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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30
The Che, alters Coatsleeve.
The Proper Treatment for a SPIRAL led An

As a rule a man will feel well salts
fed if he can hobble around on
crutches two or three weeks after
spraining his ankle, and is usually
two or three months before he has
fully recovered. This is an unneces-
sary loss of time, for in many cases
in which Chamberlain's Pain Balm
has been promptly and freely applied,
a complete cure has been effected in
less than one weeks time, and in
some cases within three days. For
sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30
A BOYS wild Ride for Life.

With family around expecting him
to die, and son riding for life, IS
miles, to get DIR. Kings New Discov-
cry for consumption, coughs and
colds, w. II. Brown, of Leesville, Ind,
endured deaths agonies from astk-
ma, but this wonderful medicine gave
instant relief and soon cured him.
He writes: Il now sleep soundly ev-
cry night" Like marvellous cures of
consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis,
coughs, colds and grip prove its
matchless merit for all throat and
lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles
soc and 81. Trial bottles free at
Hartz e. Ullemeyer's drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30

Educate Your Bowels with Cascnrees.
Candy Casscrtic, cure constipation forever.
toc. -. < 60 2. fol, druggistsrefund money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30

..The rivers of Arkansas are said to
be so thick with mussel beds that
they crop out of the water when il is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30
The "Nlgeer Head" Clam.

Zone day about II years ago a Ger
man button maker by the name of
Boepple wandered into Muscatine
from the old country. He saw for the
first time the mussel shells of the
Mississippi river. He examined them
closely and expressed the opinion
that they were good material for
buttons Up to this time saltwater
shells were considered impracticable
for such use, and authorities on the
subject were naturally skeptical in
regard TO Boepple's opinion of their
usefulness. He persisted in claiming
that the 'nigger-head' mussel from
the waters of the Mississippi river
would make. if properly handled and
finished. the finest pearl buttons yet
produced. He took some specimens
to the factories at Waterbury. Conn,
and after considerable experimenting
one concern there determined that
with some changes in their machin-
cry the shell of the strange mussel
from the great father of waters
would make a button to compete
with the best of those from other
parts of the world.
AT this time the raw material for
the button factories of this country
was coming all the way from the
China sea. so the great advantage OF
finding a shell at home that would
answer the purpose can be readily
understood. First one concern and
then another began to use the Mis-
sissippi shell until the foreign one
was almost abandoned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30
Use of the "Johnboat.r

1.-The manner of catching the mus
sells is an interesting procedure. y
fisherman equips himself with what
is known to the clan as a 'Johnboat.
4 mis- is fiatboat on the order of a
scow, about 90 feet long and 3H feet
wide. Upon the inside of the boat
are placed eight uprights, which are
between three and four feet high and
have crotched tops. Four of the up
rights are placed on each side of the
boat at just enough distance apart
to accommodate the four 10-foot
pieces of iron gas pipe that rest upon
them. To each of the gas pipes is at
tached 20 4-foot stagons, similar to
those used on an ordinary trot line,
and each stagon has four hooks With
four prongs. On the back of the boat
there is an awkward arrangement on
the order of a rudder, which is called
in different places mule water sail
or drift board A more clumsy or
ungainly craft could not be imagined.
1t is heavy and unwieldy, but the av-
erage fisherman is brawny and he
goes out in his .Johnboat' with as
much confidence as if it were the fin
est craft afoat. Once in the stream
he casts about his. gas pipes, one By
one. As the hooks drag along the
bottom of the river they come in
contact with the open shells of the
mussels, which Immediately close up
on them. Thus attached, they arr.
brought to the surface and taken OFF.
The distance the hooks are dragged
each time depends altogether on the
thickness of the bed and varies from
three boat lengths to an eighth of a
mile The number~of mussels brought
up each time ranges from 40 to 10.
Arkansasis Prolific
.sThe rivers of Arkansas are said to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30

Takes the burn out; heals the
wound; cures the pain. DIR. Thomas
Eclectric Oil, the household remedy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30
BUTTONS OF CLANS
Interest ng Growth of an Indus
isA. try on the Mississippi isia
-. ~. River. se5,f
MR.. BoEPPLE AND his WORK
Story of How He Began to Make
ssses Use of Nigger, 81 ssss-s
Heads. ,

The plebian mussel has superseded
the ivory of the orient in ornamen-
tation. The modern pearl fisher is
the matter of fact clam digger, who
cooks out pearls in an old lard can
while steaming the mussel flesh from
the shells, which he proposes to mar
ket at the button factories for S. a
ton. Often in the residue is found "a
pearl of great price. Some of these
are quoted at from $50 to $500. ac-
corCling to size, shape and texture.
Now comes Frederick j. Haskin,
and under a Muscatine date writes of
the mussel fishing and button max
ing industry in such an interesting
manner that we republish it from the
Chronicle magazine of about three
weeks ago.
Not II years ago, but IA years ago,
the industry started hereabout. To-
day Muscatine has a surfeit of fac
tories, Davenport has had half doz-
en- of them, and Buffalo has one, al
so. and blank factories are located
all along the river. Mr.. Hasllin's ar
ticle is as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30
The Recognition of the nIussel.

I'm the beginning the shells were
shipped east in the rough and pre-
pared for use after their arrival
there, but the freight rates were so
high that one enterprising firm soon
shipped that part of its machinery
which makes the blank out to Mus
catine, and, what generally results
when some pioneer leads the way to
n good thing, others soon profited by
the example and came also. Local
capitalists were not slow in recog-
nizing the possibilities of the new
business and the advantages that
might be theirs on account of opera
ting altogether on the ground, so
from this beginning the industry has
spread both up and down the river
until almost every town of any i'm
portance from ST. Paul. Mimi, to Al
ton, ILL.,. is now engaged in some form
of the industry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-30

One of natures remedies; cannot
harm the weakest constitution; never
fails to cure summer complaints of
young or old, DIR. Fowler's Extract
of Wild Strawberry.
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22

Ing service. n. evening service, 7.t5.
class meeting, $3.50. prayer meeting,
wednesday, IS. Services Iu thH chapel
at The end of Nukui street adjoining
ST. Louis College Grounds.
Reorgonlzcd Church OF Jesus Christ:
O., j. Waller, pastor, services in Mill
lHni HAIL Sunday school, 10, preach
lng I'm Hawaiian, lli Book of Mormon
class, J.3O,IiOus RcuEil and I.'urury
Society 6.3O; preaching Boo english at
1880.
Seventh Day Adventists. Rev. j. H..
Rehrcns pastor; meeting place, chapel
I'm Printers Lane. Saturday Sabbath
school, 10 a. M; preaching, at II o'clock.
Wednesday prayer and missionary
meeting at $780,
Salvation Army, King street Cap
tains Burgess and Sullivan in charge.
Early prayer meeting, $3.50; wharf
meeting (old Fish Market TO- holiness
meeting, H. Jail meeting, 1890; Sunday
school, $3.50; Bible class. $3.50; street
meeting, 1880; evening meeting, 81 pub
lie meetings every evening in the week
except Friday.
Young Mems Christian Association
meeting for men at 4.
Address by Rev. w. II. Rice subject,
"A Spirit Filled Man
Relief Camp No. 2, Sunday School,
1870.
Bishop Memorial Chapel: Kameha-
meLa Schools. DR.. w. b. Elltn, chap
lain. Services Sunday mornings at IL
o'clock except on last Sunday Of the
month service at A p. m, Alumni and
friends cordially invited.
| PenieI Mission, Irwin block, Nuu-
anu street below King: Miss e. Udden-
| berg, missionary in charge. Gospel
| meetings every night.
A meeting for seamen is held each
| Sunday morning al 9 o'clock on the
! wharf at the foot of Nuuanu street, al
| 10 o'clock Bible class at Mission; p
m, holiness meeting; 1880 street meet
! ing King and Nuuanu afterwards in
! hall.
Christian Science services: The Homo
! lulu Christian Science Association vii
| hold it's regular Sunday services at l.
a. m. in Elk Hall, corner Beretania and
| Miller streets.
The Baptist Society Of Honolulu
Regular meeting first Sabbath after
noon Of each month at 3 o'clock in
Young Mems Christian Association
parlors. A cordial invitation is eN'
tended to all.
Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
| Saints (MormOn church, PunChbow
street, Elder William M. Waddaups, IL
charge. Sunday school at 10 a. m; reg
ular service, preaching, at 1880 a. m.
Young Peoples Mutual Improvement
Association, at p. m; primary meet
, ing for children, Friday at p. M; Re
lief Society meeting at 10 a. m, on Sat
urday. Free to all; no contributions
services in Hawaiian.
Christian Science: The Honolulu
Christian Science Association holds reg
ular services on Sunday at II a. m. anC
} Wednesday at 1880 p. m. at Room s
> Oregon Block.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22
AM SAL PROVED
TOO MUCHEE

All Sal tried to prove to Judge Estee
yesterday that he had a right to land
in Hawaii being a native of the ISL
ands. Sal had several witnesses besides
himself, but they didn't altogether
agree, and once or twice he astOnished
his own attorney, Frank A. Thompson.
The case for the government was con-
Quoted by United States District Attor-
ney Breckons, Collector StaCkable and
immigration Agent j. X. Brown also
appearing for the government
Sal went into many details about his
family most of the members born in
Hawaii, but when asked If he had any
sisters said he didn't know. There were
two other children, but they had died,
and he never knew whether they were
brothers or sisters. He had been born
in Honolulu in 1882, and had left for
China years later. Sal admitted that
he had told the immigration agent that
said he had made a mistake of two
years
Sal proved first by his own testimony
that he had spent most of his time in
China, and then by the testimony of
Noa IIaia that he had been in Homo
lulu almost all the time up to '93. Kaia
swore positively to having seen Sal in
Honolulu repeatedly in 1884, 1887 1890
and 1898 Sai's own testimony was to
the effect that he was in China during
these periods.
a waiter at the Hawaiian Annex was
called to testify that Sal had worked
there a year ago. and had gone to
China then. The government offered
no evidence, and the case was submit
ted without any argument.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22
ALI
1853 Nuuanu Street Ne Pauahi.

Chairs, Tables. Bedroom Sets, Meat
Safes, Mattresses, Pillows and Furni-
ture made to order at very low prices.
P. o. BOX 952.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22
HOW TO PREVENT PNEUMONIA.

You have good reason to fear an at
tack of pneumonia, when you have a
severe cold, accompanied by pains in
the chest or in the back between the
shoulders. Get a bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy and use it as d.
rected and it will prevent the threaten
ed attack. Among the tens of thou
sands who have used this Remedy for
colds and la grippe, we have yet to
learn of a single case that has resulted
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22
CASTLE & COOKE, LIMITED
Commission Merchants,
SUGAR FACTORS
AGENTS FOR

The Eva Plantation Company.
The Walalua Agricultural Co, Ltd.
The Kohala Sugar COMPANY
The waimea Sugar Mill Company.
The Fulton Iron Works, st. Louis, Ma
The Standard OIL Company.
The G rye +. B Ike Steam PA
Weston's Centrifugals.
The New England Mutual Life InEuFa
ance Company of Boston.
The Aetna Fire Insurance Company %
Hartford, [ onn.
The Alliance assurance Company %
London.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22
OAHU RAILWAY AND LAND CO.'S
TINR TABLE

FROM AND AFTER JANUARY.1, 1901
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22
IN THE GITYS CHURCHES
PALM SUNDAY

Almighty aud everlasting God. who.
of thy tender love towards mankind.
hast sent thy Son, our Savior Jesus
Christ To- take upon him our flesh, and
To- suffer death upon the cross, that ALI
mankind should follow the example of
his great humility. mercifuuy grant,
that we may both follow the example
of his patience and also, be made par
takers of his resurrection, through the
same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22

in pneumonia which shows that this
remedy is a certain preventive of that
dangerous disease. For sale by all
dealers Benson Smith & Company
General Agents.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22

Kul,ui near Nuuanu Street. Honolulu.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22

Ads under Situations Wanted" in
serted free of charge in the Star.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-22
Y. G. IRWIN & GO.
tLImItsd.)

AGENTS FOR
Western Sugar Refining Company Of
San Francisco, Cal.
Baldwin Locomotive Works Of
Phi lelphia, Penn.
Newell Universal Mill Company
National Cane Shredder),
New York, u. s. A.
N. Ohlandt g. Co.'s Chemical Fertilizers
High Gra lie Fertilizers for Cane and
Coffee.
Alex. Cross & Sons High Grade Fer
tilizers for Cane and Coffee.
Reeds Steam Pipe Cars.
The Ely miner., 1902-12-05

only ones seen except in the very
fashionable circles, where the chill
dren are so often so bedecked with
novelties that they appear more as
walking advertisements for the mod
istes than anything else. Of course,
there is variety in the coats for the
little misses, but it is variety that
is secured more in the way of trim
ming than otherwise.
The two coats shown in the illus
tration above are fair samples of the
comparatively inexpensive garments
of the winter.
One is made of reversible tweed, its
outer coloring of dark blue being on
the inner side So interviewer with
white as to secure herring-bone eff
feet, which is brought into effective
contrast in the collar, lapels and
cuffs, where stitched bands of the
plain blue tweed, divided by strap
pings of satin, are used as border
ing. Triple cape collars edged with
stitching fall over the shoulders, and
pearl buttons fasten the double
breasted front.
The other and sacque-shaped coat
is made in cigar-brown cloth, with
double-breasted fronts, and collar
of herring-bone tweed in brown and
white colorings, edged with triple
strappings of the brown cloth, the
lapels being in the plain cloth simply
finished with stitching and the cuffs
matching the collar.
The Ely miner., 1902-12-05

the first taken up for homestead.
The all-waterway already traversed
by regular steamers will be the only
practicable path to Nome for long
time to come, and many travellers
have reached the Klondike by taking
this long northern trip to the mouth
of the Yukon and thence up that
river to the gold fields.
Mail routes to Alaska are becoming
more and more numerous, and United
States mail is now regularly deliv-
cred inside the arctic circle. There
are Is post Offices located at the
various important points reached by
the principal steamship lines, and at
the mining settlements of the in
terror. Mails leave the Pacific coast
for Alaska every day. AS the shore
line of alaska is greater than the cir
cumference of the earth at the
equator there is still room, of course,
for further development of the mail
system, if towns are to spring up in
every bay and mails are to reach
them all.
the extreme and has been unjustly
maligned. The Japan current"
helps to make the southern border
and fringe of islands warm while the
northern portion, lying in or near
the arctic circle, is cold. The climate
of much of the interior is temperate,
and one observer declares that in
the summer season one may travel
from one end of the Yukon to the
other and find at all points a tangIe
of luXuriant vegetation, large for
ests and wild berries. The mistaken
reports that Alaska is cold, barren
waste are circulated by persons who
from the coast into the mountains,
which are capped with snow and for.
bidding. AS matter of fact rich
and promising land lies on the IN
terror and cattle may run out in
many sections all winter. s.s
Lack of a market for agricultural
products and for stock will act for
a time as a drawback to big farm
ing interests in Alaska; but any new
valuable territory is bound sooner
or later to be settled by persons who
seek homes there more with the
idea of growing up with new coun-
try than from any plan of definite
conquest or dreams of sudden
wealth. An unfortunate drawback ut
present is found in the fact that the
opportunities of obtaining titles un-
der the present land laws are not of the
hest. Congress permits the applica-
lion of homestead laws to tracts not
exceeding so acres; but surveys have
NIT yet been made and few persons
haYs es yet taken out homesteads-
The Ely miner., 1902-12-05

not finished till 1911. Twice, before its
fall, had it been in danger-once in
the seventeenth century by lightning
(repairs were neglected), again in the
great upheaval of 1S4S which shook
every throne in Europe. The Vene-
tians bore the shattering of their pal
aces, but when the artillery threat
ened the square of ST. Mark they ca
pitulated. Even the Austrian soldiery
were awed by the sight of so much
architectural beauty-to their credit
be it spoken-were very tender of it.
The palace of the Doges, carved as
with fantastic network, fretted with
pinnacles, whose number is past count
ing-begun in 1854 by the traitor Doge,
Faieri, is one of-we may say the
most beautiful building in the world
Dickens said of it: "It is more males tic
in its old age than all the buildings of
the earth, in the high prime and full
ness of their youth"
The church of St. Mark is the most
glorious church in the world. It's ex-
terror looks more like the work of
fairies than that of man. On the por-
tico are the four famous bronze
horses. Never were horses fashioned in
bronze so life-like as those of Lysip-
pus. If one stands beside them, they
look heavy, show age and repairs-be-
low they look so light and mettlesome
so on the point of plunging down, one
almost fears to stand beneath them
"a glorious team of horses" said
Goethe. They have been great trav.
elers. Dandolo brought them from
Constantinople, as trophies, at the
time of the fourth crusade. Napoleon
in the fullness of his arrogance, or
dered them to be sent to Paris, After
Waterloo they were restored. The in
terror of ST. Mark dazzles the eve: nc
words can describe it's beauty. Oh
these triple miracles of architecture
one has fallen. We are told the Others
are in a state of collapse.
Even on solid English ground, ST
Paul's, London, is in danger. Ruin
threatens the Sphinx, unless night
cap be fitted to protect her from the
sands of the desert, which have blown
upon her for thousands of years. Tn
the ages to come there may be nothing
of the present day left, save the pre-
historic mounds of America.
LYDIA L. GORDON.
The Ely miner., 1902-12-05
ProGreSS Made in tie
Dex,elopmeraf Of Alaska
Telegraph Railways, Steamship Service and
Nail Routes Being Established.

@0-HE rapidity with which the
.TxA modern spirit of CONNER
XIII cial mastery has stretched
NWEZE it's lines of communication
~S#a into the heart of Alaska is
revealed in the recent an
nual report of Gen. A. w. Greely,
chief signal officer of the United
States army. His statement says
that the corps has built and put in
working order in Alaska, during the
past "a months, 1,121 miles of land
lines and submarine cables. This
work included not only the surveying
of the course, and the construction
and installation of this length of
line, but also the manufacture and
inspection of large quantities of ma
terial and instruments; and their
transportation, often under difficult
ties, over distances ranging from
1000 to 1000 miles. The great work
accomplished by the service would
not have been boys play even in a set
tied territory with every facility at
hand;, and when it is considered that
much of the region traversed was
wholly uneXplored; that wagon roads
were unknown; that streams had
frequently to be crossed and virgin
forests to be invaded, with bad condi-
tions under foot and severe weather
often making the work more arduous
and dangerous. the Titantic nature
of the accomplishment becomes ap-
parent.
The work of extending the tele-
graph service in Alaska has been con-
siderably facilitated by the ready CO.
operation of the Canadian govern
ment. 1t was only by this coopera-
ton that the United States telegraph
system in Alaska could be brought
in connection with American lines
and the lines of the world. Through
the arrangement which was reached
The Ely miner., 1902-12-05
The Beauty Of ebe Square
of ST. Marx, Venice ~ ~
Around Cling Many Memories Dear Every
Venetian Heart

will grudge no expenses the man for
the emergency.
The day after the fall Minister Nagi
came from Rome and dismissed the
faithless guardians.
TO Commentators Boni, the most
capable Italian engineer, is committed
the task of rebuilding. He is pecul-
iarly fitted for the task by his work of
eXcavating and reconstructing the
Roman forum. Withal he is an enthu-
siast in dealing with ruins. The re-
moval of the debris goes on apace.
To the Venetians the Campanile
seemed something human. They un-
derstood the language of its bells.
They speak of it as the dead or dying
man." and the church as his widow.
''The honest man in dying" said one,
cleft her beauty unimpaired, though
he struck an angle of the Ducal pal
ace" "To show his grief" said an
other, "the dying one left enough of
his bones to fiji up the breach and sus-
tain the broken arch" Is it broken?
Can it be saved? Only the removal of
carried away in barrows and the work
men are paid by weight. Poor dear"
exclaimed one, ''now they have killed
thee, they weigh thy bones
TO this generation the new can never
be as the old. The very bricks seem
hallowed by age. Signor Boni found
some of Roman make, dating back to
the days of Nero, Claudius and An
tonius Plus, all well preserved and
bearing the impress of animals of
many kinds. The artillery at the arse
nal is hushed-there is to be no jar by
the driving of piles, but they are to be
sunk by hydraulic pressure. A great
quantity of puzzalano, something
harder than cement, has been person
ally subscribed for the arena, for the
foundation is to be doubled. "The log
getta" of sansovino will be built just
as it was and again serve as the chief
entrance.
The Campanile was begun in ssS-