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Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1890-05-09
The Bible in Public Schools:

Norwich, April 24.-The Rev:
+. W. jenkins, Of this city, pastor
of the Universalists church, has
caused breeze in town by pub:
fishing an open letter to the Nor
wich Board of Education demand
Ing that the teachers in the pub:
lie schools refrain from reading
aloud any passages from
the Old Testament at the opehi.a
exercises in the schools.
"For some months" says the
clergyman, 80 certain teacher IN
one OF our city schools has been
reading repeatedly from the Old
Testament accounts of murders
II Samucl), human sacrifices
(Leviticus x), torturings Judges
iv), fire falling from heaven
Il Kings xyiii), human beings
stoned and tortured TO death
Il Kings xxi); threatening to cut
the Chaldeans to pieces (Daniel
III, TO her scholars as an opening
exercise.
by repeated communications (
have appealed to the supe,intend-
cnt and to the board to limit the
scriptual reading to the New Tes.
lament, or to introduce a manual
of scrlptual selections suitable to
be read to children. | can get no
reply OF Satisfaction, having done
my best since Nbv. IS, 1885,"
In conclusion, Mr. Jenkins
says: 'Now, / claim that there il
enough that IS beautiful, helpful;
and comforting In the Bible with.
out reading such selections AZ
have been read by This teacher III
the last six months to her echol1
ars; and claim, moreover, that
your honorable body ought to
honestly face this matter apd set.
tleit and settle it right"
One local paper champions Mr..
Jenkins cause, and insists that
the custom Of reading the Old
and New Testament in tho pub.
lie schools ought to be abolished
altogether. AS u rule local Pro.
testant clergymen and their focks
are opposed to Mr.. Jenkins pro-
ject, about which there is q great
deal Of heated discussion in all
parts ofthe state. Not a few en-.
inent men in tie state have written
the clergymen approving his stand
but they are dreadfully cautious
Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1890-05-09
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MONROE, La, Feb. LIST, 1880.
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Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1890-05-09
Are Women Reading Our
Trashy Novels.

1ue SlWple laCJ Is LnaL tDCre
are scores Of authors and publish
ers, just as there are playrishts,
artists and theatrical managers,
who stand ready and willing to
furnish precisely that class Of
noyels which sells best, no matter
to what depravity it be necessary
they shall stoop. These men,
and, also! women also-have no
regard for literature beyond what
1t means for them IN dollars and
cents. The sacred art Of writing
and publishing to them Is a trade
pure aad simple, and just in pro-
portion to the public demand will
be their supply. If their nasty
books didn't sell, they wouldn't
publish them. These writer's and
publishcrs-it seems almost sac
religious to cal them such-haye
no regard for the public morals,
except to lower them so as to
make their business still more
profitable for themselves. You
say l am severe? Ask in New
York AS TO the character of the
men who deal in this unclean lit
eratilrc Of the day, and you will
see that my picture is not over
drawn. But, some one will say,
surely you do not mean to infer
that women read these books? |
do, and | will prove it to you by
the state of one Of these publish
ers Of trashy fiction with whom l
was talking only few days ago
for the purpose Of obtaining facts
for this article.
This man is perhaps response
bic for the circulation of more
hurtful fiction thaa any single
individual in his business. He
is, therefore, an authority in lis
line. I SAID to this man: "Do
you mean to tell me women
such books as thesey' taking up
two books filled with chapters OF
the most hermfGl character in
their suggestion of depravity.
''Mast certainly" he replied, and
then Continued; "Why, my dear
sir, If we had to depend upon the
number ,of books Of that sort sold
to men, we could close out oar
business to morrow. OF those two
books in your hand, we have sold
100000 copies of one, and a little
more than 10000 Of tire other.
Nearly 100000 when taken to.
gether, you see, and I'll wager that
175,0O0 Of them were bought By
girls and women. In fact, know
it to be so, for my travellers and
customers have told me. Funny,
too, isn't III" he added, With a
malicious grin, "that women would
want TO STE their own sex depraya
ed in the eyes Of the world, and
not only see 1t. but read about it
with interest" / have repeated
his words here almost exactly as
he uttered them, as l jot.ed them
down shortly after leaving his
office. called on another Of this
same class OF publishers directly
afterwards, and there was told
practically tile same thing. l do
not, therefore, rely upon the state
ment Of one man upon which to
base the only possible conclusion.
Review.
Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1890-05-09

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children nothing
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as this medicine,
while its agreaa-
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it easy to admin,
ister..
l." My little boy
had large scrofu-
Ions ulcers on lis
neck and throat
from which lie
suffered terribly.
UNe.o r1,y,a;niop,
Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1890-05-09

attended him, but lie grew continually
worse under, their care, and every body
expected he would die. l had heard Of
the remarkable cures effected by Ayers
Sarsaparilla, and decided to have my
boy try it. Shortly after lie began to
take this medicine, the ulcers conf
fnenced healing, and, after using several
bottles, he was entirely cured. He is
now as healthy and strong as any boy
of his age William F. Dougherty,
Hampton, Va.
ain May last, my youngest child,
fourteen months old, began to have sores
gather on it's head and body. We ap
piled various simple remedies without
avail. The sores Increased in humble.
and discharged copiously. A physician
was called, but the sores continued to
multiply until in a few months they
nearly covered the child's head and body.
At last we began the use Of Aysr's Sar.
saparilla. In a few days q marked
change for the better was manifest. The
sores assumed more healthy condition,
the discharges were gradually dimin-
ished, and finally ceased altogether.
The child is livelier, its skin is fresher,
and Its appetite better than we have OBJ
served for months. frank II. Griffin,
Long Point, Texas.
"The formula of Ayers Sarsaparil!a
presents, for chronic diseases of almost
every kind, the best remedy known to
the medical world."-D. n. Wilson,
NJ. D., Wigs, Arkansas.
Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1890-05-09
HOMER, La, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1890.
The Safest

A ND most powerful Alternative is
n Ayers Sarsaparilla. Young and
old are alike benefited by its use. For
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

reached the South Pacific of the
electoral confusion in our little
Isle" and Malietoa, King of Samoa,
could not sleep nights for fear of
possible renewal of a Samoan en-
bassy worse if possible than the first.
These fears on the part of King
Malietoa are perhaps not well ground
ed, but they are natural and excus-
able. In the meanwhile, the hard
ship of Hawaiian exclusion is there.
Some remedy ought to be devised.
Let Mr.. John E. Bush, ex-Minister
Plenipotentiary to Samoa, put him
self under heavy bonds never to go
back there, no matter how much he
may long for another good spree.
This will soften Malietoa's obdurate
heart, if anything can.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

peculiar views. The French revolu-
ton in particular, in spite of all its
horrors and excesses has been an
unspeakable blessing to mankind
and one of the most important epi-
sodes in the progress of human soci-
ETY.. England, the home of tenn
perate and conservative measures,
and peaceful and constitutional re-
forms, has blocked the path of royal
aggression and preserved its hber-
ties by two revolutions.
Whether the late revolution in
this kingdom was necessary is a
question on which there can be no
absolute unanimity of opinion. But
there can be no doubt that it was a
benefit and a great one. We believe
as thoroughly as anyone in the pre-
ferability of peaceful means when
ever such means are efficacious. But
what has been won by force of arms
we must be ready to maintain if
necessary by the same instruments
or there can be no public security.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
OUR STREETS.

The rain guages register total of
nearly ten inches since the 1st of
March. With such a steady down
pour, it is no miracle if the condition
of some of the streets should be any
thing but satisfactory. Beretania
street is a succession of impossible
sloughs and standing pools. The
growth of the city has run far ahead
of the resources of the public purse,
and has made demands on the funds
which the appropriations could not
possibly meet. Neither have the
funds actually available always been
wisely expended. Undoubtedly some
serious blunders have been made.
Road making is an art, demanding
special technical instruction and
training 1t is not something for
amateurs to play at, and as long as
a country is compelled to put its
work of this kind into amateur hands,
just so long will its public thorough
fares fail to give complete satisfac-
ton.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
TREATY MATTERS.

Private advices from Washington
indicate that the efforts of the Ma
tional Reform party to break up any
possibility of new treaty with the
United States Government have been
completely successful.
This result doubtless gratifes and
warns the National Reform heart.
1t is now in order for the party to go
in and carry out the rest of its pro-
misses by securing from Germany,
England, Italy, etc. mot forgetting
Portugal, of course), the joint guar
antee of our independence. 1t
might not be amiss to include
Greenland and Patagonia, to make
our liberties finally safe.
There is saying that fine words
butter no parsnips, but we earnestly
hope it may prove otherwise here, so
that when the United States abrogate
the treaty in 1894, workingmen and
others may be able to derive a little
nourishment from the bland assur-
ances of the joint guarantee.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
TIE TWO CANALS.

The Board of French Engineers
which was sent to Panama to inves-
tigate the Panama Canal has by the
latest advices returned to New York.
Nothing of precise nature can be
known of their report until after
they reach Paris, but the reports
which reach us last mail seem to be
confirmed, as it is we'll understood
that they will advise against any at
tempt to reopen the work.
This means that the seven hun
dred million francs which the
French people have been induced
to invest in the enterprise by their
faith in De Lesseps, are gone for
ever, and not a centime of it will
ever be tished up again.
Work on the Nicaragua Canal it
is said is progressing steadily. 1t is
safe to assume that ships will soon be
sailing through the American conti-
nent, and we here at these Islands
will have cable news of it. The busi-
ness of our government and legisla-
ture Is to make such preparations as
will enable us to take advantage of
both great events.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
Picked Up at Sea.

Advices say that the American
ship Joseph S. Spinney arrived at
Hiogo, Japan, January Sd, with six
Peiew islanders, whom she had
picked up in an open canoe over two
hundred miles from land. Nov
ember 23d, seven men and their old
king set out to pay a visit to chief
on another island of the Pelew
group. Their craft was a dugout,
thirty feet long, with only fifteen
inches beam. Before they could
make their port OF destination a
gale sprang up and they were
blown out to sea. They were
without food or water for eigh-
teen days. Before reaching Hiogo,
the king and one other man died.
The six survivors are somewhat
larger than the japanese, have cop
perry skins and long, flowing hair.
They are tattooed from head to foot
IL, gay colors. Their chief consola
tioa is smoking. Each has hole
pierced in his ears in which he sticks
his pipe when not in use. Captain
Curling of the Spinney says the king
each morning saluted him by rub
bing his nose on the back of his
hand. The problem is how to re-
turn them to their own country,
where vessels rarely touch. Besides,
they cannot tell the name of the
island on which they lived.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
ABOUT REVOLUTIONS.

The Bulletin, in a late article,
grants the ADVERTISER its scant
need of praise for advocating in
rare fit of candor political honesty.
We are obliged to our contemporary
for the character it gives US. but
must take exception to the strange
application which is made of our
article. The Bulletin applies it to
the late revolution which it seems to
deplore as, to put it mildly, a case of
doing evil that good may come To
this unexpected application, the
ADVERTISER most earnestly demurs.
The right of revolution stands by
itself-as something extreme, but
morally justifable and needing no
palliation or excuse. A revolution
is simply re-appropriation OF the
sovereign rights which it delegates
to governments indeed, but OF which
it never absolutely divests itself
Revolutions are never legal, of
course, but when governments abuse
their powers, and peaceful measures
have failed, they are moral and
right. There is no propriety what
ever in classifying such assertions of
popular sovereignty with the abuse
of the ballot and other political cor
ruption.
Neither are the parallels which
the Bulletin draws from history
valuable or confrmatory of its
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
THE SUGAR TARIFF.

The ADVERTISER editorial on the
sugar tariff, elsewhere, has perhaps
occasioned some misapprehension.
We did not intend to imply that the
prospects of the industry on these
islands are on the whole unfavor-
able, but merely that they are not
unclouded, and that the element of
uncertainty whicn frlghlens in
vestors away from new enterprises
is present in the sugar business as
well.
We believe firmly that the superb
GRITTY of our climate and soil
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
KING MALIET0A.

There is excitement in Samoa, and
a little of it has reached US. 1t APP
pears that His Majesty the KING of
Samoa, regards Hawaiians as hardly
less noxious and mischievous than
John Chinaman himself The ex-
clusion Act is extended to cover the
former as we'll as the latter.
What the motive of this most un-
kindest cut may be, we are left to
snrmise. We suspect it is partly due
to nightmare reminiscence of the
former visit of our beloved brother,
Elder Scrub. News has perhaps
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

The chronic growlers at the Homo
lulu police would be silenced forever
if they could have seen the zeal and
skill with which large detachment
of the force, assisted by volunteer
body of good citizens, captured and
arrested two stray pigs on Friday in
front of the Police Station.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

sugar can cOubluu0 W DC IdlSou III
these islands at profit, even if the
United States do abolish the tariff
altogether At the same time it
could not be cultivated on all the
lands now devoted to that purpose.
Some plantations would have to be
abandoned, and the entire industry
throughout the group would receive
a severe blow.
The object of our article was not
to depreciate the wisdom of invest
ment IN sugar, but to urge the press
ing necessity of finding some other
productive employment for capital.
This is subject so important that it
cannot be pressed upon the public
attention too often, no matter how
tired of 1T some may be. The unjust
judge yielded to continuous i'm
portunity, although he turned deaf
ear to the claims of reason and
justice. On the same basis perhaps
Hawaiian capitalists may be nsgged
into some agricultural experiments
which may prove of value to the
country at large and profitable to
themselves.
The worst thing about a pos
sible reduction of the tariff
is that it threatens to entangle
the country still more mex
tricably in the net of cheap labor in
which it at present lies helpless.
Sugar permanently at seventy or
eighty dollars ton may mean cheap
labor-cheaper labor than ever, or
starvation. If it does we may as
we'll bid farewell to all prospect of
civilization in this country. If the
plantations go down in lump there
will be levelling process which will
effectually dispose of all our Unequal
ity. Those who have stock and
those who have none will start to-
gether or both work their passages
to the Coast. When the cry for cheap
labor comes then, we shall have to
opeL our doors, throw wide tn
flood gates to let in the Asiatic tide,
whether we like it or not. With
sugar at permanently low prices,
and the capital of the country all
locked up in plantations, the solu
ton of the labor problem will come
in short order. Unfortunately the
solution will be the one we do not
want. We want settlement of the
labor question which will make for
civilization, for human progress, for
the diffusion of Western ideas,
ideals, and life. There was little
use in bringing Christianity here, if
permanent civilization was not to
follow it.
Whether the sea of barbarism
which has so lately receded from
these fair Islands is to invade and
submerge them again or not, de-
pends, more than anyone else, upon
the PLANTERS A few years ago,
they were swimming desperately in
deep water, grasping at every straw,
in the effort to keep their heads
above the waves. All that is changed
now. One turn of Fortunes wheel
has made their debts into dividends.
Riches bring tremendous power, and
power brings with it serious duties
and great obligations. The pros
perity of the plantations has brought
with it the power to solve the labor
question, if any solution is possible
at all. The Government is poor and
has already more pressing claims
upon its resources than it can posi-
bly, meet. There is little that the
legislature can do Enthusiastically.
The power and the duty (they imply
each other) to make at least an earn
est effort to solve the labor problem,
lies with the planters.
L
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

The clergy of Derby, England,
have decided not to accept any mar
riage fee, in the hope of checking
the practice of civil marriages.
They expect that their example will
be followed by their brethren
throughout England
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

The Bulletins correspondents
never seem to have any point to
their communications. Slang and
cuss words are all they generally
contain
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

LETTER in the Bulletin of March
18th, shows how sore subject the
Samoan embassy is to the principal
actor in it. This is gratifying. A
little anguish of mind on the subject
may even lead to repentance.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
ON MONDAY, MAR. "a

The Fishpond known as Pouhala, situate
At Waikee. District of Eva, Oahu. together
with a strip OF land $50 feet wide bordering
along said Fishpond. Area 29 Acres. subject
to right of way granted TO Oahu r. i L. Co.
Upset Price $3.50 per annnm.
2-All of the Kula Land adjoining the above
FishpOnd and running up to the Government
Road to Waianae, containing 50 Acres. Upset
500 per annnm.
3-The Land known as Makawai, and situ-
ate st KOolaupoko, Oahu, excepting the
rice lands and small portion of the kula.
Good grazing land and well watered Area 1922
Acres more or less. Upset $3.50 per annum-
4-The Ahupuaa of Honokawai. in Kaanapali,
Maui, except the taro lands and lots OF kula
land by survey 20 42-t00. Principally grazing
land. and comprises an area OF $500 Acres more
or less. Upset S2OC per annum.
5-The Ahupuaa of wahikuli or Mala. situate
in Lahaina, Maui. Grazing Land. Area 2SO7
Acres. Upset $500 per annum.
6-The upper portion Of the Ahupuaa OF
Kalopa, situate at Hamakua, Hawaii. aud gene
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annum.
The Lease of the Lands Honokawai and wahi-
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which expire January 1. 1892, and February |,
1898. respectively. 1t is required that parties
purchasing the Lease of ,he said Lands. will
not later than IL months after the expiration Of
the present leases, remove all Cattle, Goats and
Animals from the woods, and during the re-
maiGder of the new Lease keep the forest free
Of all Cattle and Animals of all kinds
S~ Maps of all the above Lands may be
seen and particulars obtained upon application
10 the Agent of Crown Lands, Aliiolani Hale.
CURTIS P. IAUKEA,
13l2-td agent of Crown Lands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18
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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-03-18

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