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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01
AMERICAN 4OvEMAKINC HAS
STIRRED UP THINGS IN CUBA
va folks Are Firmly of Opinion That the Methods Are Shocking But
the Younger People Seem to Think They Are Improve
w 81. neut Over the Customs of the Past

Havana, .Cuba.--Think Of takin
tyour fiancee to the opera without
tchaperon! Can you imagine anythin
!, worse?
10 invite her.to have an ice cream
tSoda-could anything be more i'm
tproper?
4. Can you conceive of any self-respect
ing man inviting the girl who ha.
promised to be his wife to go for 6
car ride with him without askips
mother to go, too?
Can the human Imagination compre
mend anything so daring as an auto,
mobile ride without a chaperon?
could anything be more shocking
'nan boat ride in the moonlight,
alone with the woman you love?
Doesn't 1t make your blood run cold
f'When you picture your daughter sit
,tlng on bench in the park with her
Shand nesting in the hand of the man
tShe has promised to marry?
1 wouldn't you kill your future son.
in-law if you caught him kissing your
daughter before the church had made
(her his wife?
And what would you do if he had
the audacity to smile at her as he
passed her on the street, if good man
[4ers were so totally lacking in his
Smakeup that he stopped to chat with
her On the public corner, if he were so
badly bred that he knew no better
0han to meet her anywhere without
fheliographing for the chaperon to
make a double-quick march to her
(resCue?
Ancient Spanish Etiquette.
You will laugh at the thought of
ideas SO absurd and prudish, but down
IN Cuba the thought of a mothers
daughter going to the opera unchap-
eeroned, sitting over a glass of ice
cream soda with her lover, going for
g car ride with her afianced husband
saptomobiling with him, boating with
ann In the moonlight, daring to let
nm hold her hand, bold enough TO
permit him to steal a kiss, and 80
9estitute of good manners as to tin ;
Ms hat to her on, public plaza, is
enough to- make Cuban fathers hair :
turn white.
@ AN these questions of pronrietv :
gave been settled in America, and the +
gnnaperoh. has lost her job. Down. in 4
ana they have been settled, too, for 4
centuries, but now that the Americ cans y
pave brought American customs IN =
.He island the pretty Cuban maids are n
shmoring for another kind of set. u
,.lsment They want to abolish the ~
iSenna and the barred window-tbev 4
want to make love in the American h
way And the fathers and mothers h
y Cuba, still clinging to the old ira. "
lnons and the time-worn customs
aye risen up to oppose them. re
Family Controversy. O.
Al Is a controversy between narents -,
hooked by the advanced American II
lsthods of making love and the w
Apghters of Cuba who have tried the Ct
'nerican way and like it. The mar. "f
ATS have delivered their ultimatum III
hley have told their blushing daugb. do
'rs that they will be disowned and or
lginherited if they stoop to con. 70
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01

IL IS said that the spelling bee is a
mighty popular sort of entertainment
with many of the Unions. To tell the
trutn' the spelling bee is about as
good a form of both entertainment
ana education at one and the same
rme as has ever been Matched ont
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01
Lucky Mani

Luckiest man l ever knew-everv.
tnlng succeeded with him. He had
only TO say what he wanted and he got
IL. Why. confound it, was walking
WIN MIN one day-the very last day
OF his life-and he said to me, When
l die l want to die suddenly Got run
luck?" S-'
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01
How Il Hapns,.,

.o eyer was in a railway
St seven years ago, and never %, ny
hurt. oeel bssl
no Gg yer !. wasn't hurt at all. ! AL
get over it because / crawIad 3D. :, | Cd
DER See?-chicago Daily Ns s,oa .
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01

back hurt me ter
ribly l had sharp,
S h oting pains,
changing to a dull,
d r a G gin g ache. |
could not stand for
any length OF time
and my back hurt
me when l sat down.
My feet and ankles
were badly swollen
every evening, and
my stomach was ont
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01
BACK GAVE OUT,
a typical Case of Kidney Trouble and
a Typical Cure.

Mrs. Chloe Page of $40 s. Pitt
street, Alexandria, Va. saws. "Ny
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01
CLARA E. DARMSTADTeR

siueache, and my feet were so sore couIH
n p!iy stand. took two bottles of lydia n.
inknams Vegetable Compound when nv
p portods were established and now am
Ps;..LLectiy well. Mama says she won't be
III CnouO your medicine in the house. have
T W. one gTi what Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound has done for ma
anu she Is taking it now."
Miss Clara E. Darmstadter. of AKA
breckenridge St.. Buffalo, NY, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
for, tut ABOUT year, except during the past
rev months, | suffered with severe Mains
T3 month, with backaches and headaches.
T. n :" tne blues SO bad that was in despair.
P d. - pleasure to tell you that lydia E.
III ! ihAn Ml Vegetable Compound has cured
doS. me change in my appearance is WON
az tei nul ana desire that this good NAV come
fa.thery sunerer. Any one desiring to know
ha a o .heT "DETAILS may write to me and shall
10 glad to give Them" '' '''''''
II you know of any young girl who
IS SICK and needs motheriy advice,
ASK her to address Mrs. Pinkham. at
lynn Mass, and tell her every detail
10 baa ner symptoms, and to keep nothing
PACK, PACK. She will receive advice abso.
icy Tree, from source that has no
ave tai III the experience of womans
t,,S =. ana 1t will, If followed, put her
Oh tne right road to strong, healthy
ana happy womanhood.
lydia q. Pinkham's Vegetable
compound made from native roots
and herbs cures where Others fail.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01

We've been behind the times,
they protest to their indignant moth,
ers and irate fathers. Every girl IN
the world is allowed some liberty
except the girls Of Turkey, perhaps,
and you wouldn't want us to be like
the Turkish maidens, would you-as
ignorant, as unsophisticated, as alb
| surd?"
The rebellion of the girls against
their parents began when the Yankee
was forbidden to WOO them in the
Yankee way; it grew into a revolution
when the good mothers and fathers Of
Cuba attempted to put an end to the
girls glee clubs. Just what it is now
is Observation-Disclosures basketball was
introduced in one of the Americanized
schools. since the athletic American
girl made her appearance on the
island and tantalized the senoritas by
winning soft glances from the senors:
since American candy stores and ice
cIEdHl SOFA parlors began to dot the
Havana streets and plazas. The
senoritas say they like the American
way, They have pleaded; they have
protested; they have threatened. but
to all their pleadings, protestations,
and threats their fathers have made a
determined answer-"No."
senoritas Like the American Way.
But in spite of the resolute no"
few glee clubs have survived, and in
liberal schools new ones are
'elng organized. Basketball has
spread from the one Americanized
school to others, and so have the 9th.
n lads Of the American school.
iris are being taught the same sub.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01

~ mere are two classes of people
inese are those engaged in doing
things, and those who are NOT ~ ons,
use 10 the world. Fix it up as Won
may IN your mind, the fact still stands
Out tnat those who are not doing
9oinetnlng are doing" somebody
Learn to so handle your business thai
you De not the one who is done" for
you VIII not have too good a time ~
labor. 'our
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01

Farmers own the cotton, and If the
ieiio"s who do not own it, and who
40 not want it, except to speculate
Oh, are utterly disregarded, it will be
only little while until the owners
ol the staple get the price they ask
lor It, 1t is a common sense pronosi.
'ion that If one man has sometime
somebody needs and wants, that the
puyer must come to the seller and
Duy' and so long as a. probibitive
price is not asked, the seller mou
name the price. 1t will not be lons
until the stock on hand in the mills
will will Ne zee exhausted, and then the price
VIII nave to get on the move. ~
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01

Ills Tbossnda eedy has such record of actual cures Of female
States bes wn 81 residing part Of the Uned
Vegetable Compound and what It has doue OF LYDIA
uA ranan Vegetable Compound Womau Renee, a .0r mem
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23

the Condor encountered a succession of
heavy blows; otherwise she has had a
pleasant trip.
There are 100 men and TO officers
aboard. One or two Solomon islanders
are carried for boatmen. the jackies
not being obliged to do boat-duty as
much as would otherwise be the case.
The Condor is a pretty cruiser of the
third -class type and is not unlike the
iII-fated Bennington in appearance.
Her armament consists of eight 1O,5-
centimeter guns and eight machine
guns, rapid fires and Maxims. She has
twin screws and her engines are $500
horsepower.
When the Condor was here last, tn
Germans of Honolulu gave festabena
in honor of her officers and crew. SincS
the populace got such taste for mek-'
-of-war while the Big -Four cruisers
were here the coming of the Condor
is the more welcome. She looks smaAl
in the naval dock where the West VIZ
ginia was lying, but she is fine ves5ef
of her class and there are many
mighty warships where she came from-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23
BEACH BURGLAR
CAUGHT BY AEA
Had Headquarters and Shrine
at Diamond Head---SiIver
Mirror Found.

The Waikiki burglar has been
caught and is now where he won't
bother Honolulu's prominent citizens
for some time at least. He was landed
in the police station last evening by
Sergeant Aea. He is a Japanese and
goes by the name of Moromoto. A
silver mirror, the property of Mrs.
Sanford B. Dole, was recovered. In
formation was given to the police
some time ago to the effect that a
strange man had been seen haunting
the vicinage of Diamond Head and
those who saw him were uncertain
whether he was a Japanese or a Porto
Rican. On several occasions police 9f-
ficers have been sent out to solve the
mystery of the prowler, but without
success until last night.
On Saturday one of the Portuguese
who arrived in the S. S. Kumeric was
walking around Diamond Head when
he discovered a little shack up on the
hill not far from the lighthouse and
somewhat hidden by the algarobas.
He saw a man lying, apparently
asleep III the SudChs With SOIllS NdACA :
bottles near at hand. The Portuguese
thought the man might be the Chinese,
Man Chong, who not long ago escaped
from Oahu Prison where he was serv-
ing a term for the killing of a police
man, and he was afraid TO butt in lest
the fellow might be armed and make
it nasty for an intruder. officers were
sent out to the shack on Saturday
night, but could find no trace of the
man.
Last night, Sergeant Aea was dis
patched to the scene. He saw the man
at the shack, but when the officer
showed himself Moromoto ran like a
deer and Aea had the chase of his
life. But the policeman secured the
fellow, who put up a strenuous fight
for liberty. He is a short, stocly man
and something of wrestler.
Moromoto had been making of the
| little shack under the cliff a comfort
able headquarters. He had even erect
ed a shrine where he could exercis'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23

and a few bluejackets from the Iro-
quois was excluded from the wharf
until the vessel should be secured, and
sentries from the U. S. Marines We're
posted at the gateway, being relieved
after the ship was fast by an unarm-
ed sentry from the Condor who could
not speak English and so was not
bothered by the repeated appeals OF
sightseers who wanted to get a
glimpse of the German man-of-war.
The Condor excited a great deal of
interest among people at Waikiki and
others who observed her approach from
the south, and many were the guesses
as to her identity The naval people
expected her to arrive this morning,
for cable advices some time ago had
set the date for September %. She
will remain here fourteen days and the
men will be given an opportunity to
enjoy themselves, such an opportunity
as they do not often get cruising the
German Pacific Archipelago. Last
night they were allowed ashore and
lost no time in finding points of in
terest. The first man ashore was
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23

messenger from the captain to the ca
BILE office to dispatch notices of her
arrival to home headquarters.
The American jackies lent hand
getting up the gangway and making
the vessel secure, after which they
were invited aboard and served with
beer. Lieutenant Commander Carter
and Captain Albert enjoyed a friendly
chat of some fifteen minutes in. the
Condor's luxurious cabin, Albert beina
heartily hospitabIe and Carter extend
ing a more than official welcome.
The process of mooring occupied con-
siderable time, for steel hawsers were
put out and the most careful precau-
tions taken, as if for a hurricane
The Condor has been in Pacif1c
waters four and a half years. She was
here in August and September of 1905,
after long duty among southern is
lands. From here she goes to the Mar
shall Islands. She has been visiting
Sydney, Auckland, Tahiti, Fiji and
Samoa. She left Samoa on Septen-
ber 10.
For the two days before entering port
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23
MORE P|L|KIA
FOR THE SHARK
Gasoline Engine Still Causes
Trouble and More
Delays.

The latest papers from Hilo state
that it was expected that the Shark,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack London on
board, would leave Hilo today, but
passengers who came down on the
Kinau state that it seems doubtful
if they will get away for some time.
London is having more trouble with
his gasoline engine and until 1T is
remedied will hardly get away.
The engine broke down only short
time after leaving this city and mas
never been running satisfactorily since.
IT is stated by Hilo men, who arrived
Saturday, that the engine can be
started all right but that as soon as
il has been running for three or Tour
minutes the bearings begin to heat
and il finally comes to a stop for TINS
reason.
lean Fenelon, who acted as engineer
for london. is at present in this city
and while he has the friendliest feel
ing for London seems to have the I'M
,,ression that London will hardly go
yerv much farther on his trip around
world. Inc lFOubISS NAtAA SAA~ -
cine are a continual source of worry
fo the writer and other things crop
mn continually which are by no means
,,ieasing. Fenelon says that ne leAt
The shark simply on account Of the
discomforts of the trip to Hllo. In
eneaking of this, he SAID:
.svo, can understand what I mean
when l tell you of my experience tne me
srst night out. 1 was supposed TO go
-, watch from midnight till O'CLOCK
JF-olI cot comfortably settled In my
snnr and was sound asleep when
Can4ain oa,, warren came down and woke
# was time for me to go on
aaolr Now in the cabin there are 1ouL
ser ,.s,,,-s and there are FIVE members OF
~ crew to sleep in them MI ano
sn .ie london, of course, having then
ION account of this, when goL uI
~ o Zen turned into my bunk. When
var aad fnished my watch I woke the
CONTINUED on Page Four2
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A day ahead of expectations, the
German third-class cruiser Condor,
Captain Albert, arrived yesterday from
Samoa, docking at Naval Wharf No.
at S:15 o'clock.
Owing to the day being Sunday she
fired no salute on entering the harbor.
although, not considering the Sunday
proposition, the saluting battery crew
of the L. s. Naval Station was ready
with the blanks and one of the men
wanted to know if the powder was to
be kept in the sun. This was straight
sened out, however, and this morning at
s o'clock the Condor will give the ma
tional salute of twenty-one guns, which
will be returned, gun for gun, by the
Naval Station battery. Later in the
day Captain Albert will call on Admiral
Very.
Lieutenant Commander Carter, Q. S.
N, captain of the U. S. S. 1roquols,
was on the naval wharf to welcome
the German warship. He did not go
out in the launch. but waited for the
cruiser to dock. Everyone but Carter
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23

It cannot fail to be very gratifying
to American citizens to realize that,
just as in 1899, the American delega-
ton saved the first Hague Conference
from a virtual failure, so the repre-
sentatives of the United States at the
second conference, in the present year,
have been the chief instruments in
preventing that august international
gathering from adjourning without the
achievement Of any substantial re-
suits. Disregarding the purely acade-
mic discussions during the conference,
it may be stated that the real work
can be divided into two cIasses,-the
one largely composed of technical
propositions aiming TO render the con-
duct of war more humane. and the
other Of political propositions. 1nVoiV-
ing the principle of preventing wars
between nations. The proposition OF
the United States forbidding the bonn
bardment of undefended towns ana
villages was unanimously approved IN
Commission. as was also the proposal
n add to the rules Of sea warfare
the provisions of the Geneva Conven-
tion. The proposition for the prohioi-
tom of submarine mines was blocked
nv Great Britain and Germany. On
the other hand. the British proposal
for the abolition of contraband OF war,
although it received majority oA
votes in the conference, is to be con-
sidered buried, since all the great
naval powers, including the Cnlteo
States, except Great Britain herseh,
are against it. The American proposal
concerning the collection OF contract
debts,-the much-discussed Drago Doc
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23
RIFLE RANCE IS
HELP To NAVY
Through 1t Many Warships
May Come to This
Port.

The fact that there is a rifle range
In this city on which the sailors ana
marines of the navy may practise whlle
in this port is very likely to be an
s,cent;ve which will bring many more
naval vessels here than have been here
in the past This comes from the au-
shortly of Admiral Dayton of the "a
.o;6o feet. and also from Captains Mil
ton and Saunders of the West Virginia
and colorado. If this result follows II
will show that the money expended Oh
4be National Guard in this city mas
.e,a,.,,aa q nurpose even more valuaole
+,,oa that for which it has been IN
y tended. - +a1,en
=, c,,,au arms practise at present oy
both the navy and army oepS,i 80.
a,,d the former department mas rea-
son to be very proud OF tne 49, a-
which has been done IN the pe's. a4,tta,,
son. At the national r1ne com :.
IN which the Hawaiian team tooA 20,
the first place in the team :
was won by the navy aggregalioi,,
xhis is the most Important Oh on 80
contests and the sailors nave lai -.
onnortunitv for rife practise .nan ans
Of the other organizations, the 49,
Denartment feels very prouu oi
victory of it's men. shoot
Tha six+b ulace in the team shoo,
was taken bv the team from tne 1' a,so
tAcamedv at Annapolis, anu
brought great honor 10 t,e s,,o,,
cadet Lee of the Naval Academy sdal @H
the individual contest. taking a a,n msdcs. Vie-
and a cash prize of $loVV -. st shots
tory and defeating the very pest $50
in the United States. .ba+ the
From this it will be seen tna' r,ae M
navy takes a great interest IN ,-ticr .
shooting. and one of the reasons pacifie
has caused the fleet on ~ Cor its
Coast to go to Magdalena Bay ao' 20, ~
small m i1a arms could be found there, "a. a
Wen as a convenient place for glVins
Continued on Page Ten'
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trine,-was unanimously approved.
The American proposal, brought for
ward by Mr.. Cho2te, for making the
arbitration court more permanent and
compact. was also approved. 1t now
seems probable that during the last
days of the conference Git is believed
that the sessions viii close by the mid
die of the present month";, perma-
nent arbitration and prize-of-war
court will be elaborated and made a
permanent institution.
No agreement was reached on the
subject Of the limitation Of arma-
ment. The conference would go no
further than to declare it's opinion that
limitation was desirable. The British
resolution on this subject, which was
passed unanimously, is as follows:
This conference confirms the reso-
luton adopted by the conference of
1899 regarding the limitation of mill
tary burdens, and as military burdens
have been considerably augmented in
almost all countries since 1899. 1t de-
clares it is highly desirable to see ths
governments earnestly resume the
study of this question"
NJ. Leon Bourgeois, one Of the
French delegates, and generally re-
sarded as the ablest diplomatic and
legal representative at the present con-
ference, has more than once announced
that "the purpose of The Hague Peace
Conference of 1907 is not the pacific or
ganization of war, but the judicial or
ganization Of peace" The month OF
August was noteworthy, also, for sew
CONTINUED on Page Seven.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23
VII TING FANG AND HIS
CHINESE BOYCOTT RECORD

PEKING, September Ting Fang former Chinese Min
Washington seeking position China.
however making appointment waiting ascertain
regard fearing dsapprova because of some
the he connected with the
Chinese boycott of American goods
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23
ROOSEVELT STARTS On
SPEAKING TOUR Of THE
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
Will Take Part in Dedication of the
Mckinley MausoIeum at
Canton.
ASSOCIATED Press cablegrams.)

WASHINGTON, September 23.-President Roosevelt viii
a weeks trip through the central west
September will take the dedication OF the Nc
Kney Mausoum within which the bodies of both Mr.
and Mrs. Mckinley have already been placed
Mississippi river and hunt in
Louisiana
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23

his devotional instincts in between
sneak-thieving from well-to-do cltl-
zens in the neighborhood. Among MS
effects were found underclothes ana
skeleton-keys This has evidently been
his headquarters for some time.
The police have located HaWarah
who reports that about twelve days
ago he was at the shack and there
seemed to be nobody around. He en-
tered and found the silver mirror
above referred TO, hearing the Initials
A. C. D. Eight or nine days ago a
Japanese servant at Waikiki said he
thought he saw japanese proving
around in and out of the premises two
or three times.
fMoromoto apparently speaks nc
English and is supposed to be recent
arrival.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23

WI Ting Chinese Minister Washington from 1867
to 1902 He through Honolulu his December
Washington he of the most popular
diplomatic He spoke English uenty and made
parts the United States that
being Grafton General Grant
offered position the faculty
Of Columbia University On his recall to China he appointed
with Chang Chi Tung his colleague He
was proege of Ii Hung Chang.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23
BORAH FOLLOWS HAYWOOD
IN THE PRISONERS DOCK

Idaho, September 23The trial of William Ed
gar Boa charging him with completely in land
frauds begins today.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-23

elected United States Senator from Idaho in the
He with Hawe the chief counsel Tor
prosecution William Haywood for the murder
Steunenberg Idao which recently resulted in Hay
woods acquttal Fairfield Ill., in 1865 and edu-
at University of Kansas.