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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30
aTEACHER's'' LAST WORD.

Editor Advertiser:-I see from his
last that my friend Employer" is in
thoughtful, even an open-minded,
mood. He calls aloud for instruction,
and when did the female heart remain
obdurate to the call for solace or in
structiong Employer and "Teach
err are now approaching common
ground. IF they could know each other,
talk and reason together, am sure
there would be substantial agreement,
between them, or US, both in thought
and action
sSTeacher would favorably begin
his-or rather her Instruction. does
not matter about gender-by saying:
my dear Employer, we both agree
that your dog, of high degree, your
horse and your OK must, to be efficient
as workers, be supplied with the neces-
sites of life, food and shelter. When it
comes to men, women and children, a
slight advance is humane, even neces-
sary. We both agree, my good En-
ployer, that human wants arise in
something like this order:
i. Necessities.
2. Conveniences.
8. Comforts.
4. Luxuries.
s. DESTINATIONS.
We do not mean that all these orders
| are conducive to the best estate of man.
| We do agree, however, that every one
who works hard should have the neces-
saries, the conveniences, and some of
| the comforts of life Luxuries can be
dispensed with, even for you, MY dear
q Employer We are all better of
| without them. As for ostentations
show, rivalry in expenditure, waste OF
wealth-this is all unworthy of sensible
educated people-oniy the parvenr
would do this.
| Now, my good friend, Employer
your Teacher tells you that your call
ing is high and noble one You have
energy, ability, capital and employee
at your command. Perhaps it is no
| wholly owing to your own merit
that you have all or any of these thing
with which to produce your larg
amount of wealth. / dare say, natur,
is kind to you and gives you something
and society-your engineers, machin
lists, workers in the past and worker
in the present, give you the othe
things. 1t is your high, your saere,
duty to give something as an equiva
lent for what society has given you
Service for service. Food, shelter
clothing, conveniences, comforts to tn
humblest of your employees, mite t
the education of their children, and no
begrudging what little tax you pay t
employ competent teachers to instrue
them. And now, Mr.. Employer
hope that my instruction may max
| you a "sadder and a wiserD MAJ
I Finis. TEACHER.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30
GROUP.

The first symptom OF this disease is
hoarseness. When Chamberlain s Cough
Remedy Is gwen as soon as the child
becomes hoarse, the attack can always
be averted. Even after the croupy
cough has appeared, the attack can be
warded off by the prompt use of this
remedy. It is a certain cure for Group
and has never been known to fail. For
sale by all dealers. Benson, Smith &
Co., Ltd, agents for Hawaii.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30

made their purchases at japanese
stores. Is history repeating itselfa
AMERICAN.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30
THE FIFTY DOLLAR QUESTION.

Editor Advertiser:-In yours of the
Gath inst correspondent asks: Glow
can a teacher live on $50 month"; or
5000 per annum? / will show you how:
Board $40 per month, per annum. $500
Washing, So per month. ....... "a
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30
$4S4

Do you think it would repay par
ent to keep child at school until it
graduates and then send tito the Nor
NAL School for aaother two years to
enable it to earn this magnificent sti-
penda Where and how could that child
save aught for it's futurea
SCHOOLMARM.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-03-30

For clothing, carfare to and
from school, doctor, dentist, and
incidentals, cash for tweleve
months ................. 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
SHE WANTS TO VOTE.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay Appeals for
Right of Suffrage.

New York, Jan. 16.-Mrs. Clarence
H. Mackay, whose fame heretofore
has rested upon her achievements as
a social leader. has gathered fresh
Iaurels for herself in the role of po-
lfticaI exponent ana public speaker
Before an audience made up of society
women and woman suffroge advocates,
Mrs. Mackay, who has just been elect
league. strongly advocated granting of
the right to vote to women, on the
theory that "it is impossible for the
half to express the whole"
81 am convinced that the country
needs the woinan's vote" said Mrs.
Mackay. 1.-The process by which men
have gradually allowed morality, de-
cency and altruism to share in the
government has been slow and re-
Tuctant. We women demand that the
real step be taken. that morality itself,
the moral, the ethical half of the hu-
man race, may be admitted to govern
ment on equal terms"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
THEIR HOPES DASHED.
Territories Must Wait Until After Cen
sus for Statehood.

Washington, Jan. 16.-Numerous
delegations from New Mexico and Ari-
zona, which come here to press the
claims of those territories for state
hood, have learned that the senate
leaders do not intend to permit the
statehood bill to pass at the present
session. This decision has been
reached at an informal conference of
the senate leaders.
1t was said that there is not time
enough remaining of this congress to
enact the necessary legislation. State
hood measures invariably provoke
prolonged discussion.
An additional reason advanced by
senate leaders against the proposition
is the fact that members who have
discussed the qualifications of these
territories differ widely as to the
character of the population and its
ability to carry the responsibilities of
statehood 1t is said that there are a
number of questions to be settled
which will be answered by the coming
decennial census, and many members
of congress therefore urge that state
hood be delayed until after it had
been taken.
Many members including Senator
Foraker, who has been an advocate of
number of years, have pointed out
with some force that the platforms of
both of the great political parties de-
clare for statehood for both terri
tories However there are only 40
legislative days remaining, and prac-
ticaIly all of the big supply bills are
vet to be passed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
CHENEYS ARE FOUND.
American Sailors Quickly Recovered
the Bodies.

Washington, Jan. 16.-The bodies
OF the American consul, Arthur S.
Cheney and Mrs. Cheney were found
in the ruins of the American consul
ate at Messina yesterday afternoon by
the sailors of the American battleship
Illinois, which arrived at Messina
yesterday from Suez.
Captain Bowyer of the Illinois, had
been instructed by Admiral Sperry,
while enroute from Suez to Malta, to
proceed to Messina, and endeavor to
recover the bodies. When Captain
Bowyer reached Messina yesterday he
the purpose of excavating the ruins.
They were successful in finding the
bodies during the afternoon. The
bodies were prepared for shipment
and taken aboard the American sup
ply ship Culgoa, which will carry them
to Naples. Arrangements are being
made for the shipment of the bodies
to the United States. Having accom-
plished her mission at Messina, the IL
linois has returned to Malta.
Dead Estimated at 10000.
Messina. Jan. 16.-An estimate of
the dead in Messina as a result of the
catastrophe of December 2S, made by
Stuart K Lupton, the American vice
consul on behalf of the American en-
bassy at Rome, places the number at
that there are today still 10000 peo-
pie in the city. The work of getting
information concerning individuals
who were in Messina at the time of
the earthquake is extremely difficult,
as there are undoubtedly still tens of
thousands under the ruins and other
tens of thousands have scattered
themselves throughout Sicily and the
peninsula. The people still in Messina
are camping out in the outskirts and
it has been impossible to take any cen
sus of them. Major Landis, military
attache to the American embassy at
Rome, who is quartered on board the
United States battleship Illinois, re-
organized the work of searching the
ruins of the American consulate for
the bodies of Consul and Mrs. Cheney.
A number of objects that belonged
to the Cheneys were found before the
recovery of the bodies in the ruins of
the consulate today.
Mr.. Lupton left today for Catania to
establish an American consulate there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
Dimes ON POSSUM
Taft Makes Great Hit With
GeOrgians at Banquet.
Disregards All Warming Re-
garding Southern Dish.
TEDDY BEAR is OUT.
To BE Replaced by BILL POssum"
Hereafter.
He Surrenders to the South in
Speech.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 16.-The brain of
the new south was gathered in the At
lanta auditorium last night when
President -eIect Taft the guest of hon
or at the Chamber of Commerce ban
quet electrified his hearers and en-
Unused them with his message to the
south, which contained declarations
far more welcome to this section than
some of those present had anticipated.
From the tumultuous cheering that
greeted his words, it is safe to say
that no act of any president, no de-
claration of any president or of any
president-elect, has ever met with
such hearty approval of the people of
the south, as Mr.. Taft's announcement
touching the policy which he proposes
to pursue in making appointments of
federal officers in that section.
FRANKLY admitting that in many in
stances federal administrations have
acted toward the south as to an alien
country or dependent territory, Mr..
Taft declared, with emphasis, that
the keynote of his policy would be to
treat the south as an integral part of
the country and to extend to it equal
and exact justice in all matters.
When the president-elect declared
that he proposed to select for federal
officers in the south. as well as in other
sections of the country. those whose
character and reputation and standing
III the community commend LAem TO
their fellow citizens as persons quail
fed and able to discharge their duties
well, and whose presence in important
positions will remove. If any such thing
exists, the sense of aIlenism in the gov
ernment which they represent" the
banqueters, composed of leading citi-
zens from every state south of Mason
and Dixon's line, jumped to their feet
and for several minutes it was impossi-
Bile for Mr.. Taft to proceed.
''Possum and Taters.''
Mr.. Taft was not only introduced to
'possum and 'taters, a dish far famed
in the south since the days "Befo' de
wah," but the banquet marked the
birth of new American toy which
bids fair to displace the far famed
Teddy Bear''-"Billy Postum" first
suggested by CaFtoonist Gregg of the
Atlanta Constitution. The first of the
successor to the little bear which the
children of America have been wont
to play with since the advent of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, was presented to the
president-elect and when the Taft
smile met the 'possum grin. the apex
of the most brilliant and at the same
time most unique banquet perhaps
ever given a national figure was
reached.
When the time for the serving of the
course of 'possum and 'taters and sim
mon beer was reached the orchestra,
screened by ferns and potted plants, in
the gallery. struck up the stirring
ing" while down the center aisle and
headed directly for Judge Taft, there
came a waiter who fairly staggered un-|
der the weight of the choicest 'possum
of the very choice one hundred, dressed
whole and properly garnished with rich
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16

then $50. Thinking he had plenty of
time to make the next slo1ng peIoM
Dotsero, he pulled the throttle OF ms ms
engine wide open and was making 40
miles an hour on a down grade Whell
he colIided with the freight whlch was
laboriously climbing up the NIL unuei
a full head of steam of two Dig en-
gines. 90
when the passenger did not stop at
Dotsero Conductor Edward McCurdy
Jumped to the bell cord and slgnalleo
to Engineer Olsen to stop the tram
hut if was then too late to avert the
disaster and the two trains crashed
together with an awful roar and ter
: The three big engines telescoped and
when they came to a standstll re-
semb1ed one huge piece of twisted
steel and iron rods and mechanism.
Heads Cut OFF.
The combination baggage and ex-
nress car, the smoker ana the adS
coach. which followed the engine
telescoped, while the three heaVy
the entire mass against the engines.
The light coaches were smashed as
though they had been egg sheIls.
Every person except one IN the chalr
car was killed. Eight or the PaSseh7
GERS were decapitated as though by a
eui1Iotine. their heads rolling far from
fheir bodies The bodies of the dead
for the most part are so muulateo
that identification may take hlahS
i The only person who escaped death
in the chair car was Alice Williams
aeed 4 years. from some point in
iowa She was found under her dead
mothers body, slightly bruised, but
covered from head to foot with blood.
The child was taken to GlenWooo
Snrinps on the second relief train.
The only member of the three en-
eine crews who was injured Is John
anderson of Glenwood Springs. In
jumping from the cab he sustained
Engineer Gus Olsen of the passenger
is a brother of Engineer Sig olsen,
1Jbo was in charge of the head engine
on the freight train. Harry Jeffrles
was the engineer on the second en-
zine. Both Sig Olsen and Jeffrles i've
at Glenwood Springs
The wreckage caught hre I'M
mediately after the collision and
bo1ocaust was averted by those pas
seneers who were not killed or ser.
iousIv injured and the members OF
+he train crews, who secured shoVe!s
and boards and put out the blaze Win
snow. which is piled in huge banks
alongside the tracks.
IT was at first supposed that the
two mail clerks, Hammond and Fraze,
on train No. 5. were killed, but it later
developed it is the custom to cut the
nail car at Pueblo and send it on by
No / an hour and a half later, so
as not to delay the through train by
stonping to load the heavy mail that
they generally pick up at Pueblo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16

they are making a good investment
with the Topeka electric light bonds
in spite of the fact that one firm only
bid $126.00. They receive from the
city $1,6S7.00 a year or a little better
than 4 per cent interest. This is as
good an investment as can be made
with such a risk The city officials
are puzzled over the bids of some of
the people who tightly asked that they
be given the bonds at $4,000, $4,000,
100000 and the like. This is less than
one per cent IN some cases and a firm
that will not risk any more than that
on the finances of the city of Topeka
has very little confidence. Another un-
usual fact in the figures was the num-
ber of bond companies who scram-
bled for the bonds Thirteen out of
town companies would have been glad
to handle bonds for the city of To-
peka- A. B. Leach & Co. have never
dealt with the city before.
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golden Georgia yams. and followed by
another waiter with a fiagon of persim-
mon beer.
Up the speakers table marched the
laughter, in which the president-elect
Joined until his face was flooded with
color.
Presented With Toy Possum.
1t was at this juncture that President
Gambler, of the chamber of commerce,
presented the toy possum, with appro-
pirate verse appended.
Mr.. Taft, in referring to a letter
he had received only yesterday from
Chicago warning him mot only for
your own sake and the country's sake,
but for Gods sake not to eat any
'possum and referring him to
chapter in the Bible, Mr. Taft said:
81 guess I will have TO say with
Lowell in the Bigelow papers when
Governor Seay, who was a candidate
for that Office in Massachusetts,, was
importuned not to do a certain thing,
and was referred to a certain chapter
in the Bible read 1t and replied:
Well, they don't know everything in
Jude (Judea). I enjoyed that course,
especially"
Preceding Mr. Taft's speech prominent
ministers and jurists lent their talent to
There The ern OF fne gHss of honor @
were relics of ante-bellum days, all of
which appealed to the president-elect and
When the band struck up America the
audience arose as one man, and with
Judge Taft's bass voice leading, there
went swelling through the banquet room
the rising notes of the national air.
Judge Taft's programme for today in
cludes an automobile ride about the city,
an address to the students of the Georgia
school of technology, an address to the
negroes at Big Bethel church. departure
at noon for Athens board a special
train. where he will address the students
of the University of Georgia, returning to
Atlanta tonight as the guest of the Cap
ital CITY club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
VIOLATE % HOUR LAW.
The Katy and Santa Fe Keep Cattle
in Cars Too Long.

Kansas City, Kan. Jan. 16.-The
Missouri Kansas & Texas Railroad
company was convicted of violating
the 2S-hour cattle law in the United
States district court yesterday on four
out of five counts against it. The
Santa Fe Railway. company was con-
victed on nine counts Thursday. The
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient must
stand trial on two counts. The pun
ishment is a fine of from 500 to $500
on each count. The st. Louis & San
Francisco railway pleaded guilty to
two counts The companies are
charged with keeping cattle in the
cars longer than twenty-eight hours
without unloading for feed and water.
A case brought by the Interstate
Commerce commission against the
Santa Fe railway charging it with not
providing proper safety appliances
went to trial in the United States dis
trict court yesterday. 1t is alleged in
this case that q car, which was
equipped with a defective coupling,
was placed in a train. The case will
go to the jury, composed of eleven
men today. There were only eleven
jurors in court when the case was
called and by agreement they are to
try it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
FROM EGYPTIAN DARKNESS.
Jewish Rabbi Would Have His People
Become More Modern.

Chicago, Jan 16.-Rabbi Jacob
Klein, formerly of Sumter. S. c., has
succeeded Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber
in his charge here. The latter in a
parting address pointed out the diff
culties in the way of the modern Jew
ish minister.
judaism he declared. sis passing
through a transition period, and the
leader of the congregation must be
careful lest he lean his people too pre-
cipitously out of the olden thought into
the newer conception of things and
thus blind them altogether. Still it is
my bounden duty to take his people
gradually out of the Egyptian dark
ness of the past and put them in touch
with the brighter light of this twen-
tieth century civilization"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
CORPORATIONS UNEASY.
Fear Government Interference and
Business ''SIows Up"

New York. Jan. 16.-The spotty and ir-
regular stock market of the week has Of
fered a fair reflection of the unsettled
state of speculative sentiment. Doubts
have arisen over the rate at which indus
trial revival may be expected owing to
slowing up of the moving of freight
traffic over the railroads, the moderate
demand for finished steel products, espe-
cially from the railroads and the ac-
cumulating stocks of copper. The heavy
reflux of funds from circulation con-
firms the impression of a halt in business
activity against corporations. The issue
of the Russian loan in Paris is waited to
resolve the question of the policy of the
Bank of France in the further accumula-
ton of gold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
LOSS OF 46,576.
Current of Foreign Population Flows
Backward.

Washington, Jan. 16.-For the year end
ed October 81, last the number of aliens
arriving in this country was 655, 263, while
the departing aliens in the same period
numbered 701, ,S39, a net loss to the country
of 1856, according to a statement made
by Secretary Strauss upon leaving the cab
met meeting today.
Another Interesting fact to Secretary
Strauss who spoke to the president re-
gardinG it, was that in the month of Oc-
tober, 1903, the emigration to this country
was larger from Great Britain than from
any other country of the world, amount
ing to S,S34. From British North America
there came the seconds largest number,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
A sALooNKEEPER ROBBED.
Negro Porter ''Taps the ,TiII'' in Open
Daylight for $1,000.

Chicago Jan. &c. P. Bertsche, sa-
loonkeeper, was robbed yesterday of ST.
$50 by a negro porter. The money was in
a drawer behind the cigar case and 1t is
said that a half dozen detectives We're in
the saloon when the negro took the cash.
Telling the manager that he was going
out to get a pork chop sandwich the
porter disappeared. A few minutes later
the theft was discovered by Bertsche.
where's the porter?'' he asked.
He stepped out to get a pork chop
sandwich was the managers reply.
Il hope it chokes him." was Bertsche's
observation. Hes tapped the damper
for all there was in it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
BONDS ARE SOLD.
City Light Securities Bring Big
Premium.
Issue Forty Thousand Dollars
at Four and Half Per Cent.
CHICAGO FIRM WINS.
Will Pay Over Two Thousand
Dollars Premium.
Fifteen Bidders and All Offered
Premiums.

To use a rather crude but expressive
nernacular-"The city officials are tick
led to death this morning. Last night
at the special meeting of the city coun-
ell the bids for the $4,000 electric light
bonds were opened and the highest bid
was accepted. But the city council
never dreamed of such a surprise as
was met last night on the official OPEN
ing of the sealed bids. The highest
bidder was A. B. Leach & Company of
Chicago who promised a premium of
$2,260 with accrued interest. They have
been wired of the acceptance and the
deal will be closed at once.
The $4,000 electric light bonds of the
city of Topeka, bear interest at the
rate of AZ per cent per annum, pay
able semiannually both principal and
interest to be payable in the city of
Topeka. bonds to be of the denomina-
ton of $500 each, dated January l,
1909, without option of prior payment
AS an evidence of their good faith the
Leach firm sent a check of $4,2S0 to the
city to be returned if the bid was not
accepted.
The complete list of the bidders is as
follows:
A. B Leach Company, Chicago, .o oo
Harris i1ri Trust & Savings Bank, -, ~
FTarson Son &. Co Chicago...... 726.0U
Holtz & Company, Chicago: 1882 72S GO
E. H. Rollins & Sons, Chicago. aooeO ao0.0O
Thos. ]. Bolger Co, Chicago...:... 10000
The American Trust & Savings ~, oo
J6Bn BanN NuGeeG GhiGaSgoc E Company, Chicago 1850
a No - ru"a arus q suns - ~ 1, 1,215.OO
Kountze Bros, New York 2,172.0O
Lamprecht Bros. & Company, New 90, ~,
Lee 1oTK Monroe. Topeka, Kansas. 90400
PrndenfiaI TrIIst 60 TToneka Kan 10000
Spitzer & Co., Toledo ......--..::-. s30-0O @ oO
r. W. Morrison & Co., Kansas CITY 4Oo-oe
There were fifteen bidders in all and
all of them were outside of the city
with the exception or the Prudential
company and Lee Monroe of this city
The bids vary all the way from S126
to the Leach bid of $3.50. The high
bid given by the A. B. Leach & Co.
of Chicago is undoubtedly the highest
bonds bearing a low rate of interest.
Most of the bids on former bonds
have avera ged one and two per cent
and when a bid of three per cent was
reached it was thought to be marvel
Gus. But the Leach bid is the best
proposition ever given the city of To-
peka. The city met with almost as
good a proposition as if they had is
sued them at par and 4 per cent
as far as the money is concerned. If
the bonds had been issued at par and
four per cent there would have been
gain of $500 over the present sys-
tenn but then there would have been
the risk of losing them and the trou-
BILE to sell, the latter trouble being
task of unknown measure
At first it is hard to see how the
Leach company can make money on
such bonds at such a premium But