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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-27

The Chinese practice OF numbering mission
aries Is more difficult to extrpate than the Rus
sian thlstlo Within n comparatively short time
the Chinese have slain Americans. Germans and
Frenchmen engaged in their religious work, and
have now destroyed Il pious Belgian. Father
Bellrouck. at his mission OF Hu-Peh, in Central
China. The Government will punish his slnyers.
or accuse and behead a few innocent Hu-Pehans
as substitutes. but the repetition OF such Incl
dents Is not at all encouraging to missionary
endeavor In that country. IL will not. however.
be Intermitted or abated on that account, and
lts promoters may deem that the blood or Its
martyrs is not wasted on unferte ground. But
IL is very uncomfortable for the martyrs
Estimated according to their relative popula-
ton Philadelphia typhoid record exceeds that
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a receipt for removing ink stains from
pale pink frocks without removing the
pink0
Do the children like 1t? Well rather.
Who dares set a mete and a bound to
the happiness a youngster can get out Of
a paint brush? The very mention of the
word makes fifty pairs of eyes sparkle,
fifty happy faces flush with anticipation.
When fairly in the swing of 1t, the whole
creature is IN the work, brain, body, heart
and soul, and he means to produce a
masterpiece. Tidings Of his intentions
are telegraphed through the fearful ten
sion of his attitude, and as the teacher
notes or fails to note and reward his ef-
forts, so shall he gain or lose his future
devotion.
When the fever is on he paints all
geography and spelling. His choice of
surface is often startling. Landscape ap-
pears on the palms. portrait upon the
fingernails, foliage upon the cuffs and a
menagerie between the book covers, pre-
ferably on the fly leaves, but the text may
be utilized at q pinch and an economical
mode Of illustration suggested to the book
publisher. Let the illustrator look to his
laurels. and particularly, let Gelett Bur-
CESS beware, for the original is more virtle
than the copy-the real thing best got at
the source. Young America with half q
chance could shock himself into popu-
larity in the twinkling of an eye. Your
30-year-old is the most daring Of God 8
creatures.
Nor Is ink the limit. Color is creeping
In, and any right-minded class scorns to
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FROM LIFE
FAST BECOMING THE
RAGE AMONG THE
YOI
YOUNGSTERS.

practice frugality in its use. The ink
training does not lead up to that virtue.
Now two colors make fine tint. three
are less satisfactory, and four make mud!
Just here a mocker of progress, who
can't be taken seriously, called out to the
writer: "If fads must be given the glad
hand, why not make fad of anatomy
and physiology and train up a regiment
of doctors? They are permitted TO bury
their bad work, but the bad work of art
lists is always likely to be hanging around
somewhere in plain view" Obviously the
fellow IS a pessimist.
Does the teacher like it9 Now you're
prying behind the scenes. But If you in
sist, of course. Having just about
enough to do, and tagging a little behind
the popular scamper, is very quieting even
to the folk who are neither fogy nor re-
progressive; and the breadth Of this ink
and water-color field is a little bewilder-
ing to the unguided, overoccupied wan
derer. The pertinent question IS: Can she
be q certifcated and competent (the terms
are not necessarily Interchangeable
mathematician. grammarian, rhetorician,
historian, geographer, scientist and gen.
eral moral whip, and at the same time
an artist with foreshortening and the Like
and Nicholson eye for values at her fin
ger tips? Can she be all this with an un-
impaired dgestion7 To be less interroga-
tive, art, letters and time seem to be
pressing upon her In different directions.
and she has no choice but to braveIy
await the moment when they shall meet
and crush her into an educational pulp.
ReQuiescat In pace. DELLA CARDS
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things unseen" must have no prohibitory
limit if you would develop the genius of
the future. Just give a healthy boy
little encouragement and sufficient time,
and he will prove you a hippopOtamus a
gaZelle with no unrighteous intention.
Truly. everything depends upon the point
of view.
If you are proud of your back just let
this class take a brutal shy at you as a
model and you will be speedily disillu-
stoned. We know what we are, but
know not what we may be" Come in the
hands of Young America.
From what can be learned by various
inquiry art is rushing in inky torrents
through the department. 1t is violently
usurping a good share of the time once
considered by the fogy necessary for the
Grafton will no doubt be earned asplr-
ingly. If mamma wonders why Mary and
John are more dauby than usual. be It
known that, with the more progressive,
the brush has superseded the pencil (the
Chinese brush that our Celestial cousin
uses for pen. Patronize white labor
HurrahD and that ink is the medium OF
expression. To empty a well at a sitting
is no trick at all. FIJI the brush inkfuIl'
is the law of the silhouette, Not all of II
reaches its destination-sone of 1t falls
by tho way and Is carried home to
mamma in artistic splashes. All trips
from well to paper are not equally dis
astrous, There are Jekyll days and Hyde
days, and 1t may come to pass that on
one OF the former Mary and John owe
each other a grudge, and pay 1t when the
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PAINT BRUSHES GIVEN a
REGULAR PLACE IN
THE COURSE OF
INSTRUCTION.

SRHE sytem Of art training introduced
into the San Francisco schools
some two years ago has passed
through the elementary, introduce
tory, somewhat uninteresting, stage, and
reached point where production brings
an immense satisfaction to both mistress
and pupil. The children are led to study
nature and life and some really creditable
results are obtained with flowers, foliage,
landscapes and even the more difficult fig
ure. Values are carefully looked TO and
the weakness Of too much detail avoided
The work is certainly educational. but il
has also It's humorous and pathetic side.
wad some power the giftie gle US
To see oursels as ithers see US
Need no longer be the wall of the pessi-
mist, for the power is with US in the
cunning guise Of the silhouette, the new
est reach Of the art course With leaf
and tree and landscape a certain liberty
may be taken without apparent loss of
identity, but the human figure is another
matter
The accompanying art exhibit is Just
One Girl"-believe it or not, as you please
A class n Pacific Heights School having
done some particularly satisfactory leaf
work, was rewarded with an opportunity
to try it's talent more ambitiously. Tho
model turned her back upon fifty earnest
workers and in twenty minutes became
population. She Is a dainty fluffy,
beruf1ed, perfectly symmetrical little
maiden with her hair in two braids, and
she does not wear q silk hat! What Of
that Imaginadon-that is precious and
must not be crushed; the seeing of
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Pen Picture Of Miss
CroCker as Jhe
IS at IRome.

she had not reflected in time that Jennie
was five years younger-only a baby. of
course. And l believe it highly probable
that Templeton drew sprangly rubber
bands through an linked cork one day and
dangled a clutching spider in the wake
of his sisters squeals. Wealth is such a
stupidity unimportant thing to little peo-
pie.
Mrs. Crocker died in 1856, when Jennie
was only a baby. Her thirteen years Of
child life have been spent ignorant of the
mother relation. But Mary can look back
through a glimpsy haze and see little pic
lures.
Ever since Mary was a mite of a girl
the friends Of Mrs. Fred Crocker have
seen her in the face and ways of her eld-
est daughter. Even in the days of her
knee-Iong, starchy gowns she was her
mother over again. She was fair-haired
then and the hair has turned far darker
of late years, but the resemblance has al
ways been marked.
An old friend of the family remembers
the young ladys first Introduction to So
ciety. whens she was hardly turned &
Guests invited to the big house up on the
hill were received by Miss Crocker stand
ing beside her grandmother in the great
picture gallery that everybody knows.
She was statelyin attempt and bewitching
in result She was a rutf1y little white
fly-away, with pink ribbons that futtered,
and she was the prettiest picture in the
whole gallery. She promised in those
days TO be petite and fair-she has de-
ceived so far, but the quick wit that she
was known for then is as quick to-day.
although the blonde little sprite has
stretched up into a tall and stately bru-
nette.
The years Of growing up have been
spent in the quiet ways Of a schoolgirl.
There was governess at first, and later
came an Eastern seminary and then study
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and they are soon to return to the
Eastern cities The solemnity of the
great house without gives the lie to It's
brightness within, and not the least of
this brightness is its young visitor. The
potted palms seem a rather jellier green
when she is there. and the marbles are
not quite so cold, and the great mirrors
reflect happier faces. Most cheerful Of
all is her own cozy retreat upstairs, be-
low whose window the hills drop away to
the town.
1t had been planned that Mrs. Alexan-
der was TO introduce Miss Crocker to
Eastern society this season. but the
dainty little golden-haired woman is So
Der now. for there is mourning IN the
family. Mrs. Reid and Mrs Mills will
make merry times, however, for the
Teenie in reality, being only the cousin
of Mrs. Crocker, but she is the same as
an aunt to her cousins child.
When New York receives Miss Crocker
1t will find a tall, rather slender girl with
an expression that is serious at first
glance, and animated only at closer ac-
quaintance The face is rather long. eyes
a bit dreamy. They droop at the corners
to give sign of cleverness Her mouth
is small and sweet. She is more striking
than beautiful. She is unusually bright
and keen. Her disposition Is sunny and
lovable, her opinions are pronounced and
her will is strong.
She dresses simply and beautifully, with
an eye of her own for color and form.
Her hair IS worn in the heavy forward
pompadour that Ethel Barrymore has
made famous.
Miss Crocker's height and dignity make
her at times appear more than her years.
but the girlish roguishness peeps out
from behind. Her personal attractions
bid fair to make her one of New York's
most famous, SO long as she shall grace
its fashions.
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Receives her Estate OF
-Four MdIion
Dollars.

abroad In a Partisan school The subject
of education has been bone of some
family contention, for Mrs Easton is far
advanced in her ideas of woman's edu-
cation, and she urged a college course
very strongly. Miss Crocker urged very
strongly the other way, and the result is
that her school days are over now, while
Tacitus and logarithms hold deeps that
she will never sound. Mis- Crockers de-
cisions are Enthusiastically positive
Her girlhood has been spent so largely
in the East, that the majority. perhaps of
her friends are there. Her time in Cali
fornia Is largely spent at the country
home in Burlingame. Miss Mary Scott is
one Of her San Francisco chums-it is a
friendship that reaches even unto the
crowning height of being photographed
together. They are strongly contrasted-
Miss Scotts fine. distinct. a bit Of cold
fairness against Miss Crocker's greater
Southernness.
Miss Genevieve King, a Smith College
girl, is another of the little circle, and
many are the visits exchanged between
her and Miss Crocker. Miss Crocker cares
not a whit for the dear five hundred
friends, but chooses a few who are near.
She has known the most charming of New
York and Washington people, to whom
Mrs Reid has introduced her, and they
have admired and loved her.
The dearest of all her comrades died
two years ago. During her fathers life
time he and his daughter Mary were in
separable companions travelling here,
there, everywhere. together. They So
journed happily at Monterey and at Castle
Crag and at all the summer vacation
places. With all that this new heiress has
to make life glorious, there are two wants
in her heart that no power on earth can
ever fill.
She is in our city just now, resting
in the California; house. Her
aunt, Mrs. Alexander, is with her,
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aperture through which the air was es-
Gaping, cap put her loot on IT II and thus c4rked s
air.
Several subsequent attempts to carry on
the experiments were alike ineffectual, for
as soon as the glass cover was put over
her and she felt the removal of the air
the cat would put her feet over the pipe
and keep them pressed there.
The students, struck by the remarkable
intelligence shown by the cat asked the
professor TO liberate the animal, and loud
ly cheered her self-possession when the
cat after coolly cleaning herself and
smoothing her ruf1ied fur jumped down
and rubbed against the legs of the stu
dents sitting on the front bench.
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~ NE Of the loveliest girls who has
II Y ever breathed the fogs and faced
Y N the winds Of San Francisco has just
fallen heir to her estate Of woman
hood and four millions of dollars.
She is to make her entrance into society
this season. the latest New York excite
ment. She IS to be lovely and loved as
her mother was before her and her grand
mother even before that. The mother
long since forgot the laughs and the
dances-and the tears, too, that will now
and then wedge a way in. past even the
golden bars that wealth locks. The
mother is not here to triumph in the
triumphs and rejoice in the rejoicings and
live 1t all over again.
The grandmother is. She has filled the
mothers place for all these thirteen
daughters daughter now, living and NOV
ing in the guise OF the other.
San Francisco "reminiscences date back
to the time when "Teenie' Mills and Jen-
ME Easton carried on a cousinly com
radeship and a cousinly rivalry too when
II happened. Tradition says that San
Francisco society was driven to the verge
Of distraction for many long months Won
derfng which one of the cousins Fred
Crocker was going 10 settle upon. He
was a butterfly between two flowers for
bewildering length of time, and history
shows that at last Miss Easton surren-
dered- Her cousin "Teenie" was after
ward won by Whitelaw Reid. so that the
distinguished cousins both became the
brides OF distinguished Americans.
There were three happy little people in
the Fred Crocker family-ittle people who
played and teased; and were naughty
sometimes, just like others. I don't doubt
for minute that Jennie sometimes want
ed the blonde doll at exactly the same
time as Mary, and probably Mary would
have been very much inclined to slap If
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0he .G0ly egyptians.

From other sources we learn that stu
dents in the land of the pyramids en-
of playing practical jokes as any of their
descendants.
From the diary of an Egyptian Heuten-
we obtain the interesting information
that a quart of beer cost about cents,
and there are various entries in the book
which allow us to infer. that the average
Egyptian never dreamed of quenching his
thirst with less than quart at q time.
Indeed" says the erudIte Psychologist
who has deciphered this diary, there are
various facts which justify US in describ-
ing the thirst Of the ancient Egyptians
as pyramidal."
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Cat Docl1nos Wartyraom.

Students OF one OF the big universities in
this city. have cat that has utterly re-
fused to become a martyr to science. Its
history is another instance Of the refining
and elevatng influence of science
Professor Blank asked J. p. Morgan the
3eoitor, to get a cat for him, as he wished
70 Illustrate his lectures on "Respiration"
by experiments upon the animal Mr.
Morgan succeeded in getting. one with the
aid OF some small boys. When his stu
dents had assembled the professor put the
cat before the glass receiver of the air
pump and began to pump out the air Be
fore the piston had time to move more
than once or twice the cat began to feel
very uncomfortable. and, discovering the
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

An interesting papyrus recently discov-
cred shows that many of the ancient
Egyptians were quite as fond of drinking
good liquor as are any of the moderns.
In this papyrus. which is 5000 years old.
the philosopher Ami writes the following
words of warning on the subject of in
toxication to a student in Channu:
''I have been informed that you are not
only neglecting your studies, but that you
are also indulging in the most frivolous
pleasures, and that you spend good deal
of your time in drinking. Now, how can
il benefit you to drink so much beer every
day? Take advice and shun that tnsid-
ious liquor"
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THE ART FAD HAS STRUCK THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

teachers back is turned, literally and
with a steady aim. After this silent in
terchange of courtesies they no doubt feel
better acquainted right pleasant and
mirthful in fact, The real cause of the
mirth is not likely to reach headquarters.
Their joint account lays in silence. They
both (unless children have changed since
my day) represent the complete readiness
of their respective constituents to go to
war on the subject around the corner.
(Note-Wnl Deborah Deane please print
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-28
NEW DIVISION Of DUTIES
COMMISSIONERS OF EDUCATION
CHANGES.
All Business in Future Will be Handled
by officers and Committees-Rou
and other Matters.

Al a meeting of the Commissioners of
Education held Thursday afternoon,
Minister Mott-Smith read a long state
ment of lines of policy or division of
duties which he has mapped out for the
government of the department. The
Minister had been working on this nat
ter for several weeks. All present ex-
pressed their views of the ideas. The
discussion closed by the adoption of
the following resolutioni W.
In order that the commissioners of the
Department of Public Instruction may
more efficiently establish and carry
out lines of policy, make rules
and regulations and generally exercise
a supervising control of the affairs of
the department, be 1t
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
commissioners that all administrative
duties of the Department of Education
shall be exercised by the administrative
officers and standing committees of the
department, they taking original ac-
ton thereon and submitting reports of
their action to the commissioners at
prevail or disapproval, such duties to
be hereafter defined in the rules and
regulations of the board.
at Christmas as we'll as at Easter In
future. This change will prove an ad-
vantage to many teachers.
Various recommendations with res
pect to certificates and diplomas were
approved.
Present at the meeting were: Minis
ter Mott-Smith, II. NJ. Won Holt, DR..
Maxwell G. L. Hopkins, Mrs. Hall and
Mr.. Towsend.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-28
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

At the annual meeting of the share
holders of the Pacific Sugar Mill, Ltd.
held on the 2Sth of October, 1899, the
following officers We're duly elected for
the ensuing year:
F. A. Schaefer ..;...... President
l.. A. Mott Smith. -. Vice President
ii. RenJes ............... Treasurer
w. LAM ........ ......Secretary
Chas. Hustace, Jr........... Auditor
Directors-F. A. Schaefer, +. A. Mott
Smith, II. Renjes, w. LAM, e. Suhr.
Harold MottSmith and II. Focke.
w. LAM,
Secretary.
Honolulu. October 2S, 1899
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-28
NOTICE

To Property Owners at Kaimuki, KG-
pahulu and Kapiolani Park Addi-
tons:
Applications for water privileges
from the Pahoa Water Works, Kaimu-
XII Tract, will be received at the Office
of Gear, Lansing & Company, judo
Building, Fort Street, up to the first
day of November, 1899.
Water privileges win be granted NJ
Government rates, but water mains
will not be laid from the Pahoa Water
Works to connect with properties ad-
joining the Kaimuki Tract unless suf-
ficient applications are received for
water privileges to justify the laying
of said water mains.
GEAR, LANSING & COMPANY,
Judd Building, Fort Street.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-28
AT THE WHARF AGAIN.

The ship George Curtis has returned
to Brewers wharf after giving way to
the transport Ohio. If the expected
army vessels arrive in the next few
days she may have to move again.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-28
HAWAIIAN OPERA HOUSE
POSITIVELY THE LAST
PERFORMANCE BY
And Excellent
Company
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER %.
Shakespeare great tragedy.
"Hamlet"
Prices, evenings, $780, 81 and Soc.
Prices, matinees, 81. 75c and soc.
Prices, evenings, $3.50, 81 and Soc
Prices, matinees, 81. 75c and soc.
BYAUTHORITY
IRRIGATION NOTICE.

Holders Of water privileges, or thosS
paying water rates, are hereby notified
that the hours for irrigation purposes
are from 6 to 8 o'clock a. m. and from
4 to o'clock p. m.
ANDREW BROWN,
Superintendent of Water Works.
Approved:
]. A. KING,
Minister Of the Interior.
Honolulu, June IA. 1899.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-26
A SENSIBLE NEGRO.

William Calvin Chase. Washington
negro, made a speech to meeting of
his race at Frederick, Nd, Thursday,
10 which he said:
LET every self-respecting colored
citizen put the seal of disapproval upon
the acts of the brutes, then will the evil
be checked. We can only become good
citizens by doing good deeds. Our citi-
z4nship il abridged by the bad acts Of
others or those who have no respect
for themselves. 1t is true that our con-
sli,ution is supposed to apply 10 all
classes of citizens, irrespective OF color
or previous condition OF servitude. We
are accepted as citizens TO the extent
OF our good behavior The brute ele.
meut OF our race is an impeachment and
nindrance TO our citizenship. Our
liability to thoroughly understand the
use of of the ballot is one Of the great
elements of impediment to our political
progress. The negro as politician Is
failure. He is not only nonenity in
the body polite, but lacks that force
OF character that goes to make up q
true, noble and brave man. He doesn't
look ahead far enough or long enough
to make proper dscriminat DDS between
himself and his oppressors. His ballot
huctuates between political diplomacy
and toadyism. His greed for. office
causes him to depreciate the little non
or he possesses for small piece of filthy
lucre."