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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

How will the following suggestion
Pain in connection with the tram
carsY In order to avoid contact be-
tween white people and Asiatics let
separate cars be run for each until
quarantine is over. These cars might
follow each other, the white mans
car preceding. Long distance pas
sengers would cheerfully pay an
extra five cents or even ten cents to
assist in defraying the extra expense,
as many persons earning low wages
are either compelled to walk hat a
dozen miles a day or to spend their
entire earnings in hack hire.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

1t is calculated by thinking men
that the cost OF the bubonic plague
to this city alone, irrespective of
commercial losses in connection with
shipping interests, will not be less
than S2,500,000. 1t is we'll enough
to say, and with some show Of truth,
that most of this money will be dis
tributed in the city, and help to re-
pay some Of the losses of the labor
ing and smaller tradesmen, but the
bulk of it will flow into the Golfers
of the rich men. Disasters always
benefit the wealthy in the long run
and the poor invariably suffer, owing
to the plea of the wealthy for the
necessity to economist in wages.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

The contemplate scoundFels wh2
stole the cocoanut trees from the new
beach road should be apprehended
and punished. The government
has made an effort to make fine
driveway along the beach and the
vandals who have interfered with
the.goodIpurpose should be severely
punished. The Minister of Interior
offers reward of $25 for the appre-
hension of the thieves. The citizens
will do the balance.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Mr.. Dole seems to be more scared
now than he was in 1895. So long
as he can ride, the dear people may
walk, as may be seen by his reported
remark that he does not wish the
Tramway cars to run for a while
longer. 1T is not everyone who can
draw one thousand dollars month
as figure head.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Mr.. Thurston was at one time a
prominent member of the Anti
Asiatic League. So were W. A.
Kinney and others, and yet Mr..
Thurston's organ has not one word
to say about the cold fact that there
are $4,000 Japanese in the country
to-day besides large number of
Chinese. Has Mr.. Thurston forgot
ten his speeches and articles in
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

newspapers against the introduction
OF Asiatics, since he became pro-
moter OF Oaa and similar planta-
tons and the owner of a $4,000
house in Nuuanu Valleyl Honest
Lorrin! truthful Thurstonl
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Some day it will become an inter
esting question as to whom the pay
ment of the damages done by the
bubonic plague will be entrusted to,
and who will be responsible. Con-
sidering the fact that it's introduce
ten was mainly, if not entirely, due
to the laches of the Dole Govern
ment through their greedy political
ambition, and annexation schemes,
since the cholera scare of 1895, it
would only seem just that the Dole
ties and their friends should foot the
bill. The treasury is rapidly becom-
ing depleted and what assurance is
there that the Territorial Legislature
will endorse the bills, and if it does,
where will the money come from.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30
TUESDAY, JAN. 80, 1900.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Doyle and toil-what an astound-
ing combination, And the horse
rang the bell-Amenl
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Any person who desires to die
from pneumonia will be subject to a
post norton examination according
to late rule of the Board of Health
We don't think the "person" will
care very much.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30
Groceries to the Fore.
In Union is Strength, and So it
is in Cooperation.

me , aancospaRGo war t brought aoons
come down to its former level, and we are
getting our groceries as cheap as we ever
had them before. If every stakeholder in
the company were to purchase his or her
groceries from the Co.opera i've Grocery
Co., the success of the corporation will be
assured.
Call and trade; free delivery TO all parts
Of the city.
e. TIETJENS,
Manager Palama Cooperative Grocery
Co., Ltd, out King Street, opposite Rail
road Central Deuot.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Our own Mikado of the Drill
Shed, Chester l., encourages religion
and athletics, but exiles any person
creating hard feelings amongst his
subjects.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

The Board of Health and Stock
Exchange are each doing all they
can to jolly the dear people until
the clouds roll by.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Konohi celebrations started last
night There are two factions of
Chinese here. One open their new
years celebration to-day and the
other one tomorrow. The difference
of opinion is probably caused on
the came plan as that of the venera-
BILE gentlemen discussing the CEN
fury question.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Any person at all acquainted with
the promoters of the so-called Rapid
Transit Company reads while rum
ming that if the Tramways Company
and Mr.. Pain were not English, you
know" that the opposition, or per-
secution. to the old established COM
pany never would have been set up.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Mr.. A. B. Loebenstein has return
ed to Hilo wiser, and we trust not
a sadder man. He carries with him
the assurance of our officials, that
the csptral government will attend
to it's business and hope that Hilo
will do the same. The good people
of the rainy village should realize
that they are not running this coun-
try, and that their place is of no
more consequence to the country
than Kahului on Maui, or Nawiliwili
on Kauai, They may secede of
course, and establish an independent
republic. 1t would not surprise us
if they did, but it would surprise
Lorrin Andrews and Loebenstein
when they find their pay warrants.
answered from Honolulu by brief
"no funds"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

We don't see the name of Mr..
Thurston's partner, the devil, on the
list of the Citizens Committee not
withstanding the fact that the are
raising HI generally on their
watch. We suppose he is merely a
Painful incident in the way of a
committee on traffic.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

The official organ states that the
shippers of the Mary E. Foster and
the S. G. Allen consider the quaran-
tine in the nature of joke. They
are not the only pebbles on the
beach feeling that way.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

Allow. us to call the attention Of
the Board OF Health to the unsani-
tary condition of the vacant lot on
Merchant street adjoining the Judd
building. If the board is too busy
to look after the Shiny, green,
microbe breeding water infestng
the vicinity with an odor not pleas
ant or healthy, we suggest that the
deputies of the board Messrs. Thurs
ton and Ballou be ordered to do.
something. Nh Thurston knows
where the place liz, and even if it
does not belong to the Bishop estate
or has anything to do with Marshal
Brown, it should be burnt. Let the
self-appointed Citizens Sanitary
Committee get out it's hose and oil
and burn the nasty looking receipt
able of the uptown cesspools.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-01-30

The Sea Serpent has turned up
again and been identified by Ko-
hala gentleman. The size of the
Serpent is roughly estimated at a
length which would enable his Ser
pentship to take in the whole group
of the Hawaiian Islands. The Ser
pent was seen here for the first time
about 70 years ago, but for reasons
not explained neither the Alexanders,
Baldwins, Bonds, Thurstons, Bing-.
hams and other early historians ever
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
TIFToN's DEPOT STILL UNUSED.
new Road Being Graded-PoIiticaI
GOssip-Other News Notes.

Ilfton' Ga. Jan. 2O-The Triton. Thorn
asVille and Gulf Railroad is grading dine
from its present terminus. at the Fifth
street crossing, into the union passenger
depot. The line has ordered a first-class
passenger train equipment, and will put
on a regular through passenger train from
Triton to Moultrie some time during the
present month.
Or. +. w. Alexander, whose invention of
an attachment for electric lighting heat
ing ana ventilation of passenger trains by
an attachment 10 the car axle was mem
toned some time ago, has organized a
local stock company TO put the invention
on the market, and will leave some time
during the coming week for Washington
city, where he will have complete ma
chine made from his model, in order to
snow that 1t is not only practicable, but
a revolution in car building
The Gress Lumber Company, which has
Just finished the erection of large saw
mill two miles east of Enigma, on the
Pant System, has secJ~ed a sta ton and
telegraph Office there, Mr.. j. T. Miller,
formerly in the Plant System office here,
takes charge of the Gress Company's Of
nee and instruments.
Tiftons union passenger depot secured
after an appeal to the State Railroad Com
mission and years delay, has been COM
pleted for two months past, and still
stands unoccupied. AT first, it was said
the building would be used as soon as
the two roads most interested-the Geor-
gia Southern and the Plant System-could
agree as to its management. This was
settled month ago, and the building still
stands idle. 1t was erected in the face of
a pressing demand, at cost of $1,000, and
is badly needed by the travelling public
the present arrangement being inconveni-
ent and uncomfortable.
The political pot bubbles already in Ber-
ricn. Mr.. b. +. Lindsey, Sr., a one-legged
Confederate veteran, announces as can
didate for Ordinary, and it is thought the
present Ordinary, Hon. A. d. Patterson,
will stand for reelection.
Mr. j. H. Gerkins of Nashville an
nounces for clerk of Superior Court, and
will probably be opposed by Mr.. j. D.
Bovett of Sparks.
Mr.. John P. knight, the present clerk,
will probably be a candidate for the gen
eral assembly 1t is not yet known who
will oppose him.
1t is also Berrien's time to furnish the
state senator from this district. There
are no candidates out as yet, although
Hons. Joseph A. Alexander of Nashville
and F. NJ. Shaw, Jr., former representa-
tive in the lower house, are being urged
by friends to make the race.
For representative, Hons. Warren L.
KennOn of Abel and Thomas E. Williams
of Sparks have been mentioned, but Meth
er has consented to enter the race as yet
Up to this writing no trace of Mr. Wal
ter l.. Warnell, the young cashier of the
Bank of Adel, who disappeared while men,
tally unbalanced on the morning of the
18th, has been obtained. His friends are
very uneasy about him and fear the worst.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
Struggle win a python.
From "Wild Animals in Captivity" by
Edward Bartlett.

From "Wild Animals in Captivity" by
Edward Bartlett.
Some few years since | was invited to
the house of a surgeon who had just re-
turned from Ceylon, to see a freshly inn
ported serpent of this species. Upon ar
irving at the house l found that the doc
tor was absent and that his wife and
maidservant were the only inmates.
Upon mentioning the nature of my visit,
I was told that the serpent was in larse
box in the greenhouse. was handed the
key OF the box and informed that there
was no danger in opening It. because the
serpent was below wire netting, and there
fore / would be able to see 1t without the
chance Of it making It's escape
accordingly proceeded 10 the green
house, unlocked the box, and opened the
lid. To my utter establishment the
snake was coiled up on the top of the wire
netting and with the quickuess of light
ming darted at me: had just time
enough to seize II by the neck, when il
instantly wound itself round my right,
arm, and / had not the power to d sengage
myself from the grip this serpent had
made upon me. The two women were
Mortified, and nothing would induce them
TO come 10 my assistance. My only
chance Of getting rid Of this powerful
brute was by trying 10 strange him, to
do which, with both hands, ! stroVe by
utmost. II appeared - me-, at the time
that / should not be able TO accomplish
my efforts to squeeze his life out.
The constant increase OF the pressure he
put upon my arm caused me 20 fear that
| should entirely lose the power Of my
right hand, as | was graspimg the brute
just below the head with all my strength
The time appeared 10 pass very slowly
without any visible dlminution Of it's ex-
traordinary grip. However. / felt some
relief on finding after a time that II was
slowly relaxing the pressure, and presently
II gradually slid off my arm until It's tail
touched the ground So soon as | found
the snake sufficiently disengaged from my
arm ! dropped IL into che box, apparently
more dead than alive. After this / lid
not consider it worth while TO purchase
the reptile. although l heard from the
owner that it was none the worse for the
Squeezing ] had given II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
Women in Persin.

From Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Life is sad in Persia, especially the wo
mans life. The law of Islam allows each
man 10 have four wives, and as many con-
cubines and slave girls as his hand can
hold. His wives, also, he may divorce at
will. Our word "bosh' Is the Turkish
word by which a Moslem divorces his
wife. 1t does not count if he says it only
once or twice. but if said the third time
the woman must go, and there is no re-
course Down along the Caspian the men
often marry their wives in the spring, so
so as TO have the benefit of their labor
In the rice fields, and divorce them in the
fan so as to escape supporting them dur
ing the winter. A Meshed. where pilgrims
come. is a large population of temporary
wives who are married to the pilgrims, far
from home and families, for as long time
as the pilgrims remain at the shrlne-a
day, or month. The Mohammedan
priests draw up the contracts for these
temporary alliances. Lord Curzon, who
has been there, says Meshed, though the
hottest city in Persia, is the wickedest in
Asia There are no words for wife and
home in Persian. There are no homes
and few wives II is curious to hear a
handsome woman say: II have told my
husband If he marries another wife / shall
poison him, and ! intend to do It," Or TO
ask a woman about her home life, and get
the answer, Love my husband? Oh, yes,
love him. love him as much as a sieve
holds water"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
FROM THE MAGAZINES.



From CasselPs Magazine.
In racing scenes the horses do run at
full speed; they run, however, not on the
fixed stage, but on what may be called
tread-mils, which keep the horses in front
of the house for longer or shorter periods
according as they are moved quickly or
slowly. A picket fence, placed between
the audience and the course, not only
makes the scene more realistic; 1t also
hides the mechanism of the treadmills.
This fence has contributed in another way
to add to the effect by being moved in
opposition to the direction of the horses
and so lending to their apparent speed.
AS to the sounds made by the footballs
of horses to be heard as though passing
outside an interior scene, they are re-
produced by the dried hoofs of dead horses,
or wooden limitations mounted on handles
and hammered against surfaces of stone,
gravel, sod or whatever the occasion may
demand. They are also more deliberately
manufactured by revolving a cylinder with
pins protruding from the surface. These
pins are. arranged, like the spuFs on a
hand organ roller, to initiate trottng. gal
Looping or walking when struck against
other substances. If the sound of a car
riage is TO be added to the trampling of
horses, wheels are run on sand,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
TWO LADIES WE'RE INJURED.
Serious Runaway I'm COIumbus-MOr-
gan to Speak at Girard.

Columbus, Ga, Jan 2.-In runaway
this afternoon, Miss Ellie May Bedell and
Mrs Charles Pearce were thrown from
buggy and Miss Beden was quite serious
ly, and Mrs Pearce painfully injured. The
horse became frightened from some cause
and making a short turn threw both ladies'
out.
Miss Bedells head was thrown with vio-
lence against an iron rail, and was serl-
ously bruised on the side, her forehead
was also gashed and her back was in
iured. Miss Bedell's injuries are rather
serious. but her friends trust that she will
recover from her fall.
Mrs. Pearce's injuries are painful, sho
being bruised about the face, but will not
result seriously She is resting easily to-
night. Miss Bedell is a well known So
ciety young lady and Mrs. Pearce is a
Young matron, who is equally popular in
social circles. She is the daughter of
Postmaster Carrot. They are receiving the
best of medical attention.
Senator Morgan is to deliver an address
at Girard Ala just across the river from
Columbus. on Tuesday night. splendid
audience will greet him.
Eugene Debs lectures in Columbus at
the Court House Monday night. The la
boring people are making extensive prepa-
rations to entertain NM
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
LOCAL Personal.

Mr. W. S. Monteith of Columbia is at the
Pulaski.
Mr.. W. G. Keen of Atlanta is registered
al the Pulaski.
Mr.. 7. ]. O'Brien of Darlen is the guest
OF the Pulaski.
Mr.. R. B. Coleman Of cambridge, Ca, is
at the Pulaski.
Mrs ". e. Tevis of Atlanta is the guest
of the Pulaski.
Mr. T. r. Slappy of Hagan is the guest
of the Screven
Mr.. w. E. Vinson of Tennille is register
ed at the Screven.
Mr.. +. S. Notice of Columbia is regis
tered at the Pulaski.
Mr.. R. P. Doss of Townsville is the
guest Of the Pulaski.
Mr.. J. W. Bigham of Atlanta is regis
tered at the Pulaski.
Mr.. H. A. Almond of Atlanta is the
guest of the De Soto.
Mr.. Thomas Martin Of Button is the
guest of the De Soto.
Mr. II. J. Sandlin of Birmingham is reg
lSiered a the Pulaski.
Mr. II. p. Dortch of Greensboro is reg
ls.erei al the De Soto.
Mr. w. r. Walker left for Augusta yes
terday via the. Central.
MIR. J. e. Smith of Monticello. Fla, IS
The guest of the Pulaski.
Mf, Frank p, Milburn of Charlotte is
The guest of The De Soto.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w Nagood of Char
loite are the guests of the Pulaski
Mr. Theo Titus of Thomasville was
among the arrivals at the Pulaski yester-
day
Mr. j. w. Ferguson of Atlanta was
among the arrivals at the Screven yester-
dav
Mr. w. r. Prescott of Atlanta was
day
Hon. j. ]. McDonough was among the
SS'1lhern's passengers yesterday for New
Mr.. w. w. Franks of Atlanta was
among the arrivals at the De Soto yes
teriay.
Mr. a. B. Van Kamp was among the
ga senSers of the Central yesterday for
Augusta
Mr. W. II. Rose, who has been seri-
ousy III for the last four weeks is slowly
covering.
Mr. W. A. Stokes, who has been suffer-
us with an attack Of grip, left for Tam
ia Yesterday on a short recuperative trip.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
Attack by an Eagle.

Most readers must have felt doubts as
to the stories of eagles attacking men,
even when their nests were being robbed.
But an instance of such an attack, made
in the open and not near a nest, occurred
to Mr.. Turner-Turner, a wen-known
sportsman and amateur fur-hunter in
British Columbia. During an expedition
into North British Columbia he had been
irving unsuccessfully to get a shot at
band of caribou. Seeing an eagle in the
distance, he stood still TO watch it, as he
had not seen one in the neighDorhood
where he was shooting.
THE ground was covered with six inches
of snow, except on the SUBMITS of the
mountains, where it was deeper" writes
Mr. Turner-Turner, land | was therefore
a conspicuous object. Presently l was
surprised to see how close the bird was
approa ching. but concluded that it must
have mistaken me standing still for
stump and would Immediately discover
its error. 1t never deviated from its course
or changed its position, except to drop
its legs slightly when about ten yards
off, and in line with my head. These
it quickly drew up again, dying directly at
my face, which so took me by surprise
as to leave me hardly time to threw up
my rifle as a guard, ana to wave my left
hand. This caused the eagle to pass above
me with the rush of half a dozen rockets.
Up to this time the thought of harming
the bird never occurred TO me. But L
then faced about and fired at my retreat
ing foe Then with a rapid wheel III
turned to renew the attack, this time max
ing an undoutedsa intentional stoop at
my head, in which il would have been
successful had 1 not suddenly dpcked. 1t
was not a common bald eagle, but, as l
afterward learned mountain or golden
eagle +"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21

currants as "squinancy berries" a name
which shows that they were commonly
used then, as now, in cases of sore
throat He also mentions the bush as
growing wild here in our neighborhood
by the Hoppet Bridge, near Braintree,
in Essex, where, however, it is no longer
to be found
The fruit of the wild elder, which, says
old Culpepper, need not be described,
"since every boy that plays with pop
gun will not mistake another tree instead
of elder" is still gathered by country
people for the purpose of making elder
berry wine, which is held to possess con-
siderable medicinal virtue. "If." says
John Evelyn, 1.-The medicinal properties
of the leaves, bark, and berries of this
tree were thoroughly known. | cannot tell
what our countrymen could all for which
they might not find a remedy from every
hedge, either for sickness or wound
These so-called natural remedies are now
seldom employed; it is therefore the more
interesting to notice that elderberry wine
is still frequently used by poor people in
country places.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-21
Life in snnto Domingo.
international Magazine.

, From the International Magazine
The homes of the poems are very prim-
tive. merely huts built of palm boards
split into strips about 2l2 inches in width,
and fastened with vines to four posts
some twenty feet apart The ground
serves for a floor while the roof is made
of a network of poles, forming a peak
in the center and covered with several
LAYERS of palm leaves, fastened down with
ropelike strips of the same palm leaf.
Back of these huts they usually build
small shed, where the cooking is done
over little iron pots in which they burn
charcoal This pot is about as large as
a good-sized wash basin, and has a hole
in the bottom for draught. The houses
are furnished with a rough board set
upon sticks for a table, one or two small
native chairs, and cot covered with cow
hide. Here the peon lives with his wife
and more or less naked children huddled
together with his pigs, dogs, and game
cocks.
The natives one staple dish is known as
sancoche, a stew of rice, beans, cassava,
maniOc, pork, plantain, chicken, and 9TH
er convenient ingredients. With this and
a Joint of, sugarcane he makes his dinner
and dessert Any morning in the market
place one may see him looking over heaps
of sugarcane and selecting from them
such sticks as his Judgment dictates. II
he has a trip to make, he does not bother
with a lunch basket but takes two or
three Joints of sugarcane. Having strip
ped the cane, he chews the pith and
nourishes himself with the juices there
from.