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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-26


A Whitehead torpedo met a Chicag spring
chicken that had just left the frying pan,
and said:
''You miserable little animal, get out of
my way or I'll put a head on you'll If l
should collide with you there would not be
enough of you left to grease gimletln
The Spring Chicken replied:
81 am not afraid of a harmless little sea-
terrapin as you. Do you take me for fat
boat or the Dolphin? You must be sea-sick.
Get off the sidewalk, or I'll scatter your
personal fragmentsn
The Torpedo then sprang upon the Spring
Chicken with a wild explosion that broke
the glass in the neighboring buildings; but
the next moment the Torpedo was lying in
the gutter utterly disabled, while the
Chicken was sauntering down the pavement
wbistling ''Never Bet Your Money on the
Shanghair'
Moral: This fable teaches that there is a
good deal of gold that doesn't glitter.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-26

Referring TO the above, we beg to
inform the business public that our
Banking establishment will be opened
for the transaction of business on
Monday, May the 4th, when we will
be prepared to receive deposits in our
Savings Bank.
We will also be prepared to make
loans, discount approved notes, and
purchase exchange at best market
rates.
We will receive deposits OH open
account, make collections and con-
duct a general Banking and Ex-
change business.
Our arrangements have been com.
pleted, so that we can draw exchange
on the principal parts of the world.
105-tf CLAUS SPRECKELs & Co.
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BANKING NOTICE.

The undersigned have formed CO.
partnership under the firm name OF
CLAUS SPRECKELs & Co., for the
purpose Of carrying on Bank of
Savings and Deposits, and for trans
acting a general Banking and Ex-
change business at Honolulu, and
such other place in the Hawaiian
Kingdom as may be deemed advisable.
CLAUS SPRECKELs.
VIM, @. IRWIN.
Honolulu, April Is, 1885.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-26

DARTIES DESIRING TO SEND BANANAS
i other Island fruits to friends and relatives
on the Coast, can have the same delivered at
destination by paying cost and charges to
HENRY DAVIS,
Manager California Produce and Provision Com
pany. 348 se1&w
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-26
A Difficult Case.


Reuben Stringer," said his honor as q
middle-aged colored man waltzed up to the
mark, you were drunk last night. ;"
Cant agree wild you, sab. OWN to an
attack of vertigo I might hev appeared mo-
or sooner disinebriated, but ashore yo' it
war all mistake. Use strictly decimus
gem'lan, sah."
''Decimus!n
Exactly, sab. None O. my friends ever
knew me to perorate to de amount of one
single glass of pop"
Perforated"
Exactly, sab. 1 kin initiate de moas' re-
deemin' evidence to articulate de fack dat
vertigo am my one failin' Do you de 5iah
de presence of fifty persons whose acrimony
kin be conduced to reciprocate9"
''Reciprocater' gasped his honor, growing
white clear back to his ears
Exactly, sah l now demand to be
sworn on my own behalf As de sarcum-
stances eliminate de affidavits you kin cross
examine me on any point not made wholly
-infatious by de acceptability."
For the lands saker groaned the court
but you have mistaken the place altogether.
What you want is colored ward caucus to
nominate constables. This is the police
court"
Gam I to affiliate from dat remark, sab,
dat my cum dig soils am no longer desirable
III us lOcaI1Cy.
Yes sir. Why; man, wouldn't under
take to get at the facts in your case for a
hundred dollar bill. You have been drunk,
You may have had an attack of vertigo, but
skip. Don't stay here another minute, and
remember that your next call here will
bring sentence of sixty days.
'Jedge, lie anyhibiarsly obliged fur dis
display OF equilibrium. Good mawin' sab"
New York SUM-
'tH you are innocent" said lawyer to his
client, an old darby, who was charged with
stealing a ham, ''we ought to be able to
prove an alibi"
"Idon' 'spects We kim" the darby replied
doubtfully.
AT what tine was the ham stoleng
Bout lebben o'clock, dey say"
well, where were you between IL O'Clock
and midnight, in bedF'
mo. sab; I %ab hidin' de ham,"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-26
STEAMER LEHUA.

Dawes, Commander
Leaves Honolulu every Monday at P. NJ. tor
TKsunakRkai, Kahuiui, every week; HueIo, Hama
and Kipahulu, Keanae, Mokule.u and Nuu every
other week Returning, will stop at the above
ports, arriving back Saturday mornings.
For mails and passengers only.
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STEAMER KILAUEA HoU,

(Weisbarth, Commander),
WIN leave regularly for Paauhau, KOholaleIe,
ookala, Kukaiau, Honohina Laupahoehoe, Haka-
lau and Onomea.
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WILDER'S STEAMSHIP CO.,
LimiteSI.
STEAMER KINAU,
CKing, Commander,

Leaves Honolulu as per following schedule,
touching at Lahaina, Maalaea, Maizena,, MANU-.
kopa. Kawalhae Laupahoehoe, Hilo and Reauhou:
Tuesday June %, Volcano and way ports.
Tuesday, June 80, HilO and way ports.
Tuesday, July 2, HilO and way ports.
Tuesday, July IA, Volcano and way ports.
Tuesday July 81, HilO and way ports
Tuesday, July %, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday August 4, HiIo and way ports
Tuesday, August IL, Volcano and way ports.
Tuesday August Is, HiIo and way ports.
Tuesday, August 25 Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, September 1, Hilo and way ports.
Tuesday, September 8, Volcano and way poets.
Tuesday, September 10, HilO and way ports.
Tuesday, September %, Volcano and way ports.
Tuesday, September %, HilO and way ports.
PASSENGER TRAINS will connect with the
Rinau at MahukOna.
The Kinau WILL TOUCH at Honokaia and
Paauhau down trips from HilO for Passengers
II signal is made from the shore.
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Fun and Duty.
[Chicago Ledger.

The same man who splits out woros THAT
burn if he has to hold the baby two min
utes while IFS weary and heartsick mother
steps out to get taste of sunshine, viii
stand all day in the water up to his knees
and hold fshpole without a murmur, be-
cause one is fun and the other duty.
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IArkansaW TraYeIer.l

During the excitement of discussion this
paper might have said something to wound
the feelings of Mr.. Gladstone If So now
that the crisis has come, we earnestly beg
the old statesman's pardon. We have never
lost sight of the fact that Mr.. Gladstone had
a til esone contract ON his hands. Managing
q plantation stocked with steers is a pretty
serious matter, but it is mere play compared
.v.... .1.n-.-ssssS IA smnire of bulls
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STEAMER MOKOLn.
CMcaregor. Commander,

UAcGregor. Commander,
Leaves Honolulu each Monday at p. n. for
Kaunakakai, KanalO, PHkOO, Lahaina, Moanui,
Halawa, Wailau, Pelekunu and Kalaupapa. Re-
turning, leaves Puko0 Friday a. m. for Honolulu,
arriving Saturday morning.
So The Company will not be responsible for
any freight or packages unless rcceipted for, nor
for personal baggage unless plainly marked. Not
responsible for money or jewelry unless placed in
charge of the Purser.
All possible care viii be taken OF Live Stock, but
the Company win not assume any risk OF accident
SAM'L. g. WILDER President.
8. B. ROSE, Secretary.
oFFTCE-Corner Fort and Queen streets.
2S-1y Mar 80
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Keep Books and Accounts, collect Bills, loans
invest Moneys Penmanship, Engrossng and
all kinds of Copying done.
PFOcures Fire and Life insurance.
Advertisements and Correspondence attended to.
Information of every description connected
with the Islands coming from abroad fully
answered.
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Real Estate Department
Employment Depart1n
General Business Matters

Finds Employment in all branches of ind
connected with the Islands.
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Custom House ker.
Merchants will find this Department a special
benefit to them, as ] attend to entering goods
through power OF Attorney and delivering the
same at small commission.
Soliciting Agent for the MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, p
the largest, grandest and sOundest Insurance
Company in the world.
AGENT for the
''GFeat Burlington Railway Route
In America Travellers jOnrneying by rail in
America will find this route the most comfortable
and most delightful. The scenery is the grandest
going East, and with the PULLMAN PALACE
SLEEPING CARS and good meals along the trip,
polite attention from employees and reason
able fare no route can excel this. MIR. G. X.
MILLER, my Chief Clerk, specially attends to
this Department, and for information, guide books,
maps, etc, he will extend every courtesy.
AGENT for the
Honolulu Royal Opera House.
Managers OF hrst-class companies abrosd Will
address me for terms. etc.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05

hensible on the part of the California
press to tell the plain truth regarding that
infanly. In fact, in the whole narrative of
the Gazette there is nothing so awfully
shocking as the traffic of the Chinese in
white female children. 1t would be pro-
foundly interesting if those who object to
the exposure of indecency and crime, Iiber-
tinism and the traffic in female slaves.
would present for public consideration the
plans they would substitute for working
reformations. Until they do so, their
shocked modesty should not much concern
us. When they elaborate such plans it
will be time enough for the press to re-
frain from topics which no paper of stand
ing likes to debate. In the meantime
great social dangers must be discussed
with such boldness as will carry conviction.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSION

WE fear that our folks who advocate Govern
ment ownership of railroads upon condition that
laborers shall be employed at eight hours and
s. day and passengers be carried from San
Francisco to New York for seventy-five cents,
are too heavily handicapping their ben avolent
scheme. There ought to be margin between
walking and riding. To walk from here to New
York, and walking is as easy as lying, would
consume say six months time, a deal of shoe
leather and three meals a day, or five hundred
and forty meals.-[S. F. Alta.
HENRY GEORGE is writing book against the
tariff. He would write book against the
mother that bore him. He is a kicker on
general principles Hartford Post.
If outward appearances are indicative of in
ward symptoms, the condition of the Demo
cratic party in Ohio is getting to be somewhat
volcanic.-[Cncinnati Times-star
WE do not propose to have the party Demo
| craticl run in the interest of any half dozen
| men, TO the end that any of them get Office to
the exclusion of others. or to keep any in posi-
! ton whore they can influence pardons. or get
contracts, and thus fill their purses-[Colusa
Sun.
THE tide has turned at last \ Canadian bank
officer has detaulted and escaped to New York
| 1t is true that anything in the shape of real
reciprocity in this direction is out OF the ques
| ton, seeing that Canada has not yet got bank
officers enough to Offset the emigration from
this country. But it is something to have il
demonstrated tina, the United States can be a
land of refuge for the weary defnulter, and that
the Dominion has no monopoly of that lucra
| tive business New York Tribune.
IT is an interesting coincident that President
Cleveland left camp and adjourned to a hote
! the very day that the New York Hor}d says the
party ran out of whisky.-LFhiladelph Press
Mr.. SHERMAN is evidently Republican who
believes that an era of political peace must bt
preceded by an era of Justice Boston Journal
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

IN New YORK yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 123 for As Of 1897 ll214 for as;
s5erling, 81 s41lg4 s614; los for IS; silver
bars. lo45s.
Silver IN London, IS 7-16d; consols, 100 15-l6d;
s per cent. United States bonds, extended, lO5;
As, 1867; rs. 1i5.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at S5]4a,s5z cents.
At san Francisco yesterday morning the
whole stock market was inactive. few sales
of the Comstocks were made at previous prices,
but at the close of each call weaker feeling
predominated. The outside stocks were dull
and'generally lower.
Riots are continually occurring in Bohemia
between the Germans and Czeeks.
Sir Edward Thornton, British ambassador,
has presented his letters of recall to the Gar.
The Russian Imperial family have sailed fol-
Copenhagen.
The trouble between the Knights of Labor
and the Wabash Railroad Company is still un
settled.
a prize fight of thirty-four rounds took place
near Pittsburg yesterday morning.
Rev. DR.. Stephen II. Tying, ST., the renowned
Clergyman, is dead.
Fire at Dutch Corners, stanislaus county; loss
5000.
Throughout Spain, Thursday, there were 2,5Ot
new cases of cholera and 1Ss deaths from the
disease.
The Ross-Hanlan-Lee boat race was postponed
at Sheepshead Bay yesterday until Monday
owing to rough water.
Spanish troops have been landed on the Pelev
Islands.
During the past seven days l65 business fail
ures occurred in the United States.
Senator Stanford and Governor stonemar
were visitors to the fair at Nevada City yester
day.
William Pryor was yesterday appointed Post
master at Shasta.
The German bark Carolina Susannah ha.
been wrecked on the coast of Georgia
The body of ex-senator Gwin, who died a
New York Thursday, has been sent by express
to California.
a police officer has been found guilty at Sal
Jose of accepting a bride.
Charles II. Bowers was shot and killed by
Chinaman at Bakersfield, Kern county, Thurs
day night.
Mrs. Schlenke shot and killed man in Gran
county Oregon, who had insulted her.
Seven cholera deaths occurred in Toulor
Thursday night.
The NJ. E Conference is still in session a
Stockton.
The inside pages of to-day's RECORD UNIo,
contain an unusual quantity of valuable ant
interesting reading matter.
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may be political preferment, reward by APP
pointmeDt, promise and gift of employment
libations of whisky, general confraternal
reciprocation between cliques of the ele-
ment, and probably some grosser considera-
ton. 1t is perfectly natural that the trading
class in politics should seek for an agent, a
medium through whom contracting parties
may be brought together, or by whom they
may seem to be kept apart. Such an agent is
Buckley. He has, however, real organic
ing talent and managerial skill, and is en-
dowed by nature with gifts in these direc-
tons above the common. 1t is not sur
prising therefore, that man who is skill
ful as boss and possesses great influence
largely because he has the reputation of
possessing it,, should be appealed to to go
outside political lines and do friendly
turn for money in the realm of the law.
For a consideration Buckley induced GER
tain parties to give their place on the cal
endar of the Supreme Court to the case of
his client, and thereby a speedier hearing
was had. So far as the transaction itself
is concerned ii apparently was legal enough
and no harm is charged as resulting. 1t
was simply, says Mr. Boss Buckley, an ar
rangement among litigants, by which one
having preference for the ear of the Court
yielded to another his right to be heard
first. But, supposing it to be ever
so innocent an affair, yet as IN
dicating a new departure and broad
possibilities for bossism, it is an
alarming circumstance. Ifthe political boss
may do these things he NAV do much more
of similar character, and that corruption
will creep in as a result admits of no
doubt. The party who employs the ward
boss hereafter to adjust Court calendars
will do 50 because he believes the manag-
ing capacity of the boss to be superior to
that of the officers of the Court-the at
torneys in the case. With this new con-
fession of his Importance, the boss will, OF
coarse, take on new airs. We may reason
ably expect him to enter the realm of the
Church, certainly the flds Of commerce
and trade, and assume the direction OF
society. Everywhere he already largely
controls in educational departments, divid-
ing influence at times with book-publish-
ers-a species of bosses AT the beck and
call Of the boss, teachers come and go
elected officers of the people consult him
in preference to their constituents. He i:
the arbiter of destinies in civil Official
| ranks the dictator of our actions in the
economy of municipal administration the
one sufficient referee in matters of State
policy, and now he is to determine in what
manner we shall approach the throne o
the law. Great is the political king, anC
the boss is his name He is omnipresent
and holds sway in village as well as city
at crossroads as well as in town. HI
ought to be crushed out, blotted out anC
sat down upon; but bless our souls, he vii
not be; the people are content TO sit under
his rule, submit to his dictation, accept hi
make of platform and the fashioning of of
ficials at his hands. The people know
what is best for them. We repeat, Ions
live the boss.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05

The Salvation Army proposes to assist
5000 rescued fallen women to come to this
country and to Canada Here arises a
question. Under the law, women of the
town are of the class that are prohibited
from landing in America But" SAYS
General Booth, "these are reformed. The
spirit of Che Almighty dwells with them,
and they have been snatched from the
burning."' We are not disposed to quarrel
with General Booth as to conversion or
its lasting qualities, but, "just the same"
we think Americans will prefer that the
army of 5000 be retained in England.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05

THE San Francisco Chronicle blossoms
out with an expose, which prima tacle es-
tablishes the fact that great numbers of
return certificates are sold to Chinese, and
that regular traffic in these passes goes
on. 1t is charged that ring conducts the
business, and that it has been extremely
profitable to it. 1t could not be carried on
without the connivance or neglect of Gus
toms officials The heads of the two chief
departments enter denials Of all knowledge
of the traffic. But the proofs adduced
that these certificates have been taken to
China and peddled out are so strong that
an official investigation must follow. 1t
may not do much good now-the Re-
striction Act is so badly battered that it
has little vitality in it-but still the guilty
should be discovered and punished to the
full extent of the law.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05
LONG LIVE THE BOSS.

The Bonnet-Buckley episode in San
Francisco is a peculiar phase of bossism.
Buckley is a boss, more politely, "a politi-
cal manager" for wing of the Democratic
party. His skill in managing resides
mainly in his control of an element ready
to be controlled for considerations. These
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05

OF course the fruit importers of New
York laugh at the idea of cholera germs
being brought over in raisins. What cares
trade for the lives of men so long as it can
turn penny If rags can convey the
germs why not the pulpy body of the
raisin? If the germ will live and develop
in the seams of the ship, why not in the
folds of the skin of the raisin? The raisin
is picked in the cholera district, handled
over and over again by those exposed
hourly to the disease-many of them die
of the plague-the raisin is cured in the
houses of the peasantry in the cholera dis
tricts; the trays are hung in all the rooms
and every inch of space is utilized in the
house for the purpose. This is done in
houses where men and women have sick
ened and died of cholera, and yet we are
told by the traders that there is no danger
in importing the Valencia or Malaga
raisins
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05
THE STATE FAIR.

The success of the State Fair about to
open in this city is no longer matter of
speculation. So far at least, as exhibits
are concerned, it is not involved in any
manner of doubt, nor is there any sort of
doubt entertained of the beneficial relation
it viii hold to the people, for they will be
enabled to examine in groups the exhibits
Of the products of many more of our coun-
ties than have before presented examples
Of production at a State exposition. In the
matter of industries and of mechanical APP
planes, inventions, agricultural tools and
devices, and specimens of fine handiwork
there are to date more entries than at any
previous exhibition under the auspices of
the State Board of Agriculture. As to
stock, the assurance is a certainty that the
exhibits will be larger more varied and
of greater benefit than in any preceding
year. With speed programme of es-
pecial promise, there can therefore be no
question of the entire success of the COM
ing fair as an exhibition. That it will be
financially successful, despite the dull sea-
son, would seem to be quite as well assured.
IL the death of William NJ Gwin one
of the first of California Senators, and one
of the builders of the Constitution of Cali
fornia, has passed away He was a man
whose early career was one of great
briliiancy, and in the prime of his politi-
cal life he was a man with a national rep
utation, with influence in political life
scarcely second to any, and as such he
made and left his indellible impress upon
our public affairs California owed much
to Senator Gwin, for to his energy was due
much OF the favor it early received at the
hands of the Federal Government. But.
while he was great organizer a man of
great brain, devoted student of political
history, a courageous and able representa-
tive of the people during long years of
service in high station, and while his Con-
! gressional career was very extended and
made him one Of the most prominent
| figures in the political field of the United
States during periods of greatest moment,
yet his later course was such as to shadow
the record of a life of great activity and
broad service to his country. At the out
break Of the war he took sides with the
Confederate States and against the nation
that had so often honored and exalted
him. During the civil war he attached
himself to the fortunes of Macmillan. in
Mexico, and thus still more estranged him
self from his country. With the close of
Maximilian's reign, DIR. Gwin returned to
the United States, but could not again
assume position of political prominence.
He was unquestionably a man of the
higher order Of intellect; naturally
endowed with statesmanlike qualities, and
| gifted with the abilities that distinguish
the successful legislator. He was hot
partisan, putting party indeed, too much to
the front, and drawing as sharp fire from his
enemies as he did warm manifestations of
devotion from his political associates. He
may be justly termed the pioneer political
| leader of the coast-one of the founders
and one of the builders of the State of
| California
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05
creditable to the Democrats if the state
ment of the Sun could be denied

IT is gratifying TO note in these hard
times that at least the balance of trade
with foreign countries is largely in our
favor. The excess of exports over imports
during the year ending July 31st was not
less than Sl61, 9S9,2l4, between thirteen
and fourteen millions month.