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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01
WIRELESS
To HAWAII
Promise of Coast
Connection
Here.
BIG PROMISES OF
WEsTERNl COMPANY
a. [. New Says Communicates
viii be as Easy as Long
Distance TsIephoning.

DBNvER (Col.), October 2S.-Oceanie
cable systems are doomed. If, as A. L.
New claims, he can positively transmit
wireless messages between San Fran
cisco and the Hawaiian Islands. Mr.
New is the general manager of the Pa
cific and Continental. Wireless Tele-
graph and Telephone Company, with
offices In this city.
II am as certain that we can make
connections between California and Ho-
noIulu as that we can telephone from
here to Colorado Springs. All prepare
lions are being made and in few
weeks the work of building stations
will begin" he said. I'VE are also pre-
pairing to build stations between Seattle
and Nome and the Klondike country.
We will have our stations distributed
along the coast for 5000 miles.
While engaged in the work in Cali
forniG we made nine distinct discov-
cries, which made it possible to build
an almost perfect receiver. We have
applied for a patent and will obtain one
soon, when the new method will be
made public"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01

A Chinese girl student has entered the
University of California.
woodrow Wilson has been inaugural
ed as President of Princeton.
Mary McLane, the authoress, VIII
leave Boston and return West.
The President, having nearly recover
ed. has resumed his evening drives
Wright, the labor commissioner. has
been added to the coal commission.
1t is now believed that the proposed
strike on the Southern Pacific railroad
will De. averted.
In one day Foxhall Keene was thrown
from his automobile and bitten Dy a
vicious bulldog.
A young Brussels physician claims 70
have found a serum that easily cures
whooping cough.
Emperor William and King Carlos OF
Portugal viii confer with King Edward
over Delagoa bay.
Another explosion in the New York
subway injured three persons and serl-
ousIy damaged property.
John B. Jackson viii go to Athens as
American minister to Greece. ID. l..
Wilson will remain in Chile.
The comet will pass so near TO Mer-
curry that astronomers will be able TO
calculate the mass of the planet.
The Southern Pacific is opening up
its coal mines so as to- have supply
on hand in case oil producers raise
prices.
The customs revenues of the Philip
pines for seven months ending July 81
were S., 064, 932 as compared with $780,
25S for the same period of last year.
Attorney General Knox has made his
report to the President on the validity
of the title to the Panama canal. It's
contents are yet withheld from the
press.
George Martin, an insane clergyman,
has been arrested in London, with a
pound of gun-powder in his possession,
with which he proposed to destroy
stand erected to observe the Royal
progress near ST. Georges church.
An innovation is being tried by the
Southern Pacific Company in the mat
ter of generating light for the dining
and passenger cars. 1t is proposed to
use the friction generated by the car
wheels and axles instead of a regular
dynamo to produce the electricity.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01
A louisville Tragedy.

PITTSBURG. Oct. 22.-Dr. Ellis Dun
can, superintendent of the City Hos
pital of Louisville, last night shot and
probably fatally wounded Bruce Head,
a laborer on the Wabash tunnel near
Grafton. Later Duncan surrendered to
the police but would give no reason for
the shooting. 1t is supposed the at
tempt at murder was made to adjust
some wrong done in Louisville, where
both men are from. 1t is said Duncan
approached Head ana, making some in
audible remark to him, pulled re.
Volver and fred, the ball striking Head
in the breast
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 22.-Eilis
Duncan is we'll known here as tht
superintendent of the City Hospital ant
belongs to prominent Kentucky fami,
~. He is veteran of the Spanish wa
and is Inspector general of the Spanish
war Veterans, which society held ;
convention recently in indianapolis.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01
SCIENTIFIC
MISCELLANY

The transmission of Greenwich time
to ships by wireless teiegraphy is a
late suggestion. AS distinct signals
are all that is necessary, it seems to be
possible already to send time impulses
that would be perceptible over the en-
tire North Atlantic, enabling mariners
TO correct their chronometers and find
their longitude. By international ar
rangement, the time signais-at GER
tain fixed hours OF day or night-could
be protected from other signals.
In the Hackl arc lamp. made in
Budapest, the mechanism is at the ton.
and the carbons are inclined down
ward toward each other at an angle
of about ninety degrees. A reflector
between the mechanism and the car
bons intercepts the rays that pass up
ward, thus further increasing the
efficiency. The lamp is designed for an
alternating current of ten amperes at
tWenty-eight to thirty volts, and it
uses but a third as much current per
candle-power as the ordinary globe
lamp.
At the beginning of the year. the
meteorites in the u s. National MI
scum represented 34S falls, 143 being
those of meteoric iron.
Alcohol is coming into considerable
use for illumination in France. The
lame is made luminous by the addition
OF sufficient coal-oil or crude benzene.
or the ordinary non-luminous flame is
used to give incandescenee to a Wells
bach mantle. The latter is the more
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01

has an iris Of brilliant metallic luster,
large and round pupil, and a very
large lens, and is so sensitive that some
fishes find food at depths as great as
zoo feet Proper eyelids are wanting.
The nose consists of two holes lined
with a corrugated mucous membrane
in which the nerves of smell terminate.
and its function must be very different
from that of land animals, which deals
with gaseous odors. The scent" Of
fishes, once much believed in, proves to
be very feeble, or absent. Taste is very
keen, but it's seat must be in the softer
parts of the mouth, the tongue being
very hard. The organ of hearing is
simpler than in other yertebrates.
though extremely sensitive. The exter-
nal ear is wanting, and the inner ear
consists merely of cavities filled with
fluid and with little porCelain-like par
ttcles. On the sense OF touch little is
known except that it belongs to the
whole skin and is very acute in the
bristles around the mouth. Fishes are
suspected Of having a sixth sense,
and in row extending over a large
nerve.
The meteorite of Bacubfrito (Mexico) is
estimated to weigh fifty tons, and that of
Anaghito (Greenland) is placed at the
| same weight, it being doubtful which OF
the two is the heaviest known. The
| Chupaderos (Mexico) meteorite has been
shown on the scales to weigh Is % tonsT
the San Gregorio (Mexico}, 111k tons; ss5s
the Bendego (BraziD, 1-3 toms Mexico's
/ claim to prominence as country OF
meteorites is really justified by the size
OF the specimens instead of the number OF
| falls, and the ten largest Mexican me-
teorites. according to Prof Henry A.
| Ward, have an average weight Of 1-lo
| tons, while the average of the ten larg-
est Of the United States is only 1-3 hun
| ,ired-weight. Only 80 distinct meteOrite
| localities are known in Mexico, against s.
and 4S in like areas of the United States
and India respectively.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01

important method. Some lamps have
from go to so candle-power, and these
large portable lamps-carrying their
own illuminant-seem to have advan-
tages over gas or electricity for many
purposes. The best OF the burners
yield about 80 candle-power hours per
ounce of alcohol.
The production of a vegetable sub
stitute for horsehair is reported as a
thriving Algerian industry. The ma
terial is the fiber of leaves of a dwarf
palm, and it is prepared for such uses
as stuffing furniture, mattresses, etc.
The advantages of the vegetable hair
are its solidity, the readiness with
which it can be dyed, and its low cost.
Electrical reactions have been found
by DR.. A. d. Waller, Of the University
of London, to serve as a test of life in
both animal and vegetable tissues. In
this way ne has just shown that bits of
human skin for grating preserve their
vitality at least two days, often ten
days, and probably sometimes much
longer. AS confirming this conclusion
it is mentioned that carefully presery-
ed skin has been used after sig months
1t transplantations out of % proving
successful.
Experiments made last year seemed
to indicate that sea-water could not be
initiated, but in a later trial pure waite,
mixed in correct proportion with the SIX
chief salts of the ocean supported sen.
sitive marine animals, and appeared tc
have the physiological effects of nat.
ural sea-water.
The sense organs Of fishes have been
difficult to understand clearly. The
eye, a German writer points out, is
most like that of other vertebrates, and
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-01

The sense organs of fishes have been
difficult to understand clearly. The
eye, German writer points out, is
most like that of other vertebrates. and
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08
THE OTHER SIDE.
Snap Judgments DO Not Always Do
Justice TO Character.

Suap Judgments DO Not Always Do
Justice to Character.
We often comment on the act of gen
crosby that was not done; but we may
not know the act Of greater generosity
that was done; tie greater sacrifice
that forbade the lesser. In his Essays
OF an Optimlst," John William Kaye
tells Of an Incident which happened
when he was a boy at school, and IL
Illustrates well the adylsability of not
Judging TOO quickly MS to generosity or
the lack OF II.
our senior usher-it was a large pri-
waite school-was liberal. open-hand-
ed fellow; he dressed well, and sub
scrlbed handsomely TO the cricket club.
But the second usher WAS an intoler-
able screw. His conduct appeared rs
shabby as his coat. OF course our no
ton was that he was by nature skin
Hint. and that he had boards of gold
lie was man otherwise of kindly
nature and harmless way Of life. so
we despised rather than hated him.
But IL came out afterward that he had
an aged mother and two sisters, rely
ing solely FOR their maintenance ON his
scanty earnings.
The saddcst thing of all was-l know
nothing sadder in history-that con-
templatng, at the end of one-half year,
pleasant surprise for these poor peo-
pie. he walked home, hundred miles,
under a June sun. and appeared uneN
pectedly among them one sultry even
ing. only to find that all three were
hopclessy drunk.
Next half we had new usher, and
for n little space there was a belief
among us that the poor fellow had
saved money enough to start school
of his own; but the truth as have told
IL oozed out, with this pathetic addl-
ton, that he had gone hopelessly mad
We were then very much grieyed mt
the rash judgments that we had pass
ed. and got up subscription, the larg-
est ever known In the school, which
kept him In comfort until he died. In
this instance it was a point of honor
and conscience with us all to make
sacrifice of self and deny ourselves for
the benefit of the man we had wronged.
and am sure, let alone the satisfaction
of such an atonemcnt, that the lesson
we had all learned was worth the mon
ey ten times told.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08
Hidlns BehIna Biz words.

A mining expert recently described a
lode as traversing IA metamorphic
matrlx of somewhat argilloarenace-
Gus composition" This means literally
a changed mass of a somewhat clayey-
sandy composition" This in its turn
may be translated into plain English
as mud.
Why choke a puny fact with muir
derous polysyllables? Huxley and OAR
win. Lyeli and Faraday could SO write
as TO be ''understanded of the people,
and there is suspicion abroad In these
times that the big words SO freely used
by small men are device to conceal
ignorance and inexact thought rather
than proof of superior knowledge
Youths Companion.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08
Not Unreasonable, Aner All.


They were sitting in the corner gro
Gerry store. exchanging the condolences
of the fishing season, and as the con-
versatlon progressed the stories stead
ily increased in size. At last. says the
New York Times, the tall. lank man
on the cracker-barrel pulled himself to-
gether and began:
Il went down to the river this morn
ing, and although the water was high
almost TO food, | took a ten-foot
pike"
stop there exclaimed the fat man
with the corn-cob pipe. Tell us you
took an eight-pound trout, and I'll sit
idly by. But ten-foot PIKE. never!
Il took ten-foot pike-pole.' con
tlnued the unrutfled man on the cracker
barrel. land in less than five minutes
| hooked out a fifteen-foot bass"
"See here! See here.' shouted the
owner of the grocery. You'll have to
90 away from here to finish that story.
haven't any lightning-rods on this
store yet
Il hooked out iifteen-foot Eastwood
log" persisted the tall man, ''and
was going to ask how much you think
| can get for it."
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08

American shore. Such a thing hap
pened almost within the memory of
man. In 1882 nine japanese fisher
men were left derelict and unable to
find their way back To the shore They
went with the current. and after Il
drift lasting several months they were
carried to Hawaii.
Trees. torn by storms from the banks
of Asiatic rivers. frequently float
across the Pacific on the American
coast. Between kakatag and Kyak
Islands, about loo miles northwest
OF Seattle, enormous piles of this drift
wood cover the beaches. There can be
no question of the Asiatic origin of the
timber. They are the trunks of The
camphor tree, the mango and the ma
hogany. Logs 100 feet long and eight
feet In diameter are frequently found.
Many of them are seen floating shore.
ward. with fantastic roots standing
high above the waves. In places the
logs are piled twenty feet high. They
are generally without bark. which has
been peeled off by the waves. and most
of them have become white and heavy
from impregnation with salt water. As
they pile up, the sands drift over them
aud gradually they sink ont OF sight,
and new beaches are formed. This
process has been going ON for ages,
aud the shore line is being steadily ex-
tended. Excavations along the beach
show that the texture of the buried
timber gets harder and harder the fur
ther in you go, until in some instances
peirifaetion has taken place. Other
excavations show logs that have
turned TO coal.
The presence Of Siberian driftwood
on the shores of Greenland. says a
writer in Ainslies. convinced Nansen
that his idea of drifting across the
Polar sea In the Fran was logical.
Great quantities of the wood are an
nually cast on the coasts of Spitzber
gen and Novaya Zemblya, and there
are tribes of Greenland Eskimos who
depend for sledge runners and other
wooden implements on the drift from
Siberian forests. For years they de-
pended for iron implements on the
hoops of casks which came to them
over seas.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08

- . constant disadvantage. This II
why, for the past twenty-five years,
thousands of women have been con-
fiding their troubles to Us, and our
advice has brought happiness and
health TO countless women in the D.S.
Mrs. Chappell, of Grant Park, H.,
whose portrait we publish, advises all
suffering women to use Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. Is II
cured her of Inflammation of the ovaries
and womb; she, therefore, speaks from
knowledge, and her experience ought
TO give others confidence. Address Mrs.
Pinkham's Laboratory, Lynn, Mass.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08
A Belated Discovery.

Mrs. Norton came home from a call
one day in such a disturbed condition
that II was evident that tears We're not
far In the background. She lost mo
time in beginning her explanation.
John" she said to her husband. 81
am so mortified | don't know what to
dct'
what is the matter, Joanna?" asked
Mr.. Norton.
Il have just been calling on Mrs. Pew
Grill. You know her husband, Major
PeverlllT'
"Yes"
"Wel, l just learned to-day that Ma
ior" isn't his title at all. Major is his
first name"
"Why. certainly. I've always known
that. What is there so mortifying
about it?'
Nothing" said Mrs. Norton. with a
groan, "only that I've been calling him
Major every time I've met him fol-
tie last ten years.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08
FARMER JoE's SPEECH.
II Was sborts but'It Crushed the
BumpfiouH 1ogngster.

BumptiouH 1oungster.
"You may get the better of an oppo-
nent in debate" said an old time ora
tor. by sheer force of convincing argu-
ment THAT is to say. you may score
and Win ON points--but IL you :yant to
put your man down and out at q single
coup just make aim ridiculous Only
Succeed in doing this. and all the logic
OF the other side will explode in vacan
cy like so many blank cartridges
Once when | was serving a term up
the state In the legislature bumptions
young>ter who had just been introduc-
ed was laboring through his maiden
effort. lie was attacking man who
was his senior by at least a score and
ten years and thought to make hit by
referring to him rs that little gray
beard from Hefkimer.' Rymal of Mag
ara rose to reply He was an old timer.
who never spoke unless he had some
thing to say and so was always sure OF
an attentive audience. Farmer Joe. as
he was called. got up slowly, gradually
expanded himself to his full height Of
feet 1. thrust his left hand behind the
tails or Il capacous and somewhat
shabby froek coat. held up the index
finger of his right hand, cleared his
throa. omnously and solemnly began.
Mr.. Speaker. the honorable gentle
man who has just spoken has never
read Pope's essay. Ii he had. he would
remember that the souls the standard
II the man." And, sir. fifty such souls
as that of the honorable gentleman
who preceded me could be put into the
skull of flea and have as much room
there as two frogs in Lake Superior
lie didn't have to say more. The
chamber went into a CONFUSION OF
laughter which lasted for several min
utes after the tall farmer had resumed
his seat. As for the youngster. he did
the best he could. He wriggled about
got red in the face. tried to look uncon-
cerned and kept his mouth closed dur
ing the balance of the session. New
York News.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-08

The most curious name perhaps ever
bestowed upon a girl is thar of Airs
and Graces. She Is now about four
years old, her name being registered al
Somerset House, London, IN 1888.
when she was baptized. What she
will think Of these cogomens when she
arrives at maturity is difficult TO i'm
agine. Her sisters name is equally
unique Nun Nicer. When Airs and
Graees aud Nun Nicer arrive at the
age Of maturity ut least one of them
should marry youth whose Christian
name compares fayorably-for exam
pie. Acts Of the Apostles. This is "A
name found On an English parish reg
ister Actsaposile son of Thomas and
Elizabeth Pegden was baptized Aug.
>. 1877. Again this name figures in
records Ia 1873. when Acts of the
Apostles. son Of Richard and Phebe
kennett, WAS baptized. This name,
curious as it Is. is preferable to What,
or bum Spiro Spero-names with
which children lave been handicapped.
1t was patriotic American who be-
slowed upon her young hopeful the
name OF Declaration Of Independence.
Tie most warlike name on record is
that of Robert Alma Balaclaya mixer
man Sebastopol Delhi Dugdale, who
Is an English innkeeper's son; sim
liar name Is Richard Occur de Lion
Tyler Walter Hin.
About loo years ago snowstorln in
Western Pennsylvania set in the LIST
OF March; there were many weeks of
sleighng traditional for years for the
length of time it lasted. What did
Mr. Smith do. who happened TO have
a boy born about this time but name
him Seven Weeks Sleighing ia March.
He usually went by the name OF
Weeks Ills initials were all written
out ) W s. |. NJ. Smith.
Parents of large families need no
assurance that the advent of another
child IS not always as welcome In fact
as in theory. but 1t is scarcely kind to
make the child bear token Of dis
approval all its life. II must be rather
terrible to go through life, for example
as Not Wanted James, What Another,
Only Fancy William Brown, or even
ms Last Of En- Harper, or Still An
other Hewitt And yet all these are
names which the foolish caprice of
parents has imposed on innocent chill
dren.
About 800 years ago IL is said, more
than half the men were named either
John or William In the thirteenth
century William was the commonest
name; In the next century John took
the lead, while Thomas, Richard and
Robert the next most common names.
Among old surnames are Jumps,
April. Marriage, Every Ink. Pink Ink,
Hogsett and Cheese. Any one of these.
however. is a more cheerful name than
Pine Coffin. which is English, and very
proud the Pine Collins are said TO be of
their name. An American lady spend
ing some time in Devonshlre. England.
met at an afternoon tea Mr.. Pine Cof-
fin. Mr. Deth pronounced DEATH, and
Miss Graves. Mr.. Deith could have
twisted his name In some way, but he
did not. and was much offended If II
were given any other pronunciation
than Death.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat