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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-04
TAYLOR IS IN line

Washington, Dec. 27.-Representa-
tive Kahn was at the Treasury Depart
ment this morning and had long con !
versation with Assistant Secretary Tay-
lor in regard to Chinese exclusion |
Secretary Taylor assured Kahn that |
the department was heartily In favor |
Of the Kahn bill as amended by the
committees in charge of 1t, and that
the friends of exclusion could count on
the influence of the department in its
interest. The only change suggested
by Taylor was that the regulations en-.
forcing the law should originate with
the Secretary of the Treasury instead
OF with the immigration Commissioner
| as the Secretary of the Treasury Is the
| commissioners official superior. This
amendment will be made to the bill.
Secretary Taylor's assurance of sup
| port is significant, as he has not here
tofore been friendly to exclusion. He
says now, however, that the exclusion
bill Is sure to pass and that Congress
might as well do thorough job while
1t is at II. He spoke of the loopholes
in the Geary act, which are guarded
against in the new bill. he principal
difficulty with the Geary act has been
the latitude permitted to collectors in
constituting provisions, When a col
lector construed II literally, as was the
custom of Collector Jackson of san
Francisco the Chinese came in at the
rate of several thousand a year. Since
Collector Stratton assumed Office the
Chinese have given San Francisco the
so-by and now come over the Cana
dian Pacific or the New York border
where certain officials still construe
the law literally. Under the new law
the various classes of Chinese are so
described as to leave little to the m
! dividual opinions of the collectors or
= court commissioners.
Senator Perkins was at the Treas
: ury Department today and received
, the same assurances as were extended
I TO Kahn. Perkins will introduce the
4 same bill in the Senate. Both arc
e much pleased with the strong position
| taken by the department.
Representative Kahn said 1T Is Of
:, great importance to us that the Treas.
n ury Department has come odt strongly
!. on our side. am particularly pleased
n with the change in Secretary Taylor's
r. attitude. He is in direct charge Of i'm.
II migration affairs. and can do much tC
hel us"
y Senator PeryIns said: People tel
" me they fear opposition to exclusion il
Y the Senate, but I fail to ne.r of it from
Y the Senators, and | have talked witt
s. many of them. | think there will b.
g no trouble at all in pas3ing the com
mittCC bill"
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-04
MISSOURI IS LAUNCHED

Newport News. Va, Dec. 2S.-ThC
Missouri was launched at
the shipyard here today at 1l:l2
D clock. Fully $4,000 people. II is esti.
mated, saw the big defender go over.
board. The launching passed off
without a hitch and none prettier or
more successful was ever accomplish.
ed here. Miss Marion Cockrell, daugh-
ter OF Senator +. M. COCkrell of Mis-.
souri,, was sponsor for the ship and
she performed the duty assigned her
with the traditional bottle of cham.
payne. using bottle of Missouri prod.
uct for the purpose. Ihe number Of
distinguished guests gathered around
the sponsor on the christening plat.
form was larger than ever seen here.
Among them were Secretary of the
Navy Long. Secretary OF the Interior
Hitchcock. Rear Admiral Melville, U,
$. ~, chief " 'he Bureau OF Steam
Engineering: Tear ADMIRAL O'Neill
u. S. n, chief of ordnance; Judge
Advocate Lemly. u. ,. N; Lieutenant
Governor J. A. Lee of Missouri, act
ing for Governor DOCkery; Governor
| Tyler of Virginia; Carwin NJ. Spencer
| of st. Louis representing the Louisi
ana Purchase Exposition Company
Congressman RiXey, representing tn,
House Committee on Naval Affairs
Senator Cockrcll, and a number n
Army and Navy officers. Mrs. Roose
welt. wife of President Roosevelt
came mp from Old Point on the United
States dispatch boat Dolphin, will
her guests, and viewed the launching
from the steamers deck
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-04

A japanese was murdered in the
Kau district. The murderer, a Japan.
ese. has been caught.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-04
MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS.

Expenses of Supreme and Circuit
Courts Ito incluUe pay Of Grand Jul
rors at the same rate as Trial Jurors.
$4,000.
Purchase of Law Books. Supreme
Court $500.
These items providing for Supreme
Court expenses appear in the appro-
priation bill passed by the Legislature
and these are the only appropriations
upon which officers Of the supreme
Court can draw. Yet we find the clerk
Of the Supreme Court purchasing o lot
OF Thrum's Animals which it is pro-
posed to send out to private indi-
yiduals as well rs public institutions
and to draw on public funds 70 pay the
publisher.
When called to account by Judge
Humphreys for this proposed misuse
OF public funds the clerk OF the SUI
preme Court gives an explanation in
the official organ. lie says hrst that
no one ordered him to make this pur-
chase of a private publication for pub
Ne use, but that it has been customary
for the last ten years to purchase
copies Of Thrum's Annual and draw
upon public appropriations for tue
money.
MIR. Smith Is very kind to shoulder
the responsibility. but he knows full
well that he never would have purchGs.
ed Thrums Annual II such action Lad
not the full approval of Chief Justice
Frear. The public knows Henry Smith
would not take the responsibility upon
himself in any matter relating to pub
lie expenditures without he was con-
fident that the Chief Justice desired
him to incur the expense.
The organ also quotes Mr.. Smith
that the money to pay for the circula-
ton OF this publication comes from
the money appropriated for "inCiden'
tails. the purchase Of law books. etc"
There is no appropriation for "lnci.
dentals" or etc" in the Supreme
Court items and Thrum's Annual Is moi
a law book. The purchase of thes,
books by the Supreme Court is clearl!
misuse of public funds. The Su
preme Court could with as good rea
hpu uht puDllC luuuS lOT the puTCHdS'
OF special editions published by tn
Bulletin or Advertiser. The conten
ton that Thrum's Annual is not par
tlsan publication is utterly false. Siml
lar claims were set up in connection
with Maclay's History of the Santiag
campaign on equally good grounds
This publication is partisan in its re
view of the Legislature, and expresses
as historical fact the opinions of tn
Dole ThlrstGn- majority Supreme
Court alone. 1t puts the Legislator
IN the most dCtogatory light possible.
Furthermore the Annual is sent +
private citizens. Public funds of tn
Territory are used to furnish privat
citizens with copies of Thrums A.
nual, and that too by officials who pos
as economists in public expendtur,
as opponents of good government
And the only excuse offered Is tina
1t is customary" to do so. In othC
words II is the custom" OF the 81
preme Court to misappropriate publ
funds of the Territory every tin
Thrum's Annual is issued.
The justice OF Judge Humphrey
protest is so potent that further e
cuses are not necessary from Smit
Frear or Perry.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-04
COLLECT THE INDEMNITY.

New York Dec. GA Washington
special to the Tribune says: After a
meeting of the Cabinet today Secretary
Gage decided to recommend to the
State Department that Consul General
Goodnow be appointed provisional ifs
cal OF the United States with authority
TO accept the amortization and interest
payments of the Chinese payment
from the doyen of the diplomatic corps
at Picking. No action will be taken
relative to the appointment of a per.
manent fiscal agent until after officials
have advised with Governor Taft, who
is expected in Washington In a few
weeks.
By an agreement between the Presi,
dent and the Cabinet It was decided Ia
leave a selection OF the fiscal agent Ia
receive Americas portion of the Chi,
nese indemnity to Secretaries Hay
Gage and Root.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-04
CAPTAIN LBARY DEAD.

Washington, Dec. 2T.-The Navy
Department this morning received the
following telegram from Admiral Nor
timer L. Johson, commencing the Bos
Ton Navy Yard. dated today: Captain
Richard p. Leary, united States Navy
died this morning at Marine Hospital,
Chelsea"
Captain Leary was the first Govern
or of Guam after that island came into
the possession of the United States
He was relieved of the command OF
the receiving ship Richmond last DC
tober on account of "eart trouble and
granted six months leave of absence
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-04

All Sau and George Kaea were fined
$25 and costs each in the Police Court
this forenoon on the charge of gamb-
ling. The latter has been up on the
same charge so many times that, when
asked by Judge Wilcox this morning
for the correct count, he replied that
he did not know.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27

A new electric light "shifter" has
been invented which, It Is claimed,
puts the light, not approximately near
the efficient point over the desk, but
just In that particular position. The
mechanism can be screwed to the wall
or ceiling
The egg-hatching process of the in
cubator, says an expert In the breed
ing of fowls, is remarkably sensitive
to vibration. The rumble of train,
or passing wagon, even the banging of
a door may spoil whole incubator
full of eggs. A thunderstorm always
gives the breeders a scare.
Biologists state that Washington, Or
egon and much of Idaho are largely
overspread with lava This great des-
ert of molten rock. 100000 square
miles in extent, and 1000 feet deep,
has undergone great changes since its
volcanic days. Rivers have diligently
plowed out canyons famous for beauty
and grandeur. Between the rivers are
rolling plateaus of rich, deep soil-the
vast wheat and grass lands of the
Northwest.
Formerly, when paper for news
papers was made of rags. old papers
had some value in the eyes of the old
rag man. but in these days when all
such paper is made from wood pulp
paper with printing on is worth moth
ing. An English paper maker has
lately demonstrated a system however
whereby he repulps old newspapers
and makes clean new paper from them,
of a quality equal to the original. The
main difficulty In such process is to
get rid of the carbon of the printing
ink, which does not yield to bleaching.
It was recently suggested to the In
stitution of Civil Engineers In London
that solid metals might reveal by their
structure the vibrations to which they
have been subjected. Professor Rob-
erts-Austen made a series of experi-
ments, showing that a wave-structure
may be impaired to the surface ot
mercury by the vibrations of a tuning
fork. He also showed that a surface
of solid lead possesses structure re-
sembling that of vibrating surface of
mercury. Ibis was done by subjecting
the lead to vibrations similar to those
used with mercury.
The flow of Texas rivers has been
studied by the photographic parties
of the United States Geological Sur
yey. Daily records of waite. heights and
frequent measurements by current
meter of the velocity and volume OF
water carried by each stream are made.
The economic value of such hydro
graphic surveys Is well illustrated by
two examples. The flow of the Brazos
river at Waco was the lowest on rec
ord during the past season and the
Waco dam, with a head of 30 feet, de-
veloped only 130 horsepower. The
minimum flow of the Colorado was
found to be only one-fifth of what was
popularity estimated at the time the
bonds were issued for the dam at
Austin. the comparatively small cost
of such surveys repays taxpayers and
investors a hundred fold.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27
The Earliest Human Beinu.

Recent speculation regarding the
origin of the human race has led to
more careful study of some of the ear
liest known remains, including the so
called "men of spy" the Neauderthal
skeleton and the creature-human or
semi-human-some of whose bones
we're discovered several years ago in
Java. Two German anatomists, who
have given much attention to the sub
ject, are confident that the frst-men-
toned skeletons must be ascribed to
a distinct species of man, which they
have named Hobo Observation-Disclosures
The Javanese skeleton, which its dis
coverer calls pithecanthropus (mon-
key-man) is lower down in the evolu-
tion scale, and the direct ancestor of
both, who may be regarded as the
earliest man, must have lived, they
think, as far back as the Pilocene per.
iod of geological time.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Rudyard Kipling has written 100
short stories.
Henry Watterson denies that he Is a
candidate for Governor of Kentucky.
Professor Schenck. author of "The
Determination of Sex" died in Syria
Governor Cummins. of Iowa. is one
of Americas foremost authorities on
forestry.
Prince Henry OF Prussia, like his
brother. the Kaiser, is an earnest stu.
dent of music.
King Edward has devoted the gift of
$4,000 received from the Maharajab
of Gwalior 10 the hospital fund.
John ID. Rockefeller. as all the world
knows, plays golf. That and q mild
game Of ping-pong indoors keeps away
the blues.
William A. Hcmphll, former Mayor
OF Atlanta, Ga. and founder of the
Atlanta Constitution, died suddenly at
his home in Atlanta.
The will Of John w. Mackay divided
his estate into two portions. leaving
one to his widow and the other to his
son. Clarence IT, Mackay.
Friends of Senator Foraker. OF Ohio.
are working for his nomination for
Vicc-prcsldeDt, hoping TO block any
Chance Of the nomination OF senator
Hanna for President.
The gallant General De Wet objects
to being termed guerrilla leader"
The B!oemfontein Post so referred TO
him aud subsequently Withdrew the
phrase at the Boer generals request.
Senator Pettus, OF Alabama, whose
term expires in March, 1908, enjoys the
distinction Of being the oldest man in
the United States Senate. He was born
In 1921, and when his term expires he
will be eighty-two years old
Colonel George B. Mcclellan Harvey,
under whose editorship Harper's
Weekly has much improved, is only
thlrty-cight years of age. He comes of
q Scotch ancestry. was born In Ver-
mont, received only grammar school
education.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27
SPORTING eREViTis5.

Betting OF the Saratoga. " Y, race
tracl; averages s2,000,000 day.
Efforts are bolng made to match Joe
Nelson and Harry Elkes, the cycling
chnmninn.
Marcus Hurley broke the worlds
amateur nnc-third mile hlcvclc record
nt tho Coliseum - Springfield Mass:
time 80 30 seconds.
Frank Farrelrs Riros. NJ eight to
one on. wns heatou NV Vuntress Mt
Saratoga. y. V. David Johnson lost
500 400 hacking Blues.
The Nusknteer owned nv Mrs. Frank
Farroll h~o',o tho worlds recnrd for
seven fur'opgs NJ Saratoga, y. Y.
going the distance in 1.25 fiat.
Among the sir-dny bicycle riders
there is ~ront deal NJ interest heing
taken W the report that Paris Is TO
have siy-d1y team race next January.
Flord Mcfarland. tho hic California
hlcvcle racer. dons not llto the long
Distance game. Hn hrs unit that stvln
of racing. Hn1 will IN future confine
himself IN sprint racing.
An effort will snon br rrado to rein.
NlgbfHI', or I6 " IpNSr Sil'lkp nm nr
woke I'm tho Toncuc Of Amnricnr
Wbeelmon. nnd the beginning will be
made with tho Now York Division.
Al tho Grand Circuit trotting moet-
Ing ~ Brighton Reach. New York City.
Anaellh defeated The Monk. and the
amateur wagon record was twice low
cred. ~ York Boy. 20S9t, and Lord
Derby. 2,05a,.
The biggest two-year-old flly with
sneed that has been seen on race
frncl' fo" several years is !. +. Schorrs
Judith Cnmphell She Is long. tall and
heavy. Barring accidents she will be
n wonder rs thrce-year-old.
With the startling improvements
made in the lively ball and increased
driving power of the clubs. the golfers
Will soon have to begin increasing the
length of their courses n mile or two
in order to get the full use OF their
clubs. as II Is now rapidly becoming n
case of a drive and putt.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27
Coal Mining Machines.

Actual figures referring to the use OF
coal-cutting machines in the two coun-
tries show that 81 such machines
were in use in Great Britain in 1900.
whereas in America there were 1907,
or about twelve and a half times the
number, this figure corresponding ap-
proximately with the ratio of the per-
centages cut by machines in the two
countries, namely, l 1-2 per cent and
20 per cent. It should be pointed out.
however, that as British mining Is
very largely on the long-wall system,
the 81 machines include large num-
ber of long-wall and heading ma
chimes. while the 1907 machines in
America include 1850 of the pneumatic
persuasive type, which is, Of course, a
much smaller and cheaper machine.
Still, in the States there were 1909
chain breast machines and AZ long
walled machines, and the increase in
the percentage of coal-mining by ma
chinery in West Virginia was from 9.27
percent in 1899 to 1900 percent in
1900 The corresponding increase for
Pennsylvania (considering the bitn-
minous coal only was 1867 percent
to 1866 percent.-Engineeri Maya
zine
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27
FROM TEACHERS DESK TO FARM.
A Woman Who Despises the Aid of the
Dilatory Hired Man.

Woman Who Despises the Aid OF the
Dilatorv Hired Man.
Miss Abbie Pfeffer bears the distinc-
tion of being the only woman in In
diana who conducts farm without any
assistance. With her aged mother
Miss Pfeffer lives in a quaint little
house three miles southeast of Msa-
waka. She takes care of 40 acres of
land, ploughing it. attending to the
harvesting, and doing all the necessary
chores.
Miss Pfeffer Is niece Of former Sen
ator Pfeffer of Kansas. When her
father died ten years ago she began
teaching school. She had then just fin
ished her studies at the University OF
Indiana. But at lnis time Miss Pfef-
fer's mother became an invalid. She
had been managing the farm after the
death of her husband, and when she
was stricken with an ailment that pre-
vented her from leaving the house she
appealed to her daughter to manage
the land.
When the young woman took charge
of the farm several men were working
on 1t. Miss Pfeffer was most exact
ing employer. Furthermore, she did not
think the men got as much out of the
land as it was able to produce. SO she
discharged them. Since then no man
has performed days work on the
Pfeffer property.
The former school teacher has run"
the farm during the summer and win
ter; the girl who was graduated from
one of Indianas leading universities
guides the plough through the soil;
she who at one time saw brilliant
future before her harvests the grain.
Her hands, which were once white and
soft, have become callous and brown
in the performance of that work which
calls her to the fields at sunrise and
finds her in the garden at sunset. But
in spite of all this she says that If she
were asked to choose between farming
and teaching school she would keep
right ON working in the fields.
The hardest work performed by Miss
Pfeffer is raising strawberries. She is
the recognized owner of the finest
tract of strawberries in the state, and
the name of the "Pfeffer berries" is
widely known one. The greater part
of them are shipped to Chicago, where
they find ready market. and it is
from this product that Miss Pfeffer d--
rives most of her income.
In addition to cultivating the forty
acre tract. Miss Pfeffer also does all
tho marketing. churns butter, and
maintains an inviting lawn, with floral
beds, in front of the house. around
which she herself built a well-made
picket neutrality-suspicious. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27
Tips ON Walking.

Steps that are quick are indicative
OF energy and agitation.
Tip-toe walking symbolizes surprise.
curiosity, discretion or mystery.
Turned in toes are often found with
preoccupied, absent-minded persons.
The miser's walk is represented as
STOPPING. noiseless. with short, ner-
vcus, anxious steps.
Slow steps, whether long or short,
suggest a gentle or reflective state of
mind, as the case may be.
The proud step is slow and meas
ured. the toes ere conspicuously
turned out; the legs Strengthened.
Where revengeful purpose Is hid
den under a felgned smile the step
will be Sinking and noiseless.
The direction of the steps wavering
and following every changing impulse
of the mind inevitably betrays uncer-
tainty, hesitation and indecision.
Obstinate people, who in argument
rely more on muscularity than on in
tellecual power, rest the feet fatty
and firmly on the ground. walking
heavily and slowly and stand with tho
legs firmly planted and far apart
81. Louis Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27


culture does not reach the more intrl-
cate of these conditions.
First, a person is not by any volun-
tary act able to locate them, and
would not. even II they were discov-
cred to him, be able to reach them
by movements controlled by his con-
scious mind.
rather than special, and as each indi-
vldunl is different from every other
1t Is only when allwise nature Is set
In operation that the need of each Is
adequately met.
To understand Just what is asserted
for the natural movement system of
exercise II Is necessary to take into
account that mans inherent and per
sistent tendency in his subconscious-
ness is to be healthy and to return
ever and again to the normal. This
Is demonstrated by the healing of
wounds by first intention, and in many
other ways.
Still, man is so truly a free moral
agent that In a thousand ways his
body Is contracted and hardened by
his own action; while the strong nat
ural tendency is to openness and flexi-
bility. When the tense and stiffened
condition is continued so persistently
that II becomes fixed, the human
mechanism can do but partial and
imperfect work, as certain parts are
then incapacitated and their duties
are thrown on others, which have no
capacity to fulfil them. It is said that
the natural movement system of exer-
else by putting the subconscious self
in control secures restoration to per-
fectly normal conditions.
AS the author relates, this system
was worked out from a very simple
beginning. When preparing herself
to teach, In waiting as her instructor
directed, perfectly quiet for the breath
to come with which to sing, she OBJ
served that certain uniform move
ments followed. She became interest
ed and began a series of experiments
and observations.
In doing this she found that when
ever she completely relaxed herself
and waited in quiet silence she was
invariably inclined to movements
which were quite involuntary. Yield
ing to these. she found that from
day to day they progressed in a reg.
ular sequence, and. also. she found her
health constantly improving.
Incited by her success with herself,
she set about studying as did Preyer
and Darwin. When she was satisfied
that she had found law which, while
simple. was far-reaching, sne proceed
ed to test the value of the system
thus evolved.
To make sure that she had made a
valuable discovery. she obtained per-
mission to see what she could do with
patients at the Boston dispensary In
Boston. Here she treated, and is said
TO have cured, several cases of st.
Vitus' dance. and n case of sclatica
of long standing. One child who had
spinal trouble was. by actual meas
urement, four inches taller at the end
of six weeks treatment than at the
beginning.
II was found that nervous diseases
were almost invariably helped by this
! exercise. A United States senator,
suffering from extreme nervousness
and insomnia was cured, and he now
constantly practices these exercises.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-08-27
Wheat In Russia.

An American grain dealer, who
has just made tour of Russia and
Roumania. reports the wheat crop
there the best known in years. A SIM
liar report comes from all over Can
ada, and yet one of the leading Eng
lish authorities on grain statistics
says that the worlds visible supply is
the smallest known since the famous
Letter wheat corner" when It was
lO3 100000 bushels. Ey visible supply
is meant the supply in elevators, in
transit on vessels and wherever trust
worthy statistics are obtainable.