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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
TIE REPUBLICAN POSITION.

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.
1t is said that the Republican Senators,
while prepared to resist, as far as they
deem proper and practicable, the pass
age of the Objectionable features of the
Wilson bill, will not interpose dilatory
motions or resort to obstructive tactics.
There will be tolerably full hearings be-
fore the finance committee, and impor-
tant changes may be made in the bill
during its committee stages. When it
reaches the senate it will be debated
with the deliberation characteristic of
that body, and while there will be no
needless waste of time on the one side
no undue precir itancy will be permitted
on the other. Whether the Democratic
fenators will be able to reach an agree
ment which shall secure concentration
of their party strength when the final
vote is taken can not now be foreseen.
Their majority is so small that they can
not afford to differ materially, and their
party necessities will compel them to
make large sacrifices for the sake of
success.
The Republicans will have nothing to
reproach themselves with if they carry
out the plan here outlined. That the
bill will pass the house in some shape is
generally conceded. The majority is
too large and the party stress too great
to admit of any other conclusion. The
people were fearfully humbugged in
1892, but the deception must be carried
through. The deluded wage-workers
will be the greatest sufferers, but the les
sons of experience will not be lost on
them. The free-trade doctrinaireS hope
that, through the recuperative energy
of a great nationwide effects of the disas-
ter may be measurably overcome before
the election of 1896, and that the party
will be in a condition to command a
long lease of power. The very men who
were deceived into giving their votes for
tariff reform will be asked to sustain in
authority the party that brought upon
them their present calamity. When
they shall have enjoyed the blessings of
low duties and low wages for season
they can then determine whether it will
pay them to trust the Democratic party
further.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
PUBLIC OPINION.

THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE TRUTH.
New York Press
4 genuine investigation into the Ha-
waiian infamy has begun. The sub
committee of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations, appointed to conduct
the investigation provided for by Senator
Morgan's resolution. is well constituted
for getting at the whole truth, which
Grover Cleveland and his fellow con-
spirators are so anxious to suppress
OF the five members it is certain that
Senators Morgan, Sherman, and Frye
will spare no effort to bring out the facts,
and to secure for the Senate and the
people the information which has been
withheld. So far from welcoming this
attitude on the part of Senator Morgan
and his associates, Cleveland, it Is said.
has remarked that certain men seemed
determined to get the Administration
into trouble AS the only trouble pro-
posed for anybody by Senator Morgan's
resolution is an inquiry ''as to whether
any irregularities have occurred in the
Diplomatic or other intercourse between
the United States and Hawaii in rela-
ton to the recent revolution in that
country" 1t is difficult to see how the
Administration can get into trouble if
it h. rot been guilty of irregularities" p"
Thea American people will be satisfied
with nothing short of the most complete
unveiling of the conspiracy against the
Provisional Government Of Hawaii. Not
only should the suppressed dispatches
be demanded, but Willis and Blount
should be summoned to testify to their
verbal instructions, and Admirals Skier
rett and Irwin should be required to lay
before the Senate Committee and the
public all the orders which they have
received for the display or the use of
force at Honolulu. The fact that the
Administration has so far succeeded in
battling the peoples desire to know the
truth has only increased the popular de-
mand that all the truth shall be known.
If Cleveland has not violated the Con-
stitution he has nothing to fear from in
vestigvtion, and the truth will exculpate
him. If, on the other hand, he has ex-
ceeded his constitutional powers,
whether in the appointment of Para
mount Blount or by instructing Minister
Willis to use or make demonstration
of force against the Provisional Govern
ment, or in plotting the overthrow of
that government, or otherwise, then he
should be held to accountability just as
strictly as the lowest employees in the
federal service.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
IDLENEss NOT D1sHoNoRABLE.

New York Sun.
Remember this, if you unfortunately
are out of work and without money:
Labor is honorable, but that does not
make idleness dishonorable. A man
who has always paid for his living
with his own hands suffers no disgrac e
if he loses the chance to work. He is
unfortunate, but he is none the less a
man. He may creditably receive aid. He
may be morally bound to receive aid if
any one is dependent on him. The man
who touches the hand Of charity may
some day need courage and resolution to
disengage himself from its warm and
gentle grasp and walk unaided again
but nevertheless we SAY to hesitating
and self -mistrusting proud of true man
illness, if you are in want, take what is
offered in good spirit and with good
heart. Better days will come and you
will be yourself again. And you will
never need blush for the time when ou
were helped by some other fellow luckier
than yourself.
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kamehameha l. Lunalilo.
HAWAIIAN MoNARCHs.
royal stock, had to be voted into power,
there was necessarily some lowering of
the royal dignity and lessening of the
royal prerogative. And as a liberal con-
stitution had been adopted and govern
ment established somewhat on the Eng
lish model. there is really no change
perceptible TO the mass of the people in
adopting a provisional government semi
republican in tone.
And through all this century, while
civilization was rapidly progressing and
later while Christianity was becoming
dominant, the Kanakas We're fading away
at a rate unprecedented since the tender
natives of the West Indies died off under
Spain's harsh rule First. the wars of
Kamehameha wrought havoc, and as the
last of these wars was ending there came
a mysterious pestilence which reduced
the population by one-fourth or more
Diseases introduced by profigate sail
ors doubtless wrought some destruction
but not nearly so much as has been re-
ported. Then came the leprosy Tor rather
it developed) and for time threatened a
general destruction. Even now it is a
great curse, but not so destructive as
formerly.
Beyond all these known causes. how
ever, there are causes not understood.
A too rapid civilization is often fatal to
primitive races. The sudden inflow of
new impressions on Unprepared nerve
centers breaks them down. TIE wear
ing OF clothes seemed for time to make
the native women barren, as they paid
no attention to the ordinary rules for
keeping their raiment i'll healthful con-
dition. Another cause has lately been
assigned in these words: "Eawaii is a
holiday land-a lazy land-a soft, lux
urious. voluptuous land-and the de-
preston from safety is correspondingly
great. There is no set purpose in life,
no firm and high resolve, and so when
melancholy comes it kills"
No other man dies so easily and gently
as true Kanaka. He can lie down and
die whenever the notion takes him, and
with no apparent disease. This happens
among many dark races, but with none
so often as the Kanakas Captain Cook
guessed their number at 100000, and it
may have been half that. In 1929 the
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
THE OPERA eoUFFE KINGDOM.
Such Hawaii-Nei Has Been Since Kane
hameha's Line Died Out.

Such Hawaii-Nei Has Been Since Kane
hameha's Line Died Out.
So many little things have interested
me that almost forgot King Bill. He
had ascended the throne (fguratively
speaking) only two months or 80 before
my arrival, King Lot having died with
out issue William Lunalilo was his
royal name, | believe. but he was gener-
ally called King Bill for short, and he
was the first monarch of Hawaii-Nei not
of the Kamehameha stock. The history
of that line is as fascinating as any in
European annals. Originally each island
had its own king, and some more than
one. but about century ago arose the
great Kamehameha, and in series of
wonderful campaigns reduced them all
under his rule.
He is the great Hawaiian hero. the war
rior, king and sage, the David and Sol
omon and Haroun al Raschid all in one.
But it is a great mistake to say, as many
recent writers have done, that the civil
cation he fostered was purely native and
original, and still more to begin Hawaiian
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
THE outlook for hard shedding in the

THE outlook for hard shedding in the
Senate for the Wilson bill is not bad.
There are no Republican Senators who
will favor the bill, although some of the
Populist's may vote for it, while it is al
most certain to meet with strong oppo-
sition from several Democrats. Protec-
tion has been doing great things for
West Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee and
other Southern States in the last few
wears, and all these States are repre-
sented by Democrats. These men know
what protection has done for them and
it is believed that at least apart of them
will look more to the financial interests
aad the prosperity of their States than
to the ties of party. To pass the Wilson
bill would be tolling the death of the
coal and iron industries of the South.
Then too, New York is represented by
Senators Hill and Murphy. Hill has
always been professed protectionist,
although it is nearer the truth to say
that Hill is for anything that is for Hills
interest. If the New York Senator said
that he could advance his own interests
by opposing the Wilson bill it ia safe to
speculate that he would put up pretty
stiff opposition to the bill. At any rate
it can be asserted with tolerable GER
tainty that the Wilson bill will have a
rough road to travel before it becomes
a law.
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fertile little tracts, and the Kanakas have
here and there cultivated patches near
the mountains, where the lava seems to
have cooled but yesterday.
We took what is called the new route
TO visit Kealakeakua bay, where Captain
Cook was killed, and of that tragedy
received very curious account from
Mr.. Broughton, an aged Briton, who
reached the islands as sailor in 1910.
He had it direct from two aged Kanakas
who witnessed the killing. 1t seems that
after Captain Cook had carried matters
with high hand for awhile two par
ties formed. One said he was LonO, the
god: the other that he was Kanaka, or
''Man.' such being the meaning Of that
word. The argument as reported bore
a suspicious resemblance to that in the
correspondence between President Ed
wards and DIR. Samuel Hopkins. One
said, "He cannot bea god, for he is cruel,
yindictive and greedy" The other said,
You cannot tell how a god will act,
and perhaps"-
1t was the familiar issue, Are right
and wrong absolute, and is the moral
law obligatory on Deity as on mortals?
Well, the Edwards party, so to speak,
carried the day, and it was decided that
the supposed Lono should be put to
the test. A blow-not mortal-was
struck; the captain groaned and blood
flowed. "Kanaka, nor "a man, indeedD
cried the skeptics. "Oal Oa!" (True,
TrueD screamed the others. ''Kanaka,
nor and he was at once dispatched.
And" added NJ Broughton, when
the old men told us this the tears stood
in their eyes, for they were among the
few who continued to believe that Cook
was a god, or at least superior being
With the horseback ride thence to
ailauea and the descent into the crater
all general readers are familiar. Every
body knows how Pele, the devil goddess of
the Kanakas, used to hold her fiery court
in the flaming lake; how the ilaments
of lava, like glassblowers' thread" !"
thrown off by the fiery waves. were be-
ieved to be her hair; how the natives,
when warned by well known signs that
an eruption was near, threw many fat
hogs and other articles of value into the
lake, and finally how the brave Princess
Kauikulani, to convince her people that
idolatry was foolish. descended into the
crater without the usual ceremonies and
returned unhurt to her amazed people.
Is it not all written in mission reports
and Sunday school books?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
The tax commission has recommends

THE tax commission has recommended
economy in State affairs as one means
of making our revenue meet expendi-
lures. Just as soon as men can be
found who will spend public money as
carefully and with as close a calculation
as the prudent man of business, Just SO
soon will we have economy in State
affairs, and in county and town affairs,
too. But such men have never been
found, or if found, they never became
Legislators, and it seems probable that
there will have to be some Improvement
in men before we arrive at economy in
public affairs.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
Copyright, 1891

Copyright, 1891
There never was lovelier March morn
ing than that on which Honolulu first
rose to my sight. Yes. literally rose"
for we had gotten close in during the
night The sky was not perfectly clear
till just at daylight, and thefe was no
lingering dawn as in the far north.
Scarcely had our strained eyes made out
the bold 'promontory of Diamond head
$50 called, was told, because there are
no precious stones in the islands) when
suddenly the grand sweep of mountains
came into view, and then, as if a fiat in
theater had slid back and disclosed q
gorgeous tropical scene, Honolulu rose
to sight. 1t was perfectly delightful
surprise. worth coming thousand miles
to see.
There was the usual delay in getting
close in, and we had scarcely time to
view the city by the rosy light when we
saw many people running toward the
beach 1t seemed to me that they did
not even check their speed at the waters
edge, but jumped into their canoes,
which moved off at once, and in few min
utes the Kanakas were swarming about
the ship or climbing on deck. Our lady
passengers, having heard dreadful
things" were prepared to blush accord
ingly. and the more roguish among the
gentlemen anticipated some fun, but
both were disappointed The native men
were dressed quite $3.50 for boatmen,
and though the few women who came
near wore each single garment they
managed it with womanly skill. In
truth, one may see much more reckless
exposure at any bathing resort. 1t was
later and in the interior-but antici-
pate
The rising sun now sent its brilliant
glare upon Honolulu and showed us
what? Was it child's toy village sud-
denly enlarged or transformation scene
in a fairy pantomime? There were
plumed cocoanut trees and curious
palms. great banks of flowers in one
place and regular English sward in an
other, trailing vines and bare, hot look
ing places, and here and there patches of
neglected land, which looked dry and
arid. 1t was evident at first view of the
houses that the old was still struggling
with the new, for regular New England
cottages with green blinds and stone
structures were mingled with mere huts
OF straw and tolerably solid adobe build
ings like those had become accustomed
to at Salt Lake City.
My first impression on entering the
place was that all the true natives had
gone off in their canoes, for we at first
encountered none but Chinese and other
apparently Asiatic people, and then
Portuguese, Frenchmen and few Eng
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
THE WORLDS eRANDEs1 VOLCANO
How the Lava Made Hawaii-Wild Life
Thereabouts.


Thereabouts.
have no spite against the reader Of
this article. / shall therefore not add
one to the 200 and odd descriptions of
Kilauea now extant. As the raw attor-
ney who began his maiden speech by tell
ing what the common law is was direct
ed by the Judge ''to assume that this
court knows something and not be SO ar
rogantly instructive" so | shall assume
that the reader has read the old Fifth
Reader, and the usual Sunday school
books, and at least one general work OF
travel, and that ne takes at least one
good weekly paper, in which case he
must have seen half dozen descriptions.
| will only say that of the many have
read since leaving the islands that OF
Mark Twain seems to me the best, and
then go on to mention few points
which astunished me and are not gener-
ally mentioned in the accounts.
The first Is the course of the lava.
nad an i.tna that it dashed down the
mountain SIDE IN mad torrent, but
il doesn't At any rate it n: yer does I'M
less when the quantity liz enormous and
while it Is still SO hot as to maintain
great fimdily Almost always-always
in small strealIs-it maintains a sluggish
flow. like warm tar or thin mush, and
as it flows the surface is rapidly cooling
and forming a sort of case. The molten
interior bursts up through this, and the
outflow cools again, and this is repeated
SO often that moderate stream OF lava
often assumes the appearance OF great
cylinder slowly creeping down. Even
when the outside seems comparatively
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
ANDREW CARNEGIE has made a ge

ANDREW CARNEGIE has made gen
erous offer to the charitably inclined
citizens of Pittsburgh. He offers to du-
plicate all subscriptions to the relief of
the needy for the next two months, the
only restrictions that he will not con
tribute more than $4,000 per working
day or $250,000 in all. Carnegie has
been more abused by those men whom
the gift is designed to help than any
other employee Of labor in the country
but after this they will certainly ac-
knowledge that he is not as black as
they have printed him.
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cool the thing is really an enormous
tube. down the interior of which the hot
and pasty lava is slowly forcing its way.
And this is the reason few or no lives
are lost in an ordinary eruption. One
can walk up to the advanced end of the
stream, gather little of it on an iron
rod, press it into mold of any desired
shape, and all without danger, and this
though the cylinder or tube may be 10
feet thick. The second fact that aston
ished me was the location of the crater.
Mauna Loa is the mountain and Kilauea
is the crater, and Kilauea is not really
on Mauna Loa-that is, not on top of it.
1t is indeed but one-third as high, and,
so far as sea level is concerned. no higher
than Salt Lake City. 1t is, so to speak,
a boil on the flank of Mauna Loa, and
yet the crater itself does not overflow
When the lava pressure becomes too
great to be restrained, it breaks out some
where away down the mountain side.
By and by, the rock sharps" say, it will
burst out away off shore, and then we
shall have an addition to Hawaii
Another fact, and very surprising
fact indeed to me, was that the nearer
one gets to the volcano the more heath
enish the natives are. This little fact
.stumps my philosophy" as they say at
Harvard, but it certainly is fact. In
the islands of Kauai, Oahu and Maui !
did not see sign in the common life of
the people that there had ever been idol
airy there, but with every miles travel
toward the volcano | saw more signs
till, as we emerged from the forest on the
rock fiat near the hotel, our native at
tendants showed themselves regular Pele
fanatics. Even "Old Antony" the guide,
recommended to US especially for his
Christian character, "backslid" when he
saw the smoke and hinted that it might
be as well to gather some berries to offer
as a sacrifice. This comical retrogres-
sion in faith equally with progression in
altitude reminded me of the formula in
use in Texas when l was there in 1867:
81 There is no Sunday west of the Trinity,
no law west of the Brazos and no God
west of the Colorado"
They say that the topography is the
cause of this local backsliding. Maybe
so, but it is almost impossible to de-
scribe the topography. In truth, very
large part Of Hawaii consists of high
tableland inclosed in sort of triangle
between the three great mountain peaks
of Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Mauna
Hualalai, and this plateau is dreadful
wilderness of tropical vines and giant
trees, growing among and hiding i'm
mense rocks and crevices, with here and
there bare field of splintered lava or
loose ashy stuff, and more rarely a fertile
little valley. In this region the cattle
introduced by early voyagers have left
progeny as wild as any buffalo of the
olden time and much more dangerous
But along the borders of the island, the
north especially, are some wonderfully
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history with Cooks voyage A hundred
years before that the islands were visited
by white men and many times between
that date and Cooks visit White men
lived on the islands even before Kane
hameha's reign. They had introduced
many improvements, and he had the as
sistance of some of them in his wars.
He was succeeded by five kings of his
blood, who took his name as a title, but
were known by other names. Of these
Alexander died in 1868, and Lot late in
1872, William Lunalilo taking the crown
in January, 1878. David Kalakaua was
elected to succeed him in 1874, and in
1891 he died and gave place to Liliuoka-
lani
Now, the old royal line expired as
aforesaid with King Lot, and as King
Bill and Kalakaua, though of ancient
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04

In one sense money is scarce and in
another sense it was never more plenti-
full. The banks are full of it, the
trouble being that no one wants to
borrow it. No investments are being
made now because no man can form an
idea what the end will be. Everyone is
pursuing hand to mouth policy, afraid
to venture on anything until the tariff
matter is settled.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04

If there were more millionaires like
Mr.. Carnegie to come forward in the
present distress and furnish means to
support the unemployed during the
winter there would be less cause to
comment ou the niggardliness of such
men. The fault with most men is that
as long as they have an abundance for
themselves they care little how the rest
cf the world fares.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04

THE usual treatment of catarrh is very
unsatisfactory, as thousands can testify.
Proper local treatment is positively nee
essary to success, bnt many, if not most
of the remedies in general use afford
temporary relief. A cure certainly can
not be expected from snuffs, powders,
douches and washes. Ely's Cream
Balm, which is so highly commended,
is remedy which combines the i'm
portant requisites of quick action,
specific curative powder, with perfect
safety and pleasantness to the patient.
The druggists all sell it.