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Items of Interest
According to the annual report of Governor Dole the total valuation of real and personal property in Hawaii, subject to ad valorem assessment in 1890, is $97,491,584. The receipts from taxes are estimated at $1,341,650. The commerce of Hawaii is shown for the period between January 1 and June 4, 1900, as follows: Imports, $10,683,516; exports, $14,404,496; customs revenues, $597,897. With a few exceptions the development of the natural resources of the islands has scarcely begun. The aggregate area of the public lands is approximately 1,772,713 acres, valued at $3,569,800.
The suspension of the exchange of bonds under the refunding law of last March was officially announced on November 21 by Secretary Gage, to take effect at the close of the calendar year. The refunding law permitted holders of the three per cent bonds, issued for the Spanish war, the old four per cents of 1907. and the five per cents maturing in 1904, to present them to the treasury for exchange into two per cent bonds, payable in gold.
Probably at no time since the Civil War have there been so few regular soldiers stationed in the United States as there are to-day. Of the one hundred thousand officers and men constituting the present army all but about seventeen thousand are serving abroad, mostly in the Philippines.
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November 29, 1900 issue
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Some Objections Met
William Holman Jennings
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A Personal Explanation
Theodore F. Seward
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Earth's Size Exactly Measured
with contributions from Macdonald
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The Lectures
with contributions from George T. Smith, James Husted
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The Church Manual
with contributions from Henry Vincent
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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Thanksgiving
Editor
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The Wednesday Evening Service
A Traveler
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"My Ships."
Editor
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Among the Churches.
with contributions from Jeannette Quick, Bertha M. F. Gaston, H. M. Buchanan, S. F. S., Jennie Louise Coolbroth, Nellie H. Wulff, Jas. H. Willard
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Concerning our Publications
with contributions from Mary Baird Marriott, Eugene Howell, A. T., R. E. Carey
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Free!
BY FRANCES H. COIT.
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Spiritual Power Producing Physical Results
BY REV. JESSE L. FONDA.
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A Helpful Thought
BY S. M.
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Thanksgiving
BY FRANCES MIHILLS BISHOP.
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How I became a Christian Scientist
Sarah Gilbert Schuyler
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How my Prayer was Answered
Louis Helm with contributions from Emerson, St. Augustine