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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-21

indulge in such lavish conversational
exercises"
Lark swallowed with forced effort.
did it hurt, Carol? How did you get
it all out in one breathe"
Lark, l do wish you wouldn't gulp
that way when folks use big words"
said Fairy. ut looks-awful."
"Well, 1 won't when l get to be as
old and grabbed as-father," said Lark.
"Slt down, Carol, and remember
you're sick"
Carol obediently sat down, and
looked sicker than ever.
"You can laugh if you like" she said,
~ am sick-at least, was this after
noon. I've been feeling very queer for
three or four days. 1 don't think I'm
quite over it yet"
"Pie! You were right, Aunt Grace
That's the way pie works"
'It's not pie at ALL" declared Carol
heatedly. "And didn't take that piece
out Of the pantry, at least, not ex-
actly. I caught Connie sneaking it,
and I gave her good calling down,
and she hung her head and skunk away
in disgrace. But she had taken such
big bites that it looked sort of I'M
sanitary, so thought I'd better finish
it before it gathered any germs. But
it's not pie. Now that I think of it,
it was my head where 1 was sick
Don't you remember, Lark, said my
head ached"
"Yes, and her eyes got red and
bleary when she was reading. And
and there was something else, too
Carol, what"
"Your eyes are bloodshot, Carol
They do look bad" Prudence exam
ined them closely. "Now, Carol Starr
don't you touch another book or maya
zine until after the wedding. If you
think I want bloodshot bridesmaid
| you're mistaken"
They all turned to look across the
yard at Connie, just turning in. Con
ME always walked, as Carol said, "as
if she mostly wasn't there" But she
usually "arrived" by the time she got
within speaking distance Of her sister
Goodness Prue, aren't you going
to do anything but eat after you move
to Des Moines? Carol and I were
counting the napkins last night-was
it a hundred and seventy-six, Carol
or-some awful number know. Caro-
piled them up in two piles and we
kneeled on them to say our prayers
and-I can't say for sure, but I think
Carol pushed me. Anyhow, lost my
balance, and usually I'm pretty wei
balanced. I toppled over right after
God save and Carol screamed the
napkins Prue's wedding napkins
1t was an awful funny effect;
couldn't finish my prayers"
carol Starr! Fifteen years ole
and"
That's very much exaggerated
story, Prue. Connie blamed it on M
as usual. She piled them up hersel
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-21
The Christmas Fire
BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRp

BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRD
THE tree gret0 green In the forest,
4 ,Greto green in the sun and the
del0;
HIS branches reached for the ShGdo1a
He fedthered his tops in the blue
And happy the air about him
Wherever his bdISdnS fen.
Drenched toith the rains Of the sumsA
mer,
Fine from his stems spun the sho,os
erS,
Soft dropped the Snot0 on his MANTLE
Dream 1oork Of silUer and foaoerss
And over hin, 0htte light trailing
The stars sDam through darklinf
hours.
Cropping tohere great rock pillars
Stand ShOuldering rank on rank,
His roots at the cold sweet sources
The ancient juices drank,
And he swept 1Oith the earth compdni
ion
AZ the east skies rose and sank.
His boughs brushed lo1o on your fore
head
As passing totng might brush,
When night a0inds made shriH music
In the heavens, and hush, Oh husbB
For deep In his DEEPEST cOUert
He hid the hermit thrush.
Lou hare they laid the giant,
And they hale him home 10tth ntirthy
And they fan the fires that tt0inkle,
And sing round his messy girth,
And make Nth q mighty magic
The life Of the Christmas hearth.
For his flames give the spicy fragrance
OF the summer atmosphere,
While the breath Of the moody hos
l0aCS,
The Mster and light of the gear,
The blossom, the bird song, tho
breezes,
He sheds through. the Christu,GS
cheer.
And the message OF peace and bless
In the great fires 91oto they narla
With the lad from the toar and tn
sailor
Home from hts tossing bark
Ere the Christmas bells come chimir4
Like the touch OF the frost on tn
dark.
And toidely on pane and ceiling
SpdrkleS a fiery foam,
And the children dance 10Th theA
shadows
Like the forest sprtte toith tn
gnome,
While the great log rodrs and bldzes
The heart Of the joy OF home.
And the cheek that has long been Wttk
cred
With an old rose blooms once nor
As memories gloto like the en1bers
Whose flashes sink and soar
With the Christmas fires 10urn, glorf
Where the log burns red at the core
--Womdn's Home Companion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-21
ENJOYED the Call.

Mani enjoyed Mr.. Borem's last
call ever so much" Ann-I thought
that you weren't homer Mani
wasn't"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1917-12-21
United States Wealth.

One-third of the wealth of the whole
world Is In the United States.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
NATIONAL GUARD TO
60 into CAMP BY
NOVEMBER Fifteen
Hundred and 'Thirty-five Thou
sand Dollars Arrives To Pay
the Training Cost f4
EXACT DATE FOR THE
MOBILIZATION UNKNOWN
Cali Is For Fortnight Which
Many Expect To See Extend
ed Into "Period of War"

Close to November 10 the entire bri.
gade Of the Hawaiian National Guard
VIII march from the armory on Hotel
street to the Oahu Railway depot and
there entrain for Somewhere in Scho-
held Barracks TO 40 into camp for
nfteen days. Authorization was 70.
eeived yesterday from Washington in
the very practical shape Of a notiGea.
ton that $l35,000 mas been placed TO
the credit of Major J. w. Short. Ha.
waiian National Guard, ,quartermaster
and disbursing officer. 1.0
This notification of funds being made
available to the local guard indicates
that Major Shorts accounts and esti.
mates were received at Washington
this week, checked up and O. KID, aud
that his bond for $l35,000 was ap.
proved, and automatically this amount
vas placed at his disposal.
Transport Plans
Major Short and Major Camara, the
after the permanent assistant supply
officer of the guard, are working stead
lily on plans for the Transportation OF
the Second Regiment from the outer
islands. The first battalion and head
quarters OF this regiment are ut Hilo
and on the Big Island; the second bat
talion on Mani, and the third battal-
ion on KauPi. The shipping laws re.
5afding passenger limitations have 10
De considered, and while troops may be
Drought In Matson vessel from Hilo
and Maui, the Inter Island Company Is
expected to provide additional steam.
ers for the transportation of a good
many. s .t .-..rr ~.
The entire national guard strength TO
go into camp will be in the neighbor-
dood of 1000 men.
The rumor persists among the men
hat when they 90 into camp the If
cen days may stretch into an indefi
ate period. d.. .gE.a
A conference is planned for this
week between General Wiser, u. 8. A.,
hawaiian department commander, and
General Samuel Johnson, Hawaiian Ma
ional Guard, to determine upon the
date for the encampment and other de-
ais concerning the movement of the
troops. * t.,tH y,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
CONVCTEDSLAYERS
. DENIED new TRIALS
Application For ReheafIhsF l6f
Cases Against FiIipinos Re-
fused BY Judge Heen 81

s New trials were denied yesterday
morning by Judge Heen TO Isidoro
Alario, Florencio Boneila, AmadoT
Abeta and Gabriel Verver, who were
convicted last week aud sentenced 70
be hanged for the murder Of Haynshi-
bara, a Japanese storekeeper pf Kane,
ohe -.
II was in this ease that afiidavits
of Eduardo Asumcion, one of the orig
inal gang of six Filipinos who played
a part in the tragedy, came thick and
fast during the week, the first being
secured by his Attorney, w. T. Garden,
+" confessing" that he (Asumcion) had
testified falsely in court whereby the
quartet were convicted the second to
Chief MeDufiie, that his testimony in
court was the truth and that his aifi.
dnvit TO Garden was false; the third,
that his confession" 10 McDuifie was
false and his first affidavit, correct.
Then, later to the attorney general an.
other conflicting statement was given.
Attorney Garden referred TO the af-
fdavits he had fled in the case during
the week, in which Asumcfon took all
the blame upon himself for the murder
of the Japanese, and asked that with
this new evidence, a new trial be
granted.
Judge Heen, in declining to permit
new trial, said he could not see how
Asumcion could have coerced all the
other members of the gang into aiding
him in, the robbery and murder, when
he was armed only with dagger, and
the others had two pistols and knife.
Mr.. Garden asked to have Asumcion
brought into court and make state
ment, declaring that the prosecution
certainly did not want to see the quar-.
tet railfoaded to death, but this request
was also denied. ~. -
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
EXAMINATIONS FOR
LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE
Applicants Must Be Citizens Of
United States

An examination to establish u regis,
.er of eligibles from which appoint.
nents may be made 10 fiji positions of
first and second assistant engineers,
viii be held by the Civil Service Board
Of Engineers for the Nineteenth Light.
house District, in this city on October
10. The pay for first assistant engineer
IS 1920 a year, with additional pay of
i've percent during the fiscal year
1918, while the pay for the second rs
,istant engineer is $l0S0 a year, with
'dditional pay of ten percent for the
fiscal year 1918, p
The examinations will be graded on
he basis of ten, four being given. for
physical ability and six for experience
civil service blanks properly filled out
by the applicant and submitted in per,
son or by mail, constitute the examina
ton. All applicants must be citizens
If the United States, twenty.one years
Of age or over.
Application blanks may be obtained
IN applying to the Office Of the Light
house Inspector, 81 McCandless Build.
my, or to John W. Short, district sec.
rotary for the Civil Service Commits
sion
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
SHIPS WRECKED;
HUNDREDS KILLED
Typhoon Sweeps Chinese Coast
Killing Residents and Destroy
ing Vast Amount Of Shipping

A report that. has been delayed in
transmission owing to atmospheric
disturbances has just come to hand
containing the first news Of what is
likely to prove one of the most for.
midable outbreaks of that particularly
destruftiye Oriental weather phenom,
enon, the typhOOn, says the Daily Jour
nal OF Commerce of San Francisco.
The trouble occurred when the storm
struck the populous port of Annoy,
China, and created havoc among the
craft then in harbOr, among which
could be counted number Of Amefi.
can, European and japanese vessels,
besides the innumerable petty craft,
eoasting and fishing, of the Chinese.
Six hundred Chinese were killed. j.,
IL will still be some time before an
adequate estimate of the destruction
wrought to American shipping through
this particularly vicious example Of
the sort of trouble the weather god
brews in Far Eastern regions. Not
only the vessels which were in Annoy
harbor, but, it is supposed by local
shipping men, quantity of tonnage
upon the high seas may have been
within the Hateful radius of the dis
turbanee. -.
Communication with neighboring
coast towns is still cut of, another
factor preventing an immediate ests
mate Of the full damage. In Annoy
amt harbor nearby, eighty five per
cent of the smaller craft was E. de
stroyed. Out of two hundred fishing
vessels in one small island port, only
sixteen remained. The Communicated
former German steamship Keong, Wal
is on the Kulangsu rocks and is con.
sidered to be irretricvable., Another
steamer, the Kango, owned and oper
ated for general merchandise carrying
by a wealthy Chinese company, has
likewise been swept onto the Kulangsu
rocks and the outlook for her recovery
is dubious. The japanese steamship
Amakusa Maru was driven onto the
rocky coast and doubts are also enter
tanned regarding this vessel; the
same fate awaited the British vessel
Shanghai, which made the beach near
Annoy.
Local shipping circles are anxiously
awaiting further news so that the fuR
extent of the disaster my be reck,
oned.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
MOTOR SKIDDED;
q. SKULL FRACTURED
W. Glib, Brother Of Plantation
Manager, Badly Injured

William Glib. an oversee at Waipa
hu Plantation, lies in a critical eondi
ton at the Queen 5 Hospital, as a re
suit of d motorcycle accident, which
happened in front of the metropolitan
Meat Market at nine.thirty last night
Glib was riding on the tandem sea-
of the machine, which was being op
Grated by H, Lorenge, a timex eeper al
Che same plantation, when the wheel
caught in car track. In attempting
to turn out for a passing car, the
motorcycle skidded and went over,
both riders being thrown some distance
They were taken to the emergency
hospital, where an examination by DR.
r. G. Aver revealed a possible frae
ture of the skull in the case of Glib,
Lorange escaped with skinned arm
aud some bruises. Glib was taken to
the Queens Hospital in the emergency
ambulance, where he was placed in the
care of DR.. James X. Judd.
James Glib, manager of Honolulu
Plantation, who was notified of his
brother s accident by The Advertiser
came TO the city without loss of time
Mr.. Glib was still unconscious up to
a late hour last night.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
INJUNCTION SUIT
BROUGHT TO'TEST
FRONTAGE FAkLAW
Action Begun BY MrCandless
Would Restrain Sale Of Prop
erty For Assessment /
PROCEEDINGS LIKELY
TO BE CARRIED HIGHER
Sale Was TO Have Been Held
This Noon and Application
Was Filed Yesterday !

Test in the courts Of the power Of
the city and county to enforce collee.
tion Of assessments under the Front.
age Tsx Law win be obtained through
an action in injunction which was
filed yesterday afternoon in the office
Of the clerk Of the circuit court. II
10 expected that the application for the
writ will be taken mp this morning and
that temporary injunction will issue
pending the arguments for perma
nent injunction. The writ was filed
bv y. w. Weaver, attorney for L. Il
McCandless. Whichever side wins, IL
is expected that the ease will be car
ried through the supreme court AZ
least -. I.E
Denies Commensurate Benefit r. ,
The application which was filed yes
terlay afternoon asks that the county
treasurer be restrained from selling
certain real estate, the property of l.,
l.. McCandless for an alleged delin.
dnent assessment on such property for
the Beretania Street improvement. II
alleges that the assessment against the
property is levied without the owner
of the property having received com
mensmBte benefit and that such owner
was within his constitutional rights in
refusing 70 pay the assessment for
such Improvement that was levied
against his property. }
The McCandless property affected
b" the Deretpnin Street improvement
and TO restrain the sale of which this
action was brought, has been adveri
tised for sale and was to have been
sold this noon. The amount of the
tax assessed is little more than $500
while the actual value of the property
is said to be in excess of $4,000.
Sale Probably Delayed, Il,
If the temporary injunction be
granted, the sale Of the property will
not be held today rs was advertised.
If a permanent injunction be not
granted continuing temporary one,
it will be for McCandless to carry an
appeal to the higher court while in ease
the permanent writ does issue, ii viii
he the city and county that will APP
peal. ." f,'~' ''' ;"
II has been the contention of Me-
as framed connot be made to "stiek''
and that a sale under such law would
not be valid. He takes this method
of testing the law and ii is one which
can be brought TO a more speedy de-
termination than other forms of aet
ton. He declared at the outset that
he would fight the law and the col
lection of the assessment against his
property under il and in this action
he carries out his intention to force
the question before the courts for final
determination. u"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
WHOLE VILLAGES ARE
DESTROYED BY FLOOD

TOXIC, October 6-(Special to Nip,
pu TjD-Today has marked another
big Increase in the toll of the greal
storm and food which swept practically
every part of Japan early in the week
The toll in Toxic and vicinities, where
the damage has been most heavily
done, today stands as follows:
In Toxic prefecture--Houses destroy
ed and carried away, 1000; houses sub
merged, 10000.
In China prefecture-Houses destroy
ed and carried away, 10000.
In Ibaragi prefecture Houses de
troyed and carried away, 1000.
In Toxic prefecture three villages
Sunamura, Kasai. and Haneda
mura, were so completely devastated
by the storm and food that not n
single house in the' three villages has
been spared.
The suffering among the stricken
people is growing more and more in
tense every day. The government is
taking every precautiOn to help the vic
inns, who are now being fed at gov
eminent expense.
r. Nakashoji, minister Of agriculture
and commerce, today declared that the
prices on provisions and woods, which
are now already gaining a high mark
must be regulated and controlled to re
lieye the victims of suffering. The reg.
ulation will be put in effect immediate
w.. Dog, .-',
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
AUTO IS D|TCHED
AND DRIVER HURT
Japanese Claims Another Car
Struck Fender of His and
". Promises To Sue ia

In ditch at the side of the Homo
lulu Haleiwa road yesterday there, lay
the wreck Of an automobile. Nearby
was a broken concrete power pole. The
driver was in hospital having cuts
and slashes on his legs dressed and
cared for. Later he was in consultation
with his attorney, J. B. Lightfoot, ar
ranging for entering a suit for damages
against the man whom he claimed was
responsible for the wreck of the auto
mobile and his subsequent injuries.
About half-past eight clock yester
LAY morning Japanese named Uye
hara, a resident of Waipahu, was driv
ing toward town over the Haleiwa-
Honolulu road. After passing Pearl
City junction, as he was approaching
the bridge on the town side of the
corner store, his ear was struck on the
fender, he claims, by an Oakland car,
license number 24S2, and catapulte6
over the embankmeht after striking
and breaking the concrete pole. The
ear was seriously damaged and it wa
then that Uyehara sustained his injur
les.
Iyehara was driving an Odds ear
number 3O99, belonging to a Japanese
named Moriwaki of Waipahu. The
Oakland car was driven, Uyehara says
by a Portuguese whom he does not
name.
No arrests in the case are reported
ut local police headquarters.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
BONUS MONEY NAY
buy LIBERTY BONDS
Suggestion Is Made That Cam
paigns Should Be Carried
Into Ranks Of Laborers

Plans to interest the plantation la
borers in the Territory in the purchase
Of Liberty Bonds with their bonus
money was suggested TO the Liberty
Loan executive committee yesterday by
John Guild, treasurer of Alexander u
Baldwin. The committee approved of
the suggestions and will endeavor TO
get results on that line.
The estimated bonus payment for, the
present year is more than 81 500 900 for
the whole Territory, and $l.000,000 for
he plantations for which Alexander &
Baldwin Is the agency. For even the
Iowest.paid lab0refs the bonus payment
in past years has been between fifty
and one hundred dollars. This Is given
out in q lump sum in cash, and If prop
or expla nation and encouragement were
given 1t is possible that large pro,
portion of laborers might put their
bonus money in a Liberty Bond instead
Of spending IL recklessly as some have
heretofore done. .,".s.
orientals Favor Plan 49," r..
s. Awoki Of the japanese committee
and Charles A. Wong of the Chinese
Committee were interviewed in regard
to the plan by members of the com.
mittee, and expressed themselves as
heartily in favor Of making the effort.
\ number of special folders and other
literature will be translated into Chi.
nese and Japanese for distribution by
the publicity committee to the laborers
m all plantations.
Treasury bulletins, bank notices, win
low cards, and post card pledges were
'eeeived Yesterday by the committee in
six sacks of mail. F. stever, exc
cutive secretary, will be at the cham.
Der of commerce rooms tomorrow morn
ing after ten o'clock to distribute the
literature TO companies or individuals
who may apply. VII. u. 9S
Delivery November IS o.,..-
Delivery of the bonds may be made
IN November 10 10 those who have
naid cash for their bonds in amount not
to exceed $1,000 In case Of full pay.
ment not heing made with the appli.
cation, II can be completed on Novem.
Der IS or other dates OF instalment pay,
ments. For any bonds not paid for at
the time of application accrued inter.
est must be repaid nv the purchaser.
Right is reserved by the government
to allot additional bonds up TO one
half the amount of any oversubscrip-
tion. Every subscriber for bonds in
amount not more than $1,000 win re,
Give the evil amount Subscribed FOR.
Larger applications are subject TO allot.
vent. Tho cirrulpr states that DO,
livery of the bonds will be made
promptly upon the completion of pay.
ments. .'' III. ri
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09
MAKE PREPARATION .
FOR HONOLULU TRIP
Party Of soIons Announces Deci-
sion TO Come and Other
Officials Will Join

WASHINGTON, October 6-(Asso-
ciated Press The list of acceptances
of the congressional party which will
visit Honolulu to date are Senators
George Earle Chamberlain, of Oregon;
William H. King, Utah; Henry l.. Mey-
ers. Montana; J. c. W. Bcekham, Ken
lucky, Miles Poindexter, Washington;
Warren G. Harding, Ohio; Charles Cur.
tbs, Kansas; Henry +. Ashurst, Ari-
Zona; Key Pittman, Nevada. Repre-
sentatives Oscar +. Bland, IndianaS
William Henry Carter, Massachusetts,;
Warren Gard, Ohio; Thomas Gallagher,
Illinois; Ladislas LazarO, louisa ma
Harold Knutsoh, Minnesota; O. Frank
Reavis, Nebraska; Irvine l.. Lenroot,
Wisconsin,; Louis W. Fairchild, In.
diana; Allen r. Treadway, Massachu-
sets; Wallace II. White, Jr., Maine;
George White, Ohio; William Gordon,
Ohio; Samuel J. Nichols, South Caro-
lima; Frank L. Greene, Vermont; Ben
iamin +. Welty, Ohio; James V. Nc,
Clintock, Oklahoma; T.. Fred C. Tai
bolt, Maryland; Oscar l.. Gray, Ala
bama; Sydney +. Mudd, Maryland; Re.
bulOn Weave, North Carolina; Walter
Kehoe, Florida; julius Kahn, CalifOr,
mia; Louis b, Goodall, Maine; Ernest
Lundeen, Minnesota; William j.
Browning, New Jersey; J. Willard
Ragsdale, South Carolina; Edward +,
Denison, Illinois, and JEFF McLemore of
Texas.
w. w. Hess, superintendent of the
National botanical gardens, win accom-
pany the party to make special inves-
tigution of climatic conditions and the
possibilities of the soil, with view to
future distribution of plants for the
Territory. .r.
Several representatives of the depart,
ment of justice viii be with the con.
gressional party.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-09

found in the United States. As far
as individual merit Is concerned, they
would be hard to beat in any competil
ton on the mainland. Considering
that the live stock industry Is only in
It's infancy, the results so far obtained
are simply marvellous and goes to show
that we are fast nearing the time when
we can supply our own demand for pure
bred registered stock.
Forage Display :
Another exhibit at the Hilo County
Fair of considerable interest and econO-
mic Importance was the display Of vari-
Gus kinds Of forage raised on the differ
ent hOmesteads, particularly those Of
Haiku, Maui. Various varieties of
egumes were represented, the beans
oeing made into eoarsely and finely
ground meals and the roughage into
baled hay with a palatability and nH
'ritive value equal to IL not greater
han alfalfa. Already experiments
nave shown that all~horse stock prefer
these hays to those imported from Cali
ornia, which they only eat when there
nothing else. This new industry
would seem to open another avenue of
proft to the homesteader.
In passing it may be said that the
county Fair has come to stay. 1t has
done much and will do more to promote
and develop the various industries es,
ablished here and to put this Terri
DRY on self supporting basis. The
dea of having Territorial Fair at
regular intervals as so strongly advo,
rated at the last Civic Convention, is
more in the right direction and should
receive the unqualified support of all.