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Hatson Navigation Co. The only Direct Line beta ecu San l'ruii. i clsco ami Hilo, Comprising the . following I'nst Sailers , t. ,t. 1 Steamer ENTERPRISE I Bark ANNIE JOHNSON Bark SANTIAGO Bark RODERICK D1IU Bark MARION CHILCOTT Ship FALLS OF CLYDE . Tue CHAS. COUNSELMAN , Launch LURL1NE nd other Specially Chartered vessels makes this trip with at least one of these , .boats each month, carrying both Freight ud Passengers. I'or elates of sailing nnd tcrois, Call upon, I J no. D. Spreckels & Bros. Go,! Agents, I 327 Market St., San Francisco. R. T. CUAUD, Agent, Hll.0, HawaI'. HOP WARN CO. Cor. King nnd Front Streets. Dealers in Dry Goods, Japanese and Chincso Goods. RATTAN FURNITURE. Hilo Saloon ' KING STREET. Enterprise Lager Beer On Draught, Ice Cold. 10 Cents a Glass : : : The Finest of Liquors, tffim Beers, SRJ 1H7 .1 Tviuus, aim Cordials At Moderate Prices. J. S. Canario, Manager. UNION SALOON Shipuan Strkkt First Class LIQUORS WINES AND CORDIALS At Moderate I'rices. Wixkd and Fancy Drinks Concocted by Kpkkiknchd Mixologists rue Celebrated Enterprise Beer On Draught. Two Glasses for 25 cts. J. C. SERRAO, Proprietor. MOSES & RAYMOND SINGER SEWING MACHINES Buttcrick Publications DELINEATOR BRIDGE STREET, - HILO Thin Blood Thin blood always makes trouble Your circulation Is vory poor, you havo cold hands and foot. Your nurvos aro weak, you aro despondent and discouraged. Your stomach is bad, you havo Indigestion and sick headache. our muscles aro weak and you can hardly drag about the house. But thuro Is a prompt euro. Mm. M. A relief, or Holiirt. Tasmania. sends lier iiliotjnilinint M " My lilimil v.m no tliln onil my circulation M io poor that my llngrra ero cold and liluo nil tho ttini. 1 lot all energy and was nlimxt lifclPM. Ittlt Ajcr'n Hnrsaparllla soon rrstnrrd I U 1 1 1 y tn my nliolo n)st,m. It lmrlllid my Moml nml tnadu It rich sod liealtln. I VHomj It Is tlic greatest medicine lu the 'world for tlio liluml." AYER'S Sarsaparilla There are many Imitation " SarsaparillM." Ho suro you got Ayer'a. To get the best results from Ayer'i Sarsa parilla your bowels must bo In good condi tion. Aycr's 1 ins curu constipation. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Msis., U.S.A. For Sale by HILO DRUG C0MPA&YJ KEYSTONE SALOON Draught Boor IO Conts When you need a drink call at the KEYSTONE, comer Front and Pouohawai streets. 1 A first class line of WINES LIQUORS BEERS always on hand. r Tolophono IO W. DOWNER Proprietor. Hilo Electric Light Co., Ltd. Houses Wired and Lights Installed In accordance with the rules of the Na tional 'Hoard of l'ire Underwriters. A complete stock of ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES I'nn Motors nt reduced price. Fixtures Shades, Tabic, lied nnd Desk Lamps etc., always 011 hand. Fan Motors . . . $15 Sowing Machine Motor 20 Power for operating them $1 a mouth Just received, new stock of Shades of various patterns. Also SewinK Machine nnd Fan Motors. Estimates furnished on all classes ol Rlectrical Work and Contracts taken to install apparatus complete E. WRY .Stone Mason and Brick Layer is ready to take contracts for work in any part of the Island Boiler Setting a Specialty. . . E. WERY Hilo, - . HqyqH MOTH Kit WANTS OIIIMI. Court Holds Th.tt Lmr Hire Her Hoy to Another. A human interest lawsuit was settled in Judge Little's Court this week in which, though the parties were Japanese and not supposed to possess "finer feelings," tears and sobs and hysterical gesticulations played a prominent part. The dig nified Court itself did not escape the contagion and counsel for both 1 sides were compelled to look out ' through the Court house windows J in the effort to forget the affecting scenes in wliicli tney were nctive participants. The action was one of habeas corpus in which the father and mother of a bright eight yeAr old boy sought to regain possession or him, after he had been raised and cared for from infancy by others. C. F. Parsons of Smith & Parsons appeared for the petitioning parents and Homer L. lloss of Wise & Ross resisted the application. The trial covered two days and the mother of the boy and the woman who had taken him as a baby to raise were dramatic witnesses. There was little dispute as to facts, the matter resting almost wholly on points of law. The Court held that the mother could not regain the custody of her child. Following is the de cision: This is one of a class of cases which involves the holiest character of woman, as the nurse of innocence the cherisher of the first principles of mind the guardian of an im mortal being who will write upon the records of eternity how faith fully she has fulfilled her trust. In Chapsky vs Wood, in the 40th American Reports at page 321, Mr. Justice Brewer, now of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the course of a splendid opinion render ed while a member of the Supreme Court of Kansas, made use of the following beautiful language in a case exactly similar to the one at bar "In this case," said Judge Brewer, "of the petition of Morris A. Chapsky for the possession of his minor child, counsel have in their argument expressed very feelingh and truthfully the embar rassments and difficulties which surround the decision of a case like this. These arise, not because there is a conflicting question of fact to be settled by the Court, for that is a matter of everyday occurence in judicial proceedings; it is not that it is a question between a grown man on one side and a grown wo man on the other, for we could dis pose of every question affecting simply them without any embarrass ment or hesitation; the burden of the case is that the decision is one which involves the future welfare of a little girl and I think no man can look upon the fact of a bright and happy little girl like the one before us and come to a decision of a question which may make or mar her future life without hesita tion and feeling, certainly we are not so insensible as to be able to do it. The questions of law which are involved jn a case like this are few in number and I think not subject to much doubt. They may be summed up briefly thus The father is the natural guardian and is enti tled to the custody of his minor children. This right springs from two sources; one that he who brings a child, a helpless being into life, ought to take care of that child until it is able to take care of itself ami because of this obligation to ukc car; of nd t this ,ld , , . . . ... : less being, arises a reciprocal right I to the custody and care of the off- spring whom he must support, and the other reason is that it is a law of nature that the affection which springs from such a relation a5 that is stronger and more potent than any which springs from any ether human relation." Again the learned judge says, "The fifth proposition is, in ques tions of this kind three interests are to be considered, the right of the father must be considered, the right of the one who has filled the parent al place for years should be con sidered perhaps it may not be technically correct to speak of that as a right, yet they who have for years filled the place of parents and have discharged all the obligations !of care and support and especially when they have discharged these duties during those years of infancy when the burden is especially heavy, when the labor and care are of a kind whose value cannot be expressed in money, when all these labors have been performed and the child has bloomed into a bright and Jiappy girlhood (In the case at bar It is a bright and happy boy), it is but fair and proper that their previous faithfulness and the interest and affection which these labors have created in them should be respected. Above all things, the paramount consideration is, what will promote the welfare of the child. These I think are about all the rules of law applicable to a case of this kind." There is evidence on the part of the respondents in this case that the parents by an express agree ment, however informal, committed the custody and maintenance of their child to the respondents at the time of its birth and that they among themselves endeavored to adopt it according to Japanese cus tom, by having its name registered at the Japanese Consulate, etc. This, However, is denied by the parents and supported by the re spondents and one other witness. In Fletcher vs Hickman, 88th American State Reports at 862, we find the following: "A parent w ho contracts to commit the custody and maintenance of his child to a third person is bound by such con tract after it has been acted upon, unless the welfare of the child de mands that the contract be disre garded." It is also held "If a parent by voluntary contract releases his parental power over his child to another, he cannot revoke such con tract after it has been acted upon in good faith, except for sufficient legal reasons such as insufficient support, bad treatment or the like." Bentley vs Terry, 77th American Reports, 329. Bonnett vs Bonnett, 47th Amer ican Reports, 810. "Or if a parent has transferred the custody of his infant child by voluntary agreement, whiah has been acted upon by such other per son to the manifest interest and welfare of the child the parent can not be permitted to reclaim its cus-l tody unless he can show that a change of custody will materially promote the welfare of this child." Stringfellow vsSummerville, 29th S. E. Reporter, 685. Green vs Campbell, 29th Ameri can State Reports, 843. Cunningham vs Barnes, 38th American State Reports, 57. It is also held that "If a child has been permitted to grow up in a family of a third person as his sou, such person cannot raise the objec tion that the agreement is not bind ing on the ground that he could not have enforced it against the child's parents for the purpose of avoiding his liability under the con tract to provide for the child as his son." Van Dyne vs Vreeland, nth New Jersey Equity, 370, and affirmed in the 12th New Jersey Equity at '11 2. In Chapsky vs Wood, supra, the Court said, "No one has said that this child has lacked anything which a child should have and the testimony all shows that it has been cared for most patiently and faithfully, as well as it could have been cared for by anyone, and to that care the face and appearance of the child abundantly testify this fact does not rest on probabili ties. It is a serious question, al ways to be considered, whether a change should be advised. 'I,et well enough alone is an axiom founded on abundant experience. There is nothing in the present situation of the respondents, their pecuniary condition, the business capacity of tlie husband, their so cial position, their affection for this child, absolutely nothing which tends in anyway to suggest that the welfare of the child, which has been promoted in the past, would be limited or abridged in the future. What they have done for the child tends to show what they will do through' the future years of its childhood what that has been is certainly ample and I think more (Continued on page 7.) California Fertilizer Works. 534 Clay Street, San Francisco. M. D. HALL, Manufacturers of and Doalors in Pure Bone Fertilizers Pure Bone Meal Complete Fertilizers of All Kinds Nitrate of Soda Sulphate of Ammonia Sulphate of Potash Fish Guano, Wool Dust, Etc. 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