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Show LIVE ON THE STREETS. CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Tribune, writing from Honolulu, say: My aloha to you all! This part of the United States of America Is In the midst of an unusually severe v Inter. The temperature ranges from 61 iu the early morning to 79 In the middle of the dar. There is ala ays a refreshing breeze In the afternoon. We rarely have such an unusually long cool spell. It has been like this for the last four months. 1 am sitting now in our Pawaa home, every window of which is wide "You bathe in the ocean every day in the year." open. I have on a pair of duck trousers and a light coat, without any waistcoat I have nothing but straw hats in my wardrobe, and any day In tbe year I can go bathing In the ocean. 1 am undecided whether this climate necessarily reduces a mans capacity for work or not On the whole, I suppose the average mans actual capacity is reduced, though sometimes I think I do more work - here than I ever did anywhere else. One thing Is certain, you must get your regular allowance of sleep and get it every night if you are to keep np. In old Chicago, I remember, a night without more than an hour or two of sleep made no great difference. But here loss of sleep makes itself , felt at once. And one requires a little more sleep than In higher latitudes. Fortunately, the nights are always cool; there Is never a loss of Bleep because of hot nighta. 'Ton have heard Hawaii called the crossroads of the Pacific. The nickname Is apt AH one has to do is to stay here long enough to meet all the people he has ever known, no matter where their homes are. I believe that in the last six or seven years I hare met more of my old Chicago friends than If I were living in Chicago. "The fact that you are in a etrange land, and that frienda and even acquaintances are scarce doubtless has Us effect When a man whom yon have met half a dozen times In Chicago cornea Into yonr office here In Honolulu you both feel as If you had met your long lost brother. Mutual confidences are easy. Human nature has a way of leaning on the nearest reed. Old friends arrive In different ways. ' Some of them , come on the Pacific liners traveling In state. As often as " not they are mendrho wereIn hard x" luck rhen yon last saw them, feince then they have struck it rich and are . an their way around the world, per- haps. Others, perhaps, whom you left living In luxury, arrive on tramp sailing vessels from Frisco, working their way before the mast Some- - likely hereafter, now that the cable Is open. There was one young man I knew in Chicago who literally blew In here on a waterlogged bark from 'Frlseo a little more than a year ago. He was flat broke, though when 1 knew him back east his father was rich and he was In a fair way to Inherit a lot of money. In the mellowing moments which followed our first meeting hers In these far away islands be told ms the sad. sweet story of hU life. In He was a return I got him a job clever, good looking youth, and first I knew be was high up in the counsels of the local "Home Rulers. He accumulated a lot of minor offices with their attached salaries, and I was beginning to fancy he might turn up some day as the leader of a rebellion or something of tbe kind, when be suddenly disappeared, taking with him some money. So far as 1 have heard he never got larther than the coast, and repvjts came back that he had committed suicide there. I have never been able to find out the truth about It. The citizens of Honolulu are doubtless the most traveled population In the world. We always have from fifty to 100 white citizens absent In tha states and Europe, and there are, therefore, always some who have just returned from their travels and are full of information about the outside world. I suppose I personally know a hundred men who live here who have circumnavigated the globe In one direction or another from , one to a score of times. In this respect Tbeie is no other town like it on earth. You cant get a whisper over our brand new cable about something which has happened In China, Japan, Corea, Manchuria, Manila, the Straits Samoa, AusSettlement, tralia, New Zealand, any of tbe South American countries, or of course Europe and North America, but you can go right to a native son of that country who talks good English and can tell yon just what It mesne --end all about It Ton may find here tbe strangest mixtures of races possible to Imagine. Half breeds are not uncommon. Oklahoma Town That Pose from the Prairie Practically in Hours Now Flourishing Twenty-Fou- r and Prosperous. Many Amusing and Pathetic Sights to Be Seen on London Thoroughfares Hawkers of All Descriptions Ply Their Trades. -- . Some time between mUlnight and Deo. 4, 1902. a new town was placed on the niup of Oklahoma. sunrise on special Corral wader re as gaid one patient little felloe will a 3.war-olunder his wing llanj enough to have to black boots without nm.ding the baby. Isnt it? Hum-load, near the Euston and St Pi'x lan railway stations, Is a fatorlte haunt of the sidewalk artist It U, of course, leas crowded than other parts of the city farther down toward the Thames, and the sidewalks art formed of large, smooth blocks of stone that make admirable backgrounds for the gayly colored that veil, Its name is Eagle City, and it has sev. eral thousand people by this time. What was a stretch' of vacant prairie on the evening of Dec. 3 had many vert, HERE Is always a ludicrous side to the industries of .the London street, but a pitiful side ) makes any one with an atom of sympathy dive down Into his purse, buy things he doesn't really need, and stop to listen to the various tales of woe. The class of street merchants In London may be divided into those ' X residences , b y ' fl i , , , f St" long-distanc- e 4 - . eW f eek.4 t soMutf ( x In on-th- e 4th. It had a daily newspaper, the Eagle City Star, In operation on the latter day, with several lumber yards, telrestaurants, hotels, a ephone system, a big city hall, with other accesiries and accompaniments of civilization. A city government will soon he at work there. Uriel Sania mails are delivered in It with as much regularity as In any other part of the wei-- t. Another name will bo added to the countrys gazetteers. In the polities and social economy of Oklahoma territory and state, henceforward Cagle City will have to, be reckoned with. What would Boone, Harrod, I.ogan, Robertson, Sevier and the rest of the fuundeis of Kentucky and Tennessee have thought If they had beard of the establishment of a Town in a few hours, with connections with every other community in the United States, and with most of the conveniences of civilization? What even would the founders of Kansas, who cams on tbe scene two thirds of a century after ftimumnkt houses and business course of construction at sunrise s Hoc. no and bts compatriots had done r Marble Arch, (Hyde Park.) 2 have grown np In tbe streets, and are continuing to ply their trade long after there Is really any need of their doing so, from a love at the familiar haunts and tbe desire to remain identified with them as long as possible; and the poor poople who crayon drawings dsns while yon wait by these poor Bohemians. Some use square pieces of board, Instead of tbe stone, leaning these against the Iron railings in order that they may be better seen from the street One can buy almost anything In tbe who live from hand to mouth, and streets of this great city. Here Is a often have not a roof to cover their hawker of canes and feather dusters, beads, and who depend solely upon there one with shoe laces and brushes wbat they earn during the long hours to selU By the door of the public of exposure to stl kinds of weather In house Is a man with his stock of Hit? Nn faHHMi - far hmwrtt Used til bniH for lw(,pir-i vllas, t in (u wwi ji. t wonder that nine out of every ten liquor which overflows from the customer's glass. look consumptive. Tbe baked potato trade is one of One of the most famlll&r types Is the crossing sweeper. It may be s the stand-by- s of Ixmdon street mertiny, crippled boy, with a broom at chants. In the potato roaster, with high as bis tousled bead, or It may be Its merry charcoal fire, blazing away, an old dame of seventy. There are are tbe luscious big potatoes, piping hundreds of them wielding brooms in hot, with their brown jackets crisp the streets, to whom a rainy day and cackling to show tbe mealy means many a copper, and at least white Inside, with an occasional black one good, square meal. blister showing where it has come Another familiar type la the street too closely In connection with the scurfer, whose business It la to keep hot Iron. Tbe costermonger Is always one of the streets clean with a brush and shovel-Uk- e sheet-iro- n dust pan. He the first to appear of a morning, and tht -- their wink, have thought of this feat the citizens of Eagle City? In--, Kansas case many towns were established after laborious preparation In quicker time which than they wwe created, and have long since dropped off the gazetteers and the maps, gome ambitious Kansas towns with Imposing names back In the SOs and Go's are now corn fields. History has forgotten them. .Even tradition is a little dubious as to the spots on which they stood. But no such fate Is likely to come to Eagle City 1 awton and several other towns In Oklahoma In recent years bad as swift a rise as this latest the latest except Snyder, which was born a day afterward accession to that territorys map. All are on the map still. All are flourishing. In fact, Oklahoma itself was a lightning crea-tltoThe place that we call Oklahoma, which, at a certain noontime In April, 18M, had not a single Inhabitant, possessed a permanent population of &Q,0ot before sunset on that day. with residences, hotels, restaurants, stores, batiks, printing offices aud the general equipment of a modern community. Us 61,000 peoplo In JS90 were found by Unde Sams cen-tu- d takers In 1900 to have Increased to 398,000. Probably they number 430,000 or 600, OuO now. Exchange. of - The Habit of Profanity Indo-Cbln- Constant Use It Becomes , Second Nature to Tho Unfortunately Addicted to It Remarkable Case in Point Profanity," said s Chicago clergyman, "becomes such a habit that some men use profane language in absolute Ignorance of the fact that they are do-- ' lug so. I have known several men of this kind, and their virtues were such that I could not honestly blame them as I should when they were guilty. The habit I condemned, and did what I cimlij to correct It, but tha sinning Itself seemed to be so much a part of them that 1 treated It with a leniency which I knew was not right, and yet I could not wholly condemn them for 1L 1 remember parctrulsriy the esse of 3J-iig ileal lef A ?! hni many jeuis. am! f.i a I fut t kui w him he was the most profane man I had ever heard talk. In every other respect he was one of the finest characters I ever knew in his walk of life. He lived Bear me, and frequently did odd jobs about the parsonage. In this way I came to know blin quit well, and In tbe course of two or three years I had almost broken him of his profanity. But not entirely, and whenever be was deeply moved be wss sure to swear in one way or another. "At first Ben would sot come to church, but by and by he was present iMSMWFl ir every Sunday, and when w bad a great revival on one occasion be confessed bis sins and asked tbe prayers He only needed the of the church. revival Influence to come out sqnarely on the right side. We were all profoundly rejoiced when he arose In the meeting and asked for our prayers. 1 took him by the hand and told him be must pray himself, while we were praying for him. We knelt together, and for tome time Ben could not apeak. Finally he found utterance, and I am aure I shall never forget that prayer, and I know that the tears of the Recording Angel 1 f it 'nt H Mtt fciivuM liwi I. ak0 Le. ti i to no sign that, he was not truly repentant. O Lord,' be prayed, help me, a poor alnner. Im aorry, O Ixrd, for the (lna I have committed, and help me to be better, if I aint too d d bad. Amen. It waa unlike any other prayer 1 bad ever beard, but it was from tbe heart, and Ben never knew that he bad used tbe wrong word. He died a Christian, ten years after bis conversion, and after that last unexpected oath I never beard him swear again." ft 1 1 The Woes of a Mother, Blew In on' a waterlogged baric from 'Frisco. and there are many native women married to Chinamen and Japanese. One of the favorite occupations or trades among the native population is that of acting as residents of Hawaiian villages In International expositions In various parts of the world. There are a number of native men and women who .have made a first class-livinIn this way ever since the worlds fair In Chicago, and who have managed to see, in passing, about all there Is to see on the surface of the , globe. - - House-Hunti- ' one at a time.- - Illiterate . . Immigrants. 111 6 J t I - i i- - S -- good-nature- lM W' K:; x-i- rf u : 7 Z: 1 I A ;rv -- German, 4.1; Magyar, 7.5; Hebrew, 23.6; Polish, 37.5; South Italian, 69.1. illiterates would, I am sitting here with all the win- - A law excluding, therefore, exclude more than half the dows open." times they run away from the ship Southern Italians' and more than and knock at yonr hack door after third of the Poles, while It would n dark, asking you to hide them until affect the Immigration from the races not gStt alL It would the schooner or bark they shipped on raises anchor and starts for the still reduce the German Immigration ouly per cent farther east And you alwtyd hive X a place where they can hide and you Geed Picking fer Lawyers. are always ready to give them someAfter three years' litigation the thing to eat After the ship sails out . oT harbor you are likely to exert your- heirs of the late Joseph OHare, a San Francisco capitalist.' hare agreed self in trying to find eomethtAg-fothe castaway to work at so that he on a compromise. The estate was A may earn his living. Occasionally, he rained at about $60,000, about half has done something In the states of which has been consumed la legal that might eAd him to prison If he expenses. One firm of lawyers receivwere captured, hut that will he less ed n little over $12,000. Scnn-dinavia- in the ' City No Joke for Those T?ho Blessed With Children One Woman's Humorous Experience, " A viiif.Ri ijiG, , Tbe following is tbe percentage at illiterates among various classes who come to the United States: Scandinavian. 0.6; English, 1.1; Irish, S3; . ng "Hunting for rooms with children is no joke," said the woman with the tired looking face. "Why, youd actually think they were a disgrace Instead of a blessing. The time Ive had this day would try the patience of a saint. Ive been looked over, consulted about in Insultingly audible tones, told that they'd take me on trial, until realty I'm half dead and savage enough to bite." "I know, .sympathetically broke In a Jolly little woman In the corner. "Ive been through It all. But I finally got a place, owing to tbe fact perhaps that the landlord had ft sense of " humor. "Oh, do tell us about It. said another woman. "I, too, have a child, and I, too, have tried to move, but I've been compelled to stay where 1 am on account of my young hopeful." "Well. It waa this way, began the d little woman. Id been bunting for daya, tired and cross;1 oh, dear me, yes. And to cap It all, baby was cross, too. ! always took him with me. It saved the trouble of answering questions. I had turned from door to door, and was utterly discouraged; sometimes It was noth - ir g Pretty Hard Task. Senator Perkins of California, who Spent years of his early, Ilfs at sea, tells of a stowaway being found in the hold of the vessel. The lad was made cabin boy to tbe captain, who took quite a fancy to him. When the ship made her first stop the captala gave tbe lad $20 and sent him ashore for some vegetables. Tbe boy told a groceryman what be bad come for and the storekeeper, pointing to a "Thems barrel of dried peas, said; The boy invested the vegetables." $20 and on rowing out to the ship, which was anchored-t- o the bay, was Have you hailed by the captain: Yes, sir," brought the vegetables? said the lad, not jrery confidently. "Look alive, then, and hand them np r Rapid Growth of Eagle City, Albert Mtmorlsl. (Hyds Psrk ) , sweeps busily, one eye on the brush, and the other cocked up to see if auy buses or cabs are coming bis way, and very often he just escapee being run over in the crowded streets "by , the skin of me teet," be says. Close by the curb is hie little cart, which he trundles along from corner to corner, whistling merrily all the while. The average ecurf-e-r le a merry lad, notwithstanding bis occupation. There le the shoeblack, too, and be la desenring of what little sympathy he may get, for bis earnings are precarious, and his life is as bard a on as falls to the lot of any street laborer. Occasionally one wees a bootblack with a small brother or sister tug "I 'as to mind glng at his cost-tail'lm wlle me mother goes out to d back-breaki- i tue Brussels HOW TO CONTROL CHILDREN. . sprouts for dinner are Most likely to have been culled from lue stock In hU cart, while the tur-al- ps am cabbages heaped high in ikW vehicle, drawn sometimes by a 4ookey, sometimes by a man, add often by one who combines tbe two, Mhke a charming bit of verdnre la the otherwise dingy street. Thus tbe thousands of people la the Ixmdon streets ply their various tradse from one year's end to another; the rifles army, strenuous and daunt-lp- . of all ages and all nations, ekes out a-- Jlv ehood, copper oy copper, u the fair way of trade from the s countless simple'-needof the them-ses'of hrothers and sisters In this. ri most worderful city In the world ls f.sesars death wss r'vti'i doubtle-- s man? RCBian pund-e- tb . Steady, Gentle Firmness It ths First Requisite. Bursts of passion to a little child must be met by steady, gentle firmness on tbe mothers side. Loud outcries should be hushed not by angry words, but by a grave qcletncss- - of voice and speech, which help to repress them by mere force of contrast passionate gestures, such as blows, -d ktck-ndrumming with the heels upon the floor, should be prevented by physical force If necessary. Above all, the Thing coveted. If It cause -- the child to fly Into a rage as the readiest means of obtaining It. should never be grant ed.As the child grows older and can be reasoned with, be or the should be taught to avoid tbe begin-pl- i of wrath, to struggle against Instability, and not to give way to It ing more than Aft a look and a snappish we have nothing to let here, In spite of tbe fact that tbe Apartment to Rent' stared me is the face. "Baby was so villainously cross that I finally took him. over to ray sister's fiat and left him there with her, and started off to see a flat she bad recommended. It was a pretty fiat, suitable In every particular, and' the arrangements were being made for me to have the place when suddenly my prospective landlord turned to me and said : 'By the way, have you any No, , ; children? "I groaned. There It was again tbe same old question. 1 could not tell him a lie, and knew that just as soon as I told him the truth It would be all np with the fiat." Yes. I answered. Yes, lve got one. Dut tf the good Lord will let me live until I get home Ill take him out In the back yard and kill blm! "Well, the man nearly bad a fit, be laughed so bard, and then I nearly bgd one, for be made an exception to our case, and be and the young hopeful are great frienda Indeed, he laughingly maintains that he saved the childs life." New York Times. x in words when It rises 1a the mind, says the Washingtoa Star. children often have generous, lovable natures, easily influenced for good. A wish-t- o please another and to do what is right for Its own sake may beT made strong enough to close tbe lips against the torrent of angry words that roehe to them, and so helps them to victory Each effort at makes the next pne easier. Quick-tempere- d J st , , A Peculiar Lady. Mist Nuritcb I think 111 take thla bracelet. Youre anre Its made of refined gold? J Jeweler Certainly. Miss Nuritcb Because 1 do detest that isn't refined. New anything York Weekly. 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