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The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02
TUESDAY, DEC, ?, 1902
STOOD FOR PRINCIPLE,

In Yesterdays morning organ is an
unfair and unjust imputation against
sthe Home Rulers in the Senate, for,
it knows well that the vote Oh last
Saturday was not lin favor Of any
particular "derelict official whom the
Government removes for cause" but
it was purely a vote of principle, un-
der the rules governing the Senatorial
body, and that principle was the mi
nority should be given a chance to be
heard. How can the paper justify its
remarks that; 'if it is the purpose OF
the Home Rulers in the Senate to
vote in favor OF every derelict official
whom the Government removes for
cause" when the facts show that other
wise was the case. We fail to see the
utility of falsifying the facts unless 1t
be to still show its usual wish to dis
credit Hawaiians and everything Ha-
waiian, Home Rulers in particular.
We fully explained the positions ta'
ken by the two parties in the Senate
in yesterdays issue, and in which we
held that a certain amount OF courtesy
was due the request of the minority
in order to give chance to them to
bring in a report. Even now, we do
not know what that minority report
might have been, but we are still of
the belief that the request made was
fair, just and proper one. The ma
jority thought otherwise and imme'
diately turned it down, giving the mi
nority no show and no quarter In do
ing so they disregarded all those
lauded principles of "Anglo'sa4on fair
ness" y, VI.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

The III lulu Investment Co o.
this city has distributed artistic
cards advertising their business.
The Republican senators aud
executive committee of the party
met in caucus again yesterday
afternoon aud, it is reported,
paid special attention to the names
OF candidates for the otfi,e OF
Treasurer and Auditor AV Gear
has fighting chance for the form.
er, while Fisher aud Meyers are ia
for the latter,
The steamer Sierra arrived of
port this morning at $40 o'clock
but the mails did not reach the
postoffice until $3.50 m. Tn,
vessel brought a small number
OF passengers and light cargo io,
here also cable psws ton sbro,d
via Fanning'a island, to date Of Nov
18th Shs will sail at 8 p m TODAY
fn the Coast carrying number Of
passengers aad a heavy outward
trsigbt
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

The interested parties OF the morn
ing Anathemizer and its evening tail
piece are now hugging themselves with
glee and their lean and hungry looks
are turned towards the distribution of
fiat" which will be their expected por-
ton of the spoils resulting from the
GLORIOUS victory" which the simple
untutorcd, Hawaiians so foolishly aid
ed in obtaining, -
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

Dame Rumor has doleful tale,
probably untrue in it's entirely, to the
effect that the occupant of certain
room in the Hotel has packed himself
bag and baggage away therefrom ana
has hied to the city overshadowed by
the Volcano. An extension of the trip
is limited at by means of an enterpris-
ing CD steamer for the Coast Yes?
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

Judge Wilcox held no morning
services at his place OF business OF
account OF the police officials tsinR
engaged In supplying reqli- ID
iniorm4ti TO memb ,rs Of the
Senate COMMITTEES who are iuyesti,
eating accounts of the Bureau.
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

The Executive Council is noted as
being again in session but the names OF
those attendant are not given. 1t is
probable that the incumDents of the
offices of Treasurer, superintendent or
Public Works, Secretary, possibly Act
ing Governor and also Attorney Cen
eral could be coopered up in the single
name of "Poohbah." And this is the
advanced American civilization"
handed out to the enfranchised Hawa-
iian? This is specimen of govern
ment "of the people," is it? If so in
tended, then, instead of being the best
government on earth" it is the great
est fraud on earth" and the news from
Washington indicates that the wings
of the oligarchy are soon to be clipped
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

Another shooting and stabbing
scrape occurvsd last night between
a white Raa end Porto Rican
10 the neighborhood of the noto
rious Magoon block, with a result
that, the white man, named
Fogtop, is in the hospital aud the
assaiiau,, hoais Abble, is under
arrest. No seriops results are ex'
pected,
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

One of the lately arrived attorney
generals noticed in the Independent
has already made himself known and
A. S. Hartwell appears in the morning
paper in an article on the subject
which has engossed public attention
for some time past, viz: "t;ie removals
and appointments of Territorial Off
GERS" The gist of the argument pre-
sented is that the Governor is all right,
all right" that nominations should
first be scanned by him, then passed
upon by him, and given to the Senate
for approval. The retired and return
ed General has had some personal eX-
perience with legislative matters in
this country himself. By the way,
General, when was it that little finan-
cial uppleasantness between yourself
and the Legislature of Hawaii occur"
red, was it about the end of the 7Os?
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1902-12-02

TIE INDEPENDENT 30 ceuts per
mop!hl
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

peating Mary Had a Little Lamb, -
Jack and JILL Little Bo-Peep." and
other interesting legends, is beyond de-
scription. These sounds united with the
sounds of the monographs themselves
when reproducing the stories make a
veritable pandemonium.
I'm passing through the works it is
noticeable that order and system reign
In every department. Everything is
done upon the American, or piece sys-
TEN. The tools and machinery used are
the finest procurable. Every piece, with
out regard to its size or importance, is
carefully inspected by aid of standard
gauges. so that when the parts are
brought together, no additional ork is
required to cause them to act properly.
THE works of the doll are to some
extent adjustable. and any adjustment
necessary is effected in an extensive de-
partment In which the little phono-
graphs are received from the assembling
rooms. Here they receive the finishing
touches, and are passed on to another
room, where they are placed N the
bodies of the dolls From this depart
ment the finished dolls pass on to the
packing room. where they are carefully
stored away in boxes having on their
labels the name of the song or story
the doll Is able to repeat"
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

with the remark. THUS have proved
in my intent. that the disport and game
of angling is the very means and cause
that induceth man into merry spirit,
which after the doctrine of Solomon and
of physic, maketh Towering age and
long. And therefore to all you that be
virtuous. gentle and freeborn, / write
and make this simple treatise, follow
ing by which ye may have the full craft
OF angling TO disport you at your last,
to the intent that your age may the
more flower and the more longer en-
dure." Success with the line," says
Juliana in another place, sis spoiled by
twelve manere of sympedyments whyche
cause man to take moo fyshe''-namely
Il. badly made harness; 2. bad baits; 3,
angling at the wrong time; 4, fish
strayed away; 5, water thick; 6, water
too cold; Z, weather too hot; 8. il it
rain; 8. If hail or snow fall; 10, if there
be tempest; II, If there be great wynd;
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

nys, who wrote the Secrets of Angling, p"
a poem in three books. The first edition
appeared in 1913, and has often been
called the rarest volume of English lit
erature. The author has the merit Of
subtlety in rhyme. elevation of thought.
and equality of interest throughout; his
work manages its subjects gracefully
and charmingly. The creaking leathern
binding opens to allow the pages to fall
back to the following typical passage:
And let your garments Russet be or gray
OF colour darke and hardest to descry,
That with the Rainc weather will away,
And least offend the fearful Fishes eye;
For neither Skarlet rich cloth OF ray
Nor colours dipth in rich Assvrian dye
Nor tender silkes of Purple. Paule, golde
VIII serve so well to keep off wet and cold
OF these older English writer's there
is also Gervase Markham-the patron
writer of English husbandry-who said
that "a skillful angler ought to be a
general scholar and scene in all the lib
eral sciences, as grammarian, to know
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

how either to write or discourse of his
art in true and fitting terms. either
without affectation or rudeness." And
there was Barker. the brusque old
sportsman and epicure, who wrote the
Art of Angling" and "Barker's De-
light The author seems to have been
peculiar character, half sportsman,
half chef in the employ of the for
eign legation, and always protesting
that he laid no claim to scholarship or
a literary style. He was none the less
sure, however. of his knowledge OF
fishing and preparing fish for food. for.
says he, in his last edition of the DE
light" II am now grown old
If any noble or gentle angler, OF what
degree soever he be, have mind to dis
course of any of these ways and expert
ments, / live in Henry the this Gifts,
the next door to the Gatehouse in Westm.
My name is Barker, where l shall be
ready, as long as pleased God, to sat
isfie them and maintain my art through
life which is not like to be long
Following Barker, the literature on
angling began to contat, more and
more about cookery in its application
to the fish of stream or lake. Even the
so-called "piscatorial poets" almost all
of whom may be found in. the Harvard
collection. make mention of this branch
in their treatises on fishing. We find,
for example:
My strung line twenty-sx yardes long;
| gave him turn, though
! found him strong
| wound up my line to guide him from shoar
The handbook helps much hut the cookery more.
These crude and tottering verses are
from one of the manuals called De
lights" which were published extern
siyely in the eighteenth century. There
were Delights for the cook, the
gardner, the lady's maid. the sailor. the
soldier, the angler-and apparently for
every class of society. There were also
such manuals as "The Compieat House
maid" the "Compleat Farmer and
the like, some of which contained direc
tions for fishing. making ishtraps, and
fish for the table.
England, of course. was not alone in
producing works on fishes and angling;
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
The Henderson Garden.

II, II the wynd be east" Here was sure
ly plain and canny advice.
A book by Leonard Mascall first pub
lished in 1890. is. chronologically. the
next in interest of the Harvard collec-
ton. This, too, is reprint. 1t is full
of quaint and curious directions to those
who aspire to skill in the fishers craft.
One section of 1t is devoted to a discus
sion of traps and snares for the capture
of the aromatic polecat. Here is its re-
cipe for catching cells. aye shall make
long faggots of hay wrapt about willow
bOughs which ye shall put in the midst
of your bottle or faggot of hay and then
sinke it in the deepe by the banke and SO
let it lie two or three dayes and tie a
wythe or rope thereunto that ye may
soone plucke it up, on land or boate;
and so ye shall take yeeles therein good
store. in cold weather very good"
Eminent also. in the early literature
of the piscatorial realm, was John Den
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
QUEER OLD TONES ON ANGLING AND ANGLERS HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

there were number Of foreign writer's
and some few works in Latin. The chief
in interest OF these in the Harvard COL
lection is the work of Guilluame do
Saluste. seigneur Du Bartas, called By
its author "Divine Weekes and Workes."
which contains. in a general account of
the creation, painstaking list of the
fishes created on the fifth day. In the
translation 1t was an immensely popular
English book
Among other curiosities of the collec-
tion is tome published from the old
manuscript of a Derbyshire fisherman
OF two centuries ago, entitled "Flees
and the Etyfshall fee making" The
book contains actual specimens of ar
uficial flies and samples Of the material
for making them. Another volume fs
the work of David Cairncross, who,
strangely enough, in the middle of the
last century and its enlightenment, put
forth beautifully bound and illustrated
work to prove that the eel has for its
progenitor modest little species Of
beetle. Nearby is queer shaped. fat
old tome, once the property of William
Penn: and bearing his autograph on the
fly leaf.
Such are some of the bits Of interest
that an afternoons ramble through the
Bartlett library brings to light. Each
new volume or each weathered, frowning
tome in leather may hide between its
covers some pretty versifed lines on
angling. some interesting instruction in
the art, some quaint philosophy of the
seventeenth century sportsman, or
plates of strange tropical fishes, beauti-
fully set forth in color, or a curious
theory of forgotten crank of the sal
mon pool or trcut brook, or some scrap
OF description which quickens the mem-
ory of the bookworm TO the sound OF the
wind in the pines, the sight of the fresh
greenery of the mountain torrent. and
the smell of the cracking brentwood
fire. Perhaps at the end of ones exam-
ination one recalls the old verses of
John Dennys. who sings OF the angler
US one
Who with his angle and his hookes
Can think the longest day well spent,
And praises God when back he looks
And finds that all was innocent.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

key is fitted to the main shaft, by which
the photographic cylinder is rotated,
and the fy-wheel tends to maintain a
uniform speed.
Above the record cylinder is arranged
a diaphragm such as is used in the regu-
lar phonograph. The funnel at the top
of the Photographic apparatus opens
underneath the breast of the doll,
which is perforated to permit the
sound to escape. By the simple opera
tion of turning the crank any child can
make the doll say Mary had little
lamb" Jack and gill; or whatever it
was, so to speak. taught to say in the
phonograph factory.
THE manner of preparing the wax
like records for the photographic dolls
presents an amusing spectacle in the
factory" said the agent for the dolls.
who was encountered in one of the toy
stores in this city. "They are placed
upon an instrument very much like an
ordinary phonograph, and into the
mouth of which a girl speaks the words
to be repeated by the doll. A large
number of these girls are continually
doing this work Each one has a stall
to herself, and the jangle produced by
number of girls simultaneously re-
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
Newer Grounds Laid Out and
Kept Up With Infinite Care
Where Symmetry and Or
der Reign-The British
Embassy and Its Elegant
Display Other Pretty Gar
dens Seldom Seen by the
Public-Many Rare Plants

stroyed. the place now being an athletic
park.
Among the p.ivate gardens of Wash
fngton which. though not new, cannot
be classed with the "old" g.Sdens for
the reason that they have never bsen
neglected and are kept up" ID the
Bean estate, east of Connecticut Avenue
and north Of Florida Avenue. and ths
Alexander Place. on Connecticut Ave
nue. lear Eighteenth Street, overIookine
Rock Creek valley. In this class should
also be included the Brigs1 homo, o.
Pennsylvania Avenue north Of South
Carolina Avenue. In the matter Of AZ
tent and arboreal growths tho Bean
Place leads There are in ttis we'll
kept park about eleven acres, and It has
often been suggested as tho most de-
sirabie site for the Presidents mansion,
should an executive residence be built
on the heights overlooking Washingtou
from the north. Meridian Hill has also
been mentioned often in this connection.
The Bean homestead occupies the brow
Of the hill that rises north of Florida
Avenue. and the hilltop as we'll - the
south slope Is covered with very old
trees. mostly oaks. Where olearings
the west side Of Connecticut Avenue
front frs, cedars. and arbor vitaes have
been planted. There arc beds Of such
glorious and fashionable flowers as hy.
drangeas, and cannas Of the piIlss-of-
flame, black prince and red indian va
South. Is represented by several dne
stalks. In the Alexander grounds trees
young and old seem to have this right
of way, though in beds about the lawn
directly before the house there are
bright flowers At the Briggs place ono
may find box and althea, lilac. spirea,
SNOWFALL, wild ivy or rhododendron, and
"pinks the deep red or vari-
gated carnation-but the humble little
pink which was our ancestors pet.
The Truesdell Grounds.
The Truesdell grounds on Washington
Heights are large and we'll kept, though
there is an undue proportion of shadow
to light, due to too thick planting OF
spruces.
The Barber residence on the south
side Of Clifton Street. between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Streets. is worthy
Of mention, because of the grove of old
Daks and the abundance of ivy and
M .s 5y
, The Barber place occupies the north
srn third of the great square bounded by
Florida Avenue. Clifton Street. Thi--
.eenth and Fourteenth. The southern
of this square is part OF
The John Sherman estate. 1t has a
struggling growth of black locusts. honey
ocusts. white oaks, and that peculiar
melling Chinese tree, the name of which
IS so hard to recall. fget
Mrs John A. Logan. at the northeast
,orner of Clifton and Thirteenth Streets,
las surrounded her home with trumpet
zines. tamarask trees. box trees, wood
oine hedges, and exotic plants.
The Henderson place. on Sixteenth
Street. north OF Florida Avenue,
s distinguished for It's lawns and green
erraces, but not for it's flowers. Some
Wy is creeping over the brown walls OF
he CASTLE" and few sunfowers shine
here.
Among the beautiful gardens Of Wash
ngton are those of the British embassy
md the Academy Of the Visitation.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
THE Harvard University library

"HE Harvard University library
owns a special collection of books
on angling. The collection con-
tains some rare old volumes
quaint and curious tones and interest
ing specimens of bookcraft; and is
rich in all kindss OF treatises on fish,
fishing, and fishermen. On the shelves
average man Z week; lover OF the
sport. month; bookworIn, a year.
There are books in Latin. In German,
and In French; books published CEN
turies ago in Europe and books print
ed last year in Boston or New York.
The nucleus of the collection, consist
ing of over 1000 volumes, was present
ed 10 the university in 1892 by John
Bartlett, himself an enthusiast of the
rod and trout brook, but better known
for his Familiar Quotations, and for
his standard Concordance to Shakes
peare."
In looking over this collection one
naturally turns first to the various
Soitiolc vi lLddh W 1OinpltdL
Angler But among the fifty-seven
copies of this immortal classic of Eng
lish fishing, including more than one
reprint and exact fac-simile, there is
no example OF the first edition of 1858,
which. has been sold lately at almost
fabulous prices. The evidence seems to
show that Mr.. Bartlett at one time pos
sesscd copy. but he has noted in the
catalogue of his collection that because
this copy was imperfect he had sent ii
back to the London dealer who sup
piled il to him.
The charm OF Izaak Walton is well de-
scribed by Charles Lamb in letter to
Coleridge. a century after the authors
death. 1T breathes the very spirit of
innocence, purity and simplicity of
heart" writes Lamb, There are many
choice old verses interspersed in it: il
would sweeten mans temper at any
time to read 1t; 1t would christianize
every discordant. angry passion; pray
make yourself acquainted with it, A
tribute to the delights of the "Compleat
Angler" even prettier than Lambs, is
the following, written by lady OF the
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
court in copy owned by the great
chemist. Sir Humphrey Davy:

Albeit, gentle angler, /
Delight not in thy trade,
Yet in thy pages there doth lie
So much of quaint simplicity,
So much Of mind
OF such good kind,
That none need be afraid
Caught by thy cunning bait, this book
10 be ensnared upon thy hook.
On the title page Of the older editions
there appeared the text: Simon Peter
said. i will go a fishing; and they said,
we also will go with thee:" and the title
itself ended with the statement that
the volume was mot unworthy the pc
rusal of most anglers" statement
which is quite as true today as it was
then.
After Walton one looks next in an
angling library for the famous Book of
st. Albans," which was the earliest
printed volume on sports published in
any language, English or otherwise.
Only one copy of the original edition of
the chapter on fishing, printed by
Wynkyn de Worde in 1896, little more
than twenty years after Caxton first
set up his press at Westminster, re-
mains in existence, but there are sew
eral excellent reprints, the best of
which, now very rare, is the one re-
printed in 1910. of which the Harvard
collection has a well-preserved exem-
pier Quaint as this sporting treatise
may be, it is still not so interesting
as tie authoress, who, from her unique
place in the annals of English sport,
has won the title of the Diana of the
English" She was Juliana Barnes or
Berners, prioress of Sopwell and true
lover of the chase and the delights Of
the rod and line.
Says Holinshed. the old English his
torain: "She was gentlewoman who en-
dued with excellente CITIES of body and
mind wrote certaine treatises of hawk
ing, hunting and fysheing. delighting
greatly hirselfe in those exercises" A.
great believer in the wholesome and in
nocent sports of the field and country,
she advocated them as an Offset against
idleness and vicious living. She pre-
ferred angling above all other pastimes
and finishes her '.Treatyse Of Fysshynge"
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
N ingenious novelty in the way
\ of toys is the talking doll, just
\ being introduced into this coun-
.r,, grnp, D,r;e


try from Paris. This wonderful
plaything consists of good-sized doll,
in which is secreted working phono-
graph. The dolls body is made of tin,
and the interior thereof is filled with
mechanism very much like that of the
commercial phonograph, but, of course
much more simple and inexpensive. The
cylinder of the phonograph of the talk
ing doll is mounted on a sleeve. which
slides upon the shaft, the sleeve being
screw threaded so as to cause the cylin-
der to move lengthwise of the shaft. A
key is provided by which the cylinder
may be thrown out of engagement with
the segmental nut, and spiral spring
is provided for returning the cylinder
to the point of starting. The cylinder
carries ring OF waXlike material, upon
which is recorded the speech or song to
be repeated by the doll. Upon the same
shaft with the record cylinder there is
a large pulley. which carries a belt for
driving the fly wheel shaft at the lower
part of the Photographic apparatus. The