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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-12-05

Returning, will sail from Hi
10 on Fridays at 2 p. m. for
above named ports, arriving at
Honolulu on Saturdays
Passengers and freight will
be taken for Makena, MANU-
kona, Kawaihae, Hilo, Haka-
lau, Honomu, Papaikou and
Pepeekeo.
Passengers and Packages Only
will be taken for Kaunakakai,
Lahaina, Maalaea Bay, Kihei
and Laupahoehoe.
Honolulu, November 1, 1899,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-12-05
BRILLIANT ENDORSEMENT.
BY Health Journal of New York, Aug
ust "a, 1897. A. Davis, Md, Editor
and Manager

Only last week we examined the beef
brewed by the Capital Brewing Com
pany of Olympia, Wash, and it is a
perfect illustration of the quality of
beer which we are always glad to COM
mend, for the analysis showed it to be
entirely free from any trace of any in
furious substance. Such a high grade
of beer is most beneficial in it's use, for
none of the pure malt and hops have
been displaced by harmful ingredients.
Every hygienist will concur with us in
saying that a beer of such superior
excellence is very wholesome bever-
age. Physicians often have occasion
to prescribe a pure beer for cases of
debilitation, and they can safely order
his beer made by the Capital Brewing
company.
L. H. Dee has in his keeping the
American Journal of Health and can
DE seen by anyone.
This beer can be had in bottle or on
draught at the HOFFMAN, corner of
Hotel and Nuuanu streets. A large as
sortment of the very best of American
and foreign liquors we are pleased to
sell you and give you value for the
Nnefit of your health
Yours, L. H. DEE,
Proprietor of HOFFMAN.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-12-05
E aWaiian
e. EectFic
Company.

The cleanest, brightest safest and really
tde long run, the cheapest and best light
fiF use in the family residence, is the mean
ASCENT electric light. Safe; nothing could
GO safsr. A few days ago prominent gem
EIsman OF Honolulu came rushing down to
sue office of the Electric Company and said
awe me figures for wiring my house, and
vsut Il done at once; no more lamps for me.
G1Gt night lamp tipped over and it came
GO Hear setting fire to the house and burning
~ children and take no more risks"
GEiR Is the sentiment of quite number in
he past few weeks, who have ordered their
\ ouses fitted with the perfect light.
Guas think it over and make up your mind
n az you want the best and safest light; send
1.-THE Hawaiian Electric Company and tell
Gaam what you WALL.
we have a complete stock of everything In
1sE gfne and have just received lot OF the
cry latest designs In chandeliers
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-12-05
Announcement!

During my absence to Hawaii and
Maui, Mr.. Peter Siskels, formerly of the
Occidental and Baldwin Hotels, San
Francisco, will assume the management
of Waikiki Inn.
He will be pleased to meet any of
his former patrons and the public and
tourists can rest assured, that Mr.. Sick
els is hotel man of wide experience,
and the reputation of Waikiki Inn for
excellent cuisine will be fully sustained.
j. p. HAYWARD.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
Spanish Blood in Ireland.

When the Spanish Armada was
wrecked off the coasts of Clare and
Galway Counties, many survivors OF
the disaster who reached the shores
were kindly cared for by the Irish peo-
pie. and considerable numbers of these
unfortunates remained in the families
OF their generous hearted rescuers.
Spanish Point on the coast of Clare,
says the American Quarterly Review,
reminds of the disaster to the great
Spanish fleet.
In the Counties of Clare and Galway
there is to be found at the present day,
a people differing essentially from
any OF the distinctive races existing
on Irish soil. This people are the de-
scendants of the Spanish officers, sail
ors, and soldiers who had been cast
ashore during the fearful storm which
destroyed the Spanish feet.
The race marks Of this people are
we'll defined. Crossed as it has been
with the Milesian stock, its Spanish
features offer most interesting study,
for they remain prominent. The men
are tall, muscular, dark-featured, with
black eyes, and black hair. The wo'
men have decided Spanish traits in
their physique; they are usually tall;
brunettes in some cases and fair in
others: with large, expressive black
ewes and an abundance of black hair
Their beauty reminds of the women
of the Basque provinces, while among
them are to be found the perfection OF
the female form in all Ireland.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
First Names

In 1879 more than half the men were
called John or William, says writer
in Notes and Queries, while more than
three quarters were called either
John, William, Thomas, Richard or
Robert, which in common parlance
must have been Jack, Will, Tom, Dick
or Rob, since among the commonest
patronymics are Jackson, Wilson,
Thompson, Dixon and Robson. Other
names are less usual, Henry and Adam
being each three per cent, Roger and
Hugh are only two per cent, while
Walter, Simon, Ralph, and Nicholas
are one per cent. Still fewer are Geof-
frey, Alan, and Stephen; Dennis and
Jacob occur only once in four hun
bred names. Martin and Peter once in
eight hundred.
In the thirteenth century William is
the commonest name. In the four
teenth and following centuries John
is first, with William second. Thus
in Bishop Hatfield's survey forty per
cent. of the men are named John, fol-
lowed by William with twenty-five per
cent, while if we add Robert and
Thomas, eighty per cent Of all the
men S names are dCCOuulcu W.
From the York wills it appears that
in 1886 John heads the list with sixteen
per cent. William follows close be-
hind with fifteen per cent. Thomas is
twelve per cent. followed by Richard
and Robert with eight per cent. each.
Henry and George are only half as nu-
erous; still fewer are Roger, Ralph,
Nicholas, Edward, James, Charles,
Francis, Humphrey, Anthony, Gilbert,
Lawrence and Joseph.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08

Travellers in the Sierra forests usu-
pecially of birds. The trees" they
say, ARE fine, but the empty stiffness
is deadly; there are no animals to be
seen, no birds. We have not heard
song in all the woods" And no won
der, going in large parties with mules
and horses, making so much noise.
dressed in outlandish, unnatural col
ors, every animal shuns them. Even
the frightened pines would run away
If they could. But nature lovers. de-
vout, silent, open-eyed, alert, looking
and listening with love, sitting still
here and there for hours or days, as
their genius directs, find no lack of
inhabitants in these mountain man
sions, and they come to them gladly.
Not to mention the large animals or
the small insect people every waterfall
has it's ouzel, and every tree it's squir-
rel or tanlias, or bird-tiny nuthatch
threading the burrows OF the bark,
cheerily whispering to itself as it deft-
ly prizes off loose scales and examines
the curled edges OF lichens. or Clarke
crow, or jay, examining the cones, or
some singer-oriole, tanager, warbler,
resting, feeding, attending to domestic
affairs. Hawks and eagles sail over
head, and grouse walk in happy focks
below, and the song sparrow sings in
every bed OF chaparral. There is no
crowding, to be sure. Unlike the low
Eastern trees, those of the Sierra in
the main forest belt average nearly
200 feet in height, and of course many
birds are required to make much Of a
show in them, and many voices to fill
them. Nevertheless, the whole range
from foothills to snowy SUBMITS is
shaken into song every summer; and
though low and thin in winter, the
music never ceases.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
A SEA SERPENT STORY
An Instance of How Some Men VIII
Stretch the Truth,

StTelCH inc ArutH'
A good instance OF the manner in
which sea serpent myths originate Is
afforded by certain paragraphs which
have recently appeared in the Aus
tralian papers. In its issue Of Febru-
airy % the Melbourne Argus" an
nounced the discovery at Suwanaw Is
land by the officer of a local steamer
Of the remains Of sea monster that
had been stranded there some two
months previously. The creature was
said to be in such bad condition that
collecting its remains was most try
ing task; but two heads, the two back
bones and part of the ribs" we're Sc
cured. 1t was stated that there was
but one body, which had a double
spine, and two distinct heads; while
the approximate weight of the animal
was estimated at not less than seventy
tons, and its length fully sixty feet!
In the issue of the following day the
skulls were said to be about three feet
long, and to carry pair OF tusks at the
tip of the lower jaw. On March 2, the
same paper published an announce
ment that E. Waite of the Australian
Museum had identified the remains as
those of "Zithold obviously a mis-
print for ''ziphioid." 1t would thus APP
pear that the alleged doube-headed
monster of seventy tons weight and
sixty feet length was based on two
carcasses of one of the species of beak-
ed whales, which are of such compare
lively common occurrence on the Aus
tralian coasts and the largest of which
is not known to exceed thirty feet in
Miniature.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08

Every newspaper office looks at every
story from Vancouver if trifle out Of
the ordinary with a certain degree OF
distrust. They have cultivated the art
of the long bow in Vancouver, and have
cultivated it well. Here is the latest,
but you needn't believe it unless you
want to:
Joseph Moody, once of New York,
went into Alaska to hunt gold in 1891.
He is now on his way home, having
been recognized by a missionary at
Dawson under whose administrations
he was converted years before.
Moody was carried off from his dig
gings by Swahner Indians eight years
ago. They took him two hundred miles
into the interior OF Alaska. For two
years he was slave to the chief and
then married the chiefs daughter. On
his royal father-in-law's death he be-
came Chief. He combined four tribes
under his leadership and converted
them all.
His wife died year ago, and now he
is coming home laden down with gold.
This is rather above the usual flight
of Vancouver imagination, but will
serve as a SDecimep
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
CHINESE RAILROADS.
DIFFICULTIES AND HUMoRs INCIDENT
TO RECENT RIOTS.

Life Of a Foreign Guard on a Train
Not Happy One-Mandarin's Ser.
wants Without Tickets Take Pos.
session Of a First-Class Carriage.
Mr.. Cox, who was recently assaulted
near Picking, has had many similar ex.
periences during the dozen Years he
has been railroa building in tht
Chilli province, and has only extri.
Gated himself by dint of tact, pluck and
good humor. He has practically for
years carried his lie in his hand.
Several years ago, for instance. dur.
Ing floods, a mob, led by the soldiery
OF Lutai, military camp near Tien.
Tsin, cut the railway embankment and
destroyed seven miles of line, their Off
GERS encouraging them and the en-
hghtened Viceroy Ii Hung Chang, in
his yamen, few miles OFF, "layin' low
and sayin' muffin" The cause alleged
was that the embankment prevented
the flood water from running off, which
as there were frequent outlets. was ut
ter nonsense. Previous to that at
tempts had been made to wreck trains.
and the lives of the foreign employees
were constantly threatened.
The life, too. of the foreign guard on
a train is not always a happy one.
Mandarins' servants without tickets
take possession of a first-class carriage.
eat, drink and sleep in it. Perhaps
they light a pan of charcoal to warm
themselves, If the weather is cold.
Charcoal has certain asphyXiating eff
fects; the other passengers complain,
and the servants have to be elected
Too much violence might lead to a gen.
eral attack on foreigners and another
Tien-Tsin massacre. while too little
would not be effective. The unhappy
guard has to follow the happy" mean
between a good, hard push and a mild
knock-down blow.
There have, of course, been many
ludicrous, as well as dangerous, incl
dents on the North China line. When
it was first opened Chinese would
come to the booking office and try to
bargain for tickets. When told the
fare, they would offer half and grad
ually raise their bid, much disguised
that they should not, in a business
spirit, be met half way.
INV NSAy q NOdAbAg SShtAChnlls OAA LAS
first ride in train, seeing his house
midway between two stations. flying
past, deliberately opened the door and
stepped out into space. At the pace the
train was going a European would Ger.
tainly have been killed. but the supple
celestial, after a prolonged series OF
somersaults, was seen to pick himself
and bundle up, dust his clothes, and
set off home across the fields, much
pleased with his short cut and the
convenience of the "fre-wheel car
riage"
An unfortunate railway coolie, equal
ly ignorant of the laws of mechanics
did not get off so well. Seeing two
trucks coming at q snail's pace down
a siding. he placed his foot on the rail
to stop them. To his establishment, II
was cut off, and he learned, like Ste
phenson's COW, that momentum is
made up of mass as we'll as velocity.
But, in spite of everything, railways
are bound to prosper in a country
where travelling is otherwise so slow
and so difficult, carts and ponies in the
north and boats in the south never do
ing more than thirty to forty miles be-
tween dawn and dark.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08

The difficulty of preventing pecula-
tion in the army reminds me of an
aneedote have heard my mother tell
of the Duke of Wellington. A friend
of nv mother had a contract to supply
blankets for the army. When they
we're delivered the Duke desired that
every blanket should be unrolled and
shown TO him. When the gentleman
Who was as proud of his honor as
manufacturer as any soldier could be
Of his honor. demonstrated against
what seemed an aspersion on his in
tegrity. the Duke only said; ut is my
dutv to see that the soldiers have prop
or blankets" ! do not know the time
or the circumstances beyond the bare
fact as | have heard my mother relate
1.-THE Spectator.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER"
THE OLD WAY.

In the early sixteen hundreds, by far
the most successful school masters
were the Jesuits. 1t was their rule to
lead the pupils, and not only to make
learning endurable but acceptable.
They evidently believed that which
enters willing ears, the mind, as it
were, runs to welcome, seizes with
avldity, carefully slows away and
faithfully preserves"
The Port Royalists, who flourished
IN France about 1925, would Danish
all useless difficulties in acquiring
knowledge and do what they could to
help the young and make study even
more pleasant to them than play and
pastime." The magnificent vista
Opened to Millions mental vision from
the summit of the "Hill of Learning"
strongly confirms the idea that, to him
least, knowledge is pleasure.
wordsworth, an eminent English
scholar. spoke Of the grand elementary
principle of pleasure, by which man
SHOWS and feels, and lives and moves.
we have no sympathy but what is pro-
pdsated by pleasure. We have no
knowledge but what has been built up
W pleasure and exists. in us by pleas
Hre alone. The man of science the
snemist and mathematician know and
.eel this. However painful the knowl-
euse may he connected, he feels
uat his knowledge is pleasure and
Mhen he has no pleasure he has no
knowledge.
visitor TO PestiloZZi's school in 1902
Nlu' THE children are very happy,
nnu evidently take great pleasure in
.nelr lessons. whlcl says great deal
'or the method"
The Froebel historians do not indi-
Saue he ever taught the doctrine
az ShuOwledge is pleasure directly, but
uaey do make it very plain this idea
perYaded his life work.
lltty years ago DR.. Joseph r. Bu-
SSnahan, Of Cincinnati, Ohio, taught the
S roe knowledge is pleasure thus d.
'ectly and forcibly:
=, Let children meet with forbearance,
Soneerfulness and true affection, on the
Part OF all above them; let those older
LESSONS, who love their society, take
Isndrge of them, and be with them at
.neir sports, as well as at their lessons;
Snu let the influence of music be
;,ought to bear, attuning all their feel
'DsS to accord. and education will he
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
AN oLo SUPERSTITION.
Many Stories Prove That Rats win LeSsa
en- UpssawOrthy Vessel.


en- Upasaworthy Vessel.
The old superstition. which has
grown into an adage, that rats desert
q ship which is no longer seaworthy,
70 still an article Of faith with the
fresh water sailors OF the great lakes.
Sundry well-authenticated instances
seem to justify this belief The YER
non was three-master. which did a
tramp business. Built in Buffalo in
1850. she was for many years regard
ed as one of the best craft on the lakes.
Late in the fall, about fifteen years
ago. she unloaded a cargo of grain in
Buffalo, aud reloaded with package
freight for Chicago. She was about to
sail one rough November night Just
before the lines were let off. one OF
the Seamen saw a rat run over tho
hawSerS to the wharf In 4 moment
another was seen. The seaman called
others OF the crew to see the unusual
sight, Between fifty and Seventy-fve
rats poured out of the ship and took
refuge along the wharf. The crew re-
fused to sail, but the captain was OBJ
stinate, shipped fresh crew, and sail
ed forthwith. The ship was lost with
all hands. The Idaho, a fine passenger
steamer. foundered in Lake Erie in
November 1897. Out of her crew OF
twenty-One men nineteen were drown
ed. lust bfore the vessel left her moor
ings a swarm of rats crawled over the
hawsers to the wharf. This was known
to part of the crew. and four men de-
serted at the last moment Similar
stories are told Of other wrecked YES
sells, and an old lakeman says: 1T
has been proved a hundred times.
There are a whole lot of things in this
world that We don't know anything
about. Rats live in the very flers OF
a ship. They see what we cant see
When the tinbers are followed and
the seams open, these little animals
know that the ship is unsafe. and they
desert it."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08

historical Scholars and Educators
Success of Jesuit School Masters
The Teacher Should be the Friend
Good Reading For Pupil and
Teacher-Definition of Learning,
Anropos to the new education and
tho public school season, the writer
hereof wishes to register public pro-
test against the emphasis ordinarily
given TO the doctrine knowledge Is
Hower." and to make an argument for
he doctrine, knowledge is pleasure"
This argument is the outcome of an
exhaustive study of the literature of
tbe subject and Of protracted personal
snd professional observation, and is
made in full confidence that in the evo-
lutiou of the new education, the Bacon
ion axiom, knowledge is power"
which has long been the motto of the
marty. will ultimately be relegated to
deserved obscurity and its place as a
motto be given to the axiom, "hnowl-
edge is pleasure.
During the past two centuries count
less millions of children have written
knowledge is power" many millions
of times without any adequate concep-
tion whatever of that 'bewitching
phantom knowledge" And while their
conception Of power was much more
acute than their conception of knowl-
edge. il was no more to the purpose
for general speaking, their idea of pow
er was that acquired when the teacher
employed physical power, or force, as a
means Of driving in knowledge.
Under these circumstances, is it any
wonder that much of what passed for
education went into one ear and OUT
of the other, without leaving any other
impression than mental disgust for
further education.
OF Bacon, the author of the famous
epigram knowledge is power" the
poet Pope wrote: HE was the wisest,
brightest, meanest Of mankind" Care
fully read Bacon'S life and you will
readily understand that the expression
acknowledge is power was a very nat
ural one for him. Spencer's remark
that moral precepts are largely the sell
fish maxims expressive of the will of
the ruling forces in society, those who
have health, wealth, knowledge and
power and are designed for their pro-
lection and the maintenance of their
power, would seem to apply directly to
Bacons axiom. knowledge is power"
Although numerous writer's, histori-
cal and contemporary, have directly
and Indirectly and frequently, at regu-
lar intervals, and in a desultory fash
ion, for over 1000 years, referred to
the idea that knowledge is pleasure"
that idea has never become an educa-
tional axiom. The idea has never yet
acquired the prominence its promise Of
usefulness would seem to warrant.
Among the historical scholars and
writer's whose works strongly confirm
the idea that knowledge is pleasure, we
quote Plato. who was the author of
the first systematic treatise on educa-
ton and who therein insisted upon the
beautiful and the good Each precept
Of which Socrates delivered himself
was recommended ON the ground that
obedience to it would promote the
pleasure. the comfort, the advancement
and the well-being of the individual.
10 make those happy who are undergo
Ing an education was a faverite pre-
eeTt with Locke.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
Ie Thought Awhile.


81 wonder if any Of the brides rela-
tives are present"
"Oh, yes. I saw some people in the
next room counting the presents. =
Life.
Too Much Experience.
Pilson-Are you going to take pa
n that Guessing contest?
Dilson-Oh, no; they'd rule ME o
Is a professional.
Pilson-Professiora
Dilson-Yes; you know am connect
ID with the Weather Bureau.-0lio
State Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
Would Be In the Future

Are there any marks by which you
can be Identified" asked the Chief of
Police, preparatory to telegraphing.
NO" said the father of the boy who
had started to Minnesota to fight In
dams, but there will be when l get
hold Of him again."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
Civil War Battles.

The total number of battles fought
during the American Civil War reach
ed the astounding figure of 3,125. The
figures are taken from the official rec
ords.
She Thought Awhile.
Geraldine-Life will be one grand
sweet song after we are married.
Gerald don't care as long as it
isn't piano solo.-Town Topics.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-09-08
Real Property for Sale.

Real Property for Sale.
Having more business to look after than
can properly attend to, have decided to sell
portion OF my holdings and now offer for
sale
500 ACRES OF FINE, WELL IMPROVED
LAND.
] will sell it all in one body, as II is, or will
divide ii in tracts TO suit purchasers This
land is all in high state of cultivation, and
crops equal to any in the County or State.
EVERY ACRE HAD FROM so TO 100 BUSHELS
OF LIME,
and the most OF it been heavily manured in
the last 10 or II years.
ALL UNDER GOOD FENCING-THE MOST OF
1T POST AND RAIL,
divided into convenient fields. with pure run
ming water in every field Improved with
several good dwellings, couple ofgood barns,
with all other outbuildtngS necessary, and
about 1000 choice apple and peach trees on the
farm, all In full bearing.
also desire to sell my
MILL PROPERTY, KNOWN AS GREEN
VALLEY MILLS,
consisting of one flour and grist mill, one saw
mill, one good dwelling house, one barn and
other outbuildings. with all the privileges per
tanning thereto. This is one of the best built
mills In Frederick County, built in 1890 36x44
feet, stories high, one of stone and three
frame, weatherboarded with cypress and
wainscoated from top to bottom with yellow
pine; two ~ 41a-foot water wheels run of
burrs, with water-power and mill capacity
Of producing from
% TO 80 BARRELS OF FLOUR PER DAY,
and in one of the best wheat growing sections
In the County or State, and with country
custom of radius of from 10 TO 20 miles,
makes this a desirable property forindustrious
and enterprising people. | will sell all of the
easy terms. | will also sell my blacksmith
shop property, adjoining the mill property
and farm, consisting of dwelling blacksmith
shop, wheelwrght shop and other outbuild-
ings, on one or two acres of choice land, to
suit the purchaser
mchS-99-6mos. LEVI PRICE.