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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
Mrs. Sun Vat Sen: A
Dainty Chinese Rebel

MED her husband in his wanderings.
She was not with him when he was
hustled into the Chinese legation in
London and kept a close prisoner un.
til a note hidden in a coal scuttle
startled the British people into indig-
nation. She is a stranger alike to
Europe and America,
q have two daughters who have
been my care" she explained. They
are being educated after the manner
of English girls"
But if Mrs. Sun Vat Sen has taken
no active part, she has none the less
suffered in the cause of the. revolu.
ton. Merely to see her in exile is a
corrective to the egotism of action
and to talk with her is to feel thai
revolutions are not dreams but real
ties.
For years the cause has separated
me from my husband, on whose hea
there has been a price My married
life has been filled with vague terrors
and active alarms. But never for 3
moment have I lost faith in the sue.
cess of our sacrifice"
This is the secret of her radia~
youth and enthusiasm-faith in a
man and a cause.
But l must. tell you how I came tc
have this delightful interview. When
DR.. Sun Vat Sen was on his way frcr
London to Nankin, where the provis-
ional government of the new repuh.
lie awaited its first president, he
landed. for a few hours in Penang,
on the west coast of the Malay pc
ninsula. Penang is beautiful
island but it is not on the di-
rect road to Marking, and the leader
of a revolution hurrying to the seem
of action must have had some strong
attraction to draw him so far from
his course. Mrs. Sun Vat Sen an7
Continued on page twelve.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
BANANA HASH.

The Weekly Times, Wailuku: The
Advertiser feels highly elated that the
silly cutting down of banana plants
in Honolulu by the board of health
is an accomplished sact and tn"
therefore the recent supreme court
decision that the board of health M
acted in an arbitrary manner and
usurped powers that did not belong
to it really does not now much mat
ter. THE supreme court is great and
mighty, but thank goodness, it's
powers are not retroactive in this ba-
mana business!" exults the Adver-
tiser. No, that is quite true, unfor-
tunately. The folly has been COM
mitted, the harm done and can never
be undone. But, there is one con-
ISOLATION. The decision of the supreme
court reveals the integrity, honesty
and impartiality of the members Of
that body. 1t also reveals the fact
that law and justice is still upheld in
this country that the property of free
citizens is to be respected even by
the high and mighty board Of health,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
DEATH IN GOLORS
BY JOSEPH HEATING.

goes raging blazing round the long
galleries, seeking whom it may de-
YOUR.
1t comes out of the darkness with a
roar Its fury shakes the earth. The
roof trembles, breaks, ana down come
the mountains in myriads of pieces.
The dust mingles with the great
flames; the volume of fire becomes
too vast for the narrow tunnel The
side walls crumble, burst out, and
give the blaze more room. The ground
rocks under the mems feet; they tot,
ter and fall; and the appalling fire
torrent rrshes over them.
Every man and boy in the pit cries
out with terror They know that the
rolling thunder they hear is the roar
of death. Even the horses-there
may be three or four hundred of them
understand why the roads and sides
are trembling. The men, boys and
horses rush out The only way of
escape is where the light of day comes
down the shaft. That is far away
from where they are, and they scream
with the horror that is upon them.
Just as they turn the corner of their
little roadways to get to the main
artery they see the fire 1t fills the
whole road. It is a great river of
red, blue and green. The gases and
dust of the roads give it many colors.
The Race for Life.
The men, boys and horses rush out
before It, 1t will overtake them. But
they rush on, with the poor hope that
they can outrun Death
The long, narrow tunnel becomes
tumble of human beings and animals.
The men shout the. boys scream, the
horses neigh and snort with terror
and trample on the weaker things.
The dust rises in black clouds. BY
and by that dust will help to make the
flames more fierce and strong. Then
it will gain on the living mass rush
ing before it, and men, boys, and
horses will lie down, quiet, and the
fire-dragon will devour them all
Even if they escape this monster of
Red Death he has behind him a more
terrible power than himself For be-
hind the fame comes a perfect whirl-
wind of furnace-hot dust-the scorch-
ing blast that follows in the track of
every explosion.
A man may escape the fire. In his
fright he falls fiat upon the ground.
The fire in its fury rushes over him
without being able to harm him. But
the moment he rises he feels about his
face something that is at torture heat
1t blisters and tears the skin from his
cheeks-peels it off-as if he had sud
denly thrust his head in a cauldron Of
CONTINUED on page tweIve.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
AMUR RIVER
RECLAMATION

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9.-Peter
Stake, chief drainage engineer in
Eastern Siberia for the Russian Gov
eminent arrived here yesterday on
the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria to
study American methods and pur-
chase machinery for reclamation.
"The Russian government is plan.
ming the reclamation of many thou
sand square miles on the banks of the
Amur in Siberia" he said.
This country is sparsely settled, al
though the soil is excellent. BY dredg.
ing drainage canals and building
levees a large area can be reclaimed
and opened to prosperous settlement.
There is also a considerable area
of forest land that has been cut over,
but not cleared. 1t is the purpose of
the Government to clear this land and
open it also to settlement
immigration to this territory will
be sought from European Russia.
Heretofore all the reclamation work
has been done by hand Labor is
scarce, and l am here to investigate
dredging machinery in use in America
as well as stump-pulling machines
and methods for burning stumps."
Stake also said that the Russian
Government also had a large area in
Turkestan, which is to be brought an
der irrigation and colonized. He said
that John Hays Hammond had been in
st. Petersburg negotiating with the
Government for a concession for the
Turkestan project, but he was not IN
formed whether Hamond would do
the work or the Government take it
up directly.
Stake leaves on Tuesday for st.
Louis and Chicago He will inspect
the reclamation work in the delta of
the Sacramento and San Joaquin riv-
ers before going East
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
(London Daily Mail.)


No man goes more willingly to his
death than the miner
You would think that the eternal
darkness of the pit would make men
miserable and morose. Instead, the
men whose lives are spent in per-
petual gloom are bright, light-hearted,
and eminently content with their lot.
In winter time they see the light of
heaven only on Sundays, for during
six days it is dark when they go to
their work and dark when they re-
turn-that is, if they return, for from
the moment they stop into the cage
that is to take them down into the
dark mine they put themselves with
in reach of death in a million forms.
death Hath So Many Doors"
What particular dark hole Death
may spring from, of course, no one
knows The rope may break, let the
cage fall a thousand feet down, and
smash sixteen human beings into I'M
recognizable pulp. Or, while still
merely at the beginning of the days
work, something might so wrong with
the -guides-these things hap
pen rather often; then the upcoming
cage catches the down going one, aud
the men and boys are cut up into small
sections.
AS a man walks slowly along the
tunnel to his work, a slight fidgetiness
on the part of nature loosens the
stones in the roof The stone that
drops may only just touch the mans
cap. But the touch is enough. His
comrades carry him home on a
rough stretcner of wood with some
tar-canvas over him. The poor moth
er and her children weep, and their
own lives are made joyless with the
memory of it.
The dangers in the "face"-that is,
at the actual work of cutting the coal
are so many that it would be quite
impossible to mention all.
But the notorious danger is the Red
Death.
All the scientists have been at work
trying to discover and thwart this
source of wholesale slaughter. They
know that two things, and two things
alone, are responsible; a large accumu.
lation of gas and a small artificial
light AS the work Of getting the coal
itself produces gas, that evil is in
evitable; and as artificial light is ne
cessary to do the work why, that evil
is also inevitable Taken separately,
these things do no harm But the
moment they come together it is the
signal that a few hundreds simple
souls are sent for by God.
"How the Red Death Comes"
Red Death fills the black roads. 1t
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18

ginning on the goth of this month. Il
is expected that there will be an IN.
usually large number of delegates and
pastors present The Sunday School
and Christian Endeavor Association
will hold their meetings in connection
with those of the Evangelical Asso-
citation The roll call of the c. r,
societies will be on Wednesday night
the opening night of the meeting.
The next evening there will be a re.
union of the Lahainaluna alumni. Mr..
Akaiko Akana will speak. He has
been five years away for study, and
during those years was enrolled as a
student at Hartford Theological Sem
mary, where he stood very high in
his studies as well as in the estima-
ton of his professors. He made a re.
markable record. Since his return TO
Hawaii he has already had great sue
cess in addressing large audiences OF
young people in Honolulu. where he
has regular appointments. His COM
ing to Maui will be highly appreciated
by his many friends here. All meet
ings, will be held at Hale Aloha.
Hotel Changes Hands.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Trimble took
possession of the Waikiki Hotel to-
day, having purchased the same from
Mrs. Schrader on the 9th of this
month. Mrs. Schrader has lived in
Waikiki for nearly thirty years and
is one of the oldest residents. She
has been very popular as proprietor
and has always had a pleasant family
hotel in which many townspeople and
travelling men have found a home.
It is Mrs. Schrader's intention to visit
her son, George B. Schrader, in Ho-
nolulu, for some little time, and then
make a trip to the Coast.
Personal.
Mrs. W. A. Mckay returned to Mani
this morning in the Lurline much inn
proved in health after her operation
ana rest IN Honolulu.
f. ]. Walker, the manager of Pun.
meme store, is rapidly improving after
his operation at the Puunene Hos
pital.
Mr. and Mrs E. o. Born of Waikiki
are to have the house in Kakului for
merly occupied by Captain Roberts.
Maui towns will be quite citifed if
the board of supervisors put up those
speed limit" signs that they have or
dered painted.
George Groves, district overseer OF
Makawao, has resigned his position.
His resignation will take effect on
May |.
Hugh Howell will be kept very busy
the next few weeks making survey
maps of the various courthouse lots
in the county. The maps are to be
sent to the governor, but copies will
probably be kept on file here for fl
ture use by the county.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
NATIONAL CONVENTION
RACE ON ISLAND OF MAUI
KeliinOi, Wilcox and Robinson in Run
ning--Quiet on Surface but Things
Doing Underneath

Especial Correspondence Of the starr
WAILUKU, March 15.-Hon. S. Ke.
liinoi seems to be in the lead as the
probable delegate to the Chicago con.
vention. This is popularity the opin-
ion of political men, at least, but no
one knows yet who will get there,
Two or three others are in the race.
Charles Wilcox is one and Hon. W.
T. Robinson another. Politics here is
so far rather quiet, but there is some
thing doing under the surface of
things all right. May Maui do the
thing she always tries to do
send the best man Tor the place. Sev.
eral candidates are also in the field
as delegates to the Honolulu conven-
ton next month.
Public AmGsements.
Seven hundred people attended the
Orpheum last Saturday night to see
the Corson Clarke stock company
play What Happened to Jones'" it
was a good play and everyone hugely
enjoyed it, Mr. Clarke himself took
the part of Jones, and did it exceed
ingly well. His audience kept APP
plauding constantly. Margaret Dale
Owen was equally appreciated. Her
acting was very good indeed. why
Smith Left Home" was played on
Monday night There was a good
house, too On Tuesday and Wednes-
day the company played at Paia
Orpheum. On Thursday night Lost
-Twenty-Four Hours" was played
and there was a very good house that
showed much appreciation. Manager
Thompson of the Orpheum is to be
congratulated upon the high order of
the performances he has been giving
Wailuku, The large number of local
patrons is encouraging. When there
is anything special, as was the case
this week, there are always a large
number of out-of-town visitors.
Mr.. Turner's Bereavement.
Word has been received by friends
of Rev. Edward b. Turner, who in
December resigned the Makawao pas
torate, that he has recently lost his
mother. She died in Corning, Iowa,
and although Mr.. Turner left imme-
diately upon the receipt of the tele-
gram telling of her sickness, he ar
rived too late to see her alive. At
the time he was in New York city.
Mrs. Turner died of cancer of the
stomach. Mr.. Turner is now located
in East Orange, N. j., and for three
months has been field secretary for
the Bible Teachers Training School
of New York city. He has recently
returned from a trip in which he ad-
dressed forty schools and colleges.
Religious Conventions.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Maui Association of Evangelical
Churches will be held at Lahaina, be-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
DEMOCRATS SPRING SURPRISE
ON THE INCOME TAX MEASURE

deal with the bill declared there was
no possibility of the measure passing
the Senate.
Views of Senators.
81 do not believe" he said, that
any Republican senator, regular or in
surgent or that many Democrats,
will stand for this measure that
would destroy a great industry. The
income tax proposition is absolutely
unconstitutional. To call it an excise
tax instead of an income tax, that
has already been declared unconsti-
tutional by the highest court in the
land, is simply quibbling on words,
1t is an income tax pure and simple"
Senator Kern of Indiana, who was
Democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent in the last national campaign,
said that the measure was a go
one
81 am and always have been in
favor of an income tax" he said. 81
also am in favor of free sugar"
Senator Martin of Virginia, Demo
cratic leader of the Senate, unquali-
fiedly declared for the bill framed by
his party in the House.
"The measure" he said, "is emf
nently wise and ought to pass. There
is no doubt in my mind as to its con-
stitutionality"
Senator Poindexter of Washington.
progressive Republican, said: 81 am
very much in favor of an income tax,
l have been favoring it for years"
Little Difference to Consumer.
(Cotinued on page teul
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18

Order in Pekin seemingly depends
upon the caprice of the soldiery. The
old-style troops, who displaced the
modern military after the recent
mutiny, declared that Prince Ching.
the former Premier, sent to each of
their camps a gift of 1000 taels Can
$2SOO) Storekeepers in
the unlooted sections are subscribing
heavily to the soldiers for their pro-
lection.
The Manchu soldiers, who practically
closed themselves within the walls OF
the imperial city during the mutinous
outbreak, now let their queues hang
instead of rolling them under their
caps, while the Queueless Chinese are
apprehensive of their safety.
The United States protected cruiser
Cincinnati arrived today at Taku, at
the mouth of the Pei Ho, and the
transport Aberenda, which left Shang-
hal on Tuesday with 200 American
marines, is expected tomorrow. The
foreign. legations received reports
from Consuls stating that dissensions
have broken out in the houthern pro-
vinces.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18

WASHINGTON, March 2.-House
and Senate leaders of all shades of
political belief gave themselves over
today to a discussion of the sensa-
tional action of the House Demo-
cratic caucus last night in indorsing
what is in effect an income tax on all
net incomes, including salaries, above
$4,000. That the House will pass the
measure by. a party vote within the
next ten days or two weeks was
taken for granted.
The plans of the House leaders had
not been wholly disclosed -oday, but
it was apparent that the bill to eX-
tend the excise tax law now relating
to corporations so as to include CO.
partnerships and individuals was to
be urged upon the House ahead OF
the bill to put sugar on the free list.
The Democratic leaders want to be
sure that the deficit will be provided
for before the duty is removed.
The new plan of the Democrats
took their Republican colleagues by
surprise. Many of them had not re-
covered sufficiently today to be will
ing to talk for publication. The bill
holds that working for a salary is
Just as much a manner of doing bust
ness as investing money in an enter
prise.
It is said that in the Senate, in all
probability, party alignments will be
broken, although party leaders make
no such concession publicly. Sena-
tor Smoot of Utah. member Of the
Senate finance committee, which will
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
Tom Lawson Writes About
the Fool and His Money
Parted in Stock Market
Picturesque Financier Tells Why He
Must Always Lose to Thimble
RiggerS of Finance

tern storehouse. If any, because of
fortunes made in stock gambling,
should doubt the soundness of my as
sertion they have but to examine the
fortunes thus made, and they will
quickly detect the Sure Thing Burg
lar Unions high sign.
BY all rules of sane commercial
ethics, stock gambling should long ere
now have been but a name like Lou
isiana Lottery" gold brick" or
green goods" but. in fact, it is the
most virile, the most respectable and
the most desired of all businesses.
Why is this? asks the student of
the human animal. Why is it that a
game wherein all lose but the house"
continues to flourish and afford a
luxurious living to thousands of
drones in the hives of civilization s
industry, drones who neither produce
nor assist others to produce?
Why is it that the victims and the
to-be victims cannot cure the incon-
trollable banker to sit-in at the stock
gambling game? Let us see:
First, Gambling, the hope to reap
wealth without sowing, is inherent in
man. The more acute his need, the
greater his desire to gamble, and the
more pitiful the ruin into which he
must finally crumble.
Second, 1t is the best-advertised
game in all the world. 1t is played for
unlimited stakes, and the stakes are
always real dollars; there is no law
against it; the paraphernalia is elabo-
rate and be-dazzling; it's agents are
everywhere in every city, town, nook
and Granny of the land; the game is
the oldest played; the profits to the
gamekeepers are huge, and last, but
furthest from least it is universally
regarded not only as a real and legi-
innate business but as the highest
toned" of them all. Moreover, it Is
so easy for any one to become a
stock gambling gamekeeper, the only
requirements being capital, bonnet
cooking brow, and a chest capable Of
unlimited expansion.
Third, Owing to the nature of the
game and the fact that the profits to
the gamekeeper are so large, there is
kept in constant operation wonder
fully cunning and powerful system
for the education of all classes of peo-
pie to believe what the exigencies of
the game require should be believed.
Not a small part of this system is the
use of the press to keep before the
world the daily doings of the game,
and the high point and the low point
Continued on page eleven.)
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18
(By William Maxwell, Penang, in

(By William Maxwell, Penang, in
London Daily Mail)
Mrs. Sun Vat SEN said my Chi
nese companion.
But, madam" l stammered, 81
have just been told that your daugh-
ter is seventeen years DID,
A pair of dark eyes twinkled and a
smile played like a sunbeam about
the sensitive mouth.
All the way | had been wondering
what sort of mate this Chinese rebel
leader had taken to himself. Was she
stout-hearted, stern-faced Roman
matron who could say to her hus-
band as she handed MIN his shield,
Come back with it or upon it?" Was
she some solid, unimaginative house
wife who could never understand and
had ceased to trouble about the am
billions of her adventurous husband?
Or was she some sensitive shrinking
creature whose Ease was haunted
with the chose of an ever-impending
tragedy?
And here she was-just a dainty
little lady with sweet, smiling face
and a grace and charm that make
willing slaves. The simple robe OF
pure white threw into strong relief
the clear, olive tone of the complex
ion and the glossy black hair I'M
adorned and smoothed back from the
shapely forehead. Mrs. Sun Vat Sen
might be beautiful nun if her face
did not shine with the happiness that
is of this world also.
How does it happen that the moth
ers of great men have the monopoly
of stories that make either history
or dreams. Surely the wives have a
right to share this anthology. Theirs
is often the tragedy if not the ro-
nance of great lives-the sacrifice if
not the inspiration.
Mrs Sun Vat Son has NOT appOnona.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-18

There is no more picturesque figure
in the financial world than Thomas
w Lawson of Boston, and the public
has read much of his writings upon
the subject of stock gambling and
the thimble-rigging of the market by
the big "fiinanciers" Lawson is in
print again, this time with a page ar
ticle in the Philadelphia Ledger, an
swering the question, why does the
fool seek to be parted from his coin?'
and propounding the harder one,
where in the future will the fool get
money to be parted from?"
Here is what Lawson has to say:
Stock gambling is the most danger
GUS of all games. None can win at it;
that is, no one can leave the game
winner unless he dies before he has
the opportunity to lose back his first
winnings. None can leave the game
winner; few can leave it-loser.
Why should it be otherwise. A has
never stock gambled. A has some
money. A earned it himself and saved
it. Ergo: AS judgment is good. If A
has acquired the money by inherit
ance and has kept it in these days Of
marvellous devices for the parting of
man AMI his wealth, ergo again: AS
judgment is good. If AS money is but
the remnant of a fortune left him by
his forebears or any others forebears,
why is not the game of stock gamb-
ling as good a place to lose the bal
ance as that which has already de-
pleted the original fortune?
So A enters the game; enters it of
his own free will. A wins. Should A
quit with his winnings? What an
idiotic proposition. AS judgment di-
reefs him to stock gambling and AS
Judgment has proved to be sound be-
cause A wins. Ergo: With the same
judgment, plus winnings, A would he
the most conspicuous of asses if he
did not stock gamble some more, and
on and on until A loses all A has
won. Ergo: A should then repeat
his first operation, start afresh, and
continue until he goes broke.
B voluntary enters the stock gam
bling game. B does not win, but, on
the contrary, goes broke. Should B
quit? Clearly not. B, having nothing
more to lose, should borrow, beg or
steal to win back what has already
been lost.
To make myself clear, I will say
that none can win at straight" stock
gambling. OF course, anyone can win
at the "sure-thing" stock gambling
game, provided they have the pass
word or the jimmy and the dark Ian