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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
HOW THE EYEBROWS ARE READ.

Suggestive Results of Observation Made
by a Student of Signs of Character.
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The following suggestive results Of
observation are contributed by student
of the various outward manifestations
of character:
Eyebrows that are far apart show
warmth, franknesS, impulse, and a
generous, unsuspicious nature. Where
they meet, the owner will be ardent in
love, but Jealous and suspicious. Eye
brows which are higher at starting, and
pass in long, sweeping lines over the
eyes, dropping slightly downward at the
termination, give artistic feeling and a
sense of beauty in form.
When they are very close to the eyes,
forming one line on strongly defined
cyclones, they indicate strength of will
and determination. Strongly marked
at the commencement, and terminating
abruptly without sweeping past the
eyes, they reveal an irascible and
impatient nature.
The slightly arched eyebrows are in
dicative of sensitiveness and tenderness.
If straight at the commencement and
slightly arched at the temples, they
show irmnesS of purpose and tender
ness OF Q0afG. Inc eyebrows OF per
sons who are deficient in the science of
figures are very much raised at the ter
mination, leaving wide space between
them and the corners of the eyes, If
they are close to the eyes at the end, it
is an almost invariable sign of mathe-
NAUTICAL talent.
When the eyebrows are of the same
color as the hair, we may look for firm
ness, resolution, and constancy, but if
lighter than the hair, they signify weak
ness and indecision; if darker, the
temper is ardent, passionate and in
constant.
When the hair is ruffled and growing
in contrary directions it accompanies an
energetic, easily irritated nature The
hair is fine and soft when the DISPOSE
ton is ardent but tender Short hairs
lying closely together and leaning one
way show a firm mind, and good, I'M
erring perceptions Eyebrows whose
hair is bent downward, almost meeting
the eyelashes when the eyes are raised
indicate tenderness and melancholy
The nearer they are to the eyes the more
earnest, deep, and firm the character
The more remote, the more volatile and
less resolute.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
The Cash Account Balanced.
Detroit Free Press

"What are you doing down town at
this time of uight?' asked one pedes-
train of another in front of the city
hall at 10 o'clock the other night
been working at my books down at
the Office
What allied 'em"
''My cash account wouldn't balance.
Old smith was looking over the books
this afternoon, and he said he'd give
me till to morrow noon to see that cash
balanced cash on<hand account.
Can you find the error!''
''Oh, I've found it and made every
thing balance. brought $39. IS down
from the house, you knoWr'
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
South Americas Material for Paper.
detroit Free Press.I


South America is not a continent
where newspapers flourish, but that
country will take care that those who
like their dailies will not have to go
without from any lack of material on
which to print them. Venezuela alone
could supply the world with paper.
A correspondent of The Springfield
Republican writes about it from Car
acas. He says: THE to 'gh fiber of the
maguey leaf, the very fine white fiber
of the plantain, the tough tule-rush of
the lagoOns, and the filamentous alacle
are all available for this purpose. There
are also worthy of mention the palms,
henos, izotes, and several urticeas; the
huinare, masahual, 'pochote, cuanla-
huac, and many other species, all find
ing favored home here, and growing
as weeds over large districts.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
AID ference in Caliber.
[Lon1on Cor. Chicago Tribune. !

IL'lI IOII COT OnIC lgO IrlbunS.
Has it ever occurred to you how the
difference in the fneness of caIiber as
between English people and Americans
might be noticed in the slang OF the
two countries! The American slang is
always witty and seldom coarse. The
English slang is seldom witty and al
ways coarse. Witness: ''beastly, :"
nasty, - rot" "Auke'' l heard an in
dignant Briton-a lord-speak of those
Sinking little German princes" and,
although 1 sympathized with him, l
was conscious of an inward shudder at
that horribly suggestive word.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
The Proves. of Sir victor.
Exchange

AnEnglish Journal tells of the proves
of one Sir Victor Brooke. who recently
went rabbit shooting in the deer parks
at Colebrook He had eight heaters
and two keepers, and the rabbits "were
walked up in line in fern and rushes. ?"
Sir Victor killed 746, missing on an
average only nine out of every 100 of
the poor little creatures, who were thus
almost literally dragged up to his feet.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
s.,.s= NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
EeI [DsniekL. Milllken.I

TeT [Dsnjek1. Millfken.I
And, sitting in its mellow light,
1 count of pleasure and of gain,
And find that woman rules the train
OF circumstances, small and great,
That go to build mans best estate.
We link our joys that sweeten life,
With mother, sister, lover, wife;
These words, when wed to home and
heaven.
1.-THE sweetest are to mortals given"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
A Willow Farm.

4 willow farm il Macon, Ca, pro
duces about a ton of switches to the
acre, commanding, when dried, $500,
and, as the leaves and bark sell at s5
cents pound baled, the enterprise pays
better than cotton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28

Jud Lafagan: Those who have won
success generally brag about it less
than others who have had all the symp
toms, and can tell you how all success
ttl people happened to obtain it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28

Suggestive Results of Observation Made
by Student of Signs of Character.
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
Evidently.
louisville Courier-Journal. I

LOUISVILLE Courier-JournaLl
"Tioerius, at his death, left 3, 624, Oeo
pounds sterling, which CaliguIa spent
IN less than twelve months. Mrs. Cal
iyula evidently read the dry goods. ad-
vertisements.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28
CONSTIPATION
Sluggish Liver,
ETC, ETC, ETC,

Unlike many kinds of cathartic
~ medicines, do not make you feel
worse before you feel better. Their OPP
Grafton is gentle, but thorough, and
unattended with disagreeable effects,
such as nausea, gripping pains, etc.
SeigeIs Operating Pills are the best
family physic that has ever been discov-
cred. They cleanse the bowels from all
irritating substances, and leave them in
a healthy condition.
The best remedy extant for the bane
OF our lives-constipatio and sluggish
liver.
These Pills prevent fevers and all
kinds of sickness, by removing all pois-
onous matter from the bowels. They
operate briskly, yet mildly, without any
pain.
If you take a severe cold, and are
threatened with a fever, with pains in
the head, back, and limbs, one or two
doses of Seigels Operating Pills will
break up the cold and prevent the fever.
A coated tongue, with brackish
taste, is caused by foul matter in the
stomach. A few doses of Seigel's
Operating Pills will cleanse the stom-
ach, remove the bad taste, and restore
the appetite, and with it bring good
health.
Oftentimes disease, or partially de-
cayed food, causes sickness, nausea and
diarrhea. If the bowels are cleansed
from this impurity with a dose of
Seigel's Operating Pills, these disa-
greeaDle effects will vanish, and good
health will result.
Seigel's Operating Pills prevent
ill-effects from excess in eating or drink
ing. A good dose at bedtime renders
person fit for business in the morning.
These Pills, being sugar-coated, are
pleasant to take. The disagreeable taste
common to most pills is obviated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28

Is copious and prompt in the publication of Local News
It's readers kept constantly posted the
in other parts of the world particularly the United States
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-28

Births exceed the deaths in the world
81 three per minute.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27

aristocracy, which means enormous
fortunes for score and no chance
whatever for the tens of thousands.
That gives us a monarchial twist at
once, and it is mighty poor satisfac-
ton to be told: s'It's English, you
know"
1t is that very condition of affairs
which has given birth to socia ism
and nihilism in Europe, and if we
wish to choke off the result, we must
begin by taking the cause by the
throat. We want no high-handed
monopolies in this country, for they
are menace to the democratic quail
ity of our institutions, and it is,
therefore, full time for the people to
grapple with this problem and devise
means of relief.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27
Short Sermons for Boys.

Most boys and girls do not like
sermons; they say they are too long
for their highnesses. Perhaps they
may like these short sermons, They
will give food to think over, and must
not be read over hastily.
A Swedish boy fell out of the win
dow and was badly hurt, but, with
clenched lips, he kept back the cry of
pain. The King, Gustavus Adolphus,
who saw him fall, pEophesied that the
boy would make man for an emer-
gency. And so he did, for he be-
came the famous General Bauer.
A boy used to crush the flowers to
get their color, and painted the white
side of his fathers cottage in Tyrol,
with all sorts of pictures, which the
mountaineers gazed at as wonderful.
He was the great artist Titan.
An old painter watched little fell
low who amused himself making
drawings of his pot and brushes, easel
and stool, and said ''That boy will
beat me one day" So he did, for he
was Michael Angelo.
A German boy was reading a blood
thunder novel. Right i'll the
midst of it he said to himself ssNow,
this will never do. get too much
excited over it. | can't study so well
after it. So here goes - and he flung
the book out into the river. He was
Fichte, the great German philoso-
pher.
Do you know what these little SER
mons mean? Why, simply this, that
in boyhood and girlhood are shown
the traits for good or evil that make
the man or woman good or bad.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27
agricultural department.
Fertilizing by Feeding.

The following is an abstract of
Prof. Cookies at the Richmond meet
inc of the Vermont Board of Agri-
culture:
This is comparatively a new idea
of Vermont farmers. 1t is fact
abundantly proved by careful ex-
periments that much of the fertiliz-
ing material in fodder passes through
the animal and is found in the ma
nure-pile. 1t is probable that about
ID of the feed is thus recovered from
the feed of mich cows. Most of
Vermont farms have diaries, and
these offer the best chance for the
farmer to obtain both cheaply and
easily the fertilizer his farm so much
needs. But it should be remembered
that folders vary greatly in the
amount of fertIlizing material they
contain, and hence this as we'll as
feeding value should be considered
in dec ding what feeds to buy. 1t
is proved by the experience of many
Vermont farmers that a man who
has a farm and buildings suitable for
the care of the stock can buy grain
to feed to cows and get back in the
milk or butter product the full cost
of the feed, leaving the manure as
SO much profit. A study of the fer
tilizing value of the various feeds
now in market will show that west
ern corn is about the most uneconO
ical feed a farmer can buy. If we
call each pound of nitrogen worth
seventeen cents, pound of phos-
phoric acid six cents, and a pound
of potash four and one-fourth cents,
and subtract one-fifth of the total
amount for the waste in passing
through the animal, the fertilizihg
value of ton of timothy hay is 81 /;
of ton of corn meal, $3.50; oats,
So bran, S11.42 gluten meal, Sl3.-
% linseed meal, new process, ST.
AZ and a ton of cottonseed meal
s22.43. But the prices we have
used of nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash are New York and Bos-
ton prices. To obtain the same
amount in Vermont in the best grade
of fertilizers sold in the state costs
about one-third more. Adding this
third to the above manurial value
of cotton-seed meal, we have $50
that is, when you buy a ton of cot
ton-seed meal, which in this vicinity
costs s26, you not only get its full
value, which is twice as much as an
equal weight of corn meal, but you
also get as much plant food as you
could purchase for $50 in first
class fertilizer. Surely this method
of fertilizi"g is worthy the closest
attention of Vermont farmers.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27
Grass Farming.

There are so many desirable quail
tiles in the ideal meadow or pasture,
SAYS the Farm and Home: that no
single grass has been found that
will fully satisfy the progressive
farmer. In some of the older shires
in England, as many as two or three
dozen different varieties of grasses
are in use on one farm. And pro-
portionate admixture of seeds of
valuable grasses is done with great
intelligence. In the older parts of
this C untry it is already admitted
that grasses which ripen early and
late, with others that mature be-
tween, are requisite for pasturage;
and, as more and more experiments
are mad. in this direction it is found
profitable to have a wider varl' ty of
grasses for moving than was for
merly though necessary. Not only
does the quality of the feed improve
by variety, but droughts are often
times overcome, and seasons for cut
ting made later, earlier, or both, SO
that two crops can be harvested
where but one was obtained under
the old method of seeding. The $50
bulletin of the Iowa Horticultural
College remarks that farmers of the
state would do we'll to experiment
with greater variety of grasses as
there ave many valuable kinds not
now in cultivation which could be
raised to advantage, and names the
following mixture Red clover and
orchard grass, 10 to so pounds rer
spectiyelv, tall meadow oat grass
and red clover, so and ID pounds
respectively. This mixture is found
to bloss m the last of May, and
when mown early in June the clover
stood % inches high, and the oat
grass feet. About IS per cent.
of this hay was red clover, 10 per
cent. tall oat grass, and 10 per cent.
orchard grass which had crept in.
Being on an exceedingly rich piece of
ground, it was estimated to produce
at the rate of II ga tons per acre of
dry hay. B. sides this, second and
third crops of 20 and IL inches were
produced, and the grass showed in
every way the adaptability to each
other for meadows Tall meadow
oat grass and timothy was found to
be poor mixture, on account of the
difference in the time of rpening,
and this was true of vari ty of
mixture which did not seem to be
adapted to each other, This mistake
of putting such grasses as timothy.
which blossoms and natures late,
with orchard and other early ripen-
ing grasses was very apparent.-EG.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27
Temperance.
But Do Try, Papa.

"Pa, I have signed the pledge"
said little boy to his father, on COM
ing home one evening; ''will you
help me keep it?"
''Certainly,'' said the father.
"Well, [ have brought copy of
the pledge; will you sign it papa?'
"Nonsen e, nonsense, my child !!
What could L do when my brother
officers called father had been
in the army-''if | was a teetotaler?"
''But do try, papa"
"'Tut, tut you are quite little
radical"
"Well, you won't ask me to pass
the bottle, papa?'
"You are quite fanatic, my child ;
but promise not to ask you to touch
it,
Some weeks after that two officers
called to spend the evening.
"What have you to drink % said
they.
"Have you any more of that prime
Scotch ale p
'ENo," said he, 81 have not, but |
shall get some. Here, Willie, run to
the store, and tell them to send some
bottles up
The boy stood before his father re-
spectfully, but did not go.
"Come, Willie-why, what's the
matter? Come, run along" He
went, but came home presently with
out any bottles.
"Where's the ale, Willie?''
81 asked them for it at the store,
and they put it on the counter, but |
could not touch it. Oh, papa don't
be angry. [ told them to send it up,
but | could not touch it myself!''
The father was deeply moved, and
turning to his brother officers be said:
Gentlemen, do you hear that?
You can do as you please. When
the ale comes you may drink it, but
not another drop shall be drunk in
my house, and not another drop shall
pass my lips. Willie, have you your
temperance pledge?''
"Oh, pa! l have"
Bring it, then"
And the boy was back with it in
moment. The father signed it, and
the little fellow clung around his faith
er's neck with delight. The ale came,
but not one drank, and the bottles
stood on the table untou he'd.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27

aIoxoPoLIEs AND TRUSTS. -Busi-
ness divided among the many, crea-
ting a degree of brisk, sharp COM
petition. remarks the New York
Herald, results in popular content
ment and prosperity. The larger
the number who do business ON their
own hook, the better the interests of
the community are served.
On the other hand, the more bus
mess is concentrated in the hands of
the few, the worse off we all are.
That is plain to every one, and needs
no argument.
When small dealers in beef, NUT
ton, nails, lead, copper, paper bags
or what not are driven to the wall,
that is, into bankruptcy, by pooled
capital, which aims to control the
market and pocket all the profits it
self, that moment the character of
our society begins to decline. A de-
mocracy, which means all avenues
of trade wide open, gives way to an
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27

The attention of parents with chill
dren to name is respectfully called to
the melancholy paragraph which fol-
lows: Mr.. j, being on one occa-
sion belated in the mountains of
Georgia, stopped at little cabin and
asked nights shelter of the owner,
who was sitting at the front door in
all the luxury of shilt-sleeves and a
rush-bottomed chair tilted we'll back
against the wall. 1t was Hospitality
accorded. A supper consisting of
bacon and orn-bread was set before
him, and the conversation turning
upon the fine pasture-lands of that
section, Mr.. j modestly insinu-
ated that he would have supposed it
possible to keep a COW for the benefit
of the two children whom he saw
playing about the room. ''They don't
need it; they are all right as long as
that thar lasts" said the father,
pointing with jerk of his thumb to
a barrel of whiskey sitting in one
corner. Properly Mortified, Mr.. j
expostulated, but in vain. lit keeps
'em screwed up like fiddle all the
time,' explained the fond parent.
This incident led to some further talk
about the little ones, and Mr.. j
affably asked their names. 'This
here one' (here the mother dragged
forward shame-faced youngster in
'butternut'), chopin you'll excuse
his looks, was named for my paw
Joseph Edward Malcolm Norton Gun
ter 1t was ratified off as one
mouthful in sing-song voice, and
Mr.. j, to whom comment was
difficult, said, 'sAnd the little girl ?
"Mary Joseline Rhody Catherine
Benjamine Frankline Palestine Gun
ter. She was named for my NAV,
was the reply.-Ha1per's Magazine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27

An old legend says that the devil
gave a hermit the cnoice of three vic
es. of which he must select one, and
in which drunkenness was included.
He chose the latter as being the
least sinful of the three and then in
a drunken frenzy the other two were
committed
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27
Making the Dairy Pay.

1t is certain already that increased
attention Will be given 10 dairy in
terests for year to come. Present
prices of both butter and cheese are
better than in several years at this
season. But all this will do farmers
little good, unless interest in dairy
ing means keeping better COWS, feed
ing them better, and greater care in
putting the product in market. Poor
COWS, poor butter and cheese not
only will not pay, but it is really for
nobody's interest that they should.
Those farmers who do not try to
keep up with the procession will Ill
timately be forced out of the bus
mess.
Another necessity of improved
dairyIng is the substitution of vastly
more productive kinds of food for
COWS than pasture and meadow hay.
No matter how good the cow may
be, farm will not sustain enough
to make butter making very protita
BILE on these alone. An acre of corn
fodder we'll MANFRED will furnish en-
sill ge enough to keep two cows a
year, or at that rate for large num-
Der, provided a few dollars worth
of other feed is purchased to supple
ment it. This, with good butter
COWS, will pay, almost regardless of
the price of butter.
Success, then does not depend, as
so many think, SO much on the price
of products as it does on making
them at leas cost. If farmers will
study on this end of the problem,
they can effect something. They
cannot make dairy products dear by
any effort of theirs, though by mis-
management they make their own
so expensive as to almost necessa-
rily insure loss.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-27
sy1pnth' 8 Column.
Monkeys on the Wires

Picture to yourself country of i'm
penetrable vegetation, with gigantic
palms and plantains, with jungles SO
dense that it is hard work with a
stout, sharp machete to make a path
through them-a country of intense
heat, of innumerable mosquitoes and
ticks and malaria and snakes-and
vegetation that grows up in day to
height that interferes with the labor
of man. Such are some parts of the
Mexican states of Yucatan, and it is
through such regions that the tele-
graph which connects the Mexican
cal ital with important points like San
Juan, Bautista or San Cristobel must
penetrate. This is country where
the linemen go in couples and armed
with rifles to fight off the fierce puma
or Mexican tiger, who assaults man
is especially ravenous for telegraph
constructors Linemen are often at
tackled by these f rmidable beasts,
whose stuffed skins one sees in muse
ums in the city of Mexico. No, |
should not want to encounter puma
if | were alone and unarmed. 1t
would be of no use to take to a tree,
for the puma would get there, too,
and he can run up a telegraph pole
with neatness and dispatch. The
Mexican linemen down in the hot
coast country shoot many a puma
while out attending to their lines. A
scarcely less formidable antagonist is
found in the monkey tribe who inhabit
the jungle and chaparral of Tabasco.
Literally, the ''wOods are full of
them Their favorite diversion,
when not in quest of food, is to be-
take themselves to the telegraph line
for gymnastic exercises, and linemen
assert that often a hundred ablebOd
led monkeys may be seen swinging on
the wire, or fastooned, monkey fash
ion, by looping their tails. The con-
tinuous vibration of these forest gym
nasts start the iron nails used on the
cross-arms, and these often come
down, bringing the wire with them.
And it is not safe matter to under
take to dispose of these robust mon
keys who do so much mischief with
the telegraph lines in the sparsely in
habited state of Tabasco. Linemen
have found that on shooting one
swinging on the wire they have been
pursued by whole regiment of mon
KEYS, who, with stones and nuts, have
pelted them severely. sit is no joke"
said a lineman recently, ''to have a
tribe of monkeys pursue one. They
are very strong and can hit with a
stone or stick in a fashion to make a
man howl with pain, thing the mon
key enjoys hugely. They keep up an
incessant chattering when pursuing
US, and the noise is enough to fright
en- one out Of his wits"