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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-11
PROGRAM OF ADVANCE.
salvation Army Officers Meet and Pre-
pare a Plan of Campaign.

salvation Army Officers Meet and Pre-
pare Plan of Campaign.
NEW YORK, June 25-It was a
meeting of surprises that the Salvation
Army held tonight at Headquarters.
Commander Booth Tucker had mar
shaded his hosts, and programme of
advance was announced that meant
nothing more than hurting defiance at
the Volunteers. All the chief division
al officers-Brigadier Cozens of Gin
clnnad, Brewer of Chicago, Keppel of
san francisco, Evans of PHILADELPHIA.
french of st. Louis, Holtz of Buffalo
and Sully of Kansas City and a host
or MaJors-had quietly come to the
town, and for nine hours today they
were in secret council with Commander
Tucker, and tonight results were an
nounced as follows:
Programme for advance-Series of
two days with God in principal cities.
Series of all nights of prayer in prin-
cipal cities.
Camp meetings at Chicago. San
Francisco, Old Orchard, Cincinnati.
Philadelphia and Washington
United advance upon one hundred
unOccupled cities.
Great anti-drink work.
The transfer of number of chief
divisional officers.
Formation of Bands of Love on in
dustrial basis for children; extensive
work among children, including with
strays.
The publication of the memoirs of
Mrs. General Booth in monthly parts
The commencement of work amongst
negro population, and the appointment
of Colonel Holland in charge.
Homes for former criminals
Inauguration of Naval and Military
League.
Spiritual work among G. A. r. veter-
ans.
Soldiers and sailors homes
Work among the merchant marine.
Expected visit of General Booth in
the spring.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-11
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A Model Plant is not complete with.
out Electric Power, thus dispensing
with small engines.
Why not generate your power from
one CENTRAL Station? One gener-
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Centrifugals. Elevators, Flows, Rail
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and power for a radius of from ID to &c
miles.
Electric power being used saves the
labor of hauling coal in your field, also
water, and does away with high-priced
engineers, and only have one engine to
look after in your mill
Where water power is available it
costs nothing to generate Electric
Power.
THE HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC COM
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Plants and Generators of all descrip-
tons at short notice, and also has on
hand a. large stock of Wire, Chandel-
iers and Electrical Goods.
All orders will be given prompt at
tention, and estimates furnished for
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tention ia given to House and Marine
Wiring.
THEO. HOFFMAN, Manager.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

political shrine. Thither bend their steps the local political managers from all over this immense state of New York They bring grist to the Platt mill, which grinds slow but sure.
 Here, perhaps, the secret or one se- cret, of his power begins to be visible He is in touch with every constituency in the state. He has in every electoral district his own manager-a local boss or several of them, each controlling his own section of the party, each reporting direct to MT. Platt, taking his orders from him. loyal to him personally and looking to him as his true chief. How is such an organization as that to be dis turbed or overthrown. unless you first break up the relations between tha leader and his followers. and how are you going to do that so long as the tie is a personal one?"
 Regarding the last annual struggle of the republican party to rid itself of Platts Mir Smalley wrote: He has b7en for many years the boss of that party. It is a poor and vulgar word to describe a man of pre-eminent political ability, but there is no other which expresses quite all that is meant by it, and l suppose we must be content to go on using it until a new term is invented. The effort to get rid of MT. Platt bore no resemblance to the effort against Tammany, nor was there any reason why it should. MT, Platt, indeed. is a more absolute autoerat throughout the state than ever ram many was. But his sway over the re- publican party, though it may have been corrupting, has never bsen corrupt in the sense that he sought or obtained any money reward for himself.
 His one aim has been to win repub- lican victories. There were other repub- lcans who thought they could promote this laudable end better than he. They proposed to obtain it. however by very much the same means that Mr. Platt employed. There was no uprising against a boss or against the methods of the boss. There was an attempt to substitute one boss for another, or, since no man was named as a possible successor to MT. Platt or as his equal in the art of party management, it might be mora accurate to say that Mr. Platt's opponents tried to turn him out, and were ready to trust to luck for a substitute. That the re- publican party should be allowed to man. age it's own affairs seems to have oc- cured to nobody We'll this effort came to nothing. Mir Platt remains master. MT. Platt is well into the-siXties now, but he takes good care of himself. and if he should live ten years longer people who write about the efforts to dlslodge him will proba bly close their stories with the same four words used by MT. Small
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
IN THE SOUDAN.

not too confident. The Abyssinians do not compare with the Mahdists in feroc- ity, yet they humbled the strongest ar mics that Italy could send out against them.
 The military results will be more than interesting when active opera tions are begun, but just now something about the is not out of place. They are one of many sects that believe in the teachings of Muhammad, or Mohammed, as it is more generally written, and like each of the others, they claim their dogmas are the only true ones, that all others have been perverted by the infidels or Chris tians.
 Few people have any idea of the num- bers who profess the doctrines of Isam They are very close to 2,000,00 900 in all and they are divided into four times as many denominations as the Christian
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

only in his line. The Wahabbis of Nadj are the Puritans of Islam, and pro- fess to bring back the religion to the original teachings of Muhammad.
 The Wahabbis are the extremists and the Mahdists form the most extreme sect of these extremists. In other words, they are the most terrible fanatics the world over. The Turk who is so mild in his belief that the Mahdists disown him. has given the Christian world within the past year many horrible examples In the aw- full butcheries of peaceful Armenians of what mild fanaticism can do. What then will the Mahdists do? It seems impossi- ble for the human mind to imagine any thing more atrocious than the Turk yet he is scowled upon by the Mahdists for leaning toward Christianity.
 Birth of the Mahdists.
 This sect of Mahdlsts is of compara- lively recent birth. Mohammed Achmed, the carpenter of Dongola, chosen El Mahd or "The Messenger of God by the religious societies of Cairo. Tunis, Tripoh and Algiers, initiated the "Jehad," or Holy War" of eleven years ago. It resulted in the capture of Khar- toum January 26, 1885, and the massacre of the famous British general known as Chinese" Gordon and over 4000 of his adherents.
 During all of the Mahdi's triumphant campaigns his chief lieutenant was Os- man Digna, or "The Worded One" who
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

politicians. He controls the politicians. big and little, and they attend to the voters. Like Von Moltke, the German general in the Franco-Prussian war, who sat miles away from the front and, with the aid of the telegraph, kept track of all the changes in line of battle, moving regiments and brigades here and there as if he were playing checkers. Platt does not mingle in actual strife. He never makes political speech. The last one he made was something over four teen years ago, when he shared Roscoe ConKlings defeat by resigning from the United States senate. By this he earned the sobriquet of Me Too" Platt.
 A Negative Fighter.
 One of the strange things about Platt is that he is rarely successful in any cam paign. He has lead his party to defeat in the city and state time after time but notwithstanding this no combination strong enough has ever been made to force him out of power It Is not due to lack of genius that he loses. It is be- cause he is negative fighter instead of an affirmative one. His hatreds are stronger than his likings, and he would rather pull down an enemy than build up a friend. It is his very vindictiveness in this regard that has made him the terror of so many small fry leaders Platt may be sincere in his promise to support a friend, but the friend must wait uHIll IlS udS ldheH d SLY at SOille eiieiily- In this way he makes more enemies, and they keep piling up year after year, like the riches of hundred times millionaire who is only able to spend a tiny fraction of his income.
 Thrives on Politics.
 One of the curious things about Mr. Platt is that when the political times are dull he seems to wilt and wither up, but when politics are lively, with plenty of internal rows and discords to be harmon ized, he blooms and fattens, and the fun ereal look which perpetually adorns his face can scarcely be detected. Just now he is at his best. A determined effort is on foot, engineered by powerful leaders in his party, to drive him to the wall and break up the Platt machine. Wires are being worked on all sides of him to cause his downfall; hundreds of able men are plotting against him, but he seems happier than for long time past. This does not mean that he is merry. No one ever saw Tom Platt in a merry mood. But the hard lines in his face are trlfle less distinct and he is more approach able-both sure signs of incipient good humor.
 The man that Tom Platt goes to the convention to get the nomination for will probably get left, because the eX-senator will be too busy tearing down the fences of other people to give much time to his own But he can always be counted up- on to make the cleverest kind of fight, and the men who oppose him will know that they are in politics.
 An English View
 Mr Smalley, the American correspond ent of the London Times. made study of MT. Platt some time ago for the bene-
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

l was born April 20 in the year 571 of the l Christian era, about the time that St. | Columba established his mission at Iona. At the age of 26 he married wealthy l widow named Khadeejah.
 He was an Arab poet, and gave some time to the construction of verses which l express the feeling of one solemnly im- pressed with the existence of an AL mighty God. One of these early produc- tons now stands as the first chapter of | the Kuran. It IS called the Fatihah, and is used as the paternoster of the Muham- madans. It runs thus
 Praise be to God, the Lord of all the
 The compassionate and the merclful One! The King of the Day of Judgment Thee only, o God. do we worshlpi 10 thee only do cry for succori Guide thou us, o God, in the straight path" Muhammad's search after the truth is variously described but that generally accepted is this: He retired to Mount Heera, in the vicinity of Mecca, and there living alone, in contemplation, he sought 'the path"
 His anxiety of mind became so great that in the agonies of distress he repeat edly contemplated suicide It was then that an angel appeared to him in dream and said: 'Ikra" (read). To which Mu- hammad replied, q am not a reader"
 Muslin commentators varously ex- plain the meaning of this reply. Some say that he meant he could not read; oth- CTS that he was unlearned and ignorant But the message came again and the angel said thus: Read thou, in the name of thy Lord, who created man out of olots of blood.
 Read thou, for thy Lord Is merciful. He hath taught man the use of the pen, and that which he knoweth not"
 Muhammad repeated the words with a trembling heart as he awoke, and then leaving the cave speedily returned to Macca.
 After long deliberation Muhammad be- lieved himself a. comm ssioned apostle, and few of his closest friends, to whom he had spoken about his doubts, agreed with him. He never claimed to have any thing more than dreams. but they were so clear and well defined that they sat isfied himself and his relatives
 Lord Wolseley commander-in-chief of the English army knows a good deal about warfare In the Soudan. While reconnoitering the position of the Arabs before Kassassin in August of 1892 he made sketch of the scene, and the pie ture shown here was drawn from a pho tograph of that sketch.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
AS HE IS USUALLY PICTURED.

fit of the English people, and among oth- CT things he wrote: "He has been de- scribed as man who attends to politics every day in the year. This is but an of the remark attributed er- roneously perhaps, in both cases, to Buff fon and Goethe, that genius is nothing but the capacity of taking pains. Dis raeli came nearer to the mark in 'Conts- is a necessary ingredient of genius.
 ''Mr. Platt in private life Is president of an express company, with bueipess interests which are supposed to engfoss his time during the day. Having done more @ or less politics sasas aaterspefsgs, he
 votes his evenings to governing the ker publican party, His headquarters aF6 W a well known hotel in Broadway, with a large entrance hall o9 the ground floor, signed especially for the practice of po1l- tics. It is a political rendezvous. almost
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

stands today the unique boss in the po- litical arena of the nation. What he makes out of politics no one has ever been able to discover. It is said that he makes nothing, and the people who say. so. give it as the reason for his unbroken and ironclad leadership. Even men who hate him-and their name is legion-do not attribute sinister meanings to his po- Iitical power. What he is after is only one of the many mysteries connected with Tom Platt. It is an old story that. he expected to be made secretary Of the treasury when Harrison was elected in 1888, and that when Harrison refused never ending war broke out between them.
 Platt has never aspired to any elective office for the reason that he would be the most unmercifully beaten man who ever graced a ticket He knows this better than any one else, but it doesn't worry him. He has never courted favor with the people. All of his dealings are with
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

church. The sultan of Turkey Is always spoken of as being the head of Islam, but as matter of fact only 100000 be- hevers, less than one-twelfth of the to- tai number give him allegiance. Of the rest 55, ,000, 900 are subjects of the queen of England and il 100000 are subjects of the Emperor of China.
 Divisions of Islam.
 Islam Is divided into three principal sections and the other sects are otfshoots of these. The three are the Sunnis, of whom the sultan Of Turkey is the reput- ed but not the real head; the Shlahs of Persia and the Wahabbis of Arabia. The Chief difference between the Sunnis and the Shias Is the Khaliphate, the Sun pie acknowledging the Abbaside Khali- f6ho. While the Shias maintain that Ali Wa4 the rightfu1 successor of Muham- mad. and that the Khallphate must run
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

had been a successful slave trader at Khartoum until Chinese" Gordon at tempted to break up the traffic. He was one of the first of the malcontents to join the mahdi's forces, and as he was a man of great influence and power, thousands who might have remained passive to English domination were attracted by his example.
 Fl Mahdi ded of smallpox July 21, 1885, On his death bed he intrusted his sword to Abdullah, his nephew, who became the khalifa or successor" in the leading of the faithful. Osman Digna was immediately chosen by the khalifa as his warror-in- chief Since that time the khalifa has remained unconquered, though his war fare has been less active in the last three years.
 A Skilled General.
 Osman Digna at all times has led the <halifas troops, and has now been under
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
THE CzAR OF GOTHAM Efforts to Down I. C, Platt, the
 Political Caesar. MAN WITH THE ICY EYE Odd Traits of the Leader Who Is Worrying All of the G. 0. P. Presidential
 Candidates.

New York, April 3.-A man with stopping shoulders and bent head, with a thin, cold face, calm gray eyes, beard more white than gray, man who might be a minister or an exceedingly clever bunko steerer, man who walks very quietly and laughs noiselessly, this is Thomas Collier Platt the czar of Goth am, the man of the icy eye.
 Tom P1att is a thorn in the side of many men of note just now Platt all ways has a knife handy, and he is not afraid to use 1t. There are many rumors ahoat that Platt's sun has set; that he has gone the way of all wicked bosses and that the people have at last risen In arms to crush him. But the man who governs the legislature of New York state with an iron hand and who Is as much of a king of the metropolis as Rich ard Croker ever was is not an easy man Ito down.
 If some of the presidential candidates could turn an X ray on the heart of this lleader and read the actual truth they would be more than happy. There is Levi P. Morton, for instance, who is how ering between the devil and the deep sea simply because MT. Platt has prom fsed to move heaven and earth to get the nomination for him at the St. Louis con Hention. The fact that MT. Platt has made this promise haS made MT. Morton dubious His friends openly tell him that Platt will give him the double cross, s,' the "marble heart.' the glad hand and the con smile," to say nothing of the Fstony stare from the icy eye" when convention time comes round. There is Major Mckinley also, who would like to know where and how the Easy Boss will knife him. Even Big Tom Reed is nerv- Ous, although 1t has been understood for couple of years that Platt would work honestly for him and him only in the campaign of 1S96
 A Unique Boss.
 But no matter what Tom Platt does, he
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

arms almost constantly for ten years. He Is a skilled general, and Is well up In the tactics of modern warfare: He Is no mean foe and a terrible fighter, crafty and merciless.
 f. as they claim. the Mahdists were true followers of the first Muhammad, they would be quite different from what they are. Eminent theologians of all lands have devoted their lives to a study of the life of this remarkable man, and their writings show that he was the agent of much good, that he was a sin cere reformer of many evils, and that he was not altogether barren of estlmable qualities.
 Muhammad Poet.
 Muhammad belonged to one of the leading tribes of Arabia. The Kurdish, his grandfather, held tine high office of custodian of the Meccan temple. He
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
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 Mercury,

As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescrip4 tions from reputable physicians. as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no.mercury, and is taken internally act ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine, It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo, O., by r. J. Cheney & Co. Testi- monials free.
 Sold by druggists, price 75c per bottle.
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Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

the French word "coiffure,' which does not assimflate with English at all. The word headdress given by the dictionary is an absurdity; we have no name for the thing. They say that the careless ness of American women about arrang- ing their hair Is liable to spoil the effect of the most successful hat. l merely re- peat what is said. 2 It ought not to be difficult to follow the present French fashi99 It is the same waving all round the bead and the ends
 he neS ers aa hs snes Of aho faS covers the ear entirely, though 1t should b6 said that many elegant women con- tinue to draw the hair back to expose the can The hair is not worn high ofl the head except with evening dress, when a coiffure. high or low. is matter of choice,
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
Al Simnle Ooifnre.

A very simple manner of dressing the hair especially appropriate to the Lenten season is the old-fashioned way of roll ing it back from the temple in two sep arate twists, which are combined with the back hair in loosely coiled braid. This particular style of coiffure always has an air of extreme simplicity and neatness, and can be arranged with lit- tie expenditure of time and patience, which is. of course, a great recommenda- tion to go summing and sitting up late to do her special course of Lenten read ;t,er
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
THE AMERICAN CoIFFURE.

Would, Spoil Any Lovely Hat.
 When our language grows a little rich CT it will perhaps supply itself with a name for the hair in a condition of or derIy arrangement. Until then there seems no way but to serve ourselves with
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
POET MUHAMMAD'S LAWS Doctrine of the MahdiStS Whom
 England Will Fight. FIERCER THAN THE TURK Everything the Prophet Did Not Forbid Is Permissible Muhammad'S Early
 Life lrreproachabIe.

The 10000 English soldiers who are go- ing to war against the Mahdists and re- conquer the Soudan will not battle against human courage but against the fanaticism of a strange religion. It is too soon to predict what the result will be, but the English military chiefs who have engaged in warfare of this kind are
Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05
} If You Are Pale Avoid White.

The rage for white satin stocks in creases. If worn by the right people they are immensely becoming, for the brilliant luster sets off a brilliant complexion as nothing else can. But the pale and dull colored women should avoid white satin as the plague, for nothing else can so take the vitality out of a face already lacking in color