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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-05-11

Among new things in the floral line Is
'Gen. Boulanger," a French Gamma
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

The newspapers OF the Pacific Coast as
q class are an idle, gossiping crowd. Not
single frst-class paper exists there. ot
course most of them have enterprise
enough. which is shown iu their eager
ness to put a sensation upon the market.
Perhaps, too, they are fair exponents OF
the people, but it is to be hoped that
this is not true. If they are, then Cali
fornia and Oregon have very common
place and low population There are
excellent reasons for believing that the
papers do not represent the whole peo-
pie, but they represent enough to give
the tone they carry. The treatment OF
most questions pertaining to the Islands
is proof to readers here of the truth OF
these observations. Facts are always
available to the papers, but facts are no.
what is wanted. The recent items re
garding the bankrupt condition OF the Is
lands is an illustration The contrary
truth could have been obtained, but that
was not desired. What was wanted was
to blast attempts making to raise funds
in England for enterprises here, so de-
liberate lies are published in California
papers to effect the end. Some of our
old friends here are proving very bad
friends there. However, money will
make even journalists lie, they say!
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16
EST moDUs IN REBUs.

TIE Supreme Court decided Monday
week that the jury was properly
drawn and that therefore jury trials
would proceed at the present term. The
decision is relief to many people, for
there are several important cases on, In
which the loss would be considerable If
a trial could not be held before April
next. 1t does not appear to be very
severe stretch Of legal reasoning by which
this result was reached. There certainly
would have been failure OF justice had
the decision been different. If there be
any objection to the personnel OF any
jury, that can be settled with each case.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

THE subject of technical education is
one Of growing importance. The Kane
hameha School has taken hold of it in
earnest. Boys trained there will come
out practical carpenters, painters, print
ers and with knowledge of other trades.
The Lahainaluna School began the good
work a number of years ago, and speci-
mems of the boys handiwork can be seen
in the furnishings of the place as well as
in the lower town Of Lahaina, and to
some extent scattered over the Islands.
To Mr.. D. H. Hitchcock, the last princi-
pal of that school, is due the credit of a
practical and vigorous handling OF the
subject. Other schools Of the Kingdom
have given the subject some attention in
the past, but perhaps the Kamehameha
School has undertaken it in the most
thorough-going and comprehensive way.
A practical carpenter directs the boys in
their work and with such intelligence
that something besides a machine who
can saw, plane and drive nails will be
turned out eventually. All of these are
steps in the right direction. 1t is proper
and Just that school should teach some
thing of the practical wage-earning side
of life. The vast majority of men are
and will continue to be mere wage earn
ers, and when schools can graduate men
who can become intelligent and practical
wage earners at once they will more
nearly meet the demands of these busy
practical times.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

In pleasing contrast with the time
serving, shuffling of such clauses in the
Republican platform, is the manly course
pursued by the Republican candidate for
Governor of New York, Senator Miller.
In that State, the temperance question
has assumed specific form in demand
for high license. Already the beneficial
effects of the system have been felt
throughout the State, in the suppression
of a vast number of groggeries in both
city and country. OF course it. has
aroused the bitterest opposition of the
liquor interests and has become lead
ing issue in the State politics. Allied to
this is the question of a reformed and
honest ballot. On both of these ques-
tions the present governor, the notorious
Hill, has allied himself directly with all
of the bad elements, and has defeated
wise legislation by the use OF the veto
power. Senator Miller has taken the
stand and declares that the tariff issue is
national, not local; that the two ques-
tions above mentioned are the great is
sues before the voters of the State. He
has come out in clear and unmistakable
terms in favor of both propositions, and
declares that if defeated he is willing to
lose upon such issues. OF course the
politicians are opposed to him in COM
mon with all that is low and wicked.
Such men are wanted the world over,
not even excepting Hawaii. Fearless
honesty is sure to conquer in the long
run, Let US have more of it.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

THREE OF the Justices of the Supreme
Court think that the clerk (meaning
the head clerk) must draw a jury if he
be present, and that in his absence only
the deputy clerk can do the drawing.
The other two Judges think that the
first or the second deputy can do the
drawing, whether the head clerk is alb
sent or present. The Act Of 1884 which
authorizes the first and second deputy
clerks to perform all duties which by law
may be required of the clerk authorizes,
as all the Judges say, the drawing done
by the deputy, but the majority of the
Court think that they ought to give force
to the words in the Act which require
the jury to be drawn by the chief clerk,
by making that duty incumbent on him
if he is available, as the drawing in any
case is done under the supervision of one
of the Judges, and as deputy can GER
tainly be as much trusted when the
head clerk is presentas when he is away.
Moreover, We doubt the correctness OF
the rule which the majority mention,
namely, that the Court is bound to
give effect to every word of statute if it
Is possible so to do" Such a possible
construction may sometimes be SO over
refined and strained as to produce en-
tirely unintended resultA We think
that every word ought to have such force
as it can have by reasonable intendment,
and natural and usual construction of
the language used in the statute.
In this instance, there is some appar-
ent difficulty in the fact that the lang
uage of the Act of 1884 is inappropriate
in styling the second and third clerks as
deputies, for neither one is deputy of
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

A HEAVY coffee crop is expected from
Kona this year, larger than that of last
year, and last seasons crop was much
larger than had been gathered for years
before. There is very little doubt that
the prices will keep up and the people
will realize a comfortable amount from
the produce Of their trees. On consid-
erable number of the trees in North
Kona the berry is ripe and the people
are busy engaged in picking it. A large
quantity will soon be ready for the
market.
The trees in both North and South
Kona seem very healthy, very little
blight being visible. From this healthy
appearance it may be argued that the
blight has run itself out, and that there
is bright future before the coffee owners
OF Kona.
Talking with an old resident of Kona
the other day, we gathered that he did
not believe in giving too much cultlva-
ton to the coffee in Kona district. 1t
does best when left to itself In this he
agrees with the views of the old coffee
planters who maintain that his expert
ence, stretching over period of nearly
forty years, goes to prove that coffee
plants when left to themselves were
healthy and bore splendid crops, but
that when he tried cultivating them,
they invariably proved failure.
To our minds the proper method lies
between the two. We believe that the
ground around the trees should be un-
disturbed, the plants and weeds that
grow up around the roots serve as a pro-
lection from the burning sun, while they
allow very free circulation of air. On
the other hand the coffee trees should be
carefully pruned. The struggling way in
which trees are allowed to grow loses
somewhat of the crop, which is too far
out Of reach to be properly picked. A
crop that has to be picked should never
be more than five feet from the ground.
But it is very hard to have innovations
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

the head clerk. They are appointed by
the Judges as he is appointed, and have
the same duties except strangely. per-
haps) that he alone is required to give
bonds. 1t is also true that there is no
such statutory Office as " chief clerk y
bat there can be no doubt that the
clerk, meaning the principal clerk, was
intended to draw the jury if here. We
think there can also be no doubt that if
he is not here, the Act of 1884 properly
applies in favor of the second clerk act
ing in his place, although not as bis
deputy.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

carried out in such a conservative and
lotus-eating spot as Kona.
One OF the great expenses of coffee is
the gathering. When labor is hired a
dollar bag is charged for picking the
fruit. 1t takes six bags to make one bag
of cleaned coffee for the market. The
cleaning and drying are Of course extra
expenses. Owners of trees occasionally
get the crop gathered on shares, half to
the owner and half to the picker and
cleaner. That is so per cent. of the crop
is absorbed in preparing for market.
Then there is freight, insurance and
commission to be added on, which makes
a big hole in what is left.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

THE great majority OF voters believe
that the success OF their party is neces-
sary to the well-being OF the country.
The politicians believe in success for
"spoils," and try to catch votes in any
and every way. But where the great
body OF voters are intelligent and think
ing men they often fail to catch because
of the evident insincerity OF the means
used. In the United States, the parties
declare their principles in platforms. !"
Sometimes an overwhelming influence
existing outside of the convention will
dictate certain course, and in many in
stances such course is bitter pill 70
the politicians. For instance, it is pretty
well known that if the politicians could
have had their way Cleveland would
not have been nominated in st. Louis.
The Republicans met and formulated a
platform, and knowing the power and
Importance of the vote of both prohibi
tionists and the liquor interests tried 10
catch both, by two clauses, widely separ-
ated in the platform, but which read
curiously when brought together, as they
are by the thinking vote. They are as
follows:
The first concern of If there should still
good government is remain larger rev.
the virtue and sobri- enue than is requi-
ETY. of the people and site for the wants of
the purity of the the Government, we
home,~ The Republi- favor the entire re-
can party cordially peal OF internal taxes
sympathizes with all whiskey and tobac-
wise and well directed col rather than the
efforts for the promo. surrender of any part
ton of temperance of our protective sys-
and morality. TEN at the JOINT be-
hest of the whiskey
trusts and the agents
of foreign manufac-
r3t Iturers
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16
cardinal Manning on Intoxicating Drink.

UT ~ "a - =
For thirty-fve years l have been a
priest and bishop in London, and now 1
approach my eightieth year. l have
learned some lessons, and the first thing
is this: The chief bar to the working of
the Holy Spirit of God in the souls of
men and women is intoxicating drink. !
know no antagonist to that good Spirit
more direct, more subtle, more stealthy,
more ubiquitous than intoxicating drink.
Though l have known men and women
DESTROYED for all manner of reasons, yet
know of no cause that affects man,
woman, child, and home with such uni
versatility and steady power as intoxicat-
ing drink Henry Edward Manning.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-10-16

The words if1 brackets, "whiskey and to-
bacco, are interpolated, to explain the
effect of th clause. OF course the last
is supposed to be tariff plank and is in
tended to catch the protectionist voter,
but its full force and effect are known to
the liquor manufacturer, dealer and user.
Such politics are disgraceful.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-30
MIR. uARRrsoN,s LIBRARY.


AS a lawyer he is extremely methodical-
not at all eloquent. One never reads any
quotations from his speeches in the popular
collections of oratory, nor do the people refer
to any Of his brilliant efforts" as they do to
those of voorhees,, Cumback, Morton, Lamb,
Beveridge, Nelson, ''Dick" Thompson Or
other Indiana politicians young and old. 1t
is believed that all his speeches are written
out in advance.
Personally he is as little like his illustrious
grandfather as any other man might be. The
latter was tall and spare almost to painful
attenuation. The president elect is the short
est man ever chosen to that Office, rather
stout in build, with fat cheeks and a broad,
smooth forehead. His temperament seems
more lymphatic than nervous, and one would
say that his face is that of a man not much
disturbed by popular excitement or party
clamor.
His domestic life is model Of quiet duty
and enjoyment His wife was q noted beauty
in her day, and his married daughter, Mrs.
Mckee, is a lady of striking beauty. She
has made her home with her parents for
some time, and will go with them to Wash
ington. Her boy is the pride and delight of
the family, and will add new feature of
life to the White House, where the patter of
childish feet has not lately been known. 1t is
one of the odd facts of American history that
every third president elected was childless
from Washington to Buchanan inclusive,
and the record was only broken i'll 1876 by a
contest SO close that all patriots hope it may
never. he reneated
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-30

AUGUSTUS FEDERAL BUILDING.
building is a slender turret dormer whose
graceful proportions add greatly to the ef-
feet. There is an entrance from each street,
open to the lobby, each having four large
doors and approached by a broad flight of
stone steps. Tho first Hoor will be devoted
entirely to the requirements of the postal
service. including the general delivery,
working department., postmaster's office,
lobby vaults, etc. The floor will be tessel-
lated with handsome marble tiling, and tho
whole interior will be finished in hard woods
in the most artistic as we'll as substantial
manner.
The second floor will be supported by iron
columns carrying iron beams, and conse-
quently will be fire proof. Here will be
found tho United States district court room,
judges room, clerks room, witness room, file
rooms and offices of the commissioners and
internal revenue collector. It will be fur
nished in the same manner as the first floor,
and will be provided with all necessary ap-
purtenances and conveniences. The specifi-
cation makes no provision for the completion
of the third floor, which will probably re-
main unfinished until the necessity may arise
for its use The fifth floor and deck of tho
tower will he used by the United States signal
service, and will prove a very conveniently
arranged and well located station. In the
basement of the building will be located tho
vaults and steam heating apparatus. A CEN
tral shaft will furnish adequate ventilation
for the entire building. Altogether the Au-
gusta public building will be a very hand
some and well appointed structure and in all
respects creditable to tho beautiful city it
will adorn. 1t will be completed in eighteen
months from the inception of the work.
M L. p
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-30
A MASSIVE MONUMENT.
1t Will Be Erected By the ". C.. T. U. in
the City of Chicago.

1t Will BE Erected By the ". C. T. U. in
the City of Chicago.
Especial CorrespondpSccl
CHICAGO, Nov. 2J-TAc National Wonen's
Christian Temperance Union has decided to
erect III this city massive building, which
Shall serve at clce as monument to the
cause for wLicl; they labor, and Il magnificent
meeting place for the organization. They
are now collecting the money to purchase the
materials for the building and they have the
plans completed The structure will be sit
uated Oh Dearborn street, Chicago, and will
front the postofi;cc and custom house. 1t will
be one of the most handsome buildings in
city remarkable for handsome structures
Matilda r. Carso, a tower OF strength in
the Illinois union, was tho originator of the
plan. For five long years she las been
thinking how to raise the money. Some
little timo ago the Chicago Central union
took hold of the plan; was Incorporated so
that it might hold property, and then pre-
sented it to the National union, which will be
the owner. 1t was found impossible, how
ever, to purchase the lot upon which tho
building will stand, so perpetual lease has
been taken at q rental OF Sjo, wv year. IL
will cost $4,000 to put the building up, and
the style of architecture will be the late
Gothic of France.
The building will be two stories Of dark
stone, surmounted by ten stories of dark
gray brick and terra Gotta. About the main
entrance there will bo q profusion of carv-
ings, which will include tho coats of arms of
all the state organizations belonging to the
National union and tho heraldic devices
relating thereto In the large tympana,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-30
PROPOSED W. c. r. U. BUILDING.

above the outer and inner entrance to the
main doorway, the general coats of arms OF
the National union, and the name OF tho
building will be wrought in glazed n1osaics,
which will be equally brilliant by night or
day. Beyond the general hallway there will
be large rotunda, which will open in the
memorial hall proper, to be known as Will
lard hall. large fountain will decorate
the center of the rotunda. In Willard
hall there will be many memorial
tablets, scriptural inscriptions, and stat
uary, and III time it is expected that the
hall will become in every sense significant OF
the purposes of tho union. Two large foun-
tains will adoc;l the courts of the main front.
The tower will dominate the entire building,
and will be ornamented with q final of tho
Madonna and Child. Across the front OF the
ton of the building there will! be eight inches
for eight colossal stone busts. These will NOS
be filled at present; tho women say they will
wait for a time to decide who are the eight
celebrities worthy to stand guard over the
building.
Tho structure will be quite fire proof. Tho
hall. staircase and wainscotiEg will be OF
white marble. Much of the building will be
rented. and it will contain room enough to
bring in an annual income Of S191 500 Ten
vears hence it is believed that the rental will
be $3.50, 900 at least.
There arc strong hopes that the corner
stono vii! be laid by May !. l.. z. t.
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vo 20 NO

WABASH. Sitting one day in an Office, dis
cussing the ''late war" with an excited vet
eran, ne heard commotion on the streets
which showed that the town of R was
tnrllled with unusual excitement, and out of
the uproar rose distinctly such words as
these:
seven thousand dollars!-Canada, reck.
on Yes, gone to jine our school trustee. !"
and then laugh which indicated that the
last speaker had struck the popular sense of
humor. About that time several school trus-
tees had transferred their allegiance to Can
ada. The new sensation soon reached thu
lawyer in these words:
BILL Mowry has skipped. Got two days
the start. Been stealin' for ye'rs, they say
Zone with the cussed trustees; blast the whole
lot of them"
1t was too true. The hereditary taint had
been developed by the sight of public money
and the power to take it. ''It was," said the
Old lawyer in giving these facts, ''like one of
our lost creeks in tho limestone region of
kentucky. that goes down in one county and
comes up III the next, perhaps That old
Blue Grass Granger was smarter than gave
him credit for. lie hadn't bred cattle thirty
years for nothing-he knew that the mean
streak would come out once more before it
died out Yes, sir, it was in Bill Mowry's
blood to steal and it had to come out. It
was all in the blood, SIR"
But, reader, do you really thin!; it was?
...~. "v@ j. Fl. BEADLE
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-11-30
FEDERAL BUILDING At AUGUSTA, GA.
1t VIII Be a Handsome Structure and
Will Cost $3.50, 900.

1t Will Do Handsome Structure and
Will Cost $4,000.
Especial Correspondence
AUGUSTA, Ca, Nov. 2O.-A bill passed the
Forty-ninth congress appropriating the sum
of $780, 600 for tho erection of a public build
ing at Augusta, to be used as u postodica
United States district court house and other
purposes Tho Platt lot, on the corner of
Greene and Campbell streets, was selected
for the site, for which the sum of $50, COO was
paid According to the terms of the pur-
chase the lot was to be delivered clear of
buildings, which necessitated the removal Of
the beautiful Platt mansion To accomplish
this it was necessary to cut the building in
two, rollers were placed under the parts,
which were removed to an adjoining lot,
where they were reunited, ,ssfe whole opera
tion causing but slight inconvenience to the
occupants.
Excavations for the foundations of the
building wero begun in July last The work
was temporarily delayed by the high water
in the Savannah river of Sept. 10, and after
the subsistence of the food the body of
drowned man was found in one of the
trenches.
The architectural design Of the building is
exceedingly ornate The structure is rectan-
gular in shape, fronting ITO feet ON Greene
street and 80 feet on Campbell. Red pressed
brick and granite are the materials to be
used. 1t will be built on a system of isolated
pillars and will be three stories in height,
exclusive of basement At the northeast
corner, springing from Il square base, an
octagonal tower rises live stories to the height
of l45 feet A handsome stone parapet, dec
grated with terra Gotta grotesqucs, orna-
ments its top. Over the Greene street en-
trance and surmounting the center of the