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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-13
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Somebody saw County Auditor JIM
my Bicknell eating a raw hamburg
steak sandwich shortly after the news
that he was the proprietor of a Pacihc
Island was announced. say, Jimmy
exclaimed friend Il see by the papers
that you are the new king of the canni-
bal islands. It seems to me If was
a king l would be eating something
better than raw meat
"W-w-w-ell y-y-Ou see said Jimmy
I'm learning to eat raw meat, for l
will have to be a cannibal when l go
to rule my island,
8 & = =
One day j. S. Martin, the man who
is said to be the author of "The By
stander" stories, went into drug
store and said to the clerk Have you
any castor oil that won't taste?' The
clerk said Yes" and asked him If he
liked sarsaparlla. Il do said Mar
tin IAN never indulge in anything
stronger" Thereupon the prescription
expert gave Martin a glass of sarsa-
parilla, which he drank with relish
Nothing was said for twenty minutes
when Martin broke out with where's
llldL CASTOR Oil yOu NNAG oS'''5
me-" "Why, I gave it to you with the
sarsaparilla, half an hour ago. res
ponded the clerk. Great heaVens!'
shrieked Martin, Il didn't want 1t for
myself, I wanted to take it home to my
mother-in-law."
& & s
"Mr Thompson inquired Joe Cohen
'if a physician sent me a bill for
$4,000, itemized to show that $500 of
it was for medicine and $1,000 for
visits, under what code of ethics would
1 proceed to square this account?"
Let me see" replied the lawyer
that is a very simple average medico
percentage statement on medicinal
basis: l will look up Doctor Bull, the
celebrated authority on mileage. Oh,
yes, here it is on page a million and
twenty, in his almanac of 1906 which,
by the way, are the latest advices we
have on the subject. DR.. Bull very
likely knew that this subject would be
agitated one hundred years later, for
he distinctly says here, for the patient
to pay the 5000 for medicine and re-
y turn the visits"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-13

1T reminds me of story of Ben
Franklin" said Breckons discussing
the MOlokan case last Saturday. You
know Ben was something of an ATHEIST.
He was in the famous constitutional
convention which met over and over
again and disagreed until it seemed
that it never would come to terms. The
story is that Ben Franklin on one oc-
casiOn remarked that having tried
every other possible means of reaching
agreement the convention had better
open with prayer and try that. Well,
the parties interested in the Molokan
proposition are to meet tomorrow
Sunday morning and talk it over
again" l am given to understand
that a majority of the prayerful ex-
pressions used in the meeting were
those of Pratt and l don't think much
of his influence at the eternal throne,
but at any rate whoever did the pray
ing ,Breckons seems to have had a
bunch that a Sunday meeting was the
proper thing, for that meeting seems
to have nearly settled the proposition.
incidentally, l wish to call the atten-
tion of the police, or attorney general
Ut county attorney, whoever mas CnarBe
of our morals now to the fact that the
Sunday law was violated. 1t provides
that there shall be no work on the Sab
bath except, generally speaking, such
| as is necessary or is for charity. There
is nothing charitable about the Molo-
kan proposition and a Sunday meeting
was not necessary-and most certainly
| it must have been work
8 g & g
1 cannot but admire the courage OF
our Washington delegation in the mat
! ter of a press delegation. without, as
far as I can learn, having any real
knowledge of what a press dele
gate was supposed to do, the dele
cation decided that it didn't want any
The only expressions l have heard from
members of the delegation about the
duties of press man who might bf
with them, showed a notion that the
press representative was supposed tC
boom the delegation, If this is the
view of all of them, it is probably luck
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-13

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-13

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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-13
ALEXANDER ! BALDWIN, LTD
]. p. Cooke, Manager.
OFFICERS:

H. p. Baldwin. President
j. b. Castle. ...... First Vice-President
w. NJ. Alexander. Second Vice-President
L. Il. Peck. Third Vice-President
j. Waterhouse. ................Tre Treasurer
E. E. Paxton. Secretary
w. o. Smith Director
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-01-13

There seems to be a difficulty about
getting anyone to accept the circuit
judgship which it appears is about to
be vacated by Judge Robinson. Mem
bers of the Bar Association who join
ed i'm a unanimous endorsement of him
do not like the idea of taking his posi-
ton when it is withheld from the Judge
on such proposition as that on which
Carter has acted. But there are mem
bers of the bar and Of the association
which did not take part, and they are
available. Henry Hogan was not pre-
sent at the endorsement of Robinson,
and stands uncommitted. If he is
sensitive, there is L. NJ. Strauss and if
the latter also declines to step into the
position of third judge the Czarlike
powers of Carter are still able to meet
the difficulty. They can pardon Enoch
Johnson, order him readmitted to the
Bar and make him circuit Judge
3 = E ?
Harry Almy is certainly storing up
some trouble for himself in the w)rld
to come if he goes on treating his
chickens in the deceitful way that is
rel orted. He has a scheme for coax
Il
she lays her egg which promptly dis
appears through a trap door while an
electric connection blows three blasts
on the Electric Light Company's whis-
tie and an automatic rubber stamp
places the date hour and minute of the
event, together with the maiden name
of the hen on the egg; but these chaste
columns have already told about that.
The idea of this prying into the
family secrets of the hennery is brutal.
He simply seeks to find out which hens
lay and which do not.
you to the market" he remarks
with a scowl as he checks up the egg
producing record of this hen or that
and until a few days ago he would
ship them to the market at once
Now he has another scheme. He
has solved the problem of fattening
! hens by electricity.
'All that one requires is plenty of
electric light" he said to me you
| segregate the non-laying' hens and
place them so that their house is light
| proof Three hours after they have
/ fed and gone to st, you switch on the
| light The unreasoning birds jump to
the conclusion that the sun is up and
they fly down from their perches with
| intense appetities so that they eat an
other hearty meal Then you turn out
the light. You wait three hours and
then turn on the light again with the
same result. You would be astound-
ed to see how quickly the hens fatten
up this way. It a great thing, cleo
tricity."
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same time injecting a drop of fluid which produces the most extraordinary effects
 That part of the plant touched by the fluid IS forced into an abnormal growth. and rapidly incloses the eggs. On leaves about the same consistency as a goose berry: other leaf-galls are flat. like small coins. while others hang by strings cred with leaflike appendages that look like artichokes, while the, gall of the rose is clothed, as you see, with mass of long, soft filaments."
 "Oh, have often noticed those little growths on the leaves, but never knew what they were." said Lewis.
 Hereafter" said Aunt Julia, when know that they are the work of some kind of gal-liy. Were you to cut this lovely sponge of the sweetbriar open, you would find its hard. woody centre packed full of cells. which first contained
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CHARADE. \ First.

 Owen Meredith proves we may live without books, - Without friends. without hope. with out loves smallest particle: But the reader will say. when upon me he looks.
 That I'm quite indispensable ar ticle;
 For whatever a man. wants may hap pen to be, - In inc ho Is fitted at once to a T.
 Second. It seems Yankee notion, clear, Government must not interfere With liberty. and that its sphere Consent of governed folk determincs' But Webster passes by consent In saying I am "government. And that restraint" is my intent. He'd better tell that to the Germans
 Whole. You may underground, you may climb into trees, You may probe into pie. you may cut into cheese; You may dive in the wave. you may float in the air; You may gaze at the stars or the leg of chair: s... You may pry into vaults. into graves. into tombs, Into Murray Hill parlors or tenement But this fact 't@ould be well in your derby to pin: Wherever. you look. you will find me therein. Sir Urian. Answer: Therein.
 GA splendid example of hiding in plain sight-delightful to the reader and most difficult for the author."- NJ C. S)
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ACROSS THE vIADUcT

I tried to shout at him. but my mouth was so dry and parched that could not utter word. Doubtless he was thinking that this was one of the "larks" with which we had often teased him.
 The intervening space appeared to be rapidly decreasing. when sudden gust of wind met me. and l wobbled until thought l must go over. But once more I steadied myself and. with two- thirds of my journey completed. began to hope for success.
 There was near signal to be passed, and I wondered if the sup ports would keep me from riding safely under it. Fortunately. how ever, 1t was a high post, and so l hoped, by steering well inside, to be able to keep clear of the supports.
 But before l could certainly calcu- late the result l was there! The sig nal post appeared to flash by, felt a sharp pain in the top of my head Then with great shock everything seemed to leap forward to meet me, my wheel struck wildly against the side of the train dispatcher's tower. and l felt was failing. me tc last long. long time. but. as matter of fact. It couldn't have been more than few seconds, for. by the on the inside of the parapet to the track. while my poor machine pitched oyer the of the steep embankment.
 and, bounding up the stairway two steps, at time. was at his side at the
 'Up with trr signal! Stop the ex- tion the man Set the signal.
 An indignant whistle from the express
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The Gall-Fly and Its Wonderful Work

the tiny egg. then the plump larva. fol- lowed by the chrysalis. and at length Cynips rosae. Suppose we open this midges are still within"
 Upon dissecting 1t they found the long cells empty and each one with a hole gnawed through the shell. showing where the tiny sprites had maAe their escape into the bright world without.
 And now, children, to show you that even the gall-fiies have use. as every thing has, in n|ture. It was thousands of years before any one discovered that the gals on the oak could be of any service to man; then they found that within the gall lay tine principal element know. has played as important part in civilization as the press itself: some of these gals are also valuable for tan poses."--Jessie Bowles Fisher.
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Simp:e Additions.

Take a vowel which is also an ex:: clamation; prefix censonant ana make q verb; reverse the order or these two letters and place conso- nant between, making an adjective per, taining to time; prefix consonant ana ana make & verb meaning disposed or put the first letter last and prenx a consonant, making a verb that means ns .'contains"; rearrange the order or these letters and insert a vowel, max. ing an auxiliary verb: rearrange tne order of these letters and insert con, sonant, making compound Woiu meaning attacks by street roppeIs rearrange the order of these ie..sIs n and prefix a vowel. making male name;; Can you give the entire list or eigns words from the first (one-letter) woro to the last (eight-letter) word2
 Characters from Shakespeare. Have you read Lambs Tales from Shakespeare, boys and girls?
 See if you can unjumble the letters in the following and give nine char acters from Shakespeare's plays:
 l. Frai1 John Els Fast.
 2. Cora lied.
 8. Friend Dan. .~.#..: ".s-. {. Due, mister. 5. At helm. 6. Base saint.
 '. Mean dosed.
 8. Proposer.
 g. Aunt Philos.
 WORD SQUARES.
 Each word has four letters.
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A H UNIT JULIA" said Eva, who;
 with her brothers John ana ana a rambie in the country one bright June morning. what is this spongy ball on the stem of wild rose wnicn
 "Oh!" answered Aunt Julia. examin- ing 1t, "this is the work of a gall-fy;
 And what. pray. is gall-iy?' asked
 "D6ubtless you have seen. them many . time in your rambles in the country.
 replied Aunt Julia. but did not know can work by their magic touch! They are small flies, generally black in color, with translucent wings; but they are making wondrous creations spring up as though by the touch of a magic wand. The little sprite. upon mischief bent, pierces the leaf. twig or bark. inserting an egg or a number of eggs. and at the
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When you have an object-for ex- ample. this toy horse--which Is in a position forcing it to fall of its own weight. how Is 1t possible to prevent 1t from falling by ADDING MORE WEIGHT TO THE SIDE ON WHICH IT TENDS TO FALLl
 The picture shows the principle on which 1t Is done. Here Is Do5bin prancing on the board without falling the PORTRAIT of his body that keeps him perfectly balanced
 Notice, however, that the wire Is BENT. the weight Is further under the table than the horses feet are on 1t. This brings the total weight in
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Good Matching Game

TT ERE is an excellent game for I'll Halloween party:
 Prepare a card for each guest. cutting 1t in the shape of a bat, or owl. pin by. Number the boys cards and the girls cards in pairs to corresL -.lu. so that every boy will find a girl.
 Next, take familiar name me-couplets-for example, Romeo-Juliet. sJack-Jill-and make charades or rebuses out of them. For instance, to represent Romeo-Juliet. have a picture of Rome. a letter Q. a picture of Jew, the letters L I E T.
 Give each charade number corre- spending to that on the cards of the persons you apply the names to-and set the guests to work guessing the names from the charadeS.
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Conundruns.

COnunQI ukub. 1. When are old people like toasted bread?
 9. When are arguments like ladies' bathing costumes?
 8. Why are hens like day laborers? 4. What increases the more we press 5. Tn what way does an artist differ from cook?
 Similar, But Not the Same. See if you can find what the words in the following list are. They all sound alike, but do not look alike nor mean the same things:
 l. THREE WORDS. 1. The female of a certain animal. 2. A musical note. 8. Unbaked bread. -:.. +
 II. THREE WORDS. l. Lines. -.. 2 To lift. 8. To demolish- -
 III TWO WORDS. . | A certain animal. 2. Part of the head. ..: ". THREE WORDS. 1. Observes. :. 2. Bodies of water. 4.: = 3. To lay hold of. V. TWO WORDS. l. Comes from the eye.
 VI. TWO WORDS. l. Naked.
 | An animal.
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<<~SHIS is a horrid old hill; I'm
 nearly winded. Let's take

k<T(HIS is horrid old hill; I'm
 1t easy at the bridge and :. .., xvu wait It to ,s. see the e1prss'' if "An right. I'm feeling pretty tired myself. and we've heaps of time"
 Harry and I had been out on . homeward run. toiling up the steep hill that brings one finally into Pen sleigh. After our ride two sssng Sat en ws the hsa iay .snea |
 Harry steered across the road and ran his wheel alon side the bridge in dismounted. My bike runs awfuuS "Oh, yes, I notice it generally does when you are on the return spin." said Harry with meaning grin. so a1ort 'or tSs tS fling my oil bsn Ss as suddenly changed his manner and ex- Great Scott! What is that fellow up I looked over the coping of the Down on the track. about fifty yards away, was a man bending over the rails as if inspecting ,t the s siespers sI"a edly cast about him had raised Harry's suspicious, otherwise we might have supposed that he was one of the reg ular track walkers doing necessary repairs.
 As there had lately been many cases of attempted train wrecking men, tioned in the papers. Harry's fertile brain at once jumped to the conolu- sion that the man below was pre- pairing a similar outrage.
 TRAIN WRECKER OBSERVED
 "Well soon see what he's up to-" said, and gave a loud halloo.
 Looking up. and seeing us watching him from the bridge. the man sprang precipitately up the embankment and disappeared into the thick wood at the top.
 Harry's guess was right. No man would have fled from two schoolboys IT his conscience had been easy.
 Let's go down and see what he's been doing" l proposed. So, leaving our wheels on the bridge. we scrambled down to the track and soon reached a spot where the man had been at work.
 The mischief was plain enough. A
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Cracker Contest

TxTE BOUGHT quart of those w elephant crackers and emptied
 them into dish and pl ed the dish on table at one end held her watch one Of us took ! table knife and tried to see how many crack CTS we could manage to get on the knife without any help from our other hand, and then to see if we could carry the crackers on the knife all the way across the room and put them into an- other dish. and all within a minute by the watch. Each one was given one minute. and the one who succeeded in getting the most crackers into the dish across the room won the prize.
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CHGess moIfu Caefa Sue

HERE is Careless Molly,
 And there is Careful Sue; Look at the two ...
 Girls hair, l. Look at the clothes
 They wear How nice and kempt
 Miss Sue appears. But what a fright From toes to ears The other is; she says -. She thinks it's folly To be so prim and neat;
 She can't be jolly Like her brother Jim;
 But he'd be proud, ~" I think, and say,
 "My sister," out real loud, Not of Careless Molly,
 But of dear Miss Careful Sue.
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Bow and Arrow Stunt

TTAKE tub of water and set afioat
 in 1t a number of red. yellow and
 green apples. Let the guests take turns shooting with a bow and arrow into a red apple will have good health; yellow apple means plenty of money; green apple means good luck.
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found me scorching, literally fAs dear life. along the narrow ledge - only three feet wide. in fact: Then l ped should "wabble" less the faster l rode.
 When reached a point above the margin of the river l nearly lost my my head began to swim as the whole viaduct appeared to be rushing furi- ously along sideways. But with a great effort I succeeded Tn turning my eyes from the swirling waters be- low and fixing them on the further end of the viaduct, where I could see the train dispatcher's tower. and in one of its open windows Dick himself wildly gesticulating at me.
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Arkansas) and punctured my tire. so l visited my friend (lake in Switzer- land) and found her teaching Gown in North Carolina) and (city of Mon dress of pale green (city of Chinal crepe. and with her beautiful Getty of New York) hair looked very well. She had grown very fond of (capital of Guiana) and curry powder and greatly enjoyed (city in Ohio), but she did not believe (river in Canada) was any hotter on the gridiron than she was in that country. She invited me to join her fishing party. and said RhA had haE aWn lSivAx in -EEanca1. and
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thick iron bar had been poiseo s!. 70 sns rails in order to throw the e1press' which was just about due. .s
 on looking saursi little hsa s1c'1,y ioyossned S % tho rivet. rnrs .as and knocked out wedge. 90 that inc express. when 1t reached the spot. would tear up the entire length or two rails. with an inevitable result that was
 Vv What " could we do. and how much
 1s "ft.s siS the up-line.' said Harry. p1,lins out his watch sa ,snrsnsd ana So1It to nave. The express % is due here in ten minutes by my time"
 HOW. TO SAVE THE TRAIN
 He stood for a moment in silent thought. while I waited anxiously for his decision, knowing he could calculate much more rapidly than I.
 "Yes-it is the only way" he finally muttered. Come along. Fred! we back along the line to the viaduct- On the othen-side Is a dispatcher's tower picks the dispatcher. you know. We must try to reach there in time to stop the express"
 In all haste we fetched our wheels down the steep embankment. and plac- ing them on a narrow workmen's path way that paTdueleQ luo tIdSh "o PSu- aled back at full speed down the line.
 In a few minutes we came in sight Of the viaduct. Here a grave difficulty be- set us, the way being so narrow that the sleepers stretched clear across from side to side. We couldn't ride our wheels over such obstacles.
 '.We shall have to get on and run. Harry. I shouted back. for I was
 AZ the same time the distant whistle of the approaching express warned us that we should not have enough time 10 run across the long viaduct before the train had passed the dispatcher's tower. "uniess," he added. unless one of us rides along the parapet of the via- duct-but 1t can't be done"
 was ahead and riding at full speed but don't think I should have had the courage to attempt the wild feat if it had not been for the long, shrill second whistle which announced the closer approach of the express Then the thought of all those pas sengers unconscieusly. rushing to their doom nerved me for the task.
 Driving my wheel up a slight incline that fortunately led right down to the parapet, I headed her straight for the viaduct. and the next instant
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Candles for Months

n LACE twelve lighted candles on
 the floor at intervals of two or
 three feet and name them for the twelve months. Let each person in turn jump over the candles, one at a time- If any candle goes out that will be the month the persons wedding will CO., cur.
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With the Suns Rays as a Brush.

Little Mary, aged three. saw some green grapes. Having seen the vines . month later. she ran into the ho-ss
 Mother. somebody has painted the grapes blue."
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CUNNING SAYINGS
A Placer Claim.

T wonder what makes the water look so yellow?" asked mamma the other day as she looked at globe Of gold fish.
 Why des the gold must be tomin' of the fishes." replied little Mabel.
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Beware of Water.

Little Roy found that when he left his knife and steel or iron toy out In thS rain, they rusted. o,,.
 One afternoon his mother was out shopping and some one said It was so' ing to rain. Roy said: .
 II don't want my na4--aA to got "sS for 1t will make her rust.
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History ruzzi .

William came over the sea in 106o, landed on the south coast of England. then overthrow Harold and became king.
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Acrostic.
Halloween.
Can You Do This?

also do 3 and @. and 4s. and 50 on.
 You readily see. then. that there must be twenty-five Sis all told. Twenty-Five times G equals 1275. which is exactly
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etc., through to 50. if added up. would amount to.
 How Much 70 You Know? 1. Charles was beheaded.
 2. James II was dethroned by William and Mary.
 3. Victoria reigned durlng Boer war. 4. Henry VIII established the Church of England. ,,, .. 6. George III reigned during Amert- can Revolution.
 2. Henry VII sent out Cabot Expedi- ton.
 g. Edward III reigned during Battle of Crecy.
 g. Elizabeth beheaded Mary Queen of Scots.
 10. John granted Magma Charta. IL Anne reigned during War Span- iSh Succession.
 F. Richard I went in Third Crusade. B. Richard III was killed at Bos- worth Field. IL George II reigned during War Austrian Succession.
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Lacked the One Essential.

One day my little brother told manhaA ma thai his foot hurt She told him hls foot was asleep. He thought about 1t a little while and then said: .,.,.
 How can my foot go to sleep. "i'n' out any eyesT'