Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-09-05
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Hardware
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August 80. 1894.

A t~fs 49,
| The thousands and thosands of
people who read the daily papers
and get the news happenings
from the four quarters of earth,
Ido so with little thought of the
Expense attached to getting out a
paper and the trials and tribula-
tons of the editor and frequent
loss of money to the owners
The difficulties which be set the
paths of newspaper people vary
according to locality; in the
Nothern States, where there are
''nine months winter and three
months very late fall. it frequent
ly happens that the roads are
blockaded with snow, just about
the time the paper supply is ex-
hausted, so the editor has to fall
back on his polished-surface
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
ont weekly paper. newspaper
was not obtainable.
In some places the people will
demand e maximum of news.
telegraphic and local at 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, and the ocean never
freezes so hard that the vessel
can't run, so there is no delay
there Ill getting stock of paper;
the typos usually meet the
business Managers on Saturday
with a 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 a 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 inducement enough for
them to take on Jag
If there is anything that will
set off the appearance of a home,
a good hanging Lamps is the
thing. We have new stock of
Lamps 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-
tions, have been selected with
to securing the most powerful
light with the least possible
amount of heat. We offer these
to the public at prices suf-
ficiently low to induce more peo-
pie to buy than We have Lamps
to sell.
Garden Hose is as much a
necessity as telephone. The
long stretches of dry weather kills
the grass unless it is irrigated
and you cannot very we'll irrigate
unless you have Hose, the water
supply is meagre but with little
conniving one can always get
enough to keep the grass and
plants alive.
Table Knives, Carvers, Spoons
and Forks are cheaper than they
have ever been before and we
have big stock of them. The
Knives are the best made in the
States and the spoons and Forks
the best quadrnpie plate. These
will last as long as solid ware that
costs four or FIVE times as much.
We keep always full line of
these goods and can supply any
demand.
We neglected to mention when