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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

Mr.. Mott Smith may as we'll con-
tend that the Office desk presented
to the late Marshal Hitchcock by
admiring citizens should become
the property Of the Police Depa TT
ment, because it was in his official
capacity that he was honored with
the handsome gift. Captain Parker
must, under the ministerial ruling,
consider his diamond.studded star
public property, because it was
given to him in his official capacity.
A purse was recently presented to
DIR. Wood, the patriot who created
and killed the plague, and as the
purse was presented TO the doctor
in his official capacity as president
OF the Board OF Health, we presume
that he is expected to turn the mo-
ney into the public treasury.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

1t may be true that the swords
and other souvenirs presented to
Kalakaua would not have been given
to him if he we're not the King of
Hawaii, but it is an undisputable
fact that these souvenirs were pre-
sented to Kalakaus aud not to SOW
ereign OF "a country unknown to the
donors.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

While the majority OF the people
in Hawaii take the appointment Of
Dole and Cooper with very bad
grace, the proposed re.appointments
of Ost and Stackable, respectively
as Postmaster and Collector OF Gus.
toms have been hailed with general
satisfaction. Both gentlemen uu.
derstand their business aud with
more liberal appropriations now at
their disposition they will make the
services ideal in every sense OF the
word.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

Judge Stanley seems inclined to
follow in the footsteps OF the nolle
prosecuting deputy attorney gen.
eral by reversing the verdicts of
Judge Wilcox or at least reducing
the fines of those who have been
found guilty in the District Court
and appealed for mitigation OF their
punishment tn the Circuit Court.
We have an idea that the public en-
dorses Judge Wilcox's manner of do
ing the business in the District
Court. The "higher" officials are
evidently jealous of the popularity
OF judge Wilcox and endeavor to
"sit" on him.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

The reports from South Africa in
dicate that within a few weeks we
will learn OF the relief OF Msfeking,
aud that Baden, Powell has entered
upon beef diet, and given up por-
ridge; and two months from now
We will hear Of the fall of Pretoria
aud the end of the war. Mr.. Nc.
Kinley will be placed in a very
awkward position when the Boer de-
legates arrive at Washington. That
the majority of the American voters
sympathizs with the Beers is we'll
known, and that Mckinley cannot
do anything TO emb,oil his country
with Great Britain is a sure thing.
His political enemies will do the
most in their power to demonstrate
his "cowardice" in the South Airic-
an question, and that the pro. Beers
will shout with them goes without
saying, The note fro u the Europe.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

THE REDUCTION will
be 33 1-3 percent. Our as.
sortment is very complete.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

WE WILL have a epe-
cial sale for the next thirty
days, commencing April
2Sth.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

PLATEWARE will be
also sold at special reduced
prices.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

STERLING SILVER
from the factories OF Reed
& Barton and Whiting
Mfg. Co.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-05-18

RICH CUT GLASS, for
the next thirty days at a
25 percent reduction.
The age-herald., 1900-06-10
An American Novel Wanted.

There is complaint that the typical American does not appear in literature that the American novel remains to be written. The complaint Is well founded. There is no reason why the typical Ameri- can should not appear in litera ture-the American with deep sense of humor, who is as patriotic as he is unconventional. Such an American is common to all of the states. If one be compelled to select a representative American, who better fills the bill than Abraham Lincoln, southern born and western bred, serving at last in the effete east?
 It is idle to say that breadth of territory and numerous dialects and local circum- stances forbid. There is not a word of truth in these excuses. The dialects of the country are far less differentiated than those of little England itself or of almost any other country that can be named. Immigration has not swamped the typical American and never will, and the vastness of the country only serves to make the American more typical.
 The trouble Is not that he does not ex- ist but the trouble is that American writers do not understand him, or at any rate have not had the genius to embody him in poetry or fiction. He stands neg
The age-herald., 1900-06-10
-Hr ONLY DAILY HEWspApEa IN ALABAMA
Return the Confederate Flags.

A display of flags captured in civil war is perhaps as distressing a sight one could well imagine; and it is to the credit of this country that the flags taken in the ups and downs of four years of civil strife should be hidden away in an attic in Wash ington No one north or south, wants to see them while they remain in Washington.
 The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization in the north similar to that of the Confed- crate Veterans in the south, will be held in Chicago, and the Times-Herald of that city urges it to start movement look ing to a return of the emblems Congress alone can do this. "The country" says the Times Herald, Hong since entered upon an era of eternal peace with itself. Some of federals and confederates have fought side by side against a foreign enemy. They are even now engaged together in putting down an insurrection in a new and distant pos session. Overwhelming tendencies which are in evidence everywhere prove that there is no need to display to retain the ordi- nary tokens of triumph among warning tions. It could do possible good, because the deeper meaning of the flags is expressed thousandfold in the new evolution of the country
 'The union soldiers have their grandest monument in the United States of America, to which all other memorials are as noth- ing, and we may truly say that the return of the flags would rather help than retard the perfect completion of that monument It would be good politics, good patriotism, good morals. No ceremony would be more appropriate and inspiring at the coming encampment of the Grand Army of the Re- public in this city,"
The age-herald., 1900-06-10

leeted. He does not even appear in the studies Of southern novelists. who are especially active, and who number, ac- cording to Professor Benjamin w. Wells of the University of the South, twenty four of acknowledged popularity. But Professor Wells sees in the twenty-four no promise of a typical American novel, T see," he says, mo writer of the first rank among those who have spoken or among those who have been silent during the year." referring to southern writers. But if the south had none of the first rank during the year, then certainly the rest of the country had none and the hope of a novel that will present genuine, live and wholly American types is faint and distant indeed.
The age-herald., 1900-06-10

Russia is apparently behind the boxer" movement in China. Russian diplomats have for five years past realized that the dismemberment of the great Chinese em- Dire is only a matter of time. They took advantage of the Chinese-Japanese war and acquired control of Corea and of practically all of Manchuria, or Northern China. It Is now their purpose to secure control of everything on the north and west of the Yellow sea, taking in Tien-Tsin and Pekln, and going down to the English and Ger man possessions at We-Hai-Wei, and Kiaou Chou, respectively. Such acquire ments of territory would place Russia in position, by virtue of her trans-continental railroad, to control the great mass of trade of North China, and in such naval position as to have no fears of the ambitions of the Japanese government.
 The great masses of the people of China have preferred to live to themselves. They have vigorously opposed the entrance of foreigners into their territory. They have fought against the coming of missionaries particularly They as a rule peace able people, however. Their civilization has grown beyond the warlike period. They have few arms and they know little of the use of them. This was demonstrated in the war with Japan. A Japanese army of only 2G,000 men, under Field Marshal Va magata landed in Corea, marched through Northern China and practically captured a nation of 400, G00 900 people. Then 1t was that Russia interfered and took the territory which Japan had conquered but was unable to hold against such a powerful nation as Russia.
 The Russians have encouraged the 'boxer' movement to bring about inter- ference on the part of the great powers of the world, which Russia believes will lead to the dismemberment of China and to her requirement of that territory which she desires Russia has brought about the movement at this time because of the fact that her diplomats believe England can make no material resistance while engaged in the war in South Africa No effort on the part of the Chinese government is ap- parently being made to suppress the boxer movement. China has practically no army, and her navy amounts to noth- ing. The government is all confusion, cor ruption and decay. English statesmen have attempted to save the Chinese gov ernment by means of internal reforms, but they have had to give it up as a hopeless task. The government which exists is cor rupt. The officials are intent upon black mail and careless of public interests. Thus, in the movement at present. the Chinese government amounts to nothing.
 All of the great nations of Europe, as well as Japan and the United States, have naval vessels at various Chinese ports to protect their interests. Marines and troops have landed at Taku and have been sent to Tien Tsin and Pekin. They are armed with rapid fire guns and modern rifles, while the Chinese "boXers, and even the Chinese troops have nothing but obsolete equipment. Every one of the European powers is intent upon claiming territory when the dismemberment of. the empire comes about The United States will de- mand an "open door, policy. Japan is n- tent upon claiming territory which Russia
The age-herald., 1900-06-10
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.
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part; they are not looking for notes in the eyes of others nor do they hobble along a weary way on the crooked crutches of the unco' gud They are unable to perceive that cup of good cheer means deep damnation in mans taking off, For them the running brooks are happy books, there are sermons in stones, good in every thing. Such as these make up the great multitude of this world praise God. And such men and women run counter to and offend the gentle virtues seem to have been placed here in the mercifulness of the Master to illustrate by contrast the great goodness and sweetness and beauty and light of the world
 Denial was given to every unjust, un- righteous, unholy, unloving doubt or ques- tion or fancy by little child at play on green grass in the sunset hour of happy yesterday. She was the joyous figure in scene that must have pleased heaven. Bare footed, bareheaded, laughing and shouting, knee-deep in June, she might have been the princess elf from elfland. She was jumping rope that seemed to be made of little white flowers, and until the little white feet broke it, she romped over it and on it and under it in the rolicking abandon of child hoods superlative happiness; and even when the frail rope of flowers parted she laughed joyously. Her curling hair was nimbus golden, and her round white face, flushed with softest pink, as her chubby white feet were, was as the face of cherub dreamed of in happy hour of medi- tation. She was living sonnet of white and pink and gold, and the harmony of her glee sounded holy call to life and hope and virtue. There is not, there cannot be, anything in this life more exquisitely, pure- ly, tenderly beautiful than the white little saint Elizabeth jumping the white rope upon the green grass in the suset hour of that happy yesterday.
 She is noble lesson to every life given of God to live and love and be strong!
 THE MURMURER. |
The age-herald., 1900-06-10

tai sin crying to heaven for vengeance, and in the polite world it is regarded as being vulgar a sort of rudeness not altogether eXcusable. Yet the lack of courtesy has put something very like murder in millions of honest hearts. Courtesy even in it's flimsiest fashion, is so closely akin to sincerity and the real spirit of truth that it becomes an attribute of the highest char acter. No spirit is ever entirely truthful that can be wantonly uncvil or discourt- eous. White" lies in the garb of civility and courtesy are as white-robed angels walking the haunts of men and women Good fellowship is commended of the su- preme law of all life, and it is but another name for civility and courtesy. Were it not for these things all the world would go to the devil. Much of it is already gone thither, because the saving virtue of good fellowship was lacking. The swaggering bully, courageous from the dramshop or his women, and the boor in evening dress, rude from rude breeding and foul spirit, are alike the personal representatives of the Evil One and emigration agents for perdi- ton. They are brothers of Knowall, Self righteous, and Holier-Than-Thou three
  heaven with villainies! Courtesy is manda- tory, and no civilized man has a moral right to deny it. Truth when it descends to rudeness and needlessly wounds may be positively wicked. Real courtesy, ignoring the base form of vulgar fact, is actual sin cerity, and is therefore of the essence of , truth. Yet vugarity faunts itself in public places, and even in houses dedicated to di- vine service it is said to lift its hideous figure. This hearsay would indicate dis courtesy and incivility in its most mon- strous guise.
 The men and women of yesterday were the prophets of themselves as they are to- day, and today they are the prophets of themselves as they shall be tomorrow
 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;
 And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
 We live our own personal history, and each of us is an open book to be read of all the others. Deception, dissembling, false claims to virtues-all falsehood that is hurtful carries its own refutation. Sir Oracle may cause dogs to cease to bark, but ne makes men to laugh or sneer In his highest flight of wisdom and self-glori- fication we know that the garment of his morality is patched and has lost button or two. Beauty may babble of love and babies. but if she have teeth of vixen she will show them inevitably. It was writ of old and was true, and it is true now So also with the honest-hearted, the virtuous, the gentle, the meek, the unpretentious. By their walk day after day are they known, and for their virtues are they loved. They are not seeking the reforma- ton of the human race in whole or in
The age-herald., 1900-06-10
Foreiqn Intervention in China.

The situation in China is full of possibili- ties, grave, critical and of worldwide im- portance One hundred thousand fanatical boxers menace both Pekin and its port, Tien Tsin. They are not well armed. They are not armed at all in the European thousand men from the battleshps of the powers may be able to withstand the swarming mob.
 The empress dowager is either impotent, or else is in sympathy with the fanatics that dominate the land. It is essentially an ant-foreign rebellion, representing an intense but natural public sentiment What or who shall stay the popular tide? The world does not present today more ser1- ous or difficult question. All the powers are to some extent on the spot, including the United States and Japan, and not one of them is willing to trust the other. All distrust Russia except France, which as an ally would share in the spells. England is alike dstrusted by Russia and France if not by Germany How, then, shall peace be restored? How shall the statue quo with its open door be preserved? The answer is not forthcoming.
 Remember, first of all, that there is noth- ing unnatural in the present popular move ment in China. It is Chinese patriotism resenting foreign interference in Chinese affairs. Whether or no it was famed into flames by Russian intrigue, or whether or no the dowager empress is secretly in league with Russia will perhaps never be known: but this much is known, felt and determined upon-Russia shall not be per- mitted to utilize the situation 10 her own exclusive aggrandizment If China is to to get more than proper share.
 There is nothing sadder in the world than this intrusion of the powers upon 100000, 900 of happy, contented persons, when not one of them could carry equal happiness to such a vast population. The eyes of the world are upon the distacted country-a
 
 man of the east in the one respect of arm ed power. Otherwise the Chinese people are safe and content.
 If Secretary Hay can preserve the lives and property of Americans from destruc- ton, and if he can also retain the open door he has bragged over, he will indeed do well. But the retention of the open door means united China in which all can trade and this can be secured only through concerted action, probably more against Russia than against the boxers However the two may be one and the same thing. The entire situation is fearsome, full of intrigue and nervous tension. Each day will bring it's developments, and in Chinese affairs certainly sufficient for the day is the evil thereof
The age-herald., 1900-06-10
AUTOGRAPH WEDDING INVITATION

From the New York Evening Sun.
 Several wedding invitations this spring instead of being engraved, as we are Esed to seeing them, have every word in manu- script and written by the bride herself. This is not true, of course, of very large ceremonious affairs: but where the mar riage takes place at the brides home and where in all respects the balance of good taste, rather than pomp and circumstance, is preserved, the autograph invitation, though in the formal third person, seems to be the thing. The autograph invitation looks as if this standard were becoming more general--eYen fashionable.
The age-herald., 1900-06-10

is after, and the best posted English and American diplomats are of the opinion that the present situation can result in nothing less than a war between Japan and Russia. Japan expects the aid of England. Russia, on the other hand, is working to the end of securing the desired territory without a war Russian diplomats are trained and shrewd They, however, &C., quired their present territory without war fare. They hope to acquire the additional desired territory without resort to arms. Yet they are making tremendous show of force and are prepared to fight for it, if necessary. Indeed, Russia has amassed great army of troops at Port Arthur and a fleet of twenty or thirty armored cruisers and battle ships in the Yellow sea, pre- pared for any emergency. Russia is deter an outlet and feeder for her Siberian rail- road, which is now nearly complete from St. Petersburg to Port Arthur.
 In the meantime, the traders and mission aries of all the interior of China are fleeing to the coast for protection. Many of them have already been massacred and probably many more will meet with the same fate.
 
 With all their boasted civilization the Chinese are among the most brutal of human creatures. When the Japanese naval vessels were storming the forts at Wei-Hai-Wei, batterng them down, and
 4, h nea troops by the hundreds, numbers of them deserted, leaving the forts and going to- ward Chefoo several miles distant. The first deserters who entered the citys gates were captured and ordered beheaded by the Tao-Tai of Chefoo They were be- headed and their heads hung by their queues across the top of the gate of the city. The next batch of deserters who came a short while afterwards met with the same fate, until forty or fifty heads were hanging by their queues to the top and about the sides of the citys gates. When other deserters came they were captured and beheaded and their heads strung along the roadside for a hundred feet or more so that others who came had to walk through an aisle bordered by sev-
  courtmartial nor trial. The Tao-Tai's or ders are supreme.
 In China man who is sentenced to death may hire a substitute; which is of ten done. The punishment by death for ordinary crime is simply performed. A prisoner is required to kneel. An assistant eXecutoner catches his quene and pulls his head out straight A swordsman then chops his head off. Another and common method of inflicting death in China is by putting the condemned one in an ordinary strong wooden box, just large enough for him to be packed into in a crouching posi- tion. The box is then put in a public place, where it is allowed to remain until the prisoner suffers death by starvation. To any one who gives him food or water the punishment is death. For ordinary crimes of theft and the like whipping, hanging by the thumbs and other horrible punishments are resorted to. One of the most brutal is to kneel a prisoner on chains and then place a bar of wood across the calves of his legs, on which two men see-saw until the chains have worked