refuse to arbitrate this point, which
seems to be the most important of all the questions involved.

The Japanese are continuing to send large numbers of emigrants to
Honolulu, and the Hawaiians have become very much alarmed about it.

They insist that the new colonists are Japanese soldiers disguised as
laborers, and that the Mikado is sending them over to be in readiness to
fight for the possession of the country in case the United States
decides to annex it.

* * * * *

The strike in Hazleton is now over, but the settlement has not been made
without a good deal of trouble and anxiety.

When the state troops ordered out by the Governor arrived in the town,
some of the men decided to go to work under the protection of the
troops. The spirit of the strikers had been broken by the firing of the
Sheriff and his posse, and many of the men who were peaceably inclined
thought the best thing to do was to go back to work.

The women did not agree with them. The wives and mothers of the
unfortunate men who had been killed declared that their dear ones should
not have been sacrificed for nothing; and as the men refused to continue
the strike, the women decided to go on with it for them.

A strike is of no use unless all the men stand together and hold out for
their point. The women understood this perfectly, and they determined
that the men should stand together.

Arming themselves with sticks, they set out in a body for the mines that
were being worked, and under the very noses of the soldiers raided the
works and drove the men out.

The next morning the men, still determined to go to work, started out in
a body for the mines. On their way they were met by a body of women, who
drove them back with threats and scoldings to their homes again.

The general in command of the state troops then decided that it was time
for him to interfere, and on the third day, when the women attempted to
stop the men, the troops were ordered to disperse them.

To frighten the women the officers ordered their men to fix their
bayonets and advance on the women as if they meant to charge them.

The two bodies met--the women brandishing their sticks, and the men with
their glittering bayonets pointed at this unusual foe.

The women were, however, not deceived. They refused to believe that the
soldiers would charge them, and when they saw the men advancing they
began to laugh. This laugh was rapidly taken up