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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-07-05
FOREIGN ITEMS.

mere is no BOlu In OklanOIna'
Professor Huxley is seriously i'll.
The Cuban revolution is still un-
suppressed.
Lord Colin Campbell OF divorce
notoriety is dead.
More survivors from the Colima
have been rescued.
War between Russia and Japan is
looked upon as probable.
The Kiel canal was opened sue
cessfully on June 10th.
A secret treaty has been made be-
tween France and Russia.
Joseph Macdonough, millionaire
OF San Francisco, is dead.
DR.. Jolly of Dublin has discovered
how to photograph in natural
colors.
The war indemnity fro n China to
Japan has not yet been arranged as
loan.
Charles Fair has brought suit
against the trust provisions OF his
fathers will.
Professor George Davidson of the
Coast geodetic survey has been re-
moved by the President.
A pigeon post has been establish
ed between Los Angeles and Santa
Catalina Island.
Jean de Reszke, the celebrated
tenor, is to marry Partisan society
lady, the Comptesse Msillie.
Phillip P Phillips, the singing
evangelist, is dead. He made SlO,-
100000 but lost it in business.
The Duke OF Aosta, nephew of
King Humbert of Italy, is married
to Princess Helene of Orleans.
The Treasury gold reserve has
topped the Sl00,000,00O mark for the
first time since December, 1894.
Inspector Mclaughlin of New
York Lexow committee notoriety,
goes TO Sing Sing for two years.
Russell Sage loses a fourth trial
for $4,000 damages to Laidlaw, his
shield in the dynamite explosion.
The German government is said
to desire an island coaling station
from the Venezuelan government.
In about so years the Pacific Mail
S. S. Co. has lost 25 steamers at
tended with the loss OF 1900 lives.
Walter Lambert, the embezzlipg
Police Court clerk of Oakland, was
found guilty by the jury in five
minutes
Professor Koe oele has found a
parasite for Colorado potato beetle,
and two new Japanese lady birds for
citrus trees.
Rosebery is out and Salisbury is
now Minister OF Foreign Affairs and
Premier. Parliament is expected to
be dissolved.
The U. s. government is pressing
Mora's claim against Spain and sat-
isfactlon for the murder OF Renton
in Honduras.
| The Democratic State Convention
Of Kentucky has endorsed Cleve-
land and Carlislie. The free silver
men were defeated.
Admiral Saldanha da Cana, the
leader Of the Brazilian revolutionists
in Rio Grande do Sui, is dead, whe-
ther by suicide or torture is uncer-
tain.
The Peralta Reavis claim OF over
100000 acres of land in Arizona,
after about 30 years OF litigation has
ended in the arrest OF Reavis on cri-
al,
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nished inside the exclusive and
democratic palace grounds. What
howl by the way in the days Of
the monarchy whenever shines" we're
apparently drawn and exclusive
methods said to be adopted,
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methods SAID to be adopted.
The scandalous affair at the liter
ary exercises at Independence Park
yesterday has been deeply regretted;
and to the honor Of the American
colony here a verdict OF general dis
approval Of the Rev Joe Cooks
conduct. has been rendered. And
yet we are inclined to think that the
man has been rather sinned against
than sinned himself Cook is
lecturer of international fame. He
is man Of mediocre ability, super
fetal chump who tries to initiate Dr.
Samuel Johuson, but who lacks all
the necessary ability to do so. He
lacks refinement, discretion and pro-
priety and the blunders made by
him are innumerable. But he was
che honored guest Of A. F. Judd.
The label Of responsibility was past
ed on the fellow when the pompous
little judge-not renowned himself
for tact or discretion, pointed his
appraising hand towards Cook aud
told his clique to fall down and ad-
mire him, and they did. Mr.. Judd
used Mr.. Cooks foreign prestige and
native eloquence to express his own
opinions. He did it once too often
and the scandal Of yesterday re-
bounds on the head of the ever
meddling, political Judge of the
republic. Cook, the chump, knew
nothing of Hawaiian politics. He
talks for a fee and he knows not
what he talks about. Judd furnish
ed the theme, and Judd is to blame
Tor spelling the official part OF yes
terday's celebration and forcing
Cook to disappear like a whipped
cur, chastised by a true American
gentleman, among Unsurpassed his
ses and shouts of derision. Exit
Cook. When will the other follow
his example?
Time will show if the policy of
the government in ardoning less
than fifty of the political prisoners
is wise or not. We still maintain
that this partial act of grace will
rather tend TO increase the hostile
feeling than to ameliorate it. The
friends of the political prisoners yet
held feel extremely bitter against
the administration, and all attempts
at reconciliation are for the present
fruitless. 1t is rumored that certain
members Of the council Of state
caused the limited pardons, while
the cabinet with the exception of
Mr.. Hatch favored general pardon
or at least a more methodical and
extensive system than the one now
used. The communication of senten-
I css is ridiculous. 1t is adding in
suit to injury. Does Mr.. Dole ex-
poets to stay in power for the next
l5 yearss When, then, are we going
to get annexations The government
has disappointed the majority that
was willing to be friendly. Ii it
will be winners by 1t the future will
show.
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FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1894.
TOPICS OF The DAY.

1t is largely reported in San Fran
cisco that a certain wealthy mer-
chant in Honolulu has bought a
large block of government bonds
frym the present cabinet at 25 per.
cant. discount, Are there any more
at that figure? Can't we get in too'
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The Police Court is mostly occu
pied by melting out justice or at
least punishment to Chinese fan-tan
aud pakspio gamblers. How about
batting on the race track
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Minister Willis gained more
friends yesterday than he has previ-
ously done since his arrival here.
His prompt aud determined action
iu suppressing the R-v. Cook, who
abused the American Government,
was highly commended not only by
those present but by everybody who
owes allegiance to the great Repub
lie or admires its government. The
official organ even, which is friendly
to Judd, the sponsor OF the tactless
speaker, has not dared to withhold
its approval Of the stand taken by
the American Minister. Mr.. Willis
has not alone upheld the dignity OF
his high office but he proven him
self perfect gentleman and- true
American.
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The change in the English cabi-
net has Of course been foreseen for
sometime. To have the, conserva-
tives in power again is great salts
faction to the many people here,
who believe the in independence of
Hawaii. A vigorous foreign policy
will undoubtedly now be pushed,
and the claims of British subjects
in Hawaii recently subjected to out
RACES will be pushed. The report
that the Duke of Devonshire (Lord
Hartington) will take the Presi.
dency OF the Council is another en-
couragement, and there are now
some prospects that the Hawaiian
muddle will be finally settled be
tween the Cleveland and Salisbury
administrations.
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The situation" in Hawaii cannot
be better illustrated than by refer
ring to the fireworks last night as
advertised by the committee. They
displayed
President Dole ,...... .6xl2 feet.
Republic OF Hawaii .6xl2 feet.
Annexation ...... .2xS feet
Good Night Ito them alD....
............ -. .2xS feet.
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j. S. WALKER,
General Agent for Hawaiian Islands
sprecsels Block Honolulu, H.
INSURANCE COMPANY LIVERPOOL.
ALLIANCE ASSURANCE COMPANY
INSURANCE FRANCISCO
MAGDEBURG COMPANY
NORTHWESTERN MARINE LIFE COMPANY
s"
INSURANCE COMPANY
Life, Fire and Marine Risks Taken at Reasonable Rates.
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The police are inclined to be
somewhat oficious if not efficient.
Yesterday morning an officer threat
eued woman with crying baby
aud stated loudly mo crying
babies permitted on the sidewalk"
In the afternoon at the race track,
a mounted policeman got hopelessly
drunk IN had his badge removed.
In the evening the people looking
at the fireworks and standing at the
palace side of the square were
"noved on, because they obstruct-
ed the view of the privileged per-
sons TO whom chairs had been fur
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divorce, murder or suicide, we mechan-
ically turn to see what form and aspect the
brilliant cartoonist has by this time given
to the coming creature.
However, growing rather tired of these
present date newspaper heroines, l have
been comparing notes on both sides of the
sex line. In looking over old fashion
books | find that mems fashions and freaks
have been as extreme and erratic as
women's. Going back as far as our great
grandfathers one sees how much the styles
of men and women resemble or in some
way follow the same ideas. In illustration
No / they are both "all of a size" from
head to foot, were the man a little more
elaborate as to shoulders. In No. 2 our
great-grandfather and our grandmother
are in the evening attire of their respec-
tive generations. Which is more ridicu-
lous, the comical pointed hat, the dark
blue velvet long-tailed coat with lace shirt
frills and wrist rufies, the yellow satin
knee breeches, the purple silk hose, the
patent leather slippers, with their diamond
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skillful fingers being considered elegant.
These ties come in brilliant brocades of
both delicate and pronounced design, but
black is and always will be popular.
American men, particularly New York
ers are rapidly acquiring the art of Gre
ating their own fashions without being
chained down to European fashions. What
is worn and adopted as fashionable in
New York Is as often accepted as set
fashion as the fashions set by society
leaders in Paris and London.
Gentlemen's walking sticks are made to
be useful as well as ornamental. From
one a silk umbrella can be drawn and
screwed to the stick. Another contains
measure for the height OF horses, and has a
spirit-level attachment. Still another has
areceptacIe for n1ckels and pennies, con-
venience for those who ride in streetcars
and cross ferries. Another beautifully
carved and quantity shaped stick comes
with a perfectly constructed little watch
set in a crystal handle.
The question of gloves for men is much
discussed one at present. If a man have
a presentabIe, well-kept hand it is good
form TO leave it uncovered; and gentlemen,
when presenting themselves on ceremoni-
Gus occasions with gloves on, are allowed
to remove them at their pleasure. As to
color. pearl tinted, with Substituting, ac-
company full evening dress, but the law
governing gloves is not arbitrary, great
freedom as to color and, as a matter OF fact,
wearing them at all, being granted more
and more. ALICE MOORE MCCoMAs.
Copyrighted, 1895, by R. Garner Curran.
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ing the desired result. The bicycle dress,
having given women taste of sensible,
comfortable gowning, the bloomer or some
similarly free habit of dress will be adopted
for general use. There is at least fair
prospect that through this innovation they
will learn to dress sensibly. comfortably
and beautifully on all occasions.
AS to the modesty, which is worrying so
many old dowagers, that, like beauty, is,
as far as dress is concerned, upon an arti-
fetal standard, susceptible to great variety
of opinion. The lady who would not be
seen in boomers may appear in the ball
room in costume conspicuous for its brew
ity oftbodice that would shock the delicate
sensibilities of the little woman doctor who
bikes" about in her sober-colored bloom
ers. Another lady, not too modest to talk
so loud in the street-cars as to attract the
attention of all the passengers, declares in
shrillest tones that she 'would not be
caught dead with those horrid bloomers
on" at the very time she is wearing a
mans hat, mans four-in-h hand tie, a
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expect to be able to compete with men in
any business. While women are slaves of
fashion-as men contend they are-there
is little hope OF political or industrial
emancipation.
After a serious contemplation of all this
it is relief to turn to the bloomer girl
No. Z and her generous brother, who takes
her by the hand and welcomes her into a
freedom of which woman has never before
dared to dream. All sensible, progressive
wonderland men, too-hail the advent of
the bicycle, not only as a source of health
full amusement, but as an emancipation of
woman from the thralldom of fashionable
dress. They are convinced that the infiu-
ence of the bicycle is far more puissant
than all the dress-reform agitation that
has been going on for fifty years. Mrs.
Bloomer, who first wore the reform dress
and for whom this costume is named,
would rejoice to see on every country road
and city street the once despised garments
with which she hoped to benefit her sex.
1t is too bad she could not have lived few
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buckles, of our great grandfather or the
''sky-scraper" bonnet with its dropping
pink or blue feathers. the balIoon-shaped,
beruff1ed and betucked pettlcoats, the
pinched waist, which could be spanned by
a mans two hands, and paper-soled slip
pers of our grandmother?
Coming on down, through changes, from
one extreme to another, to the opening of
the Civil War, when Imitation" was the
we have tt the big hoopskirts Of 1T the ladies'
and their companion piece, the faring
coattails of the gentlemen. Following
upon the end OF the war, which brought
contraction" all over the land, the pre-
vailing style among women was the ''tie-
back and among men the tight panta-
loons--so tight about the knees that
"Chawlie boy" would rather lean up
against the fence than be compelled to sit
down.
There is not room in this article to illus
trate many of the vagaries of fashion as
handed down to US; but we find that
neither sex has discovered style that is
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at once beautiful, practical and comforta-

at once beautiful, practical and comforta-
BILE.
In 1892 the big pulled sleeves for women
and the baggy pants for men made their
first appearance. (No. SD But nothing in
all the fashion-plates can excel in real
ugliness the three figures in No. and
their utter absence of the truly artistic,
the originals of which we see daily in our
streets.
So far in the history of civilized dress
men have had the advantage of women in
comfort and general convenience. AS to
beauty, as we have come to regard it,
women have been supposed to have the
advantage. The ideal of beauty, however.
differs in different nations. In China the
little cramped foot of the helpless females
is an object OF beauty. In Abyssinia the
latest woman is the highest type of female
loneliness, while in the Congo the blacklist
is the fairest to look upon.
Much depends upon the opinion of
American men as to whether American
women are to dress more sensibly and
comfortably in the future. For this rea-
son women who believe in dress reform re-
lolce that SO many men of good judgment
favor the boomers for the bicycle
The day is not far distant when a picture
OF a woman in the present style of sleeve
and skirt will make us wonder that such
heathenish, health destroying garments
were ever acceptable to sane people BY
Notwithstanding / mean the tax on evelv
fashionable woman's nerves 10 keep her
sleeves in perfect order and the damage to
the vital organs from heavily boned and
LOADED" voluminous skirts, falling as
they do with their whole weight from the
hips.
The woman who wears the fullest and
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heaviest skirts SCOTS the loudest at the
idea of their being injurious, but she for
gets when she tells US how tired she is
after a short walk that we may draw
conclusion of our own from this self-same
skirt. No man living could be induced to
wear one week. And there are few
women who have had the courage to ignore
the fashion and never put one on; but l
am sorry to say they are sadly in the mi
nority.
Women can never be able to compete
with men in any business until they have
the good sense to dress comfortably. 1t is
not so much a difference in physical force
as the difference in dress and habits that
prevents women from doing the business
of men.
While their heads are weighted down
with the absurd millinery of the day, their
hands incased in skln-tight gloves, their
feet pinched into shoes too tight to admit
of quick, easy gait, their spine strained
and aching from heavy skirts land too
many of them) their waist and lungs COM
pressed by tight corsets, they need never
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back to your constituents and say you
have discharged your duty?
Mr.. McCarver-I withdraw the motion
to adjourn sine die.
The next day, however, a compromise
boundary was agreed on, and thus was
settled the most vexed and exciting ques-
ton before the convention. On October
IL the constitution was completed and
signed. Scarcely had the first man touched
his pen to the paper when the loud BOOM
ing of cannon resounded through the hall.
At the same moment the flags of the differ
ent headquarters, and on board the ship
ping in the port were slowly unfurled and
run up. AS the firing of the National
salute of thirty-one guns proceeded at the
fort, and the signing of the constitution
went on at the hall, the captain of an Eng
lish bark. then in port, paid a most beauti-
full and befitting compliment to the occa-
sion and the country, by hosting at his
main the American flag above those of
every other nation, making, at the mo-
ment that the thirty-frst gun was fired,
line of colors from the main truck to the
vessels deck. And when, at last, that
thirtv-tirst gun came-the first gun for CAL
ifornia three as hearty and as patriotic
cheers as ever broke from human lips
were given by the convention for the new
State. WINFIELD J. DAVIS.
sacramento, CAL, Septemb Der, 1895.
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SUMMER BUTTERFLIES
Fashions Shifting Moods De-
clare the Beautiful To-Day
Horrid Tomorrow.
DRESS, PAST AND PRESENT
What Woman's Apparel Has to Do
With Choice of Vocation-Some
Fashion Notes for Men.

All newspaperdom has gone daft on the
subject of female attire. When would-be
witty editors and news-hungry reporters
want to ring in a change on the new
woman, they make up the bloomer girl in
all her known and unknown phases. 1
wonder if there is paper in this country,
from the large daily spreadeagle that de-
votes from two to four pages in its Sunday
edition, with slighter daily sprinklings,
to the little one-sheet Bungtown Bugle,
with its silly slurs and sillier sober con-
siderations of the mIch-talked-of female,
that has not discussed the new woman and
what she is wearing.
Nowadays, when we pick up paper, be-
fore glancing at the foreign news, the latest
ideas on silver or even the last wedding,
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years longer to see the success of the
bloomer. she died only little over a
year ago.
1t is not too much to prophesy that.
through the influence of this noiseless little
machine 8 very few years from now women
will actually be able to walk without
sweeping the dirty streets and carrying the
filth of the sidewalks into their homes.
Men discovered that Tapping coat-tails
were an inconvenience on the bicycle, and
they were discarded for the roundabout
and the sweater. Women are learning
that long skirts are not only inconvenient
but dangerous, and the Objectionable gar
ment must go, and the b1oomer proves
most acceptable substitute. In this prac-
teal age we care nothing for reform unless
it can be brought into practical use; hence
the bicycle has come to be the best teacher
of dress reform, doing more than all the
dress reformers, health-corset colporteurs
or equal-rights conventions in accomplish
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Fashion Notes for Men,

The four-in-hand tie is the most fash
ionable, but it must be tied by the wearer,
any article requiring the touch of def and
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pertinacity that would have been ex-
peeted.
The country had been but recently sub
jugated and among the members were
representatives of both sides in what had
been bitter controversy. General Vallejo,
though always friend to the American
Government, never forgave the Bear Flag
party who had subjected him to the hu-
initiation of imprisonment He did not
like the idea of the figure of the grizzly
bear being carried in the great seal of the
new State and moved chat the bear be
taken out of the design: or, if it do re-
main, that it be represented as made fast
by a lasso in the hands of vaquero"-a
fling at the party that had painted the fig
three years before, when he capituIated
the fortress of Sonoma to them. His mo-
ton was lost--16 to q.
The work OF the convention was nearly
wrecked on the question of what should
be the boundaries of the new State. 1t in
volved a tardy introduction of the slavery
question. The pro slavery members
wanted the eastern boundary extended to
take in the Mormon settlements at Salt
Lake, with the hope that there would be a
State division and the erection of a slave
State in the southern part. On the other
hand the anri-savery members desired
that the boundary should not extend
further east than the Sierra Nevada.
The more eastward boundary was adopted
on October 9, 1S49, by vote oftwenty-nine
to twenty-five, and upon the announce
ment of the vote several mem bers rose to
their feet under much excitement and
great confusion" wrote Mr.. Browne, the
reporter. This is the record of the pro-
ceedings that followed:
Mr.. McCarver-I now move we adjourn
sine die. We have done enough of mis-
Chief
Mr.. Hoppe-I give notice that will file
protest against this vote. Rest assured
that the $4,000 emigrants coming across
the Sierra Nevada will never save this
constitution if you include the Mormons.
Mr.. Snyder-Your constitution is gone!
Your constitution is gone!
Cries of "order!" ''order!' from all
parts of the house. and "the constitution
is lost!" 81 will sign it under protest."
Mr.. McCarver-I insist upon my motion
to adjourn sine die! This convention has
done harm enough!
Mr.. Vermeule-I hope the motion will
prevail in order to give safety valve OPP
Grafton to this excitement.
Mr.. Shannon--I appeal to my colleague
to withdraw his motion.
Mr.. Snyder-I shall vote against the
house adjourning before the business be-
fore US is completed. l ask you one ques-
ton: Have you completed the business
that the people of California sent you here
to perform? 1fyou have not, can you 60
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mans shirtfront, laundered up the style
of her brothers, and chewing gum. Still
another declares it ''unladylike and i'm
modest" to ride wheel, but grows elo-
quent describing the fine times she had in
her Eastern home tobogganing with her
sweetheart. It is all matter of personal
taste (or prejudice) and education.
Modesty has nothing to do with it. The
modest man or woman is modest any
where, and vice versa.
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At the siege of Jerusalem by Titus the
captive Jews were crucifed by the Romans
in such numbers that, as Josephus says,
there was no longer wood of which to make
the crosses nor space for them to stand.