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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-26
WATERFRONT NEWS

that have almost driven American
ships out of the western ocean.
Dirgo Gets Good Price.
The American ship Dirigo arrived at
Delaware Breakwater on October %
with 5000 tons of Hawaiian sugar
loaded at this port. The price of sugar
on that date was 4.2S l3. The Dirigo
left here on June &c. being almost
four months on the voyage.
Nebraskan and Pleiades.
The Nebraskan left Kahului last
evening for Hilo and Will leave the
latter port tonight Tor San Francisco.
The Pleiades, of the All. line, is
due here next Sunday from Seattle
and Tacoma, bringing Coast as well as
New York via Tehuantepec freight
which left the Atlantic port in the
S. S. American. voyage %, and the
S. S Luckenbach, voyage Il.
The Alaskan leaves San Francisco
FOR Honolulu via Seattle and Tacoma
ABOUT November = Sle Will AedNe St-
attic on November ).
Shipping Notes.
The Army transport Dix is reported
to be on the way from Nagasaki to
Puget Sound, via Honolulu, with a
cargo of coal.
The steamer Washtenaw. which ar
rived Sunday from Port San Luis with
cargo of oil for the Union Oil Com
pany, departed for the Coast port yes
terday afternoon.
A kona storm began blowing up yes
terday afternoon. The sky was heav-
lily overcast to the south and rain fell
at intervals. Shipping men are keep
ing their weather eye open for big
blow.
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HlL0NIAN WILL BE
HERE THURSDAY EVE
Matson Steamship Has Thirty
Passengers and 300 Tons
OF Freight.

The Hilonian, of the Matson line,
viii not arrive here until Thursday
evening, according TO a wireless mes
sage received by Castle and Cooke, the
local agents. The vessel experienced
very rough weather during the first
few days out from San Francisco. The
heavy sea IS moderating considerably,
according to latest dispatches The
vessel is bringing thirty passengers
and about 300 tons Of freight and
express matter. Everybody aboard is
well.
New Steamship Ruling.
The British steamship Earl of Elgin
left Norfolk on October % for Homo
lulu. carrying a cargo Of coal for the
local naval station. The Earl of Elgin
is a new steamship and is making her
first trip to the South Atlantic and
South Pacific and to this part of the
world. The agitation now under way
on the Pacific Coast among shipown-
ers, in opposition to the navy depart
ment chartering foreign bottoms to
bring navy coal from Norfolk to Coast
and Hawaiian ports, has borne fruit
in that under a new ruling such yes
sells will be required to return empty
to the port from which they started
As the result of a conference be-
tween members of the merchant ma
rine league and Beekman Winthrop,
assistant secretary of the Navy, for
the protection of the shipping of the
Pacific Coast, says the Seattle Post
Intelligencer, q clause will be inserted
in the charters for coal cargoes to the
Pacific between the government and
foreign vessels which win prohibit
them hereafter from gobbling the COM
merce of the Pacific. They will be paid
for the entire haul, and, under the
form of the contract, they must return
to the original port empty.
Committeeman Th0rndyke held a
conference with Mr.. Winthrop during
his visit to this city a few days ago, in
which the result to American bottoms
of coal charters between the govern
ment and foreign shipowners hauling
to the Pacific Coast was carefully ex-
planned Mr. Winthrop stated that he
would at once take up the plan of
having the contracts based on the en-
tire trip, and on the basis that such
boats must return empty. This, Seere-
tary Parkinson declared, will prevent
foreign tramp steamers from grasping
commerce that properly belongs to
American vessels. and will prevent in
future those cuts in freight charges
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THE MAILS.

Mails are due from the following
points as follows:
San Francisco-Per Korea, tomorrow.
Yokohama-Per China, Oct. 80.
Vancouver-Per Mariana, Nov. Is.
Colonies-Per Makura, Nov. 9.
Mails will depart for the following
points as follows:
San Francisco-Per China, Oct. 80.
Yokohama-Per Korea, tomorrow.
Vancouver-Per Makura. Nov. 9.
Colonies-Per Mariana, Nov. Is.
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4 MARINE REPORT. 6
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From San Francisco Merchants Ex

enaDge.J
Monday, October %.
Delaware Breakwater-Arrived, Oct.
%, ship Dirigo.
Grays Harbor-Sailed, Oct. "a, sehr.
Eva, for Mahukona
Salina Cruz-Sailed, Oct. %, S. S.
Missourian, for San Francisco,
Norfolk-Sailed, Oct. "a, s. S. Earl
of Elgin, for Honolulu.
Wireless.
S. S. Hilonian, from San Francisco.
will arrive at Honolulu, late Thurs
day, P. ~.
Tuesday, October 26.
Philadelphia-Arrived Oct. 25, Am.
sp. Dirigo, hence June 26.
San Francisco-sailed Oct. %, Am.
blk. Arago, for Honolulu.
Port Townsend-Arrived Oct. %, Am.
bktn. W. H. Smith hence Oct. Z.
Redondo-Arrived Oct. %, Am. blk.
st. Katherine, from Hilo, Oct. 6.
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than other medicine 1t checks hacking coughs
geion, enches the
1t agreeable pleasure
at chemists and be STEAMSHIP genuine.
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Full moon October IS at 11:36 a. IN.
The tides a. Kahului and Hlo occur
about one hour earlier than at Homo.
lulu.
Hawaiian standard time is TO hours
80 minutes slower than Greenwich
lime, being that of the meridian of Isl
degrees thirty minutes. The time whis-
lie blows at 1:30 P. m, which is the
same as Greenwich 0 hours minutes.
Sun and moon are for local time for
the whole group.
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THE WORKER MUST Be WELL

these be
to the highest pitch of efficiency The
lacking and ambition gonef Surely the wisdom
build the body its normal condition. certainly
the Of
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Note.-Barometer readings are cor
rected for temperature, instrumental
errors, and local gravity. and reduced
to sea level. Average cloudiness stated
In scale from TO 10. Direction OF
wind is prevailing direction during "a
hours ending at s .. m. Velocity of
wind is average velocity IN miles per
aour.
VIM. g sTOCKNAN.
Section Director.
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METEOROLOGICAL RECORD.
Issued Every Sunday Morning by the
Local Office. e. s. Weather Bureau.
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ONCE A MORTAL SIN
HOW OUR ANCESTORS pIsCouR
AGED PERJURY.
Fearful Punlshments Threatened
Failed to Deter Sinful Men from
the Crlme--seme Quaint
Folklore Oaths.

During one Of the occasional out
groupings of pure thought with which
the recent Ruef trial in Judge Ca
baniss' court In San Francisco was IL.
Illuminated, 1t was stated by distin'
guished prosecutor that perjury has
become the greatest crime OF the age"
Perhaps the trouble is that perjury
does not entail such dire calamities
nowadays as II once did. Dslving into
the subject with the spur OF curiosity.
we learn that two or three centuries
ago 1t cost something to swear falsely.
Then it was a mortal sin rather than .
simple crime, and some Of the domestic
troubles which followed were q curse
running to the seventh generation,
death from a lingering disease within
IL months, or being turned into a
stone, swallowed up by the earth and
ever afterward crawling about az 6
vampire.
Those punishments which deferred
II one believed thom. AS q matter OF
fact. few did, and people committed
perjury as merrily In the good old
seventeenth century as in the TWEEN
tieth. Then, as now, the moral man
spoke the truth for practical mora
reasons and the mineral man lied FOL
immoral reasons.
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nlckenR StorIaa In China,

The Chinese are rapidly taking ap
western ideas, and :Tanslations Of
English and French novels are now
in increasing demand. Our romantic
and sentimental treatment OF love az.
fairs, however, is thing 80 foreign to
oriental ethics that the hero Of the
ordinary European novel appears to
the Chinese mind as a person of per
verteA moral sense and doubtful san
ity. TRANSACTIONS Of Dickens. there
fore, impress the Chinese reader less
than they amuse him, and detective
stories and tales OF adventure com
mand a more sympathetic audience.
TO the celestial miad the love az
fairs of David Copperfeld can only de.
tract from the human interest of that
hero; q Chinese novelist would have
solved his difficulties by making him
WOO and marry Dora and Agnes stimuli
taneously. So of course John China
man does not understand the pathos
Nevertheless, Dickens works com
mand . steady sale.-Wonan's Life.
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The MlssIon Of Jimmy.

There were two methods Of COM
munication in Cove City, both Of which
were equally effective. One was the
telephone, which from a single. iso-
lated case had developed into an cpl.
demic. and the other, which enjoyed
the dignity of precedence and estab,
lished custom, was to tell Jimmy Fal.
lows. AS a general retires to
a hilltop TO organize his forces and
issue orders to his subordinates, "a
Jimmy hung upon his front fence and
conducted the affairs of the town. He
knew what time each farmer came
In, where the Helping Hands" were
going to sew, where the doctor was
and where the services would be held
next Sunday. He was coroner, wharf
master, undertaken and notary, and
the only thing in the heavens above OIL
the earth below Concerning which HI
did not attempt 10 give information
was the arrival of the next steamboat
From Alice Hogan Rices "Mr Opp
In Century.
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MAKES WORK FOR SCIENTISTS
Eminent Men Busy investigating Pos
slbllities Of Radium.

The University of Vienna, which has
received, through the Vienna Academy
of Sciences, an anonymous donation
Of 100000 kronen for the establish
ment Of "Radium institute" is rap
idly becoming famous among ply.
sicists for its experimental work ON
the wonderful radium carnations. The
rarity and great cost of radium neces
sarily restrict the number Of inves'
tigators, and Sir William Ramsay,
who in his recent experiments has
gone far toward proving the suspected
transmutation of radium into helium
and other elements. was recently spe.
cially honored by the Vienna Acade-
my of Sciences by the loan of a frac.
ton of gramme OF radium for the
purpose of enabling him to continue
his valuable Investigations A gramme
of radium, it has been calculated, has
stored up In 1t energy equal to one
horse power for Is days; but 1t parts
with its energy so slowly-it cannot
be stayed or hurried-that 1t takes
some 10000 years to exhaust itself.
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Photoaraphlna the stars.

In measuring the sensttiveness of
Photographic plates at different tenn
peratures, so as to determine the best
temperature for star photography, an
English astronomer has discovered the
curious fact that for some plates the
best temperatures for photographing
very faint stars and somewhat bright
er stars a'e not the same. Thus be-
tween "a and rs degrees centigrade
the plate becomes slower for faint
stars when slightly warmed, whereas
at the same time 1t becomes faster
for brighter stars. The expert in as
Economical photography will therefore
hereafter regulate the temperature Of
his plates according to the brightness
of the particular celestial objects on
which he is working.
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Fact and Fiction.

We'll! Well! Is this Uncle Charlie
Seaver?" greeted the city visitor
I'm glad to see you and hope to have
very pleasant ride out to the farm
in your old blackboard behind the bay
team. If there is anything have
counted on 1t is the pleasure Of a
ride over these mountain roads on the
farm blackboard behind the old team"
"Er-r-yes, this Is Uncle Charlie
Seaver, though amt nowise an uncle
yet" drawled Uncle Charlie" as he
crushed the city visitors fingers in his
horny hand. Glad you come. You'll
have good time. I'm sorry, though,
to disappoint We fust off about that
blackboard, but think you'll find this
4O-horsepower car pretty comfortable
The old blackboard followed the mort
gage five years ago come these COED
prices for crops" bohemian.
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AMONG INDIANS OF LOUISIANA.
Tribes Cling to Primitive Customs Of
Their Ancestors.

The blowgun is still popular for hunt
ing birds among the Koasati indians
OF Louisiana. This weapon consists
OF q tube, usually of cane, about six
feet long, rubbed smooth ON the inside
with an implement made for the pur.
pose, and carefully Strengthened with
the aid Of fire. Slender-pointed darts
about eight inches long are used as
ammunition, each one wrapped neatly
along third of Its length with thistle
down or cotton to make 1t fit the In.
side of the tube. The hunter places
a dart in the tube, which he raises
to his lips and aims at his game; then
q quick pun of the breath drives the
little dart flying with sufficient force
to impale and kill a small bird or
squirrel
/ discovered curious industry
among the Koasati-the weaving OF
Spanish moss into fabrics. During my
sojourn with the southern tribes had
heard that their ancestors once made
blankets of moss, but this was the
first time had ever seen the process
or its products. The moss, which may
be seen festooning the trees all
through the south, Is cured and then
spun with a simple continuance. The
moss yarn Is strung on frame and
woven into blankets. In former years
the Indians wove large moss blankets
for bedding and rugs; but at the pres,
ent day saddle blankets only are
made.
Among the most interesting things
found among this tribe were two Of
the old handmade pottery vessels,
now very rare among eastern Indians,
a drum made Of q cypress "knee,"
some very fine beaded shoulder
sashes, collection OF baskets repre-.
senting many weaves and forms, and
some silver head-bands, brooches,
and other ornaments laboriously
pounded out of coins by the Indian
silversmiths.-M. r. Harrington, in
the Southern Workman.
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WITH THE MEN THAT ACHIEVE.
TrIalS and Sufferlngs Of unerowned
Heroes Of the Sea.

The career of the ship wrecker con.
SiSts Of series of hardships and ad-
ventures and accidents and narrow es.
capes from the first day he enlists
with big wrecking company up to
the time he is brought ashore from
the grim ship he calls home" Grip.
pied or fatally injured. or all the pro-
LESSONS that demand heavy toll of hu.
man life none, not even mining or
powder making, Is as dangerous as the
one Of these wreckers. Every year
these daring men who brave storm
and wave and tempest to save the
stranded liner" to raise the sunken
ocean greyhound" to rescue the ship
impaled upon rocks and, IL nothing
else, to salve what valuable cargo may
be removed from helpless wrecks,
meet death by the score, says a writ
er in Appletons. Many Of them, ex.
posed often for days and nights to the
icy blasts of winter seas, to driving
billiards and to drenching storms that
bite to the marrow, succumb to pneu-
monia. Others, at work on pitching.
tossing barges, have legs or arms shat
tered during the risky operations of
removing masts or of singing wreck.
Ing pumps or other castings that
weigh tons. Others have hands or
feet so dreadfully frozen that these
must be amputated. And still others
are wiped out of existence after sui
fering hours of untold agony and ex.
posture before the eyes of their help
less comrades.
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'iruVnYul Child.

It was at children's party. The
youngsters had just done more than
justice to the luxurious spread pro
vided by their hostess, and games
were now the order of the evening.
Nov, children" said she, I'VE will
play the zoo, and each of you must
represent a different animal"
Then, going to a little girl. she
asked:
Now. Carrie. what are you goinG
to be?"
"I'll be an elephant"
"And you, Reggie, what are you 60
ing to be?"
I'm going to be a lion"
"And what are you going to be
Hilda?"
I'm going to be q tiger"
Then, crossing to the other side d
the room, the hostess, noticing q
youngster sitting all alone, asked:
"And what are you going to be
Tommy"
PLEASE" was the hating reply. 4
please, lin going to be sick"
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PuxzIlnu Canadian IIma.

A traveller at the Union depot 70.
comfy was looking up some Canadian
connections.
you connect with a train leaving
at 1920 o'clock and arriving at your
destination at 22:10," o. e. Barbre.
the information dispenser, said.
What in thunder are you talking
about?" the traveller demanded.
Then Barbre had to explain that
several ef the Canadian railroads use
the 24-hour system of time, using
clocks with figures beginning at mid
night and counting the hours straight
through to midnight again. The train
the traveller desired to take left his
connecting station at 1920 O'Clock In
the afternoon and arrived at the des.
tination at 1910 o'clock that night
Kansas City Star.
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And the Engineer Who Know Little
Spanish and Tried to Boss Them.

An engineer who came up q while
ago from Mexico told story about a
man In his line who had a rather lin.
tied knowledge OF Spanish but fancied
that by combining what he knew and
some English he could make the poems
employed on the railway understand,
In his vocabulary were these words
Para, stop; ustedes hombTeS, you men;
piedras, stones, and via, road. One day
this engineer was walking up the track
and saw lot Of poems standing around
doing nothing. So he stopped and
said:
"Ustedes hombres, why are you
standing around idle? Take those
piOdrss and throw them in the middle
Of the VIA"
The always polite Mexicans smiled
and said, Isl, senor," and the engineer
marched away. Then they debated
what he meant and decided he wanted
the stones thrown on the other side Of
the track. They started to do thai
and back came the engineer.
Para, ustedes hombres, para! Didnt
ustedes hombres hear what said
Didn't tell ustedes hombres to TAXI
those piedras Aad throw them In the
middle Of the via? Why don't you d.
what ! said?"
And he marched away. as the peonl
said suavely, Isl, senior"
They had another consultation ant
decided that what he wanted was Il
have the piedras thrown clear across
the track In the other direction. s,
they began. again, tossing the stone
back again. The engineer came rush
ing back, shouting:
Para, parai What Is the matte
with ustedes hOmbres? Do ustede
hombres take me for fool?"
He paused and, believing that b
had come to the end of his speech tn
poems bowed gravely and said: -
SENIOR"
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MUST HAVE MONEY
CHECK DOES NOT GO WITH YOUR
UNCLE SAM.
Even Men Whose Names Are Synony'
nous with Dollars In Millions
Have to Put Up the Actual
Currency.

Where Is the private citizen who
would refuse to accept a Vanderbilt,
Astor, Morgan. Rockefeller, Gould, or
other milliOnaire's check In payment
for a bill for services rendered? Yet
Uncle Sam will not when 1t comes to
settling up for customs duties on inn
ported personal effects of ocean trav-
elers.
Even certified" check does not
serve to remove the financial credulity
of the nations treasurer as several
millionaires who recently arrived from
Europe discovered when they ten
dered guaranteed" checks in payment
for the introduction of foreign goods
for household use.
There Is not bank or financial in
stitution In the country but which
will accept a certified check as the
equivalent of good, hard cash. Uncle
Sam demands the coin of the realm
however, and will not admit, as 1t Ii
technically called, any dutiable article
until he gets 1t.
Not long since G. Oliver Iselin, the
yachtsman, whose fortune is estimated
at seven figures, arrived from England
in White Star liner and offered hi
check for $4,000 in payment of dut!
on some curlos which he bough
abroad.
81 am sorry, Mr. Iselin, but we arr
not permitted to take anything bu
currency" said Deputy Collector VII
liams, The Corinthian navigator o
several Americas cup defender
smiled incredulously, although he wa
in hurry to get away from the pie
to catch a train.
Mr.. Iselin sent one OF his accom-
panying Wallets downtown and secure
the requisite cash. saying with a laugl
as he turned 1t into the branch CUT
tom house on the pier:
Il suppose the government must
careful who 1t deals with"
Another millionaire whose chez
was declined under similar circun
stances showed his displeasure b
threatening all sorts of official pull
ishment, and ended with the stat,
ment that he would have the "sill
regulation" revoked If he was oblige
to spend his last dollar in doing 81
He was still sputtering and fumin
when Barney" Biglin, the vetera
politician, came upon the scene all
lent the millionaire $1,750 to pay til
Indebtedness to the government.
What makes me mad" said the mi
lionaire to Biglin, lis that l. who ca
raise ten millions In half an hour, an
that over the telephone, should b
held up for paltry $1,750. A ru
like that is outrageous"
The rule has not been revoked, hoy
ever, despite the millionaire's threat
and Uncle Sam is doing strictly cas-
business at the same old stand.
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"Vth Avenue"

AS soon as the Nassau street tailor
moved up to Fifth avenue he, OF
course, sent out new cards, says the
New York Times. Their appearance
caused some surprised comment among
his friends.
THAT looks funny" said one man.
with avenue. Isn't that a new wrin.
kle?"
mot exactly" said the tailor. "Ro
man numerals are getting to be rather
popular In writing the names OF
streets. Fifth avenue business men
are particularly partial to them. On
cards and In newspaper and street cal
advertising you may frequently see
the address of some tailor, haberdash
er, or other tradesman, written With
avenue. So far the other avenues have
not adopted the style to any great ex
tent, but the time may come when the
business houses on all those streets
will write WITH, With, With, With, and
tXth avenues"
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One does not look fer the whole
truth upon q tombstone, but there are
exceptions to the rule. az 10 shown
by the example furnished in church.
yard In Hagerstown, Md.
This touching spitaph runs as fol-
lows. except that fictitious names have,
for obvious reasons. been Substituted
here for the real ones:
Mary r.,
Wife Of Walter Jenkins.
Died December 30. 1884. aged u
years nine months.
She was true and faithful wife to
each Of the following persons:
Jacob Wineman.
Henry Snow.
Philip Harrow.
Walter jenkins.
-Harper's Weekly.
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Christmas High Finance,

William Bayard Hale, who has got
more fame by suppressing an inter
view than ever got by printing one,
is a caustic, sarcastic man." said a
magazine editor.
Il once heard Hale speak at a bank.
ers' Christmas banquet. He always
speaks well, because he Is a clergy.
man. One part Of his speech I'll never
forget. 1t bore on Christmas games.
"'There is one Christmas game, he
said, that has become very popular,
especially in banking circles. 1t re.
sembles hide-and-seek. You play it az
follows:
ga cashier or president takes all
the institutions money and runs and
hides. Detectives swarm out to find
him. II they succeed, he comes home
with them, and has to pay forfeit 3"