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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04
A BLUFF THAT WILL HIT BACK VERY HARD.

the Thompson cables all liquor dealers bluff from Wash
gton to work sentiment here and get strong protests against the
bill Wooey supporting Washington, the bluff will have
important effect in the long For be Observed the
liquor dealers have become authority for the proposition that Congress
likely pass Prohibition law for HaWaon the ground that
Hawaans able handle the question If the bill does
not Congress- will therefore them handle without
gloves when they chance In other words, the
liquor dealers have given their opponents and immensely powerful
This is that if HaWaanS don't handle the liquor problem
better Congress will step and take their hands, taking away
this much of their much cherished rights of suffrage and eg6ver
The the end will hit the liquor dealers hard
decd
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04
Commercial News
BY L. D. TIMMONS.

Stock were again very strong to-
day, and the demand appeared to be
greater than the supply at ruling
figures. A notable incident was an
immense bound on the part of Waia-
lua, due to the most favorable crop
and other conditions. On the boards
and shares sold at $13O-quite an
advance on previous sales. 1t is said
that more could have been purchased
at the same, but the fact that $129.5O
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04

was freely bid showed the great popu-
larity of the stock.
A sale of $1,000 Waialua five per
cent bonds at $1OO.75 was also a mat
ter of particular interest.
On the streets 45 shares Hawaiian
Agricultural sold at $3.50, and 10 fol-
lowed on the board at the same. For
the stock $249 was bid and $252.5O
asked
Eva was as solid as rock at S34,5O,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04
Ho appears be considerably worked up the appointment
a Republican campaign manager.

The split in the local liquor dealers association might have
pece The selling of liquor blind pigs should have been easy
the wholesalers had together the subject very
plan would have been their books Inspector
they compelled by law them to federal internal col
ecors One of the why the blind pigs all the federal
that the federal officers have the right their books They
where the liquor goes and if the books wholesaler
small unlicensed store buying liquor than for reasonable
personal orders the conclusion that such is selling liquor
ally follows.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04
ALAMEDA REPORTS.

The Alameda sent in 2 wireless
last night, stating that she was 2S3
miles away, bound from Honolulu to
San Francisco, and experiencing
smooth weather.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04
THE PATRONESSES.

Following is the complete list OF
patronesses for the ball to be given
for sailors at the Moana and Seaside
hotels tomorrow evening:
Mesdames Walter F. Frear, Corwin,
P. Rees, s. w. Dunning, c. w. Case
Deering, George Davies, L. Tenney
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04

Whether ship subsidy passes Congress this session has
beg to repeat little to 90 with the matter of temporary coast
suspension The subsidy law will not begin produce results for
time produces far these islands concerned
and our difficulty is immediate
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04

To the people of Porto Rcoby far advanced the
experience sgovmen the people Hawaii Governor Cotton
his inaugural held the following hope That complete self
government under the American flag and Constitution will eventually
Secure"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04

ity Yin sight for the Cuban sugar in
dustry.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04

The Japanese brought here from Midway probably
planning Nothing very serious likely
of punishment and the board in High Sheriff Henrys base much
better than Laysan
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-04
THE ART TONIGHT.

The feature film at the Art theater
this evening will be THE Drummer
Boy of 1892" a beautiful rendering
of touching incident in French his
tory. There will be no wrestling on
the program tonight, but other good
features will fully make up for it.
Dr. Robert ], Burdette will speak to
army and navy men at the Methodist
church sunday evening.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-28
GREATLOVE STORIES
. OF HISTORY
DEAN SWIFT AND "STEL1.A"
BY ALBERT PAYSON TERF1UNE
Copyright by the Author.)

begged him to be her husband. Swift,
who had had time to change his mind.
rudely avenged himself for her earlier
neglect by writing her so brutal let
ter of refusal that the acquaintance
ship was ended then and there.
Then began his famous filtration
with Hester Vanhomrigh, a London
girl Of good family, at whose mothers
house Swift had often been an hon.
ored guest. He called Miss Vanhom-
RICH "Vanessa," and in his poetical ef-
1uslons addressed to her signed him.
SELF "Cadanus.' When he went back
to Ireland Vanessa followed him and
settled in his neighborhood. She was
IL. He was A. He seems to have
cared little for her She loved him
with all her heart; so absolutely, in.
deed, that she was deaf to his hints
that he was tired of her devotion.
Swift was at his wits ends to keep
Stella and Vanessa from meeting and
to guard the secret of each from the
other.
In 1716 he privately married Stella,
The wedding ceremony took place at
midnight in little summer house on
the deanery grounds. At Swift's pos
tive orders Stella kept the marriage
| secret, for his sake bearing patiently
all the snubs and GOODNESS of her
| neighbors sooner than to disobey her
husbands command. Meantime Swift
continued to correspond with Vanes-
sa, not having the courage to tell her
ne was married. At last Vanessa, hear
ing rumors of the wedding, wrote to
Stella asking if the latter was really
SWift's wife. Stella replied, telling
her everything, and forwarded Vanes-
sa's letter to Swift The dean was
wild with rage. He galloped to Va
nessa's home and furiously confront
ed the miserable woman. Describing
A Double the scene after
u.,,.h..,I ward, Vanessa
said he was Isl.
lent but awful in his looks" He
slammed her letter down on the table
without word and rode away. Va
nessa's heart was broken. A few
weeks later she died.
Five years afterward, Stella, worn
down by Swift's capricious behavior
and by the need of keeping secret her
marriage, fell i'll. AS she lay on her
deathbed Swift at last consented that
their union should be made public.
But she murmured: 1T is too late
now" and died.
Stricken with remorse, Swift turned
to literary life for solace and won
great and greater renown. His saw
age temper and cynicism daily grew
more unbearable Finally he went in
sane and, after three years of lunacy,
| died
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mans money, and sat in it all day,
the stone unclee simply spun around.
All Orone had to do was rig a gear on
him. When the gear was properly
oiled the stone uncle made over six
hundred revolutions "a minute. He
probably broke all records for stone
uncles.
An ordinarily mean man would have
been satisfied with that, but Orone
was too grasping. When the miller
put in extra mill stones Orone con-
tracted to furnish an extra horse-pow-
er for eighty cents a day, but it put
too great a strain on the stone uncle.
It was all right to run him up to his
full capacity, but even a stone uncle
gets too much if he is over-crowded,
and one morning couple of days ago
the stone uncle broke in two. Orone
tinkered at him little, but he soon
saw that he could notHfasten the stone
uncle together we'll enough to revolve
evenly, SO he called on Billy. Farms
dod to do the splicing. He said that,
of course, he did not have many jobs
Of that sort, but it was all in the way
of business, and he did the best he
could, but after couple Of days Orone
came back and said the splice had
loosened and wanted his money back
Billy told him to produce the stone
uncle, and that if the splice was really
loose he would re-splice Uncle Hiram
but Orone would not do it. He de-
manded his money. That made Billy
angry, and he told the whole thing tc
Uncle Ashdod Clootz, and that was
the same thing as printing it in the pa
per. A committee of everybody in
Betzville called on Orone and dug uI
the stone uncle, and it just showed
what a liar Orone was, for the splice
was all right, and Uncle Hiram was
revolving perfectly.
The committee took action at once
and threw Orone out of the automo
| bile, and ungeared Uncle Hiram, anG
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-28

'Matrimony has many children.
They are Repentance, Discord, Bad
Temper. Loathing, etc.
So wrote Grabbed, cynical clergy
man early in the seventeenth century.
He was not the sort of man whom the
average woman would be supposed to
care about. For he was homely, and
OF awkward, sloyenly aspect. His
temper was savage; his satire hit like
v1tr1ol. He was not rich, nor OF high
birth. He was bully and lacked all
that women most admire. Yet he is
the hero of at least three famous love
stories
The man was Jonathan Swift, dean
of St. Patrick's, Dublin. His youth
was passed in poverty and struggle.
His pen later won for him a deathless
reputation as a satirist and enabled
him to rule his fellows by fear and
ridicule He rose slowly from post to
post in church and politics until he
became dean of st. Patrick's.
1t was while Swift as a youth was
secretary to statesman named TEN.
pie that he became tutor to little
Esther Johnson, the eight-year-o
An Early Love daughter of his
n.,;. employers house
keeper The child
was not only clever and lovable, but
beautiful as well. Swift wrote of her:
Her hair was blacker than a raven
and every feature of her face is per-
lection" The name Esther" means
star. So does Stella" Swift ad-
dressed the child as "Stella," and al
ways afterward called her by that af-
fectionate nickname
When Stella was older she and an
elderly chaper0n came to live near
Swift in Ireland. For years she and
the clergyman had kept up a constant
correspondence. AS she grew to wom-
anhood their early friendship deepen
ed into love. The girl adored Swift
with her whole intense nature. He,
on his part, received her worship as
a deserved compliment, flattered or
neglected her, according to his within,
and bullied her numerically. All his
caprices and domineering ways Stella
bore without complaint.
Meantime Swift had earlier fallen
more or less in love with Miss
Warning. 1t was an age of poetical,
high-f1oWn nicknames. For instance,
man named Peter Jones would sign
his love letters "Eugenio," while John
Smith would call himself "Roderigo''
or "Amyntas.' Swift called Miss
Warning "Varina," and is said to have
proposed. She rejected him. This
was in 1894, when he was 81. Two
years later 'Varina" became so
enamoured of him that she actually
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-28
Gigantic Trust Beoun,

In the construction of the Asbokan
reservoir. in the Catskills more than
100000 cubic yards OF earth must be
spread in z:x-inch layers, rmoistened
and rolled, eventually forming a dam
300 feet high TN places and four miles
long. and this WORT is being done By
steam rollers, which IS the first time
they have been employsi. for such
work. These machines have corrugat-
ed front rolls and cross-cle,ts, on the
rear rolls, so as thoroughly TO knead
the moist earth, and each covers the
work done by 80 men, dozen teams
and a galloway, and is guaranteed
against breakdown in continuous work
for seven years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-28
SMART MAN LEFT PIONEERING
Fersonee He Had Asked Question
: and Received Answer That ".
I floored Him.. 80 -


! He was regular patron of the res.
taurant. Perhaps that is why he felt
justified in making clever remarks to-
the mattresses, remarks which they
were puzzled how to answer. One
day, however, the smallest and tiniest
girl happened to be serving this irri-
tat1ng customer, and it fell to her to
answer him in kind.
I'll have some steak" he said, COM
Ing IN late for dinner, "and some
squash, and some-got some baked po-
tatoes, fine, brown, baked potatoes?"
Baked potatoes are all over" said
the girl.
He @eaned back In his chair and
gazed at her quizzically.
Baked potatoes all over, are they!"
he repeated. "All over what?"
with" she replied, simply Youths
Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-28
BETZVHIF TAI ES.
Orone M'Dooble and His Stone Uncle
@>By Ellis Darker B11HeEI
W >A1dhor of"Pii&s IS Pigs Etc: W.
ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL

One of the most cruel cases of heart
lessness ever known in Betzville has
just come to light, and several of our
most distinguished citizens have
Joined to write Black Hand letter to
Cousin Orone McDooble, advising him
to move into the next county or take
the consequences. We think he will
move.
About eight years ago Hiram Nc
Doodle died, and he was continuous
~ mad from the time the automobile
passed across him until he breathed
his last. He always had hated auto
mobiles, but when one ran over him
it acted as the last straw that breaks
the camels back. and he called his
nephew Orone to him, and told him
that if ever Orone dared get into one
of the alfred things he would turn
over in his grave. Then he died az
comfortably as possible, and Orone
buried him in the Old Grove cemetery
and took charge of the old mans prop
erty, as any sole survivor should.
But this spring the Betzville alder
men decided to extend Main street
right on through the Old Grove GENE
terry, and they notified Orone that
Uncle Hiram was blocking the street
They told Orone to come and get him
So Orone went out, and when he got
there he was very much surprised
for Uncle Hiram had turned to stone
Probably something in the soil did it
although Uncle Hiram had always
had a stony heart, and that might
have served as a sort of nest egg. OF
course he wasn't granite, exactly, bu1
he was pretty stony-about like soap
stone, l should say.
The minute Orone saw his late uncle
his eyes glittered with an avaricious
light, and we made up our mind:
Orone was going to be mean enough
to tote his uncle around the country
and show him off as a petrified man
but he didn't. Instead of that he tool
him home and planted him again, I'm
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der an apple tree near the barn, and
that did surprise us, for if there was
ever grasping man Orone was that
man, and it did not seem like him to
allow stone uncle to go to waste
that way. But it just shows that CON-
mon people can't even guess how
mean man can be. We hadn't the
least idea what Orone was up to, al
though we should have guessed it, for
it was the most natural thing for a
mean man to do with a stone uncle
like Uncle Hiram.
The first thing Orone did was to buy
an old, busted automobile, and he paid
for it with some of the money Uncle
Hiram had left. We thought that was
odd in Orone, because he never spent
cent unless he had to, but the next
thing we heard of was stranger still.
1t seemed that Orone had Installed a
motor on his place, and was using it
to run. all the working implements
on his place. He used it to run the
grindstone and the churn and the corn
shelter and the cider mill and the
pump, and then he ran a transmission
belt across to the -four mill and rented
power to the miller He got a dollar
and sixty cents a day from the miller
for it. And Orone would just sit back
in his busted automobile and smile
and do nothing. He never moved the
automobile an inch. Just sat in it as
if it we're a throne.
We would never have guessed his
wickedness if Billy Farnsdod, the
blacksmith, hadn't happened to men,
ton that he had mended Orone's uncle
Hiram. Then we found out the whole
thing It seems that Orone knew his
uncle Hiram was a man of his word,
and could be- trusted to do what he
said he would do, and that If he said
he would turn over in his grave he
would do it. So Orone bought the
automobile and sat in it and Uncle
Hiram turned over. II Orone merely
sat in some other mans automobile
the chances are that Uncle Hiram
would have turned over once and that
hewould have been satisfied with that
one turn, sbuEWhen Orone bought an
automobile and bought It with tie old
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laid him en- the grass temporarily,
but while they were discussing how
to fix it so that Orone couldn't make
Uncle !firam revolve any more, Orone
suddenly jumped into the automobile,
and the stone uncle Immediately be-
gar revolving at the rate of about
four thousand revolutions minute.
He revolved out of the yard in less
than a second and minute later he
saw him disappear over the hill, and
by the time we could yank Orone out
o: the automobile Uncle Hiram was
beyond recovery.
Copyright. 1909, by w. G. Chapman.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-28
CHANCE FOR BARGAIN.
-For Sale observation-disclosures
No Further Use.

There more Catarrh In this section OF the country
than all other diseases put together and until the last
few years was supposed to be incurabe. For great
many years doctors pronounced it local disease and
to with local treatment pronounced it incurable
Science has proven Catarrh to be constitutional dis
ease and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F. J. Cheney
4 Co.. Toledo. Ohio. is the only Constitutional
the market. 1t Is taken internally In doses from 10
drops to teaspoonfu 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case 1t fails to Send
for circulars end testimonials
Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Haua Family Pills for constipation.
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falling to the ground together and
hacking at each other with the broken
fragments of their swords. Much
blood was spilled, although the
wounds were mere scratches. Still the
duel was enough out of the ordinary
run of such encounters to set all Eng
land to talking. In a day Sheridan
found himself famous.
When Betty heard Sheridan was
wounded she shrieked: MY husband!
Oh, my husband" and tainted. (Faint-
ing was quite fashionable accom-
plishment among young ladies of the
eighteenth century, Thus hes par
ents for the first time learned of her
secret marriage. They had followed
her to France as soon as they learned
where she was and had brought her
home. Sheridan was penniless and
had no prospects. So Betty's father
dan used every pretext for gaining a
few words with his wife during this
time of parental opposition. He once
An Extravasant eve n disguised
'o""s eoup'e' cabman and drove
her home from a concert where she
had been singing. At last Mr.. Lin
ley consented to their union, and
public marriage ceremony was per
formed
Sheridan had no knowledge of econ
| omy. Nor had Betty. So, though poor,
!! they lived in extravagant style and
were constantly in debt Later, when
Sheridan wrote The Rivals" The
School for Scandal and other sue
cessful plays, the pair were better of.
But they still spent money much fast
er than he could earn it. After 20
years of married life Betty died. Sher-
idan mourned her most deeply. Three
years later he married woman of
wealth, whose fortune, however, could
not keep pace with her husbands ex-
travagance.
Sheridan in his old age was wretch
eddy poor. AS he lay dying, in 1916,
he was arrested for debt, and would
have been carried to prison had not
death interviewed to save him from
this crowning disgrace.
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For love of a 16-year old girl a GER
tain hot-headed Irish lad in 1772
fought two sensational duels and
made himself the nine-day hero of
England. The girl was Betty Linley
daughter Of famous Bath musical
composer. She was noted singer
and so beautiful as to merit the nick
name of THE Fair Maid Of Bath"
The youth was Richard Brinsley Sher-
idan, the most brilliant playwright
and parliamentary orator of his time.
AS boy he had been looked on by
his parents and teachers as hopeless
Ounce. Later he proved himself a
marvel of wit and eloquence, as has
many another man whom his school
master thought fool
While Miss Linley was living at
Bath she attracted the fancy of Capt.
Matthews, a dissolute gentlemen of
fortune" So ardently did Matthews
make love to the girl that she was on
the point of giving him her heart
when young Sheridan appeared upon
scene. Sheridan was barely Fl. All
his bright career lay before him. He
at once fell in love with Betty. To
further his own suit he told her what
he knew of Matthews real character.
This turned the girls dawning love
for Matthews into loathing. For so
clever youth as the future play
An E,onement wright it was
then an easy step
ana "o Due's' to win the sus-
ceptible young lady's heart for him.
self.
But Matthews continued to annoy
Betty with his attention, even threat
ening her. Her father was under OBJ
legations to him. So she dared not
appeal to her family to help her get
rid of the unwelcome sutton. In de-
spair she called Sheridan to her aid.
He suggested that she go to a con-
vent in France, there to remain until
Matthews could be disposed of. She
accepted the idea and he escorted her
to the convent. Their departure from
England together had very much the
look of an elopment. Sheridan, dur
ing the journey, explained this to the
fair fugitive and persuaded her to
marry him. The wedding took place
in a little church near Calais and was
kept secret.
Matthews had looked on Sheridan
as his friend and was furious at such
a breach of trust. He published insult
ing statements about the younger
man in several of the paper. Sheri-
dan, in France, read these and has
tened back to England to demand sat
isfaction. A duel was arranged. He
and Matthews fought with swords in a
tavern by night, their seconds holding
lighted candles above their heads
Sheridan rushed in upon his oppon-
ent, Selling the latters sword arm by
the wrist and placing his own sword
point at Matthews throat. Matthews,
taken aback by this sudden move,
was at Sheridan's mercy, and gasped:
Il beg my life, sir" Then the sec
onds separated them. and Matthews
wrote formal apology for the inso-
lent charges he had made against his
enemy Thus ended the first duel.
Matthews, however. spread broad
cast a garbled version of the affair
and continued to SANDER Sheridan
and Betty. This led to q second duel,
The two men fought again With
swords: Both weapons broke at the
arst attack. The duelists grappIed,
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He Was Reservinu Himself.

Martin w. Littleton, the New York
lawyer, described at a recent dinner
the music of the bag-pipes that he had
heard at Skibo, says the Washington
Star.
But all this word painting" Mr..
Llttleton ended, won't give you as
good an idea of this strenuous music
as you may get from a story.
AT Highland gathering one Don
aid Mclean had entered for number
OF events. The first of these was the
quarter-mile. Donald certainly didn't
distinguish himself in the quarter.
mile. OF eight runners he was last.
Donald, Donald cried a partisan.
why did ye no run faster"
Donald sneered.
Run faster!' he said, contemptu.
ously. And me reservin' myself for tho
bagpipe competition!'
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Amono Autocrate-

Mr.. Cumrox used to say he wanted
to get rich so that he could be his
own boss"
We'll, he succeeded" ~-'''
Not entirely. He's rich; but hs
does not dare taksre chance ON talk.
ingebaek to His chauffeur or the m,u.
tn charge Of his steam yacht"