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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
USES OF STATISTICS.

1t IS timely that Hawaii is taking up
the matter of the establishment of a
-pAIeseId pup uoRo5Uoo 5Ql Loy npsInq
ton of statistics, as at Washington at
the present time the building up of a
national permanent bureau is being
strenuously considered. At recent
meeting of statisticians in the capital
the new head OF the census bureau,
Mr.. North, pointed out that one of the
greatest defects in government Stats
ties arose from discrepancies existing
between the returns made by the sew
eral departments and bureaus of the
government. one glaring example of
this was the difference of over ILL.,
100000 bushels between the estimates of
the Census Bureau and OF the Agricul-
tural Department as to the wheat crop
OF 1900. The suggestion was made that
the grouping of several statistical
agencies under the new Department of
Commerce would remedy this defect TO
some extent, and that cooperation in Of
hcial statistical work would be of much
value.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
WILCOX AND FIRE CLAIMS.

| By the votes Of eight So-called Re-
publicans in the House, Joined to those
of the men who do not conceal their
Home Rule politics under any other
name, the credit of getting the fire
claims money was conferred upon for
mer Delegate Wilcox. So far as chang
ing the record is concerned, the action of
the two Home Rule factions amounts to
nothing. 1t is a fact of public knowledge
that Wilcox's fire claims bill did not
pass. The committee having the matter
in charge heard Mr. Pratt's arguments
and framed series Of recommends
tons covering them, intending to put
them into bill form. These recommen-
dations were published and Wilcox at
once had a bill drawn in keeping with
them. Congress. however, ignored
Wilcox altogether and PASSED THE
KNOX BILL, which met the situation
more fully than any other. Finally the
President signed the Knox measure
with pen presented to him by Mr..
Pratt From first to last Wilcox was
a nonentity except when he tried by an
amendment to defeat the payment of
the claims altogether by making the
figure s3000,000 one he knew that Con-
gress would not accept. The Delegate
would rather have deprived the fire
sufferers of their just compensation
than to let the credit go to Mr.. Pratt,
where it belonged, where it has been
conferred by the people and where 1t
will stay. But he failed as usual.
Neither Congress nor the President
cared to have aught to do with Wilcox,
for reasons which do not need to be
enumerated here
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
HOURS OF LABOR

No subject attracts the attention Of
political economists with so much OF
hope that q remedy will be found fol-
too long hours of labor. as the ques-
ton of how to limit the days work or
public contracts. Now that the local
legislature has entered the field with a
law, the opinions Of courts in Older
states attract attention. n New Iori
a county road construction company
required employees to work ten hours q
day. The Court of Appeals finally got
the case and decided in favor of the
demurrer of the company to the indict-
ment, there being an eight-hour law in
the state.
The court of last resort holds, In the
first place, that the statute cannot be
upheld as an exercise of the police pow
er vested In the legislature. The field
for the exercise of the police power is
very broad, and its limits have never
been conclusively defined. 1t Is recog-
nized that the legislature may under
that power restrain and forbid what
would otherwise be the right of a pri-
vate citizen in the interest of public
health, of public morals and of public
order. 1t may enact laws to regulate
the extent of the labor which women
and children or persons of immature
years shall be allowed to perform, and
prohibit altogether their employment in
dangerous occupations. So 1t may linn
1t the hours of employment of adults in
dangerous occupations, and possibly
may prohibit the performance of ex
cessive physical labor in all callings.
The statute in question, however,
does not, the court says, deal with the
character of the work, the age, sex or
condition of the employees, or even the
personality of the employer, but only
applies to the case of q contract with
the state or a municipality, and the
court pertinently asks what possible
bearing on the health or security of the
employees has the fact that the en-
ployer Is executing contract for the
construction or performance of a state
or municipal work. The company
might be constructing in the next town
a road for a turnpike company, or for
its own use, and might require labor
for as many hours as it could get work.
men to perform, while the same action
involving the same character of work,
when done in performance of a contract
with the public, is by the statute made
criminal.
In the view of the court the vice of
the statute is the arbitrary distinction
drawn by it's provisions between per-
sons contracting with the state and
those contracting with other employers.
1t was urged that the work was a state
work, and that the legislature might
prescribe rules for the manner in which
it should be performed. The court ad
mits that the state may prescribe regu
lations for the conduct of it's employees
where 1t prosecutes a work itself, but
1t holds that no such right exists where
it has let out the performance of the
work to a contractor unless it is reserv-
ed by the contract. The state in this
respect stands on the same basis as Its
citizens. Its rights are just as great
as those of private citizens, but no
greater.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
A COMMERCIAL MILE STONE.
IThe Ofiicial and Commercial Recor

The report of B. f. Dillingham; on the
receipts and expenses of the Hawaiian
Fibre Company for the past 4 years
constitutes mile stone in Hawaii's
commercial progress.
The company is now harvesting its
first crop, and an analysis of its re-
ceipts and expenses shows that it is
producing sisal fibre for sos ton, in.
GLIDING all expenses from preparation
of land to freight and commissions or
the finished product, and is selling the
fibre for $3.50 to s160 a ton.
The standard of excellence in sisal
fibre has heretofore been that produced
in Yucatan. The Hawaiian fibre is as
good, and in several instances has
graded higher than the best Yucatan
sisal
The cost of production given above
sos a ton. is for the first crop, on an
experimental plantation, conducted by
men who knew nothing of the business
from practical experience. Many i'm
provements in methods can be made
and economies achieved, by virtue of
the experience gained. From present
knowledge alone, Mr.. Dillingham; as
serts that the cost can be reduced to
SI4 ton. With the wonderful reduc-
tion which has been accomplished in
the cost of production of sugar as an
exemplar, there is every reason to be-
lieve that the cost of production of
sisal can be brought still lower, through
intelligent study and practical expert
ment.
one of the strongest grounds for hope
that sisal will prove n great industry
in Hawaii. is the wide range of soil
and climate in which the plant flourish
es
1t was at first supposed that it need
ed the low fiat coral lands, such as
those at Eva where the first planta-
ton was started, But plants grown in
the rich alluvial wash at Pearl City, in
the deep red soil of Wahiawa. at an
elevation of 100 feet, in the heavy
clayey land back of Punch Bowl and
in the black scoria on the Manoa slop-
es of Round Top, are all equally as
good. In fact the Manoa sample is re-
ported by the Tubbs Cordage Company
to be the best sample of sisal fibre ever
submitted to them.
Sisal plantations have already been
started by Representative Knudsen al
Waimea. Kauai, and by Speaker Beck
ley at Molokai, and it is growing well
In kau, Kona and Hamakua, Hawaii
at all elevations and under all condi-
tons of soil and climate. 1t requires
no irrigation, and seems to do equally
well in districts having respective an
nual rainfall of 10 and 60 inches.
Altogether there is the best of reason
to believe that sisal will become the
long sought Second industry" which
will lift Hawaii out of the undesirable
one industry category.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

1t Is n pity that the Legislature at
its late session did not amend the Set
uement Association law in n way to
make it's requirements more drastic.
Al present the law may be observed in
the letter to the entire violation OF its
spirit and without comforting single
advantage upon the country. Nothing
is easier than for spectators to get
together and take up large tracts of
land to be turned over eventually to
graziers or planters, thus diverting
what the trainers of the Settlement AS
ISOLATION law intended for small farms
into the acreage OF great corporate es-
tates.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
Smith & Schippe1
1873 Front Street,
New York

General Commission Merchants and
Brokers in Sugar, Coffee, Spices, Cocoa,
Cocoa Butter, Etc.
Agents OF the Federal Sugar Refining
Co. and publishers of the Federal Re-
porter"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

The remains of Mrs. Talula Haysel-
den, who died at the Hawaiian Hotel
on Saturday. will be taken to Lahaina
today in the Kinau. for burial there in
the family plot. All the members of the
family will accompany the remains.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

Albert X. Nawahi OF Paho, Pu-
ma, Hawaii. was granted retail liquor
license by Treasurer Kepoikai yester-
day. The application OF Paul Kokomo-
kai of Kau was denied.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

Are symptoms OF a weak, torpid or
stagnant condition of the kidneys
or liver, and are warning it is ex-
tremely hazardous to neglect, so
Important is u healthy action Of
these organs.
They are commonly attended by
loss OF energy, lack of courage, and
sometimes by gloomy foreboding
Ind dependency.
II had pains in my back. could not sleep
ana when got up in the morning felt
worse than the night before. I began tax
Ing Hoods Sarsaparilla and now can
sleep and get up feeling rested and able to
DO my work. i attribute my cure entirely
to Hoods Sarsaparilla." MRs. J. N. PERRY.
care 81. 8. Copeland, Pike Road, Ala
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

The members of the Hayselden family
leave for Lahaina at noon today. with
the remains of the late Mrs. Hayselden,
in the steamer Kinau, and not by the
w. G. Hall as was at first arranged.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

d. L. Van Dine leaves today for Ha-
wall.
Commissioner Sargent expects to
leave in the Ventura.
The public library reading room is
being renovated and painted.
Miss Fannie Osborn leaves on the
Ventura for visit to her mother in
Oakland.
The recent shipment of furniture for
the Young Hotel is being unpacked and
placed in position.
The Kilohana Art Leagues first
view" will be held at the rooms of the
League this evening.
immigration Commissioner Sargent
was the guest yesterday of the United
Chinese Society. United States officials
and the Chinese Consul We're present.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

The Yorktown has seen hard and
fast service and now goes home for a
rest. For "a little thing the gunboat
has made a good record.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
M0ANA HOTEL
WAIKIKI
3 r A G n

RAPID TRANSIT ELECTRIC
CARS arrive at, and depart from,
the main entrance to the Moana
Hotel every ten minutes.
MOANA HOTEL CO., LTD.
T. X. JAMES,
Manager.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
From Mondays daily.)

The Blue polo team, Capt. Dilling-
ham. proved too much for the Reds
Capt. Damon, Saturday. The score was
large owing to the fact that the Blues
played very fast and rode over their
opponents.
Judge De Bolt will take up the hear
ing of the case of Lucy K. Peabody VS..
the Bishop Estate this morning The
trial has been in progress since the
opening of the term but was interrupt
ed last week by the illness of Juror
Fernandez.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

F. A. SCHAEFER & cO.-Importers
and Commission Merchants, Honolu-
lu, Hawaiian Islands.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
Hoods Jars0pariil1
and Pills

Cure kidney and liver troubles, re-
lieve the back, and build up the.
whole system.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

LEVERS & CooKE.-(Robert Levers.
2. j. Lowrey, G. NJ. Cooke.)-Import.
ers and dealers in lumber and build
Ing materials. Office, IA Fort st,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
BUSINESS CARDS.

II. HACKFELD & CO.. LTD.-Genera,
Commission Agents. Queen St.. Homo.
lulu, H. !.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19

HONOLULU IRON WORKS co.-Ms-
chinery Of every descrition made to
order.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-19
Sugar, May 16-3.695.

Barometer corrected to 80 F. and sea
lever. and for standard gravity ofLat 45.
This correction is-06 for Honolulu.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11

far Western paper, but from careful
ly-edited journal of leading New Eng
land city. has had for some time the
place of honor in the Spectators pock-
etbook for exhibition on occasion as a
curiosity of anti-climax: with the
cyclopean eye of a murderous looking
32-caliber revolver staring at her with
in a few inches Of her forehead. while
behind CLEANED the optics of a man,
it is claimed, whose every word is said
TO have been a threat to bore her skull
with bullets, Catherine Golf gave voice
to scream after scream"
So much has been made, with more
or less truth. of the demoralizing In
1iuence of newspaper English" that
it is only common justice to give the
newspaper any modicum of credit to
which it may be entitled. But how far
is newspaper English" demoraliZing q?
This is certainly an open question. with
so eminent an authority as Prof. LNns-
bury among the doubters. Only the
other day. during a chat about the
matter, ne said to the Spectator: The
constant talk about the supposed cor
ruption of the language is pretty near
ly a case of perpetual twaddle. At
different periods different persons have
been held responsible for it. Just now
it is the newspaper which is a matter
of fact, absorbs large share of the
best writing talent of the country"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
MILITARY CHANGES.

The following officers have been hon
orably discharged from the service Of
the state. First, Infantry Capt. John
Milton, Jr., Company M; Second In
fantry, Capt. John D. Points, Company
d. Commissions have been issued the
following named officers, and they are
assigned as follows: Personal staff,
Winfield Scott Proskey to be colonel
and aid-de-camp. General staff, Sergt.
Robert p. Carleton. to be colonel and
inspector of small arms practice, with
rank from June l, 1908; promoted. First
Brigade, John H. Layne, to be first
lieutenant and aid-de-camp, with rank
from June 26, 1903. First Infantry, Sec
ond Lieutenant Clinton w. D'Alem-
berte, to be captain and commssary,
with rank from July 3. 1908, promoted
vice Wilson, transferred. Sergt. VIII
liam D. Vinzant, Jr., to be second lieu
tenant of Company F. with rank from
June %, 1903 promoted; vice Yerkes,
promoted. Second Infantry, First
Lieutenant e Noble Calhoun, 70 be
CO plain of Company d, with rank from
July 3, 1903, promoted; vice Points,
resigned Edward Fitzgerald, to be
second lieutenant, quartermaster and
commissary of the Second Battalion,
with rank from June u. 1908,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
A PASSING FAD.
Bric-a-brac Has Had Its Day and Is
Now Out of Fashion.


Now Out of Fashion.
From the Baltimore American.
The man and woman of average in
telligence, average good sense and an
average amount of cash have reached
the conclusion that it is, as a rule far
better to obey the DEGREES of fashion
than to defy them and seek to be be-
yond their influence. The man who
wears a last years straw hat when he
can afford a new one simply invites un-
favorable criticism, and the woman
who does the same thing has never yet
been discovered This does not mean
that all sensible people are fashions
slaves, but it does mean that they gem
orally treat her varying DEGREES with
more consideration than they give to
many rules which. are laid down for
their conduct.
One of the latest DEGREES issued from
this temple where so many worship is
to the effect that bric-a-brac has out
lived it's usefulness and must depart.
Just where it is to go is not specified
but it can with safety be placed in the
garnet or thrown at the members of the
feline opera company which insist on
giving midnight concerts, with the
DdCk l6IlCe DIS SAdSe bIlC-d- DIdC HdS
long been a word of all kinds of mean
ing, including ornaments from little
china dog to a valuable mosaic. OF
course, all cannot be treated alike, and
good judgment must be used in bring
ing about their final departure.
Good reasons are given for this de-
cree. Bric-a-brac has so multiplied in
many parlors that the visitor has to be
very careful lest he sit down on some
frail ornament or knock half a dozen
incongruous and wholly uninteresting
pieces of glass or china off the center
table or the manteL Reducing the num-
Der of these things may, therefore
prove a distinct blessing to men, the
majority of whom are more or less
awkward, and cannot fail to lessen the
burdens of the housekeeper and of the
maid who is expected to dust all this
collection of animal and mineral freaks
at least once a week.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
NEWSPAPER ENGLISH.
The Press Keeps the Language Alive
and UD-tO-Dnte.

From the Outlook.
The care of the conscientious stylist
does not stop when he finds that a word
is becoming hackneyed. He guards as
closely against his own individual over
use of word as against choosing a
word of general overuse. There is a
story told of Emerson by the late Ed
win Percy Whipple which has always
seemed to the Spectator to put the
point perfectly. Mr.. Whipple had at
tended a lecture by Emerson in a town
a few miles out of Boston. and they
drove back together. AS soon as we
got into the chaise," writes Mr.. Whip
pie, Il began to speak of the lecture,
and. referring to what Emerson had
said of the Puritans, / incidentally al
luded to the peculiar felicity of the use
of the word grim and added that l
noticed it was favorite word with him
in his published essays. DO you say
he eagerly responded that l use the
word often? Yes, l replied but never
without its being applicable to the class
of persons you are characterizing. He
reflected a minute or two, and then said,
as IL experiencing a pang of intelec-
tual remorse. The word is probably
] must hereafter guard against it
must Danish ii from my dictionary. :
Paradoxica1 as it may seem to some
of his friends who have not thought
of the matter. one of the services the
newspapers render the language is the
Spectator believes, the material aid they
give in banishing overworked words
and phrases from the general diction-
airy. Indeed. the descriptive press writ
er who resorts TO the commonplaces
of rhetoric is known in the slang of the
profession, so the Spectator is inform
ed by a journalist friend, as "the dull
thud' reporter" Often the laudable
but misdirected effort of the reporter
to say thing in a way in which it has
never been said before leads to re-
markable results. One such result
clipped, not from some overambitious,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
RAILROAD SUED FOR COTTON.

B. A. Hill & Co. ]. S Brooks, Long
& Getzen and ]. r. Trout, merchants
OF Pendergrass, have brought sepa-
rate cases in the Superior Court at
Jefferson against Samuel c. Dunlap
as receiver of the Gainesville, Jeffer-
son and Southern Railroad. to recover
the value OF about 125 bales of cotton
which were destroyed by fire on Nov.
u, 1902 Hill e. Co. lost seventy three
bales. The petitioners claim that the
cotton and depot at Pendergrass
caught fire from the sparks of an en-
CINE that was defective and danger
Gus, having no proper spark arrester.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
STRUCK BY THE CABLE.

H. w. Eichelberger, who lives on the
Withlacoochee river. where he was
working for the Bachelor Cypress
Lumber Company, getting timber out
Of The swamp. near wildwood, recently
met with a serious accident He was
standing near the skidder, when from
some cause the main log cable broke,
and, flying back, struck him on the
head 1t is feared that his injuries
will prove fatal
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
sTrMP FELL ON HIM.

George Inman was instantly killed
by a falling stump Saturday near
Camps on Turnpike creek, where he
had been fishing and had set fire to a
black gum stump, or broken off tree
about fifteen feet high, and then fallen
asleep near it. He ard his brother
Ben Inman, had been fishing all night
until towards day when George lay
down 10 take a nap. His brother had
gone down the creek a short distance,
but heard the stump fall and heard his
brother groan. Fastening to the spot,
he found the stump across his broth
er's body. Georges neck had been
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
Sues E0R go. 600.

Mrs. Martha A. Niles has brought
suit for $4,000 damages against the
South Georgia Railroad in the Berrien
Superior Court The petition sets forth
that Joseph K. Niles was killed in a
wreck which occurred by an engine
colliding with wild cars on the trestle
over Little river on Feb. II.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
THE CZAR'S MILLIONS.
Compared with the Incomes of 9th
er PIutOcrnts.

er PIutOcrnts.
From the London Express.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg state
that the Almanach Hachette, the
French equivalent to our Whitaker,
has been confiscated by the press CEN
sor because it contains a comparative
table of the incomes of the leading
European monarchs.
The list in question is an illustrated
page, giving the photographs of the
leading European rulers, with their in
comes per minute. The Car of Rus
STA is first on the list, and his income
is given at G16 As. minute.
If the almanac's data be true the
Car draws from his countless mill
lions of subjects
G16 As. a minute.
E972 an hour.
f23,32S day.
eS.514, 720 a year.
Fabulous as this sum appears, and
far as it is ahead of any other Euro
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
FLORIDA.
MAY REMOVE sHERIFF.

Gov. Jennings has made up his mind
10 remove w. T. Lesley. sheriff of
Hillsborough county, from office, and
10 appoint George Walker. at present
superintendent of road work, in his
stead. Such was a report at Tampa
Thursday.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11
Dist. Averages.

Remarks-Cooler conditions are re.
ported from the Augusta and Charles
ton districts, while somewhat higher
temperatures have obtained over North
Carolina Showers have occurred in all
districts except oklahoma and North
Carolina, with heavy rainfalls at a
few stations in Georgia, Alabama and
South Carolina.
Observations taken at the same mo-
ment of time, July 10, 1903, s p. m,
18th meridian time.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-11

River Report-The hight Of the Sa-
vannah river at Augusta. at a. M
(75th meridian time) yesterday, was
9.3 feet. fall of OF foot during the
preceding twenty-four hours.
Cotton Region Bulletin, Savannah,
Ca. for the twenty-four hours ending
al a. m, 18th meridian time, July 10,
1qn2