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The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-25

ten on pieces of pasteboard. Round
the head of the center table are the
ebony chairs of the host, the governor
Of the colony, the chief justice and
! sometimes the senior naval oficer OF
the port. Here and there among the
other diners are wealthy Chinese uer.
chants, their costumes in startling
contrast to the colorless white Elton
mess jackets of the rest of the com.
pany.
When all are seated the opium far
mer enters. He comes in through an
alcove door, in a rather STACEY men-
ner, and smiles at the applause that
greets him as he takes his place. A
minute later he rises to thana his
white friends for their presence at his
lowly board, and apologies for "the
humble character of the fare" he ia
about to set before them. Everybody
knows what that means. Then he
turns to the back of his chair and
strikes a gong. Dozens of swift-footed
walters at once appear. laden with
Sllt CT lCc UuChClS AuCQ WIN SA0AA-
payne, port, sherry. Frontinac and q
variety of native wines. A hundred
young women follow with trays Of
wine glasses and tumblers, and in a
few moments every guest is supplied.
Immediately the affair develops into
feast magnificent enough for an old
Roman banquet hall The women, i'm
ported from northern China for the
occasion, station themselves behind
the chairs Of the guests and play
stringed instruments, singing an al
most continuous accompaniment.
Flower girls, bearing sweet blossoms
Of the lichee. enter and twine garlands
across the tables, among the chair
backs, about the flags and in the
long lines Of lanterns
The tables are rapidly spread with
food. and strange mixture OF orien-
tai and occidental dishes 1t is. In ad-
dition to roast beef. ham. chicken tur-
key and mutton. are dozens of Chinese
delicaeies. curries of every kind,
sharks Ems. jeIiied eggs. picked fsh.
baked hedge-boar, spitted rice birds,
drawn pelican meat, preserves OF AL
sorts. mangoes. mansostines. paradise
fruit and dozens Of wonderful Chinese
puddings.
There Is no menu card and NO se-
quence Of courses. You just pick out
what ron like and tackle Il, prospect
i've OF what your neighbor II eating
and regardless Of whether you begin
with dessert or end with soup. The
dishes In which these foods are served
are the most magnificent and costly
samples Of Chinese ware. and are In
tended as gifts for the guests when
the dinner Ii over you can select What
you please from among them II you
50 away early enough you are gener-
ally wise enough to do this- II you
stay tin things begin TO get warm yo1
are APT 10 forget Al about such = pro
aAic thing - dishes
when midnight comes and the bod,
tie governor and the chief Just1ce
have dfscreetly retired. the singing.
11bflafing and toasting begiA n ear
- A dayhreak approaches the
fAfthful rickShAv men WHO hare been
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-25

gives a great dinner to government
i officials, newspaper men and the lead
ing Chinese merchants Of the colony
events of the Hongkong year. The
other two are the polo championship
games and the sham battle between
the troops and the garrison. As q
matter of fact, though natural pride
keeps them from acknowledging it,
the white people of Hongkong look
on this unique dinner as by far the
most interesting thing in the social
calendar.
When a Chinaman makes up his
mind to do a thing handsomely, he
generally goes to the limit. The
opium farmer always makes his din
ner, which is a sort of farewell to his
brief reign of car Of the opium smok-
ers. something to be remembered by
his white friends. Indeed he lays
aside large sum Of money, from $780,
to $4,000, for the banquet, and al
ways reckons it as legitimate item
of expense when he figures up his
bid to the government at the begin
ming of the year.
A week before the close Of his term
of office the farmer sends out his in
vitations. These are always verbal,
delivered to the lucky recipient by a
shroff. a polite native clerk, who
comes to your door with smile and
a bow, clad in long blue gown reach
ing to his heels, and tells you that his
master desires the honor of your
presence at the Wong Tai Lo restau-
rant ito modestly sup with him from
a little dish or two in token OF your
good will"
The invitation needs no response.
The shrof takes it for granted that
you would postpone a trip to Europe
to get to that dinner. and he is right.
There are no vacant seats when the
ceremonies begin.
The Wong Tai Lo restaurant, where
all these affairs are given. Is the Chi
nese Delmonico's Of Hongkong. It
stands in the heart of the native quar-
ter. a fve-storied frame building,
deliberately carved. with broad balco-
mics laden with lowering plants and
creepers. and the usual huge feast Ian
terms swaying In the wind.
You are met ct the ground noor en-
trance Of the restaurant by one Of the
farmers representatives. clad In COR
geous silks, who gives your chair or
rickshaw coolies directions about thu
time for their return. and shows ron
up stairs to the great dining room on
the third door. The tables. which rua
In three parallel lines down the length
Of the apartment. are bare Il every-
thing except the usual xiiverwure.
with ivory chop-sticks added. The big
expanse Of white cloth has Q peculiar
" hospitabie and restanra1t-lfke ap-
pearsnce. which. however, dos not
last very long.
The walls are covered With Chinese
nass and union jaeln tvins1 toge<Asr,
and hanging b. IL hun1re1 fsoa ~
selling are gsy lAntefO q u 1aslgns
and colors. snc3osing e1seexic lloAn.
About three hundred g1eGes IA nso1s
It places where their Names are viii
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-25
Ths ceealss EvsI.
rron the Chicago Chronicle.

The PHYSICIANS oe Indiana who hare
inaugurated = war against the indis-
criminate sale Of cocaine Aavp st n
example worthy to be followed By their
professional brothers elsewhere. The
Increasing ne a this pegnieions drug
b In no small part due to loose prac-
tice among druggists. doctnrs ana pro-
prietafy ne1ie1Ae men. on1 3 iaToa
eva ot no suaall proportloaa
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-13
[To RE CoyTiNuED.l
Choosing the Right Career,

1t is not always the first profession n
man chooses that proves to be the right
one. A modern instance is that of four
young men who were fellow cadets at
the United States Military Academy a.
West Point, in the class of 60. They
were Arthur Sher bourne Hardy, John
Brisben Walker, Charles King and John
Savage, whose rooms in the barracks
adjoined
None Of the four dreamed of literary
career. Mr.. Walker and Mr.. Hardy be-
came magazine editors, while Capt.
King and Col. Savage became noted
authors and writers. On the other
hand Gen. Joseph r. lIawley and Gen.
William +. Rogers began life and edi.
tors, but won fame after they had ex.
changed the pen for the sword.
Examples are not lacking in other
lines, as is shown by the experience Of
Francis B. Thurber, who became a
lawyer after long career in business,
and in that of William C. Whitney, who
abandoned law TO become a business
man and capitalist. Mental alertness
will enable young man to quickly ex-
change career for which he is no,
fitted for one in which success will
await his efforts, provided he be made
of the right sort of material. Success,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-13
HAD THE BONES OF A GHOST.
And the People of the Virginia Town
Believe TO This Day That He
Laid the "Hant."

At a ghost party in the old town OF
Alexandria, Va, an old man from
Quantico got the attention of his COM
panions by saying his grandfather was
the only man he ever knew who
whipped a ghost. This is the story:
For long time the ghost ruled the
Did turnpike in our county at certain
seasons, appearing after dark and chas-
.ng belated travellers to Il bridge that
;panned a sluggish stream. YOU could
IT get darly to travel on that pike
IN the night.
MY grandfather was scotfer.
Whenever he heard a ghost story he
uttered a gutfaw which was heard all
over the town where he lived. When
ais laugh was heard people would say:
Old Doc Letcher has downed another
ghost
+"On one occasion, after many banter.
ngs. he went out alone, with the prom
Use to his people that he would remais
away until he had captured the ghost,
if there was such a thing. which he did
not believe. But he would put it to a
test. If the people were right be would
rid the pike of the spook. lie was alb
sent nearly a month, and the commune
ity was nearly ready to conclude that
Doc had met the ghost and got the
worst of it. lie appeared on the stree
one morning and was surrounded and
piled with questions. He promised TO
make a speech in which he would give
IN account Of his adventure.
"As he had been at considerable eX-
oense in his expedition, he informed the
people that he would charge 25 cents
head for the lecture. He spoke TO
houscful. lie gave hair-raising ac-
count of his meeting the ghost and of
their encounter. He was prepared TO
say there had been ghost. The people
were right about il. But they might
take his word for it that there was no
ghost on the pike now. TO prove TO
them, however, that there was none,
he would show his audience the ghosts
remains, assuring them in advance that
il was harmless.
"Thereupon he pulled apart the cur
tains on the plT.forn, and there stood
a skeleton Of a man. Doc explained its
various bones and told how he had got
them together. That was before people
were as smart as they are now, and no
one asked Doc how it was that spirit
had bones.
"But there were no more ghost stor-
les on the pike after that. People be-
leycd Doc. He was referred TO ever
after as the only man who rid the pike
Of the 'hant.' don't think he ever told
anyone of his trip TO New York, where
he bought an articuatcd skeleton and
the people of the town never knew they
paid for it at the rate of 2j cents
head. Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-13
NUMBER Is.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The name Of Shakespeare can pe spelt
1000 different ways. The poet himself
spelt it % ways,
Emperor William was an exhibitor at
a recent antler exhibition in Breslau
and was awarded medal for splendid
90 pointer and q certificate of merit for
roebucl;'s horns.
The emperor of Germany is collect
ing playing cards, He has examples OF
some of the earliest known, and speci-
mems from every country in the world
where they are in common use,
A lady once tried TO get Mr.. Gladstone
to take an interest in Browning, and
one day she persuaded him to listen
while she read him a piece. When she
got TO the end of it he was asleep.
The story is told of Hon. Robert 7,
Lincoln that when he was making out
his first bill as young lawyer for serN-
ices rendered a corporation his precep-
tor happened in and, striking out the
$50 charged, changed it to $500.
Benjamin White, broker, of San
Francisco, owns what he claims to be
the stub of the pencil with which Lin
coin rewrote his Gettysburg speech on
an envelope aboard the train bearing
him to the battlefield. The pencil was
borrowed from and later returned to
Mr.. Whites father, who was with the
presidential party.
Among the 10 countries which add
largely to the supply of new books the
United States occupy the fourth place.
Germany provides nearly twice as
many new publications as the United
States and England combined. The cir
culation figures of successful books are,
however, much larger in these coun-
tries than in Germany.
John Ruskin, at 70, had as keen a
sense of taste MS most men have at 20,
and greatly enjoyed new ilavors. my
palate" he once said, "sewes me now
so well, because when | was child
was given only the plainest food. When
| was n boy, too, j had but one or two
toys and no amusements. Hence the
keen delight which take now in every
little pleasure"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-13
Habitntion LOO Years Old.

A great curiosity is house 1,1o'
years of age, and yet fit for habitc-
ton. This old dwelling, the oldest
inhabited house in England, was built
in the time of King Offa Of Mercia. 1t
Is octagonal in shape, the walls Of its
lower story being of great thickness.
The upper part is Of oak. At one time
the house was fortified and known by
the name of St. Germans gate. 1t
stands close to the river Yer, and only
few yards from st. Adams abbey -
Chicago Chronicle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-13

The name Tugela means fear" and
it has received the name from the
rapidity with which it comes down in
flood. A thunderstorm among the
mountains in which it rises will raise
the river many feet in few minutes
and resident on it's banks declares
that he has seen 1t rise forty feet in q
single night! The current isa all times
exceedingly swift and comparatively
light rise is sufficient to make the drift
impsssable, while u heavy rise will
sweep away any temporary bridge
that may have been erected Chicago
Chronicle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-13
He Mnn The Game.

'How is your brother, Tommy"
"Sick in bed; he's hurt himself"
"How did he do thst?"
1--WE were playing at who could lean
furthest out Of the window, and he
won."-Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-04-13
A Cnnnhle Woman.

Jones--Brown married a very capa.
ble woman didn't he?
Smith, guess so. At least she
seems to be capable Of making living
for both Of them,-Detro.t Free Press.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-23

ing New Orleans insurance agency, com
mitted suicide in his Office by shooting
himself through the head. Despondence
over the death of his wife is believed to
have unbalanced his mind.
Forty brass candlesticks, eight silver
candlesticks and several small vessels
from the altar of the Cathedral of the
Assumption in Louisville. Ky, Were
found in the room of Joseph O'Brien. Il
recent convert. when search was made
there by the detectives. O'Brien won
the confidence of the church authorities
by fcigning great piety.
A Southern Pacific passenger train
was going ut full speed across the tres
tie over the Lacasine bayou, near Lake
Charles, La. when the tender jumped the
track and broke loose from the engine.
The engine went on and the nine coaches
were. thrown in every direction. The
trestle was completely demolished. On
board the train were $50 persons, and
the fact that only one boy was killed is
beyond explanation.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-23
SOUTHERN.

Jack Belts, negro, was lynched mt
Corinth, Miss. A mob took him from Jail
and hanged him 10 u telegraph pole On
the public square.
The Langstaff Hardware Company of
Memphis assigned, scheduling liabilities
Of $4,000, with assets said to be sufii-
cient to pay all creditors.
John Koenig was killed, Mrs. L.
Schweitzer badly burned and seven other
persons We're injured in Z boiler explosion
Mt the works Of the Carbolineum Wood
Preserving Company in New Orleans.
The Southern train from Augusta was
wrecked ut Tennille, Ga. and thirteen
people were hurt badly. Several others
were injured less seriously. The train
broke in two Oh a steep sra!e and the
two sections collided.
Agents of Armour & Co, of Chicago.
have begun work on the square bounded
by Main street and the river and Brook
and Floyd streets, in Louisville. Ky.
which recently was purchased for the
site of the 81 $685. packing plant.
At Cylvania, Ga, X. L. Harrington
and Milton Mears were shot and killed
'by two negroes named Alexander, as a
result of a quarrel caused by the buggy
in which the negroes were riding collid
ing with that in which We're Harrington
and Mears.
Four employees of the steamer Hill City
en- route from New Orleans to Memphis,
lost their lives at Blue Point Landing,
Miss. The men were engaged in re-
pairing the wheel Of the steamer, when
the plank gave way and they Were pre-
cipitated into the river.
Erasmus Fenner Henderson. president
Of Sam Henderson's Sons & Co., lead
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-23
FOREIGN.

Fifteen persons were killed and forty
injured in the railroad wreck near Rome
Severe floods have occurred in Japan
and it is reported that 200 persons have
been drowned. Railway traffic was inter
rupted.
An attempt was made to poison the
Chinese minister at Paris by means OF
poisoned flowers.
Colonel Grassa has surrendered his
band Of FilipinOs to Colonel Freeman
near Tayug.
Emperor Of Germany has forbidden
the usual celebration ut Metz of the war
of 1870 with France
Shah of Persia bet 600 ON horse race
at Ostend, won and gave the money to
the poor of the city.
Sultan OF Turkey has ordered the con-
struction Of a telegraph line between Iu-
dia and COnstantinOple.
According to a special dispatch Barber
ton has been proclaimed the new seat OF
the Transvaal Government.
Citizens of Limoge. France. objected 10
n hospital for consumptives and stored ii
until it was ordered closed.
British War Correspondent A. G. Hale,
says the imperial troops in South Africa
are being starved owing to red tape and
wretched methods.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse was first Of
the racing ocean liners to reach the other
side, making new record OF 5 days 10
hours and A minutes to CherbOurg.
a youth about 20 years old was arrest
ed at Leipsic who admits having con-
spired to kill King Albert of Saxony. He
says he was appointed by lot to perform
the deed, but that his courage failed him.
A terrible mistake occurred at the TAX
Ing Of Yang-tsun. Russian artillery
opened fire on the American troops. Be
fore the mistake was discovered many
American soldiers had been killed or
wounded by the Russian shells.
Count Boni de Castellane is financially
embarrassed. His beautiful summer
place, Chateau de Marais, is to be sold
ut auction. 1t is said in Paris that his
wife, Jay GOuld's youngest daughter, de-
clines to give him more money.
A serious car accident resulting in in
juries to thirty-five persons occurred in
Paris. Two cars, one driven by electric
power. approached the intersection and,
being unable to stop, cQllided at right
angles, the horse. car turning over and
causing the widest confusion inside.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-23

mined. 1t appears to be accepted that
some Of the powers will keep their mill
tary forces in China, ut least until all
questions growing out Of the crisis are
settled. This is expected to involve Iues-
tions, not only Of money indemnity, but
Of territorial extension on the part Of
some Of the European parties to the con-
troyersy. 1t is not believed that the
United States will be party to
any such territorial controversy, as
the declaration Of Secretary Hay,
made at the beginning Of the trou-
bic, fOrecasted the purpose Of this Gov
ernment to seek to preserve Chinese ter
ritorial and administrative entity.
There have been many changes in the
situation since that declaration was
made. and yet it seems to clearly indicate
that if territorial extension is one Of the
seauels to the crisis. the United States
will not be party to it. Chinese officials
are apprehensive that long period Of
diplomatic exchange may follow the
crisis, covering six months or year, dur
ing which Germany. France and some Of
the other powers will keep armies on
Chinese soil to re-enforce extreme de-
mands of money and territorial indem-
nifty With China s present impotent con-
dition there appears to be no issue out Of
this long struggle but her eventually
yielding to the various demands.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-23

scented the wealth, culture and refinement
of the entire civilized world. They were
guarded by 400 marines representing the
United States, Great Britain, France.
Germany. Russia, Italy and Japan. These
400 men deiied and held mt bay the mill
ions of the Chinese capital for weeks.
Night and day, almost without ceas;ng.
they We're under the rifle and artillery fire
of the Chinese imperial troops, but they
prevented the massacre of every foreign
er in Pekin. As an act of bravery the
conduct of this handful of marines stands
ont almost without parallel in history.
The siege of the foreigners in the Brit
ish legation at Pekin practically began
on June 10. For months before that date
the Boxers had been persistent liz their
attacks on foreign missionaries in Pc
Chilli and ShanTung provinces. In Pc
kin the anti-foreign element was daily
growing boider.
The diplomatic corps met in Pekin on
May 26 and unanimously decided that the
failure of the TsunSi Yamen to reply to
the joint note of May 70 made the pres
ence of guards for the legations impera
tive, and they We're summoned ten days
later.
The international guards were landed
at Taku on May %, and on May 81 they
left Tien-tsin by special train for Pekin.
The combined force was made up as fol
lnwS.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-23
IN GENERAL.

Typhoid fever is raging in Manitoba.
over 100 cases having appeared in Win
nipeg alone.
Steamers Merwin, ResOlute and Dollar
were wrecked on the coast of ALASKA and
fifteen persons drowned.
Thompson Sticxle's design for the Nan
cy Hanks monument, to be erected over
her grave. has been accepted.
The little town Of Columbia, B. c., in
the well-known Boundary creek mining
district. was reduced to ashes. The loss
will be close to $15OOOO.
The Hamburg-Amcrican Line steamer
Deutschland made new record for the
eastward passage. and the fastest time
ever attained by any ocean steamer
i've days eleven hours and forty-five min
utes.
Fire broke out in the cargo Of the Gym
ric on her way from Queenstown to New
York and ragged for thirty-six hours, un-
til the fore compartment was flooded.
Heroic work was done by the captain
and crew.
The output of the Klondike district
and that part Of Forty Mile on the Ca
madam side, is estimated at 100000
this season. 1t was $15,OOO.OOO last sea-
son. The Forty Mile share will not
reach $5OO.OOO.
The criminal element is again in the
saddle at Nome, according to passengers
who arrived from the north by the Cen
tennial. Greatest Indignation has been
aroused by the discovery Of at least three
atfemnfS IN hurn tho cifv
Parejita, the well-knOwn bandit, was
killed at PalmO SOriano, about twenty
miles from Santiago de Cuba. He was
shot by corporal Of the rural guard.
This outlaw, who was Cuban mulatto,
had been terrOrizins the country for sew
eral years.
Six years ago William Henderson and
Walter Moore lived on adjoining farms
near st. Johns, n. b. They became at
tentive to each others wives. Hender-
son and Mrs. Moore eloped and came to
Long Island, his wife becoming Moore's
nousekeeper. The husbands have agreed
that a mistake was made and have ex-
changed wives for the second time.
Correspondence captured by Gen Fun
stOn's command in LuzOn is made public
Among the letters was one from DR. Lev
ersOn of Brooklyn, \. ", to q. Apacible,
in which the writer declares the action of
the United States in the war is piracy
and advises the Filipinos to capture some
United States officer Of high rank and try
him before their congress on this charge.