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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-07
141-7t
Sealed Tenders
Secretary.

VIII Re received at the Interior Office until
Tuesday November ID, 1888, at II o'clock
noon, for the construction of an intersect-
ing Ditch on the slope OF Punchbowl Hill
Plans and specifications can be seen and
all required information obtained upon ap-
pllcatioB to the Office Of the Superintendent
Of Public Works.
The Minister of the Interior does not
bind himself TO accept the lowest or any
bid. L. A. THURSTON,
Minister OF Interior.
Interior Office, Nov. 5, 1888. 14O 1244-1t
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Alarming statement about Thurman.

Alarming Statement about Thurman.
A Washington dispatch of Oct. says /:
Ex-Judge Thurman did not come in from
Oak View till IL o'clock to-day, when he
was driven to his hotel. Shortly after
he went to the Capitol to see Mr.. Fuller
made Chief Justice. When he entered
the Supreme Court room it was neces-
sary for his son and colored attendant to
assist him in taking his seat Everyone
who has seen him expresses the opinion
that "the old Roman" will not hold out
EA the election is over.
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Grand total regular and
permanent annual ap-
propriations.......... $421, 617 ,038 81
To this is added 100000 miscellane-
GUS for the suppression of epidemics,
Fourth of July claims, etc.
The estimated revenues for the year
are $40, 100000, leaving y surplus OF
81, 1882 ,6l9 10.
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advertisements.

Subscribers to the DAILY ADVERTISER or
WEEKLY GAZETTE, who do not receive their
papers promptly by the carriers, are re-
quested TO give immediate notice by tele-
phone or otherwise TO the Gazette office,
telephone number 50.
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At the inquest on the trunk of a woman
found in cellar at Whitechapel, London.
the surgeons who examined the remains
testified that they were those of an un.
usually fine woman who had probably
occupied good social position.
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Sealed Tenders will be received at the
office OF the Board Of Health until WE'D
EESDAY, November IL, 1888, at y o'clock
noon, for the erection of Residence for
the Superintendent at the Leper Settle
Inent on Molokai.
Plans and specifications may be seen at
the office of the Board
The Board does not bind itself to accept
the lowest or any bid.
w. q. ASHLEY,
14l-7t Secretary.
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DRESSMAKING.

NHRS. NJ b. CAMPBELL HAS COMMENCED
wi the business of Dressmaking, Cutting and
Fitting. her residence No. 70 Beretania street,
opposite the Hotel. The patronage of the ladies
is respectfully solicited Satisfaction guaran-
teed 65-tf 12431y
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NOTICE.

Turing THE TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF
- our Mr.. W. q. Irwin from this Kingdom,
Mr.. Frank P Hastings will act for our Bank In
all matters of business.
CLAUS SPRECKELS co.
Honolulu, Oct. %, 1888. 12s-3w
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UNCLE SAM'S EXPENSES.

Appropriations, Revenue and Surplus
for the Current Fiscal Year.
A Washington dispatch of October 9th
says:
With the agreement of the Conference
Committee on the General Deficiency
6 t0d 5 sae ag' rac SPdRr0Psisd
of. Some idea of the magnitude of ap-
preparations for the support of the Gov
eminent for the current fiscal year can
be obtained from the following table pre-
pared by the House Appropriations Com
mittee:
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Bp 1utboritn-
Sealed Tenders.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF HEALTHY
HoNOLULU, Nov. 8, 1888.
The sun., 1888-01-29
Gray Hair In Youth.

To THE EDITOR OF The suN-Sir: Will you
please inform what good to make gray hair black
that viii mot hurt the hair or head for am only 10 and
my hair IL quite ErAys DAILY kEADkR
Our urgent advice is to let your head alone
Hair dyeing Is beastly in itself. and the prac-
tice OF such deception is demoralizing to that
finer sense OF uprlghtness and honor which
should grace everybodys conduct. Hair turns
gray on the heads OF young persons indiscrim-
inately. It will whiten on the pates Of mon,
and 1t will blanch the crown Of the loveliest
girl. 1t may come from excessive destination
or 1t may be one Of the inscrutable violations
OF Providence. There is no reason. we hope.
why our correspondents friends should not
credit his gray head to the latter cause.
But there are other reasons for letting his
bleachod locks stay as they are. In nine cases
out OF ten premature gray hair is very becoming.
1t does not age the lace, and, on the other hand.
nothing really makes a man look 80 old and
decrepit, and as though his youth was hope
lessly faded out. as dyed hair 1t is nasty end,
what is more. We never knew 1t to achieve its
purpose OF taking in the spectator.
The sun., 1888-01-29
New Discoveries in Chemistry.

It will be long time before the farmer
finds himself supplanted by the chemical
laboratory in The production of such COM
modities as sugar. tea, alcohol drugs, and
dye stuffs though sanguine chemists tell US
that the recent triumphs OF their science in
dictate the probability that these and other
articles will some day be proiitably pro-
duced from purely inorganic materials.
Synthetic chemistry, or the forming OF COM
pounds by denominations OF chemical ele-
ments. is making steady progress and has
already affected agriculture.
Mr.. ROBERT HUGH MILLS In a recent lec-
ture, called attention to the fact that the
cultivation of madder has been almost de-
stroyed by the chemical discovery that its
identical coloring matter can be cheaply pro-
duced from coal tar The production OF in
digo Is also threatened by an artificial prod
uct which the chemists have discovered. A
while ago it was found that the cinchona
Tree could be proiitably planted in India, and
q fine new field OF industry was believed to
have opened for the farmers OF that country.
Scores Of chemists however, have been at
work upon the synthesis OF quinine and
their researches have advanced 30 far that
the prediction is now confidently made that
the manufacture OF the principle OF quinine
will soon be u commercial success, and that
cinchona planting will become thing OF the
past. These chemical reproductions Of the
valuable principles inherent in natural prod
ucts are often easier to handle and utilize
than tho products from which they have
hitherto been derived, and thus the tendency
of manufactures is to substitute artificial for
natural sources Of supply.
The problem of sugar making from inor-
ganic materials has engaged some chemists
for u number OF years. The synthesis Of
glucose last year by FISCHER and TAFEL is
said to promise an ample supply of this com
modify without the aid OF grapes or starch.
Two years ago some German chemists an
nounced that they had produced saccharose,
the equivalent OF cane sugar. by passing an
The sun., 1888-01-29

electric current through mixture OF starch,
sulphuric acid, and water. Nothing has yet
been heard OF the commercial value OF this
new product and there Is no reason to
think 1t will prove dangerous rival to
the sweets we derive from the cane and the
beet. Some sugar growers, however, have
been prophesying for years that something
would happen to ruin the sugar industry,
and their alarm receives n fresh impulse at
every new discovery like that OF REMsENs
saccharine an exceedingly sweet article pro-
duced from coal tar. The day may come
when processes OF sugar making bv tho use
OF inorganic materials will seriously affect
the sugar planter, but there is no reason as
yet to believe that his industry will soon be
imperilled.
Legislation has intervened in some places
to protect the dairy farmer against oleo-
margarine even where this product Is hon.
estly sold as artificial butter. 1t is not to be
expected that In many cases where science
supplies us with q desirable substitute for
any product, the law can be successfully in
voked to keep the world from reaping the
benefit OF increasing knowledge. Future
discoveries may compel the farmer to cease
raising some produce by which he has
thrived, or to change and improve his meth
DDS Of agriculture; but 1t is certain that the
tillers Of the soil will continue to supply the
chief resources Of food and apparel.
The sun., 1888-01-29

specimens OF European vegetation are found,
and where the Nasal rear their large herds
and the Wakwah till their fertile fields. "A
more charming region" he says, "is proba-
bly, not TO be found In all Africa not even In
Abyssinia." Several travellers, including
THOMSON, JOHNSTON. and New, have as
sured us that In a considerable part Of this
area Europeans can maintain their health
and even work with impunity.
A few months ago Mr.. HOLLYWOOD, the
British Consul-General at Zanzibar, visited
Kilima- jaro at the request Of Lord SAILS
BURY to inspect the region that has been
placed under British influence. He reported
after his return that in his opinion these ele-
waited inland regions are well worth possess
ing. On the plateau cast and north OF the
great mountain he says the thermometer
ranges from $50 to TOO, and very rarely rises
to 500 Large areas he thinks, are adapted
to the growing OF wheat and Indian corn,
and, in his opinion, the Nasal plains, where
THOMSON said great herds Of cattle or
focks Of sheep or goats wander knee deep
in the splendid PASTURE" have one OF the
healthiest climates in the world.
This region is separated from the coast by
wide desert tract, and most OF the products
which HOLLYWOOD and others think would
thrive on the pateaus would be OF little
value until easy communication Is estab-
lishcd with the sea. Mr.. HOLLYWOOD advo-
Gates railroad, and correspondent OF the
London Times says there Is reason to believe
that the support OF the Foreign Office may
be obtained without difficulty in behalf Of
such project. The certainty that rail-
al h, ht,i1t ho ot orrta
on its work in liberal spirit discloses
one Of tho most interesting possibilities In
store for any Of the white enterprises in
Africa. 1t will be a great point gained for
progress in Central Africa when the densely
peopled shores OF the greatest Of Africa's
lakes is brought by rail within two days Of
the sea. The route from the Indian Ocean to
Victoria Nyanza through the country which
the British will now attempt to develop is 200
miles shorter than any other, and 1t will
probably devolve upon the British East Afrl-
can Association to supply the means Of
communication with the great lake and
Upper Nile regions, which. we are told by
EMrN Pasha and others, are capable Of i'm
mense development.
Such enterprises as this association pro-
poses to carry forward must needs advance
by slow and painful steps and in spite Of
many obstacles. The great fact to which
these projects call attention is that at this
late day the civilized world has fully made
up its mind that some good can come out Of
Africa. The white pioneers are not faltering
in the work which they began for the re.
clamation of the best parts Of the long-neg
lected continent, and we are frequently
called upon to chronicle the enlistment OF
new enterprises in these remarkable schemes,
which are certainly among the most notable
undertakings OF the century.
The sun., 1888-01-29

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sr: Even
babies repudiate Pulitzer.
lam Philadelphia newspaper man, and have what
might be calied newspaper baby He Just one year
old When less than onehalf his present age, to my
astonisiment he rejected all toys ratles rag dolls and
the like and for his first psythnRs insisted having
newspapers to pore over, to wave in the air. and to
chatter about
But the srangest thing and is this His favorite
paper THE SUN 1t is 80 still first last, and all tho
time. Philadelphia papers he tolerates but the Word
Why he throwa away in disdan. II into
II forced him. lie seems TO know 1t is unreliable and
he has use forit He canttak three words and
course no cant read write; still he knows enough to
throw that paper away lfths on his part of what
may term simply good newspaper sense. strange as 1t
at first sight only keeps up bespeak for him
place on THE sun staf when he grows up
Move on Pulitzer, move on! Even the little children
are all against you. A.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan % l6Sa
The sun., 1888-01-29
How the Law Works.

Two Of the excise cases tried In the Court
of General Sessions yesterday were undoubt-
edly fair samples OF very many Of the thou
sands OF those cases which still remain un-
tried. AS soon as the evidence for the State
was presented, one was dismissed by the
Judge, and he advised the jury to render
verdict OF acquttal in the other.
Both Of the indictments We're for keeping
open drinking places on Sunday. and in
making the arrests the police had followed
their customary procedure In such cases,
which Is to go about, ordinarily in citizens
dress, for the purpose Of entrapping saloon
keepers into violating the law by selling
them alcoholic beverages. But In these par
ticular cases the trick did not work, for,
although they obtained admittance to the
saloons by knocking at the side DOORS they
were unable to buy any beer
Yet, all the same, they arrested the propri-
etors, and for what? For exposing the
bari" That is, we suppose. the saloon keep
ers had not resorted to the transparent de-
vice of covering up their bars with cotton
cloth, though they had closed their doors.
1t is this sort OF trickery and absurdity
which has brought the Sunday liquor law
IuUO buCu ReuoIul COutoiupI, iol ~ CaiuoI pc
enforced without compelling the whole police
force to sneak about, tempting saloon keep
ers to It's violation. To keep up the sham Of
Sunday closing as temperance measure
the police must themselves become Sunday
guzzlers, and Mayor HEWITT tells us that
the number Of these official drinkers must
Ulso be greatly increased.
But even II the police are not made drunk
blythe performance OF such detective duty,
there Is another serious evil, so far us they
are concerned. They are in danger Of de-
moralization because OF the strong tempta-
ton they are under to use their power for
the purpose OF ofextortion, or to reward friends
and punish those to whom they are Ill dis
posed. They can DO blind, or they can be
very quick OF seeing, according as their in
clination Is, and such temptation ought not
to be set before them.
As IL is, many arrests for violation Of the
Excise law are made every Sunday, but
everybody knows that they are only small
part of those which might be legally made.
This Is the case. too. not merely because OF the
inability of tho present force to catch every
offender, but also because OF notorious dis
elimination among the offenders. the petty
dealers seeming to suffer more than the
great and rich.
The Sunday liquor law. as it now is,
might therefore be more correctly entitled a
law "for the promotion of public and police
Decentralization"
The sun., 1888-01-29
The Folly of a Tennesseean.
This letter Is from town in Tennessee,
and 1t deserves a very decided answer:

This letter Is from town in Tennessee,
and it deserves a very decided answer:
PLEASE publish In the SUN that am young OF
some means established In business with good pros.
pecs for the future and tha would like to hear from
some Of the thousands OF your fair readers who
won suitably adorn AMI brighten modest home. The
qualifications necessary are: Mental excellence physi-
cal soundness good teeth. comely figure aectionate
disposition industrious and economical habits: must be
less than "a years OF age don't want the earth, but
what treasure girl like this would be to q forlorn
bachelor! Correspondence is respectfully solicited"
or course, such girl would be treasure
to forlorn bachelor; but We should advise
her to be on her guard against you, for we
know nothing about you except what you
write, and that is not favorable. since you do
not sign yonr letter, and yet have the as
surance to ask us to induce silly women to
write to Post Office box you name.
bachelor with some means and in a we'll
established business in Tennessee, so rich In
its feminine loveliness, Is In no need OF send
ing to New York to advertise for wife il
he is at all desirable as husband. The
probability is that you do not want wife
but only to amuse yourself with the cor
respondence which you expected to get
through lack of discernment on our part.
And hero we will say to the thousands Of
our fair readers" that tho matrimonial nd
vertsements" in the newspapers almost in
variably come from evil and designing peo-
pie, or from those who are after very dan
gerous kind of fun. Pay no heed either to
them or to the swindling and vicously al
Turing matrimonial agencies" OF which the
World is the chosen organ. They are only
traps for the unwary, where they arc not the
means Of communication between the al
ready disreputable. and the sort of newspa-
pers in which such advertisements are most
commonly found is evidence enough Of their
vicious origin and intention.
So, also, if the Tennessee girls do not
want this Tennessee bachelor, the presump-
tion would be that he is not worth having;
but. in fact, probably he is only trying to
play foolish game, and when he gets over
his youthful folly we hope he will deserve,
and get at home, the Incompatible treasure
of good and loving wife.
The sun., 1888-01-29
SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1888.
A Vicious Precedent.

There were but seven votes out OF the six
ty-two cast In the Senate that opposed pay
Ing pension OF $4,000 year to the widow
OF Senator JOHN A. LOGAN, and but six votes
out OF sixty that opposed the bill passed i'm
mediately thereafter to increase to 81. 900 the
pension already granted to the widow Of
Gen. F. P. BLAIR. Yet the slender minority
was sound in principle, and 1t was the
majority that put itself on record in favor
Of q precedent emphatically un-American
and opposed to common sense.
The pension for Mrs. LOGAN is practically
on addition to our growing civil pension list,
although conferred upon her In recognition
Of her husbands distinguished military
services; and it was probably with per-
ception OF the objections naturally arising
upon this score that one Senator insisted
that Gen. LOGAN laid down his life for his
country, and died OF wounds received in
war" Could that point be established. 1t
would be better, for the sake Of future legis-
lation, to give S., 900 u year on that ground
than $4,000 on the ground urged by another
Senator, and practically adopted by all,
that this pension was a reward for public
services Us politician and Senator.
While pension lists for such purposes are
common In monarchical countries, they havo
been unknown here until OF late. Retired
pay granted to officers Of tho regular army
or navy, who are withdrawn from tho active
lis.on account of old age or OF disability or
wounds due to their service, Is different
matter; and it is not in any case continued
to the families Of deceased officers. The
compensation given to certain Judicial Off
GERS on tleir retirement Is also made to
them and is not pension for their families.
But Of late class OF pensions has come up
for the widows OF former Presidents and also
Of some general officers who served in tho
Union army during the war. 1t has been
most ungracious task for the small minority
in Congress who have opposed these PEN
sions to do that duty, but it is perfectly
clear that when the old rule is once broken
there is practically no protection against
creating civil pension list.
Tho precedent Is bad, and the peculiar
grants that make it are only worthy Of
condemnation.
The sun., 1888-01-29
The British in East Africa.

The movement now under way to extend
British influence In East Africa is in its pros
poets and possibilities the most interesting
enterprise the whites have undertaken since
STANLEY opened the Congo route to the in
terror Early last year England and Ger
many reached an agreement defining their
respective spheres of influence in East Africa.
A line extending northeast from the mouth
of the Umba River, skirting the northern
base OF Kilima-Njaro. and ending at about the
middle point Of the east coast of Victoria
Nyanza separates the English and German
zones of influence. The British East African
Association. recently organized to develop
the region thus reserved for British enter
prise, has secured from the Sultan of Zanz-
bar the control for fifty years OF the narrow
coast strip two hundred miles long which
fronts England's sphere of action on the
Indian Ocean. 1t has thus obtained the two
excellent harbors of Mombasa and Malindi.
The chief promoter and President of the en-
terprise is Mr.. MACKINNoN. the President Of
the Manchester Chamber OF Commerce and
the organizer of the EMIN Pasha relief ex-
pedition. This wealthy manufacturer and
ship owner has had great faith in a number
of African enterprises, and it was he who
two years go sought to secure for an Eng
lish syndicate the building OF the Congo rail-
road. proposal that King LEOPOLD finally
rejected because he wished that undertaking
to be dominated by Belgian influence.
This new enterprise derives its chief i'm
portance from the fact that its aim will be
to develop region embracing some $4,000
square miles in one Of the most promising
parts of Africa. Mr., JOSEPH THOMSON, one
OF the most thoughtful and conservative of
African travellers. holds pessimistic views
regarding the German and Congo enter
prises. but he believes that fine future is In
store for the great plateaus stretching from
Eilima-Njaro toVictoria Nyanza-where many
The sun., 1888-01-29
THE CREEDMOOR sCHEME
What the National RInc Association Wants
the state Do.

The officers of the National Rifle Associa-
tion explain that the general idea at Albany
that bill recently introduced in their behalf
by Gen. Hustled provided for tho purchase OF
the Creedmoor range by the State. is an error
What the association really wants is set forth
in its petition. which accompanied the BILL
This states that the range has been established
and made the best in tho world. at n total ex-
pense of 100000. Besides the property it owns
the association has leased adjacent property,
upon which eleven short-ranGe targets are
situated. and it also has to pay damages to
farmers owning land in the rear OF the targets
The lease on this adjacent property is about to
expire. 1t cannot be released. and the associa-
tion has not the money to purchase it, nor to
purchase the land back Of the targets. 1t pro-
poses therefore. to transfer the whole range to
the State. upon condition that the .,tate makes
the necessary purchases OF adjacent land and
guarantees to maintain the range for the uso
OF the National Guard rs now, the association
reserving to itself only the right to use The
range ten days in each year for its competition.
Gen. Husteds bill provides for the uccep ance
Of the range By the state. and appropriates
$25.O0O for the purchase OF the necessary ada
cent lands.