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Woodville Republican., 1888-12-01

laughter, and an endless series Of mu-
tual compliments. Delicate in form
and in substance, characterized by in
finite kindness and merriment, subject
to strict and immemorial rules, jap
anese dinner is typical Of the Japanese
people. Most foreigners are delighted
with it as a novel experience, and
hasten to supplement it with beef
steak or dish of poached eggs.
One invariable accompaniment 0 to
such an entertainment here have pur-
posely omitted to mention-the geisha,
or girl musicians, who appear during
dinner and dance to the samisen and
the biwa and ni-gen-king Tiny crea-
lures from fairyland they are, SO ex-
quisitely dressed, 50 wonderfully Golf
fees, so pretty and graceful and full Of
fun, true visitors from Oriental wonder
land. These and their like demand at
least a letter to themselves.
Dinner brings the Japanese day to a
close. The guests arise from their
mats, and steal away, not silently by
any means, and as ceremoniously as
they entered. When the last pair ol
sandals has been resumed and the last
iinrikisha has whirled away, our SER
wants slide the heavy shutters into
their places all around the house, in a
trice bedrooms and beds appear, and from
the waking dream of being AT Home in
Japan" one passes by an easy transi
tion into that land of other dreams
where alone every wanderer is in truth
at home, however many Thousand
leagues of sea and land divide him from
what he loves. s.-Henry Norman, in 81
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Woodville Republican., 1888-12-01
An Ambiguous Compliment.

She was an amateur singer, and be-
ing called on to sing where there was
no accompaniment, at once scared into
the high notes, ending with a demi-
seihi-quaver that shook the windows
and startled the professor.
Sand do you often sing without an
instrumentPn he asked, surprised.
II always do. she answered. prompt.
".
Wonderful wonderfull he exclaim-
ed, with enthusiasm. 'but bellevoit Is
quite common for young ladies to sing
now without any music ~ Deirog Free
Press.
Woodville Republican., 1888-12-01
N pARkNEss


IWin be still;
The terror drawing nigh
Shall startle from my lips no coward cry;
Nay, though the night my deadliest dread
fulnll
Twill be stiil.
For oh know,
Though suffering hours delay,
Yet 10 Eternity they pass away,
Carrying something onward as they how,
outlasting woef
Yes, something won;
Tho harvest Of our tears
Something unfading, plucked from fading
years;
Something to blossom on beyond the sun
From sorrow won.
The agony.
So hopeless now OF balm,
Shall sleep o. last, in light as pure ant
calm
AS that wherewith the stars look down OF
thee,
Gethsemane.
-Florencs Earle coates, n Harpsr's Mdcazine
Woodville Republican., 1888-12-01

"A bright young woman Of Lake
Weir, Fla, suggested the other day
that the cheap way (because the only
way) for the United States to get rid Of
these recurrent yellow fever epidemics
is to buy Cuba, and 50 give American
sanitary science d chance 10 strangle
the plague in its cradle.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

TUESDAY morning the first jury of this
term was drawn, to try case OF extor-
ton. On behalf OF the Government OBJ
lection was made to certain persons, that
they had been recently discharged from
official positions and would therefore
have bias against the Government and
it was moved they be excused. The OBJ
lection was very properly overruled by
His Honor the presiding judge, who
stated that if it were the only ground of
objection it was insufficient. 1t is very
true that if a person should allow per-
sonal prejudice to overcome evidence
and the obligation to be fair, and decide
either way in accordance with such pre-
iudice, he would be unfit for a juryman.
But the experience of the past in Ha-
waiian tribunals shows that our juries'
can be depended on for even-handed
justice. Of course there have been ex-
ceptions, occasionally race prejudice has
cropped out or some other cause has
arisen to produce an unfair verdict, but
the contrary has been the rule. The
Hawaiian jury has proved equal to the
foreign and both have deserved the
thanks of the country for faithful service.
One of the methods to defeat justice in
the more highly civilized countries is 10
attack the jury and reduce it by vari
Gus expedients to condition of mental
imbecility. This method has not yet
found favor in this country, and it is
hoped that the time never will come
when the man who reads the newspaper
is thereby untitled to sit upon a jury.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

failed to be realized. At the same time
it must be confessed by every fair
minded and impartial observer that these
failures and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES spots
on our political SUD and flies in the re-
form ointment-are altogether excep-
tional. and do not alter the broad fact
that the reform administration has been,
in the main. success, and the record OF
the party one, upon the whole, OF which
its honest members may well be proud.
If there is any one fact which the history
of the past year has demonstrated more
clearly than any other; if there is any
lesson which our experience teaches in
unmistakable terms, it is that the exist
ence and supremacy of the Reform party,
or of some party pledged and devoted to
the principles and ideas on which that
organization was founded and assumed
the control of public affairs, is essential
to the well-being OF the country and even
to its continued existence as an indepen-
dent nationality What measures are
necessary to consolidate and strengthen
the party, to place it on the high level
where it properly belongs, to command
the confidence and support of the best
elements in our heterogeneous popula-
ton, and give it that success which its
character and the public welfare alike
demand will be considered hereafter.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

IT WAS said in some of the California
papers that Mr.. g. w. Macfarlane had
stated in an interview that the financial
status OF the Islands was bad, that we
are on the verge OF bankruptcy; that
political revolution was probable and
much else of the kind. Mr.. Macfarlane
is not here to speak for himself and SO
cannot deny or affirm the truth of these
statements. But that he said anything
of the kind is very doubtful. He is not
in love with the present administration
and probably is not in sympathy with
the reform movement. But heisa sharp,
clear-headed man when business is in
volved, and that is just what is involved
in the present case. He went to Eng
land on business connected, it is gener-
ally believed, with the Watson plantation
scheme on Kauai. That plan will be
success if English capitalists can be con-
WINGED of the safety of investing here.
The best way to drive them away is to
lead them to believe the political condi-
ton of the country to be unsound. Mr..
Macfarlane did not 60 to drive off British
capital, consequently he probably did
not begin his journey with any such
as he is credited with. No
doubt the whole thing is part of the
general lying plan of California papers
to discredit the Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

TIE street railway is making rapid
progress on King street. The rails are
now laid almost to the Waikiki road in
Pawaa. A branch line will be laid to
Punahou at once, and within short
time cars will run to the gate at the Col
lege. Delay is caused by the inability of
the company to cart stone rapidly enough
to fill between the rails and outside as
required by law. The work is being well
done and we shall have street railway
till the end of time apparently, or till we
are blown up by some great eruption or
CONFUSION whereby we go to the bottom
OF the ocean.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

A LETTER from Colorado, elsewhere
printed, shows the good service being
done by the Paradise of the Pacific. 1t
is pity that the paper can not be seen
all over the United States. 1t is well
edited and interesting. But perhaps
other methods might be used to advan-
tage, such as colored slips-with a few
words giving the cost of trip to Homo
lulu, with list of objects of interest to
see-left in railway stations, and similar
means. People read the little scraps
and put them in the pocket to glance at
again, and they tell in the end.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

the human race. A large amount is i'm
ported into Europe every year but prin-
cipaIly as food for stock. The variety
known as Dhuna is occasionally ground
and mixed with wheat -four in England,
but is not sold as mixture, because OF
the prejudice naturally existing against
authorizations of any kind. Millet grows
easily, is a heavy producer and ahead of
almost any fodder for animals. 1t is a
native of the tropics and is therefore at
home here. The Indian millet or Guinea
corn is perhaps the most productive and
most thoroughly at home in warm
climate. If grown here it would no
doubt wholly supersede California hay
and afford a good livelihood for num-
Der of just the white population we need
hara
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

We have homestead law, but very lit
tie use has been made of it yet. All that
has been done has been accomplished
by the present administration. The law
was passed during the Gibson admins
tration, but not by the Government. 1t
was suffered to pass as tub is thrown
to whale, to satisfy in way not likely
to interfere with the land-grabbing de-
signs OF people. After its passage large
tracts of available land were disposed Of
in defiance of the law. Mr.. Gibson
leased large tracts on Lanai, and that
without notice and sale by auction as
elsewhere required. We do not believe
that all possible has been done by the
present government, for several large
tracts have been disposed of without OF
fering them piecemeal to small settlers,
which might have been done in some
cases. At the same time there is great
deal OF carping aad fault-fnding with no
reason at all All of the land sold or
leased for long terms, are first passed
upon by the survey department and if in
the opinion of the proper officer the land
is not of arabic character and therefore
not within the meaning of the Home
stead law, it is not necessarily divided
for homestead purposes. Again there
borya haay, "a. loo Of c,,oo1l frootc frc,,,
acre up, without bidders, although thor
opghly and well advertised. The Gov
eminent has also sold almost the whole
of the best lands. They were sold ten,
twenty and even thirty years ago and
are covered by the grants which now
number several thousands OF the re-
naming portion there are vast tracts
of barren lava or forest, neither of which
are of any great present value. The
population question then depends not
wholly on the Government, so far as the
lands are concerned, and land is the
great consideration. Outside of land
there is little else to offer by the Govern
ment. 1t is not engaged in trade or
nor does it control either
to any extent and therefore cannot offer
work. What can be done is to invite
the introduction of new industries by
bounties or other wise measures. The
offering of bounties has been done, but
it must be confessed with little success
thus far. The plain English Of the mat
ter is this: if, the country lacks enter
prising and far-sighted citizens it will not |
90 ahead. At the present time large
part OF the capital of the country is de-
voted to the sugar industry, which makes
some few rich and ruins more who take
hold of it, but does not produce per-
nanent population of intelligent resi-
tents.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16
TIE Massachusetts l .eoislatn,

THE Massachusetts Legislature, besides
passing a most admirable ballot law,
similar to that introduced in the last
session here, enacted law to control the
primaries to some extent. The law pro-
vides certain penalties for some of the
jobs put up in the ward associations,
whereby the primaries instead of repre-
senting the popular will become simply
tools of the politicians. 1t has not be-
come necessary for US to enact laws to
protect the public against our ward asso-
Citations, but the last nominations of
delegates showed some signs of jobbery.
1t will be well for our citizens to watch
their rights carefully in these matters,
that we may not fall under the despotic
control of ward politicians.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

THE verdict of the jury in the case of
Rex VS.. Kahele, on Tuesday, justifes the
opinion that as a rule Hawaiian jury
can be depended on as safely as any
other. In that particular case the YER
dict shows that the objection against
some members of the jury, referred to
above, was unfounded and that on the
facts verdict was found, not upon any
bias or prejudice. AS long as Hawaii
can depend upon its juries just SO long
will the liberties of the people and their
rights be safe in their hands. 1t is one
of the most hopeful signs OF the times
that juries VIII do their duty in spite of
political enmities. 1t was feared by
some after the revolution that Hawaiian
juries would refuse to convict, as long as
any member of the reform party prose-
cuted. This fear was not so foolish as it
appears, because it is very well known
that the strongest and bitterest attempts
have been made to induce the natives to
believe that the whole movement was of
the foreigner against the native. The
bitter tone of a portion of the Hawaiian
press lent color to this. The vote in
Honolulu September II, 1887, seemed to
bear it out. Besides this We have the
precedent of foreign countries in such
cases. England could get no convictions
in Ireland for the gravest crimes and
outrages under the common law jury
system, and it became necessary to de-
wise new plan, under the Crimes Act |
and various other measures which have
become law in Ireland to reduce the
country to order. In spite OF all fears,
and of the precedents elsewhere, the
Hawaiian jury has done its duty, and
the nation is to be congratulated upon
this evidence Of content and approval of
the new order. 1t is also probable that
the majority of Hawaiians are really in
sympathy with the aims and endeavors
of the real reform movement.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

The proverbial irritation caused ny
Haunting red rag before turkey cock
is an appropriate but very inadequate
metaphor to represent the dreadful state
into which the Bulletin is thrown at
hearing the reform party" or the Gre
form movement" spoken of with any
degree of commentator. OF detraetion,
denunciation, ridicule, sneers, there
can hardly be too much to suit the
taste of our afternoon daily. Congenial
spirits, writing over various signatures,
and differing only in degree and not in
kind, have kept its columns well stuffed
most of the time for months past with
that kind of matter without a hint of
editorial protest. But let anyone, even
with qualifications, endorse the present
Ministry and their supporters in the
Legislature, and, oh, dear me- the Bull
letin gobbler almost faints and falls off
his perch.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

The future of the Reform party is
something to which no dweller in these
islands can afford to be Indifferent
With the sweeping victory at the general
election OF 1887 its mission was not, as q
few thoughtless people seem to imagine,
and as larger number of evil-disposed
people would like to believe, substan-
tally ended. On the contrary, it was
only just begun. To hold otherwise is
as absurd as it would have been to sup
pose that the work of the great Republi-
can party of the United States was fully
accomplished by the election of Abraham
Lincoln to the presidency in 1860.
Rightly considered, the past political
history of this country is full of instruc-
ton, of warning, and of encouragement
for the men OF to-day. In the circum-
stances connected with the origin and
rise OF the Reform party lie the unan-
swerable arguments for its necessity and
permanence. Stated briefly, and avoid
ing all reference to individuals, it NAV
be said that the cause which precipitated
the revolution of 1887 and called the
party into being was the constant growth
in power and influence of certain ele-
ments whose augmenting control in pub
lie affairs had already wrought pecuniary
loss and public disgrace, and whose I'M
checked supremacy could only result in
financial ruin and the destruction of the
nation. A crisis had arisen which no
temporizing or halfway measures were
adequate to meet. Our men of intelli-
gence, of character and of substance
were called upon to face a condition of
things requiring prompt, energetic and
decisive action. How they met the
emergency, by what means the removal
of the most glazing of existing evils was
effected, and by what safeguards they
sought to provide reasonable security for
the future need not be here recounted.
These things are all matters Of recent |
history and should be abundantly famil- |
lar to our readers. Equally familiar are
the events Immediately following the
revolution; the formation of a party
on the basis of approval of
the action of the mass meeting of the
Both of June, and agreement to support
the new order of things; the nominating
of 1887 the first gathering of
the kind ever held in the Kingdoms the
for the special election, and
the overwhelming victory at the polls.
In the year and more which has elapsed
since that time good many important
.hings have happened in the sphere of
Hawaiian politics. Some mistakes that
we're made in the course of the revolu-
ionary movement, honestly no doubt.
md naturally enough too under the cir
but mistakes all the same.
lave forced themselves upon our atten-
ion in the production of unexpected and
Tery unpleasant results. Some matters
which We fattered ourselves we're settled
lave evidently got to be settled over
gain. Some men who were commended
o US as stauach and true have forfeited
heir pledges and previously disappointed
heir friends. Again, it cannot be de-
lied that some mistakes have been made
a administrative matters, and some
Pparently reasonable expectations have ,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16
12l@8t HENRY SMITH. Deputy Clerk.
cUPREME CoURT OF r11

~ Hawaiian Islands.-Iu Probate In 49,
matter of the Estate of CHARLES BRENfG
of Honolulu. deceased. Order appointing tins
for Probate of Will and directing publication ~
notice of the same. Va
A document, purportiug to be the last VIII
and Testament Of Charles Brenig deceased
having on the 9Th day of October, 1855 heer'
presented to said Probate Court and a Detition
for the Probate thereof, and for the issuance Of
Letters Testamentary to Sanford B. Dole, hay-
ing been filed by him.
It is hereby ordered, that MONDAY. the
2Sh day of Oct. 1885, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said
day, at the Court Room Of said Court, at Cham
hers in Aliiolanl Hale, Honolulu, be. and the
same Is, hereby appointed the time for proving
said Will and hearing SAID application, when
and where any person interested may appear
and contest the said Will, and the granting Of
Letters Testamentary.
Dated Honolulu, October ., 1888.
BY the Court:
1239-3t. HENRY SMITH. DENNY CLERK
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

LIZ THE Bulletin had quoted just what
we said about thoughtless and evil-dis-
posed people, and the connection in
which we said it, in our article on the
future of the Reform party its readers
would have seen how entirely the spirit
and purport of our remarks were per-
verted. Therefore, naturally, the Bulle-
tin did nothing of the kind.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

IT is pity that Honolulu has no
illustrated paper with first-class carica-
turist. The terrific explosions of the
Bulletins ludicrous missionary" cores
pendent would afford an endless source
OF mirth. The illusions are SO absurdly
inconsistent on different occasions as to
suggest only person in a fit foaming at
the month
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16
cUPREME COURT OF THE


~ Hawaiian Islands.-In Probate In ,be
matter of the Estate of MARY f. LINDSEY
of Waimea. Hawaii, deceased
On reading and filing the petition and az
counts of j. NJ. MoDsarrat, Administrator yirb
the Will annexed, wherein he asks to be al
lowed Sl38 20, and charges himself with 81 .4UO
and'asks that the same may be examined and
approved, and that final order may be made of
distribution OF the property remaining In bis
nands TO the persons thereto entitled, and dis
charging him and his sureties from all further
responsibility as such Administrator
IL Ia ordered. that TUESDAY, the 18th dav of
November, 1883. at ten O'Clock n. az Cham
bers in the Court House at AliiOlanl Hale. Homo
lulu, lie and the same hereby is appointed as the
time and place for hearing said petition and nc.
counts, and that all persons Interested NAV
then and there appear and show cause If any
they have. why the same should not be granted.
and may present evidence as to who are en-
titled to the said property.
Dated Honolulu, Uct. T. 1888.
Bv the Court:
123r-st HENRY SMITH. nenutv Clerk
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16
Eraol advertisements.
COURT On ~

SUPREME COURT OF THE
~ Hawaiian Islands in Probate In tina NJ.
ter Of the Estate Of LORENZO MARCHsI'TIS-r,-
late OF Honolulu, Oahu. deceased. 1,
On reading and filing the petition and =.
counts of T. A. Schaefer, Adninistrator ,~;.r
the viii annexed, wherein he asks to be alinv-ss5
81 ,64SS9, and charges himself with e gS- "a
and asks that the same may be examined ~
approved, and that final order NAV be mac -
distribution OF the property remaining In hrs
hands to the persons thereto entitled. and Az,
charging him and his sureties from all furtbs-
responsibility as such Administration
IL is ordered that TUESDAY, the 10th dav -
November, 1888, at ten O'Clock A. NJ. AZ ca "
bers, In the Court House at Aliiolani Hale
Honolulu be ana the same hereby is appointsd
as the time and place for hearing said petitio1
and accounts, and that all persons interestsd
may then ana there appear and show cause II
any they have, why the same should not be
are entitled to the said property. '
Honolulu, october ~, 1885.
By the Court:
124n3t HENRY SMITH. Denntv ri..t
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CUPREME COURT OF THE


~ Hawaiian Islands.-ln Probate. In the
matter OF the estate of ALEXANDER MoDUFF
late of Honolulu deceased.
On reading and filing the petition and &C.
counts OF Henry Warehouse and j. T. Water.
house, Jr: executors of the will Of ALEXAN-
DER MoDUFF, late Of Honolulu, Oahu. de-
ceased. wherein they ask to be allowed ESQ. and
charge themselves with S2,29j. and ask that the
same may be examined and approved. and thai
a hnal order may be made of distribution Of the
property remaining in their hands to the per-
sons thereto entitled, and discharging him and
their snreties from all further responsibility as
such executors.
IL Is ordered that MONDAY, the 18th day or
November 1883, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. at Chambers
In the Court House ut Aliiolani Hale Honolulu.
De and the same is hereby appointed as the
time and place for hearing said petition and ac-
counts, and that all persons interested may then
ana there appear and show cause IL any they
nave, why the same should not be granted, and
may present evidence To who are entitled 10
the said property.
Dated Honolulu, October 1. 1883.
BY the Court:
l23S3t HENRY SMITH. Deputy Clerk.