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Cincinnati Post.1
Lynch Law.

We have adverted to the deplorable
inefficiency Of our means Of trying
and furnishing crime in this country.
We have shown that our courts are
inefficient, and our modes of proce-
dure are, in essential particulars, alb
sufd and obstructive. This is not the
worst Of it. These are Deficiencies Of
the law and its machinery. Both can
be corrected by legislation. There is
a suspicion, so widespread that it may
properly be denominated a popular
belief, that the criminal classes have
potent influences in dangerous prox-
unity to judges on the bench, and
actually operative upon officers select
ing the juries, and upon the juries
themselves. We have already alluded
to the alleged boast of a lawyer of
this city, that for fee Of $4,000 he
would save the neck of party to one
of the most brutal and deliberate mur-
ders for pay ever committed in this
city, and one who has confessed his
participation therein without excuse
or provocation.
These influences corrupt justice at
it's fountain, poison its roots, and their
fruits sicken and destroy rather than
It's arm, instead of shield
ing the innocent, covers and protects
the highwayman and the assassin.
The scales of justice are no longer the !
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even balance, but are the juggler's
trick. The law only makes innocent
men hel pless and society the more
completely subject to the vile and vio-
lent.
We ara law-abiding race, educated
to reverence for the invisible authC-
rity and name of. government, SO that
the most powerful citizen yields to
the call of the least midget of a po-
liceman who speaks in the name of
the State. But this is a reverence for
real law, an authority founded upon
the interests Of the State, and ostab-
lished to protect the honest and pun
ish the offender Whenever the Off
Ger ceases to represent Justice, and the
law made to maintain it, the people
will cease to respect him. and they
will take the administration of that
Justice into their own hands which
he has ceased to enforce and protect.
There is no evidence of the ineffi-
cheney or depravity Of our judicial
system so conclusive and alarming as
the frequent interference Of the mob,
with its summary Judgment and exc
cution. 1t is the revolt Of society
against courts it can no longer rely
upon. Judge Lynch holds court OF
exceptional appeal, that takes jurisdic-
ton when the people have rendered
Judgment and distrust the fidelity of
the ordinary courts in enforcing that
real justice which government was
created to administer 1t is a dread
full necessity Vigilance committees
are expedients that society will long
delay, and ought to avoid. But when
society in it's essence must be preserv-
ed, when the justice that underlies
officers and authorities must be secur-
ed and maintained IS against their un-
faithfulness, then Judge Lynch and
vigilance committees take the rein
and rudely assert the rights Of society
against crime that government has
failed to punish.
When whole families may be butch
cred in our suburbs for the paltry pay
which their bodies will bring in the
medical colleges for dissecting pur-
poses, and the courts then spend
weeks in getting jury for their trial !;
while iails are already crowded with
untried criminals Of every grade, and
still more abroad in the community
indicted for the highest crimes, how
long will it be ere society will take
its protection into its own hands, and,
with brutal and swift judgment, clear
the prosecutors docket2
We are not in favor Of lynch law.
It is dangerous disorganizer; but,
like revolution, public abuses and
neglect breed it, We warn the peo-
pie against it. They must take the
matter into their own hands. The
spring elections are approaching, and
they must clean their house. The
Legislature is in session; they must
make it hear their voice We shall
have more to say hereafter on the
subject.
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What Struck an Old Soldier.

"It will soon be twenty years since the closed'
Under the hot of August, 1882, the village of Do
yer, N. j., lay still the sphinx in Egypt, while
the past. 'Yes.n said he, Il in the army and saw
many of the sights of those fearful years. final
ly discharged from disability, resulting from
stroke. came home, miserable in health and spir-
its; enfeebled that took cold on the slightest
posure. Life seemed worthless to me; lived only
in memory
THAT was sad enough" said, dividing my last
two cigars.
That's so.'' responded Mr.. Sharp; "but got over
it. Outgrew it? Not exactly. When in that condi-
ton began taking PARKER's TONIC, and my health
commenced to improve right away. L astonish-
ed at it, and my ife. piled on the flesh and
could eat anything. My ambition blazed up. could
attend to business and now excepting that 1 have
to take about exposing myself to the hot SUM-
well as was the day enlisted. What differ
ences there in thfngs-guns and bayonets kill !;
PARKER's TONIC saves"
This preparation, which has been known PAR
KER's GINGER TONIC. will hereafter be called SIM
ply PARKER's TONIC. As unprncipled dealers are
constantly deceiving their customers by substituting
inferior articles under the of ginger, and as
ginger is really unimportant ingredient, drop
the misleading word
There is no change, however, in the preparation
ITSELF and all bottles remaining in the hands of deal
ers, wrapped under the name of PARKERs GINGER
TONIC, contain the genuine medicine if the facsimile
signature of HIsCoX & Co. is at the bottom
of the outside wrapper.
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cincinnati Commercial Gazetto.1
Can Crime Be Punished? :?

The object Of criminal laws is to
protect society, aud these can only be
made effective by enforcing them.
Cert and prompt. punishment is
what offenders most dread, and laws
are respected and feared in proportion
as they are sure of execution.
Is this the principle upon which
Cincinnati is governed? Is it so even
in theory? Unquestionably it is not
so in practice Indeed. it may be Sc
riously asked whether because Of the
Obstacles that are placed in the way
Of Justice, Cincinnati is not now prac-
tically under the control of criminals,
and whether it is not an inviting
place for criminal classes, including
murderers. So apparent is this, that
intelligent and observing people are
quite prepared to answer the question
in the affirmative, and in view of this
it is not surprising to find wide
spread and growing feeling i'll favor
Of summary punishment. Good citi-
zens cannot countenance mob law, but
the authorities and lawmakers cannot
too soon realize that the utmost point
of endurance had been reached.
In this connection the startling in
formation comes that there are now
confined in the Jail Of Hamilton Coun-
ty forty-two persons charged with
murder. Is not this a terrible COM
mentary upon the course of justice? |?
Four.of the persons confined are con-
fessed murderers, and are guilty of
the most atrocious crimes On record.
An attempt has been made several
times to try the Kirk murderers, but
so far no jury has been found to pass
the ordeal Of objections. Atrocious
as was the murder Of Kirk, and plain
and full as was the confession Of the
murderers, it is fruitless to look for
men capable of sitting on jury who
have not had an opinion as to the
guilt of the accused. There are plen-
ty of men capable Of rendering an un-
preiudiced verdict. There could, in
fact, in these cases be but one verdict.
As to the guilt of the parties there
can be no doubt. They confessed the
crime. They already stand convicted.
The trial can not be more than mere
form. Yet technicalities the most
trifing are interposed to secure. delay.
A man may be summoned and he may
answer in person, and yet If one letter
in his name is misplaced or omitted,
the whole panel is rejected. Thus de-
lay is secured, expenses are increased,
the public sense Of justice is shocked,
and crime is encouraged. Thess tech
nicalities may be in accordance with
laws strictly construed, but if this is
the case it is perfectly plain that the
laws ought to be changed in the in
terests Of justice and society.
AS matters stand there is certainly
far more due to society than to crimi-
mails, and if we would have laws re-
spected the machinery must be modi-
fled and made reasonably easy and
sure of prompt execution.
Comments now, in view Of the
excited state of the public mind, may
be said to be in the nature of y arm
ing. If the Courts cannot enforce
laws and protect society there is i'm
minent danger that other ways will
be sought and found This contin-
gency cannot be too carefully guard
ed against.
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New York Indedendent.1
The Sense of Legality.

The power of law to secure the
benefcent purposes for which 1t IS es-
tablished, and without which civil
society is hardly possible, depends up
on the certainty of its execution when
the occasion calls for it. The occas-
ion for its execution by trial. convic-
ton and punishment occurs when law
is violated. If, then, law practically
treats the guilty as if they were inno-
cent, if it tolerates crime without
awarding the punishment due to it, it
is simply sham and farce. 1t is
always such to the extent to which it
is not executed. It is when law pur-
sues the criminal with relentless earn
estness that it becomes "a terror to
evil doers." 1t is then understood to
be an authority not to be disregarded
because it is armed with power not
to be trifed with.
A thorough and lively sense Of le-
gality established in the popular heart
is, especially in free government,
the great foundation sentiment upon
which the execution of law mainly
depends. Free governments, like de-
spotic governments, must have writ
ten statutes and judicial and executive
agencies for their Interpretation and
application. But whether these stat
utes and agencies will do the work of
law, and make it felt both as an au-
thority and power among the peo-
pie, is a question that depends upon
the prevailing sentiment of the peo-
pie themselves. This sentiment is the
power behind the law and
behind all its agenee es, and is,
after all, the great source of its effic-
iency or its weakness. The sense of
legality is the sentiment which de-
mands and expresses itself in the en-
actment Of just and good laws, and
also sternly demands their enforce
ment against all offenders. 1t is
feeling of the heart and thought Of
the head, and is the exact opposite of
lawlessness, whether as an idea or
practice. It says not only that the
law is good and ought to be obeyed
but it shall be obeyed, or its punish
ment shall be inflicted. 1t appoints
legal agencies to give effect to this de-
cree: and if they fail to do so it dis
places them and substitutes other
agencies that will do the work.
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Have you seen it yet?'' excitedly
asked fresh youth, poking his head
into the reporters room mo; what
is it?" inquired several scribes, as they
felt for their notebooks. why, it
is all over town." what is?" ven-
tured the youngest pencil-pusher.
Mud = yelled the unsalted william,
slamming the door behind him with
such force that it drowned the roar Of
profanity which followed his exit.
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5o 0 s. N TH -
ADMINISTRATORS SALE
Of Real Estate.
18th Day of Apr5l, 1884.

In pursuance of an order of the Probate court
of jackson County, Ohio, I will offer for sale at
unh1ic auct ion on the
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of jackson County, Ohio, will offer for sale at
18th Day Of Apr5l, 1854,
at one o'clock P. M. on the premises, the fol-
lowing described real estate, situate in the
County of Jackson and State of Ohio, to-wit:
The south east quarter of the south east quar-
ter of Section Number Eleven Old. Township
Number Seven "a, and Range Number Nineteen
qsl. containing thirty five and eighty-four hun
east quarter of the south east quarter of the
same Section, Township and range, containing
S4-lO0 acres more or less, excepting a strip of
land off of the east side Of the above described
is described as follows, in the deed from w. W.
CongRton and wife to said James B. Paine A
side Of the south easr quarter of the south east
quarter, and OF the north east quarter of the
QD. Township Number Seven "a, and Range
Number Nineteen (l9), excepting a roadway l6
feet wide running east and west at the north
end of said strip. and running across said strip
Also, the west half of the south east quarter
of Section Number Eleven QD, township
Number Seven "a, of Range Number Nineteen
(I9), of the lands sold at Chillicothe, Ohio con-
tanning eighty acres more ar less, except small
piece described in a bond reserved by Daniel
Yearian, which small piece so reserved is boun-
oed and described as follows: Commencing at
the south east corner of the south east quarter
of the south west quarter of Range Number
Eleven Q1), and running north to the first little
hollow, supposed to be twenty rods more or
less; also, to commence back at the same south
east corner, at the same place of beginning, and
to run west to where the south line of lid
lands, the first gulf, thence from the stake
on the north line 10 run south west to poi"t
to intersect the south line of said gulf and SUBJ
Jet 10 the DOVER OF Margaret CongletOn, in the
following described portion of said tract, to-
wit:
Commencing at a point of rocks north east of
the house, and in front of the house, from
thence on a straight line including small gulf
west of the house, to the west line of said land,
including the dwelling house. thence north to
the north west corner of said lands, thence east
with said land to a stake in the center of the
north west quarter of said land, from thence
straight line to the place of beginning, contain
ing about twenty five acres.
That part not included in dover set off to
widow appraised at $500 90.
The remainder set of and subject to dover,
appraised at $500.
reference is had to survey plat on file in Pro-
bate Court Court, with papers in this case.
Terms of sale, cash on day OF sale.
VIM. w. GIBSON,
Administrator of w. w. Congleton, deceased.
March 49, 1884. 5w
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A rare old bird is the tattered tramp,
Who coverth miles of ground;
He maketh the farmers barn his camp
When the bulldog. isn't around.
He seeketh the forests grateful shade
When the summer sun is high,
And he winketh at the dairymaid
With his blear and CLASSY eye.
Oh, rare old bird is the seedy tramp!
That is the reason they chase the
scamp.
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M EDICAL,

SALT RHEUM or Eczema, Psoriasus, Scald Head,
~ lnfante Birth HumOrs, and every form of Itch
ing Scaly, Pimply. ScrofulOus, Inherited Contagious
and Copper-Coored Diseases of the Blood. skin and
Scalp, with Loss of HAIR positively cured by the
CUTICURA REMEDIES.
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CUticura ResOlvent, the new blood puriier,
ceanses the blOo and perspira ion impurities and
| poisonous elements, and thus removes the cause.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-11-29

A gentleman has called the writer's
attention to an article in the Daily
Evening Bulletin Of this city headed
Dead Beat Sugar, and has suggested that
IL was suggested by recent article
in the New York Nation. The article
referred to appeared in the Nation OF
October a3rd, and was headed The
German Sugar Crisis. II the Bulletins
article was inspired by the Nations
and careful reading OF both does not
sustain the charge-there is nothing
unproiessional, nothing dishonest, moth.
ing in any way unjus,ihable in the
action, 1t is the universal practice OF
newspapers, the world over, to re-
write information from other papers. I,
can scarcely be otherwise on the part OF
small papers in obscure partsoft the world
There is no month in which San Fran
cisco papers do not take Hawaiian
news from Honolulu papers without
word OF credit. The facts Of the
Bulletins article were partly identical
with the facts OF the Nations. But the
language was its own, and the reason
ing also, We think. II the Bulletin
never does anything worse than that
II IS clearly on the road to the news
paper New Jesusalsn
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-11-29
EIHEISH HTRNINg,

A correspondent of the Guide has
called attention, very pertinently we
think, to the burning of rubbish so in
Discriminatory practiced in all parts OF
this city. The writer OF this sympa
thizes heartily with him, the more SO
that both have been sufferers from the
same cause. The smudge" (it de-
serves no more elegant appellation)
raised by these fires, is really insuffer-
able. Not day passes in which some
OF these piles of rubbish are not smoul-
dering, in more than one part of the
town. On fine trade-wind day, when
a pleasant breeze is blowing from the
mountains, II is no exaggerauon to say
that the smoke from one OF these fires
will taint the air for a block. And on
the other hand when the air, as it is at
this season OF the year, is often still, II
is no uncommon thing for the smoke
OF single Are to taint il for days,
giving the whole atmosphere OF the
neighborhood faint blue tinge, and
lmparting to it sufocating odor,
which makes one temporarily at least in
love with death, and quite insensible
10 the advantages of this world. People
always seem to clear up their rubbish
at the most inauspicious times, and in
the most aggravating manner. We
have heard OF one worthy gentleman
who always burnt his rubbish in deep
hole. OF course the smoke darkened
the whole heavens and penetrated the
entire neighborhood, to the infinite de-
location OF the inhabitants thereof His
Majesty King Kalakaua is prime
. sinner in this respect, and the writer has
run the gauntlet ofhis ornamental wall
under circumstances which reminded
him very forcibly ofa previous attempt to
oircumnayigate Halemaumau. This
may perhaps seem to some rather
small matter, bu, il is not too small to
be the proper object OF reform I, is
10 Us matter OF astonishment that
the energetic board Of health, guided
and inspired by the wisdom Cf It's cru
dite president, has no, long since solved
this triiing problem Of public eonven
ience and health.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-11-29

Many OF Mrs Leavitt's statistics are
gwen in The Liquor Problem IN all
Ages "a book now being canvassed
tor here, The statIstician has dealt the
drink traffic the deadliest blows that
giant evil has so far received. II one
has at command statistics that cannot
be gainsaid one has weapon that can.
not be broken. Mrs. Leayiu..s lecture
las, Monday night dealt chiefly with
the medical phase Of the question
The question "ls alcohol a true stimu-
liant - was denied; the assertion al
cohol has place in medicine that no
other remedy can i'll" was conuoyerted,
In her position in that particular phase
OF the drink question she has been ably
seconded by one OF the highest thera-
peutio authorities in the United States,
the Boston Journal of Chemistry,
whose editor has declared that, in his
judgment, based on what he considers
the most scientific authority brought to
the consideration OF the topic, Me,r IS
no EIf matt ef alcohol an mekieinS or Mt
arts that mighi not betfrr he SS,Ued 6J
Io~e ether agent II this IS untrue II
ought to be easy to disproye it. If it
IS ,rue-as some of the best specialists
IN therapeutic chemistry believe-it is
clearly the duty OF physicians and
patients to rnite in banishing it from
the world OF manufacture.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-11-29
A GROWING MECHANIC.
Honolulu, November ~, 1884
4 Tup;cdI lrcideuf.

A week ago last Thurday night, Mr.. John
Sullivan, part proprietor Of the Fashion Stables
and one of the best known and most ia.
vorably known carriage drivers in town, left
his horse and carriage standing beside the curb
ing for moment, intending to speak TO
passenger and return. A man, himself a car.
riage driver, conceived the idea that il would
be vastly funny to jump into MI. Sullivan's con-
veyance, drive ''around the block" and return
the propety in good order. No sooner thought
than acted. He sprang into the carriage, gave
an Indian war whoop, and drove rapidly Out
Hotel street towards Maunakea. Turning
swiftly into Smiths lane, the turiousy reckless
driver ran the carriage against that OF
a native, upsetting the latter's carriage but
proceeding with Mr.. Sulvans carriage unin-
ured and followed by the horse of the native
carriage, horse and vehicle having parted com.
pany. Into Bere,ania, along it to Nuuanu, down
to Hotel und along the latter towards Fort
thundered the now thoroughly frightened but
still partially controlled horse of Mr.. Sullivan,
followed by the freed horse Of the native.
About opposite Lcwis's grocery, Mr.. Sullivan,
hearing the noise of the return, sprang into the
street TO stop the runaway, as he rightly con.
jectured it to be. But the speed OF the mad
dened animal was not to be SC. lightly checked,
and poor Sullivan was dashed against fence
OF building on the mauka side Of the street ;and
when picked up by Mr.. Dodd and Others, was
| frghtfully bruised and insensible.
There is reason for telling this story SO
long after ii happened. Fortunately, horse
and vehicle were recovered before the damage
done was serious The man who caused the
mischief was not killed. The law has made
it possible to put him under bail OF $500,
charging him with " furious and reckless driv'
ing" and with malicious mischief. Mr.. Sulli
van will probably his health and strength,
now seriously impaired; and it is perhaps pos
sible that he may recover damages that shall in
par, make up 10 him his lost time. That is
not the question much as the public; ought
and does sympathi1e with the sufferer.
The reason for this mention is to call atten.
ton to the self evident fact-neglected as SO
many self evident facts too often are-that II
there had been no liquor sold in Honolulu the
accident would not lin all human probability
have happened.