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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-20

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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-20

Even if we do not fear fire for our
selves, we owe it to our neighbors, to
take all precautions that can be taken
to fight the fire fiend should he visit
our store or home, and we will If
thinking people see to it that the
DEMO SYSTEM is at once placed on
nur nremises advertisement.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-20

Hawaiian stocks in San Francisco
Saturday closed as follows: Hawaiian
Commercial, 3287h bid; Hawaiian
Sugar, 1850 bid; Honokaa, 7.12h
bid: Hutchinson, 1926 bid; Kilauea,
II bid; Onomea, 31.75 bid, 80 asked;
Paauhau. 1850 bid; Union. 80 asked;
Honolulu Plantation (unlisted1, 81
bid. r. s.
Local stockholders of the Engels
Copper Mining Company are interest
ed in a notice of meeting called for
February 10 in San Francisco, to con-
slider proposed transfer of the COM
pany's property to corporation rep
resented by Edward H. Nutter, to
authorize an increase of the capital
stock from one million shares Of a
par value of one dollar to two mil.
lion shares and to do other business.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-20
BUSINESS ITEMS

Stocks showed an upward tendency
in New. York on Saturday, rallying
near the close from the effects Of
some heavy selling by the bears.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
True Charity.

The local charities endorsement:
committee has recently issued a pub
lie statement cautioning against mis-
directed charity. The milk in the
cocoanut is this: In every commu-
nifty the amount Of funds available
for the support OF charitable work ID
limited, and the worthy institutions
and deserving beneficiaries are 10
that extent deprived OF whatever as
siatance Is diverted TO impostors and
undeserving persons. II is unfortu-
unate, but too true, that charity IL
often assumed as a mantle 20 cover
fraud or pick up easy money. No
one wants TO dry up the fountains OF
sympathy and fellow-help. but con-
servation OF the charity fund against
useless dissipation Is an important
element OF true charity.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
Editorial Snapshots

Washington Post: with S9o,0OooO0 to
the good in parcel post profits already,
Uncle Sam should be able to retire about
December o.
indianapolis News: Every now and then
some republican is discovered still hold
ing office. and Immediately II ie an
nounced that the place IL a sinecure that
must be abolished In the interests OF
economy.
Boston Transcript: One OF the great
difficulties In the way OF getting the
American point Of view impressed upon
the Mexican people lies in the fact that
about IS per cent OF the populace think
that Montezuma Is still king.
Chicago Record Herald: John Barrett.
director general OF the Pan-American N
union, estimates that war with Mexico
would cost this country 100000 a day.
II seems big price to pay for the kind
OF satisfaction we would get out OF whip
ping Mexico.
Philadelphia Ledger: 1t IL stated from
washington that federal officeholder
has been compelled to resign for 'active
and offensive partisanship." search of
all the returns OF the republican party
In the recent election will fail to show
that he or any other republican was
guilty.
Springfield Republican: Please cut out
the highbrow stuff wrote a Rroup OF
Iowa teachers to the manager Of the the.
ater at Des Moines where they were
going to attend convention last week
and added, I'VE have 70 struggle with
shakespeare and other serious stuff for
nine months In the year" The manager
did his best 10 oblige. and instead OF
celebrating the occasion with Shakes.
peare or Ibsen as in former year. he
booked Baby Mine and broadway
Jones'"
New York World; President Wilson's 3
hand Is not to be forced by Huerta's IN
science. by the intrEues OF British con.
cessionaires or by Americans who lack
MS responsibility and patience. The pres
dents purpose Is not war. II is peace
Il is In behaf OF peace and not OF strife
that he has demanded the retirement q,
the dictator This may be brought abou,
In various ways, but time is likely 70 he
enc OF the most powerful factors.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
People Talked About

Chicago's bargain counter sale OF city
bonds was a fiEEle, only $4,000 OF the
81. 10000 being taken
In the opinion OF Senator ]. Ham
Lewis OF Illinois political whispering
beats letter writing forty ways.
The first prize offered by the Good
Farming association OF North Dakota for
boy farmers was won by Henry +. Gran
lund. who raised from one acre 1857
bushels Of corn. The prize consisted OF
tl0o In gold.
A whisk broom artist from the cloak
rooms OF Chicago explained to the police
OF Detroit. where he was pinched on sus-
plcion. that his roll was an accumulation
OF tips brushed off restaurant patrons.
TO make tip come acrosa." he said,
II was never necessary to do more than
withheld the hat"
The "spugs'' are showing signs OF re-
turning life as Christmas approaches.
The nickname comes from the initial
letters OF the organisations name-"So-
ciety for Prevention OF Useless Giving. %
ana its object Is 20 buck the commsr-
cialiEed spirit Of the holidays The Job
Il large enough TO insure considerable
overtime work for the hopeful spugs
Order No. 7.ss. issued BY Postmaster
General Burleson. reeites that hereafter
all vehicles m the postal service. except
those In the screen wagon service, shall
be painted as follows: Body a medium
coach green, running gear n cardinal red,
black stripping" Descendants OF Brian
Boru will observe how deftly the adminis-
tration puts the green above the red.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
A Playful People.

While we are belaboring ourselves
as a rigidly commercial and work-a-
day people, one OF Uncle Sans fer
tile-brained statisticians comes forth
with the evidence to show that as we
work arduously and long. so we play.
At least so It appears from our an
nual outlay for toys, not all OF which
by any means are purely for Juvenile
amusement. According to the De-
partment of Commerce. nearly
81, ,OoO, 900. 900 worth OF toys we're
imported into the United States in
the month of September alone, and
by the last. OF the current year the
total value of such importations for
1913 will amount TO $4,000, 000, 900.
Our own domestic manufacture of
toys is placed at $1,000. 900. 900 for
the year. bringing the toy bill up TO
the tidy little total OF $40, 900, ,O0O,-
600.
Then we scold ourselves for over
working and not playing enough. OF
course, someone doubtless will wish
TO know at once II we do not export
large portion of our 1000, ,0OO,-
600 worth Of homemade toys. We
do not. We export. in fact. less than
$1,000,000 worth annually, and the
amount is said TO be declining in
stead Of increasing. No. there are
the facts and they cannot be evaded.
They show us to be a. very playful
people. When II is stated that the
valuation OF the imports given is not
ths selling price obtained in this
country. but the Wholesale figures of
the foreign countries OF manufacture
II will be seen how very conservative
these figures really are. This should
also be- remembered. that included as
toys are games for youths and elders,
folk OF all ages. In fact, and not
merely the children.
And so much the better for us. As
nation we profit on a broad scale
from the vast amount OF diversion we
give ourselves. II we play much, we
work all the better for IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
IF THEY WERE WITH US NOW :

j. a. wsldron. in Judge.
Though in his days great Homer won q
crown
For drama in which demigods competed.
The managers today on him would frown.
And He'en, far too chaste, would be
deleted.
J. Ceaser IN his time was quite a gink
At scrauping, writing, Grating and
bossing;
But wouio ne last ten minutes, do you
think.
whitehoping or bestselling OF ward
iossinR1
Dlogenes. who lanterned forth OF old
An honest man to find for an example.
If here today with searchlight would be
told
He could not find so queer a human
sample.
II Ovid and his fair flames we're alive,
Complaints Of their amours he'd not be
iottinC.
Each might. indeed. have lovers four or
five:
He'd worry most about their turkey
frotting.
And yet, II Noah. with weather hunch,
Should come again. another ark erecting.
He'd raise another laugh and leave a
bunch
who'd swim about, better boat ex-
pectinR
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
The Church and why.

OAKLAND. Ia. Nov. 1S-To the Editor
of The Bee: There is a great deaf of
agitation in regard to why there is a de-
crease in attendance at church services
In the present day. SO much so that TO
some minds It might be an aggravatlon
as to where to find the aggregation TO
make up the congregation. To attempt
to give the real reason would perhaps
be as futile as to expect an immediate
solution of the Mexican problem.
Let us not go further back than to the
memory OF those whose heads are now
whitening with the frosts of many win
ters We who remember the "old cir
cult rider OF half a century ago, when
the pioneers came west long before the
lllustrious Horace Greeley thought OF
giving advice or the town and county In
western Kansas bore his name. Those
people were looking for a home in the
temporal sense. Perhaps their thoughts,
their prayers and tears were for the gen.
GRAFTON that is now on the stage" play
ing the great drama. Isolated as they
were from each other these meetings
meant a great deal in that day. There
was the plain old-fashioned religious or
ders and they apied sin afar off and shied
heavenly bricks that way from GER
tain passages OF scripture that made
them a plain and peculiar people and
may we say jealous OF good works"
Many of these theories have been ex-
ploded In the material world we are
advancing Our methods OF travel alone
show we are moving forward at rapid
pace. In the secular and educational
field we are going some; the church must
advance or go backward. Where is the
minister on life's great highway that
will step forward with an idea that We
may 'be OF one mind" That we may
learn 'fn honor to prefer one another
who is Il that can start something In the
proper meaning of the spirit OF do ye
unto others" instead of doing him frst
such thoughts are presented in an humble
opinion Of a great question that is OF
vital Import. that few of US would like
to live In a community without the
church. TEE JAY AiiSh'
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
The Conner Mine Situation

II conditions Of labor and living in
the copper mines OF Michigan are a
fractional part as deplorable as rep
resented in the resolutions acted
upon by the American Federation Of
Labor, congress should lose no time
in acceding to the request OF that
body for a thorough investigation.
According TO the reports OF the fed
eration's meeting, this resolution sets
forth that, not only have "the miners
ignored the demands OF the men.
spurned their attempts at conciliation
and in many ways treated them with
contempt" but also have imported
gunner, thugs and so-called detec-
tives into the strike zone, and these
men have deliberately killed strikers
In cold blood. assaulted women and
beaten and terrorized children"
This is but part Of the charges
preferred, but sufficient on which to
base demand for action. II the
charges are false, or even partially
true, the mine owners may be- ex-
pected to join in the request for au
exposition OF the facts; at least they
owe as much to themselves. It is al
most inconceivable and wholly repug-
nant to the American sense OF de-
eency and Justice that such a reign
OF intolerance and terror could be
maintained in this country. But the
American Federation OF Labor is an
honorable and responsible body, and
such an arraignment as the result OF
deliberate action on it's part cannot
reasonably be passed over. II has
put grave proposition up to con-
gress.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
Nebraska Editors

The Florence Tribune has moved into
Its new office In the Pascale building.
w. c. Avis. who has been local man
ager Of the Morrill, Mail for some time
has purchased the paper from c. L.
Mark.
Editor Charles X. BaSsett OF the Grant
County Tribune will print daily edition
during the period OF land selection at
Hyannis.
The York Daily News and Daily Times
have consolidated and hereafter there
will be only one daily newspaper In York
published by the York Daily News. Mr.
Field. who recently purchased the Daily
Times will retire from the newspaper
field In York and will soon go 20 southern
Michigan TO reside.
W. L. Kirk. who has been editor and
proprietor OF the Creighton News for
twelve years. has sold the paper TO Ed
ward II. Nolan and Nicholas StrenE Of
LemArs, Ia The transfer was made last
week. Mr.. Kirk goes 20 Payette, Idaho
where he will again engage IN the news
paper business.
Editor A. b. Wood, ex-president Of the
Nebraska Press association. has a county
seat fight on his hands and is 20 some
extent between the devil and the deep
blue sea Gering has the county seat
and Its larger neighbOr across the Tiver.
Scots Bluff wants Il. MIR. Wood owns
a paper in each town and must perforce
eonfine himself 70 q dignified discussion
OF the issue and refrain from person
alities such as are being indulged In BY
rival editors ia Franklin county. where
the same Issue is being fought out
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
6Be 8eeST0
LsAs2aBoafPT


EMERSON. Neb.. Nov. Ito the Ed
itor OF The Bee; The great advantages
OF union among seamen are apparent
to every man that has ever sailed the
ocean. trimmed a ship on the great lakes
or jusgied a cargo Of freight on a river
steamboat
Something like ten years ago l shipped
aboard the Stacker Lee" inending to
make the round trip from St Louis TO
Memphis which would take six days.
and pay me about slI ! found the work
ing conditions on this boat something
fierce. The steamer, OF course. ran day
and night. loaded and unloaded freight
At every port and landing. and carried
but one crew OF deck hands who did all
the work and had no hours OF sleep or
rest except between landings. The whole
crew were on duty twenty-four hours a
day; sleep two or three hours. then work
like horses another three or four hours.
and keep going at this rate whole
week
The grub was fairly good except the
coffee and butter. which were rotten.
The sailors had no tables 10 eat from.
and. the cook dealt them rations in big
stew pans. each holding enough for four
or five men. who all ate with spoons
from the same dish, like Indians eating
succotash. There were no beds, hunks
or hammocks for the deck hands. and
they slept the best they could lying on
the deck OF on piles Of freight. with their
clothes on ready to jump when the big
whistle sounded for a landing.
There was no union among the men on
the Mississippi at that time. and conse-
duently no protection from abuses and
no redress for those who suffered the In
suits Of that petty tyrant called the first
mate deserted this boat at Memphis
and made my way to Detroit. Here
Joined the seamen's union. paid my little
fee and received a card that classed me
as an Ordinary seaman" shipped out
on a vessel that made daily trips between
Detroit and Cleveland. and say the truth
when ] tell you that l never saw work
ingmen better treated than the sailors
we're on this boat. We had messroom
and flunkeys TO wait table; we had good
grub and plenty % IL; We had good, clean
beds. mattress springs, sheets, towels,
etc We had regular hours of work and
rest, and the forecastle was so well
lighted and furnished that a sailor could
either play checkers or read Caesars
Commentaries-either polish his mind or
his brass buttons. as he took the notion.
Where no union exists among seamen
sailors are herded like cattle, driven like
dogs, fed like tramps and II you COM
plain too loud the mate will stick a gun
In your ear and ask you. who's a run
min this boat you or me7''
SINBAD THE SAILOR
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
Stories in Figures

Mexico in 1919 exported S,Ss5.sl barrels
OF crude oil
Japan's 1918 rice crop is now estimated
az 26s s3S, ,s57 bushels.
Berlin's omnibus service In 1912 car
ried 157, 10000 passengers.
Philippine trade for the fiscal year Of
1913 aggregated Sl100lO.S5e
China in 1910 imported i.To7i5 barrels
q flour from the United States.
In the present year the United States
has. exported 100000 dozens OF eggs.
Canada last year brought from the
United states wall papers valued at Sss4.-
TT.
In 1919 Palermo. Italy. sent 4ils6 emil
grants TO the United States on ia steam
ers.
Worlds production OF raw silk for 1913
is estimated at 64 42sS.TS pOunds For 1919
il was 81. So. .0S pounds.
The United States in eight months end
ing August 81. exported 20 Canada prod
ucts valued at t2S3oO0O0O and imported
articles valued AZ y7s.ooo.OOo
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
Continent Bee and Public Poll

Contingent Fee and Public Policy.
And now some honorable lawyers
have set up In open court that con-
tingent fee contracts are against
public policy" particularly when an
attempt Is made TO hold the lawyer
70 IT, The Bee has been calling at
tention to the obvious and fragrant
abuse OF the contingent fec graft, but
we never went so far as to say con-
tingent fee services we're against pub
lie policy. and under no conditions
jrstifiable. But In a case where the
htigant is unable TO seek justice In
any other way, we did say that we
could see no good reason why the in
terest OF the lawyer In third or half
OF whatever prize may be- pulled
down by the verdict should not be OF
public record. Nor Is there any good
reason why the terms OF every con-
tingent fee agreement should not be
subject to approval and revision of
the court which would also prevent
further litigation later over the d.
vision between the lawyers and thedr
clients.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
GRINs AND ORGANS.


Il suppose" said the employer. you
think YOU could leach me to run my
own business"
Probably" replied young Mr. Fresh
wgL But II would take time
Washington Star.
Mrs. Givem--Whv do YOU beg?
Weary Willie-The income tax makes
such delay in collecting my coupons.
New York sun.
First Politicisn-Jims told me the other
DAY that he would have nothing more
10 DO with peanut politics.
second Diuo-Aw. he's nutty!-Balti-
more American.
How are those two young men who
Went into partnership as dentists get
Rather badly. Somehow they don't
seem TO pun tCgtthei. Boston Trans
cr1pt-
When the rhienologist felt wigiey's
"He said wig1ey was self-centered.
superlativeiv patriotic and a prodigious
egotist-stuff like that"
Simply wonderful
wonderful nothing. Wigiey told him
ne was New Yorker as soon as he
took his seat in the ehair.''-st Louis
aIs. MOAN came down the Rangplank
briskly, a white heron feather rakshly
stuck In her homemade toque
What comfortable feeling Il is" she
sald, TO come ashore without a half
dozen customs officers waiting to shear
OFF your rette."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
There's one consolation about the
present drama"
And what's thatg''
When get old and am a grand
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
Twenty Years Ago

Twenty Years Ago
A press dispatch brought this state
ment from Prendergast. the Chicago man
who killed Mayor Carter Harrison: Il
am not insane. was justified in the
shooting" Asked how. he explained be-
cause OF the broken promise to make him
corporation counsel.
Walker Whiteside, the young tragedian.
began his Shakespearean repertory at the
Boyd in "othello" instead OF Hamlet"
as previously announced. and The Bee
said Of him; He demands serious con-
sideratlon, not only from the theater-
going public. but the critics as we'll His
Othello is a sentlent potentiality. a iiv-
ing, breathing reflection OF the Moor who
wrought 30 direfully IN Cyprus"
Bishop Newman preached on SELF
Conquest" at the First Methodist church
and Bishop Walden OF Cincinnati at
Trinity Methodist in Kountse Place, dis
cussing the human and divine SIDES OF
Christ.
The country was beginning 10 realize
some first effects from the scheme pro-
jected months before by Chief seavey OF
Omaha and taken up by police chiefs all
over the country for forming a nation
wide repression OF crime. involving means
OF keeping tab on criminals. The thought
probably came to the Omaha chiefs mind
from the fact that notorious criminal
had conjured up previously the novel idea
OF a nationwide robbery carnival. and
the seavey plan worked in effective re-
buttal to this.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19

The Lincoln Journal Is trying TO
wish Nebraskas baIky democratic
sehatoT on 90 the republican party.
Well, his father held the same office
~ . republican, and always pro-
fessed 70 be ''rock-ribbed" In his
party faith. And the first time his
son ran for Office he also ran as a
republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19
Twice Told Tales


ON the safe side.
In Washington club the other night
the conversation turned TO golf. when
Congressman William S. Green Of Massa-
chusetts was reminded Of the wise New
England caddy.
one afternoon a certain official who
PLAYED rather indifferent golf. heard that
his caddy was betting on the game. and
not wishing the youngster TO lose money
on his account. he hsstehed TO resssure
him al the first opportunity.
Look here, boy" he remarked. Il
understand that you are betting on the
game"
Yes, sir" admitted the boy. but /
didn't put up a whole lot"
ITS all right" smiled the official.
hut I am not In good form today and I
will repay you for all your losses"
On. you needn't worry about that.
boss" was the frank response Of the
caddy. TIN bettin' the other way
Washington star
Omaha daily bee., 1913-11-19

hCu u NaTH hkO-
cut In grain rates by the Rock Island
so as TO benefit 81. Paul and Minneapolis
at the expense OF Omaha riled the local
grain men. who took II az a direct slap
at this city for its support Of the Great
Western. which, led by President stick
ney, had entered the city and laid the
foundation OF the Omaha Grain exchange.
II was gift day at the Old Peoples
Home and the good folks Of Omaha gave
unstintingly TO these worthy old friends.
Commander Lee s. Estelie Of the Me-
braska Grand Army Issued orders 10 III
the comrades OF the state for suitable
Observance OF Thanksgiving day.
Nels Anderson. a l5-year-old lad. had
a very exciting but not pleasant expert
ence on landing in Omaha from his ma
tive Sweden. He reached the union sta
tion about midnight expecting TO find
an uncle 20 meet him. But by some
misunderstanding the uncle failed ana 4
was up TO Nels to meet the uncle at his
home on Mason street. To do 30 he en-
gagged guide at tho depot and In alight-
ing from the car at Twenty-sixth and
Leavenworth Neis fell cutting his llp
and otherwise bruising himself He was
taken 10 the police station and given
medical aid. then 60 his uncls's.
Where IL cobb3'-not Tyrus-was a
play at the Krug.
Local coal dealers. as well as some
other kind OF dealers. were complaining
bitterly Of the oppression of the per diem
method OF accounting for freight cars.
The first thing the coal mems miuds
naturally turned 90 for defense was that
IL might raise the price OF coal"