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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-12-18

Her Fan.
Herr In the parlor, cool and sweet,
Scented with roses from the garden,
I wait the coming of her feet.
And vainly try my heart to harden.
For she is cold-ah, here's fan
Lying outstretched unon the table,
dainty toy from far Japan
1t must be yours, fair, blue-eyed Mabel
Upon it four old mandarins
Travel about at fear vi angles,
Umbrellas balanced on their chins,
And round their ecks great golden BAN
giles.
Here, just beneath this purple cloud,
Is one blank space-and shall l I'LL it,
The thoughts dare not speak aloud
My pen may tell her, if 1 will it.
1t shall Though never good at verse,
For four short lines I'm surely able.
There! Certainly have seen worse.
That's neat line, "Coy, charming MabelT
Il hear her stepi And now the Swish"
o. silken skirts the staircase trailing.
When will she see itl On, wish
My courage all at once is failing.
IN brave it out.) "Miss Clair, found
This fan and wrote some nonsense on it
Perhaps you will read it. I'll be bound
You'll laugh at my poor awkward sonnet
But if you knew-could I but show"
(Can it be true that smile she smothersA
"Oh, thank you She'll be pleased, l know;
For, Mr. Bond, that fans my mothers"
Home Weekly.
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TO RENT.

THE COTTAGE NOW OCCUPIED BY MIR. E.
W. Tucker, containing six rooms, bath
room pantry veranda room, etc. There are also
stables carriage house, servants room, all in
good order. Apply TO f. r. HENDRH, at Pacific
Hardware Co. > Store, Fort street. 3Zsdeclt
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l.. G. SRESOVICH & co.,

Commission Merchants and Wholesale Dealers in
Foreign and Domestic Fruits green and dried;
manufacturers Of pesiccated Cocoanut. bananas,
Lines Pine Apples sicily Lemons, Tahiti
oranges and Cocoanuts, Nuts of all kinds, Dates
and smyrna Figs,
Packing Fruit for export a specially. Long eT-
perieuee In shipping to China, Australia, Mexico,
Central America, Eastern States etc. Tropical
Fruits imported direct by every steamer.
Branch House, san Francisco, p. o. box 1885
Honolulu, Il. l.. p. o. box l2O.
ALB 40 and AZ Washington street opposite Post
Office; 4l2, Ala and 4l6 Merchant street.
10 feb26 - SAN FRANCISCO.
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A Connecticut Papers Little Fish story.
There is an old picker in the Piainville
pond-so old that he cannot make a living IN
the pickerel w@y of catching smaller fish,
and Of .er several hours Of vain pur-ui one
day last week ne saw our devil fish ug so
he glided up and bit the line IF close :" he
pole and pulled it around unit h. ca i2'.s a
little fish. which ne ate, and baitin lie -ook
again with part of it proceeded 10 fish or
another. Our apprentice l.. this story,
and we have decided to make lawyer o.
him -PIainville journal
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DIR. M. GOTO

DHYsICIAN AND SURGEON LEPROSY A
speciality. Office hours at Kakaako, from
Q to II a. m every day except Sunday. viii visit
patients at their residence by request Al othe T
diseases treated at his office, corner of Punch
howl and Beretania streets. once hours from
to p m; Sundays, from to II a. IN. ll2apr2
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r. r. MAYHEM,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Opposite Fashion Stables).
p. o. BOX 8I5. BELL TELEPHONE So.

All work in my line faithfully done Plans and
specidcations made. Jobbiug in all details done
at short notice. Good work and low charges Is
my motto. oo-dec5-oo
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A yerv Liberal Time Table.

Traveler-Mister, what lime 1oei
'commodation git in that's gCln dc"A
Sinks Clearin'77
Ticket AGENT (yyithin)-From &c . u A
in the afternoon
TraveIer-Is she ginerally on time
Ticket Alphabetically. Harper 6a..'
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Every Morning Except Sundays.
SUBSCRIPTIONS ::

Payable Invariably in AdUance
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CHRISTMAS WORK.

+ FTTERING AND ILLUMINATING DONE
| upon any kind of material Notices, mon
ograIu5 and original designs outlined for fancy
work Orders taken for Christmas cards of Ha-
Taiian subjects and scenery, suitable to send
broad MRS. J. d. STRONG,
2IS Fort street.
NT,,t,,aJ Te1eDbpne No SgG
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\. CURRY & BROTHER.

IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN SHOT
1 guns Rifles and Pistols, Colt Winchester,
t-annedy and Martin Magazine Rifles. Reming
ION shErps and BallarI sporting Rifles Agents
for w W Greener Colt, Parker and remington
Breech-loading Double Guns Cot ana mn s q
Wesson Pistols. n. CURRY q BIO 10 san
some street, San Francisco Cal. 10Y
, 1886-02-06

The further inland the party went the
more natives were seen. In fact, they
appeared literally to swarm in places.
They are powerful men and are consum-
mate liars. With the bow they are ex-
tremely expert and are deadly shots.
For the first couple OF hundred miles up
the river the natives trade for tobacco
principally, but beyond the distance
mentioned the inhabitants met with
would sell or do anything for a piece of
red flannel. Sage is plentiful among
them, and the pigs are innumerable.
The party brings a score of new birds
and a variety Of insects. The insects are
beautiful and valuable, and some of the
beetles, moths, butterflies, and grasshop-
pers are Of sufficient beauty to send an
entomologist into ecstasies. There are
among the insects several which show
protective initiative markings, as one
large leaf moth is 80 shaped and colored
that only the keen eye of a naturalist
would take it to be an insect. The color
Of the dead leaf is perfectly initiated and
the back is lined with veins just as in a
leaf. There is also a very large grass
hopper that resembles very closely a
green leaf, but the naturalist of the party
regrets that they kept 10 the water in
stead of taking to the mountains. sgd
ney Herald.
, 1886-02-06

This Manufacture OF seRIskin saequos.
The process of manufacture Is interest
ing. The raw skin goes to London, where
Il / 5 dyed and dressed. This labor con-
sists to two dyeings, with a plucking Of
stiff and gray hairs in between. Good
dyeing is performed with a comb and
brush, and requires great patience.
Women are the best workers at this, AS
their touch is more delicate than a mans.
An entire day is necessary to properly
dye a skin. The process Of dipping the
skin into the dye works harm to the hairs
and materially Injuries the skin.
Only about 700 of every 1000 skins car
be used for dressing. When the dressed
skin arrives the manufacturers stretches
it and nails ii to a board, with the fur
inward, and a search for imperfections If
made. These can only be discovered ON
the skin side, and it takes a keen and *
perienced eye TO find most Of the blem-
ishes. They are generally shown in mi
mute imperceptible di~scolorings Of the
skin, which, il not Immediately cut out,
will extend and 70 the fur above them
until the hairs drop out. When discov-
cred these spots are cut out and skillful
hands are set II work TO sew up the incis-
lou. Often Ecu six inches long has TO b,
made to get rid Of n spot not much larger
than a nails head. To bring the pieces
together again, without patching and
without visible seam, requires the the ut
most ~delicacy. After this is lone a paper
pattern is placed on the skin and it is cut
accordingly. Then the skin is finished
and lined, and the garment is ready
New York Star.
, 1886-02-06
CURIOUS FEATURES OF NEW MEXICO.

A Stream That Is Lost-A Lava Valley
The Year of Fire.
There is one remarkable case in New
Mexico where the lost tributaries are
plentiful but the main stream does not
exist. This is in a valley which lies be-
tween the Rio Grande and Pecos rivers.
The valley begins near the Sandia
mountains, and shut out the streams on
each side by broken mountain chains.
1t is a well-defined valley, not very
broad, but having a length of perhaps
300 miles. Flowing into it, especially On
the western side near h upper end, and
on the eastern sic toward the lower, are
numerous lost tributaries; bat the primary
stream has 30 completely disappeared
that its bed can only be found at inter
walls.
In this valley lie the ruins of the Gran
Quivira, the existence of which is not
only attested by the ruins themselves but
also by the accounts of the earliest
Spanish settlers. The records of the
Spanish up to the latter part of the
seventeenth century, when they were
expelled by the Indians, are incomplete,
as the Indians destroyed all that was left
behind. That the Gran Quivira was well
known to them, however, is shown by
the fact that the most prominent ruin
there is that of a church. There
is now no water for many miles
from the river. That there must
have been once can well be granted,
for no large city would nave been built
by human beings at a distance of fifteen
OF twenty miles from a scanty water
supply. The valley may be named from
this city, and would then be the Gran
Quivira valley.
About half way down the valley it is
broken by a Long, narrow, thin layer of
lava, now much broken up, and making
a desolate region, locally known as the
Mal-pais, or bad lands" The crater
from which the lava was derived was
near the northern end of the Mal-pais.
just above the Mal-pais an old river-bed
is reached at the depth of about $50 feet;
below it the river-bed, when found, is at
a slight depth Southwest of the Apache
reservation the old river-bed runs into a
large salt marsh. A stream of no mean
size seems to have onc run down this
valley. Not only has it 10Y disappeared,
but its bed is covered by lava and loose
soil sometimes to great depths.
As to the cause of the disappearance,
II may ave some connection with a ira
dition of the Indians, which tells of a
year of fire, when this valley was so
filed with flame and poisonous gasses as
TO be made uninhabitable. When this
occurred the chronology of the Indians
is no perfect enough to tell ms. That it
- III
, 1886-02-06

lr is generally admitted that the presi-
dent has the power to suspend any Of
liccr who has been appointed, under the
law, by the president with the advice and
consent of the senate; hat power is
equivalent to the power of removal. The
senate has the power to reject the presi-
dents appointees, which prevents him
from filling an Office, except temporarily.
without their consent. This is all that
can be involved in a conflict between the
president and the senate, and any conflict
that may arise can be settled only by the
acknowledgement on each side OF the
exact power that the other Possesses.
As to who fills the offices, if they are filed
by honest and respectable people, the
general public does not care much. If
the Republican majority in the senate
would acquire a sufficient understanding
Of this fact, the senators would save them
selves the worry and pcrspiratiou tn at a
conflict over nothing would involve.
, 1886-02-06
PunLIc sELEIsnNEss.

The bill now before the house of repre-
scntatiyes providing for au amendment of
our election laws by requiring a six months
residence in the county Gnstead of ninety
days as at present. before a citizen shall
be permitted to vote at any election, is n
measure that should not become a law.
1t is anticipated that within a few months,
50 soon as the weather will permit, a large
number ofnew settlers will immigrate TO
this territory to take up homesteads along
the line of the new railroad to be construc-
ted through the heart of Wyoming. The
new corners will be old citizens of the adj
jacent states and territories who have en-
joyed in their former homes all the rights
of American citizenship. Let it not be
said that a citizen OF the United States
loses his political rights by coming to this
territory; that he shall be DISTINGUISHED
for six months after becoming a resident
Our lawmakers should not block the
wheels of progress and development at
this time when the prospects Of soon
doubling u population are so auspi-
C Gus. They should enact no law that dis
eliminates against the newcomers; but
should welcome them to our borders, ex-
tend the right hand of fellowship to them
and all the rights aud privileges now en-
ioyed by the people of the older settle
ments. A liberal course toward the inn
, 1886-02-06

Gen. Davis of the British army, who
was n famous insect collector, once picked
up n wheel-bug in the West India islands,
and received n blow that paralyzed his
arm for some time. As he shook the
insect off, he noticed, where it had took
on his hand, six red marks, the impress
sion of its feet. Kirby and Spence also
refer to this popularity of the insect,
and other ~naturalists have received
shocks from certain of the luminous
beetles. Capt. Blakeney took an un-
known caterpillar, and Immediately
received such n shock that his entire
right side became paralyzed, and for a
long time he was dangerously ill.-Boston
Budget.
, 1886-02-06

Cramming is cruelty. A score of
things well learned are better than a
thousand things half known. A few
hours study a day makes a boy mentally
healthy; too much study makes him top
heavy. A brain that is made alert by
knowledge is a good thing, but a brain
that is water-logged with porting ovei
books is n very poor thing. Children
should he made to study hard in school.
but not a lesson should be learned at
home. Emerson once said very tersely:
We are students of words. we are shut
up in schools and colleges and recitation
rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come
out at last with a bag of wind, a memory
Of words and do not know a thing"
Our present methods are defective, but
we shall apply better ones by and by.
The system Of the future will have this
fact in it and all through it-that a boy
is an out of doors animal and ought not
to do n mans work until he acquires a
mans strength.-New York Herald.
, 1886-02-06
8 TIE MEAnom.
The summer sun was soft and bland,
As They went through the meadow land.

The summer sun was soft and bland,
As they went through the meadow land.
The little wind that hardly shook
The silver Of the sleeping brook
Blew the gold hair about her eyes e
A mystery OF mysteriesi
% he must often pause, and stoop,
And all the wanton ringlets loop
Behind her dainty ear-emprise
or slow event and many signs.
Across the stream was scarce n step
And yet she feared to try the leap
And he, TO still her sweet alarm.
Must lift her over on his arm.
She could not keep the narrow way,
For still the little feet would stray,
And ever must he bend . undo
The tangled grasses from her shoe
From dainty rosebud lips in pout,
Must kiss the perfect flower outl
Ali little c%ouquettel Fair deceit
Some things are bitter that were sweet
w. ID. Howells
, 1886-02-06

Tue Washington correspondent of the
Boston Herald quotes the president as
saying.
Il have tried to be true to my own
pledges and the pledges OF my party. We
both promised to divorce the offices of the
country from being used for party servi-
ces. | have held to my promise and |
mean to hold to il.
81 did not propose to hold party ser.
vice in the past in the Democratic ranks
AS against a man. On the contrary, il
gave him II strong, equitable claim to
office. lie had been excluded for twenty
four years because he was a Democrat.
Tie should be remembered for the same
reason when a Democratic administration
came into power, provided he was a COM
petcnt man for the position to be filed.
What understand by civil service re-
form, as | am carrying 1t out, is that
ofheeholdes shall be divorced from
politics while they ill their positions
under this government. That rule
have meant to stand by. My removals
from 0%tios, such as are made, are made
for canse. 1t would be absurd for me TO
undertake TO give the country my reasons
in all cases, because it would be impracti-
cable. When | have removed a Repub-
lcan for political reasons or for any other
reasons, | would apply the same rule to
my own party think Republican sena.
tor should be just enough to believe this
of me. They ought to appreciate that |
am trying to do my duty. Why they
should continue to disirust me | do not
see. They do not colie To me, either
personally or by committee, to get an un-
Outstanding of my attitude or to obtain
explanations on points of action To which
they object. They stand off and question
the sincerity Of my purpose"
, 1886-02-06

Here is a curious case, ma'am," said
the superintendent Of the insane asylum.
This man imngines he is the motive
power that run the world, He's per
fectly harmless, though, but he thinks
the world wouldn't move without him.
Very queer notion, isn't itY"
Il don't know about that; my hus-
band has got the same notion in his
head.-California Maverick.
, 1886-02-06
WORKER and Eaters

1t is sound doctrine, hat if any man
will not work, neither shall he eat. And
it is Just as true hal if any man cannot
eat, neither can he work. There arc
thousands Of people whose digestion is so
poor that they cannot with any comfort
eat a square meal. How can we expect
such sufferers To do a fair days work 2
Browns Iron Sitters strengthens weekend
digestion, tones up the whole system, en-
ables people to eat. to work and enjoy
prosperity. Any druggist will supply
YOU.
, 1886-02-06

In former times there was but one salt
cellar upon the table, a large piece of
plate much ornamented. The tables be-
ing long the salt was placed about the
middle and served as n boundary 10 the
different quality Of the guests. Those OF
distinction were ranked above. the space
below being assigned TO the dependents,
inferior relations of the master, ETC.
Exchanpa
, 1886-02-06

That the reader may fully understand
what constitutes a good cough and lung
syrup, we will say tar and wild cherry is
the basis Of the best remedies discovered
yet These ingredients with several
others equally cthoacious, enter largely
into DIR. B~osanko's cough aud lung syrup.
thus making il one Of the most reliable
now on the market. Price 80 cts and
: 100. Samples free. Sold by W. N.
Hunt
, 1886-02-06

According to Gen. NORM, the eminent
French expert, the proper temperature in
w~ell-ventilated places is as follows: Nurs-
cries, asylums and schools, so degrees;
work shops, barracks and prisons, 80 de
grees; hospitals, 81 TO O. degrees; theatres
and lecture-rooms, &c to 90 degrees. In
dwellings in this country it has been the
custom to keep the temperature at G5 to
20 degrees. Chicago journal.
, 1886-02-06

Cures of sciatica are reported as having
taken place in Paris after a single appli-
cation Of DIR. Debove's method Of frecz-
ing the skin above the painful parts with
a spray of chloride Of methyl. The
operation is said to be applicable also to
facial neuralgia.-New York Sun.
, 1886-02-06

Some twenty colonies have been estab-
lished in the Santa Fe district OF the
Argentine Republic. Their territory oc-
cupies ninety-fve square leagues, and
the settlers numbered 1859 families.
During the last thirty years the district
has grown through colonization until it
has a population Of ITO, 600 souls.
, 1886-02-06

The food of Burmese peasants includes
almost all kinds of reptiles, the grub of n
ball-rolling BEETLE, a kind of ant which
constructs nests Of leaves in tree-tops
~(eaten in %curries) and hill-rats. The last
named exist in such hordes that their
consumption is almost a necessity to
prevent the rats eating the burmese
Chicago Journal.
, 1886-02-06

The manufacturer who started the
manufacture Of roller skates has made
a round 81, ZOO, 900 in the business. He
began in IA little woodshed and now has
a factory of over 400 feet in length. If
the roller skating craze continues to
disappear the woodshed win be large
enough ain.-Exchange.
, 1886-02-06

A railroad station is to be erected on
he site Of ancient Babylon, and patent
medicine advertisements will be the
handwriting ON the wall.
, 1886-02-06

An Australian has invented a new
method Of tanning with soap, oil and
carbolic acid. which Ia said to have many
advantages over the old methods.
, 1886-02-06
CAPITAL PRIZE. $4,000.
100, 600 Tickets at Five Dollars Each
Fractions, in Fifths in proportion.

it"' 'N'H amounting S1O.Uu
Application for rates 10 clubs should
be made only TO the office OF the Company in
New Orleans.
For further Information write clearly,
giving full address.
Postal notes, Express Money Orders, or New
York Exchange In ordinary letter. Currency
by express (ali sums Of IS and upwards
at our expense) addressed
NJ. A. DAUPHIN. New Orleans, Ia,
or M. A. DAuPHIN. Washington. ID. @.
Make P. 0. Money Orders payable and
address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans. La.
, 1886-02-06

The steady drift of
trade to Heath'S city
market is the best clue to
Where the public can OBJ
tain the best market pro-
duce for the most reason
able prices.
, 1886-02-06

Daily. delivered by carrier. pc per week.
81 per month.
Daily, by mail 81 per month, $500 for six
months, $40 per year, In advance.
weekly s2O per mum. Sl.D Tor six months.
payable ln advanee
, 1886-02-06

A school-house built OF cobble-stones Is
one Of the curiosities OF Antelope valley.
In Tehema county, Cal.
, 1886-02-06
Potatoes, cabbage, fssr-
nips, beefs, parsnfps, onions
carrots and street potatoes,
at y. A.THyior's.

s5.O0O.OO in First National bank, Den
Yer, says the $. NJ. s., is the best nickel
cigar in Colorado. O. G. Peabody has
them.
, 1886-02-06

Shaw gives fine prizes on billiards and
pool this month. Corner Seventeenth
and Eddy streets.
, 1886-02-06
T. CZ E M A
And Every Species of Itching and
Burning Diseases Cured
BY Cuticura.

eczema. or salt rheum. with It's agOnizing Itch
Ling and burning, instantly relieved by a warm
bath with Cutlcura Soap. and a single applica-
tion Of Cuticura, the great skin cure. This re-
peated daily, with two or three doses of Cuticu-
ra Resolyent, the new blood purifier. 10 keep
the blood cool. the persplratiOn pure and unir-
ritating, the bowels open, the liver and kidneys
active, will speedily cure eczema, letter, ring
worm. psoriasis. lichen, pruritus. scald head.
dandruf, and every species Of itching, scaly and
plmply hnmors Of the scalp and skin, when the
best physicians and all known remedies fail.
VIII Mcdonald. 2542 Dearborn street.
Chicago. gratefully acknowledges a cure OF &C.
zema, rsalt rheum on head. neck, face, arms
except on hands and knees for one year not
able To help himself for eight years tried nun
dreds OF remedies doctors pronounced his
case hopeless permanently cured by Cuticura
Resnlvent blood %puriherl Internally, and Cuti-
cura and Cuticura Soap tthe great skin cures)
externally.
Gins Houghton, Esq. lawyer, d state
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his observation for ten years. which covered
the patients body aud limbs. and to which all
known methods Of treatment had been applied
without benefit, which was completely cured
solely by the Cuticura Remedies, leaving a clean
and healthy skin.
Mr.J John ThieI. wnkesbarre, Pa, writes ;
Il have suffered frum salt rheum for over eight
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70 my business io6 weeks a. q ume Three
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disease"
Physicians Prescribe Them. u have
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MONROE B0SD, NJ. D..
BOO Broad street. Philadelphia. Pa.
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Potter Drug and Chemical Co, Boston. Mass.
send for Pamphlet.
pEAITTfFY the complexion and skin by
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