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HaUaii Up to Date.
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Making n the Sandwich Islands.

1t is a magnificent structure and was
formerly the palace of the king. There
are numerous telegraph wires in Homo
lulu. The town has more telephones
in proportion to its size than any other
city Of the world. Every house has
telephone, and there are telephone
connections to almost every settlement
on the islands of Oahu, Kauai and
Hawaii. On the island of Maui the
telephone is being put up and in a
short time every one Of the larger is
lands will have it's telephone connec-
tions
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL POLICE
MEN.
There is no place in the world where
public schools are so carefully man
aged as in the Sandwich islands. Those
or Honolulu have magnificent build
ingS. The high school is held in a pal
ace which was built for the Princess
Ruth, the sister of the last king Of
the Kamehameha line. She gave it
to her daugher, Mrs. Bishop, who left
It to her husband, Charles R. Bishop.
Charles r. Bishop is the vice president
of the Bank Of California, at San Fran
cisco, and he is, 1 am told, it's largest
stockhOlder. He sold the building a
short time ago to the government for
1000, and it is now used for a high
school. The building is surrounded by
five acres of beautiful gardens, and it
is in the very heart of the city. The
government has established free
schools all over the islands. Every
neighborhood which has forty children
has a school house and a teacher, and
there is no place in the United States
where the boys put in so many school
days In the year. School Is held for
nine months, and the hours are from
to 2. School attendance is compul-
sorry, and the law in this respect is en-
forced everywhere. In each school dis
trict there are one Or two school police
men, who come into the school house
every morning and poll the school. If
boy or girl is absent a record is made
of it, and if no good excuse is given
the next day the policeman calls upon
the scholars family. If the offense
is repeated the heads of the family are
called before the police court and fined
$40. Such boys as play truant a GER
tain number Of times are taken from
the schools and put in the government
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nave to kick them aside as you walk about
the island. They are exceedingly tame and
by law no shooting is allowed there. There
are several oVerseers and they have to build
niue niue p PAIN fences around their cottages to
Keep the birds from crawling upon the
porches and going into the houses The
young gulls are said to be good for eating
and l am told when the overseers or labor
ers want birds on toast for breakfast they
go out with club and knock over a couple
and bring them in to the cook.
FORTUNES IN COFFEE RAISING.
The Hawaians here at Washington say
that the best chance for the large or small
investor in Hawaii just now is in coffee lands
There is a large amount of such lands In
the islands. They lie just above the sugar
Delt, at an altitude of from 1900 to 5000
teet above the sea. giving the planter the
hnest climate in the world. Good lands
can be bought on the market for SIS an
acre. but the government. which is very
anxious to have small investors is selling
it's government lands to homesteaders for
from $40 to SIS an acre. Fifty acres make a
good-sized plantation for one man to attend
TO. The work is more like orcharding than
farming: The trees have to be carefully
trimmed and taken care of.
They begin to bear about the third year
and the fourth year produce a good crop.
Ihen the plantation forms an independent
living for the remainder of a mans life and
a good inheritance for his children. 1t takes
some labor, however, to make such q plan
ahead at the start. I have before me an estt-
mate OF the cost of maintaing plantation OF
seventy-five acres for seven years, Including
the purchase of the land and the construction
of all the buildings. This shows an expendi-
ture of $11 900 at the close of the third wear
The fourth year such plantation should pro-
duce 60 600 pounds of coffee and bring in an
income of $1O,S0O. The fifth year it should
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done, and its fruit perfected Other
men have died In the hour of victory.
but for no other has victory so singu-
lar and so slghal graced the fulfilment
and ending OIL great life's work.
'Finis coronat opus, has of no man
been more true than of Nelson. There
WERE indeed, consequences. momentous
and stupendous, vet to, flow from the
decisive supremacy of Great Britain's
sea-power, the establishment of which,
beyond all question or competition,
was Nelson's great achievement but
his part was doneyWhen Trafalgar was
fought The coincidence of his death
with the moment of completed success
has impressed upon that superb battle
stamp of f1nallty, an immortality of
fame, which even it's own grandeur
scarcely could have insured. He
needed, and he left, no successor. To
use again ST. Nlneent's words, There
is but one Nelsente"
1t is unnecessary to speak of Capt
Mahans peculiar fitness for the work
accomplished. a fitness, the result Of
rare personal qualities and a previous
training, than Which nothing could be
better suited to the undertaking. His
works success is the only necessary
criticism of his unquestionable power
The mastery grasp of the subject from
the professional side, the unprecedented
appreciation of men and times, the
Insight into human motives, the tact
that permiates the entire work, COM
blne with the rich literary style tn
give it interest to the ordinary reader
and Importance to the student. The
numerous portraits, diagrams Of bat
ties and maps add not a little to the
volume and clearness of the text.
(''The Life Of Nelson the Embodiment of
the Sea Power Of Great Britain" by Capt.
A. T. Mahan, United States NAVY In two
volumes. So. Little. Brown & Co., Bos-
TOM
1.-THE Beautiful Miss Brooke" Is a
very well written book, yet we doubt
1t it will really add to it's authors, Mr.
Aouis ZangWilrs, reputation. 1t is an
other international novel and has for
its motif the character sketch Of an
American girl. If 81. T." regards the
beautiful Miss Brooke as common
American type he is laboring under
a delusion. We prefer to think that
1T is because the author regards his
heroine as an exceptional individual
IN the worlds economy that he gives
her so prominent a position in his
undeniably clever book.
The beautiful Miss Brooke Is q
young woman, an American art stu
dent from Paris, who gives to a young
Englishman, Of sane and wholesome
though rather colorless personality, the
unprecedented pleasure of an appar-
emily candid friendship. Miss Brooke
is a young person of no common sub
tlety and her direct simplicity and per-
1ect spirit OF comradeship Of a quality
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reform schools, where they are taught
during the remainder of their minority
These laws extend to all classes of the
people. The children of the japanese
and Chinese are compelled to go to
school, as are also those of the Portu-
guese. The result is that all Of the
children of the Hawaiian islands over
certain age can read and write, and
the grade of education is a very high
one. The majority of teachers are
Americans, who receive all the way
from $500 to 81, 400 a year as salaries.
The school furniture comes from the
United States, as do also the doors
which the school houses are built. The
lime for the houses is imported from
California.
Honolulu has a public library con-
tanning $4,000 volumes. It's Y. M c.
A. has splendid gymnasium and read
ing room, and there are free public
libraries in several other towns on the
islands.
HOTELS AND COST OF LIVING.
Honolulu has several large hotels.
The biggest one charges SO day. Some
living is dearer than in the United
States. 1t costs. I am told, fully so
per cent more to keep house in the
Sandwich Islands than it does in
Washington. You have Japanese and
Chinese for servants, but you cannot
get along without a number of them
Everything you eat, with the exception
of vegetables and meat, is imported,
and almost everything you wear comes
from the United States. At the lega-
ton today [ got the Honolulu prices
for the more common articles. Hams
cost from Is to 80 cents a pound; bacon,
from 16 to 20 cents, and cheese, from
20 to 35 cents a pound. Flour costs
$3.50 hundred weight, and eggs from
rs to so cents dozen. On the other
hand, fresh meat is quite cheap You
can get good porterhOuse steaks for
from to Is cents a pound corn beef
will cost you cents a pound, potatoes
cents a pound, and ice about 1 cent
a pound. You can hire a cook for from
Sc to Sc week, and a nurse will cost
you from IS to $12 a month. The steam
ship rates in going to the island are not
high. The round trip costs S125, and
you have several good lines by which
to make the trip. The Oceanic lire
sails twice a month from San Fran
cisco. The Pacific Mail and the o. and
O. steamships stop there on their way
to Japan, and there is a Canadian line
which will take you from Victoria to
Honolulu once a month.
NO PLACE FOR POOR MEN.
The eight largest of the Sandwich
Islands, which form the best part of
the country, are less in size than Mas
sachusetts. They have a population Of
about 10000, of which over $4,000 are
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thor's discussion Of the influence of
the sea power that he presents a
study, from his own point of view.
of the one man who in himself summed
up and embodied the greatness of the
possibilities which sea power compre-
hends-the man for whom genius aaad
opportunity worked together, to make
him the personification of the navy OF
Great Britain, the dominant factor in
periods hitherto treated. In the CEN
fury and a half embraced in those
periods the tide of influence and of
power has swelled higher and higher,
floating upward before the eyes of
mankind many a distinguished name,
but it is not until their close that one
arises in whom all the promises of
the past find their finished realization,
their perfect fulhllment. Thencefor-
ward the name Of Nelson Is enrolled
among those few presented to us by
history, the simple mention of which
suggests. not merely a personality or
career, but great force or a great
era concrete in a single man, who Is
its standard-bearer before the ma
tions."
capt. Manan mas as great an appre-
citation of the personal side of Nelson's
life as he has a professional under
standing of it's official Importance, and,
although he sees Nelson as the "em-
bodiment of the sea power" he by no
means intends to blindly associate him
with it till his individuality is merged
In the development Of the force which
crowned his country and his age, and
part Of the authors task is towards
6lsenga ging the figure Of the hero
from the glory that cloaks it." Mel
son, the boy, the man, is every where
present, his greatness, his limitations,
stamped upon every action of his life.
1t has been the authors realized aim
Ito make Nelson describe himself,-teu
the story Of his own inner life, as we'll
as Of his external actions" But it is
the mans growth and final develop
ment, rather than the accidents Of
good or evil Of today or yesterday,
that impress the student Of this ex-
ceptional biography.
What has poor little Horatio done
writes his uncle when asked to admit
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pay, according to these figures, S1S 900. and
at tnat tlme leave the planter $4,000 ahead
ny the close of the next year he will be 500
wv ahead, and will have practically made
a fortune. IN this estimate the clearing Of
tne land, the purchasing of the plants and
70 soo a. the salary of a manager, who gets
81 ,z0O year, the paying of nine Japanese as
idoorers ana the preparation of the coffee for
the market are included. How close the fig
ures are do not know, but they were pre-
the HaWallan government. A hfty-acre PLAN
tatlon would cost comparatively less as the
owner IN this case might manage it himself,
HONOLULU PROPERTY,
I asked some questions as to the condition
or real estate in Honolulu. I am told that IL
has steadily increased during the past four
years, and that suburban property has
doubled in value during that time. The an
hexauon Will give it another upward shoot
ana an TINS II Is believed, will be the case with
all kinds OF property in the islands. One OF
the best chances for money-making is, I am
told, In the building Of an electric railroad in
the city Of Honolulu. An English company
now has franchise, but it is not an exclusive
one, and neither the company or its road Is
mile. ad it has fifteen miles of track. 1t has
bob-tailed cars, run by mules, and although
there has been general demand that electric
ity be adopted, the company will not accede
to It,. AS far as can learn the English acted
the hog as to the matter from the start.
They capitalized the road at $500, 600, and Is
sued $150,0 worth of bonds. They took some
Of the stock themselves, sold the bonds in
London, and appointed a lot of London di-
srectors, each of whom gets a good salary
salaries are paid there is little left for the
stockholders. l am told that the road could
be easily paralleled, and that a franchise
could be gotten. Frank G. Carpenter.
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either wholly or partly natives or
Chinese or japanese. All of these work
more or less, and hence the islands are
no place for poor men, common labor
ers or clerks. There are more book
keepers and copyists in Honolulu today
than can find employment. The Chinese,
OF whom there are $4,000, and japanese,
$4,000, have not only ruined the white
labor market, but they haveto a large
extent swallowed up the small bust
nesses. The natives, $4,000, also COM
pete in the labor market. AS COM
mon Workmen Chinese and Japanese
get from $12.50 to SIS a month and
board themselves. The Portuguese and
HaWaiianS receive as high as SIS for
the same work. White teamsters get
about $50 month and board. Book
Keepers on the plantations receive from
500 to SITS a month, and overseers
about the same. Almost all the
mechanical trades are supplied by the
Chinese and japanese. The Japanese
do great deal of carpenter work, re-
ceiving therefor from $3.50 to SIS a day.
There are japanese shoemakers and
tailors, and there are Chinese plumbers
and carpenters. In the retail stores
the Chinese and Japanese compete to-
gether for the business, and I am told
that the Japanese are now giving the
Chinese very hard race, for the rea-
son that the Chinese import their
SCOuS Ii Oul hl5adiiSls ana America, and
the Japanese get only samples, and
then send these samples on to japan
to be copied there for the Hawaiian
trade. The Japanese of Honolulu are
not nearly so reliable business men as
the Chinese. They take many risks,
and frequently go into bankruptcy.
There are, I am told, about 1000 Japs
in Honolulu, and more than three times
that many Chinese. japanese women
as we'll as men, have been imported in
large numbers to work on the planta-
tons. Such importations are on the
contract labor system, the contract
usually being made for three years.
BIG MONEY IN SUGAR.
The big money that has been made
in Hawaii in the past has been from
sugar, and it is in sugar l find that
that the big money is being made to-
day. 1t takes an enormous amount Of
capital, however, to run plantation,
and of the sixty different plantations
in the islands there is not one that
is capitalized at less than 5000 900,
and the money invested in most of
them runs into the millions. Sprech-
els has no longer monopoly of the
sugar business. He began to sell out
his plantations some time ago, and
tken all of a sudden stopped selling
in the islands and has small amount
of the stock in several others. He is
opposing annexation, and one rea-
son of his opposition, it is claimed, is
that he will lose the refining of the
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of lobbyists, necessary printing, etc.
Every union man, says the Tribune of
Labor, owes it as a duty to himself, to his
union and to humanity to demand the union
label articles he purchases. The label
represents the principle for which you are
fighting. 1t says to you when on a coat,
pantaloons or overalls, that the garments
have not been made in unsanitary condi-
toned houses or tenements, that the life of
some poor woman has not been stitched into
the seams in the vain effort to make an hon
est living. 1t says further tina anoher vie
DRY has been gained for humanity over
righteousness and selfishness. There is an
other duty the union man owes TO himself
and union in regard to the label, and that is
that whenever he finds inferior goods being
sold under the label, he should report 1t to
the international union to which the label
belongs, giving the name of the article and
the manufacturer. The union label stands as
trade mark Of the intelligent American
workman and should be d guarantee that
the article on which it is placed is superior
to any ether article of the same character
and the same price. II the union label as
sumes and maintains place in the com
mercal world it must be through the efforts
of union woTkingmen, who must not only
push its use, but protect its character from
the INSCRIPTIONS practices of those who
send out inferior goods under the protection
of the label
The stonemasons' union of Minneapolis Oh
Wednesday evening elected the following Of
ficers: President, Sam Chelstrom vice pres
ident John Hutton; recording secretary. A.
V. Skogburg; sergeant-at-arms, K. Anderson.
The Twin City Blue Label Advocate is doing
good work for the cigarmakers' union in show
ing UP the tenement house cigar factories of
the country.
The strike of the American Flint Glass
Workers union, recently declared off, accord
ing to the Pittsburg Labor Tribune, one
of the longest on record, and one of the Bit
terest ever waged The trouble originated in
a dispute as to working the unlimited turn.
The union refused to work the turn and
fight ensued between the flint glass workers
and the United States GI SIS company. There
are 1900 men connected with the American
Flint Glass Workers union; 1900 Of this num-
Der struck. No parallel exists where a body
of men stood so long together. During the
four years which the strike lasted but twelve
men deserted. The strike cost the union
over $1,0O0.0Oo. The strike benefit was IS
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copyrighted 1897. by Frank G.. Carpenter.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., July IL have
spent some time at the Hawaiian le-
cation this week gathering practical
up-todate information as to the is
lands which 1t is now proposed to an
mex to the United States. If the an
neXation treaty is confirmed in the
senate, a large emigration to Hawaii
will Immediately follow. and thousands
of Americans will want to know just
what this new territory is and what
possible chances there are for them to
make money out of it. This is what
I have tried to ascertain. Minister
Hatch and Mr.. Thurston have put all
their resources at my disposal. They
have answered my questions and have
introduced me to sugar planters and
Others who have just come from Homo
lulu, and from whom I have the best
of news information. 1 have also had
access to the large collection of new
photographs just received by the Ha-
waiian minister, some of which lie be-
fore me as I write.
MODERN HONOLULU.
These photographs show how fast the
Islands have been modernized. There
are dozens of residences in Honolulu
which have cost $4,000 and upward.
The city has magnificent stone build
ings, churches which would be a credit
to Washington and a Masonic Temple
which would compare favorably with
any Masonic building in the United
States. The city contains about 3d.
900 people. and in proportion to it's
size it is one of the rich cities Of the
world. All Of the houses have large
yards and gardens about them, and
many Of them are shaded by palm
trees. Honolulu lies right under the
mountains on the edge of the sea. 1t
is only six miles from the government
house to the summit Of the mountains
at the back of the town. These mount
aims are 5000 feet high, and are COW
cred with woods to their tops. The
government building, if annexation
comes, will belong to the United States
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Books Of the Hour.

The time that has elapsed since the
publication of Capt. Mahan's Life of
Lord Nelson" has but served to fix its
rank in the biographical literature Of
America and England-a rank not soon
to be superseded.
It's peculiar qualities, professional
and literary, were anticipated by the
treatise, of which this is the worthy
sequel, 1.-THE Influence Of the Sea Pow
err This former work, complete as
1T could but seem to the reader when
1t stood alone, now appears but as
the forerunner Of the present vol
umes, while they in turn are necessary
to the presentation of the original I'M
dertaking. Mr.. Mahan. himself, so
considers it. and in his preface to
1.-The Life Of Nelson, the Embodiment
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Union No. 80 next Sunday. J. j. Gleason. the
present efficient presiding officer, is entitled
to a second term, although rumor says he
does not care to again be burdened with the
office. For secretary-trea Charley Schott
is mentioned for another term, and as he has
filled the position to the satisfaction of even
the most critical, there will probably be no
opposition to his candidacy. He is reported
for him, however, but his numerous friends
and admirers will use their most persuasive
powers to- have him reconsider the matter.
NO convention of the International occurs
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From the St. Paul Book and Stationery
company:
cort and Others" by Edward Everett Hale
1.5O; Georgia Scenes" by "a Native Geor-
gian,, SIPS; Hell for Sartain.'' by John
phens, 81 so; "a History of Our own Times.
from 1880 to the Diamond Jubilee" by Jus
1 Wba Mccarthy h "a a.75 "BalbG," by Thomas
Cuba Today" by Stephen Bonsal, 60 cents
D. Appleton & Co., New York-'eUncle Bar
nae by c. Conan Doyle, $1.5O;. Marietta $
Marriage, by w. E. Norris; Town and
Country Library, 50 cents.
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this year, in consequence of which the cleo
lions will not be exciting it otherwise
would. The ether offices to be filled are those
Of recording secretary, sergeant-at-arms and
an executive board composed of five mem
bers, five delegates to the Trades and Labor
assembly and three to the Label league.
Several amendments to the constitution and
bylaws will be voted on, and the proposed
percentage plan of the l. T. U. for a per
capita tax will be considered. The election
will occur on Wednesday July %.
Miss Kate Heating, secretary of the gar
ment workers union, and well-known work
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