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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
ELKINS AS AN ARTIST
r,rTTrE KNOWN PHASE OF LIFE or LATE TRACTION MAGNATEs
Loved Beautiful Things-He Found Rest and Pleasure Among the Treasures of His Big
 Gallery.

New York Sun.
 William l.. Elkins, who died at his home near Philadelphia in the eaEly part of No- vernber, a street railroad magnate ana many times a millionaire, was a great business man. People who did not know him personally were apt to think of only this phase of his character. But there was another side to Mir. EllEins's life not less broadly developed than the business side.
 He was e great lover of the fine arts and of everything beautiful, and after he acquired wealth. he never let an oppor- tunity go by to gratify his desires in this respect. The pleasantest hours of his life, those who know him intimately say, were passed in his art gallery. with which few private galleries in this country can be compared as regards general excellence.
 People who visited him at his magnih- cent home at Ogontz almost invariably found him sitting in his gallery, some times with company, but more often alone, studying a painting-the same painting, perhaps, which. he had studied thous- ands of times before. He would spend hours at a time. his friends say. arrang- ing piece of statuary in his home, so as to place it in just such a position that 1t would harmonize with the other things in the room.
 Work Rested Him.
 He would try it first in one corner, then in another, standing oR and viewing it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

bound cold and helplessness' but as to the antics of the compass needle in those months of trial little has been suggested. A chart of it's doings has been issued in the most confounding ana oetudollns manner. so far as the average reader IS concerned in its why's and wheretores; but at a glance he may see that the needle in those days pointed all the way rom west to east, according to latitude ana Iongl- tude, and that to have followed us Vafla- tions would have been just half as bad as to have been lost in a forest and to have taken the complete circle on foot.
 Erratic Off Newfoundland.
 Tn it's use on the Atlantic the compass needle gets more inaccurate on the banks of Newfoundland than in almost any other stretch of water on the glooe. Ahls, possibly. is because it Is worse neeoeu there bv the mariner than anywhere else fin Atlantic waters. Most frequently on these banks of cold sea there Is no sun and no star by which the navigator may go, and unless he has become s3 ac1uail's ss- with the frivolousness of the neeu,e ui'ue' ''Is such surroundings and condltiohs nis NeS t,so edge of a British possesslOh' p'''-
 is headed this way rr.,.Aa
 s,,r,,a,,ors in the new west of the Onlteo States were kept awake nights not on,S 9,laS by anxieties over the question of whether 'ee,e,, their township and range lines were soIns Hs to come near enough together uo oi09' at any kind of angle. ,.. A,s-
 In those days going west H wa, elJ covered that the compass aoout o 'o,,,,S SsSnjS every afternoon would try to WoIA eI'u,.s, 4,.o toward the camp they had iert III e lue morning: 1t might persist in this for two hours or SO. when gradually 1t would ger over it's contrariness and swing around
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

the more or less popular forms of treat ment of disease, one of the authorities on the subject in Chicago says that the man who keeps in his pockets an assortment of silver coins, mixed with sprinkling of copper cents, carries with him at all times @ source of magnetism not at all to be deSpised. Placing the copper upon the silver produces a source of magnetic energy in a moment.
 LOadstone at one time was the great popular demonstrator of magnetism. 1t is an iron ore which through long ages in the earth, subjected to the influences of the earth's electrical or magnetic cur rents. Is supposed to have taken unto itself properties of the magnet: As a possessor of this magnetic force. how ever, 1t has peculiar powers. While the loadstone itself will attract a piece of steel in only a mild manner. to charge a piece of steel by rubbing 1t upon the substance is to give the magnetized steel twenty-five times the attracting power shown in the loadstone itself.
 As to why it does so-well, the scientist would prefer to be asked something easy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
toward the place where 1t was expected

toward the place where 1t was expected to point.
 Surveyors Strayed Every Neon.
 The result of these early attempts at surveying by the compass may be seen to this day, where all the lines have been retraced. By the compass, however, the man used to It's tricks and variations may take up the mark of one of these first surveys in the desert country and find the place where the surveyors made their noon camp.
 Perhaps the lay reader will remark that this should be an easy task-that he need only follow his nose to the west. As a matter of fact. however, this noon camp was made always far out of line with the morning camp that was broken and the night camp that next was pitched For this reason today the compass, to the surveyor, has gone out of use. In the case of the United States Govern ment work, the necessity for this dis placement of the compass has been to the governments cost, in that one of the equipments of the surveyor today is in the form of a sundial that costs about $2OO From this sun timepiece, corrected according to the necessities of correcting the sun dial, the lines of the government surveys are run with absolute accuracy east to west, but still with the jog that is inevitable in those lines that run to- ward the North Pole.
 Magnetic Needle a Conundrum.
 Speaking of the magnetic needle today, the technical student Is in doubt of just what the adjective means. Electro-maE- netism is current as word in everyday use, but no electrician win say whether magnetism be electricity, or whether cleo tricity be magnetism. As far as the | magnetic battery Is concerned in some of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
COMPASS A MARVEL
 OF UNRELIARILITY.
Even Columbus Knew He Could Not
 Depend on It for Direction.

Even Columbus Knew He Could Not
 Depend on It for Direction. Chicago Tribune.
 Recent electrical phenomena over the United States have brought into prom thence among technical experts some of the inaccuracies which attend upon the use of the magnetic needle of the com pass.
 Strictly speaking, the compass always has been as uncertain as 50 cent alarm clock set for o'clock sharp on a dark winter morning. Columbus knew his com pass wasn't up to much long before he knew there was a place west of him large enough for the present Chicago to rest upon. His compass needle was as fiighty as an old maid of 60 years. who might consider that she still was of marriagea- ble age. With a company of mutinous sailors. however. the old man kept still about the instrument and it's transatlantic antics.
 Today the compass as an instrument for certain direction is obsolete. On the ordI- nary steel vessel of the times it is abso- lutely worthless. On the old type of wooden ship and bark and schooner cross ing the Atlantic the skipper has his troubles and his trials in attempting to sail by it's needle.
 Needle Objects to Pointing North.
 It may be information of a striking nature to the lay reader to know that in the first place the magnetic needle of the compass never liked to point north, any how. In the comparative latitude of Chicago it's disposition is to turn down. ward, pointing to the floor about two feet in front of the person holding it and facing north. To make it get down to business 1t has been necessary always to raise its tip until 1t would swing over the dial of the instrument as it rests level with the floor.
 Perhaps this condition may have affect ed the temper of the pointer. Certain 1t is that nowadays nobody but the city man in the woods who has a compass strung to his watch chain tres to get anywhere with it as an absolute guide. Perhaps the greatest trial of the compass on sea, for it was found wanting in greatest measure at the end, was on the occasion of the drifting of the Tram when Frldtjof Nansen's arctic expedition bobbed with the ice from September. 1S93 to Februa- ry, 1895.
 The general public Is familiar with the story of how many dogs the members of the expedition ate in that season of ice-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

Lake Cicott has been an interesting phenomenon to the people of Northern In diana for mAny years, but the secret of its rise and fall has never been discov- cred. It Is the only lake in Cass County and Is about one mide wide and about one mile long. The water is clear and cold and perfectly fresh. Its most myste- overflows it's banks every seventh year. The farmers who own the land upon its banks have become so used to this that they never attempt to cultivate the land in the seventh year. but give it up with out a protest, as they know 1t Is sure to be claimed by the waters. #
 The Pottawattomie Indians, who iuhab- tied what is how Cass and adjoining coun- ties. were familiar with the characteris- tic of the lake. They believed that Its bottom was inhabited by a powerful spirits which At intervals of seven years caused. the lake to overflow. They construed this action as approval of the tribe by the spirit, and watched anxiously for the time to come, for they saw in the rising waters 8 sure indication that they had done nothing to displease 1t. The early white settlers became acquaipted with the legend and the oldest lnhabitant Is not able to recall time that the over- flow did not take place when expected.
 The water has now reached its highest point. and will soon begin to recede, and continue to do so until the old confines | are reached. Residents of the locality | say that the weather conditions have no effect upon the lake. for its rise in the seventh year takes place regardless of the fact of rain or drought. Amos Jordan, a veteran of the Civil War, who lives on bluff overlooking the lake, says the only apparent difference between wet and dry seasons when the rise occurs Is that the water appears to be colder in time of drought What Is true of the rise of the waters is also true of their recession. for they gradually disappear regardless of the amount of rainfall in the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
LAKE oVERELO " .. ONCE
 EVERY SEVEN YEARS.
Interesting Phenomenon Shown by Q Body of Water in Cass County, Indiana, Which Has Neither
 Outlet Nor Inlet.

L1EU1HuHS WH4CA 4Als9 1du4g1o4
 Outlet Nor Inlet. Boston Transcript.
 With neither outlet nor inlet that Is at any time visible. Lake Cicott, a small body of water in Cass County, Indiana, has now reached a height which it att tains every seven years. and hundreds of acres of fine corn land are now covered by several feet of water. The rural mail route. which runs along the lake banks, has been abandoned by the carrier, for the water covers 1t to a depth of three feet and stretches beyond for several hun dred yards.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

The gallery which Mir. Elkins left, and which. according to his will, is to go ulti- mately to the city of Philadelphia, con-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
BUSINESS LOCALS.

Primo lager is absolutely pure AS a
beverage and tonic 1t has no equal
A nice front room with board il de-
sired can be had at 1ss S. School street
A young woman to do light house
work is wanted Apply to Lewis &
Co. grocers.
Don't forget the auction sale Of vaiu-
able real estate at Morgan's auction
rooms at noon today
An energetic German or German
salesman is wanted. See classified ad-
vertisements on last page.
A fine black oak bedroom set. also
large polished oak dining room table
are offered for sale at a bargain. See
our classified ads.
A white chiffon boa With black stitch
ing was lost near the Opera House last
Thursday evening Reward II same is
returned TO this Office.
Jas. F. Morgan will sell at his auction
rooms at II o'clock today three fine lots
in the Kekio Tract, waikiki Also house
and lot on Magazine street.
Fire claim award No ss1s in favor Of
Lee Sing Zip. amounting to $254s.70.
has been lost. Liberal reward win be
offered il finder viii return the same
to 2o2 Judd Building.
Manila anchor lager has a delicacy
Of flavor not possessed by any other
beer in the market and costs no more
than the kind you are now using. Love-
Joy & Co are agents
The Wonder VIII have another special
reduction sale of millinery this evening
after o'clock. Those wanting mil
linery can save fifty cents to $500. ac-
cording TO amount of purchase, by at
tending this sale.
Premo cameras reduced twenty-five
per cent at Honolulu Photo Supply
Co. during the next few days in order
TO reduce the stock. The Promo is the
standard in cameras and this is a very
good opportunity to make good pur-
chase.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
woman Badly Scared.

Yesterday while a surrey was going
along Beretania street. a horse trying
to run away came up behind attached
to a japanese express wagon with a
broken thiIl. Considerable noise was
made and it so frightened woman in
the surrey that she jumped out. fell on
her hands and knees and scrabbled
along to the sidewalk on all fours,
screaming at the top Of her voice. She
was taken to a neighboring Doctors
Office The surrey was not harmed and
the Jap's horse was stopped by a
policeman little further along.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25

The San Francisco Argonaut of re-
cent date prints this in its dramatic
column:
Frederick warde and Louis James are
planning a visit to the Hawaiian ISL
ands this summer, when they will pre-
sent The Tempest" Francesca da
Rimini." "othello." Macbeth" ''Mer-
chant of Venice" and Julius Caesar
in Honolulu.
Just what authority there is for this
statement is not clear. There has been
no correspondence with Manager Gift
fard OF the Opera House as yet by any
body on behalf of warde and James
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
Cat suckIes Puppy.

Joseph Emerson has the most re-
markable cat in town She lately had
a litter OF kittens and one of the num-
Der was saved for her to bring up.
The mother cat took good care OF the
aittle one until the Emersons brought
home a small puppy. At once the cat
discarded her kitten and adopted the
dog She gives the latter the usual
nourishment and cuffs him when he
bar<s- The kitten Is being brought up
by hand
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25

The Drink Question Powerfully Pre-
sented at Orphsum.

oCN~C0 - -
Lurid meIodrama in the shape of the
play Mans Enemy stalked upon the
boards last night at the orpheum- The
piece Is q sensational one and it's moral
lesson is given in. vivid presentment-
There are "reminiscences Of Ten Nights
In Bar Room. Oliver Twist. Queens
Evidence and other plays of that type.
in Mans Enemy. while the cIimaxes
are startling not to say almost morbid.
The players performed their parts
meritoriously and conscientiously. Cor
rigan relieved the strain of the general
trend of the play with some excellent
comedy work assisted by Myrtle Sell
wyn.
The play win be repeated tonight.
This afternoon for the benefit Of the
children and those who are unable to
go out OF an evening The Lions Heart
will be presented at a matinee.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
Petitions for wireless.

Petitions asking the Legislature to
pass the Wireless Telegraph county
act were signed yesterday, within an
hours time by some sixty-one Of the
leading firms of the city. The petit
tions went out late in the afternoon
and the signers were found within the
hour before closing. The petitions will
be sent to the Senate, where the bill
now is. today.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
New England Bakery
]. Oswald Lutted, Mgr.
MRS. c. L. DICKERsON,

RECEIVED Elk ALAMEDA another
new line of s p X I q g III A Il 8.
Including the new umbrella hat. Come
in and make your selections: 11s1 Ala
kea street. near Beretania.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
LOCAL BREvIrlEs.

The next mail for the Coast goes for
ward on Tuesday in the Sonoma.
William Mckinley Lodge win hold
their regular meeting this evening in
Harmony Hail.
There was a general closing Of bust
ness places during the Dimond funeral
yesterday afternoon.
The April number Of the Honolulu
Ad is out and it is an excellent little
paper, useful to advertisers and read
able to the public.
The third game of the school base
ball league win take place at Punahou
today at 3 D. m. between the High
School and Punahou-
Ofieer McDuhie last night arrested
three Porto Rican women whom he
found soliciting in the vicinity of the
railroad citation. Two OF them had re-
Gently been In jail.
The regular monthly meeting of the
women's Auxiliary and Guild OF St
Andrews Cathedral viii be held on
Monday. April 9th, at 2:sO p. m, at the
house of Mrs. Kopke, Kewaio street.
Treasurer Kepoikai said yesterday
that he would issue no malt liquor IL
censes before the first of the month, as
he wished first to see whether the Leg
islature intended to adopt the amend
ments.
The Observation-Disclosures steamship
Nevadan was looked for yesterday. but
up to q late hour had not been sighted.
She will probably arrive early this
morning. She viii bring four days later
mail and newspaper files.
Owing to the repetition of the "old
Homestead" at the Opera House this
evening, Manager James of the Mo-
ana Hotel has postponed the dance ar
ranged for, until Saturday, May 2,
when the main dining hall will be
opened for dancing.
The tennis games at the Pacific Club
grounds resulted as follows: Fuller
beat Macfarlane, 6-2, 6-3; Brock beat G.
H. Cooke. s-S, 6-1; Roth beat Dilling-
ham, 60. 3-6. 81; Derby won from ].
P. Cooke by default. The games today
viii be: $3.50 o'clock, Derby VS. Brock;
4 o'clock. Fuller VS.. Roth.
The Honolulu public remember well
the song recital given by Mdlle. Dolores
a little over a year and a half ago. 1t
is with great pleasure that w. d.
announces the temperance of
this queen of song in grand song
recital in the Hawaiian Opera House
evening. April Both. at S:15
o'clock. She win be assisted by R. C.
Newell. pianist.
George Haia. assistant manager Of |
the Imiola Dramatic Company. which |
gave an entertainment at the Orpheum
last week. leaves today for Maui to |
arrange for an entertainment at Wal |
luku, after which the company viii |
go to Hilo. The company has revived |
the dances and customs of ancient Ha-
wall and is presenting them upon the |
stage In a creditable manner.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
TIE OLD HOMESTEAD.
Opera HouBe Success to Be Repeated
Tonight.

The Old Homestead viii be repeated
at the Opera House this evening with
all the details and accessories of Thurs
day evening. AS practice makes perfect
an even smoother performance may be
expected.
The success of Thursday should en-
sure a crowded house this evening. the
performance. with it's scenic effects.
good music and excellent stage work,
providing a most agreeable entertain
ment.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25
Fand Notes.

The Government band viii play this
morning in the Capitol grounds COM
mencing at $50 o'clock At $3.50 p. m.
today a concert of popular airs viii be
given at the FIshmarket. Tomorrow
afternoon a concert viii be given at
Makee Island. Waikiki. Captain Ber-
ger has arranged an excellent program
for the occasion.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-25

In this day Of defective eye
sight, no person, young or old,
should wear a glass unless fit
ted by an expert-one tho
roughly familiar with anatomy
and diseases of the eye, laws Of
light and science of optics.
In addition he must depend
upon no one method of examin-
ation-he must be familiar
with all, and substantiate one
by use of others.
Here you will find employed
the best and most scientific
methods and back Of all, ade-
quate knowledge of the eye and
it's needs.
A. N. Sanford.
Manufacturing optician. Boston Build
ing. Fort Street. over May & Co.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09

of the days they had spent together
as children; then they grew tired and
sat in the summer house. And now
Hugh felt that his eyes were INSULT.
cient to tell his love, and he began
tremblingly to express himself In
words. He remembered the first kiss
he had ever given her as distinctly as
II 1t had only been yesterday. He
painted with excitement as he took her
hand; she blushed like rose. but
resisted not; he drew her to him and
placed his arms around her. and gave
her the long, sweet kiss which had
remained on his lips forever. Oh,
Blessed Virgin, this was not the kiss
he had dreamed of! The woman was
there. smiling and blushing as of yore,
but the kiss was not the same: so
cold, so passionless, beside the one of
his imagination! He looked into her
face, and then-Oh. the horror of It!
through her dangerous eyes, the
doves eyes Of the Virgin, he saw the
hollow orbs of death; the peace-like
skin was drawn and yellow; the
rounded cheeks We're sunken, and the
pearly teeth, which smiled upon him.
broken and discolored He
would have uttered cry of terror, but
the sound could not come from his
throat; he tried to tear himself from
the girls embrace, but he could not.
for he had to live his life as he had
lived 1t before, in everything do as he
had done before and passionately he
kissed the face of death.
They went into the house, and shyly
Anne told her father what had hap.
pened, but as she spoke, blushlng with
the new delight Of love, her lover
could only see the hideous face of
death. At last he rose to go, for he