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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

A Boston gentleman, whose man.
agement of his 7-years old son il
amazing to the gossips, returned home
the other evening to be met with the
news that the boy had cut hole in
the drawing-room sofa.
"Well, my son." the father said af.
ter being informed by the lad that he
had done the damage under the pres
sure of an irresistible desire, such as
is usually the plea of children in sim
liar circumstances, 81 am very sorry
that you should spoil my sofa. have
just paid $75 to have it recovered
and can not afford to have that done
over again. The only thing l can
see is for you to sit on that cut place
when anybody is here so as to cover
it. l know you don't like company
very well, but you know your mother
would be ashamed to have callers see
that hole"
The small boy was s::only to happy
to get off so easily. When, however
he had been summoned to sit on that
cut two or three times, things wore a
different aspect. He heard the door
bell ring with apprehension, and when
he was called for to run to the draw
ing-room he burst into wailing and
weeping so violent that his presence
had to be dispensed with.
"Now, my, son." his father said to
him, 81 did not make any fuss when
you cut my new sofa covering, and 1
can't allow you to make any fuss
about bearing the consequences of what
you do to please yourself"
The poor wretch was reduced to a
condition of despair, pitiful to behold
when his father said to him:
Now, Willis, l am going to make
proposition to you. You may do
just as you please aboutit. promised
you soldiers uniform at Christmas !;
now if you had rather l took that
money and had the sofa mended, !
will put enough with it to have the
thing done. But if l do you will get
no uniform at Christmas"
The lad chose to have the sofa
mended, and at Christmas he bore his
disappointment like his fathers son.
He did have, it is only fair to his ia
ther to add, good deal in the way of
alleviations of one sort and another.
Providence Journal.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

touched the seventh. Oh, God can
| ever forget the sight? In the
moonlight flashed out two arms COW
cred with a hundred-nay, two hun
dred-daggers and clasped the daring
youth to the black gods breast. At
the same moment the sound of a gong
broke the stiffness of the night and
in one moment the priests had cast off
their coverings and were rushing to
the shrine. Two minutes later | saw
the amazed and Mortified priests car
rying out the lifeless body of the dis
honored Englishman and / turned
and fled. d."-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

A story is being told of very close
citizen of Washington that he want.
ed to go to Lynchburg recently. A,
the ticket Office he was told that the
fare was S1.S0.
zone eighty" he muttered. "Gii
you S1.40."
Cant cut rates, sir. One eighty
is the fare"
"Glf you one fifty"
"Nope. One eighty"
Den I'll Walk"
"That is your privilege" answered
the ticket seller. So he started of
down the track, and had made about
half the distance when he heard an
engine footing and whistling behind
him.
"You needn't vistle," said he, wav-
ing his hand, "I'll not come back. -
-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19
Consumption surely Cured.

10 THE EDIToR-Please inform your
readers that | have positive remedy for
the above named disease. BY its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy free to any of
your readers who have consumption If
they will send Inc their express and post
office address. Respectfully, Il. A SLO-
CUM, NJ. g., 1Sl Pearl ST., New York.
Sg0yl
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

His weak place. Beggar-Please,
please help poor cripple.
Passer-by, giving him money-Poor
fellow Where are you crippled?
Beggar, pocketing the money-In
my finances, sir.-Wasp.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

Travel broadens one. Mrs. Mag
nus-I think travel broadens one,
don't you think so, Mrs. Lofty?
Mrs. Lofty-Oh, la, yes. Why l
gain ten or fifteen pounds every time
| 90 to Yurrup.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

What this country really needs is
less scrambling for an Office and more
strawberries in the shortcake.-Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

A western lecturer has at last dis
covered way of being warmly re-
ceived. He keeps the hall so cold
that the people in the audience are
obliged to stamp their feet to keep
them from freezing.-Yonkers States
man.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

Female BARRIERS are not having
much success. Gentlemen will not
90 to them because they dislike to be
cut by a lady.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

When they want to find out how a
new cruiser is going to dance on the
ocean waves they take her out to sea-
Baltimore American.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

A false alarm-Mr. Breckenridge
Hi. dar, yo' folks Better git out.
| heard d flo crack.
Mr.. Coales-Kim back heah, you
fool coon. Dat wuz Miss Winders
smackin' her lips ober de ice cream.
Judge.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

Freddie-Why, old chappie, | heard
that the sheriff sold you yesterday I;
and yet here you are with your stick
and eyeglass same as ever.
Teddie-Oh, me boy, the law won't
take away the tools of ones trade,
don't cherknow.-Time.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19
WIT AND HUMOR.

The boss of a gambling saloon may
be termed vice president.-Texas
Siftings.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19
o. L. PARTRIDGE,
Real Estate Agent

Rooms 4, 5, Dawson Block.
Will take charge of estates for residents and non.
residents. collect rents pay taxes, place insurance
obtain abstracts Of title, etc.
Office hours-10 to 10 A. NJ, 4to6P.M.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

Augustus-I made lovely pun the
other day, Adolphus.
Alphabetically?
Fact. Some fellah was asking why
it was necessary at election time to
have such bacchanalian orgies.
Well?
Well, said l supposed it was to
back an alien.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

sDaily. tDaily except Saturday. All other
trains daily except Sunday. Parlor cars on day
trains. Sleeping cars on night trains
J. WHITING, Ticket Agent.
RUGGLES G. p. IL r. Agt.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

Employer (to new bookkeeper)-
You've been absent all day and not
one line written. And you pretend.
ed to be an expert bookkeeper-could
keep books by double entry and all
that CUFF
Bookkeeper-Well, those books are
kept by double entry.
Why do you tell me that nonsense?
Because there is not single entry
in them.-Detroit journal.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

Hotel clerk (suspiciously)-
bundle, sir, has come apart. May
ask what that queer thing is?
Guest-This is new patent fire
escape. l always carry it with me, SC
in case of fire | can let myself down
from the hotel window. See?
Clerk (thoughtfully)-I see. Our
terms for guests with fire escapes, sir
are invariably cash in advance.-N
Y. Weekly.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

go 10 urrup.-EA'
His weak place. Beggar-Please,
please help poor cripple.
Passer-by, giving him money-Poor
fellow Where are you crippled?
Beggar, pocketing the money-In
my finances, sir.-Wasp.
A western lecturer has at last dis
covered way of being warmly re-
ceived. He keeps the hall so cold
that the people in the audience are
obliged to stamp their feet to keep
them from freezing.-Yonkers States
man.
A false alarm-Mr. Breckenridge
Hi, dar, yo' folks! Better git out.
| heard d flo crack.
Mr.. Coales-Kim back heah, you
fool coon. Dat wuz Miss Winders
smackin' her lips ober de ice cream.
Judge.
Freddie-Why, old chappie, l heard
that the sheriff sold you yesterday !;
and yet here you are with your stick
and eyeglass same as ever.
Teddie-Oh, me boy, the law won't
take away the tools of ones trade,
don't cherknow.-Time.
Augustus-I made lovely pun the
other day, Adolphus.
Alphabetically?
Fact. Some fellah was asking why
it was necessary at election time to
have such bacchanalian orgies.
Well?
Well, l said l supposed it was to
back an alien.-Ex.
Base ball maiden-Yes, Mr.. Joblots
all is over between us. Here is your
ring.
Mr.. Joblots-I'm to understand
then, Mabel, that our engagement is
at an end
Base ball maiden-Exactly. | give
you your release and expect to sign
new man the latter part Of the week.
Good-by.-Ex.
Hotel clerk (suspiciously)-Your
bundle, sir, has come apart. May |
ask what that queer thing is?
Guest-This is new patent fire
escape. / always carry. it with me, SO
in case of fire can let myself down
from the hotel window. See?
Clerk (thoughtfully)-I see. Our
terms for guests with fire escapes, sir,
are invariably cash in advance.-N.
Y. Weekly.
Employer (to new bookkeeper)-
You've been absent all day and not
one line written. And you pretend
ed to be an expert bookkeeper-could
keep books by double entry and all
that CUFF.
Bookkeeper-Well those books are
kept by double entry.
Why do you tell me that nonsense?
Because there is not a single entry
in them.-Detroit Journal.
Here is our old salts story of how
he got glass of grog. When at the
wheel, Capt. South says:
"How does she head ?"
Southeast by south half south
little southerly, Capt. South"
"Put another s. to that, my man,
and you shall have glass of grog,"
says the captain.
Southeast by south bali south,
little southerly, Capt. South, sir"
The grog came.-Ex.
Mrs. Parvcnu-Charles, you know
you positively y promised me you would
reform during the new year. Are
you drinking any less liquor?
Mr.. Parvenu-Yes. my dear, am
gradually tapering off Take only
half the amount of water with my
whisky that did, and hope to drop
it altogether by July. Then shall
begin to reduce the amount Of liquor
itself. Trust me to keep promise,
my dear.-Once a Week.
"Did ever say all that ?" he ask
ed despondently as she replaced the
phonograph on the corner of the man
tel piece.
"You did,"
"And you can grind it out of that
machine whenever you choose ?"
Certainly"
"And your father is lawyer I"
"Yes."
"Mabel, when can I place the ring
on your finger and call you my wifep
-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

The finest goods of the kind in the world. The
inside cases are made of ash, finished in the dark
rich antique the panels richly carved; a row
of daisies is set across the front rail and carved
moulding across the top. Real bronze trimmings,
which do not rust add TO their beauty. They all
have two complete boxes, one inside the other;
some manufacturers leave the inside box entirely
out and tack the zinc lining directly on the cleats
DO not compare our prices with any such half
made boxes, they may look just as good but they
are not; investigate carefully before you buy.
The Leonard has five walls TO protect the ice, viz
list, tho zinc lining Cd, lining of building paper;
Sd, the inside box 4th, the charcoal filling 5th,
the outside case. They called the Cleanable
because they all furnished with the Leonard
Patent Removable Flues. so that every part can be
easily cleaned. There are no folds or crevices
TO serve as u hiding place for split milk. etc.
Therefore make no mistake, poor refrigerator is
dear at any price, it will waste your ice and spoil
your food therefore cordially invite your special
attention to the Leonard Refrigerator.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19

Base ball maiden-Yes, Mr.. Joblots
all is over between us. Here is your
ring.
Mr.. Joblots-Im to understand
then, Mabel, that our engagement is
at an end 3?
Base ball maiden-Exactly. give
you your release and expect to sign II
new man the latter part Of the week
Good.by.-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19
Detroit, Bay City & AIpena R.R.

Mail and Accom- Mail and Accom-
Express mediation Express. mediation.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-06-19
MICHIGAN CENTRAL
"The Niagara Falls Route"
nj. C,.a Il, EW,ot

Time Card in Effect.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-07
LOYALTY.
London, Sept. "a.

One prolific cause of confused
ideas is the vague and loose way In
which words are used. Some words,
which really derive their value from
the relation they bear to some others,
come by careless use to be rever
enced for themselves alone. Such a
word is loyalty. No one can be loyal
without having something to be
loyal to. 1t may be devoted to a
government, constancy to a cause,
attachment to a person, fidelity to a
principle. X = Now, if loyalty
be thus pitted against all change, it
must be foe to progress, for if no
one changed his ideas Or methods,
if no one lifted his thoughts or his
condnct from a lower to a higher
plane, the world would stand still,
and stagnation would insue. An
obtuse and stolid adherence to things
as they are should never be digni-
fed by the name of loyalty. There
is an unintelligent devotion to ones
country that refuses to see a single
imperfection in it, or single point
of superiority in any other. It
rather prides itself in despising other
nations, and in ridiculing or censur-
ing them for everything in which
they differ from ones own.
There is a loyalty higher than any
government, any party, any cause,
or any friend can claim; it is the
loyalty we owe to our own honest
convictions of truth and right.
Whenever these conflict with lower
claims, the latter must give way. In
all healthy growth of mind and
heart this process is continually 60
ing on. A man embraces
certain political views or a scheme
of social life, which seem to him at
the time to contain the best materials
for humad welfare, and he upholds
them earnestly by word and deed.
AS years bring to him more exper-
fence and wisdom, he finds them de-
fective here and injurious there: he
sees higher truths and better plans,
and transfers his allegiance Those
who remain where he stood some
times call him disloyal, but is it so?
Is not the highest form of loyalty
that clings always to the best and
truest that can be found? Is it not
disloyalty of the worst kind that for
sakes the better for the worse-that
lets go what is known to be good and
right for the sake of clinging to a
past and inferior conception, or for
the sake of maintaining a nominal
agreement with those from whom we
differ in reality?
The test of true loyalty which
each one may put to himself is, Gam
[ faithful to truth, to right, to duty,
to love? Am [ constant to the best
methods l can fnd-to the higher
ideals I can form?"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-07
THE RAILROAD OF THE FUTURE.

The practical use of electricity as
a motive power during the past few
years, remarks the New Orleans
Picayune, has demonstrated that in
the no distant future it will, to a
considerable extent, supplant steam
as the principal agent in maintain
ing and fostering human industry.
Although electricity is still but
partially understood, and is far from
being under the complete control of
those who use it, still the full know
ledge of its powers has reached a
stage where they can be successfully
put to thousand uses.
Electricity now moves all classes
of small machinery, such as fans,
elevators, printing presses, street
cars and other mechanical triumph
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-07

The Bulletin of last evening re-
turns to its attacks and classifying Of
the ADVERTISER, by quoting five
paragraphs, which appeared in this
paper, the first and last having no
bearing on the matter in contro-
versy; the three others being from an
article which appeared in the edi
torial column from a contributor,
whose language and sentiments
were promptly disavowed as not the
sentiments of the paper. The Bull
letin knowing this fact, dishonor-
ably charges that they were the sen
timents of this paper. They can no
more be referred to as the senti-
ments of this paper, than their pub
LEGATION in the Bulletin makes them
the sentiments of that paper. IF
this dishonorable act of the Bull
letin is not openly and wilfully
bearing false witness against
his neighbor, then it is not pos
sible to commit that offense.
When the writer in the Bulletin
wrote his article of Tuesday and
again repeated the statement on
Wednesday, he knew of this public
disavowal, and therefore knew that
he was making cowardly attack
and uttering base falsehood.
We have nothing further to say
on the subject, except that so far
from furnishing any proof of his
Tuesdays assertions, he stands be-
fore this community as a falsiier of
what he and the public know to be
facts in the case
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-07
THE HAWAIIAN LEPERS.
Mr.. Manley Hopkins Reply to Mr..
Clifford.

Mr.. Man1ey Hopkins Reply to Mr.. |
Clifford.
Since the publication of Mr.. Cliff
ford's letter yesterday, we have been
favored with Consult General Hop
kins' reply, for which we are in
debted to the Foreign Office, and
insert it below. We may add, in
this connection, that the remarks of
the New York Tribune and Christian
Union referred to, were based en-
tirely on the erroneous and mis-
chievous statement of Mr.. Ballan-
tyne, in Longman's Magazine:
To the Editor of the Times, Sir: l
am glad to find by Mr.. Clifford's letter
of this morning that he is not aware Of
any imputations made of neglect or in
difference to the lepers by the Hawaiian
Government and its Board of Health. |
forward his communication to Honolulu.
1t is true that at a meeting at the Duke
of NewCastle's, and another at Cardinal
Manning's, at both of which was pre-
| sent, [ do not remember that any open
censures OF supineness were made. But
| it is complained that the large sums
which had been collected were sent d.
rect to Father Damien without any con-
| sultation with the Hawaiian Govern
ment, and that no concurrence was asked
| about it's expenditure. The Government
was simply ignored, and the left hand,
the Hawaiian Ministers, did not know
what the right hand OF generous people
in England was doing. After those two
meetings 1 was also left out and received
no information of the proceedings.
am obliged to disagree with Mr.. Clifford
on the main pOint-that of censure. Mr.
Ballantyne, in Longman's Magazine
leads the English attack. In unmeas
ured terms he says, Perhaps no spot
on the face of the earth can equal fol
concentrated misery and hopeless horror
the leper settlement of Molokai."
The New York Tribune, enlarging or
the theme, says, "The brutal indiffer
ence of the Hawaiian Government haC
thrust these poor creatures away on {
barren peninsula" And the Christian
Union american Christian) asserts tina
"the Government had adopted the bar
barous theory that the lepers could sus
tain themselves" and it speaks Of "thei
miserable huts huddled together, fille(
with wretchedness and debauchery."
will only add the comment of the Ha
waiian serial, the Friend :-'In the fore
going extracts the grossest ISLANDERS upol
the Hawaiian Government are inextri
cably mixed with the laudations Q
Father Damien"
1t is not my business nor my wish t
detract by one iota from the services ant
sacrifice of this excellent man. NJ.
} object is to show the manner in which
the Government represent have beel
accused and abused by groundless accu
saton. l am, Sir, &C.,
MANLEY HOPKINS,
Hawaiian Consul.
| London. Sept. "a.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-07

The Australian ballot system has
been introduced into two States in
the American observation-disclosures and
Connecticut, and at the recent State
elections held in those States the
voting was conducted with this sys-
tenn. In Montana both parties were
satisfied with it. In Connecticut a
modified system was tried allowing
the various parties to print their
own tickets. This regulation is to
be changed, and the State will here
after print all the names on one
ticket.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-07
building Lots For Sale on South slope
of PunchbOwl Hill and on
the Plains,

of PunchbOwI Hill and on
the Plains.
SiXty-fOur Lots situate on the slope of
Punchbowl Hill at the head of Kapiolani
and Victoria Streets. varying in size from
75Xl00 feet to 1O0x2OO feet have been laid
out and are now ready for sale
Applications for the purchase of these
Lots at an upset price which can be ascer-
tanned at the Land Office, varying from
Sl25 to $lO0 each Lot according to size and
location will be received at the Interior
Office
Upon the receipt OF applications the Lots
applied for will be sold at public auction
after due advertisement, being put up at
the upset price.
Applicants must state that they desire
to purchase with intention of improving
the premises.
The terms and conditions OF sale will be
cash, or at the option of The purchaser,
one-fourth cash, and the remainder in
equal installments payable in one, two
and three years with interest payable
semi-annually at the rate of seven per
cent. per annum.
The purchaser must within one year
from the date of purchase enclose the land
bought by him with a good and substan-
tial fence and lay on water from the Gov
eminent pipes.
Royal Patents viii be issued for the
land upon final payment of the purchase
price.
A map OF the Lots can be seen and full
particulars learned at the Land Office.
Streets have been laid out and graded,
and water mains have been laid adjoining
all of the above Lots
At the same time there will be offered
Tor sale Lots on Beretania and Young
Streets near Keeaumoku 80 feet by 40 at
an upset price of $500 each. Other terms
and conditions the same as above.
l.. A. THURSTON,
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office, Nov 5, 1889.
10S-6t 1296-1t
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-07

of mans ingenuity. Judging from
the progress steam has made since
it's introduction less than hundred
years ago, there is every reason to
believe that electricity will reach
even a greater degree of develop
ment.
According to the Baltimore Sun
there is company Incorporated IN
that city which proposes to construct
an electric railway that will run at
the great speed Of three miles a
minute or $50 miles an hour. While
it is intended that this railway Will
carry only mail and light freight it
is the purpose of the managers to
ultimately adapt the system to pas
senger traffic as soon as the success
of the enterprise gives the public
sufficient confidence in its feaslbll
itY.