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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

Thurston's brief on Spaulding's
cable scheme presents some jewels
of thought and expression. Here
are some:
Experience has demonstrated
that the men at the head Of both
the Canadian and the Southern
Colonial governments, are bold,
brainy, resourceful and capable of
overcoming obstacles far greater
than those now in the way of the
Pacific cable; but it seems to be
reasonable inference to draw from
the foregoing facts, that, unless
there is radical change in the atti-
tude Of the Imperial Government
toward the enterprise, there will at
least be a considerable delay in the
consummation of that project.
"The prospects OF cable construc-
tion by the French Cable Company
are not regarded as encouraging.
OF construction by the United States
Government the following is said:
"Although the proposition to con
struct government cable from
California to Hawaii secured such a
strong majority at the last session
of the Senate and such a large
minority in the House of Represen-
tatiyes; and although the next
House of Representatives is over
whelmingly Republican, and the
measure is practically Republican
one, the Republicans in both Houses
voting in favor of the measure al
most to man, | do not think there
is much probability of cable being
laid by this means within several
years, If at all.
Mr. reasons for this opinion are:
"First:-That there has for years
existed and still exists strong sen.
timent in all parties Of the United
States against government owner
ship of cables, telegraphs, railroads,
etc. There has of1ate been rapid
development of a contrary senti-
ment, but it cannot yet be claimed
to be the dominant sentiment upon
the subject. 1t is of my personal
knowledge that several strong ad-
vocates OF the recent proposition to
lay a government cable to Honolulu
would personally much have pre-
ferred some other means OF accom-
plishing the object, subsidy or
guarantee for example, but advocated
the measure on the ground of it's
patent necessity and the fact that
no other medium appeared to be
feasible at that time.
Notwithstanding therefore the
strong support given to the propo-
sition at the last session of Congress,
it is not at all cert ain that the next
Congress will support similar
measure, especially if private COM
pany, with any plausible prospects
of success in laying the cable, ap-
plies for subsidy to assist in so
doing. There is little doubt in my
mind that the application at the
last Congress for a charter was in
furious to the government owner
ship proposition, although it was
not intended so to be, and although
there was no prospect OF early
action by such company
"Second-From Mr.. Cleveland's
past expressions on the subject, l
think it not all improbable that he
would veto proposition for the
government construction OF the
cable, if not subsidy to a company,
"Even though government ap-
preparation should be made, Con
gress does not meet until next De-
cember, and the appropriation bills
are not passed until the end of the
session which does not usually end
until some time between June and
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07
Honolulu, July Ss, 1895.

III CullllOJ D6 u6ulSu JHdO bllo
war cloud which hangs over the
world at present is getting darker
and darker. 1t is historical
fact that the end of each CEN
tury has always been fraught
with bloodshed and strife, in
ternally as well as externally.
The great powers of Europe to-
day are making and unmaking
alliances of all kinds. The fact
is that diplomacy to-day is using
every means to postpone the day
when the crash must come and
gain time for the different coun-
tries to prepare themselves for
the gigantic struggle which will
and must take place before the
present generation dates its let
ters in the year 1900. Turkey
is threatened from all sides. The
Russian bear is extending his
claws and licking his blood
thirsty tongue towards the East
and South in anticipation Of
gain. The passive and cold
brother nations who inhabit the
Scandinavian peninsula are
now glaring ferociously ready to
spring at each others throats.
Germany, under its impetuous,
indiscreet imperial master, is
drifting into the deceptive mael-
strom Of conquest, and war, in
which all past experience, all
knowledge gained through the
horrors of war are forgotten, and
where only false sentiment and
sham patriotism are ruling.
And while the giants get
ready for the great war their
leaders have realized one thing,
and that is, that no army will
have show, no militia chance,
except provided with the indis-
pensable bicycle. And no won-
der that the monarchial coun-
tries of Europe prefer the "Mon-
arch" to any other kind, and
supply their "wheeling cavalry"
with that favorite brand.
We have watched proceedings
in the great countries with a
great deal of care, and we have
secured the sole agency for Ha-
waii of the Monarch Cycle. We
have realized that, not alone
large stock is necessary, but that
a workshop, in which all needed
repairs can be done is in the in
terest ofour patrons, and we have
established one above our stores
on Fort street. This "bicycle
infrmary" will attend to any
sickness" which the wheel
may meet through accident or
lack of care. Our prices are far
below veterinary figures. We
fix the Monarchs sold by us at
cost price if ever they should
need it, We have everything
on hand and have secured the
services of a most experienced
bicycle man, whose work we
guarantee.
AS the bicycle is not only of
advantage in war but love, we
wish to call the attention of the
young boys and girls who have
to spend their vacations in Ho-
nolulu, that we have wheels Just
suitable for them, If daddy
can't send them to the country
for trip--or buy them a bow
wow-let them ask him for
Monarch. 1t will give more
pleasure and last much longer
than nua,, A
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

The Reverend Serene E. Bishop,
editor of the Friend, is out in public
again. This time he comes out in
the Bulletin columns because that
journal has lashed his hyde into as
great frenzy as he did horses
long time ago, That would not sur.
prise us, What does is the fact that
an alleged-reverend-wo -worshipper of
the, God of Truth comes out and
states over his signature that he
states things on "the authority OF
the Royalist sheet, The INDEPEND-
ENT.'" We are glad that the So
called reverend pays five cents
day to read our paper-unless, in
deed, he buns it at a restaurant
but we deliberately, positively, and
with all possible Christianity in the
face of this ass-in-t -the-lion's-skin
Christian, publish that we are not a
royalist sheet. Nor anything but
what our motto demands, our oath
obligates, and the Constitution re-
quires. The hoary- headed animal
abuser who allows himself f--and has
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

in pair of immense top boots and
wrapped in cloak Of portentous
folds with a sombrero shading his
ambi-angular smile he passes across
the stage, murmuring in hoarse but
determined tones, "Bee-luddl Bee
luddll Bee-ludd.ll Let me wash
me hands in gore. Take no prison
ers. Mol No!l No!ll That would
be to give AWAY my incompetencel
They might bring damage suits!l
Kill 'em all. That is the only way
to save me and my authority from
ruin aud disgrace. Gee Whillikinsl
Can it be that recreant rebels dare
face p,y eagle eye (Which oneO and
yet live to claim damages? Where
is my coffee plantation and other
private business on Hawaii will
HE me there" And he did--he did
yes, he did.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07
TOPICS OF The DAY.

Jealousy among newspaper men is
no good. 1t never makes for public
or private welfare. And only Injuries
the public good.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

1t is no wonder that the sharp
shooters hesitated between going
under the MarshaPs department
and staying with the "pretty clothes"
soldiers. Both the ex-Marshal and
the new one have more faith in the
ordinary citizen-as enrolled in the
Citizens Gnard-thap they have in
the ordinary everyday garden
variety of soldier-at $40 month
and board, lodging and washing.
The only wonder we have is that
the sharpshooters didn't take the
last offer.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

Said Marshal Hitchcock, referring
to the recent "trouble," "that night
when the Attorney General came
down he was perfectly dazed." No
wonder we we're able with the At
torney. Generals assistance to sup
press him. Whoever heard the like
of such criticism by subordinate
of his official superior9
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

l.. A. Thurston was quite eloquent
in the police court this morning
when he appeared for the defense
in trifiing case. He won his case
but when he left the court room he
was heard to -murmur that he pre-
ferred the cid style lawyers to the
noisy and ever-come-to-the- point
windbags who now try to hold the
attention of the court. Mr.. Thurs
ton wisely lost the argument for the
defense. He left.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

The Senate met to-day. They
needn't as far as doing business was
concerned. They learned by meet
ing that their President W. g. Will
der had to interview the Cabinet on
the cable bill. So they had to have
twenty minutes recess on which the
newspaper men had to vote. After
reassembling they learned that the
President had signed the Appropria
tion Bill amounting to S56,75O.
Also that he had deigned to sign
the joint resolutions providing for
investigation into the liquor traffic,
the Pail road, the beef trust, the
land transfer system, designs for
seals, annexation, electric transit
and auditing accounts. (What more
do you want to investigateO The
Labor Commission, rights of way
over others land, currency, general
registration, and cable enabling acts
were reported as ready to present to
the President. And then they took
a recess till 1:30,-Time!!
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

The cable steal does not go
through as proposed If reason
able share is left for the people, and
proper treatment ensured them, and
in every way the exclusive business
is knocked on the head, possibly
some arrangement might be consent
ed to by the Hawaiian public. But
it is necessary to guard against any
thing with z. S. Spalding at the
front of it. Aud situated as we are
even "the best government Hawaii
ever had" doesn't know exactly
whether to tie strings on the new
proposition or whether to tell it to
"go home and put on its Sunday
bonnet"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

There is new lawyer in town.
What his name is we cannot say but
we must express our surprise at an
expression used by him in an adul-
terry case this morning in the polio
court. He told Judge Perry that
whenever a man and a woman ga
together into room and close the
door and remain there for, say ten
minutes, in the eyes of the law adul-
terry has been committed" 1t is
pleasant to state that l.. A. Thurs.
ton, who appeared for the other
side, had left before this delivery Of
buncombe. 1t is indeed fortunate
that even Judge Perry did not up
hold this remarkable theory of the
new lawyer If he had, where would
our doctors, lawyers and female
typewriters be? Legal questions
before our courts in the future
would deal entirely with the new
woman-and not with-Neumann.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07

The ex-Marshal reminds one Of
the villyun-the heavy villyun-in
the transpoutine melodrams Clad
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-07
WEDNESDAY, AUG. Z, 1895.
oABLEp OR RoBBERYp

Thurston's brief on Spaulding's
cable scheme presents some jewels
of thought and expression. Here
are some:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-08
Waste of Material.

A well known congressman, who haG
been farmer before he went into politics,
was visiting his district, not long ago and
in his ramhcs he saw n man in a stumpy
patch of ground trying to get a plow
through it.
He went over to him, and after a brief
salutation asked the privilege of making
q turn or two with the pillow. The native
shook his head doubtful!y as he looked at
his visitors store clothes and general air
of elegant leisure, but he let him take the
plow. The congressman sailed away with
it in fine style, and plowed four or five fur
rows before the owner of the field could re-
cover from his surprise. Then he pulled
up and handed the handles to the original
holder.
"By gravy, mister, said the farmer adj.
miringly, ''air you in the aggorculturJ
busncss?"
No" laughed the statesman.
"You amt sellin plowsf'
"No."
"Then what in thundeS air your"
I'm the member Of congress from this
DISTRICT
''Air you the man voted for and that
I've been readin about in the papers dom
legislatin and SIGH in Washin toni"
"Ycs.''
swell, by hockey, mister" said the farm.
er, as he looked with admiration over the
recently plowed burrows, "ef I'd "a had
any idea that was votin fer waste Of
SIGH good farmin material, I'd voted for
the other candidate as shore as shootippr
Youths Communion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-08

The New York Times calculates that
in the Democratic convention there will
be 473 votes for sound money and 433 for
free silver. This is most sanguine esti-
mate although 1t gives the sound money
faction in the Democratic party but
little margin ito go and come on" The
Times also, we think, considerably over
estimates the fiat silver heresy in the Re
publican ranks, estimating the vote for
silver monometallism at 1872 and for sound
money at 5Si. But then this is as
much as could be expected of a thick-and-
thin Democratic organ that is sbudder
ing in apprehension Of what heresy its
party will next tie to-" Indeed the
Times comedies the present probability
that the Democratic convention will
adopt free silver resolutions.
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PETTlCOAT GOVERNMENT.
In Rome, Finland end Java Ngoman's b
premacy Is an Old Story.

1t is only among people of modern civil
Ization that the supremacy OF woman II
regarded as novelty. In Rome under the
empire there was a singular institution
where tribunal of women was establish
ed to decide questions regarding luxury
and etiquette. The Emperor Hcli0gabalus
consulted this assembly frequently. They
decided questions of precedence, the num-
Der and state of women at court, upor.
the style of carriage the emperor should
ride in, whether sedan chairs should be or
namcntcd with silvcc or ivory and contest
ed the rights of man with an intelligence
worthy of the preset time i was Il YER
liable senate of fashion, was approved o.
by wiser men than Hcliogabelus and was
re-cstablished and maintained by his sue
cessorS.
This question of woman's supremacy
does not always signify an advanced state
of society as will be seen from the follow
ing account of n small state in Java, be
tween the towns of Samarang and Batavia
known as the kingdom of Bantam. In re
gard to its form of government and the
manners and customs of its inhabitants
far exceeds the widest dreams of feminine
minds. From time immemorial Bantam,
though tributary to Holland, has been
governed by women. The sovereign is a
man, but that is q small matter, as he
himself is subject to council of three
women. High dignitaries, officers, sol
diers and all the court attendants are with
out exception women, who see that the
men are employed in agriculture and COM
mcrcc. The kings bodyguard is composed
Of % corps of women soldiers who ride
aStride their horses like men and handle a
short, sharp lance with dexterity. They
carry rife, too, with ease and aim and
fire with accuracy at full gallop. The old
est son of the king succeeds to the crown,
but if the king dies without male heirs a
hundred women specially appointed meet
and select one of their own sons by vote
and proclaim him the legitimate sovereign.
In several villages of Finland the wom-
an has authority for religious sect exists
there whose disciples are forced when
about to marry to take vow to submit to
the woman for their governing head, whose
duty it is to see that the men behave
themselves and to punish them if they
transgress. Similar arc the puriicants OF
Liberia who also recognize the supremacy
of womcn.,-Detroit Free Press.
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FISHERMEN OF LABRADOR.
They Have Picturesque Little Boats WITH
Rnddish Brown Sails.

a Labrador fishing stage usually con.
ssts Of IL long, low frame house and little
one room huts, or "tilts" rs they arc
called. The house is used as store anc
dwelling n the agent of the Ncwfound-
land merchant who has fitted up the stage.
All the fishermen who occupy the tits
work fo1 the merchant and are paid for
their fish in provisions from the store.
Tho tits are like those seen in the New
foundland fishing and mining outposts
icycry settlement in Newfoundland except
st. Johns is an outpost). The sides are
logs set upright and supporting sod cover
cd rOofs-wretchcd abodes at the best.
Along the straits of Belle Isle the Labra-
dor coast is fringcd with strip of coarse
grass land, and hero you may see an occa-
siOnal small vegetable garden surrounded
by Il fish net for a fence. AT Blanc Sablon
| saw Il desolate little burying ground
amid the swaying rushes. Near by lay
a couple of wornout boats, bottom up. and
nets spread over the ground to dry. Here,
too, / saw for the first time the dapper lit
tie Labrador gashcr-a small fishing craft
not much larger than dory, but with
sharp PROV and stern and two masts fitted
with reddish brown sails. These are tell
ing bits of color when the CASHIERS skim
over the deep blue water, with the foam
stroaking along their quarters and glitter
ing in their wake.
Altogether it was o varied scene The
headland, from staff on which there flut-
tered the flag of the merchant who owned
the "outfit" the cashiers dashing in and
out among the punts and jacks (stoutly
built two stckcrs larger than the gashers),
q fishing schooner with furlcd sails but
with toll stained nets streaming from her
spars in an endless variety of lights and
shadows, according as tho meshcs twisted
or bulgcd in the breeze, and in the distance
the exquisite green and white spires of an
iceberg.
A note of toll drones through it all,
however, for women are saving and chop
ping wood while the men are hauling the
nets. a curious implement of fishing in
these waters is u spyglass with plain win.
dow glass in place of lens. A man IL
the bow of q fishing boat thrusts the glass
in the water, and peering through it dis.
covers whether there are fish enough on
tho bottom to make it worth while to an
Choir for anchoring in deep water is a toll.
some matter.--Gustav Kobbe in st. Mich
ol1s
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As business man and he is shrewd
one, Gov AltgelG is gold monometaliist
exacting gold in payment Of rent OF his
property. AS a ranting demagogue, what
AItgeld ever is in politics. no is silver
monomctallist. What is true of Altgeld
in this respect is true of the silver mine
owners who now are endeavoring to hood
wink the debtor class into the belief that
it is right for the United States govern
ment to pay the silver mine owner
dollar in gold for fifty cents worth OF sill
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The report that Japan had yielded Port

The report that Japan had yielded Port
Arthur to Russia is almost incredible
the domination of affairs in the Orient.
Port Arthur is the key TO the situation.
Russia having possession of it would lie
the one to dictate Oriental policies, not
Japan The latter country would have
little from the war save the satisfaction
of having licked the unwicldly Chinese
s1oth and the few million dollars tribute,
together with reputation for smartness
beyond to her size.
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Couldn't TcIl Her All.

Harold" she said, "tho letter yor
wrote me while you were out of the city
was beautiful I was proud to receive it,
''Werc youT he responded, his eyes
glowing with pleasure.
Yes, and yet l could not help fcelina
that it was not Yourself
Didn't you recognize the handwrit
ing?"
Yes but felt that You were not speak.
ing to me just as you felt--that there were
things in your mind which you did not
say"
"Oh--er--Of course. 1t was certainly
clever of you to discover that. You see.
couldn't tell you all that was in mymind.
l wrote that letter with fountain pon.
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-08

Not all the rascally wits are indigenous
to America, nor all the audacity that
launches schemes bewildering in magni-
tudo, glittering in promise but lacking in
foundation from the conception of their
erection. Jaboz Spencer Balfour, now be-
fore the English bar of justice is an object
lesson of this. The manner in which he
robbed the common people" he professed
TO love, the widow and the orphan, of
thirty-flve millions of dollars is also
proof that the English people had forgot
ton the South sea bubble in tho century
and three quarters since it burst. And
this is not strange for the memory Of the
confiding investor Is VIGOROUSLY short.
Balfonr was arrested at Buenos Ayres
and landed in England. Monday morning,
and one may assume that hundreds Of
thousands who wero duped of hard earn
ings by this sneak thief on the million
dollar plan rejoice in the hope that he
will be compelled at last to suffer as
he deserves Jabez Balfour's crime does
not appear TO have any mitigating circum-
stances to relieve it. He does not appear
to have been the dupe of his own financial
heresy but rather to have deliberately
swindled conf1dipg investors Of their
money while having for his sole capital
the reputation of being 'such a good
man" He was leader in church affairs,
rigid in his intolerance of worldly things
like theatres and cards, and as a member
of Parliament he championed home rule,
Gladstone and attacked the House of Lords
in manner worthy Of a radical labor
leader fresh from his constituency. Yet
during all this time he was founding
building societies, enlistipg clcrgymen in
promoting them and when it was found
that the first society could not longer
stand a new one would be started to boil
ster up the first and so on to the final
crash Each always paid dividends al
though none of them were successful from
d financial point oil view ana the commits
sions to the directors were always paid.
The financing was of the most reckless
kind In tho way of building the boodlo
that was secured was enormous Such
largo sums were advanced to Hobbs, the
builder. that, when he failed in 1885 he
owed the associations several millions.
Balfour should spend the remainder of
his life behind the bars
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The Ghost of A Chance

is very shadowy affair. Ere the chance of
recovery becomes vanishing ghost, take a
most potent means of overcoming the mac
tivity of the organs tina. terminates in their
too frequently fatal disea.e, by resorting to
the requisite impulse to the renal organs to
promote their vigorous action without excit-
iug them, effect too often produced by the
fiery and uumedicated stimuian OF COM
merce. Rright's d sease. diabetes and mac
tlvity of the bladder. are foes Of terrible men
ace to system. The inroads NAV how
ever. be stayed if they are met at the start and
combatted with the Bitters. This fine and
seJiai corrective also remedies malaria, dys-
pepsia, rheumatism, debility, nervousness
aud the infirmities incident to age. 1t hastens
conv.le.cence, and is promotive Of sleep and
appetite.