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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-30
TIDES, SUN AND MOON.

First quarter Of the moon Nov. l.
The tides at Kahului and Hilo occur
about one hour earlier than at Homo
uIu.
Hawaiian standard time Is 10 hours
q minutes slower than Greenwich
irne. being that Of the meridian of Isl
iegrees thirty minutes. The time
Ehistle blows at 100 p. m, which lie
he same as Greenwich hours 0 min
stes. Sun and moon are for local time
or the whole group.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-30
MARINE:

The Matson liner Lurline came in
yesterday morning after fairly smooth
and quite uneventful trip from San
Francisco. She carried thirty-One pas
sengers and about $500 tons of freight,
amongst which were 5000 bales of hay
and 6OOO sacks of grain, principally
barley.
For deckload she carried twenty-seven
head of cattle, destined for the Bellina
dairy, and, besides large amount of
general freight, had several hundred
tons of fertilizer aboard.
Local Notice to Mariners.
The following affects the list of lights,
buoys, and daymarks, twelfth lighthouse
subdistriet, 1908:
HAWAII.
Hilo Bay, Hawaii Island page p
Cocoanut Island reef buoy, ,, a second
class spar, was established October "a,
1905 in 70 feet of water, to mark
rock on the westerly side of C0coanut
Island, bearings approximate;
Blonde Reef Southerly End Buoy, 5,
345 deg. So min IN. 10y w. "a w, 5-12
mile.
Faukaa Point Light, 32S deg. % min.
(NW. q NJ, PA miles.
Cocoanut Point Light, $50 deg. 10
min. (WSW. II W., = mile
October %, Coeoanut island Reef
Buoy, 2, a second-class nun. wa@ zeIum-
bered a -
By fder the Lighthousg card.
STAN FORD E. NOSE,
Lieu Commander, IT, : n.
Assistant to the Inspector, Twef2 II
Lighthouse District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
TUBERCULOSIS DISAPPEARING
The White Plague Losing Its Grip
on the Human Race


The very important report just issued
by the medical department of the English
local government board on certain
aspects of the tuberculosis question is
the outcome of Investigations prosecuted
during the last five years under the super
vision of DIR. T. Bulstrode. one of Great
Britains medical inspectors. The statistics
collected show an extraordinary decrease
in the number of deaths in England and
Wales from tuberculosis or consumption.
and render it possible that three decades
hence the disease will be as extinct there
as leprosy or typhus fever now is. The
facts should prove extremely reassurins
to those persons who have been inclined
to regard tuberculosis as sort of plague
likely to cause a considerable diminution
of any population in which it has once
gained footho!d.
There is no doubt that in the first half
of the last century the mortality from
consumption in England and Wales had
acquired alarming proportions In 1885
this malady destroyed 59.O25 lives. num-
| Der equivalent to 800 for each 10000 per-
sons living IN 1903. on the other hand
although tine population had greatly in
creased. tuberculosis destroyed only 80, TAG
| lives. a mortality equal to only lis for
each 10000 persons then in existence.
AS the mortality resulting from consump-
/ ton In. 1906 was about equal to the de-
| crease observed in the preceding thirty
| years. ii follows that the disease will dis
| appear totally thirty years hence. pro-
| vided the decrease in the number OF
deaths shall continue at the same rate.
! Such continuance, of course, cannot be
assumed. Between 1905 and 1906 there
was no change in the mortality resulting
| from tuberculosis.
What Is the cause of the diminish he'd
| ravages of consumption? 1t cannot be
ascribed entirely. or even mainly. to the
discovery of the tubercle bacillus and
! the subsequent legislation intended to pre-
vent the sale Of meat and milk derived
/ from tuberculous4 cattle. DR.. koch's dis
covery was not made until 1852 and had
no erect upon legislation until some years
afterward. Yet in 1855 the mortality from
consumption had shrunk to about one
half of what 1t had been in 1885, namely.
! from 39.9 for each 10000 persons living
to Is. Neither can the lessened deadliness
of the disease be attributed to the estab-
lishment Of sanatOria. for few, If any, of
these were operative in 1855. and even as
regards those which have since been
opened DIR. Bulstrode has been unable to
find that they have produced any per-
ceptible effect upon the rate of decline of
consumption mortality either in England
| and Wales generally or in countries Dos
sessing such institutions as compared with
those which are destitute of them. The
records of the English sanatoria show, he
| says, that in the case of very large
proportion of the patients they have done
little more than postpone the fatal issue
of the malady.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15

! intelligent features. woolly hair and lips
and noses like those of a negro. They
belong to the Bantu race family and are
among the best formed of the peoples o.
Africa. Some one has said that travelling
through their country is like walking
through miles of living statuary. and /
! haze seen thousands of such statues on
my way here.
kavirondo Men.
Take these kavirondo men who have
gatnered about me just now as | write.
Their figures are ebony. and some of the M
look "a though they might have been cut
from black marble by the hand of a sculp-
tor. Look at those three brown bucks at
my left. They are as straight as Michael
angeles famed statue OF David and about
rs we'll formed. See how firmly they
stand on their black feet Their heads
are thrown back and two have burst out
auchinS rs ! turn my camera toward
them. They arc stark naked. with the
exception OF those bands Of beads abou.
the waist and their anklsts and bracelets.
| can follow every muscle with my eye
and they seem the perfection of phySica |
manhood. That nude fellow next me has
4 coil Of wire about his biceps and there
is pound NJ wire on his right wrist. He
IS smoking pipe, but it Just hangs be-
tween his teeth. which shine out brish;
and white as he smiles.
The man next him has two brass rings
on each of his black thumbs bands of
telegraph wire around his wrists and two
wide coils of wire above and below the
hiceps of his left arm. He has five wire
bands about his neck. circles of wire
under each knee. and great anKletS of
twisted wire resting on each of his feet
As | look ] can see the cailoused PAGES
where the wire has worn into his instep.
and this is worse on that third man.
whose ankles are loaded with twisted
wire The latter must have several
pounds on each leg. and the Wire on the
right leg extends from the foot to the
middle of the calf
Now look at their heads. The first man
has short wool which hugs the scalp. and
the other two have twisted their hair so
that it hangs down about the head like
the snakes of the Medusa.
Deerskin Aprons.
stop for a moment and ask the men
20 turn around in order that | may get
a view from the rear They are not quite
so naked as | had supposed. Each has an
apron of deerskin as big as ladys
pocket handkerchief fastened to his
waistband behind The aprons are tam
ned with the fur on. and are tied to the
belts with decrskin straps AS far as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
Copyright. 1905 by Frank g. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


PORT FLORENCE.
rNFURL your fans and take
out your kerchiefs to hide your
bushes. We are about to have
~ stroll among the Kavirondo.
who inhab bit the eastern shores
Of Lake Victoria on the western edge of
British East Africa. These people are
all more or less naked, and some of the
sights We dare not describe. We have
our cameras with us. but Postmaster Gem
eral Meyer will rot allow our films to go
through the mails and no newspaper
would publish all the pictures take.
We are in the hear, of the continent.
50 near the equator that days march
10 the north would enable us to straddle
it, hut SO high above the that the
weather is by no means unpleasant We
the wide Gulf of Kavrondo and
on the eastern edge of the greatest fresh
water lake of the world. That island
studded sea in front OF us is Victoria
Nyauza: and over there at the northwest.
less than weeks march on foot and less
than two days by the small steamers
which ply on the lake. is Napoleon gulf.
out of which flows the great river Nile.
With the glass YOU may see the hippo
notamuses swimming near the shores of
kavirondo bay. and behind US are plains
covered with pastures and spotted with
dloVes of cattle. antelope. and gnu. anG
also the quecrly matched huts of the
starknaked natives.
the plains have Il sparse growth OF
tropical trees. and looking over them
can catch sight % the hills which steadily
Use TO the Mau Escaroment. beyond which
is the great Rift valley, and stiil farther
east are the level highlands Of British
East Africa. the whole extending on and
10 Momhosa. Il distance as great
hat between New York and Cleveland Ia
the Indian ocean. II at that point
that ! entered the continent. and I have
heer travelling for DAYS in coming the
M miles which lie between us and the
ocean
A Future Metropolis.
Port Florence is the terminus of the
Uganda railroad, and it is destined to pe
one of the great cities of East Central
Africa. When the Cape To Cairo trunk
line is completed there will probably he
branch running from here through
Uganda 20 connect with it, and all the
commerce of the vast region about Lake
Victoria will flow by steamer TO this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
ODD TRIBE OF SAVAGES THAT LIVE ON
THE SHORES OF VICTORIA NYANZA

I by cutting up some American sheeung ana
! giving each a piece. The girls looked at
| the cloths with interest; but evidently
! did not know what to do with them
| Thereupon the white man took a strip
and tied ii about the waist of one of the
! party Upon this the othe- girls wrapped
! their pieces about their waists. but a
moment later they took them OF. saying:
| These are foreign customs and we do
| not want them.
Queer Marriage Customs.
During my stay in the kavirondo coun-
try ] have gone out among the villages
and have seen the natives in their homes
and at work The land is thickly pppu-
lated and the people are good natured
and ouiet. One can go anywhere without
danger and there is no trouble in get
ting photographs of whatever one wants
I am surprised at the great number of
married women. This rule as to married
women wearing tails gives one a knoWi-
edge of the condition of every woman he
meets If the tail is on one knows the
woman is married. and If not that she
is single.
The kavirondo girls marry very early
am told they are often oetrothed at
the age of six years: but that in Such
case the girl stays with her parents for
tive or six years afterward. AL mar
riases are matters of bargain and sale
I The parents sell their girls Tor a price,
and a good wife can be purchased for
forty hoes. twenty goats and COW. In
thc early betrothals the sutton pays part
of the fixed sum down and the rest In
installments until all is paid. If the ia
ther refuses to give up the girl when the
time comes for marriage. the payments
having been made. the sutton organizes
a band of his friends and captures her and
tarres her home. \ man usually takes
his wife from a different village from
that in which he lives. and when he
comes with his band to the brides viii
lage her gentlemen friends often resist
The invasion and fight the suitor's party
With sticks. At such times the girl
screams but | am told she usually al
:ows herself to be captured.
am told that old maids are not popular
and that the average kavirOndO girl Is
just as anxious to be married as are our
lnadens at home. Indeed. she is usually
very anxious. that if she does not get
bid in the ordinary way she will pick
out man for herself and arrange to have
herself offered to him at reduced rate.
| understand there are plenty of plump
maidens now on the bargain counter.
Another queer marriage custom here is
as TO ones wife's sister. The man who
gets the first girl in family is supposed
20 have the say as to all the younger
ones as they come to manageable age
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PolySamy is common here and a man
may thus have several sisters among his
wives.
They Are Good Girls.
One would suppose that these Kavirondo
girls might be rather loose in their morals
am told that they are not so and that
Trey rank much better in this regard than
the maidens of Uganda. the province
adjoining. nearly all of whom wear cloth
ing. Virtue stands high here and infrac-
tons OF the laws regarding ii are severe
y punished This is less SO now than in
the past. Divorces are not common but
a man can divorce his wives if he will
One curious custom is that IL husband
and wife have quarrel and she leaves
the hut and he shuts the door after her
that action alone is considered equivalent
70 divorce and the woman goes back TO
her own people at once.
Kavirondo Villages.
But let us go out into the country and
look at some of the Kavirondo villages. |
nave visited many and have had no
trouble whatever in going into the houses.
There are many little settlements scat
tered over the plains between here and
tie hills. with footpaths running from viii
iase to village. The most of the settle
ments are small. dozen huts or so form
-ng sood-sized one. The houses have
walls of mud with cone-shaped roofs.
matched with grass. The doors are so
low that one has to crawl into them;
and many house is not more than seven
:cct high from the mud floor to the top
OF the cone.
The roof usually extends out beyond the
walls of the hut. covering sort of We
randa. part of which is inclosed and a
part open. There are poles outside which
support the roof or the veranda.
The huts are usually built around an
open space and are Joined by fences Of
rough limbs and roots. so that each col
lection of huts forms a stockade in which
the animals belonging to the village can
be kept at night. Sometimes a village
NAV be made of number of such circles
each collection of huts belonging to one
family. One of the huts Is for the poliga-
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point and down the Uganda railway 10
':he sea. As il Is now, The trade is greatly
Increasing. and ivory, hides grain and
rubber from German East Africa. the
I-pper Congo and the lands Ia the north
Of the ianc are shipped through here Ia
tho coast The ears come right down Ia
!; woo';"n wharf which extends we'll out
into The kaViroGdo gulf. On In" lake are
several small steamers, which have been
brought ~ here III pieces and put to-
cether. ami they are now bringing III
freight from ali parts of this big inland
sea.
Va - Port Florence itself. il is little
tin town with practically no aCcommoda-
fions for travellers. The only place to
stop is a dak bungalow. or res; house. put
UP by tho government. and the only stores
are those of n few itindoo traders. The
Europeans consist of some soldiers be-
longing 10 the kings African Rides. of
the government officials and Of some en-
pioyes of the railroad
The officials put on great airs. Among
the passengers who came in with me
yesterday judge who Will settle
the disputes among these half-naked
natives. He was me; AT the ears by
some soldiers and gang Of conVicts
in chains. The latter had come TO
carry his baggage and other belong
ings to his Tin house the hill. and
each was dressed in heavy iron collar
with iron chains extending from il TO his
wrists and ankles. Nevertheless he was
able to aid in lifting the boxes and in
pushing them off on trucks. prodded up
TO his work all the While by the soldiers
on guard.
A Naked Nation
But let take our feet in our hands
and tramp about through Port Flore nee.
Later on We may march off into the coun-'
try through which l travelled for about
fifty miles on my way here. In Port
Florence itself We may now and then
see a man with blanket wrapped around
him and the men frequently wear waist
cloths behind in front Outside OF thiT
they are stark naked. many OF them wear
ing absolutely nothing except plugs n
their ears. strings of beads about their
waists and rough wire rings on their
wrists and ankles. All have skins OF a
dark chocolate brown. They have rather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15

"Colders Green is not the only suburb
of London that is just crying out for de-
velopment. / have my eye on one or two
others and | will be after them as soon as
I have finished what I have on hand
Then there are the other big cities. | am
now looking into the possibilities in a big
southern manufacturing town. where |
think there is need for high-cIass resi-
dental suburb to be carved out of the
farms.
was told at first that | could never do
business in Eng and that l would find
the English people too slow and that l
would get tired while they were thinking
over a proposition. l find that money
talks here as we'll as in the United States
and that If man is in earnt st and has
got the money TO back him he can get
things done promptly enough. / don't
object to going a little slower and being
sure that there is no trouble to come over
titles and lawsuits.
Have / taught England much about
real estate booming? Well. I have found
them very quick to learn all | could teach
and l have learned something. too. You
cannot win with the same methods here.
that proved successful in America. The
people are different and they have diff
ferent way of looking at things. You
must study them II you hope to succeed
with them but / have found out that they
are just as easy to do business with as
the Americans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
The Rat.
From the Spectator.


The rats sins are manifold. The dam
age which he does in a yea 10 crops car
goes. stores. granaries. poultry and game
dairies and outhouses. foundations, walls
and drainage cannot be calculated exact
~ but it must be enormous. He is ubi-
quitous; he swarms in fields, hedges.
coverts. farmyards cellars, sewers. docks
and ships; he is clever in getting out or
difficulties. extremely courageous. bic 10
exist on almost any kind OF food, and
horribly prolific
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15

makes it we'll fitted for cotton. 1t is too
hot for white men to do steady out-of-
doors work; but the plantations could
be handled, by the native labor. The
whites who take care of themselves are
reasonably healthy. This is especially SO
Of those wlo live on the high lands, the
lower places being very malarious and
productive Of fever.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
Within the Law.
ON the Chicago Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
See here! said the indignant citizen,
when / passed this corner you were So
liciting aims because you were blind Now
you are asking help because your legs
are paralyzed.'
Well replied the mendicant. looking
up, with an injured expression, there
Amt any law in this country to prevent
man from changin' his occupation, il
there?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
Automobile Insurance.
From Popular Mechanics.

From Popular Mechanics.
Although in writing automobile liability
policies the risks ase of special haz rd''
nature a number of American and English
companies are assuming the risks Of de-
struction by fire and collision They also
accept a liability of 81, 900 in the event OF
death or injury to one person, and SO. 900
for two or more persons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
A Mean Mans Question.

From the Chicago Re1prd- Herald.
He always takes off his hat when he is
in an elevator with a lady
Always? Doesn't he ever get In one
with his wife?'
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The KAv1RoNDo MEN WEAR LITTLE APRONS OF DEERsK1N.

decency goes they are Of value at an,
and they seem to he used more for Or
nament than anything else.
Turning now TO other men in the part
about M. | see that almost all are SINH
larly clad. although few have skins
/! brown around their shoulders. and sons
have more jeweiry. One or two wear d
piece o: cotton cloth and very few have
waist cloths. | have no trouble in get
tinS tine men 10 pose. They nave gone
without clothes from time immenorial l..
and think that the use of them is decid-
>dly foolish.
Where the Women Wear Tails.
Let Us turn our cameras now on the
women. They are by no means so fine
looking as the men. They are shorter and
not 50 we'll formed. Sill they are all
there the younger girls are clad iii
beadswaist belts, and the Older ones have
each tassel of fiDey tied to u girdle
about the waist. This tasscl is fastened
just at the small OF the back, and IL
hangs down behind At short distance
it looks like COWS tail. | am told that
ii is an Indispensable article of dress for
every married woman: and that 1t = I'M
proper for stranger TO touch II. Sir
Harry Johnston. who governed these
people, says that even husband dares
not touch this caudal appenGaSe when
worn By his wife. and if, by mistake, II is
+, touched, goat must he sacrificed or the
woman will die from the insult
Some of the native women here in
/ Port Florence wear little aprons of fiber
a bout six inches long, extending down Il,
/ the front. l can see dozens of them sc
| clad all about me, and for a penny
| can get any of them 10 pose for my
| camera. The young girls have no clothes
at all. and this Is the custom Throughout,
| the country. Indeed. farther back in tbs
| interior the fringe aprons are removed
| ana both sexes are clad chiefly in jewelry
! of wire of various kinds.
The strangsst thing about the nudity
of these savages is that they are abso-
/ lutely unconscious of any wrong in il
/ Such of them as have not met Europeans
/ do not know they are naked: and "a mar
| rie1 woman with her tail of palm fiber is
! fully dressed \ traveller tells how Inc
/ tried 10 educate gang of naked young
! women whom he met out in the country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15

FOUNDED 1861.

New stock Of Refrigerators English and American Baby
Carriages Furniture Polhes Feproof Storage Moving and
Packing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15

THE future of the real estate business
lies in England for some time to come at
any rate" said Mr. Appleton the other
day. Money conditions arc too bad in
the United States now, and at any rate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-15
w. B. MOSES & SONS, F Street, Cor. ] 1th.

most Of the big cities have been overbuilt.
The field is right in the suburbs of the
great cities of England. which are grow
ing every day and where there is lots OF
land to be developed.
Think Of it. Golders Green is five miles
as the crow flies from Charing Cross. the
center of London. 1t has street cars and
tubes and buses running there every few
minutes. but no one realized it's possibil-
ties as a suburb at first. Now they have
walked up and there is demand for twice
as much land as is available. Two Lor-
don banks have established branches
there already and l am dealing now with
some large tradesmen who want TO build
shops on my land.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-05-27
Rules for Editorial Writers.

When the situation clamors for a par
donable lie,
Please begin your observations with,
Gas no One Will Deny"
With a modest little, bashful little effort
to deceive,
Kindly use the Introduction, eve Have
Reason to. believe"
When the information's doubtful, be nc
whit dismayed thereat,
Finding refuge in the sentence, "'Tis
an Open Secret That"
You may search the very marrow of
your controversial foes,
With that phrase of cold disparagement,
GAS Every Schoolboy Knows"
And fraud will seem as pious as a
missionary tract
With the PREDATORY label, eft Is an I'm,
doubted Fact"
So, by paying close attention to few
such rules as these
You will soon be able to prevaricate
with ease. Puck.