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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
WE NOW KNOW THE WORST

The news promised us about a
dreadful Samoan ENHANCEMENT in
which the United States, Russia, Eng.
and, Germany, France ard Hawaii
we're to be involved has reached us as
promised IN a Honolulu dispatch to the
American press. We breathlessly
quote;
although Robert Louis Stevenson
rad positively denied that he was here
otherwise than for his health, it is now
positively known that his visit to Homo
ulu has deep political significance.
The Germans have promised to
bundle Mr.. Stevenson, "bag and bag
age" out of Samoa in case Germany
Iets pretext to annex those islands.
1t has been learned that his mission
here is to study out some plan to pre-.
vent Germany from annexing these
Islands, SO as to save his Samoan
estates"
The imperial prologue to this swell
ling theme appeared in our morning
contemporary some two weeks ago !;
and the sweet reasonabeness Of the
tale appealed then as now to every
healthful mind. tHst consider it, Mr..
Stevenson, private English gentleman
who writes, owns a home in Samoa
which the Germans might not like to
have him occupy if they were to annex
the group. Therefore the colonial
policy Of His Majesty William III. is to
be headed off and suppressed in the
interest of Mr. Stevenson's homestead
rights and to see that this is done the
invalid novelist HES himself to the
capital of this great power and studies
out plan of action amid the sacred
and sequestered shades of Sans Souc.
When the plan is formed we may fairly
presume, as Mr.. Stevenson is not going
lultuSi vi hlS idfS'o, lhdt dll Sdll) Ndli
will be made at the Hawaiian Foreign
office with view to having our fleets
+ and armies stand Germany off us'
where England, as per advertise,
data, comes in we do not know, unles:
it be as an ally of Mr.. Stevenson anc
Hawaii and as for Russia and the
United States which were 'to stanc
and fall in the Pacific" as sequence
of the worldwide imbroglio ever Mr.
Stevenson's cottage and hen yard, the
, manner in which they are going to con
8 meet themselves with the depressing
situation may only be surmised. Tit
same is true of France, whose silen
sympathy was promised for the sub
y merged bear and the drowning eagle
Small pretexts have sometimes made
great wars, and the thought Of two
hemispheres going into battle to pre-
serve for Mr.. Stevenson the felicity o
- living in Samoa is one that fills US will
forebodings Can it not be that Mr.
Stevenson, or his able colleague in tn
> field of fiction who sent the stor
= abroad, may be restrained before the
unleash Hawaii's poidog Of war and Sc
the world by the ears' Let US indee'
y hope so for the credit of poor human
nature, now burdened with all to-
many sins
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30

THE rural simplicity of political old
msidenhood seems to have sufused
Mr.. Davies when he reached the coast
and began to talk of the probable trend
of events in Hawaii and Washington.
He mentioned that American public
men had opened their hearts to him
as such people are so apt to do-and
had promised to secure these Islands
'justce. This was at once inter-
preted to mean that the Queen"
would be restored, and Mr.. Davies
could see his way entirely clear to
harmonic any slight unpleasantness
the event might cause among the fine
fellows" of the Provisional Government
1t is sweet to know that he is on his
way here now with goodness in his
heart, plenty Of lifting tackle in his
hand, the light of anticipation in his
eye and the prediction in his past that
the Monarchial Ship of State is bound
to move before his samson poles. In
fact the good guardian is the buoyant
Mcdowell of Hawaiian politics and
knows what must happen at every
stage of the tide. Let US all stand
ready TO welcome him for his inno-
cense with open arms and emollient
speech and with brows from which the
wrinkles all are smoothed.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
SEALED TENDERS.

Sealed Tenders will be received at the Office
Of the Minister of the Interior until WE'D
NESDAY, November Ist, 1893, at IL o'clock
noon, for furnishing Yellow Metal, Coppering
Nails, Felt, and other material for new
wharves Honolulu. Specifications can be
seen at the office of the Superintendent Of
Public Works.
The Minister Of the Interior does not bind
himself to accept the lowest or any bid.
J. A. KING,
Minister Of the Interior.
Interior Office Sept. 23rd, 1893. Is3.Im
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30

All that appeared in the New York
Hsrald'S Washington correspondence
against annexation was pack of lies,
according to the subsidized organs Of
the p G.. in Honolulu. When, how,
ever, the Washington correspondent
expresses the opinion that no such
thing as restoration of the monarchy is
contemplated, it is paraded in stud
horse type by the STAR as the final de
cree Of the United States Government.
Bulletin,
The confession of the Herald is
"paraded" as evidence that the paper
has found out that it was wrong in the
first place. That is quite an impor-
tant matter, inasmuch as when false
witness begins to eat his own words it
is to be inferred that he has reason to
think his previous testimony is to be
refuted The extreme haste OF the
Herald to get in out of the wet is
quite significant enough to note, even
in black type.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30

The restoration of the Queen to
the throne MIR. Blount never con-
templated by anything he said in
his report, and the administration
would not favor such a course,
even if he did.-Ne7g York Herald
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30

AN interesting letter from zone
Who Knows part Of a series which
has been contributed to the New York
SIM by a writer who is thought 10 be
ex Minister Rollin NJ, Daggett--ap-
pears in this paper to-day.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
Annual Meeting.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
/ Kilauea Cyclorama Co. will be held at
the office of Levers & Cooke on FRIDAY,
October 27th, at 2 P. M.
I7I-IIt T. w. HOBRON, Treasurer.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
NOTICE TO DELINQUENT RATE PAYERS
J. NJ. DAT,
Postmaster General.

ALL PERSONS IN ARREARS FOR
Water Rates are hereby notified that all
Delinquent Water Rates remaining unpaid
after the 3Ist day of October, will be suspend
ed without further notice.
Per Order
ANDREW BROWN,
Superintendent Honolulu Water Works.
I73-I3t
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30

Mr.. CHAMBERS interview seems to
have demoralized the Royalist party on
the subject Of his Uncle James report.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
FOREIGN POSTAL SERVICE.

Notice is hereby given that all Foreign
Mails despatched during the month of Novem-
Der, 1893, will be closed TWO HOURS
prior to the departure of steamers, to admit
of the preparation of statistics for the Bureau
Of the Universal Postal Union, in accordance
with Act xxi of the Postal Union Detailed
Regulations
J. NJ. DAT,
ISI.2t pOstmaSter.C General
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30

IT is reported that the Iowa delega
ton in Congress like that f California,
is a unit for annl xatiun. When the
question comes up in the Senate and
House there will be developments of a
kind to surprise our friends the enemy.
Private Washington advices say that
not only Iowa, but all the Western, a
fair proportion # the Southern and the
solid phalanx of New England and
Middle States, will be likely to favor
the union Of Hawaii with the great re.
public.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
Annual Meeting.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
/ Paia Plantation will be held at the Office
of Castle & Cooke on MONDAY, October
goth, al IL A. NJ.
I7I.I3t T. w. HOBRON, Secretary.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30
HONOLULU IRON WORKS,
STEAM ENGINES SUGAR MILLS, BOILERS
COOLERS. IRON, BRASS, AND LEAD
CASTINGS.

Machinery Of Every Description Made to
Order. Particular attention paid to Ships
Blacksmithing. Job work executed at Short
Notice.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-30

THAT the United States forces helped
Malietoa to the Samoan throne is un.
doubted, but the Bulletin remembers
to forget that the choice laid between
two native chiefs rather than between
oae of them and a government which
Americans and other civilized whites
had established in his place. Had
there been a great American colony in
Samoa which was opposed to Malietoa
and which demanded republican form
of government, the royal claimant
would have waited long and without
avail for a sign of Yankee succor,
There is no parallelism between the
Samoan and the Hawaiian cases when
all the facts are marshailed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The Andover Review is now a BIZ
monthly, and the current issue is one of
the best. The article on the Higher
Criticism, by Prof E. L. Curtis should be
read by every minister and layman who
wishes to know what it is, and what we
can learn from it. The writer of this no.
tice has read many essays and books on
the subject, but none SO good and salts
factory as this. 1t is clear, comprehen-
sive and candid. Christ as a Lawgiver
is the second paper and very good, by
Rev. E. F. Genug. Missions and Civil
cation, by Rev. E. C. Starbuck, is one of
series on that subject, and will proba-
bly, be published in book form. A Call
to Presbyterian Laymen is timely APP
peal to the laity to make their influence
more felt in church councils. The An
dover Band in Maine, by Rev. E. L. Por-
ter, is paper of special interest to the
people of the State and will richly repay
perusal. Scientific Morality, by Rev. j.
r. Bailey, is critique of recent theories
and attempts to reconstruct Ethics on
scientific basis. Herbert Spencer's writ
ings are reviewed. and their weak points
exposed. The leading editorial is on
Phillips Brooks. That and an article on
the same subject by Prof. William Law
renee of Cambridge are among the best
which have appeared.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
MISS REHAN IN SILVER.
Successfully Cast as Justice from 1900
pounds of Metal,

The silver statue of. Ada Rehan was
cast successfully at Chicago, Saturday
Sixteen hundred pounds of sterling silver
were melted in a crucible at Grand Cross
ing, and the molten mass was poured
into a huge mould for Montana's silver
statue of justice.
For six weeks half dozen of the most
expert founders in the world have been
engaged preparing for the event. The
plaster model of the statue made by the
sculptor, R. H. Park, stood before them
and their business was first to construct
mould which should reproduce the
exact counterpart of the model. and
second to caste it without flaw. The
mould was made of French clay, and
when it was accurately finished baking
process followed. This hardened the
clay.
When the molten metal was slowly
poured into the mould, which had been
in a deep pit, both the Werld's Fair presi
dents, President T. w. Palmer of the
national commission and President II.
N. Higginbotham Of the Chicago direc-
tory were there. Chief f. j. Skiff of the
mining department., which the silver
Justice will adorn, and Judge Walter M.
Bickford, the Montana executive COM
missioner, were also among the specta-
tors. After an hour the mould was re-
moved. It was pronounced beauty.
In the white metal the majestic proper
tons of the model were seen to great
advantage, ands many congratulations
followed. Cheers were given for the
sculptor, the state of Montana, and for
Miss Rehan.
The total cost of the statue, it is stated
is $4,000. Not only is the statue an ex-
act reproduction of the figure OF
Miss Rehan, but the features are
Bers though the expression has
been made rather more severe than
Miss Rehan usually has. This was
done so carry out the Idea OF the stern
ness of justice. The statue is 5 feet 10
inches tall, and it will stand upon sill
yer globe 2 feet in diameter. The scale
to be held in one hand and the sword
which will be grasped in the other will
be cast separately, but every part OF the
statue will be Of sterling silver. The
metal comes from Montana every ounce
having been extracted from the native
ore in various smelling works Of the
State.
SIT was great load off our minds to
get this casting done,'' said Treasurer
Head, when the gliitering Justice had
been safely removed from the moulding
pit. I'm the first place we did not care
to have SO much silver in the factory,
and shall be glad to get the statue out Of
the way. Then there is always more or
less risk about casting, and when you
have precious metal to deal with the risk
is enhanced
The largest silver statue ever cast in a
mould before was about four feet high.
This statue is life-size. The statue will
remain in the vaults of safety deposit
up in jackson Park.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
GHOSTS AND VEGETATION.
How Unreasoning Man Came to Respect
and Worship the Tomb.

How Unreasoning Man Came to Respect
and worship the Tomb.
How did the ancestral ghosts acquire
in the first instance the peculiar power
of causing growth in vegetation2 The
explanation, it seems to me, though crude
and barbaric, is very simple and nat
ural one. In the first place, in many Of
the earlier and more native forms Of
sepulture the dead are buried under a
tumulus or barrow. Such tumuh OF
course go back in time to remote antiq-
uity.
Now, many circumstances would make
vegetation upon the turf Of the barrows
exceptionally luxuriant. In the first
place, the soil there has been largely piled
up and labored; it consists for the most
part Of an accumulation Of deep vegeta-
BILE mold, gathered together from all the
surrounding surface aud at an age when
cultivation was wholly unknown-for
tumuli, we have reason to know from
the example of Ohio, began in the hunt
ing stage Of humanity burial mound
would be almost certainly conspicuous.
from this cause alone, for its exceptional
greenness. at
In the second place, again, the body
within would add to it's fertility, the
more so as q great chief was seldom COM
mitted to the tomb alone, but was
usually accompanied to the grave-whose
megalithic stone chamber was to serve
as his future palace-by his slaves, his
wives and his other belongings. I In the
third place, too, animals would be
slaughtered and feasts would take place
at the newly made barrow.
The blood Of the victims on such occa-
sions is habitually poured out on the
grave or on the surface OF the altar
stone. Offerings of meat, of fruit, of
milk, of oil, are made there in album
dance by trembling worshipers. These
offerings would act of course as rich
manures and would encourage on the
barrows an unusual wealth and luxuri-
ance of vegetation.
But primitive man knew nothing of
tile nature and action Of manure. To
him the fact that grass grew greener
and bushes spread faster on the tumulus
Of the dead would almost inevitably ap-
pear as an effect Immediately due to the
supernatural power Of the ghost or spirit
who dwelt within it. In all probability
the savage would enyisage to himself
the actual herbs and shrubs which so
sprang upon the tumulus as the direct
embodiment of the soul Of his ancestor
or bis departed chieftain. Grant Allen
In Popular Science Monthly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
A Canada cheese at. the Fair.

Canada will exhibit mammoth cheese
at Chicago. The cheese was made OF
the Dominion experimental dairy station
at Perth and will certainly rank as the
mammoth cheese Of the world. 1t weighs
over %, 900 pounds and contains the curd
of a days milk from 10000 COWS. A 81
gantic oaken press was erected for the
purpose of constructing the cheese, and
200 tons of pressure were applied. The
cheese has already been pronounced per-
feet in texture, flavor and color. The
cheese will be placed in the pyramid OF
Canadian dairy products at the Worlds
fair and will afterward be cut up and
sold in pound blocks either in Chicago
or in one Of the large cities of Great Brit
ain.-Ottawa Journal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25

3. Was the body of water known as
the Behring Sea included in the phrase
"Pacific Ocean, as used in the treaty OF
1926 between Great Britain and Russia,
and what rights, if any, in the Behrings
Sea were held and exclusively exercised
by Russia after said treaty?
4. Did not all the rights of Russia as
to jurisdiction and as to the seal fisher
les in Behring Sea east of the water
boundary in the treaty between the
United States and Russia of the Goth OF
March, 1857, pass unimpaired to the
United States under that treaty?
5. Has the United States any right,
and, if so, what right, of protection of
property in the fur seals frequenting the
islands of the United States in Behring
Sea when such seals are found outside of
the ordinary three-mile limit?
/. The argument of the United States
will be that it has the right to
employ certain measures upon the high
seas for the protection and preservation
of the fur seal, for the reason that it pos
sessed an interest in that animal as its
property; and further, that upon this
right rests the responsibility for those
actions it has taken in the matter in the
past, If this contention of the United
States fails to obtain the support of the
court of arbitration, the question will
still remain as to what measures Great
Britain and the United States can take
together for the further protection and
preservation of the fur seal, and this, in
such an event, will constitute the final
point for adjudication by the court.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
The American Woman and Her Bath.

The American Woman and Her Bath.
There is no doubt that women are be.
ginning to realize more and more the
Importance Of the bath. It no longer
continues to be perfunctory duty, to
be gone through with as matter Of
course on Saturday nights, much as the
family washing is undertaken on Mon
day.
The relation of cleanliness to goodness
has ceased to be Of Importance. The
bath has grown to be considered, on the
contrary, a close adjunct to woman's
beauty. The fair sex has learned to
study the bath and its effects upon their
feelings, and incidentally the action OF
tepid or hot water on their fair skins and
it's efficacy in softening and identifying
their compilations.
No longer can it be said that with the
majority Of American women bath
means simply wiping the face with cor
ner of wet towel, even if the statement
was ever true.
The women of foreign countries in the
past undoubtedly had a greater appreci-
alton of the near relation of the bath to
personal beauty than the women of the
United States. That great change in
this direction has been wrought is shown
by the greater intelligence shown by
American women today in the matter Of
bathing, and their growing prediction
for what is known as Swedish massage.
philadelphia Times.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
An Infuman Nurse.

Parents who are in the habit of putting
their children out to nurse will do well
to ponder over the following case re-
Gently tried in a police court at Paris:
From the testimony it appears that a
nurse woman was in the habit of giving
baby in her charge an artifcially
healthy complexion by cruelty painting
the infantile face with cosmetics. The
child progressed SO nicely that its weight
increased in an astonishing manner, ow-
ing, it is said, to some shot which the
nurse placed in the baby's clothes. Final
~ the cruel fraud was detected, and the
woman received two years imprison-
nent.-New York Telegram.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25

The New York Court of Appeals has
just given its opinion of the trial and
conviction of Carlyle w. Harris, the New
York murderer about whom SO much
ado has been made of late. The opinion
is written by Justice Gray and is an ex-
haustive review of the evidence in the
case as well as of the law laid down by
the judge who. presided at the trial.
Justice Gray finds that not only the evil
dence justified the. jury in coming to the
conclusion that they did, but he holds
that no other conclusion was possible.
The more this case is studied the more
apparent it becomes that the sympathy
that has been aroused in behalf of Har-
ris among good many well meaning
people is entirely misplaced. The Cir
cumstances that led up to his crime all
tended to aggravate it's enormity. There
is not single extenuating fact or Cir
cumstance in the case.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
re, 4 SAD coNsoLER.

Yes, yes. know what you would say, and yet
Life is so sweet Life is SO very sweet!
Leaves dancing in the sun make quick the
beat
Of saddest heart, and love must still forget
Life's toll and care, its fever and its fret.
How blue the sky shines through the sum-
mer's heat,
How merrily the blood defies the sleet,
One golden hour illumes a gray year. Let
Those talk of tears who never knew relief,
For mo the boarded honey OF the past
OUTLINES this wintry interval OF pain.
Come loneliness or lovelessness or grief
The memory of days toosweet to last
Shall make my heart run DER with Joy again.
-EthelWyn Wetherald.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
is THE CLIMATE CHANGING:
In the Opinion of Weather Bureau Elk,
pert 1t is Not.

:
The month of January was marked in
portions of the United States by the
longest protracted cold season that has
been recorded since accurate observa-
tons were begun by the signal service.
% years ago. This fact has given rise,
in many minds, to the question whether
the climate is changing. Prof. H. A.
Hazen, of the United States weather
bureau, discusses the question in an able
article in the Engineering Magazine, in
which he says
From the 4th to the Goth of January
the temperature in Washington city was
160 below the normal, and the maximum
which on. the average goes below freez-
ing but three times, went above it but
once and then to only $40 during the
same time. At Bismarck, N. D., the
temperature was So above the normal
Thus the Washington temperature rela-
tive to that at Bismarck was 23o lower
than usual. Many hold to the theory
that our cold comes from the extreme
northwest, but this could hardly have
been true in the case quoted. A singu-
lar fact is that usually storms going to
the northward draw in the warm south
wind and heat up the air, but that con-
dition haszapparently. had the opposite
effect this year, and this is due to the
southwark trend of the high areas, which
has give an abnormal cold season to the
South and cold south winds to the
North.
1t is probable that our upper atmos-
phere has been greatly cooled to enor-
nous heights. January and February,
1875, were the coolest months expert
enced on Mt. Washington 1890 feet high)
and they were also the coolest months
at Burlington, Vt, near the base of the
mountain. There has been no extensive
and intense cold wave this season as we
have had in one or two years before, but
there has been steady cold. The high
areas and storms have had a very great
velocity, and it seems reasonable to con-
clude that this has tended to prevent a
heating from convecti on currents set up
at the earth's surface, aud also the rapid
motion has set up worthless which have
caused stirring up OF the warmer lower
air with the colder above. 1t is the gen
eral opinion that of late our winters have
greatly moderated, though some believe
to the contrary The records do not
show any very great change, the average
temperature in 10-year periods having
remained constant. We are more likely
to remember the great blizzard of March
1888, than the great warmth of 1880.