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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17

The entertainment this evening at
the Y. NJ G. A. Hall, under the auspices
of the Blue Ribbon League, consists of
the following:
Piano Solo . Miss Alice NJ. Loveque
Reading - Miss Helen Chamberla
Song ...........M Miss l.. Dressler
Reading ~ - Rev. H. II. Gowen
Duet Mrs. Geo. Ross and Miss B. Won Holt
Address .-......-.....-...R Rev. A. Ostrum
The public are cordially invited to at
tend.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17
LATEST NEWS.
The Alameda Brings Ia es to the 9th
of March.

The Alameda arrived last evening
with dates to March 9th. Following is
a summary:
The Sullivan. Mitchell Fight.
A dispatch from New York, March
9th, says: The ''Telegram's'' special
cable this evening, dated Amiens,
France, says that the Sullivan-Mitchell
fight has been postponed till Monday.
The men and their hackers met this
afternoon to agree upon a stakeholder.
1t was at once seen then that here was
where Mitchell had made up his mind
not to fight.
Name after name was presented by
the Sullivan party to Mitchell's friends
as fit for referee, but none of them was
suitable. The men whom the Mitchell
people presented for referee were those
| OF such thoroughly unprincipled men,
unfair in their methods and several
friends of the Englishmen, that Sullivan
| finally got tired and said, savagely,
''Give us any respectable man and we
will accept him."
The other side would do nothing, and
the meeting came to an inglorious end.
There were but small matters which the
was impossible to get the Mitchell men
| to agree to anything.
European Affairs.
BERLIN, March 3.-The relations of
Russia with the allied Powers are taking
developments exactly as they were fore
cast in these dispatches. Diplomatic
! proposals of Russia have resulted in
nothing definite. What is definite, how
ever, is the frantic eagerness of Russia
to obtain war loan and her ceaseless
| preparations for war. The revolutionary
organ, the "Svobodai," declares that
war rapidly approaches, and predicts
the conquest and ruin of Russia, and the
| submission of the Slavs to Germany,
unless the policy of the Gar is replaced
| by free national management of public
| affairs. However much he may be adj
verse to war, the internal discord of
| Russia will soon force the Gar to risk
| Cl0 luIuT0 Vi CIc hOIudllOn uyH Nasty Dy
! challenging the central powers.
A faint glimpse OF peace is got in the
| action of the Car in intrusting his
| brother, the Grand Duke Vladimar, with
routine dealings between the Ministers
| and the Gar The wife of the Grand
| Duke, the Princess of Mecklenberg, is a
| steadfast German, and sways the Duke
| in opposing the war party, but the
! Grand Dukes character is ill-ftted to
cope with Ministers Tolsoi, Vannovski
| and Polredonostetf, who are now guild
ing the Gar.
VIENNA, March 3.-Prince LobanOff,
the Russian ambassador, has presented
| Count Kalnoky with fresh proposals re-
garding Bulgaria. 1t is said that Count
Kalnoky is inclined to consider the
proposals favorably.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 3.-The Gov
eminent has issued orders to expedite
the collection of stores in Warsaw.
Many officers who were on Through
have been recalled to their regiments.
The attitude of the powers regarding
Bulgaria irritates military and public
circles in Russia.
Irish Home Rule.
On March Sd Gladstone, in returning
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17

Kaumakapili Church-Rev. J. Waia-
mau, pastor. Sundayschool at 80 a.
m. Preaching at 10 80 a. m.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17
Irish Home Rule.

On March Sd Gladstone, in returning
thanks to $50 clergymen of the Church
of England for a memorial drawn up by
them in favor of home rule, said he be-
lieved it would have the effect of greatly
widening the growing conviction that
neither honor nor advantage can posi-
bly, be gained by continued refusal to
accede to the moderate and constitution
ally expressed demands of the Irish
people.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17
Miscellaneous.

Suakinn was attacked March 4th by a
large force OF rebels. After four hours
fighting the rebels retired, leaving sew
eral hundred killed and wounded on the
field. On the British side Colonel Tap
and five Egyptians were killed and four
teen wounded. The British gunboats
Dolphin and Albacore assisted to guard
the city and poured deadly fire on the
retreating rebels.
The United States ship Enterprise will
proceed to Tangier to support the de-
mand of the American Consul at that
place for the release of an AmOOr under
American protection, who is imprisoned
at Rabat.
A dispatch from London dated March
9Th says: All railway traffic in Sweden
and Denmark has been stopped by
heavy snowfalls. Traffic on lines in
Northwest Germany IS also Interrupted.
Dantzic is completely shut off from the
world. Avalanches in Trentino valley
killed twenty persons.
ViOlent-SandstOrm has been raging
in Egypt, stopping traffic on the Suez
canal.
An avalanche has fallen upon the
Hospice of st. Bernard, burying the
church, but causing no loss OF life.
A naval guard on the Prussian model
is being organized at all South Russian
seaports The object is to reinforce
marines and supply crews to merchant
ships equipped for war.
The German and Italian Governments
have ordered the construction OF two
torpedo boats at Elbing, Prussia.
Thos. j. Potter, Vice President and
General Manager of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, died at Welker's
Hotel ON the 9th.
James Cotter Morrison, the author, IS
dead.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17

Central Union Church-Rev. f. q.
Beckwith, d. D.. pastor. Services at II
a. IN. and 80 O'Clock p. IN. Sunday
school at 40 a M
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17

Y. NJ. G. A.-Gospel Praise Service at
6 80 p. m.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-17

The Alameda arrived last evening
with dates to March 9th. Following is
a summary.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
The Safe Way to Speculate.

l knew lady who had several
thousand shares of Sheridan stock and
would have made agreatdeal of money
out of it if it hadn't been for an awfully
horrid old broker whom she allowed to
conduct her business. This lady
bought Sheridan at 10 cents. believe,
and could have sold itat $7.50-at least
he sent her word one day that he could
sell her stock ats7.5O share, and when
she refused to sell at that figure he
went right ont on the street and pulled
the price down to two cents a share, the
mean and miserable-hearted scoundrel!
The day after he had done this my
friend went to him and told him he
could have her stock at $3.50 share.
81 can only pay you two cents share
for it now,' said the contemplate little
man.
But you offered me $780," she pro-
tested.
That was when the market was up
and you refused to SELL" said the
broker.
81 know l refused to sell then," she
replied, "but l am willing to sell it now.
and as you have offered me $3.50
share I'll take $3.50, and if you don't
buy my stock as you agreed to I'll sue
you for breach of promise, for l can
prove by your own letter and by your
own office-boy who brought it to me
that you promised to pay me $3.50 q
share for my Stock
''That was last Tuesday, madam"
the cunning stock jobber pleaded.
"Well, this is only Thursday" said
my friend, sand if there was gold
enough in that mine Tuesday to make
my stock worth $3.50 they couldn't
have dug it all out in two days, so I'll
trouble you to give me my $3.50 IA share
and let me go.''
gave her that last point about the
gold being still in the mine, but the
broker was obdurate-he would pay
her no more than two cents a share.
and as she wouldn't please him to sell
it at that pitiful figure she's got her
Sheridan stock yet You can bet that
l shall fight shy of that broker.
When l buy my shares shall exact
a written guarantee from all the
parties concerned that the value of the
stock will go up, and not go down. l
shall buy at one cent share if l can
get it, and put in the guarantee that
the price must advance steadily until
it reaches $50 share, when l can sell
out and buy another cheap mine and do
the same thing over again. This is the
only safe way to buy mining stock il
you are buying it to get rich.-Sk.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
How to Annihilate Poverty.

inequality in the distribution of
wealth seems to many to constitute the
greatest of all social evils. But, great
as may be the evils that are attendant
on such condition of things, the evils
resulting from an equality of wealth
would undoubtedly be much greater.
Dissatisfaction with ones condition is
the motive power of all human pro-
gress, and there is no such incentive
for individual eXertion as the appre-
hension of prospective want. 'sIf
everybody was content with his situa-
ton, or if everybody believed that no
improvement of his condition was pos
sible, the state of the world would be
that of torpor," or even worse, for So
ciety is so constituted that it can not
for any length of time remain station
airy, and, if it does not continually ad-
vance, it is sure to retrograde.
1t is matter of regret that those who
declaim most loudly against the in
equalities in the distribution of wealth,
and are ready with schemes for the
more ''equal division of unequal earn
ings" as remedies against suffering,
are the ones who seem to have the least
appreciation Of the positive fact, that
most of the suffering which the human
race endures is the result of causes
which are entirely within the province
of individual human nature to prevent,
and that, therefore, reformation of the
individual is something more import
ant than the reformation of society
Hon. Dauid 4. Wells, IN Popular Science
MOHth{u.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
When Snake Eats Snake.

A letter just received from Mr. Prin-
gle, of Louisiana, the well-known Am
erican snipe shot, whose wonderful bags
were reported sometime since in your
paper, contains the following extract,
which may prove interesting to some
of your readers: Il was walking across
very Doggy marsh, where there was
q good deal of water, and was stumb-
ling along, not with my former youth
full agility, when / came near stepping
on snake in coil, what is called a
'cotton-mouthed moccasin, whose bite
is not fatal but somewhat poisonous.
There being no stick at hand to kill
him, stepped back and shot him, cut
ting him not quite, but nearly in two,
and exposing his fnnards,' as the ne
groes say. My man Caesar exclaimed,
'Massa, he got another snake in himr
and so he had-one nearly as long
as himself. / pulled the swallowed
snake out and held him. by the tail
alongside the other. The swallower was
about thirty inches long and very thick,
and the swallowed one and half inch
es shorter, only that the latter's head
and neck were doubled so as to be fore
ed into the other. Did you ever know
of one snake eating another? They say
that dog will not eat dog, but it.seems
that a snake will perform that opera
ton on another snake. London Field.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
The Princess Of Wales Bath.

The Princess of England, whose
complexion is not only the finest, but
who has best stood the wear and tear
Of time. takes her morning plunge regu-
larly and in water fairly cold, but she
is particularly careful to promptly
make use of the tlesh-brush, using
gloves of moderate roughness rapidly
over the surface of the body and, final
ly, the rough towel in quick, general
rub, occupying both for the bath and
this massage, if one may cali it such,
twenty minutes in all. At night the
same lady's bath is prepared tepid and
of distilled water, the admirable ad-
vantage of which is not properly under
stood. Every particle of foreign mat
ter is removed from distilled water, so
that it is absolutely pure. 1t costs
about II cents per gallon, and can be
used. a quart at time, for quick
sponge bath, with admirable effect,
especially when combined with little
glycerine and rose water. er.-PhiZadelphia
Times
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
The Function of Pain.

Sufferers from the atrocious pains OF
neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, etc.,
should solace themselves withTefec-
tions upon the doctrine taught by
Kaut, in his ''Anthropologic' that
every pleasure must be preceded
by pain, pain being always the first.
No pleasure, he maintains, can follow
Immediately upon another, but between
Che one and other some pain must have
place. 1t is the slight depressions of
vitality, with intervening expansions
of it, which together make up healthy
condition, which we enormously take
for continuously-felt state of we'll
being; whereas this consists only of
pleasurable feeling following each
other by reciprocation-that is, with
continually intervening pain. Unfort-
unately, Stepmother Nature is not al
ways careful to balance given degree
of pain with corresponding equiva-
lent of pleasure.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
Readers in Havana.

A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin speaks of an odd class of folk
discovered by him in Havana. Books
are few and costly, and the newspapers
are very meager affairs. But the in
tellectual hunger must be satisfied, and
there have grown out of these condi-
tions a large number of lectors or
readers. These go from one shop to
another, and often from house to house
among the lowly, aud read and COM
ment upon the insignificant worlds
news which the lifeless papers occa-
sionally print. They are well paid;
for. as they must roar like mad bulls
in their readings so that the five hun
dred or one thousand hands in a great
cigar factory can all catch the precious
words, they soon lose their voices alto
gether. In the full tide of his pros
perity, or certain decay, the Cuban
lector is as stern and pompous as the
American actor.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
Antiquities of Ireland.

Among the most interesting monu-
ments Of prehistoric pagan times IN
Ireland, says the London NeaOs, are
those found on and near the banks Of
the river Boyne, in the county Of
Meath. a few miles west of Drogheda.
Here was cemetery of some of the
period to which no certain date can be
ascribed, but to which may be referred
the half-mythical traditions of the
Tuatha-de-Danaan, the fair-haired race
OF strangers, valiant horsemen, singers
and harpers, and magicians, who are
supposed to have conquered some part
of the island, and to have established
their kings throne on the hill of Tara.
OF their protracted wars against the
Fomorians and the Firbolgs, whoever
those invaders were; of the Fomorian
King Balor, who had one eye in the
middle of his forehead and another in
the back of his head, which could kill
men by glance; and of Nuada Air
great Lamb, the king with silver
hand, made to replace his hand lost in
the battle of Moytura, the lovers of ro-
mantle fables may read at their pleas
ure. 1t is probable that Meath was, in
a very remote age, the abode of a war
like people, who gained considerable
ascendency over the tribes of the ada
cent parts of Ireland, and whose king
may sometimes have been the head of
a federal league to resist the incursions
of the Danes and Norsemen.
The sepulchral mounds, cairns, or
burrows in the neighborhood of Dowth
and Newgrange, associated with the
names of King Dubbath and Achad
Aldai (the name of ''Dowth" being a
ion of Celtic scholars) were examined
by members of the Royal Irish Acade-
my forty years ago. The Dowth
mound is an immense pile Of small bowl
der stones, in the interior of which are
chambers and passages constructed of
very large blocks of stone rudely laid
together in the ''dolmen" fashion of
Brittany and other Celtic examples;
the first chamber, formed in the shape
of cross (though certainly not of
Christian design), contained a broken
stone coffin, with a few bronze or iron
ornaments and half burnt human bones.
A passage twenty-seven feet long con-
duets to series of small crypts, and
to square chamber, the stones OF
which are sculptured with variety of
decorated, perhaps symbolical, pat
terms and devices. The more import
ant of these have engaged the study Of
antiquarians with a view to ascertain
their possible significance. They APP
pear in the greatest richness and COM
plexity on the huge stones of the in
terror of the great sepulchral monu-
ment at Newgrange; the carvings are
of wonderful diversity spirals,
zi@-zag, indentations, lozenges, and
lines and dots, which some think to be
q form of writing.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
How to Pluck an Ostrich.

| Dc1O1c Cuc udHNlSOIuc pluueS tLiI
adorn the expensive hats of our girls
and the girls of other people appear
upon the fearfully and wonderfully
constructed articles Of headgear, they
are in charge of the old ostrich him.
self, or herself, as the case may be.
and serve to point moral and adorn
a tail.
| 1t may be news to some of our
readers, says 7enas Sittings, but it is a
| cold-blooded fact that there are ostrich
ranches in Texas, as we'll as California.
Australia, and other outlying points of
| the universe. 1t was at one of these
Texas ranches that the following incl
dent occurred, which we willingly
vouch for, at all hours of the day or
night; and whenever we vouch for q
thing it may be setdown as so, or near
ly so.
A certain Dr. Sketchly undertook to
pluck one of his ostriches the other
day, and now he SHES at the very name
of ostrich, and would rather risk prox-
unity to a mule than get behind an
ostrich. When an ostrich is to be
plucked, long stocking is drawn over
its head, and while it is impossible for
the great ungainly bird to see anything
it will remain as quiet as lamb and
allow itself to be denuded of its plumes
without one word of remonstrance, or
even solitary kick. But it so hap
pened that DR.. Sketchly. being a tritle
near-sighted, did not observe that the
toe of the stocking which he was using
as 4 blindfold was sadly out of repair.
In fact. this particular stocking was
minus the toe, while the heel also was
as full of holes as q eolander, and
while the near-sighted doctor was en-
gagged in plucking the costly plumes
the poor ostrich was working his head
for all he was worth, and finally sue
ceeded in getting the stocking down
around about his neck, and then he
took view of the proceedings going
on in his rear. The doctor was very
busy, his mind intent on the probable
amount he would receive in dollars
and cents from this particular bird
very particular bird he proved to be.
The ostrich sized up the situation
minutely and acted accordingly. The
doctor was too quick for the deadly
bird, however, and stepping lightly
aside allowed the full force of the
blow to fall on the devoted head of a
board fence, which was shivered into
toothpicks, and the bars being let
down in this accommodating manner,
the doctor made wild break through
the opening and ran for his life. 1t
was curious spectacle, that old
Weather-beaten ostrich charging around
the barn with three feet of black stock
ing wrinkled around his neck, and a
flying medical gentleman rushing up
to the house to relate his narrow es-
cape.
AS no lions are found where the
gorilla roams, SO no mules are found
in the vicinity Of the ostrich ranch
especially in Texas.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
Justice to the Country Editor.

1t is regarded as something quite
smart for metropolitan newspaper scrib-
blers to sneer at country editors. Horace
Greeley's old remark is trotted out
whenever city editor wishes to crush
his rural brother. It is true that some
fools and some knaves edit country
journals, but as rule these ''provin-
ciap' editors are Woodworking, shrewd,
fair-minded, and influential men. They
come nearer representing public senti-
ment than their city brethren, because
they are closer to the people. The
metropolitan press owes its distinction
chiefly to men who have been raised in
country newspaper Offices. In fact, few
men are properly equipped to even at
tempt to represent sentiment in this re-
public who have not lived in the coun-
try. So much for those who sneer at
the '.rural rooster ''-New York World
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
'Twfxt Devil and Deep Sea.

Professor Hermann, the prestidigita-
teur, dined with Daniel E. Bandmann,
of "Jekyil and HYDE fame, at the ST.
James Hotel the other day, and in the
course of the dinner Mr.. Bandmann
promised to lend Professor Hermann
certain old volumes on animal magnet
ism which he owned and which the
Professor was anxious to see. When
Professor Hermann was driving past
the Hoffman, House in a cab he
thought of Mr. Bandmann's promise,
and directed the driver to stop at the
latter's house on West Twenty-Sixth
street
When they had reached the house
Professor Hermann directed cabby to
run up to Mr.. Bandmann's rooms and
get the books. He went, and his some
what amusing experience is thus relat-
ed in the New York Star: 1t so hap
pened that Mr. Bandmann was practic-
ing certain movements in his transform
alton from DR.. Jekyll to Mr.. Hyde.
The bushy Hyde wig was on his head
and the fangs of Hyde CLEANED from
between his lips. When cabby knock
ed the absorbed actor murmured some
inarticulate sound. Cabby theTeupon
pushed open the door. just at that mo-
ment Bandmann wheeled around and,
with the hideous chuckle which freezes
the blood of his audiences, snarled the
words which immediately follow the
transformation scene:
''Hyde is here!'
Transtixed with horror, cabby stood
for just one moment gazing upon the
hideous apparition before him. Then
taking to his heels he cleared the stairs
at a bound.
''Where are the books?" exclaimed
Professor Hermann impatiently, as the
cabman came running down the front
stoop.
Books" cried cabby, "'books is it,
sorr! Why, I've just seen the divil up
there, sorr, an he growled at me and
showed his teeth"
''Why, you must be drunk, my man."
remarked the magician.
Drunk, sorr," retorted cabby, with
an air of injured innocence; I'D like
you to prove that, sorr."
prove it, eh?" said the professor,
who had caught glimpse of Band
mann at the head Of the stairs and tax
en- in the situation; "prove it! Aye,
to be sure will"
And, bending down, he extracted two
gigantic snakes from cabby's boots.
Professor Hermann is looking for
the proprietor Of the cab to turn over
the property.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
KETCHUM ALTURAs COUNTY IDAHO SATURDAY, JULY Z 1888

''But, Flora, he is poor. l can give
you setting such as a jewel like you
deserves. I can-n
The scorn in her face was something
superb.
''Do you think" she said, "that !
am to be bought and sold with money?'
And Mrs. Belton scarcely knew which
stung deepest, the fact that Alfred had
actually fallen in love with Mrs. Dew
ford's maid, or that Flora had been
mad enough to reject him and his
handbook
''Class distinctions are becoming
completely annihilated nowadays" /"
groaned she
But kind little Lawyer Barret re-
joiced in spirit when he heard of it.
''She needn'tbe dependent on any of
them now," said he. s'She's a good
girl. and / might have known she
would make her way in the worldr'
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
The Thrifty Maine Girl.

Up in Maine there lives a spirited
young school-mistress, who, being poor
in this worlds goods. short time ago
was content to supporta lover who was
not rich himself, though he was given
to speculation in small way. To
show his good will he invested few
dollars few years ago in township
or two of cheap California desert and
made . deed Of the same to. his inam-
orata. The boom came and the lady
sold her land for $3.50. 900. Then she
sent the sack to the young man. She
was not willing to marry mere fory
tune-hunter, she said. She suspected
the young man loved her for her Weelt1
enly.-L LtncotN yournG.