Fleischman and
wife, Miss VI. f. Killean, Miss II. T.
Leighton. f. w. Macfarlane and son.
a. r. Nickels. l.. S. Prior. Miss \. W.
Rankin. w. Rankin. ]. G. Rothwell,
Mrs. Scidmore, II. C.. Scott. Mrs. \. NJ.
Sheldon and maid, William Stoddart,
II. ID. Stone and wife, V. d. William
son, +. A. Young, +. Young, ]. w.
Young.
Departed.
For Kauai ports, per stmr. w. G.
Hall-Mrs. IT. Isenberg, w. T. Lucas
and wife, Miss Bartells, ]. Ferreira
Miss F. Sharp, C. A. Doyle, Miss NJ
Muller, G. d. Gere and f. w. Carter
A straight story of straight good.
in a straight paper like The Star i!
bound to bring business.
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Coffee Lands for Sale Lease Papa Oomoana Koo and
the celebrated These
will be sold either
For IS of Coffee Nahku, Maui. The
land lies WELL of excellent quality and waeed running
most of the of Tao Land Waianu
Koolau, Maui Keanae.
For House and Lot Waikiki. The house
furnished Kitchen
carriage house stables Good bathing
premises will be leased
Cartwright Block, opp. Post Office Tole. 6S.
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Potato Flour.

One Of the manufactured vegetable
products Of Austria. an article prob
ably altogether unknown on this side
of the Atlantic, is potato -four. United
States Consul Mahin, at Reichenberg,
calls attention to it in one of his re-
cent reports, and says that it is used
there in many lines Of bakery and
confectionery, where we use wheat
-four, besides being employed in cases
where corn starch. which is not known
i'm Austria, is made use Of by US. It is
admirably adapted to cake baking, as 1t
comes out beautifully white and light.
1t is considerably cheaper than wheat
flour. selling for about $3.50 per 100
pounds. whereas wheat flour costs
about IS. The process Of manufactur-
ing this article is quite simple. The
potatoes are washed, put in rapidly ro-
tating machines set with teeth and
then crushed in such manner that the
starch is separated from the cells
which contain II. Water sweeps the
iextricated starch into vessels. where
IL settles on the bottom. Then IL Roes
through q refining process. ana ii m
ally dried In machine specially con-
structed for that purpose. What /,
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ing up the broad aisle and taking her
place before the altar rails. She saw
as in a mist the clergyman in his white
robe, and man and q woman who
were complete strangers. She was con-
scious of the service being read, of Civ
ing her responses, Of her hands being
clasped, and of ring being put upon
her finger. Then she was led away
again; she was in strange room, she
signed her name, and as she laid down
the pen, Caussidiere clasped her in his
arms and kissed her.
"My wife" he said.
Yes. 1t was all over; the past was
done with, the future begun. Marjorie
Amman had been by that simple csre-
mony transformed into Marjorie
Caussidiere."
The ceremony over, the wife and hus-
band returned to the inn, where they
had private luncheon.
Then she entered the carriage which
was awaiting her, and drove away by
her husbands side to the railway sta
ton.
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ITO BE CoNTINUED.)
In the Chinese Ouarter.

It is an experience for one who has
never been in the Chinese quarter to
go into one of those dark Railways,
say in Pell street, and take either the
stairway at hand, or cross the back
area and take the stairway of the rear
tenement, writes a New York corre-
spondent Of the Pittsburg Dispatch. The
air is suffocatingly sweet with the
odor Of opium. On the stairs you meet
Cinnamon, smoking cigarettes that
give out a curious Oriental smell. At
each laundry are four doors, each with
what looks like a Chinese laundry
slip pasted between the upper panels.
And if your step is unfamiliar, many
of these doors will open. Then you
get glimpse of an Oriental interior,
luxurious with touches, rugs, soft
burning lamps, delicate china and all
manner of costly wares from the east.
And blocking the doorway stands the
hostess. She will be Caucasian. She
will be comely. She will be clad in a
loose gown Of some gaily Powered ma
terial. She will have high heeled shoes
and a slight showing of a gaudy sill
stocking. In her fingers will be 8
lighted cigarette. In her eyes will be
that shifting, dreamy expression that
tells the opium smoker as plainly as
the stained fingers tell the cigarette
slave.
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SCIENTIFIC TOPICS
CURRENT NOTES OF Dlscov-
cry AND INVENTION.
Tho Concentration Of Power - How
Potato Flour IL Made-Factories With
out Chimneys-A Floating Drydook-
Skill Of the Japanese.
Concentration Of Power.


The close of the present century Is
marked by tendency in the engin-
eering world toward concentration
of energy and material. A quarter
of century since a craft 200 feet
long was almost rarity on the great
lakes, and when the locks OF the Well
land canal were extended 235 feet 1t
was supposed that they would fully
meet any demand to be made upon
them in the succeeding hundred years.
Today there are more large craft on
these waters approaching 400 feet in
length than those Of 300 feet and less.
and many exceed the greater figure
running, some of them, even up to 400
feet.
The same increase and concentra-
ton is also witnessed among the rail-
roads. Heavier roadbeds and rails,
and more capacious rolling stock, are
everywhere observed, and the locomo-
tive has reached a degree of develop
ment as regards size, weight, power and
economy little dreamed of generation
ago.
A very striking illustration Of this
concentration of power was afforded
recently by train hauled over the
Pennsylvania railroad between Altoo-
ma and Columbia, which consisted O:
1S0 cars, was nearly three-quarters of
a mile in length and that weighed $3.50
tons. 1t was made up as follows: Lo-
connective, 11S tons; other rolling stock.
1873 tons; freight (coal), 1898 tons.
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Missed the Nieht,neale.. sonr.

An amusing story is told Of the late
Jean 1ngelow. Once when she was
staying with some friends in the coun.
try it transpired that, although she
often wrote delightfully."- Of nightin.
gales, she had never heard one sing.
So one night the whole household went
out in the moonlight especially to hear
them, and after, by an effort, holdins
their tongues for five minutes while the
nightingales sang divinely, they were
startled by Miss Ingelow asking, "Ars
they singing? I don't hear anything!"
With Londoner's dread Of draughts.
the poetess. before going out into the
night air. had filed her ears with cot.
ton wool!-Philadelphia Record.
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q a long DallSe.


filled only with the low monotonous
vail Of the miserable woman. At last
Sutherland found his tongue, though
to little purpose.
ooh, Miss Hetherington, what is this
you are telling me? I cannot believe
1t! Marjorie your daughter! Surely,
surely you cannot mean what you
say?"
ut is Gods truth, Johnnie Suther-
land" replied the lady, gradually re-
covering her composure. II thought
to bear the secret with me to my grave,
but it's out at last. Grief and despair
wrenched 1t out O. me ere l kennel
what was saying. Gang your ways"
she added, bitterly, "and spread it like
the town-crier. Let all the world ken
that the line O. the Hetheringtons ends
as it began, in black bar sinister and
nameless shame"
do not say that!" cried Sutherland.
what you have said is sacred between
you and me, assure you! But Mar
jorie-Did she know what you told
me?"
Miss Hetherington shook her head.
'She had neither knowledge nor sus-
picion. Even Mr. Lorraine knew moth
ing, though whiles0I fancied that he
made a guess. Only one living man
besides yourself ever found out the
truth, and maybe ere this Marjorie has
learned it fra him. God help me! she'll
learn to hate and despise me when he
tells her all
"You mean the Frenchman?" said
Sutherland. "How is it that he"
Curse him for black-hearted dew
il!' said Miss Hetherington, with an &C.
cess of her old fury. "He came here
like a spy when l was ava, and he
searched amang my papers, and he
found in my desk writing I should
have burnt lang syne. Then he threat.
ened, and fool-like I gave him money
to quit the place. He has quilted it.
but with her in his company, waes
me!
And she wrung her hands in despair
Then quick as thought her mood
changed, and she rose trembling to her
feet
But there's no time to be lost. While
we stand blethering and glowering, he's
bearing her ava. Johnny Sutherland,
let me look in your face. Once again,
have we the heart of MANI"
Suiting the action to the word. she
gazed at him as if to read his very
SOUL
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left Of the potatoes IL fed to the cat
tie and swine, and is said to be also
available for sundry uses in distiller-
les, breweries and sugar factories.
A Scientific Picture Book.


One of the latest Partisan scientific
toys is a picture book in which the ear
as well as the eye is appealed to. It is
book Of animals. and each animal ut
ters its own characteristic cry. The
title of the book is the "Livre d'Images
Parlantes" or book eof speaking pic
lures. M. Leroy contributes to La Ma
ture description Of this new toy.
The pictures represent the most IA
miliar domestic animals and each ami
NAL speaks its own language. To
cause 1t to break silence, nothing Is
necessary but to pull a little string at
the edge of. the book.
In the book are to be seen rooster,
COW, a lamb, little birds in their nest,
donkey, cuckoo, goat. On the
last page are children who are vel
coming their parents.
By pulling the string at the right
page, the cry Of any particular creature
is ELECTED. The listener hears the dom
key heehaw and the rooster crow. The
Growing is very we'll Initiated. The
string is pulled again. and the lamb
bleats, the birds twitter, the cuckoo
sings, the COW moos, or the little chill
dren call out papa" and mamma"
These interesting results are obtain
ed very simply by the aid of small bel
lows placed in box hidden in the
book. When the string is pulled, the
air enters the corresponding bellows.
and is thence expelled by spring.
The air makes its exit through spe-
cial tube appropriate for each cry, and
at the same time the bellows meet with
certain obstacles placed on the wire.
These arrangements have been careful
ly studied with view to producing the
proper effects.
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The great floating dock recently con-
structed for the Vulcan company, Stet-
tin, Germany, by Messrs. Swan & Hun
ter OF Wallsend, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
surpasses in capacity the floating dock
built by the same firm for the Spanish
government and now in operation at
Havana. The remarkable achievement
of towing it successfully across the At
lantic ocean is fresh in the public
mind, says the Scientific American.
The present dock has been construct
ed with special reference to the
Strengthening and re-engining of two
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of the Atlantic liners of the North
German Lloyd company.

of the Atlantic liners of the North
German Lloyd company.
The principal dimensions are:
Length over all, $40 feet; extreme
breadth, 10 feet inches; height from
bottom of pontoon to top of walls, 43
feet inches. The internal width is
sufficient to allow vessels up to 80 feet
beam to be locked and the depth over
the keel blocks is "a feet. The maxi
mum lifting power is about 10000 tons.
The dock is what is known as the
self-docking type. that is to say, access
to all external surfaces is possible for
painting or repairs. Longitudinally it
consists of two side walls, between
which are connected three pontoons,
the center one being 24O feet long and
the two end pontoons 1875 feet. The
pumping and controlling machinery
consists Of eight horizontal centrifugal
circulating pumps. placed four in each
wall of the dock. These pumps have
large vertical shafts geared by means
of bevel wheels and horizontal shafts
to two sets Of compound engines of
125-horse-power each, which are placed
on deck near the top of the walls.
There are four engines in all and each
Of them drives two fifteen-inch centri-
fugal pumps, the whole machinery be-
ing capable of lifting ship of about
ll,OOO tons displacement clear of the
water in about two and one-half hours.
Ehe dock is divided into thirty-eight
water-tight compartments, each emp
tied or filled by separate valves. Each
engine is supplied by large, horizont-
al multi-tubular marine boiler which is
placed in the walls in close proximity
70 it.
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The fan has wheel fifty-four inches
in diameter and runs at almost any
rate of speed desired. The draught is
something prodigious and makes it
possible to employ fuel of a lower
grade than any heretofore used. In
stead of the best Cumberland coal.
mixture Of Cumberland and screenings
has been tried. The cost of operating
the fan, even with imperfect apparatus,
is something like $500 per annum. The
smoke stack is scarcely taller than the
roof Of the building, and of less capa-
city than heretofore used for such pur-
poses.
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sidiere, grown very serious now, looked
at his watch and walked restlessly a.
bout. Marjorie entered one Of the
pews, and, falling on her knees. prayed
silently.
How long she remained there she did
not know; hand laid gently upon her
shoulder recalled her to herself. and
looking up she saw her lover.
Come. Marjorie" he said; come, my
love-"
She rose from her knees; he put his
arms about her and led her away.
What followed seemed like Q dream.
She WAS only dimly conscious Of walk
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Factories without chlmneys.

The statement that a chimney, the
third or fourth tallest in the world has
Just been completed at cost Of $685.
600, and the announcement that the
most gratifying success has attended
the use of forced draught, without any
chimneys whatever out Of the ordin-
airy, appear in contemporary journals.
The experiment of forced draught
gives promise Of great economy in fuel.
as we'll as doing away with the expen-
sive and monumental chimney. The
draught arrangement consists Of q
large fan, which is connected with a
four by four double cylinder engine
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He Kicks.

He Kicks.
eyes," said Mrs. Flinders, who has
been sitting to the celebrated artist,
NJ. pOrgairs, for her portrait 81 m
sure it's going to be speaking like
ness Of me-"
A sickly pallor overspread the fea-
lures Of Mr.. Flinders, and he replied:
'Then shall not accept 1t! You talk
enough for IN entire family. I want
no speaking likeness Of you in the
se.''-Chicago News.
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couldn,. Deny Hy.tsrla.

The cruel father locked his daughter
in the tower Of the castle, for in those
old days It was not yet known that
the way to thwart true love IL to push
Il along.
a .'Dsny hei every luxury he COM
manded the warder.
ria, hal" laughed the damssl, and
at once INDUCED In IN attack OF the
nerves, that the baron might know
how powsrlsss hs was after Ill
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Getting Him Located.
"Weylerw exclaimed the Spanish cit.
lzen, contemptuously. "He's a regu-
lar Don Quixote."
''No," answered the other. HE isn't
Don Quixote, nor Sancho Panza, nor
yet Rosinate. If he's anybody in that
combination, it's the mule."-Wash.
ington Star.
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A clergyman was very much vexed
BY one. Of his congregation. An old
man used to go to sleep during the SER
mon. The clergyman offered the old
mans grandson penny If he would
keep his grandfather awake. This
went on all right for month.
One Sunday the old man went to
sleep as usual. The clergyman asked
the boy why he did not keep his
grandfather awake. The boy replied:
You offered me penny to keep
him awake, but grandfather gives me
twopence not to disturb him."-Spare
Moments.
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The Japanese Idea.

The Japanese are just famous for
their skillful arrangement of flowers,
by which the poorest of blooms are
made to look their best, by being 30
displayed that their full beauty can be
appreciated. Most of these good eff
fects are produced by placing the flow-
ers very sparsely in bamboo tubes, no
attempt at a crowded bouquet being
ever made. The latest importation
from Japan for the purposes Of floral
decoration consists merely Of long
strip of lead, which is crinkled and
crumpled up into as many folds and
fittings as possible. These crumples
must be SO managed as not to inter-
fere ut all with the firm base, which
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enables the lead to stand steadily at
the bottom Of the bowl or basin. The
Fittings form a series Of miniature
tubes, into which the stems Of the
flowers are pushed, and which can be
easily pinched or enlarged, as the slim
ness or thickness Of the stems require.
The flowers should on no account be
crowded; and. of course. the higher
they stand up above the edge Of the
bowl. the more graceful will they
look.
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CHAPTER>XxI.

HE next day Caus-
sidiere and Mar
jorle walked to-
gether through the
fields until they
came to a quaint
old church standing
alone on a lonely
suburban road.
When they enter
ed 1t was quite
empty, and Caus.
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Taking His Measure.

Taking His Measure.
Dudeleigh-1-aw, would like some
collahs.
Salesman-Yes, sir. What size please!
Dudeleigh-I-aw, guess fowteeD
inches is about the pwoppah thing.
Salesman-Yes,s sir. Height or length:
Chicago News.
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Stated with rrecision.

II suppose" said the admiring
friend, "that you gave a great deal of
thought to the case you just won?"
no." answered the lawyer, 81 never
gave a bit of thought to it. But" he
added, reflectively, II sold a lot."-
Washington Star.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinire Tablets. AL
druggists refund the money II it fails to cure.
25c. The genuine has L. b. @. on each tablet.
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CHAPTER xxi.


the true relation
ship between the
minister's ward
and the proud lady
of the Castle fairly
stupefied John
Sutherland, it was
so utterly over
whelming and un-
expected. There
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FITS PermanertlyCur Motifs or nervousness ate,
hrst days of DIR. Klines Great Nerve Restore.
Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise
DE. II. ID. KLINE. Ltd. 93l Arch St. philadelphia, Pa
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums reduces In
dammation, alays pain. cures wind coic $50 abotte