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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-17

A Berlin paper has been asking it's
readers. why don't the Germans
buy books ?" Among the answers were
these: Because half the Germans
write books themselves, and have no
time or inclination for reading those
of others" and Because beer brings
more satisfaction than books do" AS
a matter of fact, in 1901-the latest
year for which statistics are availa-
ble-25,3 31 books were published in Ger
many, against S,141 in the United
States, 6,044 in Great Britain and 49,
05S in France.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-17
Home Rule Unrest,

Fred W. Beckley has been formally
read out of the Home Rule party for
making a speech at Republican meet
ing and advising the electors to vote
for the best men.
c. w. Ashford has been substituted
for Sam Kamakaia on the Home Rule
ticket as a candidate for supervisor
from the Fourth District.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-17

Mr.. Beckley and Mr.. Nakuina are
showing their fellow Hawaiians the
virtue of political independence. They
refuse to march ahead of any boss
when he cracks the whip. The spirit
of independence is growing one
among the native voters and it is a
good sign.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-17

The burning of those vouchers may
prove to be a costlier fire to some vic
tins than was the burning of China
TOWN
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

create a new and vastly important branch
for itself-the branch of producing inoculat-
ing material for metals which shall change
their temper and form swiftly instead Of
waiting for the slow processes OF forging
and tempering that obtain today?"
He explains this conclusion as follows:
There are many organic and inorganic
substances in which sharp changes of tenn
perature produce changes of structure, or.
as scientists put it, which assume new
phases" under such changed conditions.
This alteration of form or structure can
be produced suddenly IL the temperature
point necessary for alteration is very de-
cidedly over-stepped. But IL the tempera-
ture does not go far above or below the
alteration point it is necessary generally
to introduce an artificial impulse to con-
summate the change.
1t is possible, for instance, under certain
circumstances to cool water to a tempera-
ture well below freezing point, and still it
will not solidify into ice until a crystal Of
ice is introduced. Then it begins to form
ice crystals at once and soon is solid.
Pure glyccrine cannot be frozen with
ordinary means, even if they produce tenn
peratures as low as 20 degrees below zero.
until a bit of glycerine that has already
been frozen is Introduced. But as soon as
this crystal of frozen glycerine is in the
rest of the glycerine, which has been SO
stubborn until then, becomes docile and be-
gins to freeze beautifully.
For some time past the process has been
technically called vaccination" because
the term was so apt and convenient; but
until the present day no one suspected how
much truth lay in the accidental name for
the process.
Yet this process is nothing more or less
than inoculating an inorganic substance
with crystals in order to breed" in ii the
condition of capitalization which is the
necessary first step to lead to freezing. And
the conversion OF iron to steel is only a
series of processes OF capitalization.
Now recently a strange thing in metal
lursy happened. A ship was loaded with
Banca tin in the Straits and sailed for a
northern port in Europe. When it arrived
there, and the work of unloading the valu-
able cargo began, the merchants to whom
1t was consigned were amazed and dis
mayed to discover that the entire shipment
had actually crumbled into dust.
Here was a mystery. For a long time no
one could solve it. Years ago. it would
have been dismissed finally with the state
ment that there must have been a flaw" or
a fault in the tin. But the flaw theory
had become unsatisfactory.
Then Prof. Bredig came out with pboto-
graphs that he had made in a church in
Silesia. The pictures showed the remnants
Of organ pipes, most of them full Of queer,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

tween the lower phases Of plant life and
the so-called inorganic or dead world.
To the layman the fact that metals can
be treated indefinitely by heat without de-
struction, seems naturally to prove that
they can possess the attribute which 10
called life But the whole course Of
plant life depends on temperature and its
changes, and temperature affects all ami
mails, including man, even pI oducing illness
and death when the changes are sudden.
In other words, as gradual aud normal
changes of temperature affect anirsal and
plant life normally, so they do metals; and
abrupt and abnormal changes of tempera-
ture change the structural form OF each.
The phrase Interchangeable as stoel' In
decidedly Incorrect. Steel in its making
mas to undergo all the changes that the
animal body undergoes In the course of
growth. 1t is a combination of iron and
carbon, and carbon Is organic. The German
metallurgists have come to speak as a mat
ter Of course OF the life" that unfolds
itself In steel under the various tempera-
lures that are applied to II in working It.
During the course of its changes il often
develops qualities that make 1t useless for
industrial purposes while they last. Thus
al one step 1t becomes brittle-a temporary
diseased condition that yields 20 what
might almost be called the NEEDLES. treat
ment OF heat properly graduated.
POISON this steel with hydrogen or hy-
drogehous matter and you sicken it so de-
cidedly that it gets into a condition where
1t Is as brittle as If it had been ruined in
tempcring.
Prof. Heyn has been studying the changes
In iron under all grades OF temperature.
and he holds that the metal passes through
various stages of disease that produce
structural changes just as cells change ia
form, size and position in the forms COM
monty called Organic"
lie heated copper in order TO find why
.nat metal suffers from overheating, and
his conclusion is that it becomes poisoned
with copper protoxide, which so slckens e
that its structure changes and p~artiaIIv
breaks down.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

ever rolling sea. With pure hearts, free
from every shadow of suspicion and guilt,
the red man hailed the coming of the white
man as a gracious gift from the Great
Spirit, and welcomed his white brother
with open arms to the fairest lands Tvs
beneath the circling blue of he
canopy; took him by the hand and led
through the painless forest, along the sing
ing brooks, beside the gentle flowing rivers.
to the mountain tops, from whence he could
feast his enraptured vision upon broad
plains, where the tall prairie grass bend
ing and swaying in music waves beforA
the gentle breezes, stretching far avn
toward the home of the setting sun.
Looking about us today We stand
tranced as we contemplate the wondfus
metamorphosis, the vast and almost IN
describable changes wrought by the And
Of man since the white man first rated
at the door of the red man. Couni ess
hamlets, villages, towns and elites 10Y
dot the land once owned and eompfttey
dominated by the Indians E&tsss
stretches OF steel rails now bad thalAtian-
tic to the Pacific oceaua b. tros .ai sunlit
and I've been fearing ttC something might
happen. Perhaps you Hnow Row m
able a feeling one he's ln such a predica-
ment. But l did not NEantfo miss my train,
and so decided II come along in my old
ones. I left word 10 s6nd my best ones by
express. l went e. Guthrie first and hoped
they would oversize me there. But they
didn't. When q reeehed Wichita 1 tele-
graphed to have them forwarded. When I
left Wichita for Kansas City l was stiu
wearing the old ones aGd l tell you the anx-
ious seat was nothing to be compared to the
seat l was sitting on. When got
here the first thing l did was to telegraph
to all three points to have my best irons
ers forwarded to Kansas City by lightning
express. They just arrived this morning.
and I've been happy as a boy ever since.
No. nothing happened that was ashamed
or but I've figured that l spent enough in
paying for messages and express charges to
buy a new pair"
When asked by a listener why he didn't
buy a new pair in the first place. Editc
Bolton replied: Couldn't do It. Not ca
In Kansas City. Why, son. do you %"
l measure hfty-six inches aroun/ tS
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

- METALS nave opened q new world
~ for the metallurgist-a world full
Of marvellous, almost fairy-like
possibilities.
The first striking discovery that was
made is that metals suffer from diseases.
They become sick and their strength or
hardness or elasticity will vanish mysteri-
ously, and not from the ordinary causes
known to metal workers. Through all the
ages Of metal working until now these
curious weakenings and unexpected defects
in apparently sound, high-grade metals
have been set down as flaws" and even
scientists accepted this as an explanation;
yet now that the recent studies and expert
ments have begun to solve the puzzle, 1t is
evident to everybody that FLAW really ex-
planned nothing. To call the defect a flaw
was only to give a name that meant very
little to an entirely unknown condition.
Before the new experiments had gone far
It was discovered that metals can be poi
soned-roisoned just as readily and with as
fatal effect as any organic body, such as an
animal or a plant.
OF course, with this development, the
question arose at once, is a metal an inor-
ganic body after all?
But scientists did not dare to commit
themselves so far. They asked themselves
the question in private at first. To ask it
In public was almost to ask the world to
change one of its fundamental scientific be-
liefs, the belief in a great diversion Of mat
ter into two mighty classes, one of which
is organic and the other inorganic.
Mtre experiments followed. some Of them
30 elaborate that a single one required
many months before it reached a result;
most of them were so ingenius that even
ordinary scientific men could not follow
the intricate processes intelligently, and
only specialists could perceive the real
meaning that lay hidden in the results. At
last, however, the demonstrations had
multiplied so much and were so striking
in their significance that hesitation gave
way to assurance and the theory of the
disease of metals has been so far accepted
by the practical men of metallurgy that
the imperial navy yard in Wilhelmshafen,
Germany, sends metals regularly to the
autopsy room" and "dissecting tables" Of
Prof. Heyn, one Of the leaders in the new
investigation.
Now another of the specialists in the
new research, the famous DR.. Bechhold of
Germany, has gone still further-not in a
mere conjectural theory, but with a con-
clusion reached as the end of a series of
careful, logical steps fortified by expert
ment.
who knows" he asks in summing up
his studies, 'if metallurgy will not soon
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

crumbling holes. Whole pipes had van
ashed absolutely.
There was no rust, and all investigation
failed to show any other of the causes that
are known as destroyers Of metal. All in
vestigators at last confessed Themselves
nonplussed, until Prof. Bredig, who had
made a study of the new theories of the
diseases of metal, found a wound" n gen.
uine open wound in a pipe; and his careful.
accurate and rigid experiments furnished
the convincing proof that this wound had
infected the entire series of pipes with a
creeping disease.
Scarcely had he finished his investigations
In the Silesian church before a strange CO.
incidence enabled him to extend his ex-
periments and at the same time obtain ad-
ditional proof of the correctness of his pre-
vious findings.
lie was asked to inspect the great tin
roof of the Rathaus or Council House OF
kothenburg. Arrived there, he was in
formed that several years ago the roof, al
though 1t had been attended to carefully,
painted regularly and kept perfectly free
from rust had begun TO crumble away. No
one could imagine what caused Il.
Prof. Bredig soon discovered a center OF
Infection. And he was able not only To
o '"S Siouuai pIOBTSSS OI the injection
over the Council House roof, but to show
where the disease had actually spread to a
tin roof near by.
The phenomenon has been named "tin-
pest and the explanation has been ad-
vanced that tin retains it's distinctive and
most valuable attributes only i'm tcmpera-
lures above 20 degrees. In cold greater
than this structural modification occurs
quickly, and if the cold is pushed to an
Intensity great enough to disintegrate the
tin' 1t often crumbles away in a grayish
powder.
In temperatures that do not often fall
Tar below 20 degrees, the changes are ex-
tremeiy slow, unless the tin becomes in
tected with the gray notification" IL
some OF the gray powder of tin that has
happened to disintegrate should attach it.
sell to the sound tin, then the disease
communicates itself rapidly to all parts OF
the metal.
In the cases of tin plates such as are
used for roofs, the tin is not a chemical
individuality of it's own, but is a mixture
Oh iron and TIM both Of which have already
passed through several notifications dur
ing the processes OF conversion into plates.
therefore, the process of infection becomes
complicated and a tin roof offers a less re-
sisting field than pure tin.
Now, II metals can be thus infected with
disease. it follows that they can be inocu-
lated as organic substances can be. And
aF science has gradually built a bridge be-
tween animal life aneADw a.
appears poo plant ne
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
Fat Man His TrOurers

William Bolton, editor OF the Live Stock
Inspector OF Woodward, Okl., was at the
stock yards yesterday on business. Mr..
Bolton admits that he weighs 31S pounds.
He looks the part. When he came into
the lobby of the Exchange building at tho
stock yards yesterday he was perspiring
freely, but smiling.
Anything new?" he inquired. in answer
to a similar query. well. l should say
there was. But it's not for publication.
consider myself the most fortunate person
that will sleep in Kansas City tonight. It's
this way:
"Jnst before / started for Kansas City on
this trip l realized that my best trousers
needed mending''-he didn't call them
trousers-"sO l put on an old pair and sent
my best ones down to the tailor. Just be-
fore train time / sent down to the shop
for them and received word that they
weren't ready. Well, l hdgeted around for
a few minutes and then finally decided that
I'd have to come away without them. Ny
old ones are fairly good, excepting in one
place. They are getting thin in the seat,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

stand before you a vision rises before me
In which l see the past, the present and
the future.
"The picture unrolls out of the dim and
traditional past showing the untutored
fathers, mothers and children OF our race
basking in the sunshine and uncorrupted
happiness and health of that romantic
and poetic time when as Gods children,
guided by the wisdom handed down in song
and story, and by the lights hung out in the
skies and the lessons read from the book
of nature lying open before them they
lived and died with the pure light of the
morning, the generous warmth of the
meridian and the red glow of the setting
sun prompting to love and marriage, the
chase and the dance.
"Then came the white man with his
civilization and the push and dash and
commercial enterprise born of conditions
existing beyond the changing plains of the
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
al

sun
screo-to the Arctic leHand ear-splitting
49, with puS from city to city,
sm ocsan AZ the .tmoke of number
Rss oraov,SrUU-A~Ia ind factories now
mount the ethereal s~tafFays of the skies;
tbe schNoss the collegeA the churches and
conto-.1~~rals are training tie minds and
Whit me souls OF many millions, red.
OF men. i' AHu uaush'eIs
Every consideration OF eypediency. Of
uoty' OF right demands of us hat we meet
.ne emergencies of the hour; that we gtep
mo the front rank OF the moving millions
: this glorious land of ours; that we
Duckle on the armor of valiant Americans
@nd armed with the sword of American
1t'i|enshlp cut our way through the ranks
o. poverty ignorance and superstition with
'ueir concomitdnt attendants of want and
misery sheltered by the starry banner Of
!, common country. proclaim ourselves
1--we members and earnest workers IN
~ sovernRsRa Of t6sTopie by the peo-
pie and for the peops -KanEas City
Journal.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
Request Denied

I'm perfectly Elling," said Senator
BoodE, Ito comfy with In reasonable
reQust OF my chstituents."
we'll" replid the spokesman, there's
onI one thin5 we'd like you to do that
yoyye never done before. and which no
or will expect you to do again"
iAnd that is?"
die, If o ase."-PhiladeIphia
edger.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

waist? There's NOT pair of hand-ne-
downs in Kansas Eit5 big enough to at
me."-Kansas Cit~ytJou;naL
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
Speech of a Creek Indi

&c, THE representative OF a once
all powerful race on the Ameri-
can content, are met here today
to play III part IN the stage of
life and of government Az 7
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
Scientists Believe that Metals Are Alive

.EER experiments that have been
made recently in Europe with
metals have opened a new world
for the metallurgist-a world full
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

The following marriage licenses were issued
yesterday:
Edward P. Myers. 20. Oakland. and Lillian
Corder, Is. Oakland.
Albert G. Loster. %. city. and Ellen L. Wed
berg, %, city.
Alfred c. Martel. 40 Mountain View. and
Laura Blackwood, 30, 2002 Pacific avenue
Samuel ]. Gray, 25. Tesla, and Maud G.
Wiseman, 10. Tesla.
and Jennie NJ. Cook 23 Redwood City.
Anton M. Y. Krazmer, 80, % Valparaiso
street, and Anna S. B. Hoppe, 36. 1915 Mason.
Peter A. Petersen, 3S. 2o15 Franklin street,
and Katharine Naef, 50. 107 Oak street.
John Taylor 81 53S Sutter street, and Alma
NJ Nelson, 20, 53S Sutter street
Max Fox. %, 507 Pacific street. and Ethel
Johann H. Lemme. so. 119 Bernard street.
and Johanne Nialig 45, $50 Pacific avenue.
James Pellaudini. 80 Calf, and Rosa Rog
Gardiner Howell 35. New York. and Bessie
NJ. Bosh 20. Berkeley.
George r. McCanse, 33. Greenwood, and Nell
lie L. Mcdowell, "a Hemmingford Canada.
John r. viera, 80, Oakland, and Maria Souzas
27. CITY.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
TWO MEN NECESSARY TO
CARRY WOMAN FROM FIRE
Madam Hanson Becomes Excited and
She Is Removed to Place OF
Safety With Difficulty.

Madam Hanson, who conducts a
vapor bathing establishment at 116
Taylor street, was saved from death in
a fire last night try Jake Harris, a
clerk in the County Clerks Office. The
house in which she was caught fire
and in the excitement the woman be-
came so terrified that she was unable
to get out Of her rooms.
Harris was passing, and, hearing her
screams, ran to her rescue. Although
there was no fire near her. the woman
seemed paralyzed with fear. Her res
cuer tried to carry her out into the
street, but her avoirdupois was too
much for him. Policeman O'Connor
came to the rescue and between them
they removed the frightened woman
to place Of safety.
The blaze, which was small. was
put out in few minutes by the Fire
Department. The damage viii not ex-
ceed 500.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
AssEssMENT NOTICES.


PLANTATION COMPANY-As-
sessnent Notice-Honolulu Plantation Com.
pany location OF principal place Of business,
san Francisco. Cal.-Notice is hereby given
that al a meeting of the board of directors
held this 10Th day Of November A. d. 1903,
an assessment Number y of one dollar
(Sl 0O) per share levied upon the cap
ital stock Of the corporation, payable i'm
mediately to the secretary of the company
at the office of the company 327 Market
St, san Francisco, State OF California ANY
stock upon which this assessment shall
main unpaid the 2Sth day of December.
1903. win be delinquent and advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless payment
IS made before viii be sold on the 18th
day Of January. 1904, 10 pay the delinquent
assessment. together with expenses Of sale,
H W. THOMAS. Z
Secretary OF the Honolulu Plantation Com
pany. 527 Market St. Francisco, Cal.
CRoom No. 4. Second F1oorl.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
rRUITyALE REAL ESTATE.

. BEAUTIFUL country home in Elmhurst; s.
room house; elegant interior finish; barn and
carriage house: chicken and numerous other
out houses; concrete driveways; beautiful
flower garden; 2 acres of orchard; one of the
prettiest homes in Alameda County; it is go
ing to go for half Of its real value; price $4,000
small payment down; balance on easy terms
will exchange for Oakland or San Francisco
property. KITCHENER & BARTON, 1910
Broadway
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
Tries Hard to Die.

Charles Williams. ia Harriet street,
hacked himself about the head with
dull ak thirty-seven times yesterday
afternoon and then jabbed pair Of
shears into his breast. Notwithstand
ing his efforts TO end his life, Williams
was but slightly injured
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
MARRIED.

TDAHL-SULLIvAN-In this city, De-
cerriber 8. 1908, by the Rev. Frederick A.
Doane. Ferdinand W. Westdahl OF San Fran
cisco and Agnes N. sullivan Of OAKLAND, ca.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
BERKELEY ADVERTISEMENTS

BERKELEY REAL ESTATE.
BUY ONE OF THESE CHRISTMAS PRES
ENTS.
$65O--Lot overlooking bay; near College ave
all street work done: 2 blocks
S25O0-50x130 on Charming way, near Tele-
graph ave-; everything else in block $3.50.
IS per foot; fine corner lot, near new Santa Fe
station.
CHENEY & BERRY,
p. o. Block. Berkeley station
A SNAP-Must be sold at once: S37OO: two
story Groom house, year DID, lot 42x12O:
street work all done; new furniture com
plete throughout; l block from electric cars
and blocks from Lorin station: $1,000 cash
balance $50 per month. 1927 Fairview ST. or
L. j. MORAN & CO., 213I Shattuck ave.
ONE left; splendid home in Berkeley
small cash payment; remainder on INSTALL
ments less than rent S. F. and S. Home
Building Society. 7oS Market ST.. S. F.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, December s, s19O3.-
Sealed proposals. in triplicate, will be
ceiyed here until IL o'clocls a. m. January 8,
1904 and then opened for construction Of
frame buildings (wagon shed and work
shop) at Fort Miley, Cal. Government re-
serves right to reject or ACCEPT any or all
bids In whole or in part Information fur
nished application to WIN. s. PATTEN,
Assistant Quartermaster General, Chief
O. NJ
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
BIRTHS MARRIAGES DEATHS.

Birth marriage and death notices sent by
mail will not be inserted. They must be handed
in at either Of the publication offices and be
indorsed with the name and residence of per-
sons authorized to have the same published
Notices restricted simply to the announcement
of the event are published once in this column
free of charge.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
BORN.

this city December Z 1908, to
the wife of E. Fl Dettner. daughter.
KINGSBURY-In this city. December 4, 1903,
to the wife OF w. de L. Kingsbury. son.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
F. J. MoNAHAN. Manager. Tel Mission Il.
0'HARA & co.

FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS.
2339-2341 Mission ST.. rear Nineteenth.
San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

FCR sale Eirst-class city paper route on
Los Angeles Times. VIII sell cheap; owner
going East Inquire Gas Cornwen St. Los
Angeles. Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08
OAKLAND ADVERTISEMENTS
OFFICE. 11,s BROADWAY.
OAKLAND REAL ESTATE.

s25oo COST and is worth $3Oo0-Thirty- y-ffth
ST.. near San Pablo: only blocks from
Key Route station; thirty minutes from
this house to San Francisco by Key
Route; only one fare; modern bay-win-
dow cottage of 5 rooms. bath, high base
ment; lot 30x140; two-story barn; gravel
drives; in fact, an ideal home: terms
only $500 cash balance mortgage; see
ing is believing; call early: must be sold; /;
no reasonable offer refused. ]. S.
MYERS or GEO. w. AUSTIN. MQ2
Broadway Oakland
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-08

LOST Purse on $50 train from San Rafael.
1921 Twentieth ST. reward.