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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-08

of food is a question which must be
settled by the individual. The amount
and kind of food, and the frequency
with which it should be taken, one can
find out best for herself, but take a
sufficient amount Of good, nourishing
food to be healthy and good looking.
raise a voice of warning to my
friends in these days of starvation
methods, that the martyrdom of alb
stemious dieting should not be fol-
lowed too far, in the desire to obtain a
figure that the present fashions would
seem to demand
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-08
POLICEMAN is STABBED.

MAXWELL, February Sin at
tempting to arrest two men who were
fighting, II, Helfers, a plantation po-
liceman, was yesterday attacked by
one of the combatants and so serious
ly stabbed that he now lies in the hos
pital with but fighting chance for
life. It seems that Helfers had been
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-08
A LoETIER IDEA.

The friend-So your latest novel is
real romantic, Ell? i suppose the
heroine runs away with her fathers
cOachman.
The Authorize; that's a chestnut
This heroine glides away with her
fathers aviator.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-08
THE QUESTION OF DIET.

Very many people believe that n
purity vegetable diet is much the best
for human beings, and that meat in
duces diseases, both Of the mind and
the body. Man has been provided with
all the kinds of teeth used in the mas
tication OF all kinds of food, from
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-08
HAWAII ECONOMICAL NOW.

HILO, February 6.-The meeting of
the board of supervisors which took
! place last week, might have been mis-
taken for that of the directors of a.
! large business house, from the manner
! in which it was conducted and IN
which the spirit of economy was pre-
dominant 1t was very seldom that
there was a close vote on any matter
and with but one exception, that of the
county band, there was a practically
unanimous vote on every subject. In
regard to the band the matter had
| been referred to the finance commit
tee for report, but was sprung sud-
denly on the board through resolu
ton introduced by Lyman, to the eff
feet that the organization should be
retained at the same pay as last year
! On a tie vote, Lyman and Purdy
against Austin and Kauhane, Chair
man Lewis decided in favor of keep
ing the band.
One of the important matters taken
up was the cutting down of expenses
in regard to telephones and electric
lights. Chairman Austin of the finance
committee complained that the rate
being charged for lights in the county
building were higher than those charg-
ed to private consumers, and the bills
were held up and placed in his hands
for a full investigation. He also was
given instructions to see what could
be in the line of saving money for the
county on telephones and by the re-
port of the finance, three telephones
were cut out at once and others will
go before long. In Kona and Kau It
appears that the county is given a
special rate, on account of the number
of telephones, but that this is not done
in Hilo and Puma.
Pro Rata System.
Perhaps the most important work
done was through a resolution intro
duced by Lyman that the pro rata sys-
tenn of handling county affairs be
adopted All the receipts of the coun.
ty will be handled in this manner in
the near future. The division will De
according to the taxes paid in each
district
Results of Supervisors Meeting.
Economy in county offices.
Refused to appoint extra police and
raise salaries.
Funds divided on pro rata basis.
Appropriation to move fire station
off federal building lot.
Telephone expenses cut down.
Electric light bill reduced.
DR.. Stow appointed county physi-
clan.
County attorney clerk refused and
unauthorized bills refused payment.
County band continued at same pay
Road scarifier and two rock crush
ers ordered.
County attorneys request for book
cases, files and Office alterations turn
ed down.
o. K. Akau made luna of Four Miles
. au road, Philip Victor made Hilo
quarry luna, Joseph Vierra made in
spector of Honolii road.
Money appropriated for lease for fire
station at Waiakea.
Mrs Nawahi notified to move build
ings on Front street back and lay side
walks.
Superintendent of public works ask
ed to make exchanges to permit wild
ening of Front street not yet arranged
for.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
SOME posTScRIPTS.

The livers Of 100 cod fish are needed
10 produces gallon of oil.
The Japanese process of dWarfing a
piHe tree lasts about ten years.
More than forty varieties of mos
quitoes Irake their homes in New Jer-
sey.
Nearly 10000. 600 acres OF wheat We're
raised. throughout India this year
Leaking fountain pens often may be
cured by rubbing little vaseiine on
their screw threads.
\ mansion built In Germany In 200 is
believed to be the oldest inhabited
ho1sc IN the world.
There are sixteen organs in the neck,
sufficiently near the surface TO be al
fected by tight clothing.
Both German and British East At
riea are rapidly becoming factors in
the worlds supply of rubber.
4 rotary crater, to be clamped to q
Kitchen table. is finger saver that an
Ohio woman has patented.
The worlds largest iodine works are
in he north of Chile. having an annu-
al output of 100000 pounds.
An attachment has been invented To
make an alarm clock turn on and light
a gas jet at predetermined time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
The Men Of Monomox.

Tell " the story far and wide.
Ring out ye bells with mpurnful toll
For the valiant crew of Monomoy
Who sleep on Handkerchief Shoal.
Brave were the men OF Monomoy.
Who went with u willing hand
To bring their storm-wrecked fellow
Through the angry seas to land.
For the gale blew fierce, and the seas
ran wild,
And the crew were all but lost.
But the boat sped on through the angry
Like shell on the breakers tossed.
True were the men of Monomoy,
Each true to his duty's call:
No thought Of self, no dread of death,
Eyes seaward. and that was all
And the wreck was made. and the boat
turned back,
When monster wave swept Ger
And swallowed the boat of Monomoy,
And the crew was seen 10 more.
Dead are the men Of Monomoy.
They sleep in a watery grave
They rest upon the treaeherous shoal
With the men they sought to save.
And the storms sweep down, aud the seas
And The ships their course pursue.
But the sea holds fast To its noble sons,
For 1t loves strong hearts and true.
Great are the men Of Monomoy,
Men whose names shall never fade;
No soldiers on the battlefield
Ger nobler sacrifice made.
And proud are the wives of Monomoy,
Sons proud of their valiant dead
And proud is the world of souls IKE
theirs.
Whose glory shall ever spread.
Tell ye the story far and wide.
Ring out We bells with tnourhtdI toi'
For the valiant sons of MononoS
Who sleep on Handkerchief Shoai
Joe Cone in New Bedford Stanaard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
Conservation a Century Ago.

In shese days, when the word CON
seryatfon' has become a fad with us,
and lis used in connection with almost
everything from hardwood ridges
down to high-water trousers. it Is more
or less amazing to us to discover that
the subject is old enough already to
celebrate it's centennial; that what We
are booming as something new was old
in Great Britain generations ago. AS
far back as 1911, there was a ''conser-
walton" agitation in England. and the
London Times recently published an
excerpt from its files of that year
showing that Britons at that date
deprecated the careless way In which
standing timber was being cut. The
paragraph referred to reads:
Timber--A 74-gun ship swallows up
nearly, or full, 5000 loads of oak tim
Der; load of timber contains thirty
cubical feet, and a ton forty feet; con-
seauently a T4-gun ship takes 2o00
large we'll grown timber trees, perhaps
two tons each The distance recon-
mended for planting trees Is thirty
feet; but supposing trees to stand at
the distance of two rods (3s feeD each
statute acre would contain forty trees
of course the building Of 74-gnn ship
would clear the timber of fifty acres.
Even supposing the trees TO stand one
rod apart Ga short distance for trees OF
. ;.,t1a
would clear twelve acres and an half
no inconsiderable plot of ground. Tit
complaints relative to the decrease ol
our timber are not to be wondered a
under such circumstances. but thi'
calculation points out to landed pro
prletors the necessity and patriotism
of continually planting more trees t
supply our future wants.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
$500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased TO learn that there is at least. one
able to cure in all its stages, and that Is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the on
ly positive cure now known to the medl-
cal fra ternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease, requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
thereby destroying the foundation or the
disease and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and as
stating nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have 30 much faith In its
eura tive powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that It iails &c
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address. f. J. CHENEY e. CO. Toledo, q.
Sold by alAdruggists, 75e.
- - 81 Na .tInIl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10

Spectacular destruction of property,
few states have any system whatever
lof supervision and control over such
structures. In the state of Pennsyl-
of navfgabIe streams, and the quality
Of that supervision. even. is inadequate.
In the West, Colorado exercises
measure of oversight, while in the
East, the three southern states Of the
New England group assert some con-
troll, at least to the extent Of having
laws bearing on the subject In Mas
sachusetts, the county commissioners
of each county are given the most
summary powers in relation TO dams
whose breaking might cause loss of
life. The designs for such dams must
have the approval of the commission
ers in the country where the dam il to
be built. The commissioners are re-
quired 10 see that the construction. as
- HiOSCSHn, I'iiAOIiiiS u Tue epttiiCd-
tons, and may even employ an inspec-
tor at the expense of the owner Of the
dam. After the dam is built inspec-
tions are provided for, and the com
missioners may compel repairs. and
even tear down the dam if il Is not
made safe.
1t seems to us that this law Of Mas
sachusetts could be improved upon, by
submitting for approval all plans to a
competent engineer who may. or may
not be. a member Of the county COM
mission. Adequate engineering criti-
eism OF designs and construction Of
structures upon which the safety and
the lives of a community may depend,
Is as necessary as in the case of sky
scrapers in great cities, or as is the
work of skilled medical men in boards
of health. It is the states duty to see
thai owners and4builders who are in-
clined to take chance" in order to
save money in their structures, are
held to a line which guarantees public
security.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
What's Wrong at Ausustag
Independent ReporterD


What's the matter with the State
Department of Agriculture? Why all
this changing of personnel? The
most successful farmer isn't the one
who is all the time swapping horses
so as TO have fresh team every
week Experience must proceed Of
ticiency, and it begins to look as If
the State was paying for a great
deal of experience without getting
any too much efficiency
state Dairy Instructor Merrill re-
signed to go TO the University last
fall. II. w. Redman. his first assis-
tant. followed soon after. a. s.
Cook, in charge of the seed improve
ment work, dropped out later to go
to a place in Washington. State En-
tomologist Il. f. Hitchings. was the
next to SHIFT from the Department to
the University pay roll. ana last
month g. W. Barber decided TO re-
sumo his college course. Now Mon
days papers announce the resigna-
ton of State Dairy Instructor
Hedley c. Black. who leaves the De-
partment and the State to engage III
the business Of Insurance, with head
quarters in New York city.
II so happens that we are person
ally acquainted with each OF the
gentlemen named above. They are all
fine fellows, and we have reason 10
believe that they are serving the
agricultural interests of Maine eff
GENTLY. Presumably there are just
as good fish in the sea as ever was
caught, but this everlasting shifting
around doesn't look right. 1t sug-
gests something at work underneath
the surface that isn't likely to do the
farmers of Maine any good We
don't pretend to know what it is, but
we should like to get acquainted
with the facts. 1t wouldn't be surpris-
ing if some of our rural friends
shared the same feeling.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
i HINGE YOU MAY NOT KNOW.


rhreadfietllr street, in London. Is
supposed TO have gained its name from
the Three Needles, which used to be
the sign OF the Ncedlemakers' Com
pany.
The beautiful enamel which is used
for covering Japanese trays. boxes,
etc, and on which the painted birds,
flowers and figures show SO brilliantly,
is obtained from the sap of the lac
guCr tree The tree grows sometimes
to the height of thirty or forty feet.
There are several species OF fish,
reptiles and insects which never sleep
during the whole of their existence.
Among fish, it is positively known
that pike, salmon and goldfish never
sleep at ALL also that there are sew
eral other fish that never sleep more
than n few minutes a month.
Damming the Mississippi has been
undertaken The great dam VIII
stretch seven-eights of a mile across
the river at Iowa. It VIII rise thirty
two feet above the river bed and viii
have 1f9 flood gates thirty feet wide.
Tic initial installation of 10000 horse
mower for generating electricity IS TO
be completed July 1, 1918
The famous mosque of st. sophia
in Constantinople. is always fragrant
with the odor of musk, and has been
SO eyer since it was built in the ninth
century. the curious thing being that
nothing is done to keep it perfrmed.
RE solution OF the seeming mystery
lies in the fact that when II MAS butt,
more than 1000 years ago. the stones
and bricks We're fixed with mortar
mixed with mt,sk.--N. Y, Telegram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
Coming Events

Oct. Domaine Woman Suffrage Assoeia-
ton. Portland
Oct. 12-Columbus bay.
Oct. I2-I4-BanEor Musical Festival.
oct. l6-1S-portard Musical Festival.
Oct. 20--Convention of York County Odd
Fellows, Sprngvale
Oct 23-2s- New England Fruit Show,
Oct. 25-Annual meeting Supreme Com
mandery, knights of Temperance. Port
Oct 25-26-27-hnnual Convention Maine
Teachers Association, Augusta.
Oct. 26-Nov. 4-National Dairy Show,
Columbus, Ohio.
Nov. 1-3-Maine State Conference OK
Charities and corrections. Augusta.
Nov. 3-12-New York Land and lrriga-
ton Show.
Nov. G-ll--Maine Corn and Fruit Show.
Portland.
Nov. i4-i5-16-Annral Convention Maine
State Pathological association. Augusta
Dec 12-i5-Mainc Poultry and Pet Stock,
Portland.
Dec, it-15-Maine Livestock Breeders
Association, Orono.
Maine Fair Dates. s-
Oct. 10-1i-12-Saga dahoc Co. Fair, Tops
Oct 1i--Goodwin Grange Fair. sonti,
Warren.
Nassalboro.
Oct l4-Ladies' ..s.t Canton Grange,
Canton.
oct. 14-Grangc Fair. Ashland.
oct. 17-le-West Bath Grange Fair.
Oct 2i-Chesterville Grange Fair.
Nov. 6-l1-Maine Corn and Fruit Show,
Portland
Dec. l2-1S-14-1b--Maine. Poultry and Pet
Stock Association, Portland.
Dec. 26-27-2s- 29-Freeport Poultry Asso-
citation. FreeDort.
Jan. ga l9l2-Western Maine Poultry
Assn, South Paris.
Pomona Dates.
Oct. 10-WaIdo Pomona. So Montvilie.
Oct. li--kennebec Pomona, Sidney.
Oct lf-New Century Pomona. Rum
oct 12-Excelsior Pomona. Bcrrys
Mills.
Oct l2-York Pomona. Arundel
Oct l4-Cumberland Pomona. West Fall
Oct. p-sNo. Franklin, Weld.
Oct 2kE. Kennebec Pomona. Winslow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
HAWAIIAN WILD FLOWERS.

The Wild flowers of the Hawaiian
Islands are beautiful beyond deseript
ton, but. sad to say, many of them
will never again be seen here, having
become extinct.
Some OF these flowers have very
strange properties or habits. For in@
stance. the flower of the hau tree lasts
but q single day. opening at sunrise
and closing at sunset. The hauhilei IS
another flower that lasts but day,
and what is more strange, changes
color during the day. The kaoli
awahu is another beautiful Hover and
II changes from purple to pink during
the day.
Some of these flowers, the uala
among tho number, are said To De
superior article of food, Whiie the
berry of many of them is faVorite
food of the wild fowl
Some of these flowers. such as the
poolanne, bloom only in April ana
NAV. but the greater. number seem 10
bloom nearly the entire year. some Oh
the vines arc very prolific; one OF them
snreads over an entire acre OF srouho'
There is another known as the ny
catched. and still another that lures
unsuspecting insects ito destruction oy
a REGULAR odor and light. Ahother
blooms bur single hour. Many OF the
most beautiful are becoming extinct.
r. nothing is done. but few or the 4oo
varieties said to have flourished mere
some years ago will remalp, Honols'iu
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
TRAVELLING IN JAPAN.
Listen to the Tale of Woe of One Who
Has Tried IT,

"The railway journey from kioto To
Yokohama, despite the fact thai most
beautiful country is trayersed, IS not
the pleasantest of experiences one
buys a railway ticket in Japan in in
stalments
The ordinary ticket only enables
enc to go by L train covering the min
imum distance in the maximum time,
so an: extra express ticket Is pur-
chased which meala. that the engine
moves a little noro quickly toward its
appointed goal
Next a platform ticket must be pro-
cured, 10 enable one to board thertrain,
and finally one has 10 fight ones way
into IA first-class carriage. Why. do all
the pa ssengers in Japan take their lug
gage into the already painfully small
carriage instead of leaving 1T IN the
van? And why again, does nation
that is a password for cleanliness inc
world over, possess train service 50
shoekingly dirty in every detail? ~ 81
1--WE once, in q weak moment. looked
into a stationmaSter'S room at a large
station, and fof pure dirt II could have
given points To u dust heap, In the
train carriages the floors are covered
with the dirt of ages, cigarette ends, Or
ange peel. sandwich papers; at inter-
walls n porter saunters in with brush
and leisurely sweeps ali the refuse into
a corner, having first carefully closed
every window, so that NO atom of dis
comfort or infection shall be lost.
"Flnally he departs, leaving behind
him the rubbish and an atmosphere
charged with germs and angry words
Truly a Japanese porter's definition Of
clearing up is removing rubbish from
ore place to another. To change cloth
ing in crowded carriage is merely a
nastime to a Japanese Traveller, and
one may happily heave 8 sigh OF relief
IL nothing worse happens The Wide
World.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
Sweaters for Our Soldiers.
(Brockton Enterprise.)


The adoption by the United States
army os that most sensible but also
Inost informal article of dress, the
sweater. shows u noteworthy change
in military tailoring since the old
fuss and feathers days. AS the
Springfield Republican points out mil
itary dress WAS formerly intendea to
impress the eye rather than to keep
the soldier warm and comfortable.
His clothes We're stiff, tight and bur-
densome. The picture which troops
would present on the parade ground
was constantly kept in mind, rather
.han their comfort on the march or on
the battlefield. Our military authors
ties have taken the lead since the in
PRODUCTION of a new order of things in
considering the personal comfort and
physical! well-being of the soldier. His
clothing is now adapted to the climate
In which he serves and to the duties
in which he is employed. He has lost
something in picturesqueness, but his
efficiency as a fighting unit has been
increa Sed.
Civil authorities have been more
difident about attempting reforms
along the same line, but the example
OF the military will have its effect IL
course of time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
State Control of Dams.

The Black River Falls, Wis. disaster
following so closely the horror of Aus
tin, Penn. and emphasizing the inse-
curity of such vast concrete strue-
lures as these dams under which cities
are built, brings home. more emphatl-
eally, the suggestion of Engineering
News which the Kennebec Journal
published on Saturday. Rigid state
control Of the design, construction and
maintenance of large dams, whose
breaking might endanger human lives,
seems to be a pressing need, and an
indication OF public intelligence, if
adopted.
In the Wisconsin flood, 80 houses
were destroyed and many lives endan-
gered through the washing out of the
embankment around concrete dam.
This structure is so feet high and loo
feet deep at the base. and was consid-
cred strong enough 10 hold any Hood of
water which might DC turned against
IL. But the breaking of less secure
dam, IS miles UP the Black river, threw
such great volume OF water against
the solcalIed Hatfield structure. that
the embankmept where the dam was
SUPPOSED 10 have been made secure,
was swept away
In spite of such dangers and the
demonstrations which have continued
marked by disasfSrsaIlse the Johnstowr
food. many of them By loss Of life anc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-10
Editorial Comment
Thin Air of the Sierras.
THIN AIR OF THE SIERRAS.
ICH1ristinn snin,,,.. ninnitnrA

christian Science Monitor)
News comes from Emigrant Gay
Cal. To the effect that Aviator Rob
ert @. Fowler has abandoned his
transcontinental flight for the reason
that the engine of his aeroplane VIII
not bite the thin air. of the Sierras.
This statement will arouse memories
among early weSterners and students
OF the West. At every step taken to
bring that great section of the coun-
try into subsection there has been
something that claimed 10 be an in
superable obstacle. 1t was the plains
that could not be crossed or cultivated.
or the desert ana the mountains that
could not he. safely penetrated. It
was the tornado. the drought The
prairie fire, the alkal water the ever
allurAE cver-reeeding mirage 1t
these, or any one of them had been
taken seriously by the empire-makers
Of hftT or sixty wears ago no prairie
schooner, no pony cXpesS no stage
coach, no railroad train, ould ever
have crossed the continent
~ curse, the thin air of the Sierras
which Mr.. FoHler's engine is unable
to bite VIII nevertheless, be bitten.
Obstacles far greater than this stood
between the argonaut and the settler
and die other side of the Sierras more
than half century ago; but pick and
axe and shovel, and, later on. plo"
and spade and hoe, bit through and
proved themselves masters of the sit
uation.
The thin air OF the Sierras came 10
those magnificent pne-clad regions
ages ago and is likely to stay for ages
to come. The mountain ranges that
lio between the valley of the Sacra
mento and the valley of the Mississippi
viii hardly be crossed by the aeroplane
If that machine and those who naNi-
gate il arr to wait for the air To be
come thicker What is needed is nel
a change OF mountain air but an aero
plane engine that Will bite 1t, and this
need seems as certain 10 be met as
that the need of mighty cuts of tun-
nels, of entertainments, of mile after
mile of snow-breaks and snow-sheds,
was met before the locomotive forced
it's way across those barriers.
In all the great West today there is
nothing that speaks more eloquentfy
of the triumph of intelligence and
energy over nature in her most stub
born and repellent moods, than the
works. past and present. of the men
vino forced their way into its great
mountains and made them as docile
as the valleys beneath.