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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-15

go to Molokai Sure said the doctor
thinking he was urged by curiosity, and
gave him his pass. In due time he
landed through the surf and walked
into the strangest town in the world.
The steamer sent the last boat ashore,
and the mate yelled for Simpkins He
didn't appear. The steamer left, and
a couple of weeks later the Health Of
fcer got letter from one of'the lunas
of Molokai that made him tear his hair.
Simpkins had actually settled in the
leper colony, spite of the laws of the
kingdom and of society.
"Now, my son, you re thinking of
Father Damien, the missioners, and
such. Forget all that. Simpkins was
uninspired. He told me why he did
this thing, and you will probably laugh
when you hear it. Fancy this dull chap
fixing his eternal abode in an accursed
vale where one hears only the cracked
voice of the leper and sees only the
hopeless living dead Tt makes your
heart beat bit faster, doesn { it9 But
look at that obituary of that obscure
late lamented in Iowa. 1t was serb,
bled one afternoon in Libertyville when
the willows were budding along the
muddy creek banks, and the children
were making whist1es-children who
have whistled many tunes since and
gone their ways apart. The editor
probably thought when he wrote those
words that he would attend the auction
of the deceased s livestock and maybe
buy a horse or. cow. But Simpkins
is dead in Molokai because of that
parapraDh -
The Oldest Journalist made an ex.
traordinary grimaee at the ceiling and
flung his cigar butt against the screen
door. "Laugh!" he cried. "But |
must get it off my mind have moiled
over Simpkins till | am fair crazy |
am a victim, and my only hope of re-
lease is this column article in the
paper tomorrow morning.
"Don't get worked up over it" /
demonstrated cit is too hot. Out with
your story"
"There isn't any story he walled
FfIt's positively the dullest affair you
ever heard of. There ism t any inspira-
ton in years of it.
"When Simpkins had got pretty
much fixture on Molokai, and his re-
putation was hopelessly compromised,
and various claimants of his wealth
were agitating having him declared in
competent and guardian appointed,
/ went down on the annual trip of in
spection. You know the sort: officials,
some reporters, and few friends of the
CONTINUED on Page Eleven.)
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-15

lumbago and restored my strength.
81. E. O'BOY.
"Box 158, Lompoc, Cal
Electro Vigor cured me of indi-
gestion, kidney and liver troubles
after I had taken great quantities
of drugs without being benefited
~ take pleasure in recommend
ing your treatment to all sufferers
from similar ailments.
tTHOS. F. HIGGINS.
1866 Twenty second ST., s. F.'
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This book tells in plain language
many things you want to know,
and gives lot of good, wholesome
advice for men.
I'll send this book, prepaid, free,
if you will mail me this coupon.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-15

Electro Vigor is the electric in
MIGRATING device that pumps
stream of vim into your body while
you sleep. 1t renews the spirit of
ambition and hustle. 1t makes men
out of slow going, discouraged
weaklings. If you have pain it
drives it out. If you have stomach
trouble, varicocele, lumbago. sciat-
lea, kidney or liver complaint, or
just loss of nerve force, Electro
Vigor viii restore you to perfect
health.
"T am perfectly satisfied with
Electro-Vigor. 1t has cured me of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-15

Wouldn t you like to have your
friends point to you and say:
There goes a strong man?' DO
you not wish your eye to be so
bright, your step SO firm and yonr
form so erect that men and women
will admire you and remark at
your manly bearing? These are the
thoughts uppermost in the minds
of modern metaphysical and men
tai perfection, strength and power.
Drugs have been tried and have
failed. You know that; but Elec-
tro-Vigor can not fail; it is cleo
tricity, and electricity is life. -
1T gives you the oil with which to
set the machinery of your body in
motion, and a month IS use of it
will give you health and happiness
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
NATIONAL FEELING

n EOPLE who know the actual condi-
tions in the two countries that
Il form the United Kingdom are not
surprised to learn that an international
football game between Scotland and
England was attended by 100000 per-
sons, and that there was much rioting
Beneath the union there still shoulders
the fire of national feeling and national
prejudice. Ever. since the intent of the
commercial and political union was
frustrated by the determination of the
English and their friends in America to
substitute the provincial name England
for that of the United Kingdom there
has been a great revival of old feelings
and of old prejudices Lord Rosebery,
sometimes, like that other Scotsman,
Campbell -Bannerman, called the Eng
lish" premier, emitted significant war
whoop in the North American Review
when he wrote Scotland held the bor-
der against England for thousand
years, and if necessary can hold 1t for
thousand more" England could view
with comparative equanimity-aftert the
first shock-the separation of Ireland,
but if Scotland burned the act of union,
the British empire would go to pieces.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
A RAvEN1Nd WOLF

TIME liquor influences that have been
and are being and will be brought
n to bear on city hall in order that
the liquor sellers field OF activity may
not merely not be restricted, but may
be extended, are likened unto raven
ing wolf which haunts the municipal
door. And was ever beast more cum
ming? Can any good citizen read with
out disgust the accounts of the adroit
word -1ugglery, the skilful manipula-
ton of the truth, by which "two blocks"
that it was proposed should be by ordi-
nance added to the wholesale zone were
two blocks south, or in reality one hum
dred city blocks?' When Councilman
Wallace found that he had been taken
off his guard and bamboozled, he
promptly made a motion for reconsid-
Grafton. Five councilmen voted against
that; but the real fight will come when
the ordinance is presented for final
adoption, and in the meantime council
men, we venture to prophesy, will hear
an expression of public opinion on this
new phase of an old subject which will
do them good. The exhibition Of the
tactics to which the liquor interests will
resort in the attempt to win by dirty
work the advantage they cannot obtain
by clean, will cause great many peo-
pie who have hitherto held an unde-
cided position with regard to the traffic
to place themselves fearlessly in battle
array on the side of the friends of tenn
perance. The low down trickery Of the
forces commanded by Attorney Todd.
whose evasive and misleading answer
to Councilman Wallace beguiled that
gentleman into voting In manner that
did not express his personal views and
was not consistent with his public spir-
tied general course of conduct, will
ALLEVIATE many citizens. Todd made foes
and not friends for the liquor traffic by
this most outrageous attempt to dodge
an issue, befool councilman and steal
a march on the public.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
THE Y. w. C. A.

IN HE ninth annual Pacific coast con-
ference of the Young Woman's
- Christian association has been
closed. 1t was in many respects the
most successful ever held. The Y. w.
c. A. is one of the great organizations
that in modern times have arisen to
strengthen the Christian church and all
good citizenship, good Americanism.
1t represents an idea to which the
church was in olden times a stranger.
the idea that women should be active
workers for the organizations which,
represent Christianity. In the earlier
days, women were told that they should
be seen and not heard. This is the gist
of Paufs advice to the early Christians,
and we may smile a little wee smile
as we reflect how woman has revised,
nay expunged, this part of the scrip
ture to suit her purposes. She ignores
the Pauline admonition and the more
thoroughly she ignores it the better it
is for the church. Look for the
when he is pointing out method of
arriving at an explanation of a scandal.
But look for the woman if you would
arrive at an explanation of the great
revival of militant Christianity in mod
ern times and it's wonderful world
winning campaign during the last de-
cade.
There is a moral in this. Some of our
readers may not like it, but we cannot
help that. The moral is so obvious
that we are almost ashamed to partic-
ularize. after having called your atten-
tion to the fact that it exists, for no
doubt you have guessed 1t already,
Woman could do as wonderful work
and as great work for the state as she
has done for the church. Give her the
same opportunities in public affairs
that the church has given her in church
affairs and similar results will surely
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
CLEAR. CRISP AND CLEAN
ANARCHY IN BRITAIN

HT HEN we were pointing out the
wv great superiority Of the Amert-
w can governmental machinery
over the British we said that under
certain conditions which seemed I'M
minent the United Kingdom would run
wild" The expected happened. With
out either premier or ministry the
United Kingdom found itself In
dilemma that the London correspon-
dents, with unconscious humor, termed
a peculiar position" It was certainly
a peculiar position-in our vivid
western imagery, the country. was up
In the air There are several ex-
plantations of the failure of the people
who live on the tight little island to
appreciate the humor Of the anarchy in
which, through constitutional defects,
they indulge from time to time. One Is
that they are too good natured to make
a fuss over trifie like the absence of a
responsible government; the other is
that they are too blissfully ignorant to
care about it. The word blissfully is
used advisedly, for there are conditions
under which 'twere folly to be wise.
Owing to the perfection of the ma
chinery of government in this country
and the conservatism with which we
have clung to old forms and to usages
approved by the stamp of time we have
had no interruption of responsible ad-
ministration. Bestow an appreciative
thought on the political chaos in the
British isles and be thankful you live
in country where the value of organ
ization has been appreciated from the
first. The fiction of the power of the
crown still nomlnally holds the British
fabric together But upon analysis the
student is amazed to find that the gov
ernmental entity is all more or less
fiction. There is not even a written
constitution. although from time to
time an impassioned orator becomes
enthusiastic over the inviolability of
the British constitution. 1t is invio-
liable, surely; likewise intangible and
invisible! The habitual anarchists who
call themselves the British nation and
claim that that nation controls" a
worldwide empire fail to grasp the hu-
NOR of the situation. There is only one
real power in the United Kingdom. 1t
is the power of the democracy. All the
rest is fudge. But for an obscure rea-
son the democracy prefers to dodge its
full responsibility and to keep up a
sham which from time to time is ex-
posed by crucial contingencies and re-
veals a Barmecide What is it," kind
OF sacred myth, as the impossible CEN
trail soul of an impossible system of
government which in spite of it's impos-
sibility is allowed to control-nominally
"a large portion of the habitable globe!
That the system has not fallen to
pieces long ago is due more to pro-
verbal good luck than to good guild
ing"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
SAN PEDRO HARBOR

nO THE efforts of Senator Flint
South California owes the import
- ant amendment to the bill carry
ing appropriations for military defenses
by which 100000 was provided for the
construction of Notifications at San
Pedro. Washington dispatches say that
the committee having the bill in charge
had previously stricken out all appro-
priations for San Pedro, although many
millions were appropriated for coast
defenses at other ports. The bill with
the amendment must still be passed by
the house of representatives, but there
is no reason to anticipate opposition
there. The amount provided for will
buy land necessary for the protection
of San Pedro harbor. and will pay for
part of the work of building fortifica-
tions. The visit of the fleet to San
Pedro has had the effect that The Her.
aid believed it would have when this
paper urged chambers of commerce and
other mercantile bodies and all good
citizens to bring every possible legiti-
mate influence to bear on Washington
in order that San Pedro might be
selected as one of the principal ports of
call for Uncle Sans ships. Naval ex-
perts are enthusiastic over the harpor,
and now that it is practically certain
that it will be protected nothing that
can be foreseen or even guessed in the
course of human events can prevent 1t
from coming into it's own, and being
nationally recognized as one of the fin
est, and also one of the safest harbors
in the United States, or in the world,
TO strengthen San Pedro by fortifica-
tion will strengthen the Pacific coast.
To strengthen the Pacific coast will
strengthen the nation. In recognizing
the importance of San Pedro in the
great plan of national defense and
security, the government is recognizing
the plainly indicated destiny of our
great state. AS ]. Campbell White said
before an assemblage of prominent Los
Angeles ministers and laymen: I'm the
next one hundred years the center of
the worlds events will be on the Pacific
| coast"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
Daily Naval Report

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE follow
ing navy orders have been issued:
Capt. w. C. Eaton, inspector OF en-
gineering material for the Connecticut
district, headquarters. Hartford. Conn
Commander F. G. Bowers, from in
spection of engineering material for the
Connecticut district, to head of the de-
partment of steam engineering. Cavite,
p. L.
Lieutenant Commander ]. r. Brady,
from the Pennsylvania to the bureau
of ordnance, Washington, d. c.
Lieutenant Commander ]. H. Rowen,
from Cavite, P. l.. to home and swat
orders.
Lieut.. u. s. Macy, from the st. Louis
to home and wait orders.
Lieut.. G.. S. Lincoln. from the CALI
fornia to the Pennsylvania as senior
engineer officer.
Lieut. r. B. Fenner, from the Mil
waukee to the Wisconsin.
Lieuts ]. Rodgers. O. y. Brillnart'
C. Belknap, 1r.; d. 7. Ghent, "a;
Poteet, j. ID. Wilson, II. .. holmes aiio
M. s. Davis commissioned heutenants
- Ensign ms m Il A. Lohr. from command Of
the Osceola to temporary duty on the
Mayffower.
I Ensign r. B. Cofey, irom the Fehh-
sylyania to the Wisconsin.
Ensign r. b. Strassburger, from the
Mayfiower; granted leave two weeks:
Midshipman f. r. King, from the
Milwaukee to the Pennsylvania.
Midshipman w. F. Lafrenz, from the
Milwaukee to the Pennsylvania.
Midshipman r. A. Theobald, from the
st. Louis to the Wisconsin.
Midshipman f. w. Langerquist and
Midshipman G. II. Laird. from the St,
Louis to the Wisconsin,
Chief Boatswain p. E. Radcliffe, from
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08

follow. The influence of good women
would be such a power for good in the
councils of this country that America,
in quick response to it, would make
progress unequaIed in the history of the
country or of the English speaking
race. How inconsistent are they who
admit that. in spite of Paul. 'woman's
rights may be acknowledged by the
church, while the state still disfran-
chises the mothers of the nation and
forbids them to have a voice In the
affairs of the republic.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
SAVE THE FORESTS!
mo BRING about national ownership
of eastern mountain forests is the

mo BRING about national ownership
of eastern mountain forests is the
Il aim of the American Civic asso-
citation. 1t has no sectional interest in
any particular part of the country. Its
concerns are nation wide. 1t is engaged
in campaign of education to save
America from the devastation and ruin
of it's richest resources. Clifford Pin
chot, chief of the forestry service, has
said: THE intelligent use of our re-
sources means for the United States
great and happy future. The waste of
these resources means that we shall re-
peat the conditions we see in Northern
Africa, Greece, Spain and Palestine.
We are not beyond the operation of
natural laws and neglect of the fun
damental basis of land and water will
bring upon us and our descendants the
same results that have desolated those
countries" An enemy ravaging the
United States could not do more harm
than has resulted from carelessness in
respect OF the timber supply. 1t is
strange but true that on the two ques-
tions most vital to it's interests. If 1t is
to endure, this country has either been
singularly indifferent or mot bliss
fully" ignorant. One question is that
of the growth and education and
preservation of trees throughout the
land. The other is the growth and edu-
cation and preservation of children
throughout the land, regarding which
we have had a good deal to say, will
say a great deal more and cannot say
enough until we are assured Of the tri-
umph of the Democracy and the resto-
ration of American rights to American
children.
But for the present we would speak
of the trees. Here is an experts de-
scriptlon of what happens to land after
forest is destroyed:
"The humus or soil dries up, loses
it's fibrous life and by erosion is rap
idly washed down into the rivers, where
1t is deposited to the detriment of nav
igation, necessitating millions of dollers
Of government money each year for
dredging. The heavier forest debris
which is not removed dries up and be-
comes a tangled mass of tinder that
takes fire when the hunters or the
woodman's match falls into it. In some
cases lightning strikes it. The fires,
beginning in this debris, spread to the
forests that are left and every year
do incalculable damage. After this
process is complete and the watersheds
are left bare, come death and the
dcluge."
There are many moral and Qf one
may saw so without risk of miscon-
struction) psychical influences which
have a vital bearing on the future and
permanence of the United States, but
there is one great physical influence
which is of equally vital Importance,
and it is the influence Of tree culture
on the water supply, the continued fer
tility of the land and the continued
fertility of the soil. Ignorance, tho
mother of many mischiefs, has moth
cred none more damaging or more de-
plorable than present loss and future
peril caused by the deforestation of
great areas of the United States.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
SILLY TALK

q IR WILFRID LAURIER and for
mer Governor Swettenham would
~ make a good team. Their brays
are very much alike. They must come
of a common stock. Fortunately the
American people are too we'll informed
to pay much attention to the gangrened
utterances of jealous and fanatical Ca
nucks, who wish the British to unite
with the japanese for the humiliation
of "a common foe." Why the Canadian
jingoes should persist in regarding us
as foes when all the rest Of the British
empire is sending special invitations to
our fleet to visit and be entertained,
we would be at a loss to know unless
we were aware that of all passions
jealousy is the meanest, the most con-
temptible, the most depraving and the
most depraved. Americans will not let
their angry passions rise when they
read the Suppressed speech" OF Lau-
rier.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
AMERICAN IN CABINET

A SOUTH, the new premier, may be
u a we'll known statesman in Brit
- ain. He Is an unknown quantity
in international politics. But something
so astonishing, so gratifying and so
amazing and joyful is about to happen
in British history that we can almost
forgive Fate for displacing hatigood If
not great man. Campbell-Bannerman.
In the new British cabinet will be the
son of an American mother, and the
husband of an American wife. His
name is Lewis Harcourt. OF him, as
the old time story books say, More
anon" With an American wife and
mother, his friendship for the United
States cannot be doubted. He would
not dare to be unfriendly!
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
DISGRACED

NJ EWS that the jury has convicted
DR.. Lanterman, accused of falsi-
\ flying expense accounts, is per-
haps not surprising to those who have
followed the case closely. There will
be a general feeling of regret that a
trusted and important public official
should have stopped to petty crime.
Mingled with regret will be mortifica-
ton that the world should have this
chance of making the free comments
which may be expected on boodling in
the "City of the Angels" The disgrace
of a public official is to a certain ex-
tent shared by the community which
he served.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08

Mare Island, Cal, to the Philadelphia,
Puget Sound, Wash.
Boatswain H. T. Johnson, from the
Philadelphia, Puget Sound, WASH, to
the Wisconsin.
Chief Carpenter w. oNeill, commits.
stoned chief carpenter.
Warrant Machinist #. C. Lutz, from
the st. Louis to the Wisconsin.
Movements of Navy Vessels
The Eagle from Port au Prince for
surveying grounds.
The Nezinscot from Portsmouth, N.
H., for Rockland.
The Denver from Swatow for Hong
kong and the New Hampshire from
League Island for New York.
The collier Alexander has been as
signed to the Atlantic fleet.
Navy Notes
Commander Albert Gleaves, in charge
of the torpedo station at New
port, has been ordered to command the
cruiser st. Louis to relieve Commander
Nathaniel r. Usher.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy New
berry gave out this statement: "rhe
action of congress in approving the de-
partment's request for a deficiency ap-
preparation of S2,000000, under armor
and armament increase of the navy
Will avert the discharge of about 1000
men Which would have occurred at the
Washington navy yard between now
and July had the allotment under in
crease of the navy been materially re.
duced or cut off. This provision OF
money, however, win not cure the pres
ent lack of work at the yard, which
makes it necessary to reduce the force
by about 200 men. The department has
directed that these men be placed on
furlough for thirty days from April II
BY an unanimous vote the chouse
committee on naval affairs decided to
report back to the house adversely all
bills, pending before 1t which provide
for the purchase by the government of
the Jamestown exposition site for the
purpose of establishing naval station.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08

All hen-pecked husbands will echo
the statement of the dean of students
in Northwestern university medical
school: "It is wrong to bring a boy
under an influence that is solely
feminine" They probably think it is
equally wrong to bring a man under
such an influence. But. what are they
going to do about it? Seems to US that
mid the hullabaloo about women's
rights, mems rights are being neglected.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08

Recruits and workers from all po-
litical parties are invited to join the
State Partisan Direct Primary
league, which has been formed in San
Francisco. The leaders of the move
ment deny that the organization is
being effected for the purpose of help
ing any party, Its only object Is to
benefit American citizens by promoting
Americanism.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-08
The Burned Child. Etc.

Dear Mister Man. if you think be-
cause your wife has bought Merry
Widow hat you are in to clear, you
are a much misled citizen. Every one
Of the dear creatures has her eye on an
Easter creation that will make her
neighbor squirm. You are not through.
You will be stung.