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HAWAIIAN PROBLEMS
Glmgress Will Have a Difficult
Task on Hand This Wini’e‘f.
PROPERTY QUALIFICATION
The Plans vaised by the Coxninissloner
g is One Which Will Cause’ Much Debate
in Congress. The Lioney Qualification
is Desired Because it Will Lead to
White Supremacy.
‘Washington, Oct? 4.-—-It is becoming
plain that it will be no easy task for
Congress next winter to provide a plan
of government for the HaWaiian Isl-
ands. The scheme deVised by the com-
missiong‘s who hav e just returned, ac—
cording to the reports ieceived from
San Francisco, is one which will not
get through the Senate without a pro-
longed debate. It exhibits more clearly
than anything has done up to‘ date the
marked change in our traditional the—
ories and governmental principles in-
volved in the new colonial departure.
3 Hawaiian Islands, it seems, in-
sisa. upon a property qualification for
the electors who will choose the mem-
be: 5 of the- upper house of the Legisla-
tr :e. According to‘ the sentative draft
0‘; the bill, they place thismoney qual—
ification at $1,000 assessed valuation, or
ALCOO worth of property. It does not
appear that the members of the Mor-
gan commission have at all dissented
from this programme. Nor is any one
in doubt as to why‘the annexationists
desire such a money qualification. It
is the‘ quickest way to whote suprema-
cy, and no one who has actively cham-
pioned the annexation of Hawaii could
have seriously contemplated anything
else.
In one respect the problem is simpler
there than'in our own Southern States.
The poor whites of the South are al-
most as thirftless as the negroes, and
hence the property qualification
straight does not entirely meet the
wishes of their'leaders. The'whites of‘
Hawaii must be more uniformly well
to do, and the colored races more uni-
!ormally thriftless,
States.
The proposal to make this group of
islands a territory of the American
- Union cannot fail to occasion much de-
bate. The territorial System is regard-
ed as the anomaly, and only permissi-
ble on the theory that its operation is
to be but temporary. Idaho and Wyom-
ing would not be in the Union to-day
but for the feeling on the part of many
good Senators that statehood was the
natural political condition, and the
territorial form of government but a
troublesome and unsatisfactory make—
shift, and hence, since we had Idaho
and Wyoming, we might as well make
states of them first as last.
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ill-‘1'" ”may”? Suffering in Havana.
Washington, Oct. 4.—-A private letter
from an American citizen, in close
touch with the Cuban Military Com—
ini'Ssion in Havana, states that great
suffering exists in Havana for lack- of
food.
People are starving, some dying on
the streets, ar d many others who are
unable to go out and beg die in the
houses. There are a great number of
this latter class.
All the while this has gone on the
authorities have refused to allow the
Consul, with a million rations on board
to enter the Havana harbor. The
American Commissioner did a great
deal of hard work to secure the en-
trance of the vessel and finally got per-
mission to land her suplies at Matan-
ms.
The Commission, the letter states, is
now making efforts to secure the ad-
mission of sup plies sent by the Red
Cross. so a portion of the suffering
may be relieved. The Commission in
this, as in everything else, find that
they are dealing with procrastinating
men who delay every move as loong as
possible.
No fault is found with the treat-
ment which the Commissioners receive
personally, the Spanish authorities be-
ing very suave and polite, but in the
matter of business plenty of time is
taken.
Yellow fever is said to exist in the
city, but little fear is expressed by the
writer of the litter, who says it is not
reported as dangerous.
To Walk Around the World.
New York, Oct. 4.—Eight young men
of this city and Brooklyn left No. 102
Fulton street at eleven o ’clock yester-
day morning to walk around the world.
Each had plenty of money and car-
ried a small pack on his back.
When they left Fulton street the men
went over to the ,City Hall and saw
the Mayor, then" took the Cortlandt
street ferry to Jersey City. From there
they took the plank walk to Newark.
Rudolph De Zapp, who is the leader
of the walkers, said he did notp ropose
to go any further. than Newark to-
night. He said that after a few weeks
they would be able to cover twice the
distance. From Newark they will go to
Trenton, from there to Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington, where they
vwil call upon the President, and ex-
change letters.
The men intend to visit all the news-
paper oflices on their route in this and
other countries and get an autograph
from each. Mr. De Zapp expects the
trip will take not less than three years.
He said as they were not walking
against ~time they would not hurry
themselves.
Fell into the ngra/ Rivet.
Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 4.—-Char1es Wicks,
a painter, who came here from Phiba-
delphia, to work on the new steel arch—
bridge. at Niagara Falls, fell from a
scaffold on the bridge Sunday, 150 feet
to the river. His body did not come
to the surface, some under current
having swept it into the rapids before
it could rise.
Chicago’s Buu Highwayman,
Chicago, Oct. 4.—0tto Jacobson was
held up and robbed of $400 on a ’down-
town street Sunday night by a negro
in the presence of several persons, who
were aWed by the flourishing of the
, robber's revolver.
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DELAGOA' BAY RAILWAY.
Tho Arbitrator’s Decision Expecmd‘
Hourly.
London, Get. "4.——The decision of the
Swiss arbitrators in the matter of thl
Dela agoa Bagr Railway has been pre-
pared for some little time, and may
be issued any day, possibly to-morrow.
I, understand that the award to be
paid by Portugal to the McMurdo con-
cessionaries will certainly run into
millions sterling, though one expert
estimate, given me to— day, of five mil-
lions sterling, probably is an exe .gger-
ation. . M343.” .5”:
Upon this award great internatio
events hang. Portugal cannot hers
find the money. She must sell som -
thing. Dr. Leyds’s present mission to
Europe is largely concerned with the
Transvaal’s desire herself to lend
Portugal the necessary funds in return
for the Deiagoa Bay Railway. for
President Kruger realizes that herein
is the key to the South African posir
tion, but Dr. Leyds‘s rebuff at Berlin,
last week, kills this project.
England will, as foreshadowed in my
despatch of September. 6, herself pro~
vide Portugal with the money in re-
turn for a long lease of the railway.
The original idea of a joint Anglo-Ger-
man, guarantee seems to have been
abandoned in favor of a solely British
financial operation, Germany lending
her moral support.
Other features of the Anglo—German
deal are not yet ripe for public offi-
cial announcement. Among other
events they await the Kaiser's talk
with the Sultan.
COL. ROOSEVELT’S TAXES.
No Judicial Act-ion in the nIatter.
ment Has Been blade.
New York, Oct. 4.——The application
in behalf of Theodore Roosevelt for a
discontinuance of his certiorari pro-
ceeding against the Tax Commission-
ers was not on the motion calendar of
the Special Term, Part I., of the Su~
preme Court, before Justice Smyth
yesterday. When the certiorari was
called, before Justice Daly, in Special
Term. Part- III., it was adjourned until
October 11.
A check for $995.28 was delivered to
the Bureau for the Collection'of Taxes
by the Title Guaranty and Trust Com-
pany, acting in' behalf of Col Rooses
velt. This is the fin: day on which
such a-"payment could have been made,‘
and the check was for the tax of $1, 005
less a rebate of $972 for payment in ad-
Vance.
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War Investigation.
W,ashington Oct. 4.-—The members of
the War Investigating Commission, at
yesterday's session, took the position
that under a strict construction the
Commission had no authority to com—
pel a- witness to be sworn by a member
of. the Commission, but that witnesses
would not raise technical objections.
-It was decided, however, to inform
witnesses frankly of ‘the status of the
Board and to afford them an- oportun-
ity to decline in case they so desire. It
was suggested that the difficulty might
be avoided by getting the President to
appoint one of the officers of the Board
a notary public. so as to have an offi-
cer capable of administering oaths
present.
Major~ Gen. Joseph Wheeler was no- 5
tified to appear'to-day before the Com-
mission.
Blg Woolen Failure.
Dov er, N. H., Oct. 4.—The Sawyer
\Voollen Mills have assigned for the
creditorfl to Jeremiah Williams, a wool
commission merchant, of Boston. Al.
W. Sulloway of Franklin will arrive
to-day to take charge of the plant. The
corporation owns six mills and employs
600 workmen. The corporation also
owns practically the whole of Sawyer’s
Mills settlement, at station on the
Portsmouth & Dover branch of the
Boston & Maine Railroad, consisting
of more than 100 tenements: Mr. Wil-
liams, the assignee of the Sawyer Mills
says that the liabilities are about $1,-
600,000 and the assets probably nearly
as much.
Fatal Foot Ball.
Boston, Mass, Oct. 4.—The first fatal '
accident on the local football gridiron
this season happened Sunday afternoon
on Franklin Field. Robert Coveney,
the seventeen-year-old son of the late
Postmaster Jeremiah W. Coveney, re-
ceived injuries to his spin which re-
sulted in his death at the ,City Hospital
this morning. The lad was playing
end on the Hartfords, a local eleven,
and the acident happened on a tackle
play during a scrimmage, four or five
men of his own and the opposing eleven
coming down on top of him.
To Succeed John Balsstt Moore.
Washington, Oct. 4.-——The President
has appointed David J. Hill of Roches-
ter First Assistant Secretary of. State
to succeed .John Bassett Moore. re-
signed. Dr.‘ Hill is eforesident of
Rochester university. He’ is versed in
international law. He has taken -..a-
prominent part in New York politics,
and has delivered many public ad-
dresses during recent campaigns. He is,
now in Holland, but is expected to re- ‘
turn at once, having accepted the posi-
tion tendered.
Germany and Dreyfus. "
Berlin, Oct. 4.——A semi-official state-
ment issued by the Cologne “Gazette"
denies the assertion made in French
newspapers that the German Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Baron von Bulow,
has been commanded by Emperor Wil-
liam to furnish the French Govern--
ment with friendly explanations as to
the role of Col. Schwartzkoppen in the
Dreyfus affair.
New Peari Fields Discovered.
Washington, Oct. 4.—New pearl
fields of great richness have been dis—
covered off the coast of New Cale-
donia, on the west side, according to
United States Consul Wolf at Noumea.
He says that one shell contained 256
pears, and one little boat of one and a
half tons furnished last year twenty-
two pounds of pearls.
Forty Seventh for Porto Rico.
It was anounced at—the Army Build-
ing yesterday that the Forty-seventh
Regiment of Brooklyn, which has been
doing garrison duty at Fort Adams,
Newport, R. 1.. had been ordered to
Porto Rico, and would leave on either
the Manitoba or Mississippi, probably
Wednesday next.
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LEAVING CAMP WIKOI’F
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Only Three Regiments Now Thaw.
Montauk Point, Oct. 4.-'—-The second
Cavalry, numbering 588 men, left Camp
W'ikoff early yesterday morning. The
train was composed of two sections.
With the first were about 300 men in
command of Col. Noyes and Major
Wallace. The second section got away
at 8.40, and was expected to arrive in
Long Island City about 12:23 ‘ "iTh:
troopers were in good condition ani’.
spirits, and were anxious to get away
from Montauk. There are now here
only two vavalry regiments, the Sixth
and the Tenth. The Seventh Infant: 3'
is also here, and will be the last tc-
leave. - —
The Sixth and Tenth Cavalry
packing up theii belongings prep-.11—
atory to leaving camp. The horses of
the Sixth will leave for Huntsville to..—
day and the men will follow Tirednes-
day. The horses of the Tenth wil de-
part on Thursday, and the men will
get away the day following.
Gen. Shatter having left to take
command of the Department of the.
East at Governor's Island, Gen. Mc~
Clernand is in charge here to see to
the closing of the camp. The morning
atmosphere is damp and foggy and
very disagreeable. The detention hos-
pital is being closed by Major Elbert.
and Major Blown is sending the con-
valescents to city hospitals as rapidly
as possible
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SITUATION IN PEKIN.
No Serioui Danger Yet, but Anxiety for
the Future.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The State De-
partment has received the following
cable despatch from Minister Conger
at Pekin:
“There is no serious danger yet, but
considerable anxiety for the future.
The foreign fleet is assembling at
Tientsin. Some of the Ministers are
ordering marines to Pekin for legation
guard. ”
Secretary Long, upon advices re-
ceived at the State Department, show-
ing the existence of threatening condi-
tions in China has ordered Rear-Ad-
miral Dewey to send two warships im-
mediately from Manila to a point as
near the Chinese capital as possible
for a war-ship to approach. The vessels
selected for this undertaking are the
cruiser Baltimore and the gunboat Pe-
trel. The Baltimore will probably not
be able to get beyond the Taku forts
at the entrance of the Pei Ho River,
upon which Pekin is situated, but the
Petrel can at least go up to Tientsin,
eighty miles above the mouth, and
about the same distance below Pekin.
The navy. officials keenly regret that
there is not now on the Asiatic .sta-
tion a. light-draught gunboat of the
Helena claSs, which could ascend the
river as far as the Chinese capital.
Join-t Commission's Plano.
Quebec, Oct. 4.—'It has been definitely
settled thatl-‘the Anglo—American Com-
mlssion will conclude its labors here
on Friday, Oct. 14. The adjournment
will last a month, when the negotia-
tions will be resumed at W'ashington.
An American commissioner, while
speaking guardedl-y, said the negotia-
ltions were proceeding more smoothly
than he had anticipated. The future
'treaty has actually passed the trou-
blous stage. The same authority
voufnsafed the information that a re-
ciprocity schedule imolving natural
and manufactured products was clear-
I ly in sight.
Battleships Sailing Delayed.
‘ Washington, Oct. 4.—The Oregon and
the Iowa may not start for Manila
until next week. It was explained at
the Navy Department that the fitting
out of the distilling ship Iris and the
supply ship Celtic might not be com—
pleted until Oct. 10, and this fact
alone would be sufficient to delay the
salling of the battleships, since all the
vessels are to go together. It was fur-
there explained that the Department
had at no time believ that the naval
§reenf0rcements would see out before
I the early part of this month.
Strikers Capture a town.
' Washington, Oct. 4.—0ne hundred
and fifty coal miners from Pana,_ 111.,
came here last night and with the as-
sistance of local white miners drove
fifty negro miners out of town. They
all wore masks to hide their identity
and were heavily armed, ruling the
town for over/an hour. A fire alarm
was turned in and many of the citizens
who responded were deputized to assist
the police. The masked miners then
disappeared. Further trouble is expect-
ed.
Appoluled by the Presideno.
‘ Washington, Oct. 4.—-—The President
has made the following appointments:
Joseph E. Lee, Collector of Internal
Revenue,
H. Green, United States Marshal, dis-
! trict of Texas. Navy—Lieut.—Com-
-.ma.nders John E. Pillsbury and Wil-
liam H. Reeder, to- be commanders;
Passed Assitant Engineer Frank W.
Bartlett, to be chief engineer and act-
ing gunner; Myles Joyce, to be gunner.
To Embark from Savannah,
Washington, Oct. 4.—Secretary Alger
has announced that Savannah, Ga.,
had been selected as the point of em-
barkation of all troops which may
hereafter be sent to Cuba 0r Porto
Rico. It is stated at the War Depart-
ment that Savannah was selected be-
cause it afforded the best facilities.
- A Stage Robbery.
Empire City, Ore., Oct. 4,—About
four o’clock Sunday morning the Rose-
burgh-Myrtle Point stage was robbed,
one mile west of the latter place, [by a
highwayman. The robber secured the
registered-mail sack, containing be-
tween eight hundred and one thousand
dollars.
Gen. Shatter in Charge.
New York, Oct. .4—Gen. William R.
Shatter, who has been appointed to the
head of the Department of the East.
wentzto Governor’s Island on the Gen-
eral Hancock, at eleven o’clock Monday
morning to take-charge. He was re-
ceived with a. Major-General’s salute. ‘
'Tod Sloan Stilltwmnlng.
London, Oct. 4.—In the racing at the
Nottingham Autumn Meeting yester-
four mounts.
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ROSARIESNOT'IEORcATHOLIcsoNLVI
Without. the Cross They Are Used by the
Followers of Buddha.
The prevailing idea in mg: 1rd to a
rosary is that it belongs solely to the
followers of the Catholic religion. But
take away the cross that is hanging to
the beads and we find that one must
turn to the dim, mysterious East for
the origin of the rosary, for it is
among the temples of India, China and
Japan that the first sign of the prac-
tice is to be found. Ancient pictures
of the Hindoo gods depict them with
Chaplets of beads in their hands, and
it is believed that this method of keep-
ing count of their many prayers was
in use among the Hindoos before the
era of Buddha, or at least B. (.1.
500.
The use of the rosary seems espe-
cially suited to an Eastern clime and
to the repose of an Oriental mind. The
Buddhists are fond of using very
smooth beads of glass, polished jade
or coral, and it has been thought that
the smooth, cool beads gliding through
their fingers as they murmur the holy
name for thousands of times help them
to arrive at that state of holy abstrac-
tion from earthly things which is so
much prized among the followers of
Buddha.
The favorite Japanese rosaries are
made of polished wood, crystal, onyx
and chased silver, and the Japanese
Buddhists repeat in endless devotion
“Numa Amida Butzu” (Save us, Bud-
dha), while" their Chinese brothers
have the blessed .name “O-Misto-fu”
forever on their lips. A rosary of very
great size was recently brought from
a temple in Kioto, Japan. The largest
bead is about six inches in diameter.
and the rosary entire is about
twenty-four feet long. The huge beads
are of‘ dark~~brown polished wood.
They are hollow and have each a fig
are of a god inside the little shrine,
which can be seen through a lattice of
brass work—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Hindu Child Wife,
A Hindu child-wife divides her year
1n two intervals, one of which she
spends with her parents, this being a
sort of vacation time, and the other
she spends at the house of her hus-
band’s parents, this being the time
of daily downright drudgery. Vil-
lage girls in Bengal blacken their
teeth with mishi, a coloring powder.
The lips are black also, and this is
supposed to make them excedingly
charming.
Writing letters, especially to her
nusband, is thought to ..be a fearful
Immodesty in a Hindu girl; and she
has no chance of improving her mind
by intelligent .conversation with any
one. She must write to her husband.
though .she has to do it by stealth in
the night. The moon is her lamp, 3
stick out of the domestic broom her
pen, the juice of the puin berry her
ink, and probably the dried leaf of
the banana her paper. A Hindu girl
must always keep the inner apart-
ment of the house. She is only let
out when she goes to draw water for
the household either from the pond or
the well or the river. Hence the wa-
terside is a great feminine resort, 3
sort of women’s club, where there is
much gossiping and plenty of stolen
leisure.——Christian Register.
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CUBAN LAND anas As FOOD.
Disgusting as They Look, Soldiers Mil!
It If'Ihcy Reject Them.
“Loathsomc, lepruus and horrible”—
so the correspondents have described
the land crabs seen by the American
troops in Cuba.
This makes \Vest Indians smile, and
probably the soldiers are now laugh-
ing at the fear these monsters at first
inspired.
The land crab of the Antilles yields
about half a pound of dainty meat.
If one dislikes the appearance of the
animal, it is well to bear in mind that
the sea crab and the lobster are mere
buzzards of the shallows—salt water
scavengers. The land crab, however,
is fattened by the natives on a diet
,of grass. cane-tops and corn meal,
mixed with molasses. Kept in cap-
tivity for a week, he is plump, lively
and ready for the cook.
The land crab is hunted at night by
the light of torches. It is then that
the crustaceans come from their holes
to graze on the-young cane tops, for
they are vegetable feeders of the most
cleanly sort.
In the «torch’s gleam a white claw
is seen to thrust itself warily from a
hole till then invisible. The hunter
keeps perfectly still until he can pin
the cmb’s four hind legs to the ground
with a short stick. Then he seizes
the crab by the body behind its run-
ners, where the strong claws cannot
reach to bite. The next operation is
to tie the claws with a. strip of fiber
torn from the nearest banana bush.
Sometimes a crab, too lightly held,
escapes to his hole. The hunter car-
ries a calabash, and pours water into
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will run out, apparently strangling,{
and is an easy capture in his con-'1
fusion.
Every plantation in the West Indies
—every hut, for that matter—has a
pen to keep the captured crabs in. This
is a rat-her deep well, lined with m'or
tar, to keep the crabs from burrowing
out.
In okra soup, called “gumbo” by the
natives, the land crab is particularly
delicate and appetizing. First, tanya
leaves are chopped fine and boiled un-
til tender. Then the okra is added 'in
thin slices, with onion, tomato and :1
bit of salt pork. Then the crabs are
added—one for each person is not too
much. —New York Journal
Lady (engaging a. new cook) Can you
clean bicycles?
' Cook—No, lady, but I can give you
the address where I have mine clean-
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