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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

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eminent from a new tenant.
RIGHT OF PURCHASE LEASES.
Right of purchase leases, for the term
of twenty-one years, may be issued to
qualified applicants, with the privilege
TO the lessee of purchasing at the end of
three years and upon the fulfllment of
special conditions
QUALIFICATIONS OF APPLI-
C4NTS.
Any person who is over IS years of
age, who is a citizen by birth or~rlatu-
ra1ization of the United States, or who
has received certificate of declaration
of intention to become a citizen, who is
under no civil disability for any offense
who is not delinquent in the payment of
taxes. and who does not own any agri-
cultural or pastoral lands, In the Ter
ritory of Hawaii, may apply for right
of purchase lease, the limit of areas
which may be acquired being 100 acres
frst-class agricultural land, 200 acres
second-class agricultural land, acres
wet (rice or taro) land, 600 acres first
class pastoral land, LOO acres second
class pastoral land, 400 acres mixed ag
ricultural and pastoral rand
Any qualified person, owning less than
the respective amounts in the foregoing
list, and which is not subject to resi-
dence conditions, may acquire additions
al land of the classes already held by
him, but so that his aggregate holding
shall not be in excess of the limit
named; or if desiring additional land
of another class may acquire the same
according to ratio established between
the various classes.
Husband and wife may not be appli-
cants for right of purchase leases,
Application must be made in person
at the Office of the suDagent Of the dis
trict, and must be accompanied by fee
equal to six months rent of premises,
fee to be. credited on account of rent,
If application IS successful. In case of
more than one application for same lor
the first application takes precedence.
CONDITIONS OF RIGHT OF PUR-
CHASE LEASE.
Term: Twenty-one years.
Rental: Eight pei sent on tbs APP
praised value given in lease, payable
semiannually.
The. lessee must from the end CT the
first to the end of the fifth year. con
tinuously maintain his home on the
leased premises.
The lessee must have in cultivation
at the end of three wears S per cent
and at the end of FIVE years 10 per cent
OF his holdings, and maintain on agri-
cultural land an average of ten trees. to
the acre.
Pastoral land must be fenced
Interest IN right of purchase lease
is not assignable without written con-
sent of the commissioner of public
lands, but the lease may be surrendered
to the government.
In case OF forfeiture or surrender of
right of purchase lease, Yeappraisement
is made of the land and of permanent
thereon, and if the land
is again disposed of, the incoming ten
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

Picture postcards are subjected to
stern censorship in some continental
countries. In Russia those bearing the
portrait OF Toistoi have been suppress
ed. Turkey forbids any postcard bear
ing the name of Allah or Mobamrned or
the portrait of a Mussulman. France
VIII not permit the desibner to ridicule
the eorpulence of the King of PORTUGAL.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

John L. GriHths, to whose care the
late President Benjamin Harrison left
all his private papers, is reported to
nave discovered among them an extra
ordinary private document. This Is
hothtng less important than an intimate
history OF the four years of the Har-
rlson administration written by the
president himself.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

Japan has 1926 miles of railway. OF
whlch zlo miles Were constructed In
1913. The number of passengers carried
on these railways in 1903 exceeded no.
oUp,uou; the freight transported was
iO.izz'e7l metric tons. and the cash re-
eeip's amounted to about $2s. 800 900
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

Inc youngest member of the housa
of commons is Viscount Turnour who
has just been elected to represent one
or the Sussex divisions. He was ~
years old last April, is a conservativa
and his family has long had association
with the district where Re won his mar
liamentary spurs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

It is proper to Isreface the story OF the
land laws of Hawaii, which are pecu-
liar TO the Territory, with a brief his
aory of how the laws come to be as they
are. Writing on this topic, Land Com
missioner Pratt says:
The original group of the Hawaiian
Islands consisted of Hawaii, Maui, Mo-
bkai. Kahoo1awe, Lanai. Oahu, Kauai,
Nnfau, together with number of very
small adjacent points of land which are
known as separate islands, but which
amount to nothing unless taken IN con-
junction with the larger lands. Within
late years other small islands IN the
chain extending to the north and west
from the main group have become, by
annexation, a part of what IS now
known as the Territory of Hawaii. The
main group is situated between 70 and
"a degrees north of the equator, and IS
about 1000 miles west of the Pacific
coast of America. This is exactly the
same position north held by Cuba.
The combined area OF the Hawaiian
Islands is about $500 square miles, di-
vided as follows as to the larger IS
lands;
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09
IrRom THE TRIBUNE BrnrAu.l


Washington, July S.-To facilitate the capture
of deserters and to prevent their reinlistment.
there is a system of Identification maintained in
the military secretary's office prepared by the
army surgeons who conduct the examination
of recruits. Great care is exercised in keeping
the record which is based largely on age,
height, color OF eyes. color OF hair and the
marks on the body. This record is kept on what
is known as an outline figure card, giving front
and back views OF the body.
Ali indelible or permanent marks of whatso-
ever character upon the person Of the recruit,
whether or not peculiar In themselves, are re-
corded on the card, such as scars. including
vaccination marks, moes, birthmarks and pig
mentatfons amputations other losses of joints
OF fingers or toes, tattoo marks, the absence or
teeth designating those that are absenD, and
malformations deviations from the normal
standard of any part OF the person. These
cards when they reach Washington, are filed in
such d way that when another report comes In
the telltaie marks the human body will find
their duplicate in the record If the man was
ever of the enlisted force. Great care OF course,
is taken in observing the regulations. to the
end that the object of the record may be at
tanned.
The height is given in inches, and beyond that
no measurements are taken. as such informa-
ton is not useful in this connection. HEIGHT.
however, given in inches. is relied upon as a
base in comparing the cards of recruits with
the classified descriptions Of former soldiers
Special attention is paid also to the hair, and
a scale of color includes flax color light brown,
brick red sandy red, auburn, dark brown, black,
dark gray, light gray and iron gray. The eyes
are examined according to numerals given. in
the attention paid to marks pen picture is
desired OF everything which would be useful
for record purposes and connecting lines are
made SO as TO give a full description of the en-
blems If they are tattoo marks or their nature
IL they are defects. such raised smooth
mole" "raised hairy mole" or vaccination
mark" 1t is customary to describe as fully as
possible the designs OF the tattoo.
II is more or less of a mystery among army
officers who have charge of recruiting why men
should enlist desert. and then re-enlist, re-
peating this operation many as ten or twelve
times, as is of record. There is no special oh
ject to be gained. as under the system of iden-
tiflcation there is every reason to believe that
they are far from being benefited. standing in
grave danger of being caught and punished. 1t
is attributed to the unaccountable vagaries or
human nature that men should act in this way.
They receive bounty, OF course. upon enlist
ment and their enistnrents after deserton
stand TO all intents and purposes as new enlist
ments. and do not bring them the financial
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09
IGNORANT JURYMEN.

The ignorance Of the typical American jury
man has become proverbial, and the story that
Baron Dowse the Irish judge, tells OF Twelve
men of Cork would be applicable in many psrls
of this country. II down in CORK last
month holding assizes," said the baron. "and on
the first day, when the jury came in, the officer
of the court said:
'Gintlemane the jury. ye'll take your ac-
customed places. if ye Place.
And may 1 never laugh" said the baron II
they didn't all walk into the dock
Often among the members of jury is one
who seems to be wholly Indifferent as TO whaI
verdict is rendered. prominent Waii-st'
broker tells how the jury in a murder trlaI' IN
which he was serving, had hardly been lockeo
up for deliberation, when one of the twelve VINO
was of Teutonic origin, Topped down into
chair and began TO snore.
Here, keep your senses shouted the fore
man. shaking the somnoent figure with vigor
Wake up. so YOU will know how to vote"
"V-vo-vote" muttered the sleepyhead. Watts
de d--dif-dfference vether l sleep or vether
not. I always vote NIT de mashority-
Yet the jury should not receive all the censure.
That it has fallen from the high estate 1t held
in early times cannot be disputed, but it has
sunk not from its own weight alone Forces
that are not apparent to all observers. and
which have worked far possible in dark
ness have also been dragging II uoHll. 10 SuSiI
influences Mr. Taft refers in his Yale Law
School speech when he calls the deliberations of
some jur.es a mere game in which the defend
ants counsel play with loaded dice
Chief among the degenerating influences is
practice employed by certain lawyers, known as
Jury feeling" 1t is distinct from Jury pack
ing" in which who already have been
bribed or otherwise influenced are railroaded into
the jury, is it the same jury fixing. by
which men are bribed after they are jurymen.
Jury feeling" is more refined" art, which is
practised by many lawyers who do great deal
of business" and which frequently evidences
itself in the courts of this city when juries are
being chosen from the panel At this time in
criminal case both the lawyers for the defence
and the prosecution have the right to per-
emptOry challenge, and Of this power certain
lawyers who make business of defending
criminals avail themselves as far as possible
They challenge all those who they fear will in
any way go against them and let those slide
whom they believe to be in their favor. Some
go even further. They study UP the jury panel
long before the trial. and by inquiry among the
mems neghbors learn of their characters, their
habits and their prejudces, that in this way
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09

many majority convicts, and In Austria a
verdict needs eight votes out of twelve. Many
prominent Jurfsts are In favor of this
country adopting similar system, and some
states have already made this departure from the
ancient English custom. In three States a two
thirds vote by jury Is sufficient in civil cases,
and in Connecticut nine jurors can bring in
verdict in a civil action.
In the legislature OF this State three years
ago, Johh "A. Weekes, author of the law abol-
lShlng common law marriages. introduced bills
providing that ten jurors might bring in
verdict In criminal case. and that two-thirds
vote was sufficient in civil actions. The bills
We're drawn up by Judge Earle. of the Supreme
court OF this State. now dead. but the measures
met with such opposition they did not pass.
According to Mr.. Weekes, the chief benefits OF
enabling ten instead of all twelve jurymen to
bring in verdict would be that many nistrials
In which an obstinate juror causes a disagree
ment would be oSviated: and the long delays
ana added expense TO the State caused by
juror falling sick and thus necessitating another
trlal as in the first trial of Nan Patterson.
would be prevented. IF these bills become
laws, said Mr. WeekeS when they came before
the Assembly Committee Codes, of which he
was chairman, 'the trial of a accused OF
murder may go on even though two jurors
Withdrawn by sickness DEATH and in a suit
for damages or any other civil action the dis
ability or disagreement of even four jurors
would not retard the administration of Justice"
Many eminent writers and thinkers have also
been of the opinion that a unanimous vote
should not be required of a jury for verdict
Hallam in his Middle Ages calls such a
qu1rement "a preposterous relic of barbarism"
characterizes 1T ''repugnant to all experience
or human conduct, passions and understand
ings. Governor Carpenter of Iowa in a mes
sage TO the legislature of 1876 spoke of it as
IAN antique absurdity which has too long fet-
tered the administration of justice"
Strong emphasis is laid by those who oppose
the unanimous jury verdict the fact that 1t
is inconsistent with other institutions which
based on English law and custom and which
may determine the punishment of men. For
example, the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court and the Court OF Appeals of this State.
as we'll as The United States Supreme Court,
decide cases not by unanimous. but by
jority vote. In the House of Lords, the most
conservative English institution that has sur
vived from past times, majority vote of twen-
ty-three or more members may condemn TO
death.
Originally the jury rendered verdicts that
were not unanimous. The majority ruled and
those who disagreed were fined. In the ancient
laws of Ethelred, for instance. is this provision:
Let doom stand where the twelve senior
thames are OF voice If they disagree let
that stand which eight of them say. and let
those who are outvoted pay each of them half
Marks
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09

men enlist many times. no one is able to ex-
plain the action on other grounds than that or
mental obliquity
An aggravated case of this character was that
OF a man recently sentenced to hard labor for
nve years at Fort Jay, New-York His case was
cohsidered or sIf1cient interest TO issue memo
randum in April. 1903 giving his record up To
that time. with the Identification marks il being
believed that he would again present himself for
enlistment. This he did. Up to April, 1903 his
record was follows:
Harry E. Mason. enlisted February 10. 1901
at Brooklyn. N. Y: deserted April g. 1901
Again enlisted April IS, 1901 at Detroit
Mich under the name of Harry E. Low and
deserted on the same date.
Again enlisted April 2S, 1902 at PHILADELPHIA
, penn. under the name of Harry Edwards. and
deserted May 3. 1902
Again enlisted. under the name of Harry
Briggs. at Louisville, KY. May 3, 1902, and
deserted May z 1902
Again enlisted July %. 1902. at New-York
July 20. 1902.
Again enlisted March 81. 1908. at Mobile, Ala.
under the name of Harry E Bates, and deserted
at Jefferson Barracks. March % 1908.
Again enlisted March 26 1908 at St Louis
Mo. under the name of Harry Hastings and
deserted while en- route to Columbus Barracks
Ohio.
Again enlisted at Cincinnati Ohio April .
1903, under the name of Harry Lewis and de-
serted en- route to Columbus Barracks. Ohio.
Since then the official records show the fol-
lowing:
Again enlisted April 49, 1908 at Cleveland
Ohio, under the name of Harry Ellis and de-
serted April II. 1903.
Again enlisted February 8. 1904. at Baltimore
Md. under the name of Harry Baker; was for
warded to the recruiting station at Fort Slo-
cum. New-York, February 10. 1904; was recog-
nized deserter February IS. 1901: was tried
by a general court martial. convicted and SEN
fenced to be dshonorably discharged and to be
confined at hard labor at Fort Jay. New-York
for the period of five years.
This man was identified by means OF the
marks on his body. officially described in this
manner:
IDENTIFICATION MARKS.
Tattoos-Dagger on right leg; hand holding
basket of flowers on left leg.
Scars-Just above the outer corner OF left eye.
q inch long; just below the left nipple. y inch
| long; palm of right hand. ia inch long; right
groin, 11a inches by y inch; centre OF neck back.
Il inch in diameter; vaccination left arm,
! inch by q inch.
/ Moles-Left front neck and right outer chest.
| each Is inch In diameter
| 1t is observed by those who are familiar with
| the records that deserters and others who have
| occasion to various names usually stick to
cne name initial. which is. in the end aid
| to Identification This very much so In the
| case OF Mason. alias Low. etc. In his ten enlist
| ments, covering the short period OF three years,
| chung to the Christian name OF Harry
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09
AT THE HOTEL GRAMATAN.

At the new Hotel Gramatan. at BronxViIle. ~. r
the Saturday evening hops crowded. and as
the minstrel show given by the Lawrence Park
cottagers on Friday evening. fully $50 people were
seated in the spacious ballroom For over the
Fourth every room IN the hotel was occupied. and
there are still In the house about go guests who
all unite In proclaiming the Gramatan a place oe
comfort. quiet. and luxurious appointments. The
Fourth passed off quietly at the hotel. and an IN
search of rest most assuredly found what they
were looking for. Special souvenir menus were
prepared in honor of the day. and a musical pro-
gramme OF national airs rendered by tia
hotel orchestra. Among the people registered at
the hotel Mrs. Charles A Lamont, Mr.. and
Mrs. Med5ury. John B. Mcdonald Mr.. and Mrs.
C. Fl. Smithers. ]. E. Hayes. Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
A. Murray. ]. NJ. HartshOrne. Fl. B. Smithers. ATr.
and Mrs. W. j. Gibson. Mr. and Mrs. Otis X
DimOck J. F. Alexander, Mrs r. c. HOman. Mrs.
c. Wood. p. W. HerOy. James A. PiersOn. William
c. Wilson. Mrs Frank Mccoy, Miss =. ID. Mccoy,
Peter Henderson, Miss Adele Henderson, Mrs
s. Sutro and family, Mrs. +. B. Tainter. Mrs q.
c. Hopkins Miss Edith Hopkins. II NJ Post Mr.
and Mrs ID. c. Kngsiand. Mrs. NJ Chamberlain.
Miss Cramer Mrs ID. F. Starr, Mrs r. W. sanger
Louis 2. Sanger, Mr. and Mrs. s A. ktrkman. Mr..
and Mrs. W. X Griffin. Mr.. and Mrs +. K Masee.
Rufus r. COwing. Mr. and Mrs. George 5. Hart,
Mrs Edwin Marsh Brown. Mr.. and Mrs s. r.
Richard ID. Elliott Mr.. and Mrs. =. T. Pierce
Mrs. CT. L. Whitman. Mr.. and Mrs r. J. Glll.eS,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. s LeSgett and Augustus K HOLY,
q NeW-YOrk.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09
BERNARDSVILLE'S SEASON.

Bernardsvle, N. J., July s (SpeciaD-On III.
Fourth and the days preceding the Inn was filed 10
Overlooking The weather idsaI-bright and
clear with delightful breeze The usual golf tour
nament was held. with the largest number OF en-
tries in many years. 1t an eighteen hole handf-
cap match, and in Class A the first prizs was won
by F. w Drury, OF New-YorlS with net score OF
ST. In the women's handicap the first prize was
won by Miss Alice Marsh with score OF SO and the
second prize by Miss H. Tilden Swan with a score
of a.
The week has been marked by a return OF many
Of those who for several years have been prornnenE
each summer in the social affairs here, among
whom are Thomas s. Olive and family, who will
occupy cottage for the summer. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph A. Marsh. Miss Marsh Mr. and Mrs 81 O.
Hebbard, Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Swift, Mr.. and Mrs. ca
r. DunScombe, Edgar G. YOungs. Miss YOungs. Mr..
and Mrs. De Zaldo. DR.. and Mrs. T. A. Emmett
Charles n. Harris and family Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
A Flynn, all of NeW-YOrk. Many summer guests
We're numbered among the exhibitors spectators
at the Horse Show Of the WhippanY River Club
on Saturday afternoon and OF the New-YOrk colony
here those who captured prizes were Joseph
Iaroque. Miss Laroque, Grant B. Schley, KennstF
Schley. Walter P Bliss Clarence Blair Mitchell
Miss Eve Sehley and Mrs. Robert L. Stevens.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09
CARDS DECIDE VERDICT.

Cards and other games. so it is said. sometimes
decide verdict in New-York courts AS a rule
the truth leaks out long afterward. when it is
too late TO repair the wrong. Tudor jerks in
'MEnsey's Magazine" not long ago told of
case where the jury rendered a verdict in this
sort Of way He said: Il have no reason 10 doubt
the story told me by a man dead, that he
brought over an obstinate twelfth juror by beat
Ing him in a game of checkers
Sheer hunger has long been a powerful factor
in deciding the verdicts of juries. Many an OBJ
stnate juror has been compelled to throw his
vote with the rest after being locked up day
and a night, not because of the reasonIngs OF
MS fellows, but because of the Cravings of his
o"n stomach. As Alexander Pope said:
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign.
And wretches hang that Jurymen may dine.
And as 1t was in the eighteenth so is il in the
twentieth century. In New-Jersey, not long ago,
jury had been wrestling with q damage suit
ior nearly twenty-four hours. and still they
Stood seven for the plaintiff and five for the
DEFENDANT. None had had anything to eat but
Wead and water. 1t was noon. and a Whit of
roasting beef from nearby kitchen chanced
70 enter the jury room, where IT almost created
stampede. The foreman OF the jury was born
al Englishman. and TO his nostrils the odor was
peculiarly seductive. Another vote was ordered.
ana al once verdict for the plaintiff resulted.
HORSES recently caused jury in Pennsyl-
wanna court 10 come 10 a sudden agreement The
men had been wrestling in vain with a
'@se and after balloting a dozen times they
were as far from a unanimous decision as at
e start The hours dragged more and more
e0@ly and the room became more and more
'luly and hot. At last one OF the court at
eN41ahis On looking in 10 learn IL the deadlock
g broken, chanced 10 say:
haE
lernoon"
1ao Is that race coming off to-day?"
IT. one OF the jurymen. II wouldn't
aings up.s
u,, hasiastic was this lover OF horsefesh.
q a., soon persuaded mis- fellows TO his way
sils and made them want to see the race
New-York tribune., 1905-07-09
MR.. CHOATE's OPINION.

Yet despite it's abuses the jury system is too
fundamental part of American liberty to be
altered to any radical extent. Such IS the be-
lief of jurists of such prominence and weight
as Joseph II. Choate, ex-Ambassador to the
Court of St. Jamess. Mr.. ChOats gave an ex-
haustive address the Jury system IN 1898
before the American Bar Association II was
based on his forty years OF experiences as a
legal practitioner, and in letter to The
Tribune he said yesterday that he still held
the same views Among some Of the things he
said before the Bar Association were the fol-
lowing:
THE jury system is so fixed as an essential
part of our political institutions: 1t has proved
itself to be such invaluable security for
the enjoyment OF life liberty and property
for so many centuries; it is justly appre-
ciated the best and perhaps the only known
means of admitting the people to a share in
the administration of justice; it is so embedded
in our constitutions. that there can be no sub
stantial ground for fear that any OF Us will
live to see the people consent TO give Il up.
For the trial of persons charged with crimes
/ do not believe that any material alteration
OF it's character will ever be thought OF. It is
so much better that ten guilty men should
escape than that one innocent man should
suffer-"