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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12
Indian Names.
Progress.

Sometimes names have been made to
appear unnecessarily grotesque in their
writing-in some instances as much so
as the rude savage himself appears per-
sonally-the fact illustrated in the writ
ing Youghiogheny for simply Ya-og-ha-
ma and in Esquemeaux for Es-ka-mo.
Many purely poetic garbs of the old
words have become incorporated into
our permanent geographical literature.
The names Mississippi and Tennessee
are examples of the fanciful versions of
the old aboriginal titles-the former is
supposed to have been in sounds repre-
sented by the English writing Mes-sis-a-
pa, while the oldest historic records ex-
tant showing the latter give the writing
as Ten-as-sa. What is evidently one an
cestral word appears in the modern YER
sions of Shewanee, Sewanee, Suwanee,
Swanan and Chowan. The French writ
ing Cheyenne is the same word in the
remote ancestry, as is now believed
Popular Science Monthly.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12
Better Than Faith Cure.

eyes," said tall stranger in dark
suit of clothes as he Lighted fresh cigar
in the Office of the Pacific hotel. eyes, it
was the most extraordinary case ever
knew. 1 had rheumatism for 10 years.
Both arms and shoulders. Had to be
fed like a baby. My arms hung help
less for two years. No use of them what
ever"
"And you mean to say that you were
cured without dose of medicine?" asked
Landlord King.
Entirely without medicine. In one
moment, as if by miracle"
"Fve heard of such things" remarked
the man in his shirt sleeves. cit was
under circumstances of strong mental
excitement, wasn't it,"
eyes"
81 thought so. You were induced to
believe that you could be cured if you
only made the effort, weren't your
81 suppose so. Something of that
kind"
''Then there's nothing strange about
it. The history of medical practice is
full of such cases. 1t was only an in
stance Of what they call faith cure
"No," said the man in the dark clothes
refectively, ''you could hardly call it
that. The cure was effected by man
who met me on lonely road with gun
in each hand and said, 'Hold up your
hands, And held them up."-Pomona
PROGRESS
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12
AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE.
And When 1t Was All Over the Station
Agent Mended Things.

At way station on the Louisville and
Nashville one winter the station keeper
had an exciting time. 1t was midnight,
and the station being in a deserted part
of the country had been left by the loaf
ers. It began to rain. The station keeper
was not sleepy and determined to sit up
greater part of the night, especially as
he had an unusual sum of money in his
cash drawer, and he felt uneasy aboutit.
Robberies of stations and farmhouses
down the line had been frequent. So he
settled himself down to vigil. AS he
felt hungry he took can of cove oysters
down from the shelf and set it in the
stove. a moment afterward there was
knock at the door, and he admitted
cold, drenched tramp, whom he allowed
to lie down by the fire. Just then a train
came around the bend, and the station
agent stepped outside to display the go
ahead signal. He felt distrustful of the
tramp and feared that he would fool
with the money drawer. AS the train
passed he hurried into the room and had
scarcely opened the door and seen the
tramp standing by the stove with some
thing glistening in his hand, when there
was report, and the agent felt a sting
ing sensation over his eye.
Although blinded with blood from the
wound, he drew his pistol and fred five
times into the room. he then dashed
round to the rear of the station and hid
under the platform. After an hours
time he crawled out, resigned to the loss
of his money and thankful that he had
escaped with his life. The room was
dark; the fire was out. The tramp had
evidently esr aped with his booty. Sor-
rowfully tee agent lit a match, but
instantly dropped it when a startling
sight met his eyes. He lit another one,
found candle and gazed about at the
scene of desolation.
The lamp had been shattered by a
bullet. A cheese had been perforated
with two bullets. The room was filled
with smoke from the stovepipe, which
fourth bullet had perforated. Strangest
of all, the room was filed with cinders,
and oysters frescoed everything. Oys-
tiers, oysters, oysters, cove oysters. The
agent gasped and realized it all. The
can had remained in the stove too long,
and being sealed up had exploded from
the steam when the tramp poked the
fire. Of course the tramp skipped when
the shooting commenced. The cash
drawer was intact. A piece of tin was
found near the door, where it had re-
coiled off the agents face. The agent
spent the remainder of the night in
mending the stove door.-Louisville
Commercial.
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the practical utility. There had been
computing machines before his time, of
which the ancient abacus, which still
survives among the Chinese, was the
most primitive. There have been add
ing. subtracting, multiplying and divid
ing machines invented since, and various
others combining the principles of two
or more of these. Then there have been
machines for calculating the tides,
eclipses and other abstruse almanacical
data involving much laborious computa-
ton, and even logical machine, which,
being fed with premises, will grind out
syllogisms.
But these were generally machines of
such a complex character or of such
meager limitations as to be practically
worthless to the commercial world,
which wanted something that would add
up long ledger columns correctly and
set the totals down, thereby saving time,
patience and mental strain. Especially
did the English commercial world cry
out for such a machine, for the labor of
computing columns of pounds, shillings
and pence, as any schoolboy knows, is
thrice that of calculating columns based
on the decimal system.
Well. the Englishmen got their ma
chine. a smart Yankee sent it over TO
them. 1t looks something like type
writer and is worked by keys on the
same principle, but its internal mechan-
ism is more complex. By pressing down
the keys any amount from 81, 600, 900
down to penny can be printed on the
paper set in the back of the machine,
and the length of the columns is only
curtailed by the length of the paper.
Pounds, shillings and pence fall into their
proper places as the keys are touched,
and at the end the operator pulls lever,
and the sum is done and the correct to-
tails recorded beneath the columns, the
surplus pence all properly reduced to
shillings and the shillings to pounds-a
great triumph for American ingenuity.
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DAVID PECK TODD. Will locate on the
northeast or the southwest coast of the
island depends on the general weather
conditions. To ascertain these, some OBJ
servations were begun at two stations
On those coasts last July and continued
through August, and during the same
months Of 1894 and 1895 the same plan
will be followed, thus enabling the pro-
lessor to decide which of the two points
offers the best facilities for observations.
The trip of 1896 will be Professor
Todd's second visit TO Japan for the pur-
pose OF making observations of an eclipse
and his fifth expedition for astronomical
research. He went to Japan IN 1887 to
see the eclipse of the sun and to Africa
in 1889 for the same purpose. He had
charge of the expedition which the gov
eminent sent to Texas to observe the
eclipse of 1878 and directed the observa-
lions OF the transit of Venus at the Lick
observatory in 1882.
The professor expects to take an unusu-
ally great number of instruments with
him to Japan, among them about 40 tele-
scopes, with object glasses varying In
size from to 10 inches. He has also an
automatis photographing apparatus, by
which he hopes to secure between 500 and
300 photographs of the SUMS corona at
different stages Of the eclipse. This ap-
paratus makes it possible to employ 16
spectroscopes at once, which will record
the compost On Of the light of the coro-
"a In as many different regions. It is
the professors own invention and was
tried successfully in the African expedi-
ton Of 1889.
Ali of the instruments for the next ex-
petition will be of the finest possible
make. The plans for them are now be-
ing prepared, and it is none too early, for
they have to be manufactured and care
fully tested before being transported to
their destination, and it will involve no
little labor to set them up and test them
over again after they are got there. There
will be meteorologists, naturalists and
other scientific men in the observation
party, so that all the scientific research
of the expedition will not be confined to
the astronomical members.
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12
Who He Was.

DR.. Meredith, popular and well
known clergyman of Brooklyn, in a re-
cent address to his Sunday school, urged
the children to speak to him whenever
they met him.
81 may not always recognize you," he
said, ''but you all know me, and 1 want
you to speak to me-" Not long afterward
a small boy accosted him on the street
with:
GLOW do you do, DR.. Meredith"
The doctor stopped at once and replied
cordially and then asked:
ssAnd who are you, sir?"
''Oh, I'm one of your little lambs"
was the un-,.,ected and offhand remark
as the younSeter sauntered on.-Brook-
lyn EAGLE
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12
A Prolific Spot.

Orator-Where else will you find in
one spot such products as marble, iron,
clay, chalk, copper, lead, slate, glucose,
fruits of all kinds, hemp, fax and all
manner of grains?
Man In the Audience-In my boys
pocket.-Waif.
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nous eclipse ex-
pert, is already
making prepara-
tons TO take ad-
vantage of it for
S Gle ntifc pur-
poses. The pro-
fessor intends to
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largest northern
islands of the
japanese empire,
but whether he
III -
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MECHANICAL COMPUTATION.

Am American machine For the Addltion OF
Pounds, Shillings and Pence.
AS long ago as the year 1922 Charles
Babbage, an eminent English mathema-
hcian, spent about e17,OOO of govern
ment money trying to perfect a calculat-
ing machine which he had invented, but
Of which he never succeeded in proving
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-12

South American ants have been
known to construct tunnel three miles
In length, a labor for them proportionate
TO that which would be required for men
TO tunnel under the Atlantic from New
York to London.
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AN ECLIPSE EXPERT.

Professor Todd Preparing For the Next
Total Observation OF the Sun.
There is TO be total eclipse of the sun
On Aug. 8, 1895, and Professor David
Peck Todd of Amherst college, the IA
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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
TO USE THE ARMY.

Colonel Swaine Receives Orders to Re.
press Lawlessness in the Northwest.
WASHINGTON, April 30. National
power is to be exercised to compel re-
spect for the law in the far Northwest,
where trains are being seized by COM
monwealers and the law being disre-
garded. General Scho1eld sent orders
to Colonel Swaine at St. Paul, in com.
mand of the department of the Da-
kotas, and General Otis at Vancouver
barracks, in command of the Columbia,
to use the troops under their command
upon the application OF the United
States marshals in the states
along the line of the Northern Pacific
road in executing the processes of the
United States courts. Special orders
have been sent forward to recapture the
train seized at Troutdale by the tramps
and now on its way East.
The Montana C~oxeyites.
The government has settled the cues
ton of the prisoners taken at Forsyth,
Mont. by giving directions to the mill
tary authorities to transfer them to
Helena. Mont, where they may be
dealt with by the civil authorities.
The prisoners are to be under military
espionage until the courts shall have
disposed at their cases.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
BAD FOR TRADE.
Strikes Unfavorably Affect the Business
of the Country.

Strikes Unfavorably Affect the Business
of the Country.
NEW YORK, April 30.-Bradstreet's
says: The general business situation
throughout the United States is less
favorable, as shown by reports from
more than so Important distributing GEN.
ters. A specially depressing influence
is the strike Of 147, 900 bituminous coal
and coke operatives in IL states.
Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Du-
luth are feeling the strike, the effect in
vessel interests at these and other lake
ports being very discouraging. Duluth
ore shipments are delayed for want of
return coal cargoes, and railroad COM
panies have begun to discharge coal
train employees.
Only two cities of the IS reporting in
Central, Western and Northwestern
states report material Improvement in
general trade this week-Indianapolis
and Kansas City-and even at those
points the gain is slight. Activity in
the stock market is checked by the
labor disturbances and the delay in
reaching a conclusion on the new tariff
bill. Trade at St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Duluth, as at other points further
west, is very ~unfavorably affected by
the tie-up of the Great Northern rail
road. Merchants at cities in North
Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washing
ton are carrying reduced stocks, pur-
chasing for needs only, and railroads
traversing that region report a marked
falling off in through as we'll as local
shipments.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
Fergus Falls and Breckenridge uralns
went out late with old crews. No
frei0ht trains moved.

Fergus Falls and Breckenridge uralns
went out late with old crews. No
freight trains moved.
will Not Interfere With Other Roads.
General Superintendent Horn, of the
Wisconsin Central, General Superinten-
dent Scott, of the Omaha, and repre-
s%entatives of the Northern Pacific and
Burlington called on Messrs. Deus
and Howard in order to secure an adj
justnent Of one phase of the situation
which threatened to give these roads con
siderable Inconvenience. They have to
use the Great Northern tracks for
transfer Of their trains, and a freight
blockade seems imminent. It had been
given out that the train crews Of these
roads were at perfect liberty to throw
the switches for their trains, but as one
Of them was doing so somebody called
out 'scab," and they disliked to go and
do anything.
The officials were assured that there
was no objection whatever to their
train crews throwing the switches, and
that as soon as the committee had as
sembled and gone into session they
would see that the matter was fixed all
right, SO that no trouble on this score
need be entertained.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
oPERArE OR =
Application for Msndamus Against the
Great Northern. s

Application for Mandamus Against the
Great Northern.
HELENA, April 30.-Application was
made in the supreme court in the name
of Attorney General Haskell on behal.
of the state for a mandamus to compel
the Great Northern railroad to operate
Its lines within Montana. The petition
sets forth that on April IL last, in viola
ton Of it's duty to the people Of the
state and in disregard of its obligations
assumed in acceptance of its franchise,
the road wholly ceased to operate any
Of its lines within the state, and still re.
fuses to do SO, or carry any freight OF
passengers, or to accept either for
transportation, and has wholly aban.
doned operations; that it is fully able to
operate and run its trains; that it
has abundant means to do so, and
that there are at all points along it's
line within the state a sufficient num-
Der Of competent and skilled men who
can be engaged to do SO at reasonable
wages, and at less wages than are paid
similar employees on any other line
in Montana. The attorney general
therefore asks the court for an order
upon the company commanding it to
show cause why a writ should not be
issued commanding the road to operate
its lines within tho state in the same
manner as they were operated prior to
April 13. The supreme court has the
matter under consideration. These pro-
ceedings will lie followed by an appli-
cation to have the charter of the road
within the state forfeited on account of
failure to operate its lines.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
RESISTED.
Bloody Battle Between Iowa Burg.
lars and Officers Who Were
After Them.
MARSHAL Whitney of Missouri Valley
Killed and One of the Thieves
Mortally Wounded.
Several Escape and Bloodhounds
Will be Used to Track
Them.

OMAHA, April 30.-In a fight with
thieves at Missouri Valley, Ia, the city
marshal was killed and two other peo-
pie were desperately wounded.
For some time past burglaries and
petty thieving have kept the people in a
constant state of terror. The perpe-
traitors were tramps but all attempts to
arrest them had proved fruitless. Dur
ing the morning the city marshal was
notified that a gang of thieves was con-
cealed in a barn on the edge of town.
The officer swore in several deputies
and proceeded to the scene with the in
tention Of capturing them. The posse
surrounded the structure and demanded
that the occupants surrender. Instead
o. doing so, however, some Of the thieves
opened fire on the officers.
Two Fatally Wounded.
One of the bullets pierced the breast
of City Marshal Adna Whitney, killing
him instantly. Peter johnson, one Of
the thieves was shot four times, once in
zach thigh, once in the shoulder, and
once through the lungs. He will die.
Deputy J B. Lyon, also received a
flesh wound. Thirty or 40 shots were
fred, and then the men broke for
liberty. William Henderson, a resident
of Missouri Valley, at whose place the
men were staying was believed to be a
party to the crimes committed, and he
and his wife were arrested. One of the
men who escaped was named Davis, a
resident of Grand Island, Neb. John
son, the wounded burglar, is from
Rock Island, Ills. There is talk of
lynching. Blood hounds have been
asked for to put on the trail of the men
who escaped,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
A WOMAN LEADS THEM.
Oakland Commonwealers Chose NIrs.
Anna +. Smith as Their Moses,

Oakland Commonwealers Chose Mrs.
Anna r.. Smith as Their Moses.
OAKLAND, CAL, April 3O.-The 500
commonwealers, who left here on a
steamer, bound up the river for some
point near Sacramento, were under the
leadership of Mrs. Anna E.. Smith. a
San Francisco woman of past middle
age. She was unanimously elected
president Of the regiment, after several
male commanders had failed to lead
them from their wilderness. Mrs. Smith
Is a determined woman, Of command
ing mien. She declared that she will
not stop until her ragged hosts shall be
drawn up in line before the Capitol
steps in Washington, and that she is
fortified to suffer hunger with her COM
1ades if necessary.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
M,K1NLEYs's SOLDIERS OUT.

T@a&4A& - 2 NJ
Coxeyites Elected by Militia From a Train
at Mount Sterling.
COLUMBUS, O., April Ex-Governor
Mckinley has ordered Battery H, of
this city, Captain Frank T. Stewart, to
report at its armory preparatory to 60
ing to Mount Sterling if necessary, to
clear a Baltimore and Ohio railway
freight train Of Galvin's contingent Of
Coxey's men. The battery has Gatling
guns and cannon.
The governors action is based on the
fact that s. P. Peabody, general agent,
and Supt. Graham Of the Baltimore q
Ohio railway said they had not been
able to get a freight train through
Mount Sterling for two days, and that
the sheriff of Madison county, with n
company of the Fourteenth regiment
right in Mount Sterling and at his dis
posal under the law, had refused or was
afraid to act. This Mount Sterling
company has about 80 men. The men
in possession of the train number about
200.
John Mahoney, a Columbus police Of.
dcer, and as a representative Of the
state, a very determined man, is at the
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-05-04
THE SCHEME FOIL Eu.

A Well Laid Plan to Break the Great
Northern Strike Knocked Out. ~
SEATTLE, WASH, April 30.-It has
transpired that the. Great Northern had
a we'll laid plan to break the strike on
this end of the line, but it was toiled
by a clerk in the ranks of the strikers.
The incipient break arose from appeals
to the loyalty of engineers and train
men to their brotherhoods, which came
from the East. Being promised recog-
milton of brotherhood men by the COM
pany, their enthusiasm for the strike
began to diminish and they announced
themselves as ready to- go to work. A
conference with the local officers, at
which the engineers, conductors and
brakemen were promised commissions,
if they would go to work, the engineers
and trainmen promised to accept, pro-
vided that the firemen, who were not
present at the meeting, would assent.
1t was arranged that the train should
60 out at the regular hour. The fire.
men, however, refused at a secret meet
ing to accept the conditions, and the en-
gineers refused to go out with scab fire.
men. As the fremen were a unit on this
question. this disposed of the forces of
the strikers. All operators on the line
have received orders from Chairman
Jones Of the O. R. T. to return to their
duties, as the strike was not ordered bv
the order. The telegraphers replied to
Chairman Jones' dispatch saying they
would STAY with the strikers.