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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
NEW HAND BOOK.
Creditabie Letter Press - Many
Illustrations.

THE Handbook of Information is
sued by the Department Of Foreign AZ
fairs is an elegant piece of work. The
covers are handsomely Autographed
with Hawaiian scenes. Two first class
maps occupy prominent position. The
introduction disclaims any intention OF
booming the country. The various art
icles dealing with different phases Of
hawaiian life are comprehensive and
well written. This work was done by
l. aniel Logan, a member OF the Homo
lulu press for fourteen years The cuts
are especially fine. Some OF the scenes
represented are Honolulu Harbor, Ho-
nolulu, Executive Building, Nuuanu
Pail. Honolulu Homes, Churches
&. .Lools. Hawaiian Fishermen, Fruits,
Natives Making Poi, Hilo, Volcano,
.,Stive Types, Sugar Plantations. The
photographs, from which the illustra-
tons are made. are from the Davey
Photographic Company and J. J. Will.
| Jams.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
RESULTS.

The congress has held nine sessions,
influencing the National Congress to a
greater degree than all other bodies in
the United States together, among
which may be noted the annexation OF
Hawaii, deep water on the Gulf, re-
duced railway transportation, the Me
aragua canal, the bankrupt law, and a
general awakening OF the agricultural
and commercial interests OF the West
1t was through the influence OF this
congress that the Omaha Exposition
was conceived and a national appro-
priation secured for its benefit.
Direct all communications to the
secretary at 40 North Main street
Wichita, Kansas.
L. II. MOSES, Chairman.
Great Bend, Kansas.
]. HUDSON M'KNIGHT.
Secretary and Treasurer.
Wichita, Kansas.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
TERRITORY EMBRACED.

Each State and Territory lying west
of the Mississippi River, and that part
of Minnesota and Louisiana east OF the
river, and the Sandwich Islands are
entitled to representation.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
Need Not BE Seen.

There are used in enormous quanti-
ties in Chinatown and the Japan Sea
various foods that manifest themselves
when unseen. Dried fish and soy are
the worst. They are loud. The fish
comes from both China and Japan.
The soy Is from Japan alone. 1t is a
relish of picked vegetables, and is the
bane of the lives of transportation
people and such haoles as are compell-
ed TO import 1t. The Board Of Health
has never acted upon the matter of
these smells, or odors, as nuisances,
and one OF the Board members says It
Is doubtful II anything can be done.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
ANOTHER CASE OF RHEUMATISM
CURED BY CHAMBERLAIN'S
PAIN BALM.

My son was afflicted with rheum-
atism, which contracted his right limb
until he was unable to walk. After
using one and a half bottles Of Cham
berlaln's Pain Balm he was able to be
about again. ] can heartily recon-
mend II to persons suffering from
rheumatlsm.--John snider. Freed, Cal.
houn Co., w. Va, For sale by Ben,
son. Smith a. Co, Ltd. wholesale
agents for II, l., and all druggists and
dealers,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
RAINFALL FOR APRIL, 1899,

From Reports to Weather Bureau.
STATIONS ELEv. ,FtD RAIN Tin
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19

natives in mourning array keenine
their mournful dirge, waving torches
that turned night into day as they
slowly passed beneath the palm trees!
There never was such poetic, touch
ing, royal pageant"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19

Hives are a terrible torment to the
llttle folks, and 10 some older ones,
Doanes Ointment never fails. Instant
relief and permanent cure, At any
chemists, 30 cents.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
Records Not Hitherto Published:
MARCH. 1893
&. J. LYONS.
\Ieteorologist Govt Su

n. Is. Observers are requested to
forward their reports promptly at the
end OF each month. that they may APP
pear IN the published report on the
fifteenth OF following month.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19

esatcs will be cordially welcomed and
the citizens will take special pride IN
entertaining them
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-05-19
OMcial Call for The Congress at
Wichita.
THESE ISLANDS ARE INCL UDfO
Trans. Mississippi Territory to be
Represented - Subjects for
Discussion-Hist

Following is the official call for the
TRANSIT Mississippi Commercial Con-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Vegetable Marriages.

In certain Hindoo regions a young
woman cannot wed until after the mar
riage of her eldest sister. But the diff
Guilty is avoided by the older sister es-
pousing at her will tree or plant, fol-
lowing in doing so the theories of meta
physics in the Brahmanic world. The in
convenience is not great in having for
brother-in.law poplar or a fig tree, and
one can always select a tree having a
heart like the oak. Those who desire
widowhood could chose weeping will
low, and those endowed with an unso-
ciable character the acacia.
In many places these symbolical unions
do not much constrain those who con-
tract them. They marry again, having
first thrown into the fire the plant to
which they had plighted their first vows.
But in those regions which have not been
affected by European influence such mar
riages have the value and Importance of
solemn religious vow. Those who
try to evade them are sure to have rea-
Son to repent of it.
For the Bra hmins watch with jealous
care to see that the promise is rigidly
kept, and they use means of coercion
very e1hcacious against those VINO would
be uniaithiul.
In the mountainous districts around
Delhi, the holy city, perjured women have
often been thrown to the flames. At Ne
paul, where manners are more rude, the
customs are less barbarous. The I'M
faithful are simply chained during sew
eral weeks in some underground place or
subjected to severe fast.
On the contrary, those who remain
constant to the VOW to the honeysuckle
are paid great honor. For it is that ira
grant and beautiful plant which is nearly
always chosen as spouse to the young
Hindoo girls. In sprngtime the appear
ance OF the first flowers of the honey
suckle is the signal for great feast and
for imposing religious ceremonies, in
which the greatest respect is shown these
married ones.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Telling Stories to Children.

"When one speaks of telling stories to
the little people prose narratives seem
to be commonly understood, and as
commonly used, but there is no mistake
greater than to suppose that children
are not susceptible to the charms OF
poetry" writes Nora Archibald Smith of
THE Kindergarten Possible to Every
Home and Village" in the February
Ladies Home Journal. They care more
for poetry, on the contrary. thar the
majority of grown people, whether for
the melody, the rhythm, the rhymes, the
short lines, the simplicity and pictur.
esqueness of expression, or for all these
reasons together, which makes it thing
pleasantly different from common speech.
Goethe advised that every child should
see pretty picture and hear a beautiful
poem every day, and If we would not
Danish the charm of poetry from mature
life it behooves us to follow his advice
and subject the child to it's influence at
the time Of greatest susceptibility.
"We must beware, however, of giving
one.sided development by combining
ourselves too much to one branch of
literature; we must include in our roper
tory some welselected myths, fairy
stories which are pure and spiritual in
tone, and fable now and then. Nature
stories, hero tales, animal anecdotes,
occasional narratives about good, whole
some children, neither prigs nor infant
villains, plenty of fine poetry, as has been
said, and, tor the older ones of the family,
legends, allegories and historic happen
iugs. A large stock of stories is not
essential for little children. They feel, as
Bulwer said the beauty and the holiness
that dwell in the customary and the old !;
and they are well pleased-and it is best
that it should be so--with hearing the
same old favorites repeated again and
again, in song or in story, from their
mothers lips"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
A Bit of Old Manila.

The question which many an American
has been considering of late is, what are
the business opportunities - the indus
trial opportunities in the Philippines
One of the features of Harper's Weekly
for the past month has been its special
correspondence, in which is given the
fullest and most satisfactory information
on these subjects. Every one who is in
terested in this question will find in these
letters just what he needs to know.
What are the openings in the Philip
pines? In the first place, a richer
land or group of islands, as regards
area and population, variety of agricul
tural, mineral and forest resources unde-
veloped, cannot be pointed out on the
map OF the world. Every authority on
the Far East affirms this opinion. There
are not only gold and silver, but iron
and coal; not only vast forests of ship
and house building woods, but rarest
qualities for furnishing, finishing and
ornamenting; not only great areas
given up to the cultivation of sugar,
hemp, tobacco and coffee, but wider
reaches of virgin soil untouched and
waiting the pioneer who is supported by
an honest government. There are one
or two railways; there should be a
score. There are few steamer lines, but
there should be system of launches and
steamers by which every one Of these
garden spots could be reached and de-
veloped. The natives will make no
trouble, provided they once know that
they are not to be oppressed and tax
ridden. For the year 1894 the combined
value of imports and exports was
$50, 100000. If the United States eventu-
ally governs the Philippines that
amount will go up until it passes the
5000 100000 mark. In the order Of i'm
portance the chief exports were sugar,
hemp, tobacco and coffee. The Weekly
also gives full information in regard to
cost OF living and other essential matters.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Sound Picture.

To take picture OF your voice it is
only necessary to tie a sheet OF thin,
strong paper over the faring end of an
old tin horn. Hold the horn with the
sheet of paper upward. Take little
pinch Of fine sand and place it in the CEN
ter OF the paper. Then hold the horn
vertically above your face and sing
note into the lower end of the instru-
ment. Do not blow, but sing the note.
Now lower the horn carefully and look
at the sand. You will find that the vi
brations of your voice have scattered the
pinch OF sand into beautiful sound pic
ture. Every note in the musical scale
will produce different picture. So you
may produce a great variety Of them.
Some of these pictures look like panses,
roses, and other flowers, some look like
snakes, and Others like flying birds; in
fact, there is no limit to the variation.
The pictures of the notes of musical in
struments are made by holding the horn
as near as possible to them.
AS stated above, sand may be used, but
lycopodium powder will produce even
better effects. The lycopodium pictures
may be fixed" by first dissolving the
powder in alcohol and then placing a
drop of the fluid on the paper. But you
must be quick about it. The alcohol
evaporates in few seconds, so you must
make the sound in the horn as soon after
you have deposited the drops as possible
The small amount of liquid will not pre-
vent the powder in it from spreading.
When it has spread, however,it will stick
the picture in its place on the paper,
which may then be taken off the horn
and preserved.
You may thus obtain pictures of the
voices of all your friends. Common gum
tragicanth with little alcohol in it
also makes good pictures. If you wish
to see the pictures while they are being
made, you may employ an old flaring
bel-shaped trumpet, or you may use
your old horn, with short piece of
rubber tubing on the mouthpiece.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Life on the Ocean Wave.

This month has been exceptionally
severe for ocean traffic and many ship
has suffered from the storms. The expe-
rience Of the Catania is typical OF what
has happened to many boat this win
ter.
The naturalized American steamship
Catania, which left Glasgow, in ballast,
for New York on Dec IS, got in Wednes.
day, after having spent more than a
month at the Azores repairing. She was
not damaged in the great storm of the
last several days, but she had an unusual
experience in a mid Atlantic hurricane on
Dec. 81. The story has been told, but
not in detail.
Capt. Furlong of the Catania says
he saw on the day that the disas
ter overlook him, about mile and
a half on the weather bow, a great
comber probably of the cumulative sort,
which appeared to be nearly fifty feet
ward him. He was on the bridge. He
headed the ship into the phenomenal tum-
bier, ordered all hands below, went him
self and awaited the shock. He took a
peep through port at the wave as it
impended. 1t curled over the weather
side, arching the ship. 1t did no dam
age on the weather side, but as it curved
it carried away one funnel, and, falling
on the leesde, smashed the rails and bull
warks and stove the side of deck
house. Tons of water roared down
+l,.o,ub chad botchac a ,,d Won ri a IN re
and put out the fires. The ship drifted
into the trough and was at the mercy OF
the waves for forty-eight hours.
While she was drifting the Atlantic
Transport liner Mesaba hove in sight.
Capt. Furlong signalled that he wanted
to be towed. The Mesaba's captain
answered with the flags that he could
not tow, but that he would stand by
and take off the Catania's men If they
wanted to be taken off. Capt. Furlong
had talk with his mate and men and
they decided that they would stick by
the ship. All their liieboats were gone
and that is why they again signalled the
Mesaba to stand by until daylight. The
ships lost each other in the night. Mean
while steam and hand pumps were set
going and the Catania's hold was freed
of water. Then the fires were started
and funnel was improvised of wood,
sheet iron and canvas. The ship was
headed for the Azores, where she arrived
on Jan. 6. The shipwrights of st. Mi
chaeIs put a funnel on her, made Of
ships plates chiefly, that stood up per-
pendicularly like chimney. The other
funnel had rake aft parallel with the
raking masts. The new one gives the
Catania an aspect not shipshape.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22

we had ridden through earlierin the day.
We expected to find less. Imagine our
dismay at finding ourselves more than
two miles from home, two feet of fresh
snow on the ground, at half past eleven
at night, and not vehicle to be had for
love or money. We wasted nearly an
hour trying to persuade some men to
carry Hilton, baby and me, while Mr..
Pedley would walk. We never were so
cold for so long a time as we were on
that night train. 1t really seemed as if
our limbs were CONCEALED. We would have
spent the night in Nagaoka had we
dreamed of getting into such a fix. Finally
Mr.. Pedley asked if Hilton and l could
walk if he carried the baby. As there
seemed to be nothing else to do we set
GU. single file, man going with us and
carrying our small truck that was in the
car.
That walk probably saved us all from
serious consequences from the chill in the
cars. AS soon as we began to walk we
were warm. The laddie braced up to it
like man and never made complaint.
We walked up through the silent city to
our house on the hill, rang the bell and
were greeted by our old cook. The ladies'
and the Newells had been up watching
for us until one o'clock, and had finally
gone to bed and to sleep. The ladies
upstairs were soon awake. Baby woke
up and laughed and crowed then went
to sleep until morning. Cook had some
hot soup and cocoa for us and we were
in our beds before three o'clock.
We could not have had worse weather
this year, but we all survived it. The
friends here had our beds set up, most OF
the stoves in order. our dishes unpacked
so it was possible for us to begin to live
at once. Mr.. Pedley has worked like a
Trojan and now the double windows are
on, the house banked up and we shall be
pretty comfortable for the winter. The
two ladies live upstairs and we down.
stairs this yeer.
The Japanese girl who lived with us in
Kumamoto is here. Her husband is an
evangelist and will be Mr.. Pedley's
helper and teacher. She is a regularly
trained Bible woman and l hope to get
a good deal of company and help from
her in one way and another.
This is New Years day. People are
going about saying, Congratulations
on the new year. Thanks for your kind
ness of last year and please continue the
same through the year to come" So we
say. The visit home is now dream o
the past to be looked back upon as we
again take up our life here. 1t has done
us much good in body and mind.
MARTHA ]. CLARK PEDLEY.
Niigata Japan, Ian. l, 1899.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
How Garden Vegetables Keep Best.

Nearly all our garden vegetables will
keep best in the winter by being where
the temperature is nearly down to the
freezing point, remarks The American
Cultivator, but cabbages, parsnips and
onions keep well if frozen solid and put
in dark place or covered from the
sunlight until the frost is out of them.
They should not be handled while
frozen. Turnips, also, are not injured by
being frozen and must also be thawed
out in the dark before handling, but it
gives to them sweeter taste and milder
flavor, which is a recommendation to
some tastes and by others may be
thought a fault We have taken tur-
nips, cabbages and onions and thawed
them out in cold water for immediate
cooking and thought they were no
worse for the freezing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Making n HOtbed.

The American Cultivator tells that
the right way in preparing hotbed is
to make stout frame of heavy plank
and sink this into the ground foot or
more deep. All the part below the sur
face should be filled with horse manure
and soil to the depth of five or six
inches should cover this. The frame
should front to the south, and its rear
side should be six inches higher than
its front. 1t is likely that for time
the horse manure will make the soil
above it too hot to grow good plants.
But after it has cooled down the hot
bed made now will give much better
satisfaction than one hurriedly put up
only two or three weeks before it is
needed for use.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Business Chances in the Philippines

Manila is always interesting, the Ma.
Mia of the old days especially so, one of
the most romantic, richest, and fairest
cities of the sleepy East. Warmed by the
tropical sun, cooled by the breezes of the
Pacific, it was blessed with features Of
climate and commerce which permitted
men to grow rich while at the same time
they lived lazy and contented. 1t was
the ideal home for the Spanish official or
adventurer who wished to seek his for
tune in distant colonies, and yet enjoy
life which forever reminded him of sunny
Spain.
The Spaniards did indeed become rich,
but only through their cruel oppression
OF the natives, and during their rule,
lasting almost four hundred years, the
islands remained practically undeveloped.
Apart from beautiful Manila, with it's
Spanish buildings, it's delicate Span
lsh architecture, bit OF which is
shown in our illustration, taken from
the current issue of Harper's Weekly, the
towns are and have been mere collections
OF straw huts, and the natives of the
archipelago for the most part are as
barbarous as when Magellan met his
fate on the island of Cebu.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease
Catarrh is blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure it you must
take internal remedies. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, and acts direct
" on the blood and mucous surfaces.
Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack med
icine. 1t was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country for years,
and is regular prescription. 1t is COM
posed OF the best tones known, combin-
ed with the best blood purifiers, acting
directly on the mucous surfaces The
perfect combination of the two ingred-
tents is what produces such wonderful
results in curing Cutarrh, Send tor
testimonials, free.
F. Cheney &CO,, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22

The busy man who needs rest can find
no place so pleasant to visit as the pine
woods region of North Carolina. There
one finds perfect rest in the newly built
up town of Southern Pines, N. c.. and he
will find wide awake group of Northern
people who have found the climate par
ticulary healthy and pleasant during
the winter months. The healthfulness OF
Southern Pines and it's immediate vicin-
ity is becoming widely known and physi-
clans all over the land are sending their
patients that way. For health, pleasure
and comfort it is in every way desirable.
Buy an excursion ticket to Southern
Pines, but do not forget to write in ad-
vance to Piney Woods Inn for your ac-
Communications.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
February Weather.
Mighty cold in February,

Mighty cold in February,
An feller's nose Is blue, mighty blue;
An we draw a little higher
To the roarin', warmin' fire.
While tn coal bills mountin' higher,
Though the mercury amt, too.
Mighty cold in February,
An Teller feels tn chills, bitter chills;
But it's sweet to sit an ponder
On the DAYS a.comin yonder
When again we'll gayly wander
Pickin flowers among the hills.
Mighty cold in February,
An tn wind comes with swish, sudden
swish;
But we know the passin' hours
Bring us nearer to TIL flowers
Buds an blossoms soon be ours
An tn time for catchin' fish.
Mighty cold in February,
An tn winds do naught but blow, chilly
blow;
But the lands with winds across em
Soon will bring forth bud and blossom,
An tn balmy winds will toss 'em
In TIL Maytime's golden glow.
-[Omaha World Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22

A German experimenter is said to
have demonstrated that about 30 per
cent of mari added to manure heap
reduced the loss of nitrogen go per cent.
G. w. Martfeldt says in the st. Louis
Republic that sugar beets, like the
Chinese or African sugar cane, cannot
be grown for sugar on lands recently
fertilized, either by farm or commercial
fertilizers. OF course the fertilizers
will ordinarily produce large beets, but
these will have only low percentage
of sugar.
Pull out the stumps of peach trees
cut down on account of the "yellows. I"
Sprouts will shoot out from them, and
the disease will thus spread as well as
if the tree had been left. Might as well
have them for winter fuel, says The
Farm Journal
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-02-22
The Discovery Of the Day.

Aug. J. Bogel, the leading druggist Of
Shreveport, La, says: Or Kings New
Discovery is the only thing that cures
my cough, and it is the best seller
have" ]. F. Campbell, merchant of SAT-
ford, Ariz., writes: "Dr. Kings New
Discovery is all that is claimed for it; it
never fails, and is a sure cure tor con-
sumption, coughs and colds. cannot
say enough tor it's merits" DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption, coughs
and colds is not an experiment. 1t has
been tried for quarter OF a century,
and today stands at the head. 1t never
dsappoiuts. Free trial bottle at Flint
Bros. Drug Store.