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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-04
CONSUL GILMAN TALKS.

Says Minister Willis is FriendIy-Pres-
ident Dole Long Suffering.
In reference to the rumOr from, tho
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-04
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
Considering the Agricultural Bu-
ieau,
COMMITTEE REPORTS FAvORABLY

senate and House Adjourns Early.
Respect for j. L. Waterhouse-The
KafuIani Pension - Discussing the
Wash House eBin-Robertson Objects
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-04
TUESDAY, March 8.


The Tuesday morning session of the
Senate continued just long enough for
several committees to render reports
upon items in the appropriation bill.
There was barely a quorum present
and President Wilder being among
the absentees, VIce-President Kau-
hane was in the chair for the first
time during the session.
The translation of the Presidents
message was received.
Senator Baldwin reported from the
Committee on Agriculture as follows:
HONOLULU, March 2, 1896.
Hon. w. G.. WILDER, President of
the Senate.
SIR:-Your Committee on "Com-
merce and Agriculture" to whom was
referred the items in the Appropria-
tion Bill under the heading "Forests
and Nurseries," beg leave to report
that we have had the same under
careful consideration. The items un-
der this heading are as follows:
Pay of Commissioner. 1900
Pay Of Professor Koebele... 5000
Pay of Gardner, Nursery. ......... 2040
Pay of Laborers, Makiki. ......... 1900
Pay of Forester, Makiki. ...... 1900
Pay of Laborers, Nursery ........ 1880 /.
Making an aggregate of........ Sic, $50
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-04
AMERICAN OPINION FORECAST

JOHN D. sPREcBELs IN SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
CHEESE FOR CARTRIDGES.
How the Cuban Patriots Trade with
Spanish Soldiers.

Imagine a party of Spanish soldiers
on an expedition into the country. They
ARE grumbling aboupt the rations. Zone
meal day-a little bacon, a handful Of
white beans, a scrap of bread. All from
Spain, all of inferior quality. The gov
eminent has paid enough for good food,
and plenty of it, God knows, but the
contractors give us only this, and they
nre growing rich out of the war" Then
they come upon a criollo ii. e., intensely
Cuban) settlement. and the natives,
fcigning distress, run out to meet them,
crying: For the love of God, give us
something to eat. We are starvingl"
Nothing for you, dogs of Cubans," is
the response, and the disappointed
soldiers march away. But then the
Cuban bands lowering in the rear, wait
ing for an opportunity to strike, come
to the same destitute peasants. "Do
they (being all patriots, though of
many colors) lack food? viii they
deign to accept hospitality" They are
led into peasants hut, the bed is
showed aside, and it is disclosed that the
Deu ndu HluucD, anu III lllIS 1Ib 10 Il Stoic
of sweet potatoes and of pork cured in
the smoke of guayabo leaves. That is
good food for the insurgents. The
meat thus cured can scarcely be re-
garded as dainty bit but it holds its
own; it does not deterioate for years.
And meantime the invading column
has pressed on to an eneampment, where
peasants come in, offering fruit and
new cheeses for sale.
"How much for this little cheese"'
hungry soldier asks.
zone dollar"
THAT'S too much, rascal"
"Well, nobody is looking. Suppose I
say five cartridges?"
Another soldier to another country
man: How much for an Granger
twenty-five cents"
"Extortioner!"
"Well, when the officers aren't around,
two cartridges"
So, more or less on the sly, the ex-
change is effected, and when the peas
ants withdraw they have capsules with
which to STAY their enemies.
That is one way in which ammunition
has been secured by the insurgents. On
a larger scale and by force it has been
obtained from time to time.-Earper's
| Weekly.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
NEW BUILDINGS UNFRAMED.
Observations of the Cyclones Destructive
Work In st. Louis

Observations of the Cyclones Destructive
Work In st. Louis.
The destruction of buildings in St.
Louis was confined almost altogether
to those built many years ago. In the
business district and along the leyee
every brick building demolished had
been built a great many years ago.
An examination of the bricks and NOR
tar that had been thrown into the
streets showed that the first was soft
and the latter had little adhesiveness
and erumbled between the fingers with
very little pressure. On Second street,
devoted to the commission and Kindred
trades, were several brick buildings
with the fronts or corners torn out
and the roofs gone, while beside them
in the street were modern, wcll-cob-
structed buildings, much larger and
Offering more resistance to the wind,
which escaped with only such injuries
as broken windows, caused by the flying
bricks from old buildings, In the heart
of the retail business and hotel dis
trict, where the Planters and Southern
noltlS anu llt ntN am iiAlA AhN'N' -
Office and business buildings are, the
damage was confined to plate glass
windows, shattered by flying debris,
and to telephone and telegraph wires,
and sigus and windows. man VINO
was in the tenth story of large build
ing when the storm struck it, felt the
shock of the wind, but the building
10 ftAyp
blocks away, old buildings, erected
when less care was given to construc-
ton, were being torn to pieces, their
brick fronts hurled into the streets and
their roofs through the air In some
cases tire sheet-iron roofs of fine, new
business buildings were injured by
the wind catching at the corner of
corniee and getting under the iron and
ripping it off in rolls. In Lafayette
park the statue of Benton stood un-
harmed, surrounded by broken and up
rooted trees and the wrecks of fiimsy
pagodas and lighthouses.
In the Mill Creek Valley, fashion
able portion of South ST. Louis, where
nearly every residence was damaged,
the houses we're of the ante-bellum type,
with heavy stone porticos supported
by Corinthian columns. Many of them
were so old that the cracks showed
under several coats of paint, with which
they had been covered. The newer
houses were unroofed in many in
stances, but the walls are standing.
The old houses went down before the
wind as they would fall before any
other heavy shock.
striking instance of the solidity of
new structures was seen at the shot
tower 1t is new and very solidly built
and rises to a great height, presenting
n fair object to any wandering tor
nado. IT stood unframed, however, the
morning after the storm, while all
around it for blocks were the ruins
of old buildings and leveled smoke
stacks.-Kansas City Star.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
PASSING OF THE BRONCRO.
In a Few Years lie WIN Have Disap-
pcared Entirely.


1t is a fact, and in some respects not
to be regretted, that the broncho is fast
disappearing. lie has served his pur-
pose as no other horse in the world
could do. But changed conditions OF
the country have done away with this
once necessary evil. For evil, in many
ways, he was; in evil and good he never
has had and never will have an equal.
But the broncho to-day is not what he
was, for into almost every nook and
corner has been carried new blood to
cross with this tough and evil-minded
little warrior and more often to his det-
riment than to his betterment.
Crosses of all kinds have been tried,
but in nearly all cases, for two or three
generations, the evil of bad temper and
"cussedness' comes to stay, and at the
same time the half-breed loses the
staying qualities OF the genuine bron-
eho. Crosses with Clyde, coach, Nor
man, hackney and thoroughbred have
proven Il failure. With all the fore
going, except the thoroughbred, al
most total failure. From actual OBJ
seryaton the first cross to Clyde, coach,
Norman and hackney are almost en-
tirely worthless. 1t makes them in
size between the broncho and the sire.
Not big enough for draft not fit
for drivers on account of temper, lack
of speed and homely conformation.
For saddlers and COW horses they have
lost the sure ootedness, staying quail
ties and indomitable courage that the
genuine broneho, nine times out of ten,
has. The cross from the thoroughbred
is better. In many cases it gives them
more speed, but the distance must be
shortened. The Observation-Disclosures
cross is not, as a class, so teachable as
the broncho proper.
Taken all in all, In my mind, for the
work cut out for him, no cross has
ever been an improvement in the first
generation Seventy-five, 90 or 100
miles in ten or twelve hours has not
been a very unusual ride for me on the
good, old-fashioned little hero of the
plains. / had need during the trouble
among the Greeks in 1882 and 1882
to go from Muskogee, l. T., to Oak
mulgee, /. T., the distance being 45
miles. | had just ~ hours to do the
trick if I accomplished what I wished
did it,. and with no apparent hurt to
my mount, for the next morning he was
as willing and ready, as the horseman
says, to 60 high, wide and handsome
as ever.
Show me any other kind of horse
that can do such work on scout fare
and plenty of abuse and [ will take my
hat off to him, be he of what breed he
may. They are fast passing away, but
they were the pioneers of a new eoun-
try, and their footprints show In every
wild place where the white man first
showed his face in the western part of
the United States. Good-by, old friend
and enemy of the past. You have
served me well in both good and evil,
and many aches and pains that | still,
here make me remember the evil, but
their good deeds shall live after them"
American Sportsman.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
LOCOMOTIVES BUILT IN JAPAN.
Experimental Work Proves n Success In
Construction and Economy.

Experimental Work Proves n Success ia
Construction and Economy.
An English consular report recently
published says: much interest was
created among English builders by the
accounts published in trade journals
in England of the first locomotive at
the government railway workshops in
japan, which, it was said, was COM
pleted at cost of G 300, while a sim
liar locomotive built in England could
not be placed on the line in Japan, ready
for running, at less cost than C 1900
The alleged cost in Japan was fallacious,
no allowance having been made for
interest on capital, scientific superin-
tendence and other charges, all of
which would have to be taken into con-
sideution by private builders, but at
the same time there was no doubt that
the cost, no matter how literally cal
culated, was comparatively low. Most
OF its parts were entirely constructed
in Japan-boiler, water tanks, wheels,
cylinders and valves-and only the
frame plates and minor parts came in
a rough state from abroad. This en-
CINE started running on April &c, and
has since run over SO, 900 miles with per-
feet success, lowness in consumption
of coal, good hauling capacity and
steadiness. Four tender locomotives
have since been built in the same work
shops and are now running on the
IIiogo-Kioto section of the Tokkaido
railway. They have already run over
$4,000 miles, and in all respects are
giving as complete satisfaction as the
first. Two of the largest private rail
way companies are now following the
example set by the government and try
ing the experiment of constructing their
own locomotives. Neither government
nor private companies will, however, be
able for many years yet to satisfy more
than a very small fraction of their re-
quirements in this respect."-Chicago
Chronicle.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AT the marchioness of Salisbury's
reception on the queens birthday all
the good-looking women were mothers
and some of them grandmothers.
In so years the dukes of Bedford
have spent $s,0o0,oOo in improving one
estate in Cambridgeshire from which
they draw six dollars an acre rent. The
land yields sc bushels of wheat to the
acre.
Melbourne, Australia, has lost 49,
435 inhabitants in four years, the cen
sus of 1895 giving a population of 447i'
461. The population of the seven Aus
tralan colonies at the end of 1895 was
4,23S,000
Cicero and Pompey visited Lueul-
lus' villa when the host was absent.
Acting under his instructions to make
themselves at home while they re-
manned, they gave several dinners,
which cost in the aggregate $4,000.
Malaria and typhoid fever are be-
ing gradually extinguished in Rome,
thanks to the new waterworks. While
in 1881 there were $50 deaths from ma
laria in 1895 there were only 125. The
population of Rome has increased in
that period from 100000 to 4s7 600.
The popularity of fox terriers at
the present time in London is shown
by the fact that though between 1000
and 5000 have been impounded in
London recently, being two-thirds oil
the stray unmuzzled dogs in the Brit
ish metropolis, the Daily Telegraph
states that there has been no apprecis-
BILE diminution of their number.
The British crown plate includes 9
peacock of precious stones, valued Al
c $4,000, which came from India; a
tigers head, with a solid ingot of gold
for tongue, and crystal teeth; and
magnificent gold shield valued ate TO-
900, which was made from snuff-boxes
by order of George ".
Low level bridges have been found
desirable for Queensland rivers that
are subject to severe floods. The cost
of high level bridges is excessive. and
those of moderate height are very liable
to be carried away, while the low leve
ones are submerged before logs and
driftwood are brought down in eonsid-
cradle quantity, so that the dangerous
debris passes harmlessly over the
bridge.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
CAMPING OUT IN A TREE.
A Man who Tried 1t Says It's Great
Success.


Success.
Everybody who has ever camped out
in Niles canyon knows that there is
number of things to be considered in
selecting a desirable site. II you pitch
your tent near the water the Dir is like
ly to be close on warm days, to say
nothing of the numerous mosquitoes.
On the other hand, il your tent Is
pitched on hillside, it is difficult to
fluid level place to build fire and all
the water has to be carried up from the
stream below. or course 1t is more con-
venient to be near the water, but under
ordinary circumstances not so cont
Portable as being a few feet above it.
Henry Gibson thinks that he has
solved the problem and at the same
time procured a number of advantages
he had not looked for. He is one of the
first campers in the canyon and intends
to remain all summer, so that it is likely
that many of the later arrivals will take
advantage of his way of pitching tent.
Gibson's scheme consists of utilizing
a big cottonwood tree. He selected one
with spreading branches, and in the
space between them he constructed
platform of flooring similar to those
generally used under tents when they
are placed on the ground. One of the
branches had to be sawed off, but the
platform was made to lit in between
the others as nicely as could be. On
this platform he has pitched his tent
the same as he would on the ground.
BY the use of ladder it is easy to get
up or down. There are numerous adj
,antages in pitching a tent this way,
the principal one of which is that it Is
high and dry and the occupants run lit
tie danger of taking cold. Besides this,
it can be located close to good water
and near eveIplace for the campfire.
Another advantage is that grub"
and cooking utensils can be placed out
of the reach of proving animals by
putting them in a, basket and hauling
them up to the platform. At night the
ladder can be hauled up and the oecu-
pants of the tent will be as secure from
intrusion as if at home in their bed
rooms.
The tent in tree has already at
tracted the attention of a number of
| prospective campers. Gibson says IT
! doesn't cost a cent more than il does to
put tent in the ordinary way. It only
! takes a little more time, but when.you
are there you are fixed.-San Francisco
| Call
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25
Water Beneath Coral Rock.

There are no streams in 1ucatan
which flow above the ground, but the
whole peninsula is one vast table of
coral rock, and beneath it are immense
sheets of fresh water, with regular,
though ill-defned, tides and currents.
Along the coasts these subterranean
waters are quite near the surface, but
in the interior, where the carcareous
layer is of great thickness, the waters
are low down. At intervals they break
into caverns formed by earthquakes by
pressure of their own force or by the
infiltration of surface water into the
natural grottoes of the coral rock, and
wherever the water can be reached,
whether through artificial pits or by
the operations Of nature, the place is
called a cenote. There are a great
many of them scattered all over Yucca
tan, and those near Merida are utilized
as public lighthouses, affording most
refreshing resorts. Centuries ago the
Indians marked the courses of the sub
terranean rivers by heaps of stones, and
always built their cities close by the
water caves, as their ruins show; and
IL is interesting to note to this day all
the civilized centers of Yucatan have
arisen around these natural reservoirs.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25

The timber wealth of the United
States gives a yearly product of over
81 600, 100000, or twice the value of the
entire output of all the mines put to-
gether-gold, silver, coal, iron, copper.
zinc and the rest. This is q resource
worth keeping, and yet we are cutting
into our capital at the fearful rate of Is
per cent, each year, as only about 20
per cent. of the timber market is repre-
sented by new growth. As for losses
from the fires that are started by loco
motives, cattlemen, berry picl<ers, hunt
ers and incendiaries, it gives a suffi-
cient idea of what they cost us TO be
told by the forestry commissioner of
Pennsylvania that his state alone prob
ably suffers to the extent CT 100000, co
annually from this one cause. Not only
the trees are lost in these mighty con-
| hagrations; the vegetable mold which
would supply fertility to the soil for
| future agricultural purposes or food for
the roots of the second growth of forest
Is burnt, and the first step is taken on
that easy descent TO landslide or food
| eod.-Scribner's
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25

A Greek thus tells how the nargile is
smoked by his brethren; only pure
tobacco is used in the nargile. 1t is
grown expressly for the purpose in Per-
STA. The weed there is called tumbelky.
This kind of tobacco Is first washed two
or three times by the man who keeps
the restaurant. He puts it under a
faucet and squeezes the juice out.
Otherwise the tobacco would be too
strong. Then when the smoke Of it is
drawn through the water-the tobacco
having, of course, been dried tirst-all
the nicotine il deposited in the water,
and a delightful and innocuous smoke
is the result."-N Y. Irioune.
Princess Christian IT sehleswig-
Holstein has an annual allowances frcm
The British people 50 10000.
The Van Buren press., 1896-07-25

Prospective Pere-Do you think you
can fill all the requirements of a son-in-
law?
The Suitor-Why, |, er-thought you
would do that.-Brcoklyn Life,
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Il. :. DONALDSON, AUCTIONEER
o., +, 81 w

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY. BEING PREMISES NTMEERFD
III AND ia y STREET SOUTHWEST AND
PREMISES NUMBERED 1906. I3oS I3lO I3I2
l3l4 1876 AND 1918 DELAWARE AVENUE
SOUTHWEST
Under and hy virtue Of n deed Of ,rus, b.,r;,,
date the fourteenth u4tll day of January u
1s96, and duly recorded among the Land records for
the District OF Columbia, in Iiher 2pS5 nj folio
S"i et seq, ana at the request OF the party there
by secured. we shall Offer for sale, at public luc-
ton, on THURSDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY
OF MAY. AID 1896. AT FIVE O'CLOCK I'M in
front Of the premises. part of square east stare
5iG, beginning for the same the line of street
At point distant eight 50 feet east from th,
northwest corner OF said square and running thence
cast along said street twenty-five (Jt feet thence
south 100 90 loo feet. thence 10 gD-lO feet
to the line OF Delaware avenue; thence north
eaStcry along said avenue 90 90 100 feet to the
south line OF part of said square. conveyed to
William Boswell by deed recorded In Iib.r 2tSe
foli0 400 Of said land records thence east along
sald line - 46S-lotS feet. and thence north As
3oloo feet To the line of said the place
OF beginning. the said premises being improved 10y
three 81 fourro2n brick and six (eI six-ro,,r,
brick residences of the numbers above mention,s -
The said real estate will he sold subject M n
deed of trust securing s5,0i0.OO and such interest
az may be due thereon as the day OF sale 10 be
then announced.
Terms of sale: All over and above said in
cum5rance, cash. A deposit of $500 90 to be re-
Guired at the time Of the sale. Terms of sale to
be complied with in ten 90, days from the day OF
sale otherwise the property will be resold ut the
risk and cost OF the defaulting purchaser. after
ave (5) days notice in some newspaper published in
cording 40 purchasers cost.
ALFRED H. KEIM
LEON ToBRINER
my9-enSds Trustees.
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AUCTION SALES Of REAL ESTATE, &c.
Today.

@. G. Sloan & Co, Aucts., 14O7 G st. n.w.-M st.
NV, dwelling and stores, Nos. 29O9 and 2911
Sale Thursday, May Il, at o'clock pm. Louis
kettlcr and Neal T. Murray, trustees.
Radcliffe, Sutton Co., Aucts., go Pa. ave- NV.
18th st. ne. dwelling No. 526. Sale Thursday,
May Il. at 6 O'Clock pm. Edward II. Thomas,
John Ridout and Lorenzo A. Bailey. trustees.
Radcliffe, Sutton & Co, Aucts, 900 Pa. NV.
M st. GeOrgetownl, dwellings Nos. 2SO4
2sO6 and 2sOs. Sale Thursday. May IA, at 4:30
O'Clock pm. W. II. ShOles, CEas. w. Darr, James
s. Edwards and Flemming J. Lavender trustees
NJ. Il. Latimer & Co.. Aucts.-Sale of Kimon
Nicolaides' stock Of oriental goods, &C. in store
1903 F St NV, on Thursday, May a. at 30
a. m and 3 pm, and continuing daily.
Tomorrow.
Walter b. Williams & Co. ACCESSIBLE Of entire
contents OF residence No. 3lI No. ave- NV on Fri
day. May 10, at 10 o'clock am
mos Bowling, Auct.. 612 E st. n.w.-Unirn-
proved property in square 1OI6. Sale Friday May
10, Mt D o'clock pm. Charles II. Cragin surviving
trustee.
Ratcline. Sutton & Co.. Aucts. 920 Pa ave. NV
North side OF III St bet. 10Th ard 2lst sts NV
building lot Sale Friday. May 49, a. 5 o'clock
pm Louis u. Wine and Edward s Wescott
trustees.
VI. 3. Iltimcr & Co. Aucts, 12a9-123l c. s..
nw--l4th ST. E-w-, brick factory. Nos Az, Al
and il5. Sale Friday, May IL. at > o'clock pm.
DuncLnson Bros, Aucts., 9th and ID SITS NV
18th 81. NV, brick building, Nos. 200 and 2oa
Sal" Friday. May 10. at o'clock pm. Mahon
Ashford ard Adds L. Browne, trustees. And in,-
mtdiatcly thereafter all the cEattcls contained
therein. Chas. y DOmer. trustee
e. '' Sloan X CO., AuCtS, 1907 u st. n.w-Wcst
s!de list St near Mass. NV. building lot.
Sale Friday, May -, at . o'clock pm.