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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
JApAN'S LATEST MOVE.

The announcement from Paris that
Japan will send two regiments into
Korea to protect her interests and
stand off the Russians, may be con-
tradicted tomorrow, but if it is true it
will bring the relations of Russia and
Japan to new phase. The dispatch of
such a force would naturally impel
Russia to send a larger one ostensibly
to protect interests which the Japa-
nese might threaten; and such a step
could easily bring on the long expected
war. The public will remember that it
was a transfer of japanese troops to
Korea in 1894 which ushered the war
that opened China as a theater of for
eign conquest and intrigue.
ment is to force matters now, their
state of war preparation must be very
far advanced. According to a recent
cablegram Russia has 100000 men on
the Manchurian littoral and along the
railroad leading to it and so ships of
war at Port Arthur. Even japan
would have the right to hesitate before
such a multitude of foes. Possibly
and this accords with the views of
many foreigners on the ground-Japan
will merely buster for a compromise
giving Russia all Manchuria and tax
ing Korea for herself. If this is the
game perhaps the proposed move with
troops will be the beginning of it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
The Greatest of Linguists.

Cardinal Giuseppi Mezzofanti, who
died in 1S49, surpassed all other men in
linguistic ability. All the tongues of
Babel were gathered together in his
tongue, but without confusion. He
spoke fluently no fewer than f1fty-eight
different languages, and wrote in more
than thirty. Lord Byron, who knew
him well, called him "a walking poly
glot, a monster of languages, and a
Briareus of parts of speech" Mezzo-
fanti was not in the strict sense a
critical or scientific scholar, or even
otherwise a man of great intellectual
power.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
No Ne cessity Of It.

Booker T. Washington, in his ar
raignment of those of whom he disap-
proves, is so sincere and frank and
earnest as to be, sometimes uncon-
scfously amusing. The last time Mr..
Washington was in New York he met
an old friend, a strong fellow, begging
We'll, Erastus, I'm surprised at
this said Mr.. Washington with a
frown. The other, confused, tried to
explain.
You can't explain to me. You are
big enough and strong enough to work,
and here you are begging. You can't
explain that" said Mr.. Washington.
We'll, Abs got to live" said the
other, humbly.
There's not the least necessity for
that said Mr.. Washington severely.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
MOTT e CHANGE OF AGENCY
Agency John Fowler & Co., Geeds)
Limited.

Honolulu, Septr. 26, 1908.
To the Sugar Planters of the Hawaiian
Islands.
Gentlemen:-I beg to announce that
after mature consideration with my
principals, Messrs. John Fowler & Co.
Ueeds), Limited, England, as well as
with my friends, the Honolulu Iron
Works Co., to whom I have sold nv
entire stock of Steam Pillow Spares, I
have now, with the approval of John
Fowler & Co. Geeds), Limited, trans
ferred to the Honolulu Iron Works Co.
the Sole Agency for the Hawaiian ISL
ands for all the manufactures of John
Fowler & Co. Oeeds), Limited, which
include Steam Flowing Tackles, Rails,
ETC., and also Spares for same.
I am convinced that the business Of
my customers will continue to receive
the utmost care at the hands of nv
successors, and bespeak for them the
patronage which has been so fully
granted me for many years by the
planters of these Islands.
Yours faithfully,
c. W. MACFARLANE,
Former Agent John Fowler & Co.
Leeds), Limited.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02

William H. Crawford, a member of
the grand jury, went bail for several
Chinese gamblers discharged today in
Judge Gears court under the Wah Sin
decision, and was present as an inter-
ested party when they were called be-
fore the court. The Court observed
his presence, and when Crawford an
nounced his connection with the mat
ter, pleasantly asked If he, Crawford
was ready to indict the alleged offend
ers.-Bulletin.
Suppose this man had been "a hated
missionary! Would there have been
any pleasant remarks from the
court? Wouldn't the Bulletin have
bawled until it's outlets had come loose
and it's sweetbreads had withered ant
turned sour?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
TECHNICAL ACQUITTALS.
The Official and Commercial Record.

ZINE Of1c1al and Commercial Record.
The last Record called attention to
the fact that American criminal law
practically ignored the guilt Or inno-
cence of an alleged criminal, and &C
quilted or convicted him in accordance
with purely artificial technical rules
which entirely ignored the question of
guilt or innocence.
No more signal instance of such
perversion of the true theory of GRIMM
al law has ever come to our notice
than the recent Jail delivery decision
of the local Circuit Court.
By this decision some SO or more per-
sons who have been convicted of various
misdemeanors and are serving their
sentences, are entitled to be discharged.
No suggestion is made in the decision
that the defendant in the test case, or
any of the other so, has not had full
and fair trial; nor that they were not
guilty; nor that the sentences were not
legal and just.
The sole and only reason for the Jail
delivery decreed, is that the place in
which the sentence of Imprisonment is
to be served is in the Oahu Jail, in
which building are also confined per-
sons convicted of crimes other than
misdemeanors.
For 40 years this has been the only
prison in Honolulu. 1t may be bad policy
it undoubtedly is-to confine those
convicted of higher crimes and mis-
demeanors in the same building, but
there is no law against it, and no law
making void a conviction because a
prisoner is confined there.
At this point the deadly technicality
gets in it's work.
Some judges in another court at
some time under conditions which we
know not of, invented the technicality
that mere confinement in a prison in
which criminals were imprisoned made
the punishment inflicted for a INSIDE
meanor equal in character to that of a
felony. The train of technical reason
ing then easily follows. Things equal
to the same thing are equal
to each other" Criminals are confined
in Oahu Jail; criminals are felons; the
law requires charges of felony to be
made by a grand jury; misdemeanants
are confined in Oahu Jail, therefore
they must be felons and not having
been indicted by grand jury they are
unlawfully confined and should be dis
charged.
On such f1imsy, threadbare techni-
calities as this, over so unquestione6
convictions are nullified by the scratch
of pen and the convicted persons vii
all go free unless the already depleted
Treasury is put to the expense of bring
/ ing every case before the grand jury
and compelling the trial of every petit!
offense before a jury.
And in the face of such preceding
as this, judges swell themselves will
pride and talk about the majesty o
the law" and statesmen wonder VIII!
lynch law is becoming popular anon!
! leading citizens!
i Unless a determined effort is mad
t, rescue the administration of Grimm
al law from the miserable maze o
technicalities that is making it by
word in the mouth of the people, tn
deadly lynch bacillus will continue t
! multiply in the land.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02

CATARRH IS ALWAYS THE RE-
SUIT of a neglected cold. Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy will not cure
catarrh, but will cure the cold and so
prevent that disagreeable malady
This remedy not only relieves the local
irritation of the throat and lungs, but
removes the causes of the diseased
condition. 1t leaves the system in a
natural and healthy condition. 1t al
ways cures and cures quickly. Benson,
Smith & Co., wholesale agents, sell -.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
Voltatre and English.

Voltaire could not speak much Eng
lish. The reason why he refused to
study the language is this: 1t was
drilled into him that plague" was pro-
nounced ''plaig," which he thought very
pretty and acceptable. But right on
top of it he was introduced to ''ague,"
which his teacher said must be called
argue" Finding it impossible to re-
concile the differences he went off into
a philosophical tantrum and dropped
the study.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
Mrs. Astor's Valuable Ring.

Mrs. John Jacob Astor is believed to
own the most costly ring in America.
1t was made in Paris and has three
large emeralds surrounded by diamonds
and the emeralds are declared to be as
nearly perfect as any ever seen in
Amsterdam. A fiawless emerald is the
rarest of gems. The ring is valued at
$4,000 by experts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
The "MeIry Gorilla"

AT meeting of a society of women
writer's in London Mrs. Kate Douglas
Wiggin Riggs told of the number of
children in various kindergarten estab-
lishments that had been named after
her. That's nothing" said an En-
glishwoman. My friend Marie Corellf
had a race horse named after her, and
the jockeys persisted in calling it the
Merry Gorilla, so she has TO suffer that
nickname from the knowing"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
His Only Ornament.

When a correspondent recently visit
ed the Venetian home of Cardinal Sar-
to, now Pope Plus, he found the only
ornament to be a picture of a gray
haired peasant woman in a fustfan
dreSs the mother of the new head of
the Roman Catholic Church.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02

Charles Motley has been withdrawn
from the Home Rule ticket and Frank
Harvey put in his place as candidate
for Supervisor-at-Large. AS Harvey
is also Democratic nominee for Super
visor from the Fifth District the situa-
ton looks complicated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
WIN. G. IRWIN & COMPANY, Id
AGENTS YoR

Western Sugar Refining Co., San
Francisco, Cal.
Baldwin Locomotive Works. Philadel-
phia, Pa
Newell Universal Mil Co., Manufac-
turers Of National Cane Shredder, New
York, y. z.
Parafine Paint Company, San Fran
cisco, Cal
OhIandt & Co., San Francisco, Cal.
Pacific Oil Transportation Co., San
Francisco, Cal.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
Honolulu Iron Works Go.
STEAM ENGINES

BOILERS, SUGAR MILLS, COOL
F 8, BRASS AND LEAD CASTINGS
and machinery of every description
made to order. Particular attention
paid to ships bIacksmithing. Job work
executed on shortest notice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02

Perhaps the Bulletins justly cele-
brated trophy for yachtsmen is wait
ing for it's calfskin case.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02

Judging from the stump speeches
now being made most of the white ora
TORS are hot foot after a complexion
cure
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02

The day after election there will be
several Home Rulers to prove those
snowy slopes by.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02

The Bulletins trophy is the cup that
chears hut is never there to inebriate.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-02
EAGLE CLEANING AN. DyE!ss WORKS

Fort ST., Opposite Star Block.
Have your old SUITS MADE TO
LOOK LIKE NEW. Dyeing and press
ing. Tailoring The renewing Of ladies'
clothing a speciality. Prices very low.
Phone White 1862.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
Death Ii Gradual.

It is becoming understood that death
is often--if not always-a gradual pro-
cess, cells or tissues remaining alive for
hours or even days after the organism as
a whole is dead. Professor Herring points
out that this is especially noticeable in
some of the lower animals The action
of ciliated cells from the gills of a clam
or the trachea OF dead frog may be OBJ
served for long time under the micro
scope, and when supplied with nutrient
solution cells from frogs brain have
been kept alive for more than week.
Hearts of animals often move long after
removal from the body. The heart OF
frog will beat for hours, and that of a
turtle or snake sometimes for week.
Knowledge.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
PROVERBS UP TO DATE.
Sapient Sayings from Everybody
Magazine That Are In Pace
with the Times.

Better swallow your good jest than
lose your good friend.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Bit
ter are the uses of prosperity.
The rising generation owes much to
the inventor OF the alarm clock.
II vanity were deadly disease, every
undertaken would buy fast horses.
When the last trump sounds some
woman will ask Gabriel to wait min
ute.
good field of corn is one thing q
farmer doesn't care to have crowed over.
The Dead March is not necessarily the
one that the musicians have murdered.
The oil of insincerity is more to be
dreaded than the vinegar OF vitupera-
ton.
A walk may improve your appetite,
but a tramp will eat you out of house
and home.
The man who cannot be beaten is he
who holds up his head when he has
been beaten.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
1NFALL1B1L1rY OF PRECEDENT
Innocent Man Convicted Of Murder
and Executed Loses Life
lnsuraMce.

A case recently decided by the United
States court of appeals for the Fifth cir
cult illustrates what to layman will
appear an extreme instance of fidelity
to precedent and infidelity to justice
and common sense. A man by the name
Of Burt was carrying insurance on his
life for the benefit, we presume, of his
family. A murder was committed. Burt
was suspected of being the murderer:
the evidence convinced jury of his
guilt, and he was convicted and hanged
for 1t, reports the Philadelphia Press.
According to the decisions, when a man
Is executed for crime no insurance can
be collected on his life. This is prob
ably fair enough in the case OF ordinary
murderers, but Burt was not an ordinary
murderer. In fact, after-discovered evil
dence showed that he was not murder
er at all, but had been convicted under
mistake. The members of his family
were no doubt gratified to establish his
innocence, and they thought under the
circumstances they might be entitled to
his life insurance. But the United States
part from the preceedents and Its de-
cision as reported in Case and Comment
is as follows
"The innocence Of uninsured who was
executed after conviction of capital
crime does not change the rule that in
surance cannot be recovered upon the
life Of a person who was executed for
| crime, even If the policy makes no pro-
vision for forfeiture on that account" !"
A man who obeys the law does his
full duty by the state and denies himself
| that he may leave sufficient insurance to
| support his family after his death may,
under false accusation of murder, for
| felt his life. This is hard, but under
this decision his family loses also,
through no fault of his or theirs, the pro-
vision his affection and forethought had,
he believed, secured for them. This also
is hard. but it is gratifying to know that
the precedents are sustained and that
things established are not disturbed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
THE SHEPHERDS SONG.

TIE night is stu
In ali the folded valleys and the deep
Cbasms where shadows sleep;
Beyond the summit of that pine-clothed
hill
The blue snow-circled peaks
Press their cold. pallid cheeks
Against the cold blue sky;
In the warm folds, where faint the shad-
ows creep,
nv gentle ffocks all safely lie
Asleep.
The night is calm
In that dark region where the vapors hide
The valley, dim and wide.
stretching from range to range; the slen-
der palm
Waves its fringed foliage there
In the same throbbing air
That blows against my face,
And stirs the waves of yon pine-shad-
owed stream;
There lies my Love in her far place,
Adream.s
--yirna Woods, in Woman's Home Com
panion
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
American Grit.

I'm used to being drowned" writes
q Kansas City merchant, "but 1t Is
crowding the mourners to have the
price of beef rise because the Missouri
river does" That humorous stream.
which now takes away your farm in
the night and transfers 1t to your
neighbor, now annexes his holdings
to your own, now overfows you alto
gether, is q good symbol Of American
fortune. Bury the dead, get new
suit of clothes on credit, and to work
again!-Everybody's Magazine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
BULLFINCH AND CANARY.
The Latter Bird Can he Trained to
Initiate the Other
S0ngsteF.

That bullflnch can be trained to
pipe whole tune, or more. to perfec-
tion-that is to say, do 1t, SO far as
intonation and rhythm are concerned,
as well as any skilled musician
everybody knows. 1t is also fact.
though perhaps less common, that
canary, placed IN an adjoining room
and hearing the tune of, such a piping
bullfinch over and over again, may,
quite by himself, l. e., without being
trained for it, acquire the same ac-
complishment to the minutest. detail.
My sister possesses an old bullfinch
which pipes, among other tunes, God
Save the King beautifully, even en-
bellishing 1t now and then with some
charming little grace notes. says q
writer in Nature For some time he
was the only bird In the house, until,
about year ago. my sister received
the present of a canary bird, lovely
but unframed scngster, singing, a.
they say in Germany, "as his bcak was
grown" sT.4
The cages containing the two birds
stood in two adjoining rooms. At first
one OF the birds would be silent when
| the other was singing. Gradually,
however, the young canary bird began
to initiate the tune of the bullf1nch,
trying more and more OF It at 9
time, until after nearly years study
| he had completely mastered 1t and
could pipe it quite Independently BY
| himself. As said before, this, In
canary bird, though a rare accom-
plishment, is nothing extraordinary
or unheard Of. Hg
When the bullfinch, as sometimes
happened, would, after the frst hall
OF the tune, stop little longer than
the rhythm of the melody warranted
the canary would take up the tune
where the bullfnch had stopped and
| properly finish II. ssa@tt
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10

Even Greenland's icy mountains have
their plutocrats. One Kor-ko-ya, OF
East Bafansland, literally stupefies his
fellow-tribesmen with his luxury. He
lives In a wooden house, owns table
and paraf1in lamp, and recently, to
celebrate the fortieth anniversary OF
the foundation of his business. he
stood cod liver oil all round to his
employees. Such a scene of unre-
strained revelry had never been wit
messed in the country before.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
wonderful Photography.

Prof. Molisch, of Prague, has been
able to photograph the colonies of a
phosphorescent micrococcus by means
of its own light By inoculating large
TASKS of half-liter capacity containing
a subtle culture medium with the or
ganisms, bacterial lamp is obtained,
with which it is quite possible for an
observer at a distance OF one or two
meters to read thermometer or to
see the time of watch" On a dark
night the bacterial lamp" is visible
at distance OF more than 60 PAGES
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1903-09-10
SEAMLESS BRONZE STATUES.
Sculptors Now Being Used in
Indianapolis.

The lost art Of the Greeks, by which
they cast seamless" bronze statues, is
being employed in indianapolis, says the
Indianapolis News. II was only few
years ago that German sculptors. who
had been knocking at the door of the
secret for many years, found the key to
1t and began to turn out seamless"
bronzes themselves quite as perfect in
detail as the old Greeks themselves ever
turned out. Rudolph Schwartz, the In
dianapolis sculptor, who became tired
of sending his casts east, as all western
sculptors have to do for large castings,
last fall began to build bronze casting
furnace at the side of his studio. He i'm
ported German bronze casters and with
Greeks. Several small castings have
been made at the Indianapolis plant,
but it was not until the last month that
big ton, ton and half and two ton cast
ings were made.
The big ten-ton 13-foot seated statue
of the late Gov. Pingree, of Michigan,
which is just now being completed in In
dianapolis for the city of Detroit, is the
first big statue that has been trued out in
Indianapolis and in the west by the new
ly discovered process. BY the process
the original cast in which the bronze
is generally poured is used in making
a perfect statue in white wax. The
mold is broken away and the wax is in
| spected for detail lines and defects are
corrected. Another mold is made on this
wax cast. The material used in max
| ing this mold is proof against heat and
when thoroughly set and dried on this
perfect wax statue hole is made in the
base OF it and 1t is placed over slow
| heat, which thoroughly bakes the mold
| and. heating the wax on the inside. re-
duces it to liquid state so it will rur
out of the opening. When the wax is
thoroughly melted out perfect hollow
mold is left for the bronze to run into
This mold is vuried and tamped SO that
every point has strong resistance. Tht
bronze is then poured" and when il
sets the mold is broken away and Z
seamless bronze is the result.
In making as large bronze as tn.
Pingree statue, it was necessary to cu1
1t in several pieces. In doing this thu
wax statue was of even greater servic,
than in making single casting, as i
was cut in sections following the line'
of the deep seams and folds in the cos
tune. The quaftering process can b.
done so skillfully that when the cast
ings are made and the pieces assemble,
they fit and dovetail into these natura
crevices in the statue and almost def,
detection.
Several of the pieces Of the Pfngre
statue which have been poured" dur
ing the last week, weigh over ESQ
pounds. There is an element Of DANCE
in this work for molds- have bee
known to break, turning the stream Q
molten metal loose. Many lives hav
been lost in bronze-easting factories
but no serious accident has happene
In the new indianapolis plant as ye
The 'pourings," as rule, are mad
; in the evening and the scenes are NOR
spectacular than even those at iro
foundries. The process, in the rough,
much the same, however, but require
much more skill, for failure on 2,50(
pound bronze cast means heavy loss.