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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1897-24 PAGES. the police court and fined $10. Su as play truant a certain number of times are taken from the schools and put in th government reform schools, where they are taught during the remainder of their minority. These laws extend to all classes of the people. The children of the Jap- anese and Chinese are compelled to go to school, The result {s that ail of the childr HAWAIi UP TO DATE| > Information as to Business Matters and Money Making. n of the —— ae Hawatian Islands over a ceriam age can read and write, and the grade of Wah soon UT = Ti is a very high one. The majority of teach- | ‘3 e Amel . who receiv all the way FORTUNES IN COFFEE AND SUGAR er<are/Americans: who recuwe 2 ihe nay schoo! furniture comes from the Uni States, as do also the doors and windows and other lumber of whith the school houses are built. The lime for the houses is imported from California. Honolulu has a public library containing 15,000 volumes. Its ¥. M. C. A. has a splendid gymnasium and reading room, and there are free public libraries in sev- eral other towns on the islands. Hotels and the Cost of Living. Honolulu has several large hotels. The biggest one charges $3 a day. Some of the others charge $2. The expense of living is dearer than in the United States. It costs, Few Openings Are Left for Men Without Capital. LIFE IN MODERN HONOLULU ee (Copyrighted, 1897, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Written for The Evening tar. HAVE SPENT SOME time at the Hawailan ation this week gathering practical up-to-date informa- on as to the fsiands which it is now pro- posed to annex to the United States. If the annexation treaty is confirmed in the Sen- ate, a large emigra- to Hawaii will immediately fellow, and thousands of want to know just what ory is and what possible for them to make money i I have tried to as- r and Mr. Thurston have put all their resources at my dispo- sal. They have answered my questions and have introduced me to sugar planters and others who have just come from Hono- Julu, and from whom I have the best of news information. I have also had xccess az are also those of the Portuguese. | lands, which form the best part of the country, are less in size than Massachu- setts. They have a population of about 90,000, of which over 75,000 are either wholly or partly natives, or Chinese or Japanese. All of these work more or less, and hence the isiands are no place for poor men, common laborers or clerks. There are more beokkeepers and copyists in Honolulu today than can find employment. The Chinese, of whom there are 15,000, and to the large collection of new photographs just received by the Hawaiian minister, some of which lie before me as I yrite. IN HONOLULU. Modern Honolulu. These photographs show how fast the I am told, fully 50 per cent more to keep islands have been modernized. There are | house in the Sandwich Islands than it Gozens of residences in Honolulu w j does in Washington. You have Japanese have cost $25.0) and upward. The city ; and Chinese for servants, but you cannot ss al eae get along without a number of them, has magnificent stone buildings, churches | EVsvthing you eat, with the exception of Which would be a credit to Washington | yegetabies and meat, is imported, and al- and a Masonfe Temple which would com- | most everything you wear comes from the pare favorably with any Masonic buildmg | United States. At the legation today I got in the Uni The city contains | the Honolulu prices of the more common about 30,%s) people, and in proportion to its | articles. Hams cost from 16 to 30 cents a size it is one of the rich cities of the world. | pound; bacon, from 16 to 20 cents, and All of the houses have large yards and | cheese, from 20 to 35 cents a pound. Flour gardens about them, and many of them are | D a hundred weight, and cegs palm trees. Honolulu lies right | 0 50 cents a dozen. On the other ains on the edge of the | hand, fresh meat is quite cheap. You can six miles from the govern- | get g00d porterhouse steaks for from 6 to to the summit of the moun- back of the town. These “4 fect high, and are cov- roods to their tops. The govern- comes, will the are wit ment building, if annexation h belong to the United States. It is a mag- nificent ucture and was formerly the of the king. There are numerous wires in Honolulu. The town telephones in proportion to its any other city ase has a of the world. telephone, and there are telephonic connections to almost every settlem on the Islands of Oahu, Kaual and Hawaii On the island of Maui the telephone is being put up and in a short time every one of the larger Islands will have its telephonic connections. Schools and School Policemen. There is no place in the world where pubic schools are so carefully man- the Sandwich Islands. Those lulu have magnificent buildings, The high school is held in a palace which was built for the Princess Ruth, the sisier of the last king of the Kamehameha line. She gave it to her daughter, Mrs. Bishop, who left it to her husband, Charles RK. Bishop. Charles R. Bishop is the vic pres- fgent of the Bank of California San S ; I am told, its largest He sold the bullding a short ago to the government for $30,000, now used for a high school. The is surrounded by five acres cf beautiful gardens, and it is in the very heart of the city. The government has es- tablished free schools all’over the islands. Every neighborhood which has forty chil- dren has a school house and a t her, and | Japanese, 24,000, have not only ruined the white labor market, but they have to a large extent swallowed up the small bust- nesses. The nati x), also compete in the labor mark As common workmen Chinese and Japanese get from $12.50 to $15 a month and beard themselves. The Portuguese and Hawaiians receive as high as $18 for the same work. White teamsters &et about $30 a month and board. Book- keepers on the plantations receive from $100 to 3175 a month, and overseers about the same. Almost all the mechanical trades are supplied by the Chinese and Japanese. The Japanese do a great deal of carpenter work, receiving therefor from ) to $5 a day. There are Japanese shoemakers and tailors, and there are Chinese plumbers and carpenters. In the retail stores the Chinese and Japanese compete together for the business, and I am told thai the J anese are now giving the Chinese a very hard race, for the reason that the Chinese import their goods direct from England and America, and the Japanese get only samples, and then send these samples on td Japan to be copied there for the Hawaiian trad nese of Honolulu are not ne as the Chi- take many risks, and frequent- ni ly go into bankruptey. There are, I am told, about 2,000 Japs in Honolulu, and more than three times that many Chinese. Japanese wom well as men, have been imported in larg the plantations. numbers to work on Such Importations are on the contract la system, the contract usually being made for three years. * The big money that’ has been made in Hawaii in the past has bh from sugar, and it is in sugar I find that the big money is being made today. It takes an enor- mous amount of capital, however, to run a plantation, and of the sixty different plan- tations in the islands there is not one that is capitalized at less than $2),000, end the money invested in most of them runs inte the millions. Spreckels has no longer a monopoly of the sugar busines He began to seli out his plantations some time ago, AN AVENUE, there is no place in the United States where the boys put in so many school days in the year. School is heid for nine months, and the hours are from 9 to 2. School at- tendance is compulsory, and the law in a cook for from $3 to $6 a week, and a nurse will cost you from 38 to $12 a month. The steamship rates in going to the island are not high. The round trip costs $125, and you have several good lines by | 15 cents a pound, corn beef will cost you 7 cents a pound, potatoes 2 cents a pound, and ice about 1 cent a pound. You can hire this respect is enforced everywhere In| which to make the trip. The Oceanic Line each school district there are one or two! sails twice a month from San Francisco. school policemen, who come into the school 1 The Pacific Mail and the O. and O. steam- I Ys ie CROSS ROADS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC. house every morning and poll the school. | Ships step there on thelr way to Japan, If a boy or girl is absent a record is made | and there ts a Canadian line which will of it, and If no good excuse is given the | take you from Victoria to Honolulu once next day the policeman calls upon the | 4 month. scholar’s family. If the offense Is repeat- No Place for Poor Men. Ot the heads of the family are called before! The eight largest of the Sandwich Ig- and then all of a sudden stopped selling. He now controls only one plantation in the islands and has a smali amount of stock in several others. He is opposing annexation, and one reason of his opposi- tion, it is claimed, is that he will lose the refining of the Hawaiian sugar if the isl- ands beccme a part of the United States. The sales of his plantations have had some- thing to do with his family quarrels in which he has been fighting his sons. Owned by Americans, The sugar plantations are owned al- most altogether by Americans. They are capitalized at about $35,000,000. Some of them have -pald quite large divi- dends, the average for the past year hav- ing been about 12 per cent. I am told that some plantations have made double this. The fluctuations, however, in the prices of sugar have been so great that the business is quite precarious. It is managed on strict business principles, every means which un- limited money can furnish being used to reduce the cost. Take, for instance, the Ewa plantation, which made 13,000 tons of sugar last year,-and is now paying big dividends. This plantation has a capital of a million dollars and about 100 stock- holders. It made no money for years and was spending vast amounts right along. The plantation is elghteen miles from Honolulu, and it comprises 3,000 acres, Every foot of its cane has to be watered throughout the year by artesian wells. It uses enormous pumping machinery, which ig imported from America. Its first pumps came from New York, and it has just now put in others at a cost of about $30,000. In another plantation near the Ewa they are putting in machinery built in New York, and I am told that this plantation alone will spend something like $0,000 on its ex- tensions this year. I learn that there is little undevel sugar land left in the islands. Such new plantations as are made will have to be tr- rigated by means of artesian wells, and the | j large capital. ‘The last three plantations which have been established have cost, Te- spectively, $750,000, $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, ‘There is nq room in sugar for the small capitalist, ahd all of the plantations are now managed stock companies. It takes sixteen months to grow the crop, and only three «rop& can be made in four years. Fertilizers to the amount of $700,000 were used on the cane there last year, and more ihan half of this fertilizing matter was imported. The Guano Fields of Hawaii. Much of the remainder of the fertilizer | came from the guano fields of the Sandwich Islands. If the cbuntry is annexed Uncle | Sam will add to his population an enormous colony of birds. On Layson Island, which is far to the westward, there are thousands and thousands of sea gulls. They cover the island, walking, as it were, over the beds of guano made by themselves and their an- cestors, These birds are so thick that you | have to kick: them aside as you walk about ) are several overseers, the island. They are exceedingly tame, and by law no shooting is allowed there. There and they have to build Mttle paling fences around their cot- tages to keep the birds from crawling upon the porches and going into the houses. The young gulls are said to be good for eating, and I ain told that when the over- seeers or laborers want birds on toast for breakfast they go out with a club and knock over a couple and bring them in to the cook. Fortunes in Coffee Raising. The Hawaiians here at Washington say | that the best chance for the large or small Investor in Hawaii just now is in coffee lands. There is a large amount of such lands In the islands. They He just above the sugar belt, at an altitude of from 1,500 to 3,000 feet above the sea, giving the planter the finest climate in the world. Good lands can be bought on.the market for $25 an acre, but the government, which is very anxious to have small investors, is selling its government lands to homesiead- ers for from $10 to $15 an acre. Fifty acres make a good-sized plantation for one man to attend to. The work is more like orcharding than farming. The trees have to be carefully trimmed and taken care of. They begin io bear about the third year and the fourth year produce a good crop. Then the plantation forms an independent ving for the remainder of a man’s life and a good inheritance for his children. It takes some labor, however, to make such a plantation, and a man should have at least $3,000 ahead at the start. I have be- fore me an estimate of the cost of main- taining a plantation of seventy-five acres for seven years, including the purchase of the land and the construction of all the buildings. This shows an cxpnditure of $11,000 at the close of the third year. The fourth year such plantation should pro- duce 60,000 pounds of coffee and bring in an income of $10,800. The fifth year it should pay $15,600, and the sixth year, ac- cording to these figures, $18.0), and at that time leave the planter $10,000 ahead. the close of the next year he will be $20,000 ahead, and will have practically made a fortune. In this estimate the clear- ing of the land, fencing, the purchasing of th plants and tools, the salary of a man- ager, who gets 31,200 a year, the paying of nine Japan laborers and the prepara- tlon of the coffee for the market are in- cluded. How close the figures are I do not krow, but they were prepared by the de- partment of foreign affairs of the Hawaiian government. A fifty-acre plantation would cost comparatively less, as the owner in this case might manage it himself. Honolulu Property. I asked séme questions as to the condi- tion of real estate in Honolulu. I am told that it has’ steadily increased during the past four yars, and that suburban prop- erty has doubled tn value during that time. The annexation Will give it another up- ward shoot, and this, it is believed, will be the case with all’ kinds of property In the islands. One of the best chances for ree? ay ty money makiyg is, 1 am told, in the build- ing of an electric railroad in the city of Honolulu. An English company now has a franchis: but it is not an exclusive one, and neither the company nor its road is popular. The road is capitalized at $7, p00 a mile, and It has fifteen miles of track. It has bob-tailed cars, run by mules, and although there has been a generai de- mand that electricity be adopted, the com- pany will not accede to it. As $ can learn, the English acted the hog as to the matter from the start. They cap- italized the road at $200,000, a ned. 3150,000 worth of bonds. They took some of the stock themselves, sold the bonds in London and appointed a lot of London di- rectors, each of whom gets a good salary. By the time the interest on the bonds and the salaries are paid there is little left for the stockholders. I am told that the road could be e paralleled and that a fran- chise could be goiten. FRANK G. CARPE? —_->—__ They Worked Together. From the Detroit Free Press. “I'm after them and I'll get them yet,” growled the big man on the ferry boat. “They hunt in pairs and I know them on sight. Wnen I'm buncoed it’s safe to bet that I'll never rest till I get even. “Along came the first fellow and gave me a strong story about bis having to do something or starve. He was used to wash- ing boats and could make my house look as good as new. More out of charity than for any other reason I gave him the job. He sloppeu around as free as a whale at play, spattered all the windows, dirtied the houses on either side and managed to sprin- kle nearly every passer-by. But what 1 pitched into him about was scratching the weather boarding and grinding his heels into the floor of the veranda. It was plain to me that nothing but a fresh coat of paint would repair the damages. “Next mcrning when I looked out there was a man in front studying the defaced property, even crossing the lawn to exam- ine it more closely. He turned out to be @ painter in search of work, and I let the contract then and there. When I went home that evening I saw my ‘boat washer’ working on another house in the same block, making if look as though he was currying it,, I didn’t pay any attention to him, but gave him the bad eye and went on. Two days later the man that painted my hcuse .was painting this one. Then 1 had a suspicion and watched the precious pair. One goes ahead scraping paint off houses and the other follows up to put on fresh, “I guess they must have discovered that I'm after them, for they're not working along my route;any more. But I'll find ‘em, I'll charge,’em with conspiracy and T'll have ’em sent up for life.” 0 Society Chit-Chat at the Zoo. From Lite. rER. He—“We always go suinewhere In the woods during the summer,” She—“We always go near the water. It Cost is 80 gremt at it will require a-very | agrees so much better with our family,” ‘in the mesa top A PRIMITIVE CHURCH, ee The Moki Incians Always Worship in Underground Rooms. WOMEN TAKE PRACTICALLY NO PART Pueblo Tribes Devote Much Time to Religious Ceremonies. THEIR CURIOUS THEOLOGY ——— Written B-clusively for The Evening Star. N THE BROAD serse of the term ligious man than the Americzn Indian, and he clings as tena- ciousty to his beliefs as the most carne: of our ancestors to theirs. In its hi forms, or su; 1- tion, this feeling dominates the life of an Indian to an ex- tent which is hardly credible. It enters into the minute detat! of his life and dictates every action. Not jess is it present in more important affairs and it Is fittingly recognized by the erec tion ard use of peculiar structures which from their use may be termed the churches of the people. there 1s no more re- | modern innova Under the an- cient sysiem no permanent means of ac- cess to a roof from the ground was ever permitte movable ladders. The only light in the interior of these chambers comes from the trap door in the roof or from the fire. In ether case is scanty, and coming from the brist giare outside it is at first very dite distinguish anything within. The is that often found in old church a dim religious Heht softens e} No means of heating these rooms are pro vided, fer none are necessary under ne mal condtions. The-fire, which ts ke burning during certain ceremonies, Is ¢ @ ceremonial nature, and even in the coid- yest weather the presence of from forty to fifty men in the confined area of the room, with practically no ventiiation or moy ment of air, soon raises the temperature to an uncomfortable degree. In the 5' when the ki us purposes, very and pleasant, and ferms a favorite of social resért for the men According to the Moki theology the pres- ent is the fourth werld which they have Inhabiied, and the earlier or undergrc wo} 3 in the kiva are place a 1 world is symboil: in the floor. h a short wo inches in a is Gited with a 1 he gods the chamber, an that through w m the first people 1 fro: the second. | Out of the Darkness. j Tn the beginn! lowest depths, Their rible and moist apen and Through the — intervent the god of the interi oi Baholikonga, a created se | pent of enormous size, the genius of waier, TWO OKI CHURCHE:! Practically all the Indian tribes have buildings or structures different from their | ordinary dwellings, in which religious rites and ceremonies are conducted, but among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico and Ari- zona this practice reaches its highest de- velopment in the peculiar uncerground chambers which the old Spanish conquista- dores of the sixteenth century called es- tuffas, or stoves, and which we now term kivas—which is a term of the Moki indians of northeastern Arizona, the present in! itants of the anvient province of T These chambers are foi among the Pueblo tribes, sometimes standing in the open, sometimes concealed in houses, and they are found as well in ancient ruins and in tie cliff dwelis Among the latter, and in a few of the mod- ern villages, they are circular in form, twelve to twenty feet in diameter, and usually have an interior berch about a foot wide around the waole or part of the circumference. The conservatism which characterizes the human mind in matters of religion is illustrated by these circular tooms, for it is evident that they are a survival from an early day, when the peo- ple lived in ro a and earth. Alth the rec! em of ar r stone-built houses and v centuries before we knew enyt the kivas or churenes retaiie: circular form, ¢ " retention of a circular char: ter of rectangular rooms cre Problems which pushed the Pueblo architect to the utmost. Built on a In the Moki country natural conditions brought about a change which convenience failed to accomplish elsewhere. The yil- jages are all built on the summits of rocky mesas, swept clean and bare by the winds, and as the prime requirement for such a structure was that it should be entirely or partly underground, the Mokis were com- pelled to utilize natural cracks and and so the room: necessarily rectangular. ilar ct was brought about in the pueblo of by the repressive policy of the old Spa: monks, who for two centuries or more maintained a mission there. These zealous missionaries prohibited the performance of the ancient -ltes and ceremonies, and there- by forced the native priests ‘to conduct them in secret. From this it came about that the kivas were incorporated in the house structures, and even today are diffi- cult to distinguish. In the great Insurrection of 1680, when the usaya ages many ig of them, Pueblo tribes rose in revolt against the rule | of the Spaniards, the Mokis illed all the missionaries then among them—there were said to be five at that time—and since that day—more than two centuries ago—this | the “old men” ot om which | @ growth of ma » sprang. It pe | trated a crevice in the roof overhead aad | by its aid mankind climbed to a aigher i nd world a dim light appear- Another growth of ¢. o the third w ns | creazed. 1 present world was ac hed by me means, the alternate leaves of the jcane affording steps as of a ladder. The An Interior. passage of the people through the hole in ithe roof was aided and led by a pa: | mythical twins, who sang as they helpe | the people out.’ When the song was end | no more were allowed to comm ny | more were left below than w ed {to come above. But the ope ;which the people came has never | closed, and through it come the germs of | all living things. It is symbolized by the raised hatchway or uppermost part of t kiva building. The second and third worlds are repre- senied by ithe main floor of the chamber, and by a raised platform which occupies usually about one-third of the floor urea and which is about a foot above the re- mainder. ‘The lower end of the ladder which leads up through the hatchway in- variably rests on the edge of this raise platform. On this platform also the wo- men and other spectators stand during the performance of those rites which they are vermitted to witness, but ithe para- phernalia and the aliar are always con- structed about the sacred or'ii¢e in the lower floor. According to the ancient traditions some | of the kivas in early times were devoted | exclusively to ceremental or religious pur- EXTERIOR OF A CHURCH. I found that they were partners, | tribe has enjoyed religious indepandence. Their kivas are all detached from the houses, standing out in the open, and the old rites are performed without any at- tempt at concealment, save in those par- ticulars which are too a Ea for the com- mon eye. The latter invariably take place in the kivas themselves, to which admit- tance is regulated by well-established rules. In the seven villages of the Mokis there are no less than thirty-one kivas, each one pertaining to some certain religious order or sect, and belonging to it, or to some indi- vidual in it. These chambers, which are always rectangular, will average about twenty-five by twelve feet in size, and be- tween seven and eight feet in heigat. Some are wholly underground, the roof being flush with the ground lev: thers are only partly excavated, and the side walls stand up above the surface three or four feet; and some are flush on one side and built up on the other, as irregularity in the site may dictate. But One Entrance. It 1s an invariable rule that there shall be no entrance to these chambers other than a trap door or hole in the roof,through which a ladder descends to the floor. Im- mediately under this trap door the fireplace is located, as the smoke must necessarily find exit through it. No other or any character is constructed in the wails, and absolute privacy is easily obtained by posting a man outside as a sentry. Some- times when the roof of the structure ts above the ground level a short fight of stone steps leads up to it. This is a great convenience for the entrence of masked @ancers with elaborate paraphernalia, but’ poses. An altar was permanently matn- tained and @ priest was always in atten- dance. At the present time they are used aiso during the summer timc as a place of resort for the men, and it is not un- usual during the hot weather, when lous observances are temporarily suspend- nothing, that is, other than re-/ erything. | On the latter occasions the place is to them entirely, and men can bo nly as invited guests. When a is built the women are always » give It the finishing touches. » the interior walls and plas- aud sometimes whitewash them found in the neighborhood. Once r, at the feast of Powuma, or the < moon, the kivas receive the ention at their hands. ew kivas are seldom butit, and most of pose now in use have stood for one or | more centuries, It ts said that the knowl- ¢ of how to construct the sacred orifice j in the lower floor is now lost, and that | none of them have been made tn the pres- ent ation. Quarreis sometimes arise among the members of a Kiva, and if their Ss are too serious for adjustment rate and either build a new struc- thelr own or are absorbed into one constructed. Sometimes ft hap- the membership of a kiva tr eS So much that the place ts too small In that case a new kiva will be the chief priest of the order. rease ts of rare occurrence, but mmon to hear laments of the de- of membership. In one kiva there mbers, and the chief that a stove and pipe agent gave him, and which he room, is an evil thing, and ! j own ted by Such i is c new » ROW Prevented ¥ He Captured Cleveland Leader. nd in hand they strolled through the Hn @ the upland pastures, where he | told her they would be able to see for miles and miles along the beautiful shore of the leke, with its villas here and there, its re- orts along the beach, and the little white towns dotting the green stretches and help- ing to form a panorama whose equal was not to be found upon the continent. Ané so you loved me from the very first rroment that you ever saw me?” she said, with a radiant look upon her sweet, freshly calcimined countenance. “rom the very first moment,” he fer- ventiy replied. He was ycung and unused to that sort of thing. Young, inexpertenced fellows always be- come fervent when women who know things look into their eyes and sigh. ‘Ah, you trifier!” she said, with a pout. ‘Darling, he cried, “do not say that! You know that I am fearfully in earnest. Ah, how terribly In earn—” ut he had been gazing so intently at her that he had not seen the ant hill in bis at; er she*had helped to pick the burrs out of bis hair he went on: “bo not say that I trifle! No man was ever more in earnest than I am now. Do not judge me by others. Was your first husband cruel to you?” Her gaze rested upon the turf and shi Was silent for a moment. Then, with an eifort, she replied: “Yes, he was very, very cruel!” “Ah, the wretch,” exclaimed the young man. “I can not conceive of any one be- ing unkind to you. It seems to me as though even the birds ef the air and the beasts of the ficld must worship you. In what way was he cruel?” dh, in a hundred ways,” she said, with ther sigh; “but let us not talk of him, us only be happy with each other, and enjoy the beauties of nature that are spread cut befcre us. Do you know that I ink you are the handsomest man I have ever seen?” No woman had ever before called alm a man, and a thrill of ecstacy passed through him. He was ready fali down at her feet and wors! her; but he had already lost one suspender button, and, therefore, dared not assume the ris At last he said: “Darlin let us be married at once. Do not com me to walt until fal “Ah, you foolish man!" she replied; “why are you in such a hurry? “I can’t live without you,” he answered. y that you will not compel me to oW she said, with great reluctance, “if you insist upon hurrying, 1 suppose i mer you. How would a week from tch his & jd so, he You dear th for a said: girl! you darling. How d and kissed hi yet, but for timental father 1 owt of a fence corner and grabbed boy by the nape of ihe neck and him almost out of his knicker- the whisked bec When the “dear girl” recovered from her surprise she was alone, and the next time she met her “trifler” he had whiskers and three n. Also a pretty well-ground- €d idea that he had once come within an ace of making a blooming fool of him- self. +e. Pretty Namen From St. Nicholas. Books, The following are some of the curious titles ld English books: 1, "A Most Delectable Sweet Perfumed Honegay for God's Saints to Smell at. Bi uit Baked in the Oven of Charity, Carefully conserved for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation.” 3. “A Sigh of Sorrow for the Sinners of Zion Breathed Out of a Hole in the Wall of an Earthly Vessel Known Among Men by the Name of Samuel Fish” (@ Quaker who had been imprisoned). 4. “Eges of Charity Layed for the Chicx- ens of the Covenant and Boiled With the Water of Divine Love. Take Ye Out and Eat. “Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul for Si 6,‘ The Spiritual Mustard Pot to Make the Soul Sneeze With Devotion.” Most of these were published in the time of Cromwell. ——_+0+____ A Rothersome Language. From Harper's Bazar. “What's the matter, Jack?” uncle. “You look bothered. “I am,” said Jack. “This English lan- guage is too much for me. Ma told me to stop in at Mrs. Perkins’ as I went by and leave this letter. Now, if I go by I can't asked his stop in, and if I stop in, why, don’t you see, I can’t really go by. Very Little Difference. From Life, “How are your geological studies pro- gressing, Miss Climely?” “Very nicely, indeed. I found a lovely Piece of rock quartz today up on the hill back of the hotel. But, unfortunately, I laid it upon my soap dish when I began to dress, and now I can’t tell which is the soap. —— se It matters little what it is that you want —whether a sitvation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the per- gon who can fill your need. ———_+e-+—____ Their First Attempt at Housekeeping. From Marper’s Pazar. “Why, Harry, dear, I have discharged the cook, aud am doing everything myself; we don't have to pay her eight dollars a week. I cannot see how we can economize any more. “Perhaps we can get her back.” l li [ SSE ERE =3 twa H E i oy eae a tll I