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

The trial of Henry c. Worth, first
mate of the ship Otbello for assault
with pistol on a Japanese sailor on
hoard that vessel off Honolulu harbor.
had been set for second in order yes
terday before Judge De Bolt It was
called after the trial of Tokunaga. but
Assistant Attorney General Fleming
moved for a continuance until Monday
next. Afidavits in support of the mo-
ton by High sheriff A NJ. Brown and
Mkt, a japanese officer in the police
department, were presented which set
forth that Kadoshita, CHIEF witness
for the prosecution, was on the Island
of Molokai and could not be brought
to Honolulu before Friday or saturday
S. F. Chillingworth, attorney for the
defendant, strongly opposed the mo-
ton contending for an Immediate trial
High Sheriff Brown wits placed on tire
witness stand and testified that the
absent witness had to be released from
detention. because he was without any
means of subsistence In Honolulu and
at the time there was no fund for wit
nesses in criminal cases. He was
material TO the prosecution. having
been an eyewitness of the occurrence
on the ship. Judge De Bolt granted
the continuance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-05
HONOLULU IRON WORKS
COMPANY.
sTHAM ENGINES.

STRAIN ENGINES.
BOILERS, SUGAR MILLS, COOL
nRs, BRASS AND LEAD CASTINGS
and machinery of every description
zasde to order. Particular attention
Rase 20 ships bIacksrnithing. Job work
,cuted on shortest notice.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-05
OTHER CRIMINAL CASES.

Kawaniato, indicted for an fout4age,
Had his ease-continued by his-attotrey,-
d. "a. iIsoAg, until today. Il aeS.0e
The progress., 1904-06-11
CURTAIN CALLS ABROAD.
German Actors Have a Code Of Eli
quette Quite Different from
That in America.

There Is an unwritten code OF eti-
quette among actors in regard to cur
tain calls that appears to differ widely
in different countries" says Mr.. p.
Short, according to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
"A friend of mine was recently tell
ing me about the custom that obtains
in this respect in certain theaters ard
opera houses in German cities, and
from what he says it is exactly the re-
verse of what it is here. Over there
the star or leading player takes the
first curtain call alone. If there is a
second curtain call the star and asso-
ciate player of the opposite sex ap-
pear together ON the stage to respond
TO 1t. and should a third call from the
audience be given the entire company
appears in answer to it. The customs
of our stage generally reverse this
procedure. Among us the first curtain
call is responded to by the entire
company. the second by three or four
or five of the principal players, the
third by the leading man and woman
diOne, anu tnen, III tneTe are more, Dy
the star or leading player.
This is. Of course, dealing with the
subject in a general way and consid-
ering the circumstances as those which
may ordinarily obtain. Where two OF
three players only are concerned in
the scene that brings the applause,
why. naturally, the other members of
the company would have no part in the
response"
The progress., 1904-06-11
AN IMPRESSIVE REBUKE.
Hunting Story That Settled Boastful
Young Man with Penchant
for Stretching.

Dr. Seward Webb was entertaining
a large shooting party at his estate In
Vermont. Sport was excellent ant
every evening after dinner hunting
stories we're told in the smoking room
says the New York Tribune.
Nearly all the stories were true, hut
there was one guest, young man. who
pulled the long bow little. He pulled
1t more than little on one occasion
and after he had concluded a story
evidently impossible, DR.. Webb took
him in hand.
"In '94 was shooting in the Rock
ies," said DIR. Webb. 81 was after
grizzlies. trailed a grizzly to a high
peak one day. l advanced toward it
along the edge of a precipice 300 feet
high. Getting a good shot at last, !
let drive. but missed. The big bear
came for me then like lightning. /
took aim again. but as I was about to
fire my foot slipped. fell and my gun
dropped from my hand and rolled over
the precipice There I lay, unarmed
and helpless and the maddened grizzly
not six feet away"
Here DR.. Webb paused and lighted
cigarette.
The imaginative young man frowned
impatiently.
"Well?" he said well? Go on.
What happened?"
DIR. Webb. looking him calmly in the
eye. replied:
"The grizzly devoured me-"
The progress., 1904-06-11
LKe Intrusion
Of Polly y =
py SARA LINDSAY COLEMAN
(Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co..

4 8 Pearson sat on the little porcn
~ and sent circles of blue smoke into
the soft night, snatches of gay talk, OF
laughter and Of music came to him
Polly was at the old home once more
The little Polly who used to spring
across the barbed wire fence that di-
vided them and drop on the top step
OF the side porch, breathless; the little
audacious Polly who plucked her short
skirt full of his violets without even
q by your leave, and climbed his cher
ry trees to toss his own cherries down
to him.
Polly had wintered at fashionable
school in New York, had summered
abroad and, crossing again, had made
her smiling entrance into world that
seemed vastly interested in her. 1t
chronicled her horseback rides as
events, her tea-pourings at smart
gatherings as epochs, and her dinner
dance was put down as history. Now,
for few weeks of what Polly called
quiet, she had come back to the old
place to break into the tranquility of
Pearson's after supper cigar. There
were other porches where a man might
have smoked in peace, but at 40 ones
habits are well nigh Interchangeable.
A little white clad figure came
through the odorous darkness and
leaned on the barbed wire. a little
plaintive voice called Hello" softly,
Pearson took refuge in silence. If is'
had been the little girl with whom he
The progress., 1904-06-11

the time of their death. On this six
miles of railroad and wagon road, run
ming parallel with the railroad, seven
negroes, 90 whites and 13 Indians have
been killed one way or another.
Twenty-four of these went the gun
route, one committed suicide, two were
killed by being run over by wagons,
three by driving on the railroad right
of-way, two were killed by horses on
right-of-way. a tramp was burned to
death. bridge hand met death by fall
ing off bridge, one, woman. not
known how she came 10 her death, one
boy was killed by a horse.
Out of this great lot of killed only
seven were killed by officers; two by
Creek Indian officers. who were exc
cuted by shooting. In this lot of deaths
there was no accidental shooting; they
all knew that the gun was loaded and
used it to kill.
The progress., 1904-06-11
FIXING PRICE OF POETRY.
The Only Way of Deciding What the
Real Article for Magazine
Use Is.

The great magazine editor was wrapped
in thought and cigar smoke. 10 him came
an assistant editor with poem, relates
the Chicago Post.
''Ths seems to have passed the usual
test" said the assistant.
Have l read it?" asked the editor.
''Was l able to make anything of it?"
mo"
"Then accept it, of course"
"But how much shall we pay for it?"
The great editor increased the cloud OF
thought and cigar smoke.
Have, you read it!" he asked, at last
"les."
"Were you able to make anything out
Of IL" ;,
Looks as it it might be pretty valuable,
doesn't it! How many of our manuscript
readers have tackled it!"
six"
Gould any of them make out what the
poet was driving at?"
''Well, Robinson thought he got glim-
mering idea of the underlying meaning"
That takes $40 off the price," SAID the
editor. Just figure it up according to the
usual method-$l0 added for every man
who couldn't understand it and $40 deduct.
ed for every man who could. We've got to
pay good prices for good poetry, and
there is only one way 10 decide what has
real magazine merit"
The progress., 1904-06-11
A RUDE RUSSIAN OFFICER.
Thought He Could Ride Rough-Shod
Over American Soldiers, But
Failed.

Capt. Charles H. Martin. of the Four
teenth infantry, relates the following,
says the Chicago Daily News. ION the
return march from Peking, and while
approaching HOhsiwoo, the column Of
the Fourteenth United States infantry
one evening was overtaken by Rus
sian officer of high rank in his three
horse blackboard, driven by his order
ly. At the time the rear battalion OF
the regiment, temporarily commanded
by myself, was entering a deflle, bor-
dered on each side by low, swampy
ground, the road just being wide
enough to accommodate the column.
suddenly heard loud shout: Watch
out, captain! Watch out!' but, before
could even turn my head, found my
horse on his knees, with the Russians
horses on top of us. After extricating
ourselves, found that the Russian,
seeing the narrow road before him, and
not proposing to be delayed by our
column, had deliberately plunged into
us, regardless of consequences.
"The temporary check which he had
received by my being in the way seemed
to infuriate the officer, and with violent
gesticulations he ordered his orderly to
drive on. Two enlisted men nearest
us held his horses heads. This was too
much. Taking the lines from his now
helpless, bewildered driver, he forced
his horses forward, but before he had
completely gotten them away from the
men holding them l had ordered four
more men to Assist in stopping him, and
to keep him where he was until the
rear of the column had passed. In
spite of such a show of force, he per-
sisted in violently urging his horses
forward, and was only stopped by being
knocked to the ground by the butt OF
a gun, and having the horses unhitched
from the conveyance. AS he rose from
the ground he started to draw his re-
volver, when instantly several rifles
were drawn on him.
This seemed to bring him to a re-
alizing sense of his impotency, and,
putting up his revolver. he ran forward
with tears in his eyes, and called in
French to the captain of the company
then passing: 4 am an officer-an Of
ficer! Look at my frightful condition
and the humiliation which has been
heaped upon me! Can you give me
justice?' He received this consoling
answer: That's all right, old man;
there's only room on this road for one
Of us, and we got here first.
The progress., 1904-06-11
Horsefiesh in GERMANY.

The extent to which horses are slaugh-
tered for human consumption in Ger
many, as revealed by the official statis-
tics. will surprise those who have per-
suaded themselves that no such use is
made OF horsefesh in that country.
From the figures supplied by the royal
ministry of agriculture it appears that
horsefiesh is extensively consumed in
% government districts of Prussia. and
its use is constantly increasing in all of
them. In 1901 nearly Il. 600 horses were
slaughtered for human consumption in
Berlin. and nearly 10000 in BresIau.
Over 10000 were consumed in the whole
of Prussia in 1901. and $1,000 in 1899.
The figures for 1903 will show a con-
siderable increase. Choice horsefiesh is
quoted at ten cents pound.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
The progress., 1904-06-11
SUFFICIENT IDENTIFICATION.
Woman After Pension Gives Personal
Peculiarities of Her Sol
dier Father.

Representative Cowherd of Missouri has
q constituent, an aged woman, who has
been trying to get pension because her
father had been a solder, she was not
sure in just wha war. At first, says the
Washington Post, she was inclined to be-
lleve he had fought in the Mexican war;
then she dropped back to the Seminole
war, and finally decided it was in the war
of 1872 he had served. On a muster roll
of the latter war she found name that
corresponded with that OF her father but
did not furnish Mr.. Cowherd any posi-
tive means of identification.
Mr.. Cowherd notified his constituent
that it would be necessary to identify her
father before a pension could be granted,
and in response the soldiers daughter
wrote:
My father was of medium hight, had
black hair and eyes. He could not close
one eye without closing the other. and
didn't know anything about music. |
think that ought to Re sufficient idcn.
tifcation for pension"
The progress., 1904-06-11

It will be worth all the self-denial
that one may practice for several years
to see the Worlds Fair Of 1904 at st.
Louis. Money saved. earned or bor-
rowed cannot be better spent than In
getting acquainted with the world s
progress as revealed at this latest and
greatest Of expositions. All Of us can
not travel around the world to take
note of what the nations are doing,
but the nations from all around the
world desire us to know and have sent
their best works to st. Louis to be
placed on display.
Therefore, by all means or any
means, gee the Worlds Fair. 1t means
everything to your future growth of
mind, to your present pleasure and life
long satisfaction. Who that saw the
Centennial exposition or the Colum-
bian exposition that does not revert to
it with recollections Of keen pleasure?
Within the two square miles OF the
Louisiana Purchase exposition at St.
Louis there is more to be seen than
ever was brought together in ten times
the space before 1t is q great collec-
tion of expositions massed into one. 1t
is nearly twice as large as the Colum-
bian exposition at Chicago, nearly ten
times larger than the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo Every exhibit
palace offers the equivalent of splen-
did exposition. each covering many
acres of space.
The largest of these is the Palace OF
Agriculture, with its % acres under
roof and filled to the doors with the
most wonderful agricultural collection
ever assembled upon any occasion.
The important states and nations OF
the world are all here alongside great
numbers of individual exhibitors. Five
great staples have been chosen for ex-
traordinary display. Corn, cotton,
The progress., 1904-06-11
PRIVILEGES FOR A YACHT.
How Registry Is Secured-Name Can
not Be Changed Without Spe-
cial Permission.

The laws governing pleasure yachts
are to landsmen comparatively little
known. These vessels enjoy many ex-
emptions which cost cross sea and for
eign ships dearly, says the New York
Tribune.
If pleasure yacht is built within
the United States and belongs wholly
to citizens thereof she may be regis
tered by the collector of the port in the
collection district nearest which the
owner usually resides. The owner
swears to the name, burden and build
ing place of the vessel, his own home,
that he is citizen and that no for
eigner owns an interest in his vessel.
In return for certificates of the car
penter and of measurer the owner re-
ceives certificate of registry, which
shows her build, number of decks,
spars, tonnage, measurements, etc.
These certificates are sent on to Wash
ington. the ship is numbered, and
thereupon her registry, enrolment and
license are complete.
The name of every documented YES
eel of the United States must be
marked upon each bow and upon the
stern, and the home port shall also be
marked upon the stern. The law de-
scribes the required size and color of
these letters and penalties their omis-
sion as carefully as do the ordinances
concerning automobiles passed by vii
lage selectmen.
If an owner should, through ig-
norance and without proper notifica-
tion to the secretary of the treasury,
change the name of his yacht he is
liable to lose her through forfeiture
Pleasure yachts may obtain licenses
which permit them TO run from port to
port Of the United States without en-
tering or clearing at custom houses.
Formerly. to obtain such license, the
owner had to bond himself to the sec
retary of the treasury that he would
not within such time carry goods or
passengers for pay, but now no bond
is required. Of course. if yachts en-
gage in any trade or violate any rev.
enue law their owners subject them
selves to severe punishment.
Licensed yachts must use signal
of the form. size and color prescribed
by the secretary OF the navy, and the
owners must at all times let govern
ment naval architects examine and
copy their models.
When a foreign yacht comes here
she need pay no tonnage tax nor need
she enter or clear al the custom house.
provided the foreign nation admits
American vessels similarly.
A commission" is awarded a yacht
TO identify her owners. This is a per-
NIT which shows under fhe signature
of the secretary of the treasury that
the owner belongs TO a regularly or
ganized and incorporated yacht club;
it states the privileges and exemptions
which the yacht enjoys and is letter
of recommendation to any United
States official or authority of any for
eign power.
Every yacht visiting a foreign coun-
try, however. must. on her return tc
the United States. make due entry at
the custom house of the port at which,
On such return, she shall arrive.
The progress., 1904-06-11
Thirty-Foot Knife Blade.

The biggest carving knife ever manu-
factured is so feet in length, and has an
edge as sharp as a razor. 1t is made
out of the finest steel. and the handle
is a masterpiece of the cutters art,
deliberately carved and beautifully pol
ished 1t would take a veritable giant
to WELD a knife like this. The blade
is altogether of American manufacture.
and IL is expected 10 show that Amer
lean cutlery has now reached a point
of perfection where il fears no rivalry.
The giant carving knife cost several
thousand dollars. and special machinery
had to be made before its construction
could begin No such knife was ever
before NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Circu-
lar-Weekly.
The progress., 1904-06-11
FRENCH CHARACTERISTICS.
The Barriers of Glass and Caste Have
Been Leveled to the Ut
termost.

The statistical returns of moneys de-
volving by inheritance show a total for
France nearly 30 times as great as those
for England, Austria or Germany,
writes DR.. Emil Reich, in the Contem-
porary Review. 1t is not uncommon in
England to receive money by legacy;
in Hungary the legacy has become so
fabulous as to be the stock subject for
gibes; but in France the acquisition of
riches by bequest is so common as to
be almost the rule. There is hint
of the great wealth of France in the
peasant dowries up from $4,000 to $10,-
900 which are by no means uncommon.
Enter the principal cafe Of some de-
partmental capital and watch those two
men playing billiards who appear to be
on footing of perfect familiarity. You
would hardly guess, for there is certain
ly no distinction of attire, that the one
is living on his income Of $4,000 a
year and the other is still struggling
chemist. The barriers of class and
caste have been leveled to the utter
most in France.
People who have only seen England
and America can with difficulty realize
how thoroughly the Frenchwoman per-
vades every detail of family life. Moth
ing is done without her consent and
counsel. In business she has her say.
and many of the great commercial
houses trace their descent in the femi-
nine line. II is the Frenchwoman who
rules from the counting-room. who
keeps the books. who sees the travellers.
Those who would wish for a tangible
proof of the Frenchwoman's
supreme importance should remember
one striking feature Of French cities
the frequency with which on shop
signs the names of husband and wife
are coupled together and the common
occurrence of widows names in the
The peacefulness of France is but
surface deep. and she only waits an oc-
casion to avenge the disgrace of the
war of 1870. She has obeyed the behest
of Gambetta: Speak of it never;
think of IL always"
The progress., 1904-06-11
WHEN YOU GO TO THE WORLDS FAIR
Suggestions That Should Be Helpful to the Stranger
in ST. Louis--No Trouble When You Get Your Dear-
ines-The Greatest Of Worlds Exposfons

style OF an old Roman house stands
upon lower ground directly southwest
from the larger building. The outdoor
display OF ordnance is not the least In
teresting of the government exhibits.
The Palace Of Art at the Worlds Fair
contains 1876 galleries Each gallery
is a large room, lighted from above
and filled with. the choicest works.
All countries of the world in which art
has made noteworthy. progress are rep
resented. The group of buildings
which house this magnificent display
represents an expenditure of more than
81, 900 900. The group is situated upon
high ground south Of Festival hall.
The Festival hall is the center piece OF
a rich architectural work crowning the
hill which rises above the Grand Basin
and upon whose slopes are the Cascades
and gardens Here another million
dollars has been expended to produce
a decoration that will distinguish this
exposition from all others.
In a short article such as this one
can only refer to such great features as
the Philippine exhibit, covering 40
acres and containing more than 1000
natives from those far-off Pacific is
lands; the United States government
Indian exhibit, covering many acres
and occupying large building; the ex-
hibit of the United States bureau OF
plant industry, consisting of an out
door map of the United States, cover
ing four acres; the great athletic field
where the Olympian games of 1904 Will
be held; the Aerial concourse where
the airship and balloon contests. hav-
ing prizes aggregating 100000, will take
place; the anthropology exhibit; the
40 or more state buildings; the outdoor
exhibits of the departments of agri-
culture and horticulture, covering
many acres; the Palace of Horticulture,
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WAS A MODERN SHERLOCK,
Doctors Diagnosed Woman's Case So
Minutely She Took Fright
and Fled.

The grave physician (this method o
speaking of physicians is significant o
results, rather than of demeanor) care
fully examined his patient, relates tn
Baltimore American.
She had just called in at his Office ant
said she was ailing in SO many way
that she was mystified.
After having noted that she was In
deed grievously afflicted, he said;
Madam, before can do anything al
all for you, you must move closer into
the heart of the city"
With start the woman said:
20, sir, but how did you know didn't
live near the heart of the city,"
Gazing pityingly upon her he said:
Madam, you do not know, perhaps
that we physicians have been consider.
ing special treatment for the ailment
now known as the northwestbaltimore
tits. You live somewhere near North
and Maryland avenues?"
"Yes, SIR" wonderingly.
"You are accustomed to standing on
the northwest corner of that thorough.
fare and waiting for carr"
''Yes, sir" astoundedly.
You have been doing this since tbs
fire crippled the company's service and
the number of cars for awhile reminded
you of hen dentistry?"
Yes, SIR" aghast
Your case is plain. You have vari-
cose veins in both ankles, from stand
ing. You have partial paralysis of the
muscles of the jaw from chewing gum
you got from that slot machine at the
corner. The muscles of the right side
of your face and neck, also those oi
your back, are strained from leaning out
from the curb looking up to Twenty
fifth street to see the car turn. Your
eyes are popped half way out of your
head with the staring incumbent from
that rubbering stunt Your toes ar:
covered with corns from having
them trodden upon in getting on the car
and afterward. You are partially deal
from hearing the conductor say: Move
up forward. please You are threatened
with apoplexy on account of the anger
you have felt when you hung to a strap
while long-legged man sat near YOU
with his legs sprawled out to the limit
of their reach"
But the woman. who was supersti.
tious and believed he was wizard. had
fed precipitately lest she might add in.
sanity to her other ailments.
The progress., 1904-06-11

mad chummed, but this fashionable
young woman, whose goings and COM
ings were of such import, was not even
distantly related to that little hoyden-
Polly, and, as a plain American citi-
zen, he was silent, not knowing the
language that the new Polly spoke.
"Heilo!" she called again into the
silence.
With flash and flutter of feminine
flounces she was over.
That's still barbed wire" Pear
son called.
"Oh!" she clarionetted, "a barbed
wire?" She sped across the space that
intervcned to drop on his top step in
breafhless scorn. WAS it that?" she
demanded. 1--WE been home a whole
day."
No." said Pearson, calmly, 81 don
mean to come. You've so many dan
cing about you that I'll never be
missed. And, anyway, Polly, hear