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The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
The Elele.

Mr.. EDITOR: Amidst the discordant
cries of the Opposition orchestra, one in
strument toots on a single note, with a
persistency that indeed saves it from
chaos, but adds little tothe beauty OF the
music 1t is needless to say that the
''Religio Missionary" yell CT the Elele is
referred to, reminding one of the tabled
bird of Paradise, that never alighting,
tapped eternally in mid air.
The editor Of the Elele is laboring
under a misrepresentation. AS Dick
Deadeye would remark: "He means
well, but he don't know"
Because man is honest enough to be
trusted alone with ships anchor or a
red hot stove, he is not of necessity a
missionary. He may be offensive, nay
even repulsive, bat he need not be really
and truly missionary.
On the other hand, may it not be said
in extenuation even of the despised mis-
sionary, that his faculty for seeing and
Directing to the thin pretences of bogus
reform, is something that he positively
: can't help. y.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21

sumes itself to guide the traveller on his
heavenward journey must not be put out
of sight under the political "barrel.' %
The editorial finger post, forsooth, is suf-
ficient to tell people the way in which
they should vote: but everybody is not
going to take that road.
Yet why should the supposed exlgen-
cies of political management exclude
from the councils of the Reform party
those who believe in its principles and
will support its candidates? What
necessity was there for that illiberal
requirement of those who would join the
Reform clubs that they shall subscribe
to that iniquitous political dogma, 81 go
for the party, right or wrong" 1t is
worse than any church creed OF arbitrary
election and REORGANIZATION. 1t does
not elevate the sentiment OF true and
honorable patriotism. 1t lowers the
moral tone of people who take up with
this cheap, croaking, windmill style OF
shifting policy. Give us modern steam
engine for our political machinery, with
its mighty lifting power of truth infused
with righteousness.
Some men, with wills of their own and
easy -SOluS COuoClcuCc5, nave uOCloi GU
they would not vote for the candidate
whom they had first pledged themselves
to support whoever he might be), be-
cause in his speech of acceptance he
would not pledge himself to vote for the
exclusion of the Chinese. AS to that
vexed question of our social and political
life, it is well to remember that the
kingdom of Heaven is likened to leaven.
But the good housewife put her cup Of
yeast into just flower enough to make up
the batch of bread her family needed.
She was not so liberal with it as to put il
into the barrel of -four.
We don't want statute laws or dema,
gogue politicians to tell US that this fam
lily cannot have rye bread or oat meal
cakes if We so prefer. But common
sense tells US we don't want too much
meal for our leaven.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
Mr.. Marques Not a Fool.

Mr.. EDITOR: Many thanks for the
compliments with which you kindly pre-
faced the thrust you have considered
good policy to publish against me in
your issue of yesterday. You want me
to be honest. l do not need your objur-
CATION in that respect, as my past record
in this country can show, but l do hope
you will yourself give me good exam
pie, by publishing this answer OF mine,
otherwise / might say about your own
honesty what the Bible says of people
who see straws in their neighbours eyes.
Your accusation OF "clap-trap and fool
ishness''-{rather big words for a start,
don't exhaust your ammunitions too
soon !)-is based on a decided misinter-
probation of my challenge TO Mr.. Con
salves. This misinterpretation is either
quite inadvertent or caused by blindness
through partizan passion; at any rate,
it necessitates a refutation, as you would
otherwise make your readers believe that
l mix up two very different elements,
viz. the present administration and the
group OF men who constitute the party
back OF them, the so-called mission
airy" Reform party, which you defend
with talent worthy of a better cause.
Now, carefully make difference be-
tween the two and, in my challenge,
allude exclusively to the political party,
not to the men of the Government who
do not make the electoral nominations.
You know as we'll as do, that the
present political fight is not against the
personality of the present Ministers,
but against the tenebrous, wire-pullers
whose tyranny the Minist themselves
nave often felt; for example, ask Mr..
Thurston or Mr.. Damon: they are both
personally liberal and impartial, but
have they not experienced bitterly
too-that the men behind the curtains
who want to rul> them and US, are quite
the reverse?
Now, the party who have nominated
Mr.. Gonsalves are the same men or
CLIQUE who have been trying to rule be-
hind and over the administration, and
who have constantly been hampering
the present Ministers in their most
liberal intentions. Thus, when forced
by the pressure Of public opinion tolpro-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
principles, Not Men,"

Mr.. EDITOR: VIII you kindly allow me
space for comment on your leader Of
January 9TH, headed principals, not
men,"
My contention is that the Hilo COM
mittee have shown just that personal
feeling which you deprecate, in dropping
their own platform and adopting the
Ministerial policy without any of the
comment that their local knowledge
might have suggested. 1t is a case Of
supporting men at the expense. not SO
much of principles, as of our material
wants. l do not think anyone would
quarrel with the principles of the Minis
terial declaration Of policy, and it goes as
fully into detail as such document need
GO; it cannot fairly be expected to deal
with every interest of every district and
island in the group. But it is precisely
from criticism of that policy that Minis
tiers can obtain information as to our
wants. And if personal or party feeling
prompts any political body or any candi-
date tc neglect such criticism, and the
Ministers fail to realize what our wants
are, we shall fail to obtain the practical
reforms we require. The Ministers say
they will spend money on roads, for in
stance, and it is quite right that they
should; but the last Legislature wasted
money on useless path in the Kohala
gulches, and we are still without a rea-
sonably safe bride path to Waimea and
Kona. We do not want the money spent
that way And then the cable: Let us
have that if We can afford it, but at least let
us have better inter-island and overland
mails. Are the Hilo committee really
satisfied with a ten-day mail? And if
not, why don't they say so? Then there
is the loan: which should be so issued
as to give small investors a chance of
subscribing; and in view Of the loan, l
think some statement of the proposed
taxation would be in order.
We have other wants, to. Police pro-
lection, whichis inefficient and always
will be, so long as constables are paid
less than ploughman's wages. And
there is the fishery question, and the
treatment of suspected lepers; the latter
NAV be all right, but from my own OBJ
servation, 1 doubt if it is.
l give the Ministers credit for a desire
to do their best for US, and | have moth
ing to say against their principles as set
forth in their declaration. But con-
tend that principles have not yet secured
us the practical reforms we want; and
that they never will, SO long as the sys-
tenn prevails of treating the statement of
our wants as mere frivolous detail, or
even as an attack upon the Ministers.
And it is against the attempt of the Hilo
committee to perpetuate that system that
l wish to protest.
ERNEST A. BURCHARDT.
Kohala, January IA, 1890.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21

claim an anti-Chinese policy, the Min
listers had to fight their own supporters,
and you cannot deny that the party at
their back still cling in their hearts to
their pro-Chinese tendencies as a proof
of this, please do not conveniently forget
how and by whom and through whose
influence it happened that the peoples
anti-Chinese bill was defeated in the last
Legislature, and also, how and by whom
was squelched the recent proposition OF
an extra session against Chinese en-
croachments. In this respect, l must be
allowed the claim of knowing something
about the sentiments of your party, as !
started the first Anti-Asiatic Union,
which was ostracized by the admins
tration, and on account of which l was
ridiculed, called crank and idiot by
those very same men who, to-day, CO.
cree my friend Mr.. Gonsalves into OPP
posing me, much against his wish, be-
cause they expect to find him more plia-
BILE than myself to their secret wishes.
AS to whether the party you defend
did govern the country "well' or not, l
might ask you if it is good government
to try to do away with the country's
independence but shall simply refer
you to what our austere and upright
Auditor General may think of the ma
ture of the reform administration.
All this, however, is already more
than enough to answer your call on my
honesty, as the other arguments you
adduce against me are not worth MOTTO
ing, and, for the future, 1 do cordially
advise you to be more cautious as to the
basis and foundation of the attacks you
may choose to direct against my humble
personality. A. MARQUES.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
Multi Rifle Club.

Mr.. EDITOR: In your issue of the
9TH inst. there appears an article headed
"Kobala Items" cannot allow the
remarks regarding the Multi Rife Club
to pass unchallenged they are incorrect
and misleading, as well as slur on the
Multi section of said club.
The n. R. G. consists OF ten 40 mem
bers including the Kohala plantation
men, whom your correspondent says we
invited over.
1t is well-known that one OF said men
Mr.. Lucas, carried the medal won at the
Multi range on July 4th until November
10Th.
The Puehuehu Rife Club consists OF
about fifteen (15) members, and fail to
see where any ''unfairness on the face of
it, comes in. Some one has evidently
thrown dust into your correspondents
eyes; We do not think his error was
malicious or intentional, but we want
facts. Yours truly RoBT. HALL.
January 13, 1890.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
Politics and Religion.

MR. EDITOR: That is very nebulous
kind of religion which Calico Toowise
shows up in his recent Bulletin OF astro..
nomical discoveries for the admiration OF
this benighted people. 1t is of such
heavenly sublimity as to have nothing
to do with earthly politics. The religion
OF the Sermon on the Mount is good
enough for me. Christian people are
/ told it is their duty to exercise a res
straining and purifying influence in their
various social relations. Is there any
sphere of human activity from which
Christ rules out his disciples? lie are
the salt of the earth, lights in the world. p"
But ton of salt in the garrett will not
preserve from corruption. the H0Arrel OF
pork in the cellar. The torchEaO1at con-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
Is Hon. h. A. widemann squeamishe


Mr.. EDITOR: Are you not assuming
too much in supposing Mr.. Widemann
sensitive about his political bedfellows?
On reference to the Report of the Session
OF 1886, in which the Gibson majority
steadily refused to unseat the infamous
Kekoa, convicted and punished as he
had been for the crime of falsifying the
register of voters, in order to secure his
own election, l fail to find that Mr..
Widemann ever manifested any aversion
to associating. with Kekoa, as fellow
legislator, even on the same committee
with him. Mr.. Widemann's heroic
attitudes of disguised virtue are mani
testify assumed for the reproach of his
opponents, and are not to be taken as
opponents of his actual state of mind,
which is very kindly tolerant of the fail
ings of his friends. l think the honor
able gentleman will find no difficulty in
cumming in with such gentry as Bush,
Walker, Wilcox & Co. What fragrant
set this Wilcox party are, to be sure!
TRAGIC COMEDY.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
Rice Markell.

The circular of Williams, Dimond &
Co. dated San francisco, January I'd,
contains the following: Owing to con-
tinued and heavy rains during the
month, blocking communication with
the country to great extent, the market
has ruled dull and weak. We quote for
small lots choice Hawaiian AZ cents
with liberal discount for cash. The inn
ports of Hawaiian rice at this port for
1889 were 9,977, 700 pounds. Total i'm
ports foreign rice at this port from all
sources, 1889, were As, 221 $3.50 pounds.
A large number of Japanese have gone
to Mackay, Queensland, to work on the
sugar plantations there.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-01-21
CORRESPONDENTS.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the
statements made, or lopinions expressed by our
correspondents
, 1890-05-31
A Cheap Letter File.

A friend keeps many hundreds OF
letters on file in a novel way. A
memorandum is kept, in which is re
corded the date and addresses of each
piece mailed, also whether it be a letter
or postal card, together with remarks,
On the opposite page is a similar rec
ord Of whatever is received by mail.
This gives the date, tells from whom
it was received, whether a letter, card
or otherwise, and remarks sufficient to
identify the letters afterward. Each
letter is numbered as received and in
an additional column the number Of
the letter is given. The letters are
filed away consecutively as numbered,
and, by referring to the memoranda,
the number OF any letter is readily as,
e~ertained and by looking in the pack.
age containing that number the letter
is found.-Cor. Springfield Home,
stead.
, 1890-05-31

In connection with he'conch shell
buttons, the story is told Of Gen.
Washington that one day, while walk
ing alone in the streets OF Philadel-
phia, he was accosted by a poor Ital.
ian, who, ignorant OF the personality
addressed, continued to follow and i'm.
perfume him to buy some of the conch
shells which he carried in n basket on
his arm, and which he persisted were
the only things that he had in the
world to dispose of. But, my good
man." demonstrated Gen. Washing
ton, what would l do with your
conch shellsi l have no use for them"
oh, yes You have" came the ready
rejoinder. You might haze them
made into buttons for your coat"
Smiling at his prompt reply, Wash,
ington not only purchased the shells,
but, the better to further the advice,
took them at once to his tailor, and,
directing them to be riveted, ordered
4 brown velvet coat, that their cspe,
eial usefulness might be ~straightway
demonstrated. -Ccniurv.
, 1890-05-31

Attention has been called to one of the
greatest novelties in the construction Of
street railroads. Glass sleepers, intro
duced by Mr.. Lindsay Buchll and Mr.. w.
Siemen, of Dresden, have been tried with
such satisfaction that ii is now proposed
to make broad, longitudinal sleepers
OF glass, having a groove in the upper sur
face, and so combining in themselves the
functions Of both sleepers and rails. This
would do away with the necessity for
separate iron rails, with their ~fsstenings
and other complications. In u paper by
DR.. Schott it is shown that by properly
tempering glass with oil this very brittle
substance can be made, mass for mass,
stronger than steel, and practically un-
breakable." This being the fact, may we
not soon expect to see railroads using
large quantities Of this plentiful sub
stance for rails and for other purposes for
which iron Is now used?-St. Louis Re
public.
, 1890-05-31

An Intelligent dog in West Chester
plays hide and seek with its owner, a
little girl named Amy. She taught it
the game, and they both, it is said,
find much fun in playing it. Amy
will tell the dog to remain in a certain
place until she hides. She then calls
and the dog starts on the search, find.
ing Amy every time no matter where
she hides Then the dog will wag his
tail, show his teeth as though. laugh
Ing, and HE away l. the point origi.
nally designed for him by Amy, while
Amy hides again, y to be found an
Instant afterward by the dog-Ex.
change.
, 1890-05-31

At an officers mess in the East In
dies the cakes handed round for dessert
were greatly relished for their choice
favor and rich saffron color, which
excellent properties were attributed to
the baking powder used in their prepa-
ration. One day the native cook
brought the announcement that his
stock was exhausted. and he was told
to fetch the empty canister in order
that a fresh supply might be ordered
from the same firm. With the know
ing air Of one who has made a grand
discovery the cook exhibited the empty
canister, which was found to have
contained Persian insect powder
Phare du Bosphore.
, 1890-05-31

A very curious cass has been eKercis-
ing the authorities at the Cape. In &C
cordance with tina law which regards as
stolen every diamond which a man sells
or has in his possession, unless its origin
and pedigree are registered at the detec-
tive department, q man brought up for
registration the other day a large dia-
mond, worth some thousands Of pounds,
which had, he alleged, been given to
him long ago by his sweetheart His
story was that a certain lady, still
living, and now the wife OF another
man, had found the stone and sent it to
him some fifteen or twenty years ago,
inclosed along with a feather in a letter,
begging him to accept it as a keepsake.
The faithful lover had kept it all this
time, he said, but now, being hard up,
wished to sell it. He demanded, accord
ingly, that the detective department
should supply him with n permit. The
detective communicated with the lady.
She, however. being a married woman,
seemed in no way anxious to have a fool
ish romance Of her callow youth revived,
md professed to have no memory of any
such transaction. Thereupon the mother
OF the claimant rummaged about and dis
covered the original autograph letter,
feather and all.
There it lies at the detective ofhce-a
faded relic Of a sentiment Of long ago.
1t is a composition poryaded by as little
wisdom as is usual in such things; but
accident has attached TO it a value more
substantial than any, perhaps, which the
recipient put uponit when we twoparted
in silence and tears" The latest news is
that the authorities believe the story, that
the genuineness of the whole affair is in
fair way to be established, and that the
happy owner will soon be enriched by the
proceeds Of the diamond which has had
30 strange a history.-Cape Colony Letter.
, 1890-05-31
THE WYOMING PACIFIC I'M
PROyEMENT COMPANY.
Notice of Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
Of the Wyoming Pacific Improvement
company will be held in pursuance of the
requirements of the by laws of said com
pauy at the Inter Ocean hotel, Cheyenne,
Wyoming territory, on the second We'd
nesday Of June, 18th proximo, 1t 10
O'Clock 10 the forenoon of said day, for
the election Of officers of said company
for the ensuing year, and for the transac
ton Of such other business as may prop
erly come before the meeting.
AMOS T. FRENCH,
Secretary Of the Wyoring Pacific I'm
provement company.
Dated Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory,
May %, 1890.
, 1890-05-31

The Grcel boatmIn, Chazes by name,
who used to serve Lord Byron has Just
died ut Missolonghi, and peer honored
with II state funeral by command of the
king. the public buildings at Athens be-
ing draped in mourning for this brave
survivor of the Greek war Of independ-
nee. 1t is sixty-six years. since Chazes
rowed the poet through the storm that
caused his fatal illness, but b him Byron
remained forever young and forever glo-
rious, as man, us poet and as the would
be deliyerer of Greece from the yoke of
tho Turks. -Harper's Bazaar.
, 1890-05-31

In the new hotel ut Tampa, Fla, the
electric lights in the sleeping apartments
will be 80 arranged that they may be
made to burn with any degree Of brill
fancy by turning on or off in the same
way as a gas jet or kerosene lamp is regu-
lated to give more or less light. This is
the very last invention in electric light
ing and will overcome the greatest OBJ
lection to electric lights in bedrooms,
which by all former appliances give their
full capacity when used-Tnmpa Journal.
, 1890-05-31
MONKEY Ahn GUINEA PIG.


AMI ODINEA PIG.
o. Funny Sight to H. Srcn In "a Wash
inEton FAncIer's shop.
The little monkey sat on its perch in
a cage at the fancier's shop, looking
placid enough until the proprietor ap-
preached with a small guinea pig in
his hand. Then she suddenly became
much agitated, chattering nervously,
while the little pink eyed animal was
put in through the wire door and
dropped, the entrance being thereupon
closed again.
No o was this done than Mis-
tress Monkey-for such was her sex
reached down one abnormaiiy long
arm TO the floor OF the cage, and, grip
ping the guinea pig by the skin OF his
back, lifted it with one quick motion
to the perch. The visitor thus sum-
marily treated did not squeal nor ap-
pear in the least discomposed, so gent
ly was the operation performed. 1t
even seemed entirely content when its
hostess proceeded to hold it in her
arms as a mother would her baby,
tightly clasped, and TO bestow upon it
the nos maternal caresses, ludicrous-
ly Stimulating human WAYS.
II was as if the monkey regarded
the guinea pig as a very delightful
live doll baby. Holding it i her arms,
she would nestle it up under her chin,
inclining her head to one side in the
attitude most expressive OF motherly
affection. Meanwhile the guinea pig
evinced not the slightest annoyance,
submitting to the embrace without a
struggle, and blinking placidly with
its pink eyes.
Probably the guinea pig is the most
philosophic of animals because it
thinks the least; at all events, in the
class mammalia that pretends to so
small a portion Of intellect.
The fancier, who keeps a little shop
on Twelfth street, said hat the mon
key often played doll baby in this way
with a guinea pig for hours at a time,
and would do it for days if permitted;
but it vas rather too hard on the
guinea pig. he averred that he had
never taught the monkey to do any.
thing of the sort, nor the guinea pig
either. Not merely this particular
guinea pig would serve for the pur-
pose, but any other; in fact, half a
dozen that were just then in stock,
were made to take their turns as doll
babies for Mistress Monkey.
put a second guinea pig into the
cage and see what will happen" sug-
gested the reporter.
The fancier said he had never tried
that, and quickly fetched another.
Whn it was put inside, the monkey
became very much excited-so much
SO, indeed, that she held the first
guirea pig upside down in her arms
for some minutes, with its hind legs in
the air, while she watched the second
guinea pig nose around the floor of the
cage. She looked wistful, but made
no attempt to seize the second guinea
pig, evidently considering that she
could not we'll hold more than one at
a time. The first guinea pig, that was
held upside down, did not seem to
mind it a particle; but presently the
monkey discovered her doll baby's
predicament and hastily reversed its
position, bringing it right side up
again. The fancier made her drop the
first guinea pig, whereupon she picked
up the second guinea pig, that being
near at hand, and proceeded to do the
maternal act with it as with the other.
Guinea pig No 2 did not seem to mind.
Washington Post.
, 1890-05-31

We desire to say to our citizens that for
years We have been selling DR.. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption. DR..
Kings New Lie Pills, Bucklan's Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters. and have
never handled remedies that sell as well,
or that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guaran
tee them every time. and we stand ready
to refund the purchase price, if satisfac-
tory results do not follow their use. These
remedies have won their great popularity
purely 90 their merits. Sold by b. B.
David, druggist.
, 1890-05-31
IT, uonnEnrhinal aiAn.Ainn nf Aha

whers New York CHURCHES Are Building.
The geographical situation Of the
churches on which these sums were ex-
pended is worth noting. OF the 81, 124.-
900 credited to the Roman Catholic
church all but $3.50, 900 was expended
above Eighty-ninth street. OF the 81
49,, 900 spent by the Protestant Episco-
pal church all but $50, 900 was spent oris
to be spent above Seventieth street.
Three hundred and seventy thousand
dollars of the Presbyterian 1880, 900 has
been spent north Of Seventy-second
street. All but $4,000 of the s275, 900
of the Methodists' money north of Sew
enty-ffth street, and n similar trend and
proportion with all the denominations.
ew York Press.