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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
LETTERS OF KINGS AND OTHER
CELEBRITIES ARE FOR SALE
Surprising Country Service.

Is his earnest hope that the projected
meeting between him and Francis may
take place. Here is an interesting
quotation
And as is preceyve both by hymn
and his Counsaili they void be very
glad that the entrevieu and meeting
might be the next somer and moch
desireth to know the Kings pleasure
therein. The comon bruyt amonge
wyGe men here (and specially amonge
all Princes, ambassadors that be
here resident is how the ordre and
gouverance of alltendome re.styth now
in the pleasure of the Kings grace
be disposed to have peas amonge
Princes there is mother Emperor nor
King that dare without hymn wege
or enterprise war"
One of these letters from Queen
Elizabeth instructs Dr. Dale, her Am
bassador at the French Court, to carry
out negotiations with view of her
marriage with the Due d'Alencon.
A literary interest is added to the
sale by love letter from the poet
Dryden to his cousin Honour Dryden
and poem in four stanzas by Burns.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

New York World: There were 756
delegates in the Republican national
convention of 1880. with $40 votes
necessary to nominate.
On the first ballot Grant had 3O4
votes out of the 755 that were cast,
leaving him within seventy-four of
the necessary majority.
On the thirty-sixth ballot Grant had
3O6 votes out of the 755 that were
cast, leaving him with seventy-two
of the necessary majority. But James
A. Garfield had 500 votes and was
nominated for president.
Illinois had forty-two votes in the
convention. and twenty-four of them
went to Grant.
Pennsylvania had fifty-eight votes
in the convention, and thirty-two of
them went to Grant,
Missouri had thirty votes in the con
vention, and twenty-nine of them
went to Grant.
These are now Roosevelt states,
and Mr.. Rooseve!t's managers point
to them as final proof that he will be
nominated. Grant had a majority of
the delegates from all three of them,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

PARIS, April 15.-The eXtraordin-
ary outburst of patriotism that is
sweeping over France has reached
such proportions that it is now the
chief subject of discussion among
native and foreign residents of Paris.
Since the crisis with Germany on the
subject of Morocco last summer a re-
yiyal of the military spirit and a wave
Of patriotism have set in throughout
the country. An opportunity for tue
expression of sentiment was present
ed when prominent Paris newspapers
started a fund for the gift of aero
planes for military purposes to the
government.
France has reached the denititc con
clusion that the aeroplane will be our
great weapon in time of war, and the
patriotic movement, therefore, has
centered on the practical scheme Of
furnishing the nation with sufficient
aeToplanes to make France a formid-
able leader in aerial navigation.
The movement has passed like an
electric spark all over France, and in
almost every city, town and hamlet
public subscriptions have been opened
for the presentation of aeroplanes to
the army. Men, women and children
north an south, east and west, are
contributing their mite to the further
ance of the cause, and it is believed
that when the national fund is com
pleted the citizens aeroplane fiotilla
will astound the world with it's numeri
cal strength.
Americans in Paris, Joining In the
spirit Of the movement, have started
in on their own account and have
opened subscription to which a large
number Of them have already contri
buted. The organizers. in a public
letter, state that Frenchmen helpe'
the American Revolutionary army
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
BRITISH BAR SHOT DUG
UP IN NEW Work


For several weeks workmen have
been eXcayating the triangular block
between Broadway, st. Nicholas av-
enue, One Hundred and Sixth-sixth
and One Hundred and Sixty-fifth
streets, New York, where theater is
to be erected The other day one
of the men came across what he
thought was rusty dumbbell several
feet below the surface, and tossed 1t
aside. But a passer-by realized it was
something more valuable, picked it
up and carried 1t away. 1t was a
British bar shot which had been rust
ing in the earth since the days of the
Revolution, more than 1870 years ago.
In those sanguinary days there was
much fighting along Washington
Heights, and right where the Ameri-
can League Baseball Park is now,
across the street where the shot was
dug up, was camp of Hessian sol
diers. In fact, the bubbling spring
from which they got their drinking
water is today source of trouble to
the subway people, because it is al.
ways leaking into the One Hundred
and Sibty-eighth street station, more
than 1876 feet below the surface Of
Broadway.
Almost every time that ground IL
broken on Washington Heights Revo
lutionary relics are unearthed-but
tons, bullets, cannon shot, gin and rum
bottles, pipes, canteens, bayonets and
gun barrels. In the historic June
Mansion further down are severa
rooms filled with these rusty relicI
of bygone days. But the newly found
bar shot is one of the most interesting
and important.
1t is about two feet long and 1
weighs about twenty pounds.
square bar about twenty inches lonl
and an inch and half thick connects
two half shot eight inches in diameter
Fired from a cannon end-frst /
went hurting and shrieking through
the air, cutting to pieces any luckles
patriot it might hit. Fortunately,
] couldn't explode.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
REJOINDERS TO SLURS
BY ROOSEVELT UPON TAFT

! They have not changed; neither has
Taft. Whether Roosevelt has is not
TO be satisfactorily proved by re-
sounding speeches
How Democrats Are Viewed
Within the last week three of the
Democratic candidates for the presi-
dency have visited Washington, hob
nobbed with friend and supporters, ex-
pressed themselves highly elated with
the outlook and gone their ways, leav-
ing the salaried attaches of their
headquarters rejoicing. Observers
here are inclined to class these aspir-
ants in this fashion, taking the result
after the nomination only.
Champ Clark would get every
straight Democratic vote, but no APP
peal could be made for him to either
independents or Republicans.
Governor Wilson would lose Demo
cratic votes and gain few Republican
votes.
Governor Harmon would lose some
Democratic votes, but would get more
Republican votes than any man
talked of, particularly in Ohio and
New York
Oscar Underwood would carry the
south and probably New York. but
would be weak in Ohio and Indiana.
Moreover, he would make little appeal
to Republican voters, though his &C
tivity in recent tariff legislation
would win him some Independent
votes.
Governor Marshall, like Clark, nee
essarily would be a straight party
candidate
This estimate would be more con-
vincing if It were certain that more
than the regular Democratic vote
would be necessary to elect this year.
With Taft, Roosevelt and La Toilette
at each others threats many Demo
Gratis think they can win without APP
peal to the independent voters. But
should the Republican convention
wind up in a love feast, as Republican
conventions are apt to do, the Demo
Gratis probably will seek out the man
who can draw most heavily from The
Republicans. 1t is upon this theory
that the friends of Harmon are basiDg
their hopes.
Harmon Not on Primary Ballot.
Harmon by the way, set the exam
pie some weeks ago of refusing to
permit his name to go on the primary
tickets in New Jersey. This example
was followed last week by Clark, a
rather magnamimous act in view Of
the fight Wilson gave the speaker in
| Missouri This does not necessarily
mean, however, that there will be a
solid New Jersey delegation for its
governor. Uninstructed delegates hos
tile to him are reasonably sure to be
selected from several districts
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
DEMAND FOR TELEPHONES
HAS OUTGROWN THE PLANT
WHICH WILL Be ENLARGED

With over 1000 phones connected
with the wonderful automatic switch
boards on the second floor of it's cen
trail station on Adams lane, the Mu-
tual Telephone Company finds itself
practically at the end of it's rope as
far as taking care of any more sub
scribers is concerned. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the company has not
been soliciting any subscriptions for
some time, applications are coming in
daily, only a part of which it is pos
sible at present to take care of.
The new telephone directory which
has just been printed, and which will
be distributed within a few days,
shows a material increase in size, but
will not be able to grow any more I'M
til the exchange is enlarged. This
however, will be within few months,
for materials are now on the way
which will about double the capacity
of the present boards.
Big Growth in Year and Half.
''The growth of the system has been
remarkable" stated F. G. Hummel.
manager of the company, who came
here about two years ago to install
the automatic system in place of the
old hand switch system. when we
cut in the new exchange about year
and half ago We had about 1900
connections. Our present capacity
is 1000, but with a number of phones
on the same switch we have consider
ably more than that number. And we
can't do anything more till our new
material arrives. This is on the way,
however, and it amounts to very near
ly as much as our original shipment
did, The cables are on the way via
Tehuantepec, while the switch boards
have been shipped from Chicago.
every part of the city needs more
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
DRANK
UP S8IO,0OO,0OO

LONDON, April Is. An expert
analysis of Englands national drink
bill shows that the alcohol consumed
last year involved an outlay Of e162-
100000 ($S1O,OOO,OOO).
Does this mean that the country is
becoming less sober?" asked the cor
respondent of The Daily News of the
statistician of the great temperance
organization known as the United
Kingdom alliance
Due to the Long Summer.
NO." he replied, the increase is
attributable to the extraordinarily
long and fine summer of 1911 Togeth-
er the home and foreign trade is with
cut a precedent in magnitude in the
last forty years. The trend of drink
ing in the united kingdom is down
ward. The tide is ebbing, though an
individual wave now and then may
rise high"
DO you think a further reduction
in the number of public houses will
hasten the movement toward sobrie-
ty?"
Undoubtedly. Consider what hap
pened in Liverpool last summer,
Owing to the tumult attending the
strike public houses were closed at
certain hours of the day and drunk.
enness and crimes of violence fell off
amazingly in consequence"
Would Change Public Houses.
Comments on the liquor statistics
published today reveal that the fore
going views are not shared in all quar-
ters. OF course. those who hold a
brief for the brewers are expected to
combat the temperance conclusions,
but support comes to them from a sur
prising source. Frederick Edwin
Smith, one of the most influential
members of parliament, breaking
away from the old lines of controver
sy, declares that public houses should
not be abolished but transformed into
popular clubs, where the people nigh
find various sorts of entertainment
and refreshment and where the gen
eral sense of decercy would proven
drunkenness.
From the standpoint of sobriety,
asserts Mr.. Smith, "our licensing sys
tenn and the whole system underlying
it have failed"
Editor of the Times Agrees.
The editor of the Times is disposed
to agree with Mr.. Smith in thinking
that public houses should be mad,
places where mothers and fatheri
might take their children and where
anybody might take refreshments o
find diversion without loss of self
respect or caste. Drunkenness, it says
would disappear from such places a
from the respectable clubs of men an
women.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
FRANCE IS STIRRED BY
PROSPECTS OF AERIAL WAR

and it would now be very fitting and
graceful for Americans to aid in the
building up of a. great French aerial
feet. The letter continues,-"The
measure of this service may be small
in comparison with that of the original
but the sentiment is big and noble, and
such action, we think, would harmon
lie very well with the fact that Amer
lean genius first made aviation nrac-
ticable," the American residents OF
France hope to collect about $4,000,
which will be handed over to the
government for the purchase Of an
aeroplane.
There is still another way in which
French patriotism is being reawaken-
ed. When French soldiers return to
their barracks at nightfall in Paris
they are accompanied by military
bands, and often they carry lighted
torches. This has come to be known
as the "torchlight tattoo" and it is no
uncommon sight now to see hun
dreds of civilians, under martial and
patriotic spirit aroused by the swing
ing march of the soldiers fall into
line from the sidewalk and follow the
infantrymen to their quarters, while
crowds looking on cheer repeatedly
and enthusiastically for the French
army.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

equipment, and when the material ar
rives it will be very generally distri-
buted."
Surprising Country Service.
1--WE have had a most surprising
growth in the country" Mr.. Hummel
continued. when we opened our
country service a few months ago we
had about forty subscribers. Now we
have about $50, and demands for SER
vice coming in every day. Where
they come from is hard to say. | for
one had no idea that there would be
so many"
The exchange building, completed
less than two years ago, is amply large
for accommodating the new switch
boards, and they will be installed with
in a few weeks after they arrive.
viii Be still Better.
While the system is, as is generally
understood, absolutely automatic,
there are three "hello girls" still en-
ployed, and another will have to be
added right away, according to Mr..
Hummel. These young women are
information" and long distance"
and while they have nothing to do
with more than one out hundred
switches made, still it is said that they
are kept exceedingly busy answering
questions and helping customers to
attend to their business.
The new equipment, Mr.. Hummel
stated further, will in a few instances
enable the company to improve the
service now rendered. On Alewa
Heights, for instance, the patrons of
the system have been much troubled
Nsince the installation in trying to use
the wires at night, owing to induction
from electric light wires. With the
arrival of more cables, Mr.. Hummel
states it is the intention to remedy
this trouble among the first things
done.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
WHERE NONE CAN
REPLACE A MOTHER.
BY Madame Alphonse Daudet.

BY Madame AIphonse Daudet.
A mothers pretty saying: when
my boy began to walk l felt that he
was getting away from me; it gave
me heart pang, this first attempt
at parting, which l knew the child
would renew later with every leap
of his youth. He chung to the furni-
ture for support, he clutched at my
dress, then one day he turned around,
tried his trembling steps, balanced
himself and was gone! oh, how
cried!"
Yes. she cried, knowing too well
that she had neither the right nor the
power to prevent or to postpone his
first step in independence and that
II was but the dawn of long renun'
citation, already begun, in which she
would strive to follow her boy through
life
These new steps are his first going
away, his first imprudence; bumps
against furniture, little tumbles, cries
and copious tears, in rebellion against
unexpected hurts and life's severity
to the inexperienced. Later will come
skill, precaution, chosen landmarks foi
going here and there. And, in this
connection, l must say that l have
always found harmful the useless au
thority, the tyranny of those Wh'
watch over without taking into con
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
BY WILLIS ]. ABBOT.

by WILLIS j. AbbO -
WASHINGTON, ID, c., April 13.-
President Taft's friends do not seem
seriously affrghted by the bitter per.
sonal attack made upon him by Col.
Roosevelt at Louisville. In fact as
Taft is in the lead they have no rea-
son for distress There is an inclina-
ton, however, to ridicule the col
onels enumeration of the bosses"
who are for Taft He complains that
Penrose, Aldrich and Gal'inger. who
were against Taft four years ago, are
for him now That is true enough
Senator Penrose during the Taft ad.
ministration has been chairman of the
postoffice committee and now is chairs
man of the finance committee. Sena-
tor Aldrich while in office held the
latter post Senator Gallinger long
has been chairman of the District of
Columbia committee. 1t was natur.
ally impos sible for the president to
put through any of his policies with
out the friendship of these men. Tha
he won it, his friends declare, is eE..
dence of his tact to be applauded
rather than condemned
:Taft's Friends Make Retort'
Colonel Roosevelt also refers to ex-
Speaker Cannon and to Congressman
w. b. Mckinley, now managing the
Taft campaign. Both of these men
We're essential to the success of the
Taft policies-as they were to those
Of his predecessor. The street argu-
ment, you're another" doesn't seem
really dignified in presidential discus
sions, but it is the one the Taft peo-
pie are applying to the Roosevelt out
break.
Does any one suppose" they ask,
that Roosevelt never consulted AL
drich, leader of the Senate, or Speak
er Cannon when he desired Legislative
action? AS a matter of fact, his pro-
nounced silence on the tariff-a sill.
enCe WHICH sun ptlSlSlS- -NllOiOuS
accorded with the views Of these two
men. if not positively imposed upon
him by them? Moreover. it was no
under the Roosevelt administration
but under Taft's, that Cannonism wal
fought to a finish" Thus speak il
these days of Republican recrimina
lions the men at the Taft headquar
ters and who profess themselves sat
isfed with their outlook
One point / have not seen noted
Colonel Roosevelt declares what il
quite true that the men above men
toned were fighting Taft at the Chi
cago convention. Every political writ
er knows that they were all willing tC
join in an effort to stampede the con
vention for Roosevelt himself, will
whom they had served seven years
and in whom they trusted, though
they doubted new and untried man
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

sideration the outbursts the desires,
the preferences of children.
Oh what intelligence, what tact
must be possessed by those to whom
is confded that exacting, touching,
!supremely precious task: the first
care of a baby! Would that the moth
er alone might suffice in those early
days before the age of wants that rea-
son must repress!
l know that modern life, as we un-
derstand it and as we are compelled
to live it, is very crowded, very laden
with obligations-ohten imaginary
and with duties-astonished that such
a great word should be applied to
them! But she who does not help In
childish faculties deprives herself OF
one of the loveliest of the joys of life'
and have nothing but pity for moth
ers who have never helped their little
earrings to try to draw, to read, to
say their letters or sing their notes
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
A MERE MAN TELLS WOMAN
ALL ABOUT GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

hANOAS Cll1, April ia man
mind you, mere man--stood up be-
fore 200 women in the Wv. G. A. |
lecture room and told them how tol
keep house. When he addressed them
as fellow housekeepers" some of the |
women Uttered "Well, | am a house
keeper" he said and it's mans
job"
1t was Charles Barnard speaking,
and, in truth, he is a housekeeper, for
he is the superintendent in charge
of the National Housekeeping Expert
ment Station at Darien, Conn. All
that's newest in the art of keeping
house is first tried out by Mr.. Barnard
and his assistants. and if it's good
the world is told about it,
Housekeeping Efficiency" was Mr..
Banard's subject yes terday and the
women who smiled out loud when he
introduced himself remained to ask
questions when he finished Eighteen
million women get up every morning
breakfast for five persons" he said,
land 100000 women get up with
sour faces at the very thoughts of it.
"Womans work is a drudgery
handed down from mother to daugh-
ter, the antiquated systems of years
and years ago still prevail, and that's
why the kitchen is the bane of a
woman's existence"
Mr.. Barnard knows that this should
| not be-because he tried it. After
years of experimenting he has found
that household cares may not be cares
at all, but pleasures.
Women have created bad house
keeping system" he said, while the
men were out trying to make living,
and men have suffered for it. Those
thinking men who applied shop eff
| cheney to the factory with such sue
cess have begun to ask the women
why they don't apply the same thing
to housekeeping-and now they are.
7
ing the work in the best way with the
! least amount of labor. The first prin-
ciple of it is conserving your own
! vitality. Never stand up to do what
, you can sit down and do. Take it
easy, with recesses for rest, and the
, housekeeper, whether a servant girl
! -, 49, ,,;,trags baroalf r,uet boya a
mind free from worry. The servant
girl should have pleasant room, and
the kitchen should be place Of peace
and quiet.
WASTED steps and wasted motions
make housekeepers slaves to drudg-
cry. l knew a woman who had to
walk a hundred feet to get to her re-
frigerator and back, and in my own
home, before we applied the rules OF
efficiency, the maid had to walk sixty
feet twice to make and serve single
cup of tea.
: ut took forty steps to cut. and
, serve a pate of bread. BY slight re-
arrangement Of doors we put the
kitchen three feet from the sdlning
room table and by keeping the bread
knife, the bread plate and the bread
all in the same place we reduced that
effort to the minimum.
"a wheeled serving tray makes
waiting on the table and clearing
o,,oy Tho dishes n matter of a min
ute's work. Our breakfast is cooked
3 on this serving tray right beside the
dining room table and there is nj
. walking about at all for that simple
t morning meal"
The greatest of labor saving uten
5 sils, Mr.. Barnard declared, is the fire
I less cooker. He also enumerated thu
many advantages Of vacuum clean
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
HAWAII COUNTY
ovERpRAWs $4,000

HILO, May 2.-The report of Coun'
tv Auditor C. X. Mcguire for the
months of January, February and
March, yesterday presented to the
board of supervisors, shows receipts
for that period to have amounted TO
S2O,795.S1. Disbursements for the
quarter were $29,9S4,12. The over
draft, therefore comes to $91SS.S1.
When the Hawaii share Of the terri
tcrial taxes is forthcoming this month,
1t is expected, says the auditor, that
Hawaii county will come out all right
and there will likely be no further ne
cessity for registering warrants.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04
WHY COLDS ARE DANGEROUS.

WHY COLDS ARE DANGEROUS.
Do you know that OF all the minor
ailments colds are by far the most
dangerous? II Is not the cold Itself
that you need to fear, but the seri-
Gus diseases that 1t often leads to.
Most Of these are known as germ
diseases. Pneumonia and consump-
ton are among them. Why not take
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
cure your cold while you can! For
sale by all dealers. Benson, Smith
& Co, Agents for Hawaii,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

Mr.. Barnard urged economy in the
kitchen and said: Half the causes
for the high cost of living are found
in the waste of the kitchen. Even
hash, if it is made right, is great
delicacy."
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

The man who loves his neighbor as
himself is on the right track, but the
neighbor is likely to come under the
wire first.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-04

You may thing your photograph
doesn't fiatter you, but it's a safe bet
that after a stranger sees it he WIN be
disappointed with your face.