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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-06-25

Exchange had appeared I" wit
nesses, the short broker with the
bad language was mulcted So aud
costs which we're promptly paid and
charged to profit and loss on mar
gins"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-06-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

We are glad that Mr.. T. Masuda
has stated 'on behalf of the Japan
ese immigration Companies" in
this mornings issue of the P. G. A.
that:
First-There is no quarrel be.
tween the Japanese laborsrs and the
immigration companies.
Second-The immigration com
panies have entered iuto obligations
to the Japanese Government to take
all necessary care of the immigrants
who were brought here by them.
Third-Whatever money may be-
due to the laborers from deposits, is
now deposited in banks in Honolu-
lu and has not been used for invest-
ment or speculation, and will be
paid over to the laborers as it may
become due. Statements are regu-
]arly made to the Japanese Consu-
late of the deposits and the names
of the persons to whom they are due.
Fourth-The gentlemen connect
ed with the companies are not "liv.
ing princely lives from the sweat
and blood of the oppressed"
We hope that Mr.. T. Masuda will
see that the deposits of the, now
free, laborers are paid before July 1.
The "boys" may get impatient and
collect what they claim to be their
due, through our local courts.
Mr.. James X. Kaulia says that he
never said word about tho restor-
alton of the monarchy while on the
stump in the country districts. The
Advertisers special correspondent
who travelled with Mr.. Kaulia says
that the great Gladstonian states
man did talk restoration, and Mr.
r. w. Wilcox, who had to listen to
Kaulia's speeches, makes the same
assertion. There is a discrepancy
somewhere, and we are willing to
believe that Mr.. Kanlia didn't know
what he was talking about, and un-
der such circumstances we think
the Aloha Alma Society should put
him on the retired list and elect a
new president and leader.
While We agree that the Hawai-
ian language is pau as an official
language we cannot help expressing
our surprise that a morning paper
should term it an "uncouth" Ian
guage. Why, lots OF ink has been
used by poets, noyellists, newspaper
writer's and the like, in describing
the Hawaiian language as musica' /,
sweet and melodious, and compar-
ing it to the "rippling OF the brook"
aud the "sad music OF the waves"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-06-25

A special session of the Legisla-
ture would be costly affair, and as
special session cannot be called
for specific purposes, important
matters would be dealt with by men,
selected for office in hurry, and
not prepared to properly express
the views of their constituents. At
the same time there are reasons
why Mr.. Dole should call q special
session. The sufferers from the
Chinatown fire and from the plague
business are calling for speedy sue
cor, but without summopipg an e1-
ira session the territorial govern
ment will be helpless in doing jus
tice to the sufferers. The voters
who go to the ballot box in Novem-
ber will remember that Dole g. Co.
refused to use the power within
their reach for the relief OF those
who were deprived Of homes, busi-
ness, in fact of their very means of
gaining an honest livelihood by Mr..
Dole's Board OF Health.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-06-25

We are not apt to go into hysterics
over the beauties OF the language,
but "uncouth" it is certainly not.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-06-25

view with Mr. w. ~. Smltn In Whlcn
that gentleman gives his main reason
for advocating the holding of spe-
cial election and an extra session OF
theLegislature. We all smile of course
when the Advertiser says that Mr..
w. o. Smith is one of "the most
capable and far.seeing statesmen in
the Islands" Had he been that we
would not have been in the horrible
mess he and his associates have
landed US in. Had he been far. seeing
he and friends would not feel so dis
satisfied and disgusted as they do
to-day, when they see their political
power gone, their financial interests
threatened and the labor difficulties
worse than ever before. Mr.. Smith
said the other day that his main OBJ.
ject in advocating special meeting
of the Legislature was to have the
China town matter settled and
claims in connection with the plague
FIRE adjusted. When we now read
between the lines of his interview
we see plainly that his main object
is to have a special session in which
he hopes the Hawaiians will make
fools of themself, SO that he and his
friends can go before the short ses-
sion of Congress which meets in
December, and say: "We told you
SO; amend the territorial act by dis
franchising the Hawaiians or at least
put back the electoral qualification
clause in regard to payment OF per-
so1al taxes" The game will hardly
work because Congress il it should
care to hear the word Hawaii men,
toned for the next five years, will
listen simply to the official delegate
who will represent the territory and
the people of Hawaii. And that
delegate will not be OF Mr.. w. o.
Smiths political complexion.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-06-25

The u. S. A. T. Thomas brought
the information that California had
been quarantined on account OF
the plague. The newspapers of
that city courageously fought
against the statement that they had
the plague while the papers OF Ho.
nolulu, except The INDEPENDENT,
tried to disgrace this city and piled
up expenses.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05

bars. channels and beams. pipe and other
100 pounds, or $4.OS per gross ton. Billets
are sent to the same place for $3.50 per
gross ton, and pig iron for $3.50 per gross
ton. The manufacturers have demanded
that the rates be reduced to or 10 cents
per 100 pounds on finished material, and
that the rate on billets, considered the base
for raw material, be made 81 a gross ton.
They believe that with SUCH concessions
they can conquer the export trade of the
world and keep the mills of Pittsburg busy
and prosperous.
"Pittsburg manufacturers control that
they are offered large orders for steel for
export that they are unable to figure on
because of the excessive rates to the At
lantic coast. They claim that freight rates
on steel are higher now than they were 20
years ago when steel was selling for four
times what it is now. They protest that
in the meantime railroads have been reduc-
ing the cost of operation enormously-that
while they have reduced the average freight
rates the charges to Pittsburg are higher
than they were a score of years ago. The
manufacturers therefore argue, with the
weight of evidence on their side, that Pitts
burg is being unjustly Disseminated
against"
A meeting of railroad freight men is to
be held in New York today, but Pittsburg
is not hopeful. It prefers to urge the build
ing of new lines or canal or both.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
HOW RUSSIA WINS

From the Philadelphia Press.
In half a century Russia has acquired
by various steps about 100000 square miles
from China, ending with the present pos
session of Manchuria, and in this period
Russia is the only country which has, up
to this year, never fired shot on Chinese
soil England. France and Japan have
made war, clumsy step followed by no
serious acquisition of territory by any one
of them. Russia has never made war.
Russia, instead, has peacefully "ab-
sorbed," and entire provinces, kingdoms in
area, have been shifted from one side of
the Russo Chinese boundary line to the
other, with the amicable consent of man
darins on whom Russia has always known
how to bring the joint pressure of corrup-
ton and fear.
After this peaceful and profitable ex-
perience for two generations why should
Russia abandon this prosperous practice
and begin warp The Asiatic department
of the Russian foreign office is far more
likely to appear as the defender of the
Chinese empire and the protector of it's
fugitive government.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
PAVING Fifth Avenue.

Tonight before the City Council the sub
ject of paving a section of Fifth avenue
will come up, and some of the residents
of this much used street hope favorable
action will be had thereon. This street is
free from trolley tracks and other him
ORANGES to driving, and its cherted extern
sions cover the easterly half of the coun-
ty.
There is much heavy hauling done on
this street because of the brickyards and
factories in East Birmingham, and in wet
weather the heavy loads overtax the bear
ing capacity of the street. In dry weather
they render the dust uncomfortably thick
except in a good pavement, either of brick
or asphalt.
The question is not one SO much of gen.
eral public utility as it is one OF desire on
the part of residents in the street who are
willing to pay for the proposed improve
ment If a majority of the lot owners de-
sire a paved street they should have it,
because they alone will be taxed for it.
AS General Hancock said in another case,
the paving of a street is a local matter,
When residents desire to improve the city
by paying for a section of pavement it is
difficult to see why they should not be per-
mitted to have their own way.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
School Histories of the War Period.

Several well-meaning people are Distress
ing themselves unnecessarily over the his
tories used in the public schools of the two
great sections of the eastern half of the
country. Such distress is wholly uncalled
for Time will cure all that needs to be
cured, and there is no occasion for worry
over either the books that uphold the Lost
Cause or the books that denounce it. The
children will readily see the truth as they
grow to manhood or womanhood, and any
agitation of the subject at present is Who'll
ly Improbable.
Tho country is becoming more and more
unified, and in forty years more all the
scars OF gigantic civil war will be healed.
There is no healer SO good and benefoently
happy as Time, and there never was a
question that more properly belonged to
Time than this same school book issue.
Leave it where it belongs. Entrust it to
Father Time. who will see that it is prop
erly determined. The demagogues and
eruptionists of the hour are not to be
trusted with 1t. 1t goes very deeply, touch
ing memories and tender thoughts that
rude passersby know not of. Let it alone
Time Is the true arbiter and adjuster of
subjects that are embedded in honest
hearts
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
heaith Goes With Sanitation.

The gulf and South Atlantic States are
enjoying September days without once
thinking that they are escaping another
visitation of yellow fever These states
are not wholly out of the woods as yet,
but they are so nearly out that a little
Growing will be pardoned.
The story of Memphis should be printed
everywhere in the gulf and Mississippi val
ley states. In 1878 that city suffered Sc
verely from an epidemic of the dread dis
ease. 1t had then no sewers, and it's
water supply was deficient. The lamented
Colonel Warning was induced to come to
best sort were put in, water was sent into
the city in floods of purity, cleanliness of
every sort was inculcated, and the city has
been free from epidemics ever since. Babies
prosper as well in Memphis now as in any
other city in the land.
New Orleans and Jacksonville and Gal
weston and Mobile and a number of lesser
towns are following in Memphis footsteps,
and the closer they keep to the Memphis
line the better and safer their condition
will be. Every other town of 1000 inhabi-
tants or upward should do likewise I'M
drained towns that depend upon wells for
a water supply need not expect freedom
from disease and epidemics in this latitude.
Safety is to be found in sanitation, and it
is not to be found in any other direction
or method Cases of dangerous disease
will appear where unclean streets, I'M
drained soil, filth and impure water are
barbored, and they will not appear and
spread where opposite conditions are MAIN
tanned. Memphis is a standing object les
son to all towns that desire health and
the uninterrupted prosperity that attends
health.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
Coal for All the World.

The export coal outlook is very promis-
ing; but actual accomplishments are bet
ter than outlooks. The exports of coal
during the last seven months of the last
fiscal year were so per cent in excess OF
the exports of the corresponding months
of the previous year, and double those Of
the year before. In the seven months end
ing with June, 1898, the exports of coal
were 2,s7545 tons; in the like months of
1899 they were 3,OO60S2 tons, and in the like
months of 1900 they were 4601,755 tons.
While this growth is perceptible in the
exports to all parts of the world, it is es-
pecially marked with reference to the
American countries. To British North
America the exports of 1898 were 1,7S,99S
tons and in exports of 1900 were S,25SSOS
tons. To Mexico in 1925. 24S,93S TONS in
1900 415.834 tons. To Cuba the exports
have more than doubled. In 1898 they were
,655 tons and in 1900 LIP tons, while to
Porto Rico they increased from 2,62i tons
in 1895 to 15,313 tons in 1900. To the Ha-
waiian Islands the exports of 1899 were TO-
1881 and in 1900 21O0l tons, thus more than
doubling in a single year. To the Philip
pine Islands the exports of 1898 were 4,Sl0
tons, while in 1900 they were f,O6S tons.
These are handsome beginnings near at
home, and When all the rest of the world
wants our coal, an almost illimitable
field will be opened to American industry.
When comparatively small stock in Eng
land carries steam coal up to $3.50, it is
plain a wonderful opportunity is offered to
American coal. There is not an European
country that is not anxious to secure a
better coal supply. Germany is willing to
exclude American meats, but she would
welcome American coal.
The widest dreams of the value of Ala
bama coal will be fully met in the next
twenty-five years, and the present activity
of our mines is but prelude of what is to
come. Much remains to be DONE The
Warrior river must be opened and the
Nicaragua canal built; but the State that
has an abundant supply OF excellent steam
coal nearest the sea need not entertain
doubts OF the results of reasonable period
of time. 1t is not too much to say that
coal lands which now go begging will
bring twenty-five years hence at least
Pennsylvania prices.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
oBLIGING ALABAMA LANDLORD
When Rats Disturbed His Guests He Turned
the Ferrets Loose

From the Washington Post.
Recently l had an experience with rats
that l will not soon forget" said d. b.
Purks of Fredericksburg, Va.
1T happened in this way: l was travel
ing through Alabama, and, landing in
small town, worn out after days over
land travel in broken-down buggy,
sought the only tavern the town boasted.
Afer 1 had been in bed about fifteen min
utes 1 was startled to hear strange and
curious notes.-the most unnatural sound 1
had ever heard. immediately proceeded
to investigate the cause of this midnight
disturbance, and lit the candle, the only
illumnant procurable, and to my surprise
beheld ten of the largest rats, in my opin-
ion, ever seen. They ranged in size from
an average squirrel to an ordinary dog.
Not the least fear was manifested by these
rats They deliberately surveyed me and
continued the work of eating my shoes.
Zone large fellow, evidently master of
ceremonies, was bold enough to attempt
to bite me. This affront was more than
1 could stand Jumping back into bed
screamed for the landlord, who, after
being awakened from drunken sleep,
slowly shuffled up to this chamber of hor-
rors, dignified as a room, and contemptu-
ously inquired the cause of the racket.
After stating the nature of the trouble he
allowed he would settle it in short order,
and in about ten minutes rats poured in
to the room in droves to the number of
about one hundred and fifty. all sizes and
conditions, large and small, lean and fat,
all squeaking and apparently frightened.
1 thought something unusual must have
TRANSFERRED when my suspicious were con-
firmed by the arrival OF several ferrets,
whose eyes sparkled with glee at the
slaughter they proceeded to institute.
LAS soon as 1 collected myself after the
execution FASTENED out of the room and
made myself as comfortable as possible in
a chair, waiting for day to break, that
could shake the town. Although 1 made
my escape in carpet slippers. it was one of
the happiest incidents of my life. The
landlord evidently thought nothing of the
occurrence. He said it happened very
often, and he always kept a supply of
ferrets to clean the rats out when they
became unmanageabl and too annoying to
his guests"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
DO YOUR REST
DO 1OUR REST
BY Rev. George H. Hepworth in New York
Herald

By Rev. George H. Hepworth in New York
Herald.
We ought to recognize the fact that all
work is honorable, that man is a high
priest of God, in wheatever sphere he Ia
boris. No one is condemned to drudgery,
and in its largest sense there is no such
thing as drudgery. Who does his work
grandy, and does 1t with his soul as well
as his hands, is making the world better
by living in it. 1t is nobler to lay bricks
according to the plumb line than to rule
a kingdom badly. The distinction between
one man and another is not to be found
in social position or the environment of
wealth and power but in the qualities of
the heart. The humblest creature that
ever lived, whose horizon is bounded by
poverty and obscurity, has a wider pros
pect for the future if the soul is conse-
Grated, than crowned selfishness, though
all mankind may look upon it with envy.
The artisan, the merchant the one with
slender means, the other with means be-
yond the reach of arithmetic, are equally
servants of the Most High, and there is
more eloquence in their daily deeds than
ever poured from the lips of the orator.
To feel that the work you are now doing
is Gods work. and must be done with
fervor and fidelity, is to stand facing the
throne of the Eternal and to wear the
robe of authority.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Crows are wise birds-they never DO
things without caws. sf
Your neighbor is any one for whom yez
can do a good turn.
When a criminal lcses his shadow the de-
tective is apt to be puzzled
A dark cloud. financially speaking, Is one
that has no silver lining.
Five of Americas kings-Jo-king, smo-
king, drinking, thinking and talking.
Tell your secret to your servant and you
promote him to the position of master.
The way to rid a tree of its bark Is to
skin it. This is also applicable to dogs.
has time for sober reflection the next morn
ing.
Fame is like a duck in mudpuddle--
easy enough to see, but hard to get hold
of.
A woman who probably speaks from ex
perience says a husband who can be led
isn't worth leading.
Return good for evil. If your enemy heaps
Goals of fire on your head, pile chunks Of
ice on his.
Although the average girl has horror of
robbers, it's ten to one she isn't averse to
having kiss stolen occasionally.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
SEPTEMBER IN TENNESSEE

Walter Malone in the Criterion.
The sad September comes, with asters in
her auburn hair,
Her lovely face TRANSPORTED with gentle
touch of care,
With pale blue morning glories, paler than
her pale blue eyes,
And pearly hillside hazes, DINNER than her
dreamy skies.
She comes with cataracts of amber honey
suckles sweet,
With golden-rods that powder all her gar
ments and her feet,
With flumming-birds for heralds, all be-
decked in starry scales,
With glow of jeweled armor. FURNISHED
threats and twinkling tails.
Amid her forest depths, like whlte-limber
giants in the land,
The clean athletic sycamores in lordly gran
deur stand;
The fragrant sweet-gum overhows with aro-
matte drops,
And odorous sasSafras perfumes the bram-
ble-tangled copse.
Pecans on bending branches hang their
wealth of russell nuts.
And chinquepins and hazes ripen by the
negro huts;
The brown buckeyes are swelling, purple
wild grapes bending low,
And sumac berries by the fence like blood
red torches glow
But now the year has lost the gladness of
her girlhood time,
And prose of homely autumn follows spring
and summer rhyme;
Deserted by the song BIRDS hang her mel
ancholy bowers,
And like a cobweb curtain her deathly-pale
moon-fowers. s..
The lonesome cat-tails culver by the
marsh's dreary wave,
And nightshade sprays are rising by the
proud peonys grave,
Beneath the summer blossoms that. have
withered into brown,
Our bygone summer blisses In the dust
are trampled down.
A smothered Desdemna, here the lily hangs
her head,
The iron-week, huge Othello. Sowing by
her bed.
And, like a ghostly Romeo, calls lone.
some whippoorwill
To some forgotten Juliet in her grave on
yonder hill.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
From Furnaces to the Sea.

Pittsburg is agitated from center to cir
conference and back again. When wheat
is carried from Chicago to New York at 10
cents for 100 pounds, Pittsburg wants to
know why its finished steel must pay IS
cents for 100 pounds to the same port, al
though the distance is not one-half as
much. When Pittsburg considers this prob
lem 1t gets SO mad it desires to build at
once a canal to Lake Erie, a rail line to
Nsw York, and also rail line to Norfolk.
And why to Norfolk? The Pittsburg Dis
patch answers the interesting question by
stating that it Is necessary to have cotton
shipments in order to keep ocean rates on
steel down. In other words, Pittsburg wants
to get In on the ground floor or Birming-
ham plan.
THE exporting manufacturers of Pitts
burg" says the Pittsburg Dispatch, FIRST
made their appeal to the railroads about
six months ago. So far no response sugges-
tive OF any action has been made. The
manufacturers assert that Alabama, which
ia on the seaboard and Is fostered and en-
couraged by southern railroads, is fast leap
Ing into the place held by Plttsburg, and
that lake cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleve-
land and Buffalo are given such an advan-
tsge that iron and steel may be carried
past the Iron City to markets abroad, while
the steel-makers here are helpless to pro-
:ect themselves.
''The freight rate on iron and steel ar
ucles or finished material. such as plates.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
IT'S THE BUSY MAN VINO DOES Things

BY Ebert Hubbard.
If you want piece of work we'll and
thoroughly done, pick a busy man. The
man of leisure postpones and procrasti-
mates, and is ever making preparations and
getting things in shape but to focus on
a thing and do it is the talent of the man
seemingly overwhelmed with work. Women
in point lace and diamonds, club habitues
and remittance men''--those with all the
time there is, can never be trusted to carry
the message to Gomez.
Pin your faith to the busy person.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05
Bankrupts Accounts

London, Sept. 4-The examination of
Baron Sudely in the bankruptcy court today
showed liabilities amounting to f79,6SO am
assets of ego. Baron Sudely became bank
rupt in 1898 with liabilities reaching $780,
273. His creditors then received a dividend
of 10 pence on the pound.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05

If Uncle Sam has got to feed the world
and coal it, and supply the nations with
money, he will have his hands full. And
that seems to be about the size of his pros
pective job.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05

Timothy L. Woodruff will accept a re-
nomination for Lie, tenant G. fernor of
New York He aimed his gun higher, but
he does not propose to despise what is
within reach.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05

Warrior Waldersee may meet at sea the
returning forces of the Americans, but not
of the Russians, for they have business to
attend to in Manchuria.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-05

General Otis will not have to strain his
intellect in Chicago in devising optimistic
dispatches that are foundationless.