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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-05

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reports three deaths among the American
troops in Cuba since January 81.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-05

II RoBABLY the most important educa-
tsonaa cir which has been introduced
in tire house was Introduced friday BY
He!ug Of Pierre. X Is entitled IAN act,
providing for the compulsory attendance
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
HOW KIHBI BROKE HIM.

81 know II IS too bad" said the con.
victed defaulter, "but II all comes of being
an optmist |"
"An optimist :" said the visitor to the
prisoner.
"Yes; was dead sure Kihei stock would
90 my way, and backed my opinion with
some ones else money!"
Get your ealcium-carbide from the P. c.
& Mfg Co.
Reginald: 81 want to buy you dog,
Miss Ethel What kind of dog would
you like 2"
Ethel (thoughtfully): swell, should
like dear little silky-haired angel, with
large poetic eyes, and a sweet little rose
bud mouth, and soulful expression, that s
good ratter and a good fighter, and a
prime retriever and waterdog, and good
courser, and doesn't eat too much, and Is
easy to keep clean"-
Reginald: EXCUSE me, Miss Ethel
but what you want Is Sterling Chainless
Bicycle, from the P. c. & Mfg Co."
Twentieth Century Gas Lamps, at the
P. c. & Mfg Co.'s.
Wig: "Jones says he can read woman
like book"
Wag: ayes; but he can't shut her up
like one"
Crescent Bicycles for s4s, at the P. c.
& Mfg Co.'s.
After testing oleomargarine at the Board
of Health food investigation the other day,
DR.. Dor remarked that It was just as good
as the butter he had for breakfast. But,
how does the doctor know just what he
did have for breakfast?
Old Hunter: "Hullow, old fellow; how's
huntingl don't see that you have bag
ged anything"
New Hunter: ooh, you don't, Ell ?
Then just look at the knees Of my new
hunting trousers"
He swears he'll get his ammunition from
the P. c. & Mfg Co. next time he goes.
Sterling Bicycles at 500, at the P. c. &
Mfg Co.'s,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
FOR PRESERVING FRUITS.

James Stewart, mechanic OF
Honolulu, has received from Mum
& Co., Patent Agents in N. Y, a
caveat for an invention which he
claims will revolutionize the pre-.
sent process of preserving fruits
and cereals.
Mr.. Stewart has been a student
of chemistry in his leisure hours
and claims that he has discovered
a gas that will prevent vegetable
decay.
He claims that by his process
he can take fruit from the tree, or
vegetables from the ground and
by placing them in their native
state 10 jar injecting his gas
and sealing the jar, that they will
be preserved indefinitely.
lie has exhibited specimens of
lines and apples which hs claims
have been in their jars for q and
z months respectively and they
certainly present a natural ap.
pearance. These and other SAM
Piles he will send by the outgoing
steamer to Dan Logan, at Oma ha,
to be placed In the Hawaiian
Exhibit.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

Italy will doubtless be hig hly
elated when it learns that some OF
the people of Hawaii regard
japanese as more desirable citi-
zsu5 than Italians. If ten thou
sand Italian laborers with fami-
lies can get up more serious
ARRAYS than the japanese have in
the past year or two,tbey will hold
the record as being the hardest
crowd ever departing from the
protection of the Italian flag.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

While the public schools are
suffering for want of money to pay
teachers, the Executive Council
occupies lite time bordering over
whom they shall send to Washing
ton to spend valuable time cooling
his heels in Willsrd's Hotel and
getting lost in the com mittee rooms
of the capital. 10 other words,
who g-ts pleasant winter in
Washington at the peoples ex.
Danse
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
GIVE THE DEPARTMENTS MONEY

With the public treasury carry
log a good. sized surplus, Hswaii's
business interests are suffering
from a shortage 10 the money
market, and government depart =
ments are seriously hampered in
carrying on the work which the
new development of the country
demands. While raid on the
treasury that would reduce the
surplus to the danger point in
event Of sudden reduction of income
is to be deprecated, it behooves
the government to loosen up its
purse strings sufficiently to allow
the work of the various depart.
ments to go forward without delay.
More money is needed in the
business com munity to relieve the
situation, and the government can
accomplish not little for the
general welfare of the people by
putting new vigor into the extern
sion of public work.
Notwithstanding this is a tran.
sition period, Hawaii cannot afford
to 60 backward. We cannot afford
to allow the work of the schools to
be handicapped simply because
the last Legislature was not able
to forecast fully the necessities of
tbeI future. As to matters that
come under the department Of
public works, it is dangerous
business to withhold work on the
superstition that after we have a
settled government the United
States will take some of the burd-
en- from local shoulders. Obtain.
ing funds from the United States
Congress is like pulling the teeth
of an elephant. Two or three
congressional sessions are usually
consumed 10 securing recogni.
ton, and after all, the money sp-
propriste is usually less than is
needed. Furthermore Hawaii
having no vote in Congress is
likely to be last on the list to Sc
cure recognition.
If it is Legislative action that is
needed to place the departments
on proper financial footing, we
have the Council of State and the
Legislature at hand to do the
business, and it is not probable
that President Mckinley would
decree that the Legislators shall
not be called upon. 1t is in fact
highly probable that he will sane
ton every move that is necessary
to assure continued progress in
the administration of domestic
affairs in which the people are
directly interested.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

In view OF Mr.. Dole's remark
that he believed the plantations
were even now carrying more
Japanese laborers than the pro.
portion calls for, it would appear
that the Executive has come down
from it's high anti Asiatlc horse,
and run up the white flag of un
conditional surrender.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
R1ssia seek 10 balk the ALI

R,ssia seeks to balk the alliance
between CHINA aud japan by a
vigorously = asserted objection,
thereby starting another wrangle
in the "play for place" in the
Orient. Meanwhile japan is
mskiog preparations to fight in
the same quiet, energetic manner
that charscterizes Russian action
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
Reception on the Boston.

Quite number OF friends of
the officers of the U. s. s. Boston
were invited aboard ship yester-
day afternoon. The reception was
an impromptu affair and was ex =
tremely pleasant. The band was
aboard to furnish the officers and
their guests with music. The
Boston continued on he way to
San Francisco at Daylight this
morning,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

80 many years that it has almost
come to the conclusion that while
the bed of the ocean has been 10.
Gated, the cable is sunk somewhere
in the bottomless pit
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

Alstsu L. Atkinson holds up
his right hand and swesrs that he
was surprised when he received
the appointment as special age Mt
OF the Census bureau. Honest
now Mr.. Atkinson wouldn't you
have been more surprised if you
bad not received the appointment.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

Minister Damon ought to be
able to find way out of the
woods of deficit in which Govern.
ment departments soon expect to
get lost. A surplus is necessary,
but when money is demanded to
accomplish good work there is
such a thing as surplus of sur
plus.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

The remarkable feature of the
penal contract labor law is that
although few; can he found who
favor the law, it has never been
possible to gather sufficient votes
to repeal the law.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

IL tho Government officials
want special agent in Washing.
ton let them pay for it. The PEG.
pie can find better use for their
money nj home.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

Elk Governor Altgeld says it is
time for the Democrats to haul
down the l6 to l flag; its days OF
usefulness have passed. Bryan
says Altgeld is losing his mind,
but he still gives evidence of more
political foresight than the great
silver leader.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

The organization of a labor par
ty in New York suggests that in
the midst Of the great national
prosperity ward politicians are
sadly in ueed of work.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

ambassador Choate says that
L9urier's bonn bastic war talk is
simply "a figure of speech" A
speech in which Laurier does not
cut highly dignified figure.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

Efforts of the proposed special
government representative to ac-
complish anything lin Washing.
ton would be a worse exhibition
of misspent coin than the Call
Herald trans-continental automo-
bile race
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

Gen. Oils could get some new
ideas on press censorship by peru
sing some of the laws of the Re.
public of Hawaii enacted befor'
d'war.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
THURSDAY, AUG. II, 1899.

Having reached the 4lst ami
versary, the banking house of
Bishop & Co. is just in the prime
of life.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
@. A. GROTE,
MERCHANT TAILOR.

Clothes made 10 order at q reasona BILE
cost. Clothes cleaned, repaired and
dyed, Flrst-class work guaranteed. p,
o. boz $50. Union street, Honolulu
II. !. 1858
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
The DAYS STOCK REPORT
HONOLULU EXCHANGE

Between Boards-Ths morning-Ioo Honokas, an
70 H. A., 2gs; IS Waialua paid. $50; a. Oahu. r7s;
Oahu Asses, Io7K
Session Yesterday afternoon-4s Eva. as; IS do
76h; as McBryde $40.
Session-This mornng-iaso McByde. AZ: 50 do.
i7-7o; 50 do, I7-2o; 100 OokaIa. a2; s Waialus
paid, 1885, 20 honokaa. AK; 100 do. an; 50 Olaa y
90 do, y; 100 Eva, 76k.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
DON'T

YOU want a good office coat
Something that will keep you
cool, and at the same time wear
well If you do our Serges in
Blue, Gray and Brown are just
the thing. Come and have a
look at 'em.
49,
We are offering this month
a line Of Stiff.Bosom Coored
Shirts, Latest Style, and all
Up.to.Date Patterns, at sI.2s.
Your gain, our loss; too many,
that's the reason.
We still lead in Ready.to-Wear Cloth
ing. All you need to do is to tell US your
wants; we guarantee to fill them without
any trouble to you.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17
Prices are cut rs per cent.
All marked in plain figures.

We are making this reduction because
we have too large a stock Of these goods,
and want more room for two carloads Of
JEWEL STOVES and one car of CUR
NEY CLEANABLE REFRlGERATORS
which are on the way.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-08-17

pense.
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
An Added Burden.

was taking my dinner one day at 6
mountain farmhouse on the headwaterl
of the Cumberland river, and the lady
Of the house, who had four children
playing around the front Of the estab
lishment, was inclined to repine at hel
hard luck in having go much work to do.
81 run this here whole farm she
said in tone which indicated that she
was ready to resign.
Show many acres have your" I in
quired.
"a hundred and forty-20 in wheat,
go in corn, 10 in medder an paster, an
the balance scatterin an woods.
"Got any stockf''
"Ten head Nv cattle, two cows, six
hogs an work critters fer the place.
"And you run the whole business" 2"
s'Indeed l do-every hide an hair NV
it, " she sighed.
stDon't you hire some help3"
SIN course, but 'tain't hired help
that takes the load of'en body" There
was philosophy in that statement, and
I paused minute.
Haven't you got husband p next
asked with good deal of sympathy.
eyes" she responded very slowly,
"but I have to run him too. Wash
ington Star
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
Drummond was On Top

Professor Henry Drummond had a
boyish spirit when a man, and at the
age of 26 invented a game for some
friends at a country house one rainy
evening. He said: "They play it in
America with bowie knives. Four men
are locked in dark room, each in a
corner, and the survivor wins. Well
do without the knives; the door and
the shutters shall be shut, each Of us
will stand in a corner, and the first who
gets on another mans back will be the
winner" +"
DR.. Smith was in the game, and he
says it was the most exciting one he
ever played. Nobody stirred from his
corner for 20 minutes Then l heard a
scuff1e between two of the others, felt
my way to fling myself on both Of
them, when Drummond pounced on me,
and we all rolled in a heap, he, Of
course, on top, as he always was. -
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
He Got the Eeea

sagar, the verger of Halifax parish
church, was quite a character in his
way. He figured. in several good stories
in Dean Pigou's "Phase of Ny Life. -
On one occasion bridegroom discover
ed after the service that he had no mon
ey with which to pay the fees.
Sagar went to the bride in his most
winsome way and asked her: "Hast
ever seen Black Bibles2 We've a rare
lot on 'em in this ere vestry"
"No, she replied, not having the
faintest idea of what Black Bible was.
Coon along. I'll show yer Them"
He lured her into the inner vestry.
"There's the Bibles. he said, point
ing to them, locked up as they were in
a bookcase with glass panels, of which
he had not the key. "Wait awhile till
l come back"
He turned the key of the vestry on
the bride and, going to the bridegroom
said, Glass is all right, but you'll no
have her till you have paid.
The "brass' was Immediately forth
coming,
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
superstition and It's Effects,

l wish that some one would write an
adequate book upon superstition and
its effects, as distinguished from and op-
posed to revealed religion and its
effects. This curse of the world, civil
lized or savage, deserves worthy chron-
icler. Walking round the exhibits in
the Agricultural hall. it was borne in to
my mind that superstition in all its
hideous phases is perhaps the most con-
crete and tangible form in which the
evil one manifests himself upon earth,
and think that those who have mixed
much with native races will not dis
agree with me.
Here is an instance Of its working
which has just come to my notice: Not
long ago two Matabeles were tried at
Bulawayo for the murder of their grand
son, child of 2. Poison having failed,
the boy was held beneath the water and
drowned. The crime was admitted, but
the defense raised was that the child
had cut its top teeth first. Such chill
dren being unlucky and the cause Of i'll
luck to others, it was customary to kill
them, and switch DOCTOR" on being
consulted, had ordered that this one
should be put to deathI Well, only a
century or so since we did things al
most as bad in England. Rider Hag-
gard in Longman's.
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
Learning the Truth.

A school inspector was examining 8
class in grammar and trying to explain
the relations of adjective. and nouns by
telling example
Snow, for instance. said he, "what
am I2''
That was an easy question, and all
the children shouted, "a mani" and
then looked around tr;nnlphantly, as
much as to say, "Ask another. .
eyes. But what else2" said the in
spector.
This was not so easy, but after a
pause boy ventured to suggest. "a
little man"
eyes, but there is something more
than that"
This was a poser for the youngsters,
but after a moments puzzled silence
an infant phenomenon almost leaped
from his seat in his eagerness and cried
to the inspector:
"Please, sir, know-an ugly little
MANI
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
A Neighfng Cock.

Camden says the Thames was once
called the Cockney, and therefore a
cockney means simply one who lives
on the banks of the Thames. Wedge
wood says a cockney, or cockerney, is
one pampered by city indulgence, in
contradistinction to rustics hardened by
outdoor work. There is, however, a
legend, almost too good to be true
namely, that a Londoner who had never
before slept out of sound of Bow Bells
had occasion to go into the country and
was detained all night.
He was much disturbed by the low
ing of the cattle, the grunting of the
pigs and other sounds of country life,
which he could not understand, and in
particular he was frightened by the
Growing of the cock In the morning,
in response to the farmers INQUIRIES,
he said the sound of the wild beasts had
kept him awake. Just at that moment
the cock crowed again, and the Lon
doner said: ''That's the onel He's been
neighing like that for hoursl" Since
then Londoners have been called cock
neighs, or cockneys.
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
In the Tan Root of m Oak,

remember a curious incident con
nected with the tap root of an oak
This oak. good tree of perhaps 200
years growth, was being felled at
Brakeman wood when the woodmen
called attention to something peculiar
on the tap root. On clearing this of soil
we found that the object was horse
shoe of ancient make. Obviously in
the beginning an acorn must have fall
en- into the hollow Of this cast shoe, and
as it grew through the slow genera
tions the root filled up the circle, car
rying it down into the earth in the
process of its increase till at length we
found wood and iron thus strangely
welded. That tap root with the shoe
about it is now or used to be a paper
weight in the vestibule Of Brakeman
Hall-Rider Haggard in Longman's
Magazine
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
Keeping Up Appearances.

4 'tlicensed pawnbroker" who does
great deal Of work in the west end o.
London lately gave to the writer par
ticulars Of strange sort of pledgine
that has become common of late anC
that often defeats men of his kind.
Backing up his statement with actual
names and dates, he said:
''A bailiff and / enter a snowy fat,
say, and my accustomed eye at once
falls on handsome or at least pre-
tentieus piano. I say to myself that
this piano will sell for what require.
l go to it, but find that it is locked.
ask for the key, and when this is reluc-
family produced find that there is in
reality nothing but case. All the in
side of the instrument is gone. The fact
is that people in difficulties who still
want to keep up appearances can Eor-
row money, while still apparently re-
tanning their piano. by allowing the
lenders to take away the main part, or
inside, of the instrument. One man in
the west end in particular does con-
siderable business by lending money on
pianos in this way.
81 suppose that when visitors want
to play on an instrument of this kind
the host pleads that the key is lost
Anyhow have in my own business had
quite so examples of gutted pianos dur
ing the last two years, and I never
mark piano down in an inventory
now till have closely examined it. -
London Answers.
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
Accusing Interest.

Some years since a pastor of New
England city church announced a mis-
sionary meeting for Sunday evening on
new plan. He selected two laymen to
speak on some phase Of missions. One
OF those selected for this work was a
young man who had never made an ad-
dress before SO large a company. His
timidity and objections were overcome,
and he selected "The Evangelization Of
the Sandwich Islands" as his theme.
The public library furnished several
volumes which were read and noted
and short speech prepared covering
the prominent points in the story of its
missions. 1t was simple incident and
probably passed from the mind of the
pastor soon after. Its effect on the
young man was permanent. His inter-
est was aroused. He was led. from busi-
ness into the ministry, and the mission
fields of the church became matter Of
special study. Personal acquaintance
with leading missionaries in each mis-
sion field has led to the collection of
photographs, which in the form Of slides
for the stereopticon are widely in use
among the Leagues to illustrate the
work of our church among theheathen.
Set the young people atswork. searching
and talking, and they will, acquire an
interest which will last life long.
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
A Happy Introduction,

An Englishman who is an enthusi-
astic Alpine clubbist came in one night
to carry friend off to lecture which
the veteran mountaineer Whymper was
giving at Westminster on his pet theme,
''Twenty Thousand Feet Above the
Sea-. The friend could not go, for he
was otherwise engaged, but Whymper's g
name reminded him of story of Sir
James Linton, the late president of the
Royal Institution of Painters In Water
Colors He had to introduce the well
known artist E. III. Wimperis to the
Alpinist, and he did it in the following
fashion: 81 want to make two distin-
guished men known to each other. The
one is Mr.. Whymper. the other Mr..
Wimperis. " For an impromptu this is
not bad.
Middletown transcript., 1899-04-15
HE ATE TIE SOAP.
Garland Would Have Swallowed 1t If
1t Had Killed Him.

Garland WouId Have Swallowed 1t II
1t Had Killed Him.
The late Augustus Fl Garland. who
was attorney general under President
Cleveland, was very fond of practical
jokes and during his term cf service in
the senate frequently turned the laugh
on his colleagues Senators Voorhees,
and Vest. with whom be was very
friendly. finally determined to turn the
tables Mr. Garland had habit, like
Voorhees,, of munching candy. and Vest
and VOORHEES, made it up between them
to take advantage of his fondness for
sweets to play their trick They had
some tempting looking chocolate cara
mels prepared. with the interior filed
with brown soap These they took to
the senate chamber and Voorhees, placed
them on his desk The lid being off
when Mr.. Garland sauntered down the
aisle he noticed them Mt once.
"What have you there. DanP he in
quired.
Voorhees, looked up carelessly from
his writing and responded "Caramels
Help yourself
Garland needed no second invitation
and. picking mp two or three placed
one in his m'Eth Steadily be chewed
away, his face betrayina nn sign of the
conflict within him This alarmed
Voorhees, who wrut 20 Vest desk and
said
Hes eating thnin Yest What shall
we doT The stuff VIII klil him surer
Senator Vest ref<ij"d thai il could do
no more thGn mak" h:,l eica Garland
swallowed the st".l, although he was
foaming al t;.a r"s;'h fro'H the soap
suds He sr.'i.,,. ~ iH"!tltut afterward
with great - IL ANA sid lie would
have sw;.il' = i; il !! lad Killed him
New Yur.. san