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scarcity Of Platinum.
From the Western Electrician.

Platinum Is now quoted at about $50 an
ounce. about twice the quotation OF gold.
while five years ago 1t sold az low OF 50 an
ounce. Since the flooding OF the platinum
mines In the Transvaal. which occurred
after the breaking out OF the Boer war.
manufacturers havsshad to rely on siberia
for their supply OF the valuable metal.
Some little hope was. held out that plati-
mum would be found IN Alaska and other
northern mining countries. but no such
discoveries have been made. 11Atinum =
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Developing OdOr In Flowers.
rom the BOSTON Transcript


Accounts from St. Louis inform us that
an enthusiastic lover Of flowers has sue
ceeded in breeding an odoriferous race OF
tulips, and that he is now engaged In ex-
periments with the chrysanthemum, to
which he expects eventually to impart the
fragrance of the rose We can only say.
in reply to an inquiry, that nothing has
come to hand throwing any light on these
related successes and experiments. From q
theoretical point Of view 1t seems impos-
sible. Odor comes from the excretion Of
minute particles Of oil. To change the odor
the character Of the oil would havc to be
altered. When this can be done by the cul-
tivator we may expect turpentine from the
sugar cane and get the fragrance Of the
violet from ailantus flowers
An odoriferous race Of tulips Is not as
tonishing, for tulips have themselves de-
veloped scent. Tulipa sylvestris, common
In the south of France. and thought by
many botanists to be only Wild variety Of
Gesneriana, from which our many culti-
waited tulips have sprung. In very pleasant
ly fragrant. The truth is that man can
only take advantage Of some tendency that
nature has first originated. He cannot de-
velop new organs Of secretion. and In the
matter of color he can only ring the
changes on those colors which the flower
he experiments with has passed through I'm
the scale from primitive yellow to aesthetic
blue.
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A Chicago professor Il lecturing on How
to Lie When Sleeping" The politicians
are much interested. In the heat Of a cam
Pa,sn nu nuc III .H ,,aisaa ,ts Deen los. because
The effects Of the learned professors dis
covery upon the next campaign are await
ed with interest.-Nebraska City Conserve
tive.
A local schoolboy. his examiner tells me,
In an exercise letter the other day com.
menced his epistle with Dear Tommy, we
was glad to receive your welcome lettsr
telling about the sudden death OF your dear
father. "-0lasgow Evening Times.
THE doctor says must go away for .
change OF climate" said Mn Dukane. ''lf
that's all you need" replied Mr.. Dulkane,
stay right here. and the change Of climate
VIII come TO you"-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Telegraph
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She calls herself Cathryn Mae.
And yet there are gOssips who sac
Catherine -Mary.s her name.
I'm SUPPORTING whych claym
They ynsySk abe was chrystened that ,
Phlladelphda Pre-
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THE LIBRARY OF USEFUL SToRIESTHN
STORY OF KING ALFRED. By Walter Bes-
ant. New York. D. Appleton & Company.
WOMAN ALONE; a Novel. By Mrs. W. K.
New York: d. Appleton Company.
CASTING OF NETS; Novel. By Richard Bagot
author Of "a Roman Mystery" etc. New York:
John Lane.
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Hotel Shenandoah.

In mts. Beautiful scenery. fine shade trees. mag
nifcent piazzas. dancing pavilion; music; cool
nights; mineral water. Good table Mod. rates.
Carriage meets all trains. Write for booklet
y. w. L ROACH. Prop. Harpers Ferry. w. Ys.
1el4-b2t.S
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Painting and Playing.

At the same time bound-foot women may
be seen toiling in the fields carrying heavy
burdens-poor oppressed drudges, who fire.
quently end their lives by opium. or leaping
into the wells.
The binding process begins at the age Of
six or seven; the heel is drawn forward,
the toes turned under protruding at the
outer edge Of the sole, so that the victim
walks, at length, upon the great toe and
the back Of the heel. The feet occasionally
mortify and drop off in the process. and IL
this does not happen they become deadened
and benumbed. lifelong source Of suffer-
ing.
Prior to the Boxer outbreak Mrs Archi-
bald Little. the author Of Intimate
China" who resides at Changking in
Szchuen. founded society for the aboli-
tion Of foot binding. 1t had spread rapidly
throughout the empire, and several infiu-
entail mandarins had lent 1t their support.
Ii Hung Chang, who stated that his
mother had unbound her feet subscribed
800 with the characteristic remark that
"he would give as much more IL Mrs Lit
tie would induce the foreign ladies' to un-
bind their Waists!'
The Chinese have profound faith In west
ern physicians, and this had been taken
advantage OF the physicians addressing
large audiences OF men upon the effects az
the custom of manning the mothers and
undermining their health and strength. A.
1t reacted upon the race.
The MotheF-in-Law Rules.
Marriage ID wholly problematIcal. being
arranged by the omnipresent go-between.
husband nor wife never seeing each other,
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DR.. Chatard OF Baltimore some years
ago reported that he had seen In that city
an old woman with horn on her nose.
It was more than an inch long and near
ly shaped like that OF the rhinoceros.''
Hildanus. one Of the great physicians OF
the fifteenth century. saw man with
horns on his forehead and another with
such protuberances distributed over his
body. Lusitanus. one of the latter authori-
tvs contemporaries, observed one growing
from mans heel In q London museum
is exhibited a human horn II inches long
and 2l1 inches In circumference.
The frequency Of such deformity may
best be appreciated from the fact that one
physician has collected reports Of seventy
one cases-thirty-seven In women, thirty
one In men and three In infants. OF these
fifteen were on the head, eight on the face.
eighteen on the lower extreznitiee ana
eleven on the body Another physician coll
lected reports OF ninety .cases-forty-
females, thirty-nine males, the sex OF the
remainder not being mentioned. OF Theses
Gorty-eieht were On the head Dr.. LeboEt
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HOTEL RIO GRANDR

New York Ave. and the Beach.
Seventy ocean view rooms. Several with private
balconies overlooking ocean and piers. Bathing
robes and rooms attached exclusively for guests
Elevator Cafe. Rates. $l0.00sto $751; 90 per week
Fer day, s.. 90 to $500 Special rates to families
and those making prolonged stay. Booklet on re
quest. Long distance Bell telephone 942.
iel2-l2tf J. PAUL KIIPATRICK.
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marriage u wholly problematical, being
arranged by the omnipresent go-between
husband nor wife never seeing each other.
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MRS O. B. BROWN, 802 ELMWOOD AVE-
Ftrst-class accommodations for Pan-Americar
visitors; choice rooms; bath; finest residence oec
tion; near exposition: rates reasonable.
Jyle-19t-4
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29

tce law, has been set for hearing on
Friday morning next.
/ The case of Allen & Robinson, Ltd, vs
Koolau Kaikainahaole (w), appealed by
the defendant from the Second District
Court of Honolulu, was filed in the Cir
cult Court yesterday. The plaintiff
claims the defendant is indebted to the
former in the sum of s110 upon a promis-
sorry note dated February 16. 1898. where
by she promised to pay Chong Fat and
Allen & Robinson. No part of the note
has been paid. Judgment was given IN
the lower court for $1i2S5.
VIM. NJ. Mahaka, plaintiff in the action
against Antoine Rosa, has acknowledged
the receipt of 5000 from Jno. F. Col
burn, executor of the estate of Antoine
Rosa, deceased, in full satisfaction of all
claims or demands touching any matters
arising in the above entitled cause, or
other claims of the plaintiff against de-
PENDANT.
The following cases are set for this
morning: Keauoa ct al. VS.. Namokuno
Ewalike guardianship, Kealohaokalani,
a minor, masters report; G. X. G. Rookie
VS.. Mary NJ. Seabury, motion; C. X. c.
Rookie VS.. j. o. Young, notion Wong
Butnam VS.. Chock Sing, motion.
Judge Koloa yesterday rendered an
oral decision in favor of the plaintiff in
the case of Kiawe VS. See Hop, eject
ment. The case was heard on a change
of venue. The court orders restitution
of the property and allows damages for
the detention of the property and costs.
An appeal was noted. Achi & Johnson
and Henshall, for plaintiff; Andrews and
Andrade, for defendants.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29
KAHUNAISM,

Since the coming of Papa tia there
has been a revival of Kahunaism in
these Islands which has led some of the
clergy in direct spiritual contact with
the natives to take various measures
of resistance. No belief is harder to
get out of the native mind than that
in the power and presence of witch
craft. Some of the strongest and most
cultivated Hawaiians turn to the Ka-
hunaS in time of weakness or distress
and all the laws that have been passed
against these devil-doctors and all the
knowledge impaired to their dupes does
not suffice to stop the spread of their
sorcery or limit the respect paid to its
pretensions. People are still being
prayed to death as they We're in the
days when a Kahuna tried the expert
ment upon the famous John Young,
only to die himself in abject terror
when Young set up an altar and began
industriously praying for the death of
the Kahuna. Elsewhere in these col
umnS we show how young wife was
made i'll by kahunaism and not long
ago reputable evening paper attribut
ed the death of David Naone to the
same cause. Indeed such instances
might be multiplied by scores without
going back on the calendar very far.
Papa 1ta has brought the superstition
to much whittier heat than are the
lava stones upon which he walks. In
the Hawaiian belief he has more than
apostolic power to bind or loose" 1t |
was only necessary to hear the cries OF .
native rage when "haole" tried to fol- I
low in Papa lta's footsteps on the heat !
ed rock. and to see the Hawaiians mock /
about the old man after his perform |
ance to touch the hem of his garment, |
to realize the height and depth of the |
heather influence he Is founding. We |
should have no cause for astonishment /
II Papa lta's tour undid in a months |
time, the work OF laborious years in .
leading the native up from superstition .
to enlightenment.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29
MARRIED AT LAHAINA.
Reverend William Ault WEEDS Miss
Caroline Hayselden.

Under the superintendent of Mrs r.
p. Hose the little church of the Holy
Innocents at Lahaina was prettily dec
GRATED last Thursday evening for the
wedding of Rev. William Ault to Miss
Caroline Hayselden.
Promptly at 7 o'clock the bridal par
ty, the bridesmaid being Miss Clara
Northern of California and the best
man George Hayselden, brother of the
bride, moved up the aisle and took their
places at the altar, where Bishop Will
lis read the ceremony of the English
church.
f. Fl. Hayselden and David Haysel-
den, also brothers of the bride, acted
as ushers. AS soon as the ceremony
was over a reception was held at the
Hayselden residence, only immediate
relatives being present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ault left for Wailuku
soon afterward for a short honeymoon.
A reception was given the newly mar
ried couple on Saturday evening by
Mrs. ]. w. L. Marshall, wife of the
head luna of the Wailuku plantation,
under the auspices of the Waikiki La
dies Guild.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29
SrANroRDs BANr

Stamford University 10 weak in that
Too w. run" ny y woman who sh1tes
ana spreads the prejudice ~ rlhrf
What 10 lacks and needs s control hy
u board NJ trustees which win bite The
best procurahlo teachers ln every
sphere VI learning ana give them free
dom VI speech and conscience. w u0
safer way can any young collep" be
] built ~ nor old one maintained. BROAD
students viii not peek % college which
! is ruled by on" person or one idea ana
they are learning 10 avoid that which
IL ruled by one sect. Long ago Harvard
had Latin motto meaning For
Christ and His Church" Its trustees
saw NJ To change this declaration TO
that embraced In the one word Truth"
and that college has done "a wider and
noblcr work since and grown to be a
University The old motto was fitted
for a pulpit the new one for an insti-
tuition Of secular learning. As FOR
Stanford It's real motto Is What Mrs.
stanford Wants Is Right" and while
this would answer very well for a sew
ing society under her patronage II
means the death OF the University
which bears her sons name. Better "a
sect. better even "a political party TO
serve, than the caprice of a woman or
man who thinks 1t is the duty Of a
University to teach merely what she
or he has learned 10 believe while in the
pursuit of wealth or in the enjoyment
OF society.
Stanford is materially fitted to do
vast work on the Pacific Coast. In
equipment it is the only University
of tho Roplsy uarbat,u
the only one west of the Mississippi
All that money can do is being done to
make it a great center of intellectual
achievement. Yet in the midst of it
stands an old woman, captious, irrita-
BILE, prejudiced and headstrong who
insists that the University shall not
teach what she does not believe to be
true. 1t Is a spectacle which reminds
one of the rancorous Inquisitor stand
ing in the halls of medieval learning
at Salamanca and accommodating all
who dared to think the thoughts of Gal
ileo. Mrs. Stanford cannot consgn her
victims to the dungeon or the rack;
but she sends them quickly enough out
of her college, whose only offense is an
honest and very capable difference of
opinion with her as to the meaning of
causes and events. II will not worship
st. Market Street or st. Standard Oil"
declares a great teacher. Go, them"
says Mrs. Stanford with the unctious
approval of her man. atthe- door; "go,
then, and learn not to blaspheme the
anonted of the Lord"
How long can University last which
intercepts the white light of truth with
glass of color chosen that it may not
hurt its owners eyesight? How long
will honest students drink at a Pierian
spring, the waters of which have been
mixed with sour prejudices? How long
will scholarly investigators let them
selves be led by the nose from folly to
folly, or in any direction whatever by a
person whose only relation to learning
is that she pays some of it's expenses?
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29
FEDERATED AUSTRALIA.

Federal methods In Australia VIII
proceed on American lines IN the cholCe
of n capital city, the imposition OF a
tariff the support OF the commonwealth
by Indirect taxation and IN the building
Of a transcontinental railroad. To
avoid riyalrics and local political pres
x,Ire. a place like the District OF Coz
lumbia will be set apart for the build
ing of an antipodal Washington. The
tariff will be levied for purposes OF rev
enue and to conserve existing indus
tries: direct taxation except under
very great pressure" will be left to the
separate states and the railway VIII be
built primarily for defense.
Australia would not be Australia,
however, IL 1t did not strike out boldly
into speculative fields of politics. Ac-
cordng to Premier Barton state con-
troll of railways, Federal suffrage for
women and the exclusion from Austria
lila of the Asiatic races are in prospect
All these experiments will be watched
IN the United States with keen and
practical interest. This country fears
the result of Government ownership OF
railroads, seeing how badly managed
are some of the other great enterprises
which are carried on by politicians;
but IL the plan succeeds in federated
Australia that fact must be instru-
mental in getting new adherents for 1t
in America. We have done something
in a few States towards the political
Acknowledgement of women and opinions
differ about it's wisdom to a degree
which makes the object lesson which
Australia may present deeply and W
tally interesting to our people. II these
experiments succeed Australia may
give the United States something po-
litically valuable in exchange for its
borrowings from our Constitution and
laws.
Probably the graVest project in the
Australian catalogue is the exclusion of
the Asiatic races, which means among
others the Japanese whose Government
now enjoys most favored nation
treaty with Great Britain. Modern
Japan is not a power to take the eXclu-
sion of her subjects lightly, nor is
Great Britain, in view of her need OF
an ally in the East, sure to approve
any measure that might offend the ally
she needs. Should Australia insist on
exclusion, a crisis would surely ensue
which might have far-reachinG conse-
uueDces
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29
PETTY THEFTS.

1t is possible that through Detective
David KAPPA, the sneak thief who
has been pilfering the servants quar-
ters at Waikiki, has at last been cap
tured, and will be compelled to answer
for his crimes.
A young man, giving the name of
Kamehameha has been arrested as the
principal in the robberies, and with
him an accomplice named Kaha, both
residents of Waikiki.
Ever since last November these pet
ty thefts have been going on, and
many places have been pilfered. The
servants quarters at Fl. ]. Notes were
entered, and two rings stolen. These
were sold to a Japanese woman on
the Waikiki road near Hopkins switch
and have been recovered.
Several other articles OF jewelry are
missing, but KAPPA expects to be able
to recover everything.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29

Francis Murphy ought to do a great
work in New Zealand and Australia.
where protege of his Orchard BoothD
brought on a great revival of interest in
the temperance cause about twenty
five years ago. Mr.. Murphy has the
same facility in reaching the hearts
and consciences Of Englishmen despite
their reserved qualities, that he has in
reaching those of the more impressions
able Americans. While in Great Brit
ain, Mr.. Murphy induced so many
people To sign the pledge that the Gov
eminent revenues from liquor fell on
tens OF thousands OF pounds sterling
and the deposits in the postal savings
banks Increased proportionately. So
much good was done that the Queen
recognized II I'm a speech from the
throne and Mr.. Gladstone said the Muir
ply movement was the only temper
ance crusade that ne had ever been
able 10 support with both his heart and
his head with such a record behind
him Francis Murphy viii be sure ~
welcome In any English colony espe-
Clally In the Australian Federation,
whore since the return ~ MIR Booth 10
America, the need ~ Gospel temper
aucc agitation has not developed a
man great enough 20 meet a.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29
PLAGUE EXPENSES.

1t is absurd to say that the Board Of
Health could have paid for its cam
paign against the bubonic plague with
anything like the money that sufficed
for meeting the epidemic of cholera
The cholera fight simply called for
cleaning up the town, giving it a daily
inspection, caring for the sick. burying
the dead and burning few houses
When the bubonic plague got headway
the Board of Health was charged with
the feeding and care of two-thirds Of
the Oriental population for over three
months; about thirty acres of build
ingS were burned: a small army of
guards had to be used to keep the ORR
entails in camp: a crematory was car
ried on; the eXcayator service was aug
mented; costly autopsies were per-
formed and doctors were employed to
follow up chains of infection to the first
link; remedies for plague were import
ed from France; rat bounty was paid
and the men engaged on regular duty
by the Board of Health were properly
recompensed. Had it not been for these
ample and thorough precautions all
ports would have quarantined against
Hawaii and our enormous export trade
would have collapsed. on that account
the people of Honolulu did not object
to a generous expenditure and they do
not join Humphreys and other sensa-
uonalists in trying to reopen the matter
now and make a scandal of it, Having
read the plague bills as published in
the Advertiser and audited by men like
j. b. Atherton and George Carter and
having seen the kind of fight the
Plague Board made the taSDayers
know that little money was wasted.
Very few men came out of the four
months battle under suspicion and
those that did have since figured in the
Humphreys crusade against the local
government. In fact Humphreys got
two Of them to aid him in his costly at
tempt to foist a daily paper on the
public as his organ of personal spite.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29

Apropos of the trouble at Stanford.
President Schurman of Cornell spoke as
follows at University banquet in New
York;
ours is the most frec-thinking age the
world has ever Witnessed. There has long
been IN process conflict between free
thought and traditional authority, and
the twentieth century opens with the
victory OF free thought The university
Is the conGenial home of free inquiry
And / think We may rejoice, not onI,
that at Cornell University, but at most
II not all large universities OF the land,
this principle is sacredly cherished and
zealously carried into practice The very
outcry which an occasional act OF intol-
erance, whether on the Atlantic or Pa
oihc Coast, raises throughout the entire
country shows that the intellectual pulse
of the nation is sound and healthy. SO
may II always be- The right OF free
thought ana free speech Is at the foun-
dalton OF the Republic, and the decline
OF tho principle OF free and unfetterci
inquiry AZ our universities would speed
ny poison the moral snd political lie OF
the nation
iut the universities have q greater
ltsk Sun 10 solve Free thought has
hitherto been almost entirely destructive
Tho next generations must Use free
thought 90 organize coherent system
% bc'lefs which shall embrace human
ne ana ihr world as one harmonious
whole
The same motto is being sounded by
0lh,r great 'lleFIaus and it viii serve
nightly ln rhrHk ihr Impulse ~ mar
row rleh people i1 make thrlr support
oi HIGHER education conditional upln
slavery 90 ihrIr l1.as n may he born,
upon ihsm Hfiff ihlH fHat surA policy
SIN XII ihr Institution ihry snaaw
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29

The German EmperoI's birthday will
hardly pass without drawing out an
other speech of half-concealed defiance
TO the world at large. The Kaiser is
strong in oratory and entertains a fixed
doubt of any scrlptural Inspiration in
the text that Pride goeth before de-
struction and naughty spirit before q
ran 1t Is well enough for ruler to
have self-confidence but Napoleon with
all his triumphs never held his head
and pitched his voice quite so high a.
does this sovereign who, at an age
when Napoleon had mounted to his sol
itude Of power and glory, has all his
war-like honors yet TO win.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29

The iiiio Herald upbraids the people
of It's town because of their "indiffer-
enee regarding plans OF county govern
ment' II does seem strange that
the owners OF Ilil0 should not be en-
thusiastic for a scheme that would
double their taxes without giving them
better official service, The whole thing
Is inexplicable, Usually when a tax
raising committee is abroad the proper
~ owners keep open house for Il and
feel offended when II does not call and
view the property u wants 20 mort
gage, but Hilo, contrary AZ ever. holds
al0of ana sulks,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-29

u ~ SAID that the Independents have
AHfeed among themselves to make
Robert Parker iiigh sherin ln place u
Arthur Brown This D. au Interesting
rumor but u lacks az least ono cor
roborallYe detail namely n section u
ihe Organic Act which glyes ~ isFls
laiute the power % mako ura al
IiglHg msns