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The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26


He was one of the first proselytes of
the Aglipay sect in Cebu, and for sew
eral years was the center of a continu-
ual war with the Catholic Church, which
resulted in bitter feeling between some
of the prominent men of Manila. He
is the author of several plays in the
Cebu dialect, and is responsible in
large degree for the publication of that
dialect, from which, as the result of
his work, many foreign words, phrases,
etc, were thrown out.
On various charges he has been be-
fore the courts of first instance of the
Philippines thirteen times, but has beeh
convicted only once. Since taking up
his residence at Macao, Soto has lost
no opportunity to revive among the
Filipinos the dying spark of rebellion,
taking for his motto g Independence by
whatever means -
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26

the rescued, and upon him depended
the eventual arrangements for the res.
cue of the survivors by the Carpathia.
Ismay, it is said, made proposition
to the Carpathia which was accepted
as soon as he touched the deck of the
Cunard liner, and when the Olympic
arrived few hours later it was forced
to abide by the deal made by Ismay,
which involved the landing of all the
rescued at New York or the nearest
American port as soon as possible.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
Known on Coast.

Captain +. j. Smith, commander of
the Titanic, was well known to old
| time shipping men and mariners on the
Coast. He was here twenty-five years
ago as an officer in the former White
Star liner Coptic, which is now the Pa
cifc Mail steamer Persia, plying in
the transpacifc service.
About 1884, prior to his steady rise
TO the highest command in the great
Atlantic steamship company feet, he
was third officer on the Coptic and
made his home in San Francisco while
in port from the Far East. After a
considerable service on the Pacific,
Captain Smith returned with the Coptic
to the Atlantic, when the liner was
sent home to be reboilered, and re
manned on the other coast assuming
command at different times Of the larg-
est steamships ahoat.
Captain John II. Kinder, now a
broker of San Francisco, who was for
merly in the White Star and Pacific
Mail services, knew the unfortunate
master well and discussed the sterling
traits which resulted in Captain Smith
attaining the high command he held
when fate sent the Titanic and many of
her passengers and crew to their DOOM
}'It was great shock to me to hear
of the awful fate of the Titanic and
those on board, said Captain Kinder,
g for | knew Captain Smith well. Poor
old Ed He has gone to sailor Is
grave after career which was
marked by success and fame. The last
time / saw him was in 1904 when ]
went to New York to bring out the Pa,
cific Mail liner Mongolia. He was
then master of the Majestic. l remem
Der the occasion particularly, because
we recalled old times in the early days
of the White Star line and when mod
ern passenger traffic on the Pacific was
in its infancy. 1t is terrible thing
and even the most experienced of mas
tiers are equally at loss, together
with the landsmen, in attempting tc
explain how such a wonderful vesse
which bid fair to defy the element.
in all their stages should find sepul
chre on the deep sea floor of the great
Atlantic.''
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
DEATH OF BUTT,
BLOW TO TAFT


WASHINGTON, April To-
President Taft is grief stricken
over the probable death of Ma
jor Archibald w. Butt, his mill
tary aide, in the Titanic disas-
ter. The President today kept
his entire staff busy trying to
secure some word of Major Butt.
kilograms and long distance
messages we're sent to every
probable source of information,
but nothing encouraging was
learned.
The friendship between the
President and Major Butt began
when Taft was in the Philip
pines. Military aide to Roose-
welt, President Taft requested
that Major (then Captain) Butt
continue as his aide.
} For more than three years
} they have been companions on
} long trips and in walks about
} the capital. The President
} always called Major Butt
, "Archie. -
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26

by numerous subordinates, this old
man gained the ear of Lord Pirrie. He
told his story and explained his de-
vice. Instead of treating him as an
idle dreamer, Lord Pirrie called in Cas-
Isle, saying:
60 Nothing is impossible until 1T is
tried out And they both bought the
idea at respectable price and tested
it to see if it would work, although
practically certain in their own minds
that it was not feasible 1t turned out
to be one of the many failures of real
ly brainy men-for the old creator Of
this unavoidable unsuitable ship was
really man of great ingenuity and in
ventive worth.
But that is the way these two big
hearted men, Pirrie and Carlisle, work.
No device is too visionary to them be
You'd trial. They are chief among The
mourners of this awful grief of fave
full Cape Race
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
Cash Along Bottom.


"The plates were spreading further
amidships and then it was found that
cash had been torn along the bottom,
and for more than n quarter of its
| length well under water on the weather
! side. Through this great leak the
waters We're flooding the lower decks
and rendering the close watertight
bulkhcads of little avail beyond defer
ring the moment of doom.
"The lifeboats were lowered seem
ingly without mishap, the women and
children were collected and guarded as
they were placed aboard each boat.
There was little confusion, but dull,
sickening overpowering dread-as well
for those who rocked in the little craft
; made woefully diminutive in contrast
with the vast bulk of the ocean mann
moth, huddled in fear together as close
" packed as safety would permit, and
for those who leaned mournfully over
the rail bidding a sad farewell to wife,
mother, sister, child-life.
Bear away ordered the brave
calm officers, and as fast as the suction
would allow willing hands worked at
; the sweeps until the boats drifted.
!. Dream OF Designer.
o "The lost Titanic was the realization
|, of the dreams of Lord Pirrie, head Of
t the great shipbuilding firm Of Hariand
v & Wolff of Belfast, and Alexander NJ
o Carlisle, who actually designed her
And these two leaders of marine arehi.
t lecture have never passed up chance
y to produce greater speed, greater ca
= pacity, increased luxury or safety in
II the building of ships.
Il 81 well remember an incident whicl
& occurred when | was a young reporte
J. in Belfast, and which instances the ex
&c tent to which both these men were an'
d are willing to go to protect the live
|. reposed in the care of their ocean 60
a ing creations.
?, "An old man who had spent clos
G upon three score years working in tn
5, designing shops at the yards of Ban
row, Newcastle and Belfast, evolved
wonderful composite of many separat
ships with safety disloelSing device
le which he said would make absolutel
n impossible the total loss Of liner S
/ built at sea.
''Unsinkable Ship" Tested.
O "AfteT being turned down as Gran
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
Manning the Lifeboats.

"Although Captain Smith and his
brother officers still had ample faith
that the ship would live and weather
it's way to port, every member of the
crew and every ablebodied man who
could be mustered for service was set
to work to prepare the stout lifeboats
for launching and the hands regularly
drilled for "abandon ship" service
were assigned to their respective boats.
"The pumps We're set to work, the
lower quarters tested for leaks, life
belts issued and every precaution TAX
en- for the last extremity. The boats
would each hold two score passengers
with the hands to keep them afloat.
"There were life RATS as an addi-
tional precaution, but little hope of
using them; and while these steps were
being taken to save the lives entrust-
ed to the Titanic Is keeping the ship
was groaning giant S protest against
its increasing wounds.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
TELLS STORY OF TITANIC WRECK
LINER WAS "SHIP OF FATE"
Novelist and Friend of Designer Of Starred Steamer Gives Vivid
Description Of How the Most Awful Marine CatastrOpy of Modern
Times Probably Happened.

++++++++++++++++,
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
Bow Crushed Like Paper Bag.

"What has happened9
GA floating iceberg had rammed the
bow and ripped open the huge plates
forming the sides of the ship, putting
them apart like gigantic blade of
steel impelled by a force of many hun
bred thousands of tons. The Titanic
displaced 10000 tons, and it was rush
ing forward at a speed of about 90
knots-tne berg must have been of
monstrous size to cause the damage
reported.
Gas the officers and crew labored,
very little of the extent of the damage
was then realized.
''The bow was crushed, crumpled like
a paper bag pressed between two palms,
and the forward berths were flooded,
drowning the sleeping before they had
a chance to turn in their hunks. Many
must have been killed by the grinding
guillotine of ice and the heavy masses
of dislocated wreckage.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26

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stare out into the black, dismal night,
seeing nothing but the dire reflections
of their own light. Stern voices of
half dressed officers are heard, enforc.
ing order and restoring confidence.
"'Full speed astern" has been sig
nailed and the bridge mechanism has
been swiftly applied to the watertight
compartments. The passengers are as
sured that the ship can not sink, that
all that is required is calmness and
quiet, hut the women faint and scream,
to brace up and play their parts as
men.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
frantic CRY of "sinking. {"

asThs shriil jingle of the bell on the
Bridge is heard as the ship again
aaivers from stem TO stern, and fran
lie cry goes up;
ssMy God we're sinlSingl"
-easyesgers rush 2 the ssils to
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
HOUSE OF SILENCE
Kept As a Memorial to Dead
Wife.
Hoosfer Home In Which Nothing Has
Been Touched Since tho Death
Angels Visit Three
Decades Ago.

Center, Ind.AThe story, however
strange. Is now SO old that the people
In and about this village have long
ceased to discuss 1t. Occasionally an
elder Of the neighborhood, In driving
with a stranger along the narrow
highway, will point out the House OF
Silence" and in matter-of-fact way
relate It's half forgotten history-the
home that for 80 years or moro to all
the world, save alone It's master, who
lives elsewhere, has been as close
locked as the tomb that for as many
years has held its one-time mistress.
And 80 1t will remain they say until
James Perry Mugg Is laid beside the
wife Of his youth. whose simplest
thing touched by her vanquished hand
he treasures as never miser treasured
boarded gold.
Without the old house is not unlike
scores of the humble structures one
will see in a days drive in the coun-
try, with weatherboarded front and
window lighting either cramped room,
the paint rain-washed and sun-burned
from every board these many years.
But about all is the scar of decay. The
plank step at the doorway crumbles
under the lightest football. The time
stained blinds are close-drawn, shut
ting out every ray Of light. The
swallows and the wasps have nestled
in the caves and In the window lodges
and spiders draw their feathery films
over the unwashed panes. Nearer the
highway the bluegrass lawn has been
close cropped by the grazing cattle.
but about the house the weeds grow
rank and wild At the rear is a de-
tached shed, mounted by dinner bell
in which the sparrows have found
home.
Within not one thing has been
changed since the call Of the death
angel three decades ago On an old
fashioned dressing case such as might
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
DoQ Buried In EIao

Washington, ID. C.-Because United
States soldiers on duty with the aero
nautical corps at College Park. Md,
are reported to have recently buried
dog wrapped in the American flag
Mrs. Isabel Worrall Ball. chairman OF
the Woman's Relief corps national
committee for the prevention OF the
dissertation of the flag, has written
vigorous protest TO Secretary OF War
Stimson
The dog, which was the mascot OF
the aviation school, was accorded a
funeral with full military honors. in
Guiding sounding of taps" In her let
ter to the secretary OF war, in which
she demands that the guilty men be
reprimanded Mrs. Ball brands their
action as "repugnant" and adds:
The symbol of the great power and
authority of the United States is too
lofty thing to be used as a shroud
for a dog"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
A PASTOR so YEARS
Rev. John CoWan in One Church
That Long.
Half a Century Ago a Young Man
Came to a Missouri Community
and Has Been Pastor There
Ever Since.

Fulton, Mo.-Fifty years the pastor
OF one church That is the record of
Rev. DR.. John Fleming Cowan. Re-
Gently the people In northeast Gala
way county entered upon a two-days'
celebration In his honor.
For half century Doctor Cowan has
served the Old Auxvasse Presbyterian
church as pastor. For two score
years and ten he has presided az spir-
itual adviser and servant OF a church
that Is In sense the mother church
OF many OF those now In existence In
this section.
Doctor Cowan came to the Old Aux
vase church as young man OF twen-
ty-four The country was rent with
strife and the lines were sharply
drawn. He was man OF southern be-
liefs and his people were of the same
mind, He fitted into the post and he
has fitted there ever since.
Auvasse church is so-called because
1t stands on high elevation in a big
bend of the Auxvasse river, stream
that derived its name from the
French. 1t is on the highway between
Williamsburg and McCredie, two viii
lagos in the northeast part of Galloway
county. The church was organized
June 30, 1928, by pioneers from Ken
lucky and Virginia Three buildings
have served as meeting places for the
congregation since that time. All OF
them have been modest structures,
The present church Is a frame build
ing and is extremely simple.
Doctor Cowan has been satisfied to
labor among these industrious, honest
and worthy people. His congregation
has been satisfied TO listen to the
plain, yet convincing sermons of the
man who has served them from early
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
Monument to Cherry Victims.

man who had lost his life In the
tragedy, and seated upon the speak
ers' platform were 20 survivors who
were rescued after having been i'm
prisoned one week in the burning
mine. Among the speakers was John
p. White, president of the United
Mine Workers.
Cherry today Is greatly changed
from what it was two years ago
Robbed of one-half of its male inhab-
itants almost in the twinkling of the
eye, the town was crushed for a time
but has since been slowly recovering
thanks to the liberality of the Ameri-
can nation.
The sum of $316,424 was contributed
for the relief of the widows and
fatherless children. The Illinois leg
islature appropriated 100000. Up to
June ], 1911, the commission in
charge had distributed ISL ,49S, leav-
ing most of the remainder in trust
as a pension fund for the relief Of
those robbed of their bread winners.
Relief was afforded every widow and
every dependent child, and they will
be taken care OF for life if necessary.
Placed on a cash basis, no greater
charitable work has ever been ac-
complished, nor has any relief move
ment been handled as economically
or as successfully.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
STONE AGE IN PRESENT DAY
Interesting Discoveries We're Made by
Explorer ErIand NordenskioId
in Bolivia.

The explorer, Erland Nordenskiold,
in the course of an photographic and
archaeological exploration OF Bolivia.
in 1908 and 1909, found districts in
habited by Indians who are still liv-
ing in the age of wood and stone. Be-
cause of the scarcity of stone in the
Chaoc region, the natives of the banks
OF the Pilcomayo river do not possess
even stone implements. but employ
bone and hard wood as the material
of knives, saws. avis, needles, and
spades. The virgin and unexplored
forests of the province of Sara are
the home OF entirely wild and uncivi-
lied Indians, caller Siriones, who
have no friendly intercourse with
their white neighbors. II is not even
known whether they form a single
tribe or a number of tribes. This
part OF Bolivia presents the extraor-
binary phenomenon OF natives still
living in the stone age within a few
miles of places which have been i'm.
habited by white men during several
centuries. Nordenskiold obtained vari-
Gus implements which had been cap
tured in primitive expeditions direct.
ed by the whites against the maraud.
ing Siriones. but he was not able TO
come into contact with these interest.
ing aborigines.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29

well awaken envy in the lover OF the
antique, lies copy Of Christian
Hymns" and by it's side an open
Bible. used. doubtless, in the sad rites.
Hung over the back of a mohair-
cushioned chair a shawl of some fine
fabric is fast falling to pieces. On the
table by the side Of the shaded lamp
sits work-basket, with the spools of
cotton, its needles and skeins of yarn.
On a wall shelf the dishes are ar
ranged just as they were left after the
final meal. BY a peg on the wall a
sunbonnet had hung, but the strings
have rotted away and it has fallen
to the floor. A broom stands in the
corner, having swept the now faded
rag carpet the last time when hands
now folded upon a pulseless bosom
were vigorous and strong And by the
table with its shaded lamp, it's work
basket and few simple books, is a
child's rush-bottomed rocking chair.
How II links the dead past with the
living present! Out with the thresh-
ers in one of the fields of the 60 odd
acres which James Perry Mugg holds
here, is a stalwart young man. sing
Ing as he thrusts the yellow sheaves
into the greedy nav of the noisy ma
chine. II was he who sat in the rush
bottomed chair and heard the stories
or the dust-covered books from his
mothers lips.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29

youth until the declining years of his
life. Nowhere in this section is a
community of better people and no
where is there a man of the cloth
who has followed nearer in the foot
steps of the man whose teachings he
has endeavored to emulate than Doc
tor Cowan. Idealism has been dem
onstrated in its fullest sense
When the preachers of the pioneer
days came to serve the congregation
at Old Auxvasse they found a church
built OF logs. In 1910 a church of
brick was erected. Then In 1870 came
the building that is still serving as
the home Of worship.
Doctor Cowan was born at Potosi,
Mo-, March 8, 1887. Much of his early
education was gained through his ia
Their, Rev. John +. Cowan. one OF the
early Presbyterian ministers of the
state. He graduated from Westmin-
ster college In 1858 and then took a
theological course at Princeton Semi
nary, completing his work there In
1861.
Rev. Mr.. Cowan lived in the coun-
try near the church until his wife died
and his daughter married. His wife
was Miss Jane Grant, a native Of Cal
laway county. In 1888 Mr.. Cowan
moved TO Fulton, where he is teaching
modern languages In Westminster col
lege. These new duties did not lessen
his love for the pastoral work OF the
Old Auxvasse church and he contin-
ued in the pastorate.
He has preached to the congregation
of the Old Auxvasse church $500
times. In other churches during re-
vival meetings and occasional visits
he has preacher 1900 times. He has
conducted fifty revival meetings in
various churches.
To the Auxvasse church during the
fifty years of his pastorate $50 MEM
bers have been added. 200 children
have been baptized and 24O couples
have been married. One hundred and
thirty-seven members of the congrega-
ton have died during that period and
Doctor Cowan has conducted their flu
nerals. OF this number SO were men
and " women.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL.
Health is Worth Saving, and Some
Alma People Know How
TO Save 1t.

Many Alma people take their lives
in their hands by neglecting the kid
neys when they know these organs
need help. Sick kidneys are respon-
slble for vast amount of suffering
and i'll health, but there is no need to
suffer nor TO remain in danger when
most all diseases and aches and pains
due to weak kidneys can be quickly
relieved by the use of Doan's Kidney
Pills. Here is an Alma citizens re-
commendation
Mrs. J. +. Sarton, POI Lincoln ave,
Alma, Mich, says: 81 was greatly
benefited by Doan's Kidney Pills
and therefore, do not hesitate to re-
commend them. was troubled Sc
gerely by dull, nagging backaches and
sometimes | had acute pains through
my kidneys The contents OF two
boxes OF Doan's Kidney Pills gave
me relief and helped me in every way
| have had no aches or pains since l
first took the remedy"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo.
New York. sole agents for the Uni
ted States
Remember the name-Doan'.-a
take no other
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
ST. LOUIS.

Tie Union Trust Co., of Detroit.
were awarded the $4,000 bond issue.
voted by the school district last De
cember. Ont OF eight bids received
Friday, the above named company
offered the best bid and was accepted
They pay a premium of $4,000 tax
ing bonds AT par and paying accrued
interest
Ward Mcintyre very pleasantly en-
tertained the young peoples Sunday
school classes OF Rev and Mrs. Drake
OF the Presbyterian church at his
home last Friday evening. About
thirty were present. Game, were
played and musical rendered by
those guests who were talented along
those lines. y large tcn-pound boX
OF dclicjou, chocolate, ON the table i'm
the center Of the room was great
attraction and was much enjoyed by
all. Ice cream and cake were also
served As refreshments
According TO the Detroit Free Pres,
OF last Thursday am cNcitcd runaway
horse that was free from il, load
made for the door OF Scitncr Bros.
department store I'm Flint Before the
animal could be stopped it had
smashed the front door of the store
in and had begun operations ON the
interior. One woman wa, injured
and several people knocked down
General connection OF clerks and
shoppers prevailed through the store
until the cause of the disturbance was
quietly led out from the rear of the
store. where it had made it, way to
its proper place in life. Seitner Bros.
are we'll known in this city having
been engaged in business, here a few
years ago.-Lcader
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
INDUSTRY 20
AND TT / ~
,fl[ClANIJ hb4I
DEVICE FOR CUTTING WASHER
Bit for Carpenters Brace, Arranged by
Connecticut Man, to Cut Out Any
Sized Article.

An ingenious device for cutting out
washers has been invented by a Con.
necticut man. II is in the form OF a
carpenters bit, and when inserted in
A brace carves washer out of piece
OF leather in less time than IN takes TO
tell The bit broadens at the bottom,
and has pivotal spike running down
from the center 10 form an axis on
which it revolves. There are two hor.
izonlal slots 1T the bottom, through
each OF which runs a screw which reg.
ulates cutting spike. There is al.
so a rule beneath these slots in or.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-02-29
HERE'S A NEW KIND OF JAG
Department Of Agriculture Asserts
That II Turks In Some South
ern Watermelons.

Washington.-The department Of
agriculture asserts that there is a
concealed jag in some of the south
ern watermelons. 1t requires some
labor and scientific knowledge to ex-
tract it, but out of every 100 pounds
of melons the government chemists
have made one-tenth Of a gallon Of
alcohol.
They have also succeeded in ex-
tracing a very good quality of al
cohol from the sweet potato, and IL
is expected that these two vegetables
can be turned to a good profit in the
manufacture Of denatured alcohol for