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t t PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY '"f1, t OmcE, BAILEY BLOCK, KAin St. WAILUKt, MAO, T. H. SUBSCRIPTION RATKS Oae year, (in advance) f2.60 Six mouths, " ,. i.5o T?ne oofumrfs M the" N)twi admit communica tions on pertinent topic.. Write only on nno siae 01 paper, si will bo held confident Si(in your name which tiai liaesirca. G.-.B. ROBERTSON, Ed. and Prop. MRS. G. B. ROBERTSON, Bus. Mgr. Saturday, April QS Tho fact that so few Hawaiian boys are'fitted for an examina tion for admittance to Annapolis gives rise to sotno curious ethnological reflections. After the war, schools for nejrro children wereoponed in the South, and some of these boys and girls develop ed abnormal aptitude for studies up to a certain point, above which they could not reach. The brains of their ancestors had not been .developed by the thousand years of education which had given the Anglo Saxon boy and girl the capacity to grasp a higher cducatiou. Now there is no doubt but that the same truth applies relatively to Hawaiian boys and girls, who can easily bo educated up to a certain point, beyond which neither they nor their teachers cau be blitned for their failure to reach. No race which has emerged trotn the savage or semi-civilized state within tho last century can hope to educate its children up to the standard of children who have in herited ten centuries of aptitude. This does not mean that Hawai- i to boys and girls are not bright fact they are. But it does mean that a composite industrial edu cation is what they most need until the race has had time to in herit capacity for new thoughts and ideas above their present mental grasp. o The appropriation of $50,000 for the St. Louis World's Fair, and $15,000 additional for advertising the resources and attractions of Hawaii is one of the best speculative investments which could. have been made by the legislature, altnough it is to be regretted that thi members could not have seen clearly their way to grant a . larger sum. But that sum wisely expended will mean more than some imagine, because with annexation has come a keen though kindly curiosity from Maine to California, to know moro about the Islands. A comprehensive response to this feeling of inquiry at the St. Louis Exposition will havo tho certain effect of attracting a crowd of tourists to toe Islands who will in the next few years re turn to us ten times tenfold what we have expended for Exhibition and advertising purposes. v rj Maui cit'zens hae forwai-ded a petition to the legislature, asking that a reasonable subsidy be granted to the Wireless Tel egraph Co. to enable them to establish a successful system on the Islands. But $1,000 per month, as proposed by the bill seems rather large. $500 would employ live competent men, whose ser vices as operators would help'materially to build up tho business of the company. Incompetent and unreliable operators have been the bane. of the company ia a large measure, so far, and it is be lieved that if sufficient salaries, are paid to secure first class opera tors, the business of wireless telegraphy will build itself up within the next two years , if at all. ' , $Q$ On of the most important and .essential items in the appro priation bill, so far as Maui'is concerned, is the $50,000 named :to connect. Eas; Maui and central Maui by a wagon road. , What the Central Pacific was to California, and what the Panama Canal would be to the Islands is relatively what a good road all the way from Paia to Hana would mean to Maui. East Maui can never be developed without a good wagon road, the completion of which will certainly mean that successful small farming and minor industries on east Maui will receive a stimulus which will many times over pay ior tne construction or a good section. fat Judging from the text of the Logins to seem that Representative Hie News and Speaker Beckley Japanese and Chinese are killing men, and if the matter can be corrected by legislation, it would be well, but the present bill seems liable to do more harm than good ana n representative ttemnoi previous question in the House, . A. - ? M A A I'll 1 1 certain ieamres oi me mil wnicn are eminently objectionable. vi Tho legislators have worked hard tifVr session, and have ucconi plUhcd about all so far that should be expected of them, all things being considered. It is quite evident however that they will need more time to properly finish their work, and under tho circum stances, Governor Dole should if necesstry extend tho session, in order that many important measures now pending should be pas sed. Of course he wisely refused to call an extra session two years ago,, but conditions are quite different now, and time should be given the present legislature to finish its work, properly. 1 The struggle for race supremacy between the whites and the a l i .1 m i negroes oi tne ooum is last coming man ever Doiore. Alter tne war, tne negroes were ignorant as jV t , m ..... mass, ana me wnnes xounci no subjection. But the negroes have with the most effective weapon possible, that of education and in, t.Allnnr.linl ovuniamanl .inrl . n.... 1 l - ,1 . . v..t,viii , aucmuuu, anu II 1 u Mun tne pulpit from the rostrum and in r balanced power is not far off. '' f5 The county government bill hu become the law,, and it is. up to the people of Maiii to decide whether it will prove u blessing or a curse to us. Properly administered., it will provo a blessing, but wrongly administered it will prove a grievous curse. There Ts but one thing to be done, and that is for the intelligent classes of the Island to stand together as one man, irrespective of race or politics and name honest and upright men for our count y officers Tbis can be done,, and th$ News bd done.. v MAUI BLUE BOOK Bon. J. W. Kulun, Cinult Indue, WuIIi.ku li. R. Crook, Clerk Cl-rruit ( i.url. VYntluku Judge W. A. McKay Hint Magistrate, Wutluku " Chiis. Copp, " " MukiiwKO , " Kahaululio " " Lahatna " Kloiku, " Hunimula " J. K. Hanuna, " I Hun ' Pitmou, " " Klpnhuln " Mahoe " ' Molokal " Kahoohalakaln, " ' Launi L. M. Baldwin, Short IT, Wailuku W. E. Saffery, Djputy Hbnrln Wailuku Edgar Morton, ' " Makawiio C. R. Ltnuwy, " 1 Latmlria F. Wlttrock, " ' Hai.a Q. Trimble. " ' Moiokai O. H. Cumtninga Captain Police. Wai'uku H. Iwteiia, " " Miikiiwao H'A Keann, " Lnhalua Si. C. LcdseV, " " J. K. WalumBVi, " Kalaupapo W. T. Robinson, "Till AsM-ssor, ailnlin J. N. K. KrolB, Deputy Awossor. Wailaka W. O. Aiken, " " . Pa' G. Punn, " tatiatna M. H. Heuter, " Hana and brainy, for as a matter of wagon road opening up that biil licensing hackmen, it now Keliinoi was right, and that were in the wrong. It. is true that the business of legitimate hack nact ,. not been shut off by the he would probably havo shown up .. . . . ' toward a more serious phase trouble in terrorizing them into steadily been arming themselves AUU1I I I CitU Jf IO WHJJtJ Will' 1,U the press, and the reaj danger has tuith, tp behevo t,hat it will j i.J Reelfoot Lake. Mississippi river nhtxiting is varied with trips to the Sunken lanrls, which begin near HicUman,Ky.,and extend south seVeral hundred miles on both sides of the river. This territory was covered with a dense forest of large trees before the land was sub merged by the earthquake of 1811. On th Tennessee side Reelfoot lake, eighty miles long, was formed. Reel foot lake is only three miles from the an Upper Slough Landing and the same distance at TJptonville, Tenn. The dense forest is still standing. The limbs nnd bark have rolled and dropped off years ago, leaving, the bleached trunks standing like mar ble columns in wutef sixty feet deepf so close together thai it Is difficult to move a skiff among them. Some have rotted off at. the water level, and others are hollow,, making good blinds. The flight of wild fowl on neeiroot lake is beyond the compre hension of the average sportsmaw. There are ducks, geese, cormorants called water turls; cranes, water nens ana snipe, mey an Keep up a chatter which make'sl..tbe , sunken forest ring. From the tops of the trees eaifles, hawks und owl3 con tribute piercing screeches to the con tinuous din. Outing. Tree Tomato as a Fruit. Mrs. T. B. Shepherd, an eminent florist, and who resides in Ventura, says that when the value of the tree tomato as a fruit is once fully ap preciated acres of it will be planted. It bears fiom seed the second sea son. nnd a young plant set out in the spring grows six feet and comes in to bearing by Christmas. The foliage is large and handsome, the branches spreading. The fruit is pendant in clusters below the foliage, is the size of a large egg and of a beautiful orange salmon color when ripe. It has a decided sub-acid taste, slightly resembling the tomato. It is deli cious raw, served with sugar and cream, or cooked as sauce, and for jelly or -jams is very fine. Tt will keep for weeks, as it does not bruise, on account of its very tough skin and the solid nature of the fruit covering the seeds which are like those of the. tomato. It is a showy plant for house and conservatory, and a most beauti ful plant in the garden. It is a native of South America, and is known ns tho ''poor man's fruit." Riverside Enterprise. A Hard Hearted People. Filial piety finds no place in Tibet an charcter. It is no uncommon thing for a son to turn his father, when too old for work, out of doors and to leave him to perish in the cold. The superstition that the souls of the dead Can, if they will, haunt the liv ing drives their hardened natures to gain by the exercise of cruely the promise of the dying that they will not return to earth. 1 As death approaches the dying per son is asked, "Will you come back or will vou not?" If he replies that he will, they pull a leather bag over his head and smother, him; if he says he will not, he is allowed to die in peace Edinburgh Review. OFFICE in the Hawaiian Islands, Appliances known to Science. xno charge for examinations. Lady assistant. All Work and Material FULLY GUARANTEED. , 215 Hotel Street, Opp.. Its the taste that tells No other, beer in, the market to equal in flavor and quality of the celebrated Manilla Anchor Lager It is, rapidly gaining the favor ot lovers of a good beverage and is recommended as the best tonlr hy leading physicians. LOVEJOY & CO., LIMITED CORNER MARKET AND MAIN STREETS, WAILUKU, . Bottorrt of a Sua Falling Out. Scienlists tell U that, counting from the sea level, the lowest body of water on the globe is the Caspian sea. For centuries its surface has been gradually settling dowu until now it is fighty-fiTe feet lower than that of its rear neighbor, the Black sea, which also lies far below the level of the oceans. The common conclusion all along has been that the Caspian was simply losing its waters by evaporation, but recent investigation shows thak this is not the case. Soundings made and com pared with records of soundings made over 100 years ago reveal the as tounfling fact that there is even a greater depth of water now than then. This leaves but one hypothesis that would seem at -all tenable that the bottom of the sea is actually sinking. There is much speculation in scientific circles as to what will be the final outcome. Christmas Declared Illegal. V . Although it may seem incredible, it is a fact that not so many years ago Christmas was considered a super stitious festival and was stopped be ing held bv the strong hand of the law. Holly and mistletoe were des troved and were called "the plants of the evil one. Cakes and wines were considered impious by the su perstitious. V'hen Oliver Cromwell was pro tector, he ordered all the most im portant towns in England not to ob nerve Christmas, as he considered to be a hurtful custom. Yet a stricter law he commanded to be kept so that people might, forget Christmas. That was that all the markets were to be held on Dec. 25.. Naturally this created a ..great stir among the country folk, an they determined thenceforth to re fuse to obey his strict and extraor dinary law, which he tried to enforce but all -to no purpose. A Baseball Game. Four wide ones in the third and Hogan paraded I Dooley lilted the pellet to the out ermost port precinct for a hassock and invested second citadel through U-roogin 8 insane heave. Jones' agile mitt engulfed Smith' towerer to left garden, but failed to ferry it in before Hogan't extremities soiled the rubber. Donovan jabbed a solitaire to left pasture, stabbing Dooley, but met. his death purloining a bag. Huggios made three frantic lunges at the leather, but Guffs saffron muff le him amble down the trail to the im tial roost. .Duffy's steaming prasser to right meadow incinerated uuti s fingers. Doyle dunked safely to larboard but Brown's swift return of the glob ule contributed to Uuggin's aemise at the plate. Kansas City Indepen dent. Pigeon's Milk Not a Joke. The joke about pigeon's milk has a foundation in lact. Alter the incuba tion of the voung has been completed the crops of the parent bird become thicker and secrete a sort of curd with which tho young are fed. This description of nourishment is neces sary for them, for if the j'oung pi eons are deprived of it during the first wetik or two after hatching they are sure to die. "The Expert DmtisU" for HONEST WORK at Low . Pbices when visitwig Honolulu They have tho LARGEST aud MOST COMPLETE DENT Filled throughout with the latest Union in Arlington Block ALjI. Raleigh and the Potato. It was Sir Walter Raleigh who brought potatoes into Ireland ufc the 5 same time he brought the other American product, tobacco. Sir Wal ter Ral-igh was busilv engaged in oppressing the people abouf, Cork, so. naturally, when he planted the po tato on his estate at Youghui, near Cork, the people were suspicious- of it despite its palatableness. Corbtt cursed the root as being the ruin Ireland, declaring it a device of Sax on Ingenuity brought- into their midst to tempt and eventually to weaken them. Sir Walter ate quantities ot potatoes before he could assure the people of their harmlessness. Now, with commendable gratitude, the tourist is shown the very spot in the garden where Sir Walter planted the potato root. Close by it t anoth er ! istorical bit of ground. Theiv,it is claimed, Sir Walter rested under the shade of a trte smoking his first pipe of tobacco when his servant de luged him with a pail of water under the impression he was on fire. --What to Est. HAIKU SUGAR CO.'S STORE Boots Kerosene Oil Gold Watches Shoes Gasoline Silver Watches Groceries Dry Gocds Clothing Dry Goods In part as follows: Everett Classico Everett Ginghams Mercerised Silk Zephyr Macrame Lace Windsor Surelle Leno Applique Brocad Chambrag Reina Stripe Lenore Stripes . Scotch Zephy Stella Batiste Embroidered Swisb Dots Dotted Swiss Nainsook Black Dimity Berlin Lawn Seersucker . Methuen Ginghams W. F. Mossman KAHULUI R. R. CO. IMPORTERS And Oealeri LUMBER COAL BUILDING MATERIAL AGENTS Wilder S. S. Co. Terminals at Wailuku, Spreckelsvillo and Paia. . . . CENTRAL OFFICB IAO HOTEL i MON CIIEONG, Prop. First Class Restaurant Meals at All Hours Fresh Bread, Ties and Cakes Cigars, Cigarettes & Tobacco Canned fruits of all kinds, jellies and jams for f ale. High St., Wailuku. J. F. CUNNINGHAM &C(h Wholesale Grocers 34- & 36 Steuart St. S. F Cal Dealers in all Kirds of Pro visions and Fancy Groceries. C. T. GREEN, Agent. THE ROTHENBERG CO. 117 Battery St. San Fransisco, Cal. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN LIQUORS. Old Judge Whiskey .McBrazer S. M. Gladstone Rye. C. T. GREEN, Agent New Kahtjltji Saloon Yonr Brand 0f Ice Cold Beer Always On Tap Choice Wine for Bar and Table Use Cold Drinks and All Varieties of Aerated and Mineral Waters A. K. STENDER Peopkietob Kahului Maul The Aloha Salooii T. B. LYONS, Prop. Ice Cold Beer ALWAYS ON HAND First Class Wines & Liquors Prlmo and Seattle Beep Market Sr., (Adjoining old Meat Market). WAILUKU MAUI. & Co. Opposite Wailuk Depot Wholesale S Retail Liquor Dealers. AGENTS FOR Sohllti Beer that made Milwaukee famoua, AnheuBor Busoh & John Wloland Mr r. O. P. S. Bourbon, Rye & Sour-mush. Old Gov't, Old Pepper & Cape Horn Whisker. Duffy'a pure malt Tweed's nure molt nrhi.. Spruance-Stanloy'a famousO.F.C.& Ken.f avorit Celebrated John De war 4 D.C.L.Sootoh Whi.k . D. C. Xi. Old Tom, ft London Palm Tree, & Palm Boom G(n. nennemy 's Brandy & Australian Boomeran. Kohler it Van Bergena wine the fmn. ii. nook wines, Q.H.Mumm & Co. ex-dry ChampagM We make a specialty of shipping. LAHAINA SALOON Matt. McCann Paopairoai Choice Brands O! America & Scotch Whiskey Beer, Ale Wirier Ice Cold Drinks. Macfarlane KahuluU Maui, llHi-M Tirti n it i l ' i - - - i . . .. A Lahaina, Maui T. H,.. ( V, .M ,