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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-25

Mr.. EDITOR: A few days ago l
read IN your columns an opinion of
the Supreme Court, rendered upon
questions put by the Cabinet as to
the right to vote of a cattle thief,
or something like that. The deci-
sion was a shock to my mind, and
[ find the same to be true with O
number of others with whom /
have conversed. If | rightly un-
derstand, a. B., who in 1882 was
convicted of felonious branding Of
cattle, can vote, although the Con-
stitution says he is disqualified and
can not, because the Constitu-
ton of 1864 did not disqualify him.
This is based upon the principle of
ex post facto legislation. If | am
correctly informed, an ex post
facto law is one which makes an
act criminal which was not so
when done. l certainly do not and
never have understood that the
Constitutions of 1852 and 1864 are
in force, except so far as amended
by the Constitution of 1887.
Those Instruments were totally
abrogated and the Constitution
of 1887 is the fundamen tai
law of the land. OF course, the
Constitution does not and cannot
take away vested rights; but it is
a new doctrine that the right to
vote is q vested right. The Con-
stitution of 1887 is the only source
of the right to vote at present OK
listing in this kingdom. 1t grants
that right to people exactly rs it
found them July Z, 1887. If one
man was insane Or an idiot but
otherwise qualified he could not
vote. If any person was qualified
as to property or intelligence, but
his status was that of q convicted
criminal, as set forth in Article 70,
then the fundamental law denied to
him the right to vote. The Consti-
tuition of 1864, prescribed that
electors must have an income,
property or leasehold qualifca-
ton. Ten years later the Legisla-
ture struck those restrictions out
Of the Constitution. Does anyone
pretend that either that restriction
on the elective franchise or it's re-
peal has the slightest effect upon
the right to vote as now permitted?
Ii the position of the Judges is cor
rect, then every Chinese (Haw.)
citizen can claim his vote because
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duplicates, each as good as the original.
Every busy man should have one.
The circular letter which you send out
from your Office will look like a personal
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How much do they cost? That de-
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$15, and $22 will buy mimeograph
9x12 inches, suitable for general work.
They are fitted out completely. with
paper and ink ready for operating.
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HONOLULU HAWAIIAN usIANnt.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
Lishtning's Queer Franks.

"Lightning plays some queer pranks, +"
said William Cathcart, at the Lindell.
"l was travelling through Coles County,
illlnois, some years ago, and sought
shelter from a thunder storm In a farm
house. Tim farmer undertook to build
fire In the kitchen stove to dry my
damp garments. He was down on his
knees blowing the Goals vigorously when
there was terrific clap OF thunder, and
bolt OF blue fire shot out of the stove
INTO his face. He fell back as limp as q
wet newspaper. The lightning tore all
his clothing Oh with the exception of
one boot aud trousers leg. There was a
streak down through his beard, across
his breast and dawn one lex M though
made by rci'h1t poker. supposed
he MAS dead as u door nail. His wife
picked up large crock OF milk that
stood on the table agd dashed {, over
him, and In less than three minutes he
sat up, surveyed himself sad mournmlly
remarked 'Marier, you oughten to treat
me that efway atore strangers. '"--St.
l.ouls hlObo. Democrat.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09

then raised aloft and dashed to the
ground where, crowd of Amazons and
common people rush with the greatest
fury upon the poor wretches, cut of
their heads, and often divide their bod
les into many pieces. Governor Bayol,
while in Abomey in 1890, was specta-
tor of this scene. He says that he saw
an Amazon about nineteen years old rush
upon one of the victims. She was q
new recruit, and had not yet killed any
body, and it was desired to put her to
the test. With her sharp-edged sabre,
held in both hands, she struck the vic
tim three blows on the neck, then
chopped off the last pieces of flesh that
still held the head to the trunk, after
which she carefully wiped her sabre and
retired to the ranks. Alligators, cats,
and other animals are also sacrificed to
carry messages to their kind. If Behan-
zin makes the French too much trouble
during the coming campaign, they may
possibly send him himself to interview
his ancestors.
The victims are invariably criminals or
captives of war collected to make a ma
tive holiday. When Europeans protest
to the Kings of Dahomey against these
terrible sacrifices, they are told that not
only does this slaughter give great salts
faction to the gods, but also it is the
only way to make great Jail delivery.
If they did not kill their criminals, they
say, it would take too many soldiers to
suppress evil doers. And yet Dahomey
is not people of savages. Under ordi-
nary circumstances the populace are
gentle and easy to influence. Most of
them obey implicitly all the laws and
regulations of their King. They ar,
fairly industrious and have attained a
sort of standardization. They represent
one OF the finest types of the black race,
are above medium stature, have bright,
intelligent faces and powerful physique,
and it is only in war or in the practice
of their religious customs that they dis
play remarkable ferocity and fanaticism.
The King is aided in his Government
by council composed of his principal
chiefs; but in spite of his ministers and
his own nearly absolute authority, he is
still submissive to the occult power OF
fetch. The people to-day would rise en-
massc against their King if he undertook
to suppress their fetch doctors and
abolish the time -honored sacrifices. One
curious religious law imposed upon the
King by the fetch priests forbids him to
look upon the sea. This law was doubt
less made to prevent the King from
coming too much under the influence of
the white men who might persuade HIM
to forget the customs CT his country and
overthrow feticbism. New York Sun.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
WHERE THE TREES 90.

There are many things which seem TO
have had their influence in preventing an
overproduction of good fruit. In the
first place not one-half the trees planted
ever reach a bearing age, and Of those
that do live and thrive not more than
half bear fruit of any special value to
the owner, because the varieties are not
adapted to the climate or other condi-
tions under which they eye grown.
Blight, noxious insects, and sneral neg
lect all contribute to keep the supply
of good fruit down to or little below
the demand. Thousands may SOW where
but few reap is as true to-day as in any
age of the world, and it is well that it is
so, else the truly deserving would have
less to show ior their skill and industry
The immense increase in population has,
of course, given proportionate increase
in consumption, while the modern facil-
ties for transportation of fruit from one
part of the country to another, as we'll as
to foreign ports, has helped enormously
in providing good markets. In addition
to all of these, the drying or evaporation
of the perishable fruits Of late years has
stimulated the production of such kinds,
and it is likely to continue, because there
are many foreign Nations who want our
dried fruits i'll immense quantities.
Under present conditions we think there
is little danger of overproduction of
choice fruits of any kind in this coun-
try, at least not until all who attempt
its cultivation know more about the
business than they do at the present day.
New York Sun.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
WISE WORDS.

Promises seem to languish, they can.
not die.
Truth is not cherished where sin is
nourished.
The breath of prayer comes from the
life of faith.
Flying birds are lever taken in a
fowlers snare.
Every man defines cowardice in his
own case as discretion.
Nature has sometimes made fool !;
but coxcomb is always of mans own
making.
You cannot dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and forge
yourself one.
We all want a little more than we
have, and it is for the good of our souls
that we don't get it..
1t is better to give while you are liv-
ing than to leave your money to be d.
vided among lawyers.
The time spent in broodiug over
troubles if properly employed would en-
able you to surmount them.
A woman might as we'll propose; heI
husband never admits after marriage
that he was the one who did it.
A girl will cry with loud bawling
noise until she is ten years old, when
she begins to cultivate the art of weep
ing.
The primal duties shine aloft, like
stars; the chariti IS that soothe and heal
and bless are scattered at the feet of man
like flowers.
II we would read the secret history of
our enemies, We would find, in each
mans life, sorrow and suffering enough
to disarm all hostility.
The law of the harvest is to reap more
than you sow. Sow an act and you reap
a habit; SOW habit and YOU reap a
character; SOW character and you reap
DESTINY.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
bHrning Of the Air.

mysterious eleclric phenomenon has
lately been explained by Professor
Ciookes. When an are is formed by an
alternating current OF 90, 900 to los, 900
volts and high frequency, two steadily
burning lllmes-un!ike the vcll.known
electric brush-steam out from tha elee-
lro les. The electrodes, however, arc
not consumed. The explanation is that
the flames afe due To an actual combina.
ton OF the nitrogen aud oxygen OF tho
air, with the formation OF nitric aud nj
lroIs acids "a products. This suggests
startling possibilities, but we ara assured
that The atmosphere is prevented from
taking life sud burning up completely,
de'uglng the earth Ia a sea nf nitric acid,
Wy the fact that the ignii,ng point OF
nitrogen IS higher than the temperature
Of iIs combustion, the flame being, there
fore, not hot enough 10 set dre To the
adjoining gas. --l'renton IN, j. Ameri.
can.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
eoop GRADE CATTLE.

Between the well bred grade cattle
and the ubiquitous scrub is a great gulf
fixed. 1t is by no means necessary that
an animal should be thoroughbred to be
profitable, hut it is necessary that he
should have good blood and that a
reasonable amount of care should be
taken in his breeding. If this Is done
you will be well repaid. If not,
the chances are against you. Any
calf of whatever breed ought to have a
good sire, and with good grade dam,
weigh IRON 700 to 1000 ut a yearling.
Blood tells, and there is plenty of de-
mand for primely bred cattle, calves or
beeves. A well kno wn breeder of Here.
ford cattle recently sold lot of year
lings of that breed, weighing over 1000
pounds per head, at "a per hundred.
Why cant every farmer do as wcllg-.
Farm, Field and Stockman.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
Shaving or Scores.

There is an old merchant in thriv.
ing little town near Minneapolis who
scorns paper ledger and insists on
keeping pine board account with his
customers. He planes this board of
once every five months and starts afresh.
Some time ago customer dropped into
the old merchants store to pay bal
ance of forty cents of six months stand.
ing. "I guess you don't owe me moth
in" replied the old trader to ques-
ton about the debt. The questioneI
protested that he did owe the debt; ia
fact, he remembered buying the goods
some six months ago. "Oh, well, five
months alters the case," said the
weigher of sugar and molasses. "Yot
may owe me forty cents for all l know
You seea I've up and started a new
board since you got your stuff and l
don't remember your debt. You may
pay me if you want to, but if you dom
it's all o. TX, as I've shaved your ac
count out" The trader got his fort.
cents.-Minneapolis Bulletin.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
An Electric Hat Polisher.

The electric hat polisheF is the latest
innovation 10 the iied of applied cleo
lrleity, Ia the lover corridor OF the
Produce Exchange building may be seen
Ia daily use a practical illustration Of
this process. The operation is as simple
a. it ls elective, The hat Is slipped
over a clutch, which holds IL firmly, and
the clutch IL attached 10 the cad of the
shaft Of SMALL motor, The current Is
switched 0u, and A. the hat spins around
a the Fate 0f 1000 revolutions minute,
brush moisleaed sith benliae, eF some
more mysterious auld, Is applied, After
this cleansing strips Of els % plush take
lhe brush, aad lhe has % polished Oh.
Ironing Is rendered unnecessary, as
the heat developed w tue friction
against tho rapidly moving surface an-
sNefs eFefg purpose oi a heated iron,
BOT onlF 10 much tins saved eYef the old
method, but tas lesulls arc said 10 be
superior. sill, derby 0f stfa. hats arc
renovated aiih equal sueesss, Aes
lglA A4relllssfi
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
August.
Flower

My wife suffered with indigestion
nd dyspepsia for years. Life be-
came burden to her. Physicians
failed to give relief. After reading
one of your books, I purchased a
Bottle of August Flower. 1t worked
like charm. My wife received inn
mediate relief after taking the first
lose. She was completely cured
Low weighs I65 pounds, and can eat
4nything she desires without any
de!eterious results as was formerly
the case. c. II. Dear, Prop'r Wash
ingtou House, Washington, Va. o
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09

grass down too close. In most cases it
will be better to cut and feed some green
crop at this time rather than allow the
meadows to be eaten down close.
OF course, in many cases the meadows
are pastured one season and fair crop
of hay is harvested, but this is not proof
that the meadows we're not damaged or
that larger and more profitable crop
would not have been secured if the stock
had been kept out. With hay, as with
all other crops grown on the farm, a
large yield of good quality means pay
ing crop, while light yield will barely
pay expenses. In many localities 1t Is
quite an item to keep meadow as long
as good growth and yield can be had,
and to do this care must be taken of it.
If pastured too closely in hot, dry wea-
ther more or less of the plants will be
killed out, and if this is kept up re-
seeding will be necessary.
Extremes should be avoided. In a
favorable season, when a good growth
has been made, some pasturing can often
be done with benefit. But again, when
hot weather sets in, as is often the case
Immediately after hay harvest, pasturing
is frequently serious injury, and in any
season considerable damage will be done
if the stock is allowed to eat the grass
down too close. st. Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
MANuRING MEADOWS.

Meadows will be much helped by a
liberal dressing of manure Immediately
after getting off the hay. The sudden
change from dense shade and ample
moisture to bright hotsun and scorchlng
dryness by the moving is very trying to
the grass roots, and undoubtedly is one
reason why our meadows are so short
lived. To top dress the grass with ma.
nure is thus most effective help, and
without it is hardly possible to maintain
the grass in permanent good condition.
The manure should be fine aud well
rotted, SO that it may not choke the
grass.-New York Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
WHOLE AND PIECE ROOT oRAFrIsG.

NhoLE AND flEcE hooF uHAFFING'
A study of whole aud piece root graft.
ing has been begun at the Illinois Station.
For this purpose more than 2000 gratis
were put up and set, though many of
them failed to grow. Advocates of the
whole root method claim as its greatest
advantage that the graft is set Oh the
collar OF the seeding tree, that there
alone is the natural place for union be-
tween the trunk OF the tree aud the root.
and that TO put the graft ON any other
part of the root must necessarily make 4
less perfect union and consequently a
poorer tree in the nursery and less en-
during aud perfect orchard tree. Many
OF them do not advocate the use OF the
whole root, as one would naturally be
led 70 suppose, but what Is usually
called the upper cut, five TO six inches
long, from the collar down.
As reported by Messrs. Burrill and
McCluer, station hortlculturists, they have
used roots in various forms, from whole
roots ten inches long, to roots eat into
pieces Of different lengths, with eions
set two inches above the collar, on tho
collar aud two inches below the collar.
The conclusions from one years work
are The whole root has no advantage
over a piece root OF the same size. (size
refers to both length aud thlekness.)
Roots with small side branches left on
gave better results than roots Of the same
slze with the Toolels cut away.
Roots live inches long gave better re-
suits than roois louf Inches, two inches
OF one inch long,
Roots five Inches long, not trimmed,
gave nearly as good results as roots ten
inehes long New York Mufd.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
PAsTugIKa MEADOWS.

whether or not the quantity 0f feed
secured by pAstarlpg ihe meadows after
lls crop Of has has been harvested will
make up lof The lamage done Is, 90 say
the least, questionable, THIS il e.
peeialiy the case when the summer Is
bot apd day, and tho regular pastures
are cropped dogn and The meadows
IN consequence furnishing nearly %
quite all Of pstufags efa eaten dogn
elose,
4 fair gTaglh Of top Ia summer pFo.
teels tho roots Ia sllsnfnei - Well Ne la
winieF, apd this H taken away dane By
paslufiug,
Home food is, Of e9afse, secuted apd
the stock svpt ihlftF shen ofherwise
lheg seuld bp almost certain O. fun
desa, " some eases, when iAe mea
dess base bsea eut reasonably earlY,
there i na question bat thai pasiarihg
eau be d0ne allhaal lHjufg, Il esfe 8
.sksa III u alsea lAs sgegk " ef0P lAs
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
SWEET CORN.

Sweet corn has many uses besides fit
ness as table delicacy. Animals like
1t much better than field corn, even as
men and women do. Sweet corn will
be useful to feed COWS when the grass
begins to fail in the late summer, and will
make milk and butter equal to that pro-
duced by June grass. 1t is also the next
thing to milk for fattening young pigs.
Chickens are very fond of it and do we'll
on it. But it will not do for the silo.-
American Farmer.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
On the Veranda.

How pleasant, but how dangerous, unless DIR.
Hoxse's Certain Group Cure Is at hand. This
an absolute prspent,ue ds trei as cure of Group,
Pneumonia, Diphtheria, Bronchitis and Con-
sumption. Sold by prominent druggists. soc.
Manufactured by a. 7, Hoxse, Buffalo, n. Y.
A blonde is said to have about ten
years the advantage of a brunette.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09
Pure and Wholesome Qualify

Commends to public approval the California
liquid laxative remedy, Syrup OF Figs. 1t /.
pleasant 10 the taste and by acting gently or
tho kidney, liver and bowels TO cleanse the
system effectually, it promotes the health and
comfort of all who use it, and with millions 1t
Is the best and only remedy.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09

sewell County, Kansas, has an OK
which measures fourteen feet Ia length,
six feet aud d half high, and, when fat,
weighs i500 pounds.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09

the loco weed, which IA abundant In
Western Kansas, has : peculiar fascina-
lion for cattle, upon which Il eAefts ~
iag2Aleaslag easeI, :.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09

NJ. L. Thompson & Co., Druggists, Couders-
port, Pa. say Halls Catarrh Cure Is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell IL, 15c
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09

THE evils of malarial disorders, fever, weak
ness, lassitude and debility and prostration ar,
avoided by taking Beecham's Pills.
If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp
son 'sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-09-09

Hood's pills afe the hest aflessdlnAsf liills,
ssslsl dsssllQa,eage headaeAs aaa bllluasnsss.