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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

4 melanchOly-looking woman with a painful
expression about the corners Of her mouth APP
piled to Colonel Sam Scudder, an Austin lawyer.
for a divorce. What are your grounds for a
divorce p Ny husband gets drunk all the
time. It's dreadful for a sober, Woodworking
woman like myself to have a drunken husband. -
- suppose you have witnesses who know how
he drinks to excess" -" Witnesses! Well. |
should say SO. | can prove his drunkenness by
myself" Of course you have frequently seen
him in an intoxicated condition" {" Why, |
have to go to the grocery all day long, bringing
him one bottle alter another. Some days | bring
him halEa. dozen bottles in one day" " Good
heavens Does he drink that much whisky ?
No wonder you want a DIVORCE The woman
looked around to see that nobody was looking.
and then said in n confidential whisper. - He
don't get all Of it,. You see | drink about two
thirds Of the bottle before | give it to him, and
then | fill it up with water. Ii it WASH for that
| couldn't live with him another day. ! just
couldn't stand IT,"
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Lahaina Correspondence.

A grindstone was taken out of Mrs. Kings
yard one night last week, and a close rela-
ton of a celebrated patent medicine man was
seen rolling it along the street towards his
shop. Another man was then applied to in
order to get the stone back again, this man is
closely related to the well-known steam engine
man Newton, but he don't get around quite so
fast, and If he had II little of old Newton's steam
properly applied the results would be as graft
flying as they would be astonishing TO Lahaina
people. The steam engine man (some people
call him DEPUTY, but as he has not brains
enough to be one, why, of course he is miscalled)
wanted to know if the stone was returned. would
that suffice? he was told by the old native, yes,
but here the medicine man Clipped in by saying
that he had bought the stone from a Hebrew,
however, the stone was rolled back to head
quarters, and fUe days after the lively steam
man or as some people miscall him, fhe DEPUTY,
was seen in the vicinity of the stone looking for
the mans track, and all this after he had pro
posed a compromise five days before.
The manager of one of our first-ciass beer
merchants was arrested yesterday, fined 800
for selling beer, paid the cash and opened next
day. A woman at the bottom of it or the
Celestial would have been running right along.
/ wish to state that our deputy was not around.
Our Celestial friends are doing Il good business
here, they supply all the poi, do all the washing,
sell all the opium, and now make the best beer
good for John. Now, our deputy is n good man,
but as he was told in court the other day by one
of our native lawyers-that he was ma .at-DOO,
and did not know his business, or he would not let
the Cinnamon othat owned the opium he seized.
A. S. Sraman was arrested for stealing sugar
When taken to the Court House by the a~rresting
parties, he was quietly asked why he did not
settle the matter out of Court. Oh, no We don't
want a sheriff here, or a live deputy-that is,
not now. We did have a little desire that way
some time ago but now we are so used to this
old wooden-head we have here that Lahaina
would not be a place without him. 1t has been
imated very correctly that young Newton-I
mean old Newton's son, the fat one-sits down
exactly fourteen hours and a half every day of
the remaining nine and a half hours he sleeps
just nine and a quarter. the odd fifteen minutes
are taken up in walking to his Office, and back
to his house.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

When corn was bought for 80 cents per
busheI, the manufacture of glucose for the
purposes of adulteration was one of the
things there was millions in, and glucose
manufa ctories sprung up like mushrooms,
But corn has advanced to 20 cents, and glu-
cose now costs more than sugar so, when
you go to buy glucose, you may expect to
find it largely adulterated with sugar; but
the thing that is breaking the hearts of the
glucose men is to find somebody that wants
it. Oleomarginists are going the same way
just now in indianapolis, and unless the
seekers after honest oleomargarine have a
care. dealers viii stick them with pure Indi-
ana butter.
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FOREIGN NOTES.

The Garfield. Monument Fair at Wash
ington melted $500.
The steamer Kenmuir Castle %foundered
in the Bay of Biscay on February I'd.
The ship Brambletye, from San Fran
CISCO to England, lost four men in a hurri-
cane.
IA Chinaman has just started a newspaper
in New York, called the Chinese american.
The German treaty of commerce with
Mexico grants Germany noteworthy adj
vantages.
The Car has issued q manifesto, giving
the notice of his coronation at Moscow on
the 2Sth of May.
a. S. Hallidie, an energetic citizen of San
Francisco, has organized the Hallidie Pa
tent Gable Tramway Corporation in Eng
land, with a capital of 81, 900, 900, half OF
which has been placed upon the London
d, market in 10 6 shares,
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FASHION NOTES.
Skirts get shorter.
Squar-toed boots coming in.

Skirts get shorter.
Squar-toed boots coming in.
E~Mahogany-red gloves are much worn.
Dust coats worn comparatively short This
J season.
Fruit-basket bonnets have not hit the
taste of ladies.
Cardinal and myrtle-green dust coats
have been introduced.
Beige, in fawns and greys, more popular
than China silk coats.
sOrgandy gauZe is the newest material for
bonnet strings and neckties.
A novelty is IA scent casket, consisting of
Il red plush bull's-eye lantern with bottle
inside.
Skirts made with two box plaits and sim
! gle pulling continued to the waist are more
general than plain ones with single ruching.
UItra-fashionable ladies cover their pet
dogs with tiny blankets made of Il bit of
the dress goods of which their own cos
TUNES are made.
Trained dresses for evening wearare com
ing back to favor, judging from the unusual
number in this st Sic exhibited by leading
importers.
Colors are usually brilliant, and the Wild
est caprice is noticeable in the manner in
which these gay hues are combined both
in dress and millinery.
One hundred and fifty yards of ribbon =
thirty yard each Of terra Gotta, pale blue.
olive, cream-color and brown went to
make up the trimmings of a successful toilet
from over the sea.
An English fashion paper speaking about
removing the glove before shaking hands,
says that the custom is no longer obligatory,
it being an old fashion, surviving from the
time when gloves were very loose and re-
moved in q moment.
Bronze, gilt, old silver, and jet ornaments
are all much worn on hats and bonnets; in
deed, the ornaments this season are hand
some enough to be used as jewellery. Silver
bands in lace-like patterns come for felt
beavers in blue, grey and garnet. Feather
thistles appear among new bonnet trim
mings, and quantities Of pompOns are
used, especially upon children's hats.
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Spring Wind.

o full-voieed herald Of immaculate Spring,
With clarion gladness striking every tree
To answering raptures, as a resonant sea
Fills rock-bound shores with thunders echoing-
o thou. each beat Of whose tempestuous wing
Shakes the long winter-sleep from Lutte and lea;
And rouses with loud, reckless, jubilant glee
The birds that have not dared as yet to sing
o wind, that CONTEST with prophetic cries,
Hast thou indeed beheld the face that is
The joy of poets and the glory Of birds
Springs face itself? hast thon meath bluer skies
Met the warm lips that are the gates of bliss.
And heard June's leaf-like murmur Of sweet words
VIM. SHARP.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

For the past eight years the late Board of Edu-
cation has controlled the public schools of this
Kingdom. That Board was made up Of men
whom we have always had reason to believe had
the efficient education of the Hawaiian, especially,
at heart. They served as they very properly
should, without pay, and from their Bi-annual
Reports we have alwys judged that they
worked industriously and intelligently in the
right way to keep the public school system up
with the requirements of the age. No sooner, how
ever, has the old Board retired than one OF the
weekly papers published here comes out with an
article headed HAWAIIAN MoaALs AND MANNERS"
from which we extract as follows 1.-The edu-
cation of the young is so ridiculously meagre and
imperfect that the Boosting talk we see in foreign
newspapers, from those ignorant Of the true con-
dition OF the people, seems criminal oily to those
who know that education means something more
than an attempt to miscall words and construct
written sentences. The Ignorance of the average
Hawaiian in writing his own language ls APP
palling to those who see the biennial parade of
figures in the report of the Board of Education.
The original design was an Industrial educational
system, but the actual outcome is an ignorance
and n wretchedness that is one of the saddest
sights to be seen on earth, as those know who
know what is the present condition of the vast
majority OF Hawaiian homes to-day. BY their
own acknowledgment the Hawaiians are being
dropped out of the industrial pursuits that are
at the foundation of social welfare and progress"
Surely there must be some mistake in this
matter. we CdDUOb SliCt bhhI III ldlC DOdIu
of Education has signally failed in their plans for
educating the Hawaiians hence We are forced
to the Alternative OF believing that there must have
been some personal animqs against the old Beard
on the part of the writer whom We quote,
On the other hand we have " Truthful James "
from Waikiki, in another paper, rs follows
"They 1.-THE old Board) have spent much of
their valuable time, without pay, and from the
form of their dismissal, without thanks. There
is not a man, woman, or child old enough to go
to school but who owes a debt to these gentlemen,
in that they have judiciously used the school tax
in employing teachers. in erecting schools, and
advancing the cause of education.
We leave the two writer's to s~quabble over the
matter, and proceed to quote again from the first
writer.
son whom rests the responsibility for the
longer continuance Of such a state of things that
no parent can consider it safe and prudent to al
low his children to pass out of the precincts of q
weIl-guarded home, lest they should be contain
mated heyopd all hope of recovery p
And in reply would s y, that if this state of
things has prevailed in the past it does not now,
in our opinion, nor will it in the future if the
present Board have efficient executive officials.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

Accohnrsa 70 shs Mortaary report Tor the past
month, the number Of deaths Is given at S. The
average for the past six years for the correspond
ing month Is Sc, the minimum being IS, in 1852.
and the maximum "a, in 1881 The month OF
February 1881. it Nill be remembered formed part
Of. the time that the smallpox epidemic was
raging.
y CONFIRMED Inebriate, of many years Standing,
applied 70 a Judge for a Divorce from his Wife on
the Ground Of her Habitual Intoxicatlon. why,
said the Judge. .shave Won the Cheek to complain of
your Wife getting Drunk, when yOu are always IN
that Disgraceful Condition /? " THAT wassemasser
Judge replied the Inebriate," Somebodzey IN zhe
Hour, mus keep Sober"
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Arrivals at the Hotel.

FEBEuARY 2I.-M V. b. Willard, Mrs. S. c.
Seymour. d II. Arnold, W. p. Buckingham, j.
L. M.Creary. AIRS. Jessie NJ. Roper. 4. n.
Barker, j. t.. Sayers, DR.. Baxter, w. Finley
Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders, w. II. Snther-
land, j. G.. Jeffress, from San Francisco.
FEBRUARx 24.-John Ross, Heeia, L. N.
Makee, Waihee John j. Knapp, St. Louis A
Barnes, Maui.
FEBRUARY 25.-R. S. Bassett aud C. E. Rood,
from San Francisco.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

A veteran was rellting his exploits to a
crowd of boys, and mentioned having been
in FIVE engagements. That is nothing
broke in a little fellow. My sister Sarah's
been engaged eleven times
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03
Tho Restaurant Terror

There is an animal
That tries TO eraIn in all
The food that has stomach viii hold
He visits the restaurant
In The guiSe Of a guest and can't
Fec hoked of till ever things cold.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

The Alta California says that four men in the
office of the Commissioner of Juries of. New
York city have been arrested on a charge of NAL
feasanoe, it having been discovered that for
years they have been receiving tribute from two
to three thousand business men, who paid for
being relieved OF the jury system. 1t is known
that in every city there are great numbers of
men, among the best qualified, who never serve
on iuries. They either possess influence enough
with the Court to be excused, or purchase ex-
emption as these New Workers did.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

The auckland Weekly News says we have no
doubt that the mail service between San Fran
cisco and New Zealand will be renewed 1t adj
mits Of being considerably expedited, and will,
there is no question, ultimately be the most
speedy mail service between England and the
Australasian Colonies.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

Is GIVEN THAT.
~ Mt n incctfEt held in Honolulu on the 10Th day OF
February. 1888. Of Subscribers TO the stock Of the Inter.
Island Steam Navigation Company (Lfmlfed) ID was voted
TO accept a Charter OF Incorporation granted 10 them and
their associates by the Minister Of the Interior. by and
with the consent OF the King in Privy Council, under che
corporate name and style OF the w
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company.
on the 9TH day of February. 1903. and that the corpors-
ton under said Charter fhereupOn Organized ftaelf and
elected the following officers: y. r. Poster, Pregident,
W. y. Godfrey, Vice President: j. Ena, Jr, G.crcfs<9@
william Foster, Treasurer: G.. n. WILCOX. AMdl tor
Notice is further given that, pursuant TO tho terms Of
said Charter, no stakeholder shall fndlvfduallv he HshIe
Tor the debts Of the Corporation beyond the amount
which shall be due upon the share or shares held or
owned by himself j. ENA Jr secretsrx
feb24 wat
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We would sugges that until Merchant
street is widened that the police be instruct
ed to tdbu the tieing of more than two car
riage horses at one time in that part of the
street opposite the Chinese wash house.
The locality is known as "No. p" we be-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

Their Excellencies the Minister of Foreign
Affairs and the Minister of Finance visited,
yesterday, the different men-of-war in port,
and were received with customary honors.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

We are pleased to announce that we have en-
gagged the services of Mr.. j. II. Black as fore
man of the ADVERTISER Steam Printing estab-
lishment. Mr.. Blacks long association with
this journal in former years under Mr.. Whitney,
aud subsequently, as proprietor, are guarantees
that the ADVERTISER in his hands will derive all
the advantages to be obtained from first-elass
ability and experience.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

By n cablegram from London, dated February
10, we learn that the steamer Abergeldie, which
sailed from London February 9th for the Azores,
to take on board 800 emigrants for Honolulu,
had received some damage to her rudder, and put
into Plymouth for repairs, and was not expected
to start again on her voyage till the goth inst.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

The SuUa Times, FIJI, speaks very highly of
the Polynesians recently brought from New Brit
ain, and surrounding groups, and pronounces
them as fine IA set of men as ever came to Fill
The same paper says that If the supply can be
depended upon, there is no doubt but that a great
boon has conferred upon the colony in the pres
cnt condition of an increased demand for, and a
diminishing supply of laborers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

Encourage newspaper reading among your
thildren, and you will soon discover what a
fondness they will have for their family journal,
and how rapidly they will improve. The news
paper is the poor mans Ebrary-every family
should be provided with a newspaper" We
clip the above from an exchange. OF course We
agree with the writer in the general statement
that every family should have a newspaper Z"
but we would take the liberty of remarking that
some discretion should be exercised in selecting
the papers to be read. especially by children.
The report given in our daily contemporary of
last Saturday of the preceding evenings enter
tainment at Fort Street Church contains an I'M
gsntlemanly fling at some of the ladies who were
prevented, by illness. from taking part in the
singing. The writer had better confine himself
on his s~elf-imposed task of cleaning the streets
with his pen, and not make himself ridiculous
by tying. III spite of the old proverb, to " make
u whistle out of it.
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M NJ. MorEan, Ar q G Nais. Mr. suransrrIle. Mr.
--yle. 40 = children. Miss II deYuzuIfcr. M J Efffs
~ +" b Mcclure, As c Kollsne. AR A simon ana 1s stss.
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ESPECIAL pains have been taken in the Gdzefte S
report of The Washington Birthday celebration
here on the 22i ult.. to ignnre the fact that the
Hawaiian Hotel was brilliantly Illuminated on
that occasion, and that the Band was there and
discUursed music to appropriate the occasion.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03
PROGRAMME

Mn. G. FunSEAUx has finished a beautiful paint
- the Hula at the Palace AmPhItheatre on
JpE ,a:cht. The view is lGken from The
ysysndah oi the Palace. on which Is seated ms IN
faie.ty and near him a group OF iaelSJi ~
cent?. dancers, and near them their dlreeteT, Tue
uonoIuIu Dandy A throng OF spectators mn ~
1Snace except that Immediately around the
the 80 aud tie scene IS lit M by numberlesi
Iamps and torches. The picture Is the mos ~ oIii
eDIal II can be seen for a few days ON the
TIE : - rear Of J. NJ. Dat, Jr-, x Co.'S store on
Merchant street
~ tine finest piece Of engraving that has yet
Dfn- on calendars for 1888, has been issued
been me New England Mutual Life Insurance Tom.
by Ihe.nd handed us by Aessrs. Castle * Cooke
Pany, a. 81 for these Islands The design Is that
s9s nsgmber Of beautiful children per TGn the me
months ~ - Tammany, and q veiisd fSnre OF the
R TSf on the left Of DecsmbsF. Be nes, t .2s sh1i-
dren sts ssTrounds the whole which Is engraved
ane o. besf style by the American Bank Note Com
pany,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

A letter in the NeW Zealand Herald of Jan.
10th, from the pen of Mr.. w. f. Fillingham
Parr, on the Products and Commerce of Fiji, -
it is stated in reference to the coffee industry,
that { the appearance of leaf disease was at first
regarded as a fatal blow by the coffee planters
of Fiji, but after nearly four years experience it
has been proved to do but an infinitesimal
amount of demage and some planters now pray
yearly for an attack in order to get rid of super
huous foliage The same writer also makes
special reference to the production of tea, and
expresses his belief that, it will turn out one
of the best investments in Fiji, and for this rea-
son, there is one continual flush on the trees
from January LIST, to December 31st. Samples
have been sent to the colonies for analysis, and
although they were made by an amateur in the
crudest manner possible, the reports received
about them were most encouraging. The cost of
bringing an acre of tea into cultivation would be
much the same as an acre of coffee, and the
plant begins to yield at about the same age.
Hilly and broken land, with a southeastern as
pect, and an elevation of some few hundred feet,
what is considered requisite. Land that will
grow coffee well will also grow tea" Finally
he says, "there is not, 1 believe, q product of
tropical vegetation which will not only do well
in Fiji, but if properly cultivated, will repay the
outlay.n If such are the capacities of the Fiji
soil and climate could not similar advantages be
claimed fof the Hawaiian Islands?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

We commend to our readers the following
extract from a very sensible letter from the
Kohala correspondent of the Daily Bulletin,
from whose issue of yesterday we take it:
awe, in this out of the way district, have
read with interest the published accounts of
the Coronation. We nave our own views of
the whole business, and these views from a
distance, may possibly be worth stating.
Well, then, we think your newspapers have
virulent opposition. Where was the great
harm of it? Admitting hat the money was
to be uselessly eXpendod,-the Legislature
authorized it. And then, what we must
emphatically condemn, is the degree of
personality INDUCED in, sometimes ex-
tremely low in tone, not to say ribald. All
this is calculated to do us injury i'll the
minds of calm outsiders. Perhaps you will
deem me to be conservative but that is just
the way we people in the country view the
case. We quote the proverb, the least said
the sooner mended."
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TIE Auckland Weekly NeloS, of january
Goth, eoRtains ansexhassuFe letter-sn thesSand-
wich Islands from its special eorrespandent.
The scenery and national character are ably
described. Special reference is also made to the
Treaty. the Planters. and the Ministry.
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We clip the following from the Gazette of Feb
ruary 2Sth:
Notwithstanding the appointment of Hon. II.
A. P. Carter as Minister Resident at Washington,
the Adrertiser declines to notice the (unpalatable)
fact in its list of diplomatic agents.
We Also clip the following from the DAILY Pa
cIFIc COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER OF February Oath:
Diplomatic and Consular Agents.
Minister Resident.
Washington, p Hon. II. a. P. Carter
lion j Mott Snntn COMMISSIONER
Secretary OF legation ii Allen
Why the Gazette should say that the appoint
mcrt OF Mr.. Carter is unpalatable We cannot
tell. We were under the impression that the
editor Of the Gazette thought Mr.. Carter as Min
lister Resident at Washington, was the fright
man In the right place. 1t seems though, that
VIC were mistaken. Unless, indeed-and this
thought just occurs to us-the Gazette is ''off =
altogether in the whole paragraph.
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The Mr.. Brown who "knows" that we are
sending more sugar to the Coast than we can
possibly produce on these Islands that we are
systematically classifying Custom-house and
other returns and that we are altogether n bed
lot, was introduced by Representative Darrell to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs as IAN expert
on the sugar question, and also a representative
of the sugar planters of Louisiana" Perhaps
he is-bcth. -