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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-09
Overnight
FEDERAL
Wireless
To the Advertiser

Efforts. TO unity all the revolution
AIRY factions in Mexico are being
made in FL Paso and representatives
CT the various factions are holding
secret meetings in this city. Agents
/ Of the various NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
parties, including the OroZco govern
ment, are here. Today. through the
efforts OF. secret service officer. the
whole plot was exposed.
The oId-line politicians We're set
thinking yesterday when Il was an
nounced that President Taft had been
! in consultation with President elect
| Wilson in regard to the filling OF
some OF the existing vacancies in the
! government service. in order that
those named for some of the more i'm
! pOrtant posts now may be retained
in office after the new administra-
! ton goes into effect
Representatives of an European
| anti-vivisectiOn society have lodged a
formal protest in Stockholm against
the awarding Of the Nobel Prize to
DR.. Carroll of New York, head of the
! Rockefeller institution. for medical
! research.
! More than twenty thousand skilled
workers in the navy yards through
| out the United States were today
I placed under the protection of the
civil service by executive order of
| President Taft.
} In the Senate today, the cOnsidera-
| ton of the Omnibus Claims Bill was
resumed, and Senator Ciapp intro
duced a bill designed to prohibit the
raising of campaign funds in one
State for use in another common
wealth.
Suffering from several broken ribs,
the Rev. John p NJ. Caulhan, pastor
Rockville, Maryland, is lying today in
local rospital as the result of an
automobile collision. The offending
car and its occupants ran away with
out stopping to assist the clergyman.
Although in its new home some
weeks ago, the Army and Navy Club,
at an early hour today, swept up the
debris, bade goodbye to many of the
guests and entered officially upon its
career in its new headquarters, a
magnificent structure, which here
after will be the home of the fighting
men of the nation who appear in the
capital.
President Taft today made his first
Christmas gift. He promised Repre-
sentative Berger of Milwaukee to
commute the sentence of two years
Imprisonment imposed on Harold A.
Otey, private in the Thirteenth. Com
paRy, Coast ARTILLERY, to make5it ex-
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BORN

STYNE.-Dec s, 1872. 1895 kinau
street, to Mr. and Mrs. d. j. Styne.
a daughter.
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DIED

HonO:Liu. December ),
Thomas Weston. native of Waimea,
Hawaii His remains are row at
Williams undertaking establish.
-ment and will be shipped Wednes
day to Waimea.
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Turkey and Greece are still dodC-
ing naval battle a. the mouth Of
the DardaneIes. 1t Is explained from
ConstantinopIe that the submerged
mines would be effective. and later
learned that the Straits are 50 well
protected as to DEFY any attempt 70
break through.
Prince Victor Napoleon TouapartF
a general IN the Russian army. is
closely following the progress OF the
war IN the near eaSr and is said 20
lave offered his services 10 the
French government in the event Of
France being drawn into an European
engagement
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engagement.
A carpet of snow is on the way
from the valley OF the s.. Lawrence
TO be laid over New York for Kris
kringle on Christmas, SO the New
York weather bureau says. MiStfetOe
has never been so cheap and with
plenty Of Christmas wishes it is tX
pected there will be a bumper croT
Of May brides next spring.
Nine Sarah Bernhardt plans TO do
her Christmas shopping early and
$4,000 worth of gifts for European
notables, including actors, play
Wrights. dukes and ducheSseS. She
will not do her. own shopping, but
will leave the purchasing of the gifts
TO her companion, Mile SaylUr.
The great steel clipper. Erskine NJ.
Phelps has left Philadelphia on her
last voyage to Honolulu and San Fran
cisco as a windjammer. When she
berths al her buoy in the Golden
HdJS, duAlIldI tlSlHeS vii Ub III
stalled to prepare her for faster ser
vice to the Hawaiian Islands and the
Orient, through the Panama Canal.
Another rich gold strike on the
newly found continuation of the third
beach line has been made in the kof
ia claim. Cape Nome. The pay streak
is four feet thick and runs four cents
TO the pan.
1t is stated in Washington that
Manuel Quezon, Filipino delegate to
Congress, has the pledges OF William
]. Bryan, Representative Jones, Of
Virginia, chairman of the committee
on insular affairs. and other prOmi-
nent Democrats. that the Jones bill,
giving the Filipinos complete indie
pendence in eight. years, Will be pass
ed through the house as paramount
issue" despite the fact that Presi.
dent-elect Wilson has not yet com
mitted himself on the question.
All the Catholic churches in Mexico
began a midnight mass this morning,
in conformance with the Papal de-
cree, asking for divine intervention to
settle the troubles in the country due
to the insurrection.
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Especial Cable to Nippu Jiji)


Marquis Masayoshi Matsugata, one
of the five "generos" and an author
ity on Japan's finance, was called in
to a conference today by two other
"genros," Prince Iwao Oyama and
Marquis Kaoru Inouye, in the hope
that Marquis Matsugata might be in
duced to form a new ministry, to save
Japan in the present political crisis.
He declined positively, however, to
accept the premiership and the stu:
alton as to the formation or new
cabinet remains unchanged.
Governor General William Cameron
Forbes will leave Washington for
Seattle, where he will sail for the
Philippines, December 16.
He came out in warm diSapproba
ton of the Jones independence bill.
Governor Forbes says ;nat any talk
of free self-government for the Phil
ippines, beyond the autonomy given
them Under the present administra-
ton, is no good
He had a long conference on Fri
day with President Taft, Erigadier
| General Mcintyre. director of the bu-
reau of insular affairs, and his prede-
cessor, General James Francis Smith,
of San Francisco.
The visit of former King Manuel of
Portugal was in connection with his
engagement to a Russian princess.
He has completely recovered from his
recent severe illness.
Lars Jensen. laborcr, employed on
building under construction at Devils
Lake, Maryland, fell from the third
floor late yesterday when a sCaffold
broke. He was buried beneath the
brick and mortar While his fellow
employees were loudly discussing
whether to call a doctor or not ana
if it would be best to call a coroner,
voice from beneath the debris
shouted: ITO -- with the doctor.
Dig me out" Fifteen minutes later
Jensen was working on another scat
fold apparently uninjured.
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The visit of former King Manuel of
Portugal was in connection with his
engagement to a Russian princess.
He has completely RECOVERED from his
recent severe illness.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10

which surround the two little Midway
Islands. These islands are S,60y miles
from San Francisco and 4,232 miles
from the Philippines. each consisting
of a strip Of land of only a few acres
In area, one being known as Sand Is;
land, or Western Island, and the other
Eastern Island, the cable station be-
Ing located on the former.
In laying a trans-oceanic cable
every possible precaution is taken to
keep the line free from trouble" and
to this end the right of way, II we
might apply such term to the bot
tom of the sea, must contain no eies
ments which will cause undue de.
terioration OF the cable. In this ins
stance, an unforeseen factor has
arisen in the shape of coral reef.
The melton of the water sWaying the
great cable to and fro over the rough
coral surface chafed the insulation
and wires sufficiently to cause tue
break, the cost Of repairing which wit
amount to approximately 100000.
The population Of Sand Island, thef
home OF the cable station, consists Of
20 persons, namely, the erintendent
OF the cable company and his WIFE,.
one chief operator and his wife, Al
physician, cable operators and few
laborers, with two cows, two donkeys,
and some poultry. There Is no gov
ernor, no mayor: not even a con-
stable. It is a law-abiding community
and has no need OF any machinery to
enforce the law. At one time the
United States had few troops there,
but they were Withdrawn In the in
terest Of economy, since their press
ence served no practical purpose.
Before the coming Of the cable sta
ton, the island was totally uninhab-
tied. AS the result of turning loose
two canary birds quite some time age,
the island now has wild feathered
family OF over I'VE hundred songstersl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10

PiAe). An engraving OF the fort shows
1t WIS IN this shape when Sir Fran
els Drake attacked st, Augustine In
1885. The fort was again attackS1l
in 1866 by John Davis, freebooter and
buccancer. The people fed to the
woods while Davis PLACED the town.
Later the fort was rebuilt and named
Fort Marion, now the property OF the
federal government and maintained
chiefly as an interesting antique.
Thousands OF persons visit 1t annually.
IN its early life st. Augustine was
the most cosmopolitan city in the
land and all because Of a mixed col
Ony Of Minorcans. Italians. Greeks and
natives OF southern European coun-
tries brought to the state in 1853 as
laborers for an indigo plantation
owned by English capitalists. They
settled In New Smyrna. but soon re-
belled against their English employ
ers. That probably was the first or
ganized labor strike in North Amer
lea.
Moving to st. Augustine, where
they were allotted land and given pro-
lection, the indigo plantation workers
intermarried with the Spanish and
English residents and their descend
ants form q large proportion of the
population Of the present city.
In 1921 the United States paid
Spain s5,OOO,O00 for the territory Of
Florida and General Andrew Jackson
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10
PuIpIt Rar q Lenaey.

Boulder, Colo.-The $4,000 viii OF
the late John L. Church. wealthy cat
tleman, has been fled for probate in
the county court. This viii include q
$4,000 cash bequest to his wife and
$4,000 to Mrs. A. J. Whiting, a niece.
The remainder is to be divided among
grand-nieces and grand-nephews after
Mrs. Church's death. A peculiar pro-
vision Of the will is that the nephews
forfeit their shares If they become
ministers of the gospel. Mr.. Church
had no deep.rooted feeling against the
clergy, but wanted the boys to follow
business careers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10
STANLEY'S EXpLOI

No explorer before or since has approached the
harvest that Henry M. Stanley reaped (says a
writer in the New York SUM, and no man Of let
ters, soldiers. or scholar has had such single
lecture tour as StanleY's greatest. In something
appearance. For the FIRST night In another group
Of cities he received $1,000 and in stil another
group $500. Travelling in special car upon
which he lived in most places. and accompanied
by four OF five guests. ne ended the tour with 1884,
600 clear Of all expenres. For thar arst night IN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10
ISLANDS AS CABLE STATIONS
Small strips Of Land In Pacific IN
IsabIted BY CHIEF 81 Port and
Several Others.

San Francisco, Cal.-When subj
marine cable. breaks In mid-ocean, ii
would seem to one unfamiliar with
such work that the location Of the
trouble would be a rather hopeless uni
dertaking. This problem was recenti
" presented to the Commercial PA
cific Gable company, when its cable
from San Francisco to China, Japan
and the Philippines refused to oper1
ate. The question was very easily set
tied, however. by the use Of delicate
electrical instruments, which told that
the trouble existed on the coral reefs
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10
NOTED FLORIDA CITY !
st. Augustine Was Once an In
dian Village.
First Colony Established by French
EIuguenots In 1864 Was Raced BY
the spaniards and It's lnhah-
itants Killed.

st. Augustine, tla.-four centuries
ago an indian Town Known e. 0e,oy
stood on the SITE OF what Y now q.
Augustine. On EASIER SUNDAY, 1oA1'
Ponce de Leon spanish eAplorer'
landed tnere N search q 1ne Foun-
tain Of Youth. After ne ana ms men
had doundereu through tne sanoy
swamps OF the vicinity ana tIaMpe0
among the scrup paimetto. pa.nea =
every stream pool ana Mauuho.e tnes
came across. Witnout success, .ney 70
embarked ana tne inulan vll.ase re
manned unmolested Dy White. men Aor
more than nIty years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10
oMITs 4YEs' AND LOSES SUIT


Kansas City, Mo.--An emphatic
'yes" and not smile or a mere nod
of the head must be given Dy the
maiden proposed to In order to covef
damages for breach Of promise to
marry, according to decision in the
circuit court here. Edna M. Cooke OF
this city sued Garnett Sparks. s7Se
Broadway, a horse and mule dealer.
for $4,000 damages, but her attorney
withdrew the case when the evidence
developed the fact that she had not
said yes when Sparks proposed. blu,
took it for granted that he knew
she would marry him
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10

rFluntlng.-By Stradanus.
Arno and the .harbor town on the North Sea did
not interfere in more discouraging manner be-
tween artist and engrayer.
For more than half century that studio in
Florence Of which Stradanus gives US in one OF
his @arts and crafts SERIES called the Nova Re-
perta. characteristic picture, SENS to have gone
on supplying busy hands in distant Antwerp with
material OF the most heterogeneous kind. Saints
and devils, popes and emperors holy legends and
scenes from purgatory, wars and sieges, land bat
ties and naval engagements royal progresses and
peasant fetes hunting, fishing and foWling scenes
galore the horses of all nations the crafts and
trades Of the civilized world. the discoveries Of
Columbus and Vespucci, scientific inventions Of
the day. the working Of the silkworm and scores
of other subjects Of the most diverse nature were
one and all depicted with realism and with q
power Of imagination that really amaze one. It
shows what an extraordinary demand for Illus
trations had suddenly sprung up in the second
half Of the sixteenth century among the nations
Of northern Europe. as they awoke from the intel
lectual stupor that had enchanted them during
medieval times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10

the lewlands and in northern Germany. For prac-
tically all of his drawings were engraved and pub
lished In the former country, as were most 9TH
sers Of similar nature with the exception per-
haps of those OF his pupil, Tempesta, who, living
in Rome, and eyineing like fertility and indus
try had some OF his drawings engraved by Ital-
ians AS edition after edition Of Stradanus' series
were issued BY the Gale brothers Of Antwerp and
eagerly bought up, the circle Of his admirers IN
northern Europe grew ever wider; but there is no
evidence that his work In the picturebook line
ever became very popular in Italy. the country Of
his adoption There his celebrated Naples fres-
Goes for Don Juan of Austria, and his equally
good designs for tapestry for the Medici Grand
Duke. enjoyed far more popularity
Considering the immense difficulties Of trans
portation which then still handicapped all inter
national and especially all transalpine intercom-
munication, It Is rather curious that the formid-
able distance intervening between the city on the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10
chlnese KIN 5000.

Calcutta. The latest version Of the
fighting between the Chinese and IL
betans, which comes from Gyangze. is
that Lhasa Is besieged and is burning.
Two thousand Chinese with Maxim
guns moved down 5000 Tibetans, In
GLIDING many women and children.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10

uicfed as a desperate act OF
selfdefense on the part Of the hardpushed quarry
when the antlered monster charged down upon
him, crushing him to death before he had time
to withdraw his Invaluable flint? That bit Of
boneencased r0ck-What tragedies Of the Stone
Age does It not suggest?
But we have strayed far afeld from the real
purpose Of these lines, which Is none else than
TO make the reader acquainted with the Innings
OF an infinitely less remote age, but which, as
samples Of finished drawings Of sporting scenes,
yet rank among the Oldest we have.
Norentine Of the Florentines, though Flemish
BY birth. for he was born id Bruges in the year
1923, Giovanni della Strada, or to use his Latin
sized name with which he frequently signed his
work, Joannes Stradanus, had acquired by his
apprenticeship to Michael Angelo many Of the
famous artists peculiarities and mannerisms, as
glance at Stradanus, prancing, heavily maned
steeds and giantlimbed men discloses. Strada-
nus was born at most opportune moment. for
felt In the second half Of his century was Great
ing demand which far exceeded the supply. and
though your Bodies and Tschudis, and even ear
lier art critics, Insist that this craving helped
more than any other circumstance to prostitute
art debasing the divine inspiration OF the painter
to common craft it must not be forgotten that
but for men like Stradanus, Theodore de Bry,
Hans Boil the multitudinous Gale family at Ant
Werp, Collaera, Wierx Mallory, Sadeler and Colt
zius, as well as the De Passe family, who all
worked with extraordinary energy In turning out
pictures o. tne gay, our AnoMleose 2. sne oal.y
: fury would be nothing like correct and inti-
nase g I. y nas p.osless' " :.
nlaue - NV
year loo VIZ. lls =
s.u " $500
book Of adventures. and at the prints appertain-
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sue e'sn.snb1 SsneuIy WUuae naye uons wen -
s .l the i.ai'ahissu rismlns mesnou anu
toucnss.
The drawings afford amusing evidence OF the
widespread ignorance which then prevailed IA
connection with certain forms Of sport. Perhaps
the most characteristic in this respect Is the pic
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10

Ing club at the Loo, near Apeldeorn,: which Mr..
Newcome, assisted BY the Duke Of Leeds and Mr..
Stuart Wortley, had formed In the wear 1882.
was dissolved the very year 1t had reached its
majority.
One detail in Stradanus' drawing deserves spe-
cial notice. !. q. the turned-up heads of the two
herons at which hawks are about to STOP. It
shows that the artist fully believed the legend,
sanctioned even BY such late writer's as Walter
Scott thar the heron when hard pressed and
stopped at by the hawk win point his beak up
wards and thus receive the descending enemy
upon Its point, thereby inficting serious injury,
u not killing nm outright According to modern
experts this pretty story has no Foundation in
fact. It seems extraordinary that for centuries
artists went on painting Incidents which they
never could have seen. scores, II not hundreds. Of
pictures OF what was once q favorite and aristo-.
cratic sport depicting this very occurrence
stradanus' prediction for portly men and
women, as well as for steeds Of the cart-horse
type, and for unwieldy fat spaniels and hounds,
betray his Dutch origin. and perhaps also a bust
nesslike desire to please his principal public In
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10
Since Teacher Did Not Know.

Since Teacher Did Not Know.
1t was In the primary class of a graded school
in a western city, and the day was the 22d OF
February.
Now. who can tell me whose birthday this is1"
asked the teacher.
A little girl arose timidly
Well Margaret. you may tell US" said the
teacher.
Nine was the unexpected reply. -Everybody'a
Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-05-10

and the receipts from the lecture were $14.763.
On the other hand Alexander Graham Bell used to
lecture for s25 night in schoolhouses and the
struggling inventor was glad enough Of the fee.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-25
DAYS DOING At
STATE CAPITAL
FIGHT OVER TALLULAH FALLS is
STILL IN PROGRESS OTHER
ATLANTA NEWS.

Atlanta, July 24.-Officials of the
Georgia Railway & Power company
and stockholders in that enter rise.
numbering among them Georgians
who have figured many times before
in the upbuilding Of this state, feel
that they are being most unfairly
dealt with in the recurrence Of the
Tallullah Falls agitation.
Time after time, they say, attacks
have been made on their titlejala all
property, and time after time hey
have been INDICATED. That they
should have to continue to keep on
continually defending a perfectly good
title, they feel, is an injustice which
reflects upon those who are pursuing
the affair and not upon the power
company.
the officials of the company. thru
Jack J Spalding of Atlanta, are pro-
testing most vehementIy against hav-
ing the legislature force the state in
TO a suit. He says that no reputable
aWyers can be found anywhere who
VIII investigate the situation and then
mold that the titles of the power com
pany are invalid. He calls attention
TO the fact that the investigation by
the governor and attorney general
showed this to be true.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-25
Had Valuable Diamond,

Atlanta, July "a Black as the ace
Of spades, Norah Akers, negro wash
erwoman of this city, entered a pawn
shop yesterday afternoon with just
about the finest diamond the ieweler
had seen this year 1t was big and
pure white, worth anywhere from $500
to $500. The jeweler in the pawnshop
recognized its value Immediately.
How much do you want on it?" he
asked of Norah, who had said she
wanted TO pawn it for her mistress.
well, she needs four dollars and
a quarter" said the negress obviously,
"ef she can git that much"
Pretty soon afterward Norah was
in the tolls and confessed that she
had stolen the diamond.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-25

those times, and said that l ought to
have an operation. would not listen to
that, and when friend of my husbands
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham' s Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, l was willing TO take it.
Now look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. l can do all my own house
work, work in the garden and entertain
company and enjoy them, and can walk
as far as any ordinary woman, any day
in the week. wish l could talk to every
suffering woman and girl, and tell them
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has done for me. Mrs.
DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Remember, tie remedy which did this
was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
1t has helped thousands of women who
have been troubled with displacements,
Inflammation, liberation, tumors, irreg-
u,srities, periodic pains, backache, that
bearing down feeling, indigestion, and
nervous prostration, after all other means
nave failed. Why don't you try it?
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-25
DON'T KNOW THEY
HAVE APPENDICITIS

Many Brunswick people who have
chronic appendicitis, which is not
very painful, have doctored for years
for gas on the stomach, sour som
ach or constipation. DR.. E. c. B1ace
states if these people will try simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc, as
compounded in Adler-i-ka, the Ger
man appendicitis remedy, they will
be surprised at the QUICK benefit. A
SINGLE DOSE relieves these troubles
INSTANTLY.-5.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-25
Decision Handed Down.

Atlanta, July PA verbal prom
Use to pay back stolen money is not
binding civil contract in Georgia,
according to decision i~st her ded
down by the state court OF appeals.
The case was one that came up
from Athens. Two boys, sons of C.
j. Wilkins and Frank Burns, took $102
belonging TO Wilkins and spent it.
Barnes agreed to pay back half of it
if Wilkins would agree to keep the
lads out of jail Then Wilkins suel
barnes for the money, but failed to
get a judgment.