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Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10
It Was the Funeral Procession.

lures that once were men! Bosh! You ought to see those living deaths racing horses on the Fourth of July. Some of them own boats. One has a gasoline launch. They have nothing to do but have a good time. Food shelter. clothes. medical attendance, everything is theirs. They are wards of the territory. They have much finer climate than Honolulu. and the scenery is magnificent I shouldn't mind going down there myself for the rest of my days. It is a lovely spot.
 So Kersdale on the joyous leper He was not afraid of leprosy. He said so himself, and that there vasn' [ one chance in a million for him or any other white man to catch it, though he confessed afterward that one of his school chums. Alfred Staarter, had contracted it, gone to Molokai, and there died.
 "You know, in the old days" Kers dale explained, there was no certain test for leprosy. Anything unusual or abnormal was sufficient to send fel- Tow to Molokai. The result was that dozens were sent who were no more lepers than you or l. But they don't make that mistake now. The board of health tests are infallible. The funny thing Is that when the test was discovered they immediately went down to Molokai and applied it. and they found a number who were not lepers. These were immediately de. ported. Happy to get away? They walled harder at leaving the settle ment than when they left Honolulu to go to it. Some refused to leave, and really had to be forced out. One of them even married leper woman in the last stages and then wrote pa thetic letters to the board of health, protesting against his expulsion on the ground that no one was so well able as he to take care of his poor wife"
 What is this infallible test?" de. manded.
 Tine meteorological test. There is no getting away from it. Dr. Hervey he's our expert. you know-was the first man to apply it here. He is a wizard. He knows more about lep. rosy than any living man, and if a cure is ever discovered. he'll be that discoverer As for the test, it is very simple. They have succeeded in iso' lating the bacillus leprae and study. ing it. They know it now when they see 1t. All they do is to snip a bit of skin from the suspect and subject
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

And he stood there on the wharf waving his hands to her till the Noeau was clear away and the faces lining her afterrail were vague and indis tinct
 T thought you knew" said Me Weigh. who had been regarding him curiously. You, of all men. should have known. thought that was why you were here"
 "I know now" Kersdale answered with immense gravity. Where's the carriage?"
 He walked rapidly-half ran-to it I had to half run myself to keep up with him.
 Drive to Doctor Hervey," he told the driver. Drive as fast as you can"
 He sank down in the seat, painting and gasping. The pallor of his face had increased. His lips were com. pressed and the sweat was standing out on his forehead and upper lip. He seemed in some horrible agony. For Gods sake, Martin, make those horses go!" he broke out suddenly
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

within two feet of me. the ugly ven. omous thing was writhing in her hair. It threatened at any moment to fall down upon her exposed shoulders we had just come out from dinner.
 What is it?" she asked, starting to raise her hand to her head.
 Don't" I cried Don't"
 But what is it?" she insisted, grow ing frightened by the fright, she read in my eyes and on my stammering lipss
 My exclamation attracted Kersdale's attention. He glanced our way care lessly, but in that glance took in ev- erything. He came over to us, but without haste.
 Please don't move. Dottie." he said quietly.
 He never hesitated. nor did he hurry and make a bungie of it.
 Allow me-" he said
 And with one hand he caught her scarf and drew it tightly around her shoulders so that the centipede could not fall inside her bodice. With the other hand-the right-he reached into her hair, caught the repulsiye abomination as near as he was able by the nape of the neck, and held it tightly between thumb and forefnger as he drew it from her hair. It was as horrible and heroic a sight as man could wish to see. It made my flesh crawl The centipede, seven inches of squirming legs, writhed and twisted and dashed itself about his hand. the body turning around the fingers and the legs digging into the skin and scratching as the beast endeayored to free itself It bit him twice. saw it-though he assured the ladies that he was not harmed. as he dropped it upon the walk and stamped it into the gravel But I saw him in the surgery five minutes afterward, with Doctor Goodhue scarifying the wounds and injecting permaganate of potash. The next morning Kersdale's arm was as big as a barrel. and it was three weeks before the swelling went down.
 All of which has nothing to do with my story, but which could rot avoid giving in order to show that Jack Kersdale was anything but coward. It was the cleanest exhibition of grit I have ever seen. He never turned a hair. The smile never left his lips. And he dived with thumb and fore finger into Dottie Fairchild's hair as gayly as if it had been box of salted almonds. Yet that was the man I was destined to see stricken with fear
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tuned off an immense amount of work. and he sang and danced and put flowers in his hair as immensely as any of the idlers.
 He had grit, and had fought two duels-both political-when he was no more than a raw youth essaying his first adventures fin politics. In fact. he played a most creditable and cotr. ageous part in the last revolution. when the native dynasty was over thrown; and he could not have been over sixteen at the time. l am point. ing out that he was no coward in or. der that you may appreciate what hap pens later on. I've seen him in the breaking yard at the Haleakala ranch, conquering a four-year-old brute that for two years had defied the pick of von Tempsky's cowboys. And 1 must kell of one other thing. It was down in Kona-or up, rather. for the Kona people scorn to live at less than a thousand feet elevation. We were on the lanai of Doctor Goodhue's bunga. low. was talking with Dottie Fair. child when it happened. A big centi' pede-it was seven inches. for we measured it afterward-fell from the rafters overhead squarely into her coiffure. confess, the hideousness of it paralyzed me. I couldn't move. My mind refused 10 work. There,
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10
ATTENTION TO FALL MATCHES
Chicks Should Be Separated From Main Flock and Kept in Coop
 Outdoors-Do Not Overcrowd,

The fall matched chick will be prof. itable only if given an equal chance with the spring matched chick. It should not be driven into the hen house with the main flock, but kept in a comfortable coop outdoors, given plenty of fresh air and all the food it can eat. Just as sure as the half grown or smaller chicks are put in the henhouse there is a stopping of their growth, they begin to look all wing feathers. possibly get sneezy colds and water at the eyes. and if looked for at night would be found crowded under the larger birds, breathing the bad air near the floor Attacks of chicken pox and roup which may infect the en- tire flock are frequently traced to the fallhatched chicks housed with the older birds.
 Put the coop for these chicks on high ground, sheltered if possible. and keep it clean. Have a box of feed accessible to them at all times, and pure water. Put in low roosts, see that the coop is not overcrowded and let them run. These late-matched birds should not be used as breeders until they are eighteen months old, but the bullets will lay when hens and spring matched bullets are broody, and if 1t Is not desirable to keep them over for breeding. they make choice fries
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turning away to walk down the wharf with Kersdale.
 She was a beautiful woman. and she was pure Polynesian. From my mea- ger knowledge of the race and its types I could not but conclude that she had descended from old chief stock. She could not have been more than twenty-three or twenty-four. Her lines and proportions were magnif- cent. and she was just beginning to show the amplitude of the women of her race.
 "It was blow to all of us," Doctor Georges volunteered "She gave her. self up voluntarily, too. No one sus.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

. thousand times more hideous even than the fear that was mine when I saw the writhing abomination in Dottie Fairchild's hair. dangling over her eyes and the trap of her bodice.
 was interested in leprosy, and upon that, as upon every other island object. Kersdale had encyclopedia knowledge. In fact. leprosy was one of his hobbies. He was an ardent defender of the settlement at Molo. kai, where all the island lepers were segregated. There was much talk and feeling among the natives. famed by the demagogues, concerning the cruel ties of Molokai, where men and wom. en. not alone banished from friends and family. were compelled to live in perpetual Imprisonment until they died. There were no reprieves. no communications of sentences "Aban. don hope" was written over the portal of Molokai.
 "Fll tell you they are happy there. Kersdale insisted. And they are in finitely better on than their friends and relatives who have nothing the matter with them. The horrors ol Molokai are all pop2ycock. I can take you through any hospital or any slum in any of the great cities of the world and show you a thousand times worse horrors. The living death! The crea
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10
SUBJECT SOON DISPOSED OF
Young Girls Terse Comment on Youth Short and Very Much to
 the Point.

They were young and happy and well dressed. When they climbed on the car. two men rose to give them seats. They had a great deal to talk about. and their conversation was very interesting in its absolute disre- gard of things serious and important, and its apparent satisfaction with it. self, the Indianapolis News remarks. very few conversations are entirely satisfactory to themselves There may be a lack of understanding or symptoms of being bored on the one side, or limitation of expression or tiresome garrulity on the other side. There was perfect understanding, no limitation of expression and nothing to be bored about in this particular conversation. And 1t was very easy to understand. Perhaps it would not be fair to tell about everything they said. and it was nobody's business anyway. It really was what they did not say that was important and worth telling. The one in the midnight blue suit trimmed in monkey fur was talk ing about somebody. very properly a young man.
 He writes the craziest letters" she said, "ail about war and politics" And the other one, who had on a plum colored broadcloth-plum is a very expensive color this year and there fore very popular-the other one sniffed and took out her vanity box and mirror to see that she had sniffed none of the powder on her nose.
 "Oh, well" she replied, he's just as happy as if he had good sense"
 Truly, 1t was a marvellous way of disposing of things like politics and wars, and SO reasonable and satisfac- tory a method to them that it made the rest of us, who were reading the papers and wondering what on earth we were going to do about everything, feel very much ashamed of the young man who wrote the crazy letters and a little foolish and ashamed of our selves.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

Lay the whip into them! Do you hear? Lay the whip into them."
 They'll break, sir the driver re monstrated.
 Let them break" Kersdale an. swered. "Ill pay your fine and square you with the police. Put it to them. That's right. Faster. Faster:
 And I never knew, I never knew he muttered, sinking back in the seat and with trembling hands wiping the sweat away.
 The carriage was bouncing, swaying and lurching around corners at such a wSd pace as to make conversation i'm. possible. Besides, there was nothing to say. But I could hear him mutter. ing over and over:
 And I never knew! never knew!"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

Hawaii is a queer place. Every. tning socially is what may call topsy- turvy. Not but what things are cor rect They are almost too much so But still things are sort of upside down. The most uitraexclusive set there is the Missionary Crowd" It comes with rather a shock to learn that in Hawaii the obscure, marytr- dom-seeking missionary sits at the head of the table of the moneyed aris- tocracy. But it is true. The humble New Englanders who came out in the third decade of the nineteenth cen tury, came for the lofty purpose of teaching the Kanakas the true relig- ion, the worship of the only one genu- inc and undeniable God Sc we'll did q they succeed in this. and also in civil izing the Kanaka. that by the second or third generation he was practically extinct This being the fruit of the seed of the Gospel. the fruit of the seed of the missionaries tthe sons of the grandsons) was the possession of the islands themselves, of the land, the ports, the town sites. and the sugar plantations. The missionary who came to give the Bread of Life re- mained to gobble up the whole heath en feast.
 But that is not the Hawaiian queer ness I started out to tell Only one cannot speak of things Hawaiian with out mentioning the missionaries There is Jack Kersdale, the man wanted to tell about: he came of mis- sionary stock. That is, on his grand fathers side. His grandfather was old Isaac Kersdale, a Yankee trader, who got his start for a million in the old days by selling cheap whisky and square-faced gin. There's another queer thing. The old missionaries and old traders were mortal enemies. You see, their interests conf1icted. But their children made it up by inter marrying and dividing the islands be- tween them.
 Life in Hawaii is a song That's the way Stoddard puts it in his "Ha- waii Nei:"
 Thy life is music-Fate the notes proIong, Each isle a stanza, and the whole a song.
 And he was right. Flesh is golien there. The native women are sun ripe Junos, the native men bronzed Apollos They sing. and dance, and all are flower bejeweled and flower crowned. And. outside the rigid Mis- sionary Crown" the white men yield to the climate and the sun, and no matter how busy they may be, are prone to dance and sing and wear flowers behind their ears and in their hair. Jack Kersdale was one of these fellows. He was one of the busiest men ever met. He was several times a millionaire. He was a sugar king, coffee planter, a rubber pi- oneer, a cattle rancher, and a pro
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

runts is recommended by some breed CTS. but no advantages are to be gained by crossing.
 An exclusive winter diet of peas would soon produce an epidemic of bowel troubles.
 Pigeons that produce good healthy squabs need never be remated
 Crooked breast bones, cross peaks, one eye only and crippled feet are among the penalties paid for inbreed- ing
 Corn in excess will enrich the blood to such an extent that scrofuIous trou- bles are apt to be the result.
 January is the beginning of the great demand for squads. From now on until July the prices will be the highest.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

uo,er of three out of every four new enterprises launched in the islands. ue was a society man, a ciubman. a yachtsman, . bachelor and wfhai as h.ndsome . man as was ever dotted noon by mammas with marriaseaoie dsuebters. Incidentally. he had mn s.hsd his education at Yale. and his s..a vas crammed fuller with vital .satistics and scholarly information
 .c.cerning Hawaii Nei than any other
 nder I ever encountered. He
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10

among the birds. resulting in consid- erable loss.
 Immediately upon being discovered. remove the sick bird from the flock and keep it separate in a dry, warm cage or pen.
 The blue homer produces the ideal white squab," while white feathered breeders are the ones that generally produce dark-colored squabs.
 Crossing homers with runts, homers with dragons and dragoons with
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10
E asy.

T would like to go on the stump this campaign" said the candidate, T wish I could acquire a flow of lan- guage."
 Why don't you try stepping on . tack?" advised the friend.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-01-10
RAISE PIGEONS FOR PROFIT
Main Points for Success Are to Keep Birds in Dry. We'll Ventilated
 coops and Feed Regularly.

Paul Belden, in Suburban Life, says that the main points in keeping pigeons for squabs are: Keep them in dry. we'll ventilated coops; feed regularly. giving a variety; do not keep more than fifty or sixty pairs of birds in one flock; keep them free from vermin by having the coop clean and allowing the birds to bathe as often as possible; use only full-blooded homers and be sure they are mated. Mated birds cost more, but are worth the difference if you want results.
 There is a delicate flavor to the flesh of a we'll fatted squab that at once wins for it a patron.
 When properly conducted. poultry and squab culture make a profitable combination.
 Regularly arranged nests, uniform in appearance. cause an endless amount of contention and confusion
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
TORNADO SWEEPS
 EAST MISSISSIPPI
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY-FoUR PERSONS KILLED AND SCORE
 MORE OR LESS INJURED.

Meridian, Miss. At least four persons were killed and score more or less seriously injured as the result of tornado which swept through several East Mississippi counties and passed into Alabama northwest of here. Two negro women and two ne gro children were killed in Giles, kemper County, when structures they were occupying were demolished, d score of persons were injured and nearly 100 buildings, for the most part occupied by negroes, were destroyed in the town
 Reports indicated that the cyclone first appeared in Clark County, near Shubuta, 42 miles south of here on the Mississippi Eastern Railroad. Sey. eral persons were injured and num- erous structures were destroyed CT unroofed in Shubuta. Near the town the tornado crossed the railroad three times in a space of one mile, and, continuing, struck Monaseo and Brewer. injuring several persons and causing considerable property damage
 Jumping from Clark to Lauderdale County, norh of here. the cyclone struck Obadias and Cullum ani. sweeping on through Kemper County, passed into Alabama near Seooba Nu- merous personal injuries and eonsid- erable damage was reported at Oba- dias and Cullum. and adviees from Scooba stated that ill Geiger. Ala. seven miles northwest of that place, several persons were injured and the railroad station and other structures destroyed. The path of the tornado for a distance of nearly 50 miles north of Obadias was marked by dam aged farmhouses and other structures, it was said
 Wire communication throughout the stricken districts still interrupted and only meager reports were available
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
FORD PEACE PARTY
 LAND IN NORWAY
S 8r ExsSeE-zeS WILL RE S- N GETTING MEN OUT
 -SSNc-ES SOON
ADOPT FORMAL RESOLUTIONS
S.s-t Mcclure of New York Says 2-.erz-zs Preparedness Was Nee esszss and Was Not Related
 to Peace Efforts.

Christiania, Norway Every nation ia the world will look upon the Amer lcan peace pilgrims as taking the in- iilatve in stopping history's worst war. The landing of the peace expe- dition in Europe will be recorded as one Of the most benevolent things the American republic ever did" said representative on Norwegian soil
 The steamship Oscar H., carrying the Ford peace party, arrived after fourteen days voyage. Delegates ex- pressed displeasure because the yes sel was delayed three days by the British at kirkwall
 Mr. Ford says he is confident the expedition would result in getting the men out of the trenches before the winter is over. He declared he had in formation from official sources that his peace plan was looked upon ap- proYingly. He added that his motive in coming to Europe is to develop an understanding throughout the world by the time peace sessions are begun
  at The Hague.
 After holding meetings while cross ing the Atlantic and disagreeing over the question of American prepared ness policy, the 150 peace advocates were anxious to learn what attitude would be adopted toward them by Europe
 Receptions by Christian preachers, university professors and an unofficial call made by Albert G. Schmedeman, American minister to Norway, attend ed the first day in Europe.
 Christiania newspapers publish long accounts regarding the Ford expedi- tion, accompanying the stories with cartoons from foreign newspapers.
 Just before the Oscar II reached Christiania the Ford guests held a meeting aboard the ship. Samuel Mo Cure of New York said that unless the peace pilgrims composed their differences of opinion regarding Pres ident Wilson's preparedness policy it would cause disaster to the expedition He declared American preparedness was necessary and not related to the peace efforts
 The Rev. Charles F. Aked of San Francisco maintained it is ridiculous for Americans to urge peace abroad while preparing for war at home.
 Finally a resolution declaring the delegates are unanimous for European peace was adopted
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23

two will make four; the law of gravity will operate irrevocably and certainly; and whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap" Now is the tiVe. therefore, says Norman Hapgood. ito pitch in and achieve-now, now! Re member, my friends. the present is the future from which you hoped so much" Unless we wisely improve the present" we shall find ourselves. at the end of the year, regretting our past, just as today we are mourning over mistakes and resolving to do bet ter in the days to come.
 So the modern journalist puts into homelier phrase the teachings of Longfellow's famous motto:
 Yesterday is dead; forget 1t.
 Tomorrow isn't here; don't worry.
 Today is here. use 1t.
 And the New England poet adds his word of encouragement and cheer: Life is a leaf of paper white. Whereon each one of us may write His word or two-and then comes night.
 But for line
 But that sublime!
 Not failure. but low aim is crimel
 Detroit Free Press
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
Helping Your Child.

Let them do all they can for them selves-earry their own water, fill their own jugs, wash up arrange their own rooms, clean their boots and clothes, lay the table Believe me, that unimportant as these things may seem, they are a hundred times more important than knowledge of French or of history. These things train the children to simplicity, to work and to self dependence. If you can add work on the land, if it be but a kitchen gar den, that will be well. Believe me. that without that condition there is no possibility of a moral education, Christian education or consciousness of the fact that men are not naturally divided into the classes of masters and slaves, but that they are all broth CTS and equals.-Leo Tolstoy.