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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-04

reform schools, where they are taught
during the remainder of their minority.
These laws extend to all classes of the
people. The children of the Japanese
and Chinese are compelled to go to
school, as are also those of the Portu-
guese The result is that all of the
children of the Hawaiian islands over
a certain age can read and write, and
the grade of education is a very high
one. The majority of teachers are
Americans, who receive all the way
from $500 to $1,000 a year as salaries.
The school furniture comes from the
United States, as do also the doors
and windows and other lumber OF
which the school houses are built The
lime for the houses is imported from
California.
Honolulu has a public library con-
tanning $4,000 volumes. It's Y M c.
A. has splendid gymnasium and read
ing room. and there are free public
libraries in several other towns on the
islands.
HOTELS AND COST OF LIVING.
Honolulu has several large hotels.
The biggest one charges SO a day. Some
of the others charge 81. The expense Of
living is dearer than in the United
States. 1t costs, 1 am told, fully so
per cent more to keep house in the
Sandwich Islands than it does in
Washington. You have Japanese and
Chinese for servants, but you cannot
get along without number of them
Everything you eat, with the exception
of vegetables and meat, is imported.
and almost everything you wear comes
from the United States. At the lega-
ton today I got the Honolulu prices
for the more common articles. Hams
cost from 16 to 80 cents pound: bacon.
from 16 to 20 cents, and cheese, from
20 to 35 cents a pound. Flour costs
$3.50 hundred weight, and eggs from
25 to so cents dozen. On the other
hand, fresh meat is quite cheap You
can get good porterhouse steaks for
from to Is cents a pound. corn beef
will cost you cents a pound, potatoes
cents a pound, and ice about / cent
pound. You can hire cook for from
SO to Sc week, and nurse will cost
you from IS to SIP month The steam
ship rates in going to the island are not
high. The round trip costs SIPS, and
you have several good lines by which
to make the trip. The Oceanic line
sails twice a month from San Fran
cisco. The Pacific Mail and the o. and
Q. steamships stop there on their way
to Japan, and there is a Canadian line
which will take you from Victoria to
Honolulu once a month.
NO PLACE FOR POOR MEN.
The eight largest of the Sandwich
Islands, which form the best part of
the country, are less in size than Mas
| sachusetts They have population Of
about $4,000, of which over $4,000 are
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have to kick them aside as you walk about
the island. They are exceedingly tame, and
by law no shooting is allowed there. There
are several oyerseers and they have to build
little paling fences around their cottages to
keep the birds from crawling upon the
porches and going into the houses. The
young gulls are said to be good for eating
and L am told when the overseers or labor
ers want birds on toast for breakfast they
go out with club and knock over a couple
and bring them in to the cook.
FORTUNES IN COFFEE RAISING.
The Hawaiians here at Washington say
that the best chance for the large or small
investor in Hawaii just now is in coffee lands,
Ihere is large amount of such lands in
the Islands. They lie just above the sugar
belt at an altitude of from 1850 to 5000
feet above the sea, giving the planter the
hnest climate in the world. Good lands
can be bought on the market for $25 an
acre, but the government. which is very
ANXIOUS to have small investors, is selling
its government lands to homesteaders for
from $40 to SIS an acre. Fifty acres make a
good-s1Zed plantation for one man to attend
to- The work is more like orcharding than
farming. The trees have to be carefully
trimmed and taken care Of.
They begin to bear about the third year
and the fourth year produce a good crop.
Ihen the plantation forms an independent
living for the remainder of mans life and
a good inheritance for his children. It takes
some labor, however, to make such a pian-
ahead at the start. have before me an esti-
mate OF the cost of maintaing a plantation OF
seventy-five acres for seven years. Including
the purchase Of the land and the construction
ture of $1l000 at the close of the third year
The fourth year such a plantation should pro-
duce $4,000 pounds of coffee and bring in an
income of $1OS0o. The fifth year it should
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thor's discussion of the influence of
the sea power. that he presents Il
study, from his own point of view,
of the one man who in himself summed
up and embodied the greatness of the
possibilities which sea power compre-
hends-the man for whom genius and
opportunity worked together, to make
him the personification of the navy OF
Great Britain, the dominant factor Ia
periods hitherto treated. In the CEN
fury and a half embraced in those
periods the tide of influence and of
power has swelled higher and higher,
floating upward before the eyes of
mankind many a distinguished name,
but it is not until their close that one
arises in whom all the promises of
the past find their finished realization,
their perfect ful1llment Thencefor-
ward the name of Nelson Is enrolled
among those few presented to us by
history, the simple mention of which
suggests. not merely a personality or
a career but great force or a great
era concrete in a single man, who IS
its standard-bearer before the ma
tionS.'
Capt. Mahap has as great an appre-.
citation Of the personal side of Nelson's
life as he has a professional under
standing of its official Importance, and
although he sees Nelson as the "em-
bodiment of the sea power" he by no
means intends to blindly associate him
with 1t till his individuality is merged
in the development of the force which
crowned his country and his age, and
part of the authors task is towards
disengaging the figure of the hero
from the glory that cloaks it." Mel
son, the boy, the man, is every where
present, his greatness, his limitations,
stamped upon every action of his life.
1t has been the authors realized aim
ito make Nelson describe himself,-tell
the story Of his own inner life, as we'll
as of his external actions" But it is
the mans growth and final develop
ment rather than the accidents of
good or evil of today or yesterday,
that impress the student Of this eX-
ceptional biography.
What has poor little Horatio done
writes his uncle when asked to admit
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pay. according to these figures. $4,000 and
al that time leave the planter $40 900 ahead.
6y the close of the next year he will be 500
wv ahead, and will have practically made
fortune In this estimate the clearing Of
tne lan9' the purchasing Of the plants and
sooiss the salary of a manager who gets
81 200 year, the paying of nine Japanese as
iaDorers and the preparation of the coffee for
the market are included. How close the fig
ures are do not know, but they were pre-
pared by the department or foreign affairs of
the Hawaiian government. fifty-acre rplan-
tation would cost comparatively less as tha
owner In this case might manage it himself.
HONOLULU PROPERTY.
l asked some questions as to the condition
mas steadily increased during the past four
years, and that suburban propertv has
doubled in value during that time. The an
nexatlon VIII give it another upward shoot
and this. it is believed. will be the case with
al KINDS OF property in the islands One of
the best chances for money making is I am
tod, in the building of an electric railroad in
the city OF Honolulu An English company
now has franchise but II is not an exclusive
one. and neither the company its road is
popular. The road Is capitalized at $37 500 a
mile. ad it has fifteen miles of track. 1t has
bob-tailed cars, run by mules and although
there has been general demand that electric
1ty be adopted. the company will not accede
to IT.. AS far as l can learn the English acted
the hog as to the matter from the start
They capitalized the road at $30O, coo, and is
sued 900 worth of bonds. They took some
Of the stock themselves. sold the bonds in
London, and appointed a lot of London d.
rectors, each Of whom gets good salary.
salaries aie paid there is little left for the
stockholders. am told that the road could
be easily paralleled, and that a franchise
could be gotten. Frank G. Carpenter.
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HaUaii Up to Date.
Practical Information Business Matters and Money
Making Sandwich Islands.

1t is q magnificent structure and was
formerly the palace of the king. There
are numerous telegraph wires in Homo
lulu. The town has more telephones
in proportion to its size than any other
city of the world. Every house has a
telephone, and there are telephone
connections to almost every settlement
on the islands of Oahu, Kauai and
hawaii. On the island of Maui the
telephone is being put up and in a
short time every one of the larger is
lands will have its telephone connec-
lions.
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL POLICE
MEN.
There Is no place in the world where
public schools are so carefully man
aged as in the Sandwich islands. Those
or Honolulu have magnificent build
ings. The high school is held in a pal
ace which was built for the Princess
Ruth, the sister of the last king of
the Kamehameha line. She gave it
to her daugher, Mrs. Bishop, who left
1t to her husband, Charles r. Bishop.
Charles r. Bishop is the vice president
Of the Bank of California, at San Fran
cisco, and he is, 1 am told, it's largest
stakeholder. He sold the building
short time ago to the government for
$4,000. and it is now used for a high
school. The building is surrounded by
five acres of beautiful gardens, and it
is in the very heart of the city The
government has established free
schools all over the islands. Every
neighborhOod which has forty children
has a school house and a teacher and
there is NO place in the United States
where the boys put in so many school
days in the year. School is held for
nine months, and the hours are from
to 2. School attendance is compul-
sorry, and the law in this respect is en-
forced everywhere. In each school dis
trict there are one or two school police
men, who come into the school house
every morning and poll the school. If
boy or girl is absent a record is made
Of it, and if no good excuse is given
the next day the policeman calls upon
the scholars family. If the offense
is repeated the heads of the family are
called before the police court and fined
$40. Such boys as play truant a Ger
tain number Of times are taken from
the schools and put in the government,
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either wholly or partly natives. or
Chinese or Japanese. All of these work
more or less, and hence the islands are
no place for poor men, common labor
ers or clerks. There are more book
keepers and copyists in Honolulu TODAY
than can find employment. The Chinese.
OF whom there are $4,000, and Japanese
$4,000, have not only ruined the white
labor market, but they have to a large
extent swallowed up the small busi-
nesseS. The natives, $4,000, also COM
pete in the labor market. AS com.
mon workmen Chinese and Japanese
get from $12.50 to SIS a month and
BOARD themselves. The Portuguese and
HaWalians receive as high as SIS for
the same work. White teamsters get
about $50 month and board. Book
keepers on the plantations receive from
S100 to $l75 month, and overseers
about the same. Almost all the
mechanical trades are supplied by the
Chinese and Japanese The Japanese
ceiving therefor from $3.50 to SIS a day.
There are Japanese shoemakers and
tailors, and there are Chinese plumbers
and carpenters. In the retail stores
the Chinese and japanese compete to-
gether for the business, and I am told
that the japanese are now giving the
Chinese very hard race for the rea-
sSAA NIoI biC SulHSSc lHlpCTI their
goods from England and America, and
the Japanese get only samples, and
then send these samples on to Japan
to be copied there, for the Hawaiian
trade. The Japanese of Honolulu are
not nearly SO reliable business men as
the Chinese. They take many risks,
and frequently go into bankruptcy.
There are, 1 am told about 1000 Japs
in Honolulu, and more than three times
that many Chinese. Japanese women.
as we'll as men, have been imported in
large numbers to work on the planta-
tons Such importations are on the
contract labor system, the contract
usually being made for three years.
BIG MONEY IN SUGAR.
The big money that has been made
in Hawaii in the past has been from
sugar and it is in sugar I find that
that the big money is being made to-
day. 1t takes an enormous amount of
capital, however, to run a plantation.
and Of the sixty different plantations
in the islands there is not one that
is capitalized at less than $4,000
and the money invested in most of
them runs into the millions. SprecIS-
els has no longer a monopoly of the
sugar business. He began to sell out
his plantations some time ago, and
then all of a sudden stopped selling
He now only controls one planta ton
in the islands and has a small amount
of the stock in several others. He is
opposing annexation, and one rea-
son of his opposition. it is claimed is
that he will lose the refining of the
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copyrighted, 1897. by Frank G.. Carpenter.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., July IL have
spent some time at the Hawaiian le-
cation this week gathering practical
up-to-date information as to the is
lands which 1t is now proposed to an
mex to the United States. If the an
neXation treaty is confirmed in the
senate, a large emigration to Hawaii
will Immediately follow. and thousands
of Americans will want to know just
what this new territory is and what
possible chances there are for them to
make money out of it. This is what
/ have tried to ascertain. Minister
Hatch and Mr.. Thurston have put all
their resources at my disposal. They
have answered my questions and have
introduced me to sugar planters and
Others who have just come from Homo
lulu, and from whom 1 have the best
of news information. I have also had
access to the large collection of new
photographs just received by the Ha-
waiian minister, some of which lie be-
fore me as 1 write.
MODERN HONOLULU.
These photographs show how fast the
Islands have been modernized. There
are dozens of residences in Honolulu
which have cost $4,000 and upward
The city has magnificent stone build
dngs, churches which would be a credit
to Washington and a Masonic Temple
(which would compare favorably with
any Masonic building in the United
States. The city contains about 3d.
900 people. and in proportion to it's
size it is one of the rich cities of the
world. All of the houses have large
yards and gardens about them, and
many of them are shaded by palm
frees. Honolulu lies right under the
mountains on the edge of the sea. 1t
is only six miles from the government
house to the summit of the mountains
at the back of the town. These mount
aims are 5000 feet high, and are COW
cred with woods to their tops. The
government building, if annexation
comes, will belong to the United States.
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the sessions OF the legislature 10 pay ddrleS
of lobbyists, necessary printing, etc.
Every union man, says the Tribune of
Labor, owes it as a duty to himself, to his
union and to humanity to demand the union
label on articles he purchases. The label
represents the principle for which you are
fighting. 1t says to you when on a coat,
pantaloons or overalls, that the garments
have not been made in unsanitary condl-
toned houses tenements, that the life Of
some poor woman has not been stitched into
the seams in the vain effort to make an hon.
est living. It says further tina anoher vic
righteousness and selfishnesS. There is an
other duty the union man owes to himself
and union in regard to the label, and that is
that whenever he finds inferior goods being
sold under the label, he should report it to
the international union to which the label
belongs, giving the name of the article and
the manufacturer. The union label stands as
a trade mark of the intelligent American
workman, and should be a guarantee that
the article on which it is placed is superior
to any ether article of the same character
and the same price. If the union label as
sumes and maintains a place in the COM
mercal world it must be through the efforts
of union workingmen, who must not only
push its use, but protect its character from
the INSCRIPTIONS practices OF those who
send out inferior goods under the protection
of the label
Inc SJOneUldSOHS uuiOH VI hllnhCoPOilo Sh
Wednesday evening elected the following Of
ficers: President, Sam Chelstrom vice pres
ident, John Hutton; recording secretary, A.
V. Skogburg; seTgeant-at-arms X. Anderson.
The Twin City Blue Label Advocate is doing
good work for the cigarmakeTs' union in show
ing UP the tenement house cigar factories of
the country.
The strike of the American Flint Glass
Workers union. recently declared off, accord
ing to the Pittsburg Labor Tribune was one
OF the longest on record, and one of the Bit
terest ever waged. The trouble originated in
The union refused to work the turn and a
fight ensued between the flint glass workers
and the United States Glass company. There
are 1850 men connected with the American
Flint Glass Workers union; 800 OF this num-
Der struck. No parallel exists where a body
OF men stood so long together. During the
four years which the strike lasted but twelve
men deserted. The strike cost the union
over S1,OOO,000. The strike benefit was Sc
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-04
Books Of The Hour.

The time that has elapsed since the
publication of Capt. Mahan's Life of
Lord Nelson" has but served to fix its
rank in the biographical literature of
America and England-a rank not soon
to be superseded.
IT'S peculiar qualities, professional
and literary, were anticipated by the
treatise, of which this is the worthy
sequel, 1.-The Influence of the Sea Pow
err" This former work, complete as
it could but seem to the reader when
1t stood alone, now appears but as
the forerunner of the present vol
umes, while they in turn are necessary
to the presentation of the original I'M
dertaking. Mr.. Mahan. himself, so
considers 1t. and in his preface to
1.-THE Life of Nelson, the Embodiment
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done, and its fruit perfected. Other
men have died in the hour of victory.
but for no other has victory SO singu-
lar and so signal graced the fulfilment
and ending of q great lifes work.
'F'inis coronat opus has of no man
been more true than of Nelson. There
were, indeed, consequences momentous
and stupendous. yet to flow from the
decisive supremacy of Great Britain's
sea-power, the establishment of which.
beyond all question or competition
was Nelson's great achievement; but
his part was done when Trafalgar was
fought. The coincidence of his death
with the moment OF completed success
has impressed, upon that superb battle
a stamp of finality, an Immortality of
fame, which even it's own grandeur
scarcely could have insured. He
needed, and he left, no successor. To
use again st. Vincent's words, There
is but one Nelson
1t is unnecessary to speak of Capt
Mahan's peculiar fitness for the work
accomplished. q fitness, the result Of
rare personal qualities and a previous
training, than which nothing could be
better suited to the undertaking. His
works success is the only necessary
criticism of his unquestionable power.
The mastery grasp of the subject from
the professional side, the unprejLdiced
eIppi SCioNtiOii OA iiiCA 1Hu IlIneS, The
insight into human motives, the tact
that permiateS the entire work, COM
blne with the rich literary style to
give it interest to the ordinary reader
and Importance to the student. The
numerous portraits, diagrams of bat
ties and maps add not a little to the
volume and clearness of the text.
c'The Life of Nelson. the Embodiment of
the Sea Power of Great Britain" by Capt
A. T. Mahan. United States Navy. In two
volumes. S. Little. Brown & Co., Bos-
toni
1.-THE Beautiful Miss Brooke" is 4
very well written book, yet we doubt
it it will really add to it's authors, NJ.
Zouis ZangWilrs, reputation. It is an
other International novel and has for
its motif the character sketch Of an
American girl If 81. T." regards the
beautiful Miss Brooke as a common
American type he is laboring under
a delusion. We prefer to think that
1t is because the author regards his
heroine as an exceptional Individual
in the worlds economy that he gives
her so prominent a position in his
Undeniably clever book
The beautiful Miss Brooke 10 q
young woman, an American art stu
dent from Paris, who gives to a Young
Englishman, of a sane and wholesome
though rather colorless personality, the
unprecedented pleasure of an apDar-
emily candid friendship. Miss Brooke
is a. young person of no common suh-
tlety and her direct simplicity and per-
feet spirit of comradeship of a quality
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the twelve-year-old Nelson to his ship
as midshipman, that he. being so
weak should be sent to rough it at
sea? But let him come, and if a can
non-ball takes off his head, he will at
least be provided for. Under such
gloomy foreboding began this most
dazzling career that the sea, the
mother of SO many heroes, has ever
seen. From this fateful start in life
on, Is a devious way and included
much Of struggle and weakness.
egotism and vanity, generosity and ap-
probation of others, and above all
absolute devotion to a cause and q
self-absorbing sense of duty;-little in
all things little, greatest in all things
great, such he was from the time he
entered upon his professional life un-
til it was written in 'the rugged
words of the Victory's log: Partial
firing continued until AGO. when VIC
tory having been reported to the Right
Honorable Lord Viscount Nelson, K.
B., he died of his wound" To quote
the closing words Of Capt. Mahan's
work-words that so thoroughly sum-