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glass vanished as quickly as 1t came.
There was a germ of truth in the
craze, for it has recently been shown
that the red rays are injuriously slim
ulative in eruptive diseases and of
course the blue glass strained these
rays out 1t goes without saying that
if there were simply healthg giving
qualities in the blue rays and no in
furious ones in the red and yellow, or
binary light would be as effective as
that which had passed through blue
glass; for the glass introduces no new
quality or color into the light; 1t only
absorbs certain rays Of the spectrum,
allowing others to pass. If blue light,
therefore, is more healthful than white,
it must be because the remainder Of
the spectrum has an injurious effect.
We are not through with blue light,
for an Austrian physician, DR.. KAISER
has recently asserted, in paper read
before the Vienna Medical society, that
it is effective in reducing Inflammation,
allaying pain, and curing skin disease
especially by promoting absorption of
morbid humors He asserts that a
beam from a powerful lantern after
passing through blue glass, will kill
cultures Of various bacilli when direct
ed upon them at a distance Of fifteen
feet for half an hour daily during six
days. This he found to be true even
when a human body interviewed be-
tween the culture and the source OF
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himself-this perhaps unconscious and
unexpressed longing in his heart for
certain acknowledgment of his human
ity that he knows not how to ask for
and that will not and cannot be salts
fed with fixed wages. While upon the
surface 1t clearly appears that he is
simply contending for an increased
wage, and though he may be able now
to perceive no other way of securing
that justice except in a higher wage
scale, it still remains that in his heart,
the struggle is made not so much for
more wages as for justtce-as he I'M
derstands it.
While we must have great respect
for the benefits accomplished by the
trade-unions and acknowledge that the
force of combined capital must, under
prevailing conditions, be met with the
strength of organized labor, yet we
must also realize that the classical
ton method Of the trade-union, with
its uniform scale and it's collective
bargain, savors of paternalism and
tends to paralyze individual effort 1t
stunts mental growth and weakens
that spirit Of personal responsibility
so essential for the development of
moral health and physical vigor. Nor
does that system secure or particularly
encourage spirit Of partnership be-
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Sditor of the Hawaiian Star

Hawaii, practically all of them, sent
to the territory from the mainland
and after the establishment of the
territorial form of government, are OPP
posed in sentiment to the mission
airy" or ruling element the Dole gov
eminent. In some cases this is due to
personal discourtesies, in others it is
due to attempts to coerce, by men who
were accustomed to controlling gov
eminent officials, and who did not like
the free, independent insistence on
their own powers and duties which the
federal men from the mainland made.
This condition of affairs has done
great harm to the territory. 1t has re-
suited in private reports to members of
congress and others at Washington adj
verse to the missionary" element,
which is really the respectable ele-
ment, speaking generally, and the best
element in the islands. The fault Of
this element is an exclusiveness, an
undue assumtion Of authority that an
tagonizes those who would otherwise
be friends. There is a "star chamber"
policy in the Dole government which
has no match on American soil, an at
titude of paternalism, a disposition to
treat the public as children and to
act without consulting public opinion,
that is undoubtedly without a match
anywhere else under the stars and
stripes.
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N EVERY leading country of the
world possessing free institutions
the party of the people is in de-
Il spair. American Democracy is
not peculiar in this; British Lib
erals are in an even worse plight. The
last house of commons began with a.
Unionist majority of 1872 in a member
ship of go, disparity of parties al
most unparalleled in England. The
present parliament is nearly as lop-
sided. And Liberals there lack leaders,
policy and heart as much as our
Democrats do. A party so little ro-
bust is unfit even for opposition duty.
This low estate of democratic par
ties some refer to wrong leadership,
others to i'll party organization, others
to alliance with socialism, and still
others to questionable measures which
have been urged, as Irish home rule
yonder, free silver or free trade here.
1 venture to pronounce these causes
superficial, wholly inadequate to eX-
plain the passivity of democracy to-
day. 1t is my belief that democracy
droops mainly because political society
itself is undergoing radical change
comparable with the rise of feudalism
or of absolute monarchy. Democracy
of the type which has become familiar
to the modern world is passing away,
never to return.
The ideas man perfectible, history
purposive, humanity a single thing in
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Prince David Kawananakoa, one of the
heirs to the throne, candidate of the
Democrats.
This result of the election in the last
campaign shows the difference be-
tween politics in Hawaii and in any
other American commonwealth For
the first time in American history there
is to be faced in Hawaii voting ele-
ment of controlling power, composed
of men who are opposed to American
sentiments. 1t will be long time
before the memories of the revolution
of '93 die out. With the present gen
Grafton of Hawaiians there will never
be any forgivness of the men who in
that year took the country from Queen
Liliuokalani. This sentiment Of hatred
Of the missionary" is the strongest
single element in Hawaiian politics
today. Missionary" in Hawaii, means
member of the party Of whites that
carried through the revolution of '93,
and has since controlled affairs in the
islands.
Liliuokalani, though she is still the
queen of the Hawaiian race, or of
enough of them to make her a con-
trolling power in any election, care
fully refrains from taking any part in
politics in a public way. Yet there is
good authority for believing that in
the last election she did in fact, send
forth an edict, by secret emissaries,
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all epochs, races and classes, struck
Europe with the combined might of
novelty and Of reason. Lodged in the
world, they set about conquering it.,
nor, until recently, has their victorious
campaign been seriously checked.
Why, then is democracy so in the
dumps? What is 1T that balkS its prog
ress and even threatens it's end? Ger
tainly no superficial circumstance. Deep
forces are here, and a little tedious
underground work will pay If it prom
ises to disclose them.
One doubtless is the version that
bare civil and political liberty does not
constitute and does not assure the lib
erty which has been the inspiration of
liberalist struggle. The French revolu-
ton programme of simply knocking off
political shacllleS does not go to the
root of things
The hopes of political liberals a CEN
fury ago have not been realized. Pow
erty and oppression have not come to
an end Laissez faire has proved no
gospel. Though wealth and culture
have immensely advanced, there is
ground for believing that the last hum
dred years, the age which free insti-
tutions proudly call their own, have
been the unhappiest century on record.
This period of freedom and political
equality, of status unchanged to con-
tract and of a ballot for all, is precisely
the one in which pessimism has been
born-pessimism that is no longer the
smart hobby Of a few but the fixed con-
Viction of multitudeS.
The day of the homesteader is over.
Free arabic land is no longer to be had.
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that our women are healthier, even if
a trihe less feminine" than the Ian
gushing, pale nd-interesting type of
half century ago?
At the present day an interesting
successor to Lewis's sun bath is the
electric-light bath, where the patient
sits in a box lined with incandescent
lights, only his head protruding The
effect is stimulant and highly bene-
fetal in many cases. In both these
cases the curative agent is whole"
light undiluted and homogeneous. A
little later than LeWis's day came the
'Fblue- glass craze-one of the most in
teresting fads Of many years, now al
most forgotten. About twenty five
years ago Gen. Alfred Pleasanton an
nounced the theory that the health
giving rays of the sun were confined
to the upper part Of the spectrum,
and that plants and men would both
thrive better if kept in blue light. In
a few months the country had BIOS
somed out in blue from New York to
San Francisco. lighthouses turned
from crystal to blue; blue panes alter
mated with the transparent ones in the
windows of dwellings,. One still runs
across relic of those days now and
then in some out-of- the-way spot, in
the shape of a checkered blue skylight
or the like. The experiment was GER
tainly tried on large enough scale,
but 1t was ineffective and the blue
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or not, is thoroughly scientific and is
recognized as such by physicians. 1t
has nothing in 1t of that questionable
: element which Is apt to be prominent
in extraordinary and unusual methods
of cure. Another interesting feature
that connects this treatment with the
earlier light-cures is what Finsen calls
his Riviera-his river of light-a room
Illuminated by an electric arc of $4,000
candle power. This glazing light af-
fects one like bright sunlight and DR..
Finsen believes it to be a powerful
blood stimulant. Here we have merely
the analogue of Dio Lewis's sun baths
and of the later glow-b baths of incan-
descent lights.
To speak of the attempted use of the
ROentgen rays as a curative agent
would take us too far afield, for the
X-rays are scarcely light, although
they may be due to a succession of pc
culiar shocks or impulses in the ether.
But X-rays apart, the ordinary ortho-
dox light ray is undoubtedly able to do
much, and is destined to do more, in
the line of external therapeutics. All
physicians are keeping an eye upon it
and those Of us who live twenty-five
years longer may see 1T in use in all
Of our hospitals. Indeed, Finsen may
one day rank with the discoveries of
anaesthetics as one of the great bene-
factors of the human race.
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BY G. M. Harger.

citizen IL the concentration Of state
troops that is also contemplated for
this central post. With the exception
of few Of the larger states, like New
York, Massachusetts,. Ohio and Penn
sylvania, none Of the states has a
thorough equipped national guard, let
alone well trained one. The states
named, with some others, have sum-
mer camps that are Of value, as was
manifest in the Spanish American
war. But Of necessity the instruction
does not go beyond the regimental
school; there can be no massing of ar
mics, with the accompanying problems
of food supply, equipment, sanitary
precautions and similar matters to be
solved. 1t is proposed to bring to Fort
Riley large number Of the state reg
iments at the same time as the con-
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Lighthouses: Old and New.

z T is no new idea that there is life
and health in light. Our savage
ancestors were quite right in
- looking on the sun as the great
source of life, and it required no
technical course in experimental sci
ence to tell them that a man, like a
plant, would wilt away when kept in
the dark. The progress of ideas along
this line in modern times has been
chiefly in two directions-the syste-
matte utilization Of light in combating
specific disease and an attempt to To-
calize the curative effects of light in
some particular part of the spectrum.
In both these directions experiments
have the germ theory of disease to
thank for showing them how light
cures, and for suggesting methods for
its utilization.
One of the most persistent advocates
of plenty of sunlight as a necessity to
health was the once famous DR.. Dio
Lewis In season and out of season he
preached the gospel of sunshine, and
he was one of the first to introduce
the sun baths that afterwards came
into general use. The tanned faces
and arms of the up-to- date American
girl are evidences that his view is now
the popular one; and who can deny
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tween the two forces. 1t makes al
ways for enlarging the share of labor
as distinguished from strict justice.
The system that frequently obtains,
where the settlement with the wage
Garner is based upon piece work"
may have the appearance of fairness;
yet it does not at all meet the situation.
Truly it keeps up the pace Of the
sturdy worker and drops out the slug
gard and the weakling. But seldom If
ever does it yield more than a living
wage. The standard Is quickly made
to conform to the physical ability to
produce, and Soto all practical pur-
poses-it too becomes fixed wages. And
there is in this form, as well as in all
other adjustments of fixed wages, a re-
fusal to recognize the worker as
partner in the enterprise. There is a
disregard of the positive charm that
one feels in an opportunity to earn
and receive something different and
more satisfying than fixed compen-
sation. There is failure to reach
justice as represented by a fair divi-
sion Of the net profit; and there is
always absent the coveted acknowl-
edgement Of the personal value Of the
wage Garner, viewed as a contributor
to the finished, marketed and delivered
product
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centration of regulars, and familiarize
them with actual army life on large
scale. Just how extensive this con-
centration Of troops will be cannot be
told; it will depend to some extent on
the appropriations made by congress
and the various states. However, it Is
probable that $4,000 men of the ma
tional guard will next year make this
rallying place. A few states sent
small bodies of militia to the camp
this year, and others few officers.
Col. Carr is now post commander at
Riley. Before him were Gen. Forsythe
and other famous fighters Of redskins.
On the reservation is handsome
monument to the soldiers who fell at
Wounded Knee and one to Major Og-
den, who sacrificed his life nursing his
men in thecholera epidemic in 1885.
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light He believes that by exposing
tuberculous patients to his blue ray he
has effected marked Improvement and
even cure. 1t does not appear that he
has checked his experiments by trying
them with rays of other colors and
with ordinary white light, and possibly
the color of his beam has nothing to do
with his results. If it has, as has been
said before, it must be because the
rays Of the lower part of the spectrum,
absorbed by the blue glass, are inju
rious in some way.
Be this as it may, it is certain that
the blue and violet rays-the photo
active part of the spectrum-will pene-
trate the human body, for it is easy to
print a photograph with them after
they have traversed the body Inter-
esting results along this line have been
attained by Drs. Gottheil and Franklin,
Of New York. In noticing them the
daily press has assured its readers
that these Investigators have succeed
ed in Photographic through the hui
man body" and have exhibited repro
auctions of photographs alleged to be
so taken. These are simply photo
graphic prints from negatives taken in
the ordinary way The negative and
sensitive film are fastened together
close to a person'ss body, on the other
side of which the light falls. The rays
that make the print must therefore
pass through the body. u The facts are
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Nor is this craving-beyond fixed
money recompense-for a proper rec
ognition of ones contribution of energy
or thought to the finished product con-
fined to the laboring man or the arti-
san. 1t is universal, and pervades the
realms Of science and letters. For in
stance: An eminent surgeon who stood
foremost in his profession was called
upon for a treatise upon certain pop
ular disease and its remedy. Being
much pressed with the daily and more
profitable demands upon his time, he
gave to one of his assistants, q bril-
liant young surgeon, the task of pre-
pairing the main part of the article.
This assistant wrote the desired pa
per without unusual effort. In the
course of few days it was completed
in admirable form and handed to this
eminent surgeon, who expressed him
self well pleased with the work. He
then added certain deductions and sug-
gestions without in any way altering
the original paper, and, after send
ing his assistant liberal fee, pub
lished the entire article under his own
name without so much as mentioning
the man who had written the greater
part of it. OF course, the young sur
geon may have received the full mar
ket value in money for the contribu-
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and discover some more reasonable,
just and profitable way Of adjusting
the relationship between the two forces
something that will turn every
worker into a peace-maker. Possibly
this may come by extending the COM
munity- of interest idea so as to in
clude the community, or through the
adoption of some just plan of distribu-
ton that shall harmonic the now con-
f1icting interests as well as develop the
individual, stimulate mental and ply
steal activity, and make the lowliest
contributor Of labor sharer in the
result
For there is something nearer and
dearer to the heart of every man than
even his living wage-a righteous crav-
ing to be recognized as contributor to
the success Of the business. This ire
sistible desire to receive something
richer than the fixed money wage
must inspire renewed faith in the con-
tinual elevation of society. 1t is the
veritable heart throb that gives indie
structible vitality to the demand of all
producers for a righteous recognition
and a place on a higher plane than
fixed wages make possible. 1t is JUS
tice that all are craving, and not
higher wage.
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accessibility Of the post from every
part of the nation, make it particularly
fit for the object in view. The other
forts of the old frontier, except Fort
Leavenworth, have passed away or
have deteriorated. These two remain
and will be the center of the army's
activities in the West.
Four great camps for the mobiliza-
ton of the army have been planned for
by the army board and the secretary
of war: At Chickamauga, for the
eastern and southeastern troops; at
some point in Dakota for the northern
postsj in California for those on the
coast; at Fort Riley for the troops be-
tween the two great ranges of noun
tains and including the entire Missis-
sippi valley.
The first mobilization Of troops be-
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the controlling factor in, the last cleo
ton of a delegate to congress, and it
promises to be the same again.
Liliuokalani Dominis, a queen with
out a throne, has taken up her resi-
dence in Honolulu again, and she lives
there in the utmost seclusion. She
receives political leaders, however,
mostly those of the Wilcox faction.
Though openly disayowing any part in
politics, the ex-queen, from the very
nature of her position, is looked UP to
for guidance. She is probably able,
by speaking word, to control an cleo
ton result in the Territory. Very gen
eral reports have it that she did 50
last election, and general expectation
is that she will do it again-for VIII
cox.
Wilcox is the hero Gin Hawaiian
eyes) Of several unsuccessful revolu-
tons to restore the queen. He was
condemned to death once by the Dole
government, was exiled and was heavi-
ly fined. He is an orator of great pow
er in the Hawaiian language, and his
influence over the natives of Hawaii is
second to that of no other living man.
In 1901, starting alone and without
funds, he won the campaign for con-
gress against Sam Parker, the Repub-
lican candidate, who is a native of
great popularity and was backed by
the wealth Of the islands, and against
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wonderful enough as they are; 1t is
unnecessary so to state them that the
reader will wrongly believe that the
negative was made when a person was
standing between the camera and the
object to be photographed. OF course
the production of the print was not an
end in itself, but merely a means Of
showing that the actinic rays Of light
can pass through the human body
and that if these rays possess any
healing effects they can be used to
alleviate internal disease.
After all, however, these theories and
experiments are as nothing when COM
pared with the wonderful work in pho
to-therapy that has been done and is
now being done by DR.. Finsen, of Co
penhagen. He has used light chiefly
in the treatment of skin diseases, but
his success has been marked. In his
institution at Copenhagen, which is
now one Of the sights of the city, he
has treated nearly a thousand cases, in
nearly all Of which the application Of
light has been beneficial. In slight
cases of blemish a few hours treat
ment has sufficed to effect a cure, while
in instances where a very large area of
skin is affected, as In bad cases of lu-
pus, or superficial tuberculosis, the
treatment may require years, square
inch or two at time being restored to
a healthy condition.
DR.. Finsen has used both sunlight
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tice marches from the forts of the mid
die West. They go with all their ac-
coutrements, and when the commands
gather in camp at Fort Riley they are
equipped as they would be for a So
journ in the enemy's country. The
elements of camp life and the soldiers
proper care for himself and his be-
longings are taught; and 1t is believed
by army men that with the drill that
will come out of these notifications,
many Of the evils that have afflicted
the soldiers in the Philippines will be
eradicated. In coming years more
troops will be brought here, as the ia
cilities are increased for better caring
for them. Next autumn fully 10000
men will be accommodated, and the
year after that $4,000.
Perhaps of more vital interest to the
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the rights Of property are Of supreme
and the rights of man are Of Sec
ondary Importance; if the business
world is willing to continue to suffer
the losses resulting from the positive
discomfort Of the producing class; If
the trade union continues to believe
that justice to the producer can be
attained solely through forcing capital
to raise the standard scale, rather than
by making the worker a proportionate
sharer in the net result; and if en-
ightened labor is willing to accept
a definite scale as complete and just
recognition Of it's contribution to the
finished product; then we may proceed
indefinitely on the present course
with it's many bumps, occasional
wrecks, and frequent settlements. But
we are led to believe that this Is not
always to be.
There is no disputing the fact that
the consolidation of capitalistic enter
prises is a natural and logical ten
dency, and that the resulting concen-
tration of power will continue But
those in control must realize that there
is higher power among men than the
power of money-an irresistible force
that abides in the universal determine
ton to have Justice at any cost. It
may be unrecognized by the worker