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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-27
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gIRE ENTINGUISERs-Th fire on board the King
'PSIip. together with the advertisement of Messrs.
,Brcwer X Co, that they had just received an invoice
Of Fire ExtinguishcrS, has led our thoughts TO dwell
on their utility. II is claimed that where fire is con-
fined. as between the walls Of a house or in a ships
hold, that the advantages of the Extinguishers are
multiplied. 1t is said that our Fire Department
have two Of these instruments, and we wish that their
usefulness he'd been put 10 the test ON hoard the
King Philip. We should like TO have seen the noz-
gle Of an Extinguishcr pointed down the openings
cut on her main deck, under the top-glllant forecas-
tie, and are confident that the result would have
proved their utility. The test to which they were
put some months since proved that they could be
usei 20 advantage even in the open air. On planta-
tons where water j. scarce, OF where no facilities
exist for cXtingui-hing fires, We would urge the pur-
chase Of an Extinguisher. The first cost Will be
nothing compared 10 the damage which might be in
nictci through the lack Of means 10 cxtinguish a fire
In its incipicncy. We believe that the government
would be putting money to n good use if they would
supply Lahaiua, IIilo and Wailuku with one or
two Of these Extinguishers, particularly as they have
no organized force in either Of the above named places
for the purpose Of putting out fires. We would sug-
gest to the Chief Engineer Of our Department the
propriety Of having the instruments under his control
taken out whenever an alarm of fire is sounded, and
thus give proof Of their value. They should be tested
at least every three months.
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periodical literature They arr regularly received Us each
packet from th- Iut-i states. AMI can D. supplied GA
APPLICATION. The Undersigned siIIt-10TI-rh y mallauy PAPERS
ulI iu ta-aHs.- Ust GItaHs- whom desire them. ~
Beside tle above. the mi1siu- papers can always De- hIlat
;- counter ~ 'h- arrival o. each MALL
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pr.-su TaTar-- California papers,
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NlsE- papers, E.st1n papers. 4
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pasftsss thereon
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.ou- f- q the minor publications On which the prices
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allowed. where over twenty five dollars worth q periodicals.
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- The American and Hawaiian hostages now amount 10 four
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h1rri afar th- vessels arr under sail. without regard o. cN-
psH-e. thus enabling sul-erbgr- 10 obtain their papers more
promptly than iu any other way.
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Bold ATTEMPT To DEsEnT.-Captain Hayes, of the
whaling bark Orioie, has given us an account of the
attempt at dcsertion Of two Hawaiians from his YES
sci, when off the Marquesas Islands. One evening
at eight O'Clock, when about twenty-five miles off
shore, having just left the island, the two men took
n tub, and placing in it a lot Of clothing, put it over
board, and soon after followed it, striking out boldly
for the shore. The bark was shortly after compelled
to alter her course, being unable to weather another
island, and towards morning was bccalmed. In the
morning the officer Of the deck reported two men
missing, and shortly after, the men were deserted
making for the ship. They were taken on board at
seven o'clock, having been in the water eleven hours.
They reported having lost tie tub, together with
some Of the clothing. They had tried TO reach the
shore, but having Il two-knot current against them,
they, having again raised the ship, made up their
minds to return TO her. y twenty-five mile swim,
under ordinary circumstances, is nothing to a Ha-
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REsIGNED.-We learn that Mr.. G. Won Gosnitz,
who has enjoyed % the reputation Of conduct
ing . the Government Press during the absence Of
DIR. J. Mott Smith,, - has resigned the position. The
fact that his name i omitted from its usual position
at the head of the editorial column, gives weight to
the rumor. Perhaps our " brother of the quill'' has
recalled to mind the fable of the monkey, cat and
chestnu;s, and finds the role Of Grimnikin unsuited
to his tastes. We rejoice at his independence. No.
man who has any self-respect can remain in a position
where lac Is compelled to sink his individuality so
utterly and disgraccfully. Why the name OF DIR.
Smith is retained at the head Of the columns as
a. Director Is an enigma TO Us. The Doctor distinct
Is gave us To understand that he had severed his
connection with the paper, and confessed that it had
been distasteful to him. Appearances Indicate that
- PccksuiI'' has taken hold Of the crank.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-27

BIrnpAY oF THE KISG OF PRUssIN-Monday,
the 22l inst, being the birthday Of William l, king
Of Prussia, and Head Of the North German Con-
federation, it was kept as Il holiday by our German
residents. Early in the day the L. :. 5. Ossipee was
decorated with fngs, as were also the American ship
.SyreH, the Hawaiian bark Ra Moi, and other ves-
sells in the harbor. 1t noon Mr.. I. c. Heuck, Con-
sui Of the North German Confederation, entertained
numerous visitors at his residence, among whom
were the members Of the Diplomatic and Consular
Corps, the Captain and officers Of the 0ssipee, His
Majcsty's Ministers and other Government officials.
We ciecriuuy endorse the statement that the German
element Of our population is law-abiding and enter
prisins, and second to none in point Of intelligence.
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- The gazette suys it is only recently that this
paper has taken a " high moral stand " in regard
&, the labor system of this Government. The time
when the " q. takes "a high moral stand has
yet 90 arrive.
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TANGLED \
the following item :

Books AT AUCTION. At the auction room of
Messrs. Adams * Wilder, will be sold, tonight, n
large number of books which are well worthy the at
tention of librarians or others wishing rare works.
Catalogues can be had at the auction room. As our
neighbor of the Gazette has kindly recommended us
20 purchase q volume in the catalogue, we would re-
turn the compliment by advising him to purchase lot
Ill. Having opened a religious controversy which
may perhaps last him through the summer, a perusal
Of the lot would be useful.
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RAIN Since Saturday night last this island has
had the benefit Of several drenching rains. From
three TO four inches Of rain fll on Saturday night
and Sunday, while showers have been Of frequent &C
currcnce since. We sincerely trust that our n~eighbors
on the other islands have been as fortunate, particu-
Iarly ON the Kona coast and district Of Kau, on
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SUBvEYoEs' BEroEr.-Capt.P Perkins, ofthe Syrcn'
-essE Ludlow, of the Hi6erHia, and Mr.. Daniel Eos
ter, Of the firm Of j.. Foster y Co, were appointed on
the survey Of the ship King Philip. and their re-
port estimates that the sum ~oftwenty thousand dollars
will be required to put the ship in good repair. We
learn that Capt. Hubbard has determined to consult
with his owners before taking any farther steps to-
wnrls renairing the ship.
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VESSELS UE.-Th clippers Sonora and .4kbGr are
supposed to be eighteen or twenty days out from San
Francisco, and over due They are bound for Hong
kong. The banks Florence and Legal Tender,
bound for the Ochotsk, will be due soon after April
LIST, and the bark ID. c. Murray, from April > to u.
The winds in March and April are uncertain and va
riable, and some Of these vessels may be over twenty
days Oh the passage hither.
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TuF =. King PHILIr" AsHoEE.-This unfortunate
shin met with another accident on Tuesday last.
The trades blowing quite fresh, she parted her stern
f.sts, and drifted over on to the west spit. No dam
age was done to the ship, and she was soon placed
right again. We have heard that the hawscrs bore
evidence Of having been cut.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23
Another.

married. peoples disputes remind
me of a story told in Leibuitz's
Misccllanies. There were two broth
ers; She elder, Joseph Reinold, lived
in Flanders and was Catholic; the
younger, William Reinold, lived in
England, and was Protcstant.-
They carried on long and warm
controversy as. to the merits Of their
respective faiths in letters, till they
began to think it would be as cheap
to see each Others as to pay SO much
postage. William went over to
Flanders and the controversy was
renewed verbally. They fought so
well, and the truth proved SO pow
crful on both sides, that each of the
brothers renounced his former reli.
gion, and adopted his brothers; so
that the Flemming wrote treatise
against Cardinal Bellarmine, ard
the Englishman Defence of the
Catholic church, both Of which are
to be found in the Gottengen libra
ry. 1t is pretty much so in family
quarrels; if the husband adopts his
wife's views; she takes up the opin-
ions he has abandoned, and defends
them strenuously.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23
81 Wish I Had Capital"

So we heard a great strappine
young man exclaim the other day.
We concluded he wanted little
practical advice, and we will give
it to him.
You want capital, do you? And
suppose you had what you call cap
ital, what would you do with it?-
Haven't you hands, feet, muscle,
bone brains, health, and don't you
call them capital? What more cap
ital did God give anybody?
"Oh! but they are not money"
say you. But they arc more than
money, and nobody can take them
from you. Don't you know how to
use them. If you don't, it's time
you were learning. Take hold OF
the plow, or hoe, or jack plane, OF
broad-ax, and 60 to work. Your
capital will then, in due time, yield
you large interest. Ay, but ther,' S
the rub; you don't want to work;
you want money on credit, so you
can play gentleman and speculate,
and end by playing the vagabond.
Or you want farm with pleuty
of hands upon it to do work, while
you run over the country and dissi-
pate; or you want to marry some
rich girl who may be foolish enough
to take you for your good looks,
that she may support you.
Shame on you, young man. Go to
work with the capital you have, and
you'll soon make interest enough
upon it to give you as much money
as you need, and make you feel like
man. If you can not make money
on the capital you have, you could
not if you had a large amount in
cash. If you do not know how to
nse bone, muscle, aud brains, you
would not know how to use gold. If
you let the capital you have lie idle,
and waste and rust out, it would be
the same with you if you had gold;
you would only know how to waste
it.
Then don't stand about idle, a
great helpless boy, waiting for some
thing to turn up, but 60 to work.
Take the first work you can find, no
matter what it is, SO that yon do it
we'll. Yes, whatever you undertake,
do it we'll; always do your best. If
you manage the capital you already
have, you will soon have plenty more
to manage;but if you can no. or will
not manage the capital God has
given you, you will never have any
other to manage. Do you hear,
young man?
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23
Nicely Caught.

At the masked freman's ball in
New Orleans, week before last, a
grey and handsome man who had re-
fused to take his wife to the ball on
the plea of business, was much struck
by stranger, a lady in a mask
On her he cxerted all his fascina-
ton. au,. .-. a..@@ .H. ..4.'
' Oh, sir, you quite put me cut
with your hattery ! I suspect you
are married man." said the lady.
No, indeed; but I confess a
willingness to get married since
have had the plea of seeing you, :"
was the gallant reply.
'' Indeed! but you haven't seen
my face yet =" "~s.vs#
No, but I know it is beautiful.
The exquisite that accompanies eve
rything you do or say tells me as
much.'
:" Indeed!"
81 think so but you will no
longer deny me that satisfaction !;
for l assugc you, lady, am deeply
in love.
/" Indeed -
'' 1t is true. Until met you to-
night women have looked to me
homely and commonplace.
"Oh, you are jesting.' -
" Indeed, | am not a@
=" And you never loved any one
before -
"Never Your sex appeared to
me always deccitfal, and my heart
refused them all sympathy. but for
you feel passionate attraction l
have no power or inclination to re-
sist'
Can this be true 20
"It is, indeed a+.e
% And yo, wish to see my face?"
- | am mad with impatience since
it will be the only face my heart
will ever mirror. 1t has upon it
now a rival impression. s"
: You are So persuasive | can no
longer deny the privilege-look ="
and the mask was removed.
1t was his wife
i" The devil - said the discom-
fitted Benedict, indulging in pro-
longed whistle.
Oh, no, my dear only the face
that has no rival impression on your
heart -"
!" Say, Mary, let's call it square
and 60 home.
think we'd better"
And they Went.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23
Good Sense.

A distinguished teacher writes:
CATER saw Mr.. Rarey breaking a
colt, I found 1t was not by irritati ting
appeals and nervous commands, or
laying on Of hands, but by being.
calm and resolute. The calmer I
got, the more perfect my, self-pos-
session, the more I governed aud
controlled my school. Many
teacher spends nearly the whole
time in trying to govern his school
and does not succeed then, because
he has not learned the great truth
Rarey taught us so impressively,
that you can govern a horses legs
by getting hold of the brain. They
should know that the controlling
power is in the mind, the will, and
not in the whipping power or in the
seolding pow er.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23

blind to the doings of the cutpurscs
of the Republic until they begin to
fight for the millions stolen from
under it's nose. Then we learn how
the money coined out of the sweat
of the honest workers Of this patient
and long-suffcring nation is disposed
of. 1t is charged that the Pacific
Railroad and its double, the CREDIT
MoB1L1ER, have swindlcd the Treas
ury out Of q cool thirty millions of
dollars; and now that the secrets of
the gigantic job have had the light
let into them with cold-chiscls and
crowbars, there is a strong proba-
bility that the charge will be proven.
This is u colossal theft, but it is
nothing more than all illustration,
though startling one, of the vii
lainous system of corruption and
double-de ealing which prevades every
branch of the public service. For
every public work, national, state.
municipal, the people pay from fifty
to two hundred per cent more than
the sum honestly required for
it's construction: and even in the
process of collecting the taxes out
Of which the fraudulent bills are
paid, the most infamous frauds are
perpetratcd It is useless to 60
into particulars. The sickening de-
tails of wholesale public robberies
are spread before the public every
day. False stewards annually de-
vote two hundred millions of the
peoples money to the building up
Of y moneyed aristocracy, and this
privileged class, born of the COM
plicity of outside frecbooters with
official thieves, controls legislation
and secures in that, as we'll as in
every other way, the aggrandize-
mcnt Of the few at the expense of
the many.-N. Y. Sunday Times.
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WHOLE NO. A5O
Es,lsl&isl on Judas.

JOHN RUsKIN, in the Crown of
Wild Olives, characterizcs in his
trenchant style those who like to
make money as imitators Of Judas
"We do great injustice to Iscar-
lot in thinking him wicked above
all common wickcdncss. He was
only q common money-lover, and.
like all money-lovers, did not un-
derstand Christ; couldn't make out
the worth of him or meaning of him
He didn't want him to be killed -
He was horror-struck when he found
that Christ would be killed ;; threw
his money away and hanged himself
How many Of our present money
seekers, think you, would have the
grace to hang themselves, whoever
they killed ? But Judas was a
common, selfish muddle- headed, pill
fering fellow his hand always in
the bag of the poor, not airing for
them. He didn't understand Christ
yet he believed in him much more
than most Of us do had seen him
do miracles 3; thought he was quite
strong enough to shift for himself.
and he, Judas, might as we'll make
his own little by-perquisitcs out Of
the affair. Christ would como out
of it we'll enough, and he have thir-
ty pieces. Now, that is the money
seeker s idea all over the world -
He doesn't hate Christ, but can't
understand him he doesn't care
for him-sees no good in that be-
nevolcnt business, but makes his
own little job of it, at all events,
come what what will. And thus
out of every mass of men you have
q certain number of bagmen-your
first rate men, whose main object
is to make money !; and they do
make it, make it in all sorts of un-
fair ways, chiefly by the weight and
force of money itself, or what is
Fcalled the weight of capital that
is to say, the power which money
once obtained has over the labor of
the poor so that the capitalists can
take all it's produce to himself ex-
cept tho laborer's food. That is
the modern Judas way of carrying
the bag and bearing what is put
| therein
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23

What will you take to drink? -
asked the. waiter of a young lad who
for the first time accompanied his
father to public dinner. Uncer-
tain what to say, and feeling sure
that he could not be wrong if he
followed his fathers example he re-
piled:
"I'll take what father taxes
The answer reached the father
ear, and instantly the full response
bility of his position rushed upon
him. If he SAID, "I'll take ale, "
as he always had said before, his son
would take it also, and THEN =
And the father shuddered at the
history Of several young men, who,
once promising like his own bright
lad, had been ruined by drink,
started up in the solemn warming be-
fore him. Should his hope also be
blasted, and that open-faced, noble
lad become a burden and a curse as
they had become But for strong
drink they would have been active,
earnest, prosperous men and if it
could work such ruin hpon them,
was his own son safe? Quicker
than lightning these thoughts pass
ed through his mind, and in a mo :
ment the decision was made. "If
the boy falls, he shall not have me
to blame - and then, in tones
tremulous with emotion, to the as
tonishment of those who knew him,
he said, "Waiter, I'll take water;''
and from that. day to this, strong
drink has been banished from that
mans home.
The young lad, in his brief utter
ance, was really the representative
OF the generation to which he be-
longs. God has so decrced it, that
the father is the highest authority in
the world to his child. Who does
not know that ''My father said so, !"
is the end Of all controversy with
the little ones around us =? Who
does not see the parents tone gait.
and manners continually reproduc-
ed in the children whose nature is
now soft as wax to receive an i'm
preston, and rigid as marble to re-
tain it, and who watch with quick,
initiating eye those who to them are
Gods vicegerents? "
Would that We could impress up
on the fathers and mothers of this
country the solemn fact that the fu-
ture character of their children is
being formed by them f; that if they
are trained upin the way they should
60, when they are old they will not
depart from it but that, if they
become vain, sensual, and degraded
the seeds will have been deposited
and the bias given in the early
morning Of their lives.-Voice Of
Truth.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23

until twenty years after this time.
A hundred years ago, Canada be-
longcd to France, and the whole
population did not exceed a million
and half of people. A hundred
years ago, the great Frederick OF
Prussia was performing those great
exploits which have made him i'm
mortal in military annals, and with
his little monarchy was sustaininga
single handed contest with Russia,
Austria. aud France, the three
great powers of Europe combined.
A hundred years ago; Napoleon was
not born, and Washington was a
modest Virginia colonel, and the
great events in history Of the two
worlds, in which these great but
dissimilar men took leading parts,
were then scarcely forcshadowcd. \
hundred years ago. the United States
was the most loyal part Of the Brit
ish empire, on the political horizon
no speck indicated the struggle
which within a score of years there
after established the great republic
Of the world. \ hundred years ago.
there were but four newspapers IN
America. Stcam-engincs had not
been imagined, and railroads and
tclceraphs had not entered into the
rcmotest conception of man. When
we come to look back at it through
the vista Of history, we find that .
the century passed has been allotted
more important events, in their
bearing upon the happiness Of the
world, than almost any other which
has elapsed since the creation.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-04-23
The Age of Jobs.

Patriotism, according to Webster
Noah, nat Daaiel-is ''passion
which aims to serve ones country. F"
This may be correct definition Of
patriotism AS IT WAS, but to 1T the
modern article it required an adden.
dunn. As thus: "a passion that
aims to serve ones country for WHAT
THEY CAN STEAL" The shortest
cut to wealth in these days is
through the public treasury. Every
body says 50, thinks SO; and when
plunder-gorged rouges who have
been through it'quarrel, ,and their
rascalities are ventilated, erybody
knows it. Ifit were not thieves who
consider themselves maltreated by
their comrades in the division of
spoil now and then turned informers,
the people would never bo able to
guess the extent to which they are
vietimised. The government seems