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Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
STRANGE PEOPLE OF SOUTH SEA

After six years as lieutenant gov
ernor of the little island OF New
Guinea, J. II. p. Murray told strange
stories of the Papuans, the dominat-
ing native race of that section or the
globe.
"They are the most picturesque and
wonderful folk in the world" he said
almost in the twinkling of an eye
YOU can win them over from state
Of barbarism and induce them to take
up some form of employment. There
are one or two tribes, engaged To-Day
az carriers or plantation laborers, who
less than two years ago were Wlld
cannibals whose excesses knew no
bounds.
"My experiences have been so re-
narkable that 1 seldom mention them
because of the suspicion that they
might be received with incredulity
Wherever possible I have made
point of investigating personally the
strange stories which are told by the
natives with almost convincing de-
tail. and in not few instances l nave
found myself hopelessly baffled.
have often heard, for instance, Of the
race of tailed pygmies who are sup
posed to dwell in the interior, just over
the mountain. You cross the noun
tain, and then learn that the men
with the tails live farther out, and
SO it goes on until you give up the
quest. Maybe these rumors are well
founded, and even if they proved to
be correct the discovery would only
add another to the long list of sur
prises which the country has fur
nished.
''I once heard a native who had a
reputation for veracity-and they are
ali fairly truthful-who boasted of
having played a practical joke at the
expense of the little men with long
tails. Tradition credits them with re-
siding in small houses built on wooden
piles, where they slept with their
tails through hole in the floor. This
gave the aboriginal humorist his
chance. He tied a knot in each tail,
raised an alarm and then fled to the
hills, followed by the imprecations of
his victims.
t"As a rule Papuan exploits are lack
ing in humor. I have seen in many
villages the remains of cannibal feasts.
I recently came across a native victim
Just as he had been roasted. 1t is not
often, however that you witness pub
lie evidences Of cannibalism. Some OF
the tribes still think 1t the correct
thing, and others who profess to have
given up the practice carry 1t on sur
reptitiously. In the wild regions the
eating of human flesh is deemed quite
natural and is sometimes associated
with one or other of the quaint re-
ligious ceremonials."
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
MEDICAL MODERATION

More than 1000 volumes have been
written on the theory and practice of
how to live, morally and physically, TO
the best advantages; but this might all
be boiled down to a practical sugges-
tion of two words, namely, avoid
extremes" writes a physician in the
Atlanta Georgian. No line of conduct
or thought is so good that we may
not overdo 1t. Even honesty may be
carried to a pernicious extreme, as
when man expresses to his wife his
real opinion of the cigars she gives
him Christmas.
But in no other relation of life are
extremes so prevalent and prejudiclal
as in regard to our theories OF the
treatment and prevention of disease
For example, the hide bound physician
who prescribes q drug for every dis
order is just as fanatical and inimica-
BILE to the welfare of his patients as is
the opposite extremist, the drugless
healer who swears that all drugs are
poisons to the people at all times.
But doctors, like commodities, are
subject to the law of supply and de-
mand, and so long as there is one large
body of fools who distrust the doctor
that fails to drug them, regardless of
their needs, and another large body of
imbeciles who absolutely refuse to take
medicine under any circumstanceS-So
long as we have these with us we shall
have also the drugless "healer" and the
"heal-less'" dopester.
In practically every therapeutic cult
there is merit. There is merit in Chris
tian Science, in osteopathy in Emman-
uelism. But is there enough merit
in any one of them to constitute uni
versal or exclusive system of treat
ment? The same may be asked of
drug therapy. No one should practice
medicine who is so narrow in equip
ment and extreme in prejudices that
he cannot command the knowledge
and agencies of general medicine.
| Psychotherapy is a valuable force in
the treatment of certain mental dis
orders, and is not the old school doc
| tor who refuses to make use of 1t
| Just as extreme as the psychotherapist
who is not prepared to use drugs?
The extreme to which we have gone
with college athletics is another sin
against moderation, for the profess
sional athlete is too often q physical
wreck before he reaches middle life,
And even so excellent a thing as fresh
air may be had in extremes of temper
ature. No sane physician believes that
the breathing of excessively cold air
night after night is good for the lungs
| According to our theories of health
and of disease let us cultivate that
| tolerance, breadth and moderation
which are the real elements of wisdom
| and conduct.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
THESE COME LATER

That gay, piquant, vivacious young
ruler, THE Queen of the Moullh
Rouge" has taken her time to arrive
in Los Angeles, but she is to be seen
at the Auditorium theater for the week
beginning Monday, December 10, when
local playgoers may form their own
opinion as to the merits of the young
person and the big cast which sup
ports her.
No musical comedy in years has cre-
ated the amount of discussion that has
attended this work of Paul NJ. Potter,
John T. Hall and Vincent Bryan. 1t
ran for an entire season at the Circle
theater in New York city. Chicago,
Washington, Baltimore, Boston, Pitts
burg, Philadelphia and New Orleans
have all enjoyed this comedy of gay
night life in Paris on the occasion of
the annual fete Of the art students,
the Quat-z-Arts ball.
The company to be seen at the Au-
ditorium includes Snitz Edwards, Har-
ry Short, Oracle Turner, Victor Foster,
Orelia Callan, Nelson Riley, George
Myers and Eleanor Sutter. The pre-
senting company is unusually large
and the production is said to be both
massive and beautiful.
1.-THE kissing Girl" with pretty
Texas Guinan as 1.-THE Girl" comes to
the Majestic theater Immediately fol-
lowing the De Wolf Hopper engage
ment for eight nights and two mat
inees, concluding it's visit with the
Christmas night performance. The
book is by the prolific and successful
librettist, Stanislaus STANCE, and the
music by the ever cheerful Henry Won
Tilzer. The scenes Of the operetta,
three in number are set in the Bohm-
erwald mountains of Bohemia, a locale
that affords opportunity for exquisite
scenery and costuming. Supporting
Miss Guinan are such we'll known
comic opera folk as Dick Temple,
Harry Hermsen, Harold Refill, Clara
Farma, Ida Fitzhugh and Mile. Van
ity. There are more than sixty peo-
pie in the company and the chorus is
said to be particularly strong.
Lillian Russell comes to the Mason
Opera house Christmas week, when
she will offer for the first time here
her unique comedy hit, "In Search of
Sinner" a modern play of advanced
tendencies, written by Charlotte
Thompson, a California literary wom-
an who has been making rapid prog
ress of late in the east as a dramatist
I'm Search of Sinner is a quest
for a husband. OF course, all hus-
bands are not sinners, but the fair
searcher in this instance is Lillian Rus
sell, and the exigencies of the plot
demand that she look for chap who
is human enough to have erred and
not so sanity that he has become a
bore. Joseph Brooks, it is said, has
surrounded his star with fine pro-
duction and a splendid cast
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11

this it is still around him that the
pathos, the tensity and the human
quality center. Not in many months
has the Orpheum had opportunity TO
present so fine a dramatic gem.
Nine. Jewell has carried the develop
ment of automata to the Nth Degree
an art in itself. In presenting her
Miniature Manikin Revue" she Will DO
things with these little dolls that few
humans would undertake to initiate
She gives reproductions of many en-
inent stage stars and she has COM
plete little stage on which her mani
kins play. The whole act is a depaf-
ture from the usual.
Alf Grant and Ethel Hoag have been
so much in demand for eastern muslcal
comedies that it has been some
years since they were out TINS
way. But they have not been forgot
ten, and hearty welcome awaits tne
clever pair She is a singing lnSenue
of parts, while he is a comedian.
The great Asahi, with his quintet,
will present in a gorgeous setting the
mysteries of magic in Japan. The I'M
perial Russian dancers remain another
week, as do Mile. Camille Ober, the
French chanteuse; Felice Morris ana
company in "a Call for Help" and the
Three White Kuhns. New motion pic
lures complete the bill:
PANTAGES-The return of Harden
to Pantages theater is announced Tor
the week beginning with a matinee To-
morrow. and the police department Is
again interested, for the escape from
regulation handouts by Harden ana
his celebrated brother, Houdlnl, mas
never been explained and is still
Fascinating mystery. No other men
II
nlish the feat, yet Harden has ex-
hibited his powers in every city In TINS
country and of Europe. The police or
Scotland Yard, London, We're especlai-
lv bafded and chagrined at their Iall-
IRE TO explain Hardeen's success. In
addition to his exhibition of escaping
from regulation handcuffs, Hardeen
will also escape from navy regulation
straitiacket and from the jacket used
nv the police to subdue insane ana
dangerous criminal prisoners. Harden
will expose the method of escaping
from the straitjackets. He will also
allow himself to be handcutfed ana
sealed in a mail pouch and locked IN
n trunk, and will effect his escape IN
other acts on the Pantages bill will
offer Harry DeVine and Belle Williams
in farce called 1.-THE Travelling
in which there is much singing and
dancing; Hugh ]. Emmett, assisted by
Hildreth Emmett, in scenic ventrllo-
ouial novelty; Harry Botter and his
eomnanv of comedians in "a Matri-
rnoniaI Rlizzard:" Maude Rockwell,
the California Nightingale" In a
renertoire of new song hits; Buford,
Bennett and Buford, and new photo
plays.
PRINCESS-"TheG Gay Lord Harry"
will be the attraction at the Princess
theater this week beginning WIN Lne
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
AcuPUNcTURE IN SURGERY

The operation of acupuncture ap-
pears to have been for untold ages
the great surgical procedure Of the
Chinese empire and it's population. 1t
has been employed with equal conf
dence and promptitude in the treat
ment of fracture and OF constipation,
of ophthalmia and of choleral UP to
very recent times there stood in the
Imperial College of Medicine in Pek-
ing a bronze mannikin furnished with
a number of small holes corresponding
to the respective positions of the fav-
ored points of puncture on the sur
face OF the human body. At his quail
flying surgical examination the candi-
date was placed before this mannikin,
which had been previously covered
with paper, and he was required to
pass his needle through the paper into
the holes prescribed by the treatment
of any disease named by the examiner.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
PYR0 DEVELOPMENT

The method of development with
pyro has changed very greatly during
the last few years. No doubt, here
and there, both amateurs and profess
sionals are to be found who use am
monia as the alkali, following prac-
tice which was once universal. But
they are certainly a diminishing num-
ber and are likely before many years
have passed TO be as extinct as the
dodo. Pyro soda is the combination
which is now almost generally en-
ployed and its adoption shows at least
that there is very little that can be
said against it. But it must not be
supposed that it will necessarily give
negatives that are in any way better
than those which can be obtained with
any other developers, even with other
of pyro. It's very general
use by both amateur and professional
photographers is to be attributed more
to convenience than to anything else.
When other alkalis, with the single
exception of ammonia, for any reason
are more convenient, there is nothing
to be urged against their employment
says Photography and Focus.
BEACH's DEVELOPER
The first formula to make any decid-
ed challenge to pyro-ammonia was the
once popular "Beach's Developer" In
this the alkali was potassium carbon
ate. The developer was worked out by
+. C. Beach, and although at the time
it was sneered at by some on the
ground that it was "a chemists shop"
from the number of its ingredients, 1t
hardly deserved the appellation, for
many other formulas were far more
complex, and it certainly was most
effective developer, giving very clean
negatives with a fine black image,
much prettier to look at than the usual
yellow or yellowish green products of
and-when the differ
ence in ight-stopping power between
the yellow and the black images was
understood-giving quite as good prints
in far less time.
The popularity of the Beach develop
er had little or nothing to do with the
fact that potassium carbonate was the
alkali; but must be attributed to the
very liberal use of sulphite and OF sui
phurous acid, which made staining of
the negatives an impossibility, and
gave the stock solution of pyro remark
able keeping properties. A year or
two after it was made up it used to be
as colorless as the day 1t was prepared
The very clean negatives it yielded
prepared public taste for the newer
which are now the most
rivals CT pyro.
AS there may be readers who would
like to try Beach's developer for them
selves it may be we'll to describe how
it is made up. Four ounces of sodium
sulphide are dissolved in five ounces
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of hot water; and when cold, four
ounces of sulphurous acid Ohe dilute
form sold by druggists) are added; an
ounce of pyro is dissolved in the solu-
ton, which will then make approx
mately ten ounces of liquid. Three
ounces of potassium carbonate and two
ounces of sodium sulphite are dis
solved in six ounces of hot water, and
diluted to make ten ounces in all.
These are the stock solutions, and may
be employed with different degrees of
dilution to suit the taste of the user,
A convenient strength is to take one
dram of the potassium carbonate solu-
tion for each ounce of developer re-
quired, dilute it to that bulk and to add
to it twenty minims of the pyro solu-
tion. 1t was generally used much
stronger in pyro than this, but In our
own practice we found this both wastes
full and unnecessary.
THE OBJECTIONS TO AMMONIA
The reason why ammonia has gone
out of fashion is partly, no doubt, that
the yellow negatives which used to
be obtained with it are no longer fav-
ored so much. They were not actually
due to the ammonia, but to the fact
that the developer contained little or
no sulphite; and If any one tries the
soda formula, yomitting sulphite and
metabisulphite altogether, he Will see
that soda will give just as yellow
negatives as ammonia, II not actually
more so The chief reasons were that
the ammonia itself had an action upon
the silver bromide in the film, which
In the absence of sufficient potassium
bromide led to Jogging, that solutions
of ammonia varied in strength from
time to time, losing some of the am
monia every time the stopper was
taken out of the bottle, and that in
unskillful hands ammonia was very
prone to give logged negatives.
Caustic soda and caustic potash
have both been suggested at one time
or another for use with pyro; but
although they can be employed, they
are not at all desirable, as they are
needlessly energetic, do not keep un-
altered in solution, and are prone to
attack the gelatine, softening II ana
tending to produce frilling. Causuc
lithia has also been used, but although
its action on the gelatine is less harm
ful than that of the other caustic
alkalies, it is not only more expensive
and more troublesome to procure, but
seems to be quite without advantage
over the carbonates.
PYRo-ACETONE AND PYRO-FORMALINE
There is an indirect method of de-
veloping with caustic alkali, Wnlch
is free from some of the objections
mentioned above, and that is by the
use of acetone or of formaline. When
either of these liquids is added to
developer containing sodium sulphlte,
the acetone or formaltne REACTS with
the sulphite liberating caustic soda;
so that by adding one or other 10 d
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11

plain solution of pyro and sulphite an
active developer is at once formed.
Those who wish to try such methoo
may do so by making up 10 per cent
solution of pyro, dissolving an ounce
of nvro in a solution of four ounces
of sodium sulphite in six ounces
water. and diluting to make nine
ounces-one dram in all. Forty min
inns of this solution are taken for each
ounce of developer required and are
diluted with water, forty minims OF
acetone being added just before use.
A GOOD STRENGTH FOR PYRo-sODA
AS we said at the commencement,
pyro-soda is the favorite because OF
its convenience. The merits OF IL are
that good sodium carbonate in the crys-
talline form is cheap, that Is keeps
well either solid or in solution, that its
strength is definite and does not alter
with the lapse of time, that 1t does
not directly attack the silver bromide,
causing fog, nor In the dilute form In
which 1t is used in developer does
1t attack the gelatine of the plate.
solution of pyro of a strength of from
one to four grains to the ounce, ac-
cording to the taste of the photog-
rapher, with a sufficiency of sulphite
to prevent stain, will be found to suit
most plates, If, as the alkali, twenty
grains of crystallized sodium carbon
ate are present to each ounce. This
is the developer usually given in the
platemakers formulas, and its gem
eral recommendation serves to show
that as an all round developer for neg
ative use it leaves little to be desired.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
NOT CONSISTENT

This spelling books all wrong, papa"
why so. my little son?"
Because it doesn't look right TO have a
little thing like kitten to have six letters.
and a big thing like cat to only have three"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
SCIENCE OF SLEEP

Ordinarily we do not sleep by acci-
dent or haphazard We simply re-
solve to sleep and self-suggestion
plays a great part in the production of
sleep. We go through variety of ac-
tions, all suggestive of change from
our normal waking condition. We
undress, we place ourselves in a COM
Portable position, we close our eyes.
We believe and expect we are going
to sleep and the result is-sleep.
One Of the great preventives Of sleep
is the fear of not sleeping. Once this
fear is broken down we sleep anyhow.
In a word, our chances of getting
sleep increase If we assume the ex-
ternal physical attitude which corre-
spends to sleep, if we relax every
muscle and let it stay relaxed, if we
breathe lightly and regularly, If we
call up the imagination of a sleeping
person and talk and think sleep to our
selves, repeating silently and in a
quiet. dreamy fashion such a formula
as this:
There is no reason why I should
not sleep. Therefore I can sleep.
Therefore I will sleep My mind is
at peace. Sleep is coming. I am get
ting sleepy, 1 am about to sleep, 1 am
asleep"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11

"Pa, did you ever ask for bread and
get stone?"
"No, but I'VE often asked for biscuit
and got something resembling brick"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11

use and enjoy. It will not hoard in
bank vaults.
SOW HAPPINESS
How little 1t COSTS if we give it a thought,
To make happy some heart each day!
Just one kind word and a tender smile
AS we go on our daily way;
Perchance a look will SUFFICE to clean
The clouds from a neighbors face,
And the press of a hand In sympathy
A sorrowful tear efface.
One walks in sunlight, another goes all weary
in the shade;
One treads a path that is fair ana smooth'
Another must pray for aid.
II costs so lttle 1 wonder why
We give 1t so little thought!
A smile-knd words-a glance-a touch!
What magic with them is wrought
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11
KEEPING LENSES

A lens should remain for an inden-
mite time in as good condition as wnen
IL leaves the manufacturer hanus'
provided a few simple rules are op-
served to which we draw attention:
Protect the lens as much as possible
from dust and finger marks.
Do not subject it to sudden ana eN-
treme temperature.
Do not expose to the heat of the sun
or steam coils.
Avoid damp places.
Never use any sort of polishing ma
terial or other solvent on the lens
Do not allow it to fall or get SUD-
den jar 49,,
To clean use a well-washed linen
handkerchief only -
If dusty, blow off the dust first' then
wipe.
To remove finger marks or moisture
breathe upon the surface and wipe; al
ways wipe lightly, and with a circular
movement; a camers hair brush Is con-
venient to remove dust before cleaning
and, afterwards, remove lint. ,
If the inner surfaces require cleaning,
the utmost care should be observed 70
remove the lenses one by one, clean anu
replace before others are taken out., out.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11

use and enjoy. It will not hoard in
The Hawaiian star., 1910-04-23

Times of the tide are taken from
the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
tables. The tides at Kahuiul and
Hilo occur about one hour earlier
than at Honolulu. Honolulu standard
time is 10 hours 80 minutes slower
than Greenwich time, being that of
the meridian Of 157 degrees 80 Minis.
The time whistle blows at 1870 pm,
which is the same as Greenwich
0 hours minutes. The sun and
moon are for local time for the whole
group.
The Hawaiian star., 1910-04-23
Shipping in Port

GOVERNMENT VESSELS.
Albatross, U. S. F. c. S. Yokohama
Dix, U. S. A. T., Manila.
(Mercnant 0esseIs.J
Andrew Welch, blk. Pearl Harbor.
Asia S. S., Yokohama.
Alice Cooke, sch. Port Gamble.
Alert, sch. Grays Harbor.
Annie Johnson, blk. San Francisco.
Amaranth, sch. Mi1ilteo, at Pearl
Harbor.
Glenshiel, s. S. Newport News.
John Ena, sp. San Francisco.
Ninpa, ship, Nitrate port.
Sierra. S. S. San francisco.
THE TRANSPORTS.
Buford, ar. S. F., rrom Hon.. Oct. Is.
Dix, in port
Logan, sailed from Honolulu for
Manila March Is.
Thomas, arrived at San Francisco,
Mar 16.
Sheridan at San Francisco April 20
Sherman sailed for Manaila April
Ia
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The Hawaiian star., 1910-04-23
Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Togo Kisen Kaisha S. S. Co

Steamers of the above Companies will HONOLULU and Leave
this mentioned below:
HONOLULU ORIENT. LEAVE HONOLULU 8. r.
The Hawaiian star., 1910-04-23

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