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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-21
In the Supreme Court of the Ha-
Waiian Islands.
JUNE TERM, 1898.
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS VS.. All UN.
BEFORE JUDD, C. j., BICKERToN AND
FREAR, j.

There is no appeal to the Supreme Court
from decision of a District Magistrate
denying a motion to discharge the de-
PENDANT charged with an offense within
the summary Jurisdiction of the Court,
no final Judgment having been rend-
cred.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-21
G5encral advertisements.
Hawaiian Stamps
WANTED

TWILL PAY CASH, FOR EITHER
L large or small quantities OF used Hs-
waiian Postage Stamps, as follows:
(These offers are per hundred and any
quantity will be accepted, no matter how
srp all at the same rates
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05

have proved 10 be profitable investments.
being well patronized. For each coin in
serted something like eight litres of water.
at temperature OF about 100 degrees
Fahrenheit, are delivered. A penny-n-the-
Slot gas meter is another novelty of
somewhat similar character recently intro
duced by one OF the English gas companies.
BY putting penny in the slot customer
gets twenty-five and a half feet of gas.
The company sets up the machine and fur
niSheS the necessary fixtures and a griller
free of charge. If desired, pennies may be
put continuously In the slot, until the in
deX pointer registers $50 feet Of gas. In
50 cents "a thousand feet for their gas, or
10 cents a thousand feet more than the reg
ular price, the extra charge being for the
use OF the fixtures and the griller.
The French hot-water machine brings
back to mind very strikingly the appar-
atus designed more than two thousand
years ago by Hero. of Alexandria, which
and which furnishes one of many similar
illustrations of the extent TO which the
ancients made use of what are often sup
posed to be entirely modern ideas Curious
ly enough, Hero's machine, it may be here
repeated, was operated not by the con-
ventional nickel, or scent piece, but by
coin representing five drachmas. The coin,
in falling, struck a lever, opened a valve,
and let out a small quantity OF holy water.
When the coin fell off the lever the valve
closed Hero went still further, however,
by inventing an automatic bartender on the
coin-in-the-slot principle This was a
vase containing three kinds of liquor, in
different compartments, with faucet ar
way by one coin, SILL further by a larger
or heavier coin, and then still further by
a still larger on heavier coin. The extent
TO which the faucet was opened determined
which chamber should communicate with
it, and hence which of the three liquors
should be allowed to escape This ma
chine, apparently, has not yet been rein
vented and might be suggestive to this
latter-ddV generation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
"YALLER JACKETS"
Their Pleasant Methods of Keeping
Intrudcrs from Their Homes.
pittSburO praSQ

ct is now the height of the hornet and
yellow wasp season in Connecticut. 1t is q
much mooted question in the Nutmeg State
which is the meaner. ferier, 'pizener, more
low wasp There is no doubt at all that the
'yaller terrorS are more numerous and
persistent toward Connecticut scythe
swingerS than any other persons, and, per-
haps, there is just little more mustard
in a single touch of their hot application
for those who cut their nests in ewo. VAL
Ter Jackets the farmers call them, and the
farmers are as afraid as death Of them.
The very worst bucolic mischance that can
befall a farmer is to drive his moving ma
chine upon nest of them hung up in the
bushes of moving lot.
"A bumblebees nest is of trif1ing moment
as compared with the condensed, bottled
venom and vengefulness in the long, mar
row paper home of the yellow jackets. The
horses attached to the machine invariably
dump their driver off his seat and then run
away, and driverlesS moving machine on
the run is only little less dangerous than
ancient Scythian Scythe chariot career
ing furiously at large.
"Only few days ago the Rev. Percy
Barnes, rector of Race Episcopal Chapel
at the village of Yantic, in the eastern part
of the State, was terribly chopped by the
knives of a moving machine in the village
lot he had sought TO cross. Surgeon Har-
ris has patched the scholarly young rec
tors legs, but he will have to stay in bed
on account of his injuries for many weeks.
and a brother clergyman officiates in his
pulpit The rector was in his usual cler-
ical attire at the time, and the most pa
thetic feature of the mishap is that, be-
ing a swift and skilfull sprfnter and con-
strained by Samaritan impulse, he had
set out to run across the moving lot to
stop the runaway horse Of his friend, the
butcher when the machine rushed on him.
A. day later a Connecticut valley farmer
drove his mower, with pair OF horses,
into q yellow jackets nest, and he also
was fright lily cut by the swiftly sliding
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
Oldest Lock Ever Discovered.
Hardware.


In the History of Nineveh, and It's Pal
aces by by Joseph Bonomi, we find de-
scription of, perhaps, the oldest lock ever
gate of the apartment in one of the pal
aces of Khorsabad. In describing this an
cient piece of hardware-if such terms may
be applied TO wooden lockS-he says "At
the end of the chamber just behind the
first bulls, formerly a strong gate, of
one leaf, which was fastened by a large
wooden lock- like those still used in the
East of which the key. is as much as
man can conveniently carry, and by bar
which moved into square hole in the wall.
1t is to a key of this description that the
prophet probably attitudes: And the key of
the House of David will l lay upon his
shoulder and it is remarkable that the
word for key in this passage of Scripture
Muftah' is the same in use all over the
East at the present time. The key of an
ordinary street door is commonly thirteen
or fourteen inches long: and the key of the
gate of a public building, or of a street, or
a quarter of a town, is two feet or more in
length. The iron pegs at one end of the
piece of wood correspond to so many holes
i'm the wooden bar or bolt of the lock,
which when the door or gate is shut, cam
not be opened until the key has been in
serted, and the impeachment to the drawing
back of the bolt removed by raising up so
many iron pins that fall down into holes in
the bar or bolt corresponding to the peg
in the key"
This description, and others of a cor
robatory character, prove that this form of
lock and key was in use In Egypt four or
five thousand years, during which eX-
tended period of time it does not appear
to have undergone any successful changes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
THE SIIPLE-MINDED HOOsIER.
He Wanted Indiana Money and Was
Not Such Fool As He Looked.
Chicago Herald.

In the course of a conversation touching
upon the proposed reauthoriZation of cur
rency by State banks a Wall-street bank
president n few days ago told a reporter
the following story OF a clever swindle
made possible by that form of currency
many years ago:
1T was in the worst Of the wildcat and
"red-dog currency days" he remarked,
that a simple Indiana trader arrived in
New Orleans with a large load of wheat
The grain was slowed In the hold of the
barge, flush up to the deck covering. The
innocent Hooser reached the Crescent City
at an opportune moment. Wheat was in
good demand. prices were high. and scarce
" had the barge been moored alongside the
levees than a swarm of commission mer-
chants and spectators were anxious to re-
nevc the owner of the cargo. price per
bushe was proposed and accepted but
when IL came TO the terms of the sale the
would-be buyer found himself confronted
with difficulty upon which he had not
reckoned. The honest Indianian first in
sisted that his entire cargo should be meas
ured bushei for bushel instead Of estimated
In bulk and then he expressed himself as
afraid of assorted State bank currency
My wife, said he. told me as how I'd be
swlndled on this wheat before l got back
change in payment, and / don't want no
bills on busted banks. I'm sure of Indiana
Their moneys good. You must pay me in
Indiana bills
1T was a difficult matter for the buyer 10
collect a sufficient quantity of bills on Indi-
ana State banks. but finally. after visiting
nearly every bank in New Orleans, he Sc
cured the necessary amount. Then he came
to the barge. showed the money. to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05

! refer. Here. at least, is a dream belong
ing to the same period, but this time
pure dream an illusion.
Il mean that it disappeared with the re-
turn of the sense of sight. not on that
persevered during the waking moments and
while L was able to speak and take my
medicine. II occurred the other day, after
case and before case G.
Case DIN the afternoon there sprang
UP storm Of wind, with monstrous clouds
OF trees, whose boughs were all blowing in
the same direction, the whole seeming TO
pass by my windows like a millrace BY
this turmoil and movement | was confused,
but not distressed, and surprised not TO be
distressed, for even in good health a high
wind has often a painful influence on my
nerves.
A PSYCH1CAL DREAM.
I'm the midst of this l dozed off asleep.
1 had just been reading Scott's Life of
Dryden had been struck with the fact
that Dryden had translated some of the
Latin hymns, and had wondered that 1 had
never remarked them in his work. AS soon
as 1 was asleep / dreamed reason why
the sound of the wind and the sight of the
flying dust had not distressed me. There
was no wind, it seemed, no dust it was
only Dryden singing his translated hymns in
one direction, and all those who had blamed
and attacked him after the revolution sing
ing them in another.
This point of the two directions is very
singular and insane. In part it meant that
Dryden was continually flying past, yet
never passing my window in the direction
of the wind and dust, and all his detractors
similarly flying past, yet not passing toward
the other side. But it applied besides this,
both to the words and to the music in a
manner wholly insusceptible of expression.
That was dream, and yet how exactly it
reproduced the method of my other fellow
while l was awakei
Here rs an explanation for a state of
mind or body Sought-and found-in
tissue of rabid, complicated and ineXpressi-
bic folly. Yours very sincerely,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON"
1t would be the basest hypocrisy to pre-
tend that the only interest which attaches
to this letter is of a psychological and lit
see in it possibilities of reinsurance and
encouragement for literary men of lesser
power or lesser reputa tons than the dis
tinguiShed spirit that penned ii, from those
whose names are accustomed to appear
often in the pages of the magazines down
to the nameleSs unhonored artist whose
pen has attempted no greater things than
the short and simple annals Of a two-alarm
fire.
1t is possible for them and for all other
members of that crowded organization
known as the Paresis Club, In whatever
walks of life they may be, to take heart
from the fact that those hitherto disquet-
phantasms of mind which they have shud-
dered at as the premonitions of quiet life
in some high-walled asylum may be rather
subjects for cOngratulatiOn, after the
centric fashion. And If Mr. Stevenson, in
his communication to Secretary Myers, has
done this, he has done greater thing than
the writing of chaste essays or moving
tai
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
JAPANESE POLICEMEN.
The Most AristOcratic and POIitest
COnstabulary Known.
London News.

News
There is no human being quite so polite
as the Japanese policeman. Not to his fell
low-cOuntrymen, be 1T funderStood; by no
means. He regards the bulk of them. prob
in the language of Mr.. Chevalier he is a
gentleman by birth and education" When,
in the pursuit of western civilization, Japan
cast off feudalism and put on frock coat
and a silk hat, thousands of samurai or
two-sworded retainers of the old mobiles
found their occupation gone. No more ex-
hiieratinc little expeditions into the terrific
ries of neighboring princes were possible.
and chopping foreigners into little bits soon
became a game hardly worth the candle.
The swords rusted ia their scabbards, and
finally were, by imperial decree, discarded
altogether, and helped a few years later to
decorate the drawing rooms of BelSravia.
What was TO be done with these swash
buckles, trained TO a militarism quite i'm
possible in the modern army, modelled on
the French pattern? The government want
ed police. The samurai knew nothing about
the status of the British Bobby" or of the
French gendarmes, so they enrolled In
large numbers, happy in being able to wear,
at any rate. one sword. and that a two
Thus il happens that the Japanese police
are the most aristocratic force of constabu
larry in the world. They are finely
ciplined body small in stature, but well
drilled, and expert in the use OF the steel
scabbarded weapon which bangles at their
II is to the Observation-Disclosures he be the
veriest outcast of no-nationality sailor
from a Kerosene ship, or a slick, moneyed
globe trotter-that the essential pOlteness
of the Japanese policeman is shown in all
it's native richness With the former class
the police of the foreign ports in Japan-Yo-
kohama Kobe and Nagasaki-have much
intercourse not Of the gentle kind. Yet the
scrimmage invariably has but one termina-
ton The truculent son of Neptune is sooner
or later handed over to the consular author
tiles of his country-if ne owns One-and
lodged i'm the foreign Jail. Perhaps two po-
licemen will be engaged in the operation
perhaps twenty-that is a mere detail.
What is important is the fact that once
Japanese policeman makes up his mind to
arrest any one who is in his hands he
sticks TO him with a bulldog tenacity-never
loses his temper or his holland conducts
his victim TO the lookup, II he be foreign
er. with the greatest urbanity and much
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
DECAY OF CHIvALRY.
The Texas Desperate Is No Longer
Treated with Honor and Esteem.

Kansas City Star.
"An' say. pard. just tell 'em I'm from
Texas" were the words of a stranger in a
Wyandotte county police court, as he went
below for thirty days. The stranger nad
thrown rocks in a street car because the
conductor had put him OF Tor SMOKING a
self-made cigarette even after the eXpla-
nation that ne was from Texas.
The incident is like a breath from an OLD
romance. The day was when the man from
Texas. with a swagger and gun, held
civilization IN an iron wise and got his beer
without paying the barkeeper. But that day
is done; the gentleman on broncno VINO
used to ride up and down the streets and
into the millinery store to frignten the
women with the terrifying disclosure that
he was from Texas has been pulled from
his high estate. He has been rudely dubbed
by policemen, who only knew That Texas
is no county In ireland anu refused 10 rec
ognize his card.
To-day even a weak-lunged l. road con-
ductor rubs mud in the race OF me old
time king or the highway by undramat-
ically dumping the royal scion on the car
for smoking cigarettes. Whlther away mas
fitted the age OF ehivslry W me snS y t the
donion that used to keep and the maid for
ever behind the latticed windows or the
glamoured fiction of the past? Where Is Six
Fingered Jack? Whence have Deadwood
Dick. Calamity Jane, Sure Shot Seth and
the Rip Roarng Ba 6q HSa Ss Ea t6sr tre e
for the youth of our land TO emulate?
Whose pictures adorn the walls of this
In true sooth, only the man who has
been cured of catarrh. the baby raised on
invalid's food and the hairless citizen whose
hands are unstained by crime more IN
spring than a three dollar shoe. And Is
the boy of the twentieth century to pat
tern his deeds after these methods? Is the
hero of the six-shooter. the haloed saint OF
the broncho and jingling spurs. whose
claim to "a residence in Texas cannot be dis
puted, going TO be placed on the rock pile
breaking his own pedestal for commercial
purposes, while the merchant prince and
before-taking hero thrust their faces into
+I,a fOrpShadnw
that is TO be? The outlook for Chivalry Is
very very gloomy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
SILVER COINAGE.
Capacfty of the Mints-The SeigniOr-
nra. nnd Treasury Notes.


WASHINGTON, Nov. Ain reply to in
uuiries, it is stated at the Treasury De
partment that the actual resumption of the
coinage of silver dollars has not yet
been ordered, but the minis have been di-
rected TO manufacture the ingots and
blanks so as to be prepared to resume the
coinage at short notice in case it should be
decided to do so. 1.-THE minis at New Or
leans and San Francisco can, if worked TO
the full extent of the capacity of the force
now at those places, coin about 100000 sill
yer dollars a month";" said an official of the
Treasury Department to-day, when ques-
toned concerning the amount of silver that
can be coined by the government when the
work of coming the bullion purchased I'M
der the Sherman law is put into practical
operation. There will not be any coinage
OF silver dollars at the Philadelphia mint
for some time TO come, he continued as
all the efforts of the force now there Is
concentrated in turning out gold coin. BY
using the mint at Philadelphia for the COIN
age of silver dollars the treasury depart
for the present the department VIII, IL is
understood content itself with the coinage
of the dollar only at New Orleans and San
Francisco The selgniorage on this Will
amount TO approximately $4,000 month,
the department having paid for the SILVER
purchased under the Sherman act at the
average rate OF 9212 cents per ounce. The
minis at San Francisco and New orleans
are now manufacturing ingots and blanks
for the dollars upon which the impressions
are to be made"
In view of the expected coinage of the
silver dollars the question has already been
asked whether the Treasury Department
can issue treasury notes against seignior-
age which. if the whole amount OF bullion
was coined would amount to about $0O,-
100000 An official of the department, how
ever to whom the question was put, re-
piled that such notes could not be issued
against the seigniorage, and in support OF
his assertion he quoted the following clause
from the sherman law: But no greater or
less amount of such CtreaSury) notes shall
be outstanding at any time than the cost
of the silver bullion and the standard sill
yer dollars coined therefrom, then held IN
the treasury purchased by such notes.
He said however, that the seigniorage
could be deposited in the treasury ana sill
yer certificates issued against them, which
would hiring about the same result as the
issuance of treasury notes would so far as
increasing the circulating medium is con-
cerned But they would be redeemable only
an silver and not in coin-that is, gold and
silVer-as the treasury notes are. IL Is
said that the treasury notes issued under
the sherman act. which Will be redeemed
in cold from time to time, amounted TO
s52 on, 600 Some question has also arisen as
10 whether any OF the bullion might DE
coined into subsidiary silver, but the law
on this subject is also explicit, as IL re-
ouires that the Secretary snail, each month,
coin two million ounces OF silver Dulllon,
purchased under the provisions OF the act,
into standard silver dollars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
Cure for the NosebIecd.

A few weeks ago ] saw a crowd collected
around carriage in front OF doctors
office. Pushing my way into the crowd L
saw a very pale young man in the car
riage suffering from nosebleed, holding out
the fore fingers of each hand to a gentle
man, evidently a physician, who was en-
gagged in tying them together with a string
placed around the last joint of each finger.
/ asked him if that would cure the nose
bleed, and he answered CURLY, Yes" I
waited a few minutes and saw the cure
effected A few days later l tried the
remedy on my Office boy, who had a severe
case of nosebleed. ami it cured him almost
Immediately. 1 asked a regular physician
about it and he replied gruffiy, 'Hypno-
tism" This I did not quite understand.
but it set me thinking. Last Thursday
evening a couple of young ladies, the
daughters of my next door neighbor, who
had been attending a church entertain
ment, returned home in a state of laughing
hysteria-the "giggler'' in Mrs Jarley's wax
works chad been too much for them. i was
called in as a friend 70 see what could be
done for them. 1t was no laughing matter,
for they were having spells OF fainting.
tied up their finger joints with strings,
telling them it would cure them, and it did.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
1t Was No sSgn.
Detroit Free Press.


The Congressman was telling his expert
ences in the back county district. he
always loves 10 do when his arduOus labors
let up on him for a few brief moments
Once" said he. Il was caught on the
road lust about dark with q lame horse
and il became necessary for me 10 stop
over night ten miles from the place i was
billed for | made for the nearest house
I'm sight and there was no one there except
q woman and her sick husband. The wo-
man responded To my hello and came TO
the door
can l stay all night here? 1 asked. and
get feed for my horse%
- What's yer Nance she inquired.
ct told her.
Who air you?
I'm the member Of Congress from this
district trying 10 get 10 the next town, and
my horse has gone lame on me.
The what? she asked, coming out TO
the gate.
''The member of Congress from this dis
trict'
oh. air you? she said in doubtful tones
+" Certainly: you don't think I'd tell you
a lie do you" l said, little nettled.
"She looked at me in brown study for
a minute.
Well she said. 'bein' "a Congressman
amt DO sign you wouldn't. but I'm sorry
fer that .oss and reckon you can stay
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05

Hoosier and set his negroes at work meas
uring the cargo OF wheat bushel for bushel.
1.-The colored men worked slowly and the
buyer chafed under the delay He appealed
to the Indianian 10 let the cargo be esti-
mated I'm the usual manner. For a time the
Hoosier protested and referred TO mis- fear
of being swfndled. Finally. with a show OF
reluctance. ne yielded. and accepted the In
diana money. Almost Immediately he dis
appeared and the New Orleans man
friend for he had secured the Indiana bills
at a discount All this changed. however.
the following day. when the stsvedores.
encountered an obstruction. liz proved TO
be a framework of slabs, constructed in
the form of a bulkhead and extending al
most from side to side apd end to end OF
the barge. The quantity of wheat thereby
was reduced fully three-fourths OF the es-
timated amount but the honest, simple
minded Hoosier, who had so effectualiy dis
armed all suspicion, was far away with his
Indiana hills"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-05
Guilty, or Not Guilty:
Cincinnati Tribune

Will the women please stand up and be
counted? How many of you bought on the
Midway Plaisance a little long glass tube,
tightly sealed at one end, containing a pre-
sumably altar of roses? How many of you
preston you were dealing with a Persian
from Persia? All of you need not plead
were most horribly duped. Why the genu-
inc altar of roses is worth it's weight In
gold Nearly so, at least. All you got in
those little Walls is rose water with drop
of oil OF geranium, the mass thickened
with a neutral oil, and there you are.
Maybe bottle and oil cost a nickle, but it
is doubtful DO not cry, though. We were
all sold in some way or other. and yet we
had plenty of fun and instruction for all
the money we spent.