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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-29

and gable about tone" and statmos-
phere, and color" and expression, -
but nine out of ten persons who may
visit these ancient and modern gall
leries viii agree with me nevertheless.
If the object Of art be to so close
ly and wonderfully initiate nature that
her very presence is before you, then
the artists who painted and arranged
the diorarna OF the siege of Paris are
the most gifted Of all the knights OF
the brush, ancient or modern. You
enter q. circular building. mount a
flight Of dark, narrow stairs, and 10!
you are standing on a little mound of
earth with Paris and the adjacent
country spread out before you to the
horizon on every side. The illusion,
which is perfect, is produced by cum
ming arrangement of real and painted
objects. Around the mound on which
you stand is a. wooden railing on which
you lean; for fifteen or twenty feet in
front OF You bank of real earth slopes
away. and then plunges abruptly down.
A distance OF fifty or sixty feet be-
tween You ard the circular wall of the
building. on which the panorama" is
painted. Isl filed in with real cannon,
real bags OF dirt, real buckets, and
shells and litter, and debris which
would naturally accumulate in and
about such premises. Then around this
the painting is ringed, and the execu-
ton of the perspective is so perfect.
the detail SD accurate, the general ef-
fects SO harmonious. that you cannot
in the dim light detect the cheat even
with the aid of a glass. and the spec
taeor seems actually to be where the
artist supposes him to be ION the foot
OF Issy, on platform raised above the
level OF one of the bastions facing the
attacks, and whence there is an extern.
sive view Of the country. Nothing but
the stiffness, the absence Of moving life,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-29
n CALIFORNIAN
ABROAD.
By Thomas Fitch
copyright
PHASES or LIFE IN FRANCE
Thomas Fitch
copyright 1sOs.l

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n. ADAMS, 1''u''f' De s'oililotseo. = 81
many years ne has sighed for me as a
stray sheep who might some day come
s.to the fold. 1'he,la seems RI he q
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religion tnat tnin k--With some naodi-
1dcatIons -n1ight suit me. Grown weary
of hotel life, ard anxious for Iingual
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- :. = -
posai osii : -ilot.se- "s round z Frshcn
Protestant Clergyman who consented to
receive US. He does not trouble us
With grace befare SOM. ,,a dv,n,rs =
soo1 :. : 2 stasA nc ollesls - pay
cards at any tiTne, insisting only that
THE stakes shall not be too high, as his
salary ia small Tn fact tt,a Ers,,o,,
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20 - -i-s.' -
znucn hke re ga iadya def1nition OF
total depravfrys "a good doctrine, ff It
he only lived M to-
I Our own country is far aheaf, of she
2zzTr.sssszd nation iri the business of hotel
keeping. For Instance. we called for
baths at our hotel. and they brought m
two flights of stairs tubs like COINS
lined with sheets. and came the NEXT
morning with pals and Iaboriously car
aded the water down again, .wfping up
that which they had spilled upon the
mequette carpet, and yet our rooms
were glittering with gliding and orna-1
ments, our beds eanopfed with lace. and
furniture like a dream. Dirt. decora-
zion and discomfort. are the watch
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-29
THE .GLoBE-TRoTTING EDITOR

THE "GLQBE-TROTTING EDITOR
Ns-4-s--4-s-$
trottirlg editor for his paper, THE
Buffalo has thus far been printed
at San Juan, Algiers, Bombay and
Singapore, while the latest edition IS
being published in Honolulu. The
Buffalo" is an attractive warship.
paper, devoted to the interest of the
bluejackets and the navy in general,
and its editor has made it an attrac-
tive and readable publication. 1t has
twenty-eight pages and is filed with
half-tenes Mr.. Murgotten is San
Josean. the son Of the editor Of the
California Elk He has been in the
navy for six years, and was here on
the Nero in 1898. when that vessel tow
ed the monitor Monadnock out OF Ho-
nolu1u harbor on its start for Manila
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-29

Donations Of flowers for grave dec
orations On Monday viii be thankfully
received by Geo W. De Long Post.
G. A r., and they may be left at Mr..
Dietz's store. Fort street.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-29
GL -TR0TTING EDITOR

Henry Murgotten, Chief Woman on
the United States training ship Buffa-
10, is the newest editor in town. He
is what might be called a globe
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
NO SLEEP
HAS THIS MAN HAD FOR
TEN YEARS
A VERY STRANGE CASE
Physicians are
Puzzled.
Much

Trenton, N. j., June 2S-Albert f.
Herpin, the sleepless wonder of Tren-
ton, Is still awake, and according to
his own statement he expects to stay
awake the rest of his life. Physicians
who up to the present time have re-
Trained from making public their opin-
ions of this strange case now come
forward and vouch for the truth of
the story that Herpin is the sleepless
marvel of the century.
DIR. c. H. Waters, of Trenton, says
Herpin has taken enough drugs in the
hope of obtaining sleep to kill an or
dinary man many times over. He says
there is not another case like this.
The man is never i'll, never drowsy,
eats heartily and weighs 1S0 pounds.
Il have treated Albert Herpin for
over 10 years." says DR.. William b.
Van Duyn, of Trenton, and his case
stands alone. At his request | have
said nothing about him till now, but
from my own observation his case
stands alone in medical history"
Physicians have doubted that he
has not slept for 10 years, and tests
have been mCde to see if he really did
stay awake. One of these sleep
tests" was made recently in Philadel-
phia, in the Office of DR.. J. d. " Pol
lock. DR.. Pollock gives the following
account of his experience with Her
pin:
when Herpin first came to me for
treatment | did not credit his story
about remaining awake all night. To
satisfy myself l proposed a week for
a test. One doctor watched him by
day and myself at night. Nothing re-
suited from this test, His pulse kept
normal. He lost nothing in weight,
and was never nervous. | wanted to
give his case TO the public at the time,
but he would not consent. He has
withdrawn his objections now, hence
this statement"
| AS a general proposition the doc.
| tors say that IA days of sleeplessness
usually results in insanity. Herpin's
mental faculties are equally normal as
his physical organs and senses.
The case recalls the statement ac.
credited to Thomas A. Edison some
| years ago that sleep is a bad habit
| handed down from the ages in which
candles or artificial illumination of
any kind were unknown. According to
Edison's theory men gradually accus-
tom themselves TO fewer hours of
sleep, and perhaps in the later stages
of evolution live the whole of their
allotted time in wakefulness.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
C0RMAN
GIVES OUT STATEN e N r
CONCERNING
CONFERENC LEADERS
Declares That He Has
Been Misrepresented

Washington, ID. c., June 23.--Sena-
tor German tonight made statement
regarding the conference of Democrat
ic leaders yesterday at the Shoreham
hotel here and the assertion that ac-
tion unfriendly to Judge Parker, Of
New York, was under discussion.
"The persistence and regularity
with which statements of this charac-
ter have recently appeared, he said,
would seem to indicate studied de-
fire to misrepresent me. The fact is
tia tall the conferences I nave attend
ed have related solely to the proper
organization of the convention which
1t is the duty of members of the Ma
tional committee to consider. SO far
es / am concerned, l have not been a
party to any arrangement for effect
ing a combination to obstruct the eff
forts of any candidate for the nomi-
nation.
"The Maryland delegates have not
yet determined the course they will
pursue in regard to the candidates a.
st. Louis and will probably not reach
any conclusion until after their arrival
at St. Louis and after an opportunity
t. confer with the delegates from other
states.
81 have perfect confidence that the
ion w q
vative platform and nominate ticke,
which will command the confidence OF
the country"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
HOMESTEADS
In Nebraska Under the
New Law

Omaha, Neb, June 2S.-This was
the first day for filing entries for GAO
acre homesteads in Nebraska under
new Kinkaid law, and the seven Offices
were crowded with applicants, hun.
dreds of whom stood in line through
out last night. At Broken Bow th1
militia were called out owing to the
threats to change the order of the
line. Some of the big cattlemen at
tempted to secure filings on lands
which they had fenced and shut out
genuine homesteaders. There was no
fighting however, although there were
many expressions of dissatisfaction at
the Sidney Office. Four hundred To-
cations aggregating 100000 acres were
disposed of during the day.
The first to enter was a woman,
Miss Nettie Pitts.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
Oh T[AW
SURROUNDED BY SOLDIERS
AND FARMERS.
BLOODY FIGHT CERTAIN
Smith Is an AII-Round
Desperate

Trempealeau, Wis, June 2S.-John
Smith, burglar, stage coach robber,
murderer and all-round desperate, who
las earned the title of the Tracy Of
Wisconsin, is tonight surrounded near
Taylor, Jackson county. and at dawn
4 bloody battle is certain. Two COM
panies of militia and hundreds of arm
&c farmers has been on his trail for
over week. He is known to have
been wounded early in the chase but
Ia. has kept up his end of the man
hunt in manner that lacks only a
few killings to parallel the Tracy
c;se.
Last night Smith was heard from a
few miles north of Lacrosse at road
house kept by Mark Wolf. He de-
Eanded food and when Mrs. Wolf ask
cd him to pay he beat her into insen-
sihllty. Later he visited the farm of
William Hancock and stole horse,
firing several shots at the farmer who
was awakened by his dogs.
This morning the sheriff from La
Crosse and two companies of militia
believed they had him cornered in a
swamp but when they closed in the
outlaw was not there.
Herman Berger, member of the
militia, was shot in the head last night
by John Jarvis, farmer. Jarvis
was mistaken for the outlaw by the
militiaman and was challenged on a
cark road. The farmer thought he
was being held up and fred The
militiaman was shot in the head but
Will recover,
In addition to the murder of Sheriff
Harris Smith Is wanted for three other,
cowardly and cruel murders. He lived
at Havre, Mont, and was wanted
there for burglary. He enticed the
marshall to his home and murdered
Lim. Then fearing his wife or little
daughter might tell he shot them dead
and fed to Wisconsin.
Smith is "a years old and is said to
he dead shot
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
STOLEN CUBAN IMAGE
PREYED ON HIS MIND
North Lawrence Man Said to Have Lost Reason
Because of Theft in Cuba.

was carried away, and among the ar
ticles taken by the North Lawrence
soldier was the image.
During the remainder of the Cuban
campaign the image was closely
guarded by the soldier. 1t seemed to
have a peculiar power over him, and
from the day the church was stripped
of everything of value until today. the
soldier was a changed man. He was
fascinated while in its presence.
When the soldier returned home at
the close of the war he become great
ly worried over the image. He feared
somebody would steal it from him.
He also feared that the Catholic
authorities would send him to prison
for the theft, and that he would have
to spend the remainder of his days in
some Cuban prison.
He told the story to few of his
troubles until he became violently in
sane. His friends did not want to
have him sent to an insane hospital,
and for several weeks he was kept at
his home under guard Afterward
when he became improved mentally
he was sent to California in hope that
the change of scenes would improve
him mentally.
But the ex-soldier could not forget
the image from the Cuban church.
The change seemed to do him little
good, and after a few months absence
he was brought home. Here he again
came into contact with the image.
The sight of it again brought back to
him fears of arrest He again became
violently insane, and finally had to be
sent to an insane asylum. He was
benefited considerably from the treat
ment he received in the hospital and
few days ago was discharged as
completely cured.
He still has the image in his posses.
sion and will not part with it at any
price.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
The First Ballot.

New York Times-It is now evident
that Judge Parker will receive at least
$50 votes on the first ballot taken in
the st. Louis convention. This total
includes all the instructed delegations,
and the "a delegates of New Jersey
who are known to be favorable to the
candidacy of Judge Parker, the 20 of
Alabama who are committed to him
by the expressed preference of the
convention, and from Florida, from
New Hampshire, and from the In
dian Territory, whose position has
been made known by personal express
sions of preference. The total also in
cludes the SO delegates of'Texas, who
will undoubtedly be instructed for
Judge Parker by the convention which
meets on June 21, and the "a votes of
Virginia, as to which there is now
practically no doubt at all.
No candidate for the presidential
nomination receiving as many as $50
votes on the first ballot has ever been
beaten in convention of either party.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
RUSSIA
Gets the Lake Subma-
rine Boat

Lindon, June 29.-sThe London Daily
Leader prints dispatch this morning
credited to it's Copenhagen correspond
ent declaring that the steamer For
tuna, on board Of which is the tele-
brated Lake submarine torpedo boat
Protector, has been sighted making
for the Baltic sea wheSe the fighting
machine will be turned over to the
representatives of the Russian gov
ernment and transferred to some point
where it can be loaded on a train for
shipment to Vladivostok.
When the Protector disappeared
from Newport, Va, Representatives of
the Lake submarine Co. admitted
that she had been sold to persons who
would transfer her to one OF the bel
ligerents in the Far East but gave
the impression that Japan would be
the nation to secure the craft.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01

The following weird story comes
from North Lawrence by way of the
Akron Times Democrat. II is possible
that the matter has been stretched
through the imagination of the fellow
who told the story or the reporter
who wrote it. II the soldier lost his
reason 1t was probably due to climatic.
conditions and not the little metal
image. The Times-Democrat says:
A man from North Lawrence, Stark
county, who refused to give his name,
visited police headquarters Sunday,
inquiring If there was a reward Of
fered for the arrest of a man who
during the Spansh-American war
entered a Catholic church in Cuba
and carried off one of the sacred
images.
The ex-soldier who stole the image
Is said to reside in the North Law.
renee neighborhood. During the past
few days there has been a great deal
of talk regarding the soldiers action.
Several persons have seen the image
which is guarded with the greatest
care by the ex-soldier, who will not
allow the sacred symbol to be out of
his sight even for a moment.
The local police, Of course, have no
jurisdiction in the matter, and did not
know of any reward that had been Of.
fered by the Catholic church for the
thief. However, the North Lawrence
man was requested to secure addition
al information regarding the matter,
and report to headquarters the next
time he was in the city.
The North Lawrence man tells a
weird story regarding the theft of the
sacred property of the church in far
away Cuba. According to his state.
ment the image was stolen by a sol.
dies of one of the Canton companies
of the Eighth regiment. One day while
out foraging with a number of com
rades the soldier entered Catholic
church. Much of the church property
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
BY AUGUST |
Trolley Oars Will Run To
Salem

Salem, June 2S.-E. II. Merrill and G..
D. Scranton, of the Stark Electric
railroad, were in the city this morning
fGving driven over from Damascus tc
mark the progress OF the road.
Mr.. Merrill stated that they had
hoped to get into Salem by July first
and would have done 80 had the Nc
Ginty's completed the grading III the
period in which the work was to have
been done. Il The grading was to have
been complete by June 18th. 1t will
require about two weeks to lay the
track into the city and the ballasting
has been done as far as the Carr farm.
II may require month yet to com.
plete the line and this will mean that
Salem will not get service before Au-
gust /.
In speaking of Sebring and Sunday
ball at Lake Park he stated that it
was rather the cropping out of the old
feul that led Sebring to fight Sunday
TALL rather than the moral dissatis-
faction which they claim. The Alli-
ance team which. was under salary of
Morley has been disbanded and base
ball will not be success so long as
Alliance and Sebring are bitter against
cne another. When Sebring had q
game Alliance enthusiasts would not
attend and when Alliance had a game,
the Sebring spectators we're not to be
found.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
FLAMES
Destroy Part of Lake PIa-
cid Village.

Saranac Lake, N. Y, June 2S-Word
has just been received here that the
lower half of the village of Lake
Placid Is in flames.
The fire started shortly after mid.
night and all efforts to check the
flames have failed.
The American House has been total
ly destroyed, together with the cot
tages and barns surrounding It. The
Delaware & Hudson Railroad station
is threatened and several houses are
already doomed
Aid was asked for here, but none
could be sent, because no engine was
available. 1t has begun to rain, and
this may save the rest of the town.
There were no summer visitors at the
burned hotel.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
OPERA HOUSE
Destroyed BY Fire at
Rome, N. Y.

Rome, N. Y, June 28.--A fire which
started this afternoon in Sinks opera
house, completely destroyed that
building and the buildings Of the Am
erican Express Co., situated in the
rear. Stanwix Hall, we'll known hos
telry, was damaged by smoke and
water. The loss is estimated at be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, A fall
ing wall of the express company's
building buried two men, but they
were speedily rescued and were only
slightly injured. Two others were
slightly cut by falling debris. Help
was called from Utica and Oneida.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
BALL Mining CO,
Affairs Breaking Into the
Courts.

Lorenzo ID. Ball, of California, has
brought an action in common pleas
court of this county against Reuben
s. Leonhart, asking. that the court or
der the defendant to render an
accounting of the affairs of the Ohio
Gold Mining company, known locally
as the Ball Gold Mining company.
The charge is that when the affairs
Of the company were closed up that
the property was sold and large
amounts of money were realized In the
operation and sale of the property.
Tbe plaintiff thinks that he has some
thing coming and has secured the ser
vices of Attorneys l.. G. Wise and
Judge A. A. Thayer to prosecute the
casc.
Leonhart has retained the firm OF
Welty & Albaugh as his counsel and is
preparing TO fight the case.
OWNS JUDGMENT.
Henry e. yar,Kirk ex-constable, has
Drought an action in court against
farl e. Willis to collect a balance due
NJ on a certain Judgment taken against
the defendant originally Tor Sl6V. van
Kirk claims to have acquired the judg-
ments and wants S127. w. o. Wernt2
10 his counsel.
DIVORCE PETITIONS.
Mary e. Richey, of East Tuscarawas
street, has filed petition asking fol
divorce from Austin M. Richey. She
charges him with habitual drunken
ness and extreme cruelty, alleging that
he has squandered the money she
earned by keeping boarders. There arr
three children, Of which she asks the
custody.
George z. Vasbinder has brought
suit against Lille Vasbinder for di
vorce, charging her with willful alb
scnce and other short comings. At
t. orney c. G.. Upham is counsel in botf
cases.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
DISEASE
Is Killing More Than
Wounds.

Cleveland Leader: BY way of Rome
report comes from Tokyo that the
japanese government believes the
losses of both armies from disease,
ur to the present time, to have been
greater than the casualties in battles
and skirmishes. This is very credible.
If the war lasts six months longer
the collisions between large bodies of
troops will have to be frequent and
bloody to carry the losses by wounds
and death in battle up to the grim
figures which will then measure the
mortality caused by disease.
Almost any long war results in
greater destruction of life by sickness
than by battle Camps and marches,
under war conditions, are notorious
ly unwhoesome. Diseases such as ty-
phoid fever, dysentery, and smallpox
scourge armies in the field. The more
hard marching there is to do and the
more violent the weather changes, the
worse the loss of life from such NAL
aides is certain to be. Manchuria is
country of great heat in summer and
intense cold in winter Its roads are
very bad, and in the rainy season there
is much mud. No armies can carry
on campaign in that region without
severe eXertions, and none can escape
serious effects of exhaustion and ex-
pcsure to the elements.
IL would not be surprising If both
the Russians and the Japanese should
lose two or three men from disease be-
| fole the end of the war for every one
slain by the weapons of the enemy.
| In the civil war the losses of the I'm
/ ion army, not in men temporarily dis
ahled but in men killed by weapons,
Grease, or otherwise. reached a total
O. 204 1863, and of that great multitude
OILY 44,23S were slain in battle. The
number that died of wounds and in
iuries was 49.2O5, and unknown caus-
es accounted for 24,1S4. The losses by
suicide, homicide, and execution were
526 Disease killed 1926. That is
the way death reaps the awful harvest
OF long and strongly conte2ted war.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-01
CROP CONDITIONS
Weather Bureaus Week
" Report.

Washington, d. c., June 28.-The
weather bureaus weekly summary Of
crop conditions, issued today says:
In Iowa, and In the principal corn
states eastward of the Mississippi
river, corn has made good progress
and is well cultivated, rapid growth
being generally reported. A large
crop is practically assured in Texas
but drought has impaired the outlook
In the central and east gulf and south
Atlantic states.
'The progress of wheat harvest in
Kansas and Missouri has been in
terrupted by rains, but this work has
proceeded without interference east
ward OF the Mississippi river and Is
now In progress as far north as the
southern portions of Illinois and In
diana, and in Virginia and Maryland.
while the general condition OF
spring wheat Is somewhat less prom
Using than previously indicated, the
outlook continues encouraging in the
spring wheat region east of the
Rocky mountains, the least favorable
reports being received from Iowa. In
portions OF the Dakotas, the crop is
weedy, but In these states and in Min
nesota 1t has made good growth and
the early sown wheat Is beginning to
head,
"Oats continue promising in nearly
all districts.
'In most of the districts east Of the
Mississippi river cotton has not made
rapid growth, and is generally small
though healthy and well cultivated.
In Texas boil weevils are more nu-
merous.
",Transplanting tobacco is nearly
finished, and the crop Is making a
good start in nearly all sections"