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The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-25
The Bio Pursers.

lhe steamer Rio arrived Sunday
morning from San Francisco. two davs
late. She had aboard the Porto Ricans
but not all of them. as out OF the origi-
nnl number hut 5s arrived Besides
tfese iahorers there were lot of Ital
fans for the cane fields. Former Pur-
ser Rufandeau and his bride were pas
sengers returning here TO locate. and
Purser Rooney. who has succeeded
Buffandesu on the Rio. is on his old
run agSin after an absence Of about
nine wears. He used To come here in
the Old Oceanic and was for a time ON
the Arabic. Since going OF this run
he has been on the Panama route and
has made several trips to Nome and
M the Yukon river. In short ex-
cursion made aoout town Yesterday
the old purser noted many changes
and asked for several people who have
long since shuriei Of this mortal coil
or gone hence 10 pastures new.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-25
Tire Transport Logan.

The big transport Logan arrived
Sunday on time. She had rough
trin from San Francisco. but never
theless got here on schedule and
would probably have arrived Satur-
day had il not been for the weather.
She IS under rush orders and after
taking a supply of coal aboard got
away for Manila last evening.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-25
Twiiieh. Arrives unseaworshy.

Just before dark on Sunday the NJ.
tie American schooner Twilight raada
port She is from Washington Island
with q CARGO OF two hundrea TINS af
copra for San Francisco. and put in
here in distress She was boarded OF
Waikiki bv Pilot Lorenren. and the
wind being favorable the little vessel
was sailed into the harbor and an
chored OF the end Of the old fshrar-
ket wharf.
On the sth ~ this mcrsh. waen
about 500 miles north OF this port cs
the way to San Francisco q terrihls
storm was encountered. which, ed con-
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-25
YESTERDAY > WEATHER.

Diamond Head Signal Station-ro
p m--Weather cloudy; wind, light
Southwest
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visible in the tremendous shower. The
steamer City OF Peking which vas
waiting outside for the Logan TO get
onl Nas soon also invisible from shore
entered the channel soon after
1ogsn left however and vent TO
sayy wharf
Peking is a full day ahead Of
u. but when he was last here Cap
tafn Smith said he would be here 70
speuc Christmas eve and he was true
% hts word. The vessel mas a good
deaf of freight for this port but no
pass myers. I'd To the time of going
20 press the sailing time OF the Peking
had not been set, bui il is probable
thai she wlil get away today sometime.
TIE harkentine Robert Sudden, 3
days from Newcastle. and the ship
John Currier. arrived yesterday. The
barkentine came into the harbor but
the ship arrived too late to enter and
had TO anchor outside all night. She
was IS DAYS out from Seattle and has
been within sight OF the islands for
Gays The vessel has large cargo OF
line. grain and supplies for the Rapid
Transit Co. She is consigned TO N.
J. Bissell.
1ae steamer :. aialeale was the only
steamer Of the Inter-Island feet leav
Ing the harbor yesterday. She took
che laborers brought by the Warrimoo
10 Kauai The schooner Fannie Adele
got IN yesterday and will leave again
at the end OF the week. The Mama
I.oa which was expected yesterday
did not arrive, but is almo. certain
40 be II today. Her non-arriyal is due
the immense freight taken by her
Oh the last outward trip. The dis
charging of this has made her late.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-12-25

STERDAY afternoon rs
the transport Logan vas
leaving the harbor the
rain which had been
threatening all day began
TO descend in torrents and
the vessel was soon in
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
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The News y

The worlds trouble center now shifts
TO Pekin.
Aguinaido has been quiet for the last
few days, as becomes dead man.
Like most forms of vegetation. ice
plants also flourish best in warm
weather.
The Kansas City landlords have for
mally adapted the ratio of sixteen guests
to one room.
The Beers win perhaps demonstrate
their originality by making their last
ditch kopje.
Talking Of the wall Of China. evidently
the powers would now ike to see big
partition there.
The cold facts concerning the New
York ice uus. send the shivers down
Tammany's backbone.
The only hope for Nicely may lie in the
faet that be possibly held ont money
enough To employ the best legal talent.
1t wla cost Uncle sam SI6.000.0Q0 70
count al orr noses. OF about - cents for
each nose
The peace conference At The Hagne
continues g % its werk. italy has or
dcred four new armored cruisers.
II Dom Panl continues 10 keep his
headquarters in q sleeping car his for
tune must gradually be absorbed 81 the
tips te the porter
Congress debated everything on the
earth during its session aid appropriate
IL quarreled over the ocean at closing.
The sea was all that was left.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
HEAT sREAks THERMOMETERS.
Arizona Has Summer weathe- that
Cannot Be Recorded

Arizona Has Summer Weather that
Cannot Be Recorded.
The cottonwoods have shed their cat
erpillars, there has been a thunder
storm. mesquite wood has fallen in
price, Indians are selling bows and ar
rows, the rose and the oleander have
long been out, oranges are in bloom,
the umbrella tree is putting out It's
leaves, last summers suit has been
cleaned and pressed, the small boy has
gone swimming in the canal, the wise
man stays up nights and steals irriga-
ton water from his neighbors, alfalfa
is almost ready to cut, strawberries
have been shipped, mulberries are
nearly ripe, summer will soon be here
and the Phoenix summer bedroom VIII
soon be necessary.
Phoenix sleeps out of doors in the
summer and the bedroom is born out of
that necessity. 1t is on stills, is built
of wire screen of fine mesh, for the
Phoenix mosquito is microscopic in
size. 1t is furnished, according to the
taste of the occupant, with interior cur
tains to keep out the morning sun, the
gaze of the curious and the sandstorm
The bed is a cot of canvas or woven
wire, covered, perhaps, with sheet,
but even sheet feels like a feather
bed on Phoenix summer night. The
bed covering is the roof of the bed
room, and careless folks who consult
their comfort only don't wear night
shirts.
Phoenix is proud of its climate dur
ing eight months of the year, but ii
doesn't talk much in public about its
midsumer 1t is a right warm day
when the Government weather bureau
doesn't know what the sun tempera-
ture is and is unable to determine it,
and that is how hot it gets in Phoenix
| called on Observer Burns one day
last July and asked him what the ''of-
ficiaP' temperature was in the sun. He
said he did not know and that the Gov
eminent couldn't afford to experiment
to that end He said he had attempted
to catch the sun temperature during
the summer of 1898 and had broken
So thermometer in the attempt To
please my curiosity he hung a Their
mometer in the sun, watched it until
it registered 1856 degrees, and then took
it in, fearing it would break.
The dryness of the atmosphere re
lieves this great heat of any terrors
to all living things except women and
cats. There is a saying in Phoenix that
women in summer and cats are neEv-
ously Frustrated, while men and dogs
thrive and grow fat. There is luxury
in quenching ones thirst during the
summer heat that is possible nowhere
this side of the hereafter, and nothing
will quench it so well as water. The
average mortal can drink a gallon of
water per day during the heated time
and apparently every drop of it comes
out through the pores of the skim
Phoenix Graphic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
PRICES STILL HIGH AT DAWSON.
Board and Lodging at 5000 a Month
in the Mining Town.

Board and Lodging at 5000 Month
in the Mining Town.
Some interesting matter concerning the
conditions in Dawson City and the Yu-
kon district has been furnished the State
Department in recent report from Unit
ed States Consul J. G. McCook. "Daw-
son. he says, lis beginning to present a
more substantial appearance. Claims are
now being prepared for sluicing; that is,
for washing the gold from the large
dumps of earth taken out of the claims
during the winter months. Residents are
very much gratifed at the excellent mail
service, the mail coming and going regu-
larly every week all through the past
winter. Provisions are little cheaper
in some lines, but there is no change in
the cost of living, and board and lodging
at $500 a month, eggs at SO per dozen,
orangese at 81 each, and apples of ques-
tionable quality costing 80 cents apiece.
are examples of the high prices at Daw-
son City.
The license on saloons has been re-
duced from 81, 500 per annum to 81 500.
A duty of 50 per gallon is assessed on
all wines, liquors and beer brought into
the Yukon territory. BY August it is
expected that the White Pass and Yukon
Railroad will have been extended seventy
miles to White Horse, and from there in
the summer months the steamers can
make the run to Dawson City in a couple
of days. All kinds of boats are being
fitted up in Dawson to convey people to
Cape Nome, but as many people care
into Dawson last winter as went out"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
ORIGIN OF THE "eoxsRs."
Murderous Chinese Secret Society I

Murderous Chinese Secret Society Is
Two Hundred and Fifty Years Old.
The Boxer society, which is responsible
for the present troubles in China, is not
of recent origin. 1t had its rise more
than $50 years ago and was originally
an organization of radicals who are in
favor of oyerthrowing the Manchu SOW
ereignty and restoring the great Ming dy-
nasty. The present troubles may be re-
lated back to the disputes between the
progressive party which had the Emperor
for its fgurehead and the conservative
party of the empress dowager. It will
be remembered that the Emperor blos-
somed out as reformer and issued sew
eral edicts WHICH made the representa-
tives of China shudder with aversion and
dismay Competent critics said at the
time that his methods were so crude and
arbitrary as to be utterly impractical,
though they were inspired by correct mo-
tives. Events justified their predictions
Superstitions, long-established customs
and abuses could not be overcome at
word and the reform movement played
right into the hands of the Empress.
After the Empress was restored to
power the zee Ho Chuan righteousness,
harmony and fists, hence Boxers) mar
shaled their already well-organized secret
society to assist in the work of discour-
aging those reformers who were-not dis
couraged enough already, and to help
check the foreign devils, among whom,
in spite of the contradiction in terms,
were the missionaries. AS time passed
checking became numbering, and the
wicked old woman either allotted or
winked at the crime. That is why the
imperial troops have made no Roadway
against the so-called rebellion and why
the powers have united in self-protection.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19

DR.. McTavish was something OF a
yentriloquist, and he wanted lad to
assist in the surgery. who must neces-
sarily be of strong nerve.
He received several applications, and
when telling a lad what the duties
were, in order to test his nerves, he
would say, pointing to grinning skel-
et0n:
Part of your work would be to feed
the skeleton, and while you are here,
you may as well have try to do SO"
A few lads would consent TO a trial,
and received a basin of hot Cruel and
a spoon.
While they were pouring hot mass
into the skull, the doctor would throw
his voice so as to make it appear to
proceed from the jaws of the bony Gus
TONER and gurgle out:
"Gr-r-r-gr-uh. That's hotr'
This was too much, and. without ex-
ception, the lads dropped the basin and
bolted
The doctor began TO despair of ever
getting a suitable helpmate until a
small boy came.
After the first spoonful the skeleton
appeared to say:
"Gr-r-r-uhr-hr! That's hot"
Shoveling in the scalding Cruel as
fast as ever, the boy raped the skull
and impatiently retorted:
'Well, jist blow ont, We auld bonyr'
The. doctor engaged the lad on the
spot,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
Cigars at S. a Piece.

Cigars are more costly in London
than here, remarked a traveller the 9TH
er day. Here the most expensive cigar
/ have ever seen exposed for sale costs
81, whereas in London / have fire.
quently seen them OF so fine grade as
to call for the expenditure of $3.50 be-
fore you could smoke one, and cigars
costing So apiece have been sold in
London, but only in block, and never
by single sale. 1t is in connection with
the So cigar that they tell a story over
there to the effect that lot of thou
sand were offered to the Duke of West
minister, England's richest peer, by a
dealer, whereupon the duke, replying
that he was altogether too poor man
to smoke SO expensive a cigar, ordered
the entire importation sent to the
Prince of Wales and the bill to him
self.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
a SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR.
He Gets Ont Handbooks of Various Me
chauicaI Businesses.

CndHIstaI buS10eSSC8s
Il came down from New York this
week said a well-known book drum
mer, with a gentleman who is one II
the most successful authors of the day
money as Kipling perhaps more, for
his works have a great deal larger sale
YET, If mention his name you would
tell me you never heard of it, at least
not in connection with letters. His
story, which l happen to know, is Gu
rious and interesting. A good many
years ago he was invoice clerk in big
paint and glass house, when it occur
red to him to get up a painters man
ual,' or collection of formulas, tables,
recipes, and so on. of value 20 workmen
in the business. He compiled the data
from all sorts of sources and talked
publisher into getting it out on a roy
atty. 1t was a slender little volume
that sold fer 80 cents, and, being cram
med full of information of practical,
everyday utility, it proved an enor-
nous success. The publisher couldn't
print it fast enough, and, although a
dozen other manuals have since ap-
peared, 1t is still steady seller, and
the royalty never falls under a thou
sand a year.
When he made that lucky hit the
young man quit clerking and turned
his attention to getting up similar
small works of reference. He prepar-
ed handbook for sign writer's. anoth-
er for carpenters, another for stone ma
sons, still another for gas filters, and
but | can't begin to remember them
all. OF course, he knew nothing per-
sonally about many of these trades,
but his sound common sense stood him
instead, and the work was entirely
one of judicious compilation. Moreover,
he always engaged a practical work
man to go over the manuscript and
give him suggestions and advice before
1t went to the printer. All of these lit
tie books were successful, and some of
them have been revised and brought
up-to-date half a dozen times. In addi-
ton TO what have mentioned, he has
published a lot of others on various
trade topics. One of the most profita-
bic was a vest-pocket book of handy
facts for mechanics 1t was the re-
suit of several years collection of odds
and ends from magazines, newspapers
and technical journals. Whenever he
would see paragraph of special inter
est to working machinist he would
cut it out Now it would be a recipe
for removing rust from tools, and,
again, some new method of keeping
belts from slipping, and at last he had
enough material for volume that net
ted him over $4,000 profit.
"At present he is taking thi1gs easy,
but he pines for fame. He told me on
the cars that he was going to write
novel as soon as he completed a soap
makers guide that he has on the
stocks. New Orleans Times Demo
crat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
COST OF THE SPANISH WAR,
About $3SS, 1000 Has Been Expend
ed Since the Maine Was Sunk

About $3SS, 100000 Has Been Expend-
ed Since the Maine Was Sunk.
No official statement has been prepared
of the cost of the Spanish war, but w.
L. MacLennan, chief of the division of
bookkeeping and warrants of the Treas
ury Department, has memorandum bas-
ed on the money advanced to various dis
bursting officers, which shows that $685.
100000 has been withdrawn from the
public treasury to defray expenses grow
ing out of the Spanish and Philippine
wars, as we'll as the expenses incident to
preparation for hostilities This covers
the national defense fund, the expenses
of the Paris peace commission and the
$20,00o,000 paid TO Spain for the Phil
ippines.
In this connection it may be interesting
TO note the expenditures of the fighting
departments of the Government during
recent years. In 1896 the expenditures
of the War Department were $50. $50
900; in 1897, S4S, 1850, 26T; in 1898, S91,-
$4,000, and during the fiscal year end
ing June So 1899, they were $229, S41,-
2o4. During the eleven months of the
present fiscal year the expenditures were
$126, 400, 544
During the fiscal year 1896 the expen-
ditures of the Navy Department were
So. 147, 1872; in 1897, $S4, 561 $40; in 1898.
SIS, S23, 9S4; in 1899, sos, 942, 1O4, and
during the eleven months Of the present
fiscal year SOL. 039, 52S.
There has been an annual deficiency in
the revenues during recent years, amount
Ing in 1897 TO $1S,052, 454, in 1895 to
SSS,047 ,24I, and in 1899 to SS9.111, 559.
During the present fiscal year different
condition is shown, the statement issued
by the Treasury Department on May 81
placing the excess Of receipts over ex-
penditurcs TO that date at 500. 500. 142.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue VIII
Sen says that during the last fiscal year
the. var revenae act produced a revenue
Of $40, 90 co. and that Tie returns this
year are exceeding those OF last Year. He
estimates that at the close of the present
fiscal year, on the Both of June, the Re-
eeipts from the war revenue act will be
$40, 600, 600, making the total revenues
derived from that source during the two
fiscal years about SOD. 10000. The sur
plus is accommodating in the treasury az
the rate OF about 5000. 600 a month.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
Large Canadtan Families.

A newspaper of Quebec lately told of
the marriage of a Montreal widower
with twelve to Quebec widow with
eleven children, and this brought out
from a correspondent bigger story.
1t is that some years ago Louis Lem
ieux, of ST. Henri, father of twelve
children, married Mime. Letourneau,
mother of twelve. They We're we'll
TODD people, and united their progeny
under one roof. The registrar of the
district attests the truth of the state
ment, and says that he was the notary
and friend of the couple, and Eat the
wedding dinner | saw the twenty-four
children seated at the bridal table, and
happy at being united in one family.
All remained together under the par
entail roof for some years, and never
was the peace and harmony of this
patriarchal dwelling disturbed by
troubles between parents or children"
He tells how, one by one, the twenty
four children married, ito create other
families" and to-day the old couple
live in comfort and respect in the vii
lage of st. Henri.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
FOOD IN ITS TRUE coLoRs.
Labels in Illinois Must Tell if Goods
Are Aduiterated.

1IG
The Illinois grocer who has been selling
adulterated goods with the ferventl assur-
ance that the articles were pure as ma
ture could make them is soon to appear
in his true colors to his customers. July
] the new Illinois pure food law goes into
effect and from that day forward every
label on every package of food stuff must
tell the truth and the whole truth about
the quality of the goods or the man re-
sponsible for falsehood will be liable to
fine and Imprisonment.
July / will be the day when every gro-
Gerry store is off with the old label and on
with the new, and when the ''pure maple
strip" of yesterday will become the plain
glucose" of tomorrow. "Currant jelly
will no more appear stamped in big let
tiers on the outside of tubs of colored
glucose with added tartaric acid Apple
butter" that never needed the products
of the orchard to produce it will have a
new name all its own, from which the
word apple is carefully excluded Coffee
and chicory mixed together will no longer
go forth to the innocent mans breakfast
table as coffee" but will have to take
its place as coffee compound among the
many kinds of substitute coffees now on
the market Circus lemonade is to be one
of the benefciaries of the new law. There
is an absolute prohibition OF the sale of
lemon extract" which has less than 3
per cent of pure lemon oil, and the flavor
of the fruit will consequently be in the
cheapest of street lemonade. The honey
of the future in Illinois will be carefully
distinguished from "adultcrated honey"
and compound extract of vanilla and
tonka" will for most persons take the
place of what is at present sold as
straight extract of vanilla. Also, every
can of baking powder sold in the future
must bear q specific statement as to
whether it is an alum, phosphate or
cream of tartar powder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
sun POWER IN WELL DIGGING.

Machine for Making the Heat of the
Sun Pump Water.
Many inventors have experimental
with the suns heat, with various OBJ
jects in view, and some have succeed
ed in making it produce steam and
electric power, but not to much profit
Now, however, it appears that William
Calver of Washington has invented a
machine for doing practical work in
the arid districts. He is about to set
up one of his sun power machines in
Arizona, near Phoenix, and dig wells
there.
His plan is to make the intense heat
of that hottest part of the United
States develop the power to pump up
water enough to irrigate all the barren
land.
Everybody knows what a transfer
nation little water makes on a des-
ert, producing an oasis of tropical YER
dure, while all beyond this watered
space is desolation and death. 1t is
usually so expensive to drill wells and
pump the water on a desert that it
does not pay to reclaim the waste land
But if the overabundance of sunshine
on the desert can be utilized the prob
lem is solved
Mr.. Calver's machine consists of a
set of big mirrors and lenses, by which
he focuses the suns rays as boy does
with burning glass. The heat which
can be generated by Mr.. Calver's ma
chine is said to be equal to a furnace
for a 500-horse power boiler.
With such power as this available
wherever one sees fit to set up his plant
it is easy to see how well-drilling and
water pumping can be done ON large
scale. Biologists have found in recent
years that our southwestern deserts
have almost numberless subterranean
streams flowing at depths varying
from twenty-five to $50 feet below the
dry, parched surface of the earth. So
there need be no lack Of water if the
borings are intelligently directed
The amount of arid lands which lie
in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Texas and Colorado is estimated to be
at least 50O,000,O00 acres. This is rem
dered useless by the need of water,
and the reclamation of this land would
add billions of dollars to ihe wealth Of
the country.
In many sections Of Colorado and
other States in which irrigation is used
the best farming lands in the country
are those which were formerly worth
less and are now artifcially watered,
and the very finest crops in the land
are grown there
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19
The Heat of the Sun.

1t is estimated that the earth receives
not more than thousand millionth
par of the total radiation of the suns
rays. If any considerable proportion
of this heat We're concentrated upon
the earth it would not only become IN
inhabitable, but become speedily CON
sumed. If the great accumulation or
ice at the North Pole We're placed at u
point on which this tremendous heat
could be focused it would melt at the
rate of three hundred millions of miles
of solid ice per second, and the heat in
estimated to generate energy at the
rate of about ten thousand horsepower
to every square foot of surface.