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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-19
NEED A HOSPITAL.
Four Hours Seeking Resting
Place for Diving Man.

Tuesday morning was an eventfu
one for the Rev. Alex Macintosh. Al
10 o'clock he was in ST. Andrews Ca
| thedral listening to the responses of a
/ bridal couple. Before him was an audi
ence including many of Honolulu
| for four hours afterwards, Mr. Mack
| intosh was driving about town in his
carriage a stranger, an American, who
was dying and asked only that he
might spend his last moments beneath
a shelter.
Without a home or intimate friends
and suffering from an apparently in
durable disease, he had that morning
been turned out Of his lodgings by his
landlady, who was afraid there might
be a death in her house. At the hos
pital he was not admitted. No pro-
vision had apparently been made for
receiving chronic cases. At one place,
after another an attempt was made to
secure a room for the sick man with
out success, until finally a mechanic, a
saw sharpener consented to take the
sick man in. He has given up his work
to care for the sick man, and is receiv-
ing dollar day for it.
There seems to be no place in Homo
lulu where a stranger without funds
and suffering from an incurable dis
ease can be cared for. Queens Hos
pital received from the last Legislature
$50 900 as aid. Incurables are very rare
ly received. The mind of the Hawaiian
becomes easily prejudiced, apparently,
against any institution in which men
die. 1t is said that they do not con-
slider the fact that patient may be at
deaths door when received, but look
only at the death and hold the hos
pital responsible for it to a certain
extent.
Several months ago it was decided
that Jubilee Memorial Hospital |
should be erected and funds were sub |
5cribed for that purpose. The hospital
has not yet been built. Were it now in |
existence it would probably have been |
to drive the stranger from |
house to house on Tuesday in search of
4 place in which he might die.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-19

A correspondent of the Hartford
Times says that lather of tar soap
applied to the face and hands, and
then gently rubbed off, is sure pro-
lection against mosquitoes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-19
The Verdict

From all quarters on our new ACORN last in Mems
Calf and Russia BaImorals is, they cannot be beaten
The phenomenal sale that we are having on this
special shoe is guarantee that the shoe is good
one, built right, and properly lasted.
We had large invoice. but fear now that we are
going to short.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
FOREIGN CHAT.

Antonin DvoraB has selected Uncle
Toms Cabin" as the subject of an
opera.
London omnbuses carried S3,277, s14
passengers during the first half of 1897
and travelled 2,743,242 miles.
Brstol's long vacant bishopric has
been filled by the appointment of Rev.
George Forrest Browne, d. d., suf-
fragan bishop of Stepney, to the place.
DR.. Browne was professor of archaeol-
ogy at Cambridge university for five
years, and has written several historical
works.
Some queer law is being made in
England. Mr.. Justice Kennedy has
just decided that wife may sue her
husband for libel The parties were
living apart under a separation order,
the wife earning her own living, and
the husband kept sending defamatory
kilograms to her.
Poland has lost her greatest living
poet in Adam Asnyk, who has just died
at Cracow at the age of 50 years. His
reputation rests on his lyrics, though he
wrote several dramas. He has spent
the greater part of his life In exile, as
he was driven out of Poland on account
of his share in the instruction of 1863.
President Faure's bath is troubling
the French radicals. He is not con-
tent with the British tub, but washes
all over. He insists on having bath
compartment in his private train, and
asks for one at the places where he
stops. 1t cost the town of Valence
5000 francs to fit up bath on the occa.
sion of the presidents recent visit.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
To a Stnr.

Thou small bright star that from far space
Doth nightly shine my window through,
Awake love to watch thy face,
In dreams thou'rt with me, too.
And stilled are all the sordid things
That passed for thoughts the long day
through,
While peace comes in on crystal wings
My weary som to WOO.
And l am better for thy light,
And God Is palmer to me then
Thou seem'st a sign set in the night
To interpret Him to men.
Type of firm faith and purpose hight
Thou eloquent apostle star!
While thou dost preach from out the sky
I'll worship from afar:
And when black clouds beshroud thy light.
And from my gaze its CLEAN is gone.
jill know, behind the curtained night,
My star doth still shine on.
Joseph d. Barry, in Youths Companion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The diameter of Jupiter is about 49,
600 miles, or nearly eleven times that of
the earth. Its volume is 1888 times that
of the earth.
At Toulon, the bed of the sea was
lighted up from balloon attached to a
tug, IN the hope that lost torpedo
would be detected. The experiment was
successful.
In France the sex of silbworms is
now determined, while they are yet in
the cocoon. by means of the Roentgen
rays. This determination, which is
necessary in the separation of the sexes
preparatory to breeding, has hitherto
been carried on rather uncertainty,
usually by weight, the female cocoon
being generally slightly heavier.
There are 40 mountains in Colorado
whose peaks are over $4,000 feet above
the ocean level. Forty of these are
higher than $4,000 feet, and more than
half of them are so remote and rugged
that no one has ever dared to attempt
to climb them. Some of them are
massed with snow. others have glaciers
over their approaches. and others are
merely masses of jagged rocks.
Plants useful to man are estimated
to number about $4,000. Among them
are 5000 roughly classed as economic
aud food plants. The above includes
100 edible fruits and berries and 500
edible seeds Fifty are reckoned
among the cereals. and 40 as unculti-
waited edible rraminaceous s,".s. Four
hundred aad twenty are c'assc1 .s veg
etabes and salads and geo are listed
among the tubers.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
NOVELTIES FOR FARM AND HOME

Boots and shoes are prevented from
squeaking by an air channel placed be-
tween two filling pieces al the sides of
the heel and extending forward in the
sole of the shoe, the air chamber being
fitted with a valve for imitation.
To minimize the danger of fracture of
lamp chimneys a new burner has plate
in which the chimney rests and is
clamped fast with a screw. which il
frightened when the lamp is lighted, so
that sudden changes of temperature
will not break the chimney.
In wickless night lamp just out a
cup floats on the surface of an open oil
chamber, with a burner tube in its
center which extends down into the oil
and brings the fluid near enough to the
top of the tube so it can be iguited and
feed itself through the tube.
An improved piano stool has double
socket attached to the seat base to sup
port the revolving post which holds the
seat, pin sliding in the upper socket
to enter holes on the post and lock il at
any desired height, and the sockets
turning on each other to allow the seat
to revolve.
Candles for lighting purposes are be-
ing made without wiclls. a central hole
being left in the candle, in which rests
a metal wick carrier. the heat of the
fame melting the sides of the candle
and causing the wax to flow into the
carrier. to be drawn up through the
asbestos wick and feed the flame.
A new potato-digging machine has a
steel-pointed scoop to raise the potatoes
and earth onto a slotted elevator. over
which a cylinder brush is revolving to
separate the potatoes from the dirt,
after which the tubers are carried to
screen, which allows the small potatoes
to fall into one box and carries the large
ores into another box.
When a newly-designed lamp is ac-
cidentally upset it is prevented from
exploding by means of weight set in
the base, with a chain running to the
extinguisher, the device being rendered
imperative when carrying the lamp by
grasping the chain when lifting the
lamp by the hand. and the lamp is pro-
tected from fracture by pneumatic
tubes
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
DOGS OF coNsTANTlNoPLE.

The Turks Think Them Unclean, But
still Treat Them Kindly.
The reason why there are so few
dogs who have homes and masters is
not hard to find. It's because the Turks
have queer idea-it is part of their
queer religion-that dogs are such I'M
clean animals that they must never
be allowed to enter a house. On the
street, however, they feed them and
even pet them; and when a man knows
that he has done something wrong he
will often try to make up for it by
feeding oil the dogs he can find. Some
times when rich Turks die they leave
sums of money to be spent in feeding
the street dogs. just as in America peo-
pie leave money to the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The
Turks never strike or hurt a dog; so if.
as sometimes happens in CONSTANT
nople, you see a man kicking or beat
ing some poor, bowling animal, you
may be very sure that he is Greek o.
an Armenian. Nor do the Turks ever
kill vagrant dogs, but think it right
to allow them to exist as best they can.
So there have come to be in the streets
of Constantinop,e hundreds and hun
dreds of wolf-like dogs, about the size
of small settlers or pointers, but differ
ent from them in that they have mar
row, long heads. Yellow dogs. black
dogs, brown dogs and white dogs, you
see them everywhere-on the sidewalks,
in the cutters, on the doorsteps, under
the carriages, in every corner or hole
into which dog can creep and curl
himself up into a round bunch. All day
long they lie huddled up or stretched
out on their sides. fast asleep, no matter
how much noise goes ON about them.
In the busiest business streets they lie
by twos and threes in the middle of
the sidewalk, where hundreds of pa
tient people step over them or go
around them, and never think of max
ing them get out of the way. In the
side streets and small squares there are
often aSsemblages of 20 or rs sleeping
in the greatest peace and harmony I'M
til some dog from another street ven
lures in, when there is at once great
deal of barking and sometimes severe
fighting; for even if these dogs have
no homes, they have certain districts or
places which they consider their own
and will permit no one not belonging
to their particular set to enter. Thus
the street of butchers in Pera, the incest
quarter of Constantinople, has some
20 or more dogs who are always to be
found there. | saw two dogs lying day
after day in front of one of the great
banks; and one fond mother dog
brought up four puppies in an uncov-
cred box at the gateway of the British
embassy.-Oswald Garrison Willard. in
st. Nicholas.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
The Conquered.

We who so eager started on lifes race,
And breathless ran, nor stinted any whit
For aching muscles or the parching grit
OF dust upon the lips; who set the face
Only more desperately towards the place
Where the goals altar smoked. If rum
ners knit
With stronger limbs outran US; we who
sit
Beaten at last-for us what gift or grace?
known have we
The joy Of contest; we have felt hot life
Throb through our veins, a tingling
ecstasy:
Our prize is not the wreath with envy rife,
But to have been all that our souls might
be;
Our guerdon is the passion of that strife.
-Arlo Bates. in Century.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
For seasick People.

When once the big ship has struck its
regular gait on the regular ocean swell,
the novice easily learns that he is at
sea. Experienced travellers, women es-
pecially, often give up at this point, and
lie quietly in their berths for "a hours.
A strong will may hasten the cure,
but it cannot greatly delay the newt
eble nor hold the elements down; nor
will champagne nor brandy. To be in
good condition before sailing Ito which
a one-grain calomel pill swallowed two
nights previous may contribute), and to
cat a little plain food often when on
board so that the stomach is not
empty, aids recovery. The most dis
consulate, if they can be persuaded to
it. often rally on hot cruel with little
salt in it. The best way to get over be-
ing seasick is to go on the water nj
every opportunity. You will soon te-
come used to the motion of ships
Boston Globe.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
HUMOROUS.

Her Choice. - Enthusiastic Cyclist
Gust after a century run)-"I tell you
what, if had to give up either I'd rath-
er give up my wheel than my cyclone
tcr."-Judge.
Little Dot-"Mammal Mammal"
Mamma lin next room) ?"
Little Dot-"My kittie has caught n
mouse, and she acts hungry. Please
come and cook it for her." - N. Y.
Weekly.
Fame.-"I must confess" said the
Frank Young Woman, that your po-
etry is woefully obscure" Exactly"
admitted the Major Poet, cheerfully
sand that is why am not."-Indianap-
ellis journal.
Sweet Forgetfulness. = Perkins =
"Has Slopay ever paid you that ten dol
lars he borrowed last year?" Dobson
NO; l guess he has forgotten all
about it-he is just as social and friend
ly as he ever was" Puck.
81 knew Jagway had once lived in
Colorado, but | didn't know he had
ever been worth $4,000. How did he
run through with ito" Sunk it in
canals." "Irrigating?" "Yes-and ali
mentary."-Chicago Tribune.
Cragin-"I respect man who is re-
ally in search of information. but there
are some persons who seem to ask
questions simply for the sake of ask
ing them" Digby-"That's so. There's
Ditmer. for instance. He asked me to-
day when was going to pay that ten
dollars l borrowed of him last month"
Boston Transcript.
Destruction.-"Ca must be de-
stroyed!" shouted Cato, with all the
violence and pertinacity habitual with
the man of one idea. The opposition
was disposed to filibuster. How"
they asked, insistently. For the de-
struction of a town was no easy matter
in those days, the practice of renting
houses out being as yet quite unknown
Detroit journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Amule has a good ear for music but
his heels split the air.
The deadbeat always gets great deal
more credit than he deserves.
The man who INDUCES in mud
throwing always soils his own hands.
Never punish children by striking
them on the head. There are other
places.
man has less trouble watching his
enemies than he has keeping his friends
in line.
When the fish gets your bait and you
don't get the fish you are entitled to a
re-bait.
A mans enemies never kick him when
he is down; they stand aside and let
his friends do it.
Beggars and peddlers are not super
stitious. 1t usually takes more than
sign to keep them out OF build
ing.
Nothing is easier to understand than
how we shouldn't have made the mis-
takes we see other people make.-Cnl-
cago News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
Her BIue-Eyed Treasure.


do not own lot of land,
Nor mistress reign in mansion grand;
No coach and four in livery wait
My coming thro' a FURNISHED gate.
No dazzling gem adorns my hand,
Naught but simple, slender band;
An opera cloak, a silken dress,
To tell the truth. don't possess.
In evidence my purse behold,
Coins few of silver, less of gold;
Unlike my sister. Hetty Green,
stock or bond I've never seen.
1 have no talent fame to bring,
No beauty for the world to sing;
Indifferent quite of ancestry.
I make no boast of pedigree.
Yet, friend, call me not poor: nay,
Am rich-the Rothschids could not buy
My treasure fairly right divine,
little blue-eyed child is mine.
N. o. Picayune.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
AMONG THE POETS.

An Autumn Morning.
The frost's agleam where the dew was drip.
ping
Just in the space of a day agone;
Inc rose-deep edge of the sun is slipping
through the mellow mesh of the autumn
dawn
song OF neither the thrush nor the linnet
Rises and sweeps in a broken flow;
Only the breeze of a sweetbriar spinet.
pdkSBn- !knownpsy NIB fgwk va pj wk z
Shivers pensive adagio.
The frost's agleam on the path follow;
Scarlet velvet the witch hazel spreads
Adown the slope of the old mill hollow,
Where dodder tangles its lustrous threads.
What is there left of the summers story
The faded roses, the daisies lost
What of her opulent glow and glory,
Quenched in the film of an autumn frost +?
Deep In the fringe of its willow cover,
Where javelin-points of sun are thrust,
Ihe stream that sung to a summer lover
Echoes the song of an ended trust.
Hattie Whitney. in Woman's Home Com
panion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
The Fall Girl,

The Fall Girl.
Not quite so gay. perhaps,
Nor debonair
As she who summer ruled.
And meath the moon befooled
Hearts that. though steeled and schooled
She broke. to wear
More stately. calmer yet
| think more sweet
Than that bright summer maid,
From whose brief rule we strayed
To follow in the shade
The fall girls feet
The mountains blue is caught
In her soft eyes;
Rich harvests seem to lie
In every glance: her sigh
Tender. as zephyrs die
When summer flies.
Yet, pause, rash youth; her heart
Is still the same:
Pause ere you trust those mild
Nanguors; be not beguiled:
You'll find her just as wild
To change her name
Detroit Free Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
Potted Pigeon.

Clean, then stuff the pigeons with
dressing made as for turkey. Sew them
mp and truss; put them in a kettle with
water enough 10 cover them, and boil
half an hour; then take up and drain;
roll them in -four. and fry brown in
pork fat; thicken the liquor in which
they were boiled with flour, pepper,
salt. cloves, mace and catsup; put the
pigeons in this gravy. and simmer two
hours; serve in the gravy; add one-half
glass of claret if you choose.-Boston
Globe.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
A Titled Dabe.

The brand new babe at Spencer house.
A tiny little chap
Will have so many titles that
They'll sadly overlap.
He's Blandford's marquis, first Of all,
Then earl of Sunderland,
Then earl again of Marlborough.
Then Baron Spencer and
A prince, you know, of holy Rome,
A prince of Mindelheim,
A baron of the Churchill brand
And other things in time.
And yet he's such a tender chap,
So very, very SMALL
That folks will wonder how the deuce
He's going to hold 'em all.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15

Wells are often dug in depressions, the
idea being that in such places springs
OF water are most apt to be found. But
If so dug the well should be stoned and
cemented for 10 or more feet from the
surface, so that shallow springs cannot
find entrance. The deeper springs will
generally be free from surface impuri-
ties. Then if the well is filed around
about so as to turn surface water from
it there win be little danger that it will
be contaminated in any way.-Ameri-
can Cultivator
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
Table Screams Make Eggs.

There is no feed for hens that is bet
ter than table scraps of every kind.
Pieces of bread, scraps of meat, parings
of vegetables, and all such bits as are
usually wasted, if fed to hens will be
returned in the shape of eggs. We have
found from experience that the scraps
from a family of six will furnish feed
for 10 hens, keeping them in good con-
lition the year through. This means
that the scraps from the table of such
family are worth $50 dozen Of eggs.
The IL hens were kept in yard 25 feet
square.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15

The little maid spread out her gifts
And said: "Oh, dear: oh, dear!
I wish my birthdays came along
dozen times year
Then mamma sighed and shook her head;
They'll come. my little Gerte.
Quite fast enough when you have reached
The shady side of thirty"
Boston Globe
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
My Lost shadow.

One summer morn. thro' glen and glade.
By rock and rill idly strayed;
And all at once, upon the ground
The shadow of myself found
! called her. but she would not hear:
To all my plants she turned deaf ear:
With hooking laugh. on airy wing
She fed. and left me Borrowing.
Thus quickly vanished from my gaze
The shadow of my childhood's days,
With all their joys, and fancies free.
That never will come back to me.
Lillian Eleanor Barlow. in Madame.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15

The race is wont AS victor | am hailed
with deafening cheers from eager throats:
and yet
Gladder the victory could forget
The strained. white faces of the men who
failed
Julia Schayer. In Century
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-10-15
Mnking Home the Sweater.

It isn't just the roaming round
That makes our outings dear;
Vacation adds a sweet" to home
The balance of the year.
The mountains. brooks. and trees and rocks
Are taken in with zest,
But somehow landscapes don't replace
The old familiar nest
Boston Transcript.
The herald., 1897-09-25
Real Estate Transfers

FRIDAY, Sept "a, 1897.
A. S. and M. l.. Shorb to W. H. Keller
Lot S, Grand avenue and Adams street
tract; $1,000.
+. P. and r. J. O'Donnell to N. w. Hug
gins-Lot SO, Wiesendanger tract: $500.
W. r. and A. p. Gosewich to w. Garland
Lots 20. 90 and "a, block D. Bonnie Brae
tract; s5550.
c. j. and S. B. Reed to II. N. Petrie-Lot
49, Harwood tract; s400.
P. ]. Brannen to A. L. Brock-Agreement
to convey lot 26, p. ]. Brannen tract; 1916.
F. E. and w. p. Gibson to N. e. Cowles-
Part of farm lot At. Gardena tract: $500.
Los Angeles Savings Bank to G. w. and
j. A. Barnes-Lot c of l.. ]. Roses subdi-
vision; 5000.
M. Verdugo to v. Figueroa-Land al
lotted to p. w. de Lopez in action No. 7064:
$780,
Sec L. & T. Co. of Southern California
to w. w. Wilson-Part section Is, 8 north,
13; s240.
Los Angeles Terminal Land company to
Mrs. A. Ingraham-Lot 13. block z. East
San Pedro, $500.
G. H. and E. c. Gardiner to City of South
Pasadena-Part of lot 8, Calvin Fleteher's
subdivision; $121.4O.
G. F. and A. Lindsey to ]. and NJ Forbes
Lot 2S, block 3. F. B. Wilde's subdivision:
5000.
SUMMARY
Deeus ........................ ~
Total 81, ,42&0e
The herald., 1897-09-25

garvancos. 1.75@20o; lentils. imported. aEe
al 90; lentils. California, 3.0003.60.
HIDEs-Dry Gas they run), 10; do kip.
IL; do calf. 151h: bulls. z; salt steer. 60s:
do stays and bulls. ); cows. 4h0sh; shesp
POTATOEs-Per 100 lbs.-fsew potatoes.
common, 4OQ7o; Early Rose. 75@s5: Bur.
bank, 9O@1.00; sweet, 1.O0Q1.10.
LIVE STOCK-Per lb.: Beeves. 9h05:
hogs. ah@4; lambs, per head. L6o0Aoo;
sheep per ext. 250Q2.75.
NUTS-Walnuts, Los Angeles. s1h@9; me-
dunn soft, 9G10; soft-shell, Los Nistos,
fancy, 10@11; almonds, softshell. 1O011: pa
per shell, n@121a; hardshell, S910; pecans.
9@11; filberts, 11Aq12; Brazils, 10; pinons.
11Q12.
DRESSED MEATs-Ali per ib.: Beef.
5Ags; veal, e@7h; mutton. 8; lamb. ~;
DRIED FRuITs-Apples. sun-dried.
SKIS. per lb., 3h@l; boxes, 695h; evapo-
rated. fancy, 7@71s; apricots, fancy, SQSh;
choice, 7G71s; peachey, fancy, unpeeled, ~;
Sla; pears, fancy. evaporated, 10a11; plums.
pitted. choice, 9@iO; prunes, choice, boxed.
~; sacks. 6; dates. 6h@7; figs. California
white, per lb,, sac; California black, per
lb, 5@5h; California fancy. per lb., 7h@S:
imported Smyrna, 12hQ15.
CURED MEATS-Picnic hams, z; No. 3
hams, 9a; Rex. 10A; picnic hams. X:
special fancy breakfast bacon, uM;
special breakfast bacon, 111a; Rex bacon,
10N; Rex boneless hams, sugar cured, 3:
Rex boneless butts, s; Rex dried beef.
sets, =; Rex dried beef. insides, 15; Rex
dried beef. outsides, -; smoked tongues.
15: Diamond c breakfast bacon. backs.
per lb., S1; bacon bellies. =; light medi-
um bacon, 91s; medium bacon, SA;dry short
clear bellies, 1920; avg, =. dry salt
clears, 35@4O avg, 81 salt clear backs,
tx; Rex pure leaf lard, tierces, Z: ivory,
tierces. 5a4 cottolene. tierces, 6ss; Rexo-
lene. tierces. e%; special kettle rendered
lard ~.
TALLOW-Per h. 162K