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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-29

and prominence of her family
easily placed within her reach.
Without being secluded in her
habits she has never shown any
special fondness for gaining social
triumphs. For his reason her name
has not frequently been banded
about in the society gossip of the
day.
As for Mr.. Shortridge, he owes
his enviable position solely to his
own talents and energy. Through
his own unaided exertions he has
risen, in few years, to an eleva-
ton that few men reach after more
difficult and longer struggles. He
is younger brother of Charles NJ.
Shortridge, editor and proprietor
of the San Jose Mercury, and Mrs.
Clara S. Foltz, the well-known
lady lawyer. He gained a State
wide reputation in 1884, when very
young, by making an exceptional
ly brilliant and effective canvass of
the State for James G. Blaine. I'm
til then he was utterly unknown.
Since then he has been conspicuous
on the stump in every campaign,
and as powerful advocate at the
bar.
Among the first and strongest
friends ne made when he began
the practice of his profession in
this city was John D. Spreckels, of
the Oceanic Steamship Company.
Mr.. Spreckels early appreciated
the talents of Mr.. Shortridge, and
this appreciation ripened into close
personal friendship. 1t is not sur
prising, therefore, that the friend
ship between Mr.. Spreckels and
the eloquent young lawyer should
have resulted in a corresponding
family intimacy. In time this
brought about an engagement of
marriage between Mr.. Shortridge
and Miss Spreckels. Owing to the
wealth and powerful political con-
nections OF the contracting parties
the contemplated wedding will in
all likelihood exert considerable
influence on the trend of political
events. Mr.. Shortridge was already
on the high road to political pre-
ferment, and this alliance will
bring to him aid of a most potent
character.-[S. F. Chronicle.
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Moy 29, 1898.

~ ~
Diogenes when a member
from his country to the state
legislature used to go with a
lantern, looking for an honest
man. History does not record
whether he found what he was
looking for. The trouble was
not in the legislature however
OF in the men, the difficulty
was entirely with the lanterns.
By the "W. G. Irwin" we
received more Of those con-
venient crank lift lanterns
which will enable you to find
anything, even a correct solu-
ton of the present political
problem. They are made in
nickel, copper or tin and pre-
sent a very fine appearance
besides giving good light, and
the crank at the side, (not the
one on the handle) makes it inn
possible to burn your fingers.
1t has been question in
our minds whether any dealers
in Honolulu sell more garden
hose than we do. We have de-
cided in the negative. There's
scarcely a vessel coming to
this port, but what has brought
us large quantities of a super
ior quality of hose. We believe
our large sales now is the
result of establishing early i'll
our business career a reputa-
ton for keeping really good
articles, particularly hose.
The demand for the Fischer
Steel Range continues, and
we are sending them to the
homes Of our customers nearly
every day. This last lot is of
a better quality of steel, and
will last longer than any stove
made. A gentleman who got
one a week ago, reports that
his cook baked a cake in eight
minutes, the first time he tried
the oven.
THE HAWAIIAN HARDwARE Co.,
3O7
Fort STREET.
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GENERAL ARMSTRONG.

The sad news of the death of
General Samuel Chapman Arm
strong is printed in another column.
He was born in the Hawaiian ISL
ands and first made his mark here
as an organizer and leader of pub
lie movements. Perhaps no man
has been better and more favor
ably known in Hawaii than he.
After his removal to the United
States, many years ago, he became
prominent as a business man. At
the breaking out of the war of the
rebellion he arose rapidly from the
ranks until at the close of the great
conflict he was brevetted general
in recognition of his services to his
country in the field.
But the greater part of his life
work was performed in the esta-
blishment and successful carrying
out of the great industrial school
st Hampton, Virginia, whose
original aim was to ameliorate the
conditions of the newly freed
negroes, through the education of
their children. In this great and
good work he labored increasingly
for years. Before the closing of his
life, the educational scope of the
school had been greatly extended,
and the field of usefulness conse-
quently widened.
He was at the time of his death
considered one of the forement men
of the United States. He was loved
and honored wherever known, and
his death will be as deeply re-
GREETED here as it is by his
countrymen in the Great Republic.
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Naval News.

Lieutenant commander w. III.
Reeder has been appointed execu-
tive officer of the Charleston.
Admiral Gherardi is said to be
anxious to have command of the
Brooklyn navy yard, if his request
to remain in charge of the North
Atlantic station cannot be complied
with.
Admiral Irwin, who was form
erly commandant at Mare Island
navy yard, has gone to the Asiatic
station to relieve Admiral Har-
mony, who is on the flagship Lam
caster. The party bound for the
Orient on the Peru consists of Adj
miral and Mrs. John Irwin, Flag
Lieutenant and Mrs. Charles
Adams, Ensign and Mrs. Henry E.
Parmenter, Miss Lulu Irwin and
Master John Irwin, Jr.-S F.
Chronicle.
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WASHINGTON, May 10.-The pres
ident has appointed James H..
Blount of Georgia envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary
to the Hawaiian islands to succeed
John L. Stevens. Blount's commits
sion bears the date of yesterday
and it will be sent to him by the
next mail for Honolulu. 1t is I'M
derstood that the change was de-
cided on at the cabinet meeting
yesterday.
The report from Blount, mailed
in Honolulu during the last week
in April, came to Secretary Gresh-
ham yesterday morning, and was
taken by him to the cabinet meet
ing. Owing to its confidential
character the contents were kept
secret, but it is presumed that it
contains such information that the
president is determined to lose no
time in commissioning the new
minister to succeed Mr.. Stevens.
Now that Mr.. Blount's official
status has been changed from COM
missioner to minister, there is nat
urally great anxiety to know what
will be the next move in Hawaiian
matters. The officials Of the State
department are as mysterious as
ever. The only statement Secre-
tary Gresham would make today
on the Hawaiian subject was that
Commissioner Blount had been ap-
pointed minister, and instructions
had gone to ex-Minister Stevens
directing him to turn over the lega-
ton to Mr.. Blount.
What the tenor of Blount's letter
is must remain secret until such a
time as the administration is will
ing to make known its position in re-
gard to Hawaii. That he is against
annexation there can be no doubt.
AS a result of Mr.. Blount's re-
port a new set of instructions is
being prepared and will go out by
the next mail steamer.
It is believed that the instruc-
tions authorize him to negotiate
treaty of some kind which will in
sure American supremacy in the
islands without interference with
internal affairs. Concerning the
report that a new commission is
coming from Hawaii to negotiate a
new treaty with the United States,
it is said at the State department
that it is not at all probable, and
whatever negotiations may be con-
Quoted will be through Minister
Blount.
tits understood that Mr.. Blount's
appointment is not permanent, but
was made expressly for the purpose
of having him conduct negotiations
which will determine the future re-
lations of this country with Ha-
wall. Mr.. Blount, his friends say,
would probably not care to accept
this third-class mission under any
other conditions. Having served
as chairman of the House foreign
affairs committee it is not likely
that he would care to take subor-
dinate place when there are ST. 900
missions floating around unless
there were some special reasons.
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A SOCIAL EVENT.
Emrfa Sprecke1s to be
Married.

There is atpresent 4 matrimonial
union on the tapis of no inconsid-
cradle interest to social, financial
and political circles, inasmuch as
it promises to unite great wealth
and beauty to eloquence, genius
and political prominence.
This means that Miss Emma
Spreckels, the daughter of Claus
Spreckels, the well-known capital
list and sugar magnate, will in the
near future be led to the altar by
Samuel NJ. Shortridge, the distin-
guished young orator, lawyer and
politician. When the wedding will
take place cannot yet be stated,
but when it does take place it will
be one of the notable events in the
social history of San Francisco.
The bride, besides being mil
lionairess in her own right, is a
member of a family known all over
the country because of the great
enterprises in which the male
members have achieved wealth and
prominence. The groom has made
a high reputation for himself by
his forensic powers and his rapid
rise at the bar.
With the freshness of youth yet
upon him Mr.. Shortridge has
achieved such prominence in the
field of politics that he is spoken of
in certain quarters as likely to be
one of the candidates for the guber-
material nomination on the Repub-
lican ticket two years hence.
Of Miss Spreckels it is unneces-
sary to speak, except to say that
she is young lady who has been
noted for her retiring manners,
when she had every opportunity to
shine in society. She has never
manifested any desire to make the
social conquests that the wealth
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THE POST OFFICE CLERKS.
A Busy Week Staring Them in
the Face.

/, The post Office employees have a
busy week before them, as no less
than four steamers will arrive from
and depart for foreign ports. The
first steamer to arrive is the Gaelic.
She is due today from the Orient,
en- route to San Francisco. Two
steamers from the Colonies will be
due on Thursday, the Alameda and
the Miowera. The last named YES
sci will take a mail for Canada
only. On the same day the Mono
wal will be due from San Fran
cisco with late foreign news.
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Successful Sale of Stocks.

JAS. F. Morgan held a successful
sale of stocks at his salesroom on
Saturday. Fifteen shares of Inter
Island stock sold for 1888 per
share; fourteen shares Of Wilder
5. 5. Company stock at $40; eight
shares Peoples Ice Company stock
at 500, and ten shares of Fruit and
Taro stock at $2S a share.
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Notice.

DERSONS WISHING To CONTRI-
Il butte Flowers to the G. A. r. Post,
for decoration day services. if they will
ring up 226 Mutual Telephone, the Flow
ers will be called for, or if they choose to
forward to Post Room on King Street.
please leave them by 10 O'Clock 4. NJ. on
TUESDAY, May Both.
PER THE COMMITTEE.
33q0-it
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Owing to the pressure on space
caused by the interesting budget
of foreign news, received by the
barkentine Irmgard, our editorial
comment is necessarily curtailed
this morning.
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Guftion 5nlfs.

BY JAS. T. MORGAN.
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VALUABLE LOT


DY ORDER OF KAWAIAHAO
- Church, there will 0e sold at Public
Auction, at the auction rooms OF James
F. Morgan, at II O'clock noon on WE'D
NESDAY, May 31st, 1898, a fine Lot in
Kaakopua, in Honolulu. adjoining Capt.
Kings residence off of Emma Street :;
also, the old House thereon standing.
Said Lot has an area Of abo:t 1870
square feet and is about 90 feet long and
80 feet wide.
Further particulars can be had of
w. r. CASTLE,
Treasury of Kawaiahao Church.
23SQ-6t
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Any kind of printing at the GA
zETTE Office equal to work done
abroad.
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FROM MICRONESIA.
The Governor of POnape Wants
the Missionaries.

A few brief letters from Micro
nesia reached the Missionary
Rooms, December 20, but they
gave no special news. Mr.. and
Mrs. Rand and Miss Foss were at
Mokil in July, and also Miss Flet-
cher, the latter not having been
well, but the others in good health.
Mr.. Rand speaks of manifest i'm
provement among the people at
Mokil. 1t is reported that the
Governor of Ponape has said that
he would be glad to have the mis-
sionaries come back, since their
presence enabled him to get on
better with the natives. Permission
to return, however, awaits the &C.
ton of the Spanish authorities. DIR.
Pease from Kusaie, his letter being
dated July %, reports himself as
being better and stronger than he
had ever expected to be after his
sickness of a year ago. The Mar
shall Islands school had a total Of
twenty-nine pupils, and a new
school house had just been built to
replace the one destroyed by the
storm. DR.. Pease was anticipating
the return of the Morning Star, in
order to take him for a missionary
tour through the Marshall group
Missionary Herald.
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ture is prohibited from passing
any law interfering in any
way with the free exercise
of religion, imposing any reli-
gious disabilities, creating any
church establishment, or interfering
in any way with the freedom of
UNCONVENTIONAL schools or chart
ties. The executive department
remains in the control Of the I'M
perial Government, the office and
functions of the Lord-Lieutenant,
ETC., being retained. The Judiciary
also remains five years under the
control of the Imperial Govern
ment, as does the Dublin Police
and the Royal Irish Constabulary
as long as it exists.
1t is evident that the bill is the
product of very careful delibera-
ton, and it seems a decided ad-
vance upon that of 1886. Should
it pass, the question of Home Rule
will pass at once into the stage of
practical experiment. If it does
not satisfy the Irish members, or
does not command the solid Liberal
support, the cause of Home Rule
will receive a blow from which it
will not recover for years.
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THE HOME RULE BILL.

The New York Times publishes
a full synopsis of the Home Rule
bill which Gladstone has probably
introduced into the House of Com
mons before this. 1t provides for
the establishment of a Legislature
in Ireland of two branches-the
Queen and an Irish legislative
body. This Legislature is to be di-
vided into an upper and lower
house, sitting separately; the first
composed of seventy-five elective
members, and twenty-eight peers
who may also sit in the House of
Lords. The lower house is to con-
sist of two hundred and four mem
bers, chosen from the existing con-
stituencies. The term for which it
may sit is limited to five years, and
the Queen, i.e., the English Cabinet,
has the same powers as to prorogu-
ing, dissolution, ETC., as with the
Imperial Parliament. A dissolution
however does not vacate the seats
of the elective members of the
upper house, who are chosen for
ten years. After the expiration of
thirty years, the term of the peers
expires, and from that date all the
members of the upper as well as of
the lower house are to be elective.
The functions of the Legislature
thus constituted bear a general
similarity to those of a State legis-
lature. Everything which con-
Germs imperial policy is reserved to
the Imperial Parliament. So the
Irish Legislature is granted the
control of all matters falling within
the sphere of local self-government,
in non-autonymous state.
The constituencies are to elect
as usual 103 members to the House
of Commons, who may vote on al
questions reserved to the Imperial
Parliament. The same persons may
be members of both the Irish anC
the Imperial House. This arrange
ment satisfactorily disposes of sew
eral objections to the bill of 1856
AS safeguards against the dan
gers anticipated in many quarter
from the Home Rule experiment
several provisions have been in
serted in the bill. In the frs
place the English Executive has
veto, and may dissolve the Legisla
ture. The Imperial Parliament re
tains control over land Legislation
for FIVE years. The Irish Legisla
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Have your magazine files bound
at the GAZETTE Office.
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AT HAMPTON.
The Southern Workman
Starts on it's 22d Year.

The Southern Workman /"
Starts on it's 2ed Year.
The Southern Workman and
Hampton School Record, with the
current number, commences its
twenty-second year. The title-page
is embellished with cut illus
trating the buildings belonging to
the Hampton Normal and Agricul-
tural Institute Of Hampton, Vir=
ginia. In sgsaking~lssfi' General 6
. Arl1sSsit the Workman says:
General Armstrong has gone with
his wife and Baby Margaret " to
spend some time in Summerville,
S. c., where he can have more out
door life, our exceptionally cold sea-
son having not been favorable to his
improvement, though he has kept
about, presiding at Faculty meet
ings, and attending considerably to
business.
A letter in his own handwriting
reports "a comfortable trip and
delightful so far. The air is bracing,
balmy and tonic beyond anything ]
had expected-cool, but not too cold !;
open fires. We are delighted espe-
cially with the drives The Pine
Forest Inn is an ideal Southern
hotel, with every convenience and
comfort, but we expect to get into
the Misses Brownfield's excellent
private clearinghouse next week.
Already I feel better, and hope to
gain decidedly. There is nothing
like this piney air.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1893.
CORN INDUSTRY AT 'HONOKAA.

A correspondent from Hamakua
sends US the following encouraging
account of the beginnings of new
industry in that district:
It is with pleasure we welcome the
advent of new industry OF Hawaii.
The proprietor of the new corn mill,
Mr.. r. T. Richard, has erected a
building in the centre of Honokaa,
on the corner of two cross roads and
commanding one of the most import
ant positions in Hamakua. The site
is in close proximity to the Govern
ment homesteads, the owners of
which are commencing to plant corn
for said mill.
Mr.. Richard is also importing seeds
Of the best varieties of corn plsntaa7
in the United STATES, SO nat Wa ~"
Pees.a aos yields from the virgin,
rich soils dispersed through our inn
mediate vicinity.
He intends to deliver crushed corn
for stock feed, as also corn meal, put
up in 10-pound sacks, to any port on
the islands at as cheap a rate as can
be furnished by anyone in the
country.
This is only one of the many in.
dustries we hope will, in the near
future, attract the attention of cap
italists the native population are
anxiously awaiting the advent of new
enterprises in which they can form a
part Independent of sugarcane cult
walton, which has within the last few
years been merely existing under the
fact of labor at remuneration the
Hawaiian and his family cannot ex-
ist upon. With change in the
country's administration, new indus
tries are bound to follow that will
secure employment for all, thereby
uniting us with one common object
our country's commerce and wealth.
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The Tourists Guide for the Ha-
waiian Islands can be had at this
office. This handy book is invalu-
able for strangers visiting this coun-
try. 1t contains descriptive matter
pertaining to the different islands
with handsome illustrations and
maps No tourist should be with.
out the guide as it will save them 8
to of bother and questions.
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an Hawaiian-Brifis Views

an iian-Britisher's Views.
Mr.. EDITOR In last Saturday
evenings Bulletin there appears
letter signed Majority Should
Rule" in which the writer attempts
to show that the overwhelming ma
jority of our population are against
annexation to the United States of
America.
This may be true to a certain
extent, but not to the extent that
he attempts to show.
In the first place this writer sim
giles out the Americans here,
amounting, Gas he says,) to 1923,
as being the only ones in favor of
annexation. He then arrays in
another column, all the rest of our
population, of all other nationali-
ties, amounting to 1894, as being
totally against annexation.
Now, Mr.. Editor, is this writer
truthful in his statement, and are
these the facts? | for one say no,
and anyone here knowing the facts
can see the utter falseness of his
assertion.
In the first place, the Hawaiians
and half-castes should he left, ont
of the question entirely, as it is
nothing but natural that they
should be opposed to annexation
under all circumstances, no matter
how much the country was being
misruled, or how much the men
with capital invested in the country
were being abused; and it is more
particularly in regard to the other
nationalities, that | wish to refer.
Leaving out then, the Hawaiians
and half-castes, the other national
tiles amount to 20 7GG6tc- IL, naainnober,
Oh 9ncse the Americans, Portu-
guese, and Hawaiian-born foreign
ers, amounting to 1S,025, are nearly
all. solid in favor of annexation to
the United States of America, as
being for the best interests of the
country at large, and | am sure
there are large percentage of Ger
mans who are also of the same
mind.
There may be among the Hawai-
ian-born foreigners, some who are
married to natives, or half-castes,
and are therefore opposed to annex
alton, but they are few in number,
and venture to say, that even the
natives and half-castes are not to-
tally against annexation.
The motive of the writer in last
Saturday evenings Bulletin may
be perplexing to some, but ire not
to the undersigned, as knowing
him to be thoroughly British, is
reason enough for him to be op-
posed to annexation, because before
he can vote, he will have to take
the oath of allegiance to the United
States, which will no doubt be very
distasteful to him. This, Mr.. Edi-
tor is not, however, intended as a
reflection on all of British nation
atty. Your humble servant, (al-
though of Hawaiian birth) is of
British parentage.
In closing 1 would recommend
that this 'clerk" go and join the
"Great Minority" at Kohala.
TRUTH.
Have YOUR magazine files hound
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New Books.

The following list Of new books
were received by the last mail at
the Honolulu Library:
The Real Japan, by Henry Nor
man.
A Guide to Electric lighting, by
S. r. Bottone.
Peter Ibbetsen, by George du
Maurier.
David Grieve, by Mrs Humphrey
Ward.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thos
Hardy.
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To test a ham, stick a sharp knife
under the bone. If it comes out clean,
with pleasant smell, the ham is
good, but if the knife is daubed and
has disagreeable smell, do not buy,
tx.