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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-18
JAPs IN CALIFORNIA.

The Japanese question is becoming a
serious one in California. In point of
fact California which has been bowling
about oriental labor on the Islands, has
a very serious labor question on her
own hands. And not only has she
labor question but she has a contract
labor question, or what is equivalent TO
it.
The total number of Japanese laborers
in the beet fields, vineyards and hop
fields of California is estimated at be-
tween 10000 and 25,OOO which is not so
very much smaller than the number
of Japanese employed on our own plan
tations. These men are introduced by
the immigration companies, who supply
them with the required sum of money
to evade the pauper immigration act,
just as they tried to introduce them
here with $50 in their pockets, to be
collected after landing.
These companies really hold the men
under contract, though it is so cleverly
managed that no legal proof is obtaina-
BILE against them. Something of SINH
lar character occurs in Pennsylvania,
to which laborers are brought from the
eastern part of Europe. There is no
written contract, but the man is con-
tracted all the same, and seldom quits
his work. If he does, the immigration
company makes good his loss to his en-
ployer. There are many ways of whip
ping the devil around a stump. Ours
was an open contract; Pennsylvania
and California have a concealed con-
tract.
How to counteract the Japanese in
vasion is occupying the attention of
the labor party in California, and a
mass meeting was held on May to
protest against the japanese coming in.
The result of it was a set of resolutions
of which the following was the second:
Resolved, That we also urge the pas
sage of an act of Congress, or the adopt
ing of such other measures as may be
necessary for the total exclusion of all
classes of Japanese other than members
of the diplomatic staff. Such a law has
become a necessity, not only on the
grounds set forth in the policy of Chi
nese exclusion, but because of the addi-
tional reasons resting in the fact that
the assumed virtue of the Japanese, l..
e., their partial adoption of American
customs, makes them the more danger
Gus as competitors"
This will, if acted upon in Congress,
cause serious diplomatic trouble with
the empire of the Mikado. The Japanese
by the treaties claim equal rights with
other nations and would bitterly resent
the discrimination of this act. Indeed,
the Emperor has expressed himself on
this point already. He has no objection
to discouraging the emigration of his
subjects, but he would resent an ex-
clusion law.
1t is curious to find that California
has a labor trouble. of this kind within
her own borders, when she has criti-
cized Hawaiian labor conditions so
much.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-18
ON TO PRETORIA.

When everything was ready down to
the last packsaddle," to use phrase
about Lord Kitchener, the advance
from Bloemfontein has been COM
menced. The papers tell from day to
day how irresistible this advance has
gone till the paper of the 18th an
nounces the crossing of the Zand river,
some sixty miles north of the capital of
the Free State.
Lord Roberts is an instance of gen.
eral who knows how to wait. This de-
lay at Bloemfontein called forth an inn
mense amount of criticism. But no
amount of criticism had any effect upon
his plans He waited until the was
ready, and then he acted. In the early
part of the century another great Brit
fish captain showed the same logged
power The Duke of wellington, then
Sir Arthur Wellesley, was perhaps as
much abused a man as would be found.
But he knew how to wait, and his wait
ing eventually drove the French COM
pletely out of Spain and over the Pyr-
enees
Butler, on the other hand, did not
know how to wait, and sacrificed his
men in useless, bull-headed fighting.
What Roberts is now doing could have
been carried out in part at least by
Butler. Instead of hurting his forces
against practically impregnable in
trenchments in order to force his way
to Ladysmith, he should have been OPP
Grating in the Orange River Free State,
and have left Ladysmith to take care
of itself. Roberts has not allowed his
attention to be taken off his main objec-
tive by Mafeking. AS a matter of fact
the capture of Mafeking can have no
effect upon the general conduct of the
war. The siege of Maafeking is a gal
liant episode, and it is to be hoped that
the garrison and it's indomitable leader,
Baden-Powell, will be able to hold out
till the end. But it is only an episode.
1t would be folly to waste masses of
troops in the relief Of such place. The
relief of Mafeking will be brought about
by the attack upon Pretoria.
There does not seem the slightest
doubt that Roberts will be before Pre-
tOria very soon. He has cleaned out
the scattered Boer commands which
were raiding in the south, and is push
ing the whole Boer force in front of
him. With cavalry, mounted infantry
and flying artillery, his force is as mo-
bile as that of his foes, and when rapid
success is gained he makes it assured
by occupation by regular infantry
which moves more slowly, but is more
sure.
While one cannot say that the end OF
the war is in sight, it begins to look as
if it were not so very far off. The strug-
gle at Pretoria will probably be not
nearly so stubborn as has been antici-
pated. Kruger is now vaporing as to
what he will do, but when the actual
test comes the dying in the last ditch
kind of talk does not always mater
ialize. There was a good deal of it
when the Germans besieged Paris, but
the French leaders managed to survive
their words for a considerable period
of time.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-18

There is no more important matter
that the proper inspection of plumbing.
Careless or bad plumbing would make
our sewerage system even more danger
Gus than our old cesspool system. De-
fective plumbing in the large cities on
the Mainland is responsible for many
a death, and many serious bout Of
sickness. The insidious sewer gas is no
respector of persons, and will penetrate
to the palatial home as easily as to the
humble cottage.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-18

The appointment of DR.. Cooper and
Mr.. Winston to the Board of Health
adds to the medical and the lay element
Both are public spirited gentlemen and
are acquainted with the duties which a
position on the Board of Health entails.
Mr.. Winston has been a member before.
DIR. Cooper has been intimately connect
ed with the Board during the late cpl
demic.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-18

Sixty days after the Hawaiian Terri
torial bill is passed the duty on Europe
an China and Crockeryware will be
from IS to go per cent higher-55 per
cent on White and 60 per cent on Dec
grated.
The present duty is 10 per cent on
either.
Now is your time to purchase what
you want IN this line before prices are
advanced.
Sterling Silver from the factories of
Reed &; Barton and Whiting Mfg. Co.
We will have a special sale for the
next thirty days, commencing April
2Sth.
The reduction will be SO 1-3 per cent.
Our assortment is very complete.
Platedware will be also sold at special
reduced prices.
Rich Cut Glass, for the next thirty
days at a rs per cent reduction.
All of our goods are marked in plain
figures and the old prices remain with
the new. .... .
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-18
.RUSSES!

We carry the largest and
most complete stock of these
in the city. Fit
guaranteed.
Also a varied assortment of
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lesson. This was barely completed when
Mary, Mrs. Munroe's daughter, burst
breathlessly into the room.
(To be continued.)
DREW A PRIZE.
He Bought Curious1y Shaped Bottles of
Yellow LIQUID,

He Bought CuriOus1y Shaped Bottles of
Yellow Liquid.
II have been a bidder at a good
many old-hoss' sale Of unclaimed ex-
press packages" said a Western man
at one of the hotels the other night,
"but. never struck a. real prize but
once. 1t was at San Francisco about
ten years ago. Well, Fargo & Co. was
having one of it's periodical auctions
of derelict matter, and, happening to
stroll in while the sale was in progress,
1 had my curiosity excited by pack
age with lot of Oriental heiroglyphs
in one corner. bought it for IS cents,
and it proved to be a lot of miscellane-
Gus curios, evidently collected by some
sailor during a voyage to India. The
collection included several shell pin
cushions, a lacquered basin, some teak
wood beads, a silk handkerchief
stamped with view of the Calcutta
harbor, and four black rods about the
size of lead pencils. | scraped one Of
them a little, found it was made Of
glass coated with some kind of varnish
anu SdNC tACAA up tio a I'LL wv
hard to solve. Nearly year afterward
1 ran across the things in a bureau
drawer, and accidentally dropped one
on the floor. 1t broke in two, and a
small quantity of thick yellow fluid
ran out of cavity that extended all
the way down the interior, while in
stantly the room was filled with an
almost overpowering fragrance. The
yellow fluid was altar of roses-not the
ordinary article of commerce, but an
altar of peculiar distillation which is
now lost art; at least none of it can
be procured through known channels.
1t came from India, and how it fell
into the hands of the same person who
collected the cheap kickshaws l have
mentioned is a mystery I have never
been able to solve. The black rods
were really Walls, and when the varnish
was entirely removed, the tops could
be taken off without difficulty. have
been offered $40 apiece for them, but
kept one and gave the other two to
friends. A single drop on piece ef
cotton or wool keeps large clothes
press at home fragrant for an entire
year"
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CHAPTER XII.

Lem Dodd worked on an afternoon pa
per, and so was enabled to spend his
evenings in his own quarters. From the
first he and Paul Neville became warmly
attached, and having kindred tastes,
though entirely opposite in their training
and knowledge of the world, they made
the happiest and most congenial compan-
ions.
With view to comfort and economy,
they rented unfinished rooms on the top
floor of very high uptown building.
These rooms-two Of them-they furnish
ed in very plain style, and opened bach
elor's hall Of the most frugal kind. Some
rooms near by becoming vacant, the hap
py thought struck Paul that they might
bring Mrs Munroe and her daughter to
these and install them as housekeepers.
There was no debate over this PROPOSE
ton; it was adopted at once; and the
women were brought to a home which,
though humble enough, was luxury itself
compared with the one they had left.
One evening Lem came home quite
early, and they had an early supper.
When Mrs. Munroe had cleared away the
dishes, Paul heard his friend German
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the sepulchre of my heart, and / find a
living mother there" And again she fold
ed her arms about her, and kissed the
tear-covered cheeks.
When they had become calmer, Mrs.
Hope, now stronger and more resolute,
told her story to the end; and when Mi
Ram learned that this sailor, Charles Car
penter, and her father were one and the
same person, she trembled as though
struck by chilly blast.
''Should we not tell this man who we
are?' she asked. eff he has any heart
left, any principle, he will help to protect
us from Cheatham."
eff he had any heart, any principle left,
would he now be the tool Of Cheatham,
the man to whom he owes his first down
fall? Once he was high, honorable
man." said Mrs. Hope, sadly. Here are
the questions for us to consider: Shall
we fly from here, and seek new home
among strange faces? or shall we make
ourselves known to this man. and while
irving to redeem him, share the undying
shame he will bring to you, my innocent,
beautiful child?"
"And if we leave, when shall we
leayeY' asked Miriam, after a painful
pause.
eat once"
"r shall answer you as Ruth did Mao
mi" said Miriam, and she kissed her
mother, and lifted her up, and, with her
arm about her, drew her to the window,
and looked out at the river and the trees.
AS they stood there they saw Paul
Neville coming up the drive from the
gate. He had come every day to give
Miriam lessons That is what he said,
that is what she said, that is what they
both thought But now, as she saw him
and realized that the lessons were over,
the first pang caused by her mothers
revelation smote her heart.
81 must tell him." said Miriam, mot to
come again.
Mrs. Hope looked into the dark eyes
and whispered:
"Poor child, my brave child, | did not
think of this.
s.Do not speak, mother" she said, with
a gasp of pain. HE shall never know 1t.
/ hoped to have kept this-this secret
even from YOU
Paul Neville rang the bell and Miriam
FASTENED down to meet him. He looked
so fresh, so youthful and so brave and
manly that Miriam felt stronger when
their palms touched.
..You do not look well to-day. he said.
ST have been little troubled, but it is
all over now she said, smiling, and try
ing to act her part.
Paul Neville was as credulous and un-
suspecting as child: but though loving
eyes may be blind to the defects Of their
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herself alone, she fell on her knees beside
the bed, and buried her white face in the
covers. She was in this position when
the door opened quietly and Miriam came
in. Walking noiselessly over, she drop
ped on her knees beside Mrs Hope, and
with her left arm about her neck, she
whispered:
"You have some great trouble; it is
killing you. Trust me, and let me bear it
with you
With an agonized cry, Mrs. Hope rose
to her feet and threw her arms about
Miriam.
"Oh, my child, my child! 1t is your
trouble as we'll as mine!"
Holding Miriams hand, and at times
pressing it to her lips, Mrs. Hope told her
sad story with a choking voice. She
never once looked on the face into which
her words were cutting lines that aged it
perceptibly On, step by step, never
shielding herself, for her acts needed no
excuse, she went on with that awful
story. And when she reached the point
where their relationship became evident,
Miriam arose with cry of joy, and
threw her arms about her, sobbing on the
breast where she had ever found com
fort.
ooh, my mother! my mother! why did
you not confde in me before? What is
the loss of wealth compared with the
prize 1 have found! Oh, since I have
learned that | was waif. found at Mar
tin Hermanns door, my heart has starv-
ed to know some being with kindred
blood; and my dreams have been filled
with visions of my mother! Brave, no.
BILE mother! Can I ever love you enough?
Can I ever repay the sacrifice you have
made for me? Brave white head, rest
here, rest here, my darling" She drew
her mother to her and kissed the white
face, and the dry, hot eyes, till, like the
arid rock smote by the prophets rod,
they filed and overfowed.
II can have no sorrow to dampen this
JOY" sobbed Miriam. ''The clouds have
passed away and the sun shines through.
The angels have rolled the stone from
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idol, they are the quickest to defect It's
sorrows. With that candor-so winning
in him, but which would have been rude
ness in another, he said:
''You have trouble, Miss Miriam; and
you will not sing for me again"
I'VE all have troubles" she replied.
Paul Neville, after looking at her for
some time with undisguised sorroW and
love, got up and walked across the room,
then came back and sat down again.
s'Do you believe that this Charles Car
penter is the right man?" he asked.
II do not know mean / do not care
to say what I think His road and mine
lie in opposite directions" replied Mi
riam.
"And do you think Cheatham is good
MANI"
my adopted father thought he was"
"But what do you think"
'I would rather not say"
'sWell, then, we will not talk about him.
Come, let us have SOME music
pardon me, Mr. Neville, but / do not
feel as if | could ever sing again." said
Miriam.
"And you will take no more Lessons
from me?"
"No more, Mr.. Neville"
She handed him an envelope containing
money for the lessons to date, then ex-
tended her hand to bid him adieu."
"And this is ALL Miss Miriam?'
"All, believe"
"And you do not want me to come
again?'' he asked, with a tremor in his
voice.
mo, Mr.. Neville never again.
"Then I, too, shall not sing with pleas
ure-maybe in sadness"
He stopped, raised her hand to his lips,
and was gone.
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For the Farmers to Decide.

For the Farmers to Decide.
By the best figures obtainable it ap-
pears that the farmers of the country
paid over $SOO,O00,0O0 in the shrinkage
in the value of their live stock alone
as a part of the price of the election to
the Presidency of Grover Cleveland on
free-trade platform in 1892. Most of
this loss they have made good since
free trade received a knockout blow in
1896 and protection returned to it's own
again. If the farmers have more money
and more prosperity now than they
want and would like to get rid of some
of it, the surest way in the world is to
vote for Bryan and free trade this fall
1t wouldn't take long under Bryan and
free trade for live stock to become of
as little value as it was in the days OF
Cleveland. But il, on the other hand,
the farmers of the country want to
keep what they have and to add to it,
they need to stand by the policy which
gives the American market to the
American people, and which, by bring
ing work and money and prosperity to
the Industrial workers of the country
creates a strong home demand for the
products of the farm.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20

menro and promise of an extra session
of Congress is brandishing a torch to
kindle wars, and offers premium for
the daily assaults in the Philippines
upon American soldiers who are, by
Mr.. Bryan's fatal necessities of futile
policy, presented as the instruments of
ruthless despotism and that we are
warning in the Philippines to change
the way of our republicanism and char
acter of our government and make it
imperialistic. Bryan's extra session, I
believe, promises, if the November cleo
ton approves it, more war and anarchy
after Mr.. Bryan's election, and guerrilla
warfare until that time. The session
to be held by Mr.. Bryan would be an
"open door," not to commerce in the
Orient, but to European intervention in
the Philippines. 1t seems a surprise
that Mr.. Bryan should have risked his
case on a state Of facts in the Philip
pines and did not know what it was.
He has read Pettigrew's Senatorial in
terjections of irrelevancy into the Rec
ord, and has accepted the sinister com
pilation as veritable history.
Mr.. Bryan has broken himself by
that blunder.
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The south,s Political Folly.

The growth of it's textile industries
Of late years makes it necessary for the
South to forget dead issues and look to
the future of it's business interests in
it's politics. The more sensible bust
nesslike politics of the North have al
ready saved the South from severe
losses which it would sustain under
Democratic free silver and free-trade
policies.
But the question for thinking men in
the South is, Can it afford to rely on
the North indefinitely to protect II
against it's own political folly? Isn't it
about time the South exercised some
political judgment itself? How long is
it going to follow blindly in whatever
the Democratic party dictates, IRE.
spective Of it's growing business inter
ests Topeka (Kan.) Capital.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
Invention stimulated.

The mind Of the inventor works bet
ter during times Of Republican pros
perity than it does when hard times are
knocking at the door, and a govern
ment report just issued from Washing
ton shows that during the past year
the cash receipts at the patent office
have been 81, 1858, 22S-a larger sum than
ever before received in one year. The
number of patents issued-26, 540-is
also the largest in the history of the
office. American inventors are doing
much to bring the trade of the world to
our doors, and it is gratifying to see
that their minds are now more active
than ever.-Des Moines Qowa) State
Register.
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Co1orado VIII Come Back.

In 1894 Colorado mined a lot of silver
and only $9,491 ,514 in gold and was
crazy for Bryan and 16 to l. In 1898
she mined gold to the value Of 500, 1885,
300, and will unquestionably come back
to the Republican column, where she
belongs. Colorado has become great
manufacturing State and has no use
for a party which proposes to draw the
fires from her furnaces.-Sa Francisco.
Chronicle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-20
Demagogue and Anarchist.

Mr.. Bryan says the present campaign
Ifs contest between Democracy on the
one hand and plutocracy on the other
This is the talk of a demagogue who is
an anarchist at heart. There are as
many capitalists in the Democratic
party as there are in the Republican,
and as many Republican workingmen
as Democratic.-India Journal
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Young's Standard Work.

s'Protection and Progress" by John
P. Young, is a work just from the press
Of Rand, McNally & Co., New York and
Chicago. The title may suggest an
argument in reply to Henry George, but
the work is not directly controversial in
character and only indirectly touches
on any of Georges themes. It is a
new and valuable study of the economic
basis of the American protective tariff
system by a student whose marked
ability for original Investigations and
luminous discussion Of economic ques-
tions was demonstrated in his work on
'srhe Manufacturing Industries Of
Japan and "Bi-Metallism or Mono
Metallism." This work is of greater
Importance and interest than either of
those. and, indeed, marks distinct adj
vance in the discussion Of the question
of protection versus free trade. A strik-
inc feature is the chapter showing
trusts and monopolies to be the natural
outgrowth of free trade. Equally sue
cessfully in attacking another delusion
the author shows the wretched blunder
of economic theories which persistently
look to the interest Of the consumer
and overlook those of the producer.
Mine Workers Are Neutral.
The United Mine Workers will, as an
organization, maintain an entirely neu-
trail ground. Politics will be eliminated
for the good of the organization, which
is the most powerful labor body in the
world. More than one labor organiza-
ton has been wrecked against political
rocks. We will have no political en-
tanglements of any kind. AS labor
organization we have made our infiu-
ence widely felt; and I believe that the
only way in which we can keep the
respect we now have is in pursuing our
present course.-John Mitchell, Presi-
dent United Mine Workers of America.
Are Not Traitors Now.
saThey are branded as traitors They
shall not come back" So said William
Jennings Bryan at Richmond, Va, in
1896. And how he fawns and cMesses
David Bennett Hill and Arthur F. Cor
man and other traitors who have re-
turned to the fold. Not only that he
encourages Senator Wellington and
John Beatty to their reasonable assist
ance in giving comfort &c the Tagass.
Singular. isn't 1T?
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CHAPTER x.

Like one flying in horrid dream from
imaginary pursuit and unable TO call
Pr help, Mrs. Hope hurried along the
fowded streets.
She entered the house without being
pserved by Miriam. When she found