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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-10-31

If Senator Achi and Representative
Kumalae cannot put up decent and
more manly and outspoken fight
against Representative Makainai, now
a candidate for the Senate, they may
as well go and hang themselves. And
if neither can do SO, why attack one
who is popular under cloak and a
nom de plume? Better stand out and
show myself, which one it is WAC
signed as "a Member of the last Leg
islature." Your anonymous writing
cannot hurt the one aimed at, as his
course is well known and the present
race for preferment nearly run to its
end. Try something else
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A vote cast for the Republican lead.
ing candidate is surely an endorsement
of the Dole oligarchy. And so will
those cast for any on the respective
Republican tickets. Do away with
them is the only safe and surest rem.
edy for Hawaiian voters to do.
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to the railroads for low freight rates.
Not only the farmers, but the railroad Of
ficials, the bankers and the merchants
come to these clubs. The railroad men
are asked 70 advise the farmers as to
what they should 10 as to transportation
and markets and he bankers and mer-
chants are also counseled with about
money matters. In America the farmer
wants nothing to 10 with the city man.
He seems TO be Jealous and afraid of
him. The Frencn farmer is willing TO
say there may be some brains outside
his own class. and he is glad to take ad-
vantage of them.
100000 French Changers.
There are more than eight million farm
ers in France who belong to agricultural
syndicates, and there are altogether over
two thousand such syndcates. These
syndicates are for the general furthering
of the farming and commercial interests
of the members. lad they are further or
ganized into ten unions which work to-
gether for the interests OF their class.
They have a head Office at Paris, and this
deals with the rallrnl Is as to FREIGHT
rates and also pushes agricultural inter-
egts before the French parliamenE
The farm syndicatcs support measures
for a protective tariff on farm products
and do all they ca nto bring the farmers
into connection with the markets. the
bankers and the public. They have made
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that they annually yield 100000 peaches.
The peaches are sold by the piece and
bring franc. and upwards. Indeed,
have seen peaches sell for rs cents and
81 apiece, but they were probably raised
under glass.
Suburban Paris has pear orchards
which produce as much as $500 per acre,
and there is one noted for it's early pears
which yields more than 5000 a year. 1t
contains five acres. The French export
fruit in great quantities and good fruit
land is very valuable, the best selling
for $500 or even more per acre. This is
of course in favorable localities.
French Farm Associations.
had long chat during my stay in
Lyons with Consul Covert about, farm
clubs and agricultural organisations. Mr..
Covert has spent a great deal OF time
with the farmers and has attended many
OF their meetings He says they are far
in advance of US In such matters. p, !,
Every French country community, for
instance, has its clubs where the farmers
meet and discuss how 20 market the
crops. They combine together and buy
their fertilizer at wholesale and appeal
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are prosperous, although they have the
largest debt Of any nation. They pay in
interest alone a quarter of a billion dol
lars a year, or almost 81 per head to
say nothing of the taxes required for the
necessary expenses of the Government.
Some French Economies.
The French are excellent farmers. with
them a penny saved is two pence earned,
and they see that nothing goes to waste.
They live as cheaply as any people of
Europe The average farmer starts out
to work on black bread and vegetable
soup. or he may have only bread and
cheese and a glass Of wine. At noon he
will 'have a vegetable soup, and perhaps
fried potatoes, and in the evening the
same. He has wine at every meal, for it
Is one of the cheapest of drinks. Yearly
every one keeps a goat, but few drink the
milk, for goats milk will make cheese.
The farming is intensive. The wheat re-
gions produce almost twice as much on
the average as the wheat fields of the
United States. Every bit of land is used,
and nothing goes to waste. On the larger
farms American machinery is employed.
Our plows are bought, and also our now
els and tn, astcrs President Lctioct uses
an American reaper on his big French
estate.
Money in Trees.
The French understand how to make
money out of trees. They appreciate the
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Frank Carpenter Among the Thrifty
!. Farmers i'm the Valley Of the Rhone

cabbage is raised early in February. Al
ter it Is taken o fla crop Of potatoes 10
planted and a third crop comes on in the
Autumn. This is on land that has been
used for generations.
And still we Americans talk of old
Mother Earth being. worn out Nothing
of the kind! The old lady has all the
possibilities Of perpetual youth. but, CO.
quette that she is she must he fed with
the dainties she loves and petted to make
her yield her best crops. This is especi-
ally so as to the vineyards which have
been used for generations. The French
vines are cut down every year and every
vine has its individual stake, and might
say its individual treatment.
Fruit on Stone Walls. III
One of the odd features Of fruit grow
ing here is the training Of the trees
against stone walls for early crops. The
stones act as radiators and proportion
ately increase the amount of heat and the
fruit ripens earlier.
have seen garden after garden outside
big French cities walled in this way. 1t
Is estimated that there are 100 miles OF
such walls In the suburbs of Paris and
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there produced nuts as large as the larg-
est buckeye. There are men in Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey who are making
such chestnut grating commercially prof
table, and the same might be done in
other parts of the United States.
In South France, Spain and Italy chest
nuts are ground into a meal and used for
bread, and they command good prices In
such localities. In the United States they
are chiefly sold by fruit vendors and by
the confectioners, and they bring, l am
told. 81 or s. per bushel. Here in France
they sell by the kilogram. for or 8
cents a pound.
The Market ardens Of France.
1 have already written of the market
gardens of France. l learn more about
them every day, and am more and more
surprised at their excellence. The French
have 100000 acres devoted to gardens
and fruits, and In riding over the coun-
try YOU pass fields of hot beds and see
glass frames pro7ped over plants out
side the bed. In many places glass bells
are used to cover the individual plants.
and there are some sections which raise
potatoes under glass for export TO Lon
don.
The French have studied the soil and
the sun and they coax both to work. They
feed the crops rather than the land and
in places get three crops year through
intensive cultivation. Near Cherbourg
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day workers. While the church bells are
tolling mechanics are plying their trades
and the ordinary stores and workshops
are open.
Millions of Land Owners.
I have described England as owned by
thes few. France Is owned by the many.
There are 100000 land owners among
the 3s,5OO,000 people which make UP the
French republic. or almost a land holder
to every family. The average holding is
less than six acres, and thousands own
little tracts upon which they live, work
ing a part of the year for some one else
The French love their land and it is
this common ownership that keeps them
at home. They are not an emigrating
nation, like the Germans and Italians or
the English, More strangers come into
France every year than Frenchmen leave.
and notwithstanding this the people are
about the richest on the face of the globe.
They were able to pay. the enormous
Franco russian war debt without feeling
1t, and they have now hundreds of mill
lions Of dollars stored away in their
wooden stockings under the rafters. They
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HOW FRENCH THE STREETS

annually produce at least twenty cents
Later on the trees are cut down and sold.
Willows are grown in the same way. their
sprouts being used for baskets.
Fortunes in Chestnuts.
The French make money out of chest
nuts. They grow varieties which are
from two to three times as large as the
American chestnut, and sell them to
the fruit stands and the grocers. The
chestnuts are used to dress turkeys,
geese, chickens and game. and they are
also used for dessert. The confection-
ers make candy of them, and the best
candied chestnuts bring As cents per
pound. or, If coated with chocolate, So
cents pound. There are large establish
ments in France which do nothing else
one at Lyons handling 25000,0O0 pounds
of chestnuts year.
The French chestnut trees are not Guilt
waited. They are usually planted on poor
earth and in time are cut for their wood
Some chestnuts are grated, and there is
no doubt but that the French and Span
ish chestnut can be grated on our native
American sprouts. In fact, have done
this on my farm in Virginia and have
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-16
MARRIED IN SECRET.
Russian Grand Duke Has Caused a
Scandal in Two Nations.

SCbuQd1 III l. W.
Special Vienna Cablegram.
The clandestine marriage of Grand
Duke Paul Alexandrowitch or RUSSIA ana
Mrs Pistolcors, the daughter OF MS Oh
time aid-de-camp, is the latest act in a
remarkable domestic drama. The grand
duke had obtained through Poviedonost-
sefT the procurator of the holy SYNOD. a
separation for Mrs. Pistolcors from her
husband on the solemn oledge that ne
would never marry her: That pledge ne
broke in resentment OF the cars con-
temptuous attitude toward the woman,
who. it was understood, should be re-
ceived at court.
Grand Duke Paul was married first in
June. 1899 to Princess Alexandra OF
Greece. who then was 10 years old, very
charming and deeply in love with her
handsome husband. But within a year
the princess discovered that he was pay
ess Serge. then the most beautiful and
most attractive woman in the Russian
court the wife OF his next older brother
and the sister OF the present czarlna: In
the Summer of 1891 all the imperial fam
lily assembled at the Crimea. The prin-
cess was expecting visit from the stork
She was made exceedingly unhappy by
her husband s course, and in september
there was what was reported TO be a car
rage accident, though there are those
! who say the truth is she committed sui
eide by jumping oJt of the carriage when
the horses were running down steep nh
dying five days later.
The king of Greece wrote a bitter let
ter to Car Alexander III, and has never
set foot in Russia since then. refusing
even TO accompany the queen 10 the
cars deathbed
Aft IT Grand Duke Paurs marriage with
Mrs. Pistoc jrs the czar dismissed him
from the Russian army, in which he was
a lieutenant general and commander OF
the guards corps, and has Danlshed the
grand duke and his new wife. They will
take up their residence at Cannes, France
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-16
MOUNTAINS ON A PLANET.
German Astronomer Has Discovered
Great Elevations on Venus.

German Astronomer Has Discoveries
Great Elevations on Venus.
The star gazers are continually seeing
new wonders in the worlds that surround
this one OF course the great mass OF
the public. having no means Of verifying
or disputing successfully the statements
Of the men Of science. are obliged to ac-
cept them as true. With Mars and It's
intricate system of canals, II not Its ac-
tual inhabitants. thanks to the delicate
Investigations of late years, everybody IL
pretty well acqu Iirtel. Now Herr
Arcndt, .rl.o - German and therefura
not trIfer, announces the discovery Of
mountains on Menus. To Observers hith-
eric the planet has seemed wrappad in
an imrenetrabie envelope u cloud. which,
WREN near the earth, Is the cause of Is
astonishing brilliancy, but Herr, AFendt.
who has had the Instruments OF tha
Urania observatory at Berlin to work
with, considers that he has detected mark
ings on Venus which indicate the pres
ence of great elevations seen FROM time
to time through the clouds surround
ing it.
Novel as the suggest m is. 1t is but q
revival OF an old idea. Long ago Sch@oter
fanci "a he saw evideace of mountains on
Venus in the raggedness OF the terms
nator--that Is. the line where the light
and shade meet. such as the inner Inc
OF the crescent moon. He ent 50 TAR IS
to measure them and announced that they
were TWENTY-FIVE miles high. But then
no one had believed him. 70
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Copyright, 1902. by Frank G. Carpenter)
In the Valley of the Rhone.
want to tell. you something about the
farmers of Erlnce..: ave been travelling
for weeks through the different parts Of
this country and am now on a train
speeding up the Rhone valley from Ly-
ons to Switzerland. The land is covered
with luxuriant ! crops. There are no
fences, and Natures stgreat patchwork
stretches out on every side as far as my
eyes can reach. Just now we are passing
some wheat In which blood red peoples as
big around as a tea cup look out of the
green. On the opposite side of the train
is hay field where women and girls are
working side by side with the men, and
farther on is "a great expanse of white
beets in which are women bent nalf dou-
BILE pulling the weeds. The women here
work as hard as the men. They do all
sorts of field labor, and you see them
scattered over every landscape. They are
more thrifty than the men. and they are
among the great savers Of the French
people.
The work among the farmers goes on
throughout the week and often on SUM-
day as well. The fields are full of Sum
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value of the. forests. and have some OF
the largest and best Of the world. There
are vast wood lands belonging to the
Government, and private holdings in
which the trees are as well cared for as
in our city parks. Only the rips trees
are cut, and every piece of fallen wood
Is saved.
The roads and streams and little canals
of France are lined with poplars. l can
see long lines of them cutting the land
scape in every direction as look out Of
my car window. Some of the trees are
hundred feet high. They are bare of
branches with only a tassel left on the
top. Others are full limbed, and others
are just sproutng new growth on all
sides. These poplars are grown for their
branches, and are finally cut down for
wood or for furniture. The branches
grow rapidly. They are cut off year
after year, put up into bundles and sold
to the bakers to make the hot fires nee
essary for the crisp crust on the French
bread. There is such demand for them
that raising them is one Of the chief in
dustries' of France. The popla.s are
planted in places which are good for moth
ing else, and after Ave years each will
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Must Dose Itself.

Pine Belt News.
Now The Montgomery Advertiserf ana
The Birmingham Age-Herald are ssesv-
ing the rag over the question which
gave the election news first. A dlsin-
ery time. The Age-Herald will have 20
dose itself with a remedy to prevent
sleepy eadedness before trying to CONF
pete with Its Montgomery morning con-
temporary.
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NAMED THE BABY FOR A CAT.
Queer Experience Of a Clergyman.
The New Baby Was Boy.

queer experience or q Clergyman.
The New Baby Was Boy.
Baltimore Sun
II have christened children every con-
ceivable name" said clergyman the
other day, but think the funniest was
boy named for cat. My pastorate
was suburb Of Boston, and one of my
parishioners was lady OF a large estate
and a gentlewoman in every sense of the
word. generally known to the community
as Aunt Esther. She was an eccentric
person, who wore silken gowns very long
in the train and short IN the front and
always several old-fashioned brooches at
the same time. She visited Washington
frequently, always with her pet cat as a
travelling companion. and she was one of
the few ladies acc orded a seat on the
floor of the House Of Congress. On the
grounds of her country home was a di-
minutive cemetery, where her feline pets
slept after LIES fitful fever.
During my residence in the parish her
special favorite was large Maltese cat,
named Thomas Henry, whose death oc-
Cured just before the coming of a new
baby at the lodge keepers home on Aunt
Esther splace She was to be godmothsr
and name the child, while l was to bap-
tie IT, Her recent bitter bereavement
still weighed on her soul, and when l
asked BY what name shall this child be
known? Aunt Esther responded IN trem-
bling tones, There is no name so sweet
to me as Thomas Henry and by that
title the boy was thenceforth known"
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A girl doesn't object to a tight sQueeze
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A girl doesn't object to a tight squeeze.
If it's the right kind.
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The French understand how to make
money out of trees. They appreciate the
The Butte inter mountain., 1902-11-29

and scores before the catcher can put him
out. This was one OF the trekiest plays
ever made in baseball, as it brought i'll
the winning run.
"Arlic Latham scores on a run by max
ing an attempt to slide home, the catcher
gets in front Of the plate and waits for
the runner, but as the throw is low, the
catcher has 10 get on his knees, and
Latham takes advantage OF this by leap
ing over him. This is the only acrobatic
run ever made
Jack Boyle, while catching for New
York made n double play unasssted Two
men were on bases. one on second and
the other on ,hird The batter was in
structed TO bunt, aud he responded by
dropping the ball about three feet from
the plate. At the same time both runners
tried to score and Boyle touches both OF
them making the only double play like
this that ever happened on the diamond
up to date
In game between Scranton and
Wikesbarrc a very amusing incident oc-
Cured. Tim Hurst was umpriug. Sandy
Griffin, who was at the bat. makes u
fciut To hit the ball. but draws back Tim
yells out, Strike one What for. Tim :
asked Sandy. You went little too far.
Sandy The next bali was the same. aud
Sandy went too lar again, The next ball
came straight, over the plate. Hears, yolls
Strike three, the man is out At the
same time he cries to Sandy that he did
not 70 far enough that time"
The Butte inter mountain., 1902-11-29
FOLLOWED BY THE PUGS

Cans, oyster handler; Martin Duffy
plumber Art Simms, bartender; Tim
Kearns, salesman; kid Lavigne, long
shoreman; Jack O'Bricn, clerk; Jim Popp
matchmaker; Joe Leonard, waiter; Gene
Bezenah, rolling min helper Frank Hen
neke, stone mason; "Kid" Ashe, newsboy /;
Emil Sanchez, waiter Jack Burke, sales
man; Young Gibbs, soapmaker; Jack Car
rig, waiter; Ole Olsen, painter; Otto Sic
loft, bartender; Curly" Supplies, clerk !;
Barney Furey, billposter; Spike" Sulli-
van, salesman; Gus Gardiner, boilermakcr !;
Patscy Haley, grocery clerk; Austin Rice,
teamster; Hugh McPadden, news agent !;
Billy Gardiner, coppersmith Harry Lyons,
oyster handler; Tommy Hogan, lineman ;
Toby Irwin, clerk; Billy Murphy, tailor ;
Young Critic, bartender; Tommy Feltz,
newsboy; Danny Dough,rty, ropcmaker ;
Clarence Forbes, flcmakcr; Johnny
Richie, waiter; Morris Rauch clerk
Harry Forbes, hackman; George Monroe,
ncwsboy: Joe Tipman, glassblowcr
kid" McFadden, waiter; kid" O'Don-
nell, apprentice "Frccklcs' O'Brien, news
boy; Joe Hirst, barber; Jack Lansing,
ticket agent; Al. Levy, newsboy; Tony
Moran, barber Billy Plimmer, cafe owner.
The Butte inter mountain., 1902-11-29

Charley Burns, canvasman Billy Smith,
miner; Owen Ziegler, bolermaker; Char
ley Johnson, steam6tter; Matty Matthews,
iron worker; Jack Bennett. steel worker;
"Dutch" Thurston, shipping clerk; Al.
Neil miner; Eddie Connolly, hotel keeper;
Tommy Tracey, blacksmith Mike Dono-
van, bookbinder; kid" Mcfarland mat
tress maker; Paddy Fenton, farmer; Patsy
Sweeney, teamster; Tom Couhg, iron
worker.
Featherweghts- Daily exprcssman ;
Willie Fitzgerald, promoter Spider"
Kelly, saloonkeeper Dal Hawkins, clerk ;
Young Corbett. laundryman; Terry Nc
Govern, newsboy; Oscar Gardner, painter !;
Dave Sullivan, bellboy; Tim Callahan.
newsdealer kid" Broad, iron worker;
Eddie Lenny, salesman; Aurelia Herrera,
newsboy; Jack McClelland, carpet
weaver; Billy Ryan. waiter; Benny Yang
er, typesetter; Joe Bernstein. pawnbroker !;
Johnny Van Hcest ore trimmer; Soly
Smith, livcryman Tommy White, agent !;
George Dixon, photographer; Tommy
Burns, painter; Gus Bezenah, metal work
er; Jack Hamilton, moldcr; Eddie Santry,
harness maker.
Lightweight Ernc, pinboy Joe
The Butte inter mountain., 1902-11-29

UMPIRE RECALLS
FREAK BASEBALL

Hartford, Conn, Nov. as.--Charlcs
Daniels, the former National league um-
pire, who is now employed by the Hart
ford baseball corporation, grew reminis-
cent the other day and gave expression to
some of the freak plays and odd incidents
of the diamond that have come under his
personal observation during the days when
he handled the indicator. A few OF his
stories follow:
"A game between Boston and Washing
ton was playing at Bcaniown. Charlie
Bennett was catching and Mike Kelly
was sitting OH the bench, when a foul
ball goes up in the mir, and Kelly being
captain, yclls, to the umpire that he will
put Bennett out of the game, and at the
same time he puts OH mtt with light
ming speed and catches the ball.
He then tries to make the umpire allow
the catch. But the umpire, after wrang-
ling a long time with Kelly, decides the
ball was in play and Bennett could not
be removed from the game until the ball
had been caught by a player in the game
so he ordered the batsman to hit over
This was a quick thought OF Kelly, even
ii it did not work.
New York was playing Philadelphia at
the formers grounds Charlie Bassctt was
The batter hits an inhcld fy. Basseit
rushes to the plate with Glasscock close
behind, the ball is iielded to the catcher,
who touches Bassett, but at the same time
Glasscock slides through Basseu's legs
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An interesting list OF the vocations fol-
lowed by knights of the padded mitts has
been prepared by one OF the leading sport
ing authorities of the country. 1t reads as
follows:
ghts-James JcfTries, boiler
maker; James ]. Corbett bank clerk +;
Robert Fitzsmmons, blacksmith; Gus
Rubin, pressman; Peter Maher, cooper !;
Thomas J. Sharkey, sailor; kid" Nc
Coy, farmer; Jim Jefiords, miner Ed.
Dunkhorst, horseshoer; Joe Choynski,
candy maker Pete Everett, miner; Mike
Conley, engineer Denver Ed Martin,
porter Jim Hall, plastercr; Bob Arm
strong, teamster.
Middlewcights-T Tommy Ryan, barkeep-
er; Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien, cigarist ;
Tommy West, plumber; Dan Creedon,
machinist; Joe Walcott, cabin boy; AL.
Wcinig, plumber; George Gardiner, boiler
maker; Jack Root, brick mason; kid
Carter, blacksmith; Billy Stiff, blacksmith ;
Marvin Hart, plumber; Charley Mckccvcr,
engineer; Jack Bonner. miner; Dick
O'Bricn, candy maker; Tim Murphy, mine
worker.
weights-"Rube" Ferns, miner