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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
TURNING AWAY FARMERS.

The rurnor that 500 Portuguese may
leave here TO start colony IN south-
ern California is by no means incredl-
HE. Since the depression came the Por-
tuguese have not found much 10 oo'
the private labor market being hlIed
with Jananese and public labor being
confined to citizens. In Southern can
fornia there is work for strong hanes
and land is plentiful and cheap enough
in various localities, to accommodate
farming class of small means. AL
ready these conditions have tempted
many thrifty Portuguese from here
whom Hawaii is Ioath TO lose.
This paper understands that the
exodus may be stopped by giving the
Portuguese the same kind of chance
that was afforded the Wahiawa people
to settle upon public lands. Our elder
Portuguese are nearly all farmers ana
are cutie as successful in their way as
the Chinese. They grow grapes to per-
lection; they raise the bulk OF our sweet
potatoes: they are good at orchard
work and they make a living under the
most unpromising conditions. Settled
upon public land here and there these
thrifty people would soon rescue it from
the lantana, create taxable values ana
cheaper the cost of living to the extent
of their contributions to the island sup
ply of food.
The Advertiser eannot unde stand a
policy which leaves arabic public land
untitled while men who are able and
willing to cultivate it are allowed to
go abroad in search of just such oppor-
tunities. There is good farming land
in patches all over this Territory which
never felt the impact of hoe; and,
there are many men who know what
to do with a hoe asking in vain for
chance to use it; and behind them is
population which imports vegetables
and fruits from California. Is con-
dition like this to be interpreted by
anything in President Roosevelt-s
policy of development along traditional
American lines %
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

as the white population increased, there
would now be in the South 10, I69,o4Z
negroes-about one-third more than the
present negro popuIa ton.
The birth-rate among the negroes
is somewhat higher than among the
whites, but the death-rate is also high
err and enough higher TO give the whites
a slight advantage in the increase OF
population. The birth-rate among the
whites in the South is vastly higher
than at the North. Families in the
South are much larger than at the
North There are over so per cent. more
children at the South in proportion to
the number of mothers than at the
North If the population of the North
were not kept up by immigration, the
South in a few decades would become
more populous than all the balance of
the country. AS it is, the South is hold
ing its proportion of the total popu-
lation in spite of the heavy immigra-
ton the North receives
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
SUGAR GOING UP.


The increasing price Of sugar means
ou,e1x lift to Hawaiian plantations as
at least half the crop has not yet oeeii
marketed and only ten per cent OF the
FIRST half went off for less than three
and sixty one-hundredth cents. Ihe
gross income from the total sales VIII
reach an enormous sum, though the net
will be cut into deeply ~ meet the
charges for freignts, interest and insuf-
ance. What remains for DIVIDENDS
however, should restore healthy tone
to the market and cause stocks to rise
We note a disposition on the coast, as
revealed in the financial column Oh ihe
wasp. to look into Hawaiian sugar
securities.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

TT is remarkable how few Americans
know that Hawaii is an integral part
of the United states. Those VINO WORK
cd for the Territory at the last ses-
sion of Congress found so strong a De
lief in the lighthouse bureau that f1a-
waii was an insular possession that they
had TO appeal to the record. Judge
bingham. chairman of the credentials
committee of the Republican Natlohal
Convention, based his objections toilet
ting this Territory have six votes on the
ground that Hawaii had no right 10
the same number granted to Arizona
and New Mexico, its class being that
of Porto Rico and the Philippines. va
rious influential papers occasionally
class this Territory as a mere posses
sion If naval officers, members OF
Congress and editors are not sure about
our status. what must be the state OF
mind OF the average citizen?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
A GREAT MILITARY SPECTACLE.

The japanese canpaig ign, so far as It
has gone. is as brilliant as was the cam
paign of Napoleon in Italy. Carefully
thought out long before it began. its
execution has been by the book and has
suffered no serious check. First, Korea
was occupied and held; then by bril-
liant rnaneuver. the Yalu was crossed
and the Russians defeated in pitched
hattie Coincident with the japanese
advance from the YaIu came the land
ms, of another army on the Liaotong
peninsula which, after isolat1ng Port
Arthur and gaining a splendid victory
at Nanshan Hill, gave its place to
tbird arrnv which landed to invest the
Russian fortress. Marching rapidly
north the second army co-operated with
the first in enveloping tactics Whleh
seems now to have succeeded, Kuropat-
kin. according to yesterdays cable
grams, being surrounded by 100000 men.
Meanwhile another division of japanese
troops has landed on the peninsula TO
make losses good and provide reen-
forcements wherever they may be
needed.
All this means great generalship. Inc
japanese problem is the same, in many
rasnects which successive northern
commanders tried TO work out against
Lee. though the parallel with Napo-
leon,s invasion of Italy is closer But
six months have passed since the war
baoan vet the most momentous results
have already been reached against
tha armies of a first-class power. Inc
vhirlwind success of the Germans IN
1870 was no more astonishing than this
achievement of the little brown men
who. by the way, made less fuss about
il in preparation and execution than
we did over the invasion of Cuba.
one of the lessons taught by the Jap
anese campaign is that if you want to
begin a war on time, fight it well ana
end it speedily, you must have an ade-
quate regular army of intelligent men,
Wars that last long and are marked by
frequent DlunQeflIS are uSo'iAS
waged by volunteers, hastily organized
They lack the science which belongs to
the trade of battle and which foresees
results and provides for them; and that |
science has to be learned by dear ex-
perience Such men as belong in the |
volunteer class, made over into regu- |
lar army by constant drill and disei- |
pline, are the surest safeguard of any |
nation. OF these the japanese soldiers
are types-men of the middle class who |
can read and write and have an intel
Iigent idea of patriotism. 1t is the
weakness of the Russians that, although I
their army organization is regular I
the unit is dull peasant who
learns nothing but routine.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
Remnant Sale
Nearly
Pau

Because our sale of remnants
was as good as its 70ord it has &C
complished in two days what
might have taken as many
weeks elsewhere.
There are some pretty Sum
mer dress goods remnants for
today but these will undoubted-
ly all be gone when the store
closes this evening.
Ribbons, laces and insertions
are so few that we need scarce
ly mention them.
If anyone thinks that fine la
dies do not enjoy buying pretty
remnants the doubter should
have been in our store Monday
and Tuesday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
GROWTH Of NEGRO POPULATION

The bulletin of negro statistics just
issued by the census bureau is calculat-
ed, says the Literary Digest, to allay
the approximations of those who think
that the increase in the negro popula
ton is a menace to white supremacy.
The figures show that while the negro
population of the Southern States has
increased 33.1 per cent, during the last
creased 56.5 per cent. For fifty years,
in fact, the whites have been steadily
gaining on the negroes. This showing,
says the Baltimore sun, promises a
natural solution of the race problem in
States where the population OF colored
to white is excessive
According to the census report. there
were, in 1900, 9,204,531 blacks in the
United States, Alaska. Hawaii, and
Porto Rico. a larger number, it is es-
timated, than is found in any other
country outside of Africa. About 80
per cent, of them are in the Southern
states, three-tenths of these being in
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.
The lower Mississippi Valley is the sec
ton most thickly populated by negroes,
there being Is colored men to one white,
while in the North there is but one
negro to 40 white men in the cities
and one to 90 in the country. In~ 1900
the negroes in the South numbered
6, 0S4. 203 or 1884 per cent. of the total
population. In the decade 1S90-19G0 the
| negro population of the South increased
1879 per cent, as against - per cent.
for the whites. In 1890 there We're 49,
COS, 1s3 whites in the South and 6,S92. 125
negroes, while in 1900 the whites mum
bered 19.460,S13 and the negroes S.0S4-
203. In 1850 there We're but 6,222. AIS
| whites and 3.442,23S eolored persons in
| that section. The death-rate among the
negroes is placed at 50 per cent, while
that of the whites is II per cent
While the figures do not warrant any
serious apprehension concerning the in
crease Of the black race in the South. y
says the Chicago Tribune. they strong
| ly confirm the view that the negro race
must be regarded as a permanent ele-
ment in our population" The Augusta
iGa.) Chronicle thinks the statistics
| show the folly of the people of the
| North, where there is but one negro to
every 60 or 20 white men, undertaking
to criticize and dictate to the South
where there is a negro to every two
white men. They are simply discuss
ing a subject of which they know
nothing The Jacksonville Times
Union says:
During the last half of the nine
teenth century. the white population
showed d gain of 2i2.s5 per cent, willis
the negroes during the same period
| saiaed only 1885 per cent. If during
ae last half a century the negro popu-
| -atien had increased at as rapid ratio
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

Henry G. Davis, the STANDARD Oh
Inagnate who is running for Viee-Pres-
ident on the Democratic ticket, is SAID
to have subscribed s1,ooo,ooo to the
Democratic campaign fund. This is the
first oil money the Democrats have seen
for long time and it doubtless ac-
counts for the strength of the octo-
genarian Davis in the convention.
Probably the Democratic fund VIII
reach high figures this year and il the
local managers of the party are alert
they may get enough out of it to secure
the fun and hearty support of the Good
Ciovernment Club.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

utes. Sun ano 1saS,>>--
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
MOSQUITOES ARE BUSY

Notwithstanding an excel
lent report from the mosquito
externinators the August hex
ipods are presenting their bills
in a vigorous fashion.
Our antidote is good mosqui-
to netting.
Did you know that all netting
is not mosquito proof?
Some nets are coarser than
others, but ours is so fine as to
keep out the most emaciated
insect and you can get it any
width you want up to 3 IA
yards or 100 inches.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
Itching Skin
Distress by day and night

Distress by day and night -
That's the complaint of those
who are SO unfortunate as to be
afflicted with eczema or salt rheum
and outward applications do not
cure. They can't.
The source of the trouble is IN
the blood make that pure and
this scaling, burning, itching Skin
disease viii disappear.
"a 1 was taken with an itching on my
arms which proved very disagreeable. }
concluded it was salt rheum and bought 8
bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla. In two DAYS
after began taking it I felt better and 1t
was not long before was cured. Have
never had any skin disease since" MRS
INA e. WARD. Cove Point. Md.
Hoods ydrSdp0Tilid
and Pills
Rid the blood of all impurities ansi
cure all eruptions. Take them.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

It is TO be hoped that some way VIII
he found to make good the damage done
the reputation of Mr.. Hall, the man
who was accused of grave offence by
a witness who is said to have been per-
.iured. The charge ruined Han and
roma ration if no more than the full ex-
posture and punishment of all who help
ed to make a scapegoat of him, is his
clear due
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05
Greatest Of All Physicians.
Eminent Discoverer of
PAlNE'S CELERY
COMPOUND

Prof. Edward E. Phelps, NJ D., IL. D..
vas bonn in Connecticut and graduated at
Yale.
His unusual talent soon brought him reputa-
ion and prominence. First he was elected to
the professorship of anatomy and surgery in
The Vermont University. Next he was aP-
pointed lecturer in Dartmouth College. The
following year he was chosen TO the most
important professorship in the country, a
place that be occupied when he made his
world-famed discovery of Paine's Celery Com
pound.
This infallible cure for those fearful ills that
result from an impaired nervous system and
impure blood, has endeared the great doctor
to the world.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

If the Russians took a hard-up lesson
from Hawaii and paid their war ex-
rants, they would not run the risk of
losing a s25.ocs,ooo barrel every time
camp was hastily broken for Turing on
hike north
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

Elect men to do your public business
whom YOU would trust to do your pri-
waite business. There is no sounder
principle of political selection, what
ever the office sought may be.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-05

With sugar rising four eents-it stood
last night at 4.0625. Honolulu may take
eeurage. There is a good time coming.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-14
HOW Birds Drink at Sea.

"When l was a cabin boy" said an
elderly sailor, Il often used to wonder.
seein' birds thousands of miles out to
sea, what they done for fresh water
when they got thirsty. One day squali
answered that question for me. 1t was
a hot and glitterin' day in the tropics.
and in the clear sky overhead black
rain cloud appeared all of a sudden.
Then out of the empty space over 100
sea birds came dartin' from every dlrec-
ton. They got under the rain cloud
and they waited there about ten minutes,
circlin' round and round, and when ths
rain began to fall they drank their fill
In the tropics, where the great sea birds
sail thousands of miles away from shore.
they get their drinkin' water in that
way. They smell out a storm a long
way off; they travel 100 miles, maybe.
to get under it, and they swaller enough
raindrops to keep them goin'. Port
land Oregonian.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-14

Gen. Stahl was made commandant of
cavalry, in place of Gen. Pleasanton.
"On Sunday, July 2, the first brigade
was engaged in small fight at Lit
tlestown, and following that we had
another little furry at Red Mills. Then
came the battle of Gettysburg. l was
detailed to take charge of the hospital
at Hanover, which was a few miles
away from the field, and two or three
days after the fight poor fellow was
brought in who had been found in a
wheat field, shot all to pieces He had
been in the broiling sun for three days
without food or shelter of any kind,
and he was in a horrible condition.
His ease seemed a hopeless one from
the moment we laid eyes upon him,
but everything was done to ease his
dying hours, and to make him COM
Portable as he passed out of this world.
Under the direction of the supervising
surgeon, large dose of morphine was
administered in order that he might
pass away with as little consciousness
of pain as possible. But four hours af-
terward he still lived, and did not seem
at all inclined to quit
"Just then a young lady from Han
over, who had been helping around the
hospital, asked if there were any spe-
cial case of which she might take
charge. She was told that there were.
and was assigned to look after this
poor fellow. She did her work so
we'll that shortly after he was able TO
be removed from the field hospital TO
better one, where he continued to
improve, and shortly after, entirely re-
covered This mans name was Nc
Even, and he had been a private in a
Missouri regiment. When discharged
as convalescent he at once married the
young lady who had done so much to-
ward saving his life, and soon after
ward returned to his company, where
he rapidly rose in rank, and was
finally mustered out as a captain"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-14
in the hollow. and keep him drunk all

In the hollow, and keep him drunk all
day tomorrow"
Mr. Dobbns, past master in the art Of
making an evening go pleasantly and
fast, started in. And Mr. Debevoise, fipd-
ing that Mr.. Dobbins was made up of the
real fibre. Joined him. They began with
a wine supper that diminished Mr.. Dob
bins roll to some extent; then they took
in the local theaters, then a gambling
house or two, then with a few other
kindred spirits, sat about table at the
hotel, and just drank, drank, drank. Mr..
Dobbins kept constantly at the side OF
Mr.. Debevoise, and kept up flow OF
conversation that was remarkable.
''Higginson," remarked Mr.. Dobbins
to himself, may know how to make
money, but l certainly know how to
spend 1t, all right, all right"
Mr.. Debevoise was not altogether at
ease. Something seemed, from time to
time, to trouble him. He was trying
evidently not to forget himself. But
Dohbins was constantly on hand with
freph order and fresh sally, and mer-
ry burst of laughter which attracted Mr.
may have had in mind.
Once he took out note book. I'll
mustn't" he murmured to Dobbins, 81
i mustn't forget-business. Business
before pleasure, don't you know. II
mustn't forget"
Pleasure" returned Mr.. Dobbins
neatly, "is my business. So have pleas
ure before pleasure and pleasure after
pleasure; in fact I'm very busy at it all
the time"
Whereupon Mr.. Debevoise called for
another round, and time went on-and
on-and on.
The others left, but the two still re-
mained. Debevoise kept constantly re-
ferring to something that he had to do.
81 must not forget business" he said
But he did forget business He forgot
everything. 1t was after five o'clock in
the morning that his head sank upon the
table and he fell asleep. Mr.. Dobbins,
who had drunk sparingly during the
evening, but who, nevertheless, was
weary, called a hotel porter.
81 think can improve on Higginson's
plan" he whispered to himself. Then
he spoke aloud to the porter. Porter" Z"
he said, this gentleman and l are due
at East Monroe, up on the mountain, at
eight o'clock. Can you get us a rig?"
East Monroe, as Dobbins had found
from inquiry the night before, was a
small deserted village far up the noun
tain side without railroad accommoda-
tions. Dobbins reasoned that if Mr.. De-
bevoise were landed there, he woult
have some difficulty, considering every.
thing, in making connections with P.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-14
AS FLAT AS A FOUNDER.
Something of the Life History and
Habits of an Interesting and
Very Curious Fish.

The expression ''as fiat as a floun-
der" has become proverbial, but it
does not apply to very young fioun-
ders, which differ so much from the
adult ones that they can hardly be
recognized as belonging to the same
family as their parents. LIost boys
and girls are familiar with full-grown
founders, but very few of them, and
few older people, know anything about
the appearance of young founders and
the wonderful transformations they
undergo. In spring and summer it is
possible for young nature students to
secure specimens of newly Matched
founders by dragging a fine mesh net
on sunny days when the water is
smooth. Such specimens may easily
be kept alive in dishes of salt water,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-14
Pms ST0RY. = .TEEssS
- n n sEsA y
M va. .lIlis :sSsasSa
UNCLE HIS DOCTRINE.

always like TO see a man who's happy
with his lot
An not a-feelln' jealous at what other
folks has got;
Who takes whatever comes along with not
n fault to find
And who Is always carryin' a well-con-
tented mind
like to git acquainted an touch elbows
with the men
Who, IL they tumble down, don't stay, but
hustle up again.
An buckle in the harder, all the keener
for tho fall,
Not worryin' about what people say or
think, at all.
There's lots o. chaps who'd like to win
grand hUnors some fine day,
II 'twan't fer what the crowd would think,
or what the crowd would say,
A little fling. little sneer, at what they
do, an then p,
Away they go, an never have the heart to
try again
Boost up yer nerve and tackle in, deter
mined you'll succeed,
For men with grit an men with sand are
Jest the men we need.
Don't let the knockers" jar you, but IL
you should take fall,
Keep tryin'-dun't mind what they say or
what they think, at all!
It's my idee that We should try to carry
out the plan
OF worlSin' without frettin'-doin' jest the
best we can.
OF course fel!cr's bound to git a-plenty
of hard knocks
You can't sail unknown channels without
bumpiE on the rocks.
But what's the use o whinin' or Of settin
idly by?
The only thing a fcller ought to do is try
an try,
An Keep right on a-tryin' every time he
takes a fall.
An not be frettin bout what people say
or think at all.
Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-14
ONE OF LINcoLN'S STORIES
a Courting Experience Applied to
Persistent office-Seekers by
the Great President.

This story of Lincoln seems to be a
new one. 1t was related at an old set
tiers meeting at Mount Pleasant, Ia, by
the late Senator James Harlan, of Iowa,
who served as secretary of the interior
under Mr.. Lincoln, and whose daughter
Mary is the wife of Robert Lincoln, ex-
secretary of war, and now a leading
lawyer and capitalist of Chicago.
Some politicians had called on Presi-
dent Lincoln to urge the appointment of
some Of their friends to positions in a
certain department. By way of refusal
the president told the following story:
Gentlemen, the conditions in that de-
partment put me in mind Of the time that
q young friend and myself tried to court
the two daughters of peppery widow
living near our home. The old lady kept
q lot OF hounds,
1--WE had not been in the house long
before one of the hounds came into the
room and lay down by the fire. In lit
tie while another one came to the door.
He didn't get in, for the old lady gave
him kick, saying:
"'Get out of here. There's too many
dogs in here now!'
1--WE concluded to court some other
girls. s."-Youth's Companion.