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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12

Another suspect case has made a
number of people unhappy at the pros
pect of the quarantine being prolonged.
That there will be sporadic cases the
physicians of the Board of Health have
told us, but the disease is we'll in hand
and cannot make fresh Roadway as it
did in the early days of January. The
opening of a number of schools, the
letting up on the house to house in
speotion, the permission to ship freight
under certain precautions, all tend to
show that though the board must con-
tinue vigilant, it is coming to the con-
clusiOn that in spite of the sporadic
cases, the situation is infinitely better
than it has yet been. There is no cause
for depression, rather is their cause fol
COngratulation that we appear to be
reaching the end of an unhappy anG
unfortunate period.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12
SATAN AND IDLE HANDS.

The outbreak of crime which occur
red on Saturday evening was indeed
surprise to our usually quiet city. We
are generally pretty free from crimes
Of violence, though occasionally such
occur. But for five men to have been
cut in one night, one fatally to the
heart, and two seriously, may well
arouse surprise.
Until the cases have been tried they
cannot be commented upon individual
ly, but general deductions can be
drawn. There is no doubt that at the
present time there is a very bad ele-
ment in the town. In the. ordinary
course of things this element would
have returned to more congenial fields,
but the quarantine has kept it here, and
it is sullSy and Disconnected A good
deal of 1t is composed of that class
which is ever seeking for work and
hoping not to get it. 1t buns around,
and when 1t can't get drink in the
saloons, is quite willing to drink swipes
of the vilest and most potent quality.
This element, when drunk, is always
dangerous, and drink was the cause of
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12
HARD WORK.

The experiment of thirty paid inspec-
tors for house to house inspection will
be watched with some interest. Con-
versation with some of them shows that
they are by no means confident of being
able to make a very thorough inspec-
ton. Granted that they do not visit
any buildings which can be depended
upon as being perfectly sanitary and
confine themselves entirely to the AS
latte population how are they going to
see these people every day.
The experience of the volunteer sani-
tary inspectors is that the only time to
catch those people is between and 7:3O
or a. m, and after p. m. At other
times a visit to their houses will only
result in finding a number of empty
rooms, which may or may not be locked
and a wholesale kicking down of doors
because the occupants are out at work
will lead to considerable friction, and to
charges about the disappearance of per-
sonal effects,
! 1t will be physically impossible for the
paid inspectors to see their Asiatic
charges at their places of residence ev-
cry day, and their inspection at the
places where they work is extremely
difficult and unsatisfactory. In mos
cases it would result in a request to tn,
foreman or employer, ARE all here?'
and the reply Yes" and the inspection
will go at that 1t is not that paid in
spectors won't try to do their duty, bu
that they will find themselves unabl,
to do the work required of them daily
though they might manage to ge
around every second or third day. Blu
then they would have much idle tim
upon their hands during the late morn
ing and early afternoon.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12

The question of building new Ka-
hului upon a more sanitary site is be-
ing considered on the Island of Maui.
1t will be impossible to build upon the
present site for many months posi-
bly, a year. and as there is land in
plenty in vicinity of the port, there is
no reason why fresh site should not
be chosen, and rebuilding commence
at once. The Board of Health will have
to enforce building rules and take cog
nizance of the laying out of the town.
There is no reason why it should not
be a model town.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12
MAJOR DAVIS.

Major Davis, whose management of
the New York volunteers, in a medical
capacity, when that gallant regiment
had its war experience in Hawaii, was
open to considerable comment has given
to the press an account of the health
conditions here. Incidentally, he has
some remarks upon the question of le-
prosy, which challenges some reply. He
says, Some natural health legislation
must be the result, and the disease pro-
perly segregated and treated in a more
complete way. New hospitals should be
constructed on the Island of Molokai
for these afflicted people to live, work
tempt is made at treatment or CLASH
fication of cases."
Now Major Davis is by no means an
expert on leprosy. 1t is doubtful If he
is an expert upon any disease Ger
tainly the New York regiment did not
consider him as such upon their all
ments. Their complaints were loud and
deep. Major Davis, if he is correctly
reported, gives the impression that the
disease is not properly segregated. If
uhere is a place whe segregation has
been more completely carried out than
here, he should point it out. Experts
upon leprosy who have visited the
Islands, and who have studied the dis
ease in all parts of the world, have
expressed themselves as surprised at
the success of our segregating system.
So complete has it been that new. cases
OF leprosy are now of rare occurrence.
! With regard to buildings and hos
/ pitfalls at the settlement everything is
/ in excellent order. There is a compe-
tent staff in charge, including a de-
voted band of Roman Catholic sisters.
AMI "a resident physician There are
numberless cottages; there is an ample
water supply. The food is distributed
on a liberal scale. Clothing and other
necessaries are issued. When the pa
tients can work, they are given work
and are paid for it. The Board OF
Health is in constant touch with the
settlement; officials of the board vlsi;
it frequently and the whole board once
in six months as a rule. The amuse-
ments of the unfOrtunates are attended
to; they have a social hall, band
games and so forth, and there has never
been a call upon the charity of the
people of Hawaii that has not met witt
a ready response from all parts, al
sections of thought, all religious bodies
The real object of Major Davis in
his remarks is probably contained In
the last paragraph. He there says: "A
local government will take years to do
in health. and sanitary wav what
a proper health commission, not of tho
country, would accomplish in much les.
time" This is evidently the dark gen.
tleman in the fence. A fedora I'M.
mission, the salaries adequa4
dignity of the commissioners, i, ~
Major Davis as head, OF even with Ma
jor Davis as a committee of one woult
doubtless be quite acceptable. Blu
there a good many com -Aissions, and
this is small pie !. 80 even this ac.
count may ~ to fruition.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12

The people who were dismissed from
quarantine in Kahului were more for
tunate than many of those who were
in quarantine here, and who are stlil
looking for work. The Maui men got
work on the railroad at once at 81. 70
n day, which will certainly buy them
the necessaries of life, and avoid their
becoming a burden on the community.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12

A large fine assortment of First Glass Jewelry
Watches Chains Pins Rings at the most reasonable
prices offered in this City.
Gentlemens night Shirts pajamas white dress Shirts
gligee shirts in latest patterns underwear, Prices
half other places ask.
complete of the grade. Per-
fumes powders, pastes and brushes water bottles
fountain syrnges, offered the lowest prices
asked for in the Islands,
The usual immense lines of dry goods Of all descriptions
unec ~aled in assortment and price this city.
NTlli1 cry stock immense fasti-
dious invited to call feel they will all be
pleased the store of
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-03-12

Put up in all sizes. Trial
bottle, 25 cents, which will
make a pail of the most effec-
tive Disinfectant.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
EARLY IMPRESSIONS.

They all come back-these scenes of
our misunderstanding the memory at
the sound of a forgotten voice or the
elusive scent Of a flower A hymn, the
fleeting twitter of bird, the lazy hum
of a bee or the cold creaking of the snow
beneath the foot; a scent of hollyhock
or apple blossom, the sweet but pungent
odor of new cut hay-half cured in the
sun; the aromatic freshness of certain
green leaves-aII have wonderous power
to summon ghosts of the past
Who has not, when the sunny calm of
a Sabbath morning rested like bene-
diction on all nature been transported to
another world on hearing the strokes Of
church bell. The church, the Sunday
school, the anthems rendered by the
choir, all come back. Will day ever be
halIowed with such peace, such sunshine
and such perfect rest as pervaded these
memory sabbaths of our childhood?
Those, evening bells. those evening
How many a tale their music tells
OF youth and home and that sweet
time,
When first we heard their soothing
chime"
1t is the memory of the sweet and
holy things of youth that mellows the
heart and keeps US kindred to our race
Who, amid the worlds success does not
yearn to return to the place where he
was born and where he played as a
child? Who does not long to see again
the fields, the lanes, the trees. that he
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
PERTINENT OR PARTLY 81

@~N~N~@~0~N-~~-~~~-~-~-~0~
Chicago owes $26, 882 900, municipality
Speaking, but what it's citizens owe col
iitect1yely would make those figures look
like 80 cents
Kansas natural gas fields are said to
be falling but there is no observable dim
mutton in the Nebraskan's wind.
Gov. Roosevelt does not think the
mayor of New York should own ice COM
pany stock. Mr.. Van Wyck always did
give Teddy chill, anyway.
The Lake Michigan Car Ferry company
has decided that carrier pigeons are bet
ter than wireless telegraphy. Mr. Mar
conf will have to guess again.
Tom sharkey's wealth is estimated at
$Sll' 900. His voice pays better than
Minneapolis will not have a baseball
team next summer, but it looks as though
DR.. Ames would keep the sister city in
terested.
The sincerity of the Republican leaders
in their professions OF a desire to have
the election returns diligently explored
will be sorely tested between now and
tomorrow night.
On clear nights the average person. it
is said, can see 5000 stars while the tel
escOpe will bring to view 5O,OOJOOA. The
forgetfulness of the lot owners to slft
sand on the sidewalk facilitates such as
economical observations a great deal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
INHERITED TENDENCIES IN EDU-
CATION.

In no line of scientific investigation has
there been such gigantic strides made to-
ward rational solution of the problems
as in the field of education. Col. F. W.
Parker, of Chicago, who lectured last
week in Minneapolis, is working out
through the Chicago institute the prob
lem of education by actual contact. This
is a step in advance, in practical educa-
ton, and marks the beginning Of the
great manual training schools, that with
in the next decade, will obtain in every
city Little, however, can be accom-
plished by any system of education if
the principles of heredity are not OBJ
served.
We are creatures of habit, We bear
the stamp of our experience or the ex-
perience of our fathers. We may be free
moral agents, free to chose this or that
line of conduct, but this. freedom is a
freedom of limitations. We are ever
bound by the letters placed upon US by
our ancestors.
So subtle are our inherited tendencies,
and so strong the influence of our early
surroundings and experiences that in Ia
ter years, though theoretically free to
act, we are still the slaves of forces, for
which we are not responsible and over
which we have no control
Place wafer on polished steel sur
face, lay them away for years, remove
the wafer and the dust, breathe upon the
surface and there will appear a shadow
image of the wafer. Scientists tell US
that the material world is made UP
largely of crystals microscopic, polished
mirrors, upon which our every act is pho
tographed 1t needs but breath in this
fairy world, and our secret history is
read by microscopic eyes.
The history of our ancestors is mir
rored in our being, the beautiful pictured
of our childhood, are ever living forces,
moulding our thoughts and actions.
IF you would properly educate a
child, you must begin with his grand
father" said Holmes. And the philoso-
pher-poet never uttered a more cogent
truth. Why do some men stand intel
Iectually, head and shoulders, above their
fellows? Whence come the Caesars, Ma
poleons, Newtons, Angeles, RaphaeIs and
Shakespeares? They are the accumulated
result of centuries of hereditary tenden-
cies Such men are great only by COM
parison of results. Their individual eff
forts are no greater than those of the
swain who plows his field and sows his
grain. It costs the rose no effort to be
fragrant, nor the lily to be beautiful.
Cultivate the lily and the rose and you
accentuate the beauty and the fragrance
Nourish hereditary tendencies and genius
| is the result.
LAS the twig is bent, the tree incines,
was once truth; now it is only half
truth The twig must be bent in the way
the nature of the tree inclines, or you
J stunt its growth. Force the mind of a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
POLITICS AND THE CHURCHES.

Another spasm of virtue has over
taken Greater New York. Bishop Pot
ter's letter to Richard Croker has an
swered all the purposes Of its author.
Public sentiment is aroused on the SUBJ
ject of municipal vice, and it is quite
probable that the present movement will
prevail for some months to come.
1t is worthy of note that the intense
feeling manifested among New York
clergymen against prevailing vice was
by an indignity done one of the cloth
by New York policeman. AS conse-
quence of that indignity great many
good people are thoroughly convinced
that New York will soon witness the dis
appearance of the East side haunts of
crime the closing up of the gambling
houses and generally renovated moral
conditions.
Richard Croker has warned those in
charge of affairs in New York that a
curb must be placed on the more noto-
rious forms of crime; and Mr.. Croker's
prosecuting attorney has said that great
alarm has spread abroad among the
criminals since the appearance of his de-
tectives.
Altogether it looks in the big city as
if cooperation were about to set in be-
tween the political and the church-going
elements of society for the suppression of
vice. How long that appearance will con-
/ tinue it might be difficult to predict; but,
&ince there is no election contest in
sight, it would not be surprising to see it
maintained at least throughout the win
ter.
All outbreaks of the general character
of that now prevailing in New York
have almost invariably their party politi-
cal significance. They are always di-
rected against the party in power, and
they are always much more intense and
virulent when the party in power hap
pens not to be the party with which the
church people usually are identified.
We have had some very elaborate and
expensive demonstrations offered within
the past few years, through political
committees, of the terrible wickedness
of the big city; but the revelations failed
of their only serious purpose. Tammany
is still in power. The present movement
will doubtless die out without having
accomplished substantial results, as have
all like movements for the past twenty
five years. If ministers cannot compass
the destruction of crime directly through
| their ministrations, it is worse than use
less for them to expect to do so through
political crusades. Even as a counter
| irritant, political agitation will never
operate to destroy the criminal tendency.
AS citizens, clergymen may do much
good in political life. Operating in their
professional character they simply lose
prestige without accomplishing good.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
COL HARRIsoN's DISCHARGE.
Speculation in Army Circles as to
It's Real Reason.

A Washington dispatch to the N. Y.
Herald says:
Lieut.. Col. Russell B. Harrison, whose
abrupt and unexpected honorable dis
charge from the army has been re-
ported, is making an earnest effort to
retain his position.
Brigadier General ]. c. Breckenridge.
inspector general of the army, received
a cable message today from Lieut.. Col.
Harrison asking him to use his influence
TO: secure his retention in the service
Other friends Of the young officer We're
asked to aid Gen. Breckenridge In in
ducing the president to revoke the order
of discharge.
Speculation is rife in army circles as 10
the real reason behind young Harrison.s
honorable discharge"
1t is the gossip In army circles that
the real cause is the attitude Of his
father during the recent campaign. Ex
President Harrison declined to make q
speech in support of McKtnley's can
dtdacy, and wrote a mild letter which
did the Republican cause little good.
1t is not limited that Mr. Mckinley df
rected Lieut.. Col Harrisorls discharge
but it is believed the action was taken
of its own initiative by the war depart-
ment which did not forget the al,athv
displayed by the former president during
the campaign.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25

once knew well and among which his
early youth was spent?
All who, in childhood have known farm
life realize the lodgings that sometimes
will flood the soul on hearing the con-
tented singing of the hens the whinny
Of horse or the low looing of a COW.
To be responsive to these memory sounds
the mind must be idle and the spirit low.
Like the music of the spheres, we hear
them only when thel soul is open and the
mind is free.
The mysterious boom of the night hawk
as he falls like0a srocket through the
air, the mournfuI wAiIing of the whip.
| poor-wiil from the bushes near the
garden, the staeeato tinkling of the bell
as the cows contentedly chew their cuds
while darkness falls, bring to us scenes
that we would not. forget. The smell of
paper with printers ink, brings to mind
the green covered primer of our first
school days; the school room in the
country with its rugged desks, rough
hewn with knives Of former occupants;
the rods of alder above the teachers
desk; the all too brief recess; the noon
hour with play filed full-not leaving
time for the scant lunch the swimming
pool behind the willows that line the
creek; the games of pom-pom- pull-away
and ducky-on-t he-rock for. summer and
fox and geese and all the varied sports
with snow, for winter. All these come
back with the faint odor of book or the
chance ringing of an old school bell
When one remains amid the sounds
and scenes of early life, these things that
are a part of that life are noticed only
by their absence. We hear the stopping
of the clock, but not it's constant ticking
During the French revolution all church
ceremonies, including the ringing of the
Angelus were abolished. No longer at
twilight did the peasants hear the mel
low tones Of the church bell, calling them
to prayer: That which had been a part
of their lives for centuries was gone.
They became restless-homesick for the
accustomed sounds of their childhood
Nor was this feeling confined to the
peasants alone.
THE sexton. tolling his bell at noon,
Dreams not that the great Napoleon
Stops his horse and lists with delight
AS his files creep along yon Alpine
height
What the love of his native country
is to the exile, this love for scenes of
early life is to the adult. AS the ma
tional song or sight of the native flag
fill the wanderer with patriotic emo
tons, the sounds and odors that we
have known in childhood bridge the
flood Of years and bind US with a silken
cord to our Innocent past.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
TO HARNESS THE MISSOURI

Yanltor Is. D. Spe. New York Times
NJ r. Muth, a mechanical engineer and
inventor, has solved apparently the prob
lem of Harvesting the immense power of
the Missouri river, Which is now going TO
waste, and using. it for practical purposes
An examination of Muths invention
showed a simple looking machine, made
ice will not interfere with it's usefulness.
A four-foot wheel, on experiment,
yields a tested pressure of 200 pounds,
with the probability of greater power
when perfecte This brings within prob
abilities a power great enough to pump
Missouri river water into the city for
manufacturing and lighting purposes. The
wheel has already been submitted for
examination to leading experts, who pro-
nounce it entirely practical, and capable
of accomplishing all its inventor claims
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25

child in channels contrary to his manifest
hereditary tendencies, and you dwarf his
mental stature. This is an. age of spec
ialists,'' says one All ages have been
ages of specialists. Nature is built upon
that plan-natural seIection-the survival
of the ittest
The educator, both at home and in our
institutions of learning, now strives to
learn the natural bent of the child
mind-if he have any, and then guide
his mental energies in that direction.
Among the million youths now being
trained in our schools, few have marked
tendencies toward the learned profess
sions the law, the church, medicine o.
letters, yet for ages all who entered an
institution of learning must be run in the
accepted mould of the scholar, On the
plea that mental discipline was the one
thing needed, and that was best secured
by pouring over the classics, geometry
and calculus.
Happily that theory is still held only by
the educational fossils, which like all fos-
sis, have their value as marking the ad-
vancement of animal life
The manual training school will soon
take the place of the classic college,
where the state will teach her sons the
manual arts and how to till the soil as
we'll as the roots of Greek verbs.
The son of a farmer. a miner, a mer-
chant, carpenter, mason, can then
be educated (trained) in the line of his
hereditary tendencies, thus creating sue
cessful specialists instead of unsuccessful
bunglers.
The experiment carried on in many of
our large cities, of using the school prop
erty during the long vacation, to gather
from the streets the children of the lower
classes and give them a chance to indi-
cate their natural tendencies, by means
of instruction in every handcraft, with
careful guidance, but no restraint, has
met with the most fattering success. AT
the appointed hour all are at their posts,
no hardness, no truancy, no Sinking the
| task assigned They love the work, be-
cause their inherited tendencies are al
lowed free scope.
The day of the emancipation Of the
school boy is at hand.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-25
soCIETY's LATEST FAD.

London Cable New York World
The latest expensive fad at smart din
ner parties is to have dwarf fruit trees
bearing summer fruits at the table during
winter for desert.
Dwarf cherry trees are favorites, as
producing the best results, but pear,
peach and apple trees are also used.
Each tree costs about $40. They are
largely imported from Paris, where the
fashion was set by Count Boni de Castel-
lane.