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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
REVIVING THEIR LANGUAGE.
Matchmaking Work of Gaelic League
Includes Return to Old Tongue.

From the Worlds Work.
In a study of contemporary conditions in
Ireland Seumas MacManus shows that the
Irish are returning to their native tongue
The Gaelic League has not only arrested
the decay of the language, but 1t has made
startling progress in restoring it, 1t has
fought and overcome the hostile national
board of education. with the result that
5000 of the national schools are teaching
the language today to 5000 pupils. as
against few schools that taught it to 313
pupils thirteen years ago. In addition to
this. Gaelic is taught to about 100 600 others
In the remaining primary schools, night
schools, intermediate schools and colleges.
The big commercial concerns are finding
1t to their advantage to keep disappearing
employees, who can attend customers that
insist giving their orders whether
spoken or written, in Gaelic. The rail-
ways, the banks and the post Office. after
struggling sorely against the crusade, very
soon required knowledge of the Ian
guage-both spoken and literary-from all
candidates for clerkships.
1t is a pity for Ireland that more of our
girls do not return. Emigration is the
greatest evil that Ireland labors under to-
day. The country is being depleted by this
drain, which, for $50 years has not once
ceased flowing, and which has been run
ming with fearful rapidity during the last
that in the last fifty-three years 1000 900
Irish people emigrated. During the 4O's
for which we have no record, and espe-
cially during the famine years. the outflow
in coffin ships of famine-driven fever
stricken fugitives-tens of thousands of
whose whitening bones on the sea floor
still link Ireland to America by a terrible
chain-was tremendous. The census re-
turns for the decade 1S41-51 show that Ire
land had net loss in those ten years of
sixteen hundred thousand people, or one
fifth of it's population. In 1S41 Ireland
had a population of S,200,000; in 1901 the
population, which at the natural rate of
irish increase. should have been more than
5000, 600, had fallen to 100000! In sixty
four years Ireland has sent out more emil
grants than there are people in the island
today. Now the birth rate Is decreasing
because the percentage of unmarried adults
has been increasing. and because the aver
age marrying age has been growing higher
So our people. who at one time were pro-
verbally prolific will soon have lost that
character. AS the great birth rate, which
tended to moderate the effects of emigra-
ton, lessons. the emigration evil year by
year assumes a more and more alarming
aspect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
NApoLEoN,s ARAB CHARGER.
Stuffed Horse In the Military Museum
Believed to Be the Relic.

from the LONDON Telegraph.
Many rumors have been flying about
Paris lately concerning the discovery of
Napoleon's famous white Arab. which car
red him through SO many victorious cam
paigns. For some time it was imagined
that these reports were baseless, but they
are at any rate founded upon the actual
existence Of a stuffed horse which is now
in the military museum at the Invalides,
having been sent there from the Honore
by a special order issued last March. 1t ap-
pears that this relic had originally got into
the possession of a Mr.. Greaves, an English
veterinary surgeon. who did for the French
horse what M. de Saint-Bel, the French
veterinary surgeon, did for the great thor
oughbred sire. Eclipse. Close students of
Napoleol's history will, no doubt, be aware
or connection between the English surgeon
and this famous Arab with which the gen.
eral public is not yet acquainted, for Mr..
GreaVes left no great trace of his existence
beyond the gift of the relic to the Natural
History Society of Manchester in 1912.
Six yeas afterward this society died a
natural death, and while the greater por-
ton OF Its collections came into the pos
session OF what is now Owens College,
Manchester, those who presided over the
distribution of its treasures had the happy
thought of sending Napoleon's horse to
Paris. where 1t arrived in 1868, and the label
Of the National History Society of Man
contained 1t. 1t might be thought that in
the court of Napoleon III and the Empress
Eugene this relic of his great ancestor If
authentic, would have been carefully pre-
served. 1t may have been. But. perhaps.
the outbreak of the Franco-German war
and the prelimnaries which led up to that
disastrous campaign obscured at the mo-
ment the interest of the gift, or possibly
relic highly valued by the emperor shared
in the perils of his subsequent fall and was
saved from destruction in the cellars of his
palace.
In any case, no one had heard of the relic
at all until few days ago, and even now
the officials are so anxious to avoid MAX
lEg a mistake that the animal is carefully
screened from every profane eye, and
neither the public nor the ordinary news
PAPER reporters are permitted to look at it.
Inc Louvre has, apparently, not yet for
gotten the tiara of Saitaphernes and the
military museum of the Invalides awaits
documentary evidence from the Louvre
officials before admitting that the horse
Is genuine. 1t looks very small animal,
fcurteen hands at most, though there NAV.
or course, have been considerable shrinkag
III the six years, for it has been very badly
stuffed. But it is certainly cream -colored.
and as certainly it shows in head and legs
those points of Arab descent which are IA
miliar to every connoisseur But the feet
seem rather small for the breed. The dis
coVery of the original correspondence of
1S6S Is awaited with the greatest interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
Women of Tibet.
From the Chicago News.

from the Chicago News.
A traveller in Tibet says the peasant
women of that country are CHEEKY and,
when washed. buXom and comeIy. The
monks are the blot on the landscape They
bear no resemblance to the women of the
country. One would think they belonged
to different type, and yet they are the
sons and brothers of these women. The
reason, probably, is the low, degraded life
led by the ordinary monk, life without in
terest, without work, devoid of any pur-
suit, Intellectual or otherwise, and passed
in the droning of chants and the perform
ance of ritual the meaning of which they
neither know nor care about
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
Where the Bad Eggs Go.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
A poultry farm, whether ducks, geese,
chickens or turkeys be the speciality, accu-
mulates a large and malodorous surplus of
eggs that refuse to develop into fowl. The
average person would suppose that If there
is anything on earth that is utterly worth
less 1t is rotten egg. Millions of stale
eggs are used every year in preparing
leather dressing for gloves and bookbinding
An industry that is largely carried on in
the foreign tenement houses of New York
and other large cities. They are also used
in manufacturing disinfectants and in the
preparation of shoe backing. and even the
shells are made into fertilizers The eggs
that have not yet lost their virtue also have
other uses besides the more common ones
for culinary purposes. 1t is estimated that
fully 65OOO,OO0 dozen are used by wine clari-
hers, dye manufacturers and In the prepa-
ration of photographers dry plates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
Not Descended From Giants.

From the chicago news.
French scientist combats the prevailing
opinion that the races of today are the sons
of taller and stronger race. The idea so
tenaciously held is. he thinks. only form
of the ancient superstitfon-belief in giants
In default of real giants In modern ages,
mention is made of the Inhabitants of
Patagonia. Magellan accorded to them the
height OF seven and one-half feet, but the
average height of these people has been
given by different authorities as seven feet,
ten feet to eleven feet and six feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-09
Setting Him Right.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Il wonder where can get the best stock
quotations" inquired the small SPECTATOR,
with an important air.
From Shakespeare replied the man who
knew him; his works are fun Of them"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-12

special interest in Palmer, as he had
been his secretary and was much at.
tached to him.
1t was decided that Washington dis.
patches should be prepared for all of
the Philadelphia morning papers an.
nouncing the arrival at the capital Of
Captain William ]. Palmer, stating in
what particular lines of the enemy he
had operated, and adding that he had
brought much important information
that could not be given to the public
at that time. These dispatches ap.
peared next morning in all the Phila.
delphia papers, prominently displayed,
and Of course reached the southern
lines within 4S hours.
The result was that Captain Palm
er's identity was never established in
Richmond, and his execution was thus
suspended. In a little while, when
some prisoners had been exchanged,
there was a vacancy made in the list
of the exchanged men by death.
Palmer's friends had him take the
place and name of the dead soldier, and
he thus escaped and returned to the
service.
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and the salary are of small moment,
when compared with the opportunity.
Make him feel that you are in earnest
by being in earnest.
'"Take off your hat and cut out the
cigarette. And If you don't get a
place the first time try again, and
keep on trying. If the lazy microbe
is implanted in you, you had better
pick out your room ut the poorhouse.
You will not be success, even in
that institution; but you will be out
of the way Of busy people. That is
all. OF course, it hurts a little. The
truth is not always pleasant. Some
day, after you have landed near the
top, and the fellows are coming to
you for situations, you can tell them
this, that you will have learned by
years Of experience:
ut always pays the young fellow
who is seeking something to show
humanity that he is every inch man,
and in earnest"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-12
A SPY'S CLOSE CALL.
Rescued From Impending Death by a
NeWspaper Ruae.

NS"Op0pSE WuDSs
On the battlefield Of Antietam Mr..
Mcclure met General William j.
Palmer, then captain, and strongly
urged him not to continue his move.
ments as spy after Lee had crossed
into Virginia, but the gallant young
soldier gave no promise as to what he
would be likely to do, and the very
first night after Lee crossed the Poto-
mac he was again in Lees camp and
brought back important information
to General Mcclellan.
Again he returned and entered the
Confederate lines, and when he did
not report after week it was assumed
that he had been captured and would
probably be executed as spy. He had
been captured, was tried and condemn.
ed as spy and was sentenced to be
executed, but he was saved by clever
newspaper device determined upon
after conference in Philadelphia be.
tween President ]. Edgar Thomson Of
the Pennsylvania railroad, Colonel
Scott and Mr.. Mcclure. Thomson took
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-12

all Of it will be remedied. PICTURESQUE
Ireland will be doubly picturesque
when we have won back the waving
woods that some hundreds of years
ago distinguished our. country among
the nations Of Western Europe. And,
over and above this aspect of the mat
ter, 1t is not to be sneezed at that
according to expert opinion) larch
plantation may after seventy years
mean f1,O00 clear profit per acre.
According to the statistics of the de-
partment Of agriculture and technical
instruction, the grazing lands in Ire
land have within the past year in
creased by 10000 acres. Part of this
increase is. Of course, attributable to
the spread and success of the cooper
ative creamery system in Ireland, but,
undoubtedly, the greater part is due
to the facts that the population is de-
creasing, the supply Of labor lessen
Ing, and the number of bullocks in
creasing. Although there was an in
creased acreage under potatoes last
year, there was falling of Of $1,000
in the general cropping acreage. At
the present moment the acreage under
crops is not much more than half that
it was in 1860. Out Of $4,000, 900 acres
Of cultivated land in Ireland, 10000
600 acres are grazed and 100000
meadowed. Ulster cultivates two
ffths of her cultivable soil, Connaught
cultivates only one-seventh.
1t is very evident that for years
gone we have reprehensibly devoted
our entire energies to political agita-
tion. There is vast deal to be done,
and vast deal can be done for Ire
land and Irish people agriculturally
and 1ndustrially. This does not at all
mean neglect Of political improvement,
rather both can go forward together.
but all the energies Of the nation
should not be absorbed completely by
either, but be divided between both in
just proportion. Our eyes were for a
long time shut to this, they are being
opened to it to-day. Thank God, that
it Is so. Let Ireland prosper.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-12
Making an Impression.

II have applied for a position in s
dozen newspaper offices and half that
many stores," said the young man wht
was standing at the desk. "No one
will listen to me. can't get a hear
ing. I need work very badly. The
best have been able to get is: I'VE
have nothing for you; good morning.
I am discouraged"
And here is what the man behind
the desk said. It was not the essence
of wisdom, just simple hard sense; g
lesson learned by rubbing up against
a busy world, that has little time fo,
sentiment, and none to waste on lazy
folks:
''You came in with your hat on
and you kept it on. You did not tell
your name. You didn't even show
the man at the desk the courtesy OF
throwing away the butt of cigar.
rette you had been smoking. You
asked for place in the literary de.
partEent, which proved that you had
made no investigation Of the office
you desired to enter. When ques.
toned you had the most hazy idea of
the position you desired to fill, and
you gave the impression that you
were looking for a soft Job-that you
were born tired.
"You really asked for charity, for
in no way did you make an attempt
to show that you expected to earn a
salary that might be paid you. Listen!
There are no literary positions on the
average newspaper.
The man who thinks that some
body is paid fine salary for reading
the magazines and writing book no
tices is badly mistaken. There are
few soft jobs in any profession.
Everybody has to work and dig and
sweat. AS the years pass and COM
petition grows keener there is less
and less Of an opportunity for the
lazy mantle dreamer.
If you want to work and grow and
be somebody, tell the next man so.
Tell him that you will gladly take a
humble position, and that the hours
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-12
Life's Uncertainty,

No lesson is oftener impressed upon
us than this Of life's strange uncer-
tainty, and no other lesson are we 80
slow to learn. We act as If we were
to live forever. We plan and build for
years ahead, and 10! we are crushed
before the moth, and consumed by
fire or swept away by flood, and the
places where they stood yesterday are
vacant today Our very names seem
writ in water, and we spend our years
as tale that is told.
At times, with sharp and terrible
insistence, this lesson of life's terrible
incertitude presses upon our souls. A
dear one in the prime of youth and Joy
is snatched hence by death, while the
aged and feeble remain. A fortune
that had appeared safe from accident
melts away like snow in thaw. A
good name that had been stainless is
darkened by reproach. friendships
that had been cementcd by years Of
pleasant association are shattered by
misunderstanding. Life's grim uncer-
tainty is accentuated by an unsuspect-
ed malady. We grow melancholy
when we dwell on this aspect of life,
and we tread as those do who walk
on lava crust, or whose lightest
nisstep may start falling avalanche.
Another and more cheering aspect
there is to those who look upon life
as taking hold upon eternity. This
strange, panoramic, swiftly changing,
swiftly fitting life is bearing us out
on tide that seeks steadfast shore.
Our present trials are to be COM
pensated in future Inheritance. The
one solution to our puzzles, the one
clew to life's strange mazes, the one
comfort in our manifold sorrowA is
the belief that the Lord reigns, anc
the assurance that we belong to him.
and are precious in his sight.
Earthly life is uncertain. Let this
fact, that no one denies, teach us to
be more considerate of others. gentler,
less selfish, more solicitous to plant
the gardens Of our mortal life with
flowers that catch their fragrance
FROM those radiant coasts where ever
moF life thrills. and knowi no end
ink
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w. s. Mr. Morgan while
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-03
PUBLIC LANDS NOTICE.

On Saturday, March II, 1904, at L;
o'clock noon. at the front entrance to
the Judiciary Building, Honolulu, T.
H, there viii be offered for sale at
Public Auction q License for a period
Of fifty C5O) years. for the privilege of
entering upon certain public lands on
the Island of Hawaii. Territory of Ha-
wall, TO conlne, conserve, collect, I'm.
pound, divert and sell all the Running
Natural Surface Water, and power
produced therefron. (subject to exist
ing vested rights of private parties in
such water, and TO the rights of the
United States therein.) upon and from
all the said public lands. situated on the
Island Of Hawaii. in the Territory of
Hawaii. within the following describ-
ed area, to wit:
Boundary Bounded on the north by
the sea- on the east by waipio Valley.
on the south by Waipio Valley, the
Puukapu- boundary until
such boundary line reaches an eIeva-
ton OF 400 feet, from which point the
contour line OF AGO feet elevation shall
form the balance of the south boun-
dairy. and on the west by the Honola-
ne-Awini boundary as shown by green
border on the sketch plan subjoined to
license, the whole of such area being
hereafter called the KohaIa- Hamakua
Watershed.
Stated Annual Fee, 100000.
Upset l per cent OF Gross Revenue.
but in no event, after expiration Of
Is months from date of license, shall the
revenue received by the Government
through this clause amount TO less
than 100000 per annum-
ANY bid other than on percentage Of
Gross Revenue win be rejected
Upon fan OF the hammer the success
full bidder win signify his acceptance Of
the license and OF all the terms there
of by his written endorsement thereon.
and the payment of the first One Thou
sand d0Do) Dollar Fee.
For full particulars, in regard to con-
ditions Of said license, apply at the Of
fee of Commissioners Of Public Lands;
Honolulu.
JAS. ". PRATT,
Commissioner of Public Lands
Honolulu. T. H, February 2srd, 1904
sT2S
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-03
NOTICE.


In pursuance of warrant OF attach
u1ent and monition, issued out OF the
District Court of the United States of
America for the District Of Hawaii, un-
der the seal OF that Court, and dated
the 26th day of February. A. D. 1904,
and directed 10 me, public notice Is
hereby given 10 all persons claiming
certain merchandise, to-wit- Cases or
Assorted Goods. Wares and Merchan-
disc, heretofore seized on land, at ho-
noluIu, within the said District, Tor
reasons and causes mentioned in Ger
tain information fled in that behalf IN
the said Court, in the cause entitled
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
versus CASES OF ASSORTED
GOODS. WARES AND MERCHAN-
Disc. being case No. IS in the
same Court, the said merchandise
so seized as aforesaid having been
by me attached in the custody OF
E r Stackable, Collector Of Customs
for the Port of Honolulu District OF
Hawaii, and being now detained IN ms
custody and within the judicial and col
lection districts aforesaid by order OF
the said Court: and TO all persons
knowing or having anything 10 say why
the said Court shall not pronounce for
the forfeiture of the same, according 10
the prayer OF the said information; ana
that they be and appear before the sala
Court. to be holden in and for the salo
District OF Hawaii, at the United states |
Courtroom in Honolulu, in said DIS
tvict, on the 18th day Of March, A "
1894, if that be a day of jurisdiction,
and If not, then on the first day OF
jurisdiction thereafter, at ten O'Clock
in the forenoon of that day, the same |
being the return day of the warrant
aforesaid. and the day OF the trial OF !
the said seizure and information, ana
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a document plArporting 10 be the
Last VIII and Testament of Henri Wa
terhouse, deceased, and also a docu-
ment purporting 10 be CodiciI to said
last win and Testament having on the
z4th day of February. A. D. 1894. been
1led in the Circuit Court Of the Firsr
Judicial Circuit, Territory OF Hawaii,
IN Probate. and a petition fo- the Pro-
bate thereof and for the Issuance of
Letters Testamentary to William Wa
terhouse and Albert Waterhousa hav-
ing been filed by the said Albert Wa
terhouse of Honolulu, Territory of Fa-
wall;
1t is hereby ordered, that Monday,
the 4th day of April, A. D. 1864, at ten
O'Clock a. m, of said day, at the court
room of. said Court in the judiciary
Building, in said Honolulu, be and the
same hereby is appointed the time and
place for proving said VIII and Codicil
and hearing said petition
It is further ordered, that notice
thereof be given, by publication, once
a week for three successive weeks. in
the Pacific Commercial Advertiser. a
newspaper published in the English
language in said Honolulu, the last
publication TO be not less than ten days
previous to the time therein appointed
for hearing.
Dated at Honolulu. Oahu, T. H, Feb
ruary "a, n D. 1904.
GEO. D. GEAR.
Second Judge of said Circuit Court
Attest:
wM. r. SIMS, Clerk.
Smith & Lewis, attorneys for petit
toner.
s724Feb. Is, Mar. 3. 10, II.
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ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
WAHIAwA WATER COMPANY
LIMITED.

At the annual meeting of the stscaE-
holders of the WahiaWa Water Gem
pany, Limited, held in Hersolrlu soE
Thursday. Feb. %. 1904, the follsNRiEzE
Directors were elected TO serve Ger &kzE
ensuing year:
E. D. Tenney, w. W. Goodale. W -
Bowen, C. NJ. Cooke, Byron @ CLARK
AT a meeting OF the Board Of Biree
tors of said Company held on the sazr
date, the following officers were S4ecA-
ed to serve for the ensuing year
E. D. Tenney .............-.. PresideEs
W. W. Goodale. -PresideHz
W. A. Bowen Secretary and Treasure
T. Richard Robinson. .......---A 1ai7tus
". a. BOWEN,
Secretary w-ahiawa Water Co, lid
Honolulu, Feb. &c. 1904 SE
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KIPAHULU SUGAR co. LTD.
AT the annual meeting OF the stock
holders of. the kipahulu Sugar Com
pany, Limited. held this day at the Of
fee of H. fIackfeld & Co, Ltd, in Ho-
nolulu, the following officers were re-
elected 10 serve during the ensuing
year:
]. F. Haekfeld ..............--Pr President
H. A. Isenberg. Vice. President
w Pfotenhauer .....Tr Treasurer
F. Klamp Secretary
Armin Haneberg Auditor
F. KLAAIP,
Secretary.
Honolulu, T. H. February 20, 1904.
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aallstorm at Pelekune.

There was hailstorm at Pelekune,
Molokai, lasting for an hour on Satur-
day last. John II. Wilson. who has
been constructing landing there for
the Government, tells Of the event.
The haa- came thick and singing. but
melted as soon as it fell Regarding
the landing, Mr. Wilson reports ii so
far advanced that 500 paiai bundles
were handled upon its sixty-foot boom
on Tuesday.