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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-24

&C. Address:
GAZETTE PUBLISHING co,
IS Merchant ST., Honolulu.
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-24
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

In the present college and school
examination period, a few brief re-
marks, regarding practical education
If the Hawaiian youth, viii not be
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-24
Dp autl)uritp

Mr.. Andrew Cox has this hay been APP
ointed a member of the Road Board of
alaua, Oahu, vice Jas. Gay, resigned.
The Board now consists of:
r. Halstead, Chairman;
w. A. Buick,
Andrew Cox
L. A. THURSTON,
Minister of the Interior
Interior Office, June 10, 1889. 1895
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II the boomerang did not come to them from
the Indian peninsula and the ancient Egyptians
it may be that in throwing curved sticks the
Australian savages accidentally made discov-
cries which led to the development Of the
boomerang. 1t has been thought however,
that they got the suggestion from the leaf of
the white gum tree, :ghich takes form in ma
turity something like little boomerang, and
when 1t falls from the tree circles about in a
wonderful way,
A club or stick something like boomerang
fs used by the Moqui and other Indians OF the
southwest in hunting rabbits. They are called
rabbit clubs, and are curved fat clubs. with a
handle, which are thrown or 'shied" in the
air, so as to sail. If they strike short of the
rabbit they ricochet or sail along the ground
and striking the rabbits legs cripple him.
Among all the American Indians the club was
common weapon. The Eskimo used no war
clubs because they never went to war. The
struggle for existence was too severe and too
serious to allow them time or encourage a dis
position for the pastime of war. Passing south,
however. from the winter land to the woods,
the Indians were natural warriors and when
you found an Indian you found a war club.
Clubs are used In the chase as well as in war.
The Sioux hunter will carry his club suspended
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Among the southwestern Indians club was
used which had much the shape Of an ordinary
potato-masher, and it was handled in the same
manner a cook yields potato-masher
The warrior held it in his hand with the heavy
part downward and sought to bring it down
upon the head of his adversary Among the
Sioux clubs were made long and often highly
ornamented in the Indian style with rude
drawings, feathers and gew-gaws Of different
kinds. One villainous looking club in the
museum collection has three large knife blades
secured in the wood at the heaviest part
Another Sioux club made in the form of
a gun stock has metal spike at
tached at the bend of the stock
A primitive Sioux club is made of long
crooked bone with pointed sharpened end
Chippewa club, from the Lake Superior
region, has large, smoothly knob at
the bend, which is made still more formidable
by means of sharp spike that projects from
the knob. Another Sioux club is a sort of
sling or loaded club. 1t is short and stout At
the end, securely fastened by means of deer
skin or raw-hide. bangles round heavy stone
covered with skin. This is q regular skull
crusher
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A Few Words About Treasure Whor
American Women Would be Glad to &c,

Berlin Letter 10 Buffalo Commercial
The German servant girl has no bangs nor
bangles, nor fur-lned cloaks, nor four buttoned
kid gloves. She is square-shouldered, heavy
featured, and large-limbed. She is neither
clean, quick, nor intelligent but she can work.
She has the strength Of an OK and ia ALWAYS will
ing to use II. Most servant girls in German cities
are peasants. Daughters of the poorer town.
bred families usually become factory hands.
shop girls, or Mattresses. The conservative
peasants, however, with their old prejudices in
favor OF everything feudal, prefer domestic
service for their children to any employment.
AZ soon as the PEASANTS daughter is fourteen
or fifteen years old she learns how to split wood.
hoe potatoes and plant cabbages. She milks
the COW before breakfast, bitches her to a
plough after breakfast and often turns burrows
all the morning under the direction Of her
father, who, In the meanwhile, smokes q pipe
and rests. She mows hay and digs water
trenches During the harvest she carries great
basketfuls Of vegetables from the fields to the
comes old enough to help her parents to work
the little farm, however, the eldest daughter
loses her grip on her fathers heart. She IL re-
garded by him as an incumbrance for nothing
II more useless in the eyes Of German peas
ant than grown daughter who does not earn
wishes her to be his helpmate in raising cab
bages and potatoes she must 60 into domestic
service In the city.
Like almost all novices in an occupation on
the continent she serves an apprenticeship
For several months abe receives no wages, nor
does she deserve any, for her stupidity IL phe-
nomenal. She has never walked ON carpet
before, and doesn't know napkin from dish
cloth or q coal bucket from kettle. She
sms hes crockery right and left. She blacks
sl.e Heirs patent leather shoes and oils his
rubber boots. She puts the tablespread on the
door and the rug ON the table. In fact, she II
a. strange to most Of the furniture and customs
in comfortable house a. Persian or Indian.
She learns slowly and laboriOusly, but she
never forgets.
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only in producing effective boomer
angs. but in acquiring the skill of
throwing one SO as to be able to make it fol-
low a predetermined curve, falling finally
to the ground at his own feet. Two boomer
angs made by MIR. Eggers are deposited in the
national museum. where they lie side by side
with boomerangs and war clubs from Australia.
Mr.. Eggers' boomerangs consist of two pieces
finely jointed at the curve in the center. A
boomerang thrower holds the weapon in his
hand as a reaper does a sickle. He notes care
fully the wind. and his preliminary movements
are deliberate. Having satisfied himself about
the wind, he gives his wrist twist to see that
the muscles are in play, and, drawing back his
arm, hurls the boomerang from him. When it
leaves his bandit is perpendicular, but it turns.
with its fiat surface toward the EARTH and
skins along with gyrating movement makes
sweep, and at length lutters down at the feet
OF the thrower. A skillful hand at the BOOM
erang can make it hit an object behind him.
and put it through many strange motions.
The Australians have other sticks, both
straight and curved, which they throw,
and which are not intended to return.
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Written for THE EVENING STAR.
CONEMAUGH.
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED To THE SUFFERERS ]

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED To THE sUFFERERs.l
deep called unto deep that day-Conemaugh
When by the mountain side,
The floods above and floods below
Joined on thy swelling tide
And sweeping like an avalanche down
Upon each dreaming, pleasant town,
The whelming waters dealt the blow
That laid thy pride and beauty low. .-.
The shout upon the battlefield,
When hostile armies meet:
The thunder of the earthquake march,
Muflied beneath our feet
Like these the mighty wave that came
In giant strength and battle flame,
Swift through thy valley which had shone
Like Eden meath the morning sun.
The leaping deluge Of the flood,
Like meteor in the air,
The wave Of fire that swept the wreck
Like burning feet affair
Spoiled all the landmarks dear OF home.
Where loving footsteps used to come,
Till all that wealth OF love and life,
Lay buried in the deadly strife.
0, onemangh-Cambria-a
Sad sisters In that vale
OF deaths dark shadow where you sit,
To tell the woeful tale
The cry that on that night was heard
In pity deep the land has stirred,
As If beside that fateful food
Our own for life or death had stood.
y, pitiless rain, and cruel flood,
That swept remorseless by!
y; wrathful flame upon the wreck,
So needless Of that cry!
And yet, no shout of blasphemy
heard upon that angry sea-
saw no hand fast clenched in hate
In proud defiance of that fate
But hands outstretched in prayer saw
Amid the whirlwind dread,
And trust and hope like angels near,
When all beside had fed
AS when upon that drifting wreck,
The mother cast her child-a speck,
The little one called back-Win He
Oh, mother, dear-take care of met
In strange. sad ways we may not tell,
The noblest spirits go,
Through fire. and food, and martyrdom,
And every mortal woe,-
But faith nd hope and courage high
Of noble souls can never die
IT'S through the baptism of food and fire
They hear the word that calls them higher.
See the gra md landmark on the page
OF sacred history stand
The smitten patriarch, job, close grit
By foes on every hand
The fire and storm that swept him bare,
And left him like the desert drear,
Showed stillthe soul inspired with trust
That like the palm, sprung from the dust
Oh, yes-ye lonely ones that sit
In Conemaugh's darkened vale
Look up and see the angels near,
Their wings upon the gale,-
We may not solve the mystery deep
OF storm and sorrow as they sweep;
But this We know. the Christ that died
Has crossed before a rougher tide.
j. II. CUTHBERr.
WASHINGTON, d. c., June, 1889.
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at his saddle bow. II he shoots deer or other
animal, bringing II 10 the ground, he does not
consider the animal ~ dead and belonging to
him until he has lsaped to the ground and
tapped the creature on the head With HE club
or coup stick. Among the Haida and other
northwest coast Indians clubs are used In hunting
seal and otter. One otter club, from the Haidas,
in the museum, has q massive round head, with
rude representations Of eyes, mouth, and ears
painted upon H. The Indian owner Of this
club would kill an otter BY stirling II on the
head with it Another longer club, with q
knobbed end, came from the Makah Indians, Of
Washington territory, anu was used as q fish
club. When an Indian caught . big salmon he
would use . club like this 70 beat the salmon to
death with before the salmoa b II struggles
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upset the canoe. The northwest coast
Indians carved their mythology upon
their war clubs az upon most every
thing else intended for permanent use
An ancient war club Of Thlinkit origin has rep
reservations upon it of the totems Of its owner
Another club from the far north was made Of
the rib Of a whale. 1t is long and fat, and has
for its head ring or perforated disk An in
teresting club from Port Townsend has
dubious head, made by the tying or twisting
together of the roots Of a sapiing while 1t was
growing. Then the sapling was permitted to
grow, and when it had attained size enough to
fit 1t for service as a club it was cut. Meanwhile
the Knot in the roots had become an exceed
ingly hard one
The plains Indians and the Indians Of the
great basin had variety Of forms of war clubs
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hand and brought down with whack on some
ones pate. or the huge. two-handed dubious
knotted murderous club Of Polynesian savage.
There is another way of looking at the clubs.
They nearly all bear traces in their carvings
and decorations of the culture Of the people
that produced them. War clubs have gone
out of practical use among many savage
people who have acquired possession of fire.
arms. They are still preserved. however, and
sometimes those that have been especially eff
cacious in cracking skulls are regarded with
veneration by their savage owners as being en-
lowed with supernatural power.
II was the opinion of Prof Otis T. Mason,
with whom q STAR reporter talked about the
clubs in the museum. that the mace which is
borne aloft by the sergeant-at-arms of the
House Of Representatives an emblem of au-
thority at times when the spirit of misrule is
abroad is an idealized war club-a survival Of
the weapon with which our ancestors
far back in the dim past settled
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their disputes The baton of the field marshal
and the scepter of the king. are also. he
thought. direct descendants of the decorated
club welded by brswny chieftain. and set up
1T times when he was not welding it as an
emblem of his power and authority. Canes.
too, may have been derived from the primitive
bludgeon, and be a connecting link between
the youthful dandy of the day and his rough
skin-clad ancestor of many cycles ago. Some
canes even now are made with loaded heads to
be used as weapons. Singe-stick practice or
combat with short cudgels is still kept up in
England, and the shillelah. celebrated in Irish
story and song, still holds its own in the
Emerald Isle.
There are two or three cases in the museum
dlled with war clubs from the South Sea Is
lands. They take many forms. From the
Fiji, Samoa and other islands many of them are
made in the form Of paddles. They are manu-
featured Of hard wood, highly polished, and
deliberately carved or etched. The savage sits
down with his club or stick and works at it
with sharks tooth UNTIL he has covered it with
delicate tracery designs. Sometimes the ham
dies and a greater part Of the length of the
club are wound or covered with closely
woven cloth or other fabrics. One great
club from Fiji shows no attempt at orna-
ment. II is five or six feet long and so
heavy that it might have served as Hercules
club. No man Of ordinary strength could WELD
1t effectively. Il is the king of clubs. Another
from New Zealand, made entirely Of hard
wood, has head fashioned upon il in the form
Of an axe-head. Some Of the clubs are about
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resemblance has been traced between various
forms Of clubs used among Australians, and
those pictured on ancient Egyptian monu-
ments. and supposed to have been the ordinary
weapons Of some of the barbsric allies Of the
old Egyptians. The waddy, the curved stick
Sr cIuo, and even the boomerang, appear 70
have had their counterparts among the weap-
ons Of these Africans Of old. and weapons
mewhat similar are found among the people
OF the upper Nile region to-day. Some Of the
Australian savages make a leaf-shaped club or
stick, which is thrown at the enemy at close
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the size and of almost exactly the form Of
baseball bat. A slender club with a rounded
head. from New Guinea, looks very much like
an iron war club Of medieval Arabian origin.
The Saracens and Arabians, in the days of the
Crusaders. bore these iron wands or clubs to
which various names were given. One in the
museum known as the Morning Star has a top
ornamented like a scepter. Iron clubs, maces,
or hammers were carried by knights and men,
alarms in Europe in the days when heavy
armor was worn. They were often made ex-
ceedingly heavy, as to crack or break
through the armor plates. Some warriors car
ried hammers. with which they assaulted the
armor Of an adversary. After they had broken
his shell they proceeded to slaughter him at
leisure.
In the collection Of clubs in the museum are
several Irish shillelahs of blackthorn, still eff
fectively used now in some parts of Ireland
These shillelahs are short. thick. and heavy
Australia is a land Of clubs. but the most
noted and characteristic is the boomerang the
curved throwing stick that performs such won-
derful gyrations when il Is discharged in the
air by skilled boomerang thrower. The Aus
tralian savsges have, besides, many forms of
clubs The natives along the river Yarra use a
heavy and strong club Of box or red gum wood.
They call the club, which has a dubious end.
waddy. IL is a weapon used in single combat.
each man being armed with a waddy and
shield. There is an unwritten law observed In
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quarters. The boomerang or wonguin is a
throwing-stick and the one that is
best known The name has be-
come incorporated into the English
language, to describe the act of one intended
to injure another, but which reacts upon ones
self. 1t is bent or curved stick, generally
about 20 inches long and ~ inches wide, the
curve being sharp, one side being fat
and the other slightly convex. They
are made differently, every boomerang
thrower having his own peculiar notions
about little matters just as every yacht-builder
has. The weight varies from four to eleven
ounces. They are made from limbs of the
iron bark tree, or the she-oaks and sometimes
from the roots of eucalyptus and even the bark
of gum trees. They are fashioned with much
care and tested frequently until the maker
secures just the right curve to suit him. The
boomerang is classed as a weapon of war be-
cause it is occasionally used in battle. but its
most common use is in killing birds and small
animals. The labor expended in the manu-
facture OF boomerang makes one of them too
expensive projectile to be thrown lightly
away in a scrimmage. The boomerang has
been introduced in this country. A boomerang
club has been formed in Milwaukee and its
founder. Mr.. H. Eggers, has succeeded not
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Call It Square.
From America

From America
Henpeok-"r am rather sorry I took this
place, agreeing 70 pay for IL on the installment
plan, and guess will change my mind about
II. You can take back your house."
Agent-"But man alive, you have only made
one payment"
Hsnpeck-"Oh. that's eli right WIN taks
the doos-knobs and cell u Square, ~
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COOKING at the col
lection Of war clubs and
fighting sticks in the
National m u 9 e u m /,
merely for the purpose
Of judging of their
effectiveness as weap-
ons, one might find it
difficult to decide be-
tween the short, sturdy
Irish shillelah, intend
ed to be gyrated in one
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The trustees Of the hospital for the insane st
Rochester, Mimi, have suspended DR.. Bovern
the superintendent, and Ill Of his sssistants'
DR.. Melbourne, Of st. Peters, was placed In
charge. This investigation was he outcome 81
The Combs murder,
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CLUBS AND BOOMERANGS.
FIGHTING STICKS AND MACES.
SAVAGES AND THEIR CUDGELS
Weapons Used in Primitive Warfare
Shown in the Museum.

1ow THE BOOMERANG Is MADE AND rHRowN-
REsrMBLAyCE BETWEEN AUSTRALIAN THROWING
STICKS AND ANCIENT cLUBs-THr CLUBS OF
PoLYSEsIASs AND AMERICAN INDIANS.
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SEA.SID E-NIlSCELLANEOUs,

A TLANTIC HOTEL, OCEAN CITY, MD.
IL Opens June 25.
s2 90 and % per day, els. $3.50 and $50 per
Week. according to location Of rooms: capacity 600
guests. hne boating cunning and fishing. Those de-
SIZING circulars or choice rooms please address Rp
house until June 20 c. W. SPOFfORD, Proprietor.
ie5.lm
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ONE Is POOR AND HUMBLE, BECAUSE HE has
SACRIFICED HIMSELF FOR OTHERS; THE orHE4
LoLLs IN Luxury BECAUSE He HAS SACRIFICED
EVERYTHING FOR HI,rsELf-rwo REAL LIVES.
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THE GERMAN SERVANT GIRL.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., June, 1889
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SUMNER RESORTS.
sRA-sIDEJERsEY COAST.

THE Kenmore. AsBURY PARK THIS BEAU
TRULY located house, blocks from ocean. has all
the city improvements, and will be found rst-class
every respect. THOS. NOBLE, Prop .e7-2m
TUE FLORIDA. CHOICE CENTRAL. LOCATION,
= Pacific ave, bet. n. Y. and Tennessee ayes.
my24-2m DAVIS BROWNE.
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have given above pictures Of two New York
ministers of the gospel, and have painted
them just as they are, except that have sup
pressed the name Of the last. And have
painted the pictures faithfully, with faithful
ness to the natures Of these two, and faithful
ness to facts. I have known them both, from
youth up. One Is almost saint, the other "a
entirely q scoundrel. The saint IL to-day toll
ing at the manual labor of farm in an en-
deavor TO restore Q system shattered BY SELF
chosen poverty and privation. The scoundrel
ID lolling in the lap Of luxury pampsrsd pet,
pet him and perhaps at the religion which none
but his old college chums know is used only al
a cloak for selfish ends. The ones pure, self
sacrificing life makes the skeptic think that,
after all, there il good in christianity. The
others schsming plans Of self-aggrandisemen
and rank hypocrisy are enough to make Pres-
byterian deacon look for consolation TO Bob In
Rersoll
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-01-04
Wires Destroyed.

KANSAS CITY, No., Dec. 26-About one
O'Clock this morning there was a crash
along Grand avenue from Fifth to Eighth
streets which awose people for blocks. A
half dozen telegraph poles had snapped in
two beneath the weight of accommodating
tons Of sleet. IN instant later and the
streets were transformed into a network of
ice clad wires. 1t looked like some gigantic
spider had been weaving threads of ice in
every conceivable direction up aud down
and across the avenue for blocks.
Along Main street, especially at the
Junction and upon Sixth and Delaware
streets, the wires were transformed into
hawsers of ice, which bent poles like whips.
Broken wires swung down into every
street. Along Walnut street, from Sixth
to Ninth. sll the poles were bent with the
tons of weight upon the wires. 1t was al
most as bad on Eighteenth street, where
one or two poles were broken. The sleet
caused destruction in this way everywhere.
All day long there was a steady rain
falling and with the change in tempera-
ture toward nightfall it turned to sleet
The heaviest sleet began falling about ten
O'Clock last night, which was followed by
a considerable fall of snow.
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KNITTED BY THE PASTOR.
A Preacher Slabs His Assailant to Dealt
in a PulDjt.

A Preacher Slabs His AssaiIant to Death
in Pulpit.
MACON, Ga, Dec. 26.-At a country
church in Coffee County, this State, Sum
day, man was killed by a preacher
in charge of the church. Trouble had
existed in the church, one faction fav.
oring the retention of the pastor and the
other favoring his dismissal. The factional
fight grew very bitter, and the trouble
reached a climax last Sunday when the
pastors friends voted him in for another
year. One of the members most bitterly
opposed to the pastor approached the pull.
pit where the reverend gentleman was sit.
ting and engaged in conversation with
him. They became very much excited,
and finally the member raised his hand
and dealt the preacher sharp blow on
the cheek. The pastor demonstrated
with his assailant, but he struck
the preacher again and again,
accompanying the blows with a pro.
fusion of vile epithets and also splitting
in the minister's face. The minister drew
his knife and stabbed his assailant re-
peatedly. Women screamed and the men
looked on aghast, while the unfortunate
man fell down in the pulpit and died. The
friends of the minister hurried him out
and it is reported that he has fed the
country. 1t is intimated that the dead
man had cause to be jealous of the
preacher.