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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-25

government will probably continue
to administer affairs until a decision
is arrived at, whether the time is
short or long. Should il be determin-
ed to continue as an independent
country, under L. :. protection or
otherwise, the franchise will probably
be amended in some way. The mass
Of the native population care very
little who rules. Especially il this
the case with those living out Of Ho-
nO!uiu.
1.-The former Legislatures were
elected for two-year terms, and met
only once in two years unless called
for a special session. The members
were paid $3.50 a session. At their
last session the amount was raised to
500 for the future. In the ordinary
course the Legislature would be elect
ed next February and meet in March
or April, to sit for about four months,
but it is now doubtful when one will
be elected.
Travellers from Canada should
bear in mind that only Hawaiian or
United States coin is current in Ho-
nOlulu, and all other, even British
gold, is subject to a heavy discount,
which in the ease of English silver is
often SO per cent, while the Canadian
silver is not taken at H. Victoria,
(B. c. COlOnist.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-25
Boston Ball Reception.

The reception this evening at the
executive building, in connection
with the Boston ball, will com
mence promptly at s o'clock and
continue until 9. Supper will be
served from 10 o'clock.
The entrance for carriages will
be the King street gate. They will
deposit their loads at the main
entrance and make their exit at
the Richards street gate. Later in
the evening the Richards street
gate will be closed and both en-
trance and exit will be by the
King street gate.
No carriages will be allowed to
stand in the grounds, but all must
form along the palace walk.
The interior department will be
used as the ladies' cloak room and
supper will be served upstairs in
this main hallway and on the YER
andas.
The officers of the Boston will be
met at the boat landing by recep-
ton committee and escorted to
the executive building.
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September p, 1895.

- ~
TO trust is bust, to bust is
bad and a salt trust has made
the people of Honolulu and
the islands generally pay just
a little to high a price for this
article We are going TO re-
volutionize the salt business
and bring the price down to
something about what it
should be in these times. We
have taken over the entire
product of Il salt company in
this district and by an agree
ment with the manufacturers
we are to coutrol the output.
For almost any purpose, it is
quite the best quality of Ha-
waiian salt and we can supply
it in quantities from one bag
to a thousand.
There are a great many pur-
poses for which the keystone
Beaten may be used besides
mixing eggs. 1t will whip
cream, pulp fruit and prepare
ingredients for buildings and
desserts very much better than
by any other means. 1t is con-
sidered by competent judges
to be the best thing of the kind
ever used.
The building now occupied
by c. O. Berger and Robert
Grieve is being made to look
like new by the use of Hen
dry's Ready Mixed Paints. If
you want to ascertain just
what space and how freely it
covers, watch the painters at
work on Merchant street. Pri-
vate residences in the suburbs
are being titivated off with
Hendry's Ready Mixed and
before long, whenever you see
a painter at work, you will
know he is using our paint,
because it is the acknowledged
superior to any paint in this
market. And they cheaper.
The HAWAIIAN HARDWARE Co.
3O7
FORT STREET. Honolulu.
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SpreckelS In Chicago.

CHICAGO, September 12-Claus
Spreckels, Of San Francisco, with
his son and confidential manager,
Adolph Spreckels, is in the city.
The latter, in discussing the stu
alton in Honolulu, said that there
was, as yet, no movement on the
part of the Provisional government
of a permanent character, nor was
there any well-de6ned movement
towards restoring the deposed mon
archy. He said that the opposi-
ton to annexation was not in op-
position to the United States. The
issue at stake was of vital impor-
lance to the planters and sugar
raisers. eve can't raise sugar
anywhere in the world without the
cheapest kind of labor, and there
is but one place where anything
like wages is paid and that is
Louisiana, where the planters re-
ceive a bounty which reimburses
them for their large labor expendi-
ture. In the Sandwich Islands we
must rely on coolie labor. The
laws Of the United States forbid
the importation Of contract labor
and annexation simply means the
ruination of the sugar interests of
those islands"
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As Cheap as Wood

Does not tarnish, is therefore
more practical than silver,
even though the cost is shout
one tenth of the latter.
We are displaying a win
dow full of useful articles
made up in the above metal:
Hair and Clothes Brushes,
Mirrors, Frames, Cigar and
Cigarette Cases, Cigar Cutters,
Match Boxes, Pen Holders,
Ink Stands, Blottlng Pads,
Calendars, Trays, etc.
The cost is 50 small, it is
worth you while to-purchase
an article out of mere cariosi-
ity; we can afford to throw
the usefulness in.
Another new line of those
handsome
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q. 4. X. FUNERAL.
Burial of COmrade Geo. w. Var
rick, of Wailuku, Mani.

Burial of COmrade Geo. W. Var
rick, of Waikiki, Mani.
The remains of George W. Var
rick, late Of Waikiki, Maui, and
an honored member of Geo. w. De
Long Post, G. a. r., reached Homo
lulu per steamer Claudine on Sun
day morning and were taken in
charge by Junior Vice-Commander
l.. L. LaPierre, the officer detailed
for that duty. The casket was
drapeG with the American flag and
conveyed to Nuuanu cemetery.
At 9. \. NJ. Post Commander j.
n Wright, attended by his officers
and fair representation of the resi-
dent membership, met at the G. A.
r. burial plot, where they buried
their old comrade according to the
beautiful and impressive ritual of
the order.
Comrade Yarrick was born at
Suffield, Ohio, September %, 1880,
consequently was 60 years of age,
being buried on the anniversary of
his birthday. He enlisted in Com
pany h, 10Th Regiment, Wisconsin
Volunteer Infantry, serving three
years and receiving an honorable
discharge. None knew Comrade
George Yarrick but to esteem him
for his strict integrity, as well as
for his kind and genial nature. He
leaves widow and one son to mourn
his death.
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Not the Oceanic.

Charles Peterson, the Diamond
Head lookout-keeper, telephoned at
9:20 o'clock last night that the
S. S. Oceanic, from China, was ten
miles to the southwark. A few
minutes later the horn was blown
through the principal streets an
nouncing her coming, and calling
longshoremen to assemble at the
P. NJ. S. S. Co.'S wharf. At 1920
o'clock last night Mr.. Peterson tele-
phoned that he had mistaken the
S. S. Warrimoo going out for the
s. s. Oceanic.
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Some little excitement was
caused along Fort street and the
water front early Saturday after
noon by a runaway hack.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-22

mont were ordered to the front. After
going to the place where the picket
line should have been it was found that
the enemy had broken it and that also
by flank movement they had broken
the main line between our position on
that line and Petersburg. There was
nothing left for us to do but to make
our way back to the breastworks and
rejoin the brigade (Archers) as quickly
and as safely as possible. 1t was no
very easy thing to do under the circum-
stances, as any body of men coming
from the direction in which the soldiers
thought the enemy We're would surely
be fired on without stopping to ask any
questions. But each minute was worth
a million dollars. If we remained lit
tie longer the whole command would
be surrounded and captured. Besides,
our brigade needed our help. The
writer was ordered to double-quick to
the main line, take the chances of being
shot by our own men, pass rapidly
down on top of the breastworl>s, causing
our men to hold their fire until Capt.
Day could oblique his sharpshooters
into the main line of the breastworks.
After hard run and escaping num-
ber of bullets sent to meet us by the
men in the works the line was gained,
and the sharpshooters were safely over
the rocks, with but few wounded. We
We're not moment too soon. The en-
emy had broken through and was reach
ing out in the rear, but when they
struck our part of the line the old
brigade, with yell and charge, re-
took some of the works in a regular
devils picnic.
While engaged in this movement, a
tall, angular federal, standing on the
works more exposed to the fire than
anyone, brought mis- gun to bear on my
face at a point blank range of less than
forty steps. A dodge behind a corner
of n rude log hut built for the winter
quarters saved my life, for at that mo-
ment the bark spattered in my face as
the ball grazed the log. With a prayer
for the soul of the bravest Yankee |
ever saw my trusty Sharpe's rifle was
aimed at the tall mans breast, and at
the crack of the gun he fell from the
earthworks.
About this time Capt. Arch Norris or
dered me to rally the sharpshooters and
try to check the column on our left At
the rally call handful of seven re-
| spondcd-seven men that would try
anything-and they charged that col
umn. Some We're killed and Others
wounded. At the first volley i tumbled
| to the ground with a broken leg. had
hardly touched the ground when John
Harlin, of Wilson county, Tennessee,
Jim Hearn, - Coles and another man,
name forgotten, had me on stretcher
and were trying their best to get me to
the rear. Ely this time the line was
broken and the enemy had 1t all their
own way.
They soon sent their bullets so thick
around and into the litter-bearing party
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-22
a WONDERFUL HEN.
She Laid Some Big Eggs but Failed In One
Instance.

Sam, colored man, comes and takes
care of my chickens of which l am very
proud, but he used to be always talking
in this strain. Yes, boss, youse got
some good hens, an dey lays big aigs.
but got ole hen what kin lay yo'
hens clear in de shade wild de aigs.
Dey's monstrous" Going along the
river one day last spring found under
some bushes little bit of bird egg
which some bird had evidently dis
carded as out OF shape, for it was very
long drawn out, and quite curiosity.
A thought struck me. | had got tired
of hearing about Sans wonderful
layer. l told him to bring his hen over
the next day and if found she laid
eggs as large as he said, I'd buy her at
n good price. The next day the hen
was brought and duly shut up in box
in the coop After Sam had gone L
heard cackling, and went down; she
had certainly laid meritorious egg. l
took it out and put this little egg in it's
place and went to the house. In the
afternoon l heard racket, looked
down and saw Sam thrashing the hen
with brush all about the coop and
heard him calculating "Wha foh yo'
mean?" ''Wha yo' gwine an ack dis
way foh, yo' blame ole fool hen?" "Tn
teach yo' sumpin'." l hurried down
and stopped the racket. What's the
matter, Sam?' asked. (The little egg
was gomez 'Nothin', boss only de ole
hen lonesome way fun home an amt
done lay no aig yit Guess took her
back wild me till she larn some sense"
Since then / have heard nothing more
abont those wonderful eggs &c Goodalrs
SIM
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that the men were forced to leave me to
my fate. Another minute found me in
the hands of the advance skirmishers,
and they proceeded to relieve me of my
watch and money; but big, red-faced,
thick-set major made his way to me,
and, after friendly grasp of the hand,
he had my valuables returned and four
of his men detailed to take me back to
the field hospital, and by no means to
leave me until was safely in charge of
n certain surgeon, a mason and the ma
jor's friend. On the way back Jesse
Cage, of Nashville, was picked up, with
his leg broken, and placed in the same
ambulance. About four o'clock that
evening, as the wounded men lay on a
bed of straw in large hospital tent,
Cage was carried out under the trees
and, as the tent flap was thrown back,
l could see him under the influence of
chloroform while the surgeons took his
leg Off He was soon brought back to
his straw bed and with shudder l
heard the litter-bearers say: Your time
next" 1 was placed on the table, chlo-
roform was administered, and when I
awoke from slumber my dancing days
We're over and 1 was hopeless cripple
for life
Two days after the above saw the
man / had fired at on the breastworks
walk into the tent, but, to my astonish-
ment, he was shot in the back part of
the jaw. Calling him to my bed,
found that he was the same man, and
his wounds We're explained by himself
thus: II shot at feller at the corner of
cabin and missed him, when he shot
me in the breast here" pulling open his
shirt, 1.-The ball hitting in front on the
collar bone and knocking me off tho
works. Some of our own cowardly fell
lows shot me in the jaw after l had got
up" / explained that was the ''feller
that drew a bead" on him. and explained
that the want of force in the ball was
due to the inferior cartridges used
These two soldiers ended their war
here. The one that walked waited on
the one that couldn't walk, and they
two who had shot at each other would
have risked their lives in each others
defense. | cannot now remember this
brave mans name. He belonged to a
Pennsylvania regiment. The acquaint-
ance lasted only three days, but that
was long enough for God to teach two
erring mortals that brave men bore no
malice, and, as they grasped each
others hand for a final separation, they
each breathed sigh of thankfulncss
that 81 didn't kill you"
Reader, please pardon the apparent
egotism. We can only write what came
under our immediate observation. The
death and wounding of great men, the
victory and defeat of armies, have been
and will be told by thousand pens,
but there are none to tell these little
incidents except the actors themselves.
DIR. Ii. w. Manson, in the Confederate
Veteran
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Signs of the StyIea.

Although panniers are not yet openly
favored by fashion, there are some in
dications that before the season is over
they may be arrived at by indirect
ways. Lace is gathered in a deep
founce to the edge of the round waist
in Russian style. 1t is also set on the
outside of the edge of the bodice, gath
cred full and turned up edge to edge,
then dropped over the seam to have the
effect of putting. 1t is applied in the
same manner on princess dresses. Wider
lace is used on dinner and evening toll.
cts, this occasionally forming pannier-
like draperies that terminate in long
ends on the back, caught to the dress
by bows of handsome ribbon. The use
of lace will constantly increase from
this time on throughout the spring and
summer, forming tabliers, jabots on
both skirt and bodice, and plated in
fans and coquille ruches to increase the
haring effect on the bottom of the
dress. Very short-trained bell skiris
will have the fiounce all around the
hens, while demi-trains and full trains
for brides and dowagers will have it
only on the front and sides, leaving the
sweeping breadths untrimmed Chi
;ago Mail
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-04-22

Il Z Emersons
were slav e S,
bound hard and
fast to the tyr
amy of custom
the bondage
of keeping up a
fashionable ap-
pearance with
out the ade-
q IL n tie means
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ground this evening when those young
men joked about me. But I've begun,
and | am going to go on. I'm not GO
ing to be sham or a burden one day
longer"
He walked away from her then, and,
leaning against the mantel, remained
in utter silence fully five minutes. To
most of us, however ease-loving or
however hardened, there are moments
when it is given to us to see new
heaven and a new earth; and to Harry
Emerson this flash of inspiration came
as he stood studying the border of shells
wherewith Mrs. Coffin had flanked her
fireplace.
Margery watched him with intense
anxiety. Under all her pain and dis
appointment sne had still such faith in
him that it was not wholly a surprise
to her when, returning to her side, he
said, with all the anger gone from his
voice:
"We must call Mrs. Coffin in and ex-
plain to her, Margery. Say anything
you lilke-I don't care-but Pm going
to take you in to Cousin Sally's this
evening. Your mission is accomplished.
I'll take the hotel place or do anything
else that l can to help; and when 1
fail, I'll give you leave to go out to
service as fast again as you please"
Margery, looking up at him through
her happy tears, felt almost as if she
were marring the splendor of his SUR
render by saying as she did:
But, Harry, must tell you! Cousin
Sally said that if you saw things this
way, she would pay every debt you
owe, and help papa out of the tight
place he is in. She never did help us
before, she said, because we seemed to
her SO lacking in good principle"
But even when Miss Sally had helped
them to such an extent that they soon
sailed past all the breakers of which
have written, Harry's new manliness
proved seaworthy. So effectually, in
deed, did he learn the lesson which
Margery gave, that his contributions
to the family exchequcr saved her
from any need to take a second situa-
tion. - Hester Vickery Brown, in
Youths Com panion.
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Starting slightly, he turned around
and looked her in the face; but, though
his own ruddy cheek did change color,
there was no recognition in his gaze.
In the coolest possible voice he replied:
"Broth, pleaser'
Then Morrison across the table called
out mockingly: sour friend Emerson's
struck all of II heap with so much youth
and beauty"
Emerson, quite in his usual manner,
answered.: "I'm all of that, | assure
you"
But all his sang froid could not pre-
vent him from finding that dinner n
bitter one; and his fathers letter in
his pocket seemed to have gained an
added weight.
An hour or two later he retraced his
steps toward the boarding house, rang
the bell, and brought the landlady her.
self to the door.
~ want to see that new table girl,
Mrs. Coffin" he said. "She left my
mother only this week, and 1 have a
message for her"
"Oh, it's all right" he added, impa-
tiently, as Mrs. Coffin fingered with
some inquiry in her eyes; "you needn't
be afraid"
Concluding that even if it were all
wrong she had nothing to fear, the
landlady went out at once and sent the
girl in.
Margery came with her pretty head
erect, and no fear in her innocent
eyes But tumult was in her heart,
and at first she could not find voice to
answer his imperious greeting.
May ask the meaning of this mas
querading, Miss Emerson? Whatever
it is, you certainly choose nice way
to disgrace both yourself and me-" he
said, still more angrily, after mo-
ment's pause, and then she flashed
upon him.
There never was any disgrace in
honest work! It's you who are in
much more danger of disgracing us
all. and perhaps you will think soyour-
self if your selishness and extrava-
gance kills papa. He IS just sick with
anxiety now, and you could save him
from it if you only would. / am sure
you could live on half what you do, and
you have so much influence with
mamma Unat Sne WOulQ save, uOO IL
you would talk to her.
I'm not clever, 1 know, but could
do the housemaid's work, and I'would,
but you will not do anything. You re-
fused to take that situation, and you
only laughed at me when 1 talked to
you the last time you were home. And
then l just made up my mind that if
you were too proud to work I'd show
you that wasn't!'
All through this torrent of words her
brother walked angrily around, affect
ing not to listen. But he stood still
now, looking sternly and seriously into
her face.
"And you will stay here and do this
menial work just for the sake of sham
ing me?"
Put in this way she did not like the
sound of it, but she held her ground un-
flinchingly.
Il not only mean to say it, but
mean to do it. Oh, you need not look at
me like that! 1 don't like it-vou may
be sure. 1 could have sunk into the
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structure, against which large num-
ber of the store buildings backed, and
to burn the depot was to burn the town
The general was spectacular soldier.
as well as a brave fighter and his pic.
turesque dress showed him to be some
what of a gallant knight. Hence the
ladies of Sedalia banded themselves to-
gether to the number of about fifty
and waited upon him with prayer not
to destroy the depot and the town. He
treated the delegation with conspicuous
courtesy, and finally told the ladies
that soldier must obey orders, but he
felt free to notify them that he would
set fire to the depot at five o'clock on
the following morning, and he limited
to them that if the old barn happened
to be green and didn't burn up the fault
would be theirs. They took the hint.
Promptly at five o'clock bucket trig.
ade of ladies was in line at the depot
The soldiers started the fire, the gen.
eral gave his orders for the army to
move On, and the ladies waited until
the commander had disappeared and
then promptly extinguished the flames
amid the joyous shouts of the soldiers
st. Louis Republic.
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so support it properly.
Upon Mrs. Emerson and Harry, the
only son, the yoke did not weigh heav-
lily, but it sorely CALLED Mr. Emerson;
and Margery, the only daughter,
chafed against it with all the ineffec.
tual mpatience of her seventeen years.
Life would be so much easier if we
could only give up pre- tending." she
cried but her mother and Harry
scofcd at her philosophy. The striving
and pretending, the staving off one
debt and getting into another went on
apace.
Lying alone in the hammock in the
fragrant twilight of late May day,
Margery was thinking over things in
general with noble discomfort, when
suddenly from the room beyond she
heard the voices of her mother and
father Mrs. Emerson's tones were
conciiiatory, as they were apt to be
when she sought some new favor; her
husbands accents were shrill and i'm
patient, as if his last thread of en-
durance were strained.
81 thought, Henry, you'd like the
idea Of Margery taking this trip with
the Pages"
''Lilse it? Yes, immensely, but l
think we shall all be called upon to
take n trip to the poorhouse instead /
came to that conclusion this morning
when three of Master Harry's bills were
forwarded me, each of them four times
larger than it ought to be-"
'Well, but Henry. you can't expect Il
young man to get through Harvard
without bills"
The conciiatory tone was dashed with
defiance now, and the sharpness of the
answering voice was increased.
II don't expect it. Considering the
sort of young man Harry is, should
be a fool if l did And yet / don't
blame him half so much as l blame
myself | started him wrong. He'd
be twice the man he is now if he had
been making his living for the last two
years, instead of vying with million
aires sons acting as though my poor
little bucket of resources were an in
eXhaustible spring. And, though it is
different with Margery, the principle
is the same. With all that her private
schools have done for her, ldoubt if she
could earn dollar for herself, and who
knows how soon she may need it,"
All this was SO wildly unlike her
much enduring, indulgent father that
for moment the unwilling listener on
the piazza fe.t inclined to doubt both
his identity and her own; but her dis