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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28
ONE DOG To
EACH tEPER.
Board Of Health
Has Set the
Limit.

There are about one thousand per
sons permanently resident at the lepe
settlement on the Island of Molokai
and there is an average of about fiv,
live and lively dogs to each person.
And those statements are explana'
tory of number of things. 1t would
be supposed in the first place, thai
there was some mysterious affinity
between dogs and leprosy, but this is
not the fact. The native. however, has
great fondness for dogs-and dog
and because of that fondness the num-
Der of canine pets at the settlement
has Increased to such an extent that
they have not only become a great
nuisance to those persons on Molokai
who are able to restrain their affection
for dogs within reasonable limits. but
have likewise become n menace to the
lepers themselves, in that their dogs
are literally eating them out of house
and home.
There is, in fact, constantly in
creasing. insutiiciency. acutely felt. in
the paiai ration issued, while the dogs
grow more numerous at regularly re-
curing intervals, and more voracious
day by day. The average native will
go hungry himself, to feed his dog.
More. he will even let his friend go
hungry to feed his dog. This is what
might be called an amiable weakness,
and works no particular harm where
the native is healthy enough to follow
his bent and eat the dog, in time, thus
tementing his attachment to his pet
permanently, but the people at the
settlement are not inclined to do that
at least, not enough inclined to do
so to keep down the surplus dogs, and
so the Board of Health has been COM
PEELED to take a hand in the matter.
And this has become a condition re-
quiring action the more imperatively
because the dogs, not content with eat
ing up the paiai of their owners. have
lately taken to running in the hills
and pulling down the calves of the
herds there and eating them also. thus
cutting into the meat ration as well
as the ration of paiai
1t was in view, of this condition that
a petition was sent by the lepers to
the Board of Health praying to have
the number of dogs in the Settle
ment limited. which petition resulted
in the passage by the board of new
regulation limiting the canine possess
sions of each leper to one dog. The
board was not however, inclined to
be exigent in the matter. 1t gave the
dog owners until the LIST of July to
get rid of the surplus. That should
be ample time to prepare and enjoy
a lot of luaus. And five thousand dogs
would contribute most successfully to
a number of occasions of that kind,
whether as conscious or unconscious
in the festivities
For" as a member of the Board of
Health said when asked about the
matter yesterday, "the dogs have been
eating them out of house and home.
Now let them eat the dogs, and that
will preserve the balance"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28
Gong to Other Islands.

The following are booked for passage
in the Klnau sailing for Hilo and way
ports at noon today: Miss NJ. Schweit-
ger, Mrs. 7. NJ. Louisson, +. r. Keay,
Mrs. S. w. Kekuewa and eson, Bishop
Restarick. Mr.. Walker, DR.. Hutchin-
son, DIR. Wilson, wife and child, f. L.
Confer. A. l.. Louisson. Mrs. ]. l..
Richards, II. Armitage, j, Dowsett,
Fred Meyer, +, L. Richardson.
The following have booked on the
Claudne which sails at p. m. today
for Kahului: II. =. Baldwin, Judge
Hartwell, w. o. Smith, Miss l.. o. IL.
Oval, Miss T.. Muther, ID. ii. Case, A.
n. Kepoikai, d. C. Heger. Miss r..
Miller, j. o. Seabury, wife and two
children, Mrs. NJ. Achong, Mrs. L..
Achong.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28
Cummins' Master Leaves.

Captain Seares of the steamer j. A.
Cummins, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, leave today in the Sonoma
en- route for Captain Searles' old home
in Margate, Kent, England. where his
mother and a sister are living. This
will be the popular captains first visit
to his home in seventeen years. He
will be away from Honolulu for six
months. The Cummins will be COM
manded by First Officer William Ben
nett of the steamer Maui, during
Searles' absence.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28

Prof Perkinss treatise on the Ian
tana destroying bugs. printed in serial
form in the Planters Monthly, will
probably be published as whole by
the Live Stock Breeders Association
for general circulation throughout the
Territory. There is great demand for
II, as farmers and stock men should
he educated as to the best method OF
dealing with the bugs to the end that
intelligent war may be made upon the
lantana everywhere at once. The
plant has fifty years start on the agri-
culturists, and SO the bugs should be
given every chance In the world.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28

Among other rare trees at the gov
eminent nursery on King street. they
have a canary nut tree full Of beau
tiful dark blue fruit now ripe. and a
mangosteen tree likewise loaded with
fruit. The mangosteen, by the way.
Is the most delicious of all tropical
fruits. These at the nursery are green.
as yet, but should be in bigger demand
than the visible supply when they
ripen.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28

wHoOPING COUGH IL neglected,
leads to more serious diseases. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy will keep the
cough loose. allay the irritation and
counterfeit any tendency toward pneu-
monia. 1t always cures and cures
quickly, All Dealers and Druggists sell
1t. Benson, Smith & Co.. Ltd. agents
for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28
WORK FOR
|NCURABLES
Patients Treated at
the Home at
kainuki.

A statement recently prepared by Mr.
S. F. Damon, treasurer OF the Homo
lulu Home for 1ncurables at Kaimul<i,
shows that the condition of that institu-
| ton. and the work done there are of
! character that should commend it's
| value to every man and woman who
has heart for the sufferings OF the I'M
fortunate. The Home for Incurables is
one of those institutions, semi-publc
in character, for the maintenance of
which the good people OF Honolulu have
long been noted. This reputation of
Honolulu has Travelled much farther
abroad than most residents of the city
are aware, perhaps. There is. in fact,
no city of Its size in the United States
that does more and more intelligent
charitable work than Honolulu. The
fact is due to latitude. perhaps in part,
for people in warm climates are always
warm hearted.-but it is due also to a
certain habit OF charity that is an in
heritance from the time when HONOLULU
was much farther from everywhere
than 1t is now, and when the presence
of man in the community in any
kind of distress became town talk and
the town concern at once. The Homo
lulu people of the olden times did more
way, and their sons and daughters have
inherited the trait.
The Home for 1ncurabes is located
on the high lands at Kaimuki, where
the air is fresh and pure and where
the unfortunates may have all the ad |
vantage that can be secured from such
situation. There are eight buildings
attached to the establishment, and |
these have been erected with a view |
singly to the use to which each Is to |
be put. An Improvement now in course |
of being carried out is "A plan to iso-
late consumptives in a ward to be fit |
ted up for their exclusive use in the |
top floor of the Administration build
ing. An effort has been made hereto
fore to isolate people suffering from
tuberculosis, but it has not met with |
the degree of success desired for the |
reason that there was no place where
they could be kept entirely seprate
from the balance of the patients. The
new ward will remedy this, and make
complete isolation possible. And that
will act for the good of all the patients
in the Home.
The report of Mr. Damon shows that
for the period from September list to
December 31st there were admitted to
lne IL TOTAL Oh lHlTty-lOuI
tients. These comprised Hawaiians,
Europeans, Japanese, Chinese, South
Sea Islanders, Porto Ricans' and
negroes, and the cost of their keep
per day per patient was about $l.45.
In the same period there We're six
deaths in the hospital, and the average
number of patients for that time was
eighteen. The Home has an endowment
fund of $4,000, and the running eX
penses for the time covered in the re-
port amounted to $2S0345. The report |
itself however, contains all the figures
in the best possible manner to their
understanding by those who are inter-
ested in the work of the Home. 1t fol-
lows:
HONOLULU HOME FOR INCUR
ABLES-STATIME AT 31ST
DECEMBER, 1902.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-04-28

Number of patients admitted free, 49,
Number of patients admitted pay
ing, 2.
Number of deaths, 6.
Average number in hospital, IS.
Average cost per patient: Per month
Sept, sa9,56; oct. 1887; Nov, 1928;
Dec, $39.27. Per day-Sept.. 1854; Oct,
$1.25; Nov, s1,44; Dec, 1925.
Endowment fund, $65 10000.
. S. Il. DAMON,
Treasurer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
John Crow, of Jamaica.

"The Incidence of the people and
the lack of non-enforcement of sani-
tary laws" said a recent arrival from
the West Indies, "makes some of the
Jamaica towns candidates for first
class garbage service. There is one
creature which attracts attention from
the visitor when he first lands on the
island. 1t is a bird called John Crow.
So highly is he honored that a range
of mountains in the eastern part of
Portland parish has been named after
him. Here, like the maroons, John
Crow has his own domain. Black of
coat, ragged of wing, red as to head,
looking as if he had just emerged
second best from a fight, he has been
misnamed vulture, but John Grow is
protected by the law as scavenger.
He is always overhead, or in the
street, backyard or stable-in fact,
everywhere where filth abounds, and
he clears it away by a gastronomic
process peculiarly his own. John
Grow fears no man and he offers no
indignity to a passer-by, with the eX-
ception that John Crow has a very
loud breath. He sleeps on backyard
fences, in trees and about houses. He
rises with the sun and begins his
sanitary duties for the health of those
about him.-Baltimore Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
THE USEFUL SNOW.
1t Is of Great Value In the Transport
tatiOn of Timber and Freight
in the North.

One agency of transportation which
does not appear in the columns of sta
tistics at its full value is the snow.
For a considerable portion of each
year, in the central and northern parts
of this country, and particularly in
the Mississippi valley and the regiona
east, the earth's covering of snow
solves "the good roads problem"
Sleighs themselves make Roman high
way wherever they travel. The fric-
tlon of their runners on the glossy
surface is so slight that the heaviest
loads, once started, can be easily
drawn. The difference in the matter
of speed and the eXertion required be-
tween skating and walking is IA
miliar fact.
This use of the snow, wherever itreg-
ularly covers the ground, is of large
value, says Youths Companion. Lum-
bermen wait for snow before getting
out their logs, because sleds can be
used to advantage at places in the for
ests where no wagon could go. Farm
ers save their heavy winter hauling for
the sleighing. In some places chain
of lakes, when the frost seals their
surface, will afford an avenue for
transportation of surprising attract
lveness. Over still water the north
ern winter is universal bridge build
er, cutting off miles in many a Jour-
ney.
1t is notable that although the horse
and the oxare adjusted to wheel or rum
ner, according to circumstances, GER
tain modern methods of land trans
portation require the wheel. The To-
connective, the automobile, the cleo
trio car and the bicycle do not know
what "hard shedding" is. Their hard
est wheeling comes when nature is
laying down the material for some
good shedding.
In the old "horse-car" days it was
not unknown for the lines in the small
er inland cities to attach their power
to great double runner sleighs, for the
conveyance of passengers during the
season, rather than attempt to keep
their tracks open. Electricity has put
an end to this practice.
And yet what monarch of the mod
ern world would not exchange the most
sumptuous of palace cars for the much
pictured sledge of Peter the Great,
were he to consider only enjoyment in
an eXhllarating winter ride?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24

for their health. Mr.. Parkinson has q
very romantic countenance. Have you
seen him?"
For answer Burr told his story, to
the horror of his auditors.
"He must have come here for mon
ey, and the hallman let him in," said
Prescott. 1--WE often loaned him small
sums. Probably he had not enough for
his flight"
Hes got plenty now," said Burr.
feeling in his empty breast pocket
Hes got all of mine. But he'll be
caught, of course"
81 knew that he was in the hands
of bad woman" said Prescott, "and
have tried to help him free himself
Wait" interrupted Burr. "Shes
dead. Let's say that she was in the
hands OF bad man. l like it better
that way. She must have loved him.
or she wouldn't have lived with him in
poverty. l know them"
You don't seem to take your own
misfortune very hard" said Prescott.
I'm glad, downright glad" respond
ed Burr, and, turning to the girl: Pm
very glad for you, as for myself. l feel
rather proud because, Mr.. Prescott, 1
bad sense enough to know from the
start that this thing wasn't in you."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24

"T suppose you didn't know Parllin-
son well?'' he said to Morris. WAS he
here much?"
"Not lately" was the reply. "He
used to be. They kept to themselves,
both of them. You won't find anybody
in this house that knows any more
about their business than l do, and
that's nothing"
"Tall, rather handsome fellow, wasn't
hep" asked Burr. Ozark eyes and hair,
smooth face? Sort of sad look?"
"Thats him. replied Morris.
He walked into an adjoining bed.
room and remained there about q min
ute, during which time he had found
a cabinet photograph of a man, which
he put into his pocket When he came
out, he met two uniformed policemen,
to whom he said:
Husband, if anybody. May have
been an accident. Nothing to do but
find the man. I'm going along"
He went to the offices of the publish
ers of "a Pine Tree Shilling" and, by
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
The words came In u whisper.

Most men DON'T said Burr, "but
they ought not to put themselves in
the way of doing it. They ought to
think it all over day before yesterday
instead of waiting till today when
they're mad. Now, see here" he con-
tinued in a changed tone. Il have an
idea of giving you show. l don't
know why. 1t was foolish of me, but
I'd read your book, and it was all about
my country and somehow felt neigh
borly-I don't know what. l couldn't
think that it was in you to do this
thing. And it was such pity! Here
you've made a big success and got
money, and I've no doubt that you were
going to marry this pretty, innocent,
well brought up girl who was here a
minute ago. But now you've wrecked
everything unless can get in and pull
you out. Tell me why you did it. Tell
me the whole story. Then We'll wait
till this girl gets back, and I'll have a
talk with her and perhaps
well wait till she gets back"
''Yes, sir. I've got to see her"
'I'll tell you everything" said he,
compressing his white lips. ''It was an
accident. Really, l didn't strike her.
1t was like this: l had the cane in my
hands,
He walked quickly to the desk in the
center of the room, an enormous fiat
topped affair Uttered with paper and
books of reference. A long and very
heavy ruler lay there.
at was like this" he continued, hold
ing the ruler in his hand.
They were the last words that Burr
could afterward remember to have
heard. His next impression was Of a
woman's voice crying:
"Who is he? How did he come
here?"
Then Burr became aware of a round
faced, pink skinned, healthy looking
fellow bending over him.
II don't know" said this individual.
II never saw him before. I'll have to
go for doctor"
Don't do it," said Burr, putting his
hand to a sore spot on the side of his
head. "Pll be all right in a minute.
Where is he?"
"Who?"
"Warren Prescott, the man that did
this to me-"
The man and the woman exchanged
puzzled glances as Burr struggled to
his feet, and then the former demand
ed:
"What do you mean by saying that
Prescott did this?"
Because he did," said Burr.
Il am Warren Prescott" replied the
man, 80 far as there is any such per-
son. My real name is John Lang"
"Well, you don't look much like your
pictures" said the detective weakly as
he leaned against the edge of the desk.
Il mean the posters"
Prescott laughed. "The posters are
not intended to look like me-" he said.
"Theyre intended to sell books. How
would l look as the author of ro-
mantle novelT'
, And he laughed again, becoming Sc
rious quickly and laying finger upon
Burr's shield, which was visible now
that his coat hung open.
Il speak right out to you," he said,
because l see that this business is no
joke. We had a professional model
pose for the pictures-a fellow named
Parkinson. 1t was an idea of my pub
fishers, who are not in this business
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
Robbed The Grave.

A startling incident, is narrated
by John Oliver of Philadelphia, as
follows: 81 was in an awful condi-
ton. My skin was almost yellow,
eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain
continually in back and sides, no
appetite, growing weaker day by
day. Three physicians had given
me up. Then | was advised to use
Electric Bitters; to my great joy,
the first bottle made a decided i'm
provement. | continued their use
for three weeks, and am now a well
man. / know they robbed the
grave of another victim" No one
should fail to try them. Only so
cents, guaranteed, at DR.. Kinks
drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
He Might Live Too Long.

Old Hardcash-Yes, Miss Young.
thing has given me some encourage.
ment; at least she hasn't refused me
She says she first wishes to see my
family Bible. 1 presume she wants to
make sure that L am no older than l
say.
Friend-No, she doesn't.
"Eh? Then what can she want?"
"She wants to see if you come of a
long-lived family."-N. Y. Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24

IhE DETECTIVE FULLOWED HEX.
the way, he did some hard thinking.
Several times he said half aloud: Il
don't believe he struck her. 1t ain't in
him. But if this comes out he's ruined
anyhow; might as we'll go to the chair
And for such woman!'
A young man in the publishers Office
smiled when he asked for Warren Pres
colts address.
THAT is pseudonym," said the
young man. 1--WE are not at liberty to
give the name and place of residence.
That is a secret"
"a secretr' echoed Burr. "Why, the
mans picture is up on a thousand bull
letin boards"
The youth admitted that this might
be true but he declined to discuss it.
A pretty young woman entered the
office and approached the clerk whom
Burr had questioned. The detective OBJ
served that the clerk led her aside
when he spoke to her.
"She asked for Prescott. She's in a
hurry. She'll go somewhere else to find
him." said Burr to himself.
He followed her. She boarded car,
and the detective sat in a corner, pro-
fessionally inconspicuous, but with an
open eye. Having in his memory the
evil life and wretched death Of a GER
tain woman, he was affected by a
strong impression of contrast. This
bright eyed creature of beauty was so
fresh and fine, so delicate in all her
sensibilities! A rough word would have
hurt her like blow or, as Burr phras-
ed it to himself:
"He wouldn't have to hit this one.
He'd only have to tell her; that's ALL"
But contrast to be effective must in
volve a similarity. They were both
women Burr was conscious of sud-
den and new recognition of this sister,
hood.
This one is going to feel it," he
said. You can't hit one woman with
out hitting another. That's the way
I've always seen it happen"
The girl left the car and went into
an office building, where she took an
elevator to lofty floor There she
knocked upon a door which bore in
small gilt letters the name John
Lang" No one answered. She wrote
n few words upon card, inclosed it
in an envelope which had been folded
In her purse and thrust it through the
hole for letters in the door.
Burr was puzzled. He had no means
Of knowing whether John Lang was
Warren Prescott. Probably he wasn't.
1t might be better to follow the girl a
little farther. He was about to do so
and was very near the door when he
heard faint click of the knob. He
fattened himself against the wall. The
door was opened cautiously, and head
was thrust out and withdrawn. When
the door began to close, it encountered
Burr's foot, and he was inside the room
in second.
Good morning." he said. "Tve seen
you before"
"Well," was the answer in a trem-
bling voice. "What of itT
The man was very pale. His hand
shook so that the envelope which he
had just opened rustled audibly. Burr
saw the card which it contained He
could not read the name, but the writ
ing in pencil was larger.
Dearest-Wait. I'm coming back.
So the imaginary romance was true.
II saw you over there" said Burr,
nodding his head sidewise in the direc-
tion of the house with the pillared por-
tico.
The mans face was CHASTITY.
"You struck that woman" continued
the detective. Il know the whole
thing. You might as well give up"
81 didn't mean TO do it.o
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
Her Husbands Uniform.

At the Paris pawn house about
$4,000 watches and 10000 wedding
rings are deposited every year. The
oldest objects there in 1900 was a
suit of clothes on which five francs
had been advanced in 1869. 1t be-
longed to a soldier who fell in the
war of 1870, and whose widow paid
her annual due on it for over 80
years in the hope of being able some
day to redeem it.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
Wrong Diagnosis.

"The trouble with you," the doctor
said, after examining the young man,
''seems to be that something is the
matter with your heart"
"With my hearth"
"Yes. To give it name, it is angina
pectoris."
you'll have to guess again, DOCTOR"
said the young man. "That isn't her
name at all."-Chicago Tribune.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24

"Yes, he's blind. AS a matter of
fact, both his eyes are glass now."
"Too bad," she commented, sympa-
thetically. "But-but-"
"Well?"
81 was just thinking that at least he
has the privilege of selecting the color
of them now.''-Chicago Post.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
PhilosophicalIy Considered.

students of the subject say that it
is dangerous for a man to have too
much meat" remarked the beef trust
promoter consolingly.
eyes," answered the consumer; "but
you can't always go by what the stu
dents say. They have also declared
that it is sometimes dangerous for
man to have too much money."-Wash-
ington Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
Weed-KiIIing Mixtures.

A number of tests made by the
Vermont experiment station found
that arsenite of soda and the arsenic
sal-soda mixtures are very satisfac-
tory for killing weeds along walks
and drives. These can be kept per-
fectly free of weeds by the use of
these mixtures.-N. Y. Sun.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24
NOTICE

By THE ORPHANS CoURr FOR CECIL CouNrY.(
January a. 1902.
ORDERED, That all Administrators, Ex
ecutors and Guardians that have not statec
an account within year. come forward an6
do the same, or show cause to the contrary
or they will be cited up.
Test: R. E. JAMAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-04-24

SHERIFF sold you out O. house and
home?"
"Yes suh-thanky."
"Never left a penny?"
''No, suh-thanky!"
swell, what in the mischief have you
got to be thankful for!"
Good Lawd, Marse Tom-don't you
see 1 still vin'!"-Atlanta Constitu.
tion.