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FIRE CLAIMS.
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chairman and that was the unpreme-
dated deserton of our best friends at
the last moment. Senator Teller was
in favor of our measure and was called
to Colorado on account of his son-in-
laws illness. Senator Cullom's daugn-
ter died and he left abruptly for Illi-
nois, Senator Foraker was sick. All
this happened on Sunday. On Monday
our treasure waste come up and on
Tuesday, Congress adjourned.
The reduction of the amount to one
million and the addition of the territor-
ial bonds was made upon urgent repre-
sentation Of our friends. They said it
looked much better that way and could
be amended if necessary. Half a loaf
was better than no bread, we were uni
Versally congratulated on the changed
appearance of the bill and it went for
ward that way,
Il think the question of the coGn-
missioners all coming here rests a good
deal on how they find matters when
they return to their districts. l think
that it is vital to enable then to see
clearly all the phases of our conditions
down here, social, climatic, commercial
and above all, not to let them be mono
polized by any class or faction and TO
eliminate politics altogether from their
reception. / do not think from what
know Of them, that hey want to be
met by Republicans, Democrats or
Home Rulers but by men eager for the
combined interests of their community
They will see for themselves what we
impressed so often, the crying, present
need of the fire claimants to whom a
little now is worth thrice the amount
later
THE Japanese reference to their fe-
deral authorities should not prejudice
the matter, coming from themselves
There is a very friendly feeling between
the two countries"
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WAIMEA SUGAR MILL co.
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
Notice is hereby given that a special
meeting Of the Waimea Sugar Mil
company has been called by the Presi-
dent, to be held in the assembly nan
over the offices OF Castle & Cooke, Ltd.
in Honolulu, Oahu, on Thursday, Au-
gust IA, 1902, at 10 a. M, to consider an
important communication from the
agents.
N. ID. TENNEY.
Secretary Waimea Sugar Mill Co.
Honolulu, II. r., July 50, 1902.
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TO SHANGHAI.

w. Porter Boyd and His Wife Sailed
Today
w Porter Boyd and his wife sailed
by the Nippon Maru at noon today for
Shanghai. Mr.. Boyd goes to enter the
service in a very satisfactory position
of a New York syndicate which has
concession for building a railroad from
Hankow to Canton, and a street rail-
way system for Shanghai. Mr.. Boyd
has not resigned his position as United
states Shipping Commissioner, but win
after he has looked over the new field
if he finds it satisfactory
Twenty-Five cents pays for a want
ad in the Star.
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Attention co. d" A."

Armory Company A, First Regls
n ment, N. G.. H.
IA Honolulu, July 81, 1902.
Every member of this command
is hereby ordered to report at the Drill
Shed THIS THURSDAY EVENING
for Company Drill.
BY order,
H. KLEMME,
Captain Commanding.
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TENDERS.

Tenders for the purchase of the Mer-
chants Fair building recently erected
on the Drill Shed grounds, will be re-
ceived by the Chairman OF the Mer-
chants Fair committee, at the office
of Pearson & Potter Co, Ltd, up to
y o'clock, noon on Saturday, August
End.
p, II. HELM,
Chairman Merchants Fair Committee.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.

During my absence from the Terri
tory of Hawaii, Mr. W. II. Allen will
act for me under fun power of attorney.
PETER HIGH.
July 81, 1892.
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NOTICE.

! All bills against the Merchants Fair
Committee, must be presented at once
to the Chairman Oftthe Committee at
the office of Pearson & Potter Co, Ltd.
p. II. HELM,
Chairman Merchants" Fair Committee.
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GONSUDANON AN A. :. IA: : s.: &:

one of the oldest Presbyterian weeklies
in the country, to Rev DR.. Joseph New
ton Hallock, proprietor of the Christian
Work the two periodicals will be con-
solidated the first issue of the new
journal appearing August %.
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MIowERA VERY LATE.

The S. S. Miowera, from the Colonies
had not been sighted at 230 p. m. to-
day. She is over a day late.
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of whose earnings they have built up
fortunes. Such ideas still persist SDo-
radically. But put them in a novel and
you have unrealitys you drop this world
of ours as it is and go to the fairy tale
If the products of such ideas showed
any gain in beauty. goodness. truth; IN
mind, morals. n anners or body, the
world might better tolerate them But
any one of them we can always match
in any of their boosted personal pos
sessions by people from a howell
Being a tale of the feudal and ritual
world the book gives the author oppor-
tunity to make a few strokes with a
religious whip-if indeed a whip can be
religious Just as the salient spirit of
the book is feudal, so is its religion
feudal. The various cracks at the forms
of religion and politics opposed to those
of the Vatican a reader might be at a
loss to understand. if he We're not to
start out with the knowledge that the
author has in such terrible staggerers
eased the zeal of the neoDhyte- Sucn
ardors are of Roman converts But
here they are blot on otherwise ar
tistic pages. To the calm observer the
figure of a writer with all the results
OF non-Catholic or Protestant education,
and Protestant individuality of thought,
taking what he suDDoSes is a Cathol1c
view. and shaping back at his old
allies. is always amusing. One would
suppose a spiritually exalted lamb IN
fatter pasture would have a bene-
dictive spirit towards the laInbS-or
goats-where things are not so good-a
sort of OTnDaSSion toward those who
are still in darkness and unSayed. But
it does not seem to be So The actions
OF the human intellect are various.
Such zeal as we witness here is always
a source of uneasiness and trouble to
Catholics themselves, prelates of their
church have told me, because the non
Catholic fProtestant) mental aggressive
ness. independence and self-reliance
are SO thoroughly at war with their
more acquiescent and acceptive spirit
In these days when writer's boast of
how many words a day they can write.
and their productions evidence that they
ought to write many thousands to get
an average of sense, the genuine artistic
feeling of this compact little book, IFS
sense of proportion. and generally of
moderation. of color. line. form. COM
mend it If the author were to write
poetry it would be lyric: if he were
painter. he would be a follower of the
pre-Raphaellite ideas; if he were a
sculptor, his work would be instinct
with grace-the grace of fiesh-rather
than with strength or of a lofty spiritu-
aIity-
In this book he cares enough for de-
tail of the picture he draws to name the
substance and color OF his heroines
gowns: and to describe woods and field
and birds in them. and the sea with
subtle and feeling phrases.
KATE STEPHENS.
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Chicago

her to the castle, which is shortly as
sau1ted by the prince and his retinue-
He arrives just in time to witness the
marriage, solemnized by a bona fide
priest, of Miss StubbornnesS and Mr..
Perseverance Here the story closes.
leaving the enraged prince grinding out
various foreign oaths- Owing to the dis
agreeable nature of this foreigner, the
wisdom of Mr.. McCutcheon in allowing
him to live is to be doubted.
The book is full of the humor peculiar
to Mr.. McCutcheon. The story is well
connected, and is so arranged that the
reader does not have TO go back and in
troduee himself again to forgotten char
acters- They all follow the procession,
have place. and fill it, Castle Craney-
crow" will get its share Of merfted APP
plause. 1t is published in attractive
form by the Herbert Stone company Of
Chicago.
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Quenton begins to make the story in
teresting from the start On a sudden
whim he goes to Europe, and there finds
a youthful sweetheart who is scheduled
to marry a quondam prince of Italian
extraction. He recognizes this man as
an opera singer who murdered lead
ing lady in Brazil some years before
while Quenton was in that land seeking
amusement. He then very foolishly
decides that he wants the young lady
himself, and being of a selfish DISPOSE
ton, positively refuses to allow the al
legged prince to CLEAN rich American
gem, notwiths standing the eagerneSs of
the girls mother to make a royal match
for her daughter. and the stuhbornness
of the young lady herself, who is con-
WINGED that she loves the prince. The
royal one from the land Of maccaron.
proceeds to make things quite lively for
Mr. Quenton- He even goes so far as
to make various attempts on the life OF
his rival The girl, Dorothy Garrison,
will not believe the charges he makes
against the prince, and continues to
prepare her trousseau- But Quenton will
not give up. Aided by his faithful ex-
burglar and Diekey Savage, "a nervy
little friend who is scared to death after
he accidentally shot the face of of
noted Russian duelist, hired by the
prince to remove the obnoxious Aneri-
cans. and he Dragged about his shoot
ing the next day. Quenton finally won
out, and the winning thereof makes
good story, one the reader will scarcely
lay down to eat sleep. But oh, that
grill Mr. McCutcheon is too extrava-
CANT with his heroine. He has given
her a stubbornness never possessed by
a mortal OF the fair sex Failing to
convince her by any other means the
audaciouS American calmly kidnapped
her on the night of her wedding, haul
ed her away into the jungles to a castle
owned by some English friends, and
there makes love to her while her
frenzied parents search the continent
offering large rewards for her return
and the ca pture of the kidnapers- This
old castle, -Craneycrow." furnishes a
name for the book and good place to
make love without interruption The
girl in the case continues to think that
she is in love with the dark foreigner.
Notwithstanding the pleadings of her
real lover. and eventually escapes with
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LITERARY OUTLOOK.
The Literary Hack is Held Up to
View-Remarkable Set of Dickens

"A literary hack is generally supposed
to be writer who devotes himself to all
sorts of writing assignment from
publishers. No task at authorship is
too great for him; he viii compile AZ an
thology. translate foreign novel. write
a love ballad or review the last published
book, provided only the compensation in
dollars and cents for his labor is salts
the hack though he may be ever SO
clever, is not loved by his fellows. Too
many hacks spoil the market The
regular author%those working for fame
and the glory of literature Save the
mark.)-regard these hard 1aboring pen
men little better than criminals.
What is our intellectual life coming TO
when it is debased in this Tnanner2' they
wafl-and with much reason too The hack
is not even necessary evil, but he has
taken advantage of his opportunities and
in consequence has grown to be quite
institution.
At least one of these literary hacks
has gone his competitors one better.
Where all formerly took their assignments
from publishers and were content with
eternal nymity-provided always the
compensation be sufTicient-this progress
sive hack will now lease his Pegasus to
any individual who is willing to pay for
the privilege of riding towards literary
fame, even though it be a borrowed
horse The condition is not entirely new,
fer every college man has had, in his
sophomore Gays. dliuflHS offers from var
ious literary firms who were willing to
write his themes, essays and orations for
a consideration. and we have known of
the Dumas novel factory and of ether
cases-where one writer stole the thunder
and work of another. but the amazing
thing about the matter is that recently
there seems to have developed a tendency
among men and women, unknown to the
world of books, to secure literary fame in
this simple manner society woman.
for example, is ambitious to be known as
the author of a book; she employs a
hack" who does the entire labor of writ
ing the volume The writer has in mind
wen known Chicago woman who en-
pleyed a professional hack to write a
novel for her. The tempta ton came to
her in q small way first She had made
a European trip for the purpose of study
ing various art galleries abroad On her
return. OF the wonan's clubs asked
her to read paper on the art of some
great painter She had never written
nything Of the kind IN her life. but she
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is in reality a cheap French detective,
formerly employed by the prince, but
now working for himself to get the re-
ward offered by Miss Garrison's mother
The detective tells her what the real
charact of her fiance is. and strange
to relate. she believes this crook, al
though she has called the big honest
American a falsifier on an average or
once a day for the past month when he
dared to refer to the subject Shortly
after telling her this, Mr.. Detective is
chased over the side hill into the brush.
where he obligingly breaks his worth
less neck, by Messrs- Quenton, Savage
and his ex-burglar- The trio kindly re-
capture Miss Heroine and return with
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amateur detective more than once, has
constant adventures, and is throughout
natural. kind-hearted, mischievous
lad
Mr.. Hooper makes it evident that he
lives in Maine So did the Rev Elijah
Kellogg, who wrote, besides plenty of
boys books, 'SDartacuS to the Gladi-
ators' and other famous addresses. A
visit to that kindly clergyman in his
very old age, at HarpsweIl Me-, IS one
III the book Mr.. Kellogg's account there
included how he came to write Grand
fathers Struggle for a Homestead
many years ago, is a bit of authentic
literary history Bound with the story
of the minister's son is that of Fred
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suls suit shall be suitably mated. If i
be well planned and as consistent with
history as In the Eagles Talon it will
The latest catalogue of Messrs. Thomas
Y Crowell & Co. reveals the fact that this
Guiding new editions and new styles OF
binding as well as new titles
The London Spectator devotes a column
and a half to Nancy Huston Banks novel
Century. The English reviewer welcomes
this new writer as the author of a new
unlike Mrs Gaskeii the e'i setains OF outside
things in which she puts human figures
is more vivid In colors that one finds it in
In Bird-Lore (The Macmillan Coz for
August. Fannie Hardy Eckstrom writes Of
endorse: Frank M Chapman contributes
Name Ma '' the " BIRDS there ' are poems by
Edith NJ Thomas and Ernest Crosby, and
reports from Audubon Societies, and notes
and news of interest to bird lovers
1.-THE Pharaoh and the Priest translated
from the original Polish of Alexander Clio
of Quelparte." by Archer Butler Hubert:
Tower or Throne, Romance of the Girl
hood OF Elizabeth by Harriet T. CON-
stock. THE Shadow OF the Gar" by John
r. CARING; q new. edition of The Colo
neFs Opera Cloak" by Christine G. Bush:
a new, edition of Miss BeiIadonna-' with
additional chapters by Caroline Ticknor,
and a new book by the author Of Miss
Toosey's Mission" entitled Faithful
The late Mr.. John F7slxe LEFT two volumes
of essays ready for publication They will
be published in the early autumn by the
Macmillan Co under the title Essays
Historical and Literary They comprise
the Only posthuznous work completed and
made ready for the press by Mr. FIslSe him
self before his DEATH The contents OF
the volumes VIII be Thomas Hutchinson.
last royal governor of Massachusetts:
Chrales Lee the Soldier Of Fortune. Alex
ander Hamilton: Thomas Jefferson. the
Conservative ReforTner, James Madison,
the Conservative Statesman Andrew jack
son, Frentiersman and Soldier. Andrew
jackson and American Democracy sixty
Years Ago: "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too;
Daniel Webster: Old and New Ways OF
Treating History: the Boston Tea Party:
Evolution and the Present Age John Nil
ton: John Tyndan; Koschei the Death
less. the Story of New England TOWN.
"Reminiscences Of Huxley.
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MCUTCHEoN'S NEW BOOK.
It Is Full of Interest and Novel
Situations

George Barr McCutcheon's new book,
Castle CraneycFOw, published by
Stone, Chica go, is similar in construction
to his .'Graustark-" Mr.. McCuteheon
delights like Anthony Hope, in placing
his plots in a modern time The hero
is, of course, a worldly young man. Philip
Quenton by name, who is heavily laden
with money and time. One night in his
New York apartments he holds UP a
burglar who is engaged in going through
his clothes. and, simply as matter of
personal entertainment, gives the light
fingered person q life job IS valet in
stead of turning him over to the police,
thus gaining a very valuable ally for
the strenuous life which awaits him
some months later.
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BUSES NEW PLAY.
''The Dead City" Translated and Pub
lished in Book Form.

1.-THE Dead City" by Gabrielle dan
nunzio. is published by Laird & Lee,
in a translation by Prof. G.. Martellini.
with Illustrations from stage settings
used by Eleanora Duse. The transla-
ton retains the exquisite beauty of the
language OF the original 1t is the first
English version OF this celebrated trag-
edy. written expressly for the renowned
Italian actress, Eleonora Duse, and pro-
duced by her with signal success in
Europe, and in which she is expected to
appear-i in America this fall The pre-
face is a sketch of Duse written by the
translator. The play is in five acts and
the dramatis personae is limited to five
characters. The book is well printed
and illustrations are half tone reproduc-
lions of photographs of scenes in the
play.
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HARDWOOD whose adventures include a
business experience which justifies the
general idea of the shrewdness of those
who live way down in Maine
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sul's suit shall be suitably mated II il
be as well planned and as consistent with
history In the Eagles Talon it Will
be more than welcome
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Sheppard Stevens romance Of the Louis
lana Purchase entitled In the Eagles Tai
on had in reality two heroines, and, as
the hero could not marry both without
committing bigamy- one critic has suggest
ed that Mr. Stevens write a sequel in
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Florence Brooks Whitehouse, author O.
THE God of Things is spending the sum
mer on Squirrel Island Maine. where sh,
is reported to be at work on another novel
The God of Things is in its second ed
ticn-
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The latest catalogue of Messrg- Thomas
Y Crowell & Co. reveals the fact that this
firm have added 73s new volumes to their
list during the present year-thts total in
Guiding new editions and new styles OF
binding well new titles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-16
AMONG The BOOKS
Kate Stephens Writes of "The
Lady Paramount"
Fling of Lovely Summer in
Kingdom Of Unreality.
TALE OF FEUDAL IDEAS
Author Takes Few Strokes With
Religious Whip.
Commends Artistic Feeling OF
the Book.
TALE OF FEUDAL IDEAS

The Lady Paramount. by Henry Harland,
author of 1.-The Cardinals Snuff Box
John Lane: The Bodley Head, London
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Miss Carrie A. Harper. who co1lab
GRATED with Beulah Marie Dix in thai
charming love story of a young beau OF
the eighteenth century, THE Beau:
Comedy" is a Boston girl. She has
been a writer of special articles fol
various NEWSPAPERS. and is the author
of a short study on Arthurian materia
which has won recognition from foreign
scholars
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1902-06-21
HUNTS VISIT.
SAYS THE STATE is PROSPEROUS
New People Coming In Yrea she East
Big Irrigation EnterPrIses IN tI.e south
and Lumber Misunderstanding IN she
North -Thander aGsuntaIn Il Hnm-
msr.

Governor Hunt was visitor 10 town
Wednesday afternoon and evening.
He had been on a trip TO Lewiston
where he wasDne Of the class Of caDdi-
dates to take the higher degrees IN the
Masonic order. He also visited Mos
COW and inspected the university. He
found the Institution Ia excellent con-
ditiOn and the regents and faculty
working In harmony for the best inter
ests Of the college.
Speaking Of the condition OF the
state generally the governor said that
the southern and southeastern portions
were very prosperous. New people
were coming 10 and capital was being
invested 10 irrigation enterprises. lie
thought tbs passage Of the national ir-
rigation Law would work wonders in
transforming the desert into garden
that would bring forth vegetables, Ger.
calls and fruits In abundance. Water
viii make millions In money for the
people OF that section.
He found the timber interests pre-
dOminent In this section and said that
their Development would bring un-
limited prosperity. II Is the policy Of
the state TO encourage the development
Of these resources Of wealth and for
this reason It puts clause in sale con-
tracts requiring the removal of the tim.
Der from the land within 20 years. The
land win then be sold to actual settlers,
much Of it being good agricultural land.
BY making state selections from tim
Der the available agricultural land is
left for actual settlers and In this way
Governor Hunt says the resources Of
the state viii be more quickly deyel-
oped.
. Speaking Of the mining interests the
governor said that Thunder Mountain
would be the greatest mining camp in
the northwest. Its mineral resources
were wonderful and the governor thinks
there are already 5000 people in the
camp aud on the road
During his stay here Governor Hunt
went through the big saw and planning
mills Of the Ceur d'Alene Lumber
company and took walk around town,
expressing himself as highly pleased
with the appearance Of the place and
the air OF substantial growth shown by
the new business blocks and residences.