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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-12-18
WILDER'S STEAMSHIP CO.,
Limited.
STEAMER KINAU,

IS1
Leaves Honolulu per following schedule,
touching at Lahaina, Maalaea, Maizena,, MANU-
kopa Kawalhae I.aupahoehOe. HilO and Keauhou:
Commencing on MONDAY, October 18th, and
thence on the first Monday following the arrival
of the "Alameda and "MaTiposa," on the Sth
and 22d of each month:
The steamer kinau viii make the VOLCANO
TRIP, reaching keauhOu on Wednesday morn
ing giving tourists two days and two nights at
the VOLCANO HOUSE.
When the sth and I'D of the month fall on
Monday, the Kinau will leave that day.
TICKETS FOR THE ROUND TRIP TO THE
VOLCANO, FIFTY DOLLARS, WHICH PAYS
ALI. CHARGES.
mornings on Volcano trips. On HIO trips viii
leave Honolulu on Tuesdays, aud return Saturday
morning.
PASSENGER TRAINS will connect with the
KinRu at IahukOna.
The Kinau WILL TOUCH at HonOkaia and
Paauhau on down trips from HiO for Passengers
II a signal is made from the shore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
The Battle in the Desert.

The first battle between the troops
OF General Wolsely and the forces Of
the Mahdi occurred on Saturday at
the wells OF Of Abu Klea IN the desert
General Stewart, who had moved
with force of 1, 500 men from Kocti
to Gakdul, ninety miles on the route
to Metemneh and SheHdy, left Oak
dull on the 18th for Abu Klea. At
this point there is an abundant supply
Of water, and it was proposed to re-
cuperate here for the dash on Metepa-
neh.
When Stewart left Kerti the rebels
were in force at Berber and Shenky,
with the main army of the Mahdi
camped to the northwest Of Khar-
tOum, near Omdurman, one of
Gordon's outpost strongholds. This
position was taken on the theory that
Wolseley would advance by way of
Debbeh, but when it was dicovered
that Stewart was advancing across
the desert the rebels at Omdurman
and Berber were concentrated at
Shendy, and thrown forward to meet
Stewart before he could reach the
wells at Abu Klea.
This was not unexpected, as Gcner-
al Stewart had moved forward from
Gakdul in readiness for an attack.
He fought the battle under all the
disadvantages that it was possible for
the opposing forces to impose, and
the STR ggle ended ia the defeat of the
Mahdi's forces. This opens the road
to Shendy, but now Gordon must re-
take Omdurman before he can send
steamers to meet Stewart The ques-
ton now is whether the Mahdi will
make furious attack on KhartOum
or retire into Korfodan without offer
ing another battle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
Sixteen Hundred Years In Office.

A careful study of the unofficial
list of the members of the next house,
prepared by Gen. Clark. the clerk of
the house. writes a Washington cor
respondent of The Baltimore Amsri-
can, reveals some very interesting
facts. It appears from comparison
of it's names with official documents
of various sorts that the next house
will have, when it comes together, an
aggregate coz grsssional experience OF
nearly one thousand years study Of
the class of topics that are to ecnae be-
fore it. It certainly ought to accom-
plish something. Their, too, it will
have the senate. with an aggregate OF
nearly six hundred years similar ex-
perisnce, which will come together at
the beginning of next December, to
tackle building appropriation jobs and
and protect the railroad interest. 1t
seems as though a congress with
fifteen hundred years experiences III
stock, when it begins work, might
pass public building bill or Two, and
that is more than has been done In
the last three sessions. The clerk of
the house committee on public build
ings aud grounds assures The Ameri-
can correspondent, with tears IN his
ewes, that the past three sessions of
congress have net passed and sent to
the president a single bill for the
erection of public building. Ger
tainly it has not been, in the case of
the present congress, because it has
done so much other work. Of the one
hundred and tuenty-eight or thirty
members in the next house who are
not in this, there are few, possibly a
half dozen, who have had experience
in congress before. There are among
these Cavalry Joe" Wheeler, who
was as prominent on the confederate
side as Gen. Bragg. of Wisconsin, on
the union eide. They were both of
the forty seventh, @l d cone back to
forty ninth Then there is ihe-strsng-
voiced Julius Caesar Burrows. of
Michigan, a most effective stump
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
Have an Object in Life.
st. Louis Magazine.

Young man if you want to succeed
you must have an object. IF you go
on through life in slip shod, aialess
sort of a way, the chances are that
you will die, as you have lived, mere
cipher soon forgotten in this world,
and If in the merciful providence of
God you succeed in getting into the
next, you Will have to sit around on
the ragged egde unable to join in the
smallest song which the celestial choir
is said to sing. There won't be any
place for you and nothing for you to
busy yourself about. You won't even
have the satisfaction of being allowed
to assist in taking up the collection,
because you would 60 to sleep before
you had got half way around.
Have an object! What does Is mat
ter if you do fall short of il? Aim
high and blaze away. Suppose you
don't cit the mark-you are no worse
off than hundreds of othersI But let
me tell you, if you aim well and keep
on firing. after while something is
sure to drop. OF course if you shut
your eyes and pull off both barrels at
once, you may hit something, but the
probabilities are that you won't, and
if you do it will very likely be some
oderiferous TURKEY buzzsrd, or harm
less little peewee, that it would have
been much better for your reputation
had you left alone
Have an object, young man, and
stick to it. You may never be presi-
dent or even governor, but if you
keep some worthy object in view and
work hard, we'll wager a lead nickle
that some day you'll be able to take
your best girl to the circus, without
skulking around on the back streets
for fear of meeting your wash-woman
whom you owe for your last three
weeks washing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
The Boys Of Fifty Years Ago.
Rome Oneida County, Sentinel.

Judge J. r. SWan. who recently
died at Columbus, Ohio, a native of
the town Of Western, in this county,
wrote as follows TO a friend a few
months before his death: GAS one
grows old Cat least I do one recalls
more frequently and wildly the past
wi it'll me it is Western the fishing
for minnows and trout with your
srother. The schoel-house with It's
seats made of the outside plank of saw
logs, the bark adhering 10 the under
side, and augur holes into which the
legs were driven showing on top: the
enormous fireplace in the schoolroom ;
the air loaded with the smell of bread
and butter, brought in baskets made
by the Indians, the schoolhouse too
far off from houses of the children to
90 home for their dinner. Then the
cake filled with corrinder seed, which
Mrs. and Ann Floyd gave us(when we
stopped on our way to shooll at Gen.
Floyd's. The Barlow knife and the
gilt-covered primers of the House
that Jack Built and Blue Beard,
AID the red morocco caps for child
req, these gave full qualification
Then great event was keg of oys-
ters brought by sleigh from Albany
Sugar plums, the outside sugar, and
beautifully colored, and the inside
sweetened -four or whiting. Bare
foot, of course, in summer; but the
shoemaker went from house to house
in the fall and made our shoes. How
pleasant it was to watch the work on
our own shoes and anticipate the time
when the work would be finished,
and then putthe precious things under
our pillow the first night! Popguns
of alder, whistles of butternut, jews
harps and kites filed the place, and
were probably quite as enjoyable as
the thousand kinds of toys of the
present. There were eight children
in my fathers family then. and my
mother made them stockings and
winter coats and trousers from wool
to completion. Pretty well for mer-
chants wife"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
Are You Going to New Orleans or
FIOridas

If SO you can go via the MOnO2l Route
via Louisville or Cincinnati, and see
Mammoth Cave, Nashville, Blount
Springs, Birmingham, Montgomery,
Mobile and the Gulf Coast for TIL same
money that viii take you via Cairo and
through the dreary uninhabited, uHin-
teresting Mississippi swamps. We are
confident the tourist cannot select
line to the South enjoying half the adj
vantages that are possessed by the
M0nOn Route and its southern connect
ions. No one should think of going
South without visiting Mammsth Cave,
the great Natural Wonder of this Cont
neat. So much has been written of this
world famous wonder, that it is impos-
sible to say anything new In regard to
it. 1t &C mot be described-its caverns
must be explored-its darkness felt
it's beauties seen to be realized. 1t is
the greatest natural curosity-Niagara
not excepted, and he whose expecta-
lions are not satisfied by It's marvellous
avenues, somes and starry grottoes
must be either a fool or a demi-god.
From Mobile to New Orleans, 100 miles,
the ride along ths Gulf coast is alone
worth the entire cost of the trip-ip
full sight of the Gulf-all the way past
Ocean Springs, Mississippi City Pass,
Christian Bay, ST. Louis, and Beauvoir,
the home of jeff Davis. When you de-
eide to go south, make up your mind TO
travel over the line that passes through
the best country, and gives you the best
places to stop over. This is exceptionally
the Monon Route Ia connection with the
1t & n. & the Cincinnati Southern Ry's
Pullman Palace Sleepers, palace
coaches-double daily trains. The best
line TO Cincinnati, Louisville. New Or
leans or Florida. For full information,
description books, pamphlets, ETC., ad-
dress E. O. Mccormick, Northern Pas-
senger agent, MonoR Route, 12S Ran
lph Street, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29

Had the father had a workshop, with
a select lot of tools, would not those
boys have had some ] ID for a rainy
day, such as a little cart, sleigh,
wagon or boat to make or repair?
There are very few boys who do not
have such things to make. Thus by
having a small workshop, boys soon
acquire taste to handle tools, and
tinker up many little playthings of
their own
When older, the knowledge gained
will be of great service to them in
making and repairing implements on
the farm. But there are habits which
they acquire in spending their leisure
time al the village, which are the ruin
of many promising boy; for where
do we find village now, In which
tt ere is not one or more taverns,
where the temptation appears to be
strong, judging from the numbers we
generally find IN them getting spiritu-
Gus liquors to drink
When will farmers learn to make
their homes attractive for their boys
and themselves? A few good books,
one or more good agricultural papers,
and last but not least. workshop.
I rejoice to say I am a farmer. Al
though young yet, find can keep
mp with my neighbors. have always
lived on farm; my father is good
farmer, and he has a nice little work
shop, in which first learned the use
of tools. [ can mend pillow, wagon,
or sleigh, or and OK chain, sharpen
and temper crowbar, make a gate
and hang it, mend harness, boots,
shoes, and tin pans, repair and clean
a clock and watch, iron and darn
stockings. My apprenticeship was
served in my fathers farm shop, on
rainy days. | find that it has not been
much of load for me to carry along,
and it has given me love Tor home,
with skill and ingenuity to keep things
neat and in repair, and to make home
attractive to Eayself and family.-Tri-
bune Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29

speaker, who comss back with some
former years of experience, and his
voice unim paired IN his experiences
in the vilds Of Michigan. There VIII
be some pretty old heads liz next CON
sress. Thers will be more than twenty
men In the house W no have had mere
than ten years experience each IN
congress, and as many in the senate.
There will be five men Ia the hesse
ana four In the senate with con-
gTesslonal experience of over twenty
years each-an aggregate of nearly 225
years. These In the house with over
twenty years each are Holman, who
Will enter upon his twenty first year
when the next congress begins; O'Neil
OF Pennsylvania, who has had the
same number Of years; Randall. who
enters upon his twenty third year OF
service with the beginning of next
congress; Cox, who has been twenty
four years In the house. but not In
continuous service, and Kelley, whs
has serv-d twenty four years without
q break, and enters upon his twenty
fifth at the beginning of the next SEES
sion. Among the senators, Allison
and Logan have had twenty years
each OF experience in house and SEN
ate, Dawes twenty-five, Shermrn
twenty seven, ana Morrill,, thirty.
Pennsylvania sends a larger aggregate
of legislative wisdom to the house
than any other state, the number of
years which her members have served
IN congress bsin. 128. New York
would naturally be expected to send
a larger aggregate than any OF the
others. But she does not. The ag-
sresate number of years which her
members have served is but slightly,
while Illinois, which has little more
than half as many members, sends
eighty-twO years experience for the
house. Her mem bers in the senate
have had twenty eight years expert
ence, against eighteen on the part OF
the New York senators. The only
states that do not furnish some legis-
lativs experiences in the house are
Oregon and Colorado, each of which
sends new man Ia place of the ons
now In the house. In addition to the
aggregate experience which the
members elect of the next congress
have had in coz gress here, there are
several who had some congressional
experience elsewhere = Singleton,
Reagan, Pugh, Vest and Garland
having been members of the confeder-
ate congress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
American Girls and Women.

Girls without an undesirable love
of liberty and craze for indlvidualism !;
girls who will let themselves be guld-
ed girls who have the filial sentiment
we'll developed. and who feel the love
of a daughter for the woman who
acts as their mother; girls who know
that every day and all day long can
not be devoted to holiday making
without the intervention of duties
more or less 1rksome; girls who when
they can gather them accept their
roses with frank and girlish sincerity
of pleasure, and when they are denied
submit without repining to the newt
able hardship Of circumstances-these
are the girls whose compapionship
gladdens and does not Cypress Or dis
tract the old, whose sweetness and
ready submission to the reasonable
control of authority, make life so
pleasant and their charge so light to
those who care they are.
AS to the elder ones, Hudson, in his
recent ''Scamper through America, "
declares that to converse in the rail
way cars with ladies returning from
conventions and conferences was a
genuine pleasure; an intellectual treat.
But he adds that, though one could
revere them, almost worship them, to
love them was out of the CUES
ton.
For each one Of us there is some
face enshrined in memory, whose in
fuence is lofty as an inspiration,
whose power is a living power, whose
love has been stronger than death,
and will light an upward path for us
even to LIES end Why is all this
but because she whom we loved was a
heroine? And what were her charac
teristics3 One answer will serve for
all-Tenderness. gentleness, self-for-
getfulness, suffering. The last char
acteristic may not be universal, like
the rest. But the highest love can
only exist where suffering has touched
the object loved. 1t is one of the com
pensatI0ns for the manifold sufferings
of this world of ours. The Ere OF
trial seems to light up every beauty
and attraction. The life that not only
loved much, but suffered much, has a
royal right of influence as long as
memory lasts-an influence which
cannot belong to any life which suf-
fering has not crowned Chambers
| Journal,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29

Burdette blushed, rubbed some dirt
off his left pantaloon leg with his
right boot, and said:
Really, Mr.. Emory, You see-I
hardly-well = fact is there's moth
ing avaricious about me, Mr. Emory,
but I shall have TO claim those
myself
"Ohwexclaimed the editor, feigning
surprise, you? Well, don't do SO
any more. They make me melancholy.
They are neutrality-suspicious.. They
seem to have emanated from a
wrecked brain. You can go to your
room, Mr.. Burdette. I wouldn't have
thought it of you. Don't do so any
more. If there's any thing funny TO be
written, I'll write it myself. A."
Burdette went home all broke up.
He resigned next day and crossed tie
Miss ssiepi.
II left" says the humorist, she
cause, sincerely, I couldn't look him
in the face after that I had been
caught ia the act and felt like q guilty
thing"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
Spearing Swords
Popular Science Monthly.

The fish are always harpooned from
the and of the bowsprlt of sailing
vessel. All vessels regularly engaged
Ia this fishery are supplied with an
apparatus for the support of the bar-
pooner, Which consists of a wooden
platform about two feet square, upon
which the harpooner stands, and an
upright bar of iron three feet high,
rising from the tip Of the bowsprit
just IN front of this platform. At the
top of this bar is bow of iron IN a
nearly circular form, to surround the
waist of the harpooner. This struc-
ture is called the ''rest" or the ''pul
pit" A man is always stationed at
the mast head, whence, with the keen
eye which practice has given him, he
can easily descry the tell tale dorsal
fins at distance of two Or three miles.
When a fish has been sighted, the
watch ''sings out" and the vessel is
steered directly toward it. The skip
per takes his place II the pull pit, hold
ing the harpoon with both hands by
the upper end and directing the man
at the wheel by voice and gesture how
to steer. When the fish is from six to
ten feet in front of the vessel, it is
struck The hareoon is not thrown
the strong arm of the harpooner
punches the dart into the back of the
fish besides the dorsel fin, and the pole
is withdrawn. The line is from so 10
$50 fathsms long, and the end is eth
er made fast on board the smack, OF
attached to keg or some other form
of buoy and thrown overheard. After
the fish has exhausted himself by
dragging the buoy through the water,
it is picked up, The fish is hauled
alongside, and killed with lance.
In the mean time, several other fish
may have been stuck and left to tire
| themselves out in the same way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
CsnId't Be Hers.
Hartford Times.

The other night two men, who sup
ported third between them, shuffied
up the front steps OF a house on How
ard street, and rang the bell. Al
though the hour was late, it was not
a minute before the door was opened
by woman, who asked what was
wanted.
eve have brought your husband
home. and he's q little tired" replied
one of the men.
''Yesh, sho tired!" sighed the man
in the middle.
"Gentlemen," calmly announced
the weman, you have made mis-
take. Ny husband arrived half an
hour ago, but so drunk that he was
brought In wagon. You can't palm
no such half drunk as this off onto
me!''
She shut the door on their toes, and
the party shuffled down the steps to
try another door.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
Almost a Native.
Arkansas Traveller.

Are you a native of the state2''
asked the Judge Of the Unite d States
Court, addressing fat man who had
been summoned to testify IL case of
illicit dlstilling,
Mostly, Jedge."
Il mean were you born in this
state?"
Il understand. I WANT born here,
but l ana mighty nigh a native"
Come here when quite young, I
SUPPOSED"
mo, sir, amt been here but about
ten years."
How old are you?"
Fifty"
Then how is it that you are nearly
a native of the state2"
well, when I came here only
weighed about a hundred pounds.
Now | weigh two forty, SO you see 40
pounds of me are native, while only
100 pounds came from Missoury."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
The Good Old Mothers.
Boston Home Journal.

God bless all the good old mothers.
I never see an old lady sitting IN the
arm chair at her ease but think what
storms have pelted into that CHEEKY
face without souring it. 1t may be
that man can 60 through more exer-
ton than a woman, but at least it
remains true that he cannot without
losing his laughter, his good cheer,
his gentleness and his love and trust
in mankind and God. Yet how rarely
60 you find frail old mother whose
spirit has been worn threadbare and
unlovely by what she has endured.
A sweet old mother is common; q
sweet old father is not so common. AS
thy day SO thy strength of love, thy
riches Of an inexhaustible benevolence
and hope and faith. This is more apt
to De woman's history than mans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-01-29
Workshop on the Farm.

A correspondent who appreciates the
value of having place fitted up at
the house or harm In which to do
simple home repairing, says that no
reasonable farmer will dispute the
importance of a work shop upon his
premises, and especially those who
have boys to bring up, Boys will be
busy, and if opportunity is cot given
for full employment of their time
either with work or sport at home,
they will seek diversion abroad,
which will not usually result profit
ably. A farmer gives his experience
ana opinion upon the matter II the
subjolned sensible talk:
How many farmers do we find that
have not the ingenuity to repair 8
rake, or other small farm implement
Were they brought up on a farm
Yes. Well, then, why is lti Some
NAV say they are of that unfortunate
with their share of ingenuity. This is
a great mistake IF you will take the
trouble to inquire of them what they
spent their time at when young, they
will tell you farming. Was THEN
father farmers Yes, the best III the
neighborhood, they may say. Well,
what did he employ himself and boys
at rainy days? oh, nothing; when
it ralned too hard to work. we general
ly spent our time at the village in the
stores and tavern. You know that
bows want rest sometimes" Very
true: but is there no other enjoyment
for boys than at the tavern and stores