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The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
Worlds Presbyterian alliance
Gathering of the Cavnistc Clans at Glasgow as Told
by the Rev. Henry C. Minton
of This City

the largest Presbyterian city in the world.
1t has 275 Presbyterian churches. OF
course it is mere accident that Glasgow
is also the least but best governed city on
the face of the earth. Albert Shaw told
the world that several years ago in the
Century Magazine, and visit to the great
metropolis proves it to be true.
The council convened in the historic
cathedral June II at high noon. A process
sion was formed at the Old Barony Church
near by, led by the Lord Provost and the
city magistrate in regalia, and, though the
rain spoiled the effect, it was an imposing
march to that grand old pile. The cathe-
dral Is history in stone. The music was
exquisite, the famous windows magnificent
and the congregation large and cosmopoli-
tan. The associations of the spot gave a
solemn and impressive grandeur to the
occasion, for every block in those gray old
walls and columns is monument of the
checkered past.
The subsequent sessions Of the council
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

Early one morning, after vainly en-
deavoring to sleep, 1 went outside. The
Stars were shining in the sky of dark, rich
purple, tightening to yellowish tone on
the northern horizon. The vast deser t
was a great mass Of delicate lilac and
green and the igloo brighter note of the
same color. The dogs, curled up in balls
and almost covered by the snow, were so
many black spots. The wind blew shrili
and chill and the snow streemed and
eddied in long wells over the lonely desert.
The tents tapped like. great birds alight-
ing and the wind-gauge kept mp monot-
onous tap-tap-tap. The utter loneliness
and desolation of the scene were so peue-
trating that I was glad to creep over the
reeumbent forms of my companions into
the shelter of the sleeping where /
shivered and dozed until the bright sun
called us againto life and action.-Frank
Wilbert Stokes in the July Century.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

LONDON, ENG., July 1. To those
who are interested in the drift of
things in the religious world it is worth
Wnlle to know that the quadrennial meet
ing OF the Worlds Presbyterian Alliance
has just been held in the city OF GLASGOW
IN Scotland. The alliance represents 30,-
100000 people. Nearly a hundred differ
ent churches from all parts OF the world
are connected with it. 1t includes only
such Protestant churches as hold 10 the
Presbyterian system of church govern
ment and 10 what is called the reformed"
system of doctrine. These churches, for the
most part, springing from Switzerland,
France, Holland and Scotland, adhere to
that system OF Interpretation of the
Scriptures which was tanght by st. Angus
tine and reaffirmed by John Calvin at
Geneva.
To attend this great council crossed
America and the Atlantic. Glasgow is
certainly an appropriate place for the
| gathering of the Calvinistic clans. 1t is
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26
A Letter From Home
BY CHARLES D. SOUTH.

Do we listen, my lad, spells my wayi
tFor these specs gets foggy though fairs the day.)
Are we getting the sensel Is it "Ayen We sayl
Can it be there's lump in your throatf
Well, it's devllsh long, is three years. cruise,
tAnd grog isn't always a cure for bues)
And page like this is the kind of news
That strikes the hearts keynote.
Ave. the christening song and the wedding bell
And the solemn sound of the parting knel
We hear, through the sea, as the lines we tell
With their splicing of joys and woes.
But the letter it touches deeper spot
For it shows that we're never whit forgot
And jewel fall to a seaman's lot
Like the love, when he's gone, that glows.
There eager the distant shore,
And there's brine cheeks that no wave dashed o'er
And there's love right through to the bosom's core
For their Jack the pillows green;
And the flag grows dearer for thoughts like these,
For its folds unite the SEAS
Speaking God, home, country in every breeze
That courses the poles between.
It's sometime thought, "We are mere machines
For use at the butts of the ships carbines;
We're triggers and targets at best, it means,
To be Jacks in foreign sea-;
But this tear-soied letter it brings me hack
To the home-love dear as his life TO Lark
And thoughts they shift and my thoughts they tack
Toward the haven that yearns for me-
Ye may read it, Iad-ft's the girls own hand;
She's mine-sneli be yours when we reach the strand
Where burns loves beacon to bid us land
10 the place to heaven most near.
Makes love more sweet does a cruise like this:
Makes love fond and rarer bliss
When the sea-rover speeds to greeting kiss
That is splashed by rapture's tear
Than the airs from the isles of the summer seas
Give me rather smack of the northern breeze;
And my bread needn't grow the breadfrut trees
Where the 1.-THE Samoans roam
Them as choose may the pipe and the bowl employ
As comforts mocrngs they're pleasures alloy
But there's naught for US here with 1.-THE of the joy
Of this letter from Home, Sweet Home
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

John A. Staats, proprietor of the Sheri-
dan Hotel, has valuable setter, for
which he has refused several large offers of
purchase money. He now thinks more
highly of the dog than ever.
Mr.. Staats made up his cash and checks
yesterday and put 1t in his handbook to
deposit. When he reached the cashiers
window at the bank the book and money
had disappeared. 1t contained Saturday
night and Sunday business receipts.
He retraced his steps hurriedly to locate
the missing roll, if possible, when Farnie,
the setter, came running down the street
with the missing bankbook in her mouth.
Mr.. Stats dropped it near the hotel as he
pulled a handkerchief from his pocket.
Fannie discovered the loss and ran after
her master with the noney.-Newark
Daily Advertiser.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

longs without words were sung at Gen.
tr.l Music Hall Tuesday night at the clos
int exercises of Ephpheta School for the
Deaf. SeventY-ive boys and girls opened
the programme by singing THE Star
spangled Banner" but, instead of the
usual ringing chorus, there was much way-
ing OF arns and fluttering of fingers. while
at one ade of the stage pretty Young
woman localized the song in time to
the fiyins hands of the chorus.-Chicago
Chronich,
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

grudges him his $4,000, 600 or s6, 600, 600,
coupled with his Christian generosity.
The council adjourned to meet next in
Washington, D. G.. San Francisco was
thanked for invitation, but distance was
against 1t. HENRY G. MINToN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

were held in the St. Andrews Hall. 1t
seats 1000 and holds 5000. The:e are
always theologians where there are Pres
byterians, and it would be hard to FIRE a
gun in the streets Of Glasgow without
bombarding theology. That was the city
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-15
MADAME PELE AGAIN.
Looks This Time as if She Had Come
to Make a Long Visit.
Prediction of Peter Lee Comes True
as UsuaI-A Most Brilliant
Display Of Molten Lava.

On Thursday last Peter Lee, of the
Volcano House, told some of his friends
that within forty-eight hours Madame
Pele would show herself again, clad in
garments more brilliant than she has
ever dared to venture out in upon any
previous occasion. This he was able
to prophesy from certain unfailing in
dications which he and he alone is able
to understand. 1t is fact well known
that for years past Mr.. Lee has been
able to call the turn in regard to lava
flows
True to the prediction on Saturday
night, July 18th, the skies were BRILL
antly lighted by the fires of Kilauea
once more in active play at the surface.
The first indications were noticed by
Mr.. Lee on Saturday morning, between
70 and II o'clock, although it is thought
that the first outbreak was earlier than
that at all events Mr.. Lee telephOned
over to Hilo Immediately and the par
ty of tourists who had left the Volcano
House on the day previous, although
tired out with the fatigue of the jour-
ney, mounted fresh horses and went
back upon their tracks, and from their
statements, were we'll repaid for their
extra trip.
Mr.. c.. S. Desky, who returned on the
Kinau yesterday, says that the burn
ing lake is about 80 feet in diameter
and 500 feet deep; that there is an i'm
mense fountain toward the Rilo side
of the boundary and that the molten
lava boiling up around this make a
magnificent sight.
On Monday Purser Beckley of the
Kinau telephoned from Kawaihae to
the Volcano House to get news of the
latest developments and learned from
Mr. Lee that the fires which were more
active than ever gave every promise of
remaining for long time.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-15

Kohala Residents Draw Attention
to Awiui.
Opportunities for Coffee and Fruit
CuItIvation-Coufide of sue
cess of Undertaking.

The following petition has been for
warded to the Commissioners of Public
| Lands, by the residents of Kohala who
| are actively and earnestly interested
in the development of the country dis
tricts of Hawaii:
To the Commissioners of Public Lands:
Having had our attention called to
the Land Act passed by the Legislature
of 1895, where provisions for obtain
ing good agricultural lands would be
received on very reasonable terms, we,
as citizens of the Republic residing in
North Kohala, believing in the opening
of public lands for settlement, knowing
that therein lie our hopes of improving
our conditions and prospects, as we'll
as the advantages that the Republic
will receive, DESTROYS of acquiring Gov
eminent lands at AWini for coffee and
fruit cultivation and the establishment
there of homes, which lands we are sat
isfied are suitably adapted for such pur-
poses, respectfully urge your honorable
body to dispatch to such vicinity, as
soon as possible, surveyor, to have
such lands parceled out to us as appli-
cants, and for the appointment of a
suitable person here as Land Agent
We feel confident of the ultimate sue
cess of our undertaking, based not only
upon the answers in the Senate made
by Minister King to Senator Holstein
on the 9th of March, 1896, favorably
recommending that these lands be set
tied as rapidly as demands are made.
With high hope for our country's
welfare, we feel assured that our re-
quest will meet your sanction, and that
it will not be long when our ambitions
will be realized and rural population
domiciled in Awini under the protecting
and fostering care of beneficent Gov
eminent.
Respectfully,
(Signed) John LUZ, Antonio LUZ,
w. V. Rodenhurst, ]. S. Murray, Thos.
D. Canaan, J. Williams, E. A Fraser,
Manuel Luiz, Jr.; A. d. Lindsay, Geo.
P. Tulloch, Robert Laing, Antonio c..
de Souza, G. F. Hall, J. N Bell, Manuel
Vicente, j. A. M Osorio, D. S. Kahoo-
kano, M. r. Freitas, JOS. K Kaohi, G..
P. Kamauoha, Chas. X. Humane, c.. H.
Pulaa, Joel Kaniania, S. H. K. He, M. G..
Clement, J. d. Pononui, j. H Kama
unu
We are convinced of the advantages
to flow from the opening up of these
lands at Awini, that we believe the sub
ject has only to be investigated to be
approved.
H. L. HOLSTEIN,
F. NORTHRUP.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-15
HAENA POINT, kauai.

N~~~N~
The lurid east is all af1ame, with the
glory of the dawn,
The lustre of the stars is dimmed, and
the nights grey mantle drawn.
The rosy fire of sunrise burns all along
the cleaning deep,
And the sea has filched the color where
the golden sunbeams leap.
There's a dim and misty headland
looming upward in the west,
And a purple mist is hanging Ger
Waialeale's crest.
Here the long waves shoreward leap
ing in wild surges, curl and comb,
And break on beach and headland IL
a blaze of golden foam.
There is weird sea music uttered by
the loud tumultuous waves,
And the Surf'S reverberate thunder
echoes through Haena's caves.
From grotto and from corridor, from
the chamber and the cave,
Beneath the swirling waters where the
long sea grasses wave,
The ocean weeds are gathered, and the
spindrift flying far
Heaves the shining dulse and tangle
far across the sandy bar.
There's a CLEAN of rose and purple on
the single and the sand,
And a fire of gold and scarlet on the
shining silver strand,
Where the soft sea MOSES torn from
their deep green watery home,
Are tossed on glistening beaches, mid
the wrack of ocean foam,
By margins of the swelling tides, and
foam-fiowers on the beach,
Where the shells are lying tenantless
and shriyelled star-fish bleach.
The stark cliffs rise precipitate high
above the ocean brine,
With the sheen of gold and emerald
the misty SUBMITS shine.
There are sunless clefts and assures in
the dark basaltic steep,
And hollow sounding caverns where
the wearied waters sleep.
There are spots of green and amber
where the shuddering ferns cling,
And the sea bird sweeps athwart then
on his strong, eXultant wing.
There are coy riffs and crannies in the
mountains rugged breast,
Where the sea bird folds her pinionS
and in safety builds her nest.
When the driving clouds are sweeping
high above full-Iipped with rain,
And pour their surcharged waters OF
the hill and burning plain,
The mountain brooks that erstwhiIt
sang a low and tremulOus song
Raise aloud their liquid voices, ant
their chant is keen and strong,
AS they rush impetuous downward
through the riffs and wooded dells
And leap in sheets of silver down The
Jagged iron fells-
a foam of shining chrysoprase by the
wanton sea winds kissed,
And the broken lights of rainbOws hang
above the eddying mist.
Shall l ever gaze enraptured on Haena';
heights again
See the cliffs and boulders folded in {
mist of summer rain?
The loud waves hoarsely breaking Oh
the long reverberate shore,
Wake the thunder of the echoes will
the answer. "Nevermore.
CHARLES H EWART.
Dalbeattie, Scotland, April, 1896.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-15
Penetration and Indestructibility.

Neither salt fresh water aka acid solutions,
make any impression surfaces coated with this paint.
No. P z B. PAINT is the thinnest and is used where
penetration is preferred to surface coating dries ra-
pdlyleavng coating equal to that of coat of goodmeta
tic paint gallon covers from 900 to 400 square feet of
smooth surface.
No. P & B. PAINT is medium heavy and is the
STANDARD grade for all purposes Penetrates deeply
and leaves equal to two three coats OF good me-
talc paint 1t is of especial value for roofs, iron work.
PIPES tanks barrels ETC. gallon covers from 200 to 900
square feet of smooth surface.
No. P. & PAINT is heavy paint of good penetrat-
ing quality 1t dries readily and leaves protecting coat
ing equal to four five coats of good metallic paint 1t is the
paint to fence posts telegraph poles, conduts sub
merged timber piles etc. and wherever special surface
protection is required gallon covers about $50 to 200
square feet of surface
ROOF PAINT is ideal paint for this special purpose
and comes RED and COLORS, although its first
is than other preparations, its durability makes
it the cheapest in the end and it has such great FIRE RE-
sISTINC QUALITIES as to be virtually flre-proof.
p &B. PAPERS. These are positively waterproof
vermin proof also mpermeabe to heat cold In hot
climates every house should be lined Especially the cell
ings with the paper the cheaper grades are uneceed
lining for house mattngs They perfectly odoeSs
and are incapable of receiving odor.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-15
Papaffine Paint Go. S
PAPERS and "
COMPOUNDS IL


The base of P & B. PAINT is mineral which prac-
ticay INDESTRUCTlBLE while the solvent is of the
HEAVIEST and most penetrating LIQUIDS known This
combination the result of many years experiment and re-
search contains therefore, the very essentials of perfect
preservative coating for all substances, viz:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-29
Coal cousumption,

An industrious trifier, writing In q
French review. has been Mt the pains
to ascertain what Is the annual con.
sumption Of coal on the railways ana
steam companies Of the country, and
has worked out a total Of 3,7S2, $50
tons. This. he tells us. would make
a pyramid $40 feet high and s04 feet
ut the basis, or nearly 20 feet above
the height Of the Great Pyramid. Then
he goes on to calculate that II all this
coal were loaded In trucks the train
would be 1,025 miles, or--as with Q
nice feeling for the Franco Russian
alliance he puts 1.-THE distance be.
tween Paris and st. Petersburg. II
this train had to travel ut the rate Of
eighteen and Onc-half miles an hour,
1t would take between three and four
days to pass given point. The rail.
ways Of the whole world consume, he
asserts, on the faith of statistics which
IRE doubtless fairly accurate, nearly
G3. OOO,O tons Of coal, which would
make twenty-five "Grcat Pyramids"
but he does not draw any moral from
these figures except that great deal
OF carbonic acid Is thus precipltated
into the atmosphere.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-29
An AdysYtisaY's Dream.

A certain m.1cliant, II doesn't make
any difference what his name Is or
what his address In, IL Il man who BIO.
lieves thoroughly In advertising, and
the result IL he has the biggest busi-
ness in his town. So much, indeed,
that he works SO much on week days
that when he goes to cuhrch on Sun
day, as he always does, he generally
goes to sleep as soon as the breaches
gets well started into his sermon.
Not long ago visiting clergyman
filed the pulpit, and our friend, being
unaccustOmed to him, slept rather
uneasily, starting up every now and
then as the minister grew emphatic
and almost shouted the words Of truth
at the congregation. When the ser
mon was about two-thlrds over the
preacher called out:
Brethren, why stand ye here all the
day idle?"
because they don't ADVERTISE" sung
out the half.awakened merchant; and
the way his wife grabbed Mt him and
shook him into q sense Of his situation
almost broke up the meeting. ~. D
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-29
A Msrciful Bullet.

English military men are endeavor.
ing to determine whether the bullet of
their new service rife. the Lee.Nfet.
ford, which has taken the place Of the
Martini-Henry, IL not actually too
merciful In It's action. The object Of
war Is to disable the enemy, and not to
kill him, but apparently the new ride
bullet fails to do either. The report on
the use Of the projectile in the Trans.
vaal says that the :ajuries which were
made by the I.ee-Me,ford were much
cleaner and healed much more quickly
than those from the Martini Henry.
Both the entrance and exit orifices
were exceedingly small, and 80 clean
were the wounds internally that in
one instance n burgher who had been
shot Glenn through the lungs was con.
valcscent a few days after admission
to the hospital. 1t Is true that where
the bone Is struck the effect Is most
violent, but there can be no doubt
whatever that the perforation Of the
organs and heshy part Of the body BY
the new bullet more often than not alb.
solutely fails instantly to disable the
victim, unless, Of course. a really vital
organ Of the body is struck. The
wounds. on the other hand. which were
made BY the Martinl-1Ienry bullets
were, the report states. Of much moro
serious nature-namcly, larger, jag
ged. slow healing. with bad entrance
and worse exit" Many instances were
related Of the merciful properties Of
the new English bullet during the Chit
raj campaign, and this latest report ID
likely to give greater emphasis to the
question. Not only does the bullet fall
to stop a man, but, Judging by many
accounts. 1t infiicts very little pain
presumably on the same principle AZ
the popular scientific experiment
which shows n rabbit peacefully chew
ing Its food while rapidly revolving
knife IL cutting It's ears into ribbons
The horrors Of the next great war per
hnps will not be SO great rs some pco
pie imaglne.-Chicago Record.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-29
To Arrest Bleeding.

An instrument which is intended for
the arrest of bleeding In surgical Oper.
ations, has been perfected by Mr.. Law.
son TAFT, Of London. A platinum wire.
arranged to carry current Of cleo.
tricity, Ii inclosed In the blades Of .
pair of steel fOrceps or any other
requisite instrument, the wire being In.
sulated by bed Of burnt pipe clay. A
current Of suitable voltage Ia turned
on, the artery seized and compressed,
and In q few seconds the tissues and
arterial walls are SO agglutinated that
the passage Of blood Is rendered i'm.
possible. The temperature employed
Is about $50 degrees Fab, SO that II
will be seen that the principle 10 fun.
damentally different from that Of cleo.
trlcal cauterizing instruments. It 10
stated that by Mr.. Talt's instrument
the necessity for ligature Is removed,
and a new and completely effective
method IL placed In the hands Of the
surgeon for the treatment Of surface
OOxing.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-29
The Oldest kn own Bird,

"The SOlenhOfen slate Of Bavaria"
writes Prof. II. q. Seeley In his recent
little volume, "rhe Story Of the Earth
In Past Ages" "makes known numer.
GUS insects and other forms Of terres.
trial life of this period, including the
oldest known bird. A bird Is known
by Its feathers, though there IL no rea.
son why the covering to the skin
should not be as variable In the group
Of animals AZ among reptiles or man.
mails. 1t IL, therefore, remarkable
that the oldest known bird, the arch.
aeopteryx, has feathers as well de.
velOped as In the existing representa-
tives Of the class and similarly ar.
ranged.
'"rhe animal IL an elegant, slender
bird, which IL chiefly remarkable for
showing teeth In the jaws. About
twelve, short and cOnical, occur on
each side of the upper jaw. The bird
was larger than the robin In its body
and had q tail of which there was q
bOny core some six inches In length
The wings were quite as well develop.
ed as the legs, and there are some evi.
dences that the former could be ap.
piled to the ground Us are the forelega
of Quadrupeds, although the feather
show the wings to have been construct
ed ON the same plan us the birds Of to-
day. The S0lenhofen stone, In which
30 many Of the remains of ag6es, rep
tiles and insects are found, is the same
that IL used for lithoglaphing purposes
being Of exceedingly close texture and
of remarkable smoothness when pre-
pared for its work."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-29

certed. The uninitlated Is struck mute
by the sudden exclamation, starts ner.
vously and staes blankly Mt the man
whom he s,pposes to have been bitten
by an invisible scorpion or reptile.
Closer scrutiny proves this particular
bill to be counterfeit, though II has
taken the outsider fully fifteen minutes
to distinguish between It and the gen.
uine bill, much to the disgust Of the
expert. who at single glance detected
1t. going as he was Mt the rate Of a
mile minute. and discarded It -
quickly as though It burned him.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-08-29
Passed q School Of Whales,

The unusual sight was witnessed last
Friday Off Cape Hattens by Captain
Doyle, of the British steamship Bendo,
of a school of large sperm whales dis.
porting themselves ut sea, says the
Philadelphia Record. They were NOV.
ing along at a slow, steady pace, and
In the distance appeared like rocks on
an unknown shore. A slight breeze
sprlnging up, number of water.
spouts appeared. The whales started
In pursuit of these, evidently desiring
to have the spOuts break over them.
As long as the BendO was In sight Of
them the big fish could be seen playing
about like children In q bathtub.
Captain Doyle said that there was Q
fortune assured for any whaling YES.
eel that might happen to strike tAA
school