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'HE MAUI NEWS- -SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1908 Woman Smokers Forbidden Saloon. San Francisco, June 23. "It is of slight importance, I assure you if the Pacific Mail t'ompay docs not IK'rinit women to smoke in the din ing saloon or in the drawing-room ; hut it seems strange that there should he such rigid rules on hoard ship, while in other partu of the world it is so common for women to enjoy n cigarette, you know." Thus spake the liaroncss Kirch ncr Ncukirchen of Vienna, who ar rived Saturday as n passenger on lioard the hig steamer Mongolia. With the I'aroncss, who herself is comely, is her cousin, Madam Sch meidel Thuri, a famous heauty of the A'ustrian capital, and in the early twenties. The women are touring the world alone, and while here for a day are at the Fairmont. The Harmless is SJtlio wife of Uaroii Kirchner Ncukir chen, -an oflicor of the Austrian army, and Madam Thuri's hushand is a millionaire mini! owner in Eu- . rope. The Baroness Kirchner Ncukir chen referred to the experience of herself and cousin on the Mongolia They embarked at Yokohama and a fter dinner, on the first night out of the Japanese port, the Baroness Kir chner Neukircben and her pretty - cousin drew forth jeweled cigarette . cases and, selecting dainty Egyp . tians, nonchalantly lighted them and settled back. They were still at table and in animated conversation with those about them. l'lease, no smoke in inning sa loon," said a 'Chinese waiter who leaned over the back of tho Baro ness chair. "Smokee sinoke-looni," added the boy, with a grin. The women tossed the cigarettes into the "email black" cups without a murmur. A minute later they withdrew and went up into the mu sic room, where purple rings and wreaths soon decorated the atmo sphere. The Chinese boy still fol lowed them. "No smokee in the music-loom," said the slant-eyed Nemesis. IIo was obeying orders that no Anglo-Saxon would have olicyed after a glance at the charming devotees of the weed. They turned in mute surprise and , sought to freeze their tornientor,"'iut he smiled blandly and slipped away. Not a man passenger on the Mon golia but would have gladly kicked the poor Chinese. In all the rest of the voyage not a cigarette was seen in the jeweled fin gers of the fair Austrian. They ta booed the company of the sensitive ones anil enjoyed many a smoke in their stateroom, and, sometimes, of an evening, at the rail. The Baroiiess Kirchner Neukir cben said so yesterday, and the be autiful Madam Thuri said so, too, without the faintest coloring of her cheeks. "We are accustomed to smoke whenever or wherever we feel like it,'" they said, "except, of coursi in the dining saloon or drawing room of American steamers." A FEW DEFINITIONS. Many children are so crammed with everything that they really know nothing. In proof of this, read these veri table-epeciuiens of definitions writ ten by public school children: "Stability is taking care of stable." "A mosquito ia the child of black and white parents." "Monastery is a place for Mon sters.'' "Tocsin is something to do w ith getting drunk." "Expostuation is to have the small-pox." "Cannibal is two brothers ' who killed each other in the Bible." "Anatomy is the human body, which consists of three parts, the head, the chist and the stummick. The head contains the eyes and brains, if anv. The chist contains the lungs and a piece of the liver. The stuinniick is devoted to the bowels of which there are five, a, e. 1. o. u, and sometimes w and y," Literary Digest. Special Revenue Taxes Coming in. Honolulu, July 1). Collector of Internal Revenue W. F. Drake and his ofliee force are engaged at this time in receiving the siieeiul taxes lue at this period. All special inter nal revenue taxes are due, and li censes renewable July 1, and dealers have the month in which to pay them. They are coming in very rapidly, and the indications are that the receipts this year will be alxmt the same as last year from this source. There are very few new ap plicants coining in and there are no indications that many will not be renewed. There are two concerns that are contemplating the manufacture of sake. The Honolulu Brewing & Malt ing Company is one, and the Japa nese concern that is planning a sake brewery in Pauoa valley is the other. Both have made application to the Internal Revenue Department to know whether Judge De Haven's lecision in the celebrated sake case involving the classification for cus toms purpose, declaring sake a wine, will affect the classification the in ternal revenue department has al ways given it, as a beer, or not. The reply in both cases has Wn that it will not, that the department still lolds the manufacture of sake is a brewing process ami subject to the internal revenue laws regulating brewing. . m A PRECAUTION. "Doctor," said Mr. Anders, "sometimes my mind is a perfect blank, and my memory costantly fails me. I wish you wpuld treat me." "I will. But in view of the peculiar nature of the case, I want inv fee in advance." A CiOOD SECOND. "Will my husband live. doctor?" "Well, madam, if he doesn't he's come mighty close to it." Judge. NO EXCEPTION. The Maul Do you believe it's unlucky to get married on a Fri day? The. Abominable Bachelor Cer tainly. Why should Friday be an exception? "Black and White. THE YOUNG IDEA. The following-are specimens of some absurd and amusing answers made by school boys and school girls in examination papers: 'Iron is grown in large quantities for manufacturing purposes in Southern France. Q. Befine the first person? A Adam. A parallel straight line is one that when produced to meet itself must net meet. Blood (insists of two sorts of corkscrews red corkscrews and white corkscrews. Asked to explain what a but tress is, one boy replied: "A woman who makes butter." Teacher's dictation- "His choler rose to such a height that passion well-nigh choked him." Pupil's re production: ''His collar rose to such a height that fashion well- nigh chocked him." Gravity was discovered by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticable in the autumn, when the apples are falling from the trees. The Diet of Worms is the grub that blackbirds and thrushes feed ou. ;'Harper's Weekly." THE SPOOK. "I'm gunning for railroads," an nounced the trust-buster. "Then come with me," whisper ed the near-humorist. '"I can show you some of their tracks." ''South western's I$6ok." NEEDED MORE. Knicker There are plenty o"f books telling how to save life while waiting for -the doctor. Boeker. Yes. What we need is one telling the young doctor how to save life while waiting for the patient. Harper's Duzaar. Cleveland's Will Gives Widow Bulk of Estate New York, July 2. The will of Urover Cleveland has been tiled with thrt Surrogate of Mercer County, New Jersey, and will In probated within ten days, when Mrs. Cleveland will come to Prince ton from her mother's home in Tumworth, N. H. where she has been staying since the former presi dent's death. The amount of the estate could not be learned, but it was stated to day that il was larger than hit herto supposed and would provide most comfortably for Mrs. Cleve land and the children. Mr. Cleveland drew the will him self and arranged that the bulk of ; the property should go to his widow. "I am tired of seeing tint ever lasting mackerel brought in for breakfast,'- grumbled a boarder, ,fand I intend to speak to the land lady about it.'' Some of his fellow- victims applauded,, but most of them doubted his courage. The uiatter was under discussion when the landlady appeared. "Miss Prunella," began the bold boarder, 1 was about to say in regard to the mackerel that we desire a change." "It's good mackered," responded the landlady grimly, "and there will be no change.' "Then, for heaven's sake," resum- eel the bold boarder, "order the girl to bring it in tail first for a while." Mr. Bryan, speaking of his own political prospects, tells the follow ing story:' "There was once a cow boy whose bad habits prevented him from. receiving an invitation to a ranchhouse dance. The fact that lie was not invited made him angry, and on the night of the dance he put in an appearance He was politely asked to leave, and he did so. After getting his cour age up he entered the . house ( second time, and again he was ask ed to leave. He demurred and he was led out. Half an f h&nr later he made his third appearance as an uninvited guest and he- was thrown out of the door ar.J, into the yard. After he gathered 1 scattered senses he mumbled ,tq himself : 'I know what's the matter with them in there. They don't want me." ' "I am told that your husband plays billiards every night at the clubs plays for money, too," said the anxious mother to her newly married daughter. "That's all right, mother,'' cheerfully respond ed the young wife. "He gives me all his winnings " "What? Do you '' ''And he alway plays with Mr. Nextdoor." "What difference can that make?" "Mrs Nextdoor makes her husband give her his winnings too,- and she gives the money to me and I hand her what my husband won from hers and so we both have about twice as much money as we could get out of them otherwise." A Washington man, while visit ins a friend s place in lrgmia became much interested in his ex periments in fruit culture. On day the visitor was making the rounds of the place, being in charge of the friend's young daughter of ten. who acted os guide. "1 his tree seems to be loaded with apples," observed the Washington, indicat ing a particularly line specimen. "Yes, sir," assented the little girl "father says this is a good year for apples," "I ain glad to hear that,' said the visitor. "'Are all your trees as full of apples as this one?" "No, sir," explained the girl, "only tlie apple trees." II. OKAMURA ICE CREAM PARLOR Orders taken for ICE CREAM, FRUITS NUTS, CIGARS. Ice Cold Drinks Always on Hand Market St. : : Wailuku. Mau s Manual Training in Schools Worth While? According to Mr. George Frederic! Stratton, in Cossier s. Magazine for June, the father, the taxpayer, and the employer of labor are asking, What is it all Tor, this manual1 training.' w ith its expensive equip ment, its special teacher", and its special teachers, and its demands upon the hoy's time?;" and the question is growing insistent. The school authorities do not regard manual training as a preparation for an industrial career. At a school superintendent remarked at a recent meeting of the National Society for the Promotion of Indus trial Education, "We are not teach ing a trade;we are training the faculties of the children, training the observation, the imagination, the will, etc ", This view of the teachers is a subject of comment in a report of the Massachusetts Com mission on Industrial and Techni cal Education: The wide indifference to manual training as a school subject may bo due to the narrow view which has prevailed anion? its chief advo cates. It has been urged as a stimulus to other forms of intellec- tuiil effort, a sort of mustard re lish, an appetizer, to be conducted without any industrial end. It has been severed from real life as completely as have 'he otherschool activities. Tlufs it has come about that the overmastering influences of school traditions have brought into subordination both the draw ing and the manual work. This criticism of drawing, it may be said in passing, is only too well founded It is an absolute nces- sity for the workman of today to be able to understand the detailed drawings of the work on which he may be engaged, be it a locomo tive, a railroad trestle, or a factory building. The only way in which he can acquire such understanding is through a course of strictly me chanical drawing: yet in a large majority of the schools in which manual training is taught the pupils are allowed to devote time which ought properly to be given to mechanical drawing to freehand ornamental work. It is undoubtedly the fact that 'a great many instructors regard manual training in itself as a gold efi opportunity for the dissemina tion of a largnr understanding and appreciation of art." This prob ably explains the rule, in force in most schoolii where manual train- inn has beeix introduced into the eighth and, rjin'h grades, which re quires every , pujiil to give some time to the subject, even though he may bo intehjieq for a clergy man, a physician, "of" a lawyer. Light is thrown t)n the status of manual training in tne'high-schoola by a report of Prof. P..1 Dallou. of the University of Ctiifcinnati. He found that of 207 higlWWrWWls, 150 permitted students to ekcttii course, while forty-eight )na?le h compulsory. Further, that fortyV eight gave two hours a week to such work; 10(3 one and one-half hours; sixty-eight one hour; and BS little as twenty-fife ininutes'jiv' ' There is at the present timq. an increasing demand for bright, weft trained young mechanics, wich cannot be supplied. . The railroad manager nedf more trackage, mure rolling stock, ; lW yri facilities, are can,. not secure them. . . . The men to build the locomotives and cars and to meet the rapidly increasing demands of -til manufacturers arv still in enibrj-o. One of the largest contractors in New England, in a recent speech, said: "It is, in my. opinion, useless to look tor any re lief from the manual-training sys terns in the public schools as at present conducted. In so little estimation U the pub lic-school manual-training coins held by manufacturers that tl)4 J joung Men's Chris jan Association manager oi a largo plant, whu-ft'and the correspondence-school there aso more than 200 appreBnl'jases shows that they are almost tices, being asked if any time f was, jjitho.ut exception, young workers credited to hii'h-school pupil, ynjalready in their several trades. MAKE YOUR OWN GAS. The Sunlight "OMEGA" Acetelyn .". Generators HAVE NO EQUAL We are the. Agents for the "OMEGA" and will cheerfully give estimates on: GENERATORS from 10 Its. to .,00 Its. FIXTURES of all kinds. COM PLETE PL VNTS properly installed. Let us talk "GAS MACHINE" to you and we can convince you that you require an outfit to make your home complete. KAHULUI RAILROAD CO'S MERCHANDISE DEPARTMENT Sole Agents The Lahaina Clins. M. Cooke, Pre. V. L. Decoto, 2tnl Vice-Pres. C. 1). Lufkin, Cashier Accounts of Individuals, Corporations and Firms Invited. Interest Paid on Foreign Exchange Issued GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent at Reasonable Rates. his apprentic course, replied em phatically: Not-a day! How much could we allow them, in justice to the others? The total time they put in on a two years' course in the school is not ovlt 100 houi,s,--just about equal to three weeks of our time, and it is doubtful tc me if they have learned as much in that long drawnout stretch of tuition as they would learn in three straight weeks in ou shops. In many of the cities the prob lem has been taken up by the boards of trade, and the business men have been called upon to make suggestions; but "so far, all is chaos." It is. moreover, proved bv statistics that the high-schools do not furnish material fur me chanics to a degiee that makes manual training there worthwhile. It was found tha of 2300 graduates who had been obliged to take man ual training, only 6 pur cent, had taken up mechanical work. The proposal has been made that appropriations should be made for post-graduate courses in manual training for grammar-school gra duates. To tins there is a serious obstacle. Such thorough training cannot i given without the continual use of material; and usless a market can' be found for the products, which is very doubtful, the expense of such material, added to the ex pense of furnishing tools and equipment and competent instruc tors, would b$ greater than muni cipalities woujd care to incur. It ivould undoflbtedlv arouse the an- agonism of the taxpayers. Thers are, however, two existing iietb.odi.ol industrial and techni cal education which have such ex cellent records of success that they lioein to indicate a solution oi me auestioas, "Who to train?" and .IIo to train?" These are the Go'irtiea of the Young Men's Christ bit Association and tho correspon-nee-school systems. A study of the personnel of the C young men who comprise the National Bank Wm. Ilenning, Vice-Pre9. R. A. Wadsworth, Director H. J. Morvay, Asst. Cashier Time Deposits. on AH Parts of tho World. They have gone direct from the grammar schools, and sometimes from the high schools, into indus trial occupations, and the desire to become better menhasdrawn them into the classes mentioned. Here, then, is the true material, and the finest of. mateiial. Young, bright, enthusiastic men. . . . devot ing two or three evenings each week to real endeavor at self-improvement. . Such boys and raeu are worth while. , The superintendent of a great machine shop Bay : The best men I have are the few who have taken those eveuir.g or correpondence courses while work ing in here daily. . . . They have character, too! A man in different to his future and to his work won't study nights. These nighttudents make good men and true, every time! The American Review of Reviews. loot of Old Moors is Unearthed in Portugal. Lisbon, June 27. Portugal is apparently rich in hidden treasure. Some months ago a buccaneers' hoard of gems, doubloons and pieces of eight was discovered in a cave on the seashore. The latest treasure trove is at Sierra Daire, in the south, where an underground Moorislr strong hold has been revealed, dating from the expulsion of the Moors from Europe in the middle ages. The cavern is not only a treasure house but an armory and a cata comb. It contains great stores of gold and silver coins, quantities of ancient weapons s words, scimetars and daguerj, some of them richly jeweled and hundreds of skele tons." H. MONGEN CONTRACTOR and BUILDER Plans unci Estimates Furnished. Small Jobs and Repair Work by Day or Contract. Wailuku, Maui, T. H.