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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
Ad-

The sale yesterday clears up all the
government lots in the city which have
been plated out. The next sale will
be of lots in Makiki Valley, and Com
missioner Pratt will commence work
Immediately on laying these cut for
the market. The government has con-
siderable area on the top of and on
the slopes of Roundhead and Sugar
Loaf, and this land will be surveyed
without delay. A portion of the gov
eminent Makiki land is contained
within reserves for water, these in
Guiding the lands in the bottom of the
valley, along the stream, and the lands
at the extreme head of the valley.
There is big demand for building
lots in all quarters of the city, and
the higher prices predicted during the
past six months by all the real estate
dealers appear to have come into eff
feet.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
DRANK FORMAlIN
FOR PA|NkILLER

LIHUE, Kauai, January Chris.
Olsen, Jr., is in the hospital as re-
suit of mistake that came near end
ing his life just as the new year was
dawning. He had gone to bed early,
but woke up in the dark with a grip
ing pain. To alleviate it. he got up
and took what he in the dark supposed
to be a big dose of painkiller. I'm
luckily, the order of the medicine chest
had been upset, and before he knew
it he had swallowed large amount
of formalin. The doctor was immedi,
ately called, and, after having admin
istered to the patient, recommended
his removal to the hospital. where he
is now recovering satisfactorily.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
YEAR BOOK OF AGRICULTURE

Editor Advertiser: VIII you be SO
good as to announce that the Delegate
to Congress, Hon. J. K Kalanianaole,
has forwarded toAthe Board of Agri-
culture and Forestry for distribution
his quota of the Year Book of the U.
s. Department of Agriculture for
1902 As usual, this volume contains
much that is interesting to persons in
these Islands. Copies may be obtain
ed free upon application to the mail
ing clerk, Board of Agriculture and
Forestry, Box 331, Honolulu. Very
truly yours, RALPH S. HOSMER.
Superintendent of Forestry
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
Around the
olice Station
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Seventeen Chinese arrested on Sunday
on a charge of gambling, appeared be-
fore Judge Andrade yesterday morning
and were discharged on the ground of
insufficient evidence. The police had
found no money in sight, only dominoes.
buttons and dice. The Chinese say they
were playing tin-kau, an ordinary game
played with dominoes, and not pai-kau,
a game where money is placed in sight
for stakes.
In connection with gambling matters
IN general, the story related in the Ad.
vertlser of haoIe card shark who is
master-hand at poker, and who is said
TO have been accused of shifting the
cards to suit contingencies, has aroused
the attention of business men. The
story of $500 loss by young clerk,
and another of $500 lost last week, al
though not to this particular shark, but
to another working directly in the down
town section, and the difficulty expert.
enced by several young bloods in pay.
ing up debts, has resulted IN consider.
able talk. The story has been the
means of identifying some of the players
who have been accustomed to playing
for big stakes, or even fair-sized ones,
and have lost.
SO for Black Eye.
1t cost Joe Bartels just $40 to polish
up the eye of a Chinaman His Honor,
the magistrate, heard the story of the
celestial, who had showed bruised eve
and decided that such beautiful job
was worth ten-spot.
George Steele, the drunk who made
nuisance of himself at the Young Hotel
Sunday evening, was fined So and will
work it out on the reef. Steele has now
entered the habitual drunkards' class.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12
SWALLOWED FIVE
BOTTLES OF POISON

A man came to me for treatment
a few weeks ago who had taken five
bottles of poisonous drugs. He got
the stuff from doctor for the cure
of chronic kidney trouble and rheu,
matism.
Of course, the patient did not
know the nature of the medicine he
had been using until l analysed the
contents of one of the bottles. The
mixture contained morphine, alcohol
and potash in large quantities. He
then realized why he had become
nervous, debilitated and weak; why
his stomach went back on him and
his food wouldn It digest. He real
lied also that if he had continued
the use of these poisons much long
er he would have become a drug
slave, just as thousands of other
sufferers have who went to doctors
for relief.
That's the way all drugs work.
They will stop a pain by deadening
the nerves, but the pain comes back
in a few hours and you have to re-
peat the dose. The trouble is still
there and will remain there until
the cause is removed.
Now, this man took up my treat
ment and began using Electro-Vigor
every night. In three weeks time
every pain and ache was gone from
his body, and in another two weeks
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-12

| he reported himself cured of the
kidney trouble, which had bothered
him for years.
How did Eleetro-Vigor do thiss
Simply by removing the cause and
giving nature the power to cure.
The rheumatism was caused by
the kidney trouble, and the reason
for the kidney trouble was a lack
of strength and vitality in those
organs.
Electricity, which is vitality, was
all that was needed. With that
force restored, the life and activity
of the kidneys was renewed, en-
abiing them to cleanse the blood of
all impurities and the cause of
rheumatism.
When the cause of disease is re-
moved, nature makes a quick cure.
Electro-Vigor is the only success
! full device for infusing electricity
into the body. Its touch is gentle,
soothing, without sting or burn, yet
so powerful and invigoratfng that
You can feel the improvement after
one application. -vigor cures,
and | can prove it to you.
GET THIS FREE
Cut out this coupon right now and
mail it to me for my free, 100.page
illustrated book, which tells ali
about my method of treatment.
This book explains many things you
should know regarding the cause
and cure of disease. If you can t
call, mail the coupon at once.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-05-29

When writing advertisers please mention this paper.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25
SPECIAL SUIT SALE FOR
SATURDAY ONLY

$21.35 for your choice of our
fine line of "Eff-Eff" and
Sophomore" mems elegant
hand tailored suits. Values $25,
$3.50 and $28. Buy a suit for
the Fourth and celebrate prop
erly. You shouldn't wear that old
suit on the day that commemor-
ates Americas freedom. This is
your opportunity.
BALL CLOTHING CO.,
Pantages Theater Building.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25
CAN SAVE
MILLIONS If
PERMITTED
Especial to The Press.)
BUSINESSMAN IN FEDERAL
OFFICE GIVES GRAFTERS
BAD SCARE BY PURPOSE TO
APPLY COMMON SENSE
METHODS.

WASHINGTON, June 25.-The
new assistant secretary of the
treasury, c. d. Hilles of New York,
promises to be much in the lime
light If he adheres to his present
Intention of injecting business
methods into the operation of his
department.
Hilles has been confronted with
two serious problems since he
took charge. One relates to the
purchase of ice for the government
and the other is the enormous in
crease in premiums on government
bonds demanded by the bonding
and surety companies of the Unit
ed States.
In the first instance, Hilles, who
Is chairman of the new board Of
awards, recently appointed by
President Taft, discovered what he
believed to be an exorbitant price
paid by the government for ice.
Upon investigation. supplemented
by his previous knowledge on the
subject, he figured that recent bids
submitted to his board gave the
ice company practically 81 ton,
against 60 cents a ton which it
would cost the government if it
owned its own ice plant.
He at once figured on the in
stallation of plants. Congress has
not authorized the move, and those
who are familiar with the prece-
dents say no such improvement is
likely to be made. Hilles is going
forward with the hope that he may
find some way to save the govern
ment millions of dollars a year, and
he is not in the least daunted by
the cry of paternalism.
His ideas are somewhat similar
on the bonding proposition. His
course is not quite so clear, be-
cause there are more obstacles in
the way, but he feels that the gov
eminent should become its own
bonding agent and save many hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
annually to its bonded servants,
who are required now to pay from
three or more dollars a thousand
dollars for no better security than
the government itself could give at
a premium less than 60 cents a
thousand dollars.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25

ment and pension were he not 9TH
erwise SO well picked, or pre-
served, rather, and so young look
ing yet. 1t might be hard to make
a committee of skeptical public
servants believe that he was dis.
abled.
Then, too, If he works till June
81 to get his retirement and pen
sion he'll likely b eworking till
we'll, as far as Bill can learn there
is no such date on the whole
blooming bunch of calendars that
have served throughout the years
he's carried the club and keys. He
don't exactly know where he's at,
but "reckons" he'll keep on work
ing till July; then he'll be certain,
as it's June no longer. his time will
be righteously served.
Owing to someone's bad night
out or something perhaps equally
irregular to the dignity of a cleri-
cal job for a municipality, Bill
Smith Is recorded as having been
appointed to Spokane regular pc.
lice force on June 81. There is
no question about tits there in
black and white, and maybe the
man is dead who wrote it.
All the other old records having
any bearing on his appointment
were destroyed in the big fire. Can
anyone kindly tell Bill Smith when
he may, without fear Of losing that
pension, cease to be a cop?
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25
TWO POLICE OFFICERS SOON
TO RETIRE

Twenty years as an officer In
the Spokane police department
will have been served out by Cap
tain James Covefly Saturday night
and under the new police pension
ing law he will be eligible for re-
tirement at half his regular pay.
This will amount to $50 per
month.
Captain Coverly became regu-
lar officer June 26, 1889, and less
than two years later became cap
tain. He had held the captaincy
Is years May 1. His case will be
the first to come before the COM
mittee composed of city officials
to look after the retirement of the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25

old police officers.
1t will only be few days later
when the case of Jailer Bill Smith
will likely be up for consideration.
Roughly speaking, Bill, who is one
of the most popular officers In the
department, is up stump. ON
June 81, mind you, he will have
been in the police department ~
years. Ordinarily that would en-
title him to retirement at half pay,
but then he lacks just 10 years OF
being old enough to be laid on the
shelf.
Now, Bill has a bad leg or two
and several other things that
might make him eligible for retire
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25
BEN TILLMAN SAYS,
ALDRICH IS SENATE
NV United Press)

WASHINGTON, June 25.-In the
debate on the lumber tariff there
was a clash between Senator Till
man and Senator Aldrich in which
Tillman, in a loud voice and with
show of anger, yelled out:
But everything the senator from
Rhode Island says goes. He is the
senate"
The effort to lower the lumber
schedule failed and the reduction
of 25 per cent on the duty first
asked went through.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25

DR.. MAF. Settlers has removed
his office from the Fernwell to
suite 221 Paulsen building. Special
attention given to diseases of
women and children. -"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25

Special corrsspondencs to The Press
BEVERLEY, Mass, June 25.-
Things are nearly ready here for
the coming of President Taft.
Even his aids, as far as Beverley
can furnish them, have been
chosen. A policeman has been Sc
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25

lected to guard the house. ]. T.
George will be superintendent of
the estate. R. d. Evans will be
the Taft chauffeur So many curl
Gus persons visit the Evans estate,
where the president will live, that
it has been found necessary to de-
tail police to the grounds.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-06-25

Many a fellow who is imbued
with the idea that the world is his
mutton finds it pretty tough.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-04
THE REAL HERO.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal!
was the best friend OF the
stricken passengers and crew out
there in the deep remote, isolated,
helpless. His physical self was not
present. but his abstract self was
there, busy tireless. magical and po-
tent, in the shape of the wireless in.
strument. From the being Of Marconi's
genius was sprung this voice which
was to send the message to those
who could help and save Wherever
Marconi was in the flesh there on che
sea was his greatest self doing q
miracle for the hundreds who stood in
the presence of death doing mir
acle which is beyond the power Of
man to comprehend.
So to the inspiration, the visions
the daring, the skill, the supernatural
and the suDerhunan in Marconi is The
vast debt due for the rescue of those
on the Republic. The captains of the
Baltic, the Gresham and the res
were splendid in their labors. but i
was the spirit of Marconi calling will
the instrument that made it possible
for them to know why they were
needed. To Marconi be the glory. TT
1.-THE italian wonder-worker go .he
shouting and cheers of the race. III
isnatched the perishing from death.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-04
VIE OCEAN MAIL BILL.

Pressure is being brought 10 pear
on congress to secure the passage 0.
the ocean mail bill, which has passed
the senate and is now pending before
the house committee on postohce anu
nostroads. Some of the leading busl-
ness interests of the country nave en-
dorsed the bill, claiming that the
country is now losing hundreds OF mil.
lions of dollars annually because OF
the lack of proper facilities to carry
lis own mail and express, passengers
and merchandise to South America.
# is cited that on it's voyage around
the world the battleship fleet was
Inundated by dependence on foreign
GOLFERS that could not lawfully be en-
ployed in time of war Another con-
tention is that without American
merchant ships to use the Panama
canal. the hundreds of millions spent
in it's construction will prove to have
been only a subsidy to the ships and
trade of foreign governments. 1t IS
claimed for the measure that 1t practl-
cally guarantees not to cost this
country dollar, as there is a pravl'
sion in the bill to the effect that she
expenditure on it's account shall not
exceed the net revenue derived from
sea postage received from SHIPS
operating under the provisions OF the
bill itself.
President-elect Taft in his speech OF
acceptance endorsed the measure III
the following terms:
"The only respect in which nothing
has been done is in the development
of our foreign marine. AS long az
we uphold the system of protection
for our home industries we must
recognize that it Is applicable to as
sist those of our citizens engaged III
the foreign shipping business, BECAUSE
there is no feasible means of eXclud
ing foreign competition, and that the
only other method of building up such
a business is by direct aid in the form
of mail subsidy.
ST am in favor. of the bill consider
K ed in the last congress as tentative
step. The establishment of d1rec
steamship lines between our Atlantic
ports and South America would Ger
tainly do much to develop trade .ha
might be made far greater. On The
Pacific the whole shipping trad
threatens to pass into control of Japan
Something ought to be done, and M
bill which failed was a step in the
right direction"
\ Undoubtedly there is basis for thu
claim that American trade should nc
be placed in jeopardy through fail1r'
to encourage the lettering of shipping
facilities. The only danger lies in Tn
possibility that some of the big corro
rations, amply able to provide thel
own shipping facilities, might take ad
vantage of the governmental aid an
defeat the object of the bill. If step
were taken to see that no help i
given in building up private monopoly
the ocean mail bill might safely an
nro1tably be enacted.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-04
Sunday School Lesson and
Young Peoples Meetings

professional evangelistS of the Coun-
try by Mr.. William Moody, the sou
of the great evangelist, Dwight L..
Moody. His charges were compre
hended in the two specifications OF
serSationalism and commercialism H.
definitely declared that some men en-
gage in the vocation of soul winning
from love of money, and that their
greed outruns all bounds OF discretion
and decency. There can be no doubt
that one OF the ever-present menaceS
Of the church, as of society, is this
old, old spirit of greed
A Desirable Judgment.
Ananas, like a multitude since, had
not grasped the tremendous truth thai
in the realm of religion man is an
sWerable directly to God. He thought
he was answerable to the apostles
and to the organized church. If he
could keep right with the church au-
thorities, he thought enough had
been done. So when he pretended 10
surrender the price of his land, having
kept back part of it, Peter turned
upon him with some blistering ques
lions, "Ananias, why hath Satan
/ filed thy heart to lie to the Holy
! Spirit, and to keep back part of tn:
price of the land? While it remained
did it not remain thine own? And aft
er it was sold, was it not in thy pow
er. How is it that thou hast conceiv
ed this thing in thy hearth" They
came the accusation, that was fol
lowed by the utter collapse and IL
slant death of the offender: "Thot
hast not lied unto men, but unto
God" A vivid sense of the souls re
sponsibility to God would save mel
from most Of their SHINING.
Simple, fraternal. loving as wa
that early Christian community
there yet was a real discipline. Wher
ever the sovereignty Of the Spirit 0
law, even though liberty reigns. Th'
present-day church has lost much o
her power, largely because she ha
lost much Of her purity. Members ar
not cast out or disciplined because :,
offenses. A lax government in tn
church is as likely to result in la
conduct on the part Of her members
1t is in connection with this presen
incident that the word Church" ,
first applied TO the company of BE-
levers in Jesus. They were an organ
lied body. They cherished one al
other, and they cherished the teacl
ings of their Lord. Especially did the
obey that injunction TO love thei
neighbors as themselves. and thi
+ law must underlie every experiment
in socialism that is to succeed. Onl
brotherliness. animated by the col
! trolling spirit of humanity's bes
brother, can level the inequalities {
modern selfcentered society
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-04


ocratic camp. He had talked half an
hour when friend tapped him on the
shoulder, and warned him it was train
time Starting to go, he walked clear
around the platform, and again lost
himself in fight of oratory that will
be long remembered by the 10000 per-
sons who heard him. There was no
forgetfulness OF self last night; he
talked like man who had a task to
perform"
Then there is another reason why
Mr.. Bryan would not be a success as
an evangelist, judging from his rec
ord of the past He could not change
his platform every four years, rep,1di-
ating his policies of the past and advo
eating new ones, and to tie himself
down to an unchanged platform in an
evangelical campaign might prove 90
hard a strain.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-04
BRYAN AS A PREACHER.

Ed Howe, the veteran editor of the
Atchison (Kas.) Globe, dismisses with
a wave of his hand the suggestion
that William Jennings Bryan would
be success as an evangelist. MI
Howe heard Bryan speak the other
night when he was not talking poll.
tics and it was not the same Bryan at
all. Here is the way he describes it:
at is frequently stated that w. J,
Bryan. should he direct his energies
along that line, would become the
greatest evangelist the world has ever
known. but even his most faithful wor
shippers in Atchison doubt it, aftel
hearing him lecture last night on The
Prince of Peace As an exponent OF
religion, Mr.. Bryan lacks fire and gin
ger; he talked in gentle, subdueo
manner, as one talks In the presence
of the dead, and when he moved his
feet on the stage, which was twice
(when he walked on and when he
walked Off it was with that gentle
cat-like tread that marks the woma:
who is stationed at the door at fu
neral, and motions the friends of the
family to their seats. Mr.. Bryan
the candidate for president, is diff
ferent man from Mr. Bryan, the
preacher. Getting to be presiden
seems to be more important matteI
than saving the world, for, as presi
Dental candidate, the Nebraska man il
the greatest orator the modern worlt
has known. He was in Atchison las
fall, and delivered speech from ;
platform erected near the Union de
pot, that was so eloquent, SO full o
flights of oratory, and delivered II
such an impassioned way, that it al
most swept Republicans into the Dem