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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-04

Chubby jumped away and held ms
hand triumphantly aloft with the red
ball in it. Then the whites lined up
and serpentined ali over the field, fl
nally stopping at the prize table, where
they each received a trophy.
One of the final events in which the
girls took part was a series OF march
ing evolutions all over the field, end
ing in a giant circle and a series OF
rythmic twistings and turnings in and
out and round each other to the music
of their own voices and very tunefui
air.
1t was very interesting and amusing
to watch these future citizens at play
ancng themselves. There was go
and enthusiasm shown by the young
sters very typical of the way these hit
tie people 90 into anything IN the way
of sport. When the last event had
been decided, the japanese national an
them was sung, and then, big and Int
tie, they all went home, tired but
happy.
At Boys Field.
Yesterday was holiday for all the
Japanese schools. At the Boys F1eld
the children of the Nuuanu avenue
Japanese school were entertained at
games and exercises by their teachers,
while the grandstand was filed with
parents and other friends, interested
, lookers-on. The grounds were very
gaily decorated with American and
Japanese flags, and red, white and blue
bunting and long strings of japanese
| lanterns.
The children for the most part were
dressed in American clothes, Though
among both their elders and then
juniors, and the little tots too young
to 90 to school, there were many very
handsome kimonos and other japanese
haberdashery.
The women teachers nearly all Wor'
the students costume of a plum-color
ed skirt over the kimono.
The exercises for the children were
largely competitive in their nature ane
nrizes of books and faneiful articles
were literally bestowed. The exercises
beqan here at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon and continued until about
o clock in the afternoon, lunch oelne
served the children, the lunch lnclud
ing soda water almost ad ibitum
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-04
JAPANESE CHILDREN HAVE
GREAT TIME AT KAKAAKO
Emperors Birthday Celebrated With Sports
at Atkinson Park--Consul UenO
Addresses Children.

fact, that they almost touched the
ground. Then they Strengthened up
again, and the two motions were done
with an exact precision, yet sugges-
ton of grace, that was very charm
ing.
Link of Friendship.
The Consul made little speech to
the children, in which he told them
to grow up into good men and women
in order that they might be fit to act
as the great connecting link of friend
ship between Japan and the United
States. He told them that this friend
ship must always be held sacred and
that they must conduct themselves so
that they shall in no way ever be a
cause for it's breaking.
The event of the afternoon was the
girls blindfold hunt for balls o. the
field were thrown several dozen balls,
red and white Then about twenty lit
tie girls were blindfolded and given a
tall basket each. At the word EGO"
they ran to the center of the enclosure
and began hunting on the ground for
the balls. The one who first succeed
ed in placing three in her basket won
the prize.
1t was indescribably funny to watch
the little creatures chasing round with
their hands outstretched, grasping for
the elusive balls that were kept roll
ing by the movements of all the hunS-
ers. Often two of the girls would
carom into each other and then they
rolled head over heels, generally sue
ceeding in upsetting some more of
their playmates, until, at one time,
there must have been a dozen almond
eyed creatures rolling round and
eurgling with the fun of it.
Obstacle Race Funny.
A very amusing incident occurred IN
enc of the obstacle races. In the CEN
ter of the field large tarpaulin was
pinned down at each corner, and be-
yond this a ladder was placed on one
edge and held down by stakes. The
boys started, ran to the tarpaulin
under which they had to crawl and
then made for the ladder, between the
| rungs of which they had to squirm.
After that they raced for a row of
flags, and, each picking up flag,
! romped back to the starting point.
The first race came off all right, and
then another squad of kidlets was
| started. One of these was a strenu-
] Gus youth who bolted under the tar
paulin so hard that the pegs gave way
at one end. and while half dozen
boys came through all right, there
were three left struggling in the tar
paulin unable to fight their way out
For nearly two minutes the tarpaulin
heaved and billowed as though it We're
possessed of seven evil spirits, while
the crowd roared with delight.
Finally one youth made his escape
and crawled sheepishly from under and
was soon followed by the other two
b. this time the race was all over and
the winners were making for the prize
table. The three victims looked round
them in a dazed way, for all the world
like miniature Monte Cristos cast III
by the sea.
New Ball Game.
There was one game that called fol
quick action and clever work. The
boys were divided into two sides anC
each was provided with sling to hang
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-20

prisoners, who were being taken to the
fort to be shot.
They were fercelooking fellows
those three savages. There was one
the youngest, who was a perfect de-
mon, the soldiers said
"Killed three women and two
babies down at Mustang Wash last
Tuesday" said the sergeant to me;
"just after one of them had given him
his breakfast, too. He's young one
not more than seventeen, I should say;
but he's the worst red devil I ever
saw
Gazing at the boy captive, strange
feeling stole over me. The stolid face
was oddly familiar.
ellis namea Blessed if I know"
said the sergeant; "what do you call
yourself, young ones" he asked, CIV
ing him not too delicate poke with
the toe of his boot.
"Me9 Why, my names Tads!"
grunted the. boy.
"Talks pretty good English for a
wild devil who has been over the
Mexican border so long, doesn't he9o
asked the sergeant, turning to me.
But I said nothing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-20
A FAIR EXCHANGE.

Large sums of money are no
doubt realized from simple spec
ulation, but the great fortunes
are derived from legitimate and
honest business-where the goods
furnished are worth the price
they bring. Certain famous bust
ness men have accumulated their
millions wholly in this way.
Prompt and faithful in every
contract or engagement they en-
joy the confidence of the public
and command a class of trade
that is refused to unstable or
tricky competitors. In the long
run it does not pay to cheat or
deceive others. A humbug may
be advertised with noise like
the blowing of a thousand trum-
pets, but it is soon detected and
exposed. The manufacturers of
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
have always acted on very differ
ent principles. Before offering
it to the public they first made
sure of its merits. Then, and
then only, did its name appear
in print. People were assured of
what it would do, and found the
statement truthful. To-day they
believe in it as we all believe in
the word of a tried and trusted
friend. 1t is paIatable as honey
and contains all the curative
properties of pure Cod Liver
Oil, extracted by us from fresh
cod livers, combined with the
Compound Syrup of HIPPO
phosphites and the Extracts
of Malt and Wild Cherry. It
aids digestion, drives impurities
from the blood, and is effec-
tive in Anemia, Debility, Lung
Troubles, Influenza, and all
Wasting Complaints. DR.. Louis
W. Bishop says: 81 take pleasure
in saying l have found it a most
efficient preparation, embodying
al of the medicinal properties
of a pure cod liver oil in a most
palatable form" It is a scientific
remedy and food with a deli
cious taste and favour. One bot
tie conVinces. Sold by chemists.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-20

on satisfactory terms again. Tads
wanted to be a white man. He want
ed to make ''talk marks on "pup.
per- with feather sometimes used
a quill pen, be it remarked-and he
wanted to speak with his finger. Well,
did manage to teach him a few let
ters from a railroad poster, and he
learned to drawl out FTa-d-s' in a
droll way. With perseverance that
was really startling, [ afterward took
him in an uncertain way through a
page or two of "Can you see the fat
OK, and SO on, wherefore his heart
was glad.
"I1l be wife mans, heap sure" he
declared in his bullfrog voice, after he
had accomplished this wonderful feat.
Great distress racked Tad's soul on
the fatal day when the wickiups were
taken down and the tribe mounted it's
mustangs to go over the hills. The
Apaches had to search all over the
station to find Tads. At last, they
hauled him forth from under my bunk,
screaming like mad. OF no avail were
his screams, of no avail was his cry;
Me yanter stay wild him! Me yanter
be wife mans!"
Apache papas are unbending and
Apache mammas are memorable. Away
they whisked Tads, leaving behind him
a tenderfoot with queer feeling in
his throat.
"Well, the boy has the instincts of
white man." said, for I was proud
of what 7 fancied I had made of him,
"and he'll be a shining light among
those devilish people of his. If we
had few more like him to put among
them, the Apache question would set
tie itself, and We could set our soldiers
to hOeing corn.''
Then I took up the restless life of
a city man, and big and busy rail
road office claimed good share of my
attention for the next ten years. Yes,
it was fully that long before I again
set foot upon the desert. Our train
stopped at the old station. How the
had grown, to be sure. In
it's shade sat a cavalry sergeant with
a half dozen of his men about him,
and in their midst were three Indian
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-20
Cumming With an Apache
By Frank Bailey Willard.

drifts with a detected air, his one
garment tapping in the hot wind.
] A wild nature like his was proof
/ against such snares as the toothsome
confeetion, the golden orange, or the
mealy peanut. L found that out by
/ trial in the course of the next week.
| But an old jack-knife won him over.
! That was something his Apache mind
could grasp. 1t was a greater delight
! to him than the red-and blue clubs.
Sworn friends from that day were Tads
and /. His talk was a ridiculous mix
/ ture of English, Spanish and Apache,
and his voice was very throaty. But [
understood him. Indian-like, he said
little. 1t was, therefore, easy to get
along with him. He would sit for hours
on high stool, listening to the "tunk-
funk tunk' of my sounder The tele-
graph was an awful mystery to him at
first, and it squelched his Imagination;
but he solved the problem at last. A
man away off over the mountains
spoke with his finger to me and 1
spoke back TO him. That was his idea
of it, and it was not such a bad one,
either. The cummings of the wires
overhead were the voices of people
with ponderous fingers, but they were
not of this world.
How the cowboys laughed when they
saw Tads and me in the station.
"That tenderfo0t's a queer one"
they said of me.
The despised Apache could not crawl
into their hearts-no, not even if he
were a six-year-old.
"He IL steal everything the tender
foot s got" they pleasantly averred.
But he did not.
When Tads left the station of an
evening his little brown feet battered
straight over the roads to the wickiups
a halfmile away. In time he wore
narrow trail over to the huts.
'fPitty veil, - was what Tads would
grunt to me every day when he came
shyly into the office and I greeted him
with friendly "How-de-do?' Then
he would shrug his shoulders in way
that wrinkled the three KS into such
bewildering folds that you could not
have read them unless you had known
what they were beforehand.
One day while he was meandering
about the place. grunting quietly to
himself, he upset one of my battery
jars.
Grads" cried, angri1y, for the
deserts breath was hot upon me and
was irritating enough, let alone spilled
vitriol, "you re little beast! Skip
out of here, or I'll take a stick to
youl"
Then arose a great howl from Tads,
and he kept on bowling until an
Apache woman came over the sands !
from the wickiups and gathered him
MP in her arms. She was his mother. |
She eyed me suspiciously and walked !
away with her highly demonstrative +
burden.
Of course I regretted my hot Ian
guage and wanted the little beggar
back again. 1t was so lonely there on
the desert. The wires walled so heart
brokenly, while the sun beat down so
fercely in the daytime and the coyotes
yelled so dOlefully at night. How he
had crept into my heart, to be surel
1t was several days before we were
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-20

Never 90 cumming with an Apache.
You smile at such strange advice? Well,
I might have smiled at it once myself.
But we are all. creatures of circum-
stance. and I was tenderfoot then,
anyway. This is how I chummed it
with my little Indian:
was swinging my red-and blue clubs
under the pepper-tree at the back of
the railroad station. This / did because
I had theory that exercise was good
for a man living on desert. The lazy
Mexicans, and most of the Americans
Whereabouts. had no ruddy glow on their
faces. They were all sallow. What 1
wanted was rudy glow.
Ny red-and blue clubs circled about
very prettily that day. and the ruddy
glow came; also a dripping epideImis
and a big desire to sit down in the
shade of the pepper-tree and blow to-
bacee smoke. The tree was a small
one. When the station tank ran over,
which was not often. its roots received
a little moisture. So it grew, slowly.
As soon as / dropped my clubs a
squeal of disgust went up from some
where. and, as I turned about, saw
small, brown head dart behind a cactus
lined rock.
said nothing, but leaned back on
my seat, pulled my sOmbrerO down over
my face. and slammed sleep. with one
half -closed eve on the rock and the big
caetus-shrubs. No use. You can not
get an Apache out of his hole that
way.
Next dav, with my beautiful exercise
theory stiH bristling in my brain, I
turned quickly, while in the midst of
my club-swinging, and saw the wide
open eyes and gaping mouth of the cum
ningest little savage I had ever beheld.
He sprang about and fed behind the
rock. but not too quickly for me to
read "XXX Family Flour in large
red letters on his back. His one short
garment was a cotton sack, with holes
cut through it for his head and arms.
"COme, Tads,'' / cried, christening
him in that fleeting second with a name
that stuck to him all his life, "out of
that!'' And I jumped behind the rock,
swinging an open hand that did not
grasp the flour sack, as / had intended
1T should.
Where was the wee savage7
Like a lizard, he had darted from
sight somewhere in that little patch of
rocks and cactus, though there did not
appear to be cover enough there to con-
ceal a iaek-rabbit.
tThe spines must scratch him.
thought, as I looked at the pricly eac-
tus; but / did not know then how
Apaches put up with small irritations.
Not wanting to give the boy unneces-
sary torture, went back to my clubs.
Throwing my eyes about again, L
caught another fleeing glimpse of the
brown head as it lodged behind the
rock
Tads must have been disappointed
next day, for there was no lub-swing- /
ing under the pepper-tree. The duties
of telegraph agent lay too heavily upon
me and the sun lay too heavily upon
the desert saw Tads steal away from /
his lair about two hours after my usual
exercise time and walk down the sand
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
GOOD ROADS
AND BAD ONES
By Howard H. Gross, Special
Agent, u. 5. Department
of Agriculture.

We often hear farmers say: "Why
for eight or nine months in the year
we have fine roads, good enough for
anybody. Of course, there are a few
days now and then after heavy rains
when wheeling is heavy, but the roads
soon dry out and are good again"
In the above defense Of earth roads
(and it is the strongest defense posi-
ble) lies really the strongest reason
for hard roads-roads that are good
30 DAYS in the month and II months
in the year. After heavy spring or
summer rains, when for two or three
days the land is too wet to work, is
lust the time when the farmer or his
wife would like to go to town to do
the shopping, and the teams are nee
essarily idle. Bad roads prevent the
trip.
In the winter and spring for three
or four months, the roads are usually
bad and often worse, and this is the
only time of all the year when the
farmer and his family are not busy,
when they have plenty OF time 10 run
around: it is a season of recreation,
or it ought to be. Do bad roads add
to the pleasure of this holiday season
and make it one of enjoyment and i'm
provement? Far from it. Roads that
ARE nearly always good" are usually
bad at the wrong time. Like the
balky horse, they fail when most
needed.
Less than 40 years ago the town
ships of many of the middle western
states voted bonds to help build the
railroads. Is there any reason why
the railroads should not now help the
farmers improve the highways over
which their freight must come to
them? This is one of the features OF
the State Aid plan-the taxing of all
who are benefited, instead of placing
the entire burden upon the farmers
shoulders.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
MUST MATCH SKIRT
DECREE AS TO THE EVER-PCPU
LAR JUMPER.
Welcomed by the Woman of Short Fig
ure-Success of Garment Largely
Depends Upon Its Finish at
the Top.

Few modes have taken a greater
hold upon popular fancy than the
jumper, and this is because it is be-
coming to the majority of women. Pos
sibly it is not a decided favorite in
it's strictly conventional form, but it
is so easily modified that the figure
would indeed be difficult to suit that
could not be made attractive in one
of these styles.
The jumpers must match in color
the skirt with which it is worn. This
decree of fashion is an advantage to
the average figure, and positive kind
ness to the short type.
In constructing such a garment it
should be borne in mind that all jump
er models are not becoming to every
figure, and that the success of jump
er depends almost entirely upon it's
finish at the top.
There are some women who are long
from neck to bust and short from this
point to the waist line, though not nee
essarily shOrt-waisted For such fig
Ures the jumper, if cut according to
the pattern, will probably be disap-
pointing when finished, for there
seems to be lack of balance; the
waist appears to be all yoke. Still
if the jumper is cut higher over the
bust the idea is lost
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
FEED FOR SEASON

The experience Of the past season
should teach every feeder of farm
animals to provide abundant feed. The
high prices that have had to be paid
for feed during the past fall and win.
ter have been the underlying cause
that has resulted in the pushing into
the market Of SO many half-finished
animals Of all kinds, to the utter de.
mOralization of prices. We have had
the spectacle of meat animals selling
low at the same time that feed was
selling high. Had the farmers been
provided with an abundance of feed
we would not have seen the rush tC
market, as the meat animals would
have been fed till such time as they
could be disposed of. In the provid.
ing of an abundance of feed nothing
will be found to. be more serviceable
than the silo, for all kinds of ami.
mails will eat silage with a relish and
thrive on it. One of the first things
to be done this spring should be the
setting aside of a large area of land
for the growing of forage crops anG
even of root crops, to increase the
surplus of feed.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
HUMUS in THE SOIL

The statement is very frequently
made that marsh soils must be fertile
since they produce an abundant nat
ural vegetation. This argument, how
ever. is not conclusive. 1t is very
probable that the growth made each
wear is in a large part the result OF
the decomposition of the crop of the
preceding year.
When all these facts are considered
it seems very probable that the chief
action of vegetable matter with ref
erence to fertility of the soil is in sup
plying the crops with it's content OF
the various elements. The black
humus, which is a residual product
formed under natural conditions
where the soil is not well drained and
is not cultivated, has in itself very
little if any direct action of chem
ical nature which affects the fertility
of the SOIL Indeed it seems quite pos
sible that this inert, waXy humus may
be injurious, inasmuch as it forms a
coating around soil grains and thus
prevents natural weathering by the
action of soil water containing carbon
dioxide and acids resulting from the
decomposition of the fresh vegetable
matter. This natural weathering of
the soil grains undoubtedly supplies
a small amount of mineral matter in
a form available to plants, and hence
there is continual addition to the
quantity of mineral elements in the
vegetable matter under natural con
ditions.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
CARE OF THE FINGER NAILS.
Little Practice Will Bring About Most
Desirable Results.

There has been a great change in
late years in rnanicuring methods. The
old steel implements, which were SO
painful and which resulted so often
in disfigured nails, have been ban
ished in the up-to-date beauty parlors.
They have been replaced by ivory in
struments to a great extent. With the
proper instruments and little prac-
tice you can manicure your own nails,
so that they will look just as nice as ii
you spent half an afternoon and nice
big 50-cent piece to have them done.
The instruments needed are small
finger nail scissors, several emery
boards, piece of pumice stone, an
ivory or orange wood stick some good
nail polish, and buffer. The hands
should be we'll soaked in soap and hot
water and dried carefully with an old
linen towel The towel may be used
to push back the skin. The cuticle
never should be cut about the base OF
the nail If there are any hangnails
they should be shipped away carefully
Do not polish the nails too highly. anC
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
To Pack Flowers,

How to pack flowers without break
ing or crushing the tender blossoms
has always been question, particular
ly when it is necessary to ship such
fragile examples of horticultural art
as gardenias, camellias and orchids.
A method has been devised where
each separate bloom is tied by string
or ribbon, preferably the latter, to a
fiat piece of cardboard through which
two holes have been puncheh for each
flower, so that ribbon may pass
through them as a support Then this
is placed in a box and fastened tight,
so that no amount of Earring can loOs-
en- it. Thus the flowers are left lying
in the box and cannot possibly come in
contact with each other or with the
sides Of the box. If they are sprinkled
with water before shipping, they will
last three or four days and arrive at
their destination in the best Of condi-
ton
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-04-23
MELON BONNET FOR BABY.
Attractive in AIIover Embroidery with
VaIenciennes Insertion.

Baby caps are made of three pieces,
cut like the sides of circular triangle
and sewn together with fancy stitch
or a strip of lace insertion. Sometimes
back of the neck are made of dotted
Swiss, while the middle section is of
baby Irish lace. In other caps all
three sections are of fine nainsook, but
the middle section is heavily embroid
cred. This new style is very becoming
to the baby's head and brings the join,
ing of the sections just behind the ear
so that whatever lace is used as trim
ming will converge toward this point
A very attractive cap may be made