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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-12
MAUI BASEBALL
SEASON OPENED

+ Especial Bulletin Wireless) i
+ WAILUKU, Maui, April ~. i
+ The Maui baseball season open =
+ ed yesterday with fine game +
+ between the Stars and the Ka- :
: huluis. The score was Stars G, !
i Kahuluis 0. The attendance =
: was very large and the crowd !
T. enthusiastic. There is every :
:: promise of a first-class season. :
4 ! + j. !. i !. I. + I. !. i :: !: 4. 1. :.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-12
WAILUKU'S SPLENDID
EASTER Offering

= Especial ulletin Wireless) I.
+ WAlLUKU, Maui, April ~. +
:: The largest attendance in Yeas ::
: marked the Easter Sunday SER =
= vice of the Church of the Good I:
+ Shepherd. The Easter Offering ).
+ was also record-breaker and /
+ totaled S2021.G5 for the CON !:
:. struction OF the proposed new =
! church building. !:
! + Z. I, T. 4 + T. !. !. (. 1. !. 1. i :. !.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-04-12
WANT
PIANO PLAYER WANTED
FOR SALE
LOST

Passbook No. SAGE. Finder kindly
return TO Bishop & Co. Savings De-
partment. 42S3-3t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

then, bring them where they could not possibly be
shown worn? Despite himself GordOns mind
was troubled, and his first mad suppoSition would
not quite be banished VIII Eversey knocked at his
door.
D EADY for dinner, old man? he called Then he
~ entered, laughing. " Hope we didn't DELAY YOU
by mixing your and Miss Carlyle's luggage Good
thing you found it out before she arrived All those
internal things have the same keys now, and girls
don't like to have profane male eyes gaze on the ys
teries'
IL hardly opened it, said Gordon. 1T was
Miss Carlyle's you say?''
Yes" laughed Eversley. But we won't give
You away. He did not notice the pallOr and the
faltering voice of the before him. round whose
head was tumbling house of dreams and wreckage
Uncomfortable, but drifted off chat of other mat
terS the hundred topics of which old friends talk
when they have not met for whole year
He sat there until Gordon was dressed and they
came down TO dinner together, and Gordon did not
know whether to be glad or sorry He had to think
Yes, there was much thinking for him do; but he
dreaded the task, woman breads to open door be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
By Duffe1d Osborne
Drawing by John Newton Hewitt

now He mt the ring int his pocket closed the case.
and rang The thief would learn quickly enough OF
her detection and his silence would keep her guess
ing and on her good behavior 1t was not hecGsstIy
a servant Just then When he left, he would men
ton his discovery to Will and they could act as they
thought best at their leisure.
ton with the natural shade of embarrassment ana
apologies Two similar suitCases, she explained mad
come bv the same train and it was her mistake one
would rectifv it at once \ moment, and his own
baggage had been brought him, and few minutes
later he realized by the crunchng of wheels and the
voices below that Miss Carlyle had arrived
theving servant should have had case like his and
should have it sent with the stolen ring in it, from
some city home at the same time as his own Much
likely for it to have been travelling IN the ote
direction a wear ago Queer Clothes too for a ser
want to own unless these also pilferings Why,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

hind ich pistol shot has rung out and then silence
Whatever he thought his task was 70 be Just his
old self and could he be that again after ne had
tbo,,qht9 God knew he told himself and then, as
thew came down the stairs together ne took hrIn
hold of his will with both hands and smiled happily
when Bertha Eversley greeted him and when the
rich cream of Edith Carlyles cheeks showed deeper
tint &c
/ do not know whether the unqualified galety and
success of their first dinner spesal cIedlt 70
modern social self control or not Two OF the tour
we're blissfuly ignorant of the evil that was there
4 third 1t was doubtful what she knew as vet and
what she did not know. As for Gordon, could he be
said to be doing better than any Italian guest OF
Renaissance DAYS whose breeding proof against
such trivial perturbation lay in the knowledge
that his host trying to poison him and that II
behooved him TO be very cautious
60 dinner and evening passed, with the chaflng
~ persiflage the interludes of serious talk, the
gossip and the music that fill such evenings, and
when at last the women babe them goodnight, the
realization of coming solitude and what 1t bore for
him to face smashed into Gordon a new idea.
fully had he put it from him. Now It brought with
it terror and horror.
Long as their separation had been, intimate as
were their earlier DAYS Eversey found himself almost
wearving a bit of his old chum's wealth of rennI-
niscence wondering vaguely to how long Gordon
had been such prOdigious smoker and whether he
was not hitting the sPhon and the Scotch Just bit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

suitcase He had lost it entire year ago CrCunl-
stances that made theft practical certainty and the
only possible thieves were Edith CARLYLE VIII and
Bertha Eversev, and the butler and maid. VIII
out of the question, Bertha and Edith theoretically
so, and the butler and maid, both of whom he had
learned had left and been replaced during the wear
were the natural objects of suspicion Their leaving
however had been perfectly natural and unsuspICOUs
He'd got that out of Everslev during the evening
\ sick mother IN case and better lob IN the
other; and then, too 1t quite fair always 10
pect the humble Just because they are humble
No he told himself; that 5 not the reason. It's
because their temptations greater, their TIA
dltlOns likely to be less firm and their Judgment less
accurate distinctions between right and wrong
And then he came back, as ever, TO the Sedge
hammer fact that he himself had found his ring in
Edith Carlyles case. Edith CARLYLE, The woman
he had wanted for his wife,
1t we'll toward morning when he went 10 bed
and then more as matter of convention than be
cause he hoped for sleep Justified anticipatiOnS
startled him by his pale and haggard face when he
rose Well, let t be so. What difference did it
Coranae g1gs -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

year before; and his thorough approval Of Wills
marriage despite this fact spoke very well for Mrs
ones best friend into matrimony is likely to cause
break and in such circumstances the most unseltIsh
of prone to regard the most tacttul OF ordeS
with more or less subcOnsciOus resentment
A second reason why GOrdOn's anticipat1ons were
agreeable was that Bertha Eversley had mentioned
most thoughtfuy in her note of invitation that her
chum Edith CARLYLE was also to repeat her visit at
the same season. A year ago their stay had covered
only three days week end; but VIII and Bertha
had agreed that Gordon was hard hit and deserved
another round with a chance to hit back if he could
Therefore, the present party was booked for a full
week, and had been delayed for Ediths return from
abroad, where she had spent the Intervening year.
all of which goes to show that Gordon was quite
justified in his approval of Bertha Eversey-
One incident only had cast a shadow over that
last years visit On the night before his departure
Gordon had lost his most valued possession barring
possibly his heart-a ring that had been bought by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

TOHN GORDON had looked
forward eagerly to the
- Eversleys' house party. He
had not seen his old chum, Will
Ererslev since his visit of a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

too hard Then he smiled 70 HIM
self, considering how early married
life, when It Is especially happy,
tends TO promote the conservatism OF
a fellow views on such subjects
perhaps even 70 the verge Of mar
rOWnesS.
In spite, however. of all manner
Of interest and liberation. he vas
conscious at last that he was yavn-
ing. and then, with the freedom con
sequent on real man friendship, he
broke out.
i say. Gordon, if YOU want 70
sit up all night, there S the smoke and
drink I'm an old fogy these DAYS,
and I'm for bed and Gordon
laughed and babe his friend good
night, and Eversley, mounting the
stairs. wondered a little more 10 see
his guest sit down again and lean hrs
head on his hand Reaching the hall
above. he even half sensed that per
hapS something was troubling lack
Gordon. and his mind heSitated
fraction of a second whether he would
not 90 back and invite confder-e
Possibly the growing seltishneSs ana
self Centeredness that SatISfactorV
marriage breeds N our best bachelor
friends made him put his real wear
ness before so vague suspicion
There'd be plenty of days for conn
Dental talk and advice if Jack wanted
them; so Eversley went to bed with
an uncomfortable feeling that few
years ago the vaguest suspicion that
his old chum was IN for blue night
would have won the day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

possibly, his heart, "a ring that had
his grandfather from a peasant in the
Campagna when the elder Gordon,
then also a young man, was studying
art in the Eternal City. 1t was
rather large red jasper, in the original
gold setting, and with a beautifully
cut intagliO of a Venus NiCtriX, the
device borne for his signet by no less
a parsonage than the founder OF the
Roman Empire.
That it was, indeed, the very signet
Of the first Cesar, the wish of three
generations of Gordons had gone far
to make a family tradition, despite
the fact that the red jasper had not
been a favored gem until a rather
later period and that the Venus VIC
triX type was long a popular device
among Roman gem cutters.
Well, the ring had disappeared,
and in circumstances that indicated
theft. Everyone in the house had
known in how much value he held It
as heirloom. work of art, and, with
all the latent instincts of his Scot
blood, as talisman of the family for
tunes They had been talking about
II at table during the last dinner,
and it had passed from hand to hand,
dropped on the floor, and rolled
where? Hours of search in every
corner and Granny of the room had
not revealed it; the servants had
swept the carpet threadbare, and
each piece of furniture had been
moved There was no place where it
seemed possible for it to have hidden
itself. and vet Gordon had been forced
TO give up the search in despair, and
the Eversleys were left, despite all
his polite assurances, with a most un-
pleasant suspicion that knew not
whether to attach itself to butler or
maid and without a jOt of straight
evidence against either.
NOV, as the auto whirled him up
~ from the station to the house,
the thought of the lost ring was,
naturally enough, in his mind; but
the thought of Edith CARLYLE over
Swallowed it The greetings of his
friend and his friend 5 wife were warm
and cordial, and Bertha took early
nounce that Edith was expected by
He had expressed his suitcase the dav
already in his room, they told him.
withdrew to make his toilet for din,
arrival of the girl whom he had set
Throwing off his coat, he opened 1
he sat staring, dazed. at its contents.
Of delicate fluffy fabrics told of SON
Gordon had only to close the cover.
and have the blunder rectifed. Tha
this at once was a violation of every
nature That he sat, while the n
gazing pale and spellbound upon
own, a woman's dainty belongings,
breeding
But Gordon's eyes were not fixed
goods. There, in a corner of the case
his ring, and his mind CROPPED fee
panied forebodings That there cou
alike in every minute detail and scr
and dullness, all as familiar to him fro
his mothers face, was beyond conct
case was this that held it? Doubles.
wants, he told himself, and a flash of
him at the thought of the strange c.
had given him his talisman again. 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
THE JASPER VENUS

as if the influence of the gem
had been at work to bring 1t
back to its owner
His ideas took shape quickly
II would be more than an an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
MEANWHILE. that q.

MEANWHILE, that Gordon
I'VE night was 70 be even a black one
was forcing itself more and more on
that mans consciousness. Perhaps
that was why he carefully COrked
the Scotch and drew the last OF the
siI hon into his tall glass. But he
smoked on and thought, though the
thoughts of such impossible things
refused TO range themselves IN CO.
heTence or order.
Here were the cold. hard facts He
had found his ring in Edith CarlVlc.S
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30
'WOMEN'S SONG BREAKS
UP WET" MEETING

VASSAR Mich, March 30.--"Where
is Ny Wandering Boy Tonight" was
sung by 80 white-ribboned women at
an anti-local option meeting in the
opera house yesterday Afternoon. IL
brought the meeting to dramatic
close and practically transformed It
into a prohibition meeting before the
program OF the vets" had been COM
pleted.
Big bills had been posted and dis
tributed announcing that Allen +.
Cox and Emil Rosinger, Of Detroit,
would address the people of Vassar
and surrounding country on the prohi-
bition issue. Women are especially
invited. formed one of the most con.
spicuous lines on the bills-and the
women readily accepted. II was one
of series OF dry" and wet" meet
ings held In the town the last several
days. The hall was well filled. the at.
tendance of women being particularly
noticeable.
The mixed audience listened atten.
lively TO the discourse of Mr.. Cox in
opposition To the local option move.
ment. AT its conclusion the white
ribboners' arose In body and start
cd the inspiring temperance sone
When they had concluded they had the
hall practically to themselves. DR..
Rosinger did not speak
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30
BOY CRIMINAL
PLEADS FOR MERCY

Please, mister judge. have mercy.
I'm only boy. | didn't mean 10 shoot
him. Think OF my poor mother ami
father in the old country. oh, God:
oh, God"
With hands outstretched and face
upturned. Marion Russo, 81 years old.
convicted several weeks ago OF shoot
ing Joseph Grundy. contractor, with
intent TO do great bodily harm. thus
pleaded for his liberty in Judge Phe.
lans court, Tuesday morning. The
judge had already imposed sentence
three years in the house OF correction,
but that he was touched by the mans
pathetic appeal was evident from a
little incident that transpired.
AS Russo raised his arms in an atti-
tude OF duplication. several spectat
ors in the rear of the room. who had
gathered 10 hear the testimony in the
Bialk case. began to smoker Judge
Phelan turned sharply to court offi
Ger saying
Lieutenant, il you hear another
outbreak from those idiots in the rear
of the court room | want you 10 put
them out | do not see what they
find 10 laugh at in this young mans
plea for liberty. A man who eau
laugh under such circumstances mus
have ice water instead OF blood In his
veins
The maximum penalty for Russo :
offense is 10 years. Judge rhelan rec
ommends that he be released at the
expiration OF the minimum term OF
three years.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30
"PECK'S BAD BOY" AN
ACCIDENT, SAYS AUTHOR
Continued from PAGE One.

al a certain hour" says Peck. The
old chump dressed up and paraded
around in front OF the postoffice while
his son kept passing him and finally
made him pay up a dollar rather than
have the story told to the boys
mother.
That was an awful mean trick.
pa said my boy. L wouldn't play a
trick like that on you"
Peck thought the story over and
wrote IL out. II made a hit and he
began series. These grew into u
book and finally he started Peck's
Sun and brought 1t TO Milwaukee.
Other Bad Boy books followed. and
finally he got so reckless that he went
into politics and was elected gov
ernor.
He has just returned from tour OF
the dry" states and dry" counties
in other states, and is very strongly
opposed to any further spread OF the
prohibition movement.
Anyone gets liquor that can pay
for it-and. oh, such liquor as some
OF IL is" he says. In Bangor. Me,
the boot-leggers sell stun calle;
whisky. and the workingmcn drink IL
and then fall over 'paralyzed IN the
public park. Little children speak 10
you on the street and ask you If you
want to know where you can get a
drink. and they guide you TO the
'Epeak-easy' II brings aboct disre-
gard for law on the part OF those
children.
Families there can get more money
out OF having an icebox full OF beer
than they can by taking in boarders.
They have fast express service, too.
You tell an agent that you want a
case OF beer from Boston and in IL
minutes the express wagon drives
around 10 your door with the beer
and it has a bill from Boston. too.
I'm the south they still drink
whisky and talk prohibition. The
same men that vote dry have whisky
in their houses. Anyone who has
dollar can get a bottle. The colored
man Is very proud when he gets a
bottle and he drinks what he can and
invites In his friends because he don't
want to keep IT, The bottle doesn't
last long. Where they can't get liquor.
they use cocaine.
Folks in Chattanooga got so rich
selling liquor to the dry territory
that they were willing to forget about
battlefields and war heroes and erect
monuments TO the prohibitionists."
Ex-Gov. Peck will speak In Boyne
City. Monroe, Ypsilanti and Ann Ar
Dor.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30

buried side by side In Forest Lawn
cemetery. Monday afternoon The
younger man died In Grace hospita,
OF alterations OF the stomach. and tho
father died OF a broken heart. SO ply,
sicians say. in his home. Beaubien
and Benton,sts.. few hours after his
son passed away.
The elder Papak was. during his
younger days. one OF the Jest known
decorators In the city, and the decora
tons In many OF the finest churches
throughout the country serve as tesli.
mony TO his ability. He. with Rob.
ert Hopkin. the artist who died last
week. painted the first curtain hung
in the old Detroit Opera house.
The father was member OF the
Washington lodge OF Odd Fellows. and
the son belonged to Garfield lodge.
Knights OF Pythias. Both Of these or
ders attended the funeral In body.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30
ADMIRAL CONVERSE
TAKEN BY DEATH

WASHINGTON. March Cones
sages of coincidence are being receiy.
ed today by the family OF Rear Adj.
miral Geo. a. Converse, who died at
his home last night from uraemic pois.
Oning He was confined to his bed
only a few days Although placed on
the retired list several years ago the
admiral was In active service when
he died, being president OF the board
OF construction OF the navy depart
ment. Previous to- this, he was head
OF the bureau OF ordnance.
His service to the navy was largely
identified with torpedoes and torpedo
boats, While he was inspector of ord
nance at the naval torpedo station
Newport. r. l., smokeless power was
introduced into the navy.
A prominent naval officer, In speak
ing OF Admiral Converse. declared that
his influence In the navy had been far
reaching. and that his career was in
some way without parallel. one OF
these being that he served as head
OF three important bureaus.
His wife, who was Miss Blood, OF
New York. and his two unmarried
daughters, Maud and Olga, were with
him when he died. Two other daugh.
tiers survive, Mrs. Colt OF Bristol. r. l..
and Mrs. Jackson. Of Baltimore. the
latter a bride OF January last.
Admiral Converse was born at Nor
wich. VT, in 1874, graduating at An
napolls in 1865. at the head OF his
class. and during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war commanded the cruiser Mon
gomery after which. previous to be-
ing made chief OF the bureau OF equip
ment. h. commanded the first class
battleship Illinois.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30
TO PROBE CHARGE
] HITlEC|sAT0R
ASKED BRIDE
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED STATE
msNr THAT CONDUCTOR WAS
APPROACHED WHILE RAILROAD
FARE BILL WAS PENDING.
From a star correspondent.)

LANSING, Mich. March 30-Re'
beIlion broke loose In the house last
night. Rep. Baker, OF Cheboygsn. In
tuoduced resolution. which passed,
requesting the speaker 10 appoint
committee OF three members 10 inves-
tigate and report on the statement
published In a Lansing newspaper 70
the effect that a member Of the legis-
lsture had solicited bride from q
railroad conductor TO secure the pass
age OF the bill permitting the train
men 20 collect q 10-eent penalty when
passengers do not buy tickets in sta.
tions.
The resolution declares the allega
ton to be a serious reflection upon the
Integrity and honor OF the members of
the house and gives the committee
authority 10 compel witnesses TO at
tend the Investigation meetings.
Speaker Campbell appointed repro
sentatives Baker, +. c. Miller and
Farmer as members of the commit
tee.-
There was more turbulence when
Bierd. OF Bay. In introducing reso-
luton 10 reconsider the vote on the
bill providing telephone Interchange OF
service, said that Speaker Campbell
had inserted In the daily journal re-
marks on rulings during the consider
alton OF the Baker telephone bill that
had not been made. Bierd was voted
down on appealing from the speakers
ruling.
Monroe, OF Gogebic, moved to refer
The matter to the committee on rules
where the merit OF the bill could be
looked into. Bierd charged Monroe
with bad faith which brought the lat
Ter 70 Ills feet With flre in his eyes.
van Raalte said the Bierd rotion
wms- an Insult TO the speaker. Baker
rad the record was distorted and
.eluould be -expunged. The resolution,
after. q suggestion by Ogg. was re-
ferred to the committee for action.
! intending to run down the reasons
for. the persistent fight against Son'
ator Foster, OF Cladwin, Rep. Marey,
or BaYaga, went TO the auditor-gt ner-
ais department and requested n his
tory Of all the vouchers showing the
money paid to Senator Foster Cor the
advertising Of state tax lands. Maxcy
has received the complete record.
which shows u total OF fs3.0)c- This
money would be saved II a new bill
under consideration should become
Lax. II provides that each county
shalr have charge OF all delinquent tax
lads within Its borders.