Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-07-03

There is much poppycock about sci
ence and scientists in the minus OF
the people. Science is merely the col.
lection of data and the formulating of
Ineligible deductions therefrom con.
corning the laws of nature. Everyone
who has the power of seeing and
thinking about that which he has seen
is more or less a scientific man. used
to think that even "Weyler,' the white
nosed monkey on the Dixie. when en-.
gagged in the act of picking up beer
bottle almost as large as himself and
holding II up to peer within its cavern,
in order to ascertain If II contained
any unconsumed driblets. was showing
in these acts of observation and deduc.
ton the true qualities of a scientific
man.
On the other hand, there Is lot of
nonsense in the minds of scientific
men concerning the people. Some oil
them think II sin to write concerning
the simple facts of nature in Ian.
guage which the people can under.
Api Nh' Niouup
steam and rock particles which ascend
from a volcano are smoke.like in their
appearance. while long before treatises
had been written concerning them the
clouds of volcanic dust had been called
ashes. There are some 'prigs" who
insist upon criticising others for not
calling these ashes ''lapilli," while they
give no name for the vapor clouds
which will take the place OF smoke.
The merest tyro knows that the vol.
canic smoke" and "ashes" are not or
binary combustion products, but so
long as they have the visible physical
aspects OF smoke and ashes, then why
not call them so?
Concerning volcanoes and volcanic
action there is a vast amount 20 he
learned. and the honorable scientific
man will always frankly say, Il do not
know" when confronted with many u
the queries propounded to him.
II is generally presumed that the
cause of volcanic action is the meeting
Of water With the hot magma below
the immediate surface of the earth
causing explosions whereby vents are
opened through which the hot magma
| forces its way to the surface through
It's power of expansion. But the nature
of that great uneXplored magma Of the
earth's interior is today one of the
profoundest and least solved problems
] Ia u1nhn on1 fu ~
within human power to predict what
the future productions of that magma
will be.
The scientific man just now is con
fronted with the question of sympa
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Bulletin that job printing amounting tc
over hundred dollars had been given
the Advertiser. and when Pratt was
asked why he did not call for tender:
he replied that this was not necessary
on work amounting to less than $500
He then went to work and called fol
tenders on the work which, as after
wards learned. was the Identical print
ing to which Mott Smith referred anC
Pratt said was not necessary to sub
nit to competitive bids. Thus the re-
quest for prices from the various print
ing Offices amounted to a blind to hood
wink Advertiser competitors.
The Bulletin has no objection to thu
award of any contract to the loves
bidder. A decent regard for fair bust
ness principle would have led the com
mittee of which Mott-Smith, Moor,
and Pratt were members to have callei
Tor tenders when the work was origi
ually ordered. The manner in which
This business" was conducted, how
ever, indicates that the committee ha,
been taking lessons of Chief Justic,
Frear who called for tenders on print
ing after a part OF the work had alrea
dy been done, but failed to give
statement OF the facts until the con
tIact had been awarded to the highes
bidder.