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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-19
ARE PLANNING TRIP
TO TREASURE ISLAND
German Syndicate Trying to
Charter Victoria Schooner
for CocoS Cache

Arrangements are unQer way TO
start another vessel from Victoria in
search of the far-famed Cocos Islands
treasure, which has been sought for
many years by treasure huntes from
all paras of the world says the Van
couver Sun. Negotiations are being
carried on with Captain ]. w. Peppett,
owner of the sealing schooner Pescaw-
ha, by German syndicate to search
for the gold and jewels said to have
been cached on the island by the
Nova Scotia bark Mary Dier. The
owner of the Pescawha has been en-
deavoriRg to sell his vessel, but If
the deal is not put through he con-
siders 1t likely that he will charter
her for the treasure hunt.
If the negotiations to secure the
Pescawha for the voyage to Cocos
island are successful, the schooner
will be the sixth vessel that has gone
from this port on similar errand.
among them being two of H. M. war
ships, the cruiser Imperieuse and Am
phion. The sealing schooner Aurora,
one of the fleet offered for sale on
Wednesday,, was another, and the
brigantine Blakeley went from here.
The sailing of the Imperieuse and
Amphion was incident to South Sea
cruise made by the Esqaimalt vessel
soon after the arrival the Aurora.
Among those who came from Cocos
island on the schooner was Mr.. Hart
ford, who had been seeking the buried
millions, and his tale fired. the late
Admiral Palliser with the desire to
search so much that when his vessels
were ordered south he went to the
island and landed Lieutenant Lee ana
100 men from the Amphion to delve
for the treasure. He left the navy
afterward and organized an expedi-
ton from Great Britain, headed by
EARL Fitzwilliam, in the steamer
Veronique.
The treasure for which so MANY
expeditions have sought is said to con-
sist of gold and silver and jewels, the
treasure placed on board the Nova
Scotia barque Mary Dier at Lima,
Peru, when investment of that city
was imminent by the Chilians during
the war between Chill and Peru. The
treasure included same large golden
statues from the Lima cathedral. The
barque, in command of Captain
Thompson, is stated to have sailed
away with the treasure and buried it
on Cocos island.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-19
"ROPEv HORSESHOES
PREVENT SLIPPING

WASHINGTON, June 29.-"Owing
to the rapid increase in the mileage of
streets paved with asphalt and wood
blocks" says u. s. Consular Assistant
Dreyfus Jr., who is stationed in Ber-
lin, and to the congestion of traffic
in large cities, it was found necessary
to afford greater safety to horses to
prevent their slipping and, to enable
them to come to quick stop. This
has been accomplished by fitting them
with rope horseshoe.
Various forms and shapes of shoes
are used. Some are open in the back,
like the ordinary horseshoes. Others
are closed; and very often, besides be-
ing closed, there is a bridge or cross
piece joining the two sides. When this
is the case the bridge is constructed
like the rest of the shoe, inclusing a
tarred rope. The latest novelty.
which has been adopted by the royal
stables, is the insertion at the back
of the shoe of a block of wood into
which stiff bristless have been driven.
This is an additional preventative
against slipping. When the ground is
covered with snow. special ice plate
is inserted in its stead"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-19
FIRES OF REVOLT
in PORTUGAL

LISBON, July An Portugal at the
present moment is a seething volcano
of political corruption. petty tyranny.
monarchical cohspiracies, and active
preparations for an early revolt against
republican government, which, it is
conceded by many of its erstwhile
supporters, has utterly failed in It's
purpose.
Every promise made by the Repub-
lican leaders as justification for the
change from the old regime has either
been broken or ignored. Instead of
reduced taxation and better conditions
generally, the Portuguese people find
that taxes have been practically dou-
bled, with consequent increase in the
cost of living, while personal liberty
is dependent upon the personal prowess
OF the subject.
The revenues raised by the Repub-
hcan government have. been spent
chiefly in establishing more or less
disguised form of military rule, with
large attachments of troops stationed
at every point where opposition is even
suspected. Many of the wise ones in
Lisbon do not hesitate to say that a
goodly share of the money wrung from
the people by extra taxation has found
its way into the pockets of some of
the political leaders, especially those
connected with the Carbonate, a Sc
cret organization that has brought
about veritable reign of terror, the
tyranny of which is most keenly felt
in the country districts. where the pro-
lection of life and property has little,
IL any, government aid
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-19
HEAR The LIGHT.

According to an exchange, Fourier
Dalbe, French inventor, declares he
can make light audible. He has in
venter what he calls an otophone. A
London newsnaperman who was In
yited to test the instrument, says he
could distinctly hear through its high
~ sensitive receivers a rasping sound
made by an electric. light. Mr. Delbe
declares that the moon is quite audible
and that the sun roars like cataract
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-19

Everything in the printing line at
star Bulletin, Alakea street; branch,
Merchant street.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-19
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MA and New York; NOTARY PUB
Llcj Grants Marriage Licenses. Draws
Mortgages, Deeds, Bills Of Sale.
Leases, Wills. etc. Attorney for the
District Courts. 70 MERCHANT ST.
HONOLULU, Phone 1916.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-19
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Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
No DOUBT ABOUT CONNECTICUT

Connecticurs attitude was fully as well expressed in the state conven- tion Wednesday as if it had been done b. preferential primaries. From cor ner to corner of the commonwealth the clamor fs for the renomination nRd reelection Of President Taft There is no doubt about Connecticuts position and there never has been. The mere suggestion of Roosevelts name called for misses and cries of opposition. which fully showed the states pulse just as truly as the pri- maries would have done in this in- stance. Connecticut will send an instructed delegation barring two, but all fourteen will vote for Taft. The expression of the state convention cannot be overlooked lu fact in these parious times. the precaution was a wise one that the state delegation re- ceived instructions. All are men who can be relied upon to do as the state desires. but with the Coloners policy of claiming everything not tied down or declaring them contested the only safe course in helping the Taft cause was pursued.
 This makes 20 delegates in New England, including the Vermont six, for Taft Rhode Island will throw It's ten to the president and n New Hampshire and Massachusetts the fight is on The committees favor Taft, and !, IS believed that the close of the month will find them in the Taft column. The latter state has gone on record for progressive legislation. but not of character which is beyond sane progression. for which President Taft stands and has steadily been working IL is a significant fact that Roosevelt has declined 10 accept the challenge of Congressman Gardner of Massachusetts to an open debate on the issues Of the campaign. In att lacking the eN-president from the floor pr the house the congressman was romplimenJed on his able handling of the subject and he would prove a bad adversary for the Colonel it is in ferred. when campaign issues alone are discussed
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
A WOMAN CHIEF.

In naming Miss Julia C. Lathrop as the chief Of the chidreus bureau in the department of commerce and la- bor. President Taft has made a new departure. Bureaus have been esta6- lished before. but this Is The first time a woman has been placed at the head 0f one. Miss LathrOp has been se- lected because of excellent quaIiHca- tons for the office and is almost as prominent in her line of work as Jane Add1us. Miss Lathr0p has done great things for Illinois in the way of charity reforms. cbaritids and cor rect.ons being the line in which she made successful appeals to the Illinois legislature for better conditions. She was Instrumental in securing fuve- nile court law and by her experience and familiarity with children. their condition and needs are well under stood. SO that her new work will sim ply le an extension Of it's scope over a much larger territory for the great CT benefit of the various communities which have 10 deal with the child problem. and there are none but what are interested in some phase
 The prestdcnt has chosen well. and it gives Miss La,hrop the opportun- ity within the provisions of the bill af es-s1ishIne u9ri0ns information a.reNl relative to the welfare of the .sd frH woman ean be eH- .ue as chief within ne power 0f ,-e new appo.utee to prove.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
WIRELESS AMATEURS.

Only those who are making 1t or have passed through the experience know just what the wireless IS. o. S." appeal means, This distress call, con- sisting of three dots, three dashes and three dots, is like the cry of child in the night Piercing the air for $50 miles as it did Sunday night, every ship with wireless within that zone knew that the Titanic was in need of immediate assistance. Save our souls is the name given the appeal and how true it represented the con ditions under which the Titanics pas sengers were laboring That signal never goes unheeded and that any of the survivors was ever found is prob ably due to the wireless.
 The wireless service, however has come 10 be seriously handicapped by amateur operators, and 1t never was more thoroughly demonstrated than in the past week. There Is immediate need of legislation to restrict the use of the wireless, so that such meddling will not occur again Because of the flood of sparks sent out by the anna teurs the receiving of the news from the steamships was impossible, and the country was kept from getting tdings from those to whom the con tnent was looking. The novices were not content to listen, but felt it neces- sary to do the questioning despite the frantic appeals to clear the zone Such interference reached it's height following the catastrophe and should prove the straw to break the camels back. They have proved not only med dIers and nuisance in legitimate bus mess but decided annoyance in the time of great importance.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
PRESIDENT KEEPS HIS WORD.

A great handle has been made by the Roosevelt managers about federal patronage in the present contest for the presidential nomination. They have hammered away at such length on that subject that they become en- tangled In their own rope It has revealed that the ex-preeident was publishing one of the great vote-get- ting powers he had used against oth- CTS, and which he feared would be used against him
 President Taft is emphatic on this point when he says as he has al- ways maintained. that he has had no intention Of removing any ss4sEa1 of flee holder because of his political views This does not go as a mere campaign statement alone. for he has demonstrated that he keeps his word. The collector of customs at Salem Mass is a Roosevelt supporter. but his renominatiou t0 the office was forwarded by the president regard less. There was the opportunity if the president had so wished to have whipped into line by threat or fright one who is opposed to him and held it up as an example to other federal office holders. He had the chance for the yielding of the big stick, but he stood by what he said and that in such a campaign of vituperation as conducted by his opponent is sim ply an evidence Of the safe and sane character and purpose of the presi- dent Under tho stand of the ex- president and the breaking of his solemn promises to his country and rarty that Roosevelt office holder could have made no outcry if he had not been reappointed.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

2.S per cent, as against 0.6 of the males. And while the number of fam lilies has increased 0.3 per cent the average family size has declined from 4.9 to AS persons. Although it is fair to say that outside of Ireland no one can understand Irish politics, yet per haps this minute of facts may be of value to those who are looking for in formation in general lines
 JOHN TROLAND. Norwich, April IS, 1912.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

Prof Simeon E. Baldwin, LL.D., governor of Connecticut, the William Earle Dodge lecturer, on The Respon- abilities of Citizenship, for this year began the course, considered one of the most important in the university on Monday night Governor Baldwins s immediate predecessors as Dodge lee turers have been Governor Hughes, AmDa ssador Bryce, eX-Secretary Root Dr, Lyman Abbott and President Taft
 In his first lecture, The Relation of Education to Citizenship, Governor Baldwin said:
 There is a word in our language which has acquired a new meaning of late years. It is sanity We use it to eXpl ess a faculty of coming to calm and sober decisions, belonging in a marked degree to an exceptional man. He is sane" the rest of us are not This way of looking at mems minds indicates the feverishness of our age We are unsettled. We may reasonably look to men of higher ed ucation to cool it off: to quiet and steady it. to give it's force a direction in healthy ways
 The most popular cry, not always to- day, but always and everywhere in American politics, is for progressive policies. Our people have no patience with mere standstills. But it is often not an easy thing to distinguish be- tween advancing and retrograding forces. Who can best do it? The man who has had scientific instruction in these general ideas which are com mon to all scholars of all countries, and, we may aIsou say. of all times.
 In his second lecture Wednesday night, Governor Baldwin spoke on Shaping Education to Citizenship. He spoke of the "old fashioned college education before the system of cleo
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
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Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

A striking editorial on Dwight hall, the center of the Christian activities at Yale, appeared in the News this week. In part it said: Dwight hall is not accomplishing the work at Yale it used to accomplish, the work that it ought to accomplish. The trouble is that Dwight hall tries to appeal to all classes and reaches none The in stitution should either become @ bus iness-li6e practical college activity for carrying on philanthropic work, or it should become a purely religious cen ter, absolutely free from all activity and "heehng"
 At the same time, Dean Brown of the divinity. school expressed his opin ion to the alumni this week that dur ing the past year he had visited S1 colleges, and in none had he found a more pervadtng and inspiring relig ious spirit than at Yale.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
OTHER VIEW POINTS

A couple in New Hampshire, engaged 43 years, have just married. That man must have spent fortune in choco- lates, violets and livery rigs.-Water- bury Republican.
 According to the suffragist orators Bridgeport has sold it's soul to a corporation, as the city owns only IS feet of it's harbor front" Where did Bridgeport get the soul ?-Norwalk Hour
 That the Charities and Correction conference ended with a laugh is a good sign. The American citizen all ways laughs before he bitches his suspenders and gets down to work Waterbury American.
 An impression prevails that Sayin Rock is to he something like a Sun day camp meeting every week the coming summer. It Will be far from that, even if the lid is put down some what tightly Bridgeport Telegram
 Swat the fly principe is all right, but when your neighbor doesn't give an iota one way or the other you had better keep the screens going and look after your own individual comfort and let it go at that.-Middletow Press.
 No, President Taft will not seek to bolster up his campaign by a war with Mexico. Bolsters of that kind | don't bolster, and that isn't Taft's kind | anyway. Whatever else Taft may be, he cannot be accused of being a war like president-Ansonia Sentinel
 Tennis courts. golf links. etc, are, of course. valuable adjuncts of a first class ship. but many do not consider 1 them indispensable, and would much prefer life boats in sudden emer gency Hereafter country club life on ! ship3oard isn't apt to he advertise ] ! extensively. Springfield News 1 Wireless has never yet failed to | bring relief to those in distress. nor 1 did it this time. the only difference be- | ing that the rescuers were just too late ] to save all. But this was where the Titanic played in ill luck, in as much
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

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 It costs you nothing to prove the re- markable effects of Protone. It is non- injurious to the most delicate system. The Protone Company, 4s6l Protone Bldg Detroit, Mich, will send you on receipt of your name and address, a free 5oc pack age of Protone, with full instructions, to
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
The Geography of Ulster and Other
 Facts.

MT Editor. One or twice, comment ing on the prospects of the passage of the new law for the government of Ire land, known better as home rule, ref erence has been made to opposition coming from Ulster county. IL should be known that Ulster is not a county, but a province, containing nine cOun- ties, And those among the most impOr- tant, namely Donegal, Londonderry Antrim, Down, Armagh, Monaghan, Tyrone t'ernanagh and Cavan. Broad ly speaking. Ulster is about the fourth part of Ireland. By the last census (April ?. I91D the population of Ulster was 1,51S,5I2, which is 4&3-064 more than one-lourtn of the population Of Ireland.
 Denominationally. Ulster has Roman Catholics 690, ,134, PrOtestants SSS 4S8, made up from Presbyterian. Episcopal, Methodist and othe1s, of which the Prasbyterians are the most numerous, being 21.566. which the Episcopalians number 366,1I of the population
 Ulster embraces the important cities of Armagh, Londonderry and Belfast, where such leyiathans of the deep as the Titanic Olympic and other great vessels are designed and built. In fact, Lord Pirrie. their builder. Is a pro- nounced home ruler and a Protestant. Judging by statistics alone. Ulster, notedly prosperous. has never been more prosperous and contented than during the ten years since the last previous census, t90l the decrease in population being only 0.$ per cent. while in the provinces of Conraught and Munster taerc was a Gecrease of 57 and 1 per cent, sew eraiy Only one of the four provinces, Leinster, shows increase of population. that o. per cent.
 A curious feature of the census re- turns k the heavy decrease in the fe- male population of Ireland, which is
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
DEMANDS FOR RELlEF FUNDS.


 There are demands in all directions for relief funds at this time with fam inc and flood sufferers in great num- bers, 10 which is added the dependent survivors of the Titanic The country at large and the government are in terested in the conditions and to as- sist those made homeless or suffering because of the Mississippi flood. con gress, at the request of the president, has appropriated in the neighborhood of million, part of which was used in efforts to restrict the water.
 In China, the famine is at it's height and the effort to raise a million for the starving victims of last autumn's floods has resulted in but a fifth be- ing subscribed. Millions are starving in that land and the fact that there is not d larger response is due prob- ably to the many appeals for similar conditions in China, Russia and India, To which liberal American contribu- tions were made. It was American assistance which broke up the last famine in China, which country is now handicapped by reconstruction and the war Famine appeals are constantly drawing contributions from the four corners of the land and it is notice able that though frequent, there is always a generous response.
 The funds for the Titanic survivors will reach large figures. There was $2O00OO GOO represented by passengers aboard her, many of whom were lost. The heirs will hardly feel they should contribute even million or two, be- cause their loved ones were drowned through the neglect in not having the necessary provisions for safety; and, yet, while money will not bring back the dead from the humanitarian standpoint, very small part of their fabulous wealth would bring endless comfort to the otherwise hopeless out look of widows and orphans
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
All Alike at Sea.

Mr. Editor: How often we hear and read of the terrible doings of our mil lionaire Americans. How often the demagogue stories to arouse public sentiment by bowling at the bloated millionaire!" but in the past few days it has been proved far beyond all ar gument that men like John Jacob As tor, Benjamin Guggenheim and IsadOr Straus, who owned $400, 100000 of money and property stood gallantly and heroically by the sinking Titanic while women and children, many of them humble emigrants, were saved.
 Millions did not count in such time, but haroism did. There are many peo- pie in America today who for the first time behold John Jacob Astor just as a hero.
 c. B. MONTGOMERY.
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Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19
Gathering Sasslfras.

Since Dr. Wiley left, the searcher for spring medicine may feel inclined to slight all bottled medicines and go out into the woods to gather his own assafras.-POrtsmou Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

General Grosvenor of Ohio. the ac- curate political forecaster. says Taft will be renominated at Chicago, while admitting that the political situation is the most complex he has ever known.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

It is about time that the speed mania slowed up in this country All our railroads. our steamboat lines automobiles, motor boats. and, indeed, everything with which we do business, have been infected by 1t to the sor- row, loss and death in many cases of those who are the subjects of it. Let us have an era of safety first!- Bridgeport Standard.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

President Taft called the attention of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Washington to the fact that 1t is time for the Americans to pledge themselves anew to the con stffufiOu
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-19

Imagination cannot begin to depict the narrowing scenes on the deck of the Titanic when it was realized fami- lies were being broken up never to meet again