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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-24
ALL WHITE LABORERS
MUST have LAND

In effect" said Secretary Atkinson
yesterday, L closed up the business
that took me to the mainland before
starting for home, although there were
some details that remained unfinished.
But I put everything properly in line.
The matter of the sale OF the bonds
was attended to. That is. I got the
promise of the necessary authorize
ton for the refunding issue. And the
sale will complete itself.
LAS for the labor problem, I had
consultations with the authorities, and
1 think that something can be done.
But [ do not propose to waste any
money. I Will profit by the past. Do
you remember our experience with the
Portuguese? I will recommend the
coming of no white man here unless we
can give him land for homestead for
himself"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-24
some AFTERMATH OF
THE COUNTY CAMPAIGN

A little bit of the aftermath of the
county election cropped up at the meet
ing of the executive committee of the
County Central Committee yesterday.
Attorney General Lorrin Andrews was
in the chair. A vote of thanks was ex-
tended to F. T. P. Waterhouse for the
able manner in which he had managed
the county campaign during the last
days.
On motion, a committee consisting of
5. P. Fabian and Major Zeigler was
appointed to look into and report up
on the action of certain members of
the committee who are alleged to have
been false to the party in the county
election
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-24
KAHAUIiAI BIDS.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.-Advices
from Seattle state that bids for the
construction of the military post at
Honolulu were opened there yesterday.
They were as follows: HASTE & Dugan,
Seattle, s213,650; bingham & Hoska,
Seattle, s196,s7O; c. E. O'Connell, Ia
coma, $232, $50; Young & Potter, bid
9,31S on plumbing only. All bids went
forward to Washington tonight.
The lowest bid offered in this city
was s2S2, 900. Bids were also opened
simultaneously in Honolulu and at
Washington, D. c..
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED.

ARRIVED.
Friday, June %.
s. s. Alameda, Dowdell, from San
Francisco 7:45 a. m.
S. s. China. FrieIe, from San Fran
cisco. $50 a. m.
Am. bktn. Fullerton. Macketchnie, Is
days from Port Hartford. II a. m.
Stmr. Noeau, Peterson, from Homo
kaa and Kukuihaele, $40 a. M, with
1889 bags sugar.
DEPARTED.
Friday, June %.
Stmr. Mauna Loa. Simerson, for La
hama, Maalaea. Mahukona, Kawaihae,
Kona and Kau ports, at noon.
S. 5. China, Friele, for the Orient and
Manila, p. m.
DUE TO-DAY.
Stmr. Kinau, Freeman, from Hilo
and way ports, due in forenoon
Stmr Likelike, NaopaIa, from Maui,
Lanai and Molokai ports, due.
DUE SUNDAY.
Stmr. Maui, F. Bennett, from Maui
ports, due early in morning.
Stmr. W. G. Hall, S. Thompson, from
Kauai ports, due early in morning.
VESSELS IN Port.
ARMY AND NAVY.
U. S. S. Bennington, Young. San Fran
cisco, May 25.
U. S. S. Iroquois, Niblack. Midway
Island, May 26.
MERCHANT VESSELS.
Alameda, Am. SIS, Dowdell, San Fran
cisco, June %.
Alaskan, Am. SIS, Nicholas, New York,
via coast, June %.
Arthur Sewall, Am. sp., Gaffrey, Shang-
hal, June Is.
Charmer, Am. blk, Slater, Newcastle,
June 10.
Drumcraig, Br. bk., Barneson, New
castle, June 10.
Fullerton, Am. bkt., Nick etchnie. Port
Hartford Cal. June %.
Governor Robe, Am. sp., Grant, New
castle, June 5.
Landskrona Br. blk, Staratt, New
castle, June 81.
Restorer, Br. cable SIS, Combe. Mid
way L. April "a
r. p Rithet, Am. blk, McPhail, San
Francisco, June IS
S. C. Wilder, Am. bkt.. Jackson, San
Francisco. June 10.
TRANSPORT SERVICE.
Crook. at San Francisco.
Meade. at san Francisco. fitting out for
service.
Solace. at Manila.
Lawton, at Manila.
Sheridan, sailed from Honolulu for
Guam and Manila, June S.
Sumner. at New York.
Fitzpatrick, at New York.
Mcclellan, at New York.
Thomas, at San Francisco, repairing.
Logan, at San Francisco, sails for Ho-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-24
NEURALGIA DUR
ING THE WAR.

at had a bad case OF neuralgia
which 1 contracted during the war. I
tried several kinds Of medicine but
they did me no good until a friend Of
mine recommended Chamberlain's Pain
Balm which gave me immediate relief
I have had no trouble since and must
say that I find Chamberlain's Pain
Balm fine liniment. have since used
it for other troubles and always with
good results. y. Viljoen, Jacobsdal,
Transvaal. For sale by Benson Smith
& Co., Ltd, agents for Hawaii.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-24

Note:-Barometer readings are cor
rected for temperature, instrumental
errors, and local gravity, and reduced
to sea level. Average cloudiness stated
in scale from 0 to ~. Direction of wind
is prevailing direction during "a hours
ending at s p. m. Velocity of wind is
average velocity in miles per hour.
ALEX. McC. ASHLEY,
Section Director,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-24
A CHANCE FOR A GOOD HOME

II you want = nne lot ready Tea
building at Kaimuki, do not buy befsrs
yoH have consulted the undersigned.
who offers bargs ms at your own terzaa
and without interest.
Two fine lots (aggregating 10Hx1sO
on Gulick street, Kalfhi, $500.
Two nice Kewalo lots, corner Kapto-
lani and Waimanu streets; cheap.
A comfortable small home dot 16ox
1000 in Nuuanu tract, provided with
Government water. $3.50, bargain. Also
in the same tract the coolest and
healthiest place about the city some
fine, cheap lots at your own terms.
j. a. SCHNACN
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. "a Il q
RAILWAY & LAND co.
TIME TABLE
October 6. 1904.
nT1r,ru A Drs


Ear Waianae. Waialua, Kahuku and
Way Stations-*9:15 a. m, 1920 D. IN.
Bor Pearl City, Eva Mill and Way
stations-t7:30 a. m, '9:15 a. m,
s11:sS a m, '2:15 p. m, 1920 D. m,
ss:1k p M. 1880 p. m. Hills p. m.
INWARD.
Arriye Honolulu from Kahuku, Wal
zlo= and waianae-'S:36 a. m, s5:31
.. "a.
Arrive Honolulu from Eva Mil and
Pearl City-f7:46 a. m, 1886 a. m,
nts:ss a. NJ, '1:40 D. m, .4:3l D. m,
SS:n o. m, H7:30 p. m
Daily.
Sunday Excepted.
! Sunday Only.
Ihe Haleiwa. Limited, a two-hour
drain, leaves Honolulu every Sunday.
st SEA g. m. Returning arrives in Ho-
aeiulu. at 1910 p. m. The Limited stons
1afy Mt Pearl City and Waianae
-. r DENlSON, T. c. SMITH.
up| G. P. & T. a
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FOR EXCHANGE.

lot in Stockton, Cal. for
lot in Honolulu Address W. H.
Blackburn, co Rapid Transit. 713S
Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1905-03-15
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Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1905-03-15
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laben; 1886: gboriit III elmer Sperns
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sierung Bat stnsn GeTsbsnttpurf
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Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1905-03-15

9ie 2otomotiben fun
Gifenbobnen in Soreu tperoen
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trtnHgen fnb.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

ter will not listen to anyone who
speaks of Capt. Green's hardness.
1t is peculiar, also, that the lawyer
down in Peacham, who drew Capt.
Green's will, chuckles whenever the
subject of the mortgage is mentioned.
Jaques Leseuer, over in the lumber
yard, is working desperately and few
erishly. 1T will kill my wife," he
says. Il must pay it"
The Mother Only Smiles.
And, stranger than anything else, q
few days ago Marie Leseuer was sew
ing on little blue jacket for Claire.
and she said to a neighbor:
Don't let Jacques hear Of it, but
I'm making this so Claire can go over
to Peacham for visit this fall
Then the old skinfiint is going 70
foreclose the mortgage?" asked the in
dignant neighbor.
"You mustn't call him a skinfint.
He's been kind to US, and, whether the
mortgage is paid or not, I'm going to
let him have Claire for time. think
It will do them both good"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

The early English corners to America
looked about them for the bird friends Of
the home land, but could not find them
Most of all they missed the skylark, and
when at the first spring tilling of the
fields they found bird which, like the
songster over the sea, showed that it
loved the sun, they called it the lark,
and the lark it is to this day, says Ed
ward B. Clark, in the Chicago Post.
Later, when the new-country folk
learned that the bird lacked the soaring
instinctofit its English namesake and pre-
ferred earth to sky, they added the
name Of its resting place, and it became
the meadow lark. Years passed, and
the scientists came to study and to tell
the people that their lark was no lark
at ALL but bird of different feather.
The scientists spoke too late, and, while
they may class the bird as they will in
their books, to the people the meadow
lark remains lark.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

him bravely, even after he was forced
to leave ST. Johnsbury and seek work
day labor-at Guildhall. What the
little woman suffered in the first ten
years of her married life she alone
knows. Her beauty changed-but she
still was beautiful. Trouble and hard
work could not change everything. and
her eyes were just as flashing and her
hair as black as ever. The husband
still drank hard, but for a time she
thought she had won the victory. He
quit drinking, settled down to work,
and there were three years of compare
tive happiness. Then Claire came, and
the mothers heart, hungering for years
for her lost boy, was satisfied.
The birth of Claire was fatal to his
fathers good resolutions. The day aft
er the child was born Jaques went out
to celebrate. He returned home drunk
and for most of the next two years he
remained drunk. He lost his savings.
his little home, his employment The
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19
With Colors Flying,

A pretty wedding is described in one
Of the California newspapers, and it
sounds characteristic of that land of
flowers. The grounds of the elegant
country home of the brides parents
were lighted with thousands of lam
terms. In the great hall of the house
was an oak tree, under whose beauti-
full spreading branches the bridal party
stood for the ceremony. Above the
tree was a rainbow realistically con-
trived Of shaded tulle, with the story
book pot of gold" at one end. OF
course there were flowers and flowers.
Then the rainbow idea was seen in the
gowns, first two bridesmaids being in
pale green and carrying armfuls of
ferns; then two in violet, with purple
iris blossoms; two in pale yellow and
carrying yellow iris; two in pink, car
rying pink roses, and the maid of hon
or in very pale pink and carrying Cecil
Bruner roses. The brides gown was
shimmering white, and she carried a
big bouquet of orchids. Even in serv-
ing refreshments the rainbow color
were used, the brides table being in
the shadings of color.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19
The Strangest Financial Transaction
Ever Known in This Country.
A ROMANCE is BACK OF IT ALL
Capt. Milo Green. Tilted by the Girl He Loves.
Advances Money. with Her Child as Secu-
rity. When She Gets in Financial Diff.
culties-Claim Is Due September
81 of This Year.

Peacham VT One of the strangest
mortgages ever recorded in this coun-
try is held by Capt Milo Green a rich
recluse farmer, living near this place.
The amount of the debt is 81 500, and
the security given is a bright-eyed, sew
en-year-old boy.
The mortgage falls due on September
q of this year, and if it is not paid
promptly on that day no one who
knows of the case doubts for minute
but that it will be foreclosed, and lit
tie Claire Leseuer will pass from his
parents to Capt. Green.
That It may not be paid is more than
a possibility.
To tell the story of this remarkable
transaction, and the strange romance
which is back of it, it is necessary to
go back number of years, and to the
town of ST. Johnsbury, where all of the
characters, with the exception of the
boy, lived 20 years ago. AT that time
Capt. Green was but beginning to
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

AS for a travelling outfit, that is very
simple. Under the seat of my trusty one
boss shay is box reaching from the seat
to the floor, writes George P. Brett in the
Country Calendar. This is my trunk. 1t
has been carefully lined, and holds
everything one needs. AS for provision
ing a driving trip-we, like Dobbin,
trust to the harborage Of inns, and the
chance entertainment at farmhouses,
often not even taking a lunch with us
from our last stopping place. For those
who care for the intimate companion
ship of nature and for that solicitude
which tends to the growth in the things
of the spirit, know of no better way to
spend a vacation. Neither do l know
better way for those who are suffering
or ailing; such trip brings contact
with all sorts of weather in the open
and with the curative powers of nature;
nervous patients will find rest in the en-
forced quietude of such holiday. Such
trip Is, moreover, curiously enough, in
view of your exposure to all weathers, an
absolute specific for ordinary colds and
similar ailments.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

$1,000 in cash for mortgage on the
boy"
The mother wept awhile, and then
sobbed her assent. Two weeks later,
when Jaques was able to sit up in bed,
the mortgage was given, and both hus-
band and wife signed it.
Swears He'll Foreclose.
Milo Green put the documeE: in his
pocket and rose to go. The wife was
sobbing. AS he started towards the
door Milo turned suddenly and blazed
out at his sick rival:
Before the Almighty" he declared,
eff you don't brace up and be a man
and support this woman and child I'll
foreclose the mortgage the minute it
falls due. I did this in the hope of
making man of you. 1 wish you'd
debut, if she wants you to live, I'll
give you a chance. If you drink and
fail to pay that mortgage I'll take the
boy"
From that day on Jaques was sober.
AS he slowly regained his health he
sought work and found it in a lumber
yard. and he and his wife settled down
to save money to raise the mortgage on
their boy. Every six months they paid
the interest, and the little fortune in
the bank grew larger.
They do not know it yet, but every
cent of interest money that has been
paid is in a bank at ST. Johnsbury to
the order of one Claire Leseuer.
The struggle has been a hard one,
but the couple is certain that, by extra
work and extra saving, they can al
most accumulate enough to settle the
debt by September. The father is wor-
rying over the prospect, and working
harder and harder to get money enough
to settle the debt, but, strange as it
may seem, the mother is not worrying
a bit.
Minister Takes a Hand.
| A few weeks ago the minister heard
of the strange mortgage that Capt.
Green held on the little boy up at
Guildhall, and he drove over to remon-
strate with the captain about such I'M
natural traffic.
What Capt. Green said to the minis
ter is not entirely known. But it is a
strange thing that the next day, on
meeting neighbor, Capt. Green re-
marked that the preacher was a pretty
decent sort of fellow, and the minis
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

1t is interesting to note the rate at
which new theories of medical science
are reversing those that prevailed a
few years ago. Once when the con-
sumptive was told to seek a change of
climate he checked his trunk for Flori-
da or some other sub-tropical section.
But advanced views upon the nature
and treatment of the disease have ma
terially changed that Dryness is a
much more important condition than
warmth. The patient can be protected
against cold, but against moisture in
the climate there is no defense except
to run away from it. The full force or
extreme expression of the reaction is
illustrated by the fact that a Washing
ton physician proposes to take about
30 consumptive patients on a health
seeking expedition to Greenland thi.
summer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

Victim Had Become Helpless When He
Tried DR.. Williams Pink Pills, but
Was Cured in Four Months.
Because he did not know that there is
a remedy for ataxia, Mr.. Ariel endured
four years of weakness, pain and the
misery of thinking his case incurable.
cat the outbreak of the Spanish
American war;" he says, 81 went with
Company B, Eighth Regiment, M.V.M.,
into camp at Chickamauga, and while
there my system became thoroughly
poisoned with malaria. When I was
mustered out, I carried that disease
home with me. After while locomotor
ataxia appeared"
Chow did the ataxia begin?''
first noticed pain in my ankles
and knee joints. This was followed by
numb feeling in my legs. At times I
had to drag myself around; my legs
would shake or become perfectly dead.
had constant trouble in getting about
in the dark. I kept light burning in
my room at night as could not balance
myself in the darkness. Even with the
aid of a light I wobbled, and would
reach out and catch hold of chairs to
prevent myself from falling?"
Chow long were you sufferer?''
"Four years in all. During the last
three years I was confined to bed, some
times for week, again for three or four
weeks at time. When I was lying
down the pain in my back was fire.
quently SO severe that had to be helped
up and put in chair to get little re-
lief. I had considerable pain in my
bowels and no control over my kidneys.
The worst of all was that the doctor
could give me no hope of recovery"
"How were you cured?"
81 read that DIR. Williams Pink
Pills had cured locomotor ataxia and
one or two friends spoke to me about
them. In the fall of 1908 I began to take
them for myself and I had not used
more than one box before found that
the pains in my knees and ankles were
greatly relieved. Four months after
ward became perfectly well man, and
am today enjoying IL : best of health -
Mr.. Edward H. Ariel lives at No. 43
Powow street, Amesbury, Mass. Every
sufferer from locomotor ataxia should try
DR.. Williams Pink Pills without delay.
Any druggist can supply them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

When the boy was in bed Milo turned
upon Mrs. Leseuer. WELL" he said,
what are you going to do?"
The Mortgage Given.
81 cannot leave him-he is my hus-
band" she said.
You cannot live this way" he said.
II have paid the woman and the nurse
for month, and the grocery bill, but
you must have more money"
He will soon be able to work" she
began.
Not for months-perhaps longer"
Then I must work." she said, des-
perately.
You shall not. 1t will kill you. I
will advance you money"
I'VE cannot accept it from you. We
have nothing to give as security"
eyes, you have" said Milo Green.
There is the boy. I'll advance you
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-07-19

mother worked desperately, taking in
washing and ironing, doing anything to
support herself and child. But the
on her beauty.
Then the drunkard husband fell sick,
and affairs came to crisis.
Green to the Rescue
How Milo Green ever heard of the
plight of the girl who Tilted him no
one knows, but one morning he ap
peared in Guildhall and inquired the
way to the home of the Leseuers. The
mother, worn out by nights vigil at
the bedside of her sick husband and
the care of her child, answered the
knock on the door, and saw her old
sweetheart standing there. With a
word of sympathetic greeting he enter
ed and spoke with her plainly. He
urged her to leave the man who had
treated her so badly. but she refused.
He pleaded that she owed it to herself
and her child, but she still refused, and
he departed.
An hour later he returned with a
woman, bearing food and wine and del
icacies. He assumed control, sent the
mother to bed, sent the woman to care
for the sick man upstairs and then sat
down to rock the baby to sleep.
Loved the Child.
Never before in his life had Milo
Green held child in his arms. 1t
was reputed among the little boys and
girls of his neighbors that he ate chill
dren, after boiling them alive, and, in
substantiation of this charge there are
several small boys who declare he
growled at them when he caught them
in his apple trees.
Yet, with the infant in his arms. the
man appeared happy, and the child,
which had been fretful and peevish.
seemed to find something to trust in
the hard, stern face above it, and fell
asleep with it's arms clasped around
the mans neck.
Three hours later, when the mother
awoke, refreshed, the house was clean
ed, nourishing meal ready for her,
the woman had gone to employ a nurse
| for the sick man, and Milo Green was
sitting before the fire with the boy.
sound asleep, clutched in his arms
and he seemed happy Marie said he
was almost smiling as he watched the
boy.