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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
DESTITUTE CELESTlALS
TO BE RETURNED HOME

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26-The Chinese Minister and the
Six decided thousand destitute Chinese
homeless the earthquake and fire. back their
country
RAIN ADDS TO GENERAL DISCOMFORT.
Rain has much discomfort the refugees who
without shelter
ONE REFUGEE KILLS ANOTHER
William Bell fatally wounded Edward Kcflrne with pick
axe during quarrel refugees
both wanted the same site
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
SMALL POLICY HOLDERS
GETTING THEIR INSURANCE.

The stream of gold which will go
far to rebuild the city has begun to
flow from the treasures of the insur-
ance companies to the policy holders,
and already the result is seen in the
increased activity in the fire-swept dis
trict. Naturally the small policies
which concern but one company are
the first settled. Yesterday about $780,
600 was paid to policy holders. The
settlement of the larger losses require
time for adjustment, as the risks are
divided among several companies.
This work is being performed from
the Bureau of Underwriters in Oak
land and fair progress is being made
There has been one immense adjust
ment of this nature, involving some
thing over 81 900, 900. the particulars OF
which may be made public in day or
two.
While payment of fire losses is re-
stricted as has been set forth, it is
producing a good impression on the
public mind. so far as known. No
doubt that the companies making full
and prompt payment of their legiti-
mate losses viii be kept in memory by
the public in reinsuring.
FIGHTING BOB" EVANS
GETS A GOOD LUNCH.
The report of Wednesdays food dis
tributfon shows that the number of
rations issued has been reduced more
than two-thirds since the Army began
to take account of the supplies issued
daily The first days distribution of
which an accurate count was taken
was over 100000. On Wednesday the
number fed by the raw food issue was
only 97,I99; and it is estimated that, |
IS only one community kitchen was in |
1peration. there We're less than 5000 fed |
n that manner. J
The figures show indisputably that
/ large per cent. of the population has
to the normal sources of food j
supply and that the grocery and thef
butcher shop are taking the place OF
he bread line and Nations charity. Ii
: 4 case where a pound of fact is
Yetter than a ton Of theory In arriving
# a conclusion of the power of the
: onle to rehabilitate themselves and
,nca more eat the bread OF their own
abor.
The same fact is apparent from the
Anorts from the camps in the city.
"a miles are each leaving the tents for
h.. new homes they are finding for
themselves. This particularly is no.
iceable in the camps which are to be I
,oved to Golden Gate Park and to IN
ieside. -, ,
THE number of supply stations has
een reduced from 200 to 80, and a I
Irther reduction is contemplated the /
,s,,a of rations on Wednesday showed
da,.raasa of q, III from the last issue
,rba turther cutting down of the sup
lies needed for free distribution which
. ox,nao+ed by Colonel Febiger in the :
axt few. days NAV come mainly from 5
- change from the raw food distri- /.
,,tion 70 the community kitchen and
- 45-cent hot meal Already in dis
10 tbe issue of raw rations has I
tContinued on Page p
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
THE REFUNDING BILL.

The refunding bill is making some
headway and the intention now is 10
try to get it up under special rule
Judge Hatch, Delegate kafanlanaoie
Continued on Page Al
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formidable and
troublesome Mndanao He has
the
cng perhaps because he has not found
exnedient %
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
DATTO ALI IS NOW
ORGANIZING A REVOLT

MANILA May 2o-Datto Ali, leading Moro chieftain of
ndanao reported killed to be much
alive He organizing uprising in conjunction with
other dates.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
NELSON AND HERRERA
DID NOT DO BATTLE

LOS ANGELES California, May 2o-The Nelson Herrera
fight did not place night The unable agree
weights claim being that the scales faulty and the
asseage $500 sports who had gathered the contest
compelled to go away disappointed.
hismlwa
nearly $4,000 In the
the odds asked by the Mexans
a
pounds.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-26
CONGRESS IS
ANXIOUS To
ADJOURN
Some Hawaiian Measures
May Yet Be Put
Through.
tMan Special to the Advertiser.)

tMail Special to the Advertiser)
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 13.-Con-
gress is now trying to get through
with it's business as rapidly as possi-
BILE and adjourn. The railroad rate bill
has all but passed the Senate. By the
time this letter reaches Honolulu it
may be on the Presidents desk. The
Senate has had most strenuous week
with it and has added amendments
which the older Senators say are not
only radical but rabid. 1t has made oil
pipe lines common carriers, decreed
that common carriers sfassll not law
fully engage in the mining and trans
portation of coal in interstate COM
Inerce, included express and sleeping
car companies under the provisions of
the bill, and enacted also other like
sweeping amendments.
So absorbed has the Senate been in
this legislation the past week, that its
members have been giving practically
no attention to other business. There
has been a little dickering over the
Philippine bill, in which Hawaii is con-
siderably concerned. The President
has been entertaining the proposition
to limit the importation of sugar to
800 0OO tons year. The Fordney
amendment to make the limit 100000
tons has been discussed in the same
connection. The beet sugar growers
put the suggestion forward. They
would like to have the question out
of the way sc, that it would not re-
turn to trouble them for few years
at least But it has been impossible
to ascertain definitely what prospects
such proposition has, simply because
Senators are unwilling to give it care
full thought till the rate bill is out of
the way.
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OPPORTUNITIES AT HOME.
PERNICIOUSPHLL OSOPHYO OF JOHN
H. INGALLS, FAMOUS POEM
HOY HONE OPPORTUNE-
TIES EATE BEEN
OVERLOOKED.

Solution of the Labor Question to be
Found in the Development of Home
Industries.
Many beautiful thing is pernicious
In its effect. There is no telling how
many men have given up good fight
ing chance and have literally laid
down in harness because they had alb
so-bed from John ]. ingalls, poem
OPPORTUNITY the idea that they
had had their chance, and that for
them at least opportunity would not
return. Here is the poem:
Master of human destinies am l,
Fame. love and fortune on my foot
steps wait.
Cities and fields 1 walk. penetrate
Deserts and seas remote. And pass
ing by
uovel and mart and palace, soon or
I knock unbidden once at every
L sleeping wake; If feasting rise
before
I turn away; 1t is the hour of fate.
And those who follow me reach every
state
Mortals desire and conquer every
every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or
hesitate.
Condemned to failure, penury and
woe,
Seek me in vain, and uselessly i'm
plore:
I answer not, and return no more"
y beautiful poem-yes, but pernic-
ious as is the theory Of fate or the
twin tenet of predestination. If oppor-
tunity comes but once, where is the
use of striving &C
President James of the University
OF Illinois during the recent commence
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Homccron and Graft.

The "homecroft" idea, referred to by
George II. Maxwell in his address be-
fore the Biennial Convention of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs,
is closely allied 10 the 'home arts and
crafts" propaganda, in which SO many,
in and out of the federation, are inter
csted. The homecrofter. owning his
home and n little patch of ground-an
acre or two. more or less-is of all
persons the one most likely to be inter
ested in home crafts-little lines of
manufacture, which, added to the pro-
duce of his ground, may afford a sup
port to his family, either constantly or
as substitute for wace-earning em-
ployment when some great shop or
factory may be suspended. Aided.
perhaps. by little gas engine or elec-
trio motor, he may have a choice of an
infinite variety of crafts, in which he
and his family may protitably engage.
Here is combination which seems to
offer relief from the demoraliZing and
devitalizing conditions of our present
factory system: also mode of multi
plying the number of those citizens,
independent of both landlord and en-
ployer, who are the backbone of
American democracy. Give us the
homecrofter and the craftsman in one,
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THE AGRICULTURAL HIGHSCHOOL
Successful Examples Described by
Crosby Of Department of ARricul-
ture OF Local Improvement
Through Rural Education

In the new Year Book of the De-
partment of Agriculture, just issued,
Is Il description by ID. j. Crosby, of the
Office of Experiment Stations, which
shows. in number of Instances, what
splendid results are being attained
through the introduction OF common
sense agricultural studies in some of
the country village schools, and how
they directly affect and benefit their
home towns. There is what appears
to be, an almost ideal Pennsylvania
village high school, which the writer
visited. He describes what he saw:
In Erie County, Pa, surrounded by
good general farming and dairy
country, Is the village of Waterford.
on the outskirts Of which Is the site of
Fort le BOeuf, of French and India
war fame. At Waterford the first
school in Erie County was establish
In 1900, and here as far back as 1922
was erected stone academy build
ing, which Is used to-day as the main
part of the high-school building. The
township of Waterford has popula-
ton of 1.460 and about one hal re-
side in the borough of Waterf ID. Tf'
borough has its own elementary
school, but the high school is support
ed and controlled Jointly by the bor-
OuEu LOW llNhlp
This high school, with its three
teachers and three courses OF study
language, scientific, and agrlculturaD,
has an enrolment of 50 pupils, and 30
of these are in the agricultural course.
This course includes agriculture, five
hours II week for four years. The
work of the first year Is devoted TO a
study of plant life-gcrmination, plant
growth. plant food, reproduction, prop
agation, transplanting, pruning, and
use of plants: the second year to n
study of field. orchard, and garden
crops; the third year to domestic ami
mails. dairying, and soil physics. q
the fourth year to the chemistry of
soils and of plant and animal life.
Text books are used in the class
rooms: small library Of agricultural
reference books, reports and bulletins
uf this Department and experiment
stations, and agricultural papers con-
triluted by the publishers is in almost
constant use. and lectures on agricul-
tural subjects are given before the
class and before the whole school by
the instructor in agriculture, who is
an agricultural college graduate. But
the feature of instruction which
chiefly distinguishes this agricultural
course from the ordinary high school
course Is the prominence given to the
laboratory work and the outdoor prac-
ticum. For the laboratory work there
is 10 elaborate apparatus. The pupils
make much of their own apparatus,
furnish their own rcagent bottles, and,
moreover use them. In the plant-life
course the pupils study not elaborate
and carefully prepared drawings, but
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the plants themselves with reference
to their life history and economic uses.
For the outdoor practicum the
school is unfortunate in having
neither land nor domestic animals nor
fowls. and vet it has wealth of illus
trative material all around it. Every
good farm within a radius of 8 or 4
miles, nearly every barn and poultry
yard in the village, the butcher shops,
and the farm implement stores furnish
costly illustrative material and extend
vastly the teaching force OF the high
school. The farmers and owners of
good live stock either bring thei ami
mails to the door of the school house
to be studied by the class in agrlcul-
ture or allow the class to go to their
barns and fields for this purpose 1t
Is said to be a rare thing for good
horse to come to the village and get
away without being examined by the
high school class in animal husbandry.
The writer was fortunate In being
the guest of the school one day last
October and in having an opportunity
to listen to some of the recitations in
agriculture. A class of IA boys and
6 girls were studying animal industry.
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man. The following is taken there
from:
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND
HOMES ON THE LAND.
That children shall be taught
gardening and bomecraft in the public
schools, and that Homecraft and
Garden Training Schools shall be
established by county, municipal,
state. and national governments,
where every boy and every man out
of work who wants employment where
he can gain that knowledge. can learn
how to make a home and till the soil
and get his living straight from the
ground. and where every boy would
be taught that his first aim in life
should be to get a home of his own
on the land.
BUILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUARDS.
That the New Zealand system of
Land Taxation and Land Purchase
and Subdivision, and Advances to Set
tiers Act, shall be adopted in this
country. to the end that land shall be
subdivided into small holdings in the
hands OF those who will till it fer a
livelihood, and labor find occupation
in the creation of homecrofts, which
will be perpetual safeguards against
the political evils and social discomfort
resulting from the overgrowth of
cities and the sufferings of unem-
ployed wage-earners.
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
ICAN HoMECROFT.
That Rural Settlement shall be
encouraged and the principle of Pro-
lection for the American Wageworker
and his Home applied directly to the
Home by the Exemption from Taxa
tion Of all improvements upon, and
also Of all personal property, not ex-
ceeding $500 in value, used on and
in connection with, every Homecroft
or Rural Homestead of not more than
ten acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home and
cultivates with his own labor and so
provides therefrom all or part Of the
support for family.
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR NOMINATING.
That the National Government,
as part of a comprehensive nation
al policy of internal improvements
for river control and regulation,
and for the enlargement to the
utmost possible extent Of the
a. Si VI thS ~ouhliS AOl dSil-
culture and Homes on the Land, and
for the protection of those Homes from
either flood or drouth, shall build not
only levees and revetments where
needed, and drainage works for the
reclamation of swamp and overfowed
lands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plant
new forests, and build the great reser-
voirs and other engineering works
necessary to safeguard against over
flow and save for beneficial use the
flood waters that now run to waste.
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Keep Politics Ouf.

Every predetermined citizen should
make it known that he is absolutely
opposed to partisan, political control
in the management of public parks
roadside Improvement, Fairgrounds
and like town betterments. Nothing
can be more detrimental to such de-
velopment than the interference of
politics. Party responsibility, as a
remedy for municipal mismanagement,
has been proved "delusion and 4
snare" Such methods have raised to
Important places bigoted, incompetent
and sometimes dishonest men, who, by
reason Of their weaknesses or mis-
management, have disgraced what
should be honorable and respected
positions. Our citizens should insist
absolutely that no political consider
ations be allowed to interfer with
park affairs, and should visit with
marked censure and disapproval all
city officials who prostitute their trusts
for mere political gain.
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1t had been organized only three or
four weeks. and yet the interest man.
ifested and the readiness with which
the boys and girls described the beef
type. the dairy type, and various
breeds of cattle, the mut on and wool
types of sheep. the principal breeds of
draft horses. and some of the stand
ard-bred roadsters and trotters, were
indeed surprising. AT the close of the
recitation the class was taken to
barn in the village W ere ver;.- fine
roadsters were owned. The owner was
not at home, but the teacher had
standing permission to take t. horses
from the barn in order that the class
might examine them. A fine HANDLE
tonian mare was led into the yard and
examined critically by the pupils and
criticised by them, the different points
being brought out by skillful question
ing on the part of the teao- :.
Fom this place the class went to a
livery barn where a splt 1did black
Percheron stallion was stabbed for the
dny. A member of the class had dis
covered the horse as he was Icing
driven in from another town ii miles
away, and following the driver to the
barn had got permission for the class
to examine him. When the livery
barn was reached the driver brought
lis stallion out into the street. put
him through his PAGES, and helped the
teacher in calling attention to his good
points and the contrasts between e
draft type and the roadster type of
horses. and allowed us to take several
photographs. 1t was an instructive
lesson not only for the members
of the agricultural class, but for
the score or more of farmers
and townsmen who collected around
the livery stable. In much the
same way the local butcher is the in
structor in the high school The class
studying the beef type of cattle, or
the mutton sheep, or the different
classes of swine is taken TO the butch
er shop and given a demonstration
lesson on cuts and their relative val
ues. which of the breeds are apt to
produce the better cuts, which the
better quality, anC so on.
Thus this little village high school,
though it pays only 1920 a year in
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OPPORTUNITIES AT HONE.

tendency to draw the manufacturing
interests into the great transportation
centers, the tide has flowed strongly
toward the city and the small town
has had a hard struggle to retain its
own.
In this respect, however, the pendu-
lum is swinging back also. The con-
ditions surrounding the workmen in
the cities, the lack of home life and
the presence of accumulated vice, have
demonstrated to the satisfaction of
every one that we will never reach our
highest industrial success until the
average workman is placed where he
can have fresh air, family, and a
home for that family. The small town,
everything else being equal, is the
place for Industries. A man with a
home, and who spends his evenings
with his family beautifying that
home, is not only better citizen, but
he is worth infinitely more to his en-
ployer than his brother laborer who
has no interest other than that he
finds with his saloon companions and
in ward politics.
When the reformers have settled the
Industrial labor questions they will not
be calling for less hours of work, but
distribution of the hours of work.
SlA nourS Ill the laclory UT lue uine
and the balance at home working on
an acre of ground may be made
solution of the whole question between
labor and capital. Any man with
home and one acre Of the earth's sur
face that he can call his own, and
with employment at fair wages during
five or six hours Of the day, need never
fear want for himself or his family.
Under such conditions his family can
be reared and educated and live under
the advantages Of wholesome social
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ment exercises took occasion to refer
to the philosophy of Ingalls, famous
poem. 1T is false and misleading"
said Mr.. James. 1T is not single op-
portunity which comes to a man, 1t is
train. 1t is n never-ending process
sion, some small, some large, growing
perhaps more small and more insignifi-
cant as the years flow on, but ever
and always opportunities too numer-
Gus, too great, and too large for us to
utilize fully"
This is good, healthful optimism.
There never was a time when opportu-
mites of all shapes, sizes and colors
bobbed up on every corner as they do
to-day And they are not confined to
any particular country or locality.
They are waiting everywhere. Under
the rapidly changing industrial and
economical conditions they are spring
ing up in odd and out-of-the- way
places. Old settlements-old villages,
moss-grown and for years silent as
the cemetery that clings to their
skirts. are finding new youth in the
revival Of occupations and simple in
dustries which twenty years ago were
deemed impossible. The abandoned
farms of New England-The farms
that We're left tenantless because it
was thought that the only opportun-
tiles for success were to be found in
the West-are receiving new leases of
life.
PENDULUM Is SWINGING BACK.
For full half century the American
people have been money-mad. Every
thing has been sacrificed to the one
idea of accumulation. The dollar sign
-. h.. ,D1 I.a .STr
mans success was measured not by
what he made of himself, not by what
he accomplished for his fellows or the
world at large, but by the size of his
pile.
This standard of success has warp
ed the imagination of the whole peo-
pie. The merchant and professional
man bend every energy to the pill
ing up of gold bricks. And the farmer,
not to be outdone, lies awake nights
thinking how he may get more land.
He has now more than he can till,
but the land lust has seized him and
home comforts and n quiet life are sold
in the market In order that the line
fence may be removed
This has been the condition for
many years, and it requires careful
observation to detect any change. But
a reaction has set in. The pendulum is
swinging back. A growing sentiment
in favor Of moderate success, quiet
life and home surroundings is appar-
ent. With this comes a desire to get
back to original principles: to abandon
the cities and seek the healthful life
of the farm and the village.
The growth of our cities has been
abnormal-the direct result Of abb
normal transportation conditions. "To
him that hath shall be given, and to
him that hath not even that which he
hath shall be taken away" has been
the working policy of modern COM
mercial transportation companies.
The small town has been sacrificed to
the city. This was the natural result
of competition. In centers where
numerous railroads meet. low rates
are given to both the in-goIng and out
going freight. but where there Is but
one road. the traffic is taxed all that 1t
will bear. This condition has had a
Continued on column ~
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salaries and only 1870 for other ex-
penses, has a faculty made up of nu-
merous specialists and an equipment
in Illustrative material such as few
technical high schools could afford.
And the pupils are being trained in
the elements of failure and success,
not only on "all the farms of the
neighborhood" but in the village
shops and markets. This is training
for efficiency. 1t is training for cul-
ture. for breadth of view, and for
sympathy with all that goes to make
up the life of the community.