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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

THEY might laugh at us in the
States for sending up a special
steamer unless it conveys definite
and positive official information or
is dispatched purely as business
enterprise. The spectacle might
make us laugh at ourselves.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

"Was your poem on Springs Advent
accepted by The Asterisk?"
"No; you see Isigned it 'Yblirt, and
the editor, who, Ike I'll old men, is al.
ways looking backward, sent it buck,
with the remark that his readers had
had all the Trilby they could stagger
under, and he couldn' I afford to lose any
more Subscribers, Wasn't it mem?'--
Boston TRANSCRIPT
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

In Amsterdam recently mer-
chant was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment at hard labor for
having spoken in disrespectful
manner about the Queen Regent
among circle of acquaintance in
the foyer Of theater.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

The 'zfser explains that it meant
Chino had 90, 900 tons Of beets and
not sugar. We presume that here
after the '7fser will give figures on
Hawaiian production in tons Of
cane instead of tons of sugar.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

THE British Medical Association
has endorsed the new small-caliber
rifles as more humane than guns
sending heavy projectiles. The
army men agree that the new
weapons are more effective than
the old
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

To "pile on agony" is popularity sup
posed TO be an Americanism. 1t is,
however, found in one of the letters Of
Charlotte Bronte and was used in Eng
lish popular literature before the Begin
ming Of the present century
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

What this country wants is bichlc-
ride OF squareness squirted into the veins
Of half the population that win make
them pay their debts like men, instead
Of sneaking around corners to avoid
meeting their creditors. Alden Ad-
vance.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

The cold of Canada seems to diminish
with an increase of population. Between
1898 and 1887 Illusions bay was closed
an average of 1874 days every year; now
it's ice lasts l79 days.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

THE attempt of the French Gov
eminent to stop bull-fghts in the
South of France has been a COM
plete failure.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24
AngnSf ~, 1895.

~
A book of Mark Twain's that
is seldom mentioned is The
Golden Age" 1t was written
in collaboration with Charles
Dudley Warner and is by
many regarded as one of the
very best works of the Ian
guage. The play of "Col. Sci
lers" in which the actor John L.
Raymond made such great
success, was taken from "The
Golden Age" Perhaps the
public has thought there was
little in the book besides Col.
Sellers. This is a great mis-
take. Col. Sellers is merely
one of score of characters.
| The real feature is its story of
Washington life. Half of the
best sketches on lobbying and
: the workings of the depart
0 ments of the government of
$ the United States are cribbed
from "The Golden Age"
i. Mark Twain is a living exam
! plar of the truism that few of
e the good writer's have any
business ability. He became
= a partner in big publishing
house and all hands made
money off his work. The COM
i pany brought out the Grant
memoirs and thought it had a
? diamond field with free mill
e ing gold quartz quarry on the
! side. The memoirs of Sherman
and Sheridan did not take at
1t all and the company failed. In
d the general wreck the claims
: were lodged against Mark
u Twain and he was shorn like q
sheep by machinery. The per
manent financial successes Of
y life are not great many
: This is probably because SC
= many of them fail to figure
IS that there is really such a thing
as money market.
We have wheels to burn al
to Chimmie Fadden would say
. By constant writing anc
n pleading we have convinced thu
lie Monarch people that we mus
l. have more wheels and our or.
ders mast be filled in full, so al
-, to enable us to supply the de
Or mand for these celebrated
is wheels. We have always rul
lie out long before the next ship
W ment arrived and it is evel
Al hard to convince a prosperity
buyer that we do not like t.
mt sell the last sample we hav
as and induce him to wait fe,
~ days for the arrival of more
,st When people want Monarc
ad they want it bad-must hav
it at once. Now we think W
have enough of all kinds t
$ carry us along until the mex
for shipment. The manufacturer
FIJI can not turn wheels out fas
mt enough to supply the deman
in and try to satisfy all agents b
sending them all a few
he but they have needed on
ial urgent demand and sent OF
lite full order.
or We have, besides lot of tn
p. No. 9 and No. 10, some 5000
ladies wheels, which we hay
been asked for SO often.
ma, The racing fraternity ca
tep now inspect the merits of ii
an Monarch Is ID. racing machin
lg- We have two and we want q
" the boys to come in and ia
:; about them. You know "
have said our $4,000 Monars
was inst as good as the hie
nee priced wheel, only not 50 fine
ale finished-it is just the san
for material, put together in IL
but same careful manner, and W
. to stand as much stain and wea
raj.
icle
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

One of the most remarkable churches
is to be found at Freudenthal, in the
Black Forest 1t is built on such q plan
that the men are unable TO see the won-
en-, and vice versa, for it is composed Of
two wings, which meet at an angle
where the pulpit stands The right wing
is allotted to men, and the Left one TO
the women of the congregation. Berlin
Letter
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

CAPTAIN CAREY is very I'M
satisfactory carrier.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

Algiers is so called from the Arabic
words AL .lezair, meaning IA peninsu
Ia
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24

SEARcHERs for cholera might
try a STAR want ad.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-24
THE HAWAIIAN LAND tNO IMPROVE
NENT COMPANY, LIMITED
IL now prepared 70 sell
Coffee and Fruit Lands

s6EAsU, Rsgand OF Hawaii,
In Lots to suit Purchasers.
Parties de ring to buy land can do 40
upon the
lNsTALLMENr PLAN,
paying for same in monthly INSTALL
mcnts.
q Call and examine the map of the
land for SALE.
For prospectors and information apply
1T she Office Of the Company. EDWIN a
JOKES Secretary, in the
SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY'S OFFICE
50s FoRT STREET, HoNoLuLu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
Tardy Election Results.

Tuesday of last week the people of Balti-
more chose a common council and six days
later the members of this local legislature
assembled and perfected their organization,
SO that one week from their election they
were ready to carry out the expressed will of
the voters. This is vast improvement over
the method in vogue in national affairs.
More than a year ago the people of the
country voiced at the polls an overwhelm-
ing sentiment in favor of the republican
party and elected House Of Representa-
tives and virtually Senate composed in
the majority of members Of that party. Not
until December. thirteen months after their
election, will these representatives of the
people take their seats and begin to produce
the actual results of that election. Mean
while the conditions that led to the general
change of sentiment as thus expressed might
, have been reversed. and in such an event
there would be presented the Improbable
and undesirable spectacle of country bur-
dened with an unwelcome Congress passing
unpopular laws. The wave of republican,
ism, 1t so chances this season, has not
abated. so that this dilemma Is happily
averted, but the danger is a recurring one.
The system Of permitting so long period
to elapse between the election and the serv-
Ice of the legislators is a relic of the days
when the country was poorly provided with
means of communication and transporta-
ton. and when, therefore. the members of
Congress were unable to reach Washington
until long after their election. legislative
enactment to remedy this defect in the
American organization would doubtless be
welcomed by majority of the people, while
1t might alarm those who fear that it would
result in radical laws by giving hasty ex-
preston to the wishes of a somewhat excit-
able voting public. American legislators of
today do not need an entire year In which to
cool off after the heat and excitement of an
al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
Is Russia PlOttingf

Although the Armenian disturbances
have grown extremely serious the sultan
has taken no praC teal steps to quell the
outbreaks, but seems to be holding his
chief military strength in reserve. He con-
tfnues to fling insults at the British govern
ment in the form of preferences and honors
granted to officials whose actions in the
Armenian riots have made them especially
offensive to the English minister and the
latters return from London to Constanti-
nople is awaited with concern for it is ex-
pected that this event will precipitate the
crisis. The entire chain of circumstances
has been such as to give rise to suspicion
that Russia has secretly prompted the sui
tan to assume this offensive course, and
the suggestion is made that the cars
ministers are not really DESTROYS of a solu-
ton of the problem by the appointment of
an international commission through the
combined and Irresistible pressure of the
powers to govern at first the disturbed dis
tricts and eventually, 1t is thought, to con-
troll the Bosphorus. Russias access to the
Mediterranean by the Black Sea Is easier
under Turkish control Of the all-important
straits than it would be under the interna-
tioDal government of the Bosphorus. If
the sultan's conduct should result in war
Russia would be much in evidence in the
fighting, and would hope at the end of the
struggle to seize upon the tempting prize
of Constantinople, and thus crafty an
ancient ambition, and gain the vantage
point which is essential to future Suprem-
acy as a naval power. Russia wants no
one to displace Turkey at the Bosphorus
but herself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16

Mr.. Simon Wolf has. in his recently pub
lished volume, The American Jew as Pa
triot, Soldier and Citizen" effectually dis
proved the charge made against the people
of his religion and race that they were not
to be found among the country's defenders
during the civil war. This charge was I'M
just and, in the light of Mr.. VOLTS thorough
researches. appears to have been founded
only upon an unthinking prejudice. Forum
ately Mr.. Wolf was in position to demons
trate beyond cavif the fact that the Hebrews
have always been prominent in periodically
upholding the best interests of the nation.
and the volume that he presents Is a notable
addition to the historical literature of the
day. 1t is especially interesting to Wash
ingtonlans not only because MIR. Wolf is an
honored resident of the capital but from GER
tain pleasing references to some of the lead
ing citizens of the capital, who are men,
toned for their participation in the great
struggle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
The lexington Grade Crossings.

While. owing to technicality, the Ecking-
ton Embarrassing case in the Police Court
was not brought to conclusion yesterday,
Judge Kimball indicated very clearly that
he should hold the railroad company re-
sponsible for the safety of the people using
the crossing in dispute. The contention CT
the company is that this crossing does not
fall within the range of their liability as
1t Is not really street at the point of in
tersection. but bit of land belonging to the
corporation which 1t permits the community
to use. Judge klmball holds that this con-
flnued use Of the passage way across the
, tracks constitutes a thoroughfare to the ex-
tent that protection is necessary. and he
believes that the railroad company is the
legitimate agent to provide such protection
The Inference from this ruling Is that the
railroad company, by its failure to confine
Its property within fences and to prevent the
growth of a public custom, has involved
Itself in quite as much responsibility for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16

safety of the users of the crossing as though
it were in the eyes of the law an urban
street. 1t Is no argument to contend that
1t would require. in the words of the railroad,
IAN army of men, to prevent the use Of the
crossing by the citizens. If the railroad
company has the title to this land in per-
feet form it could lawfully have enclosed it
by fence and protected it by legal process
from trespass until the courts had ordered
1t condemned as public street. But single
Waterman will suffice to relieve the company
from the responsibility which now rests
upon it for all accidents at this and similar
crossings. The citizen who disregards the
warning of a flagman takes the risk of disas-
ter in his own hands, so that the crossings
may be legally protected by the employment
Of a very small army" indeed.
Even if the railroad officials were con-
WINGED that the law and the facts would
not sustain prosecution based upon the
unprotected condition of these grade cross
ings, it was unwise for the railroad to per-
NIT the question to get into the criminal
courts by evading a reasonable responsible
ity upon bubbles and techncalites. These
are in fact grade-crossings at which the
lives of men and women are in fact endan-
gered. ard the railroad ought promptly TO
supply them with the customary safeguards.
The Commissioners should press upon the
District committees of Congress the neces-
sty of speedily passing some such measure
as that which was known last session as
Senate bill 1898, requiring all the steam
railroad companies entering the city TO
equip all grade crossings with safety gates
and guards, and this should be made to in
clude the populous suburbs. They should
also urge the immediate consideration and
enactment of legislation fixing an early date
for the absolute termination of the entire
Embarrassing system. 1t appears that in
no other way will the desired result ever be
obtained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
Gen. CrniEhilPs Local Recommends
lions.

Cen CraiehilI's annual report as CHER OF
Engineers Of the army contains several items
of IMPORTANCE to the District but 1t Is an un-
fortunate fact for which, however, neither
Gen. Craighill nor his predecessor in oihce
Is responsible. that VIII few exceptions the
local end of this document reads very Ia
miliarly and consists of recommendations
that have been repeated from year TO year.
The estimate for local work contains a rec
pmmendation that the Long Bridge be re-
built. Gen Craighill plainly sees the dan
ger threatened by this bridge to local inter-
asts, a danger that Is discernible, too. by
those who have no acquaintance with the
"details of engineering problems. The annual
outflow of ice past the city is regularly
recurring menace to hundreds of lives and
millions of dollars in property value The
railroad should long ago have removed this
dangerous bridge and erected modern
structure in It's place. The delay from year
to year only increases the danger as the
bridge is becoming more and more out of re-
pair and the distractions in the channel
that are facetously known among the army
engineers as the Mountains of the Po-
tomac' are growing in size. These obstacles
to the free flow of the current are formed
from the cobble stones that have been
thrown into the river to protect the old piers
Of the bridge and the silt that has accu-
5hulated in the course of years.
Gen. Craighilrs recommendation that the
aats should be preserved for park purposes
and not be given to commercial uses is i'm
portant in that 1t shows that he fully agrees
with the citizens as well as with the pro-
jectors of the great enterprise of retaining
the partly submerged bottom lands. Such
a park will be beautiful ornament to the
city and in future years will be of great
value as a pleasure spot. The city cannot
have too many parks If they are properly
maintained and when the Eastern Branch
has been dredged and its bottom lands re-
claimed in the same way the river front
of Washington will compare most favorably
with that Of any other city in .he country.
The chief Of engineers has made another ex-
cellent suggestion in the estimate for i'm
proving the Anacostia river which should
years ago have been rescued from its pres
ent useless condition, caused by the gradual
filling in Of the channel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
The Unitarian.

The gaudy big chrysanthemum
Is chosen by the few,
But cabbages is larger, an
They makes better stew.
Er fancy pug dog costs ez much
Ez you may wanter pay;
But it's the knock-kneed mongrel pup
Ez skeers the tramps away.
The small canary in the cage
May please the ear and eye,
But it's the good old barnyard fowl
That makes the chicken pie.
It's mighty good ter realize
That nature makes it SO;
It's easier ter take comfort than
1t is ter make a show.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16

II see," said the man who wears look
of patient resignation every day and Sun.
day too, that they claim they can save
the railroad companies millions and millions
of dollars in coal bills by rigging their en-
gines up with electricity"
"Thatll be great thing. won't it?''
II dunnos it will. With the gas COM
panies throwin' over coal an maxim gas
out O. most anything tibet comes along, an
the railroads quittin' on it, there won't be
nobody, after while. left fur the coal bosses
ter squeeze but us fellers with furnaces an
cook stoves ter run. An the idea of us
hustlln' single handed ter keep up the divi.
dends these folks require don't make me
a bit cheerfuller than was before. Not a
bit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
The Value of Free Transfers.

Philadelphia's free transfer war is having
a depressing effect upon the suburban prop
erty rendered. accessible by those lines of
street cars that were formerly at the service
OF the people without the burden of an extra
charge. Rentals have fallen off, and there
has begun a general movement back to town
on the part of those who had been attracted
to the outer districts in search of cheap
homes and pNre air. This shows what an
impolitic move the abolition of the transfer
system has been. The traction company is
virtually killing the goose that lays the
golden eggs. 1t Is destroying the business
that has built 1t up, and that forms the
bulk. doubtless, of its STEADY patronage.
The effect, too. Is bad on the people. They
are forced back into the unwholesome con-
dltions of the overcrowded city, and their
small holdings are deprecated in value by
the limitation thus placed upon the accessi-
bility Of the property. The outcome of the
fight cannot well be considered doubtful if
the people keep up the struggle in earnest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
Ex-spcaker Reed In Wall street.

From the New York Tribune.
Thomas B. Reed has been in Wall street
Oh and off the last two weeks, seeking the
views of leading bankers and financial men
upon the currency question, especially upon
the advisabiity of retiring the greenbacks.
One of the bank presidents with whom Mr..
Reed has been in consultation said yester-
day: Mr.. Reed has been surprised at the
general opposition of banking interests in
the street to wiping out the greenbacks.
His views, l understand, have been shaped
accordingly, and since, Speaker of the
next House, he will have a commanding
influence with the committees there is little
doubt that that influence will be exerted to
prevent legislation hostile to greenbacks."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
4 Good Time to Tackle the Grad
Crossings Problem.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr.. Thomas B. Reed cannot refuse the
speakership of the House of Representa-
tives but the question has been, What
will he do with it when ne gets it?' There
are so many new and ambitious republic
can members that there will be great dam
ger of tearing up national questions, such
as tariff, finance and foreign relations,
which would be disastrous to the presiden-
tial ambition which MIR. Reed so warmly
entertains. How to have session of Con-
grass without legislation, is the problem
which confronts this distinguished tyrant
Mr.. Reed ought to be thankful to the
Washington Star for its intelligent war on
railroad crossings at grade in the capital
city. 1t announces that the attention of
both houses of Congress will be called to
the matter early, and argues with empha-
sis for vigorous legislation. There is moth
ing else that creates so much and SCSsl
protracted excitement among the lawmak-
er3 as a bill pertaining to the rights or
privileges of railroad companies, and there
is no other city SO aftluent in trouble Of
this sort as Washington. If The Star can
keep the Congress Of the United States
acting ell winter as a town council it will
have done Mr.. Reed service that will en-
title every member Of Its staff to a diplo-
matio or consular post when the man from
Maine shall have become President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16

, Last nights demonstration at Convention
Hall. on the occasion of DR.. Whitman's
Installation as Columbians president, fur
nished convincing evidence both of the
enthusiasm of the students and of the
strong hold which the University has upon
the people Of Washington. DR.. Whitman's
address. in Its breadth of scholarly thought
and In its mastery delivery, suggested that
the University had made no mistake in it's
selection of a President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
THE WEEK.

Gen. Miles, commanding the army, in his
annual report pointed out the need of i'm
proved coast defenses. The United States
Supreme Court denied the motion to ad
vance the case of Broker Elverton f. Chap
man of New York, indicted for refusing to
testify before the Senate committee during
the sugar trust investigation. The plant
of the York. Pa, Wall Paper Com
pany was destroyed by fire, of supposed
incendiary origin, entailing loss Of $780,
0a0. Christian w. Schaeffer testified before
the commi ssioners of accounts in New York
that while a keeper of gambling houses he
paid disappointment Byrne5 fer protec-
t on. Ex-Congressnan Edward Wemple of
Amsterdam, N. Y, vas arrested on the
charge OF incendiaris n. Miss Pauline Payne
Whitney, daughter of eX-Secretary Whit
ney, and Mr.. Almeric Paget were married
taries Lamont and Herbert attended. judge
Lac1mbe. Ia New York, &C nfirmed the sale
of the Erie railway, which is in line with
the Morgan syndicate's plan of reorganiZa-
tiCn. A severe northeaSterly STERN did con-
siderable damage along the coast. In a COL
lis.on between the American bark William
Hales and the steamer Niagara during a
fog. the bark was sunk and five OF her
crew persisted. The senate investigating
committee of Pennsylvania, appointed to in
quire into alleged crookedness in the mu
taking testimony. The international con-
ference of the Young Women's Christian
Association was held in Brooklyn. The
death of State Senator Pinkney j. Ben
rett Of Carroll county. Md, makes pos
sible a tie in the state senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16

The Sultan Of Turkey is unfortunate in
his surroundings of Anticipated tradition.
If he had been at the head Of a republican
form of government he would never have
been allowed to hold himself up to the gaze
of nations the champion political back
number
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
Mutual Admiration,

"Bykins' wife thinks he is a wonderfully
smart man. remarked friend of the fam
lily.
YES: it Is very happy arrangement.
She thinks he Is a wonderfully smart man
and he thinks she must be a very smart
woman to realize how smart he is, and they
get along beautifully"