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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-18
LOTT CALLS GOD
INFINITE PITY

PARIS, January G.-Pierre Lott, the
famous French naval officer and nov
elist, announces In ILLUSTRATION, that
he has taken his last voyage, making
this confession after having passed
more than forty years at ports in all
parts Of the world. The author Of
'Pecheur dIslande," the novel which
still is considered the most popular
French masterpiece, writes from his
country house, where he expects to
dream away his remaining years, that
the only thing of value he has brought
back from his numberless pilgrimages
is philosophical conception of God
as a being of infinite pity.
How many distracted places of
alteration have found along the
way" writes Lott, each answering a
particular form of human anguish
how many pagodas, mosques and
cathedrals where the same prayer
arises from the most diverse souls!
Such an ensemble of supplication and
burning tears implies almost a uni
versal confidence that God could for
give. God of pity Certainly | do not
pretend that this is something new.
only desire to add my testimony to
that of millions of others because,
perhaps, it is awaited by some of my
fellow beings.
I'm proportion as the centuries have
first imagined by men gradually have
given place to sweeter, less coarse
and undoubtedly less inaccurate con-
ceptions In proportion as we pity
one another, the fraternal pity
preached by Buddha and Jesus Christ
has made way amid the more Zero
notion has become stronger within us
that somewhere there must be su.
premO pity to hear our cries. Thus
the sanctuariea have become more
and more places of Supplicstion and
tears.
81 incline moro and more to belief
in and stretch out my arm to this
Sovereign Pity, because l have suf-
/ fered too much under all skies amid
entertainments or horrors and have
seen too much suffering, weeping and
praying.
/ Despite fluctuations and viccissi.
tudes, despite reVolts caused by mar
row dogmas and exclusive formulas.
one feels that this Supreme Pity is
affirmed more now than ever.
ut is true that in our days there is
a layer of half intelligent, quarter in
structed persons whom the present
social scheme makes rise to the sur
face and who, in the name of science,
wander uncomprehendingly toward
the most imbecile materialism. But
in the continuous evolution the reign
of such poor beings will be merely
negligible episode of slipping back.
THE Supreme Pity toward which
we extend desperate hands must ex.
list, whatever it is called; it some
where must be capable OF understand
ing at the moment death separates us,
D our clamor and our infinite distress.
y Otherwise the creation, which no lon
ger is reasonably attributed to an act
OF Inconsistencies, would be cruelty
l. inconceivable, because too odiOus and
r cowardly. From countless voyages,
II futile and serious this weak argu'
L ment, so far from new, is the only
n thing of worth | have brought back.
D. No "MaItsr az the Silent sarbe
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-18
Suggests Aids to Alaska.

In discussing conservation in Alas
ka Senator La Toilette declared that
to permit the Morgan-Guggenheim
combination to remain in control of
the railroads of Alaska would mean
all the men lured there with shovel
and pack would in the end be com
pletely at the mercy of Morgan and
Guggenheims.
OF the remedy he said:
The sensible and practical thing
to do is to create a board of public
works for Alaska, similar to the 18th
milan canal commission. This board
of public works should undertake not
merely to build a railroad for Con
troller Bay to the coal fields, but it
should acquire all the railroads in
Alaska and settle at once the policy
of government ownership 1t should
similarly provide for the development
of other public utilities, such as the
telegraph and telephone. 1t should
operate and develop the wharves and
docks and steamship lines, if neces.
sary to deliver the products of Alaska
to the Pacific coast" he said
Jones and MagiI Talk.
State Senator Walter Clyde Jones
the Jones-Merriam progressive candi
date for the governorship nomination
denounced Cannon as "standpatter'
and reactionary and told of how Can
non went to Springfield and kept out
of the primary law a direct vote on
presidential nominations. State Sen
ator Hugh s. Magill of Princeton, the
senatorial aspirant, spoke also.
From here Senator La Toilette Went
to Indiana for two speeches. This
afternoon he talked at Terre Hautt
and tonight he will make an address
at Richmond.
Addresses 1o,35o in Three Days.
On the three days OF the Illinois
tour Senator La Toilette talked to I
total of lO,35O people. 1t is estimated
he addressed 1850 yesterday at eigh
- meetings. The first day he spoke t,
D 44OO, say the estimators of the crowds
e The attendance at the meetings yes
t terday and today was divided thus
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-18
ADVICE ron OLD AND YOUNG.

Don't Tihe with a cold is good ad-
vice for prudent men and women. Il
may be vital in case of child There
is nothing better than Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for coughs and colds
in children. 1t is safe and sure, For
sale by all dealers. Benson, Smith &
Co, agents for Hawaii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-18

No "waIts" at the Silent Barber
6bop. Six chairs and elk hrSt-elass
sarberS.
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pastor of the Dutch Reformed church of nent New York lawyers; the Rev. Dennis H. ODowd of Rockville Center. Dr. Dil- worth of Bedford Park; Capt. George A. White, assistant general manager of the line, and famous as a boat builder; Dr. John Wyckholff of New York; pr. Stew art Piper of Atlanta, Ga.; Dr. E. s. Bar ney, trustee of the Union Theological col lege and president of the Hebrew Tech nical Institute of New York; the Rev. George Mooney of New York, Dr. Albert Reese of New York and hundreds ok others.
 | Young Belcher was not content with just selling things to passengers. He read everything he could find that bore upon the history of the Hudson river. He got to love the stream. Its beauty and its majesty impressed him deeply. When he talked with customers about the river he naturally influenced them by his fervor and his enthusiasm. He was proud of his work and never tired of it. When he had to stop his summer work and return to his university it was with regret. The next summer he was back to the Day Line again. This time 1t was as bag gage master. You would not suppose there was much to stir the imagination in wrestling with baggage, but Belcher found plenty. Each man, each woman, each child afforded a separate study. He had to be very patient People are apt to be querulous when they want atten- ton, and there are a lot of others who want their baggage looked after at the same time. He had to be courteous In tha extreme. he had to use the right word al
 ways at the right time. he had to be quick of hand and quick of eye, and he | had to be accurate-unusually accurate
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ing his way through to an education. The ticket collectors were college youths, the baggage handlers were college boys. the coatroom caretakers were university stu dents; the cashier of the lunch room was attending college, so was the cashier of the dining room, so was the purser, so were the ticket checkers. Even the col ored men who served the diners were working their way through Tuskegee or Hampton.
 This system was inaugurated many years ago by Commodore Van Santvoord, the father of the line. It was his aim to help young men to help themselves, and it did not end with giving work to the young men. Each and every employe was considered one of the family. The off cers made it their business to win the friendship of the young men and learn all about their conditions and their aspi- rations. They told them of the men who had served the company in similar posi- tions to those now filled by the boys. and how they had climbed to places of prom thence in the world of affairs.
 Each and every one of them had worked his way through college by working In summer on the companys boats. It Is a wonderful list that makes up the alumni of the Day Line. It includes Arthur F. Holding, probably the most brilliant K ray specialist in America today; Richard B. Aldcroft of the board of education of New York; Arthur L. Scherer, insurance specialist and son of the manager of the New York Clearing House; the Rev. Will liam Vaughn of the Troy conference; Halsey Sayles. law partner of John B. Stanchfeld pr. E. F. Pickford, one of the leading physicians of Washington. D. C.; the Rev. Charles B. Mallery of Rhinebeck, N. Y.; the Rev. Floyd Decker,
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had four brothers who were better all around athletes than those four Belcher boys. They were good at everything. They delighted in work and they delighted in play Frank was not content with the regular four year course, but when ne completed his regular studies and was graduated he took the law course in addi- ton. Her was in the university six or seven years and he was with the Day Line six or seven summers. There was hardly a position for young man work
 ing his way through college that he could fill aboard the boat that he was not placed in.
 He acted as ticket collector and as ticket checker. He was employed for time in the coatroom; he worked in the lunchroom; he saw s<rvlce below deck. So did his brothers. The work was good, honest, satisfying. There was nothing menial about It. There were no tips. They were part of the staff. They met all classes of people and had all sorts Of ex- perences. They learned more than they knew and were becoming better fitted for the struggle of after life than they appre- ciated
 They had helped themselves and had helped their family. Meanwhile their father and mother and the other children had come to New York. With the family established here and his own university course ended, Frank had a desire to go west He went as far as he could-from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He Is in Cal ifornia today. He is only 32, but he has made his mark. He Is vice president of the First National Bank of San Diego and one of the three commissioners of the | Panama Exposition that is to be held In
 that city. He is chairman of the finance committee of the exposition. and Is head
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Hardly had he attained this distinction
 when his brother, Benjamin. was entered
 at the university Benjamin was an ath-
 lete, too. He was a fair sort of a. stu-
 dent, but, like Frank, not brilliant. He
 did not win any particular honors, but
 just plugged along earnestly. He did his
 tasks honestly and well. That is as much
 as can be expected of any one The
 brothers had to be very economical. The fathers salary did not permit the young men having much In the way of luxurles. In the early summer Frank went back to the Day Line and Benjamin went with
 him. Benjamin got the spirit of the river | and the spirit of the Day Line school.
 They made $40 month apiece and were | Tightening the burden of their father. | Frank acted as cashier in the dining | room. He had to be quick of eye and quick | of hand He had to know how to handle money and make no mistakes. The work was lighter and possibly more congenial than that he had In previous years, and 1t added just so much to his experience.
 | When the brothers returned to college | that fall, there was another Belcher to be added to the university roll. The third brother, Ward, had entered. Like | the other two, he was a mighty good | athlete and just a fair student H. fol- | lowed the example of the other two and | entered the Day Line service also. The | steamboat people were proud of the four brothers and so were the university au. | thorities Everybody was proud of them.
 except the athletes of the colleges and
 universities that bueked up against the
 New York. Every time New York won
 a competition the excuse the defeated lot | had to offer was that they could beat New York only for the Belchers.
 No university in America probably ever
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or there would be no end of complications. It was hot work and 1t was hard work. There was no praise, but there was no end of blame if anything went wrong. The only satisfaction was in doing tho work well,
 He got $40 a month as bagge master. It
 was a little more than he had been get
 ting. and it gave an opportunity to him to save a few extra dollars toward the cost of winter.
 He found joy in having things work out exactly right every day. When, by | chance, he mado mistake. he would not | give himself any rest until he had recti-
 fled the error The fa,Nt being his, 1t was l his to correct, no matter what 1t cost In
 time or money. That was the principle | by which he was guided. If a bit of bag | gage was missing when the boat reached | Albany or when the boat reached New | York and he could not get trace Of 1t otherwise, he would hurry to train and | go to the other end of the line and trace
 1t up. Mistakes of this sort did not hap | pen often. The penalty he imposed upon himself made him all the more careful. | Before the season was over he was as &C., | curate as human could be-
 | In the fall he went back to the uni
 versity. He could go at his work there | with relish, for the summer on the river ] had been a good deal of grind. Hand | ling baggage fitted him for one thing in
 the university. He was great for physi- | cal development. The things he could do
 on horizontal bar were circus-like in
 character. Inaddition to the gymnasium
 work he could run, jump, put-the-shot
 row, play football. tennis or lacrosse With | the best of the students. In a little while | he became known as the best all round l athlete in the New York university
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while the Comtesse followed the lead of the older woman. Both became members
 of La Boulie. Pau and Deauville clubs. Both went strenuously to work to get form, both struggled with lessons and practiced asiduously and both achieved a certain amount of success.
 Society was at first mildly amused and interested in their enthusiasm, then grad ually other smart women commenced to follow the lead of these pioneers and ''le golf' became the fashion. Now 1t is a craze with French women well as French men, and next to Great Britain
 and Che United States France is now fore most of the golflng nations and has begun to produce excellent players.
 The most fashionable and popular club
 near Paris is La Boulie, at Versailles. It
 has 750 members, including some English and Americans. The entrance fees and
 subscriptions are very high and the club
 is one of the richest in the world.
 Large sums of money have been spent
 upon the course, which is very hilly, but
 of fine length, with good holes. Thou
 sands of tons of sea sand have been brought in from the coast and spread for the betterment of the turf. The club
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Ministers have said on the subject:
 And thus God teaches us the impo-
 tence of man" But this conclusion does
 not satisfy. It is an old. old lesson
 learned ages ago when the tower of
 Babel was destroyed. It Is an injus-
 tice to Gods love and to mans hu-
 mility to think that our lesson ends
 there. This is an age of constructive
 science. God would not teach us our
 weaknesses without. at the same time.
 adding an element of comfort and en-
 couragement. The real lesson of the
 Titanic Is one which teaches us mans
 strength and glory and nearness to
 God
 "The greatest achievement of this
 age" says one of our country's pro-
 foundest thinkers. "is the wonderful
 and beautiful growth of the esthetic
 spirit. Men no longer limit their sym
 pathy to the joys and sorrows of their
 own family, friends or state. They
 have developed a. feeling of love and the human race, regardless of who he Is or whether he lives in this or the other end of the world" The great charitable movements and efforts to- ward social reform are indications of the unrest of the stronger spirits who are recognizing the needs of the weak CT ones. Of course we can see much IS
 easy to talk about "the good old times" because time eradicates the remem- brance of evil; but even the minds most lacking in faith need no longer doubt that the world Is better today than 1t has ever been--that today men are pos
 sessed of a splendid spiritual courage in addition to the physical bravery Of earlier ages.
 The following is taken from Jean Ingelow's writings:
 "Christ founded a society the peculiar ity of which Is that 1t was intended to include the whole human race. It was based on a passion of the same nature | as patriotism. but without It's exclusive ness. There Is a fellow feeling, yearn- ing of kindness toward human being as such, which is not dependent upon | the character of the particular human being who excites it.
 'It is a natural passion and 1t was this passion upon which Christ seized and, | treating it as the root of morality in | human nature, trained and developed 1t into the Christian spirit-Christ who expected ultimately to gather all man | kind into his society. did not expect | to do so soon. This commonwealth de- veloped from first principles has been realized on a grand scale.'
 Of course the creed which makes hu- man nature richer and larger. makes | men at the same time capable of pro- | founder sins. hypocrisy has become ten- l fold more ingenious and better sup piled with disguises in short, human nature has inevitably developed down. ward as we'll as upward, but the tri- umph is that the good so strongly pre- dominates.
 | It is this proof that the passing of | the Titanic has given us. We were put to the supreme test and were not found wanting. I say i've" because the l heroes of the Titanic were plain men
 and women like ourselves, and we
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TT has been remarked more than once
 that clergymen with small salaries \ usually are blessed with large fami- lies. It was so with the Rev. Frank J. Belcher Every one in the Newburg and Poughkeepsie district knows the Rev. MT. Belcher. He has five sons and two daugh- ters, It was his hope to give each of them a university education. How he &C., compished 1t is a typical story of Amer ican endeavor. How his sons aided him and aided themselves is a story of inspira- ton to youth.
 There is a great seat of learning here in the metropolis. It is the New York university. One day Frank J. Belcher, Jr, was enrolled there as a student He was the eldest son, ana had to show the way to the others. The father, by the most rigid economy. had made provision for the first winter course, but when that closed the young man had to become a bread winner. Somehow he had learned of 6 way in which he could earn money during the summer. He got job on one of the Hudson River Day Line boats. Wallace Bruce who has the news stand privilege, employed him. The young man was to sell papers, magazines, souvenirs. post cards, books descriptive of the Hud- son and various other articles. The job dlu not pay mucH, Sf or 20 Week, pei- haps. But he had his board free and his room free. All the expenses that he had to defray was for his laundry.
 There was nothing brilliant about ths young man. He was not a genius. But he was hard worker He did not know and probably few persons know-that the Day Line is the greatest floating business school in the world, and that its alumni number approximately the largest per- centage of successful men of any institu- ton of training in America. In his first years course in the New York university the young man won no scholarship prizes mo honors. He was just plugger.
 But he won honors on the boat. He had to study human nature and he had to an- swer innumerable questions. He had to acquaint himself with every point of in- terest along the river, know the history of the romance of that majestic stream, become an encyclopedia of information, a guide and salesman. He had good teacher. Wallace Bruce-next to Wash ington Irving-has gathered more of the lore of the Hudson than any other man. He is steeped in it's history. and he found an apt pupil in young Belcher.
 Tending a news stand on steamboat would not seem to be an occupation of much interest. But to young Belcher it had infinite variety. He found that there were dozen or more eager young men like himself working on the vessel Near ly every employe was a college boy, work
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of one of the biggest realty corporations | in the Golden State. His brother, Ben- | jamin, is a physician at Yonkers. His | brother, Ward, Is one of the officers of | the Benjamin Moore Paint company or | Brooklyn. His brother George is a civil | engineer at Hackensack, N J. There IS | still another brother coming on. AS soon | as he is of proper age he is to go to the New York university and then the Day | Line expects to get him, as they got ms
 other four brothers.
 l The New York university does not play | such prominent part in athletics today | as it did in former years The athletes of | the other universities do not find it so hard to beat. They have not got the | Belchers to buck up against.
 | Over in the thickly settled East Side | of New York thin, wiry clergyman,
 past middle life. works among the poor. | It is the Rev. Frank J. Belcher, father l of the five Belcher boys and the two
 Belcher girls. He is superintendent of the | Five Points Mission. Once year he and
 mother go across the continent to visit | their first born.
 One of these fine days the Day Line
 probably will bring together all of it's | alumni It keeps track of each and every | one of them In carefully bound books | 1t has records of each year, showing
 where this boy, who was working his way
 through colloge, worked in the lunchroom, at the newspaper stand, in the coatroom.
 in the dining room, as ticket collector, as
 ticket checker, as baggage master or as purser. Probably all will be invited as
 guests on the first trip of the Washington | Irving, the monster new vessel which Captain White, member of the alumni Is building. and which will be city in itself,
 having accommodations for coco persons. l Copyright, 1912. by Richard Spillane)
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house is the last word in luxury and
 there Is ample accommodation in the din | ing room for members who wish to dine. | sup or have tea there.
 | There are some smaller courses near | Paris which are we'll patronized by women also. while many women are mem bers of the clubs at Pau. Deauvlle. Le
 Touquet. St. Jean de Luz, Dinard and Boulogne.
 The French woman has never had to
 struggle for the privilege of playing at mems clubs as her English sisters have had to do, and, unlike them also, she has
 never formed golf clubs exclusively for members of her own sex. When she .ex- pressed a desire to golf the Frenchman urged her to join his club and play over his corse at any and all times, and she consented
 On the whole. one cannot be very en- thusiastic about the French womans golf.
 She takes 1t very seriously herself, but she never gets very far and she certainly overdreses the part outrageously
 She thinks she wears sporting attire and to and from the golf clubs she dis creetly covers 1t with silken or velvet or fur cloak, but her skirt, though short.