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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
To Race for Pleasure.

The Cyclomere management has re-
ceived many visits from people who
wish to use the track for pleasure. A
number of society ladies and gentlemen
wish to emulate the racers in mild
way One lady proposes to indulge in
the quaint extravaganza Of giving q
wheel party at the track after nightfall.
This will cost something, but 1t will
be something new in the way of enter
tainment
Those having the track in control
are seriously considering the establish
ment of a scale of rates for people who
to use the track.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
Hotel Again.

1t leaked out yesterday that the pro-
ject for a big new metropolitan hotel
at the corner of Beretania and Fort is
only slumbering and that it is likely
to take tangible form any day now
Subscriptions amounting to $4,000 are
required to warrant procedure. Of this
amount 100000 has been pledged by
two men and at least five other clti-
zens of means have so far expressed
the intention of going into the enter
prise Mr. Desky says he has nothing
for publication at present. Construc-
ton would involve a central building
with the Progress block as one wing
and a duplicate of the building now
under way as the second wing.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
:. Mixee Up."

There was very much of a mix-up Of
hacks at the Opera House Thursday
night. The weather was bad and
everyone was anxious to get home so,
instead of allowing Hack Inspector.
Macy to call out the numbers, several
people took it upon themselves to
shout. The result can be imagined. 1t
is not possible for everyone to get
away at the same time. This Mr..
Macy tried to impress on the minds
of the people but the effect was not
noticeable
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.
IF YOU BUY A SINGER.

If YOU BUY A SINGER,
You will receive careful instruction
from competent teacher at your
home.
You can obtain necessary accessories
direct from the company's Offices.
You will get prompt attention in any
part of the world, as our Offices are ev-
erywhere and we give careful attention
to all customers, no matter where the
machine may have been purchased.
You will be dealing with the leading
company in the sewing machine busi-
ness, having an unequalled experience
and an unrivalled reputation = the
strongest guarantee of excellence.
Sold on easy payments. Repairing
done. B. BERGERSEN, Agent.
161S Bethel Street, Honolulu.
The City Carriage Company possess
only f1rst-class hacks and employ only
careful, steady drivers.
Carriages at all hours.
Telephone lib.
JOHN s. ANDRADE.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
Sunday Concert.

On Sunday afternoon, November 2f,
1897, at o'clock at Makee Island.
PART /.
The Old Hundred.
Overture-Holy Days .......... Bach
Gloria-12th Mass ......M Mozart
Fantasia-TOrchligh Procession -.
~. Meyerbeer
Grand Selection-,Martha -. .Flotow
PART II.
Cornet Solo-The Bell of Ireland.
new Farren
Mr.. Charles Kreuter.
election-Tannhauser Wagner
Fantasia-The Czarina ... Came
Overture-Zampa ............. Herold
Hawaii Ponoi.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
WOMAN'S EXCHANGE.
215 Merchant ST.

Hawaiian and Micronesian curios in
great variety-lauhala and cocoanut
hats, calabashes, fans, hula drums,
seed and shell leis, etc, etc. Home
made poi, jellies and jams a specially.
Floral designs or cut flowers furnished
on half a days notice. Manicuring
and glove cleaning.
Tel. $50.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20

in the locality named, signed by a rea-
sonable number of those whose chill
dren are expected to attend.
A pamphlet goes to each member Of
the United States Congress, to libraries
in America and to persons and So
cieties in Erope.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
SITUATION IN SAMOA.

The Return of Mataafa is Recon-
mended.
Ex-Consul-General Churchill is an
authority on Samoan affairs. 1t is
through his influence that the revolu-
drawn to a close. In speaking of Sa-
moa to the Advertisers Hilo correspon-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20

Last year the Cleaners originated the
idea of dressing dolls and selling them
a few weeks before Christmas. The
sale was a success, the demand being
greater than the supply. This year 2
larger number of dolls has been Sc
cured and will be offered for sale on
Friday, the 10th Of December. They
are of various sizes and much prettier
than those of last year.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
Matinee Concert.

On this Saturday afternoon at 4:3o
at Emma Square,
March-The Scorcher ......... Rosey
Overture-RaymOnd ....... Thomas
Layatina-I Martiri .DOnizetti
Divertissement-SOft Chances ......
Nevaux
Waltz-MademOise Toilette new
Fahrbach
Galop-The Cyclists, new :. /. .Kupler
Hawaii POnOi.
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MUSIC SCHOOL.

Piano, Voice Production, Singing
and Harmony.
All piano pupils are instructed in
harmony, and especial attention is
paid to muscular control and musical
analysis.
Love Bldg, Fort St. E. COOK.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-20
AT st. Andrews.

The musical portion of the 9:45
Congregation of st. Andrews Cathe-
dral, Sunday, will be as follows:
TIE Deum in E fiat. Barrett
Jubilate in F..............S .Schilling
Anthem-O How Amiable. 49,. West
At $50 O'Clock in the evening the
male surpliced choir will render
professional hymn, and Joss Magni-
feat and Nunc Dimittis.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-09-04
PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.


-Grigson-"What clergyman was II
that solemnized your marriage"
Flippard-"It wasn't a clergyman at
all. 1t was Mrs. F. mother. Boston
Transcript.
-Slimson-"Some one gave my boy
drum for a birthday present, but it
turned out all right" How SOP" Il
gave him pocketknife. = Detroit
Free Press.
Whatever made you make Brack-
ms a present of a pocket comb? He's
as bald as billiard ball." That's just
it. wanted to make him think never
noticed it."-Tit-Bits.
Dead to Anxieties.-"What is APP
athy?" "It's strange and dangerous
condition that a man sometimes falls
into-a condition in which he has been
known to lend his bicycle. Chicago
Record.
Lady Shopper lin department
store, to Lace Counter Saleslady)-
"Where shall / find the ribbon depart
ment, please?' Saleslady (apologeti-
cally)--" l don't know where it is,
ma'am. You will have to ask one of the
floor pedestrians."-Puck.
Obstacles-"Speak to me, Edwin, :"
she pleaded. But he was silent. That
was what came of trying to write with
fountain pen. Her lover could not
speak; he could not do thing until
the ink flowed again. But would she
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
81 think I've found the criminall'
shouted the young detective in wild
excitement. His confrere looked at
him with chilling glare. There is a
time for everything" he said. "Just
now we are engaged in looking not for
the criminal, but for clews. Washing
ton Star.
"A professor of Trinity college, Dub
lin. overhearing an undergraduate
swearing and making use of profane
language, rushed at him frantically,
exclaiming: "Are you aware, sir, that
you are imperiling your immortal
soul, and, what is worse, mourning a
fine of five shillings?"-Household
Words.
Differences in Durability.-"Itisn't
at all safe to judge by appearances,
said the restless boys father. "Yes,"
replied the mother, people are very
deceptive" "And so are inanimate OBJ
iects. You'd never think, merely
Judging by external indications, that
the heavy pair of shoes bought that
boy was only going to wear for six
weeks, while his fragile-looking Latin
grammar will last him lifetime.
Washington Star.
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WcToRIA's. REGAL RIGHT.
Why the Niece of william Nv. Was
Called to the Throne.

why the niece OF william Nv. was
Called to the Throne.
Several newspapers, in explaining
10 their readers how Queen Victoria
came to succeed William w., say it was
because she was his niece. That is the
truth, but only half the truth, for Will
liam ". had nephews and other nieces.
George ILLS first, second, third and
fourth sons were respectively the prince
of Wales, afterwards George W., who
died childless in 1880; Frederick, duke
of York, who died in 1927, also without
children; William, duke of Clarence,
who died, William ~, June 20, 1887,
without lawful issue, and Edward. duke
of Kent and Strathearn, and earl of
Dublin, who died January %, 1920, aged
SO, leaving as the sole issue of his mar
rage with Princess Victoria of Lein-
ingen baby daughter, now Queen Vic
toria. The queen succeeded William
", not simply because she was his
niece, but because she was the only
child of the brother next to him In
the order of succession Had Queen
Victoria had a brother, she would in
all probability not have been a person
age of historical celebrity, save in the
contingency of succeeding him. Her
rights were those that devolved on her
from her father. At the time she sue
ceeded to the throne her uncles-the
dukes of Cumberland, of Sussex and
Cambridge = were living, younger
brothers of her father and junior to
him in the line of succession in the or
der named. The duke of Cumberland
(who became king of Hanover on the
death of William W. was man of
such despotic. temper and principles
that all England cherished the Princess
Victoria as standing between it and
his succession to the throne. He had
lawful issue, as had the duke of Cam
bridge. The duke of Sussex, most
estimable man, married twice, but
these unions being repugnant to the
provisions of the royal marriage act,
his children were barred from the line
of succession. From the revolution of
1858 rose the Jacobite party, made up
of those who supported the cause of
James H., his sons and descendants.
The picturesque modern Jac0bites do
not recognize Queen Victoria, despite
the fact that her succession is due to
her Stuart blood, for she is a direct
descendant of Elizabeth, daughter of
James l., to whose heirs the title to
the throne devolved by the act of set
Element on the death of Anne.-Boston
Transcript.
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German Miner. super.titiou..

Probably the most superstitious class
Of men in the world, barring the sailors,
are miners-those who delve in the
bowels of the earth for coal or min
erals. In Germany the mines are be-
lieved to be the abiding places of queer
little old men not over two feet high,
who ape in dress the ordinary miners.
They vary in character; some are good,
some are bad. In Wales the miners are
haunted by goblin miners, known as
knockers. They make strange noises,
and the tapping of their picks can be
heard in ore bodies not yet reached by
the human workmen. The dreaded
Ladder Dwarf is malignant hunch-
back of frightful appearance, who
kicks out the rungs of ladders in mines
just before an accident occurs. Super
stition extends even to the vegetables
sometimes found growing in mines,
such growths having talismanic vir-
tues. In Sardinia an ancient lead mine
has been completely abandoned on ac-
dbunt of prevailing dread among tho
miners OF small and venomous spider
inhabiting it.-Chicago Chronicle.
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The mind of Ru.sia..

Russia and Egypt are the two coup-
tries in which blind persons constitute
the largest proportionate number of
the total population; in Russia, on ac-
count of the lack of experienced med
ical attention, and in Egypt, on ac-
count of ophthalmia due to the move
ment of the sand by the wind, or,
more properly, to the irritation caused
by this unusual local condition, which
has made ophthalmia general. There
were at last accounts nearly 100000
blind persons in European Russia, the
proportion being highest in northern
provinces and conspicuously SO in Fin
land, where the prevalence of blind
LESS, four times greater than the gem
eral average in Europe, is ascribed to
the fatness of the country and the i'm.
perfect ventilation of the huts used by
the peasantry. Many of these huts are
either without chimneys, or are sup
Piled with primitive chimneys, which
do not draw, and the escape of the
smoke into the living apartments has
marked tendency to aggravate all
eye troubles. Though more than hall
the blind population of Europe is 10 be
found in Russia there are only 25 asy,
lums for the blind in that empire.-N.
Sun
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The Alaskan Doundary.

Our government negotiated treaty
with Great Britain last January. pro.
viding for the appointment of commits.
siopers to trace and mark so much of
the one hundred and forty-first merid.
ian as is necessary to define the limits
of the territory which Russia coded to
the United States in 1867. As matter
of convenience, it was agreed that the
summit of Mount ST. Elias, which,
though it had not been ascertained to
lie on the one hundred and forty-first
meridian, was known to be nearly CO.
incident with it, should be taken as a
visible landmark, from which the
boundary line should be traced north
ward.-Youth's Companion.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

AT the last congress OF German
vineyardists Prof. Workman reported
that he had found living bacteria in
wine which had been bottled rs to 80
years.
--One of the last things acol. plished
by the Fitzgerald expedition G. noun
tain climbing and exploration in the
Andes was to discover volcano in full
operation in region in which no one
had suspected the existence of such
phenomenon.
French colonists to the number of
10000 will soon go to Mexico to colonize
100000 acres of rich coffee lands in
the state of Jalisco. From the other
side the japanese are also forming a
colony in Mexico composed mostly of
the agricultural classes.
Tobacco was grown so successfully
in Polk county, Fla, during the spring
that large areas are under cultivation
for the fall crop, which is said to be
the better of the two, and the country
folk talk cheerfully of the money re-
turns of which they feel confident.
The airship craze is said to be near
ly as strong in Germany and on the
continent as in this country. Prof.
Hoffman, an imperial councillor, has
invented machine constructed on the
principle of dragon, with steam pro-
pellers, which he is confident will work
all right.
When perfumes are not disagree
able to a patient it is well to use them
freely in sick room, as they are a
protection against contagion. 1t is
said that if lavender water is sprayed
through the living rooms of houses sit
uated in a malarial locality it will pre-
vent the occupant from contracting the
disease.
-Inasmuch as photographic stone is
growing scarce and costly, many at
tempts have been made to find good
and cheap substitute among the met
ais. Zinc does not appear to meet the
requirements of the situation, but
great claims have recently been made
in behalf of aluminium as applied tc
such service.
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Mans two best friends are said to be q
gun and dog. 1t is easy to get a good dog,
but hard to get good gun. The guns made
by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,
New Haven, CT, are not only always good,
but they are acknowledged the best made in
the world. For years the Winchester has
been the standard of the world, and to any
one who has studied or examined its many
point. Of superiority if popularity sa. Is , not
and shot guns made by the Winchesters are
in demand all over the world. Although
they cost comparatively little, they are bst-
ter than the highest priced hand made guns
in every way. Winchester ammunition 10
Of the same high grade as Winchester guns
and can always be relied upon. Send for .
large illustrated catalogue free.
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tons, and soon recovering herself she
determined to boldly brave out the
worst. She therefore went to his apart
ment with firm step, nor showed any
signs of trembling when she saw him
lock the door.
''Now, madam" he said, with stern
and stately dignity, as he handed her a
seat and took another facing her, II
beg you will answer me truly, as if
your life were at stake! Who was the
last person up of your family on the
last night / was closeted in this room
with brother officer?"
Myself" was the firm and quiet re-
ply of Lydia Darrah.
Are you certain, madame"
"Quite-for thee requested me to
send all the family to bed by eight
o'clock, and did so, myself going last"
you will be willing to swear to this,
madam"
1--WE Friends never swear" returned
the other, with dignity; "but thee has
my word for the fact"
WELL" returned the officer, with an
air of chagrin, Il do not understand it.
You. know, were asleep, for 1 myself
knocked three times at your door be-
fore l could rouse you. We that night
laid a plan to attack and capture Gen.
Washington and his army; but by some
means, unknown to me, he got news Of
our design, and has frustrated our pur-
pose. When we arrived before his camp
we found all his cannon mounted, and
his whole command prepared TO give us
battle; and disappointed and chagrined,
we have all marched back like parcel
of fools! That is all, madam" con-
cluded the officer, rising, unlocking the
door, and bowling out the mistress of
the dwelling.
Lydia Darrah retired with feelings Of
relief better imagined than described.
Who shall say how much the subse-
quent jewellers in this land of freedom
have owed and still owe to the cunning
and heroism of this noble woman IN
Y. Ledger.
\
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THE WASP.

The passengers were warm and tired
The air was thick with smoke;
They looked Disguised. sullen, cross;
None ventured jest or Joke.
lady with q pile of books.
A boy and a servant girl,
Stepped through the door, and In trice
All heads were in q whirl.
The boy began to slam the books,
And slap the patient nurse:
To pitch things through the crowded car,
And snatch the lady's purse.
He clearly was an "only" child,
For often she would say:
Nov. Mary, do not tease the dear
Just let him have his way"
The nurse repressed her rising tears;
The tyrant pulled her hair
And screamed. The mother quickly said:
Don't tease him, Mary-there."
wasp flew In and settled down;
The boy reached out his hand;
The nurse said: Harry, 1t will sting"
His cry called forth command.
With eyes half closed the mother said:
Now. Mary, let the child
Have what he wants. and let me sleep
You drive me nearly wild"
With weary sigh the nurse withdrew
Her hand: he made dash
And caught the creature. sting and all;
He knew 1t In a flash.
The mother started at his cry,
That rivaled lions roar.
With: MARY. let him have 1t now"
And stamped upon the floor.
HE got 1t, ma am" the nurse replied:
The travellers screamed for joy:
The nurse expressed a mild surprise;
The mother kissed her boy.
"A. NJ. Bruner, in Chicago Inter Ocean.
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The Salonica correspondent Of Turk
ish newspaper announces that at the
departure OF the last train of wounded
for Constantinople, Mr.. Blunt, her
majesty's consul, was at the station and
gave cigarettes and sugar plums to the
men. The Hebrews of the same town
presented each Of the wounded with .
wstoh' pstrpit Free Pgsss
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SAN DIEGO oARswoMEN.
Pour Girls Make Record for Saving
Twenty Lives.

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Trentv Ltve..
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-09-04

No more elegant compliment was ever
paid to a preacher than that of King
Louis XIV. of France to Jean Batiste
Masillon, bishop of Clermont. Said he:
II have heard many great preachers,
and the effect they produced on me was
that I felt thoroughly satisfied with
them. Every time heard you, / have
been dissatisfied with myself. IN, X.
Pest
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The QuarreIsome scorpion.

The scorpion is the most quarrel
some creature in the world. Two
placed in the same box viii always
sting each other to death. Cjncinnati
ENQUIRER
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All good advice is to the effect that
you should be good natured in hot weather.
We would like to see the man who can be
good natured in hot weather. Atchison
Globe.
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Often he who has most courage and most
strength to stand alone has the deepest crav.
ing for appreciation.-Philip S. Moxom.
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The Bank of England contains sill
yer ingots which have lain in its sauIta
ojpce 1909.