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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-05
MOUNTAINS OF THE MOOS.
New Light on the Famous Mountains
Ptolemy Mapped.

New Light on the Famous Mountains
Ptolemy Mapped.
Ptolemy's famous map shows a
range of mountains in Central Africa
and the sources of the Nile rising on
their northern fianks. The geogra-
pher said they were known to. the
natives as the Mountains of the Moon.
Not many years ago the Mountains OF
the Moon were still the most conspl-
cuous feature on the maps of un-
known inner Africa. When Stanley
last returned to civilization he tried
to identify the great mountains he
discovered south of Albert Nyanza
with Ptolemy's Mountains OF the
Moon, which had been expunged
from the maps by recent geographers.
In September last DIR. Baumann,
one of the most careful and reliable
of German explorers, traversed re.
eion between Victoria Nyanza and
the north end of Lake Tanganyika
that had never been visited by any
modern explorer. On September l9
he reached the foot of some preclpl-
tons and wooded mountains OF con-
siderable elevation. They form the
water parting between the Kagera
River. the largest tributary of Lake
Victoria, and affiuents of Tanganyika.
On this northern mountain side DIR.
Baumaun asserts that he saw the
head fountains of the Nile; and the
natives call the mountains where
these sources are found the Noun
tains of the Moon. The explorer be-
lieyes that the veritable mountains
that figure on Ptolemy's map have at
last been discovered and Identified.
We have known for some time that
the knowledge of Central Africa
claimed by the ancients was py no
means entirely hypothetical. They
located the dWarfs, for instance, ap-
proximately where SchWeln1uith
found them, and DIR. Baumann's ois-
covery seems to indicate that the
name of the mountains were the head
springs of the Nile are found has
been handed down for many ages;
When DIR. Baumann entered tn1s
unknowa land of Northern Urundl
he could not understand the remark.
Able manifestations of rejoicing ana
respect which his appearance evoked.
The natives had never before seen
white man. The explorer learned at
last that the Urundi had been ruled
for ages by kings whose line was
supposed to have descended from the
moon. to which each king returned
upon his death. The natives 6eileveo
the white man to be king who dled
some forty years ago, and who had
now come back to them from the
moon. The remarkably fruitful re-
snlts of DIR. Baumann's travels last
wear show that there are still many
nrizes of African discovery to be won.
Pioneering q new route to Victoria
Nvanza. he discovered lofty snow
mountain in the southern part OF
Mssailand, making the fourth OF
the mountains or ranges IN Equa-
torial Africa that are tound 70
wear a perpetual covering OF snow.
Farther on his way he came TO a
hitherto unknown lake, thirty miles
wide at its northern end, and be.
lieved from native reports to De al
least ninety miles long. No reports
OF the existence of Lake Elassi mao
ever reached the earlier explores
n. Y. Sun.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-05

WILL GIVE ESTIMATES FOB NEW
w Boilers, Tanks, Pipes, Smoke-stacks,
Fumes, Bridges, and general Sheet iron
work. Boilers repaired at liberal rates.
100 lbs. cold water or steam pressure qua
ranteed on all work.
~-Addree P. o. Box 479, Honolulu,
d ]. 3144 1434-tf
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-05

Flowering plants that were rare m anu
high-priced five years ago are nov
eomparatively cheap, and at tHe is
Greenhouses about New YORK IL Is
nossible for less than 80 to OBTAIN q
score of plants that shall incluae spe,
cimens of almost any popular nVm g
New New varieties of plants long familiar
~ tbe public also command speciai
rafQl
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-05-05

The Tourists Guide for the ha-
uai;an Islands can be had at this
office This handy book is invalu-
eble for strangers visiting this coun-
trv 1t contains descriptive matter
pertaining to the different ISLANDS
,.;tb handsome illustrations and
mans No tourist should be with
ont the guide as it will save them a
bother and questions.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07

LIZ constructed chimneys are the cause of
frequent conflagrations. There appears to
be no remedy, so far as houses already built
are concerned; but, says the New Orleans
Picayune one can be applied to all new CON
structons by requiring special conditions
to attach to the making of chimneys and
smoke hues. In many cities it is expressly
forbidden to plaster or parget the interiors
OF such fiues, but they must be built with
close filled mortar joints, or they NAV be
lined with metal or fire clay pottery under
specified conditions
The New York city building law is very
strict. 1t provides that all fues for house
heaters, bake ovens large cooking ranges,
laundry stoves, etc, shall have S-inch struck
Joint brick flues, or if an approved burnt
clay or metallic well jointed lining is pre-
ferred, then II finch wall well bonded and
having clear air space of one inch between
will be allowed. For fireplaccs and small
stove fiues the air space may be omitted.
The backs OF fireplaces must have eight
inches of brick backing No pargeting will
be allowed i'll any heated flue. Steam boil
ers, smelling furnaces and other high heat
flues must have double walls, with an air
space between. The finch liuings of the
first % feet are to be made of fire brick. All
flMes are to be carried at least three feet
above the roof and capped with cast iron,
terra Gotta or stone. Cupola stacks must
be ut least 10 feet higher than any building
within so feet
Flncs so built would not he liable to be-
come dangerous with age and neglect, be-
cause there is no plastering to fall off and
leave open joints. The joints between the
bricks being filled with mortar can never
gap or come open unless such n mshnp is
caused by the sinking of the foundations of
the building. But chimneys which are
plastcrcd inside are constantly subject to be
made dangerous by the falling of the plaster
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Professor sou.,.wiok Tonight

The entertainment by Prof Henry
L. South wick this evening at the Y. Nj.
c. A. promises TO be an ENJOYABLE oc.
casion. Professor Seuthwick was born
i'll Boston in 1863. For seven years he
was engaged in active journalism, serv-
ing in various capacities on the staff OF
ike Boston Herald. Developing q talent
for oratocy and elocution he abandoned
his FIRST love and entered the celebrated
Emerson College of Oratory che largest
in tie worldly for three years course
OF special training, at the conclusion of
which he was invited to become one of
its teachers. In 1855, however, he went
to Philadelphia as master OF oratory
and reading at the Penn Charter School.
After year at Philadelphia he was re.
called to Emerson College and made
seeretary'of that institution and head
assistant to the president. DR.. Charles
W. Emerson. For several summers he
has been IN charge Of the school OF ex-
preston ut Msrbha's Vineyard. This
summer he is advertised for Glens'
Falls. Professor Sou:hwick hes also
won uneGaivocal success as a public
lecturer. When only "a he delivered
an address on Patrick Henry at the Ole
South Church, Boston, which WAC recoo
nlged as one of the best in a course IL
which such men as John Fisk and Ed
watd Everett Hale had part
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Prod1ce and Merchana,se.

NEW YoGK, July 6.-Flour dull,
grades, ;.95@2. As; do, fair to fancy,
2 1903. As; patents, $4,000. 90; Southern
flour dull, easy; common to fair extra,
2.l0@3.10: good to choice do, $3.50
4.25. Wheat moderately active, firmer;
No. red, store and elevator7l14 @7l}5,
afloat 71%@72%; options opened weak,
closed steady at }6@:9s over yesterday g
after active fluctuations; trading fairly
active; July, 71A; August, 739s; Sep
TENDER, 1871.
Corn dull, frmer; No. 2, 41H@4sss
elevator, 4s&@40B a. oa,; Options very
dull, e higher, closing weak: July, 37%;
August. 49X; September, 4sX Oats
ID 'ner, fairly active; options dull, irmer;
Jnly, 35; August, 80; Septem Der, go;
spot No. 2, $4,000; No. . wnre, 81;
mixed Western, e5@37; white, 36645.
Wool quiet. unsettled; domestic feece,
27@ 80; pulled, 26637.
Beef quiet, steady; family, lO@l2:
extra mess, T.50Os so; beef hams. DALI,
II SO; tierced beef, quiet, unchanged
Cut meats quiet, steady; picked bellies,
10; shoulders, $685.; hams. l2@l2LS:
middles, inactive, short. clear. qAl.
Lard quiet, frmer; Western steam
closed, 9.s24, nominal; city a;6Ms%:
option sales, none, refined cuie:
continent, 10 80; South America, 10 Gj:
compound, 7sl@.N. Pork quiet, steady;
new mets, 10000
Cotton seed OF moderate demand,
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Chicago Pressed Chicken.

Dundas man has for the past few
weeks, it is claimed, been travelling
through the counties of Rice, Goodhue
and Dakota buying up all the calves he
can for 90 cents. These calves are taken
to his farm at Stanton, about seven
miles north of this city, where they are
killed, skinned and chopped up-lights,
llvers and bones-and packed into boxes
and shipped TO Chicago firm. The Chi
cago firm puts them Though some proc
cess and sells them to the Worlds fair
restaurants for pressed chicken This
ran has shipped large numbers of these
ta1ves.-Cor. Minneapolis Journal.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Quarantine Against Hamburg.

AS we had to shut the gates of New
York against Hamburg for time last
year, we may have to shut them against
it once more this year. We cannot toll
crate any foolery about the existence of
cholera i'll Il city with which we are con
stantly in communication. We must
not permit Hamburg to imperil New
York. The authorities of the German
city have once and again concealed from
us facts which they were in honor bound
to make known. They did so last
autumn, and they have done so twice
within the past two months. AS "Punic
faith got bad name ages ago, Ham
burg faith is likely to get bad name in
Our times. Hamburg will act wisely
i'll sending lis immediate reports of all
cases of cholera, variola, typhus and por-
rigo there.-New York Sun.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Lived TO Sec His Words Come True

From the Washington Post
when the civil war was ended. said
Maj. Jed Hotchkiss, of Stanton, at the
Randall, 81 declared that Virginia must
seek material rehabilitation throuph
her grand mining resources, and have
lived to see nv words come true. In
lSS2, where there is now a population of
10000, tied my horse in mountain
path and crept through dense thicket
OF laurel bushes to investigate the coal
deposits that have since made the
Pocahontas mines known all over th.
Union. This coal is to day used on all
the ocean greyhounds; with it the
Campania broke the record; with 1t the
Cramps have won the immense sums
given by the Government for extra
speed; no other fuel is used in the
United States navy, and this year we
VIII ship 3,0O0,0 C0 tons of it to every
point Of the com pass.
There is no coal like 1t for NJ aking
perfect coke, OF which latter product
the Illinois Steel Company takes from
$50 to 1000 tons daily for use in its i'm :.
mense plant at Chicago. where formerly
tho Connellsvi!le coke was used ex-
ciuslvely. The Norfolk and Western.
the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Balti
1890 "'iN OhAO al q III UQ6 QGVolOD-
ment OF the coal fields Of the Virginias,
and big ships will be crowding the
waters of Hampton Roads to aid in it's
distribution. This means ultimately
the establishment OF great iron plants
In the vicinity of the fields. They are
sure to come.
~ regard Virginia even now as in a.
highly prosperous condition and with
an outlook for dcyelopment Second to
no State in America. The returns from
the garden farms of the two eastern
shore counties show that nowhere in the
world does agriculture reap such profits.
The truck farmers around Norfolk hsve
become men OF wealth within the last
live years. The settlement of the debt
question was the GROWING piece OF good
fortune. The foreign creditors viii pet
their interest promptly. and ere long
the century bonds will be regarded as a
giltedged investment"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Illuminating n Bows Head.

At a meeting of tho Academy of Med
icine held in New York recently, DIR.
Wendell c. Phillips, one of the MEM
bcrs, exhibited an electric head illumi-
nator which was productive of some
unique results. \ small boy was taken,
and Il powerful electric lamp was insert
cd i'll his mouth. which was then closed
on the handle which held the lamp. The
lights OF the meeting We're all turned
down, and the storage battery was turn
ell on. The light III the boys mouth
shone ont through his checks, detailing
every vein, line and imperfection III the
skin and the lines of teeth and gums in
the mouth. His face looked CHASTITY in
Its vividless and reminded one, if it were
possible, of an intensely realistic JACKIE
lantern.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07

firm; crude, 36@37; yellow prime, AGO
Az. Petroleum steady, quiet. Rosin
quiet, steady. Turpentine quiet,
weaker, 2sh@2e. Rice fairly active,
steady. Molasses, foreign nominal:
New Orleans, open kettle good to choice
dull, 30@3S. Peanuts quiet. Coffee
options opened steady and closed quiet,
SOLO down; July 1896; Septem Der,
15.75@15.S0; Deem Der, Is 45@l5.6O
spot Rio dull, steady: No z. 1917.
Sugar, raw firm. more active; fair re.
lining. 81; centrifugals, 90 test, Az; re-
fined fairly active, firm; off A, 15-1G@
So 1G; standard A, 1906 9l6; granu-
lated, sS@5 1l-16. Freights to Liver
pool quiet, steady; cotton, 9-64d; grain,
346 asked
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Where Cream of Tartar Comes From.

According to one of the consular reports,
most of the cream of tartar comes from
France. Austria, Italy, Spain and other
grape growing countries. 1t is product
of winenaking After the wine has stood
in casks or watts for time hard, white
prccipitate forms on the slaves. This is the
impure cream OF tartar. 1t is scraped Off
and purified by dissoving it in hot water,
and then the pure cream of tartar is precip-
itated. This is all there is TO the manufar-
turc OF this necessary article, and it will
open new field for California industry.
At present this country draws its supply
chiefly from France
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
What's In a Name.

ltis year of odd names for;men Of
sudden fame. Here is list tFat sug-
gests iiselfat a moments thought:' Zimri
oviggins, banker; Dahomey Dodds,
warrior; Hoke Smith. journalist end
statesman; Sylvester Pennoyer, who told
the president "to mind his own bus
ness" Stanhope Sans, poet and states
man; Colonel Pod Dismukc, statesman:
Colonel Dink Bolts. Office seeker.N And
Times.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
A rawnbroLInr Experiment.

Notice is served in The Christian
Union OF the impending trial of an elee-
mosynary experiment which has long
been discussed and is of unusual inter
est. In August or September the Peo
pies Bank association hopes to omen the
first of several model pawn offices for
the poor. The newspapers abound
from day to day with stories telling
how hard it is for the very poor to bor
row indispensable small sums of money
and what o0orbitant rates of interest
are exactcd for such loans. The legal
rate at pawnshops is 3 per cent n month
for the first six months and per cent
month for succeeding months, but
most pawnbrokers supplement- these
rates by charges for care of the articles
pawncd, so that as much as 500 per cent
per annum is something paid to them
for the use of money.
The Peoples Bank association pro-
poses to begin by charge of per cent.
a month and expects to start with $780,
600 capital, which is to earn a per cent
dividends for it's owners. The success
OF such a movement seems to depend
simply on the shrewdness of the money
lender employed. With the right man
III the avuncular situatio,. there seems
to be no inevitable obstacle to the sue
cess of a plan which, if it does succeed,
seems bound to help the right people at
the right time. Plans for the relief of
pawnbrokers who succumb to COMPETE
ton can be devised later on if they are
needed.-Harper's Weekly.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
\ Recent Application OF ELECTRICITY.

A recent idea is to use electricity 20 take
the place of natural ice and cooling chem
icals. Sc largely used during the summer
months The details of the invention, which
are now being perfected, consist, explains
The Electrical World, primarily in the
withdrawal of heat from cast iron blocks
until they are reduced To the temperature
of ice water, these blocks to be placed in re-
frigerators and connected with the electric
current, having the same effect as ice with
out its Inconvenience.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
NOTICE OF, MEETINGS.

THE UNDERSIGNED, HOLDING 10
per cent; and more OF the capital
stock of the RoanokeAcademv of Mnsic
hereby calls general meeting of tho
stockholders of the above named asso.
citation to be held in the Office of the
president, rooms l3 and Ii, Masonic
Temple building, in the city of Roam
okc' at l a. m, July 10. 1893. Given
under my hand and seal this 10th dav
OF June. 1898. JAMES d. LAZELL.
q ii sod
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07

a MEETING OF THE STOCK.
~ holders OF the American Bridge
and Iron Company will be held at the
Office OF Penn 81 Cooke in the CITY of
Roanoke on Tuesday, the 18th day of
July, 1898, at o'clock p. m. All stock
holders are requested to be present. G.
E. MICHAEL, Secretary. G111m
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07

why Mr. Hawthorne Wants To Get Away.
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne, who happens
to be in Chicago just at present, says
that the new and cheap editions of his
fathers Scarlet Letter" are bringing
upon him (JulianD a mighty hood'of let
tiers from people who discover in this
powerful, improbable story" the prom
Use of extraordinary work in the flu
ture." The editor of weekly literary
journal i'll Texas has offered Mr.. Haw-
tho1ne the magnificent sum of 5000 if he
will contribute to that publication
novel of Texas lifetreated upon the same
lines as those of the Scarlet Letter"
This is one of the reasons why Mr. Haw-
thorne is anxious to go to the West In
diesto live.-Chicago News-Record.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
IMITATION ROCK FACED METAL SIDING

This siding is adapted for use on stores.
factories, dwellings, etc, and adds much to
the appearance of any building on which it
may be used. 1t can be applied by any me-
chanic and after painting cannot be dis
tIngulshed from stone and is manufactured
III various sizes of the best tin plate and
sheet steel. The weight of this sheet steel
rock per 100 square feet, surface measure
ment, including lap, one coat of paint and
Grating. is % pounds per 100 square feet
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Bona Eide Rubber From oottouseed Oh.

\ correspondent in The Manufacturers
Record tells of the successful manufacture
of rubber from cottonseed oil at Savan-
nah The discowerer claims that his proc
ess IS so simple that it is not patent
able: hence his only safeguard is in the Sc
crecy of the process. The only information
he gives is that he uses only 10 per cent of
the genuine rubber to produce an article
which cannot liz any way be distinguished
from crude india rubber.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
IN the PoMce Court.

liz the police court yesterday morning
James Richardson, colored, was sent on
to await the action of the grand iury.
He Is charged with stealing a lot of
clothing and $40 in cash from a co ored
woman some time ago John Smith
paid $50 for getting drunk and down.
w. Fl. Egoltf was fined s. for interfering
with az officer n the discharge OF his
duty.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Tannin Growing as a Crop.

The growing scarcity of oak and hemlock
bark for use in tanning leather need occa-
sion no alarm. says a southern exchange
which tells of a tannin plant which thrives
in Texas 1t is species of dock in which
n quarter of its total OF dry matter is tan
min. II is said to be easily and cheaply cul-
tivated.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
a woman's Apt Reply to Mr.. Cleveland

- Nohiah's Apt keply to Mr.. Cleveland.
1t was during Cleveland's first incum-
bency. The daughter of lawyer prom
inent i'll neighboring Kansas town had
married an officer who II few months
after the ceremony had been detailed to
a remote post. The young wife, who
had enjoyed sort of beleship III the
semimetropolitan community in which
she had been reared, felt as if she were
about TO be buried alive. Encouraged
by her husband and father, she repaired
to Washington to seek reprieve ut head
quarters.
Fort Riley? Why, that's pretty
good detail, isn't it," asked the president,
to whom the lady had stated her case.
"No, sir; it doesn't suit me at all"
Shouldn't we try to be satisfied where
we are:' continued the chief magistrate.
with patronizing smile.
You might have been satisfied with
being sheriff ut Buffalo, but you wanted
to be the president of the United States"
came the pert retort.
Mr. Cleveland arose with the same
patriarchal smile Oh his face, but the
heutenant's wife is still at Fort Riley
Kansas City Times
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
BED of4i,e Pacific Ocean.

five may believe the scientists, the bed
of the Pacific ocean, could we only view it,
would disclose to our wondering eyes sew
tral mountains with truncated tops scat
tered over it. These mountains would be
perfectly bare at their base, and all around
their tops they would be covered with beau
titul vegetation OF coral polypi
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07
Navigation Under Water.

Some of our navsl experts affirm that the
day is not far distant when navigation be-
low the waters surface will be as effect
lively accomplished as on the surface Ex-
periments have demonstrated that a ship
can he constructed with capacity for sub
merging itself and moving under water rap
idly under strict control
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-07

OTICE.-THE CO-PARTNERSuIP
IN heretofore existing under the irm
name of Simmons IL Tinsley. conducting
general real estate business. has this
day been dissolved by mutual consent.
JAS. S. SIMMONS,
w. III. TINSLEY.
June l, 1898. G6tf