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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-07
SUMNER FRUITS IN WINTER.
How Their Freshness Can Be Kept Unim-
paired For Months.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence.l
PARIS, Dec. 23.-Whose mouth does
not water at the thought of dish of
awberries for New Years? Not the
EXPENSIVE and tasteless dollhouse kind,
but the natural berry, just as 1t is picked
from the fields. Again, who would not
be glad to have real muskmelons, water
melons, peaches, grapes and other fall
and summer fruits In the dead OF win
ter? These questions of course answer
themselves.
Most persons, however, will be in
clined to look at this style Of turning
winter into summer as something likely
TO happen when the moon turns to green
cheese, and not before. Yet one of the
noteworthy achievements of this Won
derful age of exploration of the secrets
of nature seems to be the discovery OF
cheap and effective process whereby
fresh fruit can be kept just as 1T was
originally picked for term Of several
months. This good news has just been
made public in this country, where SCI
entific horticulture has reached high
degree of proficiency. The joyous t1dings
will be welcome to the multitude OF
fruit growers throughout the United
States and the still larger multitude OF
private consumers. The fruit growers
| can get materially better prices for their
enormous crop, and the private consum-
ers can enjoy table Injuries, oftentimes
of great value for the preservation OF
health, such as are now denied them.
The process by which these beneficial
results are to be achieved is a simple
II Gr~c% ifaT A
1 Petit, chief of the laboratory Of horti-
cultural research at the National Horti-
cultural school of Versailles. He observ-
ed that pears and apples kept for several
months, even when rotting had begun,
| in an atmosphere saturated with vapors
of alcohol and water, without showing
the slightest sign of mold. Convinced
| that he was ON the track OF important
results, he embarked on course OF sys-
tematic experiment, choosing grapes as
the fruit to be treated because of their
great tenderness and liability to decay.
Bunches of grapes cut fresh from the
vines were placed upon beds of wood
shayings in receptacle that was for all
practical purposes cemented brick box
closed as nearly Theoretically as possible
bv a common. wooden door. A partly
open bottle containing 81 cubic inches
of alcohol was also placed in the brick
box. To make the experiment complete
equal quantities of grapes were placed
in two similar brick boxes without any
alcohol, the wooden cover Of one being
kept open and that of the other kept
closed. The boxes were all located in 8
cool place.
The result of the experiment showed
| that at the end of nearly two months
the grapes subjected TO the alcoholic vap-
orization remained full, firm and of I'm
impaired flavor. Seventeen cubic inches
of alcohol-more than one-fourth of it:
entire contents-remained in the bottle
On the other hand, the grapes IN thu
brick boxes which were destitute OF al
cohol became hopelessly moldy and rot
ten in less than three weeks.
E. W. POTTER
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speaker-Free Silver In the South.
Especial Correspondence.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-Takeu by
classes, the southern Republicans in con-
gress are by far the most interesting
class, being so very new and, as it were,
so very unexpected. In fact, the south
has been Democratic SO long that many
have forgotten their history. Hon.
George II. Noonan has been referred to
a. the first Republican congressman
from Texas. - He is an able man and a
very solid one, but not the first of his
party from that state. In the first years
of reconstruction the cotton states, from
Roanoke TO the Rio Grande, were al
most sol;dly Republican, and when the
first Democrat from Texas, Captain Con-
nor, entered the house in 1870 Ben But
Ter made such a furious fight against
him that he would certainly have been
ousted if he had not been a Federal vet
eran Indeed it was not till 1875 that
the Democrats had majority from the
old south. But this is only a reminis-
cence.
New Men From the South.
From the 16 states once called the
south there are in this congress 81 Re
publicans, but 90 are from the five border
states and from the old Republican
stronghold of east Tennessee. In the
Fifty third congress there were z, OF
whom were from the border states and
2 from east Tennessee, leaving from the
real south only the colored Murray OF
South Carolina and Hon. Thomas Settle
of North Carolina. AS the latter gentle
man is the sole Republican survivor OF
the Fifty third congress from the south
and is credited with having engineered
the fusion which captured North Caro-
lima he has attained a rather dizzy proml'
hence, but he bears it we'll. He has had
a phenomenal career, indeed, as pre-
cocious youth. He was admitted to the
bar at 90, elected district solicitor at 2
elected to congress at 81, and now, al
the age of 80, is in his second term ano
the recognized leader of his section.
The new men from the south have
borne their honors most becomingly
but some of the gangs which followed
them here have amused old spectators
by their refreshing innocence.
Hon. Alonzo Craig Shuford of the
Seventh North Carolina district is {
trife aggravated by the fact that the
newspapers and the first official list o.
this congress set him down as Repub
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district. He is a spare, why sort of man,
and as his life has been put in at hard
work his constituents and very large
section Of the south outside of his dis
trict seem to have taken it for granted
that he can stand anything. Another
hard worker apparently is Hon. George
Il. Noonan of San Antonio, Tex, who
represents 81 counties of the most di-
verse climate, people and productions.
He was judge of the district court for
80 years, and his Democratic friends at
tn bute his election entirely TO the high
character he sustained in that office and
his resulting popularity. Judge Noonan,
however, will not listen to such an ex-
PLANTATION, but thinks 8 was all on ac-
count of the Wilson bill putting wool on
the free list. His big fight will be for
restoring the Mckinley rates on that sta
ule
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n.a4a Nellie R1x,s Record.

A post card message has travelled
around the world In 70 days-the qulck-
est tir- cord
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Gains For Silver.

AmOn2 the very distinguished new
mon fI0ll the south * General James A.
Walker, the only Republican from Vir-
ginia, and it adds not little TO his rank
that he carried his district by some 8, 900
against Cyclone Jim Marshall, VINO car
ried it by some 5000 in 1892. 1t is
worth noting that General Waller is also
a radical silver man, and it may be said
in general that the big percentage OF ex-
treme silver men among the new Repub-
licans is one of the surprises Of this
congress. He talks it, too, with more
than the average freedom, and is very
confident that an overwhelming MAORI
ty of the Republicans of the south would
vote for the free coinage of silver at once
if it were put TO popular vote. Ihe
general, as everybody knows-fOr he Is
man of national reputatlon-Was one
of the most brilliant soldiers in the Con-
federate army, having commanded the
famous Stonewall brigade" and Early S
division in the latter part of the war.
[ have been much interested in the
reasons given by those southern Repub-
licans for their being here and for the
general political revolution Of 1894,
but, after all, it seems that the enthusl-
asm of the politician nearly always over
comes the Judgment of the man, for
each is confident it was due entirely TO
the particular feature in which he takes
most interest Hon. J. 81. Huling OF
West Virginia, for instance, attributes
! it altogether to the tariff and the slight
which the Democrats put on the indus
tries of his state, while the North Caro-
| lima men think "treason to silver" had
a good deal to do with it. 1.-THE man
who beat Billy Wilson, is the popular
title for Hon. Aston Gordon Dayton,
who has been great success as law
yer, but admits to some surprise at his
sudden promotion to congressman. Oh
course he thinks the tariff did 1T all,
and that West Virginia is to remain Re
publican. y. h. BEADLE.
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NEW MEN IN CONGRESS-
THIRTY-FOUR REPUBLICANS FROM
SIXTEEN SOUTHERN STATES.

Phenomenal Career of Congressman Settle
of North Carolina 'Independent
Proteetionist"-The New Member and the
Speaker-Free Silver In the South.
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abandon it. His case was the rule in that
unfortunate camp.
When the trains would arrive at Jim
town, which was a mile east of Creole,
the mail would be thrown of and opened
by the station master las at that time. We
had no post office) and thrown into q large
dry goods. box. Some one tnSstne crowd
would call off the names On the mall par
GELS, and as the owner would cab%0ut or
hold up his hand the letter or paper would
be passed to him. All lettersSnot Taken
away at that time were left in the box un-
til called for. .ssc4 .-tt
1 received all of my letters in that way
for some time, never losing one or having
One niiSlaid.
Among all this mixed mass of people
thrown together at such a short notice you
could hardly help hearing Of and seeing
some strange characters. so -
Nild-Mannered Hat Masterson.
Ore of the first men pointed out to me
was Bat Masterson. who has quite a num-
Der of notcnes on his gun, twenty-five or
six if Dame Rumor and the chronicles Of
several other camps are correct. A milder
man under ordinary circumstances never
met, very fond of fun and liberal 10 a
fault. l was beginning to think that there
was some mistake about his frmness and
determination, until one night a great big
six-foot miner came down from the hills
and lost about two hundred dollars at faro.
ne ineh HlIeu up on Dad WHISKY anu s"ore
that he was going to get back his money.
Before dong any harm he was thrown into
the street by the united efforts Of the IL
mates of the gambling room. He .hen got
out two guns that appeared to be about
two feet long, and he had the street de-
serted in two minutes, every one consil-
ering ii too cold tc venture out. Abnrl
that time L Bat coming down the
street, walking just as ieisurely as if moth
lag unusual was going on. He walked d.
rectly I'D to this drunken mailman ana
took his guns away if he was a child
telling him to go home and get sober, and
in the morning he would find his guns Il;
the Capitol bar.
Then there was Mr.. jefferson Randolph
Smith, better known to fame by the Shor:
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From the Contemporary Review.

From the Contemporary Review.
The mosque is rot merely a house of
prayer. AS its name, ''Djami,' Indicates,
1t is also n center of attraction and a place
of meeting. Djami brings tog ether the in
dividual Moslems and by grouping multi
plies the forces of Islam. At sunset
great silence falls, with the night, on TIE
eastern city: all noise is hushed, and orc
hears nothing but the resounding voice Of
the Muezzin calling the faithful to their
religious duties. Additions and prayers are
but symbolic puriiica tons of the body and
the spirit in preparation for a duty even
more noble and more civic, that is, for
public elaboration the affairs of the
country. The ceremony of the Selamlik-
the visit Of the sultan every Friday in
great state to the mosques a spectacle
which much interests and, indeed, amuses
strangers who pass through Constantine
pie. But this procession, which closes now
adays at the threshold of the mosque for
nerly went on. with even greater majesty
and significance, into the interior of the
sanctuary. There the commander of the
faithful. after presiding at prayer ANA
pressing the hands of his fellow believers,
gave public account to the assembly of
the more important acts of his government.
This splendid institution gave opportunity
TO all the great personages of the empire
to take part in the deliberations and 10
exercise influence over the conduct of at
fairs. Monarch and private subject link
ed together by a common faith, worked to-
gether for a common interest. Islamism
furnished the direction and the bond of
union; the object of all was the pursuit or
truth and justice. The citizen, whateve.
his social position, was thus trained in the
art of administration, and il was this
school which produced the great men to
who n. we owe so much important progress.
SO seen as the government failed 10 recog-
nize their worth and their service the deca-
deBce OF the east set III.
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reaus, bellows. anvils and. in fact, every
thing that could possibly be made to stay
on. I met about forty Of them one day
going up to the Last Chance. Each one
had long twenty-foot board tied on each
of; its sides, the ends dragging along be-
hind like an immense tail. The trail was
very slippery and steep. In places I was
compelled to crawl on hands and knees.
but they went along without any trouble.
But everything Is changed now, and the
half-house and half-tent that was fitted up
used In a railroad car, have disappeared.
We would have to stand In line, waiting
our turn. sometimes for three or four
hours. and then were only allowed a GER
towel apiece, all for the moderate price of
seventy-five cents. The two big fires in
| Creole carried everything before them
The wind swept down that gulch as
for their lives. up to the railroad track
near the tank. This tank had served the
town with ice in its early days. as 1t was
very easy for the porters to chop off a
! huge icicle and convert 1t into shapes suit
| able for mixed drinks So rapidly did the
| fire wipe out this place that only few
saved anything. even their clothes.
| Out of ten to fifteen thousand 9eople
who were there during the boom all have
| gone except few hundred. and of them
all not one single person struck ore that
would pay to mine.
Creole us 1t Is Today.
All that remains of Creole Is its two
| mines and its miners. The parasites have
| gone. When the Last Chance" mine was
found its mineral was at grass roots" and
| so easily was it mined that for long time
it required no blasting, and was dug out
| like so much moist clay. which was filled
| with crystals of no value but very pretty
| and resembling the amethyst in color and
| shape. After this earth had been exposed
| to the air for one or two days it looked
| just like SO much ashes and II such stHff
was found in any yard or cellar in Wash
| ington the inmates would willingly pay &c
| have it hauled away.
| This mine is worked at profit today, no,
| only on account Of the cheap manner In
| which 1t can be worked. but because its or.
| possesses peculiar properties, and carries
just enough lead to make 1t particularly
| valuable at the smelters. So much is this
| so that at times it is smeted free Of coat
1t requires several different kinds of ores
| to smelt silver, and when any kind is need
| ed they find it cheaper to work that kinC
| free, as an indIcement to the owners t.
| mine and ship, than it Is to buy the meta
that is required to make higher grade ore
t1ux.
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From the Seattle nteIligeneer
Some of the nen who have gone to Alas
ka have returned to complain Of the hard
work, of the cold, the heat, the frost or the
snow, but the real discouragenen which
makes life in the far north a great burden
is the deadly mosquito, from whose insin-
Eating bill there is no escape
They are there in such swarms that
sometimes you seem to be looking at the
sun through snow Storm" SAID II. A.
fredcri"ks Of this city yesterday. Mr..
tIedericks has just returned from long
TRIP III the Yukon country, and it was to
that region he had particular reference
hey are the worst thing in the conn
try, he continued, and beside them the
other difficulties amount to nothing. In the
settlements they do not bother people niue h,
but wheE man goes up one of the creeks
prospecting he must erveiop his head in a
:Gosquito frame of cheese cloth-their bills
would go through netting like knife
through tissue paper-and must wear gloves
and tie his trousers and shirt sleeves close
about his ankles and wrists.
Il have come back not because 1 am dis
gusted with the country but because
want to vote for Mckinley: then ] will be
ready to return and fight mosquitoes until
my work in the north is finished"
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Tea at $175 n Pound.
New York Letter.

1t Is the pickings of the first tips of the
blossoms. The greatest care must be taken
in the picking, and nothing but the bright.
golden-hued tip taken off the blossoms All
the picking of this grade is carefully done
by hand The process of drying these tips
is as delicate as the picking. The annual
output is estimated at 1900 pounds, valued
at s2,1OO,OO0. But five pounds of this tea
have ever been known to have reached the
United States, excepting a few pounds
placed on exhibition at the worlds fair. A
rich lady residing at New York wrote to
Mr.. MARI, the agent of the Ceylon tea
growers for America at Chicago and asked
him to try and procure for her, If possible,
five pounds of this remarkable and eXpen-
sive tea Mr.. Mari was successful in Sc
curing six pounds of the precious article.
The New York lady gave check for 81 ,O00
for her five pounds.
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Creole was situated nearly two miles
above sea level, in a deep gully. shaped
more like an hour glass than anything else.
with. Immense walls of rocks. rising from
..tD TO a thousand feet, on each side with y
snaii rapid stream running through it,
center, eraptying into the Rio Grande sore
miles below In some places the gully
was SO narrow, and building lots so scarce
that the stream was bridged over with
logs and houses were built or thrown upon
them and in these boxes. which We're
built of green lumber, not hundreds but
thousands of persons lived, many of them
knowing that when the warm days OF
spring and summer would come and melt
the snow. or a sudden rain cloud woul,
raise the water, the resulting torrent woult.
sweep the town away. But little did they
care for that They We're there in search
of a mile that would give them plenty
of the metal of which the present alleged
5it-cent dollar is made, and as they had &c
sleep somewhere out of the snow and cole
they accepted these risky abodes.
| bad to sleep for two months in one OF
these ShackS. in a large room over bar.
This roDfn was fitted up with big cast
iron stove. forty-four cots, three tin wash
basiIIs. cSo IL by i6 looking glasses, one
whisky barrel filed with water. three CT
four towels and two oil lamps. Eacn guest
was supplied with two blankets, but there
were no sheets The tariff was one dollar
a sleep. Just as soon as a cot was vacated
by onc CUES; it was flied by anothe-- Ii
the cot was used over twelve hours the
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They Smoked Bird Seed.
the PHILADELPHIA Record

From the Philadelphia Record
Because of a little mistake of his wife's
a well-known uptown lawyer, who has
long prided himself upon his delicate taste
in the matter of smoking tobacco, feels
several sizes too small to fill his own
clothes just at present. 1t was one Of his
hobbies to keep his choicest brands in an
old cigar box, besprinkled with good
brandy to keep the tobacco moist and to
improve the flavor.
Not long ago the lawyer invited three
old cronies to visit his house and while
away an evening with the company OF
their pipes. In honor Of the occasion the
host produced his finest tobacco and in
vited his friends to help themselves. The
pipes were lighted, and with the first puffs
of smoke came an odor too horrible to be
described. The wife of the distinguished
member Of the bar, who had been upstairs,
Instituted q search for burning rags, In
the course of which she entered the room
where the smoker was in progress.
do you smell that terrible stench?
she asked. addressing her husband.
YES" answered the chorus Of three
white-faced visitors, laying aside their
pipes. But her spouse smoked calmly or
In evident enjoyment, and suggested that
although he didn't smell anything unusual
perhaps the cook was burning fat in the
kitchen range. 1t was not long, however
before the odor was traced to the tobacco
smoked by the host and his three guests.
did you get that tobacco out Of the
cigar box on the library table?" asked the
lawyers wife.
yes"
well, that's too bad. I thought tha
box was empty. and I've been throwing
waste birdseed in there every time clear
| Bobby's cage. Msybe that's Swhat smelli
| so unpleasant"
| And the laugh was on the lawyerNth'
| connoisseur, who had smoked half q pipe
full without discovering that anything wa
wrong.
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alert for such emergencies and would say,
Talking always makes me dry. What will
you have? One day when the boom was
nearly over she turned uD missing and
Creole had lost it's female sport. The
camp was getting too slow for her.
The camp was full of all sorts of char
acters like the above. They were in fact
too numerous to mention
Billy De We're, actor and poet, deserves a
little after tion. Bill is well known in
all the mining camps as any person in the
country.
Church Held in n Gambling Saloon.
In the early days CT the camp churches
were conspicuous for there absence, so the
minister obtained permission from the pro-
prietors of the largest gambling hall in
town to use their kero room every Sum-
day night between and .. When the hour
arrived, all games would instantly close
al d the minister would mount the stand,
used by the man who called off the num-
bers on the keno balls, and preach against
the vices of intemDerance and gambling,
exht rting his hearers to Shun all saloons
and places where infamy lurked. When the
nour was used up the hat was passed
around, and with much success; the pro-
1rietor would shake hands with the min
ter. and invite him to call again on the
following Sunday night. After his de-
ulrtI.re all games were opened and the
words of the divine were soon forgotten
in the absorbing game of keno.
Gambling of all kinds in mining camps
is the cause Of more failures, particularly
in the cases of young men from the east,
than anything else. There Is so much of
it and it is conducted SO openly that 1t
Is hard to resist. A man who has been
living in a prospector's tent, eating q lit
tie bread and bacon cooked by himself or
companion, and warmed by a little sheet