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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-18

Transact business in all departments
of banking.
Collections carefully attended to.
Exchange bought and sold.
Commercial and Travellers Letters AZ
Credit issued on the Bank OF Californis
and N. NJ. Rothschild & Sons, London
Correspondents: The Bank Of Califor-
mia, Commercial Banking Co. of syd.
ney, Ltd, London.
Drafts and cable transfers on China
and Japan through the HongkonR ana
Shanghai Banking Corporation ana
Chartered Bank OF India, Australia ana
China
Interest allowed on term deposits a
the following rates per annum, viz:
Seven days notice, at per cent.
Three months, at 3 per cent.
Six months, at 35s per cent.
Twelve months, at per cent.
Trust Department.
Act as trustees under mortgages.
Manage estates, real and personal.
Collect rents and dividends.
Valuable papers, wills, bonds, etc
received for safe keeping.
Accountant Department.
Auditors for corporations and prs-
vate firms.
Books examined and reported IN.
Statements of affairs prepared.
Trustees on bankrupt or insolvent CO.
tates.
Office, s24 Bethel street.
Savings Department.
Deposits received and interest allow.
ed at Az per cent per annum, IN ae-
cordance with rules and regulations,
copies Of which may be obtained 90
application
Insurance Department
Agents for FIRE, MARINE, LIFE
ACCIDENT and EMPLOYERS LA
BILITY INSURANCE COMPANIES,
Insurance office. 924 Bethel street.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-18

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
Charles NJ. Cooke. President
2. c. JONES'. .Vfce-President
F. w. Macfarlane End Vice-President
C. II. Cooke. .Cashier
F. c. Anterior. Assistant Cashier
H. Waterhouse, E. d. Tenney, ]. A.
McCandless, G. II. Anterior and z. r.
Bishop.
Commercial and Savings De-
partments.
Strict attention gwen to all
branches of Banking.
Judd Building Fort Street
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-18
BISHOP 3 CO.. BANKERS
ESTABLISHED m 1853.
Banking Department.

Transact business in all departments
of banking.
Collections carefully attended to.
Exchange bought and sold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
Ohio's New Problem.

A proposed constitutional amend ment will be put before the Ohio voters when they go to the polls on the third day of next November. They will elect a governor, and also a legislature which will re-elect Senator Hanna or name his successor, but the proposed amendment outranks both of these pieces of business. The amendment will, if adopted, put the customary veto power in the hands of the governor of the state. For half century an Ohio governor has been a mere flgurehead, so far as law-making is concerned He could, 1t is true, return a law, stating his objections thereto, but as the con stitution now stands majority vote in each body could put aside his ob- jections. Indiana still clings to this plan, but Ohio has become weary of 1t, and so the proposed amendment Is be- fore the people.
 If 1t becomes a law, the governors of Ohio will have legislative as well as executive responsibilities. His will can then be overridden by a two thirds vote only, and this is generally suffi- cient to give him the whip hand over legislation. The veto power Is not on It's face and in principle in line with popular rule, but American states as well as the federal government have tested 1t, and 1t has worked well. Many a vicious and unworthy bill has gone down under the veto power. It Is anti democratic in principle, but excellent and conservative in actual operation, and few states indeed could be induced to do. without 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
Frlqhtened Miss peyo.

"It would be hard to find woman worse frightened than Miss Deyo, the charming little dancer at the Bijou, was last night during her Sammy song" said the manager in the lobby. "We framed up a deal on her. and 1t scared her so badly thta she came very near screaming
 "As every one knows Miss Deyo sings
 Sammy and flirts with a man In the left hand stage box Well, last night we got one of the ushers to sit In the box. When Miss Deyo left the stage after the first encore, and nodded for her Sammy to follow. the usher crawled over the foot lights. The actress became very much frightened and called to the stage man ager that there was a man on the stage.
 "The usher did the act very well, and after getting on the stage went towards the scenes on the side opposite from where Miss Deyo went off, and beckoned with his head for her to come on. She refused. The audience was convulsed with laughter, and none of them knew that it was a little game worked to frighten Miss Deyo. They thought 1t was some one with more than ordinary nerve.
 After the show Miss Deyo confessed that the drinks were on her, and that she had fallen into the trap laid for her She promises never to get caught again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
MARK TWAIN AS A STATESMAN.

From the Saturday Evening Post.
 Senator Stewart of Nevada tells a new story of Mark Twain's apprenticeship. The humorist who was to make the world laugh was then employed as a reporter in Carson City, and was on duty one even ing in the city council when the session was presided over by a municipal states man of exceedingly pompous manner, who cherished no great fondness for the young Clemens This councilman, ordinarily of no intellectual resources, became hone lessly confused in a parliamentary tangle. Finally a motion was made to expunge from the records a certan matter which the presiding officer was extremely anx- ious should not become part of local his tory. The motion, having been seconded. was eagerly passed.
 The matter has been ordered expung- ed" declared the presiding councilman gravely, "and the clerk will proceed-to expunge. It should be effectively wiped out, obliterated and totally destroyed" He paused to notice the effect of his sem tence of annihilation. Where. gentle men," he asked. will you have the ex- punged matter deposited and placed?"
 Mark Twain caught the attention of the councilman nearest him. Let the ex- punged matter be worn under the chair- mans hat" he Suggested; mo one would ever think of looking there for anything"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
Our Railroads and Water Line.

The Seaboard Air Line is throwing dirt and recognizing it's charter rights at one and the same time, and 1t will soon be felt where twenty millions of tons are annually moved. All rail- roads want slice of this tonnage, which is absolutely unapproached in the southern country, and after a while all southern railroads will get a finger in the pie.
 The Seaboard will be the next conner, and before the fall business is ready 1t will stand ready to haul freight and passengers to and from wide section of country, including sev- eral coast cities. As soon as the Illi- nois Central Is established here, the transportation situation here will be secure even in these days of trusts and mergers. It will be as secure as null tlplied railroad lines can make 1t.
 But transportation will not be what this district demands and must have, if 1t is to be developed as the Monon- gahela district has been developed, namely, barge rates the year round to the sea. Barge rates from the sea are not important, but barge rates to the seA are all essential. The government Is building three locks below Tusca- loosa today and Is pulling out snags and otherwise clearing the channel, so that in years time there should be a year-round, six-foot channel from the sea to a point sixteen miles above Tuscaloosa. This will enable some mines to ship coal and coke, and every dam and lock that is built afterwards will put in the favored territory more stacks and more mines, until at length all are in the barge belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
NORTH B'HAM's "WATER suPPLY,v
From the Atlanta Insurance Herald.

From the Atlanta Insurance Herald.
 Although 1t contains some of the most valuable industries in Jefferson county, North Birmingham has no fire protection. Since the recent destruction there by fire of a large sewer pipe plant, the pro- motors of other valuable industries are getting shaky, and there are indications of a wholesale exodus of these indus tries to safer quarters unless the powers that be get busy and lay pipes We are informed that the city fathers are con- siderins the subject. Awaiting their de- cision in the premises the sewer pipe concern, as Is told elsewhere In this is- sue, declines to rebuild unless 1t be guaranteed adequate fire protection. As The Age-Herald opportunely says, the subject is much more important, at this time, than the race question, the Cleve- land boom. the Indianoia incident or the woman who refused to make up Booker Washington's bed. It is a subject that does not need much consideration, for there must be a water supply or else there cannot be many industries or much growth. As an economic proposition 1t needs no consideration whatever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
AUSTRALIANS NEED OF PEOPLE.
rom the Westminster Gazette.

From the Westminster Gazette
 According to the Colonial Review of Reviews, the real, if unconfessed, want of the Australian commonwealth Is the want of population-due to the total ar rest of immigration and the steady shrinkage of the birth rate:
 Here Is a continent equal in area to the whole of Europe, If Russia in Europe Is omitted; 1t Is only a little less than the United States. Whole kingdoms can be packed within the borders of each state of the commonwealth. The natural wealth and the climatic condi- tons of this great continent are unsur- passed. It could support a population equal to that of Russia or of the United States with ease. Yet at the end of nearly 12O years of colonization its population Is less than 100000 or about equal to that of a couple of London's suburbs!'
 There is no other bit of the planets sur face. we are told. at once so rich, so tempting, and yet so nearly vacant and so little utilized as is the continent of Australia
 
 gards Australia the natural growth of population steadily slackens, and these twin facts are. contends our contempor- ary, the two ugliest features in the political and social landscape"
 "Yet they provoke scarcely any com ment and occasion scarcely any disquiet Our annual increase of population was once over Il per cent annually; 1t Is now less than per cent. The general mar riage rate has shrunk from S.64 to 6.S7 and marriages have not only got fewer but they are less proli1c. The average number of children for each marriage was once nearly six; 1t is now only little over f."
 i. A complaint is made by the writer quot ed that Australian politicians deal only with the superficial aspects of Australian life and society. "No one even attempts to consider the graver facts such as we have described"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
After-Dlnner Speakers.

From all accounts the speeches at the banquet at the Hillman Thursday night given by President T. G. Bush of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company to the visiting directors and their friends were singularly felicitous. And not one, perhaps, was less fitting than William c. Seddon's; but Mir. Sed- don was incorrectly reported in the Age Herald. He was quoted as saying: T am eloquent on three subjects only-God. Christ and the Alabama Consolidated" :" W nat he did say in his playful manner was: T am eloquent on three subjects only-golf, whist and the Alabama Con- solldated" Mistakes of this sort are us- ually charged to the printer, but this time it was the scribe.
 The party left this morning, and every member of it expressed himself as de- lighted with his trip. The dividend of 1% per cent declared by the directors of the Alabama Consolidated Thursday was the regular dividend paid quarterly on the preferred stock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
GRAY HAIR IS SAID TO
 BE DUE TO BRAIN WORK

lapse in tone, just to that extent he will become prematurely gray.
 As a factor in grayness, howeved, he- reality has more to do with it than any thing else. In my own family everybody had been in the habit of getting gray or bald at 4O and as a result I am a good deal of both.
 Logically and naturally gray hairs may be expected to appear on the temples at 35 to 40 years old. Brown-Sequard is an authority for the statement that the first of these gray hairs turn white in a night His observation is based upon the white threads that appeared in his own beard. Looking in the mirror one morn ing, he discovered a single white hair that was not there the night before. He to bed again he made a careful search for other white hairs. Satisfied that none was left, he went to sleep again, only to find that while he slept two other hairs had turned white in the same area where he had marked the first.
 In this way Dr. Brown-sequard became to an extent sponsor for the story of the man whose hair turns white in night, caused from fright This is the story which dermatologists in all time have shied at, but which at the same time has been on a much stronger footing than anything in the line of ghosts sea ser pents or mermaids.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
LIBERTY MORE THAN COTTON

From the New York World.
 Pointing out the absurdity of any at- tempt to form a Continental European league to antagonize the United States in commercial and industrial directions Herr Kuffler, a large manufacturer. told a Vienna conference that this country could, by simply stopping It's cotton ex- ports, "paralyze European industries.
 This illustration of American invinci- bility to European attack is not so strong as 1t looks, nor nearly so strong as many others that easily suggest themselves Shutting off our enormous cotton exports would strike British and German cotton factories destructive blow-but 1t would spell hard times for our own cotton-grow- ing states, too
 Perhaps the greatest injury the United States could peacefully infict on Eu- rope next to stopping It's food supply. would be to close its ports to all Euro pean immigrants. If the upward of TOO, 900 poor and discontented people who are now yearly escaping from European so- cial and political conditions through the open doors of this republic were forced to stay and either endure or change those conditions. the governments over there would find themselves sitting on the boil CT of revolution with the safety-valve tied down.
 It Is our liberty far more than our cot ton that makes us indispensable to Euro pean peace and safety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
Alabama at St. Louis.

The Alabama Press association met In Anniston on Wednesday, about one hundred strong, and they unanimously and enthusiastically adopted the fol- lowing resolution:
 Whereas the worlds fair to be held at St Louis in 1904 promises to be the great opportunity for this state to display and advertise It's peerless resources that is likely to come in many years; and, where as, it would be great misfortune if Ala bama is not fittingly represented there, not only for the material loss that will occur, but because state pride and state interest demand that Alabama press for ward with all the dignity befitting its high estate in all things; therefore.
 Be 1t resolved. That the Alabama Press association earnestly endorses the efforts of the Alabama commissioners and the commercial bodies to have Alabama ft- tingly represented at this great exposi- tion, and urges upon the state admins- tration and all the people the importance
 
 efforts looking to this; and we, as individ- uals and as an organization, pledge our best efforts to assist in securing a proper exhibit at St. Louis for the state of Ala bama-
 That veteran newspaper man, Maj. W. W. Screws, presented the resolu- tion, and it went through with rare spirit and deep feeling All present felt that the state they love so we'll would stand disgraced if no effort was made to have her wonderful resources ard accomplishments properly dis. played at St. Louis, and each and every one of them will work to that end.
 A convention is to be held in the second week of June, in which every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
COTTON LEADER BROWN
 NATIVE OF MISSISSIPPI

south, he still occupies the modest sec- ond-fioor apartments. consisting of an of- flee and a sample room. He has been pulling the market all these years, and his success must be even beyond his ex- pectations for not even he can accurate ly estimate Just what is his wealth to- day.
 Shortly after settling in New Orleans MT. Brown married Miss Julia Braughn. daughter of the late Judge eeorre Braughn, one of the most prominent cit- izens there, and one of the foremost Jur- ists in the south. Miss Julia was just making her debut in society and her sis. ter, Miss Louise Braughn, was queen of the carnival that year.
 His wife brought some capital into the partnership, and became a member of the firm. Since their marriage, Mir. and Mrs. Brown have been residing in the upper section of the city, but Mir. Brown is now having a fine residence built on St. Charles avenue. There are three children in the family, all boys
 MT. Brown has always devoted great deal of time and hard work to his busi- ness, and has had little of life outside of that and his home. He has personally conducted the entire business of his of- flee. having assistance only in the clerl- cal work
 In personal appearance, he is of about the average height, but sturdily built and well proportioned. In dress, he is per fectly plain, almost to the point of care lessness. He Is tireless worker. Often he reaches his office before his clerks, and he never leaves in the evening until all of the days work has received his personal attention. He is quick in his movements, as in his speech, and yet ex- tremely careful in every undertaking.
 "I have been in the cotton business all my life. but I don't know how much longer I will be in It." MT. Brown said when asked, just before his departure for New York what he was going to do with all his money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
CAUTIOUS SENATOR ALLISON.
Was the Unconscious Subject of a
 Wager.

From Washington Letter to the Cleveland
 Plain Dealer.
 Hes a trimmer, he is," maintained Sam Swopes doggedly. why, that man. he never made statement in his life that wasn't qualified. don't know where he stands. No more do you. He don't know himself. And you've elected him senator"
 All of which being fiatly denied, Swopes, driven to bay. declared that money talk ed. 'tTl1 bet $lO," he declared, that you, Ike Peters, can't get this senator of yours to make one plain. definite, unvar- nlshed assertion nor yet statement on any subject whatsoever in fifteen minutes of conversation"
 Done" hotly retorted the Peters per son, and pat to the occasion the new senator appeared. He joined ''the boys" with cheerful greeting in his pleasant way while they huddled about him in suppressed excitement. swopes grinned sardonically, in the background. There passed flock of splendid thoroughbred sheep just escaped from the hand of the shearer. It being Iowa, the talk turned upon them. With sudden joy Peters turn ed to Allison and smarked inquiringly:
 You know something about sheep your self, don't you, senator7" There was even a little compassion for Swopes in his tone. It seemed such an unfair way of taking a fellow-citizen's slO even such an exasperating fellow-citizen as Swopes.
 pause ensued. Allison looked thought fully at the fock
 T was raised in a sheep country" he said cautiously at last.
 Ten dollars. Peters," muttered swonea yindictively.
 The crowd shouted Allison looked ba- wildered. Peters was red and savage. Fifteen minutes ain't up yet" he snorted yiciously
 Sheep have just been sheared, haven't they senator?' he suggested, desperately. returning to the charge. Again Allison looked over the flock with that reflective air.
 They do look as if they had from this side" he admitted.
 Ten dollars" repeated swopes. He got the money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
Bid Hardware Generalization.

The announcement that the Mayberry Hardware company of Birmingham and the Gray & Dudley Hardware company of Nashville have consolidated will be read with great interest, for both con cerns have been long and widely known throughout the south. The two companies united into one will, it is felt, give this jobbing center additional advantages of a very decided character.
 It is said that the new company will in- crease It's capital stock to s10OO,OOO.
 H. H. Mayberry ". A. Chenoweth and T. J. Watson will be elected directors in the company and will have charge of the Birmingham house. MT. Chenoweth is recognized as one of the hardware ex- perts of this part of the country and one of the most popular men in the trade, and the fact that he is to remain with the Birmingham branch will give high satisfaction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23

commercial body in the state will be represented, and the work of the con vention will be the devising of ways and means to secure a fit exhibit at St Louis. No subject of the day is of deeper interest to the people of this state, and The Age-Herald urges the fullest possible attendance at the June conference Each town should send to it its most most public-spirited and patriotic men. That conference will determine the issue, and let no one think the decision will be of a mega tive nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-23
rom the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 VERIFYING physical being Gh equal. 1t is established that the S man who is engaged in profess sional work will grow gray sooner than will the man who earns his bread by the literal sweat of his brow. Thus by i@lpli- cation the man who has more and harder brain work than another-more worries. more troubles, more difficult thoughts, less vitality In proportion-this is the in- dividual and the profession that soonest are marked by gray hairs.
 But who shall decide which Is which," asks Dr. I. N Danforth, who has made a. study of both bald and gray heads. "The doctor and the lawyer and tne minister and the business man and the whole category of men are willing to go on record as being the victims of the hardest possible occupations
 Thus far, however, one may be cer- tain: In the professions generally there are three groups which may be taken up as suggestive of the manner In which heads grow white. First of these are the representatives who are on the out skirts of even moderate success in ire. They have the burden of living more than the burden of ambitions. They have to work harder toward making the ends Of things meet than they work toward at tainment of their skill as professional man These are of the class which get gray carly even if there be no disposi- t,on m inc part of their ancestry to be- come gray early in life. Just to the ex- tent that they are susceptible to the worries and pinchings of life. to that extent they become gray and premature ly old.
 "Another class are the happy men. They are capable of bounded ambitions ana are content with the successes that came to men who bore with small augers ana learn well the philosophy of living TOT sass and comfort They have horizons that are wide enough, they have learned to avoid cares, and between working well and not worrying they never grow gray vou will see them long after the allotted soan of life scarcely with any gray hairs and with small trace of badness.
 ..That third type of professional men belongs to the top of the professional lad der the world over. Their brains are filled with surging ideas; there is no rest for the gray matter within their skulls; before blood nutrition can get to the hair 1t is cut off and suhverted to the use of the brain until the logical result of years of this is either gray hair or no hair at all. There Is a disposition to badness instead of to grayness but in many ways the two conditions are brought about by the same causes
 ''In general the man who thinks will be gray before the man who works without thinking. To the extent that the thinker fails toltake exercise. is sedentary in his work an9 habits. and allows his system to