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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
ANTI.RAT CAMPAIGN.

LONDON, December 23.-Rats are
scarcer in England today, both in town
and country, than at any time in this
generation. This is partly due to the
slaughter campaign that followed the
plague scare last spring and partly to
the abnormally dry summer.
British rats are so virile that, ac-
cording to experts, in favorable con-
ditions, when food is plentiful, a sin
gle pair within a year may increase
their progeny to $4,000 All told, they
do s75,OOO,OOO annual damage in Eng
land. Today there are supposed to be
somewhere about 100000 of them
in the country--all possible disease
spreaders-so that there is keen an
xiety to discover some virus that will
wipe them out altogether Something
like million of tfem have been kill
ed in the London docks alone.
All summer local authorities have
offered rewards for dead rats, rang
ing from two cents to six cents apiece.
Thus the small district Of Cosford had
10000 of them killed for cost OF
$685..
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
SEE WINTER SPORTS.

PARIS, December 5.-This winter
is showing record influx of Amer
leans to Swiss mountain resorts. The
great attraction for Americans is the
winter sports, Between forty and fif-
ty Swiss hotels which heretofore have
been closed in the winter will remain
open this season to supply the steadi-
ly increasing demand for accommoda-
tons. Elaborate sport programs are
being arranged for visitors. The most
popular sport is that of skiing and bob
sleighing.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06

about his head and crawled across his
wrists as though they recognized their
owner.
Proudly he lifted out the long white
combs of honey and declared that it
was as pure and rich as the best
honey distilled in the combs of coun-
try-bred bees.
Where do they get it,"
Blessed if l know" he replied
Where can they get it here on Mar
ket street where there isn't any more
vegetation than in the Sahara? Over
that way you see buildings and more
buildings. Then out this way is the
bay. It's all a mystery to me-
Abbott got his idea from a Cincin
natl dealer in bee supplies, who had a
few colonies on the roof Of his build
ing and learned to his surprise that
the insects went on storing their
sweet honey just as if they we're in
the country.
According to Abbott, a colony Of
bees, which can be housed I'm box no
larger than an apple box, will con
tain about $4,000 bees and can be
bought for $40. One colonoy will pro
duce about $40 worth of honey each
year and require little care. If you
live near the top of some high build
ing, try the new scheme. 1t might be
worth while.
Gas Corporation About Due.
A 100000 gas corporation, headed
by Henry T. Scott and backed by the
combined financial interests that made
/ it possible for the American Tele
phone & Telegraph Company to alb
sorb the Western Union Is soon &c
come into existence in San Francisco
1t is mainly to complete the forma
ton OF the new project that Theodore
NJ Vail, president Of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company, ans
several of his associates are cominl
/ here to resume conferences witt
Henry Scott that were abruptly post
poned three weeks ago in New York
The new company will enter the 10
cal field with a new kind of gas tina
will require no street mains, no met
ers and monthly gas bills, nor provoke
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
KAISER FIRM ON IDEAS OF ART.

RERLIN, December 23.-People are
always trying to change Kaiser Will
helm First an agrarian orator com
plains he has become too retiring and
ought to leave his hermitage and say
something striking then a Bavarian
named Henker (Which means hang
mani says the Kais is really born
medium and ought TO abandon king
.ship-and now a number of enthusiasts
have been trying to correct their SOW
ereign's notions on art For years past
they have lamented that he is a child
and a barbarian in matters pictorial,
and have asked When will a brave
man arise in the fatherland and OBJ
literate forever this Philistine shame?
In short, stiff-necked Kaiser Will
helm is to be cured of his foolish
craze for the classical and the ro-
mantle, and inoculated with the fiery
lymph of modernity. 1t is all over the
eternal quarrel between Berlin's aca-
demic Great Gallery" which lies in
plebeian Moabit, and the revolutions
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
SAN FRANCISCO'S BEE FARM ON
HIGH BUILDING IS KNOWN TO BUT FEW

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10
few people annuarry rush up and down
Market street past Davis and never
dream that they are passing farm.
You couldn't make any of them be-
lieve it unless they were taken into the
office of Anthony Abbott, dealer in
stocks and bonds, who would lead
them into the elevator and up to the
roof of the Hansford building, where
he would proudly display a full
fiedged bee farm in which there are
nearly 100000 bees that produce
honey as pure as comes from the al
falfa fields of the country. Better
still, the honey brings 8 cents a pound
at the produce wholesalers.
Abbott has been running his bee
farm on Market street since last April
and he declares there is no reason I'M
der he sun why every tall building IN
San Francisco should not have a bee
farm that will return 100 per cent
profit each year on the investment.
He has more than half a dozen colon.
les ON the top. of the Hansford build
ing, and each yields him between. 80
and 100 pounds Of honey year.
Where the industrious insects get
their honey is a mystery. Abbott
says he doesn't know But they get
it somewhere and they get it in as
great abundance as the bees of his
apiary in San Leandro, which lies in
a valley filled with great patches OF
the ever-blooming flowers of Califor
mia.
Bee Culture Mans Passion.
Bee culture is a passion with Alb
bott. He says California is now sec
ond only to Texas among the states
| for its annual quantity OF honey pro
duction.
When asked about his new venture
Abbott uncovered the top of the hive
in which is his parent colony of thu
city bee farm. They are Italian ant
Caucasian bees, and Abbott is thei
master He lifted one of the slide
across which was woven the wa,
frame which is the vessel into whicl
the honey is dropped by the worker
of the bee colony The bees tleN
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06

the annoyances that come up between
the consumer and gas distributing cor
poration. 1t is a commodity that you
can buy at the corner grocery or paint
shop at so much pound and use it as
you please for Illuminating, cooking
or heating purposes.
An invention of a German chemist
named Blau, it has derived the name
of blaugas and has been in use in
Berlin, Paris and other foreign cities
for several years, undergoing tests
that established its economic value
The American Telephone q Tele-
graph Company has taken over the
control of the invention in this coun-
try. 1t is planned to have Scott as
sumo the presidency of the new So
100000 corporation.
Behind Vail and Scott are some of
the strongest men in the country, in
Guiding Theodore p. Shonts, president
of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, New York; Ebert H. Gary,
chairman of the board of directors Of
the United States Steel Company, and
many others.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06

the youngest and the smallest opera
star" in the world.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
Gas Oil Is Used.

many others.
Gas Oil Is Used.
The gas is manufactured from gas
oil, by.product of gasoline, which 1t
is said is obtainable in this country
at a cost of from 2 to 4 cents a gal
Ion. 1t is sold to the public in steel
bottles, which are connected with the
gaspipe of a house through the me
dunn of an apparatus that automati-
cally expands the liquifed gas into
dry gas of the quality of the gas now
in ordinary use.
bottle containing twenty pounds
of blaugas costs 81 Ten cents worth
of the gas, it is said. will burn 1000
candle-pOwer hours as against 1900
candle-power hours burned by the or
binary gas that costs So for 1000 cubic
feet.
The Vail Scott people will not con-
fine their business to households, but
propose to extend their field of oper-
ations to manufactures and to its use
in all moving vehicles, including auto
mobiles and auto boats
It is whispered about, also that
John d. Rockefeller has a hand in the
scheme. That there is some logic in
this argument can be understood from
the fact that Standard Oil controls the
by-products of all oils in this coun-
try, without which it would be poor
sailing for an institution of the mag
nitude of the new gas concern.
Divorce Case Turn Taken.
Here is new angle to the sensa-
tional ]. J. Moore divorce case in San,
Mateo County
About a month ago Rear Admiral
Thomas Phelps, U. S. A., retired, sent
letter to Moore in which he set
forth in the plainest language that he
would hold him personally responsible
if, in the deposition he was then max
ing in his lawyers Offices, he sought
to link his name with that of Mrs
Moore.
The note was sent nv special mes
senger boy and, OF course, Moore re-
ceived it. Phelps, no doubt, had been
advised of Moore's intentions to drag
him into the case as one of the means
Of trying to win the suit for himself.
The warlike note failed of it's purpose
and now people who know about the
epistle are wondering whether the
handsome navy man will carry out his
threat the first time he meets Moore.
] In his younger days Phelps was con-
siderable Of an athlete and his long
career as a warrior for Uncle Sam has
made him familiar with firearms
Moore is a certain kind of scrapper,
Judging from the evidence his wife
has been giving against him. 1t might
be interesting to witness their first
encounter
There have been vague rumors that
the good people Of the First Congre-
gational Church OF San Francisco are
not altogether satisfied with the minis
trations OF DR.. Aked. II is said they
, think he should devote more time to
parochial work and less TO outside
activities.
It has even been limited that at the
? end of his first year he will not be in
vited to accept another twelve months
at $4,000. the princely salary he is
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09
LOSE A AUTOS
IN TWO YEARS
DR.. Freeman, Of Metuchen,
Watches Them Burn.

Metuchen, N. j., Jan. 9.-Dr. Charles
wilkins Freeman. the writer, we're at
dinner in their home here when they
heard the town FIRE bell ring and a few
minutes later heard the fire department
pun up In front OF their house. They
ran out and discovered that their gar
Gently purchased, was on IRE.
Chief Nate Robins had a line Of hose
already attached to a hydrant and
started to give the order to tur on the
water when Mr. Freeman stopped him.
Don't put any water on THAR he
shouted. 1--WE lost two cars Id the last
two years. and II looks as though I'll
have to lose two more, but I'm going
to get something Tor the old metal. II
you men wet that stuff 1t won't be
worth a cent
The water was not turned on, and
Mr.. Freeman and his wife, the latter
from a window of their home, watched
their two new automobiles 60 up III
smoke. The garage, partly Of concrete
construction, was damageds but not de-
stroyed, Mr. Freeman lost d car about
two years ago, when 1t caught fire In
the street here. He sat by the roadside
aud watched it burn up. About three
months ago a new car was destroyed
by fire in the garage, and those he lost
now had just been purchased. One be-
lOnped to DIR. Freeman md hia wife.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09

Education - smalley. Leayitt
Fitxherberk,
EisetfonsELeayitt. Read Barber
Federal Relations Nichols
Gaunt, slocum.
FinancsNNichols, Lewis Geb-
hardt.
Game and F4sherieaEcoigate
Hand, Slocum.
Jndlciary-Edge. Read. Fifder:
Labor and Industry-Hand, Lew
Is, Barber.
Militia-Colgate, Read, silzer-
Miscellaneous Business Lewis
Hand, Low.
Municipal Corporations -Leavitt
Nichols. Fielder.
Printed Bills-Lewis, Colgate
Davis.
Public Health-Gaunt. Leavftt
Price.
Railroads, Canals and Turnpike
Read, Hand, Fielder.
Revision and Amendment of th'
LawsAPierce, Read, Silzer.
Riparian Rights-Pferce, Colgate
Low.
Stationery and Incidental Elk
penses-Lewis, Pierce, johnson.
Unfinished Business-Lewis, Lea
witt, Silzer.
SENATE JOINT COMMITTEE.
Home for Feeble-Minded Chill
dren=Nichols, Smalley, Barber.
Home for Feeble-Minded Wome1
Hand Edge, johnson.
New Jersey ReformatoryEGaunt
Read, Davis.
Passed Bills-Edge. Hand Field
err,
Printing-Lewis, Nichols. Low.
Public Grounds and Buildings
Leavitt, Colgate, Slocum.
Sanatorium for T~ubercu1ous Dis
easesNPlerce, Smalley, Gebhardt.
School for Deaf-Mutes-Edge,
Read, Fitzherbert.
Sinking Fund-Lewis, Gaunt
Soldiers Home-Nichols, Hand
Fielder.
State Home for Boys-Colgate
Smalley, Johnson.
State Home for GiHs-Hand. Col
gate Price.
State Hospitals-colgate, Pierce
Silzer.
state Liorary-Nichols, Pierce
Low.
state Prison = Lewis. Leavitt
State village for Epileptica-
Smalley, Leayitt, Gebhardt.
T%reasurer's Accounts - Leavitt
Gaunt, johnson.
Assembly Called to Order.
The Assembly was called to order
by Judge Daniel A. Dugan, Demo
crat, of Orange, clerk OF the las
House. who presided during the tenn:
porary organization. The roll wal
called and the sixty members pre-
sented their certificates of election
Then the oath Of Office was admins
tered to them. All the members
stood at their respective desks and
with right hands uplifted, swore tt
support the State Constitution, the
United States Constitution and pro.
perIy to perform the duties Of the
Each member was required
to sign the oath, which had been en-
crossed for the purpose. The formal
organization followed.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09

Any affair or happening. or ct :
'cumstance, which Is too small To
adjusting force Is too small to
make a Want Ad. worth while an an
worry about. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09
Only Ordinary

Pifle-They say he Is a criminal
lawyer" Pottle-ayes; but / don't
believe he is specially so."-The Path
npder.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09

Crown Prince or Germany Makes
Amends Ser fseIehsfaa Incident.

Amends Fol R~eIehstas Incident.
Berlin. Jan. 9.-Crown Prince VIII
helm ii now credited with a desire 10
emulate the example of his father In
cultivating the friendship Hcf England.
Since the future emperor has return,
sd from .Danzlg. he has done bis ue-
snoss. short Of making q public deciara.
tions to make It clear that his behavlos
during fhe debate In the r~sichstag laHs
November was not intended as an anti
British demonstration, bus was meant
20 show his opposition only TO certain
features az tia German foreign policy,
TIE nHMk #hAn i4MEsnNMa In H.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09

nesday, Jan. 10. Mr. Carnegie re-
Gently informed Mr.. Stanley he was
ready and willing to testify, end
consequently no formal process will
he issued to compel his appearance.
1t is the suDposition that the iron
master viii be on the stand several
days.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-09
MICHIGAN EDUCATOR s3.
Or. James q. Angel Celebrates Ami
vcrsary Of Birth.

Ann Arbor. Mich. Ian. 9-Dr, James
a. Angell. president emeritus Of the
University Of Michigan. quietly ceIe-G
bratedtis eighty-third birthday.
Nearly forty years ago Or. ~,
came from the east to take the nres,
dency.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-12-19

jury, the court of original jurisdiction,
and the Court of Appeals. While this
ca Sc of murder to get possession of the
murdered mans money has attracted
wide attention and comment there are
many cases of lesser note in which the
laws have been nullified and courts of
Justice made to belle their name. A
notorious offender is given sentence,
then the sentence is suspended and he is
set at liberty to continue his law-break-
ing. Venal newspapers are found to adj
vocate the setting at liberty of the worst
of criminals, but these are rare and of
but little influence. Such pardons as
that granted by Gov. Dix, and the failure
of the courts to enforce the laws, can
only tend to increase crime by promising
immunity to criminals. The Governor of
South Carolina represented the advanced
thought of those who are advocating this
line of procedure when he exclaimed
at the Governors convention in Rich
mond, Virginia ITO He'll with the Con-
stitution."
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-12-19
SECRET SOCIETIES.

The Master Mason's degree will be worked
at the meeting of Timothy Chase Lodge, F. &
A. M, this, Thursday, evening.
Edwin S. Perkins of Tarratine Tribe of Red
Men has been appointed District Deputy Great
Sachem for the Belfast and Castine District of
the Grand Lodge of Red Men.
At their regular meeting last Monday even
ing, Tarratine Tribe of Red Men conferred
the Adoption degree on one candidate and
acted on other applications. The first nomi-
nation of officers was held at this meeting and
the second and last before the election takes
place at the meeting next Monday night.
The annual meeting of Penobscot Encamp-
ment, |, O. o. F., was held Tuesday evening
and the following officers elected: Chief Pa
triarch. Clarence E. Hall; high priest, Arthur
r. Murch; senior warden, Melvin o. Dickey;
scribe. Orrin ]. Dickey; financial scribe, Wilbur
A. Macomber; treasurer, Ralph H. Howes;
junior warden, Herbert o. Brier; trustees,
Melvin C. Murch, Lendal T. Shaes and Dayton
F. Stephenson. The above officers were made
a committee to arrange for the installation,
which will take place Jan. 7th. The officers
will be installed by Grand High Priest Clarence
E. Frost of Belfast and there will be an enter
tainment and musical program, to which all
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are invited. A
special meeting of the Encampment will be
held Tuesday evening, Dec. 31st, to hear the
annual reports of the officers and transact any
other business that may come before the
meeting.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-12-19

The Washington cores pondents an
nounce that Congressman McGillicuddy
purposes to spend the Christmas recess
in getting in touch with the manufacture
ers of his district to see how much tariff
reduction they can stand, and quote him
as saying that if the Underwood bills
carry rates too low for the industries of
M aine, Re shall not hesitate to tell their
author so. and "seek to have party policy
oh anged in these particulars. The Bos-
ton Herald commends the proposed in
vestigation, but goes on to say: eff the
people of the second Maine district really
wanted a tariff bill framed with large
regard for their local interests they had
an opportunity to say so on the fifth day
of November, and they lost it. They
elected man who must go into Demo
cratic caucus, agreeing in substance to
a bide by its decision. What he chances
to tell Mr. Underwood will roll off that
excellent gentleman like The proverbial
water from a ducks back The bill, for
which McGilicuddy must vote, will be
made fer good or ill-by the Democratic
party, under Democratic leadership, and
on Democratic principles. Mr.. McGilli-
cuddy knows this as we'll as anybody
else"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-12-19
EAST BELFAST.

Mrs. Ansel Kelley is quite sick with peurisy
fever.
Melvin Clark has moved into the Knowlton
and Buzzell house on Searsport avenue
Mrs. R. G. Mosman and daughter Dorothy
returned Dec. 18th from visits in Portland and
! Lisbon Falls.
Miss Edith Shelton of Brookine Me-, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Alec Snow, through
the holidays.
! Velma Rogers, the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Rogers, is convalescng after a
serious illness of pneumonia.
Miss Lena Wedge of Cranberry Isle re-
turned to her home Dec. 10Th after few
: weeks visit with Miss Lucy Leavitt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perley Stanley and little son
Sherwin of Cranberry Isle are guests of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. A. Leavitt, through
the holidays.
Miss Alice Grindle of Castine who has been
guest of Mrs. f. N. Slavery, has entered the
Waldo County Hospital for surgical opera
ton by DR.. Brock of Portland.
NIL L. L. cry udo IWo loAeS escape 1EoHl
their pen one day last week. Mr.. Perry cap
tured four foxes when they were small and
had them in a pen and they made their escape
by gnawing through and breaking the wire.
Misses Julia Leary and Mary Woodbury.
spent last Saturday in Burnham, guests of
Miss Blanche Foster, former teacher in the
Brick school, Miss Foster is to leave soon for
New Hampshire, where she will teach under
the supervision of Alonzo ]. Knowlton, former
superintendent of the Belfast schools.
The Brewer and Rose Circles of Mason's
Mills chapel will hold Christmas sale next
Saturday afternoon and evening at the chapel,
beginning at o'clock. A mystery table will
be one of the features, and fancy articles,
home made candy and food will be on sale.
On the following Tuesday night they will have
a Christmas tree and entertainment. Miss
Ethel Slavery has charge of the entertainment.
The Circle and Social Aid of Trinity church
held their Christmas sale Dec. 18th and found
a ready sale for their aprons, fancy articles,
ETC. supper followed and the evening was
spent socially Trinity Reformed church will
hold their Christmas entertainment Christmas
night, the 25th, and a program will follow.
Mrs. Alec Snow has charge of the entertain
ment this year in place of the Supt., Mrs. An
ME Rogers, who was unable to attend to 1t on
account of sickness in the family.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-12-19

ITO hell with the Constitution, said
the governor of South Carolina to the
governor of North Carolina and the other
governors in convention assembled at
Richmond, Va, whereupon many of the
women. some of them the wives of the
governors, left the hall in disgust. Cole
L. Blease, South Cardinals disgrace and
shame, was the speaker and his treason
able utterance was his crude, brutal and
obscene attempt to show his veneration
for the womanhood of his native State.
The occasion was the discussion of the
question of Lynch" law in reference to
the punishment Of crimes against women
by Negroes. The next cay the conven-
,fion unanimously repudiated the utter
ances Of Gov. Blease and by vote of IA
to adopted resolution declaring
against mob violence, and for the i'm
partial enforcement of the law. The
four governors who opposed the resolu-
ton declared themselves as strongly en-
dorsiug it's purport, but voted mo- be-
cause they thought they had no right to
reprimand a colleague. Gov. Blease
snapped his fingers in the face of his
colleagues, declared he cared not whit
what the conference said, thought, did,
or did not do, and announced that all the
resolutions they might ever adopt woulc
neither keep him from the governors
chair nor from a seat in the United
States Senate, in 1915, or earlier.