The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-02-26
A Sovereign.

Moltke was the exposure Ct all eyes during the
recent Royal Imperial review Of twenty thousand
troops on the Palace d'Armes al Milan. He was on
the field amid a shining Italian stah. and eomp!i-
uente1 highly the local soldiers. Emperor William
and the King gallopei about on their chargers, bat
were lesser stars-EIsterH Dgpsr-
We can well believe the above Kaiser VIII
liam and Victor Emanuel arc sovcreIgns by night
of birth but Moltke Is q sovereign By I right
more divine than kings can inherit or ommand.
The Emperor Of Germany and the king OF Italy,
perhaps. are wise enough TO govern their Tespec-
tive realms well and both promise TO 90 down to
history as prudent and sagacIous rulers. But
Moltke is as much greater than both a. the sun
light is greater than q spirit lamp. 4 wisdom
divine waited upon his birth, and the gods OF
war smiled above bis cradle. While mere kings
are plotting over petty laws, he spreads the map
Of Europe before hin, and weighs the strength Of
every realm as exactly Is the assayer weighs the
grains of gold in q specimen Of ore. When
France turned her terrible eagles to the East, and
the shout a On to Berlin rang along those glIs-
tening lines, az the echoes rolled beyond the
Rhine and smote the ears of startled Germany,
that peoplc did not turn 10 their Emperor but 10
the Chieftain Of SadOwa. And when from his
thin lips the words fell, that it the enemy did not
cross the Rhine within seven days he never would,
thew believed him. What the old man did is his
tory. Armies from all over Prussia were hurled
to the west, and before n fortnight had passed the
foe that started so nerceiy on the offensive was
put upon the defensive, and found that the war
was to spend its thunders on the soil, not OF
Germany, but France. And rs surely as a gifted
chess player moves his men to a certain check
mate OF his adversary, So surely, with vast armies
for pawns and castles and bishops, this mysteri-
Gus man made his moves and without q mistake,
a retreat or repulse, played his mighty game of
war until the iairest capital of the earth was cap
tured, and the most gallant nation under the sun
was at his feet. No wonder the impetuous Ital-
ian people crowded to catch a glimpse of the octo-
genarian, and forgot the reverence due to Kings
IN his presence. He appeared to them as one
who had reduced the art of war to an exact
science-as one whose calculations were as certain
as the laws which hold planets and suns in their
orbits as one whose ommands had all the awful
certainty of DEGREES of fate. The first Napoleon
seemed the approximation OF q battle genius.
The flash and clouds of a battle field were so
many signals to him, and from their mystic alpha
bet he read unerringly the scroll which pointed
out the way to victory. The causes which in
spired Napoleon are but effects with Moltke. He
heeds not the clouds nor the commotion. He
knows just how many guns are laundering, how
many horsemen are charging, and believes that
any obstacle will give way, if a blow severe enough
be delivered against it. Napoleon was an eagle
who dared to soar with glittering wings toward
any mountain top. Won Moltke is n serpent who
noiselessly climbs toward the same hight. Who
shall say which has reached the greater elevation
IENlNN &1DDhEoS.-I am II zAHu III lllS l.
what they call the world | don't think much of
It's a very hannelly world, and smells of pare
goric awfully. It's a dreadful light world, too,
and makes me blink, tell you. And I don't
know what to do with my hands | think I'll
dig my fists in my eyes. No; l won't, I'll scrab-
BILE at the corner of my blanket and chew it up,
and then I'll holler whatever happens II boiler.
And the moro paregoric they give me the louder
I'll yell. That old nurse puts the spoon in my
mouth in a very uneasy way, and keeps tasting
my milk herself all the while. She split snuff in
it last night, and when bollercd, trotted me.
That came of being a two days old baby. There's
a pin sticking in me now and if say a word
about it I'll be trotted or fed and l would rather
have catnip tea. I'll tell you who l am. | found
out to day. l hear folks say, 90 Hush, don't wake
up Emeline's baby )" and | suppose that pretty
white-faced woman over on the pillow is Emeline.
No, L was mistaken; for Il chap was in here just
now, and wanted to see Bob's baby and looked
at me and said, " was 4 funny toad AMI looked
just like Bob. lie smelt of cigars. | wondered
who else | belonged to. Yes, there's another
that " Gamma" 1t was I" Gamma baby, SO it
was" | declare l do not know who | belong to,
but I'll boiler and may be I'll find out. There
comes Snufy with catnip tea. I'm going to sleep.
l wonder why my hands won't go where | want
them tO.-By POOtey HSey Ting.
"Scoundrels, murderers. highway robbers and
ravishers > are ind~iscriminately classed as " Hood
lums in San Francisco. At present this multifari-
Gus iniquity is so rampant there, and so gets the bet
ter of ordinary police precautions, that there is q
loud call for extraordinary measures. Some advo-
cate the pillory; others, the whipping-post; others,
the code of Draco, the smallest penalty being death;
others still, Ca whip of scorpions to lash the rascals
naked through the world" One writer who is
calmer than the rest, wants " an enlisted and mill
tary armed force,' which shall earnest, punish, and
obliterate the so called Hoodlum." He evidently
means business. for he adds that "the men should
be as near six feet high as possible The laxity
and ineffciency of the police is dwelt upon bitterly.
Why not hang a lax and inefficient policemen or two.
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