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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
DEMONSTRATED TO THE KING.

Professor Korn, of Munich, the in
ventor of telephotography,g gave a spe-
cial demonstration of transmitting
photographs by wire to King Edward
and Queen Alexandra on their recent
visit to Paris. The demonstration was
given at the house of Count De Gref-
futile. A screen was erected in the
salon and on it were shown diagrams
and photographs which explained the
possibilities of the system. King Ed
ward was enabled to see his own pho
tOgraph which had been te!egraphed
to Lyons and back. Other photo
graphs exhibited included those Of
President Fallieres, President Roose-
veIt the German Emperor and M.
Clemenceau. Professor korn has sign
ed contracts for the use of his fllyen-
lions in France, England and the uni
ted States.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
GAMBLING OF STRAITS-BORN
WOMEN

The most difficult thing to keep in
check both in Singapore and Penang
is gambling among Straits-born Wo-
men of all classes, from the highest
downward. Frequent complaints are
received from husbands whose wives
have lost heavily, and it is known that
there are five lotteries operating more
or less daily in Singapore which are
almost exclusively supported by mo
Mas Education may possibly do
something to stop this vice among the
Straits-bOrn women, but it must be
confessed that it's effect in that direc-
tion on their husbands and brothers
is but small.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
OF CURRENT INTEREST
EVEN THAN TOGO.

/ GREATER EVEN THAN TOGO.
According to the Kobe Herald,
George Washington and Abraham Lin
coin rank even Admiral Togo as pop
ular heroes in Japan. The Herald says
that Dr.. YamakaWa, formerly presI-
dent OF Toxic university, offered to
present a picture of famous man or
oman To the Iriye primary school,
diOgO, and asked that a vote Of the
children be taken to choose the sub
ject Of the portrait. The 343 boys and
girls Of the school were asked 10 write
down the name OF their favorite great
man or woman. " Washington and Lin
sOIn came out at the head of the list,
with sixty-nine and ffty-three votes,
respectively, While Togo came third
with only twenty-eight, and Nino-
miya Sontoku, a famous ancient Japa-
nese phiIanIhrOpist, came next. The
fifth man chosen was another Amer
lean. Benjamin Franklin, who receiV'
ed twenty-one votes; then followed
after him, with one exception, Flor
ence Nightingale, four other Japanese,
then Admiral Nelson, then six Japa-
nese. then Bismarck with five votes,
then two japanese, and Napoleon with
four votes. Among the scattering
were President Roosevelt, Calico,
Columbus, Socrates and, strange to
relate, Peter the Great and Admiral
Maknaroff, of Russia.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
A VERBAL PUZZLE.

- Lieutenant colonel is probably the
worst verbal puzzle that confronts the
child" says a writer. "Our pronun-
citation is a heritage from the six
teenth century spelling 'coronel,' which
represented the Spanish form, where
in the change of 4 to r was linguis-
tfcally natural, though popular ETY.
mology wrongly connected the word
with corona a crown. It is really
from the Italian 'colonna,' column,
the 'compagnia colonella' having been
the first company of an infantry reg1-
ment, the little column which the
colonel led. In the seventeenth GEN.
fury colonel had three syllables, as
in Millions line captain or colonel, or
knight in arms but in Johnson's time
the common pronunciation was col
nell
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
YET MORE ROYCROFTERS.

DR.. Bierle. Of Philadelphia, has pur-
chased a plot of 100 acres on the Po-
como mountain, about d mile and a
half from Cresco, on which he intends
TO establish a colony of Roycrofters
There is to be a large central admin
istration building, and about this will
be grouped the cottage homes of tbs
members of the society. which will be
created as they are required. Broad
heads creek flows through the tract
and the location is considered one OF
the most slightly and desirable in all
that picturesque and beautiful region
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23

Two Kansas farmers were discussing
the Thaw trial al the postoffice street.
corner. It's sure dom New York lots
Of good" said one. How" asked the
other. why. it's a-gettin' New York s
name in the paper every day Folks
who never knowed the place was on the
map are hearin' an readin' about it
every day" was the reply.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
EVEN CLOSED TO SCHOOLS.

TIE bitterly complains
of
of
The
tightly fenced the
dhere:
February 4-School eetor is on the
island the VIII remains of the
far he W the he antic patcd
There sch
Kauai the Keala the o in IIanape
At both at
such that packt two hunlre
in UcubEv holes
The a a 10 either
appropriation haveto he wher
needed allowed The Garden Island.
When closed government
can't find land school
about failure o public he the better.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
POULTRY DEALERS INVEN

Now that game is so scarce and
fresh game impossible under the law,
the invention of the poultry dealers
has not failed them. Young broiling
turkeys are not now in the market and
the pOussin or squad chicken has ceas-
ed to be a novelty. The young broil-
ing guinea fowl has, therefore, come
IN as the delicacy of the winter. The
fowls are not as large as a grouse,
and when split and broied the white
meat of the breasts is as delicate as
any game that was ever put on the
market. 1t is just now the most pop
ular alternative to the inevitable duck
or SQUAD of this season.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23

We Asylum
under the be
Board of Health is able that
mere wedefned
cut the care and treatment
eicasv
But the Board TO be subject
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23

Another a osto the of
Alaska
be- Disasters
projected
of Shoals rocks and light
hOuseles reefs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23

The brer as bad bitd
v asey, the Telephone Company
ought to have found against the
politicians
terror their capitalists agents
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23

IN regard to Mn Fnkham scheme of
settle would be whether tidal
ent to flush his the question has been
raised by is fin of+he
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23
AT THE FOOT OF AN OBELIsK.

CleOpatra'S Obelisk, Familiarity known
as ''Cleopatra's Needle" which stands
on the Thames embankment, in Lon
don, has witnessed many strange
scenes. In the last few years would
be suicides have found it's steps, which
are partially covered by the water
when the tide rises, a favorable place
to carry out their intentions. Not al
ways, however, even there does the
wretched creature who attempts self
destruction succeed in doing so by the
easy method Of drowning. A pathetic
scene was witnessed by Sunday morn
ing pedestrians along the embankment
not long ago, when six or seven OF
LondOns stalWart policemen utilized
the rope of a lire belt which hung on
the embankmenu wall to haul feet
foremost, up the stone steps of the
obeIisk "a victim of the murky
Thames" who proved to be a remark
ably handsome and Well-tO-dO-woman.
Evidently she had misjudged the
depth of the water, for when the cape
which she had tied around her head
was loosened her death was found to
have been aused by suffocation in the
mud, and not by drowning.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-23

portuguese who leave here seeking better
back A"'f
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

No interest in security trading was exhibited
last week except by the professional element
that has operated undisturbed for many months.
seizing fractional profits whenever available.
Prices sagged slowly in a dun market, sales es-
tablishing a new low record Thursday for
the last two years, but the weakness was so
pronounced on the following day that fairly
active market resulted. There was aggressive
selling by the short account and no support
from the big interests that formerly resisted
these attacks. Developments of the week were
not depressing; on the contrary, encouraging re-
ports appeared in abundance. but good news
aroused no enthusiasm. Crop prospects i'm
proved materially, railway earnings We're heavy.
business brOadened under the influence Of bet
ter weather, and even the financial situation
contained nothing more disturbing than small
exports of gold But the spirit Of pessimism
has enlisted most spectators on the short side
of the security market. and investors naturally
delay purchases, while the market steadily be-
comes more attractive. Doubtless somo houses
are carrying heavy accounts for customers
whose resources were exhausted early in the
decline, which is the only serious menace, and
ii is diminished by many closed accounts at each
Slight recovery.
4 little frmness in call money followed the
resumption Of gold exports. although the outgo
slight, but the steadiness of exchange tes
suggested that more shipments were imminent.
Foreign needs still apparent, the French
Bank making special inducements notwithstand-
ing the large increase in reserve during the last
few weeks Another factor was the announce
ment by the Secretary Of the Treasury that S2N-
100000 of government deposits must be returned
BY July 1te being about equivalent to the matur-
Ing per cent bonds that are to be redeemed.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17
"rHE GLEr OF TONGrES."

II is we'll Gttested historically that il is always
darkest Just before the dawn: the hardest prob
lens are usually solved at the very moment
when everybody has given up all hope of ever
reaching the truth To spare our readers the
trouble of searching the dusty tones Of his
tory for confirmation of this hypothesis let us
cite the modern instance of the Texas woman
and the language reformers, by which even the
most skeptical may be convinced
Begin with the sad story of the language re-
formers of whom there are as many species
there are languages. The Latinists have for
years been struggling TO reform surviving texts.
fix the classical spelling and vowel quantities
and determine the precise number Of ways In
which the ablGtive may be used. Yet, for all
their work. Professor Wurstfresser refuses to
absorb beer in friendly proximity TO Herr DR..
Buchschucker because the former authority
writes the irregular locatives of the first de-
clensiOn with Il short terminal vowel And a
thousand similar bitter disputes make outsiders
wonder whether there ever was really such
thing as a Latin language SO il goes too, with
our own tongue The Arctic philolOgsts swear
that Shakespeare pronounced his last syllable
short while the Antarctic text experts can prove
that the bard sounded IL long and loud The
spelling controversy is even worse 1t has made
rich bad spoilers spend much money and poor
but honest spoilers spend much time trying
to secure a majority vote Tor 'fonetik lnGNSil
But with every new pamphlet from the press
of the Phonetic PrOtesauts new turmoilS and
yexations are stirred up. Nobody knows what
is what in English any more.
But in the midst Of these battles royal be-
tween self-constituted authorities the confusion
lifts The woman from Texas appears upon
the bloody field stained with the ink Of many
martyrs, and says she has "the gift Of tongues
being able to speak seventeen languages with
out ever having received instruction in any
one of them. AS this gift comes by inspiration
and for evangelical purposes, according TO the
Ingu!st, there can be no doubt as to the clasSi-
cal purity and perfection Of these heaven sent
tongues. There is therefore no further need for
spending money and brains upon the revision
Of giammars, Assyrian, Hebrew, Greek, Irish
or any other; nor should any phllanthropst be
| implOred TO endoW a spelling reform. or
course like every sudden unexpected solution
of a great problem, somebody Is sure to be
thrown out of job few thousand pathological
experts will have to go back to the farm and
father after the Texas woman has reeled off
her inspired and fawless Latin. Celtic and
Sumeran to n stenOgrapher and pbonograph
But the public will receive fewer pamphlets
| from reform associations.
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The present time is prOpitious for complaints
against overlegisatiOn. The records OF legiS-
lative bodies whose activities are the amaze
ment of the cautious show no abatement, but
rather an ever growing indulgence in law
making. Hardly a topic that might be
preached IN conversation has failed to call
forth a statute from some Soon. Hardly m
absurd scheme from the brain Of dreamer
has failed to find legislative champion some
where. We may pardon. therefore. the mon-
tory utterances Of Mr.. Jone, who declared be-
fore the New Jersey Bar Association the other
day that unless the present harvest of legis-
lation We're stopped the Constitution of the
United States would he rendered worthless and
10 man would be able 10 go to bed AZ night
assured that he had not broken some law.
Nevertheless, this speaker and most others
who have dwelt upon the subject disregard the
existence of several types Of overlegislation
and in doing they weaken their complaints.
There are at least three distinct varieties, each
of which merits separate consideration. First,
there are laws passed to exempt certain indl-
viduals from general laws already in force
Special legislation Is often though by no means
always, of this class Thousands of bills kissed
through legislatures annually are mischievous.
because they establish privileges to which no
individual IS entitled Then, secondly many
cases of 0yerlegiSldtion are due TO sheer
ignorance of the adequacy Of present laws to
promote desired reforms. Many nuisances,
for instance. can readily he suppressed by the
enforcement of cid laws. and competent oh,
servers declare the same 10 be true of nationa,
evils. Overlegslation of this sort however. Is
comparatively harmless, the new measures
being, as IA rule. either merely supernuous or
| imperative.
| The third group of laws which usually might
| better have been left unenacted is the uost
important, and gives lawyers and business
men most cause 10 complain. MANY en-
actments are experiments, putting to practical
| test schemes which look well on paper. Rare
| indeed, is the legislator who has not soule
| theory OF government he would like 10 see
tried. and perhaps rarer still is the citizen who
does not dread such a trial. Yet legislative ey.
permentation serves a useful purpose in srite
| of its inevitable dangers. \ theory refuses to
be killed by theory; if it is absurd it needs
20 be siugged violently with q practical demon
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17

other would meet in similar manner the re
0urements of an underground system yet to
he created on the other side of the East River
At present there is not the slightest necessity
for the execution of the second of these pur-
poses. because the subway to which the loop
might be an outlet has not been put under CON
tract and possibly may never be. Besides a
connection between that subway and the loop
in Manhattan would he possible only after the
completion Of the Manhattan Bridge On the
Other hand, the need OF better accommodates
for the elevated railway trains of Brooklyn mas
been the chief reason for demanding the con
struction of Il loop. Hence, unless there should
he n definite assurance that the company WhicA
operates those trains could take advantage OF
the opportunity to he afforded, congratulations
upon the recent letting OF contracts would be
nrcn9tIIra
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17
THE SUBWAY LOOP.

The prospect that there will he a railway in
Manhattan connecting the Williamsburg and
Brooklyn bridges before the millennium ar
rives slowly improves. on some accounts an
elevated structure for such a line was clearly
preferable. but the requisite franchise for one
was not Obfainabe from the city authorities
Mr.. Dowling's efforts to secure the privilege.
through the creation of a special commission.
kept alive the possibility Of success until re-
Gently; but lack of accord between the two
branches of the Legislature defeated his bill a
few days ago, and as a year will now have
been lost it is doubtful whether Il fresh cam
paign in behalf OF the overhead route will ever
be initiated AT Albany. Apparently the only
remaining chance is that the commission ap-
pointed under the public utilities act may re-
verse the policy of the local board to which 1t
will be natural successor.
The Rapid Transit Commission committed
Itself several months ago TO the alternative
proposition, which was 10 put the loop under
ground, but much uncertainty In regard TO the
future remained long as the work was moi
contracted for. Last weeks action of that
body, therefore. marks an important stage in
the history of the enterprise. though we are not
sure that ii settles the question under disalls.
sion finally and forever. Negotiations for Tho
construction of two sections of the loop were
formally concluded with one firm in May, and
contracts for the remaining three have now
been awarded 10 another BY the terms OF
their agreements the contractors are unde,
obligation 10 finish their work in twerty-onC
months, but the city will be fortunate If Tho
loop is turs,ed over TO il inside of two years
The ad*ocates of the underground project hav,
hardly hcped for anything better than that
whereas the belief has been positively ex
pressed that an elevated road could he bull
more quickly.
The possible saving Of time is not, however
the only consideration TO DE kept in view. II
Is necessary also to ask what would he done
with the loop after ii had bee:l provided. Twe
,tlnns for Utilizing it have b1en proposed. one
aims &c facilitate the circulation Of the trains
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17
THE TOWER At VENICE.
Small Details Hamper the Uork
of Construction.

Venice. June 1s.-The rebuilding OF the campanile
which was resumed on May after a years sUs-
pension. :s goug rapidly as the difficulties ot
the undertaking permit The tower is now about
eight feet above the Plaza Artistic questions are
constantly being raised. Architects artists al
most daily create discussions minute details.
such the size of stones and bricks the eleva-
tion of a step TO the fraction Of an inch and ths
engineers equally insiStent the quality OF the
mortar and the various problems of construction
which come within their province Even the work
men, the handlers OF stone and mortar. regard
their labors with peculiar love and and
manifest the interest in the work do th5
artists and the historians.
The Campauie fell on the morning OF July u.
1902 The foundation stone Of the structure
was laid on April y. 1898. The Campanile
stands the same foundations the old formed.
is known. OF piles driven into the mud. which
have been strenEthene5 oy more than three thou
sand new piles OF hardwood, calculated to support
weight OF 90.G00 tons. while the Campanile when
completed viii not. It is believed weigh more than
2O.0C0 tons. The expense SO far has been $250oo.
Not only the greatest care is being taken 20
reproduce the old bell in its smallest details,
but parts which remain OF il will again bs
put in place; for instance. the angel which stood
on the summit and the Marougoua, the bell which
the Nenetians brought from Crete
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17

his health It is said that he treated himself with
crude oil.
The King and Queen of England show their az
fection for their horses in curious way Wheh
a fayorite dies its hOOfs cut off and poisheu'
and the horses name is Inscribed on each @ nooa
These are placed in row in one OF tit Ia 80
photographs or prints OF the owners or the hools'
The resignation of Judge John W. MckiH OF the
Suffolk County OIass) Probate Court after thirty
wears of continuous service on the hench' mas oeeh
offered Because it is Judge Mci<ims earnest .t Ge-
sire to retire after his long service the rSs T.
will he accepted. Under the retirement dCt =;
McI[fm will draw half his present salary, ,i
a. efO a year His retirement is not que 70 any T.
has lust passed his eightyffth birthday I nut ne
feels HAT IeHseF service might draw 100 Asast4S
upon him.
REPRESENTATIVE W. w. Cocks. of the 1st New NoFS
District sailed from San Francisco on Saturday TOT
the PHILIPPINES. He will be absent about three
months.
William II. Baldwin. who has been Tor tHI''S
nine wears president OF the Boston Young Men
Christian Union has resigned because OF the nut-
den Of Years Mr. Baldwin observed MS eiSnitIetni
hirtbdaI last fall. His successor rs TO ne CoIoutl
Erank 7 overng Locke, who has been Tor SolIls
Years superintendent of the Boston Rubner CoI'-
pany. at Maiden.
A nortraft of Professor Reese, who has been pro-
fcssor of Latin and Greek at Western MarFlaiio
College at Westminster, Md. since lSD' mas oeeh
presented by the alumni TO their alma mater II
Is the work of Oscar Ha!lwig. OF Baltimore
New-York tribune., 1907-06-17
EDTCATTYG IUlfIGRANTS.

The work of adult education, of which we
have recently spoken in these columns. has now
been undertaken by the State of New Jersey in
a novel and interesting manner. Realizing that
such education, at least for civic purposes, IS
most needed by the hosts of incoming aliens. 1t
has provided by law for the establishment of
free evening schools for the instruction of adult
immigrants in the English language and in those
rudimentary principles of American govern
ment and American institutions which it seems
TO be necessary 10 understand in order TO OK
ercso with intelligence the ordinary functions
of American citizenship. They are not to be
schools for the giving of general instruction or
of instruction to all comers. but are to be con
fined TO the work OF transforming uniformed
aliens into intelligent Americans
The scheme is Il novel one. We are not sure
that anything precisely like it has been tried
elsewhere. Its prOpriety and its practical util-
ity may be supported by cogent considerations.
OF course it may be said that adults should
look out for themselves and provide for their
own instruction; and if they Will not do so the
blame and loss must rest upon themselves But
the evil OF having a large uninformed element
rests upon the community and the state. If it
is desirable TO admit large numbers Of aliens to
this country, it is equally dcsrable-fOr this
cOuntry's sake as well as for theirs-to promote
the transformation of them inte worthy citizens.
There remains the question of securing at
tendance at these schools. Many immigrants
will doubtless attend them voluntarily with
much cagerness and others will easily be per-
suaded to do so But if some decline TO attend
them it is not clear that any compulsion can
be eXerted upon them, save i'll an indirect Wa
The existence of these schools will go far tow
ard justifying the imposition OF higher and
stricter educational qualifications for natural-
Zation and of course if the immigrant Is made
To realize that ne cannot become citizen and
Il voter without first acquiring the information
which IS given at these schools, he will pretty
surely seek to he enrolled among the students
We shall look hopefully for the attainment Of
such results In New Jersey and for Il genera
raising af the standard ef intelligence among
uaturalized citizens in that state.