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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
A Generous Planter.

1t is pleasing, amid 80 many evil
dences OF greed and heartlessness
on the part OF our plantations, to
notice instances OF generosity, such
as the good people Of Eleele, Kauai,
are congratulating each other on. II
every plantation had an owner like
Mr.. Dreier, plantation life would be
very different from what it is.
A few years back Mr.. Dreier built
a Catholic Church at Eleele, which
has been great success, attracting
worshippers from Makaweli and
even Waimea, to an extent that now
overtaxes its capacity. Mr.. Dreier
has taken the matter in hand again,
and is enlarging and beautifying
the church considerably, The peo-
pie benefited are as enthusiastic
over their pretty church as they are
over Mr., Dreir's generosity.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
Fourth Of July.

Geo. w. Smith presided over the
meeting for the 4th of July celebra-
tion last evening, and the existing
committee took charge OF matters un-
til the appointment Of its successor.
Mr.. Kennedy was appointed a COM
mittee to purchase $500 of fireworks.
1t was arranged to call a meeting
for Saturday next at the drill shed
to organize
1t was also decided to call pub,
lie meeting to arrange for the recep-
tiou Of the "boys in blue" should
they call into this port on their way
to cooperate with Admiral Dewey.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
HEADACHES And DIZZINESS.

Mrs. &C Bailey, Of Martinville,
Canada, writes:-"After several yeefs
of continual suffering, / was per-
suaded to try DIR. Williams Pink
Pills, and have reason to bless the
day began their use. Prior to be-
ginning the use OF Pink Pills l had
been under the doctors care, and had
tried other remedies, but with no
effect beyond occasional temporary
relief. L suffered from extreme
headaches, dizziness, loss Of ap-
petite and palpitation Of the heart.
l get so weak that frequently l
could scarcely move about and my
whole nervous system appeared to
be in state of complete prostra-
tion. When l began the use OF DR..
Williams Pink Pills. / doubted very
much If any medicine would restore
nay health, but l determined to give
them trial. After / had taken
several boxes, | noticed that | could
sleep better, and that my nervous
troubles were growing less. My
illness had been going on for about
four years, so that l did not an
ticipate that it would be easily
eradicated, especially as doctors
treatment had failed, but after had
taken dozen boxes, I,was again in
the full enjoyment of health. think
people using DR.. Williams Pink
Pills should pay strict attention to
the directions, and not always sx.
pect cure from one or two boxes.
Had l been so unreasonable l would
not to-day be enjoying the good
health l have, and l hope this
message may benefit some poor dis
couraged sufferer"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills create
new blood, build up the nerves, and
thus drive disease from the system.
In hundreds of cases they have
cured after all other medicines had
failed, thus establishing the claim
that they are marvel among the
triumphs Of modern medical science
Sold by all dealers in medicine.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
HOW MANILA Is DEFENDED.

Lne hurDOI 6nIThnCo.-aulto u
Formidable Barrier to the Pass
age of Hostile Fleet.
The city of Manila, the capital
and emporium OF the Philippine
Islauds, and which is the objective
point OF Commodore Dewey's naval
expedition, is place of some 100000
inhabitants, lying on both sides OF
the mouth of the River Pasig, ON
the eastern shores OF vast bay OF
the same name one hundred and
twenty miles in circumference. The
entrance to this grand body OF
water is a little over ten miles wide
and is broken by Corregidor and
Caballo Islands into two channels,
the Boca Chlca on tho north side
and the Boca Grande on the south,
through both of which there is easy
passage in water ranging from
twenty to forty fathoms.
Within the bay proper the depth
decreases, but still gives from seven
to eighteen fathoms over all Of it's
broad expanse, affording a fine
ground for the maneuvers of feet
OF war vessels.
On the north side of the entrance
the huge mass of the Sierra Miri-
vales, rising quite abruptly from
Luzon and Tilago points, thrusts its
five pointed peaks upward to a
height OF some $500 feet.
On the south side, inland from
Limbones Point, the land rises with
a more gentle slope until it culmi-
mates in the Pico de Laro, Dos Picos,
Piquito and other peaks about 1000
feet in height.
On the western end OF Corregidor
Island is a rounded hill 633 feet in
height, on the top of which stands
signal station and a lighthouse
which are readily seen from the
city, twenty-five miles away, and for
forty miles to the west over the
waters of the China Sea.
In other times, when Spain's rich
East Indian possessions we're 80 fire.
quently raided by English and Dutch
buccaneers" Manila was reckoned
one of the best fortified cities in
the East, but the castles as we'll al
the guns which defended them long
since became obsolete and for many
years, or until the recent insurrec'
ton of the natives, but little was
done to bring them up TO date This
trouble, however, and its probable
ultimate consequences, have caused
an awakening on the part Of the
Spanish authorities to the necessity
OF having forts and guns of char
acter suited to modern warfare. Tht
near approaches to Manila itself, by
both land and sea, are now defended
by forts and batteries with guns o
new pattern, and Cavite, on thu
hook OF land six miles south OF thu
city, is also well fortified
On Tilago and Gorda points, OIL
the north side OF the entrance to tn
bay, as we'll as the hills back OF Linn
bones Point on the south side are
number of new batteries, said t
mount fifty or more guns Of larg
caliber and long range.
On "Signal HILL" Corregidor Is
and, is a battery of recent construc
tion, it is said, mounting severa
large Krupp and Armstrong gum
Altogether, the defenses about tn
entrance present a very formidabl
barrier to any passage Of hostil
faat
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
SATURDAY, MAY IA, 1898.
TOPICS or The DAY.

Mr.. Kinney will make an excellent
judge. May we suggest that the
new judgeship now established by
the Legislature be offered to the
learned attorney of Salt Lake and
Honolulu. Then the taxpayers
would know who administers law
and justice in Hawaii-nei.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14

1t has been brought to the notice
of The INDEPENDENT Gndirectly) that
cowardly anonymous letters have
been written threatening to destroy
the Carter Memorial Fountain
should it be erected in Kapiolani
Park. We say, as we did some
months ago, erect the fountain in
the Park as a drinking fountain, and
then lynch with tar and feathers
any person who maliciously Injuries
it. Our opposition to its location
in Palace Square was on Constitu-
tional grounds and for no other
reason.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14

It is understood that the Govern
ment has offered the position Of
Secretary of the Bureau Of Forestry
to Mr.. Byron o. Clark, a recent,
and acceptable, arrival. This pre-
sumably displaces Mr.. D. Haughes a
firm supporter Of the Government
since 1893, and a holder OF special
service papers. Thus is again shown
the gratitude of the moribund oil
garchy for their former friends.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
Annexation Moving by Joint Reso
luton.


A Joint annexation resolution has
been introduced in the House Of
Representatives in Washington.
The resolution incorporates the pro-
visions for taking possession OF the
islands made in the treaty sent to
the Senate by the President.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The House
Committee on Foreign Affairs met
to-day and considered various bills
and resolutions relating to the annex
alton OF Hawaii. There was strong
majority favorable to annexation,
but the meeting adjourned without
definite action. The question will
be considered again next Tuesday
1t is said the Administration is
pressing for early action. 1t is un-
derstood that il there should be a
report from committee in favor OF
annexation the Speaker will not in
terpose any objections
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
WANTED TO PURCHASE.

SMALL PIECE OF LAND SITUATED
- between King-street Bridge and Punch
bowl Streets, and between Beretania Street
and the Harbor. Apply to this office or
H. M. DOW.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14

The band plays at Emma Square
this afternoon and at Makes Island
tomorrow.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1898-05-14
Timely Topics.

Honolulu, april 90, 1898
do YOU LIKE
WATER?
IF so, the proper way to
get it, is to buy an
AERMOTOR
the Mill that runs in the light
est wind, that will not rot,
that will not blow down in q
gale of wind, and will regu-
late itself in strong or light
breezes. In addition to the
foregoing advantages, it has
another which will recommend
itself to some people, and
that is the little fact that it
will pump more water than
any other mill at present
known to the world.
Come and see us in regard
to prices.
Tns Hawaiian Hardware Co.. D'a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07
Forcing Pullets.

AS there are on many farms large
number of young pullets that were
Matched too late for winter laying they
will consequently be of little service
until spring. There are also numbers
of pullets that were Matched in April,
but which up to this time have shown
no disposition to get beyond the stage
of chickenhood, and as the season is
now getting late something must be
done with them in order to push them
forward. Cold weather has peculiar
effect on young chicks. 1t seems to
check them as suddenly as though they
were vegetables. Often 1t may be no.
ticed that chicks grow fat and thrive
splendidly, with every prospect of COM
ing in early for winter laying, when
the approach of frost ends oil progress.
If the Matching of the chicks was not
done until the summer opened, say
June, the result is invariably dwarfs.
Farmers will not be satisfied to feed
pullets from April to March without
receiving eggs from them, and conse-
quently now is the proper period to at
tend to them. AS soon as the cold
weather sets in the first important
point is to make the quarters warm and
dry. They should be faced to the south,
in order to give all the sunshine pos
sible, and must be kept clean and light.
A coating of whitewash occasionally
will be an inducement to the fowls TO
remain indoors in stormy weather, az
they always prefer plenty of light. In
regard to the food, the question is one
of quality rather than quantity. The
pullets must be pushed, and meat and
green food are most desirable. Meat
is now sold in the ground condition,
especially for the purpose, at about five
cents per pound, and the quantity re-
quired for single fowl is not large.
Green food may consist of vegetables
of any kind convenient and may be fed
both cooked and raw. Avoid feeding
corn exclusively. Fowls should have
some grain, but it must consist of corn,
wheat and soaked oats. BY thus pro-
viding the pullets with the proper food
they will not be checked, and will be-
gin to lay in November, unless of
breeds that require long period in
which to mature. Should the pullets
begin to lay before winter they will
continue at it if well cared for; but
should they pass into the winter with
out giving indications of laying, the
prospect is that they will not begin be-
fore March. Keep all pullets that are
charging the combs, especially if the
combs are showing the scarlet color.
If such pullets are not laying they will
begin to do so very soon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07
Live Stock Market.

BEEF CATTLE.-The market for Western
beef cattle was firm. Sales of country cat
tie were not large, some trades being made
however, at to 4lc per ID. The range on
Western steers was Al to 54c |. W.
Prices of market beef;-A few choice,
So 80 to 90; extra, $500 to $50; first quail
ity, $500 to $50; second quality, $500 to
450; third quality. $500 to $50.
Prices OF store cattle:-W orking oxen per
pair, $50 to 100; farrow cows, So to "a;
fancy cows, $50 to 60; mich cows and
calves, 500 to 48; yearlings, SS to IS; 2.year-
olds, S12 to %; 3-year-olds, 800 to SO; West
ern fat swine, live, to 44ci Northern dress
ed hogs, 5sc per Id.
SHEEP AND LAMBS LAMBS dropped off
in price fully lc per ID. The Canadian re-
ceipts are coming in freely. The decline,
however, should shorten the supply sent to
market for few weeks.
We quote: In lots, $3.50 to each; extra,
1926 to 4,75; or from q to 4ac per ID; spring
lambs, to 54c; veal calves, 3 to &c.
Mich Cows.-No great improvement in
the market. The call is largely for the bet
ter class of cows at $40 and 500. Common
grades are dull at $50 to 3S.
VEAL CALvEs.-Prices are higher, many
lots going at &c, instead of at 81 to DC.
Good stock is readily sold.
SwNE.-The supply Of Western is good
at 4 to Ate, l. WI country hogs at 5sc d. W.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07
TURNIPs FOR SHEEP.

Turnips are natural food for sheep,
and to succeed best with these animals
they must have some succulent food of
the kind. Silage will answer well in
stead, but very few farmers have silo.
Without succulence in winter, the
small, round droppings of sheep are 30
hard that if thrown against the side of
the barn, they will rattle like shot. A
sheep in this condition is always losing
ground, just the same as a dyspeptic
person. Then when lambs drop in
spring before sheep get out TO grass,
there is liable to be difficult parturition,
weak lambs, and the ewes have not
the milk they would have if succulence
had been provided. There is not one
particle of excuse to winter sheep with
out turnips or succulence of some kind.
Turnips are easily grown. There is no
hoeing to do, weeds to pull nor bother
about the harvesting. All there is to
do is to SOW the seed and pick up the
crop from the top of the ground. The
seed costs less than the seed for any
other crop. Land need not be reserv-
ed for the season on purpose for crop.
The last of July is the right time to
SOW the fat turnip seed in the north;
and when this is printed it will be just
the time to prepare for it. Turnips are
usually grown where summer crops
have come off. | reside in a section
where sheep are largely kept for grow
ing lambs in winter, and succulence
feed is necessity. Formerly beets
were grown for sheep, but these re-
quire the use of the land all the season.
They have to be thinned when they
first come up, and the weeds be pulled
out by hand, and the ground be cult
waited three or four times. This is a
great task but now growing beets for
sheep is largely thing of the past.
Turnips are grown instead. Usually a
piece of old meadow that needs break
ing up is turned over fiat, narrowed
until in good tilth, and then the seed is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07

sown by mixing pound of it with 100
pounds of phosphate and then drill it
in, setting the drill to sow 100 pounds
to the acre. But the seed can be sown
broadcast and be narrowed in. In this
case it should BIO mixed with 100 pounds
of phosphate, or an equal bulk of dry
sand. The seed cannot be sown evenly
when sown alone. Turnips can also
be grown after oats, wheat or rye, but
it is thought a clover sod is best. These
roots are gathered the very last work
of the fall, just before solid freezing,
when the work interferes least with
other operations. A portion of them
for use towards spring should be buried
in pits, because if kept in the house
cellar they will begin to wilt by that
time, and then they are not so good.
Send to William Henry Maule, seeds
man, Philadelphia, and get some of his
selected seed, and try it.-Practical
Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07
More Money In Five Acres.

1t is significant fact that the posi-
bilities of close or intensive cultivation
of small areas of land, say five acres, as
against the ordinary cultivation of large
tracts, say one hundred acres, is not
realized by farmers and others. Five
acres of garden crops under careful cul-
tivation will yield, every time, larger
income than one hundred acres as or
dinarily worked. For instance, in
strawberries alone, one-quarter acre
should easily yield 1000 quarts, which
in a local market should fetch 10c. a
quart, or 800. How many acres of
wheat of the farm will it require to
bring in the same returns2 american
Gardening, p. o. Box 1897, New York
is offering some wonderful strawberry
plants as a premium, and our readers
can obtain sample copy and full partic-
ulars free on application, also pamphlet
entitled, ga Fortune in Strawberries,
or, How Poor Boy Became Wealthy"
We advise all who have ground to send
for it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07
Perpetual Milking Doesn't Pay.

Some dairymen advocate the milking
Of the COW up TO calving, or as they say,
keep her at work all the time. Who
has carefully experimental in this
line, and what are the results? II is
not the quantity of milk the COW gives
in day or a week, but the quantity
she gives in year. My experience is
limited, but this much il indicates, that
If cow has rest of five or eight weeks
before calving, she will give more milk
in twelve months than il MIXED con-
tinuously. AS an average, L found that
q COW will give on generous feed about
three hundred pounds, more or less, of
milk the last six weeks. That quantity
is soon made up by the better flow if
the COW has had rest.
have before me the figures of one
Jersey that MIXED up to calving, and
the best che would do the following
year was 33 pounds per day when in
flush. The next year she had rest Of
about six weeks and the flush flow was
43 pounds per day; in the first 90 days
she gives GAO pounds more than in the
corresponding 80 days of the former
year, or almost double what she had
lost during her rest. Ihave some other
cases quite as striking in my record
which keep for each COW of every day
of the year. 1 am convinced that in
practical work it pays to dry off the
COW some six weeks before calving and
give rest to the milk celebrating ma
chinery, while another function of the
maternal machinery makes heavy calls
on the vitality of the animal. Theory
may not agree with me, but l don't
feed cows to establish theory, but to
replenish my pocketbook.
have seen cases where COWS were
MIXED up to within ten days or so OF
calving time, and then the milk moi
being good any more was not drawn
The result was that when the COW
dropped the calf she did not secrett
enough milk to nourish the calf, ant
the flow could not be established for si1
weeks or more and then not as usual
These points are apparent trihes bu
upon the sum of d number of just sucl
seemingly unimportant points depends
the profit or loss in the dairy. TIT
margin is so small at present prices tina
only by careful and intelligent worl
can we keep the balance on the RICH
side of the ledger. - Correspondent
Hoods Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian tube. When this tube is in
famed, you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out, and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an inflamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that can not be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
+. j. CHENEY & CO.,
TOLEDO, OHIO.
Sold by druggists; seventy-tive cents.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07
Hood Farm Winners.

The following prizes were won by
Jerseys from Hood Farm, Lowell,
Mass, at the New England Fair at
Rigby Park, Portland, Me-, Aug. 1927,
1898:
First prize on herd-Hood Farm Po-
gis, Marina, Good Rosabelle, Conan 4th
of Hood Farm, Chrome 9th of Hood
Farm.
Second prize, bull and get-Hood
Farm Pogis, CONAN 4th of Hood Farm
and CONAN 9TH of Hood Farm.
Third prize, bull 2 years old and un-
der 3-Brown Bessie's Son 4th.
First prize, bull l year old and under
2-Brown Bessie's Son llth.
First prize, bull under year old
Chrome 9th of Hood Farm.
First prize, COW over 4 years old
Marina.
Second prize, COW years old and I'M
der 4-Hood Farm Belle.
First prize, COW years old and un-
der 3-Good Rosabelle.
First prize, heifer under l year
Chrome 9th of Hood Farm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07

The Suez canal took thirteen years tc
build.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-07

the way this orchard once looked
they tell me. But now the stones are
lying on the banks of the terraces, and
the land is as mellow and rich looking
as you could wish to see.
Now for the result. Such peaches
as that orchard borel such beauties and
of such size.
Now what do you think7 Do you
suppose the owner of that orchard had
any trouble in selling peaches in the
town? His only competition was with
the fence corner kinds of fruit, and he
would take load of his peaches into
town and follow the wagons carrying
those poor, small peaches, and sell right
along for ten to twenty cents more per
peck than they offered theirs for. But
he used wisdom in his selling with all
his advantages in the size and beauty
and quality of his fruit. He was liberal.
He is close business man, and he saw
that it would pay we'll to heap up his
measure as high as they would stay on.
He always gave few to the children.
He invited people to try the peaches,
gave them all they could carry away,
and that was not many, they were so
large. He made the editor of the pa
per presents of assortments of the fin.
est, and got his peaches into the papers
in that way. That man has made
money. This first year of bearing he
has got back large percentage on all
he has paid out. The only trouble is,
he has got an elephant on his hands.
He has more than supplied the home
market, and next year he is liable to
have twice as many as this. But he
will take better care than ever of that
orchard, and will be prepared to take
care of all the peaches which grow,
probably by shipping them to Atlanta
or some nearby town. The largest
peach growers in the world are the j..
H. Hale Peach Company. They have
a thousand acres, $50, 900 trees and ship
several carloads day to the north in
the busy season. They have gone into
the best markets in the country and Sc
cured sale for their fruit by its supe-
rior merits. California peaches com.
pete in eastern markets with eastern
grown fruit just on the grounds of ex-
cellence and marketing methods.
The receipt for capturing and holding
the home or and other market is: First
count the cost. If you haven't the
needed qualifications, better not at.
tempt it. Then produce good thing
and let the people know it. Advertise
in some way. Have good article tt
sell, far better, if possible, than any
body else in that place has. Their
treat your customers well. Don't make
enemies. There will always be NEAR
people who will take every possible ad
vantage. Watch against all such, keeI
clear of them as far as you can. Make
your loads as attractive as you wei
can. Sort closely, and never carry an!
but the best to sell. Give good meas
ure, heap it up, it will help you NOR
that you realize. AS to whether you
had best sell for cash making that
cast iron rule, you must be guided b,
your best judgment. Sometimes i
seems impossible to sell without selling
to some on credit, but then it Otter
makes great deal of trouble to sell il
this way.