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The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
ARTILLERY TRAINING.

General Macarthur, commanding the
department of California, in his annual
report, says the Importance of an ar
tillery reserve for the Pacific coast can
not be oVerestimated, and he recon-
mends that the entire organized mill
tia of all arms located within easy dis
lance of San Francisco be invited to
participate in course Of coast artillery
training at the Preside.
The foregoing is from n late Wash
ington dispatch. Hawaii is "within
easy distance of San Francisco" If the
War Department choose to make 1t so,
for the purpose mentioned by General
Macarthur, by making the calling
transport service available for carry
ing contingent of the Hawaiian Ma
tional Guard to the rendezvous. Per-
haps two birds may be killed with one
stone through making the visit OF a
Hawaiian company to the st. Louis EN-
position fit in with artillery instruction
OF the same company at the Preside,
Coast guarding with artillery was early
adopted by the National military au-
thorities as the appropriate garrison
service at Honolulu. This fact should
suggest that n portion of the infantry
strength of the Hawaiian militia might
be transformed into the artillery
branch. Besides giving variety, ii
would add to the effectiveness, in case
OF necessity, OF the Territory's citizen
soldiery.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
Nv BUILDING MATERIAL.

In view of probable building activity
consequent upon the opening up of new
suburban tracts by the electric cars, the
following description of improved con-
crete structural material ought to
have interest for both contractors and
owners of house lots. It is from
late Eastern exchange:
Partly in consequence of the grow
ing cheapncss of cement, partly as Il
result of the increasing confidence OF
engineers in its qualities and partly be-
cause the cement is sometimes rem
forced with network of steel embed
ded therein, there has been a remark
able increase in the use of concrete for
building purposes in the last few years.
Hitherto, though, this material has
been employed in solid masses, whereas
it is now proposed to mould it into hol-
low blocks, thus securing greater light
ness, as well as other advantages.
According to Casters Magazine,
houses constructed with such hollow
blocks are in measure highly develop
ed examples of the remarkably durable
adobe houses of Mexico and the South
west of the United States, which,
though built simply of large sun dried
blocks of clay, appear as though heWn
out of one solid mass, and have been
found to successfully resist both great
heat and heavy tropical rains. Walls
built of hollow concrete blocks, with
their inclosed air spaces, tend to keep
houses warm in winter and cool in
summer, and the only problem of salts
factorily building them has been that
of cost.
This, however, we are told has now
been solved by a machine which turns
them out quickly and cheaply, and in
! all desired sizes. The moulds are made
with removable sides, and after the
block of concrete has been formed,
| these sides are swung out of the way
! and the block can be lifted out and left
to thoroughly set. Grooves and tongues
| can easily be formed in the blocks, en-
ablng them to be rigidly tied together
in building up wall, and openings
can also be provided in them to re-
ceive the ends of floer beams. the joints
being subsequently filed with cement,
IL desired, to insure greater security.
Many houses have of late been built
with such blocks, and their popularity
, seems TO be on the increase. In ap-
pearance such concrete block walls re-
semble masonry-in fact, the blocks can
he fashioned after almost any desired
pattern.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
LOCAL BREviTlES.
(From Saturdays Daily)

DR.. Raymond, proprietor of Kahiki-
nui ranch, on Maui is in town.
w. NJ. Pomroy, foreman of the Ad-
vertiser composing room, has an at
tack of the dengue.
The Home Rulers are troubled how
to decide between Kalauokalani and
Nakuina for the county clerk candi-
date.
Red fish are reported to have fore
shown the volcanic outbreak. They for
merly came but as forerunners of a
chiefs death, though mistaking the
time to come now and then.
The acceptance Of George H. Fair
child's name on the official ballot for
Kauai county, as candidate for SUPER
visor, by Governor Dole was based on
a decision of the Supreme Court in
1902 in the case of August Dreier.
George e. Ferris, when told Of the
Communication of his sentence, said he
was forty years old and did not think
he would survive twenty years of hard
labor. Nevertheless he felt grateful to
the Governor for saving his life and
would try to be q model prisoner.
Deputy Attorney General Peters, in
explanation of his allusion to Juror
Motley in court, stated yesterday aft
ernoon that Motley, at a Home Rule
said that John II. Wise was
mo good because he had polled his
vote in the jury room for verdict Of
guilty against a Hawaiian defendant
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
FRIDAY IN COURT,

The Advertiser confesses surprise al
the attitude of the Kamuela jury
towards the following item which APP
reared in the court notes of this paper
yesterday, under the caption of 1.-The
Color Line"
"Kamuela was put on trial for as
sault and battery. Ella Long appear
ed for the defendant. When his chal-
lenges has been exercised, only one
white man was left on the jury. This
was Carl Willing"
Since learning the names of the jury
men the editor finds that his reporter
was in error in saying that but one
white man was left. There were
two, for Juror Montana, notwithstand-
ING his dark complexion, is one of a
race which has not been classified as
other than white The corrected
statement is that the jury stood ten
Hawaiians to two white men, a pro-
norton which cannot be regarded as
fair. In the interests Of justice II
would seem as If both races should
always have proper representation IN
the Jury box 1t may be assumed that
a white man is as competent for jury
duty as a Hawaiian so long as he be-
HAYES himself.
Looking at the item complained OF
II is impossible to see how any Ha-
waiian Juror could stand up, with
straight face, and say that the reading
of 1t had disqualified him to sit In the
pending case. In the paragraph com
plained Of no opinion was given as 10
the merits of the court proceeding
The probable guilt or innocence OF the
prisoner was not mentioned. NO mis-
leading statement was made save the
minor and immaterial one about Mr..
-.,ntano AS for the row made over
this small item, such n thing would
not have been permitted to disturb
business in any other court than Gears.
The occasion was trivial; the subse-
Quent grand stand play ridiculous.
Regarding jurors who urge that the
bare and uncolored relation of fact
which of itself gave them no concern,
so changed their mental attitude that
they could not give the defendant
fair trial, all we can say Is that they
are either insincere or childish. If
insincere their obstreperous complaints
and their refusal to do their duty
should impel the court to punish them
for contempt: II merely childish they
have no business on the jury at all.
As for Judge Gear If he would spend
less time in trying to pick flaws in the
Advertiser and in doing cheap politics
from the bench and more time in
melting out justice to criminals, public
respect for him would be much greater
than IL is,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

At n meeting held in Washington the
last week in September, the general
executive board of the knights of La
Dor said things in resolutions adopted.
Wherensing its belief that President
Roosevelt was zone of the best friends
organized labor ever had in the White
House." the board resolved. with re-
gard to a reported movement of GER
tain labor organizations and their lead
ers to have organized labor take IN the
fight OF the enemies of the President,
because of his action in the Washing
ton Printing Office dispute, THAT such
action as is contemplated against Pres
ident Roosevelt is one OF the many err
rors and mistakes made by organized
labor, as they seem inclined to ignore
the rights of others, create strikes and
make demands that are unreasonable,
relying not on the justice of their con-
tention or claims, but the amount OF
loss or trouble they can cause others,
and to see what they can secure by
depending on politicians and not Oh the
justice of their demands" Thus add
vanced and intelligent labor walks the
opposite way to that shown in the
walking delegates marching manual.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
TOWNSHIP SWlNDLES.

1t is like glimpse of old boom days
to read the story from bakersfield,
Cal, of the sale to Eastern men or
paper town lots in a mythical Eden.
Fifteen years or more ago the indus
try was as flourishing as the sale OF
sailed mines had been a quarter of n
century before. 1t was no uncommon
thing to sell lots in town site which
was ten feet under tidewater or on
the steep slopes OF some almost in
accessible mountain. The thing was
done from map by a glib auctioneer
or through correspondence based upon
a prospectus containing the names, as
reference, of eminent public men.
Whether such names figured in the
Bakersfield swindle we do not know,
but probably they did. There is a
class of men, high in official place,
who are always willing to lend their
names to get-rich schemes in re-
turn for paid-up stock, quite lately
a mid Western Senator was accused
of something of the kind No one
knows how far the influence of the
names OF several Senators and n First
Assistant Postmaster General went
when they appeared on the advertise
ment OF a Mexican Clover California;
development company which, in 1856,
sold worthless realty at n fancy price.
But a multitude We're duped. such
men have their Counterparts in the
British Lords. called guinea pigs
who assist floatations," They are
the deCoys that lure the credulous ia
ruin. Without them the Incorporated
swindlers would find their tasks diff
cult indeed; for, in spite of the fact
load 4 ha
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

Whether it was n fleeing memory
of his decision that nobody can be sent
to Jail without a grand jury indictment
behind him or whether it was a sudden
rush of common sense to the head, we
do not know; but for one reason or
other Judge Gear seemed to appreciate
the chance the Attorney General gave
him to drop the contempt proceedings
against the Advertiser and resume the
kamuela case where he left off. Even
the. rambunctlous jurors seemed to be
satisfied, Where the fire fountains had
played and the molten rock had curled
over preciplces on Friday, the doves
of peace cooed and the lava looked
cold and bare on Monday. 1t was one
of those sudden and peculiar changes
which have marked all the Gear
crowds recent efforts to squelch the
Advertiser Strange how even local
history repeats itself.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

At first they were insurgents" and
''insurrectos" in the PHILIPPINES and
therefore patriots" to the nti-expan-
sion party in the United Sites. Then
their names We're changed to Ia
drones'' and the anti-eSpansionists
We're stricken dumb. A 'ladrone"
might be hairy and gorf pirate for
all they knew. Finally the Bostonese
discovered that the ladrone was the
same old insurrecto under disguis-
ing name so 1t became necessary to
call him "head-hunter." i is pleas
ing to know by the late dispatches that
the Philippine corstabulary pave killed
fifty-three "head-hunters. Now what
can the anti-expanslonlsts Jay against
that? Isn't It American to kill
scalping or heal-removing Isavages?
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

We are reminded by n subscriber,
who writes on the authority of the
Christian Herald, that the story of
Emily Brown reaching the throne OF
Korea by the harem route has heen
authoritatively denied. A search of
the archives in the Advertisers clipping
library does not develop a denial but it
fixes the responsibility for the story
upon Editor O'Shea of Shanghai, the
most renowned prevaricator in the Far
East. Mr.. O'Shea, among his other
triumphs of unveracity, counts the
story which Mortified the civilized
world, about the massacre of the lega-
tions at Picking during the Boxer trou-
BILE, The mere attachment of his name
to the story of Emily Brown removes
II from the sober field of history and
places II in the rainbow realm of fic-
ton.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

Andrew 5. Wallace, postmaster at
Opp. Alabama, jumped to the conclu-
sion that the big postotiice fellows at
Washington We're as corrupt as the
worst reports implied. Therefore,
deeming It opportune to try for n bet
ter place than opp, he wrote to Post
master General Payne asking for trans
ference to the postmastership OF Anda-
lusia, He stated that TO compensate
the Postmaster General for his trou-
BILE, he would pay him fifty dollars as
soon as the order for the transfer was
issued. Wallace obtained n transfer,
but 1t was in the form of a warrant OF
arrest. The p. NJ. G. had forwarded his
letter to the chief inspector of the
Southern Division at Chattanooga, who
caused his removal from the opp Office
and his commttal to the United States
Court at Birmingham. This recent
story has several morals.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

Hilo seems TO be in a fair way of
working up a profitable banana trade,
With assured regularity OF steamer
transportation, the cultivators need on
ly select the best varieties and adopt
the most approved methods OF culture
and packing to make a good thing out
of the industry.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

We venture to say thai no public
business for Eawaii, calling for the SER
vices OF citizen of these Islands on
the mainland. has eve, been more
speedily, capably and successfully car
ried through than has tie adjustment
of our Territorial bonding interests by
Secretary George r. Carter.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
Liquor Licenses.

Renewals of liquor licenses were ap-
proved as follows by the executive
council yesterday; Morimoto, wine,
beer and ale, Holualoa, North Kona;
II. Hamano, dealers spirit, Honolulu;
Wing Wo Tai & Co., wholesale, Homo,
lulu.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

The Bulletin, under the heading
says that the Kuokoas
have "come back" to the Home Rulers,
Come" is good. Is the Bulletin get
ting ready 10 become a Home Rule or
gan in case there should be anything
TO graft on?
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

The Bulletins cup is a harder tro-
ply to lift than the international one,
That's because it's nailed down.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

II see that the superintendent OF a
cooking school has had to retire on
account of her health"
What is the matter with her?"
Dyspepsia"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13

Politics t. jury box needs men of
sense to work II. Any bungling there
is rather too glazing.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-10-13
TIDES, SUN AND MOON.

Last quarter of the moon on the 18th.
Times OF the tide are taken from the
United States Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey tables.
The tides at Kahului and Hilo occur
about one hour earlier than at Homo
lulu.
Hawaiian standard time is ID hours 80
minutes slower than Greenwich time.
being that of the meridian of 157 oe-
ices 80 minutes. The time whistle
blows at 1880 D. m, which is the same
as Greenwich. o hours o minutes. Sun
and moon are for local time for the
vhola Rroup
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-14
College for Policemen.

There is policeman's college in
St. Petersburg to train applicants for
the force. There is a museum COM
bined with the school where the pu-
pills make themselves familiar with
the tools of criminals, jimmies, drills,
chisels and contrivances for robbing
collection boxes, a special field of
Russian thieves. The Russian pass
port system is studied in detail. The
duties of the dvorniks, a sort of as
sistant police, are taught. They keep
watch on The residences, report on
the habits of tenants, their visitors.
examine the papers of newcomers
and direct them to report themselves
at the police station. The members
of such clever and complicated sys-
TEN need careful instruction.-N. Y.
Tribune.
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A Terrible Name.

The king of Greece has an aid dc
camp who rejoices in the name Of
Pappadiamantopoulos. In the ordi-
nary course of things, the gallant
colonel would accompany his Hellenic
majesty on his travels abroad every
summer, but his name was found to
leave train of dislocated Jaws in
the royal wake; moreover, it was
charged as two words in kilograms
ana was mutilated by telegraphists
beyond all recognition; so he is now
left at home, and a gentleman of ths
name of Thon takes his place in at
tendance on King George on his an
nual visits to AiX-les- Bains and Paris
Even Southey's Russian general-"a
terrible man with a terrible name"
would have paled his Intellectual fires
IN the presence of Pappadiamanto-
poulos!-Westminster Gazette.
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Might Have Spared Him That

Prisoner" said the Judge, the
sentence of this court is that you be
confined in the state penitentiary
for five years, at hard labor, and r
take occasion to express the hope
that at the expiration of that time
you will so far have reformed that
you will no longer try to make a liv-
Ing without work"
Your honor" said the convicted
wretch, flushing with indignation. III
you think it amt no work 10 90 out
at two o'clock in the mornin' when
it's down below zero, and skin up
steep porches with the roof all COW
cred with sncw, you ort to try a.
once!"--Chicago Tribune.
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known, and seek rest and peace amid
| the scenes of my childhood. also de-
termined, after my arrival, to begin a
thorough investigation of the robbery
on my own hook. The reason l had
not done this before will be stated later.
The solitude OF Sidington, the lack
/ OF a welcoming hand, the knowledge
that l had outgrown all boyish esti-
mates and would therefore find the old
homestead no longer encompassed
about by the romantic interest which
youngsters mind was able to conjure
up-al this did not tend to raise my de-
pressed spirits, and my heart was heavy
within me as I plodded up the long
dusty hill toward the home of Mr.. Hun
sicler.
A delicious breeze was blowing at the
top of the hill, and paused moment
under the shade of the naples, to bare
my perspiring brow to the cool in
f1uence.
Then 1 slowly walked up the shady
path leading to the porch, keeping my
hat in my hand. / hoped Mr.. Hunsicker
would be at the house for dinner, Tor
1 determined not to go out into the hot
fields to search for him.
A knock at the open front door caused
an interruption in the elatter of dishes
which proceeded from an inner room,
and very soon shutting footsteps ap-
preached the door.
A tall, stoop-shouldered individual,
dressed in a brown cotton shirt, blue
overalls and cowhide boots, loomed ND
out of the gloom of the darkened rooms.
From the look of establishment on the
mans face when he saw me, Judged
the advent of a stranger was rare oc-
currence to this household.
"Win you haul me and a trunk 70
Nelsonville?" l asked.
My question produced a banker stare
from the old fellow, and his jaws, which
had been busy masticating a mouthful
of food, ceased operations. 1 gave him
time, and, when he had partially re-
covered from his surprise, again ad-
dressed him.
do you understand EnglishP" 1
asked.
Zach, y-e-e-s indeedl" he replied, aft
er he had hastily swallowed the food.
And is your name Hunsicker-Jacob
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leave the oats be long enough TO drive
to Jacksonville and back. Anyway, be
kin take you after supper. if you wanter
wait till then"
And where does Mr.. Hunsicker live ?''
l asked.
The agent pointed to clump of trees
on the summit of hill about a quarter
of mile distant. You kin see Just a
part of the roof through the trees. The
road runs uphill right past the house."
How about these things while l am
gone? Will they be safe?" inquired
"Oh, yes; no one'll take 'em. It'll be
all right" he replied, indifferently, as
though he did not care whether my lug
gage would be secure or not. Then he
gave one more glance at me, grinned in
his dull way, sprang from the platform,
and went off down the road.
All the country for miles about Mel
sonville had been familiar to my boy
hood. But now, after an absence of Is
years, l could hardly recognize this part
of it.
The railroad had been built some five
years before, and that made, in itself,
a great change. The station was in a
valley, and the fertile fields and dark
green forests on the bounding hills were
all very beautiful.
But, as there were few houses, and
those in the distance, there was a
loneliness about the place which seemed
/ to find counterpart in my life. For
L was social Ishmael, an outcast, bur-
dened with the suspicion of a crime OF
which | was innocent The fact that
nothing could be proved against me, in
the minds of most people, only indi-
Gated that / was such an adept in
roguery as to be able to cover up all
proof of my guilt.
1t was now year that the cloud had
rested over my good name. The first
! six months of this time had vainly at
tempted to live down the general sus-
picion. But found the houses of even
those 1 had considered true friends
closed against me, and SO, heart-sore
and almost despairing, fed to Europe,
hoping to find partial forgetfulness, or
at least rest from cruel tongues. I'm
fortunately for my peace, Americans
read the newspapers. and had only to
mention my name to my countrymen
whom l met during my trip abroad to
be asked if was the one whose name
was mentioned in connection with the
! great bank robbery in Philadelphia 1
soon tired of this and of being compelled
to tell over and over again the circum-
stances of that affair, so resolved to 90
back to my native land, avoid the city
where | was so well and so unfavorably
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-14
Women Mail Carriers.

1t l. discovered that nearly rs
women are serving as rural delivery
mail carriers. No women are an
pointed as mail carriers in the cities
and the post Office department is OBJ
posed to women doing such work
anywhere, 1T being deemed too severe
for them. The appointments in the
rural free delivery service would not
have been made If it had been known
that the candidates were women. OF
the $500 rural free delivery routes
in operation June 80 last Iowa led
with III. The other states having
the largest number of routes were:
Ohio, 741; Illinois, 766; Indiana, 654.
The average number of pieces of
mail handled on each of the routes
each day was 132.-Detroit Free
Press.
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UninteIIec<u Aristocracx.

The French lristocrats before the
revolution were not conspicuous for
morality, but they were probably the
most highly civilized, witty and in
tellectual aristocracy the world has
ever seen. Assuredly they would
have looked on these card-playing,
betting and hunting contemporaries
of ours as des rustres. Does one
wonder that a reaction took place
some years ago, and that the Society
of Souls came into being?-London
Ladies' Field.
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} Soon l stood upon the porch and
kgazed around upon the scenes which
had stamped themselves SO strongly
upon my boyhood's mind that even now,
after all these years, they seemed won
derfully familiar. I missed the white
headed old gentleman, whose figure had
been the most beautiful of all to my
boyish mind. With sigh | turned to
the door, placed the key in the lock.
turned the bolt, and entered, followed
reverentially by Sarah and her husband,
and Mrs. Snyder, the old widow.
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A Silent Game.

Tommy-Can we play at keeping a
shop in here, mamma?
Mamma (who has headache) Ger
tainly, but you must be very, very
quiet.
Tommy-Well, We'll pretend we don't
advertise.-Tit-Bits.
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A Consolinx Reelection.

She-I suppose 1 must weight a
, hundred and sixty. Just think
wasn't pound over a hundred and
five when we were married.
Her Husband-Well, if you had lost
as much as you've gained, you
wouldn't be here now to grumble
about it.-Judge.