Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1897, Page 15

=== Cuts in Draperies. Overhaul your stock of Curtains, Portieres, Table Covers, etc., to- night, for tomorrow we make bar- gain day in our Drapery Depart- xt. Here are a few characteristic i Laee Curtains, Marked = 81.50. 95c. Bois : nae eee go $3.90 Saturday. . s—best quality wide With each cash purchase. Lansburgh Furniture Co., 13th & FSts.N. W. cls ts for more than book mation of eyes and the You may require Glasses i, You may b untitted for yor of aui G or Scarat gold frames, We asiness that way. We tell you what aud we tell you its price, which we to be lower than its equal can be n city. < drop in and-have your eyes tested, 2 the excellent Glasses we can fit you with for as low as $17 (R.Harris&Co., ( Cor. 7th & D Sts. ~~ Sitchin iti ahi ech tae ahi hin thi ee eae eee : of those popular Men’s Suit Cases. Made of stout sole leather; brass lock, catches and hinges; Irish linen lined. The price of these handy cases we have made so low as to be with- in the reach of all— $5.00. Finer Cases, extra heavy stock and finely finished, olive and brown shades— $7 to $10. Those new Silk and Leather Purses are beauties—entirely Ee AS8c. TOPHAMS } Trunk and Fine Leather Goods Manufactory, 1231-1233 Penna. Ave. It Factory, 1218-1220 E st. Dw. Seinen “ ee one ae eee TT Ladies Can’t Do Without’ TWEL COMPLEXION CREAM if etetoy Spdedeenteesedetteecedetieet epeecedecneeep fier, ,ralue a) faulticss complexion. “It re- — wise tal Memish. “ Keeps the ekin Evans’ DrugStore, ites clad Piost Delicious eating : Aging 6 imaginable,‘Cherrystones.’ The t Oysters ever introduced to the palate an being! Try a quart for tomorrow's H send it to your house prompt on you. as" We. quart. Life Insurance for Women. From the Philadelphia Ledger. The time has been when an effort to place an insurance upon a woman's Ife was con- lered a sort of wickedness, any success direction being regarded with much tioning, and to some minds it was tan- ‘amount to the early death of the supposed victim. Even the companies themselves put obstacles in the way. Many associa- tens utterly refused to acept feminine sks, and when they were allowed it was only for a limited amount at very high rates; for there was a very general belief that for a woman the physical dangers to life are greater than for a man. But broad-minded law- makers, statistics, and, above all, constant agit . have made the thing far more As laws have grown more favor- > woman's tenure ef property and leg- tion has become more just as to her to earn, keep, and will away her so has the tide ef public opinion re- itself until it is only here and there ny criticism ef her life insurance ex- in this qui position at present seems to he a th are behindhand in st their savings cal way. Out of the in the United States are insured. It is strange . the more loving and unselfish two sexes, should be behind in any to thus care for those she may want. The problem which working woman is much the h confronts the work- ar Sees more women y of supporters” with duties T responsibilities to the children king them, lack all. ——_-e-—_____. After the Play. ¥rem the New Orleans Times-Democrat. “The fact that the management of the Academy and St. Charles theaters of this have determined to disinfect their Duildings after performances,” remarked Mr. Girault Farrer last night, “is a very geod thing. not alone because it is neces- Sary just at present, but because it means that a new and commendable custom has been instituted by Mr. Rowles that will take hold in every city im the country. The theaters and big assembly balls are always more or less lable to germs and microbes, and a little formaldehyde gas distributed after the buildings have been vacated will do much to create a better atmosphere and effectually prevent the danger of contagion or ‘This is not merely the case during a pestilential outbreak, but at all times. It is a good move at present, and a good one, for that matter, at any time.” and fi; who, la | AN OPEN LETTER THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1897-16 PAGES. $Q.00 To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THR EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” ANB “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. J, OR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of “PITCHER’'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now bear the fac-simile signature of 4 This is the original “ PITCHER'S CASTORIA” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is and has the signature of Le pt[Liden won per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H, Fletcher is years, the kind you have always bought, President. March 8, (897, Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting S on every onthe Aut Bitrhaswtnd. a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in- gredients of which evea he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Y e e Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TY MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY. GOOD BREEDING IN JAPAN. the Oriental Western Born. From the St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. Lafcadio Hearn hes probably done more than any other man to make the western world acquainted with the real life of Ja- pen. The scory of this man’s life is one of the strangest ever recorded. His mother was a Greek, his father an Irish officer in the English army. He early had to shift for himself, and eventually found his way to the United States. Here he was re- duced almest to the condition of a tramp, although he was finely educated and a man of rare gifts. At length he secured employ- ment in newspaper work, and then his ri to an exalted place in literature was rapid. A visit to the West Indies awakened in him the slumbering desire for a home amid great- er refinement and more aesthetic influences than were to be found in America or Eu- rope and where cliraatic conditions would be more to his liking. He settled in Japan, married a Japanese wife, took a Japanese name, embraced the Japanese faith an oriental in every respect He is now 4 professor in the uni- y at Tokio. He is afflicted with an affection of the eyes which makes it im- possible for him to turn them in their A story is told that he did his ‘st work on an American newspaper in Cincinnati, It is said that he applied for work one night and was refused. Just then a message came te the editor to the effect that a murder had been discovered at the gas works. All the reporters were out on assignments, and the editor turned to the uncouth applicant and asked him to look into the matter and report. Hearn re- turned tn the course of an hour or two and said that a man had been murdered and his tody had been thrown into one of the fur- freeones Hearn was commissioned to “write it up.”” Some time later, so the story goes, the editor went into the room where Hearn was writing and found him stretched at length on a table with a tablet under his face on which he was writing, his affliction making it easier for him to write in that position. The editor picked up several of the sheets and perused the delicate handwriting. He Was amazed at the literary quality and laid his hand approvingly on the writers shoul- der. A half-savage growl was the response. “Oh, that's all right,” said the editor. “You may give us all that kind of stuff you can.” Hearn’s story is known as “The Gas House Murder,” and is regarded as a re- Portorial classic. It secured for him a per- manent position and opened the door to his future sucess. The Boston Journal has a somewhat dif- — story, and relates it after this fash- jon: “They were talking at the Porph: atout Lafcadio Hearn’s latest book, “Glean- ings in Buddha-Fields." ‘Do you know why Hearn determined to live in Japan? asked the professor. ‘After he left New Orleans he went to Cincinnati, where he did news- paper work. He soon suffered terribly from an enlarged and projecting eye that dis- figured him and made him grotesque. He Was stared at, he was mocked and insult- ed, and, what was even worse, he was pitied openly. A sensitive man, he kept the house during the day, and took exercise only at night. Occasion called him to Ja- pan. To his amazement, in that country nobody, not even a humorous boy, showed by sign or word that the stranger was dis- figured or set apart in tavern, street, shop, field. Mr. Hearn was treated as though he were a normal being. Thankful and over- come, he said to himself, “Here is the land of true civilization, and here will I live and die.” He has taken to himself a Japanese wife, he is known by a Japanese name, and the last I heard from him he was professor of English in a Japanese university.” ““Such civilization,” sald the telephone expert, ‘must be the result of generations cf training.’ ‘H-m!" answered the profes- sor; ‘the rude Japanese were undoubtedly put to death years and years ago. I have seen much of their country, and never have I found there a boy who by look or ges- Wherela Excels the ture wouid express surprise at any dress or speec r habit that might seem to him outla sh. How different it ts here in Boston. And yet there has been improve- ment. I remember that I was one of the first to wear a helmet sun hat. Boys jeered, women giggled, old crusted Boston- fans looked at me superciliously and sus- piciously, expressmen and hackmen would often address me jocosely or coarsety from their vantage seat. I have sometimes thought that the yearly execution on the commen of the conventionally rude would make much for civic civilization. But if this ceremony had been performed twenty re ago the town might have been de- populated.’ * uW’s IN SHORTHAND. Trials of an Englishman With His Steuographer. From the Cleveland Leader. An Englishman who drops his h's and aspirates his a's and a stenographer and typewriter who spells phonetically from dictation make a combination from which trouble is sure to result unless the “copy” is carefully revised. The manager cf one of the most important manufacturing plants in Cleveland is an Englishman. Not long ago he employed a young man to act as his stenographer, and one of the first things that the latter was called upon to do was the “taking down” of a letter to the manager's wife, who was uway at a sum- mer resort. Being a busy man, the man- ager didn’t take the trouble io look at the letter after it had been typewritten, but when his wife answered it there was a hot time for the stenographer. “My dear Henry,” she wrote, “what on earth do you mean by calling me ‘Hannah’ and our little Horace ‘Orris?’ I will admit that this sounds like you, but why lo you make a joke of it before your employes?” Of course the fond husband and father dida’t know what it all meant, and so he wrote for an explanation, when his first letter was sent back to him. . One giance at it and he rushed over to his stenographer, excitedly threw the sheet dcewn before him and demanled. “There, what do you mean, sir, by writing _ my wife's name down ‘’Annah?’” “Anna?” re- plied the young man, “‘let me see. No, I've got it Hannah, all right.” “But," said the manager, who was fur- ious, ‘it's not "Annah, — it, Hann: ell, there it is, Hannah—H-a-n-n-ah.” “*Annah be dashed!" exclaimed the man- ager. “‘Acn-n-a, Hanna! Can't you un- derstand English, you blanked fool?’ By this time the stenographer began to seé through the trouble, so he begged off upon the plea that having had a swelling in one of his ears he had not been able te bear very well. But it cost him nearly a week's salary to square things with the other boyg in the office, and he always deems it best to hide when he hears the manager's wife in the hall. —_——__ + 0+____ Sen Fruit and Tea. From the New York Evening Post. A domestic science teacher reminds her class that in serving fish, whether it be shell fish or the claw creatures like lob- sters, crabs and the like, tea should be kept from the table. Coffee is the one proper drink to offer with such a menu. Tea with meat is equally unnecessary and indigesti- ble, though this combination is as common as sunshine throughout the land. It is the opinion of this same teacher that one of the best movements to be inaugurated by the active and energetic women who are invading every field is that of a toa cru- sade. Her opinion of this cup which poets laud and artists put in pictures is one cf pronounced disfavor. After referring to it, one hardly dares mention that high-class caterers, two or three certainly in New York, keep on sale at their establishments choice tea in bulk that is an especially proper blend for the afternoon tea table. ‘The information is given, however. that if we will drink it we had better have a good cencoction. oo—___ “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. Grangmother at Thirty-Four. From the New York Journal. Mrs. Sarah Davidson, handsome and only thirty-four years old, gives one an entirely new notion of how a grandmother may look. Just a week ago today the event happen- ed which gave her the right to call herself a grandmother. Bay Beatrice Esther Britz opened ker soft brown eyes to this world last Monday and beheld her youthful grand- mother and her own dainty mamma, the latter only twenty years old. Altogether, the three generations of the gentler sex have nothing to complain of on the score of youth or good looks, and a Lappy trio they trake. There is a strong resemblance between Mrs. Davidson and her grandchild, and the mamma says frankly, “I always thought my mamma prettier than I, and babay does look just like her.” Mrs. Sarah Davidson, the very youthful grandmother, lives in a pretty flat at No. 251 East 72d street with her husband and four children—two boys and two girls. At first glance one would hardly take her to be over twenty-five, there is such an air of cheerfulness and vitality and magnetism about her. Milh This is the head of a Pearline woman. others.”. And if the others don’t look cheerful, it's no wonder. _. You've got to work hard, if you do your washing and i i and you’ve over it, and you're wearing thing: out with-your rubbing. Boarlide , makes the work easy and quick} saves rubbing. The wonder is that any woman who has to do soap’s hard work can look some of them do, in spite of it, ons 2 ase “There ‘ are leaning with soap, t to work along time rans Pearline DISTRICT'S LAW SIDE The Annual Report of Attorney 8 T. Thoma. OFFICE. PRARSACTIONS EPITOME OF Suggestions Made for Amendments of the Laws.” : nt BUSINESS OF A YEAR ‘The annual report of S T. Thomas, at- torney for the District, was presented to the Commissioners today. He says: “There were 467 advisory opinions given during the year, being an increase of thir- ty-eight over the previous year. “There are but three District cases pond- ing in tha Supreme Court of the United States,” the attorney says, and these he names as the Washington Market Compary against the District, involving the claim of the company to the possession and occu- pancy of the hay market square; Parsons against District, an action to quash a water main assessment for laying @ main in Mili- tary road, and District against Bailey, an action on an alleged award. lt is expected that the first two of these cases will be dis- posed of at the next term of the court. ‘The Supreme Court of the United States during the year under consideration con- strued the act of Congress, approved March 2, 1893, entitled ‘An act to provide for a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,’ and reyersed the Court of Appeals of the District, holding the entire act consti- tutional.” The attorney then recites the course of subsequent proceedings under the act. “Phere are two District cases pending in the Court of Appeals. These are: District against Krause, involving the question whether title by adverse possession can be acquired by private individuals to part of the public highway known as Brightwood avenue; and District against Suilivan, an action to recover damages for personal _in- juries, in which there was a verdict of $750, Power of Commissioners. “During the year under consideration the Court of Appeals handed down several important opinions in District cases. In Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company agt. District (25 Wash. Law Rep., 113), involving a police regulation requiring the locomotives and cars of steam railroads in the District of Columbia to come to a full stop before crossing rapid-transit street car railways, tke Court cf Appeais, in sustaining the validity of the regulation, speaking by Mr. Justice Shepherd, said: “We are clearly of opinion, however, that the power to regulate the movements of railway locomotives and trains was con- ferzed upon the Commissioners py the joint resolution of Congress, approved Feb- ruary 26, 1892, which reads as follows: “Phat the Commissioners of the District of Cqlumbia are hereby quthorized and em- powered to make and enforce: all such rea- sonable and usual police regulations in ad- dition to those already madé under the act ef January 26, 187, a$ tHpy may deem necessary for the protection of lives and limbs. health, comfort aud quiet of all per- sons, and the protection of all property within the District of Columbia.” “The contention on behalf of the appel- lants that this resolution genfers no new powers not authorized .by the former act, of January 26, 1887, conferring upon the Commissioners power to e such police regulation, and must be Imited by con- struction to such @ther and further regula- tions only as may be of the class enumer- ated therein, is without fourdation,’ An Important Opinion. “The opinion in this case 4s very import- ant as affecting the power of the Commis- sioners to make police regulations. It over- ruled the decision of the general term of the Supreme Court of ‘the District of Oo- lumbla, in re Sullivam @1 D, C., 139), wherein it was held that the reference in the joint resolution of Congress approved ebruary o, tae, to the act of Congress of January 26, 1887, authorizing the Com- missioners to make certain police regula- tions, limited the additional regulations. un- der the joint resolution of the classes of regulations provided for by said act. In other words, the Court of Appeals held that the Commissioners, in making police regulations under the joint resolution of 1892, were not confined to the classes of regulattons provided for m the act of 1887, but might make additional regulations for the protection of lives, limbs, health, com- fopt.and quiet of all persons. here were at the beginning of the year eighty-two cases against the District upon the trial calendar of the Supreme Court of the District, of which thirty-two were of te class known as ‘flood cases,’ grow- ing out of the overflow of the Tiber sewer during the rainy season of 1889; and seven cases on the appeal docket of the Supreme Court of the District, three of them cases in certlorar! to the Police Court to remove prosecutions instituted there against engi- neers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for fast running of trains in vio- lation of a police regulation in reference to the ‘movement of vehicles’ In public Streets, made by the Commissioners under the act of Congress approved January 26, 1887. Cases Discontinued. “These cases were discontinued after the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad against District, above referred to, wherein it was held that railroad locomotives and cars did not come within the meaning of the word ‘vehicles,’ as used in the fourth clause of section 10 of the act of 1887. “There were brought during the year un- der consideration ten suits in equity against the District for injunction about various matters connected with the administration of municipal affairs. Arrears of Taxes. “I beg to suggest the importance of urg- ing upon Congress at its approaching ses- sion to enact a law requiring that all ar- rears of taxes shall be paid before tax deeds are issued. Under existing law, as construed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (Brewer vs. District, 5 Mackey, 374), a tax deed passes the prop- erty to the purchaser free of the len of all taxes due at the time of the tax sale in respect of which the tax deed was is- sued, and which might have been included in its sale. The collector of taxes is power- less to prevent the great loss of revenue resulting from the rule in Brewer's case, since the act of Congress of March 3, 1877, in regard to the assessinent and collection of taxes provides that, whenever property is put up at a tax sale/and;does not bring the amount of the tax'and ‘costs it shall be bid in by its collector’in the name of the District,-and an act of fh of March 9, 1890, ‘declares that. property once offered for sale, and bid in by the District, shall not be again advertised’ forthe same tax. “There were five Progedin for the con- ir public purposes dur- demnation of land ing the year. ss “In addition to the eighty-two cases on the calendar of the Supreme Court of the District at the beginning of the year, there were fourteen new erally personal injuries. There re also pend- and upon the trialealendar in the Su- preme Court of the District, in addition to the above, six from jus- ich two have been tices of the peace, settled. “There were three cases of habeas against the District year, and fon cane Of Rrokl ex rel. City the bition Coe 8. Investment pany vs. Ross), the latter to enjoin a reassessment for im- River of the Doamnerieaa nae ee tion dismissed. hiladelphia AND RETURN va B, & O. SUNDAY, “Sa.” 17th. Tickets good going on 7:05 and 9:00 a.m. and to return on all regular trains sume date. in, to the extent of the unexpired portion of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1873, and empowered the auditor of the Supreme Court of the District to ascertain the amount of such claims and report to the Commissioners. “The auditor gave public notice for the presentation of claims, and the time for such presentation expired June 12, 1897. There were about 200 claims filed, aggre- gating upward of half a million dollars. Act Repealed. “The auditor proceeded with the examina- tion of the claims, and allowed eleven of them, which were approved by the Com- missioners) and drawback certificates is- sted in payment of them. Congress subse- quently by a clause in the deficiency bill approved July 19, 1897, repealed the pro- vision of the act of January .2u, 1897, that these claims shouid be paid in draw certificates, and also limited the allowance to be made the claimants to the actual value of their fixtures, tools and stock in trade lost or destroyed, and to the fair value of the stall privileges for the uaex- pired term‘of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873. It directed the auditor to report sald claims so far as allowed by 1im, but without interest, to the Commissioners, who, to the extent they approve nis find- ings, are to report the same to Congress in their annual estimates, for payment out of the revenues of the District. Very many sersions have been held for the purpose of taking the testimony in these cases before the auditor, and these hearings, which oc- cur twice a week, are still in progress. Insurance Laws. “Our laws in regard to insurance needs reform, especially as to Hfe insurance on the assessment plan. The business of in- surance in this District is large enough now to demand better and more elaborate regulation than we have. A bill on the subject was introduced at the last session of Congress. The substitute bill prepared by this office, and approved by leading un- derwriters of this city, should be brought to the attention of Congress. “I have the honor to renew the recom- mendation. contained in my last annual re- that the law in regard to the judicial s of the District be changed. As the law now stands the fees of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District for filing suits, the cost of transcripis of records and the cost of printing in Disirict cases before the Court of Appeals and the fees of the marshal's office are required to be paid in advance. It seems to me this ought not to be the case, in view of the present arrangement between the govern- ment and the District, the latter, paying one-half the judicial expenses, should be treated as the United Slates is in regard to its litigation. “Our law in regard to the opening of al- leys needs amendment, in view of the de- cision of the Court of Appeals in District vs. cemetery. “I renew the recommendation of last year in regard to the inspection of lumber. Congress should be asked to delegate to the Commissioners authority to make and enforce reascnable regulations in regard to lumber inspection, Remission of Fines. “he Commissioners should have the bewer to remit fines and to grant pardons for offenses against the laws and ordi- nances of the District. Such a change in existing law would save frequent applica~ tions to the President. The authority of the Commissioners in respect to the remis- sion of fines and the granting of pardons is now limited to offenses against the old ordinances of the city, the Levy Court and to acts of the legislative assembly. “The law of 1887 restricting the owner- ship of land in the territories and the Dis- trict of Columbia ta citizens of the United States should be changed so as to exclude the District from its operation, and thus save frequent applications to Congress for exemption from it. “There were 12,320 cases examined and filed on the Disirict side of the Police Court during the year of this report; of this number 8,911 cases resulted in convic- tions, 1,600 cases were dismissed and in 912 eases ‘personal bonds’ were taken, which means a conviction without penalty. This is a slight decrease in the number of cases as against the previous year. The fines re- ceived in District cases during the same period amount to $22,955,68, being a slight increase over last year.” ——___ SKATES FOR MESSENGER Boys. Innovation by a London Company Which Promises an Improvement. From the London Mail. London may be behind New York in many things, but in one, at all events, and one which is of great importance to business men, we, to use a trans-Atlantic metaphor, are hustling. On the other side of the “pond” the dilatory and dilettante meth- ods of the messenger boy furnish the ar- tists and alleged humorists of illustrated periodicals with material for jokes, which appear as frequently as do the stock refer- ences to the tramp and mother-in-law, and since the introduction of the mes- senger system into London our own “funny” papers have shown an inclination to adopt the new humor. Henceforth, these jests will lose their point, for the District Messenger Company has taken steps to transform its youthful Servitors into veritable Mercurys, by pro- viding them with road skates. The sight of one of these youngsters merrily dodging along the strand, cutting across the noses of ‘bus horses, and occa- sionally aiding his progress by clinging on to a friendly hansom, with all the de- light of London gamin with wheels on his feet, suggested a chat with one of the company’s officials. “At present we have twelve pairs of road skates in use, and they have proved so successful that we contemplate order- ing 100 pairs. As for speed, well, they are much faster than walking, but can't beat a hansom in a straight run, although they might in the streets where blocks in the The great drawback to their use is, of course, their Mability to skid in wet weather, when they are of little use. I think they have come to stay, as people seem to recognize that they can send a message by a skate boy in nearly as short @ time as they could by a cab, and for the same cost as an ordinary messenger. “As for the boys themselves, they hailed the .introduction of the new method of locomotion with delight, and so far as 1 am able to judge seem to think that skat- ing through the streets of the metropolis is about as near an approach to Elfsium as they have even dreamed of. By next year there will probably be quite a small army of skate messengers on the streets. They will come as surely as the motor cab. We have got a light make of skate in use among our messengers, with wooden supports, which come up on each side of “the leg as far as the knee, and which give ck the necessary support. “There is practically no NATIVES OF Majority Probably Indifferent About Annexation. HAWAII DO NOT REALIZE THEIR DESTINY Senator Morgan's Effective Address to a Gathering. AMERICA’S INTEREST ee ‘Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, October 1, 1897. On the evening of the 30th ultimo Senator Morgan addressed en audience of Hawali- ans upon the subject of annexation to the Umited States. The meeting was held in the old stone church at Kawaiahao, which was well filled. Some five hundred natives and from one hundred and fifty to two hun- dred whites were present. Many, probab!y most, of the leading natives and half-whites were there. Scarcely any of the govern- ment officials were in the audience, the government holding entirely aloof. The senator spoke for nearly two hours, includ- ing the interpreting into Hawaiian. Several long passages were read from Alcxander’s Hawatian History, describing repeated ef- forts to cede the islands to the United States, made by Kamehameha III, when in great peril from England and France. The closest attention was paid by the very in- telligent audience of Hawaiians. The senator's manner was unexpectedly quiet, deeply impressive, and carried a sense of weight. He spoke expressly as an influential member of the Senate, with a message to the Hawaiians, whom it was expected to include into the honorable American citizenship. He declared Hawaii to be already an American country, and not European, and in being admitted to ihe Union, thereby coming home into full possession of its own. It had already attained the highest form of government, that of a republic, and was now thereby fitted to be received into the glorious al- liance of the Union. The speaker dweit upon the imminent perils to its independ- ence which Hawaii had formeriy expe- rienced, aad which had been averted oly by the powerful interposition of the United States against Britain and France, to whom nearly all the other groups of Occanica had now sucd@imbed. These perils were by no means passed. New dangers were developing with chang- ing conditions in the Pacific. Impressive allusion was made to the near and immi nent danger of these islands being over- whkelmed by the threatened landslide of Japanese immigration. Unless that peril was speedily averted it wouid be tvo late. The United States had little to gain or lose by what happened to 50,0 or more people of Hawaii, who were nothing in zompari- son to the eighty million Americans. But their welfare was dear to Americans, after all the benefits they had enjoyed from America, and the high American civiliza- tion developed here. America could not willingly see them destroyed by Asiatic in- fluence. The senator strongly emphasized cne point, to the manifest pleasure of the au- dience. He pointed cut that all citizens of Hawaii would, upon annexation, at once be- come citizens of the United States, with all the rights, privileges and franchises o1 such citizens. Every native Hawalian would be politically the equal of every white American, and could vote upon the same conditions in any state of the Union. This was exceedingiy gratifying to the na- tives present, who have been most dili- gently and successfully taught by the ene- mies of annexation, both white and native, that they would be only “niggers,” and would lose all right to vole. Mr. Morgan’s unqualified assurances gave deep and evi- dent satisfaction to the people, and must go very far fully to assure their minds upon upon this vital question, about which they have been so sorely misled. Natives and Annexation. For a long time past, and especially since the treaty of annexation was sent to the United States Senate, a clamor has been kept up, that the ratification of such treaty should be submitted to the decision of a plebiscite of the native people of Hawaii. It is claimed that the natives are the origi- nal and true owners of the country, and to alienate its sovereignty without their con- sent is rank robbery. Pes os fice ch leas against annexation, this cry is loudly Rept up. It e said, probably with some truth, that protests against annexaticn have been circulated and signed by large num- bers of natives, and part natives, with the intention of sending them to the Presi@ent and the Senate. Without any means of defi- nite knowledge, it may be considered quite probbale that under the influence of false and hostile representation, and appeals to prejudice, a majority of the native voters might be persuaded to sign such a protest. What weight then should such a protest have? I should answer, none at all. While a majority of the native voters possess enough of intelligence and character safely to participate in the choice of competent representatives tn the legislature, su¢h a question as the sovereignty of these islands and their ultimate destiny is one wholly beyond the capacity of most of them, how- ever intimately it may concern them. It is one to be decided by the voices of the capable and influential, and not by the weaker and more ignorant elements of so- ciety here. Those influential elements of the population, the owners of property, those who conduct the business of the is- lands, are substantially a unit in desiring annexation to the United States, because they have sufficient knowledge and breadth of view to clearly discern the fact that a continued attempt at independence ts beset with imminent perils, while in annexation Me stability and security. This fact the ordinary Hawaiian does not prove able to appreciate. I think it is a well ascertained fact, and safe to assert that the great majority of the 30,000 pure Hawaiians are in a mental state of great indifference whether to be annexed or not. They are apathetic upon the subject. They have, by experience, found Americans friendly and serviceable, and peculiarly so that class of Americans who predominate in the present govern- ment, and-are urgent for annexation as deing for the highest good of all. They have Icng had confidence in these good men, and are not disposed actively to op- pose the measures which they advocate. Among the part whites there is undoubted- ly a strong and very prevalent opposition to the measure, for the reason that it tends to make Hawaii a white man’s coun- try, and a white man’s government, in which the weaker and less capable Poly- nesians will hold the places of less honor and consideration. These people do not consider the fact that in any case the superior race will rule and will do so the more effectualy and exclusively under an independent govern- ment. If a part of the United States, po- litical equality will be guaranteed, and there can be no monopoly of power at- tempted or maintained. Unless under a Protecting power, a “strong” government jaust necessarily be maintained, and the weaker classes can have no voice, and will be remanded to an inferior position. But tris is a line of thought which does not pre- sent itself to the minds of the part-whitcs, in their jealousy of the whites, and often feeling against their social super- position. The pure natives have << Saturday ;MoneySavers Even at such bargaia prices as hese, we extend you all the credit you waut— net a cent extra to pay for the accom- modation. Make your Saturday a protit able one by visiting this home of lar gains. 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The tes of wages and style of living would retro- srade to those of Japan, and the Hawaiian would be reduced to penury perha’ to that of seventy years ago, out American beneficence has lifted hi An immigration of white men, such as atnexation Would promote, would be large- ly one of employers of unskilied labor, and the Hawaiian would continue to meet large demand for his labor, as he does now, with the high rates of wages attend- ing it. But Japanese immigrants would furnish ali their own labor, and ¢ the avenues of ployment, leav unfortunate Hawaiian to go hungry. now the crowds of Asiatics often i \enience the Hawaiian by absorbing their former employments, but nothing like what they would do when their numbers were doubled, as they will be in from four to six years, unless the strong arm of the United States in possession effectually for- bids. But this the unthinking Hawatiaa fails to foresee. Is it reasonable, then, to leave this un- wise and undiscerring native to become the ruinous arbiter of his own destiny? Is this a sound and sensible application of the principle appealed to that all government must spring from the consent of the gov- erned? It undoubtedly is well to give the educated and capable Hawaiian an influ- ential voice In the government of the fu- ture territory and ultimate state. But to leave these undiscerning and just now bad- ly misguided people to discard and reje the haven of security and position of hon- or which is offered to them in annexation is simply inhuman. It would be putt! on them a responsibilitysfor which they uprfitted, to their own destruction. In such a momentous decision as to the destiny of these islands and the soverignty over them, they can be but as children, and are to be dealt with as children. Their welfare is to be provided for and their safety secured Without voice of their own It would be a still greater wrong to place in the hands of these comparatively ignor- ant and incapable people the destiny of the splendid American civilization created and sustained here by the few thousands of in- telligent Americans and their European as- seclates. This noble and beautiful civili- zation which is such a surprise and wonder to yisttors, who commonly expect to find much rudeness and simplicity, is the crea- tion of American beneficence and enter- prise. This civiiization and wealth are now in jeopardy. They are imperiled by the darkly menacing cloud of Japanese immi- gration, which can be averted only by the prompt establishment here of the author- ity and flag of the United States. It is in- conceivable that the question of such pro- tection by the United States to their own people can be in the least degree influenced by the ignorant opposition mainly wrought Hawalians, an opposition mainly wrought up by a class of British haters of America, who covet Hawaii for British control. In this I do not speak from any hearsay, but from much personal knowledge. I have dwelt more upon this point be- cause it is one much insisted upon by American papers hostile to American tn- terests in Hawali, and it has been painful to find even friendly papers admitting some weight to the claim that the natives should have a voice in the question of annexation. The British steamship China has been adjudged by our supreme court to be en- titled to registry as a Hawaiian vessel, contrary to the desire and effort of the government, who had promised your gov- ernment to permit no more foreign vessels to register. They promised more than our laws, as interpreted by the courts, allowed to be performed. The certificate of regis- try was made out today and handed to the nominal owner, G. W. Macfarlane. KAMEHAMEHA. oe Causes of Electrical Fires. From the Railway Review. The quarterly report of the elecirical bu- reau of the national board of fire under- writers mentions, among others, the fol- lowing odd causes of fire: A portable in- candescent lamp was allowed to remain lighted lying on a mattress. The heat from the lamp ignited the cloth and the excel- sior of the mattress, and the fire spread through the basement and store. An elec- trical pressing iron was allowed to stand with the current turned on. heated iron atter a time set fire to the table, and the flames communicated to the surround- ing combustible material. Fire occurred in a basement, owing to dripping water fall- ing on an electrical measuring instrument, thereby short-circuiting it. from arc lamps in a department store ignited’ cloaks on a table underneath. A wagon loaded with gasoline collided with an elec- tric car. The. wagon was demolished und the oil flooded the street. The accident at- tracted the attention of a motorman of 2 other car, who ran his car up to the scene. Seeing the oil running under his car, ho turned on the current to get away. A spark from the wheel immediately ignited the gasoline fumes, and instantly the street was ablaze. Four people were injured, one seriously, and one horse was burned to death. A carpenter dropped a nut on the coils of a rheostat, short-circuiting .hem with an.iron frame resting against a gas pipe. An are was formed between the frame and the pipe; the latter-was melted and the escaping gas ignited. — tee A Sure Indication. From Life. “By George, Mrs. Monger must be tell- ing our wives the most awful scandal.” “Wh: 4 they we Doth iieteniog without “Why, are i icieeaaied — BALTIMORE AND RETURN