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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09
(By Mrs. Weston Coyney.)

(By Mrs. Weston Coyney)
TIME chances for higher education
in this favored Paradise of the
Il Pacific have so increased of late
years that today every ambitious young
man and woman finds advantages
awaiting them which twenty-five years
ago were sighed for in vain. And these
young men and women are not drawn
merely from the wealth and fashion of
the Islands, but from all classes down
to the very humblest. AS a natural
result of this gradual and now uni
versally widespread growth, Honolulu
has at last evolved a number of genu-
inc institutions of learning where al
most every branch of knowledge may
be thoroughly studied.
One of the foremost in the ranks to-
day is the beautiful and stately edifice
on Emma street, set in it's spacious
tropical surroundings, and known as
the High School.
This seat of learning might with JUS
tice be called the gift of Royalty to
Democracy for it is well known to
have been erected at a cost of some
thing like ninety thousand dollars; to
| have been sold for the mere song OF
| thirty thousand dollars and to be val
ued at this present day. at two hundred
thousand dollars! Truly royal seat
of learning and a representative one for
student life.
The rules of this educational institu-
ton are simple and liberal. In fact,
they are hardly rules at all. Conse-
quently, the very liberality or, one
might say, the absence of ordinary reg
ulations, has resulted in placing these
young men and women. as we'll as the
younger element in the grammar de-
partment, upon their mettle.
The means of instruction are fully VI
| to the usual standard in the large
cities. There are stores of books and
| elaborate apparatus and as good q
working library as could be found in
any institution of its class. The books
comprise the different classes of liter
ature in the following branches:
Natural Science, Philosophy, Litera.
| ture, Fine Arts, Useful Arts, Fiction
Travel, History, Biography, and refer
ence library. The first year in read
ing critically" such authors as Virgil
Homer, Ruskin, Shakespeare, Brown
, ing, Irving, Longfellow, Tennyson
Whittier, Dickens, Thackeray, etc.
are made familiar to the class; so tina
their mind are elevated as well a.
amused. In this way much usefu
knowledge is impaired for future ref
erence. The pupils have every facilit!
to complete the course of common
school education and to prepare for
collegiate course.
The regular attendance at the Higl
School is three hundred. That numbe
embraces the two hundred pupils VIII
are taking the Grammar course. TIL
remaining hundred are the High Schoo
pupils proper.
In the third year the pupils have &C
cess to the following reference books il
English: Modern English, F. Hall; TIL
English Language, Meiklejohn; Hand
book of the English Tongue, Angus
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09

thors has become convinced that
Adam an Eve must be carrid through
tn whole play. So they have consid-
Ierably lessened tn time between tn
creation an tn flood, ar have made
Adam an English noblenan with a
shady past an tn Divvle a Fr-rinch
count in love with Eve. They're res
cLed be Noah. tn faithful boatman,
who has a comic naygur son."
II see be tn pa-apar tn stage is
GOin' to tn dogs what with it's Sap
pho's an tn like iv that" said Mr.
Hennessy.
We'll, it isn't what is used to be. :,
said Mr.. Dooley, Tin tn days whin
twas tn purpose iv tn hero to save
tn honest girl firm tn clutches iv tn
villain in time to go out with him an
have shell iv beer at tn Dutchman' S
down stairs. In tn plays nowadays tn
hero is more iv villain thain tn viii
lain himself. He's tn sort iv a man
that we used to heave PAWN shtones
at whin he came out iv tn stage dure
iv tn Halsted sthreet opry house. To
be hero we've first got to be an Eng
ishman, an as If that wasn't bad
enough we've get to have committed as
nanny crimes as tn late H. H. Holmes
If he'd been born in England he'd be
hero. Ye marry a woman who swears
an drinks and bets on tn races an
= IN
play is made up iv hard cracks be all
tn char ackters at each others NOR
ais This is called repartee be tn
larned, an Hogan. Repartee is where
{ L say: 'Ye stole a horse, and we say:
But think iv ye'er wife, In Ar-rchey
r-road tbs called disord'ly conduct
They's another play on where a man
r-runs off with a woman that's no bet
Their thin she ought to be. He hates
her an she marries burglar. Another
wan is about a lady that ates dinner
with a German. He bites her an she
hits him with a cabbage Thin they'se
a play about an English gintleman iI
tn OF school who thri,s to make a CIR
write letter FIR him an if she dom
he'll tell on her. He doesn't tell an SC
he's rewarded be marryin' tn heroine
an honest English girl out FIR tn
money.
"Nobody's marrid in tn modherr
play. HinnisSy, an that's a good thing
too, f'r amy wan that got marrid wut
have tn worst iv it. In tn OF times
tn la-ads that announces what's goin
TO happen in tn first act always prom
ised We happy maredge in tn end an
as iverybody's loOkin' FIR a happy mar
redge that held tn aujence. Now W
know that tn hero with tn wretchet
past is goin' to elope with tn drunk
en- lady, an tn play is goin' to enc
| Win III couples prettily divorced il
tn centhre of tn stage IT'S callet
real life, an mebbe that's what it is
but FIR me l don't want to see real lif,
on tn stage. / can see that amy day
What l want is FIR tn spotless gintle
imam to saw tn la-ad with tn cigaree
into two-be-fours an marry tn lad,
that doesn't dhrink much while the au
Jeence is putin on their coats"
why don't they play Shakespeare an
my mOre?' Mr. HenneSSy asked
Il understand" said Mr.. Dooley
that they're goin' to dhramatiz
Shakespere whin tn dhramatizer get
through with tn Report iv tn Inteer
Igor Department FIR 1899. 1900"
F. P. DUNE.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09
FEDERAL BUILDING MAY BF
ERECTED in HONOLULU soon

"HE SECRETARY OF, THE TREAS
ury of the United States will ask
the next Congress to appropriate
money for a Federal building for Homo
lulu. At the meeting of the Governor 5
Council yesterday morning Mr.. Dole reao
a letter from f. A. Hitchcock, Secretary
of the Interior in regard to securing land
for the erection OF a Federal bulIuing in
this City The Secretary stated the mat
ter had been referred to the Secretary of
the Treasury and the latter had advised
the Interior Department that he would
bring the matter TO the attention of the
next Congress.
Such building would be used to house
all officials of the United States Govern
ment.
Mr. McCandless read letter from Man
aver Pain CT the Hawaiian Tramways
Company relative to the moving of the
Alakea street tracks from their present
position IN o. der 10 clear a sewer man
hole. Mr.. Pan assured the Government
that mis- W. surveyor had gone over the
matter and had come to the conclusion
that the manhole, which is now located
directly between the rails, might just as
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09
Mr.. DOOLEY ON
AMERICAN STAGE

I've niver been much iv a hand FIR
tn theaytre." said Mr.. Dooley. "Whin
1 was young man an Crosby's opry
house was r-runnin', / used to go down
wanst in a while an see Jawn Dillon
THROWN things around FIR tn amuse
ment iv tn popylace, an whin Shakes
pere was played l often had a seat in
tn gal'ry. not because l liked tn act
in, dye mind, but because I'd often
heerd me frind Hogan speak iv Shakes
pere. He was good man, that
Shakespeare, but his pieces is full iv OIL
gags that / heerd whin l was a boy.
TIL trouble with me about goin to
plays is that no matther where / set
cud see some hired man in his shirt
sleeves argyin' with wan iv his frinds
about a dog fight while Romeo was
maxim tn kind iv love we wudden't
want ye'er daughter to hear to Juliet
in tn little bur-rd cage they calls a
balcony. 1t musve been because 1
wanst knowed a man be tn name iv
Gallagher that was a scene painter
that L cud niver get mesilf to tn pint
iv concedin that tn mountain that
other people agreed was many miles
in tn distance was in no danger iv
bein' rubbed off tn map be tn coat
ters. An l always had me watch out
to time tn moon whin twas showed
acrost tn sky an tn record breakin'
iv day in tn robbers cave where
tn robbers don't dare FIR to shtep on
rock FIR fear they'll cave it in. If
day liver broke on tn level tn way it
does on tn stage, 'twud tear tn bastin'
threads out iv what Hogan calls tn
firmymint. Hogan says / haven't got
he no
Fright, FIR We can't make me believe
that twinty years has elapsed whin |
know that I've on'y had time to pass
tn time iv day with tn BARTENDER mex
dure.
plays is upside down. Hinnissy, an
inside out. They begin with a full
statemint II what's goin' to happen an
how it's goin' to come out. an thin
ye're asked to frgit what We heerd an
be surprised be tn outcome. / always
feel like goin' to tn box office an get
tin me money or me Autograph pass
back afther tn first act.
''Th' way to write play is f'r tc
take a book an write it over hindend
foremost. They're putin all books or
the stage nowadays. Fox's Book iy
Martyrs has been done into three
act farce comedy an ii be projooceC
be Della Fox, tn author, mex summer
| Webster's Cambridge Ditchnry' will be
/ brought out as a society dhrama with
eight hundred thousan' char-rakters
TIL Constitution iv tn United States
/ Ga farce be Willum Mckinley i:
r-runin' to packed houses with tn
clllybrated thradeejan Aggynaldoo a.
tn villain. In tn sixteenth scene il
TN last act they'se a nayger lynchin'
James III. Wilson, tn author iv 'Silc
an Ensilage story f'r boys, is dhra
matizin' his cillybrated vurruk an will
follow 1t with a dramatic version i,
Sugar Beet Culture, farm play. 'Th
Familiar Lies iv Ii Hung Chang /.
expected to do well in tn provinces
an Hostetters Alamnac las ALI date,
flied. / understand tn Bible I'll b,
r-ready FIR tn stage undher tn direc
ton iv Einstein an Opparman befur,
tn first iv tn year. Some changes ha
been nicissry' FIR to adapt it to stag
purposes, see be tn papers. Tn au
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09
HIGH
SCHOOLS MERITS

Skeat's chronological Dictionary; Slew
er's Grammar of Old English; English
Past and Present, French; Words and
Their Uses, R. G. White; Every Day
English, r. G. White; Dictionary of
Archaisms and Provincial Words, two
volumes, Halliwell Also, large and
miscellaneous reading outside the
school. embracing historical and an
cient stories from the Greek, Roman,
English, Persian and Modern History
Algebra is taken up in the first year
and also Latin, French and German
| The pupils are permitted to choose any
one of the three languages best suited
to their requirements, but in all other
studies are required to follow the cur
riculum In the case of student dis
playing especial apility and aptitude,
the line is stretched a bit TO include q
second language. The science work is
most noteworthy. Drawing enters
| largely into the school work; both free
hand and decorative work being taught.
In the senior High School year, sketch
| ing from life and landscape is taken up.
Wall paper designing, borders Tin col
| orr and book covers are embraced.
The full public school course covers
| twelve years, from primary through
Grammar High School to graduation.
The building itself is quite ideal in
every respect. 1t was designed for d
private residence, it looks like a palace
and it has made model schoolhouse.
The pupils take immense pride in its
appearance. 1t follows out the modern
philanthropic notions: that to educate
and uplift the masses you must place
only before them the correct and beau
tiful. In that way we eradicate and
eliminate the squalid, the ugly and the
| incorrect, from their minds. There are
seven rooms on the main floor, all with
hard wood floors, polished doors and
painted and gilded ceilings Not a
mark nor mutilation disfigures the
beautiful wood, be it said to the credit
of these young ladies and gentlemen
To the left as you enter the grand
hall. is the library and reference room?
Ascending the broad and polished stair
case you come upon three more large
and handsome schoolrooms and, if you
please, you can step out upon a sort OF
| roof-garden, where occasionally a class
that requires neither blackboard MOI
text book are taken for oral instruction
Just think what the children in over
icrowded and over-heated schoolrooms
in the States would say to a roof-gar-
den-class! And the view is beautiful
the breezes enhancing! Here also is 6
luncheon room for the young ladies
On the floor above are three more
rooms equally attractive in their way
where Latin, French and German, are
taught. The faculty is an able one
and needs no special mention; being
thoroughly well known. 1t is charm
ing, eager, ambitious community tina
floods these corridors and sweeps
through the magnolia. azalea, and by
discus scented grounds at the ring o
the inevitable bell Student life, which
broadens and freshens with each sue
cessive year, is well worth watchin;
| with the flow and ebb of it's variety
, This great school is destined to play al
important part in the future histor,
of Honolulu.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09

well have been placed 70
thereby have saved the V os side sa
trouble of moving its tracl 'oItnpany a.
fact that the Government Despite h.
made his own !nyestigar,or.ee "sineer hai
that the needs Of the ,,,,t ',s aAd ioln,
that the nlanhole should he ' ~ denaaae
II now is. Mr.. Pain takes Placed whe,.
his Judgment and demands ~ fbAeepaon d
eminent take cognizance =, ' tat the Cor,
Nenience In ,he matter as own Con.
repiec 10 Mr.. Pain that A. ~ 1cc ahilea
nhent enS.1eer had seen Il, H4e Gogera.
manhole n the middle of ~ Place Ii.
lTramways Company wo,lId * Gac6, d.
necessity of moving III, raqs under To
as the manhole location W., ~ one s.is
changed under any considornll. not l.
Tramways Company has baan 'a sl!. Tie
move its track as soon as possit ,I''lei %
i Section 597 of the Civil Tav.,
right to grade, sewer, pave ms ,-lS' The
or otherwise improve. alter ~ '.Oa1suils
streets or highways is rass.,. 'y4aG tie
j government and cannot be ar' 10 Tie
/ impaired, but such work SHAH ','ua'ee o
such manner as to obstruc, ~ u0ae q
as little as possible: and if -, eASsy
grantees must shift the rans le' The
avoid the distractions made
{ The section makes the dn,,.
Tramways Company quite nIgts " U:
premises. 'N "a;
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-09
IN MEMORIAM.

Il presume you carry a memento of
some kind in that locket of yours?''
Precisely; it is a lock of my husbands
hair" But your husband is still
alive" Yes; but his hair is all gone"
Tit Bits
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

$500 : ? ~ ? = ~ : : = , : :
Mr.. BRYAN EXPLAINS WHY
UTAH SHOULD ELECT KING

why the
= pie Of Utah should elect Judge King to
platform
has public record that entities him confidence hope that his
majority will
= because the policies
than in 1885, palmer
= 1896.
special important itwibe
indication of the position before the
= The Republican standard
= bill to a of
IF Utah should Republican
would be quick TO
ready to the
= for the retirement of
= cusvey onalb inks
= an
= Endorsement of bank
The Republican
In fact more trusts have been organized the Republicans
been than during all
IF Utah Republican viii
favor of trusts and Endorsement Republican
= subject
stand
ing from $4,000 100000 soldiers
\ endorsed the administration
"If Utah Republican
= favor of a large
he Republican passed
tariff BILL which
side of the constitution and
that power rights
and the of all live
IF
= this
Philippines admin
raion
could be purpose
give the Ffpnos independence
\ established
I be Endorsement of
principles set forth in the Declaration Independence
the people Of Utah are in
AmeTican ciize
+++++*++++*+%+ y ~ %*x+ ~ 44++++4
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25
KNOW THEY ARE BEATEN.
Only Hope of the Beers Lies Now in
Mediation.

Durham, March 24-It is learned from
an authentic source that the Boer lead
ers are aware that they are beaten, but
think they can hold out for four or six
months, in which time they firmly believe
foreign intervention will force Great
Britain 10 grant favorable terms, includ-
ing independence.
They expect Germany or the United
States TO intervene. The mission of
Messrs. Wolmarens, Fischer and Vessels
to Europe is TO hasten this, so far as Ger
many is concerned.
The Boer plans include a stand at
Kroenstadt, the Vaal river and other
points, eliminating in the defense of Pre-
tOria, which has been preparing for a
siege. The ranges of the guns have been
tested, mines have been laid, and the
forces in the field have not allowed them
selves to be cut off with their heavy guns,
which are needed in the forts at Pretoria.
The majority of the Transvaalers are
ignorant of the gravity of the situation.
and though tired of remaining so long
from their farms. will fight hard, believ-
ing that their liberty and property are at
stake and confident of ultimate success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25

a free system of government. Gap
plause.)
1 had the great pleasure of being in
the senate of the United States when
Mr.. Bryan served as a member of con-
gresS, and afterwards when Mr.. King
OF Utah served as a member of con-
gress. During the fight over the repeal
OF the purchasing clause of the Sher-
man act, the entering wedge of the
subsequent contest of the Republican
and Democratic parties, the Democratic
party as then constituted under Cleve-
land, was for the gold standard. Dur
ing that fight to prevent the repeal of
the Sherman act, as soon as there was
a declaration by Mr.. Cleveland. who
represented the gold standard men
then, as to what they would put in the
place Of it, we said we would resist
that repeal to the utmost of our power.
and L remember many and many a time
when William J. Bryan would come
over from the house and give me all the
encouragement that he possibly could
when l was standing there fighting the
policy Of the Democratic party and the
Democratic president. (Applause.)
When it came about that the reform
ers of the Democratic party succeeded
IN gaining control of that organization,
and when the Republican party passed
uHueT lnS domination OF the mOneyeQ
classes and adopted the gold standard
platform, it became my conscientious
duty, standing at the head of my dele
cation from the state of Idaho, to walk
out OF that convention and out of the
Republican party. cloud applause and
cheens) And there never was an act
OF my life, and there never will be, of
which l was so proud as on that oc-
casion. applause and cheers.) Mr..
Bryan, whose views l well knew, was
nominated afterwards at Chicago on q
platform which 1 had endorsed by my
votes as a Republican 9enator. I had
voted for the income tax, and so had
many of my confreres from this west
ern country, who afterwards voted
against an income tax at the dictation
Of the Republican party
1t was no trouble to me to accept the
leadership Of William J. Bryan. Gap
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-25
SENATOR DUBOIS SPEAKS.
Delivers Stirring Talk on Pertinent
Issues


When the applause that greeted
Judge Kings speech had subsidized,
Judge Powers arose to introduce Sena-
tor Dubois.
When man." he said. has once
broken away from the flesh pots. it's a
good thing to stay away. Many are
yearnlng 10 get back to Belshazzars
feast. When the people Of old fled from
Sodom and Gomorrah, some looked
back and were turned into salt. There
were some who neither looke1 back
nor turned back. History repeats it
sell, and of the faithful in our day
tnere is none more worthy, none whom
we delight more to honor than that
Ieader OF the people of our sister state,
ex-senator Fred 7. Dubois of Idaho"
MI Dubois was loudly cheered when
ne appeared at the front of the plat
form, and the good points in his brief
speech We're generally applauded. He
spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men-Ihere is a silver Republican eii-
tor Ola paper in north Idaho. nv state.
VINO said to me not long ago. when il
was rumored that some of the silver
Republicans Of Idaho were going back
10 the Olu party: well, there is one
thing about me, Dubois, I never had a
Goliar' ana L never expect to have a
dollar, and, therefore. l can be honest.
provided / can provide for my famiIy.''
Well, ! am in almost the same position
as this editor. There is one thing that
has always escaped me; that is wealth
and the desire to accumulate money. I
think. therefore, can judge dispassion-
ately OF those who. through vicious
laws, accumulate more money than
honest men are entitled to gain under
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ton to get a better glimpse of the
speaker.
1T is not my purpose" said Judge
King. ''to occupy a great deal Of your
time, but I desire to congratulate the
people Of Utah upon this, their oppor-
tunity to hear the peerless son of our
neighbOring state, William Jennings
Bryan. CTumultuous applause.)
King is Applauded.
There are few principles advanced
by our friends the Republicans, in this
campaign continued Judge King.
Ihey say that the Democratic party
is controlled by persons expelled from
the Republican ranks; they say the
Democratic party is controlled by
Cleveland yet they well know that in
1886 the convention at Chicago wrench
ed the standard from the traitors of the
party and placed it in the hands of
the loyal and the true, who have
pressed on and on until it has become
the standard Of this great nation
Judge King then referred to the i'm
portance Of the local campaign, re-
yerting to the Uncourageous methods of
the ST. Louis convention of 1896 He
urged the people to again manifest their
fealty to the cause of bimetallism.
All we ask, he exclaimed, lis that
you carry out your platform pledges of.
the past, for the people Of this state
cannot afford to accept the vicious
principles to which Mr.. MCKINLEY has
committed the Republican party. We
should send word back to the friends
OF silver in the east that we are still
true to the cause of silver and financial
reform. Send word east and west that
one of the greatest silver producing