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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05
SAVE YOUR MONEY
Chance Offered by Young
HaWaiianS' Institute.
Officers Elected at Last Nights
Meeting -Hawaiians Only Adj
mitted to the Scheme.

AT meeting of the savings and in
vestment branch Of the Y. H. l., he'll
in Foster Hall last evening, the fol
lowing officers were elected: Georg
l.. Desha, president; John D. Holt, vic
president; Henry Smith, treasurer
James n. K. Keola, secretary.
The Board of Directors is compose
of Charles Wilcox, n. Fernandez and
Enoch Johnson.
The Auditing Committee consists OF
the following: James L. Holt, w. ].
Cuelho and James X Kaulia.
Meetings are to be held on every
first Monday of each month.
In order to have the privileges Of
fered by the new branch of the society,
male Hawaiians must join the Y. H l.
Females and Hawaiian minors,
through their guardians, are entitled
to privileges of the savings and invest
ment branch of the Y. H. l.
The Y. H. 1. is one of the most pro-
gressive of any of the societies eX-
listing in the Hawaiian Islands, and
what makes it so popular is the fact
that its chief aim is the promotion of
the interests of the young Hawaiians
who are out in the world working hard
for a living for themselves and per-
haps their families.
The rooms in Foster Hall are made
as attractive as possible, in order that
the young men may find pleasure and
a feeling of comfort on entering. Ev-
is arranged to make the mem
bers feel that they have some place to
go where there is pure and undefiled
atmospheric place where they may
feel at rest and know that there is al
ways cordial welcome for them.
AS stated above, the object of the
society is the welfare of the young
and the new branch of the
society is only another form of that
aim.
Every one of the members of the So
,iety is able to save even a very little
rom his wages each month The op-
for placing these small saw
ngs in reliable hands is offered, and
such an opportunity should not be lost. |
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05

ing guns and handling projectiles on
men-of-war and in forts, propelliag
sewing machines, operating HOSTS.
driving lathes and printing presses.
copying letters and operating summer
fans. In Australia it is employed in
shearing sheep; in Kansas City beeyes
are slaughtered and dressed mainly
with compressed air 1t is also used in
carving statuary, pumping wells, in
dredging. for lowering and raising
railroad gates. 1t is valuable agent
in sugar refineries, in the making of
asphalt and rubber and the manufac-
ture OF silk. In England there is $50
miles of pneumatic tubing EMPLOYED in
the transmission of mails; in Philadel-
phia. New York and Brooklyn a sim
liar system is in operation Compress
ed air has been the most important
factor in the construction of the Chica-
go drainage canal. In England, en-
ployed in dry docks, compressed air is
made 10 lift huge vessels out of the
water as if they were toys, and in the
same way it will shortly be introduced
on the Erie Canal in working the new
quick-action high-lift locks. 1t is a
good fire extinguisher and an excellent |
hoist for grain. 1t is used by the oily /
stefan in many delicate operations. In /
the railroad shops of Jersey City and /
many other points it is everywhere
running machinery, lifting huge loads.
riveting bolts, driving hammers, sand
papering cars. In Paris, under the ia
nous Popp system, where it has had it's
widest application, it is employed in
almost every conceivable variety of
work. For 10 years the surface roads
Of Paris have been operated by the
Mekarski compressed air system, and
now compressed air locomotive is to
De introduced on the elevated road Of
New York.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05
Part L
Part ii.
VARIED USES OF COMPRESSED
AIR.

a writer in Harper's Weekly calls
special attention in a long article TO
the various uses TO which pneumatic
power has been applied. For three
months past, he says, compressed air
motors have been operated on the One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street line
in New York, covering in that time
10000 miles and carrying over 75, 900
passengers without accident or Incl
dent. The uses to which he notes COM
pressed air has been applied may be
summarized as follows: To railroad
brakes, mining drills and drills for the
excavation of buildings and the like.
for throwing dynamite projectiles,
cleaning carpets, busting cushions.
painting cars and barns, operating
block signals, steering ships, driving
clocks, supplying refrigerators, load
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

Sales to Be Made by w. ). Luce
January IS.
On January 18th, at II o'clock noon,
w. S. Luce will hold a mammoth real
estate sale at his auction rooms, cor
ner of Queen and Fort streets. There
are three valuable tracts, with dwell
ings, the property of Mrs w. H. Smith.
An opportunity for investment is Of
fered here that is not often met in Ho-
nolulu.
At the same time Mr.. Luce will sell,
under instructions from Mrs. F. S.
Pratt, the valuable beach property ad-
joining that of Mrs. G. Along at Wal
kiki. This is exceptional as an invest
ment, as property on the beach is Tim
tied
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05
w. w. DiMOND.

BY the MioWera the other
day, we received direct from
the factory, a magnificent as
SOrtment Of French China.
Among the lot we have two
new stock patterns, from
which customers may select
either one piece or ten
dozen. In this way Gus
toners may replace any
breakage at the lowest pos
Sible cost and without the
necessity of purchasing an
entire new set.
In this same invoice we
have some of the most beau
tifully decorated toilet sets
ever shown in Honolulu.
These are made of fine
crockery and will ornament |
any wash stand.
A fad among Honolulu
people is decorating china.
At the exhibition by the pu-
pills of Miss French at Oahu
College a short timeago some
neutrality-suspicious., the work
Of herpupilS, were ShoWnand
will stand comparison with
he work of professional art
SITS abroad. Our stock which
was opened a day or two
lgo contains all sorts of
pieces and in many sizes.
They are made especially for
decorating and are ineXpen-
'ive.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05
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The following is an extract from the
Cycling West of Dec. 10th, 1896:
1T EXPLAINS ITSELF.
The popularity of the Cleveland
bicycle is ever on the increase and
every day sees some crack racing man
dispose of his old mount in order to
become mounted upon the speedy Gle
veland. More races have been won
upon Cleveland's in recent meets than
upon all the other makes put together
Among Cleveland riders who have rid
den their popular mount to victory are
the following: Champion Terrill, Chas.
Wells, Harry Terrill, Whitman, Mott,
Crafts, Vincent, Russ, Williamson, the
Noonan brothers and many more too
numerous to mention.
The Cleveland IS as Strong as it is
Fast; that has been proven time after
time in Honolulu. Why buy another
machine when you can get the best
for the same price.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05
AT THE HAWAIIAN.

Grand Concert to Be Given al
Hotel This Evening.
AS the Australia will be in port this
evening, the Hawaiian Band, under the
leadership of Prof. Berger, will render
the following selections at the Ha-
waiian Hotel at 1870 this evening:
Part |.
March-Bersaglieri ...... Eilenberg
Overture-Victor Emanuel 80. King
Ballad-That Low, Soft Refrain. .Itzel
"reminiscences of Northern Europe.
..-.---....... ..........-.- Runner
Part ii.
Melodies -. Beyer
Fantasia-Darkey' Dream =. Lansing
Fellow ...... Vollstaedt
Fiesta . Roncovieri
Hawaii Ponoi.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-05
The Cleveland is 0 GeIiIeI0n'S Wheel

Won't you be gentleman? A large
consignment of the 1897 machines will
arrive on the Australia. They are
better than ever.
We would like you to call at the
agency and inspect them.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25

resentment against those who caused
or inflicted his punishment, he has no
incentive to change his mode of life,
and will naturally drop into criminal
lines again. The only lesson that he
will have attained by his incarceration
is, not the need OF reformation, but the
necessity of avoiding capture the next
time he commits misdeed. This lat
ter idea will be the all-pervading
thought of future actions. What may
be called the brute-fOrce plan in prison
tends only to sharpen the brutal in
stincts, one of the principal of which
is self-preservation from punishment.
And loss of freedom to criminal is
about as desirable to him as domesticity
to wild animal
That trite old saying ''you may drive
horse to water but you can't make
him drink is applicable to the ques-
tion in hand. You can drive man in
to a certain line of goody-goodiness, but
have you made good man out of him ?
1t is said to be doubtful if the Creator
could make good man out of some
specimens of the genus homo; but
what is spoken Of here is the fairly in
telligent, ordinary man. If the old
style punishment only" plan was en-
forced, then l answer positively, No.
If the latter-day process of healthy,
reasoning treatment has been used,
then it may fairly be concluded that
nine times out of ten you are Iessening
the ranks of the social drones the non
producers, and adding to the social
fabric another woof of happiness that
will be the more stable because tested
and strengthened in it's weak parts.
1t is to be hoped that the very prac-
tical refOrmative methods already in
vogue will be added to materially as
experience justifies; and that the time
may yet come when a man if sent to
prison may not have to bear life long
load of disgrace, but may be properly
likened to any ordinary machine being
sent to shop for needed repairs of a
moral nature; and that when coming
from the repair shop he may be looked
upon, not as doubtful piece of hu-
manity, but as one deserving of and
now fully entitled to the respect and
esteem of his fellow men. il.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25

an eX-cOnvict to regail the respect, es-
TEEN and confidence of his former
friends is all impossibility. The class
of people who believe this, are gener-
ally those who are looking for work
and praying they will not find it; and
who scan the daily papers to see if any
mention is made of an opening of a
new gin-hOuse.
If the impossibility of reformation
were an assured fact, it would be ad-
visable for the churches to recall their
entire force of missionaries from for
eign shores, to minister to the unbe-
levers of this country. Let us not
worry about the ''stain," it will disap-
pear if we are persistent in our endeav-
ors to do what is right and regain our
manhood. Make determined resolu-
tion to forsake the old pathway, and
become true, honorable, manly man,
and success is assured, and we will
thus, and thus only, ascertain that life
is truly we'll worth the living. H.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
Written for The Prison Mirror.
Isl LIFE WORTH LIVINGp

In the words of Mark Twain, "It all
depends upon the liver" This decision
is hardly applicable to us exiles, yet
the question is, and it should be given
most thorough and careful study by
everyone confined here. Recall the var
ious causes that were instrumental in
placing you here and the remedy will
readily assert itself. our duty being to
put it in force to obtain the desired
results. Some apparently require a
repetition of our present situation. Do
we crave Incarceration to such an ex-
tent that by dispensing with it we
would feel an irreparable loss? No,
not by large majority. Then, if we
would avoid these occurrences, we
must decide positively and permanent
ly on future that is wholly devoid
of those alluring vices which fascinate
and lead to crime. We must assert
our will power to it's utmost, and COM
pletely annihilate every obstacle that
conflicts with, or retards our progress
in the paths of honesty and sobriety.
We must not expect to regain our lost
footing without trials both severe and
long; distractions will meet you unex-
pectedly and frequently; but .persever-
ance and indomitable pluck and ener-
gy will win in the end. No matter
what your vocation may be, rise above
your former petty weakness ses and pro-
claim the fact by your deeds, that you
still have the ability, desires and quail
fications necessary to maintain a posi-
tion of trust; and the esteem and re-
spect of those who are your true
friends, in all the word implies, will
speedily follow.
Do not listen to that old refrain that
issues forth from the croakers, that for
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25

No. In fact, in some places they keep
open day and night; open, with their
dazzling lights and other attractions
that they have; such as concert singers,
music and many other allurements to
draw passers by-young and old alike
into their palaces of sin and degrada-
ton. Have you seen paper during
the past month, that did not announce
some murder or the act of some de-
faulter or embezzler? How many Of
these crimes were not committed while
the perpetrators were under the inhu-
ence of liquor? Or how many of the
inmates of prisons would now be un-
dergOing confinement, had they alb
stained from the saloon and its infiu-
ence? How much shame and sorrow
does it not heap upon the innocent
members of a family, to hear of, or,
still worse to see, the husband, father,
brother or son returning from saloons
with an unsteady step and flushed,
bloated countenance; perhaps, also un-
der the mental heavy burden and ex-
citement of a crime committed while
crazed with liquor.
And yet such palaces of sin, such de
baucherieS in crime and degradation,
exist, and are tolerated by and among
christian and intelligent people. If
the public-whO are so anxious about
the reformation of the criminals
would do away with these palaces of
iniquity, or at least reduce the number
of them, they would do much toward
the diminishing of crime and criminals.
They would accomplish more than
they at present do, with their exhorta-
tiOns to the criminal to reform. Just
az long as saloons are open at night
for the schooling of the innocent youth,
just that long will your prisons be full
of criminals. There are confined at
the present time thousands of crimi-
nails in the various prisons and reform
atories of this country, to say nothing
of those at large. 1t is quite astonish-
ing what prominent part the liquor
element plays in the criminals career
outside of sorrow and misery which it
brings to otherwise happy and prosper
Gus homes. c.. A. B.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
Written for The Prison Mirror.
MORAL SUASION.

1t is not many decades since the law
of punishment only for crime was the
rule and not the exception. Later de-
velOpments, however, in the broad
mindedness of legislators and penOlo-
gists have brought to light the fact
that simple atonement for a crime is
insufficient to suppress the normal in
crease of social foes. With this thought
in view the logical conclusion was that
reformative measures were the main
essential to diminution of crime.
How well this plan works is yet to be
seen, for what may be called scientific
reformatOry measures are but, as yet, in
the embryo. Such methods cannot be
fully developed, nor their results fairly
judged, in single decade. In so far as
their present working may be passed
upon it is safe to say, that, in conjunc-
tion with the necessary punishment en-
forced while undergoing this character
renovating career, the reformative plan
of punishment is the only true deter
rent of crime.
Now, as to the various methods that
may be used in this remodelling of
writer to deal with but One-mOral
suasion. In other words, to show a
man, by his own sense of perception,
that he is voluntarily working against
his own interests by remaining what
may be termed social fugitive. If
this latter fact is fully set forth before
a person of even mediocre intelligence,
it is plausible to infer that reason will
convince him of his folly. When one
is fully convinced of anything so vital
to his own welfare it is but rational to
conclude that he will thenceforth be
governed by his own deductions.
Now, the question arises, can this end
be accomplished by the means adduced
by moral suasion? In answer it may
be said that if this method will not
bring one to sense of his shOrtcOm-
ings, then all the punishment, however
severe, or all the sermons, however
logical or brilliant, will not be of the
slightest avail. If by firm, but yet
considerate, treatment coupled with
worthy example and indisputable rea.
soning you cannot lead a man into a
certain path, then it is folly to expect
to drive him into the rut by brute force
True, you can compel him by this pro.
cess to be "model'' automaton while
in prison; but watch the result when
he gains his freedom. Then, when nc
restraint is upon him he will act in his
accustomed way and as he has naught
but feeling of what he cons ders just
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
Written for The Prison Mirror.
THE ORIGIN OF CRIMINALITY.

One Of the most difficult questions
that the students of criminology never
seem to agree upon, is the origin and
cause of crime. On this question there
exists a universal difference of opinion.
Some are persistent in their advocacy
of the theory that crime is hereditary
and that the evil inclinations and tend
encies of the parent are transmitted to
the child; while others are of the opin-
ion that environment is the largest
producer and main cause of crimi-
nality. In recent years, the profound
thinkers along this line of study have
fully demonstrated the fact that there
is no such thing as hereditary germs in
connection with crime, notwithstand-
ing the fact that they may point to
cases that have all the outward ap-
pearance of being hereditary, because
the parents were of low origin, poor
and uneducated, surrounded with an
atmosphere of immortality, they must
acknowledge that it does not neces-
sarily follow that their children will
become criminals and vagabonds of
the future. We admit that the parents
of these children have considerable in
f1uence toward shaping their career;
and, while some may teach them dis
honesty, the vast majority will strive
night and day toward bettering the
condition of their children. But if
they try to seek the origin of crimi-
nality in these low conditions of life,
the hereditary germ seeking individual
will find nothing that will substantiate
his theory, but will find that environ
ment exists on every hand and he will
come to the conclusion that the hered-
itary germ is as far off as Darwin's
missing link.
According to this hypothesis we
could apply the hereditary theory to
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
Written for The Prison Mirror
A TEETOTALER PER FORCE.

TO any rejecting person, even though
he be like myself, teetotaler per force,
the sight of so many saloons in cities
must, or at least should, bring feel
ing of shame, considering that they are
not necessity. They are merely the
means chosen by host OF lazy persons
to procure an easy living. They are
the cause of three-fOurths of the misery
and sin existing.
The opponents of prohibition are
entitled to their own opinions; but let
them, first of all, investigate, and then
judge. Let them canvass all city and
county jails, warehouses and penten-
tiaries; it will be astonishing to them
what great part the liquor and saloon
element plays in the degrading of
morals; and how many unfortunates it
is, at least in part, to blame for being
sent to prisons and reformatories at
the expense of the public. Now, |
have been in places where prohibition
was in force; and have noted the con-
trast between such localities and H.
censed communities.
During the few days that 1 spent
among the "cold water people as they
are termed. by some-not a drunken
person did see. Such places found
thrifty and tidy. Money and time
spent at other places, in saloons, was
here spent in decorating the houses, in
cultivating the gardens and in fixing
up the residences in general. There
was no temptation offered the residents
at every few yards to step in and take
drop. This proves, at least, that the
absence of the temptation prevents the
evil. Very few inhabitants of large
cities have more than a vague and
hazy idea of the vast number of saloons
in existence in their midst. They
travel through the streets without any
conception of the relative number of
saloons to the surrounding dwellings.
In some localities these saloons are in
clusters and the passerby hears moth
ing but the din of corruptive and vul-
gar music, intermingled with the
cIinking of glasses and swearing of
men, robbed of their senses and of
money that should have gone toward
the support of their families. We
often see men come out of these places
staggering and unable to walk to
their families, who are, perhaps, wait
ing in wretched home, shivering
from cold, weak from hunger, or in
fear of the husband and fathers bru-
tality.
Often, however, on staggering out of
the saloon, they are arrested by the
police, locked up and brought before
the judge to be fined, as an inducement
to sobriety. 1t is not the rich man
whom you see before the judges; men
who could pay their fine and not feel
the loss, nor cause their families suffer
ing. Nearly every other business house
closes its doors for the day at six
o'clock, or thereabouts. Does the sa-
loon.keeper close his door at that time ?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25
Vol. X.-No. 81.
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GUARDING THE TONGUE.

If each of us, as we pass through life,
Would bride and curb the tongue,
And speak only of the pleasant things
To be said of everyone,
What wonderful difference there would be
Between this world of ours
And the paradise it might become
With all pathways strewn with flowers!
How surely little reflection
Will show us as plain as the day.
The mistakes we make when we hastily
Allow our tongue full sway.
When the day is done and we think it DER
All me! that it should be true
There are few of us who can honestly say
There is nothing we would undo.
Too often the faults we clearly see
In others are faults of our own
And those who dwell in houses of glass
Should be wary in casting stone.
So, have charity, much charity,
The lOvelieSt virtue of all,
And look well to the member unruly,
For it's prone to slip and fall.
Northwestern Christian Advocate.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-02-25

His words had power because they
accorded with his thoughts; and his
thoughts had reality and depth because
they harmonized with the life he had
always lived. 1t was not mere breath
that this preacher uttered; they were
the words of life, because life of good
deeds and holy love was melted into
them. Pearls, pure and rich, had been
dissolved into the precious draught.-
Hawthorne.