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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-12
THE CHARACTERIZATION.

After all the days spent by the
United States Congress in discussing
the Cuban situation, any effective ex-
preston of friendship for the insur-
gents who are fighting for liberty ap-
pears to be as far distant as it was the
day before Congress opened. President
Cleveland has given Spain to under
stand that he is still friendly to the
monarchial government, and the Gu
bans may whistle" for recognition at
his hands. President Cleveland's fail
ure to act is probably due in measure
to influence brought to bear by Am
erican plantation owners in Cuba, who
have entered suit against Spain for
damages done their property by the in
surgents. What he will do, however,
before November, is quite another
question, as the Cuban resolution will
undoubtedly be taken into the cam
paign, and the Democratic managers
will be anxious to coin as much po-
litical capital as possible before the
people go to the polls.
The appointment of General Fitz-
Hugh Lee to represent the United
States in Havana has more or less sig
nificance, as indicating President Cleve-
lands intention TO gain an opinion on
the situation from military stand
point AS has been suggested by soma
Eastern journals, General Lees mis-
sion TO Havana is not unlike that of
Paramount Blount to this country. I'm
less Lee goes back on his previous rec
ord. he will favor the efforts of the
Cubans, if there is a ghost of show for
their success, and he will not sink his
own personality into Oblivion by color
ing his report according to orders, as
was the case with Blount.
With the exception that Congress
sional action has preceded the edict of
the President, the Cuban affair occu-
pies much the same position as the Ha-
waiian question did three years ago.
There is no question that the sympa- !
thies of the members of Congress and
the American people are with the men |
who have organized the Cuban Repub- |
lie and are now fighting to obtain rec
ignition and control. President Cleve-
land has it in his power TO aid or in
lure. 1t seems hardly possible that he
will do the latter, but with men OF
destiny there is no telling what they
will do.
By recognition of the Cubans the
United States will incur the everlast-
ng hatred of Spain, and the possibility
mot probability war with that
Recognition will also assure
he success of the Cubans. Inaction on
the part of President Cleveland will
d olong the Cuban war to fight for ex-
and there is no telling
when il will end. The Cubans are
uoused as never before, and with lib
raj friends in the United States to sup
)ly arms, ammunition and men, they
VII continue their peculiar warfare
Until their forces are wiped out COM
,letely or the business interests of the ;
Stand join forces with them and throw
III the Spanish yoke. The Cubans
now, the world knows, that Spanish
to deal with greater ibeFality
oward the people of the ''ever-faithful
sic" are not worth the paper they are
written on, and with the insurgents
he situation has simmered down TO
case of liberty or death.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-12
A Cure for Muscular RHEUMATISM

Mrs. R. L. Lamson of Fairmount, ILL.,,
says: my sister used Chamberlain
Pain Balm for muscular rheumatism
and it effected complete cure. keep
1t In the house at all times and have al
ways found it beneficial for aches and
pains. 1t is the Quickest cure for rheu-
matism, muscular pains and lameness
have ever SEEN" For sale by all drug
gists and dealers. Benson, Smith & Co.,
agents for Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-12
THExINCOME TAX.

The advantages of an income tax is
that Minister of Finance can increase
or decrease the national income with
an almost certain knowledge of how
much he will gain or how much he will
retrench. 1t is also a certain guide TO
the prosperity of country. Thus, in
England in 1854, one penny in the
pound income tax produced over one
million of revenue; from 1864 to 1876
the net yield was one million and three
quarters for every penny in the pound,
while in 1884 it was more than two mil
lion for every penny.
The rate of tax under an income
tax is variable according to the needs
of the country. With us it would vary,
probably, every session, or once in two
years. With great prosperity three
per cent. rate, which is Mr.. Winston's
proposition, might be reduced to two
per cent rate, or if large public works
were needed four per cent rate might
be put on. The higher the rate the
larger the exemption should be. Thus,
if it is decided that the limit of ex-
emption should be $500 at the three per
cent. rate, if the rate was ever raised
to four per cent. the limit of exemption
might be made $500. Mr.. Winston's bill
is now in the hands of a committee of
the House and viii be reported on next
Friday. The bill will then be fully dis
cussed in all. its bearings. 1t is I'M
doubtedly a popular bill, and acts in the
direction that taxation should go. With
exemptions not too high and abate-
ments not too low, it will be of advant-
age to the community and the Ministry.
There may be some doubt in some
minds as to the working of an income
tax. The property holder may think
that he gets doubly taxed. But this is
not true in practice, because the income
tax will in effect lower the property tax,
which has to bear the brunt of the bur-
den now. THE larger the amount rails |
ed by the income tax" says writer on
this subject, 1.-The less the amount to be |
raised by property tax" Moreover,
men who make large incomes now, say
anywhere from $4,000 to SIS, 900 a year |
and doubtless some professional in
comes exceed this-hardly pay at the
present time any taxes at all, unless
they put their money into real estate
We will take successful lawyer or
doctor. He hires a house, part of it |
He keeps few horses and a
or two, and he makes an in
come of say $4,000. All he can be as.
;essed upon is few trinkets, his horses
and his carriages, say $50 year in all.
# he invests his surplus money in Gov
bonds at six per cent, he does
not pay cent more taxes. An owner
Of real estate has to pay on the as
;essed value of his estate Mr.. Win
;ton's bill would make the $4,000 man
Jay $500 in taxes instead of $50, as now.
t is very plain that if the Minister of
Finance had such means of reaching
Incomes which are not now taxed, he
would be able to relieve others who are
low taxed unduly.
However, it should be remembered
hat in taxing incomes, an income from
| permanent source should be more
leavily taxed than a transient one. A
professional man with an income Of
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-12

There was an error in figures IN an
article upon income tax in Monday 5
..Advertiser.~ The limit Of exemption
Of incomes favored by this paper is 5000,
not $500. as printed. With higher rate
OF tax The exemption would rise TO in
comes Of $500.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-05-12

moralize any of our stock dealing firms,
but Mr.. Damon may look for increased
revenue, and the California wine grow
ers may yet rejoice. if the precedent of
the British stock exchange is to be fol-
lowed here.
A reduction had been made in the ma
tional debt of over sac. 0oo, 600, the larg,-
est reduction but one on record; $780,
100000 of debt had been paid off in
thirteen years. A remarkable state
ment of the Minister was that in the
event of war, when the country would
have to fight for its life. the reserve
was so great that without imposing a
penny of taxation a sum of 1.0o0. OOO.-
600 could be raised for defense. and the
debt be no larger than it was in 1857.
Dealing with the future, the estimat-
ed expenditure was little over $780,
600, 600, the revenue about s50S, SAC. 900.
and the estimated surplus $3.50, 900.
This surplus would in part be used to
reduce the rate on land from four shil-
lings to one shilling, and little over
two millions of it was to be given to in
crease the grants for education.
Besides being a matter of interest in
the actual figures given, the above
shows how a budget can be handled.
and it can also be used to show why so
full a statement cannot be made here.
The thing lies in a nut she'll The Min
listers here have not staff enough, and
their own time is taken up too much
with detail and routine work. The Of
fees of the Government are run with as
small a staff as possible, and in some
cases with a staff inadequate to the
work placed upon them, and the result
is that information, such as Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach has at his beck and call,
is very hard TO obtain, and frequently
can only be obtained after it would
not have been of use. Still, it seems
possible that, by looking we'll ahead and
keeping we'll in mind what will be re-
Quired at the commencement of any
Legislature, such information may be
ready to the hand of the Minister when
required.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25
NOME SOUNn DnCTEfNE

Captain John J. Esch, chairman of the Wisconsin State Republican con- vention, has foreign name, but he ev- idently is a good, sound citizen of this country and knows what is good for the country. At the convention he spoke as follows. We favor the use of both gold and silver as standard money un- der such restrictions and conditions as will secure the maintenance of the pari- ty of values of the two metals. We op pose a free coinage of silver, which would make our country the dumping ground for all bullion, to the discredit and injury of our finances in the money markets of the world We believe that free coinage by the United States alone at the ratio of IS to l amounts to repu- diation; that the, parity now existing between the metals would be destroyed and our people would be compelled to
 receive 50-cent dollars for their labor
 and produce and be asked to Trust in God for the balance. In behalf of our vast foreign-born population, which has brought over with it sound ideas of honest money. in behalf of all classes of our state and nation, in behalf of
 our present and future prosperity, let us ask of the delegates we shall this day select that they give us an honest
 money candidate upon an honest money platform.
 That was good talk. It is our earnest hope that when the Connecticut Repub-
 lican convention comes together it's chairman will nave something like that to say and that the whole convention will back him up.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25
MOVEMENTS OF LoVE.

Memorial Ternples, Mosques and Church.
 es Erected by Monarchs for Their Loved Ones--M ausoIus and ArtdDnisia Shah Jchan and Moor Mabai-Phiiip II. and rIaria-william the Conaueror and Ma thilda.
 (TNrom the St. Louis Globe Democrat) From the time, now overNtwenty-two
 centuries ago, when Artemsia erected in
 honor of her husband, Mausolus, a
 tomb so splendid that it was considered
 one of the wonders of the world, the building of monuments in memory of l departed love has been common prac- tice. It may have been equally com
 mon before, most likely it was, for love | was just as lasting when the world was | young, but the blighting hand of time, 1 laid on every structure built by human 1 labor, caused traces of previous tombs and monuments of this kind to disap-
 pear. and even the tomb of Mausolus itself, famous as it was and the admi-
 ration of the world for fifteen hundred years, has vanished so completely that | with difficulty can the ground plan be
 traced on the hill where it stood. It | must have been a noble structure, crowning, as it did, the hill above Hali-
 carnassus, visible from the sea for so | long distance that it formed the prin-
 cipal landmark on the coast. gleamipg | in it's wealth of white marble above the city where the dead king had reigned.
 In the twelfth century it was still
 standing, a magnificent ruin, but to-
 ward the year 1200 it was completely
 overthrown by a great earthquake and | the fragments were washed down the
 hill and helped to cunber its sides and
 fill up the valleys at it's foot. Even it's
 site was forgotten until 1857, when MT.
 Newton, the British vice consul, began
 the excavations which resulted in as- certaining its location. The founda-
 tions and several hundreds of frag-
 ments were all that could be recovered, but from the broken bits of bronze and marble it has been possible for the pa
 tient workers of the British museum to
 restore the statue of Mausolus con- plete. together with several allegorical i figures which probably decorated the grand monument Although descrip- tions of this noble tomb have been left
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25
THE HERETIC TEIIL

The trial of the Rev. William Thurs ton Brown of Madison, who has been denounced as a heretic, occupied all of yesterday and was as solemn and inl- pressive an affair as circumstances and people would permit. His accusers
 made a better, or worse, showing than
 many expected they would make, and if their ears have not deceived them
 and if they testified truly the Rev. MT. Brown has said some careless things for a preacher who was supposed to be an orthodox Congregationalst. If he said the things he was said to have | said he went farther in some respects than even Judge Baldwin did in his
 astonishing address. Against the evil
 dence that he did say them there were statements by some who were present 1 when he was said to have said them
 that they did not hear them. And there
 was no evidence that they were asleep in meeting" Mr. Brown also made | some den1als.
 l The council will meet to-day to de- eide, or try to decide, MT. Browns fate. l They have curious and a complicated | task before them. We do not think it I probable that an order will be made that MT. Brown be burned at the stake l on New Haven Green, and it even looks ] to us doubtful that he will be convicted of heresy enough to disqualify him any more. It may be that he will come
 out of the trial with just enough heresy 1 sticking to him to make him popular | and secure for him a call to a wider 1 field of usefulness and a larger salary.
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the clerks in the bank is frightened by this method of illumination is eXtraor- dlnary, The fittings, which have been specially designed, are pendent dishes of bronze They are classic in design, and correspond with the architecture of the bank. The inside of the dishes, which is made reaecting by coating of tin, contains three twenty-five candle power lamps. These dish-fittings are suspended by two square bronze tubes six feet in length. The dish is fitted on pins, so that it can be tilted over and kept in order from the floor of the bank. The attendant has long light rod, with hooked end, and by simply pulling the dish down on one side he can dust the lamps and the inside of the dish with a feather brush. In the bank no lamps are visible and the eff feet on entering, of an atmosphere of light gives a sense of repose and comfort.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25

Mining prospectors say that while 8 knowledge of mineralogy is a first ne- oessity for a man starting out to hunt for the precious ores, yet the richest finds are often made by the rankest tenderfoot. It is well illustrated in a recent rich find near Salt Lake City, Utah. Willard Weihe, violin soloist in the Tabernacle, was walking in City Creek Canon, on the outskirts of the city, when he kicked aside some rock that struck him as being unusual in appearance. Out of pure curiosity he carried a piece of the rock back to town and had it assayed. It showed $500 in gold and $40 in silver to the ton. Weihe was so much surprised he almost faint ed. Then when he recovered he hur- ried back to where he found the rock, without mentioning the matter to any one, and staked out large number of claims for himself and friends. Now a considerable camp has sprung up, and the workings bear out the promise in Weihe's chance strike.
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ting back, and falls triYlly from the shoulders straight down to line below the waist, the box being perfectly flat and in no way following the lines of the figure further than to rise from the shoulder and throat to the bust line, from which it falls straight, without folds, fitness or wrinkle. This box front is often put on in panel fashion. fitting along the shoulder seams and into the stock collar, an elaboration. you see, of the panel piece we have been hanging down the front of our bodices, but instead of being only as wide as sash ribbon, 1t reaches across the figure from arm to arm just below the shoulder and fits about the chest. Under this box the gown fits snugly, and the fitted front of the bodice blends into the under side of the box in way that is simple enough. The box piece is lined, the lining is caught to the front of the bodice under the box and this is done without interfering with the flatness of the box surface. This is the easy way of accomplishing the eff feet first produced by fitting the bodice tc the rise of the bust line from under the arms, and then doubling the stuff back into a boxpleat, the top of which makes the required box effect. That is a task for clever fingers, and the panel method will probably prevail. The box panel will soon constitute an accessory, so prepare for it. FIIORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25
4 FINE LIGHT.

A notable and very beautiful system
 of electric illumination has been in stalled in London bank. This system is the first application of the reflection of the light of the incandescent lamps from the ceiling, and the effect of the light so used is of chastened radiancy that must be seen to be realized
 This system was introduced as d com promise. Some of the bank officials ob- jected to the brightness of the ordinary arc lamps, and found even the usual distribution of incandescent lamps somewhat disturbing to their quiet and conservative tastes. The architect Of the bank building bethought himself of using the incandescent lamp as the arc lamp is used in this country in many new factories-viz., by throwing the light upward on 8 white or bright-color- ed ceiling, and so filling the apartment with diffused light. The novel applica- tion has proved most successful. The light is very soft and its diffusion is complete. Even under the desks and counters, directly beneath the lamp fit- tings. there are scarcely any shadows. and the smallest coin can be seen. It is said that the way in which the work of
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Advertising Rates.

Situations, Wants, Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each in- sertion. Five cents word for full week (seven times.l
 Display Advcrtiscments-Pe inch, one in- cents;. one week, S5.2o; one month, SlO; one year, $40.
 Obituary notices, in prose or verse, l5 cents per line. Notices of births, Marriages, Dcaths and Funerals, 50 cents each. Local notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own imruedfte business (all matter to be unob- jeotonahlel, and their contracts do not in- cllide Wants. 'ro Let, For Sale, etc.
 D!scounts-On two inches or more one month and over, 10 per cent; on four inches or more, one month and over. l5 per cent.
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The world has viewed with wonder what has seemed the sudden and phenomenal leap of the bicycle into public fav- or during the past year. The most cultured and fashionable society of our metropolitan cities are fascinated. Tiffany X Go. recently sold a Wheel at $500. % and are said to have another in process valued at $2,oco. The George H. Ford Company of this city have taken the Agency for the Humber, which attracted so much attention at the recent Cycle Show. This Company have for 25 years been engaged in the manufacture of Wheels
 with factories at Wolv- champion, Coventry,
 Paris, Moscow, Lisbon,
 and in this country, and
 is famed the World over. Their patrons in- clude one-quarter of a
 million riders.
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District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court.l
 March 2sd, iS96. [ HESITATE of BURT D. BROWN of Sey- itI mour, in said district having been ad- judged insolvent.- : 1sge at loo clock forenoon. be, and the same is, hereby assigned for appointing trustee of said estate, and that public notice thereof times in some newspaper having a circilla- ton in said district. mh24 tt Judges
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FASHION NOTES.
Successors to the Pouch Front.

Successors to the Pouch Front.
 The bag fronted bodice fingers sim- ply because women will have it, but it has been so generally worn that other designs which afford the same relief to faulty figure are finding favor be- cause of their newness. The artist pre- sents here one of these new models, and it is tricky one. This Is q princess dress, and it's bodice part is fitted, but over it comes drapery that furnishes the desired looseness in front while above and below everything is snug Heavy black faille is the material, the skirt being formed into boxpleats at either side of the front breadth. The ornamentation of the bodice is effected by perforating the 'faille and lining with white satin. Embroidery of white silk is also employed.
 Another successor to the pouch front is the boxshape. The new box front is added to the round waist with close fit-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25

and if an American wanted to Init the pipe" the government should send him to China for his pleasure, The Chinese in this country are constantly improv- ing, and will improve more rapidly still in the future.
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are told of many noted buildings. Eastern and mediaeval kings had curi- ously confused ideas on many subjects, and even when erecting a monument to buried love, very often lost sight of the qualities that made the departed worthy objects of devotion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25

Tolstoi's hands are large and rough, like those of a laborer, and do not look as if they were ever used for writing. A recent visitor from Vienna found him living and working in room provided with only the most necessary furniture, and without anything to adorn. the walls. He was revising the proofs Of a new book, and expressed his pleasure that the censor had at last allowed the performance of his play, "The Power of Darkness D He is living at present at Moscow, but expressed his conviction that country life was better for both body and soul than city life.
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8 title will perhaps be glad to know that there are a number of aristocrats in France working at lowly occupations for a living. A marquis de Beaumanoir is carrying grist to a mill near Nantes. A vicomte de St. Megrin is driving a cab in Paris. A connte de St. Pol is clerk in the Paris Gas company at a salary of $25 a month. A acomte dAnteroche is serving as gendarme. A marquis de Poligny is an omnibus conductor in Paris. A duke of Alcan- tara is selling soap in a bazaar at Mar seilles.
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In the last five years the number of horses in this country has decreased over million. and the average depreci- ation has been $21 q head.
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NOTICE. Special Town Meeting.

 yVyHE selaetmen of Hanlden having receiv- Il ed a petition signed by more than twen- tI. ty-fve legal voters Of said town, requessi,nds ,d 1.-The Honorable Board of Selectmen to cail \ special Town Meeting in the Town Hail aI an early date to take action te netas nassad at a sneciol town meeting held March sth, , relation to the improvements of the nlanways of the town according to the provdslons 70 or Chapter si5 of the Public Acts of 1895 3. To make such appropriations ot money rom the treasury of the town as may pc deemed necessary for the purpose of Garryihg for ward said Improvements Therefore, There fs', d in snecial town meeting of the legal voters of said town, held at the Town Hal aa. on Thurs day, March 18th, 1898, at o'clock pm, to take action upon the matters contained in the aforesaid petition.
 'N0 JOHN II. DAVIS,
 H. D. JOHNSON.
 WILLIAM HITCHCOCK.
 Selectmen. Dated. Hamden, Conn.,. March IS, 1895. I,CI Il