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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
ANOTHER WAGNER STORY.

The twenty fifth anniversary of the
death of Richard Wagner brought Wag.
ner stories, old and new, true and false
In great numbers into the German
papers. One of these. published in a
Vienna paper. entitled Jean Paul as a
Wagner Prophet" is to the effect that
In the second decade of the last Gen.
fury he wrote. an introduction to one
of the works of C. A. T. Hoffman,.
A." Before this was finished, - so goes the
story, jean Paul heard that Hoffman,
was not only a poet, but a musician of
no mean order, and he added to his in
Productions: So much the better, so
much more seldom. Heretofore the sun
god has always bestowed the gift of
poetry with his right and the gift of
music with his left hand upon men so
far apart that we are still waiting for
the man who can write and compose an
opera. The introduction is dated Bay
reuth. November "a, 1913, the year of
Wagner S birth, and, strangest of all,
1t was written in the place where the
wish was later realized. -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
RACED FOR CUP
FIFTY YEARS AGO

w. H. McInerny, otherwise known
as ''Transpacif1c Mae" has been deiv-
ing into the local aquatic archives
and one Of the results of his observa-
tons has been the discovery of what
is perhaps the oldest cup ever offered
for. water contest in Hawaii.
The cup in question was presented
fifty years ago and the race took place
on Regatta Day. The exact date was
May 81. 1859.
F The race was won by the five-oared
gig Thistle, H. r. Macfarlane being
coxswain. The boat was owned and
entered by H. Macfarlane, father of
the coxswain.
There were about forty entries in
this event, most of which were whale
boats.
The owner of the boat, H. Macfar-
lane, was the father Of G.. w, F. w.
and H. r. Macfarlane.
The cup was made by Tanderslice
of San Francisco.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
W. G.. IRWIN
CONTRIBUTES

The yacht fund is being swelled all
the time and hardly a day passes that
some gift, either of money or some
thing needed, is not acknowledged by
the committee.
The following Letter from w. G. Irwin
speaks for itself:
San Francisco, Cal, March 81, 1908.
Mr.. w. H. McInerny, Secretary Trans
pacific Yacht Committee Honolulu.
of your letter of March 18th, and the
contents was not a surprise to me, as
the result of your yacht building
scheme has come out pretty near as
/ think I predicted to you at the time
I made my first subscription. How
ever, as | do not want to see Hawaii
prove a failure after having got so far
as it has. have written Giffard to give
you another additional $3.50, for my
account. and which / trust with other
subscriptions will prove sufficient for
your needs.
You can extend the Yacht Club my
best regards and sincere wishes for a
successful completion of the yacht, and
hopes that she will eventually carry
off the Pacific cup.
What was the result offthat race for
which I offered a cup, or has it ever
come off?
Yours sincerely,
w. G. IRWIN.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
BARNEY AND
FORTUNE TELLER

From a mechanic to a policeman.
from a policeman to a baseball man
ager, from a baseball manager to a
plumber, and from a plumber to a
chief engineer. What will be Mike
Fishers next leap? The "kink" was
standing in front of young engine
this morning watching intently the
steam Indicator rise. What are you
doing now, Mike?" were the hailing
words of an old friend.
Just making water crazy with the
heat" retorted the chief, without even
cracking a smile. THAT is all, and I
guess I am lucky to have this job
these tough tines
But Fisher had to turn his tongue
to his Observation-Disclosures he tore
off good one on Barney joy RE
member the time Barney had that bad
slump?" resumed Fisher, after dis
cussing in general way the baseball
prospects of this season There is a
story behind that. Barney was a great
believer in fortune-tellers. He was
going to them all the time Finally
the players got on to him and they
put up job. They worked Barney
to patronize a certain prophet whom
they had fixed. They told the card
reader what to tell Barney I believe
they had him tell him that his wife
was flirting with other men. I know
it was an awful cock-and-bull story.
Anyway, Barney worried over it so
badly that he attributed his slump to
the words of the fortune-teller. 1t
was no nice thing to do to poor Bar
ney, butathese ball players are heart
less lot. They will resort to most
anything to pull off a gag. especially
on a newcomers. f. Bulletin.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
KANAE ON
SHORT END


II may not be able to beat Kanae.
but I'll have an Internally hard try
That's what Hans FroeIecher said
yesterday when asked what he thought
of the coming wrestling bout.
And that sums up the whole mat
ter. Froelecher is as game as lion
and MAS yet to be beaten at his weight,
which is about 40 pounds.
Maybe I win said Kanae last
night. 81 think I win; that haole is
very strong, but he is too small for
me. I can pick him up and throw him
outside"
That's the way the principals in the
coming wrestling tournament figure
things out.
In what bets have been made SO
far, Froelecher has been a firm ia
vorite, but there was plenty of en-
quiry for Froelecher money yesterday
at odds of to 1, and it would not be
surprising to see less odds than this
accepted by the Kanae people before
the night of the bout.
Kanae, wrestling with a native boy
yesterday, got mad and threw his OPP
ponent clean off the mat, causing a
dislocated shoulder, which, however,
was quickly repaired.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
1INcoLN's PHYSICAL DOUBLE.

Samuel NJ. Smyser, an attorney of
Los Angeles, is the physical double of
Lincoln. His friends call him Rail
splittingsSam." Mr.. Smyser explains
his remarkable resemblance to Honest
Abe by the theory of prenatal infu-
enee. ''In the only suit my father ever
experienced, says the lawyer. lin
coin defended him. That was just be-
fore my birth, and / suppose that the
future president was often in the sight
and in the minds of my parents. -
Physical appearance is not the entire
extent of the resemblance between Mr..
Smyser and Lincoln The early life of
both were similar, Mr.. Smyser was
born of poor parents. His childhood
home was on a farm in Illinois. After
an incomplete education he taught a
district school. studying law at odd
moments He finally devoted himself
to the legal profession, and came to Los
Angeles two years ago.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
THINGS CAME
LAVlGNE'S WAY

Yes said Jerry Broderick, yes
terday, cts all well and good for an
evening paper to come out with a big
headline: Things Coming Pinkham's
Way
TT reminds me of the time Young
Critic fought Kid Lavigne.
Critic was beating the stuffing out
of the Saginaw Kid, and friend of
the latter's in the gallery shouted;
How are they coming, Kid?'
'Everything's coming my way.
replied Lavigne, as he ducked flock
of hooks, jabs and swings which
would have stopped any ordinary
man."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
Short and Sweet

The Diamond Heads will line up as
follows against the st. Louis nine in
the game scheduled to be played on
Saturday afternoon: En- Sue, JOY,
Aylett, Jimmy and Johnny Williams,
George Bruins, Soares, Bushnell, Evers,
Ayau and Arcia.
The White Rock golf tournament
next Sunday will be the 2sth of the
series. Talk about profitable advertis-
ing!
Baseball tomorrow.
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Z. Fl. Lewis has fast pony in Sham
rock, which may be matched in the
near future.
c. G. Rockus has been elected presi-
dent of the Hawaiian Tennis Associa-
ton Richard A. Cooke is the new Sec
rotary. With these officials at the helm
the association will have another sue
cessful year.
The tennis championship will be de-
cided the first week in October.
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The Beretania Tennis Club will hold
an invitation tournament next month.
- - -
In future the tennis championship
cups will be won outright instead of
being semiperpetual affairs as has
been the case in the past.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10
NEURALGIA AND SCIATICA
CURED.

The great pain relieving power of
Chamberlafn's Pain Balm has been the
surprise and delight OF many suffer-
ers from neuralgia and scfatica- The
excruciating pains characteristic of
these diseases are quickly allayed by
this liniment. For sale by Benson,
Smith & Co.. Ltd. agents for H. I.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-10

Honolulu has We'll gained the reputa-
ton of being clean city. The only
way we can maintain same is by keep
ing at work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27

and tackled the job The mail chute
was a regular one. built of glass and
metal. The heavy glass formed the
four sides and the metal held the cor
ners. During the evening l examined
the mail chute from the first to the
fourth floor, and then the whole thing
became plain
1.-The following day 1 called Judson
out of his Office and said: Judson,
We've practically got q cinch on that
mail carrier. Wait until tomorrow and
send out the DrisSs as usual. Well
trap him at the next alley
Il said it loud enough for every one
in the office TO hear. About five min
utes later Miss Springer put on her
hat and went out to lunch. I ran
downstairs and saw her come down in
the elevator, talking earnestly for a
moment with the elevator man.
THAT day 1 spent investigating Miss
Springer. 1 discovered that she was
living at the same address as the ele-
vator man, and that, although passing
as Miss Springer at Judson's office, she
was known as Mrs. McCabe at the
house-and McCabe was the elevator
man.
Yesterday" added Ford, 1--WE sprung
the trap. The letters were given to
Miss Springer to mail, and Judson
went to the mail chute to see her drop
them in. She waited, pretending to
blow her nose, for half a minute be-
fore she dropped in the letters, and
then she commenced with the big
prizes and followed with the small ones
in punches. 1 was hidden on the third
floor watching the elevator, which was
stopped between the third and fourth
floors.
"McCabe, the elevator man, was ar
rested when he ran his car up to the
ninth floor and started across the hall.
Miss Springer was arrested the mo-
ment she started back to the office. All
the prize letters were found in Nc
Cabe's pockets.
''The scheme was so simple it was
ridiculous. McCabe had sawed a piece
of glass out of the back of the mail
chute at the fourth floor level so he
could push it and make 1t fall slant
ingly across the chute, thus filling it
and diverting ali the letters that came
down the chute into his elevator. Then
he would pull the glass back into
place, hide the letters on the top floor
until ready to go off duty, and go
home.
He and his wife confessed every
thing. But / can't help thinking that
Garden and the mail collector might
have been convicted on the circum-
stantial evidence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27
"Jeb" Stuart's Last Battle

1.-The most brilliant charge I ever
witnessed was made by Custer at the
battle of Yellow Tavern said an Ole
confederate cavalryman at the recent
reunion in Richmond, who is quoted III
the Washington Post. 1T was near the
beginning of what historians now cal
the Wilderness campaign.
: II was with Jeb Stuart, General F1tz
Lees division. Wicham's brigade and
Phil Sheridan's troops were hanging
on us like pack of hungry wolves
nipping us at every turn. We had beer
marching and fighting pretty steadily
for more than two weeks, with mighty
little time for rest.
I'VE left Hanover Junction about !
O'Clock one night, and reached Yellow
Tavern before 10 o'clock the next
morning. You know Sheridan was not
one to let grass grow under his feet
when there was any fighting to be done
and when he was matched against Jeb
Stuart it was nip and tuck.
I'VE hadn't more than halted at the
Tavern when up comes Sheridan and
tries to drive us out. 1t was a pretty
tough struggle, a hand TO hand fight,
and we fell back from the Tavern, but
held our position on the telegraph road
leading to Richmond. / was with the
battery on the extreme left wing, and
il was about o'clock in the afternoon
when orders came for the whole divis-
ion, excepting the First Virginians, to
dismOunt. but hold their position.
1T did seem good, | can tell you,
after so many hours in the saddle, to
stretch out on the ground and take a
smoke; that is, ali who had anything
to smoke. There was just one pipeful
among that whole battery, and the boy
who owned it passed it down the line,
and each man took his turn putting at
it.
when it was all gone we all began
to speculate on what deviltry Sheridan
would be up to next, and how Jeb Stu
art would head him off. 1t wasn't long
before some fellow wished for a drink
of water.
: you all know how it is, when one
man wishes for water the whole com.
pany begins to swear they are dying of
thirst. Jack Saunders and | took a
bunch of canteens and started over the
hill to a spring that he had seen that
morning during our scrimmage with the
Yanks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27
How Love Aided Thief

,Judson suspects me of this business
see 1t. He has you here watching me
want you to see me put in every prize
and mail them. won about $500 play
ing poker last week. and flashed the
money around the office the day after
the mail was robbed. That made il
look bad. I'm not a saint, but Ford
never stole cent in my life, and ]
can't stand this
I soothed Garden. I told him he
ought not to object to any effort al
clearing up the mystery if he was in
nocent, l took the bundle of letters
from Garden, called Judson, and told
him to mail the letters in person. Then
1 went down stairs and watched /
saw several punches of letters come
down the mail chute. Half an hour
later the collector came. He took every
letter from the box, put them in his
sack, and was starting away when l
stopped him and showed him a permit
from the inspector to look over his
mail He turned pale, trembled and
then grew angry. He declared he was
not a thief, and that he wouldn't stand
for it,
1.-THE evidence against Garden and
the collector looked pretty fair. Both
their actions and the circumstances in
Dictated guilt. l examined the letters
and discovered that out of Sixty-f1ve
of JudsOn's letters twenty-eight were
missing. They had disappeared be-
tween the seventh floor and the ground
if Judson dropped them all in.
THE new development knocked all
my theories a twister. / told the mail
man his innocence was practically
proved, and ordered him to say moth
ing!
''Then I took the elevator and went
back to Judson. During the day
made a thorough canvass of all the
offices in the building. The Tyrone
building is filled with small concerns,
mainly publishing and literary novelty
companies. From the first floor TO the
fourth everything was all right. From
the fourth to the ninth. which is the
top. every firm had complaints of miss
ing letters.
THAT confirmed my theory that while
the thieves were after JudsOn's prizes
they were being forced to examine the
mail of other firms to make sure. The
mail was disappearing below the third
floor-that much was certain. / waited.
until the offices were closed that night
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27


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injured as to become incapacitated for
would be entitled to pensions. and dis
charged employees who can show that
there was no just reason for throw
ing them out will be given a chance
to do so.
The plan cannot be too heartily COM
menc-d, nor can it be too strongly rec
commended to other large employers of
labor. The average man who tolls
with his hands for his daily bread has
mighty little to look forward to in his
old age. Very few of them are able
to save anything out of their pay.
If they are married and have children
the task of saving is very much harder
When they reach the time that it is
impossible for them to work any longer
they are, as a rule, set adrift to be-
come charges upon their relatives or
upon the community in which they live
1t is rather discouraging to be COM
PEELED to face that sort of thing, to
recognize it as being as much a GER
tainty of the future as the rising of
the sun and the going down of the
same. It is enough to make the worker
feel that life. after all, is hardly worth
living. The pension plan solves the
problem. 1t insures the man who has
been faithful, who has done his best
in the place he occupies. an independ-
ent living in the closing years of his
life, an afternoon of peace and con-
tentment.
That the laborer is worthy of his
hire is a very old saying, and an al
ways true saying. We mean by this
the laborer who actually labors, not
the fellow who is busy only when the
eye of his employer is on him. And
the faithful laborer is worthy of bet
ter reward at the end of his long years
of service than dependence upon I'M
willing charity or the bitter bread of
a public institution. The knowledge
that such a reward is to be his is ant
to make him careless in his work, ne
gleetful of the interests of his en-
ployee, content to work only for the
wages he receives from week to week.
The pension plan will pay for itself
in increased efficiency, in more inter-
ested, more loyal service. The employee
will not risk the loss of his pension
by sighting his work, by inattention
TO his duties. He will, if he has the
smallest amount of the right stuff in
him, work just as hard as he can all
the time. Wherever the pension sys-
tenn has been tried it has been found
to work well. The surprising thing is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27
THE CASE OF DR.. BEATTY.

The Herald is very glad the mem
bers of the Utah County Medical as
ISOLATION, at a fully attended meeting
held at Provo. reconsidered its ill
timed and hasty action of a previous
meeting at which DR.. T. B. Beatty,
secretary of the state board of health,
was charged with incompetency and
the governor was requested to ask for
his resignation. Only a few of the
Utah county medical men-six, to be
eXact-were present at the meeting that
criticised DR.. Beatty. And with per-
haps one or two exceptions, those be-
ing men with a personal grudge, the
men who voted for the original resolu-
ton did so under a misrepresentation
The Utah County association has
taken very commendable position in
frankly acknowledging it's error. Its
Endorsement of DIR. Beatty, with all the
facts before il, is as thorough and as
complete as could possibly have been
desired. And the plain truth is that
DR.. Beatty is entitled to the cordial
cooperation and support of all the
physicians of the state Certainly no
member of the medical profession has
done more for that profession or for
the protection of the public health than
has DIR. Beatty.
1t was through his earnest efforts
that the law creating a state board
of health was enacted by the legisla-
ture. He has either drawn directly or
he has had d powerful influence upon
the passage of all the laws relating
10 health and the practice of medicine
now in force in the state. Much of
his work has been done at considerable
personal cost. He has engaged in it
because he believes it to be his duty
as a citizen, and the results he has
accomplished speak for themselves
1t is but natural that, in the course
Of his aggressive tenure of the Office
health. DR.. Beatty should make some
enemies. II is not too much to say
that he would not have been a good
officer if he had not made enemies.
Just as the man who commits or con-
templates the commission of a crime
is the enemy of the policeman, so men
who are inclined to be careless about
quarantine regulations, men who would
be willing to see epidemics of disease,
men who profit in any way by out
breaks of a more or less serious char
acter. do not like DR.. Beatty.
These men know that ne is always
vigilant. that he will take up their trail
and pursue il until he has brought
about their punishment. He doesn't
know what it means to let go, once
he is satisfied he is right. That health
conditions in Utah have improved dur
ing DR.. Beatty's tenure of office will
not be denied by anyone familiar with
the facts. Nor will anybody deny that
he is striving continuously for further
improvement. DR.. Beatty is emphat-
ically the right man in the right place
and he should be kept there as long
as ne can be induced to remain.