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

The duty Of the public is to sup
port the police. The man who car
ries the policeman's badge is the
embodiment Of the desire of every
citizen to have law and order in the
community. There is nothing cas-
ier than to trump up charges against
the men doing police duty, especi-
ally that of receiving brides. Yet
time and again have the police been
proved to have refused considerable
sums of money.
The prisoner who has been en-
gagged in drunken row always con-
siders that he has been uniustly
treated and is loud mouthed and
volublc over his wrongs. To create
bad blood between the police and
any class is not only short-sighted
policy, but distinctly wrong.
1t must be remembered that only
week or SO ago some drunken
Japanese memo war s-men knock
ed down and maltreated a young
lady on Nuuanu Street. 1t is the
presence OF the police and their I'M
finching courage in stopping such
rows that give Our wives and chill
dren freedom to walk about the
streets on any night in the year.
Another thing thing that must be
kept in mind is, that if the police
fail to keep order, the Government
has to fall back upon the Citizen S
Guard, and it will be no pleasant
task for the men composing that
guard to undertake policemen du-
ty. The position of the policeman
is no sinecure, and he has to keep
his temper under very trying cir
cumstances andif like any ordinary
man, he loses it, he is hauled over
the Goals by his superiors and howl
ed at by the mob.
The plain duty of all citizens is
to support their police, and the COM
munity should be thankful that they
have so thoroughly efficient a force
as they have here. If an investiga-
ton is needed in certain cases, prop
er representations to the Attorney
General would result in such an in
vestigation being ordered. But
such cases are few, if any. What
must be kept firmly in mind is that
the ordinary welfare and order of
the community is founded upon its
police, and that that is the force
that must receive its support and
commentator.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09

ed the last Legislature was in the
nature of an experiment. 1t is now
on its trial and the first of its bat
ties is to be its constitutionality.
The trainers of the measure were
very careful upon this very point.
What threw the tax out in the Fed
eral Courts was that it was a grad
uated tax and therefore unequal,
but the tax, as levied here, is not
a graduated tax.
An income tax has many support
ers among the thinkers of the COM
munity and should the Supreme
Court decide against the tax in its
present shape, they will no doubt
make it an issue of the next election.
In fact l. would be one of the main
issues upon which representatives
would be elected.
1t does not appear to be general
ly known that all income tax is col
lected in three States of the Union,
viz: Massachusetts, Virginia and
Pennsylvania. In Massachusetts
the levy is upon 80 much of the
income from profession or trade of
employment as exceeds the sum or
$4,000" In Virginia the tax is
levied from interest or profits in ex-
cess of $1,000.
AS has been pointed out in these
columns before, those who are dis
satisfied with legislative enactments
should watch such enactments
while in the process of passing
through the Assembly. They
would save both time to the State
and money to themselves by so
doing.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09
1T
WAS
GREAT

And it made a hit
worth remembering, did our
float, "Love in a Cottage" in
the procession on Monday.
1t was an illustration of a
kitchen furnished by US. 1t
showed how completely that
part of the home may be
furnished by us at the lowest
possible cost.
If you remember it, the
Jewel stove stood supreme in
the cottage and if you had in
quired Of the young housekeep-
er who occupied the cottage,
she would have told you that
as a fuel saver, the Jewel is
the best ever brought into the
country. She would have
told you that it is the best bak-
er she ever had in the house.
The breadwinner in the cot
tage would have told you that
the biscuits he ate along the
line Of march, baked in the
Jewel were quite as good as
those " his mother used to
make" The Jewel is the best
III every respect and the
cheapest, for the money ever
put on the market.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09

If your tea is not good why
don't you drink water? 1t is
cheaper and better for yor
than poor tea.
If it IS good, your stomach
is glad to get it; does it's work
better.
Schilling's Best is good tea
at grocers' in packages.
A Schilling d Company
San Francisco
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09

Of the progress Of civilization in
Africa there seems little or no
check. A little less than 20 years
ago and the world was agape over
SANKEY'S expedition across Africa
and his discovery of the Upper
Congo. Now one of the continents
Of that stream is spanned by a rail-
way bridge, and the iron horse
reaches for hundreds of miles along
the banks of the main stream.
Within year the LOGON olive
whistle will be heard at Stanley
Pool. This railroad runs through
a country which took Stanley five
months to cross, during which
time he was in imminent danger of
starvation. On the Congo itself
there are now forty steamers and as
many tow boats. Truly it is Won
detful what mankind can do with
the use of steam power. A CEN
fury ago and such rapid advance as
is now being made would have been
impossible.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09
NOTICE OF SALE.

Notice is hereby given that Lau Ian,
manager for Kwong Lung, dealer n
dry goods and merchandise at Waipir,
Hawaii, has sold the business to Wing
Chan. The sale includes horses, mules
and lease of coffee plantation. The
transfer will take place on July 20,
1897.
The undersigned~Will not be respon-
sible for any debts contracted by Lau
Ian.
WING CHAN.
Honolulu, July Z, 1897.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09
It's Easy
To Promise,

But not always easy to perform all the promises made,
especially when those promises are gross exaggeraon of
facts.
1t has been policy to stick close to the truth.
We promised you recently that would show you
the largest stock of Shoes and Slippers and goods in
line that had been exhibited in Honolulu We
what say. Come in and look for yourself
The goods here, bought right and will be sold right
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09
THE INCOME TAX.

There can be no doubt that an
income tax is the fairest tax that
can be levied The bill which pass
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09

HAWAIIAN HARDWARE co.
FORT ST., opp. Spreckels' Bank.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-07-09

Honolulu, July :, 1897.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23
Along the Kansas NIie.

TIE Sumner county High school at Wei
nngton was formally opened last Friday.
At Hutchinson last week two travelling
saleswomen called on the dry goods mer-
chants.
Newton is to have a rev city hall II
will be two stories high and the fire de-
partment viii occupy part Of il.
Thomas P. FenIon OF Leavenworth viii
probably be employed by Ms. Walkup IN
Chicago 10 defend her N her case here.
II was he who cleared her al Enporia-
II Baker and Leland insist on having
a fight, Ike Lambert of E-npo-ia, who is
a friend of both, might as well ask 20 be
sent CT a mission TO China b. t7e pres-
dent
Ben Hur" is to be given by amateurs
at Hutchinson fners is one thing IA
which Kansas can give correct imi;s-
ton OF the day CT cruc-hx!on-the dust
on the road 10 Golgotha-
A man IS working Hutchinson for aid
for sufferers n western Kansas counties.
The News -econmeris that The police
take him in charge. Taere are 70 SUI
ferers in western Kansas
There Is a general feeling of elat!oa al
ever Kansas at the repeated defeats q. ;hs
Kansas University football e.svsr-s Kza--
-. Doesn't admire football and nsye- viii
There lsu's enough talk 1. Il
AZ A. p A Lodge s sasd 20 b forming
al Newton for ths purpose OF eoycosrnz
certain merchants fn re town The A
p. A vii 10; last loag il Also foT-n>e
70 beat Mckinley for p-esi1sat. but Nc
Klzisy zevs- knew x existed
Is western Kazsas pro=psroass The
people cut there are bByiaE Tex fasAsoz-
Sd coflz. the Ia % Ek-ea being rS-s@i-
the eo-Pse comes iuts full EseS q ne
zoI-nsrS P-usqsroEs- They c2a't 1s1
Few scAere= enough &C sS<11 iae4- inoosy-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23
THE ARKANSAS UNDERFL ow.

That story about the disappearance of
Rosel through a hole in the ground, an
account Of which appeared in Sunday
mornings Eagle, was a pretty stiff
strain upon the credulity of the average
reader. The Arkansas valley is as pro-
life of fakes as OF underground rivers
and unaccountable holes. About every
body, presumably, accepted the account
referred to, as raw romance out OF
whole cloth 1t would be queer kind
of water in which boards and lumber
would not float. There are other equal
ly ridiculous statements embodied in
the dispatch which, by the way, bore
the name of a very reliable and well
known Kansan. However, little is
known Of the underground works of
western Kansas. The greatest salt beds
OF the continent were accidentally dis
covered beneath a section of it. There
are some queer holes down in Meade
county which county is noted for its
extraordinary number of artesian wells.
There is hole about two miles south
Of the town of Meade which is 300 feet
in diameter and which has no bottom
so far as tests have been made. The
hole is filed up to within forty feet Of
the top by the bluest of blue waters.
This hole appeared one night since the
settlement Of the country. When a bot
tom falls out Of a hole there is nothing
left not even conjecture of where it
landed. In sinking the prospect hole in
this city hundreds of feet of under
ground waters, lakes or the like, were
passed through.
Over all that area of the Rocky noun
tains lying east of the Continental Di-
vide, and which is drained by the Ar
kansas, the Platte and the Rio Grande
rivers, vast amount of rain and snow
annually falls. These streams are all
Insignificant as they emerge from the
mountains, being entirely incapable Of
conveying the annual precipitation Of
the region referred TO, which region, for
loose soils into which rain and melting
SHOWS quickly disappear. The water
fall of the eastern slope Of the Rocky
mountains in fact does not reach the
streams named except as it reaches
them in a small way through insignifi-
cant streams. All this water, or the
major portion of It, goes down to sub
terranean outlets. That the most of it
finds Its way down the incline which
stretches between the Mississippi valley
and the foot Of the mountains, we have
no doubt. AS the water IS not on the
surface it must be underground, vast
body or bodies of it, miles wide and
hundreds of feet perpendicular, perco-
lating here and running freely there
through the sands and gravelly sub
stratums of the Arkansas and Platte
valleys. Hence the correctness of the
theory of ''the underfiow," hence the
phenomenal sinks or holes alluded to.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23
TIE METROPOLITAN FARCE.

1t has been the fashion of every gov
ernor Of Kansas to denounce the metro
politan police law, either in private to
friends or publicly. No governor of
the state, since the passage Of the law,
has failed to do so. but none of them
have had the moral or political courage
to recommend it's repeal, while each in
turn has asserted that the enactment
proved death warrant Of the chief ex-
ecutive of whatever party. All the gov
erHors in turn knew the workings of
the law just as well before being elected
as afterwards, but none OF them ever
dared abolish the system as the law its
elf provides may be done. All crank
enactments prove bugbears to officials,
be rhe degree high or low. Leedy is the
last governor to denOunCe the law, al
though he has streDuously stood by 1t
refusing 10 avail himself Of its annul-
ling provision. Why this course is so
perSistently pursued might be hard 10
satisfactorily explain, outside of the
suggestion that It is a measure sup
posed TO be for the better enforcement
of the prohibitory law. Wichita was
the first city in the state 10 fight the
measure and each Republican governor
has for such reason bore down on the
town. Martin, Humphrey and Morrill,
each pursued a policy towards the peo-
pie which was little short Of persecu-
tion- But majority public sentiment
is hard TO ride down whatever the au-
thority or power. Police commissions
of every stamp in turn were convinced
that there is but one way to get along
with the people and that way is not by
antagonizing the majority. So Wichita
has long ceased to fight the police COM
mission policy in any active or open
way, for the simple reason that the
commissions have ceased 10 antagonize
its taxpayers
When it comes to the government of
the municipalities of 4 state, there is
little sense in making fish Of ore and
fowl Of another. We have never heard
a sound or lucid reason advanced vet
in defense Of the system. The argu-
menrs in It's favor are always inspired
by prejudice or political cowardice. The
mere mention of the prohibitory law or
the police commission system gives the
average Office holder tit of the politi-
clans ague. However, it looks as if
The fop party, under the guidance or
following the advice of Leedy. is going
TO attempt the repeal of the metropol-
iian ID farce.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23
Southern Kansas Business Men,

Here is a good line: There is holiday
air over US now and all the stocks are
at their best
A big advertiser uses this: Dress goods
drop. A dropping OF dress goods prices
beyond all records or expectations"
A merchant IN Chicago makes a claim
as follows: It's broad claim. We make
it deliberately and viii stand by H."
Dudley & Myers. of Conway Springs. en-
ploy a good old Kansas phrase effectively:
How are you fixed? Will cold snap
catch you unprepared?"
When you advertise that to a customer
"you don't have to buy and he comes
10 your store and don't buy. be careful
and DO not bid him good day with a sour
face.
A furniture man says: 1T Is well 70 bear
in mind that furniture is the best and
most economical OF gifts. as II lasts. beau
tihes the home and usually can be utI-
tied by the whole family"
Q. Campbell, general merchandise at Con-
way Springs, is booming his business IN
promising to give away New Years night
TO the person who has then bought the
most goods. mammoth doll
W. A. Thew & Co. of Conway Springs
IN advertising stationery, says: Letter
paper and envelopes are your representa-
tives. They should look as well as you
do when you cali or pay a visit
John wannamaker says: a store Nigh,
almost be forgiven FOR careiessaess during
these b1sy dayS-ths csTelessness that les
in unworthy things. Most stores have need
to ask this forgiveness" he says his store
doesn't.
In the Ashland Clipper VI. G. Steven
son. furniture. Is advertising 6 new kidd
OF ccfln. In order to DO this ne exposes
the picture OF a corpse. II VII attract
attention. but It Is not very pleasant ic-
the impression IL makss.
Rospaw g. Hsckathorn of Conway
Springs make This announcement Just
Why IL the first person ssn nE1isr. = by
10 means apparent: Believing that Con
way Springs ard vicinity H1l support an
other meat market. have opened a usW
market and solicit share q your patron
age"
Ava Clapp ot Conway Springs szyE-
When you are SEX. 60 yos ask al ths
doctors II town % make BID and tsea
employ the cheapest one7 Tas same pT.n-
ciY.e apples 70 Ire purchase of stove.
There IL forcsfui pofut n this. sithsugA
Nr. CIspp las E0t EXPRESSED i as clear
as re might
WAen the locomotive OF f-sight train
starts UF. Il backs for Sack" then 3;
s1zrtz. hT<t prIa.ag one car. thea tao.
thee three, ;aen four BntH ne whole irasu
= ureer way. II J; tired . pul, tas whole
tran without sack So-nstns-E would
bzrz.- 7; xcsIs - 5sst Ike ths azsysrtl-sr
'rAo t-i-s 70 Fe- az he trade n toEa ~
; szt 5ae czsvs-tsse-1ssE
Here e ar stTsrssssag suEE.4tioz from
Jssns. iEs 5ix KrocsT % Cai>sxo- .'f-oarkr-
giving TIE S.zns-. Tie re-szi:ec .Arz.Sy
around tse tzoie- TIE slscs Ss -sslxczEcs'
NJ - rs lo-ssaip. ths Turk~y a. 4 nat
ter of c0Erse- We tcz't SCI ;1r<eys. b.
TIE grEr1n-ngs. TIE 2iun pe13-nE re
raszses zsskt-TSG Ts-5sz1oer zsothe-s =n.-1s
pse<--sts lr1.ts. asfz. s1tEzz. cszs- sp3nes
x-zez. tzSis szse-E. csz-s. &C.. ss--~
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23
KANSAS SCHOOL TAXES

The Leayenworth Times says that
Stryker, our erratic state snperintend-
ent of public instruction. is graphing
with the old problem of unequal tax
alton. Civilization, for centuries. has
been doing the same thing. Striker
seems TO have awakened Simultaneous
ly with his election 10 Office TO reaiiza-
rion that human government fails of
perfection. The average state institu-
ton, as does that Of Kansas. declares
that taxation shall be uniform and
equal. But il IS not, nor ever has been.
This is true Of neishboring townships
and counties as well as Of neighborins
individuals. There is no such thing as
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

uniform and equal taxation, not even
for the occupants of the same city block
But the erratic Stryker is after the
school tax system of the state. He finds
that S33 districts levy less than 6 mills
for school purposes; 3,6T9 districts levy
from q to 10 mills; 2.71T1 districts levy
from IL to 10 mills; 546 districts levy
from 16 10 10 mills, while $40 districts
levy the full 20 mills, the limit allowed
by law. This does not include inter-
est and principal paid on bonds. Dis
trict bonds can only be voted to build
school house.
Mr.. Stryker says that under existing
conditions it often happens that school
coming in the first group, with levy
not exceeding ) mills, will be able to
have a seven or eight months term and
pay good wages to the teacher, while a
district adjoining with levy of 20 mills
can raise sufficient funds for only
four or five months term and pay a
much smaller salary. In the rural dis
So to SO less per month than in the
cities, and where the average length of
terms of school is little if any over one
half as great as in the cities, and with
no high school privileges, the limit OF
taxation is 20 mills, and over one-half
of all taxes paid are for school purposes,
while in cities of the second class the
limit Of tax for school purposes Is II
mills. and in cities of the first class s
mills and less than one-fourth Of the
total tax paid is for school purposes.
The advantage of the cities is due to
greater population and concentrated
wealth. The districts in the country
are of unequal size, and the inequality
is increased by the fact that the rail
roads pay school taxes TO the districts
through which they run while other dis
tricts in the same township and county
pay tax on railroad bonds but get none
of the taxes paid by railroads for school
purposes. As result many of the rural
districts pay high school taxes and yet
have poor schools, ill-paid teachers and
terms of only three or four months-a
condition of things which certainly calls
for a remedy.
At the same time let Il be remembered
that if the cities have the advantage
over the country in lower school rates,
they have heavy city taxes which the
rural districts altogether escape. That
fact should of course be borne in mind
in any attempt at an equitable adjust
ment
Mr. Stryker's remedy is as follows:
"a state and county levy for school pur-
poses which would distribute the bur-
den of taxation more equitably, and
which should each be sufficient to pay
one-third the expenses of an eight
months term of school in every district
with an average attendance Of 20 or
more. Every school should have that
many, and no term should be less than
eight months. A mill state levy and
mill county levy would be sufficient
to raise nearly, if not quite, two-thirds
of the amount needed for the support
Of the common schools. The remainder
should be raised by local taxes under
present methods, and in no event should
the amount of state or county money
paid to any district exceed the amount
raised by local tax"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

Travelling statesmen must take their meals whenever
and wherever they get them They bolt their food
minute and hustle to catch train the Hasty
meals and continual jotng in railroad trains bring in
Conn, says he has long had quite a trade for Ri pans
Tabues among travelling and it is becoming prac
tice with them to carry supply in the grip One Of
these takes day and declares they have helped
him good deal. After evening session with jack
pots tobacco and whskey nothing clears the head in the
morning early thoroughly a Ripans Tabule
taken just before going bed how late the
retiring hour may happen to be-
az. % ~ - ses,Ssrsf y o o: Sss::
@ . Tavs
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

An eastern paper quotes Mrs. Lease as
saying: Il want to be fair" Horror! We
hope she isn't blondining her hair.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

A Kentucky doctor is in Klondike sell
ing quinine at $40 capsule. Some OF the
miners are having a bitter experience ana
paying well for it, too.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

In the Austrian parliament a man talk
ed twelve hours off hand. Or, as far as
his auditors were concerned, off-arm.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

Perhaps it is the weight of the mort
cages that is knocking the bottom out OF
sections of western Kansas
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

The turkey views wtih pleasure the e.
forts OF those kindly Christian gentlemen
ID wipe out Santa Claus. II Santa IS
wiped OUT there may be some hope that
The turkey end OF Thanksgiving VII Be
re!esateH
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

Weyler is at last in a part OF the world
where 1t is not necessary for him TO dodge
every time man on the outside drops
plank en- the sidewalk
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23
short Talk. with tn. merchant.

Work tirslessly to make your store a.
tractive. Instill the idea into your clerks.
Some years ago two men had apple stands
side by side in Wichita Their apples were
exhibited TO the passers-by. One man sat
on a stool and sold all the apples he could.
The other man took a clean cloth. He
rubbed those apples every minute. They
frightened at the touch. The apples on
each stand were the same. One mans ap-
pies, however. were shiney and bright The
dull apple man broke up. The other fel-
low prospered.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

The Bacon-Shakespearse nonsense Is be-
ing revived. In two CT three hundred
years some one VIII publish book trying
TO prove that Eugene Ware Is the author
Of Thomas Brewer Peacock's matchless
poems.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

The secretary OF the interior doesn't
ttinl. that the Wichita country should be
opened just yet. Where ignorant is
Bliss, it's folly to be wise.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

There are men IN Kansas who believe
that the state would have received its
revival in prosperity three years ago, If it
had not been for Popul:sm-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

Ketcham's relatives may yet get around
to the point where they can charge Mrs
Walkup With not having prevented her
husband from dying a natural death.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

Ed Little wants to be chancellor of the
Kansas University II that university is
in need OF an animated elevated chin,
passing off as 8 man, Little Is its per-
simmon.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

Mr. Iconoclast Brann IS OF the opinion
that Waco. Texas. ought 70 be wiped of
the face of the map, and he IS doing all
in his feeble power 10 set half the commu-
nifty to getting r:d OF the other half.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

Mrs. Fitzsimmons, having examined the
game of football, declares it to be brutal,
and insists on its abolition. Not too fast
there. Let us wipe out Santa Claus first.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-11-23

The most plainly dressed woman at New
York's horse show. Mrs. Harry Payne
she was plainly dressed. Vanity OF vani-
ties.-even plainness can be vain.