Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1894, Page 13

THE HELPING HAND Coming Session of the Supreme Body of Foresters, “THE DAYS OF ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MEN The Order in This City and Throughout the Country. @RADITION AND HISTORY EXT YEAR THE High Court of the Ancient Order of Forresters of Amer- ica will meet in bien- nial session. This is the supreme body of that important or- ganization, which is devoted to benevo- lence and relief and aid, and the members in this city extend a cordial invitation to hold the sessions The chief officer is Adam Brown. j@ the order in this city is comparatively Rew, yet the membership is a representa- tive one and ts enthusiastic and devoted to the interests of the organization. This fonsideration, as well the advantages of meeting at the nation’s capital, will no )foubt have due weight in reaching a con- Blusion. The origin of the order in this city forms @n interesting bit of history. In the early winter of 1889 James Dourick of Pennsylvania, residing here, being a officer of Court Albion of his state, @onceived the idea of forming a court of the order in this city. He had a conference swith several, which resulted in an invita- tion to S. Sykes, deputy chief ranger of Court Albion, No. 7066, of Scranton, Pa., Ro visit this city. Mr. Sykes consented, and on the 9th of December, 1880, a meet- if was held at 923 F street northwest. the deputy chief ranger, with the ce of James Dourick and John Mc- 'Dondald of Court Albion, No. 7066, and D. leDondald of Court Guiding Star, No. \ of New Haven, Conn., organized a yurt of Foresters, to be known as Court ide of the District of Columbia, No. 45, of A. O. or F. of A. of Washington, . with the following named as charter bers: Dr. George N. Perry, Robert @onar, Alfred Wilner, John T. Rupertus, A. G. Brust, James Ozman, J. J. O'Leary, . Jardine, A. L. Muirhead, Duncan Mc- fKerichar and Upton Mackall. The following members deposited their rance cards and became members of e new court: James Dourick, John Mc- idald and D. McDondaild. The following ‘e nominated, elected and installed as icers December 10, 1989: Past chief ran- » James Dourick; chief ranger, A. G. sub chief ranger, D. McDondald; E. B. Jones. . Robert Bonar; recording secre- . W. Jardine; financial secretary, A. Muirhead; Sr. W., John MeDondal W., Alfred Wilner; Sr. B., J. J. O'Leary; fourt physician, Dr. George N. Perry, and Dourick, Perry and Ozman as the trustees. Court Pride was attached to the Grand Court of Maryland February 23, 1891. Te past officers of the court are James Dourick, A. G. Brust, Thomas Cook, Thomas E. Ar- mold and Robert Bonar. On the 8th of the present month the Grand Court of Maryland held its regular James S. O'Hagan. Peeston in this city and were entertained by Court Pride of the District of Columbia, No. 9745. The officers of Court Pride of District of Columbia, No. 7743, are as follows: W. C . E. B. Jom W. 8. C. R., 8. S. Gaines; treasurer, W. Connor; W. financial sec- etary, Dr. N. R_ Jenner; W. recording sec- Petary, Jas. S. O'Hagan; W. 8. W., J. J. tin; W. R. J : R. Arnold, G. W. Vaughan. The present W. C. R. was born in Eng land and came to this country five years azo. He is one of the business men on Pennsylvania avenue. He is an active worker, and the success of the order Is due uch to his energetic efforts. He is a mem- r of several other organizations. The recording secretary, James S. O’'Ha- fan, was born in this city during the war Bonar, E. Arnold. and is a well-known young man. He is a foember of several other organizations. He Jr. | a membership of 15,000. The order at that WHE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. has been a Forester for four years, and has held the position of recording secretary since his initiation. Mr. Robert Bonar is a native of Scotland. He is a charter member, and is also con- nected with the Masonic fraternity, and also a member of the Caledonian Club. He was elected the first treasurer, and has served continuously until the last election. He has served on many important commit- tees of this court, being the present chair- man of the trusteés and auditing commit- tee. Thos. E. Arnold, one of the trustees, was born in the city, and has held numerous of- fices. He was elected to the position of W. Cc. R. During his administration and under his directions the order was placed in the more advanced rank of Foresters. G. W. Vaughan. A well known Washington man is * Vaughan, one of the truStees. He has been a member of this order since its organiza- tion, holding the responsible position of financial secretary for a number of terms. He is a great worker on forestry, and is a weil known member of the Carpente: Assembly. The Order of Forestry is old enough to have a traditionary part. as well as a his- torical. As to the former, it is stated that | the order originated in England and was in existence when bold Robin Hood and his “merrie men” roamed the English forests. It was near the forest of Sherwood, in Not- tinghamshire, that Robin Hood and his fol- lowers levied upon the nobles and clergy Adam Brown. whenever and wherever they could lay their hands upon them. When the great Richard Couer de Lion and the gallant Jacqyes de Molay were striking down the infidels who opposed their victorious march through the Holy Land, the Order of Forestry took form. Robin Hood, from who so many of our courts take their name, was an outlaw, outlawed because of his firm and noble tand against the oppression of the con- quered Saxons. He was a friend of the poor people, or, as they were called in those hence the hatred of the nobles rts toward him. Mutual Aid. The very men who were proclaimed out- laws of that day by the government banded themselves together for mutual protection to relieve the distress of their fellow suffer- ers, establishing that broad and glorious principle which we as Foresters revere, viz.: Liberty, unity, benevolence and con- ccrd, ever ready in the cause of humanity to feed the hungry, relieve the distressed, administer to the sick, bury"the dead and protect the widows and orphans. “Royal Foresters” was the original title of the or- der, which appears to have been founded at Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, in Octo- ber, 1745. The first authentic record, how- ever, appears Leeds—Court No, 1, or- ganized in 1790, and which had at the end of the year 1799 eighty names of members on the court’s book. In the year 1816 the first anniversary of the Supreme Court was held on Whitmonday, June 3, at Leeds, and a ritual was adopted in the same year. From the year 1816 until the close of 1834 charters were granted to 258 courts, having tUme being krown, Forestry made great strides. Up to the year 1833 the courts of Royal Foresters were governed with moderation, | but at that date a disruption of the order ensued, and at Rochdale, August 4, 1884, |the order was reconstructed under the rame of the Ancient Order of Foresters, | 342 delegates enrolling their courts under | the new laws. At the High Court meeting of 1835 the Ancient Order of Shepherds made its appearance, and was recognized as the “second = called Ancient Shepherds. Modern Forestry reached Lon- don in 1838; the first court was named Court Victoria, No. 518, and had a member- ship of thirteen; from this unlucky number in 1838 to the present time, the city of London alone contains more than 100,000 members. It may be said England has the proud distinction of creating the largest benevolent and secret society in the world. The number of members in England ex- ceeds 700,000; the capital invested and in treasurers’ hands amounts to over $24,000,- Quo; the amount paid out annually tn sick benefits reaches considerably over $2,000,- 000. Forestry was first instituted in the United States at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1832, and the oldest Mving court now in the United States is Court Brooklyn, No. 4421 of Brooklyn, N. Y. It was estabii May, 1864. eon, Day of Independence. The first impertant step in Forestry in America was the formation of a subsidiary High Court for the United States, which | tcok place December, 1874, by authority of | the High Court of England. The first meet- | ing of the executive council was held at | Brooklyn, N. Y., and at that time there | Were forty-three courts in the United States, with a membership of 2,300; matters went on smoothly and evenly until the eleventh meeting of the subsidiary High Court, which was convened at Detroit, Mich., August 11, 1885, with 245 delegates in attendance. This convention boldly re- fused the request of the High Court of England to strike out the word “white” by a vote of ¥8 yeas to 233 nays. At the thir- teenth convention of American Foresters, at Minneapolis, August 15, 1889, independ- ce of the High Court of English Forest- ers was preciaimed amid great enthusiasm and rejoicing. Mr. Taylor of Middletown, Pa, the poet of Pennsylvania, wrote his masterpiece in the song “America W: Bound to Have Her Way.” At the clos July, 1899, there were 589 American court: in existence, with a total membership of 56,140. Following the declaration of independence new code of general laws was adopted, and the nume changed from the A. O. F. to the A. O. F. of A. Its foundation was based upon the broad principles of benevo- lence, to provide relief, and ald in sickness and distress, burial at death, and to mspire its members with the elevating influence of a proper recognition of the sterner real- | ities and responsibilities of life. The new | order was composed of the Supreme Court, grand and subordinate courts in states, ter- ritories, provinces and dominions of Amer- fea. The state of the order, taken from official reports of January 1, 1894, shows a grand | total of 1,087 courts, with a membership of | 114,081. For the year 1893 funeral benefits | were paid by the aggregation of the courts ‘0 the amount of $04,302.56, and for sick | benefits alone $455,147.65; the management has cost $315,813.92, and the sum of $52,847.53 has been paid out for benevolent and other expenses. At the beginning of the year 1804 the balance on hand in all funds amounted to $737,959.38. The Various Degrees. Forestry, with its American Influences and methods, has made great strides in the United States, and, for its age, is second to none of the various benevolent socteties now in existence. It has extended its field for beneficent ends and has created auxil- jary branches. The first auxillary branch was the Anctent Order of Shepherds. This | order was instituted in England and was recognized as the second degree of the order by the High Court in 1835. The Shepherds | severed their connection with the order in | England, and became Americanized shortly after the Minneapolis convention in 1889. ! } It is a beneficent branch of the order, but its distinctive aim {s to socially unite ‘the brethren of the different courts. There are at present in the United States twenty- seven sanctuaries, with a total membership of 2,300, the head of which is Richard | He was born in Baltimore, Md., November ham, supreme er of New Haven, Cont The third degree, or Knights of Sherwood Forest, a beneficial branch of the order, was instituted at St. Louis, Mo., in 1879, and Was recognized as the third degree of the order at the convention held in Philadelphia, 1883. It is a semi-military and uniformed body, the various branches of which are knoxn as conclaves. There are now fi. the United States one supreme conclave, fitt: six subordinate conclaves and two juvenile conclaves, with a membership of about 8,500. The uniform of the knights resembles that of a general of the United States army. The supreme commander of the knights is = present Sam. B. Morris of Fall River, ass. The fourth degree, or Companions of the Forest, first saw the light in California, and was recognized as the fourth degree of the order by the subsidiary High Court at De- troit, 1885. It was left to Adam Brown of New York to unite the C. of F. to the A. O. of A., which he accomplished successfull: and today, owing to his untiring efforts, t! order proudly boasts of 208 circles, with a membership of over 27,000, There is still a younger branch, known as the juvenile or junior Foresters, a bene- ficial branch that admits youths from the age of twelve to eighteen years of age, and is not confined to members of the order. Any youth can join, and it is the stepping stone to Forestry. It numbers thirty-nine Son and has a membership of hearly WOU, A feature of the order is “the endowment fund,” confined wholly to Foresters, but at their option to join. It was first started in October, 1876, and since that time over $500,000 has been paid for death claims in amounts ranging from $500 to $1,000 each member, Thos, E. Bruit, The Grand Court of Maryland, to which Court Pride of the District of Columbia is etiached, was instituted at “Raines Hall, Baltimore, February 2, 1 There were eleven courts, represenied by fifteen deie- gate’. Thomas E. Bruff was elected grand Secretary and has held the office ever since. 27, 1852; was initiated into Forestry May 1, 1882, and has now been connected with the order over twelve years. He is a member of Court Baltimore 6147, and has served several terms as recording secretary of his court, and was also elected C. R. of his court, during which time he was elected as delegate to the Chicago conven‘ion in 1877 and to the Minneapolis convention. ‘eeepc HE REMEMBERED. | i The Strapping Young Man From Ypsilanti Had Not Forgotten Him. From the Detroit Free Prees. A strapping young man, with a cold look in his eye and a brand new clothes wringer resting on his knee, sat in the waiting room of the 3d street depot waiting for his train. In gazing about his eyes rested on a certain man, and he gave a sudden start. He rose to his feet and started again. Then he deposited his clothes wringer on the set- tee and walked over to a flashily dressed man about forty years old whom any one would have spoken as a fakir and asked: “Don't you travel around with tooth pow- der?” “No, sir!” was the sharp reply. “Wasn't you in Ypsilanti last fall?" “No, sir.” “Yes, you was, and I'll bet on it. You are the same durned feller, and I know it!” “Sir! What does this mean?’ demanded the other. “It means that I was in Ypsilanti last fall and bought a box of your tooth powder. You changed a $5 bill, and darn my hide if you didn’t hornswaggle me out of $1.” “girl” “No use, old fellow! I knowed ye the minit I sot eyes on ye. Same big diamond pin—same necktie—same nose humped up in the middle like a circus camel. I want that dollar.” “This is outrageous! I'll call a police- man!” shouted the fakir. “Call and be durned to ye, but I'll lick ye first. You either come down with that dol- lar, or I'll wallop ye till ye can’t holler.” “Look here,” replied the other in much milder tones, “you are mistaken. It was my cousin who was in Ypsilanti. He is dead now.” “Then I'll take it out of you.” “He {s dead, as I remarked, and rather fair es- eutcheon I will pay you the dolla “That's all right. I don’t know nuthin’ about ‘scutcheons, but I've got to have that dollar or pull hair. I've bin lookin’ for your humbacked nose all over the face of the earth, and I've laid awake nights think- in’ how I'd made ye holler like an Injun if I got my paws on ye.” He was given a doll: and the fakir dis- appeared at once, and the young man ex- plained to those about him: “I'm almost sorry he gave up so soon. I was just achin’ clean down to my toes to lick him all over a forty-acre lot.” —- e+ —____ HE BARKED TOO soon. A Dog That Had Sounde m Alarm Before It Was Wanted. From the Detroit Free Press. A boy was going up Third street with a Tope over his shoulder and a dog at the far end of it, when a pedestrian halted him and inquired: “Boy, do you know you're choking that dog?” - “Yes, sir,” was the prompt reply, “but hanging back on me.” go home with you?” He knows he'll git an awful your dog, is it?” “Of course; owned him over two years. Got away two or three days ago and run off, but I found him on Jones street. Come along here, or I'll pull yer head off!” ‘You seem to be a very heartless boy,” observed the pedestrian as he stooped down to give the dog a pat. 'Taint me, but dad.”” “What's your father got against a little innocent dog like this?” “House got afire the other night and he barked and woke everybody up too soon.” “How too soon?” “Too soon fur it to burn up so we could git $2,000 insurance on the furniture. Dad's got it in fur him and if you pass this way this afternoon, you'll likely see a dead dog lyin’ on the corner.” ——+e+. A Finny Jonah. From the New York Ledger. Naturalists of Jate have taken a good deal of interest in a creature, member of the fish tribe, that lives upon the products of the industry of others. This associate or de- pendent at a certain stage of its existence goes out to seek a home, and, finding a suit- able prospect, it lies in wait for the oppor- tunity to take possession. When the larger fish opens its mouth the slender little don- zall it is called, thru: its tall between the Jaws of its new landlord, and then re- mains rfectly quiet while the mouth closes. en it again opens the donzalle moves in still further, until it has secured its quarters, when it settles down to a con- tented, if somewhat monotonous, existence in the digestive canal of its chosen victim. There it helps itself to the cnoicest morsels, = that, too, without even saying “by your va Waiter—"What'll you have?" Rube Jayseed—“Waal, I don’t know which ter take, whether roast beef, veal or mut- ton.”” Waiter—“Take cornbeef hash, and yer'll get ther whole lot.” ROYALTY RETARDED Enterprises of Public Importance in the Hawaiian Islands. THE QUEEN'S FINANCES GETTING LOW Questions That Are Likely to Come Before the Convention. NATIVE VS. FOREIGNERS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, May 3, 1894. URING THE PAST | ated by the already erratic course of the political | year our stir has attracted large coveys of special ents, who have swooped down upon vs and made us their meat. Some of these gentlemen have been fairly impartial, oth- ers have reported what they came in- tending to report. One of the latest of the latter class was the correspondent of the Boston Transcript. He is on the whole a careful writer. He has reported what he actually saw and heard with substantial accuracy. In adopting the evidence of others, he is guided by a preformed de- elsion of the case. This is well shown in what he says ubout the lottery bill, which had so large a share in the queen’s over- throw. He says: “It has been shown to me that this meas- ure was carried through both houses, in- dorsed by the ministry; in fact, made a law, contrary to her wishes; the very peo- ple who now blame her had deprived her of the power of absolute veto under the constitution of 1887. But they do not say that in their accounts of events. They do not say that actuated by the desire to use the license money in the employment of the idle on public works the queen ac- ceded to their petitions.” It is strange that such weak misstate- ments should be published by the Tran- script. The queen's veto could have been nullified only by a two-thirds vote, and the lottery bill had only twenty-three votes out of a possible fifty-two. Eight members were absent and there was only one to make the majority that passed the bill. The queen's own money bought just enough members to make that majority for the lottery. The bill was not “indorsed by the ministry,” but was energetically opposed by them, as Mr. Palmer could have ascer- tained if he had,consulted the official rec- ords instead of going as he did to the queen for his facts. It was passed on the lith of January and on the 12th the queen ral- led members enough to vote out the hon- est and capable Jones-Wilcox cabinet, who stood in the way of her scheme for a new constitution. On the 13th she installed her Parker-Colburn cabinet. On the 14th she signed the lottery and opium bills, thus achieving the end she had worked for strenuously but secretly during a whole year. The same day she prorogued the leg- islature and undertook to proclaim a new constitution. The Queen’s Part. The queen knew very well that her course for six months in opposing the ef- forts of the legislature to secure a re- spectable cabinet had impaired public con- fidence and government credit #o that money could not be obtained to carry on public works. She wanted the lottery fees in order to have money with which to pursue an arbitrary course of government without being dependent on maintaining public credit. Palmer easily swallowed her absurd talk about wanting to employ the idle on public works. One of the damag- ing effects of her course in the latter half of 1892 had been to prevent the bonds of the Oahu ratiway being sold for the pur. pose of extending it around the island, work which would have given immedia: employn.ent to thousands of laborers. The queen's championship of the lottery bill probably had quite as much efficiency in arousing public feeling against her as had her violent attempt to overthrow the con- stitution. The intelligent portion of our community felt that we were being sold into the clutches of an unscrupulous cor- poration, a lottery that would practically own and govern the country, at the same time that it conducted a piratical system of fleecing our own ple and robbing the United States. e had hotly battled against the nefarious scheme in August and September. We supposed it to be de- feated and defunct. The resurrection of the bill was a Caer gpa surprise at the last moment. Its rapid perfecting into a law had put us all into a ferment. The queen was besieged with itions to veto it. To @ committee of religious ladies, for whom she had always professed great she assumed an aspect of deep anxiety to ful- fill her duty. She showed no mean ability in acting a deceitful part. She sppears to have done this very suc- cessfully with Mr. Palmer, who must have been in a very receptive frame. He seems to have been proud to have “left his kiss of adieu on the hand of royalty.” He evidently conceived much veneration for the august lady, whom he conceives to be without stain. He thinks “the ridiculous rumors against her to be absolutely false, put into form for political effect.” This evidently refers to certain scandals of long standing, universally current among her own people, which need not here be repeated. As I have before shown, Liliuokalani is a Polynesian, with the frailties of her race, by whose im- erfect ethical standards she is to be judged, rather than by those of civilized people. But when a correspondent comes here and publishes that she is all correct, he only shows that he has been made a fool of, perhaps willingly. r. Palmer emphasizes the presence of “spies” in front of the queen's premises. There is no doubt that the government has maintained a good deal of surveillance over the movements of the queen and her ad- herents. Mr. Palmer seems to forget that it is an absolutely unprecedented toleration for a deposed monarch to be permitted to keep up her residence at the seat of govern- ment. It has been sought to subject the lady to no unnecessary inconvenience. She been treated with every possible consid- eration. She has had the opportunity of constantly meeting with her adherents, and concerting with them any course of action she chose. There has been reason to believe that various conspiracies have oc casionally concocted to overthrow the pro- visional government. It can hardly be mat- ter of complaint, then, if the queen’s prem- ises have been watched. She is necessarily under a good deal of surveillance. Her Royal Highness Hard Up. Liiuokalant is at present understood to be very short of funds. Her private estate is heavily mortgaged, and probably yields her small income beyond paying interest. Her house and premises are large and expensive to maintain. Like all the native chiefs, she has many retainers to be supported. It is not clear how much longer she can go on without making terms for a provision for her needs from the government. Reports are current that she would like to renew negotiations with the United States for some provision. Of that information here is lacking. This government is not unwill- ing to provide suitably for her, whenever her claims are renounced, and her opposi- tion ceas They cannot supply her with the sinews of war. There is evidence that the queen has been active in sending out instructions to all the natives not in any way to participate in the present election, and especially not to ‘take the oath pre- scribed for registering to vote. One clause of the oath is to oppose the restoration of monarchy. The result of the royalist orders circulated has been @ rather general absti- who took the oath would be marked bels and traitors and that they would severely punished after the queen was restored. But a small proportion of the natives would go against such an order and such threats. It is an instinct with them all to comply implicitly with the commands of royalty. And they fully expect the queen to be restored. Only this week word went around the town among the ignorant natives that Admiral Walker was about to restore her in a day or two. His coming is very significant to regard their minds in that direction. They the demand made for her by correspond ; Minister Willis, on December 19, as abso: lutely committing President Cleveland to that policy. Its execution is settled upon; it is only postponed. She is in their eyes certain to resume power at an early date. To oppose or offend her is not to be thought of. Thus the majority of the natives are practically under compulsion, and dare not yield allegiance to the present government. I have spoken above of a proposed ex- tension of the Oahu railroad. This is an enterprise of much importance, which has been waiting for several years for our po- litical affairs to get settled. Eighteen miles of the road were built four years ago, and are in successful and profitable operation. This part of the road runs around the lochs of Pearl harbor, often skirting the shore. It ends at the large sugar mili of the Ewa plantation. It is proposed to go on fifteen miles further to Waianae plantation, follow- ing the level shore line. Thence to extend on eighteen miles farther to Waialua plan- tation and twelve miles more to Kahuku mill. This makes forty-five miles of ex- tension planned for. About one million dol- lars in nds for the purpose are waiting to be issued, and the coin for them is ready whenever Hawaiian affairs get set- tled into any stable form. The money would have been handed over more than two years ago but for the uneasiness cre- queen. Royalty Opposes Progress. Other important enterprises have for many years been held in abeyance by royal tampering with public affairs under Kala- ; Kaua, as well as later by his sister. The most important of these is a projected railway of sixty miles length, connecting the extensive sugar districts of Hamakua and Hilo on Hawaii with the excellent Seaport of Hilo. There are now about @ dozen plantations in the two districts, all of them highly productive. They are situated on the coast, but the access from the sea is difficult, and in rough weather impracticabie. ‘Lune plantations and mills are all situated on high uplands sloping toward bluffs, from. three hundrea w hve hundred fect in height, overhanging the sea. Here and there are depressions in the bluff, from which freight and passengers are lowered or raised by derricks and tackles to boats lying in the open sea below. Boats are often dashed on the rocks, and, bui for t marvelous swimming powers of the native boatmen, many lives would be lost. In January, levi, the elder daughter of Minis- ter Stevens lost her life at such a place. The boat capsized after she had been low- ered into it, and. she was dashed against the rocks, Often for several weeks together no freight can be shipped from these planta- tions. Hundreds of tons of sugar accum late in their warehouses, until grinding has to be suspended for lack of space to store the product. This is a serious in- convenience and drawback, and has greatly hindered the development of these fertile districts, whose production of sugar might be trebled. The proposed railway would re- lieve the difficulty by placing the entire region in immediate connection with Hilo harbor, which is safe and quiet at all sea- sons, and where good wharfage can be provided, with railway 1unning alongside the ship. The railway route presents no rious difficulties, although it crosses some scores of lerge and small ravines, caliing for much heavy grading and bridging. The late 8. G. Wilder had the route laid out, and in 1887 was in London with negotia- tions completed for the saie of bonds, and the required capital was on the point of being handed over, when Kaiakaua’s mis- deeds culminated in the revolution of that year, and Wilder’s transactions were ar- rested by the alarm which that affair cre- ated, The Convention. In politics the chief solicitude centers around the work of the coming convention to form a constitution. It will probably meet about the last of May. Although the results on the other islands of the election held on the second are yet to de heard from the result is known, as only one set of candidates was placed in the field, and those are conservative men, fully in sym- pathy with the objects of the revolution and with the provisional government, and most of them men of considerable public eaxpe- rience and approved records. It is quite certain that a majority of the delegates will be in general accord with the views of the political leaders in the government on all the most important issues. The ques- ton upon which the most division of opin- jon is likely to arise is that of granting the right of suffrage to Asiatics on any conditions. There would probably be no difficulty with this subject, but for the de- mand made by the Japanese government that their subjects shall have the same ad- vantages in this respect as the subjects of all other nations. It is a stipulation of Ha- wali's treaty with Japan that her subjects shall enjoy the same privileges in Hawaii as the subjects of the most favored nations. Unless we interpret that clause as insuring Japanese immigrants the same rights of suffrage as European or American immi- grants, Japan threatens to forbid any more laborers to come here frome@that country. The urgency of the Japanese government on this subject is owing to the violent popu- lar clamor expressed through thelr parlia- ment for Japanese to enjoy equal rights in all respects with Europeans. They ere llke- ly, therefore, to insist upcs this point, and for us to disregard the claim means that our planters will get no more labor from Japan. Any constitutional provisions which shall affect the labor supplies of the plant- ers will touch many members of the conven- tion in a tender point. On the other hand public sentiment here runs strongly against any admission whatever of Asiatics to suf- frage. There will have to be some adjust- ments and compromises of opinions, how and in what direction remains to be seen. The election in Honolulu and this island of Oahu, held yesterday, resulted in the choice of three candidates on the regular American Union ticket and of three run- ning independently. A. G. M. Robertson led the poll. There had been much squab- bling over his nomination, and the feeling Taised led his supporters to plump their votes for him. He is the city police magis- trate. The next highest were two Portu- guese independents, Fernandez and Vivas. About five hundred Portuguese voters seem to have plumped their votes for those two. Charles Carter stood fourth. He leads on the regular ticket. He was one of the five commissioners sent last year to Washington. The only native nominee, “Prince” Albert Kunutakea, was also elect- ed. On the whole the delegation to the con- vention from this island will be respectable, though not averaging as high in weight of character as those from the other islands where the nominations were made in con- vention. On Oahu nominations were made in the primaries and tended to he of « class of men inferior to what a convention of delegates would have been likely to name. The Suffrage Question. The most important question to be set- tled in making the constitution is one upon which a majority will probably be in sub- stantial agreement. It relates to the limi- tations of suffrage for electing members of the senate. The last constitution pre- scribed a property qualification for voters for nobles of $600 income. This may, per- haps, be somewhat increased. All support- ers of the revolution, who constitute a large majority of the whites, are fully agreed and determined to have a constit tion which will secure the results of the revolution. The government of the country will not be surrendered into the control of the native masses, the great majority of whom are superstitious, incapable and in- clined to abject subserviency to chiefs. The necessity of intelligent white control is as plain, and in much the same way, as it is in southern states where an ignorant negro majority exists. This control will be secured by appropriate limitations of suf- frage for the upper house or senate and probably by some provisions of special wers for that house. For the lower jouse there will probably be few limita- tions on the suffrage, and the natives will erjoy in reality as large a power in legis- lation as they have ever had. It should be well understood that their kings had al- ways reserved the chief control of legis- lation to themselves, and the influence of the common people was mainly nominal. A large part of the former royal control is likely now to be assigned to the more in- telligent classes of citizens, the ignorant classes occupying a less influential posi- tion. In these proposed adjustments in the distribution of power there fails to be a perfect realization of democratic principles, and of equality between men of al! class it should be attributed to the necessities by the imperfect development of races of men, who are yet in a some- childish stage of progress. The ad- vanced race in Hawaii is still too much in the minority to eee of the practical carrying out of ideal democratic princi- ples. A day may come in some not remote future when restrictions now necessary can be removed. KAMEHAMEHA, —>—— Mrs. O’Toole’s Joke. From Puck. Mrs. O’Toole—“Why don’t yez name it Pathrick?” Mrs. Brady—‘But it’s a gur-rl, and Ot can't be afther naming It a man’s name.” Mrs. O’Toole—“That's so. Still, she'll be afther a man’s name hersilf if she lives Jong enough.” the sea and terminating in lofty | “MISS BENNINGS’ TROUBLE, —_————— WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY LOUISE B. BAKER. a ae eee ae It seemed as if all the women living in the region of Cross Roads had trouble that spring. Miss Crecy Lyons had a setback with her rheumatism, Liza Jones burnt her fcot severely through “clean a’k’ardness,” she herself shrilly declared; Mis’ Tilly Ann Smith lost three-fourths of a kettle of ; Soap. “I run and squealed when I seen it bilin’ over,” Miss Smith explained to every sympathetic neighbor, “but "peared lke I ddn't hev the sense fer to pull the log away and quench the biazin’.” Miss Ben- nings’ trouble was a boy. “The fust one she took on herself to raise, but this her’n was thrust upon her,” said Liza Jones, giving out the latest piece of news from the window of the black- smith’s cottage. “Yes, the boy’s Jawn's | son; you’d know that ef you'd ever seen Jawn. Miss Bennings she'd made up her mind to do fer Jawn, and his runnin’ off the way he did jest soured her completely.” | The listener opened and closed his heavy eyes and opened them again partially, re- moved the quid of tobacco dexterously from one cheek to the other, rammed his | clumsy hands deeper inta the pockets of his trousers ard inquired: “So this'n he's, Jawn’s son? What become o’ Jawn?” Died off somers in Colorady; a heap bet- ter ‘a staid east and died comfortable. I seen the boy yesterday along to the shop | with the man and the hosses.” “And Miss Bennings don’t teck to him?” “No, she’s a slow person to make up her mind, and she don't change in a hurry. She was mad when she got the letter. | They say she set on the kitchen step and cried she were so mortal mad. No word in the whole letter about astin’, jest that the boy had been shipped. She declared she Wasn't gunno let folks put on her that | away; she had settled in her mind when Jawn left never to have anythink to do with another boy, but so fur she ain't said awn, he were her brother’s boy “Her half-brother, old man Bill's boy. They was al'ays shiftless over to Bill's. Some say as Miss Bennings’ was too great | a change to Jawn; he couldn't stand not bein’ shiuwess.” The woman at the little window and the men outside the shop both laughed. “I heered,” said the man, slowly, “as some’n come out o’ the garden up to Miss Bennings’ kerryin’ a pea-hull and didn’t known where to throw it.” They both laughed again. In one of the rooms of the old brown house surrounded by this wealth of neatness sat Miss Bennings and her trouble. Miss | Crecy Lyons grumbled over the rheuma- | tism; she had thought it would have gone | with the breaking of spring. She was pa- tient all through the winter looking for- | ward to the spring, and she had felt herself | coming on very finely until that setback on | @ beautiful April morning. Liza Brown ex- amined her bandaged foot daily to see if | there were any signs of mortification set- ting in. “That'll mean death or # crutch to | me and I don’t know which to choose,” she said, and was white around the lips for an instant. Mis’ Smith never wearied of re- lating the disastrous occurrence to the ket- | tle of soap and her own foolish way of act- ing. ‘Runnin’ and squealin’ ike a cra woman and the suds pourin’ into the far. Miss Bennings for awhile said as little as | possible about her trouble. The second Jawn was the first one over again, even to the tattered condition of his | garments. He had the same wistful eyes, the same droop of the head—“As ef you was gunno hit ‘im,” thought Miss Bennings, | casting a swift glance over her steel-rimmed spectacies. The droop of the head was very percepti- ble as the boy sat close to the fireplace | gazing dejectedly at the burning logs. | “‘Shiftless to the core,” thought Miss Ben- i nings, “that’s Jawn; and ongrateful, thatis | Jawn, too. Sent yer to me to be fed and clothed and given his schoolin’, them the conditions about the other; it’s all give and no git.” She had mended the first Jawn’s clothes on the day of his arrival; she let the sec- ond Jawn go around in his tattters till she “couldn't abear ‘sech a lookin’ feller on the Place;” then she mended for him, too. “It's all give and no git,” she said one evening, speaking her thoughts aloud, as | she went into the boy’s rocm and laid the mended clothes on the chair beside his bed. The wistful eyes looked after her and the flickering candle; then the second Jawn hid his head quickly under the covers. “It was a big mistake, father,” he whispered hoarse- ly; “I can’t meck it up.” But a warmth and tenderness crept into the boy’s heart with the memory of the shiftless western home, where a whole peck of pea hulls might have been spilled upon the floor and mattered nothing. ou'll do as I tell you, Jawn? “Yes, father.’ “You'll try and meck it up to her?” “Yes, father.” ‘That feeble hand was on his head. “You won't mind ef it comes a little hard | at_fust?’ The boy under the covers of the neat bed | sobbed more vehemently than the boy had sobbed in the shiftiess little home, but | again he gave his word. And he did try. All through the summer j me tee — going on up to that day in autumn when Miss Bennings spoke her thoughts aloud and to him. | “I ‘spose I'm to send you to school,” she said. “I ‘spose now I've clothed you and | fed you everyone will be lookin’ fer me to | send you to school ! The wistful eygs were fastened upon the | copper-toed boots’ The old ciothes had been replaced by a new suit, warm and comfort- abit. Yes, she had ciothed him and fed him. Miss Bennings laughed unpleasant! neighbor had-inquired of her recently: “is {t so that you wasn't even ast ef you'd he the boy, that he was jest shoved on to you? It's all give and no git he exclaimed con- temptuously. The next morning Miss Bennings’ trouble Was gone. But was the trouble gone? The boy was gone certainly, “clip and clare,” as | the Story went. But ther was the pair of cop- per-toed boots, and there was the new suit of clothes. When” the first John had quitted the Premises Miss Bennings had denounced him | vehemently; she had wrung her hands and | bemoaned his ingratitude to every neighbor who came inside her doors; but she said | very little in reference to the disappearance of the second John. After the departure of the boy, whom she had undertaken to raise, | Miss Bennings, accoriing to her neighbors, had “soured.” After the runaway of the boy, “who had been thrust upon her,” the neighbors began to say that Miss Bennings Was “gittin’ old.” | To Miss Bennings herself it seemed that she was “gittin’ mighty young and fullish,” such a strange feeling crept upon her as she folded the new suit and put it and the copper-toed boots away out of sight. “The weather's blowin’ up,” she said, “I'm sure he might a-kept the clothes.” And then she put her wrinkled hands upon thé little wooden mantelpiece beside the bed where the boy had slept. The hands trembled as the faded old face found a| resting place upon them. “Lord, why didn’t | the fust one come back,” she moaned. “All | this would never a-happened.”’ Something else was about to happen to Miss Bennings. Two of the half brothers, | Ben and Rick Bennings, were still living | eight miles distant from ‘Cross Roads, at a place called Red Lanes. No fraternal at- tachment had ever been displayed on the part of the half brothers toward Miss Ben. | hings,and when the second John was taken under surveillance at the old home there | ;had been much grumbling in the Lanes. A lesser degree of grumbling had emanated | from the same quarter when the first John | met with favor, for there had been at that | time a small Ben and a juvenile Rick, each equally shiftless and equally up for adop- | | ! | | tion. The Bennings families in the Red Lanes were large. The sons and daughters de- clared vehemently that justice wan't on the face of the earth ef Sade Bennings’ new | brat got the home place. The two old men talked the matter over with gesticulations | and angry mutterings, Not until the grum.| bling culminated to a terrible point did it. reach Cross Roads: “The Bennings o: | Rei Lanes was gunno breck the will. The neighbors came flocking in upon Miss Bennings. “Fight ‘em tooth and nail,” they cried indignantly. “Breck a will that has stood fer thirty- five year—ef that ain't Red Lane impi- dence!” Miss Bennings listened to the neighbors more patiently than she was in the habit of listening. “Cut em off with nary shillin’, Sary Ben- nings.’ “They’s ongrateful to the core.” “The shiftless good-for-nothinks!” ver to | Conn ee all this trouble on you tn yer | ol spoke. “Trouble, “How's Ben and meddlin’ hurtin’ me? My troubie’s { {ing. ‘The fire in her» | which must @-wanderin’ round to other folks* ween er a th where we yer ant ere he kin job—and “Ah, naw, new, naw.” But they were pretty sure of it old home place was vacated for wooden house close to the road. “She built the house with the money when she was a gal,” blacksmith’s wife to didn't know, and did. “There was i e é é il i i oe : iho starve. Miss Bennings, she'd mind to do fer him, all that, like as he jest as ef he was the other’n he her the slip. That and the furse Will is apt to go hard with her.” “Yes, I reckon,” said the teamster, ‘The boy “over at Weaver's” gave a of surprise, and opened his eyes lously when he heard a! “Teck th he asked. “Teck it? ‘They've done got it! Jim Weaver, excitedly. “Folks say Bennings has put up in the clost to the corner.” “Left the home place!” murmured ry. The storm beat around the solitary home place, but there was no mind it; the rats were having pus in the walls. The rain ingly against the windows of house “clost to the corner” made Mies nings feel lonesome, as she sat there ing the heel of a long-legged yarn room was her lamp was well trimmed. Shi to keep her heart from against the brothers at Red es spoken of them contemptuously on a spree. Suddenly she raised her from her knitting, and the bil euainst which she had been etri into hot hatred about her heart. the window, look! i ERE i F f if Lavlifs ¢ i slik at e boy crept into the room. Th Miss Bennings resumed her table. She fired a stony gaze upon “So you've heered o’ the Red Lane she inquired. - le felt very brave splashi the mad ond the night. He picked at the edge is ragged jacket, he curled curled his bare toe” AES “You was sent to git the hul of it; you seen you couldn't git it and you quit. Now you come back fer yer sheer. the rain, walk straight to them as gi yer orders. Tell ‘em fer to show you che road to Red Lanes. Git yer sheer from ‘em down to Red Lanes where they’s gunno breck a will o’ thirty-five years standin’! — threw back her head and laughed tron- ically. “Ther's impidence and outside o” Red Lanes!” ere The bravery had returned to the boy. “I don’t want no sheer,” he said hurriedly. “I din't come back fer no sheer. Let them that stole it hev it. I come back to work fer you. I come back to work till I kin buy the home place fer you. I ought never a-gone away. I told father, I told fath- er—” Then the bravery all went with @ tush, and the boy put up a tattered arm to wie his quivering os en iss Bennings Gropped long- legged stocking. She was leaning forward on the table; her breath was ae evenly, there was a strange soft 4 her eyes. “What did you tell yer father?’ she asked, hoarsely. “I said I'd meck it up,” sobbed the boy. 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