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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-25

special Notice to Firemen and Mem
bers of Volunteer Companies.
The undersigned hereby gives special notice TO
all fremen and members OF volunteer companies
that they D,ust by law appear in person before
him and claim their exemption from personal
taxes or such exemption cannot be allowed.
FRED. II. HAYSELDEN,
Tax Assessor for District Of Honolulu.
Honolulu. June II, 1855. 25O-je17-6w
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-25

Tax Assessors Special Notice.
The undersigned hereby gives notice TO all
parties whether resident of this or any other
district In this Kingdom) having balances of cash
n bankers' or agents hands in Honolulu that they
viii be assessed here for the same according to
sworn returns made by said bankers or agents TO
the undersigned and the tax On the same must be
paid to the Tax Collector for Honolulu.
FRED. H. HAYSELDEN,
Tax Assessor for District of Honolulu.
Honolulu, June II, 1885. 2Si-lel7-0"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-25

Cases dennessy =, 9" and *@".
do BISCUIT, DuboucLe q Co ~" and "s"<'.
do Miller Frere *+S.
do J. Plessac & Co.
do J. L. Pellisson & Co.'s Uncolored, Un-
sweetened, Pure Old Brandy, and 10 years old.
Cases. TASKS and half TASKS various brands
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-25
Notice to the Public.

WE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING
w 10 the public that, in addition to our
PASTRY AND CONFECTIONERY business, we
will open an
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-25

For the District of Honolulu Island of Oahu.
Honolulu, June II, 1855. 279-Jel7-6w
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
THAWRD OUT.

Inscription on the monument erected to
the memory of defunct roller skater: s'He
tried to stop himself with his heels IN.
Y. Journal
Pupil wants to know what bon ton is.
Why bon ton is-let's see-weIl it isn't
the sort of ton you get from the coal deal
ers.-The Judge.
Sarah Winnemucca is making speeches in
California in favor or giving the Piutes the
ballot. What they most need is the BATH
Chicago Herald.
"Do you drink?" said temperance 70.
former to beggar who had implored aims OF
him. "Yes, thank you, SIR" returned can
did pauper; where shall we go."-Puck
A Cincinnati girl drowned herself just be-
fore she was going to be married Ne othsr
reason for the deed was given than that she
Posi-,
At the recent city election at La Conner
two married women were elected members of
the city council, and the local paper affec-
tionately calls them the sscity mammas. ~
Portland Oregonian.
Wife-but you d9,n't eat any of my bread,
John. Bread, you know, is the staff of life.
Husband-Yes, dear; but when the staff is
too heavy IT is more hindrance than help.
Boston Transcript.
a saSisIactoIy servant: Lady QU have
no beau, cousins or men to bother around, I
hopes" Servant fssakihg . place)-s'Nary a
won, mum, ewnly an ovid baste of hus-
band. Boston Beacon
"Can you give the definition of meth
1ngP inquired school teacher. zsYes, mum;
it's a bunghols without barrel around it.
shouted little Ted Saunders, whose father is
a cooper.-Providence Press.
Important passenger; "Ssy, pilot, what's
the boat stopped fore Pilot; ''Too much
fog.n I. p; t:But l can see the sky over
head Prevail, til the hiler busts we
amt a-goin' that way. Life,
ssWhy did not Paul stop at Ephesusa"
asked a Sunday school teacher. ST dunno"
said the bad boy, GO less it was cause he was
afeard he would be dunned for his board
bill. Newman Independent.
A Parisian pianist recently played one of
Wagner's operas in cage of lions and fin.
ished it unharmed Now we understand
how Daniel escaped. He probably PLAYED
"Sweet Violets" on Jew's-harp.-Puck.
A current item says that Monsignor Capel
does his best work after middight. We see
nothing remarkable il this. Most people do
their best work after midnight, say FROM
seven to ten hours after.-Texas Siftings
"Our people want only the freshest in the
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
school Boys I'm England Fifty Years
rFrom London hacfet,


| Since ''the hay is father to the man" as
says the proverb, to understand the natural
history Of the full-grown boy at college we
| may begin with a few words about the said
| boys character at school some fifty years
since, At shat time society generally was in
q ruder state. Two-bottle men at dinner
parties, good-fellowship measured by the ca
| pacity of the stomach and the hardness of
the head; prize fights SO popular as to be de-
| tailed round by round in the Morning Post;
Tom and Jerry frolics in London, and affairs
of honor decided by shooting and being shot
on Wimbledon Common. Such rough play
| will give some idea of the social atmosphere
| in the paternal home in wAieh, fifty years
since, boys drew the breath of life. When
| schosl days commenced many a boy found
Himself suddenly launched into sea Of
troubles; whether from the bigger boys or
| from the masters his bill of pains and penal
| ties would be longer, it were hard to tell.
Professor Greasy bears witness that the life
of an Eton colleger in the Long Chamber
| was about as hard as that of a cabin boy on
board a ship. As the fate of the fag de-
pended on tha sslaracter of his senior natu-
RELY it was as bad might be expected from
the rough training this petty tyrant had him
self received. Cruelty begat cruelty, and
few would believe the misery which in those
days any poor, weak and nervous boy has
been known to endure. say weak and ner-
vous, because parents did not then think SO
much about the constitution, and some boys
knew were as untitled for SO hard a life as a
consumptive patient for the frozen regions
f1tched battles were common. Six was the
smallest number with which I could myself
escape. The common course was of this
kind: Thompson, would you take O licking
from Jonesa' mo well, then, come to
the corner after school
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
NEW HAVEN. CONN. MONDAY MORNING. MARCH2 1885.

facts from which he concluded that the
forms of leaves did not depend on any in
hsrent tendency, but to the structure and
organization, the habits and requirements of
the plant. 1t might be that the present
form had reference to former and not to
present conditions. This rendered the
problem all the more complex and difficult
The subject presented a very wide and in
teresting field of study, for, if he were correct
in his contention, every one of the almost in
finite forms of leaves must have some cause
and explanation.
General R. E. Colston, late Bey on the
general staff of the Egyptian army, who
contributes the article on the Soudan-''The
Land of the "False Prophetic the current
number of the Century-has, it seems, some
right to call himself a true prophet He
had an "open letter. in the September Cen
tury, 1884, in which he predicted that the
fall of Khartoum was only a question of
time, and that the only hope for Gordon's
safety lay in his being captured and held for
ransom. In a recent private letter to the
editors of the Century, General Colston saws:
What would not Wolseley give now to have
his forces once more concentrated at Kortil
That will never be; and 1 fear much that
Wolseley himself will never get back. The
Bedouin tribes four hundred miles north of
him can interrupt all his communications
even below Korosko, and virtually besiege
him; and it matters little whether he is con-
fined to space of hundred square miles
or one square mile in country which af-
fo1ds nothing for the subsistence of an army
Butler, besieged at Abu Klea, eating his
calnels, short. of water, transportation, and
ammunition, is doomed. At least, these are
the probabilities and in war, in chess,
we must assume that our adversary is going
to make the best, not the worst, more posi-
BILE The British are paying very dearly for
undertaking the enemy's skill as well as
pluck. Graham, it is stated, will have 5000
men at Suakim by the 9th of March. He
will never march ten miles beyond, in my
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02


Perhaps your affections are still Olsen.
gagged, but you wish to bestow them on one
who will return iika for like. In this case
there are plenty OF wishing chairs, wishing
gates, &C., scattered through the country. A
wish breathed near them, and kept secret,
will sooner or later have its fulfllment. But
| there is no need to travel to the Lake coun-
try or to Finehale Priory, near Durham,
(where is a wishing chair9 if you see piece
of old iron or horseshoe on your path take
it up, spit on it, and throw it over your left
shoulder, framing wish at the same time.
Keep this wish secret and it wilt come to
pass in due time. # you meet piebald
horse, nothing can be more lucky; utter your
wish, and, whatever it may be, you will have
it before the week be out. In Cleveland the
following method of divining whether girl
will be married or not is rescrted to. Take
tumbler of water from stream which
runs southward; borrow the wedding ring of
some gude-wife and suspend it by a hair of
your head over the glass of water, holding
the hair between the finger and thumb. If
the ring hit against the side of the glass, the
holder will die an old maid; If it turn quick
ly round, ahe will be married once; if slow
ly, twice. Should the ring strike the side of
the glass more than three times after the
holder has pronounced the Game of her low
or, there will be a lengthy courtahip and
nothing more; "she will be oeurtei to dead, %
as they say in Lincolnshire; if less frequent
ly, the affair will be broken off, and if there
is no striking at all it will never come on
Or if you look at the first new moon of the
year through silk handkerchief which has
never been washed, as many months as you
see through it, (the threads multiplying the
vision, So many years must pass before your
marriage. Would you ascertain the color of
your future husbands hair? Follow the
practice of the German girls. Between the
hours of eleven and twelve at night on St.
Andrews eve a maiden must stand at the
house door, take hold of the latch and say
three times, "Gentle love, if thou lowest me.
show thyself." She must then open the door
quickly and make rapid grasp through it
into the darkness, when she viii find in her
hand lock pf hef future husbands hair.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
Monday, March D, 1883.

A WRONG TO BE RIGHTED.
An analysis of the popular vote at the last
two presidential elections, which has been
made by the Philadelphia Press, makes plain
some facts which need attention-mors at
tention than they are likely to receive from
the Democrats in-power.
From this analysis it appears that the
northern States, casting vote of 7,039, ,59S,
have 204 representatives in Congress, while
the southern States, with vote of only
1894 ,531, have 121. In other words, the
South, with vote of half million less than
one-half that of the North, has nearly two
thirds as many representatives. If the rep
resentation were appertioned according to
the vote the South would have only 81 where
it now has 121. It thus gains "a votes in
Congress and in the electoral college for
which its vote at the ballot box gives it no
claim. In the North the average vote for q
representative is "a, 507, while in the South
ii is only "a, TAT. Thus it takes 10, 900 more
votes in the North to count as much and ex-
ercise as much influence as in the South.
The discrepancy is still more marked when
the comparison is limited to those States
been most openly and fagrantly applied
such States as South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana. In Penn
sylvania a representative stands for 81, ,0S0
votes, while in South Carolina he stands for
13, 3,S99-less than half as many. That is, one
vote in South Carolina counts more than two
votes in Pennsylvania. In New York the
average vote for each district is "a, 1913, while
in Mississippi it is II, 146-stil less than one
half. In Ohio 39,320 votes elect represen-
tative, while in Georgia there is one for every
Ia, ,245 votes-but little more than ons-third
Illinois with aE,S Sserssey vote ST 93, ,494 for
each district against Alabama with 19, 1874
and Indiana with 1908 against Louisiana
with 1924 present the same sharp and
striking contrast. In short, through all the
central States of the North the vote for q re-
preventative is about twice as great as in the
central States of the South, SO that a>voter
here counts half as much and exercises half
as much political power as a voter there.
This is very unequal and unjust state of
affairs, but there will probably be no remedy
for it soon, unless the Republican party gets
into power again and attends 1T.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
COMMUNICATIONS.
The Dollar


To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
= Very much is written about and against
the silver dollar Not SO much against the
paper dollar. But if the silver one be worth
intrinsically. between. eighty and ninety cents,
that is something; and if besides this, the
government makes it legal tender and takes
it itself at one hundred cents for all dues and
duties, and besides that if our immense ma
tional debt of millions of bonds, paying in
terest, can all be legally and honorably
Hquidated, according to contract, in our sill
yer dollars-and they can be-they were
originally SO issued and payable in either sill
yer or gold, and the silver of this very same
dollarsiweight. But somewhere OF somehow,
an influence crept into Congress and Congress
repealed the old law (the ancient law, so far
as we have as a nation any ancient law. J
An influence stole into Congress and repealed
the old, old silver dollar legal ten
der law. Who did it? Politicians
said, with shake'of head, ''Thou canst not
say did it." But somebody did it. It
wasn't anybody, was it. who had any interest
in it. But the dogs did do it. If we want
to know what the influence which might
be likely to do it, if it could, anybody can
see that the large holding
interest might be tempted to
if it could thereby be enriched by the ad-
have the right to claim gold, and to reject
anything else. But whoever might be the
murderer of the silver dollar, whether bond
holders salary-men, the people have often
correct instincts aud they demanded the re-
monet1zing of the old silver dollar, just as
it was, weight for weight. Aye! says
the bonded creditor, but now silver
is not what it was. If this
be so the reduction was owing to the repeal
of the legal tender silver dollar law But it
is worth what it was-intr1nsically nearly as
much, and that one act of the government
which deprecated it has by another act of
the same government honestly rsstored It,
Let every creditor as honestly receive it. And
there is more to be said about this
VOX POPITII
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02

To the Editor of the JOURNAL CoURIER:
The Register of Sunday morning gives the
reason by the late John Woodruff why the
4th of March never falls on Sunday The
lady must have been highly explained" by
learning this important piece of news from
the lips of Mr. Woodruff Now what is the
real fact in the mattera Does the 4th of
March ever come on Sundays Why yes, quite
often. 1t always falls on Sunday in leap
years, when the dominca1 letters are A. G.
and in other years when the dop3inical letter
is g., provided that this year (when the
Dominica letter is g. is the next year after
leap year. Now as our presidential con-
tests happen accidentally perhaps) on a leap
year, the year after for Inauguration,
if it happens to have its Dominica latter G,
viii have the 1st Of March or Thursday, the
4th consequently on Sunday. To go back to
the year 1881, 1t happened that year; again
in 1891, when James Monroe (for the second
time) was inaugurated on Monday, the 9th of
March, again in 1S49, when Gen. Taylor and
Fillmore did the same; also in 1877, when
Hayes and Wheeler followed suit 1t will
not happen again until 1917 but who will be
the President at that time it is hard to say
1t will wait twenty-eight years and do the
same in 1915, in 1918, POOL, 2029, POET and
20S5, Dr. W II.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
NO. 81

the vices on our side7 Post-nuptial back
slidings are worse than ante-nuptial divaga-
tions, and if the balance is to be struck after
marriage it is not easy to say on which side
| it would be. There is one lesson which we
all OF US, In whatever rank or society we may
be, have to learn, and the sooner we learn it
the better-the lesson of humility, of mod
esty, of economy. We are no longer the
| lords of creation; we have no longer mono
poly of capital or production; rents and in
terests will fall lower still, and unless we re-
alize the situation, come down from. our high
horse and moderate our views of style and
expenditure, very serious trouble will over
take society. We had better give up sneer-
ing at those "dirty foreigners and initiate a
little of their frugallty. But the example
must be set by those above; SO long as the
leaders of the great world indulge in display
those below will spend their la shilling in
an insane attempt to be in the running Di-
Almonds, lace, costly fabrics, whether for
dress or furniture, long and lavish dinner
parties, heavy suppers after balls, all these
things might be made questionable by
wave of Zenobia's wand Unless some
change of this kiud is made in our habits, or
unless some happy revolution occurs in our
economic history, there will be fewer mar
rlages than ever IN Vanity Fair.
james Brooks, of Colony street, Meriden,
died Saturday night of congestion of the
lungs, aged 5S- He never married and lived
with his two sisters Laura and Mary Brooks,
| in the house just north of Winthrop Square
for years, and was never engaged in any
business outside of looking after things about
the house. He was one of ten or dozen
children of the late Judge Brooks, an old
settler of Meriden, who did much toward
helping along the building of the Hartford
railroad.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
ar1y Goods.
THOSE DISCOUNTS

On Dress Goods that we have been ad-
vertising in February will be discontinued
after the 27th. We shall probably then
make the net prices any fancy styles or
slow selling goods as low as they are now
with the discounts, but that will not be SO
with staple and plain goods, such as CASH
meres, Serges, Ladies' Cloths, 60. So it
would be well to buy these of as this week.
About Silks we will net say what we shall
do. 1t is quite plain to anyone that we
can't continue for ever to do as we are doing
now. First-class, well-known, staple Black
Silks at three-quarters to two-thirds of value,
is not thing likely to continue, although
we have our reasons for doing it now.
Aprons of Unbleached Linen, trimmed
neatly with Turkey red or indigo blue Cam
brio, at zoe each-less than the cost of the
cloth they are made of, any one can
reckon
Two-toned Satin Ribbons at half-price-
some colors at one-third.
Ladies' Ribbed Wool Hose, sixty cent
quality, for 35c-only few. .-
Silk Ottoman Curtain Stuff, sold in other
stores at 81 co. has been Toe in our store,
now 65c-only two styles, both good ones,
left.
A few sizes left in the dollar White Shirt
that we are closing out at 75c. We are
making an improvement in the get-up of our
dollar Shirt, and SO will let out what is left
Of the old one at 75c. 1t is even now the
lar 75c Shirt, the "Ironclad," is better ar
tiele than some ''dollar" Shirts now offered
elsewhere at 75c.
Nine-quarter Bleached Sheeting at zoe
no mere remnants, no limitation to each GUS
toner, no hun.bug.
Satin lined Scarfs for gentlemen at 25c
goods made to sell at various higher prices.
All our Scarfs reduce.
Nonpareil Cambrics at 10c. Indigo blue
Cambrics very cheap. Indigo blue Cling
hams Indigo blue Caicoes; not any cheaper
than they ought to be, but very nice attrac-
tive styles.
Summer Silks at prices SO low that some
people, who would buy them at twenty-five
Fer cent more, will not look at them. Other
people who know better get the bargains.
Summer Silks at 35c, 371Sc, 45c, are cheep
enough, but they are not half the bargain to
the consumer that our Black Silk at $1.00
now is.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02

dramatic market" said the Dakota dramatic
critic to the representative of an eastern ira
gedian. 81 know this Merchant of Venice
you talk about I saw it In Salt Lake City
as far back as '81. No such wormy chestnut
will go down with cultured community
that had Young Mrs. Winthrop and The
Bandit King three months after they were
brought out at Drury Ianen
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
Incompreh ensibiIity,

To the Editor of the JOURNAL. AND COURIER;
Several young ladies in Prospect street are
striving to see which will get the greatest
number of words from the word at the head
of this article. One of them has spelled
thirty. Can any of your readers do betters
Try II.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-02
The ohanee OF Fewer Marriages.

IFTOn Llle NHIIOnaI H5VIeW.l
Girls are no more angels than men are
apes, and there are other vices besides i'm
purity, such as envy, uncharitablenessa mall
ice, untruthfulness and ill-tempeE. Ags el.i
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vancement.

There seems to be but little real opposition
to the promotion of Judges Studley and Dem
ing. Both these judges have well earned ad-
vancement.