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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30
newspapers. the weekly papers. were al

newspapers. the weekly papers. were al
together so optimistic
There was !. time when como OF them
contained more boom" arucles-When
tho land boom was On, and when every
village in certain parts OF the State was
an embryo city. But the tone OF our con-
,emporaries now is quite different. 1hey
are not, booming town lots, nor talking
OF great cities that are soon to spring up
BY magic. but they talk Of things that
are and of substantial prosperity-that
is a thing of the present. and not mere
phantom OF tho future.
Virginia is indeed prosperous, and the
prosperity is general. Our rich resources
are being developed and our wealth Is in
creasing The year 1902 has been good to
US, and the new year is full Of promise.
Let US remark in conclusion that now
is the time TO advertise. Virginia has
great bargains in lands. in minerals and
in manufacturing sites. Why not pro-
claim the fact to the outside world?
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COLONEL NaLtSISoii Jeiiiso d "'''N~iiS0 -
a noise in the chimney thought it was
Santa Claus on his Christmas GRAND OF
good cneer.: but discovered to his horror
that it was Mr. Cleveland proving
around the premises of tho Democratic
party IN search u i e'--' " $3.50,
nation.4Chicago Chronicle.
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Just O. twenty 'rousiilu uol'a' '',e WI
not hurt so i've q town as i1ocNS -'oun.,
~ :. Mere snai' '"ise 'i'''L ,.''ue W.
500 rise over the aSleS. y lie tLtel
helms vigorous towns
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Germany IS saio 10 "it"' pa : p'-I
menI IN advance i'o!'i
looks as il the Kaiser would IKE u
have it out with Dewey yet.-Buffalo
News.
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ihae SCUM "a UNI i'oo SooN ~
chances. The negro husband SAID the VIE
murdered the white man and she said he
did it. The mob believed both and hung
both.
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turned back from the Venezuelan block
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most anywhere along these shores.
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That MISREPRESENTATION american
bcat,ly.'' who married an English peer,
aged eighty-two. turns out TO be ca
madam That's better.
~. r-,--+c..,, zi7li-yaTd &c sold RI he
moving Last Win an aPNs'' en-
mination not to let up unt44 II IS drown
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

The Hague has more .-me to bother
with small matters than President
Roosevelt has.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

81 VIZ no ID pS!I-
Mrs. c. D. Langhorne Mrs. Charles
Dana Gibson, Mrs Robert Brook and Nj s.
Robert Shaw. are registered at the JEFF
ferson. The party came down from Mr..
.aughorne 5 country home. 'Green",o I'd. :
in Albemarle county. They attended the
Richmond german at the Temple last
night.
Fencing has become fashionable ath-
etic exercise for women in Baltimore.
That being the case My Lady Peggy
Goes to Town" may soon be exes1.p .i-
fed in real life as well as on the stage.
\ number of Richmond girls will go to
the Colonial ball. the New Year society
event in Petersburg this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Macdonald ard
the younger members Of their family are
attending house party given by Mrs.
Reed near KeSwick, in Albemarle county,
this week.
Ash Wednesday comes this year on
February 25th, and the gay season win
be longer than usual.
Mrs. Elliott is the guest Of her daugh-
hSiJ A'iA -. II. Ivy iSt III tiAS 'SSSl tAilu
Mr.. Henry Watkins, of No 2l5 East
Franklin Street. left Saturday for New
York. Mr. Watkins will make quite an
extended trip before his return.
Mrs. John A. Coke Jr.. is visiting her
parents in Petersburg during the holt
days.
Mrs. stetinius, of Chicago. formerly
Mss Judith Darlington, OF this city Is
visiting relatives here. and has her little
daughter with her.
Mrs Bruce Bowe is established in her
handsome new home on West Grace
Street. Her sister, Miss Resale Mines
is visiting her.
Mrs Thomas S. Adkins will be at Cliff
ten Springs during the winter for the
benefit of her health.
Mrs. Taylor. formerly Miss Griffith. of
No. sos East Franklin Street, has come
in from her suburban home to spend some
time in Richmond.
DR.. Thomas Nelson Page is booked to
appear at the WQman's Club some time
in January. DR.. Page was always srea.
favorite in Richmond and will be heard
With pleasure whenever he comes. Admi-l
raj Schley will be here in February. and
it is probable that club members may
.also have the pleasure of meeting him.
. ass
The new year promises to be one of
great accompl ishment in the historic and
patriotic societies. The Association for
the Preseryation Of ~ irginia Antiquities
has an amount ofswork to do.at James
town. and from st es.Iyay this Work IS
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

In the good old times Christmas lasted
until midnight December 31st, but in this
fast age we have not the time to take
so much holiday.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30
Personal Hantio1.

The conclusion Of the Princess Trou-
betzkoy's novelette,. The Mocking Of the
Gods" appears in the January Harper.
The story is tragedy pure and simple,
with heart-breall in every line but
with much of the strength and tndivtdu-
ality which belongs to everything from
50 virile a pen.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

Now let US set our house in order and
try to give Nashville 10000 more inllab-
stants and s2,000,090 or $3G00,0Qo more bus
mess in 1903-Nashyille Banner.
That's pretty brash proposition, to say
the least Of it.
Lynching a negro III Kansas and trying
10 lynch one in Boston were among the
hiiarities of the glad Christmas times.
ether sections of the North are yet to
hear acknowledgements Advertiser.
All the returns are not in from Kansas
yet. They are still after the wounded
brother Of the lynched negro.
i here was an enormous amount of anti
trust legislation introduced III Congress
ncfore the recess of that body. Those
sho have attempted to analyze it give
he effort UP in despair.-Mobilc Regis
ter
Wait until you read the bill that Gran
ny Hoar is incubating. That will be a
staruer. no doubt.
Although the odds are against US. we.
do not favor the Introduction of the whip
ping post. While we may not be able to-
-xplain our reasons for it, somehow or
other we have never liked the idea
Durham Herald. ~
The odds will be against the fellow at
the post. The dose is usually 49, 10, ?,
or SO.
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Colonel Watterson being awakened b:
a noise in The chimney thought it was
Santa Claus on his Christmas GRAND OF
good cneer.: but discovered to his horror
that it was Mr.. Cleveland proving
around the premises Of the Democratic
party in search Of u third-ter:n nomi-
nation. :-Chicago Chronicle
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

Well, rain, even if it is a cold one, is
better than snow and slush.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

Would you please inform me at your
earliest convenience which is proper to
eat cake wfth-your fingers. or w
a fork? have been to many places.
but did not find cut. MINNIE.
With your fingers. unless it is very
soft. "oozv" cream layer cake. That re-
quires q fork.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

The weather man is now getting il
some very bad work.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-30

1.-THE old forty month books and 'the
new fifty month contracts" are combine
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FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Continued on Page p.
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can benefit my country. 1 know that
the word Republican is word of ter
ror to Hawaii, but 1 tell you it is the
only party to benefit us. I want you
all to try and follow me-
w. c. Achi also spoke in Hawaiian
calling upon the HawalIans to support
the ticket and join the Republican
party.
Col. Fitch said, in opening his address
that he intended to deliver his speech
from manuscript, something he was do
ing for the first time, as he felt that
some one might try to misrepresent
him, and his published speech from
manuscript would safeguard him. At
the close of his written address, how
ever Col Fitch, warmed up to his sub
ject spoke eloquently without notes.
His speech in full follows:
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and your old flag. In my heart there
too, but the stars and stripes have
come and fill the space where that flag
used to be, and hope you win become
impregnated with the American spirit.
L am an American. You are all Ameri-
cans today, from the crown of your
heads to the soles of your feet, whether
you are aloha alma or not. If you want
any benefits for your country you must
vote for a Republican and send a Re-
publican delegate to Congress. You
must send a Republican delegate when
you have a Republican president for
when there is a Republican president
there is also Republican Congress. 1t
is useless to send a Home Rule delegate
to Washington for there are no benefits
to be gotten by him.
Like the tree so must the branches
be. If you take kiawe branch and
graft it on an orange tree you will not
obtain any fruit. but to produce good
fruit you must graft an orange slip on
the tree Then you will receive good
fruit Every throb in my heart is for
love of my country. You say the Re-
publicans have taken and tied me up.
cause 1 think it is the only party that
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16
GRANTED
A YEAR FOR
THE WORK
Telephone System
Has a Time
Limit.
MAY LAY CABLE
BETWEEN ISLANDS
Standard Telephone Company
Signs Agreement With
Territory.

Honolulu viii have a competitive
telephone system within year accord
ing to the agreement made by the
Standard Telephone Company with the
Territory of Hawaii, which has now
been signed by both parties.
The company is authorized to lay a
cable between the islands, and the
agreement permits 1t Ito lay construct.
operate and maintain, aerial under
ground or subaqueous circuits for tele-
graphic or telephone communication,
in, upon, along and under the highways
and public roads of said Territory, and
across and under the lands and waters
of said Territory, and between the sew
eral islands, by the appropriation of
any trees growing by nature, or the ac-
QUESTION, erection, or construction of
the necessary fixtures, including con-
duits poles, posts, piers, abutments,
bridges, buildings for suspending, sus-
tanning, providing channel ways, or
containing the cables, wires, appara-
luS, Appliances anu liidCHIHSiy Va Se1iN
aerial, underground or submarine cir.
cults"
There is a proviso that these circuits
shall not incommode the public use of
the roads or interfere with the naviga-
ton of the waters, and the company
is required to construct a system of
conduits to carry all cables within a
radius of one half mile from the corner
of Fort and King streets, the radius to
be extended to one mile. within year
If requested by the Superintendent Of
Public Works. Where aerial circuits
are constructed the number of leads on
one pole shall not exceed those of a
twenty-five paid cable.
The company must give thirty days
notice of its intention, before beginning
work upon the streets, and it is agreed
also that the work of installing the
underground conduit system shall be-
gin within eight months, and the COM
pany must be prepared to give public
service within fourteen months. The
superintendent may extend the time up
on a proper showing.
Fifteen telephone Instruments and
service must be furnished free to the
Territory of Hawaii and the company
cannot assign the permit without the
consent of the Superintendent OF Public
Works. The document is signed by F.
j. Cross for the company.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16
CHINESE HONOR
THE FULL MOON

All over the city last night resounded
the explosions of ffrecrackers ands
bombs and the weird, clashing music
OF the Chinese. The subjects of the
Chinese Emperor celebrated until mid
night the Festival of the Moon" which
according to the Manchurian calendar,
was at the full last night. 1t was
holiday with the Chinese, rich and poor,
and none were too poor of purse to
render tribute to the round pale-faced
satellite Of earth.
In the various Chinese clubs the cele-
bration was observed at It's best, for all
of them were brilliant with lights. huge
parti colored lanterns, globe. box and
fsh-shaped, lined the yerandas. giving
a truly Oriental touch to the scenes in
and about Chinatown Several OF the
clubs had Chinese bands stationed upon
the verandas, and with clashing Gym
balls, screeching reeds and resounding
drums ripped the welkin until long
after midnight. Great strings of fire.
crackers were lowered from verandas
and the match applied, and soon the
streets were covered with a red carpet
of exploded ffrecrackers.
At midnight each club spread a ban
quet board anu members and friends
sat down 10 the feast. which ended the
celebration.
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court, and the soft, sweet voices of it's
singers, chanting Hawaiian melodies,
form beautiful and poetical picture
against background of white-lipped
seas and fronded palms, and scarlet
topped poincianas. (Applause.a
Yet it could not, 1 think, have en-
dpred. The great powers of Europe
were looking upon these islands with
covetous eyes, and the Japanese octo-
pus was winding his tentacled fingers
into every cane field and along every
city street. 1t was for the Hawaiians
TO accept either the Stars and Stripes
or more unwelcome flag. The Hawaii
of the past lives only in the emblems,
and banners, and music, and traditions
of a kingdom that is lost and gone. The
Hawaii of the future-the Hawaii of
wealth and progress, and freedom and
power-lies just ahead. Is it not better
that Hawaiians shall '1et the dead past
bury it's dead" and ''act in the living
present.? Why should they perpetuate
under the name of Home Rule party
that cannot permanently endure? And
which while it lives. can serve no useful
purpose, and can benefit nobody except
a very few men who may obtain office
by using it? l am not attacking the
integrity of motive of those who organ
lied the Home Rule party two years
ago. No being is more innocent than
a new born babe. His soul comes from
Heaven as pure as the falling rain.
But the moment the rain drop touches
the earth it begins to gather to itself
mineral salts, and miasmatic germs
until it soon becomes a lying-in hospital
for mosquitoes. So the child learns to
swear about as soon as he learns tc
pray; he claims all the toys he fancies
without respecting the proprietary
rights of other babies, and before he
is five years old he lies as naturally as
a Democratic candidate for office. The
Home Rule party was originally ar
honest infant, born of the natural de-
sire of Hawaiians for f-government
but in two years it has managed tC
gather to itself many undesirable quail
tiles. 1t was Matched from an egg OF
unknown parentage and we were un-
able at the time to classify the creature
which emerged from the incubation. II
has since grown to maturity and ever
now we hardly know what are it's pur-
poses, or whence its destination. (Great
applause.)
1t resembles the boy with the panta-
looms which were so bounteousiy made
that when his mother saw him on the
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Va EITH cheers and applause
VN the Republican nominees
for delegate to Congress
and the Territorial legisla-
ture received demonstration of ap-
proval last night at the Orpneum
theater from an audience which filed
the auditorium and stage and blocked
the entrances. Prince Kuhio, the nom
inee for delegate to Congress, was
greeted with hearty and prolonged ap-
plause when he advanced to the foot
lights to speak in the Hawaiian tongue
to the large assemblage of Hawaiians
Col. Thomas Fitch, in a clear, concise
history of the Republican party, and
an ,arraignment of the Democratic
party, with anecdotes and sage advice
to the young in politics in Hawaii,
powers as an orator. Throughout the
evening the speaker was enthusiastic
cally applauded, and the Republican
campaign was thus put into actual mo-
ton.
The address of Col. Fitch occupied
the greater part of the evening. He
was frequently interrupted by laughter
and applause and when he had con-
cluded his mastery effort the entire
audience united in giving him deafen-
ing salvo of applause.
The meeting was called to order by
Col. J. H. Fisher who introduced to the
audience L. L. McCandless, Prince
Cupid and w. C. Achi, the last speaker
being Col. Fitch. Upon the stage were
the candidates for the legislature. Mr..
McCandless spoke briefly, asking for
the votes of the Republicans to send
him to the Senate.
Prince Kuhio arose amid cheers and
spoke in his native tongue. He said in
part: 81 want to tell you the reasons
whyN am a Republican. Joining
the Republican party was the only
way in which I could benefit my race
and country, because it was the
right platform to be on. I hope you
will all be Republicans. I know the
aloha you have for your own country
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COL. TOM FITCH STIRS REPUBLICANS
WITH PATRIOTIC APPEAL FOR VOTES
An Exhaustive Presentation of the Political Issues Of the Day by the
Vests Most Famous Orator--prince Cupid Calls Upon
fawaians to Follow Him.

XX TITH cheers and applause
" the Republican nominees
V for delegate to Congress
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street she could never tell whether he
was going TO school or coming home.
1t is a political ornithoryncthus. 1t is
a creature with the head of a wild
goose and the body of polecat. 1t has
Home Rule neck and Democratic
stomach. It's motto is gabble and COB
ole, and its final fate will be that of the
lamb who laid down with the lion-the
lamb was inside the lion. Uaughter)
Before the voters Of Hawaii shall be
misled into a marriage with their DEM
ocratic suitor they ought to be advised
of his disgracefui antecedents, and of
the disreputable record of their propos-
ed mother-in-law In the interest of
truth / assume the task of historian.
1t is not a pleasant task, for there is
much on the Democratic record that
were better consigned to oblivion. But
when a corpse will not remain in his
grave like a gentleman, and insists up
on parading his CHASTITY presence upon
the highway, it seems necessary to in
form his injudicious friends why It was
that public opinion sent him to his
grave. (Applause.)
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Fifty years ago the voters of the
United States were. with but few and
inconsequent exceptions, members of
either the Whig or Democratic parties,
and both parties were completely under
the control of an oligarchy Of 100000
slave holders.
Slavery was then not only powerful
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Continued on Page ..
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COL. FlTCH's SPEECH.

Ladies ard Gentlemen:-Since my ar
rival in Honolulu seventeen months ago
l have avoided all participation in pub
lie affairs, and have cheerfully occupied
that back seat which kamaainas accord
to mahahainas Gaughter)
I have yielded tonight to the urgent
request of friends who solicited my
services, because 1 believe it to be the
duty of every citizen to aid as best he
may in securing good government and
prosperity for the community in which
he lives, and I feel sure that both good
government and prosperity can best be
secured here by the election of the tick
ct headed by that brave, clear headed
young man. Prince Cupid. (Applause.)
l feared that in dealing with the pc
culiar conditions which exist here my
utterances might possibly be misrepre-
sented, or at least misunderstood, and
have therefore deviated from my usu-
al habit and will offer you an address,
some portions of which 1 have prepar
ed.
POLITICS HERE IN THEIR INFAN-
CY.
Politics in these islands are in their
infancy There are indeed men in this
audience who are advanced students in
American political history, but there
are others who are yet in the primary
department, and I therefore ask the
post-graduates to be patient with me
while I endeavor to lift aloft the fam
beau of the past, and by its hght-at-
tempt to explain to the younger genera
ton the antecedents and underlying
pholosiphies of the Republican ana
Democratic parties.
FORCED CITIZENSHIP.
Four years ago American citizenship
was forced upon many Hawaiians VINO
have not yet become entirely reconcued
to il. and who may now be misled into
basing their political action upon race
preiudices or hatred of the mission
aries or resentment for the loss of tneir
monarchy. 1 take the liberty OF telling
the Hawaiians as their friend and we'll
wisher that if they permit such consid-
erations to lead them into the Demo-
cratic organization they viii ally them
selves with men who despise them !;
with men who in Congress voted
against Hawaiian annexation for the
avowed reason that it would bestow
American citizenship upon those whom
they then designated as 'leprous Kama
kas:" with men who have never In
their political action accorded common
Justice to a man with a dark skin; with
men who have been on the wrong side
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of every issue in American politics for
80 years; with men who sit with their
feet over the tailboard of the wagon
inhaling the stencil of a noxious past,
and satisfied with rear view of the
world and its affairs.
COLOR BLIND.
Republicans have ever been color
blind (Applause.) They have looked
only at the manhood of a man, and
have never been able to see his color,
while Democrats am sorry to- say
have seldom been able to see anything
else in one who was not a Caucasian.
1t is only a few months since the
Democratic press of the mainland was
savage in its denunc1ations of Presi-
dent Roosevelt because he invited "a
colored gentleman to dinner. and while
/! it is true that colored voters in the
Southern States are no longer driven
from the polls, it is also true that
Democratic inspectors usually swindle
them out of their votes by not counting
them. Is it not a little frigid for Dem
ocrats to solicit here the votes of
brunettes or the influence of lovely
brunetteines?