The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-03-15

than on the same quantity OF land IN Illinois or
Minnesota. All this is the result of experiment
and investigation for q number of years. To as
sumo that there is no profitable culture at the ISL
ands besides sugar cane is only to assume that the
bounds of human knowledge have been struck.
Prof. Alexander, and s. Il. Alexander sugar
baron of Maui, have just left us. The scholar
ship of the Professor enabled him to decipher
nearly all of the hieroglyphics on the Oriental
pyramids. In the temple of Thebcs was dis
covered an inscription which proved to be IN
commemoration of a visit paid by kamapuaa of
Hawaii, to Osiris of Egypt, b. c. Is 400. The
gentlemen return to the Islands, rich in Eastern
spoils. Among them l notice Arab horses; a
sacred cow; another Cleopatra needle, found by
them in a vacant Gown lot up the Nile; samples of
sugar cane taken from the hanging gardens of
Babylon; three hundred gallons of Jordan River
water, quite alive with pollywogs; and a troop
of Circassian girls bought in the markets of Con-
stantinople, destined to be the wives OF Cinnamon
engaged in rural affairs at Haiku.
One of the most extraordinary results of these
reform times, is the cow lotion almost by whole
sale of thriving politicians in Warren County,
New Jersey. a number of men, most respecta-
bic, church members in comfortable circum-
stances, and holding the county offices, have
been found guilty of deliberate frauds, the draw
ing of money on forged warrants. The sums
were not large, rather of the till robbing order
of theft, so a half dozen respectable heads of
families stood up and took sentences to States
Prison. They must surely feel like the pick
pocket, WHO was caught IN tue act Oh Stealing u
pocket book. 1t was opened before him and
contained only a FIVE cent piece: as he weni into
the dungeon, his poetic nature broke out in these
stirring lines
L" When I think of what 1 SIN,
Compared with what 1 was,
Without y t snfBSien my cause away
An old politician said to me some time ago,
that if the truth could be got at, two thirds of
the men who have held Office during the last
fifteen years would be in the penitentiary. We
have not seen, nor shall we see, for some time to
come the full effect of the works of the public
officials. Yesterday the fourishing city of Eliza
beth City, New Jersey, went into bankruptcy.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on
wooden pavements. The money was borrowed.
Now the payment are worn out, the real estate
deprecated fifty per cent. and the taxes not col
lectable. \ large part of the expense went into
the hands of the IS ring Our political commu-
mites have left the barn doors open for some
years, and now after the horses have been stolen,
there is much ado, and great effort 10 catch the
thieves.
Tho new skating rink near Madison Square is
now finished. | have tried it, and it does well.
The entire block of ground is covered with ice,
artIfcially made. You skate independent of sea-
sons. The cost of making and placing the ice is
not large. Now we warm our houses in winter
with coal, why not cool them in summer with
ice. The coming men will, at times, open his
windows in August, to let in a little warm air
into his cold room. The coming Hawaiia n will
spend an hour every day in some "Arctic Park
on the Waikiki road, where the mercury drops
to zero. Is this visionary Already men are
asking why cooling rooms and skating Kinks were
not established before.
General Armstrong has been stirring up the
people here on the Indian question. \ meeting
held in the Chamber of Commerce attracted gen.
eral attention. The meetings in New Haven,
Providence, and Morristown were large. The
fact is, now that the slavery issue is out of the
way, the people have turned to the Indian ques-
ton. Every one is surprised at the iniquity Of
this great nation. The press and the pulpit are
denounclng everybody. Hand over to a Hindoo
the sermons and editorials on the Indian question,
and then tell him that the great people who al
lowed these crimes to be committed were Il
q Christian > people, and he would laugh IN your
face. If you can fix the attention of the Ameri-
can people on any subject they make quick work
in the treatment of it. The Indian question will
now be settled definitely. Will this great and
Christian nation make reparation to the Indian
for the evil done him? Never. w. N. A.