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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-07
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Pratt, the Land Man

Has the choicest selection OF lands
in the Territory to offer to those
wise people who want to get in on
the ground floor and invest before
prices rise all along the line.
In a very short time, when you
meet friend, and commence to dis
cuss land transactions las you nat
urally willy, you will be saying, Il
could have bought that place in 90
for less than half that price, but"
Don't be "asleep at the switch"
but get move on" right now and
buy one (or more) Of the following
properties:
l. Seaside properties. fpontages
TO suit; the best investments in the
Hawaiian Islands today.
2. Residence properties on the
Makiki and Punahou foothills, the
Mob Hills of Honolulu.
3. Some of the choicest proper
ties on the Makiki Plains; houses,
lots, locations and prices to suit your
taste and bank account.
4. Highest grade agricultural
land on Oahu, Maui and other is
lands; size, location, prices and
terms to suit.
5. Several leaseholds covering
summer land it's always summer in
Hawaii') homes and revenue pro-
ducing small farms, in the valleys
near Honolulu.
6. Nuuanu Valley villa sites; and
Z, Other properties too numerous
to mention
For detailed information, prices,
etc, apply to
pratt, the Land Man.
Tel. Coz. l25 Merchant Street.
P. 0. Box. 45l. ara.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

Fly. upsetting her chair and making for
sofa cushion.
a bat!" screamed Susan, dashine
around the table and catching hold OF
the pretty girl in gray. as she flew past
in search of the door at the other end OF
the room.
Ring the bell! Oh, do somebody
ring the bell for Perkins, walled Alice
Idistractedly from the cushion in which
her head was buried
"For heavens sake, kill the thingl"
| implored Susan. the woman suffragist,
from behind the bulwark of the pretty
| girl, whose face was hidden in her hand
kerchief. "Where is it oh, where One
OF you call Perkins Look at it!-iust
look there-do ring the belll Will that
man never come"
There was a scramble, wild confusion
and those who were close enough to the
doors fed out of the ROOM Perkins came
running and resorted to vigorous
search.
Cautiously Alice removed the cushion
and peeped from under it,
"I-I-don't see it!'' she said ct
must haye-fown out !"
"Flown out Thank heaven!" devout
lly exclaimed Susan, relinquishing the
arm of the slender girl, who looked up
lapprehensively and got behind Perkins
IF there is one thing | am afraid of
it is a bat" declared Susan, sinking into
a reading chair and tanning her per-
turbed face. Il am MORALLY afraid OF
bats! Fancy one getting tangled in
ones hair!" she added, with shudder,
as Perkins shook the draperies and cur
tains, flourished a walking cane and
looked under the sofas and in the cor
ners while assuring the terrified assem-
blage there was no bat in the library
Gradually the excitement subsidized
and those who had fed came cautiously
back, while Perkins and the housemaid
brought in tea and silver walters con-
tanning comestibles calculated to restore
the equilibrium of upset nerves.
Ice and sherry, Perkins," ordered
Alice, as an animated chat began to fill
the library
"I-I-don't believe there ever was a
bat in the room. | didn't see any," re-
marked the girl in gray, looking full at
Alice, smile bringing out her dimples.
"Oh, there must have been a bat
somewhere" said Alice, doing her
luIeio9 90 noseess with chdTmlhg grace
How horribly frightened we all were
AS a matter of history, you know, they
never do get into anybody's hair But
we women are persuaded they do. won
der which are more alarming bats, or
bullets at the polls on election day?
Because, you know, men do occasionally
shoot at each other when they go to
voting against each otherZor they
knock each other down. One can never
be sure. New Orleans Times Democrat.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
EscoRTING A RIVER TO TOWN.
The Piura Has Triumphal Progress
Once in Seven Years.

The river with picturesque history,
a sort of Nile on a small scale, is the
Piura river in Peru.
The Piura is like the Nile in the rela-
ton it bears to its waiting people. The
river rises once every year and to excep-
tlonaI heights once about ever seven
years. This seventh year food results il
tive crops, two each year, and then the
land rests until the end of the seven
year cycle, except in the valley bottoms
where irrigation maintains the fertility
When the floods are due the people ask
every traveller from up valley where the
river was when he passed. If he re-
ports it coming, says the Bulletin of the
American Geographical society, a crowd
of eager listeners and questioners sur.
round him as if he brought, as indeed
be does bring, important news. AS it APP
proaches the upper haciendas the Indians
turn out to welcome it with fife and
drum and fire rockets.
The news is passed around that the
river is but league away and will be
here today. The people ride out to meet
it and no fiesta in northern Peru is equal
to the one on this occasion when the
now tireless multitude goes out to seek
the river.
The affair reaches a climax when the
river, at first tiny rill, arrives at the
bridge of Piura, where commonly 5000
people turn out to escort the river to the
city. At the city of Catacaos (25.OOO
population. and the fifth city in Peru,
six miles lower down the valley, it is met
by $4,000 people, SO that the river has a
triumphant march from the mountains to
Sechura, where it enters the sea.
The cotton of Piura is one of the most
celebrated varieties in the world and ex-
periments looking toward its production
elsewhere have resulted uniformity in
failure. 1t has a long, woolly and ex-
exceedingly tough fiber and is distinctly
the product of local climatic conditions:
hence the Piurians have monopoly of its
culture.
The whole valley is largely given up to
its. production, for its market value is
twice that of ordinary cotton. 1t is pro-
duced in twelve shades, ranging from a
pure white through buff, pink and light
brown to a rich red dark brown. and is
used in the manufacture of fine under
wear and hosiery and in the adultera-
ton of fine woollens as protection
against shrinking.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
LOVES TILT.

She:
Avaunti Be on thy way, thou trinins
Thy bold attempt my little hand To
Shall end in this:
That we, henceforth, shall as two stran-
And my esteem, for this effrontery,
Thou 1t ever miss.
Thy sex are all alike in churlish ways.
And men are not the same as ia the days
OF long ago.
For so I've heard my mother often tell
My elder sister Madelaide, and-weIl,
She ought to know.
The knightly ways whereof you speak,
Are dead these many years, but, let that
pass
Their mem 'ry jars.
The modern girls estate is something
Than ,dimpled sweetness locked behind a
door
With iron bars.
Her own free will, employed with modest
grace,
Is quite enough to keep her in her place.
Yet even now,
"Alfs fair in love and war; my father
claims,
And boldness lends a spice to lovers
AS he'll avow
If, as you say, your father holds it so,
1t may be right, and yeti scarcely know.
At any rate
I'm sure my mother'd cancel all she said,
If she were told that chivalry is dead
And ont of date.
He:
What matter It, though she be right or
wrong?
The fact Is this; All these affairs belong
To just us two.
And as for fathers words, what should /
care?
In love or war ] think there's nothing fair
Compared with you.
She:
Uast word)-????????
Clara Sherbner, in Smart Set.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
The British Colonial Conference.

The conference ON the defense of the
empire which is to be held in London in
July was summoned by the government
and will undoubtedly result in forward
ing the combination of colonial resources
fer strengthening the arm of the home
government in case of q foreign war
Canada. Australia and New Zealand. by
action more or less formal ON the part
of their legislative assemblies, have given
evidence of their readiness to meet all
reasonable demands in the direction of a
union of British interests throughout the
world in case of need.
In regard to details there is as vet no
general agreement. New South Wales
and Victoria offered to build Dread
noughts for the imperial navy, while the
development of local navy is the
project of Australia. South Africa, in
the midst of arrangements for unificat-
ton, is not expected to make any def
uite pledge, but will probably be repre-
sented at the conference.
1t was to he expected that a time
of uneasiness like the present the sons
and daughters of England's far-fung EN-
pire would press the hand of their agi-
tated mother and convey assurances of
their lovely. That is the object toward
wnien the conference looks. Its assemb-
ling cannot be construed as a menace
to other countries, as Its purpose is not
aggressive, but purely defensive.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
The Happy Medium in Eating.

Ex-Nice President Levi 2. Morton told
a newspaper reporter the other day that
the rule of life to which he attributed
the vigorous health that he enjoys in
his green old age was his habit of eating
what he felt like eating and doing what
he felt like doing. Even at So, he
does not stint himself in smoking. but
consumes as many cigars as he cares to.
On the day on which he was interviewed
he had disposed of four A Chicago wom-
an who is In good health at the remark
able age of 105 said when she celebrat-
ed her birthday last week that she al
ways had partaken of the quantity of
food which her appetite craved. Undoubt-
eddy there are people who eat too much.
but that is no reason why other people
should eat too little. Extremism in any
direction is almost invariably detri-
mental.
The great English physician Sir James
Crlchton- Browne mas published book
entitled ''Parsimony in Nutrition" Not
attempting to gloss the evils of gluttony.
he boldly takes the ground that parsi-
moDy in nutrition is a thing to avoid.
There are perils in too light diet. Here
is an extract that conveys the tone of
his remarks:
If we want to grow well developed men
ana women we must feed them not scan
tily but literally in the days of their
youth. Childhood is the larval stage in
human beings. Economy in nutrition, ac-
cording to Chittenden, would, | believe. be
practfced with the gravest risks in chill
dren and adolescentS. And it Is to be
hoped that the medical inspection of
school children, now happily instituted in
this country, will lead to the diffusion of
sound knowledge as to what children
should eat, drink and avoid. The dietary
in all our public schools and in most of our
private ones Is now, no doubt, ample in
amount, but in many instances in need of
REIMBURSEMENT as to its constituent parts
yet i'll some private schools the old meager
notions still prevail. A woman who is
now confirmed invalid assured me lately
walton in fashionable boarding school
in capital city, kept by a woman of high
standing. There is much to learn
in the way of economy in food among the
poor. but it is economy In the selection
and preparation, and not in the looping off
of proteid. We should aim not at parsi-
mony in nutrition, but try to scatter
plenty DER a smiling land
Undoubtedly there are those who dig
their graves with their teeth" but they
are the rich, not the poor They are
the elderly men who affect clubs and ban
quets and eSchew exercise. The men
whe do the worlds work need nourisl-
ment The young folks who are growing
must have nourishment, or they will
grow thin and feeble instead of we'll
filled out and strong. But no one
whether young or old, and especially no
one who eats heartily. can safely neglect
his daily quantum of fresh air and exer-
else
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
HOUSE A WOMAN BUILT.
Did All the Work Herself and Against
Great Odds.

Miss Lille NJ Johnson of North
Eighteenth street, Kansas City, Kan,
built the nine-rOom house in which she
now lives. Miss johnson began work on
her house in the fall, following the big
flood in the Kaw valley of 1903. She
was Salvation army worker in Ar
mourdale at the time of the flood. She
lost everything except 81. She went to a
real estate firm and arranged to buy on
payments the 100 feet of ground. on
which her house stands.
In May, 1904, Miss johnson built a
two-room house, doing all the work her
self and getting the lumber ON payments.
she received two women boarders and
by July she was able to buy COW. She
began taking in washing. Through these
various means she was able to meet the
necessary payments on her lot.
But Miss Johnson was not satisfied.
She desired to enlarge her house. She
graded her lot with a spade and wheel
barrow, laid the foundation, put up the
frames, boxed and weatherboarded the
addition. She has finished the entire in
terror of the house, laying the floors,
lathing, plastering and papering the
walls.
The grounds about the place are well
kept. A large grape arbor, fruit trees
and flower beds with the blue grass lawn
make the place attractive.
How did | learn to do carpenter
work? Why | just found / could do it
when | built my two room box house
and / determined to try my hand at
something BETTER" Miss johnson said.
Il believe no passerby would know that
woman built it."-Kansas City Star.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

What becomes of Anticipated eggs, now
that frequent prosecutions under the pure
food law have discouraged the selling of
decayed hen-fruit revived with chemicals
to dealers in bakery supplies who made,
it into angel cake?
Nobody can definitely say. Perhaps
they do not all go to one place, but are.
tactfuIIy distributed among different
parts of the country Here is an inter-
esting story in dispatch from Los
Angeles:
Give me three poached eggs ON toast. -
rant today.
'sYes, sir" said the waiter. What kind
of eggs do you want, sir.
You don't suppose / want cassowary
eggs, do yeu?' retorted the FASTENER,
with fine scorn.
Have none, sir, said the waiter calmly,
But do you want strictly fresh eggs fresh.
eggs, eggs, cold storage eggs or toss-a-
penny eggsf"
What are those last?'' asked the patron
IF you toss penny sir, it's got to be
one thing or the other said the waiter,
still calm.
California, it seems, has enacted and
is now engaged in enforcing a law
which obliges restaurant keepers to in
form the public if the poultry and eggs
they serve have been kept in cold stor-
age But under this law the oldest eggs
can be disposed of without incurring a
penalty II the restaurateur takes the
precaution of putting up sign which
is legihle across the room. Near-sighte1
persons. it is suggested, will do we'll.
while in California, not to indulge in
eggs
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

vorite. Electric Boy, and stumbled.
throwing his jockey over his head. This
put Sir Martin out of the running The
horse in the lead at the time of the ac-
eident was Brocklands, with Louviers
close up, and Sir Martin, Minoru, Bay
arde and Nalens in the second fight. At
the close IouYiers was second and Will
liam the Fourth third, AIinoru winning
only by head, while barely half a
length divided the second horse from the
third.
The century old practice has been for
the owner of the Derby winner to lead
has horse from the judges paddock. past
the royal box, to the weighing scales.
After the conclusion of the race.
the appearance of the King. de-
scending the stairs toward the track
IN conformity with the custom, gave rise
to tremendous cheers. The members of
the Jockey Club-largely noblemen and
landed gentry-made lane for His Maj
esty to pass through, and raised their
hats The crowd swarmed over the track
and the King was jostled a little. but he
minded no more, apparently, than the
veriest commoner. Queen Alexandra.
the Prince and Princess of Wales, and
others seated in the royal box shared
in the ovation. After the race the King
and his party returned by train to Buck
ingham Palace, where His Majesty en-
tertained sixty of his fellow members of
the Jockey Club at the annual dinner.
1t is wise thing for kings to unbend
in this age of popular sovereignty King
Edward is as tactful a monarch as ever
sat on a throne.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
A New Paris Game.

Juvenile Parisians have a new game 10.
take the place of the diabolo craze. 1t
is called he Looping Bird" and is a
little aeroplane shot up by the aid of a
hook and a pair of diaholo sinf-s The
Tuileries gardens are much frequented
by players of the Looping Bird" But
more ambitious models of aeroplane than
the bird are now sold from $3.50 to SO.
One of the latter is a very good miVa-
ton of the Farman machine. and is pro
PEELED by twisted india rubber strings.
On being wound up the little aeroplane.
which is provided with wheels. runs
along the ground for 20 feet and then
rises 10 from to 6 feet and flies through
the air for twenty yards or so. A cute
little toy for good children. though NO
doubt some bad ones are not deprived of
il by their indulgent French parents
Boston Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
Great Britain's Democratic King.

Next to the United States Great Brit.
ain is the most democratic nation en- the
globe Certainly the present British
monarch is the most democratic sover-
eign on earth, and never did he present
himself in a more democratic light than
on Wednesday of last week. when his
hay colt. Minoru, won the Derby.
Americans can hardly realize the
standing and responsibility of horse-rac-
ing as an English institution. To every
Englishman a Derby victory is surround
ed with Slamor for which there is no
American equivalent. Lord Rosebery
for instance, is said TO have cherished in
early life three ambitions-to marry the
richest heiresS in England, to become
Premier. and 10 win the Derby. He sue
ceeded in all, and is believed to have
had more satisfG elton from the last than
from the other two. And now King Ed
ward has added to the luster of his king
ship the glory of being a Derby winner
Never before has the most important
Of racing events witnessed the victory of
a horse owned by a king. The race
was as closely contested and ex-
citing as any that was ever run.
There was Il field of fifteen. Sir
Martin. an American-hred colt owned
by Louis Winans. and favorite among
the bettors, was crowded by another ia
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

1t is said that vertical compression
test machine of ten million pounds ca
pacity, now under construction in Phila-
delphia for the Structural Material Test
ing Laboratories of the Department of
Agriculture, win reyolutionize the build
ing of bridges and make such an occur
renee as the collapse of the Quebec canti-
lever bridge impossible This is impor-
tant, as engineers are everywhere called
upon to perform feats in the building of
steel bridges which necessitate close cal
culation as to weights and stresses. There
was fatal miscalculation at Quebec rel
alive to vertical compression, and doubt
as to the ability of material can be re-
moved only by actual test. This will en-
tail additional cost, for handling and
testing, and also for transportation to
and from testing machines. But safety
is worth all that it may cost, and it
must be sought in every case.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

REV. JOSEPH c. HARTZELI.. one
Of the famous missionary bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal church, was born in
Illinois, June l, 1872, and received his
education at Illinois Wesleyan university
and the Garrett Biblical institute He
united with the Central Illinois confer
ence in 1865 and soon became prominent
in the affairs Of the church. In 1888 he
was elected secretary of the Freedman's
Aid and Church Extension society. and
ia 1896 he was elected missionary bishop
to Africa. In his many years of work i'm
Africa Bishop Hartzell has accomplished
great reforms of n political as we'll as an
educational nature among the various
tribes and colonies. Numerous writers
and travellers familiar with his work
have ranged him with Stanley and I.iv-
ingStone rs a guide and reformer in the
dark continent
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

almost as rigid as the Catholic
Church in its insistence on the indis-
solubility of the marital union, could not
consistently sanction proposition so
revolutionary as that. Lord Nelson,
killed in battle at the height Of his fame,
and beloved by his countrymen as the
greatest naval hero in the history of the
world, was denied the honor of inter
ment in Westminster Abbey because Of
the scandal associating his name with
that of Lady Hamilton.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11
Softened the Blow.

There's prominent judge living in
the rural districts of Virginia, where
hathtubs are not to be found in every
home, who was the proud possessor of
such a luxury, which he permitted no
one else to use. One day he found that
some one had been using his tub, and,
reaching the conclusion that it could be
none other than Mary. his housemaid, he
summoned her TO appear before him and
charged her with having transgresSed his
unwritten law.
Mary confessed her fault, and the
judge, after enjoining her to sin no more
in this manner, as freely forgave her.
Observing that the maid seemed some
what hurt at the calling down" which
he had thus given her, the judge, by WAY
of softeuing his rehuke, said:
1T is not that | object to your using
my tub, Mary, hut l hate to think that
you would do anything behind my back
that you wouldn't do before my face
Richmond Courier.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

The old idea that the disease known as
cancer is in some way connected with
the use of q fish diet forms the basis
of an investigation now in progress at
the New York State Cancer Laboratory
in Buffalo. Dr. Harvey X. Gaylord,
who is in charge of the work, says it
has been established that fish are in
fected by cancer, but it has not been
established that human beings derive the
disease from that source, nor that the
presence of cancerous fish in streams can
infect the water. Prof. Gaylord hopes
to be able before he concludes his re-
searches to declare with tinality whether
cancerous fish can infect the water in
which they live, and whether the germs
of cancer are entirely destroyed in the
process of cooking These are important
questions to people who eat fish. and
there are millions of the people of the
United States who eat fish at least once
a week
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

The receivers report of the finances
of Tracy & Co. the collapsed brokerage
firm. ought to go far to cure lambs of
the costly habit of speculation. There
is convincing evidence that there is
nothing in the business for the lamb but
to lose his fleece
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

Gov. Hughes of New York has signed
a bill which provides that ''any chauffeur
or other person who, without the con-
sent OF the owner, shall take from gar
age or other place an automobile or mo-
tor vehicle and operate the same for his
own profit, steals the same and is guilty
of larceny" This declaratory statute
ought to put an end to 10y riding" and
if it does, it ought to be adopted by ev-
cry state in the union
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-11

Legal technicality is carried to the
limit in the case of a member of the
ST. Louis House of Delegates, who was
convicted of bribery and sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years. The
state supreme court has reversed the
conviction and remanded the case be-
cause the indictment stated that the
delegates offense was against the
dignity of state" instead of against the
dignity of the state" The jury was sat
isied that the ex-delegate is guilty de-
spite the absence of the word "the'' in
the indictment, and the reversal of the
case on such slight ground can only tend
to weaken popular respect for the courts
and the judiciary