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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23


cents a pound, and the other delica-
cies in proportion.
Last year the Salvation Army fed
100000 poor in our large cities, and
over 100000 was collected for his
purpose by means of the army's pot. now
familiar sight at this season to
every dweller in New York, Chicago.
Philadelphia, Boston. and other cities.
Amounts varying from one cent to
$500 are dropped into the pots. So
many pennies are contributed in New
York and Chicago that machines ara
employed in counting them.
While the Salvation Army dinners
are by far the most ambitious OF ali
dinners to the poor, those given to
newsboys by their patrons and the
meals spread for the delectation of
their constituents by the political dis
trict leaders of New York's East side
are not to be passed over lightly.
That is poor and small dinner. In.
deed, which does not cost 1000, and
the Sullivans. of Bowery fame, have
been in the habit of spending sew
eral thousand dollars for turkey and
trimmings.
Many millionaires there are also
who are noted for their gifts at this
time of the year to cheer the poor. a
big wholesale poultry dealer IN New
York has had one Of the country's
leading millionaires for regular GUS
toner for the last six Christmases.
and each season he places an orde.
for 500 turkeys-$1, 200 for this one
item alone. John E. Andrus, mayor
of Yonkers. N. Y, and owner Of $780,
000, 900 worth Of property, gives away
more than quarter of million dol
lars to charity every year, and BY far
the greatest part of this fortune 10
distributed at this season. The DOOR
of Yonkers always have merry
Christmas, because of Mr. Andrus.
Last year he sent out 1900 dinners
and gifts by the wagonload for the
children.
In this connection we must also
take into consideration the money
sent to Europe by Uncle Sans new
citizens Just before Christmas. It
has amounted to about $2.000,O 900 year.
~ since 1900. The Christmas boatD
of 1903. the first sailing on December
IL, and the last on the 10Th, carried
to the old country 161,6OS post once
money orders valued at s1.S96, 295 %.
besides many thousands Of dollars in
registered letters. OF these money
orders 81, 1881. calling for $3.50, 63S.18.
went to Great Britain. Thirty-two
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do not fare as well as this. few there
are who are entirely forgotten.
A certain big department store In
one Of the eastern cities has given
each of its 1000 odd employees five dol
lars apiece for several years past. The
amount is not graded according to the
employees position and importance.
The members of the firm take the
ground that they give the five-dollar
bills simply as reminder of the good
viii they bear their workers, and SO
the head of the silk department is mot
entitled to q gift one 1.-THE bigger than
that received by the humblest package
wrapper in the store.
For some reason or other, hvb dol
lars has come to be looked on. out
side of banking and financial circles.
as about the right sum to be given
to employees. Inquiry among once
workers in the sky-scrapers and the
sales-people in the retail and whole
sale stores has substantiated thu.
statement.
But many firm does not limit it,
Christmas box contributions to those
who work for 1t directly. This is par
ticularly true of concerns with Of
fees in the skyscrapers. The eleva-
tor men, the superintendent, the win
dow cleaners, the scrub women. ell are
taken care of. And the amount Of
money they get is a caution. In one
of the lesser .skyscrapers of New York
the three elevator men, when they
counted up their gifts on last Christ
mas eve, found that they had received
a little over 500 apiece. These men
had put up box, artistically painted
with holly designs, in each elevator
Quite lot of small change was
dropped into them. but more was
given them direct by the tenants. in
sums varying from 81 to SIS.
The Christmas pickings CT this trio
are small, though, when compared
with that of the men who run eieva-
tors in the great Office buildings that
have several thousand tenants ins.ead
of several hundred, as in the trio's
case.
Another class of men which reaps
q harvest during Christmas week Il
the walters. In the downtown res
taurants Of New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago, where only lunch Il
served, the waiter who does not clear
SIS over and above his usual per.
cuisites feels sure that there is nc
| good will toward men" ON earth. Yet
his holiday tips would be regarded
as . mere pittance by the digniiiod
sutomaton who attends to the stom'
ach's wants In the swell hotels NJ
town. Five and ten-dollar bills come
his way In seemingly never-end!ns
stream. For your millionaire at din.
ner around the mellow season fi1di
the chief aid to good digestion in max
ing happy those who wait on him
walters who ought to know, declare
( that It II not uncommon for . waiteI
IN such q place as the Waldorf Astoria
to come out $500 and 500 and eveI
$500 ahead during holiday week.
Merely in New Yorl's hrst-clne'
! totals and restaurants therO ere ovo'
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sETTING THE CHRISTMAS DINNER
TABLE.

These things are not allowed at .
Christmas dinner of formal nature
where the dinner guests arc semi-
strangers. But for mixed family
group they are almost a necessity.
Even on good tables you will see the
whole of the elements and condiments
combined in one great casteresque af-
fair, which holds everything from
mustard to pickles.
Let the table be set in the family
manner, and then go about the dsco-
rations 1t is a nice practice to Place
trifie at each plate in the way OF
favor-a card bearing an insc-ip-
ton, little basket of flowers, -ose,
q pretty vinaigrette, a silver card
case, or date book, or calendar
for 1906.
Special Christmas souvenirs are also
good. Tiny stockings can b dlled
with presents; there can be little
Christmas trees or branches OF holly.
Or In the middle of the table can SCI
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

thousand seven hundred and. fifteen
Germans we're msde happy BY the re-
ceipt of 1884, 32S.04 among them.
Though less than 5000 Italians sent
money gifts to relatives and friends,
the average value of each gift was
thirty-three and third dollars; while
the $1,000 Englishmen who remem-
bered their old associates did so to the
extent Of something under ten doll
lars apiece. The Hungarians sent
the most generous gifts. each aver
aging $40. Then came the Russians.
$3.50, with the Austrians next, few
cents less than ST.. The Germans
sent the smallest gifts, $3.50. they be-
ing the only ones below the English
The Italian. with his pickax and
Undiscovered clothes. may seem sny-
thing but sentimental and warm
hearted when he is passed on the
street, but the figures prove thai at
least at one season of the year he
leads all OF our new citizens In lis
pensing Christmas cheer across saasu
where. but for the immigrants' COM
tribution in the Christmas box. the
day would be cherries one indeed
Tor many family.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

OF the old year the prudent man will
remember only that which is good, and
CARRY 1t forward as seed for the New
Years sowing. He will gather up all
that is evil and unworthy-his hatreds,
his memories of ingratitude. every en-
nifty that poisons his life. with every
form of sin-and heave all together
into the gulf of oblivion. For when
the year is done Wisdom let's it go.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

These are halcyon days for the tim
srants who compose the large and In
creasing army of American tramps. Not
only is early fall weather pleasant for
tramping. but the general prosperity
throughout the country insures liberal
measure of hospitality to gentlemen OF
leisure INDUCING in pedestrian tours.
A late estimate fixes the number of pro-
fessional tramps in this country at 3d.
900, able-bodied men who refuse to work
when they have the chance, and for
whom the nation is providing food
clothes and lodging. Imprisonment for
few days at time has no salutary ef-
feet; indeed, they generally welcome
such comfortable quarters in the win
ter. They are so impregnated with the
spirit Of idleness that any form of pun
ishment yet tried has proved futile
Among the plans suggested is the exil
ing of the hoboes to some of our island
possessions.
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The Yankee sailor continues to run
up great scores. even when he is COM
2aratively green at the business. The
armored cruiser Colorado has just
made a record with six-inch guns
which surpasses all precedent. And il
was done with freshly organized gun
crews, and on the ships first target
practice. The young fellows of the
navy are proving themselves worthy
successors Of the sharpshooting chaps
who smashed the Spanish ships al
Manila and Santiago.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

demands that the boughs shall be full.
fresh and studded with berries. The
native mountain boys are invaluable
to the shippers of holly. They climb
the trees like squirrels. run out on the
limbs and bend them down to the
ground, where the women and chill
dren hold them and strip them of then
green boughs. s
Great difficulty is experienced by the
shippers in getting the holly to the
shipping point after 1t has been cut
and Grated. for at this time of year
the mountain roads are almost impass-
able for heavy teams. The boxes OF
holly are often brought to the station
by small boys on crude sleds made By
their own hands.
To the average mountaineer the
holly is not q thing of beauty, and a.
for decorating their houses for Christ
mas, such thing is not to be thought
of.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

The Christmas tree business, to-
gsther with that of the holly and mis-
tletoe, has come to be one Of vast
proportions in this country. Millions
CT trees and tons upon tons .of ever
green and holly are used every year In
decorations of homes and churches
during the Christmas season. This
means that thousands upon thousands
throughout the country are given
means of livelihood every year who
would otherwise remain idle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

AS the Christmas season approaches
there is revival of the Sunday-school
habit with the boys and girls of the
land, and it is no uncommon thing for
the American youth to enroll himself
In two or three different Sunday
schools. Thus do we find an early
manifestation of the spirit of grab, il
not of graft.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

The old couplet, Christmas comes
but once q year, but when it comes II
brings good cheer" is probably a cor
suption, or, perhaps more correctly
speaking, revision Of Tusser's lines:
s.At Christmas play. and make good cheer.
For Christmas comes but once year"
To overdo is to undo the Christmas
spirit. To get the most out of the
Christmas time we must go back OF
the candy and the Christmas tree, be-
reath the gifts and above the greet
ings. Spell Christmas In the old
way-"Christ-mass," and Christmas
summons US to worship.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

New Years day in America is but a
ghost of it's former self. Open house
has about died out, and the day Is
now celebrated largely either as holt
day or a day of rest. Occasionally
friends exchange visits on New Years
eve and watch the old year out, but
even this custom seems to be waning.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

1t is an old English saying that as
many mince pies as you taste at
Christmas, so many happy months viii
you have. Whether the American with
his weakness for pie needs encourage
ment or not, certain it is that the aver
age man and small boy, too, will aver
age enough tastes to carry him COM
rletely through the year.
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onaint Old Custom.

In the olden time the Yule log was
always laid aside before 1t was burnt
ont. so that on the next Christmas
day the new Yule log might be lighted
with the charred remains Of its prede-
cessor.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

The rehearsals in New York of q
new melodrama came to stop sud-
denly because a principal actress In
the cast did not know how to milk q
real COW. This she must do when the
piece is produced. and though she has
only just returned from the country,
she will have to 60 back there again
for a week. while the gallery gods
wait impatiently until she has mas
tered the mysteries Of milking. The
actress says that there is no natural
relation between the art of the milk
maid and that OF q melodrama heroine.
but the stage manager told her that
to be great In modern melodrama
needs many more accomplishments
than merely knowing how to act
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

The measure of Christmas joys is
not the measure of our getting nor yet
the measure of our giving, but the
measure of our being.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

Preferred Her Weekly Salary.
He-Will you marry me?
She-No; but win Be typewriter 4
you.-Town Topice
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-12-23

Christmas is the time of all the year
when the song of universal brother
hood and fellowship may be sung.
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On an Ocean steamer.
The Wife-Shall have your dinner
brought to the room, dear?
Husband (feebly)-No: just order y
thrown overboard--LifNs
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Memory gives us the past, work uses
the present, but our real life-its hope
and possibilities-lies in the future.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
BY AUTHORITY
ACT Il.
AN ACT

To AMEND SECTION 1921 REVISED LAWS OF HAWAII
RELATING TAXATION OF INSURANCE CORPORATIONS AND
COMPANIES.
BE Enacted by e Legislature of the Territory of Haraii:
SECTION l. That Section 1921 of the Revised Laws of Ha-
waii is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 262 Taxes Penalty All insurance companies
corporations doing business in this Territory file with the
Commissioner annually, before the first day of June in
each hereafter statement under OATH setting forth the
amount of gross premiums received by said companies
roaons during the ending December 81 preceding
from all risks located in and all business DONE within this Ter
rtor All such insurance companies corporations except
life insurance companies shall the Treasurer through the
Insurance Commissioner tax of two per the gross pre-
mius received from all risks located in and from all marine
business done within this Territory during the ending
the preceding slst day of December less premiums
insurance in companies corporations authorized do bust
in this Territory and losses actually paid policy holders
And if life insurance company, shall pay the Treasurer
through the Insurance Commissioner tax of per
the gross premiums received from all business done within this
Territory during the year ending the preceding 3lst day
December less return premiums reinsurance in companies
corporations authorized to do business in this Territory death
claims payments made to policy holders and actual operating
and business expenses which when paid shall be in
settlement of all demands of any licenses fees of
every character imposed by the laws of this Territory except
ns property and the fees forth in Section 1920 for
conducting said business of insurance in said Territory Said
shall be due and payable the first day of July succeed
ing the filing of the statement provided for in this Chapter
Any organization failing refusing render such
and to the required tax above stated for than thirty
days after the time specified shall be liable penalty OF
$500 for each day of delinquency and the may be col
leced by dan and the penalty recovered by action
be instituted by the Commissioner in the of the Territory,
in any Court of competent jurisdiction and the Commissioner
shall revoke and annu the certificate of authority of such de
Quent organization until such and fine should he
imposed are fully paid"
SECTION This Act shall take effect from and after the
date of its approval
Approved this 2eth day of April, A. D. 1905
G. r. CARTER
Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
ACT rs.
AN ACT

AN ACT
To AMEND SECTION OF CHAPTER OF THE REVISED LAWS
Hawaii
BE Enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Harai
SECTION Section S42 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii
hereby amended by adding the end thereof the following pro-
visO:-
Provided however, that with the approval of the Governor
the Superintendent of Public Works authorize of
speed exceeding twenty (20 miles hour between
stated points any linen within the limits described par
agap two of said section and within the limits of paragraph
two of said secon may authorize of speed exceeding
twelve G2) miles hour and may in like withdraw
such authorizations and provided further that for any viola
ton of such speed limit for the time being the penalty
shall apply as hereinbefore mentioned.
Provided however, that the Company shall have power
plead defense take advantage of the fact in action
brought against for loss damages ocasoned by the Com
pany person that the of the Company causing such
loss damages running at the of speed authorized
by or by virtue of this Ac.'
Approved this 26th day of April, A. d., 1905.
G. II. CARTER,
Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
Corporation Notices.
SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCK.
HOLDERS.
KiHEi PLANTATION CO., LTD.

The adjourned special meeting Of
the stockholders Of the Kihei Planta
ton Co., Ltd, will be held at the office
OF the company, StanG2nwald build.
ing, Honolulu, on Tuesday, May O.,
1905, at 10 a. m, for the purpose OF
considering a proposed amendment to
the articles of association relating to
the par value Of the stock, and for the
transaction of such other business as
may be brought before the meeting.
Stock transfer books will be closed
from Saturday, April go, to Tuesday,
May 9, both dates included.
JNO. GUILD,
Secretary Kihei Plantation Co.,
Limited.
Honolulu. April 2S. 1905. 3O61-9t
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
NOTICE..

A new restaurant me Ing Low" at
1926 Maunakea ST., will open for bust
ness tomorrow, with two dining rooms
LIST and End floors. Meals also Qee
Hong Chong Chop Sur will be served
Mt any time from a. m. to 8 y. m.
3059.1m
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
EDUCATIONAL.

German or French conversation prac-
tically taught in months; no
home work; no drudgery; satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Address A. B. c.,
Bulletin. 3057.lm
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
ACT 70.
AN ACT

RELATING SEToFF ADDING A New SECTION TO THE Re.
vIsEp LAWS.
BE Enacted by the Legislature of he Territory of Hama
SECTION 1. section is hereby added to the Revised
Laws as follows
"Section 175SA Judgment in action in which claim
of seo has been pleaded shall be rendered favor of the
balance exceeding the jurisdiction of the trial jus
ce with If the found due the respective
parties equal judgment shall be rendered in favor of each
for such and entry shall be made that the judgments
satisfied by the setof with either party, without
costs to either party without COSTS the orders IT,
the setof in action upon claim gned to the plaintiff
before action is brought balance is found due the defend
balance is found due from person other the
plaintiff judgment shall be rendered against the plaintiff
for the balance"
SECTION q This Act shall be in effect from the date of its
approval.
Approved this 26th day of April, A. d. 1905.
G. r. CARTER,
Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.
ACT So
AN ACT
To REPEAL CHAPTER SO TIE REVISED LAWS HAWAII
RELATING TO DISEASES OF SHEEP
BE Enacted by the Legislature of The Territory of HaDai
SECTION l. Sections 455 ass both inclusive of the Re-
vised Laws of Hawaii are hereby repealed.
SECTION g This Act shall take effect from and after the
date of its publication.
Approved this Goth day of April, A, d. 1905.
g. r. CARTER,
Governor of the Territory of Hawaii
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
Business Notices.
MEETING NOTICE.
10th PRECINCT, sth DISTRICT.

Roll book Of the 10th Precinct Re-
publican Club Of the 9Th District will
be opened for enrolling Of new mem.
bers on Tuesday, May 2, 1905, at 1880
p. m, at the residence of Chairman
Chas. Broad, corner Broad and Buckle
Lanes.
Meeting for the purpose Of nomina.
ting delegates to be elected to the
County Convention to be held on May
8. 1905. at 1880 p. m. at Camp No. 2,
Vineyard st.
CHAS. BROAD.
VIM. X. ISAAC, Chairman.
Secretary. 3O62.3t
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-05-02
CeNVOCAHON At
SAINT ANDREWS
'See-House Is Postponed
Because Of Lack
Of Funds
MONEY N LONDON DUE
BI, HOPRIC ENDOWMENT
LEGISLATION COMMITTEE AND
TREASURER HAVE REPORTS.
DEACON TESLA HAS
OBJECTION.

In st. Andrews Cathedral Sunday
scholo room last night, while the Gov.
eminent band played strenuously In
Emma square, next door," was held
the first session of the Episcopal Con-
vocation of the Missionary District of
Honolulu.
After the certificates of lay delegates
we're found in order the Bishop de-
clared the Convocation ready to pro-
coed to business.
Rev. ID. ID. Wallace, Kona, not having
been in Office six months was given a
seat without a vote.
As treasurer of the board Of direct
ors Henry Smith reported a balance as
per last report of SOB: since then he
had received $3.50 as rent and donation
from s. NJ. Damon and B. +. Dilling-
ham: total receipts were $45457. and
expenditures $376.29. leaving a balance
OF $7S.2S; $1,000 had been borrowed
from the banks. This report was &C.
cepted and referred to the finance COM
mittee.
Chancellor Stanley stated that two
lay brothers from Kohala were not con.
stitutionally entitled to sit in the Con-
vocation, being women. Rev. Potivene
was chosen secretary and Carl Lovstedt
\ assistant.
The report Of the committee on leg
islation and privilege read by the Rev.
J.Usborne, was In part as below:
Right Reverend Sir and Gentlemen:
Your Committee on Legislation and
Privilege respectfully beg leave to re
port:
1. That in the matter Of privilege,
there is nothing before them.
2. That, in respect to legislation,
they have endeavored carefully to ex.
anime the constitutions, canons and by.
laws Of this missionary district and
have prepared and herewith submit in
connection with this report their pro-
posed amendments and additions there
TO, which require little explanation.
They may state, however, that 1t was
| considered expedient to designate some
| what more fully the rights and func-
| tons Of the Bishop to separate, the
Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Of
st. Andrew from the parish Of st.
| Andrew, and to define the line of de-
marcation between the rights, functions
and property of each, to establish the
I
arate CORPORATIONS, to limit the distinct
ownership of property in the name of
the board of directors of the Protestant
Episcopal church in the Hawaiian is.
lands SO as to exclude the property of
the dean and chapter and of the
parishes and to extend the rights of
voting for wardens and yestrymen to
all communicates of eighteen years of
age or over and TO all baptized persons
| who have attained the age Of twenty
years and who have contributed to
parish funds. in some manner recog.
nized by the rector and yestrymen in
their respective parishes, for six
months prior to an election. The last
amendment, II will be seen, obliterates
the distinction between the sexes, SO
far as the qualifications for voting are
concerned and II is proper to all that
these particular amendme, h are not