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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-30

pecially made for and sent TO him
at Honolulu at the time Of lis
painful accident in 1892
The GROWING glory of the pre-
misses Is, however, the house of the
medical director in charge, built
and occupied in 1892. 1t Is a
modern house Of moderate di-
mansions, tastefully furnished,
characterized by great beauty
OF architecture, its particular
features tower and broad
veranda supported by redwood
columns, and presents a most ct
tractive appearance with its fore
ground of hedge and lawn and
background of wood. To obtain
the appropriation for this required
an earnest fight on the part Of the
surveyor-general, who finally sue
ceeded after many failures in con-
vlncing congress Of the necessity,
there being no proper quarters in
the hospital for the senior medical
officer and his family.
The inspectio~ 1 the hospital at
Mare Island lay be considered as
the final act of ex-Surveyor- General
Brownies career, and considering
the qualification afforded him it is
certainly a happy ending of his
official life.
The present officers of the Mare
Island hospital are as follows: G.
W. Woods, medical inspector, in
charge George Rothganger, past |
assistant surgeon; C. E. Riggs, |
assistant surgeon; Stephen st. |
John, apothecary and purveyor.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-30
MARE ISLANDS HOSPITAL.
An Institution Which is a Creda.'
to the Navy Deparfm emf.

VALLEJO, July 30.-Ex-Surveyor
General John Mills Browne is still
sojourning at Mare Island as the
guest of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Cults, and later with Mrs. Browne
will make a visit to Medical In
spector Woods at the hospital. At
present his time is well occupied
in receiving old friends at the ISL
and or visiting them in Vallejo,
where the entire population claims
his friendship, looking upon him as
a pioneer citizen.
The hospital which he built,
and with Medical Inspector Woods
inaugurated in 1871, has always
with him been an object of special
interest, and as surveyor-general
he had the opportunity of doing
what he long desired for the insti-
tuition. For the last year of his
administration Medical Inspector
Woods has been in charge of the
hospital, and with the abundant
means placed at his disposal the
place has been practically rejuven-
ated-almost rebuilt.
The hospital building has been
thoroughly repaired, new floors
laid, refurnished throughout, new
bathrooms and other conveniences
introduced, and the whole, includ-
ing the outbuildings, painted with
in and without. The building and
grounds, as we'll as the stables, are
all lighted with electric light, the
fixtures being known as the COM
bination, so that at any time gas
may be substituted for electricity
if desired.
The wards have been completely
renovated, and every appliance in
troduced which can be found in
the most modern hospitals of the
Eastern cities and Europe, while
they are made attractive and;home-
like with prettily finished bright
rugs and wall pictures. In one
ward, besides the ordinary cush-
toned invalid chairs is a perambu-
lating one patented by Rear-Ad-
miral George Brown, U. S. n, es-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-30
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SCENES FROM THE FAR EAST
DESCRIBED.

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TOoI'd y an Egyptian JugsIer
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-30
Administrators Notice .

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING
l. been duly appointed Administrator
OF the Estate OF George Harry
Luce, late of Honolulu, deceased
notice is hereby given to all creditors
OF the deceased to present their
claims and with the proper vouchers
If any exist to the undersigned, within
six months from the date hereof, or they
will be forever barred, and all persons
indebted to said deceased, are requested
dersigned, at the Office of J. A. Monsar-
rat, Cartwright Block, Merchant street,
Honolulu. ELIZA p. LUCE,
Administrator OF the Estate OF George
Harry Luce.
Honolulu, Aug -, 1898.
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-30

Parents Of three children in Ware
county, GA, have not as yet named
their offspring, as they intend al
lowing them to make their own Sc
lection when they become old
enough to choose.
At a recent auction sale or orchids
in London one rare example of
these high-priced parasites brought
the extraordinary sum of 1925.
This was the specimen of the fine
Cattleya Mendelii Bluntii.
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Administrators and Guardians Notice.

4 LII PERSONS ARE CAUTIONED
L n not to trust any one on account of
the Estate OF the late K. p. Kuikahi, or
on account OF the Estate Kawailepolepo
huikahi, minor, without nv written
order. WILLIAM HORNER.
Administrator of the Estate of
the late r. p. Kuikahi; Guardian
OF the Estate OF Kawailepolepo Kui-
kahi, minor.
SI62-1w 1885,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-30
STOPPED THE DiNCING.
Closing the Persian Theafer in
the Midway PIaisauce

The Persian theater on the mid
plaisance at the Chicago fair has
been closed, and the dancing girls
who performed there have been for
hidden to enter the fair grounds.
This is the work of the board of
lady managers, whose Investigations
upon the character of entertainment
at several OF the theaters on the
midway enabled them to report to
the council of administration that
several Of the theaters were indie.
cent.
The director general has likewise
ordered that the oriental dancing of
the hours in the Algerian. Turkish
and Cairo theaters be toned down.
The manager of the Persian
theater refused to obey the verbal
order from Director General Davis to
keep the dancing feature from his
cafe and dancing hall attraction. He
written order, which was
sent with an escort of Columbian
guards to insure its enforcement.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-08-30
COMrtnership Notice

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ Ho Leong, C. Kan Seu, All Tong,
G. Kim Sing, G Kim Hee and zee Sing.
all OF Honolulu, Island OF Oahu, do here
by form corpartnership under the
firm name of Sing Wo & Company. The
business of said copartnership is selling
goods, merchandise, etc, at retail at No.
- Nuuanu St, Honolulu aforesaid. And
it is further announced that Ho Leong
alone is authorized to sign the firm name
of the Company. SING WO q COS
3460-lw
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FACTORY PRICES.
Having Placed Our Orders for Large
Lines Goods Shortly to Arrive, we
~>~ Must Make Room for Same

We Startling Bargains in staple
Stationery = follows:
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05

Perhaps no plank in the Demo-
cratic platform of last year was
more sharply criticised than the one
which demanded repeal of the ten
per cent tax OH state bank issues
Yet, within little more than a
year the New York Journal Of
Commerce and Commercial Bulle-
tin, an entirely non-partisan paper,
and one whose opinion on financial
affairs is recognized as conservative
and safe, advocates the repeal of
the tax on state banks circulation,
allowing the general government
the right only to prescribe certain
conditions. 1t says in part:
when any state shall enact CD
That the issues of banks, doing
business under it's laws, shall not
exceed in amount rs per cent of
their paid-up capital; (2) That
the notes of such banks shall con-
stitute first lien upon the assets
Of the bank; (3) That a central
agency shall be established within
the state for the redemption of
said notes; and az That the
banks shall be subject to regular
official examination-then and UNI
der such conditions, the tax of ten
per cent shall not be enforced
against notes so issued.
Such regulation" it is insist
ed would put the circulation of
the state banks under conditions of
guarantee closely similar to those
we have suggested as for the nat
ional banks, and would elevate the
status of the notes immeasurably
above that of the old state issues;
while, in states which did conform
their laws to these conditions, the
prohibitory effect of the tax would
remain operative; but under condi-
tons far less Objectionable upon
political grounds than those that
now exist"
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05
Secretary Thurber.

Coming here entirely unfamiliar
with the duties of his office and
unacquainted with Washington
ways, public men, or newspaper
men, Mr.. Thurber had to spend
half of the time in learning, while
in the other half he grabbed with
the double portion of work which
falls to the Presidents private sec
retany at the beginning of an ad-
ministration. Day in and day out,
except Sundays, for weeks, Mr..
Thurber got up at Z o'clock in the
morning and worked until 2 or 8
o'clock the next morning, hardly
stopping to eat. He must have
lost 25 pounds during March and
April, and as he is so light in fig
ure that he had very little to lose,
this meant more to him than twice
as much would have meant to some
men. But he mastered his task.
He learned all that he had to learn
and he did all that he had to do
until he could say that every COM
munication coming to the White
House, however trivial, is attended
to on the day of it's arrival, every
correspondent getting an answer
and the business presented being
promptly disposed of. And he did
not make any blunders either.
The fact is he is very bright
man, and, while his experience as a
lawyer was chiefly in his Office, he
knew men and affairs better than
those who criticised him when he
first came to Washington, thought
he did. He found human nature
in Washington to be very much
like human nature in Detroit. and
after he had learned who was who
and had gotten the hang of mems
titles he found that sagacity, tact
and courtesy worked just as well at
the White House as in his law
office. There was certain dispo-
sition among public men and
newspaper men, when Mr.. Thurber
came bere, to imagine that an over
revenge for Mr.. Cleveland, which
they thought they detected in the
interview in which Mr.. Thurber
announced that he had accepted
the private secretaryship, would
make him say and do ludicrous
things in the private secretary's Of
fee.
Bnt those who had this idea had
to give it up, for Private Secretary
Thurber's attitude to the President
seems to be just what il ought to
be. Private Secretary Thurber's
functions seem to be like those Of
Private Secretary Lamont. But
that was to be expected, no matter
who became private secretary, not
only because there is only one La
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05

mont, but because President Cleve-
land in his second term is very diff
ferent from President Cleveland in
his first term.
1t is interesting to learn that
President Cleveland never had any
intention of taking another news
paper man for private secretary, in
spite of the numerous rumors of
last winter connecting the names
of several newspaper men with the
Office. II seems that Mr.. Cleveland
while he appreciated fully the sue
cess of Col. Lamont in the private
secretaryship, had the idea which
so many old-fashioned lawyers
have, that other things being equal,
a lawyer would fill any Office bet
ter than Il man who was not law
yer, and made up his mind, when
he renominated, that if he was
re- elected he would select lawyer
as private secretary.-W ashington
Correspondence Philadelphia Re-
cord.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05
Railroad Across the Sahara,

If the United States could cross
our continent with railroads, or if
Russia can span Asia with line of
rails, why cannot France cross the
Sahara desert with railroad /?
Possibly it can. A beginning has
been made in that mammoth I'M
dertaking. But the difficulties are
incalculable. AS soon as those that
are now known shall be overcome
others will arise. Consider for an
instant the enormous obstacles to
making a railroad 1,500 miles long
through a territory without wood
or ties, without water, without
everything required to sustain life.
Railroads have been constructed
through countries to which all the
materials required have had to be
carried. But here is a country
which does not even supply water
for the men who must do the work.
Yet this stupendous work is now
seriously contemplated by the
French government. When it is
undertaken the rails will be laid
from oasis to oasis, which lie like
islands in the great ocean of the
desert. As it approaches the south
the trunk line may be divided, one
arm to run to Lake Tchad, and the
other to strike the Niger above
Timbuctoo, from which point
steamers could descend to Senegam-
bia. The work may cost hundreds
or even thousands of millions of
dollars. and Express.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05
Extra Session of Congress.

President Cleveland has named
August 18th as the day for the meet
ing of the extra session of congress,
and the business pulse Of the coun-
try at once seems to have settled
down to its more natural beating.
This extra session, as everybody is
aware, is called for the purpose Of
taking some action that will tend
to settle the present stringency Of
the currency, and start business
again in its proper channel, by re.
storing confidence.
In the proclamation for this ex-
ira session, Mr.. Cleveland says:
"Whereas, the distrust and APP
prehension concerning the financial
situation which pervades all districts
have already caused great loss and
damage to our people, and threaten
to cripple our merchants, stop the
wheels Of manufacture, bring dis
tress and privation to our farmers,
and withhold from our working
men the wage Of labor;
"And, whereas, the present peril
Gus condition is largely the result
of a financial policy which the exc
cutive branch of the government
finds embodied in unwise laws,
which must be executed until re-
pealed by congress-
And then the call is made for the
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05
Taxing a Square Meal.

When Colonel Mckinley climbs
upon the Ohio stump to expound
to the Buckeyes the benefcence Of
the protective system, he will de-
light listening world if he will
give working diagram, with speci-
fications, showing just how an AM
erican voter can soothe his inner
man without paying tax at the Nc.
Kinley tollgates.
The "free breakfast table has
been widely exploited as the perfect
blossom Of Republican tariffs, but
to the uninlightened there is suspi-
cion Of a string tied to the adjective
"free." For what availeth If a man
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05

Business men all over the coun-
try as strongly appealing to the
extra session of congress, soon to
meet, fol, the repeal of the Sherman
silver law The financial depres-
sion throughout the land, is attri-
buted mainly to the Sherman law,
by business men of all parties, and
the prospects and hopes that relief
will come by the repeal, which is
now looked for, seems to have had
tendency to strengthen and en-
liven business in very marked de-
gree.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05

to get his tea and. coffee untaxed it
he has to pay toll at the rate OF 40
per cent on his coffee mill, 45 to 6O
per cent on his teapot, and 90 to 6O
per cent on the cups from which
said tea and coffee are slipped, not
TO mention she half cent a pound
that is exacted on the refined sugar
with which those useful beverages
need to be sweetened? Will the
Colonel recommend that tea and
coffee be taken straight to save the
tax on refined sugar, and scooped
up in the hollow of the hand to
save the tax on crockery? And it
the breakfast table be really free,
how shall man SAVIOR his eggs
and yet escape the tax on salt?
The high-tariff orators have not
spread themselves much on the
freedom of the dinner table. With
custom-house tax of 20 per cent
Oh plum pudding, how much could
they? Nor can any veracious ora
tor claim that pumpkin pie is free
when the essential ingredient of
ripe pumpkins is taxed full % per
cent. In the latter part of winter,
when cellar and storehouse are bare
of vegetables, people living in the
country often find in prunes
great promoter of regular digestion
of scurvy-compelling diet, and yet
the Mckinley toll on prunes is 2
cents pound.
Leaving luxuries and concentra-
ton attention for a moment upon
victuals that belong in the domain
of necessaries, it found that in the
Mckinley schedules bologna sau-
sage and sauerkraut are as free as
free as salvation or a beer lunch,
while all other sausage must pay
25 per cent and cabbages 8 cents
head.
The great American jack rabbit
is also protected by the Mckinley
aegis, for no foreign-born rabbit
can pass our custom-house alive
without paying 20 per cent of what
he is worth, nor dead for less than
10 per cent. And if any hungry
American wants to help out the
home market by shooting his own
rabbit he must pay Mckinley 35
per cent OH the gunwads.
Table cloths are taxed 40 to so
per cent and table cutlery rs to 100
per cent. And when the Kentucky
Colonel prepares to get up an ap-
petite for his taxed dinner he is
Mortified to discover that straws for
mint juleps are not admitted into
this free country for less than 30
per cent ad valorem.
Before Colonel Mckinley is re-
elected Governor of Ohio he will
doubtless hear from a good many
blockheads who want to know how
the American farmer is protected
by the taxes on pumpkins and
cabbage heads.-St. i. Il.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05
extra session of congress to convene
at IL o'clock noon, on Aug. 18th.
Recording of Deeds.

The Supreme Court has declared
the section of the new tax law rela-
tive to the recording of deeds, to be
valid. The following is u summary
of the opinion:
II. Section 1876 is valid. The
certificate required need not SET
forth the liens or titles held by the
state or individuals, but only the
fact that liens or titles are held by
the state or by individuals or both.
The existence of such liens or titles
does not prevent the recording OF
the deed or plat unless the lien held
by the state is acquired for taxes
becoming due within five years pre-
vious to the date of the instrument.
20. If the certificate shows that
all the taxes have not been paid for
five years previous to the date of the
deed or plat, it is not entitled to
record.
"3. If at the annual tax sales
the land has been sold to individu-
ais, this is payment 80 far as the
state and municipalities are con-
cerned, and is payment within the
meaning of the act.
"A. The act includes those taxes
and those only which, when not
paid to the collector, are required
by law to be returned to the County
Treasurer, and when not paid to
him are by him to be returned to
the Auditor-General. 1t does not
contemplate that either of these Of
fcers shall make any examination
outside the records of their own Of
fees. Unless such records show
the presumption is
that the taxes are paid, and justify
the certificate that all taxes are paid
as shown by the records"
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05

not contended that the entire in.
crease is due to road improvement
but it is shown very clearly, by a
comparison of different localities
that the increase is very largely
traceable to that cause.
There is provision in New Jer.
sey for state aid in certain cases in
which the law differs from that
which we have in Michigan. We
have here, however, as already
stated, all the law that is needed as
a basis for going ahead with the
work. What is wanted is touch
of the same spirit and enterprise
which has animated the farmers OF
New Jersey.-Free Press.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05

Any man may vote in Michigan
He may be ignorant and unable to
read or speak the English language
or read any language. That don't
count. The late unlamented Leg
islature gave to women the privi-
lege of voting in certain elections
provided they can read English
The compliment is entirely gener-
Gus one. Some other legislation on
the other side Of the house would not
have been out of place.-Grand
Rapids Press.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05
The Magazine of the Future.

The July Cosmopolitan will mark the
most radical step ever taken In periodical
literature. With that issue the magazine,
unchanged In form, In fact, one of the
best numbers of the Cosmopolitan ever
issued, will be put on sale at twelve and
one-half cents per copy-$1.50 a year.
The cutting In half OF price already
deemed low for an illustrated magazine
Is the result Of an intention long since
formed, to give to the public an illustra-
ted monthly Of the very highest class at
such price as must bring II within the
reach OF all persons of intellectual tastes,
however limited their incomes. There
are more than ten million readers In the
United States and less than eight hundred
thousand magazines are printed to supply
their demands. More than four years
have been spent In reaching the organiza-
ton necessary for the production Of The
Cosmopolitan at this price, a figure hith-
erto undreamed OF by the reading world
Each department Of the work has been
slowly perfected, until with the January
number Of this year one hundred and fifty
thousand copies OF the magazines were
prepared upon presses and machinery of
the most improved form, built with view
to producing the finest results at the very
minimum Of expense-the only establish
ment In the world, It is believed, devoted
exclusively to the printing of an illustra-
ted monthly magazine. To establish a
magazine upon such basis at the out
set was impossible. Only the rapid
growth Of The Cosmopolitan's editions,
almost unprecedented In magazine re-
cords, has produced the conditions which
make this departure from established
prices possible. The Cosmopolitan PROM
ises to make the year 1903 the most brill
seen such an array OF distinguished names
as will appear on It's title page during
1898. De Maupassant, Mark Twain,
George Ebcrs, Valdez, Spielhagen, Fran
co.'s, Coppee, Flammarion and Paul
Heyse, are some of the authors whose
work will appear for the first time during
this year In the pages of the Cosmopolitan.
Among tho artists whose work will deco
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-07-05

Ifany doubts as to the abundant success
OF the Californian Magazine have been
fostered, they must be summarily dlspel-
led upon glance at the superb number
for July. From the beautiful white and
gold cover, on which the favorite Callfor-
MIA poppy Is glorifed, to the last page OF
the magazine there is bounteous feast
for the eye and the mind.
One OF the most important contribu-
tons to the July number Is that by Hon.
Thomas j. Geary, the author OF the now
famous "Geary BILL" OH the "Law and
the Chinaman." The writer clinches his
anti-Chinese arguments In way that car
ries conviction with every word. Mr..
Geary regards the Chinese deportation as
second only In Importance to the abolish
ment OF slavery, and believes the issue
should be met, II necessary, with equally
heroic treatment. He presents fair and
entirely dispassionate presentation OF
the facts, bringing his statistics up to
date, and using recent developments and
decisions to illustrate the points OF his
argument.
Without doubt the Californian Column
bian Edition Is the most beautiful produc-
ton Of its kind ever issued west OF New
York.