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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-13
advertisements.
ANOTHER TEST.

ANOTHER TEST. |
Messrs. w. B. Wiltshire & Co., Agents
IMAGINABLE URBAN SAFES, ZO6
California Street, San Francisco, Cal:
Gentlemen-In reply to your inquiry con.
ceruing the opening Of the Burglsr-FfOo!
Chest in the safe of the office OF the Clerk OF
the Supreme Court-now so well known as
The Mccarthy Safe,
will say that took charge Of the Office on
Wednesday, the 9th instant.
For some days previous, unsuccessful at
tempts had been made by various experts
10 nick the lock. On Thursday, further
similar efforts were made with the same re-
suit by Mr. Ensign and other noted experts,
ALL OF WHOM FINALLY DECLARED
THAT THE LOCK COULD NOT BE
1 PICKED, and that the safe must be opened
( by force.
/ On Friday / employed the expert OF one
/ of your competitors, who did faithful and
/ honest work, for that purpose.
On Saturday morning work was begun,
/ and this morning "wednesday, RUN
! DAYS AFTER, the expert succeeded IN
drilling through the door and opening the
1 safe.
l consider it was an extraordinary severe
test, much beyond what a burglar could
possibly employ under any circumstances
and can assure il has inspired me with the
highest confidence in the security OF your
Bnrglar-Proof Safes, AND THAT YOUE
LOCKS ARE PICK PROOF AGAINST
THE BEST EXPERTS
After working for some hours on the lock
one expert said that lac had found that
was one letter and another that Z was one
On examination. neither of these letters ap
peared in the com bination Yours, truly
I'D SPENCER,
Clerk of Supreme Court.
San Francisco, January Is, 1886.
The above WAS a Macneale & Urban NO.
Fire K Burglar Safe.
C. o. BERGER,
I'm General Agent, Hawaiian Islands
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-13
rhe Enects of Gambling.

Nothing is so speedy as gambling "a
deaden the sensibiiities, freeze the SYM
uatbies. and make calloused the nature
of the participant 1t creates an in
satiate greed which must be satisfied
even at the expense of the life blood of
an opponent. One who has ever watched
an average game of poker will have seen
how swiftly the participants become
transformed into something repellent,
not Misunderstanding sinister, brutal,
savage, abhorrent Eyes become filed
with cold, fierce light. The continued
Ill luck of a player, even though ac-
companied by the knowledge among the
others that the money being lost is not
his own, that it represents bread for
starving children, clothes for a ragged
wife, funds belonging to an employer,
creates only savage exultation that he
is losing, and no sentiment Of sympathy
or eommiseration at his misfortune.
The pallid face, pinched mouth, glazing
eyes, despairing expression Of a loser, II
noticed at all, excite only a diabolcal
delight over the prospect that his Ill luck
will add to the winnings OF the others.
Rarely in such meetings does one hear
pleasant converse. There Is nothing
social in the developments. General J
the conversation Is rlbald, OFTEN DlaS-
phemous, and frequently shocking in the
extreme, as the players anathematlze
their own poor luck or the fortune OF
their opponents. Each player becomes
a striving hyena, who aims to fasteI
his fangs in the throat of his opponent
and is at the moment as fierce, as savaf-9
as much beast of prey as the anima
which he resembles.
To the confirmed gambler all evil L
possible. His voracity speedily absorb
and obliterates his moral sense, and n
cares as little for the rights of others a
the wolf does for those of the lam
which it holds in its grasp.
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4 Norsl Floating Hospital.

A Mr.. Laws, of Newcastle, England,
has submitted to the Tyne Port sanitary
authority scheme for floating infec-
tious diseases hospital of novel construc,
ton. He proposes to float the hospital
mon circular pontoons ten feet apart,
with a platform of iron ard timber four
feet above high water level. There are
to be three large wards, with ten beds
each. The wards are to be of wood,
with double skin, and the roof is to be
of zinc or wood
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-13
A Florida Yarn.

This is the kind of yarn that comes
mo from Florida: Some boys were in the
nabit of bathing in certain pool, but
were frequently driven out by an alliga-
tor. which came in to sample them.
Various methods of driving him away
having failed, the boys finally rugged up
a dummy boy and stuffed it with dyna-
mite. The ruse worked. Stealing quietly
in the alligator closed his jaws on the
dummy and the next instant found him
self blown tail first up the river three
miles. We are not informed as TO
whether or not he was killed. The un-
certainty which surrounds this simple
story adds vastly to its artistic merit
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-13
Consumption in England.

Dr;rns from consumption in England
and Wales are on the decrease. The
number from 1860 to 1870 averaged over
sd, 900 annually, and from 1870 TO 1880
between 81, 900, and 80, 900. Last year
the number was 4S, 715 in population
of 26, 413. Sol.
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what &c wound Look Like.

"What do you suppose I'd look like if
/ jumped down9" sold slim young fel-
low to his girl as they stood looking out
of the window of the steeple of Trinity
church.
Gazing at the youth and then glancing
down on Broadway, she replied:
"I think you'd look just Ike gum
drop in a desert.
He didn't inmn.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-13
The Latest Paris Novelty.

The last Paris novelty is new porte
yeine. necklaces and bracelets, rope
and moose, which bears the sinister name
of corde de pendu. A bit OF a real
hangman's rope is favorite tallsman
with French gamblers, and, doubtless,
the .rold imitation viii become a faVorlte.
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WlLDER'S STEAMSHIP Co.,
I.ImIted).
STEAMER KINAU,

(hlnSs NoLlAiANAhNCiS'
Leaves Honolulu as per following schedule,
touching at Lahaina, Maalaea Makena, Manu-
kona Kawalhae Laupnhoehoe- HilO and keauhou:
Commencing MONDAY. October 18th, ana
thence on the first Monday following the arrival
of the tsAIameda" and 'Mariposa." on the oth
and 22d of each month:
The steamer Kinau will 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 22d of the month fall on
Monday the Kinau will leave that day.
TICK FITS FOR THE ROUND TRIP TO THE
VOLCANO, FIFTY DOLLARS, WHICH PAYS
ALI. CHARGES.
mornings on Volcano trips. on HlO trips, VIII
leave Honolulu on Tuesdays, and return Saturday
morning.
PASSENGER TRAINS will connect with the
Kinau at Mahukona.
The Kinau WILL TOUCH at HonOkaia aud
Paauhau on down trips from Hi'o for Passengers
If signal is made from the shore
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French Vineyards.

French vineyards are being repi''''eo
with American vine roots. In the de-
partment of the Herault alone "a
acres have been replanted with AInerl'
can vine roots.
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STEAMER KILAUEA HOU,
STEAMER LEHUA.

VIII leave regularly for same ports as Kilanes
Hon.
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A. ROSA,

A TTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUB
q ITO Office with the Attorney General. Ali
olani Hale, Honolulu, II. /. o. mF<o'l--u
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strong SDiders, Webs.

Ceylon spiders weave web so strong
that a walking-stick, when thrown into
it, is entangled among the meshes
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19
LONDON NOVELTIES.

saw the most delicious bonnet ut
Louise's the other day that ever be-
held. The sweet thing was in sealskin
and is called the ManOn. There were
no strings, and the trimming consisted
knot of pale pink and apple-green rib
bOns, matching the tints of the rose
buds. These ribbons were placed up
right in front of the bonnet with the
flowers coming out from behind them,
and their lovely tones of pink and green
cOntrasted beautifully with the warm
brown of the sealskin. A small paste
buckle. through which mOrscl of pink
ribbon has been run. was the sole orna-
mcnt at the back, and similar buckle
nestled among the ribbon i'm front.
Then there are tichus of the delight
full new lace called tOile de araignee. Ii
deserves the name, for have never
seen anything to rival its lightness and
deicacy of effect. 1t is the finest posi-
BILE embroidery, wrought in fairy lines of
white upon very fine lawn in deep
creamy tone of color The texture is so
beautiful that the material falls i'm the
most graceful folds imaginable. Long
scarves are made of il. which can be
draped in any way aS iichu>, or can be
adapted to wraps for the head. And
most becoming ones they make. Then
there is the Irish trOchct in silk. which
Worth has taken up, and is applying TO
dresses and mantles. I'm black or brown
it looks splendidly effective on plush.
Another nice present would be one of
the beaded. sleeveless casaques | cs-
pecially admired one which was cut
away on the hips but was rather long i'm
front, all the outlines of the basque be-
ing edged with iluted lace. The bodice
itself. including the high collar. was
beaded all over in Il very rich design,
and over the arms fell several rows of
large cat jet beads, similar to the ones
that edged the bodice.
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ta-tness.


Many head upon our dark globe signs aft
many n vanished fncc;
Many planet 10y many n sun may roll with
the dust of n vanished race;
Raving politics. never AT rest us this poor
carth's pale history runs
What is II all hut trouble of ants in the CLEAN
of million million of sunsr
Lies upoIi this side, lies lipon thai side truth.
less violence mourncil by the wise;
Thousands of voices drowning his own in u
popular TORE mt OF lies ,Ipon lies;
Stately purposes. valor in bnttlr. glorious an.
mails oil army and fleet;
Death for the right cause. death Tor the wrong
cause, trtInprtS Of victory, groans OF
defeat
Innocence secthrd in her mothers milk and
charity setting the martyr aiiame;
Thralldom who walks with the banner OF free.
dom. and rcrkS not Ia ruin n realm i'm
her name:
Faith nj her zenith. or all but lost In the gloom
Of doubts that darkcn the schools;
Craft, with a bunch of all heal i'm her hand,
followed mp by her yassal legion OF
fools:
Pain that has crhwlcd from the corpse OF
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19

choice lay between Hudson and myself;
| she had chosen him. and was willing TO
| sacrifice her youth and beauty on the
| altar of mammon. And yet the words
that just overheard do not prove such
Il thing. Have been mistaken?
have loved her so dearly all the time :"
That veIy evening found him at the
Warner cottage, and there he found
May alone. He came and sat down ut
her side.
"May," he said. softly. Il was told
that you were going To marry Mr. Hud-
son. Ii is not true, is it?'
She gazed ut him with wide open eyes
of wonder.
You ought to know that would not
be guilty of such IN act, she exclaimed,
Indignantly
He took the little hand i'm his own.
'.NIay." he cried. 81 have been a mis-
cradle coward? Can You ever forgive
me and care for me againp Nav,
would you marry me without for
tunep'
She blushed rosy red.
$50 J1u have log. your fortune" she
replied. 81 am no. sorry. for oh. Lewis
your money seemed To stand in the way
OF your happiness. Two years ago your
sister Clara came to me and told me
that you wanted to be free TO marry
some hcireSs. thought that | should
die! II almost broke my heart. but
was proud, and womanlike | treated
you coldly and allowed Mr.. Hudson's
attention. then You went to Europe with.
out one word of explanation TO me.
Thank God. you love me still; and since
your hateful money was the cause of our
long enlargement, am glad that it is
gone. There is something better than
wealth i'm the world
Lewis Carleton and Nav Warner were
quietly married. and the day after the
wedding he opened the high arched
gates of Carleton Place and drew his
wife within the aristOcratic precincts of
what had been his chldhood's home.
Welcome home, my darling" he
whispered. kissing her fondly; this is to
be your home henceforth, and Nell and
your aunt shall live with us also. if they
consent. hope You will be happy,
dear
II was nj! true. May had formed u
wrong conclusion. Lewis Carleton had
not lost his wealth: that was her own
mistake. For the Carleton fortune was
safe and she--the happiest little wife in
the round world shared in his vast
possessions
Yet she still persists, and truly, that
there is something better tina wealth in
the world, even the love of true, pure
heart.
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The Romance OF Coal Stove.

One day last fall. talking until his
throat was sore, Detroit stOve-dealer
succeeded in selling widow a coal
stove, but it was with the prOviso that il
everything didn't work satisfactory he
was to make it. Two days after deliver.
ing the stove he got his first call. A
boy entered the store and said:
"Mrs. - wants you to come mp and
fix that stove. The house is full OF
smoke"
A man was sent up. and he found the
trouble to be with the chimney. Only
three or four days had passed when the
boy came in again and said:
THAT stove is putting and blowing
and soaring the widow to death. She
wants the same man to come up again. '
He was sent. and it was discovered that
she didn't know how 10 arrange the
hampers and draughts. Everything
seemed to run well for a week, and
then the boy walked i'm to announce:
''She sent me down to have YOU send
that man mp again. The house is full OF
coal gas"
The man went up and applied the
remedy, but inside of three days the
stove got to putting; two days after thai
the fire wouldn't draw; then il drew toe
much. then the gas escaped again. Al
length the dealer went to the house ant
said:
MADAME, you gave me $50 for the
stove; how much will You take for itp'
II wOuldn' sell il.
"But can't be sending my man up
here every two or three DAYS all win
| ter"
You won't have to. I've concluded
to marry him in order to have someone
here in case of accident"
And three days ago they were quietly
and happily married. - Detroit Ere.
Press.
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Gen. Tom Brady.

1t is singular how men who have held
high places i'm life fall by the roadside.
| saw Gen. Tom Brady few days ago
at the AstOr house \ friend of his tells
me that he has been poor ever since the
star-rOute trials. in which he was Il
prominent figure. He has been ut the
downtown hotel where | saw him ever
since last july. hanging on by cye-lids.
waiting for something to turn up. II
has been n marvel Ia many of his friends
how he has lived Yet i'm this metro
polls it is easier for Il man to get enough
| To cat drink thap in any place / ever
knew For nearly year Brady has
stayed at this hotel. until people have
begun to wonder whether or not he had
entirely lost his grip on business life
Friends tell me that he is upon his feet
again, and has Just sold his interest in {;
railroad franchise running from /anes-
vile to the Ohio river. The same peO-
pie who are interested i'm him say that
he is now going TO leave New York and
60 down to WeStmOrcland county, Nir-
ginia, where he has Il 5O0-acrc farm.
stretched along the east coust. Here
Gen. Brady, who was Il good soldier and
ouSSCooiu po'''"ioh. ~ tNt''t"u W loi-
get the injustice of men. and the history
of speculation that followed the war of
which he was II part. The star-rOute
trial and the romance of politics, which
they revived, are becoming ancient his
tory. Whether Brady was guilty or not
is not question for discussion now If
he was, other men who scared the same
view of politics as himself were accesso-
ries before and after the fact Brady
was Il power in the very heart of the
speculative era, and he grew very rich
in playing stocks. Once he was a large
holder of Bell telephone securities. and
one of the boldest operators on the
street. Ii cost him all that he had made
by hazard to keep out of the penitcn-
tiary, and when he was declared by Il
jury mot guilty he was comparatively
IA poor man. If he has made few thous-
ami dollars and will 90 down in Vir-
ginia and become quiet citizen the
country will soon forget the scandal
that is attached to his name. Here
is man with fair instinct and great
opportunities who has been destroyed
by the business methods of the present
era. How lonesome he will be down on
the Virginia shore. spending the most of
his time gathering clams!-F. Il. Burr s
NeW York Letter.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19

Two thousand years AGO cereals wer,
grown in Great Britain. In that coun
try they are still grown in the highest
perfection. Here there is food fol
thought for the farmers of the Older
portions of this country, where. i'm .
general way. cereal growing is ne
longer Il success.
The country Gentleman says: ..Ir
all our experiments in dipping shingles
i'm rather thin wash made from fresh OF
sharp lime before laying, the result ha.
been quite favorable. The lime hard
ems the shingles and causes them Il
last much longer. For few months il
is well to LET the rain water run t6
waste, the lime rendering it hard"
There is much wheat land still un.
cultivated. Ii is estimated that there
are 100. 100000 acres of land on the
Pacific coast that are especially adapted
to wheat culture. OF this California Ina.
25,O0O,OOO, or Onc-fourth of the whole
Oregon has lS,O00,O00 acres; Washing.
ton territory has 5000, 600 acres; Colo
RADIO and Idaho. 1O.00O,O0O each; Mon
tana, Utah and Wyoming. 1000. 0OC
LIVING eha shS ri'NtNi pau WI tnIs
land vet lies untouched.
The area of corn last wear us est.
mated by the agricultural department
was 69,6S3, $50 acres; this year. $780,.
$50 acres, an increase of ) per cent
The product of corn, according to the
final estimate, is 1896. l76, 900 bushels
against l,795, 52S,0 900 last year. an in.
crease of 0.64S. 900 bushels. or rs Del
cent. The average for 1884 was 25s
bushels (about an average crop. In
1885 the average for the whole coun.
try was 26.5 bushels per acre.
An interesting experiment, showing
the influence of electricity on the growth
OF roots, has been made in Germany by
Professor Holdeileiss. Plates of copper
were thrust uprig ht into the earth and
connected by wires with similarly.
placed zinc plates about 100 feet distant
an electric battery being thus formed
with the earth between the copper and
zinc i'm the circuit Both potatoes and
beets planted between such plates gave
an increased yicld-beetS ID per cent.
potatoes % per ccnt-as compared with
other parts of the same field
The Western RlOUn,an thinks that LOG
years from now FARMERS will live i'm
villages where their families viii. have
the best social and educational adj
vantages. These villages will be like
the hub of Il wheel. from which .vill 90
out in all directions electric RAILWAYS.
which will take the farmer and his Ia
borers to the farm and bring back the
products to market How happy will
the golden farmer he when theatrical
agriculturists bring IN agricultural mill
ennium, and what Il long foresight Il
man must have to look into flturity a
hundred years and see the crops raised
by electricity.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19
DAINTY COSTUMES.

For dancing parties. China Grape
dresses are leading favoritcs. made i'm
combination with velvet or plush fab
rics, the short dancing-lenglh skirt of
plain inexpensive sarah, covered with,
the Grape and mingled with the heavier
goods in the panels and draping.
Sleeves are omitted. and fall of very
rich lace is cascadcd around the arm
size and caught up on the shoulder with
an Irish diamond clasp, knot of satin
ribbon, a feather tufl, a spray OF bright
flowers, OF tiny bird. The front and
back of the velvet bodice are cut away
in V-shape or decided square, while
beneath is laid q gllimpe of soft creamy
tullc, laid in folds. or a single length Of
lace matching the sleeve garniture.
One of the very prettiest and daintiest
of inexpensive matinees for cOmforta-
BILE wear worn this season was noticed
upon a rosy blonde young lady living n
few miles out of town who surprised her
family by appearing ut breakfast rObed
i'm this charming gown. which she in
formed them, she made herself. The
matinee was formed of the most eXquis-
lite tint of pink eider-,l"wn flannel, as
soft and ileecy us the inside of bird $
nest. The semi-loose front was gar
nished with waved arrangement of
medium-wide oriental lace, full bows
and ends of pale pink satin ribbon
catching the lace up ut intervals down
the entire front. The deep stuart collar
was also edged with the lace. In the
back the robe fitted snuSly, and a pretty
Vatican fold reaching from the neck to
the foot of the skirt, which barely
touched the hoor-gave additional
grace and fullness to the back portion
of the matinee. The robe was finished
at the bottom with a simple hem turned
up deeply on the reverse side.
A very handsome costume recently
worn in this city consisted of a dress of
golden brown cheviot, trimmed
throughout with rows of golden brown
plush several inches wide. Plated pan
els ut each side were held down with
handsome bronze ornaments, the plush
bands set on perpendicnlarly at each
side of the panels. The long apron
overdress was laid i'm three large fiat
plaits on the left, where it opened all
the way ND to reveal the plaitings be-
meath. On the right the drapery was
much raised and held with large
bronze buckle. Plush bands edged this
tunic. In the back the overdress was
long and bouffant. The jacket very
plain in STYLE, fitted very closely, and
| the only attempt at decoration was a
satin vest covered with diamond net.
ting of small bronze beads.-N Y. Post.
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cronies, the proprietor Of the cuD wnlcn,
by the way, is really nothing more than
Il gambling-holisc. @rinnrd pleasantly to
me and said: ''Onc pleasant thing
about meeting here is that neither one
of us will care TO refer 10 the outside, :"
then he nodded. grinned lightly again
and lolmged out of sight. That is the
sort of an Associated Pres, agent he
was.
doubt very much ii his daughters
knew his business, but suppose his
wife did. She was one of the most
homelike and delightful of women.
suppose il is the gamblers plan to re-
tire before long and make even Il more
pronounced assumption of responsibility
than he did now. Ii i, astounding how
thoroughly things can BIZ concealed in
New York. Men lead double lives for
years without any one being the wiser
for ii. And so little Ito people care for
accurate knowledge concerning their
neighbors that they lazily accept any
sort OF an excuse that is offered for
suspicious circumstance - BroOklgn
Eagle.