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The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-09-07
CONT oKUxA-s PROPOSITION.

Cou1t Okuma proposes, IN IN:
dispatch. thar the two Govern
rneu1s shall agree on the essential
fsc-s and then limit the arbitra-
non -o the law Of the case. But he
Substantially saws 10 Minister
Cooper, the right Of vom Govern
meur h. inquire into the bona tide
E.osz=siou ot $50 10y the free labor
e. can't be discussed, and the
rights under the treaty Of 1871
--ra1t he discussed either"
Minister Cooper naturally asks,
Udai Is there LEFT for discussion
WAT are the essential facts" you
WISH tbs 10 agree to- Why have you
ro- pm rhem down GA paper 50 that
we cau see what Won mean by an
Essential fart- We want to arbi-
-r-e on every aspect Of the dispute,
and settle II mp. But If You are to
6eemue what the essential
fac-s arr and leave ont inst what
son don't care 10 have in, It looks
- i[ r0u- without intending 10 be
unfair. were really asking Us TO
give away our case" in the be
ginning. Then, also, there are some
mized questions, perhaps, Of fact
and law which may be very import
an Moreover. Won DO not give |
~ aur reasons for narrowing the /
issue- Perhaps If YOU had, We
could see force IL them. But You
mus admit. that If TWO men agree
10 submit 2 dispute TO a third per
son. one q them cannot Justly say
30 -he other, -'of course ! VIII only
sut1nir part Of the case, but I
mus choose thar part
Iri-@mrlv foolish to impute bad
farm to the Japanese Cabinet. Our
iiuco several months ago, shout
"a that THE japanese wanted the
ISLANDS and would Immediately use
force 10 secure them. The Am
zHean Government now believes
.la- at Tins was cuff. 3 This mis-
cradle talk about Japan's wicked
may he well enough
elsewhere, but not here, where !
Iis KIND Of irritating talk goes to
.he $4,000 japanese In the Islands,
zhe can work infinite mischief if
.hev choose 10 do II.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-09-07

We, who had listened to Father
Green, singing, in the forties on
the grand TANKS of Haleakala, the
songs of freedom, and had our
selves once helped John Brown
pack Sharp's rifles into boxes at
a railway station in Massachusetts,
and heard Wendall Phillips say,
that ''God pushed His truth for
ward, in spite of the advice of the
little manikins on earth," got the
lesson that the truth could not be
suppressed. For soon, we saw the
black cloud in the national sky and
cyclones of truth and retribution,
whirling out of it in deadly funnel
shapes. These deluged the land
with blood, and broke into wreck
the homes over two thousand
leagues. Half the people of an
empire went into grief and pow
erty. We saw sweet girls, in agony
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-09-07

kissing the lips of dead lovers, from
the battle fields of the Wilderness,
We saw legions of widows and
orphans, and, today, thirty years
afterwards, we see the nation pay
ing annually in pensions more coin
than it takes to support the vast hv-
ing armies of Russia or Germany.
All this came from fear of look
ing into troublesome matters"
@suppressing ugly questions" get
ting behind the fence" In Ger
many today, no man dares criticise
the Emperor, until he has locked
the door. He must be not discussed,
and you have a military despotism.
This lesson, learned through the
bloody experiences of a great An
glo-Saxon nation, we have applied
here. For twenty years past, if
you inquired ''where are we drift
ing? the reply was in whispers;
"don't talk about it If you ask
ed, show about the moral obiga-
tons of the treaty." you were told,
"oh, that is tabu." We took our
visitors into the Central Union
Church, and gave them splendid
hospitality, and they said "this is
really New England" We knew
that we based our great industry
on facts, which were, and are, in
tolerable, under American law.
a few of orr own far-seeing men
know this, and would sacrifice
much to change the base. But
they are few, and are called
''cranks.' There are many good
excuses for our conduct" it is said.
True there are, but kind parents
take excuses. Cold-blooded politi-
cal bodies have no feelings for
others.
We, therefore, believe in the
'ullest and most honest discussion
# the situation. We unreservedly
believe in annexation, but believe ]
hat Hawaii failed, and still fails 5
0 do her part in the consummation t
# the work. And we give the i
roof of it to America, in the care s
ully made census report.
Still, the United States may :
axe us, in spite of our dereliction.
hey seized Mexican territory I
hen they wanted it, They broke
heir treaties with the Indians, for
hundred years, in order to get
heir lands. So Congress said. =
hey viii find a way to take us,
they are ready for it, unless some
hange has taken place in the Am q :.
ncan conscience and political J
lought. Has it?
But we, who have so much at 9.
-ake, may have to suffer bitterly, =
the vital question should happen .
, turn on the effect and scope of y
ur own acts, in building up civil !.
cation here. If it is so, the sooner >
7e begin to ask ourselves hard :,
uestions, the better it will be.
Whooping it up" doesn't create :
Utilization, or fulfill moral trusts. :
n our prosperity lies our great .
anger. That is universal history. =
'nly we don't read history, and if !
re do, don't believe it. :
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-09-07

The foreign world Is watching
the matter. with the interest all
people have IN any public or PRIV
s1e guaHe- The general public
Vould ike 10 80 a senmmage, any
thing thai Is interesting, The pub
De men are watching the conduct
Of japan. IN this her first case of
proposed arbitration They know
1hat she claims 10 act on high prin-
ciples They wonder If she Will
acr CA them, OF resort TO Oriental
dupicirv."
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-09-07

Bun rhe case Is now plunged into
she diplomatic woods, and II looks
= Il II might wander about in
then Tor some time 10 come. Per
hap Count Okuma, himself, would
prefer that il loiter and rest by
some gently flowing stream.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-09-07

kissing the lips of dead lovers, from
the battle fields of the Wilderness,
We saw legions of widows and
orphans, and, today, thirty years
afterwards, we see the nation pay
ing annually in pensions more coin
than it takes to support the vast liv-
ing armies of Russia or Germany.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30

A curious little problem in law and
ethics came up for solution the other
day at Hazleton, Pa. A man was ar
rested there for practicing medicine
without having been registered, as the
law of Pennsylvania and most other
states requires. He confessed his guilt
and admitted that he was well acquaint-
ed with and approved Of the regulation
he had violated. Then he proceeded to
assert and to prove by documentary evil
dence that he had been graduated from
the Medical school of st. Petersburg
university and had practiced in the Rus
sian capital for years. He was therefore
quite eligible for registration in this
country, but on reaching Hazleton he
had found himself penniless and with
out friends. After he, his wife and his
three children had gone hungry for sew
eral days he determined to risk impris-
onment in order to supply the wants of
his family and incidentally to earn
enough money to pay the registers fee.
Immediate denunciation and arrest fol-
lowed. Investigation showed that the
mans story was true in every partic-
ular. His wants were supplied. and he
is now openly and successfully follow
ing the profession the practice of which
had made him a technical criminal.
Now, admitting that this Russian could
n o have borrowed money to meet the
laws requirements, a perfectly admis-
s1ble supposition, what was he to do?
Was or was not his offense a necessary
one?-New York Times.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
Important to Humane Farmers

During a recent s%ojourn in Scotland,
being frequently invited by Jeanne, the
dairymaid, to come to the stable at milk
ing time, | became well acquainted with
primrose. +" "Buttercup" and sd 4isy,"
and one occasion l noticed a very young
calf belonging to thep) in a ''loose
box" at the end of the stable, and re-
marked to Jeanne that l was surprised to
see her milking the COW hen the calf
was 50 young ! That at HON in
America we always let the calf have all
the milk for a weak or m)re, and chen
feed it with skinned milk, warmed, etc,
But Jeanne smiled and said: 1--WE never
let them draw the milk at allin Scotland.
AS soon as the calf is born i. is put in
the loose box with plenty of hay or
straw bedding, aud fed with all of its
mothers milk while warm from the
cow" THIS is kept up for some time
Il do not remember just how long, and
then the calf is fed with skinned milk
warmed and thickened with oat meal, or
other ground food.
And when the time comes to take away
the calf, there is no distress on the part
of either COW or calf, by means of this
simple and excellent pIau.-Our Dumb
animals.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
GEMS.

A friend is most a friend of whom the
best remains to learn.
Sins of the mind have less infamy than
those of the body, bat not less malignjty.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do chose
things living which are to bs desired
when dying.
All men desire peace; but all men care
moi for those things which belong unto
their right peace.
Of that noble courtesy which makes
true gentlehood, the finest grace is sensi-
tiveness to gratitude.
The highest compact we can make
with u fellow is-ie5 there be truth
between us two for evermore.
1t is a hard matter to discern rightly
whether a good or an evil spirit does pro-
woke thee to covet this or that.
Everywhere and always a mans worth
must be gagged to some extent, though
only in part, by his domesticity.
1.-The foolish and the dead alon F., never
change their opiniop," once said that
great American, Abraham Liucoln.
The jewish saying carries an essential
truth: GOOD deeds have no Sabbath, y
that is, our service to God is ceaseless.
The most exquisite tones in most peo-
pies lives are those when they are (per
haps unconsciously) expecting some
thing.
To leta man know that you recognize
and rejoice ia some good quality of his,
is to bless him with new heart and stimu.
lus.
Want of prudence is too freqautly the
want of virtue; nor is there on earth a
more powerful advocate for vice than
poverty.
The love of God does not consist in
shedding tears, nor in experiencing
sweetness of heart, but in truly serving
God 10 justice, strength and humility.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30

Almost airy Gish which had to recon-
mend it rarity, costliness, indigestibil-
ity, and, to cur way of thinking, nasti-
ness, was sure to take with the Roman
epicure. And if he were unable to make
it costly any other way he would add
powdered precious stones Or gold dust.
Nero dined on one occasion from Il
peacock which was sprinkled with dia-
mond dust, and specimens of that bird
dressed with gold or with crushed pearls
were ly 10 means a rarity at the tri-
clinia CT tie moneyed Romans. A dish
OF parrots tongues was a great delica-
cy, But Il dish of parrots tongues which
had Keen capable, when in their proper
place, Of framing words, was of almost
inc&!culaEle value, which increased i'll
a CiItCt ratio with the vocabularies of
the Cetunct parrots.
Another bird for which the Roman
epicure was in the habit of paying fab
ulous prices was the phenecoptrix,
which is believed to have been the ptar-
migan. 1t had its home in the most
northerly pants of Scotland and Norway,
and as this made it hard to get at the
Romans appreciated it all the more and
put it in the same rank with ostriches,
buzza1ds and p%eacocks. The, tongues of
these birGs were specially prepared. to-
gether with the brains, and took the
place which a hors d'9uvre would now
take .-New York Post.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
A Strange Career.


Governor Bob" Stewart. who was the
chief executive of Missouri once, and
aftar United States Senator fro 10
that State, had a strange career.
During the Gubernatorial incumbency
he was one day looking through the pen.
iteutiary at Jt ffersop City when he saw
among the eonvicts an aged man whom
he recognized. 90 the following day he
sent to the warden of the prison orders
TO have that mau brought to the execu-
tive mansion.
When the man appeared the Governor,
calling him by pane, asked him if he
hadn't once been the mate of a Missouri
river steam boat. The convict admitted
that he had been and the following con-
versation ensued, the Governor begin.
ming:
"Do you remember at one time of hav-
Jag taken blankets away from a boy who
was a stowaway on the boat and kicking
him ashore?"
"The circumstance doesn't occur to
me now, but doubtless l did it. A steam.
boat mate in those days had to bo COG
siderable of a brute"
Eyes, sir, and you filled the bill admir-
ably. | was the boy you robbed and
kicked ashore very neal to this capital
city, and thus l became enabled to give
you your pardon. Here, sir, take it.
Now, right about. March out of that door
and off these premises, and never let me
see your brutal old face again"
TIE old convict walked away quite
briskly for one of his age.
A little while ago a Senator told me
that one day about the close of the war,
or perhaps a little later, he was walking
down Pennsylvania avenue in Washing
ton with another Senator, when his COM
panion abruptly called his attention to a
rather distinguished looking man in a
gang of laborers, who were cleaning the
streets, aud l think he said under police
surveillance.
"Do you know who that man is ?" the
second Senator asked.
"No."
"Well, that is tx Governor and ex-
Senator Bob Stewart of Missouri. He
was of convivisl nature, and the convivi
alities of Washington proved too much
for bim.-Chfcdgo TSmes-Herald.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
FLOR THE MISUNDERSTANDING
NEVER ASK THE REASON WHY.

Should the loving Father send us grief or
pain.
Let us never ask the reason why.
Should He send us sunshine, or should He
send us rain,
Let us never ask the reason why.
We are blind, but He can see,
We are weak, but He is strong;
And it cannot, canno be
That his wisdom can d. wrong.
Crooked places shall be Strengthened by
and by,
Let US never ask the reason why.
should the breath of SANDER tarnish our
fair fame,
Let us never ask the reason why;
Should false accusations blot out our good
name,
Let us never ask the reason why,
God is evermore the same,
Men are cruel, God is just,
He remembereth our frame
And He knoweth we are dust.
In good time He will avenge us by and by,
Let us never ask the reason why.
When our friends forsake ana enemies
annoy.
Let us never ask the reason why;
Sorrow borne for Christ may end in lasting
joy.
Let us never ask the reason why.
Let us trust che Fathers love,
twill orevermore endure;
Firm it stands as heaven above,
Based upon the cov'nant sure.
When we're chastened let's not ask the rea
son why,
We shall know the reason by and by.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
When Our Navy.

Many years ago, iwhen our navy had a
station on the African Coast, the natives
were in the habit of bringing off parrots
for sale. They were very pretty birds,
of a soft gray color, enlivened by touches
of rcd, aud their prics was a bit of
tobacco, a piece of soap. or half a dozen
brass rings-a trifi in fact. The sailors
bought a lot of them and taught them
nautical terms.
Ga morning inspections, while the men
were at the guns, the parrots in their
cages were on the %gundeck. The captain
had a habit of clearing his throat before
he gave an order, "AAem! Star5oard'
fire Port, fire."
Before he could fairly deliver it, the
parrots would call you: "Ahem! Star
board, fire Port, treP'
And so it went on with other orders;
the birds took them up instantly, to the
great amusement of the captain, ofioers
and men.
l was one day performing some duty on
deck when one of the parrots lighted on
my hand. Intent on my affairs l threw it
off more roughly than l was aware, and
it fell rather heavily on the deck.
The owner picked it up aud caressed it,
saying, "The Master doesn't like parrots.
does hep" After that the bird always
called me"Master'' whenever he saw me,
We brought the ship into Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, on our return home.
Not long after 1 was walking down
fremont street, Boston, at an hour when
it was filed with people, aud heard a
cry, "Master! Master % and turning in
the direction of the voice | found myself
opposite a bird shop, in the doorway of
which hung an African parrot. 1 went
over and asked the proprietor where he
found it. He told me he had bought it
about three months before of a sailor
just returned from the coast of Africa.
BY this r%ecognizsd my old acquaintance
and stopped some time, going over the
'talkee-talkee'' it had been familiar with
Cd board ship. and apparently making it
very happy.
The bird had known me from tue
thousands passing the door. - NGUaI
Officer in Our Dumb animals.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
a Trick Thai Failed.

The dishonest man is pretty sure to
overreach himself sooner or later, as in
the following story, borrowed from an
exchange:
In a hotel in Berlin there was a night
Waterman who did not take kindly to
the system adopted a few years ago re-
quiring him to go through the hotel at
certain hours and touch a set of electric
buttons.
After much thought he rugged up an
automatic arrangement on several of the
buttons so that they would report at
certain hours. Soon the button system
got so out of order that the management
abolished it, and Il pedometer was given
to the Waterman, which would register
every step he took.
All went well the first two nights,
but on the third morning the old man
was missing. On search being made, he
was found sound asleep i'll the engine
room, and the pedometer so attached to
the piston rod of the engine that with
every stroke it registered a step. 1t had
been travelling all night, and when taken
off it registered PIP miles.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
The Human Body's Tireless Organs

Mar has within him a stationary engine
called his heart, which, with its veins
and arteries, constitutes a perfect system
OF hydraulics, compared, with which
mans best work is clumsy, intricate and
wasteful. The lungs are a working bel
lows, the most perfect method of sani-
tary ventilation. The stomach is a work
ing vat of marvellous perfection. Toe
brain is a ~ondrous condenser, and the
skin is a great working evaporator, with
reserve automatic appliances, ready 70
extra work in moments of need. AL
these are 10 action at all times. day and
night, tireless, unoeasing, self winding
and repairing, for seveu'y years or more.
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30

Professor Max Muller of Oxford, in a
recent lecture, called attention to the
largest book i'll the world, the wonder
full Kuth Daw. 1t consists of 729 parts
in the shape of white marble plates,
covered with inscriptions, each plate
built with a temple of brick. 1t is found
near the old priest city of Mandalay, in
Burma, and this temple city of more
than 700 pagodas virtually makes up
this monster book-the religious codex
of the Buddhists. 1t is written in Pail.
Rather strange TO say. it is not an an.
Gent production, but its pre- paration
was prompted by the Buddh;stic party
of this century. 1t was erected in 1857
by the command of Mindomin, the sec
ond of the last kings OF Burma. Home
Journa1
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
A LESSON IN ECONOMICS.
A Young Woman Gives a Young Man
Some Valuable Tips.

Some Valuable Tips.
Again it is a Washington girl.
h time she appears as an angel OF
economy to a young man who needs
that kind of angelic administration
about as much as any other young man
in the Capital City, and she is just as
successful as if she were trampling him
under her scornful heel and making
him feel how utterly helpless man is in
conflict with the irresistible.
"By Jove :" he was saying, "this sort
of thing is simply intolerable!"
What sort of thing?" she inquired,
with admirable poise.
"Why, 1 have just had to pay a mes
senger 40 cents to deliver a note up
town for me, and he was gone less than
half an hour. 1t would be cheaper to
have hired a cab and horse and driver,
and still cheaper to have sent it by
mail under a special delivery stamp"
"What was the note?'' she asked,
womanlike, before she thought.
"a response to an invitation to dim
ner."
Forty cents is cheap for a good din
ner, she smiled.
But l couldn't CO." he walled. 'It
was a defamation, and the 40 cents Oh
top of that. Really, though, this mes
senger service is a rank imposition and
should not be tolerated. Twenty-Five
cents an hour is ample, with short dis
tances at 10 or 10 cents. The eonven-
fence is easily worth that. lCt !
than that is plain extor, ION and the
greed of monopolies.
"You have my sympathy. You are
the more entitled to it because you
don't seem to know any better. Now,
why aren't you as bright as a man 1
know, who hasn't any more money
than you have? When he has a note or
a book to send to a girl, he doesn't
waste 40 cents on a grinding monopoly
oh, that's what it is, p" she laughed,
as she noted his look of surprise, 1--WE
have a call in our house, and I am COM
PEELED to use it sometimes-but he does
a much better thing. He just adds 10
cents to his 40, slips around to the fol
lists, orders so cents worth of violets
sent to the girl, puts the note in with
the flowers, and there you are. See?
Only 10 cents out, and think how much
in-for girls do love flowers, even 90
cents worth"
The young man began gasping for
air.
"Or," she went right on, "if it is
the season when flowers are more ex-
pensive than messenger service, just
substitute candy for flowers. You can
get something perfectly lovely for 60
cents, and to add a book or pleasant
note to it makes it we'll worth the girls
kindest thought and your 20 cents *
ira. Now, is the plan clear to your stu
pid Erain?"
Whether it was or not the young
woman that very afternoon received Il
delightful note of thanks for valuable
information, accompanied by a 90 cent
burch Of violets from a'well known
florist. +Nashington Star.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
Is This Result Desirable?

Should this country alone attempt
free coinage of silver at the ratio of I6
to 1, it would thereby give notice that
we are ready to exchange for all corners
a quantity of gold which is valued at 81
in every civilized country for a quaint
ty of silver which represents in the
markets of the world about 90 cents.
In a very short time all gold would
disappear. 1t would be boarded to await
a premium or shipped to countries
where it is more appreciated. Only sill
yer would remain our circulating medi-
um. We would be Oh a silver basis. Our
standard would be a dollar worth little
more than so cents in every country but
our OWL.
All values would quickly adjust them
selves to this deprecated dollar and
would fuctuate with its changing value
in international exchange.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30
Real.

Little Bessie had been taken in to
see her new baby brother for the first
time.
"Do You think you will like him,
Bessie?" asked her father.
"Why, yes" she said, clapping her
hands delightedly. "There isn't any
sawdust about him at all, is there?
He's a real meat baby. Pick Me Up.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30

GARAH C. WILSON, Administrators of
- William S. Wilson, deceased, by direc-
ton of the Surrogate OF the county of Salem,
hereby gives notice to the .reditors of the
said William s. Wilson, deceased, to bring
in their debts, demands and claims against
the estate of the said decedent, under oath
or affirmation, within nine months from the
date hereof, or they will be forever barred
OF any action thereof against the said Ad-
m1nlstratrix. SARAH c.. WILSON,
dated Feb %. 1897. ADMINISTRATORS.
The Monitor-register., 1897-04-30

When a person is losing flesh aud vast
ing away there is cause for alarm. Moth
ing so worries a physician. Consump-
tlves would never die if they could regain
their usual weight. 10 fact there would
be no CONSUL ption if there was no vast.
ing of the system. The cause of this
loss of aesh is a failure to properly digest
the food eaten. Nina -terths of all our
diseases date back to some arrangement
of the stomach.
The Shaker Digestive Cor iiAl will stop
this wasting OF the body. 1t acts by
causing the food we eat to os digested so
as to do good, for undigested food does
more harm than good. Tue Cordial ON
tairs food already digested aud is a diges
ter of foods as well.