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. Tim HAWAIIAN Sl'AK, MONDAY, MAY 1, 18M.-SIX I'AGJtS. JL THE OLD TRAMP. He sat by the roadside on a log lacing his last year's suit with hickory withes, for buttons he had none. He had lost one shoe when he jumped from the freicht tram which had lately pass cd, and as it may appear strange that a tramp stealing a ride will abandon it unless assisted in so doing by some brakeman it is best to explain that he intended going west and found himself nicely stowed away in a boiler on a car uoini; east. 1 his was unpleasant, and as he stuck his head through a manhole and realized he was going back over the weary miles of the previous day's tramp he did what many another man and brother has done jumped. It was not a successful jump. He turned over endwise a number of times and lit on his head in a swamp. He was pretty firmly planted, and he kick ed worse than a towpath mule. He had been in that fix before, and he knew that the kicking would loosen his head in the mud. It did, but somehow it loosened a shoe and sent it flying in the water where he failed to find it, and there he sat on the log tying himself together after he had taken an inven tory to learn if he was all there. Disgusted with railroads he struck for the interior. His prospects were not promising. Locomotion was not good with only one shoe, so he cut a crutch and got along better for the first day as a lame man, wounded in the charge on Vicksburg, in the Thirteenth army corps. This secured him an old shoe at a country store, and a collection was taken up for him. It netted him 7 cents, but he believed it would have been 1 1 had it not been for a loose lin ing in the hat of the benevolent indi vidual who took up the collection. Throwing away the crutch when he got over the hill, he stopped as an able bodied man for two days at a farm and helped repair fences; then he wandered on wesUvaid, sleeping in a barn the first night afterward and losing the tail of his coat the next morning through the united sentiments of a dog's jw,,as the canine remained upon one s de of a fence, and the tramp went over on the other. After that he traveled better; he was lighter; besides the old coattails used to scare him, flapping around in the wind suddenly and unexpectedly, and make him think he was going to be robbed. A tramp generally hasn't got much, but sometimes an old string that keeps his shoe on is as precious in his sight as a woman's new spring bonnet. The next night he stopped at a large old farmhouse, where he had soon the sympathy of the fanner's wife and was comfortably seated in the kitchen wait ing for supper when her husband returned home. He had told her apparently the true and pathetic story of his life. Raised on a farm in Missouri, he had in his early manhood taught school and then clerked in a store, and afterward selling his little patrimony invested the proceeds in a country store, which the bushwhackers of the late war had robbed and burned, then he drifted away and taught school again and did most anything for a living, until at last, a poor, solitary old tramp, there he was in her kitchen asking for food and shelter for the night. "Come, get out and travel," exclaim ed the farmer as he saw the tramp; "you can't stop here." "Now, John, let him stay; it's dark and looks like rain," said the farmer's wife pleadingly; "he's been as well off once as we are." "Oh, that's what these tramps all say all rich, first families in the land, blueblooded stock all of them; can't any of them eat pork and potatoes raised on chicken. We haven't got anything he'd eat." "Hush, John; don't talk that way Remember he is a human being, and we ought to 'do unto others as we'd have them do unto us.' We might be homeless some day." Reluctantly the farmer yielded to bis wife's wishes, and after a good sup per the old tramp was permitted to sleep in a little room in the back porch, used as a granary or harness room. Suddenly, in the dead hour of night, the household was aroused, and there was terrible excitement. The house was on fire, all in a blaze around the stairway, burning like a tinder box and rapidly . cutting off access to the upper rooms, in which three children was sleeping, Farmers .seldom know what to do in case of fire. They go rushing around, all excited, catching up old saddles and rockings chairs and forgetting more valuable things. So it was some moments after the tarmer and his wile ana one or two farmhands, and the tramp had rushed out in the front yard before the children were missed from the group, and all that time the flames and smoke had been filling the lower rooms and rapidly working upward. "Oh, my children, my children I" shrieked the poor woman, rushing around frantically. "Save them, John; for (jod's sake, save them r The farmer rushed into the room, and looking hopelessly upward at the burning stairway was driven back by the heat and dropped down in despair with his hands over his face. "Too late, too late, they are gone I" "exclaimed one of the farmhands. "I'll get 'em out for you, ma'am. What room are they in ?" asked the old tramp, with a strange look in his eyes. "Uh, its too lale! You can never get up there," replied the farmer, stand ing up in his hopeless despair, while .his wife fainted dead away, "Never mind. I've been in close places before. I'll go." One of his old shoes dropped off as the tramp rushed in, and then they could see him, as it were, going up through the flames as he hastily climbed the burning stairs, and then he stood at the window. "Here's your little girl; catch her a? I drop her," and he disappeared in the smoke. "Catch the little boy," he said as he Concluded on Fourth pose.) Egan 4 Gunn 100 FORT STREET, (lirewcr Mock.) Below we make mention of some of our special bargains: Ladies' and Children's FAST BLACK HOSE, at 25 cts. a pair. Ladies' and Children's FAST B"LACK HOSE, at 3 pairs for $1.00 Special value. Ladies' RIBBED U NDE IN VESTS at 15 cts. each. Large variety of new TEN IS FLANNELS. 5 Qualities in " P. D." COR SETS, from $1.25 to $3.50 a pair. All the LATEST STYLES in Millinery Goods received by every Steamer. In KID GLOVES we call spe cial attention to our DENT, ALCROFT, DRIVING and STREET GLOVES, at $1.75 a pair, in Kid and Suede. In our Furnishing Goods De partment, we can give you the BEST UNLAUND ERED SHIRT in Town for $1.00. Fine Fitting, Finely Made' CRAPE SHIRTS includ ing Neck-tie forv $1.25. SILK SHIRTS in large va riety. SILK PAJAMAS, CHEVIOT PAJAMAS, COTTON CRAPE PAJA MAS, FLANNEL PAJAMAS, at bedrock prices. Special Value in LACE CUR TAINS. In our House Furnishing De partment, we have a com plete stock of SHEETINGS, LINEN DAMASKS, Etc., Etc. Our stock of LACES and EM BROIDERIES, is very complete and prices low. The following lines we call special attention too, as they must be sold. Men's and Boys' SHOES. Men's, Boys' and Children's Felt and Straw HATS. Men's and Boys' CLOTH ING. TRUNKS, BAGS and VA LISES. These last lines we are clos ing out, not intending to carry them any longer. These Goods, you can Buy at your own price. EGAN & GUNN, loo Kort Street, Itrewer lilock. 8 (General Something Pretty in Shoes Always invites inspection, and judging from the amount of in spection we are arousing, one would suppose we were showing something unusually pretty. The supposition is entirely cor rect, for that's precisely what we're doing. Our stock of foot wear is not only exceedingly pretty, but it's also pretty exten sive, and what's more interesting still, it's more than pretty cheap. It's the buyer's season along as though on ice, and we c : i r jpuug wuii any iciiiiiaius oi wmier gooas. nic siock is wen up now in all styles and sizes, and you can get a first choice as well as a low price. Don't wait until the stock's faded away to the last end of nothing before buying, but buy now. THE MANUFACTURERS' SHOE CO. Wholesale and Retail Boots and Shoes. 102 FORT STREET. Space reserved for BENSON, SMITH & CO.. Wholesale and Retail Druggists The Hawaiian News Co. L'd STATIONERS, News and Music Dealers, 25 and 27 MERCHANT STREET, KEEP ON HAND A Superior Assortment of Goods Blank Books, all kinds; Memorandum Books, in great variety; PIANOS, GUITARS, MANDOLINS, Sheet Music Subscriptions Received for any Periodical Published. AGENTS ftlinkners Red Rubber Stamp and Yost Type Writer. bbcrfiscmcnls. now. Winter is slipping right don't wan't to be caught in the i "-im - . t u t is. - - FOR omcfitic iJrobucc. H. W. MMSNEY HONS, Wholesale Grocers, Honolulu, H. I. A FULL LINE OF GROCERIES Always on Hand. FRESH GOODS Per .Every Steamer and Sail. SPECIALTIES! Cheese, Lard, Hams, Butter, Codfish, Milk, Onions, Crackers, Potatoes, Salmon, Macaroni, Corn Meal, Pickled Skipjack, Alvicore, Hertings, Flour, Grain and Beans. Saddle Leather, Harness Lcallici And All Kinds ok Leather and Nails for Shoe makers, II. W. JlcCllliSlY ft SONS, AGENTS FOR Honolulu Tannery. HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR Hides and Goat Skins ! HIDE SALT AT LOW PRICE. H. W. HeCUESNEY k SONS, AGENTS Honolulu Soap Works Co Laundry Soap ! 42, 56 and 63 bars to case One Hundred loundsl HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR TALLOW ! "(Scncral FOR THE VOLCANO Nature's Grandest Wonder. The Popular and Scenic Route IS ItV Wilder's Steamship Company's Ai STEAMER K1NAU, Fitted with Electric Light, Electric Bells, Courteous and Attentive Service. VIA ZHZILO: Hie Kill Leaves Honolulu Every Ten Days, TUESDAYS AND KK1DAYS, Arriving at Ililo Thursday and Sunday Mornings, FROM HILO TO THE VOLCANO, 30 Miles, Passeugors arc Conveyed in Carriages, TWENTY-TWO MILES, Over a Splendid Macadamized Road, Running most of the way through a Dense Tropical Forest a ride alone worth the trip. The balance of the road on horseback. ABSENT FROM HONOLULU 7 DAYS ! 3T TICKET S,'S Including All Expenses, or the Round Trip, : : Fifty Dollars. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, Call at the Office, Corner Thirty Third Annual Statement QUIT Life r- Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES, For the Year Ending December 31, 1892. ASSETS. ISomls and Mortgages $ i ,0S:i,91 1 0'J Heal Estate, including the Kquitable liuildings and purchases under fore closure oi mortgages !!.",,J1,J,411! 40 United States Stocks, State Stocks, City Slocks and other investments .... 75!oSL740 -18 Loans secured by lionds and Stocks (Market value, $7,073,700) 5,yi:t,."tH) 00 Real Estate outside the State of New York, including purchases under fore- , . c??m? ; ; I4.12-J.730 70 Lash iii'liank and in transit (since received and invested) 5,551,001; 00 Interest and Rents due and accrued, Deferred Premiums and other Sccuri- ,ies (;,4SS,70'J GO Total Assets, December HI, IS'Ji We hereby certify, that after a personal described in the foregoing statement, we find riios. D. Jordan, Comptroller. Krancis V. Jackson, Auditor. LIABILITIES. Reserve on all existing Policies (4 Standard), ...... w....t.Mkv4 .7u.i..ip o k'luunim, SilX'OO.OOO towards establishment of a We certify the correctness of the above this surplus the usual dividends will be made. Gi:o. V. Phillips, J. G, Van Cisk, Actuaries. INCOME. Premiums $ :H,04fi,5GS 30 Interest, Kents, etc , (iJ.IO.GOO 10 J40,'JSG,'.,:17 40 DISBURSEMENTS. - -r Claims by Death and Matured Endowments , .'.$ 10,859,373 01 Dividends, Surrender Valuei, Annuities and Discounted Endowments 5,1175,071 01 Total Paid Policy-Holders , ,,,, $ 10,0:11,417 OS Commissions, Advertising, Postage and Exchange...,,.,,,,, 4,0S.'I,I7S .15 General Expenses, State, County and City Taxes ... :i,SI4,0Jl 01 ' . - ' S 24,101,017 31 New Assurance written in ISO'J S-iO0,40O,:ilG 00 Total Outstanding Assurance hSO.OO'.V-MS 00 We, the undersigned, have, in person, carefully examined the accounts, and counted and examined in detail the assets of the Society, and certify that the foregoing statement thereof is correct. '!' HouniNOT Cm t Sptcial Committee of the I10UWN01 COLT, lUlrU of Diredon, a,,. 1. S. YOUNO, II. S. TURBEM., s itU to examine the Ow r .... ....... i,-.. 1 accouiittandafcctiatt!ie . . CARI.HTON, N. U. kl!NlAU., j "clOM ef 8? DIRECTORS. I Iunrv H. Uyiik, President. Jamks W. Alexander, Vice-President. , Louis l'ittgcrald, Geo. C. Magoim, John D, Jones, ' Henry A. Huilbut, Wm. M. Hliss, Levi P, Morton, Henry G. Matnuand, Win. 15. Kendall, Charles S. Smith, Wm. A. Wheelock, G. W. Carleton, Joseph T, Low, M. Hartley, E. W. Lambert, A. Van Hergen, H. M. Alexander, 11. S. Terbell, T. Dc Witt CuyJejr, Chauncey M. Depew, Thomas S. Young, 01ierAmus, Charles (5. Landon, John J. McCook, Eustace C. Hit, Cornelius N. Hliss, Daniel D. Lord, S. II. Phillips, August Uelmont, Win. Alexander, Henry R. Wolcott, IJ. lioudinot Colt, Horace Porter, J. 'DeNavarro, John Sloane, Edward W. Scott, James II. Dunham, S. llorrowe, C. H. Alexander, Daniel K. Noyos, II. J. Haitchild, Geo. De V. L. Day, M. E. Ingalls, Eugene Kelly, Alason Trask, T. D. Jordan, John A. Stewart. S. D. Ripley. BRUCE & A. J. CARTWRIGHT, Managers Equitable Life Assurance Society for the Hawaiian Islands, bcritscmcnto. THK Fort and Queen streets ABLE 5 1 5:1.000 05" 01 examination of the secmitirs ami .irrnnnu the same to be true and correct as stated. and all other liabilities SPJ1.870 ":10 5' iniuuiiig opcci.ii nescrve 01 y2 valuation .'11,180,815 4'.) 515:1,000,05? 01 calculation of the reserve and surplus. From 4 -A s'3 4 1