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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-14

Beneath the historic golden bell be-
Meath which Father and Mother Alex
auder stood at their golden wedding
celebration Miss Charlotte Baldwin
and Mr. Harold Rice took their places
last Saturday evening. and were join
ed i'm the holy bonds of matrimony mn
the presence of large number of the
relatives of the popular young people
gathered at the beautiful home of Hon.
n. p. Baldwin. at old Puueuo, Maui.
The wedding was one of the most
important social events that ever took
place ou Maui on I'm fact i'm the Ter
irory from the prominence of the
families of the young couple whose
hearts We're joined. the Baldwins Of
Maui and he Bices of Kauai. repre-
seuHng not only the oldest. but as
we'll the weaIthiest families of the Ter
rttOry
The magnificent BALDWIN home had
been exQuisitely and layishly prepared
for the occasion with a forest of flow
ers. and plants. and myriads of cleo
tric lights and Japanese lanterns
which extended as well to the spacious
grounds A temporary lanai had been
added to the house for the events, on
which hundreds of guests who attend
ed the reception held half an hour al
/ ter the ceremony We're seated to a
/ sumpDuous banquet.
! The wedding ceremony took place
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. Dunno, and child,
left on the China yesterday for the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-14

Mr. and Mrs. w. II. Rice, and Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Rice, of Kauai were
in the city this week on their way
home from attending the Rice-Baldwin
wedding on Kauai last Saturday.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-14

Dr Edwin Rich and Mrs. Rich were
through passengers for Manila on
board the transport Thomas. The
Rich's made many friends here when
the doctor was stationed at Camp Nc
Kinley four years ago From here
they went to Manila, then back to the
Coast and now are outward bound
again. While the transport was in
port they were guests at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs Riggs on Lunalilo street.
9 = =
Miss Marion Chaplin has invitations
out for a large party to be given at
her parents home on the corner of
Hastings and Anapuni streets this ev-
pniug
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. August Dreier Of Ho-
nolulu arrived yesterday at the Jeffer-
,.,v, Tlr,y,io1a naa
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-14

ANOTHER SUGAR PLANTER.
J. II. Rowland, a sugar planter OF
Honolulu, is at the Grand Central
Call Nov. %.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-14

George B. Henderson and Mrs Hen
lerson left on Tuesday for Honolulu
where they will make their future
home. Mr.. Henderson has secured en-
ployment with the Pacific Oil & Dis
.ributing Company.-Maui News.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07
lie LOST HIS SAVINGS
Drew 1t Out Of The Bank And Thief
Carried 1t Off.

Unable to distinguish between con-
ditions in Wall street and in oska-
loosa, and thinking that cash in his
pocket was safer than in bank, AL
Hart, an employee of the Oskaloosa
Paving Brick Co, went to the bank
where he had an account yesterday
and drew out the thirty-one dollars
which he had on deposit. He ap-
preached the teller at the bank and
told him he wanted to use his savings.
and, contrary TO his expectations, the
cash was counted out to him in bills
OF five and ten dollar denominations.
With a mistaken idea of security
Hart returned smiling to his work.
He placed the bills in the bank book
and, putting them inside his inner coat
pocket, hung the coat in the en-
ployes' room. When he returned from
work in the evening,he felt inside his
coat pocket and to his surprise, in
stead of wad Of crisp five and ten
dollar bills, he found only one dollar
bin that the thief had overlooked
The pick-pocket is not known, and
Hart is the loser of his savings II
he had left his money in the bank, it
would have been safe now in place of
missing.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07

millinery section of the Frankel Dry
Goods Co., is in Chicago on goods
buying trip for her department
Cecil Dixon has gone on the road
again, having made a contract with
the mo One to Guide Her" company
which played in this city q few days
ago.
Mrs. Harry S. Moore and daughter
Helene left last evening for Abba,
wher they will make their home. Her
mother, Mrs. Thomas r. Williams, &C.
companied them.
A. Ribbe has accepted a position in
the tailoring department of a Daven.
port clothing firm. Fred Ribbe, son,
has also accepted position with
jewelry house of that place.
Misses Hazel Cook and jamie Kessler
and Messrs. Ralph Else and Earl Witt
were guests in Wright last evening at
a house party given by Amos Lindsey
at his home in that town. DR.. C. c.
Baldwin and Joseph Hoskins were also
among the guests. The evening was
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07
LIST OF LETTERS.

Remaining uncalled for in the post
Office at Oskaloosa, Iowa, for the
week ending November 2, 1907.
Gents List.
Braehly, Patrick Richie, o P
Clure, Harry Rogers, ID NJ
Henry, Mr. Wildeman, ]
Wassen, o
Ladies' List.
Caldwell, Mrs Root, E Mrs
Good, j ID Mrs Shuls, FlorenceMr5
Sarvis, Rosa Mrs
Parties calling for letters from this
list viii please call attention to adver-
tised list.of this date. The above let.
ters win be held two weeks from date
and then sent to the dead letter office.
CHAs. V. HoVFMANE, P. n.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07
GROWING ALFALFA.
Man Near Fremont Satisfied With His
Experiment.

Fremont Gazette: ]. H. Warner, who
lives southwest of town, was in FIRE.
mont Thursday and exhibited a few
stalks of alfalfa which he had grown.
He set apart two acres of ground in
the spring on which he expected to
experiment this season with alfalfa and
worked the same during the spring and
summer and had the ground free from
weeds and in splendid condition when
the seed was sown in the early part
of August. He secured a splendid
stand which at this time averages a
foot in height and Mr.. Warner thinks
it will stand the winters of this eli
mate as well as clover. He feels that
the experiment is worth his while and
if it proves out as he expects there
will be much alfalfa grown here in
the future as it is a splendid feed for
stock.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07

exceedingly pleasant and elegant re.
freshments were served.
Chas. H. Duboc, of Chicago, was an
over Sunday visitor at his home in this
city
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Branson went
to Searsboro Sunday to attend the
, funeral of the late Mr.. Cope
A. A. Munden was a passenger this
morning via the Rock Island for Pan
handle; Texas, on a land-seeking trip.
Miss zenia Thomas, of Hayesville,
Iowa, is in the city spending her vaca-
tion at the parental j. A. Thomas
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph O'Hara depart
ed this morning for Eddyville to spend
the day with Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Ep-
person.
Rev. S. H. Zendt departed this morn
ing for Des Monies to attend the meet
ing of the State Missionary Board of
the Christian church.
| Mrs. Port L. Mix and daughters,
Eleanor and Dorothy returned this
morning to their home at Danville Ia,
after few days visit with the lady's
sister, Mrs. C. B. Stull.
George Gordon departed this morn
ing for Buxton where he will install
the w. d. Dunsmore Electric Shot Fir.
ing apparatus in the three big mines
of the Consolidation Coal Co.
Thomas White. who recently dispos-
ed of his interests in the EAST End"
grocery, has returned from Denver
with his wife and baby Wilmer to be
resident of this city again. The
young man will re-engage in business
here. He went west with the inten-
ton of escaping the rheumatism, but
finds that after all. Oskaloosa is the
best place he knows about.
In reference to Walter Chew,a young
man of this city who has lately moved
to Hurley, Okla, where he has accept
ed position in the Hurley Mercantile
Co., the Leader of that city remarks:
"A gentleman called at the store of
the Hurley Mercantile Co. and asked
Mr.. Chew, the clerk, what they had
in the shape of bananas. Mr.. Chew
studied moment then said: We have
cucumbers,'
James Peacock, who has been en-
gagged as general yard master at Rapid
City, North Dakota, has returned to
make his home in Oskaloosa and viii
re-enter the Iowa Central train service.
This will be welcome news to host
of friends in this city. Additional
changes are rumored on the Central
II is stated that Charles Mason win
take the oskaloosa and Centeryille run
and that Owen Murphy, now of Mar
shalltown, comes to this city to have
the run on Nos. Is and IS.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07
Hlbbs is Exonerated.

Prof ". j. Hibbs, who was arrested
for assault and battery in the I.oyilia
schools because ne gave the boy q
punishment for shooting craps on the
school house grounds, was completely
exonerated in the court Of Squire Null
len at Loyilia last Saturday.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07
Notice TO PUBLIC.

On and after Nov /. 1907, all special
night rates for toll service will be dis
continued, making night rate same as
the day rate.
Oska. Home Telephone Co
dl-w1 Iowa Telephone Co.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07

Crossing aprons are needed at sew
eral places on the paved inter-sec-
tons and the matter should receive
attention from the proper department
of the city administration.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-07

Samuel McCosh. of Cedar Rapids, has
been appointed meat inspector In con-
nectiou with the bureau of animal In
dustry.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
Mr. m @nAv Rlxu kRzH

the Orinoco River through the east coast Of
Hayti, Charleston, S. G. and Detroit, Mich,
represents very nearly the line in which
there is no variation at the present time.
In all places east of this line the north end
of the needle swings slightly to the west
ward; in all places west of it to the east
ward At the mouth of the Columbia River
the variation of the compass is about % de-
grees east; in Alaska it is from 40 to 60 de-
grees east; midway between New York and
Liverpool it is about 80 degrees west.
2 Of course there is reason for this varia-
tion, and the explanation is that the needle
does not point to the North Pole, as so many
people suppose, bue to the magnetic pole.
which is something entirely different
The magnetic north pole is at present on
or near, the northwestern shore of Boothia
Peninsula, in the northern part of North
America. Its position is constantly chang
ing, and in the last six hundred years it has
moved about half the distance round the
geographical pole.
During a period of three hundred years, in
which observations have been carefully made
at the Magnetic observatory in Paris, the
variations have changed from IL degrees 20
minutes east of north to % degrees 10 min
utes west.
In the United States the rate of the change
in variation differs much in different parts of
the country. In Washington State it changes
at the rate Of about z minutes a year; in
Arizona and New Mexico it is stationary; in
the New England States it is from to 3
minutes per year.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

The fish are often for two or three hours in
the net, and, during this interval, the eels at
tack them, and are often hauled into tire boat
with the shad.
Few people, fishing with the line, for amuse'
ment, care to catch eels, they almost always
swallow the hook and bait, tangle the line and
cover everything with their slime.
A curious superstition still exists among
water-side people to the effect that the skin
of the eel will prevent cramp in swimmer,
if worn about the ankles.
In the last century, and even into this one,
almost all sailors wore their hair in thick cues,
or "pig-tails," and large eel-skn was a fa-
vorite cover or sheath for this appendage. The
soft, but it must have given an ancient and
fishlike SMELL
Eels are found in quantities in remote noun
tain streams, and yet, so far as we know, all
of them are born in the sea, or, at least, in
salt water.
Eels do not breed in the fresh-water streams
They are born alive, and not Matched from
eggs, as most fish are, and go up the rivers in
millions almost as soon as they are born
Think what number of the little silver
threads there must be, when SO many escape
their ravenous enemies and reach the upper
streams!
They go up to the very spring-heads, indeed
and often keep on from there, if they find wet
grass. Who can tell why this instinct is i'm.
planted?
Most of those which go up the rivers and
| their branches never return to the sea-. As
they do not breed in fresh water, this is an
other puzzle.
Eels grow very slowly. Doctor Abbott a
careful American naturalist, says that they dc
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

sea-eel of the East Indies Our conger is
often five or six feet long and as thick as a
mans leg. Such an eel as that creates a great
commotion when hauled into a fishing skiH
where there is not much room.
Eels command high price in most markets,
and consequently are caught by a variety of
methods. Bobbing is done at night, when. cells
are most active, and is effected by stringing
worms, by means of needle and thread, SO
as to make great loops or punches, at the
end of pole or line. The eels attack the
worms, and their teeth becoming entangled in
the thread, they are jerked into boat before
they can get away.
Eel-pots are used extensively. Usually a
barrel is taken, haited with fish-heads or
other offal, and sunk by weight of stones.
or even yarn stocking with the feet cut
off, and nailed to- the entrance by the upper
part. The greedy eels go in, and then can
not get out. Hundreds are often caught in
one pot in a single night. % -
| Eels are speared, especially on the mud
flats of thes New Jersey and Long Island
coasts, by day and by night. In the autumn,
when the eels go into the mud, the fisherman
wades along at low tide, and when he sees
a little breathing hole in the mud, thrusts
down his many tined spear and generally
draws forth his wriggling prey.
| In summer, they go over the same flats
at night, with a torch over the bow of a
skiff, and spear the eels upon the bottom
| These seem to be attracted and confused
by the light.
A number of boats, thus employed, form
very strange and pretty sight on summer
night. .
The gll-net fishermen for shad hate the eels
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

Importance, TOOK care not TO contrduict the
general belief.
Nowadays, we know quite well enough
that all feats of legerdemain, however won
derful they may appear, are quite natural, If
we only knew how they were done.
One of the puzzling tricks performed by
so-called pubais mind-readers, or clairvoy
ants, is an extremely simple deception. The
performer standing on the stage, asks sever
al persons in the audience to write each a
sentence on a slip of paper and seal it in an
envelope.
OF course the stationery is furnished and
afterward collected. One of the audience is
a confederate, and writes sentence agreed
upon beforehand. When the assistant goes
through the house gathering up the envel-
opes, the confederate's contribution is care
fully put where it will be the last one of the
lot to be taken up.
The performer picks out an envelope, and,
after feeling of it, with much ceremony pro-
nounces the sentence agreed upon, and the
confederate in the audience acknowledges
that he wrote it.
To confirm this, the performer tears open
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

not double their weight in two years, no mat
ter how we'll fed. Let us think, then, of the
time it takes to grow to weigh five pounds
from few grains; and five pounds is not an
uncommon weight for eels in mill-ponds and
such places
There is no doubt whatever that eels can
make quite long overland journeys, and that
at night they often leave the water to eat
offal on the shore. The observer quoted has
seen this very recently. He noticed that at
place on the shore of a creek where refuse
portions of fish had been left, at least twenty
feet from the water, there were serpent1ne
lines in the sand, leading from the decaying
mass to the water.
With the eye of naturalist he saw that
they were not the tracks of any mammal, or
batrachian, or insect. No muscle or snail
made such path, and snakes generally glide
their passage.
Feeling certain that whatever made the
tracks come at night, he went there after
dark and found about dozen small eels, feed
ing upon the decaying fishheads and entralls.
It is probably owing to this habit of eels,
in leaving the water if attracted by decaying
animal matter, that minks, cats-wild and
tame-and other animals WHICH are. fond OF
fish, so often get a good catch by night prowl-
ing; and the heads of eels, found far from the
water, cause many people to suppose that the
minks and cats fish them out from their ma
tive element and carry them away to eat them.
No doubt this sometimes happens.
In South America the great animals, of the
cat kind, have often been observed to lie upon
tree-trunk which overhung river closely,
and thence jerk out and land, with their sharp
talons, unwary fish of very large size.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

IL uSeQ TO De cOnSQereQ 1nQlSDenSa-
BILE in war, the sound being inspiring to the
combatants. When the British troops came to
America to quell the Rebellion of the Colo
nists they brought drums with them, which
some local poet describes thus:
'"They have got little barrels,
The heads be kivered with leather;
They beats upon 'em wi little clubs,
To call their folks together"
Since that time the English drum-beaters
have attained such precision in their art that
it is stated that if all the drummers in the
British army were collected together, they
would go through with all the beats in use
there are fifteen principal ones) in perfect
time
The Laplanders venerate their sacred drums.
These are followed from piece of pine or
birch trunk, and covered at one end. por-
ton of the wood on the under side is left for
a handle
The ancient Romans used hand drums in
their religious dances, and more than. thou
sand years ago other nations used them to
give signals in war.
In Asia, immense kettle drums are carried
across the backs of camels in the trains of all
crowned heads The drums are adorned with
gorgeous trappings, and seat is prepared
for the player upon the camel's back
The musicians of Hindostan play very dex-
terously on very small pair of kettle drums,
called toublabs, which are fastened before
them by lengths of cloth wound several times
around the body. They are beaten with the
fingers. Single drums, beaten with two sticks
of hard wood are sometimes used to frighten
away tigers.
Drums used in Hindoo religious professions
are called doles. They are made of baked
earth, and sometimes yard long, and twice
as large at the centre as at either end. Ket-
tie drums are thin copper basins or bowls,
covered with parchment or calf-skin, which is
held in place by an iron hoop.
The drum seems to be falling into disrepute
in our army. There was a time when the
''calls' tattoo, reveille taps. etc-but of late
years the bugle has been substituted, and is
now used in all branches of the service.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
Copyright by James Elyerson

r. 1VER since the time of the cruel Ro-
man Emperor who fatted the cells
- in his tanks upon the bodies of his
h&Hn6&l slaves, some people have had a
prejudice against those fish, calling
them snakes in disguise But eels
are true fish, and breathe by gills; but the
openings leading to the gills are very different
IN different species, and would take too much
space to describe here. They have scales,
too; but these are very minute, and only dis
coverable when the skin is dried
Excellent and nutritious, when they have
clean food, it must be confessed the eels are
unclean feeders, if they have the chance, and
those caught about city wharves are the
worst. -
fiiny gives most curious details in regard
to the artificial ponds in which the ancient
Romans kept the lamprey eels of which they
were SO fond. Lucullus had pond containing
so many that at his death the fish they con
tanned sold for what would be equivalent to
two hundred thousand dollars of our money
favorlte lampreys were kept as pets, coming
at call to be fed, and adorned with jeweled
rings. =
In the Middle Ages, and afterward, these
eels were kept in ponds and tanks by the
monks and mobiles, and used at great feasts
cur1ousy stewed with all sorts of condiments
Henry l Of England died of surfeit of eels
the meat being very rich and difficult of diges
tion for many people.
vi all the eels, the sea-conger is the largest
and most formidable, except perhaps the great
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
@Gh An6anu0Ne' Ticks

the envelope, and repeats the sentence as
though he found it ON the inclosed paper.
which is in reality another mans sentence,
which he reads, and then, picking up an
other envelope and fumbling it over he calls
out the sentence he has just read.
The one who wrote it says it is right, the
performer tears open the envelope, reads
what is in it, and proceeds in that way
through the lot.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

were common water turtles, each
about the size of mans hand, and they were
arrayed against small but exceedingly vicious
snapper, hardly half the size of one of its
opponents.
When the boys arrived on the scene of ac-
ton, the battle had evidently been raging for
some time, for all the reptiles seemed to be
pretty tired. One member of the dual ALI
.ance occupied = mesterly position 1t was
holding the snapperE tail in its mouth, and
though the jaws Of the common turtle are not
usually very formidable, it maintained its
grip with the tenacity of a bulldog.
The snapper had taken the other turtle by
it's wrinkled throat, and it would soon have
brought that part of the combat to an end
had it not opened its jaws every few moments
to try to see what it was that was-chewing so
vigorously at its rear.
Owing to its anatomy, this was of course,
impossible, and each time it turned to renew
operations against the enemy in front, that
cautious creature had drawn its head deep
into the SHE'LL and though it did not attempt
to run away, the snapper, hampered as it was
behind: :-found considerable difficulty In push
inq its own smaller neck into the aperture
and dragging out the reluctant forequarters
of the water turtle.
At last the snapper seemed to understand
where the remedy for ts.trouble lay, and the
next time it seized the lacerated throat it
took hold to stay. The water turtles eyes
hulped, and then the lids slowly closed. 1t
was soon dead, and then the snapper brought
its whole strength to bear upon its tail, which
is tried to pull into its shell.
1t might have succeeded, but the lads were
becoming impatient, and they killed the two
survivors with their sticks. Throughout the
battle the turtles had not noticed their pres
ence.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
Copyright by James Elverson

Copyright by James Elverson
ancient times the sleight-of-hand
performers were popularity regarded
with awe, as beings who were gifted
with supernatural powers; and the
performers, to enhance their own
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
A Turtle Var

ONE boys who were gathering water
crosses in pool beside the Passaic
River, in New Jersey, recently wit
messed singular battle among three
turtles. Two of the combatants
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
The Noisy Drum

HE drum is one of the most ancient
OF musical instruments it can be
called a musical instrument, which
some people will deny. All savage
nations use drums of some kind, and
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05

-------- :
1t has two poles of greatest intensity, and,
like most large steel magnets, there are
several supplemental poles of lesser intensi-
ty. just as the pole of one bar magnet at
poles of the earth behave toward poles of
the compass-needle, unlike poles attracting,
and like poles repelling each other.
But it is not correct to say that~the needle
always points north; as a matter of fact
there are but few localities on. the earth where
it does so, and even those are constantly
changing.
An irregular line drawn from the mouth of
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-05
Copyright by James Elverson

HE compass-needle points north be-
cause practically the earth is a
magnet, not differing essentially in
its magnetic properties from bar
of magnetized Steel says American