The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-02
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TOPICS IN BRIEF.

Individuals can be fairly safe against
| typhoid by drinking no water which
| has not been bottled from a pure spring
or boiled or distilled. But a city gov
| eminent can greatly decrease typhoid
by subjecting it's water supply to filtra-
tion.-New York World.
Half of the Iowa corn crop is soft
and unmoveable the oats crop is only
half an average yield and potatoes are
fewer in the hill than in ordinary years.
| These facts, gathered from govern
ment report raise the horrible suspi-
| cion that Iowa has been securing
money to move it's crops while indulg-
ing in roseate dreams.-Chicago Daily
News.
The Sultan of Turkey will of course
applaud Venezuelas determination not
to pay up.-Washington Star.
Sometimes our southern brethren are
swayed by phantoms. The contention
| that the recognition of a worthy color
ed man here and there means negro do
| minatiOn and the return of the black
governments of the early seventies is
one of them.-New York Mail and Ex-
press.
Harry Pullian is now president,
| secretary and treasurer of the National
| Baseball league. If they make him
walking delegate also it would appear
| to an outsider as though he had con-
siderable power.-Chicago Daily News.
A New Jersey judge has decided that
there is no law which can keep a wo-
man from talking in her own house.
| Every now and then the bench is call
ed upon to give solemn utterance to
something that everybody knew before
Washington Star.
Before the end of this year our army
will number less than 10000 men and
we shall have only 10, 4S0 enlisted men
in the Philippines. Is there an anti
| imperialist candid enough to acknowl-
edge that this is not what he was pre-
! dieting a couple of years ago?-Provi-
dence Journal.
Practical farmers are to be sent
among the Indians on government sal
aries to instruct them in the art of
agriculture. Farmers from the large
cities who make a speciality of bring
| ing in the slum vote doubtless will
apply if the salaries are large enough.
Chicago Daily News.
Mr.. Cannon is now going through the
ordeal of hearing from the people who
make a business of claiming credit for
everything that appens.-Washingto
Star.
The neurology of 1901 contained the
name of William Mckinley, and the
name of Thomas b. Reed is in the ne
crology of 1902. 1t is hard for the ma
ton to part with such sons, but the
essence of their lives is wrought In
lasting history and example.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
General Fitzhugh Lee says if We hat
not sacrificed wisdom for sentiment We
would own Cuba. 1t is all right to tel
that in New York, but it might re-
quire a gun as a persuader to make
the people of the Philippines believe
that we were possessed of any senti
ment.-ChicagO Daily News.
If Mascagni ever attempts to trans
cribe his impressions of America, thu
result is likely TO be more or less Wag
Northumberland Star.
| If you We're a coal trust don't yol
think you would be rushing coal t
Washington to keep congress warm anC
good natured? You doubtless thinl
you would, but perhaps If you were
real trust you would feel so superior t,
congress that you wouldn't care whe
Their ii suffered or not.-Chicago Dali!
News.