Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-12-01
THE HAWAIIAN HANDBOOK
Thrum'S Hawaiian Almanac and AnnuaI
for the Year 1898.
PlethoriC Of Statistical and Other Information
Great Variety Of Articles by
Local Contributors.

| lne HaWal1an Almanac ana
Annual for 1898 was issued a
month and half in advance 1t
was not intended that the brief
mention it got on appearance
should be the only notice by tois
paper of the invaluable hand
book. ~'
"Thrun's Annual" as it is per
sistentiy called, after its compiler
and publisher, Thos. G. Thrum,
is in its twenty-fourth number.
Next years will be banner is
sue, commemorative of the quar-
ter century. This much Mr..
Thrum modestly intimates, but it
is ha!d task he sets himself to
improve upon No. "a.
In the current number the com
piler has enlarged the statistical
range, making the work a more
complete Hawaiian year book
than ever. His retrospect of the
year, with other original articles
besides the usual compiler's task,
shows an immense deal of labor
by Mr.. Thrum himself iu getting
up the book. For the rest, he has
been remarkably successful in
drumming up special writers or
practical topics of information
concerning the Hawaiian Islands.
Let these be briefly mention. d iu
their printed order.
l.. ID. TImmous, a newspaper
writer and a Southern Stateser,
discusses "Cotton: Possible Ha
waiian Industry" As the author
has been Jealous for a year or 20
in promoting experimental cotton
paintings, bis heart may be b -
lieved to be 10 the theme. This
conclusion shows what he now
thinks of it: "If my present plans
carry, hope to organize during
the coming year a company for
the cultivation of cotton on an ex
tensive scale" Farther along in
the Annual Mr.. Timmons writes
OF Coffee; the Coming Indus
try"
"The Days We Celebrate" by
the editor presumably, tells of
Hawaiian holidays by describing
the keeping of ihis wears.
Rev. S. Z. Bishop, d. D., gives
a Brief History of Differences
between Hawaii and japan" The
departure of the cruiser Napiwa,
early in September, he conclude,
was Il Withdrawing of "ali sem
blance of menace, if any such had
been intended" DR.. Bishop also
has a paper on "PAarl Harbor as
a Factor Under Present Condi-
tious.' He sees Russia, rs the
BULLETIN some time ago did, rs,
with the completion of the Sib-.
rian railway, becoming a serious
competitor for dominant power il
this ocean. "To the possession
of such power Pearl Harbor is the
key" il the doctors conclusion.
"Education in Hawaii" could
not have been treated by a better
hand than Prof w. ID. Alexander.
His NJ icle subdivided uuder
headings is attractive of general
attention.
Alatau T. Atkinson, Commits
sioner of Census, is surely tue
right man to make "Notes on the
Census of 1896" He analyses
the schedules of his painstaking
construction in n concise manner,
showing various inter es,ing quail
ties, az well as conditions OF life,
of the Inhabitants as revealed by
the dry tabulations.
"The Labor Outlook" is
handled by Jas. B. Castle, well
known as an earnest student OF
the subject. He shows a retros
pect OF futile effort toward reliev-
ing the country from the
necessity of Asiatic immigratirn,
on account of the uncertainty
always banging over the sugar
indu-t try from the fragile tenure
of American reciprocity. Hope of
progress toward having an ele-
ment meet for citizenship cult
vatiug our sugar cane the author
sees IN the prospect of annexa
ton.
Who but President Dole could
with full effect summaries the ela
meu's of the Constitution, largely