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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-16
The Illustrated Tourists, Guide

That popular work, "THE TOURISTS
GUIDE THRoUaH THE HAWAIIAN ISL
AsDs," is meeting with a steady sale
both at home and abroad. Tourists and
others visiting these islands should be
In possession of @ copy of it. 1t is a per-
feet mine of information relating to the
scenes and attractions to be met with
here. Copies in wrappers can be had at
tho publication office, As Merchant
street, and al the News Dealers. Price
60 cents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-16

The Guide will be mailed TO any part
the islands for 81 Cents per Copy.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-16

Or, to any foreign country for 20 Cent,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-16
Els panrhter,.Ietter.

Dear father, we are all well and hap
py. The baby has grown ever so much
and has great deal more sense than he
used to have. Hoping the same Of you,
remain your daughter Molly"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-16
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Provisional Government of the
Hawaiian Islands.

EXECUTIVE CoUSCu.
s. 3. Dole, President of the Provisional
Government OF the Hawaiian ISL
ands, and Minister of Foreign Al
fairs.
J. A. King, Minister of the Interior.
S. NJ Damon, Minister of Finance.
w. o. Smith, Attorney-General.
ADVISORY COUNCIL.
W. G. Wilder. vice-President of the Pro-
visional Government of the Hawaiian
Islands.
G. Bolte, John Emmeluth,
Cecil Brown, E. D. Tenney,
John Mott. W. F. Allen,
John Ena, Henry Warehouse,
James F. Morgan, a. Young,
Ed. Suhr F. NJ. Hatch.
Jos. P. Mendonca.
Chas. T. Rodgers, Secretary Ex. and
ADV. Councils.
SUPREME COURT.
Hon. A. F. Judd, Chief Justice.
Hon. r. F. Bickerton, First Associate
Justice.
Hon. w. F. Frear, Second Associate
Justice.
Henry Smith, Chief Clerk.
Fred Wundenberg. Deputy Clerk.
Geo. Lucas, Second Deputy Clerk.
]. Walter Jones, Stenographer.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-16

Amy kind Of printing at the GA
zETTE Office equal to work done
abroad.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
How vultnre. We're Feoled.

Some sports took place at a station
In upper Burmah. ono Of the events
being what IL popularity known as a
Victoria Cross race" that is, the
competitors have to ride some dis
lance, taking two or three hurdles
ON their way. to point where there
are arranged number of figures in
stuffed cases, shaped like human
bodies; they then dismount, fire a
round OF blank cartridge, pick up a
dummy each, and race back. In
this case, after the sports were over
tho dummies were left ON the
ground, and in about half an hour
after the ground was deserted no
ticed a vulture settle on the ground
close to tho dummies; In about an
other five minutes, more than thirty
had collected.
Tho birds seemed much puzzled as
they carefully inspected each lay
figure, walking from ono to the next
all along the line, and eventually,
after sitting in a circle for a short
time. flew away. These birds must
have discovered tho dummies by
sight. though | have often heard
that vultures rely on their sense of
smell as we'll Cor. London Specta-
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28

That is queer phrase that we often hear
LAS black as ink" As If ink were ever
particularly black Perhaps the phrase
originated when the art of making Jet
black ink was not yet lost, and when
Shakespeare made Hamlet talk about his
"inky cloak" he undoubtedly meant a
perfectly black one. The Listener had
some jet black inks offered him, but every
one of them was either merely gray on the
paper or else tinged with purple, and the
purple tinged inks had tendency to
thicken and clog on the pen or else rub
from the paper. Not long ago the Listener
bought a bottle of ink which was made by
reputable house and warranted to write
jet black on the instant" 1t turned out
to be miserable pale stuff. Perhaps its
proprietor. by dint of representing it to be
jet black, has come really to believe that it
is jet black. Perhaps 1t is more charitable
to suppose that he is color blind. An hon
est. clear and freely writing black ink is
the great will-o'the-w isp of the Nineteenth
century.-Boston Transcript.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
Sunrise on Mount St. Elias

In the morning was awakened BY the
croaking of raven on the snow immedi-
ately over my head and found that The
soft blue light of my grotto was replaced
at the entrance by pink radiance, telling
that the day had dawned bright and clear
What a glorious sight awaited mel The
heavens were without cloud, and the sun
shone with dazzling splendor on the white
ROBBED mountains. The broad, unbroken
snow plain seemed to burn with lightre
Elected from millions of snow crystals. The
great peaks were draped from base to sum
NIT in the purest white, as yet unsecured
by avalanches. On the steep cliffs the
snow hung in folds like drapery, tier above
tier, while the angular peaks above stood
out like crystals against the sky. st. Elias
was one vast pyramid of alabaster. The
winds were still. Not sound broke the
solitude Not an object moved. Even the
raven had gone, leaving me alone with the
mountains.
As the sun rose higher and higher and
made it's warmth felt, the SHOWS were
loosened here and there on the steep slopes
and broke away, gathering force as they
fell, and rushed down in avalanches tha1
made the mountains tremble and awak
ened the echoes with Il roar like thunder
From small beginning high up on the
slopes the new snow would slip downwaru
silently at first, and cascade over preel'
pieces hundreds of feet high, looking ike a
fall of foaming water; then came the roar
increasing in volume as the flowing snow
involved new fields in its path OF desTuc'
ton, until the great mass became lrresis'l
BILE, and plowed its way downward through
clouds of snow spray which hung IN tne al,
long after the roar of the avalanche nau
ceased.
All day long, until the shadows OF even,
ing fell on the steep slopes, this mountain
thunder continued. The echoes OF on'
avalanche scarcely died away before lnes
were awakened by another roar 10 wiz
ness such a scene under the most ia'oia.
BILE conditions was worth all the prlVa,io,n u
and anxiety it cost.-Israel z. kussell ~
Gentury
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28

Talleyrand, looking back, declared that
he who had not lived before the French
revolution knew nothing OF the charm OF
living. Now, however, in England at least,
conversation, like letter writing and a
hundred other social joys of quiet and
leisurely age, Is fed, and in their place we
have kilograms. slang and slovenliness
There seems to be general agreement
that in our time conversation is in bad
way. Without repose, without certain
strain of old world courtesy, without
manners, In short, conversation is impossi-
BILE Many will agree with NJ. Renan, who
finds this to be "A pushing, selfish, demo-
cratic age OF which first come first served"
is the rule, and which has ceased to pay any
heed to civility. Nor is this a question
only OF manners,
When the philosopher Schopenhauer
used to dine in tail coat and white tie at
the table d hote In Frankfort he used daily
to place gold piece beside his plate.
That" he explained when asked, sis to
go to the poor whenever hear the officers
discuss anything more serious than women,
dogs and HORSES" The gold piece always
reappeared, and | fear II would do so In
places nearer than Frankfort Forty years
ago Sir Arthur Helps in Friends in Coun-
ciP' pronounced the "main current OF So
ciety dreary and dull" Il has not improved
since. -tsentleman's Magazine.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28

Railroad company had combined under
one management all the roads in the an
thracite coal region and its outlets to
New York, Philadelphia and minor cities.
The intelligence seemed to strike those
most interested with sort of bewildering
effect, and the first figures put out were
that the combination embraced a capital
of $500, 100000!
The figures were really much below that,
but still big enough to scare small capital
lists. Now the combine has taken in the
Boston and Maine road and it's related
lines, and is, taking all things into consd-
Grafton, probably the greatest corporation
in the world. The Vanderbilt system has
more miles of road, 1s,24s and has $4,000
employees, and the Atchison system en-
braces TO- 100 miles and Is, 600 employees,
but the $4,000 men or whereabouts in the
Readings coal property put it ahead. The
system as now organized has :, 1914 miles of
road, $4,000 acres of land, about $500 600, 600
in bona fide capital and 600 men in its
employ-over five times the standing army
of the United Statesl
At the head of this wonderful combina-
ton, as president of the principal roads
and trustee or lessee for others, is man
only forty-five years old, who began his
career as rodman on the Northern Pacific
line Archibald Angus Mcleod, this new
monarch of the rail lis of Scotch parentage,
but of American birth, born in 1S47 Be
ginning while but a lad in the lowest walks
of railroad life, he rose so rapidly that in
1886 he was called from the northwest by
parties interested in the Reading road and
made its general manager. He rapidly
renovated the entire line, inaugurated
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
Helped by n Freshet.

The government of Mexico is now con.
sldering the issue of per cent. subsidy
bonds to aid the Tampico Harbor Improve
ment company. Under the agreement with
the company the federal government was
TO pay 81, lac, 900 in bonds when the channel
across the bar at the entrance to the harbor
OF Tampico should reach permanent
depth at the center of ten feet, and $3.50, 600
per foot up to eighteen feet, and sos coo
Tor each additional foot of depth up to
twenty-five feet, the total payment not to
exceed s., 100000. The latest official returns
state that depth of twenty feet has been
obtained over the bar, which would Q little
the company to receive So, 100, 600 in bonds
while Mexican newspapers have lately con.
tained paragraphs to the effect that owiny
t 70 recent ireshets which have swept down
.ne river there Is now channel of twenty
two feet deep over the bar
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28

One of the oldest epitaphs upon printer
IL that inscribed upon "A monument erected
In st. Mary's church. Datchet, to Chris
topher Barker, Mt one time printer to
Queen Elizabeth. II runs as follows:
Here Barker lies, once printer to the crown,
Whose works of art acquired n great renown;
Time saw his worth. and spread around his
fame,
That future printers might imprint his name
But whom his strength could work the press no
more,
And his last sheets were folded into store
Pure faith, with hope ttho greatest treasures
eiven)
Opened their gates and bade him pass to
heaven.
In different strain IL the next epitaph
we shall quote. 1t purports to be written
by the defupct himself, but whoever wrote
1t showed IA pretty turn for makinga merry
quip OF serious topic. No better idea of
death being n release from cares and
troubles could be conveyed than in the fol
lowing lines;
No more shall copy bad perplex my brain;
No more shall types small face my eyeballs
strain;
Nomoro the proofs foul page create mo troubles
BY errors, transpositions, outs and doubles;
No moro 10 overrun shall begin
No moro DO driving out or driving In.
The stubborn pressmans brow now may SCOT,
Revised, corrected, and finally worked or.
Here IN a curt complaint,
Weary OF distributing pye,
Pressed out of life, now must die.
Two cut my stick, my fount IL sped,
My case Ia empty as In life my head:
In fact. my last impression is-fm dead.
Manchester Times
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28

The memory remains intact and in
perfect working order in eases where
the left side of the brain is badly dis
eased. from which it may be inferred
that the right side of the brain Is
the seat of this remarkable faculty.
From the Psychologists point of view
the power of memory is badly dimin.
ished by too much food, by an excess
OF physical exercise and by educa-
ton If this is true, the illiterate has
better memory than the educated
man OF the period. II has also been
proved that tho memory is better in
the morning than in the evening, in
summer than in winter, and much
better in warm than in cold coun-
tries. Chicago Tribune.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28

My Office OF late has seemed brighter
More cheerful by far than it was;
1t may be the pretty typewriter
Who sits near my desk Is the cause
radiant, dashing young creature;
In typewriting circles a belle;
Although I'm unable to teach her
To punctuate rightly or spell.
Her mouth like half opened rose Is,
Her hair rivals gold In its hue
Tip tilted her dear little nose is,
Her eyes are heavenly blue.
really should feel lost without her;
For while there's no cause for alarm,
There's something attractive about her;
A thrilling. intangible charm
Her typewriter letters are fearful,
With errors they thickly are strewed;
Iscold her, and she becomes fearful
And thinks am awfully rude.
She breaks into silvery laughter
AS soon as forgiven, and I've
Rewritten no end OF them after
She's gone-she leaves promptly at five.
My wife, who IL somewhat suspicious,
Dropped into my Office today,
And found-weil, | thought it judicious
To send my typewriter away
Ireaily shall feel lost without her.
For while Intended no harm,
My wife noticed something about her
That tilled her dear soul with alarm.
f. Ii. Curtiss In New York Sun
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28

In a country house in Scotland one day
at luncheon, pie appeared on the table
being placed opposite a rather nervous old
lady. When the pie was cut it was dscov
cred to be full Of live frogs and mice, which
jumped and ran in every direction, causing
great havoc among the woman guests.
A very digniied old gentleman staying
there had the pockets of his overcoat filled
with red behring's, and two particularly fine
specimens were tied to the tails of his coat.
When he went out he was followed by all
the dogs in the country
An apple pie bed is an ordinary mode OF
amusement in houses of this kind 1t con.
sists of arranging the sheets in such a way
that the victim, on getting into bed, finds
himself in IA bag, and has to take all the
clothes to pieces and rearrange the bed -
New York World.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28


is pretty, though her hair is light brown.
her eyes gray blue, and her COM
plexion fair, while in general contour of
face she resembles her distinguished
father. She was born during the war. but
In Switzerland, where the family was then
travelling, and was thoroughly educated
In Italy and France. Her fathers idea
was that she would develop into n oraat
writer, but she fixed her mind on medicine
instead, persevered against much opposi-
ton, and was graduated in 1889 from the
Women's Medical college of the New York
infrmary.
For year thereaftershe practiced among
the tenement house poor, according to the
custom and then began private practice.
with her office on East Thirteth street.
ohe also lectures to ladies on subjects ap-
propriate to her profession, and is alto.
gether very practical, prog ressivs and
successful physician.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
PROGRESS in Mexico.

A recent issue of The Mexican Financier
contains many items of interest rc:,s;erning
the progress of the republic of Mexico,
from which the following are taken: The
state of Morelos has population of l48, S77
souls, and possesses 257 public elementary
schools, with an average daily attendance
of S,26l children and n public library at
Cuernavaca containing l,lG7 volumes. In
addition to extensive sugar plantations
Numbering more than 30) there are in the
state 33 aguardiente and IA mescal distill-
cries, with an aggregate output of more
than $1,000 barrels annually. 1t contains
S3,796 head of beef stock, 1878 horses,
1888 sheep, 4,234 goats and 32,377 swine
The maize crop amounted in 1890 to "a, 02I
cargas, valued at ST. sos, and in 1891 "a
bad year, to 1854 cargas, valued at S)97,-
$40; the bean crop in 1890 was 6,070 ca gas,
valued at $54, 1870, and in 1891 1860 cargas,
valued at S33, 29l; rice, 166, 700 arrobas in
1890 and 1858 arrobas in 1891, valued at
81 per arroba; 4,730 arrobas Ct coffee were
produced in 1891, with value estimated at
SIS $50, and 2l2,O5 cargas of tropical fruit
valued at $2S6, 007.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
IDAHO
TELEGRAPH LINES in THE TROPICS

they Are Intcrfered with by Monkeys,
Spiders. Plants and other Things.
The business of telegraphing has
It's difficulties and is prolific of exas-
perations in this town and country,
with dead wires and live wires,
crosses and tangles, cyclones and
blizzards, and auroras and bugs
Geographic communication any
where is subject to interruption from
hundred and one causes, and few
people who kick about the service
are aware of the difficulties to be
overcome in maintaining perfect
electrical circuit But in the tropics
the maintenance Of telegraph line
In good working order is constant
mp hill fight against all manner of in
terrupting enemies that inemen and
operators in this latitude never
dream of.
In Brazil the wires get tangled up
with the cablelike web Of an i'm
mense spider, which, dripping with
dew or rain, makes cross connections,
short circuits and grounds almost
daily. Ants often destroy the poles
In few weeks. Monkeys swing on
the wires and break them, and in the
forests creepers and ropelike withes
overgrow tho poles and wires every
few weeks. All this Is more OF less
true Of all Central and South Amer
lea.
In Cuba there Is nm orchid that In
crnsts the wire and causes leakage.
In the West Indian islands the john
crows, or turkey buzzards, make life
miserable for the telegraph and tele-
phone people These big, heavy birds.
the scavengers, are around in great
numbers. They roost on the wires
or fly up against them and invaria-
bly, break them short Off.
IN one large town the telephone
lines that ran by the public market
had to be put underground because
the buzzards congrcgated there in
great numbers, rested on tho wires
and broke them almost nightly. On
the pampas Of Argentina the herds
OF practically wild cattle rub and butt
against the poles and frequently
break them down.
For some years II was altogether
impossible TO maintain line Of tele-
graph through Persia for more than
q few days at time. The natives
regularly destroyed it as device OF
the evil one. Finally the shah issued
an edict making the loss OF an ear
the penalty for first offense of de-
stroying the telegraph line; the loss
OF a hand for the second, and death
by being buried to tho neck in the
sand beside the telegraph line the
penalty for a third offense. One
cared men were common in Persia
for several years. for the shah was
determined to introduce civilizing in
huences. New York Sun.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
T1r MUSIC or THE MASSES.


Soma Famous Songs-How They stimu-
late Enthusiasm and Sway the People
Old Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, Is ac-
credited with the remark frequently
nuoted. al knew wise man that believed
that If a man were permitted to make al
the ballads he need not care who should
make the laws of ahlation." Fletchers
time In history was between 1858 ana IHo,
Int the student who searches little 1ur-
tber back among literary records VIII ma
that Sir Philip Sidney, one OF the 1avorites
of Oueen Elizabeth who lent the brilliancy
of his intellect to the age that is distin-
puished by her name, wrote nearly cen
turv and half before the original Thought,
~ ,et who wish make the laws OF people;
allow me to write their ballads, ana III
guide them ut my will"
The old saying has found ample lliustra-
ton in the songs that have become famiiiar
to the homes of every people. 1t has come
down to us from the crusades and found
vent in languages that have conveyed
thrilling effect to masses of men who, with
nike and halberd, have fought breast to
| breast with their fellows from the knee
nm" The inspiring notes have swept
through multitudes, and as they rolled
from city to city every earthly tie has been
thrown aside while the million yielded to
the warcry. We read in the early chronl-
cles that ''these old songs swept IKE Wild
fire and created powerful influence,
which gave new direction to the course OF
modern civilization"
Much in the growth of life may be at
tributed to mob electricity Peter the
Hermit, when he advanced on Jerusalem at
the head of 300, 900 men, owed the greater
part of his magnetism to the delirium
which he created among people who could
not comprehend syllable of the tongue IN
which he preached, but were moved by the
melody of his songs. Modern life and
| Christianity have inherited the same spirit.
1t has moved down to us through the
Spaniards, who in resonant tones have told
the story of their nations growth. 1t has
come to us through the campaign melodies
of the Mexicans, who at one time or an
other have marched to the sound of battle
anthem. 1t has reached us in the war
songs of Germany, where '"The Watch on
the Rhine" has become nations voice,
while in France all songs grow dull and
weak before the thunder and rear of 1.-The
Marsellaise."
Among the great songs Of England
''Rule Britannia" composed by James
Thompson, author of The Seasons" in
l74O, and God Save the Queen" will
always retain their force, but CampbelPs
''Mariners of England" 1.-The Hearts of
Oak" Scott's warsong of "The Light
Dragons" and Tennyson's "Charge of the
Light Brigade are likewise memorable
among the people of the present generation.
Even "Annie Laurie" lives as a campaign
song among English soldiers, and although
it was originally intended to serve any
other purposes than those of war may now
be heard among the evening melodies of
every English camp
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-03-28
ROMANCE OF THE AGE
WONDERS OF RAILWAY BUILDING AND
GIGANTIC COMBINATIONS.

How the Reading Has Gained a Foothold
In New England, Thanks to President
McLeod's shrewdness - A Line from
JANA to Jerusalem.
The railroad is the romance OF this age
in iron. The railroad king is Monte Cristo
realized. Compared with Americas lords
of Transportation, Crpsus is not in 1t. But
the height of the romance is reached In
this, that while this new nation has de-
veloped railroad system beyond that OF
all Others it and it's allies in civilization
have carried the work into the Oldest coun-
tries. While England is connecting her
Indian cities with lines of wire and rail,
and the United States is working marvels
in the west, the Russians are building the
great transcaspian into ancient Bacteria,
and the same daily paper tells us OF the
consolidation of Reading with Boston and
Maine, and of the inauguration of the
Jaffa and Jerusalem line.
These two present the great contrast and
Illustrate the spirit of the age, SO let us
summarize the facts, giving the new the
preference. 1t was only few months ago
that the country learned with astonish-
ment that the Philadelphia and Reading