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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-25

summer town in which their families
may find refuge from the burning heat
of Grand Junction, where the Their
mometer often reaches 100 in the
shade.
Muckawanago has just been started,
and has already proven so popular
that steps have been taken to keep the
modern paradise from the gaze of the
envious public. The cliffs, covered
thickly with vegetation, slope down to
the Frying Pan, and in the bend Of the
stream the village is established.
A commodious cabin is commissary
headquarters. Between 9 and 10
O'Clock every morning supplies of gro
ceries, bread meat and milk are dis
tributed in equal proportion. The milk
is shipped in 10-gallon tins to Mucka-
wanago, and is Immediately placed on
ice, keeping it cool during tho day.
Two policemen regularly patrol the
village and hunt up lost crildren. This
is necessary precaution, as only three
or four men are in the place during
the week. Saturday evenings the heads
of the Muckawanago come uD from
Grand Junction and remain over Sun
day.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-25
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Election Of De|el0|9S
BY PRECINCT CLUBS. AND FOR
THE ISLAND NOMINATING
CONVENTION OF THE AMERI-
CAN UNION PARTY.
HONOLULU. H. l., Aug. 16. 1897.

HONOLULU, H. l., Aug. 10, 1897.
A Convention of the American Union
Party of the Island of Oahu will be
held in the American League Hall, Ho-
nolulu, Wednesday, September 10, at
1880 p. M, for the purpose of nomi-
mating for the election of September
%, 1897, three candidates for the House
of Representative for the Fourth Dis
trict and three for the Fifth District.
and for the adoption of a platform of
principles.
Delegates to the Nominating Con-
vention will be chosen at Precinct Club
meetings on the evening of August 80,
in Honolulu, and August 2S in the out
side precincts.
Only registered electors will be en-
titled to vote for delegates.
The apportionment of the various
precincts is as follows:
FOURTH DISTRICT.
First Precinct = Government Muir
sery; two delegates.
Second Notwithstanding Street
School; six delegates.
Third Precinct-Nuuanu Water Gate;
one delegate.
Fourth Precinct = Royal School;
three delegates.
Fifth Precinct-Kapuaiwa Building;
three delegates.
Sixth Precinct-Bell Tower; three
delegates.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
First Precinct-Kaneohe; two dele
gates.
Second Precinct-Koolauloa Court
House; one delegate.
Third Precinct-Waialua one dele
gate.
Fourth Precinct-Waianae; one dele
gate.
Fifth Precinct-Ewa Mill; one dele
gate.
Sixth Precinct = Manana Court
House; one delegate
Seventh Precinct-Reform School;
two delegates.
Eighth-Tram Stables; two dele
gates.
Ninth Observation-Disclosures School;
two delegates
Tenth Precinct = Chinese Engine
House; two delegates
NOTE:-Polling places are given
merely to define precincts, and are not
necessarily meeting places. The latter
will be made known by Central Com
mittee representatives.
JAMES A. KENNEDY,
Chairman, Central Committee.
ED TOWSE,
Secretary. 1885,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-25
A Cooperative Town.

Muckawanago is the strangest town
in Colorado, says the Denver Post. 1t
has a population of $50 people, con-
sisting of 80 families, regularly paid
policeman, a commissary, a resident
physician, and is conducted on the CO.
operative plan.
1t lies, spot of brightly painted rus
tic cottages and tents, on the Frying
Pan River, about so miles west of
Leadville, on the western slope. 1t is
peopled entirely by prominent resi-
dents of Grand Junction, who have
formed an association to incorporate a
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-25
PROSPERITY IN THE WEST
Large Crops for Washington and
Oregon Farmers.

Oregon Farmers.
A dispatch TO the New York Sun from
Seattle, Wash, says:
For the first time in several years
there is much idle money in Washing
ton. This state OF affairs is due in a
great measure to the excellent crops of
1896, and TO the prospects Of still better
crops in 1897. All the heat belts of
the state, including the Big Bend of
the Columbia, the Palouse country. the
southwestern part of the state, and
Skagit and Whatcom counties, will pro-
duce, it is estimated, at least one-third
more than ever before, and the first
step of the farmers will be TO raise the
mortgages Of their farms.
The debt of the farmers of Wash
ington," said c. z. Villas of the Wash
ington National Building. Loan and In
vestment Association Of Washington,
will be decreased at least % per cent.
by this years crop"
r. P. Latimer of Dexter, Horton &
Co. says that a reduction of % per cent.
on debts for the last three years is
low figure. The estimates are that the
crops of 1897.
Jacob F'urth. president of the Seat
tel National Bank, says a great number
of mortgages on farms have been paid
off, and he has advices from the Big
Bend to the effect that this years crop
is of the very best quality. A like con-
dition exists in the Palouse country.
Levi Ankeny, banker, of Walla
Walla, was in Seattle a few days ago,
and said that Walla Walla had too
much idle money.
E. Cardins of J. Adams & Co. says
the wheat crop will be the largest ever
produced in Washington amounting
cOnservatively, to about $4,000 900
bushels. The farmers will probably
get 55 cents in eastern Washington and
20 cents at this port.
Seattle, owing to the opening of the
oriental trade, will handle six times as
much grain as ever before. Mr.. Cardin
says there will be better times this fall
than in five years. Last year an east
Washington farmer went to the North
western Bank in Spokane.
Take my farm he said. 81 cannot
pay the mortgage"
The bank not only declined to do so,
but gave him seed wheat. This year
he will clear himself of debt and have
a snug balance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-25

1t is always gratifying to receive tes-
timonia1s for Chamberlain Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and
when the endorsement is from a ply
stefan it is especially So "There is no
more satisfactory or effective remedy
than Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy writes DR.. r. e.
Robev. physician and pharmacist, OF
Olnev. Mo-: and as be has used the
Remedy in his own family and sold it
in his drug store for six years. he
should certainly know. For sale by all
druggists and dealers; Benson. Smith
e Co.. wholesale agents for Hawaiian
TcIo
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WICKER
and
We are
Selling

them at very low prices.
These may be stained any
color required to match
ether furniture in the house.
Plush cushions made to
order to fit any furniture de-
sired.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
No Denial.

a federal judge lately charged jury
i'm a liquor case as follows: ain later
years there seems TO have been a dis
position to deny or ignore judicial
knowledge rs to what constitutes in-
toxicating liquors, and the courts have
manifested a desire TO disavow any ju-
dicial knowledge on this subject. AT
the same time some of the courts have
not hesitated to impute to juries an ex-
tensive knowledge and information in
this regard. The court, however, will
follow the precedent established by the
decision of Chancellor Walworth upon
this subject and will assume judicial
knowledge concerning intoxicating
liquors. In trial in the state of Wis
consin, where this question arose in
1888, the trial judge declared that a
man must be driveling idiot who did
not know what beer was, and that it
was not necessary to prove it to be an
intoxicating liquor.
Later the supreme court OF that
state, in passing on the charge of the
trial judge, declared that his rulings
in the case upon this question were not
only clearly correct, but if his peculiar
manner gave them force and emphasis
it was not only proper, but commend
abe. This court, therefore, will neith-
er stultify itself nor impeach its own
veracity by telling you that it has not
judicial knowledge that the liquor COM
monty known as whisky is intoxi-
eating liquor or that the drink com-
monty called whisky cocktail is an
intoxicating drink. Lease and Com
ment.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Evading the Law.

Youths Companion: The London
Telegraph tells story Of a collier who
amused himself with flying pigeons
He had occasion TO 90 down town with
a bird in bag. He was about to toss
up the pigeon in the town hall square
when a policeman came up and told
him that he must not fly the bird there.
"Why not, asked the collier
s'Beeause il is forbidden, aud | shall
have to lock you up if you do"
The collier, with the usual sharpness
of his kind, thereupOn took the pigeon
out Of the bag, set it on the ground,
strOked its wings and said to it: Jaw
corn'd toss thee up here, - thou mum
walk whOam; dost yer? thou mum walk
whOam."
The bird, of course, rose in the air,
leaving the policeman petrified with
astOnishment-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Speaking of Silver.

The explanation made officially, yes
terday, by the governor of the Bank Of
England, of the proposal which the
officers of the bank are considering, to
hold one-fifth of its note reserve in sill
yer, puts the matter in a light quite
different from that in which il was
presented by rumor last week.
1t is true, that the bank is willing to
avail itself of the permission given by
its charter to procure and hold the
amount of silver specified, but only
upon two conditions, namely, that the
French mint shall be opened to the
free coinage of silver, and that the
prices at which the metal shall be
''procurable and salable" are satisfacto-
~, says the New York Sun. This
means, simply, that if the French gov
ernment will undertake at all times 10
coin the Bank of England's silver into
coins convertible into gold, and that
the silver can be bought so cheaply
that the possibility of loss on tits re-
duced within safe limits, the bank will
part with some of its gold, temporarily,
and accept silver in its place.
That the French government will
put France into position where its
stock of gold will, practically, to the
extent OF the silver neid, not only by
the Bank of England, bat of the whole
world, be exchangeable for gold at will,
is unlikely. The Bank of England can
not tender silver in payment of de
mands upon it for more that $40 in one
sum. No great quantity of silver is,
therefore, of any use to it, and if 1t had
silver and needed gold, it would at once
send the silver to France and try to get
gold for II. This process the Bank of
France would resist by stopping gold
payments as it has the right to do and
does frequently. Gold would, in such
an event, go to premium in France
and silver could be exchanged for it
oaly at a loss.
So far as the proposed measure is
counted upon to raise the value of sill
yer bullion it would be futile. The gold
reserve of the Bank of England is about
Sl75, ,000, 600, one-fifth of which is $751;
0o0,O00. This sum would buy, even at
80 cents per ounce, only 100000
ounces of silver, or but one-third of the
annual output of the metal of the
world, and after the 10000, 900 ounces
had been bought, whatever effect the
purchase might have had upon the
price would come to an end. Silver
would again begin to fall, the Bank of
England would be loaded down with a
stock of it as useless as so much lead,
and which it could not sell without still
further depressing the market.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29

blood that 1 was scarcely able to reach
the bank and crawl out of the water.
How long remained upon the ground
scarcely know, but it seemed like q
long time before 1 was able to travel
about one mile TO the house of my
brother-in-law, Mr.. J. III. Stearns, and
there got some stimulants, food, and
dry clothes My friends then went
with me to the river, where 1 got
boat and was ferried to the other side" "
Such, with very slight changes in
phraseology, is the simple story of this
remarkable experience. Few persons
have ever gone so far into the "Valley
of the shadow of DEATH and then re-
turned. No doubt it was to the wonder
full presence of mind of this unassum-
ing and plain countryman that he owed
his preservation. Many a man would
have given up at once, lost his self-con-
troll, and submitted perhaps with equal
courage to his fate. But this man de-
termined at the first crack of the pistol
fired at him to drop as if dead, and did,
courageously, Notwithstanding, the
wound which had disabled him, and
with two or three other shots fired at
his supposed inanimate body, remain
perfectly still, and by SO doing saved
his life. Despite this wound and two
others received in battle he survived to
give to the world true account of this
horrible massacre, only one of many of
like ferocity which swept men to un-
timely death, and left mothers and
wives and children helpless and broken
hearted. Such was our war; such are
all wars.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
The Black Maria

In BOston's early days a negress
named Maria Lee kept a sailors board
ing house near the water front She
was a woman of gigantic size and pro-
digious strength and was of great as
sistanee to the authorities in keeping
the peace. When an unusually trouble
some fellow was on the way To the
lookup, Black Maria, as Maria Lee was
called, would come to the assistance of
the policeman, and her services were in
such requisition f'r this purpose that
her name was associated with almost
every arrest made
Black Maria often carried prisoner
TO the lookup on her shoulder, and
when the prison van was instituted for
the purpose of carrying prisoners it nat
urally enough was styled the Black
M4ria.-J Ournal of Education.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29

Probably three or four Of our boats are
getting away every day. There is one
sawmill here with a capacity Of 1000
feet day, and il has all the orders it
can fill in three weeks. Lumber is
500 thousand, and is rising. A great
many whipsaw their lumber, two men
turning out about 100 feet a day. A
boat carrying three men sells for $50
to 500, according to the purse Of the
purchaser Wages Of carpenters are
$3.50 a day and board. Everything is
high in price when you can get it at all.
Whisky is soc drink and s. bottle,
and poor stuff at that. Alcohol is worth
$40 a gallon. 1t makes ten gallons Of
Lake Lindermann whisky. Meats
can not be had for money, as every one
is holding on to his provisions
81 never saw so much selfishness
anywhere as is displayed on this trail.
You pass 100 people without receiving
a response to your respectful Good
morning, and soon learn to keep your
mouth shut. There are so many on
the trail that il is like walking along
the street of a city-the individual is
lost in the passing throng, and you are
recognized only by acquaintance. If
YOU ask for food, in nine cases out of
ten it will be refused.
''I have made arrangements to 90
down the river with friend, who has
made the trip before. He expects to
be ready to start in four or five days,
and to make the trip in seven days. /
am patiently awaiting the arrival of
my outfit, but do not much expect it
until the weather improves.
''s p. ma packer has just arrived
from Sheep Camp, who says he passed
my outfit on tine road and that it will
probably reach here tonight, the wealth
er having improved on the divide. As
| have an opportunity to send mail by
him, close this letter with the expla-
nation that it has been written under
great mental stress and physical suffer
ing. have tried to give you fair idea
of the hardships of this journey, but /
feel my ineapability to paint its terrors.
It is out of my line. | will simply say
that 10 one who has written on the
subject has over Overstated its difficult
ties
"a man who got in to-day over the
Skaguay trail says that is even worse.
He counted l72 dead horses along the
trail and several men have met with
serious accidents, such as a broken
ankle, leg, etc. Several deaths from
drowning have occurred on both trails,
the swift current carrying packers down
stream and their packs rendering them
helpless.
"SOme movement ought 10 be made
at once for the relief of the suffering
which is bound to occur at Dyea and
Skaguay. Every steamship that has
brought people up will have all it can
do for at least two trips in carrying the
unsuccessful back to civilization; and
there ought to be some way to force
them to perform the service without
compensation
SAMUEL G.. DUNHAM."
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Speeds per Second.
The snail. one-half inch.

The snail, One-half inch.
\ man walking, four feet; fast
runner, p feet.
a fly, 81 feet.
Fast skater, IS feet.
Ocean waves, 30 feet.
A carrier pigeon, 81 feet.
A locomotive, 50 miles an hour, IS
feet.
Swallows, 22) feet.
The worst cyclone known, $50 feet.
The Krakatoa wave lat the volcanic
catastrophe of August p, 1898, in the
Sunda Islandsl, 9D feet.
Sound in the air, l095 feet.
The surface of the globe at sea level
on the equator, 1900 feet.
The moon, $3.50 feet.
The sun, five and one-half miles.
The ea:th, Is miles.
Holley's comet in the periheliOn,
% miles.
Electric current on telegraph wires,
1000 miles.
Induction current, IL ,0l0 miles.
Electric current in copper wire arma,
lures, 81 900 miles.
Light, 1S0,0 miles.
Discharge Of Leyden bottls
through copper wire of One-sixteentf
of an inch in diameter, 2777, 100 miles.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Useful Hints.

That sulphur will prevent yermin in
bird cages if piece is tied In a bag and
hung in the cage.
That rooms where there are diptheria
patients should be fumigated by burn
ing a piece Of roll sulphur on a shovel.
That damp dus.er, followed by
dry one, Is very beneficial in removing
dust and giving a good polish to furni-
ture.
That an old silk handkerchief makes
an admirable duster for fine cabinets
and brie-a-brac.
That teaspOonfuI Of powdered alum
mixed with stove polish adds greatly
to its briliianey when applied To the
range.
That sprain may be cured If the
part be kept saturated with hot water.
That fever blisters may be cured
by rubbing them with saltpetre, which
has been dipped in water for an in
slant
That the white skin Of a raw egg, if
spread over a cut, will cure il.
That charcoal should be thickly
sprinkled in a jardiniere in which a
damp flower pot is to be kept
That children should be given alight
supper Of bread and milk at ) O'Clock
and be put to bed at $50 until at least )
years old. After thai their bedtime
may be fixed at O'Clock for several
years.
That g close watch should be kept
over all vegetables kept in the cellar
that no decayed ones are allowed TO re-
main over night. This is the frequent
cause Of diphtheria, etc.
That candle grease may be removed
from carpet by covering the spot with
a piece of brown paper, such Is grOeers
Use, and pressing gently with a moder-
ately-hOt iron.
That children may be greatly
strengthened by daily salt bath. SEA
salt should be used for this purpose.
That a tablespoonful Of ground mus
tard to a tumblerful of warm waite is
the rule for an emetie.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Try, Try Again.

For night sweats, cold sage tea
For neuralgia, wet cloths of alcohol
and water, or paregoric, or laudanum
and water, and laid on hot water bot
tie and the part steamed over it.
For pains in the stomach, q hot wa
ter bottle.
For pneumonia symptoms, hot wa
ter bottles in the hands, under the
knees, under the arms and at the soles
of the feet.
For sprains or burns, tineture Of
arnica.
For cut artery, a small cord or q
handkerchief tied tightly between it
and the heart.
For bilious eOlic, soda and ginger in
hot water.
For cold in the head, powdered bO-
TAX, snuffed up the nOstrils--GOOd
Housekeeping.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Odd Things in Life.

Bears are reported very numerous in
Idaho.
An official reporter shows that there
are issued yearly in the theaters Of
Paris 2,S9O,O 600 dead-head tickets
There are 1000 more women than
men in the State of Massachusetts, and
this excess is all in persons over IA.
English women, as rule, are taller
than their American sisters, and the
Yankee ladies in their turn can look
down at the gentler sex in France
Iceland has only one policeman.
When he wants to wet his whistle
with a hot tOddy he Is never afraid Of
the sergeant poking his nose around
the corner.
Palermo, Sicily, has an average OF
I67 cloudless days year, and 81 days
Of partial cloud and partial sunshine
which elsewhere would be classed a.
fine days.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Bueklen's Arniea Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe-
yer Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price y cents per box. For sale at j.
n. Snyder's drug store. Somerset, or
at Brallier's drug store, Belin, Pa
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE.

IL lies In the distance dim and sweet
ON the borders of Long Ago,
And the road is worn by the little feet
That have Journeyed there TO and fro;
And though you may seek 1t by night or day
The task you will never achieve.
Fer only the little ones know the way
To the land of MAKE Believe"
Clad in their arnor of Faith they ride
On the wings OF their fsucy fleet,
And we hear. as We listen and wait outside,
The echo OF laughter sweet.
1t lightens the burdens OF toll we bear,
IL bTightens the hearts that grieve;
Til We wish we could follow and enter there
In the land OF "Alake Believe"
And oh, the wonderful tales that are told
ofthe marvellous sights they see
For the weak grow strong and the young grow
old,
And are each what they wish to be.
Oh, the deeds of valor, the mighty things
Too bold for mind TO conceive.
But these are everyday happenings
in the land of MAKE Believe"
Would you follow the print of the tiny feet:
You must walk as they, undehled.
Would you join in their fancies pure and
sweet?
lou must be as a little child.
But in vain should we seek il by night or day,
The task we should never achieve;
Fer only the little ones know the way
To the land OF make Believe"
Youths Companion.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-09-29
Something to Know.

1t may be worth something to know
that the We a. best medicine for restor-
ing the tired out nervous system to a
healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This
medicine is purely vegetable, acts by
giving tine to the nerve centres in the
stomach, gently stimulates the liver
and kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing off impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improves the appetite,
aids digestion, and is pronounced by
those who have tried it rs the very
best blood purifier and nerve tonic.
Try it. Sold for soc. or 81 90 per bottle
at Snyder's drug store, Somerset, or at
Brallier's drug stcye. Berlin.