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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-21

ton of the loser.
Tomorrow the EIks will begin
making their annual distribution
among the poor of, the CITY,. Com.
mittees we're first. sent out for per.
sonal Investigation and having
learned where the deserving poor
were located issued cards to
grocers. meat dealers and fuel
men, telling them where to CO.
This practical form of Christmas
giving has been found by the Elks
to be the better plan.
Mrs. Carrie Mcouay, the woman
who died in the county Jail last
week from. epilepsy while serving
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-21

the big playhouses in the cellar and
locked the door with that speedy
foot work of theirs. Pie eating con-
tests and many other forms of at
traction and fun had their places on
the program as wei and there isn't
a news peddler in Spokane today
but who is convinced that that is
just about the best sport they ever
had.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-21
(BY United Press.i

MANAGUA, Dec. 21.-Jose Ma
drez today assumed the presidency
of Nicaragua, succeeding former
President Zelaya. who resigned.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-21
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I'LL FLOOD MANITO 4
.. LAKE THIS MORNING q

S9J
= Permission has been issued
. by the water department for
. the flooding of the lake, ip I
= Mantle park, which will be
= done tonight by the park sup, 4
= erintendent, Mr.. Balzer. This
= Is done. to give the ice q 4
= smoother surface and increase I
= it's thickness.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

along about the same lines that Hra-
rison built. The people are now in
mood to appreciate that kind OF a
President more than they were in
Harrison's time.
II is not so easy to get inside the
White House Offices now as 1t was
prior to the Fourth of March, per-
haps, but 1t is very noticeable that
the era of goodwill which has been
growing has brought great many
people there who had not been going
heretofore. A great many visitors
of prominence used to come to Wash
ington and depart therefrom, with
out going near the White House,
now nearly all of them find time to
go up the Avenue and at least call in
to pay their respects. The difficulty
in seeing Mr.. Taft is due solely to
the pressure upon his time. Once one
gets within, he is sure of a cordial
welcome.
The Democrats swarm the ante
room almost daily. They have err
rands there and are made to feel that
Mr.. Taft is the President of all par
ties. And much as they may declaim
politically against the Administra-
ton there is a very kindly feeling
among the Democrats of Senate and
House for President Taft. That is a
very notable evidence of the era Of
peace which the President is persona
flying in his administration.
He has gotten upon especially
friendly terms with the judiciary In
and about Washington. The JUS
tees of the. Supreme Court, the
judges of the District of Columbia
courts and tn judges of the Court Of
lClaims have nearly all been around
to the White House offices to call up
on the new President. In former
times quite number OF these judges
were at outs for one cause or another
used to be a United States Circuit
Judge himself and knows something
of the way judges are accustomed to
looking at affairs. He tells his best
stories when the brethren of the
bench come to see him.
The members of the new Cabinet
are growing in favor in Washington
even as the new President is grow
ing in favor. They are all develop
ing Hike big, brainy men and Wash
ington is inferring that the new
President is to prove himself good
Judge OF his fellow citizens. There
is a great difference in Presidents in
that regard. The town is talking
: much about the big things that Knox
and Wickersham and Meyer and
Dickinson and MacVeagh are doing
They are the kind of Cobinet officers
who take with the discriminating
Washington public and large things
are expected of them as the Admin
istration progresses. Nowhere else
in the country is so little attention
paid to mere Office as In Washington
= but probably nowhere else In the
country is there so much real appre
citation of official greatness and of the
, man in Office who makes good.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26
LITTLE LAND LEAGUE FARMS.


Hawaii Is not the first section of
the country to take up the idea that
n man can make a comfortable home
on an acre or two of land.
The Christian Science Monitor
calls attention to the Little Land
League" that was organized with the
purpose of getting small homes for
the people and to which organization
such men as J. Pierpont Morgan,
Hamlin Garland, Booker T. Washing
ton, Albert Shaw, and Bolton Hall
lent their names, influence, and
somewhat of financial assistance. The
Monitor fears that the work is drOop-
ing, bit is assured that the period of
quiet Is being occupied with the pre-
liminaries.
There. are behind 1t q noble
Thought and II fine purpose. 1t Is
based primarily on the contention
that family of three can be main
tanned on farm of two acres, and
in sections of the country where the
larger farm has long since been aban-
doned Those who Investigated the
matter before the movement was or
ganized declare that there is no
dearth of such land which can be
purchased in two-acre lots for from
5000 to $3.50 and that properly con-
Quoted the Little Land League can
divert from the crowded cities to
these small farms very large section
of European immigrants, and espe'
cially those accustomed to farm worh
at home, To make these farms sue
cessful the intensive system employed
in France, Belgium, Switzerland, anC
other countries would have to b'
adopted, and II would be a part o
the Little Land Leagues undertaking
to impart the necessary instruction t
the small farmers.
The Little Land League has aim
which extend beyond the mere set
Ting Of the poor on small holdings
It'expects to win them to the Liant
and to hold them on the land b,
changing other conditions, or rathe
by harmonizing other conditions L
the new agriculture-by encouraging
manufacturers to remove their work.
from congested centers out into thu
open country; by fostering the com
merclal and industrial upbuilding o
the smaller cities, towns, and Villages
and by developing and establishing
industries in such communities b,
building good roads; by improving
the rural home and its environment
by broadening the practical eihcienc
of rural schools, and by the enlarge
ment of home opportunities.
Nothing could be more commend
able than the impulse behind such
movement. Even II II should IA
short of attaining to its ideals,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26
"PEACEMAKER" IS
TAFT'S TITLE
President Is At Work
On This Line
Constantly s.
HARM0i Y DINNER THAT
May GET SOME RESULTS
Democrats Making Friends = Hard
To Reach President But He
Is Very Cordial-0ur
Bill"

WASHINGTON, ID. c., April L.
President Tafts attempts to keep all
the official folks around Washington
on amicable terms are becoming the
topic of the city and of the country.
Lately they have been reviving his
old-time title of Secretary of Peace"
lie has been giving dinner at which
warning political notables were bid
den to break bread around the same
festive board. He has been making
up to Senators of all parties and
factions; likewise to Representatives
of all factions and parties. He has
made the members of the old Ananias
Club feel at home when they came
around the White House offices. He
has been making a real chum of the
Vice President very unusual thing
for President to do; and he has
been getting on swimmingly with
the members of his Cabinet Peace
and harmony are everywhere.
| Some say the harmony dinner at
the White House the other evening
did not avail anything, that Floor
Leader Payne and Representative
"Gussie" Gardner of Massachusetts,
the latter the leader of the Republi.
can insurgents, shook hands only IN
a most formal way as they entered
the Presidents presence as fellow
guests. Some say as much of Repre-
sentative Champ Clark, the minority
leader, and the leader of the Demo
cratic insurgents, Representative
John Joseph Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn
But then, there is no doubt those
gentlemen all felt better because the
President had invited them and theiI
wives around to the first of the for
nal white House banquets. 1t will
be easier now for them one of thest
days to agree to let bygones be by
cones and to shake hands across the
bloody chasms.
; But the way the President and the
Vice President are cumming IL hai
set all the oldest inhabitants to re
viewing similar cases of President
and Vice Presidents in the days pas
and gone. There have not beef
many such instances. Presiden
+, Roosevelt, of course, never had bu
one Vice President to get along will
and It is matter Of common knowl
edge in Washington that Presiden
Roosevelt did not like Vice Presiden
Fairbanks and allowed no opportuni
ty to pass without giving Mr.. Fair
banks good, stiff dig. Presiden
Mckinley used to be real friendl
= with Vice President Hobart and folk
here are recalling that as parable
. between the friendly relations o
President Taft and Vice Presiden
; Sherman. 1t is well known tina
; President Cleveland had little use 70
Vice President Stevenson. Harriso
! and Morton used to drive their horse
together pretty well, but Mr.. Harri
son was not very cordial in any Q
: his official relations. His great wort
as a President, however, has come I
be recognized. and in Washingto
!. many think they see that Presiden
: Taft is building his administrator
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

Mr.. Fairbanks pleasant words will
have a rar-resehing influence in Ha-
wall. It Is often that our people
sneer at the "glittering generalities"
prominent men throw out in their
COMMENT en- Hawah's capacity for'sell
government. It Is, nevertheless, a
fact that these glittering generalities
from men who have borne the burden
and heat of our National government
are an inspiration to the citizens Of
Hawaii to further improve on their
already good record.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

must inevitably accomplish great
amount of good.
While the people of the mainland
are endeavoring to open practical
plan by which the European can be
drawn away from the large centers,
1t is certainly not chimerical for Ha-
wall to hope for the complete success
of a movement to homestead the Eu-
ropean, while at the same time guar
anteeing him employment in adioin-
ing fields AT a good wage. ..I
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26
PROPOSES BY CABLE;
Eyes" ANSWERSGIRL
And Now Honolulu Lass
Is On Her Way.To
Wed Her Choice

San Jose, April l3.-Pretty Edna
German, the 1S.year-old daughter of
II. A. German, prominent in social
and financial circles In Honolulu, Is
speeding across 2lOO miles of ocean in
answer to a proposal Of marriage re-
ceived by cable. On her arrival here
she will wed Gerald p. Beaumont.
The romance which will eliminate
in the ceremony which is to take place
Immediately after the arrival OF the
steamer Hilonian, April 2Sth of this
month. began in the spring OF 1907,
when Beaumont, writing to mutual
friend in Honolulu, enclosed note to
Miss German. whom he had never
seen but of whom his friends had writ
ten. The correspondence continued
for several months, when Miss Cor
man came to San Jose.
At that time Beaumont was playing
in the Passion Play at Santa Clara
College, and her first view of hei
future husband was from the audience
After the performance a relative OF
Miss German introduced the young
couple over the telephone. A meeting
was arranged for the following day
and the unusual romance was on In
earnest
The courtship progressed to the
point of tacit understanding wher
Miss German was obliged TO return t.
Honolulu last fall.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26
Paw Paw, Mich.-
Another Operation Avoided.

Another operation Avoided.
Chicago, III. IL want women to
know what that wonderful medicine,
Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, has done for me. Two Of the
best doctors in Chicago said / would
die II did not have an operation, and
/ never thought of seeing a we'll day
again. hada small tumor and female
troubles so that 1 suffered day and
night. A friend recommended Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and IL made me well woman. Mrs.
ALvENA sPERLNe, II Langdon st.,
Chicago, Ill.
Lydia L, Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
has proved to be the most successful
remedy for curing the worst forms Of
female Ills, including displacements,
Inflammation, fibroid tumors, irregu.
larities. periodic pains, backache, bear.
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges,
| ton, and nervous prostration. 1t costs
but q trifie to try 1t, and the result,
has been worth millions ~ many
suffering women.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

One report has II that President
Taft will make his own appointments
in the Territory Of Hawaii and not
according to the ancient system. All
those not specially interested in the
maintenance of favoritism can afford
to look on from the grand stand and
see the fun. There is no doubt that
Hawaii will be well governed while
It is in the hands of American citi-
IONS
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26
POLITICAL VIEWS.
It is to be hoped that no one has
kidnapped the Nice-President of the
United States.-Sc Scranton Tribune.

All that any friend of direct nomina'
tions asks of any voter is to inform
himself fully on the facts and give
them and the arguments based thereon
careful and honest consideration. It
is to be hoped that the Governor will
make It convenient to speak in various
places in the State and. going straight
to the people. tell them what he thinks
and why.-Uticn Press.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

II Mr.. Fairbanks gets away from
Hawaii without being given an OPP
portunity to take a hand in Hawaii's
politics That are developing in Wash
ington, he will be lucky.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

ADVISED
OPERATION
CuredbyLydiaE. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Il Sulltltu tlli-
bly, from female ills,
including inflam-
nation and conges-
ton, for several
years. My doctor
said there was no
hope for me but an
operation. ! began
taking Lydia 4.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound, and
/ can now say / am
q well woman"
EMMA DRAPER,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26
A CARD OF THANKS

Editor Evening Bulletin, =
Honolulu. 4
! Dear Sir:-Will you allow us =
; space in your valuable columns Of \
! the Evening Bulletin. \
, With our most sincere aloha \
! we thank again those. who helped \
us to obtain our moving picture \
machine. Aloha is a simple word 4
' but our hearts go with 1t all the \
! same. Machine is clicking, pic. I
lures are moving and We are TAX 4
' ing in the sights. Mahalo nui 4
y loa. We are the unfortunates Of 4
\ the Leper Settlement, per our 4
! committee:
' J. X. KELIIHULI,
\ JNO. HAULANI, I
= PHILLIP KILAUEA, I
\ J. X. WAIAMAU,
\ MARTIN PEARY. 1
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

Hawaii cannot do better than sees
a visitation from the Secretary Of The
Interior and the Commissioner OF linz
migration.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

Someone has said Roosevelt Is out
on an advertising campaign. II 80,
he is getting loads Of 1t free.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

Mr.. Thwing's statement that Sem
ator Warren is a rascal will not hurt
Senator Warren.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

Government Calls for 6ids.-Wash-
ington, April 15.-The treasury de-
partment today sent out advertise
ments for bids for the construction OF
the public building at Eureka Cal The
bids are to be opened May "a.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

The party leader who is not in the
game for purely selfish reasons must
accept the Governors view. The par
~ leader who does not accept the d.
rect nomination is apt to be looked up.
on asOone who places his personal am.
bition above his service to the party
and the rights of the individual voter.
He is. therefore, not Il leader, but "A
driver-a boss.-Hu''alo Times.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

II will be noticed that President
Taft is making many changes in the
diplomatic service Of the country. Ow-
ing to his close connection with the
Roosevelt administration, the Presi.
dent is in position TO know who will
suit him ms minister or ambassador
and who will not Many expected that
the Roosevelt selections would be &C.
ceptable TO him. 1t is possible that
some of them were as unsatisfactory to
the former President as to the man
now in office and that Mr.. Roosevelt
would himself have changed them had
he been e-clected-Scranton Republi.
can
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26
LEGISLATORS HAVE
VERY fine LUAU

The members of the Legislature, on
pretence of inspecting the Boys In.
dustrial Home, went ON picnic to
Waialoe yesterday and report having
had Il very enjoyable time. A per-
functory inspection Of the school was
made, but AS the appropriation bill
has already been passed, the inspec-
ton could do no good.gL
The real event Of the trip was the
luau, at which many of the lawmakers
distinguished themselves and We're
strictly In their element ...
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-26

, .unoOtoe ia ss,ss rr s.s
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
POLO IN CHINA.
Played There Thousands or Years Under
the Name OF HOrseban.

-One day while walking along Liu-
Li-Ch'ang, the great book and curio
street OF Pekin," says a writer in 81.
Nicholos, Il stepped into a store TO look
at some Chinese paintings. The street
is more than a mile in length, not very
wide and not particularly clean, but 1t
is the model street in all upper China
and one of the most remarkable in the
world. 1t contains nothing but book
stores and curio stores.
There you will find "A history not a
history Of the world-not a universal
history. but only "A history of China which
would fill a two horse wagon. There
you can also find an encyclopedia which
contains as many volumes as there are
days in a hundred years. And there
besides governing 400. 900, 900 people.
wrote as many separate poems as there
are minutes in two weeks.
Among many other things the dealer
brought out a painting of five men dressed
in the style Of the Ming dynasty "a garh
OF four or Ave hundred years ago, playing
polo. The picture was painted on a piece
Of silk about three II a half feet long
and hftocn inches wlOe. Inc Sllk mo
originally peer white, but through the
years and centuries since it was executed
Il had turned a beautiful brown.
Il found by the inscription that 1t had
been painted by a man named Chlu
Ying, the greatest landscape and figure
painter of the Ming dynasty, some 400
years ago.
s'Whatare the men doing?' l inquired
OF the merchant.
Knocking horse ball, he answered.
But they are mo- riding horses; they
are on mules | continued.
Quite right, said he: a horse would
he too large to turn quickly n play
easily and he would not be tough enough
to stand the game.
why, is il a violent gamey asked.
al do not know he continued: l never
saw it played, but ] suppose II is. When
men are riding mules, turning. twisting,
%ealloping, swinging clubs and yelling,
Il cannot be very mild. They are liable
to run into each other. their mules may
fall. or they may be unseated and trampled
under the feet OF their antagonists. IL
is not child's play ,
How long have the Chinese played
this game: I inquired.
He waved his hand at me in that queer
way the Chinese have Of saying they
can't answer.
II do not know. | suppose they have
always had il; at least. he modified his
statement, for 1000 or 1000 years,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
YORK or TEREDOES.
RapIdii, with Which They DcUiOlis,i
Mooden Piers aud CaIss ans.
Erom the Nnn E,nncisco Coll.

From the san Epnhclsco on.
That the teredoes in the vicinity Of Fort
Mason are the hungrie-: and busiest and
equipped with the mos, effective suyers
Of airy of their Kind to be found in the hay
has been demonstrated by the contract
ing concern TINT is h,Hldins the new army
transport whnrves at B!aokpOin,. The COM
psny has paid a fancy price for its knowl-
edge, and Incidentally and al its " oN-
pense has demonstrated tho wisdom Of the
all concrete construction advocated by the
present board OF harbor commissioners
The new army wharvrs are To rest on
concrete piers aud the plans call for tho con-
stIuction Of a concrete breakwater 10 pro-
vide shelter for the troopships that may he
tIcd up a. the wharves. In the construction
OF this br.akwatcr great Wooden caissons
were built and sunk, 10 be pumped ont
later and filed with concrete.
4 temporary wharf was huilt OF green
piles and on this we're erected the concrete
I mixing machinery ard other gear essential
10 carving on the work. 4 few weeks ago
this wharf tunlbled down and al ~investi-
CATION showed tina, the tprcdocs he'd eaten
The green piles as easily as II they had been
Young onions. The wharf is now being re-
built with creosoted piles,
In anticipation of the early restoration
OF the temporary pier an rNa mination
was made Yesterday Of the wooden Gals.
sons, aud to the contractors crIef it was
discovered that they had been practically
consumed ny the teredoes. The chcwcd
up caissous will have to be replaced and
then II viii he a race bet wcen the concrete
mixers and the %tsredoes, with the betting
on the worms. IL in the meantime they
should cat through the creosoted piles
tina, support temporary wharf No. = and
cause another delay in Glling the moulds
with concrete.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06

rival as the unfortunate daughter OF the
Capulets. Her Poytid. her Viola and her
Katherine have all been seen here before
and measured thoroughly They repre-
sent a fine total Of achievement. Nal
roIio too is a character we'll suited To
Mr.. Sothern's best talents, while his
Pefruchio is probably more like the Pc
truchio that Shakespeare wrote than any
other seen here in many years. The
Tanning Of the Shrew' is played in fact
Ivy Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern IN
the true key of Elizsbethan farce. MIR.
Sothern's Hamlet has mellowed and
deepened steadily since he first played
it until now it has taken on 9 stature OF
high nobility, In short the present sea-
son has offered intelligent theatregoers
no more attractive opportunity thar
that which is afforded by the Marlowe-
Sothern engagement at the Academy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
THE FANCY H.tTER CAP.
Decorative Ideas for the Autounobue
Seen Nowadays.

Water cap decoration is n OF the new
things in automobiles. A while ago.
when the teddy peal was popular. 1t used
to be the thing to have a teddy bear. arms
outstretohed. riding on the front OF The
auto above the radiator
Now the teddy bear has gone out, Tbs
billy possum doesn't lend himself 10
decoration Of this kind, as he has TO hang
down to be really in keeping, so his placa
has been usurped by the billiken.
II the god of things as they ought 70
be does his charming properly certainly
no one ought TO be arrested for speeding
with one Of the ugly toys riding. in front
Perhaps it would be better TO have one
of them tied on the tail light, 90 that
pursuing policemen would come mora
quickly under the influence.
There are other sorts Of decorations
that 60 on the water cap. On some ors
an eagle with wings outstretched can
be seen. Some others have an elk 9 head
with branching horns. 1t isn't always
well to have a ~glistening object up from,
because the sunlight NAV reflect INTO the
eyes Of the driver, causing him to 60 awry
in some ticklish trafic tangle.