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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-09

SOMETHING SwEETER THAN MAPLE SUGAR.
young man who was mostly joints, who
was able to converse most entertainingly
on the trapping of muskrats-he called
them mushrats-and who quite agreed
with the boy that there were too many
girls present.
The sugar was pronounced fright" by
the uncle and the doctors daughter
when they came in, but the hostess
smiled and said, sNot yet" holding up
twig ON which she had been trying to
grain the wax unsuccessfully. A little
later when, she gave the word, there was
a general filling of plates with snow and
cooling of hot sugar, and then the con-
sumption of doughnuts and sweets be-
gan. When every one had eaten as much
as possible, the remainder of the sugar
was poured into little scalloped tin dishes
creased for the purpose and allowed to
cool into cakes of nut brown saccharini-
ty. At 10 o'clock the sugar party, the
most successful one of the season, was
over with. The boy was just dropping
to sleep when his uncle returned from
seeing the doctors daughter home. He
seemed to be gay. for he sang 'Old Dan
Tucker" as he climbed the stairs to his
room, to the disgust Of the boy and the
hired man and the amusement of the
boys parents.
The old sugar bush still yields sugar
every spring, and the boy is now the
owner of the farm. But in the place of
the rude shed where the sap was boiled
there is q neat, substantial sugar house.
Instead of the swinging caldrons there
are patented evaporators and granulat-
ing pans. The trees are no more tapped
with the AK, but with thin augur, an
iron ''spile' being driven into the hole.
The troughs have long been rotten
wood, and in their place sap buckets
hang ON the spiles. The sap is not now
gathered in buckets at the end of heavy
wooden yokes, but is collected in bar
rel, hauled about the bush on a cart or
a sled, and the old routine of boiling the
sap has gone forever. 1t is now poured
into the shallow evaporators, which are
heated by patented furnace, and at the
other end comes out sugar. Some think
the sugar made this way is not so good
IS it was when it was finished over the
kitchen stove. I do not agree with them
in this opinion, but it is certain that
some of the modern so called maple
sugar was once the juice Of Louisiana
sugar cane and never saw a sugar bush.
I. D. MARSHALL.
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slope of the round topped hill back of
the farmhouse was good place to be IN
that is, for boy old enough to have
fun, but not old enough to bear a hand
at the hard work. There was another
who heard the farmers prediction as to
the running of the sap who was imme-
diate1y filled with a tired feeling. He
was the man who 'helped round" from
November to April for So month and
his board. He thought only of the hard
work Of sugar making, and he was quite
prepared for the worst when, next morn
ing, the farmer told him to go to work
at the sap troughs, for all this hap
pened so long ago that the sap was
caught as it ran from the trees in troughs
hewn out of short sections of split beech
and birch and maple
There should be about 400 sap troughs
on this farm, for there were about 400
trees in the bush. Each year at the close
OF the season the troughs were piled
away, to be used the next year, but each
year an uncertain percentage was rem
dered useless by reason of decay and
t'checking," and it was a good weeks
work to inspect the lot and replace the
useless ones. On the very day that this
task was accomplished the farmer judg-
ed that the sun, and the wind, and the
frost had wrought their perfect work,
and the next day the labors of the sea-
son were begun in earnest.
It was an informing season to the boy,
for he learned that ne was no longer too
young to work, and his JOY that he was
to be allowed to remain away from
school till sugar was made was before
the first day was over greatly moderated.
The men did the tapping, taking good
sized chip out of each tree, and from the
wounds they made the blood of the
straight, beautiful naples flowed plenti-
full and sweet. To the boy was assigned
the work of driving the ''spiles"-pieces
of pine sharpened-into the taps, and
down the spiles the sap dripped, dripped,
all day into the troughs.
Outside the bush, where the suns rays
could melt it, the snow was rapidly dis
appearing, but it was still foot deep at
the roots of the naples, and it was not
easy to tramp from tree to tree. By the
time the last of them had been tapped
the troughs of those first tapped were
filled, and the hired man burdened his
shoulders with a clumsy wooden yoke,
from the ends of which depended wooden
buckets, and started on the rounds gath
ering sap. The boy tramped round with
the man, emptying troughs into the
buckets, till it seemed as if his legs would
crack at the knees, and then his father
told him to rest bit and build the fire
in the saphouse.
Never was structure more inaptly
termed house than this. It was simply
a roof of slabs and bark supported by
four posts. Under this rude shelter.
hanging on a pole upheld by two crotched
sticks, were two big caldrons. Near them
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-09
MAKTNGMAPLESUGAR
m DAYS GONE BY 1T WAS OFTEN
MIXED WITH ROMANCE.

In These Modern Times It's Manufacture Is
Carried on on Scientific Lines, In Accord
aDce With the Spirit of the Age, by the
Aid of No End of Patented Contrivances
at seems to me-" said the boys father
one day late in February, ''that the sap
ought to begin to run in few days"
And he looked at the sky with crit
Zeal eye and whistled a bar or two of
''Bonny Doom" softly to himself. ''Just
let the sun come out warm and bright
for few days." he went on, with a
northwest wind and good sharp frosts at
night, and we'll go to work in the sugar
BUSH
These remarks filled the boys heart
with Joy. He was New England boy,
and he knew that during the sugar sea-
son the grove of NAPLES known as the
sugar bush that covered the first gentle
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The first buckets Of sap were poured
into the caldrons when gathered; after
that into the casks. AS the sap became
sirupy through boiling, more was added
to caldron No. 1, while from it the boy
ladled dipperfuls into No. 2, the contents
of which were boiled till much thicker
than the contents Of No. 1. The final
operation-''s ugaring oH"-was attended
to at the house, under the watchful eye
of the boys mother, in the big kitchen.
She was a master hand" at judging
when the sswax' to which the strip is
boiled just before it is ready to grain
should be poured out to ''cake," her
Judgment being of quality the lack of
which has spoiled more than one boil
ing of sap"
The great event of that season was the
sugar party. There is no sort of gather
ing more typically American than a
sugar party, and, though the boy did not
know that, he looked forward to the one
given at his fathers house that year for
days with the iveliest anticipations.
His mother and sister made doughnuts
all day long the day before, and when
evening came the pantry shelves were
covered with tin pans heaped high with
queer, twisted specimens of the brown
fried dough, to be eaten with their hot
sugar by the guests. 1t seemed to the
boy that every one for miles around was
present-that is, all but the boys, and
there was such a dearth Of them that
this particular boy made up his mind
that he'd have no one to talk to through
the entire evening.
What made it worse was the redun-
dant number of young women present,
mostly girls who had just put ON their
long dresses, as the boy observed dis
painfully. But he was mistaken when
he thought no one would pay attention
to him. The village doctors pretty
daughter, about whose invitation Uncle
HiraL. had been unnecessarily anxious,
the boy thought, utterly ignored the
uncle and devoted herself to the nephew.
Her attentions nearly drove the latter
small person distracted, particularly as
he could see that his uncle was as much
Disguised as he. But relief came at last,
when the uncle, handsome, stalwart
young fellow, not many years removed
from boyhood himself, persuaded the
rural beauty to help him test the sugar,
which he said had to be tried on fresh
snow.
The boy observed with satisfaction that
they had to go outside to find the snow
and was interested to see when the coIl-
pie returned that the girls face was moro
rosy even than usual, while Uncle Hi
rams lips looked as if they had tasted
something sweeter than maple sugar.
The boy was quite forgotten by the young
lady for the rest of the evening, which
he enjoyed greatly in the society of .
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were placed two or three heavy oaken
casks. Once the fire was built it was
the boys work to feed it. On the second
slay another was added to the force Of
men in the person of the boys Uncle
Hiram, who had been specially summon
ed, and the work went steadily on from
early in the morning till late at night.
It was at night that the most fun came
%. Then the men helped feed the fire
and stood about and told funny stories
and cracked Jokes. These pleased the
how Int the fire pleased him more, for
sts ftful light reached out quavering
ravs into the deep shadows of the bush
md shed its rudy glare over scene that
was quantity, almost weirdly pictu1-
esoue.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-09
MR.. HARRY ROBERTS
4 Newspaper Artist, Late of the
San Francisco Evening Post


Is prepared to make illus,
trations for newspaper ad-
vertlsements, Or for book and
job work at short notice.
Cuts of buildings, portraits,
real estate maps, etc., made
at Coast rates.
Fine pen work for labels
and photograving. Muse
copied.
Address care of the ADvER-
TIsER Office.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-09

Having now arranged for
the insertion of the Process
photos on the HISTORY OF THE
REVOLUTION of nearly all the
social and political bodies
connected with the Revolut-
ion we feel that there's nobody
that deserves to be placed
more highly on record than
those citizens that at great
inconvenience banded them
selves together to protect life
and property during the
stormy days of the formation
of the Provisional Govern
ment, and have decided to de-
vote a series of pages to the
officers and privates of the
National Guard and Citizens
Guard. Some thirty Or forty
names have already been sent
in and we shall be grateful if
any member desiring to ap-
pear will send word to Mr..
Wellesley Parker care of this
office when he will imme-
diately call and furnish full
particulars.
Early attention to this is
requested as the pictorial
pages to the History must
positively be closed next
week.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-09
NoRomance In That.

Mrs. du Travelle-Oh, I like Europe
so much better than this awful country,
JohnI Please let me go back there and
live among the grand old ruins Of Ger
many.
Mr.. du Traveile-No, you just stay
here, or you will be living among the
grand old ruins of my fortune If you
spend any more moneyi-Boston Trav-
eller.
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g. THE PREMISES ON THE
siil corner of King and Alapai streets,
lately occupied by DIR. G. T.
Andrews.
The yard has frontage of 200 feet on
King street and is 300 feet deep. The
house contains eight rooms, two halls;
also large kitchen, pantry, china closet,
bath room, etc., ETC., besides all out
buildings that are necessary.
E~ Possession given Immediately
For further particulars apply TO
365S-tf CHAS. III. COOKE.
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Ncm advertisements
Shredder
PATENTED UNDER THE LAWS or
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.

The attention of Planters
and Agents is called to the
following letter from Mr..
JOHN A. SCOTT, Manager of
the Hilo Sugar Co., regarding
the working of the National
Cane Shredder, which he has
just introduced into the Mill
of that Company:
WAINAKU, Hno, HAWAII,
January 22d, 1894.
Hon. VIM. G. IRWIN, Honolulu, III. L.
DEAR SIR:-In reply to yours of Il :
| 10Th inst. regarding the National Cane
| Shredder furnished by the Universal
Mill Co. of New York, and erected by
the HiIo Sugar Co. this past season,
would beg to say, that it has now been
IN vperation day and night during the past
three weeks working On plant cane, and
also hard ratoons, and it is giving me the
greatest satisfaction. The more / see of
its capabilities, the better pleased / am
that put it in, as l am satisfied that it
will repay the original outlay in short
time, in saving of labor, higher extrac-
ton, etc.
1t is shredding from $50 to 400 tons OF
cane every % hours with the greatest
ease, and it could shred a much larger
quantity if necessary. 1t delivers the
shredded cane in an even uniform feed
TO the three roller mill, which receives it
without the Intervention of any labor,
and as the cane is thoroughly shredded
or disintegrated it relieves the mill of
great deaf of strain, thus reducing the
liability of broken shafts, gearing, etc.
There is saving of four (4) men daily
on the mill, as only one man Is required
to regulate the amount of cane delivered
by the carrier to the shredder. It has
increased the extraction from 4 to
5 per cent.
The economical use of steam is gene
rally a serious consideration in adding
new machinery, as in most mills the
boiler power is taxed to its highest limit,
as it was in this mill, and any increased
demand necessitated an additional boil
er. But l find that the shredder and the
three roll mill engines combined use no
more steam than the three roll mill
engine did when working on whole cane,
while doing better work and more of it,
and owing to the uniform feed on the
mill, the engine demands very little
attention.
The Megass from the shredded cane
makes superior fuel, and the firemen
have less difficulty in maintaining uni
form pressure of steam than formerly.
will be pleased to have call from
parties interested, as it is necessary to
see the machine at work to fully appre-
ciate its capabilities.
Irema1p, very truly yours,
(Sig.) JOHN A. SCOTT,
Manager Hilo Sugar Co.
WP Plans for erection of
these shredders may be seen
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To Let or Lease

FOR a TERM OF YEARS
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SYNOPSIS:

Chapter Prof Alexanders History of King Kaakauas
Reign.
Chapter PROT Aexanders History of Liliuokalanis
Reign.
Chapter "a Brief Account of the Revolution of 1898
Chapter "A Brief Account the Provisional Govern
ment to date
Chapter 5-Minister Willis Letters to President Dole to
abdicate.
Chapter 6-President Dole's Reply.
Chapter willis and Dole's Correspondence
Chapter s-Minister Thurstons Protest issued at
Washington.
Chapter 9-Mnister Thurstons Statement of the Hawai-
ian Case.
Chapter lO-President Dole's Specifications.
Chapter 11-Morgan's Report to the Senate.
Chapter l2-The senate's Action on Hawaiian Affairs
Wellesley arrangements
have been insertion the following Bodies
The Committee Safety the Executive the Officers the original
the LIST Advisory Committee Members of the Bar the Consu
The following firms have secured POSITIONS WILDER
PARIoRs, oUNNNGHAMs DOG KENNELS, SCHMIDT &
SONS OCEANIC STEAMSHIP co, PACIFIC HARD
WARE CO, E. O. HALL & son, j. T. WATERHOUSE CASTLE
COOKE, LEVERS & COOKE ELECTRIC LIGHT co,
T. THRUM, G.. 81 CO, OAHU RAILWAY LAND
CO, JOHN MOTT, 7. B.. MURRAY YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
CALIFORNIA FEED CO, ITOHAN, DAI NIPPON ST. LOUIS AND
OTHER COLLEGES, F. j KRUGER, COOKS FERTILIZING
WORKS. j. HOPP CO, W. PEACOCK & CO, HAWAIIAN
HOTEL, SANS SOUCI HOTEL, McCHESNEY & son.
proprietors
OF Trades favor will be confer
of Parker
theirs between
assigned the will
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DEDICATED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION
Provisional =
= Government

The Crisp photo process which 1.-THE History will be illustrated is
welmeted excellence the productions being
artistic trmuphs.
project
of Honolulu enthusiastic
praise. purest
ray TO BE PUBLISHEDIN 1894
The historians with the
setting forth the motives human
whole finished
the
minds different epoch, the condition different the
land the different influences brought people,
all phioophcay
literary merit will be the commanding of this ambitious
will published
illustrated supplied with tables
information index all the
complete a of its character.
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WPlans for erection of
these shredders may be seen
at the Office of the Agents,
where prices and other parti-
cularssmay also be obtained.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-30

saares. tne sxerae~ nuzbe~ o< ssxxres r~r
sAarehsades rxne~s froz swsavs 20 earA-
se-r- whsa in ysazary. isss. tie hsa2s
q tAe city 81 pxxsa. psysh4s - aea-~r.
ssrs rsnewe1. l. ~n ascers.lze1 sSzas
rasss tasa ha4f - skose fnseresss1 hsk9
either oas boc6 each ~ f<orz ozs 70 sax
aax-ssTs Of soae- The CAPITALISTS who
sose Only from eas 80 Evs shares in sss
Bank of Frknce-slax. IL 90 say. from $50
70 81 91-coassstrts . as-ye sansrscai Eaa-
yorisy. The 81. - Shareholders Of the
Credit Foaeier hgsd On "a srer.zs sleven
shares each. 7,is parsons bod bat cae
share each
GzYos recites these figures aad hsds In
them no proofs o. tie Frporerisnrnsza.
waieh socaaglsrs bold has been created By
individaslisrn eEring the isss seveasy-avs
yesn. Ia concsusion. 6zyos ceacznoes
The socialist movement, which - simply
. nsw expression Of old forms of sscsesy. Of
cd Sdeas. Of Old sopssssrses. survirass Of
fstssAssrn: ia . word. IA aste-sps 20 suoog-
dinasct Industrial snd economic progrsss 70
tie modes Of existence Of primitive ciEiii-
ration. The so-cxlied advanced reform
err Who direct tbs noTsusns-scciallsss.
communists, Popuiists-wo7ld sinpsy
carry back The social organism. vita all
is complex elements more and more i'd
nairs5iy adapted 10 the division Of labor.
20 primitive eolIec.lyisn. To transform
man. the head and crows Of creation, back
into jeIlyfish. IL their ideal"
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The ansrehis; Hear. wAo,e trial va,
concluded Saturday in Paris Is .ure 20
suffer death. for By bis own confession he
deliberately loaded = sonh VITA baue,s.
so1gh, restaurant, waited ANITA IL WAS
crowded ~ita people OF the middle class,
and shen threw his bomb which, errloi.
ing. killed two and wounded seventeen
persons lie took % flight and 10 order
10 escape shot three % bis p1Tsas-s. kali.
ing ooe.
III. modern French anarchist 10 ao:
Ike the Russian nshilist. who resorts 10
mg03er for - political purpose; for ;b-
Preach saasrA!s: IS not trying 20 make
Way for aasS government by rescv:ing ID
murder. he seems 10 seek the iadisermt.
asss s!aaShsur Of Ao.s communities; shoot
co sssa - aIos Gp the waol- organized
acdy ~ society.
such creature. are the sasmie. O. shs
human race; FOR IKE mad deg. ,hev snap
al everybody they @seS ras Eosiass ~ >
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E1s~~ sor Arxis ecetxias IA a-ssess *sAre
a1- Prisons Fsssurs.- vsiea pcan.s CIT
taas the srsrrhy 81 she present txy Eass
- aass 6as<sroGs ree-zsss sraoax rEss
are knoxa - iacorrsgiAse oseaae-s ~
These 0sss1 com nssseS 80 prisoa-
Ia ISL eze-Aalf 81 the Iss1laa anarchists
ea--ssssd 70 the Tr-Sn pr.sn1 vere cd
c1sn1erx- The most violent Of the French
anarchists hare beea ED jzilhzr5a Aaa--
chr. this writer ssys. has 'its natural
breeding phase and aHsery il . permanent
and professional criminal cs.ss, .ne v5ld
beasts Of society" THIS has asways been
srze 81 lie modern anarchist, - dssiiae-
saon from the msrs modern political assas-
SIS Ike E1-ssnL
orsinl tried - kin yapoaeoa the Third
and tie emperor Of Russia while riding
together. Re Vas n isass ~ sane . poiizs-
cal murderer - Brasrs, o. Charlotte Cor
Gay, bat your modern French. Spanish -
Italian anarchist tArcws ais bombs into
crowded theaters ard restaurants. anon 3
men, women and children. not seeking 70
xii anybody in particular. bat everybody
In general
This mania for whosesAle murder makes
modern su.rchism 40 friShtfni to ire
whole world ~ the march OF q grea; pessi-
Ieace through Asia TO E1ropc, from
Europe 10 the United Ssasea So Clearly
Is this manifest that even Engisnd 10
hunting these Wild beasts ous Of her Dor.
ders, and the United States viii Be
Obliged TO Be equally merciiess in its
treatment OF these man-eating tigers o!
n ocern society.
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The Boring sea feet will use, IL Is re-
The day is not far distant when We all
need TO initiate England and own coaling
stations in every quarter of the globe. for
IL We grant that the Nicaragua canal will
be built under tbs control of our govern
Dsnt We are sure TO become q great naval
power. and will need to multiply our coal
ing stations even as Great Britain has
done for many years. Great Britain has
cOaling stations at Gibraltar and At Malta;
AZ several points On the west coast OF
Africa aud at the islands of Ascension
and 81. Helena: At Cape Town. Of course;
st Mapriiias in the Indian ocean at Alden
in Arabia; at Bombay aud Calcutta. and
on the Island of Ceylon; at Singapore: at
Lahuan in Dorneo and at Hongkong: In
all parts Of Australia. notably at Sydney,
Cape York and Albany: while In crossing
the Pacific she has station ~ the Fijis.
England holds four great naval and
eoaling stations; at Halifax. at Bermuds,
al Jamaica. and at ~. Lucia, while on the
Pacific coast she has Victoria. For ships
uNSg4tHk &at@ AtNgn t2FNfs - n coS4GN<
station AZ the Falkland islands. Only the
other day Siesraguan authority vas given
FOR her desire TO acquire Corn island, o.
the Mosquito coast. and now We have tie
report that she is negotiating for san
Lorenzo island. IN the hsrbor of Caliso. a
convenient point OF cal between Val
Paraiso and Taboga On the Isihnus Of
Panama, where her ships coal
The Uaised STATES has Page Page a.
the Samoan islands and Pearl river bar
Dor in the island OF Oahu. Of she ua-
saiiEa group, We threw away our chancs
uader Grant 10 acquire a naval station a,
the Island Of -. Thomas, in S.nsns bav.
san Domingo. and We failed 10 get the
Mole -. Nicholas. in Haiti dozen
years ago oar navy department; advised
the acquisition OF additional aaya, aat
| coal;nE stations CA both shores Of the
lsthmas o. Panama, "as SANTANA BAY. or
some port in Haiti: Curscos, in the
Caribbean sea; saata Cstharias, In Bra.
Ill. the Straits % Magellan: Ia Union. in
Salvador, or Amspala ia Honduras.