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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-02
Tennis Final TODAY.

The final game of the Thanksgiving
Day tennis matches played on Thurs
day on the Beretania courts will be
played off this afternoon between Roth
and Brock. Although Roth is the
champion of the islands. yet Brock has
forced himself up TO second place so
far. and a good contest is looked for.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-02
EVERYBODY USES CHAMBER
LAIN'S COUGH REMEDY.

Mothers buy it for croupy children,
railroad men buy it for severe coughs
and elderly people buy it for la grippe
say Moore Bros, EIdon, Iowa, L. 5. A
we sell more of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy than any other kind. 1t seems
to have taken the lead over several
other good brands" For sale by Ben
son. Smith & Co, Ltd, agents for Ha-
vail.
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cannas, dahlias, cosmos and other high
growing flowers, while In appropriate ar
rangement are edges and circular beds OF
colens and wax geraniums-
The boys may well boast of one of the
prettiest gardens in the District. They are
very enthusiastic over the work. and MI
Haycock never lacks the help Of willing
hands when he desires to execute any new
project for identifying the grounds. In
addition to the flower beds around the
school house. the boys have their individual
of the main building. Many of their hours
for recreation are spent there, when the
boy with the hoe may be seen filling,
watering and wedding his little plot.
The girls have just prepared new gardens
behind their cottage for pansies and bulbs,
such as tulips and hyacinths, which will
put in an appearance early next spring.
The modern school house, with its pic
turesque gardens, is not merely ornamental.
The boys and girls have the advantages of
the same supervision and curriculum as
that of the city public school system. All
the grades from the first to the eighth are
taught at the home. while two of the girls
attend the Washington High School. The
pupils spend only half of the day in school,
as during the other half they devote their
time to one or more Of the various indus
tries 1t Is believed that the manual train
ing tends to sharpen their wits for grasp
ing the fundamentals OF education SO that
the scholarship of the Home School, boys
and girls, seemingly handicapped by the
half day feature. does not fall far short
of that of the average all-day pupil.
A striking feature in the school Is the
absence of jandtor, and yet the building
is one of the best kept in the District. All
the work of keeping the school clean is
done by the pupils under the direction of
their respective teachers.
During the winter months the girls of
the school receive instruction In chorus
singing. They meet once a week after
supper and spend an hour in learning some
of the best chorus songs. At intervals
during the season they give concerts, to
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around to the yard at the back of his house.
At one end of the yard was a fine hen
house which had been built for the accom-
mediation of his favorite fowl, and toward
this the master Of the place turned his quick
steps.
At this instant he heard feet behind him,
and looking up, beheld James Mahony pant
Ing towards him, an agitated sack in his
arms, but with a sngularly alluring and
benevolent expression on his face. He
touched his cap respectfully as he came up
to the judge out of whose hand he had re-
ceived the prize. opened the door of the hen
house, then the mouth of the sack and re-
marking 'Gwin" pushed through the
space a frightened and protesting China
Cochin cock and hen.
'What!'' cried the judge, speeches. with
anger and amazement What, you black
guard! are you after getting ten shillings
out of me for exhibiting my own cock and
hen to me!-you-you rascal your
All now, yer honor!' exclaimed James
Mahony. Is this the way to be treatin'
me, and l payin' you that much of a COM
pliment The best pair of Cochin China
fowl said yer honor at the meetn'; 1 APP
peal to yer honor's justice: where would
be getting the best but out of yer honors
own yard"
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men could whisper a word to each other.
Then the voice cried:
They are drinking my blood.
THE trainmen could not stand II any
longer and fastened back to their train.
But before they did so they made careful
examination of the walls. thinking it posi-
bic that some wag had found a hiding
place and was playing a practical joke.
There was not a break in the brick which
hid the sides and the top of the tunnel.
The three men who heard the voice are
positive that 1t was not the voice of a live
human being.
Three men, at least. have lost their lives
IN the tunnel. One of the men who assisted
In arching the tunnel about two years ago
stoutly maintains that 1t is haunted, or at
least, that sounds may be heard therein
which are not susceptible of explanation A.
number of trainmen are making arrange
ments to investigate the story further and
with all the care possible. The story that
the three tranmen tell is credited very
generally, as they are men of good reputa-
ton for truth and veracity, but their fell
lows want TO verify it for themselves. The
Incident has created a great deal of COM
nent and some excitement among the peo-
PIE who reside near the tunnel"
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The class in carpentry make tables and
other smaller articles of furniture, besides
doing the general repair work in the diff
ferent buildings.
All the classes change every two months,
making IT possible for the boys or girls
to pass from one to another, and SO find
out the particular branch of industry pref
cradle in each individual case.
The class of twelve boys educated under
Mr.. Daniel w. Mills has probably raised
more produce during the past year than In
any other year in the history of the in
stitution. The excellent crops now being
harvested give evidence of the high state
of cultivation. Forty-eight hundred pump
kins, 20 bushels of onions, 90 bushels of
tomatoes, lie bushels of potatoes and $50
dozen of corn were grown on the indus
trial farm.
Boys educated under the instruction of
Mr.. Irving Miller, the florist show the
training of one who understands his busi-
ness. Mr.. Miller was for some years sta
toned at the botanical gardens and last fall
mad charge of the chrysanthemum exhibit
there which attracted much attention.
There are now in the school greenhouses
1000 first-class carnation plants of Law
son. challenger, Queen Louise, flamingo,
enchantress, and white Lawson varieties;
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1,300 rose plants of golden gate, bride and
bridesmaid varieties; besides ferns, lilies,
poinsettas, etc.
Suburbanites who use the Tenleytown
and Rockville cars to and from their daily
work have an excellent view of the beauti-
full lawns and grounds about the buildings
of the school. Here and there are shady
groves of naples affording cool retreats
for the children at play, while in the back
ground are the wooded hills surrounding
the United States naval observatory.
But the eye of the passerby is caught
Immediately by the profusion of flowers
which beautify the grounds near the school
house. Under the direction of Principal
Robert L. Haycock, the boys last spring
set out over 40GO plants in all varieties
suitable for a garden. With proper cult
walton and careful arrangement for color
effect. the results have exceeded the most
optimistic expectations of Mr.. Haycock.
The walk around the school house is bord-
cred by a garden more than $50 feet long
edged with brilliant scarlet sage. in front
of which are heliotropes, geraniums and
nasturtiums, all in bloom.
Back of the school lawn are luxuriant
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drum corps. No effort is made to keep up
g. daily grind of any sort. AS matter OF
fact the other extreme is touched In the
desire of the school authorities to impress
the children with the idea that the school
is what its founders intended 1t should be,
a home for the waits and strays OF the
citys fioatsam.
The school traces its origin to a company
of philanthropists who met for the first
time at the residence of H. A. Brewster, a
prominent Georgetown citizen OCTOBER IL,
1867, ito take into consideration the wants
of homeless and vagrant children in the
city of Washington and vicinity. Its frst
president was a. NJ. Gangeiver, The first
annual report was published In 1868 and the
institution was Incorporated under the gen.
eral act in 1872. For several years the ex-
penses of the school were paid by private
contributors, but as the value Of the work
became more and more apparent partial
appropriations were made by the Lfstrict
government. Finally the institution was
allowed the use and possession of the old
poorhouse property, and by an act of Con-
gress approved June l. 1896, 1T passed under
the control of the Commissioners OF the
District of Columbia.
The object of the Industrial Home School,
as designed by the founders and carried oui
by succeeding genera lions OF trustees, is to
provide home for destitute white children
of both sexes between the ages of six and
fourteen years, who residents OF the
District. Whenever a satisfactory home can
be found the dismissal committee selects a
suitable child TO De pldced tnere large
ma jority of the children are returned to
their parents, who sought the aid of the
school in temporary distress,
Religious instruction in the school Is con-
fined TO points of doctrine and practice
about which there is dispute among
Christian sects. The Catholic children at
tend their church in Georgetown, while the
Protestant go to st. Adams Episcopal
Church. Sunday school is held at 3 pm.
and instruction is given for hour by the
officers of the school, assisted by the trus-
tees and visiting friends. Grace is said at
meals and evening prayers are held In the
dormitories.
The average attendance for the year end
ing June 30 1905, was 127. On September 1,
1905, there were 1874 children in the institu-
ton. 81 boys and AZ girls.
Industrial education is one of the main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-08
IRELAND, THE LITTLE
LAND OF LAUGHTER

BY ROSAMOND LANGBRIDGE
(Author Of The Flame and the Flood etc.,
tAn Rights Reserved)

tional need has selected this solace of
laugh.
Although 1t is more than probable that he
will only show one facet of his many-sided
humor to the stranger there is nobody for
whom the Irishman is more minded to
sparkle than for the man who has come for
the first time to Ireland. The very porter
to whom he hands his luggage at Kings
bridge will rack his poll" as they say
here. to discover briefly some sentence
which will cheer the foreign heart. For his
pride and his good nature join to make the
Celt the most hospitable man upon the
earth. and If he cannot offer you the hospi-
tality of his hearth, begorrah! he can offer
you the good cheer of his tongue. Add to
this compound of motives spice of the
national vanity, a hint of the desire to
maintain the national reputation for bon
mots, and you will have the reason
why the Irishman so frequently elects
TO sparkle before dull incomprehension.
But the Saxon recks nothing of this
attitude of proud hospitality; the man
is insolent to him, a fool and a bragg
CART: for the difference between the con-
versation of the two nations lies here. The
ambition of the Saxon Is to say what every
body else is SAYING. while the desire of the
Celts soul Is 10 say something which has
not yet beenssaid
Therefore. his humor is of a marvellous
variety. Ehave a fashion of saying droll
things he himself confesses proudly, and,
desiring to be still more droll he Is not in
frequently extravagant, and his welI-aimed
wit occasionally 20 erleaps itself and falls
on the other side"
Even in the discovery this will not dlseon-
cert the Celt, for, counterbalancing the oc-
casional miscarriage of his good intentions,
he is aware that, on the other hand, things
slip out OF him from long habit, undersigned,
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objects of the school. 1t aims to provide
the boys and girls with knowledge of a
practical nature which will help them to
earn their livelihood when the school is left
behind. With this end in view various
classes are formed in which instruction is
given to the girls in the household arts and
to the boys in carpentering, farming, gar
dening and Horticulture. They may also OBJ
tain elementary knowledge of machin-
cry by helping to care for stationary en-
gines and boilers, turning lathes and NOR
Using machines.
In the sewing class instruction is given in
plain sewing, mending. and the cutting, fit-
ting and making of garments. Most of the
clothing for the 100 children of the institu-
ton is made by this sewing class.
The waitress class is made up of relays,
who serve at the different meals. They
learn how to set tables to serve at the va
rious meals, to wash the dishes and to care
for the dining rooms.
In the laundry the washing is done by
machinery the class learning how to man
age that and how to mangle the plain
clothes. Several hours of the week are
spent in the ironing room, which is pro-
vided with electric fiat irons, keeping the
temperature of the place very comfortable
even in summer.
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Business Of an Empire.
from Leslie,s Weekly.

IUiH LebIIe . Weekly.
An idea of the cost of running a great
nation may be gained from the statement
that England's balance sheet for the last
fiscal year shows an expenditure of con-
siderably more than three-quarters of
billion dollars The exact amount was
f151, 769, 000. To meet this revenues We're
raised amounting to f153, 707, 900, leaving a
surplus on hand of f1.93s000. OF this vast
expenditure f66,2oo,oo0 went to the army
and navy. f924.000 for dispensing justice
and els, 161, 600 was spent on education.
There is one entry under expenditure
which reveals the magnitude of the en-
pire's business. 1t Is that for Stationery
and printing" and shows that three-ouar-
tiers of a million pounds was expended on
this item alone during the past year.
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Story of a Ghost
in Big Bull Tunnel.

II have heard some mighty weird ghost
stories in my nfe," said a Virginia railroad
man who reached town a day or so ago.
hut the most ghostly has been told me by
persons of honest and trustworthy charac-
ter The story is that Norfolk and Western
tralnmen have recently heard some I'M
earthly sounds in Big Bull tunnel, which
is in the mountains of Virginia not far
from the Kentucky line and the Clinch
valley extension of the Norfolk and West
ern road. The residents of the neighbor-
hood have talked about hair-raising noises
a long time but the railroad men did not
want to yield to these stories.
ION the afternoon of July II a freight
train in charge of Captain Galloway and
Engineer Kerns stopped just as the rear
car cleared the tunnel. John Peery was the
fagman and he had to hasten back into the
tunnel to protect the train from collision.
But Peery did not stay long In the hole,
and when he reached the train at the
mouth he declared he had heard sounds in
there which no human being could stand.
He had the appearance of a man badly
scared, and Galloway and Kerns went back
INTO the tunnel with him. When they
reached the point where Peery said he had
heard the sounds that ratified him the trio
stopped
According to all three of the they
did not have to wait long. They say they
never heard such groans as those which
proceeded from the side of the tunnel,
which is bricked. The voice was that of
man. apparently in terrible anguish. The
men felt chills chasing each other down
their spines and their hair raised in spite of
their efforts to keep COOL But there were
three of them and the touch OF elbows had
a reassurng effect. Finally Captain Gala
way spoke.
.sWhat do you want?' he asked, and the,
sound of his voice did not help make him
more comfortable. The answer came with
Gus hesitation.
!" Remove that awful weight from my
body said the voice, which appeared TO
proceed from out the solid wall. The men
agree that the voice was that of a man
with a heavy lead on his chest and in
great torture. 1t was minute before the
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II. wfsha, tits the laughter and
sk A the 1okin' keeps this little is
"A land green: only for the fun
a that's In it 'twould be the
Black Isle and not the Green
isle of Ireland they'd be calm 1t. Twill
be the black day for the ould country
when ireland leaves her joke, for. begor-
rah! when we take the laughter OFF the lips
of her tits the keenin' will be breakin' out
in her throat"
The grave old peasant who gave forth these
medltations to me. his chin on his thorn
stick, blinking at the peat fire, summed up
In that speech the need for laughter which
IS at the heart OF the Irish people. A crea-
ture OF swift and passionate emotion. the
equable. decent middle course of the person
whose feelings are pigeon-holed and under
lock and key, where he himself can hardly
get at them. is utterly unknown to the Celt;
either he laughs or he cries. for close TO the
surface are his tears, under that his laugh
ter, and If the two are fighting for the up
per hand it is ten to one the laughter that
will come up first
In stage representations Irish wit isshown
as the unconscious blunderings of the clown
upon the strict preserves Of humor. Uncon-
scious 1t may be in the sense that the fac
ulty of brilliant dialogue becomes almost
unconscious to a practiced dramatist the
producing of epigrams inevitable to a So
ciety wag; for the art of humor. once ac-
quired. becomes trick, difficult perhaps,
of requirement, mechanical, nearly, when
1t Is learned. But the wit OF Ireland al
though spontaneous. is deliberately chosen;
1t is the gay bravado of the man who has
so many weeks to live; it is scaffold humor.
No woman laughs so loud as the woman
with the broken heart; and tho bitter ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-08
Will of a Georgian.

From Law Notes.
A correspondent sends US a copy of an
old will on record in the Office of the ordi-
nary of Lumpkin county, Ga. After APP
pointing three executors. he "solemnly'
requests them ito law N Nicholson to the
full extent of the law. Iimpute my cramp
collie to his injustice TO me-" He further
requests that they pay themselves and
our attorneys and spend as MUCK as is
necessary in buying a slab and place on
It: Here lies the remains of s. Douglas
served five years In the Georgia legislature
and never lost day and dies In the full
faith of the Methodist doctrine and in full
conclusion, the testator requests ito be
buried on the highest hill in the grave
yard with the hopors of war, coioners
salute"
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NE of the most practical and useful
n institutions in the District of CO.
Iumbia ard one about which per-
" haps too little is known, Is the In
dustrtaI Home School. where the
vagraut and homeless wards Of the city OF
Washington are clothed, educated ana c'rea
for until they are old enough to go forth
into the world and fight the battle Of life
alone Located at 1928 Wisconsin avenue
on the highway formerly known as the ola
TenIeytown road, the home is to all intents
and purposes a country resort, and the
children of the poor fortunate enough 10
secure admission to the colony have all
the benefits of life on a farm with the addi-
tional advantages of city educational facill-
ties
The seventeen acres which comprise the
school property are located just west or
the grounds of the United States naval OBJ
servatory and constitute an Ideal site Tor
the purposes of the institution. On that
portion of the grounds devoted to farming
all the market prouuce used by the scnool
is grown during the summer months, the
pupils doing the farm work under the Clrec-
ton of an adult In the big, modern school
building the property the children are
given instruction by a competent corps or
teachers Just as thorough as If they were
attending one of the graded schools of the
city; in the manual training shops nearby
the boys are taught to handle TOOLS, 10
work wonders with wood and TO learn the
rudiments of engineering and mechanics;
IN the spacious greenhouses they may serve
an apprenticeship in Horticulture; In the sew
ing room the girls are instructed In the art
of plain sewing, cutting and fitting; In the
dormitories they are initiated into the mys-
terIes Of general housework. All of the
youthful inmates both boys and girls, are
we'll looked after from the time they enter
the institution, poor. ill-caTed for and ignor-
ant until they leave. one year or ten years
later, bigger and stronger and In every way
more capable of coping with the problem of
existence.
But all is not hard work for the boys and
girls who call the industrial school their
home. A large portion of their time is al
lotted TO play, and besides the girls are all
members OF a singing class and the boys
have their cadet battalion and bugle and
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would give more pleasure than at first he
calculated. The instinct of the peasant Is
unerringly dramatic, and his intuition
warns him OF the exact moment In CONVERSE
ton when he shall loose his bow, although
he Is not always certain where his arrow
may direct itself. or even II it may go off
at all. In such cases he throws such abso-
lutely inimitable droilery into the tone with
which his answer is delivered that were the
reJoinder the most hopeless commonplace
his nearer splits his sides with laughter
Verging on this class Of humor, when the
wit consists largely In the perception of OPP
portunity comes the humor~ that is SO deli
cate as to be almost invisible.
had received commission from a maya
zine to write lively article at short notice
when myself was in no lively mood. IN
visited of Inspiration, I went out upon the
road. where 1 came across a friend of mine
stonecutter.
well, ma'am," he inquired of me, land
hows the writing?''
Still at It," 1 replied '1 have head
ache and the blues today, and have got to
write a lively article on what seems to me
a most melancholy subject but they say it
must be bright"
"Bright?" said the stonecutter, raising his
manner. That's aisy work, ma am Sure
yer honor has only to look at it,
For sound in words the Irish peasant has
a singularly artistic palate-he seems t
pick them out as worker in mosaic picks
out the tiny aforementioned chips; there
is no imitation of his method; his individ-
ual appetite for word pictures is Unsuitable;
he Is natural essayer in the choice of
phrases And. together with his love of
single words for the sake of their separate
beauty there goes an inherent sense of cpl
gram which vents itself In moments of emo
ton In such sentences as: "'Tis with the
tears o. the women the DEVILS ring does be
set. and In majestic exclamation: Christ
wipe the day out with His holy tearsl''
magnificent sarcasm Is used with SUI
perb effect by the hordes Of beggars which
frequent the towns:
win we give poor woman a thrife, yer
honor. for the love O. God?'
I'm sorry. have not any pence with
me-
And I'll pray for yer honor-try for me,
do And she runs alongside while one
endeavors to outstrip her.
L say / haven't anything" one exclains
at last in some impatience. The woman
curtseys to the ground with
Thank We. me darlin'-God bless your
And the manner and the tone remain with
one. and rankle disagreeably. Requests
made and refused are more often than not
met with In this way.
oh. aren't ye awfuly kind. I'm more