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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20

Junto, as Aaron Burr described it, which had
filled the Presidency for twenty four years. made
William H. Crawford, MOnroe's Secretary of the
Treasury, their regular candidate. This breach
OF faith toward John Quincy Adams broke up
the influence of the Virginia Junto," and it
went out of power, never to regain it. Adams
was made President in spite of them, and he was
followed by the party of Jackson, Van Buren,
and Buchanan, who had never been in accord
with the dominant influences of Jefferson's,
MadlSOn'S and MOnrOe's administrations.
Passing over minor examples, we come to the
campaign of 1852. The Democratic party pledg-
ed itself to maintain the compromises of 1850
and frown upon any further agitation of the
slavery question; but no sooner was it in power
than the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was
proposed and carried. In consequence of this
breach of faith. the Democratic party went out
of power, and remained in the minority for twen-
ty-four years. In 1872 the Liberal party was Or
ganized and the people looked to it to nominate
Charles Francis Adams for President, but the
politicians forced Horace Greedy upon the con-
was overwhelming defeat. This was however,
very probably what Democratic leaders desired
and expected.
said, Let us have peace" but he kept military
satraps at the South to the end of his second
term, and this breach of faith brought serious
disasters to the Republican party, paving the
way for its defeat. In 1880 the Democratic party
desired to vindcate Samuel J. Tilden, but John
Kelly would not permit this act of good faith;
and few men had severer punishment than John
Kelly. There is no doubt that after series of
political disappointment he died of broken
heart.
This brings us to 1888. The Republicans de-
clared that the tariff should be revised and re-
duced in the interest of and by the friends of
protection. The people at large believed that
they did not keep faith, and the results of the
elections in 1892 showed their resentment.
The question now arises, will the Democratic
party keep faith with the people? History warns
them of the consequences of breach of fidelity;
but the warnings of history are too seldom re-
garded at the time when they are most needed
We can but wait and see.-Kdte Fields Wash
ngtOn.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20
Hang Onto Him.

A city physician, says contemporary, recent
ly received the following letter from a "brOther"
doctor living down country: Dear dock, 1 have
a paShunt who's phisicOl sines shows that the
windpipe was liberated off, and his lung have
dropped intOO his stumck. He is unabel to
swoller and fear his stumck tube is gon Ihev
Civ him evrything under heaven without effeckt;
his father is welthy Onerable and inf1ueasha
he is an active member of the NJ E. church and
god nos don't want to loose him. what shall I
due. ans by return male. yours in neede."
By streak of luck, we saw the city doctors
answer, which ran as follows: Bro Pills:-Of
course you mustn't lose patient who is situated
like that chap; it isn't often you run across such
a snap, and you must hang onto him. I'll help
you out on the case for half there is in it. Keep
the old gentleman worked up to as high pitch
as possible as to the almost hQpeessness of the
case, and if possible get him committed to big
fee in case of cure; recommend me as counsel
in the case, and I'll come down and decide that
both lungs have fallen into the stomach and that
his spine is broken off in four or five different
places, beside a hardened liver and dissolved
gizzard. 1 think this will induce the old duffer
to bid well up into the thousands for a cure
Then We'll 60 to work and cure the young man
up in good shape, though he mustn't get we'll too
fast, you know; I have some drops that will keep
him about as he should be for few weeks, and
then Wen let up on medicine altogether and, as
you know, he'll be around in short time.
herewith send phial of stuff that will keep him
down to about where he is until you send for me-
Don't be uneasy; there is nothing serious the
matter with your patient; 1 frequently have
cases like the one you describe-where young
men imagine their lungs have dropped into their
stomach. Yours truly,
SPIKES, M, D,
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20
English as it Should be Taught.

The following extract from Prof. E..
G. Robinson's article in the Homizetic
Rerieao presents in compact form a
truth that is becoming more and more
evident each day, and one that applies
not alone to the education of ministers:
"The most manifest defect in our
system of education is it's insufficient
attention to the English language, not
merely to the science and genius of it
as embodying one Of the richest litera-
lures, and as being the most widely
spoken tongue in the world, but to such
study of it and practice of it as will
give to the student correct, and facile
and fOrcible use of it in the expression
of his thoughts. 1t is hardly possible
to Overestimate the value of a mastery
of English in any calling that requires
the use of it in influencing the thoughts
of others, but in preparing for the
Christian ministry or almost anything
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20
Keep Faith.

One of the first lessons man learns in practi-
cal life is to keep faith in all his dealings with his
fellow men. Without this he can have no genu-
inc success. What is true of all men is especially
true of public men and of political parties. They
must keep faith with the public, not only in mat
tiers regarding which direct obligation or prom
Use has been made, but in cases where one may
be fairly implied. Patronage is very we'll; honest
faithful execution of the laws is very we'll. Both
are good for the promotion of party success but
keeping faith with the people is much better. In
it, alone, is there any adequate safeguard against
assailants from without or Decentralization within
Our own political history is full of examples of
the disasters to both men and parties which have
followed failure to keep faith. The defeat of
the elder Adams as a candidate for reelection in
1900 was caused mainly by a foolish scheme of
bad faith on the part of Alexander Hamilton;
sort of dOubleshuff1e, by which the electors chos
en- by the Federalists were to relegate Mr.. Adams
back to the Vice-Presidency, and make Presi-
dent of Mr. Pnkney, the candidate for Vice Presi-
dent. 1t was as if the electors chosen in 1892 had
voted for Mr.. Stevenson for President, and Mr..
Cleveland for Vice-President. There is nothing
but good faith to prevent such course being
pursued at any time. When this scheme of Ham
ilton was exploited it caused such demoraliza-
ton among the Federalists that Jefferson Sc
cured small majority of the electors and the
Federalists never recovered from the blow.
Jefferson and Madison were both succeeded by
their Secretaries of State, and it came to be con-
sidered that the head of the Cabinet was in the
line of safe precedent "-as the expression ran
for the succession; but in 1924 the Virginia
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20
When Edison Was Young.

Il was an operator in the Memphis
office when Thomas A. Edison applied
to the manager for position" said A.
G. Rockefeller, a member of the Reminis-
cence Club, st. Louis. He came walk
ing into the Office one morning looking
like a veritable hayseed. He wore a
hickory shirt, pair of butternut pants
tucked into the tops of boots size too
large and guiltless of backing. Where's.
the boss = was his query as he glanced
round the office. No one replied at
once and he repeated the question. The
manager asked him what he could do
for him, and the future great proceeded
to strike him for job. Business was
rushing and the office was two men
short; SO almost any kind of lightning
singer was welcome. He was assigned
to desk and fuSillade of winks went
the rounds of the office, for the Jay
was put on the st. Louis wire, the hard
est in the office.
cat this end of the line was an oper-
ator who was chain lightning and knew
it. Edison had hardly got seated before
St. Louis called. The new conner re-
sponded and st. Louis started in on
long report, and he pumped it in like a
house afire. Edison threw his leg over
the arm of his chair, leisurely trans
ferred wad of spruce gum from his
pocket to his mouth, picked up pen,
examined it critically, and started in,
about 200 words behind. He didn't stay
there long, though. st. Louis let out
another link of speed, and still another,
and the instrument on Edison's table
hummed like an old-style Singer sewing
machine.
Every man in the office left his desk
and gathered round the jay to see
what he was doing with that electric
cyclone. Well, Sir, he was right on the
word, and was putting it down in the
prettiest copper-plate hand you ever
saw, even crossing his is, dotting his
is and punctuating with as much care
as man editing telegraph for rat
printers. st. Louis got tired by and by
and began to slow down. Edison opened
the key and said, Here, here. this is no
primer class! Get hustle on you'll
Well, sir, that broke st. Louis all up.
He had been raw hiding Memphis for
a long time, and we were terribly sore,
and to have man in our office that
could walk all over him made us feel
like man whose horse had won the
Derby. saw the wizard not long ago.
He doesn't wear hickory shirt nor put
his pants in his boots, but he is very far
from being a dude yet.'-Proctical
Electricity.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20

else, whose chief function consists in
endeavOring to move others to right
action by public address, the attain
ment of this mastery should yield pre-
cedence to the attainment of no other.
And yet, strangely enough, candidates
for the ministry, and law, and journal
ism, and authorship are taken in hand
and for ten years are scientifically
drilled in great variety of subjects,
some of which they never so much as
once again recur to when done with
them as students, selling the text books
they have been compelled to use; while
of the English, on their use of which
their final failure or success will so
largely depend, they are mainly left to
acquire their knowledge in any haphaz-
ard way they can, receiving at most, at
the very time when most needing it,
only such instructions as may be gath
cred from brief study of some college
text book in rhetoric, and from writing
few compositions, on which the pro-
feSsOr in rhetoric scratches in red ink
scant words of general criticism; and
so they stumble on in their course,
reaching the theological seminary or law
school only when it is too late for the
professor (Of hOmiletics) to do for them
what ought to have been done for them
all the way along from the start, and
what no amount of instruction or per-
sonal effort can do for them, in no
single respect are established methods
of education so glaringly and SO radi-
cally defective as in rhetorical disci-
pline. For no one department of in
struction do the cOlleges-nOt one, but
all of them-make so inadequate pro-
vision in the number of teachers; in
none are the results of the instruction,
on the whole, SO unsatisfactory. In no
graduates are these results more pain
fully apparent than in the occupants of
our pulpits, and law chairs and legiS-
lators and writer's in all departments
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20

All the boys, we know, will sympathize with
bOw-wOw Trix in his great affection. There is a
musk-rat making his home in the state black
smith shop, which is guarded most jealousy
by Dave who is in charge of that department for
the present. He has confined the rat in a box to
keep it from falling into the clutches of Trix
that daily visits the spot with the expectation of
making meal which probably, he thinks, g is fit
for the gOds.'' But he is doomed to dsappoint-
ment, as Dave does not see it in that light
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20
Unhebraic.

Isaacstein: Moses, vot you t'ink about
dis t'eOry dot de Intians vos Won off der
lost tripes of our boobies?
Wittehauser: Nein, nein; dey sell de
land too cheap.-Patck.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-04-20

Leastwise-The Man who DOffs his
FlannelS in April. -Puck.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27
Il NEW DEPARTDRE.
The Hawaiian Gazette Semi
IN Weekly.
Weekly.

From the date of January 2,
1894. the HAWAIIAN GAZETTE will
be issued as a SEMI-wEEKLY, it's
days of publication being TUESDAY
and FRIDAY of each week. Each
issue will contain eight pages of
the same size as at present. Our
subscribers will, therefore, be served
each week with sixteen pages in
stead of twelve, as now. The sub
scription price will remain the
same-FIvE DOLLARS A YEAR, pay
able always in advance, which is
now the rule with all first class
periodicals in every country.
While our subscription-list has
been steadily increasing from year
to year, we make this change solely
in the interest of our patrons, and
to keep up with the march of i'm
provement, which demands a more
frequent publication of passing
events, in which our country
readers are as much interested as
our city readers.
Subscribers in foreign lands will
also receive the benefit of this
semi-weekly publication of the
GAZETTE at the same rate as here
tofore-Six Dollars per annum,
postage paid.
This important change will fur
nish the best evidence that can be
desired of the popularity and pros
perity of the HAWAIIAN GAZETTE,
which is the oldest weekly pub
lished in the English language in
these islands, and now enters on
its 10Th year.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27

THE source of the Queens
constitution" which peers so mys-
teriously from the back pages of
Blount's report, has excited much
speculation. Mrs. Dominis has
stated positively that she had de-
stroyed the original and all copies.
It is true that royal oaths are sub
jected to a very heavy discount,
but as this one was sworn after
all the connections with the throne
had been cut, there seems to be no
reason for doubling it, particularly
as it was a very damaging admis-
sion. Someone who was familiar
with the constitution undertook to
reproduce it. This would of course
have been impossible from memory,
but it was done simply by referring
to the constitution of 1864, from
which the language of the new
document was in large measure
taken. The constitution as printed
in the report is accompanied by
statement certifying to its &C
curacy from Parker, Peterson and
Cornwell.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27
MR.. BLOUNT TO Mr.. GRESHAM.

In dispatch of Mr.. Blount's,
dated June %, 1893, occurs the
following paragraph:
In my dispatch to the Departm ent
of April 26 1 said: "Mr. Paul Neu-
mann is generally regarded here as a
bright, plausible, INSCRIPTIONS per-
SON." / desire now to say that so far
as the expression "unscrupulous" is
concerned a better knowledge of pub
lie opinion satisfies me that L was not
justified in its use. deem it my duty
to place this on the records of the De-
partment.
The history of Mr.. Blount's
-opinions in regard to the character
of Mr.. Neumann is very interest
ing one. When the Commissioner
Paramount first came here, he
thought Mr.. Neumann was en-
gagged with DR.. Bowen and Mr..
Sewel in a negotiation looking to-
ward a surrender of the ex-9ueen's
claims in favor of the United
States Government. This did not
suit Mr.. Blount at all. He did not
want the ex-queen to abdicate. He
did everything he could to break
up the negotiation. He even took
the trouble to go to Mrs. Dominis
and warn her that the United
States had authorized no one to
enter into any such negotiation.
Mr.. Spreckels had warned the
commissioner of what was sup.
posed to be going on and the latter
practically acted at the instance of
the sugar king. All these facts
are disclosed by the correspon-
dence, published with the report.
When Mr.. Blount supposed
Mr.. Neumann to be engaged
in these negotiations, and to
be therefore promoting the
annexation interest, he adopted the
view that he was g. ''bright, plausi-
bic, INSCRIPTIONS" person. But
later he found in Mr.. Neumann an
ally, and then he began to be trou-
bled by the memory of his former
words. How could a royalist pos
sibly be an "unscrupulous" person?
The error which he had fallen into
-excusably enough as long as he
supposed Mr.. Neumann to be an
annexationist-he now 1ecanted,
like an honorable man. The result
leaves Mr.. Neumann's character
completely rehabilitated - bright
and plausible, and, it is presumed,
strictly, punctiliously scrupulous as
well.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27

soon found them in Gulick's and
Trousseau's contributions to
Blount's reportl What does this
make of Nordhoff-a literary pi-
rate, forger, or what
1t is not worth while however to
quarrel over the tattered remnants
of Mr.. Nordhof7s reputation. What
is interesting about all this is the
picture which it discloses of the
easy going, confidential intimacy
which subsisted between Messrs.
Trousseau, Gulick, Nordhof and
Blount. One quotes the other, and
there is general gleeful patting
on the back. Trousseau furnishes
his copy in duplicate to Nordhoff
and Blount-and Blount it is to be
presumed returns the compliment.
The doctor secures an interview by
Spreckels, which is a "big thing
for our side, "etc., etc. A conspiracy
is proved here certainly, but it is
not the one charged in the indict-
ment. Here are four of the guilty
parties, and no doubt there were
two or three silent partners. The
Sugar Trust, having no soul, was
doubtless present by it's attorney.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27
THE SAD CASE OF CHAs. t. GULlCK.

ONE of the most charming of
Daudet's many charming sketches
is one which describes the favorite
mule ofone of the Popes. The pecu-
liar thing about this animal is that
he saved up a kick for seven years.
Mr.. Gulick reminds one irresisti-
bly, of this mule. He too has
been saving a kick for almost ex-
actly seven years. His case more
over is a much more grievous one
than that of the Pope's mule. The
Pope's mule had only one wrong
to avenge. Mr.. Gulick had
several. What is worse, his later
wrongs were more cruel, more
aggravated, and harder to be
borne, than the earlier. They form
a series, rising to an awful climax.
His first term of Office was two
years his second two months, and
his third two hours. Was there
ever a more irritating, more vex-
atious series of twos
Those of Mr.. Gulick's acquaint-
ances who may be disguised with
the choice extracts from his writ
ings presented this morning, should
what his wrongs have
been. His vindictiveness has
far better justification than that
of the animal which Daudet has
He has kicked
with more provocation, if not in
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27
CAUGHT AGAIN.

We publish in another column a
letter signed Hawaiian-born Amer
lean, which appeared a short time
since in the Sun. It is from the pen
of Prof. Alexander and exposes an
other of the disreputable literary
tricks of Chas. Nordhoff. The
latter lately sent another of his
calumnious illusions to the n. Y.
Herald, in which he pretended to
quote from certain correspondents
of his in Northumberland, re-
putable and unimpeachable of
course, as all of Mr.. Nordhoffs
correspondents are. Mr.. Alex
ander thought there was a familiar
ring about these citations, and ne
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27
30
December 26, 1895.

~
The necessity for a large
stock of holiday goods at this
time is not as great as it
would have been if the sugar
magnates in the United States
had not seen fit to bear the
market. $3.50 is a low price,
and the producers will find lit
tie pleasure in the quotation,
not as much we think, as they
would derive from an inspec-
ton of the lamps we received
by the Alameda.
The fashion for both piano
and banquet lamps has gone
back to the handsome black
wrought iron patterns and
assortment this year contains
some of the handsomest we
have ever seen. One of them
with a handsome onyx top,
is a marvel of beauty and
would be an ornament in the
home of anyone; it bears
the imprint of the artists
hand in every curve Of the
metal. Banquet lamps of the
same material are less snowy
than the brighter metals, but
infinitely richer and have an
advantage in not being sus-
ceptible to the action of the
climate; they cannot tarnish.
A large assortment of small
bits in silver, chaste in design
and inexpensive in price,
makes them particularly suita-
BILE as New Year presents. To
enumerate them all, would
require more advertising.space
than we have at our command.
Suppose you come aud look at
them.
THE HAWAIIAN HARDWARE Co.,
3O7
Fort STREET, Honolulu.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27

a better cause. The mule had
been maltreated indeed, but he
had been stabbed and groomed
and fed, and saddled with a hand
some cloth of velvet and gold. He
had not been deprived of his gilt
edged oats and turned out into the
waste world. He was not stripped
of the emoluments of office for
seven lean and hungry years.
There is much to be said Ia
extenuation, in Mr.. Gulick's case,
much to be set down in pity, not
in malice. The vengeance Of the
Pope's mule, was effective, and he
gave a loud bray of relief as he saw
his ancient enemy go flying
through the air. Not so with Mr..
Gulick. His vengeance was abor-
tive. He has misrepresented his
tory and perverted fact, blackened
the character of those of his own
blood, maligned the living and
illuminated the dead, and all to
what end? Mrs. Dominis has not
got her throne again, and the ella
borate libel on everything which is
of good report in Hawaii has
brought, and will bring, nothing
but shame to its author.
The case of Mr.. Gulick is a sad
0no
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27
Death by Suicide
one.

David Munro, whose death is
announced in the usual column,
formerly resided in Kau, on Hawaii.
He was there engaged as a sugar
planter under the firm of Munro
d Myers, on the Pahala Plantation,
Kau, from 1877 to 1888 or 4. About
the latter date he went to Los An
geles, where he engaged in bust
ness as insurance agent, and was
quite successful until the present
year, when he became embarrassed
and terminated life by drowning
himself in Westlake, near that city,
his pockets having been found
loaded with stones. A note to his
typewriter also stated his inten-
ton to commit suicide.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27

Purchasers viii find everything worth
having among our various lines, from
the small inexpensive Silver Novelty
to the handsome and expensive Jewel
Ornament.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-27

Mr.. DAVIES should not be CEN
sured too harshly for telling the
Hilo people that the Volcano road,
etc., was constructed with Homo
lulu capital. He was merely trying
to ingratiate himself with the dis
trict.