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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23

I combined IN order to work on territory
large enough to make the demonstration
convincing 1t will be an excellent plan
for village or town Improvement assoc1-
atoms in mosquito localities to discuss
in public meeting the necessity of elimin-
ating the mosquito pest, urging cooper
alton with adjoining localities, and show
by maps and plans what car be done to
secure permanent and lasting improve
ment. Ultimately, city and State aid can
be secured to assist the work, much on
the same plan as State aid is now given
in road building.
That the Importance of the mosquito
is truly understood as regards its rela-
ton to the public health in the Panama
Canal territory is shown by the appoint
ment of Dr. William c. Gorgas, as
sistant surgeon general, u. S. A, who
has instructions to provide drainage for
swamps and all mountaineering
places in that district. He is now in
Panama for that purpose.
The board of health of the village of
Lyons, n. Y, has recently adopted a
new rule, requiring that all open barrels,
casks or cisterns containing water shall
be covered with mosquito netting, to pre-
vent the escape of any mosquitoes breed
ing on the surface.
Under the right conditions it is as
tonishing what large quantity of mos
quitoes will develop and breed from
a small amount of water.
There are localities under our own
observation which have been free from
mosquitoes for six years past, which for
many years were unbearable to live i'll
in hot weather, all due to the elimination
of stagnant pools by simple drainage.
The determination of the mosquito is
a question of growing importance, and
we hope will receive general attention
among the various States and Territor-
les of this country The remarkable
progress made in Havana, Cuba, in this
direction in the prevention of yellow
fever by protection from mosquitoes
is notable example of Improvement
resulting from hygienic scientific investi-
CATION
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
OUR "DAVE" DUG
UP THE COIN

Nelson, Ted Murphy and Dave Barry
took a nine-mile jog in the morning.
After working half an hour in the gym,
in the early part of the afternoon all
hands proceeded to Escalle Baths, where
the remainder of the day was spent.
Last evening Nelson invited party
of friends for bus ride to San Ra-
fael When near San Anselmo a bold
highwayrnan waylaid the party and at
the point of a six-shooter demanded
money and jewelry. Dave Barry seem
ed to be the only moneyed man in the
crowd and parted with large sum
and a handsome watch. This morning
Barry's property was returned to him,
but he does not appreciate the joke. He
accuses Smiling" Mitzner OF putting
up the job, but the smiling one pleads
not guilty-Call
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
A NATIONAL MOSQUITO
EXPERIMENTING SOCIETY
(From the Scientific An1erican.)

(From the Scientific An1erican)
1t having been demonstrated by many
physicians and scientific men that certain
species of mosquitoes facilitate the trans
mission of malaria and fevers from af-
fected communities to those not affected,
it follows that the only remedy is to
prevent the production of the pest. The
method most effective is the drainage of
swamps or meadows to avoid standing
pools of water; the results obtained in
this way have been highly encouraging.
Many desirable towns, presenting most
attractive locations for residences, have
acquired such reputation for having ma
laria and mosquitoes that their develop
nIent has been greatly retarded. It is to
show how easily and with what small
comparative expense these depressing
conditions can be reversed and improved,
that the National Mosquito Exterrnin-
alton Society was organized in this city
last winter. The report of the society
has recently been published, and con-
tains many useful suggestions as to the
best methods to be pursued to prevent
the breeding of the mosquito The So
ciety is DESTROYS of enlisting in its mem
bership all persons interested in pro-
noting the general subject, and wishes
to secure information from all parts of
the country, later to be published in its
annual report. As previously remarked,
one OF the most extensive plans for rid
ding a locality of mosquitoes is by a
thorough drainage of meadows or
swamps.
This is now recommended for the
great meadows lying east of the city Of
Newark, n. J., covering a tract about
eighteen miles long by four miles wide,
or about $1,000 acres. The New Jersey
State Geologist and two of his scientific
associates have made report urging
the draining and filling of the Newark
meadows as the only means of Kidding
the regions of the mosquito pest.
The report states that the agricul-
tural value of the lands to be redeemed
and cultivated will ultimately repay the
cost. But the good effect on the sur
rounding cities and suburban towns in
preventing the spread of malaria, thereby
promoting the public health. is greater
reason why public aid should be de-
manded In cooperation with private en-
terprise or subscription for the prosecu
ton of the work
Work will have to be begun, no doubt.
as that on Long Island was, at the ex-
pense of public-spirited citizens who are
willing to risk money to prove in a prac-
teal way the determination of the mos
quito. 1t requires cooperation from so
many sources that all that private citi
zens can do by organization and all that
the cities can be induced to do in the
way of appropriation will need to be
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
CHARACTER OF AN OATH.

One OF the lawmakers from far-away
Oregon, where thee is plenty of gold
and silver, tells this story of a witness
who gave his explanation of what con-
stituted an oath:
Colonel Timmons, a one-horse law
yer, had contracted debt which 1t
seemed he never intended to liquidate.
Suit was instituted on the note. but the
colonel swore the note off. However,
the plaintiff proved the debt and OBJ
tanned Judgment Not long after this
the colonel was interested IN another
case in court and was ss-questioning
one OF the witnesses. a gentleman who
had been interested in the colonefs case
in the suit on the note.
DO you know the nature OF an
oath?'' asked the colonel.
L think I do" answered the witness.
Then tell the judge and jury what 1t
is.
A oath is like note-a legal tender
with which some people try to pay
their debts -Washingt Times.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
MALE VS. ELKs;
p A. c. VS.. KAMS.

When Alfred Castle, just home from
Harvard with the honor of being one OF
the Varsity teams change pitchers, steps
into the box today for the Punahou
team, the crowd will be critical. 1t will
doubtless be a big crowd for anticipa-
ton has run high over the prospect of
seeing Castle twirl the ball over the home
plate Confusion to the batters of the
opposing team is believed to be in store,
for Castle is known to be a pitcher who
can pitch and incidentally do little
curving.
The first game this afternoon is be-
tween the Males and Elks, and the sec
ond between the Punahous and Rams.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
CHOWDER SUPPER
AT PENINSULA

The chowder supper and dance to be
given this evening at Pearl Harbor by
Commodore H. E. Cooper of the Hawaii
Yacht Club promises to be one of the
pleasant aquatic social functions of the
season. The commodore will first en-
terrain his guests at chowder and quir-
tet club will play later for dance on
the lanai overlooking Pearl Harbor
lochs. The next day the guests of the
gentler sex will be taken out on the
lochs in the various yachts of the fleet.
The train leaves Honolulu this evening
at GIG
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
GOLFERS OPEN
LINKS TO-DAY

The Manoa Golf Links will be for
malIy opened this afternoon at 2 o'clock,
when the new links and clubhouse will
be dedicated. Attention will be paid
to the social end of the opening, for
at the hour named number of ladies
connected with the club will receive
at the clubhouse.
At 80 an impromptu golhng tourna-
ment will be started, a sort of free-for-
all. The first swing of the stick is made
from a sand tee on the lawn fronting
the clubhouse the ball being driven
across upper Manoa Road to a long
stretch of down-rolling green below,
which reaches to the lower Manoa Road.
Crossing the road the second tee of sand
lis encountered. Another drive or two
takes the bail across Oahu Avenue, in
College Hills, along which runs the cleo
trio car, to big sand tee
The golf links are most picturesquely
situated and the air of the valley is as
bracing as the most energetic golfer
with Scottish accent could desire.
Cars leave Punahou college for Ma
noa on the hour, and twenty minutes
and forty minutes afterward. The short
est distance to the clubhouse is to leave
the car at the junction of Manoa Road
and College Hills. Those who wish to
go to the links direct can remain on the
cars until almost reaching the end of the
line
The opening will be purely informal
affairs and the club invites all golfers
in the city and the friends of the golf
club members to be present, no personal
invitations having been issued. 1t is
possible that the Hawaiian Government
band will be present.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23

CHAMBERLAIN Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy is everywhere
acknowledged to be the most success
plants. It always cures and cures
quickly. It can be depended upon even
in the most severe and dangerous cases
of cholera morbus, dysentery and dior
rhoea. It should be taken at the first
unusual looseness of the bowels. Sold
by all dealers. Benson, Smith & Co.,
Ltd, agents for Hawaii
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
Cricket Today.

A cricket match will be played on
Makild grounds today, 23rd, at p. m.
Teams will be picked from the following
players: w. L. Stanley, r. a. Jordan,
J. a. NJ Maclean. S. Beardmore, S. a.
Jordan, E A. Jordan, F. Harrison, T.
Gill, H. L. Herbert, R. r. Cation, J. H.
Cation, Capt Tullett, O. c. Reid, Tuck
er, c. P Morse, A. H. Crook, E. c.
Smith, Harwood. DR.. Golfer, Harvey,
Lambert, Chadwick, Porter, Hendry,
Center, Piianaia
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
Hackfelds VS.. Wharf Rats.

The office team of Hackfelds will play
the Wharf Rats tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock sharp at Kapiolani Park The
Wharf Rats are new baseball organ
ization. which has been brought to-
gether by Captain Riley, dock superin-
tendent of Hackfeld & Co. The Hack
fields are somewhat in doubt as to the
outcome of the game owing to a sprained
ankle sustained by '.Annheuser' Bush,
the star player of the team.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
JOHN NELL
(Late of Cation, NeiIl & Co., Ltd
lI27 Fort Street

Having succeeded to the business of
b. S. GREGORY & CO., is prepared to
give estimates on all kinds of Building
Supplies, Wood or Iron Work; will also
buy and sell all kinds of machinery,
new or second hand. Engineers Sup
plies to Order.
ON HAND AND FOR SALE:
One pipe Cutting and Threading Ma
chine from II in. to 4 in, made by D.
Saunders Sons, n. Y, complete with
counter shaft; also geared for hand
power, in good condition.
One Standard Gasoline Engine, IL
II. p, second hand, in good order.
One Universal Grinder for Lawn
Mower Knives, and general work.
VIII be sold cheap for cash., ETC., etc
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
!, FOR THE BODY

AOa Tou can't lose an atom
: 4 ( bout feeling it. The body
AZ ike an engine, a watch,
aachine; must be kept in
.omes 3D. order to run right.
! yea aa Isl is is So successful in
wasting diseases. 1t feeds,
urishes and strengthens
ME the zen ordinary food won't.
ihe 10 doctors say SCOTS Emul-
e "AlanI 5n is the best nourishment
Gus caiiI those who are not as well
TegetaO they should be.
nit is I'VE use the whole oil in
also hayE ott's Emulsion because the
es and Feat reputation of cod liver
as a food and medicine
RUM hs made by using it in this
FNhT av. Substitutes in the shape
wines, cordials, extracts,
uc., should be carefully
phones: Foided.
swe'n send you sample free upon request.
coTT BOVINE. 400 Pearl Street, New York
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
"fCLONE" KELLY
AT SALT LAKE

SALT LAKE, July 14.-"Cyclone7
Kelly and Tommy Reilly, both of San
Francisco, have been matched to box
twenty rounds here on August Ist. One
hundred and ffty-eight pounds is the
weight stipulated
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23

yo1 play golf on the Sab
ateFb. s, the Rev. Goodman, sternly
q, Yes. replied Miss Kate, but on that
day / only use the sticks I won at our
church fair. ''-PhiIadelphia Press.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-23
Hawaiian Glee Club

Hawaiis Leading Singing Orchestra.
Charles Hopkins, Jr-, Manager. Head
quarters: Hawaiian News Co. Tel
Main 3S4 and Main 294. After p. m.
Tel Black 251.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-07

The old time sociability and hos
pitality that was so free and common
to us remaining pioneers is fast fading
away, and why? 1t is largely be-
cause the cities are fast throwing
their tired and retired people among
US and making a blend of customs
that seems to be working destruction
to the happy communion that once
existed between neighbors.
The bobsleighs and wagons that
used to stop and take US all to the
church, the lyceum, the spelling
school or the town are rarely seen.
The city people bring with them
their private rigs and sweep past their
rural neighbors, seldom pausing to
bid yon good day and never asking
one to ride.
Life in the city breeds this unin-
tentfoua1 a.---sxSa.-.;.-..al.:.ai4a.
have no vacant seats for the unfortu-
nate, their charities are kept within
the confines of their own family in
terests, their advent into society is
strictly formal, and the old time ru-
ralist who dares to approach them in
the good old way is termed rude and
ignorant.
Recently an old neighbor came into
my house without knocking and said,
Hello, Neighbor Keasey /" He did
not wait for me to get him a chair,
but chose the one he wanted. He
threw his cap and old bag mittens on
to the couch. pulled off his rubber
boots, reached over on the table and
helped himself to an apple, placed his
feet on the stove fender and proceed
ed to feel perfectly at home.
I love that man and his style be-
cause it allows me to enter his home
in the same good old way. love the
plan because it removes so many
doubts and awakes friendship or
joins interests in way that they
may bend, but never break, from their
stiffness.
I am not blaming the newcomer for
his seeming caution or coldness,. be-
cause his manner is the natural result
of city environment, but I do blame
my old neighbors for trying to pat
tern after the unnatural customs of
strangers. Why not adhere to those
rules which we know have linked
freedow with the farm?
The disconsolate citizen leaves the
city for rural freedom, but uncon-
sciously brings bondage with him,
and we, like apes, partake of his stiff
ness and lessen our individuality and
coveted freedom. We must meet the
city stranger with the horny hand of
old time fellowship and give him to
understand that he is back where ma
ture designed him to be. The best
and noblest of the land are of the
farm, and their birth and growth were
perfected through this same life of
freedom and simplicity.-E. L. Keasey,
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-07
THE LAW ON TROUT Is OFF.

The winters been hard one, and I'm getting q
leetle old;
1don's enjoy the zero breeze; in fact hate the
The sleishins and the shedding no more appeal
The Skating on the park pond makes me older
I have to dodge the grip germs. and have to
In boiling mustard water when come in from
the street.
Pneumonia and rheumatic are hustliug on my
Lumbago and strange other pains 60 shooting up
In tough Old Old winter weather know not what
without my evening toddy to help to pull me
with this catalogue of troubles it's plain enough
That I've no use for winter. and it has no use
for me.
But o. the first of April Is right here on the way
welcome It as once i did the circus troop so gay
L get out in the morning, and there's looseness
thank the Lord I'm living and the law on trout
get tie spade and hobble to the barnyardsr rich
And roll out fifty anglersfn the warm and driz-
I grab my pole and ashline. and up the stream
To fish the holes knew last year, and those do
not know.
reach the rushing brooklet. get way up above
the dip;
reel the line out slowly, and it sails down for
nip
To where lightning troutlet, with eye like
searchlight bright.
Is waiting for an angleworm to captivatc his
sight.
He gets it-and get it-that feeling U. so dear.
That makes man poet and eternal bliss seem
near.
And I'm at peace with all the world, and earthly
SORROWS fly;
If Paradise were half SO sweet, I'd be prepared
to die.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-07
DOMESTIC NEGLECT.

The judge and spectators in Kan
sas City courtroom laughed when a
husband testified that his wife gave
him only mechanical kisses"
Then the lawyers devoted many
minutes to the question, s'What is a
mechanical kiss 7" They decided
that it was salutation given only
through sense of duty, and then the
judge and spectators laughed some
more.
They didn't go far enough. They
might have called it a tragedy.
With most women affection lasts.
1t burns as strongly in old age as in
golden youth. A caress means
world of JOY to them.
Some men forget. They grow
careless. Carelessness is often a
species of selfshness. Once it was
Eaasiz.;i>e---A> s.-~aa-~ -~1>-..~l>-1ziscc, or, The
lips of wife at the door when leav-
ing in the morning, again a warm
greeting that always marked the
homecoming at night.
And one morning the man forgot
the caress and lost himself in busi-
ness. And a shadow fell on a ro-
nance, and the woman wept. She
tried to be brave and sensible. She
tried to laugh at the silly fear that he
didn't care for her. She assured her.
self hundred times that it was such
little thing and that it was natural
for him to forget and it was unrea-'
sonable for her to expect the Joy of
the honeymoon throught life. She
wiped away her tears and resolved to
hide her grief and be kind, loving,
patient.
And the man never knew. Per-
haps some day he went into court
and complained that he had been the
recipient of mechanical kisses"
Domestic neglect isn't always coD-
fined to lack of food and clothing.
Cruelty doesn't always take the form
of physical abuse. When men learn
to think, when they remember that
the little attentions often mark the
difference between JOY and sorrow in
a woman's life, there will be more
real happiness i'll the world.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-07
SOMETHING was WRONG IN TIE HOUSE.

"My DEAR" said Mr.. Penheck
timidly, pausing in his occupation O
busting the chandelier, "did you mai
those letters 1 asked you to pos
for me?"
"Of course / did," answered Mrs
Penheck, who was deep in her pc.
rusal of the evening paper.
"It is strange" commented Mr..
Penheck, with a touch of doubt in
his tone, ''that haven't received
any answers yet. One of the letters
was to Brother William, and"
"Maybe somebody forgot to mail
the answers" interrupted Mrs. Pen
heck. Don't always be limiting
that I am the only woman on earth
who forgets to mail letters"
''I am not limiting, my angel, fall
tered Mr.. Penheck as he started to-
ward the kitchen "but / certainly
think it was strange
"Now just watt" ordered Mrs.
Penheck, dropping her paper. Let's
get this all Strengthened out right now.
I don't want those letters bobbing up
at every meal for the next month.
When did you give them to me to
mail?"
"It was either last Monday or
Wednesday,"
"Good heavens, man don't you
know what day it vast"
IT am trying to decide. I can't
remember whether I wrote them after
l had hung out the clothes or after 1
had finished the ironing"
1t must have been after you fin-
ished the ironing. You evidently
had them on your mind while you
were ironing, for my white duck
skirts are simply not fit to wear to
business.
"Well, whenever it was, / remem-
Der l made some memoranda on my
desk calendar. That will prove it, :"
Mr.. Penheck said, with triumphant
smile, going to his own little desk in
the corner of the room. why, here
are the letters !" he cried. 81 must
have forgotten to give them to YOU.
81 guess you did !" shifted Mrs
Penheck; II guess you did! do
think it is time you were learning to
know your own mind, Henry
"But I" began Mr.. Penheck.
"But nothing! Am I to eat at
home this evening or go to a restau-
rant? Next thing I know you will be
accusing me of forgetting to eat my
dinner when you have forgotten to
put it on the table"
Mr.. Penheck hurried to the kitch-
en-, while his wife added the disputed
letters to a bunch of others which
were in her ample pocket, and which
she had forgotten to mail.
"I'll post the whole batch on my
way to the Office in the morning." she
said, 'and then Henry will get
enough letters in reply to keep his
weather gets cooler.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-07
rHE sLuaeARp IN Aztec LIFE.

In our family of FIVE boys there was
never one who jumped out Of bed un-
til he was pulled out or dabbed with
a wet sponge.
Yet here is the faithful record OF
the FIVE sluggards:
Aged Thirty-Manager of large
manufacturing works.
Aged Twenty seven-Doctor med
alist with honors.
Aged Twenty-three-M. A. at
eighteen years old (; now going up for
his last half of his final for IL. B.
Aged Twenty Student in medi-
cine; carried all before him in every
exam.
Aged Fifteen-Head boy of his
school.
Yet every one of us was called
lazy, and every one will to this day at
any time, morning, noon and night,
enjoy repose when he can snatch it.
MRS. WAGGLEs-" Everything we
have here in the house is so old it is
shabby"
Waggles Have little patience,
my dear. When they get a little
older they will be antique"
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-05-07
MAKING THE BEST OF TROUBLES.

The average dictionary defines an
optimist as one who believes that all
things are for the best. One day
man welding hammer struck his
thumb instead the nail he had intend
ed to hit, and a friend, happening
along a while after, said: That's
too bad !' mo, it isn't; it's for
tunate happening" said the man.
''It has taught me the value of that
thumb as / never knew it before.
There are just two hundred and fifty
seven things 1 have tried to do with
out that thumb, and found it impossi-
Bile. Will you please open my PEN
knife for me? Thank you? That
makes the two hundred and fifty
eighth" That man was an optimist.
A man fell out of window on the
sixteenth story of a building, and as
he shot by each window on his way
down, he called out /: ''All right SO
far p He was not borrowing trou-
BILE. He was an optimist. Mrs.
Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch said :
"Never open your umbrella until it
begins to rain." She, like the man
Just mentioned, n did not believe in an
ticipating evil.