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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19

WEEK MEETINGS
Interesting Services Being
Held by the Salvation
Army Corps.

The Salvation Arny'S week of special
Self-Denial meetings opened most aus
piciously on Sunday. The meetings in
the hall all day were well attended anG
at night they were well filled. Major
Wood, who has been confined to the
house by sickness for several days. was
out and had charge of the service.
During the meeting two new members
were enrolled beneath the flag in the
unique Army fashion. and by the looks
of the platform. crowded with fine,
happy looking corps of men and women,
things must be in healthy condition
with these soldiers of the cross
Last night the Rev. j. P. Erdman of
Palama chapel was the principal
speaker. In introducing him to the
audience the Major said that in his
opinion it was a most beautiful evidence
of Christian unity to see half a dozen
ministers, representing all kinds of de-
nominations, taking their place on the
Army's platform night after night all
through this week A pleasing feature
of the meeting was the active part
taken in it by one of the boys from the
English warship Warspite, Seaman
tombstone, a bright Scotch lad. He is
one of four Salvation Army soldiers on
board and was the only one on shore
leave. The principal speaker in the
meeting tonight is the pastor of the
Christian church, Rev. A. e. Cory. a
large turnout is expected.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19
FIRE CLAIMS
IN THE COURTS
Tong Chong Chan Sues the
New Zealand Insurance
Company.

The New Zealand Insurance Company,
foreign corporation, is again in hot
water as defendant in the suit brought
against it by Tong Chong Chan, plain
tiff in error. The latter has filed a pc
tition and assignment of errors with
the Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Territory relative to his claim for fire
insurance money which he alleges is
due to him on account of the destruc>
ton of his goods on January 20. 1900,
in the sweeping oonf1agration which
took place in Chinatown.
He states that on January L, 1901, he
duly filed in the Circuit Court his com
plant in an action of assumpsit upon
a certain fire insurance policy. No. sc,
issued to him by the defendant in error
for the sum of $500, wherein he prayed
for judgment against the defendant for
$500. On January Is, 1901 the defendant
filed~a demurrer, alleging, among other
things, that the action was not COM
menced within the term of six months
next after the alleged loss or damage
occurred, the term limited by said pol
icy in which action may be brought.
The plaintiff in error further states
that on January 80, the plaintiff and
First Circuit Judge. upon a question of
law raised in said action by the de-
murrer, namely, whether or not said
action was barred by lapse of time.
having not been commenced within the
term Of six months next after the de-
struction by fire of his stock of goods.
The Judge rendered his decision on the
point so raised, sustaining the demurrer
=, tl,rN 1n, t,n
ground raised by the defendant The
plaintiff alleges the following errors oc>
Cured in the decision: First, that the
ruling and decision of the First Circuit
Judge. in sustaining the demurrer and
in dismissing the complaint, was and
is in error and contrary to the law of
the Territory of Hawaii and of the
rights and claims of the plaintiff in err
ror against the defendant in error, the
condition of said policy relative to the
time limit being contrary to public pol
icy. Petitioner prays that a writ of
error may issue directed to George Luz
cas-, first clerk of the Circuit Court
commanding him to forthwith send up
to the Supreme Court all the papers
in the case so the errors may be cor
rected.
heaupunl haukana tW), resident OF
Waikele, Eva, Oahu, and the wife of
Kihapiilani, desires a severing of the
bonds of matrimony by which she was
bound to her husband in January, 1889
She has filed papers against her hus-
band in the Circuit Court, stating her
reasons for desiring single blessedness.
She says that from 1889, when the two
were married, they lived happily at
Eva until 1892, when her husband left
her. He has since that time neglected
her and refused to provide her with the
necessaries of life, and by this action
she has been compelled to accept the
support of her parents ever since the
year 1892. She desires an absolute d.
vorce.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19
ON A JAPANESE RAILROAD.

The second and third class railroad
carriages give the foreigner an oppor-
tunity to study the life of the Japanese
people. On entering the first thing one
notices in that white lines are drawn
across the glass windows and upon in
quiry the information is elected that
some of the people who travel in the
cars are unused to glass, which per-
haps they have never seen before and
that they are apt to put their heads
through if there is nothing to indicate
that substance bars the way.
In cold weather all Japanese travel
ers carry rugs, for the cars are heated
merely by long steel cylinders filled
with hot water and laid on the floor.
Since the passengers are always pulling
open the windows, Japanese cars in
midwinter are a menace to the health
of every individual who has become
used to an even temperature within
doors.
The smallest incident of travel is
enough to break the ice, and if a per-
son has wrong ticket or has lost any
thing it is a matter of interest and
solicitude for everybody else. Many of
the passengers are apt to behave with
the same unrestrained freedom as in
their own homes. If they are starting
on long journey they at once, pro-
ceed to make themselves as comfortable
as possible. A rug is spread out on
the seat, for they are very particular
never to sit on anything that is not
perfectly clean. Then they shake off
their geta, or wooden clogs, and curl
their feet up underneath The next
thing is smoke, in which both men
ana women indulge, sometimes lighting
cigarette after cigarette, but more often
they use the tiny pipe, which never
contains more tobacco than a wisp the
size OF pea, and affords one, some
times two, puffs to the smoker. The
ash is then knocked out on the floor
and another wisp stuffed in and lighted
from the smoldering ash which has Just
been thrown away. This is kept up, off
and on, for hours.
When not smoking, eating is gong
on. At every station there are vendors
of the little mandarin oranges. Every
passenger buys dozen or more and
eats them in short time, throwing the
skins about the floor. Boys pass by
with tea in tiny earthen pots, a cup
placed over the top, and this may be
purchased for three sen Ga cent and
half), and the teapot is left in the car.
Besides leaning out of the car win
dows TO buy these, the passengers have
little wooden boxes filled with lunch.
In the upper part is closely packed rice,
in the lower are all sorts of little pick
les and bits of cake. Attached are two
wooden chopsticks.
The Japanese throw all sorts of refuse
about, and from the appearance of
car after the passengers have been in
1T little while, one would imaeie
that the people are very untidy in tn ir
way of living. People enter at some
OF the stations and brush UP whole pans
1ulf OF refuse, and on some lines of the
road small boy with spruce uniform
comes to the car door at each stop,
with a clothesbrush in his hand makes
deep bow to the occupants and in
qulres if there is anything that they
want
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19
SIZING Up Legislature

The legislators got on their ear on
Saturday, and wanted to get even with
the newspapers. The average legisla
tor always feels his oats. He has been
aobody, and suddenly he is thrust into
prominence. The average new spaper
man knows the exact value OF the
average legislator and the poor little
thing he is. The average newspaper
man is infinitely the superior of the
average legislator, and the only way
the little legislator can get back is
to try to use power delegated to him
for very different purpose. Our wise
acres have been making the average
fools of themselves, but no bigger fools
than the California Legislature did d
couple of years ago. But who remem-
bers the names of the men who We're
in that Legislature, any more than in
a. couple of months any one will re-
member the names of those who are
in our own.-Star.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-19

cricket are invited to be present and
partake of afternoon tea on the ground.
The Warspite's team is said to be
crack enc.
On Friday afternoon the sailors will
play a game of football under Rusoy
r44es against a local team. 1t is several
years since the Rugby game was played
in Honolulu and the visitors should
make a great bid for victory.
H. NJ S. Icarus is expected to return
here early in April and a series of crick-
ct and football games VIII undoubtedly
be PLAYED.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
BREAKING RESOLUTIONS.
A Custom Popular with Many Men
at the Beginning of Every
Year,

There is custom among men, as
venerable as it is popular, of making
good resolutions with the advent of
the new year and of faithfully break
ing them befolse it is week old. 1t
is well to make good resolutions at
any time, and there is no objection
to New Years day as one of the
dates. As rule, however, says the
Chicago journal, man who cannot
keep good resolution in June will
be no more successful with it in JAN
uary, but it is wise of him to make
it on New Years day, if only on the
chance of its keeping him decent
week. On this occasion, in addition
to making his good resolutions re-
garding his personal conduct, it
might not be amiss for the confirmed
swearer-off to give thought or two
to his behavior to his neighbor. To
forbear to lie; to scorn to cheat; to
eschew avarice; to shun evil-speak-
ing; to forswear the practice of
equivocal business methods; to check
rash temper and cease worrying over
trivial things; to love the truth; to
aid the friendless; to be kind to the
little children; to be tolerant of the
frailties of the weak-these are
some of the ennobling aims.
1t is time to bury dead issues, to
put away, decently and in order, inn
possible hopes and dreams and face
the future with a strong courage
and a bright heart. And with the
forward look must come the convic-
tion to every man who keeps his soul
as well as his body clean that there
is a blessing in the fields and the
mountains and the sea, a stimulant
in the very sunshine; that the world
in which we live is very beautiful
place.
There can be no happiness in the
world without unsclfshness. There
fore, when you wish your friend a
happy new year pray that he may be
unselfsh, and try to do something
for others; for if he is human he
can find happiness in no other way.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
HAS LOTS OF NERVE.
Boy Sociologist Investigates the
Cities of the Country.
Travelled from Jersey City to Cali
fOrnia and Back without Contrib
uting Cent to the Treasuries
of Hallway Companies.

A 14-year-old boy who leaves his
home and his school to travel through
this country so that he may get ma te-
rial for lecture, and who finds in Chi
cago enough material for a complete
lecture, which he will deliver to the
exclusion of what he learned about
other cities in the United States, is
more or less an unusual boy. But when
at his ripe age of II he descants on the
institutions he has found to be good
and those he considers bad and writes
in poor English, but undenia bic earn
estness, poems about his home and his
parents, he has certainly proved his
right to be judged as the only member
of his class and as neither a boy tramp
nor hired boy courier.
The young man who has come into
Chicago, and having studied the town
for three days, has left to write his ad-
dress about it is, according to the Chi
cago Tribune, one Abraham Levy. and
he lives at 275 West Kinney street,
New Jersey. He has never had money
enough to spare at one time to have his
photograph taken, but once he is seen
he is like the falls of Ma CARA or the
pyramids of the desert-impossible to
forget. He is undersized even for Ia,
and his hair and eyes, and his hands
for that matter, are as black as the
best stove polish. He talks as rapidly
as phonograph at full speed. His fa-
ther and mother live in Newark, and
up to July IS last he went to school in
that town. Then he left without a
word of warning and was next heard
from in Troy, n. Y. He had come up
along the Hudson under freight train
on the New York Central road, which
is notoriously one of the most difficult
roads in the country to beat for fare
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26

were easily induced to come In and
remain until daylight, which was
now close at hand. They were need
ed as witnesses to the marriage cere-
mony, and even had the weather
made driving pleasure they could
not have resisted so interesting an
experience.
Four men and one woman sat
down to the wedding breakfast,
which consisted of baked beans, corn
bread and coffee, and it is safe to
say that never a wedding breakfast
was eaten by a jollier company.
'And thus" said Jack, melodra-
matically, 'eth happy bachel-
or's New Year celebration"
Uncle Ben went back to his work
in the city that day, for the hired
team must be returned to it's own
ers, and his poor people could not be
neglected. But there were tears in
his eyes as he thought of the little
world of happiness he was leaving
behind him-tears shed in self-pity-
for Uncle Ben had never had a home.
He smiled, however, when he recalled
Jacks account of his search for
recipes suited to a bachelors holi-
day dinner, and Nellie's reassuring
reply that there was sufficient ma
terial in the house for a plum pud-
ding and a mince pie, too.
II am happy enough" Jack had re-
piled, ito dine like a king on corn
meal pancakes; perhaps Nellie's
swell dinner would be more than
this feeble heart of mine could
bear"
Don't take it to your heart, then"
was Nellie's saucy response; 81 want
that place myself"
verify" said Uncle Ben, as he
urged the horses into trot, "verily,
a dinner of herbs where love is
bless my soul, nags! can't you un-
derstand that | have New Year SER
mon to preach to-day?" = Sidney
Sieyes, in Minneapolis Housekeeper.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26

He went across New York to the lakes
and then by quick jumps he made San
Francisco and the other cities along
the coast. Back again he came and
the other day he arrived in Chicago
He was returning to New Jersey.
From the time he left Newark he
had not spent one cent for car fare or
| food. Neither had he stolen as much
as penny's worth of anything.
Against the habit of begging he had
no scruples. He outlined his position
on that question thus:
"As an American boy, I have a
right to see my country and so learn
| to love it more. | do not think that
| when | ask a man or a woman for
money to help me on my way l am
| imposing upon them. No person
that | have asked has refused me.
In Chicago l found they were very
kind"
Levy intends to do something in the
lecture field that no one has done so
far. He has made feature of the
propaganda of truth about Chicago
and few other towns, about which
he thinks the truth is yet to be told,
and it is to spread this propaganda
that he wants to get on a platform
with a pitcher of water in front of
him and with some dignfed chair
man to introduce him to the atten-
tion of his hearers.
His travels have taken from him all
touch of the parochial and the pro-
vincial He is a cosmopolitan, and
next year he intends to go abroad so
that he will have chance of COM
pairing Chicago with Rome, Paris and
London. He does not think he will
find any town where there are more
people on the street than there are
here, and he likes to see big crowds
The 14-year-old traveller and lee
turer is much cast down because he
lost the manuscript of one lecture he
had completed. This address treated
of conditions as they exist in Cali
fornia, in which state he found Los
Angeles to be the best town he met
in the far west. No author of an,
cient or modern times ever lost a
manuscript under the circumstances
that attended the loss of the lecture
on California by Levy. 1t wasn't
through lack of postage, or a wrong
address, or the heartless cruelty of
an editor that the world is deprived
of chance to hear that lecture. 1t
is because Levy rode through North /
Dakota on the tender of long
freight train, and that his hands got
cold When they were in this condi-
tion the first lecture dropped from
the car to the ground, and the train |
was going too fast to enable Levy to
follow his treasure. He will take the |
utmost care of his lecture on Chi.
cago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
Explained,

"You advertised said the gullible
one, that you had discovered the key
to success"
True" admitted the fallir.
well, it didn't help me little bit"
"The reason for that" answered the
fakir, pleasantly, sis that you have
been buying the key instead of selling
it. 1t has brought me success. Chi
caoO Post
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26

Then he fixed the fire, and before
preparing for bed went to the door
and looked out into the night 1t is
habit shared by all who live in
lonely places, for there is always
the feeling that some one may be
abroad who needs help.
The snow had ceased falling, and
the stars twinkled overhead, but the
wind still blew in gusts that kept
binding eddies in the frosty air.
ut is an ugly night" said Jack.
land | pity anyone who is not safely
housed. | wonder if-good Lord!"
"Helloa, there! Helloa!" came a
mans voice through the whrling
snow. Help! help! help!" The last
word ended in quaver that told of
helplessness and exhaustion.
"Whoop-e-e-e-e!" returned Jack, in
voice that rang like clarion call
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26

of goodies" and that is why he hap
pened to be poring over a cook-book
at an hour when he was usually
sound asleep in his comfortable bed.
"Mince pie is what l want" he
said, "but my cupboard is against it.
I've got the meat and vinegar and
sugar, but there are no spices, and
I'd have to use dried apple, and I'm
not sure / know how the crust is
made. | wonder if / could use cram
berries and dried blackberries in
stead of raisins and currants? !
have half mind to try it, anyhow" :"
Suiting the action to the word,
Jack donned his oil cloth apron, and
was soon at work. There was plen-
ty of meat and dried apples which he
had cooked that day, and he was
quite sure that he remembered to
what degree of minuteness he used
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
Pnternnlism in NORWAY.

The paternal government of Nor
way has a fund of money amounting
to about $5OO,Q00, which is loaned to
farmers throegh the municipal Off
GERS to assist shem in buying land.
Such proposition was advanced by
the populists of Kansas some years
ago and did not meet with any ia
vor, but generally with ridicule. In
Norway, however, it is actually in
practice and small sums are loaned
to industrious people at three per
cent interest for term of 25 years
to enable them to acquire farms and
improve not only themselves, but
the state.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
RIGID DISCIPLINARIAN.
Bishop Charles c. McCnbe Believes in
the Semi-MiIitary Government
of Churches.

Bishop Charles C. McCabe, who is
being harshly criticised by several
members of the Emmanuel Methodist
Episcopal church in Evanston, Ill.
(because of his alleged autocratic
methods of church government), is
noted for his plain and outspoken di-
rectnessof opinion and for the gem
eral sturdiness of his mind He has
been minister of the gospel for up
wards of 10 years, and came originally
from Ohio, from which state he went
to the civil war in the uniform of a
fighting soldier. The future bishop
backed up his political principles with
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26

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Ap IN throbbng on the
Ha a1MI midnight air.
,&S d y II & year is
N -. NJ dead;
<I II Its records written.
ZEt{SSS%W be they foul or
sN Its mysteries solved
and all It's riddles read.
|The New Year came with swift yet stealthy
tread;
No football reached the anxious. listen
ing ear
-As through the portals he so swiftly sped;
But now his firm, maj tic tread we hear
And so the years go. ever speeding by,
And changes come, more strange than
lapse of years.
The past is gone: Why comes the deep
drawn sigh?
Why is the eye bedimmed with unshed
tears?
- OLtt W DIS OulSp We uItiHhI aye uIdIlet
the cup,
Quafiing with eager lips It's happiness,
Nor even dreamed SO soon we must give
up
Those joys that came our daily life to
bless.
Shall all the ties be severed that have
bound
Friend unto friend and very soul to
soul?
Shall some Lethean waters there be found
That over torn and wounded hearts shall
roll,
Healing all wounds, and leaving not a
scar?
Or shall the ties, the wounds, the scars re-
main?
Shall pain be there our future bliss to
mar?
-"The Oracles are dumb" with bated
breath
We silent stand, awaiting some reply:
II comes not, nor can come until kind death
Shall touch our hearts and bid the
clouds roll by.
Enough-for when life's fateful strife is
DER,
When earthly joys and pains are laid
aside,
When we look back from yonder distant
shore
And understand, we shall be satisfied.
-Charles II. Allen, in Frank Leslies Pop
ular Monthly.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26
THE OLYMPIAN GAMES.
President Roosevelt Suggested for
Honorary President of the Great
Athletic Event of 1904.

President Roosevelt as honorary
president of the international Olym-
plan games to be held in Chicago in
1904! Baron Coubertin, of Paris, the
great and moving spirit in the in
ternational Olympian committee, as
well as its executive, has written
letter to President Roosevelt asking
him to accept the honorary position.
Ambassador Porter has been given
the letter, and in due time it will be
placed before the president.
That Baron Coubertin on more
than one occasion has shown his ex
ceedingly pronounced friendship for
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-26

the United States, and especially for
Chicago, is known to those who were
most prominent in getting the
Olympian games for that city, Eu-
rope did not desire the games to 90
to the new world. Eastern cities,
New York and Philadelphia, had out
their lobbyists for the games. But
the baron had carefully studied the
situation and had spoken so highly
of this country and the worlds fair
city that Chicago easily won the
fight. In Europe President Roose.
welt is regarded as the wholesome
type of athletic enthusiast. With the
international games directly under
the supervision of the nations chief
the foreigners will have great faith
in the exercises at the stadium.
"Rooter in Washington for Har.
ward when the crimson met the blue;
rooter on the side lines for the army
team at Philadelphia when the West
Pointers met the middies of Annap.
oils, and champion of all good
healthy, manly sports, was and is
Theodore Roosevelt" said a Chicago
worker for the success of the OIym.
plan games. ''Why should not Mr.,
Roosevelt accept the position? We
think he will"