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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-04-15
$3.50 Recipe For
Weak Kidneys, Free
Relieves Urinary and Kidney Troubles,
Backache, Straining, Swelling, Etc.
Stops Pain in the Bladder,
Kidneys and Back

Wouldn't it be nice within a week or so to
begin to say goodbye forever to the scalding,
dribbling, straining too-frequent passage OF
urine; the forehead and back-ofthe-hea aches
the stitches and pains in the back; the growing
muscle weakness; spots before the eyes; yellow
skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eyeids or ankles
leg cramps; unnatural short breath: sleepless-
ness and dependency.
have recipe for these troubles that you can
depend on and and if you want to make quick
recovery, you ought to write and get copy of
it. Many a doctor would charge you $3.50 just
for writing this prescription but have 1t and
will be glad to send it to you entirely free. Just
drop me line like this DR.. A. E. Robinson,
Kl9O Luck Building. Detroit, Mich, and Will
send il by return mail in plain envelope. AS
you will see when you get 1t this recipe contains
only pure, harmless remedies. but 1t has great
healing and pain cOnquering power
1t will quickly show its power once you use
it, so | think you had better see what II Is
without delay. I will send you q copy free
you can use Il and cure yourself at home.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-04-15
"Red Water"
in Dairy Herds

Western Washington dairymen have
been troubled considerably with what
is termed cred water in their dairy
herds. 1t has been source of con-
siderable loss to the farmers in King
county, and we hear similar reports
from other parts of the state. 1t ap-
pears to be worse on logged-oft lands.
The Ranch took this matter up with
the State College some months ago,
but the remedy offered did not seem
to be efficient. Later we took it up
with the Bureau of Animal Industry
of the Agricultural Department at
Washington, d. @. Their reply is
printed below. This shows that it is
a trouble for which no particular
remedy has been discovered. There
is not great deal of encouragement
in it for dairymen. Following is the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-04-15
reply we received from the Depart

reply we received from the Depart
ment:
Mr.. j. d. Dean,
Editor The Ranch,
Kent. WASH,
Sir: Referring to your letter of
March 16, regarding the disease of
cattle common to the Puget Sound
region and known as ''red water, "
you are advised that the Bureau has
no bulletin bearing upon this subject.
While the exact nature and cause
of this disease is not known, it is
attributed to the eating of irritating,
acrid, astringent, or resinous plants,
or drinking water from soil rich in
decomposing vegetable matter and
containing alkaline salts, particularly
nitrites, and the presence in the water
and food of ptomaines of bacterial
growth 1t closely resembles a
disease of cattle known as hematuria
vesicalis and reported as occurring in
Germany, France, Italy and Belgium.
Some have believed this disease to
be one of piroplasmosis, that is, a
condition similar to that observed in
Texas or tick fever in which the red
blood corpuscles are destroyed before
they are excreted through the kidneys.
On the other hand this theory is
not borne out by the facts that in
cred water'' there is observed I'M
altere blood and even clots in the
urine.
Moreover an examination of LESSONS
in the bladder reveals extensive and
chronic Inflammation which rather
indicates that the condition is due to
some irritant and as certain plants
contain poisonous principles which
when eliminated by the kidneys cause
haematuria or bloody urine it is
possible that the ingestion of some
such plants may be the cause Of this
condition.
Very respectfully,
r. W. HICKMAN,
Chief Quarantine Inspector.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1911-04-15
Very respectfully,
r. W. HICKMAN,
Chief Quarantine Inspector
Agriculture.

Agriculture, the basic industry of
the country and of the world, is en-
titled to the foremost position in leg
islative affairs. History proves that
in all countries where agriculture has
prospered all other Industries have
prospered, and where agriculture has
declined, all other industries have
declined; therefore, the promotion of
manufacturing, transportation and
commercial interests and the interests
of the people engaged therein. Agri
clture does not depend upon other
industries for prosperity, but other
industries depend upon agriculture
as the basis of their prosperity. The
prosperity that has been enjoyed by
the people of the country in recent
years has been primarily due to the
magnificent crops the farm ers of the
country have produced. Any effort
that results in an increased crop pro-
duction, increases the prosperity of
all the people. The forty million
people living upon the farms of the
country are entitled to as great rec
ignition in tariff and other legislation
as an equal number engaged in non
productive industries. 1t is one of
the objects Of this organization to
secure such recognition of the rights
of the people in a non partisan way
as will result in the greatest good to
Masters Address.
The Grange has for many years
been factor in developing political
conscience in the people. When the
Grange started its fight the worship
of party was religious observance.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
BY Charles Williams.

OF all the hard lives a man ever
lived in the South Sea-and I've been
sailor, whaler and trader among the
best of -"blackbirdiing" was the
worst. A man had good times ashore
and the like of that, but when he
worked he carried his life in his hands
1t was so aboard ship as well as
when he went ashore after labor re-
cruits. | don't know who gave that
business the name of recruiting" for
we knew it to be almost always
downright kidnapping that generally
ended in slavery. No wonder the ma
lives resisted every recruiting crew
that landed.
Among the big islands lying south
of the line recruiting could be car,
ried on easier than on the Coral Isl.
ands. Two entirely different sets of
people inhabited the former Those
living along the beaches we're known
as salt water men" while the crowd
in the interior were "bushmen" They
were continually fighting and used to
perform their cannibalism after taking
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
"BIackbirding" With The
Last of The Buccaneers

Although turbine liners keep regular
mail schedules where buccaneers once
cruised, there remains about the South
Sea the glamour of romance and mys.
terry. Among all the rough men who
made life hideous in those waters the
figure of an American skipper stands
pre-eminent-Captain Bully" Hayes,
who never knew fear.
Hayes commanded the fastest craft
ever sailed in the South Seattle brig
Leonora, stolen in Chinese waters.
Merciless to those who opposed him,
he had bursts of generosity unknown
to his rivals. He recognized that the
invasion of the South Sea kingdom by
the missionaries meant the coming of
law and order, which, in turn, meant
the death of his reign of violence. So
he strove to thwart the PROSECUTING
band, and until his end in the late 7O's,
with the Pacific as his shroud, he sue
cessfully combated the missionaries.
The last survivor of the rough band
who did the bidding of this master sea
rogue is Charles Williams, now living
in Honolulu. He has told here a
graphic story of the ruth1assness of
Hayes.-New York Herald.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
MILKING SNAKES
FOR ANTI-TOXIN

To provide antidotes for snake-bite
the official surgeons of the Bombay
government keep a large number of
snakes which have to be "milked" of
their poison at regular intervals. How
this is done is described by DR..
Francis Freemantle in a just publish
ed book, Health and Empire"
The snakes" he writes, ARE kept
in biscuit tins, covered in by fine
rabbit netting in the place of lid,
and are under the charge of the clev.
crest snake charmer in India, retain
ed for the purpose at what to the
natives is the princely salary of %
rupees month, or 500 a year all
told. The cobras are MIXED" as it
is called, once every seven or ten
days. They are turned out at the end
of this time from their tins. The neck
is pinned down by the charmer with
the end of stick and the tail by
the bare foot. He then seizes them
behind their jaws between his finger
and thumb, while an assistant holds n
sherry glass covered with American
cloth, through which the cobra
plunges his fangs-the fangs on the
upper jaw about in the site of our
canine teeth, the cobra's one-sixth of
an inch and the viper's half an inch
long. The snake having bitten into
the American cloth, a bright yellow,
clear liquid, about half a teaspoonful,
escapes into the glass, and in a few
hours crystillizes out. The cobra is
fed through a glass thistle-shaped
funnel thrust down his throat, with n
quarter of a pint of egg and milk
mixture and is finally returned to his
tin for another week or ten days until
he is hungry enough to bite again.
THE poison in some snakes is ex-
traordinary virulent. One grain Of
poison from Russells viper inserted
in the jagular vein will kill a horse
in fifteen minutes"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
EARNING CAPACITY
Of LOCOMOTIVES

An engineering expert with a fine
appetite for mathematics has been
figuring out for the Railway and
Engineering Review just how mucn
railroad locomotives are worth per day
to the railroads owning them. He
took into consideration the locomo-
tive's earning capacity making all
due allowance for financial loss caused
by detention in the repair shop, the
increased cost of locomotive repairs
and renewals, and the cost of fuel,
water and men to run the locomotive.
The average daily earnings of loco
motives on the Pennsylvania Railroad
was figured out at S131S4, which is
slightly above the average for all the
railroads of the country. In the East
the average is $124S4, and on the
Western roads $13OS4 per day. The
locomotives of the Central of New
Jersey heads the list in the East,
with an average of S147O6 earned by
each locomotive per day, and the D,
L. & w. comes next with S140.S3,
In the West the Santa Fe locomotives
lead with $149.53 earned per day.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

A very queer situation involving a
question of the great value of bad
and the important work they
perform in the preservation of a ma
ton, and especially the British EN-
pire, has arisen in England, King
George recently criticised the man.
ners of Englishmen, which, he said,
were getting worse and worse, and he
suggested that it would be a good
thing to include the incubation of
courtesy in the curricula of the
schools. And Immediately a great
many loyal British subjects remade
the discovery that Englishmen are not
patterns Of politeness. They began
to deprecate it, and say what a pity
it is, and what could be done to alter
it?
The Bishop of Worcester made a
speech to the boys of Wolyerley
School in which he recalled CONVEX,
sation he had with the King on the
subject of manners The King had
assured the Bishop that Englishmen
in point of manners, were beginning
to compare very badly with distin
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
OF A
THREADED NEEDLE

Babies of eighteen months have no
business swallowing needles and
thread. A medical correspondent of
the Lancet writes in the current is
sue about one that did.
an the Rue de Matignon Paris" he
says, 81 had neighbor, a Hungarian,
who was a working glover. One morn
ing the glover's wife brought into my
consultingroom a screaming baby of
the crawling age, i. e., eighteen months
old. The mother evidently in great
'anxiety, told me that whenever moved
or carried the poor baby began scream
ing until again replaced in its cradle.
On the child being stripped | found ii
well nourished and undistuTbed by pal
pitation, excepting in one spot on the
back. Here very slight pressure on
one particular point induced a fit of
sereeching which indicated a definite
localized trouble. On pressing the
finger very gently over the tender
place l distinctly felt a point which
was slightly movable and which was
evidently the source of the pain. | at
once made slight incision, when to
my surprise a little black point pro-
truded from the wound. This, with
pair of small forceps, drew out very
gently, and to my establishment |
withdrew a small bundle of about two
inches long, quite black, which | as
certained to be a needle wrapped NJ
in thread.
This was at once recognized by the
mother as a glover's needle which the
child must have swallowed while
crawling about the floor, which haC
worked its way outward through the
coats of the stomach. The operation
over, the child fell fast asleep and re
covered in two or three days aftel
parting with this dangerous incum
brance."
!
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

prisoners. But when the labor feet
began cruising and the native rulers
learned that every captive had a COM
mercial value, the chiefs would make
deals to sell regularly all the captives
they could take, getting bright pieces
of cloth, beads, looking glasses, tobac-
co, guns, knives and such like in trade
for EN-.
was head recruiting man for Cap
tain Bully Hayes when we sighted
the noreast coast of Pau Una, one of
the New Hebrides Islands. We we're
bound for Queensland to fill an order
for labor boys on a sugar plantation.
The work of the recruiting crews was
to get the natives, either by persuad.
boats and row them out to the brig
Leonora. The captain got from $25
to $50 a head for them, and he never
seemed to care how much risk his
crews ran just so they brought him
recruits. Everybody in our boats
went armed. In addition to the re.
cruiting craft, which we'd beach, an
other craft, called the recovering boat,
always followed, close up, and stood
just off shore to protect the men of
the first craft from attack, for those
wild natives were a savage lot The
captain had picked up a promising line
of beach that morning, and, as we cut
away from the brig, he said
Keep a sharp lookout. Those fel.
lows have cut down too many crews
for you to get careless"
AS we neared the beach nobody ap.
peared. This seemed strange, so |
had my crew back water until the re-
covering boat came within hailing dis.
lance. l called to her captain. jim, Il
desperate, numbering niger from the
Solomon Islands, to ask how he liked
the look of things.
"Heem look funny" he said. "Meb-
be we KUN too early More better we
go in littr piece more"
Whether the natiYes wished to rush
a boat or not they generally made
their appearance, and the look of
things made me suspicious, but out
jumped, followed by one of my crew
| stood uncertain what to do when the
boy spied cleared space about thirty
yards to our right. We walked along
the beach to this spot, where | gave a
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
Even Bad Manners
Have a Value Nowadays

guished representatives of other ma
tons with whom he came in contact,
And now some of the dignified Brit
ish journals and periodicals have
rushed into the fray with an argument
in favor of bad manners, London
Truth, for instance, calls attention to
the fact that too much courtesy has
in all ages accompanied downfall.
"Noblesse oblige, is says, has ruined
more people and nations than unwise
speculation France has name for
courtesy, so has Italy, so has Spain.
Germany, England and the United
States each has a special brand of bad
manners. Compare the status Of these
two groups of countries,
Bad manners Of the national kind
are the sign manual of power, and
have something fibrous in them which
does not for a moment excuse them
but which enables the observer tC
understand them. On the day
when King George finds himself rul
ing over a polite nation he will fin,
himself ruling over decadent ma
tiOn "
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
DO We BLUFF TOO
MUCH IN BUSINESS?

The Honest Business Man bit the
end off a 25-cent cigar and reached for
a match.
what a bully old bluff New York
is" he observed to the not altogether
disinterested person who was paying
for the lunch.
The not altogether disinterested
person expressed his desire for fur
Their information by a polite elevation
of the eyebrows.
your trying to sell me a suite Of
new office furniture on the plea that
it will make my customers think
am prosperous, for instance My
landlord lavishing marble and onyx
and mosaic on the hall of the apart
ment building and putting in the most
disgraceful woodwork in the small
badly arranged rooms that he rents
me at a price based entirely on the
grandeur of the hall, for another in
stance. Your paying 40 cents for a
half cantaloupe here when you could
get just as good for 20 cents off
Broadway, my taking a taxi from the
office to meet you, when | could have
come almost as quickly and quite as
comfortably on a car. My wife going
| to a fashionable resort in the Adiron-
dacks and wearing herself out dress
ing and motoring and dancing, and
keeping up with the social pace, when
what she really needed and wanted
was a good rest; Bilkins selling his
last years car because it hasn't fore
doors though
But my dear fellow, we must keen
up appearance, you know
And we are all so complacent and
SNUG about ourselves" continued the
Honest Business Man. I'VE thinl
that nothing worth while ever escaped
off Manhattan Island. Only yesterday
my second stenographer who is {
young and a recent arrival from ;
Western city, was sputtering to thu
first stenographer because the latter
had asked if she ever saw a real fir,
engine before she came to New York
The girl resented the insult, rathe
neatly, / thought. She retorted tina
she had never seen horse-car unit
she came to New York, The girl ha
been here less than six months am
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

/ cry. Instantly out stepped three ma.
tive men. None of them carried weap-
ons, so my suspicious vanished right
away. They spoke the Bache-de-Mer
English.
First they wanted to know if I'd
come to trade. l told them we want
ed recruits. The spokesman said they
had some bushmen and they might sell
them. He told me to get the trade
up from the boat while they'd bring
the captives out. The chief was, they
added, up there pointing to a high
mountain, hunting bushmen. The cap.
tives were, the fellow said, being held
for a German labor boat, but if gave
enough they would let the "niggers"
go, as the chief would be sure to re-
turn with more.
This news got me eager to grab
them captives. Captain Hayes abused
the Dutch every time they was men
toned and swore their crews were
worse recruiting than any others, al
| though | couldn't see any special diff
ference. Anyhow, | knew he'd be glad
to do up the Germans, so back to the
boat We hurried, the natives disap-
I pearing in the brush.
Carrying our trade, we came ashore
again | ought to have had the mig
gers come down by our boat, but the
hope of fooling the Dutchmen made
me bit careless. We spread the
trade out on the beach, but the can
tives didn't appear. Finally one of
the original three walked over, looking
at my stuff and shook his head.
We'll! What's the trouble?" 1 de-
manded.
You not got guns. Cheef, heem see
we not got guns. Heem heep mad"
His change of tack put me in a fix
Hayes expected us to get as many re-
cruits with as little cost as possible
But ten niggers was ten niggers. What
was | to do?
Now, the salt water men had eyi-
IDENTITY watched us through the brush,
and when they saw we had no trading
rifles came with a demand for guns,
expecting, maybe, that I'd trade some
of the weapons the crews carried for
our own protection. | did think of
offering a couple of those guns, and at
this moment the other men stepped
Continued on page twentyO
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

yet she has seen, as gathered from
the conversation that followed, rather
more of the things that are really
worth seeing in this town than her
antagonist, who has lived here all his
life"
I'VE get so used to being among big
and important things that we don't
bother ourselves about them" OBJ
served the not altogether disinterested
one"
More bluff, my boy! You haven't
been through the new library, I'll bet,
and it has been years since you visit
ed the Metropolitan Museum. You
have lived within twenty miles of
Sandy Hook for two decades and you
never saw the sea in big storm, and
as for Central Park at sunrise on a
fair September morning, you haven't
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11

the faintest notion of what it's like.
Not because you wouldn't enjoy these
things nor because you haven't time,
but because you never think of seek
ing amusement where you won't inn
press somebody with your own i'm
portance and extravaganza"
1T is necessary TO keep up a front,
you must admit" said the not alto
gether disinterested party, signalling
for a check That's just why you are
going to give me that order You
know that it will help your business.
Trade goes where there is an air OF
prosperity"
Hanged if | don't feel tempted
sometimes to quit putting on a front
and try delivering value received,
unused the Honest Business Man.
"A sure invitation to the sheriff to
call" cautioned the other when did
you say to send around that mahog
any stuff"
"On Thursday at A." laughed the
Honest Business Man, and tell yOu
delivery people to take the old stuff
out. After all it's no time to try foo
experiments when business is dull"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-11
CAPTURING SCENT
FOR MOTHER

A stout, roughly dressed laborer
was striding by one of the office
buildings the other afternoon when
his attention was caught by a group
of newsboys huddled together on the
sidewalk. Those in the heart of the
crowd were down on hands and knees,
apparently vitality interested in some.
thing on the ground. The man went
nearer with some curiosity, and look
ed over the heads Of TIE youngsters,
but was unable to see anything Of
more interest than a small hole in the
pavement a couple of inches across.
He turned to a tattered urchin, the
smallest of the lot, who was waiting
patiently for the bigger boys to clear
out, and asked: Say, sonny, what's
the excitement? What are those kids
fooling around there for?"
The ragged mite explained Reach.
ing out beneath the sidewalk was
basement barber shop, and one of the
little blocks of glass through which
light was admitted to it through the
pavement had been broken out by
some accident. There was a constant
stream of warm, heavily perfumed air
the boys had gathered around to en-.
JOY it. Those in the center gave way
to the next one, after while, so that
every one had cnance to sniff in
turn.
The laborer more than little inter-
ested, loitered around until the crowd
began to scatter When all the others
had departed, the midget whom he
had spoken to darted forward, and,
crouching down, took long, lux
urious sniff Then, from under his
jacket he produced an empty pickle
bottle, held it upside down over the
hole for a minute, and corked il Sc
curely with "a wad of paper,
The mans curiosity again got the
best of him, and he questioned the
tiny newsboy. The shabby little fell
low looked up shyly in response TO
the inquiry. "Oh, I'm just taking o
bottle O. that smell home to my moth
, er. She amt never smelled anything
, as nice as that"
/ The. mans eyes twinkled, and 4
. smile showed through the week
e growth of s-ubble on his face We'll,
r he remarked, putting a big, grimy
/, hand on the child's shoulder, 81 amt
: no bloomiin' millionaire, but YOU just
4 come along with me, sonny, I'll get
e you somethin' I II carry better y
v that"
e A little cold hand slipped confding
ly into the mans great rough one and
the small legs trotted along beside
Y the manly ones to the nearest five
L and-ten-cent store. Five minutes late
y the boy was on his way home, radiant
e. in the possession of pink bottle o
l. cheap perfume, while the man. genial
h. ly GUESSING himself for an NNNN fool
ID walked the entire distance 10 hi
d, home, because he had spent his car
Ie. fare.