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three, He said that articles had been
stolen from his house by the two
women. who had pawncd them Miss
Dean told the court that She took the
articles and give them to Mrs, Cam;
pion, with whom she had formerly
gone to school, She said she did II
to keep the Campions from starving
Campion will i'll and out Of work and
his family was suffering for food
when Miss Dean discovered them,
She had no money, but stole from
her employers house TO provide her
friend and the babies with food, Mrs,
Campion at first denied the story
absolutely, saying that they always
had plenty to eat. but when the po.
lice officers told Of several visits to
the house and OF the little ones cry
ing for food, and with nothing to eat
in the house but single onion, she
dropped down and admitted that the
family would have starved but for
Miss Deans thefts, Qucenan, on
hearing the story. Immediately with
drew the charge and contributed TO
the fund raised in the court room for
the family, Campion will have his
choice Of jobs this morning from
spectators in the court room.
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PILES CURED IN 6 TO IA DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed
to cure any case of Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding Piles IN 6 to
IA days or money refunded. Soc.
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STOLE FOR FRIEND.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1o.-Jos. Cam
pion and his 18-year-old wife, the
latter with baby in her arms and
another child clinging to her skirts
came into police court yesterday to
answer a charge of stealing. With
them was Mildred Dean, 10 years old,
housekeeper for Thomas Queenan,
who was the complainant against the
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DANTE'S HUMOR.
II Is Of the Wholly Unconscious Kind
and Woefully Grim.

II Is Of the Wholly Unconscious Kind
and WoefuIIy Grim.
The humorous side OF Dante is ana
Iyzed In the Westminster Review by
George Trobridge, who Is great ad-
mirer Of the famous poet and who has
In previous writings expressed his ap.
probation Of Dante as nature poet
and as a novelist.
Although Dante's great poem Is n
comedy" In the sense Of being n
drama working to happy ending, we
do not look for ridiculous situations In
II, such as we usually associate with
the idea of comedy. Ridiculous sltua.
tions occur nevertheless, and there Is
no lack of humor even In the poets de.
scription Of the sufferings of the lost
Dante's humor, however, Is OF the un.
conscious kind. arising from q total
lack of perception Of the ludicrous. 1t
Is said that he was never seen to smile
and we can quite believe 1t, since he
never forsakes sober seriousness In his
writings, and 1t Is his deadly earnest
ness that betrays him into occasional
comicality.
The sinners In hell the poet tells us.
are relegated to their proper quarters
on the Judgment Of Mlnos, who indi,
Gates the particular circle to which the
culprit Is consigned by wrapping his
tail so many times around his bestial
body. Fancy the trembling sinner
waiting to count the coils that he may
know his fate
1t ia a horrible punishment which is
assigned to those guilty Of simony, to
be buried head downward in a circular
pit, with only the legs and feet pro-
truding, while Pickering flames glide
over the soles Of the latter, lnalctlng
exquisite torture, yet our sense Of hu-
NOR is provoked by the description Of
Dante standing over one Of these holes
and holding a conversation with Its oc-
cupAnt, reversed, and as d stake
driven in the SOIL" while numberess
legs wriggle in continual motion
around him.
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NEW YORK, Feb. l9.-On the
eighteen million schools children in
this country final hope OF averting
the extinction Of the valuable species
Of insectiverous birds in America has
been rested to-day. What the fed
eral government, the state legisla-
lures and even the oranges, women's
clubs or national commercial organ
izations have failed to accomplish
completely, the National Association
Of Audubon Societies have announced
will be given to the children of the
land to bring about. To organize
every body OF pupils, form the largest
public schools in this city to the most
remote district school n the Pacific
Coast, into general movement for
housing, feeding and protecting the
wild birds that save the country's
crops is the object of the Audubon
workers to-day.
General headquarters for this new
campaign of the children are being
established in the offices OF the Ma
tional Association of Audubon Soci-
cites at l4l Broadway to-day. Al
ready the organization is in touch
with thousands OF teachers and girls
and boys clubs all over the country,
to which it has regularly sent litera-
ture on bird guarding and care.
With these as nucleus, the children
/. are to push the fight out into every
section OF the locality, till the mem
bers Of each school in every neigh
borhood are enlisted in the work of
building bird houses and restaurants
to sustain the sadly thinned ranks OF
the feathered army of insect destroy
ers. Special ammunition in the form
of printed directions and suggestions
for making bird shelters and lunch
counters is being prepared for every
boy and girl who will write and ask
for il.
Old kettles, boxes or milk, tomato
and kerosene cans are being used by
the children as emergency bird shell
tiers. Elaborate houses, rustic imita.
tions Of hollow limbs and neatly furn,
ished apartments are also being plan
ned. All must be made cat-proof and
should face to the south or west il
possible. Like any human married
couple, the feathered pair who are
seeking quarters for rearing theii
family in the spring are quite particu
lar in their tastes. If they find nc
promising spot for a home in any To-
cality, they will pass on and leave it:
fields and gardens at the mercy o.
destructive insects. The children are
urged to the immediate building ot
houses for this seasons bird families
because seasoned and weather -beater
structures most quickly tempt the
birds when spring moving day comes
The march of civilization has rob,
bed millions of useful, as we'll as
slightly and tuneful, birds of their old.
time facilities for home making
ornithologists here declare today
Sheltering tree trunks are being lait
low every year over hundreds Of
acres. The old-fashioned structures
where birds might flock under oper
caves, are being replaced by modern
droofs that shut out bird life. Whole
races, like the Chimney Swifts, are be-
ing deprived Of their shelter in the
big, old-style chimneys. Such condi-
tionse combined with lax laws, for
spring shooting and pot-hunting, will
soon drive the valuable insect-eaters
10 extinction, it is agreed. 1t will be
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HALE,S FAITH UNsHAKEN.

WASHINGTON, Feb. l9. = The
speech Of Senator Johnson, OF Ala
bama, on the Aldrich currency bill
and the statement by Hale, chairman
of the committee on naval affairs on
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the proposed investigation Of charges
Of defects in the construction OF bat
tlcships, were the chief subjects Of in
terest before the Senate today. Hale
expressed his belief in the efficiency
Of the battleships.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Brick and Terra Gotta Tests 10
be Made.
WILL BUILD KILN At ONCE

Chamber Of Commerce Appropriate
a Sum Not to Exceed $4,000 For
the Tests Sample Of all Kinds Of
Clay Wanted.
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NEED CHILD HELP
School Children Are Enlisted to
Save the Birds.
AUDUBON soCIETY,s APPEAL

70 Organize Every Body Of Pupils
Into General Movement for Hous-
ing, Feeding and Protecting Wild
Birds That Save country's Crops.
Middletown transcript., 1908-11-07
BANKING BY MAIL

Persons living at q distance wh0 wish
TO avail themselves Of our unexcelIed
banking facilities and obtain interest on
their deposits, can do 30 BY pur chasing
attic nearest post Office, money orders
payable to eur order for the amounts
10 be deposited, and forwarding these
orders 10 us by mail; or they may send
Us checks or draits,payablete our order.
Allsuch reniittances will be promptly
acknowledged.
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SALES AGENTS WANTrD

$86 90 per week Oh. 400 per cent, profit.
All samples, stationary and art catalogue
free. We want one permanent agent in
this locality for the largest picture and
frame, house in America. Experience IN.
necessary. We instruct you bow to sell
our goods and furnish the capital. II
you want permanent, honorable and
profitable position, write Us today for pc--
ticutars, catalogue and satApIss.S Fsi
FRANK w. WILLIAMS Co.,
1914 W. Taylor St..
Chicago, I'll.
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-
Rsst veins 81
HARD And SOFT COAL
Constitutional Am endment!

An Act Proposing an Amendment 10
Seet;on Is Of Article 2 of the Constitution
Of the State of EeIaWaFe, TelaSing ii III
Compensation Of the Meu1bess and ?fSl
siding Officers of the General Assem- bl4Ts
Be it enacted by the Senate and EIdu-e
of Representatives of the State bf peia-
ware in General Assembly met; ftwb:
thirds of sill the members elected toteafl
House agfeefngl" |" 80 = s'~9 " '"sh
SEeT4oN ]. That the following smeati.
ment be and the same is hereby proposed
to Section is Of Article Q OF the Cuneti,u.
ton OF Delaware;
That the word "hve" be stricken ont IF
the third line of said Section Is Articl .
of the Constitution, and the word tea"
be inserted in lieu thereof, and the w'.ri
''six" be stricken out of the fourth line. ii
Section 15, Article 2 of the ConstilpIi'p,
and the word ftWelveI' he inaastsl j..
leu theTeokii ii-'.stsi 4. i ,Firt III
RICHARD HoI csu9,
Speaker of the Hobs
Isaac T. 'PAResR, :.
President OF the S-gs;e
!. Joseph l.. 6ahaH, Secretary Of s:lA,e
OF the State of Delaware, do hereGa ttr.
tify that the above and foregoing Is st,ue
and correct copy of House Bill NJ 8 2,
entitled "An Act Proposing an Anie,.d-
ment to Section Is of Article of the Con-
stitution of the State OF Delaware, rriatirg
to the Compensation of the Members s,Ji
Presiding Officers of the General Assem-
bly," as the same appears on the snrpi.. ;
bill filed in tie Office o ths srs.s .sggIY,ii.
State, which said bill proposing shtb
amendment to the Constitution III this
State is published In accordance Nith tie
requirements of the Constitution Of tie
state.
In testimony whereof, have
hereunto set my hand and ffirss
seal, at Dover, this twenty ii,h
[sEAL1 day OF July, in the year If pr
Lord one thousand nine lu,idrtl
and eighth : aiti iis.:::ilid d.
Jos. L. CAHALi.
Secretary of State.
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6he carriage as tney uIoso on
the station.
Done what2 asked Eva. j
Married me, said BERTHE.
You suggested it, said Eva.
Who was the fellow who said q
lot of foolish things and never dld
a wise one?
Whoever he was, he probably
held his tongue for the frst nall
hour Of his honeymoon.
Contrariwise, said BERTHE, It
was Just then that he said more
foolish things than ever.
I almost think papa was rignt,
said Eva.
When and how?
In saying you were lucky to
have got me.
But he said next moment tnat
he hoped you were lucky 10 seV
me.
Only hoped. said Eva.
It was rather cold water
speech, Bertie admitted, but we
must allow for difficulties. l
never met a man who said the
proper thing to a bride and
bridegroom without writing 1t
out beforehand.
But I think papa did it very
nicely.
Still, he needn't have said
'hoped.
Perhaps he didn't mean it.
That's no reason for saying it.
I don't think we need quarrel
about papa SO soon.
I don't see any necessity Tor
quarreling about anything yet,
he replied. Let us talk OF pleas
ant things.
For little time they talked OF
nothing, as is usual so soon after
the ceremony.
Rather a pretty wedding, l
thought, murmured BERTHE. But
I could not help wondering what
I looked like from behind as I was
kneeling down.
Is that all you were thinking
of? she asked with d touch OF
scorn.
Oh, no; there were heaps OF
other things-heaps! The ring,
for instance, and the uncertain
ties of human destiny, coupled
with the irony fate and the neces-
sity of saying L do at the right
place, and the badness of the
Bishops boots, and
Did you ever, by any accident,
think of me?
All the time, darling.
And again for few minutes
there was peace and love.
Eva broke the silence. / wish
you were not quite so couceited,
dear.
Is that quite fair? You know |
have always admitted everything
you have said about my nose.
My affectation of conceit is but a
cloak to my rank humility.
And a very good one, too, said
Eva, most unnaturally anxious,
considering the time and place,
to score cheap scores.
Very we'll, said BeFtie' very
well. If ones own wife
The expression was so mover
and delightful that they Joined in
emphasizing it in the usual way.
If ones own wife,-Rertie con-
tinued.
People can see in at the win
dows, said Eva, moving further
away from him.
All right. We're married.
How are they to know?
That seemed reasonable.
If ones own wife sees through
one, he went on, in an injured
S1e, where on earth is one safe.
And if ones wife doesn't see
through one, who on earth is
there to improve one by frank
criticism?
Ohio! said BERTHE, you married
me totimprove me!
/ did not altogether despair.
This is a pretty state of things,
said BERTHE; and again, This is a
pretty state of things.
He was gloomy and detected.
You never told me anything
about this, you know. What on
earth is to be done?
She said nothing.
You'll make me an allowance,
OF course, he went on, sadly. and
come and see me once a year.
She was still silent.
{ marry wife, he moaned, and
suddenly. without warning. she
suggests that she can improve
me. Never before has any body
suggested that could be i'm
proved.
Was it so hopeless !?
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ID EeIsTER's ORDER.
" oFFIcE OF REaIsTER OF Willis

A
OFFICE OF REGISTER OF WILLS,
NEW CASTLE CoUNTY. DEL. Mar. g. 1908.
Upon the application of Ellen Brad.
ley AdmtnistratFiK Of Emily VIII itloch
1a4e of st. Georges Hundred, in said county
de6eaSe&, i IS ordered and directed by tbs
Register Of sWislg that the Administratriz
Aforesaid give notiGs df gFsnting of Letters
OF Administration upon tho ea4gte Of the
deceased, with the date ofgFantlng tkefEpf,, ny
forty days from the date Of such letters In sig o
the most public places Of the County OF New
Castle, requiring all persons having demands
against the estate to present the same. or
abide by IN act of Assembly in such case
MADE and provided; and also cause the same
Midaietown Transcript newspaper publish
ed in MiddlstoRn, Desa ware, and to be Con-
tinued therein ten TINT 8,
Given under the hand ana seel of
Seal office OF the Register OF Wills afnsasss
- said, at Wilmington, In New Castle
County aforesaid, the day and year above
FRANCIs II. WALKER, Register of wills.
EogfcEzEotiee is hereby given that Letters
OF Administration EREs in due form OF law
granted unto the undersigned, on the bird
day of March Al, D. 1908, and thai hH
persons having claims against the estate Ut
attested. TO said Administering, on or before
the Third day of March, 1909, or abide
the Act Of Assembly In such case made
-. ELLEN BRADLEY
Administratrix.
Address,
Martin b. Burris, Esq,
Attorney -at-LaWe
Middletowns Delaware.
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Why Buy McC ure's !?

bought and read in homes because it
bu becaus 3
PRICE aaleE s than ten cents
twenty-five books dol
to two dollars volume.
The reading matter is written by Americas leading
Railroad
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anFsiag Instructive and also about the
the No
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iii be disguised by authorities n an impartial @.
FOURTHs CtAHAITkH 4cGFeP MaeaFiRe not tof earen
there pe in that r might read
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nCCIure's Magazine

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HAVE WILLIAMS BLOOD
BUT NO WILLIAMS MONEY

whether the two illegitimate children
could receive shares of the income. In
order to have the question determined, !
withheld any share of the income from
these two children and asked them to
sue me. The Supreme Court of Hawaii
decided that they were not legitimates
and could not be made legitimate by
the marriage of their parents, because
at the time they were born their par
ents could not marry. That technically
decided the ease in my favor
They took the ease to the Supreme
Court of the United States, which has
now sustained the Supreme Court Of the
Territory.
Il have no interest IN the matter ex-
cept to protect myself as trustee and to
pay the income as the will and the law
directs.
J. r. Williams was quite a we'll
known character during his life, He
owned lands at Halawa and started the
first sugar plantation in that region,
grinding his cane with mill operated
bv mules. At the time of his death,
nearly thirty years ago, his estate was
valued at about $4,000. It is valued at
about S25, 1000 now, The estate is TO be
distributed on the death of the last sur
viving child. Two OF them are now
dead. -
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NUUANU PUMP
TESTED YESTERDAY
Nozzle Was Held to the Bank
Till the Last Pebble Was
Washed Out.

The lift pump at the Nuuanu dam
was tested yesterday and the force of
water played on one of the banks.
Man has now got everything ready
for Nature, and as soon as the normal
rains of that part of Nuuanu valley
set in, sluicing at the dam can begin
in good earnest.
Superintendent of Public Works
Marston Campbell says the pump
seems to work admirably. The water
was turned on and forced through the
nozzle of the monitor with force of
sixty pounds to the square inch.
Played on the bank it brought the
sluicing material down in splendid
shape.
May is the dryest month in the year
at that point. Last year the rainfall
this far in Nay was only two inches.
This year it has been four. If the
normal rains come there will be suffi-
cient to carry on the sluicing work with
good dispatch.
Superintendent Campbell urges the
public to be careful in the use of wa
ter There is abundant at present. But
a few weeks of dry weather would
greatly reduce the SUI >'y. If care is
exercised now, it is bell ed that the
summer can be got through without
the usual restriction as to irrigating
lawns.
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THIRTY LUCKY
PEDAGOGUES
List of Winners in the Board of
Education Lottery and
AlternateS.

Taking chances on a raid by Chief
Taylor, the members of the Board of
Public Instruction yesterday engaged
in a game of chance at which some
being the drawing to see which of the
ninety-tWo applicants among the
school teachers desirous of free trans
portation to California should be given
the thirty available transportation
orders. Superintendent Babbitt acted
as banker and Commissioners Garden
and Kanakanui drew the lots.
1t was decided to first draw thirty
numbers, this being the limit of the
lucky ones, and then to draw fifteen
more for list of those in line to take
advantage of the changes of mind ex-
pected among some of the lucky ones
when the time for sailing came.
These teachers, who are to be allow
ed to travel to the Coast and back
on transports, have been granted the
privilege to allow them to attend the
summer session at the University of
California, leaving Honolulu on July
and returning to resume their school
duties during the first week in Sep
tember.
The lucky thirty are:
Miss Alice A. McCord, Miss Nellie
McLain, E. B. Blanchard. C. E.
Copeland, Miss Harriet Needham, Mrs.
J. B. Alexander, w. w. Taylor, Mrs.
J. X. Haa, Miss Agnes Judd. Miss
Jean Angus, Mrs. Grace Crockett, Miss
Annie P. Ching, Robert Kihoi, Miss
Mabel Ladd, Joseph de Silva, Miss
Margaret Mossman, Mrs. Eldora Dea-
con, Miss NJ. F. Fleming, Miss Jennie
Allen, Mrs. Laura Sabey, Miss Anna
Danford, Miss NJ Alice Smith, Miss
Mollie Grace, Mrs. L. G. Bickford.
Manuel de Corte. Miss Anne w. Deas,
Mrs. I. L. Creighton. Mrs. Lila g.
Marshall, Miss Alice Greene and Miss
Isabella NJ. Weight.
Should any of the above-named
teachers decide not to avail themselves
of the transportation, the following
have the next chances, in the order
named:
]. Vincent, Miss NJ Ida Ziegler, ].
b. Alexander, Miss Anne z. Hadley.
Mrs Clara Mokumaia, Mrs. Louise A.
McGregor. Miss Alice E. Nudge, Miss
Sadie McLain, J. V. Marciel. H. f.
Brodfe. Mrs. J. V. MARCEL, Mrs. Hol-
land Miss Martha Nielsen, Miss
Louise Gulick and Miss Ida Orchard
KEEPING OUT OF TROUBLE.
The full membership of the board
was present at the meeting and every
Continued on Page Seven.l
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The Democratic Territorial Conven-
for national committeeman; selected
six delegates and six alternates to at
tend the Denver convention; instruct
ed them for Bryan; adopted plat
form which calls on Congress to revise
the land laws of the Territory in the
interests of homesteaders and against
a feudaI system, and the Organic Act
so as to permit local self-government
without duplication of departments,
functions and officials; declared
against any legislation exceptional or
contrary to that enacted for the rest
of the American people; reiterated the
party's request for a congressional
provision for Queen Liliuokalani: con-
graduated the party on its growth
and prospects, and adjourned.
1t was the most fully representative
of any Territorial Convention the party
-4has ever held in this Territory. All
the islands, every representative dis
trict, and most of the precincts in the
Territory had their men. Kauai, which
has never been represented before,
had complete delegation present.
The convention was held in Waver-
ley Hall. Large Hawaiian and Ameri-
can flags were the leading features in
the decoration of the hall. On the
wall back of the chairman's desk was
a portrait of Bryan. Right and left
of it we're portraits of Washington and
Lincoln.
Edward Ingham, chairman of the
Territorial Central Committee, in the
absence of National Committeeman
Palmer P Woods, called the conven-
ton to order shortly after 10 o'clock,
and John w. Bipikane offered prayer.
Edward Ingham was made temporary
chairman and John Emmeluth tempo
rary secretary. The convention then
voted committees of seven each on
credentials, rules and permanent or
ganization, and on resolutions, the
committees TO consist of one from each
representative district and one at large.
The several district delegations had
already Caucused and made their Sc
iections for these, the chairman se>
lecting the member at large, who was
in each case made the chairman of
the committee. The convention then
took a recess to l o'clock. The COM
mitteeS were:
Committee on OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
John Emmeluth, chairman: r. H. ku-
ahi, from the first district; J. w. H
II. Kihe, second; MAXI Paia, third; G.
IA. Lowe. fourth; E. L. Like, fifth;
George Kaleiohi, sixth.
Committee on Rules and Organiza-
tion-E NJ Watson, chairman; JOS.
Perez, Jr., from the first; c. X. Timo-
Continued on Page Two.)
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Delegates to the Denver Con-
vention:
O. T. SHIPMAN, of Hawaii.
JAMES L. COKE, of Maui.
E. NJ. WATSON. of Oahu.
c. w. McGONAGLE, of Oahu.
FRANK r. HARVEY, of Oahu.
C. H. HUDSON, of Kauai.
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NAVAL COLLISION RESULTS
IN BEACHED TORPEDOER

NEWPORT. May 1o-The Naval launch Breaker rammed the
Seto yesterday the latter having be beahed
prevent her sinking fatalities either vessel