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The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21
Nerve onic.
Builds up Tho System. Strengthens.

This warm climate is very trying to
all. Tho blood easily becomes impure
and the nervous system greatly dcbil-
tated. But you can retain your health
and keep your nervous system strong.
This is the portrait of Mr.. William
Tanning, OF Bcaconsfeld, Fremantle,
Western Australia. In his letter he says:
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

meeting NJ rhnrsa plilAana vii LAP
held On Friday nlKht 90 decide what
attorney vii hr HNlprlui 90 ffplehnnl
ihsm M Wellington
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

There Is a serious financial crisis In
Germany owing to the decline In mort
gage bonds.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

The Australian woman's suffrage bill
was passed December 18th, aa Well al
the old peoples pension bill
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

Former King Milan Is reported q
have become engaged TO Miss Atze
an American heiress.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

The German consul 40 iOuTenso
Marques viii act Tor Holland IN the
absence NJ a Dutch consul AZ that
port .L!.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

Trafio Manager w, A, Bissell, OF the
Santa 20, declared on the 18th instant
that the strike was defeated,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

Tho Argentine government ID said 10
have opened bids Tor tho Transandean
Railway an the basis ~ fl,sO0,0OO,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

There was a heavy run on the Har-
lem savings Bank Now York CITY,
December lsth. Tho bank paid out
100000 aud 100000 op tho 18th,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21

Nature has written letter ~ credit
90 some meme faeas which Is hOAoTei
wherever presented ThAekefaY,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-12-21
LAVE: RS
Sarsapari|Ia

1 thought would try 1t. did so, and only
three bottles restored my strength built up
my system, and cured my dyspepsia. And l
have also found 1t great nerve tonic"
If you are bilious. constipated, or are
troubled with headache, take Ayers Pills.
Prepared by Or. J. c. Aver Co.. Lowell Mass. u SA
HOLLISTER DRUG CO., Agents.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
His schemo to win a Girl.

che was a good fellow" said he,
"but young and without much capital.
The girl was a beauty and loved the
boy, but the father objected, and de-
manded that the boy show that he was
capable of supporting a wife. This
was in st. Louis about ten years ago,
and the boy came to me with his
troubles.
"'Never mind, said'I. TIL fix it
up all right. By the way, how much
will you take for your right leg?'
"He looked at me as though 1 were
crazy, but made no answer.
"'Tll give you $4,000 for it, said
I. will you take it?'
"'No, 1 won't, said he. 'What do
you take me for?'
"Well, 1 knew the girls father; he
was q merchant, and L called to see
him. We finally drifted around to
talking about this young fellow, and
the old man Aared little, stating that
he wanted some ono who could sup
port a wife to have his daughter.
"'Support o WIFE,, said /, in sur
prise; why, he certainly can do all
that. Only few days ago he refused
$40, 900 for piece of property.
"'His own property?' asked the
father. Certainly said I.
who offered him the money!
asked he.
"'I did, and he refused it, I an
swered. He claimed it was worth
more
"Well, this made a hit, sud no
more questions were asked. The boy
is doing we'll now, and has a good
family. I haven't spoken to the father
since. ."-Washington Times.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

Two years before her uncle had
made will making her, his only liv-
ing relative, his sole heiress.
On her arrival in the city, however,
she had been shown a will drawn up
by her uncle on his death-bed. in
which he left his entire property to
his friend.
She could conceive of no reason for
such a strange act, aud, distrusting
the friend, had sought out a lawyer.
Luckily she was unacquainted with
the names of our distinguished law
yers. My glaring gold sign had been
the first to catch her eye, and so she
called upon me.
"rhe case certainly looks suspi-
cious, " remarked. "I think L will be
able to make fight in your behalf.
Now, will you kindly furnish me with
the names of these parties?"
''My uncle, sir, was Andrew Thur
ber. His friend calls himself Martin
Brown"
Involuntarily my pen dropped from
my surprised fingers. 1t was the very
will had drawn up myself.
She turned pale as Irelated the cir
cumstances and arose to leave.
''I see L have made an awkward
mistake in calling upon you," she
said, sadly.
"Wait one moment" I replied.
quickly. "This Martin Brown is a
total stranger to me. If he has been
engaged in an act of villainy 1 shall
not shield him"
We entered into a close conversa-
ton, at the end of which said, con-
fdently:
"Leave the case to me. If I fail it
shall be through no fault of niue"
She accepted my offer with thanks
and left me, thinking deeply.
During the interview had learned
that the deceased had no scar upon
his right hand. Now, certain of viii
lainy in the affair, I set to work dill
gently to find it out.
Working cautiously, I found the
man who had lain the body out for
buTial. From him 1 learned that he
had performed his task on the morn
Ing Of Juue %, just ten hours before
was called upon to draw up the will.
The will had been already offered for
probate, SO there was no time to be
lost.
Andrew Thurber's body was disin.
tered and the contents of the stom.
ach analyzed. 1t was found to con.
tain poison.
By some means the sly wretch got
wind of my movements aud attempted
to fly. At that moment the detectives
seized him. Confronted by the terri
BILE proofs, he made full confession.
Before his trial came off he ended
his life by swallowing a quantity Of
the same deadly poison with which he
had killed his victim.
Miss Thurber met with no further
obstacles in regaining her rights.
Something still more important hap
pened to me from my connection with
the case. wooed and won the beau
tiful girl for my wife. AS Stanley
Ferris remarked arterward, "gained
fame and fortune with a rush"
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

The popular election of senators,
according to pol made by the New
York Herald, is favored by % ont Of
SG governors who answered the Her
AIDS request for an opinion on this
subject. OF the opposing governors,
majority are in New England. In
the West and South, the sentiment OF
the governors, and, according to their
state nent, of the people, is very
strongly in favor Of an amendment
which will provide for the popular
election of senators.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
Risks Too Great.

A stable lad was taken i'll on visit
to London, aud a friend gave him the
address of doctor to whom to go.
The lad camo back shortly and re-
ported progress.
"rve got some medicine" said lie
"but I'm blowed it 1 went to that doc
tor of yoursl"
"Why?" asked his friend.
"Well," replied the boy, 'I was
just about to go in when I saw on tho
door plate his name, 'Dr. x and be-
low.it 10 20 L. When I saw that
said to myself. Til be hanged if 1
take any such risks as that' SO l
went two doors further, and saw an
otlser plate, with Or. Y, and below
it g to g. The odds were shorter,
and went to him. "--Poarson's 3
Weekly.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
TO NY OWN.
ny EDWIN L. sAB1S.

ny EDWIN L, sADIN.
The squirrel lies hid IN his hollow tree,
All wrapped I'm his long, soft tall
The rabbit IS snuggled rs snug can be
IN his homo meath the old fence rail;
The partridge Is only bunch Of down
Where thickest the arching brush
They In the forest and We in the town,
Hush, my honey-boy, hush.
The fleid-moIse curls In velvet ball
Far under the dead swamp grass;
In HIS hole by the frozen waterfall
The mink dreams Oft OF the bass;
And every chick of the ground and air
Is cuddled in haven deep
So here, In the glow OF tho tlreliGht fair,
Sleep, my honey-boy, sleep.
The north wind romps with the whlrling
snow;
Sly Jack Frost noses about;
But wood and field are abed-for no,
Not even the owl Is out.
And here, where the motherkin's breast Is
warm,
And motherkin's arms are tight,
Safe from the snow and the frost and storm,
Goodnight, honey-boy, goodnight.
Saturday Evening Post.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
A Cure For LeprOsy.

Two dozen specimens of the plant
known in Venezuela as the tau tau
have been sent from Washington to
Hawaii for the purpose of making a
test of its alleged power as q cure for
leprosy. The plant will be tested at
the leprosy hospitals there, where
1913 lepers will afford every facility
for thorough trial. Surgeon Car
michel, Of the Marine Hospital, has
also sent half dozen bottles OF the
liquid preparation to Molakai, and
this will be used for immediate tests
while plants will be set out aud culti-
vated, with the purpose of providing
unlimited fresh matter for further use.
Wonderful stories are current in Ven
ezuela about the marvellous curative
properties of tua tua when applied to
leprosy, and the Government ply
sicians attach considerable Importance
to the evidence given them. II is
proposed also to test it in the island
Of Guam, that tiny speck of Pacific
land that came TO us with our otlser
Spanish war acquisitions.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

The demonstration in south Africa
of the enormous advantage modern
arms give to the defence suggests,
moreover, that there has occurred a
change in the conditions Of warfare it.
self and that British misfortunes
there have been due to it rath IT than
to auy mere defect in the particular
British military system. Hereafter,
this little war with the Beers is likely
to afford more material for the study
of military men the world over than
they will find in many of the greatest
contests of history.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

V KSY ITH the brain of q Nine.
NM de Stael, the determina-
V V tion of a Charlotte Cor
day and the luck OF Cy-
rano de Bergerac, all twisted, may
hap, but still so pronounced that they
made their possessor almost a beggar
instead of a queen. Ann Purkin,
seller of newspapers aud writer Of
poems and essays, died in bed Of
charity at st. Alexis Hospital, Cleve-
land, Ohio, few weeks ago, aged
fifty years. For a score of years she
had been the most picturesque figure
of Cleveland streets from the fact that
she wore the clothes that it pleased
her to wear. For most of those years
she has been hungry, at least part of
the days, simply because she would
not use her wits as the world wished
her to use them. She was crank,
but brilliant one. Her love of let
ters was ideal, passionate and unre-
quited-she died for her opinions.
Ann Purkin died with trunk full
of poems and essays, half of which
are so good that many writer's of
poetry and philosophy would have
been glad to have written them. But
she was not only a dress.reformer but
a reformer of everything else almost.
Years ago she addicted herself to
spelling reform, and, as in all things,
she went to the utmost extreme of it.
She would not allow line sho had
written to be printed otherwise than
she had written it, both as to spelling
and punctuation. She would rather
starve This kept her ont of print
and made rubbish of what would
have been otherwise available matter,
for in whatever she wrote there was
more or less OF tho force and bril-
liancy of the pen that has a right to
write for print. She made one excep-
tion to this last summer when, during
the street-car strike, she used to take
to the newspaper Offices articles urg-
ing the cessation OF violence in the
fight against the company. With a
tone in her voice which a Hindu
mother might have had when she sent
her girl child TO the husband that had
bought her, she would say, "You may
change it if you want to, for she had
gone over the ground often enough to
know no newspaper would print what
she wrote as she wrote it.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

A writer in a French review has
made careful analysis OF the wages
of women in various countries. He
says that in the United States a wom-
an will earn about half as much as a
man for doing the same work, and in
England rather less. In Vienna the
average earnings Of a woman are from
Sl.2O to $l.6O week. In Italy she
gets about third as much as a man.
In Germany her earnings average
Sl.40 a week, while in France she is
paid somewhat more than half a man 5
wages.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

Professor W. E. B. Du Bois, of At
Ianta University, has begun an inves-
igation into the career of college bred
negroes. He finds that there are be-
tween 1900 and 1900 negroes who have
been graduated from college, and to
each OF them he intends to send a set
OF questions covering family life,
scholastic life, occupation since gradua.
tion, literary efforts, official positions
and financial success.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

Stengel examined nine members of
a football team Immediately after play
ing, and found systoIic pulmonary
murmur in three-probably due to dill
atation Of the right ventricle. This
murmur disappeared after rest.
Muscular exercise, sufficiently rapid
TO cause breathlessness, puts a strain
on the right yentricle, which in the
robust and "hained" individual is
soon recovered from, but in the mid
dle-aged may bring about lasting dis
ease. The question of "second wind"
is question Of the right ventricle.
Athletics continually INDUCED in tend
10 bring about some hypertrophy OF
the heart, says the London Hospital.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

The United States is slowly dis.
covering how many islands she has.
Mona and Monito have just been run
across, between San Domingo and
Puerto Rico, by the mapmakers Of
the postoffice department, and it wrote
to Washington to find out whose is
lands they we're, any way. They
turned out to be ours, coming under
the head Of "al other islands" ceded
by Spain. They are not really of any
particular value; but islands are
kind Of ornament to a nation, like the
beads on lady's dress, and the more
be-islanded we are the prouder stats.
tics we can Aaunt to the international
breeze Both Mona aud Monito are
uninhabited and offer precious oppor-
tunities to any one desiring a retired
country home with full riparian rights
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
FHg Suburban CITIZEN.
WASHINGTON. D. C.

A report from Trebizond declares
there is much talk among the Turks
that the Armenians are conspiring
against them. This is Just what hap.
pened in the season preceding the
bloody massacres Of 1895. 1t is the
VOLTS contention that the lamb was
muddying his water. The fact that
the lamb was further down stream
made no difference; the wolf had not
dined.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

An electrical device which drops q
feed of oats into horses trough has
been invented by Youngstown, lhjo,
man. Now ii that same fellow, or
even some other, can conjure up a
way by which the oats can be dropped
into the bin without cost the horse
feeding business. will be about per-
feet
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
irish Advice.

"Never be critical upon the ladies', -
was the maxim of an old Irish peer,
remarkable for his homage TO the sex.
'SThe only way that a true gentleman
ever will attempt to look at the faults
OF pretty woman is to shut his eyes. "
-Collier's Weekly.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

T'he goose step and lot of physical
suffering are in store for woman with
the threatened coming into fashion
again Of the high heel unless she puts
her foot down on the innovation,
against which the shoe manufacturers
are also said to revolt on the score Of
economy.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
Antedlluvian Goneyard.

Phosphate rock is mined in South
Carolina aud converted into g nour.
In the mines have been found many
queer substances which give evidence
of life before the deluge- These
antediluvian relics have attracted the
attention of scientists of two worlds.
There are monster tusks, teeth Of Gil
sizes and Jhapes, fish bones III great
quantity, Ill of which is ground up
and made to produce the great South
ern staple-cotton.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
DRESSED LIKE A DoY.

Ann Purkin's death was the only
kind of death her life could have
brought her. All winter, when she
was not i'll, sho was at her usual cor
ner on the busy square, selling the
afternoon papers. Her voice was @
shrill squeak as she cried out the
names OF the papers. To almost all
the newspaper buyers she had ceased
to be a curio, they had known her so
long. If those who did not know her
stopped to gaze they saw that in her
face which kept them from laughing
OF her clothes. Her dless consisted
Of boys wooden shirt-for she was q
very little creature, less than five feet
"A coat over it that looked as though
it had been made by the wearer with
the disregard for it that she showed
for all the other things that seemed
to her unessentials, and pair of short
trousers-like garments that reached
to her knees, Tho breeches were
made Of what looked like pieces of
horseblanket, aud were shaped not
unlike an ordinary pair Of trousers
cut off at the knees. Her stockings
were white aud her shoes heavy ones
such as working boys wear Any
thing in tie way of head covering
would do, and there was not in the
whole of her costume any attempt at
ornamentation or care.
Funny as her clothes were, one for
got them in looking into her face.
The eyes were clear, small aud ex-
pressiye and there was in them, when
one talked with her, tho look of the
soul that thinks it has never been uu-
derstood and has grown hopeless of
ever being.
But there was not a prouder spirit
in the breast of any woman. It is not
/ known that she ever had a penny that
she did not earn. People who offered
her charity were rebuked with a
severity they never forgot. II one
gave her n nickel for a paper and
walked away she ran after him aud
made him take his change. Once she
was ill for q week or two aud the city
relief department. sent her ton OF
coal, piing it up in the one room
where she lived, against her protests.
It was in the dead of winter and she
was forced to use about a quarter OF
the ton of coal. Then she carried
what was left of it down the stairs
and threw it out into the street, from
where it was quickly taken by the
less scrupulous women OF the tene'
ment. Then she went to the city
hall, made her way into the Mayors
Office an1 handed him a dollar, say.
ing: "rhat is for what I used out o.
that load OF coal you sent to me.
threw the rest of it into the street,
but want to pay for oil used and
want you to take the money so your
thieving CLERKS can't say Didn't pay
it,"
REFUSED CHARITY FOOD.
A week before she died the Other
people in the Detroit street tenemen
in which Ann Purkin lived remem.
bered that she had not been seen fol
some days. She never locked hel
I door, and when they went into hel
room they found her alone in the
cold, there being neither fuel nor fire
in the room, only her trunkful o.
manuscripts. There existed betweer
her aud the poor people among whom
she lived something OF the feeling
that male the slums OF Paris worship
THHH q. Il 4
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
! A LAWYERS STORY.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

)UTH is impa-
tient and the
twelve we ary
months that had
crept by since ]
had passed my
trying examina-
tion and been
admitted to the
bar seemed an
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
WANTED TO REFORM THE WORLD.

Her mind was always full OF brill
liant plans for reforming the world and
making it a heaven. A lifelong vege-
tartan of the strictest sort, not using
milk or eggs, the scheme that flied
her mind during her last days was q
magazine to be devoted TO vegetarian
ism. The simplicity Of her mind is
shown in the fact that she was going
to call it "The Fig Lear and edit it
herself. tn her delirium in the hos
pital she bcmoaned her inability to
fnd backer for the magazine.
She refused TO take any medicine at
the hospital, refused food and would
not even allow the hospital doctor to
take her temperature. When any one
approached her bedside she would ask
"Are you doctor?" and if the answer
was eyes" she would insist that he go
away from her. Her attitude toward
all humanity was hostile, save that
she took motherly interest in news
boys, and toward reporters showed q
disposition that was quaint mixture
of friendiness and alteration, so strong
was her love of all that pretended to
the guise of literature. At Che last,
before she died, the hospital doctors
got to telling her that they were re-
porters in order to do the little that
was possible in her aid.-Chioa5o
Record.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
- LleEsanrvwz

to have about the house. You can
half-sole your own shoes in IA few
minutes. We have half,soles in oil
sizes for men, misses, ladies and boys.
With this outfit you can half-sole
mems shoes for 20c., women's and
children's shoes for 10c. to leo. Reg
ular retail price OF outfit 81 .48, which
includes a years Subscription to the
SUBURBAN CITIZEN when you mention
this adv.
GEo. N. HOLLAND, 1900 H st. N. E.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
Home Repair Outfit.

Every article
in this picture
packed ina neat
box. Price, in
cluding l years
subscription to
the Sun URBAN
CITIZEN, $l.4S.
A handy thing
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

Japan to-day has $500 miles OF
railway, II. 72O fmiles Of land tele.
graphs, 3S1 OF submarine, and lila
telegraph OIL des.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
ANN PURKIN'S TRAGEDY.
A WOMAN OF STRONG MENTALITY
HELD DOWN BY ECCENTRlClTY.

An Ohio School Teacher Whose Mind
Was Full of Brilliant Plans For Re-
forming the World-Soid Papers in
GrOtesquo Garb in Cleveland.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17


food, which she would not eat, and
built her q fire, which she could not
prevent. For years she los eaten
nothing but fruit and such other fool
as she could eat uncooked. That was
part Of her belief, that only un.
cooked vegetable food should be
eaten. For years she ate nothing but
fruit, raw oatmeal and raw rice
soaked in water. She hated a doctor
as she did correct spelling and skirts,
and was a hydropath. When the
other people in the tenement called a
doctor she refused to even allow him
to talk to her, aud she was taken to
the hospital against her violent pro-
tests. She was too small and weak
and too nearly starved to resist par.
ticularly, even in words. At the hos.
pital she said she had not friend in
the world or a relative, and it was
here that she displayed the only thing
that seemed at all like womanly weak
ness that is known other. She said
she wanted to be buried in the old
cemetery at Berlin Heights, country
village twenty-four miles from Cleve-
land, where the graves of her father
and mother are.
WAS AN OHIO scuoo1TEAcHER.
Berlin Heights is a small country
community. There was once q wave
Of free-thinking sentiment there, and
later the "bloomer" craze. Ann Pur-
kin had been a schoolteacher there
and was the star of the woman's
club. She donned bloomers and wore
them ever after. It is told that she
was married at that time and that her
husband told her she could not be his
wife and wear bloomers, too. She
chose the boomers; and they separated
amicably. This the dead newswoman
denied, insisting that she had never
been married. She said her family
name was Perkins, but that was not
the waJ to spell it, and as there was
but one of her, her name must be
singular instead Of plural.
All her young life in the country
she had been writing poems and es-
says, but the editors always changed
them and thereby narrowed her soul.
So, twenty years ago, she went to
Cleveland. She was determined to
make the world hear her. She lec-
tured on dress reform and wrote more
poetry. The poetry and some essays
she had printed in a pamphlet and
sold it in the streets in her bloomer
costume. While the novelty lasted
she did fairly well, but Cleveland was
not then large enough so that it offered
a permanent market, aud as soon as
she had made money enough out Of
one book she would get out another,
Sales dropped off, though, and she
went to Chicago thirteen years ago to
work on n woman-su suffrage publication.
After remaining in Chicago six
months, sometimes lecturing and
sometimes working rs a servant, she
came back TO the Cleveland streets
and newspapers. The newsboys came
to recognizing her as judge for their
differences and advisor for their
troubles. One of her principles was
that when one had made money
enough for his necessities he should
stop aud give others q chance, Whom
she had sold a certain number of pa
pers-aud she sold them rapidly be-
cause of the attention she attracted
she would stop and so home.