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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07

1t is a story told with all the weight
of words laid to make it appear in
its worst light 1t is a picture
painted by a hand that naturally
goes to the lamp black for its
shadows and which plentifully
plasters its canvas with the most
somber hues.
To tell the story Of the Hawaiian
Islands and deliberately ignore what
has been done, to insinuate that
everything that has been done has
been merely for gain, that practi-
cally nothing mas been done to en-
hance Anglo. Saxon civilization, to
belittle every man of the past, and
finally to say that the United States
in assuming these Islands will break
faith as it has done before, is to
state the case in terms which a
lawyer is accustomed to use when
he has bad case.
1t only requires one to look at
the schools to see what the Anglo
Saxons have done towards spread
ing Anglo-Saxon institutions and
ways of thought; to remember
the seif-denying lives of many noble
men and women, who for no greed
of gain have brought the nation ur
to such a condition that the ways
of life and much of the thought is
from the Anglo Saxon stand point.
The grass house has been replaced
by the substantial wooden structure.
The naked have been clothed,
ignorance has given place to cul-
ture; industry has taken the place
of laziness. These are honorable
and worthy victories, and to these
the Anglo-Saxon can point with
pride, in spite of the sneers and in
situations of one who has never
put his shoulder to the wheel fol
the cause of Hawaiian progress,
and who, at the closing decades o.
his life can only return to rail al
what others have done, and try to
belittle the work of men whose
names are blazoned with honor or
Hawaii's small historic scroll.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07

The old age pension scheme will
eventually be carried in most coun-
tries, and it is, at the present time,
interesting to see the various meth
DDS proposed to raise money for it. 1t
is one of those schemes that seem
utopian, but when they are carried
out the people, will wonder how it
was that they got along without
some plan of this sort. All large
States pension their officers and
soldiers. Many States pension the
members of the civil service. The
pension system of British Ind a
keeps large class faithful to ii e
government, for the overthrow OF
the government would mean Il c
loss of all chance of pension. The
Victorian Government has begun to
wrestle with universal old age
pension scheme. The Australian
colonies and New Zealand are ever
trying to solve social questions.
The Victorian plan is to tax amuse-
ments, and it raised quite a storm.
The theatrical managers are up in
ms and say it will ruin them.
The sporting men object to any tax
upon matches or races and the clubs
are kicking. But the law makers
of the South will wrestle with the
subject till they find solution.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07
SUCCESS.

The anti-anneXation sentiments
of the morning paper have been so
successful that they are becoming
the watch word of those opposed to
the annexation cause. Since annex
alton was first advocated in these
later years, there have, perhaps,
been no harder blows dealt it than
those which the editor of the morn
ing paper has given.
The defense of the position that
has been taken is that truth mu.
be told. But the tru h is not told.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07
@imeRy @o1oicS'
SEPT. 6, 1897.
WHAT Is 1T?
The Russell Staple Puller
and Wire Splicer.

The Russell Staple Fuller
and Wire Splicer is a drop
forge tool, made of black dia-
mond tool steel, and embraces
six tools in one; weight, about
a pound, and can be carried in
the hip pocket with ease.
The six tools are as follows:
l. Double staple puller,
nails, etc.
2. Double wire cutter.
3. Double hammer, non
breakable.
4. Good wire splicer, for any
kind of wire, barbed wire in
cluded.
5. Good pair pincers, with
long leverage.
Good monkey wrench, for
plows, machines, etc.
The leading fence companies
throughout the middle and
western States have adopted
this tool for use in putting up
their fences, and recommend
it as the best tool of it's kind
in use.
1t is one of those tools that
while used in wire fence work,
yet might be called a "house-
hold article" as everyone that
has used it claim they cannot
afford to be without it around
the house, barn and farm.
Ii other dealers tell you that
they have something that viii
do as well and is cheaper
don't have it. Why? Because
no one or two tools are as
Nv, aon &c, civ
HAWAIIAN HARDWARE co
FORT ST., opp. Spreckels' Bank.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07
The
Quincy

Is the acknowledged
superior of all ice refrigerators
made. 1t is constructed on
scientific principles and is a
guaranteed ice saver-a quail
ity not found in every refrig-
orator or ice box.
Ours are the Quincy clean
able, and the prices range from
$3.50 to 800, and we make
the terms so reasonable that
anybody can buy one.
You can have an ice box by
paying $l.25 per month for
six months. Or we will sell it
to you for $3.50 less 5 per cent
for cash.
We give the same excellent
opportunities to purchasers of
refrigerators. There is no
reason why you should allow
your meat and butter to spoil
for the want Of suitable
refrigerator when you have
almost your own time in which
to pay for it.
Our styles are the very
latest. A whole carload came
down on the Transit, and
everyone is a new and distinct
pattern.
You never saw such hand
some furniture at the price.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07

Go to any grocer and ask
for Schilling's Best tea: Japan,
English Breakfast, Oolong,
Ceylon, or the Blend.
He will pay you your money
back if you don't like it.
A Schilling & Company
san Francisco
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07
@AvN>SNc
\

PHOTOGRAPH CO., LIMITED, is OPP
en- for business. Portraits of every de-
scription upon the best Papers, Plati-
mum, Iridium, Mezzo-tint, Carbon, and
all the other papers known in Photo
graphy. Best work guaranteed at
moderate prices.
CABINETS from 5000 per Dozen.
Pictures made Life Size direct.
Appointments made by Telephone
492. Sole proprietors of the Bas-Re-
lief and Iridium processes. Large col
lection of recent Island Views.
Specimens can be seen on the ground
floor, MOTT SMITH BUILDING.
COR FORT g. HOTEL SITS.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07
TO LET.

To be let with the fixtures, therein
the portion of the Waverley Block on
Bethel street now occupied by Ehlers
G. Co:
Apply to HENRY WATERHOUSE.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-09-07
BY AUTHORITY

REV. SAMUEL KAPU has this day
been appointed Commissioner of
Private Ways and Water Rights for
the District of Wailuku, Island of
Maui.
j. \. KING,
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office, Sept. 6, 1897.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-23

term of few years with the more
vicious and hardened criminals there
is but little hope that they will ever
become citizens of which the state will
be proud.
The last legislature, however, view
ed the matter in a proper light, and
the Reformatory Bill was passed. An
exchange in reviewing the law says:
The bill authorizes the governor, attorney
general and commissioner of agriculture to
purchase from 50 to 22o acres of land adapted
from some city, and not to cost more than SIS
per acre. donations of land or material may
be accepted by the board, but the members
are not bound to take such offers into consid
Grafton The officers are directed to have
buildings erected to cost not over $4,000 to be
paid for out of the money derived from the
hire of convicts. Separate buildings for the
white and colored inmates to be provided.
The officers of the reformatory shall be
perntendent at 5000 per annum, assistant
perntendet at $500, two matrons at 5000 each,
and a physician at 5000. The sum of $4,000 is
appropriated for the expenses of the institution
in 1897 and 1893 After that time it is expect
ed that the institution will be sustained by the
fees of $40 per annum, to be paid by the coun-
ties for each person incarcerated therein.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-23
PUBLISHERS CHAT.

q We suggest to cur friends that it would be
an excellent idea for them to help along the
good cause of agricultural education by re-
minding new settlers of the value to them of
an agricultural paper. If you know of man
who has recently settled in Florida for the
purpose of engaging in farming hortcul-
ture in any of its branches. You have also
heard of man who is ignorant of Florida
methods, and it is your duty to remind him
that the Agricuturist will help him many
a rough place in his road to prosperity. Sc
cure him as subscriber if possible.
=
Since the recent additions to our printing
plant in the form of type setting machines,
press, etc., we are in position to do the very
highest class of book and catalogue work at
remarkably low prices. We refer to this for
the benefit of our nurserymen and would sug-
gest that we can them money Give us
a chance to figure on your annual catalogue.
The date on your address label tells the
time of the expiration of your subscription.
1t would be good plan to glance at this oc-
casionally and see if your name is spelled cor
rectly, and if your times most out"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-23

the untamable Sioux warrior or the
shouting Comanche marauder, but, as
the board of trustees itself describes
them, with "brave, independent and
intelligent body of men, who have
steadily refused to become the wards
of the nation, and who have refused
in all instances to accept government
unless they were allowed to pay for
them. The board says they are hon
est and reliable, and that they desire
to be let alone and not molested by
the white people.
Various arguments are advanced for
and against the removal of the In
dams. Being such class of people as
the board describes, it may be asked,
why modest them?-Savannah News.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-06-23
The Florida Seminoles.

The various schemes for redeeming
the Everglades of Florida, and the de-
cision of the federal government to
cede those lands to the state, have
brought prominently to the front the
question of what shall be done with
the Florida Seminoles, of whom there
are between 400 and 600, who have
been living upon government land and
acquiring their subsistence through
hunting, fishing and farming in a
small way. Some time ago the gov
ernor of Florida appointed board of
trustees to look into the question of
permanent reservation, which board
recently made it's report.
The board, after some cOnsidera-
ton, selected Long Key, an island in
the Everglades, situated partly in Lee,
Monroe and Dade Counties, which is
described as containing some 5000
acres of land; also all the marsh for
distance of two miles on all sides of
said key. The key, they say, has
variety of soils, it is in easy communi-
cation with the mainland by the canoe
routes, and is high enough to make it
healthy. 1t has been very pertinently
asked, however, in view of these ad-
vantages of Long Key, why has it not
been taken possession Of by the white
people. Being some distance from the
mainland, the broad reply is that it is
not sufficiently accessible to invite the,
white settler.
So again the old question of the dis
position of the Indian is brought up.
1t happens this time, however, that
the authorities are not dealing with
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-18

The value attached by the poor, and
even by those who are not in the depths
OF poverty, to decent surroundings in
family life is q very variable quantity.
Decent lodging is not by any means
universally regarded as one Of the prime
necessaries Of life. Occasionally it is
relegated TO quite a back seat
An instance was given before the
commission Of family Of seven per
sons-father, mother two grown up sons
and three grown up daughters-all liy-
ing in one room. With them this ar
rangement was a matter Of choice, not
necessity, for they earned between them
about 81 "a week, more than $3.50 q
year, and even from slum landlord
they could no doubt have afforded to
rent another room or two. Having
screwed down the item Of rent to an
irreducible minimum, they determined
to have thoroughly good time, and this
il how the witness describes their pro
caedings I'm the evening they would
all go out to the music halls and to the
theaters. On Saturday afternoon they
would take five tickets each for some
omnibus or conveyance that wac going
into the country, and on Sunday they
would go to Brighton aud to other
places 1t is comforting to reflect that
these Arcadian beings were unit
I'd family and always took their pleas
nre together as we'll as their maps. II
is not stated whether they took in
dodgers From ''The Housing Of thu
English Poor" by the Right Hon. Lord
Monkswell, in North American Review
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-18
The Eyc of "A Child,

Who can explain or fathom the won
drous instinct Of the child? Lying in the
arms Of its nurse in its carriage or else
where, its large, round, wondering eyes
roam over u sea of faces till suddenly
its features break into sweet smile, II
baby laugh dances in its eyes, perhaps
the tiny hands are extended, and the lit
tie body gives bound US though it
would throw itself through space. What
has happenedt 1t has recognized a
friend, nothing more and no less. 1t
makes no mistake. Wiser, perchance,
in that moment of inexperienced
helpessness than it will be years
aftcrward, when the world and its in
mates have been studied in the light
Of instruction and experience, its love
Offering Is seldom If ever mistakenly
presented BY what power is this child
love directed? BY what subtle influence
does it sec and know what In after
years it may strive IN vain to discerny-
Good Housekeeping
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-18
CAR HORSES HARD TO GET.


fhe Demand Is Now So Small That tho
Trade NcgIects Them.
One of the most curious effects OF tho
general replacing of horses by electrici-
ty and cable traction for drawing street
cars is being experienced by ono of the
extensive car lines III this city which
still uses horses One would suppose
that, since tho only lines i'll the whole
country which continue to uso horses
now form but very small percentage
of those which USED them five years
ago, these lines would have II much
wider range of choice and could get
horses of grade superior to the gen
eral run of those which used to be
offered to them Remarkable ms it may
seem. this is the exact opposite of the
truth.
Tho New York city line referred to
runs i'll direct competition with the
cable lines of the upper west side, and
its managers, who recently purchased
1t. determined as soon rs they came in
to possession To place upon it superior
lot of horses, and in this way improve
its running until mechanical propulsion
could be introduced Orders were sent
out to buy the needed horses. Much to
the surprise of the managers, it was
discovered that there were almost no
street ear horses of any kind to be
bought
The explanation of this situation lies
IN the fact that since the demand for
street car horses almost ceased tho trade
machinery by which they were gathered
has fallen into disuse A few years ago
the street eur horses were one OF the
most important features of tho horse
market. They were animals of stand
ard grade and of almost stable price,
and every part Of the country contributed
its quota The street car horse hid to
be- big and able and sound of limb and
wind, but II might be of any ago. Few
lasted long enough i'll tho service to
mako the question of u few years moro
or less of any consequence. Tho demand
was constant and the price never varied
III New York more than from about
s 26 to $3.50 each Dealers could always
count upon getting this price and get
ting it promptly, and az consequence
every horse which would answer the
purpose was IA safe investment at lit
tie smaller price, and Il clean profit of
$40 Il horse wis regarded as fair mar
gin in handling them.
Horses of all sorts. which lacked the
qualities of speed, beauty or youth. but
possessed the ether requirements. were
quickly sorted out from tho markets Of
the whole country. and every big dealer
WIS always able to gather droves of ear
horses MS fnst us the companies needed
them The trolley has superseded the
car horses, and ear horses are no longer
quoted AS staples i'll the market The
companies which still uso them ARE
obliged 10 20 out and search the marts
and buy them one by one instead of
simply sending out an order for 100 or
300 or 900 and getting them az readily
AS they would so many loads of hay or
grain, New York sun
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-18
Greco IcuyptInn Painting

The remarkable series or portraits
found in Egypt arc described in Tho
Monthly illustrator and the methods of
the old artists employed.
The methods of these ancient days
were totally different from those of the
present day and wero evidently vastly
more durable Panels of wood were
used to paint on--sycamoro and cypress
also panels of papier mache, and oc-
casionally they were formed by gluing
three thlcknesses of canvas together
These panels were usually about IA
inches long by inches wide. Tho artist
used liquid wax instead of oil to mix
the col0rs, which We're made not from
vegetable, but from mineral substances
and were Of marvellous brilliancy and
permHnence--blue powdered lapis lazu
Ii, green malachite, red oxide of iron,
etc The culurs were laid ON i'll patches.
somewhat after the fashion of IA mosaic,
and afterward blended with an instru-
ment called the Cestrum, which appears
10 have been lancet shaped spatula.
long handled. with ut one end a curved
point, ut the other finely dentated
edge With the toothed edge tho wax
could BE- cquaized aud smoothed. while
the point vas used for placing high
lights, marking lips, eyebrows, etc.
The final process, which gives tho
name cncaustio to this kind Of painting,
was the burning in Of the colors This
was done by the application Of IL heated
surface to the panel, though George
Ebers believes that in Egypt tho heat
of the sun was probably all that was
needed to complete the artists work
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-18
FREELY FLASHES.
The Method by Which the Insect Emit
Its beautiful Light,

Inc Wcthou ny which the Insect limits
Its beautiful Light,
by what process do firefiies produce
tho beautiful flashes of light2" That Is
question frequently asked, and an on
toinological books fail TO give salts
factory reply tho following explanation
may be interesting:
| have made II special study of the
light, and carefully examined the mech
anism of tho illuminating segments in
both male and female specimens. Tho
light omitted. when tested by the spec
trosoope, gives n brilliant spectrum,
which is continuous through all the
colors from tho red to tho violet rays
| Tho Illuminating organs consist of dis
tinct spherical cells, each one OF
| which Is about 10000 of an inch In
%emHiSE, and md t q sS9yl 81 AhssP8&M 10
will, producing light Of corresponding
intensity. Tho cells contain fluid sat
urated with phosphorus, and tho cover
ing of the cell is so thin that atmosphere
coming in contact with IL may affect
tho contents
1t has boon suggested that tho beetle
tho phosphorus suddenly luminous by
electricity-by tho injection of warm
fluids---or by friction. But it il certain
that the fash of light Is made in an
other way. We may clearly trace n con
nection between tho spiraeles and
traohea (spral mir tubes) of the beetle
and each of the illuminating cells, and
find that the littlo creature renders the
phosphorus contained III tho cells lumi-
nous by forcing air upon them. The cells
when thus excited emit light from their
surface.
We may initiate the act of tho beetle
by dissecting ono and placing the illumi-
mating organ under microscope, COW
cred by thin glass cover. When the
cover is lifted so AZ to admit IA little air,
| the cells become luminous.
We may add that tho name ''firefiy"
is n misnomer, as the lightning bug"
is Il trun beetle, belonging in tho natural
order calcoptern, and in the family
| lampyridm ID X Winder in Detroit
| Free Press
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-08-18
The Old San,lboa.

Blotting paper, said n man of ma
ture years, has been commonly used
for only about 10 years Before that we
used sand, which was poured from IA
sand box out upon the paper Enough
Of it adhered to the wet INK to keep II
from blotting. Tho rest waa poured
back into the box. | think liked the
old sand box better than | do the mod
ern blotting paper Sometimes when
you opened IA letter you would find sand
in the envelope, which had rubbed off
the letter in transit But that dldn do
any hurt md the letter itself was more
slightly to look at than the letter Of to
day. 1t did not shade off pale, whore
fresh ink had been taken from the lines
bodily by tho blotter-~it was uniform
in color. And the lines. fine and coarse,
were Just us the writer made them-not
blended or blurred or softencd or spread
out moro nearly uniform. They were
clear and precise and characteristic Of
tho writer.
II liked tho old sand box, but Of
course We couldn't use it now; were
too busy New York Sun.