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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: HONOLULU, NOVEMBER 28, 1900. THE PACIFIC Commercial Advertiser WALTER O. SMITH - - EDITOR. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28 The anti-canteen movement In Amer ican politics had no show at all against the full dinner pail crusade. Somebody rises to name Bryan as Democratic candidate for President in 1304. Second the nomination. Let us hope that neither the Spanish nor the Chinese minister will make in vidious remarks about the torture by fire of a negro criminal In Colorado. If Democratic National Committee man Jones has nothing else to do he might open up a Weather Bureau. His T)rnrheria u.' nil 1(1 alwaVS be right if the public would simply take the trouble to read them the other way. Delegate Wilcox's idea that Congress could stop the emigration of negro citi sens from the Mainland to Hawaii Is but another evidence of his ignorance of the American constitution and of his unfitness for his post. He la a good match for Kaulia. The prospects of the Nicaragua ca nal, in favor of which the Corcoran commission will report, ought to be ex cellent. The next Congress is to be Republican by a larger majority than ever; the administration, with four years ahead of It, will be influential In Congress to a higher degree than has been possible during the past two years and will use that Influence In favor of the canal; Collis P. Huntington, the most active and potent enemy of the enterprise. Is dead. ' All things consid ered, the passage of some modicatlon of the Hepburn bill next winter should be easy' and sure. NO LEPERS NEED APPLY. The appearance of a supposed leper, who came as a passenger on the China, Is due to the advice of a Board of Health doctor In San Francisco. Whether this act means an entering wedge for the California plan of send ing American lepers to Molokal re mains to be seen. The leper who came here says he has been cured and wants to go to the settlement on Molokal to cure others. This Is a laudable ambi tion providing the story is true; but until the Hawaii board examines the man we shall have to reserve Judgment on that qualifying point. In the event that the stranger is still the victim of the active plague it is the duty of the Board of Health to ship him back to the Coast forthwith. No State has the right to send agencies of plague Into another State or Territory; every State or Territory has the right to quarantine against such agencies. Unless Congress specifically sets a por tion of these Islands apart as a Federal leper colony, our Board df Health is as much entitled to turn people back who come here suffering from that con tagious or Infectious disease as Texas was to quarantine against California last summer or as California was to quarantine against Hawaii ten months ago. The right is one which, no doubt, will be exercised If an occasion for it comes. We cannot state, In too strong terms. the objection Hawaii has to becoming a refuge for non-resident lepers. By the process of segregation and good care we are now getting the better of the scaly plague and If things are left as they are the time will come when Ha walian leprosy will be no more. There will never, on the other hand, be an end of It If the whole United States is, permitted to send fresh supplies. We must also consider the effect upon tour Ists and home-seekers of the reputa tion the Islands would get as a lazar etto. Malnlanders know little about Hawaii; they are not sure but It Is Venetian group of Islands connected by bridges. Kven so well-Informed a man as Tom Johnson, the Ohio street car magnate, talked last year rt building a trolley line from Honolulu to the vol cano. No one knows how many people have been deterred from coming to Oahu or Hawaii or Kauai or Maui by the evil fame of Molokal. Once spread that fame broadcast ar.d have "Sent to Hawaii." printed over the account of every deportation of lepers from the Mainland and nine out of ten Pacific tourists will give us the go-by and no farmer will think of looking this way for a home. The Paradise of the Pa cific would become as much of a dan ger signal on the map as Botany Bay used to be or as the Andaman Islands are now. "No Lepers Need Apply!" That Is the sign to be raised on these Islands and held steady with a strong hand. THE PARENT TRUST. A gentleman who wrote to Fan Fran cisco In the early stages of the plumb ing fight, trying to get an order filled for plumbing material to put on sale In Honolulu, tells the Advertiser that the dealers there refused to sell, as all of them were In the trust and could not do business with Independent retailers. This gentleman suggested that the supply houses here, now that they have opened their doors to all corners as required to do by the Federal law, may find a like difficulty on the Coast and elsewhere and that a shortage of fixtures In the Honolulu market may result. In that case the remedy for the local supply houses Is quite as easy as was that of the public against the Honolulu trust. If any one of them cannot buy gooaa in Fan Francisco or elsewhere. owing to a conspiracy in restraint of trade. It may bring a civil action and recover three-fold damages with coats and attorney's fees; and 'supplement that act, furthermore, by criminal pro ceedings in the Federal courts where both civil and criminal actions under the conspiracy law must lie. The plumbing trust of the United States Is Just as vulnerable under Federal stat utes as was the plumbing trust of Ha waii; all It needs Is for somebody to pull the lanyard of the cannon which Is loaded to destroy It. So If the local dealers stand up for their rights, as we trust they will, no wholesaler In the United States can keep them from getting plumbers' sup plies at market rates. LEE IN THE PANTHEON. An Interesting debate is on between the New York Sun and an influential part of the Southern press as to wheth er the name of Robert K. l-ee tsnouia be Inscribed In the American Temple of Fame. The Sun says that such an honor is too great for It, notwithstand ing Lee's genius as a commander ln the field and the nobility of his private life. The reason given by our New York contemporary Is that) Lee was a deserter from the United States army. "At a time," it says, "when the flag J and the Government Lee had sworn to defend 'honestly and faithfully against their enemies or opponents whomsoever were in sore need of .the most loyal obedience to their oaths by officers of the' army, he wrote to Gen eral Scott to 'tender my resignation, which I request you will recommend for acceptance. . Two days later, with out waiting for such acceptance or re ceiving dismissal from the service In which he had been for a generation, he was appointed by the Governor of Vir ginia to the chief command of Its In surrectionary forces, and the next day was publicly Invested with that com mand. He resigned In face of the ene my, and while still an officer of the United .States army he forswore him self by-taking command of Us enemies, and thus became a deserter." As might have been expected, the answers from the South lack nothing in spirit or vigor. One writer urges that Lee, under the old state sover eignty doctrine, owed first allegiance to his state, an argument which is not quite convincing in view of the fact that his oath of allegiance aa an offi cer of the army did not reserve any thing In favor of Virginia but com mitted him to the broadest national loyalty. The Richmond Times argues that Lee's greatness Is so transcendent that no honor can be done his name by Inscribing It "In a two-penny show gallery along with a number of no bodies that people have to ask about to know that they ever lived. When Cato was asked why his statue did not appear In the gallery of the statues of Romans thought at the same time to be immortal, he answered In substance that he wished it to be noted that his statue was not there. The Southern people have that feeling about this in cident. Secure in his immortality. looming up upon the world's horizon as a colossus arouna wnose Knees Grant. Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas masquerade as pigmies, how can it be of any consequence to General Lee's memory whether his name does or does not appear in a collection of names that will be totally forgotten when mothers are teaching their sons at their knees that If they would be men to command the esteem and reverence of their fellow men they should set Robert E. Lee before them as the ex ample to imitate?" In this controversy both sides go too far both in blame and panegyric. The ethics of Lee's course In 1861 may be In dispute, but that fact does not les sen his self-evident fame though of course his Immortality is not such as to shame the Immortality of Grant, who outgeneralled him in war. The title of any American who stood in the front rank of a high calling to a niche in the Temple of Fame goes without the say lng; and after all. that title Is not much lessened by a defect here and there In the moral processes of which he won It. Englishmen honor Crom well now, who was the Lee of his time; and they also honor Washington, who had once taken an oath of allegiance to King George. It seems as If Americans might as fairly honor Lee for his great qualities, forgetting those that were weak. It Is a boon they must crave for all the other men who are to be deified In the American Pantheon, so why not grant It to the American gen eral whose sword. If drawn without fair cause, was at last sheathed with honor? NEWS OF WORLD CONDENSED Colorado has now attained the same bad eminence as Texas and Louisiana in the matter of burning Tiegro rape fiends at the stake. The details of the Western horror are too sickening to print and the Advertiser left the most of them out f Its columns. Enough were published, however, to show how far American civilization still accords with the inhumanities of savage tribes and to suggest the need of stringent legislation with a capital penalty against lynchers. Russia has found, a bandit republic in Manchuria. The Czar's brother has left Copen hagen for home. It Is reported that giant skeletons have been discovered in Alaska. It Is asserted in court circles that' the Czar's illness Is due to eating bad fish. ' A bill Is being drawn with the object of reinstating the death penalty in Col orado. George B. Reeve is the new general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway system. James A. Dunlap, bank burglar, nas been sentenced to twenty years' im prisonment. Kitchener has determined to aaopt Wevler's reconcentrado system in South Africa. Miles report of the army urges the necessity for the reorganization of the entire service. The Sultan of Turkey warmly con gratulated President McKlnley upon his re-election. Great activity Is being shown by highwaymen and burglars in San Francisco lately. Many, weddinjgs have been celebrated during and since the closing of the Paris exhibition. This year s crop or lemons Is very heavy in Southern California, and will bring high prices. Several hundred thousand dollars have been paid to Paris capitalists for a group of Utah mines. Two escaped Kansas prisoners, who were surrounded, eluded their pursuers. They are still being sought. Richard Croker has sailed for Eng land. He says Tammany's movement against vice "means business." A Sacramento woman says her hus band threatens her life because she knows that he is a bank robber. The Russian steamer Yermak is ex pected to cut her way through the ice to the North Pole next summer. A special dispatch to the Associated Press from Stockholm, says it. is ru mored King Oscar II is paralyzed. me united states surveying corps has found over a hundred dead bodies n a swamp jnst west of Galveston. William Jefferson, youngest son of Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor, will marry a soubrette, Miss Christie McDonald. The Grand Duke Vladimir, uncle of the Czar, has been mentioned as regent in the contingency of the illness of the Czar continuing. Katerine Bloodgood, the California contralto and society woman, made her debut in vaudeville in New York on the 16th Instant. , Alfred Harmsworth and his wife sail from London for America In December, Harmsworth does not intend to start a paper in New York. Bishop Porter has written Mayor Van Wycke of New York City accusing members of the police force of openly protecting criminals. Miss Edith Booth, formerly with the Marie .tsurrougn's Company, died In hospital in New York from injuries re ceivea in a riding accident. Canada is aroused, by race strife, Both political parties accuse each oth er with engendering internal bitterness and of using prejudices of the French j.ne rans .exposition of 1900 Is no more. It had a population of from 150.000 to 500,000, and a hundred lan guages could be heard within Its gates. A report, unverified, comes from Kingston, Jamaica, November 16. of the seizure of the British steamer Tobago, Dy tne Colombian government at Pa nama. President McKlnley is said to have offered the directorship of the bureau or engraving and printing, to Frank P. aargent, grand master of the Brother nooa or locomotive firemen. A conspiracy to rob soldiers has been unearthed at the Presidio in California. uncrupuious army clerks and mr chants are fleecing the Invalided men navmg pay coming to them. San Francisco's new gas and electric street lamps consist of a bell shaped globe of clear glass, unobstructed by any metal frame and surmounted with a porcelain dome of pure white. John Hays Hammond, the mining ex pert, recently of Pretoria, has gone to Cripple Creek to investigate the Strat ton Independence mine, which was sold to English investors for $15,000,000. The New York board of police com missioners, November 19, ordered charges preferred against Inspector Adam A. Cross and Captain John B. Herlin, and practically turned them over to the mercy of their accusers inspector Moore asks householders not to pay plumbing bills until the plumber shows a certificate signed by him guaranteeing that the work has been done according to the rules and regulations of the Board of Health ine request Is a proper one and may be the means of saving householders both money and health. Smell Sweet9 The fragrance of life is vigor and strength, neither of which can be found in a per son whose blood is impure, and whose every breath speaks of internal troubles. Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies vitalizes and enriches the blood, gives a good appetite and makes the weak strong. Run Down- "My husband was run d&wn in health and all ti'cd out. Those excellent medicines, Hood s Pills &nSars parilla. built him up again." Mrs. H. L. Totuanda, Pa. f?lNG7Wi Hood's 1111s ear liver Ills ; the non-Irritating arrt nly catlirU to take with Hood' SargaparHU. Spoflg FISH SUPPLY . SB! ALL. , Btorm Has Made the Fishermen's Hauls Poor. The fish supply is so low that unless the fishermen manage by hook or net to get some within the day there will not be enough in the market for Thanksgiving. The Waiklkl fish ponds are the main dependence of Honolulu now and they are running low. Only about a hundred fish were brought In yesterday and the fish mongers are feeling blue. OF CURRENT INTEREST. ! Columbus' Df-scendanta Paupers. A Spanish paper asserts that two de scenaants or Columbus, Manuel and Maria Columbo, brother and sister, are at present inmates of the Asylum for the Homeless In the city of Cadiz. It Is said that documents In their pos session Incontestably prove their de scent. Helen Keller a Chess Player. Helen Keller, the deaf and dumb and Blr1, who has lUst entered Rad cliffe College at Cambridge, Mass., Is a descendant of John Adams ad a con nection of seme of the best New Eng land families. Her latest accomplish ment Is chess, at which she plays a capital game. For a Butsell Statue. English jurists have started a move 7en -et UD a tatue of the late Lrfird Chief Justice Russell In the high court of Justice. Chief Justice Fuller James C. Carter and Ambassador Choate are the Americans who have been asked to aid the movement. Peruvian Boys In College. Alvarez Calderon, the Peruvian min ister at Washington, has placed two of his sons and two nephews as students at the Maryland Agricultural at Hyattsvllle. They will take the reg ular course in agriculture and me chanics. A Soldier's Talented Daughter. Carolyn King, the daughter of the novelist, General Charles Klne. U. S. A., recently finished her course at the Sorbonne and then took a prize offered by the Alliance Francalse for an essay on wornenie. ALOHA 9, I -Calendar- in v. 'A ' Seven Colored Plates of Hawaiian Scenes and Flowers Published and for sale by the J Contains PARIS64 by MISS ANNA M" H u W8 CO LIMITED. Merchant Street. JUST THE THING TO SEND TO YOUR FRIENDS IN THE STATES. 1ft A new lot of the finest Bath, Toilet WE will interest v on this latest Lovelties in VI MWJWI Ul III l I Muslin Underwear Some of the daintiest good ewr sho rn on1 -1 line of Tailo- Mad CU thaud vSiiR I irts SEE WINDOW DISPLAY M E PHONE 157. Hair Goods, Hair Si AND Baby SPONGES! JUST ARRIVED. 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THESE GOODS ARE ALL IMPORTED FROM ENGLAND. THE BARGAIN STORK Opposite the Fire Station. Fort ai4 BeretanU SW ALBERT BLOOM, Proprietor. The Honolulu Tobacco I Companv, Ltd.- FORTtfTRUKTS. IMPORTING TOBACCONISTS, WHOLESALE ANlWeTAIL DEALERS SEGARET CIGAR 1? When vou want someth'.ner sneclal you're sure to find It here. SJ igenta and distributors for Territory of Hawaii of the celebrate - 4c . .... HM Knowing that this Cigar wlbe judged by connoiseui., -. neptly commend it to smokers of refined taste as one or tne FIVE-CENT CIGARS on the market. m3 7) Fire Insurance Agents Commission Merchants Careful trusts. ' attention given to business BOOKCASES GLOBE -WERNICKE and OFFICE FURNITURE In stock, or ordered from Manufac turers. . . Money Back if You Say Si Some men wear Just what they please; others wear what . 0J affect. There is a certain style which most men reg-aru " ' thedic must be independently rich, or hopelessly poor to utterly ,ppeil 1 of fashion. One great point about our clothing which ougni i entirely in accord with the right fashion without being tailor-3! it has an the merchant tailors distinctiveness. parel but is much less expensive than the so-cailei coustom-maae SUSPENDERS that of excellence, the law-water mark In prl T1iue iplendld furnishing department. As typicw rf efff The top-notch way it is in our s we note today a strong line or min r sueri.. rast-w or lastis weDDing oi new uesigus, wwi ieiuvi -"---- . m fcincw. plated mountings equal In make-up to the usual 7ao or Price 50cts Per Pair THE "KASH 55 TWO TE TWO STORES. TWO STOCKS, r. U. liox bo Htel Stf udll Hotel Stmt, and C orwr ef aaa " c P2