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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-02

' Note Heads, Bill Heads, Statements
and Fine Commercial Printing at the
Star Office.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-02
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STOCKS AND BONDS

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

American effort to cry down
free speech that has Disguised lovers Of
freedom and fair play in this country
Many administration newspapers. less
infatuated with imperialism. sense this.
The Washington Post, one of the most
enthusiastic supporters of President
Mckinley in everything, has discovered
that he and his administration are suf-
fering as much from the over-zealouS-
ness of fool friends as from ANYTHING
else. 1t says: Sensible people. whatever
question at issue. are becoming both
weary and indignant over the vulgar
and brutal denunciation heaped by or
ators and organs upon every one who
expresses a doubt as to the wisdom of
the Administrations Philippine policy"
We have called attention to this mat
ter before and deem it essential to re-
peat it for the benefit of those who i'm
agine they still live in foreign land.
or those who hope that Hanna has
succeeded in abolishing our republican
form of government. Americans should
bear in mind that this is still a. free
republic, where free discussion is es-
sential to popular consent. and where
men have as much right to offer from
Mckinley. or Miles, or Root, as others
have to agree with these dignitaries.
The Post characterizes it as
vicious and un-American TO de-
nounce citizens of the republic
''as traitors and seditious agi-
tators merely because they choose to
exercise the inalienable privilege of in
dependent thought and speech. The
spectacle is disgraceful, and it will re-
act upon the cause in the behalf of
which it has been presented. This is a
free country vet we hope, and honest
citizens still retain the right to their
opinions and their conscientious utter
ances
1t is not in resentment but in solicit
lican party that "the sooner it calls off
its newspaper and other champions en-
gagged in this abominable business, the
better for its standing with the country
at large" Then it adds:
1t is impossible to persuade any intelli-
gent human being that the case is one of
patriotism VS.. treason. We are engaged
in no war with a foreign power. The
honor of the nation and the flag is not in
volved. There is no possible excuse for 4
tiumping up spread-eagle fervor or maud
lin mysteries. The question is one of ex-
pediency as TO which every citizen may
express his views without improperly.
All this talk such as Senator Hanna. has
been induging into the effect that Eu-
rope will laugh at US" if we abandon
our present poiicy-is feeble nonsense. Eu-
rope is not likely to laugh at the United
States and nobody would care even If she
did. We are not running this country to
please Europe. and have no interest or
appreciation to consult except our own
No amount of such gable as we refer to
can accomplish any result save that of
discrediting the gabblers and disgusting
decent men.
There is considerable food for reflec-
ton in these few remarks-mock pa |
triots and featherbed warriors would do |
we'll to nibble at it occasionally.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
Mr.. EDMuNDs ON THE eoER.

On another page of this impression
of The Herald will be found an article
of the series by Mr.. ]. W. Edmunds
that has been running for several Sun
days. Mr.. Edmunds in this contribution
maintains the excellence of the literary
style he displayed in his former letters
and he demonstrates anew the care and
fidelity with which he has in the past
studied Boer character. and the clear
ness of his recollection of the formid-
able foe of England in South Africa.
The article abounds in incidents illus
trative of the Boer character and is ex-
ceedingly readable.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
An Epitaph.

(Arthur ketchum in East and West.)
Close-foIied to the mountains heart.
Let him sleep well. sleep long.
The voices of a Thousand pines
Shall be his slumber song.
Ger him shall ferny greennesses
A dauntless verdure set.
To comfort him. till warm rains wake
April's first violet.
Here to the tired child of change,
Through the days that shall not fail.
Shall come the summers last Farewell,
The steadfast springs All hall
And he shall fear no evil thing
When warrior winds awake:
think their mighty hosts will pass
More gently for his sake.
So. girt by listening forests.
And hushed by GREATNESS song
Still dreaming down the pilgrim years,
He shall sleep well and long.
His was the wanderers wilding heart,
That loved not bonds and bars
Wildness to wildnesst Rest, while burn
The watch-lights of the stars.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
A Famous Blunderer.
(Brooklyn Eagle.)

brooklyn Eagle.l
NJ. Calfno. the popular French simple
ton, who performs in the humorous litera-
ture of France much the same functions
that the traditional Paddy does in Eng
giish literature, has been made the sub
sss a9 an mnIsn naI
He Is nothing more or less than con-
venient personification of a type OF tho
harmless blunderer and complacent lack
VII found In all ages and countries In
France his sayings reflect, however,
something of the picturesquenesS which
Is CHARACTERISTIC of the nation
Calinos blunderings, it seems. began at
an early age. He had not craft enough
to tell lie that would hold water for a
moment One day at school he got into
night with companion and came home
with q cash on his forehead.
father.
Why. that great cash on your fore
u bit myself there. papa
Bit yourself, Why. you couldn't bite
yourself on yoifr forehead
Il got up on a chair TO do it papa"
Later in life Calino delivered himself
of the following bit of wisdom:
AS for me, / don't care so much for
the sun as / do for the moon. You see,
the sun only comes when il gets daylight
when we could see just as well without
II, but the>moon' s some use-it shines all
night
Early one morning. when Calino was
out with his gun. he saw, q robin In the
garden of his friend Camille. He aimed
at II. but it dropped below the top of the
wall. Then Caiino went into the house,
crept upstairs. softly, stole into Camille s
bed room without waking Camille. who
was in bed, pointed his gun out of the
window at the robin and fired-bang,
: Camille leaped out of bed in wild con-
fusion and alarm.
w-why-w-w-what's the matter?"
"Oh, did | wake YOU up?" said Calino.
Il pulled the trigger just as softly as 1
could
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
POEMS WORTH READING.
The Master of Life.


tPaul Laurence Dunbar)
October is the treasure of the year.
And all the months pay bounty to her
store;
The fields and orchards still their tribute
bear.
And I'LL her trimming Golfers more and
more.
But she. with youthful lavishness.
SPENDS all her wealth in gaudy dress,
And decks herself in garments bold,
or scarlet, purple. red and gold.
She heedeth not how swift the hours fly
along;
She only sees above a shining sky:
She only hears the breezes' voice in
song.
Her. garments trail the woodlands
through,
And gather pearls of early dew
That sparkle. till the roguish sun
Creeps up and steals them. every one
lost
When all of natures bounteous wealth
is hers?
Though .princely fortunes may have been
their cost,
No. one regret her calm demeanor stirs,
sWhole-hearted, happy. careless, free,
she lives her life out joyously,
Nor cares when Frost stalks DER her
way
And turns her auburn locks to gray.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
"WHAT HAS AMERICA DoNE?"

When peace has been restored, when
our solemn promise to the Cubans shall
have been fulfilled, when our implied
pledges to other colonists are being
carried out, when our national honor
and our obligations to humanity are
weighed and balanced, let us be pre-
pared to answer, as John Quincy Adj
ans, a half century after the Declara-
ton Of Independence was signed, an
swered the question, What has Ameri-
ca done for mankind?"
He said: America, with the same
voice which spoke herself into exist
ence as a nation, proclaimed 10 man.
kind the inextinguishable rights of hu-
man nature, and the only lawful foun-
cations of government. America, in the
assembly ofrnations, since her admis-
sion among them. has invariably,
though often fruitlessly, held forth to
them the hand of honest friendship, of
equal freedom. of generous reciprocity.
She has uniformly spoken among them,
though often to needless and often to
disdainful ears. the language of equal
liberty, equal justice and equal rights.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
TELLING ABOUT "OUR PEOPLE

postmaster Thomas is in Washington
attending a meeting Of the postoffice
trust. Following in the footsteps of his
illustrious political creator the office
holder submitted, after a brief strug-
gle, no doubt, to be interviewed by the
Washington Post. He did not say
that silver had been eliminated from
the living issues of the day." or that
"Bryan's influence was waning" for
Mr.. Lannan had already told them that
But Mr.. McKinley's appointee, the post
master general of Utah, did say:
Utah will give its electoral vote to
Major Mckinley in 1900. That you may
depend upon, for the policy of the
president is heartily sustained by OUR
PEOPLE"
Everybody knows, of course. who are
meant when P. Hanna Lannan or his
echo speaks of our people"
They regard the people of Utah, the
great majority of them, as Asiatics,
who are taught treason at their moth
ers' knees" The political crusaders who
have lived upon the bounty and toler
ance of these same so-called "Asiatics"
for many years, now believe that "our
people" are in favor of adding real Ash
atics to our population and extending
our flag over the Orient for the sake
of congeniality.
What oracles are the boss and his I'M
derstudv,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
why She Wanted a Pardon.

tCurTenC LlteratuTe-D
Governor Taylor of Tennessee tells of
an interesting interview with a pardon
seeking woman. He had fed TO his sum-
mer home TO escape the crowds of pardon
seekers. when the woman, who had
sought him in vain at the capital. was
ushered into his presence
We'll. madame. what can I do for
your
Il want to see the governor. sir"
We'll, am the governor: what is it?''
''Ah, sir, my man he's Seen put in
prison. sir. and want to ask If you won
let him OUT
The governors face hardened. He had
not, after all, escaped the pardon seek
ers. But he did not turn her away.
what was he sent up for?' he asked.
You see, sir. he was hungry. and he
just stole a ham to keep US from starv-
ing
well. I'm sorry. but 1 can't do any
thing for you. Your man must serve the
sentence. There's too much stealing go
ing on
"Oh. gov'nor please let him out"
pleaded the woman. the tears flowing
down her cheeks. The tears had their
effect. The governor softened. Stealing
a ham was not such terrible crime, and
this poor woman no doubt needed her
husband. He decided to question her a
little. But why" he asked, should 1
give your man his freedom?"
Because. sir. We are hungry again. and
we amt got no more ham,.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

She has, in the lapse of half century,
without d single exception. respected
the independence>of other nations. and
encouraged the growth of independence
in other peoples, while asserting and
maintaining her own. She has seen
that probably for centuries to come, all
the contests of that Aceldama, the Eu-
ropean world, will be contests between
inveterate power and emerging right.
Wherever the standard of freedom and
independence has been or shall be un-
furled there will her heart, her bene-
dictions. and her prayers be. But she
goes not abroad in search of monsters
to destroy. She is the we'll wisher to
the freedom and the independence of
all. She is the champion and vindicat-
or only of her own. She will recon-
mend the general cause. by the counte-
nance OF her voice and the benignity Of
her example,
This was the answer the "Old Man
Eloquent" made to European question
ers at the end of the first half GEN.
fury OF our republics existence. What
answer would Hanna, who is equally
prominent in his party and in the
councils of state today, answer if the
question were put to him at the close
of this century?
Adams made this prediction, too. He
said that this republic would rue the
day it first refused to advocate the
equal liberty and equal rights of every
people struggling for independence and
that the decline of liberty at home
would date from the time she took the
part of inveterate might against strug-
Cling independence. 'She we'll knows"
he said, further, that by once enlist
ing under other banners than her own,
even the banners of foreign indepen-
dence, she would involve herself be-
yond the power of extraction, in all
the wars of interest and intrigue of
individual avarice, envy and ambition,
which assume the colors and usurp the
standard of freedom. The Fundamental
maxims of her policy would thus
change from liberty to force. The
frontlet upon her brows would no
longer beam with the ineffable splendor
Of freedom and independence; but in
It's stead would soon be substituted an
imperial diadem. flashing in false and
lustre the murky radiance of
dominion and power. She might be-
come the dictatress of the world; she
would no longer be the ruler of her
own spirit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
War.

Herbert Cadet in London Daily Chron-
icle.}
Private Smith of the Royals; the veldt
and slate-block sky
Hillocks of mud brick-red with blood. and
prayer-half curSe-to die.
A lung and a Mauser bullet; pink froth
and half-choked cry.
Private Smith of the Royals; a torrent of
freezing rain
A hail OF frost on life half lost; despair
and a grinding pain.
And the drip-drfp-drip of the Heavens to
wash out the brand of CAIN
Private Smith of the Royals. self-sound-
ing his funeral knell:
A burning throat that each gasping note
scrapes raw like broken shell.
A thirst like red-hot iron and a tongue
like a patch of hell.
Private Smith of the Royals; the blush of
80 a dawning day:
The fading mist that the sun has kissed
and over the hills away
The bleSt Red Cross like an angel in the
trail of the men who slay.
But Private Smith of the Royals gazed
up at the soft blue sky
The rose-tinged morn like a babe new
born and the sweet-songed birds on
high
With a fieck of red on his pallid lip and a
film OF white on his eye.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

Among the dispatches printed this
morning is one containing an account
of medal being awarded TO Ensign
w. r. Gberardi of the navy for daring
and humane conduct during the recent
hurricane in Porto Rico. By his cool
ness and nerve $50 panic stricken peo-
pie were saved who would douStless
have persisted if he hadn't been with.
them A few years ago the young man
distinguished himself during storm at
sea Two common sailors were washed
overheard, and he plunged in and saved
them both. Owing to the fact that his
father was a rear admiral his action
attracted considerable attention. at the
time. -----..-.-.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
FREE SPEECH IN ENGLAND,

We have always been taught TO look
upon George III as a tyrant; the En-
glish government in his time was des-
potism, If American histories are to be
taken as authorities. And yet it is as
tonishing with what unpublished free
! dom English writers and speakers were
permitted to discuss the international
affairs of the kingdom, even to the
point of criticising the policy of their
government in time of war.
The greatest of English statesmen
sided with the rebels of 1776, although
the kings position was more clearly de-
fined, if not better understood. than is
the policy of William Mckinley in re-
gard to the Philippines: will these
Americans" said King George through
his Spokesman in parliament, children
planted by our care, nourished by our
Indulgence, protected at our expense.
refuse the obedience and allegiance that
is due their mother country9''
Burke, Fox, Sheridan and Chatham
disputed this. Pitt denounced the bar
barous warfare waged by Britain, Colo
mel Barre gloried in the ambitions of the
colonists for national Independence:
land believe me-" he said on the floor
Of parliament, remember 1 this day
told you so-that the same spirit of
freedom which actuated that people at
first will accompany them STILL
In this free republic such sentiments
would be met by the cry of "copper"
head from the courtiers of King
Mark.
Men tell US that our Pacific Islanders
have their freedom already King
Georges followers told parliament that.
IF the American colonists are not free
in their present state then England is
not free; that the colonists are our
children and what right have they to
revolt against their parent?" Edmund
Burke replied in a speech that will live
forever: They are our children, but
when children ask for bread shall we
give them stone? When they ask for
liberty are we to give them a sword?
When these children wish to assim-
ilate to their parent, and to reflect with
true filial resemblance the beauteous
countenance of British liberty are we to
turn to them the shameful parts of our
constitution? our opprobrium for their
glory? and our slough of slavery, which
we are not able to work off, to serve
them for their freedom?'
Nobody wanted to hang Burke for
treason No demagogues assaiIed his
character or questioned his patriotism
But how would he fare in these modern
days of our most progressive republic
during the present Hanna regime?
Charles James Fox said in a speech
delivered in parliament in 177S: Every
blow you strike in America is against
yourselves, because it is against all
idea of reconciliation and against your
own interest though you should be able,
as you never will be, to force them to
submit Imagine a Fox expressing his
honest convictions in this country If
Hanna's ninions could have full swing!
@ @ @
IT is the coarse effrontery of Hanna
ISM. its bold claim to mo-
nopoly of patriotism. its I'M
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
Costly Autographs.


Two distinguished men have been made
to pay long price for the autographs
of writers whom they admired. When
Prince Metternich asked Alexandra Du-
mas to give him his autograph, the
author wrote in his best round hand.
Received from Prince Metternich
twenty-five bottles of his Oldest johann
nisberg.' We are told that Prince Met
ternich sent the wine with a very good
grace, and that Dumas drank it with an
equal
The story related of the French author
ess "Gyp' and Baron Rothschild is
somewhat similar. ..Gyp' had a stall at
a charitable sale, and asked Baron Roths-
child. who was passing. to buy something.
You have nothing to suit me- said the
baron, ''unless-wiH you sell me your
autograph
Certainly, baron,' replied "Gyp." and
wrote on a sheet of paper, Received from
Baron Rothschild the sum of 2.G00 francs
for the benefit of the charfty-'Gyp. y
The baron handed over the money and
walked off delighted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
Cut Off the Wrong Leg.
(Tit-Bits.)

CI1t-BltS.0
There is an enterprising Liverpool tailor
who has never been known to acknowl-
edge that he didn't have anything a
possible customer might ask for.
and asked IL he had any trousers made
especially for one-legged men.
Certainly, replied the merchant.
What kind do you want?"
Dress trousers" said the man. The
best you've got"
Hurrying into the rear of the store. the
enterprising merchant snatched up pair
with a pair of scissors. Hastily turning
under the edges, he presented them to
the customer.
That's the kind I want. What's the
price,"
: zone guinea
off.
nounced convalescent and on the high
road to recovery.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
Love Song.

Mora Hopper in Black and White.)
Rich as l am, 1 am poor in words. and
must borrow
Red from the rose and spice from the
southernwood. 81
Ere ! can make of my love. 'twixt tonight
and tomorrow.
= The song | Should
When the time of the swallows new such
bird might bring il
Chirruping low and soft at your window
sill:
to sing it
As your heart will.
Scent of the lads love. blush of the rose
shall tell it
Into your, dreaming ears till the sweet
dream go,
Lost amid waking truths that shall help
TO swell il ~
With sweetness deeper than even red
roses know.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

A number Of people turned out to see
General Funston yesterday, but there
was no crowd. no ovation. no wild en-
thusdasm. This shows that the hero
business has been slightly overworked
and that people are paying less atten-
ton to Philippine victories and cap
lures today than they are to the war
in South Africa. If there is a man more
than others who has demonstrated
physical courage and the qualities of
leadership at the same time, since war
with Spain began, that man is Frederic
Funston. He is pre-eminently the indi-
vidual hero-the daredevil of the two
wars.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
A Backward Look.

ruth Underhill in the Century,
Upon a wind-swept hill above the plain
l stood at noontide. Clear and cold the
day
About me shone and in its equal light
Undimmed by cloud or shade. the whole
world stood
Revealed in nakedness. clear-edged and
hard
No mark or scar upon its time-worn face
But hurt the sight in brazen fixity.
Ny wearied eyes / lifted to the sky,
Which burned like polished silver Ger my
head,
And vainly cried: "Oh, give me back the
dawn.
The awe-hushed mystery when earth and
air,
In tender presence of the budding morn,
Do palpitate 'twixt dread and ecstasy:
When each shade holds a doubt, each
doubt hoper'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

Leaving her husband at home to
wash up the dishes and do the winters
sewing Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster came clear
to Utah last week to preach Hannaism
and to hold up Mark as a patriot while
she sneered at Bryan. The great cor
ruptionist upholds the flag, says j.
Ellen. while the Nebraska volunteer
would pull it down. Several years ago
]. Ellen Foster-professional politician
was gwen permission to lecture in
the Salt Lake tabernacle on Sunday.
She disguised everybody by turning it
into a Republican meeting which she
harangued for an hour. In 1896 this
same ]. Ellen Foster delighted eastern
Republican audiences by her free and
easy denunciation of Utah women as
anarchists" and free silver oranks,'
who had ''prostituted their voting
privilege by supporting principle in
preference to the Republican party.
She was on Hanna's pay roll at that
time and evidently she hasn't lost her
job.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Of
fee of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, Utah. Nov. IS. 1885,
Maximum temperature, IS degrees; min
imun temperature % degrees; mean tenn
perature, IS degrees. which is l degree
above the normal; accumulated excess OF
temperature since 1st of the month. lS6
degrees; accumulated deficiency of tenn
precipitation from p. m. to p. m, none;
accumulated excess of precipitation since
LIST of the month. .73 inch: accumulated
excess of precipitation since JAM l, 2.9S
inches.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
The Suicide.

Edwin Markham in Scribner's Magazine-)
Toii-worn. but trusting Zeno's mad belief.
A soul went wailing from the world of
grief;
wild hope led the gay
Then suddenly-dismay.
Lo, the old load was There
The duty, the despair
Nothing had changed; still only one es-
cape
From its old self into the angel shape