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Evening star., 1899-03-25

hawks fly over the cabin and an occasional
eagle hovers about the mountain ton Par
tridges come to the borders of the clearing
and wild ducks frequent the creek in the
hollow a half mile away
Nature and its untamed progeny are close
about always. Yet the cabin surroundings
| are not wholly uncivilized, for since the
swamp has been drained Mr.. Burroughs has
made a garden Of its rich mold and there
he raises famous celery, cabbages potatoes
sweet corn and other vegetables.
Mr.. Burroughs as a Housekeeper.
Whoever comes to visit this latter-day
hermit, whether friend or stranger is sure
of hospitable reception. If mealtime ap-
proaches you are invited to stay to lunch
The larder is never empty, and Mr. Bur-
roughs is an expert in the preparation of a
rustic dinner. Not far away a cold spring
bubbles from the rocks and there half
immersed in its crystal basin, are certain
TN pals, containing fresh meats milk etc
In the kitchen cupboard are canned goods
prepared foods honey and other eatables
Then there is the garden always eft hand
to draw from. and in a near nook g a hem
house, and the flock that makes the clear
Ing It's home furnishes the cabin table with
eggs VAN
1 do not think Mr. Burroughs loves house-
Keeping for its own sake but he accents
the work for the pleasure of the accom-,
panying freedom. Not much time is spent
on cooking, diSh-washng, bed-makin and
the hke-only just enough to make the
place presentable and keep it In a state of
Tree and easy wholesomeness. The day as
ton. ~ o
His Daily Routine.
The first duty after the breakfast things
are out of the way is to tramp down
through the woods to the village in the VAL
ley to get the mail. At the same time Mr.
Burroughs visits Riverby, and gives direc-
tions for the days work on the farm. If If
is at the time of the grape harvest. or If
there are other important tasks in pro-
sress, he may stay all day to help and sl,-
perlntend, but as a rule he soon returns TO
his beloved Slabsides
The rest of the morning he spends in
reading, writing and thinking, with some
Interruptions In the way of the necessary
preparations for dinner. Afternoons he
walks through the woods or walks in his
celery swamp, or perhaps makes a visit to
Riverby.
He always returns from the Iowlands to
Evening star., 1899-03-25
HETTY GREEN Is HAPPY.
All because Joseph Choate Has Iert
New York.

In Hetty Green's intermnable lawsuits
the attorney FOR the other side is Joseph
Choate. Last night Hetty Green chuckled.
"Joseph's gone to England" she said. Il
always call him Joseph to his face" she
said. 1t makes him squirm.'
Then this richest woman in America STEP
ped into the tiny back parlor and carefully
lowered the gas. This conversation took
place in a cheap. neat fiat In Hoboken,
where Mrs. Green is known as Mrs. Dewey.
She had recently migrated from Brooklyn,
nomadic life being necessary to one who
would avoid paying personal taxes. She
admits, however. that she is a resident OF
Bellows Falls. VT. where she has a pretty
summer place. When she returned to tho
front parlor she spoke of the time. moro
than thirty years ago. when, Miss Rob-
inson, she was one of the bellies Of New
York society. When the Prince of Wales
was here she danced with him. Later. she
lived in England and was presented at
court. When Van Buren,, then tN-Prcsi-
dent. summered at Saratoga. Mrs. Green,
then Miss Robinson. Was his houored guest.
Then her father died, leaving her 81 .o0o. .0o0
Since then she has devoted her life TO busi-
ness, has increased her fortune TO more
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ing in q. Erove cf evcrgTeens. But this
house is much too civilized to soil our ma
ture lovers shy woodland genius. He no
sooner had his home established therein
than he built a small one-room study down
the hill on ledge overlooking the broad
river. To give it the proper flavor of rus
ucity he covered the outer walls with bark
which makes its occupancy as near living
in hollow tree as one can come with any
comfort. In this study Mr.. Burroughs
kept his books, here he wrote and here he
meditated by an open fire.
Outside he had a wood pile, which he
cut into fireplace lengths with his own
hands. thus, as he affirms, getting the heat
from the wood twice over. once in the work
ing up and again in the burning. Under
the caves Of the study he nailed up boxes
as all invitation to the birds, and in winter
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LONDON's PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Some of the MarveIs of This Great
Metropolis.

From Tit-BtS.
We get some conception of the immensely
of the passenger traffic OF London and New
York from the fact that the passengers car
ried every year within these two cities out
number by many thousands the entire pop
| ulation Of the world.
The railways omnibuses and trans OF
Greater London convey 100000 ooo passen-
gers every year. army which however
closely packed, would more than ill tho
whole of our London parks sixteen times
over; or in other words, Londons passcn-
gers would require enormous park ten
miles long and five miles wide merely for
standing room. They would form "A column
sixteen abreast and standing at intervals of
a yard long enough to reach around the
earth at the equator, with residuary COL
lumn, thirty-two deep, reaching from Lon
don to Naples.
Apart from the railways. on which alone
f60,ouo,00o has been spent within the last
twenty years, LOndon's passengers require
a line of omnibuses long enough 10 stretch
two deep from Whitechapel station in tho
far east. across London to Shepherd Bush
station in the west. The tram cars in daily
use when horsed would form n single line
from Shepherd Bush via HOlborn and OK
ford street to the Bank of England. a dis
tance of six miles. The IL 600 odd hansoms
and four-wheel cabs would make inn
posing column four deep and az long our
double line of omnibuseS.
OF foot passengers, 200, 600, or the entire
population OF Leicester, cross London bridge
every day. Every minute, from IL till noon,
twenty vehicles and ninety-four foot pas
sengerS pass along the Strand or l,22o We
hicles and 5,666 people every hour. Picca-
dilly boasts / ,497 vehicles and 1916 pedes-
trians hour and in the same time 5.5SS
people walk along Tottenham Court road
Within an hour nearly ? 900 omnibuses pass
a given point in Tottenham Court road, tho
Strand, PiccadiIly and Cheapside, the num-
bers ranging from 4S1 for the first and 3S4
for the last named thoroughfare.
Nearly million people travel every day
by rail within the boundaries of London.
Making due allowance for the decreased
traffic on Sundays. London's railway pas
sengers alone for year would fill all Lon
don's parks seven times over, and I'm single
file would stretch round the equator moro
than seven times.
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his cottage among the rocks with a sense
OF relief. He is glad to get away from ali
connection with what smacks OF hurry and
business. To quote his own Wore e no has
IAN unfailing satisfaction in the SIMMER
ruder things OF life, and as soon as I stem
within the walls OF Slabsidcs my cares slim
away from me, and | feel as 81 I had
escaped from something that harassed
me-"
Nor can the visitor with healfaful in
stincts help sharing this feeling TO some eN-
tent. You come under the spell. and thi- X
you, too. would like TO build a Slahsides in
some quiet forest dell. But after all. the
life would probably not III another as Il
does John burroughs. He is one Of ma
lures children. and he finds a happiness in
being alone with nature that is granted to
very few.
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From the New York Press.
Henry L. Warbeck, an engineer on the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road, says that he saw a battle between a
flock of sparrows and railroad engine, in
which the engine came off second best. A
grove between this city and Oswego is in
hab!ted by thousands of English sparrows
OF most pugnacious turn of mind, and
they have long resented the screeching rush
of the locomotive it dashed through the
woods. Many of them have hurled them
selves against the locomotive, only to meet
instant death.
Last Wednesday the birds were strongly
reinforced and evidently determined TO
make the attack decisive one. IL was
almost dark when the train dashed with
a shrill toot into the grove. Simultaneously
there was an answering challenge from a
thousand throats, and as many feathered
bodies hurled themselves against the cab
window. With such violence did they come
that the headlight glass was broken, the
light extnsuished, and the machine had to
be brought to a halt. With considerable
difficulty Fireman Mcnamara made his way
to the headlight and placed a new glass in
position, while angry wings tapped about
his head. When he returned to the cab
blood was streaming from wounds In his
face, the result of numerous vicious pecks.
A wire screen has now been placed over
the light to prevent similar occurrences.
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tNppsFlRnts 1858, by NAHueT Ntgue. New 1bTb.1
than half a hundred millions. The day
Judge Hilton would have failed she handed
him her check for 81 1,ooD,oo0 and saved him.
Her best friend now, next to her daughter
Sylvia, who lives with her is Russell Sage.
Her husband is an invalid. She dresses
shabbily for a purpose, declares that there
is a conspiracy among her arch enemies,
the lawyers of the country, to take her
life. Between the Hoboken flat. whore sho
sleeps, and the Chemical Bank Of New
York, where she has desk and works all
day, she is often accompanied by her body
guard, the stalwart nephew of former
New York police inspector She Is careless
in her speech, drops her final gs and uses
slang freely. MOney-making and talking
are her chief pleasures. and her main oh
ject in life is to leave to her son Edward.
who lives in prncely style on his ranch in
Texas, a great fortune. She has proved
that, in finance, woman can be the equal of
man. Her energy and endurance, at sixty
years of age. surprise all who have dealings
with her. She is woman such As on.y
American soil could produce.
gibson WIIIETS.
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No Cinch.
From Puck.

From Puck.
Mccarty-'Phwat makes you look so
gloomy, O'Reilly?"
oReliiy-'flannagan jist bet me foive
dollars thot he cud dhrink a quart av
whisky in wan day an not shtagger. The
loser t pay FIR tn whisky"
McCarty-"Shure, mon, yez hov a dead
Gnch! He can't take tree drinks widout
shtaggerint'
O'Reilly-'Divil a bit av a cinch hov Oh!
Tn Shpalpeen's gone t bed wild th' bottle!"
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he fastened pieces OF meat to the near
trees for the birds to pick at in the hungry
cold The feathered folk accepted his ad-
Vances, and in return adopted him as q
peaceably disposed neighbor and friend.
and they revea ed all their secrets to the
good. gray man who had his home in this
little bark-covered building on the hill slope.
One would think that now our nature
enthusiast. IN surroundings so idyllicly
tranquil and rural. would have been salts
fled; and so he was for a while. But the
Evening star., 1899-03-25

HEN JOHN BU X
roughs began to write
about nature thirty
years ago the re-
markable ability he
possesses Of making
the subject interest
ing to the general
reader was recOgniZ-
ed at once. He was
accorded the f or e.
m o s t place among
American n a t u r e
writers almost from
the start, and this he
has held ever since.
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OPERA AND FIELD GLASSES,
Good and Bad Qualities of an Article
Seldom UnderstOOd.
From the Optician-

From the Optician-
There are few articles sold by the opti-
clan so imperfectly understood opera,
field and marine glasses. How much greater
is the ignorance of the buyer of such ar
ticles is shown by the enormous numbers
bought from the cheap auctioneer under
the glare of gaslight and with regard
merely for the snowy coverings. It is not
Evening star., 1899-03-25
Had to Go ROunl.

Had to Go Round.
From Pearson's Weekly.
What do YOU think that girl said when
she refused mef'
'Tu never guess"
"She said she had so many similar ex-
periences lately that she couldn't offer to
be more than q half-sister to me-"
Evening star., 1899-03-25
Placing Her.
From Puck.

Fuck.
Vera Goodheart-"She's a very smart wo-
man."
Sallie De Witte-"Yes? OF the high fore
head or low-neck variety?"
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ABOVE The MONEY-LOVING HERR

Written for The Evening Star by Clifton Johnson
Evening star., 1899-03-25

DWELLS IN SOLITUDE
John Burroughs Chooses Wave, Light,
Rock and Bird.
ABOVE The MONEY-LOVING HERD
Holds Communion With Nature in
Her Visible Forms.
HIS LIFE AT SLABSIDES
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TIE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED.
Paid Up Capital. ..... Yen 10000. 600
Reserved Fund .... Yen 1900. 600
HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA.
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.


BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:
Kobe, London, Lyons, New York
San Francisco, Shanghai, Bonn
bay, Hongkong, Tokyo.
INTEREST ALLOWED:
On Fixed Deposit for IL monLns 4 %. c.
p. a.
On Fixed Deposit for 6 months 3M o. c.
On Fixed Deposit for 3 months 3 d. C.
p. a.
INTEREST ALLOWED BY THE
HEAD OFFICE AT YOKOHAMA:
On Current Deposit 2-10 sen per day.
On Fixed Deposit for IL monhte, 5h
per cent. p. a.
The Bank buys and receives for col
lection Bills of Exchange, issues
Drafts and Letters of Credit on the
above Branches and Agencies and
transacts a general banking business.
Agency Yokohama Specie Bank:
New Republic Bldg, Honolulu, III. /.
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MILLIONS OF MILLIONS.
Aggregate of Claims
Against Union Pacific.

Aggregate of Claims
Against Union Pacific.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 25.-Howard S.
special master in the Union Pa
cific Railway receivership, has just filed
in the United States Court a volumi
nous report on the claims filed against
the Union Pacific estate under the or
der of the Court for the District of Ne
braska, filed February 16, 1898. This
report, which has been confirmed by
Judge Sanborn, is the last step in the
settlement of the Union Pacific receiv-
ership.
The largest claims allowed are those
of the Union Pacific Railway Com
pany, the balance due the company be-
ing found by Mr.. Abbott to aggregate
S44 100000 The balance due the
United States Government of 1896 ,294
is allowed. A judgment obtained April
%, 1898, in the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts
by Henry Bulge, Charles A. Peabody
Jr. and Henry Decoppel for $2,454 1863
and sold to Lawrence Greer is allowed
at it's discounted value. The balance
on the claim of Francis S. Bangs, How
land Davis and w. E. Flynn for $780,,
672 on unpaid trust bonds is allowed.
Other large claims allowed are as
follows: E. c. Benedict and bondhold-
ers' committee, $1,S77,53S Josiah B.
French and others, 1888 ,561; Northern
Pacific Railway Company, $34 ,051. The
total of the claims allowed in addition
to the sum of $2644S,720 already paid
is $50, 64i ,921
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A Pastors Solution of a
Problem That Troubled
He Became & Laborer- Was too
Tired TO Go 70 Church Figures
Made on Saloon Work.

Rev George McNutt, pastor of Nthe
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Indian
apOlis, has been carrying on an expert
ment which should be of the greatest
interest to his brothers in the pulpit.
as well as to all good Christians who
desire to reach the laborlng man with
the gospel of the lowly Nazarine. Like
many others engaged in the same line
of work, Rev. McNntt has noticed that
as a rule very small proportion of
the laboring population attend relig-
ious worship, and he determined to
find out why by concealing his iden-
tity and becoming laboring man him
self. After making provision for his
family he started out in the garb of
factory in Muncie He was employed
1T 81 day, to work ten hours each
day unloading railroad iron. Bright
and early of Monday morning he ap-
peared and began his self-imposed
task. 1t was hard work, as he speedily
discovered; the first two or three days
he got along fairly well, but by
Wednesday night te was ready to drop
into bed as soon as he had eaten sup
per. Thursday came, and with it the
date of the regular weekly prayer
meeting of the church. Rev. McNutt
made brave effort to go, but he could
not bring himself to believe that he
needed to pray as much as he needed
sleep. So he tumbled into bed early
Thursday evening and the prayer meet
ing saw him not.
Saturday evening Rev. McNutt quit
his job with clearer understanding
of the subject he was investigating
But he wanted to learn more, so he
took stroll about Muncie during the
evening, visiting all the churches and
finding them closed. On the steps of
one of those imposing edifices he dis
covered a party of men drinking and
disappearing Then he turned to the
saloons, and in one of them found 1876
men drinking and playing cards. He
witnessed the same scene in other sa-
looms. He tried to find the Y M. c. A,
but was told that there was none in
Muncie. Then he went to his room
and put down something in writing
Here is part of what he wrote: Here
in Muncie are 100 saloons, each doing
business seven days in the week and
about eighteen hours day. While all
the religious denominations are rep
resented, each is content with four or
six hours service each week. In other
words, the devil is at work about
eighteen hours day and the Christian
people of Muncie are trying to over
come him by an average of about two
hours work day
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Terms cash, L. S. gold coin.
Conveyances at expense OF purchaser.
]. M. DOWSETT
Administrator Est. of ]. I. Dowsett
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BISHOP g. co.
Honolulu, September z, 1898.
G. BREWER g. COLD.

AGENTS FOR
Hawaiian Agricultural Company. Ono
mea Sugar Company, Honomu Sugar
Company, Waikiki Sugar Company,
American Sugar Co., Makee Sugar
Company. Ookala Sugar Plantation
Company. Haleakala Ranch Com
pany, Eapapala Ranch, Molokai
Ranch.
Planters Line, San Francisco Packets,
Charles Brewer e. Co.'s Line OF Bos-
ton Packets.
Agents Boston Board Of Underwrit-
ers
Agents for Philadelphia Board Of On
derwriters.
Standard Oil Co.
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LATEST BIG COMBINE.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. IA COM
bination capitalized at s5O,OO0,O0O has
been formed by J. Pierpont Morgan,
George Gould, P. A. B. Widener, Will
liam L. Elkins, Thomas Dolan, Will
liam G. Whitney, John Jacob Astor and
other New York and Philadelphia cap
italists, to control nearly all the mes
sages sent by wire in the United
States. The company will be known as
the Continental Telegraph and Tele-
phone and Cable Company, and will 10
cate it's main Office at 100 Broadway
New York. William J. Latta, who late
ly resigned his position as general
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is
president of the company.
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SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 1.-The
steamer Humboldt from Skaguay
reached port today with a crowd of for
ty Klondikers, who left Dawson Octo-
Der Is. They will probably be the last
to arrive this season from the district
by water. The Yukon and it's headWa-
tiers closed for steamer navigation Oc-
tober 20. On that date the river steam
er w s. Stratton, owned by Alex. Nc
Donald, got caught in the ice jam and
sank in thirty feet of water. No lives
were lost, but twenty-seven sacks OF
mail went down with the vessel.
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Here is a Georgia boys composition
on Poetry" "A poem is thlnS
which has rhymes at the last end \
poem also has feet, but some poemes
don't stand steady on 'em. Poets
mostly has long hair, because times is
hard, and it's cheaper to let it grow
Poets used to live in garrets, ON crust
of bread-when the baker would credit
EN-. Now they live on the ground
floor. where they can escape easy
when the balliff is after EN-. My
father says poetry makes the world
better, but my mother says it amt the
kind he writes. Poets have monu-
ment when they die, as people want tc
weight EN- down SOS they can't come
back"
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mauka of an imaginary line drawn
three miles mauka II and parallel with
the old Government road: also one
acre of Taro Land in the locality
known as Kanenelu.
All that portion of Halawa lying be-
tween the Oahu Railway and Land
Company track ard an altitude OF $50
feet has been leased and rent paid in
advance for full term of the lease
Excepting 1st) lease dated Septem-
Der 2sth. 1888. for twenty years from
September LIST. 1883, ia Chin Lau
Chong and others and now assigned 70
Honolulu Sugar Company, containing
II S2-100 acres Rice Land, for which
they pay a yearly rental of 100000
semi-annually; (2d) lease dated jan
uary LIST, 1889, to Chulan & Co, 70:
twenty years from September 1st,
1888, and now assigned to Honoiu.a
Sugar Company, containing sc 7t-100
acres Rice Land, for which they pay a
yearly rental OF 81 10000 semi-annual-
": (3d) lease dated November 9th.
1897, for ten years from September 1st,
1888. to Chow All Fo for II 92-100
acres Rice Land ct yearly rental of
$4,000 payable Semi-annually; (ith)
and all OF that part OF Makalapa pad
dock as is not arabic and which is fit
for pasturage.
A portion of Halawa, containing $50
acres, lying makai or below the Oahu
Railway and Land Company track, has
also been leased to the Honolulu Sugar
Company and rent paid in advaLce Tor
the full term of this lease.
One small Fish Pond. known as
Waiaho, and House Lot on the beach
at Halawa is leased to John Defries
for II years from March LIST, 1897, at
yearly rental of $4,000
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Administrators
Sale.
estate OF
James |. DOWSett. Deceased.


The undersigned, Administrator of
the Estate OF JAMES /. DOWSETT, de-
ceased, gives notice that, for the pur-
pose OF paying the debts Of said de-
ceased, he will sell at public auction at
the salesroOms OF James F. Morgan,
Honolulu,
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Only the highest grade OF RED RUB
SER Ia used in the Stamps made by
the HAWAIIAN GAZETTE co.
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On Saturday, the 18th Day Of December
1899,

AT IL O'CLOCK NOON,
All OF the following property:
LEILEHUA RANCH,
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HE FIRST AMERICAN BANK
OF HAWAII, LTD.

Incorporated Under the Laws OF the
Republic OF Hawaii.
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EXCHANGE bought and sold
and letters of Credit issued on
all parts of The world.
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Thu BANK OF HAWAII.
LINZ go

q ~
Incorporated Under the Laws OF the
Republic OF Hawaii.
CAPITAL ............... $4OO,OOO.VO
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
Chas M. Cooke ........... President
p. c. Jones ...... Vice President
4. IL. COOKE ...........+..... CASHIER
+. G. Atherton ...... Assistant Cashier
Directors--Henry Waterhouse, Tom
May, f. w. Macfarlane, T.. ID. Tenney,
j. A. McCandless.
Solicits the Accounts of Firms, Cor
porations, Trusts, Individuals and will
promptly and car efully attend to all
business connected with banking en-
trusted to 1t. Sell and Purchase For
eign Exchange, Issue Letters of Credit.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Ordinary and Term Deposits received
and Interest allowed in accordance
with rules and conditions printed In
pass books, copies of which may be
had on application,
Judd Building, Fort street.