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"I"? nvunmu uunLKUN, HONOLULU,!!. T.T WEDNESDAY. FED. 12, 1902. wmp- ::mm:mtt::!:t:i:u:mmmmum:ui:t:s' mill .uiumi immmwmmmimmmammMmmttmmmaMmmmmimaBimnaaitmi TOLD IN THE BARN Jit Big Sacrifice Sale OF COLORED DRESS GOODS Before giving you tho prices offered In this salo let us doflno the policy of tho sow management regarding advertising bargains. Our ad vertisements, as wo stated last week, are to glvo news of new arrivals In Btock and from time to ttmo offer Bpcclal Inducements. We want ev ery lady to know Sachs Dry Goods Co. will not offer a bargain unless It Is a bargain. That Is tho truo mission of tho advertisement, and you will find It faithfully carried out at our store. Reductions for one week only VALUES NOT CONSIDERED Wo must mako room for tho Spring Goods which will soon arrive. By taking advantage, of theso cxtr aordlnary prices you will savo from one-third to one-half on standard dress materials. After tho salo nil the goods wilt ho sold only at regular prices. Remember only this week UEGINNINC MONDAY, PEU. 10. Boo the goods displayed In w Indow and Interior and nolo the follow ing prices: CAMEL'S HAIR GOODS In fancy plats, extra fine all wool. Regular. Sale Price. Price. 42 In. wld $ .75 EOc 46 In. wld 1.00 70c 52 In. wide 1.25 80c Fancy Checked Suitings Deuclo effects; 6G In. wide. Regular price, $1.25 yard. Sale Price 75c Ladies' Cloth In fancy plaids, extra flno all flno range of shades; double fold; regular price, COc yard. Sale Price 45c Polka Dot Cashmeres all wool, positively now, double fold; regular price, (1. Sals Price 80c FANCY CREPONS all wool, beautiful combination of colors. Regular. Salo Price. Price. 42 In. wld $ .75 4Sc 44 In. wlde..$1 to 1.25 65c All Wool Cheviots fancy materials, 50 Inches wide; regular price, $1.25. Sale Price 65c Fine F. Flannels newest designs In fancy stripes, polka dots, caBhmero effects. Regular prices, $1 and $1.25. Sale Price 75c Silk Striped Waistings very latest designs, all new goods; regular price, $1 yard. Sale Price 80c DONT MISS THIS SALE li. S. SACH'S DRY GOODS CO., Ltd. r r r V- 7 li HHUM3R8jHHHHdBjtf MtJmmiMBfflmSM- Tholo by Cilnedlnit, Washington. SENATOR DEPEW'S NEW WASHINGTON HOME. When .Senator Ohnunccy M. Dcpow returns from his hone innoii tour In Iluropo mid Mitles down In Washington, lie will tnKe IiIm bride to the fiitnous old I'oiformi tiiiliilon. which was owned mid occupied by llunlel Webster when secretary of state. Tin- Iioiim- Ik situated In the wry center of fash, loimbte WiiHblnctoii. Through the tree of Liifnwlto square In front may bo seen glimpses of the While Unlive, while near by are several exclusive club house!) mid the line home of Secret, li'' liny. HOW UNCLE SAM FOLLOWS THE POST OFFICE THIEVES Hawaii's recent experience with "One day there camo up n terrific robbery of United Staton mall on rainstorm nnd with this came n happy board the local steamer gives Interest thought to tho Inspector who had tho Vin lav 11 Is vear as I ill u trylnz to to tho following Interview with a post- case In hand. Ho. carried n bucket , ' "n ?' "" '' n" ' "' t;tt:::::::in:::u::::i4:t::::::t:nt:t:u:ii The men lu the field walked all the forenoon getting up tlie hay nud in the afternoon they bestirred them selves to get It Into the barn before the shower, which they saw coming, should oertnke them. Thu last load was Barely under tho shingles when tho big drops began to fall, nnd for nn hour or two there was n drenching , i.ood. The men, a Jolly crowd, gatncrcii in tho barn to escape the downpour Aft er tiey had gossiped and cracked Jokes n while, "Slim j'oto" Jones ad dressed himself to "lko" Drummer nnd said, "Say. Ike, tell us something. One would think you had lost nil your friends and novor expected any more. Tell us a story of some sort. No inat tcr If 'tisn't cry smart. "I don't want to tell stories to peo nlo that won't believe 'em. If I tell u good story, 1 want to have It bo IIcm-U. I "Give us your best. We'll believe It If It will be any ncrommodntion." Well bellee It nil r.gh., ' echoed Tom Hcrrlck. Job Simmons nnd II. FranMlu Morse, as ho pompously cnll cd himself. Jack Staples lay back on a pile of hny nnd awnltoa results. Well. 1 II tell j ou a little story, but I don't suppose you II bellee a word of It. You know I was down to Now York n couple of years ago. "I remember It." said II. I'ranklln "I was down thcro at tho same time. "Well," continued Ike, "I was around tho city looking at tho sights, and finally I drifted down to tho wharves whoro the shipping lay. I noticed one ship that had Just come In, nnd slid wns loaded with needles common sewing needles. They hnd been dump ed looso Into the hold of tno ship, and there were three men down In the hold of the ship with shovels tnrowlng those needles right out looso upon tho whnrf. And there on the wharf, II you'll believe It. was an old blind wom an who threaded those needles as fast as those three men could throw them out. There; I don't supposo you will believe a word of that story. "Don't think we'll bcllcvo It!" said I'ote. "Guess you ain't acquainted with your audience! Guess you didn't know I was down In tho hold shovel ing with all my might. naven't sweat While waiting for our new storo In tho Sachs' Dultdlng to be completed, we have moved temporarily into the FISHER BLOCK, op posite LOVE BUILDING, where we arc prepared to sell the same ex cellent standard of furniture as we haw always mado It a point to handle Our temporary quarters arc very handsome and a visit from you will be welcome. PORTER FURNITURE CO.. LTD." Flutter Block, opp. I.ove Bid. I'orfHtrcet. SMITH PREMIER TYPEWRITERS Still in the Lead Always In the Lead, HIGHEST AWARD AT PARIS EXPOSITION HIGHEST AWARD AT BUFFALO EXPOSITION It's time to turn over n n cw leaf If you have never used the Smith I'rcmlcr. Superior In construction and cfllclency. Send or call for catalogue. , G. W. MACFARLANE, SOLE AGENT. MACHINES SOLD, RENTED AND REPAIRED. Weekly Bulletin, $1.00 per year Tel. Main 311. Pontoftlcc Uox 57 WHY THROW $40 AWAY by paying $100 for a typewriter when you can get an up-to-date Btrlctly high grado machine The Wellington Visible Writer for $60. This machlno Is a revolution In typewriters. Ono ot many endorsements given tho Wellington Typewriter Is as followa "Wo mako tho statement positively that they oro absolutely tho best, ex celling all others In simplicity, dura bility and accuracy. Wo nro using 75 of them In our Philadelphia and Now York stores. Thoy novo our unquali fied endorsement. "(Signed) JOHN WANAMAKER." We have Just received n shipment of theso typewriters and will be pleased to glvo full particulars regarding same. Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd. office detective by n Washington of water Into tho loft and dashed It Times writer: on tho overhead plastering Just over "No thief Is harder to catch than the tho distributors. Naturally a leak ono who robs Uncle Sam's mail. Ills was sprung nnd a workman, who was methods arc Ingenious; tho plunder 13 taken into the confidence' of tho In easily hidden or destroyed, nnd his rim- speitor, wns sent Into the loft to mako cnllty Is well masked by tho honesty on Investigation, nnd Integrity ot associates. I'ostclllcy "Accidentally, on purpose, his foot thieves nro not arrested every day, nl- went through tho wet plastering, leav though valuable letters and other nr Ing n hole. Of course, to rcpilr this tlelcs are stolen nlmost dally and an It would have been nccessarj to do army of shrewd Inspectors nro on tho the work from the distribution room alert. and. as this was not done, the clerks "Positive proof of guilt must he In .went ahead with their work, while tho tho possession of the Inspector beforo ' Inspector looked down nt their every an arrest Is made. Clrcumstnntlnl o-1 movement trom tho supposed atel Idence counts for nothing In this juM- dentally-made nolo. ness. It may send n man to tho penl-' Nabbing the Thief. tentlary for some other offence, lint I Finally bo was rewarded by seeing not for robbing tho malls. In almost, one of the oldest employes of the of every instance arrest means convic tion. "A postoflleo employe never knows when hu Is being shadowed. Kven when not under suspicion of theft ho may be watched outside of business hours to seo If he Is spending more years. flee slipping letters Into his pocket. Tho Inspector got out of his place of hiding, collared the clerk, and found tho letters, every ono of them con taining money. Ills confession was full, and he went up for a number of money than his salary will permit and if he Is galloping with a fast gang. It sometimes happens that an inspector may not be able to provo his man n thief nnd the man Is turned looso with n verdict of 'not guilty' ns his certlfi- "A German, named Namath, gave. the Inspectors a world of trouble In tho same city. Thousands of letters wero missed, and goodness only knows how much money stolen. It wns u caso which puzzled the department. keep that old woman nt work; and the other two working ns hard as I did. I saw you loafing about there, and won dered whnt greenlo had come to town. "Why, don't ou Know, said Jack "my wife's cousin lives In New York, and that old woman Is her grandmoth er. Tho old lady Is ninety-eight years old, nnd Isn't quite so spry as she wns when Bno wns a few years younger My wife was down there on n lslt at that time, nnd sho says the old lad) wasn't feeling well that day. If she hnd been, five men would hnve been requiied to keep her going. She got n little overdone tho night before There was n swell ball and the Dilko of I'lcklcburg wns to bo there and they Insisted that tho old lady should be there and dnnco with him. It wns lata when sho got home, nnd naturally It nffected her Bpecd In tlueaulng nee dles." "It beats all." remarked Job Sim mons, "how things do turn out. My daughter Kttlo wns over to Deacon Tiiomass nuout that time calling on Cynthy Thomas. Cynthy. you know. Is all carried away with missionary work. Kttlo camo homo and told us how (he Greenland Society for tho Promotion of Homo Comforts Among tho Ksntii mnux had given nn order for seven million lace pocket handkerchiefs to cnto of honesty, but he Is not wanted nnd after weeks of tho closest Investl-1 ,e distributed among tho Ksquimnii PER S. S, "ALAMEDA" New Line Golf Shirts very latest In tho market. SILK AND CRAPE SHIRTS. PONGEE SILK FOR SUITS, direct from IEig Orient. DIG LINE OF KIMONAS. - U. SEKOMOTO, Robinson Block. Hotel Street. S. SHIMAMOTO General Merchandise. Dry Goods, Groceries. by tho department any more. I gallon It was decided that tho crook "From one point of view It Is won- cd work was not doue In the postuf dcrful that there nro so few thieves fico. among tho many thousand clerks wiui I "Then nn outside campaign wns bo- work on tho malls, first nnd last, for gun. and Namath was arrested whllo great temptations constantly rise, as 'Mealing letters from ono of the sliest they linndlo tho millions of valuable boxes. He did not hnvo a key, but pnrcels. used a wire for extracting the letters. It Is known that theso clerks soon i8 operations were confined to tho leain to toll by the ery touch of n boxes In the business bcUIoiis, nnd letter whether It contains money, ir he admitted ho hnd stolen not less so Inclined It would he an easy matter than ten thousand letters before bo for the dishonest clerk to slip letters was caught. Thu nmount of money he into his pocKot anil open them in tlie got could never bo ascertained, but privacy of his room. he must hnve secured n snug sum. "That tho cases of dishonesty nro ills own confession scut him to the compaiatlvely few Is a high tribute to -pen' for a long term, tho moral qualities of the postofilcn j Few Arrests In Washington, clerks. "Did you ever think nbout the fnet Caught by Drugged Mucilage. that but few arrests' hnvo been mado "Years ago, on one of the old star hero in Washington? There's n pow routes out in New Mexico, hundreds erful army of postoflleo employes here ct letters containing money, drafts, , but they seldom go wrong, and yet In checks and other valuables wero stol- spec-tors nro no more numerous here on. At first letters nnd nil disappear-! than In olhcr cities, ed, but tho thieves changed their I "A few years ago we had an Inspect mode of operations nnd simply stolo.or who was regarded ns a cracking the contents, lesenllng tho letters and good man. Ho wont wrong, but. thnnk .ending them on. Ab letters pass goodness, It wns ofter ho resigned through tho bands of many clerks. It. from tho service. Ills daughter ro BIG SHIRT WAIST SALE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. ALL WAISTS MARKED BELOW COST. GALL AND EXAMINE THEM. A. A. MONTANA, Lending DrcKHiniilln House nnil Millinery Pnrlors. Arlington mock, Hotel St. II. Pi DAVISON, Mnnnrjer. The Germania Life Insurance Company, OF NEW YORK. ASSETS $27,378,533.30. Paid to Policy Holders stneo 1SC0 for Death Claims. ..$21.3"3,4C9 CS Tor Matured Policies 7.5O7.G0S 27 Dividends and Surrenders 13, CDS, 131 37 Total $15,577,212 29 EMMETT MAY, Manager for Hawaiian Islands. JUDD DUILDINQ. Evening Bulletin, 75c per month women. To till this order seven thou sniid women were employed night nnd day. 1 li-y couldn t take time to tnread their own needles. When tho thread was out In one tney threw It nwny and took one that wns threaded. They kept sending wngons down to tho whnrf for fresh supplies of threaded needles. It kept a doen horses on the Jump." "I enn testify lo the truth of thnt fiory." said Tom Derrick. "1'w got half n dozen of those handkerchiefs, brought home by Tim Smith, who was among the Isqiilmnux In n whale ship. lie got em ror a plug or tobacco." "I am well acquainted with the cap tain of that ship, said II. I'ranklln. i "Ho was the skipper of a fishing! schooner n low jears ago. and I took j a tilp down to tho fishing grounds , with him. He wns doing something I nbout the deck one day. and taking Ills gold watch from his pocket by some accident he dropped It overboard, lie mourned a good deal over tho loss ol that watch: but It w.ib gone, and there wns no help for It. Hut n day or two afterward I ..ad my lines out fishing, nnd I hauled up tho jtre.it grandfather UNPARALLELED SPECIAL MAGAZINE OFFER Two of the greatest magazines in the world a short time ago made an offer to the management of this periodical for a special rate to OUR READERS EXCLUSIVELY. That offer is now and hereby announced, to hold good for sixty days from date. fish I ever saw. Well, wo dressed that fish, nml when wo camo to open It. there wnB the skipper's gold watch In Its hlomnch. And that was not all. There was a pair of gold-rlmmed spec tacles some lunkhead had lost over hoard, u lady's gold locket with n pic .Japanese Provisions, etc. MAQOON BLOCK, MERCHANT hTREET. IP . O- Box 880 IMIaAriL 2ic GOO KIM, NUUANU STREET, above hotel. DIG HOLIDAY 8TOCK OF TOY8. Many new Btaylet Table Covers, Embroidered both of Grass Linen and c. Embroidered Piano Covers. Silk Handkerchiefs, Etc. Heavy Pongee Silk and White Silks, Victoria Lawn, India Lawn and Laces of all kinds. New stock of 8wlss Embroideries. DRY GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Bilk. " -"-- -- UM'I i 1 1U1I I VII III! IIM' Hlt'lll Kill 1111 I (11 lit' I Is difficult to locate the thief. I received nn appointment nt n thriving 0r nil codfish. It wns the biggest cod "Months ot faltnrul worlt resulted town in ucorgin iih postmistress, mm In nothing being dlscotered as to the bad been there six or eight months Identity or tho thletes. Finally there .when the father suddenly concluded was a happy solution ot tho trouble. thnt he wanted to go to the same place "Ono of the Inspectors procured n nnd open up n real cslnte business, quantity of different kinds of drug I "Well, ho resigned ns a postoillcn nnd Kent other Insnectors over the en Inspector and moved to Georgia, lie lire louto with distinctions to make s got the run of the olllee of which liln I tun nf tlm nuk'n of I'lrlilnlnirir In it tour of book Investigations, and while daughter wns postmistress, and pietty ,, (rowii all, theio was o wad of thus engaged, to pluco somo of om- soon the olllco wys robbed of several ;(,n "o-dollnr bills. I restored the kind of tho drugs In tho muellngo bo hundred dollars. It was a bungled wntrh to the skipper: my best girl Is tlo at each olllee, taking caro to mako Job nnd no dlmculty to amount t" wearing the spectneies. and I have n memorandum which would show tit anything wns experienced In saddling found out that the locket hnd been what ufneo the drug had been placd tho Job on the young lady's father. Hi ktolen from the old lmly who threaded "It us not long before a registered illu tlmo in uoiumnus penueniinry. those needles, nml she Is wearing It In letter camo through with money gone. "It always struck me that If this . t. )OSOm of her iliess now. The mon ey Is Biibjevt to the order of the man who can tell n bigger ilo tlinn I can.' The shower wns now passed, and upon grass nnd leaf and flower the sunshlno sparkled as if the heavem had opened a treasury of diamonds nnd sprinkled them over tho rejoicing Innd senpo Tho bow of piomlso spanned the blackness nf the eastern heavens as n token thut the storm wns past. iTHB OFFER I or .... WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, - one year COSMOPOLITAN, - - - - one year SUNDAY AND EVENING BULLETIN, three months Total SPECIAL PRICE FOR ALL THREE $1,00 1,00 2,35 "735 "$T50 P. O. Bos v. Til. il. THE OLDEST CHi. SSE FIRM IN HONOLULU. 0023ieei02sr MBK.oi3:A.3srTB. Dtilin lo Fin, Silk, tot Or,,, LImoi.' CblniM lo4 Jtptntu Cool, ol All Klail. io-tif Nuutnu itmt. The inspector put his lips to tho seiil man would steal from his own daugh of tho envelope, tasted the inucllagi, tor's office ho must have been guilty referred to his book and nt cmco nam of crooked work whllo ho wns Inspect cd tho office nt which tho particular or. Thcro uro alwas plenty of drug hnd been placed In tho mucilage ' chnnces to ncccpt hush money from "Then a lot or decoy letters went to postmasters who nro lounu snort. the olllee, and tho dishonest postnuu. j ter secured the contents and tho in , ie rc(.cnt ra,,lg mai,e by (ll0 po. spector secured him. This. I thl'ik, ' f N y k on ome of Ul0 w'ork0everfdono ?$& r-mb.. headnuarters Intricate e.cc Tho Inspector who put tho Job Into trlcal apparatus for warning the pro execution wns nn experienced cherp'it i prletors nnd patrons In caso of ills nnd know what ho wns doing. turlwnco Iibb been found, says, the How to Catch a Thief. Klectrlcnl ltevlew. In some cases sys- Theio are but two successful ways 1 terns or electric wires nave iiecn in to catch n postolllco tnlef con.'lanl i stalled which are said to navo neen as watch and decoy letters. With these Impassable as n Spanish trocha In Uu- and a largo supply cu patience, the i ha. Push buttons were nrranged nt a game will bo landed. It orten recpii.-'s number or different points In tho en tries for the purpose of glWng instnnt warning. Wires wero connected with n mechanism ror shutting off tho gns. by means of which the lights could be extinguished Instantly In case of the appearance of the olllccis. The Bulletin, 75cts. per month "Do you think thnt the dovll Is worse than those who tal.. nbout lilm?" "Well, suh. lilt 'jiends pnu who doln' do talklu' " Atlnutn Constitution. months and sometimes cars to accom plish this. It is ono of tho most an noying nnd difficult lines of detective work a man ever engaged In, and ro quires the most earnest application Not a single clmimstanto or detail must he overlooked. 'Sometimes luck helps us out of i our dlllleultles. I lomember unco In Servant Please, ma'am, I'd llko tn n city not very fnr from Wnshlngton glvo you a week's notice, things were lu a leailul state In tlu , MIstroBs Why. Mary, this is a sur distribution division of tho offlce, Ir prlso! Do jou hopo to better yourself? appealed as though wo would nover I Servant iblushliigly) Well, not ox catch tho fellow who was making way nctly, that, ma'am. I'm going to gut The Dr. ,ff with valuable letteis. mnriied. Tlt-lllts. 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