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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-14
Prices are Low,

even for the elegant pieces
you see, and there is Moth
ing in our stock that is not
within the reach of people
who wish TO
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-14
Suspenders-Sil< or Cotton.

SuSpenders-Silko or Cotton.
Handkerchiefs Silk, Linen or Cotton.
Plain Hemstitched or with Fancy Bor-
derS.
Myrtle. Healani and Leilani - Silk
HandkerchiefS.
Hat Bands of SiIk-In College and Club
Colors.
Scarfs-Four in Hands. Bows, Windsors,
de JoinvilleS, Club and Winsted Ties;
in fact the most elegant layout of neck
wear ever offered to the public.
Negrgee Shirts-Collars and Cuffs at
tached or detached.
Underwear-C olored, White and I'm
bleached, Silk Balbriggan, Wool OF
Cotton
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-14
HOPP & co.
Furniture Dealers.
KING AND BETHEL SITS.
Induriine.
COLD WATER PAINT
Especially Designed for Inside
Work on Factories and
Public Buildings.

It is a dry powder which can be pre-
pared for use by simply stirring IL
COLD WATER, and can be applied b.
anyone, and will always produce goe&
work.
1t is VERY WHITE, extremely re-
Elective and hardens on a wall like
stone, and will take any tint
It will last for years and Is unaffectes
by gases.
One coat covers better than two coatx
OF oil paint or whitewash.
It can be used on any surface and fer
all classes of work. even for the fines,
decorating.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-14
DON'T ORGET US.
If You're Looking Something Substantial to Present
Gentlemen Friends Look Over This List:

Boys Star Shirt Waists-Nothing like
them in town; Silk Bows TO go with
them.
Umbrellas-Goodo ones, Silk or Cotton.
Stetson's Famous Felt Hats-ln several
shades.
Panama Hats-Three grades, S., $3.50
and SO.
Puggaries. Towels, Collars, Cuffs, Cuff
Buttons, Links and Others.
Straw Hats-For Men and Boys.
Sweaters-ln three or four colors.
Belts Leather or Cotton; Silk Sashes,
etc.
And last but not least, the best and cheap
est assortment of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-14

Shown on the stage dur
ing the engagement of the
FraWley Company came from
our store, and has been ad-
mired night after night by
the people in the audience.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-14
Beautify Their
Homes

or put in them articles
for every day use of stylish,
substantial build and at low
prices.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-14
HOLIDAY
PRESENTS

may be procured here to
better advantage and of more
lasting character than else
where.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
How q NettIe Stings.

Every one has probably made &C
quaintance with the irritating, if not
highly poisonous. character of the net
tie stings, though they may never have
troubled to examine the beautiful little
apparatus by which the poison is intro
duced to their blood.
1t is probable that if they were to
make microscopical examination of
nettle hair just after they have been
stung, they would be scarcely i'll the
right frame of mind to discover any
beauty IN its mechanism; but it exists
for all that.
The leaf and stem of a nettle, it will
be found, are literally clothed with
erect hollow hairs. If one of these hairs
be viewed under microscope, it will
be seen that it's free end, after tapering
to very fine degree of slimness, finish
es at little knob, while in the other
direction, after gradually becoming
more robust, it suddenly expands into
large bulb corresponding to the poison
gland of the adder.
The point of the hair is very brittle,
ard contact with the skin causes the end
to snap off, leaving a hollow needle
point, which readily pierces the cuticle,
and, pressing upon the bulb at the 9th
er end, the poison is forced through the
central channel and infames the blood.
The tender handed who stroke the net
tie are stung for their pains, because
their gentleness has only served to break
the brittle points and render them fit
for piercing; but the rough handed
break the hairs at the thickest parts,
where they are too stout to prick. Pear
sons Weekly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
Had Fun With Mamma.

There is decided GOODNESS in the los
ON of the family of one of my best
friends here in town. My friend is a
widow, and her age is-never mind
what-a widow is always just the right
age. She has three daughters who are
just the. aga when girls are most mis-
chievOus-of course you know just what
age that is. They tease their mother I'M
mercifully, and the one especial thing
they torment her most about is her al
legged admiration for handsome, mid
die aged physician. My friend had a
lame shoulder not long ago, and one of
the girls suggested painting it with TO-
dine. All three of them helped to do it,
and with giggling and tittering and
snickering they did their mother up
brown. Next day the shoulder was no
better, and the doctor was sent for. The
shoulder was barred for his inspection.
and, much to his patients Mortified as
tonishment, he burst into laugh She
dismissed him rather unceremoniously,
and when the girls came in, she told
them Of his rudeness. Then an idea
struck her. She took her handglass to
the mirror and looked at that shoulder.
There, in bold brown iodine, was a por-
trait-labeled and surrounded by bleed
ing hearts and other st. Valentines day
emblems-of the doctor. The girls are
wearing their last winters hats again
this season. Washington Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
Chance In Matching.

Two men matched coins for the fare on
a Broadway car yesterday, and the man
who won said:
81 have paid very few car fares this
year, because I have solved the system of
matching. I can't explain why my system
is correct, but many experiments have sat
isf1ed me that it is. I always ask the other
man to match me, and 65 times out of 100
I win. Apparently the odds are even. In
reality they are against the man who
matches and in favor of the man who is
matched. This doesn't hold when the
coins are spun on a table. 1t is good only
in cases where each man holds his coin in
his hand. Calling coins is also an easy
game to win. Three men out of five will
call heads. I always hold the coin tail up
and in the long run I am winner. -
New York Sun.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
PathOs and Poverty.

I called upon an old lady the other
day. Everything &bout the house was
scrupulously clean, but betokened pow
erty of the bitter, grinding kind. My
hostess was beginning to be little
childish through excess of years and
trouble, and excusing herself retired
for few minutes, returning clad in an
old black silk dress made in the style
of so years ago. 1t had been a wonder
full dress when first made, and must
have cost what in those days was large
sum of money, and there was something
about my hostess as she sat in the fnery
Of her girlhood, in the bare, unfurnish-
ed room, with no carpet on the floor
and nothing around but a few straight
back wooden chairs, that was more pitt
full. than anything she could have said.
There is something touching to me at
best about the shadows which rest over
the end of life's pathway, but when the
faltering steps lead through desolate
ways, while youthful vanity occupies the
mind, it is almost a tragedy to live
Washington Star.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
Two Dynamite Adventures.

The Milwaukee Sentinel reports con-
eersation with a gentleman of that city
who was formerly employed in the Cal
nmet and Hecla copper nine. While
thus engaged, he witnessed numerous
tragedies and some exceedingly narrow
escapes. Miners, of all men, need to be
men of steady nerves and ready wits.
Two of the best of this Milwaukee mans
stories have to do with dynamite.
A blast was to be made, and a man
was sent down the shaft to place the
Dynamite and light the fuses. He had
iust finished this work-there were "A
sticl-, Ct dynamite-when to his horror
he saw the car start upward. A wrong
signal had been given, and up shot the
Gu.
T. was all question of few Sec
onds. There was no time to summon the
car Lack He set to work pulling out
the full3 Perhaps there would be time
for that. And happily there was, but as
he drew the last one he fell in a dead
faint.
Once [ saw a fellow workman save
his life by making a good CATCH 1t was
fortunate for him that he had played
baseball in nis time.
He was standing at the bottom of
shaft waiting for a bucketful of dyna
mite sticks that were being let down to
him. The bucket was part way down
when he saw it strike against some OBJ
struction and turn partly over Out fell
one of the sticks He watched it falling
in zigzag course-a messenger of in
\ 3D.
bottom, there would be a tremendous
explosion and an end of the miner
But it did not strike the hard bottom.
Like player on the ballfeld, the work
man put up his hands and caught the
stick as deftly as if such trick were
only an everyday affair.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
Marked For Identification.

To all opera goers the halo surround
ing Signor Arditi's head is familiar,
and the maestro tells good story about
it at his own expense. 1t was in the
days when the Mapleson Opera COM
pany, from Her Majesty's, was in Amer
lea, and at one of the towns Arditi went
to cash an opera check payable to him
self and made out by the impresario.
He reached the bank and presented the
paper to the cashier, who looked at the
check, then at him and said: ct must
have some proof of identity. This is an
open check. You may be Mr.. Arditi, or
you may not. -
This was awkward, for the musician
had no card or papers with him whereby
to set the question of identity at rest,
and he did not want to have a tourney
back to his hotel. At last bright idea
struck him.
''Do you ever go to the opera?'' he
asked the cashier.
eyes, have gone several times, y re-
piled the cashier.
Then" cried the musician, turning
round suddenly and lifting his hat, edo
you mean to tell me you don't know
Arditi?''
The familiar back view at once con-
WINGED the cashier, and, with many pro-
fuse apologies, the money was at once
paid. Chicago News.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
THE RISE Ifi CAMPHOR.
the Price of the Drug Has Nearly Doubled
In Twelve Months

the Price of the Drug Has Nearly Doubled
In Twelve Months.
The peculiar and uncertain positio5, OF
camphor in the market has caused more
comment and speculative gossip con-
corning this article, its sources of SUD-
ply, methods of production, ETC.. than
it has received for years past. The ma
nipulations of syndicate, said to have
headquarters in London, and the air of
mystery which has surrounded it's oper-
ations have made camphor commodity
toward which much interest has been
directed for months past. Refined cam
phor, prime quality, sold at 81 cents
per pound a year ago, since which time
it has brought Ga cents. 1t is now quot
ed at SO cents, this decline from the
higher figure being attributed to the
bearing of the market by the syndicate,
or because of outside competition with
the syndicate. The future course of the
market is problematical. The syndicate
commenced buying last June and has
not yet cornered the market. Dealers be-
lieve that if the syndicate can continue
to purchase all that is offered during
another six months it will be in abso-
lutte control. Whether it can do this or
not is uncertain, because the personnel
of the operators and their financial
strength are not known and can only be
guessed at.
In view of the interest and the posi-
bilities of the situation, timely reference
can be made to Japan and Formosa,
where most Of the crude camphor of
commerce is grown. In olden times
camphor was produced in Sumatra, Bor-
neo and other parts of the East Indies
and China, but of late years they have
been no factor in production. Camphor
trees are of the evergreen variety, sym
metrical in proportion, blossoming with
white flowers and bearing red berries.
They attain great age, some living 800
years, and are of pOnderous size, the
largest measuring 10 feet in diameter
The camphOr of FOrmosa is inferior to
that of Japan, which, coupled with the
fact that the former island is inhabited
largely by savages, and the production
of crude camphor being attended with
SO much danger, leaves Japan practical
ly to supply the world. The annual ex-
port of crude camphor from Japan aver
ages about 5, 100000 pounds, of which
one-fourth comes to this country and
the remainder is distributed over Europe.
This merchantable product must be re-
fined before it can pass into consuming
channels, and until two years ago it was
exclusively treated at American and
European refneries. The attempts re-
Gently made to finish the product in ia
pan have met with moderate success, re-
sulting in Japan brands being placed
on the market by about a dozen small
refine~ies established on native soil
Paint, Oil and Drug Review.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
Differing Opinions of Carr.

There is a difference of opinion as to
the success of carp fisheries. The In
diana commissioner of fisheries, for in
stance, thinks the German carp, intro
duced several years ago by the United
States fish commission, as great nui-
sance as the English sparrow. The con-
eluslon OF the Ohio fish and game warden
likewise is that the carp is more harm
than good Secretary George W. Lang
ford Of the Illinois state fish commits
sion, on the other hand, comes to the
defense of the carp and thinks that it is
particularly adapted for food for those
who cannot afford higher priced fish,
Chicago Record.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
FlOgging Girls.

The authorized hogging of little girls
or big girls is "a piece of barbarism
which, now that the subject has been
definitely raised, will receive, we trust,
no countenance from the home secretary.
Mr.. Riley says that girls i'll the ele-
mentary schools are caned, bit of in
formation which we commend to the
immediate notice of Sir John Gorst.
The public of London has outgrown the
days of Mother Brownrigg, and Mother
BrOwnri gg, as the Newgate calendar
informs US, was not sustained by judge,
jury, public opinion or Jack Ketch in
her theories and her practice as to the
castigation of girls. There were philos-
Ophers, to be sure, who approved of the
whipping of girls. Locke did, for one,
and SO did DIR. johnson. Locke approved
of mother who whipped her little
daughter nine times in order to compel
the child to confess some error, and
Johnson commended a mother who
whipped her child in the interest of flu
ture truthfulness because the girl had
said she came in through one door,
when, in fact, she had come in through
another. But those were days when
children were supposed to be born only
that they might be birched as far as
possible out of their share of original
sin. Women were publicly fiogged at
the carts tail in the days of Locke and
Johnson-and, of course, in the interest
of discipline and order and morals. We
cannot go back to those days, and any
serious and public attempt to get back
to them would be an absurdity as we'll
as an outrage. London News.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
1.-The President"

Is the name Of the beautiful watch
movement illustrated above. 1t is
made by the United States Watch
Co. of Waltham, Mass. 1t has l Z
jewels in gold settings, patent reg
ulator, Breguet hairspring, is fully
and accurately adjusted, and war
ranted by the manufacturers to run
with less variation than six sec
.onds a month. Just think Of it !!
Does it pay to send five dollars to
North CaIolina and get Tar-Heel
watch, even though you get a box
of cabbage leaf cigars thrown in,
when you can get such watch as
1.-The President right here at
home? Fake advertisements from
distant parts of the country cap
ture credulous people, but not the
thoughtful. See Proverbs, 18th
chapter, 18th verse. sell the U.
S. Waltham Watches, and also,
watches of other make. You pay
your money and take your choice.
A nice line Of Chains, Charms, DC.
Also, some Japanese Goods worth
looking at. Drop in
=
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
A Turban of High Degree.

green turban throughout all Islam is
a sign that the wearer is descendant of
the prophet. Many persons who have the
right to this mark of honor are now in
low life, and a traveller in Constantinople
or Cairo may have his baggage carried to
his hotel by a genuine descendant of the
founder of Mohammedanism. - Atlanta
Constitution.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
YOU m Ed IT.
NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby gwen that the AnntI
Meeting OF the Stockholders OF the Bartl
National Bank will be held at their bankiI
rooms In Barton, on Tuesday the lath dhyI
January, A. ID. 1895, az 10 o'clock "a. m Tor Il
purpose OF electing Directors for the ensui
year, and the transaction 81 any other led
business. III. X. DEWEY, Cashier
Barton, VT, Dec. z, 1895. A
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-01-06
Harper's Weekly
LIN 1896

HARPER'S WEEKLY is a journal for the
whole country. 1t deals with the events OF
the whole world inat are ic 70 "A Isas
Julian Ralph visited China and Japan, and
journeyed through the West; Richard Hard
ing Davis took trip through the Caribbean
Sea; the evolutions of the new navy were de-
scribed and illustrated by Rufus L. Zogbaum;
Frederick Remington presented studies of
Army and Frontier life; Poultney Bigelow
attended the opening of the Kiel Canal.
In 1896 like attention will be given to every
literature and music and the drama will be
artistically presented. w. ID. Howells, in the
new department, Life and Letters, will dis
cuss in his interesting way books and the
social questions of the time. II. >. Martins
sprightly gossip of the Busy World VIII be
continued. The progress of the Transports.
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duct the department of Amateur sport.
In 1896 will occur Presidential election.
In it's editorials and through it's political car
toous the WEEKLY will continue to be an
independent advocate of good government
In fiction the WEEKLY will be especially
strong. 1t will publish the only novel of the
year by w. ID. Howells, and stirring serial
of a Scotch feud, by S. r. Crockett. The short
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and interest. In every respect HARPh RS
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Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-08-09
SILVER FORCES UNITING.

\ fusion Of the elements opposed
to Mckinley and the single gold
standard Is the order of tie day in
the States Of the middle West whose
electoral votes will decide the Presi-
dental contest.
The Democratic Convention OF
Minnesota, ne; on the 9Th with the
silver men i'll control. While the
Minnesota delegation at the Chicago
convention was Il gull delegation. the
action there strengthened tie hands
OF the silver Democrats and they
were able To capture the primaries for
this convention without difficulty. 4
conference Il held between COM
mittccs representing Democrats. Pop
ulists and Silver Republicans and a
division Of the ticket agreed upon:
The agreement called for the NOM
ination az eX-COngressman John
Lind. a silver Republican for Gov
ennor; Democrats for Secretary of
State and Treasurer. and Populists
for Ii utenant GovernUraud attorney
General. The electoral ticket will
consist Of four Domocrais. four Pop
ulists and one silver Republican.
In 1892 Minnesota gave the liar
rison electors l22,S23 votes; the Cleve-
land electors lG0.920: and the Weaver
electors 29,3l3. IL the Democrats
nnd POpulists had fused i'll that year.
they would have carried the State by
majority Of lilo. In 1891 Nelson,
the Republican candidate for Govern.
or. received li1,9Ii votes. Becker,
Democrat. 5J.5I9. and Owen. Porulist
SI.13l. Nelson having majority 81
G,i3l over the combined vote uf the
Democratic and Pppulists candidates.
These figures show that with Il lu'-
IN ticket in Minnesota the chances
-tfe very favorable for it. electoral
vote TO he cast for Bryan aud Scwall.
The Kansas Democrats met in con-
vcntion on the same day. nearly all Of
the iS5 delegates being present. At
Il previous meeting 81 the State Cen
trail Committee proposition from
the Silver Republican Stutc Com
mittec WAS receive l.. la il the silver
people asked "a -" aIlOwe ! To name
two members nn the fusion electoral
ticket. ". S. Martin. temporary Chair
man of the Convention made Il 1t rong
speech favoring fusion of all parties
in Knnsns which favor silver. DIyii
Overmcycr followed with Il speech for
the union Of forces 10 defeat the Re-
publicans.
Ia 1891, Kansas gave the Weaver
electors II plurality az 5.STl. Tho sill
yer sentiment is strong in the Sun
Flower State and il is sure for tho
IBry an fusion ticket by at least 10000
majority.
In Iowa, too. the supporters of tho
white metal are joining forces against
the common enemy The air il full
of fusion and the future bright with
promise Of II glorious victory at the
ballot-box in November.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-08-09
COMPARE THE Candidates.

Republican taCticinns have not yet
.cttlol upon lh" line OF attack which
isto convince the American people
that bryan lacks presidential gualIii-
cations.
Daring this period Of indecision
they are letting thGir voters become
very much ronfu sea- on ono point
Brynn's abilities as IL public speak
or.
Oue day recently a republican or.
gan aycrrGl in tho Same article tint
Bryan was utterly unable To make an
oil band speech, and that all his carly
political success were obtained by his
"gsti OF CAB" In addition to this con
ilict Of Insertion il publishes in tho
same issue three Cxtcmpornncons
speeches made by tho democratic can,
didato ~ Illinois.
NGmbctlcsa other republican or.
gAns have been Rcc.sawing between
the two ailcgatioUs--;liat he cannot
speak except 10y committing every
somtouco To memory and bu ia n mere
talking machine without thought or
knowledge; that he cannot prepare u
speech except with Iaburious rcfcrcn.
COS IA books and that hc Ia u freak OF
'erhoFiiy w' capacity .!
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