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The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
CHANGES IN CHINA.

The extent of japanese influence in
the adoption of rule to require Chi
nese soldiers to cut off their queues
and wear foreign clothing. An order
to this effect was given some time ago
by the Empress Dowager and is being
enforced by the viceroys. 1t is a most
radical innovation, one which prepares
the mind for great political and social
changes to follow. China was not I'M
willing to receive the railroad and
telegraph, but it chung to its costume
and its queue with such religious
tenacity as to make 1t dangerous, until
very recently, for modernized China
men abroad to return home in the
garb and tonsure they had copied from
the foreign devils" Now the Dow
ager herself, supposed to be the human
| incarnation of the most stupid and
| fantastic conservatism of the empire
ships off the pigtail from her soldiers
and orders them into jacket. cap and
| trousers.
Is China on the verge of its great
awakening, so long foretold and
dreaded? One may easily come tC
that belief, not only by studying the
change of attitude towards things for
eign on the part of the officials ant
people of the empire, but in Icastini
up the prospects of the present war
If Japan wins, her influence will b
used to make China like herself,
strong modern power. on the 'othe
hnR
Russianized, whether she will or nc
and this means the development of he
; resources and the reorganization O
her troops. In either case the Chin
of unchanging custom will disappear
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29

done. lie would have grass hut Wiz
iaEe. with trro growing about ~ end
poi being made places where Women
weave and cell mats, hns and leis,
dance the aBolrut noB-al nsuoua hulY,
sang the Old songs and serve the a.
pcuzlng Hawaiian dishes, a viii 3
where spesr-throWlng and other priml-
TIE sports may be revived and where
"a restored hciau or heather temple may
be visited. He would also have grass
church. such as the missionaries had
the natives build and whore the latter
may worship In their own tongue. All
this. II located in the Pauoa valley or
some other place near town, would,
Mr.. Williams believes be self-support-
ing.-a small entrance fee being charged
to meet fixed expenses and the inhabi-
tant of the place selling things for
their own profit
The more of these unique attractions
Honolulu sets up, the better for Its
tourist trade. If a Hawaiian village
did well, "a native Japanese village.
with its temple, its tea houses and its
handy artifcc's might follow. The ma
terial Is all here. There is room also
FOR an aviary. a zoo and a Tantalus
park. things that would go far to re-
lieve the monotony of which tourists,
who stay longer than a week, are so
apt to complain.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
TOURIST ATTRACTIONS.

Mr.. Williams's idea of forming ma
tive Hawaiian village in a suburb of
this city, where the aboriginal people
may live in the old way, excepting in
the old nakedness and heathenism. has
a great deal to commend it. SO much
has been made in literature of the pic
turesque Hawaiian and his grass hut
that tourists, who come mainly to see
such things, are disappointed and vex-
ed in not finding them. A native in
flannel and khaki, living in frame
house, does not fill his eye; nor does it
quite satisfy the tourist to buy native
costumes and implements in land
where no one can be found who wears
or uses them. For all he knows to the
contrary the things may be bogus.
What he demands is the touch of un-
civilized or half-civilized Polynesia OF
which he has heard so much in song
and story and looked forward to IS one
of the unique pleasures OF Pacific
| travel.
Mr.. Williams proposes 10 meet this
need so far as 1t can be judiciously
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
A NEW LAW BOOK.

The publication of a law book by
Honolulu publishing house, as pri-
vate venture, IL an important enough
event TO warrant editorial mention. If
memory serves us all Hawaiian law
books have heretofore been published
by the government. The new departure
consists in the compilation, indexing
and republication of thirteen Of the
constitutions and early fundamental
laws of Hawaii and all of the proclama-
lions, treaties, resolutions and proce-
dure incident to the abrogation of the
monarchy. the creation of the republic
and annexation to the United States.
ending with the Organic Act by which
Congress created Hawaii into a Ter
ritory of the United States.
The necessity for such a publication
Is manifest from the fact that practi-
cally all of the laws in question are
out of print and but few of them have
ever been indexed.
The book is printed in large clear
type. on good paper, and is well bound
be a credit to any publishing house.
A special feature of the book is the
index, which is unusually full and com
plete with many cross references.
The compilation will be of value not
only to lawyers, judges and government
officers. but to corporations and bust
ress houses as well. for the Organic
Act deals in such detail with our in
ternal affairs that the business man
must frequently desire to consult it,
The publication viii also be of in
tense interest to students of history
and political development, showing, as
it does, the evolution in sixty years
of an absolute monarchy having nc
written law into liberal constitutional
monarchy; the reversion of that
monarchy into one giving the ruler
greater power; the forcing of a more
liberal constitution from reluctant
king; the rise of revolutionary gov.
eminent with substitute for a con
stitution in the shape of a proclamation
drafted partly on the model of tn,
American Declaration of Independence,
and partly on the lines of the declara
tion OF the great French revolution
the creation of an Independent repub
lie; the negotiation of a treaty of an
nexation to the United States; the fail
ure of the United States Senate t
ratify such treaty and the basing of
joint resolution thereon which com
pleted the annexation, concluding witt
the formal creation Of Territory o
the Union.
No such picturesque and varied his
tory has been woven in any other coun
try and the Fundamental Law of Ha
wall places the milestOnes of its crea
ton in the hands Of those who desir
to study 1t,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
PUBLIC LAND VALUATIONS.

1t is understood that the Government,
In working out its five-acre experiment
in the Palolo valley, intends to consult
real estate men, especially those hold
ing property in that part of town, as
to the scale of prices to be asked.
This may turn out to be an unfor-
tunate move. 1t is to the interest of
real estate men to make the price of
public land equal or higher than the
price of the land which they are selling.
And considering that their valuations
are yet too high, measuring them by
the suburban prices asked at San
Francisco, such an appraisement would
go far to defeat the object of getting
public land into the hands of the peo-
pie who need 1t.
r To our mind the Government in such
matters should be extremely liberal,
after the example set by the United
States. 1t can afford to be, seeing that
1t will hold a perpetual tax lien on the
improvements put upon the land
as well as upon the land itself
and can make both pay an annual
revenue into the treasury. There is an
advantage too, in attaching the popu-
lation to the soil and increasing, there
by, the volume of food-products and
the capacity of the people to support
themselves.
One of the greatest barriers to the
settling up of any country is high
prices. A government should never be
responsible for them, especially one
which is committed to the development
of Territory along traditional Amer
lean lines"
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
LOCAL. BRevIneS.


CFrom saturdays Adv stiserj
Dr. Armltage departed yesterday for
Maui.
Mrs. Yarndlcy D. az Wahhva Tor a
much-nceded rest she hopes To- return
10 her cias+es at an early date.
The survey steamer Patterson has
begun her work In Hawaiian waters IN
the channels about kaaoolawe island.
A number OF cadets from the German
training ship were present at the Ho-
nolulu symphony orchestra rehearsal
last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rettig. who have viz
tied in Honolulu several times, are
through passengers on the Manchuria
for the Orient.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Alley who have
been stopping at the Moana Hotel. left
yesterday on the Mauna Loa for a tour
of the big island.
Pioneer Mill and Kipahulu Planta-
ton on Maui and Kekaha Plantation or
Kauai, all in the Hackfeld group, have
started grinding the 1895 sugar crop.
Miss Louise Lefferts arrived yester-
day on the Alameda from New York
and will visit with her sister, Mrs. c.
Montague Cooke. Jr., of College Hills
1t is the Government Palolo land and
not the company's which correspond
ent complained that he could not get
The company's land is for sale in villa
tracts.
L. Tenney Peck, president of the Rap
i'd Transit & Land Company accom-
panied by Mrs. Peck and infant, re-
turned on the Manchuria from an ex-
tended visit in the East.
Albert Raas. late of Honolulu, who
Is now vice-president of the Hidalgo
Rubber Company of San Francisco, was
recently in Mexico looking over the
properties of the corporation.
Thomas Fitch, who is at Lewiston,
Idaho, has been i'll with rheumatism for
some time. He intends to leave for a
hot springs resort soon and will re-
turn to Honolulu in January.
Father James, Provincial of the
Catholic Mission, departed on the Ma
una Loa for Maui, having been called
| there by a wireless message announc-
| ing that Father Charles of Maui is quite
i'll.
The Kamehameha Alumni dance
postponed from last week, will take
place at 8 o'clock tonight at Progress
Hall. With good music and a large at
| tendance the Alumni expects to have a
good time.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
GRAND JURY PROBES VOTE.
CONTINUED from page ~

McCorriston. Kamalo, Molokai; ]. Lam
do. Honolulu; ]. ]. Egan, Honolulu;
Fred L. waldron. Honolulu; Oscar b.
Braddick, Honolulu; Henry f. Walker,
Honolulu; Saml G. Wilder, Honolulu;
SamI B. Rhodes, Honolulu, and Geo.
Kaia, Honolulu.
A somewhat significant incident oc-
Cured when the name of Curtis p. Iau-
kea was drawn from the box In the
course of the drawing of the jury
Judge Dole instructing the clerk TO
draw another name, as it would not
be proper for Mr.. Iaukea to serve, he
having been a candidate for delegate
to Congress.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
JAPANESE ENGLISH.

The following extract from busi-
ness letter received by prominent
business house from japanese cor
respondents, modified by changes Of
names, etc., is an interesting exhibit
~ the national spirit, as we'll as or
the unterrifed disposition of the is
landers in tackling the idiosyncrasies
of our language:
Yokohama, July 80, 1904.
Messrs. Blank & Co. Chicago.
Dear Sirs: 1t is with the deepest re-
greet to inform you that our goods
shipped by you on the Goth April ex
S. S. United States, have sunked with
the steamer in the sea near our coun-
try by the Russian War ship, Of which
loss We have handed our claim note to
the Insurance Co. at here.
We see such a poor fleet as refuses
to get into their honorable fighting
and always run away with their ex-
! treme speed as soon as our navy APP
pears before their sight now comes
out to our guardless side and intended
/ to perform their barbarous transac'
| tons in preventing our trade win you
/ country, at the same time to get M
opportunity of taking their practice al
a Pirate. This is their only object in
deed, but nothing else, which Irende
no effect against our fighting influence
directly. but only a present commerce
We can be patient enough for such
I tyrant fleet just little while, as W
can foresee how a keen punishment
should be given to them in the nea
future unavoidable by our Navy. Sti
we must feel very sorry for Universe
Commerce, especially for your coun
trys as to a great prevent. We hop
and expect that these pirate will b
washed off in short future.
Yours faithfully,
A. & co.
Doubtless We would do much wors
with Japanese.--Life.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
A SERIOUS MENACE.

Chambers is a pestilence of frightful
mien, as horsemen and farmers who
have seen il attack or threaten their
stables realize. Perhaps, though, the
public in general are but scantily aware
of the fact that the disease is COM
municable to man and, not only so, but
that no more hideous death can come
TO a human being than from this cause.
1t is death inevitable to him who is
seized of the malady and the circurn-
stances of its progress till the final re-
lief comes are too horrible to he de-
scribed There were two human fatali-
ties from the disease in the epidemic of
CHAMBERS which visited these islands
twenty years ago. That visitation
caused a loss of many thousands of
dollars in Honolulu and the country
districts. 1t was stamped out by firm
and energetic measures conducted by
the late DR.. James Brodie, V. s., the
first veterinarian ever employed on
regular salary by the Hawaiian Gov
eminent. There was considerable of an
cutlery at the time against the severity
of the repressive methods employed
but this was from people who were
ignorant of the fell import of the Wis
itation and, it is safe to say, there il
not today an intelligent horseman IL
the islands who remembers the occa
sion without blessing the name o
Brodie.
AS the Advertiser has informed 1t
readers, CHAMBERS has again appeare
here. The Board of Inspectors OF Ami
mails is without funds to carry out tn
necessary measures of suppression an
repression and is appealing to tn
Board of Health and the Stock Breed
ers' Association for financial supper
For the reasons already given and 1
consideration of the fact that larg
amount of wealth is represented b
horses and mules in this Territory, tn
menace of an epidemic of glander
makes an emergency TO which III
whole business community sh )uld be 6
once alive. The Board of Inspector
OF Animals, with it's two veterinaI
members. ought, at all costs, to be adj
quately supported in stamping out II
disease.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA.

Newspaper correspondents talk some
what Humanity of the possibilities of
revolution in Russia growing out OF
the disturbed industrial conditions
consequent upon the losses by the war
and the withdrawal of vast numbers OF
men from the productive vocations OF
peace. And yet revolution in Russia
is not a possibility to be lightly con-
sidered nor flippantly spoken OF. 1t
is a possibility fraught with such ap-
palling possibilities, to the Russians
and to the race of men at large, that
those who think will shrink from its
contemplation even in remote perspec-
| tive.
The peasantry of France was ground
into the dust for thousand years be-
| fore there came from the abyss a
/ storm of blood and fire that swept
across the world. The men of today
! still feel the pulsing of that mighty
force-a force for good, although Its
| demonstration was so ferociously crueI
/ in its first days that nations turned
to battle with 1t as terrified men unite
| to fight against fire.
The Russian peasant has been ground
into the earth by the power of bureau
cracy almost since the days OF Joar
the Terrible. 1t is true that there were
hints of freedom, some hopes that Rus
sian manhood might have scope fol
growth. following the breaking of th'
Tatar yoke. The great republic Of
Novgorod held up its power among th'
nations against the might of the Cars
of Muscovy for long years. While tn
blood of Rurik divided the land amonl
his descendants, there was still hop
for the Russ. When the peasants wer
attached to the soil the chains of slav
, cry were forged, and under IN
Romanoffs the beast has been nor
: and more firmly fettered, despite IN
effort of Alexander to free the serf
: more and more hardly driven, until
stands today with a kind of brut
patience, looking abroad into a worl
of freedom with a dumb wonder, pei
4 haps, at the superior condition Of otht
o men but with small realization, al
parently, of the pitifulness of its owi
/ When the beast turns! When the Ru
, sian begins to feel his own sorrows
q Thrones will totter and from the aby'
v will rush once more that storm of bloc
e and fire, across the world. That
9 what revolution in Russia mean
e Even men who know best the abus
L OF the Russian system will shrink
IS the contemplation of the applicable
v of that remedy-although it may
= the only efficacious remedy.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
rARnrRs AND THEIR MARKET.

A wfiter OF Diversified AFii uitHit
la the sunday paper says.
Tn. conclusion think ~. that about
anything can D. raised un MAJ %
skilled farmers. but u can not b. sold.
To invite farmers from the continent
To settle there under such circum.
stances do not think would b. light
To start farming here with less than
1905 would be hazard with very poor
,hances \ small farmer. who has
becn able to save ~ much money on
the continent. had better stay where
he IL.
The tens OF thousands who went
pioneering In tn United States gradu-
ally pushing the frontier over the AL
leehanies. the Mississippi and the
Rockies. had much the same trouble
at frs about selling products. There
were no roads, no markets and very
| little money. But the pioneers hung
1 on to their good farms, perhaps send
| ing their sons further West to clear
new ones, supporting themselves well
ana lighting n multitude OF pests
| four-f footed. winged and invertebrate.
! Other farmers gradually came and the
country was settled up. small villages
| forming where the storekeepers, min
lister, lawyer blacksmith, carpenter,
cooper, lumber buyer, tanner, tavern
keeper, horse-trader, schoolmaster and
wool buyer made their homes and
bought things from the farmer
Tor sustenance and to send away III
trade. Gradually the villages grew,
ln gahp TINT
stage and perhaps the canal came
later the railroad entered and the
farmer found himself with market
and a competence. t,
! The conditions are similar on the
outlying islands of Hawaii but much
less arduous. We doubt that there is
a place in this group. susceptible OF
cultiva 'on, which is fifty miles from
steamer landing. Where the great
work of the American pioneers was
done, hundreds of miles beyond the
settled frontiers of civilization, there
were few inlets or outlets for trade
there were forests to subdue and hui
man foes to combat. owing to climatic
causes six months of every year were
months of enforced idleness, where
as rule, producers turned into con-
sumers. Yet the farmer held on and
| WON. And he can win here with ease
! where his forefathers won there with
hardships.
The point the Advertiser wishes tC
make now that the varied product.
bility of the soil is conceded Is tha
If the vacant public lands of the grouI
are divided among white farmers, tn,
| latter will make their own market,
and roads and secure their own trans
portation. They have done it every
where in the mainland United State,
and why not in the insular portion
If 5000 white people titled the vacan
land Of Maui, Lahaina and Wailukr
would fill up with white people com,
to do business with them there would
be sea-transportation lines fighting 70
their cargoes, and their votinl
strength would compel all the publi
improvements they might require. I
Is absurd to think that the first steI
in pioneering must be nearby mar
ket and the means to reach 1t. VIII
is going to build steamers for a com
merce that has not materialized O
roads to farms that no one has oc
cupied? Things do not work that wa
I in trade. First come the productiv
, inhabitants and then the means of do
ing business with them follows. No on
The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-11-29
fFrom Sundays Advertiser)

IFrom sundays ADVERTISER
Contempt citations by Gears court
have become chronic. We don't Won
der.
The law against driving fast over
bridges is to be enforced by High
Sheriff Henry. 1t does not reach auto
mobiles, there having been none when
the law was made.
High Sheriff Henry has discovered
that the Union League Club in San
Franci co. on leaving the Palace hotel
premises and setting up by itself, had
to take out a retail liquor license.
Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon
church in Utah, has begun suit here
to foreclose a mortgage for sl55S.9S
with interest against the Yick Lung
Wal Co., a Chinese rice planting firm
at Laie.
AS an indication of the interest TAX
en- in the Eastern States concerning
Hawaii the Hawaii Promotion Com
mittee received e!ghty-two letters from
the office of Seaman, the New York
City advertising man, which had been
!
came the representative of the Promo
| ton Committee the inquiries, both al
New York and Honolulu, have become
heavier than before.
There were no sales on the stock ex-
change yesterday.
The Bar Association will hold it,
quarterly meeting at p. m. tomorrow
in Judge De Bolts courtroom.
Sisal, in Eva district, had 4.65 inches
of rain in a little more than twenty
four hours of the recent storm.
Joe Lcal, a mounted police officer, re
ceived painful wound in the hand b!
the accidental discharge of his revolVe
while he was cleaning it.
Nina L. d. Frasher, principal of Ka
iulani school, has sued for divorc
against Charles e. Frasher on IN
ground of failure to provide, and ask
for the custody of their children.
Motorman A. B. Coffee is engagin
talent for a smoker to be given by tn
day-shift motormen and conductors G
= the Rapid Transit in the near future
$ C. J. Mccarthy has donated his hal
K The daily cable from Pollitz & Co. t
h Henry Warehouse Trust Co, gave Sa
= Francisco stock quotations yesterda
h as follows: Hawaiian Commercial
o Sugar Co. s74B, Honokaa $40, Mako
we'll s321s, Paauhau $21h.
$ Advices from Honolulu indicate tha
g Mr.. A. II. Pratt, of the Equitable Lift
: is maintaining his reputation as
= business getter, and is as popular In tn
$ Islands, amongst Strangers, as he is
d San Francisco amongst friends.-S.
= EX.
II Hawaiian Sugar Co., operating Mak'
n we'll plantation, yesterday declared
Is dividend of one per cent. a month b
l. ginning with December Is. Estimat
er are that Makaweli's new crop will
re 10000 tons, or 5000 in excess Of tn
e. years.