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slide along on their bellies through nail-
grown rye, or work their way beneath the
rock labyrinth of deep guillies.
Have Tried Same Plan.
Under cover of darkness they SIP
through all barbados, but revenue Oh
feers have learned to cheekmate their
TRICKS nv training dogs of their own
'.zoll hunde" ('toll hounds'o. as they
call them in Switzerland. These FOUR
footed protectionists prowl in packs ana
easily overpower individual blockade rum
ners that should venture to show nght'
but are. in their turn. now and then VIC
tinized by a cooperative gang of law
breakers The noise of the rough-and-
tumble fight brings up the rival trainers
at a run, but It may happen that the SIN
ners are first on the ground. IN at the
death" as it might be described with
a hunters phrase, since they sose no time
in silencing me ohstructionists and help
ing their four-footed free traders to
vanish into night and darkness.
In passing the skirmish line of the dou-
aniers the champions of freedom are often
peppered with slugs, like an old-school
democrat with Dingley SANDER; but they
have learned to move in zigzag rushes
and their shoulder bag frequently serves
the purpose of protective armor. The
bounty of 40 francs per head for four
footed outlaw tends, however, to stimuli
late the vigilance of the picket points.
and no life insurance company would like
to take risks on the Swiss frontier, where
revenue officers hold certificates of grad
uation In sharpshooting.
An equally perilous trade was that or
the Partisan poodle, whose owner had
taught him to practice his tricks OF klep-
tomaniac in the confusion of a market
crowd Five or six of the great provision
halls have evening markets. where pick
pockets can dispense with half their pre-
cautious, but the tactics of the pilfer
poodle were still further facilitated by his
puppy like pranks. He would make up
to a provision vender, slobber him all
over play with his shoestrings, and then
suddenly transfer his attention to good
sized sausage The edible properties OF
his TOW did not seem to determine his
choice. He would toss it up, drop Il,
snatch a cap or a twist of wrapping
paper, and, amidst the laughter of by
ISLANDERS romp about for while. but
contrive to have hold of something nutri-
tive when he finally gathered himself up
and made a dash for parts unknown.
Quick as a Weasel.
No weasel could have been quicker to
dodge clutching hands; detectives tried
more than once to track him to his head
quarters, but he could never be seen en-
tering house. and 1t was surmised that
he had been taught to deposit his spoil
in some preconcerted cache, under the
porch of a Stun alley, perhaps. or the
traps Of the downtown wnarves. Day.
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DOGS HAVE PROVED MANS
FRIENDS IN MANY WAYS

F. L. Oswald, IN the Cincinnati Enquirer.
It has been predicted that the evolu-
ton of the motor will eventually super
sede horsepower. Chemistry threatens
to assume the function of winged honey
makers and wireless electricity of carrier
pigeons; but there is not the slightest
risk that the substitution of game pens
for hunting grounds will ever throw our
canine assistants out of employment.
Mans truest friend is the most versa
tile. as well as most virtuous of quad
rupeds. Dogs are as adjustment proof
as dogmatics.
The introduction of military messenger
dogs will oblige all war powers to initiate
the example Of Austria, where Berg-hunde
"a species OF large collies) were first
trained to carry dispatches and guide am
buance drivers to the hiding places OF
wounded men. These shaggy scouts ma
corpses, too. A few months ago a Sile-
sian gamekeeper vanished as II he had
been exported by a Santos-Dumont pai-
loon, and a weeks research in the haunts
of vindictive poachers failed to eiucioate
the mystery. The spur-hound of neigh
boring garrison town solved 1t IN Twelve
minutes. His attendants had hardly
reached their observation points when MS
lonR-drawn howl guided them TO
ravine where the body Of the forester
Law hidden under a tangle of briers and
brushwood.
Servants of Smugglers.
smueglers train all sorts of dogs. both
nc sentries and as beasts of burden. The
latter have been taught to welcome their
taskmaster as a beneefactor. In early
uuppyhood, when they can just waddle
and distinguish darkness from daylight,
they are locked UP in cold, dark kennels
and starved for days. then saddled with
a little shoulder bag and taken out to be
treated to the luxuries Of the season.
The packsaddle is so light at first and so
gentls- fastened, that 1t does not inter-
fere with the comfort of the wearer,
which soon learns to associate Its ar
rival with the prospect OF all that Is
pleasant in life. That prepossession holds
good. even when the weight of ten ounces
is gradually raised to ten or twelve
pounds With burden of that amount
the full grown dog goes tearing through
thickets and snowdrifts, and can main.
tain a swinging trot for sixteent hours
without betraying signs Of fatigue.
He is next taught to shun an armed
bluecoat as Sunday picnckers would
dread the approach of blue law crank.
lie besoin d'arriver, the duty OF ac-
complshing his trip is, withal squirting
the poor brutes mind, and, rather than
run the risk of attracting attention, ca
nine contrabandists have been known to
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light would not have improved the chance
of his Identification. poodles being as
numerous in Paris as medicine peddlers
in a Kansas prohibition town.
France has also evolved the advertise
ment dog, a mastih, strutting about with
an emblazoned jacket, but makes amends
In Trouville-sur=Mer. where rope-drag-
ging Observation-Disclosures romp about the
beach and have no end of fun with the
youngsters, but keep an eye on the
bathing places, and, at the first signal of
Distress plunge in and dash to the re-
scue almost with the speed of steam
launches. These canine life savers seem
able to see under water, 10 judge from
their performances in depths where a
bather has sunk perhaps more than a
minute ago.
Test exhibitions are arranged every
few days. An expert swimmer strikes out
for deep water, then Stimulates paralysis
and bawls for help to let a dog drag him
ashore
Now watch the plan of proceedings .
says the manager. for the benefit of all
concerned, IF you ever need help in
earnest, grab the rope as close to the
dogs collar as you please, In case you
can't swim at all, but don't clutch the
dog around the neck or you will both
perish
Burglars Decoy Dog.
Savoyard highlanders teach dogs to dig
out marmots and bring home the young
ones alive, or not incurably crippled, and
a little further south ingenious Italy has
originated the burglars decoy dog. Would
be housebreakers do not alarm the neigh
borhood by poisoning a watch dog. Drug
ging and kidnapping would be even more
IL. -I,., ,-t
notice. They approach the premises un-
der cover of darkness, with more eff
feetive anodyne. A little flee of the ir-
resistlble gender, and with experience
enough to play her part without a promp
ter. The growl of the four footed jani
tor turns into a gasp of glad surprise,
and presently into a low whine, as his
seductive visitor retreats to the further
end of the yard. The gates of escape
being barred, negotiations follow, and
while the representative of the reckless
sex exhausts his vocabulary of tenderness
the proprietors of his charmer deplete a
depository of legal tender.
Then a low low whistle from the top
of board fence. The bitch makes a
spring at some prehensile object and dis
appears with inexplicable completeness.
Amusement, at all events, strikes her adj
mlrer spellbound, long enough to give the
surprise party start of four or five
blocks.
Professional fighting dogs are patron
lied all over Belgium and North Holland;
perhaps mofs than Il hundred f the nj in
Amsterdam alone, where their owners
have a protective association to stand off
Pecksniffs and Welschers. Old sea cap
tains ask no better fun than a finish dog
fight, or dog and badger tussle. Mary of
them own pets" and occasionally diver
sify the programme by bringing arena
novelties from the Dutch East Indies,
Japanese panther cats, or Wandered apes
as big as butcher dogs, and whiske-ed
like Utah patriarch.
Betting becomes epidemic at the APP
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the stoat or Canadian ermine. and In n
natural game preserve. stocked with
some fifty different species Of wild quad
ruped, including five varieties of deer,
the euthor of Eight Years Wandering
In ceylon" had trained his hounds to
hunt nothing but elk.
Modulated Their Growls.
Lord Byron mentions a current suspl-
cion that sheridans poodle could dis
tineuish a dun from a debtor, but there
Il no doubt that watch days of all breeds
learn to discriminate between welcome
and unwelcome or unknown visitors ana
modulate their growls accordingly, Gov
ernor Algomez's bloodhound must even
have been able TO recognize his owner
signature. BY way Of fun, the inhuman
stakeholder one day gave an old indian
squaw a passport to fetch a few POUNDS
Of honey from neighboring plantation
and then unclaimed a hound, trained TO
track and kill runaway slaves, and put
him on the trail of the unsuspecting mes
senger. Seeing the ogre approach the
poor old bag flung herself on her knees
but, suddenly recollecting her written or
der. unfolded 1t with trembling hands
and called the ASSISTANTS attention to the
Captain Generals autograph Leonasso,
the man-eater, eyed the ENDORSEMENT,
smelt it carefully, and not without a leer
of suspicion but, all things considered,
decided to give the bearer the benefit of
the doubt.
Dogs have been trained 10 nunt mush-
rooms, pull market wagons, mail letters,
kill rats. moles and serpents, search
wrecks for valuables, carry dinner pals
and lifeines race bulletins and love let
ters.
In the southern Allegheneis their gift
for heralding the approach of revenue Of
fieers would alone suffice to insure their
survival, but an even more suggestive
where a real estate expert trained dogs
ment.
A freak of fashion had raised the boom
of a certain villa suburb to premium
rates, and homeseekers of moderate means
had to renounee competition, till one of
| them consulted an experienced broker of
his acquataintance. The veteran came,
saw. con spired and, within three months
had eighteen cottages for rent at sacri-
flee rates. On the outskirts of the settle
ment and just beyond the corporation
| limits the conspirators had sealed a lit
tie summer cabin and insured the safety
of It's four corners with as many op-
! streperous watch dogs.
There was nothing Illegal about all
that; the kennels were beyond control of
the city ordinances, though their racket
banished sleep for miles around, and. be-
fore the middle of summer, neighbors
who would have refused to exchange their
garden homes for the finest city resi-
dences, had yielded to the arguments of
that canine quartette.
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escort him home with many manifesto
tions of JOY and sit under his chair while
he dlned, waiting to receive her dinner
from his hand.
One winter a business trip took him
away from the city for several weeks
Nights of fruitless watching at the lamp
post her trysting place. we called It.
were followed by listless days, when she
would eat scarcely anything. She would
sit under his empty chair at meal times
and sniff dejeetedly at the most appetite
ing morsels. At last she seemd to give
up hope, or else her weakness prevented
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This being the time to travel, we
present to you few facts in regard
to quality and price of these goods.
Trunks, 34-inch, heavily brass
bound, brass lock, hinges and
fasteners, two solid leather
straps. Regular price $3.50:
now -. 49,. s.ss
Same as above, 3S-inch, linen
lined. Regular prices15.oo; now 1898
A Trunk which we claim as one
of the best in the market. 1t
measures 40 inches, is lined
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Lot S, Choice lOc per Yard,

The most popular table in the SALE as it contains
that celebrated blue and red Lawn BY little care
fulness you can match the colors and obtain enough
alike for dresses, etc You will also find Lawns
Swisses Ginghams and abundance of JohnsonMadras
Batste Bourettes, Linens, Voes, Pompadour Madras
Chambray Seersucker and Manchester Madras.
We continually opening of these
Remnants therefore when you to trade you get
the advantage of those who trad ed the first day
of the sale. Our remnants not picked, over, but
pretty and fresh from the mill To miss this sale
means money lost to you
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with heavy linen canvas, has
heavy iron bottom, is heavily
brass bound on top and corners,
has two sets of brass fasteners
and Is supplied with the Denck-
$3.50; special at. 1850
We have a full line of Steamer
Trunks specially priced rang
ing from $4.98 up to. -. 49,. 1000
An abundance of Suit Cases at
the lowest prices. Full size
Case 21x14, brass lock and fast
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Trunks. Bags, Suit Cases, Etc.

eners, corners heavily leather
pound; $500 value, special. -. LIS
Another one, 25x15, leather COW
cred and bound, extra strong
lock, fasteners and hinges;
$3.50 value; special 49,. -. s. 1888
A little Club Suit Case, 16x12,
solid leather, very handy; spe-
cial. -. go. -. 2.ss
A solid leather case, linen lined,
made extra strong and durable;
5000 case. at. 4.50
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An Urchin Cheated.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Tri-
hume.
What is Jimmy waiing about now?"
"Oh, he is mad because you the
grass in the back yard he wanted 1t to
get tall so he could make a jungle"
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A Faithful Cat.

From the Cat Journal
My husband had a devoted cat a few
years ago, who used to meet him at a GER
tain lamp-post near the house every ev-
ening on his return. She would then
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her from walking so far, and the lamp
post knew her no more Toward the end
of the third week and Just a day before
my husband returned she died Of grief
and starvation
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Lot X. Choice II l-2c per Yard.

Made up of Manchester Galatea, Belfast Madras,
Abafove Madras Bannockburn Suting Knickerbock-
or Cloth yoiles Etamne, Bouriss, Karnock Zephyr,
Benedictne Batste, Surprise Oxfords Imported Duck
and Printed Dotted Swiss
Mercerized Zephyr Bingham Zoe leader with
most houses Solid colors all shades Our
price per yard. l5c
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line of economy
Lot L, Choice 5 l-2c Yard,

Comprises Ginghams Lawns, Satteens Bourettes,
Covert Cloth Asoa large quantity of the celeera-
ted 36inch Madras Cord for mems Shirts and Shirt
Waist Suits. Also Batiste and Wovente Sultings.
/ case No 500 Long Cloth-lothing like it
before ofered yard wide twelve yards to
bolt Per bolt Northumberland. $50
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lot G, Choice 35c per Yard,

Contains all of the finest and most expensive fab
RIGS ever turned off the looms Silk finished Linens,
Pure Linen Eamine Crepe Brochet Bungalace Zephyr,
Plumetis Soc, Tissue de Sole, Nub Wolfe, Hopsack
Wolfe, Silk Spot Noveoy and abundance of other fab
RIGS too numerous to mention.
4O-inch Chiffon the prettiest goods obtanable
for cute little white dress Special price,
per ward ....................... Csc
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Lot M. Choice 23C Per Yard.

If you want beautiful Shirt Waist it will pay you
to take trip to this counter most of this lot is in
Shirt Waist lengths of the following textures Silk
Zephyr, Satin Liberty, London Cord Pompadour Silk
Zephyr, Silk Spot Zephyr Crepe Brode Sole and Sole
Boucle
French Organdie all the very latest patterns in
Guiding Dolly Warden patterns Also Scrolls and Con-
ventional designs. Sells regular at SOC a.yard
many yards as you like all in one piece. Price
per yard $50
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Lot A, Choice l5c per Yard,

Made up of ST Gall Imported Swiss, Jap Madras
Wolfe, Oxfords Examines Blouse Cloth, Popn Wo
vente Swiss Silk, Brown Linen French Mercerized
Zephyr, Batiste Franco, India Dimty, Knickerbockel
Cloth and many other desirable cotton fabrics
merous to mention.
Bannockburn Suiting for Skirts and Suits, sells
the city over at 35c. We put them ssle, at
per yard Observation-Disclosures. t9f
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Mill Remnants, Short Ends, and Factor
Remnant Sale Still Continues.

We
purchasers
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Lot B. Choice SC Per Yard,

VIII be found Lawns, Satteens Shifting Percales,
Simpson Prints Brown Linens, Engadine Batiste, and
other desirable fabrics
Celebrated Melven Batiste that cost you SC the
world over all kinds of patterns Special
remnant srice per yard. ..................... Sc
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Lot D, Choice l0c per Yard,

Is special attraction above all other lines, this
line contains the celebrated Linen Etamine and Linen
Suiting Imported and French Shifting Madras, Brown
Linen tKarnack Suitings Silk Gingham Liberty Silk
Zephyr Silk Gauze, London Cord, Blouse Linen and
Mercerzed Fouard.
Roger Long Cloth, IL yards to bolt, SO inches
wide Sells regular at 81. 65; price is per
bolt LIS
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Lot @, Choice 7c per Yard,

Is composed of the celebrated Dango Batiste, Mad
ras, Chambray, Satteen, Cheviot Lawns Ginghamf
Zephys the greater part of this lot is especially good
for Shirts, Shirt Waists and Childrens Dresses.
40inch Solid Color Organdie, all shades, nclud-
ing black. Sells regular at 35c per yard
special remnant sale price per yard t9c
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-07-06
LARGE CROWD
DEPARTS BY THOMAS
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE WILL
LEAVE FOR MAINLAND THIS
AFTERNOON ON TROOP SHIP.

The biggest crowd outside of any
regular organized body of troops, that
has left Honolulu on a transport, will
depart today by the Thomas. Were
the vessel as crowded as usual with
through homeward bound passengers,
she could not accommodate all of those
who have secured transportation upon
her from Honolulu.
General Coke, retired, who has been
in the city for some months in a visit,
will return to the mainland by the
Thomas, accompanied by his daughter,
Captain Williamson and family de-
part for the mainland, where he is TO
be assigned to new duties. He was
formerly depot quartermaster at this
place.
A number of the passengers are the
wives of the various officers of the re-
venue cutter Thetis They came here
to be with their husbands during the
stay of the Thetis at Honolulu.
w. b. Mailing clerk of the United
States court departs on a vacation. He
will be accompanied by his family.
A number of discharged soldiers are
also to leave HONOLULU. The eight
stragglers from the Thetis, who were
left behind will also be sent to San
Francisco by the Thomas. The YES
sci sails at 4 o'clock this afternoon fol
San Francisco.
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.STRATEMEYER'S
CREDITORS
WISH HIM TO BE DECLARED
BANKRUPT AND ALLEGE THAT
HE ATTEMPTED FRAUD.

George c. Stratemeyer of Olaa, Ha-
waii is the object of a petition in bank
ruptcy which was filed this afternoon
in the district court at the instance OF
w. c. Peacock e. Co, 5. l. Shaw and
the Hilo Wine Company. The credit
ors claim that he is indebted to them
in the sum of $3,l4S and they further
allege that on April End last, while in
solvent he conveyed to his wife, Almlra
Victoria Stratemeyer a lot on Piikoi
street in this city with the intent of de-
frauding his creditors.
Stratemeyer is well known in Homo
lulu. He was formerly deputy collec-
tor here and has latterly been in bust
ness in Olaa.
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Apprehend Another
.. OF Chinese
DETECTIVE McDUFFIE ARRESTED
PICIoN OF BEING CONCERNED A ROBBERY Wal.
PAHU SOME MONTHS AGO-oTHER MEMBERS THE GANG ARE
STILL

The police have secured trace of a
second gang of Chinese highwaymen
and robbers who have been operating in
the Eva district and that section of the
island. Three of the gang were ap-
pretended yesterday by Detective Nc
Duffie and a fourth member of the
crowd will be taken into custody today
at Aiea. Four more members of the
gang are still at large.
The crime of which the three men are
suspected, is the robbery of the pump
ing plant engineer of the Waipahu
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Band
Robbers

plantation about six or eight months
ago. A gang of eight Chinese went
into the mans house, bound and gagged
him and ransacked the place. A gold
watch and chain and about $50 in cash
were secured. 1t was thought that
this work had been done by the crowd
that was arrested some months ago
by the authorities, but it appears that
the robbery of the pumping engineer
was done by an entirely different crowd
Detective McDuffie deserves credit for
getting trace of the second gang.
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THE GARDEN ISLAND.

A meeting of the directors of the
Garden Island Publishing Company,
Ltd, was held Friday evening at the
office of the company, Lihue, Kauai.
After some discussion the following Of
ficers were chosen for the present year:
Charles H. Sweetser, president; S. She
ba, vice-president; John L. Hjorth, sec
retary; e. De Lacy, treasurer; r. L,
Wilcox, auditor. The directors appoint
ed A. H. Rice, manager, and John D.
Willard, editor.
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SAVE YO1fr MONEY.

The Twenty-Ninth Series of Stock in
the Pioneer Building & Loan Assocla-
tion will be issued in July, 1904, and is
now open for subscription. The mem
bership fee is fifty cents per share, and
the monthly dues are one dollar per
month per share. The stock draws
much better interest than a savings
bank.
Further information can be obtained
from A, " Gear, Secretary, 122 Kin
Street.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-07-06
BIC DAMAGES
FOR INJURIES
RILEY GETS $4,000 CASH FOR A
BRUISE ON HIS KNEE, CAUSING
INFLAMMATION.

Satisfaction of judgement for $4,000
was entered today in the case of Will
liam r. Riley against the Metropolitan
Meat Company. The judgement was OBJ
tained in March last.
Rileys suit was for damages sus-
tanned by being run into by a wagon
of the Metropolitan Meat Company.
Riley was riding his wheel when the