The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-23

he pleased. and where he pleased, and
was suffered to govern his life by the
golden rule of not caring what hap
pened to anybody SO long as it did
not happen to him. Since then the
motto of "gone dry has been pasted
upon the statute books of every state
in the Union, and people with thirst
have to go to Mexico or Canada TO
quench it.
The principle of protection to labor,
and of free trade for the necessaries
of life has been adopted in our tariff
laws. American radium producers are
protected by duty of six million
dollars pound that is levied upon
the foreign article, while diamonds
are subjected to duty of only ten
cents carat and carrots pay a duty
of ten cents bushel.
Rule 165 of the Supreme Court of
Hawaii provides that any lawyer
whose net income in any year shall
exceed the salary of Justice of the
Supreme Court shall pay the excess
into the judges salary fund on penal
ty of disbarment.
Trusts have been restricted in their
operation by Act of Congress repeating
the patent laws providing for the SUIT
able compensation out of the public
treasury of all inventors.
The old laws with respect to suits in
which the United States is a party
have been preserved. If you retain
money belonging to the United States,
you must pay interest and costs. If
the United States is adjudged to have
retained money belonging to you, it
pays no interest, and whether you win
or lose the case, you pay all the costs,
for the United States pays nothing.
Divorces have come to an end since
the enactment of marriage laws re-
curing all applicants for marriage
license to submit to a physical, mental
and ethical examination, and denying
licenses to cigarette smokers, onion
eaters and habitual snorers.
The libel law has been simplifed. It
provides that any person convicted of
malicious libel shall, for the first of
Tense, receive fifty lashes on his bare
back, administered by the injured party,
, and for the second offense shall be de-
/ clared an outlaw, whom anybody can
! thrash or kill a. his pleasure.
This law has had most beneficial
effect upon the newspapers. The Ho-
nolulu Bulletin, in speaking of a man
! on trial for burglary, described him as
"a gentleman whose ideas upon the
subject of property differ from those
entertained by a majority of his fell
| low citizens and the Honolulu Star,
| in mentioning Judas Iscariot. spoke of
| him as an ancient Hebrew, whose con
duet in accepting thirty dollars to
| guide the Roman soldiers to the place
where the Savior was found, has caused
the memory of Judas to be visited with
great and possibly not altogether I'M
| deserved reproach.
The scientists are still, as in the
year 1910, promulgating the doctrine
that no electric wave from the unseen
ever Eliminates the human conscious
ness; that thought is a secretion of the
brain, even as bile is a secretion of
the liver, and that the quality of the
| thought is determined by the food that
is taken into the stomach and so fed
TO the brain. Actors eat waffles before
playing ''Claude Melnotte' and rare
beet before attempting Richard the
, Third" Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island lives on ice cream, and TiIlman
| of South Carolina on pepper pot, and
Adolphus Rockefeller Moriarty, when
he proposes to his beloved, says:
'Gladys Sophronia, will the compact
ed molecules which constitute your con-
seriousness accept the advantages of APP
piieation with the developed and de-
voted protoplasm which now places
itself at your disposal?'
The remedy of DR.. Sempre Nivas is
directed against the old-age germ mere
". 1t does not pevent death by VIC
lence or accident, or from the measles
or whooping cough.
One of the earliest and severest
losses that the bar of Honolulu sus-
tanned in despite of the old-age ger1ni-
eide was that of its urbane and popu-
lar First Circuit Judge. He was pre-
siding during the seventeenth week of
the third trial of the japanese rioters,
when the Jealous and tireless Lightfoot
moved, on the authority of People VS..
Hall, reported in the 4th California.
that the case be dismissed for want of
jurisdiction.
The point was that, when Columbus
discovered America he was looking for
new highway to the Indies, and sup
posed that he had found it. He there
fore named the inhabitants "Indians y:
that the term is generic and applies to
all natives of Asia; that japanese,
being an Asiatic, is therefore an In
dian, and, being an Indian, can be
tried only in a United States Court,
and that a Territorial Court is with
out jurisdiction in the premises.
The point made by Mr.. Lightfoot so
paralyzed the Judge that he dropped
dead upon the bench from sudden con-
striction of the pumping apparatus of
his heart. We buried him in Nuuanu
cemetery, and the Bar Association
erected over him beautiful monument
with the following inscription:
May your memory never moult
A single pinfeather, for your best holt
For righteousness, and justice
viii never, never bust us;
Hail to you, hail to you, De Bolt, De
| Bolt
| Mr.. Lightfoot IS point was a stone
that killed two birds, for it rendered
Assistant District Attorney Kinney
| speeches. with rage, and brought on
an attack of cerebral spinal disguste-
iris non disputandum from which he
never recovered. He, too, lies in Nuu-
| anu cemetery. and upon his monument