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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16
Genoa and Marseilles did for italy and

Genoa and Marseilles did for italy and
France of the sixteenth.
But when Shakespeares and Spen-
GERS and Millions supercede our Car
negies and Gou1ds and Rockefe1lers,
what change will come over the as
pect of affairs. The commercial spirit
of the age has left very decided and
conspicuous marks of its presence. All
our great cities and even our towns
bear the unmistakab1e traces of the
money maker. Street railways, e1e-
waited railroads, sky scrapers, great
and crowded cities and all the evil
dences of hustle and economy of time,
space and distance, while the natural
results of a commercial age would not
prove very attractive to the fancy of
the poet or scholar of the past. Quiet
groves and wooded walks are supposed
to be much more to the taste of the
poet and scholar than the post lined
trolley 1ineor the marts of a busy city.
WHICH, Jul AA(NLelA OA1 ONNA
takes us the enormous wealth that has
been accumulated with the passing
age of commerce will SO to the build
ing of cities and villas more to the
taste of people that have outgrown
and outworn the para pherna1ia of COM
mercia1 life. We will have SO much
time, so much leisure in the coming
literary era that there will be no need
OF electric railways. Perfected auto
mobiles that make no noise and pave
ments that put dirt out of the question
will be the vogue. Great private as
well as public libraries will be common
things and the social game of cards
will give way to the salon such as La
Rochecau1d and Madame de Stael
presided over in the ha1cyon days of
France.
At present, however, old and young
America alike is content to forego lit
erary pursuits and dabble in stocks on
fuctuating market.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16
THE Milwaukee base ball club will
not suffer the handicap Of too good a
beginning.


The parks committee Of England
London county council is considering
an interesting proposal, namely, the
introduction Of butterflies into the in
closure under it's jurisdiction. The
happy suggestion was made by c.
J. Longman Of Paternoster row. His
plan Of action seems quite workable,
and he has chosen three butterflies to
begin with whose requirements are not
very great, which are very prolific and
which are among the most handsome
Of the more common species.
The insects in question are the cred
admirable, with it's velvety black
wings, bordered with black and white;
the peacock" with it's famous
"eyes," and the pretty little tortoise
SHELF The food plant upon which
the caterpillars live is the same in
all cases, being the singing nettle.
All that will be required at first will
be plantations of nettles. inclosed for
protection sake, upon which host OF
eggs Or young grubs will be placed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16

WHY is it that the foreigners one
meets and speaks with, both in this
country and uabroad, are uniformly
convinced that the first and by far the
most characteristic feature of gov
eminent in the United States, nation
al, state and municipal, is "boodle"?
Is it fact that good and honest and
statesman1ike men are any less numer-
Gus in the counse1s of the United
States than in other countries? Or IS
the idea a misconception?
The average right minded American
will emphatica11y deny and discredit
such a possibility. To him the United
States is the greatest government on
the face of the earth, its institutions
are the best and it's statesmen are the
wisest and most honest. But there are,
unfortunately, those in this country
who cannot strongly enough denounce
everything connected with the United
States. In their estimation the really
good and bright people in this be-
nighted nation are confined within
line drawn very closely about them
selves. To these and to the so called
-"ye11ow journals" belongs the respon-
sibi1ity, or much of it, for the gross
misunderstanding of ourselves and
our institutions so prevalent among
European peoples.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16

THE Indians in the neighborhood OF
Pine Point, Mimi, are about to don
the paint and rifle and go on the war
path, and the white people in that vi
cinity are in state of panic because
thereof. And it is all owing to the
trifing fact that the Indians object to
the government estimates on timber
recently cut in their locality. The In
dams insist that the estimates are not
sufficiently large and that they will
not benefit by the removal of the lot
at the governments figures. Strange,
isn't it? Surely the white man has
done all in his power to inure the poor
red to hardship of this kind, and after
all his efforts here is the incorrigible
savage making warlike demonstra-
ton against being "done."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16
American Biscuits in Havana.

A Philadelphia who has just re-
turned from Cuba was impressed by
two things during his stay in Havana
the strength of the coffee that is
served and the vast quantities Of soda
biscuits of American manufacture
consumed by the natives. ''It took
me some time to get accustomed to
the Coffee he said. cat first | used
to water it, but gradually | fell into
the Cubans' way of drinking it, and
learned to like the strong, aromatic
favor. Our own coffee now tastes
weak and insipid to me. The poorer
classes of Cubans will make a meal
from coffee and soda biscuits.
learned that more of these biscuits are
sold in Havana than in any Of even
the largest Of American cities.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16
KenOsha WOman's Club Held Its Last
Meeting for the Year at the
Library This Afternoon.
MRS. G. v. REDEKER PRESIDENT
Plans for the Coming Year Provide for a
Great Extension of the Work-Ap nua1
Election ofSof1cers Takes Place.

The Kenosha Woman's club held it's
annual meeting this afternoon at the
Assembly room at the Gilbert M. Sim
mons library. The meeting was the
last of the season and for this reason a
large number of the members of the
club were present. This meeting
closes one of the most successful sea-
sons in the history of the club. Dur
ing the year the ladies have held fort
nightly meetings, and great deal OF
time has been given to the serious
study of historical subjects. Besides
the regular work outlined in the club
manual the ladies have arranged for
courses of lectures which have been
exceedingly interesting not only to the
ladies' of the club, but to the people of
the city at large.
While the club will not hold meet
ings during the summer months, the
members of the com mittees will be
very busy outlining the work for the
coming season. There will be little
change in the routine work of the
club. The study of history will be
continued, but the members will give
more time to the discussion of prac-
teal subjects. Several papers have
been read during the present season
in which practical subjects were con-
sidered, and these papers proved so in
teresting that more Of the time of the
club will be given to practical sub
jects during the coming year. The
members of the club will also probably
arrange for a series Of extension lee
lures for next winter, at which well
known speaker from one of the univer-
ties will be employed.
At this, the last meeting of the club,
the annual election of officers re-
suited in the following officers being
chosen for the year:
President-Mrs. Harriet E. Redeker.
e-President-Mrs. Harriet E..
Meers.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss Bes-
sic G. Hurd.
Recording Secretary--Mrs N. P.
Cavanagh.
Treasurer-Mrs. Beatrice Farr.
Directors-Mrs. Harriet Saunders,
Mrs. Jennie Curtis, Mrs. Mary Theirs,
Mrs. Emma Fisher, Mrs. Mary Robin
son, Mrs. Elizabeth Mailer.
The membership of the club has
shown decided advance during the
present year, and the full list of mem
bers have been taken in, while many
are still on the waiting list. The
membership includes many of the best
known ladies of the city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16
After the Commercial age, what? 1t

After the Commercial age, what? 1t
seems almost impossible at first
thought that the American people will
ever be anything else than CONNER
cia1 people. We have been a CONNER
cia1 nation since the beginning of our
history and appear to be more and
more so as the years come and'Qgo.
But it is possible, andsinevitab1e, that
there will come, some time, to the
United States another than a CONNER
cia1 age. The terrific race1now on
among the nations of the earth for
commercial supremacy will reach at
least a temporary conclusion some
time. It is not unlikely that the
| United States will so far outstrip all
competitors that there will be a 1u1l in
| in it's commercial activities, we will
rest on our oars, SO to speak, and &C
tivities of another kind will Succeed
those of the present day. The enorm-
Gus effort that is being put forth com
merciallysand industrially just now
cannot be continued for ever. There
must come let up, and then energies
that have hitherto lain dormant will
arouse and assert themselves. A great
nation like the United States is bound
to contribute something beside materi-
al wealth to the advancement of the
world. A literary era is just as likely
to follow the present commercial era
in the history of the United States as
the Renaissance followed the great
commercial enterprises Of the dawn Of
modern history. New York and Chi.
cago, New Orleans and San Francisco
are likely to do for the United States
of the twentieth century what Pisa
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16

Mr.. VANNoRDEN, the New York
banker, who objects to ministers TAX
ing so long vacations, may be on the
right track, but he has rather slimsy
argument to advance in the support of
his demurrer. It is not likely that the
reason advanced by Mr.. Vannorden
.against.the ministers vacation viz, that
there are others who cannot take va
cation, would find much sympathy
with the people. The fact that mer-
chants and bankers cannot take va
cation is no valid reason that minis
ter should not take one if he can getit.
Nor is it any reason whatever why the
merchant or the banker should not
take a vacation, if he is able, because
the minister is unable to follow his
example.
Mr.. Vannorden also takes pleasure
in dwelling upon the fact that the
minister, in takingihis vacation, leaves
his church for three or four months Of
the year. The case of the average
minis ter is somewhat peculiar. 1t is
dollars to doughnuts that the vacation
fad begins with his church members,
and if ali his congregation go off to
the summer resorts during the warm
months, the minister is sexcusable, if,
after a season of hard work, he is dis
posed to seek recreation and change
while his parishioners are taking their
rest. 1t will not do for the ministers,
especially those in the best paid pull
pits, to fall behind the times or to al
low the standard of their work to de.
preciate. They must be constantly
doing their level best. Hence, if they
give out some under the strain of theil
seven day week, what is more natura
than that they should seek to brace III
their ebbing energies while those fol
whom they have been 1aboring are alb
sent disporting themselves among thu
woods or mountain streams or on tn,
sea shore?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16

ABOUT two dozen young ladies of
Chicago have been losing quite heavily
Of late. They did not get mixed up in
the markets, but all of them took the
word of the same young man and on a
promise Of marriage entrusted him
with their va1uab1es, with which he
absconded. According to Russell
Sage, this was 1oaning on bad securi-
ties, so the girls ought to lose.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16

WHATEVER else may be said of the
Senate it is not susceptible to the
charge from the Assembly that it has
not made a respectable attempt to keep
its head. It has certainly way1aid and
sidetracked several pernicious and
foolish measures originating in the
Assembly, and if it is not reform
branch, as is generally alleged by
the closest friends of the primary cleo
ton law, it has done some very good
reform work for wicked set of Jug
g1ers such as it is represented to be.
1t has killed a bill permitting pool
selling on horse races and has killed
another bill providing for tax on ice
exported from the State. If the SEN
ate is not "reform" it is at least pos
sessed of considerable good sense and
has proved itself quite a faithful
watchdog of Ike States honor and in
terest.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16

IT wouldn't be surprising if the Leg
is1ature adopted any means in their
power to get the business off their hands
and the session adjourned. The sa1a-
ries of the Legislators are not so large
as to make an oindefnite session in
Madison thing to be desired.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16

THERE are great many ways in
which the State could spend money to
less advantage than in raising the
salaries of its legislators.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
Looking Ahead.

The Honolulu papers are discussing the
question of whether or not the recent
Legislature was a failure. That it was
an abject and deplorable failure is too
patent for discussion, but a matter
of fact, no one clique or party, not even
the Home Rulers, are wholly to blame
for this. Public feeling in a ferment
when they We're elected and the bitter
ness of personal feeling was rampant.
Much of this has passed off in froth,
and the people generally have come to
their sober senses. Consequently the
next Legislature is to be hoped for rather
than to be feared, and it is a safe pre-
diction that any party or clique who
again endeavors to gain by agitating fac
tional feeling will find the mass of the
people arrayed solidly against it. We
have done politics in this Legislature,
but we will do business in the next one.
Maui News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
UNDERWRITERS AT wAILUKU.
Looking Into the Means of Fire Pro
lection There.

Mr.. A. r. Gurrey, secretary of the
Board of Underwriters of the Hawaiian
Islands. has been engaged for the past
week in making the first official survey
of Wailuku on behalf of the Board of
Underwriters Heretofore in fixing the
rates of fire insurance on Maui, each
company has been guided solely by
such conditions as presented themselves
in each Individual case, and as re-
suit no fixed rates on the same classes
of property have been the rule, but
arbitrary rates have been fixed.
The principal object of Mr.. Gurrey' s
visit to the Island was to survey the
sugar mills for the purpose of discov-
ering if anything could be done in the
matter of lowering mill insurance, and
although he has so far examined only
the Hama, Kipahulu, Wailuku and Pio-
neer Mills he has been able to make
suggestions in the matter of making
these properties less risky which will
materially reduce the rate of insur-
ance. The removal of a dangerous cleo
tric wire, the bringing in of water
nine. as we'll as many other minor
changes in any given piece of property
to be insured. will have much weight
in determining the rate of Insurance to
be charged, and the examination OF
such property by Secretary Curry fire.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
SICK POON IS
A SICK POON
Hook KIM Smote Hin With a
Brick and an Officer
Hooked Him.

Hook Kim is in the tolls for dropping
a brick from a height onto the head of
a countryman of his, Sick Poon by
name. The brick made connections and
complainant is a very sick Poon in
consequence. Defendant was working
with complainant on Maunakea street
when, according to Sick Poon, he drop
ped brick from the top of the build
ing onto him, severely injuring his arm
and back.
This nettled complainant, who said
that such things were net right. Later
on in the day the friends met again in
a restaurant and there being bricks
handy Hook Kim attacked Sick Poon
With an iron bar and made quite hole
in his good arm, after which Hook Kim
withdrew. In the course of the day a
warrant was issued and a policeman
hooked Hook Kim.
Complainant ayers that his assailant
is trying to create a vacancy in the
re nks of carpenters in order that he
lnay introduce a friend.
Willie Sung Fook was arrested yes
terday for 1mperSonatlng ponce ofI1-
Ger On him were found a club, revol-
ve" and badge, emblems of authority.
Defendant was formerly member Of
Rubinson's patrol and is suspected of
having piled the gentle art of extortion
among his neighbors.
Deputy Sheriff Chillingworth raided
a pai kau game in Pauoa valley yes
terday afternoon and bagged fifteen
Celestials, who will face the music in
Judge Wilcox's court this morning.
Sadie Muller, who has frequently
graced the Police Court on liquor selling
charges was taken unawares at Iwilei
on Saturday night while illicitly shaking
the thirsts of a transport crew. Man
uel Phillips was arrested on a similar
charge.
Other arrests were: Kalehui, Kilea,
malicious injury; vi. Silva. common
nuisance: Anton Tavosh, needless driv-
ing; w. E. Terwillger. Becky Kaleau-
kela, Antoine Pieores. adultery; All Hoy,
Manuel Perreira, George Smith, inves-
tigation; Nagata, Tekalo and two ma
tives. drunkenness.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
MAUI ATHLETIC
CLUB MEETS
Does Not Need Much Money But
Wants a Little Very
Badly.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Maui Athletic Association was held at
the court house last Monday evening
I with a fairly large attendance, Chair
man L. NJ. Baldwin presiding.
The minutes of the regular meeting
of June were approved, there having
been no July meeting owing to lack OF
a quorum. From the reports of the
secretary and treasurer it appeared
that there is a large amount of un-
paid dues and but little money in the
treasury, and decisive measures were
adopted to collect unpaid dues.
The executive committee reported
that the baseball diamond at Wells
park is completed and that the grounds
are in fairly good condition for
game of oall. although it will require
one or two heavy rains to settle ana
nack the loose dirt in the outf1eld "A
game NAV be played on August H.
nrobably between the Wailuku and the
spreckelsyilIe teams. A small admls-
sion fee will be charged, the entire
ma,,aeement of the affair having been
left in the hands of the executive COM
mittee.
George Cummings was elected cap
tain of the Wailuku nine, and Dr. w.
r Boote manager. temporary grano
stand Is to be provided for Visitors. iiie
road roller will soon be brought up 70
the grounds and used to put the nnisii
on the diamond. =
Members who know themselves 10 pe
I'm arrears should not wait 10 ue
seen" but should at once looh -
Secretary. Schrader and settle up "a =,
large sum is not needed, but a siiiail
amount is imperatively required as
soon as possible to collect it-Maui
News.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
Murphy Hall.

There was a large attendance of mem
bers and visitors at Francis Murphy hall
o nSaturday night. to hear the Rev. Mr..
Adams address on the life, habits and
history of the Alaskan Indians, which
delighted the audience. 1t was highly
entertaining as well as instructive. The
president, Mr.. Austin. was unavoidably
absent and the chair was filled by Mr..
Noyes. The musical part of the ever,
ing's entertainment was most enjoyable
The instrumental solos by Messrs Wal
lace (mandolin) and Meath (banjo) were
encored repeatedly. Some fine songs
were sung by Messrs Noyes. Barrison,
Wallace and others and vocal duets by
Bradley and Avery. The usual sacred
concert took place on Sunday evening
when Mr.. Franklin H. Austin gave an
interesting address dealing with the
Francis Murphy movement and it's mean
ing. There VIII be meeting of the board
of directors this evening at Murphy hall
at 7:30 p. m.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12

quently results in suggestions for less
ening the hazard and thus reducing the
rate.
For this reason Mr.. Curry has been
requested by many of the owners OF
insured property on Maui to visit such
IaloEg these lines.
0fccor<se, IT makes no PARTICULAR DIFF
ference to the insurance companies
whether the property insured is Slightly
OF highly hazardous, for the reason that
they establish the rate of insurance ac-
cording to the risk involved. The prop
erty owners are the ones to be benefited
by lesSening the hazard of an insurab BILE
piece of property.
AS to Wailuku, Mr. Gurrey states that
if hydrants were placed in the water
mains and hose cart and 500 feet of
hose We're provided the rate of insur-
ance on Wailuku property would be
materially lowered, and he expressed
surprise that the citizens of Wailuku
who insure have not taken steps to
prod the Government into making such
provisions.
Mr.. Gurrey was called to Honolulu
on account of the recent fire, but will
as soon as possible return to Maui and
resume the inspection of insurable
property. The result of his work will
doubtless prove beneficial to those hav-
ing property to insure.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
HACKFELD HOME
SOLD TO M'GREW
The Block and Residencea Dis.
posed of at Private = -
Sale.

The residence of J. F. Hackfeld, which
occupies the square bounded by Lunalilo,
Kapiolani, Hackfeld and Green streets,
has been sold to DR.. John T. McGrew.
The consideration was $4,000 cash. The
carpenters are now at work making re-
pairs and additions to the house. which
will be ready for occupancy the first of
September. 1t Is understood that the sale
of his residence means that Mr.. Hackfeld
will not return to Hawaii from Germany,
where he is now living.
The residence is about seven years old,
and is a very stoutly built house. The
grounds are well laid out, and, excepting
that they have not had the best of care
during the absence of the owner, are in
good shape. It Is the intention of DR..
McGrew to occupy the residence as soon
as 1t is ready. seeking greater privacy
than is possible at his present home.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-12
FOUND DEATH In
SHALLOW WATER
George Freeman Succumbed to
Heart Disease While
Bathing at Waikiki.

Down by the Hawaiian Hotel annex
at Waikiki on Saturday afternoon a
bather George Freeman by name, met
his death in six inches of sun warmed
water
| About o'clock in the afternoon the
deceased man hired a bathing suit and
shortly afterwards entered the water.
No one seems TO have observed him un-
, til his dead body was found in the shoal
water a foot or so from shore.
The services Of Drs. Murray and Her
bert We're requisitioned but it. was too
late for them to be of any assistance.
The body was taken to the morgue
ard an autopsy performed by DR.. Nc
Donald showed that death was attrib
utable to heart disease.
Until yesterday morning the identity
of the deceased man remained clouded
II doubt. There was nothing in his
clothes or effects TO reveal who he was
or from whence he came. 1t was rumor-
ed at first that he had arrived in Ho-
nclulu on the transport Fitzpatrick.
Yesterday the body was identified by
d friend as that of George Freeman, a
native of Davenport. England He
came to the Islands in the bark Olym-
pic. Up to Saturday afternoon he was
working for Hackfeld & Co on the
Young building. He drew his money at
noon and told his friend that he in
tended to work overtime. Feeling tired.
however, he changed his mind and
after partaking of a couple of glasses
of beer went to Waikiki for a swim.
The dead man was rniddle-aged and
his name was found tatooed six inches
in length on his right leg.