The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-07-11

4 very good anecdote is told of Victoria $ stree
domestic discipline, illustrating her method OF
managing her children i'll their early life "one
day. when the queen was present In her carriage
at a military review, the princess royal, theh
rather a willful girl of about thirteen, sitting IN
the front seat. seemed 10 be rather famiilar ana
coQuettish with some young officers oil the escort.
Her Majesty gave several reproving looks, without
~ayail-winked at her. but she wouldn stay
winked. At length, in flirting her handkerchief
over the side of the carriage, she dropped it-too
evidently nor accidentally. Instantly two or three
Young heroes sprang from their saddles 10 return
it to herfair hand-but the awful voice o~froyaity
stayed them. Stop gentlemen exclaimed the
queen: leave it Just where 1T lies. Now, my
daughter. get down from the carriage and pick up
your handkerchief There was no help for 1T.
The royal footman let down the steps for the little
royal lady, who proceeded TO lift from the dust
the pretty piece OF and lace. che olusned
a good deal, though she tossed her head saucIiy,
and she was doubtless angry enough, but the NOR
tifying lesson nipped in the bud her first impulse
toward coauetry. How many American mothers
would be equal to such a piece of Spartan disci-
pline?'
The ALASKA TREArY.-The people of California
feel very deeply about the delay of Congress to
provide funds for the completion of the Alaska
purchase. For many reasons, the purchase was
exceedingly popular on the Pacific coast, and 1t is
predicted with apparent reason that, If Congress
adjourns without voting the necessary approprla-
ton, the States of the Pacific slope will be very
likely to vote against the Republican party IN the
next election. 1t is believed that the acquisition
of this territory is of incalculable Importance TO
the commercial interests of the Pacific States, and
the business classes are especially indignant at the
delay. We do not understand why this territory
ever should have been purchased, and, IN spite OF
all that has been said in favor of the treaty, are
unable to perceive Its Importance. But 1t has
been made by the Executive by and with the adj
vice and consent ofthe Senate, as the Constitution
requires. 1t is now n complete bargain between
the United States and Russia, and we cannot see
with what justice Congress can refuse the money
needed to carry it into effect. Whether there are
reasons for the treaty not yet understood by the
public, which fully justified the Senate in ratify-
ing it., is not now of material consequence it has
been ratified. and the honor ofthe country requires
that it should not be repudiated.-&. Louis Dem
Ocrot.
An INTERESTING REPoRT.-The San Francisco
Labor AMI Employment Exchange was organized
n few weeks since, ON the spur of the moment In
consequence ofthe multitudes of immigrants being
landed daily without means, and who know not
where to 90 TO look for employment. The Secre-
tary thereof reports that already there have been
applications for 2,029 w~orkmen, comprising 10l
different trades and occupations. Ofthis number,
1881 were for unskilled workmen and farming
hands. There have been All applications for Ia
borers from San Francisco and 1000 from the
interior of the State. Beside this, applications
have come from Puget Sound, Nevada, Arizona,
Utah and Victoria. The Exchange has found
employment for 1888 persons, comprising los
different trades and occupations-I96 laborers, Ia
farmers, SO teamsters, etc. Vi tins number ,4o2
were single men and 33l married men. There
has been subscribed and collected, S2,S62 so for
the support of the institution, ofwhich S1,47SO %
has been expended, leaving a balance of s 1854 43
in the treasury. Reports are being prepared, to
send to the States, showing the kind of labor de-
manded in California, and the prices paid for such
labor.
SUDDEN DEATHS AND THEIR CAUSE.-THE Pacific,
moralizing on death, says:
death is death in the country but in the
city, death is only an incident. 1t is an every
day occurrence. We should be surprised if there
were not a funeral or two n day in our streets if
there were not the form of some unfortunate
found lifeless every day or two. These many
cases of instantaneous death ought to render US
more thoughtful than We are more thoughtful of
their causes as well as of their mourntulness and
their other sad results. At least one-half of all
these sudden deaths are the consequence of vice.
Some excess causes them. Drunkenness is the
most frequent kind of excess. But, much eating,
high living, fast living, careless living, reckless
daring, great exposure, are the precursors and the
procurers of sudden deaths. Many among us who
are not very Incorporate, not very sensual, not
very reckless, are all the time consuming their
vitality prematurely, breaking themselves down.
bv the strain of continued work, excitement and
wear. They do not keep Sunday. They take on
a new work instead of laying off an old burden on
that day. All violators of Gods laws, especially
his Sunday laws, suffer in health, strength, and
power of endurance. Men addicted to bad habits
arc not wont to suspend them for the Lords day;
if they should, they would live the longer, even
then. Rarely do sober, temperate, worshipful
people die suddenly. Rarely do they die in lone
illness and neglect"