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swallowed with much gaping and gulp- ing. When he had finished his meal, nothing but the hind quarters remained, and these he picked up in his bill and flew off with. The first convenient landing place happened to be the now deserted nest of his victim, and here he alighted and tucked the remains of his supper firmly between the nest and one of the branches which supported it.
 . The following afternoon, as the horned owl was roasting in a large dark ever green tree. he slowly opened his mouth and very solenlnly elected q solid pellet about two inches long containing the bones and fur which he had swallowed with his meal the night before. Then
 he began to preen his plunlage, draw
 ing his tail and wing feathers through his bill, slowly and precisely. Next he turned his attention to his feet, and went over each toe separately, biting hard at the big, hooked claws, to make sure that all were smooth, and in good condition. After that he lifted one foot after the other, opening and closing the talons two or three times, and then, as if satisfied that every thing was in order, away he flew on powerful. silent wings. He alighted once more on the deserted squirrels nest and after looking about him with his usual caution dragged out the remains of his last nights victim,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
CHANCE FOR THE AVG GELoF PEACE

Providence has been disturbed for Q long time by the management of the
 Consolidated railroad, and it has made it's disturbance known in no uncertain words and tones. In his speech at the Chamber of Commerce dinner In Provf- dence the other evening President Mel len. while admitting that the stock of
 angels employed by the road had run
 rather low, and that the wages paid are
 not attracting more, declared his inten- I tion to have things hereafter as angelic
 as possible in Providence. He appealed
 for forgetfulness of the past and confi- dence and help for the future. The Providence Journal. which has done
 some tall talking to the past managers of the road, and has been the principal advocate of the aggrieved, now com
 mends President Mellen's attitude. It
 says oe his speech that it twas ad-
 mirabIe in conception and excellent in IQfle. IL was CSittuiu dIfu CouEtSpus' 1t
 was not an attempt to prove that the
 Consolidated road has served Rhode Island as it should have done, but was
 frank, businesslike offer to try to
 have the road serve Rhode Island as it
 should hereafter" And the Journal
 adds: Hope springs eternal in the hu-
 man breast. Hope is the guiding prin- eip1e of Rhode Island public life. Rhode
 Islanders will now look expectantly to-
 ward the railroad with which their in-
 dustrial life is so closely associated and
 hope for better order of things.
 While, as President Mellen intimated, it cannot be expected that more angels
 will be hired by the Consolidated road 1 tit is to be hoped that the Angel of
 Peace will now find time and inclina- ton to spread it's white wings over the railroad situation in Providence.
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PROGRExs.

The metric system doesn't grow any more popular in this country. If any body wants it it would seem that edu- cated workers like architects and en- gineers might be the ones. But at its recent meeting in New York the Soei- ety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers voted against its use by a vote of 40 to il. And at that meeting Mir. F. A. Halsey, an investigator of the subject, made some statements which will surprise those who think the metric system is making rapid progress in other countries. He said that it is an error to totalize the populations of the nominally metric countries and ex- press the sum as representing the por- tion of the earth's people who use the metric system. While Jaoan is nomi- naliy metric country, an examination Of its tariff schedule-a good index of the systems Of weights and measures actually used in any country-shows only fourteen items stated in metric units, the total list being very long and making a comprehensive document. Turkey tried to force the use of the system in style characteristic ok that domain, but had to give up the attempt, even the most drastic measures failing of material result. China Is also quot ed as metric, while, like the United States, her status in this respect is one of permissive use. Japan and Turkey are on the same basis. The most re- markable feature of the subject is per- haps the slight extent to which the system is used in spite of government assistance in many countries. Whit worth screw threads are almost uni- versal in the metric countries. A new ly recommended standard of pipe sizes and threads in Germany specifies inner and outer dlameters in inches, pitch of threads ill inches, but the point and root diameters of the threads in milii- meters. A folding pocket rule com- monly used in Germany has its four edges graduated. one in metric units, the other three in London, Paris and Rhenish inches. There is now a call in France, after more than & century of the metric system. for more strin- gent laws compelling people to use the legal system to & greater extent than they will if left to suit their own con venience.
 If the metric system Is only hob by'' it wont make much progress among practical people. Still. there is much to be said in favor of it's univer- sal use.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
THE HOME OF AN OWL.

One afternoon last winter, after a long stretch of very cold, snowy weather. the storm clouds parted and the sun shone out bright and warm. And as it shone, it lighted up the top of a dark pine tree which stretched up- wards out Of gloomy wood, and it warmed the south side of a large nest of leaves and twigs which rested in the upper branches. And big gray squir- rel who had been eurled up asleep inside for many days, felt the grateful warmth arose, stretching and yawning. to take 8 look from the doorway, q round hole in the wall of the nest. Then he ran cut upon a branch to the tip of it. leaped ten clear feet to the out stretched limb of another tree, and after cireiing the trunk few times to get his legs in working order, he lay down along horizontal branch, with one fore and one hind leg hanging down on either side, and took sun bath. By and by he jumped to another tree, and thence to the ground to hunt for. a nut which he seemed to remember having hidden somewhere nearby. And he found
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GeorEIe on Dieting.

At breakfast ma she says to me
 That breads the stan of life, and when take lump Of sugar she
 Just makes me put 1t Daek agant can't have d0ughnuts neither, cause Pa says l mustn't eat such truck l wish boys didn't have no pas
 Or mas to watch them, blame the luck! Pa tales molasses on his cakes - And sugar in his coffee, too YOu ought to hear the TOW he makes When 1 want SYeetS!-I never knew The time when he let doughnuts go Because they might be rich, you bet! l wish the doetor'd fix It so He'd only eat the things l ets At dinner when it comes to pie :-~ Pa says l mustn't have bite Because I might get sick and die,
 Or have the nightmare in the night, And then he takes two pieces, cause He gets the one ought Of had If boys would never have no pas < 1 guess they'd all be pretty glad. When grow up to be 8 man I'm g0'n' to be doctor then, Because I've thought about plan For boys to even up with men I'll fix 1t so their pas can't eat
 Athing unless the boys can, too guess that then the things that's sweet Won't be so bad to take, don't youE It makes my pa and ma feel bad
 To have me ast for sweets or pie: You'd think one little doughnut had Enough bad stuff to make m4 die But if they couldn't eat them till
 They'd not set heavy on my chest guess they'd let me have my fill
 And just keep hapin' for the best,
 Chicago Record Herald.
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t. too. under the snow, close to the
 base of a rock, and when he had eaten it
 he raced through the tree tops for a
 time before hunting for another one.
 And so he spent that bright winter afternoon. playing and feeding until the sun was far over in the west. With
 in the wood it was already growing dark when he started for his home and
 his bed in the top of the old pine tree.
 He had not far to go--some twenty-five feet, perhaps-and he was bounding along over the snow, when q dark shad- |ew fell across his path. For one. in stant he heard the ''fiuff-fiuff" of mighty wings, and had one glimpse of q
 pair of fierce yellow eyes, and then came a moments terrible pain, before
 his life was crushed out by the talons of a great horned owl. nt
 The savage bird looked up from his
 victim, and, turning his head, looked sharply on all sides of him as though to see If any one had witnessed the deed. Then he looked down again. apparently
 satisfied that he was unobserved. Hold ing the limp squirrel with his feet, he peht uANsit, dilu ldiI SIullIiis HIS eyes,
 began finishing the body with his bill.
 Presently he found the place he was feeling for, and there was distinct
 "crack'' as he broke the backbone with a single bite. Again and yet again came that oninous cracking sound, and
 then the owl began to devour his prey
 piecemeal. But first of all he pulled out a few tufts of thick grey fur ii, nr-
 der to get at the skin and then he liter ally tore the animal in pieces. which he jerked backward into his throat and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
HAPPY AND RICH.

Kansas is always in the public eye, and not often in an irritating way. Just now little calculation made by the Kansas City Journal is the thing to consider. The Journal points out that including all children above 10 years old. there are a little over 270,000 en- gagged in agricultural pursuits in Kan sas. They raised this year s22S,SS4.5O worth of farm products, which averages about $s59 apiece. This pro rata of the proceeds makes the share of every farmer. and farmers child above the age mentioned. equal to $70 month. These figures represent something more than the receipt of wages does in other gainful occupations. In the case of the farmer this S70 a month means practic- ally the interest on capital already ac- cumulated; for the Kansas farmer as a rule owns his sarm and it's improve ments. Moreover. it does not include ali his yearly income. because in addf- ton 70 his landed estate. he has big per capita bank savings and various other sources of revenue.
 Happy, happy and rich Kansas farm CT. Good for himself and his family, and good for the rest of us who eat but sarm not.
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Q portion of the bone was removed and and the parts were bandaged together A similar operation was necessary to the other leg. the bone being fastened together with silver clasp, holes being bored through the bones in the opera tion. In each operation the bones were reduced in length about two inches. The injured man is recovering the use os the leg first operated upon, and the other is healing rapidly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
coon PLACE TO KEEP AWAY FR0I,

Young man, do not go to South Africa as long as you can go West or South in this country. A correspondent of the London Chronicle, writing from Johannesburg utters an earnest warn ing to young Englishmen not to go to South Africa, on speculation, in the be- lief that they will be certain to find re- munerative 4 employment. He urges them not even to accept contracts un- less they have private incomes to fall hack upon. Not long ago, he reports, the Central South African Railways initiated 8 scheme of wholesale re- trenehment as regards the salaried staff, more than 130 men in single department receiving a months notice to leave the service. The disnissals in- ciuded, in various departments, clerks
 engineers, draughtsmen, station off, cials, etc., and skilled and unskilled white workmen-~in all the services of several hundred white men, drawing salaries of from e20 to e35 per month, were dispensed with. It now appears that recently several hundreds of men were engaged in England for railroad work (cl1iefy clerks in offices) at sala- ries of G12 per month, which is a poor wage for the Cape and Natal but Sirll- ply means starvation in Johannesburg. Board and lodging alone cost at least from G9 to G10 per month, at the cheapest boarding houses, and even that means sharing room with one or two others, while the lanilady insists on payment in advance. Decent living, not including laundry, which is a heavy item, costs G10 to E15 per month. The correspondent denounces the action of the railroads in engaging men in Eng land at salaries which seem handsome over there. but are ruinously small in Africa, as unfair to the men so engaged, The same thing was done, he says, when the military authorities had the raii- road. Men were brought out to Bloem+ fontein at salaries of e10 and &11 per month, to find that by the time bare living expenses had been paid they had not a penny left, if, indeed, they were
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
SOMETHING ABOUT TECo HARE
The Pottery Product With the Duit OF
 Matt GIazs Finish.

There is a great variety in the modern potteries. It is vastly greater difference than would be looked for in things produced from materials so much alike.
 The difference may usually be at tributed to the Individuality of the producers of the wares. 4 potter loves his work; each piece is char acteristic of the man. Each piece illustrates his view.
 Teco ware is the product of the highest skilled artisans. It is made in the dull or matt glaze finish and has 8 peculiar green tint which is distinctive of this one ware. It har- monizes with surroundings and it's beauty will grow on you the longer you possess it.
 It is the product of science and 1t embodies the potter's love and life as well. It is tersely described as ART.
 The Ford Company has Teco ware on view at the show rooms.
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I& yE ,S1I0SS.

The Man in the Third Row.--"What do you think of the uuartet?'
 The Man Beside TIin-''Well, it won't take as long as four solos.''-Puck.
 Bob-"Are you fond of reading, Dick?" Dick-"No, hate 1t: that's the reason pretend to like it. If my moth CT thought I didn't like to read, she'd keep me at it all the time" ."--Boston Transcript
 Well, anyway" he said during their little spat, when proposed to you, you took me promptly enough.''
 Yes" she replied: T was only a woman. and you did look so cheap."-- Philadelphia Ledger.
 Come in.' said St. Peter.
 Wait" said the walking delegate, Dausing to listen to the music Of the golden harps." First want to know if those musicians have union cards."-- Chicago Eve 1ing Post. ~.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12

The highest salarfed woman in the pension office in Washington is Miss Annie Shirley, whom Commissioner Ware has promoted to position which pays s1,S00 year. Only one other wo- man has received so large g. salary. Miss Shirley was appointed a clerk in the bureau about twenty-five years ago. For many years she has made up the bureau pay-rolls, and she knows by name and appearance everyone of the seventeen hundred employees of the bureau.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12

Fred Landis, the new congressman from Indiana, is very thin. He was sit ting in Washington street car when a fat man came in and absent-mindedly sat down on his knee. The stout party apologized and Mir. Landis said: ''It's all right, but tell me. did you think I was painted on this seat?"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12

Daniel ]. Blackwell, & city fireman at Nashville, Tennessee, who had both his legs broken in an accident, July 30. will soon leave the hosnital reduced in stature two inches. AS a compensa~ ton he will have savad both this legs. Both os Rlaekwelrs legs were broken above the knee. and when taken to the hospital they were placed in splints and then in plaster. An investigation of one leg later showed that it had not proper lx healed. In order to save this leg
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and soon there was nothing left but the
 bushy tail, which was caught by a puff
 of wind and blown to the ground. After that, the owl seemed to develop a liking for that particular nest, and many were the squirrels. mice and small birds
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12

The boom in radium seems to be off' as well as the boom in other things Radium, which not long ago was sell ing at $s,750,0 900 an ounce, can now be had. in limited quantities, for s14s,4SS an ounce.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each ln- serti1n: Five Cents Word for IHii week
 Display advertisements, per inch. one m, c sertion, s1.20; each subsequent insertion. In @ so
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King Alfonso of Spain is giving his subjects lessons in agriculture. He wants to show to them that by the ap- plication of modern methods land which for centuries has been held to be barren can be made to yield profitable crops. For this purpose he has selected seven hectares os his poorest land and has procured machinery of the latest type. Nearly every day he drives out to in- soect the work, accompanied by the minister of the interior, Count San Ber- nardo, who is said to be more of an ag- riculturist than 1iplomatist.
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not in debt. Scores of them were com pelled to leave the service and seek work elsewhere or return home.
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Premier Sedden of New Zealand is being hauled over the eoals for uaload- ing his relatives on the government. It is said that he and eight os his rela- lives are drawing an average of $25, ,00o each year in salary. The matter came In for vigorous discussion in the colo- nial parliament, one speaker saying tha. a sense of decency should debar the premier from "foisting on the coun- try his son and daughter, brother and brother-in-law, nephew and uncle, to say nothing of his sisters and his cous- ins and his aants.'' The premier replied that since his son and daughter were ably equipped for the work he failed to see why they should be denied the priv ileges of others. His only regret was that he had not more relatives to give over to his country.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-12

A case in the Kansas Supreme court involves curious question of law and the meaning of language. Mrs. vashti LaRue sued the Kansas Mutual Insur- ance Company for s1,ooo, the amount of insurance carried by her son, who was killed while serving with the United States army in one of the Phil- ippine islands in 1900. The policy reads that 1t should be null and void if the in- sured met death in the military service lin the time of war;" It is contended by attorneys for Mrs. LaRue that the treaty of Paris had been signed before the young mans death: that peace had been officially declared, and that, there, fore, the young man was not killed "in time of war" The lower court decided against this contention, and appeal is now taken to the supreme tribunal.
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The Mescalero Apaches of New Mexi- co have made good crops this year and are all right financially, but there is a shadow over them. T should say there are at least fifteen well-developed cases of tuberculosis in the tribe" says their agent. Captain Charles A. Carroll. Besides these. there are a number of incipient cases, and children are being born in the latter-day generations with predisposition to the disease. The In- dians seem to be subject to it and the altitude does not seem at all good for them when they have it. Had we the facilities for treating them, as at Fort Stanton and Fort Bayard, I think that 1t might be possible to save a percen- tage of them: but we have not.''
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Alaska Sable Skunk) Scarfs
Mink Scarfs
Brown Fox Scarfs
Alaska Sable (Skunkl Boas

Full 60 inches long, regular value sso; special.
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S3o

Black Mink stoles special .... .$25.oa Baum Marten scarfs, special...... $500 Isabella Fox Scarfs, special. ...... 1850
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$2O
Long Mink Roas

Shaped at neck, trimmed with na- tural mink tails, regular value $45; special,
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Continued on Fifth Page.l
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-26
New Rule for Teachers
Certificates
Made.
James Ontai, Chinese School
Principal. Forced to Resign
by School Patrons.

The school trouble at Wahiawa was
settled yesterday by the Boardsof Edu-
cation in voting to retain Miss Bevans,
the present school teacher, against
whom charges were made. These
charges were to the effect that her sys-
tenn of teaching spelling, arithmetic
and other subjects was unsatisfactory
and Inspector King was sent down to
investigate. He reported at yesterdays
meeting that the complaints were not
we'll founded, and that the teacher was
doing as well as any one. He reported
also that her system was as good as
any in the Territory. Upon this report
and counter-petitions from a majority
of the parents a resolution was adopted
retaining the services of Miss Bevans.
NEW RULE ADOPTED.
A new rule which will be of much
Importance to the school teachers of the
Territory was adopted, as it governs
teachers examinations for certificates.
The rule is to the effect that diplomas
and certificates of other States and
Territories will be received as equiva-
lent to Hawaiian certificates as fol-
lows:
University A. B., Normal diplomas,
State or Territorial Grammar Grade
70
mar Grade certificates.
County certificates of first class to
be equivalent to Hawaiian certificates
of equal average.
State Life certificates to be equivalent
to Hawaiian Life certificates.
Time allowance to be according to
regular schedule.
The appointment of Miss Iwalani K.
Dayton as an additional assistant in
the Kaiulani school was approved.
James Ontai having resigned his posi-
ton at Honaunau school, the appoint
ment of Lot Kauwe as principal of the
same, by Miss Paris, the school agent,
was approved. Ontai resigned because
Oh OpJecllOH VI the SChoOl PdIlohS tAie1@
he was a Chinese.
Isaac NJ. Cox having furnished docu-
mentary evidence of his having held an
A. B. degree of Haverford College was
allowed to have one-half of time taught
out of this Territory.
Those present at the meeting were:
Supt. A. T. Atkinson, Commissioners
Alexander, Hall, Won Holt and Wood.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-26
FOUND LAND BUT
NO INFORMATION

Inquiry as to lands suitable for small
farms is now a matter of daily occur
renee and since the wave has started,
the securing of small plots has become
one of the aims of many home people
who have not before considered it dur
ing their residence. One man said yes
terday that he had made a trip all
around the island within the week for
the purpose of securing information as
to lands which are suitable for farms,
and how they may be obtained. He
found one tract of some 1000 acres at
Kahuku but try as he might he could
find no sub-land agent there and at
the land Office here inquiry as to the
status of the lands was unavailing. He
says that the major portion of the tract
lies from $50 feet elevation up and re-
sembles very much Wahiawa There is
a small sandy strip but in general the
lands are suitable for cultivation.