ivK tl til fir oa AC 1 VOL. XXIV. CASSVILLE, MISSOUB1 THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1896. NO. 31 friends, they provided gifts for visitors and all, and the house was well crowded with visitors.
The pastor. THOS. M.ALLEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 'sys HAWAII, THE "PEARL I OF THE PACIFIC." Hawaiin. Holidays and How They are Observed.
i i (Copyright, 1896, by Funk A Wagnalls Com-i pany. Sew York.) The Hawaiian holidays are twelve in number, and are strange mingling of American, European, and Asiatic civil and religious observances. January 1st is a (holiday, being New Years day; January 17th is a holiday, in celebration of the downfall of monarchy; February 12th is Chinese New Year; March 17th, Kamehameba Ill's birthday; Good Friday; May 24th, birthday of Queen Victoria; May 30th, Decoration Day; June 11th, Kamehameba Day; July 4tb, Birthday of the Republic and American Independence; November 29th, Recognition of Hawaiian Independence; Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. If all holidays are kept as Christmas, the Hawaiians will not soon forget the several events they celebrate. I left Kailaua on December 23, 1896, on the Inter-Island Steamer W.
G. Hall, for Honolulu, and was surprised to find the steamer crowded with people of all possible shades of complexion and station in life, all bound for Honolulu to spend the holidays. The school teacher from Hawaii, the clerk and plantation manager from Maui all boarded the Hall for the capital city. Quite a gay party of fair and dark ladies and gentlemen were assembled on the deck of the steamer as she plied the waters, and guitars and banjos were brought out, singing and instrumental music being the order until a late hour. By daylight on the 24th we were at the dock in Honolulu.
The day was as warm as one in July. Men went about in white duck suits and straw hats, many of the natives were barefooted, and, so far as the weather was concerned, there was no indication whatever of Christmas. But the County Court Proceedings. Present: Judges Hemphill, Frost and McCracken. Ira A.
Williams appointed J. P. of Mineral Township to fill vacancy caused by death of A. J. Neeley.
P. O. Snyder appointed road supervisor of Monett township. Bonds of road overseers approved as follows: James Tucker, district Thomas Lathan, Henry Murray, John B. Harrison, S.
J. Stewart, Geo. M. Walt, Harve Doyel, 13; J. C.
Hemphill, 14; James Jeffries, 15; D. J. Smith, 16; P. L. Dodson, 17; H.
M. Hilton, 18; John Calton, 19; W. P. Shumate, 21; Thomas Carney, 22. School fund bond of W.
G. Taylor for $50, with Thomas Smith and H. J. Taylor, securities, approved. Resignation of P.
O. Snyper, J. P. of Kings Prairie Township accepted. W.
F. Rine ordered admitted to the county farm. Vote at special election held in Monett Township Feb. 11, canvassed as follows: lor organization, 161, against, 3. T.
P. Withers. J. J. Davis, P.
O. Snyder, L. W. Badger, judges; J. F.
Moses, J. L. Carter, Will Mars, B. Vermillion, clerks, and L. N.
Swart-zell, constable, allowed $1 each. Costs in State vs. Will Dow, 19.95, allowed L. B. Jones, circuit clerk.
Warrants ordered: W. A. Pryer, poor person, 4.00 Reformer, printing statement, 7.36 Benton Robbins, work, 1.00 Jos. W. Casteel et al, coffin, 10.00 Lenhart, printing, 9.50 Petition of Wmfield Scott for dramshop license dismissed for want of sufficient number of petitioners.
Dramshop license ordered issued to Thomas Markwell, Monett. School district No. 2-22-28 authorized to loan school funds. Double assessment of Valentine Heusou corrected. Unsold portion of Section 16-23-25 and Section 16-22-26 ordered offered for sale.
Pet. Li. H. Taylor et al, to include. Buy your -i I CLOTHI NG From' 1 W.W.MUNDMESON.
lllllIIIllllIXllIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIllIIIlIIlIIIIIIIlIlIIllIIIIIlIIIIIlXIIIIXIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllllllilllT Look at my- Another car load FURNITURE just received. A complete assortment of anything and everything in my line. IljL JEL I JL Rev. H. Kihara, delivered an address to his people in Japanese and was followed by Itev.
H. W. Peck of the Methodist church. Then four young Japanese went through the audience and distributed little rolls ot paper, about the size of a pipe stem. vVhen unrolled, each paper was found to have a number on it, there being a corresponding number on each package brought for distribution.
Some of the presents were quite costly and others cheap. The calling off of num bers of packages and distribution of presents caused quite a little nutter of excitement, as there was considera ble incongruity in the directions they went, many grown men drawing tin horns or sewing baskets, while some ladies received cavalry spurs. My prize was a set of doll dishes, while Mrs. Jenkins of New York, who was on her way on a missionary tour to Japan, drew a boy's sword. I asked her if she proposed to take Japan with the sword in the way Mohamet established his faith.
Hawaii is truly a missionary coun try. The influence of the missionary is felt on the streets, in the stores, shops and offices. As a consequence Christmas is a holiday almost as sacredly kept as the Sabbath, and I have never been in any land where the Sabbath was so sacredly observed. Honolulu has saloons, but there Is lit tle visible drunkenness. I don't re member having seen any man under the influence of liquor, except a few sailors.
The enemies of the present government contemptuously call it the "missionary government," because most cf the officials and heads of de partments are the sons of missionaries. During the latter part of Christmas week a rumor got abroad that President Dole was going to begin the new year by granting a free and full par don to all the remaining political prisoners. He had pardoned seven on Thanksgiving Day, but eight of those who had been the most dangerous rebels in the outbreak of January, 1895, still remained on "The Reefs," as the prison here is called. The rumor proved to be well founded. President Dole, who is one of the kindest men I ever met, had determined to set free the remaining prisoners, who were, Chas.
T. Gulick, W. T. Seward, John F. Bowler, Robert V.
Wilcox, John H. Wise, Joseph Clarke, J. W. Bipikane, and John Lil-ikoi. At 9:30 on New Year's Day, the eight prisoners were called from their ceils into the prison yard, and there beard their pardons read with great interest.
The government was represented by Minister Daman, Attorney-General W. O. Smith, and Judge J. A. Magoon for the Board of Prison Inspectors.
The Attorney-General read the pardons, and made a few remarks in kind tones, which were answered by Major Seward with sentiments of regard for the clemency extended by the government, the others showing their appreciation by grasping the hands of the government officials. A larsre crowd of interested natives were gathered at the outside gates, and when the Hawaiian prisoners emerged from their confinement of eleven months, they were greeted with loud cheers. The republic is stronger to-day than ever, was the universal opinion. "That act of clemency on the part of Dole will heal over the old sores, and we will soon be a united people," said one of the spectators. This statement was borne out by the number of Royalists present at President Dole's New Year reception, the hearty congratulations and wishes of a happy New Year, and many of them both to the head ol the republic and the republic itself.
President Dole's New Year recep tion, just referred to, was held in the council chamber of the executive building, and was one of the most important and magnificent events in Honolulu society the writer has had the pleasure of witnessing. iTesident and Mrs. Dole showed that courtesy, dignity, and at the same time democ racy due from the heads of a republic and leaders in society. Mr. and Mrs.
Dole are in the prime of life, gifted with strong, common sense, and what he possesses in executive ability, she has as a leader of society. Mrs. Dole is a graceful and beautiful lady, noted for kindness of heart, and is as much admired as her excellent husband. Like him, she is one of the few people in this world whose head cannot be turned by high, political or social po sitions and honors. Surrounding the President was the staff, consisting of Colonel J.
H. Soper, Major George C. Potter, Major Iankea, Captain J. W. Pratt, Captain M.
A. Kinney, and a number of ladies representing the beauty and fashion of the city, making altogether a bnl liant company. Among the distin guished visitors were the foreign min isters and consuls in the city. During the afternoon Mrs. Dole.
Mrs. Paul Newman, Mrs. Lawrey, and several other ladies received the young men of Honolulu in Y. M. C.
A. hail, lie-freshments were served from twelve to two, and from three to five hundred persons were present, including the principal business men of the city. In the evening a concert was given in the same building, which was attended by a large and appreciative audience, and was in every way a success. The Y. M.
C. A. orchestra of twenty members rendered some excellent music. On the whole, holidays in Honolulu, after all, do not so materially differ from holidays in the United States. In intelligence, morality, and sobriety Honolulu will favorably compare with any city of it3 size in America.
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Careful attention given to civil and crira- Office: Boom 1, Van Hook block; east side of square. Cassville, Missouri. L. F. JONES, Attorney at Law.
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All business given prompt and careful attention. H.L. AMBROSE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Calls promptly attended at all hours, furdy, Mo. GEO.
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SPECIALTY. of Main and Hickory streets, MISSOURI. shops displayed the usual amount of Christmas toys, the churches were decorated with Christmas trees, and it only lacked cold weather and winter garb to make one sure it was Christmas indeed. When evening came on I walked out on the streets and found them all brilliantly lighted up, and the shop men doing a thriving business. Fort street and Hotel Street, and other principal streets, were thronged with men, women and children so that one could 1 scarcely squeeze his way through.
It almost reminded one of Fourteenth and Twenty-third streets, New York, during the holiday trade. Shot windows were filled with toys, trinkev and holiday presents, some displayed with the most excellent laste. Articles of bright colors seemed to attract the natives most. The Hawaiian loves the beautiful, the gaudy, the brilliant. He does not al ways display the most approved of tastes in the selection of colors, for blue and pink, red and yellow are liable to be mingled promiscously in the makeup of his or her dress.
An incident attracted my attention which will illustrate what it is to be in a tropical country during the Christmas holidays. I saw a great throng of natives gathered in front of a confectionery shop on Fort Street, who seemed to be greatly excited aud talking rapidly in their native Ian sruage, the object which was attract ing their attention being evidently on the sidewalk. One put his fiuger for ward as if to toucn some object and suddenly jerked it away again as if the creature was alive and bad bitten him. I pressed forward to get a glimpse of the wonder and it proved to be a large square cake of ice. The ice attracted more attention than any thins on exhibition that evening.
In the center of it was frozen some Call fornia fruit, and the natives stood around it, occasionally touching it with their fangers, until it melted en tirely away, which was late in the night. Christmas was celebrated here more as Fourth of July than Christmas. The Kanaka boy does not know how to celebrate it he can not make noise, and fire-crackers are his heart's delight. He discharges them by the bunch in imitation of the Chinese, and not singly as the American boy does All night long on Christmas Eve the firecrackers were popping, and they continued durinar all the next day. There were services in all the churches and Sunday-schools similar to such services in the United States on Christmas Da v.
The native churches had their Christmas trees, the different American and the European churches their trees and appropriate ceremonies. The Chinese and Japa nese christian churches, in imitatation of their white brothers, also bad Christmas trees and devotional ser vices. I attended the Japanese M. E. church Christmas tree.
The hall in which the services where conducted was beautifully decorated with a large fern tree one corner, ornamented with candles and tinsel paper and loaded with pretty presents. The entertainment began by singing by the Japanese. The music was familiar but the words were not. Then K. Kahasaki, one of the Japanese workers, read a chapter from the Bible in his own language.
This was followed by prayer from S. Nishi. an openinir address by A. Iwa-moto, a hymn, "Yes, Jesus Love9 Me," by seven Japanese boys: this followed by recitations in Japanese and English by several little boys. H.
Nakano. a boy not over twelve or fourteen years of age, delivered an address in English to the Americans present, which might have done credit to one much more advanced in years. After the benediction came the presentation of gifts. This was novel, amusing and expensive to a congregation as small and poor as the Japanese, as, in addition tne special srms im the Christmas tree for individoal certain land within the original town of Mineral Springs; ordered included. School fund bond of M.
U. and A. C. Messer for $300, approved. Grand and petit jurors drawn as follows: GRAND JtTBOKS.
Name. Township. John Banks, Ash. T. H.
Robberson, Capps Creek. Wm. Howerton, Exeter. J. J.
alien, Flat Creek. I. F. Thomas, Kings Prairie. David Talbert, Liberty.
J. M. Blalock, McDonald. John Carney, Mountain. P.H.Duncan, Mineral.
P. O.Snvder, Monett. D. M. Shumate, White River.
Wm. Jiancocfe, Washburn. PETIT JURORS. B. Abernathv, Capps Creek.
J. A. Williams, Crane Creek. Henry Frisbie, Crane Creek. Geo.
Earle. Exeter. E. B. Utter, Flat Creek.
T. J. Ellmore, Flat Creek. Jeff Smith, Kings Prairie. Jame? Wooton, Liberty.
D. H. Lamberson, Liberty. Henry Ragsdale, McDonald. J.
F. Thomas, Mountain. Ed McKiuney, Mineral. J. H.
Wormington, Monett. J. H. Johnson. Monett.
W. A. Hubbard, Ozark. James Wagnon, Ozark. Dave Calton, Pleasant Ridge.
O. W. Farwell, Roaring River. J. H.
Aldridge, Roaring River. Virgil Kimball, Shell Knob. O. C. Forgey Sugar Creek.
W. W. McCollum, Sugar Creek. A. P.
Harper, Shoal Creek. Jasper Clark, Shoal Creek. Adjourned until March 7. A Tragedy of the War. President Homer T.
Fuller of Drury college announced In chapel this morning, says a telegram from Springfield, that he had received a singular proposition from a wealthy Massachusetts man, whose identity he would not disclose. The Bay state man offers Drury a large sum of money if it will verify the truth of a war incident said to have taken place in Missouri, and which, if true, the Massachusetts man thinks equals the story of Damon and Pythias. The president accepted the offer and requested the students to help him secure evidence, if such a thing really did occur. The story is: "In the early part of the war, a detachment of confederate troops in Missouri took about 400 union prisoners. Twelve of these prisoners were lined up and shot without provocation by the confederate officers.
Upon hearing of this act the commander of the federal regiment drafted twelve confederate prisoners to be shot in retaliation. As the line was being formed a young man named William Lear, stepped forward and asked permission to take the place of one of the condemned men, who was his friend. The request was granted and Lear was shot in the place of his friend." The occurence as above stated took place at Centralia, soon after the issuance of Ewing's Older No. 13. Probate Court Proceedings.
Est. E. W. Brandenburg, dec'd, ordered into the hands of J. F.
Pilant, pub. upon filing of renunciation of the heirs at law. Est. Wm. McClure, dec'd; reuuneia-tion of Jane McClure, widow, filed; Walter T.
and Wm. D. McClure appointed administrators. Bond for $25,000 approved. B.
F. Windes and J. W. LeCompte appointed witnesses. Land For Sale, 80 acres of strictly first-class land, I clear of rock, unimproved, 7 miles south-west of Rocky Comfort.
Will sell for part cash and time given on balance. No Incumbrance. Charles Earle, 24-Stf. Cassville, Mo. JOB HUDSON, Cassville, Missouri, Carried a complete line of Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Stoves, Farming Implements, Glassware, Queensware, Stoneware, Woodenware and Tinware.
Has a Tin Shop in connection and solicits orders for guttering, roofing. and all kinds of tinwork. I Always Meet Competition. McCain's Restaurant, JAMES V. MCCAIN, Proprietor.
Meals at all hours. Board by day or week. Oysters and Celery. Fish every Friday -and Saturday. Canned Goods, Confectionery and Cigars.
i McPheeters Bates. Cassville, Missouri. Plastering, Mason Work, eg a 0 Flue Building. o. Cement Work a Specialty..
