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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21
MRS. VIEWERS
TALKS ON ART

The first half of the course Talks
on Art" given by Mrs. P. l.. Weaver
at Oahu College was concluded Mon
day. The second part will begin Mon
day, February 9th, at the same hour,
two thirty o'clock. The fee will be
five dollars, but persons who are in
terested in parts of the course may at
tend single lectures for proportion
ate fee.
The course will have a different plan
from the first part, although the sub
ject matter will be much the same.
This change is made to use some un-
usually rich illustrative material
which the College has recently receiv-
ed. A generous donor has given a col
lection Of about one thousand plates,
illustrating richly and in detail both
buildings and decorations, furniture,
etc. In the collection are about one
hundred large photographers of Ital-
ian Renaissance architecture, and
Trigg's well known folio of Italian gar
dens. Besides these many pictures
from private homes will be available
for this course. So rich and unusual
is this illustrative material that the
whole course is to be made to revolve
about it. The works Of reference and
pictures iOr the day will be on exhibit
tltn before ga H''sr ,bt salk, va. n
Will giv3 oppcrtuni+v fcr individual
study or consultation
The College feels that it is especial
ly fortunate in being able to have the
use for this class of this most beauti-
full and unusual material.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21
SHRINERS' OWN STORY OF TRIP
CONTINUED from Page seven.)

are arranged for everyone. May Allah
keep you all in his care. Aloha.
jim"
Few pilgrims remained up for the
supper this night, as they retired early
in anticipation of much doing the fol-
lowing and last day of our westbound
trip.
Monday mornings sunrise was prob
ably the most beautiful ever witnessed
by many of the party, of which nearly
all were up to view it; some, too en-
joyed the sea-bathing in the big deck
pool, and all were early at the break
fast tables. Many committees prev
iously appointed were soon at work at
tending to matters incident to the
closing of so enjoyable and lively a
voyage. The Song and Yell Commit
tee soon reported with as choice a
bunch of ditties as ever choked var
sity freshman.
This being the last pooling day, the
fine sporting blood was very warm,
and much interest and excitement was
shown. The auction pool mounted up
to $160, and there was keen rivalry in
the bidding. Past Potentate William
Croker of Islam won with number
1866; it paid $50 net. The dividends
amounted to SOS more, and left bal
ance of S12 for the Sports Committee.
There were five $40 terminal pools,
two S. ones, and two $3.50 ones. Their
winners were S. H. Suskind, $40; Phil
ip Zimmerman, $40; C. w. burlington,
$40; Mrs. e. A. Fletcher, $40; George
Filmer. $1O Phil. D. Gordon, So; Chris
Schmid, So; Eugene Korn, $3.50; Geo.
Van Lew, s.. About one more day
and the caravan would be betting on
the number of revolutions of the en-
gines. 1t was a noisy tiffin at noon of
this last day.
In the afternoon many incidents oc-
CURED to interest the caravan; a court
trial was on the docket-the People
VS.. John Boyle, charged with illegally
exposing a camera before the ships
armament, one saluting cannon, with.
out the necessary license from the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21
A RELIABLE REMEDY.

You are not experimenting on your.
self when you take Chamberlain S
Cough Remedy for a cold, as that pre-.
paration has won its great reputation
and extensive sale by its remarkable
cures of colds, and can always be de-
pended upon. 1t is equally valuable
for adults and children and may be
given to young children with implicit
confidence as it contains no harmfu
drug. For sale by all dealers. Ben
son. Smith & Co., agents for Hawaii
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21
FOREIGN NEWS.
Originating outside of North
Ameriea.)

A plague spot near Hardin, Man
churia, is said to have over 400 deaths
a day from the plague.
Mrs. Duncan Cameron, wife of an
officer of the Guards, was attacked in
the streets of Edinburgh, England,
and robbed of a $4,000 necklace.
A new Tolstoi will, just found,
leaves all his literary property to
trustees instead of to his wife.
Noel and Delatiere, French aviators,
were killed at Douai, France, while
conducting a trial of a military aero
plane
It is reported that Ethel lie Neve,
acquitted of completely with DR. H. H.
Crippen in the murder of his wife, has
sailed for Canada to be married to a
wealthy Canadian.
Edna May. now Mrs Oscar Lewis
ohm, captivated London when she ap-
peared on the stage in an amateur
performance for the first time in sew
eral years.
The execution of Haytian rebels by
the government was stopped by order
of the bishop until the arrival on the
scene of President Simon.
Admiral Charles w. Beresford, OF
England, is sixty-five years old, and
by virtue of the age limit clause Is
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21

Sports Committee, and other numer.
Gus and sundry offenses against the
laws of the Sports, Pool, and Social
Committees. The papers were served
by Constable Green, who collected his
fee in advance and thus rendered the
defendant unable to retain counsel, so
he had to appear in his own behalf,
calling upon several witnesses of in
tegrity and standing; he succeeded in
establishing an alibi, relying upon his
plea of ignorance, and threw himself
on the mercy of the jury, but the cara
van attorney convicted on a technical
ity, and the jury found him guilty as
charged. The judge, Louis Blaylock,
sentenced him to be left behind in the
crater of Kilauea, when we visit it
next Friday, and so instructed the
court bailiffs, George F. Trott, L. d.
Farmin, and Charles Eggers, to see
that sentence was carried out accord
ingly.
Just as the court was adjourning,
one e. A. Fletcher rushed in and made
charge against Noble of the Impe-
rial Council, DR.. Fredk. r. Smith, in
that the said Noble had been taken
red-handed in the act of squeezing cold
cards, that he had supplied his own
deck for the occasion, had won all the
money in sight, pocketed same, and
caused the game to thereby cease and
finish that upon notice being taken
of the unusual and extremely different
backs of some of the cards a count Of
same had been insisted upon and
made, which developed the fact that
there were ffty-four cards in the deck,
there being five knaves and seven
beloved ruler, is anything but an arro-
CANT despot, not in the least given to
show or aggrandisement, it was read
lily seen that Kris had slipped a cog
somewhere. But the fitting, timely, APP
propriate gift was that of a Lincoln
penny to Imperial Treasurer William
S. Brown, who, having lost the treas
ury funds in the stuff game, had urg-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21
'PHE WORLDS NEWS CONDENSED
Especial mail report to The from San Francsco)

"Jim Grow" law was constitutional.
The negroes who brought the action
denied that they we're receiving equal
protection under the law.
DR.. Charles F. Aked, pastor of New
York's fashionable Fifth-Avenue Bap-
fist Church, of which the Rockefellers
are members, is temporarily occupy
ing the pulpit of the First Congrega-
tional Church of San Francisco, and
may accept a call to the latter church.
Bishop Moreland declares that the
ratio is one divorce to six marriages
in California, and one divorce to
twelve marriages in the United States.
A bill has been introduced in the
California legislature providing that
judges be paid by the day-and it
must be an eight-hour day to get full
pay.
Under the new reapportionment plan
California gains three new members
in the house of representatives.
Postmaster-Genera1 Hitchcock has
received a petition from Fairbanks,
Alaska, requesting the establishment
in that city of postal savings bank.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Los
Angeles $4,000 with which to build
six library buildings in that city. A
large central library was suggested, but
Carnegie said he did not believe in a
central library in a large city and
preferred several small ones instead.
Whitelaw Reid, who is sojourning
at his home near San Francisco, lost
$4,000 worth of jeweIry through the
operations of sneak thieves who climb
ed in the second story and ransacked
the house while the ambassador and
his family were at dinner.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
agreed to give the Western Pacific the
same interchange of passenger bust
ness which other railroads on the
Pacific Coast have. This was brought
about only after months of negotiat.
ing upon the part of the Western Pa
cific.
For the second time since his re
covery from a protracted illness which
interrupted his first trial for bribery
Theodore V. Halsey, representative Of
the Pacific States Telephone Company
at San Francisco, has been acquitted
of the charge of bribery. This is one
of the cases resulting from the graf
prosecution.
Charles w. Steffken, saloon watch
man of the S. S. Siberia, was arrest
ed for trying to smuggle opium of
the steamer onto the docks at SaT
Francisco. Struggled silks were also
found in his room.
Mrs. Harriet B. Young, one of the
few surviving widows of Brigham
Young, is dead in Salt Lake.
A bomb was set off in the rear o
a Berkeley theater, throwing 100 men
women and children into a panic NJ
one was hurt.
Dr. e. G. Frisbie, president of thu
st. Thomas Hospital Association o
San Francisco, was the man who RAJ
over a woman with his machine, thel
left her on her own doorstep to die
The San Francisco grand jury is in
vestigating gambling with referenc,
to the connection the police have will
various dens.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21
THE JUMPING FROG

Today the first edition of Mark
Twain's maiden effort "The Jumping
Frog" is a battered little old green
volume, Unbound and badly printed.
1T is practically a pamphlet. but us
humor is as generous as many of the
authors later stories that came out in
more sumptuous style. In the Wash
ington Herald we find this sidelight
on the famous tale:
Not many days ago, man, ninety
years of age, tottered into Butte, Mon
tana, and ended his life by poison. He
was DR.. ]. G. Paulding. Among his
claims to distinction was that of hav-
ing been the hero of Mark Twain's
story, "The Jumping Frog" The 9TH
er party to the transaction, he used
to say, was one Eli George the toll
keeper of a bridge which the doctor
and Mark wanted to cross upon one
occasion when both were broke. Pauld.
ing insisted that it was he who filled
Georges frog with shot and caused It
to plant itself as solid as a church
and ehrug its shoulders like French
man when he should have jumped off
lively and won the bet for it's master.
This version of the occurrence has
been so extensively circulated since
the doctors untimelv death that We
feel impelled to interfere in the inter-
est of historical accuracy.
1t happens that Mark Twain him
self has left us very full account Of
"The Jumping Frog" story, which does
not in the least accord with the claims
put forward by the deceased doctor in
his lifetime, or by his friends since
his death Mark does not allege that
he was present when the jumping con-
test occurred. On the contrary, he
says that it took place in the spring
; of 1849, and was told in his presence
in the fall of 1859, by one stupid and
ignorant person to several others Of
the same kind, none of whom suspect
ed that there was an element of hui
NOR in the narrative. The thing that
struck the teller and his listeners
mark, of course, excepted) was that
the circumstance was entirely natural,
inasmuch as frogs like shot, and are
always ready to eat it. He put the
story into its present inimitable
shape, and after some vicissitudes,
succeeded in having it published thus
laying the foundation of a reputation
as the worlds greatest humorist A
translation of it in a French journal
he pronounced to be confused, chaotic,
unreposeful, ungrammatical and inane.
Many years afterward, Prof Henry
Van Dyke called Mark Twain's atten-
ton to the fact that a similar story
had been told by a Greek writer as
having occurred in Boetia, 1000 years
before it happened in Calaveras Coun-
~, Cal. Practically the only differ
ence in the stories was that in the
Greek account small stones were u.s.
ed instead Of shot Yet Mark himself
never doubted the authenticity Of the
American incident, and he, of all men,
should have been an excellent Judge Of
a fake story,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-21

CONTINUED on Page Twelve.1
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Continued on Page ten.)
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
Twenty Pages Today.

We present to you today the third
big holiday edition, larger than any
which have preceded it, comprising
twenty pages filled with the news OF
Winneshiek county and the state OF
Iowa, together with an interesting
illustrated Christmas story and some
beautiful and appropriate Christmas
pictures. But best of all, it is filled
with the holiday announcements of
the merchants of DEBORAH. Prac-
tically every merchant in the city is
represented, and it makes the paper
today a veritable encyclopedia of
local happenings and store news.
Read every advertisement, see what
the merchants have to offer you, and
you will be convinced that nowhere
can you do your trading to better
advantage than in DEBORAH, and then
come here to do your buying.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
POSTAL DEFICIT GONE
Hitchcock i'm Annual Report Predicts
Use of AerOplanes For Carry
ing Mails.
FAVORS THE PARCELS POST
Post Office Department is $219,113
Ahead at Close of Period
Covered by His Official
Statement.

For the first time since 1883 the
annual financial statement of the
Post Office Department shows a sur
plus instead of a deficit
This is the burden of the annual
report of Postmaster Hitchcock. He
indicated that the placing of the pos
tai service upon a self-sustaining
basis meant an improvement and ex-
tension of facilities and at no dis
tant day one cent letter postage.
AT the beginning of the present
administration in 1909, Mr.. Hitch
cock pointed out, the department
showed a deficit of $17,479,770, the
largest on record. In two years this
deficit has been changed into sur
plus of S219,11S. Extensions made
in the service include 3,744 new
post offices, delivery of mail by car
riers in 1S6 additional cities, 2,516
new rural mail routes aggregating
60,679 miles and 5000 additional
postal employees, with the salary roll
greater by $14,0OO,00O than it was
two years ago.
Preparations are being made to es-
tablish postal savings banks in about
10000 fourth class offices that do
money order business. In eleven
months operation deposits in exist
ing postal banks aggregated
$11, 100000.
In view of the successful operation
of the postal banks, dr. Hitchcock
strongly recommended the establish
ment by congress of an adequate
parcels post.
The postmaster general reiterated
that the second class postage rate
should be two cents instead of one
cent a pound. He also urged that by
readjustment of the pay of railroads
! for transporting the mails, based on
actual cost to the railroads, an an
nual saving to the government of at
least 100000 could be effected.
He predicted mail carrying by aero
plane in the near future.
Mr.. Hitchcock said 1.-The progress
in aviation encourages the hope that
ultimately the regular conveyance of
mail by this means may be practic-
able in many districts where the ma
ltural conditions preclude q sother
means of rapid transportation%2
Mr.. Hitchcock recommendedsgrant-
ing all postal employees thirty days
annual leave; that "a civil pension,
based on length of employment be
granted by the government to SUI
perannuated employees, and that
presidential postmasters be placed in
the classified service.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
THE FARMERS COMPANY.
DEBORAH Farmers Cooperative So
city Hold Annual Meeting and
Elect Officers.

The annual meeting of the Decor
ah Farmers Cooperative Society
was held yesterday afternoon at the
court house, when reports of the
years business were read, officers
elected, and general business trans
acted. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
President-A. T. Holton.
Vice Pres.-John Bragestad.
Secretary-Ed. F. Sellman.
Manageable Ellingson.
Directors-O. A. p. Haugen, Nels
Ramsey, o. G. Haugen, Valentine
Barth, c. ]. Odden, Nels Hegg,
Phil Carolan, Andrew Istad, John
Estrem.
The society is in very prosperous
condition, the past year being sat
isfactory one in every way. Man
ager Ellingson, who has rendered
valuable service to the company
since it was organized, informs us
that during the year which ended
Dec 1, 1Sl1, he bought 1928 hogs,
which weighed 3,47O,700 pounds,
for which he paid over $3.50, 100000,
leaving a satisfactory profit for the
company after paying all expenses.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
DEATH IN MADISON TOWNSHIP.
Mrs. Gust. T.. Bakken, Well Known
Lady West of the City,
Passes Away.

DEBORAH friends learned with
much regret of the death last We'd
nesday of Mrs. Gust. E. Bakken of
Madison township, from cancer of
the stomach, from which she has
been a sufferer for several months,
and for nearly a month past has been
confined to her bed.
Her maiden name was Helena
Melaas, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hans Melaas, and she was born in
Madison township on April 2, 1874.
She was united in marriage to Gust
Z. Bakken about sixteen years ago,
to which union two children, a
daughter, Miss Eda, and son, Ole,
were born, who, with the husband,
survive. She also leaves to mourn
her death four sisters and three
brothers, Mrs. Anon Anderson of
Claresholm, Canada, Mrs. John How
den, Mrs. Theo. Engen and Miss
Christina Melaas, Ole, Lars and Gill
bert of Madison township. Funeral
services were held on Saturday, Rev.
l. B. Torrison of this city officiating,
with interment in the Madison ceme-
terry.
Mrs. Bakken was a good friend
and neighbor, loving wife and
mother, and her death will be
by a large circle of friends.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
Luren Holds Annual Banquet

The annual banquet of the Luren
singing society last Wednesday even
ing at the rooms in the National
Bank building was a very enjoyable
affairs for all who participateda Prof
Sperati's family orchestra rendered
delightful music, and A. A. Lee,
president of Luren, made the well
come address, followed by song by
Luren and the banquet, after which
DR.. o. Doe was introduced as toast
master, and Prof. Carlo A. Sperati
and H. c. Hjerleid responded to
toasts. Several musical numbers
were enjoyed after the banquet, in
Guiding a vocal solo by Emil johann
son, with piano accompaniment by
Elmer Jesephson, also a vocal solo
by ALERT Larsen and piano solo by
Mr.. Josep.son.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
Premiums For Boys and Girls.

The boys and girls of Iowa have
a fine chance to win many good pre-
miums at the Third Annual Boys and
Girls Club contest, to be held at the
Iowa State College at Ames next
month. Several free trips to Wash
ington, d. c., a gasoline engine, a
sewing machine, are just a few of
the things offered as prizes on corn,
cooking, sewing, written essays, etc.
This is all free.
Full particulars and premium list
can be had by writing to P. C. Taft,
manager OF contest, Ames, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
NEW LODGE OFFICERS.
Additional List of Officers of Lodges
Elected EOr the Ensuing
Year.

In addition to the list of newly
elected officers of the city fraterna
organizations printed in our last is
sue, are the following.
Great Lights Lodge, A. F. & A. Nj
w. M.-Dr. F. w. Conover.
Sr. WIN. Headington.
Jr. W.. G. McCallum.
Treas.-H. C. Hjerleid.
ecretary-Luther Reed.
DEBORAH Chapter o. +. S.
w. MFRS. Mida Hegner.
w. P.-J. F. B. Portman.
A. MFRS. w. F. Abbey.
Sec.-Mrs. Russia Hislop.
Treas.-C. Trzcinski.
.Con.-Miss Bertha Bernatz.
A. C.-Mrs. Ella Kennedy.
Col. Hughes, w. II. C.
Pres. l.. l.. Caldwell.
Sr. Vice-Mrs. S. OXley. >
Jr. Vice-Mrs. j. II. Baker.
Treasurer-Mrs. c. Trzcinski.
Chaplain-Mrs. c. l.. Holcomb.
Conductor-Mrs. C. A. Mollart.
Guard-Mrs. P. c. Bloomfield.
Delegate-Mrs, P. &C. Bloomfield.
Alternate-Mrs. W. R. Toye.
OneOta Lodge, Ii. A. Y.
Foreman-E. T. Olson.
NJ. of Ceremonies-Geo. Bolstad.
Correspondent-Mrs. Russia Hislop.
Chaplain-Mrs. A. NJ. Soverson.
Overseeer-A. NJ. Sherry.
I Cd Dnh
Lady Rowena-Mrs. E. T. Olson.
Mathematician Morrison.
Sentinel-F. E. Bloomfield.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13


time will be the superintendent over
his comrades. Keep your eyes on
the round you stand on now, grip
the highest round within reach with
your hands, and keep climbing up
wards, and it will not be long before
you are up into the light of substan-
tial success. There is little to choose
in occupations so long as you do your
work with a will. Equal success
awaits all classes of labor. 1t is the
man that makes or kills the career.
Be industrious, sober, honest, and
not afraid of your work, and with
heath to bless you, success is not
far off.-Mason City Times.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
Gotch-Hackenschmidt Wrestle.

Manager Hovden of the Empire
theatre has angaged the films of
the famous Gotch-Hackenschmidt
worlds championship match for one
week from Friday night. A few
weeks ago he announced these films,
but was disappointed in getting
them, but he says they will surely
be here on the above date. There
is no doubt that these films will tax
the capacity of his theatre on that
evening.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
Sewing Department Display.

Beginning on Friday an exhibit Of
the Christmas work that has been
made in the sewing department of
the public schools, will be displayed
in the window of Mr. Ben Bears
store. This will be the only oppor-
tunity of seeing this work as this is
the only time during the year that
fancy work is done. Most of it will
be sent out of town next week, for
gifts and will not be available for
the general exhibit in the spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
DON'T BE ASHAMED OF WORK.

Too many men are ashamed of the
position they occupy in life, and of
consequence perform their work with
their heads down, with their courage
low, and never have a chance for
success. Why they should be has al
ways been mystery to us. All
labor of whatsoever kind, be it of
the most humble or of the most ex-
allied, is equally honorable. The
world delights in honoring honest
labor and extends the hand of well
come and thankfulness to grasp the
hard, calloused hand of labor when
it scorns and disdains to touch the
soft palm of the idler or gambler.
Clothes have nothing to do with the
man beneath, and it is generally
known that a higher per cent of hon
esty is found beneath the blue of the
working mans overalls than the
broadcloth of the more gentle occu-
pations. There is nothing that will
stop an honest, industrious, sober
man from walking up the ladder of
success, if he but puts his heart into
the work he does. The man that
yields the shovel with the thought
that every shovelful thrown takes
him little closer to success, instead
of with the thought that every shovel
means a second closer to quitting
time, is the man that within a short
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-13
o. O. Lomen Injured.

Mr.. o. o. Lomen had the misfor-
tune to slip while climbing a gate
Monday, falling against the top of
the gate and injuring his lower ribs
painfully. The doctor does not think
any bones are broken, but the blow
is such that he will have to stay in
bed several days.