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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22
OUR TRAVELLING. SOLDIER

General Bob Wilcox, Header of the
Hawaiian nation and husband of the
Princess Kaohelelani' ismakinga great
impression on his Mainland friends.
Here Bob is by no means Il serious
parsonage as he has more than once
reminded us of the first steamboat
that ever ran on the Sangamon river
in Illinois. This boat had three foot
boiler and Il six foot whistle and every
time rhe whistle footed the boat had
to stop. That has been the way with
Bob. He has a three foot capacity but
every time he has tried TO force il
through his six foot ambition he has
blown off all his steam and come to
grief. When he goes to the Coast,
however, and merely advertises his
ambition without giving practical
exhibition of il, General Bob achieves
great fame. As will be seen elsewhere
ne has persuaded Seattle paper that
he is very nearly the whole thing in
Hawaii and that, II the President does
his duty Bob will return here as a full
fedged American Governor ready and
well-equipped to turn down the oil
garchs who stopped his last revolu-
ton just when he had Honolulu at
his mercy" We do not doubt that the
papers in every big town between Sc
attic and Washington have already.
by this time. been full of Bob and his
uniformed portrait. But we cherish
the fear that when Hawaii's brave
General gets into the full glare of pub
LEFTY al Washington the humorous
side of his missi"" will become 50
clear, even TO himself that he will fain
hurry back 10 his people" and his
Princes" without giving the report
ers a single tip
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22
A COUNTERFEIT PLAGUE.

Is there a disease like the bubonic
plague which might be mistaken for
it? A writer in La Semaine Medicale
says there is and that II now prevails
in Siberia. He reminds us that several
years since two Russian physicians.
Drs. Billiarsky and Bechetnikolf (see
Literary Digest, July %. 1890, an
nounced the existence in the Akcha
district, near the Chinese frontier, of a
malady that bore striking reSem-
blance to the plague. This disease has
Favre of Kharkoff who finds the like
ness still more striking. After recit-
ing the points of similarity in the
symptoms the writer goes on to say:
Besides these clinical points the NAL
ady resembles the plague in the part
that is played in its propagation by a
little animal of the family of rodents
which is known in Siberia by the
name of "sanbagan'-a part analogous
10 that attributed TO rats with regard
10 the classic plague. The disease Of
which we are speaking differs from the
latter in never having assumed clear
ly epidemic character, Small house
epidemics" have taken place since 1883,
and, although lack of archaeological
data prevents us from positively af-
firming the identity of the two diseases
we must at least admit that the NAL
;idy observed in the Trans aikal is
nearly related 10 the true plague.
We have the dead rats and may have
a house epidemic yet. Nevertheless It
is relief 10 know that that which
plaques is not always the plague itself.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22
THE PROPOSED APPROPRIATIONS

The Board of Health now wants t.
raise the sum Of 100000 to be expend-
ed upon public works which are need
ed for the sanitary protection of Ho-
nolulu. 1t Is desired to condemn GER
tain Chinatown property for streets
and alleys, to put in filters at the
reservoirs and make other improve
ments of a permanent nature which
the safety of this town from zymotic
and certain other maladies requires.
With the understanding that not Il
dollar of the amount is to be laid out
upon work which is proper charge
against private owners, the Advertiser
would be glad to see this appropra-
ton made
Upon the point of distribution we
have the personal assurance of Judge
Cooper, President of the Board of
Health, that there is no intention in
that body to relieve the property
owners in Chinatown of any of the
burdens which the sanitary laws i'm
pose upon them. If we understand
Judge Cooper Alright he agrees with
the Advertiser that the laws should BE-
enforced to the letter SO far. he SAYS,
much has been done in the way of
making their compulsory features felt
The public cost of such work as has
lately gone on in Chinatown is moder-
ate because the property-Uwners have
paid so large a proportion of it. Hav-
ing found the law to work satisfactor-
lily it will not be neglected in future.
If the Board will proceed along lines
that are in strict accord with the law
and will do so continuously. we see no
reason why, it Should not have the
hearty support OF the press and the
public, Such criticisms as have been
made and are yet current are inspired
by no other wish than to have the
Board of Health dependable and eff
cient at all times. Judge Cooper is a
man who can make it so, and his
statement, appearing elsewhere, shows
that he has gone about the task in the
right way.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

Denmark is anxious sell the islands
of st. Thomas and st. Croix in tine
West Indies for about the price of "A
good battleship. The United States
hardly needs this little group but it
had better buy than to either let ii
pass to some strong old world poweV
or, by asserting the Monroe doctrine
against the right Of Denmark to sell
to a European neighbOr, take the dog
in-the-manager at,l,ude. 1t will be re
membered that President Grant made
an arrangement to buy st. Thomas
but that the Senate repudiated the
deal. Since then, however We have
acquired Porto h,co and our need of
West Indian naval stations is partly
supplied.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

The Pope in deciding that the TWEEN
tieth century will begin, for Catholics
on January /, 1900, combats the large
class which insists that the nineteenth
century will not end until the year
1900 has run its course. 1t require
one hundred years to make century
and the century now in progress eau
only close, mathematically, on the Bis;
of December, 1900, or twelvemonth
after the day set by the Pope. Numer-
ically we enter the twentieth century
on January 1st, 1900. but we must fin
ish the year to TIE Booth day to round
out the full 1900 years.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

John Sherman lately wrote a letter
10 an Anti-Imperialistic meeting in
Philadelphia in which he said that the
President erred in sending soldiers to
the Philippines to take possession of
the country. Were Sherman still Sec
rotary of State we should probably
find him defending the President s
course with equal spirit and facility.
The ease with which he can put his
principles on and off was shown In
the case OF Hawaiian annexation. The
versatile old statesman wrote n book
in which he expressed himself strong
ly against the annexation of insula!
territory. Soon afterward he became
the chief member of an Annexation
Cabinet whereupon he signed the Ha-
waiian treaty and gave out interviews
saying that Hawaii was proper ex-
ception TO the rule he had laid down.
Three days after he was crowded out
OF the Cabinet Mr.. Sherman denounc-
ed the Hawaiian movement in unspar.
ing terms, II his services are needed
at any time for Philippine expansion
they can probably be had by giving
him another job.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

If the twenty automobile hacks
on their way to Honolulu work as
they should the town will soon find
itself possessed of automobile cars
and busses. The hacks are all we'll
enough but what this place wants
most, and will patronize TO the limit
of their capacity when they come, are
on Fifth avenue, New York, on five
cent fare schedule. When these are
acquired it will be in order for thu,
citizens to invite Mr. Pain and his pet
mules TO a farewell reception
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

ionishlnr special plea IL chinatown
.nHhy' Relatively BE- may be- 10 Do fa
pronounced hy visitors loobing tor
Min Gee what III % 10 Glthyg Ana
Do o. nDi extraordinarily ~ uncommon.
D. ab o. 90 % BOO called n pamperod
pesthole when 10 has not produced
.pestr ~ Chinatown was cleaned
in 1895. ana % was only cleaned then
with ibo ross of the clty. u 10 clean
now. For 90 has boon looked after ever
since There has been discovered
there lately a few overfull cesspools OF
asstriiyo odor This Is bad In its way.
but again. what OF D.? The odor does
not KIN Il did not breed cholera. u
did not breed black plague II did not
breed smallpox. Were the whole OF
Honolulu reeking stencil OF cess
pool, with the incident animal life, IL
could not produce originate single
case Of plague, cholera or smallpox
Read in the Hight of the statements
bl iHt bodIH VI iltdllu Inspectors uDuul
the condition of Chinatown and in that
Of all the conclusions Of medical science
about the manner in which plague
germs are bred and nourished, these
statements are the most absurd and
the current controversy
has brought out. But we do not doubt
that they represent the state of mind
Of many Chinatown owner. Cesspools
may overflow and back-alleys smell to
heaven, but Lord love you, such things
are salubrious and ought not to be in
terfered with for a moment so long as
intelligent Asiatics are willing to pay
enormous rents for living among them.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

The pictorial spirit of the Europeall
press finds unique opportunity in the
Anglo Boer war Two prophecies ur
the ending of the struggle appear
simultaneously ON the cartoon pages
of Punch ana the Amsterdammer.
Punch parodies Ordchardson's famous
picture of Napoleon pacing the deck
of the Bellerophon with his attendants
standing in an observant group aboui
the mizzen mast. "Oom- Pauleon Beer
naparte" is represented in a gloomy
Napoleonic attitude on the deck of 1ho
Highbury Castle, with his exiled cat
met in the background. The Amster
dammer on the other hand parosies
Meissonier's Retreat from Moscow
with Joe Chamberlain as the detected
Bonaparte fo.iowed' by remnant OF
the South African army. Generally
the continental press takes the same
one as the Amsterdammer.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

Colonel Duncan Hood, who is one
OF the American officers in the Boer
Army, is the Colonel Hood who COM
manded an immune regiment in Cuba.
He comes of fighting stock being I,
son of the Confederate General Hood
who met Thomas at Nashville. OF
striking appearance, no inconsiderable
talents, a soldiers education and ma
ture and a fine opportunity he ou CHI
to make as much OF a mark In South
Africa as the American soldier Ward
did in China.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

1t begins to be Il question whether
the highly disciplined machine army is,
after all, match for hardy sharp
shooters defending their own soil.
The experience of Generals White and
Gatacre in South Africa is but repe-
tition of that of General Baratieri in
Abyssinnia, of General Packenham at
New Orleans. of Marshal Soult in Spain
and of General Leclerc in Hayti. All
of these commanders had the best of
modern troops at their back but they
are listed among the worst beaten
men in military history.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

There are so many cable bills before
Congress that it begins to look as if
the spirit of cable laying had got pos
session of the majority. Whether the
various bills will get in each others
way or not we can only surmise, but if
the Administration stands behind any
one of them ii will probably VIA.
Judging from the Presidents message
the Administration may be fairly
counted on.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

Sam Parker is having good time
in Washington but a Nemesis is on his
trail. Bob Wilcox is coming and when
he arrives it looks-to Bob-as if there
might be Il prompt adjournment of
Congress to enable the members to find
out what he wants done with his hated
rivals. Sam may be handsome and
smart and sometimes Colonel, but
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS proposes to
take the whole Hawaiian field for him
self. Make way then for Signor Will
COX, leader of his people, before whom
the haole and the haoles friends mus,
shrink.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

A New York Herald dispatch states
that a new and powerful competitor OF
the sugar trust has sprung up. 1t viii
be called the Colonial Sugar Refining
Company and its idea is that sugar
can be refined there anu taken to the
market in its finished state at a great
er profit than that which is derived
from the present method. Several not
ed names are mentioned among the
incorporators. 1t remains to be seem
whether the movement is genuine
one or guerrilla raid on the trust
stocks such as Claus Spreckels once
engineered SC successfully.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

The honors of the war are still with
the Beers. Again as at Nicholson S
Mex the British have been led into a
trap where they met defeat with the
loss of six or seven hundreu men. The
defeat is a most humiliating one which
it is hoped to retrieve through the gal
liant General Methuen. But Methuen
is outnumbered and the British Army
Corps seems to be as far away as ever.
II is a black outlook.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22
EVOLUTION OF CHURCHES.

The Romeward tendency in the Eng
lish church is analysed by German
writer who attributes it to -four plain
causes, He finds as n chief reason for
this trend the predominantly aristo-
cratic character of England national
development since the era of the Re
formation, n character which affects
both clergy and laity. There is a love
for rich ceremonial which the Purital,~
ical idea did not wholly eclipse and
which blazed forth again when Puri-
tanism lost its control of the national
polity. For time the nation was
satisfied With the forms of the estab-
lished church but with the modern
growth of England's wealth and arts
tocratic feeling has come desire for
the greater pomp and glory OF the
Papal Hierarchy. The German analyst
finds second reason IN the expansion
OF that Hierarchy on English soil
which has furnished the Riualists,
who have brought down the traditions
OF Archbishop Laud with a model to
guide them in their work. \ third
reason is the inactivity and very
great patience of the other parties in
the establshed-church fold The
final reason given is that the anti
rltuallstic movement has been poorly
organized and that its leadership has
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

The redoubtable Bob Wilcox has
first American Governor of Hawaii
and tells the gullible reporters of Sc
attic that the native Hawaiians have
made him their choice. When they did
it and how is question that ought t
be submitted to the new Theosophical
School of Lost Mysteries over on the
Coast. No one here can answer it any
more than they can explain Bob's
family claim TO the Crown lands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

If the &c. mans fortify Samoa and
turn Apia into a great naval station
the circumstances will impel the Unit
fortresses, one at Honolulu and anoth-
er at Page Page. Possibly, in view of
similar German action in the Lad
rones, Guam will have to be put in
panoply of war. AS for Honolulu it
ctn be well defended with guns on
Diamond Head and mortars along
shore, though the location of the city
on the beach is not so secure from an
enemy's long bali'' practice as mill
tary engineers could wish.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

\ letter from DR.. Day, received too
late for extended comment, is printed
elsewhere. We invite an impartial
reading of it as the letter, which we
presume to have been written after
consultation may be taken as the Of
fetal reply of the Board of Health to
current criticisms. Either in that
character or as the letter of Dr. Day
himself it is an interesting addition
to the literature of spirited contro-
verSy
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

There are disQuieting rumors in
London about European and African
intrigues against Great Britain. The
story that Menelek is threatening The
British outposts in the Soudan is SUP
plemented by rumors OF Russian ac-
tiyity at Ceuta and Tangier and In
Central Asia and Abyssinia, The Mail
urges its readers TO watch The move
ments of Russia, France and probably
another power in the event of any
further reverse to British troops in
South Africa Evidently victory
over tho Beers has become far more
than local necessity.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22
HEALTH BOARD FIGURES.

The Advertiser though printing ih'
figures OF Health Board income cor
rcctly on the first page In yesterday
issue. gave the Board the credit. ON DO.
editorial page. Of smaller rcycndo-
than it has actually enjoyed lnad-
vertenily the sum OF $4,000. appro.
priated for sewers was deducted from
the sum total OF $STi.Sil.5O placed 10
the credit OF the Board by the Legis-
latures of 1896 and 1898. Sewers MS
the public viii remember We're proyid-
ed for by the Loan Bill and were the
product of the sale OF bonds. They 30
not come out of che other appropr.a-
ton. If we were to credit the total of
their cost to the Health Board budget
it would make that body responsible
for s1,13i .Sif.50 exclusive of the $4,000
recently set apart for urgent use by the
Council of State.
But il is the salary account with
which we particularly want to deal at
this time Since 1896, including the
close of the second biennial period not
yet reached, payrolls have mounted mp
10 grand total of s277 1876. BY reason
of slip of the pen in yesterdays is
sue the amount was given as some
what less. The error, however, did the
Beard of Health no injustice. On the
&C ntrary 1t gave that body something
less to account for. But we make the
matter right now so that the public
may be in no doubt as to the attitude
of the Legislature toward the Health
Department
The general expense fund, which
includes provision for the lepers, in
sane asylums and the like. does not
need to be analysed at this time.
Whether it has been wasted or not 1t
would take a Grand Jury to find out
and as yet we have no Grand Juries.
When we get them there will probably
be more caution in expenditure all
along the line. What the Advertiser
wants to know now is whether there is
really enough TO show for the eXpend-
iture, on salary account, of more than
a quarter of a million dollars
Lepers and the insane have been
looked after and ships inspected but
what of Honolulu where the greatest
danger of contagion resides? Have
the employees OF the Board of Health
earned their money here? Have they
been in the purlieus of Chinatown once
sance the cholera scare subsidized up to
the beginning of the present crisis?
IL they have, why did they not compel
pruperty-owners to clean up? If they
tave not why should they have been
kept on Honolulu duty-and the pay
rolls-at all? We pause for a reply!
But there is hight ahead, 1t appears
in DR.. Carmichael's statement that
when Federal quarantine dis
tIdct is laid out it will probably in
clude the whole of the local jurisdiction
of the present Board. We surmise that
Uncle Sam will have no fear of COM
polling big estates to keep their prem
ises clean and no apprehension that
loss of private practice might follow
the performance of public duty
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22
Terrible Pains
IN the Stomach ptu aesM Head
achos face and Neck Covered
with Bolls Cured by hoods sar.
sapariila skin Is Now clear.

81 Twas covered with bolls all overmy face
aud neck. had dreadful headaches and
pains IN my stomach. took medicines,
but was not much benefited, and pro-
cured six bottles Of Hoods sarsaparilln.
After taking the first bottle could see an
Improvement When had taken icw
more Lottles the boils had all gone, my
skin was clear, my appetite returned and
my health was entirely restored. am
thankful | ever found such a blood puri-
fer as Hoods Sarsaparilla. / paid out
good deal OF money for useless medicines
before taking Hoods Sarsaparilla." W. f.
BEcKwirH, HUrlock, Maryland.
II you decide TO try Hoods Sarsaparilia
do not be induced to buy any other.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22
FILTH NOT UNHEALTHFUL.

We thought the Chinatown property
owner would soon get in his work but
we did not suppose he would let him
self or his amanuensls say that the
presence OF Nth in a crowded town is
not fnsanitary. Yet this is precisely
what the Chinatown property-owner
undertakes to do. Listen to this as
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

The three steel factory building
mentioned by the New York Tribune
as having been bought In the metropa-
lis for Hawaii are probably ;he struc-
tural work of the Honolulu Iron Wor.
and the Eva and Olaa plantation
Orders for these We're placed in Amer
ica's largest market.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

\ Federal quarantine service, cover
ing all Honolulu, will be "A blessing
which everybody must appreciate eX-
cept the Chinatown owners whose
half-Scriptural motto is: He that is
filthy let him be filthy still. If made
to keep clean he might stop paying
rent"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

Probably hf nt1F'h "i htih An'
.rkIfy has mhta more i' h' WIN W.
desire f1r o'f"HnniINs "'IsN'F '"'H
ani hInF ''H' iF '''
d.bpt of fho ri,h i1 .hif''h'
selves with she p1mpa HhN
of .eauiar 900 cannot 1' 'Ap. "
plusa nj 70 religious pppll '"IH'.
Idrs thcre iB feeling. Hl hi
eopRned 90 England tlli ih.
OF the Universal Sovereign can"
sttfnpiy carried ON IN the bare h''''
and through the stark simp "i
,bs r,iiflcnl meeting which 30 many "i
49,. p,rftsr church assemblies cam 10
r.scmble God Is not democra
H.. 90 a King" As a King 1t is HIr
,,tylega 10 command all the respect
,.,,,cb aoIomn ceremonies can provide.
o,,, oo,,ot hut note in attending the
t,..,.,o,,i .,d CONGREGATIONAL church
o ~ Tho Atlantic seabnard OF the
t.,i,.d statns that the last twenty
,.aars have dovaloned a marked spirit
-, ,.,,,oIis,n IN b,.b The ancient sim
49,, o,,,.r,.od ~ mon VIA are more
.,..,,.,,, .ho,, ,,,is,
,,..s a., t,r,,s,o,al service has de-
-, ,rh,,.o ,ro NOW candles on the
81. ,o,Yo.t,,,os ,haro 81 incense in
go. -, !, tho "bigher- churches
49,, ,..,,. g.. - ..I.o+lo,.,. aud now and
.hon a Eo,bo,. coreassor As far tn..
CONGREGATIONAL churches. Cotton Math-
or. and Jonathan Edwards. were they
to revisit the earth at the meeting
hour" of Sunday. would hesitate on
their thresholds. The walls of such
houses are no longer bare: the pulpit
is almost an altar: there is trained
and NOT infreuuentlv "A supplied choir
The congregation repeats the Apostles
creed and there is responsive reading
Between the ornate CONGREGATIONAL
service of TODAY and the simple Epis-
copal service Of twenty or thirty years
ago there Is but little difference
though we believe the good pastors
have not vet taken on the white gown
And what is true of me Conversational
is also true of the Presbyterian and
soma other evangelical bodies. Can ii
be said that the Episcopal church is
becoming Roman and the Evangelical
churches Episcopaliam? tits a most
and pregnant inquiry
Rrt anothar tendency mnst NOT ba
Co.bonc countries ara he
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

n Alabama beats Morgan iur 81
Senate it will take rank with Mis-
sippi and Georgia in that body Now
ranks with Illinois and New York
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-22

The lyddite shell and the dum-dum
bullet are savage Instruments of war
fare but they are, hardly TO be COM
pared with any kind of Il projectile
which has Boer rnarksman' behind it.