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Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-12-14
THE FINANCIAL SITUA-
TON.

1t will perhaps be of interest
to those, who think the fnan
cial management of the P. G. as
is either capably conducted
or of benefit to the country, to
ponder over the following figures:
On January /, 1898, the
Treasury balance of cash avail
able for Government purposes
was 1919 POI. So. January 18th
the Provisional Government took
hold and but little had been paid
out in the interval, as salaries
for December had already been
paid. After over 10 months of
P. G.. fnanciering. we have a
balance of S124 ,300.14 in the
Treasury of which about 81. 500
is only available for works
authorized by the Loan Act.
Against this there is due $3.50 900
of P. NJ. G. notes, $40, 900 of
Treasury notes, all over due,
$50 900 to the bondholders of the
London Loan for interest, and
SAT 900 and interest to the Risdon
Iron Works in San Francisco,
due on the Goth inst. Besides
these sums there are numerous
floating accounts due to merchants
and others In town against the
various Departments and Bureaus.
In the same time the Bonded
indebtedness of the country has
increased S106, 400, and the
amount due to Depositors in the
Savings Bank has increased by
over SEQ, 900. The P. G.. in the
same time have spent on their
Military, their Diplomacy, and
their Councils over S167 900. or in
other words as much as they
have run the country into bonded
and P. o. indebtedness In their
term of Office. They have used
up the handsome surplus they
found In ticking Office, they have
spent all the money from the
Crown Lands revenue and if they
met their due debts they
would be 500 900 more in debt
than they are nominally at
present and they have nothing to
show for it but rotten uniforms.
an army of mercenary spies, am
munition, rifles, bun police
specials and no public works.
What man after carefully ponder
ing over these figures taken
directly from their own financial
statements but must ask in
horror-are these the results
of stable honest P. G.. 6nancier-
ingz ITO your tents. o. Israel
We have no part in Damon or
his financial ruin which he has
brought on the country.
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-12-14
THE MARsHAL's CONFESSION

That incarnadinely hirsute
specimen of oblique vision
and apparently still obliquer
morality lin regard to the
goddess who is tabled to
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-12-14
CHARLES L. CARTER
IN OPEN LETTER
SECRETARY GRESHAM.

That ponderous stomached
but light Drained scion of the
Carter incubus on the Hawaiian
State whose fatuous vanity
adorned itself with football or
baseball suit as a disguise on the
18th of January in order
to show off the manly
proportions of the adipOse softly
whose name appears at the head
of this article, and carried the now
celebrated orders of J. l.. Stevens
of Kennebec to Captain Wiltse and
Lieutenant Young, before the pro-
clamation was read or the Pro
visional Governments eighteen
had arrived at the Government
Building, and who, for his dead
fathers money, and his own services
as courier, was at the last moment
chosen as fifth Commissioner to
Washington, now comes out and
contradicts Blount and Gresham.
This fat boy of the missionaries
whose shallow, but pecunlarily
acquisitive brain-box conceived
the idea of flooding the plantations
with negro labor deigns to para
graph Gresham's letter, and to put
his statements out in contradiction,
Charles L. Carter mas spoken His
word settles it'll Gresham, Blount,
Cleveland and the rest, may go
hide their diminished headslll
They are wrong. Carter has
said so and who in this universe
can gainsay it. AS in the case of
Herod of old cit is the voice of
a God. Let US hope that the
same result will not happen to
Carriers bowels as finished that
Jewish ruler of the first century
A. D.
Yet such is our scepticism of
his alleged facts and truthfulness
that we are impelled to examine
a few of his statements and see
what basis he has for them, and
how far he has departed from
that early Sunday School train
ing which he is supposed to have
imbibed in his recently callow
and tender infancy; which he
apparently has outgrown so far
as to deliberately. place himself
on record as a falsifer and
deliberate falsehood teller of the
first magnitude.
One reads as follows from the
pen of Carter in the beginning of
this letter, after having read
Thurstons interviews in the late
American papers. 81 regret that
up to the time of our latest adj
vices nv distinguished colleague
the Chairman of the special
Commission Mr.. Thurston has
been constrained by his
present position as the repre-
sentative of this Government
near your own from making any
public declarations. This fact -
What an opinion one gets of the
amount of truthfulness to be
expected in a statement which
begins by stating such deliber-
ate lie as that. Can any truth
be found in statement the first
brick in whose structure is such
palpable and unlnistakeable
fraud.
Time and space fail Us owing
to the other important events of
the day from criticising in detail
his other statements. merely
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-12-14
WAN

A gentle BUGGY HOPSE for
Family use, report to TRAC1S
Store on King street, next door
from Holomua Office, on Thurs
days and Fridays. del4 5w
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-12-14

oof.-Sir, 1 am a self-made
man.
Warp. Ali first job. ehl
The Progress., 1893-10-21

A canal has twice the carrying
power of an OK. With an ordinary
load of 400 pounds he can travel
twelve or fourteen days without
water. going forty miles a day. They
are fit to work at D years old. but
their strength begins to decline at 20.
although they usually live to 40. The
Tartars have herds of these animals.
often 1000 belonging to one family.
They were numerous in antiquity, for
the patriarch job had 5000. The Tim
buctOo or Meharri breed is remark
able for speed. and are used only for
couriers. going 800 miles in eight
days. with meal of dates or grain at
nightfall.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Frogs, whether blind or not. be
come dark green or black il they are
kept in n dark vessel in a sparngly-
lighted room. but when larger
branch with green leaves is intro
duced into the vessel. they all recover
their bright green color. whether
blind or not In some way unknown
the reflected green light acts either
upon the nerves Of the skin. or what
seems more probable. il Steinach 3
experiments are taken into account
directly upon the pigment cells. More
over. tho sensations derived from the
toes have also an influence upon the
changes OF color. When the bottom
of the vessel is covered with felt or
with n thin wire net. the frogs also
become black. recovering their green
color when green branch is intro
duced into the vessel.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

The price Of food varies as greatly
in European az in American cities.
Prime beef averages in Vienna IL
cents a pound, in Prague II cents, in
Rome and Buda-Pesth II cents, in
Paris - and ~ cents, in Lille 81
cents. Flour in Buda-Pesth sells for
y cents; for cents in Paris. Frank
fort and Florence; for I cents i'm Ber-
lin; for 4 cents in Lille. Bread in
Lille costs q cents pound, and in
Berlin Al cents. Potatoes are under
2 cents n pound in all the cities ex-
cept Hamburg. Rice ranges from 2t
cents a pound in Brussels to 10 cents
elsewhere. In Brussels coffee is had
from the Dutch colonies for 2S4 cents
a pound, while in Berlin it is 32}
cents and in Paris (roasted) go cent?
The Progress., 1893-10-21
Irreverence IN the Ouhspr tity.

An uptown church has recently
undergone great alterations. and
during the course Of the work a
great lot OF old wood was .accumu.
lated which was perfectly good for
kindling purposes but was not OF
much account for anything else. Tho
superintendent of the building. think
ing to have the wood removed at the
least possible cost. started about to
dispose of it bv sale Accordingly.
picking out Il nice. smOotl board. he
inscribed it as follows: Wood for
sale by the load. " The board had
been exposed only short time when
some wag saw the chance for a good
joke and changed the letter "a" in
the word ''load' to an ~" and for
days the sign stood out in front of
the church reading: Wood for "a o
by the Lord. "-Philadelphia Record
The Progress., 1893-10-21

THE Humane society is a develop
ment OF the spirit Of universal broth
erhood such as the congress of all
religions seeks TO promote. But
there are no religious or political
tenets developed or Gostered or toll
Grated in IL. TO all political or re-
ligious prejudices the Humane So
ciety is as blind and as deaf as a
stone. IL positively knows none
and, therefore. cares for none II is
the good Samaritan many times null
tiplied, not only pouring oil into the
wounds OF the suffering stranger, but
softening the sorrows Of sobbing
child and even satisfying the hunger
OF q common cur.
The Progress., 1893-10-21
Chinese Executions.

At Canton, China. the average
number of executions is about 800 per
year. but in 1885 10000 rebels were
beheaded. Females are sometimes
strangled and the worst criminals are
nailed upon cross. Sometimes the
sentence directs that the criminal.
while living, shall be cut into mum.
Der OF pieces, which number never
exceeds thirty-six. The headsman
formerly received 81 head, but the
supply and competition has reduced
the wage to 80 cents apiece. Most
criminals who are beheaded are water
pirates or land bandits.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

procession swept could bear n.
taps of the high-heeled shoes .,S
/ the rustic Of the ladies' trains :.
they passed over the old dan.
stones. and the night winds tos.0t
their waving plumes, and the Inv
dirge-iike music kept time TO thoi,
stately stepping.
"There was one among them fairs,
than all the rest Surely the pea,,
in her golden hair and the sbadow.
veil had been arranged in dslica,.
beauty by spirit hands. the son
mournful eyes had a far-away ooL
of grief, and at her side walked ana
dark and stern rs midnight
"The procession paused before ths
ruined chancel, aud It seemed 70 ma
that bridal VOWS and deep sobs wers
mingled with low imprecations and
muttered curses; the wall of a sad
low voice, a quiver and shudder
passed through the phantom and tho
vision mingled with the shadows Of
the night.
Thoroughly aroused, arose au
went out into the moonlight; far
away in the east the first rosy tins
of tho new morning were faintly
glowing, while the sentinel stars stil
kept watch over the sleeping earth
but nature could not explain the
ghostly meeting"
Such was the Texans story Was
it an explanation of the moIdering
box that the workman found in the
ruined tower. and were The blood.
stained garments those OF the mur-
dered bride of long ago, who had
come back to the old church In the
midnight to act again the tragedy Oi
her unknown sorrow and mysterious
or was the vision onlys
phantom of the tired brain Of the
man whose life was spent amid
scenes of blood, and the music only :
he soloing Of pines as they stood
witnessing the desolation OF the land,
I'll the shedding of blood. and help
ess to do more than wall and loss
heir giant limbs in the winds?
The Progress., 1893-10-21
The Treache.ona NIcYc Q.

The Chicago Record tells of girl
who was seized with the bicycle
mania. About n month ago she in
vested her savings in bicycle.
Every morning she disappeared for
several hours and returned home
with bandaged fingers. torn skirts.
banged-in hat, a sour temper and
painful limp. The other day she in
vited the family to assemble at a GER
tain riding school to see her perform.
She nimbly mounted, spun around
the hall twice, jumped off and on
with the agility OF a young kitten.
and excited the admiration Of the
whole crowd Then some officious
person said: "Go around the other
way" She had always practice1 in
the one direction, but such a trine
did not worry her. so she wheeled
around and rode off like a runaway
cable car. When she arrived at the
first turn there was a terrible crash.
a shrek. "a resounding crack made by
her head coming in contact with the
floor. and then all was still The
family had her taken home i'm an
ambulance and she has already made
arrangements to have the machine
patched up and sold at half-pricc.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

UNDETERRED by the i'll success OF
Cornell and other ambitious colleges.
the university OF Pennsylvania has
provided q four years course of
special study for pupils who intend
to do newspaper work for a liveli-
hood. Inevitably nine-tenths OF the
studies which make up the course
are OF literary, scientific and gen.
eral character, such as are already
taught IN every we'll equipped col
lege. The remaining tenth and most
essential part relates to practical
work in newspaper making. and the
place to learn that Is. rot universi-
ty lecture room. but in a newspaper
Office or editorial room The uni
versity OF Pennsylvania may succeed
In turning out JOB lot OF journal.
ists," but not. of editors. II might
as reasonably undertake to make
painters. inventors or poets by four
years course of special studies
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Dido, Queen of Tyre, about seven
centuries before Christ, after her hus-
band had been put TO death by her
brother, fled from that city and estsb-
lished a colony on the north coast OF
Africa. Having bargained with the
natives for as much land as could be
surrounded by bulls hide, she cut
the hide into narrow strips, tied them
together and claimed the land that
could be surrounded by the line thus
made. She was allowed to have her
way. And now when one plays q
sharp trick he is said TO 'cut dido. 3"
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Statistics are said to show that
young men do not, on the average,
attain full physical maturity until
they arrive at the age of 28 years
Prof. Scheller of Harvard asserts. as
the result of his observations, that
measure of their mental faculties be-
fore 25 years of age. A shrewd OBJ
server has said that ''most men are
boys until they are 30, and little boys
until they are 25;' and this accords
with the standard of manhood, which
was fixed at 80 among the ancient
Hebrews and other races.
The Progress., 1893-10-21
SO MEN OF SCIENCE SAY,


Chinese botanists can grow oaks IA
thimbles
Amber Is resin from an extinct
species of coniferous tree.
The silkworm's web is only the h'e
thousand three hundredth part OF 90
inch In thickness, and some OF tne
spiders spin "A web SO minute that"
would take 60. 900 of them TO forms
rope an inch in diameter
A duck and an owl were shipped 10
the same box by a fancier ron
Orlando, Florida, TO the North las
other day. Upon the arrival Of NV
box at its destination IL was ioana
that the owl had totally devourea n'
travelling companion.
While eating pie at Sunday y-scno"
picnic near Beaver Falls, Pa, haI',
Lockwood swallowed a hornet ia'
pugnacious insect lighted upon Wv
pie as IL disappeared into hai'y ,
. outh and stung his throat se'e'~
times on it's downward journey
A league has been formed 70 s'uV
the cancer disease. Probably Wv
most eminently suggestive Views.
the subject recently made pupl'c 80
those of MN. Verneuil OF Paris WY
Roux of Lausanne, who attribus oss
Ger to the improper use OF meat
pecially pork.
IL is claimed that the prize iU y
thence must be awarded TO the sc.'
tist who recently compiled q
logue containing lists of the vs''o.,
kinds Of insects which are to pe iv's
i'm the world. According TO him 'se,
are 75O,O distinct species, no. i'''"
ing parasitic insects.
IL is popularity supposed 'hs' a.
sudden downpour which usually a
lows bright Hash Of lightning u-
some way caused by the mas" |.
teorologists have proven tina. w., q,
not the case. and that. exactly -
contrary. it is not only possiv'e =.
highly probable that the sudasD -.
creased precipitation is the rea'
of the flash.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

The COW is the king OF beasts.
The American eagle fies high, es-
pecially on the 4th OF July, but who
ever heard of his giving milk to raise
anything besides his own offspring
The COW cannot fly as high as the
American eagle. but the work she
does is forty per cent the best. She
raises the little ones, Notice the
children in family where cow is
kept Then notice the family where
only pint of milk day is bought.
What diITerencel II shows the
good work the COW is doing for the
rising generation Therefore. give
the people free and unlimited coin
age of cows
The Progress., 1893-10-21

To sToP an epidemic of suicides
the French government once decreed
that all corpses OF selfmurderers
should be exposed naked in the mar
ket places for q certain length of
time. How would it do for tho peo.
pie of this country, in imitation Of
the French, to decree that all corpses
of suicides should be invariably sur
rendered to the medical studentsP ?
There Is no greater horror i'm the
minds OF many than the horror of
the dissecting table.
The Progress., 1893-10-21
THE much-talked-of Elmira, N,

THE much-talkedof Elmira, N.
reformatory system has raised new
point In the courts. Prisoners are
sent to the reformatory with a, in
definite sentence. 1t appears that
the warden OF that institution lately
caused a prisoner to be transferred
TO the regular states prison. The
question arises whether the warden
OF the state reformatory has right
to send man to the states prison.
The law says that man must be
tried and convicted before that can
happen. Warden Bradbury does not
happen to be Judge and jury The
more the hitherto eulogized reform
atory Is Investigated the less of
Justice and sense there seems to be
In it.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Patient. to family physician-In
your absence. doctor was com
pelted to call in young DIR Sawbones.
He said that the clinical symptoms
indicated chronic intercstial innam-
nation. What is that in plain Eng
lish?
Family Physician-ln plain Eng
lish it means that Sawbones didn't
know what was the matter with you
Texas Siftings.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Winks-Come along old boy. I've
got TWO complimentary tickets for %
dramatic performance
Jinks-Tragedy or comedy
Tragedy"
ii don't like tragedies. They ap.
peal so strongly 20 ons's sym 20 hies
that | always feel blue for 80
This one won't. Yot com
home as jolly as If you had bse1 10 u
circus. It's by an amateur company. ="
The Progress., 1893-10-21

The modern Haytian war ship
Alexandra Petion sank the other day
In calm sea with all hands on board.
Whatever the modern armor-clad
ship may be in battle IL seems q
mighty perilous sort Of a placs 10
stay in in time Of peace.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

MEN on the good ship Ranger com
plain that even when exposed to Arc
tic breezes they are not permitted to
put their hands into their pockets.
IL is to be hoped that the rigors of
discipline will still allow them to
blow the frost out of their fingers.
though discipline is recognized as
good thing. and TO be zealously
guarded by those who do not suffer
through it,
The Progress., 1893-10-21
SHREVEPORT,

A PRETTY rnElish girl has sued
his royal ard spectacular highncss
the sultan of ,Iohuro for breach of
promise. This young woman had
best beware-the sultan might mar
ry her, as English law pcrmits-and
then turn her over to her forty pred
ecessors in his heart and harem for
punishment
The Progress., 1893-10-21
German Superstition.

Young women OF Germany have
superstition that II they bury a drop
of their blood under rosebush il will
ever afterward insure the experiment
ter pair of rosy cheeks.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

THE greatest Of American exports
l. cotton and next to that comes
petroleum. From an export Of D.
900. 900 gallons in 1864 the business
has expanded until i'm 1891 the ex-
ports amounted to 10, 10000 gal
Ions. The price for the same has
fallen from sixty-one aud one half
cents a gallon in 1861 to six GEMS in
1892
The Progress., 1893-10-21

A TRUTHFUL citizen who has gazed
upon ghost that nightly glides
through the suburbs says that as he
gazed his hair stood up, his feet
were glued to the ground and ne felt
n sinking sensation. but that he was
not scared. If. under Providence. il
shall ever befall this citizen To he
scared he will never live to tell
about IT,
The Progress., 1893-10-21

The edible dogs of China are know
by their bluish-black tongues. They
never bark. and are very taciturn.
Four million and half are slaughter
ed annually to titillate the palates Of
the celestials.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Bear in mind that Dr. Williams PInK
Pills are never sold in bulk, or by the
dozen or hundred. and any dealer who
offers substitutes In this form is trying
10 defraud you and should be avoided.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Or COURSE the trusted mint en-
ploye who raked $500 from the
vault will not be punished The vul-
gar and hasty conclusion n that he is a
thief does grave injustice to as
fine an example of the kleptomaniac
rs ever cheated the prison cell.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

Sentiment is as old as anything
else, as is indicated by the discovery
in Egyptian tombs dating back 2OOO
b. G. of wedding rings engraved with
a heart and two clasped hands.
The Progress., 1893-10-21
Cholera Germs.

The orange and lemon are both
said to be fatal to the cholera bacil-
lus. Placed in contact with the cut
surface of the fruit the bacteria sur
vive but few hours.
The Progress., 1893-10-21
A CautIous Mofber.

Mr.. JacksOn-Miss Albertina ing
Mr.. Johnson-Yep; an | will see das
she stays in as long as such queer.
lookin' thing as you be prowlln
around outside. -IIarper's Weekly
The Progress., 1893-10-21
A Strange LIght.

On the side of Old Rag, spur OF
Blue Ridge mountains. near Luray,
Va. about three-fourths of the way
up its side glows a strange and beau
tiful light. Every effort to reach it
or solve the mystery has failed.
The Progress., 1893-10-21

A steel ship has been constructed in
Cardiff, Wales. with the standing rig
ging, as well as the hull, all Of steel
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-21
A Pardonabie Difference.

There had been a homicide in a
saloon and one man was telling all
about ii, even to the minutest detail.
He had seen it all and knew what he
was talking about, he said, and not
withstanding everybody had not i'm
plicit confidence in his statement, no.
body cared to call him to account and
make him show proof. Naturally
such a man would be good witness
and at the examining trial he was
put on the stand.
"What do you know about this af-
fair" asked the court.
"Nothin' yer honor" he replied SC
promptly as to startle those who had
heard his story.
Didn't you" asked the surprised
Judge, "tell a number of people YOU
mad seen it all:"
"YeS. yer honor"
Then how does IL happen that
YOU say here that you don't know any
thing about it,"
"Well, it's this way, yer honor, "
he said with redeemlng blush II
was only talking then, an now I'm
a swearln'."
The court noted the distinction.