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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-05-01
The RisdOn
Iron & Locomotive Works,

Corner of Beale and Howard Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO~.................. Ca LIFORNIA
JOS. Superintendent
BUILDERS OF STEAM MACHINERY, IN
ID all its branches; Steamboat, Steamship,
Land Engines and Boilers, High Pressure or
Compound.
STEAM VESSELS, of all kinds built complete
with Hulls of Wood, Iron or Composite.
ORDINARY ENGINES compounded when adj
visable
STEAM LAUNCHES, Barges and Steam Tugs
constructed with reference to the trade in
which they are to be employed. Speed, ton
mage and draft of water guaranteed.
SUGAR ESILLS AND SUGAR-MAKING MA
CHINERY made after the most approved
plans. Also, all Boiler Iron Work connected
Herewith.
WATER PIPE, of Boiler or Sheet Iron, of any
size, made in suitable lengths for connecting
together, or Sheets Rolled, Punched and
Packed for shipment, ready to be riveted on
the ground.
HYDRAULIC RIVETING, Boiler Work and
Water Pipe made by this establishment,
Riveted by Hydraulic Riveting Machinery,
that quality Of work being far superior to
hand work.
SHIP WORK, Ship and Steam Capstans, Steam
WincheS, Air and Circulating Pumps, made
after the most approved plans.
SOLE AGENTS and manufacturers for the Pa
C tic Coast of the Heme Safety Boiler.
PUMPS-Direct Acting Pumps, for Irrigation or
City Works purposes, built with the cele-
brated Davy Valve Motion, superior to any
other pump.
J. n. ). WILLIAMS Honolulu
Room No. 8, upstairs, Spreckels Block
agent for Hawaiian Islands
226se30-1yd-w
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-05-01

importers of Foreign and Domestic DrygOods,
Hosiery, Ladies' and Gents Furnishing Goods.
sole Proprietors and Manufacturers OF the ceIe-
baTted PATENT RTVETED CLOTHING.
47s iRn26 s.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
A Fighting Editor.

The champion fighting editor of
the country lives at Albuquerque,
n. NJ. As the story goes, eleven
citizens of the variety known as
"toughs" came to the conclusion,
short time ago, that it was their
duty, in the interest of law and or
der and the purity of the ballot
box, to take the editor out and
hang him.
Now, our Albuquerque Journal
list lived alone in a log cabin con-
sisting of a single room with n
cellar underneath. His only
companion, n pet grizzly bear,
occupied the cellar On the night
when the editor Ind good reasons
to expect a visit from the reform
ers he retired to the cellar and
left the upper room to the grizzly.
At the hour of midnight eleven
stalwart men arrived with n rope.
They battered down the door and
rushed in eager for the fray. They
had no light, but they rushed
against their man, rs they suppos-
ed. For an editor he showed UNI
usual pluck and strength. He
went for the lynchers with such
activity that the fight was over in
five minutes.
In the gray OF early morning
three men turned up in Albu-
querque, each with an eye miss
ing. One man called at the doc
tors Office with one foot and three
fingers chewed Off. The remain
ing seven reformers were loahng
around on the streets more or less
mutilated
When the alleged facts of the
fracas got out the editor became
the most popular man in the ter
ritory. His paper is doing a
booming business and he can get
any office he wants. He still
keeps the grizzly in the cellar
ready for an emergency Aflw-
In Consultations.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12

Breathing hard like pacing
horse just in from mile heat, the
poor wretch proceeded:
The wind came up from the sunny south
And kissed the maiden on cheek and mouth, :
"That verse will do we'll enough
il you'll only make one little
change in it.
"What is it?" inquired the per-
spring poet, Frightening up tri-
file, and exhibiting Il little more
animation.
$50 you make it read this way
"She grabbed itup with surly growel,
And wiped it out with Turkish towel"
"That is quite little change"
said the depressed poet. "Do you
think it would improve it2'
Certainly. Swing in with the
next carmen.
THE maiden rose from her rustic seat,
And silently, passed through the lonely
street,"
THAT'S the close" he said tim
idly, and with a long sigh of relief.
30, that's the close, is it; all
right. Well, you will find we are
right along with you, Just alter
that this way:
"Down on the girl the housewife bore,
And tired her through the kitchen door"
"Now you see, with the aid of
the few minor suggestions which
we have made, you can trim that
thing of yours into some respecta-
BILE kind of shape. Besides that,
you have got poem which you
can split a kind of double-barrel-
ell poem and sell half to one pa
per and the other half to another
The poet exhibited no little
alacrity in preparing to take his
departure; i'll fact, he seemed like
man Just coming out of a eonges-
tive chill. Before he got outside
the door, we said:
"If you ever get caught in anoth-
er snap like this, don't be afraid
to call around and see us.
The poet said thanks" but he
won't be likely to drop in again
inside of a Thousand years.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12

becomes the master rather than
the servant, and master of ex-
ceeding stemess and inexorability,
Even the will itself becomes sub
servient to this great governing
power, and then the outward man
develops into u pitiable object of
unsettled purposes and changeable
whims whom none can look up to,
solely through his own lack of
self-respect,
The great secret of all success
is self-control, exercised at the
right time, and persevered in, not
by fits and starts, at odd times,
when there is no temptation to do
otherwise than persevere, but
steadily, hopefully with grim
determination that is not only not
afraid of obstacles and drawbacks,
but takes certain pleasure in
surmounting them and keeping
them at bay.
Lacking this spirit, n man is in
deed fair object of commisera-
ito; possessing it, he in his strong,
sturdy way, goes far toward full
filling the poetic ideal of per
feet being, nobly planned
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12

for the next half hour I've sailed
in this yacht before, and | know
she's stauneh.
There were three seats. Pat
ton took the front one, to handle
the brake, Smalley took the next
one, and | took the rear and work
ed the tiller. That was rugged
Just like ships rudder, with n
rubber wheel to ense off her stern
against the side of the tlume if she
got to yawning. Patton told his men
tn put ON two inches more of water,
and then with wave of his hat,
we weighed anchor, Great Scott!
how that thing jumped! Smalley
got sen sick. | jammed my helm
hard down, but Patton yelled
through the air, Let her go I've
got herF And with one hand on
his brake, he looked the inearna-
ton of courage. We plunged
down the mountain with a speed
that no steam could give. Trees
few by like spectors. Looking
ahead down the narrow thread-like
fume it seemed like n plunge to
destruction. Several times the
tiume carried us over high tres
sic. 1t seemed like leaping over
n preeipice. Smalley held his
breath, but the little yacht jump
ed it through the air apparently
with swish. Curves would show
themselves ahead The rudder
wheel would squeak ON either side,
and the good ship would round
that curve like a flash. Some
times an uneveness in the Aume
would occur, and then us the craft
sped oyel it, the spray would rise
fifty feet i'll the air.
keep on your hatsF shouted
Patton; then, as we struck a
straight fve-mile stretch, Nov
hold on to your teeth,
II don't exactly know what the
next sensation was, but | tried to
peep out from under the rim of
my hat, and my soul, it was all in a
blur-trees, rocks, landscape, were
all mingled in an undistinguish-
able mass. 1t was MS if one was
blown through the air from cat
apult.
"Well, from the time we weighed
anchor up at Lake Tahoe, until
Patton put on his brakes just out
side the lumber fields at Carson
City, it seemed like a minute or
two. We all looked at our watch
es. We hud made sixteen miles
in eight minutes and forty seconds,
| never in all my life had such an
illustration of the force of water
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
DOWN A FLUME.
Riding Down the Sierra Nevada
Mountains mt the Rate of
Two Miles a Minute.

A Chicago newspaper man tells
to the Herald of that city an ex-
perience he once had riding i'll a
Nevada lumber fume. Lumber
fumes in the Sierra Nevadas he
said, "are all the way from five to
forty miles long. They are built
on q regular engineers grade.
The bed of the fume is made of
two-inch plank in the form of ',
the sides of the V being from
eighteen to twenty-six inches
high. They are built on a grade
of about sixteen feet drop to the
thousand. They carry eight inch
es of water in the acuate angle,
and discharge it at the rate of 400
miners inches a minute. In other
words, turn i'll your water at the
head of the hume, and it will car
ry log weighing 400 pounds
with velocity greater than the
fastest engine that was ever made.
The logs displacement just about
fills the V, without anymore fric-
ton than necessarily keep it in
place.
about nine years ago was up
at Lake Tahoe with Il. W. Small
ley and w. II. Patton, of the Mack
ey Il Fair Lumber Company. Pat
ton was showing us the sights.
We had come up from Carson
City, sixteen miles, by stage, and
it Was hot and tedious ride. About
shutdown Patton said: Boys,
we'll go home by the fume, and
we'll get there n little quicker, |
think.
"He directed n man to bring
out the yacht, rs he called it.
This was n Y-shaped canoe, about
fourteen feet long, very shallow,
and made to fit the hume and just
about fill it with the Displacement
of 600 pounds. The yacht had
brake-two rubber pads on either
side, worked with n lever and so APP
piled against the sides of the V
hume that on pressure it would
lift the yacht gradually and allow
the tightening current to pass
under her. She also had two
small rubber wheels, ON either
bow, to keep her nose from grind
ing the sides of the nume as she
went by curves.
"Now, boys, said Mr.. Patton,
button up your coats, tic down
your hats, and hold on, Don'tget
scared. Trust your lives to me
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
What The South Is Doing.

BY careful compilation of sta
tistics mud deductions made from
the same, we have arrived at the
following. That one-quarter of the
live stock Of the United States is
owned and raised in the South.
The South has S600,000,000 in
vested in mich cows, oxen, other
cattle, sheep, hogs, horses and
mules. The South OWNS one-third
of the mich cows, oxen, other cat
tie and hogs OF the country, or full
ly ner proportion according to
population. One quarter of the
sheep of the country are kept In
the South, when ten years ago the
proportion was only one-seventh
Now if this is not a good showing,
much better than we had supposed
our figures are largely at fault.
Yet the South Is but on the thresh-
old of her agricultural possiblli-
ties. If we can only pursuade our
farmers that mixed farming is a
much better method than the all
cotton one so largely pursued, we
can, in a few years at least, doub-
lie the showing as above set forth.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
Ancient Jewish Legends.


\ king had in lis garden o
yawning pit Of great magnitude,
One day he hired number N
workmen to Ell it up. Some went
to the sides of the pit, and as they
saw its depth they exclaimed.
How is il possible to fill 1T" And
they gave up the work in despair.
But the others said What mat.
tsrs it how deep it isl We are
engaged for the day. and are hap
| py to have something to do. Let
us be faithful in our duty, and We
will fill the pit MS soon as We pos
sibly can"
God says to man, thou art en-
gagged by the day; do the word
which thou eanst, and be of good
courage.
Rabbi Johanan went ont walk
ing with some friends, and cross
ing field he stopped, and, point
ing to n beautiful vineyard, said.
This was mine, and | sold it for
the poor, SO that might devote to
myself wholly to study" Going
farther, he pointed to spacious
field; ''fhis too" he exclaimed,
'onee was mine; but l sold it, so
as 10 have no other care than my
holy studies" 4 few minutes
walk brought them to another
field: This was my last posses
SION he said, ''but | gave it up,
SO that | might have no other tho't
than the study of the law
His friends, saddened at his
words, replied; What hast thou
preserved for thy old age2"
"Are you anxious on that ae-
COUNT said he, smiling. "Why,
| have resigned things which are
given us only for n few days for a
possession that will last much
longer"
Once sage met the prophet
Elijah in the crowded market
place, and full of curiosity he
asked Elijah who of all the bust
ling throng would be saved. .
"None," rejoined the prophet,
slowly.
"W hat" replied the sage, mo
one of all these peopleY
At this moment two men enter
ell the street, and mingled with
the crowd. They seemed in hum
BILE circumstances, and no one
noticed them or babe them greet
ing.
These will be saved, said the
prophet. -.
The sage, advancing reyerently
towards them, then said: "Will
you kindly tell me what is your
occupation in life? What are
your virtues? What are your
deeds?"
Virtues, deeds?" they replied.
an truth, You must be confusing
III with somebody else. We are
poor people and live by the work
of our hands. Our only merit is
that we have merry hearts. When
we learn of two who are at enmity,
we step in and seek to make peace.
This alone is our life-work."
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
Fun With a Poet.

Next To q man WIN Doll Oh his
elbow, good, well-construeted,
able-bodied poet is about Us sensi-
tive an animal as inhales atmos-
phere. We do not mean an alleg-
eel poet an initiative, wholesale
manufacturer of creaking rhymes,
which are so club-footed that they
have to hobble around ON cruteh-
es, but a genuine, big-souled poet,
with the divine afflatus oozing out
of him at every pore, and enough
wild frenzy in his rolling eye to
sour a pan of dough, or peel the
paper off the wall.
Probably no class of men are
thrown into more intimate rela-
tons with poets than editors of
newspapers. Other men can 60
three blocks out of their way to
avoid poet, but while some men
are born poets, and others achieve
poetry, the newspaper man has pc.
cts thrust upon him in droves, and
while we know that it is our duty
to deal gentl y with the poet, and
not lrritate him, or stroke him the
wrong way Of the fur, still there
are times when it is utterly I'M
possible to do this.
One of these handmade, patent
poets came into this office recently,
and he had his manuscript with
him. He said he had some poetry,
and we Immediately told him we
didn't believe it. Then he wanted
to know why, ard we said that we
had been fooled so much lately by
imitation poetry that we had lost
all faith in modern poets, and
that we didn't believe that he could
show up any poetry. He claimed,
however, that he had the boss
roundelay of the season of 1886,
and only asked one chance for his
money, push shots barred, and so
we told him to shoot, and to be
quick about it. He cleared his
bronchial tubes, threw on few
tremulo, flute, vox harmonica and
other stops, and commenced:
Under the will )ws maiden fair,
Was bralding her wealth of yellow hair"
THAT won't jlbe with the tone
of this paper we said sharply.
ut won't?' inquired the poet in
a tone of surprised suddeness.
"Why, no. Don't you realize
that this journal isn't second
hand music-box? The rhythm Is
all right enough, but you don't
seem to catch on to the true-ring.
Don't you think this would be bet
ter?
Down in tic kitchen, maiden fair,
on, OF the hash was picking huir.'
"Well, possibly, the way you
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
Winding Ones Business.


natured Incidence that takes
things as they come and submits
to almost any inconvenience rather
than make a fuss which is much
praised and fostered.
1t has its good points To fret
ond fume over little troubles, IN
worry oneself and every one
around to no purpose about what
cannot be helped, is silly in the
extreme. But, when wrong
things can and ought to be helped
when the selfshness or careless
ness of person seriously inter-
feres with the comfort of many, or
when in any way the best interests
of the community demand nm al
teration, then patient silence and
good natured passivity are at n
discount. Not by fretting and
Tuning, but by wisely taking such
steps rs the circumstances call for,
may the real principle of freedom
be upheld
To "nind ones own business,
and let other peoples alone" is
excellent doctrine, only we must
be very sure that we include in
the former clause all that really
belongs to it, and not make it a
pretext for Sinking any RESPONSE
bility that may fall to our share,
But speaking more particularly
the most conspicuous peculiarly i'll
a eensorious meddling mind, is
that it never makes any allowance
for condition or circumstances
which humane and liberal mint
would feel to be somewhat palli.
alive of the error. 1t Is itself the
standard for all moral actions
What it feels it would not on
should not do, no other person
should do.
The ardent and thoughtless i'm
pulse of youth tho misfortune of
an education wanting in control
and Guidance are never taken
into account. 1t would be quiet in
vain to put in as defence that,
for example, poverty was greatly
the cause of the offense.
In their own comforts they cam
not imagine what it is to be
pressed by want and temptation
nor il they could, would they be
willing to admit any such excuse,
If they reason at all upon the mat
ter, it appears to them that admit
ting such excuses is only an en-
couragement to others to 60 and do
likewise.
But the fact is, they have it not
in their nature to SO far pity fell
low-creature rs to allow for extern
uating consideration of any kind.
Still, while these methods may
be wrong, we have yet rightly and
properly privilege to feel with
and for others what a glorious
widening-out and enriching of
enes' life that is!
How it increases our Joys be-
cause of the pleasure that we tak-
in the joys of other How it rem
ders selfish brooding over our own
woes impossible because of the
sympathy we must give to the sor-
rows OF others!
Not generosity only, not kind
heartedness only, nor courtesy,
nor unselfshness. nor keen per-
ception, nor quick understanding
it is all these, and moro than
these. And vet all may be done
without rendering ourselves liable
to the charge of ever meddling
with nnnthnr's hnsinnsa-
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12

An Oswego inebriate, dying.
left this will: 81 leave to society
n ruined character, a wretched ex-
ample, and n memory that will
soon rot ] leave to my parents
rs much sorrow MS they can in
their feeble state bear. / leave to
my brothers and sisters rs much
shame and modification MS | could
bring on them. / leese to my
wife broken heart life of
shame. / leave to each of my chill
dren, poverty, ignorance, n low
character, and remembrance
that their father filled n drunk
ards grave" For drunkards TO
read when they have time.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12

The story is told, it may or
may not be true, that during a free
fight ina Chicago saloon a man
was shot in the mouth, but es-
capped injury by the ball Aatteuing
itself against his breath.
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
The Mnternnl

The MaternaI Instinct
Look ere now, Salr yelled Il
Travis county, Tex, woman to the
oldest girl, don't bend over that
well so fur You'll fall in there
some of these days and then well
have TO get our drinkin' water
from the creek"
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
The Secret of Success.

and by others, through their own
lack of self-control, or even self
knowledge, turned into curse.
The first primary not of itself,
but simply because it is more fa-
miliar, and much better known
| the physical outward life with
which we are acquainted, and by
which we are accustomed to Judge
each other. ..
The second and greater, is the
inner, spiritual existence, the be-
| ing which animates the soul and
mind, the truer, more real life Of
the two
A strong, potent, reliable factor
it is, if properly trained; and the
task of training, of governing and
subduing when necessary, of fortl-
flying and upholding, and even
Strengthening, rest with the pos
SCISSOR himself.
We know of the self-made out
ward man, how step by step, lit
tie by little, he has risen perhaps
from the lowest rank to the high
est, with little or no help from
fellow creatures. owing his rise
wholly and solely to his own exer-
ton; and through all he has had
two struggles, two battles to fight,
and fhe greater victory has been
unouestionrbIY the one gained
over his own natural, Jealous self
Courage. humility, illimitable
patience, are all characteristic of
men WHO have wrought their own
fortune. but they are not charac-
teristic of ungoyerned, unframed
human nature Each and all must
he acauird by degrees, by great
self-subjugation fostered by a
spirit of undaunted determination.
Tire will is brought into play,
the feelings made subservient to
it III all things not an easy mat
ter, by any means, and one which
in the accomplishment is far
more than would appear to the
mind OF the untmed novice.
Self, with Its pretty cares and
annoyances, Its manifold dlsquet-
ing doubts and fears, Its lmmedl-
ate joys and sorrows alike, must
be lost sight OF and resolutely
placed III the back ground and
kept there.
TO do this the dominant will
must needs be strong one,
(Which will not bend, and neither
will it break" it must ha |e, too, as
strong and faithful allies, a
healthy, unimpeachable Judgment,
nice discrimination, and an active,
quick-seeing foresight. With these
guides and monitors the severe
discipline of the inner self is car
ried on and maintained without
relaxation; otherwise the structure
falls to the ground.
A single laspe is fatal; there is
certain charm and attractiveness
in giving rein to the natural i'm
pulses which even the force of
habit and custom, strong rs it may
become in time, is powerless to
wholly subdue.
The self-made man is always
capable Of something still greater
than he has already achieved.
Nothing within human possibility
. is beyond his power. When he
has once succeeded i'll reaching
the pedestal of success, he stamps
The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-06-12
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