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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-16
POLITICS AND POPULATION.

The japanese voter will soon be add
ed to the Chinese There are hundreds
Of japanese growing up to become
voters Citizenship is their birthright,
as it is of many Chinese. VIII the day
come when we shall have Japanese and
Chinese members of the legislature?
OF course if such a day does come, they
win be Japanese and Chinese born and
raised here, Americanized as far as is
possible and educated in English
speaking schools. Still it will be a re-
rF1arkable spectacle to see Asiatics on
the floor of an American legislature
and the result VIII be watched with
anxiety as We'll as interest. Certainly
the future legislatures Of Hawaii pro-
mise to be highly interesting bodies.
and the islands will gain a reputation
for cosmopolitan population that will
extend all over the world. A legisla-
ture composed of whites, Hawaiians,
Chinese and japanese will be gov
ernmentai freak worth seeing.
That the average voter of today does
not want to see such a state of affairs
goes without saying. But what are we
going to do about it? In the last cleo
ton the Home Rulers, recognizing the
yote-getting possibilities of the scheme,
put up a Chinese candidate,-an utterly
unfit one, by the way. The possibil-
tiles of the scheme grow with every
year as Asiatics reach voting age. In
the words of the great American
phra maker. we are confronted by a
s'condition, not a theory.
The Star does not believe in diversi-
fe1 farming in spite of what is being
--;4I Lo,opa- apd Toipao miles and
what may be done with tobacco, sisal
and vanilla. Yet in diversified farm
ing and a coincident opening up. OF
public lands to American settlers, lie
the only hope of Americanizing these
islands 1t is a fiction of law that Ha-
wall is now Americanized, one a
which at least 10000 out of our $1,000
people snap their fingers. We have
nearly 100000 Asiatics who do no.
change their principles with their en-
vironment and at least 10000 others Il
whom Americanism is either a barreI
name or a fertile annoyance. Thes'
people are rearing future voters by TIT
thousand and in course of time, unles
a white middle-class population is Sc
cured, Hawaii will be foreign soil t.
every American political sentiment.
The small farm movement, such a
peopled the vacant places of tn
mainland West and made them sym
pathetic parts of the American Union
is ours to command. American farm
ers are ready to come here and occup.
the land and the land is waiting. Al
that is needed is a sign of welcom
from the Territorial government
Unless Hawaii is to be surrendered t
the alien the American farmer mus
be let in. We cannot save the situa
ton with tourists or convalescents
nor yet with spectators. We mus
have an American population whic1
will stick to the soil and hold it. The
and not till then will this country ''be
gin to progress along traditional Amer
ican lines
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-16

Copies now on SAFE at all book stores
of the Hawaiian Forester and Agricul-
turist, a monthly magazine of forestry,
entomology and agriculture. issued I'M
der the direction of the Board of Com
missioners of Agriculture and Forestry.
Price 10 cents a copy, $1.O0 per year by
mail to any address. Subscriptions re-
ceived at the Gazette office.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-16
Noted Painting Stolen.

PARIS, Sept. .S.--The picture, .The
Triumph of Amphitrite," by AlMano,
hanging in the green salon at the hstle
of Chenonclaux, has mysteriouslA dis
appeared. Three hundred people #isit-
ed the place on one of the show days,
and il is thought that the diminutive
size of the masterpiece prompted an
INSCRIPTIONS visitor to purIoin, it,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-16

Kuropatkin may not get 192, 900 men
bat he is sure of being REINFORCED by
several carloads of ikons.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-16

Judge Parker is not to be blamed for
keeping out of stumping canvass the
possibilities of which were exhausted by
Bryan.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-16

Russian naval captains may be trust
ed, nowadays, to find a convenient port
to disarm in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
CHURCH MUSIC.
,m the New York world.

From the New York World.
 voltaire, not necessarily with habitual irreverence, characterized the musical ser- vice of the Roman church as to the poor mans opera" In it's highly specialized and elaborated form Catholic music un- doubtedly has attractions for many wor- shippers which heighten the religious solemnity of the ritual and depen its eff feet. Such churchgoers naturally re- gard with regret the Papal decree forbid ding women's voices in chors and ruling out the more sensuous compositions of the great masters of operatic harmony. They have hoped that the decree may be modi- fled to except the American churches from it's application.
 Yet there can be no doubt that a more general use of the Gregorian chant and of the simpler but no less beautiful work of Palestrina and the earlier church com able substitute for the more artificial modern music No attempt at the Paul. ist church has come away unimpresseo by the rare beauty of the Gregorian ser vice there. The revival of medaeval church religious music by the Musical Art Society has excited much enthusiasm. The absence of organ and the entire lack of artificial establishment Goes not de- tract from the fine effect of the unac- companied male voices in the Greek church.
 There is indeed. to many hearers, dignity and a quality to the trained male voice which seems to interpret better than any other vocal medium the inner spirituality of sacred music
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09

no change in what is called the statisti- cal position of cotton. Despite high prices the crop in sight has fallen be. low that of last years. It is about 35,000 bales short according to the fig ures of the New York cotton exchange and according to MT. Hester it is about 4000 bales short. It is plain that the crop will fall short of last years, and it may be fully half million bales less. It will not at any rate meet the worlds requirements, and there may possibly be an advance to the best figures made by the bulls this season.
 It is not easy to say what the i'm mediate effect upon the price of cotton of declaration of war would be, but there is no reason why war in the long run shold have a damaging effect upon cotton prices. It should help prices ultimately. Prices will now adjust themselves to supply and demand, and manipulation after long jamboree will probably be to some extent elimi- hated. There wnl be no trouble about the prices for the new crop. That will relate strictly to supply and dema'sd, and when that old-time test 's applied there is nothing to fear in relation to the sale of the staple.
 The change in tko tendency and temper of the market is another warn ing to the farmers of the south to g1,as1 against all-cotton plantings this year. Another decline should certain ly convince them that food crops are still requisite, leaving cotton to be a cash crop. Such combination cannot well be upset by manipulation or by anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
Enjoys His Trip.

Oliver Chalifoux has returned from a trip to New York and Boston. In the lat ter place he had the pleasure of lunching with Benjamin Guckenberger. who is now a prominent member of the faculty of the Faction piano school--one of the great musical institutions of the United States. Mrs. Guckenberger is also doing we'll pro. fessionally. While the Guckenbergers are prosperous in Boston," said MT Chal- foux MT. Guckenberger still has soft place in his heart for Birmingham"
 Speaking of music in New York MT. Chalifoux said he attended a perform ance of "Parsifal" and enjoyed it. It was A wonderful production, but musically he did not think it was up to some of Wagner's other works. MT. Chalifoux attended concert at the Metropolitan Opera house, In which Edith Walker sang and in which the opera house or- chestra played several numbers.
 Tt was a delightful concert and I have seldom heard an orchestra in New York that satisfied me so well. But the finest music I heard in New York was at high mass of St. Patrick's cathedral last Sun day week. The work rendered by the choir was new to me and I did not learn the composers name, but 1t was ex- ceptionally rich and was performed in the most musicianly style. The altar boys also sang beautiful hymns and altogether I had a treat that l shall long remem- ber."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
Baitimore's Great Fire.

Baltimore has suffered a loss by fire perhaps not outranked even by the Great Fire of Chicago. In the Chicago disaster the fire burned fercely under the pressure of strong wind two days. waterworks was destroyed, and all means of fighting the fire were thus taken away. No previous fire disaster In this country has ever equalled the one that occurred in Chicago. The revised estimates put Chicago's losses at these figures: Buildings and Improvements, $50 100000; produce, lumber and pro- visions, $5,OO0,o0O; dry goods and manufactures, s75,000,000; household property, libraries, etc, $57000,O ,O00-- total, s1S7,ooo,OOO.
 No doubt Baltimore's losses will eX- ceed present estimates, and the disas- ter will fall heavily upon the greatest of southern cities, and through it all the rest of the south will be affected, especially this district, which has long been a favorite field of Baltimore in- vestors.
 But even if no direct harm come to this district and to the south in gen. eral, friends and kinsmen are harmed, and the deep sympathy of the entire south will go out to the stricken city, and if need be that sympathy will as- sume substantial form.
 The fire in Baltimore is but addi- tional evidence that there is no such thing as a fireproof building. All build- ings go down when the heat is intense, and a strong wind may fan any fire into a destructive confiagration. The very contents of building feed great fire, and all goes down before it. Not a building is ever left in the track of a confagration. All is swept away. So it was in Chicago, so it issin Baltimore, so it will ever be. A fireproof building is a delusion. Some buildings in or. dinary fires will burn slower than others, thus enabling the fire fighters to conquer the flames, but in wind after fire is well started nothing can stand. All must go down, and this fact should be generally recognized, in order that no false hopes may be built up to the contrary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
In inc Pacific Ocean.

The withdrawal of ministers, involy- ing the severance of diplomatic rela- tions, is academic war at least, and the shot-and-shell sort will follow soon enough. The tendency of modern war is to seek the sea, and it may be that battles on land may not speedily occur in the Far East And yet if both sides move troops into Korea clash must come. Japan knows every foot of the territory involved including the Sibe. rian railroad to Harbin, the functional point, at least, and she is yearning to assail the Russian ships. If the Rus sian army, 1000 miles away from it's base, escapes isolation in the first month of warfare it has a good chance to win everything except the sympathy of the rest of the world. That it can not have. The eyes of the outside world are turned the other way.
 But events are better than prophe- cies, and we can well afford to await the results of the efforts of the two countries--the one fighting for a sea outlet and more territory, and the other fighting against domination by west ern power. The fight will be long un- less Japan wins at the outset marked successes, when Russia may as mat ter of policy agree to postpone her claims to a more favorable period, for Russia is not fully ready.
 But turn as events may, the year 1904 promises to witness the beginning of two mighty efforts that will change the trade of the Pacifc-the war com ing on and the digging of an isthmian canal These two events will change the map of the world, and affect civili- zatioH in every part of the mightiest sea in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
Hard to Realize.

Tt Is hard for me to understand how 1t was possible for the great $4 000, 900 pub lie building to succumb to the flames in Baltimore,' said man who visits that city. Tt was entirely surrounded by open streets or by-ways and was not exposed in anyway. It was constructed of stone, marble and steel-mostly Vermont mar ble, and was as near fire-proof as any building possibly could be. l am reminded. however, that marble is composed of about 95 per cent of carbonite of lime and this succumbs and crumbles readily to heat. In fact marble man tells me that such material is as subject to large fires or heat as Is wood That was the handsomest building I ever saw and It's loss makes all who know of it's cost and grandeur feel sad. It was in fact perfect palace and was finished only about two years ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
WINTER EVENING.

By Katharine Tynan--Hinkson. But the rain is gone by, and the days
 dying out in a splendor; There Is flight as of many gold wings - in the heart of the sky: Gods birds. it may be, who return from
 their ministry tender, Flying home from the earth, like the
 earth-birds when darkness is nigh. Gold plumes and gold feathers, the wings
 hide the roseace faces. But glimmer of roseate feet breaks
 the massing of gold; There's gold hair blowing back, and
 drifting of one in clear spaces. A little child-angel whose flight Is less
 sure and less bold. They are gone, they are flown. but their
 footprints have left the sky ruddy, And the nigt's coming on with a moan
 in tender green sea, And my heart Is fled home. with a flight
 that is certain and steady To her home. to her nest, to the place
 where her treasure shall be- Across the dark hills where the scarlet
 to purple is waning; For the birds will fly home. will fly home.
 when the nights coming onI But hark! in the trees how the wind Is
 complaining and straining. For the birds that are flown, 1t may be,
 or the nests that are gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
THE AGE-HERALp ALWAYS To THE FRONT.

Feeling obligation of Alabama, Aseterad yesterday city state with details of the disastrous fire which aed the bu This disaster of It's kind that realizing the AgeHeraid md city possibly reached by rail-
 of hurried Montaom cry papers tell the people calamity Knowing Monday published Montgomery, AeeeraId obligated proclaim the
  Until arrival carrying the information Montgomery The citizens of the appreciation the purchase of great numbe O copies The AseHeraId.
 grateful knowledge of the fact that has done its duty to people the
 The Aee-Herad is published day the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09

were done on the streets At one period Richmond was infested with "garoters." men who waylaid passers-by and choked them until they surrendered their valua- bles
 The war over, the slave population freed, Richmond the temporary home of many dangerous characters, white and black, the necessity for large police force became greater than ever and the force was reorganized with Major John H. Claiborne as chief and R. T. Seal c. IT. Epps. E. H. Chalkey. w. N. Kelly w. T. Bibb, W. s. Jinkins, and Russell S. Betts as captains. There were ten ser- geants. eghty-seven roundsmen, and two detectives; total. 1o6.
 That was 1s65- 66, before Clay and Mar shall wards had been added to the city. Later on, the force was reduced. Yet the police were relieved of the duty of lighting lamps.
 When their construction acts went into effect Major Claiborne was removed, or resigned, from office and in his place United States army officer Colonel Egg bert) was installed. Upon the ''readmis- sion" of the state into the union an ex- citing legal controversy arose and Rich mond had two mayors and two chiefs of police and two police forces. For several days there was war between them. 7, Who these mayors were and what their rivalry had to do with the Capitol disas- ter is another story. which we may tell some day. Suffice 1t to say now that Eg- bert was succeeded in the chiefs office by Major John Poe, and when Major Poe died, Major Howard was elected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
Pin Iron Maklnu in Alabama.

James M. Swank, general manager of the Iron and Steel association, puts the production of pig iron in this dis trict last year at 1,561 ,39S tons, as against 1,472,211 tons in 1902, and l. 225,211 tons in 1901. The outturn in the latter six months of the year was greater than in its first six months.
 Alabama is still behind Illinois, but the difference is not great, the produc- tion of the latter having been last year 1,192,375 tons. This difference may be overcome this year, If so, Alabama will become the third iron state, out ranked by Pennsylvania and Ohio only. The four states, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Alabama, are the great iron states Their joint product last year was 14,762, TOT tons, out of 1S,009 ,252 tons, the years total.
 This district has, or soon will have furnaces enough to make 2,000,000 tons a year, and possibly that round total may be reached this year, but the greater probability is that we Tlll go
 alf way towards it this ,ear, and
 oh the round sum ir 1905. Our po-
 don in the iron producing world will IT fully recogLsEtd when we are able to turn out two million tons of metal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
WHY MEN FORGET LETTERS.

From the New York Times.
 A feminine sociologist has at last dis covered not only an explanation why men forget to mail letters intrusted to them by their wives. but also an excuse for it that Is complimentary to the men which Is just like a woman for all the world, however unlike a sociologist 1t may be. She says the men forget the letters because their own work is care fully systematized and specialized, so they have no practice and no acquired skill, In the performance of little odd jobs like this one, while women, whose jobs are-or were-all little and odd, with no relation one to the other, can assume an almost infinite number of them and forget none even the new ones. That is a very pretty theory, and it will awaken vast amount of masculine gratitude. Certainly no man ever thought of that excuse. or of any half as good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
IN NEW YORK.

There are more ways than one of be- ing elected to club, says the New York Sun. Last week the name of a new re- cruit to membership in a suburban club was announced. He was unknown to nine out of every ten members. Then it was learned that he was the wealthy son of a wealthy father.
 Few people ever thought he'd get in,' said one of the members in discussing the election of the new candidate "and have even heard that he felt very uncer- tain himself
 'I know he was dubious" was the an- swer. but he's a sport under all cir 'cumstances. He bets the most influential members of the committee on elections 5000 to $1O0 that he would never be elect ed. But he did get in all right and paid his loss like a man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
NIGHT WATCHMAN THE
 FIRST POLICE OFFICER
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 1 HE germ, so to speak, of the mod AOl ern city police force was the

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch. 1 HE germ, so to speak, of the mod NY ern city police force was the
 night-watchman who with lam tern in hand made his weary rounds with measured tread, and called out the hours, muttering. "All's well.''
 In the daytime constables served war rants and preserved the peace. Later on there was blending of the two forces. yet there were "day officers and might officers" In London they wore on their helmets brass letter initials, which told what their office was. Hence c. o. P. for constable of police.
 At one period in nearly every city, 1t was required of the police to light the street lamps, which in the earlier days were furnished with oil and wick; then gas came into vogue and now we have electricity for our principal streets, and gas for unimportant ones. But only in small cities are policemen expected to tend the gas lamps; here they have been relieved from that duty in comparatively recent years and other men-lamp light ers-are now employed to do that work.
 With the growth of cities more and more men are required to police them; probably the increase of police has been less pro rata than the increase of popu- lation It seems to be a fact that boys and young men do not stand in awe of the police as they used to do. Here in Richmond the name of Captain Byrd Page. for instance. was terror to the frolicksome or evil-doing youth. Few of Richmonds youth are awed by a police man now. Is it that there really has been change in the manners and habits of our boys. or is our retrospection col ored by the glamour of the past?
 However. the average Southern ante bellum city did not need very many po- licemen. The slaves were rigidly discip lined by their masters and the whites were a quiet. easy-going folk. Along about 1859 or 50 Richmond had but five day and four night officers" as follows: Cadmus C.. Johnson, Reuben T. Seal. Ed win H. Chalkley. Ben M. Morriss, w. B. Morriss, w. B. Page, and Archibald Will kinson, Gervas 8. Truehart. w. N. Kelly and Richard Reins.
 During, the war this force was en- larged; besides there was provost guard which patrolled the city looking out for soldiers absent from their commands without leave. And yet in those days-or nights rather-many deeds of violence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
Heaw Fall in Cotton Prices.

The decline in cotton is attributed to the imminence of war in the Far East, but 1t is really due more to the rapid advance brought about by the super active bulls, who perhaps closed out their contracts and got out of the mar ket, leaving no supporters for high priced cotton. The advance, in other words, was too rapid and too full of manipulation. It did notrelate wholly to supply and demand.
 No one has been hurt by the decline except spectators. The producers have no cotton, and the farmer is thinking much more about the growing of new crop. than he is about gam bling in the old crop The southern farmer is secure, whether cotton is sell ing i1 New Orleans at IA cents, or 16 cents. and the farmers interests are all any one need be concerned about.
 When war actually comes, if it is to come at all, there may be still fur ther decline. but still there >has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-02-09
About Persons.

Joe Biederman, formerly a member of the firm of Rich & Biedernan of this city, but now living in the west, is visit ing his old friends in Birmingham. MT. Blederman is large property holder here, having accumulated quite fortune in the rise of values in the city. He holds half interest in the large building occupied by Drennen & Co.,. besides other valuable property here. His faith is not shaken in the future of this district and he says he has no property for sale.
 The Rev. Dr. Francis NJ Peterson, president of the Girls Normal and Indus- trial school at Montevallo. is at the Me- tropolitan.
 c. A. Ledyard of Montgomery is stop ping at the Morris.
 A. S.. Ledbetter of Anniston is at the St. Nicholas.
 F. M. stillwell of Selma is stopping at the Hillman.
 The Hon. W. w. Callahan of Decatur member of the legislature from Morgan county and city attorney of Decatur is at the Morris.
 D. H. Arnold of Gadsden is at the Me- tropolitan.
 c. l.. O'Neal of Celera, one of the larg- est lime dealers in the state. is stopping at the St. Nicholas.
 
 R. J. Edwards of Montgomery. and G. J. Cook of Clinton. are at the Flor ence.
 James Spence of Tuscaloosa. is at the Hillman.
 The Hon. I. w. Hill. .fof Montgomery. state superintendent of 'seducation. is at the Morris. k The Hon. j. L. Burnett of Gadsden. the