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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-24
PROTECTION OF PREMISES.

All accumulations of rubbish, waste
food matters, etc, should be kept in
metal garbage cans, with tight metal
covers, and frequently emptied in some
place where rats cannot gain access
to the same, or to be buried or burned.
See that the covers are kept on the
cans and that the can is placed on a
rack where dogs may not upset it tor
the purpose of obtaining food. Have
the garbage removed every two or
three days. Do not allow garbage to
be thrown on your premises by other
persons or in vacant lots around your
premises. Report any person so doing
to the Health Office, and they will be
dealt with in accordance with the Of
Tense.
The food in kitchens or pantries
should be kept in rat-proof retainers-
this refers to food or all kinds.
Apples or potatoes kept in cellars
should be kept in rat-proof containers
also.
All manure should be disposed OF
every two or three days.
All foodstuffs for animals should be
kept in rat-proof containers.
Admit any employees of the Health
Office to your premises. Accompany
him around your premises, for the
purpose of seeing what is done, il
order that you may be better informed
and be better able to look after you
premises.
If everyone will bear in mind that i
there are no rats about their premises
there can be no plague, and will ust
every effort to destroy rats-secrete al
food from them, so that they will b.
driven to the traps and poison-the!
will protect not only the lives anC
health of their own families but tn,
health of the community.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-24
DANGERS OF INFLUENZA.

The great danger from influenza is
Of its resulting in pneumonia. This
can be obviated by using Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy. 1t not only
cures influenza but counteracts any
tendency Of the disease towards pneu-
monia. For sale by all dealers, Ben
son, Smith G. Co., agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-24
BAIT.

Bait may consist Of cheese, fried
bacon fresh liver, chicken heads, fish
heads, hamburg steak cooked meats,
green peppers persimmons or any form
of bait may be used 1t must be borne
in mind that no one kind Of bait will
serve all the time, but must be chang
ed frequently in order that the rats
do not become too much accustomed
to the one kind of bait.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-24
POISON

A suitable poison can be secured
from any drug store. Follow the di-
rections on the poison bottle or box.
Care should be taken to place the poi
son in rat holes and in rat runs, under
floors, in sewers, where not filled With
water, and in other places where evil
dences of rats are seen. Care should
be taken not to leave poison exposed
so that it may be taken by children
or domestic animals.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-24
WI TING FANG IN
WASHINGTON AGAIN
ARRIVAL THE CHINESE MINISTER CAPITAL
WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN ATTI-
TUDB BUT SAID THERE WAS NO OCCASION TO FEAR A WAR
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ton" in case of default or postpone
ment.
While Minister WI was reading tho
dispatch his face became grave and It
was plain that he was thinking hard
and anxiously.
At last he looked up from the paper
and said: There will be no war. That
ship affair is too trifing to embroil
two great nations. But 1 must not
speak of it. 1t is too serious. l must
wait until / can confirm the report.
Still, may say that there should be
no war, and I cannot feel that there
will be-"
He was asked if the mediation OF
the United States government would
be possible in case of the matter grow
ing more acute.
"Oh, yes" Mr.. WI replied. Media.
ton would be possible. Your President
stopped one war-a great war. He is
a friend of peace"
The minister then pleaded fatigue
and excused himself
AT THE LEGATION.
Minister WI drove from the station
directly to the legation, POOL 18th
street, where everything was ready fol
his reception. His first caller was Mr.
John W. Foster, former Secretary Of
State, who is officially connected with
the Chinese empire as counselor or
foreign affairs and represents thai
government at The Hague conferences
Mr.. Fosters call lasted until o'clock
but it was said that the Japanese ulti-
matum was not discussed.
The minister then received the news
paper men, and spoke again of hiE
pleasure at returning to Washington
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VhAh hhh BiNNh
quite another impression, and Sophy
sought to reconcile these opposites.
The young man jumped down from
the gate, with healthy laugh at him
self and at her, caught her up In his
arms and gave her a smacking kiss.
."That's toll" he said. "Now you can
go through, missy"
"Thank you, Mr.. Basil It's not very
hard to get through, is it?"
He set her down with q laugh, n
laugh with note Of surprise in it.
Her last words had sounded odd from
child. But Sophy's eyes were quite
grave. She was probably recording the
practical value Of kiss.
"You shall tell me whether you think
the same about that In few years
time" he said, laughing again.
"When I'm grown upT she asked
with slow, puzzled smile.
Perhaps" said he, assuming gravity
anew.
"And cook?" she asked, with curl
ously interrogative air, anxious appar-
emily to see what he, In his turn, would
tnlnK or ner destiny.
"Cook? You're going to be cook"
"The cook" she amended-"the cook
at the hail.
"I'll come and eat your dinners" He
laughed, yet looked trine compassion
ate. Sophy's quick eyes tracked his
feelings.
"You don't think it's nice to be a
cook, elther?" she asked.
"oh, yes; splendid! The cooks a
sort Of queen" said he.
"The cook a sort of queen? Is she?"
Sophy's eyes were profoundly thought
full.
"And l should be very proud to kiss
queen-a sort of queen-because
shall be only poor sawbones."
"Sawbones"
"a surgeon-a doctor, you know
with red lamp, like DR.. Seaton OF
Brentwood"
She looked at him for a moment
"Are you really going away?" she ask
ed abruptly.
"Yes, for bit-tomorrow."
Sophy's manner. expanded into a
calm graciousness. "I'm very sorry"
she said.
"Thank you"
"You amuse me-"
"The deuce dop' laughed Basil Will
Hanson.
She raised her eyes slowly to his
you'll be friends, anyhow, won't
your"
ITO cook or queen" he said, and
heartiness shone through his raillery.
Sophy nodded her head gravely, seal
ing the bargain. A bargain II was
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The mark on Sophy's left cheek grew
redder. Julia laughed mockingly. So
ply looked down on her, still very
grave.
you do look pretty today" she OBJ
served-"and happy"
Eyes, yesi SO tease you, don't II
But like TO see you hang out your
danger signal
she held out her arms to the little
girl. Sophy came and kissed her. then
sat down beside her.
Forgiven
yes" said Sophy. "Do you think it's
a very awful nameT'
"0h, you'll change It some day."
smiled Julia, speaking more truth than
she knew. "Listenl Mothers con-
sented, consented, consented! I'm to
go and live with Uncle Edward in Lon
don-London, Sophy, and learn elocu-
ton"
LEARN whatY'
"El-o-cu-tion, which means how to
talk so that people can hear you ever
so far Off"
ITO shoutT'
"No. Don't be stupid. Toto be
heard plainly without shouting. To be
heard in a theaterl Did you ever see
theaterT
mo. Only circus. haven't seen
much"
"And then-the stagel I'm to be an
actressl Fancy mother consenting at
last! An actress instead of a govern
ess! Isn't II gloriousp She paused a
moment. ,hen added, with self CON
scious laugh, "Basil's awfully angry,
though"
"Why should he he angry2" asked
Sophy. Her own anger was gone. She
was plucking daisies and sticking them
here and there i'm her friends golden
hair. They were great friends, this
pair, and Sophy was very proud of the
friendship. Julia was grown up, the
beauty of the village, and-a ladyi
Now, Sophy was by no means any one
of these things.
"oh, you wouldn't understand" laugh
ed Julia, with blush.
Does he want to keep company with
you-and won't you do it?"
"Only servants keep company, So
ply"
"Oh!' said Sophy obviously making n
mental note of the information.
"But he's very silly about 1t. I've
just SAID 'Goodby' to him-you know
he goes up to Cambridge tomorrow
and he did say lot of silly things"
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try to shake the bough and please his
small tyrant with the imitation Of a
seesaw. The fallen bough suggested
no danger to his slow moving mind. lie
leaned down toward the bough. with
outstretched hands, Sophy no doubt
watching his doings with excited inter
est, while the wind ragged and reveled
among the great branches over their
heads. Enoch tried to move the bough,
but failed In order TO make another
effort he fell on his knees and bent bis
back over IT,
At this moment there came a loud
crash, heard in the rectory grounds
and in the dining room at Woodbine
cottage the small house opposite.
"Theres another tree gonew cried
Basil Williamson, the rector's second
son, who was giving his retriever an
evening run.
He raced through the rectory gate,
across the road and into the avenue.
A second later the garden gate OF
Woodbine cottage opened and Julia,
the teu-year-old daughter of widow
named Robins, who lived there came
out at full speed. Seeing Basil just
ahead of her, she called out, "Did you
hear?"
He knew her voice-they were play.
mates-and answered without looking
back: "Yes. Isn't it fun? Keep out
side the trees-keep well I'm the mead.
owl"
stuff she shouted. laughing. "They
don't fall every minute, silly!'
Running as they exchanged these
words. they soon came to where the
bough, or rather. the two boughs, had
fallen. A tragic sight met their eyes.
The second bough had caught the un-
lucky farmer just on the nape Of his
neck and had driven him down. face
forward, on To the first. He lay with
his neck close pinned between the two
and his arms spread out over the un
dermost. His face was bad to look at
He was quite dead. and apparently
death must have been instantaneous.
Sobered and appalled,. the boy and girl
stood looking from the terrible sight to
each others faces.
'Is he dendT" Julia whispered
81 expect So" the boy answered. Mel
ther of them had seen death before.
The next moment he raised his voice
and shouted, 'IIelp. helpw then laid
hold Of the upper bough and strove
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In vain will the readers of this
tale of romantic love and bril-
liant daring search the maps of
the world for the picturesque
land IF Krdvonia, wherein lovely,
fascinating Sophy and her mys-
ferrous Red Star played their
parts. This much we may tell
him before he embarks on hi,
voyage to Krdponid. But ne may
assure him that when he reluc-
family parts with SophN some
time sculiery maid of Morping-
ham, Essex, England, later spirit
uaIistic medium of Paris, France,
and still later of high rank in
.SlaVnd and Volseni in KraVonfo,
the country of her adoption viii
be to him, like Zendd and Grdus-
fdrk, more real than are many OF
the smaller, actual Kingdoms of
the earth. Sad and tragic in some
of its aspects is the love story Of
Sophy of Krdponid, but its pa
thoS is so hghtened by devoted
loyalty, hardy bravery and ten
der, self sacrificing. affection
that at the end the reader will
surely feel its telling has not
been unworthy of the master
hand of its famous chronicler.
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together on the road. Basil shook his
playground.
Hang those benstly treesw he cried.
"Id cut them all down if / was Mr..
Brownlow."
II must go and tell mother" said
Julia, "and you'd better go too"
Yes" he assented, but fingered for
a moment, still looking at the trees as
though reluctantly fascinated by them.
'Mother always said something
would happen to that little girl" said
Julia, with grave and important look
in her eyes.
"why?" the boy asked brusquely.
Because of that mark--that marx
she's got on her cheek"
What rotp' he said, but he looked
at his companion uneasily. The sevent
of the evening had stirred the super
stltlous fears, seldom hard to stir in
children.
People don't have those marks for
nothing-so mother says" Other peo-
pie. no wiser, said the same thing later.
"Rotv Basil muttered again. "Oh,
well, | must 60"
She glanced at him timidly. Just
come us far as our door with me. I'm
afraid"
"Afraidr' he said scornfully. "An
right!
He walked with her to the door OF
Woodblne cottage and waited till II
closed behind her, performing the es-
cort with a bold and lordly air. Left
alone in the fast darkening night, with
nobody in sight, with no sound save
the ceaseless voice of the angry wind
essaying new mischief in the tops of
the elm trees, he stood for q moment,
listening fearfully. Then he laid his
sturdy legs to the ground and fed for
home, looking neither to right nor left
till he reached the hospitable light OF
his fathers study. The lad had been
brave In face of the visible horror.
Fear struck him in the moment of
Julia's talk about the mark on the
chlld's cheek Scornful and furious at
himself, yet he was mysteriously
afraid.
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She suddenly caught hold OF Sophy and
kissed her half dozen times. "It's a
wonderful thing that's happened. I'm
so tremendously happyr' She set her
little friend free with last kiss and u
playful pinch.
Neither caress- nor pinch disturbed
Sophy's composure. She sat down on
the grass.
Something's happened to me, too,
today" she announced.
HAS IT, Tots? What is itP' asked
Julia, smiling indulgently. The great
events in other lives are thus sufficient.
ly acknowledged.
"Ive left school, and I'm going to
leave Mrs. James and go and live at
the hall and be taught TO help cook, and
when I'm grown up I'm going TO be
cook" She spoke slowly and weightlly,
her eyes fixed on Julla's face.
"Well, call II shamew cried Julia
In generous indignation. "0h, of course
1t would be all right IL they'd treated
you properly-I mean, as II they'd
meant that from the beginning. But
they haven't You've lived with Mrs.
James. know, but you've been in and
out Of the hall all the time, having tea
In the drawing room and fruit at des-
sert, and-and so on. And you look like
little lady and talk like one-almost
I think it's a shame not to give you a
better chance. Cookp'
Annnif Won fhinE a. x,atoxhf ha ra thor
nice to be cook-a good cook?"
mo, don't" answered the budding
Mrs. Siddons decisively.
people always talk a great dea,
about the cook" pleaded Sophy. "Mr.
and Mrs. Brownlow are always talking
about the cook-and the rector talks
about his cook, too--not always very
kindly, though"
mo. it's a shame, and l don't believe
It'll happen"
eyes, it will. Mrs. Brownlow settled
1t today"
"There are other people In the world
besides Mrs. Brownlow."
Sophy was not exactly surprised at
this dictum, but evidently it gave her
thought. Her long delayed Eyes
showed that as plainly as her "Obp had
little while before marked her appre-
ciation Of the social limits OF keeping
company" "But she can settle 1t all
the same" she persisted.
"For the time she can," Julia ad-
mitted. "Oh, wonder what'll be my
first part. Totsl" She threw her pretty
head back ON the grass, closing her
eyes. A smile Of radiant anticipation
lowered about her lips. The little girl
rose and stood looking at her friend
the friend Of whom she was 80 proud.
you'll look very, very pretty" she
said, with sober gravity.
Julia's smile broadened, but her lips
remained shut. Sophy looked at her
for moment longer, and, without for
NAL farewell, resumed her progress
down the avenue. 1t was hard ON tea
time, and Mrs. James was a stickler
for punctuality.
Yet Sophy's march was interrupted
once more. A tall young man sat
swinging his legs on the gate that led
from the avenue into the road. The
sturdy boy who had run homo In ter
ror on the night Enooh Crouch died
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man, to whom content was q high duty,
to be won by the performance of other
duties. If the squire detected In the
girl signs of ingratitude to himself his
wife laid equal blame on a rebellion
against heaven Sophy knew-if not
then, yet on looking back-what they
felt. Her references to them are cbarg-
ed with remorse whose playful ex-
preston, obstlnately touched with scorn
as II is, does not hide its sincerity. She
soon perceived, anyhow, that she was
getting a bad charactey. she, the cook
I'm posse, was at open war with Mrs.
Smilker, the cook i'm esse, though, to
be sure, Smilker might have done some
thing to reconcile her to Grouchl
Mrs. Brownlow naturally ranged her
self on the side of constituted authori-
ty, of the superior rank In the domestic
hierarchy. Moreover, II is likely that
Mrs. Smilker was right In nine cases
out of ten, at all events Sophy recog-
nized that probability in after life.
None the less, she allows herself more
than once 10 speak Of "that beast Of
Smilker."
For the greater part of this time she
had no friends outside the hall to turn
to- Julia Robins was pursuing her
training In acting In London and, later,
her profession In the country. Basil
Williamson, who amused her, was at
Cambridge and afterward at his hos
pltal. A glimpse Of him she may have
caught now and then, but they had no
further talk. Very probably he sought
no opportunity. Sophy had passed
from the infants school to the scullery.
She had grown from a child into a big
girl. If prudent Basil kept these trans
formations in view, none can blame
him-he was the son OF the rector of
the parish-so when hidden to the hall
he ate the potatoes Sophy had peeled,
but rocked no more of the hand that
peeled them. In the main the child
was no doubt solitary creature.
So much is what scientific men and
historians call reconstruction haz-
ardous process, at least when you are
dealing with human beings. II has
been kept within the strict limits Of lie
gitimate inference and accordingly
yields meager results. The return of
Julia Robins enables us TO put many
more of the stones-or bones, or what
ever they may be called-in their ap-
propriate places.
1t is the summer of 1865, and Julia is
very gorgeous. Three years had passed
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greenhouse and heard the crash Of the
bough. OF that he took 10 heed. Moth
ing could be done save heave sigh
over the damage TO his cherished elms.
But when the cries for help reached his
ears, with praiseworthy promptitude
he rushed out straight across his lawn
and, though he was elderly and stout,
dropped into the ditch, clambered out
OF 1t and came where the dead man
and the children were. AS he passed
the drawing room windows he called
out TO his wife, Somebody's hurt, I'm
afraid" and she, after moments con-
ference with the butler, followed her
husband; but, not being able to manage
the ditch, went around by the road and
up the avenue, the servant coming With
her. When these two arrived the
squire's help had availedAo release the
farmer from the deadly grip of the two
boughs, and he lay now on his back on
the path.
Hes dead, poor fellow said Mr..
Brownlow.
"Its EnOch Grouchw said the butler,
giving n shudder as he looked at tie
farmers face. Julia Robins sobbe1,
and the boy Basil looked up at the
squire's face with grave eyes.
."I'll get hurdle, sir" said the but
ler His master nodded, and he ran
off.
Something moved on the path about
q yard from the thick end OF the lownn
bough.
"Look therew cried Julia Robins. A
little wall followed. With an exclama-
ton Mrs. Brownlow darted to the spot.
The child lay there with a cut on her
forehead. Apparently the impact of
the second bough had caused the end
Of the first to fly upward. Sophy had
been jerked from her seat into the afr
and had fallen back on the path, strik-
Ing her head on stone. Mrs. Brown
low picked her up, wiped the blood
from her brow and saw that the injury
was slight. Sophy began to cry sortly,
and Mrs. Brownlow soothed her.
tits his little girl" said Julia Rob-
ins. "The little girl with the mark on
her cheek, please, Mrs. Brownlow."
"Poor little thing! Poor little thingP'
Mrs. Brownlow murmured. She knew
that death had robbed the child of her
only relative and protector.
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Three

"TT seemed somehow impossible, me
going to be cook there all my
days" So writes Sophy at later
date in regard to her life at Morp-
ingham hall. To many OF us in our
youth 1t has seemed impossible that
we should pass all our days in the hum
drum occupations and the mediocre pO-
sitions in which we have in fact spent
them. Young ambitions are chronicled
only when they have been FULFILLED
unless where born autobiographer
makes fame out Of his failures. But
Sophy had a double portion of original
restlessness. This much the records of
Morpingham years, scanty as they are.
render plain.
The immediate result OF this disposi-
ton OF hers was unhappy, and 1t is not
hard to sympathize with the feelings OF
the Brownlows. Their benevolence was
ample, but 1t was not unconscious
Their benefits, which were very great,
appeared to them exhaustive, not only
above what Sophy might expect, but
also beyond what she could imagine,
They had picked her up from the road
side and set her on the way TO that
sort of kingdom with the prospect OF
which Basil Williamson had tried to
console her. The squire was an estima'
BILE man, but one Of small mind. He
moved among the little-the contented
lord OF a pin point of the earth. Mrs,
Brownlow was profoundly pious wo-
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The butler now came back with a
hurdle and two men, and Enoch
Grouch's body was taken into the sad
die room at the hall Mrs. Brownlow
followed the procession, Sophy still In
her arms. At the end of the avenue
she spoke to the boy and girl:
"Go home. Basil Tell your father.
and ask him to come to the hall. Good
night, Julia. Tell your mother, and
don't cry any more. The poor man is
with God. and / shan't let this mite
come to harm" She was a childless
woman, with motherly heart, and as
she spoke she kissed Sophy's wounded
forehead. Then she went into the hall
grounds, and the boy and girl were left