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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-01
HAVE MADE IT UP
House Committee Says S8latR'S
Action Was Not HaSty.
SENATE APPROVES The PLANS
Passes Appropriation for Sewers.
Harbor Item Goes to
Committee.
SENATE APPROVES The PLANS
SENATE.
Thirty-second Day, March 20.

Thirty-second Day, March 20.
House bill 26. providing for the en-
.couragement of the cultivation of
grapes passed first reading as did
House bill relative to the release of
dover and the bill to define and estab-
Lsh the rights and duties of bicyclers,
the last named going to the Printing
Committee
The Sundry appropriation bill was
reported from the Printing Committee
and read section by section. All the
stems We're passed, except several
which We're referred to the Committee
on Public Lands. These were: $4,000
for new Court House and site, Kona,
s. 800 for new wharf at Nahillu, Maui,
$4,000 for park trails in Olaa cross
roads 10 miles, $4,000 for four trails
over Hawaii from Hilo Kilauea, n
Kona and HamaSua, $1,000 for new
roads in Makawao, Maui, $4,000 for
new Nuuanu valley road. In the regu-
lar appropriation bill the sum of $780,
900 was taken from the item of $120,00C
for roads for Honolulu for this road
Minister Cooper said that he proposed
10 reinstate the item. Further action
on the bill was deferred and the Sen
ate adjourned.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-01

Americans are the most inventive
people on earth. To them have been
issued nearly 100000 patents, or more
than one-third of all the patents is
sued in the world. No discovery OF
modern years has been of greater bene-
fit to mankind than Chamberlain s
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
or has done more to relieve pain and
suffering. ]. W. Waugh, of Oakton, KY,
says: Il have used Chamberlain 3
Colo, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
in my family for several years, and find
it to be the best medicine l ever used
for cramps in the stomach and bowels
For sale by all druggists and dealers,
Benson, Smith & Company, Limited,
agents for Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-01
Bad!

1t is news to you, perhaps, that baking powder can
be bad for the nsides Good baking powder, how
ever, is not bad for the insides.
True, it costs than baking powder at IS cents
Or 80 cents pound but it does better work, and
more work for the money, than cheap" baking pow
der does and it does no harm.
Of the right price baking powders Schizlng's Best
is the best-your money back if you don't like it-at
your grocers.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-01
HOUSE.

At the opening of the House yesterday
morning, Minister Damon read the re-
port of Marshal Brown regarding the
situation of the residents of Kamanuwai
in consequence of the recent flood. as fol-
lows:
In re damage to houses and effects of
persons living in the vicinity of Haalilia-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-01
Island Trade.

The attention of the readers of the
Gazette is called to the advertisement
of the well known and long established
house of J. T. Waterhouse. Their in
tention is to make a speciality of the
mail order business and make it so in
teresting for the patrons that they will
not feel the necessity of making special
shopping trips to Honolulu.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-01
HAMAKUA PLANTATION,
PAAUlLO, HAWAII, H. |.
Mr.. ]. q. SPENCER,
PACIFIC HARDWARE Co.,
Honolulu.
your groCer's

DEAR SR:-The Secretary Disc Plow pur-
chased from you is giving us satisfaction We
are using it to pillow under crop of lupins They
are three feet high and very thick Your plow
turns them completely under, at the same time
blowing the land fourteen inches deep.
| feel satisfied that with this pillow the draft
for the same quantity and depth of work is as
6 to g. That is, with the old ploW, to do the same
work, it takes good mules; with your poW it
takes only g. and they are less tired at night.
Please send me another pillow by first schooner
leaving for this.
You are at liberty to use this in any way you
may see fit. Yours truly,
A. LIDGATE.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
WATCHING FOR PIRATES.
British Warships Leave vancouve
for Alaskan Water.


Victoria, B. c.. July l2-In response, it
is reported. TO the request of United
States Consul Dudley Of Vancouver. Ad-
miral Palliser, commanding the British
Pacific squadron. stationed at Esquimalt.
has dispatched her fnaJesty's ship Am
phion. second-eIass- cruiser. and the
sloop of war Icarus mounting nine guns.
to cruise the waters of the North to
search for the privateer which, acc,r ,icy
II reports that have reaclad the ears of
the cohsul. Is hidden in .he vicinity CT
Dixons Entrance, through which the
treasure ships pass on their way s,u-h.
The fleet was kt Vancouver IN ronnec-
ton with the celebration, and cit zens
there were surprised yesterday to see
the men-of-war hoist their anchors and
slip OFF to sea. Inquiries were made and
according to the naval authorities, the
admiral directed rhefh, on the infor nj
rion received. to. take steps TO prevent
any holding up of ships for the purpose
of looting. Although probably only Amer
lean ships would be stopped, the injury
would not be confined to them, as many
of the miners on board with god would
be British subjects.
Seafaring men here are d.vi.lcd in
opinion as 10 the verify of the repor- of
the privateer's presence on the coast
Many, especially those who have inter
ests at stake. believe in the existence If
the vessel, while others doubt x. One
thing, however. Is certain, a strong feel
ing of sympathy with the Americans
prevail at Esquimalt and officers speak
strongly in disfavor of :he privateers.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
DEATH OF ALBERT GuERRY.
He Was . southern Ar.,.. of crea,

He Was q Southern Artist of Great
-.as-4 afyf Note.
Washington, Ca, July 12.-Mr. Albert
Guerry, one of the most eminent artists in
the South, is-dead.
His genius appears in the work which
he has left on the walls of several State
capitols and a number of public institu-
tions. The, fine portrait of Gen. Robert
Toombs in the rotunda of the State cap
itol, and the 'fuil-length portrait of Gov
ernor Atkinson in the State library are
his work. as also portrait of Mrs. At
kinsen at the Girls Normal and Industrial
School, A smaller portrait of Governor
James NJ. Smith in the executive office
was also painted by him. He has painted
a portrait of John c. Calhoun for some
pubiic-spirited South Carolinans. and a
portrait of Senator Zeb Vance for the
State of North Carolina. 1t was expect
ed that he would paint the portrait of the
late Charles F. Crisp. whose portrait was
ordered by the last general assembly.
Mr.. Guerry is a South Carolinian, but
much. o., his life was .sRent in Georgia, and
for several years Atlanta had been his
honaes~~
He resided for many years at Washing
tom There he Spent his last days.
Mr.. GuetS leayes a widow and three
bright nft3 rs Who have begun to bat
tie sbraHel1{Htb the world as newsboys.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
JOY MINGLED WITH SORROW.
A Blessing at Edi.on's Home Tenn
pered by Great Grief.

A Blessing At EdisOn'a Hpme Tem-
pered by Great Grief,
New York, July l2.-In the period of
few hours came gladnesss and sorrow in
the Edison home. Sunday was a day OF
anxiety to the illustrious inventor. 1t
terminated in great joy. Tempered by
keen grief. The cause of joy was a
stranger at Lleyellyn Park-a small pink
individual in a befrilied slip, nestled in
Mrs. Edison's arms. The cause of grief
was a soldiers form lying stark under
the torrid sun of Santiago.
On the day that brought another baby
Edison into the world. news came that
Mrs Edison's brother had, died Theo-
dore Miller was one of the Rough Riders
When war was declared he was studying
law in this city. A son of Lewis Miller,
of Akron, Ohio. and a last year graduate
of Yale. he had every prospect of enter
ing upon a successful career at the bar
But his patriotism was too strong to re-
sist the call to arms. and he was one OF
the frs. to enlist in Roosevelts famous
troop. Like his brother, Assistant En-
gineer John V. Miller, he went to the
front.
There was no thought of bereavement
in Edison's home at West Orange, n. j..
on Sunday morning. All thoughts We're
centered on the invalid, his second wife.
A doctor was in the house, and the es-
tablishment was controlled by nurse.
who wore an air of the greatest import
ance Servants rushed hither and thither
without paying the slightest attention
to the inventor. who paced the floor of his
study In solitude and gloom.
Such was the situation when a telegram
arrived. 1t was very brief, merely an
nouncing to Mr.. Edison that his wifes
soldier brother was dead. No explanation
was given, and Mr.. Edison could only con-
cIude that Theodore Miller had succumbed
to wounds received in the furious skir-
mish in which the Rough Riders were en-
gagged last week
1t was disQuieting news to him. 1t SEEM
ed an I'll augury for that most fateful of
DAYS At the best, 1t could not but tfnge
with sorrow the rejoicing of young
mother, for he knew that his wife was
deeply attached to her handsome brother.
But bad news was forgotten when the
quavering note of babe fell on the IN
ventors ear Thrusting his head from the
door, eager for news. a passing handmade
assured him that it was a boy. and
beauty. Not long thereafter he was at
his wife's bedside, holding her hand and
admiring the morsel or an Edison which
the nurse had decked out In the soft white
garments prepared for him.
Not for many hours thereafter did he
pluck up courage to communicate his
news to the mother. She wept softly. but
it seemed to comfort her to hold her child
the tighter to her bosom.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
ony of them when there are really only

ony Of them when there are really only
one or two families. sfs'sps 80
Walker walked up to his employer
with seven hundred and nifty tails. and
said that he would like. as per agree
ment, a cent for each tail. The farmer
said that that was not the agreement;
what he said was that he would pay
ten dollars for the tails Of one thousand
rats, and IL there were not one thous-
and rats on the farm, that was not his
lookout: the rat tails were OF no use to
him; what he wanted, was to have the
rats killed, and enough Of them killed
so that there would be perceptible
diminution in the. trouble which they
caused; and he judged that that could
not be done without killing q full thous-
and. Then he examined the tails. and
found more fault. He said that some Of
the tails were very small. Walker said
that those rats were young. This.
though better argument than the one
which the italian guide offered Mark
Twain Che said that the reason there
were two skulls Of John the Baptist was
because the small skull was of John as
a little boy) did not satisfy the farmer.
He declared the small tails were those
of mice, and he was not going to pay
for mouse tails when the contract called
for rat tails; it was not In the bond.
The hired man took his rat tails and
his tale OF woe to the courts and got
a favorable verdict, but the case was
appealed, and Sturgeon is still trying
to get out of paying that seven dollars
and a half.
The evening times., 1898-07-12

The presence of competent and pos
itive medical man has done a great deal
for the comfort and safety OF the army
before Santiago. After establishing
first-class hospital at Chickamauga Lieut..
Col. Nicholas Sem. an assistant surgeon
general, has reached CUBA ana begun
crusade against the conditions that have
put 1000 men on the sick list. He is the
professor Of surgery at Rush Medical Col
lege. In Chicago. and has achieved prom
inence for his experiments with gunshot
wounds He threw himself into the war
with energy and has been rireiess-in pro-
viding for the care of the troops. He be-
lieves the army can be saved from severe
loss by yellow fever or the climatic fever
that has affected SO many, by proper at
tention to sanitary conditions. He dis
covered that the water supply of the SOL
diers was polluted and took immediate
steps for its publication. .s,. .4.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
Erratic Litigation.

In the midst of wars and rumors of
wars. a Judge Of Adrian County, No.,
has been wrestling with a curious law
suit. 1t appears that farmer named
Sturgeon. in that county. hired man
named Walker to- kill rats. and said
that when Walker, had killed one thous-
and rats, he should have one cent apiece
for them, II he presented their tails in
evidence. Whether Walker found that
there were not one thousand rats on
Surgeons farm, and that this generous
offer had been dictated by the inflamed
Imagination Of the farmer, who thought
there were more rats than there were,
is not certain at any rate he stopped
before he reached the thousand mark.
Perhaps he got tired. Anyone who has
tried to kill one rat knows that to kill
a thousand is not job which one would
choose for relaxation. and rats. too, are
wont to make racket and do an
amount of mischief which often leads
to the belief that there ID . whole coli
The evening times., 1898-07-12
SIGNAL MEN AT WORK.
Finest telegraph Train i'm the Army
Building for Volunteers.


Finest telegraph Train I'm the Army
Building for Volunteers.
jacksonville, Fla, July l..-Men in the
Signal Corps encampment were busy at
practice drill today. The camp COM
prises one battalion, companies A and
B, under Capt A. H. Giddings. chief sig
nal officer Capt r. L. Thompson, First
Lieut.. S. NJ. Butler, Second Lieut.. VIII
lam Mitchell and Second Lieut.. H. w.
Stamford, who Is also quartermaster.
ORDNANCE and ,cmmissary pff1ctr,. are
the other officers. There are seventy
four men in the command The officers
are proud Of the corps. which includes
doctors, dentists. newspaper men. skilled
electricians and experts In other lines.
The extension Of the telephone lines
through Camp Cuba Ljbre has kept the
Signal Corps men busy for week d.
vision and brigade headquarters are TO
be connected with corps headquarters
and the city system Of telephones:
For this battalion the Government. IS
having built at Atlanta an improved field
telegraph train. which will be the best
in the United States army. 1t viii carry
twenty-five miles OF semi-permanens
wire and ten miles Of insulated telephone
line The train will comprise battery
wagon, two wire wagons. two lance
trucks, one cable wagon. one cable cart
and four escort wagons. 1t Is expected
that tho train will be shipped from At
lanta this week.
OF the seventy-four men in the corps
twenty are regulars in the Untted States
Signal Corps, the others being volunteers.
All the officers are volunteers. Capt.
Giddings, however, has been for several
years brigade general officer in the Com
necticut National Guard. The men all
wear the regulation uniform. but do not
carry rifles. They are armed with .45-
caliber revolvers while on guard and
field duty.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
husband is not. in that or any other re-


husband is not. in that or any other re-
spect, the most perfect and delightful
of-m All this -sentleness an& chiv-
airy on the part OF American men binds
them just so much closer to the women
Of their households. and makes their
loss the more irreparable and the more
heart-breahng. And so. all the more
honor to the wife who faces the future.
with her babies in her arms. and bids
her husbard godspeed when he goes to
fight for his country; and to the mother
who Loyalty gives her son to the cause
of an oppressed people. and to the
American woman, wherever she is, who
is watching and waiting for news from
Santiago with double anxiety, because
the name Of one she loves may be in
the list of the fallen!
The evening times., 1898-07-12
Involuntary evidence of Crime.


1t would-be a very interesting task.
in view of the history which has been
made during the past three months. to
make a compilation of the opinions and
arguments printed by certain nawspa-
pers during February and March. The
files of thesk papers are things which
their owners will keep sedulously out
of sight for some time. In them ap-
peared, among other things, learned and
wise demonstrations of the fact that
the Maine might have been. and proba-
bly, was, blown up by internal explo-
sion.
The naval victory in the bay of San
tiago furnishes two examples of war
ships which were blown up from the In
Oquendo. These warships will not run
away-not for the present-and they are
where large numbers of people can see
and eventually examine them. In both
cases interior explosions wrecked the
ships and their condition is exactly sim
liar to that in which the Maine would
have been had she been wrecked by an
internal explosion que 10 caTeiesSAess
on the part of her officers or crew.
Up to this time there has been no such
case available for examination. al
though there are a few on record. The
armor-clad is so very modern a thing.
and it construction SO essentially diner
ent in many particulars from that of
the .old-fashioned vessel, that people
who did not know very much about
naval matters hesitated to give any
opinion as to the cause of the destruc-
ton of the Maine until they had had
chance to study the subject. Experts
said at once that she had been wrecked
by an external explosion, probably
submarine mine, and that was the re-
port of the Board of Inquiry. However,
for several weeks the columns of GER
tain newspapers We're filled with argu-
ments to the contrary, which sounded
plausible, and those who did not know
enough about battle ships to detect their
falsity were misled for time.
Now, however. Spain itself has given
a perfectly involuntary and convincing
demonstratian. ofsthe fact that the
Maine was blown up by a submarine
mine.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
Bamhs.t Xer.ur Bravery.

Frourthr-yery beginning of our
trouble with Spain. the oratory OF the
Spaniard has been in evidence. 1t is
still prominent. The other day Gen
Martinez Cappos declared that in order
to maintaih the honor and dignity Of
Spain, he himself would pick 1t up.
even out of the gutter. And Spanish
lieutenant who had been captured by
the Cubans sent message to Gen.
Pareja, informing him of the fact. and
received the reply, Seventeen Span
iards should have been able to cut
their way through the enemy"
Perhaps they should. But the fact
is that they did not. The discrepancy
between what the Spanish nation
thought its soldiers ought to do and
could do, and what was actually done.
has been the most glaring thing in the
history of the nineteenth century.
The fact is that Spanish honor" is
thing which has been badly over
worked. 1t has had to bear the bur
den of all sorts of things, while shirking
the task which rightful1y belonged to it.
The honor of nation should prevent
it's government from sanctioning the
murder and abuse of helpless people
and the blowing up of battleships in the
night by treachery. National honor
which cannot prevent such perform
ances Is decidedly too weak to reverse
the laws of nature and make inferior
soldiers into able and efficient fighters.
Understanding these things, the Ameri-
can nation has concluded that Spanish
honor is mainly composed OF that mate
rial which the irreverent call gas. There
was a cartoon in a New York paper re-
Gently which perfectly expressed the
American idea on this point. 1t repre-
sented Spaniard. badly bruised. band
aged and court-plastered. giving utter
ance to the remark, Spanish honor is
now satisfied.-Well, what are you
laughing att"
There are some Spaniards who have
demonstrated in the eyes of all the
world their pluck and determination,
though not their skill, as fighters.
There was the captain of the Span sh
ship Ulloa, at Manila, who, when his
ship was disabled, nailed the cO1ors to
the mast and went~down with her.
There were officers and soldiers at San
tiago who fought with desperate ener-
gy. Were it not so, there would be no
glory for Americans. But it is to be
noted that the men who are doing the
fighting for Spain are not spending their
breath, in grandiioquent speeches about
Spanish honor, and If they are like Ad-
miral Cervera, they are not inclined to
torture and abuse helpless victims. Ac-
cording ste Hobson's. account. Cervera
showed him every courtesy which the
American nation could have asked
That was where the real Spanish honor
came in-not in the bombast of poll
ticians and bomb-proof generals.
The evening times., 1898-07-12

Spain is said to regard our terms Of
peace as impossible That, as a matter
of course. The Spanish mind is unable
to conceive Of straightforward trans
action in which a nation says positively
what it will accept at the first utterance.
International negotiations in Europe are
like buying and selling at Cairo bazaar.
Each party is expected to demand
much more than it hopes to get and
to haggle over the business until the
halfway point is reached. Spain. how
ever, should have learned in this war that
some impossible things are easy to the
United States. Montojo and Cervera are
quite persuaded of that.
The evening times., 1898-07-12
II -s-E1s-s.
THE BRITANNIA.
A Steel seasoinG Tug Enter" the
Naval Service.

A Steel Seagoing Tug Enters the
Naval Service.
Mr.. B. n. Baker. president of the Bal
,imore Storage and Lighterage Company.
yesterday formally transferred to the
American Government the large steel tug
Britannia, one of the finest and most
capable. tugs in Baltimore harbor In
the afternoon the Britannia sailed from
Baltimore for New York. where she Will
be delivered at the Brooklyn navy yard
Can't. Alonzo Dunn and Mate Hugh Muir
were tile only ones of her permanent
crew tha, volunteered to remain by her,
and IL the offer from the Government
will Justify them both officers will ac-
company her in whatever duty she may
be- selected to perform.
The Britannia was built in Phiiadel-
phia in 1889 by Neafie & Levy to the or
der of the Baker &, Whteley Coal Conn
pany. She is of steel throughout. is 1So
tons gross register. and 6S tons net. se
feet 4 inches long. 20 l-2 feet beam and
10 feet deep. She has complete electric
plant and searchiisht. and is very fast
boat. She is said to have cost $500
II eis the intention of the Baltimore
Storage and Lghterage Company to re-
place her by another tug equal in all re-
spects to the Britannia.