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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-02-25
Remember
The Hawaiian TabIeauX
and Concert
On Tues. EVS.. Feb. %, 1911
at the
Hawaiian Opera House

Royalty Scenes depicted in Co.'S
tunes, Songs and Reveric by the Ka-
ahumanu Society, assisted in the Con-
cert Part by Ernest Kaais GIee Club.
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A rare treat is in store to hear the
singers of this famous GIee Club.
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Prices of admission as usual.
Secure seats at 5ergstrom Music
Co.'s store, Fort street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25

provinces are divided into districts having district governors, and in their mayors and aldermen, or their headmen and village elders.
 The land, too, is governed by great guilds-the craft guilds for each species of industry, the provincial guilds embracing landed proprietors, officials and the like, and the mer- cantile gilds embracing alike mer- chants and professional men. These guilds have provincial, district, ur- ban and rural councils, and all are in good working order ready to aid the new republic of China in many ways.
 No country, in truth, has a great deal of machinery ready at hand for use in a republic, and no people would take more kindly to a repub- lie than the Chinese. They are ac- customed to discipline, and if re- public be once established by them it would prove enduring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
UnderwOod'S Great Speech

Oscar w. Underwood speech the Chamber of Commerce banquet Thursday night notable deverance It was cassicmpressve and strong its very simplicity and sin cerity, all classics
 Some orators charm their hearers by scntang wit and ytmc perods others by certain kind of originality and audacy of expressions others still by great sweeps of mpa
 stoned rhetoric But the greatest oraoy after all IS that m which the speaker presents home but nmatng truths clear ly and convncngly Mr. Underwood quiet but dignfed man. in itself distinctly impressive and when he set forth and defended the principles of representative government s very sufficient to carry conviction with it. He believed every word he sad and his absolute faith in the dem ocrac doctrines he proclaimed had surely compelling effect
 His words fell upon eager audience indeed with the force of eternal verties
 That speech will make splendid campaign document. It would be hard imagine anything quite effective for the forthcoming presidential campaign It's appeal to all classes
 The of the address throughout inspired by feeling of true patriotism and every patriotic American will applaud MT Underwood sentiments The speech must appeal strongly to business and strongly too must it appeal to the great rank and file of American toers.
 Mr. Underwoods admirable delivery of his address at the banquet will be forgotten by those who hung his words Every clean phrase quietly spoken gave something like magnetic thrill It speech for the thoughtful and the minded and the tribute from distinguished
 listener Jacob Guild Schuman president of Cornell uni versy while most gratifying not surprising Many, no doubt who heard Mr. Underwood called to mind Grover Ceve land in of his democratic addresses Prophetic well eloquent and affecting, the concluding words of Dr. Schumans speech You have met to do honor to your dis tnguished ownsman As have heard the different speakers and listened the guest of the evening" thought of another democrat who has been president of the United States the thought of his sterling honesty; of his unfailng faith and sense of his infexbe w of his remarkable de voon to duty and and pondered wondered whether another Cleveland had arrived!''
 No who has watched Mir. Unerwood's in gres has questioned his ability Those who know him well only admire him gentleman but they in him fully equipped to fill the highest office in the land Other democrats there worthy of high preemen no who heard has read Underwood speech have but This Aabaman is the above all others lead the democratic party in 1912 and inspire hope of glorious victory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
Ready for a Republic

China is greatly misunderstood in this country. The people are essen- tially democratic. They may be said to be the original champions of the states rights theory, for their coun- try has long been cut up into IS states, or provinces, and these provinces are in nearly all matters bf government as distinct and au- tonomous as so many American utates.
 The Manchu dynasty is powerless today because nearly all of these provinces have either declared their fndependence or have allied them selves with the rebels. Not more than four provinces remain loyal to the imperial government.
 These autonomous provinces offer the best possible basis for republic himilar to the United States of America. They have from time out bf mind governed themselves in their own way, and all they had to do so Tar as Peking was concerned con tisted in the payment by the vice toy of the necessary tribute. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
AMERICAN MANNERS
AMERICAN w. D. Howells in harpers Magazine fol

w. D. Howells in harper's Magazine for
 December.
 It must be owned that the Bermudan average have better manners than we have if they are white, and even if they are black they have better manners than our colored people, wno are the only Americans who like good man. ners. Still, the Bermudans are more like Americans than English, in face and figure and bearing, and if they are better bred, 1t is surely not their fault. Somehow, somewhere, we have slipped a cog, and have fallen behind those gentle colonial or imperial Eng fish in the finer civilization. Better peo- ple than we are do not think breathe, and surely none kinder; but we are rude, formless, uncouth in our angelic presence. Perhaps we have had too much room to grow up in, and have not learned the art of controlling the knees and elbows which more restrnicted peo- ples are forced to acquire Perhaps our unmannerliness is designed by Provi- dence if we were as polite as we are worthy and able. we should overrun the whole earth and engage the affections of the other nations beyond reprieve. Doubtless it is not intenued ,..
 world should be Americanized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
He Is a knight, dubbed with unhackcd sapfer, and on carpet consideration.
 Twelfth Night.
Changing the Inauguration Date

Congressman Henry proposes to press to concluding votes his resolu- tion changing the inauguration date from March 4 to the last Thursday fin April. He is confident the con- stitutional amendment can be per fected in season to give it effect in 1917.
 The Henry resolution is perhaps more important because of the changes it would create in the meet ing of Congress. A new Congress elected in November is to meet on the first Tuesday of the following January. All sessions of Congress are to be begun on the first Tuesday of January. This is better than the customary delay of 13 months of the present system.
 The Henry resolution will be fully discussed when once it is referred to the states for ratification. The chances are that it will be adopted, although it will lengthen the next Presidents term nearly two months. Alabama will not object to that fea- ture of it in view of the fact that the next President is to be an Alabamian to the manner bred.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
March of the Weevil This Year

The killing frost of November 12 drove all the weevils off the job in this state, and State Entomologist Hinds has ascertained in the most definite manner the extent of the boil weevil march this year. The insects are hibernating in all parts of Sumter county, and they have se- cured foothold in Pickens, Wilcox and Marengo. These three black belt counties promise next year to become as fully infested as Sumter is today. Hale, Greene, Perry and Dallas are threatened with invasion next year. The infested area in Pickens is not large, being confined to the south west corner of it. The more proba- ble march of next year will be from Sumter and Choctaw as base straight on and into Dallas and Per ry. Autauga and Lowndes probably will not be harmed by the pest next year. Nor it it likely that the in- sects will cross next year Pickens to enter Tuscaloosa county. Butler county may not escape unharmed next year, because the weevils are advancing with more rapidity south of the black belt than they are in it.
 Tuscaloosa, Bibb, Chiffon, Au- tauga and Lowndes will not be harmed next year unless, indeed, the pest travels farther and faster than it did this year. Hale, Greene, Dal- las, Perry and Butler will become in Tested next year, but all experts agree in saying that the weevil does not do much damage in the first year of an invasion. It becomes mischiev- ous and damaging after the first year. More corn and less cottor should, however, become the rule ir those counties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
Watersheds of Jones Valley

Congressman G. W. Taylor of Demopolis has been the Alabama member of the rivers and harbors committee three years, and in that time he has been a firm friend of the Warrior improvement. And he is still a supporter of that great work. He proposes to urge Congress next winter to send engineers to this sec ton to make a thorough survey of all watersheds in and about this city. The object of the survey will be to ascertain if there is water supply adequate for an extension of the Warrior improvement to this city.
 MT. Taylor seems to favor a canal beginning at the city furnaces of the 6loss-Sheffield company and going down Valley creek to Bessemer and the Warrior river to tidewater.
 The Ripley survey of 1898 is out of date and out of line with the strides that the federal engineering department has made in the con- etruction of canals. Joseph Ripley, who made this survey, would make D very different one today, for he is etill an engineer in active service. Even in 1898 he reported that the kanalization of Valley creek up to and past Birmingham is feasible and that a storage reservoir on Five Mile creek would furnish an ample supply of water for all probable traffic. But this survey was made u3 years ago, and in these times a survey of that age is out of date Congressman Taylor will endeavol 10 induce Congress to make new and thorough survey as hasis fol future action in the extension of the Warrior improvement to, or at least toward, this city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
CLIPPER SHIPS

From the Army and Navy Journal.
 The accuracy of sailing in the palmy days of the clipper ships is indicated by the statement that on a 99 days race between five clipper ships in 1866 three went into port at the end of their voyage on the same tide, the Taeping beating the Ariel by only F minutes and the Seric;l by little over four hours.
 The other two ships in this race the Fiery Cross and the Taitsing, came in two days later. The Red Jacket on her first voyage went from Sandy Hook to the Rock Light, Liverpool, in 13 days, one hour, and the fastest British built clip per, the Melbourne, mace when running her casting down 5100 miles in F days. We ought never to have lost the position we then held upon the ocean, when Donald Mckay and Samuel Hall led the world in the building of fast ships. It is hu- initiating to think of the change that has come over our mercantile marine since their day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
CHRISTMAS PACKAGES
From Harper's Bazar.

No one can say that we are not sup piled with an unlimited variety of aids to attractive packing. The holly and poinsettia tags and cards, that appear with new designs around the ever familiar messages Merry Christmas" and "Do not open until Christmas" each year, are delight to an aesthetic soul and give the simplest homeliest gifts a gay air. Little individual jars of home made jam, although always full of de- licious promise, especially to the forlorr occupant of the third floor back" as sume quite jolly air when marked with holly labels and packed in equal ly gay boxes. A box of home made candy may easily become q close riva, to the most elaborate efforts of the French confectioner, when packed with oiled paper in fresh white box tied with broad satin ribbons, and decked with gay labels. Even box of grand : Er}etiRefis cookies apintily packed is 6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
SOUTHERN CANDIDATES FOR PRES-
 IDENT OR VICE PRESIDENT

From the New York Sun.
 In the discussion of possibilities for next year the name of Oscar w. Un- derwood of Alabama has been heard now and then and now again. He is spoken of both north and south as man fit for serious contemplation by united and harmonious democracy de- string success at the polls in November next; as one who would bring a good deal of strength to the party in either place on ticket formed for the pur- pose of success and inflict no weakness thereupon. The frequency of the mer- tion of MT. Underwood's name, it io only fair to observe, comes from no effort at promotion on the part of him self or his friends; it is due rather to the increasing recognition of the per- sonal qualities he is manifestly at his present post of political duty. There have been few speedier advances in national reputation than that which the chairman of ways and means and the leader of the House majority has achieved by the simple process of con- centrating very sane intelligence upon the business immediately in hand.
 There are half hundred considera- tions which will shape the course of the democratic nominators in conver- tion assembled next summer, and some of these are at this time necessarily more or less obscure. The one thing certain is that the sectional consider- alton will not determine adversely in the case of any democratic candidate for President or vice president other wise available and acceptable. The years since the civil war have rolled too fast and far to permit it to be con- ceivable any longer that the circum- stances of southern birth should con stitute in northern Judgment dis- qualification in any degree whatever Both as to nomination and as to elec- ton the southerner will be rated In 1912 on his individual merits As far as this particular southerner, MT. Oscar w Underwood, is concerned, 1t is agree able to note the absence of geography in the regard in which he is held In all parts of the union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
LAST PIPE RALEIGH SMOKED

From the London Chronicle.
 The last pipe Sir Walter Raleigh smoked is we are told, "carved with dogs heads and the faces of Red Indians" Most smokers would prefer such a pipe to one owned by Chicago millionaire, the bowl of which is described as "composed of various kinds of meersclraum, carved in the shape of Tuscan vase, and capped with an imperial crown. The bowl measures two inches in diameter, while the stem is nearly two feet in length. SIX teen different animals, over 50 separate flowers and plants 150 5architectural items, and innumerable stars. harps, suns and moons are included in the de- sign. many items having been carved with the aid of specially designed instru- ments." This monstrosity is valued at $2O,OOO. And then you must be afraid to smoke it, and turn into the nearest to- bacconist for a penny pipe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Banquet Speeches

'It is easy to critcise after dinner speeches, but try to do 1t yourselt and see how it is,'" said man who attended the Chamber of Commerce banquet at the Country club Thursday night. ''In the course of s5 or 40 years I have heard great deal of oratory. have heard hundreds of ban quet speeches. Several times in my life I have accepted invitations to make after dinner speeches, but l am cer- tain. that no one ever thought of put ting me in a high class as an orator. As veteran listener, however, am naturally discriminating
 Several of the speeches delivered on the occasion of the banquet in honor of Mir. Underwood were capital in ev- cry respect, but several were somewhat long drawn out. Every man who is to have some ideas worth while, but very often these ideas could be ex- pressed. even elaborately, within 10 minutes, but instead of 10 minutes the speaker draws out his remarks at a length that seems tiresome. Yes, there were several very fine speeches Thurs day night. I would be glad to single out several, but suffice it to say that Congressman Thomas Heflin made what I regard as an exceptionally able and fitting address. His negro stories were told not only in inimitable style true to life-but they were aptly ap- piled to a serious truth. MT. Heflin is really a first class humorist, and, like Polk Miller, could easily make his liv- ing on the lecture platform or the comedy stage. I had heard him several times on political occasions, but I thought in his Underwood speech he surpassed himself He is one of the orators that does not tire his hearers, even if he runs over the time limit. did not look at my watch, but lief lin probably spoke over a half hour, but it did not seem to me to be over 15 minutes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
iN THE woODs

By Arthur Symons. Come into the dim forest of old sleep; Wander with me. and will lead you
 deep tt Through paths of sun warmed grasses
 and chill ferns, ys Into the shadow where a green flame
 burns Hark! the swift rustic, wings among the
 leaves, ~f The curve of a dark, sudden flight. that leaves fA A@ A quiver in the branches; dusky throats Sob happily, ripple of soft notes Begins to soothe the silence back again. but listen, for tue tipy7voice of rain Whimpers among the pattering leaves; ~ they cry ssxssS
 With easy, shining tears, the sun will dry Of their slesk, .faces; and the earth
 breathes fll
 The breath of rain, and nimble winds
 begin To shake the hoarded odor of the wood Out itgee Q 'arendthrift. Cannot you and Forget to not be friends! This Is July.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
Beaftie's Confession

Tt is always relief to the public when a man tried for murder and con victed on circumstantial evidence and is about to suffer the death penalty makes a confession" said a member of Birminghams Virginia colony. T was glad that Beattie made a public con- fession of the murder of his wife. l followed the trial closely and had no sort of doubt as to Beauties guilt. But the confession is, nevertheless, inter- esting
 In the case of Cluverius, who was hanged in Richmond about 20 years ago, there was not only no confession that ever came to the public, but the condemnAi man died on the gallows protesting his innocence. That was al- most unthinkable to me, because Clu- verius had been brought up in a re- ligious atmosphere. He had been an active member of one of the large de- nominations and he had minister with him a great part of the time week or so before he was executed. The man who was death watch on Cluverius told Governor FitZhugh Lee, who was Virginia's executive at the time, that no mistake had been made in the conviction of Cluverius. While no direct confession was made to those who were permitted to talk to the prisoner in jail, a conversation be- tween the guilty man and his brother made it plain that. he had previously confided the fact of his guilt to this brother. Shortly before his death Cluverius spent some time in reading religious books, and how he could go out of this world with a lie on his lips could never make out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
The Iron Market

With the country today consuming more pig iron than it is producing, the only question is the absorption of the accum- ulated stocks in furnace yards" says Matthew Addy X Co.,, of Cincinnati These are being reduced but not at the same rate in the various districts. In the north the reduction is much more rapid than in the south, and in Alabama iron is moving out faster than in Virginia. Yet as whole this feature of the market which has been so distressing is steadily be- coming less and less of a menace. It is highly probable that by January stocks will show a reduction in the six months exceeding 30 per cent.
 Buying has been much in evidence this week. Some very large lots have been sold, while 300 ton orders have been fre- quent At the present time heavy ton nages are in process of negotiation. As yet only small part of the iron that will be needed during the early part of 1912 has been purchased and an extensive buy ing movement is sure to come before the beginning of the New Year. All indica- tions point to the fact that it is now starting. Coke is much more active. "One of the geninue signs of the times is the eagerness of consumers for quick shipment and the inability of the rail roads to give as prompt service as might be wished. The railroads are in poor shape for a revival Of trade. One heavy melter of iron told us that half the cars arriving at his plant were really in poor condition'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
nRyAN AND UNDERWOOD
Washington Star.

ErOm the W WHSHIIgtUI I5tdI.
 There is some curiosity as to how soon and in what form the duel between MT. Bryan and MT. Underwood will be re- stunned. Resumed it will be, according to general opinion. MT. Bryan doubts MT Upderwood's democracy. and MT. Under wood resents MT. Bryan's authority to sit in Judgment on that question: MT. Bryan tags MT. Underwood as near republican on the tariff. and as accept
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25

From the New York Press.
 Hope is a promissory note with poor in- dorsements.
 X man changes a hundred dollar bill with an air as if that made 1t two hun dren. womah, he has to learn from her how to express 1t to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25

A SCION OF WEALTH. He's thin of shank, But what of that? His dad to thank, tIis purse is fat. And while he thinks But little, yet With fancy drinks His nights are wet. And ladies of The stage appear To think his love Is very dear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25

oscar Underwood in his masterful speech on representative government delivered Thursday night gave solar pleXus to the so called progressive democracy populism and the like. And if Underwood does not know what true American democracy Is who does?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25

The impetuous haste of the packers to go to trial now covers a period of 10 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
STRIKING PROOF,

''Torlns tells me he is a busy man these days"
 "Torkins tells you the truth. Why. he has been observed to pass by all kinds of construction work without so much as pausing to have a look"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25

Mayor-elect Blankerburg, a Keystoner, goes into office December 4, and he says at that time policemen, firemen and other employees of the city will go out and keep out of politics.