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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-05-07
SEALED TENDERS

SEALED TENDERS
Will be received at the Office of the
Minister of the Interior until MON
DAY, May 10, 1897, at 12 o'clock noon,
for furnishing to the Road Supervisor
the following supplies in quantities as
required from time to time for the
Bureau of Roads and Bridges, Homo
lulu, during the term of six months,
from May II, 1897:
SCHEDULE OF ARTICLES RE
QUIRED BY THE BUREAU OF
HONOLULU ROADS, FOR THE
TERM OF SIX MONTHS. COM
MENCING MAY II, 1897.
BUILDING MATERIAL.
Red bricks, per NJ.
Portland Cement, per Dbl. of 400 lbs.
California Lime, per Dbl.
Blacksmith's Best Cumberland, per
ton of 2240 lbs.
Australian, per ton of 2240 lbs.
Departure Bay, per ton of 2240 lbs.
New Zealand, per ton of 2240 lbs.
HARNESS, LEATHER AND FIND
INGS.
Trace Leather, No. /, per Id.
Lace Leather, No. 1, per lb.
Harness Leather, No. 1, per Id.
Harness Leather, No. 2, per Id.
Saddle Leather, No. 1, per lb.
Saddle Leather, No. 2, per ID.
Cart Saddles, each.
Collar Pads, per dozen, best quality.
Hames, per dozen pairs.
Horse Collars, b. r. or C. c., each.
Sheepskins, with wool, each.
Sheepskins, without wool, each.
Horse Blankets, No. /, per dozen
pairs.
Neatsfoot Oil, per gallon.
Frazer's Axle Grease, per case of e
dozen.
Uastile Soap, per Id.
Harness Ink, per dozen pints. (Name
make.)
IRON AND STEEL.
Bar Steel, per ID.
Bar Iron, per Id.
Norway Iron, per h.
LUMBER AND SHINGLES.
Northwest Lumber, per NJ. feet
(rough.)
Northwest Timber, per NJ. feet.
Northwest Battens, per NJ feet
Redwood Lumber, rough, per NJ. feet
Redwood Timber, per NJ. feet.
Redwood Surfaced, clear, per NJ. feet
Redwood Posts, feet, each.
Redwood Shingles, per NJ.
White Cedar Shingles, per NJ.
NAILS. q.
Cut Nails, per key, iron, 3D., Cd, Sd,
1Od., I'D, sod, 4Od., God.
Wire Nails, per key, 3D., 3D., 3d., 1od.,
! led, god.
Nails, per key, galvanized, 3d., 1od.,
I'D, God, sod, 40d., cod.
Spikes, wrought, galvanized, per
keg, in, 5 in, in, 7 in.
Spikes, wrought iron, per key, in,
in, 6 in, in.
PAINTS AND OILS.
Pioneer White Lead, per 25-lb key.
Hubbuck's White Lead, per 25-lb
key.
Dry Metallic Paint, per 100 lbs.
Linseed Oil, boiled, per gal. drum.
Linseed Oil, raw, per gal. drum.
Turpentine, per 5 gal. tin.
LunRICATING AND MACHINE OILS
Cylinder Oil, Capital" per gallon,
Dbl. lots.
Cylinder Oil, 5000 w." per gallon,
Dbl. lots.
Cylinder Oil, albany" per gallon,
Dbl. lots.
Cylinder Oil, Colorado" per gallon,
Dbl. lots.
Lard Oil, No. /, per gal. Dbl. lots.
Fish Oil, per gal. Dbl. lots.
Black Oil, per gal. Dbl. lots.
Machine Oil, per gal. Dbl. lots.
Mineral Castor Oil, per gal. Dbl lots.
POWDER AND FUSE.
Black Blasting, per 25 lb. drum, %
drum lots.
Giant, No. 1, per so lb. case, case
lots.
Giant, No. 2, per so lb. case, 5 case
| lots.
Giant Powder Caps, per doz. boxes.
Fuse double tape, per 1000 feet.
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Shovels, Ames, scoop, No. 3, per doz.
Shovels, Ames, long handled, per
doz.
Shovels, Ames, short handled, per
doz
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-05-07
Perhaps you'll require new
Perhaps you'll require new
Mattings,
Wall Papers,
Window Shades,
Pacific Rubber Paints,

TO help you give your home a new
and cosy appearance. Now is
a good time to add two or three
rooms. The improvement won't
be costly if you figure with us.
Think this question over and if
our suggestions are opportune,
consult with us Well surprise
you by making a new house at a
small cost to you.
We keep in touch with your
needs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
She Won the Case

Detroit Free Press: I'll tell you,
Grace" said the head of the big law firm
as he sat that evening with his only
daughter, I can't conscientiously sanction
this proposed union. The young man is a
briefess barrister. The chances are, per-
haps, one in fifty that he has the qualities
which win success. but 1 do not pro-
pose to subject you to any such hazard.
You may consider his suit rejected"
But is there no test? Must two lives
be spoiled because you cannot fathom
the future far enough to see that he will
honor your profession? Up to a certain
point / will obey you, father, but I de-
cline to be made the victim of any 1atuous
prejudice. Is there no way in which
man can prove his worthiness without
waiting for a chance to show his mettle?'
'Oh, yes, my dear, if you do not care
to await the somewhat tedious process of
evolution. This young man is to try a
case against me tomorrow. | admit that
the law and the evidence are both on my
side. but it's the best I see for you now.
II he wins the case [ will sanction the
marriage"
Did she sleep that night? Not if her
own word be allowed to settle the mat
ter. She wrote note after note, and each
note went by messenger boy. She urged
her young knight to do his best and
not to yield as long as there was fight
ing chance that he might win. In the
small hours of the morning came one of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
PROTECTION AND REVENUE.

The faculty of seeing clear and
thinking straight is a rare one. 1t
is the absence of this faculty that
causes people to get such confused
ideas. This is particularly so in poll
tics. 1t seems almost impossible for
people who believe in high tariff to
dissociate the idea of protection from
that of revenue. The New York Com
mercial Advertiser a usually logical
and sensible Republican newspaper
discussing the decision of the ways and
means committee not to change the
Dingley law. has some very sensible
remarks on the difference between a
protective measure and a revenue
measure. 1t puts the case so clearly
and so well, though perhaps a little
sarcastically, that we give the greater
part of it:
OF course. we want revenue to paw
the expenses of government, but that
is another matter. Revenue is raised
by taxation. To get more revenue we
have only to pass a law doubling the
tax on beer made in this country. in
creasing the tax on sugar brought
into It or laying a tax on tea and
coffee ct the custom houses. Either of
these devices would give us increase
of revenue greater than the estimated
deficiency and neither would mar the
fine proportions of the Dingley law,
since its sugar duty is for protection,
like all its other duties, and addition
Of 8 revenue tax would not make it
less effective for that purpose. So the
declared purpose of the ways and
means committee not to disturb or
alter the Dingley law is not in the
least inconsistent with the future in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
TALES OF TIE DAY.
What He Wanted.

Washington Star: You have scarcely
spoken to me at all this evening" she
said in tones of reproach
IL beg your pardon her husband
returned. alphabetically. 81 was just
trying to thing of something to say
Is there anything on your mind?
Yes. to tell you the truth, there is
Cant l help you in some way?''
You might, if I could suggest it with
out your becoming angry
Tell me all about it. 1t is nv duty
to sympathize with you. you know
On my birthday anniversary you gave
me fountain pen.
Yes. And now you are going to say
that it hakes a horrid muss and that you
don't want to write with it,
I m not going to say anything of the
kind he replied. stoutly Il am going
to write with that pen every day of my
life. But there is one little favor that
would like to ask"
What is it?'
please make me a suit of overaus to
go with il -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
LEW WALLACE ON INVITING
TROUBLE.


Only the other day General Lew Wal
lace predicted that the next war this
country engages in will be with Japan
AS the country hasn't had war with a
foreign power for half a century, the
prediction is not likely to produce very
much alarm. In the same interview in
which he made this prediction he also
said he had noticed in the papers that
Congressman Hillburn of California
had, before some class in Chicago, lee
tured upon our naval equipment, and
that although he is a member of the
house committee on naval affairs, he
made the statement that While we had
some vessels. we did not have in this
country enough powder to fire the ordi-
nary salutes. He made this statement
to express the absurdity, in his opin-
ion, of this country engaging in war.
THAT fellow continued the general,
should be disciplined for that kind of
talk. He ought to know that this coun-
try has concealed some place in the
Allegheny mountains enough saltpetre
to make all the powder we would need
in long war. That statement was
J highly injudicious, and I believe not
true. Even though true, however, it but
| advertises our weakness to the world
and invites trouble. Congress should
/ appoint a committee to have that ut
terance investigated, and if proved to
! be accurately reported, he should be
censured-yes, even expelled from the
house. He is not fit to represent any
one
Just what sort of discipline Congress
man Hillburn should be subjected to,
General Wallace did not state, but be-
ing military man, he probably had in
mind military discipline Yet, indignant
as he is, he would hardly recommend
discipline after the Lowering manner.
Congress viii hardly appoint a COM
mittee to Investigate the utterance; to
do so might lead to an epidemic of in
designations concerning utterances by
| congressman.
Surprising the statement of the Cali
fornia congressman true, is it not
rather hyperbolic to say that it invites
| trouble? This country has not avoided
trouble with foreign nations because it
was fully prepared for war at any mo-
ment, but because of its wise policy of
minding its own business and not par
ticipating in the quarreIs and intrigues
of other countries. 1t is the policy
Washington recommended and adhered
to; it will have the same beneficial re-
! suits in the future that it has had in
the past.
Congressman Hillburns remarks
haven't invited any trouble. If the
people of this country have not been
greatly impressed with his remarks to
a class of Chicago boys, it is not likely
that foreign nations have.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

PRODUCTION and passage of law to
raise BY taxation revenues enough to
pay the expenses of government with
out a monthly deficit
The only difficulty in the way is the
curious contention of some eminent
protectionists. who lack the courage Of
their convictions, that we must raise
revenue by protective duties or go
without it. This is like insisting that
we raise revenue from the postal SER
vice or from fees in federal courts or
by any other government imposition
laid for an entirely different though
entirely worthy, purpose. If there is
surplus revenue from these purposes
it is entirely incidental and is consid-
cred evidence of some imperfectness
in the working of the system. Indeed,
appearance of an annual surplus from
any other government imposition laid
for spesific purpose is the signal for
reduction of the import. The sign
is still more plain when a protective
tariff yields large and constant revenue
that it has failed to accomplish its
specific object Revenue proves that
foreign goods are coming in. This in
dicates either that there is no domestic
industry which desires to compete with
the foreign, in which case protection
is not needed and the impost is pure
revenue duty; or that conditions OF
production at home and abroad are
not equalized by the duty, in which
case protection is inadequate and the
duty ought to be raised until foreign
competition is checked and imports and
revenue stop. The object of a tariff is
protection. Revenue is the object of
taxation, direct or indirect, customs or
exercise.
This rather extreme statement of the
case is permissible to emphasize the
truth, which sincere protectionists
should have courage to face, that pro-
lection and revenue are always Separ-
ate ideas and often naturally contra
dictory; that q protective tariff may
be highly successful which does not
! yield large revenue and that recogni-
ton of the necessity of experimenting
it with measures of taxation to produce
money to meet the necessary expenses
of government is in no sense confess
sion of failure.
The Herald has frequently pointed
out the distinctions here made. Rev
enue and protection have nothing tC
do with each other. A genuine pro-
tective policy would simply prohibit
the Importation of foreign goods and
raise revenue from internal revenue
sources. 1t is proposed to prohibit the
importation of sealskins. Now why
not prohibit the Importation of every
thing else? If the country is to have
a protective policv it should have {
thoroughly consistent and comprehen.
ciya ono
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
RELIEF FOR KLoNDIKERs.

If there IS to be relief sent to the
people in the Klondike, it should GER
tainly be sent without further delay.
Many stories OF prospective famine and
distress keep coming out of the region.
but there is nothing that may be term
ed official, or rather, that is a direct
appeal from the people who are at
Dawson. This is rather strange. An
other thing that is strange is that the
commercial companies trading with the
Klondike do not make some tremendous
efforts to get through with SUPPLIES
The profit accruing from such an eX-
Deditio- would be immense. Why do
rot the commercial companies under
take relief expeditions from the purely
business point of view? The Canadian
authorities do not appear to be at all
exercised at alleged prospective famine
in the Klondike; in fact, congress and
the people OF the west are about the
only ones who take much interest in
the people at Dawson City and vicin-
ity. This interest is taken because the
majority of them are supposed t. be
Americans.
If the government sends a re-
lief expedition to the Kiondike,
and the people there are really
in want and threatened with famine,
there viii be no particular inquiry as
to who are American citizens and who
are not. But supposing that a large
proportion of the people to be succored
are not citizens of this government,
what obligations are the United States
under TO relieve them? None in the
least: and. strictly speaking, they are
under no obligations to relieve Ameri-
can citizens. The whole proposition to
send relief to the Klondike is prompted
| by the dictates of humanity, and it
does credit to the American government
and people: but while this is so, those
who may be relieved should be asked to
defray the expenses of their relief, if
| they are able to. The trouble seems to
| be that many went into the Klondike
insufficiently supplied with provisions
believing there was an ample supply al
Dawson City, and there they expected
to supply themselves. Such must still
have the means if they can but find
provisions. Those who cannot pay fol
the necessary expense of their relief
should and would be provided for
simply as charity subjects.
1t is by no means impossible that
the stories of distress in the Klondike
are largely exaggerated, and it GER
tainly is to be hoped that they are
That they are, would be about as good
! news as could come out of there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

The young ladies of Richmond, Va,
we are told, attended the sessions OF
the Legislature when the bill to pro-
hibit football was under discussion and
vigorously applauded every speech in
favor of the game, says the Philadel-
phia Ledger. History records that the
ladies took a deep interest in the an
cient gladiatorial combats, and there
is never any lack of them in attend
ance at the modern bull fights In this
case, however, they are wiser than the
legislators who seek to prohibit foot
ball. The physiological fact is that
women instinctively admire strength
and bravery in men, and they recognize
in football an exhibition of and a
means of developing both.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

"Mr Bryan got two dollars of Mexi-
can money for one dollar of American
money, and he was pleased But wait
until after he pays double values in
Mexico and tlen exchanges again, re-
ceiving one dollar Of American money
for two dollars of Mexican money. We
do not think he will use the experience
as an object-lesson," says the Balti-
more American. Mr.. Bryan may re-
ceive such an object-lesson as is here
pointed out, but there will be other OBJ
ject-lessons as well. He will see that
Mexico, a great silver-producing coun-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
THE HOLIDAY HERALD.

The holiday number of the Salt
Lake Herald, to be issued December
26th, will be mammoth issue (32 or
40 pa ges), filed with carefully pre-
pared and appropriate matter.
Among the conspicuous features
will be the following:
a review of ''Utah's Jubilee Year."
by Judge E. f Colborn, of the Ju-
bilee Commission.
The states growth, magnitude of
her chief industries and condition of
her material interests.
Brief review of the years progress
in the various counties of the state,
carefully prepared by corps of
special correspondents.
An entertaining story of the year
52 Utah's sister state of Idaho.
Local sketches and holiday stories,
reminiscent of the pioneer holidays,
Christmas stories by the most enter
tanning writers in the land, besides
the usual strong features of the Sun.
day Herald.
The issue will be profuse1y illus
trated and the art and mechanical
features will be of the highest degree
of excellence.
The Holiday Herald will be just
such a paper as thousands of Utah
and Idaho people will desire to keep
as q souvenir and to send to far-away
friends. Orders for extra copies
should be placed with agents at once.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

those inspirations that only come with
dreams. with the stealthiness of bur-
gIar she concealed every material article
of outdoor wear that belonged TO her
doting but self-oDinionated father. The
young man won by default In the secrecy
of his chamber the old man swore like
a pirate. But he had promised.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

A Boston newspaper poet says:
Down in the woodland the wild flow
ers are blooming" They must be hav-
ing unusually fine weather down in
Massachusetts for flowers to be bloom
ing at this season of the year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
LYRICS BY JOHN VANCE
CHENEY.
LOST JOY.

LOST, JOY.
Lost JOY, who now is at your side.
From morning until eventide;
Who has you softly by the hand.
All up and down this summer land?
Upon my pathway. dim and lone.
The winds go by me making moan;
Your golden head, the words you said
Lost JOY, oh, why and whittier fled.
From him now. where L was. 1 pray
You, keep for aye the after day;
Far from this pathway lone and dim,
Lead on; be kinder JOY. to him.
And here is another with sense of
delicate color in its subtle suggestiveness:
EVENING SONG.
A shining here, and shadow there.
With little winds at play between;
The fairy folk are gathering where
The SunbeamS vanish in the green;
Lisp of wind and odor of roses.
And the gate of the daylight closes.
On gleamy step, on dreamy stair,
The airy. artisans begin;
And thick and quick the sparkling where
The golden nails are going in
Loving winds and slumber of roses,
And the gate of the sunlight closes.
AFTER THE COWS.
High time, high time the cows were
home;
Will lingerin' jimmy never Gomez"
The father stroked his grizzly head;
The mother. slowly smiling said,
I Put one and one together;
The bars slip hard in rainy weather"
Now, mother. do you mean to say
We've had smitch O. rain today?"
A little quicker passed the thread,
And quietly good mother said,
Put one and one together;
The cows climb high in sunny weather
''In rain or SHINE. will Brindle climb
Too high to come at milkin timer"
Good mother smoothed her sewing down
when this was my new Sunday gown
Put lad and lass together,
Twas love. not cows, in any weather"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

If the president and Secretary Gage
differ on the question of bimetallism it
must be admitted by all that the secre-
tary seems to have secured the under
hold in the struggle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

try, utilizes all her silver as money.
This of itself is great thing, as there
is no closing down of a big industry
because of the low price of the product
resulting from it, Another thing he
will see is that Mexico is not worried
over currency reform problem con-
tinually, such as there is in this coun-
try. To have gotten rid of this prob
lem is to have done much. He will
also find that the prices of the products
of the soil have not fallen in anything
like the same ratio to the monetary
standard of Mexico as they have to the
monetary standard of this country.
1t is certain that Mr.. Bryan will see
many things during his Mexican trip
that will confirm him in his already
deep-rooted conviction that the one
great need of the United States today
is free silver.
The Kansas City Star thinks that in
meditating an attack on Argentina and
the annexation of that country to Ger
many, after the fashion adopted in the
case of a portion of China, the German
emperor should take into consideration
| that BuenoS Ayres is not an utterly
helpless country like China or Hayti
The people in that region have shown
their ability to put up very good
| fight among themselves, and with a
| foreign enemy, it says. The first re-
suit of a threat of hostilities would
probably be the expulsion or the ex-
termination of the German emigrants
| to that country should they attempt
treason to the nation whose rules they
have voluntarily accepted. The Unit
ed States would undoubtedly intervene
in some way and would not prove sc
entirely helpless as some of the German
military calculations would indicate. A
nation of 100000 civilized people
should count for more than China OF
Hayti. A war with such people j!
hardly to be provoked to satisfy Gu
riosity as to whether they will or no
sustain the Monroe doctrine. The wa,
lord would better confine his aggres
sions to China and Hayti.
The German emperor stands at thu
head of a great military nation, blu
that fact gives him no warrant to g.
about the world clustering and bully
ing, thinking that all the nations trem
Bile when he treads the earth. They d.
not
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

We enter protest, in the name of
the people of Utah, against the nom
ination of ]. C. McNally as secretary
of legation being credited to Utah on
the books of the state department.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones
says much progress is being made in
civilizing the Indians. The public was
were on the increase rather than the
decrease
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Washington Post: The friends of the
Dingley law are beginning to point with
pride to our export trade. Why in thun-
der didn't Mr.. Dingley clap a stiff tariff
on exports and thus catch the revenue
coming and going?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

Governor Jones of Arkansas has com
nissioned Miss Emma Wilmington Of
Hot Springs an honorary colonel in the
Arkansas reserve militia Her best
fellow should be made lieutenant colo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

The original Of George Harris in
'sUncle Toms Cabin" has just been
buried with great honors in Kentucky.
AS Mrs. Stowe, a year or two before
her death. said George Harris had no
original, it is rather hard to see how
he could just have been buried in Ken
$ucl5y.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

Chow does Jerry Simpson manage it
when Santa Claus comes round?" asks
the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Borrows one of his wife's. of course.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-20

A Nebraska judge has undertaken
to run the Omaha World-Herald by in
junction. Thus far he has not made
any brilliant success of the undertake
ing.