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desk. but Seena saw that she was blush
ing deeply. Seena never blushed. Instead
sparks came To the bottom of her eyes In
token of deep feeling. She dropped her lids
10 hide the sparks as she said locking her
hands back OF her head, and speaking in
a voice mildly interrogatve: Are you
one or three years younger than Benny
Townsend's mother? Somebody asked me
yesterday-and l couldn't TELL"
That somebody was-very impertinent,'
Mrs Kirkby said, turning crimson, and
hurrying on: Don't you want to hear
what I've written Biggs? You see, I'm
using my very best paper-Miss FIRMLY
said 10 use ones finest manners and every
thing. when one had TO scold-"
IN listen a little wilhelm ten minutes
I'm going out" Seena said, sitting up with
a keen look.
After fddlIng BIT with her many sheets,
Mrs. Kirkby began in slightly shaky
voice: My Dear Bigs: / am writing as
kindly and considerate mistress should.
In order 10 spare your feelings. Yet you
know. you can't deny. You are treating me
very badly. One dinner last week was at
3 oclock-so you could go to your church
society. The next one was at 5-with no.
body home to eat until II was stone cold.
Two. you did not cook at all, leaving me TO
toll In the Kitchen, exhausted as Iswas with
my social duties And all the excuse you
gave was that. you didn't feel like cook
ing any more than we ought to have felt
like eating after the gorging we did at
luncheon You said also might thank
Now don't you admit that was very un-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
Sport in Tuscany.
nbers' Journal.

From Chambers Journal.
The olive trees round Lucca are not near
ly so old or so gnarled looking as those
femiliar to visitors on the Riviera, prob
ably because, owing to the proximity of the
mountains, the climate In which they grow
Is more temperate. The earth in which they
grow Is reddish grayelly soil In fact, for
olives the drier the earth the better. and
they do not require much depth. 1t takes
the fruit of five of the largest trees to make
only one barrel of the pure oil containing
thirty-six litres and half-that is. about
one hundred and ten pounds in weight; and
even this amount cannot be reckoned upon
oftener than once in every two years. More
over, an olive tree has to be planted and
grated four years before 1t Will produce
fruit at all.
There would be a great many beautiful
singing birds in the groves and mountain
sides around Lucca were 1T not for the pas
sion which the Tuscan Contadini have for
la caccia-the chaser The sport they in
dulge In all day long Is shooting at gold
finches and linnets and other little birds,
all of which are sold and eaten In the
markets of Lucca have seen jays for sale.
Upon my expressing a doubt as to their
succulency / was assured that they were
excellent-when boiled. Fancy boiled jay
as q repaSt! =
There is apparently no rule In Tuscany as
to not shooting the high roads. Indeed,
on ever mile or two of roadway you will
probably meet at least one cacciatore with
gun upon his shoulder. They will fire at
anything. even bat l myself saw my
friends cook, Tito by name, shoot bat on
the high road: he said II he could only get
enough of them they would make good
pie. Ye gods! bat pie and boiled jay-what
a dnneri
1 ascertained that there is some excellent
trout fishing to be obtained not very far
from Lucca. many of the trout being of
good size. The trout are already in season
In the months of February, and rise very
well in March and April to fly.
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was distinctly Observation-Disclosures. Kirk
by's. heart. which. like nature, abhorred a
vacuum, was given to twining itself about
somebody else.
She spent much money for things she did
not need. and much time in repenting the
spendings. Her big house perfectly ap-
pointed, was at once her pride and her tor
ment.- Progress had brought in its train
the servant problem. no less than the club
and the lady lecturer Tidy girls from the
farmsteads round about who had afore-
time been glad to work In Edgewarren
kitchens, now either took places with the
new people. who paid ridiculously high
wages. or went to work in the CITY. So
only the wrecks and remnants were left for
Edgewarren housewives. The town wa
too small, and too far out for the city
servants who came in droves to- the hisy
country houses Green Immigrants wers
impossible, while as for the adyent,irous
few who had brought in coforei cooks and
housemaids, their last estate was TRAGEDY
as dark as the complexion of their impo.ta-
lions.
Mrs. Kirkby4 had been one of them. hut
after clorindas of Virginia had looted the
harder and gone 20 sleep in the middle of a
swagger dinners serving, she had been glad
to employ Mrs Rfgg. a village person not
withstanding she was we'll known to have
an independent mind. a shrewish tongue and
= a very bad temper. ss.ssss.ses- = - -,
Two years of more or less strained reIa-
lions had at last reached crisis-a crisis
precipitated by Benny Townsend. Mrs.
Mrs. Kirkby had known Benny almost since
ne was In short frocks; he had been the pet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
Pearls Unpopularp
From London Truth


Pearls have increased enormously in value
of late years, but 1 understand there is now
reaction. always thought that the price
would fall, because sham pearls can be
made which canEot-when worn-be distin-
guished from the real ones. I do not think
that ] am exaggerating when l say that
nine-tenths of the pearls seen at the usual
London fashionable crush are sham. This
has begun to tell on price, FOR of what use
is 1t to a lady TO advertise her husbands
wealth by wearing string of pearls worth
a1o,o0o If other ladies whose husbands or
admirers cannot afford such purchases are
apparently as extensively bedizened?
An Indian friend of mine tells me that
pearls sent recently TO India for sale to
native, princes have not realized anything
like what was anticipated. for the dealers
there have realized that the fall in price is
Naturally those who have them
for sale viii trysto staye off the fall until
they have got rid of their wares TO wealthy
American squaws or South African million
aires This was so when diamonds were
discovered IN South Africa Large amounts
of diamonds had been pledged to pawn
brokers and others for more than what had
become their intrinsic value. and desperate
were made to avert the slump.
But 1t came, nevertheless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
A Monument Avenue.
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

From the Richmond Ttmes-D1spatch.
We should like to see large and en-
thusiastic mass -meeting In the interest of
an improvement demanded in the western
section of the city. We refer to the broad
ening of Monument avenue. This splendid
thoroughfare Is already ornamented mid
way by the Lee monument, which a dis
tinguished German scholar and art connois-
seur recently visiting Richmond declared to
be the most beautiful figure he had seen In
all America. The pedestal for the Stuart
monument Is now being erected at the en-
trance of the avenue; beyond the Lee MON
ument ground has been broken for the JEFF
fersou Davis monument, and 1t Is an open
secret that the monument proposed to be
erected to the memory of Gen Fltzhugh
Lee will be placed near the<western end of
the avenue When all these works of art
are in place, with the further ornament or
grass trees and flowers. Monument avenue
will be in all proba bility the most beautiful
street in the south-provided, however, that
1t Is broadened so an to make 1t of uniform
width from Lombardy street to the boule-
ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
HEAVENS IN OCTOBER
Things of Interest Amateur
Astronomers May See.
VARIATION OF STARS
ALGoL'S INTERESTING CHANGE
IN COLOR.
During the Month Mars Will Move
Across the Constellation Sagit-
tarius Close to Uranus.
The Star by Prof. Eric Doolittle.

Written for The Star by Prof. Eric Doolittle.
If the observer will turn toward the
northeast on any evening during the
month he will at once notice a beautiful
little group of stars forming the figure of
a small dipper. Between this group and
the ground he will see a bright red star
which is at the northern end OF a brilliant
V-shaped figure. The little dipper-shaped
cluster is the famous Pleiades, or Seven
Sisters, the group whose rising and set
ting marked among ancient peoples the
approach of harvest and sowing time. The
V-shaped group is the Hyades. Both the
Hyades and Pleiades are a part of the
magnificent winter constellation, Taurus
or the Bull. which is now for the first time
since many months again appearing in the
east.
Nearly overhead he win see the constella-
ton Andromeda with it's wonderful nebula
Cat n Fig. u, just south of which is the
great square of Pegasus, while exactly in
the south and near the ground he will find
the Royal Star, Fomalhaut. This star with
its companion Cat A and B, Fig. u are the
brightest stars of faint group called the
Southern Fish, which oddly enough is al
ways represented as drinking the whole of
the large stream of water which Aquarius,
or the Water Bearer, is pouring out.
AS winter approaches the great faint
summer constellation of Ophiuchus, or the
Serpent-holder. begins to sink from view
in the west. while the beautiful Milky Way
with the brighter autumn groups which lie
along 1t no longer passes exactly overhead,
but is also slowly setting toward the
ground The observer will notice the odd
position of the Great Dipper. This now is
due north, just below the Pole Star, and for
the first time this year in the early evening
1t is right side up. the bowl extending to-
ward the east and the handle right along
the ground toward the west
In the extreme southwest the bright
planet Mars can still be seen. but II is
much too near the ground to be well OBJ
served. Saturn, on the contrary, is In
better position for observation than at any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30

other time during the year The rings are
still widely opened out, and 1t is well up in
the sky, so that 1t presents a beautiful pic
ture in a moderately large telescope The
observer can readily find it. for 1t Is due
south and just above Fomalhaut.
During the month Mars will move across
the constellation Saggittarius. passing the
planet Uranus on the Sth, when the latter
planet will be l degree 4S minutes north of
the former. The only other planet visible
in the early evening IS Jupiter, which now
shines out in the east as a brilliant star
between the Pleiades and the Hyades. If
the observer can look at the sky during the
early morning hours however. he will then
see Jupiter far up in the SOUTH and in the
east the even more brilliant planet Venus.
In a small telescope this planet now looks
like the moon when about three-quarters
g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30

at am. Uranus one hour later, and SAT-
turn on October at 43 minutes past In
the evening On the last date the aspect of
the moon and Saturn will be. very beautiful.
the planet being directly underneath the
moon and less than 2 degrees from It.. If
the observer will turn his telescope back
and forth from the planet to me moon he
will probably be surprised TO discover how
very green Saturn appears when contrasted
with our satellites silvery We color. BY
the 18th of the month the moon will have
reached the planet Jupiter, passing some
degrees to the south of 1t. In its east
ward journey 1t will then. pass between US
and the Hyades, blotting out one star after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
The metropolitan Pulpit.

From the New York Sun.
Knicker-.'what is your new preacher
Her
and a subway voice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
occultation of the Hyades.

During the first half of the month the
motion of the moon will be very interesting.
1t will be remembered that our satellite
moves quite rapidly eastward among the
stars, passing completely around the sky
in about 27A days. New moon will occur
on the 2sth of September, after which the
moon win move steadily eastward away
from the sun, passing Mars on October 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30

another and reaching the brilliant Aide
baran at II on October IL, about 2:30 In the
morning. AS 1t passes on toward the east
the stars which have been hidden behind
1t suddenly reappear one after another; It
Is from the suddenness with which the stars
disappear and reappear when the moon
passes over them that astronomers con-
clude that our satellite can possess no air
and no water.
1t should be added that the apparent path
OF the moon over the Hyades will depend
upon the position of the observer on the
earth To observers in the southern states
the moon will pass over the north stars OF
the group; to those in the northern states.
however. only the lowest star &C, Fig. ID
will be covered up.
Variable Stars.
There are many OF the stars of the sky
which vary in brightness The first one
OF all which was discovered to do this IS
the star in Cetus marked Gig. H. I'm
LOS" TINS was found to be as bright as the
North star. and recorded as new, while
200 years later at the time of Its greatest
brightness. IL was almost equal to the star
Aldebaran, at II, Fig. /. Though usually
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
Men SIGN RECEIPTS
BEFORE BEING PAID

seThere is one peculiarify~of our law
however, went on the Governor, "and
that is, that the men on these pay
rolls had to sign the receipts for their
money before it was paid to them. The
Auditor would not issue the warrants
in any other way. The payroll was
his voucher for the warrant. But do
not believe that any men signed pay
coils in blank. I do not know whether
that was done on some of the other
ISLANDS They did not do it here. And
Sam johnson is not responsible, Of
course. for what is done on islands
other than Oahu.
"But the apparent discrepancy
Ain, the time of the men may be ex-
Eplsined by the system in vogue in the
Territory of counting time. That is,
the men work by the month and are
paid by the month, and not by the day.
If man worked eighteen days, he
would be paid in July for eighteen
thirty -frsts of the month, or would get
that part of the month s wage, and
not eighteen-twenty-se twenty
seven being the number of the working
days in the month And the man work
ing the first fraction of the month
would get in his time the first three
of the FIVE Sundays in the month. That
is the way all monthly payrolls are
made out in the United States govern
ment system. To a man working by
the month and familiar with payrolls,
the system is simple. 1t was the
system followed by Sam johnson IN
making up his payroll in the Garbage
Department And then men could have
worked overtime on the half month
shift -
Being asked about the case of the
man who worked fourteen days and
got nineteen, and who was told that
he had been credited with the five
Sundays, Mr.. Atkinson said that he did
Pnot understand that, but thought that
the man was very probably mistaken
And it might happen that man would
mot remember whether he had worked
on.a Sunday or not. That particular
man said, however, most distinctly,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
TERRITORIAL TREASURER
CASTS SOME LIGHT

1t was the custom, when the Reads
and Garbage Departments were under
the Territory said Territorial Treas
urer Campbell, ''for the payroll to be
r made up and sent to the Auditor, who
then issued his warrant for the whole
sum, the warrant being in the name
of Sam Johnson. This warrant would
be brought to my office and registered
at once, and usually, Thos. P. Cum
minis, who was Sam johnson g clerk,
would hasten to the bank and have the
warrant discounted in order that the
men in the department might be paid
off on Saturday night. That was in
the road department.
The money would then be taken to
the office of Sam johnson, where the
men to be paid off would ,be assembled,
and each man would be given what the
payroll called for-exeepting that
from each wage proportionate amount
of the discount charged by the bank
on the whole payroll warrant would
be deducted. That is to say, if a man
had earned twenty dollars, and the
warrant had been discounted at two
per cent, there would be a draw back
of forty cents from his pay for his
proportion of the discount. And that
may explain part of the difference
hot yybof thu
paid them, and what they were for
merly paid by the Territory"
1t will be remembered that num-
Der of garbage laborers reported to
Mr.. Trent that they had been paid
more by the county for their work
than they had been accustomed to get
from the Territory.
.sThere is another thing went on
the Treasurer. cit was a difficult
matter to get the men IN this depart
ment to pay their poll tax. They COM
planned that because of their small
pay they could not pay the whole
amount of this tax at once, and made
an arrangement with Sam johnson, the
HucH CouScHtlHS, NY WHicA ILLS IdA Couiu
be paid in installments out Of their
wages. A small sum, say fifty cents,
would be taken from eacn mans pay
every pay day until the full amount
had been paid up, and as we could
accept nothing here but the full amount
of the tax, 1 arranged with Sam John
son to hold the money for us until the
whole tax had been collected. Then
receipts were made out and issued to
the men in the usual way, the money
being turned into the Treasury. AS l
have said, the men consented to this,
and they likewise were perfectly aware
of the proportionate discount being
taken from their pay, and, consented to
that arrangement. 1t would have de-
layed their payment and caused lot
Of trouble if every laborer had been
to get his own warrant dis
'.The Territorial law allows the pay !
roll system. I do not say that the |
audit law is a good one, nor that there |
could not be better. And l know |
absolutely nothing beyond what I have |
seen in the newspapers of what MIR. |
Trent has discovered. But this may |
explain part of the things that have
been found
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
GOVERNOR ANXIOUS
TO FIlND.O WHAT
AILS Mr.. BRECKONS

"Now Acting
him. the
a O. busnesss"
After which flood
chair
of
Hawaii
declaring Clearly Atkinson
did
labor
Nobody anything
the The itself
I this
based right
o n a
do that the
Continued So
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
Mr.. CLARENCE WHITE
EXPLAINS PAYROLLS

The following letter from Clarence
White. explanatory of the payroll sys-
tenn, was issued yesterday to all the
newspapers, but the afternoon papers
did not complete his footings, which
are part of the essence of the whole
matter. Mr.. White shows in his foot
ings, in fact, that under the present
system of reckoning time for laborers
the county lost $54.95 from what the
expenditure would have been If only
working days had been counted IN the
month, eliminating the Sundays-but,
on the other hand, if there has been
but four Sundays in July, the d1ffer-
CONTINUED on Page p
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
OFFICIALS BEGIN AN INVESTIGATION
OF GARBAGE DEPARTMENT PAYROLLS
So Far. There Has Been No Graft Shown, A.
though the System May Have Left an Open.
ing for Graft. and Acting Governor ATKINS on
vouche, for Sam Johnson's Honesty.

tThe Capitol building fairly buzzed
4 sfith investigators yesterday, looking
for the color of graft in the cloud
that had been raised about the Gar
bage Department payroll by the let
ter of Treasurer Trent to the Board of
Supervisors Of Oahu County.
To begin with, Acting Governor At
kinson issued orders to Deputy Auditor
Meyers, Auditor Fisher being on Maui,
to 60 over the old payrolls Of the de-
partment, ana see whether any allega-
tions of graft were borne out by those
vouchers. Then Clarence White, Dep
uty Superintendent of Public Works,
who has charge of the County Garbage
Department IN the absence of Sam
johnson, made an explanation of the
manner in which the department pay
roll was made up. That explanation
will be seen little further along. The
Governor, as the head Of the Terri
torial administration, comes first.
ST have directed Deputy Auditor
Meyers to make an investigation of the
matter,' said Acting Governor Atkin-
son yesterday afternoon, ''going over
all the payrolls of the Garbage De-
partment, and to report back to me. So
far, everything in the department has
ben found to be perfectly correct. I
wish to say that do not believe that
Sam johnson has been guilty of any
wrongdoing. I believe that he is hon
est.'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
F|NNS ASSEMBLE
At HELS|NCF0RS
To DEMAND RIGHTS

tAsso01AxD aAMsa1A,ray
HELS1NGFORS, August g. mass meeting attended bv
twenty thousand yesterday to protest against
the transfer of political prisoners Russian military court
resolution passed demanding the governor and
chief of police of Hsgfors of the censorship and
the restoration of the liberty press the convocaon of
an diet to discuss the question suffrage
TROUBLE AGAIN IN POLAND
LODI, August 8.-One sixty-eight worxmen
aoer IN the recent strike arrested yesterday general
strike is threatened if they released
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08

that heehad not worked on any Sunday,
although he had been credited with
five.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
A FEW VILLAGES FALL
INTO RUSSIAN HANDS

ST PETERSBURG August s-General Linevitch reports
that the Russian have Japanese several
villages.
FORTS AT MOUTH OF AMUR
TOXIC August 7-The Russians ortyng the mouth of
the Arnur river
MORE SUNKEN SHIPS RAISED
TOXIC, August THE cruiser battleshps
Poltava and Peresve habor during the
siege will leave that place navy they
will be prepared into commission Japanese navy
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
A PROFESSOR FOR PREMIER.

THE HAGUE August s.-A cabinet has been formed
mership Hame professor the University of Amste
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
OSCAR TAKES A VACATION.

STOCKHOLM, August s-Kng Oscar is leaving for vac
absence crown prince will regent.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-09
THE GARDEN
Helpful Hints to Amate~r
Gardeners.
The Chameleon Flower.


The principal peculiarities Of the hi.
discus mutabilis is it's habit Of COM
pletely changing it's color during the
course of the day. Its beautiful flowers,
generally double, are white at the first
opening in the morning, pink at noon
and red at sunset before they fade, with
blush tinge at night. The leaves
somewhat resemble those Of the. vine,
and are roughish and variable in the
length Of their points. The tree is a
native Of China, Japan and various
parts of the East Indies, here, as well
as in the West Indies, it is cultivated
for the beauty Of it's flowers. The flower
lately discovered in the Isthmus. Of
Tehauntepec is white in the morning,
red at noon and blue at night, and is
called the chameleon flower. It is prob
ably species of the hibiscus mutabills.
The colors do not pass abruptly from
one shade to another, but change grad
ually from the white in the morning to
the pink and red, and thence to the
blue at night. The Tehauntepec tree
grows to the size Of the guava tree, and
gives out slight perfume when the
flower is Of a red color. Some other
flowers change color, but not daily, such
as the forget-me-not,. which is first vel
low and then blue; the phlox, which is
first blue and then pink; the Chinese by
drangea, which is first green and then
rose color, and the chevanthus mutabilis
which. changes from yellow to orange
then to red, and finally becomes ricf
purple.