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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

That the new administration intends
to do away with the system whereby
the rights of private citizens to invest
their money IN waterpower sites and
irrigation projects were denied with
out granting any hearing to the inter-
ested parties, has been made clear by
the anneuncement of Secretary Lane
that hereafter there will be direct
dealings between the interior depart
ment officials. and the parties inter-
ested in development, with view to
reaching better understanding.
Secretary Lane has called hearing
for May l, at which the representatives
of all the contending and disputing
forces will discuss the reclamation
service and the situation on each of
the great government reclamation
projects. Later on Secretary Lane is
to give a hearing to the representa-
tives of waterpower interests and will
determine whether the government
has been uninst in refusing to permit.
the. building of dams by private capt.
tai, where the government would be
benefited by thus making streams nav
igable. =
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

Perry Belmont Is being urged by
New York Democrats as governor gem
eral Of the Philippines. Belmont de-
sires his appointment through senti-
ment, as his ancestor, Admiral Perry,
opened Japan to the civilized world.
Mrs. Belmont, who was Mrs. w. K.
Vanderbilt, wants Belmont sent to
Paris as ambassador.
Representative Francis Burton Har-
lison of New York is backing Bel
mont.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

Abba Temple. Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, propose to hold an initiation
festival wherein 'unregeneraten sons
Of the desert will cross the hot sands
in one of the Panama Canal locks be-
fore the water Is turned into the lock
this fall.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

Militant suffragettes yesterday
burned three compartments of q Lon
don and Southwestern railway train
at Leddington station. The carriages
were empty. An oil canister was
found in one of the carriages with
suffragette literature scattered about.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

Pope Plus sat up for thirty minutes
today, and through his window watch
ed five hundred children participate
In a calisthenfc drill. He frequently
waved his hand at the children. /.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

In an editorial today, under the cap
ton THE Effect Of Free Sugar" the
San Francisco Chronicle says:
1T Is difficult to think Of any rea-
son except pure cussedness why, even
as between millionaires. the Demo-
Gratis should wish to ruin those Of
Hawaii in order to swell the fortunes
of those owning Cuban plantations.
Free sugar Will make an end Of
the Hawaiian sugar industry. which
is virtually the sole support Of the
territory. This would involve the
,confiscation of the entire capital In
vested in plantations.
We may, II we choose, say that we
don't care what becomes of the Ha-
waiians. although the islands are q
territory OF the United States and APP
parently entitled to as much consid-
Grafton as the rest of us get, but we
certainly care for ourselves and, IL
the territory of Hawaii is ruined, its
people will not be able to continue to
buy Of us to the tune of $28,029, $40.
as they did last year, which means
just so much less money distributed
to American labor.
Hawaii, even now, can produce
cane sugar cheaper than beet sugar
can be produced anywhere in the
Union and if that territory Is put out
of the sugar business there will not
be anywhere vestige left Of our beet
sugar industry.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

To begin his indeterminate sentence
for the abduction of Mildred Bridges.
Evelyn Arthur Zee, leader of the "Ab-
solute Life" cult. in Chicago, was TAX
en- to prison today.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

The final draft OF the substitute an
|ti-alien land bill, which II is proposed
by the special legislative committee TO
introduce in place Of the several PEN
ding land bills. after il is submitted to
Secretary of State Bryan, was finish
ed last night.
While the bill has been drafted
carefully to meet the constitutional
points raised by the president and is
believed to be framed in such man
Ener as to avoid any violation of the
rights granted to the subjects OF Ja-
pan by treaty with the United States,
the measure is unchanged 50 far as
the real anti-Japanese issue is con-
cerned.
Roosevelt Warns
In the belief Of Col. Roosevelt the
federal courts would not sustain an
alien land law such as that proposed
by California. He says that the alien
laws passed by other states have new
er had occasion to be brought to a
test, as those states face no such Jap
anese situation a does California, but
that these laws are unconstitutional
and would prove so IL tested.
He declares the unfinished Panama
Canal. with its lack of defense, would
in itself make it wise for California
not to give opportunity for foreign
nation to destroy this great work Of
years.
"N0 War;
No change is expected in the Japan
California situation until Secreta-
ry of State Bryan has had an opportu-
nifty. to report to President Wilson the
result of bis mission.
In the best.informed circles in
Washington talk of war with Japan is
ridiculed.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

1t is announced from Washington
that the present administration will
continue all Republican postmasters
now in office to the end of their terms
unless charges against their efficiency
can be sustained.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

Confirmation of a report that gum
ners of the monitor Tallahassee, en-
gagged in target practice off Judah
Sound, in lower Chesapeake bay, sent
an eight-hundred pound shell whis-
zing over the government yacht Dol
Hphin by mistake, was received in
Washington today. The report was
verified by eleven members of the
senate and house committees on naval
affairs who we're aboard the Dolphin
and who returned to Washington this
afternoon. Representative Wither-
spoon of Mississippi said the mistake
was inexcusable He said the gum
liers were confused by a white spot
on the smoke stack which they be-
lieved was the old Katahdin bullet
mark. The Dolphin was lying direct
ly behind the Hercules, the lead mis-
sfle whizzing over the Dolphin's smoke
stack fifty feet away. The concus-
sion smashed every window on the
Hercules. Navy officials are investi-
eating responsibility for the mistake.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-28

1t is understood the conference Of
ambassadors adheres to its decision
that Montenegro must evacuate Sou
tart, but is fhdisposed to acquiesce in
demand that the powers undertake
to compel evacuation by force of arms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
THE DRUDGE.

A good many overworked women
have probably at times felt like seek
ing respite from household drudgery
at almost any cost, but the case of
the Brooklyn woman who, after 20
years of married life, deliberately stole
an article from store that she might
be arrested and sent to jail, stands
alone. According to the news dispatch
chronicling this occurrence, the wo-
man told the judge that she found
nothing at home but labor, continuous
and hard and no one to appreciate or
say a kind word" She was even
anxious to 60 to jail to obtain rest.
The pathos of the life of this poor
woman is affecting indeed and yet
there are thousands of women who
are in the same boat. They are to be
pit!ed and il is to be hoped that the
Brooklyn case will set some selfish
husbands and children to thinking
and induce them to tighten the bur-
dens OF their household drudges. The
least they can do is to say kind word
to the woman who tolls from morning
to night for them seven days in the
week, but they can also do many
things around the house to make the
wifes and mothers life easier.
1t is probably true that children are
not as considerate of their mothers
as they were in the days Of our grand
mothers and this is partly the fault OF
the mothers, for too many of them dc
not take the trouble to teach their
children how TO help in the household
work when they are young. The
daughter is allowed to play with hel
companions when she should be wash
ing the dishes or sweeping her bed
room; the boy is not corrected wher
he throws his things carelessly around
/ the house for mother to pick up ant
] put away.
The woman with children can ma
terially tighten her burdens if she
starts in at the right time to teacl
her children to help her. This is alsC
better for the children themselves, al
they acquire knowledge that will stand
them in good stead later in life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

atorial elouuence. The debate was the
pride Of the senate. 1t was remarked
upon by all the senators as a revival
of the old time senatorial glory. The
galleries were quickly crowded to the
doors, the Hobbies were crammed, and
for the first time in years the senators
rushed back TO their seats from COM
mittee rooms, and in unmoved silence
lent attention and admiration to the
great debate. The attack was made by
Senator Root He delivered a prepar-
ed and masterful speech on what he
termed was the inequality of granting
exemption to the farmer, laborer and
to certain class of citizens who were
without incomes. He quoted the con-
stitution and the debates of the con-
stitutional convention. He delyed- into
the philosophy of government to the
apparent satisfaction of his side. He
pleaded to an attentive and admiring
senate. The republicans were proud
Of him. He seemed to be a victor.
The senators, Williams Of Mississippi
Chairman Simmons of North Carolina,
Shively of Indiana in charge Of the
income tax amendment, seemed to be
confused, and were paralyzed to 81
lence. Then the democratic side look
ed about for man. Senator Lewis OF
Illinois was remembered as the man
who had saved Secretary of State Bry
an at the critical moment. 1t was
when the republican senators institut
ed resolutions of condemnation fol
leaving his post to speak at chautau
quas for money. All the democratic
senators turned to Lewis. He had ne
warning Of Roots speech or notice
that he was to reply, but he was tbs
Lewis who other senators knew and il
him was confidence. The Illinois sen
ator was asked to take the floor ant
answer Root of New York.
He arose and got recognition of thu
| chair. Senator Lewis took Senate
Roots argument just where he lef
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
THE WILSON CHANGES.

1t is favorite republican charge
against the Wilson administration that
the president is demoralizing the dip
lomatic and consular service by sweep
ing changes In which the merit sys-
TEN is disregarded and only partisan
claims are recognized. The falsity of
such an assertion is shown in the
fact that in the past six months only
one consul general and four eonsuls
have been appointed. Probably no
president, at least in the last eight
years, ever made so few changes in
this branch of the government serv.
ice on assuming Office and inaugural.
ing a change of administration.
Among the diplomats, many of whom
are supposed to reflect the presidents
personal views on questions of foreign
policy, the changes have been more
numerous. Surely no one can serious
ly criticise that
If democratic administration were
to rely upon republican ambassadors
and ministers, or vice versa, it car
easily be seen how it might be EN-
barrassed by its enemies in a manner
that might possibly lead to its dis
crediting and failure in an important
crisis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

of, and in detail entered upon the an
swer to Roots argument. Then came
the exhibition of the great power Lew
is was known to have 1t was the quail
ity of which his admirers in the west,
particularly in Illinois, knew was in
him-the extempore orator, equipped
in history and literature, and prepar-
ed in craftsmanship and fortified with
the reason Of government. He analyz-
ed Senator Roots constitutional argu-
ment, and as he crushed it, he capped
his arraignment by quoting Root
against himself, in one of the New
York senator's previous speeches, and
forced Senator Root to acknowledge
| his own conflict OF views. Then Sena-
tor Lewis took up what he termed was
! the un-American and un-democratic
position OF Senator Root in condemn
ing the democracy for granting ex-
emptions to the poor. In satire and
sarcasm Senator Lewis withered Sena-
| tor Root as he destroyed his argu-
| ment. Senator Root was visibly af-
! fected. He sunk in his chair, flushed,
and grew nervous. Soon he apparently
became indignant. He felt his humil-
iation and his side was conscious that
such as Lodge of Massachusetts, Gal
+, linger of New Hampshire and Penrose
j of Pennsylvania all we're conscious
that their great champion had been
vanquished. AS Senator Tillman OF
4 South Carolina said, 1.-The king had
been uncrowned" Senator Kenyon,
the republican senator from Iowa, said
openly that Lewis speech was the
i greatest heard in the senate in q
years, while Senator La Toilette free
ly expressed his opinion, saying, This
= destroys Root. He is finished, and
: from this time on no senator in this
J chamber will ever challenge Lewis t
! debate
Senator James of Kentucky con
: Quoted rough and tumble debate witt
Senator Bristow ST Kansas. Jane!
. "chewed up Bristow, but it was tht
, kind Of performance one sees on tbs
, stump at county fair Senator Pen
; rose OF Pennsylvania and Senate
: MARITIME of New Jersey had an alterca
: ton for hours in exciting personalities
: but this was a~Herformance not unlik
f a fight in a justice court. Senate
/ Reed of Missouri and Senator Norri
: of Nebraska got into a conflict on tn
S agricultural schedule, and clashed wit
: great noise, but this had to be squelct
r ed by the chair, the debaters bein
/ called to order. It was left to the pei
C Torrance Of Lewis of Illinois, the en-
o pire state of the west, and Root, I'll
e senator from the empire state of Ne7
g York, to bring the debate to the hig
n level of great oratory and to the poin
l. reached since the days of Douglas c
Illinois and Cass of Michigan, IngaIl
and Blackburn, and Dolliver and Bal
e ey in later years.
r Illinois had reestablished herself q
t first in the United States senate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
THE TWO DOLLAR BILL.

What's your opinion about the two
dollar bill2 Would you rather have
two ones or one two?
Most OF US will agree that we do
not possess enough OF either. but the
Pittsburgh Dispatch thinks much trou-
Die would be avoided by elimination of
-he two dollar bill
Countless persons, says the Dis
Atch, who have some time or other
teepted change for one dollar for
at|go-dollar bill will be interested in
ths<Rtory II 'Ole Prince" Robinson,
the coiosed barber in the house barber
shop at Washington. When the SER
geant-at-arms offered him five SO bills
the other day as part of his pay, Rob
tnson waved them wildly away, de-
claring that every So bill carries with
It the Egyptian CURSE" that he would
rather break looking glass. walk un
der a ladder or turn back without
making a cross mark that take a 81
bill, because it was a sure sign OF
III luck.
Whether there Is an Egyptian
curse" on the 81 note or not, continues
ahe Dispatch, there has certainly been
many an American curse put on it. 1t
ts the easiest thing In the world, VIC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
LONDON BooTBLkCKS.
Street Corners Knew Them Early In
the Eighteenth Century.

Street Corners Knew Them Early IN
the Eighteenth Century.
Liquid backing, such as is now used
was invented early in the nineteenth
century. Previously various mixtures
were used.
There are many illusions in eight
zenith century literature to shoeblacks
and backing. In the London World Of
Jan. 81, 1854, Edward Moore, describ-
ing the miseries of an author, says that
he would rather have started in life as
a shoeblack had he but had the money
to buy or credit to procure "a stool,
brush and blackball."
An old kind Of backing consisted Of
ivory black, very coarse moist sugar
and water. with a little vinegar. A
mixture of whale oil and SCOT was used
in Gray's time. The author Of ''Tri-
via" has several illusions to the "black
youth" who stood at street corners
then as now:
Harkl The boy calls the to his destin'd
stand.
And the shoe shines beneath his eily hand
Defoe makes his Colonel Jack de-
scribe himself when a boy as a dirty
vagabond, "like a Black your shoes
your honorT a beggar boy. black
guard boy or what you please, despica.
bic and miserable to the last degree
Here Is another quotation from "Trt
via" QT15D:
| His treble voice resounds along the news
And Whitehall echoes, Clean your hon.
or's shoes!"
London Notes and Queries.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
ATTENTION OF COMMISSIONER


Despite all that has been said and
promised to the contrary that caved-in
shack on Twentieth street near Fifth
avenue is still there But it will not
be long. 1t is gradually settling and
crumbling and one of these days it
will collapse completely with possible
loss OF life or human injury. The
least serious of the likely consequences
will be that the city will be involved
In damage suits.
E That 1t has been permitted to re-
main so long is a disgrace and a
shame, to say nothing OF the reck-
less disregard Of chances and conse-
squences. II is an eye-sore that no
-eelf-respecting city would tolerate for
o moment, much less months.
6 1t is time for Mr.. Hart to arouse
himself and do something before it is
100 late.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
II.
Do the everlasting kicks

Do the everlasting kicks
Indicate a smash-up? Nix!
The world would quit revolving If we
didn't have the kicks
From the men who WELD the picks
And the ones who lay the bricks,
And the ones who wear the Jewels, and
the ones who sing and write;
Never since the world began
Has point been won by man
Caless he kicked to get it, and did so
with all his might!
IT'S pleasing thing to mix
Gladness in among our kicks
When we may;
But, with gladness or without,
We may never hope to rout
The legions filed with kickers-they'l be
here till Judgment Day
They'll be here TO make their kicks
Till there's ice upon the Styx,
TIL the last grave undertaken the last
coffin-cover clicks
But lot of US are kicking with no cause
for making kicks,
Without the slightest reason for our
kicks, kicks, kicks,
And never helping any with our kicks,
kicks, kicks, kicks, kicks, kicks,
kicks $780, q,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

st. Louis-Thomas Mccarthy, a
freight handler supposed to be poor,
willed away $4,000 before his death in
the city hospital. He set aside $500
for funeral expenses, gave $4,000 to
relatives and left the residue of the
estate in trust with Father Timothy
Dempsey for charitable purposes. His
wages never exceeded SIS a week. He
got his meals in restaurants.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

Hear the kicksl
Hear the people making kicks,
Heavy kicks, !
Sorry kicks;
ORe would think the poor old world was
IN a most unhappy fix;
Men are kicking at the weather, they are
kicking at the price
That they have to pay for fuel, that they
have to pay for ice:
They are kicking at the way
This and that is done today,
They are kicking at conditions as they
loom up everywhere;
They have kicks to make because
Rascals disobey the laws.
One would think that crime was rampant
and that woe was in the air!
Hear them kicking. kicking. kicking, oh
the wild and woeful kicks,
And the kicks concern religion, science,
art and politics;
There are kicks from those who work,
There are kicks from these who shirk,
All the world, it seems, is keeping busy
registering kicks,
Making kicks. kicks, kicks,
Keeping up the daily average Of kicks,
kicks, kicks. kicks, kicks, kicks,
kicks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

to the men WIZ
came out Of the
contest in the SEN
ate with glory
or insignifcance.
Many men OF
whom much was
expected failed Ia
mentally. Others
new to the opera
tons of the senate
arose unexpected
ly to eminence and
to e S t a b / sh e d
leadership.
The debate be-
tween James Ham
ilton Lewis from
Illinois and Elihu
Root, the senator
from New York,
took the high Wa
ter mark of con-
stituticnal and sen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

Oklahoma thinks 1t has originated a
variety OF corn that will resist drought
and mature 10 30 days from planting.
II the southwest will say that this is
20, the faith OF the rest Of the country
will be strong.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
Too Sensible to Lose.

viii you promise" she anxiously.
asked, mot TO do anything desperate
If l say it can never be?"
YES" he replied. Il think a mans
a fool who goes to the bad because
girl refuses to love him."
Then ! will be yours"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
Sept. Is in American
History.

I7.2 & 'o!uuiLus with his fleet entereu
the sea or SargaSso.
lIfG-Battie Of Harlem Heights or
Horlem Plains. New York CITY.
Washington personally directed
the colonial rinemen. who defeat
ed Hessian opponents.
1SS3-Junigs Brutus Booth, actor and
manager. eldest son Of the distin.
guished actor Of that name ana
brother of Edwin, died: born 1921
l901-State funeral for William Nc
Kinley at capitol in Washington.
All the news ali the time - The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

A Brooklyn woman has been allow
cd 81 a week alimony. All she requir-
ed. Of course, was the means to sup
port herself in the manner to which
she had become accustomed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

Canada is said TO hold the key TO
wheat T,rices. This announcement may
not be correct, but it is certain that
by its liberal waterway policy the do
minion has made Montreal the first
port in wheat expectation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

tins will tell you, to pass out two
dollar bill for one and not discover
the loss until you begin to search for
that other dollar you had, but haven't
any more.
A currency reform that would elm
mate the 81 bill and the hoodoo at
the same time would be reform that
would save money for generations to
come
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
The Hope for Fame,

We all go hoping Fame
VIII give US crowns some day,
But IL she sweetiy came
And asked Us in what way
We'd worked 10 have the right
To sit upon the height
How few of US could sayi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

of this city's public school system,
told a meeting of Methodist ministers
that the ordinary high school course
untitled the ordinary boy for the vo-
cations of life. He said most high
school graduates would not take a
job at mental wages.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

A woman begins by signing: al
can't go because I have nothing to
wear" Then she gets clothes and
frets because she has no chance to
wear them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16

Portland, Overwhelmingly and col
lectively denying that they are parties
to any conspiracy in restraint of trade,
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company and subsidiary con-
Germs filed answers in the federal
court to the complaint Of the govern
ment, which has started a civil anti
trust suit against them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-16
Mixed on His Birds.

Mamma sent me after a pound Of
coffee, Mr.. Pelican"
MY name is not Pelican" said the
grocer, as he weighed out the coffee.
MY name is Mr.. Crane. What made
you think it was Pelican?"
Well, that's what papa calls you,
cause he says there's something about
your bill that always makes him think
Of a pelican"