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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-02
BRITAIN BREAKS
FROM GERMANY
in CHEMISTRY

EDINBURGH Scotland. three
days session OF the annual meeting
of the Society OF Chemical Industry
Great Britain would in the future
largely break away from it's depend
ence on Germany and other countries
so far as dye and fine chemicals we're
concerned, and at the same time
brought out prominently the need for
still further research and development
on the part of Britishers generally.
Papers were read indicating the en-
ornous waste OF by-products Of coal
going on in the country, while ii was
asserted five per cent of coal itself
was wasted in some pits. twenty per
cent in others and forty per cent lost
In certain Doncaster pits.
On the subject of tar distiIlation-a
process yielding about dozen chemi-
raj products--a speaker stated that
the industry had suffered from lack
Of cooperation and that more scientif-
10 attention with central research
laboratory were required to recapture
the fine chemical and color trade from
Germany. .-.-@.. "
Regarding the prospects of British
dye supplies it was stated that at pres.
ent the necessary products were re.
quired for the government, colors
varying from khaki to violet being re-
CURED: but that after the war acids
would be in abundant supply and with
plants now in course Of construction
as well as organized research, the
British chemist was being given a
chance to compete with the German
chemist as well as with those OF
America and Japan. - -.
II was generally agreed that some
state subsidy or protection by tariff
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Albert Daimler. under secretary for
fine arts. expects to leav" Paris for
New YORK IN November Iar the 9reH-
in5 Of the French theater. sra-.tas~.
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FORT ST. HONOLULU, 7. =.
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should be afforded for at least 10
years. At the final session paper
was read on rare earths," its author
asserting that the situation was full of
promise for Great Britafn's future in
dependence OF foreign raw materials,
largely used in chemical manufacture.
Professor Louis stated that he had
.ust returned from an official investi-
cation of the resources Of rare earth
in India and in his opinion Great Brit
ain was in a vastly superior position
10 Germany in quantity and quality
and raw material.
A discussion on the patent laws of
The country showed a sharp differ.
ence of opinion between lawyers and
patent agents and inventors point Of
view, but all agreed that reforms were
needed. ......
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THE VERY FIRST BABY,

Says Eve to husband Adam: !
1T would not come amiss,
IF you'd hit the macadam
And stone rhin-o-sis.
We're getting short on fodder,
Especially fresh meat;
And little birds have whispered.
Well soon need more to eat"
So Adam took his stone ak,
And hiked off to the hills;
Where soon he lit on fresh tracks
That filled his soul, with thrills.
Until the stars. we're blinking
He kept the tracks in sight;
And then, says he, I'm thinking,
I'm camp here for the night
Through all next day he secuted,
Ever ready to kill; .:
But not a thing he routed
To try his Ratchet skill.
For days and days he followed,
Till Jays stretched into months;
With eyes and cheeks all followed,
Feet swollen as with mumps.
At last he was a GUTTER
For weeks the tracks he'd miss;
1t made him awful bitter,
To lose that rhin-o-sis.
So back he treked TO Eden.
Discouraged and footsore;
Expecting that his Eva
Would meet him at the door
But he was some astonished
AS he stepped Ger the sill;
To see a thing aerawIing
About the floor at will.
Some new and frightful muzzle,"
He gasped with quicken'd breath;
And forthwith grabbed cudgel,
To beat the thing to death.
And then he stoEped in wonder,
And to himself, said he:
II thought I'd named all under
Pat this is one on me-
He watched it crawling towards him.
And firmly grabbed his club;
If it was fight it wanted;
He'd give the thing a rub,
He eyed it very closely,
Expecting snarl or growl;
But sounds it uttered mostly,
Ran from a coo to howl.
We'll, that's a funny creature,
Wonder if it will bite;
Or bark, or howl or try to
Keep folk awake all night"
And while he Pondered deeply.
On what was best to do,
The thing had crawled up to him.
And smilingIy said Goo"
Is
and then he sure was startled,
1t vas the naked truth;
That thing he was afraid Of
Had not single tooth.
49," II
Look here, you thing" said Adam,
How do you think to eat
You cannot bite an apple
'Or CHEW piece OF meat
10
The thins set VI howling.
That made old Adam leer;
Then ~ e's voice ram ont sharply,
Its hungry. i,ring It here
c. F. MERRILL.
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LEE EQUIPMENT

The Lee Tire & Rubber Company
announces that Kaufman & Baer, the
Pittsburg department store, has
equipped all its fleet of so motor cars
With Lee punctureproof tires.
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The Norwegian steamship Freda,
which recently grounded on Alerances
reef off the Mexican coast, arrived at
Key West. H..
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he speak again and then he said with
CLINT in his eye that was almost a
smile, 81 guess them's the first orchids
that ever Travelled to ma'ket under q
diamond hitch"
Here was an opening but It came
too late. Gerry did not try to follow
it up. Once more in the saddle Kemp
seemed to acquire a sudden new ease
of body and mind. He hung by one
knee and stirrup and leaned over
toward Gerry. Stranger" he said,
"I'm much obliged to ye. It's a long
way I'm the Alamo to Moo Yawk, but
the hull country's under one fence"
He waved his hand and was gone at
ter his pack-train, lifting his mule with
his goose-necked spurs into a protest
ing canter. Two weeks after his pass
ing, as evening was settling on Fa-
zenda Flores, the echo Of mules
mincing steps on the bridge made Ger
ry look up from his work.
"Howdy," said Kemp and paused on
that to measure his welcome He was
satisfied and urged his tired mule on
towards the house. Gerry walked be-
side him and learned that the ship
ment of orchids had Just caught the
steamer at the coast. Kemp unsaddled
his mule and tossed the harness and
slieker upon the veranda. AS Gerry
was closing the gap into the pasture
Kemp came up and stood beside him.
He cast knowing eye over the fat
stock. "You done good job for Lie
ber," he remarked.
Gerry nodded a little sadly. "Yes,"
he said. "the contracts filed. Lieber's
sending for the stock day after tomor-
row."
As they sat on the veranda that
night smoking endless cigarettes,
Kemp turned to his host. "D'ye mind
IL stay over a day with you? Truth
is, want to hep drive that stock up
to Lieber's. l want to hep whistle a
bunch O steers along once more and
smell the dust an the leakin' udders,
an shouldn't wonder If 1 let out
yell or SO, corralin' 'em at the other
end"
Gerry nodded understandingly.
why did you leave itT' he ventured
and then regretted and murmured,
"Never mind"
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my names Jake Kemp. The rest of
this outfit is six mules packin' orchids
and the greaser packin' the mules"
That's all right" said Gerry, II
guess we can put you up"
He led the way and the pack-train
splashed along after him. The mules
were soon relieved of their burdens
and turned into the pasture Boni-
facio took the native muleteer away
to his quarters and Gerry and the
stranger passed through the house to
the kitchen.
A patriarchal hospitality came nat
urally to the inmates of Fazenda
Flores. 1t was tradition not only on
that plantation but throughout a vast
hinterland,, where life was rude and
death sudden, to be gentle to the
|, Efp feel him and his beast
eln1.lD spbed him on in the early morn
Ing. There was but one rule to the
stranger: He must keep his eyes to
the front. Jake Kemp had evidently
learned the brief code. He ate raven
ously, poured down coffee with the
recklessness Of man that draws on
a limitless power to sleep, and made
his few remarks to Gerry and to Ger
ry alone.
Gerry was feeling a strange elation
that he strove In vain to account for.
This was an American but beyond that
they had nothing in common. New
York and Texas are connected only by
fiction. Perhaps it was just curiosity.
Curiosity invaded him. What was
Texas cowboy doing on the road past
Fazenda Flores with a mule-train of
orchids? As an opener he declared
himself. "My names Gerry lansing"
he said. "I've settled down here"
$50" said Kemp, as he drew from
his vest pockets the makings Of ciga-
rette. Gerry had seen the yellow pa
pers and the little bags Of faxed to-
bacco. They struck convincingly the
note of the West. Reckon you're I'm
the States" drawled Kemp as he &C
complished the cigarette.
YES" said Gerry and added, with
an idea to establishing a link, "like
you"
Reckon you're I'm Moo Yawk," was
Kemp's next deliberate contribution
to the conversation.
With that, talk Jagged. Gerry in
stinctively avoided the question direct
and Kemp vouchsafed nothing more.
Not till Gerry came upon him hitching
up his loads early next morning did
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At last the rains came to the valley
and Fazenda Flores. Gerry spent long
hours beside his sluicegate watching
come. The torrent of rain was local
and he remembered that Lieber had
told him that the floods-the great
fioods-came from hundreds of miles
up the river and generally under
brazen sky. Night, black night, had
fallen with the rain and he was just
turning to seek shelter from the un-
broken downpour when a voice raised
in song reached his ears. He waited.
The voice drew nearer. In a nasal
tone, which somehow sounded familiar
though 1t was unknown to him, 1t was
chanting long string of doggerel end
ing In an unvarying refrain. Finally
Gerry could make out the long-arawn
tail-end of the song: "comin' down the
drawn"
English! American! Cowboy mu-
sic! The Impressions came in rapid
succession. Gerry strove to pierce
the darkness. He could hear the near
by splash of careful mules, picking
their way through puddles with fnick-
ing little steps. He felt a shadow in
the darkness and could just see above
1t a blur Of yellow. Behind 1t, more
shadows. On an impulse he did not
stop to measure, he shouted in English,
"Hallo, therew
The doggerel was choked Off in mid
Asevb ,hn al -,
den stop and the nasal voice rang out
in quick staccato, "Speak again,
stranger, and speak quickr'
'Its all right" Gerry laughed back.
"Where are you bound for?"
"I'm headed down the drawn lookin'
for chalk line where / en- dry my
feet. What do you known
"Can you see the water in the ditch
at your right?"
"Yasser, can. I en- see you, too"
"Well,'' shouted back Gerry, "your
eyes beat mine. Follow the ditch I'M
til you come to bridge. I'll meet you
there" -
Gerry found the little cavalcade
waiting for him, six pack-mules, ma
tive driver and, towering above them,
a great lanky figure in yellow oil
skin slicker topped by a broad
brimmed Stetson. Gerry looked over
the outfit as carefully as the darkness
would allow and then said tentatively,
There's a house down there In the
valley"
rs the'?" drawled the stranger spit
ting deliberately into the ditch. Well"
he volunteered after further pause,
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lTo BE coNv1NyJ1D,
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If They Told the Truth.

MIR. Chairman, I'm glad to say that
can't make an interesting speech, but
even if | could l wouldn't waste it on
SO little intelligence as | see before
me this evening sitting, as you are.
half dazed with food. alcohol and to-
bacco."
well, good-by, Mrs. Diamondback.
I've had dull weekend But / ex-
pected it, anyway. One of the things
we have to endure, isn't it? Hope
you'll get better cook the next time
l come"
You'd never know this was Sec
ondhand car, would you? The engine
hasn't been touched for five years. but
a new coat of paint has given it fine
appearance, hasn't it? Worth SIS. Sell
it to you for Life.
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SYNOPSIS.

Alan Wayne is sent away from Red Hill,
his home, by his uncle. j. Y, as a moral
failure. Glen drinks Alan's health on his
birthday. Judge Healey defends Alan in
his business with his employers. Alan and
Allx, Gerry's wife, meet at sea, homeward
bound, and start a Irritation. At home,
Gerry, as he thinks, sees Alix and Alan
clipping, drops everything. and goes to
Pernambuco. Alix leaves Alan on the
train and goes home. Gerry leaves Per-
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. On a
canoe trip he meets a native girl. The
Judge fails to trace Gerry. A baby is born
to Alix. The native girl takes. Gerry to
the ruined plantation she is mistress of.
Gerry marries her. At Maple house Col
Hngeford tells how he met Alan-"Ten
Per Cent Wayne'-building a bridge In
Africa. Collingeford meets Alix and her
baby and gives her encouragement about
Gerry. Alan comes back to town but does
not go home. He makes several calls
in the city. Gerry begins to improve Mar
garita's plantation and builds an irrigat-
ing ditch In Africa Alan reads Clem's
letters and dreams Of home Gerry pas
lures Leber's cattle during the drought
A baby comes to Margarita. CoIlingeford
meets Alix in the city and finds her
changed. Alan meets Alix.
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his cigarette end and stood leaning
with crooked elbow and knee against
veranda pillar. His keen aquiline
features and deep-set eyes were lit up
by the moonlight and seemed scarcely
to belong to his great, loose-jointed
frame. He was loose-jointed but like
flail-strong and tough. There's
one thing about the purple Cities" he
added, 1.-THE daylight always beats you
to 'em jest like in the POM" He
turned and went off to bed.
Gerry sat on in the moonlight seized
by a strange sadness-the sadness the
spirit feels under the troubled hover
ing of the unattainable and the NIL
rage. Life had queer turns. why
should "a cowboy start out to look for
purple cities? 1t was grotesque on the
face Of 1t but, beneath the face of it,
it was not grotesque.
Margarita stole out to seat herself
beside him. She slipped her hand into
his. She was worried. She was al
ways worried when Gerry's thoughts
were far away. 1.-THE Man." she SAID
for thus she had christened her baby
boy from the day Of his birth, "the
Man sleeps. He cried for thee and
thou didst not come. So he slept, for
he il a man."
Gerry's thoughts came back to his
little kingdom. He sighed and then
he smiled smile Of content. 1T is
late then, my fiower" He put his
arm around her. LET us 60 to bed,
for tomorrow there is work"
Tomorrow therA u always work"
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GLAsa OF WATER
Upset Her.

People who don't know about fond
should never be allowed to feed per.
sons with weak stomachs.
Sometime ago a young woman who
lives In Me. had an attack of scarlet
fever, and when convalescing was per-
mitted to eat anything she wanted.
Indiscriminate feeding soon put her
back in bed with severe stomach and
kidney trouble.
There l stayed" she says, three
months, with my stomach in such con-
dition that could take only few tea
spoonfuls of milk or beef juice at a
time Finally Grape-Nuts was brought
to my attention and l asked my doc
tor If | might eat it. He said, yes.
and commenced at once.
THE food did me good from the
start and I was soon out of bed and re-
covered from the stomach trouble.
have gained ten pounds and am able
to do all household duties, some days
sitting down only long enough to eat
my meals. can eat anything that
one ought to eat, but still continue
to eat Grape-Nuts at breakfast and
supper and like 1t better every day.
Considering that could stand only
short time, and that glass of water
seemed so heavy am fully satisfied
that Grape-Nuts has been everything
to me and that my return to health
Is due to it.
II have told several friends having
nervous or stomach trouble what
Grape-Nuts did for me and in every
case they speak highly OF the food"
There's . Reason" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Ever read the above letter. A new
enc appears fron time to time. They
are genu51a $780, and full 81 hunaan
hteEoats
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cooling pools. He did not wish ever
to speak again--eyer to think again.
And then Glenn laughed. Her eyes
wrinkled up. There was a CLEAN of
even teeth. The wind blew her furs
about he and lit the color in her
cheeks. "How solemn we are after
three yearsr' she cried. "Three years,
Alan. Aren't you ashamed?"
Alan felt sense of sudden insula-
ton as though she had deliberately
cut the current that had flowed SO
strongly between them. II am going
away" he stammered weakly and
waved at an approaching four-wheeler,
piled high with travelling kit and con-
voyed by his hurried but never furried
servant.
But Glenn stuck to her guns. "Real-
ly?' she said with glance at the
loaded cab and with arching eyebrows.
Then her smile burst again. "You
can't expect me to be surprised, can
you? We seem to have a habit of
meeting when you are on the point Of
going away. There. You must be in
a hurry. Good-by," and she held out
a gloved hand.
Alan's spirit was ever ready for war
and this, he suddenly perceived, was
war. He braced himself and smiled
too. "Twice hardly amounts to hab-
it." he drawled. He had never drawled
to Glen before but then Glen had new
er before taken up the social rapier
with him. Besides" he went on,
there's a difference. Last time you
ran after me-"
Clem's smile trembled, steadied it.
self and then fought bravely back.
"Yes," she said, yes And then her
eyes wavered and wandered. She
dropped his hand. "Good-by," she
said, the faintest catch in her voice,
and hurried away to seek J. Y.
Alan stood and watched her. He
felt sinking within him. ''For a
mess Of pottage," he muttered and
then his servant touched his arm anx-
iously and held out his watch, face up,
you'll never make it, Mr.. Wayne"
Alan turned on him but not angrily.
Perhaps not, Swithson, and perhaps
yes. You may go back to the fiat. I'll
get along all right" And with that he
hurled himself at the cab. Double
fare IL you make the Battery in ten
minutes" he shouted to the driver and
then settled back in the seat to pom
der.
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New Fish story.

Mrs, X had forgotten to give her
meat order in time for the first deliv-
cry. So she searched her memory
for q meat that would cook quickly
and had just gone to the phone to
order it when her husband entered
the room, saying:
THE meatman brought our fish q
moment ago. / paid him."
but, John, didn't order any fish,"
She took down the receiver and got
the meat market on the line.
"This is Mrs. x talking. Your man
left fish here which did not order.
Please send for it. Have you any
hrains?"
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said Margarita. II am nor afraid Of
work, Geree. The end of work never
comes. 1t is the things that end that
make me afraid" She, too, had felt
the fiuttering wings OF the unattain-
able. Unknowingly she stood beneath
the shadow of the strangers purple
city's walls.
The next day Kemp tried honestly
to help Gerry with the filling of the
soil but the effort was still-born. Kemp
had almost forgotten how to walk and
his high-heeled boots fell foul of every
hummock. He wandered off to the
house with solemn face When Gerry
came in to the midday meal, he found
him with saddle propped on the
arm of bench giving the delighted
swaddled heir to Fazenda Flores his
first lesson in equation.
That night they sat again on the
veranda steps but Kemp was not talk
alive. He whitfield a stick until 1t dis
appeared in final curly. shaving and
then Immediately started. on fresh
one.
Aho"H AAcper iOug aSkeu Gerfy
at last.
"Goin' on two years." replied Kemp.
'Does he live of his stock?7
Kemp looked up Haven't you ever
ben up to Lieber'sT
mo" said Gerry, "its two years
since came here and I've never been
of the place. Lieber's been down here
couple of times.''
Kemp grunted but asked no further
question. "Lieber," he said, Certainly
don't live often his stock-he plays
with II. Lieber is the goatskin king.
Ships 'em by the thousand bales. II
you or any other man in these parts
was to sell goatskin away I'm Lie
Der, you'd be boycotted. Lieber on
this range is God-you're fer him or
you're ag'in him an there amt ben
any one ag'in' him for some spell
now"
"Oh," said Gerry.
"As fer KNOWN him." continued
Kemp, everybody on this roundup
knows Lieber but there amt anybody
knows why he is. Lieber holds ques-
lions and smallpox about alike. He
amt thar when they happen"
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GA4AlRFlG;;,Qae
Y @zz|94a--.

Lieber, accompanied by two herders,
came early for his stock He greeted
Kemp warmly. 'Going my way?" he
asked.
Il ben loafin' around here with that
in mind" drawled Kemp. "I'll take a
hand If you'll allow me mount"
"You can take your pick" said Lie
Der, that is, after Mr.. Lansing has
had his
The three of them walked into the
pasture. Lfeber looked at the stock
with kindling eyes. He turned to Ger
ry and held out his hand. SHAKE" he
said, and Gerry did. "What do you
say to the first five of the horses out
and the last ten of the cattle for your
share?"
Gerry flushed. "That's more than
fair" he said. "You know the best
Of the horses will lead the bunch and
the latest Of the cattle will lag be-
hind. You see, they're all strong
now"
'That's just it," said Lieber.
Kemp had gone Off to round up his
mule. He came up from the river
driving 1t before him. At every Jump
he caught the mule flick with his
rope and the mule kicked and squealed
but came on with long, stiff-legged
strides. "Hi'yir' yelled Kemp and
snatched off his hat to beat his mount
while he kept the rope-end Pickering
over the mule.
Gerry and Lieber laughed. Kemp
was like a mummy come to sudden
life. DO you know what?" said Ger
ry, Il think I'll come along with you I"
He led the iron-gray out by his fore
lock and old Bonifacio hurried to help
bride and saddle him. Lieber mount
ed his stallion and turned the horses
as they came out. Kemp suddenly
sobered down to business. When Lie
Der had thrown back the last ten Of
the cattle, Kemp came out and closed
the gap behind him.
Il think I'll go ahead with the
horses" said Lieber.
"You go and take 70 men with you"
said Kemp. II could drive this fat
bunch from here to Kansas with nary
hand to spell me-"
Gerry had expected a surprise OF
some sort when at last he arrived at
Lieber's but the things he saw there,
stranger than anything he could have
imagined, left him calm and unmoved
as though some precedence had pre-
pared him. The house was built on the
usual solid lines of plantation head
quarters. Great, rough-hewn beams;
towering rafters, built to carry the
heavy tiles and to bear their burden
for generations; unceiled, vast rooms
with calcimined walls; all these were
not outside Gerry's experience in the
new land. The strangeness came with
the rugs and the linen, the etchings
and the furniture, and last and most
significant, the shelves and shelves Of
books and the tables piled with maya
zines In three languages. Everything
bore the stamp Of quality, everything
had the distinction Of a choice.
Gerry did not let his curiosity carry
him beyond rapid glance around the
great iving-room where they found
Lieber, bathed and freshly dressed,
experimenting the making of ice In
the latest ingenious contrivance for
the pampering of the pioneer. "Ice
water in the desert" thought Gerry
and the phrase seemed to him more
than words-it seemed to paint Lie
Der dimly, but as the mind saw him.
In what manner will .Lleber I
! and Kemp affect Lansing's life |
with Margarita In this hidden
eorner ~ &ha xnorld7