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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
MORE EVIDENCE.
IT IS COMING IN RAPIDLY IN
HONOLULU.

Evidence on the following subject
will prove of interest to every Homo
lulu reader. So many people go through
the same experience daily. This pub
lie statement should be proof positive
to every wavering doubter. Read it
carefully.
Charles Comey, of Cyclomere street,
this city, one of the many persons who
have tried Doan's Backache Kidney
Pills with great advantage, relates
his experience thus: 81 have been a
hack driver for number of years past
and this is an occupation in which,
through exposure to weather and much
jumping up and down from the vehi-
Gle. one is particularly liable to kidney
complaint. I suffered myself from a
lame back for long while, and in my
anxiety to get rid of it tried several
things winch did not reach the root
of my trouble. An advertisement ac-
auainted me with what grand work
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills were
doing, and 1 got some of them at the
HOLSTER Drug Co.'S store. L used
them and with very much profit, for
they reneve> my back wonderfully.
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are
for sale oy all ,.ealers or sent by mail
on receipt of price, so cents per box,
by the HOLSTER Drug Co., Honolulu,
wholesale agents for the Hawaiian Is
lands.
Remember the name, Doan's, and
take no other.
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coffee in Honolulu or in California IF
is grown in Arabia and the entire
product is contracted for years in ad-
vance by purVeyorS to royalty. When
any small quantity by chance gets
INTO the market it sells at not less than
nVe or six dollars pound. L believe
the history of this Mocha Java fake
to be that retailer on Market street,
San Francisco, wishing to increase his
trade with people who could afford to
pay good prices, secured a few sacks
of Guatemala Caracol and Al, both fine
coffees, and proceeded to advertise a
Mocha-Java blend. AS his coffee was
really good stuff he soon had a fine
trade. However, it wasn't long until
everybody kept it and competition re-
duced the profit. / have seen Mocha
Java" sold at 15c. a pound retail
Nowadays if you get a good quality,
you may be pretty sure it is Kona
the Coast for a new label and Incl
dentally a new price.
1 believe coffee-growing has a good
future. / believe Hawaiian coffee will
not sell at ten to fourteen cents for
very long, though even at those prices
an Industrious American family could
make an excellent living from forty
acres. 1t is a clean, agreeable and not
unduly laborious occupation, conducted
at an altitude that removes the objec-
tions to a tropical climate. Congress
at it's next session is likely, so 1 was
assured by one of the members of the
Taft party, to do the industry the
tardy justice of placing a tariff on cof-
Fee With a protection of, say, five
cents per pound, the industry would
attract the best class of American citi-
zens, and that is what Hawaii needs
most of all just now.
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no trouble about getting trees They
sprout in large numbers in a field OF
coffee and may be had for the asking.
In locations where the natural shade
is lacking oak (Grevillea Robusta) is
planted. 1t is deciduous and it's leaves
are valuable fertilizer.
1 have seen the famous Ouezalte
mango plantations of Guatemala. where
the coffee grew that took the gold
medal at the worlds fair at Chicago;
nave tramped and bicycled pretty
we'll all over the republic and down
into Salvador, but 1 saw no trees to
compare with those of Kona and Ha-
makua-no plantations to compare
with that of the Louissons.
Now to grow coffee on an extensive
scale and land it in San Francisco
costs IL cents per pound. In that
market it Is worth IL 1-2 to IA cents.
being quoted one to two cents higher
than any other kind. This leaves a
profit of, say, three cents per pound
The average crop per acre is 1850 lbs,
making a profit of $3.50 per acre.
But let us suppose that an average
family of five persons settles on a
tract of, say, forty acres of government
land. They do their own clearing.
which ordinarily costs about $25 per
acre. They do their own cultivating,
which costs about 500 per acre per an
mum. They will do, say, one-half the
picking, which extends from February
to August in Hamakua or from Au-
gust to January in Kona.
Now. to the $3.50 per acre, add $50
for cultivation and $2625 for one-half
the picking and we have a return of
sS3.75 per acre. These figures presume
a considerable outlay for pulping ma
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from San Francisco to Panama He
was going to his mines at Candelaria,
back Of Mazatlan, Mexico. There
were some young Americans on board
and one of them asked the Colonel
how much he paid for miners. He said
SOC a day Mexican silver" (about PC.
American), ''but if any of you boys
want to take a job 1 will give you So
a day gold" Nothing could better il
lustrate the undesirable character of
the native Mexican and Central Ameri-
can labor. Every coffee planter who
cultivates a hundred acres or more has
to employ a man whose sole duty it
is to see that there is constant labor
supply No self respecting mestizo
will continue working after he has ac-
cumulated three or four dollars, and
somebody must be found to take his
place. This may sound like exaggera-
ton, but it isn't. Every coffee planter
knows that he has to contend with
Just these conditions. 1 would rather
have a bunch of Japs who are likely
to go on strike about once every thirty
days, for while they work you know
there's something doing.
LAND.
About land. An impression prevails
in the states that there is no public
land in Hawaii AS a matter of fact.
there are hundreds of thousands of
acres Much of it, to be sure. is poor,
and some valueless. But there is
plenty with as fine soil as can be found
The best coffee land in
the islands is probably on the lower
slopes of Maunakea in Hamakua, above
the level of desira BILE cane lands. There
is a tract of 200 acres government
land now leased for a term Of "a years
from March 4, 1894. at s1210 per year
This is all available for settlers. as
there is provision in the lease per-
hitting the government to sell any
mart of it at any time. The Kapahala
ranch of 172, $50 acres in kau brings the
a rental of $1,000 per an
mum or seven-tenths of a cent per
acre. The lease will expire in 1907
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By F. NJ. Hustled.

Part of the land is sublet to the Ha-
waiian Agricultural Co., and is planted
to cane.
Col. Sam Norris owns $4,000 acres
adjoining and wouldn't part with an
acre at any price. The colonel COM
plains that he has to come $50 miles
to Honolulu to get his hair cut. Even
then 1 was told that when he arrived
and found the cut rate was 25c he
ordered the barber to take off ten
cents worth.
Fine coffee land can be had from the
government at five to fifteen dollars
per acre. If the price were reduced to
one dollar to actual settlers, as it
should be, the Oceanic S. S. Co. would
be able to declare dividends and the
money wouldn't come from the sale of
round-trip tickets either.
THE LOUISSON PLACE.
In Hamakua is plantation which
fairly illustrates the business of coffee
growing in these islands. I refer to
the plantation of the Louisson Bros
These two young men started right.
They learned as much as they could
about soil and elevation and sun and
shade and wind and trees and markets
before selecting their land. So when
they saw this place in Hamakua,
they recognized it and lost no time in
securing it for themselves. In the
years since then they have learned by
experience, that expensive teacher, far
more than they knew before. and their
6cyo ri 1oo iS oir,o
and yours and every mans who cares
to ask. I called them up from Homo
kaa and told Mr.. A. L. Louisson, who
answered, that wished to see their
plantation. He had never heard of me,
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but gave a cordial invitation to come
up. "Sorry I cannot come down for
you. Our horses are all out. Oh, you
have a team. Well, drive right up
and stay over Sunday with u.s. I was
received with true Hawaiian hospital
ity and spent a most delightful and
profitable day. I hope they enjoyed
my visit one-half as well as I did.
The plantation has a mean elevation
of 1900 feet; the soil is a deep slightly
sandy loan, rich in humus. 1t was a
forest of tall ohia and lesser trees and
brush. The ohias they left for shade,
for coffee scorches in the constant sun.
The rest they cleared away. They
have learned not to burn, for fire burns
out the humus vegetable mould), the
soils must valuable ingredient They
have planted 800 acres of Guatemala
trees. 200 of which are in full bearing.
They say the Guatemala tree grows to
larger size and bears larger crop.
The third year from planting the tree
bears half a crop; thereafter a full
crop. In kona are trees twenty-five
years old. still bearing well. There is
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chinery; without, one must deduct
about $25 per acre for pulping.
Coffee should be aged in the terri
tory. To store it costs one cent per
pound per annum for storage, insur-
ance and interest. 1t is then worth
about sc. per Id. more than the green
coffee Like all other kinds of bust
ness, coffee has its superstitions. For
instance, market value depends en-
tirely upon the size of the berry. the
variation in value being as much as
five or six cents per lb. Now, as a
matter of fact, the small berries are
of exactly the same quality as the
larger. They all come off the same
tree and are separated into six or
eight different sizes by grader. The
reason why the small berries are
cheaper is because they are more COM
monty adulterated by mixing with in
ferior grades of Brazilian or Central
American coffee.
The housekeeper's favorite brand of
coffee is 'Mocha-Java." She will have
no other. Yet L suppose it is fact
that there never was pound of Mocha
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dALEIWA-

The Haleiwa Hotel. Honolulu IA
nous country resort. m the line OF
the Oahu Railway, contains every
modern improvement and affords it'
guests an opportunity To enjoy all
amusements - golf. tennis. billiards
fresh and salt water barnlng, shoot
ing, fishing, rldIng anG drlvln9. Tick
cts, including railway fare and one full
iav's room and board, are SOLD at the
Honolulu station and Trent Il Com
oany for $500. For departure Of trains
consult time table.
On Sundays. the Haleiwa Limited,
two-hour train, leaves at 1922 q. m
returning, arrives i. Honolulu 1t lO:lo
n.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08

PROMINENT WEST INDIA MER-
CHANT CURES HIS DAUGHTER
OF \ THREATENED ATTACK OF
PNEUMONIA.
Some time ago my daughter caught
a severe cold. She complained Of pains
in her chest and had a bad cough.
gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
according to direction md in two days
she was We'll and able TO 60 to school.
I have u led this remedy in my family
for the past seven years and have never
known it TO fail" says James Prender-
CAST. merchant, Annato Bay. Jamaica
West India Islands. Fer sale by Ben
son. Smith & Co, Ltd, Agents for Ha.
wall.
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Pure Wines
and Liquors
Family Trade Solicited.
Lovejoy s Go.
NuuAnu ST.. PHONE 3O8

Some rare old Calabashes. polish
ed and unpoiished. Cannibal food
q dishes. Coiored leather postals.
Seads drilled by electric power,
= 1920 per 1000. HAWAII & SOUTH
= SEAS CURIO CO.. Alexander
Young Building.
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BOTH

One disease of thinness in
children is scrofula; in adults.
consumption. Both have poor
blood ) both need more fat.
These diseases thrive on lean
ness. Fat is the best means of
overcoming them; cod liver oil
makes the best and healthiest
fat and
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COFFEE.

Just now 1 want to say a few things
about coffee, and in doing so 1 think
have picked what at present is the
most discoura ging field for individual
enterprise. In Guatemala, which has
heretofore produced the best coffee i'm.
ported into the United States, laborers
get ten to fifteen cents per day Ameri-
can money. Here coffee growers pay
from $40 to $25 per month. To the UNI
initiated that would Seem to settle the
question of the profitable cultivation
OF coffee. But it doesn't by any
means. The Guatemaltecan laborer is
worth just his ten or fifteen cents and
no more. The japanese laborer is
worth his sixty-five to eighty-five
cents. So in the matter of labor,
Guatemala has very little, if any, adj
into details. For his fifteen cents the
'meStizo'' picks a measure of coffee
cherries holding about half-bushel.
He could easily fill it by nine o'clock
in the morning if he worked as the
Jap does, but if cramp in his leg or
a volcanic eruption should chance to
get him out of his bed. of straw at
daylight and he should succeed in fill
ing his measure by nine, no power on
earth could prevail on him to pick
another cherry that day. On the other
hand, the Jap moves as if on springs
two bags of ninety pounds each are
no uncommon result of his days work.
met Col. Dan Burns, the Califor-
MAN politician, on a steamer bound
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-08
VIM. G. IRWIN & CO.. LTD.
AGENTS FOR THE

AGENTS FOR THE
Royal Insurance Co. Of Liverpool,
England.
Alliance Assurance Co. of London.
England.
Scottish Union & National Insurance.
Co. of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Fire Association of Philadelphia.
Alliance Insurance Corporation Ltd.
Wilhelma Of Magdeburg General In
surance Co.
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1t is
Worth
Your
While

TO rent a safe-deposit box in our
fire-proof vault. The cost is IS
per year and up, and You can
pay by monthly or quarterly in
stalments, as you desire. Your
valuableS will be safe from any
possible molestation and you
will sleep sounder for the knowl-
edge of il.
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GOFFEE=GROWIN IN Hawaii
BY F Hustled

If anybody thinks the position taken
so persistently by the Advertiser on
the subject of small farming is incor-
rect he should make the tour of Ha-
wall as did recently and study the
situation. Many very intelligent peo-
pie seem to think the plan of small
farms and diversified industries an
tagonistic to the sugar industry,
whereas the opposite is the truth
Nothing that could be cultivated on
these islands would in any way COM
pete with sugar, except possibly beets,
and nobody seems to have thought of
them. Coffee, rubber, rice, pineapples,
sisal, vanilla, vegeta bles, bananas and
all tropical fruits-all these and many
more the intelligent sugar planter
would be glad to see fiourshing. Their
cultivation means the development of
the country and benefits him as well as
everybody else.
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YAMATOYA

MERCHANT TAILOR AND SHIRT
MAKER,
No Is Beretania street, near Nuuanu.
p. o. Box S22.
SHIRTS OF ALL KINDS. KIMONA6
AND PAJAMAS MADE TO Or
DER AND ON SALE.
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Fire Insurance.
THE B. F. DILLINGHAM; CO.,
LIMITED.

General Agents for Hawaii.
Phoenix Assurance Company Of Lon.
don,
New York Underwriters Agency.
Providence Washington Insurance Com.
pany.
Fourth Floor. Stangenwald Buildino.
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HAWAII SHINPO SHA.

THE PIONEER JAP ANESE PRINT
ing Office. The publisher OF Hawai-
Shinpo, the only daily japanese paper
published In the Territory of Hawaii
c. SHIOZAWA. Proprietor.
Editorial and Printing Offfce-101o
Smith St., above King. Phone Main d.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04

Foreston;'Geo. Ostrander. Aug. Bea.
die, Elder Pullman, James Hall, f.
q. Jewett and w. S. Pettibone at
Howard where the latter kept the
Hay tavern" So-called because the
building was made of poles filled with
prairie hay;fve or six families at New
Oregon, including those of the Har-
lows, Geo. w. Baker, James Siddall,
father of our James Siddall; J. E..
Webster and a few other families were
at Howard Center, and J. G. Upton,
and the father of w. w. and Chas.
Johnson lived over north of New
Oregon.
Mrs q. 1. Isbell OF Paris township
was also a resident of the county at
the time of the election.
It's to be regretted that such an
important anniversary should be
passed without more general recogni-
tion and the Plain Dealer feels pleased
that it is able to give such COM
paratively complete account of the
county's organization from the per-
sonal recollection of the man who
played such an important part at
what was then thought to be rela-
lively unimportant affair, but which
grows in interest with succeeding
years and the passing of the men and
women of those early days.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04
81 PER YEAR
Why Is Il?

Before proceeding further with our
discussion of local municipal affairs,
we wish to state that towards most of
the city officers we entertain nothing
but friendly feeling, and nearly
everyone is patron of the PLAIN
DEALER. Personally, they are as far
as we know, honest and good citizens
with whom we have no quarrel person
ally, but collectively the council is
making violations of business me thods
and law that should be remedied, not
that dishonest methods now prevail
put that continuation of present
methods may lead to the grossest
abuses of corporate power.
In line with this idea, one of the
statutes of the state is evidently be-
Ing violated in the present extension
OF the water works. That dishonesty
Is being practiced we do not claim,
put the secrecy and quietness With
which this and other contracts are let
are creditable to neither the council
or contractor.
Paragraph IA Sec. 66s Code of
Iowa reads as follows:
mo member OF any council shall,
during the time for which he has
been elected, be appointed to any
municipal office which shall be
created. n \ Nor shall he be
interested directly or Indirectly. in
any contract or job for work, or the
profits thereof, or services to be per.
formed for the corporation.
Clearly, this is being violated in
the present waterworks extension.
and has been in the past. Will it in
the future?
10 aggravate the case, no bids were
asked for. 1t seems that this extern
sion and Others that will be needed
20 complete the sewerage system,
make nearly one third of a mile of
main laying, surely a job big enough
70 warrant asking bids. Was it donea
Inc City Clerks record of June 9th
reads: "Moved that water main be
eAoenueu from Geo. Story'S to Granger
Road" The record of the meeting
OF the council of June 18th reads:
chairman of waterworks committee
authorized to purchase material, hy-
grants, &C., for extension" This is
everything of record that we can find
IN reference to the matter. ASH. @.
Moen is chairman OF the warerworks
committee, the plan Of operation
resolves itself into this:
The council authorizes H. q. Moen
20 purchase material, Sc, and
furnish same to city at his own
figures; b. @. Moep, chairman OF the
WaterWorks committee, let's the lob
to FL. O. Moen, contractor, and every
step in the procedure is contrary to
good business and part of it in viola.
tion of law.
Ihis is not the only instance-there
are similar deals. The people foot
the bills and the 'system, as Lawson
would say, gets the jobs. Why is it9
ITO be continued.,)
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04
Fall Bargains.

AS there is going to be large corn
crop and money is going to be plenty
we want you to come and get some Of
one rare bargains we are Offering. You
Should see our 10 and 25c enameled
ware assortment. A few fly neus left
which go at cost.
Razors that were $500 and $500,
now s1.oo. Ice cream freezers at
wholesale price. Wash boilers s1.o0,
only few left. Watch the Plain
Dealer each week for bargain prices.
,CRESCO HARDWARE co.
Johnson Building.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04
Nothing on the Market Equal to Cham
nerlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy
A Correction.

Our last issue contained brief per-
sonal item that Will Thomas was
down from Sisseton, s. D. The item
Was the result of mistaken identity,
and Will was not nor has been in the
city for several months. While the
error is OF small moment. we dislike
to be the entirely innocent means of
leading neighbors of the Press as tray
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04
Crop Bulletin
for the week ending July 81, 1905.

ror the week ending July 81, 1905
Des Moines, Iowa.
The average temperature of the
week has been to degrees below
normal, with some excess of cloudiness.
TIE rainfall was light in the northern
section and eastern half of the central
section, but copious showers fell in
the west central and the southern
districts. The rainfall was timely
and beneficial to corn, potatoes,
pastures and vegetables. In portions
OF the northern half of the state these
crops will soon be in need of addition
al moisture. Though somewhat
delayed by mists and clouds, fair pro-
gress has been made in securing the
balance of the hay crop, harvesting
oats and threshing from the shock
Except in the northern counties, the
oats crop is mainly in shock or stack,
and early threshipg reports Indicate
good yield and quality. The harvest
of spring wheat has been begun, and
the reports are generally favorable.
Corn Is steadily advancing in all
districts, with present indications of
good yield of that great staple.
The pastures afford ample feed for
grazing herds. The hay crop is heavy,
though a portion has been damaged
by wet weather. The apple crop has
continually declined, though in some
localities early varieties yield we'll.
Nothing on the Market Equal to Cham
Derlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy.
This fact is we'll known to druggists
everywhere, and nine out of ten will
give their customers this preparation
when the best is asked for. Mr.. Obe
Wilmer, a prominent druggist Of Jop-
lid, Mo-, in circular to his customers
says: "There is nothing on the market
IN the way Of patent medicine which
equal. Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel COM
plants. We sell and recommend this
preparation For sale by j. II. Luers
Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04
Lightning Rods

! y
Ihere has been great deal of discussion as to the
real merits OF Lightning Rod and authorities have
all decided that Dodd struthers Pure Copper Gable
Rod would absolutely protect any Building upon
which 1t is placed in o scientific manner and they
have also agreed that the system Of placing the rods
on the building has much to do with the eciency
OF the rod as does the rod itself,
Inis lact parity accounts for the phenomena
growth OF our business in the last few years. as the
system we are using is given great deal Of thought
srofessor Dodd, who s known throughout the entire
country gives hts antjra ottsnton r., t.a ,o,an,;a
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-08-04
Woodmen Circle.

Regular meeting of Manchester
Grove No. Is, w. Q. this Friday even
ing. A large class secured by Mr.. and
Mrs. Henning will be initiated at this
time. Louise Culbert, Clerk.
Ida Cornish, Guardian.