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at that time President of the
United States. When told that
Mr. Davis was not then and had
never been President of the
United States, she said with manifest
surprise: "Then we'uns in
these parts is bad fooled, lemme
tell you."
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Philadelphia, Pa., June IS.
"We have reached a point where
it is evident that the future holds
in store a time when wars shall
cease; when the nations of the
world shall realize a federation as
real and vital as that now subsisting
'between the component parts
of a single state; when by deliberate
international conjunction the
strong shall universally help the
weak, and when the corporate
righteousness of the world shall
compel unrighteousness to disappear
and shall destroy the habitations
of cruelty still lingering in
the dark places of the earth. This
is 'the spirit of the whole wide
world brooding on things to
come.' That day will be the millennium',
of course; but in some
sense and degree it will surely be
realized in this dispensation of
mortal time."
Thus eloquently declared Philander
C. Knox, Secretary of
State in the Cabinet of President
Taft, in concluding a stirring address
on "The Spirit and Purpose
of American Diplomacy" before
the graduating students of the
University of Pennsylvania.
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POVERTY IN HONOLULU.
"There is more poverty in Honolulu
than most people realize,"
says the report of the Associated
Charities for the past three
months.
"Incipient poverty is curable,
but neglected poverty is a running
sore which poisons the body
politic. It is more than this. It
is such a waste of good human
material as no wise manufacturer
would permit with his by-products,
and no farmer among his
live stock. We could give you a
long line of stories where overcrowding,
malnutrition and neglected
childhood, due not to choice
but to poverty only, have brought
in their wake immorality, disease,
vice and ignorance, all of which,
remember, are contagious and expensive
to society."
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THE HONOLULU TIMES
There is more poverty in Honolulu
than many people realize
some of it curable, if the head
of the family could have steady
work at a living wage. A great
deal of it is owing to the illness
or death of the breadwinner; this
kind must not be neglected, or
the evil results mentioned will
follow. We feel sure that many
persons, not at present members
of the Associated Charities, would
gladly contribute the sum of five
dollars, the annual membership
fee, if the knowledge of the good
it would do were not lost sight
of in the many absorbing interests
of life. Perhaps this report
will serve as a reminder.
During the last quarter there
have been twenty-nine new applications,
sixty-two recurrent
cases, six hundred and forty-nine
calls at the office, and the manager
has made ninety-nine visits.
The funds disbursed are as follows:
Food, $419.20; rents,
$208.50; milk, $160.10; transportation,
$115 ; special work, $64.15 ;
embroidery, $31.75; office, $9.45.
Total, $1,008.15.
The receipts amounted to
$967.70.
A. C. JORDAN,
Manager Associated Charities.
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Any reference to the "Great
Ditch" is incomplete that does not
tell how McCrosson perseverance
and Lewis sand wire supplemented
by the untiring energy and
marvelous skill of Jorgen
the man who has engineered
the great enterprise from the
time when he swung around the
face of the precipices, running the
preliminary survey, to the last
hour of the last night, when he
was summoned from the dedication
festivities to the front, nine
miles away, by the telephonic
message that fifty-ton boulder,
falling a quarter of a mile, had
crushed a giant flume into kindling
wood the last protest of
the Water God of Waipio against
the intrusion of the stranger.
From the first stroke of the
pick to the flowing of the water
over the measuring weir, only
fourteen months elapsed; within
which time, miles of trails were
built; camps constructed and
supplies and material of every
kind transported into the roughest
kind of trackless mountain,
and all the work done on the face
of precipices too steep and slip
pery for even a goat to pasture on.
Thirteen hundred men were put
to work and kept steadily at it in
day and night shifts, simultaneously
working on eighty different
tunnel faces. It requires no technical
knowledge to appreciate that
the chief engineer of such an enterprise,
who accomplishes such
results, is a master of his profession.
Hawaii has reason to be proud
that she possesses such citizens
as have created the great Kohala
mountain ditch system. It is such
as that make any country progressive
and prosperous. May they
live long and prosper, and may
the Territory continue to enjoy
the benefit of their energy and
pluck, in connection with other
development enterprises, for
many years to come.
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Had we a few thousand more
Germans in the Islands like, say,
those gentlemen in Hackfeld's or
Schaefer's (don't know their
names, and if we did, likely could
not spell them), it would be well.
But again, who cares as a rule
to leave that supremely lovely
Fatherland of music and poetry
and the Kaiser's magnificent family
and home life that is true
homely life and living! Oh, Germany,
Goethe and Schiller,
Strauss and Apt and Auerbach,
Blue Danube with Vienna (Bologna,
pretzel and real goods
beer), we must pause ; it makes us
hungry for an out-door lunch and
music, children, old folk and
laughter ! "the touch of a vanished
hand and the sound of a voice
that is, still." Yes, we heard Apt
in an audience immense, play his
"When the Swallows Homeward
Fly." We had heard Strauss and
his band to our heart's full content.
Yes, we had heard Thal-
berg and many as fine the
French royal band of Napoleon
III, all in gray and silver; Ave had
been quite close to the English
Grenadiers, clad were they in
scarlet and gold, every man six
feet tall or higher! And one day
the prima donna (first lady) had
pretty little pages (imps) to hold
her train. Enough of that! Ah,
Germany !
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In Boston, the old Massachusetts
city, rich in literary reminiscences
and associations, Julia
Ward Howe, probably the most
remarkable woman in the United