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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-11-25
Municipal Problems Ably Discussed
MUNICIPAL CODE COMMISSION.

MUNICIPAL CODE COMMISSION.
Hon. Edward Kibler, member of Ohio
Code Commission, said:
THE bill prepared by the Municipal !
Code Commission of Ohio appointed by !
the Governor under the act of the Lee I,
gislature, requiring the revision of the /,
code, has been completed |
and will be presented to the next Gem
eral Assembly for adoption. In the
preparation of the bill the commission |
has endeavored to observe four cardi- |
nal ideas
THE abolition of all ciyt classical
lion, the government of cities by coun-
ellis, the prohibition of all special legis-
lation and local self-government under
liberal grant of power; cities to have
population of three thousand or over.
villages under three thousand inhabi-
tants.
THE separation Of the legislative
and administrative function of NUM-
cipal officers. all legislative power to
be lodged with the council and all adj
ministrative duties imposed upon the
executive department.; the council in
cities to consist of seven members.
three of whom are elected at large; all
city councilmen to receive an annual
salary and be required to give bond for
the faithful discharge Of their duties,
under which they shall be liable for
the Illegal expenditure of all money
against the advice of the director of
law. The Federal plan has been adopt
ed by the commission, giving the ma
yor supreme control and authority in
the executive department, which shall
consist of the mayor and four direct
ors, appointed by the mayor without
the confirmation of the council; the
officers elected by the people are the
mayor, treasurer, members and presi-
dent of the council and members of the
board Of education.
A merit or civil service system gov
erning the appointment, tenure and
promotion of all officers and employees
of the city, except officers elected by
the people and the heads of the de-
partments.
"The nomination Of all elective can
didates by petition signed by electors"
Charles w. Tooke, professor Of pub
lie law In the University Of Illinois,
during the discussion of Municipal
Accounting" said in part:
"The prime purpose Of municipal
bookkeeping is to secure successful
financial administration, but we must
recognize as essential to this and that
the system of accounting should be de-
signed to give to the public thorough
ly reliable and Ineligible informa-
ton Of the financial standing Of the en-
terprise from a strictly business point
of view.
"a separate account should be kept
of each public service industry operat-
ed by municipality. No department
should enjoy free service at the expense
of another, but all services rendered
should be credited at the prices deter
mined upon to the department supply
ing the same. The adoption Of these
suggestions would avoid the conceal
ment of the true financial conditions.
All companies operating under NUM-
cipal franchises should be compelled
to keep similar accounts and to make
annual reports to the State authori'
ties"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-11-25

How brave California boys fought
for their flag is told in On To Ma
Mia.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
A RED TAPE COMEDY.
Terrible Commotion in Germany Because
Kite Caught on "a Wire.

At Gleiwitz, in Upper Silesia,
youngsters kite got caught on the
electric wire Of fire alarm. A police
man noticed the accident, and in order
to get the kite removed made written
report, which, after having been
perused by the "Polizeikommissar, "
was forwarded in succession to the
"Polizei- Inspector, the Magistrate
and the neutrality-suspicious.
sion" The last-named authority en-
gagged an engineer to remove the Of
Tending kite, and recommended the
Magistrate to reward the Jealous po-
liceman with premium OF twenty five
pfennigs. The engineer handed in
written report to the effect that the
kite had been removed. The munich
pal treasury paid the policeman tho
gum of twenty-five pfennigs and re-
ceiyed in return duly signed ac-
acknowledgement. The master of the
school which the unlucky kite flyer
attended fourteen days had been spent
in tracing him) received instructions
to severely warn his pupils against fly
1h5 VAOll hlbOo uSutAoV 0lOOtIAO WI OSi
and after complying with the instruc-
tions reported accordingly.
But the Observation-Disclosures
sion" determined that the matter
should not rest there. They sent q
deputation to the local School Board
to ask that all school inspectors in the
district should be instructed to see
that all the children in the local
schools received a similar warning.
The headmasters of all the schools
were accordingly supplied with written
instructions as to the way in which the
necessary warning should be conveyed.
Circulars were distributed among the
juvenile population. The head school
inspector was informed of the steps
that had been taken. He informed the
School Board, and the School Board
the Burgermeister. Finally the written
documents relating to the affair were
collected. and, after being furnished
with a formidable register number,
were laid to rest in the official pigeon
hole. Four months passed from the
loss Of the kite to the final subsistence
Of ofdocuments andreports copceruingit il
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12

During q campaign that was con
tested less than decade ago there
was joke on two young and aspiring
politicians of Detroit that has been
we'll kert up to the present time.
Each considered himself O stump
orator ofrare eloquence and persuasive
powers. They belonged to opposing
parties, and after the fight had grown
fast and furious ono challenged the
other to joint debate. There was
prompt acceptance and little white
school house in one of the outlying
townships was to be tho scene of
forensic contest. Both were there at
the call of time. Then there arose n
dispute as to how long each should
talk. One wanted two hours. He
could net possibly discuss the great
issue in any less time. The other
wanted three hours, but the native
chairman announced that they
wasn't goin' to hev no all-night
sesshing," and it was finally agreed
that each disputant should have an
hour and half.
The first one came up shaky with
stage fright and started off as though
he were talking to some one q quarter
Of mile away. In just five minutes
he couldn't think of what to say next,
pleaded sudden illness and sat down
in a cold sweat. The other one came
up smiling, opened up with half a
dozen bombastic sentences, forgot his
lines and announced that he would
not take advantage of his friends ILL
ness by piling up arguments to which
he could make no rejoinder.
Thus the red-hot debate that was to
have occupied three hours was dis
posed of in about eight minutes. The
iisgruntled farmers at once notified
she committee TO send them full-grown
,tumpers or none. They wanted no
more kid prodigies. s.--Detroit Free
Press.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
WISE WORDS
Be not merely good be goov FL,
something. .-Thoreau.

Be not merely goodi be gooe n,
something.-Thoreau.
Our ancestors have travelled the iron
age; the golden is before us.-St.
Pierre.
Good taste rejects excessive nicetyi
it treats little things rs little things
and is not hurt by them. .-~Feulton.
No man was ever so completely
skilled in the conduct of life as not to
receive new information from age and
experience. ce.-Terence.
Our lives, by acts exemplary, not
only win ourselves good names, but
do to others give matter for virtuous
deeds, by which we live.-Chapman.
There cannot be a surer proof of low
origin or of an innate meanness of
disposition than to be always talking
and thinking about being genteel'-
Hazlitt.
Narrow-minded and ignorant per-
sons talk about persons and not things;
hence gossip is the bane and disgrace
of SO large portion of society
Sheridan.
A man should learn to detect and
watch that CLEAN of light which flashes
across his mind from within more than
the lustre OF the armament of bards
and sages.-Emerson.
We can have no positive idea of any
space or duration, which is not made
up Of, and commensurate to, repeated
numbers of teet or yards, or days or
years, and whereby we Judge of the
greatness of these sort of quantities.
Locke.
Love as we may other women, there
stands first and ineffaceable the love
of "mother;" gaze as we may on other
faces, our mothers face is still the
fairest; bend as we shall to other in
Huences, still, over all, silent, but
mighty, reaching to us from Iong-gop
years, is a mothers infuence.-J, T.
W, Ware.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

,t0ne pound Of sheop,,,so WOOL IS cau-
Aole ol -.odrcing op var"
The collectiC meteorlties in the
Paris Natural History Museum repre-
sents 463 distinct falls.
Coronium, known alphabetically as
constituent Of the sun, has been dis
covered by Professor Nasini, of Padua,
in volcanic emissions. 1t is gas
apparently much lighter than hy-
drogen.
The stability of the solar system,
demonstrated by Laplace from New
toms law of attraction, is shown by NJ.
II. Poincare to be mistaken inference,
overlooking the modern conception Of
energy.
Horses, cows, sheep, and other
quadrupeds, which habitually incline
their heads to the earth in search Of
food, have muscle by which their
eyelids are suspended and supported
and which we do not need.
An anonymous German scientist
declares in a long and enthusiastic
article in the Allgemeine Zeitung that
sugar is almost the most valuable Of
all articles of food; he refers to testi-
mony given by hunters, military men,
farmers and others, to prove its i'm
portance as feeder of the muscles.
!, Phosphorus is now produced by
means of the electrical furnace. The
method consists in heating a mixture
of phosphate of lime and coke, which
are first reduced to powder. When
The mass becomes pasty, the openings
of the furnace are sealed except one,
through which the vapor passes. The
vapor is collected and distilled.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12

DR.. Heber Bishop, Of Boston, who
has Il reputation as q moose and carl
oou hunter, shot caribou weighing
more than 500 pounds while hunting
ia New Brunswick. He and Herb
Heal. an Indian guide, we're out hunt
ils when they came upon a large herd
led by an old bull. The doctor fired
twice, wounding the caribou, but the
game fellow refused to run away. DR..
Bishop then pumped six more shots at
the mark, and the bull fell dead.
The right blade of the antlers was
forty FIVE inches in length, while the
left blade measured forty seven inches.
The double set of brow antlers had
thirty-one points or branches. The
animal measured thirty-four inches
around the neck half way between the
antlers and the shoulders.
This is the tweniy-fourth caribou
that DR.. Bishop has killed, and jim
Paul, Chief of the Millicete Indians,
says it is the biggest caribou he has
ever seen. New York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
METALS THAT ARE PRECIOUS,
Compared With Them, Gold Belongs te
Those of the Baser Kind.

''The majority of people when asked
to name the most precious metals
usually mention gold as first, platinum
as second and silver as third" said
the proprietor OF large assay and re-
fning establishment. eff asked to
name others some might add nickel
and few aluminium to the list. Now,
let us see how near the truth they
would be. Gold is worth about $3.50
per pound troy. platinum $130 and
silver about $12. Nickel is worth
about sixty cents and pure aluminium
from fifty cents to 50.
'We will now compare these prices
with those of the rarer and less WELL
known metals. To take them in
alphabetical order, barium, the metal
which ssDavy issolated from its ore,
barytc, in 1903, sells for $3.50 pound,
when it sells at all, and calcium is
worth $500 O pound. Cirium is a
shade higher; its cost is $160 an
ounce, or 1920 per pound. These
begin to look like fabulous prices, but
they do not reach the highest point,
chromium being 5000. Cobalt falls to
about half the price of silver, while
didymium, the metal isolated by Ma
sander, is the same price as calcium.
Then comes gallium, which is worth
S3250 an ounce. With this metal
the highest price is reached, and it
may we'll be called the rarest and most
precious of metals.
"Glucium is worth $3.50 per ounce,
indium $3.50, iridium $65S pound,
janthanium $175, and lithium $160
per ounce. Nidium costs $129 per
ounce, osmium, palladium, platinum,
potassium and rhodium bring, re-
spectively, $640, $400, $130, $32 and
$512 per pound. Strontium costs
$12S an ounce, tantaum $144, tilurium
50, therium $272. vanadium $780,
yttrium $144 and zinconium $3.50 an
ounce.
"Thus we see that the commonly
received opinion as to what are the
most precious metals is quite errone-
Gus. Barium is more than four times
as valuable as gold, and gallium more
than 162 times as costly, while many
of the other metals mentioned are
twice and thrice as valuable. Alum
mum, which cost So and SO o pound
in 1890, is now produced as cheapiy
as are iron, zinc, lead aud coppor.'
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
NO. 81.
BONANZA CATTLE BUSINESS.
Four Kings Now WELD the sceptre In
the Far West.

The bonanza cattle business is dying.
De Mores, who was recently murdsrsd
in Africa, tried it to his finite pleasure
and infinite sorrow. His ranch is the
fixed star in the bonanza geography.
There is neither glory nor profit nor
the natural inducements to make it
success any longer. Energetic ranch
ers have been emigrating and settling
for the last ten years in the fertile
creek valleys and watering places,
pre-empting the richest places, fencing
off the best spring ranging grounds
for hay, and otherwise restricting and
debarring extensive operations. But
the harvest has been golden and
bounteous. For twenty years the
bonanza kings have been unmolested;
they have had their princoly Golfers
filed to oyeraowing, but their kneI
has been sounded and their dream IS
vanishing.
Four kings WELD the sceptre now,
but before another year passes there
may possibly be only one left, Pierre
Wibaux. a Frenchman, who has about
10000 head of cattle, The other COM
binations are known as the "Three
Stevens" the COX" and the "Seven-
Bar-Seven." Their combined prop
erty is valued at 100000. The
last three are closing out their herds,
preparatory to quitting the ranges.
The influx of the small raucher and
sheep farmer has given them their
commercial death sentence.
When no heavy life loss occurs an
average profit of about $40 head on
steers is realized. When railroads
are extended in this region it will be
q paradise for individual efforts.
Montana and North Dakota are noted
for their boreal mildness, and the
natural shelter afforded by the con.
figuration of the Bad Lands makes
the wintering of cattle inexpensive
and safe. What will be the result of
the departure of these immense in
terests? Business depression, higher
tax and progress temporarily checked.
But the future will profit by it. A
hundred small ranchers, owning a
hundred head each, and cultivating a
certain defined territorial sphere, will
change a desolate Sahara to q bloom
ing garden
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
THE MAN WHO HOLDS HIS TONGUE

l.
The man who Is ready to give his all
For what he thinks Is right,
Who shoulders his gun and answers the
call
When his country has battles to fight,
Is hero and merits hero's reward,
His praise should be earnestly sung;
But another who shines in the sight OF the
Lord
Is the man who can hold his tongue.
The man with tho silvery voice who can
win
For the cause that Is just In debate,
And the man who sees danger yet bravely
goes in
While others in agony wait,
Are men who Invoke the worlds wonder
and awe,
Their praises arc earnestly sung;
But the bravest OF mortals that ever saw
Was man who could hold his tongue.
Weave chaplets for those who have won in
the fray
Who have struck that the slave may be
free;
For the men who brush old superstitions
away,
And for those who are heroes at sea;
But there is another who merits place
Among people whose praises are sung
The heartbroken man with smile on hls
face,
Who can suffer and hold his tonguel
IS. Z. Kiser, in Cleveland Leader.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12

Mrs. Timkins was taking her son to
school for the first time, and after i'm
pressing the schoolmaster with the
necessity of his having thorough
good education, finished up by saying;
"And be sure he learns Latin.
"But, my dear madam" said the
schoolmaster, Latin is a dead Ian
guage." ="
"All right" said Mrs. Timkins;
''he'Il want it. He's going to be an
undertaken. "-Tlt-Bits-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
Costly Leathers.

The newest leather for pocketbooks,
card cases, letter cases and that sort
of thing is Trhinocerous skin. This
tans russet brown and it is finished
with soft surface that has a rich vel
vety appearance. 1t is beautiful
leather, and besides being the newest
it is also the costhest leather used for
these purposes; q gold-mounted pocket
book of rhinoceros skin would cost
$50.
Another leather new this year in
these uses is sea lion. This tans with
a hard finish, and is sort OF steel
color. Sea lion costs little more
than half as much as rhinoceros. A
sea lion pocketbook, gold mounted
would cost $40, the same as one oi
elephant skin.-New York Sun.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
Destiny OF the Island Of Monte oristo,


The Island of Monte Cristo, made
famous by the masterpiece of the ell
der Dumas, has just passed into the
hands of the Prince of Naples, who will
employ it as a reserve for big game
hunting. Last spring it was abundant
ly stocked with chamois, and month
ago King Humbert of Italy passed
few days on the island with hunt
ing party. His Majesty distinguished
himself with the rifle by getting fifty
one head, out of total bag of seventy
chamois. This is record, the pre-
vious achievement almost approaching
it being a total of forty-four by King
Humbert's father, King Victor EN-
manuel. On reaching Rome the King
had documents prepared transferring
all "titular" rights to the island to
his son, the Grown Prince 1t is not
likely that the rent roll of the Prince
concerning this estate will be very
large, for, as in the days of Edmond
Dantes, the inhabitants are entirely
transient, the island being used as a
shelter for fishing boats in case of n
storm or as a harbor for smugglers.
The island is thickly wooded, and
there is provided not only magnificent
sport, but it will give the Princess OF
Naples an opportunity of joining hel
husband without interfering with hel
Yachting excursions,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
Little Miss peary LlIses Cold Weather.

Mrs. Josephine Peary, wife of the
celebrated Arctic explorer, Lieutenant
Robert E. Peary, and her daughter,
Eve years old, paid visit in company
with Mrs. Hamilton Davis, to the old
John Brown farm, owned by DR.. V.
NJ. Reichard and Daniel W. Reichard,
and situated in the southern part of
Washington County. They drove
over from Shepherdstown, W. Va,
where Mrs. Peary was staying in the
summer. Her daughter was born in
Greenland 77A degrees north,latitude,
andis the only white girl in the world
born SO far north. The birth occurred
when Mrs. Peary was with her hus-
band on his Arctic expedition. The
daughter cannot endure warm weather,
willing whenever the temperature
gets above seventy degrees. She
enjoys best health in extremely cold
weather.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES:
5 ROGERS SCOOP. |
Observation-Disclosures

II e N r o g e + s
walked into the
City Editors room
and asked for q
job, doing any
thing" the latter
official looked up
from the bundle
of copy he was
editing and stared
at the y o u t h.
Rogers W a s MT
much to look at.
He was o t al |,
lank, un e O. i n | Y
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12

chap whose only recommendation,
facially at least, was the possession Of
o pair Of frank. truthful brown eyes.
''He must be reliable,'s thought the
City Editor, and as for job being
araa, there was one. 1t was roper
torial - general assignment" ts"-- and
such an one as any young fellow with
keenness. and q 1850 for news, might
hola successfully and easily.
$50 the City Editor said, "What
can you do?"
I've done reporting in San Fran
cisco, and Denver, aud Omaha and
Chicago" answered Rogers, "and I
guess could do the same here. I
like the East better than the West;
that's why I'm working through it. 1
hope some day to settle down in Bos
ton, where I was born and where 1
lived until I was fifteen"
"Well," said the City Editor, ~
guess I can find place for YOU
Those frank, trushful, brown eyes
had done it.
And he lod Rogers into the local
room, and, pointing out table, said,
"You can sit there for the present;
until I can find some other place for
you"
Rogers followed tho City Editor
back into the latter's Office and, with
tears in his eyes almost, thanked him
for the position, even though the ac-
companying salary was small.
The young man cleared off all the
refuse paper that Uttered the desk he
had been assigned to, and with his
handkerchief busted the legs of the
chair that stood before it, This done,
s he asked the City Editor if there
would be anything that day.
He was sent out to look up q street
car accident. He was back from the
house of the injured woman within
forty-fve minutes. He had gotten o
good story and besides. had had sense
enough to secure her picture from her
son. OF course all that pleased the
City Editor. Those frank, truthful
eyes were reliable, as he had judged
them to be at first.
That night Rogers was taken up to
Clark's dance hall to cover the
plumbers assistants ball. He wrote
the story of the affair in such q way
that the City Editor saw fit to run q
column of it with illustrations. If
any other man on the staff had turned
in the matter he would have had
about two sticks printed, for he would
have covered" the assignment,
probably, in the old-time, stereotyped,
routine way.
After his story of the ball, the City
Editor began giving Rogers bigger
assignments. And they were all tax en-
care of in manner that so pleased the
City Editor that when Rogers got his
envelope at the end OF the second
week there were four more dollars in
it than he had expected to find.
Rogers boarded up on Forest ave-
nue., it seems we'll to mention at this
time, for the girl he had gotten ac-
quainted with, some way, lived up on
that street also. Rogers used to go
around and see her mornings, once IN
while, and every time he had day
: off, down the avenue would he trot tc
sr home In the evenings OF such
lys Rogers would use the City Edl'
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12

In tho towns of Chile most shops
are open till midnight, and during the
hot afternoons, when everybody takes
siesta, they are locked up.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12
Not Counted.

1t is estimated that there are 1900
islands in the Philippines, but there
has been no official counting.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-01-12

The eyes of the birds that fly by
night are generally about double the
size OF those Of day birds.