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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, 1900
NEEDED-A FLOWER MARKET,

A correspondent offers sugges-
tion which seems very appropriate
to us and which would add to the
beauty OF Honolulu if carried out.
Our correspondent wants the vacant
lot opposite the Police Station to
be used for and known as the Flower
Market. He wants ell vendors in
leis aud bouquets to take up their
stand at the lot referred to. 1t
would be q great improvement on
the present conditions where the
lot is used only as a dumping
ground for bricks and builders'
material, or as, pastursge for the
High Sheritf's colts. BY establish
Jag flower market on the lot sew
eral points would be gained to the
advantage Of the community. Side
walks would no longer be blocked
and traffic interfered with by flower
vendors. The alleged immoral con-
ditions existing on Hotel street after
dark owing to the presence of the
dealer in leis would be thing OF
the past, because at the suggested
flower market the vendors would be
under the immediate supervision Of
the police. The site would be OK.
cellent for the dealers in our beauti-
full fragrant flowers, because it is
centrally located, aud it would, il
properly conducted, be an ornament
to the city. The reason why the lot
has been lying empty for years is
due to the probably correct princi-
pie that there should always be an
empty space adjoining a building
which, like the Police Station, might
have been used as fortress, besieg-
ed by malcontents aud rebels. The
days have passed and the castle OF
High Sheriff Brown will never again
be threatened, and the vacant lot is
no longer needed for military pur-
poses. II the High Sheriff will al
low the flower vendors to establish
a decently conducted flower market
on the empty lot we will guarantee
him that the municipal government
of Honolulu will appropriate money
for an ornamental fountain in the
center Of the lot, and for benches
bituminous sidewalks and other i'm.
provements suitable for a flower
market.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29
U. s. District Court.

In brief session Of the U. S. Dis.
tricr Court yesterday Judge Estee
admitted four new citizeus-Peter
High and Adam Petrie Of Canada,
w. Petersen OF Norway and Albert
Tullett Of England. Lorrin And
rews and Frank E. Thompson were
admitted to practice.
Fred Birkin, first mate OF the
schooner Enterprise, has begun libel
proceedings against the schooner
and her master, Captain Fritch. He
asks $1,000 for injuries which he
charges were inflicted on him by the
captain in midoceau on the recent
trip between San Francisco aud this
port.
Notice has been given by Kinney,
Ballou Il McClanhan, attorneys for
the bark Empire, against which sew
eral sailors obtained judgments last
week. that the case will be appealed
to the United States Circuit Court
OF Appeals. The judgments obtain
ed aggregated Sal SO and costs. No
appeal has as yet been filed.
To-day was the return day in the
U. S. District Court in the case
brought by Eugene Avery against
VIM @. King for damages. No one
appeared for the plaintiff, but de.
fendant's attorneys were there.
Judge Estee postponed hearing till
tomorrow. Davis & Gear for plain
tiff; Kinney, Ballou & McClanahan
for defendant.
Judge Estee, in the U. S. District
Court, made four new citizens to-
day: Thomas B, Walker and II. S.
Rickard OF England, Fred. Meyer Of
Germany and Manuel Cordeiro OF
Portugal.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29
REPUBLICAN PLANS.
Thurston's Organ Makes "Secrep
Out of an Open Matter.

This mornings Advertiser con-
tsined the following paragraph, il
Illuminated with surrounding Of
minute billiard balls:
1t is understood that the terri
torial convention OF thet Republican
party will be held at Hilo and not
in Honolulu. 1t is said this was re-
solved on yesterday at a meeting OF
the Republican Central Territorial
Committee, and that secret was
made of the resolve. No definite
information could be gotten last
night. Saturday the primaries will
be held which will result in the cleo
ton OF delegates to this territorial
convention, which is to be held on
Thursday and Friday, September
20 and 2l, for the adoption of a
platform, nomination of a delegate
to Congress and the election of a
territorial central committee.
The INDEPENDENT was informed
this morning, by certain gentlemen
competent to give reliable informa.
tion, that there was no secresy in
the movement to have the Repub-
lican convention meet at Hilo.
1t is understood by Republican
leaders that, in politics, Honolulu
does not rule the roast, and as Hilo
is progressive and is willing 10 sub
2crbe certain amount towards de-
fraying the expenses OF the Oahu
delegate, it is merely question of
the amount that shall be subscribed,
1t is further understood that,
apart from the compliment desired
to be paid to tho progressive capital
city of the island OF Hawaii, staunch
republican delegates desire to en-
dorse Col. Sam. Parker for delegate
to congress and to nominate such a
legislative ticket as may meet with
the concurrence and approval OF
the Hawaiians.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29
Bill ASS tho Scribe.

As Bill, Bill ASS went out to lwilel,
Perchance on pleasure bent, per-
chance to pray,
He mused: "Alasl not much OF this
worlds gear
Have l amassed while sadly wan
d'riug here; m
And when | see there awful, sinful
Japs,
II files me worse than niggers play
ing craps;
For only think the dollars they rake
jim .s,... ,,>.
From vile humanity deep stepped
In ein, tj
While 1 who re'et yet failed to ad-
vertise .,t
My holiness still miss each glitrpg
prize .,..,..
o, for a mile OF houses such as these,
From whose fat rentals ! might take
niue easo."
Just then a. Yoshiwaru maiden said:
"Come in, old mau, and rest your
aching head"
AS Bill, Bill Ass (aud may his tribe
decrease)
Heard these fond words, he felt his
ire increase. .
foul blot upon this holy scenel'
quoth he.
II am eunuch Christian, pure and
free
From all vile thoughts OF women or
of men,
Get thee behind me, Satan to thy
den,
Lest l forget l never was man
And strive to break grim Natures 8
cruel ban"
AS Bill, Bill Ass, went home to + ray
aud weep,
And fast and scourge himself, but
could not sleep,
For sinful thoughts OF girls at w.
lei,
Ve1ed his shocked soul by night as
we'll as day.
AT last to ease Of its sore pain his
heart 5Ff
He wrote with much miputeness,
power and art, .i
Ascreed that sinners who ne or learn
ed to pray SO
Might learn what could be found at
Iwilei.
And much his "caStigated pulse" it
pleased
To think OF those vile wretches on
their knees,
In pious praise OF old Bill Ass, the
scribe,
The biggest ass of all the assinine
tribe. hillary Neil WESTON.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29

following lines that should be
pinned on to the coat tails Of object
ors: THE man in his shirt eleeves
may yet prove himself the king pin
in the city as in the hayfields and
the shirt.waist youth be a worthy
beau for the shirt-waist girl"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


Hilo is welcome to the Republic.
an Convention and we trust the
money the rainy city will spend will
not be missed in the useless fight
for Republican majority in the
territorial Legislature. AS Madam
Pele seems disinclined to furnish an
eruption the same object may be
secured by the meeting of Repub-
licau delegates. Honolulu can
afford to allow the freak schemes of
little Hilo to pass without special
mention, the result will be the same,
victory for the Independent Demo
Gratis,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29

When the road supervisor gets
through repairing the Waikiki road
from the Campbell residence to the
Dola mansion, which he is at pres.
ent not attending to, he may find
time to put Vineyard street in a
passable shape, aud he might also
suggest to Mr.. Rowell to have a
light placed near the st. Louis
bridge. The other two bridges
across the Nuuanu stream are we'll
lighted but the bridge over which
the greatest traffic is, can boast only
of Egyptian darkness. The road
supervisor means we'll and his in
tentions are excellent OF course, but
his execution of the good intentions
belongs evidently to future period.
In fact good intentions seems to be
preferred by our officials as material
for pavement, even to bituminous
asphaltum. 1t will lead them to
their "home" more surely.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29

If the Mainland kicks against
coats in hot weather the irrepressi-
BILE contingent OF Hawaii, which has
taught America more than she ever
before knew in sweet politics, kicked
before fair Columbia. The sons Of
our millionaires,and boys who could
sign decent cheque went coatless
before our cousins across the chan
mel adopted the shirt waist, Never
theless we clip from the Call the
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29

Two furnished rooms to let at No
q Garden Lane, opposite Catholic
Mission. 81
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-29

Go to the Orpheum tonight.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02

stem" characters joined with twelve
branch" characters. These are used
in an ingenious way that could be ue-
scribed only by lengthy article, and
would probably then be not quite in
telligible to the western mind. To go
straight to anything is impossible to
the oriental, and the complicated sys.
tenn OF naming the years is proof of
Chinese ingenuity.
OF late years it has been supposed
that the Chaldeans and Chinese haa
some intercourse at the time when Yao
reformed the calendar and that the
two countries worked together in MAX
ing the change. Certain it is that a
similar event occurred in Chaldea
about the same time But whenever
the calendar was adopted it is likely
for a long time to withstan- the
march of progress. - is correct
enough, and the inconvenience does
not worry the Chinaman in the least
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
Ole


When a preparation has an advertised
reputation that is worldwide, ii means
that preparation is merltorious. If you
go into store to buy an article that
has achieved universal popularity like
CASCARETS CANDY CATHARTIC
for example, you feel>it has the in
dorsement of the world. The Judgment
of the people is infallible because it is
impersonal. The retailer who wants to
sell you something else" in place of
the article you ask for. has an ak to
grind. Don't 1t stand to reason? He's
trying to sell something that is not
what he represents 1t to be. Why? Be
cause he expects to derive an extra
profit out of your credulity. Are YOU
easy? Don't you see through his little
game? The man who will try and sell
you Il substitute for CASCARETS is n
fraud. Beware of him! He Is trying
to steal the honestly earned benefits of
a reputation which another business
man has paid for, and If his conscience
will allow him TO 90 so far, he will go
farther. If he cheats his customer in
one way, he will in another and ii is
not safe to do business with him. Be-
ware of the CASCARET substitutorl
Remember CASCARETS are never
sold in bulk, but in metal boxes with
the long-tailed &C. on every box and
each tablet stamped G. c. c.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02

vitation from himself to call again
when he got hungry. A few of these
bugs were captured and sent to Wash
ington where the whole agricultural
department sat on them, called chem
hard Latin names, put them under 2
microscope, fattened them on poisons,
made their craven images in wax mag
nified hundred times, and bottled
them in alcohol. Then the depart
mfnt told the farmers what to do to
the chinch bug.
When the chinch bug appears don't
tell the hired man to attend to him., ="
says the department authority, but
get up at four o'clock all the year
round and attend to him yourself. You
must burn, starve, freeze, drown, trap
and founder him and give him con-
tagious diseases. Plant strip of his
favorite food as trap and when he is
gorged burn the strip; dig bitches be-
tween fields and fill them with water
SO the bug cannot cross; burn off the
stubble and plow late in the fall; burn
it again in the spring, plow again and
plant clover. After this you'll not
have chinch bug-if it happens to be
his year for dining in China"
The chinch bugs are dark brown
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
THE PEARL CRAZE.
Continues as Profitable Industry on the
Mississippi.

The pearl craze continues on the
upper Mississippi river, and pearl
hunters are there in great numbers,
as we'll as pearl buyers and heavy ship
pers of shells, and shell SPECTATORS
are quietly securing lots of shells at
the present low prices Pearls are not
at all uncommon, but fine ones and
really valuable, finds are decidedly
scarce. The best pearls have been
found in the vicinity of Prairie du
Chen.
What is known as the Allen pearl,
found at Prairie du Chen, has at
tracted unusual attention. 1t weighs
100 grains and is said to be the largest
perfect gem ever found in the Missis-
sippi river, 1t was recently purchased
by William NJ. Moore of Camanche Ia,
for $4,000.
The clam diggers are rushing for the
upper river beds, most of them con-
gregating near Prairie du Chen where
there is bed more than ten miles
long. 1t is on this bed that the fine
pearls are found in considerable num-
bers. The rush has been like a Klon-
dixie excitement The households have
been towed up the river, and hundreds
have shipped their tents and come up
on boats. More than 1000 are now
camped along the river and the whole
business is overdone.
At every point along the river scows
are being made, and great is the de-
mand for claiming outfits. The find
ing of a few thousand dollars worth
of shells by the diggers has created a
regular raid upon the river. 1t is safe
to say that the man who sticks to his
clam boat and hooks is doing much
better than those who spend their time
hunting pearls.
A representative of Partisan firm
who has been here looking over the
pearl business says that Mississippi
pearls are all the rage in Paris and
that the pearls and slugs are manufac-
tured into exquisite pieces of jewelry
and sold to exposition visitors.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
CATARRH

or inflammation of this delicate pink
membrane.
The system is weakened in win
ter. The delicate lining is more
susceptible to irritation or inhamma-
ton, and thus we have pneumonia,
grip, colds, coughs, fevers, etc., all
catarrhal conditions which NAV
easily be checked by one catarrh
cure-Pe-ru-na.
That's the only way out of it.
You may dose forever-you will
not be well until you try the true
cure and that is Pe-ru-na. You
may think your trouble is some
other disease and not catarrh. Call
it what you will one thing is sure,
your system is affected and must be
treated, and Pc-ru-na is the only
remedy which reaches the right
place and does cure.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02

beetles about as large as the lady bird.
Broods of them are Matched in the fall
as late as October if the weather is
mild, and they Immediately make their
way to the ground where they spend
the winter in the stubble, matted
grass and cornstalks and in the rub
bish along fences. October is the best
time to burn over the fields, not for
getting the fence corners. Many
farmers do this, and all through the
winter wheat region in late fall, blue
haze, bluer than the blue of Indian
summer, may be seen over the fields.
This is the smoke of battle between
the farmer and the chinch hug.
This insect can stand any degree of
cold in the larval state. 1t is often
frozen up solid in wet ground, but the
first warm days that make the winter
wheat sprout bring them out as
healthy and vigorous as ever. They
make bee line for the wheat fields
lay their eggs on the stalk and die. The
insects that are Matched from these
eggs are the ones that do the damage.
They crowd in between the leaf blade
and the stalk and eat the tender plant.
Armies of them move forward in we'll
defined lines, and small attachments
are sent out to destroy smaller patches
of grain to the right and left of the
main line of advance. If there is no
wheat they will eat oats or timothy or
corn. Glover is about the only thing
they will not touch. Corn fields are
sometimes black with them.
The best thing that can happen to a
farm infested with the chinch bug is a
good, cold, drenching rain. When the
first patter of even a light shower
comes, the bugs drop to the ground
and hide. If the rain is heavy they
are drowned by millions. They never
attack a swampy field, and in a wet
season they practically disappear A
wheat or oat field may be full of them
and the farmer never know it until he
comes to. cut the grain when they
will swarm out and migrate to the
nearest wheat or corn field. 1t has
been found that a certaiA fungus dis
ease introduced among them is as
contagious as small pox, but it is only
effective in wet weather. If few dis
eased bugs are put in various parts OF
the field after heavy rains it is
claimed that all that escaped drowning
will be killed. But the farmers have
little faith in any remedy but fire and
flood when it comes to dealing with the
chinch bug.-Little Chronicle, Chicago.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
Mrs. Summers of Notre Dame. Ind.

Our representative recently had the
pleasure of inspecting the offices of this
lady who is advertising so extensively a
Home Treatment for the ailments pecu-
liar 70 the sex and, regarding the success
OF which Mrs Rev. G.. III. Hunt of 10
Cortland street, Mt Vernon, n. ",
writes as follows: This home treatment
has been used by myself and friends with
entirely satisfactory results, and | deem
II my duty and privilege to advise all suf-
fercrs TO try it," Mrs. Summers assist
ants include a large number of ladies and
al were busily engaged in sending par
ucuiars concerning the treatment to the
thcusands who see her advertisement in
me papers of this continent and abroad.
II was wonderful evidence of a woman's
energy and success. The treatment itself
Is unique and its success so great that
the wonder is il was not discovered
carrier. The lords of creation will do
wen 10 look to their laurels when women
commence to outstrip them so easily in
rational application of medical and chem
icai science as well as in other fields i'm
which they are meeting in connection.
The advertisement above referred TO will
be found elsewhere in this '.aper,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02

only in scattered sections of country
this year has the chinch bug been seen
IN the wheat fields for there has been
good deal of rain, and wet weather
{ is the one thing that discourages the
chlnch bug. In the agricultural de-
partment at Washington there is a
laboratory for the study of injurious
insects and the best way to kill them.
/. For nearly every other insect Uncle
Sam triumphantly points to remedy
and tells how to give a fatal dose, but
the chinch bug scorns the daintiest
dish of poison that can be set before
him, and goes on his way rejoicing
consuming the wheat crop.
In 1892 the chinch bug ate up $780,
00O,0 600 worth of wheat Then he dis
appeared after accepting a pressing in
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
China's Ancient Calendar.

Chin2's calendar may be responsible
for the confusion OF dates in some of
the cable dispatches from the far east
The soiourner in the orient is some
times driven to wonder why the
Chinese have calendar at all. They
view the passing of time with superb
indifference, and punctuality, if such
thing were even to enter into their
calculations, would be regarded as un-
dignified Nevertheless, says the New
York Tribune, they have a calendar
which is by no means bad one when
one considers it's immense antiquity.
A wise monarch named zap some time
about 2300 B. C. revised the calendar
in use before that date to the form in
which it is found at present. A
volume would be needed to explain all
it's peculiarities, but now that dis
patches are mentioning Chinese dates
it is as well to have some idea as to
where in the celestial calendar differs
from the Gregorian.
The Chinese year is lunar, and there
fore consists of 345 days Before the
time of Yao tradition has it that the
year consisted of 800 days, and that
confusion had resulted. That raler
decreed that time should be measured
by the moon, and that every nineteen
years should contain seven additional
months-almost one extra month
every three years. This reckoning is
excellent; it varies only about an hour
every nineteen years from the true
time.
Although the year is lunar its
beginning is regulated by the sun.
Thus the new year comes between Jan.
and Feb. 6, unlike the Mahommedan
new year, which is regulated entirely
by the moon and comes at any time,
winter or summer. The year is
divided into twelve lunar months,
called by numbers, as first, second, and
so on. The extra month that comes
about every three years is not added at
the end, as it would be supposed, but
is inserted anywhere, probably accord
ing to some system too subtle for west
ern minds. The months are sub
divided into three parts, which are not
again subdivided, so that a Chinaman
may speak of an event without
mentioning the extra time within ten
days. The days are also numbered, so
that exactness may be secured if a
Chinaman should ever happen to
want such a thing. There is no week,
but foreigners are gradually teaching
the meaning of such a division. The
Chinese hour is 100 minutes long, but
in this instance again the foreigner is
making some impression on the
ancient custom. and the Chinese in and
near the treaty ports are familiar
with the western method. 1t may be
added. incidentally, that Picking is just
about twelve hours ahead OF New York
in point of time.
The Chinese gather the years To-
gether into cycles, as occidentals do,
but for some extraordinary reason the
cycle consists OF sixty years. This
cycle is very ancient and probably has
something to do with old astrological
superstitutions. Another method Of
numbering years is by the reigns of the
emperors. The present year is the
thirty-sixth year Of the seventy-sixth
cycle. or the year 1895 since the adop-
ton Of the present chronology
Each year has a separate name.
formed by some combination Of ten
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
A WHOOPING-COUGH PARTY.

A whoopihg- cough party was given
by little Dorothy Smith of Hunting
ton, L. l., few days ago. The invi-
tations sent to her little friends con-
tanned clause providing that the in
vitation was not to be accepted unless
the recipient had the whooping-cough
at the time or else had recently re-
covered from it. twenty-five whoopers
or ex-whoopers responded.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
AN EPIDEMIC OF DIAzRHOEA.

Mr.. A. Sanders, writing from Cocoa
nut Grove, Fla. says there has been
quite an epidemic of diarrhoea there.
He had a severe attack and was cured
by four doses Of Chamberlain Collie.
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He
says he also recommended it to others
and they say it is the best medicine
they ever used. For sale by Seytou =.
O'Neil. druggists.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O.

ASK your Grocer to-day to show Won n
package Of GRAIN-O. the new tood
orink that takes the place Of "offee. The
ehiliren may drink it without injury os
wen as the adult All who try il like it'
GshAiN-O has that rich seal brown of
Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
srhlns' ana the most delicate stomach re.
ceeo II without distress. Il the price Of
by all grocers. ''u
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
GLAMOUR GONE.

Officer Clancy-Faith, we seem t
have losht yer how'd upon the Swell
hoods cook.
Officer Grogan-Oi have, bad luck
to me fur blunderin' fool. Whin
Oh got me new suit av citizens clothes
tn other day OF whit round an let her
see me in it-Philadelphia Press.