Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-02-25

tboOohqueIeute Ter
ritories under the Stars and Stripes
will not be without the consent of
the goverbed. Four hundred
thousand Spaniards 10 Cuba are
for annexation to the
United States They say through
a com mittee that eff an independ-
ent government is contemplated
in the near future, the trade of
the island will be brought to a
standstill" This is a loaded
Havana for the doctrinaires to
smoke.
Bishop Potter of New York ex-
plains his plea was for coffee sa-
looms and not rumshops. To say
that bank is a social necessity,
he says in illustration, does not
imply that faro bank is a desir-
able institution. No doubt a very
large part Of liquor saloon patron
age is derived from men who can.
not elsewhere find a place to aha
a crack wi ithers," with an inter
change OF graceful hospitality in
moments Of leisure. The Waver-
ley and Seamen's clubs of Homo
lulu have mighty capacities for
good. Bishop Potter is all right,
and so is DR.. Hyde of Honolulu.
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A public critic should be the
last one to get mad at being criti-
cised. When he shows that he
can profit by the criticism, how
ever, there is proof that he is not
altogether lacking in wisdom.
There is some talk about local
restaurateur who cannot have read
else he would have
known better how to deal with
wretches who ask for "more." BY
giving pudding too freely to the
patrons of his hash dispensary,
and then trying to get even by
extra, he lost the whole
of seeing them grow fat
at his expense.
In the cause OF Development u.
Doctrine, the plaintiff will win be
fore the High Court of Public
Opinion.
Honolulu stevedores have not
lacked honor in their own country
for dispatch, but they can't teach
the genuine Yankee hustler m UGH.
Major Ruben had his arrange
ments for coaling the transport
steamers Senator and Ohio so
we'll up to time, that, before the
wharf had ceased to vibrate from
the first contact of the vessels,
The "black diamonds" were rafting
lown the chutes into the bun kers.
1t is this "git up and git" style of
1oing things which made the
Maine a bitter remembrance to it's
1estroyers before the relatives OF
ts victims had got used to their
mourning clothss.
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A mercantile association in
Canada is out for legislation
against call stsmp-trading con-
'erns, gift schemes and fake ad :
,ertising' which gull and menace
he 1onor of the purchasing pub
10. Legislation to protect the
,ullible from their own unwisdom
8 easier obtained than enforced.
1t is said that the new French
onsul doesn't understand Eng
ish. Whoever acted as inter
'reter if a French ship got into
he City Of Columbia's case
couldn't want to 60 to the Klon-
ike. He would get enough out
1 the French taxpayers to keep
i'm comfortably.
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An agitation has been started
New York State against skis.
ng the book" as part of taking an
ath. A girl is said to have taken
disease that way with the oath
'om which she died miserably.
he builders of the Hawaiian
ldiciary system deserve credit
'r leaving ont of it this idolatrous
ractice. can oath for confirma-
on" was the "end of strife" be-
ire the book was made.
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There's no need of an imported
;pert to make plans for wharf
tension. Ii you leave out the