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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-11

estimated at $4,000 barrels daily.
Since then the output gradually di-
minished until recently the produc-
ton fell to 10000 barrels, with ~ per
cent of water. The flow remained the
same for several weeks, but the per-
centage of water kept increasing. Last
Wednesday the percentage was "a, or
more than half the output On Thurs
day morning 60 per cent of water was
noted. and it was reported by night
all of the flow consisted of water and
sand. This would leave out of the
10000 barrels flow only 1000 barrels
Of oil. Taking 80 per cent as the
true estimate of the water content. IL
will not be many days before the fam
GUS gusher will be converted into an
artesian well with a product of no val
ne, for the water in that district Is
so strongly impregnated with salt and
other deleterious minerals that it will
be worthless for irrigation or domes-
tic use. But Nature has it's compen-
sations, and it may be found that the
strong mineral waters may be of
great efficacy for the treatment of
rheumatism and other disease.
The death of the great marvel of
the world was greeted in oil stock
circles all over the State with great
rejoicing, for it is felt that the bug
bear of overproduction has been laid
to rest, and that the price of oil will
be maintained on profitable basis
1t is not expected that such another
gusher will be found in California OF
elsewhere. Lakeview was stupen-
dous freak, and an exceptional freak
at that. Nothing like it was ever
known before, and the chances are Z
million to one that nothing like it will
ever be known in the future.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-11

Stocks in the Palmer Senior and
Palmer Junior oil prospects is held
in the Islands, although probably to
a small extent. Considerable of the
Paula Oil Company's stock, however,
is held in Honolulu.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-11

A nolle prossequi has been entered
in the case of J, L. Holt, who was
charged with embezzlement
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-11

MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.
The regular quarterly meeting Of
TIE Merchants Association will be
held at 8 O'Clock this afternoon.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-01-11
BANK OF HAWAII.

At a meeting of the Bank of Hawaii
this morning it was announced that
Clarence H Cooke would arrive homo
on the 25th of this month. The meet
ing was devoted to routine business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
Electric Wires in State Capitols

The damage done to the New York state capitol is not a heavy loss to a rich and populous state. The build ing will quickly be restored, but many valuable records have been burned, and these can never be re- stored. Especially is this true so far as the Dutch occupation of New York is concerned. The story of New Ans terdam can never again be gleaned from original records, for all of such records made by the Dutch have been reduced to ashes. This is the great est loss of the fire. This is a loss that is irreparable, and in new country it is a loss that is deeply regrettable. Much printed matter can be replaced, but the early manu- script records of the state and colony dating almost from the beginning of the country are gone, and they can not be replaced.
 The state capitol at Jefferson City, Mo, was burned last winter, and the sweeping losses in the New York state capitol call attention to the fact that electric wires are a source of danger and trouble. An overhauling of the wires at Montgomery would be . wise precaution. The entire south considers the Alabama state capitol historical, and every effort should be made to guard it against destruction by fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31

against civilization but an unforgive- able breach of these few command ments which are enshrined in the New Testament on which both nations have been bred"
 The King James version of the Bible was given to the public while Shakespeare was living and even writing, and the old English of the version and the old English of the plays have come down together, both serving to keep the language stable and precious. Of the two the old version has been the more potential because it has in all these years been read and heard and quoted by untold millions who had never seen a Shake spearean line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
WHAT BECOMES OF THE pINss

From the National Magazine flor April.
 For some centuries, the scientists and curious questioners of mankind have busted themselves with vain guesses and vainer speculations as to What be- comes of pins?" Everybody knows in a general way and very few realize fully that many hundreds of thousands of tons of copper. tin, steel and other metals are made into pins every year, only to go into use for brief period and then, like the fated hunter of the Boo jum'' in "the Hunting of the Spark. !" quietly vanish away
 An English gentleman, "who wanted to know, you know." has quietly expert mented with pins of various kinds, and now announces that a very brief time elapses, not over one hundred and fifty four days, before the indispensable hair pin is resolved Into dust and blown away by the wind. Bright pins last nearly eighteen months, polished steel needles, two years and half; brass pins are very short-lived; and steel pins even when not exposed to acids in inks are nearly eaten away in year. At last the mystery of the ages has been solved and we know what becomes of the pins"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Present md Future

"fhe general business of the country has been particularly quiet during this month of March, but there are signs of improvement. and April will probably wit ness much more activity in the commer- cial world than any of the previous months of the year." said Wilson F. Treadway of Philadelphia
 "The business copditions of the country are certainly sound, and in New York money is said to be very easy. I visited the greater part of the west in February, and found business in that part of the country quite prosperous. In the south also there has been a good deal of pros- perity, but just now I think there is waiting feeling all over the United States.
 "A great many of our best commercial leaders in the east are looking for very brisk turn in affairs not later than the middle of April. and there is a general expectation that a high degree of pros perity will have been reached before the summer is over. One thing is certain-the south will always come in for it's full share of thrift. No part of the country las moved forward so rapidly in the last two or three years as the cotton belt. The south Is raising, in addition to cotton large corn and hay crops. It will soon make big showing in live stock. Truck farming is adding more and more to the wealth of the south. Alabama is in the forefront of states that are exploiting their diversified resources, for 1t is not only raising the great agricultural crops, but fruits and vegetables in large volume Add to all these products great mineral wealth and industrial activity, and Ala bama should easily come to be the rich est state in America. Of course, this fruition cannot be expected immediately, but in ten years, say, Alabama should lead in per capita wealth in the south, while the level of values will be very much higher than they have been. Look forward 20 years and nothing should sur prise in the way Of Alabama's leadership in the list of progressive states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
MT. Lovell's Fine Cattle

W. S. Lowell is a city farmer. He knows a great deal about Bessemer property and coal mines, and he him. self confesses that he applied the ab- sent treatment to his plantation in Palmyra, Miss. He acknowledges that he had had no experience in cattle raising-that he "did not know the first thing about handling such proposition" And all the time he was 300 miles away.
 And yet he grew steers at Palmyra that tipped the scales at 1305 pounds, and when those steers had been shipped to the St. Louis market they brought $6.25 hundred pounds on the hoof. No steers from anywhere else brought better price.
 A moral seems concealed in these facts. Is Palmyra better for cattle raising than any black belt county in this staate? Is it as good for that purpose as any one of the Tennessee valley counties? This is where the moral lies. Just as much corn per acre can be raised in any Alabama county as can be raised in Palmyra, Warren county, Mississippi, if mod ern methods of cultivation be em- ployed. Once given corn enough a steer can be fattened for market here fully up to the Palmyra standard. Mr. Lowell did well, but he really did no more than any farmer can do who is intelligent and energetic. This state in other words needs modern scien- tific farmers. The old school of farm ing is antiquated and unprofitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
CORONATION PRICES

London Dispatch to the New York Her
 ald.
 One of the London daily newspapers is authority for the statement that some of the many American multimillionaires' who are coming to the coronation have engaged West End houses for the period of their stay. One liberal peer is said to have refused an American offer of 91000O $50 O00) for the use of his residence for six weeks, and another American has of- fered e17,OOo (sS5,0oO for the tenancy of a house in Hill street in May, June and July, but the owner refused to have his residence profaned by the presence of a Chicago pork packer" or "Pittsburg steel magnate" for less than f20,0O0 (s100,- ooO).
 As you have already been told by cable, Mir John Hays Hammond, special ann hassador of the United States to the cor onation, will occupy Mo- 1 Stratton street, the old Piccadilly home of the late Baron- ess Burdett-Coutts, where Queen Mary frequently visited when a child, as the baroness was a personal friend of her mother. the Duchess of Teck.
 Besides the marvellous collection of Queen Anne and early Georgian silver there is a large quantity of exquisite china in the house, and if MT. Hammond chooses to entertain on an scale he will be able to cover the huge dinner table with Flaxman silver. or he can use service of gold with beakers and gob- lets of rare workmanship.
 In the gallery of this house Is Sir Joshua Reynolds favorite char, while on the walls hang many pictures by this famous painter. The precious Winged Victory" from Yanina, which shows the wonderful gold work of the Greeks with the chisel 2OO0 years ago; first folio Shakespeare, Raeburn pictures of Scott, and the Mulgrave picture of Pitt painted in the year of his death by Hoppner, are a few of the treasures of which MT. Hammond will be the guardian during his six weeks occupancy of the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
The King James Version

This version began in 1904 was given to the public in 1911 and down to 1881 it remained the unquestionel and authorized version of the Bible in the Protestant world. The revised version was published in 1881, and while many use it still to the av- craze Protestant the King James version remains the classic it has been throughout three centuries.
 The tercentenary celebration in London called out from President Taft tribute to the version as tie between two great English-speaking nations. "Our laws, our literature and our social life,,' he says, lowe whatever excellence they possess largely to the influence of this, our chief classic, acknowledged as such equally on both sides of the sea-"
 Premier Asquith did not let the ter centenary go by without expressing the opinion that the version they had met to celebrate had convinced men and women on both sides of the Allan tic that war betwcenEnglish-speaking people would be mot only crime
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
A CITY HERMIT

From the New York American.
 Edwin Walz was buried in Calvary cemetery, and the secret of the many mysteries of his life was buried with him. But if ever the transition from life to death Is a shorter step for one man than another, it was shorter step TOT this strange hermit of the city, this re- cluse In the midst of the human swarm, who might have been said to have buried himself 90 years ago in his little drug store at AS Grand street.
 Through all those % years, so far as any person knows he never passed the doorway of his shop until his body was carried out on the way to the grave
 Around him the great city spread and grew without his cognizance. The march of events went past him unregarded The trolleys at his door, the subway rumbling near were mysteries of which he some- times spoke but never saw.
 If he had made himselg an exile from society, he was a friend of all the af- flicted. Charity seemed to be his only pleasure. The neighborhood adored him as ''the good apothecary' He would fill a prescription for a poor man for half price if he could pay for nothing if he could not Every evening line of poor, bedraggled fellows formed at his door and received money to get lodgings.
 But in spite of this generosity, fas- cinating feature of his strange story is that his little store is believed to be the hiding place of a fortune. His sister, Miss Mary Walz. who was the only one to follow his coffin to the grave, will have the place searched immediately in the confidence that many secret shelf and drawer will reveal the accumulated wealth of his many years of business.
 He never spent money save in charity, so far as any one knew. And he never went to a bank. He would not allow his clerk ever to go behind counter. When the article asked for was in the main store the clerk could get it; if it was be- hind the counter, MT. Walz went for it himself. Police are guarding the store, for rumors of his hidden treasure have gone abroad.
 He was found dead in the back room on the bed which he had fashioned atop pile of old boxes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
Looking Over the Field

The Rev. John P. Sanderson of New York. who is travelling through some oi the southern states. is the assistant sec retary of the Home Missionary society of the Congregational church. He ar rived here day or two ago and will re- main until after Sunday He is looking over the field with a view of aiding the Congregational cause and will make a re- port of his observations to the society which he serves.
 "On my way south" said MT. Sander son, q visited Norfolk and Portsmouth Va, and came to Alabama by the way oi Knoxville and Chattanooga, making stops at those two cities. Knoxville is much more populous than the census bureau made it appear, for the suburbs are well built up. The same may be said of Chat tanooga Both of these cities seem to be growing and thriving in every way.
 'At Chattanooga I attended a meeting of a pastors organization and saw what would have been impossible in the north and something that I never heard of in the south-a number of the ministers present being colored. The presiding off cer was white Presbyterian pastor, and the secretary was a colored brother, and an interesting paper was read by col ored man. There is white pastors union which meets on Mondays, but once a month that meeting gives place to the joint conference of white and colored min sters.
 "The Congregational church has a good many adherents in some parts of the south We have very strong member lanta."
 Mir Sanderson is making many friends here. He speaks in cordial terms of the work which the Rev. Dr. George Eaves, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church, is doing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
FORESTS TEMPER
From the Kansas City Star.


 Some allowances must be made, it seens, for the fits of temper to which seniuses of the stage-and elsewhere give way. Edwin Forrest was seriously afflicted with temper, much to his re- morse when his passion had spent it's force. In his journal, which he kept wi.R regularity, he once wrote:
 q despair of obtaining that mastery over myself which I owe to myself, to my children and to society. It is no ex- as I do from regret and shame at my own intemperance. I feel the folly, the madness, the provoking extravaganza of my behavior, treating men like slaves and assuming power over them which is most unjustifabe and dangerous, and yet contrtion and stinging reflection seem to have no power in the punishment they infiict or of producing amendment I do not wish to harbor one ungrateful thought, for though my public life is Tar far from happy, my domestic happiness is more than an equipoise to it's annoy. ances and yet I cannot think of my ed. ucation and the ills derived from the counsel and example afforded me- with. out heartfelt ripinings. To God Al. mighty I lift my prayer that l may b, able to subdue this hateful and degrad ing vice of tcmper,s so that l may hell my children in the first best worldly en deayor of governing their own words"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
An Enendation

Adam Smith, the great political eco- with lawyers. preachers, opera singers and other professional people under the head of 'unproductive labor in a chap ter on the Accumulation of Capital of his famous volume entitled The Wealth of Nations" said well known citizen. q doubt if the great thinker ever dreamed of the extent, in the negative sense, to which the term unproductive
 may be applied to the legislators of mod ern times. in the sense of counteracting the efforts of those who do produce the things that have a value in exchange.
 Perhaps it never occurred to Adam Smith that though a comparatively ephe- neral thing, legislative procedure can have the effect of negativing the efforts of the productive laborer,' whereupon a newer classification with the use of the minus sign is needed in the science of political economy. I was very much sur prised to hear on the streets the other day a statement to the effect that the time and the effort have been spent
 in protesting against various articles of ieSiSioeioh GU -hoii.Soiheiy py oii po4 'icS concerned would amount to the life work of five intelligent men. On consideration there is very little in this assertion that will stand correction, however startling 1t may seem at first The illustration will serve to show how much further than the legislature itself the cost of legisla- ton goes, and should be an incentive for the people to act conscientiously in choosing their representatives always"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
Wilson or Harmon will be nominated for the presidency next year.
CItv,s crovtb and Beauty

.I was in Birmingham several times prior to 1900, but had not been here since until I came this week, and l am agree ably surprised at the size and elegance of the city," said s. V. Rollins of Buff falo, N. Y.
 ''I think my first visit was as far back as 1891. The possibilities of the Birming- ham district made an impression on me then, and a few years later. when the Tennessee company was building a steel plant, it was generally believed that Bir- mingham would become an important center of the steel industry; but l had no idea that Birmingham would grow to be the city it is today. It not only has population of something like 15O,00O but few cities in this country have so much in the way of the beautiful as one finds here today.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
BLIND SENATOR'S HOBBY

From the Washington Post.
 Senator Thomas P Gore, the blind senator from Oklahoma has bug for collecting rare books said J. w Elem Ter of Oklahoma City, at the Raleigh He has fully 200O curious volumes, and in his office in the Senate building there are perhaps 1000 of these interesting tomes many of them of almost priceless value One of Senator Cores main delights when visiting a strange city is to make a pilgrimage to the secondhand book stores in quest of 'qaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore and the senator can drive a hard and fast bargain. He has succeeded in picking up some valuable rare editions at ridiculously low prices.
 By means of the sense of touch Sen each book in his collection, and of what the volume treats. The size, color, and thickness of most of his precious volumes are well known to the senator from Ok lahoma, and in directing his secretary to bring him a certain book he will describe it's approximate width, length, thickness, and color of binding.
 Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wiscon- sin is another member of the upper branch of Congress who has developed his faculties to remarkable extent. | Senator Stephenson is noted among his intimates as man who has never kept a memorandum book. Though a man of vast interests all his life, required to keep at hand hundreds of details. Sena- | tor Stephenson has never put on paper any note to remind him of an appoint
 ment or of a duty to be attended to. He stores them away in his head, and he has never been known to make an error when it comes to matter of memory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
Display Advertising for Churches

Dr. Len G. Broughton of the Bap- tist tabernacle in Atlanta gets more than an ordinary share of free ad- vertising, and it seems to whet his appetite for still more advertising. and yet it's pastor believes in adver- Using. "Once or twice a week." says the assistant pastor, i've publish regular display advertisement in the local papers, calling attention to some special feature or some special serv- ice at the church. The results have been magnificent. On occasions the crowds have increased remarkably, and there have been times when near ly as many as 2000 people could not get into the church on account of a lack of seating capacity. Another noteworthy result from advertising is the increase in the Sunday collections. 
 On specially advertised occasions we have known the collections to treble and even quadruple. This kind of ad- vertising appeals to the popular mind" continued MT. Ham, "in a simple and direct manner. It is an appeal that is in many instances ir- resistible; we propose to push it."
 Mir. Ham thinks advertising is the true policy for indifferent or dying churches. He advises such churches to get busy with display advertising, MT. Ham is the press agent as we'll as assistant pastor of the Baptist taber- nacle, and he knows what advertis- ing can accomplish. The tabernacle does not need it and yet, he says, il is help to the tabernacle, for it in. iects enthusiasm into its work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-31
WASHINGTON BATTERED JOKE

From the Century Magazine
 Paul Leicester Ford, who made the most painstaking investigation into the life of George Washington. wrote, in 'erhe True Life of George Washing tom:
 ''Weld, in his Travels in America,' published that General Washington told me that he was never so much annoyed by mosquitoes in any part of Amer ica as in Skenesborough, for they used to bite through the thckest boot When this anecdote appeared in print good Dr. Dwight, shocked at the taradiddle, and fearing its influence on Washing tons fame, spoiled the joke by explain ing that gentleman of great respect ability who was present when General Washington made the observation re- ferred to, told me that he said, when de- scribing these mosquitoes to MT. Weld, that they ''bit through his stockings above the boots."' Whoever invented the explanation should have evolved a type of boots other than those worn by Washington, for, unfortunately for the story, WaSnlnSlonS military poots" Weht above his 'smallclothes,' giving not even an inch of stocking for either story or explanation"
 So 1t was Washington who originated the Jersey mosquito joke The great trouble with his reputation is that he could not rerpetrate even a palpable pleasantly without some impervious gentleman of great responsibility rushing to the rescue with a falsehood, in a frantic attempt to prevent people from seeing the joke.