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THE MAUI NEWS
SATURDAY,' JANUARY 25,
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The Smoke of ii Crcmo Cigur Chases Care Away. "Light One and
Taste the Sweetness of Content.
At All Cpav Stores.
Our Bes
I Reconi
is that our'competitors tell you that they will sell" you ;
goods as good as onrs. We need nothing hettcr. But ;
they don't tell you that they have Belmont Wilis- :
key in hulk or Kaupaluilua Wine in hulk, he Ave ;
do.
Wo also carry lots of good things for the Holidays, :
such as Peach Brandy, Apricat Brandy, 'Cherries in :
Crenio di Menthe, Cooking Sherry and Brandy, all ;
kinds of tahlc Wines.
We are also Agents
Your Holiday dinner
something to help digest
Cocktails already mixed.
you more ahout the good
I Maui Wine
The Lahaina
Chas. M. Cooke, Yfc's. .. C. D. I.ufkin,
R. A. Wndswortli, Director W. h. l-lecoto, director
' SECOND ANNUAL STATEMENT
at the close of business December 30, 1907
RESOURCES
Loans, Discounts,vOvcrdrafts..$ 34,355.92
Cash and Due from Hanks...,
20,105.49
United States Nonas
Other Bonds ,
Premium on U. S. lioads
I'uriiiture'and Fixtures .
Five Percent Fund
6,250.00
12,000.00
200.00
1,150.00
3-5
$ 7-l.373.9i
TERRITORY OF HAWAII,
COUNTY OP MAUI
SS
I, Ww, Helming, Vice-President of
that the above statement is true to tne oesi
SiitfTihpil nnd sworn to before me this
J.
TALKING
ABOUT STOVES
Will it not pay you to look into our Ijno lino of
GARLANDS and got a stovo that will give
you absolute satisfaction. Wo have thoni in
all-sizes, selling as low as $10.00 and all along
up to $70.00. When you want something good
, in tho stovo, lot us quote you.
E.O.HALL &80N, Ltd,
HONOLULU.
For Best Results
MAUB
A
Cia
for Seattle and Priino Beers. 13
Wont l)e complete without
it. We have all kinds of
Iting us up and we will toll
things we have.
National Bank
Cashier Win. Helming, Vicc-Pres,
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 25,000.00
Surplus and Profits v 414. IS
Uue to lianas 30.32
Circulation..,
6,250.00
Deposits
Dividends Unpaid ,
41,921.41
750.00
$ 7-1.373-91
the above named bank, do solemnly swear
ot my Knowledge aim ueuei.
Wm. HENNING, Vice-President
2nd dav of Tanuarv, IooS.
GARCIA, Notary Public Sec. Jud. Circuit
Advertise in the
NEWS.
& Liquor Co.
TUB LEIM1RS OP MOLOKAI.
(Continued from l'njjc 4.) i
In Molokai the people are happy.
I shall never forgot the celebration
of the Fourth of July 1 witnessed
there. At six o'clock in tho morning
tlio "horribles" were out, dressed
antnstically, astride horses, mules
and donkeys (their own property),
and cut tiny capers all over the Set
tlement. Two brass bunds were out
a.s well. ,Tli?n there weie the pu u
riders, thirty nr forty of them, Ha
waiian women nil, suporn Horse
women, dressed gorgeously in the
ild, native riding costume, and dash
intr about in twos and three and
groups. In the afternoon Mr0. Lon
don and I stood in the judges' stand
and awarded the prizes for horseman
ship and costume to the pa u riders.
Ml about ivce the hundreds of lop
ers, with wreaths of flowers on heads
and necks and shoulders, looking tn
and making merry. And always
over the brows of hills and across the
grassy level stretoies, appearing
and disappeai Jug, wete 'lie yroups
of men and women, gaily dressed, on
galloping horses, holies and riders
(lower bedecked and flower garland
ed, singing and laughing and riding
like I he wind. And as I stood in tin
judges' stand and looked at all this,
there cumc to my recollection 'he
luzar house of Ilavninty where I hud
once belaid some two hundred lepers,
prispnei s inside four restricted walls
until they disd. No; thee are u few
thousand places f wot of in this world
over winch 1 would select Moiotfni as
a place of permanent irsidenee. In
the evening we went to one of the
leper assembly hells, whern, belore ;
crowded audience the singing sooie
ties contested for prizes, and wh rt
the night wjound up with a dauce. '
JWne-tmtflnBclM-Jiuifi.., The leper 1
I . . ft SI j i .... 1 , '1
Trliufi. . The lenm
tile Settlfiafe
is lir better oil t mm
p. loner Mho"ffes in hid'niL' outside
rfth
Such a lepfer is a lonely oule s, liv
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111 js in constant fear
of v iscovferv and
slowly and surely rotting aw
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y. . Thf
action of leprosy is not steady. It
tc'ary
lays hold of it:
victim, oommitsa
ravage, and then lies dormant for an
indeterminate period. It may not
commit another ravage for live
ycars.lor ten years, or ffiri.y years
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and Ihd patient may. enjoy unintei
rupted V'ood health, lately, how
over, du these first ravages cease of
themseh'.i'S. Tlie skillyd surgeon i
required; and the skilled surgeon
cannot be called 111 fori the leper who
is in hiding. For instance, the tirst
ravagu may lako thu form of a per
forating ufber in tin sole of the foot
v lien tho bone is ypiu'lied, neoro is
sets in. IfVhe leper is in hiding, he
cannot be onerutea upon, the nee
rosis will eoittinuejlo eat. it?, way up
tho bone oflthe leg. nd in a brief
and horrible tiinuf that leper will die
of gangrene or some other terrible
complication. On the other hand, if
that same leper is in Molokai, the
surgeon w';ll opirate upon the foot
remove the ulcJr, cleanse the bone
and 1 ul a commote stop to that par
ticular ravr.gpof the disease. A
month after tle operation the lepe
will be out ridfngUiorseback, running
fool races, swimming in the breakers
or climbing the giddy tides of the
hu Si"'
l.orrors of
valleys
The old l.orrors of leprosy go back
to the conditions tlit obtained before
the days of antispptic surgery, ana
befdre the tJmo when physicians like
Doctor Gooflhue ami -Doctor IIoll
mann wentllo li e at f lie Settlement
Doctor Goodhue is the', iiioneer sur
geon there! and too mdclf praise can
not be given him for thb noble worl
ho has doiw. I spoilt oti " morning in
the oiienaling room with him, and of
the three joperations hq performed
two werejon men, new-comers, who
had ariived on tho same steamer
vith me. I In each case 'the disease
had attacked in one spotAmly. One
man hadla perforating ulcer i(1 tije
ankle, well advanced, aud the other
man was suffering from a similar
atllicticif, well advanced, 'under his
arm Both cases wero well(advanced
becauselthe men had teen 611 the out
side and had not been treated. In
'each case Doctor Goodhue nut an un
mediate and complete stop to the
ravage, and in four weeks those two
men
len will be as well and. abl bodied
as
on
s lliry ever were in their 'lives, the
nly fliffei ence between thenihnd you
or mu bting that the disease is lyln
dormant in their bodies aud may at
unji future time commit another
ravage.
Leprosy is as old as history! Re
fejences to it iire found in thesearllest
written records. And yet today
nactical.y nothing moio is known
shout it than was known then This
iituch"wasi:irow"irihen-namely, that
it wfis contagious nnd that those
afllieted bv It should be segregated.
The (inference between then and now
is that today the leper is more rigid
ly segregated and more humanely
treated. But leprosy itself still re
mains tho same awful and profound
mystery. A reading of the reports
of the physicians aud specialists of
ill countries reveals the balllmg na
ture of the disease. These leprosy
specialists are unanimous on no one
phase of the disease. They do not
know a
They are ballled in the discovery of
a serum wherewith to light me dis
ease. And in all their work, as yet.
they have found no clue, no cure.
Sometimes there have been blaze of
hope, theories ofcausat'on and much
heralded cures, but every time the
darkness of failure quenched the
llnme. A doctor insists that the
cause of leprosy is a long-continued
lish diet, and he proves his theory
voluminously till a physician from the
highlands of India demands why the
natives of that district should there
fore be alllitted by leprosy when they
have nover eaten lish, nor all 'the
generations of their fathers before
tliem. A man treats a leper with
certain kind of oil or drug, announces
u cure, aud live, ten or fortv years
afterward the disease breaks out
i.yaiti. It K tli s trick of leprosy ly
ing dormant in the body for iudeter
minute periods that is responsible for
many allei d cures. But this much
certain: as vet there has been no
nutheniic case of a cure.
Lenr'osv is feebly contagious, but
how is it eontiig'ous? An Austnan
nhvMciitu has iuneulaied hiinse f and
his assis' nil's with leprosy ai,d failed
to enlch ii. But lhi. is not co- clu
sive, for there i.s the lamous cast- 01
the Haw .'liau murdere'r, who had his
sentence of depth commuted to life
imnrisonment on his ugreedlng t") be
inoculated with '.he bacillus leprae
Some time after nioeul ition, leprpiv
made its appearance, and the man
died a lener on MolulMl. iNor was
this conclusive, for it was discovered
t'..at ul the time he was inoculated
several members of his family were
already sullering from the' disease on
Molokai. He may lave contracted
the disease from ihcm, and-Mt may
have been well along in its mysterious
period of incubation at the time lie
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was oflicinll.t inoculated; Then there
is the cace if that hero of the church
Father Damien, who went to Molokai
a clean man, a'.d uied a leper. There
have been manv theories as to how
he contracted leprosy, hut nobody
knows, fie never km w himsi if. But
every chance that he ran has -er
tninly been run by a woman a' pre
sent living in tin Settlement; who
has lived there icany years: who has
had live leper husbands, and had
children by thein; and who U today
as she always has beun, frte of Uw
disease.
And yet no light has been shed up
on the mystery of leprosy. When
more is learned about the disease, a
cure for it, 'may bo expected. Once
un ellicacious serum Is discovered,
leprosy, because it is so feebly con
tagious, will pass away swiftly from
the earth. The battle waged with It
will be short and sharp. In the
meantime, how to discover that
serum or some other uugucssed-of
weapon? In the present it is a
serious matter.. It Is estimated that
thoro are half a million lepers, not
segregated, in India abne. Carne
gie libraries, Rockefeller universities
and manv similar benefactions are all
very well; but one cannot help think
ing how far a few thousands of dol
lr.rs would go, ay in tho leper Sot
tlcment of Molckui. The residents
thero are "accidents of fate, scape-'
goats to some mysterious natural law
of which man knows nothing, isolated
for the wolfaro of their fellows, who
else might catch tho dread disease,
even as they have caught it, nobody
knows how. Not for their, sake
merely, but foi tho sake of future
generations, a fow thousands of dol
lars would go far in a legitimate and
scientific search after a cifre for lep
rosy, for a serum, or, for somo un
dreamed discovory that will enable
tho medical world to exterminate the
bacillus leprae. There's, tho place
for your money, you philanthropists.
Leap Ycup Ounce.
The Catholic Ladles Aid Society
will gavo u Leap Year Dance and
Concert at the Knights of Pythias,
Hall on Saturday cven'ng, February
2!)th, to raise funds with which to
pay the retnah.lng debt 011 the Broth
er's cottage.
Tickets will Eoonbe on sale
members.
by th'e
VBTLESEN AGAIN liOSfiS.
t. M. Vutlescn lost his . second
suit for the custody of his two sons
hist Saturday in tho Circuit Court.
In November 1898 L. M. Votle
non and Lucy llavsoldeti were
named in Lahaina nnd two sons
were horn to them.
In 1901 Mrs. Vctlesct, sued lor a
divorce and the custody of the
children. In this suit Mr. Vctlc-
sen neither appeared in jerso(ii nor
bv altornev. A decree of divorce
was granted and tho mother given
the custody of the children. Mrs.
Vetlcson later married William
Miner of Makawao.
Mr. Vetle?on then brought suit
for the custody of the children and
tho Court granted the petition
Mrs. Vetlesen niipealed to the
Supreme Court w'lierc the finding
of the lower court wore reversed.
Again Mr. Vetlesen brought suit
for the custody of the children.
The hearing was had Saturday and
the petition was denied.
While the father of the children
is well off financially and could
doubtless give th? children n better
education and training than they
will probably getunderthe present
ci.rouniFtanees his failure to oppose
his former wifes petition for tho
custody of the childien has had
much o do with the loss of 1 1 i f two
suit's.
H. W. Breekons was the attorney
for L M. Vetlesen while- J. L,
Coke has represented Mrs. Minoi
in all of her legal contests. E. M,
Watson took charge of the last suit
for J. L. Coke in his absence.
NEW
INDUSTItins HOli PUMA
SECTION.
The work of introducing diversi
fied industries into the Puna dis
trict will be taken up on a large
scale in the very near future. There
is a' large amount of land in this
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section which is admirably fitted
for the" growing of rubber and of
pineapples. Its resources are to b
carefully looked into in tho near
future.
The important item of transpor
tation will be an easy one in this
section, as tne ililo Katlroau runs
close to tho land which it is pro
posed to plant and a short uxten
sion of the lines only will bo needed
to reach thousands of acres of fine'
land. At present the representative
of a large San Francisco firm is
investigating the pineapple iixlus
try, with the intention of making
a large investment in this line. His
attention has been called to th(
Puna district.
Puna District has many .thous
ands of acres of tho finest lands in
the Territory. 'J'he land is-sloping
just enough to afford drainage and
has abundant rain fall and great
l;eat.
Rubber has grown therefor years
and gives promise'of being a great
success.
DEATH
STRUGGLE
SHARK.
WITH A
From Kauai comes a most ro
markable story of a man killed by
hi shark. A number of Japanese
about thirty in all, wore fishing
with giant powder at Mana on the
western shore of Kauai a week ago
Wednesday. A, stick of the giant
ppwdcr had been' exploded in tho
water and a. number of fish were
floating stunned on the surface.
One of the Ja"paneso swain out to
gather them in. There is no beach
there, but the shore drops off ah
ruptly intofteop water. The Jap
anese had gathered quite a number
of the fish and floated them in to
ward shore, near enough so that he
had begun throwing tli,cm on land,
when his companions aw a shark
swimming toward him. V They call
ed out to him to warn hfta of his
danger, and he at once puti for the
shore. He hud aptually riVm out
of tho water with one foot Ion the
ground, whon the shark gcuvd him
by tho other leg, and drail him
back and under the surface. Al
most immediately both rose again,
and to tho amazement of his com
panions, apparently in order to try
to save himself from tho shark, tho
Jap had thrown his nrhis around
the body of tho monster. The
water wnc read with his blood, ,
seemingly his leg' having hocn'lok-
en off, anil almost itislnntly he
wont down again and disnppenred
for good.
A S50000, SISAL mtOWINO
SCIlUMli
A sisal enterprise involving nn
investment of fiO.OOO is about to
be launched.
Some time ago tho Knudeens of
Kauai applied for the sale at auc
tion of about '2000 acres of sandy' '
land lying between Kuknha nnd
Mann on the western sidoof Kitiai.
This is government land that is
under lease to them, hut the lease
as only a few more years to run.
Phoy offered that if the land was
put up for sale that they would
suri'oiuler the remniniinf tnrin nf
0
the lease.
"The land is really accretions
that have been built up in thj
course of time and lies makai of the
Kekuhii canefields and of tho
swamps that themselves lie niakni
of the cnnofields," snys Land Conir
missioner Pratt. "It is a comnnrV
lively narrow strip extending for V
three or four miles north and south.
There are algaroha trees at the ex
treme northern end and nt the
extreme southern end. But be
tween there is no growth of nnv
value."
.After conference Governor Froar
and Land Comn'iissioner Pratt have
determined to put the land up in
lot- of about 500 acres each on
agreements of sale conditioned on
the putting of the land under sisal
during the five years the agreement
has to run.
( It is estimated that it will cost
$50,000 to put the jvliolo 2000 acres
under cultivation.
The Knudsen brothers will bo
bidders when .the property - is .put
up at auction. Whether there will
he other bidders or not is not
known.
HACK HORSES
RUNAWAY.
A runaway team from .Vaikapu
dashed into Wailuku Monday
evening and created 11 bit of excite
ment. As the team entered Wai
luku it was headed for the Auto
mobile of Dr. II. II. Dinegar. The
machine was standing by the sido
of the street while tho Doctor was
making a professional call on one
of his patients.
Charles Rose and a Jap wero in
the machine at the time the horses
approached. The. Jap remember
ed that self preservation is tho first
law of nnture and beat a ha-ty: re
treat. Mr. Rose rushed at the
horses as if to strike them with his
lint. They turned just enough for
the wheels of the hack to miss the
machine by a narrow margin.
'IU10 driver had -left the horses in
charge, of a littlo boy who was un
able to manage them. The driver'
was arrested convicted and sen
tence suspended for thirteen
months.
Hans Amundsen was the owner
of tho hack and one of the horses.
Maukev S-rit Wailuku
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CORDIALS. BRANDIES. '
WIlTS-KHiS, GINS
Etc Etc.
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Oottlocl Deur
25c 2 Glasses 25c
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