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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-01
LOCAL and GENERAL

The regular meeting OF the Free
kindergarten Association will be held
Monday, January :, at $50 a. m, in
the Library Of Hawaii
Capt. \. G. Nielsen, Diamond Head
lookout, wishes to thank the mer-
chants Of Honolulu for kindly renlem-
ber.ng him this Christmas.
new type of swing which is prov
Nng popular has been installed at the
playground OF Eleele school 1t was
constructed by the manual training
class of the institution
The governor signed a parole yes
terday for Themas Harmon, convicted
in the first circuit court on October
Is. 1913, of first-degree larceny and
given a sentence Of IS months to 10
years imprisonment.
A decrease of nearly 30 per cent in
the death rate from tuberculosis in
Honolulu is shown in board of health
statistics for the year. In 1914 there
were IS and in 1913 there were 80.
Thirty cases were reported last month.
E'ity and County Clerk David Kala-
-uOkalani is working on plan which,
If adopted, will increase the working
day of municipal office employees an
hour each day. He suggests hours
from $50 q. m. to 4:30 p. M, with an
hour for lunch.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-01
DorSOndl,
RQn4lO1\G

JUDGE and MRS. SANFORD B.
DOLE, who have been at Diamond
Head for several weeks, have returned
to their city residence on Emma
street. .~.< - .--,...:' -
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-01

Twenty-Five hundred yards of cot.
ton bandages made by women of Al,
bany, N. " will be sent to Europe
for distribution through the war
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-01

During test of the new s250.0OD
German pontoon crane Hercules, at
Colon, the boom buckled and collapsed
while lifting $50 tons.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
Tariff and the Elections.

Elections held between presidential
years may mean much in a national
way. When the tariff has been forced
deliberately to the front in local and
state campaigns. as WIS done in Mas
sachusetts. Pennsylvania ard the con-
gressional districts of New York, the
results are bound to have national sig
nificance.
That the trend toward Republican
ism is due very largely to the empha-
sis laid upon the protective tariff
issue was made quite clear by the Sc
lection of Mr.. Mccall. formerly mem
Der of the Republican ways and means
committee OF the house. as the stand
ard bearer of the Republicans in Mas
sachusetts ana by the plain challenge
in Pennsylvania that the vote for the
Republican ticket In the local cleo
tions would have moral influence
upon the presidential election.
The people of the different states
clearly were actuated by the desire
to strip the issues of all aspects not
definitely connected with the problem
of living in America. They felt that
the first requisite was to insure a re-
turn to the protective tariff, and thus
incidentally make certain of the per-
manency of prosperity.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
TRADE WAR COMING.
Bound to Follow the Great Gen.
fliCt in Europe.
Readlustments of Tariffs Throughout
the World Is certain-unlted
States Must Return to a
Protective Policy.

Bankers and business men through
out the country fully realize that fol-
lowing the European war there inev-
itably must come q trade war, in
which neutrals as we'll as belligerents
must engage. The National Foreign
Trade council is at work upon the
problem Of equipping the United
States for her part in this con- nercial
war, as is also the chamber of COM
merce of the United States
Such banks at the National City of
New York are also considering the
best means for dealing with the situa-
ton in which the country will find it.
self when peace is established That
there will be a general REIMBURSEMENT
OF tariffs throughout the world is in
Dictated by Great Britain's prepare
tons for adopting this form of protec-
ton for her own markets.
The antidumping clause which the
administration will propose to the next
congress is merely a partial remedy,
but would be most effective in con-
junction with protective tariff.
Without such a tariff. however. there
will be no need for foreigners. with
their cheaper labor costs. to dump
their goods upon America below the
cost at home. They can comply with
an antidumping law and yet enter the
American market on account OF their
low cost of production.
1t is in the tariff that Americas
protection in the future trade war
viii be found The tariff affords means
for protecting American industry and
wages. 1t also affords means for de-
veloping an American merchant ma
rine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
CHAPTER XXX.
Hand in Hand.


Rev. Smith Boyd walked slowly out
into the dim church, with the little vol
ume in his hand. The afternoon sun
had sunk so low that the illumination
from the stainedglass windows was
cut off by the near buildings, and the
patches of ruby and of sapphire, of
emerald and of topaz, glowed now near
the tops of the slender columns. or
mellowed the dusky spaces up amid
the arches.
1t was hushed and silent there, de-
serted. and far from the thoughts of
men. The young rector walked slowly
up the aisle to a pew in the corner
near the main entrance, and sat down,
still with the little Book of Common
Prayer in his hand, and, in the book,
the Articles Of Religion. From them
alone must he preach: nothing more
and nothing less. That was the duty
for which he was hired. His own mind,
his own intelligence, the reason and
the spirit and the soul which God had
given him were for no other use than
the clever support of the things which
we're printed here. And who had for
INFLATED these articles? Men; men
like himself
Rev. Smith Boyd suddenly made the
discovery that he was not preaching
God! He was preaching the church
and its creed
Startled, now, he went through the
thirty-nine Articles of Religion, one by
one, slowly. thoughtfully, and with a
quickened conscience. Reason knocked
at the door Of Faith, and entered: but
it did not drive out Faith. They sat
side by side, but each gave something
to the other. No, rather, Reason
stripped the mask from Faith. tore
away the Disgusting cloak, and dis
played her in all her simple beauty.
sweet and gentle and helpful. What
was the faith he had been called upon
to teach? Faith in the thirty-nine Ar
ticles of Religion! This had been clev-
erly substituted by the organizers of
an easy profession, for faith in God.
which latter was too simple of compre-
hension for the purposes Of any or
ganigHtion.
For long time Rev. Smith Boyd sat
in the corner pew, and when he had
closed the book, all that had been be-
hind the wall Of his mind came out,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
No Third Party Now.

The Progressive party virtually dis
appeared this fall in the states which
held elections. Its vote was so small
that no one continues to cherish tie
delusion that it may revive and re-
cover its lost ground. AS a separate
political organization. II is dead.
But the country is stiIl as much de-
voted TO progress as it ever was. The
Progressives OF 1912 are still progress
sives in aims. spirit and influence.
They have only determined to work
through the Republican party to get
results which could not be attained
by means of separate organization.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

wealth, Of power, Of famel He scarce
ly considered their loss; and in the
ease with which he relinquished them.
he knew that he was self-absolved
from the charge of using his con.
science as a ladder of ambition! If
personal vanity had entered into his
desire to build the new cathedral, it
had been incidental. not fundamental.
1t made him profoundly happy to know
this with positiveness
He called up the house Of Jim Sar-
gent, and asked for Gail.
Come over" he invited her. Il
want to see you very much. I'm in the
church. Come in through the vestry."
"All right" was the cheerful reply.
"Ill be there in a minute"
He had been very sly He was tire.
mendously pleased with himself! He
had kept out of his voice all the long
ing, and all the exultation, and all the
love! He would not trust even one
vibration of his secret to a cold tele-
phone wirei
ne SEb luG 0OOI VI lAAG NtslIg OpCu
wide. Within the church, the organist
had conquered that battling run in the
mighty prelude of Bach, and the great
dim spaces up amid the arches were
pulsing in ecstasy with the tremendous
harmony. Outside, upon the back
ground of the celestial strain, there
rose a fiuttering, a twittering, a COO
ing. The doves of spring had returned
to the vestry yard.
Just a moment and Gail appeared
poised in the doorway, with a filmy
pink scarf about her shoulders, a sim
pie frock of delicate gray upon her
slender figure, her brown hair waving
about her oval face, faint flush upon
her cheeks, her brown eyes sparkling.
her red lips smiling up at him.
He had intended to tell her much,
but instead, he folded her in his arms,
and she nestled there, content. For a
long, happy moment they stood, lost to
the world of thought; and then she
looked up at him, and laughed.
81 knew it from your voice." she
said.
He laughed with her; then he grew
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
RECOGNIZED DEBT TO MICE.
MIR. Growcher Grateful That He Didn't
Have 20 Partake of the
Weleh Rabbit.

Yep" said Mr.. Growcher; nothing
was made In vain. Everything that
earth produces may serve some useful
purpose. if you can only find out what
it is. There is whole lot to think
about in that story of the mouse
who gnawed the net for the captured
lion"
'Mebbe there is,'' replied his wife.
But I'm willing to bet that was the
only kind and considerable mouse
known to the animal kingdom"
You are wrong. Have you forgot
ten that Welsh rabbit party we at
tended last night?"
Yes. But there wasn't any Welsh
rabbit?"
And as a result we are ali comfort
able and happy today instead Of be-
ing miserable and dyspeptic. And we
owe it all to the fact that few kind
hearted mice sneaked around during
the Afternoon and ate up the cheese"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
FIylnu War Horse.

A correspondent of the Milan Cor
riere della Sera" reports the following
story:
AN Italian lieutenant recently rode
through one of the villages on the
Isonzo front. He dismounted before
the temporary quarters of the com
mander of his regiment and tied his
horse TO tree When he entered the
house he heard the humming poise of
q large Austrian shell and moment
later a terrible explosion followed.
The shell had struck small building
on the opposite side of the street. An
immense cloud of smoke and dust rose
and when it disappeared the horse of
the officer was gone.
1.-The air pressure caused by the ex-
plosion had lifted the animal from
the ground and thrown 1t on the fat
roof of a nearby house, where it was
found almost unhurt. II was no easy
Job to get the horse to the street
again, as this could only be accom-
plished with the aid of a large crane"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

and was sorted into heaps, and the
bad discarded and the good retained.
He found a wonderful relief in that
He had lived with a secret chamber
in his heart, hidden even from him
self. and now that 70 had opened the
door, he felt free. Adore him, around
him. within him, was the presence Of
God. infinite. tender, easy OF under
standing; and from that God, his God,
the one which should walk with him
through life his friend and comforter
and counselor. he stripped every shred
Of pretense and worthless form and
useless ceremony!
Il believe in God the Creator; the
Maker of my conscience; my Friend
and Father" The creed of GALL
For a moment the rector stood, tall
and erect. then he stretched forth his
arms:
Il know that my Redeemer liveth!"
he said. and sank to his knees.
Two high points he had kept in his
faith, points never TO be shaken; the
existence of his creator, his mercy and
his love, and the divinity of his son,
who died, was erueified and buried,
and on the third day arose TO ascend
unto heaven. Reason could not de-
stroy that citadel in man born to the
necessity of faith! Man must believe
some one thing. If it was as easy. as
he had once set forth, to believe in the
biblical account of the creation of the
world as TO believe in pre-existont
chaos, out of which evoluted the spirit
of life. and all its marvels of growing
trees and flying birds and reasoning
men. it was as easy to go one step
further, and add the son to the father
and to the holy ghost! Even chaos
must have been created!
Fully satisfied, Rev. Smith Boyd
walked into the vestry, and wrote his
resignation from the rectorship of Mar
ket Square church. for he could nc
longer teach. and preach. faith-in the
thirty-nine articles of religion! With
in his grasp he had held position of
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
WANTED TO SHOW LOYALTY
Pathos in Offer of Burmese Villagers
to Come to the Assistance of
Great Empire.

l.. P. Jacks tells this well-authenti-
Gated story in the Yale Review. 1t
comes from a civil officer in remote
part of Burma.
One early morning not long ago
this officer found an ancient Burman
squatting on his heels in front of the
bungalow whom he recognized "a the
head man of a village distant so miles
away in the hills.
Questioned by the officer as to the
purpose for which he had undertaken
so long a journey through the jungle,
the old man replied as follows:
"Thak'n tlnastar), my villagers
wish to make some return for the ia
vors bestowed upon US by the British
government.
And now / am come to tell you that
we have in our village eight guns, an
Gent and well tried and all held under
a license granted by the most honor
able Thakin; we have also four
pounds of excellent gunpowder in a
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

OF Manning. He was a very old man,
and it had been quite necessary for
him TO restrain his passions through
out his life.
You viii go first" he shouted at
Manning. Il am impregnable; but
you have no business on this vestryl
You can be removed at any time an
examination is ordered, for l have
heard you. we have all heard you,
deny the immaculate conception, and
thereby the divinity of Christ, in
whom alone there is salvation"
A hush like death fell on the vestry.
Rev. Smith Boyd was the first to
break the CHASTITY silence.
Gentlemen" said he, Il do not
think that we are in a mood today for
further discussion. I suggest that we
adjourn"
His voice seemed to distract the at
tention OF Clark from Manning, at
whom he had been glowering. He
turned on Rev. Smith Boyd the re-
mainder OF the wrath which marked
his first break into senility.
AS for you'll" he snarled, you will
keep your fingers out of matters which
do not concern you! You were hired
10 preach the gospel, and you viii con-
fine your attention to that occupation,
preaching just what you find sane
toned in this book; nothing more,
nothing less!" and taking a small vol
ume which lay on the table, he tossed
it in front of Rev. Smith Boyd.
1t WIS the Book of Common Prayer,
containing, in the last pages, the ar
ticles of Faith.
Clark seized his hat and coat, and
strc lie out Of the door. followed by the
reo-faced Chisholm, who had also been
asked to resign. Nicholas Van Ploon
rose, and shook hands with Rev. Smith
Boyd.
Sargent has told me about your
plan for the new tenements." he stat
ed. Il am in favor of buying the
property"
We'll swing it for you. Boyd"
promised Jim Sargent. I've been
talking with some of the other mem
SSASs anu AhCy SCeiA " AGfOA tue AhSd
that the new Vedder court will be a
great monument. There1l be no such
magnificent charity in the world, and
no such impressive sacrifice as giving
up that cathedral! ! think Cunning
ham will be with US. when it comes to
a vote"
Certainly" interposed Nicholas Van
Ploon. I'VE don't need to make any
profit from those tenements. The nor
NAL increase in ground value will be
enough"
Yes" said Cunningham slowly. 81
am heartily in favor of the PROPOSE
ton"
Coming along. doctor?" invited
Manning, going for his coat and hat.
mo, think not" decided Rev.
Smith Boyd quietly.
He was sitting at the edge Of the
table facing the Good Shepherd, at
the edge of whose robe still sparkled
crystalline light, and in his two hands
he thoughtfully held the Book of Com
mon Prayer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
Strange InaratItudel

There can be no doubt" says Sec
rotary McAdoo, returning from a trip
across the continent. that we have
already entered upon an era of the
greatest prosperity in the history of
the country. Throughout my trip.
both going and returning. was Inn
pressed with the unmistakable evi-
dences of prosperity. confidence and
optimism in practically every line OF
business" In the light Of the election
returns, however. # must be assumed
that the voters fail TO recognize the
source of this great blessing.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
COULDN'T SATISFY THEM ALL
First Group Calls the Visitor "Fresh"
and the Second Pronounces Him
stuck Up"

First comes the introduction, in
which it is necessary to consider three
things-the way sounds carry in 4
summer evening in village; the fact
that ones own name, spoken by an
other. can be distinguished, though
the rest of the conversation is unin.
telligible; and. thirdly, the difficulty
in remembering just whom you've
been introduced TO in a strange town.
Then comes the incident. leading up
to the moral, which is: What's the
Use?
Walking down the street the other
evening we zlet three young women.
Their faces we're familiar, and we
said Good evening" They stared,
but lid not answer. and we moved
rapidly on, 5lushing. knd we heard
one say in a loud whisper: We'll.
who's your friend?"
NO friend Of NINE" asserted an
other. His names Robinson. ami hes
fresh fallsr from the city that thinks
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
could Not Understand Capacity,

During the public inspection Of q
Red Cross hospital train on tour
through Scotland thousands of people
passed through the barrier at one par
ticular station and came out at diff
ferent exit
open-eyed. a countryman stood at
the entrance watching the crowds. At
length he burst out TO a bystander:
Great Scott that nun be an awful
big train that's gaun tae France. I've
been standin' here for twa solid hours
seein' the folk gang Until It, an she's
not filled yet"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

A minister who had resigned from
his church was making his farewell
calls. He called at the home of one
of his Pensioners who sent her lit
tie girl down to the parlor to en-
terrain tho minister for few min
utes, the mother not being dressed to
receive him. After few Of the Gus
tomary remarks about the weather the
little girl said to the minister;
Il hear that we are to have the,
sad pleasure OF losing you"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
Cause for sellieositv.

Wen, III be IlamI1ed!' calculated
Lester Greenshaw of Petunia in the
midst Of his perusal of the village
newspaper. The Weekly Palladium
has al along been for peace at any
price, and here, this week, every edi.
torial in it is defying somebody and
yelling that everybody must apologize
to us!"
''Yepi" returned Hod Durnitt. "A
Teller paid the editor two years sub
scription In hard cider day before
yesterday l"-Kansas City star.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
ONLY onee.
do you see the MANI"
Eyes. / see the man"
"What Is he doing?"

do you see the MANI"
Eyes. / see the man"
''What is he doing?"
'He is blowing his fingers, jumping
up and down and acting in such a way
that his wife looked at him in aston
ishment and fear There, he has
kicked over two chairs. torn down
the lace curtains and made a rush for
the kitchen"
but has the man gone crazy all OF
a sudden?"
"Oh. no: he was hunting for a coll
lar button and picked up his wife's
red-hot curling tongs in an absent
way. Lots OF husbands do that
once. He won't speak to her for the
next three days, but he will not die
of his injuries. and the experience
may do him good"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
Has Lost votere, confldence.

The Democrats have lost the conf
dence of the people. The Republican
party is now supported. And the re-
suit will he the registering Of vote
against the Democrats in the national
election that will be as sweeping as
the reversal in Massachusetts election.
All that will be necessary will be the
naming by The Republican party OF a
strong standard bearer.
Thus the elections in various states
have contributed indications of re-
turn of the Republicans to power In
the nation.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

he can speak to everybody whether
he's met 'em or not"
Fate so ordered it that ere our ears
had ceased to Jingle we met three
other young women, strolling in the
same direction as the former three.
And. mindful of our regrettable break,
we scanned them closely and decided
that we did not know them. Therefore
we passed them as II they had been
trees And again we heard one in.
quire, Who's that?"
His names Robinson" was the an
swer. He's a stuck-up Teller from
the city that goes along with his
nose in the air and don't speak to
robody."
o, dear: o, deari We are neither
of those things they said, but what
shall we Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

II you look out upon your lawn any
early morning in the summer you will
see here and there glistening with dew
drops perhaps a score Of tents about
as big as ones hand These are the
tents of the funnel web weavers, the
long.legged spiders of field and
meadow. in the middle Of these fiat
or concave horizontal webs in the
grass is a silken tube leading down.
anchoring the fabric to the ground.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

bottle and bag Of bullets: these be-
ing neither more nor less than the
Thakins license permits US to hold.
Moreover, there are in our village
two crackers who have proved their
skill in the capture of dacoits Thakin.
we have heard a rumor that the Brit
ish government is in great trouble
with its enemies.
" therefore,, our villagers have EN-
powered me TO say that the eight
guns, bottle Of gunpowder, the bag Of
bullets and the two crackers are freely
at the disposal CT tie British govern
ment."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01

More important than any signif-
icance the elections may have as
basis for conjecture concerning 1916 is
the actual effect they are almost sure
to have on the political alignment for
that contest The more It looks like
a Republican year. the more win the
drift of Progressive leaders towards
the Republican camp, between this
and nomination time. be accumulated.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
Need for Quick Action.

The Progressives polled 1904 votes
in Massachusetts, while Mr.. Mccall.
Republican. received 235.91S. Per
haps Victor Murdoch will soon dis
cover the advisability of abandoning
his appeal TO Progressives to hold the
party together and seek the enact
ment of legislation to preserve the re-
naming specimens Of the Bull Moose
from extinction
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-12-01
Working Both Ends.

My friend" said the long-haired
passenger to the young man in the
seat across the aisle. TO what end
has your life work directed?7
''To both ends" answered the young
man. = am sole proprietor Of the
only frst-clsss hat and shoe emporium
in our village"