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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20
ONLY BEST BATTLESHIPS
COMING TO THE PACIFIC

, gagged in and the men viii be glvel
/ experience IN coaIing ships at sea.
owing 10 the plans that have beer
mapped out for the fleet the triI
through the straits will not be a record
/ breaking one so far as speed is con
| cerned. AS there is no urgent need fol
! these vessels on the Pacific coast, Rear
Admiral Evans will take plenty o.
/ time and when he reaches San Fran
cisco he may be expected to have hi:
/ fleet in first-class condition and the
men will have made their records fol
gunnery.
| One of the difficult problems of the
voyage is the coal supply. This is be-
ing solved, and before the ships sal
ample arrangements will have beer
made. Several commercial concerns
have offered to the bureau of equip
ment golfers enough to provide all the
coal needed. 1t may not be necessary
to accept these offers. 1t has been
planned to have the battleships start
with their bunkers full. All the naval
GOLFERS that can be spared will be sent
around with the fleet. Some months
ago the navy department made con-
tracts for coal at all the ports where
gagged at advantageous prices. The
contracts provide that all American
warships which stop at the ports en-
route to the Pacific shall be supplied
with coal at a fixed price. If the
price increases the contractors cannot
charge a higher rate, but if there is
a decrease in the price the government
will get the advantage of it.
TOXIC, July 1.-THE massing of the
American fleet in the Pacific, about
which American papers have appealed
to Marquis Ito for an opinion, is semi
officially discussed by Ito's admins
tration organ today. The paper says:
I'VE cannot help feeling some mis-
givings with regard to the significance
of the intended massing of American
battleships in the Pacific, especially
in view of the grandiose announcement
attributed to President Roosevelt to
the effect that the Navy would fur
nish the world with a startling demon
stration of Americas defensive capa-
city. 1t is difficult for US to accept the
assurance that the coming maneuvers
do not possess any connection what
ever with the Japanese-American sit
uatiOn
eve regret that Washington thinks
it necessary to take what resembles a
precautionary measure. However, we
are not disposed to attach much i'm
portance to this matter and have no
inclination to doubt the Presidents
in his statements of the
peaceful nature of the proposed ma
Naitbar have we the SLIGHT
est doubt of the pacific and friendly
sentiments of the American govern
ment.
THE people toward whom Japan's
blame is probably due are the ire
sponsible sections of both nations"
Ito declines discussion regarding the
agitation of the press. His
sole comment on the probability of
war is there is no feeling in my heart
for this
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20
BIG PROFITS FOR PORTS.

WASHINGTON, July lot has
been figured out that the sending of a
big feet of warshlps to the Pacific
will be of great financial advantage to
the Coast cities. Records in the Navy
Department show that it costs approx
mately $I.000,000 annually to maintain
battleship, and 100000 for the care
of an armored cruiser. This includes
the cost of repairs, coal and provisions
and the pay of officers and men. All
but the latter must be supplied from
the resources of the Far West. There
Will be in the neighborhood of 500
mouths on each ship of the feet that
must be fed three times daily. Mil
lions must be expended for dock facili-
ties if the feet remains any length OF
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20
PROGRAM OF CRUIsE.

WASHINGTON, July 11.-Sham bat
ties, target practice and maneuvers will
be engaged in by the battleship fleet
on its voyage in October to the Pacific
coast. While the prime object of the
trip is to show the japanese govern
ment how well the United States Is
prepared for hostilities, another reason
for sending the fleet to the other side
of the continent is to give the officers
and men the practice and experience
they cannot obtain in any other way.
AS the fleet viii start for the Pacific
about the time the autumn target prac-
tice is begun, the regular program will
be interfered with materially. Without
this target practice the gunners of the
navy would deteriorate and it might
be long before the men would be able
to duplicate the records they made last
year. There will be keen competition
between the ships for the target tro-
plies. especially as the eyes of the
world will be on the feet during this
significant voyage. Maneuvers in feet
and squadron formation will be en-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20

WASHINGTON, July 9.-Only the
most modern of the fighting ships are
to be sent around to San Francisco on
the practice cruise and they viii be
differed by the flower of the Navy.
The list Of battleships will probably
be as follows: Connecticut, Louisiana,
Virginia, Rhode Island, New Jersey,
Georgia. Vermont, Kansas, Minnesota,
Maine, Missouri, Alabama, Illinois,
Kentucky, nearsarge.
The first nine are new ships. At San
Francisco they VIII be Joined by the
Nebraska, to make four full divisions
of four ships each.
Then there will be the crack armored
cruiser fleet, the gunbOats Yorktown
and Princeton and some torpedo-boat
destroyers. But according to the latest
accounts the fleet will not sail until
next winter, after the fall maneuvers,
and some of the foreign diplomats here
smile at the talk of the demonstration
and calmly call the announcement
big bluff
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20
JAP ENGINEER WAS
COOK IN 4 FORT

SAN DIEGO, July 12.-Another Jap
anese has been escorted to the limits of
the Fort Rosecrans military reserva-
ton under guard and told never to re-
turn. Blueprint plans of the fort
were found in his possession, and he
was caught making sketches of the for
tifcations from the top of Point Iona.
The Japanese who was caught
sketching a few days ago was a stran-
ger in the fort and was allowed to go
on the assertion made strenuously by
him that he was a tourist and sketch
ing for pleasure. The japanese caught
today was the cook in the officers
mess and has had the run of the fort,
going and coming at will, for several
months. Some days ago he was dis
covered by a soldier on top of Point
Iona. making sketch of the place,
and other suspicious circumstances led
to the determination to search bis
quarters.
This was done this afternoon, and it
was discovered that he had in his pos
session, a plan of the fort, made by
himself and such as an engineer might
make. In his room were also found
works on engineering in the japanese
language, including Bentley's works,
well illustrated with drawings. 1t was
plain that he was a cook only for APP
pearance s sake
The officers of the fort continue to
refuse to say anything of the two ar
rests, and even decline to answer ques-
tiOns, but the men talk, and they tell
of an arrest about two weeks ago,
when a japanese was caught making
sketches of the location of the fort
from a rOwboat opposite the reserva-
ton.
WASHINGTON, July 12.-The War
Department viii probably ask that
there be enacted by the next Congress
statute to meet cases in which per-
sons are detected making sketches of
military defenses. The matter has been
brought up by the report from San
Diego that japanese have been caught
at Fort ROsecrans making drawings of
Notifications. No official communica-
tion on the incident has yet reached the
department and none is expected except
in the ordinary course of the mail.
There is no law of the United States
that provides punishment for such an
act as reported from San Diego. The
only thing that could be done with the
japanese at Fort Rosecrans, if the re-
port is true, is to destroy the drawings
and order him from the premises.
If the man reported arrested should
turn out to be an officer of the Japan
csc army or navy, it is expected that
his Government will disown him and
thus avert the creation of an interna-
tional incident This is the course
usually followed in such cases.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-20
RELIEVE YOHR MIND

1t is always a relief to be prepared
for an emergency. Collie, diarrhoea and
dysentery are usually prevalent at this
season and bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
in your home may save much suffering
if not life. Sold by all dealers. Ben
son, Smith & Co, Ltd, agents for
Hawaii.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
Did Not Mean 1t.

The Sumter Watchman and South
ron says Attorney General Lyon has
been in Office nearly six months and
his pledge to put stripes on the State
dispensary grafters is still unredeem-
ed. If he has made any effort to
make good his promise, it has been
kept secret, and who would believe
that he would hide so good a bit Of
political advertising as that. The lack
Of developments from the inc Quisitlon
conducted by Mr.. Lyon and the COM
mittee of which he was a member
and by means Of which he attained
the notoriety that landed him in the
office he now holds, induces us to be-
lieve that the entire investigation
was waste of time and money. We
have never doubted that there was
graft of the worst sort in the man
agement Of the State dispensary, but
if any one harbors hope that any of
the grafters will be punished we fear
they are domed to disappointment.
Judging from Attorney General Ly-
on's mastery inactivity. Our cotem-
porary takes Mr.. Lyons altogether
too serious. He did not mean one
half he said when he was a candl-
date. All candidates, more or less
does the same thing, and Mr.. Lyon
should not be blamed for following
in well beaten path.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
A Wise Law.
One of the wisest things ever done

One of the wisest things ever done
by the Legislature was the passage
of the law giving the County Com
missioners the right to levy a tax Of
one mill to build good roads. The
law wisely provides that the tax SO
collected shall be spent in the town
ship in which it is collected. We are
glad that the County Commissioners
of this county has levied this tax and
we hope that they will continue to
levy it until every road in the county
is put in good condition. This is a
luxury that new counties like Lee,
Dorchester, Greenwood, and others,
cannot afford as they are heavily tax
ed for ordinary county purpose and
other necessary expenses, such as
building courthouses, jails, and SO
on. Good roads are necessary if we
want to keep up with the times. The
postofice Department requires the
rural mail carriers to. travel only
those roads that we keep in good
condition. So it will be seen how
important it is for our roads to be
kept up. Then, too, under our road
law, there is no danger of the money
being collected in one part of the
county being spent on the roads Of
another part, as it requires that the
money collected shall be spent in the
township in which it is collected.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
Their Pay Raised.

An increase Of 10 per cent IN the
pay of conductors over the entire
system Of the Atlantic Coast Lie has
been granted by the officials, cfoc-
tive May !, in response to a request
made by the general adjustment
committee.
The raise will apply to freight as
well as passenger conductors, and
will practically meet the request
made by the conductors, who had
prepared a schedule Of salaries for
the conductors, computed on the
number Of miles travelled by them.
The argument used by the commit
tee in sustaining their claims for an
increase of pay was that the price of
living has greatly increased and they
are requested to do great deal more
work than formerly over the same
amount of mileage, the railroads
getting the benefit of more work for
the same amount Of pay mile.
An order has been issued granting
the increase, computing the salaries
that will be paid to conductors ac-
cording to mileage and time. This
schedule bears uniform increase Of
10 per cent. and totals really more
than was asked for by the conduc-
tors. The management of the road
seemed perfectly willing to come to
an agreement with the conductors,
and after being shown schedules of
prices paid in other sections Of the
county readily agreed to the advance.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
Judge With a Backbone.

We have long been of the opinion
that most of our judges allowed bail
in many cases when it should not be
allowed. In fact it was rare thing
for bail to be refused in any case.
It is therefore with pleasure that we
commend Judge D. E. Hydrick, who
is now holding court here, for refus-
ing bail to w. H. Mills, who murder
ed Frank Deal at Blacksburg some
time ago. Mills claimed justification
under the much abused "unwrltten
law" for mis- crime, submitting a
most horrible affidavit from his wife,
which told all about her relations
with Deal. This very properly had
no effect on Judge Hydrick, and he
promptly turned the application for
bail down.
We cordially agree with the Spar.
tanburg Journal that "this fiction OF
the .unwritten law has been greatly
overworked Of late and, if we under.
stand sentiment correctly, it will
hereafter be applied more strictly
than has been the custom in recent
cases. The avenger Of the spoliation
of his home will still be held guilt
less, but the circumstances must
more closely fit the rule than has
sometimes been allowed. We are not
trying Mills, not pronouncing him
guilty or not guilty. That is for the
Jury to do. His case is not bailable,
however, according to the constltu-
ton and he is not entitled to have a
circuit judge, by admission to bail,
deny his guilt the proof is evident
or the presumption great and enjoy
the benefit with the jury of this pro-
nouncement. Neither should his case
be prejudiced by this decision.
AS we said above the granting OF
bail in homicide cases has been too
free and easy in the past in this
State, and we are glad a halt has
been called. The Journal goes on to
say that the writ of habeas corpus
is a sacred one, but it should not be
abused. Many men have been ad-
mitted to bail who did not deserve
this benefit, and such acts on the
part of the judges has led to niscar.
riages of justice. Judge Hydr!ck has
taken a stand that might well be i'm,
itated by other circuit and also su-
preme court judges in South Caro-.
lima. It should take a better show.
ing than Mills makes to secure ad-
mission to bail in any amount.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
They Advertise More.

One of the most notable facts con-
nected with a country newspaper OF
today is the large increase in the
amount of advertising of local busi-
ness houses. The change has taken
place gradually, and has been mark
ed especially during the past year or
two. It's highly significant, and an
inquiry as to the cause Of it is OF
great profit, not only to those in the
newspaper business, but to every
business man and citizen Of our
town as well.
The change, in brief. means that
local merchants have found it nee
essary to call attention to their
goods because of the immense COM
petition they face the most deadly
element of which is that from the
great stores Of the large cities.
These great establishments adver-
t::sa their wares most lavishly and
the metropolitan newspapers which
contain their advertisements are dis
tributed over the country, some one
paper Of which enters nearly every
home. The result is that these me-
tropolitan establishments have built
up an immense mail trade.
In our town, and indeed in most
of the towns of the state there is
no occasion for this out-of-town buy
ing. The duty of citizens in the
matter is plain, and where other
things are equal support should be
given local dealers. Our merchants
have invested their capital, have
erected buildings, which are the
pride of the city, and have estab-
lished concerns which are almost me-
tropolitan in character. They have
built up our little city, and it is only
a fair return that they have the
city's trade, to turn trade other
wise, even in the line of small pur-
chases which are great in the aggre-
gate, is to invite the decline Of prop
erty values in our town.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
Cnequal1y Distributed.

There is considerable complaint
about the distribution Of the pension
fund. It is claimed that some coun-
ties get a great deal more than they
are entitled to, while others are
shared out. Recently the Florence
Times called attention to the CORES
pondence from Spartanburg to The
News and Courier about the pensions
given out in that county. The cor
respondent thought that the pension
roll in Spartanburg County was larg-
er than it ought to be. He seems to
think that there are names On the
list which ought not to be there.
Spartanburg County was given $780,
900 Of the pension money. Just
about four times as much as Orange
burg County was given. We think
there must be something wrong about
this distribution, but just how to
remedy it is the question.
Of course Spartanburg has grown
in population a great deal since the
close of the war, and many cotton
mills have been built, and no doubt
confederate soldiers have moved in
from other counties and from North
Carolina, but it hardly seems credit.
able that they should have increased
the pension roll as much as it now
appears to be. Spartanburg County
has about eight hundred names on
her pension rolls. The roll Should
be purged, as we are satisfied that
there are names on it that Should
not be there.
The Abbeville Medium, which is
edited by a gallant old veteran,
makes a suggestion that each county
take charge of it's own pensioners,
and provide a fund for them. We 10
not know how this would work. Un-
less the different counties v.oald
agree to pay their pensioners about
the same, such a charge would cause
a great deal of dissatisfaction. Then
again in some Of the counties that
are heavily burdened with taxation,
the needy old veteran might be neg
lected and given nothing hardly. On
the whole we think it best for the
State to manage the matter. lnen
the strong, rich counties can help
the weaker counties and pay the
neady old veterans a uniform sun.
But the roll should be thoroughly
purged in every county, and the mon
ey given only to those who are enti-
tied to it. We are satisfied that
many get it now who are not entitled
to it.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
Demand for Mules.

The demand for mules in old MeT.
leo is something phenomenal. Thus
far the supply for that country has
been drawn from Missouri and Ten
nessee, both Of which grow a great
many excellent mules. They are in
demand for use On cotton, cane and
rice farms. Mules have been found
most excellent animals for work In
warm climates, and for many years
the cotton and rice plantations Of our
southern states have drawn heavily
on the surplus mules grown north.
This growing demand has in the past
few years greatly increased the grow
ing Of mules here, and the demand
for them is shown by market quota
tions. The mule is very easily END
cheaply grown, and Is ready for
work much younger than horses are,
and endures hard work under un-
favorable circumstances much long
or and better.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
How to "Plump" Poultry.

A valuable point in reference to
"plumping" the poultry. This as
done by dipping it, after pluchng, in
water nearly or quite boiling for ten
seconds and then plunging imme-
diataly into cold water. Another way
of plamping is to place tle dressed
fowls in trough-like boards, pressing
the breast up and forcing the flesh
over, bending the legs forward, and
placing weights on the bodies. The
troughs should be in rooE1 as cold
as possible All dressing should be
done when the flesh still IS warm,
successful dry picking, especially.
depending on this.
Turkeys should never be scalded.
II the tail and wing feathers are re-
moved the latter should be taken
out with twist, as straight pull
will set them. Dr-:-p!cked turkeys
are worth two cents pond more
than those scalded, as the flesh is
brighter and appears more tooth
some.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-05-22
DEVOUR EVERYTHING.
The Frightful Plague Of Locusts in
South Africa.

rGOlll cal IlCSI olO1lSc@I I1llICS tilC ~
cuse has been regarded as pest and
a adestroyer of inanimate life. Swarms
of them swooped down upon the
green valleys of Egypt and made life
miserable for agriculturists thous-
ands of years ago. When the locusts
came, famine followed. In this coun-
try they occasionally do considerable
damage to growing crops, but the
plague has never been anything like
that in South Africa this spring.
A year ago Pennsylvania and parts
of adjoining states were visited by
locusts but they stuck mostly to the
woodland, and the grain crops were
not much molested. In the early
morning and at sundown the woods
was turned into a bedlam of noise by
the chirping Of hundreds Of thous-
ands Of them. They fed on the young
trees, and acres of them turned
brown as in autumn from the bites
of the insects.
Not very long ago great swarms of
locusts passed over the Rand in South
Africa. The whole country, lovely
in the growth of splendid crops, and
made greener and more beautiful by
timely rains than it had been in many
years, was in a brief few days turn
ed into a bare, brown and withered
desert. The swarm literally ate its
way through the country, and made
a clean job of it. They consumed
whole fields of grain, and the loss to
the farmers is incalculable.
The country is at loss to know
how to deal with the scourage. The
ordinary methods which have been
used in the past in combating the
pest have utterly failed. Cyprus
screen has been Of no use. So i'm
mense was the swarm that the fields
and forests were not large enough to
hold the myriads, and they swarmed
into the towns and cities.
Streets of the city of Johonnes-
burg have been made hideous by the
ceaseless, dreary chirping. A locust
can make more noise for its size thar
any other insect, and it's chirp is 6
weird, unpleasant sound that is par.
ticularly trying to the nerves. A hall
dozen of them can make enough
noise to annoy a whole square. Fancy
the state of things where countless
thousands Of them are holding then
daily concert.
In johannesburg the streets are
literally a brown mass of crushed
locusts. They have tied up the stree
car traffic by settling on the rails
their crushed bodies making the rail-
} so slippery that the car wheels re
volve without moving the car.
Men are obliged to 60 over the
line and sweep clear the track fo]
the approaching cars, and in Is min
utes they have the job to do over
again. Already this state Of affair
has caused several bad accidents. a
motor car has been smashed. ant
two tram cars have been telescoped
The motormen have great difficult.
in controlling the cars on the greas,
tracks, Steam cars are having the
, same trouble.
In some Of the smaller towns wher
no particular effort has been made
, to keep the streets clear Of the deat
bodies, pedestrians slide about in tn
souirny mass in a most disgustin;
manner. All are obliged to renov
shoes on entering their homes afte:
having been on the streets.