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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
The National Widow,
w ashiugton Post.

DIR. Bliss during the eighty days he was in
charge of Garfield, received in all over 900
letters. Fully oue-half of these letters were
absolutely devoid of sense. The other half
related to mechanical contrivances that eager
inventors wished to place at the White
House The average inventor regarded the
White House at that time as he would State
or county fair as a fine place in which to ex-
hibit goods One of the most singular ideas
running through all this correspondence was
the popular belief in the good effects of the
TRANSMISSION of blood. There were any num-
offered his entire life's boodif it would save
the President
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
TENNYsON's HOME.
The House Built by the Poet Laureate, Where
He Lives and Works.

Mrs. Thackeray Richie, in December Harper.
Aldworth was built some dozen years ago,
when Mrs Tennyson had been ordered
change and Freshwater was found to be un-
bearable and overcrowded during the sum-
mer months. 1t must be borne in mind that
to hospitable people there are dangers from
friendly inroads as well as from the attacks
of enemies. The new house, where for
many years past the family has spent its
summers, stands on the summit OF a high,
lonely hill in Surrey, and yet it
is not quite out of reach of Lon
don life. 1t is a white stone house
with many broad windows facing a great
view and long terrace, like some of those at
Siena or Perugia, with low parapet of stone,
where ivies and roses are trained, making a
foreground to the lovely haze of the dis
lance. Sometimes at Aldworth, when the
summer days are their brightest, and high
Blackdown top has been well warmed and
sunned,-I have seen a little procession COM
ing along the terrace walk, and proceeding
by its green boundary into a garden,
where the sun shines its hottest upon
sheltered lawn, and where standard
rose-trees burn their flames Mr.
Tennyson in his broad hat goes first drag
ging the garden chair in which Mrs. Tenny-
son lies. Perhaps one son is pushing from
behind while another follows with rugs and
cushions for the rest of the party. If the
little grandsons and their young mother are
there the family group is complete One
special day l remember when we all sat for
an hour round about the homelv chair and
its gentle occupant II seemed not unlike a
realization of some Italian picture that had
somewhere seen, the tranquil eyes, the peace
full heights, the glorious summer day, some
sense of lasting calm, of beauty beyond the
present hour.
No impression of this life at Aldworth and
Farringford would be complete if, beside the
parents the sons were not seen, adding each
in his own measure to the grateful sight of
united household Hallam, the eldest son,
has been for years past the adviser, the friend
and companion of his father and mother at
home; and Lionel the younger, although
living away at London in his own home, all
the same holds fast TO the family tradition
of parents and children closely united
through the chances and changes of life, aud
trusting and supporting one another.
Mr.. Tennyson works alone in the early
hours of the morning, and comes down long
after his own frugal meal is over to find his
guests assembled round the social breakfas
table. He generally goes out for walk be-
fore luncheon, with a son and a friend, per-
hapS, and followed by a couple of dogs. All
Londoners know the look of the stalwart
figure and the line face and broad brimmed
felt hat as he advances
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
Around the World on a Bicycle.
San Francisco Call.


young English bicyclist, now in this
city, has arranged for himself years ardu-
Gus work. He says that he intends to winter
here, and in the spring proposes to make a
trip around the world on his bicycle He
will start from this city eastward by way of
Ogden, Omaha and Chicago, and, crossing
the Atlantic from New York, will ride from
Liverpool to Dover He will cross the
English CHANNEL to France and ride through
Europe into Asiatic Turkey, thence through
Persia and Turkestan into the Chinese en-
pre- and make his way down the valley of
the Yang-tse- Kiang to Shanghai, and thence
by vessel to San Francisco, consuming a
year in the travelling. He says he considers
the trip from Sacramento to Reno the most
difficult piece of road for bicycle, and
looks with some dismay at his proposed trip
through Asia, where a bicycle has never
been seen or perhaps heard of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
The Washington Monument.


As you approach Washington City now,
the great round-shouldered dome of the
magnificent Capitol is no longer the first OBJ
ject that salutes your eyes. 1t is the impos-
ing four-cornered shaft, now nearing COM
pletion, which the country has been so long
rearing to the memory of the founder of
this city. The heart leaps with delight at
the sight OF it. Happily it is in fine proper
ton and unison with the large order OF
things here. Simple and severe in its lone
splendor, solemn almost in its solitude, up
there against the tranquil skies, it is going to
be, when completed, all that art and all that
heart could desire. For my own part, L try
to despise monuments, because those who
get them do not need them, and those who
need them rarely get them. However, we
are permitted to build monuments to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
A HAPPY MILLIONAIRE.
The Vast Possessions OF DR. David Ward, the
Richest Man in Michigan.

The Vast Possessions OF DR. David Ward, the
Richest Man in Michigan.
Northwestern Lumberman.
We often see going the rounds of the press
figures showing the wealth of Americas rich
men, but the name OF DR.. David Ward is
never among them. His modesty, in this age
of the world, is certainly a curiosity. In
early life Mr.. Ward saw the possibilities of
wealth that were locked up in the Michigan
forests, and invested every dollar he could
spare in pine lands, He now owns 3 300
00G, 600 feet of standing pine in Michigan and
Wisconsin, fully three hfths of 1t being the
cork variety, and the balance mostly bull
sap. 1t is said that all told, he does not own
10000 600 feet of Norway Ask any lumber
man who is acquainted with the Michigan
pinerieS who owns the choice pine of that
State and he will answer Dr. Ward. On
the head waters of the ManisLee he has rich
possessions of cork pine The AK. to him,
has been horror, and although for mauy
years he has been engaged, directly or in
directly, more or less in the manufacture of
lumber, we believe he has never numbered
a tract of land except when the timber upon
it was imperilled by fire from the operations
of his leighbcrs. For much of his sap and
bull sap pine ne has been offered So per
1000, and from So to So per
1000 for his cork, Without doubt
his Michigan and Wisconsin pine is worth,
at current prices, $15, 900. 600. This, however,
| by no means measures the extent of his pos
sessions. He owns valuable hard wood and
mining lands, which, we believe will swell
the above amount to $25, 0000
Not a cent of this colossal fortune has been
obtained in the whirlpool of destructive
speculation. The possessor OF it has been
content to wait year after gear and work as
steadily as the mechanic does who earns his
daily bread. To-day he is as fun-loving as
boy and nearly as spry as one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01
Rich Mems MausoIeums.

Ga tbs New York Letter.
Big tombs are now the rage. Huntington
projects one to cost 5000, 900 at Woodlawn.
Vanderbilt's now going up at New Dorp,
Staten Island will cost $500 and look
like the Cathedral of Ely. Commodore Gar
rison's Italian octagon mausoleum cost $780,
600. jay Gould has at Woodawn a Greek
temple to cost $150,00O. This is a good use
to put money to, showing that rich men are
thinking of their mortality, and also encour-
aging serious art. observe that angels are
going out of fashion on monuments. The
angel, like the griffin and megatherium, has
had his days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01

celebrate our own generosity and also to
beautify our cities and make their wilder
ness more tolerable. In this sense let us
pay tribute to this simplest and noblest
monument that America has tried to build.
1t is typical of the lofty spirit the noble ma
ter of him whose memory it would perpetu-
ate. Like tall shepherd shepherding his
flock, it overlooks the home of Washington
and the city he fashioned by the great river.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-01

With "reminiscences of this kind an hour
soon passed Seven o'clock and the wan
derers do not come in. Many tickets were
distributed the night before, and the pros
pect to the inexperienced might well look
discouraging. But these godIy men and
women are not at all downhearted, and they
intend keeping open house till Ii o'clock.
The time however, is not to be spent in idle
waiting. The task of the previous night
must be done over again. A few are to be
left in charge of the room, and the rest must
form themselves into scouting parties.
Street work is he:oFder now. The ladies go
in twos, and each couple is followed by a
gentleman. The knowledge that man is
hear gives the women courage and
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21

men, or left their wives at home, and such was
their lives there, that soon the term foreigner
became a synonym for RIGHTEOUSNESS and degra-
dation but after a while foreigners came in
numbers, bringing their families, and estab-
lshed homes, and the term = foreigner " lost its
reprOach.
The Chinese bachelor on the Pacific Coast.
and 1t must be the same here in Hawaii. is Il
very much worse man than when he left home.
Nearly all Cinnamon over p years Of age, are
married men. They would gladly bring their
wives and families here could three conditions
be met 1. II they were sure that their fami-
hes would be protected >. II the wives of
those husbands now here could be brought here
under the care Of some elderly women, accord
ing to Chinese customs and 3. If the rate of
passage tSSU) were not virtually prohibitive.
The Chinese immigrant is poor. If HAWAII
desires these married immigrants TO bring their
wives, then the Government must bear at least
part Of the expense CT bringing them here.
When the Chinese immigrant takes with him his
family then he makes the best colonist in the
world. He Is a temperate, peaceable, indus
trIous. frugal; and comparatively moral
Mrs. Happier made an address at the Chinese
Church, many of the Honolulu Christians being
from the Hakka district. and members there of
her husbands church.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21
Riot at the immigration Depot.

Among the Cinnamon at the Immigra-
ton Depot, numbering about $40, there
occurred yesterday disturbance and threat
ening demonstrations of q riotous kind.
The Agents of the Board oil immigration
have been requiring satisfactory bonds for
the industrial occupation of the coolies or
insisted that they should engage them
selves for q period of time with bona q
employers. 1t was reasonably hoped that
the large planting enterprises of the Oun
try would receive some benefit in the way
of labor at reasonable rates from the present
large and unexpected influx of Chinese into
the country, but some influences have been
brought to bear to inspire the immigrant
coolies with q determination not to engage
themselves with any of the industries of
the country controlled by foreigners. Yes
terday, as the officers at The Depot, Messrs.
Smithies, Hayselden, Brown, and Morrill,,
announced that they would carry out
strictly the ordinances of the Board, the
Chinese in the Depot became noisy and
threatening. They began to flourish their
bamboo poles with which they carry their
traps. and some produced knives. Some
gentlemen present. representing the Plant
er's LabOr and Supply Co., withdrew on
witnessing the threatening attitude of the
coolies, and being assured they would not
engage to labor. The Chinese now flourish
ed their bamboo clubs in the faces of the
officials at the Depot. For IA short while,
perhaps, danger was app1ehended. There
were ten policemen present, however, who
proved themselves courageous, active and
iudfcious. Mr.. Gibson, being notified of
the difficulty, proceeded at once to the
Palace, and advised that a detachment of
thirty soldiers be sent to cooperate with
the Tolice force. Before the arrival of
the detachment in command of Lieutenant
Baker, the Police force, which had been in
creased to thirty-fve men, had succeeded
in arresting tw%enty-three of the most active
and riotous of the coolies, who were hand
cuffed, and under a guard of eight police
men marched off to prison. The presence
of the small armed force had a very excel
lent and quieting effect, and it is manifest
that in an emergency our small force of
soldiers are prompt TO respond to a call to
Purvis, His Majesty's Vice Chamber
lain, accompanied the detachment. His
Majesty's Ministers, Gibson, Bush and Ka-
pena and Marshal Parke were present at
the time the arrests were made. Perfect
order and quiet prevailed last night at the
Depot, and we think the little demOnstra-
tion of force will have a satisfactory result.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21

when thus pscked are said to be equal 10
anything Of the same kind produced in
other countries. Nodoubt if a nominal prize
was offered ut the forthcoming show for the
be-t canned and preserved fruits, our people
would Willingly endeavor to make a goodIy
display Of what may be lone in his way
with but little trouble. Such an effort, no
matter how slight il might be at first, would
very likely awaken a new interest in the
matter. Figs and dates grow here very
well also, and might be raised to a much
greater extent than at present if it would
pay, as most probably it would, to dry and
pack them for foreign markets. And yet
we have heard of no attempt to try this.
Neither has the Agricultural Society seen
lit to encourage the trial by Offering a prize
for such dried products if brought to their
fair or show.
These, perhaps, are small matters but
they should not be overlooked. The can
merry industry if it could be opened up on a
large scale in this country would be a
source Of considerable benefit. Products
that now almost GO to waste would help to
bring money into the land. And a light,
paying employ ment would be afforded to q
large number of our people. 1t is by reach
ing out in all directions into all possible
fields Of industry and without ig-
nOring anything from which profit may
b. derived, that a people may reach tine
highest degree of prosperity.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21
An Interesting Reunion.

The Coptic brought among her cabin passen-
gers four lady missionaries en- route to their
former homes in the United States. Their names
are. Mrs. DR.. Happier, of the Hakka mission
Miss Field, of the Swallow mission, Mrs. Flyer,
OF the Central China mission, and Mss VIM,
Of Yokohama. In the afternoon of Wednesday.
at a special meeting of the Hawaiian Woman's
Board, these ladies made interesting addresses.
Wednesday evening the Bethel and Fort Street
prayer-meetingS combined at the Fort Street
Church vestry, and Miss Field and Mrs. Happier
again delighted their listeners with their vivid
wOrd-pictures of their work. We give a few
interesting facts
The Swallow missions now number 1000
Christians, many of whom have endured the
most bitter persecution rather than abandon
their new faith. Christianity revolutionizes the
home life, striking down the old customs which
enslave and degrade women. Foot-binding Is
not, as is generally supposed, a mark of rank.
1t Is no unusual thing to see the China washer
women, and beggars with feet only two inches
long. This custom holds its tyranny simply
because lit is the fashion, The Hakka
women do not bind their feet. In the other
districts about nine-tenths of the women are
foot-bound cripples.
The Chinese immigrant morally is about a
fair average of the Chinese at hOme-no worse
and no better. Unless accompanied by their
wives the immigrant becomes degraded in
morals. IN this the Chinaman does not differ
from other men, human nature being the same
whether it wears a cue or cuts its hair. The
first foreigners who entered China were single
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21

stances, certainly to underratethe benefit of
a liberal patronage of the press as a means
OF soliciting custom and extending trade.
The importance of advertising is, however,
50 generally proven by the experience of
most successful business establishments
throughout the world, that it must be
acknowledged by all enteFprising and
thoughtful tradesmen. But it is strangely
enough the habit of some firms in this city
TO regard advertising as a sort of charity
towards the newspapers. This is \ very
wrong view to tax of the matter, and as
the city grows larger from year to year
those business houses which fail to appre-
clate advertising now Will reallZ their
mistake when they find that trade has
gradually drifted out of their hands and is
largely absorbed by other houses, which
were shrewd enough to take advantage Of
all available mediums of advertising their
business from the fist. Those staid,
seldom-advertising houses can laugh, If
they like, at the extent to which some
firms carry their advertising, and jeer at
the devices which are reSorted To for the
purpose of attracting custom. But the adj
veTtiser knows his interest too well to be
annoyed. He is soliciting trade by the
most effectual means, and hat is what Will
sOOner or later trouble the nOn-advertiser,
and turn the laugh back upon himself when
his customers begin to desert him, and his
trade is absorbed by his advertising neigh
Dor. The man who wishes TO dispose of
something is not going to be sought after
ny DuICIIStIS IIlil ne lelS lIlGill hllON VIA
he has to sell. And even then he must con-
tinually seek his buyers by keeping his
commodities p~erpetually before them. The
buyer will be most apt to go where he is
attracted by the best known prospect of
striking a good bargain, and a conspicuous
advertisement is the surest method of draw
ing attention to the special advantages
which it is always e%xpedient for those i'm
business to offer customers. Some COM
plant has been made about the rates of adj
vertising charged in Honolulu. Business
men occasionally grumble about the charge
made for advertisements. But the fact is
the usual cost of advertising here is far
below what it is elsewhere and much less
than it ought to be, considering the expense
incurred in publishing advertisements and
the benefits derived therefIom. When n
firm stops advertising under any pretence
whatever, it is a pretty sure sign that it is
losing ground in the arena of competition
and a certain indication of injudicious
management.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21

TO Shipping Merchants, Masters of Vesse,s
Mariners, Planters and the Public oeo,'
erdlty:-
The undersigned, Successors to NJ. Davis ,ha
original and only manufacturers Of Oil Clotbino ~
tlS hlngdom' beg TO inform you that we have
on hand and are manufacturing n FTp
ASSORTMENT Of OIL CLOTHING. and ~ 80
pared to fill all orders for Goods in that lin.
promptly. "e
IheSc goods are manufactured under NJ Dsvt.,
PATENT and arc made from, a..
bEHI MATERIAL and in the MOST
LINZ MANNER. They are warranted NOT no
STICK when packed or folded. and ARR Won
C~OMBUSTIBLE. "
Inc nigh reputation these goods have acquired
through the skill and long experience OF Mr.. NJ
D"'lS' "lIl he maintained by us, and we shall a.
ucHvor 70 give our customers FULL VALUE For
THEIR MONEY.
AHNihB Ior ourselves a continuance OF the Hbarat
patronage bestowed on our predecessor.
We remain, very respectfully ou
NJ. w. M~cCHEsNEY. a. son
az Queen Street, Honolulu, Hawaiian TsIana
Mar31 d If "uS'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-21
Twas slander filled his mouth with lying words
slander, the foulest whelp of SIN

Slander, the fOulest whelp Of SIM
The slanderer, the repeater of n SANDER, and
the dape of the slanderer, should be placed by the
law in the same category. The first is to be alb
horred. and the last two to. be both despised and
pited."
This is strong language, but certainly very
near the truth. 1t Is a matter of regret that
talebearers or slanderers for the terms are gen.
orally about synonymous when applied to a per-
son who INDUCES in the propagation of I'M
sayOry rumors of personal defectS-shOuld be
rather numerous in this community. Too much
cannot be said in Disagreement of the evil. be-
cause it is often the source of injustice and sor-
row. In fact, there is not a more insiduOus foe
to all the harmonious and pure relations of So
ciety than this same Islander, scandal or tale
bearing. Only a few days ago We were panied
TO hear a well-known and otherwise respectable
young man repeating an altogether falls and
low rumor of a companions reputed shOrtconI-
iugs. He seemed tc enjoy the business of as
persiug character and related the cruel and
shameful lying report with an evident zest which
showed plainly that be took a malicious pleasure
in the repetition of what he knew perfectly we'll
was false and damaging to the repute Of his
neighbor. 1t would be useless to deliver Il lee
ture to such 4 young man in view of the fact
that We often hear the worst scandel mOngers
inveighing against the practice which Is unhap-
PLY so prevalent. Advise is of no consequence
when il is unaccoTp panied by a consistent action
on the part Of him who utters it. Young men
and everybody else who ever even thOughtleSsly
condescend to- the circulation of slanderous
rumors must probably continue the custom un-
til their own sense of decency retrains them.
They must first consider how miserably CON
temptible they make themselves as we'll as how
they meanly injure others beforethey will stop
the disgusting dractice.
The l st number of the american Register con-
tains a sensible article on Hawaiian Reciprocity
This journal is attaining a merited reputation
Tor its candor and ability in treating the greater
living issues of the day, and Its opinion in re-
lltiOn to our Treaty shows the most prevalent
and right view of the matter that is being re-
ceived in the United States. 1t says among
other things that;
New subjects have come before this country.
lie, in the United States, during the last
year, involving more interesting and important
questions than that of this Reciprocity Treaty.
1t Is intimately connected with the supremacy of
the United States on the Pacific Ocean, and the
prospective markets for our productive industry
IN the populous countries of Asia and the East
Indies. But the commercial aspects of the
Treaty seemed to attract the especial attention
of Congress. And it is highly proper, that We