Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-09-14
Hawaiian
Hardware
Comply.
August so. 1894.
August so. 1894.

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Expense attached to getting out q
paper and the trials and tribuIa-
tions of the editor and frequent
loss of money to the owners
The d faculties which be set the
paths of newspaper people vary
according to locality; in the
Nothern States. where there are
mine mouths winter and three
months very late fall" it frequent
ly HAPPENS that the roads are
blockaded with snow, just about
the time Se paper supply is ex-
hauSted, SO the editor has TO fall
back on his polished-snrf ce
book paper to get out his edition
In yicksburg. Mississippi, away
back in the sixties an entire stock
of wall paper was used in getting
out a weekly paper, newspaper
was not obtaiDable.
In some places the people will
demand e maximum OF news.
Geographic and local at a min
imum price, and then want to pay
their subscription and advertis-
ing bills in wood or vegetables.
But when Saturday night comes
around the gentle and ungentle
compositor rebels, when he is of
fered anything. but coin in pay
ment for his services, and this
accounts for the fact that half
the editors in United States are
troubled with insomnia We
have known compositors In coun-
try towns to actually refuse to
live on a diet of roller compost
and strike if the editor would not
divide the contents of the paste
pot.
In Honolulu, things are differ
ent; paper is manufactured in
California, aud the ocean never
freezes so hard that the vessel
can't run, SO there is no delay
there III getting stock of paper;
the typos usually meet the
business Managers on Saturday
with broad smile which they
give in exchange for good gold
coin, and the editors who do not
wear search lights in their shirt
fronts leave them off, because
they do not wish to be mistaken
by tourists for capitalists. The
compositors, too, are Of better
class than you will find on the
Pacific Coast; they dress better,
live better and are better citizens
than you will find in other places,
even at twelve and half cent beer
is not indictment enough for
them to take on jig.
Ii there is anything that will
set off the appearance of u home,
good hanging Lamps is the
thing. We have a new stock of
La5pps that is. SO varied in STYLES
and prices that we can suit the
tastes and purses of everyone.
The burners. which is really
more important than the decora.
tons, nave been selected with a
to securing the most powerful
light with the least possible
amount OF heat. We offer these
to the public at prices suf-
ticiently low TO induce more peo-
pie to buy than we have Lamps
to sell.
Garden Hose is as much
necessity as a telephone. The
long stretches of dry weather kills
the grass unless it is irr gated
and yon cannot very we'll ilrlya,e
unless yon have Hose, the water
supply is meagre bat with little
conssving one can always get
anongh to keep the grass aud
plants alive.
Table Knives, Carvers. Spoons |
and Forks are cheaper than they |
have ever been before and We /
have "a big stock OF them. The /
KNIVES ale the best made in the /
States and the Spoons and Forks |
the best qnadrnp plate. These /
Will last as long as solid ware that
costs four or fss times as much.
We keep always fail line of /
.hese goods and can sapply any
demand.
We neglected to mention when
writing about Garden Hose that
xe have quantity Of the latest +
improved sates sprllkssrs that |
80 can sell very cheap aud which
ira bound to give s-.sisfactIyd. Is
or no other reason ti,.n 49, w,I,