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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-12

MARINE
WILL GUST PILOTS.

ne plot office was visited by Super
intendent Marston Campbell yesterday
on one of his regular tours of inspec-
uon He has notified the pilots that
they viii have 10 move from their
present quarters in a short time but
VIII be installed IN very comfortable
and commodious quarters in the new
shed which is TO be erected on the
Alakea street wharf. The plans for
the new structure call for the erection
OF a fine lookout and rooms in the up
per story of the building and the pilot
ONCE viii be permanently established
there. For the past ten years the pilots
have been Shifted nearly every time
there has been change in the wharves
or harbors lines. In the new location
1t is expected they will remain for a
great many years as unless something
very unforeseen happens the harbor i'm
provements in the next decade will not
be near as radical or rapid as they
have been during the past ten years.
The three pilots are looking forward to
the new quaSters with a deal of pleas
ure and are-already laying plans for
a house warming and pedro party to
be given in honor of the promotion
from the slums Of Kakaako to what
will be the busiest portion of the wa
terfront when the wharf shed is COM
pIetpd
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-12
WATER WAGON, AHoYl

The departure of the tug Iroquois
Yesterday morning early for Pearl
Harbor with the water tender water
Wagon in tow. was eagerly watched
from the various wharves and the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-12
TIDES. SUN AND MOON.
IA 4.es % 90 s 20 i 80 5. Is g Rise

Full moon June II at 1882 a. N.
The tides al Kahului and Hilo occur
about one hour earlier than at Homo
lulu
Hawaiian standard time is 10 hours
IN minutes slower than Greenwich
time. being that Of tho meridian Of ISL
degrees thirty minutes. The time
whistle blows at 1:30 ?. m, which is
The same as Greenwich hours min
ntAs. sun and moon are for local time
for the whole group.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-12

The officers and men of the steamer
Kinau are very fond of fishing wha.1
lying in port at the other islands and
sometimes have a great deal of sport
after work. The picture of the big
shark which appears herewith is
photo of a twelve foot man-eater
caught recently by one of the crew
while fishing for ulua. The shark
took the hook and it was fastened in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-12
WEIR LINE ENTERS.

Vice-ConsuI Farmhouse. of Apia, Sa-
moa, reports that arrangements have
been completed for a resumption of
steamship service between the United
states and Australia, which will touch
at Samoa. Mr.. Farmhouse writes: AN
inspector of the Weir Line of steam
ships informs me that his company
will run a four-weekly service each
way between San Francisco and Sgd
ney, calling at Apia and Tonga and
at Auckland, New Zealand. This should
give great impetus to trade between
the United States and Samoa, besides
helping American trade with the naval
station at Tutuila and also with the
Tonga Islands. AT present the only
regular communication with the out
side world enjoyed by Samoa is by two
vessels of the Union Steamship Com
pany of New Zealand which make
round trips every four weeks, sailing
from Auckland and Sydney, calling at
Fiji Samoa and Ton ga -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-12

its lip. The line being a very strong
one it did not part before bovine
was slipped over the sharks tail al
though several times it looked as if
the big fish would get away. The
picture was taken just as the shark
was hoisted over the side. 1t weighed
over a thousand pounds. The jaws
of the shark were cleaned and pre-
scented to Agent Mayer. of the Stand
ard Oil Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22

state will be sure to give him an over wheming vote, and the fact that he has little or no opposition should not be permitted to lessen the vote of the man from Ne..-5ka. A large vote will be cast on May Is. Local candidates will bring out nearly full vote, and in every precinct efforts should be made to keep the Bryan vote well to- ward the top.
 The vote in this state for presiden- tial nominee may readily become the beginning of a great change. It may prove historic, for it may be the in auguration of popular selections by the many of presidential candidates. Ala bama set a precedent when it named alternate candidates for United States Senators, and it may set another when it names by popular vote it's choice for President. It is a new departure, as important perhaps as it is novel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
Birmingham'S Area Increased

Almost unanimously the long con meeting strips south and east of this city voted on Monday in favor of an nexation. This vote doubles the area Inf Birmingham proper, besides paving the way for annexations>of municipali- ties in the early future if the munich nalities so desire The municipalities in question are Avondale, Woodlawn and East Lake, and important parts they will become of the greater city Whether they prefer immediate annex atiop to annexation on October 1, 1909, is a matter each will determine for it. self. All that can be said is, they are rendered adjoining territory by the vote of Monday, and they can come in whenever they are so minded.
 Gradual assimilation is undoubtedly preferable to sudden development, and the central city stands ready to wei come all or any of it's future parts. No steps have been taken looking to speedy annexation, but no one can tell what weighing of the pros and cons may bring forth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
-'e'-------- EGGS POISON SOME.

From the Chicago Tribune
 An interesting theory has just been ad- Vanced by pr. R. Kingston Fox for the curious effects that eggs have on some people. Eggs, like shell fish, contain a powerful lime decomposing substance. suppose to reside chiefly in the membrane Whlch incloses the white of the egg On the outer surface of this membrane the shell is formed, consisting principally of lime, the substance in question having the power of selecting the calcium Qime) dis solved in surrounding media and precipi- tating 1t in solid form for the shell of an egg is lime) When the lime-destroy- ing substance is taken into the human stomach it finds it way quickly into the blood and in individuals who are not tolerant of it's action reduces the fibrin forming power of the blood by precipi- tatins the lime salts on which that power depends Hence there is diminished CO., agulability and transudation (passing) of lymph through the walls of the capiiaries Such transudation takes place most com monly in the skin, setting up urticaria tnettle rashD, and frequently also in the passages to the lungs, producing the symptoms of asthma. It Is in this way that an attack of urticaria is caused by the eating of shell fish
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
City and County Sanitation

Attorney General Garber's opinion relative to city and county health off cers is plainly an effort to coordinate the entire lot and to bring them all into line for the public good. The county board of health holds statu- tory right of supervision over the san itary conditions of things in its coun- ty, and it appoints in accordance with another statute a health officer for ev- cry municipality within the bounds of the county.
 But the city authorities may appoint a city bacteriologist, meat and milk inspector, a garbage and street clean ing inspector, and a plumbing and sewer inspector The city health off cer and the county board of health have supervisory bowen over these city officials, but that supervisory power is to be exercised in accordance with the health laws of the state and the health ordinances of the municipality.
 All health ordinances that are drawn in conformity with the health laws of the state will stand, and in this way room is left for all sanitary work in any city that may be considered deslr- able. The health authorities of state, county and city are to pull together, and a citys ordinances are no more 10 be ignored than are the general health laws. The attorney general has found in an apparently chaotic system considerable consistency, and he has fairly and judiciously woven the health laws of the city and state into har- monious and perhaps comprehensive whole
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
North Birmingham'S B0uds

A vote of nearly to i in North Bir- mingham in favor of an issue of bonds aggregating $5,O00,O00 for water and electric light purposes is not taken seriously. It is not believed that the proposed bonds can be marketed, espe- cially if they are to be subjected to a legal cross-fre.
 The epidemic of suburban bond is- sues has eliminated no doubt in this effort of North Birmingham to solve great municipal problems for not only itself, but for Greater Birmingham.
 A part should not attempt to act for the whole Each part of the coming greater city should act up to it's own needs, but not beyond them. This is where North Birmingham is lame. This is where error creeps in. By an- ticipation, North Birmingham en- deavors to act for the entire greater city, instead of confining it's field of operation to it's own bounds. No one will claim that North Birmingham needs a $5,000,0O0 water and light plant, and any attempt on it's part to plan and finance Greater Birmingham would therefore seem ill-timed, and, in a word, a misfit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
uNoERsTuDIEs FOR MoNARcHs.

From the London Black and White.
 In a land of distrust like Russia it is only natural that the precautions taken should be of the most drastic order, hence the use of a royal understudy, who has always been a conspicuous figure at that court. Indeed, it was the understudy of the late Tsar Alexander III-a man named Komaroff-who was murdered in Moscow some years ago, when the murderer thought he had covered himself with glory by assassinatng the tsar. Nicholas, like his father before him. has an under study, and the many state functions he attended at the opening of his reign, when the relations. with his people were less strained than they are today were at tended for the most part by proxy. No monarch, however. made such frequent use of his understudy as the late Em- peror William of Germany. Every day, as the clock struck 12. the Emperor came out and bowed on the palace balcony It was not until some time after the Elm peror's demise that the secret was made known that the man who appeared daily on the balcony was the royal understudy. And the person who gave the secret away was the great Bismarck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
Mountain Creek Appreciative.

Commandant J. M Simpson of the Mountain Creek Confederate soldiers home has addressed a letter to Col. J. l.. Darby in which he says: My Dear Friend and Comrade-The box of clothing named in your last letter has been received, opened and already some of it given out to some of the men. This is only another evidence of your continued active interest in the welfare of the comrades who are stranded here, practical proof of which we have had in the many packages you have sent us and been instrumental in having sent to us. This is a good lot of spring clothing and I thank you sim cerely for the timely remembrance of the home, and I wish you to particu- larly convey our thanks to Comrade Smith, who so kindly and literally contributed to the making up of the shipment. What was sent was just what we needed.
 Tt always does the old reb good
 "1t always does the Old Reb good comrades who have been less fortunate in the battle of life. Birmingham is great. And we appreciate her hospitable invitation to the inmates of the home to the reunion. All who can will avail themselves of the opportunity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Lack of Respect for Funerals.

1 Considerable complaint is being made 1 by the local funeral directors of street cars. automobiles. drays and other ve- hicles breaking through funerals. The repeated occurrence of the infraction of the law in this respect has become very objectionable
 Despite the fact that there is a state as well as a city law making it unlawful for vehicles to break through a funeral, and that through respect for the dead the law is generally observed,' said a prominent funeral director last night. there seems to be a number of people who persist in this dissertation of the dead. A day or two ago, while a funeral procession was passing through the bus mess section of the city, at one corner q street car broke in between the hearse and the family carriage, barely missing the horses which drew the carriage, and within the next few blocks an automo- bile broke through the same section of the funeral
 "The law requires that even an express train must not break through d funeral procession, yet it has come to a point where negro city draymen can break through just where and when they please. If this thing continues the local funeral directors will be obliged to insist that the authorities enforce the law strictly, as the matter is not only very objection able, but where automobiles and street cars break through the procession it en- dangers the lives of those in the carriage immediately behind the section where the break is made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
For Entertaining Veterans.

"The committee on homes desires to announce to the people of Birmingham, ' said Jerome A. Tucker yesterday, that beginning Monday, April 27, canvass will be made of the city and suburbs for the purpose of ascertaining how many guests of the reunion may be entertained in this wise.
 "rhe committee feels that it need not remind the people of Birmingham, loyal, generous and hospitable, as they always are, it is essential that the hospitality of private homes should be extended to the utmost capacity. The hotels and boarding houses have not sufficient ac- commodations to provide for all those who come. It falls, therefore upon the people of Birmingham to throw open their doors for entertainment.
 ''The committee on homes is anxious to provide private accommodations for 75cJ to 5000 people. The committee would suggest, therefore, that each family be prepared to give the canvassers on their rounds next week the necessary infor- nation in regard to the entertainment of our guests"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
THE HUMAN BRAIN.
1t Does Not Think Itself, But Acts as
 the Servant of the Personality.

Dr. William Hanna Thompson, in the
 May Everybody's.
 Briefly, the two brain hemispheres in our head are analogous to two phono- graphs. because phonographs can no more themselves cover their wax leaves with words expressing ideas than they can make wax think. The photographs are wonderful instruments, but they are never anything but instruments; and So the brain hemispheres are the instru- ments of the thinker, and nothing more. for if they could themselves think, then both hemispheres would think as mat ter of course, when, as a matter of fact, only one of them has a single imprint of the human mind in it.
 What is it, therefore, that thinks? Un- questionably the human personality which is itself independent of the brain it uses. So far as the brain is concerned it is simply physical in it's structure and chemical in it's composition. But in one of it's halves we are face to face with the tremendous exception to everything earthly. The evolutionist can make good showing that in structure mans brain differs but little from the chim- panzee's, just as it ought to in the ascend ing series of animals. But when it comes to the human mind the evolutionist has to quit. What but a mind worked by man could both weigh and accurately locate in the heavens a great planet, which neither he nor any one else had yet seen? And so the human world abounds with innumerable utter impossi- bilities for mere animals to achieve. Every article in an ordinary city house, be it thermometer or a book, or any thing else in it, is equally an impossibl ity for animals, by any process of evo- lution, to attain the power of producing.
 Mentally, therefore man is as much out of keeping with the entire succession and developments of evolution as any being from another world would be, ani those who would still say that because the hl nan brain so closely resembles that of the ape, these two cannot be far apart, are themselves their only good argu- ments. Meanwhile, for this human thinker one instrument for thinking is enough and he does not need two hem ispheres any more than violinist needs two violins. The second hemisphere is then only to provide against accidental dcmage to the first, when if he be yet young, the thinker can in time teach 1t to become human also in mental powers, but not if it's chords have become too stiffened with age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
Favorable Weather for Crops

From all parts of the cotton belt come reports that indicate the favora- ble examination of the new crop. Rains have fallen in good time and as a rule they have not been excessive. Field work has been carried right along. and very considerable acreage together with an early start, is no doubt the general result. Planting is not fully completed, but it is perhaps more nearly completed than it ever has been in April The crop, in other words, has been started under favoring circumstances.
 Just as much can be said of the corn crop, for the weather conditions that have benefited cotton have also been a great advantage in the corn fields. The acreage in corn is no doubt con. siderable, and the outlook at this writ. ing is excellent.
 Cotton and corn are the two great southern crops, and if they prove to be bumper crops this section can we'll af ford to laugh at stories of the panic for it will store it's cotton and fill it's corn cribs and await the worlds needs and satisfactory prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
WHY FOREIGN COUNTS WIN.
om the Baltimore Sun.

From the Baltimore Sun.
 The. American woman wishes to be courted and loved by the man she weds. This Is an undeniable fact and supplies, we believe, the clue to the so-called ''in- ternational marriages" which some per- sons greatly object to and expect Pres ident Roosevelt to deal with in a forth coming message to Congress. The Amer ican beau is no doubt strenuous courier but he is said to<be abrupt>and crude not understanding the art so thoroughly as does the leisured class in Europe. His devotion to business prevents his ac- quiring nicetes and refinements of man ner and method upon which the ladies dote "BarSis is willin '' is one formula and Mary, will you marry me?'' is an other, but both are inartistic and ex- cessively brief. It is an axiom with the fair sex that men are more agreeable as beaux than ais husbands, and they &C., cordingly like to prolong the prelimin- aries to a proposal The proposal itself ought they say, to be elaborated and protracted, so that its delghtsomeness may be the better enjoyed. Delicate little attentions go farther in winning regard than syllogisms and knockdown argu- ments This is better understood in Eu- rope than here. There, it is said, every prince, duke and count takes a course in the art of pleasing, with a view to win ming an heiress, American or other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
ROUMANIAN SAVINGS.

From the New York World.
 Poverty has laid and now is breeding: God helping, she will increase
 He who devised soldiery may the will derness eat his flesh and poverty his own children; the crows may eat up his bones upon all the fields.
 Justice is as princes make it.
 Woman's mind is weaker, except for mischief-makine; there she beats the devil
 little dirt brings luck to man s house.
 II you have money about you when you see the new moon you'll have it all the month.
 Trade is golden bracelet
 There is no bitterer fruit than foreign CTS in the land.
 A tipsy man believes himself the En- peror.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
THE TIME TO SOBER UP.

From LeSl1eS Weekly.
 And we are sobering up on all sides, thanks to the splendid intellect and matchless integrity of our federal court. The public is thinking harder and deeper for itself, and listening less than ever to the beguilngs of the sil- tongued demagogues. President Roosevelt's latest message in tone and purpose was the soberest document of his term. Congress, facing a s5O,000, 900 deficit in the treasury at the close of the fiscal year is sobering up, and is at Vast paying some heed to the burning question of financial legisla- tion, and promising to prevent the return of tight money and the possi- bility of panicky conditions with the crop movement early next fall. A bill has been introduced, though it is far from acceptable, to strike out some of the obvious injustces of the Sherman antitrust law. The department of justice is sob bering up sufficiently to announce the withdrawal of threatened prosecutions of the railroads for fail- ing to comply with the impossible re- quirements of the commodity clauses" of the railroad rate law, until their validity can be tested by the courts. The masses of the wage -earners, feel ing the bangs of the panic, are com ing to their sober senses. A bitter experience is teaching them the oft told lesson that the good of one IS the good of all; that if capital Is crushed. labor must be in idleness; that if the enterprise of the daring in- vestor, willing to risk his capital, be stif1ed, our industries must stagnate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
More About kidnapino.

'I notice in your paper of the goth instant" writes a Talladega citizen, where you give quite a lengthy ac count of the Kidnapping of Deputy West by Will Cunningham at Lincoln, Ala. You claim this to be direct in- formation furnished by Walker Hen derson of Lincoln, but there is part of it which is incorrect. The occurrence did not happen anywhere near Collins Bend. as that is 12 or IS miles below Lincoln, in St. Clair county neith CT is West a deputy sheriff from Talla- dega county, as he was not known here till there was a telephone messa ge from Lincoln in regard to the matter asking the sheriff to send his blood hounds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-22
THE REPORT couTEoUs.

From the Saturday Evening Post
 A young man in. hurry went through the left side of pair of swinging doors in the Senate wing of the capitol at Washington fast season and almost knocked over the late Senator Pettus of Alabama, who was about to push through the right side.
 The young man apologized profusely. "I am very sorry-I didn't know l was 1 am in a great hurry'
 That's all right son. said the vener- able Pettus., But let me give you piece of advice about going through doors like these. Always go through on the right side, and turn to the right. Then, if you meet anybody coming through and bum? into him you needn't apologize. He'll be a durned fool, and it won't be necessary. Good morning."