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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28
Koolau Railway
TIME SCHEDULE

DAILY, EXCEPT SATURDAY.
SUNDAY AND HOLIDAYS
Leave Kahana for Punaluu,
Hauula, Laie. Kahuku and
Arrive Kahuku at....- 100 Pm.
Returning:
Leave Kahuku for Laie, Hau-
ula. Punaluu, Kahana and
Way Stations at...... 1:45 PM.
Arrive Kahana at........ 2:45 Pm.
SATURDAY, SUNDAY
AND HOLIDAYS
Leave Kahana for Puna1uu,
Hauula, Laie, Kahuku and
Way Stations at......... II 100 AN.
1:32P.M.
Arrive Kahuku at. :5S AN.
2:15 PM.
Leave Kahuku for Laie, Hau-
ula. Punaluu, Kahana and
Way Stations at........ .12:40 PM.
3:OOP.M.
Connections are made at Kahuku
with the o. r. & L. Co.'s OILS a. m
train from Honolulu, and the 2:20 p. m.
train. which arrives In the city at $3.50
P. m
J. J. Downing.
Superintendent.
E. s. Pollister,
Gen. Passenger & Freight Agt.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28
Christmas Generosity.

All the Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day DRINKS who appeared before Judge
Long Saturday morning were given sus-
pended sentences for thirteen months
and set free. Several assault and bat
terry cases, in fact cry case but one
was similarly disposed of. The judge
decided that this was just the time to
temper justice with mercy. Among
those who were released was Hugh Bur
roughs, the young Virginian who was
sent to prison few months ago for
passing some bad checks
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28
SALVATION ARMY CHRISTMAS.

The Salvation Army distributed nine
~ Christmas baskets 70 as many fam
lies on Thursday. Each contained the
material for a Christmas dinner, be
sides candies and fruit. In the evening
Christmas presents were distributed to
about SIX hundred boys at the hall on
Nuuanu avenue.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28
Around the
dice Station
\ X x y y = y y = 4 x = y

Lopez. the reformed and retired
desperate, who led the police force a
merry dance around the island last
spring after his spectacular escape
from Oahu Prison. seems to be unfortu-
nate out of jail Lopez came out Of
prison several months ago with the in
tention of leading an honest life and
he went down TO Eva plantation where
he worked for about a month wher he
was called to Honolulu as a witness in
a Circuit Court case. He was called
about three times with the result that
he ceased to work at the plantation and
remained in town He became a spy for
Chief of Detectives KalakieIa, especial
ly in gambling games, but lately has
had no employment in that line.
On Christmas night Lopez and his
wife visited some friends Of the latter
at one of the Hotel street lei stands.
One of the women told Lopez and his
wife that she would take them home
with her but the mother Of the prospec
tive hostess did not agree to the prop
osition. In Hawaiian she told her
daughter that the man she intended
AdiDbiAuS was AbAC blHFI THAN L@OpCN
the desperate. the man who went all
through Kalihi and scared US all She
advised her daughter that she had bet
ter think twice about her invitation.
Lopez understands a few words of Ha-
waiian, ana he caught the drift of the
mother s warning. The police claim
that he gave the mother a beating for
her criticism of himself and that is the
pending a charge being placed against |
him
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-28
Another Auto Accident.

Another auto accident was reported
to the police on Christmas night. An
auto driven by Mr.. Mckenzie was roll
ing along Beretania near Miller street
about 6:15 p. m. A garage auto bowled
along beside It. Just then CropIey's
hack swung into Beretania avenue. Ne
Kenzie's auto lifted the hack out Of
the way and it was later removed in a
condition to the side
of the street. The hack viii be re-
paired at the expense Of Mr.. Mckenzie.
The passenger IN the hack had cele-
brated during the day so successfully
that he failed to appreciate the fact
that he had been hit by anything
weighter than a raindrop and refused
to leave the carriage even though the
box was fat on the ground with wheel
spokes sticking through it and the top
was crumpled up coneertinawise.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14
KIT CARSON.
Feat of Which the Hardy Frontiersman
Had No Recollection.

One Of the most noted Of the hardy
western frontiersmen was Kit Carson,
to whom, with Daniel Boone. belongs
the credit of having always dealt fair
" with the various Indian tribes. as
they themselves acknowledged. The
withdrawal Of Carson by the govern
ment was the cause of great war.
Captain Henry Inman I'm his book
"The Old Santa Fe Trail" relates an
amusing incident of the gallant pio-
neer.
Ny own conception of Kit Carson
as a child was that he was ten feet
high, that it would have required the
strength of two men to lift his rifle,
that he usually drank a river dry and
picked the carcass Of whole buffalo
clean as easily as lady does the wing
of Il quail. Years after, when I made
the acquaintance Of the foremost from
tiersman, | found him delicate, reti-
cent. understood wiry man, the very
opposite type Of what my childish
brain had created.
One day while Kit was at the fort
came across a periodical that had a
full page illustration of scene in a
forest In the foreground stood a gi-
gantic figure dressed in the tradition
al buckSkin.
On one arm rested an immense rifle.
His other arm was around the waist
Of the conventional female of such
sensational journals. while in front
half a dozen Indians lay prone, evil
dently slain by the hero in the i'm
possible attire in defense of the pre-
posterous female. The legend stated
how all this had been effected by Kit
Carson.
I handed it to Kit. He wiped his
spectacles, studied the picture intent
ly for a few seconds and then said:
Gentlemen that thar may be true,
but | hain't got no recollection of it."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14
in describing this incident once wrote
to Secretary Long:

in describing this incident once wrote
to Secretary Long:
Suddenly a Whit Of breeze and a
lull in the firing lifted the pail, and
there bearing toward US and across our
bows, turning on her port helm, with
big waves curling over her bows and
great clouds Of black smoke, pouring
from her tunnels, was the Brooklyn.
She looked as big as half dozen
Great Easterns. Back both engines
hard!' went down the tube to the as
tonished engineers, and in a twinkling
the old ship was racing against herself.
Had the Brooklyn struck US then it
would probably have been the end Of
the Texas and her half thousand men"
Aside from this incident the share Of
the Texas in the fighting off Santiago
from Santiago's Morro pierced six
inch hole in her bow under the anchor
and killed Frank Blakely, first class
apprentice. In the fighting Of July 3,
a shell from the Almirante Oquendo
pierced the starboard bulkhead under
the bridge. Then II entered the smoke
pipe and exploded.
The last accident on the Texas came
on November 80, 1902, when at target
practice along the New England coast
The discharge of the big guns broke
the recoils, with the result that the
gun foundations were shattered, water
and steampipes were crushed and dam
age was done that was thought at first
impossible to repair.-New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14

,1T Twelve cats embarked recently
on board the Kincraig, at Victoria
Docks, London, bound for India, on
a strange mission. They are going to
make a fight against the plague, and
to try to succeed where medical
science has met with not very great
success. The cats were sent under the
care of the Salvation Army author
tiles, and came from a cats home at
Hammersmith. They are being sent
to the army colony at Muktipa, under
the special care Of Russian member
of the army. Each cat has separate
cage. Their menu on the voyage Is
likely to meet with their entire ap-
proval. Large cans Of sardines were
taken for their exclusive use, as well
as tins Of herrings, fifteen large tins
of condensed milk, some New Zealand
mutton, forty pounds Of rice, and
among a variety of other delicacies
several boxes of puppy biscuits.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14

personally, 1 see no reason why
there should be any apprehension In
regard to the passage Of the straits.
Our boats go through all the time, and
there is no more trouble than you could
expect anywhere along the coast. Or
course, there are accidents there, but
there are accidents everywhere on the
deep sea or the coast Navigate care
fully, keep your eyes open, avoid reck-
lessness-these are the rudiments for
absolute safety"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14

81" Public examinations in Japan
show a preference for the study OF
English by all those who intend TO
take up mercantile pursuits, while
German is especially popular with
students intended for the learned pro-
fessions. Chinese and COrean are much
studied by the Japanese, who also de-
vote much time to Russian, French
and Spanish; altogether, the modern
Japanese student shows signs or be-
coming a first-class polyglot, many,
indeed, adding Esperanto to the sum
total of their linguistis achievements.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14

"One good thing is that at the pres
ent time of year there is no darkness
over the straits. except between the
hours of 10 p. m. and a. m, and even
then, if the weather be fair, there Is
daylight in the skies all night. This
will benefit the fleet. and so will the
fact that January and February are the
summer months in the straits, cores
ponding to July and August here. 80
you see the vessels will have mia
weather for their trip. The average
temperature in winter is 2S degrees,
and one is apt to find the weather thick.
In summer the average is 81 degrees.
From the straits the fleet will proceed
to Callao Peru. and the worst or the
voyage will be over.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14

BT' Backgammon was invented in
Greece in the year 1924.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
8he Hrgus Daily Short Story
Picture Postcard Romance.'-Frank H. Williams.
the Literary

| know it was wrong for me to read
der postcards. but | sort of got in the
habit of doing it when | was walking
past those vacant lots TO her home. so
before l knew it l was right up to the
hiit in romance.
You see, it was tiis. way. I caught
on to the facts from what she told me
occasionally. Oscar Reidel. her sweet
heart, who was a civil engineer, got u
job quite a distance away from her
during the summer Before he left Os-
car and Alice-her fun name was Alice
c. Minor-had a quarrel. 1t wasn't Il
very bad quarrel. | guess. but anyhow
she told him he mustn't write Il word
to her during the time he was away.
Well. that made him rather spunky.
and he said he'd do just as she said.
but that he could send her picture
postcards without writing word to
her. and he would send those
Oscar was surely sender" At first
the postcards came in, fast and thick
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
Four courtship Sundays.

The four Sundays of November are
observed as fete days in Holland. They
are known by the curious names Re-
view, Decision. Purchase and Posses
sion, and all refer to matrimonial af-
fairs. November in Holland being the
month par excellence devoted to court
ship and marriage, probably because
the agricultural occupations of the year
are over and possibly because the lords
Of creation from quite remote antiqui-
ty have recognized the pleasantness of
having wives to cook and cater for
them during the long winter
On Review Sunday every body goes
to church. and after service there is a
church parade in every village, when
the youths and maidens gaze upon each
other, but forbear to speak
On Decision Sunday each bachelor
who is seeking wife approaches the
maiden of his choice with a ceremoni-
GUS bow and from her manner of re-
spending judges whether his advances
are acceptable. Purchase Sunday the
consent of the parents is sought If the
suit has prospered, during the week
Not until Possession Sunday, however
do the twain appear before the world
as actual or prospective brides and
grOOms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
HOW ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE
HUNGRY, COLD OR SICK?
Reminder for the Average Citizen to
Discharge Part of His Respon-
sibiIity Tag Day.

The responsibility of the govern
ment rests upon the shoulders of the
individual. Each human being bears
a part of the burden of maintaining
the laws of society. Upon each of us
is imposed certain amount of obi
cation for the condition of the rest of
mankind
Some of us meet these obligations.
The Associated Charities meet theirs.
The Kings Daughters meet theirs.
Do You meet yours?
Realizing it is impossible for each
person 20 take an active part in the
distribution of systematic charity, a
plan has been arranged whereby every
resident of Rock Island can discharge,
in part at least, his debt to his fellow
beings.
Tag day comes next Saturday, May
16.
On that day you will be asked to
contribute toward the organized chart
ties of Rock Island. Each contributor
will be given a tag bearing the EN-
blem of the Kings Daughters, as evi
dence that an offering has been re-
ceived.
We talk of the commercial develop
ment of our city. We boast of its
greatness and eXult in its promising
future. How about our needy-those
hungry, cold land i'll?
True greatness cannot be achieved
without a due. regard for the funda
mental elements of right living.
A city cannot be truly great whe.
lneglecting its poor.
Discharge your obligation.
Buy tag at your own price.
Saturday, May 16.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
sowing the wind.

The republicans are sowing one of
the best crops of wind seen for many
a day, and the whirlwind crop in Hi
ncis in November will be one of the
largest on record This week at Spring
field the republican majority in the
house adopted without even stopping
to read report of an alleged investi-
eating committee, in which Governor
Deneen was denounced as. a party to
law-breakers in various directions, and
also general prostitution of Office.
From present indications nothing can
prevent the nomination of neneen, and
after his nomination the democratic
orators will go over the state armed
with this officially certified confession
of the republicans to malfeasance in
Office and general crime.
In the remote contingency of Yates
getting the nomination the republican
prospects would If possible be worse.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
Uncle Joe's Sly Game.

How sly-devilish sly is Speaker
Cannon He feels the public pulse
and then undertakes to have an in
vestigatiOn of the paper trust. Uncle
Joe expects to kill two birds with one
stone, and also outwit the republican
newspaper publishers, who are shout
ing for tariff reform. The first bird
that Uncle Joe expects will fiutter is
Acknowledgement Bonaparte, and if a
stray shot hits the president, so much
the better. By inference these repub
lican brethren are wholly to blame
for allowing paper trust to exist, for
should not all bad trusts have been
prosecuted under the Sherman anti
trust law? That lays the blame on the
administration, and proves to Uncle
Joe's satisfaction that the Dingley tar
iff is not responsible for the paper
trust. For did not Uncle Joe's tariff
factotum, the chairman of the commit
tee on ways and means, show conclu-
sively the other day that the tariff on
pulp and paper was too low to account
for the increased prices of the paper
trust?
1t is pretty difficult to beat Uncle
Joe in shooting political birds, or in
playing the game of politics. He can,
unlike other members of congress, al
ways get recognition. What other
members must beg for, Uncle Joe can
always take. Speaker Cannon" says
the New York World, lis the most for
tunately situated member of congress.
Having previously expressed his views,
he introduces his own resolution to in
vestigate the paper trust. 1t is refer
red to the committee on rules, of which
he is chairman. 1t is passed at his
nod. He names the committee of in
vestigation. They have been fully adj
vised as TO his position on the paper
trust and tariff question. If the COM
mittee should report in favor of repeal
ing the duties on wood pulp and print
paper, next session Speaker Cannon
will still control the committee on
rules, which determines the order of
business. Any tariff bill will be refer
red to the committee on ways and
means, which is subservient to his
will
Meanwhile the special committee of
the American Newspaper Publishers
association is fluttering around the
ways and means committee, and. threat
ening all kinds of things if wood pulp
and print paper are not put on the free
list. Then now and then Uncle Joe
shoots off his popgun in their direction
just to keep them on the wing until
he can conveniently adjourn congress,
and thus postpone even such small
matter of tariff reform as the publish.
ers ask until latter election" TIL
after election if Uncle Joe is still in
the saddle, is a long way off, for there
Is always another election coming, and
| if the voters have endorsed the repub
| lican party, they have also approved
| its policy of protecting the trusts; sc
why not enact maximum tariff, tC
protect them higher? It's a great po
litical game played by Uncle Joe and
the republican leaders.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
A CONVENTION PRIMER
IMPORTANT Inflammation Concerning Past and
Coming National Political ConUenhons.
METHOD OF SELECTING DELEGATES.

delegates selected Republican and Demo-
cratic national conventions?
delegates admitted electoral
states
number of and congress In the
cratic conyenton each territory represented by delegates
the Republican conveniently two
delegates
The four delegates large wo for each senato
state convention while the Others congressional dis
trict, are chosen at district conventions
How are the territorial delegates selected?
In the those from the congressional districts
What aernates?
Men chosen take the place of delegates death
inability attend the overwhelmingly honorary position
What is the primary system?
direct of the people for candidates by formal
convention.
When
At the time the delegates the national convention
selected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
A Little Analogy.

The supreme court, in the Minnesota
rate case, lays down proposition
welt, might make him squirm. 1t says:
IF the act which the attorney gen
eral seeks. to enforce be a violation of
the federal constitution, the officer, in
proceeding under such an enactment,
comes into conflict with the superior
authority of that constitution, and he
is in that case stripped of his official
or representative character. and is
subjected in his person to the conse-
quences of his individual conduct
Where would Mr.. Roosevelt stand If
this principle was applied to his con
duct?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09

that none of the cards showed up in
the mail for her.
No cards for you today, Miss Alice,
said as she met me at the door.
The smiles all left her face ut once.
couldn't believe 1t.
NO postcards at alp she cried.
Not one." said Maybe the party
that's been sending them to you Is
hurt"
At that she cried.
"Hurt! No; he can't be hurtv'
81 don't necessarily mean physically
hurt" replied. There's other ways
of being hurt than physically"
She looked at me rather strangely al
this, then tossed her head. marched
into the house and slammed the dool
after her.
There were no cards for her the mex
day. but l think she half expected
there would be, for l caught glimpse
of her watching me behind the cur
tains in the parlor as l walked past
The second day there were no cards
and again l saw her at the window
| From the little glimpse 1 caught
thought she had been CRYING The thirt
| day there was single. card, and before
| l thought I turned itSover and looked
at it. Then l wished2I hadn't. The
| card was photograph Of Oscar look
| ing lovingly at some pretty girl wht
in turn was looking lovingly at him
The girl, l surmised, belonged in thu
| city where he was working. so l wa.
mistaken in thinking it was such ;
wild place.
In the first place, l had no bushes.
| to look at another persons mail. Ii
the second place, it got me all tangled
! up worse than ever in the affairs o
| that couple. After seeing the card
had the hardest kind of tim,
ibracing myself up to deliver
| to the girl.
| When rang the Minor doorbell tn,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
II Reached the Spot.

Mr.. E. Humphrey, who owns large
general store at Omega, Ohio. and is
president of the Adams County Teie-
phone company, as well as of the
home Telephone company of Pike
county, Ohio, says of DR.. Kings New
Discovery: ut saved my life once
AT least l think it did. 1t seemed to
reach the spot-the very seat of my
cough-when everything else failed
DIR. Kings New Discovery not, only
reaches the cough spot; it heals the
sore spots and the weak spots in
throat, lungs and chest.> Sold under
guarantee at all druggists. 80 cents
and 81. Trial bottle free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09

He would be the nominee of the Judas
ticket, and be abhorred
The water wagon folks, pulled up
by their success in the elections at
Decatur, Rockford and other. cities,
are in the field with a third ticket
which will draw off all of the thick
and thin crowd. In the meantime the
Temperance people who are trying to
solve the problem of whether man
can be Christian and still vote the
republican ticket, are watching the
parties and candidates. The recent
Deneen state convention inserted in
its platform a personal liberty plank.
and Yates is now going around declar-
ing that the convention had no right
to make any declaration in the matter,
and when speaking in pronounced drug
store territory, he does not hesitate to
express himself very strongly and al
low the inference that he would scorn
to tast anything stronger than Adams
ale. These things, however, circulate
around through the public prints, and
in consequence the personal liberty
republicans who object to being com.
PEELED to build< their chimneys higher
to keep the neighbors from putting out
the fire, will have none of Yates. The
Lorimer following of Chicago which is
behind Yates would present a comical
picture harnessed in with the water
wagon contingent from down state.
The democratic party, which is
never afraid of its horses when ii
comes to expression on the subject OF
personal and religious liberty, and
which has smashed knownothingism
and dot of other isms, is already
united and in the open on the issues
and all that is required is good man
1t is the opportunity of a life time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-09
Having Money and Not Having Il.

Having Money and Not Having Il.
WELL" said the old philosopher, 81
don't see much difference in havin'
money an in not havin' It. When peo-
pie know you've got it they're red hot
to git it from you. an when they know
you hain't got it they're red hot to
fetch in all the bills they've got ag'in
you an try TO git 1t anyhow. SO. you
see. it's mortal worry a-comin' an
0gwine. Hayin 1t or not havin' ii,
you're 'twixt the devil an the deep sea
six days out the week an no rest on
Sunday. It amt nuthin' but printed
paper an yaller an white metal. an
sit the worr almost stops turnin' round
to look at it. 1t says It'll be friend to
you and then don't stay with you long
enough to git acquainted good. It's as
deceivin' as Satan hisse'f. though I
must say that jest about this time I'd
like to see the deception Of It come my
way. Sich is human natur'. for which
we amt Observation-Disclosures Consti
tuition.