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The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1906-03-17
Judge Kepoikai opens March term of Court
D. L. Meyer appointed foreman Jury
waived cases disposed of.
ATTEMPTS TO RECRUIT JAPANESE.
Steamer Olympia finds few to sail for California Starving
japanese appeal for ad-Thousands in North Eastern
Japan Suffer for want of food.

thin, suffering babes at the breast,
or whole families might be shown
huddled hopelessly in their un-
warmed homes-dependant upon
what more favored people of earth
can send to their district to help
them, until nature shows a more
kindly spirit. Sno wcovered grounds
where the able bodied would work
if they could and these, together
with the aged, the cripples, the
women and the children-there
are from twenty-five to forty thou
sand sufferers all-have no hope
but that the human charity that
always is ready to respond to real
suffering Will be informed of their
dire need. In this emergency, all
over the civilized world and espe-
cially in more fortunate parts Of
Japan efforts are being made to
secure funds for the stricken dis
tricts. Honolulu is asked to help.
The spectacle of a single woman,
single child, freezing or starving
to death, if close at hand, would
be, enough to melt the heart of any.
one seeing it, enough to stir him
to the most earnest, even frantic
efforts to give reliet. In this case
there are thousands so suffering
and they are not bit the less rea
because they are long way off
Set those who have the magma
ton picture the terrible scenes il
those luckless homes in Japan, anC
they will be sure to respond to tn
appeal for help.
AS showing the conditions tha
exist the following extracts ar
quoted from the Japanes press:
" Enough has been said of tn
distressing cases of starvation, the
are many but 1 will give one Q
two in the village we are givin
relief in family of seven livin
. in shed-no window,-all layin
. in straw on the bare earth. Th
: aged father a cripple, the motht
blind, a son farm laborer with WI
and three young children. HUI
band unable to work in the Ian
because of deep snow. Anoth'
family also seven in number, livir
in q hole dug out of the hill sid
about 7X6 feet, four and half
height, a little lean-to roof
kitchen 3X6 feet. The who
family huddle together in tn
hole. Needless to say the po
mother and children look like siC
patients; the eldest boy of II is
with consumption, the mans nan
is Sakuma kishiroku. Further |
the hill most piteous cases a
everywhere. 1t is a wonder he
people live under such circuI
stances. In nearly all cases o.
finds a child hanging on to Il
mothers breast, the poor motht
/ still full of smiles, giving her We
Z life to feed her child. Anoth
J case, an old mother aged 73 wi
i grandchildren; the mother h
u died two days before arrived
I the village. She left her ag
II mother with a son age 1S perha
] life invalid unable to walk.
q girl of 20 the only one able to wo
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Veterans of the Mexican War.

The feeble veterans of the war with
Mexico, recently in annual session al
Washington, ID. c., have stationed a
Committee IN Legislation at the Capt.
tai, it is said, to urge the passage of the
bill which provides q pension of 81 &,
day for these fighters of former days,
during the remainder of their lives.
The Mexican War veterans called in a
body on Speaker Cannon, of the House
of Representatives, and it is their be-
lief that they made a good impression
on him and that the bill will now be
passed.
Quite a number of these old soldiers
OF the '40's are now drawing pensions
of $40 per month by act of Congress
That is. they had a special bill passed
i'll each particular case granting that
amount
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Spanish War Veterans, Encampment.

Senor Quesada. the Cuban Minister
at Washington, has promised the Span
ish War Veterans to use his good Offices
with the Government of the Republic
of Cuba to have at least a battalion of
Cuban troops with a brass band go to
Washington on the occasion of the Ma
tional Encampment of the Spanish War
Veterans next October. 1t is proposed
that the Cuban Regulars shall be q
feature of the big parade to be held at
the time of the Encampment.
The matter was brought to the at
tention of Senor Quesada by Capt. ].
Walter Mitchell National Historian of
the Spanish War Veterans. Another
feature OF the parade will be calva-
cade of mounted Rough Riders from
the Far West. President Roosevelt is
expected to deliver the principal ad-
dress
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James Shields Garrison.

Editor National Tribune: Gen. James
Shields Garrison, No. 10S. Army and
Navy Union, of New Rochelle NJ Y,
after several years of bfissful slumber,
has again taken its place among those
grand old bodies of Uncle Sans fight
ing men, pas. and present. Owing to
change of residence, death, etc, its
membership became reduced to seven
members, tried and true, who stuck to
their colors to the last. In December
last boom was started to revive the
Garrison, with the result that IL now
numbers 40 members and applications
for membership coming in fast. pub
lie installation of officers for the fol-
lowing year was held in Benevolent
Hall on the evening of Wednesday, Jan.
"a. Inspector-Generaf S. E. Adams, of
Lieut.-Col. ]. j. Astor Garrison, No. IS,
Jersey City, N j., was Installing Off
Ger. The hall was tastefully decorated
with flags and military equipments, such
as knapsacks. canteens, etc After the
installation ceremonies were over the
Garrison, with Inspector-General Adams
as its guest, adjourned to Rails Hotel,
where refreshments were served and
the Garrison entertained by music
speeches and songs. The following are
the officers for the ensuing year: Com
mander, ]. ]. Murphy: S. V. c., Jas. ].
Boyne; j. V. c., C. F. Dugger; Adjt, A.
Rado; P. NJ, John Roach: Q. NJ, James
Keane; o. D., J. E. Fitzgerald; o. G.,
George Conway: Chaplain, George C.
Cromelien; Trustees, r. Mckinley Pow
er, E. F. Parker, Charles Stuart
Efforts are being made to recruit the
Garrison up to 100 members by May
80. when it is intended to make a grand
showing in the Memorial Day Parade
e. F. Parker, New Rochelle, n. Y.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
ARMY AND NAVY UNION NOTES.
Notes of Interest to All Comrades.

Requests for information in regard
to forming Garrisons have been re-
ceived from Pasadena, Cal; Oshkosh,
Wis, and Atlantic City. N j.
Comrade Charles F. Stephan, of Ter
ence Mcdonald Garrison, No. 3S,
Amesbury. Mass, has been appointed
Provisional Commander of Massachu-
sets; Comrade Oscar Glenn, of Rear
Admiral John w. Philip Garrison, No.
81, Norfolk, Va, for Virginia; Past
Senior Vice National Commander Will
liam Budy for Minnesota.
Comrade ]. d. O'Brien, of Francis
e. Warren Garrison. No. 80. Douglas.
Wyo-. has been appointed a Special In
spector.
Rear-Admirai J. B. Coghlan Garri-
son has been organized at Brooklyn,
My.
The Memorial services in New York
City this year will be held at the
church of Father Chidwick, National
Chaplain of the Union
AT recent muster of Lieut.-Col
John Jacob Astor Garrison, No. Is, in
New Jersey, Comrades Paul A C. Beese,
late 7th U. S. Art. and U. S. N; Charles
Fl. Neil, late U. s. s. Kentucky, and
E. H Hollister, late 6th ". Y. M'td
Rifles, were mustered.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

The Black Hills beetle has killed be-
tween 700. 100000 and 100000, 900
feet of timber in the Black Hills Forest
Reserve. 1t is also doing a lot of harm
in Colorado and New Mexico. The Gov
ernment has issued pamphlet on the
way to fight 1t by Telling and barking
infested trees.
Little rubies, the price of which is
considerably below that of large ones
of the same quality, are finely pow
dered, and then fused together in the
electric furnace. The mass is quickly
cooled by some trick that is not made
public. resulting in. gem of good size.
and retaining the desired luster and
tint. Neither the sapphire nor the
emerald can be subjected to this treat
ment.
The small lake Of Sewalik, in Alas
ka, has regular tides, probably due to
underground connection with the sea,
and the water of the bottom is salt
while that of the surface is fresh.
To distinguish steel from iron apply
a drop of nitric acid and let 1t remain
for a moment, then rinse with water
If the metal is iron whitish-gray spot
will remain. if steel, black stain.
To render rough woodwork almost
non-inflammable two heavy coats of or
dinary lime whitewash is recommended
by painters journal.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

to smithereens. He thinks the post Of
flee is the attraction, and his losses out
weigh his income from 1t. Hence his
desire to dissolve partnership with Un-
Gle Sam and go it alone.
No Competition Allowed.
Notwithstanding the small pay al
lowed It's servants, the Government
frowns on postal competition to increase
business. This is explained by a rural
functionary thus: ''Postmasters have
many curious rules to obey. If a mer-
chant in this village is sharp enough to
draw customer from another village
and get him to trade at his store it is
that much gained. But If / should per-
suade farmer to change his mail from
some other post Office to the Dixon Of
fee it would be a violation of the rules.
So you see we are not allowed competi-
tion."
Among the tribulations for which the
overworked Postmaster does not get
paid is the enmity caused by the unin-
tended neglect of irascible patrons, as
set forth by one aggrieved official:
There were two men who drew pen
sionS and had their vouchers filled at
this office. The 4th of last February
being pension day with them. and as 1
had business that day away from home,
l asked them to come soon in the morn
ing. One of them did, but the other
came in about IL o'clock, and, of
course, had gone and left the office in
charge of my assistant. / was gone
only about half an hour when he ar
rived, and that man rode eight miles
the next day to get his pension filled
out. and no doubt paid 25 cents to have
l. done. l never charged him a cent,
but he is a newspaper man. and gets
his mail at this office regularly. and he
has not been in but twice since he got
hot on cold February day."
The Postmaster of the fourth-class
office is nearer to all the people of his
clientage, In more frequent and direct
communication with them than any
other public official, National or State
He is the fountain head, as it were, of
the whole mail system. Upon his prompt
and accurate work much of the smooth
running of business in the large cities
depends. Hence all the people of the
country. urban as well as rural, are
interested in anything that concerns his
welfare.
A more satisfactory tenure of office,
the elimination of the inefficiency that
rests in ignorance, and a more just COM
pensation for his labors and RESPONSE
bilities, are manifestly some of the
things that all should unite in demand
ing for him. Then we can demand of
him the best possible service and when
we get it a decided advance will have
been made in the direction of post-office
reform.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Pens Made of Tantniite.

Tantalite IS one of the hardest of
materials-so hard, in fact. that sheets
made of 1t resisted a diamond drill
making 5000 revolutions a minute for
three days and three nights. Now pens
are made of this metal by q German
firm. The tantalite pen resists chemi-
Gals to very high degree: it is much
harder and more elastic than the steel
pen, and on that account indestructi-
BILE 1t is even more elastic than a
gold pen, and it is predicted that if 1t
will be placed upon the market at
moderate price it will supersede both
steel and gold pens.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

Philadelphia capitalists are to fur
nish the funds for scheme to utilize
the benefit of the mining camps of Ne
vada and Arizona and eventually sup
ply power to Los Angeles. Cal. 1t is
claimed that between the Grand Can
yon of the Colorado and the Black
Canyon it is possible to develop 500,-
900 horsepower. The plans contem-
plate a concrete dam at the lower end
of the canyon 200 feet high.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Muster-In.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
the date of the muster-in and the mus
ter-out OF the 18th Ohio, three months
service, and also of the 10th Pas. p.
Senberger, Bainbridge, Ind.
The 18th Ohio, three months service
was organized at Columbus in April
and May, 1861, and mustered out from
the 26th to the 31st Of August, 1861.
The 10th Pa. was organized at Har-
risburg, Oct. IS, 1S61.-Editor Ma
tional Tribune.
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SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
Work of Worlds Busy Brains in Discovering Invenng and
Creating

All OF the great railroads are being
Forced into doing something to COM
pete with the trolley lines, and the
Pennsylvania Railroad is now testing
the Strang gas-electric motor, which
has been giving great satisfaction. III
looks like an ordinary parlor car. but
in a 12-foot space at one end there is
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
War Vessel.

Zaccheus Scott, West Newton, Pa,
has obtained a patent for an attach
ment to a war vessel to dispose of tor
pedoes and mines without injuring her.
The attachment is projection beyond
the bow, which is readily raised and
lowered by means of cog-racks to which
are secured telescope arms. On the
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
PROF. LANGLEY DEAD.
Was Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stftution-A Highly Scientific Man.
Perfected Instruments for the Meas
urement of Heat.

Prof. Samuel P. Langley, Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution. died al
Aiken, S. c., last week, and was buried
in Boston on Saturday last. His death
is a matter of worldwide regret among
scientific men, for he was known
throughout the scientific world, was a
member of the leading scientific socie-
ties both here and abroad, and might
be considered the leading representa-
tive of advanced science In the United
States. He was born in Boston in 1884.
He studied architecture and civil en-
gineering, and then drifted into the
study of astronomy. He perfected va
rious instruments for the measurement
of heat and the study of the solar
spectrum, and made himself best known
perhaps to the general public by his
researches in aerial flight. For 90
years he had worked at this problem,
though by no means to the exclusion
of other work. He started with the
assumption that the work of Santos
Dumont and other aeronauts with bal
looms lighter than the air was useless,
and that the thing necessary was to
produce machine heavier than the
air that would fly. In this he succeed
ed, and in the course of his investiga-
tions made many notable contributions
To the knowledge of aerial dynamics.
He was engaged on the problem up
to the time of his death, and hoped ar
.iently to live long enough to see the
work assume a practical form.
But the wide range of Prof. Lang
ley's scientific work was as remarkable
as his achievements in any one line,
and it was in recognition of this fea-
ture that he was honored by all of the
principal learned societies abroad.
1t was in 1857 that he did a great
practical service to the world by es-
tablishing at the Allegheny Observa-
tory the system of railroad time service
that has since been extended to all the
railroads in the country, by which the
railroad standard clocks are kept al
ways checked by the central station
and time is maintained uniform over
the whole system in the United States.
Mr.. Langley's published writings in
clude more than 100 titles. He was a
foreign member of the Royal Society
of London, correspondent of the In
stitute of France. fellow of the Royal
Society of London, MEM
Der of the Royal Institute of London,
member of the Academia del Lincei of
Rome, the National Academy of
Sciences and many others.
Received Many Degrees.
He received the degree of d. C. L.
from Oxford, d. Sc. Cambridge, and
the degree of LID. from the universi- |
ties of Harvard, Princeton. Michigan
and Wisconsin. He was awarded the !
Henry Draper Medal by the National
Academy of Sciences, the Rumford |
Medal by the Royal Society of London |
and the Rumford Medal by the Amer
can Academy of Arts and Sciences as |
we'll as the Jansen Medal from the |
Institute of France and the Medal of |
The Astronomical Society of France.
He came to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition in 1887, and since that time has
been its moving spirit. He ruled there
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
MEN AND THINGS
SAW IN
Civil War Days.
By GEN. JAS. F. RUSHING.
By GEN. JAS. F. RUSHING.
SENT. POSTPAID, FOR 81.

Publications of selections from this
book in The National Tribune have
awakened a strong interest In Ii among
our readers. Gen. Rushing had un-
usual opportunities for meeting and
thoroughly studying a number of the
prominent Generals of the war. and he
has set forth his conclusions with great
fairness, perspicacity, clearneSs and
force. His presentation is invaluable.
as coming from a man who actually
saw and lived with them.
The National Tribune has secured Il
limited number of copies-all that was
left of the edition-and now offers them
to its readers. The book Is a handsome
volume of All large pages, well printed
and illustrated on good. heavy paper,
bound, and with gilt top.
Sent to any address in United States
or Canada. postpaid. on receipt of 81.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
Washington: d. C.
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Work OF the Patent Office.

For the week ended Feb. 81, 1906,
the Patent Office issued 612 patents,
16 designs, 135 trademarks, nine lab
els, five prints and three reissues, max
ing total of 7S0. of which $50 patents
and 14S trademarks went to citizens
of the United States and 6S patents
and one trademark to citizens of for
eign countries
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Artificial Platinum.

Charles II. Birmingham, a Baltimore
man, announces that he has discovered
a substitute for platinum. The Ameri-
can Inventor describes the new metal
as grayish white, with about the same
specific gravity and atomic weight as
platinum has. 1t is malleable and due
tile.
As platinum is at present worth s23
an ounce and as only 1000 ounces We're
imported to this country last year, the
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
The Pennsylvania Grasshopper.

The Pennsylvania Railroad locomo-
tive, No. 1904, which is known as the
''grasshopper,' because the valve gear
and reversing mechanism are placed
outside the driving wheels, has been
making experimental trips during the
past month since she left the company )
shops. 1t is reported that this great
locomotive has proved the fastest in
the world.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

with rod of iron. and the employees
and scientists of that Institution stood
in awe of him, not to say fear. Like
most men of his turn of mind he was
not a good financier, and it is thought
his successor will be a man who will
know how to take care of the funds
of the Institution. Science was Prof
Langley's wife, and he never married.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

! don't mean that DIR. Shoop's Rheumatic
Tablets can turn bony joints into flesh a gain
and never faii-that is impossible. But they
will with reasonable certainty drive from rho
blood the poison that causes pain and swell
ing, and then that is the end of the pain and
swelling.the end OF the suffering-the end of
rheumatism.
Any Rheumatic sufferer who writes may re-
ceive my little book rheumatism. inciud-
ing professional advice as to diet, etc, free
with the book I VIII also send without
charge. my Health Token" an intended
passport to good health. Address DR.. Shoop
Box 1881, Racine, Wis.
gle package-for sale BY 10000 Druggists.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Milking Apparatus.

Ezra e. Good, Waterloo, Iowa, has
patented milking apparatus in which
he claims "a device for producing pull
sations comprising a weighted, normal
ly-seated valve having an axial port and
radial branch ports, which branch ports
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Improved Soldering or Thinning Acid.

Into one pound of muriatic acid put
all the zinc it will dissolve and one
ounce of sal ammoniac. Add as much
clear water as there is of the acid
Contributed by Alex. Better, 442 Austin
avenue Chicago
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

discovery it is declared. will prove most
valuable to electricians, machinists,
chemists and dentists, as an unlimited
quantity can be manufactured in short
time, it is said, and the price an ounce
will be at least cut in two.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

There were five non-refillable bottles
patented last week in spite of all that
has been said as to the uselessness of
wasting time on such inventions.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
How to Cure Rheumatism

i searched the whole earth for a specific for
Rheumatism-something that / OF any physi-
@ elan could feel safe in prescribing-somethin
tnat We could count on not only occasionally
but with reasonable certainty For the raw
uine relief is rare. e~
After twenty years OF search and experi
ment, I learned Of the German chemical
now employ. And knew then that my search
ana my enorts were well rewarded. For this
chemical. in combination with others gave
me the basis OF a remedy which in the cure
OF rheumatism is practically certain In
many, many tests and diff7cult cases this pre-
scriptioh has with regularity justified the
had in II.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Spring Wheel.

longitudinal, sector-shaped sections
with the grain set edgewise to the
striking faces of the bat
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Combination Tool.

Ramon Febles. Harrisburg. Pa, has
patented a tool or implement having
a pair of scissors with blades of differ
ent length the shorter one with a
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
RnAehaII Rat.

Charles II. Buehler, st. Marys, o.
has patented a baseball bat formed OF
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

elasticity being given by a plurality OF
arched spring-rods extending diagonal
ly across the surface of the wheel.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

Jose G. Babio. Brooklyn, n. Y, has
received patent for a substitute for
pneumatic tires in a wheel OF a new
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

end of these is a set of teeth to cut
the attachment to a mine or torpedo.
Upon this are three electric search
lights, SO near the surface of the water
as to illuminate it and show any OBJ
ject floating upon it.
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are normally closed. but which ports
are in constant communication with the
atmosphere. The apparatus seems to
be tube connected with a suction
pump and which in turn is readily con-
nected by means of rubber tubes to the
cows udders and in drawing the milk
II falls into can for aeration.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

One of the unpleasant things in the
scientific world is the constant and
rapid advance in the price of radium.
When it was first discovered it seemed
that the supply was inexkaustible. and
that the price would rapidly fall from
that of $25 for 10 milligrams, which
was then asked. Instead of this the
price has gone up to s35, next to s55,
then to S65, anG it Is now said that
$3.50 is being asked without any cer-
tainty of the seller being able to fur
nish the goods.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Trolling Spoon.
Churn.

Christopher Y. McCardle, Cameron,
W. Va, has received a patent for a
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
THE PosTMASTERS.
Trials, Tribulati0ns and Hum0rs
of Uncle Sans Faithful Ser.
wants.
BY Capt. HENRY A. CASTLE.
CHAPTER II.

Formerly Auditor of the Treasury for
the Post Office Department.
The National tribune., 1906-03-08
Combined Bayonet and Telescope.

Frederick w. Stllwell, Scranton, Pa,
has patented device comprising a tele-
scope and a bayonet. The telescope is
The National tribune., 1906-03-08

buckhorn and plantain seeds from
clover or alfalfa seed. The process is
to mix the clover or alfalfa seed which
contain the impurities with dampenei
sawdust. which is then spread out on
canvas or floor to partially dry, after
which the seed is passed through a
screen. After the screened seed is dried
out 1t is passed through a tanning mill
Oyershoe Retainer.
Octave E. Eubbell, Monroe. La, has
patented an oYershoe retainer, which
Is yielding bail or loop extending over
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Gl7.R

metal tube having lenses and at the
tip bayonet point, which can be taken
off when desired to be used as tele-
scope.