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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12
Timely Topics.
Honolulu, Aug. 9, 1897.
The Gutter Test of q

Enc Uut6r I6St vi u
Gentleman according to the
Chesterfeldian Code is to be
well shoed, hated and gloved,
we'll groomed, in fact. A true
gentleman also looks after the
comfort of his horse, and in
no way can he do this better
than in seeing that his ami
mails shoe gear is also the
best the market can give
The almost universal ex-
perience of all horseshoers in
the Hawaiian Islands and in
the United States, proves
that SCHOEN BERGER'S
SHOES stand without a rival
in all respects, and we are the
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS for
them. Ask any of our lead
ing horseshoers and they will
tell you that they give excel
lent, and the very best, salts
faction. The fine quality of
material, superior make and
finish recommend them to all
The general shape of the shoe
full fills the latest and most APP
proved ideas of practical horse
shoers. They are smooth and
in form the concave made to
conform TO the horses hoof,
the creasing neat, punching
clean and properly done, and
in a word they are the finest,
best shaped and cheapest
shoes on the market. The
PUTNAM, CHAMPLAIN
aud LIG HTNING shoenails
are also the best that can be
manufactured The Light
ming is new brand that has
won very great favor in the
American market on account
of its quality and low price
Try it.
Tas hawaiian Hardware Co., ia
26S FORT STREET,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

The Advertiser tells how certain
firms in San Francisco have worked
for annexation, but omitted to tell
that the money to keep the cause
booming was tax on every ton of
sugar arriving to the consignment
OF certain firm. The stockholders
may have something to say about
this levy on their shares. 1t savors
strongly OF breach OF trust.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12
THE MERIT OF 1T.

The wet blanket put upon the
cause of annexation by the Adver-
tiser and Star in their recent editor
ial admissions has sent chill
through the Annexation Club. Re-
cent advices received by The INDE.
PENDENT justify the blanketting the
cause has received.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

ooh yisl Oh yisl" cried an Irish
town crier, ringing his bell, "lost be-
tween twelve o'clock and Mr. Kin
ney's store to Market Street a large
brass key. I'll not be after telling
you what it was, but it was the key
of the bank, shurew
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

And so the American Union Party
have everything cut and dried for
the next election, and their candi-
dates will have walk over. This
explains the reason for diminishing
the electoral franchise privilege to
favor mainly Government employees
Since 1898 all the votes that have
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY,

1t is pleasing to read that the
Cooper Hatch annexation scheme of
n war between Japan and Hawaii
with the United States entangled
has been disrupted. The declara-
tion of the Japanese that such war
il impossible should be accepted by
all in good faith.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

The writer for the Advertiser
shows the hand Of the Government
when it explains that Mr.. Hatch
and Mr.. Huntington had arranged
the matter satisfactorily.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

Said the Minister of the Interior,
with a big, big, D, "the Chinese
shall not have the flag" Said the
Minister Of Finance, clothed in his
usual smile: "The China has the
flag"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

been polled have been mainly to
give legal colorin registering the
degrees OF the head centres OF the
oligarchisl government Of the "Fili-
busters"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

TKE INDEPENDENT was right again
when it said that Consul Wilder was
not the man to disobey instructions.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12
MEETING NOTICE.

TNHE HAWAIIAN RELIEF SOCIETY
l. will meet at the residence of Mrs. s.
C. Allen, on FRIDAY, the 18th inst, at
1880 A, NJ. A full attendance is desired.
65S 2t PER ORD ER.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

and the managers, decorators and
all concerned won a hearty vote OF
thanks from all present.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

We are wondering what Senator
Perkins and his colleagues, who
heard Mr.. Hatch explain how the
Hawaiian flag had been secured by
sundry vessels, will think when they
read the Advertisers explanation of
the reasons that led "the best gov
ernment these islands ever had" to
break its solemn promise to abstain
from granting the flag to other than
American vessels.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

Our annexationist friends are
"cocksure" of early annexation, and
claim that they are supported by
the entire nation, save by few dis
gruntled ones, in the desire for a
closer Union with the United States.
II this be the truth, it is very easy
to prove it by a plebiscite. That
vote will have to be taken sooner or
later; and the longer it, and annex
alton, are delayed the worse it will
be for the "pirate-pilots" at the
helm of this shipwrecked vessel of
State,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12
THURSDAY, AUG, IL, 1897.
DEALT FROM THE DECK.

OF all the shufliing that Mr.. Dole's
organs have been called upon to do
to sustain this funny little republic
that by the Advertiser, on The steam
ship China deal, is the most awk.
ward performance. We can under
stand that "when nesd's must the
devil drives" but could not the
shuffling have been done more
gracefully.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-12

There is an ominous rumbling in
the news-curreuts from the old
world that suggest anything but
peace on earth and good will toward
all men for our next Christmas
greetings. In spite of nauseous
jingoes the two great Anglo-Saxon-
Teuton nations may then find them
selves fighting hJulder to shoulder
on land and sea, and their combined
fleets may be holding Hawaii against
the attacks of their, as yet undev-
eloped, enemies. Stranger events
have happened in history as the
Crimean War exemplifies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
HAWAII EXCLUDES JAPS.
537 of Them Are Prevented From
Landing on the Island.

San Francisco, March 18-The fol-
lowing advices from Honolulu were
brought by the steamship Australia:
Serious trouble is anticipated here
over the refusal of the customs author
tiles to permit the landing of 537 Jap
anese laborers brought here recently by
the Kobe immigration company 5
steamer Shinshiu Maru. The local
agents of the Japanese company have
been placed under arrest, charged with
a violation of the immigration laws, and
Captain Mishakima, commander of the
steamer, has been refused clearance pa
pers unless he agrees to take back to
Japan the rejected immigrants, who
have been detained at the quarantine
station since their arrival in port.
The rejected Japanese threaten open
revolt, and they have the sympathy of
the entire Japanese population of the
island. The matter has been carried
into the courts, and if the Japanese fail
to find relief there, they will probably
appeal to their consul to interfere. In
case the consul does interfere, trouble
is sure to follow. The customs au-
thorities are sure that they have I'M
earthed a gigantic attempt to import
Japanese into this country in violation
of the immigration laws, and they pro-
pose to make it so warm for the Schem-
ers that they will not dare attempt it
again.
The feeling runs equally strong
among the AnglO-SaxOnS of Honolulu.
There is a diversion of opinion on the
part of the present lot OF immigrants
to remain on the islands. While the
bulk of the people are not informed
on the law touching immigration of
japanese into Hawaii. either free or
contract, still the belief is current that
there is a defect in the statute.
The men placed under arrest were
w. j. Gallagher, agent, and B. Humis-
zee, president of the Kobe immigration
company.
BY reason of their prominence, both
men were released on their own re-
cOgniZance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18

his head on the iron fence around the
church, the posts of which are pointed,
should not think that you told me an
untruth; but I should believe that you
thought you saw it. And. to keep my
mind easy, I would investigate no fur
Their" And that is the safest way.
Don't let us be the tools of ignorant
charlatans; but don't let us deny the
possibility of anything. The man who
yesterday, heard Glandstones voice
through a graphaphone, would have
denied this as an impOSsibility Is years
ago. There is nothing that is impossi-
bic, if God wills it. There was nothing
finer in all the history of the world than
that message which Morse sent flying
over the wires that his knowledge of
electricity controlled: What hath
God WrOughtI'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
Condensed Testimony.

turer's agent, Columbus, O., certifies
that Dr. Kings New Discovery has no
equal as a cough remedy ]. D. Brown.
proprietor St. James hotel, Fort WAYNE
Ind teStifieS that he was cured of a
cough of two years standing caused
by la grippe. by DR.. Kings New Dis
coVery. B. F. Merrill of BalwinsviIle
Mass, says that he has used and rec
commended it and never knew it to fail,
and would rather have it than any doc
tor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hem
ming, 222 East Twenty-fifth street, Chi
cago, always keeps it at hand and has
no fear of Group. because it instantly re-
lieves. Free trial bottle at ]. K Jones'
drug store, Fifth street and Kansas
avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
PASTORS REVELATIONS.
Cape May Preacher Tells How Votes
Were Purchased.

Cape May, N. J., March 1S.-A large
congregation was present in the First
NJ. z. church to hear the pastor, Rev
Eli Clifford, on Lessons From the Late
Charter Election Among other
things the preacher said:
In a ministry of twenty-five years 1
have never seen anything to equal the
cold-blooded systematic sale and deliv-
cry of votes by the batch as has oc-
CURED here in Cape May. 1t was an or
ganized conspiracy, known, counte-
nanced and encouraged by some of our
leading citizens, who became the pur-
chaserS of these human commodities.
Some of the politicians boast of having
bought $50 at a cost variously estimated
at from 50. 900 to $500. Some of the
commercial voters were, it is alleged,
given their ballots and threatened with
personal injury if they entered the
booths before voting. The per capita
price of a vote is stated to be from 81
to $50. 1t is openly charged that lead
ing churchmen were engaged in this
nefariOuS business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
FORCE VS.. THEORY.

A phrase of John J. ingalls, which has
now become famous is applicable to a
certain extent to the matter of prize
fights. The elevation of the ring is an
irridescent dream. The result of all of
James Corbett's high flown notions
about making pugilism respectable and
overcoming brute force with brains in
encounters of that kind is that he is to-
day a whipped man. It was conceded
on all sides that he was cleverer than
FitzsimmOns and had his profession to
a degree of scientific perfection, per-
haps never before equalled, yet he was
no match for the logged tenacity and
powerful arm of his antagonist.
The prize ring is clearly no place for
the exercise of humanitarian principles
and the man who attempts it is very
likely, sooner or later, to meet Corbett's
fate. It is mucn like war
The nation or people that goes into a
war with an idea Of carrying it on with
a due regard to- the proprieties is likely
to come out second best. The war Of
the rebellion was conducted with varying
success and uncertainty as TO results and
with little prospect of any early end
ing until Sherman made his famous
march to the sea, burning and destroy
ing everything in his path and devasta-
ting the country for a space of so miles
IN width through the enemy's country
Then it ended in short order.
His course perhaps would not be ap-
proved by theorists, but it closed the
war and fortunately left the right
triumphant. The south allowed a sim
liar opportunity to go by after the first
Bull Run
Principles are of little account in the
prize ring or in war, unless they
win. Without complete success
they accomplish nothing They are
very nice to carry around with one and
to talk about, but unless contests can
be won on them they get little regard
from the world at large. Success is
what is demanded-success at any cost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
STARS AND BARS A RAG.
Bishop Consigns to the Fire Pack
age Confederates Send Him.

Roanoke. Va. March 1s.--Bishop Willard
F. Mallalieu, of Boston, who, in a sermon
delivered recently in Baltimore. referred
to the confederate flag as a rag" met
with surprise last night He was presid-
ing over the Virginia NJ E. conference
north, held at the Academy of Music.
While in the midst of address he
received a package. containing a confed-
crate flag. upon which was printed: 1.-The
abominable rag which floated over the
confederacy. and beneath, neatly type
fought for states rights the bravest and
noblest of heroes the world ever pro-
duced. the followers of Lee, and jack
son. and others equally gallant, who
contended for four years with four times
their number, wrestling victory from them
on more than 100 fields, yielding only when
starvation and disease had thinned their
ranks to such an extent that less than
5000 surrendered to 10000, and these in
line of battle. ready to die at their leaders
word. Whose was the glory?'
Bishop Mallalieu afterward said that he
had consigned the package to the fire and
hoped the matter would rest there: he
intimated that if it did not. he would
have something to say about the agita-
tors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
RESCUE A VETERANS BODY
Chicago Students Mutilate the Corpse
of an Old Soldier.

Chicago, March -1S.-In the vaults of
Rolston's undertaking establishment at
IL Adams street is a small wooden box
which is said to contain the remains of
Theodore Baden, a veteran of the civ
il war, who died in the county hospital
February Is. The dissecting knives of
students of the Colum bian dental col
lege, ISL Clark street, have mutila ted
the body beyond recognition and were
it not for two affidaEits held by Mr.
ROlstOn declaring that the diSSected
parts once constituted the body of the
old soldier the mortal identity of TheO-
dore Baden would have been lost for
ever.
Baden is said to have been a candy
manufacturer, and at the time of his
death was 20 years old. So far as
could be learned he had no friends or
relatives, and after being held the Gus
tomary five days by the county hospi-
tai authorities his remains were turned
over to Dr. Dodson, as agent of the
Demonstrators association Dr. bod
son ordered the body sent to the Col
umbian dental college, where it was
placed on the dissecting table February
"a. The next day it appears that DR..
Morris learned that Baden was an old
soldier, and as the county allows $35
for the burial of its old soldiers not
otherwise provided for. he notified DR.
Dodson of that fact, whereupon the lat
ter gave the former note addressed
to Mrs Grace NJ. Ellison" directing
the Columbian dental college to refrain
from disSecting the body until the
IlOISlOn concern naQ Deen given OppOr-
tunity to produce the necessary papers
showing that Baden had served in the
army and had received an honorable
discharge.
This note is said to have been given
Mrs. Ellison the following day. From
that time until yesterday, when the re-
mains were removed to Rolstons, DR..
Morris is said to have called at the col
1ege not less than dozen times for the
body Each time it is said, he was re-
fused the remains, and was told that
the college would not deliver them up
until the doctor had produced the nee
essary papers from the county agent
and certificatiOns showing that Baden
was in fact entitled to the privilege of
burial in the usual manner. Meantime
While DR.. Morris was looking up Baa-
den's war record, DR.. DOdSOn, assuming
that the ROlStOn people had given up
trying to establish Baaden'S claim I'M
DER the state law, countermanded his
order and directed the college authOri-
ties to go and dissect the body.
Accordingly the remains were placed
on the diSsecting table. The head was
severed from the trunk and the body
was undergoing the last stages of dis
section when Dr. Morris appeared with
the necessary papers which showed
that Baden had been a member of
Company G, First Pennsylvania Pro-
visiOna1 cavalry, and had later been
transferred to company c. in the Sec
ond regiment, from which at the close
of the war he was hOnorably discharg-
ed and therefore entitled as a resident
of Cook county at the time of his death
to the usual. county allowance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
~RABn ON sP1R1rUAL1sM.

TFrom Bab's Syndicate letter.
Then. what do you or 1 know about
spiritualism? How can We decide what
there is in it of truth, or of untruth?
Everybody knows there have been
charlatanS innumerable but are there
not charlatans in medicine, in law, in
theology, and even in newspaper work?
1 am not making a plea for spiritual
ism; know nothing about it. My own
experience in it frightened me so that 1
have never permitted myself to even
attempt to know anything more But
who can deny that there are more things
in this world than are dreamed of in
the philosophy of the ordinary thinker
History tells of the wonderful things
that were shown in a glass of clear wa
ter to Marie Antoinette by Cagliostro.
and only the other day it was announc-
ed that a Bishops wife had met the
ghost of Charles Il 1t hasn't been so
very long ago since hypnotism was be-
HeVed in exclusively by the SO-called
charlatanS. And yet who, among the
scientists, can deny the wonderful force
of the human will today? Poets, dra-
ON the other side of the water are
trying to solve the question as to the
possibility of those who are dead COM
ing back to this world. I wonder if we will
ever be able even to explain what we
call condolences?
Personally, 1 have always remember
ed what a good old priest said to me
think of Spiritualism He answered:
MY dear. in my church there have
been innum era Bile histories of appari-
lions; but if you, whom believe to be
a truthful woman came to me and said
that you had seen boy walking on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
A SUPERB sARCOPHAGUS.
The Granite Coffin for Gen. Grants
Body is Completed.

New York, March 1S.-The superb
sarcOphagus which will be the final
resting place of General Ulysses S.
Grant arrived yesterday. 1t was plac-
ed in q box car of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Chicago and started on its
journey to the east. On it's arrival here
1t will be taken at once to it's place in
the tomb on Riverside Drive, there to
await the ceremonies of April 81
The sarcophagus is a magnificent
work of art, and probably is the finest
thing of its kind in existence.
The principal idea of the construction
of the sarcophagus was to- make it a
massive and imposing receptacle for the
remains of a nations hero, and this the
architect and builder spared no efforts
to accomplish. The die for the sarcop-
hagus was cut from a single massive
block of granite. 1t is a ponderous af-
fair, weighing 10 tons, and is 10 feet, 4
inches long, 5 feet, 6 inches wide and 4
feet and inches high. In it's finished
state it is a triumph of the sculptor's
chisel.
The granite is of peculiarly fine grain
and is polished SO perfectly that it
shines and reflects like the most power
full mirror. Almost directly over the
spot where the great soldiers head will
rest and near the top of the cap is cut
the name, Ulysses S. Grant"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
TO COLOMBO GERMANS.
a Tract of Land in Alabama Laid Out
for Settlement.

Huntsville, Ala, March 1S.-Captain
r. b. Mason of Athens, Ala, and others
associated in a colonization scheme,
have formed a company to build an
electric tram and passenger railway
from Athens to Browns Ferry, on the
Tennessee river, thirteen miles dis
tant. The company already owns it's
right of way, Captain Mason possess
ing tract of land extending from
Athens to the banks of the river. At
Browns Ferry, the terminus of the
proposed railway, one of the largest
German colonies of the south will be
founded, if carefully laid plans do not
miscarry.
A large tract of land has been subdi-
vided into small farms, and, during the
first week OF next May, the subdivisions
viii be auctioned off. The purchasers
will all be Communications, who
will leave Nebraska, Iowa and other
northwestern states, float on RATS down
the Mississippi. Ohio and Tennessee
rivers, and arrive in time for the sales
The plan to be pursued in founding this
colony is very much like that pursued
by the founders of Cullman, Ala, now
a prosperous town with a population of
more than 1000. The proposed colony
has already been named Bismarck"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
BUY SUGAR TRUST STOCK.
Standard Oil Company Financiers
Make a New Investment

always trying to find something extra
ordinary in the affairs of the sugar
trust Now a quiet rumor goes the
rounds that important purchases of su-
gar trust stocks have been made by
two of the most conspicuous financierS
in the Standard Oil company
The report current has it that these
gentlemen and their friends have ac-
0uired an interest of about $4,000
shares. most of it bought since the Lex
ow investigation turned out fiasco.
It is represented that these purchases
have been made without the cO-Opera-
ton of sugar trust insiders. 1t is said
too that this interest in the American
Sugar company is to ask for represen-
tatlon in the board of trustees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
COLORADO SPRINGS CLUB.
A New Social Organization to Be
Formed This Year.

Colorado Springs. Col, March 1s.-This
city is to have a new Country club If all
the reports are true, and one whose fin
ancial backing will be of the very best.
Its membership will comprise beside a
number of residents, some seceders from
the Cheyenne Mountain Country club,
which is located at Broadmoor, and it is
understood. although many are backward
in stating whether they are going to join
or not, that this roll will be a very large
one.
There have been many places suggested
the new clubs home but the one that
will most likely be used. and that would
afford a most excellent location for a
club, is the Austin Bluff residence of Mr..
William A. Otis. The names of ". p
Bonbright, w F. Fisher, D. V Donald
SON. L. c. Hall and r. J. Preston have
been mentioned in connection with the
new enterprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-18
PANAMA CANAL WORK.
The Company Has Over 5000 Men
Distributed Along the Line.

New York, March 1S.-The Herald
this morning publishes the following
special correspondence from Panama,
Colombia:
From data furnished by the techni-
cal commission employed on the sur
Vey of the Panama canal TO arrive at
the most feasible and financially prac-
teal plan for it's construction, a report
has been made by the directors, show
ing the plan of work for the present.
The company has at work more than
5000 men distributed along the line.
One of the directors, NJ. Mango, has
just returned from Jamaica, where he
has been to arrange to bring several
thousand laborerS here to push the
work.