The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-03

The political wire-puIler is out OF
date. The politician with wireless!
pull has succeeded him. Tacoma
Ledger.
No dressmaker has been found try
ing to turn Carrie Nation from her
resolution not to wear sheath skirt
Washington Star.
Richard Croker is talking about com.
ing to this country and boosting for
Bryan He is the man who thought
Bill Squires could whip Tommy Burns.
Denver Post.
/ Ann Arbor physicians have recently
removed rubber eraser from the ear
of schoolgirl. She must have been
trying to get something off her mind
Washington Post.
| 1t is said that Miss Helen Taft, the
I17-yearold daughter of the Republican
candidate for president, has golden
maple hair, whatever that is.-Atehi
son (Kansas) Globe.
The salaries of the members of the
| Russian Duma have been raised to
/ $2100-whieh is liberal sum when
you consider how very little they are
allowed to do.-Kansas City Star.
| Tt is estimated that land fronting on
| Wall Street, New York, is worth $780,
100000 an acre, notwithstanding the
poor crops that have recently been
raised on it.-Chieago Record Herald.
! We trust that while the feet is at
Honolulu it viii at least make an at
| tempt to shoot up few of the mos
quitoes which infest that delightful
suburb Of Los Angeles.-Los Angeles
| Times.
During the terrors Of the hot spell
poor people who endeavored to get on
the grass of New York city parks were
driven off SO that the grass would not
be injured. The theory is that the grass
was of more consequence than the PEG,
ple.-Troy On. " Budget.
Lieutenant Commander J. r. Carter,
the athletic friend of the Honolulu
newspaper man, has been assigned to
the battleship Georgia, and departed
from the Territory. Reporters can now
take out accident insurance again at
the usual rates.-Hilo Tribune.
Brigadier General Richard H. Pratt,
formerly superintendent of the Carlisle
Indian School, has recently been elect
ed commander of the Military Order
of the Loyal Legion of the United
States for the State of Colorado, which
is high but deserving honor-CarlisleI
(Pa.) Sentinel.
Native girls in Honolulu decorated
the parading American blue jackets
with wreaths and garIands of flowers i
Wait a few days and Richard Pearson
Hobson will raise his voice to proclaim
the degeneracy and unpreparedness of
the American Navy, sinking as it is
into the sloth of sybaritic indulgences.
Philadelphia Press.
1t is hoped that now that Anna
Gould and the man who has been chas-
ing her over two continents are alleged
to have been married that they will
disappear from the newspaper columns,
at least until after commencement of
the divorce suit which seems to be ex-
pected as a sequel.-Troy IN. W Bud
get.
King Alfonso has refused to take
dietation from the female end of the
honse, and the mother-in-law has been
bounced. This is sudden and entirely
unexpected. Alfonso looks like long
suffering and patient man. Quite a
revelation and enough to make Queen
Vic to turn in her grave. Imagine
Halbert Hedward talking back to his
wife or mother-in-law.-San Francisco
News Letter.
The time came with the Spanish
American War, when we needed Hcno-
lulu as a base in the Pacific. Since
then the Sandwich Islands have been
good, loyal American territory, and
every year proves the wisdom of their
annexation. 1t is safe to say that
the American flag flies over no part of \
its domains more delightful in char
acter nor more peaceable of intent than
that little cluster of palm trees, vol
canoes and poi, lying out in the middle
of the Pacife.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
100000 has been formed in the
State of Washington, and has acquired
title to 100 acres of land in that State.
No American can go into the Mikado Is
dominion and acquire title to a square
foot of land. Our people there are
held under all sorts of restrictions by
the laws of the country. But we are
reasonable and make no complaint.
Why should Japan become so very ex-
cited when we put some lesser restric,
tions on her people in this countrya
Because they are less reasonable and
more conceited than we. Pride is an
other thing and we have too much of
that to "'fy off the handle' at tribes.
Conceit is too self-conseious.
OF course we have a treaty with
Japan by which her people are grant
ed the same rights that all persons of
foreign birth enjoy. In Japan we are
treated as other foreigners, who are
all put under narrow restrictions, But |
when this allowance is made there re
mains the fact that we treat the sub |