Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1897, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, Printers’ Inf (the tittle schoof: AT THES STAR BUILDINGS, Ey of Seseitnaas: aie 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 1th 8t, by ster The Bean Ber Genet ago Jf is cfa:m2d for the Washing ‘or e Evening Star Newspaper Company, = Stor, and profabfp trutftuffo pte Part 2. fF enim CUT, Pages 11-14. [ae ak rete inti The Evening Star ie served te wubs rihers tm the 7 o tn fhe countre gors mfo 60 far3> pies at the a vercentag> of aff fBe Bouses So cepts = 6 | enffin a radius of fteentp mifes + Star, $1 por year, with Bees i ee sen oe | from fBe office of pufificafion. WASHINGTON, D. ©. FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1897—FOUI | | in of all these innumerable impres: | ELECTRICITY WITHOUT HEAT pd vi n ° ever, about 15,0 tons of sugar cropped IES | the tr Fall th ble in ates or Canada at Washingtoa, D. C., ast be paid in a kpewn om applic lands, of this ash bed. peech io be uttered orally while the ey i 2 y p - stil gazing upon the printed or writ- Ss —. eee eee ne ee SEN foe Fertile Coffee Plantations. bol? Sere a ten cece {Bye eactited accountant casts | . pense < no other government employment sonar 2 ithe: eplendid!nawi coger! dixtric bot Olaa. up a Icng column of figures as his eye | The Latest Stage of the Search for This them, and they cannot hope at this late f 3 ‘ iti eves Up wn the page, and at t 5 Grand A Delegation Calls on | day to meet with cucsasPeccilt e, itis | The Black Loam and Sand From the | now opened by means‘of the Volcano road, | How He Told Them While Waiting moves up or down the page, and at & Result, A Grand Army Deleg: hoped that the President will remove this appears to be located. upon a similar ash . column his responsive fingers jot down i the President Hore nieetioned aoe ieaibe caesar Lava Flow. bed, the: agit’ being) ayyerveuniform, soft, for War Dispatches. total. In other words, he sald, communi- —_——- . tions mentioned, and that they may have mellow loam of yellow color, several feet Mi ee act 3 cations are being transmitied pet eaone. Mr. Case's Unterceting Mxperimcnny ea Pit i aloo reaperteuie: sabmitied: Gace deep. It was probably an-ejection from ly end simultancously in both direction: fan eee, lex telegraph was not ————— Love of Shakespeare. “This reference will indicate Lincoln's habit of thought and analysis, which he | | OMF Of the most interesting am 1 xtven owed mose y doub:- ee . si ORI Meas On ea nee mae ee before the New York Electrical Soctety was almost unconsciously in the study of | Pe ee ae ns brought to his notice. Mis | that given by Mr. rs | February 24, on the subject “EI unerring, his homely illustra- | Februar Suk cee War pence effective and his fund of good humor | soe Scien eee eee = From Electried ml enters Have Been Treated. = + —--—~ Sea : : : between the eye and brain. He likened was ° "3 e = cr <ulaina, some fifteen miles < = t h « would b2 a gracious act toward these fasi Poe conesouna this operation to the telegraph, although A PRINTED STATEMENT PRESENTED evs Si: WHAT ONDERUN RICH PARTATIONS i ha ac MANYLONG HOURS SPENT IN WAITING 5a that the du the civil service rules so as to permit the ——— hi. vith. hi; Henne forest See then invented. appointment of honorably discharged sol- MOTE UES ROE el dense: fore! = si cres, and the many planters. seem to have not requiring technical skill or knowledge, 5 acres, ai ; n where the salary, as fixed by law or regu- Coffee Fields. fortunes in near prospect. 1864. Sue : a this city, is located upon What is evidently = per day, without a civil service examina- as tile olty, te located upg What ia evidently - es 1 Durin; Mr Cleveland's first administra- . oO or =] 2 cou rr AFTER-DINNER SPEEt THE REMEDY SOUGHT | ton many ex-soldiers and sailors were uns|RICH, STRONG LANDS|structure of the ash hes disaprearar| AN AFTER-DI s regards the dual process it should be cmmend to Congress the modification of averaging fourteen inches a month, has i . A fee shrubs are now. beginning to i incident ~ | diers, sailors and marines, and their The cot "€ 5 ig : of Adullam ncident in How Ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors | Nigows to any tranch of the eitit service | Use of Artesian Wells to Irrigate | race test res ator eee inning 19) The “Cave lation, is not above $900 per annum, or $3 The very productive Ewa plantation, near tion. neighboring cinder cones. The vitreous jusily discharged from the departments, through age and decomposition, but its. SET ‘ 3 - - — unfailing. Never once in the | Of the direct conversion of fuel into elec- eee : fternoon the President } ized those of the past four Years. BEEN Ce ee average of seven tons to the acre, some| At a dinner recently given by the Metho- | anger or malice, nor was he ever w among scientists, and while it has been ac- Cee eat aslastuica ice Ls Untencine eee service rile 10 (now HONOLULU, March 10, 1897. | fields running up to eleven tons. Much of | act Social Union, at the Windsor Hotel, complished in a multitude of ways, and bah ei hapa partment, con-| Tule , no one who had been separated | ‘The geological formations of the Hawali- | the area of tHe Oalu sugar plantation now oats tment | ££0M a classified position In the civil serv- sisting of Thomas S. Hopkins, department | te. could be reinstated, after the lapse of commander; Dr. J. F. Raub, senior vice | one year, without a new examination and department commander: Gen. §. S. Bor- | certification. dette, past commanderin-ehief; Arthur | President Harrison was appealed to, and sk gi ts aM eae 4 : modifi le so that the Hmit o! Hendricks, assistant adjutant general of | R¢ Modified the rule so tha the department of the Di bia; Calvin Farnsworth, No. 5; and Cap’ Miller, r eighteen one-armed veterans. time within which one thus separated from trict of Colum-| the civil service might be reinstated with- ommander Post | out a new examination or certification was | done away with so far as honorably dis- it | charged soldiers and sailors, or their “ | widows, were concerned, thus making them presenting a state- | eligible te reinstatement at any time. tasking for the res | Under this modification, quite a number cassie a nd thelr widews who | succeeded in re-entering the service, bw bisa exer? ae Hees Mee | Ee ee i Es Ge fae reer be Nice tbeees Ua § vacancies, and, for the sake of thelr fam- or reduced In salary during the past four | Yiea “tock infenlor “positions, and” have ars. The statement showed that of re-| néver, to this day, been able to pecosen ihe duetio: emovals, ete. during that pe- | positions from which they were discharged. dlpanctcyeniinas Kies Gege n| teers ie re ee ae ae ee os ee B past four years the modification of the nd of promo- | above rule has been practically inoperativ secaived but | 300° was for the purpose ment of their case, terars veterans or their w tions for the sam eight per cent. PRBS ep The Relief Sought. Con Rade one eet hehe und | ‘The relief which these comrades seek the delegation departed with the assurance | is simple. They respectfully ask that, by that their case would receive spcedy at-| executive crder, or in such other manner orton ae > bands of the executive. | as he may deem best, the President will A marked feature of the visit was the | 90 00. ssemb © eas om izhtee ze paper | etter oper eaucp eal moter et honorably discharged ex- moved from government service during Mr.| Union solders, sallors, or marines, who Cleveland's incumbency. They selected | served during the war of the rebellion, or Captain Miller, one of their number, to ac- | the widows of such, who have, since March the department commander in| 4, 1885, resigned, heen discharged, or re- interview with the President. duced in salary, without just cause, in any The President showed his callers the | of the executive departments of the gov- greatest attention and evinced the deepest | ernment, or in any other office or bureau interest in the matter. He as: Distr that it was a subject he greatly desired to | Iumbia, shall, upon application in writing, take 1 that he should do so at the | and without examination, be promptly re- earlie ible moment. The del-gation | stored to their former positions went away feeling confident that justic ‘That if any such soldier, satlor, or would be done and that in the Presid marine, or the widow of such, has been dis- they had a friend and comrade. The Pres- | charged or reduced in salary, during the ident instead of ng the printed brief | said period, for alleged delinquency or mi s is customary in all | conduct, he or she shall, upon making ap- 1 it in his coat nocket, | plication in writing—(a) be accorded an in- was in such form thet he | vestigation for the purpose of determining ar him, so that at a mo-! whether or not he or guilty of ad time he could take {t | the delinquency or misconduct char mnsideration. The following is the | and, if so, whether or not such delinquenc esented by Commander Fop-| or misconduct was of such gravity as to kins warrant dismissal. And he or p shall ired them | of the government in the District of Co- it ment when he up for The Statement Presented. he heard in Mls or her own defense. Ut Fhe undersigned. commander o ._| Such charg be not 2ined, or is found Sie materscg SERRE OF Se | ol to bs saliclently ace tay UobAE Witt or partment of the Potomac G. R.. re- her from re-entering the service, then suen tion of the! soldier, sailor, or marine, cr the widow ‘ollowing statement con-| of such, shall’ be promptly restored to bis © and violation of the | or her former position without examina- of the law, under | ton. Or—() he or sne shall, notwithstand- ee see’ | ing such charge, upon filing an application Each many members of the department | in ‘writing. be promptly reappointed to his have suffered during the past four or her former position without examination, at the hands of an administration which | upon a probationary term, however, of six has been indifferent, if not actually h montis ‘Audit? et the exulradouor cist tile. to their welfare. period, he or she be found capable, effi- i sae oes) jeient and of good hubits, he or she shall of this department, and in behalf | Ceccive a permanent appointment. of all cxUnion soldiers. sailors and | "34 ‘That no honorabiy discharged. eoldier, marines. he appeals to you, as the chief sailor, or marine, whe served during the oer ae ton aa aes war of the rebellion, or the widow of such, per sass ae eno shall be chliged to take a competitive ex- justice. amination for prometion. Re Bane Acniey Sears FAK 4th. That no honorably discharged sol- . ee een cigbartments In| Gier, sailor, or marine, or ihe widow or Washington have been discharged, forced orphan of such, shall be discharged from ca_to inferior positions. | the gcvernment service without being first eraeTede the cases of wiows. | heard in his or her own defense. spectfully invites the at President to the fi cerning the injust rit. if not the le Army of th nor does it include any case in the navy | eB ah ec U a ard or the government printing office, nag “Recent official reports from the elght JOINT TRAIFF ASSOCIATION. executive ts show chat since = March 4, 18: “4 appointments in the} Am Appeal to Be Taken to the Su- il service were made, and that but 5'3 preme Court. ber cent of these ap rintees were ex-Unton | The Attorney General has sent instruc- soldiers, sailors and marines. ‘ RE : Durie His perira taate are Chita aca t Attorney Macfarland at motions, of which the veterans received but | New York to take an appeal to the United per cent States Supreme Court from the decision of or ons. resignations and re-| the circuit court of appeals in the case of phis Period. Zltz per cent | the United States againet the Joint ‘Traffic of the war of the rehellicn. in a striking manner how | AsSoclation. As soon as the papers reach has been discriminated against. | the Department of Justice a motion will be Wine ine cattceitend siesciacee, made in the Supreme Court to advance tae Investigatic 2 discloses that in a large | C@f€ 0” the docket, so that a speedy deter- number of cases the resignation of the em-| ™ination of the questions inva € was demanded and given. If he re- | BEd. fiswedt Uo seutges hal waa charsa It is stated that the decision, of the record with delinquency, or mi preme Court last Monday in the case of the and summarily dismissek’ Not init Trans-Missouri Freight Association covers ly he became the object of the petty spite | all of the main points in the decision of of @ superior officer. such as the chief of 2 | Juages Wallace and Larcombe in the case amision or of a section. and his record for | of the Joint Traffic Association, and al. CMiclency was systematically forced down | though it was a majority opinion, neither tt until it reached the mintmum, and his hor that of the minority sustained the prin- te ee on cipal points contended for hy the Traffic en ee aan Association, and allowed by the court be- eae receenee alitiona | com-| low. The officials of the Department cf Transferred to positions tncelvine diners | Justice had assumed that in view of the c quiring physiont aren eerent | late decision of the Supreme Court, the eyo chat eh 224 | Joint Traffic Association would dissolve, as y were charset wok ones | its understood the western associations Loss of limb er pos. | 8% doing, but information has reached amiail of nee ns them that the Joint Traffic Association in- upon the ficid of battle was no ganas | tends to still further contes: the questions ‘pon the s involved, and hence the appeal. ‘There is eee discaarged or com-| 2° question at the Department of Justice Fenians wena fe era] Ge SOUL | that, lant eM onlays (eeisign Go. ees every ced tn ry. though often requised ao | Material point involved in the Joint Traffic perform ¢ same duti as before. Not a Sesectation case. and so far as the officials wW Rho were receiving $1,600 and $ham | 27 able to see. there can be only one tecve ‘aunuen mace 4s low us $720, | t the contest. and that is the association Sha at oca must dissolve, It also 's thelr opinion that In all these cases respectful protesis an¢ « bassenger associations come as clearly requests for a hearing were invariahiy ie_| Within the prohibitions. of ‘the law cen, nied, and political favorites were appointed | the fretght associations. Tt is believed ches cteles tir aac. the appeal will be argued and decided be. who were perm fore the summer recess of the court. the service were, in many of ed may be ed and otherwise he oifices, eS subjected to insult and anno ance and Several Sheds Burned. led to Msten to slurs upon the Union|, ° Bot atil_the situation beeame almost | The fire shortly before 3 o'clock yester- ie. So unpopular was the v. that many believed tt nece: eran | ay afternoon, mentioned in The Star, for sary,| which an alarm was sounded from box rder to retain their positions. that they | 621, originated {1 should conceal the fact of their military . pee Sate a_conceal : f 713 LL street northeast, occupied b: service, and cease to wear the honured | [eer of 7 ‘ae Grand Army button. Pe im ‘i sal as a laundry. ie mes PUSS ae eae Spread rapidly to the sheds in the rear of 709, 711 and 715 H street, 725 and 727 7th It has been a reign of terror to the oid | street and 724 Sth street. The total dam. seldier during the past four years in this | 88¢ Is estimated at $1,000, the losers bein: capital city, w ch he helped "e 2 ve, | W- B. Blbert, George’ W. Eeklof, Mrs. 2 , S e ° ave |B. Bailey, James A. Cahill, D. O'Meara Many a brave man whose body was torn | ard Frank Reed. The blaze, It ts thought, gud mangi-d In the service of his country | was started by some boys, who were play. Pas seo: his wife and children suffer for | ing with matches in one of the sheds. focd: many a dead veteran's poor widow ——.> has suffered in silence and in poverty, fi While, be {t said to the everlasting disgrace Seater Ceder <i Meckabites. . gnd shame of the nation. in many in-| Cammack Tent, No. 42, J. 0. of R., held stances positions they were abundantly | an interesting meeting in their tent room able to fill have been occupied by men, or | last evening. The following officers were widows or children of men, who served | installed f 3 - confederate army. Even the sacred sg re a ee portals of the pension burean have been in- | 3B" fie wae xaded, and ex-confederates and their | Ros Woe. Cissell; F. S., George Lowern Feat nt, Calldten permitted to. sit ta | Fotis Sama Sane Ge George Huse: Sete <at Om the claims’ of ex-Union: sol | ore. Winteld Maniac en ‘Andrew diers. . Cu ¥e u y During these four years of suffering, de- eUne oes oe spore oles pression and wrong the comrades have been made by Bros. J. R. Mahoney, Geor; ow. santained Ey £0 istration woraith that the | Rue, A. M. Curry, C. E. Baird’ H. Tolly su ing administration would be friend- * John irds of Cammack’ ly to thelr interests. Their faith was well | §tign°h™ Richards of Cammack Tent, founded. And words cannot fully express 3 _——— their joy over the welcome change. y The attention of the President is also pie eee Enea the vine: Eespectfoly, invited to the fact that the | George W. Curtis was fined $10 or thirty civil service rules now cover the positions | 4: by assaul and of watchmen, assistant watchmen, messen- bed Geel? ate fe es = triking his wife, Sidney Curtis. Mrs. Cur- gers, etc., in the several departments, eB. quiring an examination as the condition | tis. after having her husband arrested, re~ Frecedent to entry of the public service. lented and wanted him released; but when Oniwphea-Wetertae: she found she could not secure this with- it ish: it case, pald fine. Many armless, legless and otherwise erip- | Curtis was then Felessed fore cerene, ee an Islands may be mainly expressed by one word—lava. The mass of the entire group is built up of that one mineral in its nu- merous varieties, not greatly differing from each other. A one-hundredth part may be composed of volcanic ashes and tufa, which are only what might be termed the froth of lava. Perhaps one-thousandth part may be calcareous coral and shell sand, some of it cemented into sandstone. Lava is the rock that wells up through the shafts of volcanoes, white hot from ihe molten interior twenty-five miles beneath the crist. It spreads out and cools in vast uneven beds of rugged rock, full of vesicles or spongy cells, except where it has filled some deep cavity where the pressure com- pacted it. This lava rock is very com- pound, a mixture of almost all known min- eral elements, but none of the vaiuable metals, except iron, in more than homeo- pathic quantities. And the Iron is only enough to color it red when oxidized. Hence none of these Hawalian rocks have any mineral value, and there is no work for the miner. Much of the more compact lava Is avatlable as an excellent buildin stone, very durable, and hewing more easily than granite. Honolulu ts studded with new business blocks fronted with this bluish gray lava, of which we have moun- tainsful. Several beautiful public edifices are built entirely of it. Perhaps our five hundred cuble miles cf these lava rocks contain as much gold as does sea water, and as equally diffuses I believe there are several thousand billion of gold in the ocean, but its profitable ex- traction is Lopeless. Nature has a mar- velous alchemy by which in the lapse of millions of years the vast plutonic rock masses of the continents, once lava i ours, undergo slow secular change, and*he- come transformed, and veins and lodes of Valuarle and precious metal. gather in Here our rocks are younz, peruaps nune of them a million years old and can yield nothing for the miner, neit! er geld, iron, coal nor jewels. There are no stratified rocks, because ne layers have been deposited by water, except what is Still beneath the ocean. Yes, there are strata of tufa in very even layers. These rained down from the atmosphere in the form of hot mud, which was spouted miles aloft in a volcanic three and cemented as it fell, often incasing many square miles of seil surrounding the fiery vent. There are several square miles on the Oahu railway just out of town, which are covered by from six to twenty feet of these layers of soft reck, which overlie great thicknes: of alluvial soil, or of cora The Site of Honolalu. Much of the fiery mixture of lava and water, shot forth from sudden cruptions of the explosive kind, so expanded while aloft as to cool tn the form of spongy sand, or Yoleanic ashes, before falling. This city of Honolulu rests upon such a bed of from three to eight-feet of black ashes or sand overlying coral. On lower Fort street the cellar of a new brick block is now being excavated. It goes through eighteen inches of brown loam, then four feet of the black sand. The upper loam is only the black ashes decomposed by air and moisture. The ashes or sand will mostly be sifted for mortar. ‘The coral below this will be level- ed to the proper depth. This coral sub- stratum was ancient reef formed under water, but_now raised considerably above sea level. The whole of this Island of Oahu had originally undergone a slow subsidence, perhaps for half a million of years, settling many thousand feet, as is well ascertained. At a very recent period, however, probably not over 5,000 or 10,000, years, there was an apparently quite sudden elevation of the whole island, varying in parts from thirty to fifty feet. This converted into dry lan large stretches of what was the fringing reef. 1t is not exactly true coral, but a concretion of fragments of coral, shells, madrepore tubes, and calcareous mud, forming a coarse, whitish rock. Most of this coral within the town became buried deeply with the black cinders or sand, which seem not long after to have been shot up from the great cinder-cone inland about 2.000 feet high, known as Mount Tantalus. The main mass of the voleanie moun- tains forming this island are evidently many hurdred thousand years old, as in- dicated by the great extent to which it has weathered away, under the slow erosion of rain storm: and the torrents generated by them. Except near the bases of the erigi- nal mountain dome, no traces remain of the once rounded form. Only sharp serrated ridges are left where the now wide gulches have eaten into each other. Many of these ancient ravines have had their outlets at the shore obstructed by very recent tufa cones, such as Diamond Head and Punch Bow!, which form such conspicuous land- marks to Honolulu. In such cases new outlets have been formed for the streams. There seems to have been a very recent period of fresh volcanic convulsion around the shore of the island, perhaps coinci- dent with the changes attending the close of the glacial period. While tm this city the foundations of most of the heavier buildings extend down to the solid coral, this {s by no means neces- sary. The black sand fs itself so compact as to furnish a safe foundation for the heaviest structure. Our builders long ag) learned to rely on its solfd qualities. Both | of the massive churches, the Central Union ard the Anglican Cathedral, rest upon this sand. A neat story is told about the latter. After the heavy foundaiions of the cathedral had been finished, some thirty years ago, the good Bishép Staley's mind misgave him. He began to institute further inquiries about the sandy basis on which those foundations rested. Among other persons he resorted to the Catholic bishop, who rejoiced in a huge cathedral of his own. “Bishop Maigret, will you kindly in- form me whether the foundation of vcur church goes down to the rock or rests upon the sand?” “Our church,” the old prelaie Ponderously responded, “is founded upon the rock!” He scored one that time for St Peter. This black ash is an admirable fertilizer, although it is slightly poisonous to vegeta- tion until decomposed by exposure to air und moisture. Hence the roots of trees sel- dom penetrate {t. Volcanic ash of like structure, but more commonly yellow, ex- ists in several other localities, and is al- ways extremely fertile. There are about four square miles of such soil under the Prosperous Haua plantation, at the eastern argle of Maui, where the country is warty with cinder cones. At the southwest angle of the island is nearly as much more. At Kau, on the south end of Hawall, is a re- markable deposit of yellow ash covering over 100 square miles to a depth of ten to thirty feet. This must have been the ef- fect of a single explosion of a few hours’ duration, comparable to the enormous oyer- throw of Krakatau in 1883. It probably took place not far from a thousand years ago. This Kau ash is excessively pro- ductive, but unfortunately receives scant rainfall in most parts, while irrigation is forbidden by the impossibility of water col- lecting on the new lava of the rainy forest uplands in the interior, There are, kow- starting has similar soil. Wherever tufa or cinder cones are seen with an adjacent rolling country produced by the burial in ashes of the rugged ravines and ridges, there the soil ts certain to be productive if moisture can be had. I showed a friend over the great mill works of Ewa plantation last week. An hour's ride on the railway covers. the roundabout eighteen miles, the | two through some of the 8,000 acres of cane fields. This concern turned out last weck 795 tons of sugar, or over 130 tons a da Every night over 200 car loads of the yel- low stalks form a string one-third of a mile long, accumulated as a supply for the night's grinding. Through the whole twenty-four hours there flows from the great rollers a stream of the sweet juice, filling a six-inch trough. Several barrels of Vancouver lime are used every day to defecate the juice in the great ciarifier tanks, where it is first brought to boiling heat. Thence it is pumped along to a di- versity of containers, where it is evap- orated under vacuums maintained by heavy pumps. It is finally grained at the low temperature of 150 degrees. If boiled at greater heat, much would be wastefully converted Into molasses. Thence it passes into the centrifugal separators, twenty-five whirling in a row, and ts dropped into jute bags of 125 pounds each, while stiil over blood warmth. The little Jap women deftly stitch up the bags, and the men run them into the cars, six or eight of which daily, after an hour's run to the city wharf, dump their contents into the ships, not twenty-four hours after it was standing in the cane field. The entire power for the engines and evaporators of these works is derived sole- Jy from the combustion of about five-sixths of the bagasse, or trash of the stalk: fler the juice has been squeezed out of it. It is not perceptibly damp to the feet, and passes directly from the rol to the fur- haces. What is left over is ploughed into the fields as fertilizer. Five years ago fifty tons of coal were burned daily. The nine huge rollers Squeeze which crush and the hard cane stalks into dry sawdust are driven by a 350-horsepower Corliss engine. A Battery « Artesian Wells. This compaay is just opening 1.200 acres of new land, from which they expect in 188 to increase thelr crop to 18,000 tons. For the purpose of irrigating the new land, they are adding a battery of twelve artesian wells to the twenty already in use. A pair of immense pumps will lift the water, two-thirds of it to a height of 200 feet. This will bring the total daily sup; of the plantation up to thirty-six million gailons, which is more than Chieago uses, and pumped much higher. I do not know whether such pumping works for irriga- tion exist elsewhere. The’ new Oahu plan- tation expects greatly to exceed these both in quantity of water and height of lift. Doubtless Hawaii is well in the lead, if not ahead. One cannot but compassionate these poor tative Hawaiians, so many of whom con- tinue to delude themselves with the idea that they have the sole right to run a coun- try so far ahead as this in the methods of civilization. It is so ohyious:that they are tetally incapable of handling its affairs. Yet they are constantly get om by interested parties, especially Yankee-phobist British, to think themselves grievously robbed and cutraged, because the government of the country is taken out of the hands of their native queen, and their own race is com- pelled to take a subordinate place in the management of what they gonceive to be exclusively their own country. When hun- or of white men are constantly and vehemently teaching the natives this folly they, are not much to be blamed, but rather to be pitied for not seeing the truth. As a sample of the political pabulum served up to these poor people T append the following translation from the native paper, Ke Aloha Aina (Patriot) of March 6. It contains a iarge amount of very serlous matter on “The ‘Assassination of Liliuokalani.”” It tells tS readers that it Velieves the story that Mr. Thurston left the islands for the purpose of killing the queen; that this was foretold in a dream, which appeared in a former number of the paper. It asserts that Mr. Thurston still intends to Kill her. Tt adds that there is little doubt that President Dole and the people with him are accomplices in that wicked conspiracy. The following extracts are given from a letter written by one of > ex-queen’s attendants: “The wives and daughters of the senators are about her all the time, except during sleeping hours, just as our people do.” * * We, and all the city of Washington, were startled to receive a telephone from San Francisco, saying that Thurston had come to America to (powa) take the life of the aveen; Washington was filled with the news and expressed love and offered protection Annexation is dead! Its ashes are sca‘ tered in front of the Capitol.” * * * “President Cleveland in the evening of February 11 gave his last reception to the representatives of foreign nations, and all were present except the minister and sec- retary of the republic of Hawali. I asked some government officers, why is Hatch not here? They replied that they had not seen those two at any of the President's receptions.” This talk is now reviving to some extent among the natives the igea that America will probably soon restore the queen. KAMEHAMEHA. es A LIQUOR CASE. Archibald Donnelly Sentenced to $250 Fine or Three Months’ in Jail. Archibald Donnelly, an old army veteran, who is nearly blind and a resident of Rupleeville, near the Sgidiers’ Home, was before Judge Kimball on’ the charge of sell- ing Mquor without a license. Sevefal wit- nesses testified that they! purchased liquor in Donnelly’s place. When Judge Kimball sentenced the accused to*$250 fine or three months in the workhouse; the Ifttle daugh- ter of the prisoner burst ito tears and cre. ated quite a scene. Lawyer Moss then arose and ‘asked the court to make the sentence imprisonment in jail instead of the workhouse, but Judge Kimball declined to comply, stating that the effect would be that at the end of thirty days the prisoner would be released under the “poor convicts” act, and he in- tended to have the license law complied with so far as he had power to enforce it. At.this announcement the<little girl again burst out crying and much sym- pathy to be extended to her her mother, who was also present, but Judge Kimbril, who regretted the condition igto which the unfortunate wife and daughter would be placed by Donnelly beingjtakan from them, could not see his way to ¢Hange his action. —— A Chicken Thiefs,Pumjshment. Chief Justice Bingham today sentenced William Saunders, a boy, to ten morths in jail for it into the chicken house of Henry A.; Durant, the first of this month, a ‘if you want anything,.fry en ad. in The | Star. If anybody Suk gat Atybody has what you wish, you New York, Mr. D. Homer Bates .now vice president of one of the zrcat New York banks, was amoug th akers, and gave some inieresting reminiscences of that great, simple, wise aul beneficent man, Abraham Lincoln. The rebel guns had scarcely ceased their ominous firing upon Sumter, in April, 1861," said Mr. Batcs, “when, a lad of se enteen, I was calied to Washington for service in the United States Military ‘Tcle- graph Corps, where I remained until after the close of the war. ‘Those four years of my early manhood were crowded with events of momentous importance. For the first time in the conduct of a great war the telegraph brought into use, and this use was constant, not only between Washington and the headquarters of the commanding generals in the field, but also between the several corps and brigades. In the early part of the civil war some of the old army officers were opposed to the use of the telegraph, as they favore’ the old courier plan, but their objections were soon changed to high praise when they found the immerse value of the tele- graph in army operation Grant's Tribut General Grant in his memoirs says, re- ferring to the Military Teitgeaph Corps: Nothing could be more complete tha the organization and discipline of this body of brave and intelligent men. Insulated wires w wound upon reels—about 200 povnds to each reel. Two men and mule were detailed lo each reel. Was a Wagon with a telegraph ope battery and instruments for cach jon, €ach corps, cach army, and or my headquarters. There were wagon ed with light poles with a spike in one end. wu to hold up the wires, so that ons and artillery would not run over then. The moment the troo go into camp ail the men conne this service would proceed to pit up the wires. A mule loaded with a cell of wir would te led to th var of the near flank of the brigade t ich he belonged s were in position t and Would be icd in a line varaliel there while a man would hoi end of the and uneoi! it as the mule was led off would ) the rear of every brig us in a few min- ire takes a mule io Walk the length of iis coil, iclezia ccmmunication: would be effected bevy all the headquarters of the army. No or- ders ever had to be given to establish the telegraph “Du practi n eventful periods our s naintain con ieation the War and the headquarters in our front in Virginia. The operators at ei end were always:on duty: messages be ing transmitted without the sending offic being required to go through the form of calli or Signaling the other ope: who was ex d 19 be on hand to cepy the messages at uny moment of the day or night. We read with never failing inter- est of the wars of Frederick tne t and of Napoleon, but there was no telegraph in those days. and h as made but slowly. In our evil war, ver, the tele- graph brought a!i the armies ‘close to- gether, and although thousands of mi apart, they were moved in conjunction al- mest simultaneously, and news of victory or of Gisaster was flashed instant over the land. The history of our civil was thus written largely by telegraph. Lincoln in the Office. “Iam proud to have been in that service respecting which Stanton, the great war secretary, sald in one of his annual re- ports, as I find recorded in my war diary: ‘None have surpassed and few have equal- ed the diligence and faithfulness of the United States Telegraph Corps.’ All telegrams ‘o and from the several rtments of the government — passed igh the War Department telegraph of- fice, and during those years the tall home- ly form of our beloved President was seen to cross the well-shaded Jawn between the War Department and the White House, merning, afternoon and evening, wiih ceaseless regularity, in order that he might be on hand t» hear the latest news from the front. When a batule was imminent or in progress he would remain in the tele: graph office sometimes fer hours together, awaiting the news that would mean so muck to the country and to himself. In the intervals of waiting he would write a message of inquiry, counsel or encourage- ment to the general In command at head- quarte “Thus in July, 1861, while the first Buil Run battle was in progress, Linccin sat with Chase, Cameron, Winfield Scott and others in the litde telegraph office at the head of the stairs, half way between the first and second floors. ‘There they waited, first with eager hope, then silently, al- most breathlessly, untii the message Came arnouncing a check to our arms: then with growing anxicty and tears, as the swell ing tide of disaster swept over the wires from Fairfax Court House, our nearest station to the scene of the conflict. Significant Dispatches. “In the Yorktown campaign, May, 1862, after weeks of paiient waiting for a for- warG movement of our forees, he tele- graphed to General McClellan: ‘Your call for Parrott guns alarms me, because it ar- gves indefinite procrastination. Is any- thing te be done?’ And in December, 1863, he telegraphed to General Grant, ‘Under- standing that your lodgment at Chatta- nooga and Knoxville is now secure, I wish te tender you and all under your command my ore than thanks—my profoundest gratitude—for the skill, courage and per- Severance with which you and they over so great difficulties have effected that im- poriant object. God bless you all.’ “In the intervals also, he would tell one of his inevitable stories, or converse on special topics in such a way as to lead some of his hearers to think him wholly pneetrertey to the awful questions of the our. > “Once I recall him speaking of the func- tions of the eye and brain, when one was reading aloud from a.newspaper or book. He said that in his boyhood days he had come across a volume in whieh it was stat- ed that as each letter of the alphabet ap- peared before the eye it was photograph- ed upon the retina, so that the particular letter was actually spoken aloud at the exact moment its printed form appeared befcre the eye. He discoursed at some length cn this marvel, remarking upon the attendant fact that the eye is capable of recelving several distinct impressions at the same instant, and that these numerous and oftentimes radically different tmpres- sions are immediately communicated from eye to brain by means of the most deli- cate nerve centers; for instance, said he, Bee ithe’ eye may rest at the same instant of time not only upon a single letter of the alphabet, ‘but upon a series of such let- -ters composing a word and upon a suc- cession of words in a sentence, and not only that, but the resultant record upon with him, he sought to convince them that they were wrong rather than that he wa: him say once that in t court he generally adop ing a case “He was well known to be a lover of Shakespeare, and in the winier of 18¢ s death, he went to the the- see Hackett's stuff, and when at the telegraph office he spoke of Hackett freely, ht a copy him and read aloud for an hour, myself being his only auditor. arly Life of Lincoln,’ long befere ater a number between times kespeare wit McClure, in his *E: Shakespeare. and particularly to an inter- Pennsylvania and named Mc- during which Lincoln took from near nis table a well-thumbed copy hakespeare, and, turning to Henry IV, fine discrimination an extended ch, he said, in his opinion, was not surpassed in wit and humor by’ any- The omission the passage question was remarked upon by Mr. coln as a curious fact. An Amusing Story. land convention met, which nominated Fremont and Coch- This convention was engineered and by a number of soreheads and cranks, who were dissatisfied with Lincoln's conduct of the war, and who professed to hope for th ave through an entire change of ‘There was a vast the convention were both from and who, if elected at the is. could not have taken office, b ution provides that the President nt must not come from the ‘ork papers, r, had an editorial of Adullam, Shakespeare. policy and army leaders. Geal of ridicule cast upon New York stat and Vice Presid same state, as I rememb referring to David in thé cav: and quoting from 1 Sam., 22 Se | every one that was rathered themselves unto him, ain over them, im about 400 men.” s referred to in of the attaches, Secretary Stan: ran to find the copy, and soon re turne? with It, presenting it to the Presi- This gentle- man’s reverential manner attracted the at- tentioa of Mr. Lincoln, so that upon his de- bariure, Mr. Lincoln arose, and, leaving the ~turned with the open Bible in nis hands, and made a mock presentation to company, mimicing the style vate secretary, he contrast between coin’s tall, ungainly form, and that of the affair very funny, so that we were all con- with laughter. “In Nicolay and Hay's History of Lin- S$ an entirely different version of the save of Adullam incident. number of convention was stated as 400, and Hay say that Mr. Lincoln was th the fact that 400 was the nun- r of David's sorehead contingent in the ve, and that he called for a Bible to veri- the number, Special Gratitude. “In closing let me say that no one has, I Lelieve, greater cause to revere and even love the name and memory of Lincoln than I hav», for the following reasons: ington one of the great public events is the President's reception, to which any- These receptions are Members of nators and other men of promi- in public life attend, and the of great interest. public reception took place in Murch, 1 the morning of the day Sianton’s private secretary I have above spoken, told me that a curly a stranger in Was visiting his family. President's reception, he asked me if T would act in and aceompa- and Introduced to that curly headed girl, who years has been my devoted wite always crowded. was anxious to Ko I consented nied to the White Hou: loving and ee ing the Tariff BI The republican members of the ways and means committee are still at work endeav- oring to perfect the tariff bill where it has proven unsatisfactory think improvements can be made. three changes have been practically de- cided upon, and amendments to carry them into effect are likely to be made before the bill passes the House. One of the most important will be to transfer the duties on in the agricultural sched- ule, from ad valorem to specific rates. The present rate on this stock is 30 per cent ad paragraph, will changed so that it will provide specific du- Pineapples will prob- as it is unsatis- where they nursery stock, The rate on ably be changed again, factory to the great canning fnterests of In making up the committee acted without any advices from the canning interests, whici failed to fur- nish any information during the hearings. Florida pineapple growers they could supply the entire a duty of two cents a claimed that the Florida product is not suitable for canning at all. eee The Arbitration Treaty. The general impression in the Senate af- ter yesterday's proceedings is that the de- bate on the arbitration treaty will not from this time forward consume a great deal of the time of the Senate. agreement made yesterday not to begin voting on the amendments until next Wed- nesday, there is no probability of precipi- tating a vote before that time, but 1 dications now are for shorter daily exec- tive sessions. There was a perceptible falling off in interest in the proceedings yesterday and it was impossible to hold a quorum in the chamber. were not to exceed a dozen senators in their seats, —_e—___ Indefinitely Postponed. The hearing of the case of Annie New- haus, who is charged with the larceny of somg articles from the house of Mr. St. Chatles Fechner, during the absence of Fechner from the city sev- ay indefinitely the country. reported that arket under In view of the At times there Mr. and Mrs. eral months aga, was tod: postponed by Prosetutor- ‘To Enforce a Judgment: John A. Hamilton, administrator estate of See James L. Barbour, day filed a in equity ,against J; 0. Holmes to enforce a judgment of $3,000. some of them quite efficient, either the cost. of the materials, the lack of efficiency, or the great trouble involved in the proper maintenance of the operation, or all com- bined, has left the development tar short of the ideal. so that today the burning of coal under a boiler, the transformation of the latent heat of m into mechanical energy, and the latter into ele al en- ergy by means of the dynamo, with all of its attendant losses, still remains supreme. ‘The primary battery, of all the proposed methods, is by far the most efficient, reach- ing theoretically an efficiency of some per cent in some types (Poggendorf’s chre- tric acid battery) as against some 6 or 7 per cent as the ultimate efficlency of conversion by means of the boiler, engine and «dynamo, The direct conversion of the enengy of coal into electricity by means of atmos- Pheric oxygen, instead of that of zine by Means of chemically produced oxygen, has therefore been cor eratum as to attract the attention of s tific men the world over. Within the past year or two grat ad- vances have undoubtedly been m. and much has been added to our knowledge, at least of what not to do as well es of ‘the directions in which work might seem profli- able. To the layman not less than to tist has this field been att o's I ive, ant Mr. 1 and than ture will doubticss be cx 2 as Widely, If not more ceded. Marvelous as was the discovery of Roent- gen, it was no more so than that of Hertz and Lenard, but it recognition entir eived a popular iy out of proporuen to its real relative importance. Py many this is ascribed to the peculiar way in which it Was presentec first work pp wally being the disclosure of the boues of the living organism. Mr. Case has chesen a no less happy, and certainly a less ghastly, method of pre- senting the phenomenon of dircet pro- duction of electricity by the oxidation of carbon by atmospheric oxygen in making a battery in which t wtropositive ele- trent is the hvdro-carbons of the blood He showed that by the intreducti fa reducing agent the blood took on the r of veinous biood, aud that by pouring this back and forth it, It became oxidize end took on the bri bleod. He next improvised an electrie battery in which the haemoglobin of the bivod act- ed as the conveyer of oxygen to the hydro- carbors, and by connecting this with a bell caused the latter to ring by means of the current generated. His argumeut from this was that the ea- erey of carbon could be directly converted into electrical energy by means of atmos- pherie oxygen without the generation of heat, provided only that the carbon be properly prepared beforehand and that @ Suitable conveyer of oxygen from the ai- mcphere to the prepared fuel be provided, His cther, experiments, while nol new, were full of inte The am-chromie chlor tery, the subject of his first ¢3 was one of the pretties seen, and is doubtless capable of further development. His m of Dr. Jacques’ carbon bat- y, Viz, that it is new only as being less nt than the Bradley-Crocker cell, seems well-founded, and ilustration of the great advantage of nickel over i used by Jacques snows how the latter a parently failed to avail himself of a much better element equally at his disposal with iren. » thoroughly aerate das it is by the lungs nt red color of arterial ea ES = SEE YUPS TO BE PARDON The Difficulties Between the Chinese Societies to Be Adjusted. The legal representatives of the Chinese minister and of the See Yup Society have reached a basis of agreement whereby the difficulties existing in San Francisco as a result of the ecntroversy between the See Yup and the Sam Yup societie n be adjusted. The See Yups will declare off the boyeot! ageinst the Sam Yups, or merchants’ society. The injunction suit now in force againsi the Chinese consul at San Francisco to prevent him interfering with the affairs of the See Yup Society will be withdrawn and the minister will waive his demand for the payment of certain court costs. An emphatic denial is made on behalf of the minister that he demanded from the See Yups a “fabulous sum of money” as one of the propositions on which he would consider the subject of an agreement. The meney he stipulated for was, it is stated, but small and simply enough to pay cer- tain court fees incurred as a result of the litigation in the San Francisco courts. An equally emphatic denial is mede that the minister told tae See Yups that they were not under the Jurisciction of the United States, but being Chinese subjects were under the control of the minister. On the contrary the minister told them thai being in this country, of course, they must abide by and obey its laws. ‘The counsel for the See Yup Society unite in saying that in these respects the minister had been understood and that he did not make the statements attributed to him. AS a result of the agreement the minister will communicate with his government with a view to having the sentences imposed on the leaders of the society in San Francis- co removed and their property and that of their relatives in China, which has been seized, restored to them. The See Yup Company was recognized by the minister and hes been granted permission to con- duct its business as before. The party probably will leave here for San Francis- co Saturday. —_- 2-____ Needed Medical Treatment. “I am extremely scrroy to see you here,” said Judge Kimball to William Farraday, a venerable and fairly well-dressed man, who pleaded guilty to the charge of dis- orderly conduct. Farraday was charged by Officer Carson as above, and he told Judge Kimball that he was sick and needed medical attention. “Would you like to go down to the hos- pital for fifteen days?” waid Judge Kim- “Oh, no, no; not that long,” repliel Far- “Well, the best I can do is to impose the usual fine, and in default send you down, with the statement by the clerk that you nerd medical treatment,” answered the “Thank you, judge,” said Farraday, as he went back to the cells. aoe Classical Fellowships Offerea. ‘The managing committee of the Ameri- can School of Classical Studies in Rome has offered three fellowships for 1897-98, ‘open to bachelors of arts of universities or colleges in this coun or other advanced students. Professor GL. Smith, Cam bridge, Mass., will furnish blank forms of application, which must be filled and re- ned to him by May 1,