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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-10

The following letter comes from the
Chinese Young Men s Christian Asso-
citation, Toxic, Japan:
Toxic, Japan, May 4, 1908.
Rev E. W. Thwing, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dear Mr.. Thwing: Yours of March
"A, together with clippings fegardng
Lo Sun, just received. | was very
much surprised to hear of this ease
regarding Mr.. Lo Sun, but l rei.lce
with you at the great success and he
final outcome of the case.
All goes well with us here. We have
at present about 1000 Chinese stu
dents in Toxic, representing every
province of China, all eager for learn
ing. willing and ready to absorb every
thing given them. These men are
China S future leaders Our particu-
lar work has been characterized as
N'The Port Arthur of China s Evan
gelization,'' and such indeed it is.
What is to be done for these young
men must be done quiekly-their stay
here is short at most. | think that L
told YOU that we had six foreign work
ers from China working in cooperation
with u.s. We have also brought over
a number of Chinese secretaries and
teachers.
/ would like to emphasize the fact
that these men are to return to China
as officials teachers, editors-ln fact,
to be leaders of thought and action in
every sphere of life in every section
of China.
A letter under recent date received
from missionary in China says that
a Young man who became a Christian
last year and returned to China few
months later is now living Christian
life among his fellow men in China,
amidst great temptation, hardship and
rdicule. This is only one instance to
show that these men-at least, most
of them-remain true to their prinel-
pies and convictions.
Perhaps you will be interested to
know that our budget for 1908 amounts
to Yen $4,000 ($12,500 gold. This
total amount is raised by contributions
from China, Japan, America and Eng
land, the greater portion coming from
America A very considerable part OF
it is made up Of small donations.
/ have had printed in Chinese, for
distribution here among the students,
facts about your school in Honolulu.
I have distributed these widely among
the students, and | hope that it may
prove beneficial We have also posted
copies of the same in our different
branches. A package was sent you
some time ago.
[ have just wondered if there may
not be some pretty well-todo Chinese
in Hawaii who might be glad to con
tribute something towards our work
here. [ shall be glad to have your ad-
vice on this matter, and will appre-
ciate whatever you may be able to do
for us along this line. The Chinese
Minister in TOXIC and the Consul Gen
eral in Yokohama, and other employees
of the government here, have all con-
tributed Loyalty. The Chinese mer-
chants in Yokohama also contribute
about Yen 1000. We receive about
Yen 1000 in contributions from China;
the balance we have to raise from
other countries, which this year Will
cause us no small amount of difficulty.
| am enclosing herewith few sab
scription blanks; and under separate
cover some recent reports, statistics,
etc, which you will find self-expIana-
tory and, | trust, of interest. Most
sincerely yours, J. NJ. CLINTON.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-10
BALL TICKETS.

Tickets fer the Atlantic fleet ball can
be procured at the following places:
W. w. Dimond Co., Ltd.
Chambers Drug Co, Ltd.
Bergstrom Music Co., Ltd.
Hollister Drug Co., Ltd.
Benson, Smith & Co, Ltd.
NJ. McInerny, Ltd.
NJ. A. Gunst & Co., Ltd.
Wall, Nichols Co., Ltd.
Hawaiian News Co, Ltd
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-10
CANCELLATION Of
CHINA'S YOUNG MEN

The following letter comes from the
Chinese Young Men 5 Christian Asso-
citation, Toxic, Japan:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-10
LIGHT POLICE COURT CALENDAR.

There were only five cases for the
police court judge yesterday, four of
them going over until today and one
being noIprossed. David Leleo is one
of those named, being down for larceny.
His is ease of alligator pear picking.
The other three are minor offenses
one assault and battery and two DRINKS.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-10

Amateur (hoIding five aces, leans over
to professional poker player and whis.
persl-Billie, how would Won play that
hand? PROFESSIONALLY boy, if / were
you | think d play under an as.
sumed name.-Judga.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-10
KApAHULU IMPROVEMENT CLUB

The postponed regular meeting of the
above named club viii be held in Hol-
linger hall, Camp Mckinley, Saturday,
July II. at 1880 p. III. All members
and others interested in the improve
ment of the Kapahulu district are re-
auested to be present at this meeting,
as matters of grave Importance will be
considered.
s. MEHEULA,
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-10-01

experimental stage. In Arizona, Cali
fornia, Eastern Oregon and Eastern
washington, many of the streams dis
charge the greater part of their flow
during the non-irrigating season. This
water when not retained in storage
reservoirs would be entirely wasted
unless diverted and used. Quite often
fields and orchards are irrigated in this
way when the plants and trees do not
require water, but in order to store
ND a supply of moisture in the soil for
future use. A deep, retentive soil
forms one of the best natural reser-
voirS.
Winter irrigation as practiced in the
Santa Clara Valley, California, may
serve as an example. In 1898 the rain
fall was only one-half of the normal.
Instead of 16 inches the precipitation
was 8 inches. The year previous was
likewise one of scanty water supply.
These two dry years coming in sue
cession and followed by others of me-
dunn rainfall compelled the orchard
lists to irrigate, and since that time
they have continued the practice. In
vestigations made there by our Office
in 1904 showed that one ditch supplied
water to 1,241 acres from February II
to April 49, During these Sc days in
winter and early spring the land was
flooded to a depth of 10 inches. An
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-10-01
ABOUT "ALASkA" WHEAT.

The two plots of Alaskan and Egyp-
tan seven headed wonder wheat,
growing side by side on the Colorado
state experiment farm have been har-
vested and as soon as threshing is
completed milling test will follow
and a bulletin will be issued by the
station giving the result, so that the
farmers of the west will have absolute
evidence of the fact, that the famed
Alaska is nothing more than the Egyp-
tian-a wheat without milling quality.
An additional indication of the fact
that the Alaska is not what it's dis
coverer claims is found in a letter
received by Processes Olin from Pro
fessor R. e. Hyslop, agonomist of the
Idaho experiment station, who states
that the yield of the Alaska is only 20
to 35 bushels, in fields already har-
vested. The discoverer's claims run
all the way from 100 to 222 bushels to
the acre.
1t has been reported from Moscow,
Idaho, that field of 80 acres of So
called alaska" wheat, grown on the
Goselin farm, yielded an average of
80 bushels per acre. This is one of the
fields of wheat grown by Abram
Adams, who had a field of 80 acres
near Juliaetta which averaged SO
bushels per acre. The Goselin field
is the one visited by Prof. Elliott.
of the Washington State College,
who reported:
Fields of Alaska wheat examined
will not run more that 35 bushels to
the acre. The highest recorded
worlds yield is 100 bushels for any
wheat Twenty-Five per cent of that
in Adams field is not Alaska wheat
it being badly mixed with other vari
cites. The head droOps heavily, and
will lodge badly. The heads are not
of uniform size Wheat is never found
growing wild, even in remote Alaska.
In three years, Alaska wheat will be
but a memory"
The Department of Agriculture re-
CARDS forty bushels to the acre as an
exceptionally good yield of wheat;
sixty bushels is very extraordinary,
and the records of the department
show that ninety bushels to the acre
is the heaviest yield known where
wheat was grown for market. That
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-10-01

other ditch covered over 5000 acres to
a depth of II inches from February
IL to April 20. Still another covered
900 acres to depth of 40 inches dur
ing the early spring months. The
average cost of this water to the irri-
gators under the three bitches was
$4.66 per acre. This water which aver
aged nearly 81 inches in depth was ap-
piled at a time when the orchard soil
was wet from rains, when the trees
did not particularly need irrigation,
but for the purpose of storing suffi-
cient moisture in the soil to nourish
the trees during the warm, dry months
of summer.
AS the area devoted to dry farming
increases, the use of water outside the
regular irrigation season is destined,
[ believe, to increase in a much great
er ratio. To make this use possible
we ought to begin soon to define by
legislative enactments all kinds of
rights to the use of water. One man
desires water only during the crop
growing season, which in Utah, for ex-
ample, may be assumed to be five
months; another desires to divert a
part of the flood flow for storage pur-
poses; while a third wishes to use
water for winter irrigation at favor
able times in the seven months when
it is not otherwise needed. Now, it
would seem to be the duty of the state
to issue permits for all of these ap-
preparations, but to so define the rights
Ito be continued.)
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-10-01

maximum was attained in France,
where wheat was sown by hand, in
rows, each grain planted individually
the grains six inches or more apart in
rows. Wheat sown in this way, known
as "stooling," sends up half a dozen to
twenty stalks, with as many heads, but
the heavy cost of planting makes this
process impractical in this country.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-10-01

The East Oregonian states that in
the irrigation district of Malheur
County is one of the most unique en-
cheering feats recorded in the West.
In the valley along the Malheur River,
where the land is level for miles are
two large irrigation canals running
side by SIDE for three miles and so
nearly dead level is the ground there
that water runs in oppositions direc-
tons in the two bitches. The bitches
come into the valley from different
directions and from higher ground and
the momentum of the volume of water
forces it across the dead level of the
valley, in opposite directions. At one
end of the valley one ditch passes un-
der the other in a dume.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-10-01

Sunnyside people are organizing to
secure a high line irrigation canal. A
committee was appointed to solicit
names on a petition to the secretary
of the interior urging the construction
of the canal.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
A chummy. Fearless Bird.

So unafraid are humming birds Of
man that they will readily enter open
windows of houses il they see flowers
within / have even read of their visit
ing the artificial flowers on lady's
hat when she was walking out, and
other writer's speak of their taking
sugar from between persons lips.
In room they become confused and.
being so frail, are apt to injure them
selves by striking against objects.
More than once or members of my
family have caught the frightened lit
tie waits for their good and released
them in the open air. 1t is of no use
to try to keep them in captivity I'M
less possibly it were in q greenhouse
where there were plenty Of flowers, for
no artificial food has ever been found
which will nourish them. Yet even
there they would probably kill them
selves by flying against the glass.-H.
e. Job in Outing Magazine.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
TEST OF GAS-ELECTRIC CAR.
Power House, Transmission Lines and
Suhstation on Wheels.

Power House, Transmission Lines and
Satisfaction on Wheels.
Seventy-fve miles Of hard running
over all kinds of railroads the other
day showed that the new type Of gas
electric car made by a big electric
company is a decided success, and it
promises to reyolutionize railroading
on short lines, says a Schenectady
IN. " special dispatch to the New
York World. The test of the car was
an official one. A speed Of sixty miles
an hour was made. Perfect control Of
the speed was possible at all times.
In space Of 8 by 9 feet this car
combines the power house, transmits
sion lines. substations and all the ben
eflts Of electric traction without the
costly and cumbersome effects of the
trolley. One man can operate and con-
troll the whole.
Two electric motors of sixty horse
power each drive the car, and these
are furnished current h- a -120 horse
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
Lost His Suit.

Lend my dress suit? Not on your
life" replied the man. 81 might get it
in the neck the way Corrigan did"
what happened to Corrigan?''
Well two years ago a fellow whom
he knew slightly borrowed Corrigan's
dress suit to go to dance Next thing
Corrigan heard was that the fellow
had dropped dead Of heart disease
Corrigan went to the funeral to do the
right thing When he peeked into the
casket he noticed the deceased had on
his dress suit. The undertaken had
picked it out because 1t was the only
dark suit in the fellows wardrobe
Corrigan wept real tears when he saw
them lowering the coffin into the grave
That was his first and last dress suit
He vowed he'd never get another
San Francisco Chronicle.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
GIGANTIC TIMEPIECE.
Worlds Biggest Clock to Be In New
York Skyscraper.

VSoIiu oiSSSSe SioSk 10 De III NEW
York Skyscraper.
When the tower Of the Metropolitan
Life building in Madison square is
completed, New York will have what
undoubtedly will be the largest clock
in the world, says the New York Her
aid. That distinction has belonged for
many years to big Ben In Westmin-
ster abbey, London, the dial Of which
Is twenty-five and one-half feet in di-
ameter, while that Of the Metropolitan
building clock will be twenty-five
1t will be a clock suitable in every
way to be part of the tallest perma-
nent structure in tie world, as the new
tower will be. eThe tower will be for
ty-eight stories. 658 feet above the
street, and the clock will occupy part
of the twenty-ffth, twenty-sixth and
twenty-seventh floors. The middle Of
the dial will be 346 feet above the
street.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
dial will be little more than halfway
between the street and the top of the
tower, it will be far above all sur
rounding buildings. 1t will be fifty
feet higher than the Flatiron building.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
Invention to Eliminate Types.

An invention to discard the whole
process of typesetting in the use OF
printing has been perfected by Gus
tavo Germani, a young Italian. who
has been working upon his models for
several years in Pittsburg. Application
has been made for patents covering
his ideas. The invention is calculated
to revolutionize the art of printing
says the Pittsburg Dispatch. Type
forms will be formed in relief on the
metallic plates used on printing press
es and consist Of writing on the sur
face of the plate with etching ground
and then subjecting it to the cutting"
action of acid whereby that portion of
the plate which has not received the
fetching ground" is eaten away, caus-
ing the type to stand out In relief. The
reading of proof is made easy by plac
ing the plate under a mirror inclined
at an angle Of forty-fiye degrees. I'M
PROJECTIONS In the type are quickly dis
cerned and can be corrected without
trouble
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
Stork's Joke on Ships Doctor.

His fellow officers on the Majestic of
the White Star line had joke to tell
on DR.. French, the ships surgeon
when that vessel reached New York
the other day, and he seemed to enjoy
it as much as any one, says the New
York Herald. While the ship was in.
midocean few days ago DR.. French
hurried below in response to a sum-
mons from the purser announcing that
the stork had paid a visit to the liner.
He was just in time to welcome quad
ruplets that had arrived in the ships
saloon. The mother was Jennie, the
youngest Of the ships cats. Three gen.
erations of Jennies family, herself, her
mother and her grandmother, have
been on the Majestic for several years.
Jennie affects the dining saloon She
and her kittens were moved to the fore
castle, but the next morning stewards
found the family in the dining room,
and there they remained
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
FUTURE OF AERoPLANEs.
Farman Expects Five Hour Aerial
Line Between Paris and London.

Farman Expects Five Hour Aerial
Line Between Paris and London.
Henry Farman. the French aeronaut
who recently won the Deutsch-Arch-
deacon prize. in an interview at Paris
on the future of aerial navigation said
that the best results iii aeroplane trav-
Ell would be had from combination of
the principles Of the Bleriot machine
and the cubic cellular aeroplane used
by Santos-Dumont and himself. For
the present he regards aeroplanes as
purely sporting machines. but expects
their development to be rapid and
foresees the time when an aeroplane
omnibus will cover the distance be-
tween Paris and London in five hours
NJ. Farman feels certain that within
twelve mouths aeroplanes will be able
to travel seventy-fve to a hundred
miles at an Insignificant cost compared
with the expense Of running an auto
mobile for the same distance.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
Finger Nail Pen.

Miss Lizzie Martin, an eighteen-year-
old Red Lion girl, has devised finger
nail pen, with which she does all her
letter writing, says York Pa.} dis
patch. The sight Of an old quill pen
gave Miss Martin the idea Of allowing
hand to grow to a proper length. The
nail was then trimmed to the shape OF
a pen and split. The girl declares that,
aside from its novelty, the new pen is
a decided Improvement over the ordi-
nary sort.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
A Theatrical Experiment.

An interesting experiment has been
initiated at B0urnemouth, in England.
says the London Globe. A grand hall
has been built on to the Theater Royal
in which people can wait before the
theater doors open for the perform
ance and to which the audience are
requested to retire between the acts to
permit of the theater being thoroughly
ventilated. Tea will be served in this
hall, and the orchestra will play there
during the intervals
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
WILD oUTBURsT OF JOY.
Mafeleing Night, When London Flung
Aside All Dignity.

j
''Mafeking night gave verb to the
English language. TO maMk," de
fined in phrase, means to turn every
thing upside down in a wild outburst
of joy. Certainly we did turn every
thing upside down that night-Friday
May 18, 19OO-in London, and we had
joy and to spare to justify us. It was
not merely that Mafeking was relieved
the town in which Baden-PoWell and
his men. edging close to starvation, had
sat tight SO long and so pluckily; it was
the far greater relief that came to all
England at the end Of that dark Win
ter through which all England, silently,
doggedly, had taken its nasty punish
ment, with the winning at last of a
substantial victory. The tense strain
was relaxed suddenly, and London,
with good cause for it, maHked ex-
ultingly through all that glad night
long.
Tiddlers are peacock tail feathers.
Tiddling is tickling other peoples
noses with them. With my own hap
py eyes that night l say two White
chapel girls, with proper Whitechapel
curls twirled on their temples. fiddle
the nose Of Pail Mall policeman!
And that oliceman-imagine, if you
please, all possible impossibilities fused
into one single ultra violet ray of in
credibility-fairly thrust forward his
those worse than regicides-he was a
Pail Mall policeman, remember-and
benignly rewarded them with the
sneeze of their desire!
On the same lines may cite another
example from that same evening. |
saw on Piccadilly an intensely re-
spectacle looking Englishman-mi middle
seemly black and wearing a seemly
top hat-who most obviously was a
member of the conservative middle
class, well to do city man, | should
say, with a tidy villa at Shepherds
Bush or Hackney, who on Sundays
very likely handed the plate. And
this by rights typically phlegmatic
Briton was seated, with his chubby
legs very wide outspread before him.
on the roof Of a four wheeler, and he
had the union jack in one hand and
the standard in the other, and he was
coming along the middle of one OF the
great streets of London in the thick of
the roaring crowd filling it waving
those national banners with an incom-
parable fervor and hurrahing just as
loud as he possibly could hurrah!
But / saw no mote in the eye of my
phlegmatic English brother-we were
about of an age-fiag waving and hur-
raining up there on the roof of his
GROWER, possibly because at the mo-
ment l had something of a beam in
my own Strictly speaking. the relief
of Mafeking was not my affair at all.
But, God bless me, there / was too,
with my standard and my union jack
fhey cost me sixpence apiece, mount
ed on little bamboo poles, and as long
as l live I shall cherish them), and !
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-22
BISON BACK ON PRAIRIE.
Former Inmates Of New York Zoo Do
ing Well In Oklahoma

ing Well In Oklahoma.
Uncle Sans herd of fifteen buffa-
loes, which We're taken from the New
York geological gardens to the Wichi-
ia national forest. Oklahoma, in the
early fall, are doing well in their new
home, according to advices which have
been received at Washington from the
supervisors headquarters at Cache.
Since leaving New York the herd has
celebrated the birth of two fine buff
falo calves. one of which has been
named Hornaday, after the name of
the director of the New York gardens
which gave them to the goyernme nt,
and the other Oklahoma, after the new
state which was also just born after
the herds arrival.
Keeper Frank Rush, an old western
COW puncher and experienced buffalo
man, who has handled the herd since
it was taken from New York, says
that alfalfa hay has put his charges
in fine shape and that the big prairie
beasts are again thriving in. their ma
tive land. The buffaloes have an 5000
acre fenced park in the Wichita for
est. In which they can charge and
snort During the winter the animals
will be fed alfalfa hay and protected
from the weather and disease in a
number of large shelter sheds which
have been built in the Enclosure. In
the spring they will be let out to roam
over the Wichita range, and gradually
they will be encouraged to rustic for
themselves, an instinct they have par
TALLY lost through years of domestica-
ton in city parks. Government ex-
perts figure that in time they will re-
gain the prowess of their forefathers,
who were kings of the plains before
civilization made it's march westward.