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jroun una Hawaiian jttaiu Saturday, july Hawaiian rATT A ktt-v cmrr SJublished every afternoon (except Sunday) by the Hawaiian Star Newspaper Association, Limited. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Eocal, per annum $8.00 Foreign, per annum 12.00 Payable in advance. Entered at Post Office at Honolulu, Hawaii, as second class mall matter. FRANK L.

HOOGS MANAGER T.T. 777.7 JULY i47 1906 A Paltry Sum For Repairs aaa. Trf A cable disnatch announcinEr Jin. r. that it has been discovered that Lilt Hilt? Ul HA Ul'UU Ul V.4 bling, ends with the anti-climax that it will cost $10,000 to make necessary repairs.

When one hears of the walls of IVatican crumbling, one naturally and instantly draws the conclusion that something really serious is the matter. It is as if one were suddenly told, with the apparent force of authority, that the gates of hell were beginning to prevail against the church. It sounds ominous. It portends a calamity. The Vatican, as a building is one of the most important in the world, tin its figurative sense, as representing the power of the Catholic Church, the term Vatican represents one of the great influences hi the world.

If anything really serious has befallen the material Vatican, the natural suggestion is that the cost of repair will be in consonance with the importance of the building, and what it represents. But Bah! Why if only a little paint and putty were needed, an American contractor, figuring on the job would figure at least $10,000 for scaffolding. Ten thousand dollars! Why we spend that much on repairs on our own Judiciary Building alone! Ten thousand dollars It is a mere bauble. Why there isn't a second class city in the United States that hasn't spent more than that on repairs to its city hall. The Italian architect, engineer, or contractor, who made that estimate of $10,000 must be a paltry soul.

Why the very fact that the repairs are to be made to the Vatican entitles the estimate to be in a great deal higher class than that; and crumbling walls! The sound is enough to ma'ke $100,000 at least, merely a reasonable profit. Abas! What the Vatican needs, evidently, is a press agent with a larger soul than one that cannot rise above an estimate of $10,000 for the repair of crumbling walls. For Rational I Celebration The fight against the Chinese style of celebrating the Fourth of July with noise, and explosion, gunpowder and resounding bomb, is gaining ground. The American people arc beginning to question the sound sense of a style of celebration that costs more lives, and maimed children, and destruction of property, than anyone of most of the battles of the Revolution. The fight has been waged in some form or other for a good many years, though in general not very vigorously, nor in a very widespread movement.

But the fight has been 'kept up. About a quarter of a century ago the Chicago Tribune began collecting and tabulating the accidents and casualities due to this style pf Fourth of July celebration, all over the country, and keeping results before the American people. It spent a good deal of money in its efforts to make these returns complete. It was heartily laughed at for a long time for its pains. But it kept at it.

Its statistics became more complete each year. For a number of years they have been accepted generally as reliable, though not necessarily giving all of the casualties of this kind. Its figures were the minimum never an exaggeration. In this form they have served as material for many other publications and institutions in the fight, and the number of agencies that have been enlisted have grown steadily and rapidly of late. One of the most striking results of this movement is the strict enforcement of ordinances against the" use of toy pistols, bombs, firecrackers and other similar explosives in large cities.

It is getting to be a common thing now for there to be such ordinances and for them to be strictly enforced. As a result the number of ca'sualities has greatly decreased particularly in the larger cities. A summary of the Chicago Tribune's figures for this year as compiled July 5, is as follows: Revised lists of Fourth of July casualties bring th total deaths up to forty-seven, the total injured of a serious nature 2054, and the total loss by fire directly attributed to the celebration $74,000. Philadelphia leads the list of accidents with a total of 244, New York comes next with 186 and Chicago is third with 156. St.

Louis is a close fourth with 148. The greatest number of deaths was at Wanaimie, where eight persons were killed. 'In large cities the death list was greatly reduced this year owing to strict lays and rigid enforcement thereof. New York had but two deaths, against a former average of fifteen, and Chicago had but two death, whereas former years all the way from ten to thirty was the customary figure. Chicago led the fire losses with $23,650.

A Bloody Conflict I If it is true, as is reported by 5 cable, that the federal troops in had four thousand killed in one battle with the rebels, the war is something more than the opera bouffe affair we are accustomed to consider Latin-American civil wars. As a matter of fact, however, this opera bouffe idea is an erroneous one. It is true that some of the encounters between factions in some of the Central American states, or between 'separate states of that region, when compared to wars carried on between important nations, seem puny and ridiculous. But it must be remembered that the Central American states are small affairs. The whole of Central America is only about as large as the State of California.

Divide that up into five or six distinct countries, and they are pretty small, and of necessity their armies must be small and their fighting, when compared with the Franco-Prussian war, seem on a puerile and trifling scale. But when casualties are considered, it is often far from opera bouffe. The Latin-American, whatever his other qualities, is able to, and' does put up bloody fights. Some of the wars that have devastated Central and South America have been sanguinary in the extreme. There isn't a country in Central or South America which has not been, within the past half century, the scene of some of the most bloody fighting the world has known The war between Uragury and Paraguay about forty years ago, was one of the most bloody in modern If le trim li-- 1 1 1 j.i it a uul wui vnt i-wutiiuiova iubi Kuieu one oattie, tliac is about one-tenth of the entire Russian 'killed in the late war with Japan, which lasted for nearly two years and was marked by a series of widely extended, and vigorously fought battle's between tremendous -armies on both sides.

Four thousand killed, is a fearful slaughter. (It could hardly have occurred without very severe, probably approximate loss on the other side. Eight thousand killed in one battle marks it as an important conflict. MALT-NUTRINE A The Best Malt Preparation in the market, recommended i by Physicians. 'Manufactured by the Anheuser-Busch Co.

I Hoi lister Drug Co. 5w Tr IT-TV HlvT NOTICE. Beginning November 15, 1905, owing to a change In the price of certain sizes of crushed rock, prices will be as follows: No. 1 $1.55 per cubic yard. No.

2 $1.80 per cubic yard. No. 3 $2.05 per cubic yard. No. 4 $1.80 per cubic yard.

We wish to call attention to the fact that No .4 has been reduced to practically the price of white sand, making It available for nil kinds of concrete work for which It Is far superior to any other sand. LORD BELSER I QUEEN STREET Firewood, Stove, Steam and Blacksmith Cool WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Special Attention Given To DRAY1NQ ALSO, WHITE AND BLACK SAND. STEINWAY AND OTHER PIANOS. THAYER PIANO CO.

156 AND 158 HOTEL STREET. Opposite Young Hotel. Uy the way the water seems to figure In that core trench it looks as though we didn't need a dam or reservoir, but simply a core trench or two. Perhaps they would bo all the better with the core left out. Now If some Upton Sinclair should take those two late plantation accidents, where one Jap fell Into the molasses vat and another Into the mixer, and should weave a romance around them and call It the "Canebrake" or something of that sort, who knows what might happen to the sugar Industry? Judge Parsons accuses a prosecuting officer of having nolle prossed a case out of plquo because he could not secure an Indictment In another case.

Ho does not say who the prosecuting officer Is, the Hawaii Herald figures It out that It is the present County Attorney of Hawaii The star on the American Hag to represent Oklahoma Is to go In the lower left hand corner. But It Is not going there until next July. How many can tell without stopping to consult a geogrophy, how many stars that will make on the American flag? A cynical man who stood In the long line at the water office window this morning, waiting for a chance to pay his water rates, said ho wondered why some of those In line had to water rates at all. The rains which havo been falling so copiously on Oahuseom to have had a wider extension than this Island alone. Maul reports a drought of two months, broken 'by two days of frequent and heavy showers.

Is the fall In tho price of fuel oil as evidenced by tho new contract mado by some of the Maul plantations, duo to tho possibilities of denatured alcohol? According to all accounts tho Chl-neso crew of tho Siberia responded to the fire alarm with the same alacrity and celerity that tho ancient mariner used to respond when tho bo'sun piped all hands to grog. Bill Hulhul, tho prize fighter, has gono Into politics. Or Is It that Bin Hulhul, the politician, has engaged in ring battles? FACTS AND FANCIES. From tho Public Ledger, Philadelphia. Six thousand MIssourlans have signed a petition for tho benefit of a murderess, but, of course, none of them was murdered by her.

The Proctors do not exactly own Vermont, but they seem to havo a mortgage, It Is a little mean to pass tho Burton caso up to tho President. Ho has troubles enough. Attractions At The zoo KAIMUKI HEIGHTS Any Time Every Day Camera Obscura, Merry-go-round, Hawaiian Grass Huts, Open Air Skating Rink, Animals, Birds, Etc. Music Saturdays and Sundays. Don't miss a good time.

Honolulu Iron Works. STEAM ENGINES, SUGAR MILLS, BOILERS, COOLERS, IRON, BRASS AND UJAD Machinery of Every Description Made to Order. Particular attention paid to Ship's Blacksmlthlng. Job Work Executed on Short Notice. Telephone Main P.

O. Box 683. 101 HARRY ARMITAGE Stoolc niicl llioraCl lirolcor. Members of Honolulu Stock and Bond Exchange. Few shares of following stocks for sale: Pioneer Mill Oahu Sugar Ewa Plantation Hawaiian Sugar Walalu Agricultural Etc.

Office, Campbell Block. St. Honolulu, T. H. 'Rithmetic The Burroughs Adder Is a whole course In arithmetic condensed Into one of the grandest pieces of mechanism, that has ever been devised by man.

It is easy to make a mistake In adding but the Burroughs cannot err. Simplicity Is the keynote of Its construction and it will not get out of order. Wo will let you have It on trial for thirty days. Everything for tho office. COMPANY Chester Is having a tasto of tho Blue Laws, and begins to feel that way.

Paterson had better live down Its reputation. Many crooks tried to profit by tho Muth caso. The only one who got any-thlngput of It got more than ho wanted. People had almost forgotten that Justice Deuel, of New York, had a sword suspended over him until Mr. Jeromo began to saw at tho hair by which tho weapon Is suspended A man who has been removed from tho death cell at Sing Sing in prospect of a now trial says they "would not lock a dog up in such a place." Probably not.

Comparatively few dogs kill peo ple. Tho Western woman who says she Is-tho wife of Senator Piatt ought to glvo people a chance to forget it. There is an old man who is seeking to establish the fact that he Is the fath er of John Alexander Dowlo. Strange old man, REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A man with an automobile doesn't havo to be a toatchelor unless ho wants to.

Young people come homo from school for their vacation so as to go away again somewhero else for It. Thero's no uso telling a girl she is pretty; to do tho work you must tell her sho is tho prettiest one you over paw. A man can got a good deal moro ex cited over a muffed fly at a base ball game than having his neighbor's house burn down. When you see a woman painting up an old chair It's just as likely as not it is for the lawn, so that she can speak of It as tho summor house. New York Press.

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