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The Republican journal., 1911-10-12

Elhiney officiating. Interment was in the
family lot in the village cemetery.
There was good attendance at the regular
monthly business meeting of the Carver Me-
mortal library association last Thursday even
ing and important business was transacted.
Miss Angelina Carver, the efficient secretary,
is unable to serve longer because of her I'M
certain stay in town and Miss Harriet Erskine
was chosen for the position. 1t is now about
year since the building was dedicated and
the AS ISOLATION formed which has conducted
SO successfully the affairs Of the library In
the financial statement, which was reported in
these columns few weeks ago. it was shown
that there is not enough funds with which to
continue to run the library or to provide new
literature for the year. 1t is most earnestly
desired that all who are members will renew
their subscriptions soon and those who may not
be members may become either life or annual
members 1t may be that some who have
been annual members may desire to become
life members and it would be much apprecia-
ted. The life fee is $40, annual fee 81. All
membership fees may be paid to the commit
tee: Miss o. J. Lawrence, Miss Hannah Col
cord. Mrs. Henry Curtis, Mrs. A. T. Whittier
and Mrs. Jas. N. Pendleton.
DEATH OF DR.. HOPKINS DR.. Elisha Hop
kins, one of the oldest and most widely known
physicians for more than half century in
this section, veteran of the Civil War and
prominent resident, died at his home on How
q m nNtn h0R Nv
kins was born in Hampden, Sept. IA, 1929, the
son of Elisha and Polly (Taylor) Hopkins. He
was direct descendant of Giles Hopkins,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20
YOUR LIFE

Can 20 read FROM CRADLE TO
GRAVE by one who understands how,
Madam L. M. White is considered one
of the very best life readers IN Amer
lea. She makes no mistakes. She is
entirely different from all otRers. BY
her helpful advice you gain your de-
sires. Just send your full name writ
ten in your own hand, date and month
of birth, a small piece of cloth cut
from your own garment and handled
by no one but yourself. She will read
your life like an open book. Send ten
cents to help cover cost of postage
and material. Your money back If
every word Is not true and satlsfac-
tory, Address, Madame l.. M. White,
box SO, Los Angeles, Cal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20
FATAL ACCIDENT.

On Saturday Japanese named Yam
amoto Yasuke. working on the trail
being constructed in the preliminary
work for the proposed Oahu plantation
ditch from Waiahole, was knocked
over a precipice by a falling stone
that hit him on the head. He struck
on a ledge 200 feet below and was in
stantly killed, that is if the blow on
the head had not already done for him.
His side was crushed in. Another
Japanese was not ten feet away from
Yasuke when he fell. He ran to
Waiahole for help and the body was
recovered, It was brought into camp
at nine, o'clock, or FIVE hours after the
accident
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

Searles arrived from Port Townsend
yesterday afternoon, making the trip
in eighteen days She brought $780,
600 feet of lumber for the City Mill
Company. She is at the railway
wharf.
Shipping Notes.
Togo Kisen Kaisha Nippon Maru
arrives at ten o'clock tomorrow morn.
ing from San Francisco bringing
mail.
Bark Albert is alongside the rail
way wharf at Hilo, discharging. Hell
topmast, sprung during the run from
San Francisco, has been repaired.
Steamer w. G. Hall arrived yester
day morning from Kauai ports, re
porting fresh trade winds and choppy
seas. She brought nine cabin and
thirty deck passengers twenty bags
of cocoanuts, four bundles of empty
sacks and twenty-eight packages Of
sundries.
The Likelike came in from Hawai-
ports yesterday forenoon with mis-
cellaneous cargo
After the arrival of the Nippon
Maru tomorrow, one week will elapse
before the next mail from San Fran
cisco by the Tenyo Maru.
The Belle of Ireland, which arrived
yesterday afternoon from Newcastle
is discharging coal at the foot of Fort
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20
Old Resident Dead.

LIHUE, November A. - Joaquin
Cambria, for many years a resident
of Hanamaulu, died at his home early
Wednesday morning, death resulting
from cancer on the stomach. Deceas-
ed was fifty-eight years of age and
leaves widow and three children.
Funeral services were conducted by
Father Hermann at the Kapaia church
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

Per Matson S. S. Lurline, for San
Francisco, November 21.-H. Rauch, j
l.. Byron, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Nc
Even, Mrs. e. p. Gibson, Mrs. Il. }.
Buchly, w. Robinson. Mrs. Robinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Gandell, Master
Currie, Miss d. II. Currie, DR.. d. II,
Currie Rev. Geo. Meyer, Mr. Weis-
mann, c. A. Bruins, Miss A. f. Carr,
( Mrs. r. c. Carwithen Mr.. and Mrs. w.
J. Coultard, Mr. and Mrs. J. ].
Brandsletter and child, A. ID. Baldwin,
wife, two children and nurse.
Per str. Mauna Kea, for IIilo, via
way prs, Nov. 2l--Mrs Z. Batteile
w. n. campbell and wife, l.. T. Ry.
one, W. 2. Hopkio Miss Kelley, Miss
CourtriRht, W. G. Alleu, Rev. +. i
Cullen, p. 3. Maconachie, H. w.
Diggs, Mrs. II. F. Walker, w. H. BLY,
and wife, A. D. Baldwin, Rev W. D.
Westervelt, wife and child; Mrs. D.
A. Dyer w. b. Hopkins, l.. G. Sept,
Mrs. M. G. Michael, H. w. Wilder, A.
Tibbs, S. NJ. Spencer and wife, NJ r.
Johnson, Miss NJ. c. Michael, R. Car
ter, Leopold Matiegka.
Per str. Mauna Loa, for Hilo, via
way ports, Nov. Eli P. Curtis, Mrs.
c. NJ. Dureston, J. Fl. Charles, ]. A.
Warthen, A. L. Castle, Mr.. McGugars
and wife, A. D. Baldwin, Mrs. H. w.
Rice, d. NJ. Kilinahe, ]. A. Mcguire
Miss Melen Haguire. ,.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20


breaths of freedom, room, and privacy |
which they haven't been able to do
heretofore because there wasn't room. |
With the completion of the new cot
tage they have swarmed from the old
hive, and henceforth the dining table
will be used only during the day for
its legitimate purposes. And the mos
quito netting will grace the lanai no
more.
The Grove Farm Plantation is en-,
larging its area to the extent Of $50
acres. which lie on the upper end of
the plantation.
Homestead Test Case.
HILO, November 1.-THE first Of
the test cases, on the result of which
will to large extent depend the
homestead policy of the government
in the future, was heard before Judge
Parsons this week, the case being
that of Land Commissioner Judd
against Henderson.
, Judge Parsons ruled that the set
tiers must put their case on first, to
show that they had really complied
with all the conditions necessary for
the issuance of patent to them. Hen.
derson and Fraser, another settler,
testified relative to the fact that the
respondent had resided on the home
stead during the time required by
law; that is, that he worked on the
plantation, but had slept every night
on the homestead. Both Henderson
and Fraser testified that all trees on
o the lot grew in two gulches. These
were all forest trees, which had been
on the land when Henderson took il
up, but he had been advised that such
would be counted by the government.
They had counted ten trees in one
gulch and $50 in another gulch, and
had then ceased counting, as only $50
trees were required. All the trees on
the lot grew in these two gulches.
Joe Swain, the brother of the rang
er, was the first witness for the gov
eminent. He testified that he had, to-
gether with his brother, counted the
trees on the Henderson lot They had,
he said, counted fourteen in one gulch
but on the other hand they had found
only seventy-three trees in the other
gulch, where the respondent had
found over 26O. Ranger Swain testi-
fed to the same figures, but there
was some difference in the length of
time which the two SWANS said it had
taken them to count.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

Shipping And Waterfront News

Additional Shipping on Pdge I'lVc.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

street
Matson steamer Lurline arrived ut
$3.50 Sunday morning from Kahului.
She is at the railway wharf loading,
and will leave for San Francisco to-
morrow afternoon at six o'clock.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED.
Per str. Mikahala, from Maui and
Molokai ports, November t9-Mrs. Ma.
lakau, James Goldstein, Mrs. Onituka,
Miss Lucy Wallace, Mrs. Kalopua, Mrs
A. Hattie, All Moon, Mrs. J. S. Town
send, II. r. Meyer, Mrs. e. Holi and
child, George p. Cooke and wife, Mrs
Weatherby, Miss Caldeira.
Per str. w. G. Hail. from Kauai
ports, November 19-Chow Yuen
Wong zee, Chu YIN, Rev. b. Takeda
~. H. Townsend, G. P. Thielen, A.
Larnach, S. G. Cobn, Otto Schmidt.
DEPARTED.
Per p. M. S. S. Korea, for Sar
Francisco, November 1S.-Miss A
Rooney, Miss G. Jakins, Miss A
knous, Miss H. Knous, Mr.. Green
w. c. Sargent Mrs. Page-Morris, f
W.. Macfarlane, Walter Macfarlane, w
P. Odds and wife, Miss p. L. Cooke
}. Lando, J. H. Weinman and wife, w
N. Bellinger, II. S. Callahan, wife ant
daughter, J. A. McCandless, |. /
Clark.
PASSENGERS Booked.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20
THE MAILS.

From San Francisco, per Nippon
iuru, November 81.
TO the Orient, per Nippon Maru, No
eu,er H.
10 7a francisco per Lurline, No
.wiar 81.
lom the Orient, per Shinyo Maru
.oggmber a.
Ftum Australia, pc" Makura, De.
.wlcr 3.
To Australia per Mariana, Deem
ar 6.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

loyal Insurance Co. Of Liverpool
london Assurance Cooperation.
commercial Union Assurance Co. Of
London.
scottish Union and National Insur.
ance Co. Of Edinburgh.
caledonia Insurance Go. Of EdIn-
bursh.
,n7erlcan and Foreign Marine lnsGr-
ance Co.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20
Arrived.

Sunday, November 10.
M, N. S. S, Lurline. from Kahului,
$3.50 a. m.
Str Mikahala, from Maui and Molo-
kai, a. m.
st. w. G. Hall, from Kauai, a. m.
Str. Likelike, from Hawaii a. m.
Br. S. S. Belle of Ireland, twenty
three days, from Newcastle, p. m.
Am, schr Robert Searles, from Port
Townsend, a. m.
Departed.
Saturday, November 10.
P. M S. S. Korea, for San Frau
cisco, p. m.
Due Tomorrow.
T. X. X. Nippon Maru, from San
Francisco, 10 a. m.
Br. S. S. Willesden, from Portugal,
with 1900 immigrants.
Sailing Tomorrow.
NJ. N. S. S. Lurline, for San Fran
cisco, from Hackfeld wharf, p. m.
T. X. X. Nippon Maru, for Orient,
5 p, m.
Str, Mauna Loa, for Kona and Kau,
noon.
Str. Mikahala, for Maui and MoIo-
kai, p. m.
Str. Mauna Kea, for Hilo and way
ports, 10 a. m.
Str. Kinau, for Kauai ports, s p. m
Nippon Maru's Change of Usefulness.
After the present trip of the Nippon
Maru, due tomorrow morning from
San Francisco, and to sail in the aft,
ernoon for the Orient, she will enter
the intermediate class, joining the
traffic now handled by the Persia and
China of the Pacific Mail. With the
construction of the bigger boats,
Tenyo, Chiyo and Shinyo Maru. once
very popular vessels like the Nippon
and Hongkong are taking the rear.
Belle Of ireland Arrives.
The British steamship Belle of Ire
land arrived yesterday afternoon from
Newcastle, making the passage in
twenty-three days and bringing 5S0S
tons of coal She brought two sacks
Of mail from the Antipodes.
MikahaIa with Living Freight.
Steamer Mikahala came in from
Maui and Molokai yesterday morn
ing with sixteen cabin and thirty-one
deck passengers. eighty-two pigs,
fourteen boxes OF chickens, five boxes
of eggs, fifty-three bags of empty bot
ties and lat packages of sundries.
Purser French says the Koko Head
is still at Kahului
Robert searles with Lumber.
The American schooner Robert
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20

ER-ISLAND VESSELS.
Far Maui and Hawaii Ports.
Mauna Kea, Ill S. N Co., every
tuesday.
Claudine, IL S. N. Co.. every FRI
day.
For MoIokaI and Maui.
Mikahala, every Tuesday.
For kauaI Ports.
w. G. Hall, IL. S. N. Co., every
Thursday.
Kinau, IL. S. ~ Co., every Tues.
day.
kona and kau Ports.
Mauna Loa, IL. S. N. Co., alternate
tuesdays and Fridays.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-20
SHIPPING IN PORT.
Government vesseIsA

Government vesse1s.l
q $. N. tug Navajo from Mare Is.
md July &c.
MERCHANT vesseIsl
Mary e. Foster, Am. schr., from
bel deem, November 10.
Andrew Welch, Am. blk, from San
taacicco, November -.
Eerkenham, Br. S. s., from Newcas-
,e, November 13.
Repeat, Am schr., from Port Lud-
Ow, November 70.
Crescent, Am. schr., from Eagle Har-
sor, November IA Cat Pearl Harbor)
Samar, Am. schr., from Tacoma, No
emAer II Cfor Pearl Harbor).
Belle of Ireland, Br. S. S, from New
lstle, November 20.
Robert Searles, Am. schr., from
Port Townsend, November 90
PROJECTED ARRIVALS.
From San Francisco
Nippon Maru, November 81.
From China and Japan.
Shinyo Maru, November "a.
PROJECTED DEPARTURES
For San Francisco.
Lurline, November 81.
For Vancouver.
Makura, December 5.
For Fill and Australia.
Mariana, December 6.
For China and Japan.
Nippon Maru, November 81.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23

try Peruna, and after using Jour bot.
ties can say I was entirely cured"
Unable to Work.
MI. Gustav Himmelreich, Hochheim,
Texas, writes:
For a number Of years I suffered
whenever I took cold, with severe at
tacks Of asthma, which usually yielded
to the common home remedies.
Last year., however, I suffered for
eight months without interruption SO
that I could not do any work at all.
The various medicines that were pre-
.Gcribed brought me no relief.
"After taking six bottles of Peruna,
two of Lacupia and two Of Manalin, I
am free of my trouble so that I "a do
all my farm work again. I can heart
fly recommend this medicine to any
one who suffers with this annoying
complaint and believe that they will
obtain good results"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
DOG GUARDS BIG RHIN0CER0S
Little Fox Terrier Fights OF Rats In
Central Park M%enagerle and
Smiles 10 Happy.

New York.-Jim. a little fox terrier
that is one of the privileged charac'
tiers around the Central Park men
agerie. is sleeping every night now n
the cage with Smiles. the r~hinoceros,
to protect the latter from rats. He
is the best rat catcher that has ever
been around the menagerie. outclass-
ing all the traps by a ratio Of 2 to l.
For a long time Smiles vas not liv-
ing up to his name. The rats fright
ened him until he became sullen.
Now that Jim is on the job every
night the ~rhinoceros has a grin on
his face that will not come of.
A cat keeps the rats out Of the lion
house, but all the other houses are
badly infested with the rodents. which
care not to go near any of the traps
set for them.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
q EairlN Wet World.

The Pacific cean overs 5000, 900
miles, the Atlantic 30 200, 900 and the
Indian, Arctic and Antarctic $4,000. 900.
To stow away the contents of the Pa
cifc 1t would be necessary to fill a
tank one mile long, one mile wide and
one mile deep every day for 44O years.
Put in figures, the Pacific holds in
weight s4s,Oo O 900, 600, 600, 600, 900 tons.
The Atlantic averages a depth of
not quite three miles. It's water weighs
1876, 600, 600, 900, 600, 100000 tons, and a
tank to contain it would have each Of
OF the other oceans are in the same
startling proportions. 1t would take
all the sea water in the world 1000, 600
years to flow over Niagara
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
REFUSE To DEBATED
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM
AGAIN poDGED BY HOUSE.
DISCOURAGED BY FIRST TRY
Made Special Orde.' for Next Mon
day and House Proceeds to Tax
Ferret BiII-Members Go
to Omaha.
DISCOURAGED BY FIRST TRY

After in vain trying to take up the
consideration of the initiative and
referendum bill and after half an hour
had been wasted in a discussion as
to which end Of the bill to take hold
of, the house has voted to put off the
heavy labor until next Monday after
noon 1t then grappled with Quacken-
bush's bill to enact into Nebraska
law the Iowa tax ferret law, which is
now before that body in an effort to
secure its repeal. No conclusions
were reached, discussion of the prin-
ciple of tax collecting involved taking
up all the time and several members
being still loaded with ammunition. 1t
will become the first order of bust
ness in the next committee Of the
whole.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
sENATE AND HOUSE HAVE DEALT
WITH IMPORTANT ISSUES.

Decided progress was made by the
legislature the past week. The SEN
ate agreed upon an initiative and ref
erendum bill and has disposed Of the
vexing questions of county option and
Sunday baseball, defeating the first
and passing the second. The house
has settled one form of capital re-
moval by d%ecisively defeating it, has
passed a bill for the establishment Of
a secondary school of agriculture in
Southwestern Nebraska and has put
through quite a quantity Of bills OF
minor Importance.
The house committee on privileges
and elections disagreed in the Scheele-
Wertman contest from Seward county.
and this question may be finally set
tied in the house during the current
week. One of the most encouraging
signs of progress has been the early
introduction Of the salary appropl ia
ton bill, something never before uc-
complished. In addition to this feat
word comes from the finance ways
and means committee that it may
have the general maintenance appro-
priation bill ready for introduction to-
ward the end of this week. Even II
the bill does not get in until next
week this committee will have per.
formed another unprecedented feat in
accomplishing an early drafting Of the
bill.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
Tax Ferret Bill.

Quackenbush has had a bill on gen
eral file for ten days, relating to
methods of listing taxable property in
the state. He has had it put down
from time to time, but has asked to
have it considered. The bill is copied
from the Iowa law and provides for
O tax ferret who shall for a consider
alton ferret out hidden property for
taxation purposes, and provides that
the county treasurer shall place such
hidden property on the assessment
rolls any time it is found unless nor
than five years since the escape has
elapsed. The ferret is to get 80 per
cent Of all taxes collected on proper
ty which has been hidden from the
regular assessor.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
HEN SELECTS FERTILE EGGS
Leghorn Chicken of Fine Pedigree and
Remarkable Nature Casts Out
"UnhatchabIe."

Johnstown, N. Y.-Giles Freeman, a
farm hand employed by Eddie Hale,
owns a brown leghorn hen of fine pedi-
gree and a remarkable nature.
Before he bought the fowl from
Hale, Freeman noticed whenever the
hen was put on a new setting she
would kick several eggs from the
nest.
Marking these eggs and placing
them under other setting hens, Free
man found not n would hatcL. The
remaining eggs invariably brought
forth chickens.
Tired of buying setting eggs for a
hen to scatter over the floor, Hale
sold the fowl to Freeman. He chris
tened her Minerva.
Freeman now uses her only to sort
worthless eggs from the settings Of
farmers who come for miles to have
the bird pass judgment on their as
sorted eggs.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
VIII Receive Investigation.

In addition to the investigation now
being carried on as to the advisable
ty of moving the state university bod
fly to the state farm campus and the
advisability of maintaining a depart.
ment of medicine, the connection be-
tween the so-called university school
of music and the university may re-
ceive some attention. State Auditor
Barton has made the unchallenged
declaration that this school is a dis
tinctly private enterprise, using the
brand Of the state for its own private
duanc;a! gain.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
SHOWS GRUB WORMS IN EAST
Connecticut Man, Stanch Member Of
Temperance Party, Testlfies
to Phenomenon.

Winsted, Conn.-Abram C. Shelly
an aged and stanch member Of the
temperance party, while walking along
Torringford street the other morning
during a snowstorm, perceived hun
dreds Of live grub worms on top Of
the To- He gathered a handful Of
them and brought them to Winsted to
corroborate his statement. In a warm
room the worms appeared as lively as
in the summer.
Shelly is certain the worms did not
crawl up through five inches of snow,
and the only way he can account for
their presence on the snow is that the
winds picked them up in the South
and they came down in Winsted with
the snowstorm.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
Queen Mary's Trousseau.

Queen Mary is following the ex-
ample set by her mother, the duchess
of Teck, who at the time Of her daugh-
ter's wedding with the present king
declared that for the ~trousseau mot a
yard of cambria or linen, of flannel or
tweed, of lace or ribbon, should be
bought outside the kingdom" and
who kept to her word. Queen Mary
Is having her coronation robes and
gowns for court functions as well as
the opening of parliament gown made
by a British firm or all British mate
rial. She has ordered eight dresses so
far, and work on them has commenc-
ed.-London correspondent New York
Sun.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
Difficult to Settle.

Members of the legislature find it a
rather difficult task to settle for them
selves just what their constituents de-
sire them to do. Just at present the
house members are being bombarded
by petitions upon the Sunday baseball
question. Some of the petitions re-
quest them to votes for the Bartling
bill and others ask them to vote
against it.
what ought a member to do?'
asked Representative Eastman, as he
looked up this morning from a pile of
petitions he had just opened. Here
is one signed by fifty persons asking
me to vote for the bill. Here's an
other with exactly fifty-five anne on
it asking me to vote against the bill"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
MAKING A NURSE OF FATHER
Boston Baby Association Plans to
Have Male Parent Aid In Bring.
Ing Up Infants.

Boston.-A new and novel plan has
been set on foot by the Boston Asso-
citation for the Care Of the Baby and
Its Food, whereby the father as well
as the mother is to be given careful
and concise instruction as to what is
for the best interests in the upbring-
ing Of the child and the care of the
mother.
This departure, after much expe-
rience in mother instruction, has been
deemed as one of the essentials in
perfecting the knowledge among the
poor concerning the health of the
child.
The fathers are to be got hold Of
through the mothers who apply at the
different milk stations.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1911-02-23
Jewels Rise In Price From 20 to Is
Per Cent. In Nine Months
VIII Go Higher.

London.-Buy your jewelry for the
will cost you more.
Every kind of precious stone, with
the exception Of the ruby and opal,
has risen in price from 20 to rs per
cent. during the last nine months.
1.-The reason for the rise u.s." a we'll
known jeweler said recently, that
the Americans have recovered from
their recent slump and are buying
every fine jewel they al lay their
hands on
AT the present moment we are
raying from 25 to 80 per cent. more
for diamonds. Consequently, a stone
costing 2100 a year ago cannot be
bought now for less than 9125 or
e130-
"Sapphires have risen 20 to 30 per
cent, and the other stones, with the
exception of rubies and opals, are
CORRESPONDENCE higher. The artif-
cfai stones keep the prices down.
Opals went out of fashion after Queen
Victoria died.
Finding that the precious stones
are so much higher in price. people
are buying the semi-precious stones,
such as the amethyst, topaz, peridot,
tourmaline and green garnet. AS a
result, these stones, which a few
years ago could be had for As to s.,
are now worth s2 to E2 los.
Comparing the prices of stones to.
day with those of ten years ago, the
percentages of rises are very much